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REVISED  HISTORY  OF 

HARLEM 

(City  of  New  York.) 

ITS  ORIGIN  AND  EARLY  ANNALS 


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HOME  SCENES  IN  THE  FATHERLANDS; 

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Notices' OF  Its  Founders  Before  Emigration. 

ALSO 

Sketches  of  Numerous  Families 

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RECOVERED  HISTORY  OF  THE  LAND -TITLES. 

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By  JAMES  RIKER, 

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Member  also  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society:  The  New  England  Historic 

and  Genealogical  Society;    The  New  York  Genealogical  and  Bio- 

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(DEDICATED  BY  MR.   RIKER.) 

TO 
MY    EARLY    AND     EXCELLENT     FRIEND, 

EDGAR  KETCHUM. 

WHOSE    HEARTY    INTEREST    IN    THIS    WORK    HAS    CONTRIBUTED 

TO    RENDER    A   TOIL    A    PLEASURE    AND    TO    BRING 

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GENERAL  CONTENTS. 


CHAPTER  I. 
I. 

Dunkirk  to  St.  Malo.  Pen-sketches  of  the  coasts  of  Holland,  Flanders, 
Picardy,  Normandy,  and  Brittany.  Historic  memories  awakened.  Ink- 
lings of  localities  and  persons  connected  with  our  subject.  Picturesque 
scenery  of  the  Norman  Archipelago.  Island  of  Jersey ;  home  of  the  Car- 
terets  and  Pipons.     St  Malo  quaint  and  suggestive Page  3. 

2. 

R\RLEM :  Springs  of  its  History.  Special  relations  to  the  countries 
named.  Their  archives  explored;  and  with  good  results,  touching  our 
first  settlers.  These  of  various  nationalities,  but  mostly  Hollanders  and 
French  Refugees.  Their  character  bears  investigation.  Their  history 
invites  inquiry Page  10. 

3. 

GuMPSES  OP  THE  Fatherlands.    Lands  of  the  Huguenots.     Retained  in 

the  sixteenth  century  the  essential  features  of  its  ancient  state.  Noticeable 

characteristics   of  the  country   and  people.     Amiens;    its   civil   history. 

Glance  at  the  national  annals  down  to  the  Reformation Page  14. 

CHAPTER  II. 

AvESNES  AND  ITS  ExiLES.  French  Refugees  at  Harlem;  district  whence 
they  came.  Walslant,  or  Walloon  Country.  Principality  of  Sedan.  The 
Walloons ;  origin  and  character.  Avesnes.  Its  lords  and  people.  Spanish 
tyranny;  persecution  of  the  Reformed.  They  find  refuge  at  Le  Cateau. 
That  city  taken  by  Count  Mansfield.  Huguenots  slain  and  scattered. 
Nctherland  patriots  rise  in  arms.  Walloons  join  them,  but  soon  yield 
the  contest.  Liberty  crushed ;  Protestants  in  despair ;  many  leave.  The 
De  Forests  flee  to  Sedan^ Page  25. 

CHAPTER  III. 

OiR  Settlers  from  France  and  Walslant.  Huguenots ;  their  history  to 
the  Edict  of  Nantes.  Rest  under  the  Edict.  Troubles  after  the  death  of 
Henry  IV.  Louis  XIII.  sacks  their  towns  and  fortresses.  A  doomed 
people.  Era  of  our  Refugees  considered.  Status  of  the  Huguenot.  Many 
seek  exile.  West  India  colonies.  Casier  family.  La  Montague  (Mon- 
tanye),  Vermilye,  Delamater,  etc.  Picardy  and  Picards.  The  Amienois 
and  Amiens:  trials  of  the  Huguenx)ts.  Two  pageants.  Demarest.  De 
Labadie  preaches  reform.  Antagonisms.  An  attack  and  defence;  Tour- 
ncur  forced  to  flee.  France  at  war  with  Spain;  hostilities  carried  into 
Hainault  and  Artois.  Protestant  Walloons  escape  to  Holland  and  Eng- 
land. Du  Four,  Oblinus,  Kortright,  Journeay,  Tiebout,  Cresson,  Bertholf, 
etc,  seek  other  homes Page  40. 

CHAPTER  IV. 

Hoixand:  The  De  Forests,  and  La  Montagne.  Leyden  the  refuge.  Its 
Walloons,  and  cloth  trade.  Jesse  de  Forest  and  brothers;  family  items. 
Life  at  Leyden.     Remonstrant  troubles.     The  University.     Jean  de  La 


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Montagne,  student  of  medicine.  University,  how  located  The  Klok- 
steeg.  Pilgrim  Fathers  leave  for  America.  Walloons  propose  the  same ; 
not  encouraged.  War  with  Spain.  De  Forest  goes  to  Brazil ;  dies.  Dr. 
Montanye  marries  his  daughter.  De  Laefs  book,  "The  New  World,** 
stimulates  emigration.  Tobacco  raising  promises  rich  returns.  Henry 
de  Forest  marries  Geertruyt  Bomstra;  and  with  his  brotiier  Isaac  sails 
for   Manhattan Page  70. 

CHAPTER  V. 

Emigration.  Amsterdam,  chief  port  of  departure.  Oppression  the  prime 
colonizing  agent.  Good  proof  of  character.  Our  colonists:  Captain 
Kuyter,  Bronck,  De  Meyer,  Slot,  Meyer,  Dyckman,  Bussing,  Terbosch, 
Benson,  Dolsen,  Waldron,  Sneden,  Verveelen  and  Vander  Vin.  John 
Montanye  visits  Holland  and  marries.  Brevoort,  Van  Tilburgh,  Acker- 
man,  Storm,  the  Kortrights  and  Bogert  emigrate.  French  and  Wal- 
loons— Tourneur,  Delamater,  Disosway,  Genung,  Du  Four,  Lozier, 
Cousseau,  Cresson,  etc.  Mannheim  colonists — Demarest,  Casier,  Uzille, 
Joumeay,  Oblinus,  Parmentier,  Du  Bois,  De  Voe,  Vermilye,^  etc. 
Visitors  from  Manhattan  influence  colonization Pag*e  92. 

CHAPTER  VI.  :  1609-1636. 

Manhattan.  Its  discovery.  Harlem  in  its  aboriginal  state.  Schoraka- 
pok,  or  Spuyten  Duyvel.  Whence  this  name?  Steps  to  colonize  Man- 
hattan Island.  Rev.  John  Robinson.  French  and  Walloon  colonists 
arrive.  Locality  embraced  in  our  history — Yorkville  to  Kingsbridge. 
Van  Twiller  appropriated  Ward's  Island ;  gives  Van  Curler  the  Otter- 
spoor.  Aboriginal  Harlem  as  viewed  from  McGown*s  heights.  Great 
Kill,  or  Harlem  River.  Papparinamin.  The  Hellegat.  Muscoota,  Recha- 
wanes  and  Schorakin  located.  Indian  names  to  be  cherished.  Muscoota, 
or,  as  afterward  called,  Montanye's  Flat,  first  of  these  localities  to 
attract  the  European Page  109. 

CHAPTER  VII.  :  1636-1640. 

Settlements.  The  De  Forests  arrive;  granted  Muscoota.  Dr.  Montafiye 
follows.  Progress  on  the  Flat.  New  and  trying  experiences.  "O  soli- 
tude! where  are  the  charms?"  Van  Curler  begins  improvements.  Van 
Twiller  makes  Barent  Blom  his  overseer.  Great  and  Little  Barent's 
Islands ;  why  so  called.  Henry  de  Forest  dies.  Montanye  looks  after  the 
plantation.  Daily  fare.  The  widow  de  Forest  marries  Hudde.  Hans 
Bergen.  Hudde's  patent.  Hudde  and  wife  visit  Holland.  The  farm  sold. 
Bought  by  Montanye.  Claes  Swits  leases  Van  Curler's  land.  It  is  sold 
to  Van  Keulen  of  Amsterdam.  Account  of  Swits.  Van  Keulen's  Hook. 
Arrival  of  Kuyter  and  Bronck.  Kuyter  gets  Schorakin ;  calls  it  Zegendal. 
Jochem  Pieter's  Flat.  Montanye's  farm  named  Vredendal.  Hudde  and 
wife  return.  Montanye  gets  his  deed.  Bronck  at  Ranachqua;  calls  his 
home   Emmaus Page  125. 

CHAPTER  VIII.  :  1640-1645. 

Indian  Troubles.  Friendly  relations  with  the  natives  of  mutual  benefit 
Peace  broken.  Kieft  attacks  the  Raritans.  Bloody  retaliation  on  Staten 
Island.  A  Wickquaskeek  kills  Claes  Swits.  His  tribe  screen  him.  Kieft 
wants  to  chastise  them ;  the  Twelve  Men  advise  delay.  The  tobacco  crop. 
Kuyter  unable  to  ship  his ;  Montanye's  crop  damaged.  The  Doctor  loses 
his  wife.  Swits'  murder  unatoned  for;  others  follow.  Time  to  act;  an 
expedition.  Indians  alarmed,  sue  for  peace.  Peace-council  at  Emmaus. 
Farmers  keep  at  work.  Kuyter  as  church-builder.  The  Mahicans  war 
upon  the  Wickquaskeeks.  These  fly  for  safety  to  the  Dutch.  Kieft  seizes 
the  chance  to  slaughter  them.  The  savages  avenged  upon  the  settlers. 
Kieft  and  the  Otterspoor.     Peace  again  patched  up.     Death  of  Bronck. 


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Montanye  leases  his  farm.  Indians  resume  hostilities.  Settlers  fly  to 
Fort  Amsterdam.  Kuyter  depicts  their  distresses.  Cry  to  Holland  for 
help.  Colonists  turn  soldiers;  invade  the  Indian  country.  Savages  burn 
Kuyter's  house.  He  and  Kieft  dispute  about  it  Peace  for  the  third 
time;  "solid  and  lasting'* Page  137. 

CHAPTER  IX.  :  1645-1650. 

Land  Patents:  Kuyter's  triai^s.  Sibout  Claessen  secures  a  title  to 
Hoorn's  Hook.  Dr.  iVander  Donck  buys  Papparinamin  Island.  Matthys 
Jansen  gets  a  patent  for  Papparinamin  on  Manhattan  side.  Tobias  Teu- 
nissen.  Jansen- Aertsen  patent,  since  the  Dyckman  Homestead, — Inwood. 
Montanye  marries.  Vredendal  patent.  Isaac  de  Forest  gets  a  title.  Kuy- 
ter's  opposition  to  Kieft.  He  and  Melyn  arraigned  by  the  ex-Director, 
before  Stuyyesant  and  Council,  for  contempt.  Are  fined  and  banished. 
Sent  away  in  the  ship  with  Kieft  and  Bogardus ;  are  wrecked,  and  the 
two  latter  perish.  Kuyter  and  Melyn  reach  Holland  and  appeal  to  the 
States-General.  Arrest  of  judgment.  Stuyvesant  summoned  to  answer 
for  his  severity.  Kuyter,  on  returning  to  Manhattan,  has  his  property 
and  offices  restored.  Engages  in  trade.  Dangerous  to  live  on  the  Flats. 
Few  places  occupied.  Peter  Beeck  buys  a  plantation  at  Hellgate.  De 
Forest  sells  his  plantation  to  Beeckman.  Kuyter's  victory  a  triumph  of 
popular  rights Page  146. 

CHAPTER  X.  :  1651-1656. 

New  Efforts,  but  sad  failures.  Kuyter  resumes  his  plantation,  with 
Stuy\esant,  etc.,  as  co-partners.  Their  contract.  Country  yet  disturbed; 
Kuyter,  before  proceeding,  applies  for  a  groundbrief.  Public  danger  im- 
minent. Indians  murder  Beeck  and  his  workmen.  Threaten  Kuyter, 
Beeckman  and  others.  Alarming  rumors  afloat.  Kuyter's  popularity. 
Elected  schepen.  Is  killed  by  the  Indians.  Sorrow  at  his  fate.  Honors 
awaited  him.  Steps  to  settle  his  estate.  More  trouble.  Savages  on  a 
bloody  raid.  Slay  Tobias  Teunissen  near  Spuyten  Duyvel,  and  Cornelis 
Swits,  Beeckman's  successor.  All  the  farms  laid  waste;  the  district 
abandoned  by  the  settlers Page  157. 

CHAPTER  XI.  :  1656-1660. 

N'ew  Haerlem  founded:  its  court  and  church.  Plan  to  settle  isolated 
farms  a  failure.  Resolved  to  form  a  village  on  the  Swits  and  Kuyter 
lands.  Grounds  for  this  measure.  Ordinance  thereupon.  Work  begun; 
a  village  plot  and  farming  lots  laid  out.  The  latter,  why  so  narrow. 
Named  Nieuw  Haerlem.  Hindrances.  Stuyvesant  urges  on  the  work. 
Guarded  by  soldiers.  Indian  war  at  Esopus.  Military  officers  for  Har- 
lem. Court  of  Justice  instituted.  Church  formed.  Do.  Zyperus  engaged 
to  preach.  John  Montanye  is  chosen  deacon.  Zyperus*  previous  history 
obscure.  Only  a  licentiate.  Harlem  people  join  Selyn's  church  at  the 
Bouwery.    No  church  built  at  Harlem  yet,  nor  for  years  later Page  167. 

CHAPTER  XII.  :  1661-1662. 

Reawl\ngement  of  Lands  :  New  Allotments.  Grain  plenty,  but  no  mill. 
One  projected.  The  Montanyes  wish  to  form  a  hamlet  at  Vredendal. 
Council  refuse ;  will  hinder  New  Harlem.  The  latter  growing.  Settlers' 
names,  etc.  Scandinavian  element.  Calls  for  more  land.  Order  there- 
upon. Van  Keulen's  Hook  allotted.  Grantees.  First  "Harlem  Land 
Case."  John  Montanye  is  Town  Clerk.  Gets  part  of  Vredendal  (the 
Point) ;  the  Flat  to  be  divided  up.  Settlers  ask  Director  to  modify  the 
terms  on  which  they  took  up  land.  Declines.  Applicants  for  lots  on 
Montanye's  Flat  First  owners.  Wm.  Montanye  a  resident  The  aliena- 
tion of  the  Flat  indisputable.  Land  speculation.  Conveyancing;  model 
Deed.    Deeds,  Wills,  etc. ;  how  executed.    Cattle-herder  employed.    The 


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contract.  He  gets  in  trouble ;  is  superseded.  Sneden  dies ;  and  his  wife. 
Property  sold.  Slot  made  building  master.  Fence  masters.  Some  chief 
men  fined.    Mr.  Muyden Page  i8i- 

CHAPTER  XIII.  :  1663-1665. 

Stirring  events;  End  of  the  Dutch  rui^e.  A  wedding;  rustic  custom  ; 
a  riot.  Death  of  Dericksen  and  Casier.  Petition  again  for  relief  in  pay- 
ing for  their  land.  Granted.  Indian  massacre  at  Esopus.  Montanye's 
sister  a  captive.  Harlem  stockaded.  Military  companies  organized ; 
arms  and  ammunition.  Guns  mounted.  A  detachment  goes  to  Esopus. 
Wickquaskeeks  camp  near  Harlem;  creates  alarm,  but  tiie  Sachem  ex- 
plains; brings  tidings  good  and  bad.  Asks  leave  to  fish.  Powder  dis- 
tributed. News  of  an  armistice.  More  settlers  from  Fatherland.  E)o. 
Zyperus  goes  to  Virfi[inia.  Want  a  voorleser.  Montanye  willing  to  serve. 
Petitioned  for;  appomted.  Le  Maire  arrives.  Patents  taken  out.  Swits' 
widow  surrenders  her  land.  Calves  on  Little  Barent's  Island.  .  Slaves. 
Saw  mill.  Country  menaced  by  neighboring  English.  General  Assembly. 
Peace  with  the  Indians.  English  fleet  takes  New  Amsterdam,  etc.  Called 
New  York.  Conflicting  opinions  at  Harlem.  Waldron  retires  thither. 
Some  leave  for  Holland.  Montanye  disaffected.  Moesman  sells  to  Capt. 
Delavall.     Hymenial Page  197. 

CHAPTER  Xiy.  :  1665-1666. 

Reluctant  yielding  to  English  rule.  Local  authority  suspended. 
Drunken  Indians  commit  abuses.  The  Schout's  disaffection.  NicoIIs' 
order  thereupon.  Harlem  to  form  part  of  the  City.  Town  officers  dis- 
charged. Waldron  made  constable ;  to  appoint  magistrates  and  hold 
court.  De  Meyer's  tenant  absconds ;  leads  to  an  issue  with  the  new  court- 
He  comes  out  best.  The  court  carry  things  imperiously ;  banish  an  in- 
habitant. Waldron  accuses  Teunissen  of  stealing  a  quilt.  He  resents  it ; 
sues  for  slander.  Waldron  has  the  advantage.  Comments.  Bad  feeling 
engendered.  Other  cases  cited.  Demarest  buys  land ;  removes  here. 
Monis  Staeck  assaults  the  herder;  is  fined.  Litigious  times.  Move  to 
erect  a  church.  Stuyyesant  feasted.  More  garden  plots  laid  out  and  sold. 
The  church  up  and  inclosed.  A  good  wife  defamed.  The  Mayor  sees 
her  righted.    The  costs.    Her  experiences Page  215. 

CHAPTER  XV.  :  1666-1667. 

The  Nicolls  Patent;  the  court,  mill,  church.  Grazing  customs.  Order 
to  draw  a  line  for  more  range  for  horses  and  cattle.  Governor  directs 
a  patent  to  be  drafted.  The  Patent.  Not  satisfactory,  and  why.  Tour- 
neur  "pays"  Waldron.  Both  cautioned  by  the  Mayor's  Court.  Waldron 
takes  his  discharge  as  constable.  New  officers  appointed.  Instructions 
and  oath.  Still  at  work  on  the  church.  Order;  trespasses  by  cattle. 
Sabbath  workers  arrested.  Old  story  about  Tourneur  revived.  Capt 
Delavall.  His  antecedents.  Proposes  improvements.  The  town  acts 
upon  it.  Verveelen  to  run  the  ferry  and  tavern.  Bronck's  Land  and 
Little  Barent's  Island.  Col.  Morris  buys  the  former.  Town  builds  a 
mill-dam;  Delavall  a  mill.  The  Mill  Camp.  Montanye  voted  leave  to 
build  on  his  Point.  Village  expanding ;  other  house  lots  laid  out.  Church 
finished.  Burial  place  located,  etc.  Meadows  granted  Tourneur;  the 
Bussing  Meadows.    Montanye  gets  the  church-lot's  meadows.  .Page  225. 

CHAPTER  XVI.  :  1667-1669. 

New  Nicolls  Patent;  the  Ferry;  rupture  with  Archer,  etc  Petition 
for  a  Patent.  Town  growing  in  importance.  Dairies.  Knoet  the  herder. 
Verveelen ;  his  ordinary,  ferry  and  rates.  Smuggles  beer.  Compromised. 
Ferry  lease.  Beer  drinking.  Brewers.  Matthys  Jansen's  heirs  and  John 
Archer  threaten  trouble.     The  Harlem  Patent.     Nagel,  etc.,  fined  as 


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rebels.  Capt.  Delavall  going  to  England.  Toumeur,  as  agent,  lets  land 
to  \y.  Gerritsen.  Archer  buys  the  Jansen-Aertsen  patent.  Nicolls  won't 
confinn  it.  Toumeur  bargains  for  Hoorn's  Hook  patent.  Inhabitants 
protest  Queer  conduct  of  Verveelen's  negro.  Baignoux  misses  his 
nootas.  Barker  ignores  the  ferry.  Trouble  with  Archer.  His  history. 
Lets  land  at  Fordham  His  cattle  trespass;  are  seized.  The  Jansen- 
Aertsen  patent  awarded  to  Harlem.  The  ferry  incommodious.  Spuyten 
Duyvel  to  be  viewed.  Tourneur  craves  Hoorn's  Hook.  Gets  land  on 
Cromweirs  Creek.  Death  of  the  miller.  [Vessel  built.  An  erfje  granted 
Pelszer.  A  wagon-road  ordered  between  New  York  and  Harlem. 
Horses,  etc.,  to  be  branded.  Ferry  taken  to  Spuyten  Duyvel.  Contract 
l^^th  Verv'eelen.  He  to  be  constable  of  Fordham.  Mill  repairs.  Delavall 
returns.  Hue  and  cry  after  a  slave.  Montanye's  Indian  deed.  Indians 
claim  other  land.  De  Meyer  sells  to  Kortright  and  Low  ancestors.  Calf 
pasture ;  its  rules.  J.  Cresson  makes  his  will ;  sells  his  farm.  Le  Roy 
names  Tourneur  sole  heir Page  239. 

CHAPTER  XVII.  :  1670-1672. 

VuxAGE  ufk;  Harlem  two  centuries  ago.  Maturity;  accruing  responsi- 
bilities. Porkers  missing;  Tippett  suspected;  an  inquiry.  Branding,  etc. 
Wolters  dies.  Waldron  buys  Dolsen's  house.  Delamater's  will.  Wal- 
dron  and  Verveelen  divide  meadows.  W.  Gerritsen  mulct  for  poor 
fences ;  his  vrouw  scolds  Waldron.  Payment  on  the  Patent.  Freeholders 
and  lands.  Vermilye  sells;  sale  void.  Wolters'  curators.  Cresson  vs. 
Delamatcr.  Kortright  to  keep  tavern.  An  erf  voted  J.  Demarest.  Wal- 
dron sells  Nagel  an  erfje,  etc.  Nagel  and  Vermilye  marry  his  daughters. 
Jansen-Aertsen  patent.  Order  to  pay  claimants  300  gl.  Richard  takes  a 
bond.  L.  Gerritsen  sells  Karsten's  erf  and  garden.  Legacy  at  Leyden. 
New  voorleser,  Vander  Vin.  Martino  leases  town  lands.  Cresson  de- 
nounces the  magistrates ;  is  arrested.  Disosway  vs.  Archer.  Colevelt 
vs.  Le  Roy.  Pound  ordered.  Town  debts;  accounts  audited.  Cupid 
captures  Meyer  and  others.  Pelszer  sues  Verveelen.  Use  of  an  erfje 
granted  .Carstensen.  Road  to  City  impassable.  Lease  by  Lourens  Jansen. 
Bogert  buys  Montanye's  farm.  Journeay  sells  Storm  his  Brooklyn  lands. 
Bogert  makes  his  will.  Mayor's  Court,  met  at  Harlem,  tries  Archer. 
Fordham  petty  causes  to  be  heard  at  Harlem.  Archer's  leases.  Tax  for 
the  voorleser  fails ;  people  prefer  voluntary  giving.  Fines  settled.  Archer 
gets  a  patent  for  Fordham.  Claessen,  Valentine  ancestor.  Indian  deed 
for  De  Voe's  Point.  Toumeur  makes  his  will.  Demarest  loses  a  child ; 
makes  his  will.  Leases  Moertje  Davids'  Fly.  Montanye's  deed  for  his 
Point    The  "wagon  path"  to  New  York Page  262. 

CHAPTER  XVIII.  :  1672-1673. 

The  dorp  or  village;  incidents  and  insights.  Demarest  versus  Dela- 
mater;  assault.  Death  of  Montanye.  His  estate.  Harlem  church  to 
have  an  elder.  Deacons'  accounts.  Church-days  observed.  Allerheyligen. 
Tippett  again,  with  Hunt  and  others.  Death  of  Capt.  Morris  and  wife ; 
leave  but  "one  poor  blossom."  Order;  meadows  on  Fordham  side. 
Vander  Vin  made  secretary.  Waldron  vs.  Tourneur;  assault.  Church 
loft  let  to  Mrs.  Montanye.  Monthly-mail ;  New  York  to  Boston.  Town 
patents;  none  under  Stuyvesant.  Houselots  to  be  taxed  for  town  ex- 
penses. List.  Accounts  to  be  overhauled ;  Roelofsen  sent  for.  Journeay 
makes  his  will.  Accounts  audited.  Creditors.  List  of  freeholders  and 
lands.  Owners  of  Montanye's  Flat  form  a  combination.  A  history  con- 
nected with  this  Flat.  Cresson  and  Carbosie  make  wills.  A  big  row. 
Toumeur  lets  land  at  Cromwell's  Creek;  his  death.  Dyckman  and  Biis- 
sing  marry.  A  stroll  through  New  Harlem  in  1673.  Homes  of  the  chief 
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CHAPTER  XIX.  :  1673-1674. 
Recx:cupation  by  the  Dutch.  Minute  by  Vander  Vin ;  recapture  of  New 
York.  Official  letter  received.  Hearty  response.  Town  officers  ap- 
pointed; swear  allegiance.  Commonalty  take  the  oath.  Roll  of  names. 
Cut  pickets  for  city  defences.  Morris  and  Delavall  estates.  Barent  Wal- 
dron,  messenger.  Carbosie  vs.  Bogert.  Delamater  fined  for  striking 
Adrian  Sammis.  Plan  to  alternate  crops  on  the  farm  lots.  Instructions 
to  schout  and  magistrates.  Fordham  people  vs.  Archer.  Delavall's 
affairs.  Petition  for  his  out-garden.  Vander  Vin  retained.  Contributors. 
Delamater  will  not  give.  Some  Englishmen  threaten  to  rob  and  bum. 
Action  taken.  A  Night  Watch;  Jansen  (Kortright)  made  captain.  The 
Roll.  Seasons  for  thanksgiving,  fasting,  and  prayer.  Proclamation. 
Death  of  Gerritsen.  Alarms  continue.  Beado  arrested.  His  offence. 
Branded  and  banished.  English  expected;  fears  increase.  Letter  from 
the  Governor.  A  panic.  Kiersen  and  Michielsen  tried  for  shooting  a 
hog.  Curious  examination.  Search  for  horses  of  late  English  officials. 
How  land  sold.  Peace.  Preparing  for  it  Litigation.  Town  officers 
chosen.  Church  accounts  audited.  Fruits  of  Nieuwenhuysen's  ministry. 
Hot  heads  from  Westchester  alarm  villagers.  Inquiry.  Country  revert<> 
to  the  English Page  300. 

CHAPTER  XX.  :  1674-1677. 

English  rule  restored;  refugees;  Capt.  Carteret;  Indian  war;  land 
grants;  Spuyten  Duyvel  occupied.  Accession  of  French.  Schout  and 
schepens  superseded.  Bastiaensen  (Kortright)  hires  Tourneur  farm. 
Tourneurs  still  vexed  by  story  of  the  homicide.  Mayor's  Court  checks  it. 
Voorleser  continued.  Delamater  and  Demarest  refuse  to  give.  Terbosch 
to  be  dunned.  Jansens  divide  their  lands.  Le  Count  dies.  Capt  James 
Carteret.  His  antecedents.  Comes  to  Harlem.  On  a  committee  to  get 
the  patent  confirmed.  Palmer  assaults  Gano,  while  picking  cherries.  In- 
dian outbreak  at  Narragansett.  Fear  at  the  news.  Precautions ;  watch, 
etc.  Verveelen  cited  to  the  watch.  Won't  leave  his  ferry.  Vexed  by 
Archer,  who  abducts  his  goods.  Verveelen  sues.  New  alarms.  Our 
Indians  ordered  within  Hellgate.  Some  are  stopped,  passing  Harlem. 
General  arming.  Night  watch;  the  roll  and  rules.  Indians  to  plant  at 
Spuyten  Duyvel.  Watch  re-formed.  De  Voe,  from  Mannheim.  Passes 
for  Hellgate.  Indian  troubles  end.  Farming  interests ;  concerning  fences. 
Straitened  for  land.  Report  of  Andros'  grants;  inhabitants  petition. 
Persons  proper  to  have  land.  Van  Keulen's  Hook  surveyed.  Coopers 
stopped  cutting  timber;  appeal.  Town  cuts  stockades  for  the  City. 
Clerk's  house  repaired.  Junior  David  Demarest  will  not  pay  toward  it ; 
gets  into  trouble.  Senior  Demarest  and  Delamater  at  issue  with  the  town 
about  clerk's  salary.  What  now  ensued.  The  Demarests  sell  out  The 
elder  buys  land  on  the  Hackensack.  Town  debts.  An  assessment. 
Andros'  grants  cause  anxiety ;  Carteret,  etc.,  deputed  to  see  the  Governor ; 
an  episode.  Andros  very  gracious;  will  send  a  surveyor.  Elphinstone 
grant,  etc.  Ryder  lays  out  lots  for  the  Harlem  people.  Dispute  over 
meadow  on  Spuyten  Duyvel;  Meyer  in  trouble.  Dyckman  and  Nagel 
secure  five  lots  at  Spuyten  Duyvel.  Lease  them.  Dyckman  Homestead. 
Large  order  for  palisades Page^3i8. 

CHAPTER  XXI.  :  1677-1682. 

The  French  leaving;  new  town  house;  land  questions;  Labadists; 
Capt.  Carteret;  sale  of  Moertje  Davids'  Fly.  Nicholas  de  Vaux 
versus  Cresson.  Sieur  Dubuisson.  De  Vaux  removes.  The  French  leav- 
ing. M agister.  Town  accounts.  Subscribers  to  clerk's  salary.  The 
Demarests  depart.  Compromise  with  Vander  Vin.  House  to  be  rebuilt, 
Mr.  Kip  dies ;  his  widow  assigns  her  contract  for  timber ;  Tourneur  to  fill 
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New  oflScers.  Codrington  weds  Miss  Delavall.  Robbery  at  De  jVoe's. 
Brevoort  and  Nagel  buy  o«t  Cresson,  who  leaves.  Land  case ;  Toumeur, 
etc,  vs.  Col.  Morris.  Labadists  visit  Harlem.  Entertained  by  Waldron. 
Pick  up  stories  about  Carteret  Call  at  Valentine's  house.  Object  of 
their  visit;  make  proselytes.  Seem  to  confound  Waldron  with  Vander 
Vin.  A  word  for  Carteret.  He  goes  to  England.  Carstensen  dies.  Rob- 
inson buys  Sawkill  farm.  Oblinus  vs.  Bogert;  meadows.  Dii  Four 
vs.  Bogert.  "True  Lips,"  Bear  hunt;  Rev.  Charles  Wolley.  Robert 
VVolley  and  partner  buy  half  of  Robinson's  farm.  Timber  for  Major 
Cuyler.  Contract  for  town  house  given  out.  Sale  of  Moertje  Davids' 
Fly.  Outside  owners.  Toumeur,  etc.,  vs.  Morris;  verdict  for  plaintiffs. 
Morris  ignores  it,  and  holds  possession.  Mending  highway,  Barent  Wal- 
dron, absent;  Constable  Vermilye  refuses  to  collect  the  fine.  Offended 
dignity.  Work  on  town  house.  Proposed  to  bridge  the  Papparinamin ; 
but  ferry-lease  extended.  Sieur  Dubuisson.  Joumeay's  estate.  Five 
lives  lost  in  Hellgate.  Dr.  De  Forest.  Precaution  in  choosing  town 
officers.  Tax  to  pay  for  town  house,  etc.  Proprietors  and  free- 
holds  Page  347. 

CHAPTER  XXn.  :  1682-1685. 

Incidents;  Death  of  Delavali.,  Archer,  Dei^amater  and  Yander  Vin; 
TouRNEUR  vs.  Morris;  Dongan's  Assembly;  town  court  remodei^ed; 
half-way  house;  Gloudie's  Point  occupied,  etc  Carbosie;  given  use 
of  land  near  Bogerfs  meadows.  Bogert  scolds  the  magistrates.  Makes 
the  amende  honorable.  Delamater  forced  to  pay  up.  Barlow  vs.  London. 
Toumeur,  etc.,  vs.  Young.  Young  sells  to  Holmes.  Old  pastors  dead. 
Sclyns  returns.  To  preach  at  Harlem  once  a  year.  Death  of  Capt 
Delavall;  his  will,  etc.  Mrs.  Tourneur,  sick,  makes  a  will,  survives;  her 
sons  Daniel  and  Jaco  marry.  How  the  Tourneur  lands  were  finally 
divided.  Brevoort  leases  Church  Farm.  Hedding.  Baignoux  sells.  Aid. 
Cox  buys  out  Robinson.  Capt  Kidd.  Gov.  Dongan  arrives;  a  General 
Assembly;  Harlem  joins  in  choosing  delegates.  Tourneur  vs.  Morris; 
proceedings  at  large.  Local  doings.  Charter  of  Liberties;  its  chief 
provisions.  Counties  and  courts  erected.  Common  Council  includes  Har- 
lem in  the  Out  Ward.  Its  court,  etc.  Viervant.  Postmael;  the  Post 
ancestor.  Commissioners  meet.  Give  Waldron  a  deed.  Deacons  visit 
Carbosie;  his  will,  death.  Archer  dies  suddenly.  Nagel's  slave  fires  his 
bam;  hangs  himself.  His  body  burned.  Patents  called  for  with  refer- 
ence to  quit-rent.  Kortright  builds  the  Half- Way  House.  Tourneur  vs. 
Morris;  final  decision.  Meyer  again  in  office.  Death  of  Vander  Vin. 
Succeeded  by  Tiebout.  Barent,  Waldron  settles  at  the  New  Lots. 
Gloudie's  Point  sold ;  bought  by  Resolved  Waldron,  Barent  gets  the  deed. 
Theunis  Iden's  and  Jacob  De  Ke/s  purchases.  Grant  to  Bickley,  De 
Voe's  Point Page  374. 

CHAPTER  XXHL  :  1685-1687. 

Wolves;  Delavall  estate;  tenures;  tenths  cancelled;  new  stone 
church;  great  maize  land;  Dongan  Patent;  quit  rent;  corporation 
rights;  Indian  claim;  common  lands;  French  gone;  Dutch  manners 
AND  customs.  Woodlands  infested  by  wolves;  a  general  hunt  John 
Delavall  makes  an  exchange  with  the  town;  his  father's  executor.  Land 
Tenures;  their  history.  The  feudal  tenure  modified.  Free  and  common 
socage.  Quit  Rent.  The  tithes  never  exacted.  Quit  Rents  compounded 
for.  Levied  and  paid.  The  tax  list ;  exhibits  the  lands  occupied.  Village 
regulations;  refuse  straw,  chimney  ladders.  Losses  by  fire.  Lead  to 
building  outside.  Taxed  for  clerk's  salary.  New  arrangement  with  Do. 
Selyns.  New  church.  People  begin  the  work.  Carpenter's  contract. 
First  service.  Payments.  Dolsen  and  Kiersen  lease  Great  Maize  Land. 
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to  be  confirmed.  Important  saving  clause  in  the  New  York  Charter  affect- 
ing said  patent.  Order  to  stay  the  waste  of  timber.  Nagel  and  Dyckman 
in  law  about  a  goose !  Agreement ;  that  the  common  lands  be  drawn  pro 
rata,  according  to  the  estates.  The  Dongan  Patent.  Paid  for.  Ob- 
vious intent  of  the  patent  to  confirm  rights  already  granted.  Did  not  the 
City  Charter  trench  on  those  rights?  Indian  claim  satisfied.  Lands  still 
in  commons.  Taken  up  by  allotments  in  1691  and  1712.  History  of  these 
divisions  important,  but  hitherto  unknown;  given  in  Appendix.  Closings 
remarks.  French  families  nearly  all  gone ;  last  word  about  them.  Court 
records  negative  evidence  of  good  morals.  Capable  of  self-government. 
Succeeding  times  eventful,  but  more  easily  traced.  A  staid  Dutch  society. 
Style  of  living,  farming,  habits,  and  customs;  topics  talked  about,  tales 
of  Fatherland ;  general  thrift ;  slow  to  adopt  English  modes  and  manners. 
Their  history  a  legacy  of  useful  lessons Page  396. 

CHAPTER  XXI.V. 

Notices  of  the  Patentees  and  their  Heirs  or  Successors.  Benson, 
Bogert,  Brevoort,  Bussing,  Delamater,  Dyckman,  Haldron,  Kiersen, 
Kortright,  Low,  Montanye,  Myer,  Nagel,  Oblenis,  Parmentier,  Toumcur, 
Vermilye,  Verveelen,  Waldron Page  426. 

For  notice  of  other  patentees  not  named  here  sec  Index. 

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Dunkirk  to  St.  Malo ;  Vignette  Map, 3 

St  Oaen,  or  De  Carteret  Manor  House,  Jersey, 8 

Cathedral  and  Cemetery  of  St  Denis,  Amiens, 63 

Holland;   Vignette    Map, 70 

Leyden, 72 

Walloon  Church,  at  Leyden, 74 

The  Zaay  Hall,   Leyden, 75 

View  on  the  Klokstecg  (Bell-lane),  Leyden 78 

Autograph  of  Jesse  de  Forest,  1621, 83 

Sdioonrcwoerd, 97 

Autographs  of  the  first  Settlers, 165 

Autographs  of  the  founders  of  New  Harlem 213 

Xcw  Harlem  Village  Plot,  1670, 260 

View  of  the  Van  Bramer  House, 356 

Autographs  of  the  founders,  etc, 361 

Reformed  Dutch  Church,  erected  1686,  .404 

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It  is  obvious  that  any  work  like  the  following,  made  up  of  innumerable 
details,  must  take  character  for  credibility  largely  from  the  reputation  of 
its  author,  since  it  is  scarcely  possible  to  cite  an  authority  for  each  of  the 
multitudinous  facts  presented,  whatever  of  force  and  value  such  a  feature 
might  impart  to  the  work.  And  when  it  is  considered  how  often  state- 
ments rest  on  local  inference,  or  result  from  careful  comparison  and 
analysis,  the  difficulty  of  giving  authorities  becomes  more  apparent,  though 
from  such  processes  spring  much  of  the  life  and  spirit  of  the  narrative, 
which  the  tame  letter  of  the  record  fails  to  evoke. 

For  a  general  indication  of  the  sources  whence  the  present  author  has 
drawn  his  facts,  the  incidental  references  in  the  ensuing  pages  to  manu- 
script and  printed  works  must  suffice.  And  however  pleasant  it  would  be 
to  particularize  the  numerous  correspondents  who  have  kindly  favored  the 
author  with  facts  in  their  possession,  the  mere  mention  of  their  names 
would  fill  too  large  a  space  in  these  pages.  To  all  such  he  now  tenders  his 
very  cordial  thanks.  Correspondents  abroad,  who  have  aided  him,  are 
noticed  on  page  13. 

Special  encouragement  in  his  work,  received  from  Mr.  Henry  G.  De 
Forest,  Mr.  S.  Whitney  Phoenix,  and  Mr.  Samuel  Riker,  and  his  estimable 
kinsmen,  demands  more  than  a  passing  acknowledgment,  and  lays  the 
author  under  a  lasting  debt  of  gratitude. 


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DUNKIRK  TO  ST.    MALO. 


A  S  the  coaster  bound 
-^^  for  St.  Malo  leaves 
the  old  Flemish  port  of 
Dunkirk,  now  the  nor'- 
most  city  of  France ;  hav- 
ing passed  through  the 
narrow  artificial  sluice- 
way which  stretches  out 
from  the  town  a  mile  or 
more  across  the  broad 
strand,  to  the  open  wa- 
ters between  the  inner 
and  outer  line  of  sands 
forming  the  harbor,  or 
roads,  of  Dunkirk,  and 
cleared  the  ruined  walls  of  castles  Verd  and  Bonne  Esperance, 
those  trusty  sentinels  once  guarding  on  either  side  its  mouth; 
he  must  still  feel  his  way  cautiously,  to  shun  the  exterior  shoals, 
the  Braque  and  Tatre  banks,  wnich,  with  others,  serve  as  a 
natural  breakwater  to  shelter  the  roadstead  from  the  wash  of  the 
sea.  Safely  past  these  impediments,  he  spreads  his  broad  canvas 
to  the  breeze,  and  shapes  his  course.  No  trip  more  hazardous 
than  that  to  St.  Malo;  an  epitome,  as  it  were,  of  life's  voyage 
in  those  old  lands,— ever  a  struggle,  but  neither  aimless  nor  fruit- 
less, as  shall  appear. 

How  exhilarating  the  scene  now  opened  to  view, — this  grand 
sweep  of  unique  landscape  and  wide  waters!  On  the  left  the 
eye  takes  in  the  coast, — a  line  of  low  sand-hills,  but  half  conceal- 
ing picturesque  villages,  with  their  tall  spires  and  busy  wind- 
mills, and,  in  the  distant  offing,  snowy  sails  wafted  on  their  inward 
or  outward  mission ;  while  again,  sternwise,  the  blue  waters  of 
the  German  Ocean  spread  out  expansively  far  northward  between 
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whither  our  vessel  is  bound,  the  latter  of  these  shores  stretches 
northeasterly  with  a  seeming  even  line,  but  beyond  the  vision, 
curves  gently  to  the  north,  skirting  the  exterior  sides  of  the 
islands  of  Zeeland  and  the  low  dykes  of  Holland,  till,  at  full 
eighty  leagues  or  more,  it  reaches  that  insular  pilot  station,  the 
Texel,  behind  whose  sheltering  heights  and  hamlets  the  ships  of 
Amsterdam,  Hoom,  and  other  cities  on  the  Zuyder  Zee,  usually 
anchor  to  await  a  clearance  for  their  destined  port. 

The  land  ahead  of  us  trending  nearly  southwest,  our  well- 
laden,  clumsy  galiot  skirts  for  about  twelve  leagues  the  borders 
of  Flanders  and  Picardy,  passing  the  old  Anglo-French  town, 
Calais,  and  the  Straits  of  Dover;  while  the  white  chalk  cliffs 
which  here  line  the  coast  now  project  to  form  the  Capes  Blanc 
and  Gris-Nez,  the  abrupt  termini  also  of  a  highland  range  which, 
penetrating  the  interior,  parts  the  basins  or  sections  of  country 
drained  by  the  rivers  TEscaut,  or  Scheldt,  and  Somme.  Beyond 
the  last-named  and  bolder  of  these  two  headlands,  our  experi- 
enced skipper  alters  his  course  to  due  south,  as  the  coast  bends ; 
old  Neptune  kindly  granting  a  fair  breeze  down  the  Channel, 
for  better  to  scud  under  bare  poles  before  the  brawling  tempest, 
than  to  encounter  fierce  head-winds  or  the  bewildering  fog,  com- 
mon on  this  coast,  either  of  which  might  spoil  his  adventure. 

A  few  miles  bring  us  off  the  harbor  of  Boulogne, — ^to  its 
name  often  added,  for  distinction,  "sur  mer,"  or  "on  the  sea." 
Claiming, — though  in  rivalry  to  Wissen,  an  ancient  port  between 
the  capes  just  mentioned, — to  be  the  Portus  Iccius  whence  Julius 
Caesar  embarked  his  legions  for  the  conquest  of  Britain,  Boulogne 
has  been  the  favorite  thoroughfare  for  travel  between  England 
and  France  from  remote  times.  The  old  walled  town  is  seen 
back  upon  the  heights,  looking  from  seaward  quite  as  in  cen- 
turies pasf;  while,  on  the  flat  nearer  the  sea  has  grown  up  the  lower 
town,  a  populous  suburb,  where  then  were  but  two  or  three  old 
monasteries  and  a  few  cottages,  nestled  around  the  church  St. 
Nicholas.  Its  once  famous  lighthouse,  known  as  the  Tour 
d'Ordre, — but  to  seamen  as  the  Old  Man  of  Boulogne, — lives  only 
in  tradition,  and  the  ruins  which  yet  mark  its  site  on  the  rocks 
at  the  entrance  of  the  harbor, — ^an  old  graystone  octagon  tower 
of  Roman  origin,  which,  after  battling  the  storms  of  over  a 
thousand  years,  was  finally  undermined  and  destroyed  by  the 
sea  in  1644. 

The  white  cliffs,  here  so  noticeable  a  feature  of  the  French 
coast,  presently  give  place  again  to  sand  downs;  while  our  pro- 
gress along  the  tedious  stretch  of  low-lying  country  which  bor- 


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ders  Ponthieu  is  marked  successively  by  the  mouths  of  the  rivers 
Canche  and  Authie,  and  the  broad  estuaries  of  the  Somme. 
Scarce  an  object  is  presented  to  fix  the  attention  or  beguile  the 
weary  hours,  save  now  and  then  a  picturesque  g^oup  of  huts, 
tenanted  by  hardy  Picard  fishermen,  or  distant  glimpse  of  town 
or  spire, — perhaps  a  craft  or  two  leaving  the  mouth  of  the  Somme, 
with  freights  from  its  little  port  of  St.  Valery,  or  the  quaint  old 
town  of  Abbeville,  or  from  Amiens,  the  populous  capital  of 
Kcardy;  these  two,  with  their  important  manufactures,  seated 
far  up  the  valley  of  the  Somme.  Imperceptibly  steals  over  one 
a  sense  of  dreariness,  which  is  only  deepened  by  the  splash  of 
waters  and  creak  of  cordage,  or  even  the  hoarse  wild  scream 
of  the  sea-birds  that  sail  across  the  vessel's  track,  bound  to  either 
shore. 

But  hoary  History,  here  dealing  with  marvellous  prodigality, 
has  strown  these  shores  with  memories  of  past  centuries  far 
more  enduring  than  their  old  cities  or  crumbling  cliffs.  Under 
his  inspiration  the  various  scenes  that  meet  the  eye  assume  new 
interest,  and  become  instinct  with  the  heroic  forms  and  deeds 
which  crowd  upon  the  mental  vision.  Carried  back  to  the  belli- 
cose days  of  the  chivalry,  now  the  potent  Duke  of  Normandy,  in 
ambition  rivalling  a  Caesar,  musters  his  three  thousand  vessels 
from  the  several  Norman  ports  at  St.  Valery-sur-Somme,  and 
sails  to  seize  the  English  crown,  and  win  the  title  of  the  "Con- 
queror." Or  to  the  martial  times  of  Edward  III.  and  of  Henry 
v.,  successors  of  this  same  Anglo-Norman  king,  as  with  gallant 
hosts  they  traverse  the  region  of  the  Somme,  and  against  g^eat 
odds  gain  the  brilliant  victories  of  Cressy  and  Agincourt.  The 
past  revivified  becomes  as  the  present,  while  its  magic  creations 
impart  a  new  zest  to  the  voyage.  E'en  our  hardy  skipper,  versed 
only  in  nautical  science,  in  winds,  clouds  and  storms,  in  bars, 
reefs  and  lighthouses,  spins  from  out  his  store  of  local  yams 
something  to  enliven  many  a  spiritless  scene.  It's  perchance  a 
bold  sea-fight  'twixt  the  rival  neighbors  so  long  contesting  the 
mastery  of  the  Channel;  or  yet  some  touching  story  of  fleeing 
victims  of  persecution  or  tyranny,  of  whose  heroism  and  suffer- 
ings not  the  half  has  been  told.  How  exceeding  probable  that 
it  was  the  experience  of  Huguenot  exiles  who,  a  little  more  than 
two  centuries  ago,  found  a  refuge  at  Harlem,  most  of  whom 
came  from  this  section  of  France  we  are  now  skirting.  Along 
the  fruitful  valley  of  the  Somme  were  scattered  the  homes  of 
otir  Demarest,  Toumeur,  Cresson,  and  Disosway,  not  to  enlarge 
the  number ;  most  of  them  prominent  among  the  Harlem  settlers. 


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and  heads  of  well-known  families  hereafter  to  be  noticed.     Others 
will  be  brought  to  light  as  we  extend  our  voyage. 

The  eye  is  now  sensibly  relieved,  as  the  coast  again  becomes 
elevated,  and  the  chalk  cliffs  reappear,  crowned  with  green  wav- 
ing tufts  of  forests  and  orchards.  At  ten  miles  beyond  the 
Somme,  and  eighteen  leagues  from  Gris-Nez,  is  visible  the  gap 
or  opening  at  the  river  Bresle,  which  marks  the  southern  limit 
of  Picardy.  Now,  putting  helm  aport,  we  bear  south-west  along 
the  rock-bound  coast  of  Normandy,  its  continuity  only  broken 
here  at  intervals  by  the  openings  through  which  the  rivers  fall 
into  the  sea,  and  which  form  several  secure  harbors,  as  Dieppe, 
St.  Valery-en-Caux,  and  Fecamp,  near  the  latter  of  which  the 
bluffs  attain  an  altitude  of  seven  hundred  feet.  Dieppe  is  asso- 
ciated with  two  of  our  settlers,  Lozier  and  Lemaire. 

Bearing  westerly  from  Cape  La  Heve,  near  the  broad  mouth 
of  the  Seine, — just  within  which  lies  Havre,  the  modem  and 
handsome  seaport  of  Paris,  and  on  the  opposite  shore  the  anti- 
quated town  of  Honfleur,  its  harbor  choked  with  great  sand- 
banks,— we  now  skirt  the  flat,  rich  grazing  district  of  Normandy, 
with  its  numerous  villages,  and  fine  old  cities  Caen  and  Bayeux. 
We  must  give  the  coast  a  wide  margin,  to  avoid  the  dreaded 
"Black  Cows"  and  the  yet  more  dangerous  rocky  reef  that  lines 
it  for  some  eighteen  miles,  full  half  a  league  from  shore,  and 
which,  proving  fatal  to  a  vessel  of  the  Spanish  Armada,  took  its 
name,  the  "Calvados." 

The  peninsula  of  Cotentin,  running  northerly  twenty  miles 
beyond  the  shore  line  of  the  Norman  meadows,  ends,  on  the  side 
we  are  approaching,  in  the  picturesque  falaise  or  cliffs  of  Bar- 
fleur,  which  stand  boldly  forth,  as  if  to  greet  our  vessel  in  its 
track.  But  passing  this  cape,  and  the  harbor  of  Cherbourg, 
noted  as  the  last  town  abandoned  by  the  English,  when  finally 
driven  from  Normandy  in  145 1,  and  now  a  famous  naval  station, 
we  reach,  after  a  run  of  a  hundred  and  fifty  miles  from  the  Bresle, 
where  we  first  struck  the  line  of  Normandy,  the  western  limit  of 
this  large  province,  at  Cape  La  Hague.  Bearing  to  larboard 
under  favoring  winds,  we  double  the  cape,  and  stand  again  due 
south,  up  the  boisterous  race  between  the  island  of  Aldemey  and 
the  main,  in  rough  weather  extremely  dangerous,  from  its  con- 
flicting currents,  and  run  inside  Guernsey  and  the  other  Channel 
islands, — those  ancient  appendages  of  Normandy,  and  now  more 
Norman  even  than  the  mother  province,  though  held  by  the 
English.  The  rocky  headlands  on  the  main  serve  to  mark  our 
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respectively  five,  ten  and  twenty  miles  south  of  Cape  La  Hague. 
Leaving,  to  the  left,  the  last  of  these,  sheltering  within  its  pro- 
jecting arm  the  village  and  small  haven  of  Carteret,  distinguish- 
able by  its  line  of  yellow  sands,  we  pass  on  the  right  the  low 
rocky  islets  of  Ecrehou,  and  some  miles  farther,  "old"  Jersey, 
in  area  only  equal  to  our  Staten  Island,  but  the  largest  island  of 
the  Norman  Archipelago,  and  the  home,  formerly,  of  the  Car- 
terets  and  the  Pipons,  not  unknown  in  Harlem  story.  Difficult 
of  approach  on  account  of  its  cordon  of  rocks,  reefs  and  shoals, 
we  pass  near  its  massive  but  ruined  castle  of  Mont  Orgueil,  so 
picturesque  in  its  mantle  of  ivy,  and  crowning  a  high  and  craggy 
spur  that  juts  into  the  sea. 

A  more  than  panoramic  beauty  captivates  the  eye  at  each 
stage  in  this  passage,  enhanced  by  that  which  so  multiplies  the 
perils  of  the  navigation.  Huge  rocky  debris,  environing  these 
islands,  aboimd  on  every  hand,  now  a  solitary  rock,  now  a  con- 
fused cluster,  but  oft  taking  most  fantastic  forms.  Some  tower 
majestically,  like  the  Caskets  off  Alderney,  above  the  highest 
reach  of  the  billows,  when,  storm-driven,  they  break  upon  them 
in  such  grandeur  and  fury.  Others,  with  black  heads  but  just 
visible  amid  silvery  foam  and  spray,  or  lying  in  fatal  ambush 
beneath  the  surface,  prove  the  g^ave  of  many  a  hapless  bark, 
especially  when  enshrouded  in  sea  fog  and  the  helmsman  unable 
to  discern  the  friendly  buoys. 

Fitting  resort  for  the  old  Druids  was  Jersey,  with  its  interior 
of  umbrageous  gloves  and  silent  vales,  where  now  are  rural  vil- 
lages and  farm  seats ;  and  its  exterior,  on  the  north  side  of  bold 
ragged  cliffs,  rising  in  places  over  three  hundred  feet,  and  on  its 
southern  of  deep  sandy  bays,  within  the  largest  of  which  ife  seated 
its  chief  town,  St.  Helier.  Everywhere  intersected  by  winding 
lanes,  nearly  hidden  by  bordering  hedges ;  banks  of  mosses  and 
ferns,  rich  shrubbery,  and  vine-embowered,  cottage-like  houses, 
add  new  beauty  at  every  turn  among  its  highly  rustic  walks. 
Toward  the  western  side  yet  stands  the  venerable  parish  church 
of  St  Brelade,  now  in  its  eighth  century,  and  to  the  north  of 
this,  the  church  of  St.  Ouen ;  in  the  first  of  which  the  Pipons, 
in  the  last  the  De  Carterets,  Lords  of  St.  Ouen,  worshipped,  and 
were  entombed.  And  hard  by  St.  Ouen's  Church,  the  old  granite 
manor-house,  till  late  the  home  of  the  De  Carterets,  still  lifts 
its  quaint  double  gables,  an  object  of  curious  legends  with  the 
islanders.*    Remarkable  not  only  for  its  scenery,  but   for  its 

•  Thw  ancient  seat  of  the  De  Carterets  (we  condense  from  "Scenic  Beauties  of 
«e  Island  of  Jersey,"  by  Philip  J.  Ouless,  Esq.,  of  St.  Helier)  is  situated  in  the  parish 


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unique  government  and  society,  remains  of  an  old  feudal  aris- 
tocracy modeled  in  the  twelfth  century  by  King  John  of  England, 
its  industrious  people,  busied  with  their  dairies,  cider-making", 
oyster  beds,  shipbuilding  and  marine  pursuits,  are  more  of  a 
study.  Mostly  Protestants,  of  simple  manners,  very  frugal,  liv- 
ing quite  after  the  French  mode,  and  speaking  only  the  harsh 
unwritten  patois  known  as  Norman  French,  except  in  town, 
where  modern  French, — used  in  all  local  court  proceedings, — ^is 
more  popular  than  English,  they  resemble  an  old  Huguenot  com- 
munity; and  not  without  cause,  as  many  of  that  worthy  class 
took  refuge  here  during  the  series  of  persecutions  in  France 
which  culminated  at  the  Revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes. 

Our  course  from  Jersey  lying  southward,  we  descry  in  the 
distance,  upon  the  charming  heights  of  the  Cotentin,  another 
landmark  welcome  to  the  coaster, — the  tall  spire  of  the  cathedral 
at  Coutances.  Little  else  can  be  seen  of  this  much-admired 
structure,  though  its  huge  symmetrical  form  so  towers  above  the 
town, — ^and  anon  its  receding  figure  falls  far  astern.  On  cross- 
ing the  Bight  of  La  Manche,  formed  by  the  sudden  deflection  of 

the  coast  to  the  west- 
ward, and  between  the 
rocky  isles  the  Chaus- 
seys  and  the  more  ter- 
rible Minquieres,  Brit- 
tany's rugged  border 
lifts  to  view  its  bald 
cliffs,  so  wild  and  des- 
olate in  their  grand- 
eur ;  most  conspicuous 
the  headland  of  Can- 
cale,  forming  a  bay  in 
the  depth  of  the  Bight 
in  which  lies  the  islet 
of  Mont  St.  Michel,  with  its  famous  old  abbey  high  up  on  the 
precipitous  rock.  We  must  forego  a  visit  to  the  grand  abbey 
hall,  where  the  knights  of  St.  Michel  (the  creation  of  Louis  XI. 
in  1469)  long  held  their  banquets,  and  pass  untested  those  delec- 

of  St.  Oucn,  from  which  it  takes  its  name,  about  six  miles  from  St.  Helier,  and  a 
short  furlong  from  the  parish  church,  on  the  military  road  from  that  town  to  St- 
Ouen's  Bay.  To  the  ola  castellated  mansion,  bclievea  to  have  been  built  about  the 
reign  of  Edward  I.,  are  annexed  the  more  modern  wings,  which  project  in  front,  and 
are  not  older  than  the  time  of  Charles  IL  Entering  its  low  oaken  door,  which  scema 
to  have  remained  unchanged  for  ages,  a  fact- is  recalled,  not  least  among  its  pleasing 


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table  bivalves,  here  abounding,  and  so  toothsome  when  taken 
from  the  half-shell.     We  soon  reach  the  St.  Malo  roads,  and 
the  insulated  town  of  the  same  name,  our  place  of  destination, 
with  its  fleet  of  traders  and  its  fishing  craft.      Bars  and  reefs 
obstruct  the  entrance;  but  now,  at  the  mooring,  we  leave  our 
matter-of-fact  skipper  to  sell  his  lading,  and  the  jolly  tar  to  rest 
his  sea-legs  at  his  usual  resort  in  the  town,  while  we  proceed  to 
explore  this  quaintly  primitive  place,  which  seems  to  carry  one 
back  into  some  by-gone  century.     We  are  not  now  in  Jersey,  as 
is  apparent      Hidden  within  strong  walls  black  with  age,  and 
seated  on  a  rocky  peninsula,  which  becomes  an  islet  at  every 
flood-tide, — here  rising  forty  feet, — ^and  at  the  ebb  girt  about  by 
broad  sands,  the  rank  sedge  growing  there  haunted  by  sea-fowl, 
and  under  a  hot  sun  emitting  no  pleasant  odors,  St.  Malo  does  not 
agreeably  impress  the  approaching  visitor.    A  turn  through  its 
streets  may  not  better  those  impressions;  but  his  curiosity  is 
deeply  enlisted,  not  only  in  the  place, — a  small,  sombre  marine 
town,  with  its  dingy,  oddly-fashioned  old  houses  and  its  array 
of  shipping  stores,  cordage,  cables  and  anchors, — ^but  in  its  people, 
true  to  the  national  instincts,  so  polite  and  deferential,  yet  sur- 
charged with  good  feeling,  so  very  chatty  and  free.     Wealthy, 
but  none  too  moral,  yet  (contradiction  easy  in  this  land  of  ano- 
malies) they  yield  to  none  in  keeping  the  Sabbath.      Once  no 
other  French  port  throve  as  this  upon  its  lucrative  foreign  trade, 
its  cod  and  whale  fisheries,  and  not  less  upon  rich  harvests  gath- 
ered in  war  times  by  its  bold  privateersmen,  ever  as  vigilant  as 
their  trusty  night-watch, — not  the  present  patrolling  coast-guard, 
but  when,  a  century  ago,  it  consisted  of  a  pack  of  dogs.     These, 
kt  loose  outside  the  walls,  in  charge  of  a  soldier,  served  both 
as  a  protection  to  the  shipyards  on  the  strand,  where  timber  and 
cordage  lay  exposed  to  pillage  by  the  neighboring  peasantry,  and 
to  raise  the  cry  of  warning  should  an  armed  foe  attempt  to  steal 
in,  either  from  seaward  or  via  the  Sillon, — the  long  causey,  so 
called,  that  led  from  the  main  to  the  town  gate,  and  where  it 
was  and  still  is  guarded  by  a  drawbridge  and  huge  round  towers 
that  flank  the  gateway.    Truly  suggestive  was  the  old  night  guard 
at  St  Malo  of  that  dogged  watchfulness  of  their  rights  common 
to  this  people  at  large,  the  violation  of  which  rights  by  despotic 
rulers  had  caused  such  effusions  of  blood  and  wholesale  expatria- 
tions.    But  in  the  centuries  since  flown,  like  as  the  night-watch 
has  changed  from  the  canine  to  the  human,  so  to  the  credit  of 
that  fatherland  has  public  sentiment  there  made  great  advance  in 
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which  it  devolves  upon  us  to  tell  is  fraught  with  lessons  too  im- 
portant to  be  forgotten.* 

2.      HAiaKM, — SPRINGS  OF  ITS  HISTORY. 

Within  these  far-stretching  leagues  of  sea-washed  dykes^ 
downs  and  cliffs,  remote  from  Harlem  ocean-wide,  lie  the  open- 
ing scenes  of  its  history.  They  carry  us  not  only  to  the  great 
marts,  but  to  obscure  interior  homes  of  Holland,  Belgium,  and 
Northern  France.  Vouched  for  by  records  freshly  gleaned  from 
this  richly  historic  field,  involving  no  small  amount  of  careful 
research,  they  at  once  possess  the  merit  of  authenticity,  and  pre- 
sent us  pictures  of  former  times  which  are  new  in  every  essential 
of  outline  and  detail. 

Admired  and  revered  world-wide,  as  are  those  old  conti- 
nental countries,  for  the  peculiar  fascination  which  invests  all  that 
pertains  to  them, — ^their  remarkable  peoples,  venerable  institu- 
tions, and  annals  almost  unparalleled  for  soul-stirring  vicissitudes ; 
their  antique  remains  and  rare  works  of  art,  the  standing  won- 
der of  tourists, — how  strong  their  claim  upon  our  remembrance 
and  veneration,  in  their  intimate  relation  of  fatherlands,  the 
source  largely  of  our  brave  and  virtuous  ancestry,  and,  per 
sequence,  a  national  prosperity  that  is  unexampled, — fact  which 
scarce  needs  an  appeal  to  written  history,  because  attested,  as 
well  by  the  characteristics  and  traditions  of  our  people  as  by  our 
family  nomenclature,  and  the  names  of  our  towns,  districts,  and 
states.  Should  not  these  ties  of  affinity  which  bind  us  so  strongly 
to  the  fatherlands  lend  an  additional  charm  to  the  study  of  their 
institutions  and  epochs  ? 

Let  credit  be  given  to  those  primary  agencies  which  paved 
the  way  for  the  colonization  of  our  country, — ^those  hazardous 
but  eventful  voyages  which  began  very  early  in  the  sixteenth 
century,  when  a  new  field  for  maritime  adventure  had  but  just 
been  opened  to  Europe  by  the  astounding  discoveries  of  Columbus. 
It  was  the  heroic  enterprise  of  the  merchants  and  mariners  of 
the  French  seaports,  Dieppe,  Honfleur,  St.  Malo,  Nantes,  Rochelle, 
and  others,  which,  favored  by  the  national  prosperity  under  Louis 

*  Oh,  for  a  full  toleration  in  that  land  with  reason  endeared  to  the  American 
heart,  when  no  such  despotism  shall  tarnish  the  public  character  as  the  im|>ri9onment 
of  a  Christian  minister  on  the  trivial  charge  ot  exceeding  his  parish  limits  in  the 
exercise  of  his  functions  I  We  refer  to  the  recent  case  of  M.  L^acherct  (by  report, 
not  from  him,  but  others),  the  excellent  pastor  of  Maubeuge,  on  the  Sambre^  and  a 
contributor  of  materials  for  this  work.  Quite  too  analogous,  both  as  to  spirit  and 
locality,  is  this  act  of  intolerance  to  others  of  past  times  recited  in  these  pages.  But 
we  trust  this  enlightened  nineteenth  century  will  see  that  old  and  hideous  blot  jjipork 
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XIL,  first  thoroughly  explored  the  North  American  coast,  to  find 
in  the  Newfoundland  fisheries  an  exhaustless  mine  of  wealth,  and 
to  ravish  the  popular  mind  with  glowing  fancies  as  to  the  char- 
acter and  resources  of  the  New  World.  Highly  conducive  to 
this  were  the  several  voyages  of  the  Florentine  Verrazzano,  and 
Cartier  of  St.  Malo,  both  sailing  under  the  royal  auspices  of 
Francis  I. :  the  former,  after  a  visit  to  our  coast  and  harbors  in 
1524,  returning  to  Dieppe  with  report  of  his  success;  and  the 
other,  ten  years  later,  the  pioneer  explorer  of  the  bay  and  river 
St.  Lawrence.  And  many  a  hapless  expedition,  as  that  of  the 
Picard,  Sieur  de  Roberval,  and  those  growing  out  of  the  exigen- 
cies of  the  Huguenots  prior  to  their  first  civil  war,  which,  with 
the  aid  of  Coligny  and  Calvin,  undertook  to  plant  colonies  in 
Brazil  and  Florida,  e'en  by  their  misfortunes  pointed  most  im- 
pressively to  this  remote  land  as  the  ultimate  refuge  for  the 
oppressed  of  Europe.  This  idea  of  colonizing  America,  which 
in  France  slumbered  during  the  civil  wars,  was  revived  in  the 
time  of  Henry  IV.,  and  with  greater  promise  under  his  en- 
lightened patronage;  when  the  names  of  such  daring  spirits  as 
De  Vaux,  Pontgrave  and  Champlain  fill  the  page  of  maritime 
discovery,  the  last  of  whom  in  1608  founded  Quebec,  the  first 
permanent  European  colony  in  North  America.  The  cotem- 
porary  efforts  of  the  Spaniards  and  English,  in  the  same  line 
of  exploration,  concern  us  less. 

But  Holland  now  appears,  a  rival  in  the  field  of  discovery. 
Rife  with  the  spirit  of  commerce,  already  enriched  by  her  East 
India  trade  in  spices,  silks,  and  gems,  and  just  concluding  a  fav- 
orable truce  with  Spain,  which  as  the  fruit  of  a  glorious  struggle 
was  to  virtually  secure  her  independence,  with  the  monopoly  of 
this  lucrative  trade, — she  opportunely  joins  in  the  arduous  search 
for  that  long-sought  passage  to  the  Indies  by  a  western  route, 
quicker,  as  was  believed,  than  by  the  Cape  of  Good  Hope.  To 
this  end  was  the  voyage  of  Hudson  from  Amsterdam  in  1609, 
which,  though  futile  as  to  its  specific  object,  startled  the  mer- 
chants and  capitalists  of  Holland,  alive  to  every  new  scheme  of 
aggrandizement,  with  reports  of  the  noble  river  explored  by  their 
t)old  English  skipper  and  thereafter  to  bear  his  name ;  promising,, 
in  the  affluence  of  its  natural  products,  its  forests  of  ship-timber, 
and  its  more  valuable  furs,  to  eclipse  the  fame  of  Newfoundland,, 
and  rival  the  wealth  of  the  Indies.  The  importance  of  this  dis- 
covery, confirmed  by  sundry  trading  voyages  to  Hudson's  river,^ 
covering  a  series  of  years,  led  to  the  formation  of  the  Dutch  West 
India  Company,  under  whose  direction  the  first  colonists  pro- 


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ceeded  thither  in  1623,  composed  chiefly  of  French  or  Walloons, 
who,  driven  from  their  own  countries  by  war  and  persecution, 
had  taken  refuge  in  the  free  states  of  Holland. 

From  this  small  beginning,  as  we  know,  grew  the  flourishing 
states  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey,  respecting  whose  origin 
the  zeal  and  industry  of  the  historian  has  left  but  little  to  be 
added,  save  in  a  knowledge  of  the  pioneer  colonists  themselves. 
Of  but  few  of  the  large  number  who  came  from  the  continental 
parts  of  Europe  have  we  any  personal  account  prior  to  their 
advent  upon  the  American  soil.  Thrown  upon  these  shores,  as 
are  the  delicate  sea-shells  cast  up  by  restless  waves,  whose  alter- 
nate ebb  and  flow  effaces  their  tiny  furrows  in  the  sand,  our 
French  and  Belgic  sires  had  emerged  from  rude  billows  of  peril 
and  conflict  in  their  native  lands,  enough,  in  human  view,  to  have 
swept  away  all  trace  of  them  there.  We  may  follow  them  in  their 
subsequent  career,  with  rarely  a  failure,  by  means  of  scanty 
records ;  but  this  opening  chapter  of  their  history,  how  difficult  to 
recover  it,  especially  where  is  missing  the  connecting  link  between 
the  exile  and  his  former  home  in  the  fatherland.* 

To  regain  this  lost  link,  this  unknown  page  in  the  story  of 
the  colonist,  so  important  a  prelude  to  his  after-life,  and  almost 
of  necessity  eventful  and  touching,  became  a  prime  object  with 
the  author.  It  was  to  trace  these  wanderers  amid  the  scenes  of 
their  native  lands  and  homes,  where  were  their  firesides,  their 
altars,  their  fields  of  conflict,  and  to  study  them  in  the  face  of 
such  circumstances  as  must  have  influenced  their  character  and 
destiny.  In  resolving  the  causes  that  led  them  to  abandon  their 
native  for  a  foreign  soil,  we  should  acquire  the  means  wherewith 
to  better  apprehend  them  in  their  new  sphere,  which,  however 
different,  yet  involved  great  sacrifice,  danger,  and  hardship  to 
themselves  and  families;  insomuch  that  the  problem  of  their 
strange  exile  could  be  clearly  solved  only  by  a  knowledge  of  the 
rugged  experiences  which  had  impelled  them  thereto.  Their 
antecedents  must  aid  in  forming  an  estimate  of  their  personal 
worth,  and  in  accounting  for  their  peculiar  tastes,  habits,  and 
attachments.     Placing  their  simple  virtues  in  bolder  relief,  even 

*  Tradition  is  rarely  of  much  service  in  this  connection.  The  extravagant  stories 
that  the  worthy  Deraarest  "purchased  the  whole  of  Harlem,"  and  that  the  Benson 
ancestor,  on  coming  here,  "had  the  choice  of  the  whole  island,"  on  which  were  "only 
five  houses,"  are  amusing  specimens  of  the  vague  and  unreliable  utterances  of  tra- 
dition 1  Demarest  was  a  recently-arrived  Huguenot  exile,  and  as  for  Benson,  he  did 
not  come  to  Harlem  till  sixty  odd  years  after  this  settlement  began. 

It  is  quite  natural  to  give  credence  to  such  traditions  as  are  flattering  to  our 
ancestry.  But  few.  comparatively,  of  our  early  colonists,  on  coming  here,  brought 
much  wealth,  and  fewer,  perhaps,  had  enjoyed  rank  and  position  in  their  own  lands. 
Still,  our  colonists  rise  in  the  social  scale  with  later  investigations,  and  it  becomes 
more  apparent  that  wealth,  rank,  and  culture  were  not  such  rare  endowments  with 
them  as  has  been  supposed. 


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their  foibles  would  seem  more  excusable,  when  viewed  in  con- 
tact with  the  sterner  age  in  which  they  lived,  the  conflicts  they 
had  to  wage,  and  the  circumscribed  light  and  advantages  which 
fell  to  their  lot. 

So  judging,  the  author  was  led  to  make  such  inquiries  abroad 
as  have  resulted  in  the  recovery  of  many  interesting  details 
touching  the  first  settlers  at  Harlem  prior  to  their  emigration; 
facts  which,  buried  for  centuries  in  the  musty  archives  of  the 
fatherlands,  now  come  to  us  with  all  the  novelty  of  an  original 
narrative.* 

Traced  to  many  parts  of  Western  Europe,  from  the  sunny 
plains  of  France  to  the  bleak,  fir-clad  hills  of  old  Scandinavia, 
these  founders  of  Harlem  were  neither  exclusively  nor  mainly 
Hollanders,  as  has  been  the  common  opinion.  From  the  last- 
named  section  came  sturdy  Danes,  Swedes,  and  Norwegians,  in 
faith  Lutherans,  and  inured  to  toil,  with  manners  betraying  the 
blood  of  the  brusk  Norsemen,  once  the  scourge  of  France  and 
the  British  Isles;  but  as  the  native  asperity  had  been  softened 
under  ages  of  culture,  so  had  hard  fortune,  in  the  case  of  these 
exiles,  added  its  chastening  effects.    They  were  few  in  number, 

•  Baron  W.  J.  C.  Rammelman  Elsevier,  Archivist  at  Leydcn,  Holland,  to  whom 
I  here  express  mv  thanks,  has  furnished  materials  of  the  utmost  value^  extracted, 
vith  much  painstaking,  from  the  ancient  archives  of  the  city,  the  University,  and  tb<* 
Dutch  and  Walloon  churches  there.  Mr.  Frederick  Muller,  of  Amsterdam,  also  heartily 
interested  himself  in  causing  similar  searches  to  be  made  at  Amsterdam,  Slooterdyke. 
and  Haarlem,  by  Mr.  Magnin,  Brother  of  the  Order  of  the  Netherland  Lion,  and 
former  Archivist  of  Drentne.  Mr.  Osgood  Field,  of  London,  who,  in  hours  spared 
from  mercantile  duties,  has  proven  his  love  for  the  historic  neld,  also  has  my  warm 
acknowledgments  for  aid  in  procuring,  through  Mr.  H.  G.  Somerby,  since  deceased, 
important  extracts  from  the  registers  of  the  Walloon  churches  of  London  and  Canter- 
bury; as  also  other  data  from  parish  registers  at  Newcastle-on-Tyne,  copied  by  Rev. 
R.  Gould,  of  Earsdon  Vicarage.  Also  Mr.  W.  Noel  Sainsbury,  of  Her  Majesty's  State 
Paper  Omce,  for  materials  in  his  custody.  Thanks  are  due  to  Rev.  N.  Weiss,  late  of 
Paris,  for  the  hearty  interest  he  manifested  in  mv  labors,  and  who  supplied  some 
useful  items  from  the  records  at  Avesnes,  obtained  through  the  agency  of  M.  Lacheret, 
pastor  at  Maubeuge;  and  also  a  valuable  brochure  upon  the  church  of  Le  Gateau, 
besides  many  facts  and  suggestions  pertaining  to  the  general  subject  of  the  Huguenot 
refugees  and  the  specific  names  submitted  to  him, — he  also  having  the  kindness,  un- 
solicited, to  lay  one  of  mv  letters  before  the  Societe  de  THistoire  du  Protestant! sme 
francais,  a  member  of  which,  M.  Bordier,  an  able  historian,  politely  lent  his  efforts 
to  further  its  object.  Also  to  Hon.  Edward  M.  Smith,  U.  S.  Consul  at  Mannheim, 
for  instituting  searches  in  that  city;  and  to  the  gentlemen  who  engaged  in  them:  Mr. 
Eduard  Lemp,  custodian  of  the  city^  archives;  Herr  von  Feder,  Deputy  of  the  Second 
Chamber  ana  Historian  of  Mannheim:  and  M.  Ruckhaber,  pastor  of  the  Concordia, 
late  Walloon  church.     Also  to  M.  Gerlach,  pastor  of  the  Walloon  church,  Middleburg, 


ceming  the  Carterets  and  I*ipons,  inserted  in  the  British  Press,  island  of  Jersey, 
brought  a  response  from  a  lineal  descendant  of  Capt.  James  Carteret,  Mrs.  Braitn- 
waite,  of  Terrace  House,  St.  Helier,  daughter  of  the  late  Gen.  James  Pipon,  of  Noir- 
mont,  in  that  island,  and  whom  I  have  to  thank  for  several  communications.  And  I 
am  also  happy  to  acknowle^e  the  valuable  aid  iriven  me  in  the  speciality  to  which 
this  note  refers  by  the  late  lamented  Professor  Pierre  Blot,  and  the  artist,  Mr.  Ed. 
Kalsboven.  of  New  York,  but  till  recently  of  Amsterdam;  as  also  by  Mr.  John  Cal- 
lanan,  of  Binhamton,  N.  Y.,  deserving  to  be  better  known,  and  who  loves  to  roam  amid 
the  florid  scenes  of  his  native  isle.  Jersey.  His  kindness  has  procured  us  the  view 
of  the  St.  Ouen,  or  De  Carteret  Manor-House,  obligingly  furnished  at  his  request  by 
his  friend,  Philip  J.  Oules,  Esq.,  of  St.  Helier,  artist  and  author  of  "Scenic  Beauties 
of  the  Island  of  Jersey." 


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yet  included  several  of  undoubted  worth  and  superior  attain- 
ments. 

Other  exceptions  there  were;  but  the  community  was  made 
up  mainly  and  in  about  even  proportion  of  Hollanders  and 
French  Huguenots:  names  than  which  none  suggest  a  truer 
ideal  of  sterling  character,  of  patriotism,  exalted  faith,  and  heroic 
suffering.  Nor  do  our  settlers  cast  discredit  upon  this  general 
estimate  of  these  classes.  They  and  their  families  had  sacrificed 
much  in  behalf  of  liberty  and  the  reformed  religion.  They  were 
men  of  probity,  equal  to  those  of  their  times  in  intelligence,  edu- 
cation, and  enterprise.  Highly  industrious,  they  scorned,  even  in 
poverty,  any  dependence  upon  the  charitable,  while  they  could 
practise  an  honest  trade  or  handicraft,  such  as  they  invariably 
possessed.  In  a  word,  their  record,  though  not  faultless,  well 
sustains  this  general  good  character.  Tried  men,  used  to  con- 
quering difficulties,  undaunted  by  the  exposure  and  peril  incident 
to  a  wild,  a  hostile  land,  theirs  was  the  arduous  work  of  con- 
structing a  new  society,  a  civilization  to  which  despotic  Europe 
was  then  a  stranger,  or  which  it  could  not  tolerate.  Its  safe 
^ards,  invaluable  even  for  the  security  of  life  and  estate, — ^the 
church,  the  school,  the  civil  magistracy, — they  were  careful  to 
bring  with  them,  to  plant  and  nurture  as  on  a  more  congenial 
soil;  and  which,  deeply  rooted,  and  with  broad  spreading 
branches,  still  yield  for  us  their  golden  fruits.  How  and  under 
what  circumstances  they  acquired  these  valuable  ideas  which 
possessed  them,  this  peculiar  fitness  for  their  high  destiny  as 
colonists  and  founders  of  empire,  is  surely  a  most  inviting  sub- 
ject of  inquiry. 

3.      GLIMPSES    OF    THE    FATHERLANDS. 

To  catch  the  spirit  and  genius  of  the  times  under  review  is 
to  ignore  such  changes,  political,  moral,  and  physical,  as  three 
centuries  have  wrought ;  for  Europe  of  to-day  is  not  the  Europe 
of  the  sixteenth  century.  By  the  light  of  the  historic  past,  its 
wealth  of  significant  fact  and  incident  is  more  clearly  revealed. 
In  the  land  of  the  Huguenots  the  remote  eras  of  the  Gaul,  the 
Roman,  and  the  Frank  yet  lived  in  piquant  story,  and  might  be 
traced  in  existing  monuments  as  well  as  in  musty  tomes.  Still 
in  popular  use  were  the  old  provincial  names,  time-honored  and 
Interwoven  with  all  the  history  of  the  country;  for  not  yet  had 
revolution  stripped  the  French  provinces  of  these  means  of  iden- 
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rights  and  institutions.  An  exhaustless  theme,  with  our  Hugue- 
not refugee,  was  his  dear  old  Picardie,  or  Artois,  or  Norman- 
die;  the  talisman  which  in  his  remotest  wanderings,  e'en  till 
death  closed  his  exile,  recalled  all  that  was  endearing  in  the 
word  home.  In  church  and  state  the  ancient  regime  was  intact. 
The  old  provincial  dynasties  which  had  grown  up  and  flourished 
under  the  feudal  system,  but  whose  lines  of  puissant  counts  and 
dukes  were  long  since  extinct,  lived  even  yet  in  important  senses, 
not  only  in  monumental  stones  and  structures,  and  in  the  local 
annals  and  traditions,  but  in  countless  charters,  privileges,  laws 
and  usages  still  prized  and  cherished  by  the  people.  History, 
as  if  to  deepen  its  impress  upon  the  popular  heart,  had  scattered 
its  monuments  over  the  soil  with  lavish  hand ;  and  around  these, 
time, — which  in  the  annals  of  Gaul  meant  a  score  of  centuries, — 
had  woven  its  weird  and  marvellous  legends,  often  a  tax  upon 
credulity,  but  perchance  too  real:  some  tale  of  gallant  heroism, 
of  gentle  piety,  or  dark  superstition,  touching  the  heart  or  quick- 
ening the  blood,  but,  whether  true  or  otherwise,  a  telling  para- 
phrase upon  the  national  traits  or  instincts.  The  old  baronial 
castle  proudly  rearing  its  towers  was  rich  in  reminiscences  of 
warlike  feudal  times.  The  razing  its  ponderous  walls  as  mate- 
rial for  the  mason? — sacriligious  thought.  Dingy  cloisters, 
over  whose  turrets  crept  venerable  ivy,  still  swarmed  with  pious 
monks,  yet  had  come  to  be  symbolic  of  that  moral  darkness  which 
in  the  early  ages  first  drove  the  gentle  handmaids'  religion  and 
learning  to  the  covert  of  such  strong  and  friendly  walls.  Held 
by  the  masses  in  profound  veneration,  they  evidenced  the  singular 
religious  fervor  of  the  race.  But  here's  a  touching  emblem,  the 
cross, —  it  is  coarsely  fashioned  in  stone, — which  surprises  one 
in  some  rural  solitude,  but  near  the  highway,  so  none  may  fail 
to  see  it,  and,  kneeling,  offer  up  a  paternoster.  Mute;  yet  it 
tells,  maybe,  the  affecting  tale  of  some  early  martyrdom,  or  of 
the  gallant  brave  slain  in  battle,  on  this  now  sacred  spot.  How 
suggestive  of  that  strong,  unnatural  alliance  between  war  and 
religion ;  whence  bloody  crusades  against  Turks,  Albigenses,  and 
Vaudois,  and,  we  may  add,  the  Huguenot  wars. 

Between  the  cities  or  villages  all  is  forest,  or  heath,  or  tilled 
lands,  but  alike  a  solitude,  unbroken  by  cheery  farm-houses  or 
villas;  no  fences  even,  but  rows  of  ancient  yews,  or  hedge  of 
flowering  holly  or  thorn,  or  yet  the  natural  streams,  to  mark 
the  limits  of  estates.  The  farmer,  however  distant  his  acres, 
Kves  in  town  or  hamlet.  The  wealth,  industry  and  social  life 
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on  the  rivers, — the  latter  almost  the  only  medium  of  domestic 
trade  and  travel,^-or  upon  the  old  Roman  ways;  cross-roads 
were  few  and  neglected.  Treasuries  of  all  that  was  venerable 
and  curious  were  these  cities.  Many  had  sprung  from  rude 
towns  of  the  Gauls,  and  owed  their  first  significance  to  Roman 
civilization  and  law  and  the  architectural  and  other  improve- 
ments then  introduced, — still  attested  by  noble  ruins,  found  every- 
where, of  fine  structures,  besides  inmiense  stretches  of  paved 
military  roads,  bringing  the  chief  places  into  easier  communica- 
tion. Shut  up  in  massive  walls,  the  city,  each  within  itself, 
was  a  little  world,  sparing,  beyond  the  necessities  of  trade,  of 
any  intercourse  or  sympathy  with  others  around  it.  The  older 
portions  were  easily  told,  the  houses  so  antique,  the  streets  nar- 
row and  crooked,  with  a  gutter  running  down  the  centre. 
Through  others  ran  canals,  lined  with  vessels  receiving  or  dis- 
charging merchandise,  and  where  stood  the  tiled  houses,  two  or 
three  stories  high,  occupied  by  merchants  or  traders,  who  mainly 
composed  the  burghery, — the  enterprising  and  well-to-do  middle 
class.  More  pretentious  were  the  mansions  of  the  lords  and 
gentry, — ^the  upper  strata  of  society;  the  lower, — ^the  toiling  ar- 
tisans and  work  people, — tenanting  squatty,  cottage-like  houses, 
their  low  eaves  overhanging  the  humble  doorway,  with  windows, 
or  little  lookouts,  not  the  best  for  admitting  air  or  sunlight,  but 
quite  large  enough  in  cold  or  stormy  weather,  since  window- 
glass  was  too  great  a  luxury  for  the  poor.  But  the  clergy  often 
surpassed  even  the  nobility  in  the  richness  and  comfort  of  their 
abodes,  which  with  monasteries  and  other  houses  of  the  religious 
orders,  usually  well  endowed,  engrossed  a  large  area  within  the 
cities.  Above  the  clustering  gables  arose  the  turrets  and  crosses 
of  parish  churches  not  a  few,  and  the  lofty  spire  and  pinnacles 
of  the  stately  cathedral;  witnesses  alike  to  the  devotion  and 
taste  of  their  votaries,  but  the  latter  the  crowning  glory  of  the 
city,  whether  for  the  grandeur  of  its  design,  or  for  its  wealth  of 
sculptures,  frescoes,  and  paintings.  Within,  its  lofty  solemn 
arches  inspired  the  worshiper  with  reverence  and  awe;  its  very 
plan,  a  cruciform,  told  where  his  faith  should  rest;  and  even 
the  dumb  effigies  of  the  noble  dead,  recumbent  on  their  costly 
tombs  in  the  silent  transept,  read  him  a  lesson  upon  his  own 
mortality.  Still,  in  aid  of  his  devotions,  were  images,  tapers, 
and  clouds  of  incense;  with  "sacred  relics"  in  profusion,  ac- 
credited with  healing  power  and  other  miraculous  virtues,  and 
rarely  excepting  either  a  piece  of  "the  true  cross,"  or  the 
denuded  bones  of  the  city's  ancient  patron,  and  still  guardian 


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saint.  The  citadel  afforded  secure  quarters  to  the  royal  governor, 
who  need  fear  no  disaster  incident  to  those  times,  as  insurrec- 
tion, or  those  more  dreaded  from  want  of  skill  to  cope  with  them, — 
fire,  famine,  and  pestilence, — ^which  often  caused  fearful  ravages. 
But  what  recuperative  energy  had  these  cities,  and  to  what  un- 
wonted prosperity  they  attained,  especially  in  the  wool  and  flax 
working  districts  of  the  Netherlands  and  Northern  France. 
Grand  displays  characterized  the  periodical  fairs  and  the  frequent 
religious  festivals.  Tournament  and  feats  at  arms  were  the 
high  sport  of  the  nobility;  their  pastime,  hunting  or  hawking. 
Tennis  or  ball  playing  was  the  great  popular  game,  and  dancing 
the  universal  amusement  for  both  sexes.  Ancient  and  often 
grotesque  customs  were  kept  up  with  g^eat  spirit.  Crowning 
the  rosiere  was  a  usage  not  only  very  ancient  (instituted  by  St. 
Medard  of  Noyon,  in  Picardy,  in  the  fifth  century),  but  pretty 
and  touching.  It  was  the  public  presentation  of  a  hat  bedecked 
with  roses  to  the  most  exemplary  maiden  of  the  town  or  village. 
The  entire  family  of  the  recipient  share  the  honor.  "The  crown 
of  roses,"  says  the  Countess  de  Genlis,  "is  expected  with  emotion, 
awarded  with  justice,  and  establishes  goodness,  rectitude  and 
virtue  in  every  family.'* 

One  of  the  cities  most  closely  identified  with  our  refugees 
was  Amiens.  Within  its  encircling  moat  and  high  massive 
walls,  strengthened  at  short  distances  by  round  abutments  and 
towers,  it  was  not  then  the  open,  airy  town  it  now  is,  since  its 
sombre  walls  have  given  place  to  a  handsome  boulevard;  but  it 
was  noted  "for  the  beauty  of  its  buildings,  and  for  the  quality, 
industry  and  number  of  its  inhabitants."  The  city  lay  south 
of  the  Somme,  whose  main  channel  formed  a  bend  around  its 
northern  part  known  as  the  Old  or  Lower  Town,  where  three 
branches  also  entered  it  under  arches  in  the  wall,  and  which, 
diffusing  into  canals,  threaded  its  narrow  streets,  here  lined  by 
low  and  antiquated  dwellings  and  shops,  and  uniting  again  on 
the  western  side,  escaped  by  a  single  outlet  at  St.  Michel's 
Bridge.  To  this  portion,  which  had  led  Louis  XI.  to  call 
Amiens  his  Little  Venice,  lay  joining  southerly  a  larger  part 
known  as  the  Upper  Town,  having  broad  and  quite  regular 
streets,  fine  houses,  mainly  two  stories  high  and  of  uniform 
style,  with  two  spacious  squares  "where  seven  fair  streets 
centred."  Henry  IV.  had  built  its  city  hall  and  citadel,  the 
latter  in  the  form  of  a  star,  with  five  sharp  angles,  command- 
ing the  northern  approach  to  the  city,  and  though  still  incom- 
plete, deemed  impregnable.      But  all  its  fine  edifices,  the  bishop's 


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palace  not  excq)ted,  paled  before  its  grand  cathedral,   Notre 
Dame,  pronounced  at  that  time  "the  fairest  and  most  lovely 
structure  in  the  West  of  Europe."     In  plan  the  usual  crucifonn, 
it  dated  from  1220,  when  its  foundations  were  laid;  excepting 
as  to  its  western  front,  which  was  of  later  construction,  verv- 
rich  in  Gothic  decorations,  and  flanked  by  two  massive  unfinished 
square  towers  of  unequal  height.     From  over  the  transept  arose 
a  light  and  airy  spire  three  hundred  and  seventy  feet  high.     It 
would  consume  too  much  space  to  describe  its  interior  magnifi- 
cence.    Among  its  treasured  relics  was  the  decapitated  head  of 
John  the  Baptist,  alleged  to  have  been  brought  by  a  Picard 
crusader  from  Constantinople,  after  its  capture  in    1204.      Its 
great  value  consisted  in  its  entire  genuineness,  though  this  was 
not  quite  demonstrated  till  1665,  when  done  in  a  learned  treatise 
prepared  at  the  request  of  the  chapter  by  the  great  savant  of 
Amiens,  Sieur  du  Cange!     Another  relic  they  had,  equally  real, 
and   hardly   less   valuable, — ^the  finger   of   "doubting  Thomas/' 
which  had  restored  his  faltering  faith  by  a  touch  of  the  Saviour's 
wounds!     If  aught  could  better  show  how  strong  a  grasp  old 
superstitions  had  upon  the  popular  mind  at  Amiens,  it  needed 
but  a  stroll  among  its  numerous  abbeys  and  parish  churches,  or 
through  its  great  cemetery  of  St.  Denis,  hard  by  the  cathedral, 
where  monumental  crosses,  antique  and  moss-grown,  told  the 
faith  in  which  slept  its  dead  of  many  centuries. 

Amiens  was  the  city  of  the  brave  Ambiani,  who  having  sent 
a  strong  force  to  oppose  the  victorious  Caesar,  were  at  last  ob- 
liged to  open  their  gates  to  this  mighty  conqueror.  Galling  as 
was  the  yoke,  it  was  alleviated  by  the  benefits  of  the  Roman 
municipal  government,  with  its  magistracy  and  senate,  having  a 
share  in  enacting  the  laws  and  dispensing  justice.  Upon  the 
introduction  of  Christianity  the  people  chose  their  own  bishops, 
—7a  right  they  had  ever  since  exercised,  save  when  obstructed  by 
violence  or  arbitrary  rulers.  After  the  Frank  conquest,  near  the 
end  of  the  fifth  century,  the  powers  of  the  magistrates  were 
extended,  the  senate  was  opened  to  all  citizens,  including  the 
clergy;  and  the  bishop,  whose  functions  before  were  scarcely 
more  than  spiritual,  became,  by  the  elective  vote  of  the  people, 
president  of  the  municipal  body,  and  thus  was  invested  with  a 
temporal  authority  and  a  chief  influence  in  all  the  affairs  of  the 
city.  The  Frankish  kings  also  established  in  this,  as  in  other 
principal  cities,  a  civil  and  military  governor,  called  a  count, 
who  exercised  the  powers  of  judge.  Charlemagne,  among  other 
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elected  conjointly  by  the  count,  the  imperial  officers  and  the  peo- 
ple, by  which  the  citizen  acquired  a  new  and  valued  right;  the 
political  and  administrative  power  being  now  shared  by  the 
bishop,  the  count,  and  these  judges.  It  was  the  suspension  by 
the  counts  in  feudal  times  of  this  important  franchise,  with  other 
abuses  of  power,  that  led  the  burghers  of  Amiens  to  form  that 
compact  for  their  protection  called  the  commune.  This  was 
effected  at  the  beginning  of  the  twelfth  century  (11 13),  when, 
revolting  against  the  encroachments  of  the  count  and  the  exac- 
tions of  the  viscounts  which  he  had  arbitrarily  substituted  for 
the  judges,  the  people,  excited  thereto  by  the  bishop,  and  sus- 
tained by  the  king,  Louis  VL,  constituted  themselves  an  incor- 
poration, adopting  a  charter  which  served  as  a  model  for  many 
other  communes  in  the  North  of  France.  "The  commune,"  says 
Thierry,  "was  sovereign,  because  it  had  the  right  of  self-govern- 
ment by  its  proper  laws,  and  the  right  of  life  and  of  death  over 
all  its  members;  it  had,  following  the  language  of  the  ancient 
jurisprudence,  high,  middle,  and  low  justice.  Its  power,  legis- 
lative, administrative,  and  judicial,  was  delegated  by  it  to  a  corps 
of  elective  magistrates,  renewed  each  year,  and  whereof  the 
head  bore  the  title  of  mayor  (maire),  and  the  members  that  of 
echevin,  or  the  joint  titles  of  echevin  and  prevot."  King  Philip 
Augustus  confirmed  these  rights  by  a  charter  in  1190,  and  this 
ancient  form  of  government  still  subsisted  at  Amiens.  How  it 
had  become  a  great  commercial  city,  the  struggles  of  its  citi- 
zens in  all  the  centuries  past  to  preserve  their  privileges  against 
domestic  and  foreign  enemies,  and  countless  other  incidents  of 
its  history,  are  not  essential  to  our  present  design. 

The  national  history  counted  its  centuries  before  the  Chris- 
tian era;  its  first  known  epoch  was  a  barbaric  age,  devoted  to 
war  and  the  bloody  rites  of  the  Druids,  or  the  religious  mysteries 
of  the  Gauls,  who,  to  propitiate  their  gods,  immolated  human 
captives.  The  Gauls  were  then  divided  into  three  nations, — the 
Belgae,  Celtse,  and  Aquitani;  the  first  being  of  German  extrac- 
tion, and  superior  in  physique,  energy*,  and  courage  to  the  others. 
The  Gauls  told  Caesar  that  the  ancestors  of  the  Belgae  had  crossed 
the  Rhine  at  an  early  date  and  appropriated  the  fertile  country 
north  of  the  Seine  and  Marne,  after  driving  out  the  Celtae.  These 
three  nations  were  subdivided  into  independent  tribes,  as  the 
Nervii,  the  Ambiani,  the  Veromandui,  the  Bellovaci,  and  the 
Suessiones,  all  of  the  Belgae,  and  all  tribes  of  Picardy,  except  the 
Xervii,  which  lay  next  northward. 

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epoch,  during  which  Gaul  was  civilized,  through  the  influence 
of  Roman  law,  letters  and  arts,  and  of  Christianity.  Clovis, 
king  of  the  Franks,  overthrew  the  Roman  power  in  486,  and 
founded  the  monarchy,  which,  despite  many  convulsions,  had 
subsisted  for  twelve  centuries.  A  dismal  period  of  anarchy 
ensued  after  the  death  of  Clovis,  and  ended  in  the  dethronement 
of  his  race.  It  was  marked  by  the  corruption  of  the  church, 
which  had  allied  itself  to  the  civil  power,  and  by  the  rise  of  mon- 
asticism,  which  spread  over  Northern  Gaul  in  the  seventh  century. 

The  monarchy  rose  to  great  splendor  and  the  dignity  of  an 
empire  under  the  ambitious  but  wise  Charlemagne,  who  added 
two  kingdoms  to  France.  But  all  this  greatness  vanished  under 
his  weak  successors.  Rent  by  internal  dissensions,  a  general 
revolt  of  the  nobles  and  the  inroads  of  the  piratical  Normans, 
the  mushroom  empire  soon  fell  asunder;  its  two  acquisitions, 
Italy  and  Germany,  resuming  their  separate  existence,  while 
France  proper  was  resolved  into  numerous  petty  governments, 
which,  ruled  by  hereditary  dukes  and  counts  under  what  was 
styled  the  feudal  system,  subsisted  for  centuries  independent  of 
each  other,  and  so  far  of  the  crown  as  to  pay  it  scarcely  a  nom- 
inal homage.  Thus  arose  among  others,  in  the  ninth  and  tenth 
centuries,  the  proud  earldoms  or  counties  of  Flanders  (from 
which  Artois  was  subsequently  taken),  Hainault,  Holland,  and 
those  which  afterward  united  formed  Picardy ;  besides  the  duchy 
of  Normandy,  founded  by  Rollo  and  his  Norsemen  out  of  their 
rich  conquests. 

This  localization  of  power  causing  many  domestic  wars, — 
with  the  utter  humiliation  of  the  monarchy, — was,  for  a  time,  fatal 
to  social  order  and  progress.  But  this  state  of  things  ultimately 
found  its  remedy,  in  the  perfecting  of  the  feudal  system,  the 
restraining  power  of  the  church,  the  rise  of  the  spirit  of  chivalry, 
and,  above  all,  in  the  famous  Crusades,  whose  object  was  to 
wrest  the  land  of  Palestine  from  the  Mohammedan  power.  Con- 
ceived in  a  desire  to  end  the  cruelties  inflicted  by  the  Turks 
upon  Christians  going  on  pilgrimage  to  the  Holy  Sepulchre,  and 
first  set  on  foot  in  1095  by  a  Picard  called  Peter  the  Hermit, 
these  remarkable  expeditions  were  repeated  at  intervals  during 
two  centuries.  Monarchs  took  the  field,  and  the  chivalry  of 
France  and  the  Netherlands,  including  many  from  Normandy, 
Picardy,  Hainault,  Artois,  and  Flanders,  bore  a  distinguished 
part.  Directly  productive  only  of  disaster,  a  prodigious  waste 
of  life  and  treasure,  and  naught  in  return  of  which  to  boast, 
beside  valorous  deeds,  but  a  brief  occupation  of  Jerusalem  by 


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the  crusaders,  the  Crusades,  strange  as  it  may  seem,  ultimately 
wrought  out  results  highly  beneficial  to  society.  By  impairing 
the  strength  and  resources  of  the  feudal  chiefs,  great  and  small, 
who  had  alike  squandered  all  they  had  on  these  costly  expedi- 
tions, the  way  was  opened  to  the  monarchy  to  regain,  by  degrees, 
its  control;  and  to  the  cities,  to  cast  off  their  allegiance  to  the 
counts  or  seigniors, — feudal  masters,  who  had  long  oppressed 
them, — and  to  accept  the  protection  of  the  king :  nor  were  efforts 
for  aggrandizement  relaxed  (a  policy  begun  by  Louis  VI., 
crowned  in  1108),  till,  by  the  use  of  diplomacy  and  force, 
supremacy  had  been  regained  over  all  the  French  territory 
which  had  revolted  in  the  ninth  century,  excepting  only  the 
Xetherland  provinces  lying  north  of  Picardy.  These,  by  a 
train  of  favoring  causes,  had  fallen  to  the  dukes  of  Burgundy, 
and,  through  them,  to  the  crown  of  Spain ;  thus  exposing  to  this 
rival  power  another  and  more  accessible  frontier,  where  no  lofty 
Pyrenees  opposed  a  difficult  barrier,  and  which  in  subsequent 
wars  between  them  became  a  principal  theatre  of  hostilities. 

But  the  elevation  of  the  sovereign  consequent  upon  the 
Crusades  was  no  more  marked  than  was  that  of  the  subject. 
Everywhere  the  bands  which  held  the  vassal  to  his  lord  were  sun- 
dered, and  the  bondman  went  out  free.  The  dissipated  wealth 
of  the  feudal  aristocracy  had  found  its  way  largely  into  the 
coffers  of  the  merchants,  shipwrights,  mechanics  and  manufac- 
turers. With  the  development  of  their  energies  and  resources 
the  cities  rapidly  advanced  toward  that  high  state  of  prosperity 
which  they  long  enjoyed,  until  arrested  by  the  persecutions  and 
dvil  wars  of  the  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries.  The  church 
temporal  flourished,  or  at  least  the  clergy,  who  became  rich  and 
more  arrogant;  the  churches,  with  the  monasteries  or  abbeys, — 
already  enjoying  princely  endowments, — had  added  largely  to 
their  estates  from  those  of  the  crusaders,  who  had  mortgaged 
or  sold  them  to  the  bishops,  etc.,  and  all  this  was  augmented  by  the 
recovery  of  property  alleged  to  have  been  stolen  by  the  feudal 
lords.  From  this  profusion  of  wealth  at  the  church's  command, 
supplemented  by  generous  donations  from  the  noble  or  affluent 
and  innumerable  offerings  by  the  common  people,  were  built  the 
magnificent  cathedrals  of  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth  centuries; 
also  cotmtless  new  monasteries  and  cloisters.  Out  of  all  this 
again  came  benefits  other  than  the  spiritual, — which  latter  we 
would  not  undervalue, — ^masses  of  mechanics  and  workmen  had 
bread,  while  the  large  demand  for  skilled  architects  and  artisans 
became  a  powerful  stimulus  to  many  important  branches  of  art. 


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To  the  various  home  industries  thus  created,  or  quickened,  were 
added  at  this  period  many  useful  arts, — not  to  speak  of  luxuries, 
— through  the  opening  of  commercial  intercourse  with  the  ori- 
ental countries  by  means  of  the  Crusades. 

Yet  there  ensued  results  of  far  greater  magnitude, — ^least 
anticipated,  though  essential  in  the  chain  of  progressive  events, — 
when  a  nation,  till  then  but  little  given  to  foreign  commerce, 
and  strangers  to  distant  sea  voyages,  having  become  a  thor- 
oughly maritime  people,  through  the  acquired  arts  of  shipbuild- 
ing and  of  navigating  the  ocean,  found  in  the  opportune  dis- 
covery of  a  new  western  continent  so  grand  a  field  for  exploration 
and  conquest,  and  such  alluring  prospects  of  wealth,  that,  joining 
in  the  eager  strife  to  seize  and  possess  these  advantages,  they 
became  unwittingly  the  advanced  heralds  of  our  American  colon- 
ization. 

The  feudal  system,  under  which  during  the  Crusades  and  the 
many  wars  of  the  Middle  Ages  the  military  art  had  acquired 
such  brilliancy,  had  crumbled  to  decay.  The  chivalry  had  long 
since  passed  its  palmy  days;  though,  still  having  the  shadow  of 
an  existence  in  the  famous  semi-religious  order  of  St.  John  of 
Jerusalem,  instituted  in  the  Holy  City  during  the  Crusades,  or, 
as  afterward  called  from  the  island  made  their  retreat  and 
headquarters,  the  Knights  of  Malta;  as  also  in  others  of  more 
modern  creation, — in  France,  the  Chevaliers  des  Ordres  du  Roi, 
and  in  the  Netherlands,  the  Knights  of  the  Golden  Fleece.*  But 
the  spirit  of  chivalry, — ^born  of  generous  impulses,  yet  perverted 
when  the  ardent  soul  of  the  knight-errant,  aglow  with  martial 
fire  and  thirsting  for  bold  adventure,  could  be  moved  to  court 
any  peril,  in  cause  noble  or  trivial,  merely  to  win  an  approving 
smile  from  his  fair  lady-love, — had  lost  its  former  prestige,  but 
had  developed  a  more  general  and  enlightened  philanthropy. 
Time  had  stripped  feudalism  of  its  essential  feature, — ^the  fasci- 
nating but  onerous  military  service.  The  weakened  nobility 
were  no  longer  to  be  depended  upon  by  the  crown,  and  the  feudal 
had  given  place  to  a  paid  soldiery.  But  while  this  hard  condi- 
tion of  the  feudal  compact,  as  regards  the  vassal,  was  thus 
annulled,  much  of  the  martial  spirit,  and  even  some  of  the  grosser 
features  of  that  system,  survived.  As  the  villages  had  generally 
sprung  up  either  upon  the  estates  and  about  the  castles  of  the 
nobility,  whose  descendants  still  occupied  them  and  were  the 

*  Chevaliers  des  Ordres  du  Roi.  or  Knights  of  the  King's  Orders,  was  the  gen- 
eral designation  for  the  two  orders,  that  of  St.  Michel,  before  noticed,  and  that  of  the 
Holy  Spirit,  the  latter  instituted  by  Henry  III.,  in  1578. 


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lords  of  the  soil,  or  about  ancient  monasteries,  which  held  the 
fee  of  the  ample  domains  on  which  they  were  seated,  the  inhab- 
itants of  these  villages,  mainly  tillers  of  the  ground,  were  largely 
tenants  either  of  the  nobility  or  clergy,  and  many  of  these  peas- 
ants "to  the  manner  born"  were  still  under  the  old  vassalage. 
In  such  case  the  poor  ploughman  or  hedger  sighed  in  vain  for 
other  employment  or  better  wages;  virtually  tied  to  the  soil,  he 
was  as  much  a  fixture  as  his  humble  cottage,  or  the  old  village 
church  where  he  had  been  christened,  at  whose  altar  he  had  so 
often  bowed,  and  beneath  whose  shadow,  with  the  forgotten  of 
ages,  his  weary  frame  would  rest  at  last.  So  oppressive  were 
these  bands,  even  in  Picardy  and  Normandy,  that,  waiving  the 
claim  which  birth  and  service  gave  him  upon  his  lord  for  pro- 
tection and  support,  the  bondman  would  often  abandon  his  home 
to  carve  out  a  fortune  elsewhere.  And  though  at  this  time  the 
relation  of  modern  landlord  had  been  widely  substituted  for  that 
of  the  feudal  superior,  yet  so  slow  was  this  process,  and  so  strong 
a  hold  had  the  old  system  of  servitude,  that  it  survived  till  the 
French  Revolution,  when  it  was  wholly  abolished. 

The  more  favored  freemen  within  the  cities  and  towns, — 
imbued  with  a  spirit  of  progress  as  yet  unfelt  by  the  agricultural 
population,  and  engaged  in  lucrative  pursuits, — ^bore  more  easily 
the  heavy  imposts  levied  by  their  sovereigns  than  had  their  pre- 
decessors the  severer  exactions  of  feudalism,  though  not  indeed 
without  many  a  protest  Society  at  large  also  felt  their  influ- 
ence, and  mainly  through  their  agency  had  been  consummated 
the  renaissance,  as  is  called  that  remarkable  and  universal  devel- 
opment, the  expansion  of  industries,  the  diffusion  of  knowledge, 
the  revival  of  letters  and  arts ;  all  accelerated  by  that  crowning 
invention,  the  printing-press.  The  common  mind,  liberated  and 
awakened  to  higher  impulses,  ventured  to  roam  in  new  channels 
of  thought,  touching  even  the  intricate  subjects  of  science,  religion 
and  human  rights.  Thus  was  society  ripened  for  the  great 
moral  reform  of  the  sixteenth  century,  which,  as  respects  France 
and  the  Netheriands,  was  not  more  remarkable  for  the  ability 
and  piety  of  its  advocates,  for  the  breadth  and  power  of  its 
manifestation,  than  for  the  fiery  ordeal  to  which  its  adherents 
were  subjected,  and  the  ultimate  effects  of  this  severity  upon 
the  welfare  of  other  countries. 

Momentous  as  was  this  struggle,  both  in  character  and  con- 
sequences, we  must  confine  ourselves  to  two  distinct  passages  in 
its  history  which  bear  directly  on  our  subject.  The  one  will  show 
by  what  remote  causes  and  influences  were  gradually  developed 


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and  put  in  motion  the  first  efforts  to  plant  the  seeds  of  civiliza- 
tion upon  the  Harlem  soil;  the  other,  the  circumstances  under 
which  the  mass  of  the  Harlem  refugees  were  impelled  to  leave 
France  and  the  Netherlands,  involving  one  of  the  most  affecting 
eras  in  the  history  of  the  Huguenots,  but  which,  in  view  of  its 
bearing  upon  our  early  colonization,  has  not  been  given  its  due 
prominence  by  our  local  annalists. 


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CHAPTER    II. 


AVESNES  AND  ITS  EXILES. 


'T'  HE  old  province  of  Picardy  took  in  a  strip  of  the  coast  from 
Calais  to  the  river  Canche.  But  its  major  portion  between 
the  Canche  and  the  Bresle,  and  through  which  flowed  the  Somme, 
stretched  eastward,  wedge-like,  from  the  Channel  to  Champagne, 
having  on  the  north  the  Walloon  provinces  of  Artois,  Cambresis 
and  Hainault,  and  on  the  south  Normandy  and  Isle  of  France. 
Its  easterly  sections,  Thierache  and  Vermandois,  were  charm- 
ingly diversified  by  wooded  heights,  which,  however,  told  of  an 
earlier  age,  when  the  adjacent  Forest  of  Ardennes, — the  "Neur 
Pai,"  or  "Black  Country,"  of  the  Walloons, — spread  its  sombre 
shades  westward  over  this  region.  About  these  heights  four 
noted  streams  took  their  rise, — the  Scheldt  and  Sambre,  water- 
ing the  Netherlands;  the  Somme  and  Oise,  rivers  of  Picardy; 
while  the  hills  here  diverged  in  four  several  chains,  or  ridges, 
which  parted  the  respective  valleys  or  basins  of  these  rivers. 
Altogether,  these  formed  a  most  remarkable  feature  in  the 
topography  of  the  country.  Often  rising  to  slight  elevations, 
rarely  did  these  ranges  exceed  an  altitude  which  in  our  land 
of  grander  proportions  would  mark  them  as  but  ordinary  hills; 
yet,  with  gentle  slopes  and  summits  mantled  in  woods  or  vine- 
yards,— and  here  and  there  some  old  chateau  or  castle  rising  to 
view, — ^they  gave  a  charming  variety  and  beauty  to  these  minia- 
ture countries.  One  range,  crossing  the  eastern  borders  of  the 
Cambresis,  where  it  formed  the  large  and  venerable  forest  of 
Mourmal,  linked  with  stirring  events  soon  to  be  noticed,  skirted 
for  some  miles  the  valley  of  the  San\bre;  then  from  northeast 
wound  about  to  northwest,  cutting  in  halves  the  Duchy  of  Bra- 
bant, and  parting  the  basins  of  the  Scheldt  and  Meuse.  Another 
chain, — diverging  westerly,  then  northward,  till  ending  at  Cape 
Gris-Nez,  on  the  Straits  of  Dover, — formed  the  bounds  between 
Picardy  and  Artois.  A  third  ran  southwest,  crossing  Picardy 
obliquely,  then  westerly  through  Upper  Normandy,  to  Cape  La 
Heve,  at  the  mouth  of  the  Seine;  while  the  fourth,  stretching 


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westward  through  Thierache  to  -Champagne,  formed  in  part 
the  series  of  hills  which  environed  that  province  and  Isle  of 
France, — the  basin  of  the  Seine, — then  followed  the  southern 
borders  of  Normandy  to  Brittany.  Within  the  shadows,  so  ta 
speak,  of  these  several  hill  ranges, — in  Normandy,  along  the  bor- 
ders of  the  Somme,  in  the  basin  of  the  Scheldt,  and  the  valley 
of  the  Sambre, — were  the  homes  of  nearly  all  the  French  refugees,, 
mostly  Picards  and  Walloons,  who  came  to  Harlem. 

In  most  of  the  externals  of  a  genuine  civilization  and  pros- 
perity, these  were  much  in  advance  of  the  districts  farther  south. 
This  was  due  jointly  to  their  greater  natural  resources,  and  to  the 
superior  organism  and  spirit  of  the  people.  Artois  and  Picardy 
both  abounded  in  grains,  glasses,  and  fruits;  the  one  signifi- 
cantly called  the  "Granary  of  the  Netherlands,"  the  other,  the 
** Storehouse  of  Paris."  Flanders  was  renowned  world-wide  for 
the  products  of  her  looms.  Hainault, — ^the  "Saltus  Carbonarius"^ 
of  the  Romans  (the  coal  forest), — was  rich,  not  only  in  coal,, 
but  in  iron,  lead  and  marble;  while  the  grazing  lands,  cornfields 
and  orchards  of  Normandy  were  in  unrivaled  repute.  More 
densely  populated  than  the  south,  this  northern  section  exhibited 
in  its  people  a  more  manly  development,  both  physical  and  mental : 
in  stature,  above  the  average  height ;  and  more  intelligent,  logical^ 
inventive  and  industrious;  better  fed,  housed  and  educated. 
While  plodding  husbandry  tamely  drove  the  plow  through  the 
mellow  soils  of  La  Beuce  and  Toureine,  gathered  her  vintages, 
from  Burgundy  to  Languedoc,  and  fed  her  flocks  on  the  g^een 
meadows  of  Berry  and  the  sterile  heaths  of  Brittany  and  Les 
Landes;  in  the  north,  busy  trade  and  manufactures,  enlisting  all 
the  energies  and  resources  of  people  and  country,  brought  to- 
most  a  competence  and,  to  many,  affluence.  And  even  hus- 
bandry, better  rewarded  for  its  toil,  was  more  ambitious  and 
successful. 

No  class  of  Gallic  blood  was  more  remarkable  than  the 
Walloons, — a  people  at  the  present  day  numbering  nearly  two 
millions,  and  mainly  included  within  France  and  Belgium.  Time 
has  wrought  but  slight  change  among  them,  but  we  needs  must 
describe  them  as  they  were.  Theirs  was  a  belt  of  country  ex- 
tending eastward  from  the  river  Lys,  beyond  both  Scheldt  and 
Meuse,  and  embracing  French  or  Walloon  Flanders,  most  of 
Artois,  the  Chambresis,  Hainault,  Namur,  Southern  Brabant,, 
and  parts  of  Liege  and  Luxemburg.  Within  the  last  lay  the 
principality  of  Sedan,  stretched  along  the  east  side  of  the  Meuse,. 
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fruitful  region  and,  in  the  sixteenth  century,  an  independent 
Protestant  state,  it  attracted  many  of  the  persecuted  Walloons 
during  the  religious  troubles  of  that  period.  The  northern 
limits  of  the  Walloon  country  would  have  been  nearly  defined 
by  a  line  drawn  from  the  city  of  Liege,  on  the  Meuse,  to  Calais. 
On  the  south  it  was  bounded  by  Picardy,  Champagne  and  Lor- 
raine, provinces  which  in  the  times  referred  to  composed  the 
French  frontier.* 

The  Walloons  were  a  hardy,  long-lived  race,  tall,  stout,  and 
muscular;  in  which  respects,  quite  unlike  the  ordinary  French,, 
they  compared  better  with  their  neighbors,  the  Flemings,  but 
again  were  readily  distinguished  from  the  latter  both  by  their 
physiognomy  and  their  speech,  which  last  was  a  crude  French 
patois,  spoken  by  them  unchanged  for  centuries,  and  still  in 
common  use  among  them.  Of  strong  intellects,  manly  bear- 
ing, a  sagacious,  practical  and  laborious  people,  they  were  also 
noted  for  the  plainness  of  their  tastes,  manners  and  dress. 
These  several  traits  were  clearly  traceable  to  their  ancestors,  the 
old  Belgae,  their  descent  from  whom  was  also  unmistakable  in 
their  coolness  and  pertinacity,  so  in  contrast  with  the  excita- 
bility and  fickleness  characterizing  the  French  of  proper  Celtic 
blood.  It  was  these  qualities,  combined  with  a  natural  love  of 
arms,  and  the  courage  inherited  from  their  ancestors, — whom 
Caesar  describes  as  the  bravest  of  all  the  Gauls, — that  made  the 
Walloons  such  famous  soldiers.  Ever  tenacious  of  their  rights,, 
and  thus  excessively  litigant,  they  were  yet  hospitable  and  social, 
possessing  much  of  the  French  vivacity.  In  domestic  life  they 
lacked  no  element  of  solid,  homespun  comfort:  the  plain,  sub- 
stantial domicile,  roofed  with  tile  or  thatch;  a  bare  floor,  but 
genial  hearth  stone,  with  ample  pile  of  blazing  wood,  or  turf^ 
as  it  suited ;  the  oaken  board,  set  with  brown  ware  or  pewter,. 

•  The  term  Walloon  is  derived  from  the  word  Gatil;  which  the  Germans,  by  an 
^Trndogical  sabstitntion  of  W  for  the  Latin  G,  changed  into  Wahl,  and  in  the  plural 
Whslen*  the  low  Dutch  making  it  Waal  and  Waalen.  But  we  observe  that  both  Ger- 
Ban  and  Dutch,  in  speaking  of  the  Walloons,  more  commonly  used  the  adjective  form, 
aying  the  Walache — that  is,  the  Walsche  people.  The  old  Germans  applied  this  term 
indiioiminately  to  all  the  Romanized  people  along  their  western  and  southern  borders, 
not  the  Gauls  only,  but  the  Romans;  giving  their  several  countries  the  name  ot 
Walschland,  as  the  Germans  designate  Ital^  even  to  this  day;  and  which  term  is  also- 
traceable  in  the  Swiss  canton  of  Vallais,  in  the  old  canton  of  Berne,  north  of  Lake 
Uman,  or  Geneva  (embracing  the  Pays,  now  canton,  of  Vaud),  and  (skipping  the 
two  provinces  of  Alsace  and  Lorraine,  eariy  overrun  by  German  tribes)  as  tar  to  the 
Qorth  as  WaUoon  Brabant.  The  French  themselves  used  the  term  Walloon  (by  them 
vritten  Wallon,  or  Ouallon)  only  with  reference  to  the  French-speaking  people  of 
Bdgic  descent,  occupying  their  northern  frontiers,  within  the  Walloon  country.  The 
tern  Walsche  was  so  restricted  by  the  Hollanders;  and  by  WaJschland.  or  Walslant, 
M  they  wrote  it,  they  meant  the  Walloon  country,  and  not  the  more  distant  Pays  de 
Vand,  as  was  wrongly  held  by  Mr.  Vanderkempt,  who  should  have  been  better  in- 
lonncd,  in  making  his  translation  of  the  Dutch  records  at  Albany.  Almost  any  of  the 
oM  Dutch  histories  will  show  the  correct  usuage,  but  one  will  suffice:  Van  Meteren,. 
Amsterdam,  1653,  fo  I.40,  etc. 


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with  goodly  supply  of  simple,  wholesome  food, — ^this  satisfied 
the  Walloon  ambition  in  the  line  of  living.  Song,  or  instru- 
mental music,  of  which  they  were  excessively  fond,  commonly 
enlivened  the  social  hour.  They  were  very  devout,  and,  as  a 
people,  intensely  attached  to  the  Roman  ritual. 

The  Walloon  emigrations  of  the  sixteenth  century,  already 
referred  to,  went  largely  by  way  of  the  Scheldt,  the  Meuse,  and 
their  affluents,  to  Holland.  Skirting  interiorwise  the  districts 
which  were  the  homes  of  our  refugees,  the  Meuse  flowed  north- 
erly, then  swept  westward  around  Brabant,  reaching  the  sea  by 
several  outlets  between  the  insular  parts  of  South  Holland.  It 
is  unsurpassed  for  bold  and  grand  scenery,  which  beginning 
near  Sedan,  is  heightened  to  the  sublime  as  it  reaches  Namur, 
where  the  Sambre  enters  it.  Towering  walls  of  rock,  now  bare, 
now  clad  in  rich  foliage,  rise  on  either  side;  while  here  and 
there  huge  cleft  or  ravine  opens  to  view  some  far-reaching  and 
romantic  vale,  or  dark  unfathomed  dell, — fitting  retreat  either 
for  fabled  sprites  or  fairies,  or  stern  feudal  chiefs,  who  once  took 
tribute  of  each  passing  vessel.  Weird  stories  are  woven  around 
its  fantastic  forms  and  crumbling  castles;  for  example,  the 
popular  legend  of  the  Fox  and  Wolf,  drawn  seemingly  from  that 
fierce  encounter  of  the  year  900,  when  the  shrewd  Renard, 
Count  of  Hainault,  with  his  compatriots,  slew  the  tyrant  Zwendi- 
bold.  King  of  Lorraine.  But  stranger  tales  were  those  of  the 
sixteenth  century,  of  crafts  richly  freighted, — ^but  not  with  mer- 
chandise,— stealing  down  its  favoring  current,  bearing  the  victims 
of  persecution,  Protestant  Walloons  from  the  adjacent  districts, 
to  a  land  of  safety.  One  such  family  of  exiles  will  claim  our 
notice  and  enlist  our  sympathies. 

The  famed  and  picturesque  Sambre  was  a  principal  branch 
of  the  Meuse,  and  had  its  sources  in  that  wild  corner  of  Picardy 
called  Thierache,  which  joined  upon  Hainault.  Flowing  north- 
erly, it  entered  the  province  just  named,  near  the  border  of  the 
Cambresis,  soon  passing  the  city  of  Landrecy;  whence  taking 
its  course  northeasterly  through  a  rugged,  wooded  country,  it 
left  again  the  confines  of  Hainault  before  joining  the  Meuse. 
A  league  below  Landrecy  it  received  the  Petit  Hepre,  and,  sev- 
eral miles  beyond,  the  Grand  Hepre;  these  sister  streams  gently 
coursing  their  way,  in  nearly  parallel  currents,  down  from  the 
principality  of  Chimay,  a  few  leagues  eastward.  Between  these 
two  streams  lay  the  land  of  Avesnes,  an  ancient  baronial  estate, 
whose  chief  town,  seated  on  the  Grand  Hepre,  six  miles  from 
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the  present  Avesnes,  capital  of  an  arrondissement  of  the  same 
name  in  the  department  Du  Nord,  France.  Paris  is  123  miles 
to  the  southwest. 

The  town  lay  mainly  upon  the  left,  or  south  bank,  of  the 
river,  which  was  not  navigable,  and  within  an  uneven  but,  here, 
quite  open  country,  save  that  to  the  north  of  the  town  the  view 
was  intercepted  by  the  Hedge  of  Avesnes,  as  was  popularly  called 
a  line  of  pretty  heights  studded  with,  forest  trees,  a  spur  of  the 
historic  Ardennes,  and  which  followed  the  course  of  the  stream 
westward  to  the  Sambre. 

This  old  town  dated  from  the  eleventh  century,  when  Werric, 
sumamed"With  the  Beard,"  a  bold  feudal  chieftain,  lord  of  Leuze, 
near  the  Haine, — ^and  who  had  inherited  the  lands  between  the 
two  Hepres,  given  to  his  ancestor  by  the  Count  of  Hainaut, — 
erected  a  castle  upon  the  most  northerly  of  these  streams,  mid- 
way between  its  outlet  and  the  even  then  venerable  abbey  of 
Liessies,  which  was  seated  on  the  same  stream  six  miles  above 
the  castle.  About  this  castle  the  town  had  grown  up.  As  a 
"key  of  Hainault,"  it  was  guarded  with  jealous  care  by  the  later 
counts,  its  lords  paramount;  but  cut  off,  in  a  manner,  by  the 
"Hedge,"  was  much  exposed  to  aggression  from  the  French  bor- 
der, which  was  less  than  two  leagues  distant.  Nor  was  it  spared, 
during  a  long  period  in  which  its  ownership  was  vested  in  titled 
subjects  of  France,  from  too  often  becoming  common  plunder 
ground;  since  among  these  warlike  proprietors  were  some  of 
the  most  renowned  knights  of  the  chivalric  ages,  whose  varied 
and  often  stem  fortunes  it  had  largely  shared.  But  at  the  period 
of  which  we  write  it  had  withstood  the  rude  blasts  of  five  cen- 
turies; trusting  to  the  old  Latin  chronicle  left  by  Baudouin  of 
Avesnes,  who  laid  him  to  rest  in  1289. 

The  old  clock  in  the  belfry,  that  so  faithfully  struck  the  hour, 
was  not  all  that  was  striking  about  the  town:  equally  so,  to  the 
eye,  was  the  prevailing  architecture, — ^plain,  durable,  betraying  its 
Walloon  character,  if  not  a  high  antiquity.  Solid  as  the  old 
stone  houses  at  our  Kingston  or  Hurley,  built  by  the  Walloon 
settlers,  few  of  the  buildings  were  grand,  or  even  ornamental; 
and  the  streets  were  ill-arranged, — only  one,  near  and  parallel 
with  the  river,  running  its  whole  length,  crossed  midway  by 
another  at  right  angles, — while  most  of  the  other  angles  were  any- 
thing but  right ;  and  around  the  venerable  cathedral  St.  Nicholas, 
in  the  eastern,  and  plainly  the  oldest,  section  of  the  town,  some  of 
its  "squares'*  took  the  most  eccentric  and  original  forms, — cir- 
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et  celebar,"  says  a  learned  monk  of  1655, — "a  very  handsome  and 
celebrated  town." 

Many  things  at  Avesnes,  surviving  its  partial  ruin  by  Louis 
XL,  in  1477,  still  wore  both  a  militant  and  a  religious  aspect. 
The  remains  of  the  old  feudal  castle,  hoary  with  age ;  the  smithy 
of  the  armorer,  whose  forge  and  skill  could  fit  you  a  trusty 
blade  or  battle-axe,  a  helmet  or  a  coat  of  mail;  the  significant 
sign-board,  on  which  the  Walloon  youth,  ambitious  of  arms, 
read  in  rouche  francais,  his  own  rude  patois,  "Sword  and  Halberd 
Taught  Here."  It  had  its  sacred  crosses,  its  religious  houses,  and 
its  collegiate  church,  or  cathedral,  already  named,  the  latter  en- 
dowed in  1534  with  a  chapter, — or  dean,  provost,  and  dozen 
canons, — through  the  benevolence  and  piety  of  the  Lady  of 
Avesnes,  Louise  TAlbret,  widow  of  its  former  proprietor.  Lord 
de  Croy.  Here  were  convents  of  the  Franciscans,  both  of  monks 
and  nuns,  mendicants  whose  austere  life  and  vow  of  poverty  gave 
them  great  favor  with  the  people;  and  here  also  was  a  congre- 
gation seculiere,  or  society  of  Beguines,  a  less  strict  order,  com- 
posed of  worthy  matrons  passing  their  waning  years  in  partial 
seclusion  from  the  world,  in  teaching  the  young,  and  in  works 
of  charity.  Devout  indeed  were  its  people,  Catholics  of  a  loyal 
type,  as  was  apparent  from  the  number  and  reputed  wealth  of 
the  clergy,  and  the  many  abbeys  and  chapters  supported  by  the 
country  at  large,  from  which  their  superior,  the  ducal  arch- 
bishop of  Cambray,  drew  a  liberal  stipend. 

Traces  of  a  former  vassalage  were  yet  visible  among  this 
people;  but  the  innumerable  wars  that  had  marked  their  history 
had  served  to  foster  the  martial  spirit  and  love  of  liberty  derived 
from  their  ancestors.  Yet  how  cramped  the  ideas  of  liberty 
among  a  people  so  intolerant  of  opinions  opposed  to  the  teach- 
ings of  the  church,  so  submissive  to  lords  and  masters  not  of 
their  own  choosing,  but  holding  by  inheritance,  or  marriage,  or 
even  by  purchase!  But  now  they  were  drawn  to  worthier  pur- 
suits than  the  shedding  of  blood, — to  productive  industry;  and 
mainly  to  those  solid  and  useful  branches  of  labor,  in  a  degree 
peculiar  to  the  Hainaulters,  and  well  suited  to  develop  their 
large  and  sinewy  frames,  and  to  form  the  positive  characteristics 
the  Walloons  possessed.  They  wrought  in  timber,  iron,  and  stone, 
and  the  fine,  white  sculptor's  marble  found  in  their  quarries. 
Others  worked  the  collieries,  tanneries  and  potteries  scattered 
over  the  district,  or  in  mills  for  expressing  vegetable  oils  from 
flax  and  rape  seed  and  beech  mast.  The  abundant  forests  sup- 
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The  pastures  nourished  some  flocks  and  herds.  Sheep-rearing 
and  flax-growing  have  activity  to  the  woolen  and  linen  workers, 
whose  looms  or  spinning-wheels  in  their  accustomed  niches  in 
the  owners'  dwellings  rarely  ceased  their  hum  or  clatter  in  work- 
ing hours. 

The  well-preserved  annals  of  Avesnes  gave  witness  to  the 
warlike  proclivities  of  its  feudal  lords,  around  whom,  as  its  cen- 
tre and  soul,  all  its  history  clustered.  Their  brilliant  exploits, 
rehearsed  by  admiring  vassals,  and  transmitted  down  from  age 
to  age  in  legend  and  song, — what  a  stimulus  to  that  courage  and 
martial  spirit  to  which  we  have  alluded !  A  famous  roll  it  was, 
of  these  lords  and  dames  of  eighteen  generations,  who  had  ruled 
Avesnes  since  Werric-with-the-Beard  reared  his  castle  there,  and 
all  of  whom  could  boast  his  Belgic  blood. 

It  told  of  bold  Thierr\ ,  son  of  Werric,  whose  hache,  or  axe, 
subdued  (and  whence  its  name)  the  adjoining  district,  Thier- 
ache;  of  his  nephew  and  successor,  Goswin  d'Oisy,  proud  cas- 
tellan of  Cambray,  who  essayed  to  strengthen  Avesnes  and  bid 
defiance  to  his  liege  lord  of  Hainault,  only  submitting  after  a 
fierce  battle  of  three  days  on  the  banks  of  the  Sambre;  of  the 
equally  stern  warrior,  Gautier  Plukellus,  who  had  succeeded  his 
uncle  Goswin,  and  was  slain,  1147,  in  an  attack  on  the  castle  at 
Mons;  also  of  his  son  Nicholas,  who  built  the  castle  at  Lan- 
drecy,  and  his  son,  Jacques  d' Avesnes,  "the  most  renowned, 
wealthy  and  daring  knight  of  this  country,"  and  a  famous  cru- 
sader, v^ho  in  1 191  fell  in  battle  in  the  Holy  Land,  fighting  the 
Saracens  under  Saladin.  Among  the  succeeding  lords  were 
two  Hughs,  counts  of  St.  Paul,  also  Louis  Count  of  Blois,  who 
was  slain  at  the  disastrous  battle  of  Cressy,  whither  he  went  to 
oppose  the  invading  English,  with  his  wife's  father,  the  gallant 
Sir  John  de  Hainault,  whose  fame  is  sung  by  Froissart.  Sad 
the  story  which  was  related  of  a  son  of  Louis,  the  brave  and 
generous  Guy, — one  of  the  most  affluent  of  the  lords  of  Avesnes, 
— who,  forced  to  sell  his  inheritance  of  Soissons  to  effect  his 
release  when  a  dreary  captive  in  England,  and,  later,  his  earldom 
of  Blois,  to  satisfy  luxurious  living,  died  in  1397,  in  comparative 
penury,  at  Avesnes;  this  estate  passing  to  his  cousin  John  of 
Brittany,  son  of  the  unlucky  Charles  of  Blois,  who,  in  famous 
contest  to  establish  his  right  to  Brittany,  had  lost  both  his  duchy 
and  his  life  at  the  battle  of  Auray.  A  granddaughter  of  John 
of  Brittany,  Frances,  Dame  or  Lady  of  Avesnes,  gave  his  estate, 
with  her  hand,  to  Allan  d'Albret,  one  of  the  most  puissant  nobles 
of  France,  and  after  her  death  the  unsuccessful  suitor  of  the 


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much-wooed  duchess,  Anne  of  Brittany,  subsequently  the  wife 
of  two  kings.  It  was  Louise,  Lady  of  Avesnes,  Lord  Alain's 
daughter,  who,  in  1495,  by  wedding  Charles  de  Croy,  Prince  of 
Chimay,  placed  the  Land  of  Avesnes  in  possession  of  the  Croys. 
The  latter  was  an  old  Picard  family ;  but  when  Picardy  was  under 
Philip,  Duke  of  Burgundy,  Jean  de  Croy,  grandsire  of  Charles, 
attached  himself  to  that  potent  duke,  who  made  him  a  knight  of 
the  Golden  Fleece,  when  he  first  instituted  that  order  at  Bruges, 
in  1430.  Charles  took  his  title  from  the  estate  of  Chimay,  to 
which  he  fell  heir,  in  1482,  on  the  death  of  his  father  Philip, 
and  which  was  erected  into  a  principality  four  years  later  by 
the  Emperor  Maximilian,  whose  son  Philip,  King  of  Spain,  con- 
ferred on  the  new  prince  the  additional  honors  of  the  Golden 
Fleece.  It  was  a  singular  pride, — a  result  of  their  training  under 
the  feudal  relation, — felt  by  the  subjects  in  such  marks  of  distinc- 
tion bestowed  on  their  chief;  and  how  often  told  and  retold  as 
household  stories.  And  further,  that  the  prince  had  held  the  infant 
Charles  V.  at  the  baptismal  font,  and  given  him  his  name,  and 
subsequently  received  from  that  emperor  and  king  a  costly  hel- 
met, wrought  in  silver  and  gold;  and  how  after  him  his  family 
enjoyed  substantial  proofs  of  that  monarch's  favor.  Frances, 
Lady  of  Avesnes,  eldest  daughter  and  heiress  of  the  prince, 
marrying  her  kinsman,  Philip  de  Croy, — for  their  parents  were 
cousins, — the  latter  took  the  estates  on  the  death  of  his  father- 
in-law,  in  1527,  the  next  year  further  securing  the  land  of  Aves- 
nes to  his  house  by  a  release  obtained  from  Henry  d' Albert,  King 
of  Navarre,  cousin  to  his  wife,  and  grandfather  of  Henry  IV. 
of  France. 

Since  Avesnes  fell  to  the  house  of  Croy,  no  less  than  five 
wars  between  France  and  Spain  had  successively  convulsed  these 
exposed  borders.  In  the  earlier  of  these  contests,  Philip  de  Croy, 
now  Prince  of  Chimay  and  Knight  of  the  Fleece,  rendered  impor- 
tant service  with  his  Walloon  troop;  and  Charles  V.,  in  1533, 
showed  his  love  for  his  "nephew"  by  giving  him  the  title  of 
Duke  of  Arschot,  from  an  estate  he  held  in  Brahant.  In  the 
destructive  war  of  1543,  armies  of  Francis  I.  overran  this  part 
of  Hainault,  holding  Landrecy  against  a  siege  of  six  months, 
conducted  by  Charles  in  person;  but  peace  ensuing  the  next 
year,  France  restored  to  Spain  its  several  conquests.  Soon  after 
this  Landrecy  was  detached  from  Avesnes,  and  ceded  to  the 
crown  by  the  Duke  of  Arschot,  who  meanwhile  had  been  created 
a  grandee  of  Spain.  After  his  decease,  in  1549,  leaving  his  heirs 
such  rich  possessions  and  dignities,  the  family  of  Croy  became 


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"of  greatest  revenue  and  authority  of  any  in  Belgium."  Philip, 
second  duke,  now  enjoying  his  father's  titles  and  estates,  includ- 
ing Avesnes,  had  great  influence  in  governmental  affairs,  as  had 
also  his  brother,  Charles  Croy,  Marquis  of  Havre,  in  Hainault; 
in  which  province  their  no  less  proud  and  aspiring  cousins,  the 
Counts  Lalain,  seemed  born  to  the  gubematoral  seat.  Great 
destinies  were  in  the  grasp  of  this  influential  family.  Time  was 
to  eliminate,  as  one  of  the  results,  an  humble  transatlantic  enter- 
prise, to  which  some  of  their  born  subjects  were  to  contribute. 

Hainault  was  to  have  its  share  in  that  bloody  struggle  with 
despotism  which  rent  the  Netherlands  in  the  sixteenth  century. 
Spain  now  ruled  these  provinces  as  with  a  rod  of  iron.  This 
policy  began  with  Charles  V.,  and  culminated  under  his  son, 
Philip  II.  One  oppressive  measure  after  another,  subversive 
of  their  civil  rights,  had  reduced  the  inhabitants  to  a  subjection 
well-nigh  absolute. 

The  religious  reform  which  was  rife  in  France  and  Germany 
had  also  spread  through  the  Netherlands,  but  met  with  deadly 
composition  from  the  ruling  powers,  civil  and  ecclesiastical,  being 
subjected  to  every  cruel  means  for  its  suppression  that  these 
could  exert,  among  which  was  the  infamous  system  of  espionage 
and  torture  known  as  the  Spanish  Inquisition.  The  Walloons 
were  of  all  others  most  inveterate  in  their  religious  attachments ; 
but  being  essentially  French,  and  living  in  close  proximity  to 
France,  the  Calvinistic  views  had  found  early  entrance  among 
them  and  made  many  warm  adherents.  As  a  people,  their  loyalty 
to  the  crown  had  been  much  shaken  by  the  grave  inroads  upon 
their  ancient  rights  and  form  of  government.  The  Walloon, 
ever  impatient  of  subjection,-^whence  the  boastful  proverb,  that 
"Hainault  is  subject  only  to  God  and  the  sun," — ^beheld  with 
the  utmost  jealousy  his  country  brought  under  the  dominion  of 
foreign  tyrants,  every  part  of  it  swarming  with  Spanish  soldiers, 
whose  presence  and  arrogance  so  spirited  a  people  could  ill 
brook ;  while  the  vile  Inquisition,  thrust  upon  them  and  work- 
ing dismay  and  death  among  those  indulging  the  new  doctrines, 
was  repulsive  and  terrible,  even  to  many  of  the  Catholics  them- 
selves. 

At  Avesnes,  which  since  the  year  1559  had  had  a  Spanish 
garrison,  the  new  religion  found  no  toleration ;  yet,  nevertheless^ 
some  of  its  worthy  people,  members  of  its  old  De  Forest  family 
included,  had  embraced  the  new  faith,  though  this  exposed 
them  to  imminent  peril;  for  woe  to  him  who  dared  avow  that 
heresy  or  quit  the  old  church. 


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Beyond  the  Sambre,  within  the  borders  of  the  Cambresis, 
was  the  handsome  forest  of  Mourmal,  consisting  of  heights 
covered  with  oaks.  With  a  breadth  of  six  miles  it  stretched 
northward  as  many  leagues,  from  the  bounds  of  Vermandois  in 
Picardy,  to  near  Bavay,  the  ancient  capital  of  the  Nervii.  At 
its  western  edge,  on  the  Selle,  an  effluent  of  the  Scheldt,  five 
leagues  from  Cambray  and  two  west  of  Landrecy,  stood  the  small 
city  of  Le  Cateau,  or  The  Castle,  so  called  from  its  very  old 
tower,  built  by  Bishop  Erluin.  The  Cambresis  being  a  fief  of 
the  German  empire,  Le  Cateau,  through  the  favor  of  the  em- 
perors, had  long  enjoyed  immunities  and  privileges  of  which 
its  citizens  were  justly  proud. 

For  the  space  of  some  years  many  of  its  good  burghers  and 
their  families  had  talked  together  freely  and  earnestly  about  the 
Holy  Scriptures;  but  with  great  secrecy,  fearing  persecution,  if 
it  were  known  to  any  not  in  sympathy  with  them.  Unobserved, 
they  made  visits  to  the  neighborhood  of  Bohain,  a  city  up  the 
Selle,  in  Vermandois,  to  hear  the  evangelical  preaching;  also 
to  Tupigny,  in  Thierache,  and  even  as  far  as  Crespy,  near  Laon, 
and  Chauny,  on  the  Oise;  only  to  return  with  stronger  faith 
in  the  gospel  plan  as  found  in  the  Scriptures,  and  utterly  dis- 
satisfied with  their  old  belief.  The  new  doctrines  thus  spread 
quietly  but  surely,  and  the  whole  town  was  leavened  with  them. 

So  it  stood  when  Archbishop  De  Berghes,  who  was  lord 
temporal  as  well  as  spiritual  of  the  Cambresis,  in  order  to  check 
the  growing  disaffection  of  the  church,  fulminated  an  edict 
against  the  practice  of  attending  the  so-called  Reformed  preach- 
ing, reading  heretical  books,  or  chanting  the  psalms  of  Marot 
and  Beza.  To  this  little  regard  was  paid,  and  two  years  passed 
by.  Then  it  was  repeated,  and  its  execution  enjoined  upon  all 
magistrates.  A  case  was  soon  found.  Certain  burghers,  who 
with  their  wives  and  children  had  attended  the  preaching  of 
Rev.  Pincheart,  at  Honnechy,  a  village  south  of  Le  Cateau,  near 
Fremont,  on  the  line  of  Picardy,  were  tried  and  sentenced  to  be 
banished.  This,  and  other  attacks  by  .the  archbishop's  officers 
upon  the  rights  of  the  people  of  Le  Cateau,  led  to  popular  meet- 
ings and  strong  remonstrances  on  the  part  of  the  latter.  The 
numbers  of  the  Reformed  meanwhile  had  rapidly  increased,  and 
Rev.  Philippe,  minister  of  the  church  of  Tupigny,  by  invitation 
preached  for  them  many  times  in  the  faubourgs  of  the  city,  and 
organized  a  church,  with  a  consistory  of  ten  members.  On 
August  1 8th,  1566,  a  deputation  from  the  archbishop  visited  the 
town,  and  held  grand  mass  in  the  Church  of  St.  Martin,  when 


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Dr.  Gemelli  harangued  the  people,  threatening  them,  should 
they  not  at  once  return  to  the  Roman  Church  and  make  peace 
with  the  archbishop,  with  a  ruin  as  dire  as  that  which  over- 
whelmed Jerusalem.  Then  a  conference  was  held  in  the  town- 
hall;  but  the  appeals  of  the  learned  doctor  fell  powerless  upon 
men  who  valued  God^s  truth  more  than  an  archbishop^s  favor. 
Two  days  after  this,  the  Dean  of  Avesnes,  anxious  for  some  of 
his  own  flock  who  had  left  his  fold,  visited  Le  Cateau  on  his 
return  from  an  interview  with  the  archbishop,  and  reiterated 
in  the  ears  of  the  burghers  what  dangers  hung  over  them  all, 
the  good  with  the  evil;  but  to  all  his  arguments  they  gave 
so  brave  a  response  from  the  Scriptures  that  he  accomplished 
nothing. 

In  the  midst  of  many  trials  of  patience,  from  the  repeated 
interference  of  the  castellan  and  magistrates  with  the  exercise 
of  their  religion,  the  news  reached  Le  Cateau  August  25th,  from 
Valenciennes,  a  large  Walloon  town  fifteen  miles  northward, 
that  the  people  there  had  cast  out  all  the  images,  relics,  and 
other  symbols  of  Romanism  from  their  churches,  and  that  the 
same  had  also  been  done  in  many  other  cities.  This  startling 
intelligence  brought  together  that  evening  a  large  concourse  of 
people,  with  torches,  in  the  cemetery  of  St.  Martin,  to  discuss 
this  new  condition  of  affairs.  Very  early  the  next  morning  Rev. 
Philippe  arrived,  and  meeting  with  the  consistory  at  the  house 
of  Claude  Raverdy,  it  was  resolved,  after  discussion,  to  follow 
the  example  of  those  of  Valenciennes,  and  clear  the  churches  of 
the  objects  deemed  offensive,  beginning  at  St.  Martin's.  So  to 
St.  Martin's  they  went,  Philippe  and  a  few  others,  pulled  down 
the  images  and  altars,  and  burnt  them,  with  all  their  ornaments, 
and  the  missals,  anthem  books  and  others  relating  to  the  mass; 
the  like  being  done  in  all  the  other  churches,  both  in  the  city  and 
faubourgs.  This  ebullition  of  iconoclastic  zeal  has  been  much 
condemned ;  but  if  the  Reformed,  where  largely  in  the  majority, 
as  at  Le  Cateau,  claimed  the  right  to  order  their  worship  as  best 
pleased  them,  who  may  question  it? 

After  this  work  of  expurgation,  a  large  number  of  ihe  citi- 
zens gathered  in  the  Church  of  St.  Martin  to  hear  a  sermon  from 
Rev.  Philippe;  many  others  also  from  the  neighboring  villages 
being  present,  who  had  come  to  the  grain  market.  He  also 
baptized  three  infants,  and  in  the  afternoon  another. 

Though  the  citizens,  Reformed  and  Catholics,  had  wisely 
agreed  not  to  harm  each  other  on  account  of  religion,  the  suc- 
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Huguenots  being  held  prisoners  in  the  neighboring  village  of 
Troisville  by  the  castellan  and  echevins  of  Le  Cateau,  David  Du 
Four  and  others  went  with  arms  and  liberated  them.  These 
magistrates,  finding  themselves  powerless,  retired  to  Cambray, 
leaving  the  field  to  the  Reformed.  The  latter  chose  new  muni- 
cipal officers,  and  put  the  city  in  a  better  state  of  defense.  Pas- 
tor Philippe  continued  his  services  at  St.  Martin's.  Three 
couples  were  joined  in  marriage  December  15th,  one  of  the 
brides  being  the  daughter  of  Jean  De  Forest,  then  living  at  Le 
Cateau.  On  Christmas  the  church,  to  their  joy,  celebrated  the 
Lord's  Supper  in  the  city;  whereas  hitherto  they  had  gone  to 
Valenciennes,  or  to  Premont  or  Tupigny,  and  even  as  far  as  St. 
Quentin  and  Laon. 

The  next  spring,  a  terrible  stroke,  planned  by  the  archbishop, 
fell  upon  Le  Cateau.  On  March  24th,  1567,  two  hundred  cava- 
liers, led  by  the  noted  Count  of  Mansfield,  soon  after  made 
Governor  of  Avesnes,  surrounded  the  city.  The  gates  being 
secured,  the  people  made  a  good  defense  from  the  ramparts, 
pastor  Philippe  going  from  gate  to  gate  to  encourage  them. 
But  an  entrance  being  gained  through  treachery,  the  city  was 
taken.  Philippe  and  his  deacon  were  the  first  victims:  the  one, 
after  a  cruel  beating,  was  hung;  the  other,  beheaded.  The 
pastor's  wife  was  subjected  to  gross  treatment.  Many  execu- 
tions followed  during  the  ensuing  month.  One  was  that  of 
David  Du  Four,  before  named.  He  was  a  tailor  at  Le  Cateau, 
and  only  twenty-two  years  of  age.  But  on  his  examination  he 
with  firmness  declared  that  "he  paid  more  regard  to  his  salva- 
tion and  to  God,  than  to  men."  He  and  four  others  were  hung, 
on  April  9th.  The  Reformed  who  saved  their  lives  were  now  in 
great  affliction.  An  oath  of  fidelity  to  the  archbishop  and  the 
Roman  Church  being  imposed  on  the  citizens,  such  as  could  not 
take  it  were  expelled  from  the  city.  The  Reformed  Church,  if 
it  survived  there,  existed  only  in  secret. 

Hope  was  awakened  the  following  year.  The  persecutions 
under  the  royal  governor,  the  bloody  Duke  of  Alva,  had  become 
so  insufferable  that,  in  1568,  the  more  northerly  provinces  broke 
out  in  revolt,  and  took  up  arms  under  the  lead  of  that  noble 
patriot,  William  of  Orange.  Fortune  at  first  did  not  favor,  and 
the  prince,  with  a  depleted  but  heroic  band,  concluded  to  join 
the  Huguenot  army  in  France.  Passing  Le  Cateau,  he  "ob- 
tained a  slight  and  easy  victory"  over  the  Spaniards  at  that 
place.  But  the  city  being  well  defended  by  the  archbishop's 
soldiers,  and  Alva  pressing  hard  on  his  rear,  the  great  patriot. 


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whose  triumph  yet  lay  in  the  future,  was  constrained  to  pass  on. 

Brighter  were  the  prospects  when,  eight  years  later,  the 
Walloons  struck  for  their  liberties.  Unable  longer  to  bear  the 
outrages  heaped  upon  them,  these  at  length  appealed  to  arms, 
joining  the  Flemings  and  Hollanders  in  the  effort  to  drive  the 
Spaniards  from  the  country;  for  which  a  formal  league  was 
made  at  Ghent,  November  8th,  1576.  Sustained  by  * 'almost  all 
the  nobility  of  Hainault  and  Artois,"  the  Walloon  people. 
Catholic  and  Reformed,  joined  heartily  in  the  common  cause. 
With  the  latter  class,  now  numerous,  especially  in  the  cities  and 
tOHTis  on  and  near  the  Scheldt,  this  struggle  was  of  highest  im- 
port, not  only  appealing  to  their  patriotism,  but  holding  out  the 
promise  of  religious  toleration  in  case  victory  crowned  their  arms. 
But  this  gleam  of  hope,  bright  as  a  passing  meteor,  was  equally 
transient.  The  struggle  was  maintained  but  two  short  years, 
when  the  Walloon  leaders,  cajoled  by  royal  emissaries,  and  ex- 
cited to  jealousy  of  their  compatriots,  the  Dutch,  first  refused  to 
contribute  further  of  men  or  means;  then  renounced  the  con- 
federacy, and  privately  formed  a  separate  league,  January  6th, 
1579,  in  which  Walloon  Flanders,  Artois,  and  Hainault  uniting, 
promised  to  stand  by  the  king  and  adhere  to  holy  church.  In 
a  reconcihation  with  the  king,  and  renewal  of  their  allegiance 
which  followed  on  September  4th  ensuing,  the  heads  of  the 
provinces  aforesaid  pledged  themselves  to  extirpate  hersy. 

Thus  a  death-blow  was  given  to  Walloon  liberty,  while  the 
Spanish  cause  secured  the  active  support  of  the  Catholic  Wal- 
loons, both  nobles  and  people;  turning  their  weapons  against 
their  deserted  friends,  the  Hollanders  and  Flemings,  in  their  life 
and  death  struggle.  Indeed,  the  king  found  no  readier  recruits 
nor  better  soldiers  than  the  Walloons ;  "a  people,"  says  a  contem- 
porary writer,  "taking  delight  in  war,  and  whom  the  Spaniards 
might  safely  make  use  of  in  all  dangers." 

As  a  sequence,  Holland,  Zeeland,  Gelderland,  and  other  prov- 
inces, by  a  union  published  at  Utrecht,  January  29th,  1579. 
formed  the  free  republic  known  as  the  Seven  United  Provinces ; 
achieving  their  independence  after  a  long  and  obstinate  struggle. 
But  the  remaining  Netherlands,  part  unwilling,  part  unable  to 
shake  off  their  fetters,  relapsed  into  a  more  servile  bondage  to 
Spain  and  the  Papacy.  By  the  king's  great  clemency,  the  Prot- 
estant Walloons  were  allowed  two  years  in  which  either  to  return 
to  the  bosom  of  the  church  or  leave  the  country.  Shut  up  to  this 
alternative,  thousands  sought  safety  in  exile. 

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the  late  revolt  against  the  Spaniards,  whom  at  heart  they  de- 
voutly hated,  were  yet  among  the  most  active  in  promoting  the 
submission  of  1579;  and  now  the  Spanish  cause  had  nowhere 
more  zealous  partisans.  And  they  were  pledged  to  root  out  the 
new  religion,  toward  which  they  had  only  waxed  more  bitter 
since  their  cousin  Antoine  de  Croy  had  embraced  it  and  attached 
himself  to  the  fortunes  of  Admiral  Coligny;  and  another  kins- 
man, William  Robert,  Prince  of  Sedan,  had  generously  opened 
his  gates  to  their  persecuted  and  fleeing  subjects,  with  whose 
faith  and  trials  he  was  in  sympathy.  How  opposite  a  character 
the  Duke  of  Arschot,  the  ambitious,  selfish  courtier,  whose  frown 
was  to  be  dreaded  by  the  Huguenots,  more  especially  those  who, 
living  on  his  own  domains,  were  directly  subject  to  his  imperious 
will  ! 

In  the  keeping  of  such  were  the  destinies  of  Avesnes.  The 
region  round  had  indeed  felt  the  blighting  effects  of  the  late 
war.  It  was  invaded  in  the  spring  of  1578  by  Don  John,  Alva's 
successor,  who,  advancing  from  eastward  up  the  valley  of  the 
Sambre  with  his  destroying  army,  captured  the  chief  places  in 
revolt,  as  far  as  Berlaimont,  eight  miles  northwest  of  Avesnes, 
with  many  small  towns  "commodious  for  quartering  the  army  ;*' 
then  again  moving  eastward,  he  took  Beaumont,  a  seat  of  the 
Duke  of  Arschot,  six  miles  south  of  the  Sambre;  also  Chimay, 
in  which  was  the  young  prince,  the  duke's  son,  and  his  troop 
of  horse,  these,  by  courtesy,  being  allowed  to  march  out  with 
their  carbines.  Then  storming  Philipville,  the  Don  departed, 
leaving  his  general,  Gonzaga,  with  horse  and  infantry,  to  guard 
these  frontiers, — a  duty  he  well  performed,  dispersing  several  par- 
ties from  France  coming  to  the  aid  of  the  Belgian  patriots,  while 
he  also  scoured  and  wasted  the  country  to  the  very  corn-crops  in 
the  field. 

But  this  was  as  nothing  to  a  people  inured  to  the  chances  of 
war,  or  the  general  impoverishment  to  which  they  were  now  re- 
duced, while  there  was  hope  of  deliverance.  But  upon  the  igno- 
minious submission  of  the  Walloon  nobles  to  the  Spanish  yoke, — 
with  the  crushing  blow  thus  given  to  the  cause  of  patriotism  and 
religious  liberty ;  and  the  successes  of  the  Spanish  arms  in  the 
Cambresis,  which  reduced  the  few  places  still  held  by  the  mal- 
contents, to  whom  no  mercy  was  shown, — ^the  Reformed  realized 
their  desperate  situation,  and  hastened  to  act  upon  the  proffered 
alternative,  abjuration  or  flight! 

Deeply  involved  in  these  trying  scenes  were  some  of  the  De 
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The  family,  judging  from  its  numbers,  had  been  some  time 
settled  at  Avesnes,  where  members  of  it  still  resided  many  years 
later.  So  much  is  well  attested,  though  there  is  no  redundance 
of  details.  Of  Avesnes  we  have  drawn  the  sketch  as  it  had 
been  and  now  was ;  the  little  world  beyond  which,  probably,  they 
they  had  never  far  roamed,  till  forced  to  it  by  the  untoward  cir- 
cumstances here  related.  Past  are  those  blithe  and  budding  years, 
spent  in  childish  gambols  along  its  rippling  streams  and  through 
its  oaken  groves ;  or  in  listening  to  those  winning  tales  of  olden 
times  about  the  lordly  tenants  of  the  castle, — whose  gray,  dilapi- 
dated walls  still  linked  so  closely  the  present  with  the  past, 
till  its  martial  annals  were  as  household  words.  Maturer  life, 
with  its  stern  realities,  has  also  brought  more  tender  attach- 
ments and  domestic  cheer,  as  Heaven's  kind  gifts,  and  the  fruits 
of  arduous  but  welcome  toil, — and  which,  despite  life's  corroding 
cares,  have  multiplied  the  ties  of  home,  kindred  and  friend- 
ships, which  now  can  grow  neither  stronger  nor  dearer.  But 
what  a  change  in  the  times  and  in  our  family's  prospects  ?  They 
have  heard,  have  embraced  those  soul-saving  truths,  revealed,  as 
they  believe,  from  heaven ;  and,  leaving  the  confessional  and  the 
mass, — ^altars  at  which  they  had  so  blindly  knelt, — have  cast  in 
their  lot  with  the  devout  but  despised  Huguenots.  Their  kindred 
adhering  only  more  closely  to  the  old  church,  caused  a  wide 
breech :  and  would  it  were  only  in  sentiment !  Dangers  surround 
the  Huguenot  portion,  and  the  safety  of  themselves  and  little  ones 
of  tender  years  depends  upon  an  immediate  flight.  In  the  face 
of  grave  difficulties  they  have  renounced  the  altars  and  faith  of 
their  fathers ;  and  what  heart-struggles  it  had  cost  them  none  may 
realize  but  those  who  are  led  to  relinquish  a  belief  in  which  they 
have  been  trained  and  educated  from  youth  to  manhood.  Now 
they  lack  not  courage  to  accept  the  issue,  to  follow  the  utmost 
mandate  of  duty,  though  home  endearments  must  give  place  to 
a  painful  exile.     Noble  proof  of  their  faith  and  piety ! 

Sedan,  on  the  Meuse,  whither  many  were  going,  offered  the 
nearest  retreat;  and  thither  also  went  the  De  Forests,  by  way  of 
the  French  border,  some  sixty  miles  southeastward.  Though  the 
exact  date  of  their  exode  has  not  been  found,  collateral  cir- 
cumstances assign  it  to  the  period  directly  succeeding  the  Wal- 
loon submission.  Not  to  anticipate  the  important  role  reserved 
for  this  exiled  family  when  they  shall  again  come  to  our  notice, 
under  better  auspices,  we  dare  venture  an  opinion  that  it  will 
justify  this  effort,  imperfect  though  it  be,  to  illustrate  the  more 
obscure  portion  of  their  history. 


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CHAPTER    III. 

OUR    SETTI.ERS    FROM    FRANCE   AND    WAI.SLANT. 

A  N  eventful  century  in  the  affairs  of  France  had  rolled  its 
'^^  round  since  the  collegiate  halls  of  tlie  Sorbonne  at  Paris 
echoed  the  first  notes  of  the  Reformation,  uttered  by  the  learned 
and  inspired  Le  Fevre.  That  period,  radiant  with  hope  and 
promise,  which  directly  followed  the  accession  of  Francis  I.,  and 
in  which  the  Reformed  doctrines, — joyfully  embraced  by  the  sober, 
thinking  classes, — were  rapidly  disseminated  over  all  France,  had 
been  succeeded  ( 1 525 )  by  terrible  persecutions,  when  at  times  the 
whole  land  seemed  fairly  to  reek  with  the  blood  of  martyrs. 
Forced  thereto  in  self-defense,  the  Huguenots  took  up  arms  in 
1562,  whence  ensued  a  ruthless  civil  war,  which  raged,  with  only 
brief  intervals,  for  over  thirty  years,  during  the  reigns  of  Charles 
IX.,  Henry  HI.,  and,  in  part,  of  Henry  IV.  Assuming,  as  then 
and  there  was  unavoidable,  the  double  character  of  a  politico- 
religious  conflict,  which  involved  in  its  toils  king  and  clergy, 
noblesse  and  people,  these  long-protracted  and  bloody  wars  ex- 
hausted the  country  and  reduced  it  to  the  verge  of  ruin.  Only 
by  this  heroic  stand,  however,  were  the  Huguenots  able  to  main- 
tain even  a  recognized  existence  in  the  land ;  but  when  the  King 
of  avarre,  their  old  leader, — distinguished  on  many  a  battle- 
field,— had  fought  his  way  to  the  throne,  as  Henry  IV.,  he  issued 
in  1598  that  famous  decree  for  the  pacification  of  his  kingdom, 
called  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  which  threw  its  protecting  aegis  over 
the  Huguenots,  and  gave  them  a  season  of  peace  and  prosperity 
such  as  they  enjoyed  at  no  other  period.  A  knowledge  of  what 
this  edict  pledged,  and  how  its  pledges  wer^  violated  in  the 
succeeding  reigns,  will  help  us  to  understand  the  proper  status  of 
the  Huguenots  in  the  time  of  our  refugees. 

The  edict  was  based  on  a  limited  toleration,  but  was  "the 
best  that  the  state  of  the  times  allowed."  It  declared  a  full 
amnesty,  conceded  to  the  Huguenots  liberty  of  conscience,  made 
them  eligible  to  all  public  offices  and  dignities,  and  for  their  pro- 
tection provided  special  chambers  within  the  local  parliaments. 


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the  chief  being  the  "Chamber  of  the  Edict,"  in  the  Parliament 
of  Paris.  They  were  allowed  to  build  and  maintain  churches 
and  schools  in  all  places  where  these  had  been  permitted  by 
former  edicts.  But  this  did  not  apply  to  episcopal  or  any  walled 
cities,  saving  only  La  Rochelle  and  a  few  other  strongly  Hugue- 
not towns,  which  for  their  security  they  were  suffered  to  hold 
under  the  edict.  Further,  all  lords,  nobles,  and  other  persons 
of  the  pretended  Reformed  religion,  holding  a  tenure  by  knight's 
service,  or  having  the  powers  of  a  civil  and  criminal  magistrate 
within  their  seigniory  or  manor,  might,  after  due  notice  to  the 
king's  officers,  and  having  the  place  registered,  hold  religious 
services  at  their  principal  residence,  or  cause  them  to  be  held  for 
their  families,  subjects  and  all  who  wished  to  attend. 

The  last  was  a  most  important  concession.  The  places  other- 
wise assigned  the  Reformed  in  which  to  erect  churches  and 
schools  were  but  few  and  scattered,  and  to  multitudes  in  distant 
localities  proved  of  no  benefit;  but  under  the  friendly  shelter 
of  private  castles  and  manor-houses  many  suspended  churches 
could  be  regathered  and  new  ones  organized;  as  was  done; 
though  often  only  by  persistent  effort  and  in  the  face  of  violent 
opposition,  because  the  Reformed  worship  was  seldom  tolerated 
nearer  any  sizable  town  than  from  three  to  five  miles,  and  for  its 
peaceful  enjoyment  the  faithful  were  often  obliged  to  journey  as 
many  leagues.  Laboring  under  the  same  disabilities  in  regard 
to  schools,  it  was  creditable  to  their  parental  fidelity  that  the 
secular  education  of  their  children  was  cared  for  equally  with 
their  religious  training;  and  hence  we  notice  that  nearly  all  of 
our  refugees  had  enjoyed  advantages  and  were  good  penmen. 
Under  the  edict  the  Reformed  were  not  exempt  from  such  bur- 
dens and  annoyances  as  the  payment  of  tithes  to  the  parish 
priest,  and  the  closing  of  their  business  places  and  suspension 
of  all  out-door  and  noisy  labor  on  the  oft-recurring  festival  days, 
when  they  must  join  in  decorating  the  fronts  of  their  houses  in 
honor  of  the  occasion,  or  permit  it  to  be  done  by  the  official  per- 
sons,— ^and  to  all  which  it  was  dangerous  to  object. 

Briefly,  these  were  the  advantages  enjoyed  by  the  Huguenot 
population  under  the  edict,  during  the  halcyon  days  of  Henry 
the  Great.  But  trouble  began  with  his  assassination,  in  1610, 
an  event  which  excited  the  utmost  alarm  among  the  Reformed, 
who  in  the  change  of  rulers  saw  reason  to  apprehend  a  change 
of  policy  fatal  to  their  interests.  In  vain  the  queen-mother,  as 
regent,  in  the  name  of  the  young  Louis  XIII.,  as  also  that  king 
liimself,  on  assuming  the  reins  of  power  in  1614,  tried  to  allay 


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these  fears  by  professing  a  purpose  to  maintain  the  Edict  of 
Nantes.  Concini,  an  Italian  favorite,  being  elevated  to  the 
position  of  prime-minister,  the  government  from  the  first  was 
wholly  under  Jesuit  influence, — which  was  regaining  itself  in  the 
country;  while  the  king,  in  1615,  by  the  arbitrary  dissolution 
of  the  old  States-General  or  national  parliament,  that  "guar- 
dian of  the  public  liberty,"  for  which  he  substituted  an  assem- 
bly composed  of  more  pliant  materials,  plainly  foreshadowed  the 
imperious  policy  which  he  had  marked  out,  and  by  which  he 
sought  to  centre  all  power  in  himself;  thus  giving  caste  to  an 
administration  characterized  by  a  French  writer  of  that  day  as 
"the  most  scandalous  and  dangerous  tyranny  that  perhaps  ever 
enslaved  a  state." 

Soon  followed  the  predicted  change  of  policy  touching  the 
Huguenots,  which,  first  planned  by  the  Archbishop  of  Paris,  was 
now  seconded  by  the  ambitious  Charles  d'Albert,  Duke  de 
Luynes,  who,  with  the  blood  of  Concini  fresh  upon  his  hands,  had 
supplanted  the  latter  in  the  favor  of  the  king  and  also  as  prime- 
minister.  It  was  to  humble  the  Huguenots  and  take  away  their 
power  of  self-protection,  by  wresting  from  them  their  fortified 
towns  and  their  political  organization,  which  latter  Henry  IV. 
had  sanctioned  as  a  means  of  conserving  their  interests,  through 
their  general  assemblies.  The  new  government  looked  with 
jealousy  upon  these  assemblies,  som«  of  whose  acts  at  this  feverish 
juncture  were  dictated  rather  by  passion  than  cool  judgment;: 
and  these  indiscretions  were  made  a  ground  for  the  high-handed 
course  to  which  the  government  now  resorted. 

At  the  bare  mention  of  the  new  policy,  which  the  Catholic 
pulpits  everywhere  zealously  lauded,  all  the  old  animosity 
against  the  Reformed  again  burst  forth,  bearing  fruit  in  numer- 
ous acts  of  violence,  both  in  the  towns  and  rural  districts.  The 
first  aggressive  step  taken  by  the  king  was  in  1620,  when  he 
ordered  the  Catholic  worship  to  be  restored  in  Beam,  a  part  of 
Southern  France,  where  for  sixty  years  the  Reformed  had  been 
the  only  region.  Being  opposed,  as  a  flagrant  breach  of  the 
edict,  the  king  invaded  Beam  to  enforce  his  decree  by  the 
bayonet.  The  Huguenots  flew  to  arms,  the  cautionary  cities  act- 
ing with  great  spirit;  and  war  desolated  the  Protestant  com- 
munities of  Beam,  Guienne  and  Languedoc.  The  royal  arms 
were  only  too  successful.  But  Montpellier,  chief  city  of  Lan- 
guedoc, having  been  taken  by  siege,  and  the  regiments  of  Picardy 
and  Normandy  set  at  work  to  level  its  defenses, .  here  a  peace 
was    proposed,    and   concluded   October    19th,    1622.     Only   La 


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Rochelle  and  Montauban,  of  all  their  strong  places,  now  remained 
to  the  Huguenots. 

Deeply  interested  were  the  Reformed  at  the  north  in  the 
struggles  of  their  co-religiouists  in  arms ;  and  scarce  dissembling 
their  sympathies,  they  feared  as  accomplices,  being  "given  over 
to  the  hatred  of  the  governors,  the  military  commandants,  the 
priests  and  the  populace."  Mob  outrage  was  common;  the  fine 
temple  at  Charenton,  near  Paris,  was  pillaged  and  burned,  though 
rebuilt,  at  the  public  charge,  after  peace  had  been  established. 
The  government  disarmed  the  Huguenots  of  St.  Quentin  and 
others  in  Picardy,  many  of  whom,  in  1621,  retired  to  Geneva,, 
Sedan  and  England. 

The  hollow  peace,  as  it  proved,  was  ignored  by  Cardinal 
Richelieu,  who  became  prime-minister  in  1624.  His  grand  idea, 
the  unity  of  France  and  the  supremacy  of  the  church  and  mon- 
archy, involved  the  prosecution  of  the  war  against  the  Huguenots ; 
and  the  restless  state  of  that  people  became  the  pretext.  La 
Rochelle  must  be  reduced,  and  was  at  length  invested  by  powerful 
armies.  The  resistance  was  heroic,  lasting  a  year  and  three 
months,  while  half  its  population  died  of  famine  and  disease. 
Then  it  was  forced  to  capitulate,  October  28th,  1628. 

Great  excitement  prevailed  during  this  siege  among  the 
Huguenots  at  the  north,  who,  under  the  guise  of  visiting,  attend- 
ing weddings,  etc.,  often  met  to  confer  together  about  their 
affairs.  Hence  exaggerated  rumors  which  reached  the  king's 
camp,  of  conspiracies  in  Lower  Normandy  (about  Caen  and 
the  Bessin),  and  in  Picardy  and  Champagne.  The  king  had 
demanded  of  the  people  of  Amiens  to  send  to  his  camp  five 
himdred  cloth  suits  and  as  many  pairs  of  shoes;  but  the  serge- 
makers,  indignant  at  this  demand,  threatened  the  king's  officer, 
who  fled  by  night  from  his  lodgings,  while  the  mob  threw  his 
coach  into  the  Somme. 

But  Richelieu  followed  up  his  successes.  Montauban,  in  the 
heart  of  Southern  France,  was  also  reduced  early  in  1629,  and 
its  defenses  razed.  All  the  Huguenot  strongholds  were  now  in 
the  king's  hands,  and  the  last  civil  war  was  at  an  end.  The 
"Edict  of  Grace,"  so  called,  issued  the  same  year,  fixed  the 
condition  of  the  Protestants.  Submission  and  loyalty  were  the 
specious  terms  on  which  they  should  continue  to  enjoy  their  re- 
ligious privileges.  But  well  they  knew  that  this  meant  nothing 
less  than  an  absolute  subjection  to  the  royal  will,  with  no  ability 
to  ward  off  any  further  aggression  upon  their  rights,  since  they 
were  robbed  of  their  only  safeguard, — that  material  power  on 


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which  had  depended  the  security  of  their  persons,  property  and 
religion. 

Alarmed  and  grieved  as  were  the  Protestants  at  seeing  their 
cause  thus  utterly  ruined,  their  trials  were  only  beginning,  for 
they  were  now  to  be  subjected  to  a  course  of  proscription,  which, 
growing  more  and  more  oppressive,  was  at  length  to  become 
insupportable.  Deserted  by  nearly  all  the  nobility,  and  gradually 
ousted  from  government  service  and  from  most  of  the  civil 
offices,  there  was  still  this  gain, — that  they  were  freed  from  the 
temptations  and  snares  of  political  life,  which  rendered  so  many 
idle  and  dissolute;  while  restricted  in  their  pursuits  to  agricul- 
ture, to  trade,  and  the  industrial  arts,  they  were  repaid  by  a  new 
development  of  their  industry,  and  additions  to  their  wealth. 
Even  the  infertile  soils  of  the  south,  by  dint  of  their  toil,  were 
made  to  wave  with  bounteous  harvests.  As  merchants  and  manu- 
facturers their  integrity  and  proficiency  was  known  and  recognized 
in  other  lands.     Nevertheless,  they  were  ill  at  ease. 

Anachronisms  in  regard  to  the  Huguenots  easily  occur,  from 
inattention  to  the  order  of  events,  or  to  the  many  diverse  phases 
of  their  history.  The  period  to  which  we  have  now  arrived, — 
the  era  proper  of  our  refugees, — was  to  them  and  their  compeers 
fraught  with  no  such  promise  as  that  which  ushered  in  the 
Reformation ;  nor  yet  a  reign  of  persecutions  dire,  as  that  which 
immediately  succeeded.  In  the  past,  the  few  bright  years  of 
Henry  IV.  came  up  in  the  memorlies  of  long  and  dismal  civil 
wars  as  a  little  oasis  in  the  almost  boundless  desert  waste. 
These  wars  being  ended,  they  now  entered  upon  a  term  •  of 
thirty  years,  having  the  semblance  of  rest,  but  with  its  deep 
undercurrents  of  unrest.  Even  then  was  foreshadowed  (but  our 
refugees  did  not  wait  to  see  it)  that  final,  doleful  epoch,  opening 
about  1 66 1  with  the  destruction  of  temples  or  churches,  with 
arrets  du  conseil,  for  excluding  the  Reformed  from  trades  and 
professions,  etc.,  and  closing  with  the  Revocation  of  the  Edict  of 
Nantes  in  1685,  with  dragoons,  dungeons  and  galleys;  causing 
multitudes  of  these  purest  and  noblest  of  the  land, — artisans, 
tradesmen,  professors  and  divines, — to  escape  to  other  countries, 
which  were  thus  enriched  by  their  industries,  their  talents  and 
their  piety. 

Hence  our  refugees  lived  in  times  of  but  semi-repose,  in  which 
painful  memories  of  the  past  gave  ghastly  form  and  reality  to 
the  graver  presentiments  of  the  future.  True,  it  was  an  age  of 
more  enlightenment  and  less  fanaticism  than  those  preceding, 
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lessened.     It  had  only  in  a  degree  transferred  itself  from  their 
creed  to  their  position  as  a  social  class.     They  were  an  unpopu- 
lar minority,   having  peculiarities   repulsive  to   the   habits   and 
tastes  of  the  people  at  large.     Their  views,  feelings  and  mode  of 
life,  their  strict  discipline,  the  simplicity  of  their  worship  and 
scrupulous  observance  of  the  Sabbath,  afforded  nothing  in  com- 
mon  with  those  within  the  pale  of  the  dominant  church.     To 
them  the  Huguenot  appeared  reserved,  rigid,  and  even  haughty. 
His  very  gravity  was  thought  to  betoken  a  felt  superiority.     He 
claimed   to  be   controlled   by   a   purer   faith,   a   better   code  of 
morals.     Intelligence,  discrimination  and  independence,  as  well 
as  piety,  were  essential  supports  to  the  religious  tenets  he  avowed 
and  maintained.     He  valued  and  improved  his  freedom  to  in- 
quire and  interchange  opinions  upon  matters  of  church  polity 
and   questions  of  doctrine  and  discipline,  as  well  as  those  af- 
fecting  his  civil   rights.     Keeping  within  the   limited  circle  of 
his  home  and  people,  and  wont  to  deny  himself,  the  Huguenot 
\*ielded  but  sparingly  to  the  luxury  in  which  others  indulged. 
Thus  order  and  economy  ruled  both  his  house  and  business,  and 
brought  him  thrift.     In  his  frugality  of  living,  and  in  the  time 
saved  from  useless  festivals  for  needful  toil,  he  found  a  temporal 
gain.     His  industry  and  business  assiduity  seemed  ever  to  re- 
proach  his   neighbors   with   their   slackness   and    improvidence; 
and  envy  of  his  superior  intelligence,  advantages  and  prosperity 
too  commonly  showed  itself,  after  the  loss  of  his  military  and 
political  significance,  in  an  air  of  triumph  over  his  humbled  con- 
dition.    He  still  trusted  for  protection  to  his  legal  charter,  the 
Edict  of  Nantes;  but  this  soon  lost  its  prestige  with  the  courts. 
His  greatest  fear  was  from  the  covert  designs  of  government  and 
clergy  to  effect  his  ruin, — the  latter  ever  and  anon  reiterating 
their  demands  for  new  restraints  upon  the  Reformed.     In  1630 
began  systematic  efforts  to  reclaim  them  in  the  church  by  means 
of  convertisseurs,  who  were  paid  a  definite  sum  for  every  prose- 
lyte; and  in   1635  Richelieu  created  in  each  province  a  Royal 
Intendant,   "to  promote  a  stronger  national  unity,"  but  which 
meant  the  use  of  all  means  for  suppressing  the  religion.     These 
officials,  chosen  with  special  reference  to  their  fitness,  dispensed 
their  authority  with  rigor,  and  first  instigated  those  severe  and 
effective  measures  eventually  employed  to  complete  the  ruin  of 
the  Huguenots.     The  decisions  of  the  Intendant  were  invariably 
adverse  to  the  Huguenot.     And  it  was  usually  so  in  questions 
which  came  before  the  local  parliaments;  the  rule  obtaining  in 
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sufferance.  Law  and  fact  were  wrested  against  them;  every 
severe  sentence  became  a  precedent;  and  so,  by  one  restriction 
after  another,  enarly  all  of  value  that  the  Edict  of  Nantes  had 
pledged  was  taken  away  long  before  the  edict  was  formally 
rescinded.  With  a  painful  sense  of  insecurity,  it  became  an  ever- 
present,  momentous  question  with  this  afflicted  people,  how  to 
avert  the  greater  calamities,  which  passing  events  so  plainly  fore- 
shadowed, except  by  quitting  their  country. 

What  this  question  involved  we  may  not  apprehend.  The 
bitter  conflict  going  on  within,  as  the  stricken  man  pursued  his 
daily  vocation,  was  often  known  only  to  his  family  and  his 
God.  Thrice  dear  to  him  was  his  country,  so  venerable  in 
antiquities,  heroic  in  deeds,  romantic  in  legends;  all  that  was 
charming  in  stream  and  landscape,  genial  in  the  air  and  gen- 
erous in  the  soil;  all  that  was  prized  in  institutions  and  cus- 
toms, in  social  and  home  endearments.  His  religious  ideas  had 
not  weakened,  but,  onnly  in  one  direction,  changed  his  attach- 
ments. With  a  sort  of  aristocratic  pride  he  cherished  the  heredi- 
tary records  of  the  virtue,  constancy,  or  piety  of  his  ancestors 
who  had  suffered  for  the  faith.  These  were  the  letters  of  his 
nobility.  They  were  links  binding  him  only  the  more  closely 
t  ohis  native  soil — ^which  had  grown  dearer  with  every  trial  or 
loss  he  had  been  called  to  embrace,  and  with  each  act  of  arbitrary 
power  designed  to  force  him  from  its  bosom.  But  the  very  act 
of  leaving  was  hedged  with  difficulties:  business,  property,  and 
personal  effects  were  more  easily  scrifiecd  than  converted  into 
available  means.  The  younger  class,  with  few  such  entangle- 
ments, found  a  change  much  easier  than  did  their  seniors;  and 
hence  the  emigrations  at  this  era  consisted  very  largely  of  the 
former. 

Those  spasmodic  flights  of  the  Huguenots  under  some  great 
and  sudden  terror, —  of  which  there  had  been  many  in  the  course 
of  their  history,  when  multitudes,  by  families,  and  of  every  age 
and  class,  left  hastily  for  foreign  lands, — had  ceased  with  that 
which  took  place  on  the  fall  of  La  Rochelle  and  Montauban, 
when  the  final  blow  was  dealt  to  the  civil  power  of  the  Hugue- 
nots. For  the  thirty  years  ensuing,  and  during  which  most  of 
the  Harlem  refugees  sought  other  lands,  the  emigration  was  not 
large,  but  of  a  valuable  character.  The  removals  were  usually 
undertaken  thoughtfully  and  heroically, — in  general,  as  just  said, 
by  a  young  and  enterprising  class, — in  the  belief  that  the  time 
had  come  to  leave  a  country  in  which,  surrounded  by  so  many 
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which  threatened  to  become  worse  instead  of  better.  Their  eyes 
naturally  turned  toward  Holland,  England,  and  America,  as 
more  hospitable  lands,  and  the  chief  emigration  was  to  those 
countries  from  the  marine  provinces,  Picardy,  Normandy,  and 
those  south  of  them,  for  which  their  numerous  seaports  afforded 
every  facility. 

The  West  Indies,  inviting  both  for  climate  and  fruitfulness, 
were  becoming  the  resort  of  many  for  whom  the  cold  region  of 
Canada  had  no  attractions.  Removals  to  these  islands  had  been 
going  on  under  the  direction  of  a  company  formed  at  Paris  in 
1626,  at  the  instance  of  M.  D'Enambus,  who  the  year  before  had 
visited  the  island  of  St.  Christopher,  in  a  brigantine  from  Dieppe. 
There  he  planted  the  first  colony  in  1627,  and  which  became  the 
nursery  of  others  afterward  formed  on  the  adjacent  islands. 
In  1635,  Martinique  was  occupied  by  a  hundred  old  and  experi- 
enced settlers  from  St.  Christopher.  But  D'Enambuc  died.  In 
1640  Jesuit  missionaries  arrived  at  Martinique  (where  were  then 
near  a  thousand  French,  "without  mass,  without  priest,'')  and, 
reluctantly  admitted  by  the  governor  and  people,  heightened  the 
public  dissensions  which  broke  out  in  the  islands,  and  which 
grew  so  violent  five  years  later,  especially  in  Martinique,  that 
many  of  the  Huguenots  were  glad  to  get  back  to  Europe ;  these 
going  mostly  to  Holland,  and  some  of  them,  as  the  Casier  family, 
of  Calais,  eventually  finding  more  tranquil  abode  at  Harlem. 
We  shall  allude  to  these  again  before  concluding  our  account 
of  the  homes  and  wanderings  of  our  refugees.* 

Home!  Fancy  is  ever  swifter  than  pen  or  pencil  to  draw 
the  picture.  The  old  familiar  spot  around  which  the  heartstrings 
entwine,  endeared  by  many  tender  associations,  perchance  made 
sacred  by  its  sanctified  sorrows.  And  how  bitter  the  moment 
when  the  refugee,  gazing  upon  it  for  the  last  time,  turned  his 
steps  toward  a  foreign  soil;  like  the  great  patriarch  departing 
from  Haran,  knowing  not  his  destiny,  but  trusting  his  covenant 
God.  But,  alas !  to  too  many  of  our  refugees, — forced  to  changes 
as  they  were  by  a  regard  for  their  personal  safety  or  to  secure  a 
livelihood,  or  both, — ^home,  as  restricted  to  the  place  of  their  birth 
and  early  life,  must  have  lost  much  of  its  significance.  To  these 
pilgrims  home  was  often  less  the  locality  and  society  of  which 

*  Inquiry  can  but  partiaUy  break  the  silence  which  hangs  over  these  wanderings. 
And  here  starts  a  quer^:  was  our  David  Demarest  a  sharer  with  Philip  Casier  in  his 
West  India,  as  he  was  in  some  of  his  subsequent  travels?  Did  he  sustain  toward  Sieur 
Des  Marets  (an  old  captain  of  St.  Christopher,  who  was  beheaded  September  7,  164 1, 
^  the  governor,  Dc  Poincy,  for  joining  the  populace  in  opposing  his  tyranny)  such 
relations  as  made  him  one  most  deeply  affected  by  his  tragic  fate?  Oisemont,  in 
Picardy,  the  seat  of  the  Demarests,  had  a  Commandery  of  Malta,  of  which  De  Poincy 
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they  bore  the  type,  than  the  circle  or  community  of  like  faith 
in  which  for  the  time  being  their  lot  was  cast.  Difficult  ofttimes 
as  this  makes  it  to  trace  the  refugee  to  his  original  home,  we 
shall  leave  the  reader  to  note  how  far  our  efforts  in  that  regard 
have  succeeded. 

Saintonge  was  one  of  the  provinces  lying  within  the  Bay  of 
Biscay,  and  which,  owing  to  the  tendency  of  the  Huguenots  dur- 
ing their  protracted  trouble  to  remove  from  the  interior  into 
the  marine  districts  and  towns,  became  crowded  with  refugees, 
and  were  a  principal  theatre  of  the  bloody  civil  wars.  Sain- 
tonge was  the  birthplace  of  our  "very  learned"  Dr.  Johannes 
De  La  Montagne,  whose  history  will  contribute  much  of  interest 
to  these  pages.  La  Montagne  was  not  his  family  name,  but  an 
adjunct  which  finally  took  the  place  of  the  former,  and  was 
originally  derived, — as  correlative  facts  seem  to  indicate, — from 
La  Montagne,  a  district  of  Burgundy.  But  Dr.  La  Montagne 
was  called  a  Santo,  which  is  the  provincial  designation  for  a 
native  of  Saintonge, — akin  to  that  of  Norman,  Picard,  etc.  His 
birth  happening  in  1595,  but  three  years  before  the  Edict  of 
Nantes  restored  order  to  the  realm  and  peace  to  the  Huguenots, — 
and  under  which  emigration  mostly  ceased  up  to  the  death  of 
Henry  IV., — it  is  highly  probable  that  La  Montagne  left  France 
somewhere  within  the  ten  years  of  public  unrest  succeeding  the 
murder  of  the  king,  and  culminating  in  the  last  civil  wars  under 
Louis  XIII.,  which  opened  in  1620.  Prior  to  that  date,  how- 
ever, La  Montagne  and  others  of  his  family  were  enjoying  peace 
and  security  in  Holland.  He  therefore  knew  as  little  personally 
of  these  latter  wars  as  he  did  of  the  earlier  troubles  which  pre- 
ceded the  Edict  of  Nantes.  Among  our  French  refugee  fam- 
ilies his  was  the  first  to  become  exiles.  We  speak  irrespective 
of  the  Walloon  families,  of  whom  the  first  to  flee  their  country 
were  those  of  De  Forest  and  Vermeille  or  Vrmilye,  the  latter, 
in  the  troubles  of  the  sixteenth  century,  taking  refuge  in  England. 
Not  till  after  the  last  civil  wars,  as  before  said,  and  which  oc- 
curred quite  too  early  for  them  to  have  borne  arms,  did  the  body 
of  our  refugees  leave  their  native  France. 

Saintonge  counted  among  its  cities  La  Rochelle,  with  its 
heroic  memories,  and  which  gave  us  Jacques  Cousseau  and  Paul 
Richard,  both  sterling  characters  and  identified  with  Harlem. 
We  know  not  if  either  was  old  enough  at  the  time  of  the  final 
siege  and  reduction  of  La  Rochelle,  in  1628,  to  have  shared  its 
terrors  and  miseries;  but  both  probably  left  on  account  of  the 
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cism   in   that  old  Protestant  stronghold,  and  which  occasioned 
many  removals. 

Northerly  from  La  Rochelle,  the  rugged  peninsula  of  Bre- 
tagne,  or  Brittany, — jutting  far  into  the  Atlantic, — is  as  remark- 
able for  its  strange  vicissitudes  as  for  its  dreary  forests,  barren 
heaths,  pent-up  valleys,  vast  fields  of  Druid  remains,  and  lone 
hillocks  crowned  by  the  ruins  of  castles ;  or  yet  its  brawny  peas- 
antry in  grotesque  garb,  and  (in  Lower  Brittany)  still  speaking 
the  harsh  Celtic  tongue.  Long  a  distinct  sovereignty,  it  was 
conquered  by  the  Norman  dukes;  later  an  affluent  duchy,  for 
which  Charles  of  Blois  and  his  race  valiantly  but  vainly  battled 
with  the  house  of  Montfort,  it  was  finally  engrossed  by  the 
crown.  But  not  feudal  nor  royal  tyranny  cOuld  ever  crush  the 
native  independence  and  hauteur  of  the  Breton,  which  so  cropped 
out  in  the  case  of  our  Claude  Le  Maistre  (Delamater),  whose 
ancestors  were  the  lords  of  Garlaye,  in  the  diocese  of  Nantes, 
though  he  happened  not  to  be  born  in  Brittany.  Near  La  Mous- 
saye,  in  the  interior  of  Lower  Brittany,  southward  from  St.  Malo, 
was  the  original  seat  of  the  family  of  our  David  Uzille.  The 
Reformed  churches  at  Nantes  and  La  Moussaye  found  in  the 
Le  Maistres  and  Uzilles  warm  supporters. 

One  of  the  three  districts  forming  the  great  Norman 
meadows,  whose  fine  horses  and  cattle  were  so  celebrated,  was 
the  Bessin,  from  a  forest  leargely  converted  into  tillable  lands  and 
orchards  by  the  patient  industry  of  its  peculiar  people, — French 
indeed,  but,  unlike  their  neighbors  and  more  like  the  English, 
being  descendants  of  the  Otlings  (or  Osterlings),  a  Saxon  tribe 
which  overran  this  district  in  the  fourth  century.  Their  small 
town,  St.  Lo,  occupied  a  rocky  eminence,  girt  on  three  sides  by 
a  ravine  through  which  ran  the  river  Vire,  parting  the  low- 
lying  Bessin  from  the  mountainous  Cotentin.  Its  streets,  lined 
with  antiquated  houses,  ascended  steeply  to  the  crown,  whereon 
stood  its  old  sombre  cathedral.  Fully  a  century  earlier  it  had  its 
Huguenot  church,  which  sent  delegates  to  the  first  synod  at 
Paris,  in  1559.  From  this  secluded  Norman  town, — strange  tran- 
sition, truly! — a  worthy  refugee,  "Letelier,"  as  with  some  claim 
to  rank  he  signs  himself,  found  his  way  to  Harlem,  to  woo  and 
wed  a  Picard's  daughter. 

Beyond  the  Seine,  in  Upper  Normandy,  we  next  find  traces 
of  our  refugees.  Dieppe,  capital  of  the  high  and  mainly  level 
region  called  the  Land  of  Caux,*  the  land  of  grain  and  grass,  of 

•  Pronounced  Ko.     It  is  highly  probable  that  our  well-known  family  of  Coc  derive 
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cider  and  perry,  embracing  the  coast  country  from  the  Seine  to 
the  Bresle,  was  seated  at  the  foot  of  hills  through  which  flowed 
the  river  Arques,  passing  under  the  great  stone  bridge  that 
united  the  town  to  its  suburb,  Le  Pollet,  the  fishermen's  quarter, 
where  under  the  Edict  of  Nantes  the  Huguenots  had  their 
church  and  enjoyed  the  ministrations  of  Montdenis  and  others. 
Dieppe  also  had  an  immense  commerce,  its  mariners  famous  of 
old  for  distant  voyages.  Hence  sailed  D'Enambus,  in  1625,  to 
St.  Christopher,  paving  the  way  for  French  colonies  in  the  West 
Indies,  in  which,  as  before  intimated,  Harlem  settlers  first  tried 
their  fortunes.  And  from  this  port  many  of  the  refugees  took 
ship  for  other  countries,  as,  we  presume,  did  Francois  Le  Sueur 
and  Robert  Le  Maire,  who  came  thence  to  Harlem.  How  it  was 
with  these  we  know  not,  but  may  conclude  that  some  left  Dieppe 
and  other  French  ports,  destined  for  New  Netherland,  since  its 
invitations  to  such  colonists  had  already  reached  these  ports 
through  intercourse  with  Holland.  Le  Sueur  was  bom  at  Challe- 
Mesnil  or  Colmenil,  a  small  borough  or  market  town  three  miles 
south  of  Dieppe.  His  name, — taking  such  forms  with  his 
descendants  as  Leseur,  Lesier,  Lazear  and  Lozier, — was  well  es- 
tablished in  Caux,  and  a  century  previous  had  figured  among- 
the  cloth  makers  of  Rouen. 

Very  interesting  is  Picardy,  whence  came  so  many  of  the 
French  exiles  who  made  their  homes  at  Harlem,  for  longer  or 
shorter  periods ;  in  all  some  thirty  families,  of  which  a  full  third 
were  Picards  or  of  Picard  descent.  Of  this  class  were  our  Tour- 
neur,  Cresson,  Demarest,  Casier  and  Disosway,  all  of  whom, 
except  the  last,  served  as  magistrates. 

But  who  were  the  Picards?  A  quite  superior  people  to  the 
average  French;  being  of  mixed  origin,  descendants  of  both 
Belgae  and  Celtae,  and  occupying  the  border  between  these  two 
ancient  nations,  or  rather  the  district  which  parted  the  Celtae 
from  the  Nervii,  the  most  invincible  of  the  Belgic  tribes.  Thus, 
sanguine  and  choleric  like  the  Celts,  they  approached  the  Belgse 
in  their  moral  and  physical  stamina.  In  stature  above  the 
medium,  with  usually  a  well-developed  frame,  they  betrayed 
their  affinity  to  the  Walloons,  whose  patois,  rough  and  disagree- 
able, theirs  resembled;  yet,  proud  and  spirited,  they  held  those 
neighbors,  and  all  others,  in  secret  disdain.  The  love  of  inde- 
pendence was  not  so  strong  within  them  as  the  love  of  equality; 
it  was  here  their  vanity  showed  itself,  but  it  tempered  the  popular 
homage  to  wealth  or  titles.  Though  hasty,  blunt,  and  obstinate, 
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of  the  Champenois, — and  more  religious  than  either, — the  Picards 
were  withal  lively,  generous,  honest  and  discreet.  Their  con- 
versation sparkled  with  wit,  iiiirth  and  sarcasm.  Necessity, 
rather  than  inclination,  made  them  industrious,  yet  they  yielded 
their  full  share  of  workers  and  proficients  in  the  arts  and 
sciences;  as  also  of  able  physicians  and  divines, — some  of  the 
latter  as  much  distinguished  in  the  controversial  history  of  the 
Reformation  as  others  had  been  who  were  its  earliest  champions. 
With  intelligence,  and  a  manly  aim  to  excel  in  what  they  under- 
took, even  though  it  were  but  agriculture, — in  which  by  far  the 
greater  number  were  engaged, — the  Picards  could  not  but  add 
a  valuable  element  to  any  society  so  fortunate  as  to  attract  them.* 

The  narrow  strip  of  the  seaboard,  in  breadth  twenty  miles 
or  less,  which  stretched  southerly  from  Calais  to  the  Canche, 
embraced  the  districts  of  Giiines  and  Boulonnais,  two  subdi- 
visions of  Picardy.  Of  its  larger  part,  lying  on  either  side  of 
the  Somme,  but  extending  a  hundred  miles  inland  to  the  borders 
of  Champagne,  the  coast  section  called  Ponthieu  reached  some 
thirty  miles  up  the  Somme,  Abbeville  being  the  chief  town. 
Easterly  lay,  in  succession,  the  Amienois,  Santerre,  Vermandois, 
and  Thierache,  their  southerly  sides  forming  a  line  sufficiently 
winding,  but,  in  general,  east  and  west.  These  seven  districts 
composed  modem  Picardy;  but  fiye  others  lying  southerly  of 
these, — ^to  wit,  the  Beauvoisis,  Noyonnois,  Soissonnois,  Laonnois, 
and  Valois, — were  equally  Picard  territory,  as  proven  by  the 
characteristics  of  the  people,  although  these  districts  had  been 
annexed  to  the  Isle  of  France. 

These  several  sections  of  Picardy,  save  Guines  and  Boulon- 
nais, were  watered  by  one  or  more  of  its  three  principal  rivers, 
the  Somme,  the  Oise  and  the  Aisne;  and  seated  on  these  were 
most  of  those  fine  old  cities  with  strange  histories,  for  which 
Picardy  was  noted.  Two  streamlets,  engrossing  many  little  rills 
from  Champagne  and  Hainault,  united  in  the  centre  of  Thier- 
ache to  form  the  Oise,  which,  now  stretched  westward  to  Guise 
in  the  same  district,  but  soon  took  its  course,  in  general  south- 
westerly, nearly  parallel  with  the  coast,  till  it  entered  the  Seine 

*  Picard,  though  a  term  of  disputed  origin,  is  admitted  to  have  been  first  local 
and  restricted  to  the  people  of  the  Amienois.  the  district  in  which  Amiens,  the  pro- 
Tincial  capital,  is  seated;  but  it  early  spreaa  to  the  whole  supplanting  all  the  tribal 
designations.  It  probably  came  from  the  pique,  an  ancient  war  weapon,  with  the  Ger- 
man affix  ard,  meaning  species  or  race;  adhering  to  this  people  as  inventors  of  that 
weapon,  or  from  the  renown  the:^  had  acquired  in  handling  it.  So  they  became  known 
as  the  Picards,  or  pike-men.  Gibbon,  who  dates  the  name  not  earlier  than  the  year 
1200,  says,  ''It  was  an  academical  joke,  an  epithet  first  applied  to  the  quarrelsome 
humor  of  those  students  in  the  University  of  Paris  who  came  from  the  frontier  of 
France  and  Flanders."  But  its  occurence  early  in  the  eleventh  century  refutes  this 
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at  Fin  d*Oise,  below  Paris,  distant  from  Guise  ninety  odd  miles. 
Scattered  along  its  charming  banks  from  Guise  downward,  at 
intervals  of  some  ten  miles,  lay,  in  delightful  seclusion,  other 
antiquated  towns,  as  Ribemont,  La  Fere,  Chauny,  Noyon,  Com- 
piegne,  Verberie,  Creil,  Beaumont  and  Pontois;  the  last  six 
adorned  with  royal  palaces,  exclusive  of  Noyon,  a  pretty  town 
and  a  bishop's  seat,  but  of  more  interest  to  the  Huguenots  as 
the  great  Calvin's  birthplace.  Just  above  Compiegne,  the  Aisne, 
a  large  tributary,  entered  the  Oise  from  the  eastward,  and  on 
it  lay  the  stately  city  of  Soissons.  Below  Creil  a  smaller  branch, 
the  Therain,  entered  from  the  westward,  on  its  upper  waters 
seated,  within  a  cordon  of  charming  hills,  the  venerable  town 
of  Beauvais.  The  Somme,  rising  near  the  borders  of  Thierache, 
on  passing  St.  Quentin  in  Vermandois  curved  southward  to 
Ham,  then  again  to  the  north  to  Peronne,  when  it  resumed  its 
course  westerly  past  Corbie  to  Amiens,  and  thence  northwest 
through  the  Amienois  and  Panthieu  plains  to  its  outlet.  The 
region  around  its  head-waters  about  Vermandois  was  rendered 
very  picturesque  by  the  wooded  hills  which  here  crossed  Picardy ; 
the  broad  plains  below,  just  referred  to,  were  less  attractive  to 
the  eye,  though  varied  by  a  succession  of  pretty  intervals  which 
bordered  the  tributary  streams,  and  whose  green  pastures,  trees 
and  shrubbery  agreeably  relieved  the  general  nakedness  of  the 
country  and  the  apparent  hardness  of  the  whitish  soil,  the  lat- 
ter composed  one  third  of  chalk,  but  productive,  and  yielding 
fine  crops  of  wheat.  The  sub-district  of  Ponthieu,  called  the 
Marquenterre,  embracing  extensive  pastures  adjoining  the  coast, 
on  the  north  of  the  Somme,  had  been  recovered  from  the  wash 
of  the  sea  by  a  line  of  downs  and  dykes;  to  the  south  of  the 
river's  mouth  the  land  had  a  gentle  rise  toward  Normandy,  till 
it  formed  the  table-lands  of  Caux  and  the  chain  of  cliffs  that 
there  bound  the  coast. 

Picardy  was  originally  composed  of  many  small  countries, 
or  earldoms,  instead  of  forming  but  one  under  a  single  count. 
Never  so  united  and  ruled,  it  was  in  this  respect  an  anomaly 
among  the  French  provinces.  Its  ancient  tribal  divisions  deter- 
mined mainly  its  modern  districts,  and  eight  of  the  dozen  com- 
posing it  took  name  from  their  chief  city.  Its  history,  says 
Michelet,  "seems  to  embrace  the  whole  of  the  ancient  history 
of  France."  Its  plains  and  hills  had  been  trodden  by  the  great 
Caesar  and  his  legions,  and  it  was  on  the  banks  of  the  Sambre, 
near  Maubeuge,  that  he  encountered  the  warlike  Nervii,  whose 
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broke  their  power  and  gave  Gaul  to  the  conqueror.  Near  Sois- 
sons,  five  centuries  later,  the  warrior  Clovis,  in  an  equally  decisive 
battle,  extinguished  the  Roman  power  and  established  that  of 
the  Franks.  Here  also  had  the  Austrasian  and  Neustrian  fac- 
tions found  a  battle  ground,  till  the  defeat  of  the  latter,  in  687, 
at  Testry,  in  Vermandois,  initiated  the  varied  fortunes  of  the 
race  of  Charlemagne.  Up  the  Somme  had  often  rolled  that 
fearful  tide  of  Vandal  and  Norman  invasion,  which  left  no  river 
unvisited  from  the  Meuse  to  the  Loire,  desolating  their  banks 
and  sacking  towns,  churches  and  monasteries,  and  at  last  contribu- 
ting, with  other  causes,  to  the  fall  of  the  monarchical  power  in 
the  ninth  century  and  the  disintegration  of  the  kingdom. 
Picardy,  or  rather  its  several  sections,  had  come  within  the 
grasp  of  haughty  chieftains,  mostly  of  the  family  of  the  defunct 
Charlemagne,  and  who,  as  refractory  as  their  compeers  ruling 
the  larger  provinces  and  equally  greedy  of  dominion,  played  a 
no  less  conspicuous  part  in  the  turbulent  drama  of  the  times. 
The  early  annals  of  these  small  earldoms  superabound  with  deeds 
of  rapine  and  blood.  Not  content  with  the  conquest  of  neigh- 
boring towns  or  territory,  they  made  kings,  or  humbled  them  at 
will;  and,  in  fact,  these  imperious  Picard  lords  for  a  long  time 
ruled  the  destinies  of  the  kingdom.  But  what  strange  freaks 
had  fortune  played  with  these  old  titled  dynasties !  Once  scarcely 
recognizing  any  sovereign,  and  with  all  the  advantage  of  a 
hereditary  entail,  yet,  one  by  one  they  had  shared  the  fate  of 
the  great  provinces.  Champagne,  Normandy,  and  others :  the  old 
counts,  with  all  the  dazzling  splendor  of  their  houses,  had  passed 
away,  and  their  possessions,  by  a  studied  policy  of  the  kings,  had 
been  mostly  engrossed  as  crown  domains.  True,  it  had  taken 
from  the  twelfth  century  to  the  sixteenth  to  consummate  these 
changes.  More  favored,  however,  were  some  of  these  districts 
which  took  the  form  of  bishoprics.  Descending  by  the  elective 
process  from  one  prelate  to  another  in  regular  succession,  these 
had  withstood  the  feudal  powers  of  the  Middle  Ages  and  the 
civil  convulsions  of  many  centuries.  Not  restricted  to  the  exer- 
cise of  spiritual  power  in  their  bishoprics,  some  of  these  bishops 
had  come  to  enjoy  great  temporal  dignity,  even  the  high  position 
of  peers  of  the  realm,  as  were  those  of  Laon,  Noyon  and  Beau- 
vais;  to  the  first  of  whom  also  pertained  the  title  of  duke,  and 
to  the  other  two  that  of  count.  Herein  may  be  seen  the  supe- 
rior advantages  of  the  existing  hierarchy  to  hold  and  transmit, 
or  even  to  augment,  its  power.  All  this  while  the  sturdy  burgh- 
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struggle  with  their  tyrannical  rulers;  but  appealing  for  help 
to  royalty  only  to  be  ultimately  betrayed,  vanquished  and  de- 
spoiled of  their  choicest  franchises,  as  the  power  ecclesiastic 
and  kingly  came  to  acquire  that  supreme  ascendancy  which  it 
held  in  the  reigns  of  Louis  XHL  and  Louis  XIV., — ^the  times 
of  our  refugees. 

Of  the  chief  dignitaries  then  ruling  parts  of  Picardy  was  the 
Duke  De  Chaulnes,  in  whom  was  the  temporal,  and  Bishop  Le 
Fevre,  who  held  the  spiritual,  power  in  the  Amienois;  but  more 
of  these  presently.  Augustine  Potier  was  supreme  in  the  Beau- 
voisis,  which  was  the  most  wealthy  bishopric  in  Picardy.  Hold- 
ing the  fee  of  the  soil,  as  had  his  predecessors,  since  the  year 
1015,  when  Bishop  Roger  got  the  county  by  deed  from  his 
brother  Eudes,  the  Count  of  Champagne,  Potier  gloried  in  the 
titles  of  "Bishop  and  Count  of  Beauvais,  Peer  of  France  and 
Vidame  of  Gerberoy."  He  was  also  Grand  Chaplain  to  the 
Queen,  and  intensely  zealous  for  the  church  and  monarchy, 
though  it  was  hinted  that  his  capacity  did  not  equal  his  ambi- 
tion. The  Noyonnois  was  under  the  rule  of  Henri  De  Barradat, 
to  whose  titles  of  Bishop  and  Count  of  Noyon  was  added  that 
of  Peer  of  France.  The  Marquise  De  Hocquincourt,  Charles  De 
Monchy,  had  succeeded  his  father  as  royal  governor  in  Santerre, 
for  which  he  was  held  fitted  by  his  valor  and  his  devotion  to 
Louis  XIII.  This  district  had  been  taken  from  the  ancient  Ver- 
mandois,  in  121 5,  by  King  Philip  Augustus,  who  had  annexed 
Vermandois  to  the  crown,  after  that  the  old  counts, — ^the  most 
affluent  and  potent  in  Picardy,  and  whose  sway  had  lasted  over 
three  centuriies, — had  become  extinct.  It  included  the  cities  of 
Peronne,  Montdidier,  and  Roye,  the  first,  the  old  seat  and  strong- 
hold of  the  counts,  being  now  the  residence  of  the  governor,  and 
deemed  the  key  of  France  on  these  frontiers.  De  Monchy  distin- 
guished himself  in  the  war  in  the  Low  Countries,  etc.,  and  in  165 1 
was  made  a  Marshal  of  France ;  but,  taking  oflfense  at  Louis  XIV., 
he  joined  the  Spanish  cause,  and  was  killed  at  Dunkirk  in  1658. 
Vermandois  proper  now  formed  a  baliwick,  subject  to  the  Bishop 
and  Duke  of  Laon,  Philibert  De  Brichanteau.  Thierache  was 
mainly  engrossed  by  the  Duchy  of  Guise, — of  which  the  town 
and  castle  so  called  was  the  seat, — ^being  still  the  domain  of  the 
House  of  Guise,  those  infamous  and  deadly  foes  of  the  Hugue- 
nots, and  one  of  whose  ancestors,  a  Duke  of  Lorraine,  had  gotten 
this  estate  by  marriage  with  a  grandchild  of  the  great  crusader, 
Jacques  d'Avesnes.  But  retributive  justice  seems  to  have  visited 
the  later  Duke  of  Guise,  Charles  Le  Lorraine,  who,  as  admiral 


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of  a  fleet,  had  served  against  the  Huguenots  at  La  Rochelle  in 
1622.  Ambitious  and  intriguing  like  his  predecessors,  he  quar- 
reled with  Richelieu,  and,  retiring  in  1631  with  his  family  to 
Florence,  died  in  exile  in  1640.  Ponthieu,  much  to  the  dis- 
gust of  its  people,  and  in  violation  of  pledges  given  them  by 
Henry  IV.,  had  been  conferred  by  Louis  XIII.  upon  one  who 
had  little  merit,  unless  it  consisted  in  his  two  plots  to  dethrone 
Henry  IV.,  for  which  he  lay  long  in  the  Bastile ;  this  was  Charles 
De  Valois,  natural  son  of  Charles  IX.,  of  St.  Bartholomew  in- 
famy. But  as  he  was  a  good  soldier  and  zealous  for  the  king, 
he  ruled  till  his  death,  in  1650.  Boulonnais  and  Guines,  held 
directly  by  the  crown,  had  long  been  ruled  by  royal  governors. 
Louis  XL,  on  recovering  the  former  from  the  House  of  Bur- 
gundy, in  1477,  had  ceded  it  to  the  Virgin  Mary,  by  an  act  of 
homage  in  the  church  at  Boulogne,  and  consented  to  hold  it 
of  her  as  a  fief;  by  which  curious  stroke  of  policy  he  thought 
to  preserve  it  to  France.  Now,  what  enemy  would  dare  touch 
it;  what  inhabitant  would  not  die  in  its  defense?  And  it  had 
succeeded  admirably! 

The  Amienois,  as  the  seat  of  the  provincial  capital,  was  the 
most  important  division  of  Picardy.  Spreading  across  the  fer- 
tile valley  of  the  Somme  in  the  form  of  a  not  very  regular  quad- 
rangle, it  was  ten  leagues  broad  and  twenty  in  length  north  and 
south,  reaching  from  the  bounds  of  Artois,  and  in  part  the  earl- 
dom of  St.  Paul,  to  the  hills  anticlinal  of  the  basins  of  the 
Somme  and  Oise,  which  separated  it  from  the  Beauvoisis.  It 
took  name  from  its  ancient  possessors,  the  Ambiani,  whose  juris- 
diction, extending  west  to  the  Channel,  included  Ponthieu,  which 
even  now  was  within  the  diocese  of  the  Bishop  of  Amiens.  Many 
thrifty  villages,  with  broad,  well-tilled  fields,  irrigated  by  brooks 
and  streams,  which  from  distant  hill  sources  gently  coursed  their 
way  to  the  Somme,  gave  it  the  aspect  of  a  rich  country.  From 
a  peculiar  feature  of  its  government  it  was  styled  the  Vidamate 
of  Amiens.  The  office  of  vidame,  once  common,  was  now  al- 
most peculiar  to  this  district  of  Picardy.  From  some  powerful 
chieftain,  called  in  ancient  times  by  the  bishop  to  aid  him  in 
protecting  his  domains  against  the  invasions  of  the  Normans 
and  the  rapacity  of  native  seigniors,  had  originated  the  office 
of  vice  dominus,  or  vidame.  And  from  the  reluctance  of  the 
proud  baron  to  yield  the  advantage  thus  gained,  and  the  inability 
of  the  bishop  to  dispense  with  his  services,  the  office  became 
fixed  and  hereditary.  It  was  now  one  of  chief  dignity  and  in- 
fluence in  the  Amienois,  the  present  vidame,  Honore  d' Albert, 


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being  a  duke  and  peer  of  France.  As  brother  to  the  prime 
minister,  Duke  De  Luynes,  he  also  had  ingratiated  himself  with 
the  king,  and  through  his  favor  obtained,  in  1619,  the  hand  of 
the  daughter  and  heiress  of  Philip-Emanuel,  Lord  De  Picquigny, 
the  last  of  the  vidames  of  the  House  d'Ailly;  and  with  her, 
beside  the  vidamate,  the  seigniory  and  castle  of  Picquigny,  on 
the  Somme,  with  an  annuity  in  rents  of  £9,000.  The  king,  at 
the  same  time,  made  him  his  lieutenant-general  in  the  Govern- 
ment of  Picardy;*  the  next  year  he  was  dubbed  a  knight  of 
the  King's  Orders,  and  raised  to  the  dignity  of  Duke  De  Chaul- 
nes  and  Peer  of  France.  The  important  post  of  Governor  of 
Picardy,  Henry  IV.  had  conferred,  with  his  name,  upon  Henry 
of  Orleans,  Duke  De  Longueville,  at  his  baptism  in  1595,  his 
uncle,  the  Count  of  St.  Paul,  acting  during  his  minority.  Longue- 
ville's  father  and  his  father  had  held  the  same  post.  But  in  1619 
the  Duke  De  Luynes  aforesaid  superceded  De  Longueville,  and 
to  him  was  also  given  the  government  of  the  city  and  citadel  of 
Amiens.  But  he  being  killed  in  1621,  while  absent,  prosecuting 
the  war  against  the  Huguenots,  the  particular  government  of 
the  city  and  citadel  was  transferred  to  his  brother,  the  vidame. 
The  Government  of  Picardy  in  the  next  few  years  passed  through 
several  hands,  including  the  Dukes  of  Elboeuf  and  Chevreuse, 
both  of  the  noted  House  of  Guise  and  knights  of  the  King's 
Orders;  but  Chevreuse  retiring  in  1633,  this  position  also  was 
conferred  on  the  Duke  De  Chaulness,  and  to  it  was  soon  after 
added  the  powers  of  Royal  Intendent,  an  office,  as  before  said, 
created  to  keep  a  watch  over  the  Huguenots,  and  which  could  not 
have  been  better  bestowed  than  on  the  duke,  bound  as  he  was  by 
every  obligation  to  the  king,  and  also  true  to  the  mandates  of  the 
church.t 

The  Bishops  of  Amiens  claimed  a  succession  from  St.  Firmin, 
— first  on  the  prelatical  roll,  and  held  to  have  suffered  martyrdom 
in  287,  with  many  of  his  flock,  by  order  of  the  Roman  magis- 
trate. The  present  bishop,  Francois  Le  Fevre, — son  of  Sieur  De 
Caumartin,  of  Ponthieu, — having  become  coadjutor  to  Bishop  La 
Marthonie  in  1617,  the  next  year  succeeded  him  in  the  See,  and 
though  some  of  the  people  violently  resisted  his  induction,  he 

*  The  Government  of  Picardy,  as  distinguished  from  the  old  province,  embraced 
only  the  Amienois,  Santcrre,  Ponthieu,  Boulonnais  and  Guines;  the  latter  also  called 
"Calais  and  Pais-reconmiis,"  because  it  had  been  recovered  from  the  English  in  1558. 

t  The  Duke  De  Chaulnes  died  October  31,  1649,  in  his  69th  jjear,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded in  his  titles  by  his  son  Henry  Louis,  born  1621;  but  he  dying  May  21,  1653, 
without  issue,  the  vidamate  passed  to  a  collateral  branch  of  the  family.  In  naming 
this  son  after  the  kinp  and  his  late  father,  the  duke  showed  his  attachment  to  his 
royal  patron;  and  at  his  baptism  by  the  bishop,  June  i^,  1625,  during  a  festive  season 
at  Amiens,  hereafter  noticed,  the  widow  of  Henry  I\  .  and  the  king,  represented  by 
the  Duke  of  Chevreuse,  stood  as  god-parents. 


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sustained  the  character  of  an  amiable  and  good  man, — meas- 
ured by  a  standard  which  then  and  there  was  not  the  highest. 
Upon  30,000  livres  of  income,  yielded  by  his  eight  hundred  par- 
ishes, he  lived  elegantly  in  his  palace  at  Amiens.  This  city, 
described  in  former  pages,  with  allusions  to  its  early  and  heroic 
historj',  was  the  capital  of  the  Amienois,  as,  indeed,  of  all  Picardy. 
It  had  a  brave  50,000  people,  more  or  less.  Abbeville,  twenty- 
five  miles  down  the  Somme,  its  nearest  rival  in  population,  then 
boasted  35,000  or  upward;  but  after  Boulogne-sur-mer  and  St. 
Quentin,  each  about  half  the  size  of  Amiens,  the  Picard  cities 
rapidly  dwindled  to  a  paltry  three  thousand,  or  less.  The  chief 
spiritual  and  ecclesiastical  authority  thus  reposing  in  the  bishop, 
and  the  secular  in  the  duke, — with  his  numerous  functions  and 
dignities. — while  the  provosts  and  other  officials  of  the  king  came 
in  for  a  share  in  the  local  jurisdiction,  it  is  obvious  the  people  of 
the  Amienois  had  quite  enough  of  rule.  Without  need  to  fur- 
ther define  their  respective  powers,  we  know  they  made  a  unit 
against  the  Huguenots  and  their  interests.* 

Picardy's  part  in  the  great  moral  struggle  of  the  sixteenth 
century  was  peculiar.  Etaples,  a  little  seaport  on  the  Canche, 
sent  its  Le  Fevre  to  herald  the  Reformation;  Noyon,  a  Calvin, 
to  vindicate  it  by  voice  and  pen,  and  give  a  system  of  faith  to 
the  Huguenot  churches ;  and  Cuthe,  in  Vermandois,  the  no  less 
excellent  Ramus,  slain  in  the  St.  Bartholomew, — worthy  repre- 
sentative of  its  noble  martyrs.  And  humble  peasants,  back  from 
their  harvest  labors  at  Meaux,  had  borne  to  Thierache  a  richer 
harvest  of  precious  truth,  and  planted  at  Landuzy-la-ville  one 
of  the  earliest  of  the  Reformed  churches.  Thus  nowhere  had 
arisen  stronger  moral  forces  in  support  of  the  religion.  On  the 
other  hand,  does  not  Guise,  in  Thierache,  recall  its  hereditary 
foes,  those  sanguinary  dukes;  and  Peronne  one  of  their  foulest 
plots,  the  **Holy  League,"  impiously  so  called, — which,  sworn  to 
extirpate  the  Huguenots,  soon  plunged  the  country  into  the 
bloodiest  of  its  civil  wars?  But,  mark  a  fact:  among  the  two 
hundred  "subjects  and  inhabitants  of  the  country  of  Picardy," — 
embracing  "princes,  lords,  gentlemen  and  others,  as  well  of  the 
state  ecclesiastic  as  of  the  noblesse  and  third  state,'' — who  sub- 
scribed this  infamous  League  and  took  the  oath  in  the  town  hall 
at  Peronne,  February  13th,  1577,  we  find  but  one  of  the  family 
names  afterwards  appearing  at  Harlem;  so  nicely  drawn  were 
the  family  lines  between  the  friends  and  foes  of  the  religion. 

•  Bishop  he  Fevre  died  of  apoplexy,   November   17,   1652,   probably  after  all  our 
refugees  haa  left  Picardy. 


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Zealously  did  the  League  pursue  its  nefarious  object  of  "crush- 
ing out  heresy" ;  till,  at  the  close  of  the  ensuing  civil  wars, — in 
which  Picardy,  while  not  often  the  scene  of  actual  hostilities,  had 
helped  to  swell  the  ranks  of  the  respective  armies  (its  regiment 
being  a  fixed  part  of  the  royal  forces), — ^the  Huguenot  churches 
within  its  bounds,  once  numerous  and  flourishing,  were  reduced 
to  a  few  scattered  and  timid  flocks. 

Dark  pictures  of  the  times  preceding  loomed  up  to  the 
Huguenot  mind  at  Amiens,  where  the  Reformed  opinions  had 
early  been  received  with  great  favor:  of  Louis  De  Berguin,  a 
Walloon  from  Artois,  who,  first  to  maintain  those  doctrines  here 
in  1527,  was  burnt  for  it  at  Paris;  of  mob  violence;  of  fines 
and  imprisonments  for  refusing  to  decorate  their  houses  at  Cor- 
pus Christ;  of  that  fell  day  in  1568,  when  one  hundred  and 
twenty  Huguenots  were  slain  in  the  streets  of  Amiens ;  and  the 
terror  caused  by  the  Paris  St.  Bartholomew,  which  was  only 
averted  here  by  strict  orders  from  the  Duke  De  Longueville, 
Governor  of  Picardy.  And  of  the  dismal  era  of  the  League, 
in  which  plot  were  implicated  some  of  the  most  powerful  lords 
of  the  Amienois;  the  vidame,  Louis  d^Ailly,  a  noble  exception, 
having,  with  his  family,  embraced  the  religion.  He  encouraged 
the  faithful,  who  for  a  time  met  at  his  house  for  worship ;  though 
his  successor,  Philip  Emanuel,  last  vidame  of  that  house,  was 
forced  in  1588,  by  the  violence  of  the  people,  to  pronounce  for 
the  League.  Only  when  Henry  IV.  turned  Catholic  did  the 
citizens  of  Amiens  acknowledge  him  as  king,  and  expel  their  late 
governor.  Count  d'Aumale,  who  was  a  Guise.  But  they  care- 
fully "stipulated  in  making  their  submission  that  the  Huguenot 
preaching  should  be  prohibited  in  their  precincts  and  suburbs." 
This  was  on  August  loth,  1594.  Not  long  after  occurred  the 
Spanish  occupation  of  the  city, — which  they  entered  by  an  ingen- 
ious sacrifice, — and  its  deliverance  by  the  armies  of  Henry  IV. 
Peace  with  Spain  soon  followed,  with  another  event  more  felici- 
tous,— the  passage  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes, — arresting  the  civil 
wars  and  restoring  order  to  the  realm.  Then  for  the  rest  of  that 
happy  reign,  Amiens,  especially,  became  the  mart  of  a  flourishing 
trade  and  commerce,  of  which  its  looms  furnished  the  staples; 
but  a  half  century  later  the  Huguenot  emigrations  had  re- 
duced these  industries  to  the  verge  of  ruin,  so  alarming  in 
1665  as  to  lead  the  general  government  to  interpose  a  remedy.* 
In  no  wise  exempt  from  the  grievances  common  to  the  Reformed, 
under  the  Edict,  those  at  Amiens  and  vicinity  also  had  their  own. 

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was  the  city's  generous  welcome  to  a  young  queen,  sister  of  the 
king,  and  child  of  Henry  the  Great, — the  beautiful  Henrietta 
Maria,  of  scarce  sixteen  years, — who  was  on  her  way  from  Paris 
to  Boulogne  to  meet  her  spouse,  already  wedded  though  but  once 
seen,  Charles  I.  of  England,  then  but  two  months  a  king.  A 
letter  from  King  Louis,  bespeaking  for  the  youthful  queen  "une 
joyctise  entree"  had  led  to  ample  preparations;  so,  on  the  set 
morning  the  city  was  all  excitement,  in  every  quarter  was  heard  the 
sound  of  trumpets  and  drums  to  muster  the  military  bands,  with 
the  noblesse,  who  were  present  from  all  the  country  round  to 
take  part  in  the  grand  reception. 

The  Duke  De  Chaulnes,  with  three  hundred  well-mounted 
cavaliers,  rode  out  two  leagues  to  meet  the  bride  and  her  retinue 
(which  last  included  the  queen-mother  and  queen-regnant,  be- 
sides dukes,  earls  and  lords,  English  and  French,  with  many 
noble  dames  and  damsels,  and  withal  a  guard  of  soldiers),  and 
escorted  them  to  the  city.  Their  approach  thereto, — entrance 
through  the  Beauvais  gate  and  march  to  the  cathedral,  where 
they  were  met  and  greeted  by  Bishop  Le  Fevre  and  the  Chapter, — 
was  one  grand  ovation;  many  complimentary  addresses  and  the 
thunder  of  musket  and  arquebus  bade  the  young  queen  wel- 
come. Just  outside  the  city  gate  was  a  magnificent  trium- 
phal arch,  with  a  beautiful  tableau  and  other  devices,  all  in- 
tended to  please  the  queen  and  courtly  party.  Six  other  principal 
pieces,  replete  with  designs  drawn  from  classic  and  French  his- 
tory, surprised  them  along  the  way  to  the  cathedral.  One  repre- 
sented Jason  and  the  Golden  Fleece,  a  motto  affixed  declaring 
"Maria  is  the  Fleece  and  Charles  the  Jason."  In  another,  three 
belles  personified  the  goddesses  Juno,  Minerva  and  Venus,  con- 
tending before  Paris  as  judge  for  the  prize  of  beauty,  the  golden 
apple.  But  Paris,  disallowing  all  their  claims,  turned  and  pre- 
sented the  apple  to  Queen  Henrietta  as  "the  real  beauty."  At 
the  cathedral  Te  Deum  was  chanted,  the  grand  organ  pealing 
forth  eloquent  music,  followed  by  prayers.  Then  her  majesty 
was  escorted  to  apartments  in  the  episcopal  palace,  where  were 
presentations  and  addresses  to  the  queen,  with  gifts  of  some 
dozen  of  superb  hypocras,  besides  a  large  variety  of  living  birds 
and  game  of  choice  kinds,  all  in  handsome  cages.  The  queen- 
regnant  and  others  of  the  royal  party  were  sumptuously  enter- 
tained at  the  citadel  by  the  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Chaulnes  for 
the  nine  days  they  were  at  Amiens ;  and  then  they  departed,  with 
many  rich  presents  and  kind  wishes. 

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cant,  if  less  imposing.  The  occasions  of  the  two  were  probably 
among  the  recollections  of  some  who  later  lived  at  Harlem,  but 
the  following  was  perhaps  more  firmly  remembered,  and  with 
more  heartfelt  endurance.  Betimes  on  Sunday  morning,  from 
that  same  Beauvais  gate,  called  also  the  Gate  of  Paradise,  (from 
a  legend  that  here  our  Saviour,  in  the  garb  of  a  beggar,  once 
appeared  to  St.  Martin),  a  human  stream  began  to  issue,  repre- 
senting both  sexes  and  all  ages,  sires  and  matrons,  blooming 
youths  and  happy-faced  children,  all  in  best  attire,  which  pro- 
ceeded along  that  well-trodden  way,  to  the  pleasant  village  of 
Salouel,  on  the  Celle,  two  or  three  miles  to  the  southward  of 
Amiens.  With  decorum  suited  to  holy  time,  but  enlivening  the 
journey  by  cheerful  and  pious  conversation,  the  looker-on  needed 
not  to  be  told  the  all  important  errand  upon  which  these  devout 
people  were  going. 

The  Huguenot  worship  had  been  long  banished  beyond  the 
gates  of  the  city.  Prohibited  in  express  terms,  as  already  seen, 
by  the  decree  which  restored  Amiens  with  Peronne  and  Abbe- 
ville to  obedience  to  Henry  IV.,  this  was  also  confirmed  by  the 
Edict  of  Nantes. 

Taught  also  by  experience  that  they  could  not  meet  for 
worship  within  the  city  walls,  except  at  the  risk  of  being  molested, 
perhaps  broken  up  by  a  mob,  it  in  some  measure  reconciled 
the  Reformed  to  what  was  felt  to  be  a  harsh  and  burdensome 
requirement.  The  privilege  of  meeting  at  Salouel  had  not  been 
gotten  without  effort.  By  the  edict  two  towns  only  in  the  en- 
tire government  of  Picardy  were  allotted  the  Huguenots,  at 
which  to  build  churches.  These  were  Desvres,  in  the  Boulon- 
nais,  and  Hautcourt,  near  St.  Quentin.  Of  what  advantage  was 
this  to  those  of  Amiens  ?  At  first  these  were  wont  to  hold  their 
worship  within  the  castle  of  the  Seigneur  d'Heucourt,  at  Haver- 
nas,  five  miles  northerly  from  Amiens;  but  the  distance  was 
so  far,  and,  in  inclement  seasons,  very  trying  and  often  fatal, — es- 
pecially to  infants  taken  thither  for  baptism,  as  well  as  to  the 
infirm  and  the  aged, — that  M.  De  Heucourt  in  the  year  1600  noti- 
fied the  lieutenant-general  at  Amiens  of  his  intention  to  have 
public  worship  for  himself,  his  family,  and  the  inhabitants  of  the 
city,  within  his  fief  of  Hem,  a  village  or  suburb  of  Amiens,  and 
where  thirty-six  years  previous  the  Protestants  had  built  a  tem- 
ple. This  privilege,  to  which  he  claimed  a  right  under  the  edict, 
being  denied  him,  an  appeal  was  made  to  the  king,  who  gave 
his  sanction ;  but  the  opposition  of  the  clergy  and  the  civil  author- 
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favor  of  the  Lord  of  Guignemicourt,  his  chateau  was  also 
opened  to  the  Reformed,  being  to  the  southwest  of  Amiens,  and 
only  half  as  far  as  Havemas.  It  was  an  important  gain  for 
those  of  Amiens ;  and  this  became  for  some  years  their  principal 
resort.  As  the  Count  of  St.  Paul  ppsitively  refused  his  consent 
to  their  meeting  in  Hem,  they  obtained  permission  in  1611  to 
remove  their  worship  to  Salouel,  and  there  to  build  a  temple. 
This,  as  already  stated,  was  a  small  village  on  the  Celle.  It  was 
within  a  fief  appertaining  to  the  widow  of  M.  De  Heucourt^ 
before  named ;  and  there  was  nothing  remarkable  about  it  but  a 
subterranean  cavern,  used  as  a  refuge,  it  was  said,  as  early  as  the 
ninth  century.  Strangely  enough,  the  bishop  and  clergy  assented 
to  this  measure,  and  on  February  24th,  1612,  half  an  acre  of  land 
was  ceded  to  the  Huguenots,  upon  which  they  erected  their  tem- 
ple. Here  they  long  met  for  worship,  under  the  pastorates  of 
Le  Hucher,  La  Cloche,  Lauberan  and  Pinette;  and  to  this  day 
the  by-road  leading  to  it  is  known  as  the  "Chemin  du  preche.'^ 
These  pastors  also  labored  at  Havernas.  There  was  another 
large  and  flourishing  church  gathered  at  Oisemont,  a  market 
town  twelve  miles  south  of  Abbeville,  where  the  Huguenots  were 
strong.  It  was  some  eighteen  miles  west  of  Amiens,  to  which 
its  royal  provost  was  subordinate.  In  the  time  of  our  refugees 
this  church  enjoyed  the  labors  of  Rev.  Jacques  De  Vaux,  a 
native  of  Compiegne.  One  of  its  elders,  living  at  Oisemont  at 
the  date  of  the  passage  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  was  David  Des 
Marets,  Sieur  du  Ferets.  In  1625  he  represented  the  church  in 
the  Provincial  Synod,  held  at  Charenton,  near  Paris.  Beyond 
question  our  David  Des  Marest,  who  came  from  Picardy,  was 
of  this  family,  but  how  related  we  cannot  say. 

Would  we  truly  estimate  the  character  of  such  men  as 
Demarest,  and  Disosway,  and  Casier,  and  Cresson,  and  their  real 
value  to  the  community  at  Harlem,  we  should  follow  up  the 
pageant  last  introduced,  and  admit  the  moral  sublimity  of  that 
primitive  worship,  with  its  power  to  mould  the  life, — the  fervid 
invocation,  the  holy  song,  set  to  the  metrical  psalms  of  Clement 
Marot;  the  simple  Gospel,  clothed  in  the  warm,  persuasive  elo- 
quence of  the  times,  which  raised  the  soul  heavenward.  We 
would  also  note  the  activity  and  zeal  which  pervaded  the  Hugue- 
not churches,  and  the  watchfulness  over  the  walk  of  the  mem- 
bers, which  so  contributed  to  soundness  of  faith  and  purity  of 
fife. 

We  might  show,  were  it  needful,  how  this  active  moral  ele- 
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was  scorned  and  derided;  how  the  trammels  upon  thought  and 
speech  had  to  a  great  degree  been  thrown  off,  in  regard  especi- 
ally to  politics  and  religion, — subjects  once  tenderly  touched 
upon,  but  now  handled  with  an  astonishing  boldness.  What 
latitude  was  taken  in  the  doctrinal  disputes  between  the  Hugue- 
not pastors  and  Catholic  prelates,  so  rife  at  this  period!  How 
the  popular  mind  was  awakening  to  the  necessity  of  religious 
reform,  and  even  showing  itself  among  the  old  clergy,  as  in  the 
earlier  days  of  the  Reformation!  But  alas!  it  now  went  little 
beyond  efforts  to  render  external  rites  more  impressive,  or  to 
make  the  rules  of  monastic  life  more  austere.  A  step  in  the  right 
direction  was  taken  at  Amiens  by  Jean  De  Labadie,  later  an 
avowed  Protestant  and  founder  of  the  Labadists,  of  Wieward,  in 
Friesland,  some  of  whom  visited  Harlem  five  years  after  his 
death,  which  took  place  in  1674.  In  1640,  Labadie,  by  invitation, 
preached  at  Paris.  Among  the  crowds  drawn  to  hear  him  was 
Bishop  Le  Fevre,  who,  charmed  with  his  zeal  and  eloquence,  made 
him  a  canon  in  the  cathedral.  Here  Labadie,  imbued  with  the 
evangelical  spirit,  urged  upon  his  parishioners  to  read  the  Scrip- 
tures, and  caused  many  copies  of  the  New  Testament  in  French 
to  be  distributed ;  while  his  sermons  upon  repentance,  grace,  and 
predestination  awakened  profound  interest.  But  his  views  were 
severely  censured  by  the  clergy  and  by  the  Sorbonne;  so,  after 
a  few  years'  service  at  Amiens,  in  which  also  he  had  not  been 
sparing  of  the  Jesuits,  the  clamors  against  him  forced  him  to 
leave.  The  excitement  stirred  up  by  Labadie  in  the  end  reacted 
upon  the  Reformed,  to  whose  "pernicious  teachings"  his  ^'heresy" 
was  imputed. 

Picard  society  was  always  exceedingly  impressionable  and 
excitable.  But  at  Amiens  its  good  and  bad  elements  assumed  the 
most  positive  forms.  It  was  a  centre  of  political  factions  and 
sinister  plots;  and  it  was  this  spirit,  long  fostered  among  the 
nobility,  that  arrayed  itself  against  the  ministry  of  Concini;  only 
just  failed,  in  1636,  to  assassinate  Richelieu  during  the  siege  of 
Corbie;  and,  in  1649,  plunged  his  successor,  Mazarin,  in  the  war 
of  the  Fronde:  a  war,  by  the  way,  in  which  the  Huguenots,  by 
keeping  neutral,  won  praise  from  this  minister. 

But  with  a  people,  or  society,  so  irascible,  it  made  an  element 
in  the  dangers  which  beset  the  Reformed;  dangers  which  were 
now  daily  thickening  by  reason  of  the  cruel  proscription  de- 
signed to  crush  them.  And  religious  antagonisms  needed  but 
slight  incentive  to  leap  forth  into  activity.  If  the  Huguenots, 
when  assailed  by  brute  force  dared  stand  and  defend  themselves. 


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it  often  led  to  a  bloody  collision  such  as  that  which  obliged  one 
of  our  refugees  to  escape  for  his  life.  Daniel  Tourneur,  with 
other  Reformed  (according  to  Toumeur's  version  of  it, — which 
we  see  no  reason  to  question),  had  been  attending  a  burial  at 
Amiens,  when  some  of  the  Catholics  made  a  wanton  attack  upon 
them.  The  pretext  we  know  not;  but  Huguenots  were  de- 
barred from. using  the  common  cemeteries.  However,  Tourneur, 
young  and  spirited, — in  his  veins  the  blood  of  the  old  Picard  lords 
De  Tourneur,  one  of  whom  had  fought  under  William  the  Con- 
queror at  Hastings, — drew  his  sword,  as  did  others, in  self-defense, 
when  some  of  the  assailants  were  slain.      Tourneur  being  charged 


Cathedral  and  Cemetery  of  St.  Denis,  at  Amiens. 

with  the  death  of  one  Tilie  Maire,  he  found  it  best  to  take  a 
sudden  leave.  Marc  Disosway,  who  seems  to  have  known  of 
this  affair  at  its  occurrence,  made  quite  a  stir  about  it  at  Harlem 
in  after  years,  when  he  and  Tourneur  happened  to  be  at  variance. 
The  breaking  out  of  war  between  France  and  Spain  in  1635 
caused  a  considerable  influx  of  Protestant  refugees  into  Eng- 
land, from  Picardy,  Artois,  Hainault  and  Flanders.  Involving 
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warfare,  and  lasting  nearly  the  fourth  of  a  century,  it  resulted 
in  the  conquest  of  Artois,  and  parts  of  Flanders  and  Hainault, 
and  their  annexation  to  France.  Begun  by  Louis  XIIL,  jointiy 
with  the  Dutch  (these  agreeing  to  divide  the  Spanish  Nether- 
lands between  them),  this  war  opened  adversely  to  the  French, 
for  the  enemy  at  once  invaded  Picardy,  overran  Thierache,  and 
captured  Corbie,  on  the  Somme,  only  nine  miles  above  Amiens. 
In  terror  the  inhabitants  of  the  villages  fled  with  their  goods 
into  the  cities,  while  the  Spaniards,  marking  their  course  by 
burnings  and  massacres,  stopped  only  at  the  Oise,  which  they 
could  not  pass,  as  the  bridges  had  been  broken  down.  But  the 
energy  of  Richelieu  soon  turned  the  tables;  for,  retaking 
Corbie,  he  drove  the  enemy  back  across  the  border,  and  began 
those  aggressive  movements  which,  followed  up  by  Louis  XIV., — 
after  the  disasters  of  the  Fronde  were  repaired, — added,  as  before 
said,  a  large  domain  to  France,  secured  to  her  in  1659  by  the 
treaty  of  the  Pyrenees,  and  which  she  has  ever  since  held. 

Although  hostilities  were  so  soon  transferred  to  the  enemy's 
soil,  Picardy  was  now  called  upon  to  maintain  garrisons  for  the 
defense  of  her  extended  frontier,  and  to  marshal  her  forces  for 
the  seat  of  war,  whence  came  almost  daily  some  new  and  alarm- 
ing rumor;  a  state  of  things  especially  disheartening  to  the 
Huguenots,  whose  trials  before  were  great  enough.  With  no 
incentive  to  enter  the  army  in  a  war  waged  only  for  conquest, — 
and  to  add  strength  to  the  despotic  arm  which  was  crushing 
them, — it  naturally  proved  a  turning  point  with  those  who  now 
left  the  country.  Their  nearness  to  the  Low  Country  border 
offered  the  Huguenots  of  Picardy  every  facility  for  escape,  as 
did  also  their  several  seaports  and  the  long  range  of  coast,  fre- 
quented only  by  fishermen,  whose  boats  often  aided  fugitives  to 
get  away  when  obliged  to  shun  the  publicity  of  the  town.  Num- 
bers, for  sufficient  reasons,  took  the  weary  and  hazardous  journey 
through  Belgium  to  Holland ;  many  going  by  way  of  the  Ver- 
mandois  forests,  and  resting  at  Bohain,  a  little  city  of  wool- 
workers  twelve  miles  northeast  of  St.  Quentin,  where  were  many 
Huguenots ;  so  fleeing  across  the  Cambresis,  or  Hainault.*  Our 
Demarest  and  Cresson,  Disosway,  Tourneur,  Le  Roy,  and  others 
from  the  Amienois  and  Ponthieu,  had  the  choice  of  those  routes, 
but  which  they  took  is  left  to  conjecture.  Calais,  then  the 
extreme  northern  outlet  of  the  kingdom,  at  an  inviting  prox- 

•  Jean  Cottin,  of  New  York,  meichant,  who  died  quite  aged,  in  1721,  was  a  fugi- 
tive from  Bohain,  where  he  left  a  brother  Daniel  and  sister  Susannah,  married  to 
Louis  Libot.  He  intrusted  by  his  will  £36  to  Peter  Van  Oblinus  and  Samuel  Waldron, 
of  the  town  of  Harlem;  "the  income  thereof  to  be  yearly  employed  for  and  towards 
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imity  to  the  shores  of  England,  and  its  people  partly  of  that 
nation, — which  had  ruled  it  for  over  two  centuries,  till  it  was  re- 
covered in  1558  by  the  French  under  the  Duke  of  Guise, — was 
also  strongly  Protestant,  and  therefore  a  great  resort  for  escaping 
refugees.  Our  Philip  Casier  was  from  this  place,  as  was  also 
his  son-in-law,  David  Uzille. 

While  many  left  Picardy,  the  French  advance  and  successes 
in  Hainault  and  Artois  were  causing  a  larger  migration  of  the 
Protestant  Walloons;  and  among  these  also  a  number  whose 
destiny  led  them  to  Harlem.  We  can  make  but  brief  allusion  to 
such  events,  military  or  otherwise,  in  their  respective  localities, 
as  seemingly  influenced  their  removal. 

Landrecy,  on  the  Sambre,  was  the  first  place  invested  and 
taken  by  the  French  on  beginning  the  invasion  of  the  enemy's 
territory,  in  1637,  and  which  they  held,  with  adjacent  places,  for 
ten  years.  It  was  during  this  domination,  so  odious  to  the 
Walloons,  that  Simon  de  Ruine,  living  near  Landrecy,  removed 
with  his  family  to  Holland,  from  which  place,  fifteen  years  later 
he  found  his  way  to  America.  Through  daughters  married  to 
Demarests,  he  has  many  living  descendants.  Jean  Gervoe,  another 
of  the  Harlem  settlers,  was  from  Beaumont,  to  the  east  of  Aves- 
nes,  then  a  county  seat  of  the  Duke  of  Arschot,  but  an  old  appan- 
age of  the  princes  of  Hainault.  From  Mons,  the  rich  capital  of 
this  province,  seated  to  the  north  of  Avesnes,  and  within  the  coal 
region  called  the  Borinage,  came  David  du  Four,  of  the  same 
name, — and  not  improbably  the  same  blood,  as  the  martyr  of  Le 
Cateau,  but  whose  posterity,  which  became  numerous  in  his 
coimtry,  changed  the  form  of  their  name  to  Devoor  and  Devoe. 

Passing  to  the  west  of  the  Scheldt  we  find  the  homes  of  other 
of  our  refugees  along  the  banks  of  the  river  Lys.  The  noble 
Scheldt,  the  boast  and  pride  of  Belgium, — rising  in  the  edge  of 
Picardy,  behind  the  abbey  of  Mont  St.  Martin,  and  flowing  to 
the  north,  or  rather  to  the  northeast,  but  upon  several  zigzag 
reaches  or  courses, — waters  the  western  parts  of  the  Cambresis 
and  Hainault,  and  then,  eastern  Flanders,  forming  for  some  dis- 
tance the  barrier  between  the  latter  and  Brabant.  It  has  passed 
m  the  meantime  Cambray,  at  the  head  of  navigation;  Valen- 
ciennes, Conde,  Tournay, — all  Walloon  cities, — Ghent  and  Ant- 
werp. At  the  latter,  a  hundred  and  twenty-five  miles  from  its 
tead, — swollen  by  many  tributaries,  chief  of  which  is  the  Lys, — 
the  now  puissant  Scheldt  turns  northwest  for  fourteen  miles, 
when  it  divides  into  two  mighty  arms,  each  of  which  rolls  on 
still  forty  miles  to  the  German  Sea.      These  two  broad  estuaries. 


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taking  the  names  of  the  East  and  West  Scheldt, — ^the  latter  also 
termed  the  Hond, — form,  in  conjunction  with  the  left  arm  of 
the  Meuse,  here  called  the  Maas,  the  fertile  Dutch  islands  of 
Schouwen  and  Walcheren,  in  Zeeland,  both  of  interest  to  us  as 
the  home  or  place  of  sojourn  of  some  of  the  Harlem  colonists. 

Running  parallel  with  the  coast,  and  uniformly  thirty  miles  or 
so  therefrom,  in  a  course  very  direct,  the  Lys  parted  Flemish 
from  French,  or  Walloon,  Flanders.  It  was  navigated  by  light 
vessels  all  the  way  from  Aire,  in  Artois,  to  Ghent.  About  cen- 
trally of  the  fertile  plains  between  it  and  the  Scheldt  lay  the 
city  of  Lille,  with  its  teeming  and  busy  population,  the  capital 
of  French  Flanders,  and  the  great  city  and  centre  of  the  Wal- 
loons. Owing  its  origin  to  Lideric  du  Buc,  the  first  Grand 
Forester  or  Count  of  Flanders,  who,  in  640,  here  built  a  castle, 
(only  the  shapeless  ruins  of  which  remained),  but  growing  into 
significance  as  a  town  in  the  eleventh  century, — when  enlarged 
and  walled  by  other  of  these  counts, — Lille  had  become  to  the 
Walloons  what  Ypres,  its  great  rival,  which  lay  but  fifteen  miles 
northwest,  was  to  the  Flemings, — the  chief  emporium  of  their 
cloth  manufacture.  Round  about  it,  and  all  in  Walloon  Flan- 
ders, were  the  large  and  handsome  cities  of  Douay  and  Tournay, 
the  small  cities  of  Orchies,  Armentieres,  La  Basse,  St.  Amand, 
etc.,  besides  193  boroughs  and  villages.  Old  towns,  and  famed 
for  their  industries,  they  formed  the  heart  of  the  great  woolen 
and  linen  country  of  preceding  centuries;  enjoying  a  prosperity 
almost  fabulous,  till  Spanish  tyranny  and  French  conquest 
brought  blight  and  ruin.  The  cruel  expatriations  thus  caused 
gave  to  Harlem  at  least  four  families,  who  came  from  neighbor- 
ing places  on  and  near  the  Lys.*  Richebourg,  a  small  city  scarce 
noticed  by  gazetteers  or  maps,  but  seated  fourteen  miles  west  of 
Lille,  on  a  small  branch  of  the  Lys  and  in  the  district  of 
Bethune,  within  Artois,  was  the  birthplace  of  our  Glaude  le 
Maistre,  or  Delamater.  Delamater's  family  was  from  France, 
his  immediate  ancestor  probably  from  Picardy,  whence  many 
families  seem  to  have  worked  up  into  Artois ;  and  it  is  pretty  cer- 
tain that  Glaude,  on  leaving  Richebourg,  took  the  previously  re- 
ferred to  course  of  the  Walloon  migration  to  England.  We  doubt 
if  many  of  these  Walloons  from  Artois  went  to  Holland  at  that 

•  It  is  said  ("Du  Bois  Reunion,"  pp.  32,  33)  that  the  Peace  of  Westphalia,  1648, 
by  maintaining  the  Catholic  religion  in  the  Austrian  dominions,  caused  the  emigration 
from  Artois.  But  this  emigration  began  years  before,  and  at  the  date  of  that  treaty, 
which  did  not  restore  peace  between  France  and  Spain,  the  former  was  in  military 
possession  of  Artois.  Nor  could  this  province  be  affected  by  the  pacification  of  1648, 
in  which  the  Spanish  Netherlands  were  not  included.  It  is  plain  that  the  emigrations 
referred  to  were  not  due  to  that  treaty,  but  to  the  French  invasion.  (Sec  "Bum's 
Refugees,"  I«ondon,  1846,  p.  42.) 


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time, — for  which  there  was  poor  inducement  for  these  Spanish 
subjects, — seeing  the  Dutch  were  then  in  league  with  their  enemy 
the  French,  while  the  EngHsh  held  a  neutrality,  but  leaned 
strongly  to  the  Spanish  side.  In  fact,  by  the  threats  of  Eng- 
land, the  Flemish  ports  were  left  unmolested  till  1644,  and  from 
these  that  country  was  much  nearer  and  more  accessible  than 
was  Holland.  Naturally  enough,  some  of  these  fugitive  Walloons 
retired  at  first  into  Flanders,  hesitating,  perhaps,  to  quit  the 
country,  as  the  state  of  the  Protestants  was  somewhat  improved 
under  the  more  humane  rule  of  Philip  IV.  The  family  of 
Oblinus,  one  well  known  in  the  early  history  of  Harlem,  fled 
from  Houplines,  two  leagues  northwest  of  Lille ;  and  that  of  De 
Pre,  from  Comines,  a  few  miles  below  Houplines.  Kortryk 
was  a  Flemish  town  yet  further  down  the  Lys,  which  within  the 
previous  century  had  witnessed  cruel  persecutions,  and  during  the 
existing  war,  with  its  calamities,  had  changed  hands  four 
times  in  five  years.  But  one  of  its  families  had  escaped  these 
last  troubles  by  leaving  some  years  before :  we  refer  to  the  an- 
cestors of  the  Kortright,  or  Courtright,  family,  in  its  day  one 
of  the  most  wealthy  in  landed  possessions  in  Harlem.* 

On  the  Flemish  seaboard  between  Calais  and  the  Hond,  lay, 
distant  a  few  miles  apart,  the  several  old  strongly  intrenched 
towns  of  Gravelines,  Dunkirk,  Fumes,  Nieuport,  Ostend  and 
Sluis,  the  latter  seated  ten  miles  south  of  the  Hond,  within  a 

•  FamiW  names  were  the  exception  and  not  the  rule  among  our  early  Dutch 
colonists.  The  mass  of  people  in  Fatherland  used  onlv  a  patronymic,  formed  by  adding 
to  the  child's  Christian  name  that  of  the  father,  with  the  affix  sen,  or  son;  by  which 
originated  all  names  so  terminating,  as  for  example,  Jan  Jacobscn  (meaning  Jan,  son 
of  Jacob),  or  Pieter  Jansen  (Pietcr,  son  of  Jan),  and  the  like.  In  correct  usage  in 
•riting,  the  affix  was  often  shortened  to  sc  or  z,  and  always  in  the  case  of  females  to  s. 
Tins  custom  necessarily  produced  among  the  male  descendants  of  the  same  progenitor 
4j^eat  diversity  of  surnames,  if  we  may,  for  convenience,  so  call  them.  Thus,  Pieter, 
^jllem  and  Hendrick  being  sons  of  Jan  Jacobscn,  would  be  known  as  Pieter  Jansen, 
^[jllcm  Jansen,  etc.,  while  their  children  would  be  named  respectively,  Pietersen, 
Willemsen  and  Ilendricksen,  and  these  names,  in  turn,  each  afford  other  varieties  in 
the  next  generation.  On  the  other  hand,  this  use  of  the  patronymic  caused  a  frequent 
'ccurrcnce  of  the  same  name  where  no  family  connection  whatever  existed.  The  incon- 
venience thus  arising,  and  particularly  the  liability  of  confounding  persons  of  similar 
name,  was  partially  obviated  by  the  practice  in  vogue  in  Fatherlana,  and  kept  up  by 
oar  colonists,  both  in  familiar  speech  and  in  formal  writings,  of  distingiiishing  persons 
by  their  birthplace  (not,  as  is  now  the  usage,  by  the  residence,  except  the  one  and  the 
other  were  the  same) ;  as,  for  example,  Jan  Jacobscn  Van  Amsterdam,  that  is,  J.  J. 
from  Amsterdam.  This  valued  link  connecting  the  colonists  with  his  former  home, 
it  was  in  many  cases  directly  to  his  interest  to  preserve.  In  Holland,  as  with  us,  the 
name  of  the  place  thus  used  often  became  the  permanent  family  name,  of  which 
instances  atiound.  But  it  sometimes  resulted  that  two  or  more  brothers,  born  in  differ- 
rat  places,  and  from  these  deriving  their  respective  surnames,  gave  rise  to  as  many 
famiiics,  whose  common  origin,  after  a  few  generations,  none  would  ever  suspect.  In 
tnany  cases  the  Van  has  been  dropped;  and  often  the  name  so  changed  as  to  disguise 
its  origin,  as  those  of  Oblinus  and  Kortright.  The  first  of  these  derived  from 
Houplines;  after  emigration,  probably  in  conformity  to  English  utterance,  became 
Oblinus,  and  by  the  usage  before  mentioned,  was  then,  if  not  before,  written  Van 
OWinus.     The  Kortrights  at  first  also  used  the  Van. 

The  subject  of  our  Dutch  family  names  is  a  curious  one.  as  will  be  abundantly 
▼erified  in  the  coming  pages;  and  should  be  first  well  studied  by  those  who  undertake 
to  compile  Dutch  geneadogy.  See  other  remarks  and  a  list  of  Dutch  baptismal  names, 
»ith  their  English  equivalent,  in  "Annals  of  Newtown,"  page  265. 


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harbor  on  the  German  Sea,  called  the  Paerdt-markt  (Horse- 
market),  from  the  noise  of  the  elements  during  a  storm  sound- 
ing very  like  the  neighing  of  horses.  Ducing  this  century  it  cost 
the  kings  of  Spain  dearly  to  hold  these  seaports.  Ostend,  in 
particular,  was  taken  by  the  Spaniards  from  the  Hollanders, 
September  14th,  1604,  after  a  terrible  siege  of  over  three  years, 
in  which  there  perished  80,000  of  the  former  and  50,000  of  the 
latter.  A  few  days  previous  (August  19th)  Sluis  surrendered 
to  Prince  Maurice,  after  an  investment  of  four  months,  the 
Spaniards  having  made  vain  efforts  to  relieve  it.  Peace  reigned 
from  1069  to  1621 ;  when  Spain  and  Holland  resumed  hostilities. 
In  1635,  as  we  have  seen,  France  took  part  with  Holland;  but 
England  interposed  to  keep  these  ports, — of  so  much  benefit  to 
her  trade, — open  for  some  years.  However,  the  French,  aided  bv 
the  Holland  fleet  under  Admiral  Tromp,  took  Gravelines  in 
1644,  and  Dunkirk  and  Furnes  in  1646.  Mardyk  was  a  rural 
hamlet  midway  between  the  first  two  places,  three  miles  from 
either,  where  once  stood  a  city  claiming  to  be  the  famous 
Partus  Issius,  but,  sacked  and  burned  by  the  Normans,  and,  in 
1383,  by  the  English,  now  consisted  only  of  a  church  and  a  few 
cottages,  which  could  hardly  excite  envy,  looking  out  so  unpre- 
tendingly upon  the  sand  dunes  and  the  sea.  But,  in  common 
with  all  that  border  region,  it  was  to  suffer  much  from  the  con- 
tending forces.  Fort  Mardyk,  in  the  vicinity,  was  seized  by  the 
French  on  their  taking  Dunkirk.  After  six  years  they  were 
driven  out  of  the  fort  and  both  towns  by  the  Archduke  Leo- 
pold, Governor  of  the  Low  Countries;  but  the  French  again 
became  masters  of  all  in  1658,  conferring  Mardyk,  with  Dunkirk, 
upon  the  English,  now  their  allies,  who,  in  1662,  restored  both  to 
the  French,  whence  Mardyk  fell  under  the  iron  rule  of  Louis 
XIV.  Meynard  Journee,  a  young  man  born  here,  withdrew 
during  these  troublesome  times,  and  after  wandering  up  and  down 
the  Rhine,  appears  at  Harlem,  and  finally  on  Staten  Island,  found- 
ing there  the  reputable  family  of  Joumeay. 

Bruges  was  the  last  Flemish  town  as  one  approached  the 
Dutch  border,  distant  eight  miles  from  the  coast  and  ten  south 
of  Sluis.  Very  ancient,  too,  it  was  the  veritable  godfather  of 
Flanders,  to  which  it  had  given  a  name,  originally  Vlonderen,  a 
Flemish  term  equivalent  to  Bruges  (or  Brugge,  that  is  Bridges, 
as  its  Dutch  people  called  it),  and  which  it  early  took,  from  the 
many  bridges  in  the  town  and  environs.  Once  among  the  most 
commercial  and  opulent  of  the  Netherland  cities,  it  dared  defy 
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and  its  troubles  under  Alva,  with  the  rivalry  of  its  neighbors, 
Ghent  and  Antwerp,  had  ruined  its  industries.  It  was  six  years 
imder  Protestant  rule,  but  on  May  22d,  1584,  submitted  to  the 
King  of  Spain.  By  degrees  its  Protestant  population  forsook 
it;  and  so  did  the  good  Jan  Tibout,  the  Tiebout  ancestor,  for 
a  dozen  years  town  clerk  and  voorleser  at  Harlem,  and  also  Joost 
Jansen  Kocku\i:,  who  belongs  to  its  history. 

Sluis  was  made  very  secure  by  the  Dutch,  after  being 
wrested  from  the  Spaniards  in  1604,  the  latter  trying  in  vain 
to  retake  it  in  1621,  on  the  renewal  of  the  war  at  the  end  of 
twelve  years'  truce.  Its  gardens  and  bleaching  grounds  told 
the  useful  occupations  of  its  people;  but  its  air  was  so  malari- 
ous, as  in  all  that  flat  country,  that  strangers  could  not  well 
abide  there,  even  its  garrison  having  to  be  changed  every  year. 
But  it  was  the  nearest  Dutch  town  within  reach  of  refugees 
from  France  and  Flanders,  and  its  strong  walls  offered  them 
safety,  so  that  many  such, — and  among  them  our  Casier  and 
Cresson, — found  a  temporary  home  here.  Sluis  castle  had  a 
reminiscence  aflfecting  to  the  refugees,  for  here  the  Admiral 
Coligny,  taken  by  the  Spaniards  at  the  battle  of  St.  Quentin, 
in  1557,  was  confined,  and  alone  with  his  Bible  in  his  cell,  be- 
came a  Protestant,  going  hence,  indeed,  to  meet  a  cruel  death 
in  the  St.  Bartholomew,  but  not  till  he  had  nobly  served  the 
Huguenot  cause,  both  in  council  and  in  the  field.  One  who 
could  wield  with  equal  skill  the  sword  of  the  Spirit  came  from 
Sluis  at  a  later  day :  we  refer  to  Guiliaem  Bertholf ,  parish  clerk 
at  Harlem,  before  he  entered  the  ministry  to  become  the  "Itiner- 
ating apostle  of  New  Jersey.'** 

*  Guiliaem  Bertholf  and  his  wife,  Martina  Hendricks  Verwey,  with  letters  from 
Sims,  joined  the  church  at  Bergen,  N.  J.,  October  6,  1684.  He  lived  at  Ackquackneck. 
In  1690  he  removed  to  Harlem,  continued  there  about  a  year  and  a  half,  and  soon  went 
to  Holland  for  ministerial  ordination.  On  his  return  he  became  pastor  at  Hackensack, 
in  which  service  he  ended  his  days,  in  1724.  Indefatigable  in  his  work,  he  labored 
extensively  among  the  surrounding  churches,  several  of  which  he  was  instrumental 
in  forming.  Mr.  Bertholf  had  three  children  when  he  came  to  this  country,  viz.: 
Sarah.  Maria  and  Elizabeth,  all  bom  at  Sluis;  and  afterward  Hendrick,  Corynus 
Jacobus,  Martha  and  Anna.  All  were  church  members  at  Hackensack.  Sarah  married, 
1698,  David  D.  Dcmarest;  Maria  married,  169^,  John  Bogart;  Elizabeth  married,  1699, 
John  Terhune,  in  17 18,  Roelof  Bogart;  Hendrick  married,  1707,  Mary  Terhune;  Cory- 
nus married,  1718,  Anna  Reyersen;  Martha  married,  1713,  Albert  Bogart;  Jacobus 
married  Elizabeth  Van  Imburi^h;  and  Anna  married,  1718,  Abraham  Varick,  and  in 
J 734.  Peter  Post.  Some  of  this  name  we  have  known  but  to  respect;  an  honor  to  an 
excellent  ancestor. 


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CHAPTER    IV. 


HOLLAND  :     THE  DE  FORESTS  AND  LA   MONTAGNE. 


'T'  H  E  final  adieu  to 
"^  Europe  marked  a 
crisis  of  no  trifling  im- 
port, a  grand  turning- 
point  in  the  life  and  the 
destiny  of  our  colonists. 
Cherished  hopes  of  a 
return  were  seldom  re- 
alized. That  they  were 
led  to  this  decisive  step 
by  a  wonderful  series 
of  providences,  we  have 
sought  to  show.  So  far 
as  signal  and  of  general 
bearing,  these  are  mat- 
ters of  common  history ; 
if  less  fortunate  in  our 
search  for  special  causes, 
limited  to  precise  times, 
^places  and  individuals, 
we  must  plead  the  diffi- 
culties attending  such 
minute  inquiry.  But  while  the  craving  for  such  details  of  per- 
sonal experience  can  be  but  partially  satisfied,  our  gleanings  of 
this  description,  reserved  for  the  present  chapter  and  the  next 
following,  will  include  some  touching  passages  of  refugee  life 
in  Holland  and  elsewhere. 

Holland,  in  natural  features  simply,  had  little  that  was 
winning:  a  boundless  stretch  of  low  pastures,  which,  walled  in  by 
lines  of  dykes,  both  from  the  sea  and  the  internal  network  of 
sluggish  rivers  and  artificial  watercourses,  formed  the  tame  sur- 
rounding of  the  Zuyder  Zee.  The  latter,  the  delight  of  the 
Hollander,  of  whose  imperturbable  nature  its  broad,  glassy  bosom 
in  its  unruffled  repose  presented  a  fit  emblem,  was  changed  from 


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a  lake  to  an  inland  sea  by  an  inundation  in  1282,  which,  break- 
ing through  the  narrow  barrier  on  the  north,  united  it  with  the 
German  Ocean,  but  leaving,  to  guard  its  entrance,  small  patches 
of  land,  forming  the  Texel  and  several  lesser  islands.  The  Zuy- 
der  Zee  had  on  the  west  the  peninsula  of  North  Holland.  On 
the  opposite  side,  which  swept  in  a  half  circle  from  north  to 
south,  it  washed  the  shores  of  Friesland,  Overyssel,  Gelderland 
and  Utrecht;  the  latter  reaching  westerly  to  South  Holland, 
which  with  North  Holland  composed  but  one  province.  In  the 
last-named  was  Amsterdam,  the  rich  commercial  emporium  of 
the  Dutch,  seated  in  the  mouth  of  the  Y,  an  arm,  or  inlet,  of 
the  Zuyder  Zee.  With  these  five  districts,  which  nearly  encir- 
cled this  inland  sea,  the  Seven  United  Provinces  also  numbered 
Groningen,  to  the  east  of  Friesland ;  and  Zeeland,  lying  between 
South  Holland  and  Flanders,  but  broken  into  several  islands  by 
the  outlets  of  the  Maas  and  Scheldt.  Groningen,  with  Drenthe 
next  southerly,  and  then  Overyssel  (of  which  Drenthe  was 
usually  reckoned  a  part),  formed  in  conjunction  with  Zutphen, 
a  section  of  Gelderland  to  the  south  of  Overyssel,  the  great 
eastern  boundary  of  the  United  Provinces  along  the  German 
circle  of  Westphalia. 

With  all  its  monotony  of  landscape,  Holland,  even  in  the 
time  of  our  colonists,  bore  witness  to  the  indefatigable  industry 
of  its  people,  in  its  vast  system  of  canals,  extensive  dykes  and 
drainage,  and  thorough  cultivation;  the  neatness  and  thrift  of 
its  towns  and  villages,  and  its  incessant  activities,  domestic  and 
maritime.  Scarce  enough  of  resemblance  was  found  to  ally  it 
to  the  parent  country  we  have  so  fully  described;  so  striking 
was  the  difference,  both  in  the  temper  of  its  people,  and  in  the 
matters  of  government  and  religion;  for  in  all  that  was  essential 
to  render  its  people  both  free  and  prosperous,  the  happy  release 
from  the  double  yoke  of  Spain  and  the  papacy  had  wrought 
here  a  marvelous  transformation.  Its  antique  cloisters  were 
now  applied  to  secular  uses,  its  venerable  churches  and  cathe- 
drals devoted  to  the  Reformed  service,  its  dingy  castles  the  merest 
relics  of  an  expiring  feudalism.  And  if  the  scarred  walls  of  its 
cities  told  the  tragic  story  of  a  recent  desperate  struggle,  innu- 
merable crafts  plying  upon  its  canals  and  rivers,  and  shipping 
crowding  every  seaport,  as  plainly  witnessed  to  its  present  pros- 
perity. Its  glory  now  was  in  being  free;  the  recognized  home 
of  civil  and  religious  liberty! 

But  however  worthy  our  study,  Holland  will  now  engage  us 
only  with  reference  to  the  homes  or  the  movements  of  the  par- 


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ticular  persons  whose  checkered  story  forms  a  part  of  the  history 
we  are  writing.  Every  one  of  the  United  Provinces  was  repre- 
sented in  the  original  community  at  Harlem,  though  the  settlers 
from  those  provinces  hailed  chiefly  from  cities  or  villages  on  or 
near  the  German  Ocean  and  the  Zuyder  Zee.  Naturally,  the  great 
cities  of  Amsterdam  and  Leyden  gave  the  largest  number,  the 
last-named  place  being  situated  but  twenty-two  miles  southwest 
of  the  former,  and  at  that  day  communicating  with  it  by  means 
of  the  Leyden  Canal,  the  Harlem  Lake,  and  the  Y. 

Leyden  was  unexcelled  for  the  beauty  of  its  surroundings, 
as  Dutch  beauty  went.  It  stood  in  the  midst  of  the  Rhineland, 
a  fertile  flat,  aptly  called  the  Garden  of  Holland.  On  these  broad 
meadows  grazed  numerous  herds,  the  district  being  famous  for 
its  superior  butter  and  cheese  dairies.  Directly  environed  by 
pretty  villas  and  gardens,  the  city  was  inclosed  by  ramparts  (since 
removed  (around  which  ran  a  moat,  crossed  by  seven  draw- 
bridges leading  to  the  city  gates ;  the  approaches  to  these,  arched 
with  the  foliage  of  overhanging  trees,  most  agreeably  impressing 
the  visitor  entering  for  the  first  time.  The  city  was  intersected 
by  the  river  Rhine,  which,  rolling  down  from  the  classic  Alps, 
through  two  hundred  leagues  of  grandest  highland  scenery,  but 
reft  of  force  and  volume  by  diversion  in  the  lowlands,  flowed 
placidly  into  the  city  in  two  branches,  which  uniting  in  one  near 
the  centre,  slid  on,  six  miles  farther,  to  the  German  Ocean;  it 
fed  canals  which  traversed  the  town  in  all  directions  between  lines 
of  shade  trees,  and  under  numerous  bridges.  The  thoroughfares 
were  broad  and  cleanly, and  the  dwellings  and  shops, — built  mainly 
of  brick,  and  standing  with  gables  to  the  street, — exhibited  the 
true  Holland  style.  The  Dutch  burghers  and  their  vrouws  were 
wont  to  resort  for  recreation  to  the  shady  walks  upon  the  city 
walls ;  or  to  the  battlements  of  the  Burg,  an  old  castle  or  fortress 
rising  from  a  mound  in  the  centre  of  the  town,  at  a  point  where 
the  Old  and  New  Rhine  joined ;  and  which  afforded  a  picturesque 
view, — rows  of  curious  notched  gables,  belfries  and  church 
steeples,  with  a  wide  and  charming  outlook  over  the  country 
beyond.  With  the  advantage  of  a  clear  atmosphere  (an  unusual 
condition  in  that  moist  climate)  the  eye  might  roam  westerly  to 
the  ocean,  see  southerly  the  masts  of  Rotterdam,  easterly  follow 
up  the  tortuous  course  of  the  Rhine,  descry  to  the  northeast  the 
shipping  of  Amsterdam,  and  catch  glimpses  of  that  great  inland 
ocean,  the  Zuyder  Zee. 

Leyden  had  early  become  a  principal  refuge  for  the  perse- 
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siege,  in  1574,  gave  it  pre-eminence  as  a  place  of  strength  and 
security,  and  attracted  to  its  gates  the  flying  multitudes  driven 
by  oppression  from  other  lands.  Of  these  the  Walloon  refugees 
were  by  far  the  most  numerous,  and  being  welcomed  by  the 
magistrates  and  people,  they  formed  a  church  in  1584,  the  burgo- 
masters, at  their  request,  giving  them  the  permanent  use  of  an 
old  edifice  erected  in  the  fourteenth  century  on  the  Haerlemstraat^ 
in  the  northern  section  of  the  city  called  Marendorp,  and  still 
styled  as  by  its  Catholic  founders,  the  Lieve  Vrouw  Kerk,  or  the 
Church  of  the  Virgin  Mary.  It  was  thence  known  as  the  French 
or  Walloon  Church.  On  a  later  influx  of  refugees,  this  building- 
being  found  too  small  for  the  large  increase  of  communicants,, 
they  were  permitted  to  celebrate  the  Lord's  Supper  in  the  Gast- 

huys  (or  Almshouse)  Kerk,. 
which  stood  convenient  to 
the  other,  on  the  north  side 
of  the  Breedestraat  (the  main 
thoroughfare  running  east  and 
west  through  the  city),  and 
attached  to  the  St.  Catharine 
Gasthuys,  which  occupied 
grounds  in  its  rear.  In  1606 
the  Walloons  founded  a  col- 
lege, for  the  better  training  of 
their  youth  in  their  favorite 
Calvinistic  theology,  as  the 
divinity  school  connected  with 
the  Leyden  University,  though 
now  enjoying  great  patron- 
age, had  become  much  distracted  by  the  doctrinal  contro- 
versy between  its  professors  Gomarus  and  Arminius.  Daniel 
Colonius,  pastor  of  the  Walloon  Church,  was  made  regent  of 
the  new  college.  The  Walloons,  nurtured,  as  we  have  seen,  in 
the  iron  cradle  of  trial,  bore  with  them  into  exile  less  wealth  than 
virtue,  but  with  the  latter  a  remarkable  degree  of  common  sense 
and  business  energy.  At  Leyden  their  skill  and  industry  soon 
told  upon  the  commercial  interests  of  the  city,  especially  through 
the  medium  of  the  cloth  trade,  for  which  Leyden  was  now  justly 
famed  above  all  the  other  towns  in  Holland.  Given  its  first  im~ 
petus  by  Flemish  artisans  from  Ypres,  in  the  fourteenth  century, 
the  woolen  manufacture  had  grown  to  such  magnitude  as  to  en- 
gross a  large  share  of  the  activities  of  the  citizens ;  by  more  than 
three   hundred  busy  hand-looms,  turning  out  per  annum  fifty 


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thousand  pieces  of  cloth — not  to  include  flannels,  carpets,  baize,, 
etc.,  amounting  in  addition  to  over  nine  thousand  pieces  a  year. 
The  older  part  of  Leyden  contained  four  "vierendeels,"  or 
quarters ;  which  districts,  surrounded  by  the  several  enlargements 
of  the  city,  made  from  time  to  time,  formed  the  central  part  of 
the  town,  and  stretched  along  the  Breedestraat,  two  upon 
the  north  side  and  two  on  the  south.  One  of  the  latter,  called 
the  Woolhouse  Quarter,  was  so  named  because  within  its  limits, 
on  the  north  side  of  the  Steenschuur  Canal,  stood  the  Zaay  Hall,, 
the  great  cloth  emporium  of  the  city  of  Leyden.  This  building, 
formerly,  in  popish  times,  a  chapel  of  the  St.  Jacob  brotherhood, 

had  been  vacated  by 
this  order,  sold  to  the 
city,  and  for  some  time 
used  for  the  storage 
of  wool,  whence  it 
was  called  the  Wool- 
house.  About  the 
year  1596,  it  was  re- 
fitted and  appropri- 
ated to  the  cloth  trade. 
Here,  before  they 
could  be  sold,  must 
be  brought  all  the 
serges  and  camlets^ 
broadcloths,  single 
cloths  and  gentry 
cloths,  with  some 
coarser  sorts,  which 
were  made  within 
the  town,  to  be  inspected  and  appraised,  and  have  attached  the  in- 
dispensable "vent  loot/'  or  official  leaden  stamp.  And  here  re- 
sorted the  cloth  manufacturers  and  drapers  of  Leyden, — the  for- 
mer to  display  and  sell  their  goods,  the  latter  to  buy.  From  the 
'*zaays,"  or  serges,  the  building  took  its  name,  the  Zaay  Hall.  On 
every  weekday  in  this  great  mart  for  trading  was  presented  an  ani- 
mated scene :  the  inspectors,  as  required  by  law,  busily  examining 
the  white,  black,  or  colored  goods,  to  determine  both  quality  and 
quantity ;  the  noisy  klopper,  with  a  blow  affixing  the  proper  stamp ; 
and  the  vociferous  salesman,  crying  his  price  to  the  buyers  who 
thronged  the  place ;  while,  interrupting  the  buzz  of  voices,  the  two 
clocks  overhead  faithfully  struck  the  hour  and  half  hour,  and 
anon,  the  chime  of  small  bells  which  also  adorned  the  tower,  to 


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each  its  name,  as  the  Weaver,  the  Dyer,  etc.,  rung  out  a  pleasing 
melody. 

Another  district,  called  the  Gasthuys  Vierendeel  (Almshouse 
Quarter),  had  on  the  north  side  the  Rhine  below  the  junction 
of  its  two  branches,  upon  the  south  the  Breedestraat,  and  to  the 
east  the  Wanthuys  Quarter.  It  took  its  name  from  the  St. 
Catharine  Gasthuys,  which,  with  its  kerk,  before  spoken  of,  stood 
within  its  limits,  a  little  to  the  west  of  that  antique  and  massive 
pile,  the  Stadt  Huys,  or  City  Hall.  Through  this  quarter,  along 
the  west  side  of  the  Gasthuys  kerk  yard,  a  little  street  called  the 
Vrouwsteeg  (woman's  lane)  led  northward  across  the  Rhine 
to  the  Walloon  Church,  and  was  often  devoutly  trodden  by  the 
feet  of  the  refugees. 

In  the  Gasthuys  Quarter  lived  a  Walloon  named  Jesse  De 
Forest.  He  was  one  of  the  exiles  from  Avesnes,  in  the  prov- 
ince of  Hainault,  as  already  noticed,  driven  by  the  perils  of  the 
times  to  take  refuge  at  Sedan ;  and  whence  the  De  Forests,  after 
a  sojourn  there  apparently  of  some  years,  had  removed  down 
the  Maas  to  Holland. 

Jesse,  Jean,  Michael  and  Gerard,  recognized  as  brothers,  are 
found  at  Leyden,  with  a  sister  Jeanne,  whose  husband  was  one 
Cartier,  from  Columbier,  France.  The  De  Forests  stood  promi- 
nent among  the  French  refugees.  Jesse  and  Gerard,  of  whom 
only  we  shall  need  to  speak  further,  were  by  occupation  dyers. 
It  was  their  subtle  art  which  imparted  beauty  and  value  to  those 
useful  fabrics  displayed  and  sold  at  the  Zaay  Hall.  Gerard, 
whose  birthplace  was  Avesnes,  married  at  Leyden,  on  August 
I2th,  1611,  a  young  lady  of  French  parentage,  but  born  here, 
Hester,  daughter  of  Crispin  and  Agnes  de  la  Grange,  the  latter 
now  a  widow.  Surviving  his  marriage  forty-five  years,  he  was 
blessed  with  a  goodly  competence  and  in  seeing  his  children 
respectably  married  at  Leyden.  His  brother,  Jesse,  had  brought 
a  wife  with  him  to  Holland,  Marie  Du  Cloux,  whom  he  probably 
married  at  Sedan,  as  his  eldest  son  was  born  there.  Five  children 
that  reached  maturity  came  of  this  union,  namely,  Jean,  Henry, 
Rachel,  Jesse  and  Isaac.  More  than  once,  however,  had  death 
invaded  their  circle,  taking  little  Israel  and  Philippe  from  their 
fond  embrace.  Yet  having,  for  love  to  God,  forsaken  country 
and  kindred,  they  could  accept  these  painful  visitations  as  the 
salutary  chastenings  of  an  All-wise  Father,  teaching  them  the 
lesson  of  resignation  to  His  will,  and  inspiring  a  faith  to  look 
upward  and  beyond.  Diligent  also  in  his  vocation,  which  had 
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easy  position  of  a  master  artisan,  was  one  of  a  limited  number 
having  license  from  the  magistrates  "to  dye  serges  and  camlets 
in  colors."  It  was  a  tribute  to  his  skill ;  for  only  the  most  expert 
and  approved  dyers  were  thus  preferred,  as  on  the  beauty  and 
pemianence  of  the  colors  so  largely  depended  the  reputation  and 
success  of  the  cloth  trade  of  Leyden.  Plying  his  useful  art^ 
De  Forest  mixed  his  delicate  tints,  and  among  his  steaming  vats 
daily  earned  an  honest  living.  His  home  was  near  the  Walloon 
church,  at  which  he  and  his  Marie  loved  to  offer  up  their  devo- 
tions, and  where  from  time  to  time  they  dedicated  their  offspring 
to  God  in  baptism. 

But  Jesse  De  Forest  had  again  fallen  upon  perilous  times. 
Leyden  was  at  this  date  rent  by  popular  discords,  which  affected 
the  whole  country,  but  this  city  in  particular.  While  the  peo- 
ple of  Holland  were  crushed  and  humbled  by  the  Spanish  war, 
and  had  to  struggle  for  existence,  they  showed,  as  we  have  seen, 
the  deepest  sympathy  for  the  victims  of  oppression  who  fled  to 
their  country  for  refuge.  But  once  in  the  flush  of  enjoyment  of 
peace  and  prosperity,  and  forgetful  of  their  former  trials,  feelings 
of  national  pride  prompted  them  to  draw  lines  of  social  distinc- 
tion, especially  between  themselves  and  the  foreign  population, 
insomuch  that  the  refugees  now  began  to  be  eyed  with  contempt, 
treated  as  inferiors,  and  often  refused  employment.  This  intoler- 
ant spirit  was  also  fostered  by  the  parties  and  feuds  which  had 
spnmg  up  in  church  and  state.  The  old  dispute  about  predestina- 
tion, which  had  arisen  among  the  professors  at  the  University, 
had  proceeded  from  the  schools  into  the  pulpits,  and  the  peo- 
ple readily  took  sides.  Hence  the  controversy  spread  far  and 
wide.  The  pastors  of  the  various  churches,  as  well  as  their  flocks, 
became  sorely  at  issue,  many  of  both  classes  embracing  the  Ar- 
minian  views;  those  holding  these  opinions  being  called  Remon- 
strants. The  famous  Synod  of  Dort,  convened  November  13th, 
1618,  on  account  of  these  dissensions,  remained  in  session  for 
over  six  months,  and  handled  the  Arminian  preachers  with  great 
severity.  Its  action  being  sustained  by  the  government,  a  general 
cnisade  against  the  Remonstrants  was  instituted,  and  a  large 
number  of  their  ministers,  men  of  undoubted  talent  and  piety,  were 
deposed  and  driven  from  the  country.  The  Synod  of  South  Hol- 
land, which  met  at  Leyden  in  July  following,  though  numbering 
but  thirty  ministers  and  ten  elders,  expelled  about  sixty  Remon- 
strant preachers,  who  refused  to  subscribe  to  the  canons  adopted 
by  the  Synod  of  Dort.  Many  of  this  proscribed  sect  left  the 
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the  Duke  of  Holstein,  founded  the  town  of  Frederickstadt,  in 
162 1,  though,  the  troubles  over,  most  of  them  returned  to  their 
native  country. 

At  Leyden,  where  prior  to  the  Synod  of  Dort  the  new  sect 
had  gained  a  multitude  of  adherents,  including  some  of  the  city 
magistrates,  everything  was  now  done  to  suppress  them.  Ejected 
from  their  churches,  they  met  for  worship  in  a  private  house, 
only  to  be  driven  out  by  a  mob.  In  vain  they  prayed  the  magis- 
trates to  allow  them  the  public  exercise  of  their  religion,  urging 
that  the  Lutherans,  English  Puritans,  and  even  the  Jews,  enjoyed 
that  right  unmolested.  A  burgher  at  whose  dwelHng  they  as- 
sembled upon  a  night  in  August  was  heavily  fined,  and  expelled 
from  the  town  for  a  year.  Two  months  later  a  zaay-weaver, 
for  having  a  meeting  at  his  house,  was  mulcted  two  hundred  and 
twenty-five  florins,  stripped  of  his  rights  as  a  freeman,  and  ban- 
ished from  Leyden  and  the  Rhineland.  Sortie  of  the  citizens  were 
fined  and  imprisoned  for  collecting  money  in  aid  of  the  exiled 
pastors. 

At  the  University  a  change  was  made  in  the  faculty,  by  the 
removal  of  all  the  professors  who  were  Remonstrants,  and  the 
appointment  of  approved  Calvinists.  Even  after  their  ejectment 
they  were  followed  with  a  malevolence  which  is  in  strange  con- 
trast with  our  ideas  of  toleration.  And  it  was  but  the  culmination 
of  this  same  politico-religious  persecution  that  brought  to  the 
block  that  venerable  and  pure-minded  patriot  Oldenbarneveldt, 
May  13th,  1619,  while  the  Synod  was  yet  in  session  at  Dort, — a 
cruel  episode  of  the  war  upon  the  Remonstrants,  and  which 
thrilled  the  nation  with  horror.  The  severity  toward  that  sect 
did  not  cease  for  some  years  after;  several  executions  took  place 
at  Leyden,  and  this  town  was  the  last  to  grant  them  toleration. 
These  party  strifes  and  public  tumults  having  a  tendency  to  un- 
hinge society,  to  fetter  speech  and  conscience,  to  check  the  indus- 
tries of  the  people  and  make  a  livelihood  more  difficult,  greatly 
disquieted  all  classes,  but  more  especially  the  foreign  refu- 
gees. 

While  these  things  were  transpiring,  there  attended  the  Wal- 
loon church  a  young  Frenchman,  who  was  a  boarder  in  the 
family  of  one  Robert  Botack,  a  shoemaker  on  the  Voldersgraft, 
and  who  was  studying  medicine  under  the  learned  Heurnius  at  the 
University,  where  he  had  been  registered  as  a  student  November 
19th,  1619,  in  the  Latin  style,  Johannes  Monerius  Montanus,  or 
as  in  French,  Jean  Mousnier  De  La  Montague.  His  surname 
might  betoken  social  rank,  or,  as  already  suggested,  point  to  a 


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family  origin  in  La  Montagne,  or  both,  yet  without  doubt 
connects  him  with  'the  talented  family  of  that  name  which 
became  so  distinguished  in  the  fields  of  theology,  medicine,  and 
literature,  during  the  sixteenth  century.  Himself,  as  before 
seen,  a  refuge  from  Saintonge,  he  was  twenty-four  years  of  age 
on  entering  the  University.  It  was  directly  after  the  aforesaid 
change  in  the  faculty  had  taken  place, — a  change  much  approved 
by  the  French  families,  who  as  Calvinists  were  opposed  to  the 
former  regime;  and  which  may  have  had  its  weight  with  Mon- 
tagne in  going  thither,  but  more  likely  the  better  facilities  aforded 
by  a  new  edifice,  with  the  other  and  peculiar  advantages  which 
a  membership  conferred.* 

The  University  building  stood  in  the  southwestern  part  of 
the  city,  upon  the  west  side  of  the  street  and  canal  called  the 
Rapenburg,  where  it  was  crossed  by  the  Nun's  Bridge,  upon  the 
lane  running  east  and  west  known  as  the  Kloksteeg.  The  build- 
ing (a  very  plain  structure,  formerly  a  cloister  of  the  White 
Nuns),  being  nearly  consumed  by  fire  November  ii,  i6r6,  had 
been  rebuilt  with  more  elegance  and  better  accommodations,  and 
adorned  with  a  spire  and  clock. 

From  the  eastern  windows  of  the  University,  looking  down 
the  Kloksteeg,  could  often  be  seen  a  company  of  English  dis- 
senters, assembling  for  worship  at  the  dwelling  of  their  pastor, 
John  Robinson,  on  the  south  side  of  the  street,  opposite  St. 
Peter's  Church.  Here  were  wont  to  gather  the  pious  Carver, 
and  Brewster,  and  Brewer,  and  Bradford,  Winslow  and  Stan- 
dish,  and  many  others  of  the  'Tilgrim  Fathers,"  to  receive  the 
word  of  life,  "enjoying,**  says  one  of  them,  "much  sweet  and 
delightful  society  and  spiritual  comfort  together,  in  the  ways 
of  God.'*  Many  of  these  persons  working  at  honest  employ- 
ments connected  with  the  staple  manufacture  of  the  city,  such 
as  weavers,  carders,  dyers,  etc.,  were  almost  as  well  known  as 
was  their  pastor,  Robinson,  who  was  a  constant  visitor  at  the 
University,  and  a  reader  at  the  library,  and  who  being  "versed 
in  the  Dutch  language,"  had  "procured  him  much  honor  and 
respect,"  in  the  pulpit  of  St.  Peter,  by  his  defense  of  Calvinism 
in  the  recent  discussions.  And  at  the  time  Montagne  entered 
the  University,  the  affair  of  Brewer  and  his  associate  Brewster 
was  in  everyone's  mouth.     These  worthy  men,  in  a  room  near 

•  Montagrne's  age  warrants  the  belief  that  he  had  finished  a  course  of  study  else- 
where before  coming  to  Leyden,  and  now  attached  himself  to  the  University,  as  was 
a  common  practice,  for  professional  improvement,  as  well  as  to  secure  other  benefits 
and  immunities  which  such  connection  conferred.  All  thus  entering  were  termed 
students;  and  so  Montagne  was  always  enrolled  "student  of  medicine,"  though  his 
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Robinson's  house,  were  engaged  in  printing  religious  books  for 
the  English  dissenters.  Being  complained  of  by  Sir  Dudley 
Carleton,  the  English  ambassador  at  the  Hague,  it  devolved  upon 
the  University  of  which  Brewer  was  a  member  to  investigate 
the  matter.  The  accused  persons  being  exonerated,  the  affair 
was  eclipsed  by  the  graver  agitations  of  the  times;  yet  the  fears 
which  it  excited  gave  spur  to  a  movement  now  contemplated  by 
the  English  congregation. 

Robinson  and  his  flock,  feeling  ill  at  ease  in  Leyden,  had  been 
led  "both  deeply  to  apprehend  their  present  dangers,  and  wisely 
to  foresee  the  future,  and  think  of  timely  remedy."  Having 
resolved  upon  a  removal  to  some  other  place,  they  were  look- 
ing toward  America  as  their  future  home.  But  several  years 
were  spent  in  fruitless  negotiation  for  aid  with  "The  Virginia 
Company  of  London,"  and  "The  New  Netherland  Company"  at 
Amsterdam.  At  length,  obtaining  the  needed  assistance  from 
private  sources,  a  good  portion  of  the  church,  "the  youngest 
and  strongest  part,"  after  a  farewell  meeting  at  Robinson's  house, 
departed  from  "that  goodly  and  pleasant  citie,"  July  21st,  1620, 
to  embark  at  Delft  Haven.  "They  that  stayed  at  Leyden,"  says 
Winslow,  "feasted  us  that  were  to  go,  at  our  pastor's  house, 
being  large,  where  we  refreshed  ourselves  after  tears  with  sing- 
ing of  psalms,  making  joyful  melody  in  our  hearts,  as  well  as  with 
the  voice.  .  .  .  After  this  they  accompanied  us  to  Delft 
Haven." 

So  remarkable  an  exodus,  its  preparation,  object,  and  destina- 
tion, being  generally  known  throughout  the  city,  had  its  influ- 
ence upon  others,  who  like  the  former,  "pilgrims,"  wearied  and 
alarmed  by  the  prevailing  disorders,  were  casting  about  for  a 
better  home.  It  especially  affected  the  French  and  Belgian 
refugees,  to  whom  another  cause  of  apprehension  now  presented 
itself.  This  was  a  threatened  war  with  Spain,  which,  reviving 
gloomy  recollections  of  former  trials,  set  many  to  planning  some 
way  of  escape  from  the  dreaded  atrocities  of  war,  to  which  they 
were  likely  to  be  again  exposed.  Hence  the  subject  of  a  removal 
to  America  began  to  be  agitated  also  among  the  Walloons  at 
Leyden,  whose  numbers  were  now  daily  and  largely  increasing 
by  the  arrival  of  other  refugees,  impelled  by  their  fears  to  leave 
the  southern  provinces;  and  many  needed  only  the  necessary 
means  or  guarantees  of  protection,  etc.,  to  induce  them  to  emi- 
grate. Of  the  number  pledged  to  do  so,  were  Jesse  De  Forest 
and  his  family,  with  two  named  Mousnier,  or  La  Montague,  kins- 


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men,  one  of  whom  was  our  Jean,  "student  of  medicine,"  and  the 
other  an  "apothecary  and  surgeon,"  like  the  former,  single,  and 
probably  his  brother. 

For  many  years  efforts  had  been  making  in  Holland,  by  the 
more  wealthy  Walloon  and  other  Belgian  residents,  to  organize 
a  "West  India  Company,"  to  open  up  a  trade  with  America. 
During  the  truce  with  Spain  this  project  had  slumbered,  but  was 
revived  on  the  prospect  of  a  renewal  of  the  war;  the  States- 
General  being  now  ready  to  encourage  the  formation  of  the  com; 
pany,  whose  reprisals  upon  the  settlements  and  commerce  of  the 
common  enemy,  by  means  of  its  armed  vessels,  would  help  to 
weaken  his  power. 

But  the  company  met  with  various  hindrances,  even  after 
obtaining  its  charter  in  162 1,  not  the  least  of  which  was  the 
want  of  sufficient  capital.  Tracts  "for  the  instruction  of  the 
public,"  with  which  the  press  literally  teemed,  many  from  the 
forms  of  Elzevier,  the  University  printer,  set  forth  the  grand 
undertaking  in  glowing  terms,  and  urged  the  people  to  invest. 
But  still  subscriptions  came  in  slowly;  great  doubt  and  uncer- 
tainty hung  over  "the  long-expected  West  India  Company" ;  inso- 
much that  when,  in  162 1,  the  Walloons  began,  in  imitation  of 
Robinson's  people,  to  make  plans  for  their  contemplated 
emigration,  the  hope  of  aid  from  this  source,  especially  in 
the  tame  work  of  planting  a  colony,  was  too  faint  to  be  seri- 
ously entertained.  Therefore  they  resolved  to  apply  to  the 
English  ambassador  at  the  Hag^e  in  regard  to  emigrating  to 
Virginia. 

Jesse  De  Forest,  whose  standing  among  the  Walloons  and 
interest  in  the  enterprise,  marked  him  as  a  suitable  person 
to  present  a  letter  of  inquiry  in  their  behalf,  had  been 
full  twenty  years  in  Holland,  and  well  understood  the 
condition  and  needs  of  his  countrymen,  as  also  their 
peculiar  views  and  aims  in  respect  to  this  moVement, 
upon  which  so  much  was  depending.  In  an  ably  drawn 
communication  to  Sir  Dudley  Carleton,  about  the  first 
of  August,  1621,  he  asks  whether  His  Majesty  of  Eng- 
land will  permit  fifty  or  sixty  families,  Walloons  and 
French,  all  of  the  Reformed  religion,  to  settle  in 
Virginia;  will  aid  them  with  an  armed  vessel  to  make 
the  voyage;  will  guarantee  them  protection  in  their 
persons  and  religion;  grant  them  land  to  cultivate, 
and  allow  them  to   form  a  town  and  enjoy  various   specified 


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rights  and  privileges  pertaining  to  the  soil  and  to  a  free  com- 
munity.* 

These  inquiries  being  forwarded  to  England,  were  referred 
by  the  king  to  the  directors  of  the  Virginia  Company,  who,  on 
August  I2th,  1621,  gave  "so  fine  an  answer," — in  the  words  of 
a  letter  conveying  the  news  to  their  agent  in  Virginia, — "as  we 
consider  they  will  resolve  to  go."  But  the  Walloons  thought 
otherwise,  for  as  the  company  "were  contented  to  receive  them 
upon  certain  conditions,"  and  these  quite  different  from  their 
own,  and  could  promise  no  aid  in  the  way  of  providing  ships,  it 
virtually  amounted  to  a  refusal. 


jfe/*  ^' 


"■J^'^ 


Autograph  of  Jesse  de  Forest. 
From  an  original  of  1621,  in  the  State  Paper  Office,  London. 

Jesse  De  Forest  continued  his  calling,  and  when  the  people 
of  Leyden  were  registered  for  a  poll-tax  in  the  autumn  of  1622, 
the  dyer,  with  his  family,  numbering  his  wife  and  five  children, 
and  their  maid-servant,  Margariete  Du  Can,  still  lived  on  the 
Breedestraat,  within  the  Almshouse  Quarter.  The  great  theme 
which  had  absorbed  his  mind, — ^America, — was  nevertheless  not 
forgotten.  Anon  this  wish  of  his  heart  was  to  be  realized,  but 
in  an  unexpected  way. 

The  West  India  Company  had  so  far  succeeded  in  its  organi- 
zation, and  in  raising  the  necessary  amount  of  capital,  as  to 
begin  operations,  through  its  board  of  managers,  chosen  Septem- 
ber 17th,  1622.  Under  its  patronage,  and  bound  to  a  term  of 
service,  a  company  of  Walloons,  with  their  families,  sailed  for 
New  Netherland  early  in  the  succeeding  March;  but  De  Forest 
and  the  Montagues  declined  to  accompany  them,  as  did  most  of 
those  who  had  subscribed  to  the  Virginia  project.  This  was  not 
the  inviting  plan  of  free  colonization  which  De  Forest  had  pro- 

*  Dc  Forest's  letter,  translated  by  Dr.  O'Calla^han  from  the  French  copy  in  the 
Broadhead  papers,  is  printed  in  "Documents  Relating  to  the  Colonial  History  of  the 
State  of  New  York,"  vol  iii,  p.  9.  The  signature,  as  in  the  copy,  is  there  erroneously 
printed  Jose  De  Forest;  see  aoove,  facsimile  of  the  original  autograph,  from  a  tracing 
obligingly  sent  me  by  Mr.  W.  Noel  Sainsburyj  of  Her  Majesty  s  dtate  Paper  Office, 
London.     The  closing  paragraph  of  this  letter,  in  the  original,  reads  thus: 

'  Sur  ce  que  dessus  mondict  Seigneur  I  Ambassadeur  donnera  avis  s'il  luy  plaist 
comme  aussi,  si  son  plaisir  de  faire  expedier  le  diet  privilege  en  forme  heur  le  plustost 
que  faire  se  pourra  a  cause  du  peu  de  temps  qui  reste  d'icy  au  Mars  (temps  commode 
pour  femharquement)  pour  faire  I'acceuil  de  tout  ce  qui  est  requis  ce  faisant  obligera 
ses  serviteurs  a  prier  Dieu  pour  I'accomplissement  dc  ses  saincts  deseins  et  pour  la 
sante  et  longe  vie.  "JESSB  Bt  Forbst." 


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posed;  and  though  the  adventure  was  attractive  for  its  very 
novelty,  nothing  probably  but  their  necessities  would  have  in- 
duced any  of  the  Walloons  to  accept  so  tame  a  servitude,  con- 
sidering their  natural  aversion  to  restraint  and  love  of  personal 
freedom.  A  new  purpose  soon  usurped  his  mind, — perhaps  it 
had  already, — and  the  fortunes  of  Jesse  De  Forest  were  to  take 
a  sudden  turn. 

The  lone  ship  dispatched  with  the  Walloons,  and  other  ves- 
sels sent  out  by  the  company  soon  after  to  the  West  Indies,  were 
designed  merely  to  secure  possession  of  the  country,  and  to  fore- 
stall the  trade.  The  grand  business  in  hand  was  the  conquest 
of  Brazil.  Invested  with  the  control  of  the  Dutch  possessions 
in  Africa  and  America,  with  ample  powers  to  trade  with  and 
colonize  those  countries,  expel  the  Spaniards,  and  prey  upon  their 
commerce,  the  company  now  began  the  most  extensive  prepara- 
tions to  this  end.  The  dockyards  of  Holland  resounded  with  the 
noise  of  busy  workmen,  and  loud  was  the  call  for  seamen  and 
soldiers  to  man  the  fleet.  At  length,  a  powerful  armament  was 
ready  to  sail.  On  December  2rst  and  22d,  1623,  nineteen  ships 
of  war  left  the  Texel  and  the  Ems,  with  the  Admiral  Jacob  Wille- 
kens,  joined  the  next  day  by  three  more  from  the  Maas,  making 
twenty-two  vessels  of  war  destined  to  operate  against  the  Spanish 
settlements  in  the  West  Indies  and  Brazil.  This  expedition,  de- 
signed also  to  cripple  the  maritime  power  of  Spain,  and  ultimately 
compel  her,  if  not  to  yield  her  control  of  the  Low  Countries,  at 
least  to  grant  civil  and  religious  rights  to  the  inhabitants,  and  the 
restoration  of  their  sequestered  estates  to  the  refugees,  was  in 
high  favor  with  the  Walloons,  whose  patriotism  and  martial  spirit 
were  aroused  by  this  stirring  call  to  arms.  For  some  time  Leyden 
had  witnessed  "nothing  but  beating  of  drums  and  preparing  for 
war."  Even  the  excellent  Colonius,  pastor  of  the  Walloon  church, 
had  taken  the  field  with  Prince  Maurice,  the  Stadtholder,  against 
the  Spaniards.  And  so  Jesse  De  Forest,  giving  up  his  old  occu- 
pation, enlisted  in  this  gjand  naval  expedition  to  Brazil.  He  had 
latterly  occupied  a  house  with  his  brother  Gerard,  on  the  Mare, 
a  canal  running  north  from  the  Rhine  to  the  city  gate  called  the 
Mare  Port.  Gerard  was  to  continue  the  business,  but  was  licensed 
only  to  dye  in  black.  Appearing  before  the  burgomasters,  Jan- 
uary 4,  1624,  and  stating  that  his  brother  Jesse  had  *'lately 
departed  with  the  vessels  for  the  West  Indies,"  he  requested  to  be 
appointed  in  his  stead  to  dye  serges  and  camlets  in  colors,  as  the 
number  of  dyers  engaged  in  this  specialty  would  not  thereby 
be  increased.     And  his  request  was  granted. 


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But  here  the  veil  drops  over  the  career  of  our  De  Forest. 
The  summer  was  not  quite  ended  when  the  yacht  De  Vos  brought 
news  of  Willekens'  success  in  Brazil,  but  no  good  news  of  De 
Forest.  He  seems  either  to  have  fallen  at  the  siege  of  St.  Sal- 
vador, or  to  have  otherwise  perished  during  that  arduous  service ; 
for  the  fact  of  his  decease  soon  became  known  to  his  family  in 
Holland.  The  sad  tidings,  as  it  reached  Leyden,  that  Jesse  De 
Forest,  the  dyer,  was  dead,  must  have  caused  many  an  honest 
regret ;  but  a  deeper  sorrow,  within  that  small  circle  of  bereaved 
hearts,  the  desolate  widow  and  orphans,  whose  wants  could  no 
longer  be  met  by  his  provident  care.  But  the  breach  in  the  social 
circle  caused  by  the  departure  of  even  so  good  and  useful  a  man, 
— what  was  it  in  the  grievous  mortality  which  visited  Leyden  in 
the  years  1624  and  1625?  Years  roll  on;  and  those  whom  he 
left  enjoy  the  fruits  of  his  patient  labor;  but  the  voice  of  the  lost 
husband  and  father  comes  back  no  more.  Time  buries  alike  his 
virtues  and  his  foibles,  and  oblivion  claims  the  memory  of  Jesse 
De  Forest.  Ah!  not  so;  he  still  lives  in  his  last  ambitious  ad- 
venture, to  mould  other  destinies,  which  are  yet  in  the  unrevealed 
future. 

Near  the  time  De  Forest  went  abroad,  our  Jean  La  Mon- 
tagne,  latterly  a  boarder,  with  other  "students,"  in  the  family  of 
Thomas  Cornelisz,  on  the  Breedestraat,  in  Meat  Market  Row,  is 
found  to  have  quit  the  University.  The  coincidence,  and  at  a 
juncture  when  physicians  were  needed  for  the  fleet,  almost  forces 
the  conviction  that  he  too  had  joined  the  expedition.*  But  per- 
haps he  had  merely  retired  from  Leyden  to  avoid  the  plague, 
which,  as  intimated,  made  fearful  ravages  in  that  city  in  the 
two  ensuing  years.  Leaving  this  to  conjecture,  as  we  must,  it 
at  least  appears  that,  after  having  been  gone  for  some  time,  Mon- 
tague returned  to  Leyden,  and  in  order  that  he  might  continue 
his  favorite  studies,  which  had  been  interrupted  by  his  absence, 
and  also  enjoy  the  various  privileges  of  the  University,  which 
he  seems  to  have  valued  very  highly,  was  enrolled  anew  at  that 
institution  as  a  "student  of  medicine,"  July  7th,  1626.  He  had 
taken  convenient  lodgings  with  the  widow  De  Forest, — now  liv- 
ing on  the  Voldersgraft,  the  second  street  east  of  St.  Peter*s 
Church, — whose  only  daughter,  the  fair  Rachel,  had  already 
stolen  his  heart,  and  to  whom*,  with  the  approval  of  the  family, 
as  signified  by  her  uncle  Gerard,  who  was  present,  Montague 
was  united  in  wedlock  by  the  pastor  of  the  Walloon  Church,  De- 

•  One   La   Montagnc,   captain  in   the  Dutch  service  in   Brazil,   was  killed   in  the 
Portuguese  assault  upon  Fort  Hinderson,   1646. 


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cember  12th,  1626.  Living  so  near  to  St.  Peter's,  one  of  the 
principal  churches  in  the  city,  it  was  here  during  the  following 
year  that  they  had  the  joy  to  present  for  baptism  their  little  son, 
Jolant,  their  precious  first-born,  but  alas !  destined  soon  to  be  taken 
from  them. 

Holland  was  now  overflowing  with  people,  all  intent  on  mak- 
ing a  Uvelihood,  but  "where  one  stiver  was  to  be  gained  there 
were  ten  hands  ready  to  receive  it."  Many,  on  that  account, 
were  leaving  that  country  in  search  of  other  homes,  where  they 
might  find  better  opportunities,  and  obtain  a  living  more  easily. 
The  possessions  of  the  Dutch  in  America,  known  as  New  Neth- 
erland,  presented  to  such  persons  special  advantages,  and  very 
alluring  was  the  offer  of  the  West  India  Company  to  grant  each 
colonist  as  much  land  as  he  should  be  able  to  cultivate.  So,  while 
many  of  the  sturdy  sons  of  Holland  were  turning  their  faces 
thitherward,  the  subject  was  daily  becoming  of  wider  and  more 
practical  interest. 

Often  might  have  been  noticed,  poring  over  the  musty  tomes 
at  the  University  library,  a  person  of  studious  mien,  known  as 
Johannes  De  Laet,  one  of  the  several  directors  of  the  West  India 
Company,  who  resided  at  Leyden.  An  elder  of  the  church,  and 
distinguished  for  learning,  moderation,  and  probity,  De  Laet 
enjoyed  the  public  confidence ;  and  the  two  Synods  of  North  and 
South  Holland,  by  selecting  him  to  write  an  ecclesiastical  history, 
paid  a  high  tribute  to  his  judgment  and  impartiality.  His  pro- 
lific pen  had  done  much  to  familiarize  the  public  mind  with  the 
discoveries  of  the  Dutch  in  America.  One  of  his  works,  pub- 
lished at  Leyden,  entitled,  "The  New  World ;  or  a  Description  of 
the  West  Indies,"  having  been  five  years  in  print,  appeared  in  an 
improved  form  in  1630,  and  gave  the  first  full  and  authoritative 
account  of  New  Netherland,  awaking  a  lively  interest  not  only 
in  the  circles  of  Leyden,  but  throughout  Holland. 

While  De  Laet's  first  edition  was  yet  in  press,  sundry  letters 
had  been  received  from  the  Walloons  who  had  gone  out  in  1623 
to  Manhattan  and  Fort  Orange  (Albany),  in  which  they  spoke 
in  glowing  terms  of  their  new  home,  extolling  its  "beautiful 
rivers  and  bubbling  fountains,"  the  excellence  of  its  soil,  and 
the  abundance  of  its  timber,  fruits,  game,  and  fish ;  then,  urging 
their  friends  to  come  out  with  their  families  and  enjoy  the  benefits 
of  a  country  which   fairly  rivaled   "the  paradise  of  Holland." 

The  natural  effect  of  these  letters*  was  to  induce  not  a  few 

♦  Quoted  in  the  "Gcdenkwaardige  Gcschicdenissen,  zo  Kerkelyke  als  Wereldlykc/' 
or  "Remarkable  Events,  as  well  Ecclesiastical  as  Secular,  from  1603  to  1624,"  bj  Rev. 


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persons  here  and  there  forthwith  to  emigrate,  while  in  many 
others  was  awakened  a  keen  desire  for  fuller  information,  such 
as  the  work  of  De  Laet  was  designated  to  gratify.  The  demand 
for  the  book  became  so  great  as  only  to  be  met  by  repeated  edi- 
tions. With  the  original  journals  of  Hudson  and  succeeding  ex- 
plorers before  him,  many  of  the  details  presented  were  exceed- 
ingly entertaining. 

Opening  De  Laet's  vellum-bound,  attractive  folio,  fresh  from 
the  press  of  the  Elzeviers,  the  reader  presently  found  his  atten- 
tion drawn  to  the  extraordinary  advantages  and  resources  of  the 
country  around  the  Island  of  Manhattan,  and  bordering  the  Great 
River  of  the  Mountains.  "This  land  is  excellent  and  beautiful 
to  the  eye,  full  of  noble  forest  trees  and  grape-vines ;  and  want- 
ing nothing  but  the  labor  and  industry  of  man  to  render  it  one 
of  the  finest  and  most  fruitful  regions  in  that  part  of  the  world." 

He  then  condenses  the  accounts  given  by  "our  countrymen 
who  first  explored  this  river,  and  those  who  afterward  made 
frequent  voyages  thither."  The  trees  are  "of  wonderful  size, 
fit  for  buildings  and  vessels  of  the  largest  class.  Wild  grape- 
vines and  walnut  trees  are  abundant.  Maize  or  Indian  corn, 
when  cultivated,  yields  a  prolific  return;  and  so  with  several 
kinds  of  pulse,  as  beans  of  various  colors,  pumpkins, — the  finest 
possible,  melons,  and  similar  fruits.  The  soil  is  also  found  well 
adapted  to  wheat  and  several  kinds  of  grain,  as  also  flax,  hemp, 
and  other  European  seeds.  Herbaceous  plants  grow  in  great 
variety,  bearing  splendid  flower*,  or  valuable  for  their  medicinal 
properties.  The  forests  abound  in  wild  animals,  especially  the 
deer  kind ;  with  other  quadrupeds  indigenous  to  this  part  of  the 
country.  Quantities  of  birds,  large  and  small,  frequent  the  rivers, 
lakes  and  forests,  with  plumage  of  great  elegance  and  variety 
of  colors.  Superior  turkey-cocks  are  taken  in  winter,  very  fat, 
and  the  flesh  of  fine  quality.  Salmon,  sturgeon,  and  many  other 
kinds  of  excellent  fish  are  caught  in  the  rivers.  The  climate 
diflfers  little  in  temperature  from  our  own,  though  the  country 
lies  many  degrees  nearer  the  equator  than  the  Netherlands.  In 
winter  the  cold  is  intense,  and  snow  falls  frequent  and  deep,  cov- 
ering the  ground  for  a  long  time.  In  summer  it  is  subject  to 
much  thunder  and  lightning,  with  copious  and  refreshing  show- 
ers. Scarcely  any  part  of  America  is  better  adapted  for  colonists 
from  this  quarter;  nothing  is  wanting  necessary  to  sustain  life, 
except  cattle,  which  can  be  easily  taken  there,  and  easily  kept, 

W^ilbclmus  Baudartius,  of  Zutphcn;  printed  at  Arnhcm,  1624,  in  2  vols,  folio.  See 
Doc.  Hist.  N.  v.,  iv.  131.     Baudartius  was  grandfather  of  our  Wilhelmus  Beeckman. 


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on  account  of  the  abundance  of  fodder  growing  naturally  and 
luxuriantly. 

**The  Indians  are  indolent,  and  some  crafty  and  wicked,  hav- 
ing slain  several  of  our  people.  The  Manhattans,  a  fierce  nation, 
occupy  the  eastern  bank  of  the  river,  near  its  mouth.  Though 
hostile  to  our  people,  they  have  sold  them  the  island  or  point 
of  land  which  is  separated  from  the  main  by  Hellgat,  and  where 
they  have  laid  the  foundations  of  a  city  called  New  Amsterdam. 
The  barbarians  are  divided  into  many  nations  and  languages,  but 
differ  little  in  manners.  They  dress  in  the  skins  of  animals. 
Their  food  is  maize,  crushed  fine,  and  baked  in  cakes ;  with  fish, 
birds  and  wild  game.  Their  weapons  are  bows  and  arrows ;  their 
boats  made  from  the  trunks  of  trees,  hollowed  out  by  fire.  Some 
lead  a  wandering  life,  others  live  in  bark  houses,  their  furniture 
mainly  mats  and  wooden  dishes,  stone  hatchets,  and  stone  pipes 
for  smoking  tobacco.  They  worship  a  being  called  Manetto,  are 
governed  by  chiefs  called  Sagamos,  are  suspicious,  timid,  re- 
vengeful and  fickle;  but  hospitable  when  well  treated,  ready  to 
serve  the  white  man  for  little  compensation,  and  susceptible  of 
being  imbued  with  religion  and  good  manners,  especially  if 
colonies  of  well-ordered  people  should  be  planted  among  them, 
who  would  make  use  of  their  services  without  rudeness  or  abuse, 
and  by  degrees  teach  them  the  worship  of  the  true  God,  and  the 
habits  of  civilized  Hfe." 

These  accounts,  here  epitomized,  were  published  in  French, 
as  well  as  in  the  vernacular  tongue,  and  being  eagerly  sought  for 
and  read,  proved  a  powerful  incentive  to  emigration;  turning 
the  scale  with  many  desiring  a  change  in  favor  of  that  new 
country,  whose  superior  advantages  had  been  depicted  with  so 
graphic  a  pen. 

The  same  year  in  which  the  Walloon  college  was  founded,  a 
child  was  bom  in  the  city  of  Leyden,  of  Walloon  parents,  who 
being  well-to-do,  no  doubt  educated  him  in  that  school  of  learn- 
ing. This  was  Henry  De  Forest,  the  son  of  Jesse,  and  the 
brother  of  Rachel.  Bereft  of  his  father  while  yet  under  age,  he 
had  looked  to  his  uncle,  Gerard,  for  needed  counsel ;  and  there  is 
pleasing  evidence  that  the  relations  of  the  uncle  and  nephew  were 
intimate  and  confiding.  Time,  with  rapid  flight  and  many  a 
change,  had  ushered  in  the  year  1636.  Henry  was  now  of  the 
mature  age  of  thirty  years ;  his  brother  Isaac, — an  infant  of  four 
months  when  the  bells  rung  for  the  great  fire  at  the  University, 
— had  grown  to  be  a  young  man  of  twenty;  Jean,  the  eldest 
brother,  a  dyer  by  occupation,  had  recently  taken  a  wife,  and 


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was  living  at  the  Hoogewoert  in  Leyden;  while  Jesse,  the  other 
brother,  was  spoken  of  tenderly, — he  was  dead. 

Since  that  memorable  day  when  the  elder  De  Forest  left  the 
shores  of  Holland,  never  to  return,  his  family  had  felt  no  com- 
mon interest  in  all  that  related  to  America.  The  favorite  theme 
of  the  social  hour,  it  lent  a  fascination  to  their  dreams.  As 
seated  around  their  smouldering  turf  fire  they  talked  of  the 
eventful  past,  and  now  of  the  flattering  advantages  to  be  en- 
joyed in  New  Netherland, — ^thought  of  the  unwholesome  air  and 
prevalent  agues  of  Leyden,  and  of  the  appalling  scenes  of  the 
preceding  year,  when  pestilence  again  raged  around  them,  and 
many  thousands  of  their  neighbors  and  townsmen  were  swept 
off  by  the  plague, — ^the  two  brothers,  Henry  and  Isaac  De  Forest, 
resolved  to  turn  their  backs  upon  Holland,  for  a  venture  in  New 
Netherland.  There  the  tobacco  culture  now  assumed  new  im- 
portance, and  promised  large  profits  to  those  who  should  engage 
in  it,  owing  to  the  late  failure  of  that  crop  in  Virginia,  as  reported 
by  vessels  which  had  returned  the  preceding  fall  from  James 
River,  mostly  without  cargoes.  This  then  was  their  opportunity. 
Aided  in  their  plans  and  preparations  by  their  uncle  Gerard, 
whose  son  Crispin,  it  would  seem,  intended  to  make  one  of  the 
emigrating  party,  their  project  doubtless  had  all  the  encourage- 
ment and  support  to  be  given  it  by  their  influential  cousin,  Mr. 
Johannes  Panhuysen,  of  Leyden, — married  to  a  daughter  of 
Gerard  De  Forest, — who  was  then  a  director  of  the  West  India 
Company,  and  represented  Leyden  in  the  Chamber  at  Amster- 
dam, in  which  office  he  had  succeeded  Johannes  De  Laet.  The 
plan  seemed  complete  when  their  only  sister,  Rachel,  and  her 
husband,  Dr.  La  Montague,  agreed  to  go;  the  doctor,  under 
assurances  of  some  preferment  there,  deciding  to  give  up  his 
practice,  and  his  associations  and  membership  at  the  University, 
which  but  lately, — that  is,  on  March  3d,  1636, — he  had  renewed, 
as  also  his  old  home  on  the  Kloksteeg,  where  he  had  for  some 
years  lived,  at  the  sign  of  the  Queen  of  Bohemia.* 

But  all  things  were  not  yet  ready;  others  who  were  deeply 
interested  in  these  plans  were  to  be  consulted.  Across  the  Zuyder 
Zee,  on  the  west  coast  of  Freisland,  and  between  and  extending 

*  The  Queen  of  Bohemia,  a  noble  Christian  woman,  was  long  an  exile  in  Holland, 
th«h  object  of  profound  respect  and  sympathy  among  all  Protestants;  hence  her  effigy 
open  Montage's  signboard.  She  was  Elizabeth  Stuart,  daughter  of  Tames  I.  of  Eng- 
land, and  wife  of  rrederick  V.,  Elector  Palatine  of  the  Rhine  and  King  of  Bohemia, 
who  had  been  driven  from  his  dominions  by  the  Catholic  powers  in  162 1.  He  died  in 
1632,  leaving  the  Queen  with  a  large  family.  Neal  says  they  "were  always  the  delight 
of  the  Puritans,"  the  hope  of  Protestantism  in  England  resting  on  their  expected  suc- 
ce^on  to  that  throne;  an  event  which  happened  not  till  17 14,  when  a  grandson  of 
the  Queen  of  Bohemia  was  crowned  as  George  I. 


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nearly  to  the  towns  of  Workum  and  Hindelopen,  lies  a  pleasant 
grazing  district  called  Nieuwlant.  Here  dwelt  the  respectable 
Dutch  family  of  Bornstra,  to  one  of  whose  members,  a  maiden 
of  two-and-twenty  years,  named  Gertrude,  Henry  De  Forest 
was  affianced.  The  same  pleasing  relations  subsisted  between 
her  sister  Margareta  and  Henry's  cousin,  Crispin.  To  marry, 
to  leave  the  kindly  covert  of  the  parental  roof,  and  go  across 
the  sea  to  a  far  country, — it  was  a  bold  adventure,  to  which  the 
familiar  passage  of  the  Zuyder  Zee,  though  that  was  often  dan- 
gerous, was  a  trifling  matter.  But  what  confiding  young  bride 
ever  refused  to  follow  her  Henry,  wherever  he  might  lead,  and 
to  feel  safe  under  his  protection  ?  And  so  it  was  agreed  that  the 
nuptials  in  both  cases  should  take  place  at  the  same  time,  and 
in  the  seat  of  Dutch  fashion,  Amsterdam.  Accordingly,  on  Sat- 
urday, June  7,  1636,  the  two  happy  pairs  were  there,  and  attended 
by  Gerard  De  Forest,  as  voucher  for  his  son  and  nephew,  and 
having  the  written  consent  of  the  father  of  the  brides,  attested 
by  Secretary  Van  Neck,  of  Nieuwlant,  presented  themselves  in 
the  chamber  of  the  eminent  regent  and  physician.  Dr.  Claes  Tulp,. 
and  Jacob  Bicker,  both  schepens,  or  magistrates,  of  the  city,  and 
also  the  "Commissaries  of  Marriages,"  to  have  their  bans  regis- 
tered as  required  by  law,  and  to  request  the  usual  publication 
of  the  same.  Names,  residence,  age,  etc.,  being  then  recorded,, 
and  the  record  signed  by  the  parties,  this  first  public  step  toward 
their  union,  one  so  trying  to  bashful  lovers,  was  taken.  The 
next  was  to  send  notice  to  Leyden  to  have  the  bans  published  in 
the  church  on  three  succeeding  Sundays;  and  this  also  having 
been  done  "without  delay,"  the  two  couples,  on  Tuesday,  July  ist,. 
again  attended  by  the  father  and  uncle,  Gerard,  and  by  other 
friends,  met  in  Amsterdam,  and  were  married  by  Dominie  Bau- 
dius,  probably  at  the  New  Church,  in  the  public  place  called  the 
Dam,  on  whose  register  the  event  stands  recorded. 

The  social  festivities,  few  and  simple  at  that  day,  the  parting 
visits  to  the  dear  old  homes  at  Leyden  and  Nieuwlant,  and  busy, 
thoughtful  preparation  at  both  places  for  their  coming  departure, 
could  not  but  wear  a  tinge  of  sadness,  in  view  of  their  long 
and  perilous  voyage,  and  uncertain  absence  from  kin  and  country. 
The  kind  uncle,  Gerard,  engaged  two  persons  to  accompany  them 
in  the  capacity  of  farmer  and  farmer's  boy,  each  of  whom  entered 
into  a  formal  contract  to  "serve  said  De  Forest,  or  his  agent,, 
three  successive  years  after  arriving  in  New  Netherland."  The 
circumstances  of  Crispin  De  Forest's  marriage,  and  the  active 
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reasons  for  the  belief,  before  expressed,  that  he  also  intended 
to  be  of  the  party.  If  so,  something  changed  his  purpose  during  the 
long  delay  before  the  others  sailed,  and  Crispin  stayed  at  Leyden. 

The  company  yet  consisted  of  Dr.  La  Montague  and  his 
wife,  and  three  children,  Jesse,  Jean,  and  Rachel;  Henry  De 
Forest  and  his  bride,  and  Isaac  De  Forest,  with  the  assistants, 
Tobias  Teunissen  and  Willem  Fredericks  Bout,  both  natives  of 
Leyden.  The  last  was  a  sturdy  lad  of  sixteen  years,  perhaps  an 
orphan,  for  his  education  had  been  neglected,  but  of  a  surname 
common  there,  and  even  distinguished.  Teunissen,  by  trade  a 
woolwasher,  had  reached  middle  life,  having  married  in  1618. 
An  attendant  of  St.  Peter's  Church,  where  he  had  several  children 
baptized,  and  being  known  to  the  curators  of  the  University  as 
a  trustworthy  person,  he  was  employed  in  1622  as  a  nightwatch- 
man  at  that  institution,  for  which  he  received  six  florins  a  week. 
But  time  had  brought  him  sad  changes,  and  having  been  bereft 
of  his  family,  he  now  resolved  to  leave  behind  his  native  land 
and  kindred,  and,  as  he  vainly  hoped,  also  his  adversities. 

Now  arrived  the  long-expected  day  of  embarkation,  when 
hopes  and  fears,  congratulations  and  farewells,  smiles  and  tears,, 
strangely  commingled.  The  party  (except  the  Montague  family, 
who  for  some  reason  deferred  their  going)  set  sail  from  the 
Texel  for  New  Amsterdam,  October  ist,  1636,  in  the  yacht  Rens- 
selaerswyck,  of  which  Jan  Tiebkins  was  skipper,  and  carrying 
colonists  to  Fort  Orange,  in  the  service  of  the  Patroon,  Kilian 
Van  Rensselaer,  of  Amsterdam. 

Interrupting  for  a  space  the  story  of  these  pioneers,  let  us 
note  the  movements  of  others  in  whom  we  are  interested,  who 
were  led  to  follow  upon  the  same  adventurous  voyage  across  the 
ocean. 


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CHAPTER    V. 

EMIGRATION. 

A  MSTERDAM,  as  the  great  commercial  mart  of  Holland, 
"^  and  the  seat  of  the  principal  business  chamber  of  the  Dutch 
West  India  Company,  had  become  the  great  point  of  embarka- 
tion for  colonists  going  to  New  Netherland.  They  came  from  all 
parts  of  the  country :  not  only  the  native  Dutch,  and  fugitives  from 
France  and  the  Catholic  Netherlands,  but  also  refugees  from  the 
German  and  Scandinavian  countries,  multitudes  of  whom,  ren- 
dered miserable  by  the  Thirty  Years'  War,  were  seeking  a  home 
and  employment  in  the  United  Provinces.  Of  these  refugees  the 
historian  of  Holland  has  drawn  the  character  in  happy  terms. 
Says  Davies :  ''Nor  was  it  more  in  the  numbers  than  in  the  sort 
of  population  that  Holland  found  her  advantage.  The  fugitives 
were  not  criminals  escaped  from  justice,  speculators  lured  by 
the  hope  of  plunder,  nor  idlers  coming  thither  to  enjoy  the  lux- 
uries which  their  own  country  did  not  afford :  they  were  generally 
men  persecuted  on  account  of  their  love  of  civil  liberty,  or  their 
devotion  to  their  religious  tenets.  Had  they  been  content  to  sacri- 
fice the  one  or  the  other  to  their  present  ease  and  interest,  they 
had  remained  unmolested  where  they  were ;  it  was  by  their  activ- 
ity, integrity  and  resolution  that  they  rendered  themselves  ob- 
noxious to  the  tyrannical  and  bigoted  governments  which  drove 
them  from  their  native  land;  and  these  virtues  they  carried  with 
them  to  their  adopted  country,  peopling  it,  not  with  vagabonds 
or  indolent  voluptuaries,  but  with  brave,  intelligent  and  useful 
citizens." 

Thus  our  Captain  Jochiem  Pietersen  Kuyter,  who  had  for- 
merly commanded  in  the  East  Indies  for  the  king  of  Denmark, 
and  who  with  his  friend,  Jonas  Bronck,  came  out  in  1639  by 
way  of  Amsterdam,  was  from  Holstein ;  as  were  also  our  Nicholas 
De  Meyer  and  Jan  Pietersen  Slot,  who  arrived  a  few  years  later : 
all  these  being  sterling  men,  and,  except  the  last,  well  educated. 
The  small  county  of  Bentheim, — a  part  of  Westphalia  bordering 
on  Overyssel,  diversified  with  mountain  ranges,  forests,  and  fer- 
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needed  of  cattle,  wool,  linen,  honey,  etc.,  all  of  which  found  in 
Holland  a  ready  market,  and  whence  had  arisen  a  free  intercourse 
between  the  two  peoples, — furnished  three  colonists,  whose  sur- 
names yet  survive  with  us,  to  wit,  Adolph  Meyer,  Jan  Dyckman^ 
and  Arent  Harmans  Bussing,  the  last  named  of  a  family  not 
unknown  to  fame  in  that  country ;  and  two  bore  prenomens  popu- 
lar in  their  part  of  Germany, — as  among  the  rulers  of  Bentheim 
none  were  such  favorites  as  the  late  counts  Adolph  and  Arent. 
Other  Westphalians  found  their  way  to  Harlem,  as  Hendrick 
Karstens,  from  Oldenburg,  whose  sons  were  called  Boch,  or 
Bouck;  Jan  Terbosch,  from  Tellust,  or  Delmenhorst,  whose  de- 
scendants are  numerous;  and  Jan  Meynderts,  from  Jever,  in 
Oldenburg,  and  the  father-in-law  of  Barent  Waldron.  Kier 
Wolters,  the  Kiersen  ancestor,  who  had  lived  at  Gees  and  at 
Aernhout,  two  obscure  villages  in  the  "Groot  Veenen,"  or  desert- 
like fens  of  Drenthe,  came  out  via  Amsterdam;  as  did  also  our 
Benson  ancestor,  who  was  originally  from  Groningen.  From 
VVorkum,  on  the  coast  of  Freisland,  came  Captain  Jan  Gerritsen 
De  Varies,  or  Van  Dalsen,  progenitor  of  the  Dolsen  family,  of 
Orange  County,  whose  blood  may  be  traced  in  those  of  Waldron, 
Kiersen  and  Meyer. 

Amsterdam  itself  gave  us  of  its  resident  families  those  of 
Waldron,  Sneden  and  Verveelen,  familiar  names,  yet  found  in 
this  State  and  others,  and  to  which  the  Slots  and  Bensons  may 
be  added.  Dirck  Benson,  the  ancestor,  though  himself  from 
Groningen,  as  stated,  had  lived  at  Amsterdam,  where  he  married 
Catalina,  daughter  of  Samson  Berck  and  Tryntie  Van  Rechteren ; 
whence  the  name  Samson,  so  common  in  the  Benson  family. 
Benson  came  out  about  1648. 

Also  from  Amsterdam  was  Hendrick  Jansen  Vander  Vin. 
Well  educated,  and  a  good  accountant,  he  was  commended  to 
the  notice  of  the  West  India  Company,  and  went  under  their  aus- 
pices to  Pernambuco,  in  Brazil,  where  he  acted  as  clerk  to  the 
High  Council  of  Justice  at  Maurits  Stadt,  a  town  built  by  the 
Dutch  near  the  Reciff.  Some  fragments  of  his  minutes  kept  at 
that  place  in  1646  are  yet  extant.  He  was  there  during  the  dis- 
mal period  of  the  Portuguese  conspiracy  to  extirpate  the  Dutch, — 
happily  discovered  and  thwarted, — but  which  was  followed  by 
many  reverses  to  the  Dutch  arms,  and  then  by  the  surrender  of 
Brazil  to  the  rival  power  in  1654.  Vander  Vin  had  left  some 
years  prior  to  the  final  catastrophe,  and  returned  to  Amsterdam, 
resuming  his  business  as  a  notary.  But  in  165 1  he  went  out  to 
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returning  for  a  stock  of  goods  to  set  up  trading  in  New  Amster- 
dam, he  again  repaired  thither  in  1653,  taking  his  good  vrouw, 
Wyntie,  to  share  with  him  the  blessings  and  privations  of  his  new 
home.  He  subsequently  served  fourteen  years  at  Harlem  as 
voorleser,  and  twelve  of  these  as  town  clerk. 

Joseph  and  Resolved  Waldron,  sons  of  Resolved  Waldron, 
of  Amsterdam,  were  book  printers.  The  family  was  English; 
the  name,  of  repute  in  England  from  the  time  of  the  Conqueror, 
had  spread  through  nearly  all  its  southern  tier  of  counties.  But 
born  and  raised  at  Amsterdam,  these  brothers  had  acquired  all 
the  characteristics  of  Hollanders,  having  also  married  Dutch 
wives,  the  sisters  Aeltie  and  Rebecca  Hendricks,  whose  father, 
Hendrick  Koch,  was  a  respectable  Amsterdam  burgher.  It  is 
stated  on  pretty  good  authority  that  Resolved  had  made  the 
voyage  to  Brazil,  but  of  this  we  will  not  speak  further  here. 
Having  the  misfortune  to  lose  his  wife,  he  married  again,  on 
May  loth,  1654,  a  lady  of  thirty  years,  living  near  the  West 
India  House,  Tanneke  Nagel,  daughter  of  Barent  Nagel,  deceased, 
of  Groningen.  Resolved  was  living  at  this  time  in  the  Teerketels- 
steeg,  a  short  street  just  north  of  the  Dam;  but  the  same  year 
sailed  with  his  family  for  America.  His  brother,  Joseph  Waldron, 
had  preceded  him  to  this  country  by  two  years,  according  to  his 
son's  reckoning.  He  also  was  accompanied  by  a  second  wife, 
Annetie  Daniels,  but  twenty-five  when  he  married  her,  at  Amster- 
dam, April  4,  1649,  she  and  Resolved's  wife  being  of  the  same  age. 

Near  the  time  Resolved  Waldron  left  for  the  Manhattans,  the 
young  John  La  Montague,  who  had  spent  seventeen  years  at 
the  latter  place, — indeed  had  grown  up  there,  where  he  was  highlv 
esteemed,  and  was  now  in  business  with  Vincent  Pikes,  "both  free 
traders  in  company," — arrived  at  Amsterdam  in  the  ship  King 
Solomon.  Not  only  to  visit  his  native  land  and  kindred, — alike 
as  strange  and  new  to  his  eye  as  though  he  were  an  alien, — he 
came  to  buy  a  stock  of  merchandise,  and  also  to  sell  a  lot  of  to- 
bacco, of  which  he  was  consignee,  and  to  invest  the  proceeds  in 
goods  for  his  uncle,  Isaac  De  Forest ;  but  what  more  deeply  con- 
cerned him,  was  to  choose  a  wife,  the  fair  one  selected  being  Peter- 
nella,  sister  of  his  business  partner,  and  daughter  of  Jan  Pikes, 
of  Amsterdam.  The  nuptial  knot  being  tied  by  Pastor  Meursius, 
at  Slooterdyk,  a  village  a  mile  from  Amsterdam,  on  March  14th 
following  (1655),  La  Montague  sailed  very  soon  on  his  return, 
he  wife  remaining  till  after  the  birth  and  baptism  of  her  son 
John,  which  occurred  late  in  the  same  year. 

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ancestor  of  the  respectable  family  of  Slott  or  Sloat,  of  Orange 
County,  and  of  Rockland,  and  the  Ramapo  Valley,  came  out  with 
his  children,  bom  and  reared  in  Amsterdam,  about  the  same  time 
with  Resolved  Waldron;  and  Johannes  Verveelen  and  Jan  Sne- 
den  followed  them,  in  1657.  Sneden  was  descended  from  a 
family  long  at  Amsterdam,  and  was  accompanied  to  America  by 
his  wife  Grietie  Jans,  two  children,  and  brother,  Claes  Sneden. 
They  sailed  in  the  St.  Jan  Baptist,  December  23d  of  the  last- 
named  year, — one  which  witnessed  the  departure  of  many  colon- 
ists for  New  Amstel,  on  the  Delaware,  under  the  patronage  of  the 
City  of  Amsterdam,  and  among  whom  was  Kier  Wolters,  father 
of  the  Kiersens,  as  before  stated. 

Verveelen  was  born  in  161 6,  at  Amsterdam,  but  of  German 
stock,  with  an  infusion  of  French,  being  a  son  of  Daniel  Ver- 
veelen, who,  with  his  parents,  Hans  Verveelen  and  Catharina, 
daughter  of  John  Oliviers,  had  some  five  years  prior  to  the 
birth  of  Johannes  removed  to  that  city  from  Cologne,  on  the 
Rhine.  Religious  intolerance,  which  culminated  in  1618  in  the 
expulsion  of  all  the  Protestants  from  that  town,  had  doubtless 
driven  the  Verveelens  to  Amsterdam.  Here  the  son  Daniel,  born 
at  Cologne  in  1594,  married  in  1615,  and  became  a  "shopkeeper" ; 
and  here  also  his  son  Johannes,  the  eldest  of  six  children,  was 
reared  and  educated,  and  in  1637  married  Anna  Jaarsvelt,  by 
whom  he  had,  all  born  in  that  city,  three  children,  Daniel,  Anna 
and  Maria.  The  first  of  these,  when  a  mere  boy,  preceded  his 
father  to  New  Netherland,  under  the  care,  we  believe,  of  Dominie 
Gideon  Schaets,  one  of  whose  daughters  he  married.  After 
several  years  his  father  followed,  bringing  his  wife  and  daugh- 
ters, and  widowed  mother,  Anna  Elkhout,  aged  about  sixty-six 
years. 

Utrecht  and  Arnhem,  cities  on  the  Rhine,  the  latter  within 
Gelderland,  supplied  settlers  to  Harlem.  A  hamlet  near  Amers- 
foort,  in  the  province  or  diocese  of  Utrecht,  gave  us  Jan  Hen- 
dricks Van  Brevoort,  who  came  to  this  country  in  boyhood  with 
his  father,  and  from  whom  have  sprung  the  reputable  family  of 
Brevoort.  Several  years  later  (about  1655)  the  head  of  the  Van 
Tilburg  family,  Jan  Teunissen,  emigrated  from  Tilburg,  in  the 
Mayory  of  Bosch  (or  Bois  le  Due),  in  Dutch  Brabant;  and  from 
the  same  district  afterward  came  two  other  colonists  whose  pro- 
geny are  numerous  and  respectable,  to  wit,  David  Ackerman  and 
Dirck  Storm,  names  not  unknown  at  Harlem.  Ackerman  was 
from  Berlikum.  These,  with  other  families,  sailed  from  Amster- 
dam, September  2d,  1662,  in  the  ship  Fox,  Captain  Jacob  Huys, 


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which  also  brought  Jan  Terbosch  and  Robert  Le  Maire,  already 
named  and  identified  with  Harlem. 

The  large  emigration  to  New  Netherland  from  the  exposed 
borders  nearest  the  Spanish  possessions,  and  especially  the  insular 
district  having  on  the  south  the  river  Waal,  and  on  the  north  the 
Rhine  and  Leek,  furnished  Harlem  with  several  substantial  fam- 
ilies. Central  of  the  district  mentioned,  upon  the  small  river 
Linge,  which  empties  into  the  Waal,  stood  the  city  of  Leerdam, 
giving  name  to  a  county  in  which  it  was  seated, — a  level,  graz- 
ing country,  otherwise  called  the  Prince's  Land,  because  inherited 
by  a  son  of  William  of  Orange,  from  his  mother,  Anne  of  Eg- 
mont.  To  Leerdam  had  retired  from  the  religious  troubles  in 
Flanders,  as  before  noticed,  the  family  of  Sebastian,  or  Bastiaen 
Van  Kortryk,  about  all  we  know  of  this  Kortright  progenitor, 
with  his  royal  Spanish  name.  Two  sons  of  Bastiaen,  of  whom 
we  must  speak,  Jan  and  Michiel,  were  born  at  Leerdam ;  but  Jan 
married  and  settled  farther  up  the  Linge,  at  a  busy  little  village 
within  sight  of  Wolfswaert  Castle,  as  also  of  the  ruined  abbey 
of  Marenwaert,  and  called  Beest,  its  bailiwick  of  the  same  name 
adjoining  westerly  to  the  Prince's  Land,  but  within  the  Gelder- 
land  border.  The  spirit  of  emigration  reaching  this  locality, 
many  of  its  people  began  to  pack  up  and  leave  for  New  Nether- 
land, in  which  they  had  a  safe  precedent  in  no  less  a  person- 
age than  the  village  pedagague.  Master  Gideon  Schaets, — much 
reverenced  was  he  and  looked  up  to  in  those  days, — and  who, 
in  the  spirit  of  his  deceased  senior,  Mathias  Bartholomeus  Schaets 
(late  pastor  at  Leerdam,  who  died  four  years  before  Gideon  was 
born),  after  a  course  in  theology,  had  gone  thither  with  his 
family  in  1652,  under  license  from  the  Classis  of  Amsterdam,  to 
preach  the  Gospel,  and  to  fill  "the  office  of  schoolmaster  for  old 
and  young.'*  Among  those,  accordingly,  who  at  length  set  their 
faces  to  follow  their  old  preceptor  to  the  New  World,  were  two 
brothers,  of  Beest,  sons  of  Peter  Buys.  Aert,  the  elder,  with 
wife  and  son  Cornelis,  joining  some  families  from  that  place, 
and  single  persons  of  both  sexes,  his  friends  and  neighbors,  set 
sail  from  Amsterdam  May  9,  1661,  in  the  ship  Beaver,  reaching 
Manhattan  July  29th.*  Two  years  later  Johannes  Buys  joined 
his  brother  at  Harlem. 

*  Peter  Marselis,  his  wife,  four  children  and  two  servants;  Frans  Jacobson,  wife 
and  two  children:  Goosen  Jansen  Van  Noort  and  Hendrick  Dries  were  among  those  re- 
ferred to  from  Beest.  The  first  two  went  to  Bergen,  N.J. ;  the  others,  I  believe,  to 
Albanjr.  (See  Pearson's  Albany  Settlers.)  Bries  must  not  be  taken  for  Hendrick  Volkert- 
sen  Bries,  from  Jever,  in  Oldenburg,  who  married  at  New  Amsterdam  in  165^,  and  whence 
came  the  Breese  family  of  Long  Island,  Staten  Island  and  New  Jersey.  Marselis  died 
September  4,  1681,  leaving  descendants.  Jacobsen,  having  a  son  Jacob  Franssen,  bom 
in  1664,  died  about  that  time,  and  in  1665,  Cornelis  Abrahams,  from  Deyl,  near  Beest, 


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SCHOONREWOERD. 

Michiel,  or,  as  often  called,  'Chiel  Kortright,  the  other  son 
of  Bastiaen,  had  also  married  and  been  living  in  **the  Prince's 
Land,  near  Schoonrewoerd" ;  the  latter  a  pretty  village  two  miles 
northerly  from  Leerdam,  whence  there  had  been  some  emigrating 
to  the  Colonie  of  Rensselaerswyck,  at  the  instance  of  the  Patroon, 
who  had  a  seat  and  estates  at  Vianen,  but  four  miles  from  Schoon- 
rewoerd. Foremost  in  this  service  were  Rutger  Jacobsen,  who 
went  out  in  the  vessel  with  the  De  Forests,  and  also  his  brother, 
Teunis  Jacobsen,  the  ancestors  of  families  since  well  known.*  To 
the  Colonie  afterward  Dominie  Schaets  had  also  gone.  Each  bit 
of  news  wafted  home  from  time  to  time  in  friendly  letters  served 
to  quicken  interest  in  the  new  country  which  had  caused  so  many 
vacant  tenements  and  broken  families  about  Beest  and  Schoonre- 
woerd.    Yet  'Chiel  Kortright  tarried  some  years  at  the  latter 

married  his  widow,  Gecrtie  G€rrits.  She  died  a  widow,  at  Pemrcpogh,  in  1680,  having 
tl»  year  before  lost  her  eldest  son  Gcrrit  Franssen,  and  married  her  daughter,  Marritie 
Frans,  to  Johannes  Spier,  son  of  Hendrick  Jansen  Spier,  from  Ascheward,  in  Bremen, 
oommon  ancestor  of  the  Spier  or  Speer  family  of  New  Jersey. 

The  same  ship,  the  Beaver,  took  over  Hugh  Barents  De  Kleyn,  from  Buren;  Aert 
Tcunisz  Middagh,  from  Heykoop  (settled  in  Brooklyn);  and  Evert  Pietersen  Keteltas, 
rrtuming  to  New  Amsterdam  as  "consoler  of  the  sick,  chorister  and  schoolmaster;'* 
also  Etienne  Gencau,  a  Huguenot  from  La  Rochelle,  his  wife  Lyria  Metereu  and  three 
dnldren.  He  lived  at  Harlem,  I  believe,  in  1675,  but  went  to  Staten  Island,  and  was 
ilie  Gano  ancestor. 

•  Rutger  Jacobsen  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Rutgers  family  of  New  York,  and 
also,  through  bis  daughter  Margaret,  who  married,  1667,  Jan  Jansen  Bleecker,  from 
Meppel,  a  progenitor  of  the  highly  respectable  f ami Iv  of  this  name.  Teunis  Jacob- 
sen*  descendants,  who  have  been  numerous  in  Albany  County,  took  name  from 
his  birthplace,  but  shortened  to  Van  Woert.  (See  Holgate's  Am.  Gen.,  Pearson's 
•Mbany  Settlers  and  0*Callaghan's  N.  Neth.,  i.  436,  439). 


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place,  till  blest  with  three  or  four  children ;  when  he  and  his  elder 
brother,  Jan  Bastiaesen,  whose  three  sons,  bom  at  Beest, — his 
humble  home  in  a  bend  of  the  Linge, — were  now  fast  approaching 
manhood,  yielded  to  the  flattering  offers  held  out  to  colonists,  and 
agreed  to  leave  together  for  that  distant  land.  The  contagion 
had  also  seized  some  of  the  neighbors  at  Schoonrewoerd,  one  of 
whom  was  Jan  Lou  we  Bogert,  a  young  man  with  wife  and  two 
children,  and  whose  kinsman,  Theunis  Gysberts  Bogert,  of  Hey- 
koop,  two  miles  northwest  of  Schoonrewoerd,  had  already  been 
ten  years  in  America.  Proceeding  to  Amsterdam,  they  all  em- 
barked, April  1 6th,  1663,  in  the  Brindled  Cow,  Jan  Bergen,  mas- 
ter, in  which  ship  there  also  sailed  several  French  refugees  from 
Mannheim,  in  the  Palatinate,  who  will  command  further  notice. 

For  years  the  streams  of  Huguenot  emigration  setting  out 
of  France  and  the  Low  Countries  had  been  bearing  to  Holland, 
now  a  solitary  wanderer,  now  a  stricken  family,  some  to  abide 
here  for  a  time,  others  seeking  a  passage  to  the  New  World,  but 
destined  ultimately  to  find  at  Harlem  a  resting-place.  Coming 
by  no  general  or  concerted  action,  but  only  as  a  crisis  in  the 
affairs  of  each  had  indicated  the  time  and  the  mode,  it  is  not 
easy  to  fix  the  exact  date  of  their  flight,  though  the  era  has 
been  sufficiently  shown.  We  shall  name  them,  as  we  have  the 
Dutch  colonists,  in  the  order  of  their  departure  for  New  Neth- 
erland. 

Daniel  De  Tourneur  (so  his  name  was  sometimes  written), 
leaving  Picardy  by  a  sudden  necessity,  as  already  related,  and 
coming  to  Leyden,  had  here  followed  the  business  of  a  draper; 
and  on  September  5th,  1650,  married  Jacqueline  Parisis,  of  a 
Walloon  refugee  family  from  Hesdin,  in  Artois,  and  a  sister  to 
Rev.  Eustacius  Parisis,  then  of  Amsterdam.  Nearly  two  years 
later,  Tourneur  sailed,  with  his  wife  and  infant  son  Daniel,  for 
New  Netherland,  probably  in  the  ship  with  Dominie  Samuel  Dris- 
ius,  of  Leyden,  which  left  Holland  April  4,  1652.  Jean  le  Roy,  a 
kinsman  of  Tourneur,  appears  to  have  accompanied  him  with 
his  wife,  Louise  De  Lancastre,  whose  name  implies  an  English 
birth. 

Glaude  Le  Maistre,  or  Delamater,  as  usually  written  by  his 
descendants,  had  sprung  from  an  ancient  house  of  Brittany,  the 
Lords  of  Garlaye,  whose  chateau  and  estates  lay  in  the  parish 
of  Derval,  in  the  diocese  of  Nantes.  It  was  eminent  in  the  civil 
and  military  service,  the  church,  and  the  law.  Its  members  had 
held  commands  in  Picardy,  where  one  of  its  now  scattered 
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early  in  the  sixteenth  century  to  the  lords  of  Caumartin.  Claude 
Le  Maistre,  Sieur  De  Hedicourt,  becoming  a  Protestant,  was, 
with  others,  imprisoned  and  fined  at  Amiens  in  1588,  at  the 
instance  of  the  League.  He  was  a  man  of  talent  and  spirit, 
and  showed  great  valor  in  opposing  the  entrance  of  the  Spaniards 
into  that  city  in  1597,  when  soldiers  in  the  garb  of  peasants, 
selling  apples  and  nuts,  had  gained  admission.  Our  Glaude  Le 
Maistre  was  no  doubt  of  this  family,  members  of  which  had  re- 
moved to  Artois,  where  he  was  born,  as  before  said,  in  the  town  of 
Richebourg.  After  escaping  the  country  he  comes  to  notice  at 
Amsterdam,  in  1652,  an  exile  and  a  widower,  living  in  the  Tan- 
ners' cross-street,  having  lost  his  wife,  Jeanne  De  Lannoy.  On 
April  24th  of  that  year  he  married  Hester,  daughter  of  Pierre 
Du  Bois,  of  Amsterdam,  though  late  of  Canterbury,  England, 
where  Hester  was  born.  Some  of  the  Le  Maistres  had  also  taken 
refuge  at  Canterbury,  and  circumstances  make  it  nearly  certain 
that  Glaude  was  among  them,  and  with  the  Du  Boises  had  left 
England  because  of  the  civil  wars  then  raging,  or  the  threatened 
rupture  with  Holland,  and,  perhaps,  in  his  case,  to  take  ship  for 
Xew  Xetherland,  as  he  soon  did,  appearing  with  Tourneur  first 
at  Flatbush,  and  afterward  at  Harlem. 

Marc  Du  Sauchoy,  whose  name  will  hardly  be  recognized  by 
his  worthy  posterity  the  Disosway  family,  was  a  native  of  Picardy, 
and  probably  from  Amiens.  The  lords  Du  Sauchoy  came  from 
the  house  of  Clermont,  in  the  Beauvoisis,  and  one  of  them  went 
to  the  conquest  of  Britain  with  the  Duke  of  Normandy.  Perhaps 
our  Marc,  a  man  of  worth  and  enterprise,  was  of  that  blood,  but 
we  know  not.  In  his  exile  he  worked  as  a  wool-carder,  but  in 
search  of  something  better,  made  a  voyage  from  Holland  to  New 
Netherland  in  1655.  Sufficiently  pleased  with  the  country  to 
make  it  his  future  home,  he  returned  to  Leyden,  married,  March 
nth,  1657,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Guillaume  Rossignol,  and  with 
his  bride  again  sailed  from  Amsterdam  for  Manhattan,  on  April 
2d  ensuing,  in  the  ship  Draevat,  Captain  Bestevaer,  taking  with 
him  two  workmen,  and  two  boys  over  twelve  years  of  age,  to  aid 
him  in  farming.  One  of  the  adults  was  Johannes  Smedes,  from 
Harderwyck,  in  Gelderland,  and  one  of  the  lads,  Jean  Guenon 
(now  Genung),  of  Leyden,  both  of  whom  have  many  descend- 
ants.* 

David  Du  Four,  a  native  of  Mons,  in  Hainault,  upon  this 

•  Tctinis  Kray  (or  Gray),  from  Vcnlo,  on  the  Maas,  returned  in  this  ship  to 
New  Netherland,  where  he  had  already  lived  several  years.  He  was  now  accompanied 
br  his  wife  and  children,  one  of  the  latter  afterward  the  wife  of  Capt.  Jan  Van 
Dalsen,  of  Harlem,  already  noticed. 


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place  being  threatened  by  the  successes  of  the  French  in  the 
Walloon  districts,  retired  with  others  of  his  family  to  Sedan, 
and  afterward  to  Amsterdam,  where  Du  Four,  though  fitted  by 
education  for  a  better  position,  became  an  "opperman,"  or  dray- 
man. Left  by  the  death  of  his  wife,  Marie  Boulen,  with  a  young 
child,  Jean,  born  during  their  stay  at  Sedan,  he  found  another 
companion  in  Jeanne  Frances,  a  lady  of  mature  thirty-two  years, 
from  Queivrain,  a  little  east  of  Mons,  to  whom  he  was  married 
July  loth,  1657.  That  same  year,  with  his  new  wife  and  his 
little  son  aforesaid,  he  sailed  for  Manhattan  Island. 

Jean  Gervoe  and  Francois  Le  Suer  went  out  at  near  the 
same  date,  the  first  being  a  young  man  from  Beaumont,  in  Haln- 
ault,  and  who,  choosing  the  congenial  calling  of  the  Walloon, 
afterward  served  the  West  India  Company  as  a  soldier  at  Har- 
lem. Le  Sueur,  the  Lozier  ancestor,  was  from  Colmenil,  in 
Normandy,  and  was  accompanied  by  his  young  sister  Jeanne, 
neither  being  married. 

Jacques  Cousseau,  merchant  at  La  Rochelle  in  1653,  and  for 
four  years  later,  when  he  returned  to  Amsterdam,  took  his  de- 
parture soon  after,  with  his  wife  Madeleine  Du  Tulliere,  for 
America,  evidently  on  the  ship  Gilded  Beaver,  which  sailed  May 
17th,  1658.  This  need  hardly  be  doubted;  Cousseau  paid  the 
fare  of  Simon  Bouche,  who  went  in  that  vessel,  and  directly  on 
its  arrival  at  New  Amsterdam,  several  of  the  passengers,  and 
with  them  Cousseau,  on  July  i8th,  applied  for  and  were  granted 
the  small  burgher  right. 

Simon  De  Ruine,  another  refugee  (familiarly  known  as  Le 
Ouallon, — that  is,  the  Walloon),  bore  a  name  found  at  Valen- 
ciennes, near  Landrecy,  escaped  to  Holland,  tarrying  there  for 
some  years.  He  went  out  with  his  wife,  Magdalena  Vander- 
straaten,  and  several  children,  in  the  ship  Faith,  "a  private  trader 
going  to  the  Manhattans,"  which  sailed  February  13,  1659,  with 
nearly  a  hundred  passengers,  De  Ruine*  being. the  only  French- 
man. 


•  Gillis  Janscn  De  Mandcville,  from  Gardcren,  in  the  Vcluwc,  Gclderland,  and 
ancestor  of  the  American  family  of  Mandcville,  came  out  in  this  vessel;  as  did  his 
neighbor,  also  a  farmer,  Wouter  Gcrritsen,  from  Koetwyck,  some  three  miles  from 
Gardcren;  and  likewise  Jan  Meynderts,  already  named.  The  last  two  will  appear  at 
Harlem. 

Gillis  (often  written  Yellis)  or  Giles  De  Mandcville  was  accompanied  by  his 
wife  Elsie  Hendricks  and  four  children,  having  two  bom  afterward,  one  being  David. 
Yellis  bought  a  farm  at  Flatbush,  which  he  finally  gave  to  his  eldest  son  Hendrick, 
and  got  the  grant  of  another,  of  30  acres,  at  Greenwich,  on  Manhattan  Island,  laid 
out  to  him  December  5,  1670,  and  patented  December  30,  1680.  Here  he  died  between 
1606  and  1 701.  All  of  his  children  married.  He  had  but  the  two  sons,  both  of  whom 
left  descendants.  David  remained  on  the  farm  at  Greenwich.  Hendrick  removed  from 
Long  Island  to  Pequannock,  N.  J.  These  have  given  several  pastors  to  the  Reformed 
Church,  including  Rev.  Giles  Henry  Mandcville,  D.  D. 


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Pierre  Cresson  was  another  worthy  refugee,  and  whose  fam- 
ily seat,  as  is  believed,  was  at  Menil  la  Cresson,  or  Cresson  Manor, 
a  little  northeast  of  Abbeville,  in  Picardy,  though  he  was  no  doubt 
allied  to  the  Cressons  of  Burgundy,  of  whom  were  several  Re- 
formed ministers.  Such  change  of  residence  was  common  dur- 
ing the  long  Burgundian  rule  in  Picardy.  Pierre,  whose  char- 
acter for  piety  is  well  attested,  fled  with  some  of  his  kin  to  the 
noted  refuge,  Sluis,  in  Flanders,  but  soon  moved  farther  north, 
and  in  1640  is  found  (with  Nicolas  and  Venant  Cresson,  both 
married)  among  the  refugees  at  Leyden.  The  large  number  of 
these  emigrating  to  New  Netherland  had  doubtless  an  effect  upon 
Pierre,  though,  with  a  vigor  and  activity,  which  indeed  he  retained 
till  old  age  (but  at  this  date  scarce  more  than  thirty),  he  supported 
himself  in  Holland  for  about  seventeen  years,  living  parts 
of  that  time  at  Ryswyk  and  Delft.  Employed  as  gardener  to  the 
Prince  of  Orange,  he  was  ever  after  known  as  Pierre  Le  Gardin- 
ier.  But  Cresson  was  at  last  taken  with  the  favorable  offers  of 
the  City  of  Amsterdam  to  those  who  would  go  to  their  new  colony 
on  the  Delaware ;  and  it  seeming  a  good  opportunity  for  him  and 
his  growing  family,  he  gathered  up  his  little  means,  and  with  wife 
Rachel  Cloos  and  children,  embarked,  in  1657,  ^^  Amsterdam, 
for  New  Amstel.  The  next  year  Governor  Stuyvesant,  visiting 
the  Delaware,  engaged  Cresson  "for  his  service"  at  the  Manhat- 
tans, "with  the  proposition  that  what  he  owed  the  city  (Amster- 
dam) should  be  settled.''  Soon  after  Cresson  made  a  trip  to 
Holland,  returning  in  company  with  several  other  French  agri- 
culturists in  the  ship  Beaver,  which  sailed  April  25th,  1659,  reach- 
ing its  destination  after  a  quick  passage  of  six  weeks.  Each 
passing  year  thus  added  to  the  roll  of  worthy  fugitives,  who,  led 
by  an  unseen  but  mighty  hand  out  of  oppression  into  the  atmos- 
phere of  freedom,  were  perforce  of  their  common  nationality  and 
sympathies  to  find  a  common  home  beyond  the  Atlantic* 

But  this  roll  is  not  yet  complete.  England,  as  already  hinted, 
first  became  an  asylum  for  some  of  our  settlers.  Many  perese- 
cuted  refugees  from  France  and  Flanders  took  that  direction, 
embarking  usually  in  regularly  plying  vessels,  but  often,  if  hard 
pressed,  venturing  to  cross  the  Channel  in  any  sort  of  craft,  even 
at  the  peril  of  their  lives,  while  making  for  the  most  accessible 
port  on  the  opposite  shore.     They  landed  principally  at  Dover, 

*  Ma^^cn  Van  Wecrt,  a  hatter  from  Utrecht,  who  had  visited  this  countrv  five 
years  before,  came  out  in  the  ship  with  Cresson,  in  1659.  He  married,  December  4, 
1660,  Susanna,  daughter  of  Abraham  Verplanck.  The  Van  Weerts,  his  children, 
were  prominent  in  the  church  at  Sleepy  Hollow,  Westchester  County.  Isaac  Van  Wart, 
one  of  the  captors  of  Major  Andre,  the  spy,  was  a  descendant.  (See  Bolton's  West- 
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Sandwich,  and  Rye,  within  the  counties  of  Kent  and  Sussex. 
Meeting  a  uniform  welcome  and  sympathy,  they  formed  colonies 
and  churches  at  these  places,  and  set  up  various  manufactures, 
mainly  those  of  cloth  and  linen,  in  which  they  were  encouraged 
by  the  general  and  local  authorities.  The  seaports  named,  and 
others  becoming  crowded  with  these  exiles,  many  by  invitation 
went  inland  to  Canterbury,  Norwich,  etc.,  and  still  more  up  the 
Thames  to  London,  at  all  which  places  they  founded  similar  com- 
munities and  industries.  These  colonies  were  greatly  multiplied 
after  the  time  of  which  we  are  writing.  The  story  of  the  refugees 
in  England  is  very  touching;  while  their  patient  toil,  the  skill 
and  ingenuity  they  exhibited  in  the  production  of  various  useful 
articles,  evoked  the  admiration  of  the  English;  their  devotion  to 
their  religion,  their  care  to  maintain  its  ordinances  whereever 
they  went,  was  highly  creditable.  Kept  well  informed  of  affairs 
in  their  native  lands,  the  sympathy  they  manifested  for  their  still 
suffering  brethren  set  them  in  a  most  amiable  light.  Bound  to 
their  fellow-refugees  in  Holland  by  common  interests  as  well 
as  by  many  family  ties,  there  was  a  free  intercourse,  and  removals 
from  one  country  to  the  other  often  took  place  due  to  these  affin- 
ities or  the  simple  desire  to  better  their  state;  but  sometimes 
prompted  by  dangers  which  threatened  them  as  a  people,  or  tliose 
countries  at  large.  Ever  keenly  alive  to  passing  events  in  anywise 
bearing  on  their  cause  or  that  of  Protestantism  in  general,  one 
which  greatly  affected  the  refugees  was  the  Peace  of  Westphalia, 
in  1648,  ending  the  Thirty  Years'  War,  and  opening  to  them  a 
new  asylum  up  the  Rhine,  unto  which  many  resorted,  as  we  shall 
see. 

The  family  Des  Marets  was  of  the  old  Picard  gentry,  and 
was  also  prominent  in  the  church  at  Oisemont,  of  which  David 
Des  Marets,  the  Sieur  Du  Ferets,  was  an  elder.  His  son,  Samuel, 
born  at  Oisemont,  in  1599,  and  taught  at  the  great  schools  of 
Paris,  Saumur  and  Geneva,  became  in  1619  pastor  of  the  church 
of  Laon.  But  forced  to  leave  in  1623  by  an  attempt  upon  his  life 
which  nearly  proved  fatal,  he  accepted  a  new  charge  at  Falaise, 
in  Normandy,  but  after  a  year  went  to  Sedan,  and  thence,  in 
1642,  to  Groningen,  in  Holland,  as  professor  of  theology.  Our 
David  Des  Marest,  who  wrote  his  name  thus,  was  born  in  Picardy, 
and,  as  is  strongly  indicated,  was  of  the  same  lineage, — for  dignity 
of  character  and  fidelity  to  his  religion,  worthy  so  excellent  a 
kinship ;  the  clerical  tendency  among  his  descendants  is  also  very 
significant.  He  went  to  Holland  and  joined  the  French  colony 
in  the  island  of  Walcheren,  at  which  place  his  eldest  son,  Jean 


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Demarest,  was  bom  in  1645.  Here  David  probably  married  his 
wife  Marie  Sohier,  as  a  family  of  this  name  from  Hainault  had 
taken  refuge  at  Middelburg  in  the  first  Walloon  emigrations. 

In  1 65 1  Demarest  is  found  at  Mannheim,  on  the  Rhine, 
within  the  German  Palatinate ;  to  which  were  going  many  French 
and  Walloon  refugees  from  England,  and  also  from  the  Dutch 
seaboard,  partly  in  view  of  an  expected  war  between  the  English 
and  Hollanders,  but  especially  drawn  thither  by  the  assurance 
of  freedom  and  protection  under  the  government  of  the  Pro- 
testant Elector  Charles  Lewis,  who,  invested  by  the  Treaty  of 
Westphalia  (1648)  with  the  Lower  Palatinate,  from  which  his 
father,  Frederick  V.,  had  been  driven  in  1621  by  the  Catholic 
powers  after  the  battle  of  Prague,  held  out  strong  inducements 
to  the  refugees,  especially  Calvinists,  to  settle  at  Mannheim,  and 
which  found  a  ready  response  through  the  lively  interest  always 
cherished  by  the  refugees,  in  common  with  the  English  Puritans, 
in  the  strange  vicissitudes  of  his  late  father,  and  his  excellent  and 
yet  surviving  mother,  named  in  a  former  note  as  the  "Queen  of 
Bohemia."  By  1652  Demarest  and  others  among  the  numbers 
gathered  there,  joined  in  forming  a  French  church;  the  elector 
himself  building  them  an  edi^ce,  which  he  called  the  Temple  of 
Concord,  because  the  Lutherans  were  also  allowed  to  worship 
there. 

Philippe  Casier  and  family,  originally  of  Calais,  also  found 
this  inviting  refuge,  as  did  Simeon  Cornier,  "from  France''; 
Meynard  Joumee  (the  Journeay  ancestor),  from  Mardyk,  Flan- 
ders; Joost  Van  Oblinus  (now  O'Blenis),  his  son  Joost  and  fam- 
ily, from  Walloon  Flanders,  and  Pierre  Parmentier,  also  from 
"Walslant,"  that  is,  the  Walloon  country, — all  these  afterward 
at  Harlem.  Here  Peter  Van  Oblinus,  son  of  Joost,  Jr.,  and  his 
wife,  Marie  Sammis,  was  born  in  1662.  He  was  afterward 
distinguished  at  Harlem.  Among  the  Walloons  from  Artois 
found  here,  were  Matthieu  Blanchan,  Louis  Du  Bois,  and  Antoine 
Crispel ;  Blanchan  having  sojourned  in  England,  as  perhaps  had 
the  other  two,  who  became  his  sons-in-law.  Others  joining  this 
Mannheim  colony,  and  to  be  hereafter  noticed,  were  the  families 
of  Le  Comte,  from  Picardy,  and  De  Vaux,  from  Walslant,  whose 
descendants  are  called  De  Voe.  De  Vaux  and  Parmentier  were 
clearly  names  derived  from  Picardy. 

Philippe  Casier  was  husbandman  and  something  of  a  trav- 
eler, having  lived  several  years  in  the  island  of  Martinique,  to 
which  he  had  gone  with  other  colonists  under  the  auspices  of 
the  French  West  India  Company.     But  weary  of  rough  pioneer 


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life  among  wild  Caribs,  and  more  weary  of  the  civil  anarchy 
then  reigning  in  the  islands,  he  returned  with  his  family  to 
Europe,  and  tarried  awhile  at  Sluis  before  removing  up  the  Rhine. 
While  at  Mannheim,  a  son,  Peter,  was  bom  (1659)  to  his  eldest 
daughter,  Marie,  the  wife  of  David  Uzille,  the  latter  also  men- 
tioned as  from  Calais,  but  no  doubt  of  the  Brittany  family.  But 
neither  was  Casier  contented  at  Mannheim,  still  indulging,  as 
it  would  seem,  visions  of  a  better  fortune  for  him  in  America. 
His  wife's  brother,  Isaac  Taine,  called  also  La  Pere,  "the  Father," 
had  gone  out  some  years  previous,  and  had  been  made  a  burgher 
of  New  Amsterdam;  and  thither  the  Cacier  family,  Uzilles  in- 
cluded, resolved  to  go.*  Returning  to  Holland,  they  sailed 
directly  for  the  Manhattans  in  the  ship  Gilded  Otter,  wliich  left 
the  Texel  April  2^,  1660,  carrying  also  Blanchan  and  others 
from  Mannheim,  besides  a  band  of  soldiers,  among  whom  were 
Jacob  Leisler,  famous  in  our  colonial  history,  and  Joost  Kockuyt, 
heretofore  mentioned,  afterward  part  owner  of  the  land  since 
forming  the  "Dyckman  Homestead."  Later,  Simeon  Cornier, 
with  his  wife,  Nicole  Petit,  left  Mannheim  and  returned  to  Hol- 
land, whence  they  sailed  in  the  ship  Faith,  March  24th,  1662,  from 
the  Texel  for  the  Manhattans,  arriving  June  13th. 

Isaac  Vermeille,  one  of  the  Harlem  settlers,  and  head  of  the 
well-known  family  of  Vermilye,  was  the  son  of  Jean  Vermeille 
and  Marie  Roubley,  who  are  found  among  the  Walloon  refugees 
at  London  toward  the  close  of  the  sixteenth  century.*  They  were 
members  of  the  Walloon  church,  and  had  several  children  born 
in  that  city,  among  these  Isaac,  in  1601.  The  last  child  was 
Rebecca,  bom  1609,  and  three  years  later  we  lose  sight  of  the 
father.  Some  of  the  family  soon  removed  to  Leyden,  where 
Isaac's  elder  sister,  Rachel,  who  had  been  admitted  to  the  church 
in  London  July  iSth,  1613,  was  married  April  25th,  1615,  to 
Jacques  Bordelo,  a  Walloon  from  Valenciennes.  Jean  Vermeille, 
to  whom  a  child  was  born  in  1633,  at  London,  and  who  married 
a  second  wife  at  Leyden  in  1647,  was  probably  brother  to  Isaac. 

•  Isaac  Tayne,  as  he  wrote  his  name,  obtained  a  ^ant  of  land,  June  24,  1666,  at 
New  Castle,  Del^  where  he  was  living  ten  years  later. — Pcnn.  Archives,  i.  ^5,  His 
wife  was  Sarah  Reson.  This  name,  ending  with  the  French  nasal  sound  ng,  is  some- 
times written  Ting. 

•  We  nowhere  find  it  stated  that  our  Vermilyes  were  Walloons,  but  think  it  a 
safe  assumption,  for  several  reasons.  The  congregation  at  London  of  which  they  were 
members  was  then  composed  quite  exclusively  of  that  people.  Then  their  Christian 
names  favor  it.  And  one  of  the  Walloon  towns  bears  the  name  Vermelle:  being  in 
Artois,  southeast  of  Bethune,  near  a  lake  at  the  source  of  the  Papegay,  which  latter 
runs  northward,  entering  the  Lys  near  Armenticres.  Traced  to  its  origin,  the  sur- 
name was  doubtless  the  same  as  the  Italian  Vermigli.  "Its  birthplace,"  says  Rev.  A.  G. 
Vermilye,  "was  probably  Peruggia."  Peter  Vermigli  (or  Martyr),  the  reformer,  was 
bom  at  Florence.  Like  many  others,  the  name  had  evidently  worked  upward  to 
Northern  France,  but  how  early  we  know  not.     Vermeille  is  the  French  for  vermilion. 


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Marie  Vermeille  (mother  or  sister?),  with  her  husband,  Jean 
Diraanche,  stood  as  godparents  for  Isaac's  daughter,  Marie  (af- 
terward Mrs.  Montanye),  at  her  baptism  at  Leyden,  August  2d, 
1629.  Then  Isaac  first  attracts  our  notice  here,  with  his  Dutch 
\Touw,  Jacomina  Jacobs,  but  later  has  two  other  children  bap- 
tized, the  last  in  1637.  Then  not  finding  his  name  at  Leyden 
for  full  twenty-five  years,  it  seems  to  imply  his  absence;  aod  he 
probably  went  to  Mannheim,  as  the  name  Isaac  Wurmel,  found 
on  its  civil  records,  is  thought  by  a  good  authority  there  to  refer 
to  him.  However,  again  at  Leyden  in  the  company  of  other 
French,  who  "by  advice  of  some  gentlemen,  and  reading  the  New 
Xetherland  conditions,  were  allured  and  persuaded  to  emigrate 
with  their  families,'*  we  meet  with  Vermeille,  about  to  leave  with 
them  for  that  much-mooted  country,  whither  during  his  time  so 
many  Leyden  refugees,  back  to  the  De  Forests  and  Montague, 
had  already  gone.  With  wife,  his  two  sons  and  as  many  daugh- 
ters, Vermeille  embarked  October  12th,  1662,  in  the  ship  Purmer- 
land  Church,  Captain  Barentsen,  which  on  the  14th  weighed 
anchor  and  "passed  the  last  village  on  the  Texel,"  bound  with 
supplies  to  New  Amstel.* 

Soon  after  this  the  Palatinate  was  threatened  with  hostile 
invasion  by  the  Duke  of  Lorraine  and  other  neighboring  Catholic 
princes.  The  refugees  having  everything  to  fear  from  such 
enemies  to  their  kind  and  religion,  many  more  of  these  hastily  quit 
Mannheim.  The  Demarest,  Oblinus  and  Parmentier  families, 
with  Journee,  returned  to  Holland,  apparently  with  purpose 
formed  of  going  to  New  Netherland,  for  making  short  stay  at 
Amsterdam,  they  all  embarked  for  that  country  in  the  Brindled 
Cow,  April  16,  1663,  having  in  company  Jean  Mesurolle,  a  Picard, 
but  then  from  Mannheim,  Jerome  Boquet  (Bokee)  and  Pierre 
Xoue,  both  originally  from  Walslant;  besides  our  several  Dutch 
colonists  before  noticed,  the  Bogerts  and  Kortrights,  from  Schoon- 
rewoerd  and  vicinity.  Men,  women  and  children,  there  were 
ninety  odd  passengers,  the  French  composing  a  third.  Each 
adult  was  charged  for  passage  and  board  thirty-nine  florins; 
children  of  ten  years  and  under,  except  infants,  half  price.  It 
cost  Jan  Bastiaensen  (Kortnght)  for  himself  and  family  204  fl. 

*  Charffcs  for  their  passage  stand  thus  in  the  accounts  of  the  West  India  Co.: 
"IsAACQ  VERNiELK  debet 
Voor  vracht  en  costgelt  dat  hy  A®.  1662,  12  Octobr.  pr:  *t  Schip  de  Purmerlandcr 

Kerck,  Schippr.  Benjamin  Barentsen,  is  herwacrts  gecoraen f.     39 

Voor  syn  vrou 39 

En  4  kind<rreii,  alle  boven  de  2oe  Jacren 156 

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lo  St.,  and  David  Demarest,  175  fl.  10  St.*  These  refugees  from 
Mannheim  nearly  all  took  certificates  of  membership  from  the 
French  church  there.  Some  others,  who  followed  them  ten  years 
later,  will  be  noticed  hereafter. 

Holland  had  now  lost  the  special  attractions  it  presented  to 
the  first  refugees.  These  finding  sympathy  and  employment, 
were  generally  content  to  remain  as  permanent  residents.  But 
the  disturbances  of  later  years  had  unsettled  many,  while  trade 
had  steadily  and  greatly  declined,  with  no  hope  of  any  revival. 
Moreover,  other  unfortunate  fugitives  were  flocking  in  "from 
Germany,  Westphalia,  and  those  countries  which  within  two  years 
had  been  ruined  by  hard  times,  but  mainly  by  persecutions,  to 
which  the  faithful  all  through  France  (as  also  the  Waldenses) 
had  been  subjected."  Under  these  circumstances  many  were 
easily  drawn  into  the  current  of  emigration  to  New  Netherland, 
which  was  extolled  as  "beyond  the  finest  country  in  the  world, 
where  everything  can  be  produced  that  is  grown  in  France  or  the 
Baltic,"  and  whose  virgin  soil  and  settlements,  free  from  the 
tyranny  of  kings  and  the  contagion  of  European  society,  offered 
a  most  inviting  abode  and  ample  scope  for  enterprise.  The  most 
flattering  reports  of  that  country  were  rife,  as  given  by  those  visit- 
ing Holland  in  search  of  farm-laborers,  and  by  merchants  whose 
business  took  them  over  to  Amsterdam.  Among  those  by  whom 
the  section  of  Manhattan  Island  since  known  as  Harlem  was  first 
brought  to  the  favorable  notice  of  the  colonists,  was  Andries 
Hudde,  late  counsellor  in  New  Netherland,  who  spent  the  winter 
of  1638-9  in  Holland,  and  part  of  whose  errand  was  to  send  out 
hands  to  work  his  tobacco  plantation,  afterward  known  as  Mon- 
tanye's  Flat.  It  was  plainly  his  representations  regarding  that 
locality  that  took  Captain  Kuyter  and  others  thither,  and  induced 
Van  Keulen,  of  Amsterdam,  to  secure  the  two-hundred-acre  tract 
thence  called  Van  Keulen's  Hook;  the  purchase  of  which  was 
effected  directly  upon  Hudde*s  return.  And  Sibout  Slaessen,  an 
energetic  burgher  of  New  Amsterdam,  going  to  Fatherland  in 
the  autumn  of  1649,  spent  nearly  two  years  between  Hoom,  his 
native  place,  and  Amsterdam  and  Leyden,  while  prosecuting 
charges  against  Stuyvesant.  Bad  as,  in  his  view,  was  the  ad- 
ministration, none  had  a  higher  opinion  of  the  country,  Manhattan 
especially,  where  Claessen  had  a  fine  property  opposite  Hellgate, 
which  he  called  Hoorn's  Hook.      And  Jean  La  Montagne,  who 

•  The  Dutch  florin  or  guilder  is  usually  valued  at  forty  cents,  the  stiver  at  two 
cents;  but  taking  into  account  that,  in  the  times  we  are  treating  of,  money  in  Holland, 
as  compared  with  labor,  commodities,  or  whatever  else  it  purchased,  had  about  four 
times  its  present  value,  certainly  these  emigrants  paid  well  for  their  passage. 


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revisited  Holland  in  1654.  With  his  many  years*  experience  in 
the  new  country,  glowing,  we  dare  assert,  were  the  pictures  he 
drew  of  it, — when  tenderly  pressing  his  suit  with  the  fair  Peter- 
nella,  who  was  to  share  his  home  and  fortunes.  And  Nicholas 
De  Meyer,  the  clear-headed  and  thrifty  trader  at  New  Amster- 
dam, making  a  trip  to  Holland  in  1662,  to  remain  over  winter,  no 
doubt  astonished  his  auditors  as  he  told  of  lands  on  Manhattan 
at  one  dollar  and  sixty  cents  an  acre,  and  his  recent  purchase  of 
two  farms  in  the  young  settlement,  New  Harlem.  What  interest 
must  have  attached  to  these  accounts  by  visitants  from  the  New 
World,  as  every  listener  caught  up  the  story  of  its  almost  fabulous 
advantages  and  resources !  To  the  young  and  ambitious,  the  far-off 
America  had  all  the  dazzling  attractions  of  a  fairyland,  when  so 
often  even  the  tender  sex  were  led  as  by  an  irresistible  charm, 
in  the  face  of  many  perils,  to  venture  its  wild  solitudes.  But 
again,  with  more  caution,  one  of  a  family  first  goes  to  the  New 
World,  as  if  to  report  from  personal  knowledge  upon  the  expe- 
diency of  the  change  before  others  should  follow;  so  with  the 
Verveelens,  the  brothers  Waldron,  Buys,  etc.  The  colonists  were 
wont  to  revisit  Fatherland  to  obtain  wives;  whence  its  records 
show  many  nuptials  consummated  on  the  eve  of  embarkation. 
And  timid  maidens,  in  not  a  few  cases,  drawn  by  ties  of  kinship, 
or  some  more  tender  impulse,  stopped  not  to  count  the  hazards 
of  the  voyage:  instance  young  Barentie  Dircks,  of  Meppel  (her 
sister  Geertie  then  some  years  in  New  Netherland  as  wife  of  Jan 
Metselaer),*  going  over  with  other  colonists  from  Drenthe  in 
1660 ;  lo !  scarce  a  year  passing,  when  she  and  a  sister,  Egbertie, 
found  their  daring  rewarded  and  the  highest  aspiration  of  their 
womanly  hearts  realized,  in  Nelis  Matthyssen  and  Hage  Bruyn- 
sen,  honest  Swedes,  the  one  called  to  the  magistry  at  Harlem,  the 
other  to  become  its  first  miller.  All  most  natural,  truly ;  yet  we 
mistake  if  these  glimpses  of  simple  life  among  our  colonist  an- 
cestors are  wholly  devoid  of  interest.t 

*  Jan  Adams  Metselaer  was  born  at  Worms,  in  1626;  was  in  service  as  corporal 
on  the  Delaware,  and  returned  to  New  Amsterdam  in  1654.  He  died  in  New  York 
wi  1696  or  1697.  His  sons  who  reached  maturity  were  Jacobus,  born  1668;  Abraham, 
wn  1671;  Hendrick,  born  1676.  Descendants  of  Abraham  early  settled  on  the  Rari- 
tan,  and  whence  the  respectable  family  of  which  is  Rev.  Abraham  Messier,  D.  D. 

t  The  French  Refugees  were  sometimes  designated,  not  by  a  proper  surname, 
bot  by  the  name  of  some  place,  evidently  that  of  their  nativity  or  former  abode,  ap- 
pended to  their  Christian  name.  The  effect,  no  other  clew  to  their  identity  appearing, 
u  confusion  like  that  liable  to  occur  in  Dutch  nomenclature.  Cases  in  point  are 
Etienne  Rocbelle  (his  proper  name  Geneau),  Pierre  Grand  Pre,  Jean  Belin,  Etienne 
BmtOQ,  etc.,  all  names  of  French  towns;  and  Jean  Paris,  also  written  De  Parisis,  but 
no  other  than  Jan  Lequicre,  from  Paris,  afterward  of  B«shwick.  Some  retained  these 
M  family  names;  Button  or  Baton  was  perpetuated  on  Staten  Island  and  in  New  Jersey. 
Belin,  written  a  Belin,  became  Ablin.  (See  also  note  on  Jean  Baignoux.)  That  this 
Jttsignation  by  place  (as  well  without  as  with  the  prefix  De  or  Du)  was  a  usage  preva- 
|«nt  in  France  (not  to  trace  it  further),  anyone  who  examines  the  subject  will  see:  and 
It  starts  the  question  whether  it  is  always  safe  to  take  such  prefix  as  proof  of  nobility,. 


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Such  moral  courage  as  they  exhibited,  especially  the  refugees, 
commands  admiration;  such  trials  as  they  endured  when  called 
to  resist  or  flee  oppression,  appeal  to  our  sympathies!  Clinging 
to  their  faith  or  principles  though  at  the  cost  of  their  peace  and 
safety,  and  all  the  endearments  of  home,  country  and  kindred; 
choosing  rather  to  venture  the  treacherous  ocean  and  the  dangers 
of  an  untried  wilderness  where  still  was  sovereign  the  savage 
and  the  beast  of  prey, — and  all  to  secure  the  sacred  boon  of  liberty 
denied  them  in  their  native  lands;  do  they  not  deserve  the  first 
place  in  history,  and  in  the  grateful  remembrance  of  those  who 
are  reaping  the  benefits  of  their  labors  and  sacrifices? 

when  it  may  serve  only  to  show  the  birthplace,  or  residence,  or  perhaps  the  place  of 
the  family  origin;  as  le  or  la  often  indicated  names  derived  from  a  trade,  calling,  office, 
etc  (See  Index,  Chaudronnier.)  The  children  of  some  of  our  refugees,  ambitious  to 
assume  prefixes,  sometimes  made  bad  work  of  it;  thus  the  name  Le  Maistre  (the 
Master),  taking  on  the  De  (and  whence  Delamater),  came  to  signify  of  the  Master  I, — 
a  use  of  the  prefix  wholly  inappropriate.  On  the  contrary,  the  sons  of  Dr.  La  Montagne 
very  properly  prefixed  the  Dc,  and  the  fact  adds  strength  to  our  hypothesis  as  to  the 
source  of  that  name.  Very  few  old  names  among  us  at  present,  whether  of  French, 
Dutch,  or  other  descent,  preserve  their  original  form;  a  result  to  be  deprecated,  thoug^h 
a  return  to  the  early  orthography  may  now  be  neither  practicable  nor  desirable. 


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CHAPTER    VI. 

1 609- 1 636. 

MANHATTAN. 

T  X  the  year  1609  a  Dutch  ship  was  feeling  it  way  along  the  then 
wild  and  unfrequented  coast  of  North  America.  Her  in- 
trepid commander,  as  in  former  fruitless  voyages  made  for  the 
same  object  under  English  patronage,  was  still  eagerly  seeking 
a  western  route  to  China,  the  golden  Cathay  of  the  ancients. 
Dispatched  in  this  instance  by  the  East  India  Company,  of  Hol- 
land, the  Half  Moon  left  Amsterdam  the  4th  of  April,  and  after 
gaining  the  American  waters  had  explored  each  principal  bay 
and  inlet  from  north  to  south,  and  now  again  to  northward,  five 
weary  months,  but  with  no  results.  To  one  of  less  resolution 
than  Henry  Hudson  the  case  might  well  have  seemed  hopeless, 
but  still  the  undaunted  mariner  continued  the  search. 

The  3d  of  September  dawns  upon  the  vessel  enshrouded  in 
a  dense  sea-fog,  which  at  the  hour  of  ten,  lifting  its  vapory  man- 
tle, leaves  upon  her  spars  and  rigging  myriads  of  watery  jewels 
which  sparkle  in  the  sunbeams,  bright  harbinger  of  a  coming 
success,  while  the  ship,  quitting  her  moorings,  spreads  her  "main- 
sail and  spritsail,"  and  under  a  clear  sky  and  with  a  balmy  breeze 
from  the  south-southeast  resumes  her  northerly  course.  Five 
hours  pass,  when  Hudson  makes  the  headlands  of  Neversink, 
"very  pleasant,  and  high,  and  bold  to  fall,  withal" ;  and  "at  three 
of  the  clock  in  the  afternoon"  approaches  "a  very  good  harbor," 
into  which  flow  "three  great  rivers."  These  at  once  arrest  his 
attention;  their  sources  wrapped  in  mystery  naturally  invite  the 
boldest  speculation.  Has  he  not  been  told  "there  was  a  sea  lead- 
ing into  the  Western  Ocean  by  the  north  of  Virginia?"  Curiosity 
and  hope  receive  a  new  impulse;  surely  he  has  found  at  last  the 
long-desired  passage! 

Hudson  at  first  stands  for  the  northernmost  river,  but  repelled 
by  a  very  shoal  bar  before  its  mouth,  changes  his  course  and  bears 
away  across  the  bay,  where  another  passage  seems  to  open,  casts 
his  anchor,  and  prudently  sends  in  the  yawl  to  sound.      On  a 


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favorable  report  he  again  weighs,  runs  farther  in  with  the  ship, 
and  finally  drops  his  kedge  on  the  soft,  oozy  bottom  at  a  depth  of 
five  fathoms.  Hudson  takes  the  latitude, — forty  degrees  and 
thirty  minutes, — and  enters  it  in  his  log.  As  the  vessel  rides  at 
ease  upon  the  bosom  of  these  expansive  waters,  no  fellow-craft 
greets  the  eye  of  the  brave  mariner ;  not  so  much  as  a  tiny  sail 
breaks  the  monotony  of  the  scene.  The  undulating  land  is  beau- 
tiful in  varied  shades  of  green,  but,  as  far  as  the  eye  can  scan, 
bare  of  human  habitation, — even  to  a  rustic  cabin, — ^all  yet  appears 
lone,  wild,  charming  in  its  very  air  of  desolation.  The  fish  seem 
surprisingly  tame  as  they  swarm  about  the  vessel,  and  the  white 
sea-gull  disports  itself  familiarly,  soars  upon  its  broad  pinions, 
or  stoops  to  kiss  the  wave. 

But  the  arrival  has  not  passed  unnoticed.  Some  of  the 
tawny  natives,  engaged  in  fishing, — for  the  salmon,  and  mullets, 
and  rays,  were  plenty, — espy,  far  out  on  the  ocean  (so  the  red 
man  handed  down  the  story),  a  large  and  strange-looking  object.* 
Hastening  back  to  land,  they  break  the  news  to  some  of  their 
countrymen,  who  also  go  out,  in  order  to  discover  what  it  may  be. 
They  view  with  astonishment  the  strange  phenomenon,  now  so 
near  as  to  be  plainly  visible,  but  are  quite  disagreed  as  to  what  it  is ; 
some  take  it  to  be  an  enormous  fish  or  animal,  others  a  very  big 
wigwam  floating  on  the  sea.  As  the  curious  object  comes  nearer 
to  the  land  their  apprehensions  increase;  they  conclude  that  it 
possesses  life,  and  resolve  without  further  delay  to  put  all  the 
neighboring  Indians  on  their  guard.  Messengers  depart  to  carry 
the  news  to  the  scattered  chiefs  and  braves,  and  to  urge  their 
immediate  presence.  Many  of  these  soon  arrive  in  breathless 
haste,  and,  viewing  the  queer  object  which  has  now  gained  the 
very  entrance  of  the  river  or  bay,  finally  conclude  that  its  nothing 
less  than  the  wigwam  of  the  great  Manitto,  or  Supreme  Being 
himself,  who  has  evidently  come  to  pay  them  a  visit.  This  opin- 
ion prevailing,  they  begin  preparations  to  give  him  a  suitable  re- 
ception. The  women  must  cook  the  most  savory  food,  and  a 
grand  kintekoy  or  dance  be  given,  measured  to  their  best  music, 
as  "an  agreeable  entertainment  for  the  Great  Being." 

Early  the  next  morning  Hudson,  after  sending  the  boat  to 
take  soundings  farther  up  the  bay,  finds  a  better  anchorage ;  and 
remaining  there  all  day,  some  of  the  crew  go  ashore  to  draw  a 

♦  The  Indian  tradition  of  Hudson's  visit  is  taken  from  Heckwcldcr;  otherwise 
the  facts  have  been  drawn  from  oriipnal  statements  bv  De  Laet,  Tuet.  Vander  Dond^ 
and  others,  every  circumstance  and  intimation  being  aulv  weigheo.  We  believe  these 
-will  warrant  all  the  amplification  here  given,  the  traoitionarx  part  finding  strong 
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net  for  fish,  returning  with  ten  big  mullets,  a  foot  and  a  half  long, 
and  a  great  ray,  taking  four  men  to  haul  it  into  the  ship.  By 
this  time  the  Indians,  having  carefully  watched  the  movements 
of  their  strange  visitor,  are  so  well  assured  of  his  supernatural 
character  and  friendly  mission,  that  they  resolve  to  venture  out 
to  the  ship  and  extend  him  a  welcome.  Two  of  them,  clad  in 
loose  deer  skins,  and  taking  a  bundle  of  green  tobacco  as  a 
present  for  the  Manitto,  launch  forth  in  their  canoe,  and  being 
admitted  on  board  the  vessel,  manifest  their  pleasure  at  seeing 
the  pale-faced  strangers  by  every  sign  and  exclamation  at  their 
command  expressive  of  wonder  and  delight.  Making  their  offer- 
ings, they  receive  in  return  a  few  knives  and  beads.  Admiring 
the  dress  worn  by  the  Europeans,  they  signify  a  wish  to  have 
the  same  for  themselves ;  but  so  far  from  showing  any  rudeness, 
their  decorum  is  such  that  the  officers  notice  it  and  declare  them 
**ver>'  civil." 

On  the  succeeding  day  Hudson  and  others  from  the  ship 
made  a  formal  visit  to  the  land,  when  the  assembled  Indians, 
"men,  women  and  children,"  received  and  entertained  them  in 
their  best  manner.  "The  swarthy  natives  all  stood  around  and 
sung  in  their  fashion,"  says  Hudson ;  the  ceremony  without  doubt 
indicated  more  of  fear  and  reverence  than  of  confidence,  and  was 
designed  to  propitiate  his  favor.  The  usual  present  of  green 
tobacco  was  given,  and  refreshments  served,  including  bread  made 
of  maize,  or  Indian  corn,  of  which  Hudson  partook  and  found 
it  "excellent  eating."  Then  the  ship's  party  strolled  "up  into  the 
woods,  and  saw  great  stores  of  very  goodly  oaks  and  some  cur- 
rants." Many  Indians  of  both  sexes  also  visit  the  ship  during 
the  day,  '*in  their  canoes  made  of  a  single  hollow  tree,"  says  Hud- 
son. They  are  dressed,  "some  in  mantles  of  feathers,  and  some 
in  skins  of  divers  sorts  of  good  furs."  About  their  necks  are 
ornaments  of  copper.  They  bring  offerings  of  dried  currants, 
"sweet  and  good,"  and  Indian  hemp.  These  expressions  of  good- 
will do  not  throw  the  shrewd  navigator  off  his  guard.  From 
common  prudence  he  "durst  not  trust  them,"  yet  his  keen  eye 
can  detect  no  lurking  evil  intent,  and  he  frankly  admits  that  "they 
appear  to  be  a  friendly  people."  Such  is  his  testimony  of  "the  peo- 
ple that  he  found  dwelling  within  the  bay."  Their  entire  deport- 
ment thus  far  had  betrayed  only  profound  respect  and  veneration 
for  their  mysterious  visitors. 

But,  strange,  pleasing  hallucination  of  the  untutored  son  of 
the  forest,  how  quickly  did  one  untoward  circumstance  dispel  it 
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and  place  him  in  the  attitude  of  an  enemy !  On  the  morning  of 
the  6th,  the  weather  being  fair,  Hudson,  with  more  accurate 
conclusions  as  to  the  best  direction  in  which  to  continue  his  search, 
ordered  John  Coleman  and  four  others  to  proceed  with  the  yawl 
"over  to  the  north  side,  to  sound  the  other  river,"  yet  little  dream- 
ing that  all  that  was  to  impart  fame  to  his  voyage  hung  upon  its 
undisclosed  mysteries.  Rowing  twelve  miles  to  its  mouth  (the 
Narrows)  they  ascended  and  entered  a  spacious  harbor,  "with 
very  good  riding  for  ships,"  whence  extending  their  search  two 
leagues  up  "a  narrow  river  to  the  westward  between  two  islands"* 
and  reaching  "an  open  sea,"t  they  were  returning  filled  with  ad- 
miration of  the  country,  "as  pleasant  with  grass  and  flowers  and 
goodly  trees  as  ever  they  had  seen,"  when  suddenly,  in  a  manner 
unexplained,  they  came  in  fatal  conflict  with  the  natives,  twenty- 
six  in  number,  in  two  canoes.  Coleman  was  slain  by  an  arrow, 
and  two  others  of  the  crew  wounded,  but  strange  to  say  the  sav- 
ages did  not  follow  up  their  advantage.  A  rain  set  in,  which 
extinguishing  their  match,  made  their  guns  useless,  and  after 
toiling  all  night  "to  and  fro  on  their  oars"  the  party  reached 
the  ship.  They  declared  "they  were  set  upon"  by  the  In- 
dians; the  latter  have  not  left  us  their  story!  Why,  so  su- 
perior in  force,  did  they  spare  any  of  the  whites  to  tell  their 
tale?  Why  the  sudden  change  which  Hudson  observed  in  the 
temper  of  the  savages?  Peradventure  in  this  affray  the  Indi- 
ans were  "more  sinned  against  than  sinning;"  then  the  case 
becomes  clearer.  If,  smarting  under  a  deep  sense  of  unpro- 
voked injury,  they  retired  to  dress  their  wounds  and  bury  their 
dead,  then  the  news,  which  spread  rapidly,  at  once  stamped  the 
new-comers  as  enemies. 

Suspicious  of  the  savages  from  the  first,  Hudson  now  had 
great  reason  to  fear  an  attack.  He  thereupon  ordered  a  strict 
watch  to  be  kept  day  and  night  to  prevent  a  surprise,  which  in- 
deed the  Indians  were  plotting,  and  only  seeking  an  opportunity 
to  execute,  as  was  apparent  from  the  many  canoes  filled  with 
armed  men  which  prowled  around  the  ship.  Admitting  but  few 
of  the  savages  into  the  vessels,  he  seized  two,  who  came  on  board 
with  a  treacherous  design,  and  held  them  as  hostages.  Passing 
the  Narrows,  September  nth,  Hudson  entered  the  harbor  with 
his  ship.  The  morning  of  the  13th  found  him  skirting  "that 
side  of  the  river  that  is  called  Mannahata,"  having  "fair  weather, 
the  wind  northerly."  With  the  full  of  the  tide  he  casts  anchor 
opposite  a  gorge  in  the  hills  from  which  a  stream,  meander- 

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ing   through   verdant   meadows,   empties   into   a   small   cove  or 
bay  (Manhattanville). 

News  of  his  coming  has  preceded  him.  From  one  Indian 
village  to  another  and  from  wigwam  to  wigwam  runners  have 
carried  the  startling  tidings ;  delegations  from  the  Flats  and  parts 
contiguous  have  poured  in  through  the  ravine  till  the  multi- 
tudes crowd  the  beach  and  crown  the  acclivities,  eager  to  catch 
a  sight  of  the  big  canoe,  about  which  and  its  inmates  such 
strange  rumors  have  spread  far  and  wide,  exciting  "great  sur- 
prise and  astonishment  among  the  Indians."  Hudson  and  his 
officers  greet  with  civility  the  natives,  who  here  approach  the 
ship  in  four  canoes,  bringing  *'great  store  of  very  good 
oysters."  He  accepts  the  present,  and  gives  them  some  trinkets 
in  return ;  but  the  menacing  attitude  of  the  savages  only  the  day 
previous  indisposes  Hudson  to  any  intimacy,  or  to  admit  any 
of  them  on  board, — a  wise  precaution,  as  events  will  show. 

Barred  from  intercourse,  and  withal  ignorant  of  their  lan- 
guage, Hudson  could  as  yet  have  acquired  but  scant  knowledge 
of  the  country  from  the  natives.  But  this  was  in  a  measure 
supplied  by  his  own  habit  of  close  observation,  noting  objects 
so  trivial  as  the  ornaments  and  tobacco-pipes  of  the  natives, 
whence  he  inferred  the  existence  of  copper.  And  on  this  bright 
September  morning,  while  cooling  breezes  from  the  north  amble 
through  the  rigging  of  the  ship  as  it  lies  idly  at  anchor  for  sev- 
eral hours  waiting  for  the  tide  to  set  in,  and  the  practised  eye 
of  the  great  navigator  surveys  on  the  one  hand  the  pure  watery 
expanse,  on  the  other  the  charming  wooded  bluffs  which  here 
adorn  the  Island  of  Manhattan,  doubtless  it  penetrates  the 
notable  cleft  in  the  heights,  opening  to  him  a  distant  vista  of  the 
broad  and  beautiful  plains  upon  which  our  interest  centres,  as 
vet,  save  only  to  the  aborigines,  a  very  terra  incognita!  We  may 
read  his  emotions  as,  turning  from  this  scene,  he  records  in  his 
journal  the  admiration  of  a  sailor:  "It  is  as  pleasant  a  land  as 
one  need  tread  upon ;  very  abundant  in  all  kinds  of  timber  suitable 
for  shipbuilding."* 

Hudson  ascends  the  river.  A  fortnight  spent  in  its  further 
exploration  and  he  has  realized,  not  the  prime  object  of  his 
ambition,  but  results  in  the  highest  degfree  important;  the  best 

•  Hudson's  Journal,  as  quoted  by  Dc  Laet  (sec  Coll.  N.  Y.  Hist.  Soc,  ad  scries, 
"Tol.  i,  p.  300),  places  this  incident  in  latitude  40**  48',  which  agrees  well  with  the 
locality  given.  Juet's  J[ournal  (ibid.,  p.  325)  gives  the  date  and  other  particulars,  and 
when  closely  studied  aids  in  fixing  the  locality  beyond  a  reasonable  doubt.  See  also 
the  Bubjcct  of  Hudson's  voyage  carefully  treated  in  Yates  and  Moulton's  Hist,  of  N.  Y., 
which  unhesitatingly  gives  this  incident  as  happening  when  the  ship  was  "anchored  off 
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indeed  of  all  his  voyages.  Since  he  first  entered  Sandy  Hook 
he  had  been  delighted  with  the  country.  He  had  penetrated 
nearly  to  its  source  the  noble  river  which  was  thereafter  to 
take  his  name,  finding  at  every  stage  in  his  progress  something 
new  to  admire  in  its  extended  reaches,  its  majestic  highlands, 
its  fruitful  vales  and  its  grand  and  diversified  scenery.  Now, 
elated  with  his  valuable  discoveries,  inspirited  by  the  bracing 
air  and  gorgeous  appearance  of  the  highlands,  clad  in  the 
richest  hues  of  autumn,  he  is  on  the  downward  passage.  At 
break  of  day  October  2d  the  ship  leaves  its  moorings  at  "Sleepers* 
Haven,"  near  the  jutting  Senesqua,  or  Teller^s  Point,  at  the 
mouth  of  the  Croton,  and  with  canvas  bending  under  a  stiff 
breeze  from  the  northwest,  runs  down  twenty-one  miles  till, 
the  tide  setting  in  too  strongly,  it  again  casts  anchor  at  the 
upper  end  of  Manhattan  Island,  near  the  beautiful  inlet  Schora- 
kapok,  since  "by  the  Dutch"  called  the  Spuyten  Duyvel. 

But  unlooked-for  danger  was  lurking  in  its  track.  An  inci- 
dent of  the  upward  voyage,  already  alluded  to,  now  had  a  most 
painful  sequel.  The  two  natives  whom  Hudson  kept  on  board 
as  hostages  were  carried  up  the  river.  But  haughty  captives 
were  not  to  be  beguiled  by  a  voyage  in  the  big  canoe  of  tlie 
great  Manitto,  nor  long  amused  by  the  red  coats  with  which 
they  were  bedecked.  In  the  highlands  these  restless  spirits 
escaped  through  a  port-hole  and  swam  off,  hurling  back,  from  a 
safe  distance,  cries  and  gestures  of  scorn  and  defiance.  Making 
their  way  down  the  river,  and  thirsting  to  avenge  the  indigni- 
ties offered  them,  they  sounded  the  war-whoop  to  rouse  their 
people  to  arms,  and  at  the  head  of  Manhattan  Island  collected  a 
force,  with  the  evident  purpose  of  seizing  the  ship  and  appro- 
priating the  rich  booty  which  it  contained. 

No  sooner  does  the  returning  vessel  heave  to  near  their  place 
of  ambush  than  several  canoes  dart  out,  filled  with  armed  war- 
riors, led  on,  as  is  observed,  by  one  of  the  savages  who  had 
escaped  from  the  ship.  Hudson,  seeing  their  hostile  design, 
warns  them  to  keep  off.  Hereupon  two  of  the  canoes  fall  back 
near  the  stern  and  let  fly  a  volley  of  arrows.  Six  muskets 
return  the  assault,  and  two  or  three  Indians  are  killed.  Mean- 
time the  ship  having  gotten  under  way,  the  main  body  of  war- 
riors, about  a  hundred,  collect  at  a  point  of  land  (now  Fort 
Washington)  to  get  a  fair  chance  at  her  as  she  slowly  moves 
along.  But  a  falcon-shot  from  the  vessel  kills  two  of  them,  and 
the  rest  flee  into  the  woods.  They  are  now  quite  discomfited; 
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a  canoe  and  paddle  to  meet  the  ship.  Another  cannon-shot 
kills  one  of  their  number  and  pierces  the  canoe.  A  volley  of 
musketry  slays  three  or  four  more,  and  puts  an  end  to  the  fight. 
The  savages  are  left  to  mourn  the  loss  of  nine  of  their  braves, 
while  Hudson  pursues  his  way  to  the  ocean.  Ah,  hapless  fate! 
which  at  this  first  interview  thus  sealed  in  blood  an  enmity  between 
the  two  races,  destined  for  half  a  century  to  redden  the  soil  of 
Manhattan  Island  with  Christian  blood  to  glut  the  Indian's  ven- 
geance. The  inlet  where  began  this  fatal  encounter  soon  took 
the  name  of  Spuyten  Duyvel,  but  for  what  reason  has  not  been 
explained.  True,  that  veritable  author,  Diedrich  Knickerbocker, 
makes  it  the  presumptuous  boast  of  Petrus  Stuyvesant's  valiant 
trumpeter,  who  essayed  to  swim  the  stream  in  a  storm,  spyt  den 
duyz'cl,  but  was  seized  and  carried  under  by  his  satanic  majesty 
in  the  form  of  a  huge  mossbunker!  But  for  those  to  whom 
this  story  may  wear  a  tinge  of  incredibility  we  give  another 
possible  derivation.  By  what  more  fitting,  term  could  the  sav- 
ages, so  apt  in  the  choice  of  their  names,  have  designated  Hud- 
son's ship,  recalled  as  an  uncouth  monster  vomiting  streams 
of  deadly  fire,  than  by  that  which  (from  the  object  adhering 
to  the  locality)  found  its  Dutch  equivalent  in  Spuyten  Duyvel, 
that  is,  Spouting  Devil?  But  if  this  also  will  not  bear  criticism, 
we  ask  the  reader  to  soberly  weigh  a  fact  which  seems  to  indi- 
cate the  true  source  of  the  queer  designation  in  question.  From 
the  large  spring  which  sprouts  or  bubbles  out  near  the  foot 
of  Cock  Hill  and  flows  into  the  creek,  "The  Spring"  became 
but  another  name,  with  the  early  settlers,  both  Dutch  and  Eng- 
lish, for  the  locality  known  as  Spuyten  Duyvel;  and  an  ancient 
record  of  1672  expressly  calls  it  Spuyten  Duyvel,  alias  the  Fresh 
Spring ! 

Hudson's  discoveries  so  aroused  the  enterprise  of  the  mer- 
chants and  shipmasters  of  Holland  that  for  a  series  of  years  vessels 
were  annually  dispatched  to  New  Netherland  to  prosecute  dis- 
cover>'  and  the  fur  trade,  for  which  purpose  they  were  some- 
times ''ordered  to  remain  there  the  whole  year."  That  section 
of  Manhattan  Island  in  which  our  interest  centres  could  not 
long  elude  these  enterprising  Dutch  traders,  though  this  seat 
of  the  hostile  Manhattans  remained  inaccessible  for  years  after 
they  had  gained  a  foothold  on  the  upper  Hudson.  Wrapt  in 
that  normal  state  which  for  untold  ages  had  known  no  change, 
its  weird  charms  must  have  strangely  impressed  such  daring 
spirits  as  were  foremost  to  navigate  its  untried  waters  or  first  to 
penetrate  its  slumbering  solitudes.     The  Hollander, — ^his  eye  ac- 


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customed  only  to  a  flat  country,  to  dykes  and  polders, — beheld 
with  admiration  this  majestic  display  and  picturesque  blending" 
of  heights  and  low  land,  of  wood  and  meadow  and  meandering 
brooks.  But  no  hum  of  busy  industry  caught  his  ear,  no  familiar 
sight  yet  met  his  eye;  the  waters'  gentle  ripple,  the  wind's 
moaning  through  the  tall  pines,  the  cry  of  startled  beast  or  bird 
was  his  greeting.  The  group  of  rustic  cabins  and  the  moving 
forms  of  dusky  savages,  clad,  if  at  all,  in  skins  or  furs  and  feath- 
ers, but  enhanced  the  weirdness  of  the  scene.  Lucky,  too,  was 
he  if  his  first  welcome  was  not  conveyed  by  the  swift-winged 
arrow  from  behind  the  thicket,  as  was  the  case  with  Captain 
Dermer,  ten  years  after  Hudson's  visit,  but  before  the  Dutch 
had  yet  occupied  Manhattan  Island.  Coming  from  the  east- 
ward, and  passing  "a  most  dangerous  cataract  among  small, 
rocky  islands,"  he  soon  found  greater  perils  than  those  of  Hell- 
gate  in  the  hostility  of  the  natives;  for,  says  he,  "the  savages 
had  great  advantage  of  us,  in  a  strait  not  above  a  bow-shot,  and 
where  a  multitude  of  Indians  let  fly  at  us  from  the  bank ;  but  it 
pleased  God  to  make  us  victors."  Only  escaping,  as  his  words 
seem  to  imply,  and  as  had  Hudson,  by  making  his  assailants  feel 
the  superiority  of  firearms,  it  seems  hardly  credible  that  such 
was  ever  the  rude  and  perilous  state  of  our  beautiful  Island,  the 
now  secure  abode  of  peace  and  refinement. 

As  introductory  to  the  history  of  the  section  in  which  we  are 
most  interested,  we  must  notice  the  advent  and  progress  of  set- 
tlement upon  the  southern  point  of  the  Island,  which  antedated 
by  some  thirteen  years  the  first  known  attempt  to  locate  at  Har- 
lem. The  idea  of  a  permanent  occupation  of  the  country  natur- 
ally followed  upon  the  more  intimate  knowledge  of  its  resources, 
acquired  through  the  frequent  visits  of  the  Holland  traders. 
But  the  first  move  in  that  direction  must  be  accredited  as  be- 
fore mentioned,  to  Rev.  John  Robinson,  pastor  of  an  English 
congregation  at  Leyden,  and  to  the  directors  of  the  company 
engaged  in  trading  to  New  Netherland.  In  negotiating  with 
said  directors,  Robinson  had  informed  them  that  upon  condition 
of'  the  government  protection,  etc.,  he  was  "well  inclined  to 
proceed  thither  to  live,"  and  also  "had  the  means  of  inducing- 
over  four  hundred  families  to  accompany  him  thither,  both  out 
of  this  country  (Holland)  and  England,"  who  would  "plant 
there  a  new  commonwealth."  But  the  company's  charter  mean- 
while expiring,  the  directors,  on  February  12th,  1620,  laid  their 
case  before  the  States  General  and  besought  them  to  take  these 
colonists  under  their  protection  and  detail  two  ships  of  war  to 


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convey  them  to  that  country,  in  order  to  keep  out  other  nations 
and  make  it  "secure  to  the  State." 

But  this  application  failed,  as  did  another  of  similar  import 
made  the  next  year  to  the  London  Company  by  the  French  and 
Walloons  of  Leyden,  as  heretofore  noticed.  Nevertheless  the 
States  General  were  not  indifferent  to  the  benefits  likely  to  accrue 
from  such  colonies  being  planted  in  New  Netherland.  Hence  in 
their  charter  to  the  West  India  Company,  in  view  of  '*the  g^eat 
abundance  of  their  people,  as  well  as  their  desire  to  plant  other 
lands,"  they  enjoined  upon  the  company,  as  one  among  the  im- 
portant objects  contemplated,  "to  advance  the  peopling  of  those 
fruitful  and  unsettled  parts."*  Accordingly  a  first  act  of  the  com- 
j)any  was  to  equip  and  send  out  (March,  1623)  a  vessel  of  130 
lasts,  the  New  Netherland,  in  command  of  one  familiar  with  the 
voyage.  Captain  Comelis  Mey,  and  which  carried  about  thirty 
families,  "mostly  Walloons,"  with  a  few  single  men,  all  engaged 
to  the  company  for  a  term  of  service,  and  who  were  to  occupy  and 
garrison  several  new  points  along  the  coast,  besides  forming  a  set- 
tlement up  the  Hudson.  Captain  Mey  was  to  be  the  director  or 
governor  in  New  Netherland,  with  a  deputy  in  the  person  of  Cap- 
tain Adrian  Tienpont,  who  accompanied  him.  Arriving  at  Hud- 
son's River  about  the  beginning  of  May,  they  lay  at  anchor  for 
several  weeks  at  Manhattan,  where  eight  men  were  set  ashore  "to 
take  possession"  for  the  company,  and  others  dispatched  for  a  like 
object  to  the  rivers  Connecticut  and  Delaware.  About  eighteen 
families  proceeded  with  the  vessel  up  the  river  to  Castle  Island,  at 
or  near  which  the  Dutch  had  for  nine  years  maintained  a  trading- 
post.  Choosing  a  spot  for  a  settlement  still  higher  up  (within  the 
present  city  of  Albany),  there  they  "made  a  small  fort,"  and  en- 
tered into  "covenants  of  friendship"  with  the  Mahicans  or  River 


•  No  credit  is  due  to  the  statement  that  colonics  were  planted  in  New  Netherland, 
on  Manhattan  Island  or  elsewhere,  prior  to  1623.  Sir  Dudley  Carieton,  English  am- 
bassador at  the  Hague,  no  doubt  makes  a  true  representation  when,  in  a  letter  of  Febru- 
ary 5,  1621  (February  15,  1622  N.  S.),  to  the  I^eards  of  the  Council  in  England,  he 
says:  "About  four  or  five  years  since,  two  particular  companies  of  Amsterdam 
merchants  began  a  trade  into  those  parts  betwixt  40  and  45  degrees,  to  which  after 
their  manner  they  gave  their  own  names  of  New  Netherlands  and  the  like;  whither  they 
have  ever  since  continued  to  send  ships  of  30  and  40  lasts,  at  the  most,  to  fetch  furs, 
vhich  is  all  their  trade j  for  the  providing  of  which  they  have  certain  factors  there 
continually  resident  trading  with  savages,  and  at  this  present  there  is  a  ship  at  Amster- 
dam bound  for  those  parts;  but  I  cannot  learn  of  any  colony  either  already  planted 
there  by  these  people,  or  so  much  as  intended;  and  I  have  this  further  reason  to 
believe  there  is  none,  because  within  these  few  months  divers  inhabitants  of  this 
country  to  a  cotisiderable  number  of  families  have  been  suitors  unto  me,  to  procure 
them  a  place  of  habitation  amongst  his  Majesty's  subjects  in  those  parts;  which,  by 
his  Majesty's  order,  was  made  known  to  the  Directors  of  the  Plantation;  and  if  these 
countrymen  were  in  any  such  way  themselves,  there  is  small  appearance  they  would 
desire  to  mingle  with  strangers,  and  be  subject  to  their  government."  (Col.  Hist,  of 
N.  Y.,  ^:  7.  Stusrvesant  docs  not  claim  for  the  Dutch  anv  earlier  possession  of  Man- 
hattan Island.  Ibid,  2:  412.  See  also  ibid,  i:  149,  and  Doc.  Hist.  N.  Y.,  4to,  3: 
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Indians,  the  Maquas,  and  other  neighboring  tribes,  who  **desired 
that  they  might  come  and  have  a  constant  free  trade  with  them, 
which  was  conchided  upon."  Such  a  beginning  had  the  now 
weahhy  capital  of  the  State. 

Those  left  to  form  a  trading-post  at  Manhattan  intrenched 
themselves  at  Capsee,  on  the  southern  end  of  the  island,  and  built 
them  hausse  **of  the  bark  of  trees."  Three  years  later  Gov- 
ernor Peter  Minuit  came  out,  Manhattan  Island  was  purchased 
from  the  Indians  "for  the  value  of  sixty  guilders," — ^twenty- four 
dollars  and,  with  a  view  to  making  this  "the  principal  colony," 
the  settlement,  which  had  already  received  important  accessions 
from  Holland,  with  a  supply  of  live  stock  and  farming  tools, 
was  further  increased  by  the  families  from  Fort  Orange,  who, 
disquieted  by  a  recent  affray  with  the  savages  in  which  some  of 
their  number  were  slain,  gladly  accepted  this  change ;  and  as  the 
Manhates  "were  becoming  more  and  more  accustomed  to  the 
strangers."*  New  Amsterdam,  as  now  called,  and  containing 
two  hundred  and  seventy  souls,  was  permitted,  April  7,  1628, 
to  welcome  its  first  minister,  Rev.  Jonas  Michaelius,  from  Hol- 
land. This  devoted  man,  educated  at  Ley  den,  preached  a 
dozen  years,  then  went  out  to  Brazil  with  the  great  expedition 
in  1624.  After  a  short  term  of  service  at  St.  Salvador  he 
labored  a  year  or  two  in  Guinea  before  coming  to  New  Am- 
sterdam. Here  at  once  he  "established  the  form  of  a  church," 
but  as  the  Walloons  and  French  knew  very  little  Dutch,  he 
preached  to  them  in  their  own  language.  Hither  resorted  the 
Indian  hunters,  bringing  quantities  of  furs,  of  which  from  year 
to  year  valuable  cargoes  were  taken  to  Holland  in  the  company's 
ships.  Their  agents  also  used  every  means  to  increase  this  trade 
by  exploring  in  their  yachts  all  the  adjoining  coasts,  while  others 
scoured  the  woods  and  sought  the  Indian  villages  for  friendly 
traffic.  But  it  was  not  only  the  fur  trader,  the  hunter  tracking 
the  game,  or  the  amateur  drawn  hither  by  curiosity  to  see  the 
countr}' ;  others  were  already  intent  upon  finding  out  its  varied  re- 
sources,— the  husbandman  noting  the  quality  of  the  soil,  the 
mechanic  and  artisan  whatever  for  each  had  a  practical  business 
value,  the  scientist  or  naturalist  in  quest  of  mineral  and  other 

•  Harlem  was  settled  before  New  Amsterdam,  if  we  may  credit  the  tradition 
current  among  our  old  New  Yorkers  half  a  century  ago;  the  first  colonists,  after 
living  here  awhile,  for  some  cause  removing  to  the  lower  end.  Such,  then,  and  even 
laterthis  was  the  popular  belief,  as  we  have  had  it  from  the  lips  of  several  aged  persons 
lonp  since  deceasecl.  But  finding  no  mention  of  this  either  in  Wassenaer  or  De  Laet, 
or  m  any  contemporary  or  early  record,  we  suspect  the  tradition  is  due  to  the  removal 
from  Fort  Orange  or  to  the  abandonment  of  Harlem  for  a  time  by  its  first  settlers 
because  of  the  Indians,  as  hereafter  related,  or  perhaps  to  the  confused  and  faded 
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treasures, — some  new  wonder  in  every  stone,  tree,  shrub,  and 
flower,  every  beast  that  starts  at  his  approach,  or  bird  that  warbles 
from  the  bough.  Much  of  this  useful  information  was  presently 
transmitted  to  Fatherland,  both  in  private  letters  from  the  colonists 
to  their  kindred  and  in  official  reports  to  the  West  India  Company. 
Isaac  De  Rasieres,  who  came  out  in  1626  and  served  some  two 
years  as  chief  commissary  and  secretary  at  New  Amsterdam,  has 
left  us,  in  an  account  written  after  his  return  to  Holland,  the 
earliest  known  description  of  Manhattan  Island  by  an  eye-witness. 
It  is,  he  says,  "full  of  trees,  and  in  the  middle  rocky,"  but  the  north 
end  "has  good  land  in  two  places,  where  two  farmers,  each  with 
four  horses,  would  at  first  have  enough  to  do  without  much  clear- 
ing." So  early  had  the  attention  of  the  Hollanders,  instinctively 
attached  to  rich  bottom  lands,  been  drawn  to  these  fertile  plains, 
then  known  to  the  colonists  as  the  Flats  of  the  Island  of  Manhatta. 

In  tracing  the  history  of  this  section  of  the  Island,  the  terri- 
torial limits  will  be  those  given  in  the  patent  or  charter  granted 
the  inhabitants  of  Harlem  by  the  colonial  governor  NicoUs  in 
1666,  which  embraced  all  the  upper  portion,  from  Kingsbridge 
south,  as  far  as  Manhattanville  on  the  west  side  and  Seventy- 
fourth  Street  on  the  east. 

Of  those  who  early  manifested  an  interest  in  this  particular 
section  were  Wouter  Van  Twiller,  now  Director-General  of  the 
colony,  and  his  friend  Jacobus  Van  Curler,  who  bore  the  title  of 
Jonkheer.  They  were  both  young  men,  from  the  same  place, 
Xieukerck,  and  Van  Curler,  had  accompanied  the  new  director 
hither  in  1633.  A  residence  of  three  years  giving  them  the  op- 
portunity to  spy  out  the  land,  Van  Twiller  had  improved  it  by 
selecting  for  himself  several  choice  tracts  in  the  vicinity  of  New 
.\msterdam,  among  which  was  the  island  lying  "over  against" 
the  Flats,  and  known  to  us  as  Ward's  Island.  The  Jonkheer,  in 
his  rambles,  had  fixed  his  covetous  eye  upon  these  rich  Flats, 
and,  with  leave  of  the  director,  had  pre-empted  a  goodly  section 
bordering  upon  the  river,  opposite  the  island  referred  to,  and 
which  obtained  the  name  of  the  Otter-spoor,  or  the  Otter-track. 
It  is  scarcely  a  departure  from  the  literal  facts  to  picture  these 
two  dignitaries  upon  one  of  their  tours  of  observation  up  the 
island ;  and  in  fancy  we  may  accompany  them.  Van  Curler  well 
knows  the  lay  of  the  land,  for  he  loves  to  scour  the  woods  in 
quest  of  game;  but  one  of  his  feats,  which  he  took  some  pride 
in  relating,  was  the  killing  an  hundred  and  seventy  black-birds  at 
a  single  shot! 

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thatched  roofs  and  its  fortress  with  low  turf  wall  receding  from 
view,  we  follow  the  Indian  trail  leading  to  Wickquaskeek,  or 
"the  birch  bark  country,"  which  lies  beyond  the  quiet  waters  of 
the  Papparinamin,  as  that  part  of  the  Spuyten  Duyvel  was  called 
where  it  turns  the  extreme  northerly  point  of  Manhattan.  Spring 
is  in  her  loveliest  attire.  Around  and  along  our  pathway  she 
displays  in  rich  profusion  her  grandest  works.  Plains  scarce 
trodden  by  human  kind,  save  by  the  red  man,  are  clothed  in  all 
the  beauty  of  their  pristine  verdure,  while  the  rock-capped  hills 
and  the  resonant  forest  echo  back  and  forth  the  sounds  of  wild 
and  savage  life.  Plumed  songsters  fill  the  woods  and  enliven 
our  journey  with  their  music.  Perchance  the  shrill  cry  of  the 
eagle,  startled  from  its  eyrie,  or  the  plaintive  note  of  the  cuckoo, 
or  the  busy  hammer  of  the  woodpecker,  in  turn  arrests  our  atten- 
tion. 

"And  playful  squirrel  on  his  nut-grown  tree: 
And  every  sound  of  life  was  full  of  glee,    ... 
While  hearkening — fearing  nought  their  revelry  — 
The  wild  deer  arched  his  neck  from  glades,  and  then, 
Unhunted,  sought  his  woods  and  wilderness  again." 

Treading  that  "central"  part  of  Manhattan,  in  our  day  res- 
cued from  mercenary  uses  and  restored  again  to  nature  and  art, 
to  resume  under  their  culture  more  than  its  original  beauty,  we 
emerge  upon  the  bluff  near  that  romantic  spot  since  known  as 
McGown's  Pass,  and  before  us  lie  the  "Flats  of  Manhattan." 
Let  us  survey  the  charming  panorama  which  opens  to  our  view, 
note  its  more  striking  features,  and  point  out  the  several  sections 
of  the  land,  as  it  is  subdivided  by  the  aborigines,  under  distinc- 
tive names.  At  our  left  a  chain  of  high  land  extends  away  to  the 
northward  till  lost  to  the  eye,  but  broken  at  one  point  by  a 
ravine,  beyond  which  are  dimly  visible  through  the  entangled 
foliage  the  silvery  waters  of  the  majestic  Mahican-ittuck,  or 
Hudson.  In  the  distance  a  lesser  stream,  which  flows  from  the 
Papparinamin,  and  is  known  simply  as  the  Great  Kill  (its  Indian 
name  is  undiscovered),  comes  gently  coursing  toward  the  troubled 
waters  of  the  Hellegat.*  Familiar  to  us  as  the  Harlem  River,  it 
has  been  fitly  designated  as  "one  of  the  sweetest  streams  that  ever 
gave  a  charm  to  landscape."     Along  the  heights  through  which 

•  Muscoota,  says  the  History  of  Westchester  County,  was  the  aboriginal  name 
for  Harlem  River,  but  various  original  authorities  agree  in  making  it  the  common 
Indian  term  for  flats  or  flatland!  After  diligent  but  vain  search  among  our  early 
records  to  discover  some  warrant  for  applying  it  to  the  river,  we  gave  it  up,  when  an 
inquiry  addressed  to  Mr.  Bolton,  and  answered  with  his  usual  courtesy,  failed  to  elicit 
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flow  its  upper  waters,  the  scenery,  though  less  imposing,  still  rivals 
that  of  the  classic  Hudson  in  all  that  is  picturesque  and  pleasing. 
On  the  hither  side  the  banks,  rising  boldly  from  a  rocky  base 
and  clothed  with  lofty  forest  trees,  present  by  their  very  abrupt- 
ness a  fine  contrast  to  the  eastern  shore,  where  undulating  hills, 
woodland  and  meadows  form  a  gradual  descent  to  tnc  water's 
edge.  Here,  aforetime,  till  its  quiet  was  invaded  by  the  snort 
of  the  iron  horse,  the  visitor  loved  to  tarry,  wrapt  in  the  con- 
templation of  a  scene  sublime,  and  quite  forgetful  of  the  outer 
world,  till  his  reverie  was  broken  by  the  wild  cry  of  the  heron, 
or  the  plunge  of  the  kingfisher  as  it  darted  from  an  overhanging 
bough, — "most  celebrated  and  besung  of  all  other  birds,'* — species 
which  had  ever  haunted  these  waters  and  nested  in  the  lofty  pines. 
Lingering  tenant  of  these  solitudes,  the  heron  was  seen  at  early 
dawn  assiduous  at  his  piscatory  work.  Taking  his  gloomy  stand 
in  the  water's  edge,  and  motionless,  as  if  meditating  mischief,  he 
kept  his  head  turned  on  one  side,  and  eyed  the  pool  intently  for 
an  opportunity  to  strike  his  prey.  If  undisturbed,  he  spent  the 
day,  resting  when  gorged,  with  his  long  neck  sunk  between  his 
shoulders,  but  retiring  long  before  night  to  his  retreat  in  the 
woods.  The  scene  is  better  depicted  by  MXellan,  in  "The  Notes 
of  the  Birds." 

"  Far  up  some  brook's  still  course  whose  current  mines 
The  forest's  blackened  roots,  and  whose  green  marge 
Is  seldom  visited  by  human  foot, 
The  lonely  heron  sits,  and  harshly  breaks 
The  sabbath  silence  of  the  wilderness: 
And  you  might  find  her  by  some  reedy  pool, 
Or  brooding  gloomily  on  the  time-stained  rock, 
Beside  some  misty  and  far-reaching  lake. 
Most  awful  is  thy  deep  and  heavy  boom, 
Gray  watcher  of  the  waters !    Thou  art  king 
Of  the  blue  lake;  and  all  the  wing'd  kind 
Do  fear  the  echo  of  thine  angry  cry. 
How  bright  thy  savage  eye!    Thou  lookest  down 
And  seest  the  shining  fishes  as  they  glide; 
And  poising  thy  gray  wing,  thy  glossy  beak 
Swift  as  an  arrow  strikes  its  roving  prey. 
Ofttimes  I  see  thee,  through  the  curling  mist, 
Dart  like  a  spectre  of  the  night,  and  hear 
Thy  strange,  bewildering  call,  like  the  wild  scream 
Of  one  whose  life  is  perishing  in  the  sea." 

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after  an  inlet  of  the  West  Scheldt,  lies  in  full  view  at  our  right, 
the  terror  of  ancient  voyagers,  and  whose  conception  of  it  is  well 
given  in  these  words  of  an  early  writer:  "Being  a  narrow  pas- 
sage, there  runneth  a  violent  stream  both  upon  flood  and  ebb, 
and  in  the  middle  lieth  some  islands  of  rocks,  which  the  current 
sets  so  violently  upon  that  it  threatens  present  shipwreck;  and 
upon  the  flood  is  a  large  whirlpool,  which  continually  sends  forth 
a  hideous  roaring,  enough  to  aflfright  a  stranger  from  passing 
further,  and  to  await  for  some  Charon  to  conduct  him  through/' 
The  Indians,  in  the  last  century,  had  a  tradition  "that  at  some 
distant  period  in  former  times  their  ancestors  could  step  from 
rock  to  rock,  and  cross  this  arm  of  the  sea  on  foot." 

Beneath  us  spreads  out,  as  a  royal  tapestry  of  velvety  green,  a 
section  of  rich  bottom  land,  known  to  the  Indians  by  the  euphonic 
term  Muscoota,  that  is.  The  Flat,  as  the  whites,  who  adopted  the 
name,  rendered  it.  The  hills  form  its  southern  limit,  with  a 
fresh  water  run  long  known  as  the  Fountain,  from  its  spring 
upon  the  hillside,  and  which,  passing  out  to  the  Great  Kill,  skirts 
northerly  a  point  or  neck  of  land  opposite  Hellegat,  its  surface 
slightly  elevated,  and  which  the  natives  call  Recha wanes,  or,  as 
interpreted,  the  Great  Sands ;  since  the  Benson  or  McGown  prop- 
erty. It  is  bounded  southerly  by  a  creek  and  broad  marshes, 
which  stretch  from  the  Bay  of  Hellegat  even  to  Konaande 
Kt>ngh.* 

Beyond  the  creek  of  Rechawanes  Hes  Van  Curler's  grant, 
reaching  away  to  the  Great  Kill,  a  broad  and  level  tract,  called 
in  the  language  of  the  natives  Conymokst,  but  by  the  Dutch  the 
Otter-spoor,  from  the  little  amphibious  animal  which  sports  here- 
about, burrows,  and  leaves  its  foot-tracks  (spoor)  on  the  mar- 
gins of  its  streamlets  and  river,  and  whose  furs  are  so  coveted 
by  the  Dutch  trader.  Northerly  still  lies  Schorakin,  with  a  mostly 
level  surface,  and  stretching  along  the  Great  Kill  upward  toward 
the  hills.  It  is  partly  separated  from  the  Otter-spoor  by  a  creek 
and  meadows,  and  partially  hidden  from '  view  by  the  Ronde 
Gebergte,  or  Round  Hills.  One  is  an  abrupt  wooded  eminence, 
by  modern  innovation  styled  Mount  Morris,  but  which  the  Dutch 
called  the  Slang  Berg,  or  Snake  Hill,  from  the  reptile  tribes  that 
infested  its  cleft  rocks  and  underbrush  even  witliin  the  memory 

•  An  Indian  term  which  occurs  in  a  Dutch  document  of  1669  (see  under  that 
year),  but  misread,  apparently,  by  the  late  Dominie  Wcstbrook,  who  rendered  it  King's 
Highway,  the  proper  Dutch  for  which  is  Koning's  Hooge  Weg.  It  may  come  from 
ko,  a  fall  or  cascade,  and  ononda,  a  hill;  kong  signifying  elevated  place  or  locality. 
Hence  probably  refers  to  the  spring  aforesaid,  but  possibly  to  a  village  site  (an  Indian 
village,  or  pernaps  the  one  contemplated  in  i66i),  nunda  being  the  terni  for  village. 
It  approaches  in  sound  nearly  to  the  Iroquois  Genunda,  or  Kannata,  Village  on  the 
Hill,  and  from  which,  says  Charlevoux,  the  name  Onada  is  derived. 


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of  the  living.  Southerly  from  it  the  gneiss  rock  crops  out  in 
huge,  disordered  masses.  A  little  way  to  the  right  is  the  other^ 
a  lesser  height  or  ridge,  and  which  to  the  inhabitants  came  to  be 
known  as  The  Little  Hill,  when  was  built  opposite  to  it  (Kings- 
bridge  road  only  parting  them)  the  goodly  Dutch  farm-house  of 
Johannes  Sickels,  still  standing  in  123d  Street.  Strewed  over 
the  plain,  and  here  and  there  conspicuous,  are  rounded  boulders 
of  gray,  red,  and  ferruginous  sandstone,  unlike  any  rock  found 
here  in  situ,  and  whose  presence  is  ascribed  to  some  mighty  action 
of  nature  in  times  far  remote,  by  which  they  had  been  drifted 
and  deposited  here.  The  hugest  of  these  weather-beaten  boul- 
ders, which  lay  behind  the  Sickels  house,  still  lives  in  memory 
and  in  the  written  romance  of  the  Child  of  the  Singing 
Rock.* 

O'er  all  this  fair  domain  still  roams  the  haughty  Manhattan 
or  Wickquaskeek,  as  properly  called,  making  forest  and  waters 
alike  contribute  to  his  subsistence,  as  though  he  yet  held  rights 
in  the  soil,  notwithstanding  the  sale,  ten  years  previous,  to  the 
West  India  Company.  So  the  sachems  of  Mareckaweek,  or 
Brooklyn, — a  fact  quite  remarkable  if  they  were  not  a  band  of 
the  Manhattans, — claim  the  two  islands,  one  before  referred  to, 
l>'ing  opposite  the  Otter-spoor  and  called  Tenkenas,  since  named 
Ward's  Island,  and  the  other  called  Minnahanonck,  now  Black- 
well's  Island.  But  cast  the  vision  across  the  intervening  cen- 
turies, and  it  strips  this  virgin  landscape  of  its  almost  bewitching 
charms ;  its  every  feature  changes  like  a  dissolving  view,  and  the 
congregated  homes  of  a  cultivated  people  engross  these  several 
tracts  of  many  hundred  broad  acres,  forming  one  of  the  fairest 
sections  of  our  great  metropolis!  Gone  is  every  memento  of 
the  aborigine,  save  a  'few  uncouth  names  or  unearthed  relics.t 
The  former,  as  applied  to  places  within  Harlem,  we  have  en- 
deavored to  rescue,  because,  however  unintelligible  or  difficult  of 
rendering  are  such  Indian  terms,  they  are,  as  admitted,  usually 


•  The  Bachelor's  Ward,  or  the  Child  of  the  Singing  Rock:  a  Legend  of  Harlem, 
was  befi^un  in  the  New  York  Sun  of  September  24,  i860,  and  extended  through  twenty- 
two  chapters.  It  was  written  by  Mr.  William  K.  Pabor,  then  of  Harlem,  son  of  the 
late  Alexander  Pabor,  whose  father,  Martin  Pabor,  by  birth  a  Swiss,  came  to  this 
country  via  Bordeaux,  about  1803,  and  died  at  Bloomingdale,  May  16,  18 16,  aged  48 
years. 

t  A  deposit  of  Indian  arrow-heads  was  found  at  Harlem,  in  1855,  in  excavating 
for  a  cellar  on  Avenue  A,  between  120th  and  121st  street,  a  spot  nearly  central  of  the 
old  Bogert  or  Morris  Rendell  farm,  and  on  tae  ancient  Otter-spoor.  Being  in  con- 
siderable number,  of  various  sizes,  and  in  all  stages  of  manufacture,  it  shows  that 
here  had  been  the  red  man's  workshop,  where,  with  wondrous  patience  and  skill,  he 
chippea  out  those  little  implements,  of  equal  use  to  him  in  peace  and  war.  They  were 
made  of  a  buff-colored  flint,  resembling  the  yellow  semi-opal  of  India,  but,  what  is 
remarkable,  unlike  any  stone  to  be  met  with  on .  or  about  Manhattan  Island.  Some 
of  these  arrow-heads,  obtained  by  him  at  the  time,  are  in  the  author's  cabinet. 


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found  to  be  aptly  significant,  generally  descriptive  of  the  locality, 
or  of  some  signal  event  in  its  Indian  legends.* 

Here,  lying  as  it  were  at  our  feet,  is  Muscoota, — The  Flat, — 
stretching  northward  from  the  elevation  we  occupy,  a  fine  level 
plain,  shut  in  westerly  by  bold  heights  dressed  in  the  primeval 
forest,  the  substratum  of  gray  gneiss,  like  artificial  grass-grown 
bulwarks,  bare  and  exposed  to  view  along  their  entire  face;  its 
eastern  limit  a  tiny  creek  that  glistens  in  the  sunlight  from  be- 
tween its  bushy  banks  as  a  thread  of  limpid  silver,  and  which, 
meeting  at  flood  tide  the  flow  into  the  ravine  through  the  heights, 
or  the  "Clove  of  the  Kil,"  as  afterward  called,  serves  to  bisect 
the  island  and  to  bear  the  canoes  of  the  natives  from  the  Hellegat 
to  the  Hudson.  Rejoicing  in  its  primitive  integrity  and  beauty, 
no  farm  lines,  no  Harlem  Lane  or  Avenue  St.  Nicholas  yet  inter- 
sect it,  nor  even  a  furrow  has  upturned  its  deep,  rich,  vegetable 
mould,  though  partially  cleared,  and  tilled  by  the  Indian  women 
with  the  hoe,  in  their  rude  way,  for  raising  scanty  crops  of 
maize,  pumpkins,  beans,  and  tobacco.  This  inviting  spot  has  also 
been  appropriated.  Its  repose  must  now  be  broken  by  the  ring 
of  woodman's  axe,  the  noise  of  saw  and  hammer,  for  the  first 
European  settlers  have  arrived,  to  rear  their  isolated  dwellings. 
Their  story  in  the  Old  World  has  already  been  told,  and  will  now 
be  continued,  with  its  checkered  experiences  in  the  New. 

•  Hon.  J.  Hammond  Trumbull,  of  Hartford,  the  eminent  Indian  philologist,  in  a 
letter  of  February  3,  1880,  with  which  he  has  had  the  kindness  to  favor  me,  remarks: 

"Nothing  disguises  an  Indian  name  so  effectually  as  a  Dutch  pen;  and  few  of 
the  names  of  Northern  New  Jersey  or  Southern  New  York  are  easily  recognized  in  the 
shape  they  come  to  us  in  the  Dutch  records  or  under  Dutch  corruptions.  The  Indian 
dialect  differed  very  slightly  from  that  of  Massachusetts  or  Eastern  Connecticut,  but 
the  Dutch  spelling  transform^  them  to  an  unknown  tongue,  and  it  is  only  by  compari- 
son of  all  the  various  ways  of  writing  a  name,  and  by  a  careful  study  of  the  locality 
io  which  it  is  appropriated, — and  probably  wrongfully  appropriated, —  that  one  can 
i^uess  at  the  original  sound,  an  so,  at  the  meaning." 


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CHAPTER    VII. 

1 636- 1 640. 

SETTLEMENTS. 

T  T  NDER  most  flattering  auspices,  and  well  supplied  with 
^^  needed  stores  and  house  and  farm  utensils,  including  arms 
and  ammunition,  Henry  and  Isaac  De  Forest  have  at  length  the 
satisfaction  of  treading  the  strange  country,  so  long  the  object 
of  mingled  hope  and  solicitude.  Equally  cheering  was  this  un- 
expected arrival* to  the  denizens  of  New  Amsterdam,  who  for 
some  months  had  seen  no  new  faces  from  Fatherland ;  their  isola- 
tion the  more  keenly  felt  since  the  departure  together,  August 
13th,  of  the  ship  King  David,  Captain  David  De  Vries,  and  a 
company's  ship,  the  Seven  Stars,  the  first  having  brought  a  small 
accession  to  the  settlers.*  The  merry  salvo  from  the  fort,  the 
grasp  of  welcome  which  greeted  the  new-comers,  only  betokened 
the  general  gladness;  while  to  the  old  Walloons,  who  spake  but 
broken  Dutch,  it  gave  an  opportunity,  not  often  enjoyed,  for  free 
inquiry  in  their  native  patois  about  friends  and  events  in  Europe. 
It  did  not  take  long  to  fix  upon  a  location,  and  fully  inform 
themselves  of  the  nature  of  and  best  mode  of  doing  the  work  to 
be  entered  upon.  But  buildings  and  fences  were  to  be  erected, 
trees  felled,  and  the  land  prepared  to  receive  the  crop.  Having 
come  so  late  in  the  year,  instead  of  in  the  spring,  the  usual  time 
for  sailing,  they  needed  to  be  diligent  in  order  to  accomplish  this 
preparatory  work  in  season  for  the  spring  planting.  Choosing 
as  his  future  home  the  rich  flats  at  Muscoota,  promising  to  rival 
in  productiveness  the  fertile  meadows  around  his  native  Ley  den, 
and,  as  memory  ran  backward,  perchance  recalling  his  father's 
description  of  the  old  home  in  Hainault,  the  plains,  skirted  on 

*  Tacob  Walings  Van  Winckel,  from  Hoorn,  and  Peter  Csesar  Albertus,  an  Italian, 
from  Venice,  were  of  the  number,  and,  we  believe,  Claes  Cornelisz,  who  certainly  came 
out  this  year.  The  first  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Vah  Winkle  family,  of  Bergen,  N.  J., 
the  second  of  those  of  Alburtis  and  Burtis.  From  Claes  Cornelisz,  the  emigrant  of 
1636,  two  well-known  families  have  sprung,  viz.:  that  of  Wyckoff,  through  his  son 
Picter  Oacsscn  Wyckoff,  a  child  when  his  father  came  over,  and  that  of  Van  Arsdale, 
his  daughter,  Pietertie,  born  here  in  1640,  marrying  the  common  ancestor,  Simon 
Jansen  Van  Arsdalen. 


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the  one  side  by  the  heights  of  Avesnes,  on  the  other  by  the  gentle 
Hepre,  Henn-  De  Forest  at  once  obtained  from  Director  \'an 
Twiller  the  grant  of  Muscoota,  then  roughly  estimated  at  one 
hundred  morgen,  or  two  hundred  acres,  and  offering  no  impedi- 
ment to  its  immediate  occupation,  as  sometimes  occurred  where 
the  Indian  title  had  first  to  be  acquired.  Here,  as  the  weather 
favored,  De  Forest  and  his  assistants  began  their  toilsome  work. 

The  winter  had  scarcely  closed  when  their  hearts  were 
cheered  by  the  arrival  of  Dr.  La  Montagne  and  his  family.  The 
voyage,  as  was  not  uncommon,  had  been  long  and  tedious,  occa- 
sioned by  their  taking  a  circuitous  course  by  way  of  the  Canary 
Islands,  in  order  to  reach  the  trade  winds.  They  introduced  a 
Httle  stranger,  Marie  Montagne,  born  at  sea  off  the  Island  of 
Madeira,  January  26th,  1637,  and  called  after  its  grandmother, 
De  Forest.*  Montagne  was  a  welcome  and  valuable  addition  to 
the  colonists.  Reputed  skilful  in  his  profession,  he  so  soon  rose 
in  public  favor  that  Governor  Kieft,  on  his  arrival,  called  him 
to  a  seat  in  his  council,  which  appointment,  if  not  by  positive 
instructions  from  the  directors,  met  with  their  approval. 

Winter  and  spring  had  not  passed  in  idleness,  as  is  manifest 
from  the  amount  of  work  which  had  been  accomplished  in  clear- 
ing land  and  getting  ready  for  the  season  of  planting.  A  farm- 
house was  being  built,  in  the  Dutch  rural  style,  having  an  ample 
ground  floor  **forty-two  feet  by  eighteen  wide,  with  two  doors." 
The  roof  was  thatched,  and,  as  a  protection  against  the  Indians, 
the  house  was  surrounded  by  a  high,  close  fence  of  heavy  round 
palisades  or  pickets.  The  inclosure,  which  was  entered  by  a 
well-secured  gate  or  gates,  was  ample  for  out-buildings,  includ- 
ing a  house  for  curing  tobacco  ;*  this  article,  as  before  hinted, 
intended  to  form  the  principal  crop,  one  to  which  the  soil,  "on 
account  of  its  great  fertility,  was  considered  well  adapted,"  and 
yielding  the  best  returns.  It  w^as  also  '*well  suited  to  prepare 
the  land  for  other  agricultural  purposes."  Fixed  in  their  new 
home,  with  the  requisite  means  of  defense  afforded  by  their 
strong  stockade  and  four  guns  kept  ready  for  use,  and  with  hum- 
ble trust  in  a  kind  Providence,  who  had  hitherto  so  favored  them, 
the  De  Forests,  with  their  helpers,  Tobias  and  Willem,  addressed 
themselves  industriously  to  the  work  of  tilling  the  virgin  soil. 
With  no  neighbors  but  the  roving  Indians,  those  who  had  been 
reared  amid  the  activities  of  a  great  city,  with  its  busy,  crowded 

•  This  date,  with  that  of  Montaigne's  coming,  rests  upon  a  note  in  Hoi  gate's  Am. 
Genealogy,  p.  112,  the  original  authority  for  which  I  have  inquired  for  in  vain,  but 
I  see  no  reason  to  doubt  its  accuracy,  while  collateral  facts  arc  in  harmony  with  it. 


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marts,  must  have  been  strangely  impressed  by  this  scene  of  wild 
solitude  and  this  lone  isolation.  The  dusky  savage,  whose  trail 
lay  near  them,  leading  from  the  forests  of  Wickquaskeek  to  New 
Amsterdam,  as  he  passed  to  and  fro  on  his  trading  errands,  and 
eyed  with  ill-disguised  suspicion  this  inroad  upon  his  ancient 
hunting-grounds,  must  doubtless  have  excited,  by  his  uncouth 
dress  and  demeanor,  his  very  coyness,  a  corresponding  suspicion 
and  dread  in  the  minds  of  the  toilers.*  And  when  weariness 
invited  repose, — ^perchance  sweet  dreams  of  home  and  kindred, — 
how  oft  were  these  disturbed  by  the  dismal  howl  of  the  wolf  or  the 
terrifying  scream  of  the  panther,  suddenly  breaking  the  death- 
like stillness  of  the  night! 

However,  Jonkheer  Van  Curler  now  set  about  improving  his 
fine  tract  of  two  hundred  acres,  called  the  Otter-spoor,  lying  next 
to  De  Forest's  plantation ;  but,  to  describe  it  in  terms  now  famil- 
iar, situated  north  of  the  Mill  Creek,  at  io8th  Street,  and  ex- 
tending from  Harlem  River  to  near  Fifth  Avenue.  He  erected 
a  dwelling-house  and  out-buildings,  and  procured  all  things 
necessary  for  a  well-regulated  plantation, — domestic  animals  and 
farming  tools,  with  the  no  less  needful  "boat  and  fixtures"  for 
passing  to  and  from  New  Amsterdam.  Van  Twiller  also  built 
upon  the  larger  island,  opposite  the  Otter-spoor,  the  Indian  Ten- 
kenas,  now  called  Ward's  Island,  and  put  there  some  choice  Hol- 
land stock,  all  in  charge  of  Barent  Jansen  Blom,  a  stalwart  Dane, 
as  his  overseer  or  farmer;  after  which,  on  July  i6th,  1637,  the 
director  purchased  the  Indian  title  to  this  island,  and  also  the 
lesser  one  **lying  westward,"  called  ^linnahanonck  (Blackwell's 
Island),  from  the  sachems,  Heyseys  and  Numers,  who  took  in 
payment  "certain  parcels  of  goods."  From  Barent  Blom,  whose 
huge  proportions  had  gained  him  the  nickname  of  "Groot  Barent," 
the  island  w^hereon  he  lived  received  the  name  of  Great  Barent's 
Island.  Years  later,  when  Blom  had  removed  to  Brooklyn  and 
\'an  Twiller  been  dispossessed  by  the  government,  the  term  groot, 
or  great,  losing  its  proper  reference  to  Barent,  was  applied  to 
the  island  itself,  to  distinguish  it  from  the  smaller  one  adjacent 

•  "The  Indians  about  here,"  says  Capt.  David  Dc  Vries,  who  had  been  a  great 
deal  among  the  Wickquaskeeks  and  other  tribes  living  around  New  Amsterdam,  "are 
tolerably  stout,  have  black  hair,  with  a  long  lock  which  they  let  hang  on  one  side  of 
the  head.  The  hair  is  shorn  on  the  top  of  the  head  like  a  cock's  comb.  Their  clothing 
is  a  coat  of  beaver  skins  over  the  boav,  with  the  fur  inside  in  winter  and  outside  in 
summer;  they  have  also  sometimes  a  bear's  skin,  or  a  coat  made  of  the  furs  of  wild 
cats  or  raccoons.  They  also  wear  coats  of  turkey  feathers,  which  they  know  how  to 
put  together;  but  since  our  Netherlanders  have  traded  here,  they  barter  their  beavers 
for  duffels-cloth,  which  they  find  more  suitable  than  the  beavers,  and  better  for  the 
rain.  Their  pride  is  to  paint  their  faces  hideously  with  red  or  black  lead,  so  that 
they  look  like  fiends.  Then  are  they  valiant;  yea,  they  say  they  are  Manetto, — the 
devil  himself." 


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(now  Randall's  Island),  which  latter  from  mere  proximity  was 
called  Little  Barent's  Island!* 

Illusory  is  the  dream  of  worldly  aggrandizement ;  how  often, 
alas,  the  fondest  hope  of  the  heart  only  buds  to  be  blighted ! 
Such  was  a  frequent  experience  of  our  early  colonists.  Suddenly 
a  gloom  black  as  night  overshadowed  that  lone  dwelling  on  the 
plain ;  death  had  reaped  the  first  harvest.  "Henry  De  Forest  died 
on  the  26th  July,  A°  1637."  Painfully  brief,  is  the  record.  Had 
exposure  in  a  new  and  variable  climate  proved  too  much  for  one 
reared  among  the  comforts  and  protecting  influences  of  a  city ; 
or  had  the  over-zealous  toiler  suddenly  fallen  under  the  burden 
and  heat  of  the  day  ?  Was  it  due  to  disease  or  violence  ?  Vain  are 
all  surmises.  We  only  know  that,  far  from  his  native  land,  from 
the  endeared  forms  and  scenes  of  other  days,  saving  the  presence 
of  some  he  most  loved,  the  first  European  settler  on  these  Flats  met 
his  fate!  He  was  borne  to  his  last  resting-place, — doubtless  at 
New  Amsterdam, — with  fitting  tokens  of  respect,  and  the  sym- 
pathizing pastor  Bogardus,  who  but  six  months  agone  had  greeted 
and  welcomed  him  on  his  arrival,  performed  the  last  sad  ritual, 
presenting  each  pall-bearer  with  a  silver  spoon  as  a  memento  of 
the  departed.     These  tokens  were  furnished  the  dominie  by  direc- 

*  Barent  Jensen  Blom,  whose  descendants  write  their  names  Bloom,  was  born  in 
161 1,  at  Ockholm,  a  town  of  Sleswick,  in  Denmark.  After  quitting  Van  Twiller's 
service  he  settled  in  Brooklyn,  boufjht,  in  1652,  a  farm  near  the  Wallabout,  and  there 
lived  till  he  died,  June  5,  1665,  from  a  stab  wound  in  the  side,  given  by  Albert  Com. 
Wantcnaer,  and  at  once  fatal.  As  Albert  set  up  the  plea  of  self-defense,  the  court  of 
Assize,  at  his  trial,  October  2,  convicted  him  only  of  manslaughter.  He  "was  then 
and  there  burnt  in  the  hand,  according  to  law;"  the  further  penalties,  which  were 
the  loss  of  his  property  and  a  year's  imprisonment,  being  remitted  by  the  governor. 

By  his  wife,  btyntie  Pieters,  whom  he  married  in  1641,  Barent  left  two  sons,  Jan, 
born  1644,  and  Claes,  born  1650.  His  daughter  Engeltie,  born  1652,  married  Adam 
Vrooman,  of  Schenectady,  and  another  daughter  named  Tutie,  born  165^,  married 
Lembert  Jansen  Van  Dvck.  Jan  Barentsen  Hlom  became  a  farmer  in  Flatbusn,  married 
Mary,  daughter  of  Simon  Hansen,  and  had  issue,  Barent,  of  Flushing  (died  about  1735, 
having  by  wife  Femmetie,  sons  Garret,  born  1695;  John,  1697;  Abranam,  1703;  George, 
1706,  and  Isaac,  1709);  Simon,  of  Jamaica  (died  1722.  having  by  wife  Gertrude,  sons 
John,  born  1706;  Isaac,  1708;  Beruardus,  1710;  Abraham,  17 13;  Jacob,  171 5,  and 
George,  1716,  of  whom  Bernardus,  of  Newtown,  blacksmith,  1 73 1-'84,  was  father  of 
Simon  and  grandfather  of  Capt.  Bernardus  Bloom,  see  Annals  of  Newtown),  and 
George,  of  Flatbush,  who  died  without  children  about  1737.  Claes  Barentse  Blom 
married  1685,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Paulus  Dcricksen  and  widow  of  Paulus  Michielse 
Vandervoort.  He  remained  in  his  native  town,  Brooklyn,  and  was  still  living  in  1737. 
He  had  several  children,  of  whom  was  Barent,  of  Bedford,  also  Jennetie,  who  married 
Jacobus  Lefferts  and  Peter  Luvster,  the  first  the  grandfather  of  the  late  Judge  Lefferts, 
of  Brooklyn.  Barent,  of  Bedford,  whose  wife  was  also  named  Femmetie,  died  in  1756, 
having  children  Nicholas,  Jacob,  Phebe,  Elizabeth,  Jane,  Barbara  and  Maria.  Nicholas 
died  at  Bedford  about  1782,  leaving  Jacob  and  Mattie.  Consult  Bloom  wills,  Surro- 
rogate's  Office,  New  York.  For  other  facts  touching  this  lineage  wc  refer,  with 
pleasure,  to  the  Bergen  (^nealogy,  in  its  new  and  improved  form,  a  perfect  thesaurus 
of  our  Dutch  family  histoiy,  yet,  to  our  regret,  must  take  issue  with  it  upon  the  Bloom 
ancestry. 

Frederick  Arents  Bloem,  ancestor  of  the  Bloom  family  of  New  York  City,  distinct 
from  the  former,  was  from  Swarte  Sluis,  between  Zwolfe  and  Meppcl,  in  Overysscl, 
and  came  over  via  Amsterdam,  in  1654.  with  and  under  engagement  to  Laurens 
Andrisz  Van  Boskrk,  turner  and  common  ancestor  of  the  Van  Buskirk  family.  Bloom, 
also  a  turner,  and  hence  often  called  "De  Drayer,"  married  at  New  Amsterdam,  in 
1656,  Grietie  Pieters,  from  Breda;  issue,  nine  children,  four  being  sons,  viz.:  Arent, 
born  1657;  Pieter,  1661;  Johannes,  1671,  and  Jacob,  1676,  of  whom  at  least  the  first 
and  last  married  and  had  children. 


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lion  of  Dr.  Montagne,  and  at  his  own  cost.  Then, — it  was  the  ap- 
proved custom, — when  the  assembled  burghers  had  gravely  lit 
their  pipes  and  spent  some  honest  regrets,  over  their  wine  and  beer, 
at  the  untimely  exit  of  one  thus  snatched  away  at  the  manly  age 
of  thirty-one  years,  the  scene  closed  over  Henry  De  Forest. 

As  De  Forest  was  childless,  his  estate  fell  to  the  wndow  and 
next  of  kin.  Dr.  Montagne  took  charge  of  the  plantation,  and 
saw^  the  ripening  crops  properly  harvested.  He  also  finished  the 
house  and  barn,  till  which  he  boarded  at  the  house  of  Van  Curler. 
An  account  of  his  expenses  while  in  charge  of  the  farm  affords 
us  a  bill  of  fare  which  might  challenge  the  luxuries  of  a  European 
table.  Items  *'powder,  shot,  and  balls"  suggest  not  only  a  care 
for  their  personal  security,  but  as  well  the  means  of  supplying 
their  larder  with  savory  venison,  deer  being  so  plentiful  in  the 
island  as  often  to  stroll  within  gun-shot  of  the  farm  house.  Be- 
sides a  variety  of  game,  with  fish,  and  "salted  eels,"  pea  soup, 
wheat  and  rye  bread,  butter,  eggs,  and  poultry,  they  adopted  the 
wholesome  native  dish  called  sapaan,  a  mush  made  of  Indian  com. 

The  year  following,  Andries  Hudde,  an  ex-member  of  Van 
Twiller's  council,  won  the  heart  and  hand  of  the  young  widow 
De  Forest,  and  they  were  married.  Preparing  to  visit  Holland 
with  his  bride,  Hudde  engaged  Hans  Hansen,  from  Bergen  in 
Norway,  by  trade  a  shipwright,  but  with  some  knowledge  of 
farming,  and  who  during  eleven  years*  residence  had  "borne  a 
respectable  character,"  to  cultivate  tobacco,  upon  shares,  on  the 
De  Forest  farm,  Hudde  pledging  to  send  him  six  or  eight  farm 
bborers,  with  suitable  tools,  "by  the  first  opportunity  of  any  vessel 
leaving  a  port  of  Holland."  Lastly,  prior  to  leaving,  Hudde  made 
good  his  title  by  a  "groundbrief,"  or  patent,  from  Director  Kieft, 
dated  July  20th,  1638,  none  having  been  taken  out  before;  in 
fact,  no  such  deeds  had  yet  been  issued  to  any  of  the  settlers. 
Only  on  June  24th  preceding  had  the  governor  and  council,  upon 
a  petition  from  "the  free  people,"  resolved  to  give  titles  for  the 
farms  in  course  of  improvement.  This  conveyance  to  Hudde,  here 
given  entire,  is  the  earliest  of  its  kind  known  relating  to  Harlem 
lands,  if  not  the  very  first,  in  point  of  date,  issued  by  the  govern- 
ment. 

We,  the  Director  and  Council  of  New  Netherland,  residing  on  the 
Island  of  Manhatas  and  in  Fort  Amsterdam,  under  the  authority  of  the 
High  and  Mighty  Lords,  the  States  General  of  the  United  Netherlands, 
and  the  General  Incorporated  West  India  Company,  at  their  Chambers  at 
Amsterdam;  By  these  presents  do  publish  and  declare,  that  pursuant  to 
the  Liberties  and  Exemptions  allowed  on  the  7th  day  of  June,  A.  D.  1629, 
to  Lords  Patroons,  of  a  lawful,  real  and  free  proprietorship;    We  have 


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granted,  transported,  ceded,  given  over  and  conveyed ;  and  by  these  pres- 
ents We  do  grant,  give  over  and  convey,  to  and  for  the  behoof  of  Andries 
Hudde,  a  piece  of  land  containing  one  hundred  morgen,  situated  on  the 
North  East  end  of  the  Island  of  Manhatas,  behind  Curler's  land;  on 
condition  that  he  and  his  successors  shall  acknowledge  their  High 
Mightiness,  the  Managers  aforesaid,  as  their  Sovereign  Lords  and  Pa- 
troons,  and  shall  render  at  the  end  of  ten  years  after  the  actual  settle- 
ment and  cultivation  of  the  land,  the  just  tenth  part  of  the  products  with 
which  God  may  bless  the  soil,  and  from  this  time  forth  annually  for  the 
House  and  Lot,  deliver  a  pair  of  capons  to  the  Director  for  the  Holidays ; 
constituting  and  substituting  the  aforesaid  Hudde  in  our  stead  and  state, 
the  real  and  actual  possessor  thereof,  and  at  the  same  time  giving  to  him 
or  to  his  successors  full  and  irrevocable  might,  authority  and  special 
license,  tanquam  actor  et  procurator  in  rem  suam  ac  propriam,  the  afore- 
said land  to  enter,  peaceably  to  possess,  inhabit,  cultivate,  occupy  and  use, 
and  also  therewith  and  thereof  to  do,  bargain  and  dispose,  in  like  manner 
as  he  might  do  with  his  own  lands  honestly  and  lawfully  obtained,  without 
they,  the  grantors,  in  their  said  quality,  thereto  having,  reserving,  or 
saving  in  Sie  least,  any  part,  action  or  ownership,  other  than  heretofore 
specified:  Now  and  forever,  finally  desisting,  abstaining,  withdrawing: 
and  renouncing  by  these  presents;  promising,  moreover,  this  their  trans- 
port, and  what  may  be  done  by  virtue  thereof,  firmly,  inviolably  and 
irrevocably  to  maintain,  fulfil  and  execute,  as  in  equity  they  are  bound  to ; 
in  all  good  faith,  without  fraud  or  deceit  In  witness  whereof,  these 
presents  are  confirmed  with  our  usual  signature  and  with  our  Seal.  Done 
in  Fort  Amsterdam  the  20th  of  July,  1638.  Wili^Em  Kieft,  Dr. 

All  their  arrangements  made,  including  authority  to  Do. 
Bogardus  to  administer  the  De  Forest  estate  in  their  absence, 
Hudde  and  his  Gertrude  sailed  for  Holland,  we  believe  in  the 
company's  ship  the  Herring,  of  twenty  guns,  which  had  brought 
out  Director  Kieft.  Naturally,  after  a  nine  years'  absence,  Hudde 
longed  to  see  his  native  city,  Amsterdam,  and  his  widowed  mother, 
Aeltie  Schinckels;  his  father,  Rutger  Hudde,  was  dead.  Besides 
the  business  of  his  wife's  estate,  certain  sums  due  him  from  his 
guardians  at  Amsterdam  and  deposited  in  the  Orphan  Chamber 
required  to  be  looked  after,  as  well  as  moneys  coming  from  his 
deceased  brother,  Claes  Hudde,  and  a  legacy  at  Campen,  left  him 
by  his  old  aunt  Seurbeeck,  who  had  lately  died;  amounting  in 
all  to  nearly  8,000  fl. ! 

Since  Montague  took  charge  of  the  plantation  he  had  ex- 
pended over  a  thousand  guilders,  in  paying  claims  against  it,  in 
completing  the  improvements,  and  for  current  expenses,  as  per 
his  statement  rendered  to  Dominie  Bogardus  July  23d,  and  which 
had  been  approved  and  taken  to  Holland.  Wishing  a  settlement,  he 
petitioned  the  council,  September  i6th,  that  Bogardus  as  adminis- 
trator be  required  to  assume  the  care  of  the  farm  and  refund  him 
the  amount  which  he  had  advanced  upon  account  of  it.  As 
Bogardus  was  not  prepared  to  do  this  except  by  a  sale  of  the 
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decreed,  that  the  plantation  should  be  put  up  at  public  vendue  in 
Fort  Amsterdam,  October  7th,  "for  the  benefit  of  the  widow," 
and  that  from  the  proceeds  of  the  sale  Bogardus  should  pay  Mon- 
tagne  **such  moneys  as  he  had  disbursed  for  the  improvement  of 
the  bouwery."  The  sale  taking  place,  the  farm,  with  its  fixtures, 
was  struck  oflf  to  Montague  for  the  sum  of  1700  gl.  Included  were 
portions  of  the  recent  crops  of  tobacco  and  grain,  two  milch  cows 
and  other  cattle,  two  goats,  domestic  fowls,  farming  tools,  and  a 
"wey  schuyt"  or  boat  used  by  the  farmers  to  bring  salt  hay  from 
their  meadow. 

But  Montague  had  now  to  meet  a  new  vexation,  for  no  sooner 
had  the  farm  changed  owners  than  Tobias  and  Willem,  refusing 
to  work,  applied  to  the  council,  October  14th,  to  be  released  from 
their  engagement,  as  they  were  not  hired  by  the  defendant,  but 
by  his  uncle."  Montague,  however,  "produces  the  contracts  made 
between  the  plaintiffs  and  Gerard  De  Forest,  from  which  it  clearly 
appears  that  the  plaintiffs  are  bound  to  serve  said  De  Forest  or 
his  agent  for  three  sucessive  years  after  their  arrival  in  New 
Xetherland,  and  the  defendant  further  exhibiting  power  and  au- 
thority from  the  said  De  Forest  to  employ  the  plaintiffs  in  his 
service  till  the  expiration  of  their  bounden  time ;  all  this  being  con- 
sidered, the  plaintiffs  are  condemned  to  serve  out  their  term  with 
La  Montague  without  further  objection,  he  promising  to  pay  them 
the  wages  which  shall  be  due  them  at  the  expiration  of  the  said 
term."  The  secret  of  the  dissatisfaction  with  Tobias,  and  which 
had  caused  him  to  vent  a  little  Dutch  spleen  against  his  employer, 
would  appear  in  his  complaint  to  others  that  he  had  been  stinted 
in  his  allowance  of  meat  at  Montague's  house.  But  when  put  to 
the  proof  of  this  also  before  the  court,  he  confessed  to  having 
wronged  Montague  in  what  he  had  said,  admitting  "that  he  had 
his  share  of  the  beef  as  well  as  the  plaintiff."  Thus  this  trouble 
ended. 

Jonkheer  Van  Curler,  constantly  in  the  public  service,  and 
now  engrossed  with  the  duties  of  inspector  of  merchandise  under 
the  new  director,  found  it  expedient.  May  i8th,  1638,  to  lease 
the  Otter-spoor  farm,  which  he  improved  at  great  expense,  to 
Claes  Cornelissen  Swits,  for  a  term  of  three  years,  the  lessee  en- 
gaging to  employ  a  good  plowman,  and  Van  Curler  an  active 
boy  to  assist  him.  The  rent  was  to  be  paid  in  produce,  and  the 
land,  when  vacated,  to  be  left  well  sowed.  But  some  months 
later  the  Otter-spoor  changed  owners,  Cornelis  Van  Tienhoven, 
provincial  secretary,  becoming  its  purchaser,  "at  the  request  and 
on  behalf  of  Mr.  Coenraet  Van  Keulen,  merchant,  residing  in 


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Amsterdam,"  for  the  sum  of  2900  gl.  The  Van  Keulens  of  that 
city  were  much  interested  in  New  Netherland,  one  of  them,  Mat- 
thys  Van  Keulen,  being  a  principal  partner  director  of  the  West 
India  Company  in  the  Amsterdam  Chamber.  Coenraet,  a  kins- 
man of  Matthys,  we  presume,  with  his  friend  Elias  De  Raet,  also 
a  prominent  director  of  the  company,  and  who  had  befriended 
Kieft  in  getting  the  directorship  here,  invested  in  lands  on  Manhat- 
tan Island,  and  subsequently  Kieft  became  their  agent  to  manage 
this  property,  including  the  Otter-spoor  after  Van  Tienhoven's 
charge  of  it  ceased.  On  January  25,  1639,  Van  Tienhoven  gave  a 
new  lease  to  Swits,  and  with  him,  as  a  partner,  Jan  Claessen  AI- 
teras,  late  planter  on  Verken,  or  Blackwell's  Island.  Two  span  of 
horses,  three  cows,  farming  utensils,  and  "twelve  schepels  of 
grain  in  the  ground"  were  included  in  the  lease,  which  now  was 
to  run  for  six  years,  the  rent  payable  in  live  stock  and  butter  and 
"one  eighth  of  all  the  grain  with  which  God  shall  bless  the  field." 

Claes  Comelissen  Swits'  earlier  history  is  little  known.  Cap- 
tain De  Vries,  in  noting  the  circumstances  of  his  death,  styles 
him  a  Duytsman,  by  which  term  the  Hollanders  of  that  day  meant, 
a  German.  But  his  true  nationality  is  clearly  indicated  by  the  ad- 
junct to  his  name,  which  when  used  is  commonly  written  Switz 
or  Switzer,  and  so  we  may  accept  the  tradition  held  by  his  descend- 
ants that  he  was  a  Swiss.  He  and  his  family  had  sojourned  in 
the  Island  of  Schouwen,  and  thence  came  to  Amsterdam,  boarding- 
with  other  Germans  at  Peter  De  Winter's  inn  before  embarking- 
for  this  country.  He  had  been  here  now  some  five  years,  being- 
advanced  in  life,  and  on  a  chosen  spot  at  Turtle  Bay,  on  the  East 
River,  "had  built  a  small  house  and  set  up  the  trade  of  a  wheel- 
wright." With  a  still  vigorous  manhood,  some  education  and 
means,  and  a  fair  business  tact,  Claes  Rademaaker,  or  Claes  the 
Wheelmaker,  as  from  his  occupation  he  was  familiarly  called, 
proved  "a  very  useful  man,"  given  to  enterprises  outside  of  his 
regular  calling,  assisted  probably  by  his  sons  Cornelis  and  Adrian, 
as  he  was  by  Alteras  at  the  Otter-spoor.  All  this  made  his  tragic 
death  some  years  later  the  more  regretted.  He  was  killed  by  an 
Indian,  and,  strangely  enough,  his  son  Cornelis,  from  whom  the 
present  Swits  family  are  descended,  met  with  a  similar  fate  at 
Harlem,  as  will  be  further  noticed. 

Van  Tienhoven  had  obtained  his  deed  for  the  Otter-spoor 

*  Jacobus  Van  Curler  remained  many  years  in  this  country.  He  took  an  active 
part,  in  1657,  in  the  settlement  of  New  Utrecht,  where  he  built  one  of  the  first 
houses,  and  served  as  town  clerk  and  magristrate.  At  the  age  of  sixty  years  he  re- 
turned to  Holland,  sailing  from  New  York,  May  29,  1669,  in  tne  ship  Duke  of  York. 

On  losing  his  first  wife,  Adriana,  Van  Curler  had  married,  in  1652,  a  worthy  but 
much-injured  maiden,   Lysbet  Van  Hoogvelt,   whom  the  false-hearted  Van  Tienhoven, 


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from  Jacobus  Van  Curler*  only  the  previous  May,  and  having  now 
"been  fully  satisfied  and  paid"  by  Van  Keulen  of  Amsterdam, 
he  executed  a  conveyance  to  the  latter  for  that  valuable  property, 
August  22d.  1639,  subject  only  to  the  lease  to  Swits.  From  its 
new  owner  this  large  section  became  known  in  all  the  subse- 
quent history  of  the  town  as  Van  Keulen's  Hook. 

A  most  valuable  accession  was  now  made  to  the  settlers,  re- 
sulting from  the  more  liberal  measures  recently  adopted  by  the 
States  General  and  the  West  India  Company  to  promote  coloni- 
zation to  New  Netherland.  Captain  Jochiem  Pietersen  Kuyter, 
a  Danish  gentleman,  bom  in  the  district  of  Ditmarsen  in  Hol- 
stein,  and  liberally  educated,  had  arisen  to  position,  having  held 
a  command  in  the  East  Indies  under  commission  of  King 
Christian  IV.  He  was  now  in  his  prime,  forty-two  years  of  age, 
and  had  acquired  considerable  means.  Resolving  to  come  to 
this  country,  he  made  his  plans  known  to  the  directors  of  the 
company  at  Amsterdam,  who  showed  him  marked  attention,  not 
only  giving  him  every  assurance,  but  instructing  Director  Kieft 
to  afford  him  all  needed  facilities,  in  order  the  better  to  encour- 
age others.  Engaging  the  Fire  of  Troy,  a  private  armed  vessel 
at  Hoorn,  he  shipped  "a  large  cargo  of  cattle,"  perhaps  of 
the  fine  breed  for  which  his  native  Ditmarsen  was  famous,  and 
sailed  for  New  Netherland,  accompanied  by  his  friend  and  coun- 
tryman. Seignior  Jonas  Bronck.  Each  was  attended  by  his 
family  and  a  number  of  farmers  or  herdsmen,  and  with  them 
came  several  laborers  sent  out  by  Andries  Hudde,  from  which 
person,  it  is  highly  probable,  Kuyter  had  received  such  informa- 
tion respecting  the  grazing  lands  upon  Manhattan  Island  as  served 
to  direct  him  in  his  choice  of  location.  Early  in  July,  1639,  the 
ship,  with  its  valuable  cargo,  reached  New  Amsterdam,  where  its 
arrival  was  hailed  as  a  great  public  good.t  In  the  joy  of  his 
honest  heart.  Captain  De  Vries,  who  returned  to  Manhattan  on 
July  i6th,  but  a  few  days  after  Kuyter  had  arrived,  wrote  in  his 
journal,  "It  were  to  be  wished  that  one  to  three  hundred  such 
families,  with  laborers,  had  come,  for  then  this  would  soon  be 
made  a  prosperous  country." 

So  warmly  commended  to  the  favor  of  Kieft,  Kuyter  imme- 

when  in  Amsterdam,  in  1650,  had  cruelly  deceived  by  a  promise  of  marriage,  and 
induced  to  accompany  him  to  this  country,  though  he  had  a  wife  and  children  living 
here.  Exposing  him  publicly  in  court,  Lysbet  found  great  sympathy,  and  Tienhoven's 
baseness  being  proved  b>[  testimony  sent  for  to  Holland,  it  came  near  going  hard  with 
him,  but  he  escaped  punishment  only  to  become  a  few  years  later  a  public  swindler,  a 
fugitive  from  justice,  and,  as  was  believed,  a  suicide!    • 

t  De  Vries,  in   the  journal  of   his  voyages,   places  Kuyter's  arrival   under  June, 
but  it  is  shown  by  other  data  that  the  journal  is  here  at  fault  as  regards  the  month. 


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diately  obtained  from  him  a  grant  of  that  extensive  and  beautiful 
tract  before  noticed,  called  Schorakin.  On  these  rich  lands  was 
found  ample  pasturage  for  his  stock,  and  here  Kuyter  built  his 
thatch-roofed  dwelling  and  out-buildings,  enclosing  the  whole 
with  a  high  palisade  fence,  with  proper  gates.  In  due  time 
fruit-trees  and  various  improvements  adorned  his  home.  This 
plantation,  which  embraced  about  four  hundred  acres,  may  now 
be  located  in  general  terms  as  that  section  of  Harlem  bordering 
on  the  Harlem  River  north  of  what  composed  the  old  village 
lots,  and  referred  to  in  title  deeds,  even  till  a  modern  date,  as 
Jochem  Pietersen's  Flat;  though  Kuyter,  in  the  gratitude  of  his 
pious  heart,  named  it  Zengendal,  or  Vale  of  Blessing. 

Montagne  had  chosen  for  his  bouwery, — its  air  of  sweet  re- 
pose so  in  contrast  with  the  turbulent  scenes  of  his  early  life, — the 
name  Vredenval,  or  Quiet  Dale.  Alas,  he  was  to  realize  but  little 
of  the  happiness  which  he  anticipated  in  its  possession  and  use ! 
Tobias  and  Willem,  his  two  farmers,  having  served  out  their  time, 
were  now  to  leave  him,  the  former  to  occupy  a  bouwery  near 
Papparinamin.  A  question  arising  as  to  some  extra  pay  due 
them,  under  an  agreement  made  before  Montagne  came,  and 
to  which  Jacob  Stoffelsen  was  privy,  he  being  at  that  time 
"werkbaas"  over  the  company's  negroes,  who  usually  assisted  in 
the  heavy  work  on  new  bouweries,  such  as  cutting  palisades, 
clearing  the  land,  etc.,  Stoffelsen  testified  "that  in  the  year 
1636  Henry  De  Forest  promised  to  pay  the  said  persons  twenty 
florins  annually  for  their  improvements."  Parties  came  to  a  set- 
tlement March  sth,  1640,  when  Teunissen  and  Bont  gave  a  receipt 
in  full,  acknowledging  themselves  to  have  been  well  treated  and 
paid  to  their  satisfaction  by  Mr.  La  Montagne  during  and  for  their 
three  years'  service  on  the  farm  Vredendal. 

After  a  year's  absence  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hudde  returned  to  New 
Netherland,  apparently  in  the  Herring,  which  arrived  here  again 
July  7th,  1639,  bringing  goods  and  supplies  purchased  by  Hudde 
in  Amsterdam,  where  before  sailing  he  had  been  oWiged  to 
borrow  two  hundred  carolus  guilders  from  Mr.  Jonas  Bronck, 
to  be  paid  when  they  should  arrive  in  New  Netherland.  But 
Hudde  now  learned  of  the  sale  of  the  farm  Vredenval  and  the 
defeat  of  his  plans  as  a  tobacco-planter.  Some  questions  arose, 
as  was  natural,  and  for  a  full  year  the  legal  transfer  of  the  prop- 
erty from  Hudde  to  Montagne  was  delayed,  though  the  latter 
had  made  the  former  a  payment  upon  it  of  200  gl.  July  i8th, 
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to  terms  July  12th,  1640,  and  on  August  28th  ensuing  Dr.  Mon- 
tagne  received  his  deed.* 

This  plantation  and  those  at  Zegendal,  the  Otter-spoor,  and 
Great  Barent's  Island  were  the  only  places  yet  occupied  in  this 
vicinity,  with  one  exception.  When  Kuyter  set  him  down  at 
Schorakin,  his  friend  Bronck  located  at  Ranachqua,  on  the 
other  side  of  the  Great  Kill,  directly  opposite  Kuyter's  land. 
Bronck  was  of  a  family  long  distinguished  in  Sweden,  though 
probably  himself  from  Copenhagen,  where  some  of  his  kindred 
lived.  He  last  resided  at  Amsterdam,  and  had  there  married  his 
wife,  daughter  of  Jurlaen  Slagboom.  His  interviews  there  with 
Hudde  and  Kuyter  upon  the  subject  of  New  Netherland  having 
quickened,  if  they  did  not  originate,  his  purpose  to  emigrate,  he  at 
once  applied  his  ample  means  to  securing  a  proper  outfit,  and  with 
his  family,  farmers,  female  servants,  and  cattle,  arrived  here  in  the 
Fire  of  Troy,  as  before  stated.  Immediately,  with  consent  of  the 
government,  he  purchased  from  the  lidian  sachem  Tackamack 
and  his  associates  the  large  tract  of  land  called  by  them  Ranachqua, 
l>'ing  between  the  Great  Kill  and  the  river  Ah-qua-hung,  now  the 
Bronx,  conprising  over  five  hundred  acres,  and  since  included  in 
the  Manor  of  Morrisania.  Here  Bronck  began  at  once  to  make 
substantial  improvements,  including  "a  stone  house,  covered  with 
tiles,  a  barn,  tobacco  house,  two  barricks,"  etc.  Pieter  Andriesen 
and  Laurens  Duyts  also  leased  portions  of  his  land,  July  21st,  1639, 
for  three  years,  for  raising  tobacco  and  maize,  from  the  proceeds 
of  which  they  were  to  reimburse  Bronck  for  their  passage  money 
in  the  Fire  of  Troy,  which  he  had  paid.  Upon  the  same  "stipula- 
tions,'' Cornelis  Jacobsen  Stille  (later  of  Harlem) and  his  brother 
Jan  took,  August  15th,  part  of  Bronck's  land,  with  a  goo.d  dwel- 
ling and  some  stock,  for  six  years.  With  his  house  neatly  if  not 
richly  furnished  for  those  times,  and  his  vrouw  pronounced  "a 
good  housekeeper,"  Bronck  was  pleasantly  situated. 

North  of  Bronck's  land,  only  separated  from  it  by  the  kill 
Mannepies  (the  Indian  name  of  Cromwell's  Creek)  was  the  hilly 
tract  or  district  of  Kaxkeek,  "lying  over  against  the  flats  of  the 
Island  of  Manhatas,  extending  in  its  length  along  the  kill"  from 

•  Andries  Huddc,  as  before  said,  was  the  son  of  Rutger  Hudde,  of  Amsterdam, 
and  was  born  in  1608.  He  arrived  in  New  Netherland  in  1629,  and  in  1633,  became  a 
permanent  member  of  Van  Twiller's  council;  in  1642  was  appointed  the  public  sur- 
veyor, and  in  1644  was  sent  as  chief  commissary  to  the  Delaware,  where  he  subse- 
quently held  other  offices,  and  also  officiated  as  voorleser  in  the  church,  under  the 
ministry  of  Dominie  Lock.  Here  he  lost  his  wife,  she  that  had  been  Mrs.  De  Forest,  but 
he  married  again  in  1657.  Dismissed  at  his  own  request  from  the  public  scrviccj  he 
left  for  Maryland,  intending  to  set  up  a  brewerv  there,  but  died  at  Appoquinimy, 
November  4,  1663.  On  April  19,  1667,  Isaac  De  Forest,  "representing  Andnes  Hudde, 
deceased,"  sold  his  house  and  lot  on  the  Heere-weg. 


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"opposite  the  high  hill  of  the  flat  land*'  till  it  reached  "the  source  of 
the  said  kill."  On  August  3d,  1639,  j^st  about  the  time  of  Bronck's 
purchase,  Kaxkeek  was  also  bought  for  the  company,  from  Tacka- 
mack  aforesaid  and  others.  Now  a  populous  district  of  Westchester, 
in  fact  forming  a  part  of  New  York  City,  then  it  had  yet  to  welcome 
its  first  white  occupant,  and  Bronck  and  his  farmers  had  only  for 
neighbors  the  native  tenants  of  the  forest,  the  prowling  beast  and 
savage.  But  the  devout  Bronck  had  an  arm  whereon  to  lean;  a 
Lutheran  in  faith,  he  had  brought  with  him  Luther's  catechism  and 
other  devotional  books,  with  his  most  prized  folio  Danish  Bible. 
And  as  he  drew  therefrom  a  name  for  his  own  home,  Enmaus, 
it  carried  with  it  the  sweet  assurance  that  even  in  this  secluded 
wilderness  his  risen  Lord  would  reveal  himself,  if  not  visibly, 
as  to  the  two  disciples  of  old,  yet  with  tokens  of  his  presence  no 
less  comforting  because  no  less  real  to  his  eye  of  faith. 


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CHAPTER   VIII. 

1640 — 1645. 

INDIAN  TROUBLES. 

TTHRICE  happy  was  the  colonist  in  the  friendship  of  the  Indian ; 
for  he  coveted  his  furs,  to  be  had  for  a  trifle,  but  worth  at 
New  Amsterdam  a  good  price  in  cash  or  its  equivalent;  he  ate 
of  his  maize  when  his  bread  failed,  and  often  stood  in  need  of 
his  labor  or  other  service.  And  the  advantage  was  mutual.  The 
red  man  was  quick  to  see  that  various  articles  in  use  among  the 
Dutch  would  be  of  equal  use  to  him.  He  admitted  the  superiority 
of  the  Holland  duffels, — a  thick-napped  woolen  cloth,  blue  or  red, 
— by  adopting  it  for  his  own  wear.  No  longer  prostrating  himself 
through  fear  on  the  discharge  of  a  musket,  he  could  now  handle 
this  firearm,  and  would  give  a  pile  of  beavers  for  an  old  gun  and 
some  ammunition.  But  of  worse  consequence,  he  acquired  a  taste 
for  the  Dutch  fire-water,  and  for  a  draught  of  the  exhilarating 
beverage  would  strip  the  last  fur  covering  from  his  body ! 

His  visit  to  the  bouweries  or  farms  upon  peaceful  errands, 
usually  for  something  which  he  needed  and  to  barter  a  little  game 
or  peltr>',  was  no  longer  a  novelty,  and  the  sight  of  these  savages 
in  their  canoes,  daily  passing  and  repassing  on  the  streams  and 
rivers,  or  engaged  in  their  favorite  employment  of  fishing,  excited 
no  apprehensions.  "The  farmers,"  writes  Kuyter,  "pursue  their  out- 
door labor  without  interruption,  in  the  woods  as  well  as  in  the  field, 
and  dwell  safely,  with  their  wives  and  children,  in  their  houses, 
free  from  any  fear  of  the  Indians." 

"  The  drowsy  herdsman  now  reviews  his  charge, 
Unbars  his  stalls  and  sets  his  flocks  at  large; 
The  ploughboy  next  comes  trudging  o'er  the  plain, 
With  merry  heart  to  yoke  his  team  again ; 
He  slowly  goads  along  the  lounging  pair, 
As  whistling  on  he  goes  for  want  of  care. 
Unconscious  of  his  happier  lot  below, 
In  thought  confined  he  wields  his  steady  plow; 


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And  all  the  joyful  train  with  sickles  bright, 
Now  join  the  harvest  fields  in  gay  delight; 
And  as  the  rustic  jest  goes  jocund  round, 
The  rural  hour  in  guileless  mirth  is  crowned; 
While  health  does  o'er  each  cheerful  visage  play, 
Content  and  joy  beguile  their  hours  away." 

Sweet  dream  of  security,  it  was  past !  A  mortal  enmity  was 
brewing  between  the  white  and  the  red  man,  in  the  face  of 
every  interest  which  should  have  bound  them  in  friendship. 
Though  the  resi>onsibility  lay  not  with  the  colonist,  but  with  the 
authorities,  the  effects  fell  heavily  on  the  former.  In  1639  Direc- 
tor Kieft  was  guilty  of  a  most  impolitic  act,  in  attempting  to 
levy  a  tax  upon  the  several  Indian  tribes,  sending  his  wily  agent 
Tienhoven  to  demand  their  corn,  furs,  and  sewant.*  The  demand 
was  indignantly  spumed,  and  served  only  to  arouse  a  hostile 
feeling  toward  the  Dutch.  Montague's  prediction  was  well  made 
when,  seeing  the  folly  of  his  measure,  he  said,  "A  bridge  has  been 
built,  over  which  war  will  soon  stalk  through  the  land."  Some 
petty  depredations  being  committed  soon  after,  which  were,  in  part 
falsely,  charged  upon  the  Raritan  Indians,  the  hotheaded  Kieft 
dispatched  a  body  of  soldiers  to  demand  satisfaction.  They  too 
well  executed  their  mission  by  a  wanton  attack  on  the  Indians, 
July  i6th,  1640,  killing  several,  and  burning  their  maize. 

The  next  year,  1641,  brought  retaliation  from  the  Raritans, 
who,  on  September  ist,  swept  off  the  settlers  upon  Staten  Island^ 
while  Manhattan  Island  was  already  smarting  under  the  first 
stroke  of  savage  vengeance.  A  Wickquaskeek  who  from  boy- 
hood had  harbored  a  grudge  against  the  Dutch,  because  at  that 
time  three  of  Director  Minuit's  men  had  slain  his  uncle  and  stolen 
his  beavers,  could  no  longer  restrain  his  thirst  for  revenge.  On 
a  day  in  midsummer  he  entered  the  house  of  Claes  Swits,  at 
Turtle  Bay,  "on  the  road  over  which  the  Indians  from  Wickquas- 
keek passed  daily."  Assuming  a  friendly  air,  and  being  known 
to  Swits,  for  whose  son  he  had  worked,  he  was  "well  received 
and  supplied  with  food."-  Then  he  wanted  to  trade  some  furs 
for  duffels ;  but  while  the  unsuspecting  old  man  was  bending  over 
the  chest  in  which  his  cloth  was  kept,  the  savage,  with  an  axe 
that  lay  near,  struck  him  upon  the  neck,  when  "he  fell  down  dead 

•  Sewant,  also  called  wampum,  was  the  Indian  money,  consisting  of  tubular 
beads  made  from  the  conch-shell,  perforated  lengthwise  and  fastened  with  thread 
upon  strips  of  cloth  or  canvas.  For  many  years  it  was  almost  the  only  money  in  . 
circulation  among  the  settlers,  and  for  trading  with  the  Indians  was  preferable  to 
coin.  Even  the  contributions  at  church  were  made  in  sewant.  The  color  of  the 
beads,  whether  white  or  black,  and  the  finish  determined  its  value.  For  an  ex- 
haustive article  upon  its  manufacture,  etc.,  see  Munsell's  Annals  of  Albany,  vol.  ii^ 
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by  the  chest."  He  then  stole  all  the  goods  and  fled  into  the 
forest.  This  cruel  murder,  at  their  very  doors,  aroused  the 
authorities,  and  a  yacht  was  sent  to  Wickquaskeek  to  demand 
satisfaction  from  the  sachem.  He  not  only  refused,  but  justified 
the  act.  "He  wished  twenty  Swannekins  (t.  e,,  Dutchmen)  had 
been  murdered." 

Burning  to  scourge  the  savages,  but  fearing  to  assume  the 
responsibility,  Kieft  referred  it  to  the  citizens,  who  at  his  request 
came  together  and  chose  twelve  of  their  number  to  decide  upon 
the  grave  question  of  making  war  to  avenge  the  murder  of  Swits. 
The  twelve  men,  Kuyter  being  one,  reported  their  conclusions 
on  the  24th  of  August.  They  counseled  delay.  A  better  oppor- 
tunity  should  be  chosen  to  inflict  the  blow,  for  their  cattle  were 
now  pasturing  in  the  woods,  and  the  settlers  were  living  isolated 
from  each  other, — east,  west,  north  and  south.  Meanwhile  an- 
other demand  should  be  made  for  the  murderer,  and  repeated,  if 
necessary,  "twice  or  three  times."  Then,  his  surrender  being 
still  refused,  let  war  begin  "at  once."  "The  attack  should  be 
made  in  the  harvest,  when  the  Indians  were  hunting,"  or  deferred 
*'till  the  maize  trade  be  over,  and  until  an  opportunity  and  God's 
will  be  made  manifest."  These  reasonable  counsels  prevailed; 
peace  was  maintained,  and  Kuyter  and  his  neighbors  pursued 
their  farming  work  unobstructed,  though  not  without  more  or 
less  apprehension. 

Vredendal  and  the  Otter-spoor,  in  the  year  which  inaugur- 
ated these  troubles,  had  yielded  profitable  returns  for  the  "great 
expenses"  put  upon  these  bouwcries,  while  Kuyter,  after  "  a 
heavy  outlay,  much  pains,  and  immense  labor"  upon  his  buildings 
and  lands  at  Zegendal,  to  complete  the  one  and  bring  the  other 
under  good  cultivation,  had  also  realized  a  valuable  crop  of 
tobacco,  which  being  wintered  and  well  cured  he  was  intending 
to  ship  during  the  summer  of  1641  to  Coenraet  Van  Keulen,  at 
Amsterdam,  who  had  already  made  him  advances  thereon.  But 
his  purpose  was  defeated  by  the  sudden  departure  of  the  Oak 
Tree  for  Virginia,  the  vessel  in  which  he  had  designed  to  make 
his  shipment,  adding  to  his  disappointment  and  loss  the  necessity 
of  refunding  to  his  consignee  the  sum  advanced  by  him.  Mon- 
tagne  was  hardly  as  fortunate,  for  while  his  crop  was  being 
sweated  and  cured,  his  tobacco-house,  too  slightly  built,  blew 
down,  by  which  accident  the  tobacco  was  injured.  He  prose- 
cuted John  Morris,  the  carpenter,  for  damages,  which  ended  in 
a  compromise.  And  so,  notwithstanding  a  malicious  report  which 
reached  Holland,  that  Montague  "daily  filled  his  pockets  with 


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ducatoons  and  jacobuses,"  his  pecuniary  affairs  really  began  to 
wear  a  discouraging  aspect,  his  domestic  horizon  being  also 
clouded  just  at  this  time  by  the  loss  of  his  wife. 

Meanwhile  satisfaction  for  the  murder  of  Swits  had  been 
^'several  times  sought  for,  but  in  vain."  Indeed,  it  is  reported 
that  the  savage  tribes  were  combining  for  a  general  war  upon 
the  colonists;  and  the  killing  of  two  other  persons  at  Staten 
Island  and  Hackensack  was  proof  of  the  hostile  spirit  animating 
the  savages.  All  tl^is  was  very  alarming  to  the  inhabitants, 
especially  those  upon  exposed  bouweries,  who  lived  in  constant 
fear,  "and  not  without  reason,  as  the  Indians  were  daily  in  their 
houses." 

Persuasion  having  failed,  Kieft  now  felt  justified  in  using 
force  with  the  savages.  He  summoned  the  twelve  men,  Novem- 
ber 1st,  and  asked  their  opinion.  "Mr.  Jochem"  (Kuyter)  ad- 
vised "to  be  patient,  and  to  lull  the  Indians  into  security";  and 
most  agreed  with  him.  On  January  21st,  1642,  the  twelve  men 
gave  their  assent  to  an  expedition  against  the  Wickquaskeeks, 
but  (knowing  his  cowardice)  suggested  that  the  director  him- 
self should  lead  the  forces!  The  latter  declined  the  honor,  but 
began  warlike  preparations.  All  being  ready,  and  spies  sent  to 
reconnoitre  reporting  that  the  Indians  "lay  in  their  village  sus- 
pecting nothing,"  Ensign  Hendrick  V^an  Dyck,  with  eighty  men, 
left  Fort  Amsterdam  early  in  the  month  of  March  for  Wickquas- 
keek.  Arriving  at  the  Annepperah,  or  the  Saw  Mill  Creek,  at 
Yonkers,  Willem  Bont,  who  held  a  subordinate  command,  bravely 
passed  over  with  his  men  and  "marched  on  with  the  advanced 
troops,"  expecting  the  ensign  to  follow.*  But  Van  Dyck  halted 
at  the  creek  for  more  than  an  hour  before  he  crossed  with  his  com- 
mand and  came  up ;  but  now  darkness  had  set  in,  Tobias  Teunis- 
sen,  the  guide,  lost  his  way,  and  the  ensign,  perplexed  and  out 
of  temper,  ordered  a  return.  The  result  was  more  happy,  prob- 
ably, than  if  they  had  met  the  savages,  for  the  latter,  noticing 
by  the  tracks  of  the  soldiers  near  their  wigwams  "that  they  had 
narowly  escaped  discovery,"  dreaded  another  visit,  and  sent 
messengers  to  sue  for  peace.  Kieft  accordingly  sent  delegates, 
including  Van  Tienhoven,  who  understood  Indian,  to  meet  the 
chiefs  of  Wickquaskeek  in  council  at  the  house  of  Jonas  Bronck, 
at  Emmaus,  and  here  was  made  a  formal  treaty,  in  which,  among 


Willem   Fredericks   Bont,   the   same  year,   removed   to   Fort  Orange,   and  being 

rting  the   first   church   there.    Xater   he   was 


a    "free   carpenter"   took   part   in   constructim 


for  several  years  a  magistrate,  kept  tavern,  farmed  the  excise,  and  acquired  property. 
He  married,  about  1650,  Geertie  Nannincks,  as  her  fourth  husband;  in  1683  both 
were  members  of  Dominie  Delius'  Church.     Whether  he  left  children  is  not  known. 


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other  things,  the  sachems  engaged  to  deliver  Swits'  murderer  to 
the  Dutch. 

Under  this  pledge  of  peace  the  spring  and  summer  witnessed 
considerable  labor  on  the  several  plantations  on  the  Flats.  At 
the  same  time  Montague,  as  a  member  of  the  council,  was  much 
occupied  with  official  duties,  and  Kuyter  made  his  debut  into 
public  life  as  a  "kermeester,"  one  of  those  chosen  to  oversee 
the  erection  of  a  church  at  New  Amsterdam,  because  Kuyter  was 
"a  devout  person  of  the  reformed  religion,  and  had  good  work- 
men who  would  quickly  prepare  the  timber."  The  church  was 
begun  forthwith,  its  walls  "laid  up  with  quarry  stone,"  and  "built 
in  the  fort,  to  guard  against  any  surprise  by  the  Indians." 

Illusory  indeed  was  the  hope  of  living  in  peace  with  the 
natives,  now  that  the  old  ties  of  friendship  had  been  ruptured.  It 
so  happened  that  in  midwinter  following,  the  Mahicans,  who 
lived  below  Fort  Orange,  came  down  and  made  war  upon  the 
Tappans  and  Wickquaskeeks,  it  was  said,  to  force  those  tribes^ 
whom  they  had  once  subjugated,  to  render  them  tribute.  Nu- 
merous as  were  these  tribes,  they  were  easily  overpowered  by  the 
Mahicans,  who  were  well  armed  with  guns,  many  of  the  men 
being  slain,  the  women  and  children  made  captives,  and  a  crowd 
of  terror-stricken  fugitives  forced  to  take  to  flight  through  a 
deep  snow  to  find  shelter  in  the  Dutch  settlements.  Half  dead 
with  cold  and  hunger,  they  were  kindly  received  by  the  people  and 
fed  .for  two  weeks,  till,  gathering  courage,  they  returned  to  their 
castles.  But  soon,  another  panic  seizing  them,  they  again  sought 
the  protection  of  the  Dutch.  Now  Kieft,  with  no  commisera- 
tion for  these  wretched  beings,  thought  it  his  chance  to  avenge 
the  death  of  Claes  Swits  and  others.  "God  hath  wholly  deliv- 
ered them  into  our  hands,"  impiously  said  Van  Tienhoven  and 
other  restless  spirits,  who,  simply  echoing  the  sentiments  of  Kieft^ 
made  a  formal  request  for  leave  to  destroy  them. 

Kuyter  and  other  considerate  persons  opposed  this  stoutly, 
insisting  that  it  would  only  recoil  upon  their  own  heads,  bring 
disaster  upon  the  country,  and  especially  expose  the  out-planta- 
tions to  the  rage  of  a  vindictive  and  cruel  foe.  Montague,  having 
just  arrived  from  Quiet  Dale,  its  stalls  of  cattle  and  full  garners 
all  endangered,  urged  his  objections  with  unusual  warmth.  "We 
ought  first  to  consider  well,"  he  insisted,  "whether  we  shall  be 
able  to  give  protection  to  those  who  are  living  at  a  distance."  But 
this  pertinent  suggestion  was  unheeded,  evil  counsels  prevailed, 
and  Kieft,  set  in  his  mad  purpose,  rashly  issued  orders.  On  the 
night  of  February  25th,  1643,  ^  party  of  Dutch  soldiers  sallied 


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forth  from  the  streets  of  New  Amsterdam  and  made  a  savage 
onslaught  upon  the  sleeping  Wickquaskeeks,  at  Curler's  Hook, 
forty  of  whom  were  massacred  "in  cold  blood/'  Another  party, 
crossing  the  Hudson,  slaughtered  a  band  which  had  sought  refuge 
at  Pavonia.  Nor  did  it  stop  here,  for  a  day  or  two  after  several 
of  the  friendly  Mareckaweeks  were  basely  murdered. 

The  enraged  savages  were  not  slow  to  resent  such  treatment, 
and  several  tribes  joining  hands  made  common  cause  against  the 
Dutch.  Issuing  from  the  woods  and  thickets,  they  boldly  at- 
tacked and  slew  the  farmers,  both  in  their  dwellings  and  in  the 
open  field,  put  the  firebrand  to  houses,  haystacks,  and  grain,  killed 
or  drove  away  the  stock,  and  carried  off  women  and  children  into 
a  painful  captivity.  Happy  they  who  had  the  means  of  defense 
or  timely  notice  to  flee.  "The  winter  passed  in  confusion  and 
terror.''  No  outdoor  labor  could  be  safely  done.  Kieft,  as 
agent  of  Van  Keulen,  had  contracted  on  December  6th  for  the 
erection  of  a  fine  substantial  residence  on  the  Otter-spoor,  fifty 
hy  one  hundred  feet  on  the  ground,  with  porticos  front  and  rear, 
and  all  very  complete ;  for  whose  occupancy  we  cannot  tell,  unless 
for  Van  Keulen  or  some  of  his  family,  but  certainly  not  for  the 
chicken-hearted  director,  who  kept  himself  "safely  protected  in 
the  fort,  out  of  which  he  had  never  slept  for  all  the  years  he  had 
been  there."     But  this  work  was  probably  arrested. 

At  length  "the  season  came  for  driving  out  the  cattle,  which 
<:aused  many  to  desire  peace;  the  Indians,  on  their  part,  seeing 
that  it  was  time  to  plant  maize,  were  not  less  solicitous  for  a  ces- 
sation of  hostilities;  so,  after  some  negotiation,  peace  was  con- 
cluded." It  was  ratified  April  22d,  1643,  though  many  doubted 
its  continuance.  But  the  colonists,  and  especially  Kuyter,  had  met 
with  a  sad  loss  in  the  recent  death  of  Jonas  Bronck.  Was  it  at 
the  hands  of  the  Indians?  We  judge  not,  as  his  property  was 
spared.  On  May  6th  Kuyter  and  Dominie  Bogardus  visited  Em- 
maus,  and,  aided  by  the  widow*  and  Peter  Jonassen  Bronck,  took 
an  inventory  of  the  estate,  of  which  Kuyter  and  the  dominie  had 
been  apointed  guardians.  Seignior  Bronck,  as  he  was  styled, 
must  be  rated  quite  above  the  ordinary  colonists,  his  Danish  and 
Latin  library,  stored  with  law  history,  as  also  divinity,  being 
indicative  of  his  tastes  and  culture  as  well  as  of  his  piety. 

The  bouweries  of  Montagne  and  Kuyter  were  also  intact. 

•  Bronck's  widow  afterward  married  Arent  Van  Curler,  of  Renssclaerswyck, 
whom  she  also  survived.  She  died  at  Schenectady,  December  19,  i6'r6t  as  per  a 
letter  written  from  Kingston,  twelve  days  after,  by  her  nephew,  Wilhclmus  Becck- 
man,  whom  for  want  ot  children  she  named  as  one  of  her  heirs.  Her  will  was 
made  November  11,  1676;  the  date  of  probate  being  inadvertently  given  in  Pearson's 
•Schenectady  Settlers  as  the  date  of  her  death. 


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Buildings  and  stock  well  intrenched  within  palisades  had  escaped 
the  general  devastation.  Montagne  had  already  put  twenty-six 
acres  in  rj^e,  barley  and  peas,  when,  willing  to  be  relieved  of  a 
charge  so  fraught  with  danger,  he  leased  his  bouwery,  with  the 
"farm-house,"  kitchen,  out-houses,  orchard,  stock,  and  all  as  it 
stood,  June  14th,  to  Bout  Franssen,  from  Naerden,  for  the  term 
of  three  years.  In  three  months  (September  22d),  Franssen 
gave  it  up,  for  the  Indians,  having  harvested  their  maize,  began 
again  their  bloody  work.  Terrible  scenes  ensued.  The  settlers, 
compelled  to  fly,  took  refuge  at  Fort  Amsterdam,  to  within  sight 
of  which  the  brutal  savages  tracked  their  victims.  Montagne 
"was  driven  off  his  land,''  involving  the  loss  of  all  he  could  not 
carr\'  away;  and  scarcely  a  settler  remained  on  the  bouweries  of 
Manhattan  Island.  "Almost  every  place  is  abandoned,"  wrote 
Kuyter  and  others,  of  the  popular  board  of  Eight  Men,  in  a  letter 
of  November  3d,  1643,  imploring  aid  from  the  directors  in  Hol- 
land. "We  wretched  people,"  say  they,  "with  our  wives  and  little 
ones  that  still  survive,  must  in  our  destitution  find  refuge  together 
in  and  around  the  fort  at  Manhattas,  where  we  are  not  safe  even 
for  an  hour,  as  the  Indians  daily  threaten  to  overwhelm  us. 
Very  little  can  be  planted  this  autumn,  and  much  less  in  the 
spring;  so  it  must  come  to  pass  that  those  of  us  who  may  yet 
save  our  lives  will  necessarily  perish  next  year  by  hunger  and 
grief,  as  also  our  wives  and  children,  unless  our  God  have  pity 
on  us." 

But  relief  from  Holland  could  not  be  immediate.  The  ques- 
tion of  self-preservation  now  pressed  upon  the  colonists;  to  re- 
main inactive  was  but  to  die.  Their  courage  rising  to  the  emer- 
gency, it  was  resolved  to  muster  in  every  man  able  to  bear  arms, 
and  to  take  the  field  with  all  their  availalDle  force  against  the  wily 
and  powerful  foe.  Montagne  and  Kuyter,  however,  opposed  at 
first  to  war,  had  now  no  alternative  but  to  second  the  effort  to 
conquer  a  peace.  The  former,  appointed  to  the  chief  military 
command,  led  several  expeditions  sent  out  in  various  directions 
during  the  succeeding  winter  and  spring,  and  in  which  Kuyter 
held  the  captaincy  of  a  burgher  company.  These  forces  scoured 
the  Indian  country,  driving  the  foe  from  his  rude  castles  and 
villages  with  sword  and  firebrand. 

Thus  far  Captain  Kuyter,  by  means  of  a  guard  of  soldiers 
stationed  at  Zegendal,  under  Sergeant  Ael,  had  protected  his 
house  and  farmers.  But  on  the  night  of  March  5th,  when  he 
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guard  was  sleeping  in  a  ce;llar  or  underground  hut;*  but  two 
young  men  in  Kuyter's  employ,  apprehensive  of  danger,  were 
patrolling  around  the  farm-house.  Near  two  o'clock  in  the 
morning  these  were  startled  by  a  blazing  arrow,  "the  flame  hav- 
ing the  appearance  of  brimstone,''  which  darted  through  the  air 
and  fell  on  the  roof  of  the  dwelling.  The  wind  blowing  strongly, 
the  thatch  at  once  took  fire,  and  soon  the  house  and  contents  were 
burned  to  the  ground.  During  and  after  the  conflagration  the 
savages  made  the  night  hideous  by  whooping  and  discharge  of 
guns,  to  the  terror  of  the  two  maid-servants,  while  the  sergeant, 
with  the  caution  of  years,  kept  within  the  cellar,  refusing  to  expose 
either  himself  or  his  men,  though  the  other  persons,  and  especially 
the  young  men,  in  face  of  a  double  danger,  saved  what  they  could 
from  the  flames. 

The  Wickquaskeeks  were  set  down  as  the  authors  of  this 
villainy.  But  this  was  denied  by  Ponkes,  a  Mareckweek,  to  two 
Dutchman  who  understood  his  language,  and  whom  he  met  but 
two  days  after  the  fire.  *'It  was  their  way  to  boast,"  he  said, 
"whenever  they  committed  any  mischief."  But  not  one  had  he 
heard  boast  of  this;  besides,  "it  was  well  known  among  the  In- 
dians that  the  Swannekins  themselves  burned  the  house,  and 
removed  through  dread  of  being  killed  there!"  This  piece  of 
Indian  logic,  evidently  invented  by  the  artful  savage  to  shield 
his  tribe  from  retribution,  was  too  transparent.  Kuyter  censured 
"the  English  soldiers"  for  not  assisting.  Kieft,  on  the  other  hand, 
took  occasion  to  throw  the  blame  on  Kuyter,  charging  him 
with  rashly  sending  away  part  of  his  guard  just  before  the  fire, 
leaving  to  protect  the  property  only  "four  soldiers  and  five  lab- 
orers."t  This  dispute  between  Kieft  and  Ku}i:er  betrays  a  state 
of  feeling  which  afterward  led  to  very  serious  results. 

Overcome  by  dread  of  the  savages,  neither  the  planters  nor 
their  laborers  had  courage  longer  to  engage  in  work  upon  the 
Flats;  and  thus  things  continued  till  at  length  a  brighter  day 
dawned  upon  the  colonists.  Wearied  with  "a  two  years'  war," 
the  Indians  themselves  manifested  a  wish  to  bury  the  hatchet. 
The  sachems  of  the  adjacent  tribes  upon  Long  Island  and  the 
banks  of  the  Hudson  were  accordingly  invited  to  a  grand  council, 
held  in  Fort  Amsterdam,  August  30th,  1645,  when  was  happily 

*  Underground  huts  were  first  made  use  of  by  those  who  at  first  had  no  means 
to  build  farm  houses,  and  in  which  the^y  could  live  "dry  and  warm  for  two,  three 
or  four  years."  The  method  of  making  them  is  described  by  Van  Tienhovcn, 
Doc.  Hist.  N.  Y.,  iv:  31. 

t  Sergt.  Martin  Ael  and  three  English  soldiers,  Thomas  Foster,  William  Gilford 
and  Abraham  Newman,  with  Cornells  Van  Houten,  Jan  Hegeman,  Pieter  Jansen, 
Jacob  Lambertsen  and  Derick  Gerritsen  and  the  two  dairymaids,  made  eleven  persons 
within  the  palisades.     Three  soldiers  had  left  only  a  few  days  before  the  attack. 


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concluded,  "a  solid  and  durable  peace."  Some  of  the  powerful 
Mohawks,  with  their  interpreter,  Cornelis  Van  Slyck,  also  at- 
tended and  assisted  in  the  negotiations.  Little  Ape,  chief  of  the 
Mahicans,  spoke  in  behalf  of  their  tributaries,  the  Wickquaskeeks, 
pledging  them  to  the  observance  of  the  treaty,  by  the  terms  of 
which  the  Indians  were  "not  to  come  with  weapons  on  Manhattan 
Island,  nor  in  the  vicinity  of  Christian  dwellings."  The  treaty 
was  signed,  in  the  presence  of  many  citizens,  by  several  of  the 
more  distinguished,  and  by  the  sachems,  among  the  former  being 
La  Montagne ;  and  also  by  the  two  interpreters,  in  which  capacity 
the  worthy  Norman,  Claes  Carstensen,  who  later  ended  his  days 
at  Harlem,  acted  for  the  colonists. 


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CHAPTER  IX. 

1645-1650 

LAND  PATENTS — KUYTER'S  TRIALS. 

pEACE  thus  assured,  the  planters  •whom  the  Indians  had 
^  driven  from  the  Flats  and  parts  adjacent,  again  took  heart 
and  ventured  to  return  to  their  desolated  bouweries..  But,  grown 
wiser  since  their  late  expulsion,  they  had  come  to  realize  by  how 
uncertain  a  tenure  they  held  their  lands,  having  as  yet  received 
no  patent  or  groundbrief.  By  a  neglect  to  secure  such  patents 
there  was  imminent  risk  of  losing  whatever  they  invested,  as  well 
as  the  land  itself;  and  how  soon  some  new  contingency  might 
arise,  to  wrest  all  from  them  and  their  heirs,  who  could  tell? 
Moreover,  in  so  settled  a  state  of  the  country  the  legal  seizin  by 
documentary  title  was  a  needed  stimulus  to  exertion,  an  induce- 
ment to  bear  the  toil,  hazard,  and  hardship  involved  in  a  residence 
upon  one  of  these  exposed  bouweries.  The  settlers  were  led  to 
expect  a  groundbrief  after  having  held  and  improved  their  lands 
for  two  years;  in  most  of  the  cases  to  be  named  where  such 
patents  were  received  there  had  evidently  been  a  much  longer 
occupancy.  But  meanwhile  some  new  farms  had  been  begun, 
not  as  yet  noticed,  and  as  will  further  appear  by  a  brief  survey 
of  the  progress  of  settlement  at  this  date. 

Sibout  Claessen,  one  of  the  burghers  of  New  Amsterdam, 
was  from  Hoorn,  on  the  Zuyder  Zee.  He  was  respected,  and  as 
a  builder  of  practical  consequence  to  the  community,  insomuch 
that  Director  Kieft  granted  him  fifty  morgen  of  land  "on  the 
Island  of  Manhattas,  beginning  at  the  hook  at  the  Hellegat,  where 
Verken  Island  ends."  With  filial  affection  for  his  native  place, 
where  rested  the  bones  of  his  father,  Claes  Sibout,  and  still  lived 
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possession  Hoorn's  Hook.  It  was  patented  to  him  June  5th, 
1646.* 

The  narrow  kill  called  by  the  Indians  Papparinamin,  which, 
winding  around  the  neck  of  land  forming  the  extreme  northerly 
part  of  Manhattan,  connected  the  Spuyten  Duyvel  with  the  Great 
Kill,  or  Harlem  River,  gave  its  name  as  well  to  the  land  lying 
contiguous  to  it  on  either  side.  Papparinamin,  as  interpreted, 
Place  where  the  stream  is  shut,  was  thus  confined  neither  to  the 
land  nor  stream,  but  to  the  locality,  and  was  certainly  well  given, 
as  it  has  ever  been  the  great  bar  to  navigation  around  Manhattan 
Island.  The  noted  Dr.  Adrian  Vander  Donck,  who  owned  "a 
saw  mill,  bouwery,  and  plantation,"  some  distance  above  on  the 
Annepperah,  had  selected  the  island  on  the  northerly  side  of  the 
Papparinamin  Creek,  "containing  some  thirty  or  forty  morgen, 
wdth  a  convenient  meadow  about  it,"  intending,  as  he  himself 
states,  "to  go  and  dwell  on  the  said  spot,  or  to  make  gradual  pre- 
parations therefor,  by  building  upon  it  and  tilling  it,  since  both 
his  inclination  and  judgment  led  him  to  that  place."  Having, 
with  Kieft's  consent,  bought  the  land  from  the  sachem  Tackamack 
and  other  Indians,  Vander  Donck,  with  his  newly-married  wife, 
the  daughter  of  Rev.  Francis  Doughty,  visited  Holland,  expecting 
on  his  return  to  bring  over  his  "mother,  sister,  brother,  servants, 
and  other  members  of  his  family,"  to  make  their  home  at  Pappar- 
inamin. But,  oflfending  the  directors  by  acting  as  a  representa- 
tive of  the  commonalty  of  New  Netherland  in  certain  charges 
against  Stuyvesant,  Vander  Donck  was  restrained  for  several 
years  from  again  leaving  the  fatherland,  and  then  returned  to  his 
possessions  only  to  die  a  year  or  two  later. 

But  the  opposite  section  of  Papparinamin,  forming  the  upper 
extremity  of  Manhattan  Island,  was  not  less  inviting  for  its  arable 
lands,  meadows,  and  circumambient  creeks,  and,  if  we  do  not 
mistake  De  Rasieres,  was  one  of  the  two  places  he  found  at  the 
the  north  end, — the  other  Harlem  Flats, — where  was  "good  land," 
ready,  with  little  or  no  clearing,  for  tillage.  Here  another  Hol- 
lander, Matthys  Jansen  Van  Keulen,  had  obtained  a  grant  of 
fifty  morgen  of  land  from  Director  Kieft,  probably  in  advance 

•  Jan  Acrtscn  Van  Putten  and  his  two  sisters,  whose  mother,  Susannah,  had 
recently  married  this  first  proprietor  of  Hoorn's  Hook,  were  children  of  Aert 
Teunisaen  Van  Putten,  who,  in  1643,  was  massacred  (but  not  his  family,  as  some  say) 
by  Indians  at  Pavonia.  Jan  Aertsen  chose  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith,  and  settled 
at  Esopus,  where  he  joined  the  church,  April  15,  1661,  and  soon  after  was  made 
an  elder.  Having  been  of  the  party  who  attacked  the  Indians  there  in  1639,  this 
was  too  well  remembered,  for  in  the  vengeful  onslaught  made  by  the  savages  upon 
that  place.  Tune  7,  1663,  he  was  killed  in  his  house.  Only  a  few  dajrs  before  this 
Ws  wife  Cnctie  Hendricks  and  little  daughter  Annetie  had  reached  their  home  from 
a  visit  to  Wie  by  Swolle,  in  Holland,  Grietie's  birthplace.  The  daughter  and  only 
child,  Annetie,  bom  1659,  afterward  married  Hendnck  Kip,  son  of  Isaac  of  H., 
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of  Vander  Donck.  His  patent  was  issued  August  i8th,  1646, 
and  in  after  years  was  confirmed  to  his  children,  from  whom  are 
descended  two  families  of  Ulster  County, — Jansen  and  Van 
Keuran,  the  last  name  corrupted  from  Keulen.*  It  does  not  ap- 
pear that  Matthys  himself  ever  occupied  this  land;  at  the  date 
of  the  patent  he  was  living  at  Fort  Orange.  His  hundred  acres 
must  have  reached  quite  down  to  the  Jansen  and  Aertsen  grant, 
hereafter  noticed.  The  latter,  according  to  the  patent,  as  cer- 
tainly reached  northward  to  "Tobias'  Bouwery.*'  Tobias  Teunis- 
sen,  late  farmer  for  Dr.  La  Montagne,  is  here  referred  to,  and 
the  facts  stated  warrant  the  conclusion  that  Teunissen  now  occu- 
pied Matthys  Jansen's  land  either  under  a  lease  or  an  agreement 
to  purchase.  To  this  sequestered  home,  beside  the  Great  Kill, 
Tobias  had  taken  a  new  vrouw,  in  hope  of  happier  years,  though 
the  spirit  and  activity  he  had  shown  in  the  late  Indian  war  made 
his  situation  not  without  peril.  But,  courageous  of  heart,  he  did 
not  anticipate  the  fate  which  awaited  him. 

Pieter  Jansen,  in  company  with  Mr.  Huyck  Aertsen,  then  a 
schepen  at  Brooklyn,  had  taken  up  a  tract  of  land  lying  between 
Tobias'  bounds  and  what  is  now  known  as  Sherman's  Creek, 
and  for  which  a  groundbrief  was  given  them  March  nth,  1647. 
Jansen  was  a  hardy  Norwegian  of  twenty-seven  years,  had  been 
in  the  employ  of  Kuyter,  and  was  present  on  that  fearful  night 
when  his  house  was  burned  by  the  savages.  The  next  summer 
after  the  patent  was  secured,  Pieter,  the  Norman,  as  he  was 
usually  called,  took  to  his  heart  and  home  a  young  wife,  Lysbet 
Jansen,  from  Amsterdam,  and  near  the  same  time,  by  the  death 
of  Aertsen,  was  left  in  sole  care  of  the  bouwery,  though  between 
the  widow  and  the  next  of  kin  (for  Aertsen  left  no  children)  his 
share  did  not  want  for  claimants.  Aertsen  was  bom  at  Rossum, 
a  village  of  the  Bommellerwoert,  an  island  formed  by  the  Waal 

•  Matthys  Jansen  became  a  trader  on  the  Hudson,  removed  to  Fort  Orange, 
and  thence  to  Esopus,  where  he  died  prior  to  1663.  That  year,  February  15,  the 
deacons  loaned  1000  gl.  from  his  estate.  His  widow,  Margaret  Hendricks,  married 
Thomas  Chambers,  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Fox  Hall.  Jansen  had  four  children, 
viz.,  Jan,  Matthys.  Catharine,  married,  1660,  Tan  Jansen,  from  Amersfoort,  and 
Anneke,  who  married,    1668,   Sergt.  Jan  Hendricks  Buur,  alias  Pearsen. 

Jan  Matthysscn,  born  at  Fort  Orange,  married,  in  1667,  Madelaine,  daughter  of 
Matthew  Blanchan.  was  an  elder  of  the  Kingston  church,  and  died  between  17 19 
and  1724.  He  had  Matthys,  Thomas,  Jan,  Hendrick,  David,  Margaret,  who  married 
Barent  Burhans;  Magdalene,  married  Richard  Brodhead;  Sarah,  married  Elias  Bun- 
schoten;  Catharine^  married  John  Crook,  Jr.,  and  Mary,  who  died  early.  These 
bore  the  name  of  Jansen,  in  English  Johnson.  Jan  took  to  the  sea,  went  to  England, 
and  in  1690  was  thought  to  be  dead.  From  the  other  sons  were  the  respeirtable 
Jansens  of  Ulster  County,  some  of  whom  bore  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  Revolution. 

Matthys  Matthyssen  was  made  a  captain  in  1685,  and  later  served  against  the 
French  on  the  northern  frontier.  He  married  Tietie,  daughter  of  Tierck  De  Witt, 
and  had  issue  Matthys,  Tjerck,  Nicholas.  Thomas,  Gerardus,  Hasuelt,  Sarah,  mar- 
ried Matthew  Du  Bois;  Leah,  who,  with  Hasuelt,  removed  to  New  York,  and  Barbara, 
married  Peter  Tappan.  (See  Annals  of  Newtown,  p.  303.)  It  was  these  six  sons 
of  Matthys  who,  says  an  old  manuscript,  "changed  their  names  of  Matthyssen  to 
Van  Keuren,"  and  whence  the  numerous  family  so  called. 


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and  Maas;  but  he  had  a  brother,  a  burgher  at  Utrecht,  who,  on 
having  notice  of  his  death,  and  taking  proof  thereof  December 
30th,  1647,  was  declared  his  only  heir.  For  reasons  similar  to 
those  for  which  other  patents  within  Harlem  were  afterward  held 
to  be  vacated  or  void,  the  validity  of  this  title  was  subsequently 
called  in  question,  and  by  a  decision  of  the  governor  and  council 
and  a  compromise  with  the  successors  of  Jansen  and  Aertsen, 
became  vested  in  the  freeholders  of  Harlem.  It  has  additional 
interest  as  covering  the  identical  tract  known  in  our  time  as  the 
**Dyckman  Homestead."* 

These  bouweries,  forming  the  outposts  of  settlement  on  the 
north  end,  were  evidently  laid  out  by  actual  survey,  whence  the 
courses  and  distances  and  the  uneven  quantity,  seventy- four 
morgen,  one  hundred  and  six  rods,  in  that  to  Jansen  and  Aertsen. 
The  stretch  of  alternate  heights  and  hollows,  reaching  from  Sher- 
man's Creek  down  to  the  Flats,  had  not  yet  a  solitary  white  set- 
tler. Through  its  forests  and  thickets  red  men  hunted  the  deer 
and  beaver,  and  rudely  tilled  other  portions,  one  of  which  was 
known  as  the  "Great  Maize  Land.''  Indeed  the  Indian  title  to 
this  part  of  Manhattan  Island  was  not  fully  extinguished  till  1715. 

Coming  to  the  settlements  on  the  Flats,  the  Otter-spoor  farm, 
which  Van  Tienhoven  had  **long  since  conveyed'*  to  Van  Keulen, 
of  Amsterdam,  and  whence,  as  before  said,  it  took  the  name  Van 
Keulen's  Hook,  was  only  made  sure  to  the  latter  the  month 
before  the  new  Indian  treaty  was  ratified,  by  a  patent  from  Kieft 
to  Van  Tienhoven,  the  object  and  effect  of  which  was  to  give 
him  power  to  sell,  and  to  perfect  the  title  in  Van  Keulen,  no 
patent  having  been  issued  before.  With  so  firm  a  tenure  it  is 
remarkable  that  no  evidence  appears  of  any  further  attempts  on 
the  part  of  Van  Keulen  to  improve  this  valuable  tract,  nor  is  his 
ownership  again  distinctly  recognized.  While  the  evidence  we 
have  bearing  upon  it  is  far  from  satisfactory,  our  solution  is  that 
Matthys  Jansen  Van  Keulen,  being  authorized  by  the  Amsterdam 
merchant,  received  from  Kieft  the  grant  of  Papparinamin  in 
exchange  for  Van  Keulen's  Hook. 

Dr.  Montague,  with  brightened  prospects,  and  about  to  wed 

•  The  Jansen  and  Aertsen  Patent,  or  rather  the  descriptive  part,  reads  as  fol- 
lows: "A  piece  of  land  lying  between  Montagne's  hay  meadow  and  Tobias'  bouwery, 
stretching  irom  the  north  corner  of  said  meadow  south-southeast  to  the  hook,  two 
hundred  and  seventv-five  rods.  It  goes*  to  a  spring  (fontyn)  against  the  high  land, 
and  from  there  to  the  end  of  a  creek  coming  out  of  the  North  River,  northeast  by 
north  along  the  high  hills  an  hundred  and  seventy-five  rods,  and  from  there,t  to 
the  kill  which  runs  around  the  Island  of  Manhattans,  an  hundred  and  twenty  rods 
touth-southeast,  scventv  rods  southeast,  and  thirtv  south-southeast;  and  along  the 
before-named  kill  to  the  aforesaid  hook,  two  hundred  rods;  the  same  amounting  to 
seventy- four  morgen,  one  hundred  and  six  rods."  Dated  March  ii,  1647. 
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the  widow  of  Arent  Corssen  Stam,  who  two  years  previous,  sail- 
ing for  Holland  on  the  public  service,  had  perished  at  sea,  took 
occasion.  May  9th,  1647,  only  two  days  before  his  friend  Kieft 
closed  his  directorship,  to  secure  a  patent  for  the  farm  Vreden- 
dal,  to  which  was  now  joined  what  was  not  included  in  the 
original  grant  to  Hendrick  De  Forest,  namely,  the  point  or  neck 
of  land  called  Rechawanes,  extending  out  to  the  East  River,  and 
since  known  as  the  Benson  or  McGown  farm.  As  belonging  to 
the  oldest  title  in  the  township,  and  one  to  which  an  unusual  inter- 
est attaches,  we  feel  warranted  in  giving  a  translation  of  the 
patent  entire. 

We,  William  Kieft,  Director  General,  and  the  Council,  residing  in 
New  Netherland,  on  behalf  of  the  High  and  Mighty  Lords  the  States 
General  of  the  United  Netherlands,  his  Highness  of  Orange,  and  the 
Honorable  Messeurs,  the  Managers  of  the  Incorporated  West  India  Com- 
pany, do,  by  these  presents,  acknowledge  and  declare,  that  we  on  this  day, 
the  date  underwritten,  have  given  and  granted  unto  Sieur  Johannes  La 
Montagne,  counsellor  of  New  Netherland,  a  piece  of  land  situate  on  the 
Island  of  Manhattans,  known  by  a  name  in  the  Indian  language  which 
in  the  Nether  Dutch  signifies  the  Flat  Land,  containing  one  hundred 
morgen  in  the  flat,  lying  between  the  hills  and  kill ;  and  a  point  named 
Rechawanes,  stretching  betwixt  two  kills,  till  to  the  East  River;  (which 
above  described  land  was  occupied  by  Hendrick  Forest  deceased,  and  has 
been  purchased  by  the  said  La  Montagne  at  public  auction  in  the  Fort, 
for  seventeen  hundred  guilders;)  with  express  conditions  and  terms  that 
he  Johannes  La  Montagne,  or  whoever  by  virtue  hereof  may  accept  his 
action,  shall  acknowledge  the  Honorable  Managers  aforesaid  as  his  Lords 
and  Patroons,  under  the  sovereignty  of  their  High  Mightinesses  the  Lords 
States  General,  and  obey  their  Director  and  Council  here  in  all  things,  as 
good  inhabitants  are  in  duty  bound  to  do;  provided  further  that  they 
subject  themselves  to  all  such  burdens  and  imposts  as  are  already  enacted, 
or  may  hereafter  be  enacted  by  their  Honors ;  constituting  therefore  the 
said  Sieur  La  Montagne,  or  whoever  may  hereafter  obtain  his  action, 
in  our  stead  in  real  and  actual  possession  of  the  aforesaid  lot  and  land, 
giving  him  by  these  presents,  full  power,  authority  and  special  order, 
the  aforesaid  parcel  of  land  to  enter  upon,  cultivate,  inhabit  and  use  as  he 
would  lawfully  do  with  other  his  patrimonial  lands  and  effects,  without 
we  the  grantors  in  the  quality  aforesaid,  thereunto  having,  reserving  or 
saving  any,  even  the  slightest  part,  action  or  control  whatever,  but  to  the 
behoof  as  aforesaid,  from  all  desisting,  from  now  henceforth  and  forever. 
Promising  moreover,  this  transport  firm,  inviolable  and  irrevocable  to 
keep,  respect  and  fulfil,  all  under  the  penalty  provided  therefor  by  law. 
In  witness,  these  presents  are  by  us  signed  and  confirmed  with  our  seal 
in  red  wax  hereto  appended.  Done  in  Fort  Amsterdam,  in  New  Nether- 
land, the  9th  day  of  May,  1647. 

W11.1.EM  Kieft. 

Six  days  afterward  Dr.  Montagne*s  brother-in-law,  Isaac  De 
Forest,  obtained  from  the  new  director,  Stuyvesant,  the  ground- 
brief  for  a  bouwery  previously  granted  him,  consisting  of  fifty 
morgen  of  surplus  land  which  had  been  found  to  lie  between  the 
Kuyter  and  Van  Keulen  tracts.      It  bordered  on  the  Harlem 


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River,  opposite  the  mouth  of  "Bronck's  Kill," — ^the  passage,  still 
called  **The  Kills,"  parting  Randell's  Island  from  the  Westchester 
shore.  Upon  this  fifty-morgen  tract  the  village  of  New  Harlem 
was  subsequently  laid  out  and  ran  its  humble  career,  but  "the 
lawn  where  scattered  hamlets  .rose"  has  so  changed  before  the  rise 
of  modem  structures  that  barely  one  of  its  ancient  dwellings 
remains.* 

The  bouweries  mentioned,  with  Zegendal,  or  Kuyter's  farm, 
were  the  only  ones,  so  far  as  known,  yet  begun  within  the  terri- 
torial limits  to  which  our  history  refers.  Kuyter,  though  one  of 
the  most  energetic  of  the  settlers,  had  been  strangely  baffled  in  his 
efforts  to  improve  his  lands.  Yet  to  his  various  disappointments 
and  losses  other  trials,  and  more  severe,  were  to  be  added.  But 
the  indomitable  spirit  of  the  man,  rising  superior  to  misfortune, 
exhibits  Kuyter  throughout  in  a  character  to  be  admired,  and 
in  which  we  cannot  but  be  interested.  The  ill-feeling  which  had 
sprung  up  between  him  and  Kieft,  as  already  alluded  to  in  con- 
nection with  the  burning  of  Kuyter's  house,  grew  out  of  Kieft's 
culpable  rashness  in  bringing  on  the  Indian  war.  The  good 
Dominie  Bogardus,  sorely  grieved  by  the  director's  course  in 
authorizing  the  cruel  massacre  of  the  Indians,  and  thus  provoking 
the  fearful  retaliation  which  had  followed,  had  expressed  himself 
freely  in  regard  to  these  things,  "many  times  in  his  sermons," 
while  also  rebuking  the  prevalent  immorality,  avarice,  and  other 
gross  indulgences.  This  pungent  preaching  so  offended  the 
director  that  he  forsook  the  church,  absenting  himself  for  more 
than  three  years,  his  example  also  leading  off  nearly  every  officer 
of  the  church  and  government,  not  excepting  the  usually  discreet 
counsellor,  ^lontagne,  who  had  formerly  been  an  elder.  Kuyter 
himself  had  once  felt  hard  toward  the  dominie  for  refusing  him 
a  favor  which  Kieft  had  asked  in  his  behalf;  but  he  was  not 
vindictive,  and  this  was  a  bygone.  As  a  ruling  elder,  and  con- 
trolled by  his  religion  and  strong  sense  of  justice,  he*  did  not 
hesitate  now  to  sustain  the  minister  and  his  utterances,  although 
not  another  member  of  the  consistory  stood  by  him.  In  conse- 
quence he  brought  upon  his  own  head  the  maledictions  of  the 
director,  which  were  in  no  wise  appeased  by  Kuyter's  official 
action  as  one  of  the  Eight  Men,  a  body  which,  representing  the 
people,  had  felt  it  a  duty  to  address  the  directors  in  Holland, 
exposing  Kieft's  misrule  in  New  Netherland  and  the  ruinous 
condition  to  which,  as  a  consequence,  the  colony  had  been  reduced. 
As  to  the  differences  between  Bogardus  and  Kieft,  these,  after 

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a  sharp  warfare,  had  ended  in  a  reconciliation.  But  not  so  with 
Kieft  and  Kuyter,  whose  mutual  animosity  another  year  did  not 
quench,  while  Comelis  Melyn,  also  an  active  member  of  the 
Eight  Men,  came  in  for  a  share  of  Kieft^s  hot  displeasure.  These 
two  honest  men  were  as  thorns  in  the  side  of  the  director.  Nor 
could  they  easily  bear  either  the  insults  which  he  had  heaped 
upon  them,  or  the  heavy  losses  they  had  sustained  through  his 
maladministration;  and  thus  the  case  stood  when  Kieft  was 
superseded  in  office  by  General  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  who  arrived 
May  nth,  1647.  I^  some  remarks  made  on  the  occasion  of 
formally  resigning  the  government  to  his  successor,  Kieft  thanked 
the  people  for  their  fidelity,  evidently  expecting  to  be  compli- 
mented in  return.  But  on  the  contrary,  Kuyter,  Melyn,  and  one 
or  two  more  had  the  frankness  to  speak  out  and  tell  him  that 
they  would  not  thank  him,  as  they  had  no  reason  for  doing  so! 
The  existing  quarrel^  brought  thus  directly  to  the  notice  of 
Stuyvesant,  now  took  the  form  of  a  complaint  preferred  by  Kieft 
against  Kuyter  and  Melyn,  whom  he  charged  with  having  sent 
"some  letters  to  Holland,  to  the  directors,  in  the  name  of  the 
Eight  Men;  among  others,  one  dated  28th  October,  1644,  con- 
taining nothing  but  libels  and  lies."  He  demanded  justice  and 
the  punishment  of  the  accused.  This  w-as  on  June  i8th,  and 
next  day  a  copy  of  the  complaint,  containing  the  points  of  objec- 
tion to  the  obnoxious  letter,  was  handed  to  the  accused  by  the 
court  messenger,  with  a  summons  to  answer  within  forty-eight 
hours.  Kuyter  and  Melyn  replied  at  length  on  the  22d,  and, 
in  a  telling  statement,  invited  an  inquiry  into  the  truth  of 
what  they  had  written.  This  defense  had  little  weight  with  the 
arbitrary  Stuyvesant,  himself  a  great  stickler  for  the  divine  right 
of  rulers,  and  the  tables  were  turned  against  Kuyter  and  his 
associate,  who,  after  further  preliminaries,  were  placed  under 
arrest,  and  on  July  i6th  brought  before  the  director  and  council 
for  triaF.  It  was  plainly  to  be  seen  that  the  court  held  the  atti- 
tude of  both  prosecutor  and  judge.  The  charges,  in  brief,  were 
that  they  had  slandered  and  threatened  Director  Kieft.  The 
prosecution  relied  mainly  on  the  letter  before  referred  to,  written 
to  the  directors  in  Holland,  and  pronounced  by  Kieft  to  be  "full 
of  libels  and  lies";  of  which  letter,  though  it  purported  to  be 
a  memorial  from  the  Eight  Men,  the  accused  were  declared  the 
authors,  and  to  which,  as  was  charged,  they  had  fraudulently 
obtained  the  signatures  of  their  associates.  Kuyter,  it  was  further 
alleged,  had,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Eight  Men,  raised  his  finger 
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should  doff  his  robe  of  office  then  he  would  have  him!  Melyn, 
as  was  charged,  in  speaking  of  the  orders  for  destroying  the 
Indians  in  the  winter  of  1643,  ^^d  dared  to  say,  "They  who  gave 
such  orders  should  look  well  to  themselves,  lest  they  come  either 
to  the  gallows  or  the  wheel," — words  almost  prophetic,  consid- 
ering the  manner  of  Kieft's  death.  Kuyter  explained  his  remark 
as  quite  different  from  that  imputed  to  him.  He  and  Alelyn, 
standing  to  their  former  answer,  in  which  they  had  fully  and  ably 
met  the  several  points  of  objection  to  the  obnoxious  letter,*  now 
offered  certain  memorials,  proofs,  and  witnesses,  "in  order  to 
establish  the  truth  of  what  was  written."  But  these  were  either 
rejected  or  allowed  to  have  no  weight,  and  thus,  the  evidence 
being  imjustly  set  aside,  the  case  was  carried  against  the  accused, 
who  were  pronounced  guilty  of  high  contempt  of  authority. 
Stuyvesant,  in  his  judgment  in  Kuyter's  case,  hinged  it  on  sacred 
and  civil  law.  "He  who  slanders  God,  the  magistrate,  or  his 
parents,"  says  Bernard  De  Muscatel,  "must  be  stoned  to  death." 
Then  he  quoted  the  Scriptures :  "Thou  shalt  not  speak  evil  of  the 
ruler  of  thy  people."  On  July  25th  they  were  sentenced, — Kuy- 
ter to  a  fine  of  150  gl.  and  three  years'  banishment  from  New 
Netherland;  Melyn  to  a  heavier  fine  and  longer  exile. 

Elated  with  his  success,  Kieft  soon  after  took  passage  for 
Holland  in  the  ship  Princess,  carrying  with  him  a  fortune  which 
he  had  amassed  here.  In  the  same  ship  Dominie  Bogardus  and 
other-s  embarked,  while  Kuyter  and  Melyn,  "publicly  banished  the 
country,"  were  "brought  on  board  as  exiles,  torn  away  from 
their  goods,  wives  and  children,"  while,  as  if  to  mock  their  mis- 
er>',  the  bells  in  the  church  were  made  to  ring  a  merry  peal. 
The  vessel  sailed  August  i6th,  1647,  but  never  reached  its  des- 
tination. On  September  27th,  having  mistaken  their  course, 
they  were  wrecked  upon  a  rock  on  the  coast  of  Wales.  The 
wretched  Kieft,  with  death  before  his  eyes,  sighed  deeply  as  he 
said  to  Kuyter  and  Melyn,  "Friends,  I  have  done  you  wrong; 
can  you  forgive  me?"  All  night  the  ship  rocked  in  the  sea, 
and  toward  morning  went  to  pieces,  a  large  number  of  persons 
perishing,  including  Kieft  and  Bogardus.  Kuyter  and  Melyn 
providentially  escaped  with  their  lives,  though  the  latter  lost  a  son. 
"Kuyter  remained  alone  on  the  after  part  of  the  ship,  on  which 
stood  a  cannon,  which  he,  observing  in  the  gray  of  the  morning, 
took  for  a  man;  but  speaking  to  it  and  getting  no  answer,  he 
supposed  him  dead.     He  was  at  last  thrown  on  land,  together 

*  Thi«  letter  may  be  found  and  its  character  judged  of  by  reference  to  the 
CoL  Hist,  of  N.  Y.,  i,  109-213.  Kicft's  points  of  exception  to  it  are  given  at  p.  203, 
and  the  able  rejoinder  of  Kuyter  and  Melyn  at  p.  205. 


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with  the  cannon,  to  the  great  amazement  of  the  English,  who 
crowded  the  strand  by  thousands,  and  who  set  up  the  piece  of 
ordnance  as  a  lasting  memorial.  Melyn,  floating  back  to  sea, 
fell  in  with  others  who  had  remained  on  a  part  of  the  wreck  on 
a  sand-bank  which  became  dry  with  the  ebb.  They  then  took 
some  planks  and  pieces  of  wood,  fastened  them  together,  and 
having  made  sails  of  their  shirts  and  other  garments,  they  at 
last  reached  the  mainland  of  England.  As  these  persons  were 
more  concerned  for  their  papers  than  for  anything  else;  they 
caused  them  to  be  dragged  for,  and  on  the  third  day  Jochem 
Pietersz  recovered  a  box  containing  a  part  of  them."* 

The  resolute  Kuyter  and  Melyn  passed  over  to  Holland,  and 
appealed  to  the  States  General  from  the  sentence  rendered  by 
Stuyvesant.  Upon  a  hearing  of  their  case,  this  body  granted  a 
suspension  of  the  judgment,  with  permission  for  them  to  return 
to  New  Netherland,  and  summoned  Stuyvesant  to  appear  at  the 
Hague,  in  person  or  by  attorney,  either  to  sustain  his  decision 
**or  to  renounce  the  same." 

Armed  with  a  mandamus  and  passports  from  their  High 
Mightinesses,  and  also  bearing  a  letter  from  his  Highness  the 
Prince  of  Orange  to  Stuyvesant,  dated  May  19th,  1648,  admon- 
ishing him  "duly  to  respect  and  obey  those  commands,"  Kuyter 
and  Melyn  were  now  prepared  to  return  to  this  country  and  face 
their  accusers.  But  detained  for  some  months  longer  by  other 
engagements,  Melyn  sailed  at  the  close  of  the  year,  leaving  Kuy- 
ter behind,  probably  to  manage  the  case  should  Stuyvesant  at- 
tempt to  prosecute  it  further.  Reaching  New  Amsterdam  about 
January  ist,  1649,  Melyn  presented  his  letters  to  Stuyvesant, 
who  was  in  great  wrath  over  the  mandamus,  declaring  with  much 
bluster  his  purpose  to  answer  it.  Melyn  was  inclined  to  push 
his  advantage,  but  joining  the  citizens  in  other  complaints  against 
the  director,  affairs  became  rather  involved;  while  Kuyter,  re- 
maining abroad  for  a  year  longer,  more  or  less,  found  on  his 
return  no  obstacle  interposed  to  his  resuming  his  property,  and, 
contenting  himself  with  his  own  business,  he  was  reinstated  in 
his  several  offices  by  Stuyvesant,  the  breach  of  friendship  between 
them  being  soon  healed. 

*  Evcrardus  Bogardus,  the  pastor,  counsellor  and  friend  of  our  De  Forests, 
I^  Montagne,  Kuyter,  Bronck,  and  their  fellow-colonists,  who  cheered  them  amia 
their  toils  and  adversities  and  in  dark  hours  of  peril,  joined  many  in  marriage,  bap- 
tized their  offspring,  oft  performed  in  their  stricken  homes  the  last  sad  rites  of 
sepulture,  and  frequently  acted  as  guardian  of  their  estates;  full  justice  is  yet  to  be 
done  his  memory.  His  advice  often  sought  for  in  many  affairs  affecting  individuals 
or  the  community,  the  amount  of  important  business  with  which  he  was  intrusted  on 
his  final  departure  for  Holland  evinced  the  continued  respect  and  coniidence  of  his 
people.  In  the  record  of  a  useful  life,  as  we  apprehend.  Dominie  Bogardus  has  left  his 
numerous  heirs  a  better  inheritance  than  they  will  ever  realize  from  his  landed  pos- 
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Ku3^er  was  not  in  circumstances  to  restore  his  ruined  plan- 
tation at  Schorakin;  indeed  there  was  little  encouragement  for 
any  to  prosecute  labor  on  the  north  part  of  the  island,  owing  to 
the  hostile  temper  of  the  Indians,  who  during  these  several  years 
waylaid  and  murdered  a  number  of  the  settlers  dwelling  in 
exposed  places.  Some  still  kept  up  their  bouweries;  others  dis- 
posed of  theirs.  Pieter  Cornelissen  Beeck,  an  old  and  respected 
citizen  of  New  Amsterdam,  had  come  to  own  one  "on  this  island 
near  Hellgate,"  adjacent  to  the  Hoorn's  Hook  patent;  while  De 
Forest,  expending  his  means  in  building  several  fine  houses  in 
Xew  Amsterdam,  sold  his  plantation,  November  19th,  1650,  to 
the  distinguished  burgher  Wilhelmus  Beeckman.  But  both  Beeck 
and  Beeckman  resided  in  town,*  and  there  Kuyter  had  entered 
upon  trade,  on  the  Heere  Graft,  now  Broad  Street,  enjoying  a 
respite  from  the  ills  which  had  hitherto  beset  his  pathway,  and 
retaining  a  warm  regard  for  his  compatriot  Melyn.  We  have 
dwelt  the  more  fully  on  Kuyter's  case,  not  only  as  an  interesting 
passage  in  Harlem's  infantile  history,  but  because  it  shows  how 
the  old  struggle  with  arbitrary  power,  which  had  long  convulsed 
European  countries,  was  thus  early  renewed  on  this  free  soil. 
Kuyter  was  a  representative  man.  Many  like  him  held  that  the 
people  had  rights  as  well  as  their  rulers,  and  that  one  of  these, 
of  vital  importance  to  the  colonists,  was  that  of  appeal  to  higher 
courts  in  fatherland  from  verdicts  rendered  here,  the  denial  of 
which  right  was  a  cause  of  much  puclic  clamor  against  both  Kieft 
and  Stuyvesant.  Kuyter  had  proved  the  fallacy  of  that  assump- 
tion, and  had  achieved  a  victory,  not  for  himself  alone,  but  for 
the  community,  for  which  he  was  held  in  highest  respect.t 

*  Pieter  Comelisz  Beeck,  whose  tragical  fate  remains  to  be  noticed,  was  master 
carpenter  to  the  West  India  Co.,  in  New  Netherland,  and  was  born  in  1607,  at 
Rotterdam.  He  came  out  early  via  Amsterdam,  where  he  had  resided,  with  him 
coming  his  wife  Aeltie  Willems  and  a  young  daughter,  Marritie,  who,  in  1665,  mar- 
ried Pieter  Tacobsen  Marius,  a  prominent  merchant  at  New  York,  who  emigrated,  in 
1644,  from  Hoogwoudt,  his  descendants  now  writing  their  name  Morris.  See  Bergen 
Gen.  Pieter  Beeck  had  other  children  born  here,  viz.,  William,  Deborah,  who  mar- 
ried, 1667,  Warner  Wessels;  Elizabeth,  who  married  Capt.  Silvester  Salisbury,  Dr. 
Com.  Van  Dyck  and  Capt.  Geo.  Bradshaw;  Cornelia,  who  married,  1672,  Jacobus 
De  Haert,  and  Cornelius,  who  married,  1667,  Marritie  Claessen,  and  had  sons  Peter, 
Nicholas,  John,  Isaac,  William,  Henry.  From  these  we  presume  all  the  Beecks  of 
this  stock  have  sprung.  William  Beeck,  bom  1640,  son  of  Pieter,  married  Anna, 
daughter  of  Tielman  Van  Vleeck  (notary  public  and  first  sheriff  of  Bergen),  and 
died  at  Esopus  in  1684,  leaving  issue  Peter,  Tielman.  Aelfie  and  Deborah,  who  all 
died  childless.  The  widow,  Anna,  married,  1686,  Capt.  Jacob  Phoenix,  a  son  of 
whom  by  this  union,  Capt.  Alex.  Phoenix,  was  father  to  Hon.  Daniel  Phcrnix,  father 
of  the  late  Rev.  Alexander  Phoenix,  of  H. 

t  Isaac  Adriancc,  gone  but  not  forgotten,  was  in  many  respects  and  in  the 
best  sense  another  Kuyter.  "In  his  life  were  exhibited  Dutch  courage  and  firmness, 
along  with  New  England  enterprise  and  activity.  A  true  benevolence  marked  his 
character,  and  a  high  sense  of  justice.  He  hated  robbery  and  wrong,  and  set  him- 
idf  especially  against  abuses  under  municipal  law.  He  sought  to  reform  that  law 
tnd  its  administration,  and  had  a  powerful  influence  in  doing  so.  He  honored  the 
icboolbouse  and  the  church,  and  was  ever  ready  to  aid  them;  and  many  a  pitblic 
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labor.  Many  a  young  man  owed  to  his  kind  interest  in  his  welfare  the  course  of 
his  after  life,  and  his  success  in  it.  Hundreds  of  shade-trees  now  adorn  the  streets 
and  avenues  of  Harlem,  planted  by  him."  Fond  of  such  matters,  he  had  gathered 
a  mass  of  information  relative  to  that  section,  and  especially  to  its  land  titles,  both 
in  MSS.  and  in  the  storehouse  of  his  retentive  memory:  and  which,  with  the  en- 
lightened liberality  that  so  distinguished  him,  he  permitted  the  author  to  make  free 
use  of  for  the  compilation  of  this  work.  Mr.  Adriance  was  born  February  13,  1794, 
in  the  old  Sickels  house,  spoken  of  elsewhere,  was  educated  at  Yale,  and  devoted 
his  life  to  the  law.  He  died  August  26,  1863.  He  was  a  lineal  descendant  of 
Adriaen  Reyersz,  an  early  settler  at  Flatbush,  L.  I.,  the  son  probably  of  Rcyer 
Elberts,  from  Utrecht,  whose  wife  by  a  former  husband  was  mother  of  Gooscn 
Gerritse  Van  Schaick,  ancestor  of  the  Albanv  Van  Schaicks.  See  Pearson.  Adriaen 
Reyersz  came  to  this  country,  as  he  statea,  in  1646.  He  married  July  29,  1659, 
Anna,  daughter  of  Martin  Schcnck.  a  name  of  celebrity  in  Holland;  was  a  leading 
man  and  an  elder  at  Flatbush,  and  died  November  24,  17 10.  One  of  his  children, 
Elbert,  born  1663,  settled  in  Flushing,  married,  1689,  Catalina,  daughter  of  Rem 
Vanderbeeck,  ancestor  of  the  Remsens,  and  by  her  had  Rem,  Elbert  and  Anncke: 
these  retaining  the  patronymic  (whence  Adriance)  as  their  surname.  Rem  married 
Sarah,  daughter  of  George  Brinckerhoff,  and  died,  aged  40  years,  in  1730.  His  sons 
were  Elbert,  born  17 15;  George,  17 16;  Abraham,  1720;  Isaac,  1722;  Jacob,  1727; 
Rem,  1729.  George,  Abraham  and  Isaac  went  to  Dutchess  County;  Isaac  married 
Latetia  Van  Wyck  and  Ida  Schenck,  and  was  father  of  Rem,  Theodore,  Isaac,  John 
and  Caroline,  who  married  Charles  Piatt,  of  Plattsburgh.  John  came  to  Harlem  after 
the  Revolution,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  S.  Sickels,  and  died  October  23, 
1849,  aged  87  years,  being  the  father  of  Isaac,  first  named. 


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CHAPTER  X. 

1651-1656 

NEW  EFFORTS,  BUT  SAD  FAILURES. 

IZ'UYTER'S  thoughts  now  turned  wistfully  toward  his  de- 
^^  serted  bouwery  at  Zegendal,  which  stood  in  danger  of 
forfeiture  for  non-improvement.  He  longed  to  make  one  more 
attempt  to  occupy  his  broad  acres,  if  by  the  favor  of  Heaven  he 
might  retrieve  the  misfortunes  of  the  dozen  checkered  years  that 
had  passed  since  his  eye  first  rested  with  delight  upon  that  lovely 
spot.  But  his  unaided  means  were  inadequate  to  the  effort.  His 
house  and  barns  must  be  rebuilt,  the  soil  again  brought  under 
the  plow.  The  course  he  took  to  effect  it  is  explained  in  the  fol- 
lowing instrument : 

This  day,  the  23d  of  September,  165 1,  a  friendly  agreement  was  made 
between  Mr.  Jochem  Pietersen  Kuyter,  a  free  merchant,  on  one  side; 
and  the  Hon.  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  Director-General  of  New  Netherland, 
Curacao,  and  its  dependencies,  Lucas  Rodenburg,  Governor  of  Curacao, 
and  Cornells  De  Potter,  free  merchant,  of  the  other  side,  concerning 
a  piece  of  land  Ijring  on  Manhattan  Island,  and  belonging  to  said  Jochem 
Pietersen  Kuyter,  named  Zegendal,  or  by  the  Indians  called  Schorrakin, 
boimded  on  the  south  by  land  of  William  Beeckman,  Lieutenant  of  the 
Burgher  Company  at  this  place,  and  westward  by  the  bounds  of  the  Hon. 
Johannes  La  Montagne,  so  on  in  a  north  course  to  the  first  rock,  and 
on  the  east  to  the  Great  Kill;  having  to  the  west  toward  the  North 
River,  a  meadow  of  three  or  four  morgen;  the  aforesaid  land  containing 
about  two  hundred  morgen,  yet  not  precisely  known,  but  remaining  to 
be  ascertained  with  more  accuracy ;  on  the  following  conditions,  viz. : 

That  said  Kuyter  shall  cede,  transport  and  convey  to  the  said  Stuy- 
vesant, Rodenburg  and  De  Potter  the  three- fourths  parts  of  said  land, 
being  one-fourth  part  for  each,  while  the  said  Kuyter  retains  one-fourth 
part  for  himself,  and  to  his  own  behoof,  upon  condition  that  the  said 
Kuyter  shall  receive  from  the  aforesaid  gentleman  the  sum  of  One 
Thousand  Carolus  Guilders,  of  which  sum  each  of  said  gentlemen  is  to 
pay  a  third  part,  with  the  understanding  that  the  said  money  is  to  be 
employed  at  once  in  the  cultivation  of  the  said  land;  which  land  is  to 
remain  undivided,  until  it  is  agreed  by  a  majority  of  those  interested,  to 
make  a  partition  of  the  shares. 

During  which  time  said  Jochem  Pietersen  Kuyter  is  to  remain  the 
cultivator  and  superintendent  of  all  the  land,  to  the  greatest  profit  and 
best  advantage   of  all   interested,  among  whom  he   is  to   distribute  the 


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profits  in  equal  shares,  whether  such  profits  come  from  grain,  stock,  or 
otherwise.  It  being  understood,  however,  that  the  wife  of  Jochcm  Pie- 
tersen  Kuyter  may  keep  for  her  family  some  hens  and  ducks.  The  said 
Kuyter  shall  receive  for  his  services  as  cultivator,  one  hundred  and  fifty 
guilders  (per  annum),  that  is  to  say,  each  of  the  three  co-partners  shall 
pay  fifty  guilders. 

And  in  order  to  make  a  good  beginning,  with  God's  assistance,  there 
shall  be  built  at  the  expense  of  said  partners,  on  the  land  aforesaid,  a 
suitable  dwelling  house  to  accommodate  the  said  Kuyter.  But  this  dwell- 
ing hous  shall  be  the  property  of  all  the  partners  in  common ;  and  Kuyter 
shall  keep  a  correct  account  of  all  expenses  connected  therewith,  and  of 
other  expenses,  and  communicate  it  to  the  partners. 

And  it  is  further  stipulated  that  as  soon  as  any  distribution  of  grain  is 
made,  or  that  the  land  shall  be  divided  by  the  partners  aforesaid,  the 
said  Kuyter  shall  previously  receive  his  thousand  guilders  for  the  transfer 
and  cession  of  said  land,  and  when  such  division  shall  take  place,  it  shall 
be  done  by  lot,  without  allowing  any  preference  to  any  of  the  parties. 
Further  stipulated  that  in  case  of  the  absence  of  one  of  the  partners,  an- 
other must  be  put  in  his  place,  and  secondly  that  in  case  the  said  culti- 
vator should  die,  another  may  be  placed  in  his  stead,  though  all  the 
partners  be  not  consulted.  Further,  tliat  in  case  of  such  decease,  the 
widow  of  the  deceased  shall  succeed  in  his  share,  or  may  transfer  it  to 
one  of  the  partners. 

And  therefore  that  this  contract  may  have  full  effect,  said  Jochem 
Pietersen  Kuyter  transfers  his  lands  to  the  partners  aforesaid,  as  if  he 
had  actually  received  the  stipulated  sum ;  while  they  on  their  part,  for 
his  security,  submit  their  persons  and  property,  real  and  personal,  present 
and  future,  to  the  control  of  any  court  of  justice.  In  witness  whereof 
it  is  signed  at  New  Amsterdam. 

JocHiEM   Pr,   Kuyter- 
P.    Stuyvesant. 

L.     RODENBURG. 

Corn  ELI  s   De  Potter. 
Witness,  Nicholas  Blank. 

In  presence  of  me, 

Jacob  Kip,  Clerk. 

But  the  state  of  the  country  was  becoming  "more  and  more 
disquieted."  Under  such  circumstances,  no  wonder  that  Kuy- 
ter hesitated  about  proceeding  to  restore  his  ruined  buildings 
and  fences,  more  especially  as  he  could  show  no  deed  for  his 
lands,  which  had  either  never  been  executed  or  had  been  lost  in 
some  one  of  his  disasters.  This  left  his  boundaries,  if  not  his 
title,  in  uncertainty.  But,  applying  for  a  groundbrief  and  receiv- 
ing a  favorable  answer  (Montague  and  Van  Tienhoven  stating 
to  the  council  their  knowledge  of  the  original  grant  by  Kieft, 
and  its  limits),  Kuyter  was  reassured  on  this  point,  and  led  to 
prosecute  his  work,  though  with  no  slight  misgivings  as  to  the 
result.*     The  farmers  on  the  Flats  had  no  heart  to  make  improve- 

♦  "Jochcm  Kuyter.  by  petition,  requested  a  groundbrief  for  his  lands  which 
the  Hon.  Dr.  W.  Kiett,  deceased,  gave  him  in  the  year  1639,  in  July,  and  which 
were  pointed  out  by  Mr.  Montagne  and  the  Secretary. 

"The  Director  and  the  Council  answer:  The  applicant  is  directed  to  take  a  copy 
of  his  groundbrief  from  the  register  book  of  the  groundbriefsL  where  the  Director 
and  Council  think  the  same  is  recorded.     If  it  is  not,  he  shall  be  preferred  before 


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ments  which  in  an  evil  hour  might  be  laid  in  ruins  by  the  sav- 
ages, who,  on  pretext  of  not  having  been  paid  for  their  lands, 
did  not  hesitate,  as  a  chance  offered,  still  to  attack  and  murder 
the  settlers  on  the  scattered  bouweries.  Thus  it  soon  after  hap- 
pened to  Pieter  Beeck,  before  noticed,  formerly  deacon  and  now 
one  of  the  selectmen,  to  which  office  he  and  Kuyter  had  recently 
been  appointed.  He  and  three  workmen,  while  engaged  at  his 
bouwery  near  Hellgate,  May  17th,  1652,  were  surprised  by  sav- 
ages and  all  cruelly  murdered. 

Kuyter,  Beeckman  and  others  were  threatened  to  hav^  their 
bouweries  burned,  should  no  satisfaction  be  given.  Montague 
was  otherwise  embarrassed.  Heavily  indebted  to  the  company 
and  burdened  with  a  large  family,  he  was  dependent  upon  the 
director  or  government  for  a  meagre  support,  and  had  no  means 
to  expend  on  his  deserted  plantation.  Many  persons  who  would 
have  undertaken  new  bouweries  were  kept  from  doing  so  ^through 
dread  of  the  Indians  and  their  threats."  The  public  disquietude 
was  greatly  enhanced  during  this  year  and  the  next  by  absurd 
rumors  that  the  Dutch  authorities  were  plotting  with  the  Indians 
to  cut  off  the  English  residents  in  and  near  Manhattan ;  reports 
which  had  well  nigh  caused  a  rupture  with  the  New  England 
colonies,  and  so  wrought  upon  some  of  the  neighboring  English 
settlers  upon  Long  Island  that  they  left  hastily  and  took  refuge 
in  Connecticut.  As  the  natural  effect  of  this  state  of  things,  no 
new  bouweries  had  thus  far  "been  formed  on  the  Island  of  Man- 
hattan during  Director  Stuyvesant's  administration,"  though 
"some  had  been  abandoned." 

Ku>^er  in  the  meantime  won  for  himself  a  large  share  of 
the  public  favor  as  one  foremost  in  the  church,  and  since  he  was 
chosen,  January  30th,  1652,  an  efficient  member  of  the  board  of 
selectmen.  After  this,  on  an  important  occasion,  Stuyvesant 
honored  him  with  a  request  to  sit  with  the  council.  Indeed  it 
excited  surprise  that  one  "whom  the  director  formerly,  for  the 
affair  of  the  selectmen,  did  publicly  banish  the  country  with 
ringing  of  the  bell,"  should  have  been  reinstated  in  the  same 
office,  and  also  in  the  eldership.  But  a  new  honor  was  now 
conferred  upon  him,  a  seat  among  the  schepens  of  New  Amster- 
dam, on  the  first  institution  of  that  office  here  in  1653.  Usually 
present  at  their  sittings,  so  valued  were  his  counsels  that  on 
some  special  occasions  a  messenger  was  sent  to  Zegendal  to 

others,  and  a  new  groundbrief  of  bis  lands  be  executed;  in  case  the  petitioner  re- 
mains inclined,  according  to  promise,  again  to  improve  and  cultivate  his  lands. 
Done  in  mecdnfi  of  the  Director  and  Council,  the  apth  January,  1652."  Extract 
from  Council  Minutes. 


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solicit  his  attendance.  But  on  March  2d,  1654,  he  met  with  the 
city  council  for  the  last  time.  The  threats  of  the  Indians  were 
now  to  be  put  in  execution.  Only  a  few  days  after,  the  savages 
murdered  him  in  his  house  on  his  bouwery.  Secure  in  their 
city  home,  his  family  were  spared  his  fate.* 

Kuyter's  death  caused  a  profound  sensation.  The  com- 
munity had  lost  a  good  and  useful  member,  and  with  unfeigned 
sorrow  Stuyvesant  announced  the  sad  event  to  the  directors  in 
Holland,  who  responded  with  expressions  of  regret  at  his  un- 
timely death.  Labor  on  the  bouwery  was  necessarily  interrupted 
for  a  time.  On  April  22d  following,  Kuyter's  widow,  Leentie 
Martens,  empowered  two  of  her  friends,  Govert  Loockermans 
and  the  notary,  Dirck  Schelluyne,  "to  proceed  to  the  liquidating, 
taking  and  fairly  closing  to  the  final  account  and  reliquiae,  with 
Director  General  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  Hon.  Lucas  Rodenburg, 
and  Mr.  Cornelius  De  Potter,  regarding  the  lands  named  Zegen- 
dal,  belonging  to  her  deceased  husband,  with  the  effects,  as  they 
were  farmed  and  cultivated  by  her  said  husband  in  company 
with  the  above  named  gentleman,  pursuant  to  contract  dated  the 
23d  September,  165 1." 

These  managed  to  keep  the  farm  under  tillage,  while  the 
widow,  in  the  persons  of  other  friends,  gave  bonds  for  the  de- 
livery of  the  grain  which  should  be  raised,  in  satisfaction  of  the 
claims  of  the  several  partners.  For  two  summers  the  farm  work 
went  on,  the  sowing,  reaping  and  gathering  of  the  ripened  harvest ; 
not,  however,  without  much  distrust  of  the  wily  savages  and 
fears  for  their  personal  safety.  So  insecure  was  it  considered 
that  the  sureties  for  Mrs.  Kuyter  required  of  the  other  owners 
indemnity  bonds  "for  all  losses  and  interests  which  should  occur 
through  fire,  robbery,  or  other  unexpected  accident,  either  to  the 
lands  of  the  late  Kuyter  or  to  the  crops."  These  apprehensions 
of  further  trouble  from  the  Indians  were  well  grounded.  This 
island  and  its  vicinity  now  of  a  sudden  became  the  scene  of  ruth- 
less massacres. 

Very  early  one  morning,  September  15th,  1655,  sixty-four 

•  The  Indians  were  resolved  upon  expelling  the  whites  from  this  end  of  the 
Island,  upon  the  ground  that  they  had  not  been  duly  paid  for  their  lands.  True, 
the  Indians  had  sold  the  Island  to  the  company  in  1626,  and  bv  virtue  of  this  pur- 
chase the  government  had  made  the  land  grants  to  the  settlers.  Of  course  the 
latter  deemed  their  title  good  and  valid.  But  it  is  certain  that  the  Indians  did  not 
recognize  the  sale  as  a  surrender  of  all  their  rights  and  privileges  on  this  part  of  the 
Island.  Perhaps,  grown  wiser  in  a  generation,  they  saw  that  the  trivial  price  then 
paid  them  ($24)  was  no  equivalent  for  their  rich  maize  land  and  hunting  grounds. 
But  they  probably  claimed  to  have  reserved  (as  they  often  did  in  their  sales)  the 
right  of  hunting  and  planting,  because  in  after  years  the  Harlem  people  so  far 
admitted  their  pretensions  as  to  make  them  further  compensation.  Well  had  it 
been  for  the  colonists  had  they  earlier  given  heed  to  the  dissatisfaction  of  the  Indians 
and  done  something  to  remove  it. 


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canoes  of  armed  savages  landed  on  the  beach  at  New  Amster- 
dam, and  before  scarcely  anyone  had  risen  scattered  about  the 
town  and  began  to  break  into  the  houses  for  plunder.  All  was 
alarm  and  confusion,  and  to  make  matters  worse,  Stuyvesant  was 
absent,  having  departed  on  an  expedition  to  the  Delaware  a  few 
days  before,  taking  with  him  most  of  the  garrison.  The  mem- 
bers of  the  council  finally  prevailed  with  the  chiefs  and  their 
people  to  withdraw  from  the  city,  but  at  evening  they  returned, 
and  a  skirmish  took  place  between  them  and  the  Dutch  soldiers, 
blood  flowing  on  both  sides.  The  now  enraged  Indians  departed, 
but  on  that  doleful  night  began  a  horrible  slaughter  of  the  set- 
tlers, full  fifty  of  whom  fell  within  three  days,  while  over  an 
hundred,  mostly  women  and  children,  were  carried  into  captivity. 
Hordes  of  armed  savages,  thirsting  for  blood,  swept  ov^r 
these  Flats,  slaying  the  settlers,  plundering  and  burning  their 
houses,  and  devastating  their  bouweries.  Cornelis  Claessen 
Swits,  whose  father,  as  we  have  seen,  had  been  killed  by  an 
Indian,  now  owned  the  farm  on  the  Flats  originally  granted  to 
Isaac  De  Forest,  but  which  Swits  had  purchased  from  Beeckman, 
March  loth,  1653,  selHng  the  latter  in  exchange  his  plantation 
near  Curler's   Hook,  later   known   as  the   **Delancey   Farms."* 

•  Wilhelmua  Beeckman,  whose  descendants,  numerous  and  highly  respectable, 
have  usually  written  their  name  Beekman,  was  a  son  of  Hcndrick  Beeckman,  by 
his  wife  Mary,  daughter  of  the  excellent  Wilhelmus  Baudartius,  annalist  and  pastor 
at  Zutphen,  in  Geloerland,  at  which  place  our  Beeckman  was  born  April  28,  1623. 
Holgate  (Am.  Genealogy)  says  he  was  born  at  Hasselt,  in  Overyssel,  but  Beeckman  s 
marriage  entry  in  the  N.  Y.  Coll.  Chh.  Rec,  more  reliable  as  indited  by  himself, 
sajs  at  Zutphen.  Coming  out  to  Manhattan,  in  1647,  to  serve  as  a  clerk  for  the 
W.  I.  Comp.,  the  next  year  he  exchanged  this  for  a  mercantile  life,  and  the  year 
following  married  a  young  lady  from  Amsterdam,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Hendrick 
De  Boog.  Being  "an  honest  and  polite  man,"  he  was  elected  schcpcn  in  1653,  *"^ 
be^n  a  long  and  honorable  public  service.  His  "ability,  piety  and  experience" 
gained  him  the  position  of  Vice- Director  on  the  Delaware,  which  he  held  from  1658 
to  1663.  Then  recalled  and  made  sheriff  at  Esopus,  he  served  as  such  till  the  close 
of  Governor  Lovelace's  rule,  when  he  engaged  in  the  brewing  business  at  the  Smith's 
Fly,  in  N.  Y.  Filling  an  alderman's  seat  much  of  the  time  till  his  final  retirement, 
in  1606,  and  having  also  served  as  an  elder  both  at  Kingston  and  at  New  York,  he 
died  in  this  city  in  his  85th  year,  September  21,  1707.  lie  had  nine  children,  viz., 
Maria,  born  1650,  married  Nicholas  William  Stuyvesant.  son  of  the  governor;  Hcn- 
drick. bom  1652;  Gerardus,  born  1653;  Cornelia,  born  1655,  married  Capt.  Isaac  Van 
VIeck;  Johannes,  born  1656,  Jacobus,  born  1658,  died  1679;  William,  born  1661; 
Martinus,  born  1665,  and  Catharine,  born  1668,  who  married  Gerard  Duyckinck,  as 
per  Holgate,  p.  75.  Of  these,  Martinus  is  not  again  named,  unless  he  that  joined 
the  military  force  sent  by  Leisler  to  Albany  in  1690.  William,  who  united  with  the 
New  York  church  in  1681,  became  a  Labadist.  Johannes,  *'a  mariner,"  married,  in 
i6»5,  Aeltie,  daughter  of  Thomas  Popinga,  from  Groningen,  and  in  1699,  removed  to 
Kingston,  N.  \.;  issue  William,  Thomas,  Johannes,  Hendrick,  Mary,  Catharine, 
Rachel.  Hendrick,  who  also  settled  in  Kingston,  married,  1681^  Johanna,  widow  of 
Joris  Davidsen  and  daughter  of  Capt.  Jacob  Loper;  issue  William,  Catharine,  Hen- 
drick and  Cornelia.  Gerardus,  M.  D.,  of  Flatbush  and  New  York,  married,  October 
25,  1677,  Ma^dalena,  daughter  of  Stoflfel  Janse  Abeel,  of  Albany.  He  died  October 
10,  1723.  His  children  were  William,  born  January  25,  1679,  died  young;  Christo- 
pher, bom  January  4,  1681,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Abram  Delanoy;  Adrian, 
bom  August  22,  1682,  married  Aletta  Lispenard  and  Lucretia  De  Key;  William, 
M.  D.,  bom  August  8,  1684,  married  Catharine,  daughter  of  Peter  Delanoy;  Jacobus, 
M.  D.,  bom  August  7,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Johannes  De  Peyster;  Catha- 
rine, bom  May  25,  1689,  married  Charles  Le  Roux;  Gerardus,  born  June  9,  1693, 
married  Anna  Maria  Van  Home  and  Catharine  Prevoost;  Cornelia,  born  May  25, 
1698,  married  Richard  Van  Dam;  Hendrick,  of  New  York,  merchant,  born  December 
«i,    1701,   died,    unmarried,    September   4,    1643,   ^^^   Maria,   born   January    10,    1704, 


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i62  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Since  his  good  vrouw,  Adriana,  had  lost  her  father,  Cornelis 
Trommels,  of  Rengerskerk,  a  quiet  hamlet  in  the  Island  of 
Schouwen,  what  changes  she  had  experienced!  Left  an  orphan 
to  the  care  of  a  guardian  at  Brouwershaven,  she  had,  after  other 
vicissitudes,  found  a  home  on  these  beautiful  but  solitary  plains, 
having  since  her  arrival  here  inherited  some  property  from  an 
aunt  in  Zeeland.  She  was  now  the  mother  of  five  children  be- 
tween the  ages  of  three  and  fifteen  years.  Swits  had  built  him 
a  house,  and  labored  hard  upon  his  farm  of  fifty  morgen,  in  clear- 
ing the  land,  etc.,  hoping  by  patient  industry  to  cancel  a  debt 
of  seven  hundred  guilders  due  the  West  India  Company  for 
commodities  advanced  to  him.  His  good  friend  Tobias  Teunis- 
sen  was  equally  busy  on  the  bouwery  near  Spuyten  Duyvel.  His 
present  wife,  whom  he  had  married  in  1649,  was  a  daughter  of 
Claes  Boone,  of  Amsterdam,  at  which  place  her  mother,  Beatrice 
Hermans,  was  still  living,  on  the  Boomstraat.  Jannetie  also  had 
had  her  trials,  having  lost  a  former  husband.  Urbane  Leursen, 
with  whom  she  had  come  to  New  Netherland  (we  think  he  per- 
ished in  the  Princess,  on  board  which  he  had  served),  and  who 
left  her  with  three  children,  other  three  being  added  after  she 
married  Tobias,  though  but  one  was  surviving,  namely  Teunis, 
now  between  four  and  five  years  of  age. 

These  two  households  felt  the  full  force  of  the  Indian  raid. 
Being  "miserably  surpris.ed  by  the  cruel,  barbarous  savages," 
both  Swits  and  Teunissen  were  massacred,  their  goods  plundered 
or  burned,  and  their  terrified  wives  and  little  ones  captured  and 
hurried  away  to  their  haunts  in  the  forest.  The  crops  on  the 
bouweries  were  destroyed,  and  the  cattle  cither  killed,  driven  oflP, 
or  left  to  wander  in  the  woods.  The  same  scene  was  enacted  at 
the  Kuyter  bouwery.  The  grain,  etc.,  was  burned,  but,  sadder 
still,  the  widow  Kuyter,  now  the  wife  of  Willem  Jansen,  from 
Heerde,  in  Gelderland,  also  fell  a  victim  to  savage  fury,  though 
the  husband  by  some  means  escaped.* 

married  Jacob  Walton.  Our  distinguished  New  York  ])eekmans  have  been  chiefly 
of  this  branch.  For  fuller  details  consult  Holgate's  mainly  accurate  account  before 
cited,  and  also  Our  Home,  which  contains  a  valuable  but  not  faultless  article  upon 
the  Beekman  family. 

•  Jochiem  Pieterscn  Kuyter  was  an  ordinary  man.  His  career  was  one  of 
those  not  so  rare  in  human  history,  which  seems  a  failure  in  the  light  of  worldly 
ambition,  but  when  viewed  from  a  higher  standpoint,  both  a  success  and  a  triumph. 
Not  in  his  laudable  efforts  to  subdue  the  wilderness,  but  by  his  bold  defense  of 
popular  rights,  he  conferred  invaluable  benefits  upon  his  fellow-colonists  and  those 
succeeding  them,  and  which  entitles  him  to  a  place  on  the  roll  of  public  benefac- 
tors. Kuvter  shoiUd  have  a  memorial  in  Central  Park.  It  is  an  interesting  query 
whether  his  descendants  do  not  compose  the  highly  respectable  family  of  Keator, 
seated  very  early  in  Marbletown,  Ulster  County,  most  patriotic  "associators"  in 
behali  of  independence  in  1775,  though  now  widely  scattered,  some  having  Anglicized 
thei!-  name  into  Cator.  These  are  traced  back  to  Melchert  Qaesz  Keeter,  born  at 
Amsterdam,  who  married,  in  1674,  widow  Susanna  Richards,  from  Oxford,  and  settled 
in  Marbletown. 


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The  Indians  had  threatened  "to  root  out  the  Dutch/'  and 
well  they   kept  their   word;  nor  did   they   spare  the   English, 
either.     All  the  neighboring  settlements  were  also  swept  off. 
The  lands  of  Vander  Donck,  "bordering  on  our  island,  and  only 
parted  from  it  by  a  small  creek,  in  some  places  passable  at  low 
water,'*  had  been  "divided  and  settled  by  his  children  and  associ- 
ates, in  various  plantations  and  farms,  but  which  in  the  massacre, 
were  abandoned."     The  occupants  of  Jonas  Bronck's  land  met 
with   no   better   fate.      Adjoining   Bronck's   land   lay   Cornell's 
Neck ;  its  patentee,  Thomas  Cornell,  an  Englishman  from  Here- 
fordshire, who  had  served  the  company  as  a  soldier,  "was  driven 
off  his  lands  by  the  barbarous  violence  of  the  Indians,  who  burned 
his  house  and  goods  and  destroyed  his  cattle."     On  Long  Island 
side  the  house  and  plantation  of  William  Hallett,  another  English- 
man, opposite  Hoorn's  Hook,  "were  laid  waste  by  the  Indians." 
Their  canoes  kept  prowling  about  Hellgate,  and  on  October  13th 
about  thirty  savages  stealthily  approached  the  house  of  Hallett's 
neighbor,  Pieter  Andriessen,  living  at  the  present  Ravenswood, 
and  the  same  who  came  over  with  Bronck.     He  and  five  other 
persons  who  chanced  that  day  to  be  at  his  house  were  attacked, 
four  of  the  six  wounded,  and  all  captured ;  the  savages  then  having 
the  effrontery  to  send  two  of  them  to  New  Amsterdam,  with  an 
offer  to  release  the  others  on  receiving  some  gixnSy  ammunition, 
etc.,  which  they  demanded. 

In  a  few  days  the  Indians  having  glutted  their  revenge,  and 
willing  to  get  the  captives  off  their  hands,  made  overtures,  which 
resulted  in  the  ransom,  during  the  month  of  October,  of  a  large 
number,  but  the  families  of  Teunissen  and  Swits  were  not  in- 
cluded. Meanwhile  Stuyvesant  having  returned  from  the  "con- 
quest" of  the  Swedish  colony  on  the  Delaware,  his  soldiers  were 
ready  for  an  exterminating  war  upon  the  Indians,  and  which  some 
strongly  advised.  But  this  was  opposed  by  Montague  in  the 
council,  on  the  ground  of  their  weakness.  "If,"  he  urged  with  a 
convincing  logic,  "we  have  no  power  to  prosecute  a  war,  then  it 
becomes  necessary  that  we  remain  quiet  till  we  shall  obtain  it, 
and  meanwhile  not  to  place  too  much  confidence  in  the  Indians. 
As  for  the  great  damage  we  have  suffered  from  the  savages,  I 
know  of  no  remedy,  because  reparation  seems  not  to  be  had  from 
them  either  by  war  or  peace;  and  with  respect  to  the  captives, 
experience  has  taught  us  that  they  cannot  be  recovered  without 
ransom."  This  moderate  and  discreet  advice  met  the  approval 
of  the  director  himself,  who  also  expressed  his  opinion  that  the  first 


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attack  upon  the  Dutch  was  not  premeditated,  but  was  provoked 
by  a  "too  hasty  rashness  on  the  part  of  a  few  hot-headed  spirits." 

Parties  were  sent  out  to  bury  the  dead  and  collect  the  stray 
stock.  Such  a  scene  was  presented  of  poor  slaughtered  remains, 
blackened  ruins,  and  general  devastation  as  appalled  the  hearts 
even  of  brave  soldiers.  Some  of  the  cattle  belonging  to  the  mur- 
dered Swits  were  found  in  the  woods,  brought  in  and  cared  for. 
And  toward  the  close  of  November  his  widow  and  children,  with 
those  of  Teunissen,  were  happily  restored  to  their  friends  at  New 
Amsterdam.*  The  hostile  attitude  of  the  Indians  and  the  fear 
"of  being  again  as  suddenly  surprised"  were  an  effectual  bar  to 
any  present  attempt  at  rebuilding  the  ruined  habitations  on  the 
Flats.  Indeed,  such  of  the  settlers  as  survived  were  impoverished ; 
"dispossessed  of  their  properties,  and  not  left  wherewith  to  provide 
food  and  clothing."  And  though  others,  having  courage  and 
means,  would  venture  upon  these  lands  and  run  the  hazard,  they 
were  now  wholly  prevented  from  so  doing  by  an  ordinance  of  the 
director  and  council,  passed  January  i8th,  1656,  which  prohibited 
all  persons  from  dwelling  in  exposed  situations,  and  required  the 
farmers  upon  isolated  bouweries  to  forthwith  remove,  with  their 
families,  into  the  nearest  village,  where  they  would  abide  more 
safely,  be  able  to  act  in  concert  in  case  of  danger,  and  go  out  in 
armed  parties  to  till  their  lands  and  gather  their  crops. 

Such  an  ordinance  was  a  necessity.  The  history  of  settlement 
on  these  Flats,  up  to  this  record,  presented  but  a  series  of  adver- 
sities, and  it  was  time  to  arrest  these  single-handed  attempts  to 
plant  bouweries,  costing  as  they  had  so  many  valuable  lives.  Need 
we  recount  the  gloomy  roll  of  the  dead  ? — De  Forest,  the  pioneer, 
the  respected  Van  Rossum,  the  excellent  Beeck  and  Kuyter,  the 
industrious  and  worthy  Teunissen  and  Swits!  Governor  Roden- 
burg,  one  of  Kuyter's  partners,  also  died  about  this  time.  Claessen 
of  Hoom's  Hook,  after  his  visit  to  Holland  for  redress  of  personal 
grievances  charged  upon  Kieft  and  Stuyvesant,  returned  no  more 
to  his  plantation.  Willem  Bont  and  Matthys  Jansen  had  gone  to 
Fort  Orange,  as  also  Dr.  Montague,  who  with  exhausted  means 

•  Tobias  Teunissen,  with  no  such  culture  as  shone  forth  in  Kuyter,  yet  i>ossessed 
measurably  those  sterling  qualities  needed  to  battle  manfully  with  adversities,  and 
he  deserves  honorable  mention  among  those  pioneer  settlers  by  whose  toihs  _  and 
sacrifices  the  way  was  paved  for  the  ultimate  success  of  the  settlement.  His  widow 
married  Thomas  Verdon,  of  Brooklyn,  where  both  joined  the  church  in  1661.  Her 
son,  Tcunis  Tobias,  born  in  1651,  was  living  in  1692,  on  his  farm  at  Gowanus  (Deeds. 
Brooklyn,  vol.  i,  313),  but  search  and  inquiry  fail  to  trace  him  farther.  Perhaps  his 
descendants  compose  the  Tobias  family,  found  trom  an  eany  date  in  the  states  or 
New  Jersey  and  New  York. 


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and  no  prospect  of  any  returns  from  his  wasted  bouwery,  had  glad- 
ly accepted  the  honorable  position  of  vice-director  at  that  place.* 

Bereft  of  inhabitants  and  desolated  by  firebrand  and  toma- 
hawk; the  current  rumors  of  Indian  threats  which  still  agitated 
the  public  mind ;  the  prohibition  against  isolated  settlements ;  and 
the  complications  arising  in  regard  to  the  interests  and  estates  of 
the  persons  slain  in  the  late  massacre;  were  so  many  barriers  in 
the  way  of  any  immediate  effort  to  rescue  these  fertile  plains  and 
primeval  forests  from  the  wilderness  of  nature. 

•  Sibout  Claessen,  first  proprietor  of  Hoom's  Hook,  showed  strength  of  character 
by  his  resolute  stand  against  the  assumptions  of  Stuyvesant.  It  accords  with  the 
belief  that  his  parents  were  Friesans, — most  stalwart  and  strong-minded  of  Nether- 
landers, —  and  had  removed  to  Hoorn  before  his  birth;  for  Sibout  was  no  doubt 
cousin-german  to  Harck  Siboutsen,  from  Langedyk,  on  the  river  Kuinre,  in  the 
district  of  Zevenwolden,  or  Seven  Forests.  See  "Cronkhite  Family,"  Annals  of 
Newtown,  p.  316.  Claessen  married,  in  1645,  Susannah,  daughter  of  Tan  Van  Schunen- 
burgh  and  widow  of  Aert  Teunisz  Van  Putten,  before  noticed.  After  returning 
from  Holland  he  lived  in  New  York  till  his  death,  in  1680.  He  left  i.ooo  guilders, 
wampum  value,  to  the  Dutch  church,  of  which  he  and  wife  were  members,  and  his 
remaining  estate  on  the  decease  of  his  wife  to  her  daughters  by  Teunissen,  viz., 
Wyntie,  wife  of  Simon  Barentsen,  and  Susannah,  wife  of  Keynier  Willemsen. 


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CHAPTER  XI. 

1656 — 1660. 

NEW   HAERLEM   FOUNDED;   ITS  COURT  AND  CHURCH. 

AN  interesting  period  in  our  history  is  that  which  gave 
"^  origin  to  the  village  of  Harlem.  This  inviting  section  of 
Manhattan  was  to  be  peopled  and  cultivated;  but  by  some  new 
and  more  efficient  mode  than  that  already  tried,  fruitful  only  in 
unrequited  labor,  the  waste  of  property,  and  the  loss  of  precious 
lives.  It  could  only  be  done  by  the  direct  aid  of  government.  The 
farm  owners  were  nearly  all  dead;  their  estates  insolvent.  La 
Montague  and  Swits,  having  had  large  advances  from  the  public 
stores  to  supply  the  wants  of  their  families,  were  deeply  indebted 
to  the  company :  Swits  in  the  sum  of  seven  hundred  guilders,  to 
satisfy  which,  with  "other  debts,"  he  left  nothing  but  his  ruined 
bouwer>\  Dr.  La  Montague,  as  early  as  1652,  was  reputed  to  be 
owing  the  company  "several  thousand  guilders."  As  Vice-Direc- 
tor, his  salary  of  six  hundred  florins,  with  an  extra  allowance  for 
board  of  two  hundred  florins  per  annum  (increased  in  1659  ^^ 
three  hundred),  proving  inadequate  to  his  support,  things  had 
fnone  from  bad  to  worse,  and  were  fast  tending  to  that  crisis  in  his 
affairs  which,  in  1662,  wrung  from  him  the  touching  admission 
to  Stuyvesant,  that  he  had  not  the  means  of  providing  bread  for 
his  family,  and  being  sixty-eight  years  of  age,  was  reduced  to 
penury  and  want. 

The  Kuyter  heirs  were  in  no  better  case,  and  "divers  persons 
interested  in  the  estate"  began  to  clamor  for  its  settlement.  Pro- 
ceedings to  this  end  were  begun  soon  after  Mrs.  Kuyter's  death ; 
when,  on  a  petition  from  Gov.  Stuyvesant,  "relative  to  certain 
share  belonging  to  him,"  the  burgomasters  ordered  "that  an  in- 
ventory be  taken  of  the  lands,  houses,  and  other  effects  of  the 
deceased  Jochem  Pietersen  Kuyter,  and  of  his  widow,  she  having 
remarried,  and  being  now  dead ;  so  that  his  Honor,  as  well  as  the 
other  private  creditors,  may  obtain  justice."  Next  came  a  claim, 
preferred  against  one  of  Mrs.  Kuyter's  sureties  by  Cornelis  De 


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Potter,  for  a  balance  due  him,  which  was  to  have  been  paid  in 
grain  from  the  farm ;  but  the  court  rejected  the  demand,  upon  the 
ground  that  "the  grain  had  been  destroyed  in  the  troubles  with  the 
Indians/'  and  De  Potter  had  covenanted  not  to  hold  the  bail  re- 
sponsible for  any  default  arising  from  such  losses. 

Two  years  passed,  when  the  plans  having  matured  for  closing 
up  the  estate  of  "Jochem  Pietersen  Kuyter  and  Leentie  Martens, 
his  wife,  killed  by  the  Indians,''  their  city  residence  on  the  Heere 
Graft  was  put  up  at  public  sale  by  the  administrators,  January 
1 2th,  1658,  and  struck  off  to  one  of  the  schepens,  Hendrick  Jansen 
Vander  Vin,  later  a  resident  of  Harlem,  to  whom,  on  Februar\- 
14th,  the  burgomasters  gave  a  deed. 

As  to  the  Zegendal  lands  and  others  adjacent,  the  Director 
and  Council,  with  a  just  regard  for  all  the  interests  involved,  both 
of  a  public  and  private  nature,  resolved  upon  forming  a  village 
there,  by  laying  out  suitable  building  and  farming  lots,  to  be  sold 
to  settlers  at  a  fixed  price  per  morgen,  and  to  apply  the  moneys 
so  derived  for  the  benefit  of  the  late  proprietors,  their  heirs  or 
creditors.  The  Van  Keulen  tract,  besides  the  Kuyter  lands,  was 
to  be  disposed  of,  with  the  Swits  bouwery  lying  between  them ; 
and  the  cleared  portion  of  the  latter  was  fixed  upon  as  the  village 
site.*     As  Stuyvesant  owned  a  fourth  part  of  the  Kuyter  tract, 

*  Cornelis  Clacssen  Swits,  whose  history,  with  that  of  his  father's,  as  before 
related,  challenRcs  romance,  had  10  children,  of  whom  reached  maturity  only  Claes, 
born  1640;  Isaac,  born  1642;  Jacob,  born  1645;  Apollonia,  born  1648,  and  Comelis, 
born  165 1.  His  widow  had  one  or  more  children  by  her  second  husband,  Albert 
Leenderts.  Apollonia  Swits  married  Jan  Thomasz  Akcn,  and  their  daughter  married 
Vincent  Delamontagne.  Claes  Swits  was  accidentally  killed  at  Albany  in  1663.  Cor- 
nelis joined  the  church  at  Kingston.  Ulster  County,  in  1678,  was  afterward  an  elder, 
and  died  1734,  >"  the  town  of  Rochester,  leaving  only  his  widow,  Jannetie,  daughter 
of  Tiercic  l)e  Witt. 

Isaac  Cornelissen  Swits,  the  onlv  son,  as  far  as  is  known,  who  left  aescendants, 
was  familiarly  called  "Kleyn  Isaac,"  or  Little  Isaac.  He  settled  at  Schenectady, 
where  his  posterity  have  been  among  the  most  respectable  residents.  By  his  wife 
Susanna,  daughter  of  Simon  Groot,  he  had  eight  children,  of  whom  need  be  named 
only  Cornelius,  Simon  and  Jacob;  all  of  whom  left  descendants.  At  the  sack  of 
Schenectady  by  the  French  and  Indians,  February  8,  1690,  Isaac,  for  the  second 
time  became  a  captive,  he  and  his  eldest  son  Cornelius,  aged  about  12  years,  being 
taken  with  other  prisoners  to  Canada;  but  after  five  months'  captivity  Isaac  escaped, 
reaching  Albany  July  9,  and  was  soon  followed  by  his  son.  Governor  Leisler  shortly 
after  gave  Swits  a  commission  as  lieutenant  of  militia.  While  he  was  in  Canada  a 
fort  was  built  in  his  lot  in  Schenectady,  in  lieu  of  which  he  was  granted  1,000  acres 
along  the  east  side  of  the  Mohawk,  for  which  he  also  got  a  deed  from  the  Indians 
August  16,  1707.  He  survived  this  only  about  a  month,  but  this  purchase  was  con- 
firmed to  his  son  Cornelius,  as  his  heir  at  law,  by  patent  of  April  14,  i7o8.  Cornelius 
in  1702,  married  Hester  Fisher,  and  lived  in  Albany.  Simon  married  Gesina  Beek 
man,  in  1711,  and  resided  in  Schenectady.  The  other  brother,  Jacob  Swits,  of 
Schenectady,  born  1695,  married,  17 19,  Helena  De  vvitt,  of  Ksospus,  by  whom  he 
had  issue:  Isaac,  born  1720;  Andries,  1723;  Susanna,  1726;  Jannetie,  1727;  Abra- 
ham, 1730;  Cornelius,  1733,  and  Maria,  17^7.  Abraham,  known  as  Major  Swits,  at 
eighteen  years,  distinguished  himself  for  his  courage  on  the  day  of  the  Bockendal 
battle,  when  the  Indians  killed  12  of  the  best  men  of  Schenectady.  In  the  Revolu- 
tionary war  he  held  a  commission  as  "First  Major  of  the  Regiment  of  Militia,  of 
which  Abraham  Wemple  is  Colonel,"  dated  June  20,  1778.  Two  of  his  sons  bore 
arms  in  that  struggle,  viz.,  Walter  and  Jacob,  the  latter  afterward  Major  General 
of  the  state  militia.  After  the  war  Major  Swits  resided  in  a  brick  house  on  the 
north  corner  of  Maiden  Lane  and  State  Street.  In  this  house  was  born  his  grand- 
son, the  late  F.  N.  Clute,  of  Herkimer,  who  always  spoke  with  interest  of  his  grand- 
father  Swits.     Major  Swits /lied  August   17,    1814,  having  had  thirteen  children,   nine 


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he  reserved  his  share,  probably  to  avoid  unpleasant  complications ; 
so  that  only  150  morgen  of  this  tract  were  to  be  laid  out  into  lots. 
These  lands  being  deemed  ample  for  the  wants  of  the  proposed 
village  for  sorne  time  to  come,  the  Vredendal  or  Montagne  farm 
was  not  as  yet  included ;  in  fact,  it  was  held  that  "it  could  not  be 
thence  conveniently  cultivated,  being  over  a  kill." 

The  government  had  another  important  object  in  view  besides 
that  of  obtaining  its  dues,  or  promoting  the  settlement  of  this 
district.  This  was  to  enhance  the  safety  of  the  city  of  New  Am- 
sterdam, as  would  naturally  result  from  planting  a  strong  village, 
with  a  garrison,  on  this  frontier  end  of  the  island.  But  in  carry- 
ing out  this  design,  as  already  hinted,  neither  the  honest  efforts 
of  the  late  owners  to  comply  with  the  terms  of  their  grants  by 
improving  their  lands,  neither  their  misfortunes  and  heavy  losses, 
were  lost  sight  of.  True,  these  lands  had  been  granted  subject  to 
the  imperative  condition  that  the  soil  should  be  brought  under  til- 
lage. By  such  means  were  the  resources  of  the  country  to  be 
developed,  its  growth  promoted.  Not  to  comply  with  this  con- 
dition was  ordinarily  to  forfeit  the  grant,  even  though  a  patent 
had  issued ;  in  which  case  the  government  felt  warranted,  and 
usually  did  not  hesitate,  to  reclaim  the  land  and  give  it  to  others 
as  it  pleased.  But  as  manifest  injustice  would  result  from  apply- 
ing the  above  rule  of  forfeiture  to  the  specific  cases  under  consid- 
eration, where  the  unfortunate  proprietors  had  done  what  they 
could  and  had  failed  through  no  fault  of  their  own,  it  behooved 
the  government,  in  whatever  action  it  might  take  touching  these 
lands,  to  have  a  proper  regard  for  the  interests  of  the  said  pro- 
prietors, while  exercising  the  usual  prerogative  of  the  civil  power, 
the  right  of  eminent  domain,  or  that  of  judging  how  far  private 
interests  and  convenience  must  yield  to  the  public  necessities ;  and, 
under  the  Dutch  rule,  it  had  always  been  held  "that  a  private  farm 
or  plantation  ought  never  to  be  prejudicial  to  a  village."  How 
far  this  measure  was  agreed  to  by  the  parties  interested,  does  not 
appear;  but  it  certainly  commended  itself  as  the  readiest  way  to 
make  these  otherwise  useless  lands  yield  them  some  returns, 
whereby  to  relieve  their  indebtedness  to  the  government  and 
others.  It  was  this  injunction  of  circumstances  that  called  forth 
the  following  ordinance : 

The   Director-General  and  Council   of  New   Netherland  hereby  give 

by  his  last  wife,  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Delamont,  whom  he  married  November 
22,  1760.  Their  son  Jacob,  born  November  3,  1762,  was  father  of  the  late  Rev. 
Abraham  J.  Swits,  of  Schenectady,  and  their  daughter,  Susanna,  born  June  12,  1766, 
became  wife  of  Nicholas  F.  Clute,  and  mother  of  Mr.  Frederick  N.  Clute  aforesaid, 
who  m-as  bom  at  Schenectady,  March  12,  1797.  and  died  December  15,  1879.  See 
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notice,  that  for  the  further  promotion  of  agfriculture,  for  the  security  of 
this  Island  and  the  cattle  pasturing  thereon,  as  well  as  for  the  further 
relief  and  expansion  of  this  City  Amsterdam,*  in  New  Netherland,  they 
have  resolved  to  form  a  new  Village  or  Settlement  at  the  end  of  the  Island, 
and  about  the  land  of  Jochem  Pietersen,  deceased,  and  those  which  are 
adjoining  it.  In  order  that  the  lovers  of  agriculture  may  be  encouraged 
thereto,  the  proposed  new  Village  aforesaid  is  favored  by  the  Director- 
General  and  Council  with  the  following  Privileges. 

First :  Each  of  the  inhabitants  thereof  shall  receive  by  lot  in  full  own- 
ership, 18,  20  to  24  morgen  of  arable  Land;  6  to  8  morgen  of  Meadow; 
and  be  exempt  from  Tenths  for  fifteen  years  commencing  next  May ;  on 
condition  that  he  pay  within  the  course  of  three  years,  in  instalments. 
Eight  guilders  for  each  morgen  of  tillable  land  for  the  behoof  of  the 
interested,  or  their  creditors,  who  are  now  or  formerly  were  driven  from 
the  aforesaid  Lands,  and  have  suffered  great  loss  thereon. 

Secondly:  In  order  to  prevent  similar  damage  from  calamities  or 
expulsion,  the  Director-General  and  Council  promise  the  Inhabitants  of 
the  aforesaid  Village  to  protect  and  maintain  them  with  all  their  power, 
and,  when  notified  and  required  to  assist  them  with  12  to  15  Soldiers  on 
the  monthly  pay  of  the  Company,  the  Village  providing  quarters  and 
rations;  This  whenever  the  Inhabitants  may  petition  therefor. 

Thirdly:  When  the  aforesaid  Village  has  20  to  25  Families,  the 
Director-General  and  Council  will  favor  it  with  an  Inferior  Court  of 
Justice;  and  for  that  purpose,  a  double  number  is  to  be  nominated  out  of 
the  most  discreet  and  proper  persons,  for  the  first  time  by  the  Inhabitants, 
and  afterward  by  the  Magistrates  thereof,  and  presented  annually  to 
the  Director-General  and  Council,  to  elect  a  single  number  therefrom. 

Fourthly:  The  Director-General  and  Council  promise  to  employ  all 
possible  means  that  the  Inhabitants  of  the  aforesaid  Village,  when  it  has 
the  above-mentioned  number  of  Families,  will  be  accommodated  with  a 
good,  pious,  orthodox  Minister,  toward  whose  maintenance  the  Director- 
General  and  Council  promise  to  pay  half  the  Salary,  the  other  half  to  be 
supplied  by  the  Inhabitants  in  the  best  and  easiest  manner,  with  the 
advice  of  the  Magistrates  of  the  aforesaid  Village,  at  the  most  convenient 
time. 

Fifthly:  The  Director-General  and  Council  will  assist  the  Inhabi- 
tants of  the  aforesaid  Village,  whenever  it  will  best  suit  their  convenience, 
to  construct,  with  the  Company's  Negroes,  a  good  wagon  road  from  this 
place  to  the  village  aforesaid,  so  that  people  can  travel  hither  and  thither 
on  horseback  and  with  a  wagon. 

Sixthly :  In  order  that  the  advancement  of  the  aforesaid  Village  may 
be  the  sooner  and  better  promoted,  the  Director-General  and  Council 
have  resolved  and  determined  not  to  establish,  or  allow  to  be  established, 
any  new  villages  or  settlements,  before  and  until  the  aforesaid  Village  be 
brought  into  existence;  certainly  not  until  the  aforesaid  number  of 
Inhabitants  is  completed. 

Seventhly:  For  the  better  and  greater  promotion  of  neighborly  cor- 
respondence with  the  English  of  the  North,  the  Director-General  and 
Council  will  at  a  more  convenient  time  authorize  a  Ferry  and  a  suitable 
Scow  near  the  aforesaid  Village,  in  order  to  convey  over  Cattle  and 
Horses;  and  will  favor  the  aforesaid  Village  with  a  Cattle  and  Horse 
Market. 

Eighthly:  Whoever  are  inclined  to  settle  themselves  there  or  to  take 
up  Bouweries  by  their  servants,  shall  be  bound  to  enter  their  names  at 
once,  or  within  a  short  time,  at  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Director- 
General  and  Council,  and  to  begin  immediately  with  others  to  place  on 

♦  The  words  in  the  original  are,  "tot  meerder  recreatic  en  uytspanninge  van 
dese  Steede  Amsterdam,"  etc. 


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the  land  one  able-bodied  person;  pro'vided  with  proper  arms,  or  in  default 
thereof,  to  be  deprived  of  bis  right. 

Thus  done  in  the  meeting  of  the  Director  and  Council,  held  in  Fort 
Amsterdam,  in  New  Netherland,  on  the  4th  of  March,  A**  1658. 

The  number  of  applicants  for  the  land  being  sufficient  to  war- 
rant a  beginning,  ground  was  broken  for  the  new  settlement 
August  14th  ensuing;  between  which  date  and  September  lOth 
was  completed  the  preliminary  work  of  surveying  and  staking 
out  the  lands  and  village  plots,  etc.  Hilarity  and  good  cheer 
marked  the  occasion,  for  one  of  those  present  was  Johan  Vervee- 
len,  not  till  five  years  later  a  resident,  but  who  acted  as  tapster, 
regaling  the  company  with  generous  potions  of  his  New  Amster- 
dam beer. 

The  village  was  laid  out  adjoining  the  Great  Kill  or  Harlem 
River,  taking  for  the  principal  street  what  had  apparently  been 
used  before  as  a  road  by  the  ill-fated  Swits  and  others,  or  at  least 
an  Indian  trail.  Touching  the  river  (about  125th  Street)  just 
north  of  a  small  cove,  where  a  ferry  to  Bronckside,  or  Morris- 
ania,  was  soon  established,  it  lay  "about  east  and  west,"  con- 
tinuing beyond  the  village,  on  much  the  same  course,  till  it 
reached  the  north  branch  of  Montague's  Kill.  A  second  street, 
north  of  the  former  (distant  at  the  river  end  fifteen  Dutch  rods), 
was  laid  out  in  the  same  direction,  as  far  as  found  necessary. 
Being  broader  than  the  other,  it  was  called  the  "Great  Way," 
but  since  that  day  has  been  better  known  as  the  Church  Lane, 
with  its  old  homesteads  and  rows  of  stately  elms ;  of  all  which, 
however,  there  now  remains  scarce  a  trace,  save  upon  the  maps. 
Between  these  two  streets  were  located  the  erven,  or  house 
lots,  lying  in  two  ranges,  a  central  line  dividing  those  facing 
one  street  from  those  facing  the  other,  as  in  modern  fashion; 
but  the  lots  were  nearly  square,  and  measured  about  ninety- 
three  English  feet  in  depth,  with  a  frontage  somewhat  less; 
while  cross-streets  formed  these  into  blocks  containing  four  lots 
each.  It  should  be  said  that  the  erven  toward  the  west  end 
exceeded  considerably  the  depth  stated,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
the  two  main  streets  did  not  preserve  their  parallel,  the  south- 
em,  at  a  point  between  the  second  and  third  cross-streets,  sud- 
denly diverging  about  eight  degrees  from  a  direct  line.  Larger 
plots  laid  out  on  the  north  side  of  the  Great  Way,  though  some 
were  subsequently  built  upon,  were  designed  only  as  tuynen, 
or  gardens,  one  for  each  of  the  erven.  They  were  described  as 
five  by  twenty  Dutch  rods,  or  one-sixth  of  a  morgen,  but  were 
meted  out  by  liberal  measure  (the  case  also  with  the  erven),  and 


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being  soon  extended  in  the  rear  and  otherwise  enlarged,  came 
to  be  reduced  to  half  the  original  number,  and  to  contain  one 
morgcn  or  two  acres.* 

To  each  erf,  or  house  lot,  was  laid  out  upon  Jochem  Pieter's 
Flat  a  lot  of  bouwlant,  or  farming  land.  These  were  simply 
staked  off  and  numbered,  the  lots  running  from  the  river  into 
the  woods  westerly;  No.  i  lying  against  the  rear  of  the  tuynen, 
at  the  south  end  of  the  range,  and  No.  25  at  the  north  end. 
These  lots  were  laid  out  for  six  morgen,  but  were  soon  after  en- 
larged a  little  and  the  number  reduced,  as  we  shall  see.  These 
twenty-five  lots  were  the  only  farming  lands  taken  up  at  first. 
In  fonn  like  all  those  subsequently  laid  out  for  the  same  pur- 
pose, they  were  made  narrow  and  long,  and  butted  either  on  the 
river  or  creeks, — a  favorite  mode  of  dividing  up  land,  borrowed 
from  Holland,  but  here  having  its  peculiar  advantages.  The 
farmers  liked  this  water  privilege,  as  they  were  long  in  the  habit 
of  removing  their  produce  from  the  field  to  their  barns  in  the 

*  The  Church  Lane,  like  a  faded  picture  almost  reft  of  power  to  recall  the 
lovely  reality,  still  lives,  with  its  air  of  rural  repose,  in  the  memories  of  a  few  who. 
in  their  juvenile  days  trod  its  grassv  paths  to  the  old  Dutch  church,  which  stood  near 
the  Harlem  River,  on  the  south  side  of  the  Lane,  in  a  corner  of  the  old  cemetery 
removed  in  1868.  Extending  from  the  river,  where  on  its  north  side  stood  the  Judah 
house,  on  its  south  the  Benson  house,  this  ancient  road,  cutting  the  modern  blocks 
diagonally,  struck  Third  Avenue  at  121st  Street,  then  crossing  where  was  since  the 
Park  to  S>lvan  Place  and  120th  Street,  turned  southward  just  beyond  that  point 
and  joined  the  original  Harlem  and  New  York  road,  or  continuation  of  the  lower 
village  street,  which  in  early  times  extended  west  to  the  little  Mill  Creek  (north  branch 
of  Montague's  Kill)  and  across  to  Harlem  Lane,  now  nvenue  St.  Nicholas. 

The  church,  the  second  which  had  occupied  that  spot,  was  taken  down  in  1825. 
a  new  one  being  built  on  the  present  site,  then  part  of  the  Church  Farm.  The  old 
vane,  bearing  the  date  1788,  when  the  former  house  was  erected,  was  taken  care  of 
and  mav  still  be  seen  on  Judge  Ingraham's  barn,  in  Second  Avenue.  See  note  on 
The  Reitorraed  Church.  The  Benson  house,  aforesaid,  yet  in  good  repair,  standing 
cornerwisc  to  the  upper  side  of  125th  Street,  late  occupied  by  Mr.  J.  K.  Cowperthwaii, 
but  early  in  this  century  the  home  of  Lawrence  Benson,  then  01  Gapt.  Bailey,  and 
later  of  Judge  Morrell,  marks  the  situation  of  a  much  more  ancient  house, — that  of 
the  original  settler,  David  Demarest.  The  Judah  house,  which  stood  opposite,  on  the 
north  side  of  the  Lane,  was  deserted  long  before  it  was  pulled  down  in  1867,  but  had 
been  a  tasteful  structure  for  the  times,  and  was  owned  prior  to  the  Revolution  by 
Peter  R.  Livingston.  Kept  as  a  tavern  just  after  the  war  for  some  years  by  the 
noted  patriot,  of  whalebone  fame,  Capt.  William  Marriner,  who  also  ran  the  ferry  to 
Morrisania,  it  was  also  known  as  the  Ferry  House.  It  was  bought  in  1822  by  Mr. 
John  Moore,  and  became  his  residence.  Both  the  above  were  originally  stone  houses, 
of  one  story,  but  had  been  raised  to  two.  Before  the  present  century,  the  erven,  or 
ancient  village  house  lots  (on  one  of  which  is  the  Benson  house:  the  church  and 
graveyard  having  occupied  two  others),  had  nearly  all  lost  their  buildings,  and  become 

Easture-lots,  or  been  tnrown  into  the  adjoining  fields,  by  closing  up  the  lower  street 
efore  named,  the  river  end  only  being  kept  open;  while  the  tuynen,  or  one  morgen 
lots,  on  the  north  side  of  the  Church  Lane,  being  joined  two  or  more  in  a  plot,  and 
built  upon,  had  come  to  form  the  best  part  of  the  village,  the  homes  a  century  ago  of 
the  Bussing,  Waldron,  Livingston,  and  Myer  families,  succeeded  later  by  those  of 
Sickels,  Chesterman,  Brady,  etc.  The  Myer  house,  of  stone,  one  story  and  very  old, 
was  removed  by  Judge  Ingraham  when  125th  street  was  opened,  on  which  it  stood. 
The  Brady  house,  a  frame  building,  erected  by  John  Livingston  some  years  before  the 
Revolution,  was  torn  down  in  1863.  The  stately  frame  house  with  heavy  columns,  yet 
standing  at  Second  avenue  and  124th  street,  was  built  by  the  late  James  Chesterman, 
in  1 82 1,  on  the  side  of  the  old  stone  Waldron  house.  The  old  Bussing  house  occu- 
pying the  plot  next  the  Church  Farm,  was  destroyed  in  the  Revolution,  and  on  the 
same  spot  after  the  war  John  S.  Sickles  built  the  house  still  standing  on  123d  street, 
north  side,  just  west  of  Second  avenue,  it  having  been  turned  to  line  with  the  street. 
This  property  descended,  in  i8t)4,  from  Sickles  to  his  grandson,  John  S.  Adriancc,  who 
sold  it,  June  7th,  1820,  to  Christopher  Reiser. 


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village  by  means  of  canoes  and  scows,  until  suitable  roads  were 
made.  Again,  the  laborers  had  less  fear  of  the  Indians,  when 
working  near  each  other,  in  a  common  field  (for  it  was  a  full  half 
century  before  they  built  division  fences)  as,  always  having 
their  guns  with  them,  there  was  a  better  chance,  if  attacked,  to 
unite  in  defending  themselves.  And  tradition  adds  that  they 
used  the  ingenious  precaution  of  planting  each  particular  crop 
in  a  continuous  row  across  their  several  lots,  that  the  workers 
need  not  be  very  far  apart  while  engaged  in  cultivating  or  har- 
vesting their  crops. 

Salt  hay  was  thought  indispensable  for  the  cattle;  hence  a 
small  parcel  of  marsh  or  meadow,  usually  about  three  morgen, 
was  set  off  to  each  lot  of  bouwland.  That  all  might  be  sup- 
plied, these  had  to  be  taken  wherever  found, — on  Little  Barent's 
and  Stony  Islands;  on  the  other  side  of  Harlem  River;  about 
Spu^ten  Duyvel,  and  in  the  Great  Meadow,  upon  Sherman's 
Creek.  The  meadows  in  the  Bay  of  Hellgate  were  reserved  to 
the  church,  to  be  used  or  rented  for  its  benefit,  with  the  bouw- 
land in  the  village,  set  apart  to  the  same  use. 

With  its  first  advent  into  life  and  activity,  the  infant  settle- 
ment received  its  name,  fitly  taken  from  a  famous  old  city  of 
North  Holland.  It  was  called  Xieuw  Haerlem;  conferred,  no 
doubt,  by  Stuyvesant,  who  seems  always  to  have  exercised  that 
right,  though  usually  a  formal  request  coming  from  the  people 
gave  it  the  look  of  a  courtesy  paid  to  their  chief  ruler.  Its  selec- 
tion was  such  as  could  neither  flatter  any  one  settler,  nor  excite 
the  jealousy  of  others,  as  none  of  them  were  from  Haerlem. 
Perhaps  the  semblance  in  the  two  localities  first  suggested  it. 
Xew  Haerlem  and  New  Amsterdam,  like  the  two  great  cities 
after  which  they  were  named,  lay  apart  "about  three  hours'  jour- 
ney;" or  so  thought  two  observing  tourists  of  that  century. 
Old  Haerlem,  watered  on  its  eastern  side  by  the  gentle  Sparen, 
and  girt  about  landwise  by  groves  "of  shadowy  elms,"  for 
beaut\'  and  extent  unrivaled  in  Holland,  where  are  few  forests, 
might  well  have  dictated  a  name  for  a  situation  so  similar.  But 
more  suggestive  was  its  history.  To  the  Hollander  the  word 
Haerlem  was  the  synonym  for  all  that  was  virtuous  and  heroic. 
During  the  memorable  siege  sustained  by  that  fated  town,  when 
for  seven  long  months  the  choicest  troops  in  the  Spanish  army 
were  foiled  by  the  intrepidity  of  its  citizens,  women  vieing  with 
the  men  in  bearing  arms,  was  displayed  a  patriotism  worthy  the 
loftiest  flights  of  the  poetic  muse.  And  though  Haerlem  fell, 
there  went  up  from  the  merciless  slaughter  of  its  brave  but  van- 


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quished  people  such  a  piercing  cry  as  palsied  the  weakened  arm 
of  the  invader,  and  nerved  the  patriots  to  an  uncompromising 
resistance, — freedom  was  virtually  achieved  for  the  United  Prov- 
inces! Noble  Haerlem!  illustrious  example  of  courage,  endur- 
ance and  sacrifice,  ever  to  live  thy  memory,  and  tenderly  to  be 
cherished  among  the  proudest  and  dearest  of  Fatherland! 

Thus  the  name  New  Haerlem  was  aptly  chosen.  Like  its 
great  exemplar,  it  might  be  called  upon  to  withstand  the  on- 
slaught of  a  savage  and  relentless  foe.  In  such  dark  and  tr\'ing 
hour, — and  who  could  tell,  after  the  gloomy  experience  of  past 
years,  but  it  might  come, — ^the  inspiration  of  a  glorious  name  was 
something  to  incite  its  people  to  noblest  proofs  of  fortitude  and 
heroism.  Peril  was  in  the  new  enterprise,  equally  with  labor  and 
hardship;  and  those  entering  upon  it  had  clearer  apprehensions 
than  we  can  well  understand  what  they  might  be  called  to  do 
or  suffer  to  maintain  and  defend  their  new  home.* 

.  The  beginning  was  not  auspicious.  Summer  in  1658  brought 
"an  unusually  distempered  atmosphere,"  and  "many  persons 
died."  Others  were  prostrated  for  weeks  and  months  "with 
sickness  and  debility."  Then  "flooding  rains,  which  came  about 
the  time  of  harvesting,"  so  damaged  the  fruits  and  crops  as  to 
cause  "a  scarcity  of  bread."  Many  feared  it  would  "be  impos- 
sible to  get  in  winter  forage  for  the  cattle."  With  so  serious  a 
check  upon  labor  and  enterprise,  but  slow  progress  was  made  at 
New  Harlem. 

With  a  view  to  urging  the  work  forward,  the  Director  and 
Council,  on  November  27th,  issued  a  peremptory  order  in  these 
words:  "All  persons  whom  it  may  concern  are  hereby  fore- 
warned and  notified,  that  all  those  who  have  obtained  lots  or 
plantations  in  the  newly-begun  village  of  Haerlem  shall  take 
possession,  or  cause  possession  thereof  to  be  taken,  and  com- 
mence preparations  for  fencing  and  planting  the  same,  within 
the  space  of  six  weeks  from  the  date  hereof,  on  pain  of  having 

•  Haerlem,  in  writing  which  we  now  drop  a  letter  for  brevity,  is  derived  by- 
Dutch  writers  from  Heer  hem  (Lord  Willem,  or  William),  an  early  prince  of  Fries- 
land,  in  Holland,  the  reputed  founder  of  Haerlem,  from  him  called  the  stadt  (town) 
of  Heer  Lem;  whence  the  easy  transition  into  Haerlem,  or  Haarlem,  as  the  Hol- 
landers now  write  it. 

Among  the  oldest  of  our  historic  names,  significant  for  reference,  and  entering 
into  the  corporate  titles  of  our  churches,  our  railway  and  navigation  companies,  etc., 
how  preposterous  the  suggestion  that  this  time-honored  designation  is  become  useless, 
and  should  be  ignored!  Rather  cherish  it,  together  with  the  more  local  names  within 
Harlem,  many  of  which  it  has  been  our  good  fortune  to  rescue.  Apropos  of  this — has 
justice  been  done  the  worthy  pioneers  of  Harlem,  in  selecting  names  for  the  streets, 
avenues  and  places?  Mount  Morris,  from  its  former  owners,  would  surely  find  a 
more  significant  name  in  Mount  Benson.  And  Kortright  Avenue,  for  a  like  reason, 
more  happily  apply  to  Harlem  Lane  than  Avenue  St.  Nicholas  I  Since  **Ciod*s 
Acre"  has  been  desecrated,  and  the  forefathers'  gravestones  uprooted  as  things  obso- 
lete and  useless,  what  more  proper  tribute  to  their  memory  than  that  here  suggested? 


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the  lots  and  plantations  which  are  not  entered  upon  within  that 
time  given  and  granted  to  others  who  may  be  disposed  to  im- 
prove them." 

This  premonition  was  not  without  its  effect,  but  the  winter 
setting  in  early  and  with  severity  must  have  retarded  the  work. 
However,  in  place  of  those  who  abandoned  their  lots  came  other 
settlers,  who  put  up  buildings  and  undertook  to  cultivate  the  soil. 
The  number  of  landholders  thus  augmented,  during  the  ensuing 
spring  and  summer  building  after  building  began  to  adorn  the 
new  village,  among  the  earliest  to  take  up  a  permanent  resi- 
dence there  being  the  Slots,  Cressons,  Tourneur  and  Montague 
junior,  who  all  bore  an  active  part  in  its  affairs.  For  the  se- 
curity of  the  settlers,  all  of  whom  were  required  to  be  well  armed, 
the  government  furnished  eight  or  ten  regular  soldiers  from 
Fort  Amsterdam,  in  the  pay  of  the  company,  whose  presence 
were  a  necessity  in  the  "newly-begun  village,"  as  the  Indians 
were  yet  a  source  of  anxiety,  especially  to  the  wives  and  families 
of  the  colonists ;  the  recent  murder  of  a  Swedish  family  at  Mespat 
Kills  serving  to  heighten  this  feeling  among  their  fellow  Swedes, 
of  whom  there  were  several  in  the  new  community  at  Harlem.* 

This  public  disquietude  arose  to  an  actual  panic  when,  on 
September  23d,  the  startling  news  arrived  at  the  Manhattans, 
that  a  firce  and  bloody  war  had  broken  out  between  the  Esopus 
savages  and  the  settlers  there.  A  general  consternation  seized 
the  inhabitants  upon  Manhattan  Island  and  in  the  neighboring 
settlements,  many  of  whom  forsaking  their  bouweries,  crops  and 
cattle,  fled  hastily  to  New  Amsterdam.  Operations  at  New 
Harlem  were  wholly  suspended  for  a  time,  especially  as  every 
soldier  and  public  servant  had  to  leave  and  accompany  Stuy- 
vesant  on  an  expedition  to  Esopus.  These  soon  returned,  but 
things  continued  in  a  very  threatening  attitude  the  whole  win- 
ter: and  until  the  renewal  of  peace  with  the  Wickquaskeeks 
and  other  tribes  about  Manhattan,  early  in  the  spring,  brought 
some  quiet  to  the  public  mind  in  this  quarter.  But  the  Direc- 
tor-General, on  a  second  visit  to  Esopus,  finding  the  savages 
there  still  hostile,  resolved  to  give  them  their  fill  of  war.  He 
sent  a  message  to  the  secretary.  Van  Ruyven,  that  the  entire 
country  was  in  danger,  and  directed  him  to  warn  the  out  set- 

•  Eldcrt  Engclbcrts,  one  of  the  murdered  Swedes  (see  Annals  of  Newtown,  46, 
si),  married,  in  i6j56,  Sarah  Walker  from  Boston;  issue  Anna  Maria,  bom  the  same 
year  at  Maspcth  Kills,  and  who  married,  1680,  Clement  Elsworth,  of  New  York.  He 
and  three  brothers  (sons  of  Stoffel  Elsworth)  all  left  families,  whence  those  of  this 
name.  Capt.  Vcrdinc  Elsworth,  of  Orange  County,  a  descendant  of  Clement,  married 
Dorothy  Clalc,  in  New  York,  1759,  and  took  an  active  part  in  the  old  French  war. 


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dements  around  Manhattan  to  carefully  guard  against  a  sur- 
prise. This  having  been  done,  the  next  day,  being  March  23d, 
1660,  the  people  at  New  Harlem  were  further  notified  that 
since  it  was  "highly  necessary  to  keep  a  good  watch  in  the 
newly-settled  village,"  the  Council  had  appointed  as  its  mili- 
tary officers,  Jan  Pietersen  Slot,  as  sergeant;  Daniel  Tourneur, 
as  corporal,  and  Jaques  Cresson,  as  "lancepesade."  They  called 
upon  all  the  inhabitants  to  obey  the  commands  of  Sergeant  Slot, 
till  other  orders  should  be  given  by  the  Director  and  Council. 
This  was  the  first  step  taken  for  the  establishment  of  local  au- 
thority at  Harlem.  Furnished  with  a  supply  of  powder  from 
the  public  magazine  by  Derick  Looten,  the  commissar\%  the 
inhabitants  were  prepared  for  defense.  This  state  of  unrest 
lasted  for  several  months,  when  it  was  relieved  by  news  that  a 
peace  had  been  ratified  with  the  Esopus  Indians,  and  approved 
by  the  river  tribes. 

Meanwhile  the  settlers,  having  steadily  increased  in  numbers, 
now  deemed  themselves  entitled  to  a  Court  of  Justice,  agreeably 
with  the  original  conditions  under  which  they  had  settled  here. 
They  met  therefore  and  nominated  a  double  number  of  the  best 
qualified  persons  among  them,  to  bear  rule  as  '^commissaries" 
or  magistrates,  and  submitted  their  names  to  the  Director  and 
Council,  who,  by  the  following  ordinance,  confirmed  three  of  the 
nominees  in  that  office,  and  defined  their  duties  and  powers : 


The  Director-General  and  Council  of  New  Netherland,  To  all  those 
who  shall  see  or  hear  these  Presents  read,  send  greeting  and  make 
known.  That  for  the  welfare  of  the  community,  for  promoting  the  growth 
and  success  of  the  new  Village  of  Harlem,  and  for  the  easier  adminis- 
tration of  Justice,  they  have  deemed  it  necessary  to  erect  in  the  afore- 
said village,  an  Inferior  Court  of  Justice,  which  shall  consist,  provis- 
ionally, of  the  three  undernamed  Commissaries,  to  wit:  Jan  Pietersen, 
Daniel  Tourneur,  Pierre  Cresson,  before  whom  in  the  first  case  shall 
be  brought  all  Questions,  Actions  and  Differences  arising  in  the  said 
Village,  between  Lord  and  Subject,  Master  and  Servant,  Mistress  and 
Maid,  Neighbor  and  Neighbor,  Buyer  and  Seller,  Lessor  and  Lessee, 
Landlord  and  Laborer,  and  other  such  like;  also  all  criminal  actions, 
consisting  of  Misdeeds,  Threats,  Fighting  or  Wounding,  whether  moved 
and  instituted  by  the  parties  or  by  the  senior  Commissary,  who,  until 
further  order,  shall  represent  the  Sheriff  in  that  place. 

Said  Commissaries  shall  do  justice,,  to  the  best  of  their  knowledge, 
between  parties  appearing  before  them,  and  may  decree  the  giving  of  Bail, 
Acquittal  or  Condemnation,  as  the  circumstances  of  the  case  shall  war- 
rant. But  any  party  feeling  himself  aggrieved,  may  appeal  to  the  Director- 
General  and  Council  of  New  Netherland,  according  to  custom  here, 
from  all  judgments  exceeding  Fifty  Guilders,  pronounced  by  said  Com- 
missaries. And  said  Commissaries  are  hereby  specially  commissioned 
and  authorized  to  enact  proper  Ordinances   that  the  arable  Lands  and 


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Gardens  be  carefully  fenced,  kept  enclosed,  and  the  broken  fences  properly 
repaired. 

They  hereby  command  all  Inhabitants  of  the  said  Village,  and  those 
who  may  in  future  reside  there,  to  respect  the  aforesaid  Commissaries  in 
the  office  to  which  they  are  now  qualified,  and  acknowledge  them  as 
such;  and  all  this  until  it  be  otherwise  ordained  by  the  Director-General 
and  Council  aforesaid.  Thus  done  at  the  meeting  of  the  Director-General 
and  Council,  held  at  Fort  Amsterdam,  in  New  Netherland,  the  i6th 
August,  1660. 

The  new  Board  of  Commissaries,  the  duties  of  schout  or 
deputy  sheriff  devolving  upon  Jan  Pietersen  Slot,  as  senior 
member,  gave  early  attention  to  the  religious  needs  of  the  com- 
munity. With  neither  a  church  nor  a  minister,  the  benefits  of 
the  sanctuar>'  could  be  enjoyed  only  by  making  a  toilsome  jour- 
ney of  eight  miles,  by  land  or  by  water,  to  Fort  Amsterdam. 
Strong  in  their  religious  faith  and  attachments,  so  natural  in  a 
people  who  had  but  recently  emerged  from  great  convulsions  in 
the  church,  and  shaken  off  the  old  clogs  of  superstition  and 
error,  the  faithful  at  Harlem  set  a  high  value  upon  God's  word 
and  ordinances.  It  were  a  mistake  to  suppose  that  they  did  not 
fell  keenly  the  loss  of  those  advantages  which  they  had  enjoyed 
in  Holland,  where  not  the  cities  only,  but  every  considerable 
hamlet  had  its  pastor  and  house  of  worship.  The  promise  of  "a 
pious  orthodox  minister/'  and  of  aid  in  sustaining  him,  was  a 
great  inducement  for  them  to  settle  here.  As  yet  they  felt  them- 
selves unable  to  do  much  toward  supporting  one,  but  it  was 
all-important  to  secure  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel  within  their 
own  bounds.  Through  the  commissaries,  who  had  the  supervis- 
ion of  such  matters,  and  who  were  all  professors  of  the  Reformed 
religion,  this  urgent  need  of  a  minister  was  made  known  to  Gov- 
ernor Stuyvesant,  and  by  him  brought  to  the  notice  of  the  Direc- 
tors in  Holland,  in  a  letter  dated  October  6th,  1660. 

But,  providentially,  one  Michiel  Zyperus  had  arrived  here 
in  the  preceding  year  from  the  Dutch  island  of  Curacao,  in  the 
West  Indies,  where  he  had  labored  as  a  proponent  or  licentiate. 
Something  had  caused  the  vice-director,  Beck,  in  writing  to 
Stuyvesant  in  August  of  that  year,  to  speak  of  the  dominie  in 
terms  ambiguous,  but  not  flattering.  He  said,  "Dominie  Michiel 
Zyperus  goes,  with  his  wife,  to  your  country,  by  this  opportunity, 
in  the  hope  of  there  securing  a  call  in  one  place  or  another.  I 
believe  it  would  be  a  good  chance  for  him,  could  he  depart  with 
a  good  testimonial,  and  had  so  comported  himself  as  to  deserve 
it!"  The  "opportunity"  was  by  the  ship  Sphera  Mundi,  then 
about  to  sail,  and  in  which  Zyperus  and  his  wife,  Anna  Duur- 
koop,  had  engaged  passage  for  New  Amsterdam,  having  in  ad- 


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vance,  May  i6th,  shipped  hither  "a  keg  of  sugar,"  consigned 
to  H.  J.  Vander  Vin.  But  the  Sphera  Mundi  not  leaving  as 
soon  as  expected,  it  was  not  till  October  25th  that  they  reached 
New  Amsterdam. 

The  innuendo  of  Beck,  as  it  lost  its  force  ere  it  gained  this 
cooler  latitude,  seems  not  to  have  harmed  the  young  dominie. 
At  once  finding,  friends,  the  secretary.  Van  Ruyven,  and  his  wife, 
the  daughter  of  Dominie  Megapolensis,  stood  as  sponsors  for  his 
soil  Cornelius,  at  his  baptism,  December  21st.  Having  good  letters 
to  the  church  at  New  Amrterdam,  with  which  he  united  January 
4th,  1660,  Dominie  Zyperus  is  not  again  named  till  the  following 
autumn.  Perhaps  he  was  seeking  **a  call  in  one  place  or  another." 
As  late  as  October  6th,  the  date  of  Stuyvesant's  letter,  it  is  evi- 
dent he  had  not  engaged  at  Harlem,  where  there  was  yet  no 
church  to  receive  him.  But  before  the  letter  bespeaking  a  min- 
ister for  this  place  could  have  reached  Holland,  the  faithful  here 
had  joined  themselves  in  church  fellowship,  and  secured  Zyperus' 
services ;  apparently,  late  in  November.  His  purchase  of  a  house 
and  lot  here,  with  the  usual  bouwland,  etc.,  shows  a  purpose  of 
remaining. 

Unhappily,  but  few  particulars  can  be  given  as  to  the  origin 
of  the  church,  from  the  paucity  of  records  at  this  period.  Pat- 
terned after  the  Reformed  Church  of  Holland,  it  was  to  be  under 
the  care  of  the  Consistory  at  New  Amsterdam,  having  at  the 
first  no  officers  from  its  own  membership,  except  a  single  deacon, 
to  which  place  Jan  La  Montague,  Jr.,  was  now  chosen.  Thus 
its  organization  was  quite  informal  and  incomplete.  Another 
deacon  was  added  after  some  years,  whence  ensued  a  regular 
succession  of  these  officers,  intrusted  with  the  financial  and  elee- 
mosynary work  of  the  church.  Their  resources  were  the  Sunday 
collections,  fines  levied  in  the  town  court  for  the  benefit  of  the 
poor,  rent  from  the  church  lands,  and  burial  fees,  with  the  usual 
legacy  left  by  testators  of  from  ten  to  fifty  guilders.  Thus  were 
met  the  wants  of  needy  members  and  other  worthy  poor,  as  also 
the  dominie's  salary  and  sexton  hire.  And  after  Zyperus  left, 
till  they  secured  a  resident  pastor,  which  was  a  long  period,  the 
deacons  provided  a  horse  and  wagon  to  bring  the.  dominie  and 
return  him  to  his  house  in  the  city.* 

We  know  little  of  Dominie  Zyperus'  services  here.    Obviously 

No  proper  record  of  the  organization  of  this  church  has  been  found;  but  of  the 
date  we  may  be  reasonably  assured.  Montague's  term  as  deacon  (which  agreeably  to 
usage  in  the  Dutch  establishment  must  have  covered  two  years)  expired  November  30, 
1662.  It  began,  then,  in  1660,  the  earliest  date  consistent  with  the  existence  of  a 
church  here,  as  it  was  just  after  the  magistracy  was  instituted;  prior  to  which  there 
could  have  been  no  church  org^anization.     The  same  date  is  given  in  Corwin's  Mantial. 


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he  was  never  installed  as  pastor  over  this  church ;  and  as  a  mere 
licentiate,  he  could  preach  and  teach,  but  not  administer  the 
ordinances.  Still  more  obscure  is  his  previous  history.  His 
name,  in  its  unlatinized  form,  was  probably  the  French  Cipierre, 
an  honored  one  in  Huguenot  story;  his  knowledge  of  both  the 
Dutch  and  English  languages,  and,  as  will  appear,  his  evident 
predilection  for  episcopacy,  seem  to  warrant  the  belief  that  he 
had  resided  in  Holland,  but  had  acquired  his  theology  in  an 
English  divinity  school;  the  latter  opinion  strengthened  by  the 
fact  that  the  records  of  the  Leyden  University,  and  of  that  city 
and  Amsterdam,  are  silent  as  to  his  name.  Nor  is  his  former 
service  in  a  Dutch  colony  any  proof  that  he  went  thither  under 
Holland  licensure,  since  the  Church  of  England  was  quite  ready 
to  both  license  and  ordain  the  Dutch  ministers,  though  Zyperus, 
as  is  plain,  had  not  been  ordained. 

His  disability  to  administer  the  sacraments,  to  admit  to 
church  membership,  or  perform  the  marriage  rite,  constrained 
the  flock  at  Harlem,  for  these  several  objects,  to  resort  to  Stuy- 
vesant's  Bouwery,  where  Rev.  Henry  Selyns,  pastor  of  the  church 
of  Brooklyn,  over  which  he  had  been  installed  September  7th,  1660, 
had,  at  the  governor's  desire,  instituted  a  Sunday  afternoon  and 
evening  service,  in  his  private  chapel,  on  the  site  of  the  present 
St.  Mark's  Church.  Only  five  miles  to  enjoy  these  valued  privil- 
eges, and  Dominie  Selyns  an  able  and  attractive  preacher,  it  natur- 
ally resulted  that  many  of  those  living  at  Harlem  sought  and  were 
received  into  membership  at  the  Bouwery,  during  the  four  years 
that  Selyns  officiated,  and  who  were  wont  to  attend  there,  es- 
pecially to  celebrate  the  Lord's  Supper,  and  present  their  infants 
for  baptism.  Most  of  the  marriages  among  them,  from  that  of 
Sigismund  Lucas,  October  31st,  1660,  were  also  performed  by 
Dominie  Selyns.  The  practice  was  to  first  publish  the  bans  in  the 
church  at  Fort  Amsterdam ;  and  this  being  formally  certified  to 
the  dominie,  he  tied  the  nuptial  knot.  These  Harlem  marriages 
still  stand  upon  the  church  register  at  Brooklyn.  A  few  of  the 
Harlem  members  not  enrolled  by  Dominie  Selyns  at  the  Bouwery 
retained  a  connection  with  the  lower  church  in  the  Fort.  At  one 
or  the  other  place  their  children's  baptisms  were  performed  and 
recorded;  save  in  only  two  cases,  where  the  parties  went  to 
Brooklyn  for  that  purpose. 

No  mention  of  a  church  edifice,  or  any  effort  to  erect  one 
here,  occurs  till  four  years  later,  and  it  but  shows  the  general 
struggle  with  poverty,  in  the  origin  of  the  settlement.  As  in  the 
older  community  at  Brooklyn,  where  they  still  held  public  wor- 


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ship  in  a  barn ;  so  the  infant  church  at  New  Harlem  during  this 
time  had  no  better  sanctuary  tiian  a  private  house,  or  outbuilding ; 
as  happened  once  again,  for  a  like  term  of  years,  at  the  close 
of  the  Revolutionary  War. 


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CHAPTER  XII. 

1661-1662. 

REARRANGEMENT  OF  I.ANDS :   NEW  AI^IvOTMENTS. 

TpOBACCO,  though  still  cultivated,  had  been  supplanted  as  a 
leading  crop  by  others  needed  for  home  consumption, 
mainly  wheat,  maize,  rye,  buckwheat,  peas,  flax,  etc.  But  although 
full  garners  of  corn, — which  term  then  stood  for  all  the  grains, 
—were  rewarding  the  toil  of  these  husbandmen,  as  yet  they  had 
no  mill  to  grind  it.  This  was  now  the  felt  need.  If,  with  their 
grist  in  the  canoe,  they  rowed  some  miles  to  Burger  Joris'  mill 
at  the  Dutch  Kills,  being  the  nearest;  this  at  best  could  only 
grind  three  schepels  per  day,  or  two  and  a  quarter  bushels,  on 
the  word  of  Mark  Disosway,  who  had  lately  run  it  under  a  lease ! 
To  the  distance,  the  dangers  of  Hellgate  added  an  objection. 
It  had  been  contemplated  to  build  a  tide  mill  and  dam  upon  Mon- 
tagne's  Kill,  and  many  thought  the  time  come  to  act  upon  it. 
But  needing  no  demonstration,  while  backed  by  those  convincing 
Dutch  arguments,  capacious  stomachs  and  good  appetites,  yet 
the  effort  spent  itself  in  fluent  talk  and  foaming  beakers;  and 
it  was  not  undertaken  till  done  by  the  energy  and  capital  of  a 
distinguished  stranger. 

But  out  of  the  mill  question  while  yet  rife,  and  the  demand 
for  additional  homes  and  bouweries  to  supply  the  newly-arriv- 
ing colonists,  grew  another  plausible  project.  The  farm  Vreden- 
dal,  stretching  along  the  stream  aforesaid,  and  still  owned  by 
Dr.  Montagne,  had  lain  for  some  years  unused,  except  as  cattle 
and  goats  browsed  in  its  deserted  clearings  and  woodlands.  The 
Montagne  family  now  proposed  to  occupy  it,  as  is  set  forth  in 
the  following  petition  to  the  Director  and  Council,  July  4th,  1661 : 

To  the  Noble,  Great  and  Worshipful,  the  Director-General  and  High 
Council  in  New  Netherland :  Represent  with  due  respect,  John  De  La 
Montagne,  Junior,  Jacob  Kip,  who  married  the  daughter  of  La  Mon- 
tagne, Senior,  and  William  De  La  Montagne,  for  themselves  and  in  behalf 
of  the  absent  heirs,  the  true  proprietors,  pursuant  to  the  letters  patent, 
of  the  land  lying  back  of  New  Harlem,  called  Vredendal,  or  commonly, 
Montagne's  Land,  to  your  Honors  well  known;  how  that  they  the  peti- 


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doners  are  willing  and  inclined  to  take  possession  of  their  land,  which  is 
situated  nearly  a  mile  (een  quartier  vergaens)  from  New  Harlem.  And 
whereas  from  there  it  cannot  be  conveniently  cultivated,  lying  beyond  a 
kill,  whereon  in  time  a  water-mill  for  the  use  of  the  said  village  can, 
and  as  they  are  now  informed,  is  actually  to  be  made;  and  whereas  they 
the  petitioners, — for  whose  greater  convenience  it  will  not  only  serve,  in 
the  cultivation  of  their  lands  there,  but  will  be  for  the  better  protection 
of  the  village  of  New  Harlem,  as  for  the  benefit  of  the  said  mill,  and 
also  afford  a  resting  place  for  strangers,  whether  they  have  lost  their 
way,  or  be  looking  for  their  cattle,  or  others, — are  inclined  to  form 
there  a  concentration  of  six,  eight  or  ten  families,  to  remain  under  the 
jurisdiction  of  New  Harlem,  in  a  similar  manner  as  this  has  been  granted 
by  your  Honors  to  others;  they  therefore  with  all  respect  petition  that 
they  may  be  allowed  to  establish  such  concentration  there,  either  on  the 
point  of  the  flat  land,  opposite  the  place  where  the  mill  is  to  be  built, 
on  the  heights  near  the  spring  (fonteyn)*  or  otherwise  wherever  your 
Honors  may  deem  most  proper,  within  the  jurisdiction  of  New  Harlem; 
which,  if  your  Honors  are  pleased  to  permit,  they  promise  to  settle  there 
before  the  next  winter,  six,  eight  or  ten  families.  Praying  your  Honors' 
favorable  consideration  of  this  request,  we  remain  your  Honors'  servants. 

La    Montagne,   Junior. 
Jacob   Kip, 
WiLLEM    De  La   Montacne. 

To  this  came  the  following  negative:  "The  request  is  dis- 
missed, because  it  is  tending  to  the  great  prejudice  and  retarding 
of  the  village  of  Harlem;  and  is  also  contrary  to  the  privileges 
granted  said  village  some  years  ago."  Though  he  does  not 
expressly  say  it,  we  doubt  not  the  Director,  even  then,  had  his 
own  purpose  in  regard  to  the  Montague  lands ;  to  be  made  mani- 
fest in  due  time,  and  that  not  far  distant. 

The  decision  was  highly  satisfactory  to  the  people  of  Harlem, 
for  several  reasons.  A  rival  settlement  so  near  them,  indeed 
within  their  very  limits,  was  not  to  be  thought  of!  Not  only 
would .  it  tend  to  weaken  them  by  drawing  away  some  whom 
they  could  ill  afford  to  spare,  but  would  naturally  attract  persons 
who  otherwise  would  come  hither  to  settle.  Thus  it  would 
greatly  obstruct  and  hinder  their  present  growth;  and,  looking 
to  the  future,  the  very  lands  proposed  to  be  settled,  would  be 
required  for  the  proper  subsistence  and  development  of  their 
own  village.  For  three  years  this  had  been  steadily  growing, 
and  at  the  close  of  1661  contained  over  thirty  adult  male  resi- 
dents, mostly  heads  of  families  and  freeholders.     The  following 

•  Montagne's  Spring. — Perennially  flowing,  as  in  the  virgin  days  of  the  settle- 
ment, this  spring  is  still  to  be  found  in  Central  Park.  Its  source  is  on  a  hillside,  at  a 
point  (where  the  ways  mentioned  extended  into  the  Park)  on  the  line  of  losth  Street, 
some  200  feet  west  of  Sixth  Avenue.  But  this  natural  basin  is  now  covered  over,  the 
water  being  led  by  a  subterranean  conduit  to  the  foot  of  the  hill,  where,  in  a  secluded, 
romantic  nook  in  the  rocks,  it  again  leaps  forth  as  playfully  as  of  old,  when  it  was 
known  among  the  Dutch  inhabitants  as  the  "fonteyn;  whence,  in  following  its  ancient 
outlet  or  run,  it  is  soon  lost  in  the  modern  Harlem  Lake.  Should  it  not  be  called 
Montagne's  Spring? 


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are  the  names  of  these  pioneers,  who  first  succeeded  in  planting 
the  seeds  of  civilization  and  religion  in  this  vicinity. 


Michel  Zyperus,  French. 

Jan  La  Montagne,  Jr.,  " 

Daniel  Toumeur,  " 

Jean  Le  Roy,  " 

Pierre  Cresson,  " 

Jaques  Cresson,  " 

Philippe  Casier,  " 

David  Uzille,  " 

Jacques  Cousseau,  " 

Philippe  Presto,  " 

Francois  Le  Sueur, 
Simon  De  Ruine, 
David  Du  Four, 
Jean  Gervoe, 
Jan  De  Pre, 
Dirck   Claessen, 


Walloon. 


Hollander. 


Jan  Sneden,  Hollander. 

Michiel  Janse  Muyden,  " 

Lubbert  Gerritsen,  " 

Meyndert  Coerten,  " 

Aert  Pietersen  Buys,  " 

Sigismundus  Lucas,  '* 

Jan  Pietersen  Slot,  Dane. 

Nicolaes  De  Meyer,  " 

Jan  Laurens  Duyts,  " 

Jacob  Elderts  Brouwer,  " 

Nelis  Matthyssen,  Swede. 

Monis  Peterson   Staeck,  " 

Jan  Cogu,  " 

Adolph  Meyer,  German. 

Adam  Dericksen,  " 

Hendrick  Karstens,  " 


La  Montagne,  of  all  these,  had  been  longest  in  the  country, 
namely,  twenty-five  years ;  and  Duyts  was  the  only  one  born  here, 
being  twenty  years  of  age,  and  the  son  of  Laurens  Duyts,  who 
came  out  with  Bronck,  the  good  Kuyter  having  stood  as  god- 
father for  Jan  at  his  baptism.  Karstens,  Gerritsen,  and  Claessen 
had  had  a  dozen  or  more  years'  experience  in  the  New  World, 
Toumeur  and  Le  Roy  nearly  ten,  but  the  others  less.  Casier, 
Uzille,  and  Meyer,  had  come  to  Harlem  only  the  last  year. 
Casier  and  family  arrived  here  from  Mannheim  in  June,  1660, 
having  in  company  Matthew  Blanchan,  and  his  son-in-law,  An- 
toine  Crepel;  these  two  going  to  Esopus,  while  Casier,  at  New 
Amsterdam,  engaged,  "with  his  three  beside,"  in  timber  sawing. 
Here  De  Meyer  and  Cousseau  were  in  trade,  as  had  been  Mon- 
tagne, and  Toumeur  was  a  "sworn  butcher."  Slot  and  Matthys- 
sen were  carpenters,  Muyden  a  soap-boiler,  De  Pre  a. cooper, 
Claessen  a  pot-baker,  Elderts  a  brewersman,  Lucas  a  shoemaker, 
Gervoe  and  Coerten  soldiers,  Karstens,  before  a  seaman,  now 
worked  as  a  mason,  and  Cogu  had  a  lime-kiln,  and  soon  took 
in  Staeck  as  partner.  Most  of  these  also  took  up  land.  Pos- 
sibly one  or  more,  who  appear  a  little  later,  should  be  added. 
Several  had  already  gone,  after  a  short  stay,  as  Matthys  Boon 
and  Simon  Lane,  of  whom  we  know  little  but  their  names.* 

•  Blanchan  and  Crepel  (now  written  CrispcU)  were  originally  from  Artois,  as 
before  stated;  and  the  first  of  some  note  in  his  native  town  of  Nouville  le-Conte. 
With  him  came  his  wife,  Madeleine  Goore,  and  (beside  Maria,  Mrs.  Crepel),  three 
other  children,  viz.,  Madeleine,  aged  12  years;  Elizabeth,  9,  and  Matthew,  5,  the 
last  born  at  Mannheim.  Stuyvesant  welcomed  them  and  gave  Blanchan  a  letter  to 
Sergt.  Ronip,  at  Esopus,  directing  him  to  provide  them  accommodation.  Arrived 
there,  and  Dominie  Blom  having  also  come,  it  was  a  solace  to  the  pious  Blanchan,  for 
all  he  had  suffered,  and  the  loss  of  propertv  in  his  native  place,  and  at  Armentieres 
(Flanders),  and  elsewhere,  to  sit  down  with  his  wife  and  son  and  daughter  Crepel, 
at  the  Lord's  Supper,  on  December  2$,  ensuing.  Louis  Du  Bois,  married  to 
Blanchan's    daughter    Catherine,    probably    came    out    with    his    brother-in-law,    Pierre 


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From  what  has  heretofore  been  said  of  these  colonists,  of 
their  rough  and  checkered  experiences  before  quitting  the  shores 
of  Europe,  we  cannot  but  regard  their  future  with  special  inter- 
est, while  better  facilities  will  be  found  to  study  their  individual 
character.  Little  remains  to  be  said  of  them  in  generalities. 
Though  the  Dutch  and  French  elements  were  dominant  in  giving 
tone  to  the  community,  the  Scandinavians  and  Germans,  few 
in  number  as  seen,  were  second  to  none  for  sterling  common- 
sense,  while  foremost  to  breast  danger  and  hardship,  to  wield 
the  axe  whose  ring  first  startled  the  slumbering  forest,  or  turn 
the  first  furrow  in  the  virgin  soil.  Hardy  sons  of  toil,  bred  to 
habits  of  untiring  industry,  none  were  more  fitted  for  the  task 
of  converting  the  rude  wilds  into  an  abode  for  civilization. 
Frank  and  outspoken,  but  of  honest  aim  and  dealing,  with  es- 
sentially the  same  language,  which  was  closely  allied  to  that  of 
the  Dutch,  toward  whom,  as  •  Protestants,  they  were  drawn  in 
sympathy,  they  readily  assimilated  to  the  latter:  and  if  less  in- 
debted than  these  to  the  schoolmaster,  being  in  great  part  unable 
to  read  or  write,  this  was  in  a  degree  supplied  by  their  native 
good  sense  and  equanimity,  which  contributed  not  a  little  to  har- 
monize the  diverse  elements  composing  the  settlement,  and  to 
mold  them  into  a  well-ordered  society. 

"  Oft  did  the  harvest  to  their  sickle  yield, 

Their  furrow  oft  the  stubborn  glebe  has  broke; 
How  jocund  did  they  drive  their  team  afield, 
How  bow'd  the  woods  beneath  their  sturdy  stroke! 
'*  Let  not  ambition  mock  their  useful  toil, 
Their  homely  joys  and  destiny  obscure; 
Nor  grandeur  hear  with  a  disdainful  smile, 
The  short  and  simple  annals  of  the  poor." 

By  the  large  influx  of  settlers,  who  with  scarcely  an  excep- 
tion gave  their  attention  to   farming,   either  as  proprietors   or 

Billiou,  also  from  Artois,  in  the  ship  St.  Jan  Baptist,  which  arrived  here  August  6, 
1661 — reasons,  Du  Bois  and  wife  were  not  present  at  the  communion  season  referred 
to,  but  with  letters  joined  the  church  there  not  until  October  i,  1661,  having  a  child 
baptized  nine  days  after.  Blanchan.  Du  Bois  and  Crepel  all  got  land  in  Hurley,  near 
Kingston,  and  received  gfroundbriefs  April  2$,  1663.  Du  Bois  died  at  Kingston  in 
1690,  and  his  widow  married  Jean  Cottin,  named  page  71.  On  May  18,  1679,  Blanchan, 
Jr.,  married  Margaret  Van  Schoonhoven,  and  succeeded  to  his  father's  farm  in 
Hurley,  left  beside  four  daughters,  a  son,  Nicholas,  whence  all  of  the  name  in  Ulster 
County  descend.  His  sister,  Madeleine,  born  in  England,  married  Jan  Matthvsz, 
ancestor  of  the  Jansen  family,  as  before  noticed.  His  other  sister,  Elizabeth  Blan- 
chan, married  Pieter  Cornelisz  Low,  of  Kingston,  whose  progeny  have  been  numerous 
and  widespread.  Cornelius  I/3w,  of  New  Jersey,  born  1670,  was  eldest  son  of  Pieter, 
and  father  of  Cornelius,  father  of  Isaac  and  Nicholas  Low,  leading  merchants  of 
New  York  in  their  day.  The  first  was  President  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  but 
when  Independence  was  declared  forsook  the  "Liberty  Bo^s"  and  adhered  to  the 
Royal  cause;  while  his  brother  Nicholas  continued  an  active  patriot,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  Convention  of  New  York  for  adopting  the  Constitution  of  the  United 
States.  See  Steven's  Chamber  of  Commerce.  Honored  names  in  various  sections  of 
our  country  have  been  and  still  are  those  of  Blanchan,  Du  Bois,  Crispell,  Jansen 
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tenants,  the  original  allotments  of  land  had  all  been  taken  up, 
causing  the  demand,  before  noticed,  for  additional  erven  and 
bouwlots.  It  was  a  want  now  equally  felt  by  other  villages,  and 
as  a  first  step  toward  meeting  it  the  government  resolved  to  in- 
form itself  as  to  what  lands  were  available  (tracts  lying  unim- 
proved, and  not  needed  as  pasturage  or  woodland),  that  these 
might  be  distributed  to  settlers  and  brought  under  tillage.  With 
this  in  view  the  Director  and  Council  issued  a  general  order,  of 
which  the  people  of  Harlem  received  a  copy,  as  follows: 

All  Inhabitants  of  New  Netherland,  and  especially  those  of  the  Vil- 
lage of  New  Harlem,  with  all  others  who  have  or  claim  any  Lands 
thereabouts,  are  ordered  and  commanded  that  within  the  space  of  three 
months  from  the  date  hereof,  or  at  least  before  the  first  of  January  next, 
they  shall  have  all  the  cultivated  and  uncultivated  Lands  which  they 
claim,  surveyed  by  the  sworn  Surveyor,  and  set  off  and  designated  by 
proper  marks ;  and  on  the  exhibition  of  the  Return  of  Survey  thereof, 
apply  for  and  obtain  a  regular  Patent  as  proof  of  property,  on  pain  of 
being  deprived  of  their  right;  To  the  end  that  the  Director-General  and 
G>uncil  may  dispose,  as  they  deem  proper,  of  the  remaining  Lands,  which, 
after  the  survey,  may  happen  to  fall  outside  of  the  Patents,  for  the 
accommodation  of  others.  All  are  hereby  warned  against  loss  and  after 
complaints.  Thus  done,  in  Fort  Amsterdam,  in  New  Netherland,  the 
15th  of  September,  1661. 

This  order  moved  the  community  to  give  immediate  attention 
to  the  whole  subject  of  their  lands,  it  being  necessar}^  for  each 
inhabitant  to  consider  and  decide  what  quantity  he  further 
needed  and  could  pay  for.  The  idea  largely  prevailed,  and  very 
naturally,  that  the  ordinance  for  planting  the  village  secured  to 
all  able  to  purchase  and  improve  that  quantity,  as  high  as  24 
morgen  and  bouwland.  The  magistrates  and  freeholders  having 
canvassed  the  matter  and  laid  it  before  Gov.  Stuyvesant,  he  gave 
his  assent  to  the  following  measures,  looking  to  a  further  dis- 
tribution of  land,  and  in  connection  therewith,  to  some  conveni- 
ent changes  in  the  old  lots.  Discarding  the  former  ground- 
briefs.  Van  Keulen's  Hook  and  Montague's  Flat  were  to  be  laid 
off  into  lots  and  distributed  among  the  freeholders.  It  was 
agreed  that  John  La  Montague  should  hold  the  Point,  as  having 
belonged  to  his  father,  and  take  his  full  allotment  there,  by 
throwing  up  his  lot  No.  i,  on  Jochem  Pieters;  and  as  a  special 
immunity  should  enjoy  the  Point  free  from  any  future  demands 
in  the  way  of  town  tax.  He  was  to  conform  to  the  town  regula- 
tion against  building  upon  the  bouwlots,  and  was  not  to  build  or 
live  upon  the  Point  till  the  town  saw  fit  to  allow  it.  Jan  Pieters 
Slot  and  Simon  De  Ruine,  owning  two  lots  apiece  on  Jochem 
Pieters,  also  consented  to  give  up  one  each,  lying  toward  the 


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further  end ;  instead  of  which  Slot  was  to  draw  nine  morgen  to- 
gether on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  and  De  Ruine  to  draw  a  lot,  three 
morgen,  on  said  tract,  and  enough  more  on  Montagne's  Flat  to 
make  good  his  quantity.  Moreover,  both  were  to  retain  their 
two  erven. 

All  this  being  arranged,  the  lots  on  Jochem  Pieters,*  now 
numbering  but  twenty-two,  were  staked  out  anew,  and  to  each  lot 
(before  six  morgen)  was  added  400  Dutch  rods,  or  two-thirds  of  a 
morgen;  a  remnant  of  three  and  one-third,  left  of  No.  i,  being 
taken  to  enlarge  the  gardens.  The  owner  next  adjoining  to  No. 
I,  Daniel  Tourneur,  to  whom  fell  part  of  that  lot  with  part  of 
No.  2,  now  became  No.  i ;  a  similar  change  occurring  to  the  next 
owner,  and  so  on. 

Van  Keulen's  Hook,  the  large  plain  directly  south  of  the 
village,  and  lying  mostly  in  woods,  was  laid  off  into  lots,  narrow 
and  long,  and  these,  for  convenience  of  ingress  and  ultimate 
improvement,  were,  excepting  the  first  three,  butted  on  the 
main  street,  from  which  they  ran  south  to  the  river  and  Mill 
Creek;  being  each  twielve  Dutch  rods  in  breadth,  and  contain- 
ing three  morgen,  or  about  six  acres.  Twenty-two  lots  were  laid 
out,  as  on  Jochem  Pieters,  and  numbered  from  the  river  west- 
ward. Nos.  I  to  3,  instead  of  reaching  up,  as  did  the  others,  to 
the  village  street,  ended  at  the  marsh  or  meadows,  some  acres  in 
extent,  which  lay  intervening,  and  through  which  a  creek,  forked 
and  winding,  overflowed  its  banks  or  lapsed  to  its  muddy 
channel  with  the  tidal  flood  and  ebb.  The  upland  between 
streets  and  meadows  was  reserved  for  the  common  use  of  the 
village,  and  to  allow  free  access  to  the  creek-side  and  small  cove 
at  its  outlet,  which  was  the  usual  landing-place  for  the  villagers 
and  others,  as  it  afforded  a  safe  mooring  for  canoes  and  skiffs. 

The  Van  Keulen  Hook  lots  were  drawn  in  the  beginning  of 
1662,  the  original  owners  being  as  follows : 

No.     I.  David  Du  Four. 

2.  Jan  Cogu. 

3.  Lubbert  Gerritsen. 

4.  Michel  Zyperus. 

5.  Daniel  Tourneur. 

6.  Sigismund  Lucas. 

7.  Jan  Pietersen  Slot. 

8.  " 
9. 

10.  Philippe  Casier. 

11.  Jean  Gervoe. 

Jochem  Pieter's  Flat,  with  the  history  of  the  several  lots,  showing  the  origin 
of  the  titles  in  this  section,  is  treated  of  in  Appendix  E. 

t  See  the  subsequent  history  of  the  Van  Keulen  Hook  lots  in  Appendix  F. 


<0.    12. 

Simon  De  Ruine. 

*'        13. 

Adam  Dericksen. 

"        14. 

Jaques  Cresson. 

"      15- 

Nicolaes  De  Meyer. 

"      16. 

David  Uzille. 

"      17. 

Dirck  Claessen. 

"      18. 

Jan  Sneden. 

"      19. 

Jan  De  Pre. 

"     20. 

Pierre  Cresson. 

"     21. 

Jacques  Cousseau. 

"    22. 

Jean  Le  Roy.t 

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An  episode  of  these  land  operations  here  claims  a  notice, — 
the  first  "Harlem  Land  Case,"  not  reported,  we  believe,  either 
in  Wheaton  or  Wendell!     Sigismundus  Lucas,  as  his  autograph 
is,  working  long  and  lustily  on  his  cobbler's  bench,  had  gotten 
him    **a   house,    barn   and    plantation    at    New    Harlem."     But 
early  in  January,   1662,  he  agreed  to  sell  out  to  Nicholas  De 
Meyer,  then  a  Harlem  freeholder,  for  400  gl.  in  sewant.     Going 
home  from  New  Amsterdam,  where  the  bargain  had  been  made. 
Cobbler  Lucas  considered  the  many  stitches  that  property  had 
cost  him,  sorely  repented  his  act,  and  tried  to  back  out,  on  the 
gromid  that  De  Meyer  had  given  him  till  morning  to  decide  if 
he  would  sell.     De  Meyer  began  to  smell  leather,  and  forthwith 
took  written  statements  from  two  witnesses  to  the  bargain,  and 
also  that  of  Evert  Duyckinck,  whom  Lucas  had  told  of  hav- 
ing sold  his  farm  to  De  Meyer,  but  did  not  think  "the  costs 
would    run   so   high."     Coming   in    court   at    Harlem,    January 
13th,  De  Meyer  claimed  the  property,  showing  his  papers,  and 
offering  also  the  testimony  of  Meyndert  Coerten,  who  had  heard 
defendant  admit  the  sale.     Lucas,  who  was  present,  demurred, 
pleading  that  the  sale  was  not  peremptory;  that  Coerten,  having 
hired  land  of  De  Meyer,  was  an  interested  witness,  and  that  the 
affidavits  were  not  sworn  to.     The  last  objection  was  sustained, 
and  the  case  was  adjourned,  to  give  plaintiff  time  to  remedy  this 
defect.     This  was  done  the  next  day  before  the  Heer  Tonne- 
man,  schout  of  New  Amsterdam.     On  the  l6th  the  town  court 
again  examined  the  papers  and  heard  the  pleas  of  both  parties; 
then  ordered  Lucas  to  give  up  the  farm  on  receiving  the  price, 
and  to  pay  the  costs  of  suit.     But  in  vain  did  De  Meyer  send 
once,  twice,  thrice,  to  tender  the  money  and  demand  the  de- 
liver}^  of   the   premises;   the   resolute   cobbler,    maintaining   his 
ends,  only  waxed  firmer  in  his  refusal,  so  that  on  a  further  com- 
plaint, February  2d,  the  court  authorized  De  Meyer  to  take  pos- 
session.    Now  Lucas,  still  showing  his  bristles,  appealed  to  the 
Director  and  Council,  praying  "to  be  relieved  of  the  sale  to  De 
Meyer,  and  the  sentence  of  the  court  at  Harlem,  in  whose  juris- 
diction said  houses  and  lands  are  situated,  as  he  loses  by  that 
sale  more  than  half  of  their  value."     He  was  directed  to  give 
De  Meyer  a  copy  of  the  petition,  and  notify  him  when  to  appear 
and  answer.     On   February   i6th  both  parties  presented  them- 
selves, when  the  Director  and  Council,  after  reviewing  the  case, 
confirmed  the  action  of  the  local  court,  and  held  Lucas  to  his 
bargain.     The  poor  shoemaker  had  held  on  to  the  last,  but  must 


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now  yield  up  his  all  (indeed  his  awl  was  now  everything  to 
him!),  and  in  disgust  he  soon  left  the  town.* 

It  may  be  added  that,  two  years  later,  or  January  29th,  1664, 
De  Meyer  obtained  a  patent  from  Gov.  Stuyvesant  for  his  sev- 
eral lands  in  Harlem,  then  including  twelve  morgen  upon  Mon- 
tagne's  Flat;  which  tract,  as  proposed,  had  been  divided  up 
among  the  people  of  Harlem,  and  to  the  particular  historj'  of 
which  we  now  return. 

John  La  Montague,  after  the  project  to  form  a  new  settle- 
ment on  the  farm  Vredendal  had  failed,  continued  at  Harlem, 
one  of  the  most  useful  and  honored  of  its  inhabitants.  The 
Director  and  Council,  November  3d,  1661,  appointed  him 
schepen,  with  Slot  and  Tourneur  as  associates;  and  when  Slot 
retired  a  year  later,  he  succeeded  as  schout,  which  office  he  re- 
tained till  the  Dutch  rule  ended.  He  was  the  first  Town  Clerk, 
so  far  as  appears  from  the  earliest  protocol  or  register,  but 
which  commences  only  with  January  13,  1662,  leaving  the  pre- 
ceding sixteen  months  a  blank;  an  unfortunate  vacuum  at  the 
introduction  of  the  town  history,  though  partially  filled  by  other 
records.  But  from  this  date  Montague's  minutes  (save  another 
hiatus  of  fifteen  months)  are  quite  complete  for  ten  years,  up  to 
his  death. 

However  thwarted  were  the  Montagues  in  their  plans  respect- 
ing Vredendal,  they  yielded  gracefully  to  the  alternative  which 
secured  to  John  La  Montague,  the  doctor's  eldest  son,  that  part 
of  the  property  called  the  Point,  of  which  his  father  was  the 
original  grantee,  but  surrendered  the  Flat  to  the  government, 
to  be  parceled  out  to  such  of  the  people  of  Harlem  as  still 
wanted  more  land,  and  upon  terms  which,  though  not  stated, 
probably  did  not  differ  from  those  of  the  previous  allotments, 

*  SiRismund  Lucas,  on  quitting  Harlem,  bought  him  a  house  in  Pearl  Street.  He 
was  sued  in  the  Court  of  Burgomasters,  January  15,  1664,  for  a  pair  of  shoes  left  to 
be  mended  "during  the  Indian  troubles"  of  the  previous  year.  They  were  "stuffed 
into  the  straw  bed,"  for  safe  keeping,  as  he  had  "neither  kit  nor  chest  in  which  to 
lock  them."  The  case  was  dismissed  upon  Simon  making  oath  "that  he  knew  not 
what  became  of  them."  He  now  threw  aside  his  cobbler  tools  to  become  a  carman, 
and  on  the  Dutch  rcoccupation,  1673,  good  loyal  Dutchman,  he  worked  gratis  at  the 
city  defenses,  only  taking  pay  for  horse  and  cart.'  But  the  English  succeeding,  the 
sheriff  wished  Simon  to  cart  down  a  cable,"  by  order  of  Governor  Andros;  but  now 
in  other  mood  re  refused,  saying  "he  would  not  cart  for  the  Governor,  nor  nobody 
else."  Hereupon  the  Mayor's  Court,  December  22,  1674,  "Ordered  that  he  shall  cart 
noe  more  until  ve  Court  think  meete  to  admit  him  thereto."  He  and  wife  made  a 
joint  will  "Sunoay  evening  about  eight  o'clock,"  September  17,  ^673,  which  he  sur- 
vived four  years  at  least,  but  both  were  dead  when  the  will  was  proved  in  court, 
April  26,  1681.  The  Court,  October  11  ensuing,  authorized  his  effects  to  be  "sold 
at  an  outcry  for  payment  of  debts.  He  left  by  his  first  wife,  Engeltie  Jans,  a 
daughter,  Maria,  who  married  Andre  Lauran,  of  the  French  Church,  and  by  his 
second  wife,  Gertrude  Bulderen,  a  son,  who  wrote  his  name  Johannes  Simensz,  also 
a  cordwainer,  later  a  carman,  in  New  York,  and  admitted  a  freeman  July  19,  1726. 
He  married,  1692,  Phebe,  daughter  of  Capt.  Titus  Syrachs  dc  Vries,  of  Flatbush. 
Her  brothers  bore  the  name  of  Titus  (see  Annals  of  Newtown),  one  of  whom,  Syrach 
Titus  removed  to  Bensalem,  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  died  1761,  and  left  descendants 
there.     Hazard's  Reg.,  7:  30. 


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but  without  doubt  looking  to  a  liquidation  of  the  large  debt  due 
from  Dr.  Montagne  to  the  company.  While  John  La  Montague 
was  to  remain  the  possessor  of  the  Point,  which  was  rated  at  six- 
teen morgen,  it  was  open  to  his  brother  William  (we  think  then 
engaged  to  succeed  Zyperus  as  schoolmaster,  and  hence  usually 
styled  by  his  brother  "Meester  Willem"),  if  he  should  become  a 
freeholder,  in  same  manner  as  others,  by  the  purchase  of  the 
usual  allotment,  to  draw  with  them  his  proportionate  share  of 
the  Flat,  enough  to  give  him  likewise  sixteen  morgen.  It  was 
clearly  a  compromise  regarding  Vredendal,  arranged,  as  it  could 
only  be,  with  the  sanction  and  by  order  of  the  Director  and  Coun- 
cil ;  and  the  correspondence  which  at  this  time  these  were  having 
with  Dr.  Montagne  respecting  his  long-standing  indebtedness  to 
the  company,  and  for  which  they  strongly  censured  him,  shows 
that  their  action  as  aforesaid  was  a  stem  necessity.* 

The  question  of  the  disposal  of  the  Flat  was  intimately  con- 
nected with  another  of  vital  interest  to  the  community.  The 
three  years  allowed  them  in  which  to  pay  for  their  lands  had 
nearly  expired,  and  with  not  a  few  it  became  a  difficult  prob- 
lem how  they  should  provide  the  8  gl.  per  morgen  which 
the  government  must  have.  In  this  dilemma  the  schepens  repre- 
sented to  the  Director  and  Council,  March  9th,  1662,  what 
embarrassment  several  of  the  inhabitants  must  experience  if 
compelled  at  once  to  pay  the  purchase  money  for  their  lands, 
eight  guilders  per  morgen,  and  praying  to  be  relieved  of  this 
payment;  in  lieu  of  which  they  proposed  that  the  term  of  fifteen 
years'  exemption  from  tithes  should  be  shortened  to  ten  years. 

To  this  the  Director  and  Council  would  not  assent,  but  in 
their  answer  "insist  upon  the  conditions  on  which  the  village 
of  Harlem  has  been  laid  out."  But  they  added:  "No  person  is 
obliged  to  accept  more  land  than  it  is  convenient  for  him  to  pav 
for/' 

It  was  plainly  owing  to  the  difficulty  of  raising  this  morgen- 
money,  or  morgen-gelt,  as  called  (a  term  also  denoting  any  tax 
assessed  according  to  the  morgen),  that  a  number  of  persons  quit 
the  town  during  this  year,  to  try  their  fortunes  elsewhere;  as 
well  landholders  as  others  designing  to  become  such.  Of  these 
were  Coerten,  De  Pre,  Du  Four,  Gervoe  and  Le  Sueur.t     Du 

*  See  a  letter  from  Montagne  upon  this  subject,  with  touching  allusion  to  his 
needj  circumstances  and  frugality  of  living.  Appendix  D. 

t  Meyndcrt  Coerten,  from  Arnhem,  came  out  as  a  soldier  of  the  West  Indian  Com- 
pany. He  married  in  1660  a  ^rl  of  Picard  parentage,  Maria,  daughter  of  Pierre, 
Pia,  and  visited  Holland,  returning  the  next  year  in  the  ship  with  Muyden,  who  prob- 
ably drew  him  to  Harlem.  Here  he  leased  land  of  De  Meyer,  and  kept  stock.  In  his 
brief  residence  he  won  respect,  and  the  court  honored  his  abilities  in  naming  him  with 


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Four  sold  out  his  allotment  to  Jacob  Eldertsen,  a  sturdy  Dane 
from  Lubeck,  and  late  a  brewersman,  who  resold  it,  June  ist, 
1662,  to  Jean  Le  Roy,  for  350  gl.  But  these  few  withdrawals 
only  making  place  for  others,  it  was  soon  apparent  that  all  the 
land  now  to  be  distributed  would  be  eagerly  taken.  The  follow- 
ing list  was  made  out  by  Montagne,  at  a  meeting  of  the  resident 
proprietors,  called  to  ascertain  how  much  land  they  wanted : 


List  of  Lands  at  N.  Harlem,  according  to 

each  one's 

request,   14th 

March,  1662. 

Jan  Pietersen  Slot, 

24  morgen. 

Daniel  Tourneur, 

24 

a 

Michel  Zyperus, 

18 

it 

Lubbert  Gerritsen, 

24 

" 

Adam  Dericksen, 

6 

" 

David  Du  Four, 

10 

a 

Simon  De  Ruine, 

12 

" 

Jan   Cogu   and       ^ 

^^ 

Monis    Peterson,    J 

10 

Jean  Gervbe, 

10 

it 

Hendrick  Karstens, 

6 

ti 

Widow  of  Jan  Sneden, 

4 

tt 

Philip  easier. 

24 

u 

Jan  De  Pre,  absent. 

Jaques  Cresson, 

12 

a 

Simon  Lucas, 

10 

'* 

Peter  Cresson, 

8 

** 

These  bids  were  made  with  obvious  reference  to  the  offers  in 
the  ordinance  of  1658,  as  the  quantities  indicate.  But  to  meet 
these  demands,  as  was  apparent,  must  exhaust  the  allotments 
proposed  to  be  made  on  Montague's  Flat,  to  the  exclusion  of 
some  of  the  ablest  proprietors,  living  in  the  city  and  not  now 
present,  as  De  Meyer,  Cousseau,  Claessen,  and  Muyden.  In  such 
case  the  government  could  only  use  its  discretion  in  revising  the 
list.  It  decided  that  sixteen  morgen  must  at  present  be  the 
maximum  of  a  single  allotment.  Slot  was  therefore  dropped ; 
others  raised  to  said  number  of  morgen,  except  asking  for  less. 
But  of  course  we  cannot  know  all  the  reasons  which  weighed  in 
making  up  the  list. 

Upon  such  circumstances  was  the  Flat  now  laid  out  into 
parcels  of  from  four  to  six  morgen  each,  by  an  actual  survey; 
running  in  narrow  strips  from  the  little  creek  due  west  to  the 

Dominie  Zyperus,  February  16,  1662,  to  settle  a  financial  dispute  between  Cogu  and 
Tourneur.  Coertcn  soon  went  to  Flushing,  and  thence  to  New  Utrecht,  where  he 
arose  to  position  ans  served  as  an  elder.  He  was  high  sheriff  under  Leisler,  and 
one  of  his  council;  but  his  devotion  to  that  party  cost  him  a  long  imprisonment.  In 
1698  he  represented  Kings  County  in  the  General  Assembly.  He  died  on  his  farm, 
Bruynsburg,  about  1706,  in  a  good  old  age.  For  his  children,  sec  the  Bergen  Gen., 
ist  edition;  not  in  2d  edition,  as  later  evidence  changed  the  opinion  that  he  was  of 
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hills,  originally  some  twelve  lots,  and  numbered  from  south  to 
north.  As  near  as  can  be  told,  the  first  owners  were  Nicholas 
De  Meyer,  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  William  De  La  Montagne,  Simon 
De  Ruine,  Derick  Claessen,  Do.  Zyperus,  Jean  Le  Roy,  Jacques 
Cousseau,  and  Daniel  Toumeur.  De  Meyer,  as  owning  two 
allotments,  obtained  two  lots  on  the  Flat;  and  so  of  Cousseau. 
Montagne  had  lot  No.  4,  being  six  and  a  half  morgen,  he  having 
met  the  required  conditions  by  purchasing,  April  7th,  1662,  from 
Jan  De  Pre,*  who  had  advertised  to  sell  the  same  at  auction,  his 
"house,  house-lot  (erf),  garden,  and  land,'* — the  land  being  No. 
7  Jochem  Pieters.  Lot  19,  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  also  made  part 
of  this  allotment.  But  after  a  temporary  residence,  Montagne 
sold  out  to  his  brother,  John,  and  returned  to  Albany,  whence  he 
removed  to  Esopus,  married,  and  was  long  the  parish  clerk.  Had 
we  no  other  evidence  of  this  alienation  of  Montague's  Flat,  the 
bare  fact  that  while  Dr.  Montagne  and  his  sons  were  yet  living 
these  lands  are  found  divided  up,  and  in  the  possession  of  several 
other  of  the  Harlem  people,  nearly  all  holding  under  special 
patents  from  the  Governors  Stuyvesant,  Nicolls  and  Lovelace, 
is  evidence  prima  facie  that  the  title  had  passed  from  the  original 
owners;  a  conclusion  which  none  may  now  gainsay,  without 
ignoring  the  official  acts  of  the  government  in  the  issuing  of  these 
patents.t 

The  spirit  of  land  speculation,  infecting  few  places  as  it  has 
Harlem,  is  in  no  wise  peculiar  to  our  century.  In  the  days  under 
review,  and  mainly  for  the  cause  we  have  stated,  many  transfers 
of  land  took  place,  the  buyers  the  more  thrifty  class,  with  usually 
a  keen  eye  to  a  bargain.  Very  informal  was  the  legal  act  of 
transfer.  The  earliest  deeds,  most  simple  and  brief,  seem  es- 
pecially defective  in  describing  the  property.  But  this  informa- 
tion was  supplied  by  the  original  surveys  and  allotment  lists  on 
file  with  the  town  clerk,  while  no  complex  chain  of  title  embar- 
rassed the  question  either  of  location  or  propriety.      That  of 

*  Jan  de  Prc^  bom  at  Commines  in  1635 — a  Fleming,  but  of  Walloon  or  French 
descent,  judging  irom  his  surname — was  a  cooper,  and  before  coming  to  Harlem  lived 
tereral  years  as  a  "small  burgher"  in  New  Amsterdam,  where  he  married,  in  1655, 
a  Scotch  lassie,  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Cromartie.  His  present  wife  was 
Jannetie,  daughter  of  Simon  de  Ruine,  married  in  1659.  De  Pre  finally  went  to  New 
Utrecht,  and  thence  to  Staten  Island.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  Andries,  born  1656 
(but  one  child,  called  a  daughter,  is  referred  to  in  his  marriage  settlement  of  Decem- 
ber 31,  1659),  and  by  his  second  wife,  Jannetie,  born  1662,  Francina,  1665,  Maria. 
1667,  John,  1671,  Simon,  1676.  Jannetie  married  Cornelius  Banta,  of  Hackensack, 
where  her  uncles,  the  Dcmarests,  resided.  She  died  and  Banta  married  her  cousin, 
Magdalena  Demarest.  Banta  was  a  son  of  Epke  Jacobs  Banta,  farmer  from  Har- 
lingen,  common  ancester  of  the  prolific  family  bearing  that  name,  and  who,  with  his 
wife  and  five  children,  emigrated  in  the  ship  with  Simon  de  Ruine.  How  often  the 
acquaintance  thus  formed  proved  a  link  uniting  the  fortunes  of  the  children! 

t  See  further  remarks  upon  Montagne's  Flat  under  the  year  1673,  and  in  Appen- 
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192  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

boundary  came  up  occasionally.  Payment  was  made,  not  by  bank 
check,  but  either  in  sewant,  in  beaver  skins,  in  cattle,  grain,  or 
tobacco;  and  property  Was  often  sold  subject,  because  not  prev- 
iously paid,  to  the  morgen-gelt  (before  explained),  the  meet-gelt, 
or  survey  money,  the  cost  of  g^oundbrief,  and,  in  sales  by  vendue, 
the  stuyver-gelt,  or  auctioneer's  fees.  A  curious  sample  is  the 
deed  to  Montague,  before  mentioned,  the  earliest  save  one  to  be 
found  of  date  subsequent  to  the  planting  of  the  village.  It  was 
drawn  up  by  Do.  Zyperus,  as  the  clerk  was  an  interested  party, 
being  brother  of  the  grantee,  and  otherwise  involved  in  the  trans- 
action of  which  this  purchase  was  a  part.  The  morgen  money 
being  unpaid,  the  consideration  named  was  only  for  the  improve- 
ments and  improved  value  of  the  land.  As  the  scribe  forgets  to 
tell  us  where  the  contract  was  signed  and  sealed,  and  where  on 
this  mundane  sphere  the  land  was  situated,  we  judge  he  was 
not  an  experienced  clerk.  In  the  Dominie's  neat  Dutch  penman- 
ship it  still  stands  in  the  protocol. 

On  this  date,  the  7th  of  April  A°.  1662,  have  agreed  and  bargained, 
Jan  De  Pre,  on  the  one  side,  and  Wilhelm  Montagnie  on  the  other,  in 
relation  to,  and  over  the  sale  of  his  allotment  bought  of  Simon  Lane,* 
on  the  following  conditions.  Jan  De  Pre  acknowledges!  to  have  sold  his 
house  and  house  lot,  land  and  garden,  all  that  is  fast  by  earth  and  nail, 
to  Wilhelm  Montagnie,  for  one  Cow  and  Fifteen  Guilders  in  sewant,  the 
which  he  acknowledges  to  have  received.  The  purchaser  shall  be  held 
to  pay  the  morgen  money  and  the  survey  money.  This  all  so  done,  and 
have  with  our  hands  subscribed.  Dated  as  above. 
Witness,  Jan  De   Pre. 

M.  Zyperus.  Willem  De  La  Montagne. 

A^  1662. 

In  executing  a  deed,  a  bill  of  sale,  lease,  or  other  contract,  cus- 
tom required  the  parties  to  appear  with  two  witnesses  before  the 
town  secretary,  who,  after  hearing  their  statement,  wrote  out 
the  instrument  in  his  register,  receiving  for  such  service  a  fee  of 
thirty  stivers.  When  signed  by  all  the  parties,  this  remained 
as  the  original ;  but  if  desired,  an  attested  copy  was  furnished  by 
the  secretary  for  an  additional  fee  of  twenty  stivers.  Wills,  in 
the  making  of  which  the  wife  commonly  joined  with  her  hus- 
band (thus  it  was  mutually  fair  and  mutually  binding)  were 
executed  in  a  similar  way.  A  will  in  the  usual  form  gave  to 
"the  longest  liver''  the  use  of  the  property  for  life  or  till  a  re- 

•  As  first  written  it  read  "his  lot  No.  7,"  but  Zyperus  erased  "No.  7,"  and 
inserted  instead  "j^ecocht  van  Symen  Leen,"  i.  e.,  bought  of  Simon  Lane.  It  was  to 
save  misapprehension,  as  Lane  had  held  and  was  registered  for  No.  8,  though  chang- 
ing with  the  rest  when  Tan  Montagne  vacated  No.  i,  he  now  held  No.  7;  and  further 
the  allotment  carried  with  it  No.  19,  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  just  drawn  by  De  Pre.  Hence 
"No.  7"  fell  short  of  the  proper  description;  yet  without  this  number  we  could 
hardly  identify  the  lot  conveyed. 


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marriage,  after  which  it  went  equally  to  the  children  or  other 
heirs.  Sometimes  in  default  of  heirs  it  fell  to  the  deacons  for 
the  benefit  of  the  church  or  poor. 

The  grant  of  the  commons  west  of  the  village  for  grazing 
purposes,  of  which  we  soon  find  the  inhabitants  in  the  peaceable 
enjoyment,  must  have  dated  from  the  very  origin  of  the  settle- 
ment; for  while  such  grant  unfortunately  does  not  remain  of 
record,  it  logically  follows  from  the  necessities  of  the  case,  the 
keeping  and  increase  of  cattle  promising  the  facilities  for  doing 
it,  and  to  which  the  settlers  were  directly  encouraged  in  the 
ordinance  of  1658,  by  the  promise  of  "a  cattle  and  horse  fair.*' 
The  extent  of  the  first  grant  for  the  range  of  their  cattle  was 
probably  left  indefinite,  to  be  determined  by  the  future  needs  of 
the  place,  but  it  seems  at  least  to  have  embraced  the  entire  flats 
to  the  westward.  The  kine  of  the  village,  now  much  increased, 
were  liable,  if  not  carefully  looked  after,  and  with  no  fences  to 
hinder  them,  to  stray  off  and  become  lost  in  the  woods  and 
swamps.  So,  to  save  the  time  of  many,  it  was  resolved  to  em- 
ploy a  common  herder,  who  should  collect  the  cows  after  milk- 
ing in  the  morning,  drive  them  with  the  oxen  out  to  pasture,  and 
watch  over  them  till  brought  in  again  toward  evening.  Hence 
was  made  the  following : 

Agreement  with  the  Cow  Herder. 
I,  David  Du  Four  do  acknowledge  to  have  taken  the  cows  to  herd, 
belonging  to  the  Town  of  New  Harlem,  at  my  own  expense,  and  also 
from  each  house  one  pair  of  oxen ;  for  the  sum  of  three  hundred  guilders 
in  sewant,  and  one-half  pound  of  butter  for  every  cow ;  provided  I  pay 
for  the  cattle  that  may  be  lost  through  my  neglect.  The  time  shall  com- 
mence on  the  23d  of  April,  and  end  a  fortnight  after  All-Saints'  Day,  at 
the  option  of  the  Inhabitants.  It  is  also  stipulated  that  the  butter  shall 
be  paid  in  May,  and  the  further  payment  as  the  Herder  shall  perform 
his  work.  Also  the  Herder  grants  power  of  parate  exccutic.  The  above 
obligation  we  on  both  sides  engage  to  hold  to  and  fulfil.  In  N.  Haerlem, 
20th  April,  Anno  1662. 

Davit  Du  Four,  . 

I  P  [mark  of  Jan  P.  Slot], 

D.   TOURNEUR, 

Daniel  Toumeur  and  Lubbert  Ger-  M.  J.  Muvden, 

ritsen    promise    to    collect    and  J.  La  Montagne,  Junior, 

pay  the  Herder  money  at  the  ap-  *  mark  of  Lubbert  Gerrits, 

pointed    time.     Dated  as  above.  Meyndert  Coerten, 

D.  TouRNEUR.  Philippe  Casier, 

*  H  H.  Karstens, 

Simon  -|-  De  Ruine, 

^  E  mark  of  Jacx}b  Elderts, 
MoY  Pier  CimssoN. 

Du  Four,  the  Amsterdam  drayman,  better  at  driving  a  team 
than  stupid  cows,  was  soon  disgusted  with  his  new  occupation. 


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194  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

and  turned  it  over  to  Jean  Gervoe,  the  soldier.  But  now  the 
cattle  were  not  well  looked  after,  as  was  alleged;  in  fact,  some 
of  the  oxen,  when  needed  for  the  yoke,  were  missing.  As  things 
went,  it  was  necessary  to  engage  another  herder,  and  on  April 
29th  Jan  Cogu  and  Monis  Peterson,  who  were  partners  in  a 
lime-kiln,  etc.,  undertook  the  herding  for  350  gl.,  being  50  gl. 
more  than  Du  Four  was  to  have.  The  collectors,  Tourneur  and 
Gerritsen,  sued  Du  Four  to  recover  the  difference,  and  the  town 
court  decided  he  must  pay  it,  the  defendant  only  making  the 
flimsy  plea  that  he  "was  led  by  artful  talk*'  to  undertake  the 
herding.* 

Meanwhile  occurred  the  first  case  of  mortality  brought  to 
our  notice  in  the  little  community,  and  soon  another.  The  per- 
sons were  Jan  Sneden  and  his  wife,  who  died  in  quick  suc- 
cession early  in  the  year.  Descended  of  an  Amsterdam  family, 
as  before  stated,  Sneden  came  to  Harlem  in  1660,  where  he  oc- 
cupied Monis  Peterson's  house  and  bouwery,  but  soon  secured 
an  allotment  of  his  own,  being  No.  14  Jochem  Pieters,  with  the 
erf  and  garden  belonging  to  it.  The  Snedens  were  probably  in- 
terred in  the  ground  used  later  for  the  negroes,  and  lying  at  the 
rear  of  the  Judah  plot,  as  interments  were  made  there  many 
years  before  "the  old  graveyard,''  removed  a  do^en  years  since, 
was  taken  for  that  use.  The  magistrates  proceeded  to  settle 
Sneden's  estate,  as  he  was  indebted  to  Isaac  De  Forest  and 
others.  His  property  was  sold  at  vendue  on  three  separate 
days,  beginning  March  25th.  First  the  house  and  lands,  with 
the  grain  on  the  latter  sown  by  Sneden  the  previous  fall,  were, 
pursuant  to  notice,  set  up,  and  struck  off  at  135  gl.  to  Jaques 
Cousseau,  who  bid  25  gl.  over  his  highest  competitor,  Tourneur. 
Jan  La  Montagne  bid  100  gl.,  perhaps  for  his  brother,  who  had 
not  then  purchased.  At  the  two  subsequent  sales  the  household 
articles  were  disposed  of,  bringing  189  gl.  But  a  mere  pittance, 
42  gl.,  was  left  to  the  orphans,  Carsten  and  Grietie,  over  whom, 
on  April  28th,  Philip  Casier  and  Lubbert  Gerritsen  were  ap- 
pointed guardians,  with  directions  "to  act  according  to  law." 
Grietie  soon  chose  another  protector,  being  married,  August  13th 

*  Jena  Gervoe,  who  apparently  came  out  under  an  engagement  as  a  soldier,  had 
done  such  duty  for  several  years  at  Harlem,  but  was  free  when  not  required  to  bear 
his  musket,  to  till  the  land  which  he  had  taken  up,  or  engage  in  other  honest  labor. 
But  on  leaving,  in  1662^  he  sold  his  allotment,  being,  Nos.  13,  Jochem  Pieters,  and  11, 
Van  Keulen's  Hook,  with  house  and  lot  and  meadows,  to  Philip  Casier.  He  served 
as  adelborst,  cadet  or  corporal,  under  Lieut.  Stilwell,  in  the  Esopus  war,  for  which,  on 
his  petition,  January  10,  1664,  he  was  allowed  extra  pajr.  He  married  in  1659,  but 
his  only  child  mentioned  was  Hillegond,  at  whose  baptism,  March  5,  1664,  Jaques 
Tuynier  (Cresson)  stood  as  godfather.  When  the  English  took  the  country,  Gervoe 
probably  left  with  the  Dutch  forces. 


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following,  to  Jean  Guenon,  of  Flushing,  from  which  union  have 
sprung  the  now  widely  scattered  Genung  family.* 

On  November  16  new  magistrates  were  appointed  by  the 
Director  and  Council,  from  a  double  number  nominated  by  the 
old  board.  The  new  board  consisted  of  Jan  La  Montague, 
Philip  Casier  and  Derick  Claessen.  One  of  their  first  acts  was 
to  provide  for  the  more  careful  placing  of  houses  and  fences; 
which  some  seem  to  have  disregarded,  to  the  damage  of  particu- 
lar and  general  interests.  It  was  to  check  this  abuse,  and  also  to 
prevent  any  houses  being  put  up  outside  the  proper  limits,  that 
the  magistrates,  November  25th,  passed  the  following: 

"The  Hon.  Heere  Schepens  find  it  good  to  appoint  and 
authorize  Jan  P.  Slot,  former  schepen,  as  Rooy-meester  (sur- 
veyor of  buildings),  for  the  improvement  and  sightliness  of  the 
village;  and  the  builders  shall  every  one  be  charged,  after  this 
time,  to  set  no  fences  nor  houses  in  the  absence  of  the  Hon.  Heer 
Rooy-meester.*' 

Upon  November  30th,  Montague's  term  as  deacon  having  ex- 
pired, Daniel  Toumeur  was  chosen  in  his  place,  and  also  as 
brandt-meester,  or  fire-warden.  Simon  De  Ruine  and  Monis 
Peterson  were  appointed  keur-meesters  van  de  heyningen,  or  in- 
spectors of  fences,  in  place  of  Hendrick  Karstens  and  Adam 
Dericksen;  and  a  fine  of  three  guilders  was  ordered  against  the 
owners  every  time  their  fences  should  be  found  defective.  The 
court  also  directed  "the  fences  at  the  north  side  of  the  village 
to  be  set  within  fourteen  days,  under  a  penalty  of  two  pounds 
Flemish"  for  each  failure, — equivalent  to  12  gl.  A  placard  to 
that  effect  was  posted  up.  This  was  called  for  by  the  great 
damage  done  the  past  summer  to  the  crops  of  peas  and  buck- 
wheat upon  the  land  of  Jochem  Pieters,  from  the  cattle 
getting  in;  and  which  the  schout.  Slot,  had  taken  no  means  to 
remedy,  though  the  fence-masters  and  others  had  gone  to  him 
with  loud  complaints.  The  new  officers  going  to  view  the 
fences,  December  i8th,  found  that  Michiel  Muyden,  Hendrick  J. 
Vander  Vin,  Daniel  Tourneur  and  Jean  Le  Roy  had  not  complied 

*  Carsten  Janscn  Snedcn,  still  at  Harlem,  entered  Daniel  Tourneur's  service 
January  15,  1668,  for  a  year,  and  at  its  expiration  was  to  have  300  guilders  and  "a 
pair  01  shoes  and  stockinp^s."  His  uncle.  Claes  Sneden,  lived  in  New  York,  where  his 
children  by  his  wife  Mana  were  baptized,  between  1663  and  1667.  He  or  Carsten  was 
no  doubt  the  ancestor  of  the  Snedcns  of  Rockland  County. 

Jean  Guenon  died  at  Flushing,  L.  I.,  in  17 14.  His  will,  made  when  he  was  in 
perfect  health,  date  November  24,  1703;  that  of  his  widow,  Margaret,  February  21, 
1 72 1 -2.  At  the  latter  date  their  sons,  John,  born  1669,  and  Jeremiah,  bom  1671, 
were  living;  as  also  their  daughters,  Hannah,  wife  of  Toseph  Hedger,  and  Susannah, 
wife  of  Louereer.  John  and  Jeremiah  Genung  shared  their  father's  farm  in  Flushing; 
their  descendants  arc  now  to  be  found  in  many  parts,  especially  of  the  State  of  New 
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with  the  placard.  They  were  all  complained  of  December  27111, 
by  the  new  schout,  who  demanded  the  fines,  viz.:  from  Muy- 
den  24  gl.  for  his  two  lots,  and  12  gl.  each  of  the  others.  Tour- 
neur  pleaded  sickness  and  other  excuses,  but  the  court  exacted 
the  fine  from  him  and  from  Le  Roy,  with  costs  of  suit.  Muyden 
and  Vander  Vin,  after  being  thrice  in  default,  were  also  sentenced, 
January  25th,  1663,  with  order  to  pay  inside  of  eight  days. 

It  showed  admirable  pluck  on  the  part  of  the  magistracy  to 
thus  deal  with  persons  of  the  first  standing;  for  Vander  Vin 
and  Muyden  were  both  great  burghers  of  New  Amsterdam,  and 
the  first  an  ex-schepen.  On  several  occasions,  by  invitation, 
Muyden  had  occupied  the  bench  at  Harlem,  as  "an  extraordi- 
nary schepen,"  his  intelligence  and  fitness  for  the  office  leading 
to  a  regular  appointment  soon  after  to  fill  a  vacancy.  He  had 
visited  Holland  in  1661,  bringing  out  on  his  return  a  number 
of  hardy  Norwegian  workmen,  and  was  now  prosecuting  the 
business  of  soap-making.  And  thus  closed  1662,  with  its  vari- 
ous measures  of  public  utility  and  impartial  dispensing  of  jus- 
tice, alike  necessary  to  protect  and  promote  the  common  inter- 
ests of  the  villagers.* 

•  Francois  le  Sueur,  who  left  the  town  early  in  1663,  was  the  ancestor  of  the 
families  of  Leseur  and  Lozier,  now  mostly  seated  in  New  York  City  and  Bergen 
County,  N.  T.  Francois  first  lived  in  Flatbush  after  coming  to  Manhattan,  and  in 
1659  married  Jannetie,  daughter  of  Hillebrand  Pietersen,  of  Amsterdam;  in  which 
year  Tannctie's  brother,  Pieter  Hillebrands,  was  captured  by  Indians  at  Esopus,  but 
this  did  not  deter  her  from  removing  there  with  her  husband.  Before  going  from 
Harlem  he  sold  some  of  his  effects,  and  his  wife  bought  "a  little  bed,"  etc.,  at  Sneden's 
sale.  Le  Sueur's  sister,  Jeanne,  went  with  ihcm  to  Esopus,  and  there  married  Cornelia 
Viervant,  with  whom  she  returned  to  Harlem.  Le  Sueur  was  living  in  1670,  but  on 
November  30,  1671,  his  widow  bound  out  her  son,  Hillebrand,  eight  years  old.  He 
was  engaged  by  the  deacons,  in  1673,  to  ring  the  bell  at  five  guilders  a  year.  Afterward 
the  widow  married  Antoine  Tilba,  and  by  him  had  children  also.  Those  by  Le  Sueur, 
all  but  the  first,  bom  at  Esopus,  were  Jannetie,  born  1660,  who  married  Jan  Postmael 
(or  Post)  and  Thomas  Innis;  Hillebrand,  born  i66;},  John  and  Jacob,  born  1665,  and 
Nicholas,  born  1668.  Hillebrand  married,  1688,  Elsie,  daughter  of  Jurian  Tappen,  but 
soon  died,  leaving  apparently  but  one  child,  Jannetie,  born  1689,  who  married  William 
Elting.  Hillebrand  s  widow  married  Abraham  Delamatcr,  previously  of  Harlem. 
John,  of  Kingston,  married  Rachel  Smedes,  in  1686,  was  an  elder  of  the  church,  and 
quite  distinguished.  He  had  Jannetie,  born  1687,  John,  born  1689,  Catherine,  born 
1692,  etc.,  of  whom  the  first  married  Abraham  Low.  Nicholas,  whose  branch  of  the 
family  write  their  name  Lozier,  married  at  New  York,  May  8,  1691,  Tryntie,  daughter 
of  Peter  Slot.  He  afterward  left  Kingston  and  settled  near  Hackensack,  where  he 
married,  in  January,  1709,  Antie,  daughter  of  Dcrick  Banta.  His  children  were,  Hille- 
brand, born  1695;  Peter,  born  1697;  John,  born  1699;  Mary,  born  1701;  Antie 
bom  1703;  Lucas,  born  1705;  Jacobus,  born  1707;  Benjamin,  born  1708;  Tryntie' 
born  17 to;  Hester,  born  171 1;  Rachel,  born  1714;  Jacob,  born  1719;  Abraham,  born 
1721;  Leah,  born  1723,  and  Margaret,  born  1726.  These  intermarried  with  the 
Demarests  and  others,  but  we  must  here  leave  them.  In  Ulster  County  the  French 
pronunciation  of  this  name  was,  for  a  time,  tolerably  preserved  in  the  form  Lashier 
but  is  now  extinct  there,  though  the  blood  runs  in  the  Post  family  and  others. 


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1663-1665. 

STIRRING    EVENTS  :     END    OF    THE   DUTCH    RULE. 

T  T  happened  that  Pieter  Jansen  Slot,  son  of  the  ex-schepen,  was 
^  to  wed  a  fair  damsel  of  Ahasimus,  by  name  Marritie  Van 
Winckel.  The  young  roysters  of  the  village  hearing,  on  Friday, 
February  2d,  1663,  that  the  bans  had  that  day  been  registered, 
were  jubilant  over  the  news,  and  set  to  work, — it  was  an  ancient 
rustic  custom  of  fatherland, — to  honor  the  happy  Pieter  by 
planting  a  "May-tree''  before  his  door.  Now,  some  workmen 
in  the  employ  of  Mr.  Muyden  and  others,  in  for  ruder  sport, 
not  only  raised  "a  horrible  noise  in  the  village  by  shouting,  blow- 
ing horns,  etc.,  while  others  were  asleep,"  but  proceeded  to 
deck  the  May-tree  with  ragged  stockings;  at  which,  when  dis- 
covered by  Pieter,  he  was  very  wroth,  taking  it  as  "a  mockery 
and  insult/'  He  at  once  cut  the  tree  down,  but  the  young 
men  brought  another  to  take  its  place ;  when,  as  it  lay  before  the 
house,  along  came  Muyden's  men  and  hewed  it  in  pieces.  Not 
to  be  baffled,  the  young  folk  the  same  night  procured  and  raised 
a  third  tree,  which,  however,  shared  the  same  fate. 

On  Sunday  morning,  February  4th,  Jan  Pietersen,  at  whose 
house  Pieter  was  staying  and  all  this  happened,  made  his  com- 
plaint to  Montague,  the  schout;  the  masters  also  informing  him 
that  their  men  were  plotting  other  mischief,  but  they  had  no 
power  to  prevent  it.  The  schout,  now  going  thither,  ordered 
the  rioters  to  disperse;  but  they  only  defied  him,  and  even 
threatened  him  with  their  guns  and  axes.  Only  more  enraged, 
they  gave  the  Sabbath  to  cutting  down  and  burning  the  palisades 
around  Jaques  Cresson's  bam.  Next  morning  Jacob  Elderts, 
who  had  lately  bought  a  lot  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  was  engaged 
bringing  thatch  from  Bronck's  meadow.  Before  he  had  spoken 
"a  single  word,"  they  caught  and  beat  him,  also  wounding  him 
on  the  head.  In  vain  "Meester  Willem,"  who  witnessed  the  as- 
sault, commanded  them  to  desist.     Perhaps  it  was  to  pay  off  El- 


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derts  for  the  death  of  their  countryman,  Bruyn  Barents,  a  cooper, 
five  years  before;  perhaps  not.  The  two  were  then  working  in 
a  brewery  at  Brooklyn,  and  Bruyn  made  at  Elderts  with  a  knife, 
when  the  latter,  in  self-defense,  knocked  him  down  with  a  sledge. 
Bruyn  lingered  six  months,  and  died  February  12th,  1658.  As 
the  case  stood,  Jacob  was  arrested,  but  let  off  by  the  court  with 
a  fine  of  100  gl.  for  the  wounding.  But  be  this  the  explanation 
or  not,  the  schout  seeing  the  rioters  heeded  not  his  authority, 
and  apprehending  further  trouble,  hastened,  the  same  day,  to 
inform  the  Director,  who,  with  the  Council,  referred  the  matter 
to  the  Attorney-General,  "to  take  further  information  about  it." 

Here  ended,  or  is  lost  sight  of,  this  almost  tragedy ;  the  pub- 
lic attention  at  Harlem  being  absorbed  by  the  death,  in  quick 
succession,  of  two  worthy  inhabitants,  Adam  Dericksen  and 
Philip  Casier.  Dericksen  was  from  Cologne,  owned  an  allot- 
ment of  land  and  had  served  as  inspector  of  fences  with  Hen- 
drick  Karstens  in  1661-2.  In  the  first  of  these  years  he  married 
Magdalena,  daughter  of  Lambert  Van  Telckhuys.  Left  with 
an  infant  Grietie,  his  widow,  a  few  months  later,  became  the 
wife  of  Monis  Peterson.  In  the  death  of  Casier  the  community 
lost  one  of  its  sterling  men,  a  skilful  farmer,  and  valued  for  his 
experience  and  judgment.  His  place  in  the  magistracy  was  filled, 
April  23d,  by  the  appointment  of  Michiel  J.  Muyden.* 

The  old  question  touching  the  payment  for  their  lands  now 
came  up  in  a  somewhat  different  shape,  and  with  better  success. 
The  following  memorial,  explaining  it,  was  drawn  up  by  Heer 

*  Philippe  Casier,  had  he  lived,  must  have  proven  a  most  useful  inhabitant.  His 
adventurous  voyage  from  France  to  the  West  Indies,  back  to  Holland,  thence  up  the 
Rhine,  and  finally  to  this  country,  with  his  eight  in  family,  are  events  in  his  life 
already  noticed.  Another  child,  Sarah,  was  added  in  1662.  when  Casier  had  become  a 
resident  and  landholder  at  Harlem.  He  and  wife,  Marie  Taine,  united  with  the  church 
October  2,  of  that  year,  and  on  November  16,  he  was  made  a  magistrate.  But  near  the 
close  of  the  ensuing  winter,  1663,  death  arrested  his  usefulness.  He  had  but  just 
sold,  January  11,  1663,  a  lot  on  van  Keulen's  Hook  to  Jacob  Eldertsen,  also  called 
Brouwer  (Brewer),  from  his  former  occupation.  Selling  her  lands  to  Joost  Van  Obli- 
nus,  the  widow  bought  a  house  in  the  Markvelt-steegie,  in  New  York,  and  lived  there 
for  some  years,  with  her  sons,  Jean  and  Jaques,  who  were  bakers.  In  1671  she  married 
Tean  le  Roy,  of  Harlem,  and  afterward  went  with  him  to  Staten  Island.  Her  daughter, 
Hester,  born  at  Sluis,  in  Flanders,  married,  in  1677,  Tean  Belleville,  who  was  living 
in  1703.  They  had  sons,  Jean,  born  167;^;  Philip,  born  1679,  etc.  See  Martino. 
The'  younger  daughter,  Sarah  Casier,  married,  1680,  Jacques  Guion,  merchant,  from 
St.  Martin,  France,  she  being  much  his  junior.  His  will,  made  May  3,  1680,  was 
proved  December  1,  1694,  ana  his  widow  admitted  executrix.  Guion  visited  Europe 
in  1678.  He  owned  200  acres  of  land  on  Staten  Island,  granted  him  October  13,  1664, 
on  which  some  of  the  descendants  still  reside.  Philip  Casier's  two  sons,  in  1673, 
were  members  of  Capt.  Steenwvck's  troop;  but  Jacques  appears  to  have  soon  died 
unmarried.  Jean  accompanied  his  mother  to  Staten  Island,  in  1676,  obtaining  that 
year  a  grant  of  80  acres  of  land  on  Long  Neck.  He  married,  in  1680,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  John  Damen,  of  Brooklyn.  In  1701  he  and  his  brother-in-law,  Jean  Belle- 
ville, owning  an  adjoining  farm,  with  other  neighbors  like  themselves,  born  French 
subjects  (Casier  had  his  birth  in  the  French  island  of  Martinique),  sent  their  names 
to  England,  and  were  naturalized  by  act  of  Parliament.  Casier  made  his  will  Decem- 
ber 26j  1709,  which  was  proved  the  next  month,  January  24,  1710.  Susannah,  a  sec- 
ond wife,  survived  him.  His  children  then  living  were  Philip  and  Peter,  who  shared 
his  farm,  and  daughters  Sophia  and  Elizabeth.    Has  not  this  name  become  Casey? 


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Vander  Vin;  the  clerk,  Montagne,  having  now  no  personal  in- 
terest in  this  matter  apparently : 

To  the  Noble,  Great  and  Honorable,  the  Director-General  and  Council 

in  New  Netherland: 

The  undersigned,  owners  and  occupants  of  the  lands  within  the 
village  and  jurisdiction  of  New  Harlem,  respectfully  represent,  that  to 
their  great  surprise  and  solicitude,  they  have  been  informed  that  the  eight 
guilders  which  your  Honors  required  said  proprietors  to  pay  for  each 
morgen  of  land  taken  by  them,  should  be  paid  in  beavers,  or  their  value ; 
whereas  this  was  not  the  understanding  of  your  petitioners  who,  in  regard 
to  the  announcement  made  by  your  Honors,  on  the  4th  of  March,  1658, 
as  to  the  privilege  with  which  this  village  was  to  be  favored,  did  not 
otherwise  conceive  respecting  the  price  set  upon  said  land,  but  that  pay- 
ment thereof  was  to  be  made  in  sewant  currency,  according  to  the 
customary  usage.  Had  they  understood  differently,  they  would  never 
have  agreed,  nor  could  have  been  persuaded,  to  burden  themselves  with 
so  hard  an  undertaking  as  that  of  bringing  those  lands  under  cultivation, 
besides  paying  thus  heavily  for  them;  and  even  yet  the  petitioners, 
instead  of  finding  themselves  eased  in  their  labors,  have  great  difficulty 
in  making  these  lands  fit  for  tillage,  so  they  are  now  wholly  discouraged, 
as  they  did  not  apprehend  that  they  should  encounter  the  present  diffi- 
culty. Wherefore,  addressing  themselves  to  your  Honors,  they  pray  that 
your  Honors  may  be  pleased  to  declare,  by  a  favorable  answer  on  the 
margin,  that  the  petitioners  may  pay  the  eight  guilders  per  morgen,  in 
sewant,  in  the  usual  course  between  man  and  man.* 

Jan  Pietersen,  his  mark  IP  Dirck  Ci*aessen. 

Hendr.  J.  Vandr.  Vin  D.  Tourneur. 

Jean  Le  Roy,  his  mark  +  Moy  Pier  Cresson. 

Moenis  Peterson,  his  mark  N.  D'Meyer. 

Jan  Lourens,  his  mark  N  Simon  De  Ruine,  his  mark  + 

COUSSEAU.  M.   MUYDEN. 

Hendrick  Karstens,  his  mark  H       Jaques  Cresson. 

As  the  effect  of  their  former  decision  upon  this  subject  had 
been  to  force  some  worthy  persons  to  sell  out  their  improve- 
ments and  quit  the  town,  the  Director  and  Council  now  conceded 
more  than  the  petition  asked  for.     The  answer  was  as  follows : 

This  19th  March,  1663.  The  foregoing  petition  being  presented  and 
read,  and  besides  this,  the  proposals  of  the  schepens  of  the  village  of 
New  Harlem,  made  in  the  name  of  the  inhabitants  of  that  village  hiv- 
ing been  heard  and  considered;  the  Director-General  and  Council,  after 
some  debate  pro  and  con,  have  resolved  to  relieve  the  inhabitants  from 
the  payment  of  the  eight  guilders  per  morgen,  which  they  agreed  to 
and  were  held  to  pay,  by  the   terms   upon   which  the   lands  were  dis- 

*  Beaver  and  other  furs,  with  sewant  (see  note  p.  iS3f  together  formed  the  com- 
mon currency  among  the  settlers.  Beaver  was  convenient  for  large  payments,  especial- 
ly for  remittances  to  Holland,  as  was  sewant  for  small  payments  and  for  making 
change,  and  this  was  the  currency  mainly  used  in  all  ordinary  trading.  But  beaver, 
which  was  as  gold,  always  commanding  its  fixed  price,  had  become  so  scarce  as  often 
not  to  be  had  for  the  payment  of  a  debt,  without  going  a  long  distance  for  it,  even  to 
Fort  Orange  or  the  Delaware  River;  while  sewant  was  plenty,  and  its  value  fluctuating. 
Therefore  this  distinction;  a  guilder  beaver,  that  is,  a  guilder  payable  in  beaver,  was 
counted  40  cents,  at  the  standard  value  of  the  guilder,  but  a  guilder  sewant  was  worth 
only  one-third  of  the  former,  or  13  1-3  cents,  and  depreciated  still  more.  Hence  a  wide 
difference  how  the  bargain  was,  whether  to  pay  the  stipulated  number  of  guilders  in 
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tributed;  Provided,  that  the  said  inhabitants,  in  lieu  of  an  exemption 
from  tithes  for  fifteen  years,  shall  enjoy  the  same  but  eight  years;  so 
that  they  shall  be  obliged  to  satisfy  the  tithes  promptly  in  the  year  1666, 
which  said  tithes,  from  1666  to  1672,  both  years  inclusive,  shall,  in  place 
of  the  eight  guilders  per  morgen,  be  for  the  benefit  of  the  parties  (or 
their  creditors),  who  were  formerly  expelled  from  said  lands. 

Thus  was  put  to  rest,  to  the  great  relief  of  the  inhabitants,  a 
question  which  had  been  a  long-standing  source  of  anxiety  with 
them;  and  the  history  of  which  is  important,  first,  as  showing 
on  what  terms  the  lands  were  finally  held,  and  second,  to  what 
labor  and  trouble  the  settlers  were  put,  in  felling  the  forests  and 
subduing  the  soil,  to  make  themselves  a  home;  a  struggle  truly, 
with  their  scanty  means.  But  they  had  come  to  a  point  when 
their  courage,  energy  and  faith  in  God  were  to  be  put  to  a  more 
severe  test.* 

Astounding  news  reached  the  villagers  of  an  Indian  onslaught 
and  massacre  at  Esopus,  on  June  7th,  in  which  some  of  their 
friends  and  kinsfolk  were  suflferers,  and  witnessed  by  Jacob  El- 
derts,  who  had  lately  gone  thither.  The  schout,  Montague,  in 
the  flush  of  nuptial  greetings  on  his  union  with  Maria  Vermeille, 
a  lady  from  his  native  place,  was  shocked  to  hear  that  his  sister. 
Van  Imbroch,  and  her  little  Lysbet  were  in  captivity  with  the 
savages.  Harlem  was  all  alarm.  The  town  people  assembled 
June  1 2th,  by  orders  from  below,  and  with  the  advice  of  the  magis- 
trates, Montague,  Claessen,  Tourneur  and  Muyden,  and  clear- 
headed Slot,  asked  to  sit  with  them  as  extraordinary  schepen, 
proceeded  to  take  the  necessary  steps  for  inclosing  the  village 
with  a  line  of  stockades,  and  putting  it  in  a  complete  state  of 
defense.  Ten  persons  were  designated  to  cut  palisades,  and  four 
others  to  draw  them  to  the  village:  while  Tounieur  and  Jaques 

*  David  Uzille,  the  Huguenot,  married  to  Maria,  daughter  of  Philip  Casier,  had 
now  left  the  town,  and,  as  did  the  Casiers  afterward,  probably  went  to  Staten  Island, 
because  his  son,  Peter  Uzille,  was  living  there  April  6,  1686,  when  he  married  Cornelia 
Damen,  of  the  Wallabout,  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Jean  Casier.  Peter  went  thence  to  Bush- 
wick,  near  his  brother-in-law,  Michael  Parmentier,  but  both  ultimately  removed  to 
Poughkeepsie,  Duchess  County,  where  Uzille  was  living  in  1714.  His  sister,  Maria- 
Magdalen  Uzille,  born  at  Harlem  in  1662,  married,  I  believe,  Jonas  Le  Roy,  of  Esopus. 
Peter  Uzille's  children  were,  John,  born  1688,  of  whom  no  family;  Sophia,  born  1691, 
married,  17 12,  Storm  llratt,  of  Albany;  Cornelia,  born  1693,  married,  1714,  John 
Becker;  Helena,  bom  1696,  married,  1716,  William  Hooghteeling ;  Elizabeth,  born  1701; 
Peter,  born  1703,  and  David,  born  1708.  David,  living  at  Albany,  had  by  wife,  Engeltie 
Vrooman,  the  following  children,  viz.:  Peter,  born  17^3;  Cornelia,  born  1734;  Ger- 
trude, born  1736;,  and  Adam,  born  1738.  Peter  Uzille-  born  1703,  married  Anna 
Ackerson,  1724,  and  settled  at  Schoharie.  In  his  will,  made  on  a  sick-bed,  February  9, 
1747,  he  provided  that  if  his  wife  should  have  a  son,  he  was  to  take  half  his  farm; 
otherwise  to  go  to  his  daughters,  after  his  wife's  death.  To  these,  viz.,  Cornelia, 
Elizabeth,  Engeltie,  Maria.  Annetie,  Janneke,  and  Catherine,  the  pious  father  gives 
this  touching  counsed:  "My  loving  children,  this  is  the  last  I  shall  recommend  to  you; 
divide  my  estate  peaceably  amongst  you  all,  according  to  the  intent  and  meaning  of 
my  last  will  and  testament,  and  look  upon  the  poor  and  help  them,  love  your  neighbor, 
and  keep  the  peace  amongst  you  and  with  all  men,  honor  your  mother  and  your  king, 
and  fear  (K)d  and  keep  his  commandments."  Some  of  these  daughters  married  Vroo- 
mans.      This  name  took  the  form  of  Zielle  and  Seely. 


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Cresson  were  deputed  to  procure  a  supply  of  arms  and  ammuni 
tion  promised  from  the  Manhattans.  At  the  same  time  the  dozen 
or  more  soldiers  stationed  here,  together  with  the  settlers  (exclu- 
sive of  the  presiding  magistrates),  forty  persons  in  all,  were 
formed  into  military  companies,  which,  after  some  time  spent 
in  changing  and  rearranging  the  ranks,  were  duly  organized. 
For  officers  the  eldest  and  most  capable  persons  were  selected. 
In  the  first  company,  Pierre  Cresson,  in  the  ripe  manhood  of  fifty- 
odd  years,  and  still  very  active,  was  assigned  the  chief  and  respon- 
sible command  of  corporal;  with  Isaac  V^ermeille,  aged  sixty- 
two,  as  his  lancepesade,  and  Glaude  Le  Maistre,  turned  of  fifty 
years,  and  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  about  forty,  as  adelborsts  or  cadets. 
Of  the  second  company  Willem  Jensen  was  made  lancepesade, 
and  the  cadets  were  Jan  De  Weever  (the  weaver)  and  Arent  Sny- 
der (or  the  tailor),  by  the  last  probably  meant  Arent  Harmans 
Bussing.  Of  the  third  company,  Simon  De  Ruine,  "the  Wal- 
loon/' was  chosen  corporal ;  Nelis  Matthyssen,  lancepesade,  and 
Pieter  Jansen  Slot  and  Barent  Acker,  cadets.* 

Two  days  after  the  munitions  of  war  were  received  from  Heer 
\'an  Ruyven,  the  government  officer,  to  wit:  3  steen  stucken 
(cannon  from  which  stones  were  fired)  ;  5  snaphaanen,  or  fire- 
locks; 3  musquets,  or  matchlocks;  36  flints  (called  viersteenen 
or  firestones)  ;  50  pounds  of  cannon  powder ;  10  pounds  of  fine 
powder  and  15  bars  of  lead  for  running  bullets.  At  once  the 
small  arms  were  distributed  to  such  as  needed  them.  On  the 
i6th  six  more  matchlocks  were  obtained,  together  with  a  bundle 
of  match  for  touching  off  the  matchlocks  and  cannon.  The 
former  were  placed  in  the  hands  of  those  still  unsupplied.  The 
persons  to  whom  the  small  arms  were  given,  one  to  each,  were 

♦  The  privates  were  as  follows : 

1st  Company.  Ambrosius  De  Weerham, 

Abram  Vermeille,  Jacob  Droogscheerder, 

Jean  Le  Roy,  Arent  J.  Moesman, 

Joost  Van  Oblinus,  Jai|  Noorman, 

Aert  Pietersen  Buys,  Ane  Noorman. 
Johannes  Piet'n  Buys,  3d  Company. 

T^n^Te^fnufen"'  ^^^^^^^  P^^erson, 

Jan   leunissen,  t^„  r'^,^, 

Liovert  iNoorman, 
2d  Company.  Hans  Deen. 

Jan  Schoenmaker,  Derick  Dh  Vries, 

Hans  Littou,  Adolph  Meyer, 

Abram  Littou,  Cornells  Aertse  Buys, 

Michiel  Littou,  Jean  Casier. 


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Daniel  Toumeur,  Jan  La  Montagne,  Michiel  J.  Muyden,  Jaques 
Cresson  and  Jan  P.  Slot,  supplied  with  firelocks ;  and  Isaac  Ver- 
meille,  Abram  Vermeille,  Pierre  Cresson,  Jean  Le  Roy,  Glaude 
Le  Maistre  and  Aert  P.  Buys,  with  musquets.  Mr.  Muyden 
also  took  musquets  for  two  of  his  workmen.  The  "steen  stucken" 
were  properly  mounted.  Thus  prepared  to  repel  an  attack,  the 
villagers  awaited  the  course  of  events,  keeping  up  a  strict  watch. 

New  Harlem  now  became,  in  fact,  a  garrisoned  outpost  to 
New  Amsterdam,  and  a  barrier  against  Indian  raids ;  with  Stuy- 
vesant,  a  cherished  object,  as  before  seen,  in  his  anxiety  to 
protect  the  metropolis.  In  view  of  the  danger  the  director  and 
council  invited  delegates  from  all  the  villages  to  a  conference  at 
New  Amsterdam  on  July  6th.  Harlem  found  it  safest  to  keep 
every  man  at  his  post,  but  answered  by  letter,  promising  to  detail 
a  force  of  eight  soldiers  "whenever  the  necessity  might  require 
it."  Troops  being  needed  soon  after  for  an  expedition  to  Esopus, 
to  subdue  the  Indians  and  give  relief  to  the  settlers  there,  a 
part  of  the  regular  force  at  Harlem  departed  upon  that  service, 
accompanied  by  others  who  went  in  response  to  the  urgent  call 
for  volunteers  which  was  made  through  all  the  villages  about 
New  Amsterdam. 

The  savages  at  Esopus  were  soon  made  to  flee  before  the 
advance  of  the  resolute  Dutch  soldiers;  but  armed  parties  still 
kept  the  warpath,  threatening  vengeance  on  the  whites  and 
whoever  should  aid  them.  It  happened  during  the  month  of 
July  that  the  now  friendly  Wickquaskeeks,  apprehending  a  hos- 
tile visit  from  such,  left  their  usual  haunts  and  removed  for 
safety  over  into  the  woods  near  Harlem.  The  sudden  appear- 
ance of  so  large  a  body  of  Indians,  including  some  eighty  war- 
riors, in  the  vicinity  of  the  village,  caused  much  excitement 
there,  till  the  sachem  Sauwenarack,  with  his  ^brother,  came 
to  the  magistrates  and  gave  the  reason  of  their  visit.  They 
brought  the  pleasing  intelligence  that  the  sister  of  Mr.  Mon- 
tagne had  been  released  from  captivity  through  the  interven- 
tion of  the  friendly  Mohawks,  and  conveyed  to  her  home;  but 
they  also  gave  this  piece  of  disagreeable  news,  that  the  Indians 
of  the  Wappinger  tribe  had  warned  them  that  the  Esopus  Indians 
were  intending,  within  five  or  six  days,  to  descend  the  river,  forty 
of  fifty  strong,  in  order  to  surprise  and  murder  them,  the  Wick- 
quaskeeks, and  afso  destroy  New  Harlem  and  other  settlements 
about  Manhattan.  Their  message  delivered,  the  chiefs  hastened 
"of  their  own  accord"  to  New  Amsterdam,  and  repeated  it  to 


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the  director-general,  with  the  offer  of  their  services,  in  the  com- 
mon peril  to  which  all  were  exposed. 

No  little  anxiety  was  felt  at  Harlem  for  a  time,  but  the 
talked-of  visit  was  not  made,  and  the  movements  of  the  Wick- 
quaskeeks  came  to  excite  no  apprehension.  The  sachem  and  his 
people, — a  thing  they  once  would  have  scorned  to  ask  of  the 
white  man, — sought  permission  to  fish  near  the  village,  which  was 
granted  on  condition  that  they  should  never  approach  that  place 
with  their  weapons ;  and  for  the  purpose  of  ready  identification, 
in  their  intercourse  with  the  settlers,  they  were  given  copies  of 
the  official  seal  of  the  West  India  Company,  "printed  in  wax 
upon  small  billets,"  to  be  shown  upon  occasion.  Still  the  magis- 
trates relaxed  none  of  their  vigilance.  Another  thirty  pounds 
of  powder,  obtained  of  the  commissary,  was  distributed,  Septem- 
ber 2d,  to  the  following  persons,  a  pound  to  each : 

Alonis  Peterson,  Jean  Le  Roy, 

Simon  De  Ruine,  Jan  Cogu, 

Hendrick  Karstens,  Michiel  Littou, 

Jan  Jansen  Slot,  Joh.  Pietersen  Buys, 

Jan  Teunissen,  Glaude  Le  Maistre, 

Jan  Schoenmaker,  Lubbert  Gerritsen, 

Arent  Snyder,  Jean   Frenchman, 

Nelis  Matthyssen,  Jan  La  Montague, 

Adolph  Meyer,  Jan  Pietersen  Slot, 

Aert  Pietersen  Buys,  Govert  Noorman, 

Comelis  Aertsen  Buys,  Jacob  Droogscheerder, 

Hans  Deen,  Jan  Noorman, 

Barent  Acker,  Daniel  Tourneur, 

Pierre  Cresson,  Pieter  Jansen  Slot, 

Jaques  Cresson,  Mr.  Willem.* 

The  public  apprehensions  were  gradually  removed  by  a 
series  of  victories  over  the  Esopus  Indians,  which  forced  them  to 
submit.  But  the  people  of  the  province  were  ill  at  ease.  Dele- 
gates from  the  villages,  met  to  consider  their  common  dangers, 
signed,  November  2d,  an  urgent  appeal  to  the  West  India  Com- 
pany, praying  for  protection  both  against  the  Indians  and  the 

•  Jan  Schoenmaker  and  Arent  Snyder  may  have  been  Dyckman  and  Bussing;  but 
we  have  no  sufficient  prcof.  By  "Mr.  Willcm,"  and  "Willem  Jansen,"  Jan  La  Mon- 
tignef  who  makes  the  record,  no  doubt  means  his  brother.  Fourteen  of  those  enrolled 
Jane  12  arc  not  in  the  above  list,  vir.,  Isaac  Vermeille,  Jean  Vermeille,  Jean  Casier, 
Arent  Moesman,  Hans  and  Abram  Littou,  Ambrose  de  Weerham,  Jan  de  Weever, 
Thomas  Ottosen,  Dirck  de  Vries,  Arie  Noorman,  Roelof  Noorman,  and  Jacob  Noorman. 
Gow>  we  presume,  with  the  forces  to  Esopus;  Moesman  certainly  had,  and  he,  Casier, 
and  Isaac  Vermeille  arc  the  only  ones  known  to  have  returned  to  Harlem. 


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neighboring  New  England  colonies,  which  latter  were  now  pre- 
paring to  end  a  long  diplomatic  warfare  with  the  Dutch  author- 
ities touching  their  boundaries,  by  boldly  asserting  a  claim  to 
the  whole  of  New  Netherland. 

Notwithstanding  the  ruffled  state  of  public  affairs,  there  was 
a  growing  activity  at  Harlem,  as  may  be  judged  from  the  valua- 
ble accession  to  the  number  of  inhabitants  which  the  current 
year  (1663)  had  brought.  With  most  of  these,  already  incident- 
ally mentioned  in  the  transactions  of  the  year,  we  have  been  made 
acquainted  in  former  pages.  Glaude  Le  Maistre  (or  Delamater) 
had  removed  here,  after  living  about  ten  years  at  Flatbush,  where 
he  owned  a  farm  and  two  village  lots,  which  he  sold  July  31st, 
1662.  He  bought  two  allotments  of  land  at  Harlem  from 
Daniel  Tourneur,  who  had  purchased  them  of  Jacques  Cousseau, 
and  subsequently  got  a  patent  for  them.  Johannes  Verveelen, 
previously  for  several  years  an  innkeeper  in  New  Amsterdam, 
had  come  to  resume  his  old  business,  and  to  enter  immediately 
upon  public  life. 

But  the  new  arrivals  were  mostly  direct  from  fatherland. 
The  Vermeille  or  Vermilye  family,  six  in  number,  had  reached 
Manhattan  early  in  1663,  via  the  Delaware  River;  the  family  of 
Oblinus  arriving  during  the  ensuing  spring,  after  a  quick  pas- 
sage, and  coming  direct  to  Harlem ;  as  did  Johannes  Buys 
(though  by  another  vessel,  the  Rosetree,  which  left  Amsterdam 
March  15th,  1663),  joining  his  brother,  who  had  preceded  hini 
hither  some  two  years.*     The  younger  Oblinus  at  once  entered 

*  Isaac  \*erinilye  had,  as  companions  on  the  voyage,  Jacquc  Cossart,  Nicholas  du 
Puis,  Gideon  Mcrlett,  Jean  Ic  Conseille,  Louis  Lacquema,  Jacob  Kolver,  and  Jan 
Bookhoolts,  as  also  Arnout  du  Toict,  these  now  written  Cashow,  Depcw,  Marlett, 
Consclyea,  Lakeman  or  Lockman,  Culver,  Buckhout,  etc.),  all  having  lived  at  Ley  den, 
we  presume,  as  we  know  had  Buckhout,  Culver  and  X'ermilye;  and  probably  all  Wal- 
loons except  Buckhout.  Vermilye,  with  his  wife  and  daughter,  Maria  (later  Mrs. 
Montanyc),  and  all  his  fellow-passengers  above  named,  save  Culver  and  Buckhout. 
joined  the  church  at  New  Amsterdam,  April  i,  1663,  no  doubt  by  letter.  The  wives 
of  Cossart,  Du  Uuis,  and  Lacqueman  also  united.  Vermilye  came  directly  to  Harlem. 
Buckhout  became  "'koecherdcr  van  de  gemente  desen  stede."  The  rest  made  an  appli- 
cation, March  19,  1661,  for  land  and  seed  grain,  and  victuals  for  six  months,  showing 
their  necessities.  Buckhout  later  owned  a  farm  at  Mespat,  and  left  two  sons,  Capt. 
Matthias,  who  sailed  a  coaster,  and  Peter,  a  farmer;  and  whence  come  the  family  of 
this  name.  Du  Toict  was  from  Lillie,  and  probablv  related  to  David  du  Toict,  of 
Leyden,  son-in-law  of  Gerard  dc  Forest.  By  his  wife,  Madeleine  Arnauds,  he  had  a 
son,  Abraham,  born  1648,  lessee  of  Pierre  Cresson's  meadows  at  Harlem,  in  1668;  who 
married  Jannetie,  daughter  of  Jerome  Boquet  (Bokee),  and  had  a  family.  He  went  to 
New  Utrecht  and  bought  a  farm,  served  during  the  second  Dutch  rule  as  a  soldier, 
under  Capt.  Knyf,  in  New  York,  afterward  lived  at  Bedford,  but  with  his  wife  joinetl 
the  Bergen  church,  Tuly  21,  1681.  Lakeman  brought  a  wife,  Anna  du  Sauchoy,  and 
children  by  a  second  wife,  Maria  Walters.  Two  of  the  children  that  came  over  with 
him  were  Abraham  and  Peter,  who  afterward  got  grants  upon  Staten  Island,  but 
Peter  Lakeman  removed  to  New  York  in  1698,  when  he  married  widow  Jannetie 
Stavast.  Marlett  brought  his  wife  and  sons,  Joshua,  born  1647;  Paul,  bom  1654; 
Tohn,  born  1656,  and  Abraham,  born  1658,  and  settled  on  Staten  Island.  The  name 
has  now  left  the  Island,  but  is  found  in  other  sections  of  New  York  and  New  Jersey. 
Cossart  brought  his  wife,  Lydia  Williams,  and  2  children  of  18  months  and  5  years. 
They  had  also  Jacob,  bom  1668;  David,  1671;  Anthony,  1673.  J^cob  married,  1695, 
Anna  Maria,  daughter  of  Joh.  Caspars  Springsteen.  He  and  Anthony,  who  married, 
1696,    Elizabeth,    daughter    of   Jan    Tymensen    Valentine,    of    Schencctadv,    were    resi- 


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the  employ  of  Delamater,  but  before  the  year  closed  his  father 
became  a  proprietor  by  the  purchase  of  the  allotment  of  Philip 
Casier,  deceased.  Of  Oblinus'  companions  on  board  the  Spotted 
Cow,  Demarest  went  to  Staten  Island,  Journee  and  Bogert  to 
Brooklyn,  and  the  Bastiaensen  brothers  to  Stuyvesant*s  Bouv/ery, 
though  they  all  soon  after  came  to  Harlem.  The  Bastiaensens, 
it  may  be  observed,  were  the  ancestors  of  the  entire  Kortright 
or  Courtright  family,  in  the  States  of  Xew  York  and  New  Jersey, 
and  also,  through  other  branches,  of  the  families  of  Ryer  and 
Michiel  (now  Mekeel  and  McKeel, —  a  Dutch  metamorphosed 
into  a  Hibernian  name!)  of  Westchester  and  other  counties  of 
our  State,  and  that  of  Low,  in  Somerset  County,  New  Jersey, 
but  distinct  from  the  Lows  of  Ulster  County,  named  in  a  pre- 
ceding note.  Arent  Jansen  Moesman, — first  met  with  at  Am- 
sterdam in  1662,  acting  as  purveyor  to  the  passengers  about  to 
leave,  ^larch  nth,  in  the  merchant  ship  Golden  Eagle,  for 
Xew  Amstel  on  the  Delaware,  and  in  which  he  also  took  pas- 
way  to  Harlem,  as  before  seen,  now  returned  from  the  Esopus 
war,  with  the  credit  and  profits  of  some  special  service  rendered. 
He  became  the  purchaser  of  a  bouwery  upon  Jochem  Pieters  and 
Van  Keulen's  Hook,  the  history  of  which  derives  interest^  from 
its  subsequent  owners,  Delavall,  Carteret,  and  others.  Indeed 
the  village  was  fast  filling  up,  and  already  showed  a  disposition 
to  exceed  the  limits  of  the  protecting  palisades.  At  a  court  held 
on  December  4th,  Derick  Claessen,  who  after  quitting  the  town 
had  again  returned,  applied  for  **the  house  lot  lying  without  the 
gate";  and  Johannes  Vermilye  also  made  a  similar  application. 
Many,  with  the  returning  sense  of  security,  were  laying  plans 
for  the   future. 

dents  of  Brooklyn;  their  posterity  bearing  the  name  Cashow  or  Carshow.  Jacob 
Cosart,  bom  at  Brooklyn,  1701,  a  son  01  Anthony,  died  at  Bound  Brook,  N.  J., 
April  19,  1772.  David  Cosart,  married,  1696,  Styntie,  born  1677,  daughter  of  Joris 
Tansen  Van  Hoorn,  and  had,  with  other  children  born  in  New  York  City,  sons  George, 
Jacob,  David,  John,  Francis.  He  died  between  1736  and  1740,  in  Somerset  County, 
X.  J.,  leaving  farms  there  to  his  sons  George,  David  and  Francis.  Conselyea  married 
Phebe  Schut,  and  lived  in  Bushwick,  where  his  old  farm  house  till  late  remained. 
He  had  sons^  John,  born  1679;  Peter,  1688;  and  a  daughter,  Margaret,  who  married 
Toh-  Van  Tilburg  and  Claes  Bogert.  Culver,  whose  wife  was  Sarah,  daughter  of 
Peter  Hasbrouck,  died  soon  after  the  birth  of  his  daughter  Sarah,  and  the  next  year. 
1664,  his  widow  married  Jacob  Jansen  Blaeck,  from  Amsterdam,  by  whom  she  had 
other  children.  The  daughter,  Sarah  Culver,  born  1663,  married  Peter  Losee,  of 
Bosh  wick:  her  sister,  Gertie  Culver,  born  1657,  married  Cornelis  Jansen  Zeeuw,  and 
their  brother,  Jacob  Culver,  (born  1659,  at  Leyden,  died,  1694,  in  New  York),  married, 
1^684,  Jannetie,  daughter  of  Job.  Caspars  Springsteen,  of  Brooklyn.  Their  daughter, 
Sarah,  bornj  1686,  married  David  L.  Ackerman,  of  Hackensack;  their  daughter, 
Mana,  married  Joost  Springstee,  of  Newtown,  and  their  son,  Johannes  Culver,  born 
'689,  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  James  Way,  and  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Cancel, 
KTved  as  elder  at  Newtown,  and  there  died,  June  12,  1760,  leaving  several  sons. 
Depew,  who  was  from  Artois,  was  sworn  as  "beer  and  weigh-house  porter,"  at  New 
York,  June  19,  1665.  Here  he  died  in  1691,  leaving  issue  by  his  wife,  Katalina 
Kenard,  Jean,  bom  1656;  Moses,  1657;  Aaron,  1664;  Susannah,  1669,  and  Nicholas, 
1670.  From  these  spring  the  numerous  Depew  families  of  Ulster  and  Orange  Counties 
and  the  Mmisink  Flats. 


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2o6  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

By  a  recent  choice  of  magistrates,  confirmed  November  17th, 
the  new  board  consisted  of  Jan  La  Montagne,  "who  for  certain 
reasons,"  say  the  Council,  "shall  yet  be  continued  for  one  year"  ; 
besides  Daniel  Toumeur,  Johannes  Verveelen,  and  Jan  Pietersen 
Slot.  The  religious  interests  of  the  village  were  suffering,  and 
called  for  their  first  care.  Do.  Zyperus  had  recently  taken  his 
leave,  probably  early  in  1663,  when  his  wife  transferred  her  church 
connection  from  New  Amsterdam  to  Brooklyn.  Chosen  at  dif- 
ferent times  as  an  arbiter  between  parties  in  litigation.  Do. 
Zyperus  had  made  himself  useful  outside  of  his  office  or  special 
sphere  of  duty,  and  had  acquired  the  respect  of  the  community. 
Disposing  of  his  lands  to  Sergeant  Juriaen  Hanel,  of  Bergen,  he 
removed  with  his  family  to  Virginia,  where  he  afterward  preached 
many  years,  in  North  River  Precinct,  now  Kingston  Parish,  in 
Mathews  County;  having  conformed  to  the  Church  of  England.* 

The  experiment  had  evidently  proven  the  inability  of  the 
congregation  to  support  a  minister,  and  since  the  departure  of 
Zyperus,  not  without  much  effort  had  the  Sabbath  services  been 
sustained.  Hence,  at  the  meeting  referred  to,  on  December  4th, 
1663,  one  of  the  magistrates,  Mr.  Verveelen,  was  "chosen  by  a 
popular  vote  to  inquire  for  a  voorleser,"  or,  in  other  words,  a 
parish  clerk.  This  office,  though  akin  to  that  of  precentor  or  chor- 
ister in  the  Romish  cathedral  service  and  in  the  Scotch  kirk,  was 
in  its  range  of  duties  quite  peculiar  to  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church.  Its  incumbent,  acting  either  in  place  of  or  as  an  assist- 
ant to  the  dominie,  must  needs  be  a  person  not  only  of  suitable 
gifts  and  culture,  but  of  exemplary  life  and  approved  piety. 
Standing  before  the  pulpit,  he  read  the  Scriptures  at  the  opening* 
of  public  worship,  whence  came  his  title,  voorleser,  or  forereader. 
He  led  the  congregation  in  singing  David's  Psalms  in  metre, 
lining  off  the  verses  one  by  one,  as  they  proceeded,  with  melodies 

*  Do.  Zyperus'  wife  was  the  daughter  of  Claes  Duurkoop;  her  brother,  Jan 
Duurkoop,  and  sister,  Jannetie,  wife  of  Hendrick  Tansen  Been,  were  living  at  Brook- 
lyn in  1662,  whence,  probably  on  their  account,  Mrs.  Zyperus  took  her  church  letter, 
March  2$,  1663.  With  the  departure  of  herself  and  husband  soon  after  disappeared 
also  her  kindred  above  named.  While  here  Do.  Z.  had  two  children  baptized,  viz., 
Cornelius,  December  21,  1659,  and  Hillcgond,  August  14,  1661;  the  last  named  for 
Mrs.  Cornelis  Van  Ruvven.  He  is  noticed  as  rector  of  Kingston  Parish  in  a  list  of 
the  Virginia  clergfy,  dated  June  30,  1680.  But  this  is  verified  by  his  old  vestry 
book,  now  in  the  custody  of  the  Episcopal  Theological  Seminarjj  near  Alexandria, 
extracts  from  which  were  kindly  furnished  me  by  the  late  principal.  Rev.  William 
Sparrow,  D.D.,  since  deceased,  and  containing  all  additional  that  I  know  of  Zyperus  in 
Virginia.  The  record  begins  only  with  November  15,  1679,  but  the  last  mention  of 
him,  as  follows,  is  suggestive: 

"The  27th  of  June,  1687.  The  day  abovesaid  Mr.  Mychaell  Zyperus,  Minister, 
did  promise  to  give  fitt  and  convenient  Glasses  for  ye  Window  at  ye  Gable  End  of 
ye  New  ChappelT  to  be  built  for  ye  North  River  precinct.  In  witness  whereof  he  hath 
hereunto  sett  his  hand.  M.  ZypBkus." 

Interesting  thus  to  take  leave  of  him  actively  at  work  rearing  the  walls  of  Zion, 
in  that  field  which  he  had  chosen,  and  where  he  probably  ended  his  labors.  I  strongly 
suspect  that  Do.  Zyperus*  descendants  compose  the  respectable  family  of  Syphcr,  of 
Pennsylvania,  whose  early  Michaels — a  fact,  with  others  made  known  to  mc  by  Mr. 
J.  R.  Syphcr,  of  Philadelphia — seem  to  favor  it. 


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long  drawn  out,  but  stately  and  solemn.*  In  the  absence  of  a 
preacher  his  duties  were  augmented.  He  then  read  a  sermon 
from  the  works  of  some  orthodox  Dutch  divine,  and  in  a  word 
conducted  the  entire  service  so  far  as  belonged  to  a  layman  to  do. 
He  visited  and  administered  comfort  to  the  sick,  and  those  nigh 
to  death,  and,  when  desired,  performed  the  burial  service.  He  in- 
structed the  children  in  the  Heidelberg  catechism,  filled  the  office 
of  schoolmaster,  and  in  addition  kept  the  records  and  accounts 
of  the  church  and  town.  In  fact,  except  the  administration  of 
holy  ordinances,  he  performed  all  the  functions  of  pastor,  besides 
those  of  chorister,  schoolmaster,  and  secretary.  To  these  were 
usually  added  the  duties  of  vendue-master,  or  public  auctioneer. 
Jan  La  Montague,  already  acting  as  secretary,  being  conferred 
with  and  found  willing  to  assume  the  full  office  of  voorleser,  the 
schepens,  after  advising  with  Governor  Stuyvesant,  prepared  the 
following  interesting  petition,  which  was  presented  through  Mr. 
Verveelen : 

To  the  Noble,  Very  Worshipful,  their  Honors  and  the  Director-General 

and  Council  of  New  Netherland: 

Gentlemen:  Your  Noble  Worships'  petitioners,  residents  of  New 
Harlem,  show  with  due  reverence  and  submission,  that  by  their  saving 
faith,  obtained  through  hearing  the  gospel  preached  and  taught,  they,  too, 
find  themselves  for  the  sake  of  their  salvation  compelled,  conscientiously, 
to  promote,  with  increased  diligence  and  zeal,  whatever  your  Noble 
Worships*  petitioner  and  Commissaries  of  this  village  have  determined 
upon  and  undertaken  for  the  maintaining  of  public  worship  and  the 
outward  means  of  grace,  to  the  magnifying  of  God's  Name,  the  obser- 
vance of  his  day  of  holy  rest,  and  the  upbuilding  of  the  body  of  Jesus 
Christ  But  having  seen  from  Sabbath  day  to  Sabbath  day  the  small 
and  insignificant  success  of  the  public  gatherings,  and  believing  confi- 
dently that  everything  relating  to  public  worship  may  be  brought  in 
better  train  and  all  be  more  properly  ordered  by  the  services  of  a  sala- 
ried voorleser  and  schoolmaster,  to  read  God's  word  and  edifying  ser- 
mons,  keep  school,  catechise  and  visit  the  sick,  your  Noble  Worships' 

•  Imagine  our  devout  fathers  thus  gravely  singing,  in  the  following  words,  their 
favorite  23d  Psalm: 

1.  M/n  Godt  voed  my  als  myn  Herder  gepresen; 
Dies  sal  ik  geenes  dings  behoeftik  wesen. 

In't  grocne  gras  sceliestik  hy  my  weydet: 
En  aen  dat  soet  water  hy  my  geleydet: 
Hy  verquickt  myn  ziel,  die  seer  is  verslegen; 
Dm  sjms  naems  wil  leyt  hy  my  in  syn  wcgcn. 

2.  Alwaer't  schoon  dat  ick  in't  dal  des  doots  ginge, 
Kn  dat  my  des  doots  schaduwe  omvinge, 

Ik  vreese  niet,  gy  zyt  by  my  gestadi^. 
En  gy  troost  my  met  uwen  staf  genadigh. 
Gy  maeckt  ryk  met  goede  seer  velerhanden 
Myn  tafel  voor  d'oogen  myner  vyanden. 

3.  Gy  salst  myn  hooft  met  rickend'oly  goedigb, 
En  schenkt  my  den  beker  vol  overToedigh. 

Gy  suit  doen  oat  uwe  gunst,  O  Heer  krachti^h, 
Myn  leven  langh  by  my  stecdsvlyft  eendrachtig: 
Soo  dat  ick  hoop  eeuwighlick  vast  te  woonen 
In  Godes  Huys,  't  welk  niet  is  om  verschoonen. 


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petitioners,  appointed  to  attend  to  the  public  welfare  and  advantage  of 
the  said  village,  thought  it  proper,  very  timely  and  only  their  duty,  to 
speak  to  the  community  about  this  matter,  that  they  persuade  Jean  De 
La  Montagne,  a  resident  of  the  said  place,  to  undertake  such  services 
provisionally  for  the  least  possible  salary,  and  then  present  themselves 
before  your  Noble  Worships  as  patrons  of  the  church  of  Jesus  Christ 
with  this  humble  and  Christian  petition,  that  your  Noble  Worships  may 
please  to  consent  both  to  the  office  and  person  before  named,  for  the 
benefit  of  God's  church  and  not  less  necessary  teaching  of  the  children. 
But  perceiving  their  present  inability  and  incapacity  to  give  in  the  afore- 
said case  a  full  and  proper  salary,  and  not  having  been  able  to  collect 
for  his  support  more  than  24  schepels  of  grain,*  they  respectfully  request 
your  Noble  Worships,  that  in  their  usual  noble  discretion  your  Noble 
Worships  contribute  something  toward  a  decent  salary  and  the  greater 
encouragement  of  your  Noble  Worships'  very  humble  petitioners  and 
God's  subjects. 

Your  Noble  Worships'  most  dutiful  petitioners  and  humble  subjects, 
Done  New  Harlem,  { 
Dec.  25,  1663.       J 

d.  tourneur. 

Johannes  Verveelen. 

I  P  mark  of  Jan  Pietersen. 

To  this  the  following  reply  was  given,  January  loth,  1664: 

Received  and  read  the  foregoing  request  of  the  Commissaries  of  New 
Harlem,  and  therewith  heard  the  verbal  statement  of  Sieur  Johannes  Ver- 
veelen,  at  present  commissary  there,  that  it  is  highly  necessary  that  a 
person  be  appointed  there  as  voorleser  and  schoolmaster;  therefore  the 
Director-General  and  Council  accept  and  appoint  thereto  the  proposed 
person  Johannes  La  Montagne,  Junior;  and  in  order  that  he  may  attend 
to  these  offices  with  greater  diligence,  to  him  shall  be  paid  annually  on 
account  of  the  Company  the  sum  of  fifty  guilders,  according  to  the  state 
of  the  treasury. 

Thereafter  the  church  had  a  regular  succession  of  voorlesers, 
to  perform  the  varied  and  responsible  duties  before  specified  ; 
except  when  partially  relieved  by  the  visits  of  the  city  ministers, 
who  officiated  here  by  occasional  appointment,  or  under  engage- 
ments made  with  them  from  time  to  time,  as  will  further  appear. 

New  arrivals  in  the  village  were  still  occurring.  One  was 
that  of  a  French  refugee  heretofore  mentioned,  and  who  is  first 
alluded  to  in  the  minutes  of  January  23d,  1664,  thus:  "Robert 
Le  Maire  requested  an"  .  .  .  the  record  left  unfinished; 
but  probably  explained  by  the  fact  that  he  soon  obtained  an  erf 
from  the  town.  A  few  of  the  larger  landholders,  as  Slot  and 
De  Meyer,  now  took  occasion  to  obtain  patents  or  groundbriefs 
for  their  lands,  though  the  two  named  and  that  of  Hanel,  dated 
May  i6th  ensuing,  are  the  only  patents  found,  issued  by  Gov- 
ernor Stuyvesant,  for  the  allotments  under  the  ordinance  of 
1658.     This  accords  with  what  the  inhabitants  afterward  told 

•  The  schcpel,   a   Dutch   measure,   was  commonly  rated  in  this  country  at  three 
English  pecks.     Wooley's  Journal,  p.  34. 


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HISTORY  OF  HARLEM.  209 

Governor  Nicolls,  namely,  that  most  of  them  "never  had  a 
groundbrief."  An  event  of  interest  to  the  villagers  was  the 
surrender  by  the  widow  of  Comelis  Claessen  Swits,  to  the 
Director  and  Council  (pursuant  to  an  offer  which  she  made  to 
them  February  7th,  1654,  and  by  them  accepted),  of  all  her 
claim  to  the  farm  occupied  by  her  late  husband,  but  "purchased 
and  cultivated  by  her,"  in  lieu  of  the  debt  due  from  Swits  to  the 
West  India  Company.  The  title  thus  reverted  to  the  govern- 
ment, and  the  lands  on  which  was  the  village  plot  were  thereby 
relieved  of  any  mediate  claim  which  could  possibly  be  set  up 
under  the  old  patent  of  1647.* 

*  This  petition  and  answer  arc  of  sufficient  interest  to  be  jrivcn  entire. 
To  the  Noble.  Right  Honorable,  the  Director-General  and  Cotmcil  in  New  Nethcr- 
land:  Shows  with  all  humility,  Ariaentie  Cornelis,  late  widow  of  Comelis  Claessen 
Swits,  now  married  to  Albert  Leenderts;  how  that  the  supplicant  with  her  now 
deceased  husband,  and  their  children,  occupied  for  several  ^ears  and  actually  built 
upon,  a  parcel  of  land  whereon  has  since  been  laid  out  the  village  of  Haerlem;  upon 
which  farm,  after  much  labor  there  expended,  she,  with  her  said  deceased  husband, 
was,  in  September,  165^,  miserably  surprised  by  the  cruel  barbarous  savages,  who  at 
once  murdered  her  husband,  plundered  or  burnt  all  their  goods,  and  carried  her  off 
with  her  six  children  captives.  Prom  whose  cruel  bands,  by  the  aid  of  her  good 
friends,  being  delivered,  with  her  six  naked  children,  she  remained  bereft  of  all  that 
she  possessed,  her  husband  and  all  means  of  subsistence,  except  only  the  aforesaid 
farm,  on  which  she  hoped,  sooner  or  later,  by  the  assistance  of  others,  to  be  able  to 
maintain  herself  in  an  honest  manner;  but  m  this  she  was  disappointed,  as  well  by 
the  continued  troubles,  and  the  want  of  means,  as  by  the  orders  issued  against  having 
anr  isolated  habitations,  and  so  was  compelled  for  a  time  to  abandon  that  farm. 
When,  at  last,  it  was  resolved  b)r  the  Director  and  Council  to  lay  out  the  village  of 
Haerlem,  and  the  supplicant  was  inclined,  with  her  present  husband,  Albert  Leenderts, 
to  a^n  occupy  the  said  farm,  this  could  not  be  done,  because  her  cleared  land  had 
been  distributed  amonjg:  others,  and  the  only  offer  then  made  her,  was,  to  draw  lots 
with  the  rest;  to  which  she  could  not  a^ee,  as  it  was  to  her  great  prejudice,  and 
thus  was  her  whole  farm,  bought  and  cultivated  bv  her,  given  to  others,  and  the  sup- 
plicant deprived  of  the  means  by  which,  with  God's  help,  she  could  have  maintained 
herself,  instead  of  which  she  is  now,  with  her  children,  reduced  to  poverty.  The  land 
being  so  distributed  by  the  Director-General  and  Council,  it  was  provided  that  those 
interested,  who  had  been  driven  off  their  land,  should  be  paid  by  the  actual  possessors, 
ten  guilders  (sic)  per  morgen,  but  it  was  afterwards  granted  that  in  lieu  of  ten  guild- 
ers per  morgen  the  said  occupants  should,  s  years  (sic)  earlier  than  had  been  before 
determined,  pay  tithes  of  the  produce,  in  behalf  of  those  interested,  but  this  cannot  be 
collected  but  slowly.  Our  humble  petition,  therefore,  is,  that  it  may  please  your 
Honors  either  to  return  again  the  said  parcel  of  land  to  the  supplicant,  or  that  its 
value,  that  for  which  it  was  before  sold,  may  be  reimbursed  to  her, — or  otherwise 
(as  the  supplicant's  deceased  husband  remainea  indebted  to  the  Hon.  Company  about 
seven  hundred  guilders,  for  commodities,  for  whose  liquidation  with  that  of  other 
debts,  he  left  her  nothing  besides  the  said  land),  that  your  honors  may  be  pleased  to 
accept  that  farm,  or  what  shall  be  paid  for  it  by  its  actual  possessors,  in  place  of  the 
aforesaid  debt,  and  then  to  favor  her  with  a  receipt  for  it  in  full — which  proposal  the 
supplicant  humbly  requests  your  Honors  may  be  pleased  to  seriously  consider,  with 
her  present  situation,  and  may  through  compassion  let  her  enjoy  a  favorable  answer, 
which  doing  she  will  remain 

Your  Honors'  obedient 

her 

Ama«ntis  X  C0RN81.18. 

mark. 

This  petieion  being  read,  and  the  supplicant's  poor  condition  considered,  the  fol- 
lowing order  is  thereupon  made: 

Although  the  debt  incurred  by  the  supplicant's  deceased  husband,  should  long  since 
■nee  have  oeen  paid,  and  ou^ht  now  to  be  paid  without  any  further  delay,  yet,  con* 
■dering  the  scanty  means  which  were  left  to  the  supplicant  by  the  barbarians,  as  is 
explained  more  at  large  in  her  petition,  and  furthermore,  her  present  situation;  there- 
fore resolved  that  we  accept  in  payment  of  what  her  deceased  husband,  Cornelis  Claes- 
sen Swits,  remained  indebted  to  the  Company,  whatever  shall  in  time  be  collected  from 
her  land  as  mentioned  in  her  petition,  giying  her  by  this  a  receipt  in  full,  so  that 
neither  she  nor  her  posterity  shall  ever  be  troubled  about  it  in  future,  provided  that 
she  deliver  to  the  Noole  Company  her  deed,  transfer,  etc.,  which  she  may  have  for  the 
aforesaid  land.     Done  in  Fort  Amsterdam,  in  New  Netherland,  the  7  Feb.,  1664. 


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2IO  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

The  opening  spring  brought  its  share  of  work  for  the  farm- 
ers. A  shelter  was  needed  for  the  young  calves  turned  out 
to  feed  on  Barent's  Island,  and  at  a  meeting  held  March  13th  it 
was  agreed  to  build  on  April  ist.  They  also  resolved  to  fence 
the  gardens.  Some  of  the  inhabitants,  in  want  of  servants  and 
laborers,  seized  the  opportunity  to  buy  a  number  of  negro  slaves, 
sold  at  auction  in  Fort  Amsterdam,  May  29th,  by  order  of  the 
Director  and  Council.  They  had  arrived  on  the  24th  instant, 
in  the  company's  ship  Sparrow,  from  Chicago.  At  that  sale 
were  eager  bidders,  Johannes  Verveelen,  Daniel  Toumeur, 
Nicholas  De  Meyer,  Jacques  Cousseau,  Isaac  De  Forest,  and 
even  Jacob  Leisler,  himself,  in  1678,  enslaved  by  the  Turks,  and 
years  later  the  champion  of  liberty !  Verveelen  bought  a  negro  * 
at  445  fl.,  De  Meyer  one  at  460  fl.,  and  Tourneur  another  at 
465  fl.  These  were  probably  the  first  slaves  owned  at  New 
Harlem,  and,  strange  as  it  may  seem,  the  recollections  of  the 
living  run  back  to  the  time  when  negro  slavery  still  existed  here. 

Of  much  advantage  to  the  whole  neighborhood  was  the 
new  saw  mill  constructed  soon  after  by  Jan  Van  Bommel,  a 
thrifty  citizen  of  New  Amsterdam,  on  the  run  of  water  emptying: 
into  the  East  River  near  the  foot  of  74th  Street,  and  known  ever 
after  as  the  Saw  Kill,  which  stream  the  people  of  Harlem  claimed 
as  their  southern  limit.  The  right  to  run  this  mill,  granted  May 
26th,  expired  in  three  years,  when  it  was  discontinued;  but  its 
site  became  a  noted  landmark  in  connection  with  the  Harlem 
Patent  line. 

While  the  inhabitants  were  thus  busied  with  their  own 
domestic  affairs,  the  general  interests  of  the  country  were  in 
greatest  peril;  the  government,  assailed  by  enemies  within  and 
without,  was  rapidly  approaching  its  fall.  The  seizure  of  the 
Dutch  possessions  on  the  Connecticut  River,  the  successful  re- 
volt of  the  English  towns  upon  Long  Island,  and  in  Westchester, 
and  their  alliance  with  New  England,  too  plainly  told  the  in- 
potency  of  the  powers  at  New  Amsterdarh  to  resist  any  further 
aggressions  which  enemies  might  choose  to  make.  Added  to 
these  were  the  yet  existing  Indian  troubles.  Alarmed  for  the 
safety  of  the  state,  Stuyvesant,  before  slow  to  recognize  the 
principle  of  popular  representation,  at  last  was  constrained  to 
yield,  and  call  a  general  assembly  of  delegates  from  the  several 
Dutch  towns,  chosen  by  the  people,  and  which  met  at  New  Am- 
sterdam on  April  loth;  Harlem  sending  two  of  her  most  active 
men,  Daniel  Tourneur  and  Johannes  Verveelen.  But  with  an 
humbling  sense  of  their  weakness  or  want  of  resources,  they  did 


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little  more  than  to  send  an  urgent  appeal  to  the  States  General 
of  Holland  for  aid  in  defending  their  homes  and  firesides.  How- 
ever, a  new  treaty  being  concluded  on  the  i6th  of  May  with  the 
Indian  tribes  on  the  Hudson,  the  harrowing  fears  from  that 
quarter  were  quieted;  and  the  families  at  Harlem  found  relief 
in  the  fact  that  the  neighboring  chief,  Sauwenarack,  head  sachem 
of  the  Wickquaskeeks,  renewed  his  pledge  of  friendship  by  sign- 
ing the  treaty. 

Some  months  of  mingled  hope  and  fear  now  lulled  both 
government  and  people  into  a  false  security,  when  an  English 
fleet,  under  Colonel  Richard  Nicolls,  suddenly  appeared  before 
New  Amsterdam,  and  made  a  short  and  easy  conquest  of  the 
province.  The  fort  was  surrendered  on  September  8th  to  the 
invaders,  who  named  the  city,  as  also  the  province,  New  York. 
Surprised  into  a  change  of  rulers,  the  staid  old  settlers  at  New 
Harlem  accepted  the  condition  with  a  mixed  sentiment.  Tired 
of  the  late  administration,  some  welcomed  a  change  which  in 
any  respect  could  hardly  prove  for  the  worse,  btu  a  majority, 
with  the  attachments  of  native  or  adopted  citizens,  would  have 
preferred  the  old  government  with  all  its  faults.  Nor  could  the 
wise  and  conciliatory  course  taken  by  the  new  governor,  Nicolls, 
at  once  allay  the  feeling  of  indignation  which  found  expression 
among  the  Harlem  people,  or  repair  the  injury  inflicted  on  the 
whole  colony  by  a  nation  professedly  at  peace  with  the  mother 
country. 

The  withdrawal  of  the  Dutch  soldiers  from  Harlem, — most 
of  these  at  the  surrender  returning  to  Holland, — and  the  abrupt 
departure  of  others,  gave  an  air  of  desertion  to  the  village.  But 
new  residents  soon  took  their  places,  prominent  among  whom 
was  Resolved  Waldron,  late  deputy  schout  of  New  Amsterdam, 
an  efficient  oflftcer,  to  whom  Stuyvesant  had  been  much  attached. 
Now  finding  his  vocation  gone,  he  retired  with  his  family  to 
Harlem,  to  spend  his  remaining  years,  but  not  to  be  released 
from  public  service. 

Among  the  persons  leaving  was  Juriaen  Hanel,  who  ten 
years  before  first  came  to  this  country  as  a  soldier  of  the  com- 
pany, and,  raised  to  be  a  sergeant,  had  been  rewarded  for  faithful 
service  by  an  increase  of  pay.  He  was  a  native  of  Poland,  and  a 
man  of  no  little  consequence  at  Harlem,  to  which  place  he  had 
removed  from  Bergen  only  within  a  few  months,  having,  as 
before  said,  purchased  Do.  Zyperus'  lands,  but  which  before 
leaving  he  sold  to  Johannes  Verveelen.  Jan  La  Montague  was 
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father  and  brother,  William,  both  living  at  Albany,  accepted  the 
issue  and  took  the  oath  of  allegiance,  he,  with  the  tie  of  a  native- 
bom  Hollander,  which  neither  of  the  former  could  boast,  made 
haste  to  dispose  of  his  property,  with  a  view  no  doubt  to  quitting 
the  town  or  country,  as  many  were  doing.  On  October  22d, 
1664,  he  sold  to  the  partners  Jan  Myndertsen  and  Johannes 
Smedes,  his  "piece  of  land,  and  meadow  belonging  thereunto, 
called  by  the  name  of  Montagne's  Point,  paled  in  betwixt  two 
creeks,  according  as  the  bill  of  sale  doth  mention,"  for  800  gl., 
wampum,  to  be  paid  by  instalments.* 

Another  inhabitant,  Arent  Moesman,  respected  in  the  church 
and  community,  though  he  took  the  oath  of  fidelity  to  the  English, 
prepared,  with  his  brother  Jacob,  to  visit  fatherland.  Conveying 
his  property  lying  in  this  town  to  Captain  Thomas  De  Lavall,  an 
Englishman  who  had  lately  arrived  here  with  Governor  NicoUs, 
he  bought  instead  a  house  and  lot  in  Broadway,  offered  for  sale 
by  Meynderts  before  named,  after  contracting  for  Montagne's 
Point.  For  this  he  gave  a  deed,  or  power  of  sale,  to  Dirck 
Vandercliff,  taking  from  him  a  mortgage  on  the  premises  for 
700  gl.  Thus  secured,  Moesman,  December  loth,  1664,  ob- 
tained a  pass  for  Holland  in  the  ship  Unity,  Captain  Jan  Bergen. 
Michiel  Muyden,  the  late  proprietor,  after  holding  a  prominent 
standing  in  the  town  and  contributing  no  little  to  its  welfare, 
had  sold  his  two  erven,  and  indeed  his  whole  allotment,  to  Jacques 
Cresson  in  1663.  He  too  returned  to  Holland,  and,  like  a  true 
Dutchman,  warmly  advocated  the  forcible  recovery  of  New  Neth- 
erland  from  the  English.  Subsequently  his  city  residence  in  the 
Winckel  Street,  left  in  care  of  Jacob  Kip,  was  confiscated. 

These  removals,  causing  painful  breaks  in  families,  as  in  the 
case  of  Verveelen,  whose  eldest  daughter,  Anna,  went  to  Hol- 
land with  her  husband,  Derick  Looten,  late  military  commissary, 
were  the  least  disastrous  consequences,  as  affecting  New  Harlem, 
of  the  political  change  which  had  happened  the  country.  Months 
were  required  to  restore  order  and  check  abuses  which  had  sud- 
denly sprung  up  to  disturb  the  peace  of  the  community.  Yet 
these  disquieting  circumstances  were  not  allowed  to  hinder  sev- 
eral genial  gatherings  at  the  hymenal  altar  during  the  winter 

•  Mevndcrts  and  Smedes  were  in  business  together  in  New  York.  The  former 
is  noticed  at  pp.  93,  102;  the  latter  at  p.  90.  Mynderts  married.  i66o»  Belitie 
Plettenborg,  by  whom  he  had  several  daughters  besides  Mrs.  Barent  Waldron. 

Smedes  is  called  Smith  in  the  contract  with  Montagne,  a  render  oi  his  name 
into  English,  which  never  prevailed,  at  least  with  the  earlier  generations  of  his  de- 
scendants. He  married,  January  3,  1665,  Lysbeth,  daughter  of  Michiel  Verschuur, 
and  on  February  3,  1676,  Machtelt,  daughter  of  Jan  Willems  Van  Isselsteyn.  He  had 
sons,  born  in  New  York,  Johannes,  Benjamin  and  Abraham,  the  last  by  his  second 
wife.  I  believe  he  removed  to  Ulster  County,  but  the  name  has  spread  to  mafiy 
localities. 


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and  spring  of  1665.  The  old  schepen,  Jan  Slot,  ended  his  wid- 
owerhood  by  choosing  another  wife,  and  provident  Pierre  Cres- 
son,  whose  son,  Jaques,  had  married  since  coming  to  Harlem, 
found  a  worthy  companion  for  his  daughter,  Christina,  in  a 
young  man  from  St.  Lo,  in  Normandy,  named  Letelier,  now  a 
magistrate  at  Bush  wick.* 

•  Jean  Letelier  was  one  of  the  "fourteen  Frenchmen"  by  whom  Bushwick  was 
settled,  in  1660,  and  was  one  of  its  first  schepens,  March  25,  166 1.  He  always  signed 
his  name  simply  *'Letelier/'  the  usual  mode  among  the  French  gentry.  ^  In   1662   he 

¥ive  three  guilders  toward  the  ransom  of  Teunis  Cray's  son  Jacob,  in  captivity  with  the 
urks.  Removing  to  New  Utrecht,  he  there  died  bcptember  4,  1671.  In  his  will  (to 
which  Abraham  au  Toict  is  a  witness)  he  speaks  of  his  children,  but  does  not  name 
them.  His  widow  marri^  Jacob  Gerrits  De  Haes,  by  whom  she  had  issue,  Jacob,  bom 
1678;  John,  bom  1680,  etc  Letelier  was  usually  called  by  the  Dutch  Tifje  (Tilya), 
and  whence  perhaps  the  family  of  Tillou  or  Tilyou,  whose  ancestor,  Pierre  (see  N.  Y. 
Gen.  and  Biog.  Kec,  1876,  p.  144),  if  the  son  of  Jean,  took  the  name  of  his  god- 
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1665-1666. 

RELUCTANT   YIELDING   TO   ENGLISH    RULE. 

T  JPON  the  late  surrender  of  the  country  by  the  Dutch  it  was 
conceded  that  "all  inferior  civil  officers  and  magistrates 
shall  continue  as  they  now  are,  if  they  please,  till  the  customary 
time  of  new  elections."  But  "the  customary  times"  arriving,  no 
new  election  took  place  at  Harlem;  while  the  old  officers,  either 
from  indifference,  or  from  doubts  as  to  their  power  to  act  with- 
out the  schout,  who  positively  declined,  utterly  failed  in  their 
duties.  Sundry  violations  of  law  and  order  naturally  followed 
upon  this  suspension  of  authority,  and  at  the  bottom  of  which 
was  that  ever  prolific  cause  of  evil, — rum!  Who  the  offenders, 
or  what  the  offenses,  is  not  further  specified  than  in  the  follow- 
ing missive,  addressed  "To  the  Schout  and  present  Magistrates 
of  Harlem:" 

A  Warrant  to  the  Magistrates  of  Harlem  for  the  Prohibition  of  the 
sale  of  strong  liquors  to  Indians. 

Whereas,  I  am  informed  of  several  abuses  that  are  done  and  com- 
mitted by  the  Indians,  occasioned  much  through  the  liberty  some  persons 
take  of  selling  Strong  Liquors  unto  them;  These  are  to  require  you  that 
you  take  special  care  that  none  of  your  Town  presume  to  sell  any  sort  of 
Strong  Xriquors  or  Strong  Beer  unto  any  Indian,  and  if  you  shall  find 
any  person  offending  therein,  that  you  seize  upon  such  Liquor  and  bring 
such  person  before  me,  to  make  answers  for  the  offense.  Given  under 
my  hand,  at  Fort  James,  in  New  York,  this  i8th  of  March,  1664  [1665 
N.  S.].  Richard  Nicolls. 

These  infractions  of  law  were  largely  due  to  the  disaffection 
of  Jan  La  Montague,  to  which  reference  has  been  made.  For 
some  cause  failing  in  the  sale  of  his  Point,  he  remained  here, 
but  threw  up  his  office  as  schout,  refusing  to  arrest  and  prosecute 
offenders,  by  which  means  lawbreakers  went  unrebuked,  and 
the  course  of  justice  was  obstructed.  A  state  of  things  so  ab- 
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be  endured ;  and  the  result  was  another  order,  more  explicit  than 
the  previous  one,  and  in  this  form. 

To  the  Magistrates  of  Harlem: 

Whereas,  complaint  hath  been  made  to  me  that  the  Schout  of  Harlem 
doth  not  execute  his  office,  and  that  several  disorders  are  committed  and 
the  Inhabitants  hindered  of  their  accustomed  rights ;  I  do  therefore  order, 
that  the  Magistrates  now  in  being  do  act,  as  formerly;  and  in  case  the 
Schout  will  not  execute  his  office,  that  the  Magistrates  do  Justice  in  his 
place,  for  the  good  of  the  Town,  and  to  decide  all  matters  that  doth  or 
shall  happen  there,  not  exceeding  the  value  of  One  Hundred  Guilders 
in  Wampum;  and  this  to  continue  till  further  order.  Given  under  my 
hand  at  Fort  James,  in  New  York,  this  20th  of  April,  1665. 

Richard  Nicou,s. 

In  the  reconstruction  of  the  city  government  after  the  Eng- 
lish form,  which  now  took  place,  the  want  of  a  better  adminis- 
tration of  authority  at  Harlem  operated  as  a  reason  for  bringing 
that  district  within  the  jurisdiction  and  control  of  the  city. 
Hence,  Gov.  Nicolls'  proclamation  of  June  12th,  1665,  consti- 
tuting the  new  municipal  government,  declared  "that  the  inhab- 
itants of  New  York,  New  Harlem,  with  all  other  His  Majesty's 
subjects,  inhabitants  upon  this  island,  are,  and  shall  be  forever 
accounted  nominated  and  established,  as  one  body  politic  and 
corporate,  under  the  government  of  a  Mayor,  Aldermen  and 
Sheriff."  In  these  was  vested  "full  power  and  authority  to  rule 
and  govern,  as  well  all  the  Inhabitants  of  this  corporation,  as 
any  Strangers,  according  to  the  general  laws  of  this  Government, 
and  such  peculiar  laws  as  are  or  shall  be  thought  convenient  and 
necessary  for  the  good  and  welfare  of  this,  His  Majesty's  corpor- 
ation; as  also  to  appoint  such  under  officers  as  they  shall  judge 
necessary  for  the  orderly  execution  of  justice."  One  of  the 
aldermen  therein  appointed  was  Mr.  Thomas  De  La  vail,  whose 
relations  to  Harlem  were  to  form  an  important  chapter  in  its 
history. 

One  of  the  first  acts  of  the  new  Common  Council  was  to 
adopt  the  following,  June  15th.  "Resolved,  to  send  for  the 
Court  at  Harlem,  and  the  constable,  Resolved  Waldron,  by 
letter,  to  come  hither  by  Saturday  next."  What  was  brewings 
was  hardly  hinted  at  in  the  polite  billet  thereupon  addressed: 
"To  the  Honorable,  the  Court  of  New  Harlem."  It  ran  in  these 
words  : 

Honorable  and  Affectionate  Friends: 

Thse  serve  only  that  your  Honors  hold  yourselves  ready  to  appear 
here  in  this  city,  on  Saturday  next,  being  17th  June,  old  style,  with 
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cated.    Whereunto   confiding,   we   commend  your   Honors,   after  cordial 
salutation,  unto  God's  protection,  and  remain 

Your  aflFectionate  friends, 
The  Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Sheriff  of  the  City  op  New  York. 
By  order  of  the  same,  Johannes  Nevius,  Secretary. 

Done,  N.  York,  the  15th  June,  1665. 

Punctually  those  sent  for  appeared,  and  the  record  reads 
thus:  "Resolved  Waldron  entering  is  notified  that  he  is  elected 
Constable  of  New  Harlem,  which  accepting,  he  hath  taken  the 
proper  oath;  and  the  Magistrates  who  accompanied  him  are 
informed  that  they  are  discharged  from  their  office.  The  afore- 
said Constable  is  authorized  to  select  three  or  four  persons,  who 
shall  have  power  to  decide  any  differences  or  dispute  to  the 
extent  of  Five  Pounds  Sterling,  in  Sewant,  and  no  higher;  and 
the  party  who  shall  not  be  satisfied  with  the  decision  of  those 
elected  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  bound  to  pay  him,  the  Constable, 
the  sum  of  Six  Stivers,  and  further  to  bear  the  costs  of  proceed- 
ings before  this  bench  of  Justice."* 

Waldron,  clothed  with  these  unusual  powers,  called  Daniel 
Toumeur,  and  who  else  we  know  not,  to  the  magistracy.  Johan- 
nes Vermilye  was  given  the  place  of  gerechtsboode,  or  court  mes- 

*  Jan  Pietcrscn  Slot,  the  old  magistrate,  had  just  before  left  the  town  with  his 
family.  Himself  from  Holstein,  as  before  noticed,  bis  sons  Pieter  and  Tan  were 
bom  at  Amsterdam.  Pieter  sold  his  property  at  Harlem,  gotten  from  his  father,  to 
Resolved  Waldron,  and  removed  to  Bergen,  where  he  owned  25  morgen  of  land, 
bought  May  14,  1657,  and  where,  on  April  i,  1665,  he  joined  the  church  with  his 
wife,  who  was  the  daughter  of  Jacob  Walinp  Van  Winckel,  of  that  place,  deceased. 
His  father  sold  his  lands  at  Harlem,  named  in  his  patent  of  January  4,  1664,  to 
Johannes  Verveelen,  and  on  April  20,  1665,  bought  other  property  at  the  Bouwery, 
from  Governor  Stuyycsant.  But  he  again  sold  out  here,  February  12,  1669,  having, 
on  August  14  preceding,  sold  to  Ca^t.  Delavall  for  £10  a  parcel  of  meadow  on  "the 
nnorth  side  of  Barent's  Island,"  which  he  held  by  p-ound-brief  from  Stuyvesant.  In 
1686  he  and  wife  resided  in  Wall  street;  in  1703,  in  the  South  Ward.  His  children 
were  by  his  first  wife,  Aeltie  Jans;  his  second,  Claertie  Dominicus,  he  married  while 
at  Harlem. 

Jan  Jansen  Slot  married,  1673,  Judith,  daughter  of  Stoffel  Elsworth,  took  a  house 
in  the  Smith's  Ply,  and  that  year  joined  Capt.  Steenwyck's  new  troop  of  horse.  A 
warm  partisan  of  Leisler,  in  1689,  he  was  made  an  ensign.  He  is  named,  October  7, 
1695,  as  selling  his  city  property.  His  children,  so  far  as  known,  were  Heyltie,  born 
1672,  who  married  Capt.  Zebulon  Carter;  Johannes,  born  1674;  Stoffel,  born,  1677; 
Annetie,  bom  1681,  married  David  Demarest  3d,  and  Jonathan  Hart;  Hendrick»  bom 
1684,  and  Judith,  bom  1687,  who  married  John  Van  Horn. 

Pieter  Jansen  Slot  sold  out  at  Pemberboah,  on  Bergen  Neck,  January  30,  1671, 
and  on  March  23  ensuing,  bought  a  place  in  New  York,  to  which  he  removed;  but  in 
1673  his  house,  with  others,  was  taken  down  to  enlarge  the  grounds  about  the  fort, 
in  1677  Slot  hired  a  farm  at  Esopus,  to  which  place  he  had  gone  to  follow  his  trade 
as  builder.  Returning  in  1683,  he  and  wife,  to  Bergen,  witli  letters  to  the  church 
there,  they  were  soon  back  to  New  York,  living  for  years  on  property  which  they 
owned  "at  Crommesshe,  near  Stuyvesant's  Bouwery."  Selling  this,  April  10,  1688, 
Peter  died  soon  after.  In  1692  his  widow,  still  of  New  York,  married  John  Demarest, 
Esq.,  of  Hackensack.  Pieter's  choldren  were  John,  born  1665;  Jacobus,  bom  1669, 
both  at  Bergen;  Tryntie,  born  1671,  married  Adam  Van  Norden  and  Cornelius  Banta: 
and  Tonas,  bom  1681,  at  Esopus,  and  who  married,  1713,  Jannetie  Ostrum,  of 
Poughkeepffle.  where  he  was  living  in  1738.  John  Slot,  born  1665,  was  residing  in 
New  York  in  1703,  with  his  wife,  Jannetie  Andries,  and  children.  Jacobus  Shot  settled 
at  Hackensack,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Demarest,  aforesaid,  and  was  father 
of  Petrus,  bom  1696;  John^  1699;  Eve,  1701;  Leah,  1706;  Jonathan,  1712;  Sarah, 
J715;  Tryntie,  1718;  Benjamin,  1721.  These  have  many  descendants  in  Bergen. 
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senger ;  and  Tourneur,  the  now  deacon  and  magistrate,  was  soon 
after,  by  the  appointment  of  the  governor,  made  "under  sheriff" 
at  New  Harlem,  and  "president  of  the  court  there."  Thus  was 
abolished  the  Court  of  Schout  and  Schepens. 

Entering  zealously  upon  their  duties,  the  very  first  act  of 
the  new  magistrates  had  nearly  gotten  them  into  trouble.  While 
Nicholas  De  Meyer  was  busied  with  his  merchandise  at  New 
York, — having  latdy  taken  out,  March  31st,  "a  certificate  of 
denization,  with  liberty  to  traffic  to  Fort  Albany," — his  farm 
tenant  at  Harlem,  Aert  Pieterz  Buys,  took  occasion  to  abscond, 
being  in  arrears  for  rent,  and  in  debt  to  the  town.  By  authority 
of  the  Mayor's  Court,  De  Meyer,  June  19th,  proceeded  to  "at- 
tach all  his  goods."  This  the  new  magistrates  opposed,  assert- 
ing their  own  claim  as  paramount.  De  Meyer  at  once  appealed 
to  the  Mayor's  Court,  which  set  the  matter  right  by  declaring  the 
attachment  valid,  and  citing  Waldron  and  his  colleagues  "to  show 
cause,  on  the  next  day,  why  they  claim  to  be  preferred,  in  the 
disposal  of  said  property,  before  the  prosecutor  of  the  attach- 
ment." The  silence  of  the  record  makes  it  evident  that  the 
magistrates  declined  to  press  their  claim. 

But,  abating  none  of  his  vigilance,  the  zealous  Waldron  soon 
found  more  work  at  hand.  A  quilt  had  been  stolen  from  Jan 
Dircksen,  usually  called,  from  his  former  occupation,  *'Jan  the 
Soldier."  Waldron  searched  in  all  the  houses  without  finding  it 
He  then  called  the  townsfolk  together  in  the  square,  and  remind- 
ing them  that  no  stranger  had  been  in  the  village,  declared  that 
some  one  of  them  must  have  taken  the  quilt.  Hereupon  it  oc- 
curred to  Pierre  Cresson  that  Jan  Teunissen,  the  brother-in-law 
of  Dircksen,  had  told  him,  one  day  before  the  quilt  was  missed, 
that  Jan  the  Soldier  had  only  an  empty  chest  in  the  house.  Sus- 
picion at  once  fastened  upon  Teunissen ;  and  the  more  readily 
as  during  the  previous  winter  Verveelen's  negro  had  been  caught 
by  his  master  taking  a  schepel  of  grain  from  his  bam  toward 
Teunissen's  house,  and  had  laid  it  upon  Teunissen;  albeit,  the 
integrity  of  the  negro,  as  will  be  seen  by  and  by,  was  not  above 
suspicion.  Waldron  therefore  asked  Teunissen  "how  he  knew 
that  there  was  nothing  in  Jan  the  soldier's  chest."  Getting  a 
curt  answer,  Waldron  retorted,  "You  may  as  well  be  guilty  of 
stealing  the  quilt,  as  of  Sieur  Verveelen's  corn!"  This  roused 
Teunissen  to  defend  his  injured  reputation,  and  forthwith  he 
summoned  Waldron  before  the  Mayor's  Court,  to  answer  for 
having  "accused  him  of  being  a  thief." 

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with  such  effect  all  the  suspicious  circumstances,  backed  up  by 
written  testimony,  as  to  completely  turn  the  tables  against  Teu- 
nissen,  who  was  not  only  made  to  pay  for  defendant's  lost  time, 
with  the  costs  of  suit,  but  was  sharply  reprimanded  in  these 
terms:  **And  if  further  complaints  of  your  improper  conduct 
come  before  the  court,  you  shall  be  punished  as  the  merits  of 
the  case  may  require,  for  an  example  to  others!" 

This  case  perhaps  was  clearer  to  the  court  than  the  record 
makes  it,  but  it  should  be  viewed  in  the  light  of  certain  collateral 
facts.  The  conflicting  views  and  feelings  which  had  divided 
society  at  Harlenvinto  the  English  and  anti-English  parties,  had 
brought  various  individuals  and  families  into  most  unfriendly 
and  even  hostile  relations.  It  plainly  crops  out  both  in  the  na- 
ture and  increased  amount  of  the  business  which  occupied  the 
two  courts.  This  ill-will,  added  to  the  spirit  of  lawlessness  before 
noticed,  while  it  lent  eagle  eyes  to  suspicion,  disposed  the  courts 
to  be  strict;  their  decisions,  especially  when  based  upon  circum- 
stantial evidence,  to  which  in  those  early  times  undue  weight 
was  often  attached,  were  very  liable  to  be  partial,  if  not  to  wholly 
ignore  such  mitigating  or  rebutting  circumstances  as  might  even 
warrant  an  acquittal.  Then  Waldron,  his  official  training  akin 
to  that  of  a  modern  detective,  intent  only  on  finding  the  evidence 
leading  to  conviction,  and  with  ideas  of  the  rigid  Stuyvesant 
stripe,  whose  severity  often  met  a  rebuke  from  superiors  in  Hol- 
land, was  prone  as  magistrate  to  administer  justice  sternly,  and 
law  to  the  letter.  Add  to  this  Teunissen's  uniform  good  stand- 
ing, and  there  is  room  to  question  whether  he  was  fairly  treated. 
The  same  may  apply  to  the  case  of  another  person,  most  respect- 
ably connected,  who  the  same  year  was  accused  of  theft,  declared 
guilty,  and  forbidden  a  residence  in  the  town.* 

•  Jan  Teunissen,  better  appreciated  by  a  later  court  held  December  14,  1666,  was 
appointed,  with  Lubbcrt  Gerritsen  and  Jeremias  Jansen  Hagenaer,  to  arbitrate  in  a 
difference  between  Nelis  Matthyssen  and  Cornells  Jansen,  concerning  timber;  and 
again  at  another  court,  October  24,  1667,  when  the  high  sheriff  Manning  presided,  was 
named,  with  Valentine  Claessen  as  referee  in  re  Johannes  Buys  vs.  Jan  Du^s  and 
Lubbert  Gerritsen.  He  was  rarely  referred  to  while  living  at  Harlem,  otherwise  than 
as  Tan  Teunissen,  but  from  his  birthplace,  Tilburg,  as  before  noticed,  he  ultimately 
look  the  name  Van  Tilburg.  Jan  Teunissen  married  at  New  Amsterdam,  1655, 
Tryntic  Pieters  Cronenberg,  an  orphan,  though  23  years  of  age,  who  had  been  sent 
out  that  year  at  the  charge  of  the  city  of  Amsterdam.  They  settled  at  Fort  Orange, 
Teunissen  getting  a  house  and  lot;  but  for  selling  liquor  to  Indians  he  fell  under 
severe  penalties.  He  thence  went  to  the  Delaware  to  follow  his  trade  as  carpenter, 
found  times  hard,  and  applied  to  be  a  soldier.  Returning,  in  1659,  he  worked  some 
time  on  Long  Island,  and  then  came  to  Harlem.  Engaging  in  farming,  he  bought 
Dirck  Claessen's  place,  but  was  unable  to  keep  it,  though  he  took  it  up  again  in  1668, 
on  a  lease  from  Tourncur,  then  the  owner.  The  next  year  he  hired  one  of  Archer's 
farms  at  Fordham,  but  finally  removed  to  New  York.  Here  his  wife  joined  the 
church  in  1674,  and  he  the  year  after.  In  their  will,  made  January  24,  1686,  they 
name  their  children,  Peter.  Barcnt,  Johannes,  Jacob,  Isaac  and  Abraham,  who  are  to 
share  equally  their  real  and  personal  estate.  Teunissen  outlived  Tryntie,  married  again 
in  1601,  and  in   1703  had  his  third  wife. 

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Soon  after  this,  Montagne,  the  Vermilyes,  and  some  others^ 
fell  into  a  sore  wrangle  with  Tourneur,  and  all  because  Tour- 
neur's  dog  had  bitten  one  of  Montagne's  hogs.  It  went  so  far 
that  Tourneur  cited  Montagne  and  two  others  before  Waldron's 
court,  September  28th,  when  each  of  the  three  was  fined  a  poimd 
flemish,  "for  the  benefit  of  the  poor."  They  appealed,  but  the 
Mayor's  Court  sustained  the  sentence.  The  natural  effect  was 
to  still  more  sour  the  parties.  Montagne,  cherishing  the  pur- 
pose to  sell  out  and  leave  (arrangements  for  which  he  completed 
only  just  before  his  death),  now  disposed  of  his  village  property 
and  bouw-land,  recently  his  brother's,  with  the  crop  he  had  just 
sown  thereon,  to  David  Demarest,  late  of  Staten  Island,  who 
became  a  resident  of  the  town,  where  he  at  once  took  a  promi- 
nent position. 

One  of  the  three  individuals  fined  as  aforesaid  was  Monis 
Peterson,  who  was  also  complained  of  at  the  same  session  of  the 
town  court  for  an  assault  upon  Jacques,  *'the  herdsman  of  saiW 
village,"  with  whom  he  had  a  dispute  about  his  oxen.  For  this 
he  was  fined  100  gl.  The  burly  Swede  not  only  refused  to  pay 
the  fine,  but  threatened  the  constable  to  serve  him  as  he  had 
Jacques!  This,  even  from  the  belligerent  Monis,  was  insuffer- 
able; Waldron  arraigned  the  offender  before  the  Mayor's  Court, 
which,  approving  the  former  sentence,  directed  Staeck  to  be 
kept  in  custody  till  he  gave  security  for  his  good  behavior.  But 
enough.  These  cases,  which  illustrate  the  times,  and  possess 
interest  as  showing  the  then  procedure,  are  but  samples  of  the 
many  which  engaged  the  courts,  and  supplied  topics  for  the 
village  coteries,  during  the  latter  half  of  1665. 

But  the  signal  event  of  that  year,  in  the  town's  history, 
awakens  more  agreeable  reflections,  and  deserves  a  particular 
notice.  Do.  Selyns  had  received  into  his  spiritual  fold  at  the 
Bouwery,  up  to  his  leaving  for  Holland,  July  23d,  1664,  seven- 
teen of  the  Harlem  residents  of  both  sexes,  whose  names,  after 

1685,  Lysbcth.  daughter  of  Frans  Van  Hooghten,  and  had  children  (with  three  named 
Frans  who  died  in  infancy),  Johannes,  bom  1686;  Abraham,  1694;  Frans,  1699; 
Catherine,  1700;  Petrus,  1703.  The  Negro  Plot  of  1712  was  begun  by  a  slave  of 
Mr.  Van  Tilburg's,  who,  at  midnight,  April  6,  set  his  master's  outbuildings  on  fire, 
when  the  citizens  running  thither,  the  negroes  killed  several.  Peter  died  at  Newark. 
N.  J.,  in  1734,  aged  76  years.  Barent  Van  Tilburg,  born  at  Flatbush,  married,  1686, 
Marritie,  daughter  of  Aclam  Brower,  and  widow  of  Jacob  Pietersen.  He  had  children, 
Geesie,  born   1601,  and  Jan,   1697,  and  was  a  widower  in   i793.  living  in  New  York. 

Johannes  Van  Tilburg  was  born  at  New  Utrecht.  He  and  his  brother,  Isaac,  served 
rcisler  as  soldiers  in  1690.  He  married,  1686,  Anna  Maria  Van  Giesen,  and,  1690, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Conselyea,  who  survived  him,  and  married  Claes  Bogcrt, 
1703.  Children,  Teunis,  bom  1693;  Peter,  1694;  John,  1702,  and  Catherine,  1703, 
who  married  Cornelius  Turk,  Jr.  Jacob  Van  Tilburg,  born  at  Harlem,  married,  1688, 
Grietie,  daughter  of  Abraham  Kermer,  and  widow  of  Hendrick  de  Boog;  was  a 
mariner,  ana  had  children,  Metje,  bom  1692;  Catherine,  1698;  Abraham,  1700.  His 
widow  married  Derick  Benson,  of  New  York.  Isaac  Van  Tilburg,  bom  1670,  at  Ford- 
ham,  married,  1693,  Aeltie,  daughter  of  Hendrick  Barens  Smith,  of  Bushwick.  He 
survived  but  four  years;    his  widow,  in  1698,  married  Pierre  Chaigneux,  of  New  York. 


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he  left,  were  transferred  to  the  register  of  the  church  at  Fort 
Amsterdam,  to  which  several  of  them  had  previously  belonged. 
Other  communicants  living  at  Harlem  (Vermeille,  Waldron  and 
Slot,  and  their  wives)  still  held  their  original  connection  with 
that  church.  This  seems  indicative  of  two  facts, — the  yet  im- 
perfect organization  of  the  church  at  Harlem,  and  its  dependence, 
by  mutual  agreement,  upon  the  city  pastors  and  consistory.* 

The  ensuing  winter  the  congregation,  though  not  strong  in 
numbers,  undertook  to  build  a  house  of  worship.  A  pleasant 
little  episode  growing  out  of  it  was  "a  feast'  given  to  General 
Stuyvesant  by  the  three  magistrates  Tourneur,  Montague,  and 
Verveelen,  but  probably  acting  as  well  in  their  specialties  of 
deacon,  voorleser,  and  innkeeper.  It  came  off  January  23d, 
1665,  costing  the  deacons'  fund  21  gl.  i  st.,  and  so  was  plainly 
identified  with  the  building  movement,  as  to  which,  and  probably 
other  matters  affecting  their  interests,  they  naturally  sought 
counsel  of  their  honored  guest  before  he  should  leave  on  his 
intended  voyage  to  Holland,-^he  whose  advice  they  had  hitherto 
so  greatly  leaned  upon  and  valued,  both  as  their  governor  and 
an  old  elder  and  father  in  Israel.  In  order  to  provide  the  ways 
and  means  it  was  resolved  to  lay  out  additional  tuynen,  or  gar- 
dens, suitable  also  for  building  lots,  to  be  sold  to  actual  free- 
holders, or  residents,  at  25  gl.  each,*'  for  the  benefit  of  the  town." 
This  was  at  once  carried  into  effect.  The  gardens,  twenty  in 
number,  and  containing  about  half  an  acre  each,  lay  at  the  west 
end  of  the  village  plot,  and  ran  north  and  south  from  street  to 
street.  To  distinguisrh  them  from  the  others  they  were  called 
the  Buyten  Tuynen,  or  Out  Gardens,  as  they  lay  outside  the 
palisade.  Dirck  Claessen  bought  No.  i,  next  to  the  town  plot; 
Daniel  Tourneur,  No.  2 ;  Claude  Le  Maistre,  No.  3,  and  Nicholas 

•  The  church  members  referred  to  were  the  following: 
Tan  La  Montagne,  Jr.,  and  Maria  Vermeille,  his  wife. 
Daniel  Tourneur  and  Tacquline  Parisis,  his  wife. 

iohanes  Verveelen  ana  Anna  Taersvelt,  his  wife, 
oost  Van  Oblinus,   Sr.,  and  Martina  Westin,   his  wife, 
oost  Van  Oblinus,  Jr.,  and  Maria  Sammis,  his  wife. 
Qaude  le  Maistre  and  Hester  du  Bois,  his  wife. 
Pierre  Crcsson  and  Rachel  Cloos,  his  wife. 

{aques  Cresson  and  Maria  Renard,  his  wife, 
ean  le  Roy. 
saac  Vermeille  and  Jacomina  Jacobs,  his  wife. 
Resolved  Waldron  and  Tanneke  Nagel,  his  wife. 
Pieter  Jansen  Slot  and  Marritie  Van  Winckel,  his  wife. 

Of  former  residents  or  landholders  here  the  following  had  been  church  members; 
De  Meyer,  though  a  non-resident,  being  still  a  proprietor: 
Nicholas  ae  Meyer  and  Lydia  Van  Dyck,  his  wife. 
Hendrick  F.  Vander  Vin  and  Wyntie,  his  wife. 
Jacques  Cousseau  and  Madeline  au  Tullicre,  his  wife. 
Philip  Casier  and  Marie  Taine,  his  wife. 
Willem  de  la  Montagne. 
Anna  Verveelen. 
Arent  Jansen  Moesman. 
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De  Meyer,  No.  4.  Captain  Delavall  engaged  the  next  four  num- 
bers, but  the  rest  went  off  slowly.  For  the  history  of  the  church 
erection,  at  best  obscure,  yet  its  every  detail  interesting,  we  are 
largely  indebted  to  Montagne's  accounts  as  treasurer,  showing 
what  the  deacons  expended  for  materials,  labor,  etc.*  Doubtless, 
as  is  usual  in  new  settlements,  the  people  undertook  the  incipient 
labor  of  preparing  the  timber,  etc.,  as  a  voluntary  offering.  This 
work,  of  which  no  record  remains,  had  evidently  been  completed 
and  the  building  enclosed  and  ready  for  seats  at  the  date  of  the 
***feast"  aforesaid,  as  the  deacons'  accounts  indicate. 

The  church  was  built  on  the  north  side  of  the  Great  Way 
(since  the  Church  Lane),  on  a  vacant  lot  between  the  east  end 
of  the  old  gardens  and  the  river,  seemingly  reserved  for  this 
purpose.  The  work,  suspended  during  the  farming  season,  was 
resumed  on  the  approach  of  winter  by  the  mechanics  Jan  Gulick 
and  Nelis  Matthyssen,  in  order  to  make  the  house  more  comfort- 
able before  cold  weather  should  set  in.  And  some  special,  genial 
occasion  it  must  have  been,  most   likely  a  dedicatory  service, 

*  The  Deacon's  accounts  covering  the  time  the  church  was  building  are  sufficiently 
curious  to  be  given  entire.     The  charges  are  in  florins  and  stivers. 
The   Worthy    Deaconry,    Credit: 

1665,  23  Jan.     By    feast   given    Stuyvesant   by    D.    Tourneur,    J.    Verveelen 

and    J.    Montagne f,  21  :  19 

•*  a  book  by  J.   Montagne 

"      26     *'         '*  5  planks  for  benches  at  the  Church 7  :  10 

**       "      "         "  labor   making  the   benches 8  :    o 

"  '/i  lb.    nails   for   ditto 12 

"  to   Wesscls   for  bringing  the   Dominie 7  :    o 

"  to    the    Sexton    ( Koster) 6  :    o 

*•  ditto     I  :    o 

" 6:    o 

"      20  Dec.      "  nails  for  the  house  on  the  Church  lot 15  :    o 

"  nails   for   the   Church 49  :    2 

'*  wa^cs   for  labor  at  the  Church 36  :  13 

"  a  piece  of  gold  to  the  Preacher 50  :    o 

"  nails  for  the   church 16:    $ 

"  wages  for  labor  at  the  Church  to  Jan  Gulcke  and  Nelis. .  24  :    o 

1666,  27  Jan.       "  ditto    to    ditto 40  :    o 

*'        3  Feb.      "  to    the    Sexton 6  :    o 

*'      25  Mar.     **  ditto     6  :    o 

"      25  Apl.       "  nails   for  the   Church 17  :  ig 

"  planks    for    the    Church 90  :  o 

**  Hendrick  Karstens  for  raising  up  the  Church  and  making 

the    foundation     (standcr) 30  :  o 

"  ditto   for  plastering  the  same 6  :  o 

"         1   Dec.      '*  to    the     Sexton 18  •  o 

1667,  30  Jan.       **  at  allotment  of  the   seats 4  ':  o 

"  Jan  Teunissen  for  a  plank  for  the  Church i  :  lo 

"        7  Mar.     "  to    the    Sexton 6  :    o 

**  Nelis  far  making  the  table 3  :    © 

"   1    lb.    nails 3:    o 

"  3  planks  for  the  table  and  benches 4:10 

27      "        *'  Bart    the    mason 40  •    o 

"             Sept.     "  to    the    Sexton 6  :    o 

*'  2  schepels  rye  to  sow  upon  the  Church  lot 9  :    o 

1668,  Jan.       •*  to    the    Sexton 6  :    o 

"  a   town   book 4  |    o 

"  Matvs  for  taking  away  the   Dominie *  19 

**  to  the  masons  and  lime  by  Verveelen 19:    © 

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which  in  midwinter  brought  the  dominie,  and  drew  forth  the 
generous  acknowledgment  of  twenty  dollars  in  gold !  Do.  Samuel 
Megapolensis  had  now  taken  Selyns'  charge,  his  father  being 
senior  pastor  at  New  York,  and  Samuel  Drisius  his  colleague. 
To  one  of  these,  doubtless,  Harlem  was  indebted  then,  as  at 
stated  times  thereafter,  for  ministerial  visits  and  services, — ^always 
notable  occasions,  and  welcome  interruptions  to  the  ordinary 
routine  of  the  voorleser. 

Better  for  the  peace  of  the  village  had  Madam  Gossip  never 
made  her  debut  there;  but,  alas!  the  unfriendly  prejudices  which 
had  crept  into  the  community  gave  a  tempting  opportunity  to 
employ  her  insinuating  but  venomed  tongue  to  the  injury  of  a 
worthy  church  member ;  for  "slander  loves  a  shining  mark."  To 
speak  plainly,  three  Dutch  matrons,  Sarah  Teunis,  Tryntie  Peiters, 
and  Mayke  Oblinus,  with  no  fear  of  law  or  husbands  before  their 
eyes,  had  "falsely  accused  of  theft"  a  French  woman,  and  neigh- 
bor, none  other  than  the  wife  of  Jacques  Cresson.  The  first  two 
being  the  wives  of  Jan  the  soldier  and  Jan  Teunissen ;  may  be  it 
was  a  retort  upon  the  Cressons,  for  the  affair  of  the  stolen  quilt. 
Upon  the  injured  lady's  complaint.  Mayor  Delavall,  March  27th, 
1666,  directed,  the  under  sheriff  and  constable  at  Harlem  to  inter- 
rogate the  fair  transgressors,  "regarding  the  matter  at  issue," 
and  advise  him  by  the  hand  of  Mrs.  Cresson.  So  much  for  her 
advantage  did  the  investigation  prove,  that  the  Mayor  required 
the  trio  to  make  a  public  confession  before  the  court  at  New 
Harlem,  and  also  sign  a  writing  to  that  effect,  that  they  knew 
notliing  of  her  whom  they  had  defamed,  "except  what  is  honor- 
able and  virtuous."  But  mark  the  inevitable  costs  of  justice  in 
these  neat  little  bills  which  the  clerk  at  Harlem  presented  to  the 
amiable  litigant. 

Marie  Renard,  Dr. 

To  an  extra  court f.  25   :  o 

"    seven  citations   4  :  4 

"    a  copy  of  examination 2   :  o 

"    a  copy  of  the  appeal  (nuUatie) 2   :  o 

"    a  copy  of  the  account 12 

f.  33   :  16 

To  after   signing    i  :  3 

"  signing  the  certificate i  :  3 

"  copy  of  the  certificate 2  :  6 

"  notice   of  extra  court 3  :  o 

"  copy  of  the  appeal 3  :  o 

f.  II   :    o 


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Marie,  thus  injured  in  her  good  fame  and  purse,  was  of 
Huguenot  parentage  and  of  unquestioned  piety,  her  husband 
also  being  one  of  the  "real  Reformed  of  France."  Once  having 
"some  remarkable  experiences,  of  a  light  shining  upon  her,  while 
she  was  reading  in  the  New  Testament  about  the  sufferings  of 
the  Lord  Jesus,"  it  greatly  startled  her,  yet  "left  such  a  joy  and 
testimony  in  her  heart  as  she  could  not  describe."  Constrained, 
as  she  was,  to  speak  to  others  about  "this  glory,"  her  brother-in- 
law,  Nichols  De  La  Plain,  rashly  told  her,  "You  must  not  go 
to  church  any  more;  you  are  wise  enough."  These  words,  the 
tempter's  prompting  to  spiritual  pride,  impressed  and  gjieved 
her,  "  for  not  to  go  to  church,  and  to  leave  the  Lord's  Supper, 
she  could  not  in  her  heart  consent."  So,  seeking  higher  counsel, 
she  remained  steadfast  in  her  religion,  whose  support  she  so  much 
needed  in  the  peculiar  trials  which  fell  to  her  lot* 

*  This  lady  died  at  Philadelphia,  October  i,   1710.     (See  N.  Cresson's  letters,  p. 


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1666-1667. 

THE  NICOLLS  PATENT;  THE  COURT,  MILL,  CHURCH. 

l-TARLEM  was  now  a  well-ordered  rural  hamlet,  owning  some 
eighty  head  of  neat  cattle.  These,  from  April  till  Novem- 
ber, were  to  be  seen  grazing  on  the  commons  west  of  the  village, 
usually  in  care  of  a  herder,  hired  by  those  who  kept  stock,  on 
terms  such  as  were  at  first  made  with  Du  Four  and  Peterson.* 
For  the  same  reason  the  young  horses,  cattle,  and  swine,  after 
being  branded  or  marked,  with  the  initials  of  the  owner's  name, 
or  otherwise,  were  turned  out  to  feed  in  the  common  woods,  free 
as  the  native  deer,  till  necessary  to  look  them  up  and  install  them 
from  autumn  rains  and  winter  snows.  The  growing  need  of  en- 
larged commonage,  and  of  having  the  limits  thereof  fixed,  natu- 
rally brought  up  the  subject  of  applying  for  a  general  patent, 
which  should  confirm  the  community  in  these  and  their  other 
rights  and  privileges,  and  also  secure  to  them  the  large  outlays 
made  in  building  their  houses,  as  well  as  what  it  had  cost  them 
to  clear,  fertilize,  and  fence  their  lands.      Governor  Nicolls,  on 

*  Mans  Staeck  was  from  Abo,  in  Finland,  and  was  best  known  as  Monis  Peter- 
son, bearing  a  prenomen  common  among  the  Swedes.  Being  at  New  Amsterdam  when 
the  order  issued  for  laying  out  the  village  of  Harlem,  he  took  part  in  that  enterprise 
by  securing  a  house  and  bouwery,  but  whifh  he  first  rented  and  then  disposed  of, 
entering  into  a  three  years'  partnership,  January  17,  1662,  with  Jan  Cogu,  a  fellow 
Swede,  but  better  educated,  from  whom  Peterson  received  the  half  of  his  allotment  of 
land,  with  house,  bam,  etc.,  for  125  guilders,  giving  Cogu  in  exchange  a  half  interest 
in  a  lime  kiln,  with  a  canoe  valued  at  15  guilders,  and  a  balance  in  cash.  With  farm 
and  lime  kiln  and  the  herding  to  attend  to,  they  also  engaged,  August  22,  1662,  to 
work  Tourneur's  land,  "already  under  the  plough;"  but  Cogu  died  near  the  time 
the  partnership  expired,  which  was  on  February  1,  1665.  Peterseon  held  minor 
offiffices  in  town,  and  here  married,  in  1663,  as  before  noticed.  Unlettered,  but  by 
nature  ^fted,  much  reliance  was  placed  upon  his  judgment;  yet  strong  drink  often 
made  him  abusive  and  violent,  and  this  tailing  marred  his  whole  life.  The  heavy 
penalties  put  upon  him  in  1665  may  have  led  nim  to  quit  Harlem,  and  he  soon  re- 
moved to  Klizabethtown,  N.  J.,  taking  his  lumber  thither  in  a  canoe,  aided  by  Gillis 
Boudewyns;  and  there  Monis  took  the  oath  of  allegiance,  February  19,  1666.  By  a 
previous  appointment  by  the  court  as  a  referee  to  fix  the  damages  in  a  case  of  tres- 
pass, he  reported  at  Harlem,  July  3,  ensuing.  Within  ten  years  he  went  to  the 
Swedish  colony  at  Upland,  Pcnn.,  and  got  land  at  Calkoen  Hook,  where  he  was  yet 
living  in  1603.  Too  often  mastered  bv  nis  bad  habit,  once  for  scolding  a  magistrate, 
he  was  fined  1,000  guilders,  but  the  fine  was  remitted  at  the  request  of  the  injured 
partv,  upon  Monis  asking  pardon  for  his  abuse,  and  pleading  that  he  said  it  "in  his 
<lriitk."  His  native  frankness  and  good  sense  disarmed  resentment,  and  despite  his 
weakness  won  respect.  His  sons,  Peter,  Matthew  and  Israel,  are  understood  to  have 
been  the  ancestors  of  the  Stuck  family. 


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knowing  their  case,  sent  to  Cortilleau,  the  surveyor,  who  had 
first  laid  out  the  village,  "a  warrant  directing  a  line  to  be  drawn 
for  the  range  of  cattle."      It  read : 

Whereas,  you  have  formerly  received  order  to  draw  a  line  from  the 
River  near  the  Town  of  Harlem,  upon  this  Island,  one  mile  into  the 
woods,  somewhat  in  relation  as  it  stands  from  this  place,  some  particu- 
lar point  of  the  compass;  These  are  to  authorize  you  to  draw  the  said 
line  from  the  River  against  the  middle  of  the  said  Town,  one  mile  directly 
into  the  woods,  for  the  greatest  conveniency  of  range  of  cattle  belong- 
ing to  the  said  Town,  not  considering  so  exactly  how  it  lies  from  hence, 
whether  southerly,  or  westerly,  or  otherwise.  For  so  doing,  this  shall 
be  your  warrant.  Given  under  my  hand,  at  Fort  James,  in  New  York, 
the  20th  day  of  March,  1665-6. 

Richard  Nicolls. 
To  Mr.  Jaques  Cortilleau. 

The  lines  being  run  out  pursuant  to  this  order,  and  a  return 
of  the  survey  made  to  the  governor,  he  thereupon  gave  written 
directions  for  drafting  a  patent,  in  which  he  specified  three  things 
to  be  observed,  namely: 

"There  is  one  condition,  which  is,  that  that  town  is  to  be 
forever  thereafter  called  by  the  name  of  Lancaster." 

"To  build  one  or  more  boats  fit  for  a  ferry." 

"There  is  also  liberty  of  going  further  west  into  the  woods 
with  their  horses  and  cattle,  for  range,  as  they  shall  have  occa- 
sion." 

In  due  time  the  patent  was  received,  and  read  as  follows:* 

RICHARD  NICOLLS,  Espr.,  Governor  under  His  Royal  Highness 
James,  Duke  of  York,  &c.,  of  all  his  territories  in  America;  To  all  to 
whom  these  Presents  shall  come,  sendeth  Greeting.  Whereas  there  is  a 
certain  Town  or  Village,  commonly  called  and  Imown  by  the  name  of 
New  Harlem,  situate  and  being  on  the  east  part  of  this  Island,  now  in 
the  tenure  or  occupation  of  several  freeholders  and  inhabitants,  who 
have  been  at  considerable  charge  in  building,  as  well  as  manuring,  plant- 
ing and  fencing  the  Town  and  lands  thereunto  belonging;  Now  for 
a  confirmation  unto  the  said  freeholders  and  inhabitants,  in  their  en- 
joyment and  possession  of  their  particular  lots  and  estates  in  the  said 
Town,  as  also  for  an  encouragement  to  them  in  the  further  improve- 
ment of  the  said  lands,  Know  ye  that,  by  virtue  of  the  commission  and 
authority  unto  me  given  by  His  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  York,  I 
have  thought  fit  to  ratify,  confirm  and  grant,  and  by  these  Presents  do 
ratify,  confirm  and  grant  unto  the  said  freeholders  and  inhabitants,  their 
heirs,  successors  and  assigns,  and  to  each  and  every  of  them,  their  par- 
ticular lots  and  estates  in  the  said  Town,  or  any  part  thereof.  And  I  do 
likewise  confirm  and  grant  unto  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  in  gen- 
eral, their  heirs,  successors  and  assigns,  the  privileges  of  a  Town,  but 

*  "A  patent  granted  unto  the  Freeholders  and  Inhabitants  of  Harlem,  alias 
Lancaster,  upon  the  Island  of  Manhattan." 

Such  is  the  title  or  heading  given  to  the  patent  as  recorded  in  the  Secretary  of 
State's  office,  Albany,  in  the  original  book  of  patents,  I4ber  i,  page  57,  but 
stands  disconnected  from  and  forms  no  part  of  the  instrument,  although  so  appear* 
ing  in  the  copies  printed  by  Mr.  Adriance.  In  the  date  the  day  is  left  blank.  By  a 
careful  collation  with  the  original  records,  we  are  enabled  to  present  exact  copies  of 
the  several  Harlem  patents;    only  conforming  to  modern  orthography. 


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immediately  depending  on  this  City,  as  being  within  the  liberties  thereof; 
Moreover,  for  the  better  ascertaining  of  the  limits  of  the  lands  to  the 
said  Town  belonging,  the  extent  of  their  bounds  shall  be  as  followeth, 
viz.,  That  from  the  west  side  of  the  fence  of  the  said  Town,  a  line  be 
run  due  West  four  hundred  English  poles,  without  variation  of  the 
compass.  At  the  end  whereof  another  line  being  drawn  to  run  North  and 
South,  with  the  variation,  that  is  to  say,  North  to  the  very  end  of  a  cer- 
tain piece  of  meadow  ground  commonly  called  the  Round  Meadow,  near 
or  adjoining  to  Hudson's  River,  and  South  to  the  Saw  Mills  over  against 
Hog  Island,  commonly  called  Perkins  Island;*  It  shall  be  the  West 
bounds  of  their  lands.  And  all  the  lands  lying  and  being  within  the 
said  line,  so  drawn  North  and  South  as  aforesaid,  eastward  to  the  Town 
and  Harlem  River,  as  also  to  the  North  and  East  Rivers,  shall  belong  to 
the  Town;  Together  with  all  the  soils,  creeks,  quarries,  woods,  meadows, 
pastures,  marshes,  waters,  fishings,  hunting  and  fowling,  And  all  other 
profits,  commodities,  emoluments  and  hereditaments  to  the  said  lands 
and  premises  within  the  said  line  belonging,  or  in  anywise  appertain- 
ing, with  their  and  every  of  their  appurtenances;  To  have  and  to  hold 
all  and  singular  the  said  lands,  hereditaments  and  premises,  with  their 
and  every  of  their  appurtenances,  and  of  every  part  and  parcel  thereof, 
to  the  said  freeholders  and  inhabitants,  their  heirs,  successors  and  assigns, 
to  the  proper  use  and  behoof  of  the  said  freeholders  and  inhabitants, 
their  heirs,  successors  and  assigns  forever.  It  is  likewise  further  con- 
firmed and  granted,  that  the  inhabitants  of  said  Town  shall  have  liberty, 
for  the  conveniency  of  more  range  of  their  horses  and  cattle,  to  go 
farther  west  into  the  woods,  beyond  the  aforesaid  bounds,  as  they  shall 
have  occasion,  the  lands  lying  within  being  intended  for  plowing,  home 
pastures  and  meadow  grounds  only;  And  no  person  shall  be  permitted 
to  build  any  manner  of  house  or  houses  within  two  miles  of  the  afore- 
said limits  or  bounds  of  the  said  Town,  without  the  consent  of  the  in- 
habitants thereof.  And  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  of  the  said  Town 
are  to  observe  and  keep  the  terms  and  conditions  hereafter  expressed; 
that  is  to  say:  That  from  and  after  the  date  of  these  Presents  the 
said  Town  shall  no  longer  be  called  New  Harlem,  but  shall  be  known 
and  called  by  the  name  of  Lancaster;  and  in  all  deeds,  bargains  and 
sales,  records  or  writings,  shall  be  so  deemed,  observed  and  written. 
Moreover  the  said  Town  lying  very  commodious  for  a  Ferry  to  and 
from  the  Main,  which  may  redound  to  their  particular  benefit  as  well 
as  to  a  general  good,  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  shall  be  obliged, 
at  their  charge,  to  build  or  provide  one  or  more  boats  for  that  pur- 
pose, fit  for  the  transportation  of  men,  horses  and  cattle,  for  which 
there  will  be  such  a  certain  allowance  given  as  shall  be  adjudged  reason- 
able. And  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants,  their  heirs,  successors  and 
assigns,  are  likewise  to  render  and  pay  all  such  acknowledgments  and 
duties  as  already  are,  or  hereafter  shall  be,  constituted  and  ordained  by 
His  Ro3ral  Highness  the  Duke  of  York,  and  his  heirs,  or  such  Governor 
and  Governors  as  shall  from  time  to  time  be  appointed  and  set  over 
them.  Given  under  my  hand  and  seal,  at  Fort  James,  in  New  York,  on 
Manhatans  Island,  the  day  of  May,  in  the  eighteenth  year  of  the 

reign  of  our  sovereign  lord  Charles  the  Second,  by  the  grace  of  God 
King  of  England,  Scotland,  France  and  Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Faith, 
&c,  and  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  God,  1666. 

Richard  Nicolls. 

It  is  putting  it  in  mild  terms  to  say  that  this  patent  was  not 
approved  by  the  Harlem  people,  whose  wishes,  as  is  obvious, 

♦  From  vcrkciij  the  Dutch  word  for  hog,  and  so  called  because  the  neighboring 
•ettlers  allowed  their  hogs  to  run  there.     Now  Blackwell's  Island. 


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228  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

were  little  regarded  in  preparing  it.  The  change  in  the  name 
of  the  town,  with  the  governor  a  pet  idea,  and  tried  elsewhere 
but  not  always  successfully,  was  a  most  offensive  feature,  and 
was  never  adopted.*  The  bench  of  justice  or  local  court,  and, 
in  general,  such  rights  as  they  had  enjoyed  in  common  with  th^ 
other  villages,  were  indeed  comprehended  under  "the  privileges 
of  a  town,"  but  as  it  made  all,  without  limitation,  "depending 
on  this  city,'' — ^this  condition  might  impose  untold  burdens.  In 
the  vital  matter  of  taxation,  it  left  them  quite  at  the  mercy,  of  the 
Duke,  his  heirs  and  governors,  and  not  to  the  safer  operation  of 
the  laws.  Nor  did  it  fully  cover  their  landed  interests,  as  it 
omitted  to  name  the  meadows  appertaining  to  their  farms,  but 
separated  by  the  Harlem  River.  These  were  grave  objections 
to  the  patent  in  its  present  form,  and  though  it  remained  of 
record,  and  was  not  "recalled"  as  were  some  others,  the  inhabi- 
tants only  abided  the  time  when  they  could  secure  a  better,  ob- 
viating these  defects. 

Two  positve  characters,  such  as  Tourneur  and  Waldron,  the 
one  under  sheriff  and  president  of  the  court,  the  other  constable, 
could  hardly  be  expected  always  to  work  in  harmony,  and  so 
it  happened  that  the  former  took  a  grudge  against  the  latter  for 
something  said  or  done.  Now,  Waldron,  being  requested  by 
the  inhabitants,  went  officially  to  see  Tourneur,  who  was  at  his 
bouwery,  "to  speak  to  him  about  the  fences,"  when  the  latter, 
losing  temper,  caught  up  a  stick,  and  saying  to  Waldron,  "Now, 
nobody  is  looking,  I'll  pay  you !"  fell  to  beating  him.  Waldron 
entered  a  complaint  to  the  Mayor's  Court,  May  ist,  demanding 
to  be  sustained  in  his  official  acts,  or  relieved  from  his  office. 
Tourneur  being  cited,  appeared  on  the  8th,  the  next  court  day. 
On  hearing  his  version  of  the  story  the  case  seemed  to  wear  a 
different  look,  and  was  dismissed,  with  a  charge  "that  both  par- 
ties for  the  future  live  together  in  good  friendship,"  he  who 
should  first  offend  to  pay  a  penalty  of  50  gl.  Tourneur  was  bet- 
ter satisfied  than  Waldron,  who  immediately  asked  the  Court  to 
give  him  his  discharge  as  constable,  which  they  did.  Of  Wald- 
ron's  official  acts  but  one  remains  to  be  mentioned, — the  contract 
with  Nelis  Matthyssen  to  cut  and  remove  the  timber  from  the 
town  lot,  and  to  keep  the  fences  in  repair.  This  work  he  com- 
pleted early  in  1668. 

On  May  isth,  Johannes  Verveelen  was  confirmed  as  Wald- 
ron's  successor,  from  a  nomination  (of  two  persons)  made  by  the 

*  Lancaster,  as  a  name  applying  to  Harlem,  is  not  once  found  on  its  records; 
nor  has  it  been  met  with  as  so  used  in  any  other  record  or  document  of  that  period, 
saving  the  instance  above  noticed. 


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inhabitants,  per  order;  and  in  presence  of  the  Court  he  took  the 
oath  of  fidelity.  This  was  followed,  June  12th,  by  an  appoint- 
ment of  four  persons  as  overseers,  from  a  double  nomination  by 
the  people;  those  elected  being  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  Isaac  Ver- 
milye,  Glaude  Delamater  and  Nelis  Matthyssen;  while  Jan  La 
Montague  was  again  made  secretary,  in  which  office  he  had  not 
acted  since  1664.  The  letter  communicating  the  result  contained 
the  following  instructions: 

**The  which  persons  are  hereby  authorized,  together  with  the 
under  sheriff  and  constable, — or  three  of  them,  whereof  the 
under  sheriff  or  his  deputy  shall  always  make  one, — in  all 
questions  and  suits  that  between  man  and  man  in  their  village 
may  happen  and  be  brought  before  them,  without  respect  of 
persons,  to  do  justice  and  to  determine  absolutely,  to  the  sum 
of  Two  Hundred  Guilders  in  Sewant,  following  the  laws  here 
in  this  land  established;  and  all  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Village 
of  New  Harlem  are  by  these  ordered  and  charged  to  respect  the 
before-named  persons  in  all  that  belongs  to  them  as  their  over- 
seers.    Done  at  New  York,  the  12th  of  June,  1666." 

On  June  19th  the  members  elect  presenting  themselves  in 
the  Mayor's  Court,  were  tendered  and  took  the  following  oath: 

Whereas  you,  Daniel  Toumeur,  as  Under  Sheriff,  and  you,  Joost 
Oblinus,  Isaac  Vermilye,  Glaude  Delamater  and  Nelis  Matthyssen,  by 
the  Honorable  Mayor's  Court  are  chosen  as  Overseers  of  the  Village  of 
New  Harlem,  for  the  term  of  one  succeeding  year,  beginning  upon  this 
date;  you  Men  swear  in  the  presence  of  Almighty  God,  that  you  will,  to 
your  best  knowledge  and  with  a  good  conscience,  maintain  the  laws  of 
this  government  without  respect  of  persons,  in  all  suits  that  shall  be 
brought  before  you,  to  the  sum  of  Two  Hundred  Guilders;  You  Men, 
so  far  as  able,  will  execute  the  laws  for  the  benefit  of  your  town  and  the 
inhabitants  of  the  same.     So  truly  help  you  Almighty  God. 

Thus  was  constituted  the  first  local  court  at  Harlem,  in  which 
(save  at  the  first  choice  of  schepens,  under  the  Dutch)  the  peo- 
ple enjoyed  the  right  of  nominating  their  magistrates.* 

•  Nelis  Matthyssen  was  from  Stockholm.  His  name  (the  prenomen  usually  ab- 
breyiated  in  the  Dutch  records,  though  sometimes  written  in  full,  Comelis)  was,  in 
proper  Swedish,  Nils  Mattson;  but  he  had  a  countryman  and  contemporary  of  this 
name  who  lived  on  the  Delaware,  for  whom  he  is  not  to  be  taken.  He  and  Barentie 
Dircks  were  married  at  New  Amsterdam  in  1 66 1.  At  Harlem  he  was  well  esteemed, 
his  good  common-sense  going  far  to  supply  a  lack  of  early  advantages.  Bv  occupa- 
tion a  carpenter  and  timber-hewer,  he  was  the  first  tenant  of  the  land  since  known  as 
the  "Church  Farm,"  from  which  he  cut  and  cleared  the  primeval  forest  trees.  On 
his  lease  expiring,  in  1668,  he  left  the  town  and  bought  a  small  place  at  Hellgate 
Neck,  Newtown,  being  also  an  applicant,  in  1673,  for  Patrey's  Hook,  "lying  between 
Col.  Morris  and  the  Two  Brothers."  He  sold  out  at  Hellgate  to  Thomas  Lawrence, 
and  obtained  a  grant  of  sixty  acres  at  Turtle  Bay  in  1776.  This  he  sold  to  Joh. 
Pietersen — date  not  given — and  perhaps  went  to  Hackensack  (as  did  his  family)  after 
1681,  when  he  is  last  named  in  New  York.  He  had  children,  Matthys,  Hendrick, 
Anna,  Maria,  Catherine,  Sarah  and  Rachel.  Sarah  married  Jacob  Matthews,  and 
Maria  married  Samuel  Hendricksen,  both  of  Hackensack.  Matthys  Cornelissen,  bom 
1665,  at  Harlem,  married  Tryntie  Hendricks,  1692,  and  died  at  Hackensack  1743-8, 
his  descendants  retaining  the  name  Cornelison,  and  of  whom,  we  believe,  was  the 
late  Rev.  John  Cornelison,  bom  1769,  at  Nyack,  N.  Y.,  died,  1828,  at  Bergen,  N.  J. 


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230  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

A  first  business  of  the  new  board  was  to  provide  for  the 
completion  of  the  Church.  Work  upon  it  had  been  continued 
by  the  two  carpenters,  off  and  on,  during  the  past  winter,  but  it 
was  not  finished,  and  money  was  wanted.  Little  had  been  paid 
in  for  the  out-gardens  sold,  and  some  of  these  gardens  were  yet 
undisposed  of.*  At  the  motion  of  Tourneur,  the  magistrates, 
on  June  27th,  resolved  that  as  it  was  necessary  to  finish  the 
church,  a  tax  for  that  purpose  should  be  laid  upon  the  lands,  "by 
the  morgen  from  each  lot,"  but  "for  the  present  to  borrow  it 
from  the  poor  money  with  the  approval  of  the  ministers  and  the 
deacons."  Accordingly  lumber  was  procured,  and  Hendrick 
Karstens  was  employed  to  raise  up  and  underpin  the  building 
with  a  proper  foundation,  and  also  to  plaster  it,  that  the  next 
winter  should  find  it  more  comfortable  for  the  worshipers  than 
had  the  last. 

This  object  secured,  the  overseers  found  other  business, — to 
stay  the  damage  being  done  by  cattle  foddered  on  the  cultivated 
lands,  and  hogs  daily  rooting  in  the  vegetable  gardens,  causing 
"manifold  complaints."  As  a  remedy,  they  issued  an  order,  July 
25th,  prohibiting  all  persons  letting  their  hogs  run  at  large  with- 
out being  yoked;  and  providing  that  for  every  hog  without  a 
yoke  found  within  the  fenced  lands,  the  owner  should  pay,  besides 
the  damages  sustained,  "six  guilders  for  each  hog  for  the  first 
offense ;  two  pounds  of  powder  for  the  second,  and  for  the  third 
offense  forfeit  the  hog  or  hogs."  A  like  penalty  was  declared 
against  keeping  cattle  or  calves  within  the  general  fencing. 

On  September  2d,  being  Sunday,  the  quiet  of  the  village  was 
disturbed,  by  Jan  Teunissen  and  Philip  Presto  bringing  in  a 
canoe  load  of  hay  from  Daniel  Tourneur's  meadow.  The  next 
day  they  and  Tourneur  also  were  arraigned  by  the  town  court, 
for  working  on  the  Sabbath.  Teunissen  admitted  the  charge, 
but  said  that  Tourneur  had  ordered  it  done.  Tourneur  refused 
to  appear,  but  said  that  he  had  given  them  no  orders  to  fetch  it 
on  Sunday.  The  Court  thereupon  directed  the  constable  to  take 
the  hay  and  canoe  in  charge,  till  they  were  redeemed.     Tourneur 

*  The  Buyten  Tu^nen,  or  Out-Gardens,  were  in  some  instances  given  by  the  first 
purchasers  to  their  children,  at  their  marriage,  to  build  on,  and  begin  wedded  life. 
At  a  later  date  four  of  these  small  plots  were  occupied  bv  Joost  Van  Oblinus  as  his 
homestead,  then  by  his  son,  Peter,  who  added  a  fifth  garden,  and  who  owned  a  farm 
on  Van  Keulen's  Hook  to  which  these  adjoined.  His  nephew  and  successor,  Petrus 
Waldron,  buying  up  the  remaining  ones  (two  excepted),  the  whole  descended  to  his 
son,  John  P.  Waldron,  forming  the  north  part  of  his  farm  where  it  came  to  the  Church 
Lane.  The  two  westerly  gardens,  Nos.  lo,  20,  were  retained  in  the  Bussing  family, 
whose  ancestors  received  tnem  from  his  father-in-law,  Glaude  Delamater,  the  original 
purchaser.  They  finally  came  to  a  daughter  of  Aaron  Bussing,  Mrs.  Catherine  Storm» 
forming  the  small  piece  attached  to  the  north  end  of  her  farm,  on  which  was  her  resi- 
dence, the  old  family  mansion,  till  late  seen  standing  cornerwise  to  119th  street,  at 
the  north  side,  between  Third  and  Fourth  avenues. 


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gave  bail  for  Presto,  and  proceeded  to  appeal  from  this  action 
to  the  Mayor's  Court. 

But  once  up  for  public  criticism,  Tourneur,  whose  late  affair 
with  Waldron,  yet  fresh  in  the  people's  mouths,  was  no  help  to 
him,  had  now  to  meet  and  contend  with  another  damaging  report. 
An  act  of  his  youth,  long  past  and  buried,  suddenly  sprang  forth 
to  assail  his  character.  Elizabeth  Rossignol,*  the  wife  of  Marc 
Du  Cauchoy,  under  strong  provocation  as  appears,  abused  Tour- 
neur roundly  with  her  tongue,  calling  him  "a  villain  of  villains," 
and  tauntingly  added,  that  he  durst  not  call  her  to  account  for 
it  either!  Tourneur  complained  to  the  magistrates  September 
27th,  Elizabeth  being  present,  and  prayed  that  she  be  put  to 
the  proof.  The  defendant  said  that  she  held  the  plaintiff  for  a 
villain,  while  he  did  not  restrain  his  children  from  giving  her 
a  vile  name  in  his  presence;  and  furthermore,  that  the  plaintiff 
in  France  had  intentionally  taken  the  life  of  a  man  with  a  sword. 
Tourneur  declaring  that  he  knew  not  that  his  children  had  railed 
at  her,  prayed  that  the  defendant  should  prove  that  he  had  killed 
a  man,  or  taken  his  life.  Thereupon,  Glaude  Delamater  and 
Barentien  Matthyssen  testified,  at  the  request  of  Elizabeth,  that 
they  heard  Tourneur  say,  at  the  house  of  Nelis  Matthyssen,  that 
"his  sword  was  the  cause  that  he  durst  not  go  to  France."  Tour- 
neur explaining,  said,  that  attending  a  funeral  in  the  city  of 
Amiens,  the  Papists  fell  upon  the  Reformed,  and  some  of  them 
being  slain  he  was  obliged  to  leave.  He  asked  that  the  defendant 
be  interrogated,  whether  she  had  known  the  plaintiff  in  France. 
The  defendant  said  that  she  had  not  known  him  in  France,  but 
that  the  affair  was  well  known  to  those  who  had  known  him 
there.  The  Court  having  heard  both  sides,  referred  the  parties 
to  the  Honorable  Mayor's  Court.  But  Tourneur,  at  the  next 
meeting  of  the  magistrates,  still  pressed  his  suit,  praying  that 
the  defendant  be  imprisoned  till  she  prove  her  words,  and  held 
to  bail  for  the  costs.  Elizabeth  was  equally  urgent  that  Tour- 
neur should  give  bail  for  the  costs,  and  reiterated  that  he  had 
given  the  death  to  Tilie  Meer.  But  the  magistrates  again  referred 
the  parties  to  the  higher  court,  so  there  the  persistent  Tourneur 
went. 

His  two  suits  came  to  trial  October  9th.  In  the  "hay  case," 
the  Court  upheld  the  magistrates  in  seizing  his  hay,  etc.,  on  the 
ground  that  Tourneur  was  accountable  for  the  acts  of  his  ser- 
vants, and  disregarding  his  plea  that  his  orders  were  to  bring 

•  In  the  record  she  is  called  Lysbcth  Nachte^aal,  a  mere  change  of  her  French 
name  into  Dutch;    and  Nachtegaal  finding  its  English  equivalent  in  Nightingale. 


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the  hay  early  on  Monday  morning.  They  fined  him  25  gl.,  but 
put  the  costs  on  the  magistrates;  instructing  them,  since  Tour- 
neur  was  president  of  their  board,  to  apply  to  the  higher  court, 
"in  case  plaintiff  shall  forget  himself  hereafter,  while  holding 
said  position.'^  In  the  matter  of  Elizabeth  Rossignol,  the  de- 
fendant frankly  admitted  all  she  had  said,  and  offered  to  prove 
it,  *'if  the  Hon.  Court  please  to  grant  her  a  delay  to  obtain 
the  proof  thereof  from  France.  But  the  court  declining  such 
an  investigation,  and  keeping  itself  to  the  charge  of  slander,  con- 
demned the  defendant  to  acknowledge  her  fault  in  open  court  at 
Harlem,  and  pay  the  costs.  This  checked,  but  did  not  wholly 
stop,  this  malicious  story,  which  even  after  Tourneur's  death 
was  circulated  by  Du  Sauchoy,  as  the  widow  alleged,  "to  the 
great  damage  of  herself  and  children." 

Capt.  Thomas  De  Lavall  was  an  English  gentleman,  his 
surname  derived  from  Normandy,  but  the  family  of  great  an- 
tiquity at  Eeaton-Delavall,  in  Northumberland,  where  it  held 
large  possessions.  Members  of  it  were  active  partisans  of  King 
Charles.,  by  whom  Sir  Ralph  Delavall  was  knighted  in  1660,  and 
made  surveyor  of  the  port  of  Seaton-Sluice ;  while  others  in  the 
collateral  branches  were  as  noted  for  their  commercial  spirit  and 
wealth.  Circumstances  connect  Capt.  Delavall  with  this  family, 
whose  tastes,  pursuits,  and  loyalty  he  so  largely  shared,  but 
further  it  is  quite  well  ascertained  that  he  was  son  of  Thomas, 
a  son  of  Sir  Ralph  Delavall.  The  official  favor  he  enjoyed  was 
the  fruit  of  meritorious  service  for  his  king  and  country,  before 
his  arrival  here  in  the  suite  of  Gov.  Nicolls.  During  the  late 
war  in  Flanders  he  was  Deputy  Treasurer  of  the  port  of  Dun- 
kirk, and  handling  public  funds  exceeding  an  hundred  thousand 
pounds,  so  well  discharged  his  trust,  that  he  was  assigned  to  a 
similar  one  at  New  York,  and  had  entered  upon  its  duties  directly 
after  his  arrival. 

Capt.  Delavall,  now  owning  lands  at  Harlem,  including  lot 
No.  22  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  which  extended  down  to  Mon- 
tague's Kill,  designed  to  build  a  grist-mill  upon  this  lot  and 
stream,  with  a  substantial  stone  dwelling-house  near  it,  in  case 
he  could  secure  the  co-operation  of  the  Harlem  people,  and  the 
patronage  of  the  surrounding  districts;  though  the  latter  much 
depended  upon  the  opening  of  a  proper  highway  between  the 
Bouwery  and  Harlem,  to  give  the  inhabitants  easy  access  to  the 
mill  with  their  grain.  It  would  further  insure  the  success  of 
the  undertaking,  to  draw  travel  as  much  as  possible  toward  Har- 
lem, by  establishing  a  ferry  there,  and  to  divert  it  from  Spujrten 


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Duyvel,  by  closing  up  the  passageway  then  used  as  a  fording- 
place  for  horses  and  cattle  to  and  from  the  main.  Mr.  Delavall 
now  having  authority  as  mayor  of  the  city,  resolved  to  undertake 
these  enterprises,  which  with  his  usual  sagacity  he  judged  would 
prove  a  good  investment  for  him,  while  also  conducing  to  the 
public  convenience.  He  therefore  made  the  following  proposi- 
tions to  the  authorities  of  Harlem: 

On  this  date,  3d  January,  A**.  1667,  the  Honorable  Heer  Delavall* 
proposed  and  requested  that  the  magistrates  of  this  town  do  consider 
the  following  points : 

1st  That  they  make  one-half  of  the  road  from  here  to  the  Manhatans 
or  New  York ;  and  that  Spuyten  Duyvel  be  stopped  up. 

2d.  That  like  care  be  taken  for  a  suitable  Ordinary  (i.  e.  tavern), 
for  the  convenience  of  persons  coming  and  going,  as  also  of  the  village; 
and  he  promises  the  nails  and  the  making  of  the  scow,  provided  the  ferry- 
man be  holden  to  repay  him  for  the  same  when  required. 

3d.  That  it  may  be  firmly  settlea,  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  town 
will  make  the  dam,  because  other  towns  promise  to  make  a  dam,  if  so 
be  that  he  pleased  to  build  the  mill  near  them. 

4th.  Requests  leave  to  erect  a  stone  house  at  the  rear  of  his  land 
near  the  mill,  and  to  fortify  it  as  a  refuge  for  the  village  in  time  of  need. 

5th.  Requests  leave  to  run  a  fence  straight  from  the  fence  now  stand- 
ing to  the  stone  bridge,  upon  Van  Keulen*s  Hook,  and  to  use  the  land 
and  meadow  so  mclosed. 

6th.  Requests  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  shall  set  off  (fence) 
the  meadow  at  Little  Barent*s  Island,  in  case  they  wish  to  keep  the 
same,  as  said  Island  belongs  to  him;  or  otherwise,  not  to  put  the  town 
to  inconvenience,  he  will  present  them  the  Island,  if  they  will  free  the 
meadows. 

7th.  Whereas  the  Broncks  Land  has  been  sold  for  two  thousand 
guilders  in  beavers;  and  as  he  thought  that  it  should  more  properly  fall 
to  the  town, — offers,  for  that  price,  to  let  the  town  have  it. 

Upon  all  which,  after  consideration  given,  to  notify  and  inform  him. 

On  this  matter  being  talked  over  among  the  magistrates, 
Johannes  Verveelen  agreed  to  J:ake  the  ferry  and  ordinary  for 
six  years.  He  was  then  formally  sworn  to  provide  proper  enter- 
tamment  for  travelers,  as  victuals  and  drink,  lodgings,  etc.,  and 
further,  not  to  tap  liquor  to  the  Indians  who  should  resort  to 
the  village.  On  his  request  for  an  addition  of  six  feet  to  his 
house  lot,  next  the  street,  "as  he  was  crampel  for  room,  and 
must  make  convenience  for  his  ordinary,"  the  Court  granted 
him  "six  feet  into  the  street,  to  extend  right  out  at  the  south 
side;  that  is,  the  Hne  stretching  as  the  street  now  runs,  nearly 
east  and  west." 

The  next  day  the  inhabitants  were  called  together  to  act 
upon  Mr.  Delavall's  proposals,  and  with  the  following  result: 

•  The  word  Hcer,  though  properly  translated  Lord,  often,  as  in  this  instance,  had 
sbnply  the  sense  of  Mr.  as  used  at  that  early  day;  this  latter  term  being  then  applie<< 
with  discrimination,  and  only  as  denoting  great  respect.  (See  Annals  of  Newtown', 
p.   38.  note). 


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On  the  4th  of  January;  Advice  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the  town  upon 
the  propositions  of  the  Honorable  Heer  Delavall: 

I  St  Point.  Offer,  together  with  their  neighbors,  to  stop  up  Spuyten 
Duyvel,  as  it  was  formerly;  are  also  resolved  to  make  a  road  so  far  as 
practicable. 

2d.  Have  provided  for  this,  and  settled  Johannes  Verveelen  as  ferry- 
man and  keeper  of  the  Ordinary  for  six  years. 

3d.  Agree  to  make  the  dam  for  the  mill,  provided  they  may  enjoy  its 
benefits  according  to  custom. 

4th.  Agree  that  a  house  be  built  for  the  bouwery,  to  set  near  the  mill* 
or  where  it  is  most  convenient  for  him. 

5th.  Agree  that  the  mill  use  the  land  and  meadow  lying  from  the 
fence  now  standing  to  the  stone  bridge  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook. 

6th.  Require  further  opportunity  to  consider  how  this  point  shall  be 
settled. 

7th.  They  are  parties:  Hon.  Heer  Delavall,  Nicholas  De  Meyer, 
Johannes  Verveelen,  Daniel  Tourneur,  Glaude  Delamater,  Lubbert  Ger- 
ritsen,  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  David  Demarest,  Valentine  Claessen  and 
Derick  Claessen. 

Bronck's  Land,  referred  to  under  the  seventh  point,  and  em- 
bracing some  five  hundred  acres,  opposite  Harlem  on  the  West- 
chester side,  had  passed  from  Bronck's  heirs,  through  several 
hands,  to  Samuel  Edsall.  The  answer  to  the  seventh  point 
appears  to  mean  that  the  "parties"  named  were  the  ones  most 
interested,  as  they  were  those  whose  salt  meadows  lay  on  that 
side  of  the  river.  With  a  view  to  buying  the  Bronck  tract,  some 
of  these  persons  met  the  next  day,  and  "constituted  and  author- 
ized Daniel  Tourneur,  Nicholas  De  Meyer,  and  Johannes  Ver- 
veelen, in  their  name  to  agree  respecting  the  payment  and  redemp- 
tion of  the  land  called  Bronck's  Land;  to  do  and  execute  as 
would  they  themselves  if  present,  promising  to  maintain  firm 
and  inviolate  whatever  these  their  attorneys  may  do  in  the 
premises."* 

As  to  Little  Barent's  Island,  the  case  stood  thus :  Stuyvesant 

•  Dirck  Claessen,  son  of  Claes  Jacobsen  and  Pietcrtie  Heertgers,  was  bom  at 
Lceuwarden,  in  Fricsland;  emigrating,  I  believe,  with  his  wife  and  widowed  mother, 
in  1653.  He  was  a  potter,  several  of  whom  came  out  that  vear.  In  1657,  when  he 
became  a  small  burgher,  he  bought  a  house  and  lot  in  New  Amsterdam,  and  set  up  a 
pottery,  known  afterward  as  "Pot-baker  Comer,  situated  near  the  outlet  of  the  Fresh 
Water  into  the  East  River,  and  next  to  Henry  Braiser."  Leasing  this  property, 
August  10.  1662,  for  three  years,  he  came  to  Harlem  to  manage  his  bouwery  here, 
and  that  fall  was  chosen  magistrate.  On  November  5,  1663,  he  sold  his  bouwery  to 
an  Teunissen,  but  was  obliged  to  take  it  back  under  a  mortgage  of  that  date,  and 
-inally  sold  it  to  Daniel  Tourneur,  February  i,  1667.  He  now  resumed  his  pottery 
in  New  York,  where  he  died  in  1686.  He  married  Wyntie  Roelofs,  Annetie  Dircks, 
widow,  and  Metje  Elberts.  By  the  first  he  had  Claesie,  born  1654,  who  married 
John  Kay  and  Gustavus  Adolphus  Home;  Jannetie,  born  1656,  married  Cornelis 
Dyckman,  and  Geertie,  born  1662,  married  Barent  Christiaens.  By  his  second  wife 
he  had  a  daughter,  Gisberta,  to  whom,  and  his  stepson,  John  Everts  (son  of  said 
wife  Annetie  by  Evert  Jansen),  he  deeded  his  pottery  property,  September  10,  1680. 
Who  Gisberta  married,  if  at  all,  has  not  been  observed.  When  a  miss  of  sweet  fifteen, 
one  Wm.  Phillips  visited  her,  but  on  a  Sunday  morning,  October  26,  1679,  being 
caught  acting  rather  free  to  suit  the  father,  he  indignantly  drove  Philips  out  of  the 
house,  nearly  cutting  his  nose  off  with  a  knife.  Ray  was  from  Berkslure,  England, 
had  served  here  as  a  soldier  in  the  English  garrison,  but  became  a  pipemaker.  His 
descendants  have  been  of  first  respectability  in  this  State.  His  daughter,  Wyntie, 
married  Hendrick  Meyer,  and  daughter  Catherine  married  Derick  Potter. 


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had  granted  the  meadows  lying  around  it  to  some  of  the  Harlem 
people,  and  had  allowed  all  of  them  to  use  the  island  for  pastur- 
ing their  young  stock.  Later  this  and  Great  Barent's  Island, 
as  being  the  property  of  the  West  India  Company  (Van  Twiller's 
title  to  the  latter  island  under  his  Indian  purchase  having  been 
disallowed  by  the  company  and  annulled  by  the  Director  and 
Council,  July  ist,  1652),  fell  to  the  English  by  the  general  act 
of  confiscation  of  October  loth,  1665 ;  and  were  soon  after  sold 
to  Capt.  Delavall,  though  his  patent  did  not  issue  till  February 
3d,  1668,  when  he  was  about  to  visit  Europe.  Upon  DelavalKs 
offer  of  the  lesser  island  to  the  inhabitants  of  Harlem  no  imme- 
diate action  was  taken,  and  on  May  3d,  ensuing,  Daniel  Tour- 
neur,  in  Delavall's  behalf,  urged  that  Jacques  Cresson,  who  had 
meadow  on  the  south  side  of  that  island,  might  be  removed  there- 
from, by  having  other  meadow  given  him  instead;  and  that  the 
Heer  Delavall's  meadow  should  be  fenced  in  by  the  town-folks 
who  had  calves  pastured  there.  Delavall's  meadow,  gotten  with 
the  land  of  Simon  De  Ruine,  lay  in  common  with  Cresson's,  and 
Cresson  was  willing  to  give  up  his  part,  provided  he  could  have 
•'the  meadow  west  of  the  hills,  along  Montague's  Kill,  at  the 
north  side  of  the  Kill,"  and  if  "the  persons  using  Barent's  Island 
would  help  him  a  day  in  making  fence."  But  this  was  not 
agreed  to,  and  no  step  being  taken  to  "free  the  meadows,"  Dela- 
vall afterward  purchased  them,  excepting  Cresson*s,  which  he 
never  owned. 

Nor  was  the  attempt  to  buy  Bronck's  Land  more  successful  ; 
even  Delavall  did  not  take  it,  and  that  valuable  tract  was  con- 
veyed by  Edsall,  June  4th,  1668,  to  "Col.  Lewis  Morris,  of  the 
Island  of  Barbadoes,  merchant,"  whose  brother,  Capt.  Richard 
Morris,  under  a  mutual  contract  of  August  loth,  1670,  came  to 
reside  on  the  plantation.  His  death  within  two  years  led  to  a 
visit  from  Col.  Morris  in  1673.  But  being  dispossessed  that  year 
by  the  Dutch,  he  did  not  make  it  his  permanent  residence  till 
after  he  had  secured  a  large  addition  to  it  by  royal  grant;  the 
whole  of  which  estate,  embracing  1920  acres,  upon  his  death, 
February  14th,  1691,  fell  to  his  nephew,  Lewis  Morris,  son  of 
Richard,  and  in  1697  was  erected  into  the  Manor  of  Morrisania. 

After  much  labor  the  mill-dam  was  finished  (crossing  the 
creek  a  little  west  of  the  present  Third  Avenue),  and  near  its 
northern  end  Delavall  built  his  mill;  employing  as  his  miller 
Hage  Bruynsen,  a  Swede,  but  for  twenty  odd  years  a  resident 
in  this  country.*    The  land  adjoining  his  own,  of  which  Delavall 

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236  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

had  the  use  for  mill  purposes,  took  the  name  of  the  "Mill  Camp." 
John  La  Montague  thought  the  time  favorable  for  removing 
to  his  farm,  or  at  least  for  asking  permission  of  the  town  to  do 
so;  and  on  his  application  the  inhabitants,  January  4th,  1667, 
voted  him  "authority  to  build  and  live  upon  his  Point."  But 
Delavairs  plan  to  build  a  substantial  house  and  fortify  it  was 
frustrated  by  an  urgent  call  soon  after  to  go  to  England,  and 
whither  he  went  the  next  year,  leaving  his  property  at  Harlem 
in  care  of  Daniel  Tourneur,  as  his  agent. 

But  the  village  plot  was  expanding  and  undergoing  material 
changes.  On  their  petition  several  of  the  inhabitants  were 
allowed  to  extend  their  erven  or  house-lots,  by  taking  in  portions 
of  the  streets.  For  this  they  were  charged  from  10  to  15  gl. 
Two  new  erven  were  also  laid  out  on  the  north  side  of  the  "Great 
Way,"  and  since  forming  the  Judah  place.  The  one  adjoining 
the  river  was  sold  to  Johannes  Vermilye,  and  that  lying  next 
to  it,  to  Robert  Le  Maire,  each  for  25  gl.  The  vacant  land  to 
the  south  of  the  village,  north  of  lots  i,  2,  3,  Van  Keulen*s  Hook, 
and  reserved  to  the  town  uses,  was  also  encroached  upon ;  and  a 
triangular  piece  in  the  northwest  corner,  opposite  the  erven  of 
Karstens  and  Cresson  (taking  its  form  from  the  course  of  the 
creek),  was  sold  at  the  above  price  to  Jan  Gerritsen  De  Vries, 
who  built  upon  and  fenced  it.* 

The  work  upon  the  church  having  been  prosecuted  at  inter- 
vals, as  opportunity  and  the  finances  warranted,  the  building 
was  so  far  completed  by  January  30th,  1667,  that  an  allotment 
of  the  seats  then  took  place.  With  the  finishing  of  his  work  by 
"Bart  the  mason;"  and  "the  table"  which  Nelis  Matthyssen  had 
been  employed  to  make  in  its  place,  the  modest  structure  was 
now  assigned  to  its  double  use  as  a  church  and  school-house; 
having  a  convenient  loft  or  second  story,  from  which, — O  primi- 

of  Bruyn  Barents,  named  on  page  198.  Hage  entered  the  service  of  Burger  Joris,  a 
blacksmith  at  the  Smith's  Fly — he  who  owned  a  grist  mill  at  Dutch  Kills.  Seven 
years  later,  165^,  Hage  bought  a  house  and  lot  in  Smith's  Fly,  was  enrolled  in  the 
city  burgher  corps,  and  also  married  Annecke  Jans,  from  Holstein,  by  whom  he  had 
a  son,  Bru^n,  born  1654.  In  1661  he  married  Egbcrtie  Dircks,  sister  to  Nelis  Mat- 
thyssen's  wife,  and  by  her  had  a  son,  Hermanus,  born  1662.  His  term  as  miller  at 
Harlem  was  cut  short  by  his  death,  in  1668.  His  city  property  was  sold,  in  1670,  to 
Jacob  Hellikcr.  Hage's  widow  married  Hendrick  Bosch,  sword  cutler,  the  Bush  an- 
cestor, who  afterward  owned  land  near  Harlem.  Bruyn  Hage  spent  his  youth  with 
his  uncle,  Dirck  Jansen,  was  taught  his  trade  by  his  stepfather,  and  became  a  "master 
blacksmith."  He  married,  in  168 1,  Gecsie,  daughter  of  Frederick  Schureman,  moved 
to  Esopus,  bought  land  in  1683,  but  died  the  next  year.  Two  years  later,  his  widow 
returned  with  a  church  letter  to  New  York,  where  her  daughter,  Annetic,  born  1683, 
married,  1699,  Robert  Jacobsen,  from  Rotterdam. 

•  This  was  he  later  known  as  Capt.  Jan  Gerritsen  Van  Dalsen,  ancestor  of  the 
Dolsens,  of  Orange  County.  The  family  was  from  Dalfsen.  or  Dalsen,  a  villige  near 
Zwolle,  in  Overyssel,  but  Jan,  by  chance  born  in  Frieslana,  was  distinguished  as  de 
Vries,  the  Friesan  or  Frieslander ;  the  child's  pet  name  having  dung  to  him  up  to 
manhood.  The  Dutch  were  much  addicted  to  this  mode  of  disignation,  and  to  the 
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tive  economy! — income  was  sometimes  derived  by  renting  ic. 
But,  unpretentious  as  it  was,  it  suited  none  the  less  for  the 
acceptable  worship  of  Him  who  "dwelleth  not  in  temples  made 
with  hands."  There  was  on  the  church  lot  (kerk  lot)  an  older 
house  belonging  to  the  town  (noticed  in  1665),  and  probably 
was  rented  with  the  latter. 

The  question  had  come  up  of  some  change  in  the  burial-place, 
so  as  to  have  it  extend  out  from  the  rear  of  the  kerk-erf,  across 
the  back  ends  of  the  Le  Maire  and  Vermilye  lots  to  the  river; 
and  the  inhabitants  being  Consulted,  the  following  vote  was 
passed  on  January  5th,  when  the  action  was  taken  for  the  enlarge- 
ment of  the  house-lots:  "The  worthy  court,  with  the  approval 
of  most  of  the  inhabitants,  have  ordered,  that  the  grave-yard 
(kerkhof)  now  shall  be  behind  the  erven  of  Jean  Le  Roy  and 
Johannes  Vermilye." 

The  only  person  to  object  was  Le  Roy,  who,  holding  the  lot 
here  referred  to,  as  agent  for  Le  Maire,  and  on  which  was  a  small 
tenement  that  had  belonged  to  the  late  Jan  Cogu,  but  had 
been  bought  and  placed  there, — came  in  court,  January  25th, 
and  requested  that  the  deacons,  Daniel  Tourneur  and  Johannes 
Verveelen,  would  be  pleased  to  move  his  house  for  him,  or  that 
the  erf  might  remain  his.  But  in  place  of  this,  Tourneur  offered 
to  give  him  timber  sufficient  for  making  a  house  as  large  as 
Cogu's,  and  Verveelen  promised  to  add  30  gl. ;  with  which  Le 
Roy  declared  himself  satisfied.  On  May  ist,  ensuing,  Le  Roy 
sold  the  lot,  "as  at  present  fenced  in,  excepting  the  street,"  to 
Jan  Terbosch,  whose  wife  was  sister  of  Vermilye,  the  adjoining 
owner.*  On  June  14th,  ensuing,  the  town,  by  agreement  with 
Tourneur,  resolved  to  further  enlarge  the  church-yard  (kerk-erf) 
at  the  rear,  by  extending  it  westerly  into  his  erf  or  house-lot, 
"four  rods  in  length,  and  five  in  breadth."  This  left  a  passage 
from  Toumeur*s  erf  to  his  lot  No.  i,  Jochem  Pieters.  As  a 
consideration  they  granted  Tourneur  "the  meadows  lying  along 
Montagne's  Kill,  west  of  the  hills,  from  the  rocky  point  till  to 
the  end  of  the  creek  on  the  north  side  of  the  said  Kill."  The 
hills  were  Mount  Morris,  etc. ;  and  the  meadows,  which  lay  op- 
posite Toumeur's  land  on  Montague's  Flat  (since  of  David  Wood, 

•  Terbosch  and  Lc  Maire,  as  also  the  Ackcrman  and  Storm  ancestors,  emigrated 
in  the  same  ship  in  1662.  (See  pp.  93,  96).  Terbosch  married  Rachel,  daughter  of 
Isaac  Vermilye,  June  10,  1663.  They  had  issue,  Johannes,  born  1665;  Catherine, 
bom  1668;  Isaac,  bom  1660;  Maria,  bom  1672;  Sarah,  born  1674;  Johanna,  bom 
1675,  and  Jacobus,  bom  1077.  Terbosch  died  soon  after,  and  his  widow  married 
Dirck  Wessels,  May  25,  1679.  This  family  removed  up  the  Hudson.  Johannes  married 
at  Kingston  in  1688.  Among  the  descendants,  in  Duchess  County  and  elsewhere, 
this  name,  like  many  others,  has  suffered  some  change  in  the  mode  of  spelling  it,  as 
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the  Bussings,  and  others),  were  those  known  later  as  the  Bussing 
Meadows,  in  part  conveyed,  as  claimed,  to  Samson  Benson,  prior 
to  1800,  and  added  to  his  farm. 

On  the  same  date,  June  14th,  1667,  '^Jslu  Montague  was 
permitted  to  have,  in  case  of  exchange,  the  church-lot's  meadows, 
lying  in  the  bend  of  the  Hellegat;  provided  he  leave  instead  a 
piece  of  meadow,  lying  south  of  the  Great  Meadow,  belonging 
to  Number  i."  The  Great  Meadow  was  that  upon  the  north 
side  of  Sherman's  Creek;  No.  i  referred  to  the  lot  on  Jochem 
Pieters'  Flat  which  Montague  gave  up  to  the  town  in  1661.  With 
that  nice  economy  before  observed  the  deacons,  the  ensuing  fall, 
sowed  upon  the  church  lot   (kerk  lot)   "two  schepels  of  rye."* 

•  The  land  thus  early  designated  the  Kerck  lot  was  that  since  known  as  the 
Church  Farm,  a  part  of  which  is  occupied  by  the  present  Reformed  Church.  It  lay 
at  the  west  end  of  the  old  gardens,  several  of  which  came  to  be  included  in  it. 
The  Kerck  erf,  which  was  distinct  from  the  former,  lay  at  the  east  end  of  the  old 
gardens,  and  was  then  occupied  bv  the  church  edifice,  being  the  easterly  half  of  the 
plot  afterward  of  the  Myers,  and  which  Samuel  Myer  sold  to  Alexander  Phcenix, 
March  37,  1806,  but  later  known  as  the  Eliphalet  Williams  plot  The  Kerck  bof  was 
the  more  ancient  burying  place,  lying  in  the  rear  of  the  Tudah  plot,  and  still  remem- 
bered as  the  "Negro  Burying  Ground."  The  last  contained  about  a  q]uarter  of  an  acre, 
as  conveyed  by  John  De  Wit  and  Catherine,  his  wife,  to  John  B.  Coles,  April  7,  1794. 


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CHAPTER    XVI. 

1 667- 1 669. 

NEW  NICOLLS  PATENT;  THE  FERRY;  RUPTURE  WITH   ARCHER,  ETC. 

TPHE  chief  event  of  1667  was  the  solving  of  the  knotty  ques- 
tion of  their  patent.  The  subject  was  again  thrust  upon 
the  freeholders,  early  in  the  year,  by  an  order  from  the  governor, 
directing  them  to  take  out  confirmations  of  their  Dutch  ground- 
briefs,  under  his  hand  and  seal.  But  how  comply  with  this  order, 
when  very  few  of  them  had  groundbriefs  ?  On  the  other  hand, 
the  general  patent  granted  by  Governor  Nicolls  the  preceding 
year  was  so  deficient,  that  it  seemed  to  some  of  little  more  value 
than  so  much  blank  parchment.  Out  of  this  dilemma  appeared 
no  opening,  but  in  the  way  of  another  application  to  the  governor 
for  a  general  patent  which  should  include  all  their  lands  and 
meadows;  and  this  had  the  additional  advantage,  that  it  would 
give  an  opportunity  to  supply  what  else  was  wanting  in  the  former 
patent.  To  this  proposal  the  following  persons  gave  their  assent, 
at  a  meeting  held  on  March  15th : 

Daniel  Toumeur,  Jean  Le  Roy, 

Nicholas  De  Meyer,  Valentine  Claessen, 

Resolved  Waldron,  Jaques  Cresson, 

Lubbert  Gerritsen,  Pierre  Cresson, 

Johannes  Verveelen,  Hendrick  Karstens, 

Joost  Van  Oblinus,  Jan  La  Montague,  Jr. 
David  Demarest, 

A  suitable  petition  was  also  prepared,  and  Waldron  and  Ger- 
ritsen were  chosen  to  pf  esent  it,  and  manage  the  business    It  read : 

To  His  Excellency,  Col.  Richard  Nicolls,  Deputy  Governor: 

The  inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  New  Harlem,  your  Excellenc/s 
petitioners,  would  most  respectfully  represent,  that  they  are  informed 
that  a  placard  has  been  issued,  that  each  Inhabitant  must  get  his  ground- 
brief  renewed  within  fourteen  days,  expiring  April  ist  of  this  year;  and 
whereas  the  most  of  your  Excellency's  petitioners  even  till  now  have  no 
groundbriefs,   they  therefore  pray  that  your  Excellency   may  please  to 


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grant  them  a  general  groundbrief  or  patent,  in  accordance  with  the  last 
survey  made  by  your  Excellency's  land  surveyor,  Mr.  Hubbard,*  or  other- 
wise, as  your  Excellency  and  wise  Council  shall  find  good  and  proper; 
as  also  that  therein  may  be  included  the  meadows  which  are  lying  at 
the  other  side,  and  belonging  to  their  land. 

Your  Excellency;  ^yhereas  through  ignorance  of  your  Excellenc/s 
placards,  some  faults  might  be  committed  by  your  Excellenc/s  petition- 
ers, they  pray  that  his  Honor,  the  Sheriff,  may  be  charged  to  send  a 
copy  of  every  proclamation  affecting  your  Excellency's  petitioners,  so 
that  they  may  not  transgress  your  Excellency's  orders.  Herein  we  await 
your  favorable  answer;  and  meanwhile  shall  pray  God  for  your  Ex- 
cellency's welfare.    Dated  New  Harlem,  15th  March,  1667. 

That  this  matter  which  vitally  affected  their  landed  rights, 
should  be  determined  and  settled,  was  also  demanded  by  the 
rapidly  increasing  value  of  the  soil  and  the  growing  importance 
of  the  settlement.  It  now  had  some  considerable  dairies.  Fift>'- 
eight  cows,  besides  other  cattle,  daily  went  forth  from  the  village 
in  care  of  the  new  herder,  Knoet  Mourisse  Van  Hoesem,  who 
entered  upon  this  service  April  15th,  and  was  to  continue  "till 
All-Saints'  Day,  either  fourteen  days  earlier  or  later,  as  the  winter 
might  set  in,  or  the  pasture  fail."t 

The  estabhshment  of  the  ferry  gave  a  new  spur  and  energy 
to  the  village,  by  the  increase  of  travel  this  way.  Verveelen 
having  fitted  up  his  "ordinary,"  and  provided  boats  for  trans- 
portation, of  which  his  lusty  negro  Matthys  was  put  in  charge, 
found  a  congenial  employment  and  plenty  to  do  to  wait  upon 
such  as  frequented  his  tavern  for  entertainment  or  wanted  to 
be  ferried  across  to  or  from  the  Bronckside,  or  bring  over  their 
droves  of  cattle.  On  his  application,  January  25th,  the  town 
court  had  previously  fixed  the  following  rates  of  ferriage,  but 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Mayor's  Court: 

For  one  person,  4  stivers,  silver  money;  for  two,  three,  or 
four,  each  3  stivers,  silver  money ;  for  one  beast,  i  shilling ;  and 
for  more  than  one,  each  10  stivers,  silver. 

At  the  corner  of  the  lower  street  and  third  crossway,  Ver- 

•  Capt.    James   Hubbard,   of   Gravesend,   who   was  a   surveyor.     We   may    infer 
that  he  had  been  employed  to  re-survey  for  the  new  patent. 

t  List  of  the  Cattle  that  went  with  the  Herder,  April  15,  1667: 

Mr.     Dclavall 2  oxen,  6  cows. 

Daniel     Tourneur 2  *  8  | 

Nclis    Matthyssen ^^  3  ^, 

David     Demarest 2  ^^  4  ^^ 

Lubbert    Gerritsen 2  ^^  5  ^^ 

Valentine    Claessen 2  ^^  3  ,^ 

Johannes    Verveelen 2  ^^  5  ^, 

Toost   Van   Oblinus 2  ^^  4  ^^ 

Johannes    Pietersz    Buys 2  ^^  7  ^^ 

Resolved    Waldron 2  ^^  7  ^^ 

Tan   Teunisz   v:   Tilburg 2  3  ^^ 

Isaac     Vcrmilye ,^  '  ,^ 

Jan    La    Montagne 2  2 


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veelen's  tavern  hung  out  its  sign-board,  its  site  now  on  the  north 
line  of  123d  Street,  300  feet  west  of  First  Avenue.  Well  patron- 
ized, too,  by  the  lovers  of  good  cheer  and  goed  bier,  this  is  shown 
by  the  frequency  with  which  he  supplied  his  vault  with  goed 
bier  and  kleyn  bier,  Spanish  wine  and  rum;  but  it  would  occur 
sometimes  that  a  cask  found  its  way  into  the  cellar,  on  which 
no  excise  had  been  paid  or  charged.  This  had  happened  before. 
On  October  5th,  1666,  Daniel  Verveelen  sent  his  father  at  Har- 
lem two  half  vats  of  good  beer.  Allard  Anthony,  sheriff,  hearing 
of  it,  visited  Harlem  the  next  day,  and  found  the  beer  at  Ver- 
veelen's  house,  the  excise  neither  paid  nor  entered  with  the  col- 
lector. Verveelen  told  Anthony  he  did  not  known  him.  An- 
thony complaind  to  the  Mayor's  Court.  Verveelen  plead  ignor- 
ance, and  was  found  not  guilty  in  regard  to  the  beer.  He  excused 
his  remark  made  to  Anthony,  by  saying  that  he  did  not  know 
him  as  schout,  but  well  as  sheriff!  For  this  quibble  the  court 
fined  him  20  gl.  sewant,  and  costs.  In  the  present  case  the  vigil- 
ant Tourneur  discovered  something  wrong,  and  accused  Ver- 
veelen of  smuggling.  Vain  were  denials  or  explanations;  the 
sheriff's  deputy  at  once  took  proceedings  as  follows: 

Most  Honorable  Heeren,  Overseers  of  this  Town: 

Whereas  Johannes  Verveelen,  ordinary-keeper  in  this  town,  did  on 
tnc  6th  February  wickedly  smuggle  one-half  vat  of  good  beer;  on  the 
i8th  April,  one  vat  of  good  beer  and  one  anker  of  rum;  on  the  27th 
of  April,  one-half  vat  of  good  beer;  on  the  8th  May,  one-half  vat  of 
good  beer;  on  the  27th  May,  one-half  vat  of  good  beer  and  one  anker 
of  rum;  all  which  is  contrary  to  the  existing  placards  on  the  subject 
of  smuggling,  and  by  the  high  magistracy  approved.  Therefore  the 
plaintiff,  ex-officio  the  preserver  of  the  peace,  demands  that  the  defendant 
be  condemned  in  the  penalty  of  twenty-one  hundred  guilders,  according 
to  the  placards,  together  with  the  costs  of  prosecution.  The  14th  June, 
1667,  in  N.  Harlem.     Yours,  Honorable  Heeren, 

Daniei*  Tourneur, 

Deputy  Sheriff. 

The  court  ordered  this  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  defendant, 
who  was  given  till  the  17th  to  answer  it.  But  two  days  after 
it  was  amicably  arranged,  Tourneur  so  far  abating  his  demand 
as  to  accept  Verveelen's  note  for  125  gl.  in  sewant,  in  settlement 
of  "the  beer  transaction." 

Verveelen  seems  to  have  gotten  the  idea  that  the  costs  he  had 
incurred  as  ferryman  and  innkeeper  entitled  him  to  some  exemp- 
tion from  the  payment  of  excise;  because  the  following  lease 
which  he  presently  secured  gave  him  such  exemption  for  a  year 
and  silenced  all  cavil  regarding  his  rights: 


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242  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

At  the  request  of  Johannes  Verveelen  of  Harlem,  We  the  Mayor  and 
Aldermen  of  New  York,  have  sold  the  Ferry  there  as  followeth: 

It  is  agreed  he  shall  have  the  Ferry  for  five  years,  provided  he  keep 
a  convenient  house  and  lodging  for  passengers  at  Harlem,  and  he  shall 
have  a  small  piece  of  land  on  Bronck-side,  about  an  acre,  and  a  place  to 
build  a  house  on,  which  he  must  clear,  and  not  spoil  the  meadow,  which 
shall  be  laid  out  by  the  Town,  which  must  be  a  morgen  of  land; — and 
at  the  end  of  five  years  it  is  to  be  farmed  out,  and  during  the  five  years 
he  shall  pay  nothing  for  it,  and  in  case  it  shall  be  let  to  another,  the 
house  shall  be  valued  as  it  stands,  and  he  must  be  paid  for  it;  provided 
he  may  have  the  preference  of  the  hiring  of  it  at  the  time  expired. 
Here  followeth  what  he  shall  ask  for  every  man  passenger  or  horse  or 
cattle.  For  every  passenger,  two  pence  silver,  or  six  pence  wampum. 
For  every  ox  or  cow  that  shall  be  brought  into  his  ferry  boat,  eight 
pence  of  twenty-four  stivers;  and  cattle  under  a  year  old,  six  pence  or 
eighteen  stivers  wampum.  All  cattle  that  are  swum  over  pay  but  half 
price.  He  is  to  take  for  diet,  every  man  for  his  meal,  eight  pence,  or 
twenty-four  stivers  wampum;  every  man  for  his  lodging,  two  pence  a 
man,  or  six  stivers  in  wampum;  every  man  for  his  horse  shall  pay  four 
pence  or  twenty- four  stivers ;  and  cattle  under  a  year  old,  six  pence  or 
the  grass  be  in  fence.  All  men  going  or  coming  with  a  packet  from  our 
Governor  of  New  York  or  coming  from  the  Governor  of  Connecticut, 
shall  be  ferried  free.  Also  in  regard  the  said  Verveelen  must  be  at  the 
charge  of  building  a  house  on  each  side  of  the  Ferry,  the  Governor  hath 
freed  him  from  paying  any  excise  for  what  wine  or  beer  he  shall  retail 
in  his  house  for  one  year  after  the  date  hereof.  Dated  at  New  York, 
this  3d  day  of  July,  1667.  • 

Thos  De  Lavall,  Mayor. 

Beer  was  the  common  beverage.  At  vendues,  or  in  making 
contracts  or  settlements,  its  presence  was  deemed  indispensable 
to  the  proper  transaction  of  the  business.  The  magistrates  when 
occupying  the  bench  always  had  beer  brought  in,  running  up 
a  score  with  the  tapster  at  the  public  charge.  Nor  did  the  ordin- 
ation of  elders  and  deacons,  or  funeral  solemnities,  form  an 
exception.  At  such  times  wine  and  other  liquors,  with  pipes 
and  tobacco,  were  also  freely  distributed.  Families  commonly 
laid  in  their  beer  by  the  quarter  and  half  vat,  or  barrel.  Such 
the  social  habits  and  customs  prevailing  among  our  ancestors, 
all  oblivious  as  to  the  evils  of  the  indulgence.  Surely  time  has 
wrought  a  good  departure  from  former  usage.  Much  of  the 
beer  consumed  here  was  brewed  by  Johannes  Vermilye,  while 
the  breweries  of  Daniel  Verveelen,  Isaac  De  Forest,  and  Jacob 
Kip,  at  New  York,  were  also  patronized.* 

•  The  Excise  Accounts  from  January  16,  to  July  22,  1667,  charge  the  following 
persons,  the  number  of  times  here  noted,  with  excise  on  beer,  obtained  usually  by 
the  half  or  quarter  vat:  Tourneur  and  Vermilye  always  for  kleyn  bier  (small  beer), 
the  rest  mostly  for  goed  bier  ((i.  e.,  strong  beer);  Hans  Lourcns,  once  for  one  ton 
of  strong  beer.     The  farm  bands  were  good  consumers.     We  omit  Verveelcn's  invoices. 

Daniel  Toumeun  Isaac  Vermilye,  David  Demarest,  each  6  charges;  Jan  La 
Montagne,  Lubbcrt  Gcrritsen,  Joh.  Pietcrscn  Buys,  each  4;  Nelis  Matthysen,  Jean 
Leroy,  and  "the  Indian,"  each  3;  Jan  Teunisz  Van  Tilburg,  Jan  Lourens  Duyts. 
Hans  Lourens,  Resolved  Waldron,  Claes  Carstens  Norman,  each  2,  and  a  single  charge 
against  John  Archer,  Claude  Delamater,  Hendrick  Karstens,  Mark  Disosway,  Johannes 
Pelszer,  Jaques  Cresson,  Arent  Harmans  Bussing,  Valentine  Claessen,  Jan  Van  Guide, 


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Events  soon  demonstrated  the  wisdom  of  the  steps  taken  for 
securing  a  general  patent.  The  heirs  of  the  late  Matthys  Jansen, 
of  Esopus,  had  obtained  from  Governor  NicoUs,  May  23d,  1667, 
a  confirmation  of  the  Papparinamin  grant  at  Spuyten  Duyvel. 
And  the  summer  brought  bodings  of  trouble  with  John  Archer, 
of  Westchester,  touching  the  meadows  on  that  side  of  the  river, 
opposite  Papparinamin,  belonging  to  several  inhabitants  of  Har- 
lem ;  and  on  their  complaint  the  following  order  was  issued : 

A  Warrant  to  the  Constable  of  Westchester,  about  some  Meadow  Ground 

claimed  by  Harlem : 

Whereas,  I  am  informed  that  the  Inhabitants  of  Harlem  have,  for 
divers  years,  mowed  their  hay  in  the  Meadows  on  the  other  side  of  Harlem 
River,  where  John  Archer  of  your  town  pretends  an  interest,  by  virtue  of 
a  patent  granted  for  the  Yonker's  Land  to  Hugh  O'Neale  and  Mary  his 
wife;  These  are  to  require  you  to  warn  the  said  John  Archer,  that  he 
forbear  cutting  hay  in  those  Meadows  this  present  season,  and  likewise 
that  he  do  not  presume  to  molest  those  of  Harlem,  until  I  shall  be  fully 
satisfied  of  the  Titles  on  both  parts,  and  give  my  judgment  thereupon, 
to  whom  of  right  these  Meadows  do  belong.  Given  under  my  hand  at 
Fort  James,  in  New  York,  this  i6th  day  of  August,  1667. 

R.   NiCOLLS. 

Shortly  after  this  threatened  encroachment  by  the  avaricious 
Archer,  which,  however,  did  not  end  here,  the  Harlem  freeholders 
received  their  town  patent,  drawn  in  the  following  ample  terms  :* 

Richard  Nicolls,  Esq.,  Governor-General  under  His  Royal  High- 
ness James  Duke  of  York  and  Albany,  &c.,  of  all  his  Territories  in 
America;  To  all  to  whom  these  Presents  shall  come,  sendeth  Greet- 
ing- Whereas  there  is  a  certain  Town  or  Village  upon  this  Island  Man- 
hatans,  commonly  called  and  known  by  the  name  of  New  Harlem,  situ- 
ate, lying  and  being  on  the  East  part  of  the  Island,  now  in  the  tenure 
or  occupation  of  several  of  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants,  who,  being 
seated  there  by  authority,  have  improved  a  considerable  proportion  of 
the  lands  thereunto  belonging,  and  also  settled  a  competent  number  of 
families  thereupon,  capable  to  make  a  Township;  Now,  for  a  confirmation 
to  the  said  freeholders  and  inhabitants  in  their  possession  and  enjoyment 
of  the  premises,  as  also  for  an  encouragement  to  them  in  their  further 

and  Michiel   Bastiacnsen.     It  is  well  that  entries  such  as  follows,  which  occur  often 
in  the  public  accounts,  belong  to  the  past: 

June  15,  1667,  To  4%  pints  Rum,   and   15  cans  measured   Beer, 

used  at  the  agreement  with  Verveelen /.  20. 

Feb.    18,  1678,  To   one   anker    Good    Beer,    dispensed    when    Do. 

Nieuwenhuysen  was  here  to  ordain  the  deacon./.  7  :  10 

Sept.      9,   1688,  To  Rum   at    his    funeral f.  7 

The  last  one  is  among  the  charges  "for  the  burial  of  a  stranger  who  died  at 
Cornells  Jansen's."  Jan  Tibout  (voorleser)  is  allowed  f.  12,  "for  an  address  to  his 
credit." 

*  Recorded  in  original  book  of  Patents,  Sec.  of  State's  Office,  Albany,  in  Liber 
4,  p.  60.  The  date  is  there  given  as  1666,  but  a  palpable  error;  since  October  11,  in 
the  19th  year  of  Charles  II.,  was  1667,  and,  moreover,  the  date  is  correctly  recited  in 
several  later  documents  including  Dongan's  Patent.  From  a  scrutiny  of  the  record 
it  would  appear  that  the  date  was  omitted  when  the  patent  was  recorded,  and  care- 
lessly entered  afterward.  The  names  of  the  three  patentees  are  also  written  Ver- 
veelen, Turner,  Oblene;  but  we  count  these  in  with  other  clerical  blunders,  and  cor- 
rect them  from  their  own  autographs. 


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improvement  of  the  said  lands;  Know  ye,  That  by  virtue  of  the  com- 
mission and  authority  unto  me  given  by  His  Royal  Highness,  I  have 
given,  ratified,  confirmed  and  granted,  and  by  these  Presents  do  give, 
ratify,  confirm  and  grant  unto  Thomas  Delavall,  Esq.,  John  Ver\'eelen, 
Daniel  Toumeur,  Joost  Oblinus  and  Resolved  Waldron,  as  Patentees 
for  and  on  the  behalf  of  themselves  and  their  associates  the  freeholders 
and  inhabitants  of  the  said  Town,  their  heirs,  successors  and  assigns. 
All  that  tract,  together  with  the  several  parcels  of  land  which  already 
have  or  hereafter  shall  be  purchased  or  procured  for  and  on  the  behalf 
of  the  said  Town  within  the  bounds  and  limits  hereafter  set  forth  and 
expressed,  viz. :  That  is  to  say,  from  the  West  side  of  the  fence  of  the  said 
Town  line  being  run  due  West  four  hundred  English  poles,  without 
variation  of  the  compass,  and  at  the  end  thereof  another  line  being  drawn 
across  the  Island  North  and  South,  with  the  variation.  That  is  to  say. 
North  from  the  end  of  a  certain  piece  of  meadow  ground  commonly 
called  the  Round  Meadow,*  near  or  adjoining  unto  Hudson's  or  North 
River,  and  South  to  the  place  where  formerly  stood  the  Saw  Mill,  over 
against  Verkens  or  Hog  Island  in  the  Sound  or  East  River,  shall  be  the 
Western  bounds  of  their  lands;  And  all  the  lands  lying  and  being  within 
the  said  line  to  draw  North  and  South  as  aforesaid  Eastward  to  the  end 
of  the  Town  and  Harlem  River,  or  any  part  of  the  said  River  on  which 
this  Island  doth  abut,  and  likewise  on  the  North  and  East  Rivers  within 
the  limits  aforementioned  described,  doth  and  shall  belong  to  the  said 
Town,  As  also  four  lots  of  meadow  ground  upon  the  Main,  marked  with 
Number  i,  2,  3,  4,  lying  over  against  the  Spring,t  where  a  passage  hath 
been  used  to  ford  over  from  this  Island  to  the  Main,  and  from  thence 
hither,  With  a  small  island,  commonly  called  Stoney  Island,  lying  to  the 
East  of  the  Town  and  Harlem  River,  going  through  Bronck's  Kill  by  the 
Little  and  Great  Bame's  Islands,  upon  which  there  are  also  four  other  lots 
of  meadow  ground,  marked  with  No.  i,  2,  3,  4,  Together  with  all  the  soils, 
creeks,  quarries,  woods,  meadows,  pastures,  marshes,  waters,  lakes,  fish- 
ing, hawking,  hunting  and  fowling,  and  all  other  profits,  commodities, 
emoluments  and  hereditaments  to  the  said  lands  and  premises  within  the 
said  bounds  and  limits  set  forth  belonging  or  in  anywise  appertaining. 
And  also  freedom  of  commerce  for  range  and  feed  of  cattle  and  horses 
further  West  into  the  woods  upon  this  Island  as  well  without  as  within 
their  bounds  and  limits.  To  have  and  to  hold  all  and  singular  the 
said  lands,  island,  commonage,  hereditaments  and  premises,  with  their 
and  every  of  their  appurtenances,  and  of  every  part  or  parcel  thereof, 
unto  the  said  Patentees  and  their  associates,  their  heirs,  successors  and 
assigns,  to  the  proper  use  and  behoof  of  the  said  Patentees  and  their 
associates,  their  heirs,  successors  and  assigns  forever.  And  I  do  hereby 
likewise  ratify,  confirm  and  grant  unto  the  said  Patentees  and  their  as- 
sociates, their  heirs,  successors  and  assigns,  all  the  rights  and  privileges 

*  Mocrtje  Davids'  Vly,  or  Mother  Davids'  Meadow,  was  the  name  by  which  this 
meadow  was  known  ten  years  later;    the  word  Vly   (now  usually  written  Fly,  which 

fives  its  Enfflish  sound)  being  a  contraction  of  valley,  the  Dutch  term  for  meadow. 
t  was  the  identical  meadow  named  in  Kuyter's  grant,  and  lay  just  within  the  bay  or 
clove  at  Manhattanville:  and  it  was  to  distinguish  it  from  another  Round  Meadow 
(that  at  Sherman's  Creek,  called  in  the  original  allotments  the  Great  Meadow)  that  it 
received  the  name  Moertje  Davids'  Meadow.  This  name  was  singularly  derived  from 
the  larger  meadows  so  called  lyinp  upon  the  opposite  side  of  the  Hudson,  in  Bergen 
(bounty,  and  annexed  to  "Moertje  David's  Plantation."  Often  referred  to  in  the 
history  of  the  town,  our  Mocrtje  Davids'  Fly  has  notoriety  as  a  landmark,  not  only  in 
connection  with  the  Harlem  patent  line,  but  with  the  Battle  of  Harlem  Plains.  The 
perversion  to  Murdanies,  Mordanis,  etc.,  (see  N.  Y.  Cal.  of  Land  Papers,  16.  and 
Winfield's  Land  Titles,  129),  has  obviously  come  by  clipping  the  first  word,  And  mistak- 
ing the  V  (often  formed  as  u,  in  old  writings)  for  an  n. 

t  The  Spring;  that  is,  Spuyten  Duyvel.  (See  pa^e  115).  Verken  Island,  before 
noticed,  was  soon  after  called  Manning's  Island,  from  its  ownw,  Capt.  John  Manning, 
and  later  Blackwell's  Island.  Stony  Island  has  hardly  yet  yielded  to  the  modem 
name  of  Port  Morris. 


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belonging  to  a  Town  within  this  Government;  with  this  proviso  or  excep- 
tion. That  in  all  matters  of  debt  or  trespass  of  or  above  the  value  of 
Five  Pounds  they  shall  have  relation  to  and  dependence  upon  the  Courts 
of  this  City  as  the  other  Towns  have  upon  the  several  Courts  of  Sessions 
to  which  they  do  belong;  Moreover  the  place  of  their  present  habita- 
tion shall  continue  and  retain  the  name  of  New  Harlem,  by  which 
name  and  style  it  shall  be  distinguished  and  known  in  all  bargains  and 
sales,  deeds,  writings  and  records,  And  no  person  whatsoever  shall  be 
suffered  or  permitted  to  erect  any  manner  of  house  or  building  upon 
this  Island,  within  two  miles  of  the  limits  and  bounds  aforementioned, 
without  the  consent  and  approbation  of  the  major  part  of  the  inhabi- 
tants of  the  said  Town.  And  whereas  the  said  town  lies  very  commo- 
dious for  a  Ferry,  to  pass  to  and  from  the  Main,  which  may  redound 
to  the  particular  benefit  of  the  inhabitants  as  well  as  to  a  general  good, 
the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  of  the  said  Town  shall,  in  considera- 
tion of  the  benefits  and  privileges  herein  granted,  as  also  for  what  ad- 
vantage they  may  receive  thereby,  be  enjoined  and  obliged  at  their 
own  proper  costs  and  charge  to  build  or  provide  one  or  more  boats,  fit 
for  the  transportation  of  men,  horses  and  cattle,  for  which  there  shall  be 
a  certain  allowance  given  by  each  particular  person  as  shall  be  ordered 
and  adjudged  fit  and  reasonable.  They,  the  said  Patentees,  and  their  as- 
sociates, their  heirs,  successors  and  assigns,  rendering  and  paying  such 
duties  and  acknowledgments  as  now  are  or  hereafter  shall  be  constituted 
and  established  by  the  laws  of  this  Government,  under  the  obedience  of 
His  Rojral  Highness,  his  heirs  and  successors.  Given  under  my  hand 
and  seal,  at  Fort  James,  in  New  York,  on  the  Island  Manhatans,  the 
nth  day  October,  in  the  19th  year  of  His  Majesty's  reign,  Annoq.  Domini, 
1667. 

Richard  Nicoli^s. 

While  the  proceedings  relating  to  the  patent  were  pending, 
much  ill-feeling  had  found  vent  at  certain  "orders  of  the  new 
government."  One  of  the  most  outspoken  was  Jan  Nagel,  fate 
soldier  in  the  Dutch  service  who,  on  being  notified  of  the  order 
by  the  constable,  Verveelen,  returned  him  the  following  answer, 
wherein  his  sentiments  are  not  disguised: 

April  y€  12,  1667. 

I  take  this  opportunity  to  send  you  word  that  I  will  see  you  to-mor* 
row  to  comply  with  yc  orders  of  y«  new  government,  as  such  a  course 
seems  now  necessary,  and  leaving  no  other  alternative;  but  not  without 
very  strongly  protesting  against  y«  injustice  which  has  long  been  heaped 
upon  us.  Not  finding  satisfaction  in  ye  confiscation  of  very  valuable 
property,  they  are  now  compelling  us  to  submit  to  an  illegal  and  tyran- 
nical foreign  government.  If  God  has  designed  in  his  providence  that  y« 
Dutch  people  should  become  victims  to  yc  treachery  and  rapacity  of  yc 
English,  then  all  they  can  do  is  to  submit. 

Jan  Nacel. 

But,  on  May  3d,  Verveelen  complains  to  the  magistrates  that 
Nagel  "has  not  obeyed  his  order."  Nagel  replies,  saying  "he 
has  conveyed  the  order,  but  they  would  not  go."  On  motion  of 
the  under-sheriff,  Toumeur,  that  the  defendant  "be  bound  over 
to  the  Mayor's  Court  as  a  rebel,  on  the  charge  of  having  refused 


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246  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

to  obey  the  order  of  the  constable/'  the  Overseers  so  referred 
the  case.  Others  were  also  implicated,  for  on  September  6th, 
Nelis  Matthyssen,  ex-magistrate,  taking  by  invitation  a  seat  on 
the  bench,  Tourneur  (not  in  love  with  Nelis,  whose  wife  had 
appeared  against  him  in  the  manslaughter  case)  stoutly  pro- 
tested, charging  Nelis  with  being  a  rebel ;  but  the  court  rejected 
the  charge.  So  it  rested  till  another  sitting  on  October  24th, 
when  affairs  had  become  so  grave  that  Capt.  John  Manning,  the 
High  Sheriff,  presided,  and  before  whom  Jan  Nagel  and  Hans 
Lourens,  in  the  same  category,  were  also  cited  to  appear.  Mat- 
thyssen had  summoned  Tourneur  to  prove  "that  he  is  a  rebel." 
Tourneur  now  "proves  it  by  the  order  of  the  Mayor's  Court,  that 
the  plaintiff  should  not  continue  as  one  of  the  bench."  Nelis 
being  cast,  and  put  to  an  amende  of  6  gl.  and  costs  of  suit,  with 
becoming  nonchalance  promised  25  gl.  to  the  poor.  The  two 
other  cases  were  then  taken  up,  when  Nagel  was  fined  60  gl., 
and  Lourens  40  gl.,  each  with  costs. 

Captain  Delavall  had  become  by  far  the  largest  landed  pro- 
prietor in  the  town,  and  hence  was  entitled  to  be  named  as  first 
patentee.  He  now  owned  (not  to  specify  further)  several  of  the 
uppermost  lots  on  Jochem  Pieters'  Flat,  besides  those  of  Simon 
De  Ruine  and  the  late  Jan  Cogu,  in  the  same  tract.  On  March 
14th,  1668,  Tourneur,  as  agent  for  Delavall,  who  was  arranging 
his  business  preparatory  to  going  to  England,  leased  these  several 
lots,  with  the  De  Ruine  house  and  garden  in  the  village,  for  a 
term  of  four  years,  to  a  respectable  settler  named  Wouter  Ger- 
ritsen,  whose  emigration  in  1659  has  been  already  noticed.* 

*  Simon  de  Ruine,  otherwise  called  de  Waal,  i.  c.,  the  Walloon,  wa«  originally 
from  Landrecy,  in  Hainault,  as  before  noticed.  Having  sold  his  lands  in  Harlem,  in 
1666,  he  bought  a  few  acres  in  Flushing,  near  Jean  Genung.  and  is  named  on  the 
rate  list  of  167?;,  Doc.  Hist.  N.  Y.,  ii.  461  On  April  27,  1678,  the  Sicur  Dubuisson 
drew  up  his  will;  a  copy  is  here  given.  It  was  proved  June  13,  1678.  Simon  was 
sick,  and  perhaps  in  extremis,  as  he  did  not  put  his  hand  to  the  will,  and  thus  its 
date  may  oe  that  of  his  death.  As  he  always  made  his  mark,  and  his  name  takes 
many  forms  in  cotempnorary  records,  we  follow  Dubuisson  as  probably  correct.  The 
following  forms  prevail:  Drune,  Dreune,  Druwen.  John  Montagne  varies  it  thus 
in  a  dozen  times:  Durwyn,  Druwecn.  Simon  had,  with  other  children,  Jacomina. 
bom  near  lyandrecy,  who  married  John  Demarest;  Jannetie,  born  at  Amsterdam,  who 
married  Jolyi  De  Pre;    and  Maria,  bom  at  Harlem,  who  married  Samuel  Demarest. 

A  Jourd  buy  ayme  avril  1678,  faict  en  prcnsence  de  Jean  Guenon  ct  de  Mar- 
guerite sa  femme.  et  Jean  des  Conseiller,  et  de  Jean  Baptiste  de  Poictier,  Sieur 
Dubuisson,  et  du  libre  consentement  de  Simon  de  Ruine,  le  Oualon,  se  croiant  malade, 
a  recongnu  pour  Ic  repos  de  sa  consicnse,  par  un  libre  et  st.  jugement,  a  tesmoignc 
ettre  sa  volonte  ainsy  guy  seulmt  qu  apres  les  despt  paiez  desclare  et  a  les  clare 
Madlaine  sa  femme  beritier  des  les  bien  et  en  disposer  sa  vie  durante,  sans  toutey 
fois  le  pouvir  vendre  gra  ny  engager  en  quelque  facon,  que  le  soit  tant  meublc  et 
inmcublc  demeurant  au  mesme  point  qu  il  sont.  C  etait  et  conduct  a  rcste  dans  la 
maisonmaison  du  diet  Simon  de  Ruine,  dit  Ic  Oualon,  en  presence  des  tesmoin  cy 
dessre  nonme  1  on  desclare  ne  savoir  siner  faute  de  quoy  mestre  on  leur  marque. 

de  Jean  nm  Guenon 

marque  nn  Jean  des  Conseiller. 
fait  par  moy 

Jean   Baptiste   de   Poictier,    Sieur   Dubuisson. 


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In  the  meantime  other  old  groundbriefs  of  Governor  Kieft's 
time  were  being  hunted  up  by  heirs  or  successors  of  the  grantees 
for  official  confirmation.  That  to  Pieter  Jansen  and  Huyck  Aert- 
sen  for  land  at  Sherman's  Creek  was  now  claimed  in  partnership 
by  Joost  Kockuyt,  of  Bushwick,  who  had  married  Jansen's  widow, 
and  Thomas  Lamberts,  of  Brooklyn,  Aertsen's  successor.  These 
parties  sold  the  groundbrief  to  Archer,  of  Westchester,  for  600 
guilders.  But  when  presented  to  Governor  Nicolls  he  refused 
to  confirm  it,  both  because  he  considered  it  as  forfeited  by  the 
neglect  of  the  owners  to  improve  the  land,  and  "in  regard  it  might 
be  injurious  to  the  Town  of  Harlem." 

The  old  Hoorn's  Hook  patent,  granted  to  Sibout  Claessen, 
was  also  oflFered  for  sale  to  Daniel  Tourneur,  who,  consulting 
his  own  interests  rather  than  those  of  the  town,  agreed  to  buy  it. 
This  being  known,  caused  great  dissatisfaction,  and  gave  rise 
to  the  following  petition: 

To  His  Excellency  Gov.  Richard  Nicolls: 

The  Magistrates  of  the  Town  of  New  Harlem,  with  all  becoming 
respect  and  submission,  do  represent;  That  your  Excellency's  petitioners 
have  been  informed  that  some  persons  have  bought  the  lands  commonly 
called  Hoorn's  Hook;  which  conflicts  with  the  privileges  wherewith  this 
Town  was  laid  out,  and  is  to  the  great  prejudice  of  the  town,  the  more 
so.  as  the  said  privileges  have  been  confirmed  by  your  Excellency,  and 
the  lands  are  situated  within  our  jurisdiction.  Your  Excellenc/s  peti- 
tioners do  not  desire  the  same  for  nothing,  but  offer  to  pay  what  they 
have  been  sold  for.*  Hoping  your  Excellency  will  give  the  preference 
to  your  petitioners  of  having  the  same,  with  the  redemption  thereof,  by 
pa3ring  what  they  have  been  sold  for;  for  they  await  your  Excellency's 
favorable  answer.  In  the  meantime  they  will  not  cease  to  pray  God  to 
grant  your  Excellency  enduring  health  and  salvation.  Amen.  New  Har- 
lem, 15th  March,  1668. 

In  the  name  of  your  Excellency's  faithful  subjects, 

J.  La  Montagne,  Junior, 

Secretary. 

This  paper  had  scarcely  gone  on  its  errand  when  another 
excitement  arose  in  the  village.  The  22d  of  the  same  month, 
Jeaen  Baignoux,  a  worthy  French  refugee,  and  subsequent  owner 
of  a  farm  on  Hoorn's  Hook,  having  occasion  to  cross  the  river 
to  Morns',  forty  pounds  of  tobacco,  with  a  nootast  and  other 

•  In  margin;    "To  wit,  Seven  or  eight  hundred  sticks  of  firewood." 

t  Nootas,  a  bag  made  of  Indian  hemp,  in  which  the  natives  carried  their  sewant, 
tobacco,  etc.,  and  measured  their  corn.  They  came  into  common  use  with  the  settlers, 
and  arc  often  named  in  inventories  and  vendue  lists.  The  court  minutes  of  July 
12,  1663,  contain  the  following: 

*Xubbert  Gerritsen  and  Marie  Taine  declare,  bv  request  of  Nelis  Matthyssen,  that 
thcv  heard  Madalena  Lodewycks  say,  at  said  Msulalena's  house,  that  Barentien  Dircks 
had  stolen  the  pork  of  Jacob  Brouwer,  which  was  in  a  nootas  by  the  oven  door. 
The  court  condemn  defendant  to  pay,  for  the  needs  of  the  poor,  6  guilders  and  the 
cost  of  suit."     She  was  wife  of  Simon  de  Ruinc. 

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articles,  all  valued  at  76  florins,  were  stolen  out  of  his  canoe 
while  it  lay  at  the  landing-place.  He  charged  the  theft  upon 
Matthys,  the  ferry  negro,  who  was  arrested,  but  released  on  his 
master,  Verveelen,  becoming  his  bail.  The  case,  more  serious 
for  that  Matthys  was  de  facto  a  public  servant,  demanded,  as 
thought,  an  extra  court,  which  was  held  April  2d,  when  beside 
the  usual  magistrates,  his  honor,  High  Sheriff  Manning,  was 
present.  Pierre  Grandpre,  another  refugee,  with  Knoet  Mourisse, 
had  occasion  to  go  over  together  just  after  Baignoux,  and  de- 
scribed the  strange  actions  of  the  negro,  who  "with  a  sword  in 
one  hand  and  fire  in  the  other,''  forbade  their  landing.  They  also 
saw  that  Matthys  had  a  nootas,  but  could  not  say  whose  it  was. 
The  testimony  left  little  doubt  of  his  guilt,  but  the  court  though 
best  to  postpone  the  case  for  further  evidence ;  Verveelen  promis- 
ing Capt.  Manning  to  make  good  Baignoux'  loss  should  the 
latter  be  able  to  clearly  fix  the  theft  upon  the  negro.  No  more 
appears. 

But  new  trouble  awaited  the  ferryman.  It  was  found  no 
such  easy  matter  to  close  up  the  passage  at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  long 
"used  to  ford  over  from  this  Island  to  the  Main."  Fences  were 
rudely  thrown  down,  and  the  grazing  kine  strayed  across  at  will. 
Further,  it  became  known  that  John  Barker,  of  Westchester,  had 
presumptuously,  and  to  the  great  damage  and  loss  of  the  ferry 
at  Harlem,  taken  over  a  great  number  of  horses  and  cattle,  toll 
free.  Verveelen  and  the  magistrates  hastened  to  make  com- 
plaint. The  Mayor's  Court  gave  both  sides  a  hearing  on  June 
2d,  when  some  neglect  on  the  part  of  the  ferryman  appearing, 
it  was  "Ordered  that  said  Barker  shall  pay  the  ferry  money  for 
all  horses  and  cattle  conveyed  by  him  over  the  Spuyten  Duyvel 
whilst  the  ferry  has  been  at  Harlem,  which  money  the  petition- 
ers shall  employ  to  repair  the  fences  at  Spuyten  Duyvel ;  and  the 
ferryman  is  in  like  manner  expressly  ordered  and  charged  to 
finish  the  house  and  pen,  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  ferry  at 
Harlem,  at  the  earliest  opportunity;  under  such  penalty  as  the 
Hon.  Court  shall  impose."  Verveelen  made  out  a  bill  for  £5 
sterling  against  Barker,  but  recovered  it  only  by  an  attachment, 
issued  September  5th,  by  the  Town  Court. 

A  series  of  troubles  now  began  between  the  inhabitants  and 
John  Archer,  respecting  their  lands  and  meadows  near  Spuyten 
Duyvel.  This  noted  person  is  first  introduced  to  us  as  "Jan 
Arcer,  alias  Neuswys,  from  Amsterdam."  His  affix,  literally 
rendered  nosewise,  when  coupled  with  his  more  familiar  nick- 
name, "koop-al,"  or  "buy-all,"  suggested, — that  Archer  was   a 


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shrewd  fellow  and  had  an  eye  to  business!  One  alias,  indeed, 
he  got  from  his  father,  who,  in  1658,  is  called  "J^^^  Aarsen,  from 
Xieuwhoff,  commonly  called  Jan  Koopal,"  the  son  in  1662 
being  styled  "J^"  Arcer,  alias  Koopal,  the  younger."  He  had 
been  in  Westchester  a  dozen  years  or  more,  and  in  its  affairs 
borne  an  active  part.  It  was  an  English  community,  and  he, 
taking  to  wife  in  1659  an  English  girl  from  Cambridge,  his  name 
thus  came  to  take  the  English  form  of  Archer,  which  has  des- 
cended to  a  numerous  posterity.*  By  his  assiduity  acquiring  a 
large  tract  of  land  bteween  the  Harlem  River  and  the  Bronx, 
he  had  **at  his  own  charge  and  with  good  success  begun  a  town- 
ship ;  in  a  convenient  place  for  the  relief  of  strangers, — it  being 
the  road  for  passengers  to  go  to  and  fro  from  the  main, — as 
well  as  for  mutual  intercourse  with  the  neighboring  colony." 
Archer  began  by  leasing  his  land  in  parcels  of  20  to  24  acres, 
to  such  persons  as  would  undertake  to  clear  and  cultivate  it  (and 
with  each  a  house  and  lot  in  the  village),  all  upon  easy  terms; 
so  that  in  the  years  1668  and  1669  a  good  number  of  the  Harlem 
people  were  led  to  go  there.  The  '*new  plantation"  was  given 
the  name  of  Fordham.t 

Already,  as  we  have  seen,  there  was  a  dispute  between  Archer 
and  the  Harlem  people  about  the  line  parting  his  lands  from  their 
meadows  upon  that  side.  It  so  happened  that  four  of  Archer's 
cattle  trespassed  on  the  meadows.  They  were  seizeed  by  order 
of  the  Harlem  magistrates,  who  entered  a  complaint  against 
Archer  to  the  new  governor,  Lovelace.  Both  parties  appeared 
before  his  Excellency  in  Council,  at  a  special  session  held  Novem- 
ber 6th,  and  were  heard  at  length;  the  Harlem  people  having 
deputed  Toumeur,  Verveelen,  Waldron,  and  the  constable, 
Aoelofsen,  to  answer  for  them. 

Two  charges  were  preferred  against  Archer: 

*  The  Archers,  we  may  hence  conclude,  are  not  of  English,  but  of  Holland  de- 
scent, although  the  contrary  is  assumed  in  the  History  of  Westchester  County.  The 
ancestor  was  born  at  NieuwhofT,  his  son  at  Amsterdam,  and  the  latter  has  left  us  his 
autograph,  invariably  written  Jan  Arcer,  as  only  a  Hollander  would  write  it.  This 
seems  pretty  conclusive. 

t  The  annexed  list  of  leases  executed  by  Archer  at  Harlem  shows  who  took  up 

farms  in  Fordham.     Nearly  all  subsec^uently  left  and  got  land  of  their  own  elsewhere. 

The  leases  with  stars  affixed  are  not  signed  in  the  record. 

Feb.   12,   1669,  Kier   Wolters  and |„  ^  o  ^-ro 

Pieter  Roelofsen,   fTerm  7  years  from  Sept.  29.   1668. 

'*              "       Marc  du   Sauchoy **       4  "         ••  April     i,   1669. 

May  I,        "       Jan  Pietersen  Buys* "       5  "         ••  Aug.    31,  1668. 

"              "       Cornelis  A.   Viervant '*       5  "         "               " 

"              "       Tan  Teunisz  v.  Tilburg "       5  "         **               " 

Jan  Hendrick  Boch* "       5  "         '*               '• 

"             "       Hendrick    Kiersen "       5  "         *'               " 

"             '*       Louwerens  Ackcrman **       5  "         **               " 

"             "       Michicl    Bastiaensen '*       5  "         "               " 

Decs,         "       Kier  Wolters. "       s  "         '* 

*'             **       Marc  du  Sauchoy "       S  "         "               " 


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"ist.  That  upon  pretence  of  a  certain  purchase,  he  isty^ 
claim  to  a  parcel  of  land  upon  this  Island,  near  Spu)rten  Duyvel, 
which  is  within  the  limits  and  bounds  of  their  patent,  and  of 
right  belongeth  to  their  Town." 

"2d.  That  having  seated  himself  very  near  unto  some  lots 
of  meadow  ground  upon  the  Main,  belonging  unto  their  Town, 
he  is  a  daily  trespasser  upon  them  with  his  cattle,  and  that  the 
said  ground,  lying  in  length  alongst  the  Creek  or  Kill,  cannot 
without  very  great  charge  be  fenced  in." 

Upon  the  first  point  Archer  replied  that  he  owned  the  land 
in  question,  on  this  Island,  by  virtue  of  a  groundbrief  granted 
by  the  Dutch  governor  Kieft,  which  he  had  purchased  from 
Thomas  Lamberts  and  Joost  Kockuyt  for  600  guilders.  But  the 
court  decided,  that  owing  to  "the  long  time  since  the  first  ground- 
brief  was  given,  and  no  settlement  since/*  the  title  had  "lapsed" ; 
or,  in  other  words,  was  "of  no  validity,  it  beeing  forfeited  by 
several  acts  of  the  government."  Further,  because  "it  might  be 
injurious  to  the  Town  of  Harlem,"  Governor  Nicolls  had  refused 
to  confirm  it.  It  was  therefore  "adjudged  that  the  land  in  con- 
troversy doth  belong  to  the  Town  of  Harlem,  by  virtue  of  their 
patent."  But  it  was  recommended,  "in  regard  the  owners  thereof 
have  sustained  loss  upon  the  said  land,"  to  find  means  to  pay 
them  so  much  as  the  first  agreement  for  the  sale  thereof." 

Upon  the  second  count.  Archer  "denies  any  claim  to  the  lots 
upon  the  Main,  Nos.  i,  2,  3,  4,  with  which  he  is  charged;  but 
hath  purchased  land  near  adjoining,  that  was  the  Yonker  Vander 
Donck*s."  Thereupon,  "it  was  ordered  that  the  defendant  do 
bring  in  the  patent  for  the  Yonker's  land  in  fifteen  days*  time, 
with  what  right  he  hath  to  the  land  where  he  hath  built ;  at  which 
time  some  persons  shall  be  appointed  to  view  the  meadow  belong- 
ing to  Harlem,  upon  the  Main,  and  to  make  report  how  it  may 
be  preserved  from  the  defendant's  trespassing  on  it.  Which  per- 
sons shall  also  be  ordered  to  view  the  passage  at  Spu>i:en  Duyvel, 
how  it  may  be  made  convenient  for  travelers  and  drift  of  cattle ; 
the  ferry  at  Harlem  being  found  incommodious,  and  not  answer- 
ing the  ends  formerly  proposed."  The  latter  announcement  fore- 
shadowed a  change  which  was  to  plant  a  lifelong  thorn  in  Archer's 
side. 

On  November  15th,  Archer  attempted  "to  make  out  his  title." 
But  the  court  remained  of  the  opinion,  that  he  had  "not  clearly 
made  it  out,  he  having  no  bill  of  sale,  nor  bonds  setting  forth 
his  purchase.**  They  gave  him  till  February  14th  to  "clear  his 
title,** — and  meanwhile  he  was  to  give  "no  disturbance  to  his 


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neighbors.*'  An  order  was  then  issued  for  the  release  of  his 
cattle.  The  receipt  to  the  magistrates  for  the  "four  attached 
cattle,"  dated  December  13th,  and  signed  "Jan  Arcer,"  shows 
compliance  with  the  order. 

No  answer  has  been  found  to  the  application  respecting 
Hoorn's  Hook;  the  decision  upon  the  Jansen  and  Aertsen  patent 
seems  to  have  answered  it.  Certainly  Harlem  held  the  land,  and 
the  upshot  of  the  matter  was  that  Tourneur  asked  the  freeholders 
to  grant  him  this  fifty  morgen  "as  a  recompense  for  his  services 
to  the  town,"  or  to  indorse  the  purchase  which  he  had  made. 
But  when  it  came  up  for  action,  November  20th,  some  were  in 
favor,  others  opposed,  or  said  they  would  have  no  more  to  do 
with  it,  and  so  it  dropped.  Howbeit,  Tourneur  had  already 
secured,  June  15th,  a  valuable  grant  from  Governor  Nicolls  of 
eighty-one  acres  on  the  other  side  of  Harlem  River,  between 
Archer's  and  Bronck's  land,  and  watered  by  the  gentle  Man- 
nepies,  now  Cromwell's  Creek;  which  property,  by  the  marriage 
of  his  daughter  Esther,  became  vested  in  the  De  Voe  ancestor, 
afterward  owner  of  the  adjoining  tract  known  as  De  Voe's  Point. 

On  September  17th,  the  magistrates  Tourneur  and  the  sen- 
ior Vermilye  had  been  summoned  to  DelavalFs  mill  to  appraise 
the  effects  of  the  miller,  Hage  Bruynsen,  just  deceased;  and  ere 
the  year  closed,  death  claimed  another  settler,  Hendrick  Karstens, 
late  a  nominee  for  the  office  of  overseer.  The  village  had  been 
the  scene  of  unusual  activity  through  the  working  season  now 
closing.  The  first  vessel  of  size  put  upon  the  stocks  here,  of 
which  any  notice  is  taken,  was  a  sloop  built  this  year,  under  a 
contract,  by  Jan  Gerritsen  De  Vries,  for  Capt.  Thomas  Bradley, 
who  before  this  had  sailed  a  market  yacht  between  New  York 
and  "Stafford."  On  November  27th,  the  parties  discharged  each 
other  of  their  contract,  Bradley  giving  De  Vries  a  bond  for  the 
balance  due  him,  122  gl.  in  sewant,  to  which  Verveelen  and  Wil- 
liam Sandford  were  witnesses.  As  indicative  of  growth  in  the 
village,  the  magistrates,  on  December  17th,  1668,  granted  Johan- 
nes Pelzer  "a  little  house-lot,  lying  south  of  the  house-lot  of 
Claude  Le  Maistre."* 

*  Hendrick  Karstens  was  born  in  1610,  in  Oldenbourg,  Westphalia,  but  directly 
after  that  event,  his  father,  Karsten  Hendricks,  removed  to  Amsterdam.  The  family 
were  Lutherans.  Hendrick  took  to  sea,  but  finally  married,  in  1644,  Femmetic  Coen- 
ractsi,  from  Groningen.  Soon  after  the  birth  of  a  daughter,  whom  they  called 
Wybrccht,  thev  left  Amsterdam  for  New  Netherland.  Karstens  took  up  land  at 
Harlem,  but  also  workied  as  a  mason.  Unschooled,  but  industrious  and  worthy,  he 
bore  his  humble  part  in  the  building  up  of  the  town,  holding,  at  times,  several  minor 
offices.  In  1667  ne  visited  the  Delaware.  The  year  after  his  death,  his  widow  married 
Lubbert  Gerritsen.  Karsten's  children  were,  Wybrecht,  born  1646,  at  Amsterdam,  who 
married  Hermanus  Van  Borsum;  Coenraet,  bom  1648,  in  this  country;  and  Tan, 
bom   1650.     The  name  Boch,  assumed  by  the  two  sons,   was  probably  derived  from 


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252  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

The  following  year,  1669,  witnessed  several  important  meas- 
ures for  the  improvement  of  the  town.  On  February  22d,  Gov- 
ernor Lovelace  and  his  Council,  with  "others  of  the  bench  at 
New  York,"  held  a  court  at  Harlem  to  consider  two  or  three 
matters  affecting  the  town  and  neighborhood.  First  and  princi- 
pal was  that  of  laying  out  a  wagon  road  btween  New  York  and 
Harlem,  "which  hath  heretofore  been  ordered  and  appointed,  but 
never  as  yet  was  prosecuted  to  effect,'*  though  "very  necessary 
for  mutual  commerce  with  one  another."  The  following  action 
was  taken: 

"It  is  this  day  ordered  that  a  convenient  wagon  way  be  made 
between  the  city  of  New  York  and  this  place,  to  which  end  four 
commissioners  shall  be  appointed,  who  are  to  view  and  consider 
of  the  most  convenient  passage  to  be  made. 

"That  these  four  commissioners  meet  to  view  the  said  way 
on  Thursday  next,  being  the  25th  of  this  instant  month;  and 
after  having  concluded  upon  it,  that  immediately  they  fall  upon 
laying  out  the  way,  according  to  their  former  agreement  there- 
upon ;  that  is  to  say,  the  neighbors  of  the  Bowery  and  parts 
adjacent  to  clear  the  way  to  be  fit  for  the  passage  of  wagons, 
from  New  York  to  the  Saw  Kill ;  and  the  Town  of  Harlem,  from 
thence  to  their  town.  That  this  way  be  laid  out  and  cleared, 
according  to  the  intent  of  this  order,  by  the  first  of  May  next. 

"That  the  appointed  Commissioners,  upon  their  conclusion 
of  the  best  way,  do  immediately  give  the  Governor  an  account 
of  their  agreement,  who  thereupon  will  give  order  for  the  putting 
the  same  in  execution. 

"That  the  Commissioners  of  either  party  have  hereby  liberty 
to  make  inspection  on  the  sufficiency  or  defect  of  each  other, 
to  the  intent  that  there  prove  no  failing  in  either  of  them."* 

The  two  commissioners  appointed  for  the  Harlem  district 
were  Daniel  Tourneur  and  Resolved  Waldron. 

This  court  "also  ordered  that  all  horses  and  cattle  belonging 
to  New  York  and  New  Harlem,  which  shall  be  turned  into  the 

Bourg,  used  familiarly  for  Oldenbourg,  their  father's  birthplace.  After  some  years 
they  both  removed  from  the  town,  but  whither  is  not  certain;  possibly  to  Kinderhook. 
(Consult  Munseirs  Albany  Hist.  Coll.,  iv.  106). 

•  Harlem  Lane,  as  we  have  reason  to  believe,  was  at  first  an  Indian  trail.  Such 
forest  paths,  conveniently  marked  out  by  savage  instinct,  were  often  adopted  by  the 
white  settlers  as  the  best  routes  for  highways.  In  traveling  from  New  Amsterdam  to 
Spuytcn  Duyvel,  at  McGowan's  Pass  was  the  natural  descent  to  the  plain,  the  path 
striking  its  northern  end,  where  it  would  as  naturally  fork  to  the  left  and  right,  for 
the  equal  convenience  of  the  pedestrian  passing  through  the  "Clove  of  the  Kill**  to 
the  North  River,  or  along  the  base  of  the  height  to  and  up  Break  Neck  Hill.  It  is 
not  possible  to  tell  when  this  path  over  the  Flats  became  a  road,  but  the  indications 
are  that  it  was  very  early,  many  years  before  it  was  formally  laid  out  as  siich, 
which  was  done  pursuant  to  an  Act  of  Assembly  of  June  19,  1709-  (See  Hoffman,  ii, 
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woods  upon  this  island,  shall  have  a  mark  of  distinction  upon 
them ;  That  is  to  say,  those  belonging  to  New  York,  the  Bowery, 
and  parts  adjacent,  are  to  have  a  brand  mark  with  N.  Y.  upon 
them,  and  those  of  New  Harlem  with  N.  H.  And  that  there 
be  a  person  appointed  and  sworn  in  each  place  to  mark  such 
horses  and  cattle  as  really  do  belong  to  the  inhabitants,  and  none 
others." 

The  question  of  the  transfer  of  the  ferry  from  Harlem  to 
Spuyten  Duyvel  had  been  for  some  time  mooted.  Proceedings 
in  regard  to  it  were  opened  by  the  following  communication  from 
Governor  Lovelace  to  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  of  the  city,  dated 
February  27th,  1669. 

"Whereas  Johannes  Verveelen,  of  New  Harlem,  hath  pre 
ferred  a  petition  uftto  me,  in  regard  the  ferry  at  Harlem  is  to  be 
removed,  and  that  the  passage  at  Spuyten  Duyvel  is  to  be  fitted 
and  kept  for  passengers  going  to  and  from  this  Island  to  the 
Main,  as  also  for  a  drift  for  cattle  and  horses,  that  he  may  be 
admitted  to  keep  the  said  passage;  the  Petitioner  alleging,  that 
having  a  promise  from  the  late  Governor,  my  predecessor,  as 
also  a  confirmation  from  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  of  this  city, 
that  he  should  enjoy  the  benefit  of  the  ferry  at  Harlem  for  five 
years,  conditionally  that  he  should  provide  boats  and  other  neces- 
sar>^  accommodation  for  strangers,  which  accordingly  he  hath  per- 
formed, but  there  is  not  as  yet  above  two  years  of  the  time  ex- 
pired ;  I  have  thought  fit  to  refer  the  whole  case  of  the  Petitioner 
to  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  of  this  city,  who  are  to  return  back 
to  me  their  judgment  and  resolution  therein.  Whereupon  I 
shall  give  order  for  the  laying  out  of  a  piece  of  land  near  Spuyten 
Duyvel  fit  for  the  accommodation  of  the  person  that  shall  be 
appointed  to  keep  the  ferry  and  passage  there,  as  also  for  the 
relief  of  passengers  and  strangers." 

The  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  by  resolution,  March  2d,  con- 
curred in  a  change  of  the  ferry  from  Harlem  "to  the  wading 
place,"  and  recommended  that  Verveelen  be  settled  there  for 
the  remaining  three  years,  provided  he  "deliver  up  annually  an 
account  of  the  income  of  said  ferry."  Hereupon  the  Governor, 
June  2d,  granted  Verveelen  a  warrant  which  after  informing  "all 
officers  or  other  persons  whom  it  may  concern,"  of  the  purpose 
to  remove  the  ferry  from  New  Harlem  to  Spuyten  Duyvel,  "a 
nearer  and  more  convenient  passage  to  and  from  this  Island  and 
the  Main,"  and  that  Johannes  Verveelen  was  found  "the  fittest 
person  to  be  employed  therein  that  will  undertake  it,  both  in 


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regard  to  the  change  he  hath  been  already  at,  and  his  experience 
that  way" ;  proceeds  thus 

* 'These  are  to  authorize  and  empower  him,  the  said  Johannes 
Verveelen,  to  repair  to  the  said  place  at  Spuyten  Dujrvel,  and  to 
cause  a  fence  to  be  made  for  keeping  all  manner  of  cattle  from 
going  or  coming  to  or  from  the  said  passage  without  leave  or 
paying  therefor,  and  at  his  best  conveniency  to  lay  out  a  place 
upon  that  piece  of  land  called  Papparinamin  on  the  Main  side, 
near  unto  the  said  passage,  for  habitation  and  accommoda- 
tion of  travelers,  for  the  which  he  shall  have  a  patent  and  articles 
of  confirmation.     And  for  so  doing  this  shall  be  his  warrant." 

^'Instructions  for  ye  Ferryman  at  Spuyten  DuyveF'  were 
drawn  up  July  15th,  and  incorporated  in  the  following  curious 
lease : 

Articles  of  Agreement  Indented,  consented  unto  and  concluded 
upon,  the  15th  day  of  July,  in  the  21st  year  of  his  Majesty's  reign, 
Annoqe  Domini,  1669,  Between  the  R'  HonWc  Francis  Lovelace,  Esqr, 
Governor  Gen^  under  His  Royal  Highness,  James  Duke  of  York  and  Al- 
bany, &c.,  of  all  his  Territories  in  America,  on  the  one  part;  and  Johannes 
Verveelen,  of  New  Harlem,  on  the  Island  Manhatans,  Fermnan,  on  the_ 
other  part,  for  and  concerning  the  settling  of  a  Ferry  at  the  place  com-' 
monly  called  Spuyten  Duyvel,  between  this  Island  Manhatans  and  the  new 
village  called  Fordham,  as  followeth,  viz.,  that  is  to  say: 

Imprimis,  It  is  agreed,  concluded  upon  and  mutually  consented  unto, 
by  and  between  the  parties  to  these  present,  That  the  said  Johannes 
Verveelen  as  Ferryman  shall  erect  and  provide  a  good  and  sufficient 
dwelling-house  upon  the  Island  or  Neck  of  Land  known  by  the  name  of 
Papparinamin,  where  he  shall  be  furnished  with  three  or  four  good  beds 
for  the  entertainment  of  strangers,  as  also  with  provisions  at  all  seasons, 
for  them,  their  horses  and  cattle,  together  with  stabling  and  stalling. 

That  the  Ferryman  have  a  sufficient  and  able  boat  for  the  transporta- 
tion of  passengers,  horses  and  cattle,  upon  all  occasions. 

That  the  said  Ferryman  cause  the  Pass  upon  the  said  Island  near  unto 
Spuyten  Duyvil,  to  be  sufficiently  fenced  in,  with  a  gate  to  be  kept  locked, 
that  no  person  may  pass  in  or  out  without  his  permission. 

That  the  Ferryman  do  bear  one-third  part  of  the  charge  of  making 
the  bridge  over  the  meadow  ground  to  the  Town  of  Fordham,  who  are 
to  be  at  the  remainder  of  the  charge  themselves. 

That  the  said  Ferryman  do  give  his  due  attendance  at  the  said  Ferry, 
either  himself  in  person,  or  by  one  sufficiently  deputed  by  him,  so  that 
nobody  be  interrupted  in  their  passage  to  and  fro,  about  their  occasions, 
at  seasonable  hours.  Except  in  case  of  emergency,  where  the  public  af- 
fairs are  concerned,  when  the  said  Ferryman  is  to  be  ready  at  all  seasons 
that  he  shall  be  called  upon. 

And  in  case  of  neglect  of  the  Ferryman's  duty,  upon  complaint  of  the 
party  wronged  to  the  Court  of  Mayor  and  Aldermen  of  this  City,  the 
said  Ferryman  shall  incur  such  a  Penalty  as  the  Court  shall  adjudge, 
according  to  the  merits  of  the  case. 

In  consideration  of  what  is  herein  required  to  be  done  and  performed 
by  the  said  Johannes  Verveelen  as  Ferryman,  he,  the  said  Johannes  Ver- 
veelen, shall,  for  the  well  execution  of  his  office,  have  and  receive  as  fol- 
loweth, viz.. 

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encompassed  with  water  or  meadow  ground,  shall  be  allotted  to  the  said 
Ferryman,  together  with  the  piece  of  meadow  ground  adjoining  to  it, 
lately  laid  out  by  Jacques  Cortilyou,  Surveyor,  towards  the  accommodation 
of  strangers,  and  the  defraying  of  his  charges. 

That  the  said  Island  or  Neck  of  Land  and  meadow  ground,  together 
with  the  housing,  or  whatever  else  he  shall  erect  or  build  thereupon, 
together  with  the  Ferry,  and  the  benefits,  privileges  and  profits  there- 
unto belonging,  shall  be  and  remain  to  the  proper  use  and  behoof  of  the 
said  Johannes  Verveelen  and  his  assigns,  for  and  during  the  term  and 
space  of  eleven  years,  to  commence  from  and  after  the  ist  day  of  Novem- 
ber, 1669. 

That  for  the  first  year,  he,  the  said  Johannes  Verveelen,  be  Constable 
of  the  new  Town  of  Fordham,  which  said  Town  or  Village  is  to  have 
its  dependence  upon  the  Mayor's  Court  of  this  City,  in  like  manner  as 
the  Town  of  New  Harlem  hath ;  They  having  liberty  to  try  all  small 
causes  under  five  pounds  amongst  themselves,  as  is  allowed  in  other  Town 
Courts. 

That  after  the  expiration  of  the  said  term  and  time  of  eleven  years, 
he,  the  said  Johannes  Verveelen,  if  he  so  long  shall  live,  and  desire  the 
same,  shall  have  the  first  proffer  to  continue  Ferryman;  or  in  case  of  his 
decease,  his  nearest  relation  or  assign  shall  have  preference  before  an- 
other, in  being  admitted  to  take  the  said  Ferry  to  farm.  But  if  it  shall 
happen  that  another  person  shall  be  invested  in  the  employment,  the 
person  so  invested  shall  pay  unto  him  the  said  Johannes  Verveelen  or 
his  assigns,  and  make  such  satisfaction  for  his  buildings,  boats  and  other 
accommodations  remaining  thereupon,  as  shall  be  adjudged  by  two  in- 
diflferent  persons  to  be  chosen  between  both  parties. 

That  at  the  expiration  of  the  term  of  eleven  years,  the  said  Johannes 
Verveelen  or  his  assignee  who  shall  exercise  the  employment  of  Ferry- 
man, shall  be  obliged  to  have  the  house  tenantable,  with  a  sufficient 
boat,  and  the  fences  and  gates  kept  in  repair,  as  they  ought  to  be  con- 
tinued all  the  time,  so  that  no  discouragement  be  given  to  passengers, 
nor  the  Ferry  through  any  neglect  be  discontinued. 

That  the  Ferryman  shall  take  and  receive  of  all  passengers,  whether 
alone  or  whether  on  horseback,  drift  of  horses  or  cattle,  for  lodging, 
diet,  feeding,  passage,  or  ferrying,  according  to  the  rates  in  a  Table  to 
that  end  directed  and  set  forth.* 


*Ye  Ferryman  His  Rates. 

For  Lodging  any  person,  8  pence  per  night,  in  case  they 

have  a  bed  with  sheets,  and  without  sheets,  2  Pence  in 

silver. 

For  transportation  of  any  person,  I  Penny  silver. 

For  transportation  of  a  man  and  horse,  7  Pence  in  silver. 

For  a  single  horse,  6  Pence. 

For  a  turn  with  his  boat,  for  2  horses,  10  Pence,  and  for 

any  more,  4  Pence  apiece ;  and  if  they  be  driven  over, 

half  as  much. 

For  single  cattle,  as  much  as  a  horse. 

For  a  boat  loading  of  cattle,  as  he  hath  for  horses. 

For  droves  of  cattle  to  be   driven  over,  and  opening  ye 

g^tes,  2  Pence  p.  piece. 

For  feeding  cattle,  3  Pence  in  silver. 

For  feeding  a  hor^e  one  day  or  night  with  hay  or  grasse, 

5  Pence. 


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Provided  always  that  all  persons  employed  by  special  warrant  from 
the  Governor,  or  any  Magistrate  upon  the  public  account,  shall  be  ex- 
empted from  paying  either  ferriage  or  passage  for  themselves  or  horses, 
as  also  such  person  or  persons  as  shall  at  any  time  be  summoned  to 
appear  at  Arms,  upon  any  emergency  or  extraordinary  occasion,  who  are 
likewise  to  be  free. 

Moreover  if  the  Governor  shall  at  any  time  within  the  term  aforesaid 
think  it  convenient  that  a  Fair  shall  be  kept  either  in  the  City  or  any 
other  part  of  the  Island,  It  is  also  agreed  upon,  that  all  droves  of  cattle 
and  horses  passing  over  the  said  Ferry  shall  be  free  from  payment,  either 
in  going  thither  or  returning  back,  which  privilege  shall  continue  dur- 
ing the  time  of  keeping  the  Fair,  as  also  a  day  before  and  a  day  after  its 
expiration. 

And  lastly,  the  said  Johannes  Verveelen,  or  whosoever  on  his  behalf 
shall  keep  the  Ferry  aforesaid,  shall  pay  yearly  and  every  year  as  a  Quit 
Rent  to  His  Royal  Highness,  the  sum  of  Ten  Shillings. 

In  Testimony  hereof  the  Parties  to  these  present  Articles  Indented 
have  interchangeably  put  to  their  hands  and  Seals  the  day  and  year  first 
above  written.  Francis  Lovelace, 

Johannes  Verveelen. 

Verveelen  was  soon  settled  at  Papparinamin,  where,  as 
ferrymaster,  he  kept  the  key  of  Manhattan  Island.  Being  con- 
stable of  Fordham,  here  he  held  court  after  William  Betts,  sen., 
and  Kier  Wolters,  had  been  appointed  by  the  governor,  December 
24th,  1669,  as  "Overseers  and  Assistants."  The  next  year  he 
superintended  the  "making  a  bridge  over  the  marsh  between  Pap- 
parinamin and  Fordham.'*  He  was  the  ferryman  here  for  many 
years,  under  renewals  of  his  lease,  and  by  the  favor  of  succes- 
sive governors;  but  he  and  Archer  were  ever  at  swords'  points 
on  the  subject  of  Papparinamin,  the  latter  claiming  it  to  the  day 
of  his  death  as  successor  to  Vander  Donck,  and  "by  virtue  of  his 
purchase  and  patent." 

Other  events  of  1669  remain  to  be  noticed.*  The  mill-dam, 
"lately  impaired  by  a  breach  of  water,"  needed  prompt  atten- 
tion, but  as  Capt.  Delavall  was  then  abroad,  Governor  Lovelace 

•  Tan  Laurens  Duyts,  who  left  the  town  this  year,  was  the  son  of  Laurens  Duyts, 
nicknamed  great  shoe,  a  Dane,  born  in  Holstein,  in  1610.  (See  pp.  135,  183).  The 
father  was  banished  by  Stuyvcsant — an  easy  thing  for  him  to  do,  and  seldom  wisely- 
done,  but  Duyts*  case  would  seem  to  have  been  an  exception.  He  died  at  Bergen, 
January  14,  1668,  leaving  two  sons,  Jan  and  Hans.  Kuyter  stood  as  godfather  for 
both  at  their  baptism.  Hans  was  born  in  1644,  and  lived  at  Harlem  in  1667.  His 
daughter,  Catherine,  born  1674,  married,  1688,  Joost  Paulding,  from  Cassant,  Hol- 
land, who  went  to  Westchester,  and  was  the  ancestor  of  John  Paulding,  one  of 
Andre's  captors;    also  of  Gen.  William  Paulding,  formerly  mayor  of  New  York. 

Jan  Duyts  bore  a  good  name  at  Harlem,  and  did  not  deserve  the  taunt  uttered 
one  day  by  Jeanne  de  Ruine,  in  presence  of  Monis  Petersen.  You  schelm,  loop  by 
you  vaar  been.  "You  villain,  run  to  your  father  Dane."  Monis  testified  that  Jan 
said  nothing  to  provoke  it.  He  was  then  twenty  years  old,  and  the  same  year,  Novem- 
ber 22,  1662,  bought  of  Lubbert  Gerritsen  the*  house  and  bouwery  formwly  of  Mat- 
thys  Boon,  engaging  to  pay  for  it  300  guilders.  He  sold  out  the  next  year,  and  Re- 
solved Waldron  soon  after  eot  this  property.  In  1667  Duyts  was  working  for  Ger- 
ritsen aforesaid,  and  married  that  year;  but  on  January  8,  1669,  he  leased  a  farm 
at  Dutch  Kills  from  John  Parcell,  and  lived  there,  when  he  married  a  second  time,  in 
1673.  His  wives  were  Jannetie  Jcurians,  from  Bois  Ic  Due,  and  Neeltie  Ahriaens,  from 
Breda;  the  last  married,  1670,  Hendrick  Van  Dyck,  of  New  Utrecht.  Duyts  left 
some  property  to  his  two  children,  Laurens  and  Annetie. 


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was  informed  of  the  accident,  June  8th,  and  ordered  John  Askew 
and  Peter  Van  Nest,  of  Flatlands,  to  go  to  Harlem,  forthwith, 
with  their  workmen,  and  "use  the  best  skill  and  endeavor  in 
repairing  the  dam,"  and  "what  else  is  requisite  about  the  mill." 
Capt.  Delavall  returned  toward  the  close  of  the  year,  to  his 
estates  and  his  honors,  and  in  full  favor  with  the  Duke  of  York; 
having  been  acquitted  of  certain  charges  on  account  of  which 
he  had  gone  to  England. 

Tourneur's  negro  now  absconded;  inevitable  contingency  of 
a  state  of  bondage, — African  slavery  even  then  existing  in  all  the 
colonies.  So  to  Westchester  went  the  following  warrant, 
directing  the  constable  to  pursue  the  runaway  with  "hue  and  cry." 

Whereas,  there  is  lately  a  Negro  Servant  run  away  from  his  Master's 
service,  and  supposed  to  be  gone  your  way  toward  New  England.  These 
are  to  require  all  persons  within  this  government  and  to  desire  all  others, 
if  tlie  said  Negro  can  be  found  within  your  liberties  or  precincts,  that 
you  forthwith  seize  upon  and  secure  him,  and  cause  him  to  be  safely 
conveyed  to  this  place,  or  to  his  Master,  Daniel  Toumeur,  at  Harlem, 
upon  this  Island.  The  Negro  is  big  and  tall,  about  25  or  26  years  old, 
and  went  away  from  his  Master  four  or  five  days  since.  Given  under 
my  hand  at  Fort  James,  in  New  York,  this  28th  day  of  June,  1669. 

Francis  Lovelace. 

The  Indians  still  laid  claim  to  portions  of  the  Harlem  lands, — 

perhaps  reserved  rights, — one  of  the  tracts  being  their  old  and 

favorite  haunt,  Rechewanis,  or  Montague's   Point.      The  chief 

claimant    was    Rechewack,    the   old   sachem    and    proprietor   of 

Wickquaskeek,  who,  as  far  back  as  1639,  had  been  a  party  to  the 

sale  of  Ranachqua  and  Kaxkeek.     Though  he  and  his  tribe  had 

lately  been  "beaten  off  by  the  Maquas,"  or  Mohawks,  who  were 

at  war  with  them,  and  forced  to  retreat  over  the  Hudson  to  the 

deep  cloves  and  forests  of  Tappan,  their  enemies,  as  they  affirmed, 

made  war  only  on  their  persons  and  goods,  but  not  on  their  lands, 

so  that  their  title  still  held.     Montagne  proceeded  to  satisfy  the 

old   Wickquaskeek   and   his   chiefs,   and   thereby  to   secure   the 

Indian  title, — in  those  times  a  desideratum.     Obtaining  a  release 

of  the  Point,  he  has  left  us  the  following  record  of  it; 

Ay  20  Augusty  oude  steyl  hebben  de  onderges :  Willden  myn  Jan  La 
Montagne  verkocht  de  punt  genaampt  Rechewanis,  bepaalt  tussen  twee 
killen  en  bergen,  en  achter  een  fonteyn  die  aen  Montangen  Vlachte 
scheyt;    met    de   Valeyen    van    de   bochte    van't    Hellegat   tot    Konaande 


Kongh. 

Verkoopers  van  de  Punt.  ■ 


Rechkewackan  1 

Achwaaroewes  I 

Sacharoch  j 

Pasachkeeginc  i-  Tappan. 

Niepenohau  | 

Kouhamweu  | 

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[Translation.'l 
On  this  date,  20th  August,  old  style,  the  underwritten  Indians  have 
sold  to  me,  Jan  La  Montagne,  the  Point  named  Rechwanis,  bounded  be- 
tween two  creeks,  and  hills,  and  behind,  a  stream*  which  runs  to  Mon- 
tagne's  Flat;  with  the  meadows  from  the  bend  of  the  Hellegat  to  Ko- 
naande  Kongh. 

Sfpointi     names  as  above.     }  Tappan. 

Upon  the  heel  of  this  came  another  claim.  On  April  9th, 
1670,  when  certain  chiefs  met  Governor  Lovelace  to  make  sale 
of  Staten  Island,  "some  of  the  Indians  present  laid  claim  to  the 
land  by  Harlem."  But  this  was  answered  by  producing  the 
Indian  deed  of  1626,  for  the  whole  island,  and  they  were  told, 
"the  record  shows  it  was  bought  and  paid  for  forty-four  years 
ago."  But  in  nowise  satisfied,  the  sachems  still  held  to  their  pre- 
tensions, which  later  were  more  successful.  The  deed  to  Mon- 
tagne is  especially  interesting,  as  tending  to  show  the  identity 
of  the  Wickquaskeeks  with  the  Manhattans,  so  called,  a  name 
meaning  simply  the  Islanders. 

A  notable  transaction  was  Nicholas  De  Meyer's  sale,  Sep- 
tember 25th,  1669,  of  the  two  farms  embraced  in  his  patent,  to 
the  brothers  Cornelis  and  Laurens  Jansen;  the  first  of  whom 
was  the  ancestor  of  the  Kortright  family,  or  that  branch  after- 
ward known  for  its  large  landed  possessions,  of  which  this  pur- 
chase formed  the  nucleust  The  town  now  proceeded  to  inclose 
a  portion  of  the  commons  lying  about  "the  hills"  (Mount  Morris, 
etc.)  as  a  calf  pasture,  probably  on  being  interdicted  the  further 
use  of  Little  Barent's  Island  for  that  purpose  by  Capt.  Delavall, 
whose  proposition  respecting  the  Island  they  had  declined.  The 
following  regulations  were  passed  November  25th,   1669: 

Ordinance  made  concerning  the  Common  Calf  Pasture  lying  north  of 
the  village. 

It  is  first  ordered  that  no  one  of  the  inhabitants  shall  be  allowed  to 
pasture  therein  any  beasts  except  calves,  upon  the  forfeit  of  three  guild- 

•  The  Dutch  word  fontcyn,  though  usually  rendered  spring,  here  means  as  well 
the  brook  issuing  from  a  spring,  I  believe  that  spoken  of  on  page  182.  This  brook  or 
run  became  a  recognized  boundary,  and  is  several  times  referred  to  in  connection  with 
this  and  the  adjoining  property,  and  always,  in  the  original,  called  the  fonteyn. 

t  Jan  Bastiaensen,  the  father  of  Cornells  and  Laurens  Jansen,  came  to  this 
country,  as  we  have  seen,  in  1663,  from  the  County  of  I^eerdam,  or  the  Prince's  Land, 
in  South  Holland,  accompanied  by  his  brother,  Michael  Bastiaensen,  who  afterward 
lived  in  Harlem,  and  whose  family  will  be  noticed  elsewhere.  Jan  may  have  been  the 
"Kortryck"  who  owned  a  bouwery  on  Staten  Island,  in  1674.  (N.  Y.  Col.  Mss., 
xxiii.  403).  He  seems  to  have  spent  part  of  his  time  at  Harlem,  but  is  last  men- 
tioned here  January  8^  1677,  when  he  is  witness  to  a  power  of  attorney,  given  by  his 
old  Schoonrcwoerd  fnend,  with  whom  he  came  out,  fan  Louwe  Bogert,  to  Hendrick 
Tansen  Baker,  to  collect  money  due  Bogert  on  Brooklyn  property  sold  to  Thos.  Lam- 
berts, etc.  His  children  were  Cornelis,  bom  1645,  and  noticed  on  a  future  page; 
Hendrick,  bom  1648;  Laurens,  born  165 1,  also  noticed  hereafter,  and  Belitie,  bom 
1659,  who  was,  as  were  the  others,  "uit  Holland,"  and  who  married,  in  1678,  Jacob 
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ers  for  each  beast,  and  for  a  flock  of  sheep  three  guilders.  Moreover, 
every  one  leaving  the  gate  open  shall  forfeit  three  guilders ;  also  for  every 
beast  found  in  said  pasture  shall  three  guilders  be  forfeited;  provided 
that  the  owner  of  the  beast  or  beasts  may  seek  his  remedy  upon  those 
who  shall  have  opened,  or  left  open,  the  gate  or  fence.  It  is  also  ordered 
that  each  one  shall  duly  make  his  part  of  the  bridges  in  both  meadows 
within  the  common  calf  pasture  between  this  and  the  last  of  March  next 
ensuing,  upon  penalty  of  five  and  twenty  guilders. 

Hcndrick  Tanscn  Van  Bcest,  as  he  at  first  styled  himself ^  but  later  in  life,  from 
his  father's  birthplace,  called  Hendrick  Janscn  Van  Kortnght,  bought  land  near 
Stujrvesant's  Bouwery,  February  la,  1669,  but  did  not  long  hold  it.  He  and  his 
brother,  Lraurens,  going  to  Esopus,  both  married  there;  Hendrick,  on  December  14, 
1672,  to  Catherine  Hansen,  "bom  in  New  York,'*  and  Laurens  on  or  about  the  same 
date  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Albert  Heymans  Roosa.  Probably  Hendrick's  wife  was 
the  daughter  of  Hans  Weber,  "master  at  arms,"  who  died  in  1649,  and  whose  widow 
marritd  Matthys  Capito,  removed  to  Esopus,  and  was  killed  by  the  Indians  in  1663. 
Hendrick's  first  child  being  "bom  at  Harlem,"  in  1674,  we  presume  he  was  then 
living  here;  but,  as  before  said,  he  settled  in  Ulster  County,  buying  land  at  Mom- 
backus,  town  of  Rochester,  where  he  raised  a  large  family,  who  bore  the  name  of 
Kortright,  or  Cortright,  and  whose  descendants  have  become  numerous  and  widely 
scattered.  Hendrick  lost  his  wife  in  1740,  and  he  died  in  1741,  aged  93.  His 
children,  so  far  as  shown,  were  John,  born  1674,  who  married  Maria,  daughter  of 
Wm.  Van  Vredenburgh,  of  New  York;  Hendrick,  born  1677,  who  married,  1700,  Mary 
De  Witt,  and,  in  1704,  Catherine  Crom,  widow  of  Arie  Van  Etten;  Cornelius,  born 
1680,  who  married,  1701,  Christina  Rosecrans;  Geertie,  born  1682;  Arie,  born  1684; 
Antie,  born  1686,  married  Jacob  Decker;  Lawrence,  born  1688,  who  married,  1715, 
Sarah  Ten  Eyck;  Jacob,  born  1692;  Peter,  born  1696,  married  Marritie  Van  Garden, 
and  Catherine,  born  1699.  John,  Cornelius,  Lawrence  and  Peter  Kortright  subscribed, 
1717,  for  the  minister  at  Rochester,  and  were  leading  men  there.  Peter  died  in 
1744.  Cornelius  removed  to  Marbletown.  John  and  Maria  had  issue,  Hendrick,  Wil- 
liam, Adrian,  etc,  two  at  least  of  these  straying  down  into  Orange  County,  where 
William  had  a  family,  and,  in  1740,  was  justice  of  the  peace.  His  brother,  Hendrick, 
bom  1704,  married,  1730,  Grietie  Van  Bunschoten,  left  Rochester  and  settled  in 
Minisink.  Being  very  sick,  he  made  his  will,  December  3,  1753,  providing  for  his 
widow,  but  naming  no  children,  and  giving  his  homestead  and  Great  and  Little  Mini- 
nnk  Islands  to  his  "cousin"  (nephew),  Hendrick  W.  Cortwright.  son  of  William,  de- 
ceased. His  will  was  proved  June  26,  1760.  This  Hendrick,  'tis  said,  has  many  de- 
scendants within  the  old  town  of  Minisink.  Friendly  intercourse  was  kept  up  for 
many  years  between  the  Kortrights  of  Harlem  and  those  of  Ulster  County. 

Jaques  Cresson,  who  in  a  ten  years'  residence  had  proved 
himself  a  worthy  inhabitant,  made  his  will  before  the  secretary, 
October  ist,  preceding,  his  wife  joining  with  him,  and  Tourneur 
and  Waldron  being  witnesses.  The  survivor  was  to  use  the 
property,  and  "bring  up  the  children  reputably,  and  in  the  fear 
of  the  Lord."  Soon  after  this,  Cresson  was  made  constable,  but 
subsequently  resolving  to  remove  in  the  spring  to  New  York, 
where  his  brothers-in-law,  Nicholas  De  La  Plaine  and  Nicholas 
Du  Puis  (Depew)  were  living,  he  sold  his  house,  bouwery,  etc., 
December  4th,  1669,  to  Meynard  Journee,  of  Bradford,  Brook- 
lyn, for  1600  gl.,  sewant.  Du  Puis,  whose  wife  was  Mrs.  Cres- 
son's  sister,  was  present,  with  David  Demarest. 

The  day  following  Montague  was  sent  for  to  the  house  and 
sick-bed  of  Jean  Le  Roy,  who  wished  to  make  his  will ;  Oblinus, 
Isaac  Vermilye,  and  Constable  Roelofsen  being  desired  to  wit- 
ness it.  He  had  been  bereft  of  his  wife,  Louise  De  Lancaster, 
and  his  only  child,  Stephen,  baptized  at  Brooklyn,  on  April  3d, 
1661.     Bestowing  50  gl.  upon  the  poor,  he  named  Daniel  Tour- 


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neur,  senior,  as  his  sole  heir  and  testamenteur.  But  Le  Roy 
recovered,  to  marry  again,  and  to  see  his  kinsman,  Tourneur, 
buried.  Jean  was  probably  related  to  Marc  Le  Roy,  who  stood 
as  godfather  for  young  Daniel  Tourneur,  at  his  baptism  at 
Leyden.* 

♦  Peter  Roelofsen  was  from  Utrecht,  as  was  his  first  wife,  Willcmtie  Jans,  married 
in  this  country  in  1653.     He,  with  others,  started  the  town  of  New  Utrecht,  in  1657, 

Kut  up  a  house,  etc.,  but  after  three  years  sold  out,  and  moved  to  Flanders.  In  1664 
e  married  a  second  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jan  Pater,  she  having  been  born  in 
Brazil.  Pieter  served  two  terms  as  constaole  at  Harlem;  tilled  one  of  Archer's  farms, 
and,  in  1671,  some  of  Delavall's  land.  In  1672  he  went  to  Mespat  Kills,  and  there 
bought  a  farm.  He  and  wife  sustained  a  good  name  here,  as  certified  by  the  magis- 
trates after  bis  death,  which  happened  in  1679.  They  made  their  will  in  New  York, 
March  20,  167S,  Jochem  Beeckman  and  Dirck  Jansen,  burghers,  being  present.  A  funny 
incident  is  related  of  the  widow  and  Dr.  John  Greenleaf,  of  Newtown.  The  latter, 
by  way  of  a  j'oke,  offered  to  waive  his  bill  for  services,  for  a  kiss.  The  widow  took 
bim  up,  the  kiss  was  duly  given,  and  they  shook  hands  over  it.  Afterward  the  doctor 
was  so  ungallant  as  to  sue  for  payment.  But  the  magistrate,  holding  the  settlement 
binding,  found  for  the  amiable  defendant.  She  subsequently  married  Peter  Buckhout. 
(Sec  p.  204).  Roelfsen  had  issue  b^  his  first  wife,  Roelof  and  Maria,  and  by  his 
second,  Johannes,  Jacobus,  Hendrickie,  Abraham  and  Susannah.  The  sons  retained 
the  patronymic  Peterson  for  a  time,  but  finally  adopted  the  name  of  Bass. 


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CHAPTER    XVII, 

1 670- 1 672. 

VILLAGE    life;    HARLEM    TWO    CENTURIES    AGO. 

T5USY  yeoman,  drawn  into  such  intimacy  at  home  and  in 
the  field, — from  the  very  proximity  of  their  dwellings  and 
narrow  bouwlots,  and  their  modes  of  tillage  in  common, — their 
was  more  than  a  monotonous  round  of  dull  rural  life.*  Hence 
the  variety  of  transactions  and  incidents  which  crowd  the  years 
next  ensuing,  none  remarkably  signal  or  startling,  but  affording 
nevertheless  a  curious  study  touching  the  ways  and  customs  pre- 
vailing among  them.  A  new  generation  has  grown  up,  taxing 
the  energies  of  provident  sires  to  give  them  land,  homes,  and 
outfits.  The  seniors  admonished  by  advancing  years  that  they 
must  pass  away,  full  oft  the  parish  clerk  is  called  in  to  draw  up  a 
last  will  and  testament.  Yet  following  the  pioneer  work  of 
organization,  these  are  years  of  maturing  and  progress.  Multi- 
plying interests  naturally  bring  new  duties  and  burdens  to  both 
town  officers  and  the  community,  and  to  which  they  seldom  prove 
unequal.  It  was  to  engross  much  of  their  united  effort,  wisdom, 
and  vigilance  to  support  the  institutions  and  maintain  the  whole- 
some regulations  they  had  introduced,  as  well  as  to  guard  and 
utilize  the  long  stretch  of  territory  comprehended  in  their  patent. 
It  greatly  enhanced  these  responsibilities  when  Fordham  was 
added  to  their  jurisdicition. 

The  stock,  allowed  to  run  at  large  iu  the  woodlands,  was 
very  liable,  especially  if  unmarked,  to  be  embezzled  by  persons 
not  over-scrupulous.     The  case  of  George  Tippett,  near  Spuyten 

•  Plan  of  the  village  in  1670,  on  page  260.     Explanations: 

Plots  a  to  V  embrace  the  original  erven  or  house  lots,  to  which  5  erven,  (w,  x,  y, 
aa,  bb),  and  3  half  erven  (z,  cc,  dd),  had  since  been  added.  For  some  cause  v  was 
also  rated  as  a  half  erf.  On  this  stands  the  only  remaining  house  of  the  old  dorp 
or  village  proper,  being  that  occupied  by  Mr.  Cowperthwait.  The  old  Ferry  House, 
pulled  down  in   1867,  stood  on  plot  x. 

A.  Site  of  Reformed  Church  and  Harlem  Library. 

B.  *'         Chesterman  House. 

C  "  Congregational  Church. 

D.  "  i"*^K^  Ingraham  House. 

E.  "  Denck  Benson's  House,  removed  before  1766. 

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Duyvel,  had  recently  been  reported  to  the  Governor.  By  his 
Excellency's  order  of  February  loth,  1670,  the  constabk  and 
overseers  of  Harlem  met  with  the  court  at  Fordham,  on  the  last 
day  of  that  month,  to  inquire  whether  certain  unmarked  hogs 
which  Tippett  had  slaughtered,  belonged  to  him ;  the  same  being 
"claimed  by  John  Archer,  on  the  behalf  of  His  Royal  Highness," 
under  the  Governor's  warrant.  Tippett  had  once  been  reproved 
by  the  Governor  for  "the  unlawful  mark  he  hath,  of  cutting  the 
ears  of  cattle  so  close  that  any  other  marks  may  be  cut  off  by 
it" ;  but  the  evidence  now  given  at  Fordham  by  Elizabeth  Heddy, 
Benjamin  Palmer,  and  Jan  Hendricks,  established  the  weighty 
fact  that  Tippett  had  owned  a  litter  of  pigs,  "the  which  were 
gray  red,  spotted  and  white."  Archer  protested,  and,  coming 
to  Harlem  March  3d,  took  the  testimony  of  the  magistrates  and 
Daniel  Tourneur  as  to  what  Tippett  and  his  witnesses  had  ad- 
mitted and  said.  Nothing  seems  to  have  come  of  it;  but, 
two  days  after,  the  Mayor's  Court  issued  new  instructions,  "that 
no  horses  or  cattle  be  fed  in  the  commons  of  this  Island  but 
those  that  are  branded  with  the  Town's  mark."  They  ordered 
a  record  to  be  kept  of  the  color  and  marks  of  the  creatures,  and 
of  the  owners'  names ;  and  that  two  days  in  the  week  should  be 
designated  for  branding,  etc.  The  fees  were  to  be  3  gl.  sewant 
for  a  horse,  and  2  gl.  for  an  ox,  steer,  or  heifer.  Resolved 
Waldron  and  Daniel  Tourneur  were  appointed  branders  "foi 
the  town  of  New  Harlem  and  adjacent  farms,"  to  act  from  May 
1st  ensuing,  when  the  above  rules  were  to  go  into  effect. 

The  removal  of  Kier  Wolters  to  Fordham  early  in  the  win- 
ter caused  a  vacancy  in  the  board  of  overseers,  to  fill  which 
Joost  Van  Oblinus  was  appointed  on  January  25th.  Wolters 
was  present  with  Archer  at  Harlem  March  3d,  aiding  him  in 
the  Tippett  affair;  but  he  died  shortly  after,  having  been  much 
respected  for  character  and  abilities,  notwithstanding  Tippett 
had  said  "he  acknowledged  him  for  no  magistrate."*    Jan  Ger- 

•  Kicr  Wolters,  the  ancestor  of  the  Kicrsen  and  Kiers  family,  arrived  here  in 
1657.  as  before  noticed,  from  the  Dutch  county  of  Drenthe;  coming  via  Amsterdam, 
to  New  Amstel  on  the  Delaware,  where  he  was  reputed  to  be  one  of  their  ablest  and 
best  farmers.  Two  vears  later,  flattering  offers  being  made  him,  he  came  to  New 
Amsterdam,  and  had  the  charge  of  Governor  Stuyvesant's  bouwery.  He  took  De 
Mcver's  farm  at  Harlem,  in  the  fall  of  1667,  I  believe,  at  500  guilders  rent  per  annum, 
and  half  the  increase  of  the  stock;  and  worked  it  for  two  seasons.  Losing  his  wife. 
Jannetic  Jans,  he  married,  early  in  1668,  Lysbet,  daughter  of  David  Ackerman,  re- 
moving the  next  year  to  Fordham,  and  there  died,  in  1670,  as  above  stated.  While  at 
Harlem  he  was  twice  chosen  an  overseer.  His  children,  so  far  as  known,  were  Walter, 
Hendrick.  Jan  and  Grietie,  all  bom  in  Drenthe;  Jannetie,  bom  in  New  York,  and 
Tjerck,  of  whom  we  only  know  that  he  joined  the  church  at  New  York  in  1674.  Jan- 
netie married,  in  1672,  Claes  Tansen  Van  Hevningen,  and  Grietie  married,  in  1680, 
Willem  Peerscn,  of  New  York.  Hendrick  Kiersen  was  bom  in  1648,  at  Giest,  in 
Drenthe,  and,  in  1673.  married  Metje  Michiels,  daughter  of  Michiel  Bastiaensen.  He 
finally  settled  in  Fordham;  his  children  being  Kier,  born  1674;  Michiel,  born  1676; 
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ritsen  De  Vries  obtained  from  the  overseers  on  March  2d  a 
formal  grant  of  the  house  lot  set  off  to  him  some  years  before 
at  the  south  side  of  the  village,  on  condition  of  his  "paying 
as  other  such  small  house  lots  (erfjes),  and  also  tlie  same  servi- 
tudes.*' He  is  charged  for  it  in  the  town  book,  under  1667, 
25  gl.  De  Vries  had  sold  this  lot,  with  its  house  and  improve- 
ments, to  Resolved  Waldron,  to  whom  he  conveyed  it  the  next 
day,   March  3d.     Here  Waldron   took  up  his  residence. 

Glaude  Delamater  and  Hester  Du  Bois,  his  wife,  joined  in 
making  their  will,  April  15th,  though  he  survived  a  dozen  years, 
and  she  forty.      It  shows  the  then  form  of  such  instruments* 

In  the  year  of  our  Lord  and  Saviour  Jesus  Christ,  1670,  the  15th 
April,  appeared  before  me  Jan  La  Montagne,  Junior,  admitted  Secre- 
tary of  this  Town  by  the  Honorable  Mayor's  Court,  residing  within  the 
jurisdiction  of  New  Haerlem,  Glaude  le  Maistre  and  Hester  du  Bois, 
husband  and  wife,  of  sound  memory  and  understanding  as  externally 
appears;  and  of  mind  to  make  a  disposition  of  their  temporal  estate. 
First,  on  resting  in  the  Lord,  they  commit  their  souls  into  the  hands  of 
the  Most  High  God,  and  their  bodies  to  decent  burial,  and  fifty  guilders 
in  sewant  to  the  poor  in  this  place.  Secondly,  they  annul  all  testa- 
ments and  codicils  that  before  this  were  made,  and  declare  this  mutual 
testament  to  be  their  final  will.  One  of  them  having  deceased,  the  sur- 
vivor is  to  continue  in  full  possession  till  again  married,  when  the  mar- 
rying party  shall  place  into  the  hands  of  two  guardians  thereto  ap- 
pointed by  the  Court,  a  full  account  of  all;  remaining  in  possession  until 
the  children  arrive  at  age,  or  are  married  with  the  consent  of  father  or 
mother:  on  condition  of  placing  in  the  hands  of  the  guardians  a  mort- 
gage upon  the  real  estate,  so  the  same  be  not  alienated.  Excluding  or 
renouncing  herewith  all  Orphan  Courts,  or  laws  which  may  conflict  with 
these  provisions.  In  presence  of  David  des  Mareest,  Joost  van  Oblinus  and 
Marcus  du  Sauchoy,  as  witnesses  hereto  requested,  and  who  besides  the 
testators,  have  subscribed  these  presents.     Dated  as  above. 

Glaude  le  Maistre. 
David  des  Marest,  D.  B. 

J.  van  Oblinus,  This  is  the  mark  of 

Marc  du  Sauchoy.  Hester  du  Bois. 

With  my  knowledge, 

J.  Lamontagne,  Junior,  Sec'y, 

Resolved  Waldron  and  Johannes  Verveelen,  on  the  same  date 
as  above,  made  a  partition  of  their  meadows  at  Sherman's  Creek 
and  Spuyten  Duyvel  which  they  had  gotten  with  the  lots  bought 
of  Jan  Duyts  and  Juriaen  Hanel. 

Jaques  Cresson,  the  constable,  in  view  of  removing  to  New 
York  after  the  first  of  May,  appeared  in  court  April  21st,  and 
gave  an  account  of  the  fines  due  from  several  parties  for  defec- 
tive fences.  Those  of  Wouter  Gerritsen,  lessee  of  Delavall's 
land,  amounted  to  43  gl.  10  st.     Much  vexed  at  this  heavy  loss, 

Rachel,  born  1603;  Hendrick,  born  1696.  Descendants  have  been  called  Kiers 
and,  we  believe,  Keese.  Jan  Kicrsen,  who  remained  at  Harlem,  will  be  named  in 
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Wouter's  wife  had  scolded  the  magistrates,  and  called  Waldron 
an  uytsuyper,  a  drunkard.  Arraigned  for  it  by  Waldron  and 
Tourneur  at  the  same  court,  the  afflicted  Mary  still  persisted 
that  the  magistrates  were  killing  her,  but  owned  she  was  hasty 
in  abusing  them.  She  was  fined  for  her  rashness  6  gl.  for  the 
poor,  and  costs  of  suit. 

The  month  of  May  brought  a  demand  from  Capt.  Matthias 
Nicolls,  colonial  secretary,  for  the  first  payment  on  the  town 
patent,  his  entire  bill  for  which  was  332  gl.  To  meet  this  call 
an  assessment  was  authorized  and  made  out,  at  the  rate  of  2  ft. 
7  St.  for  each  erf,  or  house  lot,  and  12  st.  for  each  morgen  {2 
acres)  of  land,  the  assessed  lands  embracing  only  Jochem  Pieters' 
Flat  and  Van  Keulen's  Hook.  The  following  is  the  list,  and 
which  is  interesting  as  an  exhibit  of  all  the  landholders  within 
the  town  at  that  date,  and  the  number  of  erven,  farming  lots, 
and  morgen  held  by  each.  From  reliable  data  we  have  added 
the  numbers  of  the  lots,  and  shown  in  which  tract  they  lay. 
This,  to  those  in  any  way  interested  in  locating  the  original  plots, 
will  give  the  table  greater  value,  as  the  title  to  these  lots  may 
in  most  cases  be  traced  down  to  a  modern  date. 

On  May  4th  Isaac  Vermilye  sold  his  house  and  house  lot 
on  Van  Keulen's  Hook  (part  of  lot  No.  5,  and  not  reckoned 
among  the  erven),  with  the  fruit  thereon, — the  buyer.  Evert 
Dircksen,  agreeing  to  pay  600  gl. ;  but  the  bargain  was  not  closed, 
and  Vermilye  remained  in  possesion  till  his  death  in  1676. 

On  May  19th,  the  magistrates,  pursuant  to  directions  from 
the  Mayor,  appointed  David  Demarest  and  Arent  Evertsen 
Keteltas  curators  over  the  estate  of  Kier  Wolters,  late  of  Ford- 
ham,  deceased.  To  these,  on  a  subsequent  recommendation  of 
the  Mayor,  was  added.  May  23d,  *'Michiel  Bastiaensen,  residing 
at  Fordham,"  who  was  "reasonably  conversant  with  the  estate 
of  the  deceased."* 

•  Michiel  Bastiaensen,  of  whose  history  up  to  his  emigration,  in  1663,  we  have  be- 
fore spoken,  had,  so  far  as  known,  five  children,  viz.:  Rcyer,  born  1653;  Metje, 
bom  165s,  who  married  Hendrick  Kiersen;  Annetie,  born  1658,  who  married  John 
Odcll  (ancestor  of  the  Fordham  Odells) ;  Bastiaen,  born  1662,  and  Aefie,  bom  1665, 
in  New  York,  who  married  Jacques  Tourneur.  Keyer  Michielsen,  named  in  some 
curious  proceedings,  under  1674,  married,  in  1686,  Jacomina,  daughter  of  Jan  Tibout, 
and  settled  in  the  town  of  Fordham.  He  took  part  in  building  the  church  there,  in 
1706,  and  a  stone  bearing  his  initials  may  now  be  seen  in  the  carriage  bouse  wall  of 
Mr.  Moses  De  Voe,  who  took  it  from  the  foundation  of  the  old  church,  which  stood 
open  Mr.  De  Voe's  farm.  Reyer  died  in  173^5,  aged  80  years,  having  had  eight  chil- 
dren, to  wit:  Michiel,  Reyer,  Hendrick,  Teunis,  Hannah,  who  married  Leonard  Vin- 
cent; Mary,  who  married  Benjamin  Haviland;  Sarah,  who  married  Joseph  Haviland, 
and  Jane,  who  married  Benjamin  Corsa.  The  sons  of  his  son  Michiel  (being  Reyer 
and  Michael)  retained  the  name  of  Michaels,  but  other  of  Reyer's  sons  took  the 
patronymic  Rcyers.  Hence  have  descended  the  two  families  of  Westchester  County, 
and  other  sections  of  this  State,  named  Ryer,  and  Michael,  or  as  also  written,  McKeel 
or  Mekeel.     The  name  Reyer  is  said  to  come  from  ridder,  a  knight. 

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On  the  same  date  (the  19th)  the  court-room  witnessed  an 
unusual  scene.  Pierre  Cresson  three  years  before  had  leased  his 
farm  to  Glaude  Delamater,  and  things  had  not  gone  smoothly 
between  them.  In  a  sharp  dispute  about  one  of  the  oxen,  which, 
as  appeared,  had  died  through  Delamater*s  neglect,  the  latter 
called  Cresson  "a  villain  for  driving  away  his  wife.''  Mrs.  Cres- 
son was  spending  a  season  at  Esopus.  Coming  into  court  with 
his  complaint,  where  Delamater  was  sitting  as  one  of  the  magis- 
trates, the  usually  amiable  and  prudent  Pierre,  overcome  by 
anger,  told  Glaude  that  "he  ought  to  slap  his  face."  Delamater 
pretended  forgetfulness,  but  remembered  that  plaintiff  had  called 
him  names  too.  The  court  regarding  both  parties  at  fault,  fined 
each  12  gl.  and  costs.  Unhappily  this  did  not  end  the  quarrel 
between  the  Walloon  and  Picard. 

The  removal  of  Verveelen  to  Papparinamin  having  left  the 
village  without  an  ordinary  keeper,  Cornelis  Jansen  Kortright, 
who  was  well  liked  in  the  town,  and  afterward  enjoyed  various 
public  trusts,  was  admitted  June  2d  to  keep  the  ordinary,  on 
the  usual  conditions, — to  make  suitable  provision  for  the  enter- 
tainment of  travelers,  and  not  "to  sell  any  liquor  to  the  Indians." 
He  thereupon  accepted  the  oath.  At  the  same  meeting  a  small 
erf  lying  opposite  to  Kortright  and  Delamater,  on  the  south 
side  of  the  street,  was  voted  to  Jean  Demarest,  who  was  already 
in  possession,  having  two  years  previous  married  a  daughter 
of  Simon  the  Walloon.  Also,  on  the  same  day  (June  2d), 
Resolved  Waldron  made  over  to  Jan  Nagel,  soon  to  become  his 
son-in-law,  part  of  the  De  Vries  house  lot,  with  No.  16  Jochem 
Pieters  and  its  meadows,  bought  of  Pieter  Slot.     If  the  object 

168^  Jolante,  daughter  of  La  Montagnc,  deceased.  On  September  19,  1701,  be 
bought,  from  Peter  Van  Oblienis,  a  tract  of  land  at  Sherman's  Creek,  laid  out  to 
Obhenis.  in  169^1,  as  lot  No.  20.  This  became  the  well-known  Kortright  farm, 
which  continued  in  the  family  till  1786.  It  was  originally  ten  morgen,  or  twenty  acres, 
and  is  so  rated  on  the  town  books  for  the  next  half  century;  but  this  was  exclusive 
(for  meadows  were  never  taxed)  of  the  adjoining  marsh,  or  the  morasse  creupelbos, 
of  the  original  description.  And  then,  be  it  remembered,  the  allotments  of  1691 
generally  overran  the  estimate,  and  this  lot  lying  isolated  was  not  likely  to  be  an  ex- 
ception. This  brought  it  up  to  45  acres,  27  perches.  Here  Bastiaen  Michielsen  built 
ud  lived  till  verjr  aged;  at  least,  his  name  in  the  tax  list  runs  down  to  i753*  He 
also  owned  two  pieces  of  meadow  at  Kingsbridge,  bought  of  the  town  by  Joh.  Ver- 
milyc,  April  i,  1693,  and  on  the  same  date  transferred  to  Bastiaen,  to  whom  the 
town  gave  a  deed  January  4,  1700.  Bastiaen  Michielsen  Kortright  had  issue,  as  far 
ai  appears,  Michael,  born  1697;  Johannes,  born  1702;  Aefie,  who  married  John  Dc- 
voor,  and  Rachel,  who  married  Isaac  Delamontagne.  Johannes  Bastiacns,  as  he  is 
properly  styled  in  certain  deeds,  but  calling  himself  (after  his  father's  patronymic) 
Johannes  Michelson  Kortright,"  married  Aeltie,  daughter  of  John  Vermilye,  2d. 
He  was  a  weaver,  but  stkcceeded  to  the  farm  at  Sherman's  Creek,  which,  in  a  mortgage 
pvcn  Januarv  9,  1768,  he  describes  as  No.  20,  and  10  morgen,  and  by  the  original 
bottndaries  of  1691.  Within  a  year  after,  he  removed  to  New  York,  and  having  lost 
nis  wife,  appears  to  have  died  about  1775.  His  son,  John  Courtright,  as  he  wrote 
W§  name,  married  in  1774,  his  cousin,  Aefie,  or  Effie,  daughter  of  John  Devoor,  of 
Hoom's  Hook,  and  was  last  of  the  family  to  own  the  ancestral  farm,  of  which  he  made 
mIc,  May  24,  1786,  to  Cornelius  Harsen,  who  conveyed  it,  January  3,  1804,  to  Tacobus 
Dyckman,  whence  it  came  to  his  son,  the  late  Isaac  Dyckman.  It  was  included  in  the 
tract  of  128  acres  (being  part  of  said  Isaac's  estate)  called  the  Fort  (^orge  Tract, 
which  was  parcelled  into  lots,  and  disposed  of  by  public  sale,  October  14,  1868. 


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of  this  was  not  well  known,  it  came  out  August  27th  ensuing, 
when  two  happy  pair,  to  wit,  Nagel  and  Rebecca  Waldron,  her 
sister  Aeltie  and  Johannes  Vermilye,  appeared  at  the  Stadt  Huys, 
in  New  York,  and  "entered  their  bans  of  matrimony  before  his 
Honor  the  Mayor  of  this  city,  to  be  proclaimed  at  the  usual  time 
and  place/'  This  was  the  more  genteel  way  of  doing  it.  The 
bans  being  entered  on  the  same  Wednesday  in  the  register  of 
the  church  in  the  Fort,  was  followed  by  the  three  publications 
which  usage  required.  The  registration  before  the  Mayor  was 
a  new  thing  here,  perhaps  due  to  a  vacancy  in  the  pastorate. 
The  elder  Megapolensis  had  just  died,  his  son  gone  to  Holland, 
and  Drisius  apparently  absent;  so  Do.  Polhemus,  of  Flatbush, 
now  supplying  New  York,  probably  married  these  parties. 

No  settlement  as  recommended  by  the  Governor  had  yet 
been  made  with  the  claimants  of  the  Jansen  and  Aertsen  Patent 
at  Sherman's  Creek,  awarded  to  the  people  of  Harlem  as  within 
their  general  patent,  though  steps  thereto  had  been  taken  a  year 
before  (May  2d,  1669),  when  De  Meyer,  Waldron  and  Oblinus 
were  empowered  to  arrange  it.  Archer  of  course  declined  to 
take  the  worthless  groundbrief,  and  the  holders  were  now  Paulus 
Richard,  of  New  York,  and  Thomas  Lamberts,  of  Brooklyn; 
the  first  having  bought  the  interest  of  Pieter  Jansen  from  his 
successor  Kockuyt.  The  subject  was  again  brought  up  by  the 
following  from  the  Governor,  an  order  which  was  held  by  the 
Harlem  people  as  in  effect  wiping  out  the  old  groundbriefs. 

An  Order  for  the  Payment  of  the  sum  of  Three  Hundred  Guilders 
Sewant,  to  Paulus  Richard  and  Thomas  Lamberts. 

Whereas  there  hath  been  a  difference  long  depending  between  the 
Town  of  Harlem  on  the  one  part,  and  Paulus  Richard  and  Thomas 
Lamberts  on  the  other,  concerning  a  parcel  of  Land  upon  this  Island, 
near  Spuyten  Duyvel,  the  which  was  heretofore  adjudged  to  belong  to 
the  Town  of  Harlem,  yet  with  this  reservation,  that  in  regard  the  first 
owners  had  sustained  loss  thereupon,  payment  should  be  made  for  the 
same,  of  so  much  as  the  first  purchase  money  was;  and  it  appearing 
that  one  hundred  and  fifty  guilders  sewant  was  paid  for  one-half  of  the 
first  purchase:  It  is  this  day  ordered,  that  the  sum  of  three  hundred 
guilders  sewant  shall  be  paid  to  Paulus  Richard  and  Thomas  Lamberts, 
or  their  assigns,  in  lieu  of  all  claims  or  pretenses  whotsoever,  they  or 
either  of  them  have  to  the  said  Land;  and  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town 
of  Harlem  are  from  henceforth  to  have  and  enjoy  the  same,  they  pajring 
the  said  sum  of  three  hundred  guilders  as  aforesaid,  on  or  before  the 
29th  day  of  September  next.  Always  provided  that  this  shall  be  no 
precedent  for  any  other  pretense  to  lands  within  the  Patent  of  the  said 
Town  of  Harlem,  by  virtue  of  such  old  claims  or  groundbriefs.  Given 
under  my  hand  at  Fort  James,  in  New  York,  this  22d  day  of  June,  167a 

Francis  Lovelace. 

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berts'  share,  and  took  a  bond  from  the  Harlem  folks  for  the 
full  amount  of  300  guilders. 

On  August  4th  ensuing,  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  who  the  last 
year  had  married  the  widow  of  Hendrick  Karstens,  sold  Kar- 
stens'  erf  and  out-garden  to  Joost  Van  Oblinus  for  400  gl.,  to 
be  paid  to  Coenraet  and  Jan  Hendricks,  sons  of  Karstens,  when 
of  lawful  age.     These  afterward  took  the  name  of  Boch. 

A  little  later  (October  23d)  Lubbert  Gerritsen  executed  a 
power  of  attorney  to  his  brother-in-law,  Philip  Weckman  (Wake- 
man),  of  Leyden,  to  enable  him  to  collect  from  the  orphan  mas- 
ters or  others  in  that  city  a  legacy  of  800  gl.  left  to  his  wife, 
Femmetie  Coenraets,  by  her  mother's  sister,  Tryntie  Gerrits,  who 
had  died  at  Leyden,  October  7th,  1669.  It  is  probable  that  this 
was  sent  to  Holland  by  Nicholas  De  Meyer,  who  went  thither 
the  next  spring,  having  several  such  collections  to  make  for 
persons  at  Esopus. 

Jan  La  Montagne,  who  had  recently  lost  his  father,*  now 
resigned  the  duties  of  voorleser  and  schoolmaster,  but  retained 
the  secretaryship.  To  fill  the  vacant  position,  the  town  officers 
engaged  Hendrick  Jansen  Vander  Vin,  the  former  freeholder, 
for  the  term  of  three  years,  "at  f.  400  yearly  in  sewant,  or  in 
grain  at  sewant  price,''  and  also  a  dwelling  house,  with  60  loads 
of  firewood,  which  latter  the  following  persons  agreed  to  cut 
and  deliver,  annually,  viz.:  Resolved  Waldron,  Glaude  Dela- 
mater,  and  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  each  12  loads ;  David  Demarest, 
Pieter  Roelofsen,  Jan  Nagel,  and  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  each  6 
loads.  This  contract  was  entered  into  October  23d.  The  change 
was  amicably  made  as  regarded  Montagne,  who  agreed  to  pay 
the  new  voorleser  yearly  10  fiorins  7  stivers.  To  aid  in  making 
up  the  salary,  the  town  lot,  garden,  and  meadow  were,  on  the 
same  date,  leased  for  a  term  of  six  years  to  Francois  Martino,  a 
newly-arrived  French  refugee,  who  was  to  pay  an  annual  rent 
of  120  gl.  in  sewant,  or  grain  at  sewant  price.  The  land  had 
just  been  cleared  of  timber  by  Nelis  Matthyssen,  and  was  new ; 
so  Waldron,  Delamater,  Tourneur,  Roelofsen,  L.  Gerritsen,  W. 
Gerritsen,  Demarest,  and  Oblinus,  together  agreed  to  give  the 
lessee  53  loads  of  manure,  "once  for  all."  For  reasons  best 
known  to  himself,  Martino  soon  turned  over  his  lease  to  Jean 
Le  Roy,  and  settled  on  Staten  Island,  where  many  of  his  des- 
cendants may  still  be  found.t 

*  See  Montanye  Family;    Appendix  B. 

t  Francois  Martino  and  his  friend,  Jean  BeUeville,  joined  the  church  at  New 
York.  July  ^8.  1670,  being  the  first  mention  of  them.  The  latter  was  from  St.  Martin, 
near   Cz    Rocbelle — perhaps   Martino    was — this   early    association   and    their   later    in- 


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270  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

The  ill-feeling  between  Cresson  and  Delamater  again  showed 
itself  when  the  term  of  three  years,  during  which  the  latter  had 
worked  Cresson's  farm,  was  closing.  The  court  had  ordered 
payment  for  the  lost  ox,  but  one  of  the  farm  tools  was  found 
broken.  On  September  ist  Pierre  in  open  court  demanded  his 
tools  of  Delamater,  who  was  seated  on  the  bench  with  his  brother 
magistrates.  Glaude  answered  that  the  broken  tool  was  at  the 
smith's,  being  mended.  The  court,  hearing  what  passed  between 
tb'^.  parties,  referred  them  to  their  agreement  of  September  5th, 
1667,  but  put  the  court  charges  upon  Cresson.  Shortly  after 
Glaude  sent  Pierre  word  by  the  constable  to  come  and  examine 
his  tools.  Cresson  would  do  no  such  thing  but  again  went  to 
the  court  room,  October  6th,  and  repeated  his  demand  for  the 
tools.  Delamater  now  promised  to  send  them  by  his  son;  but 
the  court,  to  vindicate  its  injured  dignity,  directed  Pierre  to 
fetch  the  tools  himself  from  the  defendant's  house,  and  fined  him 
12  gl.  and  costs  of  suit. 

Vexed  at  what  he  conceived  to  be  a  harsh  judgment, 
Cresson,  at  the  sitting  of  the  court  December  ist,  entered,  and 
asked  if  he  must  satisfy  the  sentence  given  against  him.  He 
was  answered  "Yes."  Now  passion  got  the  better  of  him,  and 
he  denounced  the  magistrates  as  "unjust  judges,"  adding,  with 
other  abusive  words,  that  "instead  of  judges  they  were  devils!" 
On  this  the  court  ordered  the  constable  to  take  Cresson  into 
custody  and  convey  him  a  prisoner  to  the  High  Sheriff  at  New 
York,  to  be  duly  proceeded  against. 

Cresson  was  soon  released,  but,  now  bent  upon  leaving  the 
town,  had  his  wife  at  Esopus  apply  for  a  building  lot  in  that 
village,  and  this  she  asked  for  and  obtained  April  15th,   167 1. 

Marcus  Du  Sauchoy  brought  a  charge  against  John  Archer, 
December  ist,   1670,  of  some  very  bad  usage,  and  cited  Dirck 

timacy  seeming  to  favor  it.  Whether  Belleville  was  he  who  was  called  le  Chaudron- 
nier,  or,  by  the  English,  the  Tinker,  as  the  first  signifies,  I  am  not  able  to  determine, 
but  Jan  Tinckcr  was  enrolled  in  the  night  watch  at  Harlem,  November  7,  i673i  .and 
went  to  Staten  Island,  where  he  held  property,  as  did  Belleville.  (Sec  note  on  Casier). 
Martino  had  96  acres  of  land  on  Staten  Island,  laid  out  to  him  April  24,  1676,  near 
the  "Iron  Mountain.'*  To  this  Governor  Dongan  added  35  acres^  m  1685.  He  mar- 
ried Hester  Dominccs,  widow  of  Walraven  Lutin,  or  Lutine;  issue,  Stephen,  bom 
1679,  and  a  daughter,  who  married  Vincent  Fontaine.  Martino,  in  1683,  was  foremost 
among  the  French  and  Walloon  residents  in  sustaining  the  French  worship.  His  will, 
made  October  i,  1706,  and  proved  August  j5,  1707,  gave  his  estate,  on  the  death  of  his 
widow,  to  his  two  god  sons,  Stephen  Martino  (son  of  Stephen,  deceased)  and  Vincwit 
Fontaine,  Jr.  (See  Clute's  Annals  of  Staten  Island).  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  the 
new  and  interesting  work  last  cited  contains  so  little  relating  to  the  original  settlers 
upon  that  beautiful  island;  materials  for  their  history  are  not  entirely  wanting.  For 
some  of  these  pioneers,  see  our  Index  under  Disosway,  Journeay,  Sec,  Casier,  Uzille, 
Cresson   and   Bush;     also   Lakeman,    Marlett   and   Guion.     Many    facts  might   also   be 

gleaned  respecting  Jacques  Baudoine,  William  Britton,  Jean  Crosseron  or  Crochcron: 
is  son-in-law,  Jacques  Poillon:  (^rrit  Crousen,  or  Cruser;  Jacques  La  Resilier, 
now  Larzelere;  Arend  Prall,  and  Francois  du  Puis,  or  Depuy,  the  ancestors  of  families 
still  upon  the  Island. 


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Everts  to  tell  what  he  knew  about  it.  The  latter  testified  that, 
about  four  weeks  before,  Archer  threw  Du  Sauchoy's  furniture 
out  of  the  house,  but  deponent  knew  not  for  what  cause.  The 
matter  here  rested  for  future  action. 

A  case  came  up  December  14th  which  involved  a  principle 
of  town  law  concerning  the  woodlands.  Laurens  Colevelt,  mar- 
ried to  a  niece  of  Resolved  Waldron  was  neither  a  landowner 
nor  resident,  yet  had  been  burning  coals  upon  Waldron's  lands 
on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  to  supply  his  forge.  In  so  doing,  by 
accident,  as  he  said,  he  burnt  some  of  Le  Roy's  palisades.  The 
latter  arrested  his  coals,  when  Colevelt  called  an  extra  court  in 
order  to  recover  them,  pretending  to  nearly  400  gl.  damages  for 
the  want  of  them.  But  the  court  (Delamater  taking  Waldron's 
place)  held  that  no  one,  not  an  inhabitant  or  proprietor,  had  any 
right  to  cut  wood  within  this  jurisdiction,  much  less  within  the 
fencing.  Colevelt  was  condemned  to  make  good  Le  Roy's  loss, 
and  pay  costs  of  court ;  being  let  off  on  these  easy  terms,  and  his 
coals  released. 

On  January  5th,  167 1,  the  Town  Court  ordered  a  pound 
built,  at  the  common  charge,  to  be  seven  rails  high,  and  imposed 
for  each  hog  impounded  a  fine  of  i  gl.  10  St.,  and  for  every 
homed  beast  3  gl.,  the  damage,  if  any  had  been  done  by  the 
creature,  to  be  made  good. 

The  subject  of  the  town  debts  also  came  up  as  follows : 

Exhibited  by  Resolved  Waldron,  as  payable  by  the  Lands  of  the  Town : 

To  Mr.  John  Sharp f.   92   :    o 

**  Abraham  la  Noy 68  :    o 

"  Daniel  Tourneur   73   :  16 

"  Johannes  jVermilje   24  :    o 

"  Resolved   Waldron    41    :    4 

"  Joost  van    Oblinus 6  :  15 

"  Meyndert  Maljaart*   3   :    o 

"  Pierre    Cresson    2   :  10 

"  Glaude    le    Maistre 6:15 

**  David  des  Mareset 2  :    o 

**  Jean   le  Roy 4  :  10 

"  NicoUs,  for  Patent 137   :    o 

"  Paulus  Richard,  for  the  land  at  Spuyten  Duyvel 300  :    o 

"  Johannes  Verveelen    87  :  13 

•  Mcynard  Joumce,  or,  as  now  written,  Joumcay,  is  the  person  here  intended. 
This  metamorphose  arose  from  the  similar  import  of  the  Dutch  word  maaljen,  and  the 
French  joumec,  as  adopted  by  the  Dutch.  With  these,  the  latter  word,  wrested 
from  its  tisual  meaning  (a  day  of  battle,  or  simply,  a  battle),  had  come  to  denote  a 
coat  of  mail,  which,  in  Dutch,  was  maaljen.  The  two  terms  being  used  ^nonymously 
by  his  Dutch  neighbors,  Journee  was  often  called  Malyar,  as  pronounced,  but  which 
Montagne  wrote  as  in  the  text.  The  English  records  sometimes  have  it  Malliar 
Jonmee — a  tautological  blunder.  His  given  name.  Meynard,  became,  in  Dutch,  Meyn- 
dert Incidental  notices  of  Journee,  both  before  and  after  his  emigration,  will  be 
foond  on  other  pages.  On  his  arrival  here,  he  settled  with  Bogert,  in  Brooklvn,  where 
be  united  with  the  church,  April  9,  1664,  on  certificate  from  Mannheim,  ana  on  June 
2,  ensuing,  married  Elizabeth  du  Mont,  a  young  lady  bom  at  Middelburg.  She  was 
probably  sister  to   Margaret  du  Mont,  wife  of  Pierre  Noue,  who,  as  we  have  seen. 


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The  last  item  involved  a  careful  auditing  of  accounts  for  six 
years  past,  in  which  those  of  the  town,  with  Montagne  as  their 
collector,  those  of  Verveelen  as  tapster, — mainly  his  indebted- 
ness to  the  excise,  and  his  scores  for  liquors  furnished  the  mag- 
istrates,— as  also  the  particular  transactions  between  Montagne 
and  Verveelen,  were  much  mixed  up.  Curious  as  these  details 
are,  we  must  exclude  them.  The  balances  being  struck,  tlie  town 
found  Montagne  its  debtor  for  208  gl.,  and  itself  indebted  to 
Verveelen  87  gl.  13  st.  Hereupon  Montagne  drew  up  the  fol- 
lowing,  which   Verveelen   signed: 

On  this  date,  15th  Feb'y,  I,  Johannes  Verveelen,  acknowledged  to  have 
settled  with  Montagne  for  his  accounts,  and  for  the  accounts  of  the  Tow^n, 
so  that  there  is  due  nie  from  the  Town,  by  balance  of  accounts,  seven  and 
eighty  guilders,  thirteen  stivers.     Dated  as  above. 

Johannes  Verveelen. 

To  discharge  these  several  debts  an  assessment  was  author- 
ized to  be  made  upon  the  lands  and  erven :  on  each  erf,  f .  10 : 
18:12;  and  on  each  morgen,  f.  2:16:14. 

O  cruel  Cupid!  ever  seizing  the  favored  opportunity  to 
scatter  his  fatal  darts  where  met  the  young  and  unwary  to 
cheerily  while  the  social  hour,  to  crack  walnuts  and  rustic  jokes, 
or  yet  seeking  a  prouder  conquest  among  those  not  strangers 
to  his  shafts ;  his  triumphs  the  past  winter  are  thus  summed  up : 

Persons  whose  bans  of  matrimony  are  entered  by  consent  of  the 
Worshipful  Mayor  of  this  City,  New  York,  and  according  to  custom, 
published  in  the  church. 

Feb.  i8th,  1671,  William  Waldron,  born  at  Amsterdam,  with  Engeltie 
Stoutenburgh,  of  New  York.  Present,  Resolved  Waldron  and  Peter 
Stoutenburgh. 

March  5th.  Martin  Hardewyn  with  Madeleine  du  Sauchoy,  both  living 
at  Fordham.  Present,  the  bride's  mother,  Elizabeth  Nachtegaal,  and 
Jacques  Cousseau ;  with  a  note  from  the  bride's  father.  Marc  du  Sauchoy, 
that  he  beared  consent  to  the  same. 

April  7th.  Jean  le  Roy,  living  at  New  Haerlem,  widower  of  Louise 
de  Lancaster,  with  Marie  Taine,  widow  of  Philip  Casier,  living  at  New 
York. 

came  out  in  the  same  vessel  with  Journee,  and  it  is  quite  as  apparent  that  Margaret 
was  sister  to  Wallerand  du  Mont,  of  Esopus.  She  who  became  Mrs.  Joumiee  was 
most  likely  the  person  that  accompanied  Noue  and  his  wife  in  their  voyage,  and  is 
called  his  "sister."  Journee  held  honorable  places  in  the  town  government  at  Harlem, 
resigning  that  of  magistrate  when  he  removed  to  Statcn  Island,  toward  the  close  of 
1676,  having  sold  his  house  and  bouwery,  March  7,  preceding,  to  Jan  Nagel  and  Jan 
Delamater,  for  2700  guilders.  His  meadow,  on  Sherman's  Creek,  has  till  late  years 
borne  the  name  of  Meyndert's  Fly.  On  March  26,  1677,  he  bought  80  acres  of  land 
on  Staten  Island,  from  Francis  Chartier.  Journee  had  lived  there  but  a  year  when  he 
died,  January  30,  1678.  Some  months  after  his  widow  married  "BoswcU  dc  Lisle, 
alias  Francois;  the  Court  of  Sessions  held  at  Gravesend  June  19,  1678,  appointing 
Paulus  Richard,  with  Obadiah  Holmes,  of  Staten  Island,  as  trustees  for  the  children, 
to  "take  care  that  the  estate  of  said  children  be  not  embezzled."  There  were  several 
daughters,  but  the  only  son,  apparently,  was  John  Joumeay,  who  married,  in  1703, 
Elizabeth  Deyo.  But  we  have  made  no  effort  to  trace  his  descendants,  who  have  be- 
come numerous,  while  some  have  been  prominent  on  the  island,  to  which,  however, 
the   name  is  by  no  means  restricted. 


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April  29th.  Adolph  Meyer,  young  man,  bom  at  Ulsen,  in  Westphalia, 
with  Maria  Verveelen,  bom  at  Amsterdam.* 

Johannes  Pelszer  sues  Johannes  Verveelen  March  2d,  1671, 
for  a  claim  of  24  gl.,  the  balance  of  90  gl.  12  St.,  his  former 
indebtedness,  of  which  Koopal  (Archer)  had  paid  him  66  gl. 
12  St.  He  also  complained  that  Verveelen  had  accused  him 
of  being  **the  cause  that  the  defendant's  house  had  come  to  be 
burnt."  Verveelen  answered  that  the  plaintiff  had  said  that  he, 
defendant,  kept  two  account  books.  He  maintained  that  his 
arrest  was  unlawful,  since  he  was  a  resident,  and  plaintiff  could 
have  levied  on  his  goods ;  he  claimed  6  gl.  for  the  ten  days'  arrest. 
The  court  having  heard  all  they  had  to  say,  allowed  Pelzer  the 
24  gl.,  and  Verveelen  to  pay  the  costs.  On  the  same  date  the 
old  Indian  interpreter,  Claes  Carstensen,  a  Norwegian,  who  had 
lived  some  thirty  years  in  the  country  and  several  in  this  town, 
was  granted  a  small  house  lot,  to  use  during  his  lifetime,  but 
without  the  right  of  succession.  Carstensen  had  seen  better 
days. 

"Whereas  the  carriage  road  between  this  City  and  New  Haerlem  is 
impassable ;  and  this  Worshipful  Court  considermg  it  necessary  that  a 
carriage  road  be  maintained  between  this  City  and  the  above-named  vil- 
lage: It  is  therefore  ordered  and  directed  by  the  W.  Court  that  the 
magistrates  of  New  Haerlem  and  the  overseers  of  the  highways  beyond 
the  Fresh  Water  shall  lay  out  together  the  most  suitable  work,  and  that 
then,  on  the  first  day  of  the  next  coming  month  of  May,  the  said  road 
shall  be  made  fit  for  use,  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  village  of  Haerlem, 
and  the  householders,  both  on  this  and  the  other  side  of  the  Fresh  Water, 
each  for  his  limits,  and  that  on  such  penalty  as  shall  be  fixed  by  said 
magistrates  and  overseers." 

The  above  order  was  passed  by  the  Mayor's  Court,  April 
1 8th,  1 67 1,  and  Jan  Jansen  Langestraat,  Dirck  Siecken  (alias 
Dey),  and  Jan  Cornelisz  De  Ryck,  were  then  appointed  as  over- 
seers "on  this  and  the  other  side  of  the  Fresh  Water." 

Cornelius  and  Laurens  Jansen,  having  for  a  year  worked 
the  farm  bought  in  partnership  of  Mr.  De  Meyer,  agreed  to 
part.  Laurens  was  about  to  lease  the  farm  of  Lubbert  Gerritsen ; 
the  parties  met  for  the  purpose,  October  24th,  1670,  and  the  con- 

*  Maria  Meyer,  mother  of  a  large  and  worthy  proffcny,  identified  as  she  was 
with  Harlem,  from  her  early  childhood  for  a  period  of  eighty-five  years,  and,  as 
daughter  of  the  patentee,  Johannes  Verveelen,  directly  concerned  in  the  principal 
distribution  of  the  common  land — she  becomes  a  historic  character.  After  a  married 
life  of  forty  years  and  thirty-seven  of  widowhood,  and  having  survived  all  the  Dongan 
patentees,  except  possibly  Barent  Waldron,  death  overtook  her  at  the  advanced  age  of 
92  years,  in  1748.  It  afforded  the  author  an  agreeable  surprise,  while  engaged  some 
thirty  years  ago  in  the  preparation  of  a  work  kindred  to  the  present  one,  to  discover 
that  he  was  a  descendant  of  this  locally  noted  woman,  and  also  of  the  redoubtable 
Spuyten  Duyvel  ferrymaster;  and  subsequently  to  find  that  a  lineal  chain,  of  eight 
intervening  links,  allied  him  to  good  old  Hans  Verveelen  and  Catrina  Oliviers,  of 
Cologne.     (See  Annals  of  Newtown,  pp.  277,  305,  317). 


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tract  was  partly  drawn,  when  they  failed  to  agree.  Cornells 
having  taken  the  De  Meyer  farm,  Laurens  on  May  5th  ensuing 
(1671)  gave  him  a  lease  of  his  part  for  four  years,  to  date  from 
September  25th,  1670,  at  the  yearly  rent  of  400  gl.  in  grain. 
Their  father,  Jan  Bastiaense,  and  Bastiaen  Elyessen,  the  father- 
in-law  of  Cornelis,  were  present  and  subscribed  this  agreement. 
Laurens  went  to  Esopus  and  married,  and  is  not  found  at  Harlem 
for  several  years. 

On  May  i8th,  1671,  Jan  Lou  we  Van  Schoonrewoerd,  of 
Bedford,  L.  I.,  later  known  as  Jan  Louwe  Bogert,  bargained 
with  Jan  La  Montague  for  his  "piece  of  land  named  in  the 
Dutch  language  Montagne's  Punt,  or  by  the  Indians  Rechco- 
wanis,"  for  the  sum  of  3,000  gl.  He  reserved  "the  crop  of  grain, 
the  hop  plants,  apple  and  pear  trees,  and  twelve  cherry  trees." 
Full  possession  was  to  be  given  on  receipt  of  the  first  payment, 
due  May  ist,  1672.  Some  account  will  be  given  of  the  numer- 
our  and  respectable   family  descendants  of  Bogert. 

On  Septemebr  6th  Meynard  Joumee  sold  to  Dirck  Storm 
his  property  at  Bedford,  Brooklyn,  consisting  of  houses,  land, 
meadow,  etc.,  for  1,400  gl.  in  wheat,  peas,  or  rye,  at  the  price 
of  sewant.  Jan  Louwe  Van  Schoonrewoerd  witnesses  this 
deed.* 

On  the  same  day,  said  Jan  Louwe  and  his  wife,  Cornelia 
Everts,  residing  at  Bedford,  aforesaid,  made  their  will  at  Harlem, 
as  they  expected  to  remove  here.  They  "give  to  the  poor  of 
New  Harlem  the  sum  of  ten  guilders  as  a  memorial."  Sf)eak  of 
children,  but  name  none.  Make  Johannes  Pietersen  Verbrugge 
and  Teunis  Gysberts  Bogert  executors.  The  witnesses  are  Cor- 
nelis Jansen  and  Johan  Daniels,  late  under  sheriff  at  New  Castle, 

*  Dirck  Storm,  as  already  noticed,  arrived  here  in  1662,  with  his  wife,  Maria 
Pieters,  and  three  young  children.  lie  had  in  all,  at  least,  sons,  Gregoris,  Peter  and 
David,  and  daughter,  Maria,  who  married  Caspar  Springsteen.  In  1669  he  succeeded 
Carel  de  Beauvois,  deceased,  as  secretary  at  Brooklyn;  afterward  served  some  years 
as  town  clerk  at  Flatbush,  was  made  Clerk  of  the  Sessions  for  Orange  Cotmty,  in 
1691,  and  held  that  office  till  1:703.  In  1697  he  and  family  were  living  at  Philips  Manor, 
Westchester  County,  where  his  descendants  became  numerous  and  noted.  His  son, 
Gregoris  Storm,  married,  at  New  Utrecht,  Engeltie,  daughter  of  Thomas  Van  Dyck, 
and  had  sons,  Derick.  born  1695:  Thomas,  born  1697,  etc.  After  Gregoris,  or  Goris, 
as  commonly  called,  died,  his  widow  married  Jacques  Tourneur,  of  Harlem.  Her  son, 
Thomas  Storm,  becoming  a  widower,  married  the  daughter  of  Adolph  Meyer,  of  Har- 
lem, and  widow  of  Johannes  Sickels,  ist.  Thomas  remained  on  Philips  Manor,  hold- 
ing a  farm  under  Col.  Frederick  Philips,  but  he  made  three  several  purchases  of  land 
in  Rombout  Precinct,  Dutchess  County,  on  which  he  settled  his  sons  Gcrrit,  Goris, 
Abraham  and  John.  His  son  Isaac  took  his  place  at  Philips  Manor.  Other  sons, 
Thomas,  his  eldest,  and  Jacob,  were  dead  when  he  made  his  will,  June,  a8,  1763.  It 
was  proved  January  15,  1770.  Abraham  Storm  married,  October  5,  1759,  Catherine, 
daughter  of  Aaron  Bussing^  of  Harlem.  An  active  whig  in  the  Revolution,  he  was 
"made  prisoner  by  the  British  troops,"  and  his  family  saw  him  no  more.  On  March 
22^  1784,  his  widow  released  to  Gerrit,  Goris  and  Isaac  Storm  the  lands  of  said 
Abraham,  in  Rombout  Precinct,  and,  returning  to  Harlem,  obtained,  by  deed  of  August 
18,  1784,  from  her  father's  executor,  John  Sickels,  the  farm  of  31  acres  on  Van 
Keulen's  Hook,  which  she  sold,  eleven  years  later,  to  James  Roosevelt.  She  died 
August  16,  1803,  leaving  no  children.  The  descendants  of  Dirck  Storm  take  prominence 
for  numbers  and  worth. 


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Delaware,  under  Beeckman,  and  who  had  before  "held  this  posi- 
tion under  Mr.  Montagne."  The  testator  sig^s  Jan  Lu  Van 
Sooderwoer. 

Mayor  Delavall  held  this  court  at  Harlem  on  September  8th, 
167 1,  at  which  were  considered: 

1.  Complaint  of  David  Demarest  against  John  Archer,  for 
mawing  grass  in  his  meadow  at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  being  No.  i 
on    the  Westchester  side. 

2.  Complaint  of  Martin  Hardewyn,  of  Fordham,  against 
Archer,  for  breaking  down  his  fences. 

3.  Complaint  of  Marcus  Du  Sauchoy,  of  Fordham,  against 
Archer,  for  throwing  his  furniture  out  of  doors. 

4.  Complaint  of  Johannes  Verveelen  against  Archer. 

The  first  case  was  referred  to  the  magistrates  of  Harlem 
and  Fordham,  the  others  to  the  arbitration  of  Daniel  Tourneur 
and  Jan  La  Montague. 

The  "Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Fordham"  also  preferred 
a  charge  against  Archer,  "that  the  defendant,  several  times,  hath 
been  the  occasion  of  great  troubles  betwixt  the  inhabitants  of 
the  said  Town,  he  taking  upon  himself  to  rule  and  govern  over 
them  by  rigor  and  force;  and  do  humbly  desire  relief  and  the 
protection  of  this  Court." 

"Upon  the  hearing  of  both  parties,  the  court  ordered  the 
defendant,  John  Archer,  to  behave  himself,  for  the  future,  civilly 
and  quietly  against  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  Town,  as  he  will 
answer  to  the  contrary  at  his  peril." 

"And  it  is  further  ordered,  that  all  small  differences,  which 
for  the  future  shall  happen  to  fall  out  at  Fordham  aforesaid, 
shall  be  decided  at  Harlem  by  the  magistrates  of  Fordham,  with 
the  assistance  of  two  of  the  magistrates  of  Harlem  aforesaid, 
except  those  of  Fordham  will  be  at  the  charge  to  satisfy  the  magis- 
trates of  Harlem  for  coming  up  to  their  Town  of  Fordham." 

On  October  nth,  1671,  John  Archer  executed  at  Harlem 
sundry  new  leases  for  farms  at  Fordham,  viz. :  to  Hendrick  Kier- 
sen,  Aert  Pietersen  Buys,  and  Cornelis  Viervant;  making  the 
rent  payable  to  Cornelis  Steenwyck,  of  New  York,  to  whom 
Archer,  on  September  loth,  1669,  had  given  a  mortgage  on  his 
lands  for  1,100  gl.  in  wampum.  Another  mortgage  to  Steen- 
wyck in  1676,  for  2,400  gl.  sewant,  ultimately  gave  him  the  full 
title  and  possession  of  the  Manor  of  Fordham,  which  passed 
under  his  will  and  by  certain  deeds  to  the  Dutch  Church  at 
New  York.* 

•  In   getting  possession,  the  church  met  with  great  opposition  from  the  town  of 


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On  October  23d  the  voorleser's  salary,  400  gl.,  became  due, 
and  to  pay  it  a  tax  was  authorized,  "calculated  2-3  on  the  lands, 
and  1-3  on  the  Erven;  amounting  for  each  morgen  to  f.  i  :i2:6, 
and  for  each  erf,  f.  6:7."  But,  notes  Montague  in  the  margin, 
"It  came  to  nothing."  The  reason  is  found  in  the  strong  aver- 
sion of  the  people  to  being  taxed  for  religious  purposes,  especially 
the  French  and  Walloons,  who,  cruelly  tithed  and  amerced  in 
their  native  lands  to  support  the  old  church,  had  a  mortal  dread 
of  this  compulsory  giving.  Then,  again,  the  present  tax  for 
exceeded  any  former  call  for  this  object.  Montague's  allowance 
as  voorleser  was  not  over  150  gl.  per  annum,  one  third  of  which, 
derived  from  the  Company,  failed  ^fter  the  first  year.  But  what- 
ever he  got  from  the  people  was  by  voluntary  gift.  Hence  the 
present  opposition  to  an  assessment,  and  this  proving  effectual, 
led  to  a  return  to  the  former  method  of  free-will  offerings, — a 
plan  continued  for  several  years,  though,  unfortunately,  the 
earlier  lists  of  contributors  are  missing. 

Two  days  later,  a  meeting  was  held  at  Cornelis  Jansen's  to 
adjust  certain  fines  which  had  also  caused  no  little  excitement. 
It  happened,  July  7th  preceding,  that  two  of  Jansen's  horses 
were  found  upon  the  bouwland  without  a  herder  and  driven  to 
the  pound,  with  one  owned  by  "Mr.  Aldrich,"  one  of  Waldon's, 
and  one  of  Adolph  Meyer's.  The  next  day  another  of  Waldron's 
horses,  and  one  of  Meyer's,  and  the  next  day  still,  being  Sunday, 
a  pair  of  oxen  of  David  Demarest's,  one  of  Delavall's  hogs,  and 
two  of  Pieter  Roelofsen's.  Again  on  the  24th  were  put  in  pound 
three  hogs  belonging  to  Waldron  and  Nagel,  besides  a  yoke  of 
oxen  owned  by  Jean  Le  Roy,  and  found  cropping  the  herbage 
"in  the  garden." 

This  enforcement  of  the  law  made  some  squirming,  as  the 
fines  were  put  at  6  gl.  for  each  horse,  ox,  etc.,  amounting  in  all 
to  f.  74:8.  But  the  matter  was  finally  ararnged,  over  sundry 
pots  of  Tapster  Jansen's  beer,  for  which  his  bill  against  the  town 
was  as  follows: 

Westchester.  This  led,  in  1688,  to  a  forcible  entrv  by  the  officers  and  friends  of  the 
former.  Elijah  Barton,  dwelling  "near  Harlem  River,  within  the  bounds  of  West- 
chester, at  the  house  that  formerly  Aert  Pietersen  lived  in,"  was,  with  his  father 
Roger  Barton,  engaged  "to  keep  possession  for  and  in  behalf  of  the  town  of  West- 
chester," when,  on  July  16,  in  the  afternoon,  "there  came  a  great  company  of  men  with 
Nicholas  Bavard  of  New  York,"  demanding  admittance.  This  being  refused,  Reyer 
Michiels  ana  Teunis  De  Key,  at  Bayard's  word,  broke  open  the  dooT.  and  the  Bartons 
were  ousted  and  roughly  handled.  With  Bayard  were  also  Nicholas  Stuyvesant,  Johan- 
nes Kipp,  Isaac  Van  Vleeck,  Michiel  Bastiaens,  his  wife,  and  sons  Bastiaen  and  Rcycr 
Michiels,  Hendrick  Kiersen  and  Jacques  Tourneur.  Also  "in  the  exploit"  was  Hannah 
(or  Anna)  Odell,  wife  of  John  Odell.  Hendrick  Verveelen  and  Jacob  Valentine  were 
there,  too.  The  Westchester  authorities  issued  a  warrant  July  20,  to  "take  the  bodies 
of  the  said  Reyer  Michiels,  with  the  said  compljjcetors."  But  the  church  maintained  its 
hold,  and  the  lands  were  ultimately  sold  off  in  parcels  between  the  years  1755  and 
1760. 


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CoRNEUS  Jansen,  Credit 
Drank  at  the  settlement  of  the  fines,  the  25th  Oct  1671,  at  two 

bouts   f .  34  :    0 

Also  for  Mr.  Arent,  engaged  at  writing,  2  vans  beer* i   :  12 

Further,  after  the  settlement  was  conducted,  also  drank  5  vans 

beer  and  i  muts  rumt 4  :  10 

f .  40  :  2 
John  Archer,  to  escape  the  interference  of  the  Harlem  magis- 
trates, obtained  from  Governor  Lovelace,  November  13th,  1671, 
an  ample  patent  for  his  domain,  upon  which  "the  new  dorp  or 
village  is  erected  known  by  the  name  of  Fordham."  It  was  to 
enjoy  "equal  privileges  and  immunities  with  any  town,  enfran- 
chised township,  or  manor  within  this  government."  Released 
from  all  dependence  upon,  or  subjection  to  the  rule,  order,  or 
direction  of  any  other  riding,  township,  place,  or  jurisdiction; 
thereafter  it  was  to  "be  ruled,  ordered,  and  directed,  in  all  matters 
as  to  government,  by  the  Governor  and  his  Council,  and  the 
General  Court  of  Assizes  only."  It  now  took  the  style  of  the 
"Manor  of  Fordham."  But  not  long  after,  "upon  complaint  of 
some  disorders  which  were  made  at  the  town  of  Fordham,  in 
the  Corporation  of  this  City,  by  reason  they  lie  too  far  distant 
from  any  constable  or  overseers,"  his  Honor  the  Mayor,  on 
February  13th,  1672,  appointed  Johannes  Verveelen  as  constable 
and  clerk,  and  Jan  Pieters  Buys  and  John  Heddy  as  overseers 
of  the  said  town,  to  serve  during  his  mayoralty. 

Valentine  Claessen,  founder  of  the  Valentine  family  at 
Valentine's  Hall,  having  sold  his  property  in  Harlem  to  Mr. 
Delavall,  resolved  upon  a  sea- voyage,  and  on  December  iith^ 
1671,  procured  the  governor's  pass  "to  transport  himself  hence 
in  the  ketch  Zebulon,  whereof  John  Follett  is  commander,  for 
the  Isle  of  Providence,  Curacao,  and  Jamaica,  in  the  West  Indies ; 
and  to  return  again  as  his  occasions  should  present,  etc."** 

•  Arcnt  Evertsen  Keteltas,  here  referred  to,  was,  like  his  father,  "Mr.  Evert 
Picterscn  Kctcltas,"  a  voorlcscr  and  schoolmaster.  (Sec  note  on  page  96).  In  166^ 
Arent  is  called  molenaar,  that  is  miller.  He  was  here  before  Vander  Vin  was  engaged 
as  voorlcscr,  maybe  serving  temporarily  in  that  office.  But  he  soon  left,  and  on  Octo- 
ber 6,  1670,  Tourneur  took  his  place  as  curator  of  Kier  Wolters*  estate.  Arcnt's  wife. 
Susannah  de  Boog,  was  sister  to  Mrs.  Wilhelmus  Beeckman.  They  were  daughters  of 
Hcndrick  de  Booff,  of  Amsterdam,  whose  wife  was  a  sister  of  Mrs.  Jonas  Bronck. 
The  Keteltas  family  descend  from  Evert  Picterscn  Keteltas. 

t  A  vaan  was  two  quarts,  and  a  mutsje  one  gill. 

••  The  Valentine  family,  of  Westchester,  from  which  most  of  this  name  in  New 
York  City  have  sprung[,  has  been  quite  misapprehended,  as  regards  its  common  ancestor, 
who  was  not  "Benjamin  Valentine,  a  dragoon  in  the  French  military  service,  Canada," 
as  per  Bolton,  ii,  544;  but  Valentine  Claessen  aforesaid,  who,  as  a  soldier,  gained  his 
laurels  under  Stuyvesant,  not  in  Canada,  but  in  an  expedition  to  Esopus,  in  1660. 
His  sons  took  and  retained  the  patronjrmic  Valentine.  He  was  from  Saxenlant,  in 
Transylvania;  married,  in  1662,  Marritie  Jacobs,  from  Beest,  and  before  settling  in 
Westcnester  county,  lived  some  years  in  Harlem,  where  his  vrouw  found  people  from 
her  native  place,  the  Kortriffhts  and  Buys  brothers.  Valentine  Claessen  is  named  as 
late  as  1688.     His  children,  Jacob,  born  1663,  living  1690;    Matthys,  bom  1665;    John, 


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On  December  i8th,  certain  Indians,  some  of  them  appar- 
ently the  same  that  signed  Montagne's  deed  for  Rechawanes, 
conveyed  to  Daniel  Toumeur,  of  New  Harlem,  all  their  lands 
"lying  upon  the  Main,  next  to  the  land  of  John  Archer,  beginning 
at  the  Bay  on  the  south  side  of  Crab  Island,  and  so  running 
alongst  the  Creek  parting  the  Main  and  Manhattan  Island,  to 
Bronxland,  and  thence  extending  east  and  west  so  far  as  the 
land  of  the  said  John  Archer."  This  was  the  same  land  as  that 
granted  Tourneur  June  isth,  1668,  but  which  the  Indians  after- 
ward claimed,  and  therefore  this  purchase  was  authoried  by  the 
Governor,  who  added  "a  small  tract  behind  it  towards  Broncks 
his  river,  the  which  doth  properly  belong  to  no  person,"  and 
confirmed  the  whole  to  Tourneur,  March  8th,  1672.  Governor 
Dongan,  as  we  shall  see,  afterward  entrenched  this  grant,  other- 
wise disposing  of  that  part  since  known  as  De  Voe's  Point. 

On  December  29th,  1671,  Daniel  Tourneur,  ruling  magis- 
trate, and  his  wife,  Jacqueline  Parisis,  both  in  health,  made  their 
will,  and  give  10  gl.  each  for  the  poor  of  New  Harlem.  The  sur- 
vivor to  manage  and  use  the  estate  till  death  or  remarriage ;  then 
the  children  to  share  it  equally.  Witnesses,  David  Demarest  and 
Glaude  Delamater. 

On  January  7th,  1672,  Pieter  Van  Oblinus,  a  boy  of  9  or 
10  years,  driving  through  the  village  with  his  fathers*  horse  and 
sleigh,  ran  over  David  Demarest's  child,  Daniel,  5  or  6  years  old, 
who  was  playing  with  other  children,  about  the  door  of  Comelis 
Jansen's  tavern.  He  died  the  next  morning,  and  the  magistrates 
then  assembled  to  inquire  into  the  circumstances.  It  was  shown, 
by  the  statements  of  Cornelis  Jansen,  Arent  Harmans  Bussing, 
and  Conrad  Hendricks  Boch,  to  have  been  accidental.  Joost 
Van  Oblinus  declared  "that  he  did  not  know  of  the  accident  till 
informed  of  it  by  others,  and  that  he  was  heartily  sorry." 

On  February  ist,  David  Demarest,  ruling  magistrate,  and  his 
wife,  Marie  Sohier,  in  health,  but  "reflecting  on  the  frailty  of 
human  life,"  made  their  will,  giving,  "each  of  them,  25  gl.  to 
the  poor  of  New  Harlem,  as  a  remembrance."  The  survivor  to 
enjoy  the  estate  until  remarriage,  and  then  "even  though  the 
laws  of  the  land  provide  that  one  child  shall  inherit  more  thar» 
the  other,"  their  will  is  that  "all  their  lawful  children,  mutually 

born  1671;  Mary,  born  1674,  arc  all  of  which  wc  find  notice.  Matthys,  living  1710, 
probably  died  before  May  3,  1724,  when  a  division  of  land  was  made  by  John  and  Mat- 
thias  Valentine,  of  Lower  Yonkers,  his  sons,  if  we  are  not  much  mistaken.  Tohn  was 
bom  in  1691.  Matthias  was  born  in  1693 — not  '98,  as  his  children's  asres  show — and 
died  in  1781,  being  the  "first  proprietor  of  Valentine's  Hill,  Yonkers,"  as  says  Mr. 
Bolton;  in  whose  work  upon  Westchester  County,  but  more  fully  in  the  later  History 
of  the  Valentine  Family,  may  be  found  the  several  branches  of  the  family  tree,  of 
which  we  have  given  the  trunk. 


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begotten,  shall  inherit  equal  legatary  portions/*  Witnesses,  Dan- 
iel Toumeur  and  Glaude  Delamater. 

On  February  8th,  the  Town  leased  two  parcels  of  meadow ; 
the  first,  not  located,  being  taken  by  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  Jan  Nagel, 
and  Johannes  Vermelje,  for  six  years  from  May  ist,  1671,  at  31 
gl.  a  year.  The  other,  "a  piece  of  meadow  at  the  North  River" 
(called  a  little  later  Moertje  Davids'  Fly),  was  taken  for  the 
same  term  by  David  Demarest,  at  the  yearly  rent  of  24  gl. 

The  same  day,  Jan  La  Montague  secured  the  signatures  of 
the  magistrates  to  the  following  deed  for  his  Point,  written  in 
October  preceding,  but  its  execution  for  some  cause  delayed.  It 
included  also  the  meadows  granted  him  some  years  before,  in 
exchange  for  some  others  at  Sherman's  Creek.  The  effect  of 
this  deed  was  to  release  whatever  claim  the  town  might  have 
acquired  from  Governor  Nicolls'  Patent,  and  to  place  the  property 
on  a  common  footing  with  the  other  improved  lands,  so  that 
from  this  date  it  became  taxable  for  town  charges,  and  at  the 
same  time  invested  with  the  right  to  a  share  of  the  common  lands 
held  by  the  freeholders  in  joint  tenancy,  whenever  a  division  of 
said  lands  should  be  made.  Hence  the  value  of  this  deed  to 
Montague,  and  to  Bogert,  who  was  to  succeed  him  in  that  estate. 

We,  Hon.  Magistrates,  with  the  vote  and  resolution  of  the  Inhabitants 
of  this  Town,  have  granted  forever  and  as  hereditary,  to  Jan  de  La 
Montagne,  a  piece  of  land,  with  the  meadows  thereto  annexed,  named 
Montagne's  Point,  formerly  possessed  by  his  late  father,  lying  within 
our  Town's  jurisdiction,  bounded  on  the  north  side  by  a  creek  called 
Montagne's  Kill;  extending  from  the  East  River  unto  a  little  fresh  water 
creek  running  between  Montagne's  Flat  and  aforesaid  Point;  on  the 
south  side  bounded  by  a  creek  and  a  meadow  and  by  hills,  to  the  afore- 
said little  fresh  water  creek  where  the  King's  Majesty  his  highway  goes 
over;  with  the  Meadows  lying  in  the  Bend  of  Hellgate,  which  Mon- 
tagne  beforenamed  has  had  in  exchange  for  the  Town  Lot's  meadows; 
with  such  rights  and  privileges  as  are  granted  us  by  patent  and  still  re- 
main to  grant;  provided  he  submit  to  such  laws  and  servitudes  as  with 
us  are  common  and  may  be  imposed,  without  that  we  or  our  Inhabitants, 
now  or  in  future  days,  shall  have  any  claim  thereupon,  but  as  his  other 
patrimonial  property  may  enter  upon  and  use  or  sell,  as  he  may  resolve 
and  shall  choose,  saving  the  lord  s  right.  For  further  security,  and  that 
our  deed  shall  have  greater  force  and  legal  authority,  we  the  Magistrates 
and  constables  the  same  subscribe,  this  8th  February,  Anno  1672,  in  New 
Haerlem. 

d.  tourneur. 

Resalvert  Waldron. 

Johannes  Vermelje. 

David  des  Marest. 

PiEter    Roelefsen,    Constable* 

•  The  frequent  use  alreadjr  made  of  this  deed,  has  led  us  to  give  an  amended 
translation  of  it  from  the  oribinal  Dutch  text  of  Montagne;  and  we  also  annex  a 
verbatim  copy  of  said  original. 

Wy,   E.   Magistraten,  met  toestemminge  en  goetvinden  van  de  inwoonderen  deser 


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28o  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

To  all  familiar  with  our  modern  Manhattan,  with  its  fine 
avenues,  its  railways,  and  ample  means  of  through  transit,  the 
following  action  of  the  Mayor's  Court  of  February  13th,  1672, 
must  at  least  prove  amusing.  It  was  in  the  Mayoralty  of  Mr. 
Delavall. 

The  Court  do  empower  Mr.  Cornelis  van  Ruyven  and  Mr.  Isaac  Bedlo, 
aldermen,  to  cause  the  former  orders  for  making  a  good  wagon  path  be- 
twixt this  city  and  the  Town  of  Ilaerlem  to  be  put  into  strict  execution. 

The  record  proceeds  to  say  that  "it  is  still  found  unfinished," 
although  recommended  by  the  Governor,  "at  divers  times,"  and 
enjoined  by  the  Court  upon  the  Overseers  both  of  Harlem  and 
the  Suburbs.  "For  which  reason  many  complaints  have  been 
lodged,  yea,  that  people  wishing  lately  to  travel  over  that  road 
on  horseback  have  been  in  danger  of  losing  their  lives,  by  the 
negligent  keeping  of  the  said  road."  This  had  moved  the  Gov- 
ernor again  not  only  to  earnestly  recommend  but  to  require  its 
immediate  completion,  "forthwith,  without  any  delay."  The 
two  aldermen  commissioned  to  take  charge  of  it  were  instructed, 
as  often  as  they  saw  fit,  to  summon  "the  Overseers,  as  well  of 
Harlem  as  of  the  outside  people  dwelling  hereabouts,"  to  tell 
them  "how  very  ill  it  has  been  taken  that  the  previous  orders 
regarding  the  aforesaid  road  have  not  been  better  observed,"  and 
"to  devise  means,  not  only  to  finish  said  road,  but  to  keep  it 
constantly  in  good  repair." 

durpe,  hebben  vcrgunt,  eeuwich  en  crfFelyck,  acn  Jan  de  La  Montoene.  een  stuck  landt, 
met  dc  valcyen  daar  anex,  genaamt  Montang^is  punt,  certyt  door  syn  vadcr  si. 
jrepossedccrt,  gelegen  binnen  onsc  onser  durps  jurisdictie,  bepaalt  aen  dc  noort  syde 
net  een  yil  genaamt  Montaro  Kil,  streckende  van  de  cost  revier  tot  aen  een  verse 
killekken  streckende  tussen  Montangis  Vlackte  en  voornm  punt.  Aen  de  zuyt  ryde 
bepaalt  met  een  kil  en  een  valey  en  met  bergen,  tot  aen  de  voornm  verse  killeken  daar 
zyn  Konm  Majism  zyn  hooge  wech  overgaat,  met  de  valeyen  gelegen  in  de  bocht  vant 
Hellegat  die  Montagne  voornm  gereuylt  heeft  heest  tegens  durps  lodts  valeven;  met 
soodanige  gerechticheeden  en  privilegen  als  ons  by  patent  is  vergunt,  en  noch  staat  tc 
ycrgunnen,  mits  hem  onderwerpende  sodanige  wettcn  en  servituten  als  ons  int  gemeen 
is  en  sal  op^cleyt  worden,  sonder  dat  wy  ofte  ons  ingesetenen,  nu  oft  ten  eeuwi^en 
dagen,  daar  lets  op  sullen  te  pretenderen  hebben,  maar  gelyck  syne  andere  oatrimomale 
goederen  sal  aenvaarden  en  gebrucken,  of  verkoopen,  so  als  hy  sal  goetvinaen  en  wiUe 
kueren,  behoudens  den  herr  zyn  recht.  Tot  meerder  verseckeringe  en  op  onscr  gront- 
brief  meerder  kracht  en  echt  sal  resorteren  hebben,  wy  magistraten  en  konstapel  de 
selve  onderteeckent,  Ay  8  Feb'y  Anno  1672,  in  Nieu  Haarlem. 

D.    TOURNIUR. 
ReSALVSRT    VSRMELJB. 
TOHANNSS    DSSMARRST. 
PiBTSR    ROELRPSBN,    CoftStapU. 


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CHAPTER    XVIII. 

1672-1673. 

THE  DORP,  OR  VILLAGE;  INCIDENTS  AND  INSIGHTS. 

^  I  ^HE  Town  Court  was  busied  April  23,  1672,  with  an  investi- 
gation  sought  by  David  Demarest  as  to  an  assault  made 
upon  him  the  day  before  by  Glaude  Delamater.  The  townsfolk 
being  at  work,  "making  tight  the  fences  of  the  Calf  Pasture," 
Demarest  fell  into  conversation  with  Ralph  Doxey,  Mr.  Dela- 
vairs  man;  after  which,  going  to  Delamater,  he  charged  him  as 
the  cause  of  Heer  Delavall  being  at  variance  with  the  town ;  add- 
ing, that  before  he,  Delamater,  became  intimate  with  him,  Delavall 
let  his  cows  go  with  the  herdsman.  Delamater  retorted  that  **he 
lied  like  a  buffoon  and  a  bugger,"  and  seizing  Demarest  by  the 
coat  kicked  him.  Instinctively  the  latter  caught  up  a  stone  and 
threw  it,  hitting  Delamater  on  the  breast !  Here  further  violence 
was  stayed.  As  Demarest  was  a  magistrate,  the  board  had  to 
refer  the  case  to  the  Mayor's  Court,  and  with  that  view  took  the 
evidence  of  Jean  le  Roy,  Adolph  Meyer,  Glilis  Boudewynsen, 
and  Lubbert  Gerritsen.  Joost  Van  Oblinus  became  bail  for 
Demarest's  appearance. 

Jean  De  La  Montague's  last  official  act  as  secretary  was  to 
record  this  affair  of  the  Calf  Pasture,  and  beneath  the  entry  his 
successor,  Vander  Vin,  writes:  "Here  ends  the  register  and 
protocol  of  the  deceased  J.  De  La  Montague,  kept  at  the  village 
of  N.  Harlem."  And  years  after,  when  growing  infirmities  fore- 
shadowed his  own  departure,  he  added  in  a  tremulous  hand, 
"since  the  ^aid  Jan  De  La  Montague  died  in  the  year  1672." 
Stuyvesant,  the  old  friend  of  his  father  and  family,  had  but  just 
preceded  him  to  the  grave.  He  made  his  will  May  13,  1672, 
of  which  we  have  only  the  date,  but  which  must  have  given  his 
consort  the  full  control  of  the  estate.  Two  years  later  the 
widow  closed  the  sale  of  the  farm  to  Bogert,  by  a  warranty 
deed,  dated  March  30th,  1674,  acknowledging  the  receipt  of  the 
3,000  gl.,  and  conveying  for  herself  and  heirs ;  having  power  to 


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282  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

do  so,  as  is  evident,  either  under  the  will,  or  by  the  recognized 
rules  of  law,  since  she  acted  with  the  knowledge  and  official 
sanction  of  the  public  secretary,  and  one  of  the  magistrates. 
Later  still — that  is,  on  November  14,  1679 — she  conveyed  for 
300  gl  to  Mrs.  Bogert,  "authorized  by  her  husband,"  to  take 
the  deed,  the  parcel  called  the  Hop  Garden  at  the  rear  of  the 
farm,  or  "lying  behind  the  land  of  John  Louwe,  over  against 
the  hill."  Montagne  left  no  other  real  estate  here;  that  owned 
subsequently  by  his  son,  Abraham  Montagne  (the  only  son  that 
remained  at  Harlem),  being  derived  through  his  mother,  who 
bought  a  village  residence,  which  fell  to  Abraham  at  her  death 
in  1689.  True  the  latter  afterward  indulged  the  idea  that  he 
was  entitled  to  a  share  of  the  common  land,  in  virtue  of  his 
father's  freehold,  but  the  town  held  that  such  right  had  passed 
to   Bogert. 

The  church  at  Harlem  lost  in  Montagne  a  good  and  useful 
servant.  It  applied  soon  after  for  an  elder  to  represent  it  in 
the  Consistory  at  New  York,  under  whose  charge  it  had  been 
up  to  this  time.  This  was  acceded  to,  and  by  an  agreement  made 
Wednesday,  June  19,  1672,  the  Harlem  church  were  to  nomi- 
nate to  the  Consistory  a  double  number  of  suitable  persons  as 
elders  and  deacons  (the  first  institution  of  the  former  office  here), 
out  of  which  that  body  would  choose  one  to  serve  with  them. 
Then  after  each  annual  election  made  in  this  indirect  mode — 
an  exception  to  that  usual  in  the  Dutch  churches — the  pastor 
at  New  York  was  to  preach  at  Harlem,  and  install  the  new  offi- 
cres.  The  deacon  was  to  serve  two  years,  so  that  there  should 
always  be  two  in  office ;  but  in  regard  to  the  eldership  the  usage 
of  the  church  was  not  followed,  as  but  one  elder  appears,  for 
many  years  later.  The  communicants  would  still  partake  of  the 
Lord's  Supper  at  the  Fort,  and  all  seeking  membership  were  to 
be  received  there  as  before.  It  was  also  agreed  to  pay  **three 
hundred  guilders  to  the  preachers  of  New  York,"  namely.  Do. 
Drisius  and  his  newly  inducted  colleague.  Do.  Nieuwenhuysen, 
"for  services  at  this  village." 

In  this  manner  the  church  obtained  its  representative  elder 
and  deacon,  the  latter  being  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  with  whom 
Daniel  Tourneur,  acting  deacon,  was  to  serve  the  first  year. 
The  elder's  name  is  not  given.  For  the  installation  services, 
"the  preacher"  received  f.  24,  and  f.  6  were  paid  Teunis  Cray 
for  "fare,"  bringing  and  returning  the  dominie,  we  presume. 
On  July  26th  Resolved  Waldron  paid  over  to  Deacon  Oblinus, 
as  treasurer,  the  balance  of  sewant  in  the  deacon's  chest,  f.  2:15. 


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The  new  cash-book  is  thus  prefaced :  "Daniel  Tourneur,  Johan- 
nes Verveelen,  and  John  de  La  Montagne,  in  their  accounts,  are 
remaining  indebted  to  the  deaconry,  f.  21  :I9."  So  it  seems  that 
on  revising  Montagne's  accounts,  this  sum  expended  in  1665 
for  the  dinner  to  Stuyvesant,  and  charged  to  the  deacon's  fund, 
was  disallowed.  The  collections  from  this  time  average  about 
two  florins,  or  eighty  cents,  per  Sabbath,  as  shown  by  the  record 
kept  by  Vander  Vin,  under  whose  lead,  as  voorleser,  the  Sunday 
services  were  continued  with  much  regularity.  Also,  as  appears, 
they  religiously  observed  the  Voorbereyding, — that  is,  the  Pre- 
paration for  the  Lord's  Supper, — on  the  Friday  before  its  quar- 
terly celebration,  in  March,  June,  etc.;  as  also  Kersdag,  or 
Christmas ;  Palm  Sunday ;  Paasche,  Passover  or  Easter ;  Hemel- 
vaarts-dag.  Ascension  Day,  and  Pinxter,  or  Whitsuntide.  Aller- 
heyligen,  or  All  Saints'  Day,  November  ist,  was  excluded  from 
the  church  days,  but  was  often  named  as  the  date  when  a  con- 
tract or  term  of  service  should  begin  or  end. 

With  the  farmers,  Allerheyligen  usually  closed  the  grazing 
season.  Then  they  began  to  prepare  for  winter.  The  cattle 
were  taken  from  pasture,  and  the  stock  running  in  the  commons 
hunted  up  and  housed.  The  young  swine  often  ran  out  all 
winter,  but  were  liable  to  be  missing  when  sought  for.  Indeed 
certain  persons  about  Spuyten  Duyvel  did  not  scruple  to  em- 
bezzle them.  It  was  an  old  trick  with  Tippett,  who,  with  others, 
had  been  at  it  again  the  last  winter.  Arraigned  and  convicted 
at  the  Assizes,  October  3,  1672,  "Jan  Hendricks,  called  Captain" 
(otherwise  Boch),  for  his  "ingenuous  confession,"  was  excused; 
but  fines  and  stripes  were  imposed  on  Thomas  Hunt,  Jr.,  and 
George  Tippett,  and  fines  only  on  John  Heddy  and  William 
Smith. 

An  event  which  cast  a  gloom  over  the  community  at  Har- 
lem was  the  death  of  Capt.  Richard  Morris  and  his  wife,  leaving 
a  tender  babe  to  the  care  and  sympathy  of  strangers.  Full  of 
hope  they  came  hither  from  Barbadoes,  where  they  had  been 
married  (she  as  Sarah  Pool)  on  August  17,  1669.  Captain 
Matthias  Nicolls  thus  condoles  with  the  brother.  Colonel  Lewis 
Morris,  of  Barbadoes,  in  a  letter  written  him  from  New  York, 
October  29,  1672:  "I  cannot  but  reflect  upon  the  transitory 
condition  of  poor  mortals,  when  I  frequently  call  to  mind  in 
how  little  time  (iod  hath  been  pleased  to  break  a  family,  in  taking 
away  the  heads  thereof;  first  a  virtuous  young  woman  in  the 
prime  of  life,  and  then  a  man  full  of  strength  and  vigor,  inured 
to  hardships;  while  there  is  remaining  only  one  poor  blossom, 


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of  whom  yet  there  may  be  great  hope,  with  your  kind  friendship, 
for  it  is  a  lovely  healthy  child,  and  was  well  at  Harlem,  where 
it  is  at  nurse,  and  I  went  to  see  it  yesterday.  I  was  also  at  the 
plantation  on  the  other  side,"  etc.  The  "poor  blossom,"  an 
infant  of  a  year  old,  afterward  became  the  distinguished  judge, 
Lewis  Morris,  proprietor  of  the  manor  of  Morrisania,  and  ances- 
tor of  the  Morris  family. 

An  effort  was  now  made  to  put  a  stop  to  the  controversies 
"about  some  meadow  in  difference,  beneath  the  Town  of  Ford- 
ham,"  being  lots  Nos.  i,  2,  3,  4,  held  by  the  people  of  Harlem. 
Though  nothing  appears  to  have  come  of  it,  the  following  order 
upon  the  subject  is  interesting: 

Whereas  the  Meadow  Ground  or  Valley  by  the  Creek  beneath  the 
town  of  Fordham  at  Spuyten  Duyvel  is  claimed  by  some  of  the  inhabit- 
ants of  New  Harlem,  but  is  at  so  great  distance  from  them  and  lying 
un  fenced,  and  so  near  the  Town  of  Fordham  that  those  of  Harlem  can 
receive  little  or  no  benefit  thereby,  as  the  inhabitants  of  Fordham  cannot 
avoid  being  daily  trespassers  there,  if  the  propriety  there  shall  still 
continue  to  Harlem;  To  prevent  all  further  cavils  and  contests  upon 
that  subject,  as  also  for  an  encouragement  to  that  ney  Plantation,  as 
well  as  in  compensation  to  those  of  Harlem  for  their  interest  which  they 
shall  quit  at  Spuyten  Duyvel ;  I  do  hereby  promise  and  engage  that  some 
convenient  piece  of  meadow  being  found  out  at  or  near  Bronx  Land,  in  my 
disposal,  I  shall  grant  and  confirm  the  same  unto  the  persons  concerned ; 
provided  the  said  grant  do  not  greatly  prejudice  the  rest  of  Bronx  Land 
when  it  shall  be  settled;  and  I  do  refer  this  matter  to  Daniel  Toumeur 
and  David  des  Marest,  with  John  Archer,  to  make  inquiry  hereunto,  and 
make  report  thereof  unto  me  with  all  convenient  expedition.  Given,  etc., 
this  oth  day  of  November,  1672. 

Francis  Lovelace. 

A  nomination  for  town  officers  having  been  made  November 
2d,  and  the  position  of  secretary,  vacant  since  the  death  of 
Montagne,  given  to  Vander  Vin,  he  was  confirmed  December  3d 
in  that  office  for  which  he  was  peculiarly  fitted,  as  a  scholar  and 
good  penman.  On  December  6th,  Pierre  Cresson  and  Meyhdert 
Journee  were  chosen  fence-masters.  Another  quarrel  between 
Daniel  Tourneur  and  Resolved  Waldron,  now  retiring  magis- 
trates, was  brought  to  a  friendly  issue  December  12th.  As  in  a 
similar  rupture  between  them  six  years  before,  it  ran  so  high 
that  Tourneur  struck  Waldron.  The  latter  made  complaint  to 
the  Mayor's  Court,  on  the  day  Vander  Vin  and  the  new  magis- 
trates were  sworn  in.  The  defendant  being  absent,  the  case  was 
referred  to  the  new  board,  with  a  request  to  use  their  best  en- 
deavors to  reconcile  the  belligerents.  In  this  they  succeeded ; 
the  parites,  binding  themselves  to  drop  all  their  differences  of 
whatever  kind  as  "from  henceforth  dead  and  of  naught,"  agreed 
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first  one  to  raise  a  question  should  forfeit  50  gl.  for  the  poor. 

The  i6th  of  the  same  December  the  deacons,  Tourneur  and 
Oblinus,  with  consent  of  magistrates  and  community,  let  out  at 
pubic  auction  "the  loft  over  the  church  or  school-house."  Mrs. 
Maria  Vermilye  (Montagne's  widow),  as  highest  bidder,  took 
it  for  a  year  at  20  gl.,  to  be  paid  the  deacons.  On  giving  up 
the  farm  to  Bogert,  she  removed  to  the  village  and  soon  bought 
a  house  and  lot,  undoubtedly  that  adjoining  the  river,  and  before 
owned  by  her  brother,  Johannes  Vermilye. 

The  road  to  Harlem  was  at  length  finished,  or  made  usable ; 
and  a  monthly  mail  between  New  York  and  Boston  was  officially 
announced,  to  set  out  for  the  first  on  January  i,  1673.  Now 
the  novelty  of  the  mounted  postman  reining  up  at  the  tavern, 
with  his  dangling  "portmantles,"  crammed  with  ^'letters  and 
small  portable  goods,"  but  tarrying  only  so  long  as  necessary 
to  deliver  his  mail  and  refresh  himself  and  horse,  added  another 
to  the  sights  and  incidents  which  filled  up  the  unwritten  columns 
of  village  news. 

Vander  Vin  being  installed  in  his  duties  as  secretary.  Re- 
solve Waldron,  on  January  16,  1673,  "with  the  advice  of  the 
constable  and  magistrates,"  delivered  to  him  the  valuable  title 
papers  of  the  town;  and  on  March  6th  he  obtained  from  Sieur 
Jacob  Kip,  brother-in-law  of  Montagne,  the  old  protocol  and 
other  records  kept  by  the  latter.  The  papers  handed  over  by 
Waldron  were  as  follows: 

No.  I.  Patent  of  the  town  N.  Haerlem,  in  the  English. 

'*  2.  Patent  of  the  said  town,  in  Dutch. 

"  3.  Two  confirmations  of  the  same,  in  English. 

"  4.  Patent  in  Dutch. 

"  5.  Ordinance  of  the  Mayor's  Court. 

"  6.  Extract  from  the  Mayor's  Court. 

"  7.  Procuratie  ad  lites. 

"  8.  Groundbrief  of  Spuyten  Duyvel. 

The  mention  of  "patents  in  Dutch,"  in  the  above  list,  is 
likely  to  mislead.  In  questions  affecting  their  landed  rights  and 
jurisdiction,  the  ordinance  of  1658,  under  which  Harlem  was 
settled,  is  so  often  appealed  to  as  to  make  it  quite  apparent  that 
the  inhabitants  during  the  Dutch  rule  knew  no  other  official 
grant  or  enactment  upon  which  these  rights  and  privileges  were 
made  to  depend.  The  profound  silence  of  the  records  as  to  any 
other  general  grant  or  patent  to  Harlem  from  Governor  Stuy- 
vesant,  and  the  omission  to  recite  it,  as  was  usual,  in  the  English 
confirmatory  patents,  must  be  taken  as  proof  that  none  was  ever 
issued.     And  the  references  in  the  above  list  are  plainly  not  to 


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such,  but  only  to  the  translations  of  the  two  English  patents,  into 
Dutch,  which  were  made  for  the  use  of  the  inhabitants  who  did 
not  read  English.  Thus  a  bill  of  Nicholas  Bayard  for  services, 
in  '*the  differences  of  the  town  with  Fordham  and  Tourneur," 
contains  a  charge  "for  the  translation  of  a  groundbrief"  (from 
Dutch  into  English,  probably  No.  8  in  the  foregoing  list,  being 
the  Jansen  and  Aertsen  Patent  which  Harlem  now  owned),  and 
then  comes  the  item,  "For  the  translation  of  the  town's  patent, 
f.  20." 

The  new  and  old  magistrates  in  joint  meeting,  January  16, 
1673,  enacted: 

It  is,  with  the  common  consent,  resolved  and  established,  that  from 
now  forward  the  house  lots  (erven)  which  the  several  residents  of  this 
village  possess,  shall  pay  the  charges,  such  as  are  already  imposed,  or 
may  still  be  imposed,  for  the  reduction  of  the  debts  and  expenditures  of 
this  town;  unless  some  alteration  therein  shall  happen,  owing  to  the 
various  hindrances  to  it  that  are  liable  to  come :  being  owned  as  follows : 

Resolved  Waldron 2  erven. 

Daniel  Tourneur   2      " 

Glaude  le  Maistre 2      " 

Joost  van  Oblinus 3      " 

Cornelis  Jansen   2      " 

Pierre  Cresson   

Lubbert  Gerritsen   

Adolph  Meyer    

Robert  Hollis   

Jan   le  Roy 

Mr.  Delavall   

Johannes    Verveelen 

Meyndert    Joumee 

David    Demarest 

Widow   Montagne 

Jan    Nagel Vi      " 

Together     24%  erven. 

This  list  is  believed  to  embrace  (see  Map,  page  292),  the 
erven  proper,  marked  a  to  jr  {v  excepted)  ;  the  small  house  lots 
granted  Jean  Demarest  and  Pelszer  not  appearing  as  yet  among 
the  erven. 

By  the  death  of  Montagne  the  town  accounts  were  left  in 
some  disorder.  These  needed  careful  revision,  as  there  were 
various  town  debts  which  must  be  paid.  It  was  concluded,  in 
this  connection,  to  write  to  Pieter  Roelofsen,  at  Mespat  Kills, — 
and  which  was  accordingly  done, — asking  him  to  be  present  on 
the  20th,  or,  at  farthest,  the  21st  instant,  to  give  an  account  of  ihs 
receipts  and  disbursements  while  serving  here  as  constable.  The 
business  of  January  i6th  ended  with  making  up  the  rate  list 
for  300  gl.,  to  paid  the  ministers,  as  had  been  agreed  upon.     Mey- 


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nard  Joumee  being  sick,  January  25th,  made  his  will,  naming 
his  wife  Elizabeth  Du  Mont;  alludes  to  "children."  Appoints 
Sieur  Demarest  and  Oblinus  overseers  of  his  estate. 

After  a  second  summons  Pieter  Roelofsen  attended  on  Feb- 
ruary 4th,  and  gave  a  statement  of  his  accounts  while  constable 
in  1 67 1  and  1672,  and  by  which  it  appeared  that  he  had  col- 
lected from  sundry  persons  named  the  sum  of  76  fl.  10  st.  in 
wheat,  sewant,  and  firewood,  and  paid  the  same  to  Mr.  John 
Sharp  toward  the  liquidation  of  his  claim  of  92  fl.,  the  balance 
being  more  than  cancelled  by  a  load  of  wood,  20  fl.,  delivered  to 
Sharp  by  Resolved  Waldron.*  The  subject  being  resumed  the 
following  day,  the  5th,  it  was  resolved,  with  the  advice  of  Mr. 
Delavall,  to  revise  all  the  town  accounts  from  the  year  1664,  ^^^ 
all  creditors  and  debtors  were  notified  to  make  up  and  hand  in 
their  statements  on  the  6th  of  March,  to  be  examined  by  the  old 
and  present  magistrates.  The  next  day,  at  the  request  of  the 
voorleser  (Vander  Vin),  the  constable  was  directed  to  collect 
his  salary  as  per  list  of  "free-will  contributors." 

Upon  the  investigation  which  took  place,  March  6th,  it  "was 
found  that  the  accounts  of  J.  de  La  Montague  and  J.  Verveelen, 
upon  their  books  concerning  the  town,  were  balanced  on  the 
15th  of  February,  1671,  and  that  there  is  due  Verveelen  from 
the  town  87  gl.  10  St.,  and  that  Montague  is  charged  with  208 
gl.  for  his  particular,  or  as  having  been  collector;  so  that  the 
town  have  no  further  interest  in  their  transactions  but  to  let 
them  rest,  and  from  now  forward  to  make  up  new  accounts  of 
the  town's  debts,  and  to  find  the  means  to  discharge  and  pay  the 
same."     Then  the  debts  follow: 

A\  1673,  the  6th  March.  List  of  the  Creditors  of  the  town  of  N. 
Haerlem,  as  a  part  were  given  in  the  5th  January,  1671,  and  now  are 
found,  to  wit: 

John   Sharp   according  to  account f.  92  :    o 

Abraham  La  Noy  or  Fredr.  Gysbertsen 68  :    o 

Daniel    Toumeur y^  :  16 

Johannes  Vermilje 24  :    o 

Resolved    Waldron 41  :    4 

Joost  van  Oblinus 6  :  15 

Meyndert  Journee 3  :    o 

Peter  Cresson 4  :    o 

Comelis    Jansen 2  :  10 

Glaude  le  Maistre 6  :  10 

David  des  Marest 2  :    o 

Jean  le  Roy 4  :  10 

Capt  Nicolls  for  the  patent ^j2  :    o 

Johannes  Verveelen 87  :  10 

*  John  Sharp  was  a  "Public  Notary,"  at  New  York;  his  appointment  dating  De- 
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Paulus  Richard  for  the  land  at  Spuyten  Duyvel f.  300  :  o 

For  two  years'  interest  @  6  pr.  ct 36  :  o 

Metje   Wessels 26  :  o 

For   the  preacher  when  the  confirming  of  elder  and 

deacons  happened   24  :  o 

For  fare  to  Theunis  Crey 6  :  o 

To  victuals  and  drink 35  :  10 


Total    1175   :    5 

Also    due    Warner    Wessels 8  :    8 

and  Cornelis  Jansen 36  :    o 

The  above  exhibits  the  original  amounts  in  full,  upon  which 
partial  payments  had  been  made  by  some  of  the  inhabitants  who 
were  to  have  credit  for  the  same  in  the  town  rate  now  to  be 
levied.  Sharp's  bill  had  been  paid,  as  before  seen,  and  a  con- 
siderable sum  on  the  patent.*  Jaques  Cresson,  formerly  con- 
stable, reported  the  receipt  of  66  fl.  10  st.  in  wheat  and  sewant, 
from  the  following  persons  (upon  the  assessment  ordered  May 
I,  1670),  and  to  have  paid  it  on  the  patent,  viz.: 

Johannes  Verveelen f.  9  :    o 

Joost  van  Oblinus 12   :    o 

Jaques    Cresson 7  :  15 

Resolved  Waldron 13   :  14 

David   Demarest 6  :    o 

Peter    Cresson 7  :  15 

Jean  le  Roy 7  :  15 

Isaac  Vermeille    2   :  11 

A".  1673,  the  6th  March;  List  of  the  Lands  and  Erven  of  the  Town 
N.  Haerlem,  to  contribute  to  and  discharge  the  aforesaid  debts,  whereof 
1-3  must  come  from  the  Erven,  and  2-3  parts  from  the  Lands ;  and  amount 
for  each  erf  to  16  gl.  6  st.  and  for  each  morgen  of  land  to  3  gl.  14  st. 

Thomas  Delavall 4  erven ;  48  morgen ;  242  gl.  16  st 

Nos.  3,  12,  19,  20,  21,  22  Jochem  Pieters. 

Nos.  12,  13,  16,  22  Van  Keulen*s  Hook. 
Glaude  le  Maistre 2  erven ;  15  morgen ;  88  gl.  2  st. 

Nos.  14,  15  J.  P.    No.  21  V.  K.  H. 
Cornelis  Jansen 2  erven ;  18  morgen ;  99  gl.  4  st. 

Nos.  2,  18  J.  P.    Nos.  6,  15  V.  K.  H. 
Jean  le  Roy i  erf ;  9  morgen ;  49  gl.  12  st. 

No.  II  J.  P.     No.  I  V.  K.  H. 
Daniel  Tourneur 2  erven ;  21  morgen;  no  gl.  6  st. 

Nos.  I,  17  J.  P.    Nos.  17,  18,  19  |V.  K.  H. 
Lubbert  Gerritsen i  erf;  12  morgen ;  60  gl.  14  st 

Nos.  4,  9  J.  P. 

•  Capt.  Nichols  transferred  his  bill  for  writing  the  patent  to  Reynier  Willcmscn, 
baker,  to  whom  the  town  officers,  April  5,   1676,  gave  a  note  in  these  terms: 

*^We  Constable  and  Magistrates  of  the  town  of  New  Haerlem,  acknowledge  to  be 
truly  and  honestly  indebted,  in  the  name  of  the  common  inhabitants  of  this  town,  to 
and  for  the  behoof  of  Reynier  Willemsen,  in  the  sum  of  332  guilders,  upon  the 
Patent,  on  account  of  Capt.  Matthias  Nicholls,  deducting  what  may  be  found  to  have 
been  paid  thereon;  which  aforesaid  sum  of  332  guilders  we  promise  to  pay  in  the  first 
ensuing  January,  1677,  without  default,  under  bond  pursuant  to  the  laws." 

The  amount  yet  due  on  the  above  February  19,  1677,  was  253  guilders,  on  which 
sums  were  paid  from  time  to  time  till  1683,  when  Constable  Vermilyc  made  the  final 
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Johannes  Verveelen 2  erven ;  15  morgen ;  88  gl.  2  st 

No.  10  J.  P.    Nos.  7,  8,  5^4,  ^9  V.  K.  H. 
David  des  Marest i  erf ;  8  morgen ;  45  gl.  18  st. 

No.  7  J.  P.    2-3  of  No.  5,  V.  K.  H. 
Joost  van  Oblinus 3  erven ;  12  morgen ;  93  gl.  6  st 

No.  13  J.  P.    Nos.  10,  II  V.  K.  H. 
Pierre  Cresson i  erf ;  9  morgen ;  49  gl.  12  st. 

No.  5  J.  P.    No.  20  V.  K.  H. 
Resolved  Waldron 2  erven ;  15  morgen ;  88  gl.  2  st. 

No.  8  J.  P.    Nos.  2,  3,  1/^4,  ^9  v.  K  H. 
Jan  Nagel ^  erf ;  6  morgen ;  30  gl.  7  st. 

No.  16  J.  P. 
Isaac  Vermeille i  morgen ;  3  gl.  14  st. 

1-3  6f  No.  5  V.  K.  H. 
Meynard  Joumee i  erf ;  9  morgen ;  49  gl.  12  st. 

No.  6  J.  P.    No.  14  V.  K.  H. 
Jean  La  Montagne 18  morgen ;  66  gl.  12  st. 

The  Point* 

Johannes  Vermelje i  erf ;  16  gl.  6  st 

Robert  Hollis i  erf ;  16  gl.  6  st 

Total 245^  erven ;  216  morgen ;  1198  gl.  11  st 

The  following  important  document  throws  light  upon  the 
history  of  Montagne's  Flat: 

Upon  this  day,  8th  March,  1673,  appeared  before  me,  Hendrick  J. 
Vandervin,  Secretary,  admitted  by  the  Hon.  Mayor's  Court  at  New  York, 
residing  at  the  village  N.  Haerlem;  the  undersigned  inhabitants  of  N. 
Haerlem,  as  also  owners  and  possessors  of  the  land  called  Montagne's  Flat, 
lying  under  this  Town's  jurisdiction;  who  together  promised  to  inclose 
the  aforesaid  piece  of  land  in  a  common  fence,  and  to  use,  until  the 
building,  planting,  or  dwelling  on,  or  as  every  of  them  shall  think 
proper  to  do  with  his  part;  and  if  it  happen  that  they  in  common  or 
either  separately  should  be  troubled  by  any  one,  who  would  bring  the 
ownership  and  possession  in  question,  and  would  offer  them  jointly  or 
cither  singly,  any  molestation  concerning  it,  on  account  of  the  owner- 
ship of  the  aforesaid  land;  therefore  the  undersigned  covenant,  jointly 
or  each  separately,  to  defend  them  there-against,  and  to  maintain  one 
another  in  their  rights  (which  they  have  in  the  same;)  protesting 
against  such  as  to  all  costs,  damages,  or  losses  which,  by  any  interference, 
they  jointly,  or  either  in  particular,  may  be  put  to.  In  witness  of  the 
sincerity  of  these  above  standing  conditions,  this  has  been  written,  and 
subscribed  with  our  own  hands.  Thus  done  and  passed  at  N.  Haerlem, 
on  the  date  as  above. 

David  des  Marest, 
Gi^AUDE  LE  Maistre, 
Daniel  Tourneur, 

CORNELIS    JanSEN, 

Resoi^ved  Wai^dron, 

This  mark  made 

LouRENS  +  Jansen, 

by  himself. 
Jan  Dyckman. 
In  presence  of  me 

Hendr.  J.  Vandr.  Vin,  Secretary. 

*  Montagne  was  to  deliver  this  property  to  Bogert  free  and  tmincmnbered,  hence 
this  was  properly  charged  to  him. 


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Though  not  so  much  as  hinted  from  what  quarter  trouble 
was  apprehended,  circumstances  plainly  point  to  the  old  Mon- 
tague patent  or  groundbrief.  Montague's  Point,  as  we  have 
seen,  had  just  received  a  new  owner,  Jan  Louwe  Bogert.  On 
January  i6,  1673,  the  constable  and  magistrates,  with  a  view 
of  fixing  a  limit  to  Bogert's  lands,  held  under  the  bill  of  sale 
from  Montague,  had  passed  a  resolution  to  estimate  said  lands 
at  18  morgen,  which  allowed  2  morgen  for  the  Hop  Garden. 
The  deed,  which  only  awaited  the  final  payment,  was  soon  to 
be  given  by  Mrs.  Montague,  and  Bogert  was  already  "in  pos- 
session.'' It  was,  doubtless,  in  anticpation  of  some  intereference 
on  the  part  of  their  new  neighbor,  or  the  Montague's,  or  both, 
which  now  led  the  owners  to  fence  in  the  Flat,  and  to  join  in  a 
covenant  to  protect  themselves  against  any  rival  claimants.* 

Indeed  it  appears  that,  in  common  with  other-s  who  had 
built  up  claims  upon  the  old  defunct  groundbriefs,  some  of  the 
Montague  family  indulged  a  hope  of  getting  their  groundbrief 
confirmed,  with  the  view  of  claiming  portions  of  the  Flat.  In 
this,  as  is  apparent,  neither  of  the  sons  of  Dr.  La  Montague  took 
any  part.  The  compromise  with  John  La  Montague,  in  1661, 
which  secured  him  the  Point  (for  which  the  town  gave  him  a 
deed  in  1672),  was  to  him  and  his  children  an  estoppel  to  any- 
further  claim  upon  the  Vredendal  lands,  and  there  is  no  intima- 
tion that  he  or  they  ever  made  any  such  claim.  With  his  brother, 
William,  the  same  was  no  doubt  true,  since  his  assent  to  the  dis- 
posal of  the  Flat  appears  in  that  he  not  only  drew  and  sold  some 
of  that  land,  but  subsequently  withheld  his  name  from  a  petition 
to  Governor  Fletcher  for  a  confirmation  of  the  old  groundbrief. 
Without  question,  the  Flat  came  within  the  agreement  of  1663, 

•  op  huyden  8  Marty  1673:  Comparccrde  voor  my  Ucndr.  J:  Vandr.  Yin, 
Secrets:  bv  de  E.  ffr.  acbtbr.  Mayor  Court  tot  N:  Yorcke  geadmittcert :  Ten  Durpc 
N.  Durpe  N.  Haerlem  rcsidercn:  de  ondergesn.  ingesetenen  van  N:  Haerlem,  alsmcdc 
eygenaers  enr.  possesseuren  van  bet  lont  genacmt  Montagnes  Vlackte  gelegcn  ondcr 
deses  durps  jurisdictie,  de  welcke  verclaerden  gesametlk.  bet  voorsn.  stuck  lant,  in 
gemeene  heyningh  te  besluyten  enr.  te  gcbrucken,  tot  den  bouw,  planten,  of  wooning; 
of  soo  ider  van  haer  voor  syn  gedeelt  sal  geraden  duncken,  enr.  oft  gebeurde,  dat  sy 
int  gemeen  of  ider  int  bysonder,  mogbten  werden  getroubleert,  door  imant,  die  den 
eygendom  enr.  possessie  wilde  in  twynel  trecken,  enr.  haerln.  gesamentlk.  of  ider  int 
bysonder,  eenign  molest  (dien  aengaende),  wilde  doen,  wegens  den  eygendom  vant 
voorsn.lant  :  Soo  verbindcn  sy  ondergesn.  gesamentlk.,  of  ider  int  bysdnder,  bacr  dacr 
tegen  te  bescbcrmen  ende  malcanderen  in  hare  gerechtigbeyt  (die  sylidn.  op  bet  sclvc 
syn  hebbende),  te  mainteneren:  protesterenn.  tegene  soodanige  van  alle  costen,  schaden 
enr.  interesscn,  die  baerln.  gesamentlk.  or  ider  int  bysonder,  door  eenigb  molest  moghte 
werden  aengedaen:  Oirconde  der  wareheydt  vant  beene  voorsn.  staet,  bebben  die  doen 
schryven  cnde  met  eygen  handen  onderts:  Aldus  gedaen  enr.  gepasseert  tot  N:  Haer- 
lem, dato  ut  supra. 

David   des   Marest,  Resalvcrt   Waldron, 

Glaude  le  Maistre,  dit  merke  by 

Daniel    Tourneur,  Lourens  X  Jansen, 

Cornclies   Yansen,  selffs  gestelt. 

Jan  Dyckman, 
In  kennisse  van  my 

Hendr.    J:    Vandr.    Vin,    Secrets: 


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between  Stuyvesant  and  Council  and  the  inhabitants  of  Harlem, 
that  the  tithes,  or  tenths  of  the  produce  of  their  cultivated  lands 
for  the  years  1666  to  1672,  both  inclusive,  should  be  applied  for 
the  benefit  of  the  original  grantees  who  held  the  groundbriefs, 
their  heirs  or  creditors.  This  agreement,  by  which  the  tenths 
were  substituted  for  the  8  gl.  per  morgen,  was  alike  binding  on 
the  government  and  the  landholders,  and  was  limited  in  its  effects 
to  the  term  of  years  named.  If  carried  out  in  good  faith,  there 
must  terminate  the  demands  both  of  the  said  original  grantees 
and  their  creditors.  It  seemed  to  favor  the  then  owners,  for 
the  amount  of  tithes  to  be  paid  must  depend  upon  what  the  land 
should  be  made  to  yield;  but  had  the  Dutch  rule  continued  no 
doubt  the  government  would  have  held  these  owners  strictly  to 
this  condition,  and  the  proceeds  from  Montague's  Flat  would 
have  been  applied  toward  cancelling  the  debt  due  from  Dr.  Mon- 
tagne  to  the  West  India  Company.  It  might  be  argued  that  these 
payments  being  limited  to  seven  years,  had  the  Flat  for  that  time 
been  under  tillage  it  would  have  taken  a  husbandry  then  and 
there  unknown,  to  have  made  the  tenths  pay  Dr.  Montague's  debt, 
which  as  early  as  1662  amounted,  by  his  own  figuring,  to  1130  gl., 
but  by  that  of  the  public  bookkeeper  to  not  less  than  1,936  gl. ;  and 
that  the  tithes  being  insufficient  to  satisfy  this  claim,  the  balance 
would  still  be  against  Montague! 

But  the  change  of  government,  in  1664,  was  alike  fatal  to 
this  provision  for  the  payment  of  the  tenths,  and  to  the  old 
groundbriefs  on  which  it  was  predicated ;  the  English,  as  we  have 
seen,  refusing  to  confirm  the  latter  within  the  Harlem  patent, 
and  holding  them  to  be  null  and  void,  while  it  also  ignored  the 
system  of  tithes  which  had  worked  badly  for  the  country,  and 
**did  much  hinder  the  populating  of  it."  Montague's  Flat  having 
lain  as  commons,  unfenced  and  untilled,  had  indeed  yielded 
nothing  but  pasturage,  nothing  for  the  payment  of  tithes.  There- 
fore the  owners  (with  whom  must  be  named  Captain  Delavall, 
who  had  a  small  lot  there,  of  4  morgen  320  rods,  bought  of 
Simon  de  Ruine),  being  released  from  their  obligation  to  render 
the  tithes,  while  the  Montague  heirs  were  still  liable  to  some 
demand  from  the  government,  which  assumed  to  collect  all  other 
debts  due  the  West  India  Company  (even  to  small  charges  on 
their  books  for  unpaid  passage  money),  these  heirs  were  easily 
led  to  look  upon  the  agreement  under  which  they  had  given  up 
the  Flat  as  thereby  vitiated,  and  to  fall  back  upon  their  old 
groundbrief  as  entitled  to  confirmation.  Could  they  have  suc- 
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had  risen  in  value,  and  lots  on  the  Flat  now  brought  44  guilders 
per  morgen.  But  to  the  credit  of  the  English  rulers,  they  did 
not  attempt  so  unfair  a  proceeding  as  to  enforce  the  claim  against 
the  Montague  heirs,  while  at  the  same  time  relieving  the  land- 
holders of  their  obligation  to  pay  the  tithes.  A  majority,  and 
no  doubt  all,  of  the  eight  proprietors  of  the  Flat  had  documentary 
titles,  five  at  least,  as  heretofore  noticed,  holding  particular  patents 
from  the  government,  and  Demarest  deriving  through  the  Mon- 
tagues themselves.  The  aggregate  of  their  lands,  contained  in 
nine  lots,  amounted  to  54  morgen,  as  afterward  rated  and  taxed ; 
to  which  being  added  another  lot  which  lay  there  vacated  or 
untaxed  till  1725,  made  60  morgen,  as  reckoned,  in  the  entire 
Flat.  This  came  by  a  generous  allowance  to  the  morgen,  the 
Flat  being  correctly  estimated,  in  the  Montague  groundbrief,  at 
100  morgen.  Here  was  the  real  bone  of  contention.  The  Mon- 
tagues regarded  as  of  right  theirs  the  excess  over  the  quantity 
the  eight  owners  were  entitled  to.  But  the  inhabitants  took 
another  view,  and  in  which  the  government  concurred,  namely, 
that  so  much  of  the  Flat  as  was  undisposed  of  belonged  to  the 
common  lands  of  the  town,  as  granted  and  confirmed  to  them 
by  NicoUs  and  Lovelace.  The  government  adhering  to  the  policy 
laid  down  by  Stuyvesant  regarding  the  old  groundbriefs,  saw  no 
reason  to  make  the  Montague  groundbrief  an  exception.  It 
respected  the  act  of  the  Dutch  government,  which  allowed  the 
tenths  to  offset  the  Montagne  debt,  but  also  held  the  heirs  to 
their  act  in  the  surrender  of  the  Flat.  Hence  it  could  never  be 
prevailed  upon  to  confirm  the  old  groundbrief.* 

Pierre  Cresson  and  Rachel  Cloos,  his  wife,  "both  being  sound 
of  body,"  made  their  joint  will,  March  15,  1673;  Cornelis  Jansen 
and  Jan  Nagel  witnesses.  How  sensible  and  wise  thus,  in 
health,  to  calmly  weigh  the  fact  of  their  mortality,  and  deliberately 
set  their  house  in  order.  Leaving  fifty  guilders  to  "the  church 
at  New  York,"  they  say,  "whereas  their  daughter  Susannah  has 
enjoyed  as  a  marriage  portion  the  value  of  two  hundred  guilders, 
so  the  testators  will  that  at  the  decease  of  the  longest  liver  each 
of  their  other  children  then  living  shall  draw  the  like  200  guilders, 

•  A  petition  was  addressed  to  Governor  Fletcher,  in  1695,  in  the  name  of  John 
I^uwe  Bogert,  William  Montagne,  his  sister  Mrs.  Jacob  Kip,  and  nephew  Johannes 
Van  Inborgh,  who  claimed  to  be  seized,  and  by  descent  as  well  as  mean  assurance  in 
the  law,  owners  of  the  patent  granted  by  Governor  Kieft  to  Dr.  Montagne;  and  pravcd 
for  a  confirmation  of  said  patent,  as  they  were  now  willing  to  divide  the  same,  feut 
William  Montagne,  then  of  Ulster  county,  did  not  si^  this  petition;  neither  did 
Abraham  Montagne,  of  Harlem  (son  of  John),  which  is  remarkable,  considering  the 
claim  to  be  the  Montagne  lands  set  up  in  our  day,  under  a  title  purporting  to  be  de- 
rived from  him.  The  petition  being  referred  to  the  Attorney  General  for  his  opinion 
received  no  further  notice.  A  better  knowledge  of  this  old  exploded  claim  than  that 
afforded  by  the  family  traditions,  might,  in  the  case  above  alluded  to,  have  saved  a 
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and  our  youngest  son  Elie,  if  he  is  under  the  age  of  sixteen  years, 
also  a  new  suit  of  clothes  becoming  to  his  person,  from  head  to 
foot." 

Gabriel  Carbosie,  the  miller,  and  his  wife  Brieta  Wolferts, 
"both  sound  of  body,"  also  made  their  will,  on  April  i8th  ensu- 
ing, and  which  was  witnessed  by  Jan  Louwe  Van  Schoonrewoerd 
and  Cornelis  Jansen.  They  gave  six  guilders  "to  the  poor  of 
the  Lutheran  congregation  at  New  York."  Each  by  former 
marriages  had  had  children,  but  none  had  come  from  their  own 
as  yet. 

On  March  30th,  "being  Sunday  and  Pass,"  the  quiet  and 
good  order  of  the  village  was  broken  by  a  most  shameful  affray, 
the  more  scandalous  considering  the  standing  of  some  of  the 
parties.  About  four  o'clock-  in  the  afternoon,  young  Samuel 
Demarest  falling  in  with  Daniel  Tourneur,  Jr.,  began  to  tease 
him  by  asking  why  he  had  prated  so  much  in  Coenraet  Ten  Eyck's 
shop  in  New  York,  that  Glaude  Delamater's  son  should  fight 
(plockhairen)  with  him,  and  added  that  he,  Tourneur,  was  a 
blaffert,  a  bully.  Tourneur  answered  angrily,  "Youngster,  hold 
your  mouth,  or  I'll  give  you  some  knocks."  The  other  said  he 
would  not;  on  which  Daniel  made  good  his  therat,  with  a  blow 
or  two.  Now  ran  up  Samuel's  elder  brother  Jean,  and  then 
David,  to  take  his  part,  and  there  was  a  free  use  of  fists,  stones, 
and  sticks,  which  Mr.  Gipsen  (Gibbs),  who  saw  the  melee,  tried 
in  vain  to  stop,  telling  the  Demarests,  "Three  against  one  is  not 
fair."  The  fathers  of  the  combatants  now  reached  the  scene  of 
action,  and  with  Tourneur  came  his  prospective  son-in-law,  Dyck- 
man,  "with  his  drawn  knife  in  his  hand,"  and  who  clinched  and 
got  "the  young  David  Demarest  under,"  exclaiming,  "This  shall 
cost  you  your  life."  At  the  same  time  Joris  Jansen  Van  Hoorn 
caught  hold  of  Jean  Demarest,  and  struck  him  several  times  in 
the  face  with  his  fist ;  while  the  elder  Tourneur,  who  had  turned 
upon  the  father,  drew  his  knife  and  tried  to  stab  him,  but  David, 
using  only  a  stick,  gave  his  assailant  a  stunning  blow  on  the 
head,  "so  that  he  fell  down."  Gillis  Boudewyns  saw  the  whole 
affray  form  the  beginning,  and  with  Pierre  Cresson  testified  to 
this  stabbing ;  for  by  this  time  many  of  the  villagers  beside  those 
named  were  drawn  to  the  spot  by  the  uproar,  as  Isaac  Vermille, 
Jean  Delamater,  Le  Roy,*  Vander  Vin,  and  Nagel,  with  Pieter 

•  Simeon  Cornier  had  bought  Le  Roy's  house  and  lands,  February  24,  1672,  but 
it  was  not  till  May  2,  1674,  *****  ^*  ^°>'?  acknowledging  payment,  gave  a  deed  and 
possession.  Cornier  and  wife,  Nicole  Petit  (also  called  Petitmangin  and  Piemainte), 
loined  the  church  at  New  Amsterdam,  October  2,  1662,  having  just  arrived  from 
Mannheim,  via  Holland,  as  has  been  noticed.  Entering  the  military  service,  and  pro- 
moted to  a  corporalcy,  he  was  given  his  choice,  at  the  English  conquest,  either  to  re- 


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Claessen,  Thomas  Etherington,  and  Elias  Bailey,  who  happened 
to  be  at  the  village.  A  stop  was  now  put  to  the  fight,  but  young 
Tourneur,  still  excited,  said,  **Wait,  wait!  this  is  not  the  last 
time."  The  elder  Tourneur  has  the  benefit  of  a  doubt,  as  Jean 
Delamater,  the  innocent  cause  of  the  tumult,  declared  "that  he 
had  not  seen  that  Daniel  Tourneur  stabbed  David  Demarest." 

High  Sheriff  Allard  Anthony,  on  being  notified  of  this  flag- 
rant breach  of  the  peace,  held  a  court  at  Harlem,  the  next  day, 
and  took  the  testimony  of  several  witnesses;  but  a  hiatus  in  the 
minutes  of  the  Mayor's  Court  probably  deprives  us  of  the  sequel 
of  this  affair,  in  which,  however,  no  lives  were  lost,  and  but 
slight  personal  injury  sustained.  Tourneur  was  about  as  usual, 
April  5th,  when  he  leased  to  Jan  Dircksen,  or  **Jan  the  Soldier," 
as  before  called,  "a  certain  piece  of  woodland,  lying  at  Menepas 
Kill,"  with  meadow  on  "the  kill  of  boor  Aert  and  Jan  de  Paep," 
for  the  term  of  three  years,  the  lessee  to  build  his  own  dwelling- 
house,  and  leave  three  morgen  of  land  cleared  and  fenced ;  to  all 
which  Jan  Dyckman  and  Ralph  Doxey  are  witnesses. 

Society  was  not  very  polished  in  those  days,  and  was  still 
wedded  to  the  old  ideas  about  personal  prowess, — ^pluck  and 
muscle,  never  mind  what  called  them  forth,  were  things  to  boast 
of  and  applaud.  The  younger  combatants  might  glory  in  this 
general  knock-down,  and  little  fear  the  approbrium;  but  for  the 
two  elderly  ones  holding  high  positions,  Demarest  a  magistrate, 
and  Tourneur  a  deacon,  sober  retrospection  no  doubt  brought 
shame  and  regret.  But  we  must  discriminate  between  Tourneur, 
rash,  even  dastardly,  and  Demarest,  more  temperate  in  his  Picard 
impulses,  and  probably  acting  in  self-defence  only.  The  latter, 
a  few  weeks  later  (August  23d)  was  re-elected  to  the  magistracy ; 
but  then  Tourneur,  a  man,  mauger  his  faults,  of  generous  instincts 
and  of  great  energy,  and  to  whose  tact  and  abilities  the  town  owed 
much  of  its  success,  had  just  closed  an  active  life  and  been  laid 
to  rest.  He  is  last  noticed  May  12th,  when  he  subscribed  as 
witness  to  an  engagement  of  Thomas  Selligh,  late  in  his  emloy, 

turn  to  Europe  with  the  Dutch  forces  or  to  remain  here.  As  he  chose  the  latter,  the 
Rovernment  remitted  his  passage  money,  which  was  yet  unpaid.  He  went  to  Stalen 
Island  and  engaged  in  farming,  his  old  calling  in  France.  He  received,  at  Harlem, 
the  marks  of  respect  due  to  his  character  and  abilities.  On  the  Dutch  reoccupation, 
in  1673,  trouble  being  feared  from  the  English,  Cornier  was  fitly  chosen  as  a  corporal 
in  the  Night  Watch,  and  two  years  later,  during  the  Indian  troubles,  held  the  like 
command.  He  also  served  as  aeacon;  but  selling  his  lands,  July  26,  1675,  to  Paul 
Richard,  he  removed  to  New  York,  a  few  months  later.  In  1686  he  married,  as  a 
second  wife,  Tryntie  Walings  V'an  Winckel,  widow  of  Cornelis  Jacobsen  Stillc,  who 
had  lived  at  Harlem,  ancestor  of  the  Somerindyke  and  VVoertendyke  families.  (See 
p.  151,  and  N.  Y.  G.  &  B.  Record,  1876,  p.  ^9).  The  day  he  bought  it  Richard  sold 
Cornicr's  property  to  David  Demarest,  Jr.  We  know  not  when  Cornier  died,  nor  that 
he  left  children,  but  take  for  his  descendants  Capt.  Peter  Come,  of  New  York,  mer- 
chant, and  commander  of  a  privateer  in  the  old  French  war,  who  still  lived  in  the 
city  during  the  Revolution.     (Sec  Dyckman  family). 


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to  work  a  year  for  Wallerand  du  Mont,  of  Esopus.  Tourneur's 
death  made  the  first  break  in  the  company  of  Nicolls  Patentees. 
It  probably  followed  close  upon  Dyckman's  espousal  (June  15th) 
to  his  daughter  Madeleine.  We  notice  that  Dyckman's  old 
friend.  Arena  Harmans  Bussing,  with  whom  he  had  left  his 
native  Bentheim,  had  just  before  married  Susanna  le  Maistre, 
Claude's  daughter,  both  brides  having  been  born  at  Flatbush, 
soon  after  their  parents  emigrated.* 

This  chapter  of  incidents  may  fitly  close  with  a  glance  at  the 
village  of  New  Harlem  as  it  was  in  the  autumn  of  i673.t  How 
quaint  an  aspect  has  the  Dutch  settlement  as  e*en  now  its  plain 
wooden  tenements,  embowered  in  foliage  whose  variegated  hues 
already  tell  the  declining  year,  rise  modestly  to  view.  Their 
humble  eaves,  keeping  line  with  the  street,  lift  themselves  but 
one  low  story,  yet  the  extraordinary  slope  of  the  thatched  roof 
gives  space  to  the  loft  above,  so  useful  for  many  domestic  pur- 
fKDses.  Aside  the  house,  quite  too  near  for  entire  safety,  stands 
the  ample  and  well-stored  "schuer"  or  bam,  in  its  squatty  eaves 
and  lofty  ridge  the  very  counterpart  of  the  dwelling,  but  by  a 
noticeable  contrast  turning  its  gable  with  huge  gaping  doors  to 
the  highway.  In  the  spaces  between  buildings  and  homesteads 
flourish  rows  of  choice  imported  fruit  trees,  apple,  pear,  peach, 
cherry,  and  quince,  and  the  no  less  prized  garden  and  ornamental 
shrubs,  the  Dutch  currant,  gooseberry,  and  evergreen  box,  dwarf 
and  arborescent.  Tidiness  reigns,  at  least  about  the  dwelling, 
and  within  reach  of  the  busy  housewife's  mop  and  broom;  but 
all  betoken 's  a  plainness  and  frugality,  in  wide  contrast  with  the 

*  Wallarand  du  Mont  (Dumont),  whose  descandants  are  still  found  in  Ulster 
County,  came  to  this  country  in  1657,  from  Coomen,  in  Flanders;  served  as  "cadet  in 
the  honorable  Company  of  the  Hecr  Director  General,"  and  married  at  Esopus,  January 
13,  1664,  Margaret  Hendricks,  widow  of  Jan  Aertsen,  who  had  been  slain  by  the 
Indians.  (See  Van  Putten).  Du  Mont's  sister  Margaret  was  wife  of  Pierre  Noue,  a 
Walloon,  who  emigrated  with  Demarest  and  company  in  1673.  (See  Journee).  How 
will  our  revered  friend  and  early  pastor  make  Pierre  the  son  of  EHas  Neau,  the 
catechi^t,  of  New  York,  who  was  born  at  Soubiz  in  Saintonge,  in  1662?  (History  of 
Elizabeth,  p.  267).  Du  Mont  died  at  Esopus,  in  1783,  having  had  sons,  Wallarand,  John 
Baptist  and  Peter;  and  daughters,  Margaret,  wife  of  William  Loveridge;  Jannctie, 
HTfe  of  Michael  Van  Vechten,  and  Francina,  wife  of  Frederick  Clute.  Clutc  went  to 
Schenectady.  (See  Pearson's  Schenectady  Settlers).  Peter  Dumont,  with  his  brethren, 
Loveridge  and  Van  Vechten,  settled  on  the  Raritan  N.  J.  Dumont  and  Van  V^echten 
became  justices  of  the  peace.  The  latter  was  born  in  1664,  being  son  of  Derick 
Teunisaen,  who  was  born  in  1634,  at  Vechten,  in  the  diocese  of  Utrecht,  and  when 
four  years  of  age  came  with  his  father.  Teunis  Dericksen,  to  Albany.  William  Love- 
ridge was  from  the  parish  of  Wool,  in  Dorsetshire,  England,  and  died  at  Perth  Amboy, 
in  1703,  leaving:  sons  William,  Wallerand  and  John.  He  was  brother  to  Samuel 
Loveridge,  of  New  York,  shipwright,  who  was  born  in  Albermarle  County,  Va.,  and 
married  at  Esopus,  in  1688,  Hannah,  daughter  of  George  Meals.  Their  father,  William 
Loveridge,  a  hatter,  came  out  to  Connecticxrt  as  early  as  1659,  removed  to  Virginia, 
thence  to  Albany,  and  died  at  Catskill,  about  1683.  He  had  daughters.  Temperance, 
who  married  Capt.  Isaac  Melyn,  of  New  York,  and  Sarah,  mho  married  John  Ward, 
of  Ulster  county.  Hence  the  belief  expressed  in  the  Hisotry  of  Elizabeth  that  Samuel 
Loveridge  was  a  son  of  Rev.  William  Leverich,  though  with  seeming  reason,  is  plainly 
not  warranted. 

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elegance  of  modern  living.  The  daily  life  of  the  villagers, — ^but 
let  us  first  note  the  occupants  of  the  principal  dwellings  ere  we 
cross  the  threshold,  to  explore  the  humble  sphere  of  their  domes- 
tic economy. 

Here  at  the  river  end,  where,  about  the  tavern,  smith-shop, 
church,  and  ferry,  gather  the  stir  and  business  activity  of  the 
village,  is  the  comfortable  home  of  the  French  refugee  and  newly- 
appointed  schepen,  David  Demarest.  His  house  and  bam  occupy 
a  lot  "abutting  on  three  streets  from  which  it  is  fenced,"  and 
extended  "toward  the  strand,  as  far  as  he  can,"  by  virtue  of  a 
town  grant  of  January  5,  1667.  It  contains  a  double-erf,  or 
two  erven,  the  upper,  facing  the  Great  Way,  being  that  gotten 
from  Montague  (and  where  now  the  oldest  house  and  relic  of  the 
village  stands),  the  other  once  Dominie  Z}^erus'.  This  last 
looks  out' to  the  south  upon  the  square  or  green  about  the  land- 
ing-place. Demarest's  neighbor,  over  the  cross-street,  is  Glaude 
Delamater,  recent  magistrate,  testy  but  kind-hearted;  his  double- 
erf  joining  that  of  Cornelius  Jansen,  late  constable,  a  young  but 
rising  man  in  the  town,  and  at  whose  friendly  inn, — where  swing- 
ing signboard  and  feeding-troughs  mark  it  merely  as  the  village 
hostel,  but  to  Kortright,  Bogert,  and  others,  the  veritable  coun- 
terpart of  Mynheer's  inn  at  Schoonrewoer, — ^the  passing  traveler 
stops  for  refreshment,  or  the  wiseacres  of  the  dorp  resort  to 
swallow  the  latest  bit  of  news  or  scandal  in  a  bumper  of  Kort- 
right's  beer.  Opposite  the  tavern,  past  the  second  crossway,  lives 
the  Picard,  good  Pierre  Cresson,  from  his  occupation  called  by 
his  Dutch  neighbors,  de  tuynier,  or  the  gardener ,  whose  erf 
joins  at  its  rear  or  north  side  to  that  of  Daniel  Tourneur,  but 
just  deceased,  and  westerly  to  that  late  of  Hendrick  Karstens, 
but  now  of  the  worthy  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  schepen.  Over  the 
third  cross-street  are  the  two  erven  of  Johan  Verveelen,  where 
his  son-in-law,  Adolph  Meyer,  now  lives,  and  next  him  the 
"garden"  and  erf  (strictly  a  double-erf),  which  had  passed  from 
Mr.  Muyden  to  Jaques  Cresson,  and  from  him  to  Meynard 
Journee,  present  occupant,  also  called  Maaljer,  his  surname 
Belgicized.  Being  sickly,  Journee  had  just  resigned  his  office 
of  fence-master,  which  was  given,  February  6th,  to  Laurens 
Jansen,  the  Low  ancestor.  Journee's  grounds  extend  to  those 
of  Captain  Delavall,  a  small  strip  between  them,  "laid  out  for  a 
street"  (the  fourth  crossway),  having  been  added  to  Cresson 's 
lot  while  his,  by  a  grant  of  May  3,1667.  In  one  of  DelavaU's 
houses,  once  the  home  of  Simon  the  Walloon,  had  recently  lived, 
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pal  farmer,  and  the  old  neighbor  of  Gillis  Mandeville,  in  the 
Veleuwe, — the  other  of  Delavall's  houses  had  been  occupied  by 
Pieter  Roelofsen,  twice  constable  here.  Beyond  this  point  we 
soon  reach  the  Buyten  Tuynen,  or  Out-Gardens,  the  two  farther 
ones  soon  to  be  the  home  of  Arent  Harmens  Bussing,  lately 
married  and  just  appointed  one  of  the  schepens. 

But  from  the  quiet  west  end,  retracing  our  steps,  on  the  south 
side  of  the  street,  we  come  to  the  dwelling  of  the  venerable  Isaac 
Vermeille.  Seated  upon  the  end  of  lot  5,  Van  Keulen's  Hook, 
"over  against  the  garden  of  Jaques  Cresson,"  as  it  was  till  of  late ; 
his  erf,  which  extends  back  to  a  strip  of  flag  marsh  stretching  across 
the  lot,  is  well  stocked  with  fruit  trees,  the  pride  of  the  Huguenot 
settlers,  and  in  which  culture  they  excelled.  On  either  side  of 
Vermeille  lie  vacant  lots,  but  that  on  the  west.  No.  6,  soon  to  be 
built  upon  and  occupied  by  its  owner,  Laurens  Jansen,  aforesaid. 
Lot  No.  4,  on  the  east  side  of  Vermeille,  and  which  Adolph  Meyer 
had  gotten  with  his  wife  from  her  father,  Verveelen,  was  at  this 
end  fit  only  for  pasturage,  being  marshy;  but  a  plot  here  was 
bought  from  Meyer  November  2,  1673,  by  his  friend  Jan  Dyck- 
man,  who  for  the  many  years  before  he  moved  to  Spuyten  Duyvel 
occupied  a  house  built  upon  two  of  Tourneur's  out-gardens, 
received  by  his  wife  Madeleine.  Adjoining  lot  No.  4,  and 
opposite  to  Oblinus,  lives  the  most  influential  man  in  the  town. 
Resolved  Waldron,  at  present  the  shout,  or  sheriif,  and  next  to 
him,  easterly,  his  son-in-law  Jan  Nagel.  Going  still  toward  the 
river,  to  the  two  small  erven  opposite  Comelis  Jansen  and  Dela- 
mater  (granted  Jean  Demarest  and  Johannes  Pelszer,  but  seem- 
ingly never  improved  by  them),  on  the  comer  of  the  Pelszer  lot, 
where  the  road  runs  down  by  the  green  to  the  creek,  stands,  or 
later  stood,  the  village  smithy,  whereWilliamHaldron,  an  English- 
man, plied  his  hammer  and  bellows,  waking  the  neighbors  at 
early  dawn  with  the  music  of  his  anvil,  as  did,  within  the  same 
century,  his  successor  in  the  smithshop,  Zacharias  Sickels,  whose 
descendants  are  yet  among  us.* 

•  Zacharias  Sickels,  the  common  ancestor  and  father  of  Zacharias  aforesaid,  was 
from  Viennc,  in  Austria.  Finding  his  way  to  Holland,  he  went  out  to  Curacao,  and 
served  in  the  military  rank  of  adelborst  or  cadet.  When  Stuyvesant  returned  from  a 
visit  to  that  island,  in  1655,  Sickels  came  with  him,  being  soon  after  attached  to  the 
garrison  at  Fort  Orange.  In  1658  he  was  a  tapster.  He  remained  at  Albany  after  the 
surrender,  in  1664,  and  worked  as  a  carpenter,  having  married  Anna,  daughter  of 
Lambert  Van  Valkcnburgh,  by  whom  he  had  sons,  Robert,  Lambert,  Zacharias  and 
Thomas,  and  daughters^  Anna,  Elizabeth,  Maria,  Margaret  and  Leah.  Anna  married 
Abraham  Isaacs,  and  Elizabeth  married  William  Peelen.  In  1670  to  '72,  and  1681  to 
'83,  Sickels  was  town  herder,  and  had  18  guilders  a  head  for  the  season.  He  next 
hdd  the  responsible  place  of  rattle  watch,  so  called  from  the  rattle,  used  to  give 
warning,  in  making  his  nightly  rounds.  He  was  also  town  cryer,  to  call  the  people 
together  on  needed  occasions;  and  porter,  or  keeper  of  the  city  gates,  to  close  and  lock 
them  at  flight  and  to  open  them  in  tne  morning.  His  sons  Robert  and  Lambert  removing 
to  New  York,  he,  with  his  other  sons,  etc.,  followed  them  in  1693,  his  vacated  office 
being  given  to   his  son-in-law   Isaacs.      In   1698   he   was  admitted  a   freeman  of   New 


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But  for  an  inside  view  of  the  domestic  life  and  home  com- 
forts of  these  villagers,  let  us  visit  the  worthy  and  well-to-do 
Lubbert  Gerritsen,  late  one  of  the  magistrates,  living  near  the 
west  end.  We  enter.  No  carpet  hides  the  well-scrubbed  floor, 
and  in  vain  we  glance  around  the  room  for  many  articles  which 
in  our  day  imperious  fashion,  and  even  comfort,  demand.  The 
furniture  goes  but  little  beyond  the  practical  and  useful.  A 
gilded  mirror  indeed  adorns  the  whitewashed  wall.  The  two 
beds  have  pillows  and  striped  curtains.  Two  chests  very  con- 
venient contain  the  clothing,  one  of  the  wife,  the  other  of  the 
daughter,  fair  Eva,  who  five  years  later  married  the  Bussing- 
ancestor.  On  one  side  is  a  small  octagon  table;  and  here  a 
brass  candlestick  and  a  warming-pan.  Upon  hooks  on  the  wall 
hang  a  musket  and  firelock.  No  stove  is  there ;  but  in  the  ample 
fireplace  the  wood  crackles  and  blazes  cheerfully  above  the  huge 
backlog  and  around  the  two  iron  dinner  pots  hung  to  the  trammel 
by  hooks  and  chain.  On  the  table  or  shelves,  and  in  the  pantry, 
we  notice  exactly  i  pewter  bowl,  2  small  pewter  platters,  4  pew- 

Vork,  and  in  1702  was  living  in  the  East  Ward.  Robert,  his  son,  married.  i586, 
Geertie,  daughter  of  Abel  Reodenhaus,  and  moved  to  Bergen  County,  N.  T.,  where  he 
died  in  1729;  Lambert,  born  1666,  married,  1690,  Maria  Jansen,  from  Albany,  settled 
at  Bedford,  Brooklyn,  and  died  1722;  and  Thomas  married.  1702,  Jannetie,  daughter 
of  Jan  Hendricks  Brevoort,  and  remained  in  New  York.  All  these  left  descendants. 
(See  Winficld*s  Land  Titles,  the  Bergen  Gen.,  and  N.  V.  G.  &  B.  Rec.,  1876,  60). 

Zacharias  Sickels,  blacksmith,  and  referred  to  in  the  text,  was  born  in  1670.  at 
Albany,  and  after  coming  to  Harlem,  married,  August  23,  1693,  Mary,  daughter  of  the 
aforesaid  Brevoort.  On  February  20,  1705,  he  bought  of  his  father-in-law,  who  had 
then  left  Harlem,  the  lands  he  still  held  there.  (See  Brevoort).  Of  these,  Sickels 
sold,  April  9,  1705,  a  meadow,  once  Pierre  Cres^on's.  and  lying  at  the  head  of  Sher- 
man's Creek,  and  northerly  of  the  Kortright  farm,  to  Jan  Kiersen  (with  whose  lands 
it  was  sold  to  James  Carroll,  in  1763),  and  on  January  23^  1706,  he  sold  to  Samson 
Benson,  No.  1  New  Lots,  with  "a  garden"  (originally  two  erven  of  Cresson  and 
Tourneur),  lying  next  west  of  the  churchyard.  He  drew  land  in  171 2,  in  1st  and  2nd 
Divisions,  having  sold  his  3rd  and  4th  to  Jan  Kiersen,  but  obtaining  in  exchange 
Kiersen's  lot  in  ist  Division.  (See  Appendix  J).  For  these  drawn  lands  he  received 
a  patentee  deed,  December  24,  17 12.  Later,  he  sold  his  ist  Division  to  Joh.  Meyer. 
He  married,  July  19,  i^t?,  a  second  wife,  Wyntie  Dyckman,  widow  of  Toh.  Kortright. 
Being  sick,  he  sold  his  property,  January  15,  1729,  to  his  step-son,  Nicholas  Kort- 
right. This  consisted  of  lot  No.  s,  Jochem  Picters,  a  lot  on  Montagne's  Flat,  rated 
at  6  morgcn  or  12  acres  (but  in  reality  20  acres),  and  No.  12,  in  2d  Division,  18 
acres;  in  all,  as  rated,  43  acres.  Zacharias  Sickels  died  January  20,  1729,  aged  59 
years.  He  had  issue,  Tohannes,  Jacobus,  Zacharias,  Hendrick,  Gerardus,  William, 
Cornelius  and  Robert.  Johannes,  the  eldest,  was  born  in  1694,  married.  May  2,  1718, 
Annecke,  daughter  of  Adolph  Meyer,  and  settled  in  Westchester  County,  on  a  farm 
of  100  acres,  bought  in  1720  and' 1722.  He  died  in  June,  1729;  his  widow  married 
Thomas  Storm.^  His  children,  as  far  as  known,  were  Zacharias,  Johannes  and  Maria, 
who  married  Gerrit  Storm,  of  Philipsburgh.  Of  these,  Zacharias  became  a  merchant 
in   New   York,   married,    1744,   Catherine   Heyer,  and  was  the  father  of  John   Sickels. 

grocer,    who    had   five  children,    viz:     John,    lawyer;     AUctta,    who   married   John   Ten- 
rook;    Catherine,  married  Com.    Isaac  Chauncey;    Maria,  married  James  Heard,  and 
Ann,  who  married  Nathaniel  Griswold. 

Tohannes  Sickels,  born  1720,  son  of  Joh.  and  Anneke.  married  his  cousin  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Adolph  Meyer,  2d,  of  Harlem,  where  Sickels  settled,  inheriting,  in  1748. 
84  acres  from  the  Meyer  estate.  This  embraced  Nos.  2,  3.  Jochem  Pieters,  No.  10,  2d 
Division,  and  No.  14,  4th  Division.  To  this  was  attached  the  north  garden  (sold  ten 
years  later  to  John  Livingston),  derived  originally  by  his  great-grandfather  N'erveclen 
from  Jan  Slot.  (See  App.  E).  He  died  in  1784,  leaving  one  son,  John  S.  Sickels,  and 
a  daughter,  Mary,  wife  of  Samson  Benson.  John  S.  Sickels  married,  September  29, 
1763,  Maria,  daughter  of  Aaron  Bussing,  and  died  June  4,  1804;  his  only  child  sur- 
viving infancy  being  Mary,  born  April  9,  1764.  who  married  John  Adriance,  father  of 
John  S.  and  Isaac  Adriance,  Latitia.  wife  of  Wm.  B.  Kenyon,  and  Margaret,  wife  of 
ames  Kenyon.     Many  write  this  name  Sickles. 


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ter  trenchers,  6  pewter  spoons,  a  pewter  cup  with  a  lid,  and  an- 
other without,  2  white  earthen  jars,  a  copper  cake  pan,  a  small 
copper  pot,  a  small  brass  kettle,  2  water  pails,  and  2  churns  for 
butter-making.  There  is  still  place  for  2  siths,*  2  sikles,  and  2 
augurs. 

We  ascend  to  the  **loft.''  Here  are  4  milk  pans,  2  iron 
hand-basins,  2  tubs,  a  lye-barrel,  a  cask  filled  with  buckwheat, 
2  ploughshares,  a  plough-chain  and  rope,  a  coulter,  a  yoke  with 
a  hook,  2  old  sickles,  an  adze,  and  a  sail  mast,  perhaps  belonging 
to  the  "canoe  at  the  strand." 

Invited  out  to  the  barn :  here  is  the  garnered  harvest,  stores 
of  rye,  peas,  and  buckwheat  in  the  sheaf,  and  10  or  12  bundles 
of  unswingled  flax;  also  a  fan,  harrow,  and  2  iron  forks.  On 
the  premises,  fat  and  sleek  in  their  sheds  and  stalls,  are  the  live- 
stock :  2  yoke  of  oxen,  2  cows,  one  black,  the  other  red ;  i  steer, 
and  2  calves.  Four  young  hogs  are  running  upon  Little  Barent's 
Island.  Other  farming  implements  are  at  hand:  2  ox-yokes, 
2  iron  plough-rings,  a  wood-axe,  3  iron  wedges,  2  hand-saws, 
and  a  draw-saw,  2  iron-bound  buckets,  and  an  iron  lamp.  Ah! 
here  stands  the  ox-cart,  and  here  are  2  new  cart-wheels.  The 
plough  is  missing;  left  where  Lubbert's  last  ploughing  was  done, 
out  on  one  of  the  bouwlots,  of  which  he  has  the  Nos.  4  and  9 
on  Jochem  Pieters,  with  salt  meadow,  and  out-garden  No.  11 
beside.  Busy  bees  still  hum  about,  sucking  sweets  from  the  fall 
flowers,  with  which  to  store  the  seven  hives  in  the  garden,  and 
hens  as  busily  scratch  and  cluck  about  the  barnyard.  Not  an 
item  of  Lubbert's  eflfects  has  escaped  our  notice;  all  as  enjoyed 
by  him  at  the  time  of  his  decease  soon  after, — affording  us  a 
reliable  index  to  the  average  style  of  living  observed  here  at  that 
period. 

And  a  grand  political  event  had  but  just  transpired  in  the 
highest  degree  pleasing  to  the  Harlem  community,  because 
promising  to  its  simple  Belgian  character  and  customs  a  happy 
perpetuity,  while  it  restored,  fresh  and  intact,  the  waning  memor- 
ies of  dear  Fatherland.  This  was  the  recapture  of  New  York 
by  the  Dutch. 

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CHAPTER  XIX. 

1673-1674. 

REOCCUPATION   BY  THE  DUTCH. 

^^npHIS  day,  loth  August,  1673,  New  Style,  have  the  Hol- 
land  and  Zeeland  fleets  captured  the  Fort  at  N.  York, 
in  the  name  of  their  High  Mightinesses,  the  Lords  States  General 
of  the  United  Netherlands  and  his  Highness  the  Lord  Prince  of 
Orange;  and  the  Fort  is  re-named  Willem  Hendrick,  and  the 
City  obtained  the  name  New  Orange." 

In  these  words  did  the  secretary  Vander  Vin  record  in  his 
protocol  an  event  which,  suddenly  reducing  the  colony  again  to 
the  obedience  of  Holland,  at  once  startled  and  overjoyed  the 
Dutch  community  at  Harlem.  The  mother  countries  were  at 
war,  and  this  one  of  the  fruits.  They  were  therefore  prepared 
for  the  following  official  letter: 

To  the  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  N :  Haerlem. 

You  will,  by  authority  of  the  High  Commanders  and  Council  of  War 
residing  in  the  fort  Willem  Hendrick,  appoint  two  persons  from  your 
village  as  deputies,  and  with  the  same  send  your  constable's  staff  and 
town  ensign,  on  the  day  after  to-morrow,  being  Monday,  in  order  then 
to  talk  with  us;  whereon  depending,  we  remain,  after  greetings,  your 
friendsj 

The  ScHOUT,  Burgomasters  and  Schepens 
of  the  City  of  N.  Orange. 

By  order  of  the  same 

N.  Bayard,  Secretary, 
N.  Orange,  19th  August, 
1673,  New  Style. 

To  this  the  following  reply  was  sent  by  the  hands  of  the 
delegates : 

To  the  Noble,  Honorable  Lords,  the  Schout,  Burgomasters  and  Schepens, 

at  the  City  of  New  Orange. 

We,  Inhabitants  at  the  village  N.  Haerlem,  pursuant  to  your  Honors* 
writing  of  the  19th  instant,  by  authority  of  the  High  Commanders  and 
the  Council  of  War,  residing  in  fort  Willem  Hendrick,  send  by  these 
the  constable's  staff  (having  no  ensign),  besides  two  deputies  from  us,  to 
receive  such  orders  as  your  Honors  shall  find  to  pertain  to  the  welfare 
and  benefit  of  this  town;  whereupon  we  shall  rely,  praying  God  to  pre- 


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serve  your  Honors  in  a  prosperous,  just,  and  enduring  government;  in 
the  meanwhile  remaining  your  Honors'  dutiful,  willing  subjects,  the  In- 
habitants of  the  town  N.  Haerlem,  August  21st,  1673,  New  Style. 

By  order  of  the  same, 

H.  J.  Vander  Vin,  Secretary, 

The  delegates  returned  bearing  the  following  letter: 

To  the  Inhabitants  of  the  town  of  New  Haerlem. 

You  are  by  these,  by  authority  of  the  Noble  Burgomasters  and  Schepens 
of  this  City  of  New  Orange,  ordered,  for  your  town's  folks  and  the  de- 
pendent neighborhood,  on  the  morrow  to  assemble,  and  by  a  general  vote 
to  nominate  eight  from  the  same  as  magistrates  (all  such  being  also  of 
the  Reformed  Christian  Religion),  out  of  which  said  nomination  we  then 
shall  elect  four  as  magistrates  for  your  town ;  whereon  we  relying,  remain 
your  friends. 

The  Burgomasters  and  Schepens 

of  the  City  of  New  Orange,  22d  August,  1673. 
By  order  of  the  same, 

N.  Bayard,  Secretary. 

The  town  folks  met  pursuant  to  this  order  and  nominated 
David  Des  Marest,  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  Cor- 
nells Jansen,  Resolved  Waldron,  Adolph  Meyer,  Arent  Har- 
mans  (Bussing),  and  Jan  Nagel,  all  good  friends  of  fatherland, 
as  magistrates,  and  Hendrick  J.  Vander  Vin  as  secretary,  from 
whom  were  appointed  to  the  former  office,  Waldron,  Des  Marest, 
Oblinus,  and  Bussing,  Waldron  being  named  as  schout;  and  as 
secretary,  Vander  Vin.  These  took  an  oath  of  fidelity  "to  their 
High  Mightinesses  the  Lords  States  General  of  the  United 
Netherlands  and  his  Highness  the  Lord  Prince  of  Orange.'' 

By  order  of  the  Burgomasters  and  Schepens,  the  new  board 
called  the  other  inhabitants  together  on  August  25th,  and  ad- 
ministered to  them  the  following  oath  of  allegiance: 

"We  promise  and  swear,  in  presence  of  Almighty  God,  unto 
their  High  Mightinesses  the  Lords  States  General  of  the  United 
Netherlands,  and  his  Highness  the  Lord  Prince  of  Orange,  and 
their  Governor  already  placed  here,  or  hereafter  to  be  appointed, 
to  be  beholden  and  faithful,  and  in  all  circumstances  to  behave  us 
as  trusty  and  obedient  subjects  are  bound  to  do.  So  truly  help  us, 
God  Almighty." 

The  roll  of  names  is  as  follows,  being  classified  by  Vander 
Vin,  thus: 

1st    Over  16  and  under  60  years. 

Lubbert  Gerritsen, 

Cornelis  Jansen, 

Meyndert  Journee, 

Adolph  Meyer, 

Simeon  Cornier, 

Jan  Laurens  v :  Schoonrewoert, 


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302  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Jean  des  Marest, 
Jan  Dyckman, 
Daniel  Tourneur, 
Jan  Nagel, 
Samuel  Pell, 
Robert  Mollis,* 
John  Smith, 
Jan  le  Maistre, 
David  des  Marest,  Jr., 
Samuel  des  Marest, 
Jaco  el  Roey, 
Evert  Alrichs, 
Jochem  Engelbert, 
Coenraet  Hendricks, 
Cornelis  Theunisz, 
Gabriel  Carbosie,  Miller. 

2d.     Impotent,  above  60  years. 

Glaude  le  Maistre, 
Pierre  Cresson, 
Jean  le  Roy, 
Claes  Carstensen, 
Isaac  Vermeille. 

The  Dutch  rule  was  now  re-established ;  after  two  days  came 
the  Sabbath,  when  the  people  at  worship  expressed  their  grati- 
tude in  a  practical  way,  by  an  extra  large  contribution  of  4  florins. 
To  this,  the  next  Sunday,  Vander  Yin  added,  as  a  special  gift, 
a  schepel  of  wheat,  equal  to  6  gl. 

The  ready  response  to  every  demand  of  the  new  rulers  also 
told  the  general  satisfaction.  Called  upon  to  furnish  "800  pieces 
of  great  palisades,  14  feet  long,  i  foot  thick  and  under,''  for  the 
city  defences,  the  inhabitants  met  August  28th,  and  apportioned 
this  heavy  work  pro  rata,  10  posts  to  an  erf,  and  ij/^  to  each 
morgen.  An  admirable  spirit  was  also  shown  by  the  young  men 
who  owned  no  bouwland,  four  of  whom, — to  wit,  Coenraet  Hen- 
dricks, Engelbert,  Bussing,  and  Dyckman, — ^volunteered  20  sticks 
each,  and  the  loyal  Jan  Xagel  and  Jean  Demarest  each  25.  Le 
Roy,  Hollis,  Pell,  and  Smith,  severally  pledged  20  each,  and 
Widow  Montague  the  same,  to  be  cut  by  her  hired  man,  Evert 
Alrichs.  Carbosie  would  spare  time  from  the  mill  to  furnish  16. 
The  younger  sons  of  Demarest,  with  his  servant  Jaco  el  Roey, 
oflFered  together  to  cut  26,  Jan  le  Maistre  12,  and  Oblinus'  man, 

*  Robert  HolHs,  says  Governor  Nicholls,  "came  over  with  me  into  these  parts, 
in  his  Majesty's  service,  a  soldier  under  niy  command."  He  got  a  license  August  15, 
1665,  to  marry  widow  Mary  Page.  On  July  18,  1667,  he  secured  a  patent  for  26 
acres  of  land  in  Brooklyn,  having  Jan  Martyn  on  the  north  and  Jan  Damen  on  the 
south,  "with  his  housing  and  accommodation  thereupon,"  which  he  had  bought  early 
that  year  from  Jean  Mesurolle.  He  obtained  at  that  time  the  sole  right  to  tap  strong 
drink  in  that  town.  In  1672  he  bought  an  erf  at  Harlem,  where  he  was  made  a  cor- 
poral in  the  Night  Watch,  December  6,  1675,  but  must  have  left  soon  after,  being 
last  named  at  the  settlement,  January  17,  1676,  between  the  town  and  William  Palmer, 
for  whom  Hollis  had  stood  security. 


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Cornelis  Theunisz,  7.  They  agreed  to  draw  all  these  to  a  suit- 
able place  at  the  strand.* 

A  new  life  and  vigor  seemed  infused  into  the  village;  the 
overseers  being  especially  occupied.  Pursuant  to  orders  from 
the  Council  of  War,  they  had,  on  the  23d  inst.,  visited  the  planta- 
tion of  Captain  Richard  Morris,  and  appointed  Jean  Demarest 
and  Arent  Harmans  to  take  charge  of  it  till  further  orders.  The 
affairs  of  Captain  Delavall  now  demanded  their  care.  His 
estates,  which  were  scattered  in  different  parts  of  the  province, 
and  valued  by  him  at  about  £5,000,  had  been  attached  by  the 
Dutch  commanders.  A  ketch  building  at  Harlem,  by  Samuel 
Pell,  ship  carpenter,  and  of  which  Delavall  was  half  owner,  was 
to  that  extent  included.  John  Smith,  late  in  employ  of  Delavall, 
was  instructed  to  take  good  care  of  his  other  property  at  Harlem 
till  further  notice. 

Sundry  claims  against  Delavall  now  came  up ;  one  by  Pierre 
Cresson  for  what  Delavall,  in  1670,  had  agreed  to  pay  to  rebuild 
and  keep  up  the  fence  between  their  gardens ;  another  for  repairs 
the  last  year  at  the  mill  on  **the  flume  and  door  to  the  race,"  Car- 
bosie  still  having  charge.  Meanwhile  Smith,  Delavall's  man, 
intrusted  with  his  cattle  and  goods,  having  suddenly  absconded, 
the  High  Commanders  on  September  9th  directed  Resolved 
Waldron  to  take  the  property  in  keeping,  and  which  trust  he 
accepted.  This  was  officially  made  known  to  the  people  of 
Harlem  on  the  nth,  and  accompanied  by  directions  that  the  ferry 
folks  should  set  no  strangers,  *'that  is  Christians,  or  negroes,  or 
cattle,"  over  the  river,  either  at  Harlem  or  Spuyten  Duyvel,  unless 
they  could  show  a  pass.  These  directions  were  afterward  re- 
peated. 

On  September  25th  the  magistrates  appointed  Barent  Wald- 
ron, the  Court  Messenger,  who,  on  being  sworn  into  office,  was 
furnished  with  a  commission,  setting  forth  in  general  his  duties, 
and  warning  all  persons  not  to  interfere  with  him  in  the  proper 
discharge  thereof.  At  the  Court  held  next  day,  Carbosie,  the 
miller,  complained  of  Jan  Louwe  Van  Schoonrewoerd,  for  threat- 
ening to  shoot  his  hogs,  which  had  troubled  him  by  running 

*  Jochem  Engdbcrt  Van  Naraen,  from  Hcusden,  came  out  in  the  ship  Hope, 
which  sailed  from  Amsterdam,  April  8,  1662.  He  lived  four  and  a  half  years  with 
Burger  Joris,  and  then  entered  tnc  service  of  \'crveelen,  at  Harlem,  March  5,  1668, 
but  complaining  of  ill-usuage,  was  released  Hy  the  Court,  September  10  ensuing.  He 
bore  a  good  name  while  with  Burger,  and  seems  to  have  sustained  it  afterward  at 
Esopus.  where  he  married,  November  3,  1676,  Elizabeth^  daughter  of  Evert  Pels, 
by  whom  he  had  a  family  of  children,  viz. :  Deliantie,  Evert,  Engelbert,  Johannes, 
Anna.  Deliantie  married  Barent  Marteling,  in  1702.  Anna  married  Isaac  Marteling. 
(Sec  Clute's  Staten  Island). 

Evert  Alrichs,  five  years  later,  is  found  at  Upland,  on  the  Delaware,  having  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  widow  of  Hans  Walter. 


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over  the  mill-dam.  Louwe  was  told  to  repair  his  fences  if  he 
would  not  suffer  from  others'  hogs  or  cattle,  and  Carbosie  was 
ordered  to  make  good  his  railing  about  the  mill-dam,  so  that  no 
cattle  could  run  over. 

The  following  day  Joost  Van  Oblinus  made  complaint  that 
having  sent  Adrian  Sammis,  his  wife's  brother,  living  with  him, 
to  pasture  the  cattle  "upon  the  point  over  against  Simeon's  land," 
he  had  been  beaten  off  by  Glaude  le  Maistre  with  a  stick.*  Le 
Maistre  said  that  he  chased  the  cattle  from  his  own  fence,  and 
not  from  that  of  the  point,  and  admitted  to  have  struck  Adrian, 
but  not  with  a  stick.  Poor  Adrian,  who  could  not  speak  for 
himself,  being  "deaf,  dumb,  and  paralytic,"  had  two  good  wit- 
nesses, Esther  Tourneur  and  Cornelia  Waldron.  Esther  being 
called  in,  said  that  Adrian  coming  along  the  fencing  with  the 
cattle,  she  saw  that  Glaude  had  beaten  him  with  a  stick.  Cor- 
nelia testrfied  the  same,  and  that  Glaude  ran  after  them.  The 
Court  condemned  Le  Maistre  "in  an  amend  of  6  gl.,  to  the  be- 
hoof of  the  church  here,  with  the  costs  hereby  accruing."  He 
was  also  directed  to  "draw  in  his  fence  by  the  point  of  his 
meadow  forthwith,  within  the  time  of  two  months,  without  longer 
delay." 

On  the  same  date  (September  27th)  the  magistrates,  with  the 
advice  of  Cornelis  Jansen  and  Jan  Dyckman,  passed  the  follow- 
ing curious  regulation,  respecting  the  lands  in  common  fence: 

"Is  resolved  and  found  good  to  establish  that  in  the  coming 
year,  1674,  the  tilled  land  on  Jochem  Pieters  shall  be  exempt 
from  any  afterplanting  of  buckwheat,  pumpkins,  turnips,  or  any 
summer  fruits,  that  the  cattle  of  this  village  (after  the  crop  is 
off  the  field)  may  pasture  thereon;  and  the  land  Van  Keulen's 
Hook  shall  in  the  same  year,  1674,  be  sown  and  planted  with 
summer  fruits ;  and  in  the  year  1675,  on  the  contrary,  Van  Keu- 
len's  Hook  from  summer  fruits  shall  remain  unplanted  and  un- 
sown, and  Jochem  Pieters  again  be  sown  as  above;  running  so 
from  year  to  year,  alternately,  the  one  to  be  sown  by  summer 
fruits  and  the  other  left  unsown,  for  reasons  as  above." 

The  Dutch  Commanders  had  now  sailed  for  Holland  leaving 

•  The  point  here  referred  to  was  undoubtedly  that  since  known  as  Bussings 
Point.  Simeon  Cornier  had  agreed  to  buy  lot  No.  ii,  Jochem  Pieters,  but  the  reference 
is  plainly  not  to  him,  nor  to  this  land.  We  conclude  it  was  the  lot  on  Jochem  Pieters, 
given  up  in  1661  by  Simon  (also  called  Simeon)  dc  Ruine,  and  was  No.  25  (after- 
ward No.  22,  one  of  Delavall's,  whose  title  was  just  now  uncertain),  and  that  "Simeon's  • 
land,"  best  known  by  its  orifnnal  owner's  name,  thus  formed  the  north  line  of 
Jochem  Pieters;  and  "over  against"  (that  is,  opposite  to  it,  some  space  intervening) 
was  said  point  early  called  Gloudie's  Point,  from  Delamater,  whose  meadows  lay 
there.  Later,  No.  22  formed  the  northermost  of  the  so-called  "Six  Lots,"  embraced 
in  the  large  Myer  tract. 


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the  administration  of  affairs  in  the  hands  of  Governor  Anthony 
Colve,  who  on  October  ist  issued  the  following: 

Provisional  Instructions  to  the  Schout  and  Magistrates  of  the  Town  of 
New  Haerlem. 

1.  The  Schout  and  Magistrates  each  in  their  sphere  shall  have  a  care 
that  the  Reformed  Christian  Religion  shall  be  maintained  conformably 
to  the  Synod  of  Dordrecht  held  in  the  years  1618  and  1619,  without 
suffering  it,  through  any  other  persuasion  thereto  opposed,  to  be  in  any 
wise  altered. 

2.  The  Schout,  so  far  as  possible,  shall  be  present  and  preside  at  all 
meetings.  But  when  he  acts  for  himself  as  a  party,  or  respecting  the 
right  of  his  Lords  Patroons,  or  in  behalf  of  justice,  on  such  an  occasion, 
he  shall  stand  up  and  vacate  the  bench,  and  at  that  time  neither  advise 
nor  vote ;  but  the  oldest  Schepen  shall  preside  in  his  place. 

3-  All  cases  of  government,  of  the  security  and  peace  of  the  inhabi- 
tants, also  of  justice  betwixt  man  and  man,  shall  be  determined  by  the 
Magistrates  of  the  aforesaid  Town  by  definitive  sentences  to  the  amount  of 
sixty  guilders  in  beavers,  or  less.  But  in  all  cases  exceeding  this  sum, 
every  one  shall  be  free  to  appeal  to  the  Hon.  Governor  General  and  Council 
here. 

4.  In  case  of  diversity  of  voices,  the  minority  must  yield  to  the  major- 
ity, yet  permitting  those  of  the  contrary  opinion  to  record  and  sign  their 
protest;  but  in  no  wise  to  publish  such  outside  the  meeting,  on  pain  of 
arbitrary  correction. 

5.  Whenever  in  the  Court  any  cases  shall  occur,  in  which  any  Magis- 
trate shall  be  concerned  as  a  party,  in  such  case  the  Magistrate  shall  rise 
up  and  leave  his  seat,  as  before  is  directed  in  the  case  of  the  Schout. 

6.  All  the  inhabitants  of  the  aforesaid  Town  shall  be  citable  before  the 
said  Schout  and  Schepens,  who  shall  hold  their  sessions  and  courts  as  often 
as  the  same  shall  be  necessary. 

7.  All  criminal  offences  may  be  referred  to  the  Governor  General  and 
Council,  saving  that  the  Schout  shall  be  obligated  the  criminal  offenders 
to  apprehend,  to  arrest  and  to  detain,  and  as  prisoners,  under  proper 
security,  to  deliver  over  to  the  High  Magistracy,  together  with  good  and 
true  information  of  the  offences  committed;  at  the  expense  of  the  of- 
fenders or  the  prosecutor. 

8.  Minor  offences,  such  as  quarrels,  injuries,  slanders,  threats,  fist 
blows,  and  such  like,  are  left  to  the  adjudication  and  decision  of  the  Magis- 
trates of  each  particular  town. 

9.  The  Schout  and  Schepens  shall  be  authorized,  for  the  peace  and 
tranquillity  of  the  inhabitants  in  their  district,  to  make  any  orders  for 
the  regulating  of  highways,  setting  off  lands  and  gardens,  and  whatever 
like  things  as  relate  to  farm  lands;  also  for  the  observance  of  the  Sab- 
bath, respecting  the  building  of  churches,  of  schools,  and  similar  public 
works;  also  against  fighting  and  striking  and  such  like  minor  offences; 
provided  the  same  do  not  conflict  with,  but  are  conformable  unto  the 
laws  of  our  Fatherland  and  the  statutes  of  the  province;  and  to  this  end 
all  orders  of  importance,  before  they  are  promulgated,  shall  be  presented 
to  the  High  Magistracy  for  their  approval. 

ID.  Said  Schout  and  Schepens  shall  be  held  closely  to  observe  and 
execute  all  the  placards  and  ordinances  which  shall  be  enacted  and  pub- 
lished by  the  High  Magistracy,  and  not  to  permit  anything  to  be  done 
contrary  thereto;  further  to  proceed  against  the  transgressors  according 
to  the  tenor  of  the  same;  and  to  execute  promptly  such  orders  as  the 
Governor  General  from  time  to  time  shall  send  to  them. 

II.  The  Schout  and  Schepens  shall  also  be  bound  to  acknowledge 
their  High  Mightinesses  the  Lords  States  General  of  the  United  Nether- 


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lands,  and  his  Serene  Highness,  the  Lord  Prince  of  Orange,  as  their  Sov- 
ereign Rulers,  and  to  maintain  their  high  jurisdiction,  right,  and  dominion 
in  this  land. 

12.  The  choice  of  all  minor  officers  and  assistants  to  the  said  Schout 
and  Schepens  (alone  excepting  the  Secretary's  office)  shall  be  made  and 
confirmed  by  themselves. 

13.  The  Schout  shall  personally,  or  by  his  substitutes,  put  in  execution 
all  the  sentences  of  the  Schepens,  without  releasing  anybody,  except  with 
the  advice  of  the  Court;  also  take  good  care  that  the  places  under  his 
control  shall  be  purged  from  all  rascality,  gambling,  baudy-houses,  and 
such  like  immoralities. 

14.  The  Schout  shall  enjoy  the  half  of  all  civil  fines  accruing  during 
his  term  of  office,  together  with  a  third  part  of  the  allowance  coming  to 
the  respective  towns  from  criminal  cases;  wherefore  he  shall  receive  no 
presents,  directly  or  indirectly,  forbidden  by  the  laws. 

15.  At  the  time  of  election,  the  Schout  and  Schepens  shall  nominate  a 
double  number  of  the  best  qualified,  honest,  intelligent,  and  most  wealthy 
inhabitants,  and  only  those  who  are  of  the  Reformed  Christian  Religion, 
or  at  least  well  disposed  thereto,  as  Schepens,  and  to  be  presented  to 
his  Honor  the  Governor,  from  whom  by  him  the  election  shall  be  made, 
with  the  continuation  of  some  of  the  old,  in  case  his  Honor  shall  deem 
it  necessary.  Done  at  the  fort  Willem  Hendrick  the  First  of  October 
A\  1673. 

By  order  of  the  Honbl.  Governor  General 

and  Council  of  New  Netherland, 

N.  Bayard^  Secretary. 

On  Wednesday,  October  4th,  Governor  Colve  visited  Harlem 
and  held  a  council  there.  Some  of  the  people  of  Fordham,  pre- 
senting themselves,  complained  "of  the  ill-government  of  their 
landlord,  John  Archer,"  and  asked  the  privilege  of  nominating 
their  own  magistrates.  Archer  being  summoned,  also  appeared ; 
and  on  hearing  the  complaint,  he  voluntarily  yielded  up  the  gov- 
ernment there,  retaining  only  the  right  to  his  houses  and  lands ; 
whereupon  the  Court  granted  the  people  their  request,  and  on 
the  following  day,  pursuant  to  previous  notice,  all  the  inhabi- 
tants of  that  place  appeared  at  Harlem,  and  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance  at  the  hand  of  Governor  Colve,  and  before  the  Heer 
Cornelis  Steenwyck,  Burgomaster  Egidius  Luyck,  and  Secretary 
Bayard ;  Resolved  Waldron  and  David  Demarest  being  also  pres- 
ent. Within  a  few  days  Johannes  Verveelen,  Michiel  Bastiaen- 
sen,  and  Valentine  Claessen,  were  elected  magistrates  at  Fordham, 
the  first  being  also  made  secretary. 

The  Harlem  town  court  met  October  6th  with  reference  to 
the  affairs  of  Captain  Delavall,  who  had  departed  with  Governor 
Lovelace  for  England  in  the  ship  of  the  Dutch  commander 
Benckes.  A  statement  being  drawn  up,  he  was  found  indebted 
to  the  town  as  follows: 


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For  his  part  of  Preacher's  salary,  as  per  list  of  Jan.  i6th 

preceding    f.  66  :  16 

"     his  share  of  the  general  expenses  of  the  town,  as  per 

list  of  Mar.  6th 1 .    242  :  16 

"     the  4  gardens  sold  him  off  the  Clover  Pasture 100  :    o 

"     wages  for  labor  in  making  his  fences 84  :    o 

493  :  12 

The  cutting  and  cartage  of  140  palisades,  for  the  city,  was 
also  to  be  added.  His  assets,  in  real  estate,  were  found  to  be, 
"On  Jochem  Pieters,  in  9  lots,  54  morgen ;  on  Keulen's  Hook,  in 
2  lots,  6  morgen;  together,  11  lots,  60  morgen.  In  the  village, 
two  houses  and  erven.     And  meadows  for  hay  in  proportion." 

The  following  petition,  having  reference  to  Delavall,  was 
drawn  up  on  the  19th  of  October: 

To  the  Noble,  Right  Honorable  Lord,  the  Governor  of  New  Netherland. 

Respectfully  make  known  the  Schout  and  Rulers  of  the  Town  New 
Haerlem,  in  the  name  and  on  behalf  of  their  common  Inhabitants,  your 
Excellency's  subjects,  how  that  they  the  petitioners  are  entitled  to  a 
considerable  sum  of  money  from  Capt.  Thomas  Delavall,  on  account  of 
burdens  and  charges  which  by  this  town  some  years  hither  are  borne  upon 
the  lands,  houses,  and  house  lots  (erven),  of  the  Inhabitants,  being 
shown  by  the  assessments  and  accounts  thereof  kept  from  time  to  time ; 
and  the  aforesaid  Thomas  Delavall  having  possessed  extraordinary  par- 
cels of  land,  as  also  houses  and  house  lots,  for  his  quota  has  done, 
contributed,  or  paid  not  one  stiver  to  the  discharging  of  the  town's 
debts,  to  the  great  grievance  of  the  community.  'Tis  now  such,  that  at 
this  village  lies  ^  small  strip  of  land,  between  the  two  common  streets, 
reaching  west  to  common  land  named  the  Clover  Pasture,  having  apper- 
tained to  the  above-mentioned  Delavall,  who  upon  some  of  the  same 
ground  (die  op  de  gront  desselffs),  is  now  remaining  indebted  to  this 
tow^n  one  hundred  guilders;  So  it  is  that  they  the  petitioners,  in  quality 
as  above,  humbly  request  your  Excellency  to  be  pleased  to  grant  and 
confer  upon  them,  the  petitioners,  as  property,  in  recompense  for  the  said 
arrears,  the  said  small  strip  of  land,  so  that  the  inhabitants  aforesaid  may 
use  it  for  a  Calf  Pasture  (as  the  calves  have  little  driving  out),  the  which 
to  nobody's  prejudice  in  particular  is  tending,  but  which  may  serve  for  the 
common  convenience  and  the  inheritance  (oirbor)  of  this  town  and  its 
Inhabitants:  hereupon  awaiting  your  Excellency's  favorable  answer,  re- 
main meanwhile  and  at  all  times  your  Excellency's  right  willing  servants, 
etc.     N.  Haerlem,  19th  Octobr.,  A".  1673. 

Resalvert    Wai^dron, 
David  des  Marest, 
JoosT  van  Obi^inus, 
Arent  Hermensen. 

Answer.  The  Petitioners  are  allowed  to  use  the  small  Clover  Pasture 
requested,  provisionally,  till  such  time  as  order  shall  be  taken  about  the 
affairs  of  Capt  Delavall.  In  the  mean  time  the  Petitioners  to  bring  in 
their  proper  claim  to  the  curators  to  be  chosen  thereto.  Done  in  Fort 
Willem  Hendrick,  on  the  date  23d  October,  A\  1673. 

By  order  of  the  Governor  General  of  N.  Netherland 
and  the  Hon.  Council, 

N.  Bayard,  Secretary, 


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On  the  1st  of  November,  Vander  Vin's  three  years'  service 
having  ended,  he  was  engaged  for  another  year  as  clerk  and 
voorleser,  on  the  same  conditions  as  of  the  23d  of  October,  1670, 
to  wit :  400  guilders,  dwelling  house,  and  fuel.  It  was  also  stipu- 
lated that  the  people  should  keep  the  house  and  the  garden  fence 
in  repair.  The  salary  was  to  be  paid  half-yearly  in  grain  at 
market  value,  and  "according  to  the  old  list  of  the  free-will  con- 
tributors," namely: 

The  Free-will  Contributors  to  the  Voorleser's  office  for  this  ensuing 
year: 

Resolved  Waldron f .  30  :  o 

Glaude  le  Maistre 

Jean  le  Maistre 4  :  o 

Joost  van  Oblinus 25   :  o 

Daniel  Tourneur 30   :  o 

Adolph  Meyer 30  :  o 

David  des  Marest 15   :  o 

Arent  Hermens 8   :  o 

Pierre  Cresson  4  :  o 

Lubbert  Gerritsen   20  :  o 

Cornelis  Jansen 20   :  o 

Jan  Nagel 15   :o 

Jean  le  Roy 6   :  o 

Jan  Dyckman 8   :  o 

Meynard  Joumee 16  :  o 

The  Widow  of  Jan  La  Montagne 

Jan  Louwerens  van  Schoonrewoert 

Simeon  Cornier   

Jean  le  Roy,  rent  of  the  Town^s  allotment •. .  120  :  o 

Rent  of  the  meadows,   beginning   ist  May,   1671,  of 
which  are  to  pay  each  year: 

David  des  Mareset f.  24   :  o 

Jan  Nagel    , 10   :  7 

Lubbert  Gerritsen 10   :  7 

Johannes  Vermelje   10   :  7    55   :  i 

Glaude  le  Maistre's  annual  contribution  had  been  25  guilders, 
but,  for  reasons  which  will  hereafter  appear,  he  declined  to  renew 
his  subscription.  The  three  others  wanting  the  amount  were 
new  subscribers  of  the  previous  year.  The  items  of  rent  for  the 
town  lands  being  added  brought  the  figures  up  to  406  gl.  i  st. 

Some  of  the  neighboring  English,  exasperated  at  the  recap- 
ture of  the  country  by  the  Dutch,  now  began  to  make  trouble;* 
as  will  appear  from  the   following  minutes  of  proceedings  at 
Harlem : 

A*.  1673,  the  7th  November,  Tuesday. 

Present,   Schout,  Magistrates  and  all  the  Inhabitants  of  this  village  col- 
lected. 
Whereas   by   daily  reports   we   arc   informed  that   some   wicked  and 
insolent  persons,  of  the  English  nation,  their  riotings  make  about  these 


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countries,  threatening  to  give  one  and  another  some  molestation  and 
trouble  by  robbing  and  burning;  before  which  threats  those  of  us  who 
live  outside  will  not  prove  secure.  But  as  much  that  is  feasible  to  be 
done  rests  upon  our  care,  through  heed  and  keeping  watch  upon  such  as 
may  be  disposed  to  do  the  same  some  hurt  and  damage,  owing  to  their 
ability  to  escape  away  to  a  great  distance;  So  it  is  that  we,  Schout, 
Magistrates,  and  the  whole  community,  being  assembled,  have  found 
good  and  deemed  necessary  to  watch  by  turns  during  the  nights;  and 
that  it  may  take  place  more  orderly,  we  have  thought  it  necessary  to 
appoint  a  suitable  person  as  Captain,  to  command  as  many  as  go  on  watch, 
to  whom  we  promise  obedience  and  submission  in  all  that  which  he 
shall  therein  command,  upon  forfeiture  of  the  fines  also  hereby  ordered; 
and  by  a  majority  of  votes  is  thereunto  chosen  and  confirmed  the  person 
Comelis  Jansen,  as  Captain.  And  moreover  the  community  are  divided 
into  four  companies  or  corporalships,  in  order,  by  turns  with  their  fellow 
soldiers,  to  keep  the  night  watch,  and  to  go  the  rounds  as  needful,  and 
each  his  arms  to  keep  ready,  provided  with  powder  and  lead  as  required. 
Whoever  neglects  the  watch  without  lawful  reason,  or  those  whose  arms 
are  not  ready,  wanting  necessary  powder  and  lead,  or  the  command  of 
the  Captain,  or  his  Corporal  oppose,  shall  forfeit  each  time  three  guilders, 
for  the  use  of  the  whole  company.  Thus  done  at  N.  Haerlem,  the  7th 
November,  1673. 

List  of  the  Corporalships. 

1.  Jan  Nagel,  Corporal, 
Joost  van  Oblinus, 
Jan  Helmont, 

Jean  le  Maistre, 
Jean  le  Roy, 
Robert  HolHs. 

2.  Simeon  Cornier,  Corporal, 
Lubbert  Gerritsen, 
Samuel  Pell, 

Jacque  el  Roe, 
Barent  Waldron, 
Samuel  des  Marest. 

3.  Jan  Dyckman,  Corporal, 
Arent  Hermens, 

David  des  Marest,  Jr., 
Jan  Tincker, 
Conradus  Hendricksen, 
Comelis  Theunissen. 

4.  Adolph  Meyer,  Corporal, 
Laurens  Matthyssen 
David  des  Marest, 
Daniel  Tourneur, 
Jochem  Engelbert, 
Meyndert  Journee. 

The  gratitude  of  the  Dutch  inhabitants  at  the  restoration  of 
the  country  to  Holland,  now  found  expression  throughout  the 
colony  in  the  observance,  not  of  a  day  merely,  but  of  a  series  of 
public  thanksgivings.  The  following  letter  and  proclamation 
from  the  new  governor  explains  it: 


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3IO  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Honest,   Beloved,   Faithful,   the   Schout   and   Magistrates   of  the   village 

Haerlem. 
Honest,  Beloved,  Faithful, 

These  serve  to  accompany  the  inclosed  proclamation  of  a  general  day 
of  thanksgiving,  fasting,  and  prayer,  which  you  are  required  to  publish 
at  the  usual  time  and  place,  and  to  take  care  that  it  be  observed  after  the 
tenor  thereof;  let  also  the  inclosed  be  seasonably  sent  on  to  the  village  of 
Fordham.    Whereon  relying,  I  remain,  after  greetings,  your  friend, 

A.  CoLvi;. 

Fort  Willem  Hendrick, 

20th  November,  1673. 

Proclamation* 
Honest,  Beloved,  Faithful, 

Considering  the  manifold  blessings  and  benefits  wherewith  the  only 
good  and  merciful  God  has  favored  this  province  and  its  inhabitants,  of 
which  by  no  means  the  least  is  their  fortunate  restoration  under  their 
former  lawful  and  natural  rulers,  and  that  which  is  above  all  to  be  prized, 
the  continuance  of  the  reformed  worship,  which  also,  like  all  other  blessings 
and  benefits  to  us,  not  only  imposes  a  debt  of  gratitude,  but  also,  in 
truth,  humility  and  repentance  for  our  manifold  and  weighty  sins,  so 
that  the  Almighty  God  may  continue  His  blessings,  and  this  land  and 
people  be  freed  from  His  righteous  judgments  and  well-deserved  punish- 
ment; Therefore  it  is  that  we  have  judged  it  highly  necessary  by  these 
to  ordain  and  proclaim  a  general  day  for  thanks,  fasting,  and  prayer, 
which  everywhere  within  this  province  shall  be  observed  every  first  Wed- 
nesday in  each  month,  beginning  on  Wednesday,  the  6th  December  next 
coming,  and  so  following  on  each  first  Wednesday  in  the  month.  And 
that  all  may  be  the  better  practised  and  observed,  so  by  these  interdicted 
and  forbidden,  on  the  aforesaid  thank,  fast,  and  prayer  day,  all  labor,  and 
play  of  tennis-court,  ball-tossing,  fishing,  hunting,  gaming,  sailing,  dice- 
playing,  excessive  drinking,  and  all  tapping  of  liquors  by  innkeepers;  the 
whole  upon  penalty  of  arbitrary  correction.  For  the  observance  of  the 
same,  the  Magistrates,  Officers,  and  Justices  of  this  province  to  whom  these 
shall  be  sent,  are  required  and  charged  strictly  to  provide  that  the  trans- 
gressors be  proceeded  against  as  they  should  be ;  and  to  make  known  this 
our  proclamation  by  timely  publication  where  such  is  necessary.  Herewith 
committing  you  to  the  protection  of  the  Most  High;  Honest,  Beloved, 
Faithful, 

Your  affectionate  friend,  A.   Colve. 

Fort  Willem  Hendrick, 

15th  November,  1673. 

In  fitting  mood  was  the  community  at  Harlem  to  receive 
this  message,  for  on  that  self-same  day,  November  21st,  one 
much  esteemed  in  the  town,  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  late  an  overseer, 
departed  this  life.*     The  town  was  also  full  of  the  alarms  which 

•  This  interesting  document  is  newly  translanted  from  the  Dutch,  the  old  transla- 
tion printed  in  N.  Y.  Col.  Doc.  ii.,  658,  being  faulty  . 

•  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  having  lived  at  Gravesend,  L.  I.,  till  after  his  youngest  child 
was  born,  appears  at  Harlem  in  1661,  when  he  bought  the  house  and  land  of  Matthys 
Boon,  who  then  left  the  town.  He  was  chosen  adelborst  in  1663,  and  held  several 
town  offices  afterward,  serving  as  overseer  the  year  before  he  died.  His  property  has 
been  shown,  as  in  his  inventory  taken  November  27,  1673.  His  children,  all  bom  in 
this  county,  and  by  his  first  wife,  Grietien  Dircks,  were,  Lvsbeth,  born  1651,  who 
married  Dirck  Evertson  Fluyt  and  toris  Burger,  both  of  New  York;  Gcrrit  and  Dirck, 
twins,  born  1653:  Gerrit,  born  1055,  and  Eva,  born  1657,  who  married  Arent  Har- 
mans  Bussing.  Lubbert's  second  marriage  with  the  widow  Femmetic  Coenraets  has 
been   noticed.     Their  contracts,   respectively  providing  for  their   former  children,   arc 


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had  dictated  the  institution  of  the  night  watch,  and  excited  over 
the  arrest  at  Spuyten  Duyvel  of  one  Francois  Beado,  aged  about 
2j  years,  a  native  of  London,  for  being  concerned,  as  was  be- 
lieved, in  a  conspiracy  against  the  Dutch.  From  Verveelen's, 
where  during  his  detention  he  had  tried  to  induce  one  James 
Pinnet,  of  Fordham,  "to  assist  him  to  kill  the  ferryman  and  other 
people,  saying  they  were  but  Dutch,"  he  was  taken  and  lodged 
in  the  fort  at  New  Orange.  At  his  examination  before  the 
Governor  and  Council,  November  28th,  Pinnet  and  George  Tip- 
pett  gave  evidence  against  him.  The  following  deposition  was 
also  taken: 

"William  Smith,  aged  about  46  years,  inhabitant  of  Ford- 
ham,  declareth  upon  oath  that  Francois  Beado,  now  in  prison, 
about  six  weeks  ago  came  to  the  deponent  at  Fordham  and 
inquired  what  neighbors  he  had;  then  saying  further  that  he 
had  a  commission  from  the  *  *  *  on  this  side,  Canada,  to  burn, 
take,  kill,  and  ruin  all  the  Dutch ;  because  he  and  his  father,  and 
cousin,  had  lost  by  them  about  800  pounds,  which  he  was  resolved 
to  get  again ;  and  when  this  deponent  questioned  his  commission, 
the  copy  of  which  he  did  read  to  the  deponent,  he,  the  said  Beado, 
replied  that  if  he  had  no  other,  his  sword  and  his  half-pike 
(which  he  had  in  his  hand)  was  his  commission,  the  Dutch  being 
his  enemies, — and  the  second  day  after  the  said  Beado  came  again 
to  the  deponent,  and  said  he  was  beset  by  three  rogues,  but  that 
he  had  two  friends  in  the  woods  with  whom  he  was  resolved  to 
meet  them;  inquiring  further  what  woman  Michiel  Bastiaensen, 
his  wife  was,  saying  that  he  would  burn  Mr.  Verveelen's  and  the 
said  Michiel's  house,  but  he  was  afraid  that  the  said  woman 
would  betray  him,  she  having  seen  his  half-pike;  and  desired 
further  that  this  deponent  would  warn  Mr.  Gibbs,  who  quartered 
at  MichieFs  house,  of  his  intention." 

Beado  also  confessed  "without  torture,"  and  being  found 
guilty  of  disturbing  and  breaking  the  peace,  was  sentenced  to 
be  publicly  bound  to  a  stake  and  branded  on  the  back  with  a 
red-hot  iron,  and  then  banished  from  the  province,  for  a  term 
of  twenty-five  years,  which  sentence  was  put  in  execution  on 
December  20th. 

The  intense  excitement  which  these  things  created  in  the 
community  at  Harlem   was  heightened   by  the   fears   generally 

dated  June  28,  and  their  niarna|re  bans  July  7,  1660.  Lubbert  chose  as  guardians  of 
his  children's  inheritance,  Jan  Gcrritsen  de  Varies,  from  Workum,  and  Adrian  Dirck- 
•en  Coen,  from  Maasen,  in  Utrecht.  Judging  from  their  patronymics,  these  may 
have  been,  one  his  brother,  the  other  his  first  wife's  brother.  Dirck  and  Gerrit  Lub- 
bertsen  are  not  again  named  here;  the  last  no  doubt  the  "Gerrit  Lubbertsen,  from 
New  York,'*  who  married  Alida  Everts,  at  Albany,  in  1684.     Pearson's  Alb.  Settlers. 


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entertained  that  an  attempt  would  be  made  by  the  English  gov- 
ernment to  recover  possession  of  the  province.  The  following 
letter  received  from  Governor  Colve  has  reference  to  this: 

To  the  Schout,  Magistrates,  and  Inhabitants  of  the  Towns  of  New  Haerlem 

and  Fordham. 
Good  Friends, 

On  last  Tuesday  week  I  had  some  conference  in  the  town  of  Midwout 
with  the  Magistrates  and  chief  officers  of  all  the  Dutch  towns  situated 
on  Long  Island,  concerning  the  present  condition  of  the  country,  and 
had  wished  indeed  that  time  and  the  season  of  the  year  had  permitted 
me  to  visit  you  the  same  as  the  rest;  but  time  not  allowing  this,  I  have 
therefore  deemed  it  necessary  hereby  to  incite  you  to  your  duty,  and 
with  many  of  the  other  good  inhabitants  to  fulfil  your  oath  and  honor, 
whereof  I  entertain  not  the  least  doubt,  being  herein  partly  assured  by 
the  Schouts  of  your  respective  towns.  Therefore  nothing  remains  but 
to  recommend  you  to  keep  a  wakeful  eye  on  all  designs  which  may  be 
concocted  against  this  province  or  yourselves  in  particular,  and  always  to 
be  ready  to  transport  your  families  and  movables  hither,  on  certain  informa- 
tion of  the  enemy's  approach,  or  on  special  command  from  me ;  and  that 
such  may  be  executed  in  good  order,  Schout  Resolved  Waldron  is  hereby 
appointed  chief  officer  of  the  militia  of  the  towns  of  Haerlem  and  Ford- 
ham,  with  order  to  communicate  these  presents  to  the  inhabitants  of 
said  towns,  who,  for  the  preservation  of  better  order  in  each  town,  are 
hereby  required  to  choose  a  Sergeant,  and  not  to  fail  to  give  me  informa- 
tion of  all  that  occurs.    Whereupon  relying,  I  remain, 

Your  friend,  A.  CoLVE. 

Fort  Willem  Hendrick, 
27th  Xber,  1673. 

This  coupling  of  Harlem  and  the  adjacent  parts  of  West- 
chester in  one  jurisdiction,  seen  thus  early  to  be  expedient,  was 
fully  consummated  just  two  centuries  later,  in  1873. 

The  panic  at  Harlem  was  almost  as  great  as  if  the  enemy 
were  already  at  their  doors.  Influenced  by  rumors  of  their 
approach,  many  left  for  the  city  or  other  places,  and  the  Sabbath 
congregations  were  reduced  to  a  mere  handful.  The  Secretary, 
Vander  Vin,  on  January  21,  1674,  makes  this  entry  in  the  dea- 
con's accounts:  "Owing  to  the  daily  reports  of  the  coming  of 
the  English,  the  inhabitants  being  fled  with  their  families  and 
movable  goods,  little  was  collected  and  found  at  the  date  of 
January  21st.'*  But  this  excitement  soon  spent  itself  and  sub- 
sided, things  became  more  settled,  the  fast-days  were  regularly 
observed,  and  the  Sunday  services  better  sustained. 

About  this  time  complaint  was  made  against  Hendrick 
Kiersen  and  Reyer  Michielsen,  of  Fordham,  for  shooting  a  hog 
belonging  to  Jean  le  Maistre.  These  two,  according  to  their 
statement,  came  over  to  this  Island,  on  Monday,  January  29th, 
to  look  for  a  hog  which  had  strayed.  In  their  hunt  they  shot  a 
deer,  and  soon  after  that  Kiersen,  espying,  as  he  thought,  the 


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missing  hog,  told  Reyer  to  shoot  it,  which  he  did.  As  they  could 
carry  but  one  with  them,  they  took  the  dear,  and  left  the  hog 
for  another  time.  Reyer  went  for  it  two  days  after,  when  some- 
one seeing  it  was  curious  enough  to  examine  the  head,  and  found 
upon  the  ear  the  mark  of  young  Lodewyck  Ackerman,  from  whom 
Le  Maistre  had  gotten  the  hog.  Reyer  passed  an  examination 
before  the  magistrates  at  Harlem  on  February  ist,  and  the  case 
was  referred  to  the  Burgomasters, — Cornelis  Jansen,  who  was 
cousin  to  the  accused,  becoming  his  bail.  The  Burgomasters, 
February  3d,  sent  the  case  back  to  the  magistrates  for  further 
inquiry.  This  was  made  on  the  5th,  the  testimony  being  sent 
to  the  Burgomasters,  and  from  them  to  the  Governor  and  Coun- 
cil, by  whom  the  case  was  again  referred  back  to  the  local  court 
at  Harlem,  to  be  there  decided,  "unless  they  find  it  to  be  crim- 
inal." As  a  curiosity,  we  give  the  minute  of  the  examination  on 
February  5th: 
On  5th  February,  Monday. 

Present,  the  Ileeren,  Resolved  Waldron,  Schout. 

David  des  Marest,    ] 
Joosf  van   Obunus,  -Magistrates. 
Arent  Hermensen,  J 
Interrogatories  to  be  put  to  Reyer  Michielsen  and  Hendrick 
Kiersen,  both  living  at  Fordham,  about  the  shooting  of  a  hog 
upon  this  Island,  belonging  to  Jean  Le  Alaistre,  &c. 

Answer. 

1st.     Reyer  Michielsen. 

2d.     Hendrick  Kiersen. 

1st.  In  the  Prince's  Land,  about 
Schoonrewoert. 

2d.    At  Giest,  in  the  Land  of  Drent. 

1st.    About  20  years. 

2d.    About  25  years. 

1st.     No  one  has  given  orders. 

2d.  Thought  not  that  he  was  doing 
wrong  to  fetch  his  own  hog. 

1st.  Well  knew  that  such  was  the 
order  under  the  English  rule,  but 
knew  not  that  it  continued  under 
the  Dutch. 

2d.    As  above. 

1st.  Knew  not  that  it  was  another 
person's  hog,  but  his  brother-in- 
law,  Hendrick  Kiersen,  said  that 
it  was  his. 

2d.  Thought  that  it  was  his  own 
hog. 

1st.  Knew  well  that  it  was  not  my 
hog,  but  my  brother-in-law  still 
knew  not  better  than  'twas  his 
own. 

2d.  Knew  not  better  than  'twas  his 
own  hog. 


Question. 

1.  What  is  your  name? 

2.  Where  were  you  born? 


3.  How  old  are  you? 

4.  Who   has   given   you  orders 
shoot  hogs  upon  this  Island? 


to 


5.  You  knew  well  that  you  might 
hunt  no  hogs  upon  this  Island 
without  the  knowledge  of  the 
magistrates  of  N.  Haerlem? 

6.  AVhy  do  you  shoot  other  people's 
hogs? 


7.  When  you  had  shot  the  hog,  did 
you  not  well  know  that  it  was  not 
yours  ? 


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8.  Why  did  you  not  take  it  away  at     ist.    Because  that  he,  having  shot  a 
the  first?  deer,  thereupon  for  that  time  had 

enough  to  carry. 
2d.    That  they  had  to  carry  a  deer. 

9.  Why  did  you  skin  the  hog?  ist.     Because  I  saw  that  in  the  night 

it  would  freeze,  and  then  the  hair 
would  not  come  off. 
2d.     Because  that  he  thought  it  to  l)e 
his,  and  therewith  might  do  as  he 
saw  fit. 

10.  Why  did  you  carry  it  in  sacks?     ist.     Because  he  thought  that  they 

could  carry  it  better  in  sacks. 
2d.     Because  it  was  to  be  better  car- 
ried in  sacks";   but  has  not  been 
near  there. 

11.  Why  sought  you  to  conceal  it     ist.     Denied  that;  and  said  he  had 
when  you  perceived  our  folks?  had  no  thought  to  hide  the  sacks. 

12.  Why  did  you  not  fetch  the  hog     ist.     Because    the    kill    was    frozen, 
the  next  day?  and  the  canoe  could  not  get  off. 

2d.    That  he  was  busy  with  thresh- 
ing, and  also  gave  it  no  thought, 
as  it  was  a  lean  hog. 

The  result  was  that  proceedings  were  dropped,  the  evidence 
not  clearly  showing  a  criminal  intent;  but  at  the  desire  of  the 
magistrates,  the  Governor  and  Council,  on  April  i8th,  issued  a 
stringent  order  in  regard  to  the  offence  of  shooting  hogs  in  the 
common  woods  of  this  Island,  without  consent  of  the  Harlem 
or  City  authorities. 

The  attention  of  the  government  was  also  drawn  to  the 
matter  of  securing  the  horses  of  the  late  governor,  Lovelace,  and 
of  Captain  Delavall  and  others,  "now  running  in  the  woods  upon 
Manhattan  Island,"  and  the  magistrates  of  Harlem  were  notified 
to  employ  the  whole  community  on  the  second  day  of  the  com- 
ing Whitsuntide,  "to  collect  and  drive  into  their  village  all  the 
horses"  belonging  to  the  aforesaid  persons,  and  other  of  the  late 
English  officials.  This  order  was  given  by  the  Governor  April 
27th. 

Little  more  of  interest  transpired  in  the  "dorp"  for  some 
months  succeeding,  except  a  few  transfers  of  property,  from 
which  may  be  had  an  idea  of  the  value  of  Harlem  lands  at  that 
period.  On  May  2d  Jean  le  Roy  executed  a  deed  to  Simeon 
Cornier  for  his  farm,  consisting  of  a  house,  barn,  and  erf,  a  lot 
on  Jochem  Pieters,  and  one  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  with 
meadows;  for  which  Cornier  had  a  bill  of  sale,  dated  February 
24,  1672,  the  price  paid  being  1,400  gl.  At  a  public  sale,  July 
5th,  of  the  estate  of  the  late  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  a  lot  of  tillable 
land,  No.  9,  Jochem  Pieters,  with  the  crops  thereon,  and  the 
meadows  thereto  belonging,  and  the  erf  with  house  and  barn. 


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were  struck  off  to  his  stepson,  Conrad  Hendricksen,  for  875  fl. 
His  lot  No.  4,  Jochem  Pieters,  with  its  meadows,  and  a  garden 
(No.  11),  for  a  building  plot,  "west  of  the  village  and  north 
of  the  street,"  and  "between  Cornelis  Jansen  and  Joost  Van 
Oblinus,"  was  sold  to  David  Demarest,  Sr.,  for  925  fl. 

But  now  came  news  of  a  peace  in  Europe,  welcome  enough 
in  itself,  but  which  cost  the  Dutch  inhabitants  a  tearful  regret 
when  they  learned  that,  by  stipulation,  the  colony  was  to  be  again 
given  up  to  the  English.  The  news  was  officially  communicated 
in  a  letter  of  July  3d,  from  Secretary  Bayard,  inclosing  the  Gov- 
ernor's proclamation  of  peace,  dated  June  30th,  and  postponing 
the  fast-day  for  eight  days,  and  changing  it  into  a  day  of  thanks- 
giving. It  directed  that  on  July  nth,  in  the  forenoon,  religious 
service  should  be  held,  and  the  proclamation  of  peace  published. 

Several  months  passed  before  an  English  government  suc- 
ceeded to  the  Dutch,  and  the  interval  was  marked  by  a  little 
shrewd  preparation  for  it.  This  caused  considerable  litigation 
in  the  town  court ;  several  parties  sued  the  Tourneurs,  to  recover 
for  work  done  for  Delavall,  by  direction  of  the  elder  Tourneur, 
while  acting  as  his  agent,  and  in  connection  with  which  suits 
the  old  story  of  Tourneur's  having  killed  a  man  in  France  was 
again  revived  by  the  Disosways,  and  as  the  widow  said,  "to  the 
great  damage  of  herself  and  children.*'  These  demands  for 
pa>Tnent  were  generally  sustained,  though  it  appeared  that  the 
late  Tourneur  had  declared  to  Martin  Hardewyn,  "I  will  no 
more  pay  the  debts  of  Delavall,  but  I  will  give  you  an  order 
upon  him  to  pay  you." 

It  is  pleasing  to  note  the  regularity  with  which  both  civil 
and  church  affairs  proceeded,  amid  all  these  disturbing  causes. 
The  new  nomination  for  magistrates  was  made  on  September 
24th,  and  the  choice  and  confirmation  by  the  Burgomaster's 
court,  October  4th.  Waldron  was  continued  as  shout,  and 
Oblinus  as  schepen,  the  new  schepens  being  Adolph  Meyer  and 
Jan  Dyckman.  On  October  29th,  Dominie  Nieuwenhuysen  came 
up  and  installed  as  new  deacon  Simeon  Cornier,  to  serve  with 
Joost  Van  Oblinus,  then  holding  the  office.  He  was  attended  by 
the  Heer  Van  Cortlandt,  one  of  the  city  elders,  and  the  accounts 
of  the  church  from  July  26,  1672,  were  taken  up,  audited,  and 
pronounced  correct.*     During  that  period  there  had  been  col- 

•  Olof  Stevens  Van  Courtlandt,  the  common  ancestor  of  the  Van  Cortlandt  family 
in  this  country,  was  a  wealthy  brewer,  ocupyine  a  residence  in  Stone  street,  adjoining 
his  "malthouse;"  and  here  he  died  April  4,  1684.  His  son  Jacobus,  a  prominent  mer- 
chant,  bought  of  Jacques  Tourneur,  September  28,  1705,  about  two  acres  of  ^It 
meadow  on  the  Harlem  side  of  the  Spuyten  Duyvel,  which  remaining  in  the  family 
168   years  before   it   was   sold,   became   very   valuable.      In   a   communication  to  "Mir. 


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lected  on  the  Sabbath,  fast-days,  and  Fridays,  for  preparation 
for  the  communion  (as  also  on  Christmas,  when  services  were 
held  and  the  largest  collection  realized),  the  sum  of  184  florins, 
9  stivers,  and  8  pennings,  from  which  71  florins  had  been  ex- 
pended in  alms,  etc.,  leaving  a  balance  of  113  fl.  9  st.  8  p.  in  the 
deacon's  chest.  Thereupon  Secretary  Vander  Vin  closes  the 
account  with  the  following  formal  entry: 

"On  the  date,  29th  October,  1674,  these  accounts  collected, 
and  agreeing  with  the  above  donations,  are  found  to  be  correct, 
with  the  assistance  of  the  Heer  Olof  Stevens  Van  Cortlandt, 
Elder  of  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  in  the  city  of  New  Orange, 
and  the  same  are  also  closed." 

Dominie  Nieuwenhuysen  had  already  had  a  useful  ministry ; 
since  he  came,  about  twenty  of  the  Harlem  people  had  been 
received  to  church  membership,  mostly  young  men  and  women. 
The  last  accessions  were  Adolph  Meyer,  Cornelis  Jansen,  Conrad 
Hendricksen,  and  Jean  le  Maistre,  on  March  ist  preceding;  and 
the  next  were  received  December  13th  following,  namely,  Barent 
Waldron,  his  sister  Ruth,  afterward  Mrs.  Jean  le  Maistre,  and 
Eva  Lubberts,  afterward  married  to  Arent  Harmans  Bussing. 

Impatient  to  see  the  English  rule  re-established,  a  few  rest- 
less spirits  in  Westchester,  who  had  already  given  the  Dutch 
much  annoyance,  now  began  to  bluster  about  the  country  venting 
their  spleen  on  the  Hollanders,  and  vaunting  their  loyalty  to  the 
king.  Of  these  was  Thomas  Hunt,  Jr.,  who  having  at  first 
refused  to  take  the  oath  of  allegiance,  and  been  ordered  to  leave 
the  province,  was,  at  his  father's  request,  allowed  to  remain  on 
accepting  the  oath  and  giving  security  for  its  observance.  On 
Monday,  November  5th,  Hunt  and  five  or  six  others  came  riding 
toward  the  village.  Accosting  Pierre  Cresson,  who  was  engaged 
fixing  his  fence,  with  a  "Howd'ye  do,"  to  which  he  replied,  "So 
and  so,"  they  passed  on,  falling  in  with  a  flock  of  geese,  which 
they  began  to  chase,  heeding  not  Pierre's  remonstrance  to  "let 
the  geese  alone."  At  several  houses  in  the  village  they  stopped, 
demanding  in  an  insolent  manner  feed  for  their  horses,  and  bread 
and  beer  for  themselves.  Mrs.  Toumeur  told  them  she  had 
nothing  to  give,  but  said,  "There  is  water;  if  you  are  thirsty, 
drink  it."  Her  daughter,  Madeleine  (Mrs.  Dyckman),  pertly 
added,  "If  we  had  them  we  should  not  give  them  to  you." 
Finding  Jan  Nagel  at  his  house,  they  called  out,  "Here,  give  us 
oats  for  our  horses ;  or  else  peas  or  wheat."     Nagel,  not  the  one 

Samuel  E.  Lyon,  of  New  York,  May  2,  1873,  J"st  previous  to  said  sale,  wc  had  the 
pleasure  of  restoring  the  knowledge  of  the  ola  title,  which  had  become  lost,  to  the 


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to  be  intimidated,  answered,  "I  have  no  oats ;  biit  peas  and  wheat 
are  strange  food  for  horses !"  Said  Hunt,  "I  must  and  will  have 
some,  nevertheless."  Nagel  repeated  that  he  had  none  for  him; 
whereupon  Hunt  asked  "Does  not  Waldron  live  here?'*  Nagel 
signified  that  he  did.  "He  does  not,"  replied  Hunt,  "you  know 
very  well  where  he  lives."  And,  so  saying,  they  rode  on. 
Waldron  was  not  at  home;  but  his  wife,  Tanneke  Nagel,  like 
her  namesake,  showed  a  proper  courage.  "Give  us  oats  for  our 
horses,"  demanded  Hunt;  to  which  Mrs.  Waldron  replied,  "I 
have  none."  "Then  give  us  peas  or  wheat,"  said  he.  "There 
are  none  threshed,  and  I  cannot  get  any,"  was  the  answer.  With 
his  usual  oath.  Hunt  said,  "I  will  have  some,  threshed  or  un- 
threshed";  then  adding,  "Or  give  us  wine  or  rum;  have  you 
nothing  for  the  king's  soldier's?"  "I  know  no  king's  soldiers," 
said  the  matron.  "I  am  a  soldier  of  the  king,  by  the  blood  of 
God,"  said  Hunt,  striking  his  breast,  "and  I  shall  and  will  have 
it!  Is  not  your  husband  the  Constable?"  he  further  demanded. 
"Xo,"  said  the  spirited  Tanneke,  "but  my  husband  is  the  Schout 
of  this  town."  Venting  curses  upon  Waldron,  Hunt  turned  and 
left  with  his  companions. 

Waldron  entered  a  complaint  to  Governor  Colve,  and  by 
his  order  the  magistrates  on  the  7th  held  a  court  of  inquiry  upon 
the  matter.  But  Hunt  just  escaped  merited  punishment,  owing 
to  an  important  event  which  happened  only  three  days  after,  and 
of  which  the  careful  Vander  Vin  makes  the  following  minute: 

"1674,  the  loth  November,  New,  or  31st  October,  Old  Style, 
was  the  fort  Willem  Hendrick  again  to  the  English  governor 
yielded  up,  and  the  governor,  A.  Colve,  with  his  people,  there- 
from departed;  the  fort  again  named  Fort  James,  and  the  city, 
New  York." 


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CHAPTER    XX. 

1674-1677. 

english  rule  restored;  refugees;  captain  carteret;  indian 
war;  land  grants;  spuyten  duyvel  occupied. 

CIR  EDMUND  ANDROS,  the  new  governor  referred  to. 
^  was  accompanied,  besides  his  own  retinue  of  officers  and 
soldiers,  by  several  families  of  French  refugees  who  had  fled  to 
England  from  the  Palatinate,  lately  invaded  and  laid  waste  by 
the  ruthless  armies  of  Louis  XIV.  under  Marshal  Turenne. 
Among  these  refugees  were  Nicholas  de  Vaux  (whence  our  De 
Vouw,  and  De  Voe),  Isaac  See,  Isaac  See,  Junior,  and  Jean  le 
Comte,  all  of  whom  were  related.  These,  with  Gerard  Magister, 
evidently  of  the  same  band,  came  directly  to  Harlem  on  account, 
as  it  would  seem,  of  old  Mannheim  acquaintances,  Demarest  and 
others.  Some  brought  their  household  goods,  but  as  choicer 
treasures,  the  Holy  Scriptures  in  French,  the  French  Psalm  Book, 
and  the  then  highly  prized  Book  of  Martyrs.  De  Vaux,  Le 
Comte,  and  their  wives,  united  with  the  church  on  the  first  oppor- 
tunity, the  13th  of  December. 

Andros  restored  the  English  form  of  government.  The 
Mayor's  Court  again  resumed  its  jurisdiction,  and  by  its  order 
the  town,  on  December  7th,  nominated  a  double  number  of  per- 
sons from  which  to  fill  the  places  of  constable  and  overseers. 
The  next  day  the  Court  acted  upon  the  nominations.  Schout 
Waldron  gave  place  to  David  des  Marest  as  constable;  Comelis 
Jansen  took  his  seat  as  an  overseer,  and  with  him,  the  old 
schepens,  Oblinus,  Meyer,  and  Dyckman.  They  were  not  sworn 
in  till  January   19th. 

Several  of  the  Dutch  settlers  about  Spuyten  Duyvel,  proba- 
bly distrusting  the  English  and  feeling  unsafe,  removed  down 
into  the  village.  Michiel  Bastiaesen  and  his  son-in-law,  Hen- 
drick  Kiersen,  hired  from  the  widow  Tourneur  and  her  son 
Daniel,  January  i,  1675,  their  farm  upon  Jochem  Pieters  and 
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stock  and  farming  tools,  for  three  years  from  May  ist  ensuing.' 
The  Tourneurs  apparently  intended  an  early  removal  to  their 
farm  on  Montagne's  Flat,  which  was  to  be  Daniel's  inheritance. 
They  were  still  annoyed  by  that  injurious  report,  the  more 
keenly  felt,  now  that  the  object  of  it  lived  only  in  their  affffec- 
uons.  But  the  widow,  bent  on  putting  a  stop  to  it,  had  on 
December  22d  made  a  complaint  to  the  Mayor's  Court,  that 
Elizabeth  Nightingale  "had  greatly  defamed  her  husband  de- 
ceased." Thereupon  "the  Court  ordered  that,  it  being  formerly 
determined,  the  defendant  shall,  either  at  Harlem  or  in  this 
court,  make  an  acknowledgment  and  pay  all  costs."  Lysbet  had 
to  comply,  but  preferred  a  journey  to  the  city  to  facing  exultant 
adversaries  whom  she  would  meet  at  the  town  court.  Her  ap- 
pearance, January  19th,  the  day  the  magistrates  were  sworn  in, 
is  thus  noticed :  "The  Def*  brought  into  y*^  Court  her  suplicatory 
peticon,  in  w*^**  was  her  acknowledgm*  for  her  wrong  and  injury 
to  y^  Plt^  husband;  w*^^  y^  Court  accepted  off,  conditionally  she 
behaved  her  selfe  well,  and  pay  all  costs."* 

•  Marc  du  Sauchoy,  ancestor  of  the  Disoswav  family,  has  place  in  our  introductory 
sketches  of  the  French  refugees,  etc.  As  we  follow  these  homeless  refugees  from  ex- 
citing scenes  in  the  Old  World,  when,  no  longer  the  suffering  victims  of  despotism, 
wc  can  only  contemplate  them  amid  peaceful  walks  and  engaged  in  commonplace  pur- 
suits, we  cannot  but  mark  with  interest  the  happy  effects  of  the  change  in  their  am- 
bitious and  laborious  efforts  to  provide  a  home  and  living  for  themselves  and  families — 
the  admirable  versatility,  especially  in  the  choice  of  new  callings,  with  which  they 
adapted  themselves  to  circumstances  every  way  extraordinary.  Our  Disosway,  late 
wool-carder,  on  his  first  visit  to  this  country,  found  employment  in  cleaning  up  some 
land  at  Flatbush  for  Cornelis  Van  Ruyven.  Well  pleased  with  the  island,  and  being 
Dresent,  June  17,  1655,  when  his  countryman,  Pierre  Terracon,  bought  a  farm  at 
Mcspat,  Disosway  went  there  on  his  return  in  1657,  and  leasing  Burner  Joris'  mill,  at 
Dutch  Kills,  the  former  wood-cutter  now  became  a  miller.  This  proving  a  failure,  but 
fay  no  fault  of  his,  gave  it  up  for  a  plantation,  and  turned  to  farming  in  the  town  of 
Brooklyn,  to  which  place  he  and  wife,  April  10,  166 1,  transferred  their  church  connec- 
tion from  New  Amsterdam.  Selling  his  farm  a  year  later  to  Pierre  Prae,  from  Dieppe, 
who  had  refuged  at  Leydcn  when  Disosway  was  there.  Marc  appears  at  Harlem, 
January  3,  1664,  as  prosecutor  of  a  claim  against  Claude  le  Maistre  for  95^  guilders, 
and  soon  after  removed  here  and  hired  lands  of  Jean  le  Roy.  How  long  was  toe  lease 
wc  know  not,  but  it  had  expired  March  15,  1667,  date  of  their  settlement.  Archer 
now  induced  him  to  take  a  farm  in  Fordham,  where  he  continued  to  live  a  number 
of  years. 

The  quarrel  with  the  Tourneurs,  grown  bitter  as  many  in  feudal  story,  was  shown 
in  the  mutual  disposition  to  vex  one  another.  The  charge  of  homicide,  reiterated  so 
persistently,  was  met  by  recriminations  even  worse,  till  the  local  ma^strates  became 
weary  of  it.  Wisely,  the  Mayor's  Court  cooled  Dame  Disosway's  itching  to  push 
her  adversary  to  the  wall  by  making  good  her  charge;  and  but  for  the  rejection  ot  her 
offer  to  send  to  France  for  proof,  we  might  know  more  of  the  affair  in  question.  The 
settlement  of  some  old  accounts  between  the  parties,  March  4,  1674.  in  presence  of 
the  magistrates,  was  another  step  toward  cessation  of  hostilities.  Still  trvshet,  but 
four  days  after,  made  another  charge  in  the  Mavor*s  Court  against  the  widow  Tour- 
neur,  but  it  was  dismissed  as  '"a  vexatious  suit,  with  costs  to  the  plaintiff;  and  no 
more  is  heard  of  this  quarrel. 

Disosway  must  have  had  means,  to  pay  80  guilders  for  **a,  Book  of  Martyrs  and 
others,"  from  the  estate  of  Jean  Ic  Comte,  as  he  did  Julv  2,  1675.  He  bought  lots 
Nos.  8,  9,  on  Hoorn's  Hook,  from  Jan  Delamater,  NovemSer  29,  1670,  but  presentlv 
sold  them.  On  June  7,  1683,  he  and  wife  took  letters  from  the  Dutch  to  the  French 
church,  newly  formed  under  Rev.  Pierre  Daille.  He  soon  moved  to  Staten  Island, 
where  225  acres  of  land  near  Daniel's  Neck  were  laid  out  to  him  April  §,  1684,  and 
for  which  he  got  a  patent  July  16.1685.  In  1689  Staten  Island  partook  of  the  I^eisler 
excitement.  Disosway  informed  the  government  that  many  of  his  neighbors  had  left 
their  houses  and  taken  to  the  woods,  "for  fear  of  the  Paoists.*'  He  was  still  living, 
October  i,  1706.  His  children,  as  far  as  known^  were  Madeleine,  born  1657,  who 
married  Martin  Hardewyn   (as  the  Dutch  wrote  it,   but   perhaps  Ardenne);   Marcus, 


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On  January  ii,  1675,  the  community  renewed  their  engage- 
ment with  Vander  Vin,  for  two  years'  service  as  parish  clerk 
and  schoolmaster,  running  from  October  23d  preceding.  The 
terms  were  as  before,  to  wit,  400  gl.  per  mannum,  with  fuel,  etc. 
The  following  persons  promised,  of  their  free-will,  to  give  the 
sums  set  opposite  to  their  names: 

Resolved  Waldron  f.  30 

Joost  van  Oblinus  "  38 

Cornells   Jansen "  25 

Jan  Dyckman   "  10 

Adolph    Meyer "  14 

Jan  Louwe  van  Schoonrewoert "  30 

Daniel    Tourneur "  30 

Meynard    Journee "  16 

Jan    Nagel "  18 

Maria    Montagne "  10 

Jean  le  Maistre "  10 

Arent    Hermens "    8 

Conradus    Hendricks "    8 

Lourens   Jansen "    8 

Barent    Waldron "    6 

Pierre   Cresson "    4 

David  des  Marest,  Jr "    4 

Isaac   iVermeille "    3 

Total    f.  272 

Glaude  le  Maistre  and  David  des  Marest,  Sen.,  declined  to 
subscribe;  but  the  remaining  deficiency  was  to  be  made  up  by 
rent  from  Jean  le  Roy  for  the  use  of  the  town  lot,  being  120  gl. 

Few  events  worth  naming  marked  the  close  of  the  winter, 
1675.  The  town  court  was  much  occupied  with  petty  cases. 
On  February  4th  it  was  resolved  to  remind  Jan  Bos  (Terbosch) 
to  pay  25  gl.,  due  ''since  the  year  1667,"  for  an  erf  charged  to 
him  (that  bought  of  Robert  le  Maire),  or  to  enforce  payment 
in  the  Mayor's  Court.  On  February  6th,  the  Jansens,  Cornelis 
and  Lourens,  completed  a  division  of  the  lands  bought  of  De 
Meyer;*   Cornelis  taking  the   farm    (two  lots)    on   Montague's 

bom  1659;  Jeanne,  born  1662,  married  Conrad  Hendricks  Boch,  of  Harlem;  Jean, 
born  1665,  and  Maria,  born  1669.  Marcus  joined  the  Dutch  churchy  New  York,  No- 
vember 30,  1676,  but  later  took  a  letter  to  the  French  church.  Succeeding  to  his 
father's  lands,  he  petitioned,  November  27,  1708,  for  two  vacant  tracts  next  to  him, 
stating  that  he  "hath  been  an  inhabitant  of  Staten  Island,  and  hath  followed  husbandry 


upwards  of  thirty  years  i>ast,  and  hath  nine  children,  four  whereof  are  sons,  brought 
up  to  husbandry  along  with  him."  This  was  no  doubt  granted,  as  by  his  will,  made 
December  23,  1713,  and  proved  January  27,  1714,  he  gives  each  child  a  farm,  ranging: 
from  88  to  95  acres.  But  three  sons  were  then  living,  viz.:  Job,  who  married  Sarah 
Deny;     Israel,    who    married    Gertrude    Van    Deventer,    and    Gabriel.      His    daughters 


were,  Elizabeth,  wife  of  Peter  Barberic;  Susannah^  wife  of  Daniel  Hendricks;  Mary, 
wife  of  Thomas  Eyres;  Dianah,  wife  of  Hendnck  Brees,  and  Sarah,  unmarried. 
Part  of  the  original  Disosway  farm,  with  the  old  stone  house  upon  it,  is  still  owned 
and  occupied  by  some  of  the  descendants. 

*  Nicholas  de  Meyer,  originally  from  the  city  of  Hamburgh,  was  one  of  the  most 
enterprising  and  successful  merchants  of  his  day,  often  visiting  Europe  in  the  prose- 
cution of  his  business.     Few  men  enjoyed  so  much  of  the  public  confidence.     He  was 


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Flat,  lots  No.  18  Jochem  Pieters  and  15  Van  Keulen's  Hook, 
and  the  outgardens;  and  Lourens,  No.  2  Jochem  Pieters  and 
No.  6  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  with  the  two  erven,  and  also  the 
orchard  occupying  two  north  gardens,  later  forming  the  John  P. 
Waldron  homestead.  Lourens'  part  being  of  most  value,  as  it 
included  the  buildings,  he  agrees  to  give  his  brother  6qp  gl. 
This  property,  as  thus  divided,  composed  the  beginnings,  respec- 
tively, of  the  Kortright  and  Low  estates. 

Among  the  newly-arrived  French  refugees  before  noticed 
was  Jean  le  Comte,  with  his  wife  Mary  Laurens  and  one  child. 
For  want  of  a  dwelling,  they  were  allowed  by  the  constable, 
Demarest,  to  put  their  household  effects  in  his  barn.  The  father 
was  now  prostrated  by  a  sickness  which  no  efforts  of  the  "chirur- 
geons"  employed  could  help,  and  he  died  May  24th.  His  per- 
sonal estate,  per  inventory  taken  July  2d,  amounted,  less  ex- 
penses, to  606  gl.,  of  which  the  widow  set  apart  300  for  her  little 
son  Moses,  who  afterward  married  Glaude  le  Maistre's  daughter, 
and  settled  at  Esopus,  leaving  descendants  called  De  Graaf, 
which  was  the  Dutch  for  Le  Comte  or  Lecount. 

There  had  recently  arrived  at  Harlem  "a  person  of  quality," 
as  he  i.«  styled.  Captain  James  Carteret,  descended  remotely  from 
the  famous  Lords  de  Carteret  of  the  Cotentin  in  Normandy,  and 
directly  allied  to  the  De  Carterets,  Lords  of  St.  Ouen,  in  the 
island  of  Jersey,  noticed  in  our  opening  chapter,  and  at  which 
place  various  members  of  the  family  were  now  enjoying  prom- 
inent  civic  positions.*      The   captain's    father.    Sir   George   De 


seycrml  times  an  Alderman^of  New  York,  and  once  Mayor.     He  was  chosen  a  member 

r*  o,  ,.       .        ^  .....  ..  ^  '         '       "      Ch     19,     169I, 

we  conclude 
irom  nis  son  wuiiams  estate.  He  married,  in  i6s5»  t»ydia,  daughter  of  the  Fiskael, 
Hendrick     Van     Dyck,     and,     in     1689,     Sarah     Kellenaer,     widow     of     Rev.     John 


of  Governor  Slouffhter's  Council,  but  when  the  Gocernor  arrived,  March  19,  1691, 
Mr.  De  Meyer  had  j         •••"--        -  -     .     — 

illiai 

Dy„,     _._,     ...     .„„     ,      _.     

Wcekstein,  of  Esopus.  His  children  were,  Johannes,  born  1656;  Wilhclmus,  bom 
1657;  Anna  Catrina,  born  1661;  Deborah,  born  1664:  Elizabeth,  born  1666,  and 
Henricus,  born  1668.  Johannes  died  before  1689.  without  issue.  (Johannes  De 
Meyer,  so  called,  of  New  York,  who  left  a  will  dated  September  13,  1725,  was  a 
Meyer,  not  a  De  Meyer).  Anna  Catrina  De  Meyer  married,  1680,  Tan  Willems 
Necring,  from  Bordeaux,  and  went  to  New  Castle,  Del.j  Deborah  married,  in  1684, 
Thomas  Crundall,  in  1691,  Capt.  Thomas  Lyndon,  and,  in  1697,  William  Anderson — 
all  Englishmen:  .  Elizabeth  married,  in  1687,  Philip  Schuyler,  ot  New  York,  merchant, 
afterward  of  Kingston.  Henricus  De  Meyer,  of  New  York,  merchant,  married,  1689, 
Agnes,  daughter  of  Jacob  De  Key.  He  boujg^ht  his  late  father's  mansion,  near  the 
Stadt  Huys,  July  20,  1691,  but  died  in  1692;  in  i6p6  his  widow  married  William  Jane- 
way,  Esq.  Henricus  De  Meyer  left  issue,  Ludia,  born  1691,  and  Hericus,  born  1692. 
The  latter  died  in  1739,  leaving  a  daughter,  Agnes,  wife  of  Edward  Nicoll,  and  of 
whom  my  friend,  Mr.  Joseph  O.  Brown,  is  a  descendant.  Wilhelmus  De  Meyer,  called 
in  the  will  of  Nicholas  tne  eldest  son,  married,  1678,  Catherine  Bayard,  sister  of 
Col.  Nicholas  Ba>ard.  He  settled  in  Kingston,  Ulster  Couunty,  where  he  inherited 
property  from  his  father;  was  made  deacon  in  1681,  and  elder  in  1692.  He  was 
much  in  public  life,  became  lieutenant-colonel  of  militia,  and  died  in  1710,  his  wife 
surviving.  His  will,  dated  January  10,  1705,  proved  January  8,  171 1,  divides  his 
property  "as  well  in  this  province  as  in  Europe,"  among  his  children  therein  named 
being  Lydia^  born  1681;  Nicholas,  born  1683;  Annecke,  bom  1685;  Catrina,  born 
2689,  and  Deborah,  born  1693.  Lydia  married  Andries  Douw.  Nicholas  De  Meyer 
married  Elsie  Schoonmaker,  and  died  on  his  farm,  near  Esopus  Creek,  in  1766,  having 
sons,  William,  Jeremiah  and  Benjamin,  and  a  daughter,  Catherine,  who  married 
Christopher  Kiersted. 

•  Amice    de    Carteret   and    Charles    de    Carteret,    Esquires,    were   Jurats   of    the 


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322  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Carteret,  Baronet,  had  been  governor  of  that  island  as  early  as 
1626,  was  knighted  twenty  years  later,  and  now  held  a  seat  in 
the  Honorable  Privy  Council  of  England,  being  also  "Vice- 
Chamberlain  of  His  Majesty's  household";  which  eminence  he 
had  gained  by  marked  devotion  to  Kings  Charles  I.  and  H. 
Capt.,  James  Carteret,  being  the  second  son,  was  bred  to  the  sea. 
took  command  of  a  merchantman  in  the  India  trade  prior  to  the 
Restoration,  and  subsequently  of  a  British  man-of-war.  He  was 
captain-general  of  the  forces  which  in  1666  attempted  the  recov- 
ery of  St.  Kitts  from  the  French,  and  later  had  command  of 
marines  in  the  Duke  of  York's  ship.  In  1671,  on  being  made 
a  landgrave  of  Carolina,  of  which  colony  Sir  George  was  part 
owner,  he  embarked  directly  for  America  to  visit  his  new  domains, 
but  bearing  also  certain  instructions  and  powers  from  the  Lords 
Proprietors  of  New  Jersey,  advisory,  if  not  supervisory  (as  more 
than  his  own  words  plainly  show),  touching  the  affairs  of  that 
province,  over  which  his  younger  kinsman.  Governor  Philip  Car- 
teret, had  for  several  years  presided.  On  coming  to  New  Jersey 
Captain  Carteret  found  the  people  full  of  complaints  against  their 
governor  for  alleged  violations  of  their  rights,  and  matters  grow- 
ing worse  soon  led  to  an  open  revolt,  and  a  pressing  call  upon 
the  senior  Carteret  to  interfere, — which  the  latter  felt  himself  jus- 
tified in  doing.  For  the  details  of  this  short  but  manly  struggle 
of  the  people  to  rid  themselves  of  a  supercilious  and  incompetent 
ruler,  wjth  the  sympathy  and  under  the  lead  of  the  generous- 
hearted  captain,  reference  may  be  had  to  the  annals  of  that  State.* 
Meanwhile  our  Carteret,  in  1673,  married  Frances,  daughter  of 

island;  Mr.  Nicholas  dc  Carteret.  Sergeant  of  Justice,  in  Greuville  Parish,  and  Edward 
de  Carteret,  Knight  (uncle  of  Capt.  James),  was  first  Gentlemen  Usher  in  Ordinary 
to  the  King,  and  Usher  of  the  "Verge  Noire  Bailly;"  as  per  an  old  parchment  of  July 
29,  1678,  in  my  possession. 

•  Capt.  Carteret,  in  a  letter  dated  Elizabeth  Town,  New  Jersey,  June  14,  1672, 
and  addressed  to  Governor  Lovelace  and  Council,  in  reply  to  one  of  theirs,  charges 
Capt.  Philip  Carteret  with  having  "for  several  years  past  threatened  and  forbidden 
our  people,  upon  pain  of  death,  not  to  exercise  themselves  in  military  affairs  or  dis- 
cipline," besides  %ther  gross  miscarriages:"  by  which  he  had  "unjustly  dissatisfied 
and  impoverished  the  King's  subjects  in  this  Province."  As  to  differences  between 
himself  and  said  Philip  Carteret,  he  has  no  doubt  "but  they  will  in  time  be  healed  or 
cured  bv  the  Honorable  Lords  Proprietors,  unto  whom  they  are  already  presented  and 
referred."  But  he  deems  "a  true  understanding,"  to  still  quote  his  words,  "unnecessary 
to  be  declared  to  unconcerned  persons,  seeing  that  I  am  not  under  obligation  to  render 
the  same  to  any  but  to  his  Majesty,  and  my  superiors,  the  Lords  Proprietors,  by  whose 
orders  and  instructions  I  act.  i  shall,  in  an  orderly^  meek,  and  peaceful  way,  en- 
deavor to  suppress  such  as  do  most  falsely,  without  either  show  or  color,  repute  me 
a  disturber  of  the  country.  These  have  very  lately  published  me.  by  their  writs,  a 
rebel  and  mutineer  ,who  am  proprietor  of  my  father's  interest  in  this  Province.  And 
if  God  spare  life,  I  will  give  his  Royal  ?Iighness  an  account  of  them  by  the  first 
occasion,  and  after,  second  it  myself  by  a  verbal  declaration,  how  I  am  used  in  his 
territories,  as  also  who  they  be  that  have  appeared  like  enemies  to  king  and  country." 
This  frank  and  spirited  letter,  which  does  the  writer  no  discredit,  may  be  found,  with 
the  one  which  called  it  forth,  in  vol.  4,  General  Entries,  Secretary  of  State's  Office, 
Albany.  But  advices  from  England  put  an  end  to  Capt.  Carteret's  authority;  the 
king,  by  letter,  dated  December  9,  1072,  directing  Capt.  John  Berry,  Dep.  Gov.  of 
N.  J.'  to  enforce  obedience  to  the  laws  and  government  established  in  that  colony  by 
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Captain  Thomas  Delavall;  soon  after  which,  submitting  to  a 
decision  of  the  king  and  the  Lords  Proprietors  in  favor  of  Gov- 
ernor Philip,  and  to  the  wishes  of  his  father,  he  left  New  Jersey, 
and  in  July  following,  attended  by  his  wife,  sailed  for  Carolina. 
Unluckily  the  vessel  was  taken  by  the  Dutch  fleet  on  its  way  to 
the  capture  of  New  York,  but  the  Carterets  wishing  to  gain  their 
destination,  were  set  ashore  in  Virginia.  Captain  Delavall  mean- 
while, his  estates  confiscated  by  the  victorious  enemy,  had  returned 
to  England  and  engaged  in  merchandise  in  London.  But  on 
the  eve  of  the  new  governor  Andros'  departure  for  New  York, 
to  reclaim  it  from  the  Dutch,  Delavall  procured  the  Duke  of 
York's  order  for  the  restitution  of  all  his  estate  in  this  colony, 
with  the  evident  purpose  of  sending  it  by  Andros.  The  order, 
however,  was  not  placed  on  record  here  till  January  23,  1675, 
which  was  near  the  date  of  Carteret's  reappearance,  empowered 
to  take  charge  of  his  father-in-law's  property  at  Harlem ;  whence 
we  infer  that  it  was  recorded  and  promulgated  only  when  Carteret 
arrived  from  Carolina. 

Taking  part  in  the  public  affairs  of  the  town,  Captain  Car- 
teret found  himself  courted  for  his  abilities,  and  his  influence  with 
the  ruling  powers,  Governor  Andros  being  his  kinsman.  Con- 
sequently, when  the  inhabitants  resolved  to  ask  that  governor  to 
confirm  their  patent,  Carteret  was  deputed  with  others  as  the 
bearer  of  their  petition,  which  was  couched  in  the  following 
words,  and  for  the  governor's  information  was  accompanied  by 
**the  Great  Patent  in  English,"  and  "the  Confirmation  in  English," 
both  being  referred  to  in  the  petition. 

To  his  Excellency  the  Governor  General,  at  New  York. 

We  the  Constable,  Overseers  and  common  Inhabitants  at  the  village 
of  New  Haerlem,  declare  to  have  constituted  and  empowered,  as  by 
these  we  do  constitute  and  empower,  the  Hon.  Capt.  James  Cartaret, 
David  des  Marest,  constable,  Joost  van  Oblinus,  overseer,  and  Resolved 
Waldron,  for  and  in  behalf  of  this  town's  jurisdiction  and  privileges,  to 
request  and  obtain  from  his  Excellency,  the  Governor  of  this  province, 
the  maintenance  and  confirmation  of  their  Patent  granted  by  the  late 
Governor  Richard  Nicolls,  dated  the  nth  October  A*.  1667,  and  con- 
firmed by  his  Excellency,  Governor  Francis  Lovelace,  on  the  date  22d 
June  A'.  1670;  promising  for  good,  durable  and  of  value,  to  hold  and  to 
ratify  whatever  by  the  aforesaid,  our  committee,  in  the  premises,  shall 
be  done  and  executed  concerning  it,  whether  the  case  require  greater 
or  special  burden,  whereupon  we  shall  fully  rely  and  hold  our  peace; 
therefore  humbly  pray  your  Excellency  to  be  pleased  to  maintain  and 
protect  our  liberties  and  privileges,  according  to  the  agoresaid  Patents, 
against  every  one  who  may  design  or  think  to  trouble  the  same;  Where- 
for  we  shall  remain  your  Excellency's  good  and  obedient  subjects,  etc., 
the  Constable,  Overseers  and  common  Inhabitants  at  the  village  of  N. 
Haerlem.    Done  N.  Haerlem,  i6th  June,  1675.     By  order  of  the  same, 

Hendr.  J.  Vandr.  Vin,  Secretary, 


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324  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

William  Palmer,  ship  carpenter,  was  now  engaged  building 
a  "ketch"  at  Harlem,  and  with  his  family  occupied  a  house  as 
tenant  of  Captain  Carteret.  Etienne  Rochelle,*  employed  by 
Carteret,  went  thither  on  Sunday,  July  4th,  to  pick  cherries.  He 
was  in  one  of  the  trees  which  stood  beside  Palmer's  house,  with 
Nicholas  de  Vaux,  whom  he  had  asked  to  assist  him  in  picking, 
when  Palmer  came  out  and  roughly  bade  them  get  down. 
Stephen  refused,  "saying  that  he  had  orders  from  his  master  to 
pick  cherries."  Then  Palmer  jerked  Stephen  by  the  foot,  plied 
him  with  oyster-shells,  and  finally  took  a  stick  to  him,  when  the 
latter  was  forced  to  leave  the  tree.  Running  to  tell  the  constable, 
and  then  Waldron,  neither  of  whom  were  found  at  home,  he  was 
overtaken  by  Palmer,  who  had  followed  him,  crying  "Papist, 
Papist !"  and  who  first  struck  him  with  his  stick,  then  seized  him 
by  the  throat  and  tried  to  choke  him ;  but  Stephen  breaking  away 
fled  into  the  house  of  Meynard  Joumee.  Palmer  then  turned 
upon  William  Noird,  Carteret's  bookkeeper,  who  had  come  to 
Stephen's  aid,  and  giving  him  a  blow  with  his  stick  he  also  thought 
best  to  retreat.  Palmer  now  spit  out  his  spleen  before  the  house 
of  Journee,  shaking  his  stick  and  uttering  threats  against  the 
persons  within,  while  Noird,  finding  Demarest  the  constable,  got 
an  order  from  him  to  restrain  Palmer  from  picking  the  cherries, 
and  delivered  it  to  Palmer's  wife.  Many  of  the  villagers,  brought 
out  of  their  houses  by  the  uproar,  as  Cornelis  Jansen,  Jan  Hen- 
dricks Kyckuyt  (or  Brevoort),  Jean  le  Maistre,  Jan  Nagel  and 
his  wife,  and  Mrs.  Cornier,  saw  the  affray,  and  the  assaults  made 
on  Carteret's  people.  Palmer  returning  to  his  house  and  finding 
himself  served  with  an  injunction  from  the  constable,  boiled  with 
rage,  and  going  over  to  Noird's  toward  evening,  found  Daniel 
Toumeur  there  engaged  in  slaughtering  a  sheep,  for  which  pur- 
pose Noird  had  sent  for  him.  Palmer  asked  William  by  whose 
directions  he  had  procured  the  constable's  order  forbidding  him 
to  pick  cherries.  "By  my  master's,"  said  Noird,  "and  if  I  had 
no  orders  I  should  have  done  it,  knowing  well  how  to  answer  for 
it."     On  which  Palmer  retorted,  "Had  I  been  at  home  as  well 

*  Gcneau,  or  Gano.  (See  Notes  pp.  107,  120.)  He  bought  proper^  in  New 
Amsterdam,  April  29,  1662;  again  July  15,  1670,  a  house  and  lot  in  Broadway;  and 
his  wife,  Lydia  Metcreu,  anotner,  on  the  Bever  Graft,  April  22,  1672.  In  1676,  he 
was  granted  80  acres  of  land  on  Staten  Island,  "near  the  commons."  Geneau  was  a 
Huguenot.  "Fligrht  or  the  relinguishment  of  the  Protestant  religion  was  the  only 
means  of  preserving  his  life.  One  of  his  neighbors  had  been  martyred;  he  was  de- 
termined on  as  the  victim  for  the  next  day,  information  of  which  he  received  in 
the  dead  of  the  night.  He  therefore  chartered  a  vessel,  removed  his  family  on 
board,  and  in  the  morning  was  out  of  sight  of  the  harbor.'*  From  his  son,  Francis, 
whom  he  brought  with  him,  come  all  of  the  name,  so  far  as  known.  The  above  ex- 
tract is  from  the  Memoirs  written  by  his  descendant.  Rev.  John  Gano,  chaplain  in  the 
American  army  in  the  Revolution,  and  afterward  a  pastor  m  New  York,  who  died  at 
Frankfort,  Ky.,  in  his  78th  year,  August  10,   1804. 


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as  my  wife,  I  would  have  quickly  paid  you  off,  and  made  you 
find  your  legs,  and  possibly  the  constable  the  same,  though  it 
was  Sunday ;  .yes,  even  though  your  master  had  been  present." 

This  breach  of  the  peace  was  duly  reported  to  the  Governor, 
and  an  investigation  ordered,  which  took  place  two  days  after, 
Xoird  taking  a  copy  of  the  testimony;  but  we  hear  no  more  of 
it,  for  news  of  graver  import  now  filled  the  minds  of  the  com- 
munity. 

On  that  self-same  Sunday,  about  three  o'clock  in  the  morn- 
ing. Governor  Andros  was  aroused  from  his  slumbers  to  hear 
the  startling  intelligence  that  the  Indians  had  taken  up  arms  at 
Xarragansett,  in  New  England,  and  murdered  some  of  the  set- 
tlers ;  at  the  head  of  this  rising  being  the  shrewd  and  powerful 
chief  of  the  Wampanoags,  from  whom  the  bloody  conflict  which 
ensued  took  the  name  of  **King  Philip's  War."  The  same  eve- 
ning the  Governor  sailed  with  a  military  force  for  Connecticut 
River,  but  soon  returned  on  finding  he  was  not  needed  there. 

The  possibility  that  the  Indians  in  this  province,  from  sym- 
pathy for  their  brethren  at  the  east,  might  be  induced  either  to 
join  them  or  take  up  the  hatchet  against  our  own  inhabitants 
here,  led  the  Governor  and  Council  to  the  precaution  of  inviting 
some  of  the  chiefs  to  an  interview  to  renew  the  bond  of  friend- 
ship; seeing  no  reason  for  breaking  with  these  tribes  "upon 
account  of  the  war  between  our  neighbors  and  their  Indians." 
But  it  was  enjoined  upon  the  several  towns  to  maintain  a  strict 
watch.  And  to  allay  or  prevent  excitement  at  Harlem,  a  mes- 
sage from  the  Mayor  was  published  in  the  village,  August  9th, 
charging  all  there  at  their  peril  not  to  beat  the  drum  nor  to  hold 
any  meetings,  neither  to  ferry  any  stranger  across  the  river, 
without  the  knowledge  and  sanction  of  the  constable.  This  had 
reference  to  the  practice  long  in  vogue  in  the  town  before  they 
had  a  bell,  of  beating  the  drum  to  call  the  people  together,  upon 
all  occasions.* 

Verveelen  at  Spuyten  Duyvel  was  required  to  exercise  all  his 
vigilance.  It  happened  that  Jan  Hendricksen,  alias  Kyckuyt, 
^'inhabitant  here,"  having  been  sent  by  the  constable  of  Harlem 

•  The  venerable  bell  still  in  use  at  the  Reformed  Church,  3d  avenue  and  i^ist 
street,  is  the  first  within  the  bounds  of  Harlem  of  which  we  have  knowledge.  "It 
was  cast  in  Holland  expressly  for  this  church.  Among  other  metals,  it  contains  twenty 
dollars'  worth  of  gold  and  twenty  dollars'  worth  of  silver:"  at  least,  so  says  a  com- 
munication made  by  "Knickerbocker"  to  the  Harlem  Traveler,  in  January,  1863.  The 
writer  probably  knew  whereof  he  affirmed,  but  it  would  be  grati^ing  could  we  trace 
this  statement  to  its  source.  The  bell,  only  relic  of  the  old  stone  church  erected  in 
1686,  has  the  following  inscription: 

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to  Fordham,  with  a  warrant  that  came  from  New  York,  arrived 
at  Verveelen's  door  just  after  sunset.  Presently  there  was  a 
knock  at  the  door,  and  a  messenger  from  Fordham  came  in,  who 
said,  "Verveelen,  I  am  sent  to  warn  you  to  come  to  the  watch." 
Verveelen  replied  that  he  could  attend  to  no  watch  other  than 
to  pass  people  over  the  ferry,  and  that  there  was  a  person  then 
in  the  house  with  a  warrant,  and  who  must  be  ferried  over  again. 
But  as  the  other  insisted,  and  argued  the  risk  of  refusing,  '*Let 
them  call  me  before  his  Honor  the  Governor,"  said  the  resolute 
ferryman,  "  and  I  will  answer  them  there."  The  messenger  left, 
but  at  midnight  there  came  three  or  four  persons  before  the 
ferry-house  making  a  great  clamor,  and  trying  to  force  the  door, 
calling  upon  Verveelen  to  come  to  the  watch.  No  heed  being 
paid  to  them,  they  finally  went  away  in  great  rage.  It  was  then 
suspected,  as  it  afterward  turned  out,  that  no  such  order  had  been 
sent;  and  this  ruse  to  decoy  the  ferryman  from  his  post  of  duty 
while  they  executed  some  mischief  which  they  were  brewing,  had 
succeeded  but  for  Verveelen's  firmness.  At  this  time  a  most 
unfriendly  feeling  existed  between  Verveelen  and  Archer.  The 
latter  had  cut  the  hay  on  Verveelen's  meadows;  the  Mayor's 
Court,  to  which  Verveelen  complained  August  17th,  appointed 
arbitraters,  who  decided  **that  the  meadow  in  controversy  be- 
longed to  the  plaintiff."  Nevertheless  Archer  carried  off  about 
four  loads  of  hay,  to  recover  which  Verveelen  petitioned  the 
Governor  and  Court  of  Assize.  And  during  the  next  winter, 
''about  the  month  of  January,"  Archer  and  his  confederates  went 
to  Verveelen's,  and  "by  force  and  arms"  took  out  of  his  house 
"a  quantity  of  wheat,  and  divers  merchandises  and  household 
goods,"  to  the  value,  as  Verveelen  alleged,  of  980  gl.,  and  to 
recover  which  he  afterward  sued  Archer  in  the  Mayor's  Court. 
But  we  will  not  anticipate. 

Mid-autumn,  1675,  brought  new  alarms.  In  vain  had  the 
Governor  a  few  weeks  before  issued  a  proclamation  to  assure 
the  people  of  "the  falsity  of  the  late  reports  of  Indians'  ill  in- 
tents." King  Philip's  Indians  were  said  to  be  advancing  west- 
ward in  order  to  destroy  Hartford  and  other  places  this  way  as 
far  as  Greenwich.  This  done,  what  could  stay  their  onward 
march  to  New  Ygrk?  The  Governor,  to  prevent  any  co-opera- 
tion on  the  part  of  our  Indians,  immediately  directed  that  their 
canoes  on  the  shores  of  the  Sound  should  be  laid  up  where  they 
could  not  be  used,  and  ordered  the  Wickquaskeeks  at  Ann's 
Hook,  now  Pelham  Neck, — then  one  of  their  summer  haunts, 
and  where  to  our  day  are  many   Indian   graves, — "to   remove 


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within  a  fortnight  to  their  usual  winter  quarters  within  Hellgate 
upon   this  island." 

This  winter  retreat  was  either  the  woodlands  between  Har- 
lem Plains  and  Kingsbridge,  at  that  date  still  claimed  by  these 
Indians  as  hunting  grounds,  or  Rechawanes  and  adjoining  lands 
on  the  Bay  of  Hellgate,  as  the  words  "within  Hellgate"  would 
strictly  mean,  and  which,  by  the  immense  shell-beds  found  there 
formerly,  is  proved  to  have  been  a  favorite  Indian  resort.  That 
this  was  the  locality  referred  to,  seems  indeed  to  follow  from  the 
fact  that  the  Indians,  removing  in  obedience  to  the  above  order, 
attempted  to  pass  up  the  Harlem  River,  but  were  stopped  at  the 
village  by  Constable  Demarest.  They  said  they  were  "going  to 
VVickquaskeek,"  but  could  show  no  pass.  Demarest  thereupon 
detained  them,  and  dispatched  a  letter  to  the  Governor,  to  which 
came  the  following  answer: 

Mr.  Constable, 

I  have  just  now  seen,  by  yours  of  this  day  sent  express  by  Wm. 
Palmer,  of  your  having  stopt  10  or  12  Indian  canoes,  with  women,  chil- 
dren, com  and  baggage,  coming  as  they  say  from  ^Westchester,  and 
going  to  Wickers-creek,  but  not  any  Pass  mentioned :  So  that  you  have 
done  very  well  in  stopping  the  said  Indians  and  giving  notice  thereof. 
These  are  now  to  order  all  the  said  Indians  to  stay  in  your  Town,  and 
that  you  send  some  of  the  chiefest  of  them  to  me  early  to-morrow,  and 
one  of  your  Overseers  for  further  orders;  and  that  it  may  be  better 
effected,  you  are  to  order  them  some  convenient  house  or  barn  to  be  in, 
and  draw  up  their  canoes  until  the  return  of  them  you  shall  send:  and 
that  you  double  your  watch 

Your  loving  friend, 

E.  Andros. 
N,  York,  Octobr.  the  21st,  1675. 

A  long  and  restless  night,  we  dare  say,  was  that  to  some 
timid  souls,  with  these  Indians,  friendly  but  always  distrusted, 
perhaps  prowling  about  their  streets  and  their  very  doors,  despite 
the  utmost  vigilance  of  the  watchman ;  but  the  morning  came 
without  harm  to  any,  and  the  unwelcome  visitors  soon  departed. 

All  the  settlements,  indeed,  were  in  astate  of  feverish  anxiety, 
and  taking  measures  for  defence.  The  people  of  Fordham 
erected  fortifications,  and  "Archer,  proprietor  of  the  Town," 
called  upon  all  the  neighbors  round  to  come  *'into  his  town" 
and  assist.  But  four  families  seated  on  the  Yonker's  Land  near 
Spu\ten  Duyvel,  including  those  of  John  Heddy,  William  Beets, 
and  his  son-in-law,  George  Tippett,  "being  removed  from  Mr. 
Archer,  his  town  above  a  mile,  and  being  strong  enough,  or 
thought  so,  to  resist  this  heathenish  war,  having  a  good  and 
strong  blockhouse,"  objected  "to  leave  their  houses  and  goods, 
to  please  the  humors  of  said  Mr.  Archer,"  and  therefore  at  their 


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request  were  excused  by  the  Governor  from  going  to  Fordham. 
On  October  i6th,  Andros  had  ordered  all  the  towns  to  keep 
"double  and  strict  watches,"  and  to  the  Harlem  people  on  the 
2ist,  as  seen,  had  reiterated  the  caution,  "Double  your  watch." 
This  was  complied  with,  so  far  as  was  practicable  at  that  busy 
season,  when  much  of  the  fall  work  was  yet  to  be  done,  but  with 
the  setting  in  of  winter  the  Night  Watch  was  formally  organized 
as  follows ;  the  Governor,  at  the  town's  charge,  furnishing  pow- 
der, "for  the  Indian  war": 

On  the  6th  December,  A".  1675,  Monday. 

Present:    Their  Honors,  Jan  Dyckman,  Constable. 
Joost  van  Oblinus. 
Resolved  Waldron. 
Meynard  Journee. 

The  following  are,  according  as  they  rank,  appointed  upon  the  Night 
Watch,  organized  by  order  of  his  Excellency  the  Governor-General,  and 
divided  into  four  Corporalships,  each  consisting  of  seven  persons,  to  wit: 


I. 

1.  Adolph  Meyer,  Corporal. 

2.  Meynard  Journee. 

3.  David  des  Marest. 

4.  Daniel  Toumeur. 

5.  Nicholas  de  Vaux. 

6.  Isaac  Kip. 

7.  Jan  Hendricks  Boch. 

n. 

1.  Jan  Nagel,  Corporal. 

2.  Joost  van  Oblinus. 

3.  Jan  Hendricks  Kyckuyt. 

4.  Jan  le  Maistre. 

5.  Johannes  Vermel je. 

6.  Jean  le  Roy. 

7.  Isaac  le  Maistre. 


III. 

1.  Simeon  Cornier,  Corporal. 

2.  Cornelis  Jansen. 

3.  Samuel  des  Marest. 

4.  Laurens  Jansen. 

5.  William  Palmer. 

6.  Jaco  el  Roe.* 

7.  Gerard  Magister. 

IV. 

1.  Robert  Hollis,  Corporal. 

2.  Resolved  Waldron. 

3.  Arent  Hermensen. 

4.  Coenrad  Hendricks  Boch. 

5.  David  des  Marest,  Jun. 

6.  Cornelis  Theunisz. 

7.  Isaac  See,  Jun. 


1st.  The  whole  or  half  corporalships,  whose  turn  it  is  to  watch,  shall, 
in  the  evening,  at  the  hour  of  eight,  upon  beat  of  the  drum,  be  in  full 
number  at  the  watch-house,  shall  place  their  sentinels,  and  take  the  neces- 
sary rounds  ;  and  shall  not  retire  before  the  beating  of  the  morning  reveille ; 
upon  a  forfeiture,  fixed  or  to  be  fixed,  of  3  guilders. 

2d.  Whoever  neglects  the  watch  without  a  lawful  cause,  or  making 
the  same  known  to  his  corporal  beforehand,  shall  each  time  forfeit  6 
guilders. 

•  Jacques  Ivaroe  was  bom  in  1657.  From  his  name,  and  affiliation  with  the  French 
refugees,  we  conclude  he  was  himself  French,  though  Vandcr  Vin,  usually  careful, 
writes  his  surname,  the  first  two  or  three  times,  el  Roey  or  el  Roeyl,  and  finally 
adopts  the  form  of  el  Roe.  As  he  must  have  had  warrant  for  this,  probably  Jacques 
was  of  mixed  blood,  Spanish  and  Walloon.  He  is  always  called  by  Vander  Vin,  Toco, 
a  juvenile  form  of  his  name  used  by  the  Walloons.  In  1677  Jacques  joined  the 
church  in  New  York,  but  the  next  year  accompanied  the  Demarests  to  Hackensack. 
Here  he  married  Wybrecht,  daughter  of  Hendrick  Teunisr  Helling.  She  was  five  years 
younger  than  he,  and  bore  him  sons,  Peter,  Hendrick,  Samuel,  Abraham,  Johannes 
and  as  many  daughters.  On  the  decline  of  the  French  Church  of  Kinkachemeck,  which 
he  must  have  helped  to  form,  he  took  a  letter  to  the  Dutch  Church  of  Hackensack,  April 
5,  1696.  We  think  this  family,  under  the  name  Laroe,  has  become  widely  extended,  at 
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3d.  Each  watchman  coming  to  the  watch  shall  be  provided  with  suit- 
able side  and  hand  arms ;  also  with  sufficient  powder  and  lead,  upon  forfeit 
of  3  guilders. 

4th.  The  watch  shall  be  kept  quietly,  without  much  calling  or  noise, 
upon  penalty  of  3  guilders. 

The  Indian  excitement  continued  through  the  winter  and 
spring,  1676.  Suspicions  were  entertained  that  the  Wickquas- 
keeks  (or  Wickers-creeks,  as  now  commonly  called)  intended  to 
join  ''the  North  Indians.'*  But  some  eighteen  of  these,  with 
their  sachems  and  "Claes  ye  Indian,"  visited  the  Governor,  Jan- 
uary 7th,  bringing  a  present  of  venison  and  deer-skins,  and  re- 
newed their  pledge  of  friendship.  The  Governor  assured  them 
of  his  continued  good-will  and  desire  to  protect  them,  but  said 
that  as  they  had  now  gone  out  of  his  reach  he  could  not  "mind 
them  as  before.''  Then,  to  quote  the  record  of  the  interview, 
**the  Governor  in  return  would  give  them  coates,  but  they  desired 
drink,  which  is  ordered  for  them." 

Upon  this  hint  the  Indians  asked  leave  to  return  to  their 
old  maize  lands  on  Manhattan  Island ;  whereupon  the  Governor 
and  Council,  on  February  6th,  passed  the  following: 

'^Resolved,  That  the  Wickers-creek  Indians,  if  they  desire  it, 
be  admitted  with  their  wives  and  children,  to  plant  upon  this 
Island,  but  nowhere  else,  if  they  remove;  and  that  it  be  upon 
the  north  point  of  the  Island  near  Spuyten  Duyvel." 

Still  the  settlers  at  Harlem  were  on  the  alert.  On  March  2d 
the  Night  Watch  was  reorganized,  each  corporal's  squad  being 
composed  of  five  instead  of  six.  The  corporals  were  now:  ist, 
Lourens  Jansen;  2d,  Arent  Hermansen  Bussing;  3d,  Adolph 
Meyer,  and  4th,  Jan  Nagel.  For  various  reasons  the  following 
names  disappear  from  the  roll,  to  wit:  Journee,  Tourneur,  Kip, 
Le  Roy,  Cornier,  C.  Jansen,  Palmer,  Hollis,  and  See;  and  the 
following  new  ones  appear :  Barent  Waldron,  Michiel  Bastiaen- 
sen,  Reyer  Michielsen,  Hendrick  Kierson,  Frederick  de  Vaux. 

The  last  of  these  persons,  born  in  the  Walloon  country, 
had  lately  left  the  Lower  Palatinate,  with  many  other  French, 
on  account  of  the  troubles  there;  De  Vaux  coming  via  England 
to  join  his  brother  Nicholas  in  this  country.  He  was  now  a 
widower,  but  a  little  later  married  a  daughter  of  Daniel  Tour- 
neur deceased,  from  which  union  sprang  the  respectable  De  Voe 
family  in  the  lower  sections  of  Westchester  County,  first  seated  at 
De  Voe's  Point,  near  which  Frederick  obtained  by  his  wife  a 
fine  property.* 

*  Frederick  de  Vaux's  passport,  brought  with  him  from  Mannheim,  is  still  pre- 
•erved-  We  are  indebted  for  a  copy  in  German  to  one  of  his  descendants,  Col.  Thomas 
F.  De  Voe,  of  New  York.     Here  follows  a  translation. 


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330  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

.  On  April  8th  the  Council  "ordered  that  all  boats  and  ves- 
sels that  pass  through  Hellgate  do  take  a  permit  from  the  Cus- 
tom House,  by  reason  of  the  Indian  troubles,  which  permit  (unless 
for  merchandise)  to  be  given  gratis  and  with  all  dispatch." 

But  now  fear  of  the  Indians  gradually  subsided ;  the  Wick- 
quaskeeks  proving  their  friendship  sincere,  had  their  canoes 
restored  to  them.  The  close  of  the  war  at  the  eastward  conse- 
quent upon  the  death  of  King  Philip,  who  with  many  of  his 
warriors  was  slain,  August  12th,  in  the  great  swamp  fight  near 
Mount  Hope,  was  a  principal  means  of  allaying  apprehension. 
The  ordinary  domestic  interests  were  not  neglected  amid 
all  this  public  disquietude,  and  the  extra  drafts  upon  the  time 
and  energies  of  the  inhabitants.  Planting  and  harvesting  allowed 
of  no  interruption.  A  common  fence  inclosed  their  cultivated 
lands  on  Pochem  Pieters  Flat,  and  on  \^an  Keulen's  Hook,  and 
no  partition  fences  were  yet  set  up ;  the  lots  being  merely  staked 
off  that  everyone  could  know  and  make  use  of  his  own.  Strict 
rules  were  required  to  maintain  these  common  fences ;  so  import- 
ant since  the  entire  planting  of  the  community  was  at  the  mercy 
of  any  one  member  through  whose  neglect  to  keep  up  his  part 
cattle  might  get  in  and  destroy;  and  none  so  offending  but  had 
to  meet  the  public  frown,  it  not  a  lawsuit  to  recover  losses. 
When  new  fence-masters  were  appointed,  April  24,  1675, — Cor- 
nelis  Jansen  and  Conrad  Hendricks,  to  succeed  Arent  Hemiens 
and  David  Demarest,  Jr., — it  was  resolved  that  each  inhabitant 
should  forthwith  repair  his  part  of  the  common  fencing,  and  that 
by  the  spring  of  1676  these  fences  should  be  generally  renewed 
and  made  at  least  five  and  one-half  feet  high,  English  measure; 
and  anyone  failing  it  should  be  done  by  the  town  at  his  expense. 
Again,  November  22d,  because  of  daily  and  manifold  complaints 
of  damage  done  by  horses  and  cattle  running  upon  the  sowed 
lands,  an  ordinance  was  passed  and  posted  up  requiring  the 
fences  still  unrepaired  to  be  attended  to  within  fourteen  days 
punctually,  under  penalty  of  25  guilders  for  every  case  of  neglect ; 

•*Wc,  Director,  Sheriff,  Burgomaster  and  Council  of  the  Electoral  Paltz  City 
Mannheim,  hereby  make  known  and  publish,  that  the  bearer  of  this,  Frederick  dc 
Vaux,  late  a  Burgher  of  this  city,  for  his  own  business  is  intending  to  travel  in  Holland, 
and  from  thence  further  to  England;  in  which  behalf  every  one  is  requested  to  Irt 
the  said  Frederick  de  Vaux  pass  free,  safe,  and  unmolested,  at  all  places,  and  also  to 
show  him  all  good  will  and  consideration;  we  engaging  to  do  the  same  for  every  dty, 
according  to  merit.  In  witness  hereof,  we  have  attached  our  usual  Seal.  Done  at 
Mannheim,  this  23d  February,  old  style,  Anno  one  thousand  six  hundred  and  seventy- 
five," 


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and  also  repeating  the  former  order,  that  by  the  first  of  March 
ensuing  all  the  common  fences  should  be  built  anew,  with  posts 
and  six  rails,  five  and  one-half  feet  high,  English  measure,  upon 
the  same  penalty;  and  further,  no  one  should  let  his  calves,  or 
other  beasts,  run  within  the  sowed  land  without  a  herder,  as 
any  such  being  found  trespassing  upon  another  man's  grain 
would  subject  its  owner  to  a  fine  of  12  gl. 

The  yeomen  were  already  much  straitened  in  the  breadth  of 
their  acres.  In  other  words,  the  need  of  more  arable  land  to 
meet  the  growing  wants  of  the  old  residents  and  the  newly- 
arrived  families  was  becoming  urgent.  The  town  had  reached 
a  point  in  its  history  when  the  limited  amount  of  improved  land 
was  mostly  absorbed  by  the  older  and  well-to-do  settlers,  who, 
aiming  to  enlarge  rather  than  to  reduce  their  area,  held  their 
lands  at  a  high  price.  It  was  not  easy  to  purchase  any,  except 
perchance  an  estate  was  to  be  closed  up,  or  it  happened  that 
parties  were  leaving  town,  as  was  the  case  this  year  with  Journee 
and  Le  Roy,  who  removed  to  Staten  Island;  whither  also  went 
the  Sees,  father  and  son,  unable  to  suit  themselves  with  land  here.* 

With  the  immability  of  Dutchmen,  and  moreover  as  a  matter 
of  policy,  the  present  freeholders. had  been  slow  to  move  in  a 
further  division  of  the  common  lands,  which  hight  tend  to  lessen 
the  value  of  the  improved  farms.  Their  aim  was,  if  possible, 
to  retain  the  control  of  these  lands,  and  hence  the  anxiety  to 
secure  new  confirmations  of  their  patent  from  the  successive  gov- 
ernors. But  the  late  petition  to  Andros  for  his  confirmation, 
interfered  with  doubtless  by  the  Indian  troubles,  had  effected 
nothing;  while,  on  the  other  hand,  the  governor  was  beset  with 
applications  for  land  upon  ^Manhattan  Island,  and  which  he 
resolved  to  satisfy  by  dividing  up  various  tracts  of  woodland 
among  such  applicants  as  were  most  worthy,  and  would  under- 
take to  clear  and  improve  their  grants.  At  this  the  Harlem 
freeholders  took  alarm,  especially  as  they  understood  that  these 
grants  were  to  extend  to  the  unappropriated  lands  within  their 
own  patent.  No  time  was  lost,  therefore,  in  preparing  a  second 
memorial  to  Governor  Andros  in  these  terms: 

*  The  See  family,  whose  name  in  early  records  takes  the  several  forms  of  Cie, 
du  Gcj  Sieck,  Zy,  and  Sie,  consisted,  so  far  as  appears,  of  the  heads,  Isaac  See  and 
Wife  Esther,  their  son,  Isaac,  Jr.,  and  daughter,  Maria,  wife  of  Nicholas  de  Vaux. 
The  wife  of  Isaac,  Jr.,  was  also  named  Maria.  The  Sees  obtained  two  farms,  194 
acres,  on  Karle's  Neck,  Staten  Island,  by  patent  of  September  29,  1677.  But  after 
living  there  some  years,  they  removed  to  Philips  Manor,  Westchester  County,  the 
father  and  son  appearing  as  church  members  at  Sleepy  Hollow,  or  Tarrytown,  in  1697. 
Then  the  name  was  usually  written  Sie.  Isaac  and  Maria  had  sons,  Peter,  bom  in 
Europe;  Jacob,  bom  167^;  Simon,  born  1670,  etc.  The  family  is  still  numbered  among 
the  most  respectable  residents  there,  and  from  its  branches  have  come  several  well- 
known  clergymen. 


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To  his  Excellency  the  Governor  General  at  New  York. 

The  Constable,  Magistrates  and  Inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  New 
Haerlem  respectfully  represent  that  your  petitioners  have  understood 
and  been  informed  by  their  Constable  and  Joost  van  Oblinus  that  your 
Excellency's  purpose  is  to  distribute  the  lands  lying  within  their  town's 
jurisdiction,  for  bouweries  and  plantations;  wherefore  they  the  petition- 
ers and  undersigned  request  that  each  may  be  allowed  a  part  of  the 
same  to  build  upon  and  plant,  etc.  Remaining  meanwhile  your  Excel- 
lency's most  willing  subjects.  New  Haerlem,  Wednesday,  30th  August, 
1676. 

CoNRADus  Hendricks,  Gerard  Magister, 

Jan  Hendricks,  David  des  Marest,  Jun., 

Jan  Nagel,  J  ago  el  Roe, 

Arent  Hermensen,  Samuel  des  Marest, 

Jan  le  Maistre,  Adolph  Meyer, 

Cornelis  Jansen,  Frederick  de  Vaux, 

Laurens  Jansen,  Isaac  le  Maistre. 

Pierre  Cresson,  Glaude  le  Maistre. 

Nicholas  de  Vaux,  Abraham  le  Maistre, 

Hendrick  J.  Vander  Vin,  B arent  Waldron, 

David  des  Marest,  Francois  Breteau. 

Andros  favored  this  application,  but  as  none  of  the  magis- 
trates had  signed  it,  he  referred  it  to  them  to  make  out  and  pre- 
sent him  a  list  of  those  to  whom  such  grants  might  properly  be 
made.  This  they  prepared,  omitting  the  petitioners  Cresson, 
Vander  Vin,  David  des  Marest,  Jr.,  El  Roe,  the  Le  Maistres,  and 
Breteau ;  and  designating  instead  Jan  Dyckman,  Resolved  Wald- 
ron, Joost  and  Pieter  Van  Oblinus,  Jan  Louwe  Bogert,  and  Jean 
Baignoux, — ^but  the  last-named,  who  was  a  tenant  of  Mr.  Ver- 
veelen,  was  erased  from  the  list,  Andros  making  him  a  special 
grant  upon  Hoorn'sHook.  The  list  was  headed:  "Persons  for 
land  in  Harlem  bounds,  given  in  by  y*  Constable  and  overseers 
as  fitt  persons,  y^  4th  of  7^^^  1676."* 

Pending  the  new  grants,  the  town  employed  Robert  Ryder, 
government  surveyor,  to  run  out  the  lot  lines  on  Van  Keulen's 
Hook,  in  order  to  assign  each  owner  his  proper  quantity,  or  at 
least  to  equalize  them,  as  these  lots  had  never  been  accurately 
surveyed,  and  nearly  all  were  known  to  much  exceed  the  pre- 
scribed three  morgen  or  six  acres.  The  survey,  finished  before 
the  close  of  1676,  put  most  of  the  owners  who  had  inclosed  and 

*  Francois  Breteau,  as  he  signs  his  name,  was  sometimes  styled  "Frenchman.** 
Vander  Vin  wrote  his  name  Bartou,  showing  how  pronounced.  If  he,  as  we  suspect, 
was  the  same  with  Francois  Beado,  mentioned  on  page  348,  he  was  born  in  London 
in  1646.  About  the  date  of  this  petition  for  land,  Breteau  was  in  the  employ  of 
Glaude  le  Maistre;  but  no  land  being  granted  him,  he  procured  soon  after  12  acres 
at  Flushing.  He  petitioned,  September  28,  1680,  for  more  land,  giving  as  a  reason 
that  he  had  nine  children  to  support.  He  was  still  living  there,  with  his  wife  Mary, 
in  1698,  having  sons  John  and  Francis.  These  two  married  and  had  families;  John 
had  sons,  John,  born  1709,  who  removed  to  Vermont,  and  Francis,  born  171 1,  who 
settled  at  Hempstead,  Long  Island,  in  which  localities,  respectively,  their  descendants 
are  still  found.  (See  N.  V.  G.  &  B.  Rec,  and  Bartow  Cencalogry,  by  Rev.  Evelyn 
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built  upon  the  north  ends  of  these  lots  to  the  necessity  of  shift- 
ing their  fences.** 

William  Waldron,  eldest  son  of  Resolved,  had  learned  the 
cooper's  trade,  and  established  himself  in  New  York,  where  he 
married  the  daughter  of  the  wealthy  Stoutenburgh,  city  treas- 
urer, and  now  enjoyed  the  position  of  inspector  of  pipe-staves. 
He  and  his  partner,  Jan  Pietersen,  undertaking  to  cut  timber 
for  use  in  their  business,  in  the  common  woods  upon  Hoom's 
Hook,  the  town  officers  stopped  them,  upon  the  ground  that 
they  were  non-residents.  The  coopers  made  their  plaint  to  the 
Mayor's  Court,  November  14th,  against  the  "Constable  of  Har- 
lem and  several  other  Inhabitants,  for  discharging  them  from 
cutting  of  wood  upon  this  Island,  just  against  Hellgate,  not 
being  within  fence."  To  the  surprise  of  the  defendants  the  case 
went  against  them;  this  decision  being  rendered: 

It  is  Ordered,  That  the  said  William  Waldron  and  John  Petersen  may 
cut  timber  upon  this  Island,  within  one  mile  of  any  plantation  fence;  and 
the  timber  already  cut  they  to  carry  away;  and  the  town  to  pay  the 
charges. 

The  approaching  winter  promised  but  little  leisure.  The 
inhabitants  had  been  called  upon  to  cut  and  draw  to  the  water 
side  S,ooo  stockades  twelve  feet  long  and  four  inches  thick,  to 
be  used  in  making  "a  harbor  before  the  City  of  New  York.*' 
They  met  October  3d,  formed  themselves  into  four  corporalships, 
and  apportioned  the  work ;  choosing  as  corporals  Laurens  Jansen, 
Arent  Bussing,  Adolph  Meyer,  and  Jan  Nagel.  Another  call 
was  from  Vander  Vin,  the  clerk,  whose  house  had  become  unfit 
to  live  in.  At  his  request  it  was  resolved  at  a  meeting  in  October 
to  remove  him  for  the  winter  into  the  school-house  (or  church), 
after  it  should  be  repaired  and  adapted  to  the  purposes  of  a 
dwelling  by  putting  in  a  bedroom  (bedstede),  chimney,  and 
mantel,  and  making  the  door  and  windows  tight.  It  was  further 
decided  "to  repair  (vermaeken)  the  old  house  the  following 
spring."  In  repairing  the  school-house,  the  elder  Demarest  was 
employed  upon  the  work  in  "the  loft,"  and  also  put  a  lock  upon 
the  door,  and  glazed  the  windows,  while  Floris  Gerritsen,  mason. 


•*  The  Out-Gardens,  "lying  at  the  west  side  of  the  village"  (sec  pp.  246,  256. 
292),  were  also  "laid  out  bv  numbers,"  February  5,  1677.  On  January  5,  1667,  record 
was  made  that  Toumeur  had  gotten  No.  i  from  Oaessen  in  exchange  for  No.  11, 
and   3    from    Delamater   for    19.    and   4   from   De   Meyer   for    10,    "called    Tan   Cogu's 

Srdcn."  Later  he  got  5,  6,  from  Delavall,  who  let  Vervcelen  have  7,  8.  Lubbcrt 
rrritsen  exchanged  No.  16  for  11;  but  Demarest  buying  11,  gave  it  back  to  the 
town,  being  allowed  to  "survey"  16  instead.  The  present  owners  were:  Daniel 
Toumeur,  Nos.  i  to  6;  Johannes  Vervcelen,  7,  8;  Cornclis  Jansen.  9,  10;  The  Dorp, 
II :  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  12,  13,  14;  Thomas  Delavall,  15;  David  Demarest,  16,  17, 
18;    Claude  Delamater,   19,  20. 


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did  the  plastering.  Gerard  Magister  at  the  same  time  made  three 
new  "sitting  benches,  in  the  church." 

But  David  Demarest,  Jr.,  offended,  maybe,  because  he  haa 
been  dropped  from  the  Hst  of  those  recommended  to  have  land 
given  them,  declared  to  Daniel  Tourneur  that  he  would  not  con- 
tribute toward  the  repairs  upon  the  town-house.  Tourneur  bade 
him  consider  that  in  such  case  he  could  have  no  privilege  in  the 
town.  Demarest  angrily  replied,  "What  have  you  to  say,  since 
you  have  been  magistrate  a  day  or  two?  Hold  your  peace;  I 
will  not  give  to  it;  you  do  your  best."  The  town  court  took 
the  matter  up  December  7th.  Tourneur  demanded  that  it  should 
maintain  its  right  and  authority,  in  which  view  agreeing,  it  or- 
dered the  defendant  to  pay  12  gl.  to  the  deacons  and  the  court 
charges. 

The  elder  Demarest  and  Glaude  Delamater,  giving  reasons 
which  will  appear,  had  for  some  time  ceased  to  contribute  to 
Vander  Vin's  support,  the  first  being  two  years  in  arrears  and 
the  latter  three.  The  matter  was  referred  to  the  Mayor's  Court, 
which,  on  November  7th,  pasesd  an  order  that  "the  Clerk  of  the 
Parish  be  continued  in  his  place,  and  have  his  pay  what  is  behind, 
and  for  the  future  as  formerly." 

The  two  refractory  persons  paying  no  heed  to  this  order, 
were  now  waited  upon,  December  19th,  by  the  constable.  Re- 
solved Waldron,  and  Adolph  Meyer,  magistrate,  to  demand  from 
them  the  payment  of  their  dues.  Demarest  refused,  but  added, 
"If  the  Heer  Governor  order  that  I  pay  it,  I  shall  do  it."  Said 
Delamater,  "If  you  will  have  it,  you  must  fetch  it  out  of  my 
house,  for  I  will  not  give  it."  Again,  after  ten  days,  the  same 
persons,  taking  another  magistrate  (Tourneur)  with  them,  re- 
peated the  demand.  Demarest,  still  stout  in  his  refusal,  answered, 
"I  will  not  pay  before  the  Court  of  Sessions  decide  that  I  must." 
Delamater's  answer  now  was,  "I  must  first  see  the  town  accounts 
for  six  years ;  would  you  otherwise  have  it,  you  must  take  it  out 
of  my  house."  On  February  5th  the  same  officers,  with  another 
magistrate,  Jan  Louwe  Bogert,  went  to  Demarest's  house,  but 
he  was  not  at  home.  They  then  called  upon  Delamater,  but 
with  no  success.  "I  shall  not  pay,"  said  Glaude,  at  this  third 
interview ;  "you  must  take  it  out  of  my  house,  and  then  I  will 
appeal  to  the  High  Council." 

The  baffled  officers  hesitated  to  distrain  upon  their  goods  for 
the  debt;  but  after  another  month's  delay  again  applied  for 
power  to  do  so  to  the  Mayor's  Court,  which  on  March  6th, 
1677,  issued  the  following  ample  order: 


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From  the  City  of  New  York  to  the  Town  of  Harlem. 

The  Court  order,  that  Hendrick  Jansen  Vander  jVin,  the  Clerk  of  the 
said  Town,  be  continued  in  his  place  according  to  former  order,  and 
have  his  pay,  what  is  behind  and  for  the  future  as  formerly  by  the  In- 
habitants; and  if  they  or  any  of  them  refuse  to  pay  what  is  due  from 
them  for  the  time  past,  and  for  the  time  to  come,  then  the  Constable  is 
hereby  ordered  to  levy  the  same  by  distress  and  sale  of  the  goods,  for 
satisfaction  of  what  is  or  shall  hereafter  become,  due  to  the  said  Clerk. 

On  April  3d  citations  were  issued  to  Demarest  and  Dela- 
mater  to  appear  before  the  town  court  on  the  5th  instant.  Glaude 
appeared.  The  constable  as  plaintiff,  demanded  that  the  order 
of  March  6th  should  be  enforced.  The  defendant  stated  that 
they  of  the  French  congregation,  in  the  time  of  Governor  Francis 
Lovelace,  having  received  a  preacher,  the  aforesaid  governor  had 
said  that  "the  French  of  the  Town  of  New  Harlem  should  be 
free  as  to  contributing  to  the  Dutch  voorleser."*     He  demanded 

*  Rev.  Pierre  Daille  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  "pastor"  of  the  French  Church 
in  New  York.  But  according  to  the  reference  in  the  text,  a  "preacher"  had  preceded 
him  by  ten  years  of  more,  whose  name,  however,  is  unknown  to  us.  The  statement  is 
of  interest  as  showing  that  the  refugees  at  New  York  and  Harlem  joined  to  introduce 
and  sustain  the  French  service  as  early  as  1674.  A  better  organization  followed  on 
the  arrival  of  Mr.  Daille,  of  whom  Domine  Selyns,  in  a  letter  of  October  21,  1683, 
thus  speaks:  Dominie  Peter  Daille,  late  professor  at  Saumur,  has  become  my  co- 
laborer,  and  conducts  the  French  worship.  He  is  full  of  fire,  godliness,  and  learning. 
Banished  on  account  of  his  religion,  he  maintains  the  cause  of  Jesus  Christ  with  un- 
tiring zeal."  With  others  of  his  family,  Mr.  Daille  first  took  refuge  in  Holland;  but 
must  have  been  some  months  in  this  colony  at  the  date  of  Selvns'  letter,  as  he  organ- 
ized a  church  at  New  Paltz,  January  22,  1683.  (Du  Bois  Reunion,  p.  8;  and  compare 
Doc  Hist,  of  N.  Y.,  iii.  472,  1167.)  The  date  of  the  organization  at  New  York  may  be 
nearly  indicated  by  letters  taken  from  the  Dutch  church  in  order  to  unite  with  the 
French,  the  earliest  of  these  noticed  being  those  of  our  Marc  Disosway  and  wife, 
which  are  dated  June  7,  168^.  Mr.  Daille  extended  his  labors  to  neighboring  French 
communities,  and  probably  aided  in  organizing  the  church  of  Kinkachemeck,  near  Hack- 
oisack,  of  which  the  Demarests  were  chief  promoters.  He  evidendtly  revived  that  upon 
Staten  Island,  where  the  church  established  as  early  as  1664,  by  Demarest  and  others, 
had  declined,  till  there  was  "neither  church  nor  minister,"  as  the  French  residents  told 
the  Labadist  travellers  in  1679.  The  Revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes  added  to  his 
flock  many  French  families,  who  came  by  way  of  London,  South  Carolina  and  St. 
Kitts.  Though  disapproving  Leisler's  course,  Mr.  Daillc's  sympathies  were  so  stirred 
at  his  impending  fate,  that  he  circulated  for  sigrnatures,  at  Harlem  and  elsewhere,  a 
petition  for  his  pardon,  but  for  this  humane  act  was  called  to  account  by  the  General 
Assembly.  Rev.  Pierre  Peiret,  before  a  minister  in  France,  but  expelled  for  the  cause 
of  religion,  arriving,  with  other  refugees,  at  New  York  from  London,  November  19, 
1687,  soon  after  formed  a  second  church,  and  became  its  pastor.  He  was  deemed  very 
learned,  in  1692  the  two  French  churches  united,  agreeing  to  give  an  equal  support 
to  both  pastors;  Mr.  Peiret  to  perform  service  in  the  city,  and  Mr.  Daille  in  the 
country,  as  he  had  loved  to  do.  The  latter,  in  1696,  accepted  a  call  to  Boston,  return- 
ing the  next  year  to  marry  a  second  wife,  and  occassionally  thereafter  coming  to  New 
York,  as  in  1703,  when  he  sold  a  house  and  lot  in  Broadway,  and  a^in  three  years  be- 
fore nis  deatl^  which  was  probably  his  last  visit  to  his  old  flock.  This  devoted  minister, 
long  remembered  by  the  Harlem  French  for  his  eloquence  and  excellence,  closed  his 
earthly  labors  May  21,  1715,  in  his  67th  year.  Mr.  Peiret  continued  to  serve  the 
church  in  New  York  with  general  approbation,  to  the  time  of  his  death,  September  i, 
1704,  having  attained  his  ooth  year.  He  was  buried  the  next  day  "in  the  common 
cemetery  of  this  city."  The  consistory  and  people  agreed  to  pay  his  widow  an  extra 
year's  salary.  He  was  succeeded  by  Kev.  James  Laborie,  late  Indian  missionary  at 
Oxford,  Mass.  For  some  years  the  church  had  worshipped  in  a  plain  structure  near 
the  Fort;  that  is,  on  the  south  side  of  Marketfield  street,  also  called  Petticoat  lane, 
which  had  become  in  a  sense  the  French  quarter.  Only  the  year  before  Mr.  Peiret's 
death  thev  bought  a  lot  in  Pine  street,  and  were  engaged  in  building  the  unique  stone 
church  which  stood  till  1834,  and  witnessed  the  labors  of  Peiret's  successors  down  to 
thelate  Dr.  Verren.  Trinity  churchyard  contains  Mr.  Pieret's  tombstone,  with  an  in- 
scription in  both  Latin  and  French,  the  first,  as  follows,  copied  some  years  ago  with 
difficulty,  it  being  almost  illegible: 

Hie  jacet  Rcvcrd,  Dom.  Petrus  Perretrus,  V.  D.  Mr.  qui  ex  Gallia  religionis  causa 
cxpulsns,  verbum  Dei  in  hujus  civitatis  Ecclesia  Gallicana  per  annis  17  cum  generali 
appropatione  praedicavit  quique.     Cum  vitam  prsdicationibus  suis  conformem  duxeri 


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that  this  might  be  deemed  sufficient,  and  that  the  court  should 
carry  out  the  order  they  had  from  the  Mayor's  Court  so  as  they 
were  advised  to.  But  the  court  would  not  allow  this  plea,  and 
directed  execution  for  the  amount  of  the  debt  and  costs.  Forth- 
with the  magistrates  (except  Arent  Hermensen,  Delamater's  son- 
in-law)  proceeded  in  a  body  to  the  defendant's  house  to  levy  upon 
his  goods.  Finding  nothing  suitable  at  hand,  the  constable  told 
him  that  on  Wednesday  evening  (April  nth)  he  would  take  one 
of  his  cows  out  of  his  stable  and  sell  her  at  public  vendue,  to 
satisfy  the  debt.  Delamater  replied  scornfully,  "You  may  as 
well  take  her* now;  why  have  you  to  wait  so  long?" 

On  April  nth  the  court  ordered  another  citation  to  be 
served  on  Demarest,  who  had  not  appeared,  and  meanwhile  to 
delay  the  execution  against  Delamater.  Demarest,  in  no  very 
amiable  mood,  appeared  before  the  court  on  the  14th.  The  con- 
stable inquired  why  he  had  neglected  to  obey  the  order  of  the 
Mayor's  Court  after  being  so  many  times  notified.  Demarest 
said  that  he  was  not  cited  to  answer  before  the  Mayor's  Court, 
and  that  the  Heer  Governor  had  told  him  that  he  was  not  bound 
to  pay.  He  said  further,  that  the  Mayor's  Court  was  wrongly 
informed  of  the  case;  adding  that  the  constable,  Jan  Louwe, 
and  Daniel  Tourneur,  were  parties  in  this  prosecution,  and  the 
secretary  the  instigator.  Yet,  as  he  intends  to  remove  out  of 
this  town,  he  will  pay,  or  cause  it  to  be  paid,  but  not  if  he  should 
not  leave.  "You  people,"  said  he,  meaning  all  the  magistrates, 
"are  my  enemies,  and  seek  but  to  drive  me  into  costs."  The  court 
seems  to  have  let  this  ebullition  of  feeling  pass  unnoticed.  The 
contest  was  ended  as  to  Demarest,  who  having  promised,  kept  his 
word.  Delamater,  however,  held  out,  and  the  magistrates  hesitating 
to  use  extreme  measures,  the  case  thus  rested  for  several  years. 

Demarest  was  now  engrossed  with  a  scheme  of  some  magni- 
tude,— the  purchase  from  the  Indians  of  a  large  tract  of  land  on 
the  Hackensack  River,  with  the  "declared  purpose  of  making  a 
settlement  of  30  or  40  families,  to  be  transported  from  Europe." 
He  and  his  son,  David,  contracted  with  Paulus  Richard,  of  New 
York,  merchant,  apparently  on  the  same  date,  March  12th,  1677, 
to  sell  him  their  property  in  Harlem,  but  only  the  deed  from 
David,  Jr.,  has  been  found,  given  April  12th,  pursuant  to  the 
articles  of  sale  previously  executed.  On  June  8th  ensuing, 
Demarest  affected  his  Indian  purchase  of  2,000  acres,  to  which 
he  prepared  to  remove  with  his  entire  family,  including  Jacque 

usque,   ad   6omum  setatis  suae   annum  tandem  in   manus  Domini   spiritum   humiliter 
deposuit   I   mens.   Sept.  Ann.   Dom.    1704. 


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el  Roe,  on  the  ist  of  May,  1678,  until  which  date  the  two  Davids 
had  reserved  the  use  of  tfieir  respecti\e  dwellings,  the  father  then 
occupying  his  "new  house."* 

The  19th  of  February,  this  year,  was  given  to  making  pro- 
vision for  the  town  debts  and  the  discharge  of  other  public  busi- 
ness.    Quoting  from  the  record: 

At  a  meeting  held  Monday,  19th  February,  1676-7.  Present:  Their 
Honors,  Resolved  Waldron,  constable ;  Tan  Louwe  van  Schoonrewoerdt, 
Adolph  Meyer,  Arent  Hermens,  Daniel  Tourneur ;  with  the  advice  of  Joost 
van  Oblinus,  old  magistrate,  and  Jan  Dyckman,  late  constable. 

It  is  resolved  and  found  good  to  reckon  up  the  debts,  for  which  the 
town  is  now  in  arrears,  and  must  pay;  and  to  make  an  assessment  upon 
the  lands  and  house-lots  (erven)  lying  within  this  town,  to  discharge  the 
said  debts ;  and  there  is  found  to  be  due  to — 


Reynier  Willems,  balance f.  253 

Paulus  Richard,  balance 21 

Jan  Louwe 5 

Joost   van   Oblinus 26 

Hendr.  J.  Vandr.  Vin 31 

Glaude  le  Maistre,  2  schepels  wheat 12 

Resolved  Waldron,  J^  vat  of  beer 15 

Jan  Dyckman,  board  money  to  Surveyor 8 

Frederick   Gysberts 57 

Nicolaes   Bayard    24 

For   extraordinary    expenses 46 


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15 
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10 

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15 


Total    f.  500  :    o 

An  assessment  made  on  the  lands  and  house-lots,  to  pay  and  discharge 
the  forgoing  500  guilders;  whereof  one- third  was  put  upon  the  house- 

*  Richard  had  an  old  claim  of  1600  gulidcrs  against  Demarcst,  senior,  and  the 
lats  Tourneur.  How  it  originated  we  know  not.  unless  from  what  follows.  Demarest 
having  bought  Montagne's  larm,  failed  to  meet  the  second  payment  (but  had  paid  Jacob 
Vis,  on  Montagne's  order,  180  guilders  sewant);  when  Montague  sued  him,  Oct.  6, 
1666,  and  citing  the  articles  of  sale,  demanded  back  the  farm.  Demarest  said  his  de- 
fault was  caused  by^  Allard  Anthony  having  stopped  the  payment — that  yesterday, 
Daniel  Tourneur,  acting  for  said  Anthony's  brother-in-law,  had  arrested  300  guilders 
for  claims  against  Montagne.  The  court  ordered  the  land  to  be  given  up,  but  on  an 
appeal  to  the  Mayor's  Court,  October  9.  it  reversed  the  decision,  holding  "that  the 
sale  of  the  land  in  question  shall  stand  tast"  But  Demarest  must  pay  his  second  in- 
stalment (less  the  x8o  guilders)  within  fourteen  days.  The  amount  due  could  hardly 
have  exceeded  800  guilders,  but  Richard  (we  only  presume  that  this  was  the  occasion) 
advanced  Demarest  and  Tourneur  together  1600,  and  the  town  officers  became  their 
surety.  This  appears  from  the  following  letter  (suggesting  that  Toumeur's  loan  was 
for  the  town's  use),  indorsed  by  Richard,  "Obligation  to  pay  from  Daniel  Tourneur 
and  David  Demarest." 

Ao.  167%  the  23d  Feb.,  N.  Harlem. 
Honored  friend  Celitie  Richard: 

Whereas  we  have  duly  received  yours  of  the  19th,  so  these  serve  for  answer;  As 
your  husband  has  agreed;  with  Daniel  Tourneur  and  David  Demarest,  that  he  will 
wait  yet  one  year,  by  their  paying  interest  upon  the  sixteen  hundred  guilders,  so  it  is 
that  we  by  these  accept  it,  and  shall  take  measures  the  next  year  for  the  payment,  as 
this  year  we  have  some  other  burdens.     Farewell. 

D.    Tourneur, 

David  dcs  Marest, 

Pieter     Roelefsen,     Constable, 

Resalvcrt   Waldron. 

This  was  cancelled  March  12,  1677,  upon  the  elder  Demarest  selling  out  to  Richard, 
and  the  letter  returned,  with  the  following  on  the  back: 

"Acknowledged  paid,  etc,  being  from  date  for  standing  obligation.  Done,  New 
York,  the  lath  Marcn,  167  6-7.  Paulus  Richard." 


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lots  and  two-thirds  on  the  lands,  and  upon  each  house-lot  comes  8  guilders 
and  on  each  morgen  2  guilders,  to  wit : 

Glaude  le  Maistre* 2  erven.  15  morgen.  f.  46 

Laurens  Jansen 2  "  9  "  34 

Cornelis    Jansen 9  "  ^^ 

on  the  Flat 2  "  4 

David  des  Marest,  Jr i  "  9  "  26 

Daniel    Tourneur VA  "  18  "  48 

Jan    Dyckman yi  "  4 

Conrad    Hendricks i  "  6  "  20 

Johannes    Verveelen 2  "  9  "  34 

Adolph  Meyer  i  "  6  "  20 

David  des  Marest i  "  14  ]*  36 

Joost  van  Oblinus 3  "  12  "  48 

Nicholas  de  Vaux i  "  9  "  26 

Resolved  Waldron 2  "  15  "  46 

Jan  Nagel  5^  "  12  ^  ^ 

Johannes    Vermelje i  "  2 

Jan  le  Maistre i  "  3  "  ^4 

Jan   Louwe 16  "  32 

Isaac    Kip i  "  8 

Arent    Hermens ^A  "  4 

Pieter    Cresson %  "  2 

f.  500 

The  foregoing  sums  must  be  paid,  at  furthest,  by  the  last  of  March 
next  ensuing,  punctually,  without  any  delay,  or  exception,  in  good  mer- 
chantable grain,  upon  penalty,  etc. 

Most  of  the  inhabitants  were  present  at  this  meeting  of  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1677.  Some  action  was  expected  in  regard  to  the 
shifting  of  the  fences  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,"  but  nothing  was 
resolved  upon.  Weightier  matters  claimed  attention.  No  little 
concern  was  felt  at  the  silence  of  Governor  Andros  in  regard  to 
his  promise  to  distribute  more  land  among  them,  and  at  reports 
of  the  large  grants  he  was  intending  to  make  in  their  immediate 
vicinity,  and  even  within  their  limits.  It  was  therefore  resolved  to 
send   another   committee   to   his  Excellency,   requesting   him   to 

Richard  took  this  property,  obviously,  in  payment  of  this  claim;  or  at  least  the 
claim  was  part  of  the  consideration  paid  by  Richard  for  said  property.  He  got  his 
deed  from  David,  junior,  April  12,  1677,  ana  the  same  djiy  rcconvcyed  what  it  covered 
(house  and  lot,  barn,  lot  ii,  Jochem  Pictcrs;  lot  1,  Van  Keulen's  Hook  and  meadows) 
to  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  for  2400  guilders  in  sewant.  He  disposed  of  the  property  late 
of  David,  senior,  in  the  course  of  the  year,  as  follows:  On  July  i,  the  houses  and 
lots,  barn,  and  7  Jochem  Pieters,  to  Oblinus,  for  4000  guilders,  in  erain,  and  3  Out- 
gardens,  Nos.  16,  17,  18,  to  Arent  Harmans,  for  700  guilders;  on  November  17,  the 
half  of  No.  5,  V.  K.  Hook,  to  Laurens  Tansen.  for  ^joo  guilders,  and  lot  No.  4.  Mon- 
Ugne's  Flat  (since  in  the  Nutter  farm)  to  Cornelis  Jansen,  lor  400  guilders.  All 
these  to  pay  in  grain  or  tobacco.  Two  north  gardens,  described  in  the  senior  Demar- 
est's  patent,  1671,  as  "betwixt  Glaude  le  Maitrc  and  the  Poor's  Garden,"  meaning  the 
Church  Farm,  were  added  to  the  latter.  On  November  27.  1691,  Paul  Richard  gives  a 
receipt,  having  "settled  in  full  with  Joost  Obline's  wife,  tor  two  farms  (twee  Sowry) 
lying  in  the  town  of  New  Harlem."  Richard  (sec  p.  53)  was  twice  alderman.  He  mar- 
ried, 1664,  widow  Celitie  Vanderwal,  from  Christianstadt.  A  daughter,  Hester  (Mrs. 
Le  Fort),  was  mysteriously  murdered  October  19,  1699.  Their  son  Stephen,  bom 
1670,  had  ten  children,  one  being  Paul  Richard,  faiayor  of  New  York  from  1735  to 
1739- 

*  "N.  B.  Glaude  le  Maistre  has  not  more  than  9  morgen  of  land,  so  that  in  the 
foregoing  is  put  by  mistake  6  morgen  too  much."     Note  in  the  original. 


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grant  the  lands  lying  within  their  purisdiction  only  to  the  actual 
residents,  according  to  their  petition  of  August  30th  preceding, 
'*and  further  to  be  maintained  in  the  rights  of  their  patent." 

Captain  James  Carteret  was  named  first  on  this  committee. 
Apparently  he  had  just  returned  from  a  voyage  to  England. 
He  had  taken  from  Vander  Vin,  April  5,  1676,  a  statement  of 
Captain  Delavall's  indebtedness  to  the  town,  being  242  gl  i6st. 
Between  the  dates  of  May  9th  and  December  5th  ensuing,  no 
mention  of  him  here  has  been  found,  and  he  now  held  deeds  of 
lease  and  release,  dated  London,  August  7th  and  8th,  1676,  from 
his  father-in-law,  for  the  mill  property,  the  Moesman  farm,  and 
Little  Barent's  Island ;  in  which  instruments  Delavall  is  described 
as  *1ate  of  New  York  in  America,  and  now  of  London,  mer- 
chant," and  Carteret  also  as  ''of  London."  Delavall  had  been 
prompted  to  this  gift,  as  he  says,  **in  consideration  of  the  natural 
love  and  affection  which  the  said  Thomas  Delavall  beareth  to  the 
said  James  Carteret  and  Francis  his  wife,  the  daughter  of  the 
said  Thomas  Delavall,  and  for  divers  other  good  causes."  With 
his  usual  caution,  Delavall  signed  the  lease  only,  reserving  his 
signature  to  the  deed  till  he  should  return  himself  to  America. 
Perhaps  Delavall  was  afraid  the  captain's  creditors  might  get  it. 
A  little  episode  may  suffice  here. 

On  his  first  coming  to  Harlem,  about  the  ist  of  April,  1675, 
"having  occasion  for  a  horse  to  employ,"  Carteret  sent  his  man 
Wilier  to  borrow  one  of  William  Sturt.  But  it  happened  that 
the  horse  took  sick  and  died  **within  three  or  four  days  after  his 
return."  Sturt  declared  that  the  animal  "was  overridden  and 
much  misused,"  and  when  more  than  a  year  had  passed  sued 
the  captain  for  damages.  But  Wilier  having  left,  the  captain 
was  placed  at  a  disadvantage  in  the  matter  of  witnesses  when 
the  trial  came  on,  December  5,  1676.  "Daniel  Tourneur,  sworn, 
saith  that  he  saw  the  horse  in  question  at  Harlem,  and  that  the 
man  told  him  that  the  horse  failed  him  at  Freshwater,  and  that 
he  was  forced  to  lead  him  forewards  and  backwards  between 
York  and  Harlem."  Sturt  demanded  £12  for  the  horse,  and  £5 
"for  want  of  said  horse  and  expenses  in  his  sickness."  The  jury 
and  court  found  for  the  plaintiff.  But  Carteret  objected  to  the 
price  put  upon  the  steed ;  and  this  point  was  referred  to  arbitra- 
tors, who  reduced  the  valuation  to  £8;  whereupon  the  court, 
March  20,  1677,  "order  a  horse  of  that  value  to  be  delivered 
before  next  court  day,  or  judgnlent  to  be  entered  against  Carteret 
to  that* amount  and  costs  of  suit."  Carteret  was  delinquent,  and 
on  April  3d  execution  issued ;  but  the  next  year  came  round  and 


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it  was  not  yet  satisfied,  when  Sturt,  getting  the  court  to  reaffirm 
its  former  judgment,  left  soon  after  to  become  town  clerk  at 
Pemaquid.     But  to  return. 

Besides  Carteret,  the  committee  to  wait  upon  the  governor 
consisted  of  Adolph  Meyer  and  Daniel  Toumeur  from  the  magis- 
tracy, and  Jan  Dyckman  and  Laurens  Jansen  from  the  commun- 
ity. The  committee  reported  on  February  24th  that  at  their 
interview  with  Andros,  he  said  he  had  understood  from  David 
Demarest  that  the  people  of  New  Harlem  had  not  needed  nor 
desired  any  land.  But  that  now  he  would  send  the  surveyor, 
within  eight  days  or  thereabouts,  and  "they  of  New  Harlem  might 
themselves  lay  out  the  land  as  was  convenient,  because  he  had 
no  knowledge  of  this  place." 

It  is  hard  to  say  what  designs  Andros  may  have  had  regard- 
ing the  Harlem  lands,  or  whether  he  ever  seriously  intended  to 
override  the  Harlem  patent.  There  is  some  reason  to  believe 
that  he  did.  But  if  so,  he  came  to  think  better  of  it;  and  while 
he  did  not  formally  confirm  their  patent,  he  recognized  it  by 
allowing  the  Harlem  people  to  dispose  of  their  common  lands  in 
their  own  way.  Nothing  could  have  suited  them  better,  and 
the  concession  was  important  as  tending  to  settle  their  rights. 
They  had  to  congratulate  themselves  on  their  own  vigilance  and 
efforts,  and  especially  to  thank  Captain  Carteret,  whose  name 
with  six  others  was  now  added  to  those  who  were  to  draw  land. 

Ryder  finally  came,  and  spent  fourteen  days  in  making  the 
surveys.  He  had  been  occupied  during  the  intervening  time  in 
laying  out  several  farms  along  the  East  River,  in  a  range 
extending  from  Kip's  Bay  to  Hoom's  Hook;  forming,  within 
the  recollection  of  many,  the  charming  rural  seats  of  Winthrop, 
Hoffman,  Buchanan,  Pearsall,  the  Beekmans,  Jones,  Riker,  and 
Lawrence,  the  Delafields,  and  Schermerhorn.  Beginning  at  Kip's 
Bay,  the  grants  were  30  acres  to  Gabriel  Carbosie,  60  to  David 
du  Four  and  son,  60  to  Rev.  Jacobus  Fabricius,  30  to  Comelis 
Matthyssen,  60  to  John  Bassett,  38^  to  George  Elphinstone,  32^4 
to  Jacob  Young,  and  30  to  Jean  Baignoux.  The  last  three  fell 
partly  within  the  Harlem  patent.*  That  to  Elphinstone,  which 
lapped  upon  the  southern  end  of  this  patent  (at  74th  Street, 
including  within  its  limits  the  Saw  Kill)  ;  and  that  next,  granted 
to  Young,  and  "bounded  to  the  northeast  by  the  commons  or  a 
certain  run  of  water," — were  surveyed  on  April  25th.  Baig- 
noux's  farm  was  run  out  adjoining  to  Young,  on  July  20th.    The 

•  Sec  Notes  on  these  Titles  from  Carbosie  to  Bassett,  in  the  N.  Y.  Corp.  Mannual 
for  1869,  pp.  881-887;    also  Abstracts  of  Farm  Titles,  by  H.  Croswcll  Tuitlc. 


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grants  were  "to  be  confirmed  by  patent  when  begun  to  be  im- 
proved." The  first  patent  was  issued  to  Young,  May  i,  1677, 
the  other  two  not  till  September  29th  following,  and  they  were 
subject  severally  to  a  quit-rent  or  annual  render  to  the  govern- 
ment of  "half  a  bushel  of  good  winter  wheat."  In  the  interim, 
30  acres  on  the  North  River  side,  upon  the  hills  next  below 
Moertje  Davids'  Fly,  and  running  into  "the  Commons  of  Har- 
lem," were  granted  and  set  off  July  9th  to  Hendrick  Bosch,  a 
sword-cutler,  and  originally  from  Leyden.  Elphinstone  had 
erected  a  leather  mill  and  other  buildings  upon  his  tract,  with 
the  assistance  of  a  copartner,  Abraham  Shotwell,  late  of  New 
Jersey,  to  whom  (probably  in  view  of  what  followed)  the  patent 
was  made  out.  On  October  30th  Elphinstone  sold  all  his  inter- 
est in  the  farm,  houses,  and  mill,  to  Shotwell,  who  in  payment 
gave  his  obligation,  in  the  form  of  a  mortgage,  for  i52:ios.* 
With  genuine  sagacity,  the  people  of  Harlem  resolved  to 
secure  the  two  extremities  of  their  patent  from  further  encroach- 
ment. Under  their  direction,  Ryder  first  laid  out  five  lots  at 
Spujten  Duyvel,  upon  the  old  Matthys  Jansen  patent, — "begin- 
ning by  Johannes  Verveelen,"  who,  as  ferryman,  occupied  the 
upper  end  of  that  patent :  and  ranging  down  the  Harlem  River 
to  "the  hills  and  the  meadows,"  or  the  northern  line  of  the  Jan- 
sen and  Aertsen  patent,  which  touched  the  river  at  what  is  now 
2iith  Street.  These  lots  were  "given  out  by  lot."  We  annex 
the  numbers,  owners,  and  acres  of  those — 

At  Spuyten  Duyvel. 

No.  I.    Johannes  Vermelje 18  acres. 

"     2.    Jan    Nagel 14     ** 

"     3.    Conrad  Hendricks  Boch 14     " 

"     4.    Jan  Dyckman   14     " 

"     5.       "  "  14     " 

The  unappropriated  meadows  behind  these  lots  on  the 
Spuyten  Duyvel  Creek  (with  the  exception  hereafter  noticed) 
were  given  to  Dyckman  and  Nagel,  who  at  once  purchased  Ver- 
milye  and  Boch's  lots. 

Upon  Hoorn's  Hook  ten  lots  were  laid  off,  these  running 
in  from  the  East  River  northwest,  and  ranging  from  Jean 
Baignoux's  line  upward  to  the  bend  since  called  Gracie's  Point; 
the  last  lot  in  the  range  containing  12  acres,  but  all  the  others 
8  acres  each.     These  were  allotted  as  follows: 

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Upon  Hoorn's  Hook. 

Adalph  Meyer, 

Laurens  Jansen, 

Johannes  Verveelen, 

Jan  le  Maistre, 

Maria  Vermel je, 

Jan  Louw  v.  Schroonrewoert, 

Daniel  Tourneur, 

Barent  Waldron, 

Jan  Hendricks  Boch, 

Pieter  van  Oblinus.* 

Another  ten  lots,  each  eight  acres,  were  laid  off  upon  Jochem 
Pieters'  Flat,  in  continuation  of  "the  old  lots/'  Running  east 
and  west,  they  began  "at  the  land  of  Captain  Carteret,"  ranging 
northward  to  what  has  since  been  called  Bussing's,  but  then 
Gloudie's  Point,  so  named  from  Le  Maistre,  who  owned  meadow 
there.  These,  often  distinguished  as  the  "New  Lots,'*  were 
drawn  by  the  following  persons : 

On  Jochem  Picters'  Flat. 

No.  I.  Jan   Hendricks  Brevoort, 

"  2.  Glaude  le  Maistre, 

"  3.  Frederick  de  Vaux, 

"  4.  Resolved  Waldron, 

"  5.  Arent  Herme^s, 

"  6.  Cornelis  Jansen, 

"  7.  Gerard  M agister, 

"  8.  Joose  van  Oblinus, 

"  9.  Capt.  James  Carteret, 

"  10,  Pieter  Jansen  Bogert. 

We  observe  in  these  allotments  a  preconcerted  design  to 
occupy  what  remained  of  the  three  old  groundbriefs  given  to 
Matthys  Jansen,  Claessen,  and  Kuyter :  a  shrewd  stroke  of  policy, 
truly,  but  which  we  are  not  to  interpret  into  a  distrust  of  the 
equity  of  their  claim  to  those  lands,  of  which  they  had  been 
legally  put  in  possession  by  the  deliberate  action  of  the  constituted 
authorities. 

Ryder  dates  his  certificates  of  the  above  surveys  on  August 
6th.  They  were  recorded  August  17th.  While  here  surveying, 
he  boarded  with  Resolved  Waldron,  the  town  paying  for  it,  and 
also  for  six  gallons  of  rum  drank  during  the  progress  of  the  work. 
The  surveyor's  bill,  including  the  survey  of  Van  Keulen's  Hook, 
amounted  to  429  gl. 

A  parcel  of  meadow  land  lying  on  the  Spuyten  Duyvel,  to 
the  westward  of  the  first  lot  there  granted,  had  been  the  object 

*  For  the  after  history  of  these  lots,  which  were  mainly  included  in  the  Waldron 
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of  some  contention,  but  was  finally  disposed  of,  by  a  vote  of  the 
magistrates,  August  loth,  as  follows: 

"Whereas,  a  dispute  has  arisen  among  the  inhabitants  of  this 
town  respecting  a  certain  parcel  of  meadow  lying  on  the  Spuy- 
ten  Duyvel,  which  each  of  them  claims  to  have,  and  the  said 
meadow  is  too  small  to  be  divided  amongst  them  all ;  and  because 
some  have  no  meadow  annexed  to  their  land,  to  wit,  Arent  Her- 
mens,  Johannes  Vermelje,  and  Gerard  Magister,  We  the  Court, 
pursuant  to  the  order  of  his  Honor  the  Governor-General  given 
to  the  Land  Surveyor,  also  give  directions  to  said  Surveyor  to 
measure  out  and  give  the  said  meadow  to  the  aforesaid  persons/* 

It  was  then  further  resolved,  that  "a  piece  of  meadow  lying 
at  the  north  point  of  this  Island,  and  Moertje  Davids'  Vly,  shall 
remain  to  the  town's  lot/' 

More  wrath  seems  to  have  been  stirred  up  at  this  action  of 
the  magistrates  in  giving  away  the  meadows,  than  at  the  larger 
grants  made  by  Andros  impinging  on  their  patent,  though  this 
caused,  from  first  to  last,  a  deal  of  excitement.  Adolph  Meyer, 
now  a  magistrate,  but  opposed  to  the  grant,  had  the  temerity  to 
take  an  active  part  with  the  dissatisfied  people  in  getting  up  a 
remonstrance.  Andros  took  this  as  a  grave  offence,  and  issued 
his  warrant,  August  14th,  for  Meyer's  arrest,  charging  him  with 
having  "occasioned  disturbance  by  siding  with  the  commonalty 
and  petitioning  in  a  factious  manner."  He  was  admitted  to  bail, 
on  condition  of  appearing  before  the  Governor  and  Council  when 
required,  to  answer  what  should  be  alleged  against  him,  "and 
in  the  meantime  to  be  of  the  good  behavior."  At  the  next  elec- 
tion his  townsmen  renominated  Meyer  for  magistrate,  and  he 
was  even  confirmed  in  the  office.  But  when  brought  to  the  notice 
of  the  Mayor,  Van  Cortlandt,  he  removed  Meyer  Novemebr  3d, 
because  he  was  "under  recognizance  for  his  good  behavior" ;  and 
ordered  a  new  nomination,  which  resulted  in  putting  Laurens 
Jansen  in  the  vacancy. 

Scarcely  was  the  survey  at  Spuyten  Duyvel  made,  when 
Dyckman  and  Nagel  bought  out  Vermelje  and  Boch,  and  thereby 
became  the  owners  of  the  whole  five  lots,  containing  74  acres 
of  upland,  with  the  meadows  granted  them  as  before  stated  being 
about  eight  acres ;  the  beginning  of  the  fine  estates  subsequently 
held  there  by  the  Nagel  and  Dyckman  families.  With  no  inten- 
tion of  yet  quitting  their  old  homes  in  the  village,  they  agreed 
with  Michiel  Bastiaensen  annd  his  son-in-law,  Kiersen,  to  take 
these  lands  upon  lease  for  a  term  of  twelve  years.  We  have 
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be  preserved,  as  it  relates  to  the  first  successful  effort  to  make 
improvements  in  that  section  of  Manhattan  Island,  on  which  as 
yet  there  was  not  another  white  man's  hearthstone  north  of  Har- 
lem village. 

On  this  date,  26th  October,  A*.  1677,  appeared  before  me,  Hendrick 
J.  Vander  Vin,  by  the  Honorable  Mayor's  Court  admitted  Secretary, 
residing  at  the  Town  of  New  Harlem,  and  the  after-named  witnesses ; 
the  honest  Jan  Nagel  and  Jan  Dyckman,  on  the  one  side,  and  Michiel 
Bastiaensen  with  Hendrick  Kiersen,  on  the  other;  the  which  agree  to 
contract  with  the  others  and  are  agreed  in  the  following  manner.  Jan 
Nagel  and  Jan  Dyckman  have  conjointly  leased,  and  by  these  do  lease  to 
the  before-named  Michiel  Bastiaensen  and  Hendrick  Kiersen  in  com- 
pany, certain  the  lessors'  lands,  contained  in  five  lots,  marked  No.  i,  2, 
3,  4,  5,  with  the  meadows  thereto  belonging,  all  lying  upon  this  Island 
Manhatans,  at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  and  under  this  town's  jurisdiction,  as 
appears  by  the  surveys  thereof  existing,  the  which  the  lessees  take  and 
accept  on  lease  upon  condition  as  follows,  to  wit:  The  lessees  shall  oc- 
cupy and  use  the  aforesaid  lands  and  meadows  for  the  time  of  twelve 
consecutive  years,  to  count  from  now  on,  expiring  in  the  year  1689  after 
the  crops  and  fruits  are  off  the  land,  and  the  lease  of  the  houses  shall 
end  at  May  in  the  year  1690;  in  particular,  the  lessees  shall  possess  and 
use  the  aforesaid  lands  and  meadows  the  first  seven  years  free,  by  paying 
as  an  acknowledgement,  each  one  hen,  every  year;  the  three  following 
years  shall  the  lessees  pay  each  a  hundred  and  fifty  guilders  per  year ; 
the  last  two  years  to  pay  each  two  hundred  guilders  in  the  year;  the 
lessees  shall  have  authority  to  build  and  erect  houses,  barns  or  stables, 
after  their  own  satisfaction  and  contentment,  for  their  accommodation ; 
on  condition  that  the  same,  at  the  end  of  the  lease,  with  the  fences 
which  then  shall  be  upon  the  lands  and  meadows,  be  delivered  over  all 
in  good  repair;  the  lessors  promise  to  furnish  the  lessees — in  order  upon 
the  aforesaid  lands,  wherever  the  lessees  decide,  to  place  an  orchard — 
with  fifty  fruit  trees,  both  apple  and  pear,  and  all  the  trees  which  they 
the  lessees  shall  come  to  set  out  and  raise  shall  at  the  end  of  the  lease, 
except  the  fifty  trees  aforesaid,  be  divided  half  and  half;  the  lessees 
holding  their  option  as  to  their  circumstances,  to  be  permitted  to  remove 
or  give  up  this  present  lease  at  their  pleasure,  with  the  same  to  the 
lessors,  upon  mentioning  it  one  year  before ;  the  lessors  promise 
the  lessees  freedom  in  the  real  possession  of  the  aforesaid  lands 
and  dependencies,  without  any  charges  standing  thereon,  reserving  the 
lord  his  right;  all  the  before-written  conditions,  the  appearers  de- 
clare to  be  their  contract  and  accord,  promising  the  same  on  both  sides 
to  conform  to  and  fulfil,  each  in  his  regard,  without  craft  or  cunning, 
under  obligation  as  according  to  laws.  Thus  done  and  passed  at  New 
Haerlem  in  presence  of  Joost  van  Oblinus  and  Conradus  Hendricx,  as 
witnesses  hereto  requested  and  solicited,  who  beside  the  appearers  and 
me  secretary,  have  undersigned  these,  on  the  date  as  above. 
IVitness,  Jan  Nagel. 

J.  VAN  Obunus,  Jan  Dyckman. 

Conradus  Hendricks.  This  mark* of 

Michiel  Bastiaensen 
by  himself  made. 

Hendrick  Kiers. 
With  my  knowledge, 

Hendr.  J.  Vandr.  Vin,  Secretary. 
Subsequently  Dyckman  and  Nagel  became  the  joint  owners 


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of  the  adjacent  tract,  known  as  the  Jansen  and  Aertsen  Patent, 
but  in  our  day  as  the  Dyckman  Homestead ;  as  also  of  that  part 
of  the  Papparinamin  Patent  which  had  been  occupied  by  Ver- 
veelen.* 

The  ensuing  winter  found  nearly  all  of  the  inhabitants 
busily  employed  in  the  woodlands  cutting  5,000  palisades  "for 
the  use  of  the  city,"  pursuant  to  an  order  from  the  Governor, 
of  November  27,  1677.  They  were  to  be  ''under  4  inches  thick 
and  12  to  13  feet  long,  to  be  delivered  at  the  waterside  in  a  con- 
venient place  to  be  taken  away."  The  inhabitants  on  November 
29th  were  divided  into  four  corporalships,  "as  was  done  for- 
merly"; the  corporals  being  Laurens  Jansen,  Arent  Bussing, 
Adolph  Meyer,  and  Jan  Dyckman.  The  labor  was  probably 
turned  to  advantage  in  the  clearing  of  some  of  the  newly-drawn 
lands.     All  those  who  had  shared  in  the  late  land  drafts  took  part 

*  The  Papparinamin,  or  Matthys  Jansen  Patent,  in  the  view  of  the  Harlem  people, 
was  in  the  same  category  with  that  of  Jansen  and  Aertsen,  and  other  of  Kieft's  grants 
which  have  lapsed  for  want  of  the  required  improvement;  and  hence  they  claimed  it 
under  their  general  patent  as  pert  of  their  common  land,  notwithstanding  Governor 
Nicoll's  confirmation  to  Matthys  Jansen's  heirs.  Verveelen,  on  or  after  removing  to 
Spuyten  Duyvel,  had  inclosed  some  sixteen  acres  off  the  north  end  of  the  patent;  and 
the  grants  of  1677  engrossing  the  remainder,  the  Jansen  heirs  had  nothing  left  them. 

These  held  to  their  claim,  however,  and  many  years  later,  when  Verveelen  had 
vacated,  made  an  attempt  to  recover.  On  August  2,  1700^  John  Matthysen,  eldest 
son  of  Matthys  Jansen,  late  of  Ulster  County,  deceased,  in  behalf  of  himself  and 
others,  the  co-heirs  of  the  said  Jansen  (see  Index,  Van  Keuren),  petitioned  the 
General  Assembly  for  relief,  representing  "that  by  reason  of  the  uncertainty  of  some 
bounds  in  said  patent  contained,  he  was  wholly  dispossessed  of  his  father's  inheri- 
tance, and  there/ore  humbly  prayed  that  the  bounds  of  the  said  land  might  be  settled, 
and  the  said  patent  confirmed  unto  the  co-heirs  of  the  said  Matthys  Jansen."  Leave 
being  granted,  a  bill  for  that  object  was  introduced  the  next  day,  passed  on  the  8th, 
and  sent  to  Grovernor  Bellomont  for  his  signature. 

After  leciting  the  original  grant  by  Kieft  to  Matthys  Jansen,  August  18,  1646,  of 
"one  hundred  acres,"  at  Papparinamin  on  Manhattan  Island,  its  confirmation  by 
Nicolls,  May  23,  1667,  and  the  petition  of  Jan  Matthyssen,  this  bill  provided  "that 
the  limits  and  bounds  of  the  said  Patent  be,  and  are  hereby  forever  declared  to  be,  at 
a  place  called  Papparinamin,  which  said  Papi>arinamin  is  upon  the  island  of  New 
York,  joining  to  the  river  upon  which  the  bridge  called  Kind's  Bridge  is  built,  ac- 
cording as  the  Indian  name  Papparinamin  did  anciently  signify."  It  also  declared 
"that  all  and  singular  the  estate,  right,  title,  and  interest  contained  in  the  said  pat- 
ents, shall  be,  and  hereby  are,  confirmed  and  ratified  unto  the  said  John  Matthyssen 
and  other  of  the  said  co-heirs  of  the  said  Matthys  Jansen,  his  and  their  heirs  and  as- 
signs in  equal  proportions  and  divisions,  any  law,  usuage,  or  custom  to  the  contrary 
hereof  in  anyways  nothwithstanding  " 

But  the  governor  withheld  his  signature,  and  the  bill  failed  to  become  a  law. 
Matthyssen  petitioned  the  Assembly  again,  October  26;  it  "was  read,  and  referred  for 
further  consideration,"  but  not  again  taken  up.  The  Harlem  folk  had  meanwhile,  by 
their  deputy,  Peter  Van  Oblienis,  taken  counsel  and  put  in  their  plea  before  the  gov- 
ernor, and  doubtless  with  effect.  His  Excellencly  informed  the  Assembly,  November 
2,  that  he  had  declined  to  meddle  with  certain  bills  presented  for  his  approval,  because 
as  matters  of  property  they  should  be  referred  to  the  Courts  of  Judicature,  soon  to  be 
established.  But  no  further  proceedings  in  the  case  have  been  found.  The  Dyckmans 
soon  took  possession  under  their  grant  of  1701  from  the  town,  of  which  we  shall 
hereafter  speak. 

There  was  really  no  injustice  done  to  the  Jansen  heirs,  for  the  land  had  lain 
neglected  and  unclaimed  by  them,  now  more  than  thirty  years  since  the  confirmation 
by  Nicolls.  This  groundbrief  stood  in  no  wise  different  from  others  which  had  been 
declared  void,  except  said  confirmation,  which  was  probably  an  oversight.  As  it  had 
never  been  sold,  there  was  no  such  reason  for  compensation  as  there  was  in  the  case  of 
the  Jansen  and  Aertsen  patent;  and  to  have  admitted  its  validity  at  that  late  day 
would  have  been  a  bad  precedent,  and  one  which  the  holders  of  other  vacant  ground- 
briefs  would  have  been  only  too  ready  to  take  advantage  of. 

The  parcel  which  Verveelen  had  had  the  use  of  passed  from  Jacob  Dyckman  to 
his  son  Jacob,  and  formed  part  of  the  30  acres  sold  February  11,  1773,  to  Caleb  Hyatt. 


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in  this  work,  save  Constable  Nagel,  Johannes  Verveelen,  ferry- 
man, and  Captain  Carteret;  Maria  Vermilye,  represented  by  her 
husband,  Isaac  Kip.  In  addition  were  enrolled  David  Demarest, 
David  Demarest,  Jr.,  Michiel  Bastiaensen,  Reyer  Michielsen, 
Pierre  Cresson,  Abraham  Delamater,  Jan  Kiersen,  Hendrick 
Kiersen,  Nicholas  de  Vaux,  Francois  Breteau,  Jan  Jansen  (P. 
Bogert's  man),  and  Jan  Petit  (Baignoux)  "and  his  mate." 


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CHAPTER  XXI. 

1677- 1682. 

THE     FRENCH     l,EAVING ;     NEW     TOWN-HOUSE;    LAND    QUESTIONS; 
LABADISTS;    CAPT.    CARTERET;   SALE   OF    MOERTJE  DAVmS   FLY. 

A  SUIT  of  Nicholas  de  Vaux  versus  Pierre  Cresson,  for 
"^^  some  time  pending  in  the  local  court,  was  decided  No- 
vember 15,  1677.  Defendant  having  sold  plaintiff  his  house 
and  lands,  October  27,  1676,  the  bill  of  sale  was  cancelled  on 
April  23d  ensuing,  when  De  Vaux  gave  Cresson  a  parcel  of 
fence  rails,  and  was  promised  in  return  the  use  of  enough  laid 
to  sow  a  schepel  of  flaxseed,  Cresson  to  receive  of  the  flax  every 
fourth  sheaf.  Jean  Baptiste  de  Poictier,  Sieur  Dubuisson,  was 
present  and  heard  the  bargain.  But  before  De  Vaux  was  ready 
to  put  in  his  seed  Jan  Hendricks  Brevoort  leased  and  planted 
Cresson's  land  on  Jochem  Pieters,  leaving  to  De  Vaux  only  a 
small  corner,  where  it  was  sandy  and  unfit  for  his  purpose.  De 
Vaux  then  demanded  of  Cresson  the  use  of  his  lot  on  Van  Keu- 
len's  Hook;but  the  latter  objecting,  De  Vaux  on  September 
6th  appealed  to  the  magistrates.  On  a  hearing  it  was  agreed  to 
"hold  the  case  in  advice  till  the  coming  of  Jean  Baptiste  Bison." 
On  the  date  first  named  it  again  came  up,  when  Cresson  pre- 
sented Debuisson's  written  declaration.  The  Court  now  de- 
cided that  Cresson  "restore  to  the  plaintiff  the  250  rails  which 
he  has  wrongfully  taken  from  him;  and  as  the  plaintiff  has 
failed  to  perform  his  part  of  the  contract,  that  he  be  condemned 
in  the  costs  hereby  incurred."  De  Vaux  removed  soon  after  to 
New  Jersey,  and  with  his  wife,  Marie  See,  joined  the  church 
at  Bergen,  April  5,  1679.  His  descendants,  under  the  name  of 
De  Vouw,  or  De  Voe,  were  long  to  be  found  at  Hackensack  and 
Tarrytown.* 

•  Nicholas  de  Vaux  had  a  daughter,  Esther,  born  at  Harlem,  who.  in  1698,  married 
Ulderrick  Brower,  of  Hackensack,  whither  De  Vaux  had  removed,  and  where,  in 
1706,  he  married  a  second  wife,  Mar^ret  Tans,  widow  of  Jacques  Button.  He  died 
prior  to  1717,  when  his  widow  married  Hendrick  Cammega,  whose  first  wife  was 
Anna  M.  Verveclen.  De  Vaux  had  other  daughters,  Susanna,  born  1680,  who  married 
Thomas  Brickers  and  Jacobus  Van  Gelder;  Mary,  who  married  Jacob  Buys,  of  Bergen, 
sold    Rachel,    who    married   Abraham    Martelingh;     also,    by    his   second    wife,    another 


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348  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

The  French  refugees  were  gradually  leaving,  drawn  princi- 
pally to  Bergen  County,  N.  J.,  Staten  Island,  and  up  the  Hud- 
son, where  they  found  other  French  families,  and  land  more 
abundant,  and  to  be  had  at  a  trifling  cost.  Gerard  Magister 
was  of  the  number  that  left.  He  had  lately  drawn  one  of  the 
New  Lots,  and  at  the  same  time,  by  deed  of  August  9,  1677, 
bought  from  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  for  400  gl.  in  grain,  the  erf, 
house,  and  barn  lately  owned  by  and  yet  in  the  occupancy  of 
David  Demarest,  Jr.  On  December  26th  ensuing,  he  and  his 
wife,  Madeleine  TAdmiral,  made  a  joint  will  before  the  secre- 
tary, Magistrate  Tourneur,  and  Frederick  de  Vaux,  after  the 
form  usual  with  the  French  refugees.  All  this  looked  to  a  fixed 
residence ;  but  within,  two  years  Magister  left  the  town.  He 
sold  his  lot  Xo.  7,  March  22,  1679,  to  Jan  Delamater,  but  no 
sale  of  his  dwelling-house  is  to  be  found.** 

Again  came  up  the  matter  of  the  town  finances,  and  promi- 
nently that  of  the  vorleser's  salary.  The  record  of  February 
7,  1678,  runs:  "Is  proposed  and  resolved  that  the  accounts  of 
this  Town,  as  well  the  debts  as  credits,  revised  on  the  date  of 
19th  February,  1677,  shall  with  the  first  opportunity  be  taken 
up  and  disposed  of;  and  the  Secretary  is  authorized  henceforth 
to  keep  a  separate  register  thereof.'*  From  the  register  so  begun 
and  yet  preserved  have  been  culled  many  interesting  items  relat- 
ing to  the  settlers. 

On  the  same  date  we  also  read: 

Is  further  resolved  and  concluded  that  the  magistrates  shall  go  agout 
among  the  common  inhabitants  and  see  how  much  each  is  willing  to 
contribute  yearly  to  the  maintenance  and  salary  of  the  Voorleser,  be- 
ginning the  23d  October  of  the  previous  year,  1677,  and  following.  The 
Voorleser  must  have  yearly  for  salary,  according  to  the  agreement  entered 
into  the  23d  October,  1670,  the  sum  of  400  guilders ;  the  magistrates  remain 
held  to  furnish  the  money. 

daughter,  Ksthcr,  born  171 1,  his  first,  so  named,  Mrs.  Brewer,  having  just  died.  His 
son,  Abraham  do  Vaux,  or  dc  Vouw,  joined  the  Ilackensack  church  in  1694,  but  re- 
moved to  Tarrytown,  to  which  place  his  mother's  kinfolks,  the  Sec  family,  had  gone. 
find  where  he  and  wife  Mary  appear  as  churchmembers.  I  believe  he  had  sons  Nicholas 
and  Johannes.  He  served  as  deacon  in  1708,  and  as  elder  in  1724;  offices  afterward 
held  by  said  Johannes  de  Vouw. 

*•  Jean  le  Roy  had  owned  this  domicile  as  early  as  1670,  and  apparently  it  was 
the  north  garden  No.  2,  next  Tourneur;  on  which  account  I  suppose  Xe  Roy  was  led 
to  get  it.  This  garden  was  in  Simon  Dc  Ruinc's  allotment,  bought  in  1666,  by  Capt. 
Delaval ;  and  when  Le  Roy  sold  Delavall  his  lands  bought  of  Presto,  he  probably 
took  this  garden  in  part  payment,  and  built  on  it.  Le  Roy  sold  out  entire  in  1674. 
The  owners  after  him  were  Cornier,  Richard,  Demarest,  Jr.,  Richard  again,  and 
Oblinus.  The  latter  agreed  to  sell  Magister  the  hous^,  barn  and  houselot,  for  400 
guilders,  to  run  on  interest,  if  he  could  not  meet  the  payment.  The  rate  lists  indicate 
that  Oblinus  took  it  back.  His  sons  John  and  Hendnck  evidently  held  this  garden 
No.  2,  then  an  erf,  in  1706  and  1708,  and  John  alone  in  171 2;  though  Marcus  Tiebaut 
at  this  date  had  some  interest  in  it,  and  was  in  possession  in  17 13.  I  think  he  had 
bargained  for  it,  but  died  before  the  sale  was  closed;  and  that  then.  17 14,  his  stepson, 
John  Lewis  bought  it.  This  is  probably  its  history,  but,  resting  in  part  on  other  proof 
than  deeds  of  transfer,  it  cannot  be  given  with  absolute  assurance.  (See  note  on  John 
Lewis  for  more  about  this  lot,  which  later  formed  a  part  of  the  William  Brady  plot). 


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List  of  Ae  Free-will  Contributions  for  the  support  and  salary  of  the 
Voorleser  of  this  Town,  etc.,  and  the  following  are  to  contribute  yearly : 

Jan  Nagel   f.  i8 

Daniel   Tourneur "  15 

Joost  van  Oblinus "  40 

Jan   Dyckman "  12 

Laurens    Jansen "  10 

Resalvert  Waldron "  30 

Conradus    Hendricks "  10 

Jan    Hendricks "    6 

Maria  Vermelje "    8 

Johannes  Vermelje "  10 

Glaude  le  Maistre "  12 

Michiel    Bastiaensen "    6 

Hendrick   Kiers "    6 

Arent    Hermens "    8 

Jan  Hendricks  van  Brevoort "  10 

Jan  le  Maistre "    6 

Adolph    Meyer "  14 

Comelis   Jansen • "  12 

Gerard    Magister "    6 

Jan    Louw "  20 

Jan  le  Maistre    ^ 
Arent  Hermens  J 

rent  of  the  land "65 

Jan  Nagel,  rent  of  the  meadow "  18 

f.342 

Upon  the  4th  April,  "The  Constable  was  authorized  and 
empowered  to  collect  and  receive  the  debts  which  to  this  town 
must  be  paid,  according  to  the  assessment  of  the  19th  February, 
1677,  as  from  Jan  Louwe,  David  Des  Marest,  Glaude  le  Maistre, 
and  others." 

Demarest  settled  up  in  full  with  the  town  on  April  26th, 
his  son  David  had  done  so  on  the  23d,  and  soon  after  this  the 
whole  family,  with  Jacques  Laroe,  removed  to  their  new  home 
on  the  Herring  River,  now  the  Hackensack.  All  the  adults,  being 
eight  persons,  united  "by  certificates"  (in  part  from  the  French 
church),  with  the  church  at  Bergen,  on  October  7th  succeeding.* 

•  Demarest's  "two  miles  square"  purchase  from  Mendawasey  and  other  Tappan 
chiefs  was  commonly  called  "The  French  Patent."  From  what  is  now  New  Bridge, 
on  the  Hackensack,  two  miles  above  Hackensack  village,  it  reached  up  the  river  to  a 
little  beyond  Old  Bridge;  and  from  the  river  eastward  to  the  "North  River  Mountains," 
or  present  line  of  the  Northern  Railroad.  On  the  part  lying  above  the  Old  Bridge, 
upon  the  bank  of  the  Hackensack,  in  a  charming  situation,  Demarest  built  his  dwelling 
and  a  grist  mill,  with  a  dam  across  the  stream.  He  called  his  home  Essa,  perhaps 
from  the  old  family  seat  in  Picardy,  Oise  Mont,  or  Oise,  which  the  Latin  authors  called 
CEsia  or  ^sia.  Afterward  buying  lands  on  the  west  side  of  the  river,  he  put  up  there 
a  saw  mill,  and  also  a  more  capacious  grist  mill.  This  last  was  called  the  Great  Mill, 
and  its  older  neighbor  opposite,  the  Little  MiH^  Demarest's  plan  of  forming  a  French 
colony  on  his  tract,  failed;  though  he  drew  to  him  several  families,  as  those  of  Daniel 
du  Voor,  Jean  Durie,  Jacques  Laroe  and  Nicholas  de  Vaux,  and  they  together  organ- 
ized what  was  called  ^'The  French  Church  of  Kinkachemeck,"  and  built  a  house  of 
worship  in  Demarest's  land  near  the  dwelling,  upon  a  knoll  just  below  the  Old  Bridge, 
where  still  remains  "The  French  Buryinff  Ground."  In  midsummer,  1693,  David 
Demarest,  the  patriarch,  died  and  his  remams,  with  those  of  his  wife,  who  died  first, 
no  doubt  rest  in  the  old  burying  ground  aforesaid.     His  last  will,  made  August  26. 


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Again  on  the  8th  of  May  resolutions  were  passed  as  follows : 

Whereas  it  is  found  that  the  yoorleser,  from  the  contributions,  for 
this  current  year  since  the  23d  October  past,  with  the  rent  of  the  town's 
lot  and  meadow  reckoned  in,  will  not  draw  for  his  salary  more  than  342 
guilders,  instead  of  400  which  he  must  have  yearly;  the  said  Voorleser 
has,  to  the  constable  and  magistrates  assented,  that  (because  of  other 
burdens)  he  shall  have  for  this  current  year  till  23d  October  first  com- 
ing, no  more  than  the  said  342  guilders;  and  the  constable  and  magis- 
trates shall  then  make  a  new  and  reliable  assessment  for  the  full  sum  of 
400  guilders  yearly  as  salary,  according  to  the  first  accord  of  23d  October, 
1670.  The  whole  aforewritten  provision  is  by  the  Voorleser  agreed  to, 
declaring  therewith  to  be  content. 

Is  also  taken  into  consideration  about  the  rebuilding  of  the  town's 
house  for  the  Voorleser;  it  is  found  good  to  take  the  same  in  hand  by 
the  first  opportunity,  as  the  most  necessary  work  to  be  done  by  the 
Inhabitants,  and  they  having  leisure  to  properly  hew  and  make  ready 
the  timber  for  the  same;  thereupon  called  in  Gerard  Magister,  a  wheel- 
wright, to  contract  with  him  for  the  carpenter  work,  according  to  a  plan 
to  him  submitted.  Demands  200  guilders ;  whereupon  it  was  not  ordered, 
but  the  magistrates  said  that  they  would  think  upon  it  and  inform  him 
when  they  should  be  able  to  have  him  do  it ;  thereupon  separated. 

Circumstances  led  to  a  change  of  plan.  Mrs.  Montagne  had 
ended  her  widowhood,  but  within  a  short  three  years  had  lost 
her  second  husband,  Mr.  Isaac  Kip ;  the  magistrates  being  called 
upon  July  25,   1678,  to  inventory  the  household  goods  **which 

1689,  gave  his  estate  equally  to  his  three  sons.  David  junior  had  meanwhile  died,  and 
his  widow  married  John  Durie.  On  August  13,  1603,  some  days  after  the  death  of 
David,  the  elder,  a  division  was  made,  in  presence  01  Kev.  Pierre  Pciret,  by  Tohn  and 
Samuel  Demarest,  and  by  John  Durie  for  the  children  of  David,  junior;  the  home- 
stead and  Little  Mill  falling  to  John,  the  lands  and  mills  west  of  the  river  to  Samuel, 
and  heirs  of  David.  After  losing  its  chief  patron,  the  French  church  declined;  Rev. 
Pierre  Daille,  Peiret's  colleague  who  usually  preached  here,  removing  to  Boston,  his 
visits  ceased,  and  the  Demarests  and  others  took  letters  to  the  Dutch  church  at  Hack- 
ensack.  Demarest's  cherished  creations,  the  church,  the  mills,  have  alike  disappeared; 
only  a  few  piles,  the  remains  of  the  mill-dam,  show  their  heads  at  very  low  water. 

John  Demarest  was  born,  1645,  on  the  Island  of  Walcheren,  Zecland;  married, 
1668,  Jacomina,  daughter  of  Simon  De  Kuine,  a«ain  in  1692,  Marritie  Van  NVinckel, 
widow  of  Peter  Slot,  and,  in  1702,  Magdalena  Laurens,  widow  of  Jean  Tullier.  In 
1680,  he  was  of  the  committee  of  safety  which  commissioned  Governor  Leisler.  He 
died  in  1719,  having  parcelled  his  lands  among  his  children.  These  were  (wife  or 
husband  given  in  parentheses),  David,  born  1669  (Antie,  daughter  of  Tan  Slot);  John, 

1671   (Deborah  );    Maria,   1673  (Jacobus  Slot);    Sarah,  1675  (Abraham  Canon); 

Rachel,  1678  (Thomas  Hyatt);  Jacomina,  1680  (John  Stewart,  from  Sterling,  Scot- 
land); Leah,  168a  (Abraham  Brower) ;  Magdalena,  1684  (James  Christie,  from  Ivcr- 
dcn):  Peter,  1688  (Maria  Meet  and  Maria  Button).  David  Demarest  was  born,  1652, 
at  Mannheim,  and  married,  1675,  Rachel,  daughter  of  Pierre  Cresson.  He  died  about 
1601.  His  widow  married  John  Durie,  and,  in  1702,  Roelof  V'anderlinde.  Demarest's 
children  were,  David,  born  1676  (Sarah,  daughter  of  Rev.  Guiliaem  Bertholf ) ;  Peter, 
1677,  not  again  named;  Susanna,  1679  (Peter  Westervelt) ;  Rachel,  1680  (Andries 
Van  Norden);  Jacobus,  1681  (Leah,  daughter  of  Peter  De  Groot,  and  Grietie,  daughter 
of  Cosyn  If  erring) :  Samuel  (Sitske,  daughter  of  Siba  Banu) ;  Mary  (Wicrt  Banta) ; 
Daniel  (Rebecca,  daughter  of  Peter  De  Groot);  Benjamin  (Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Peter  De  Groot);  Jacomina  (Andries  Van  Buskirk) ;  Leah  (Rynier  Van  Houten); 
Lydia  (Stephen  Terhune).  «    »,     . 

Samuel  Demarest  was  born,  1556,  at  Mannheim,  and  marierd,  about  1678,  Mana. 
daughter  of  Simon  De  Ruine,  who  survived  him.  He  died  in  1728.  His  sons  who 
reached  manhood,  were,  David,  bom  1681  (Mattie  Debaun);  Samuel  (Annetic  Van 
Hoorn);  Peter  (Margaret  Herring);  Simon,  born  1699  (Vrouwtie  Herring);  and  his 
daughters  were,  Magdalena,  born  1680  (Cornelius  Banta);  Jacomina  (Samuel  Helline 
and  Cornelius  Van  Hoorn);  Judith  (Christian  Debaun  and  Peter  Durie);  Sarah 
(John  Westervelt);  Rachel  (Jacobus  Peek);  Susanna,  born  1703  (Benjamin  Van 
Buskirk).     To  most  of  these  Samuel  assigned  portions  of  his  lands  before  his  death. 

We  cannot  extend  these  interesting  details,  so  far,  we  believe,  entirely  reliable; 
but  invite  some  one  to  fill  out  the  genealogical  lines,  which,  in  1820,  were  said  to 
embrace  seven  thousand  names! 


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the  deceased  in  his  lifetime  had  brought  to  the  widow."  The 
plan  to  build  a  new  house,  the  timber  for  which  was  already 
contracted  for  with  Daniel  Toumeur,  was  suddenly  arrested,  and 
the  widow  turned  her  contract  over  to  the  town.  Thereupon 
the  following  resolution  was  passed  September  7th: 

The  Constable  and  Magistrates,  with  the  advice  of  the  whole  Com- 
munity, have  found  good  and  resolved  to  rebuild  and  renew  the  town's 
house  for  the  Voorleser;  and  Daniel  Tourneur  has  a^eed  to  cut  the  tim- 
ber needed  therefor,  as  he  was  held  to  do  for  Maria  Vermelje,  for  130 
guilders  (on  condition  it  shall  cancel  her  whole  debt  in  the  town's  ac- 
count) ;  to  wit:  5  beams  twenty  feet  long,  broad  in  proportion;  12  posts 
ten  feet  long,  4  sills  twenty-two  and  twenty  feet  long,  2  rafters,  2  girders,  ' 
I  other  spar,  all  twenty-two  feet;  also  split  shingles  for  the  roof;  all 
finished  to  deliver  at  the  stump,  and  they  of  the  community  shall  ride  out 
the  said  timber,  as  it  is  ready,  and  bring  it  to  the  work,  etc.* 

Leaving  Tourneur  to  perform  his  toilsome  work  of  hewing, 
and  good  Vander  Vin  to  make  the  best  of  his  straitened  circum- 
stances,— for  owing  Gerrit  Van  Tright,  of  New  York,  merchant, 
"64  gl.  13  St.  in  beaver,  100  gl.  17  st.  in  sewant,  and  2  pieces 
of  eight  in  silver,"  he  was  obliged,  July  27th  of  this  year,  to 
mortgage  his  house  and  lot  on  the  Beaver  Graft,  whence  he  de- 
rived a  part  of  his  support, — other  matters  now  claim  a  notice. 

Changing  the  lines  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook  was  a  fruitful 
cause  of  misunderstanding  between  adjoining  owners  during 
this  and  the  preceding  year.  Hendrick  Kiersen's  lease  of  the 
Toumeur  lots  had  not  yet  expired.  Pierre  Cresson,  who  joined 
Tourneur  on  the  west,  summoned  Kiersen  to  court,  June  7,  1677, 
demanding  that  he  should  give  up  the  strip  of  his  land  on  which 
he  had  sowed.  Kiersen  said  he  had  only  used  the  land  he  had 
hired  of  Tourneur. 

"The  Honorable  Court  having  maturely  considered  the  case 
in  question,  and  finding  it  to  be  a  mistake  general  among  the 

•  Isaac  Kip  was  of  a  worthy  and  well  known  family,  for  an  account  of  which 
sec  Holgate's  Am.  Gen.  and  the  N.  Y.,  G.  &  B.  Rec,  for  1877. 

Mr.  Kip  was  bom  at  Amsterdam,  in  1627.  He  was  much  respected  at  Harlem, 
and  was  nominated  for  magistrate  October  27,  1675.  He  had  no  children  bv  Maria 
Vermilye;  but  his  first  wile,  Catalina»  daughter  of  Hendrick  Jansen,  bare  him  Hen- 
drick (sec  p.  163),  Tryntie,  Abraham,  Isaac,  Jacobu&  Johannes.  Tryntie  married 
Philip  de  Forest.  Jacobus  was  the  great-great-grandfather  of  Rev.  Francis  M.  Kipp, 
and  RcT.  Wm.  I.  Kipp,  D.D.  Johannes,  baptised  January  20.  1669,  is  the  subject  of 
a  letter  in  my  possession,  written  in  Dutch,  on  a  sheet  four  by  six  inches,  and  which 
read  thus: 

Mrs.  Mary  Kip.  After  salutation;  These  friends  come  to  counsel  with  you  to 
the  best  and  most  proper  way  to  manage  it  with  Johannesie  Kip,  the  youngest  child 
of  your  husband,  my  brother  deceased.  'Tis  such  I  should  also  have  come,  but  have 
just  now  in  daily  employ  four  strange  masons,  and  cannot  leave  them.  Therefore  re- 
quest that  you  with  the  friends  will  please  consider  all  that  is  needful  to  do  for  the 
welfare  of  the  child,  and  further  provide  that  which  is  necessary.  What  you  and 
the  friends  do,  shall  be  acceptable  to  me.  Hoping  that  both  sides  may  agree  in  all 
friendship  for  the  best;  whereof  not  doubting,  conunend  you  to  God's  protection,  and 
remain, 

1678,  the  26  July  Your   affectionate 

Kipsberry.  Jacob  Kip. 


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users  and  owners  of  these  lots,  consent  and  order  that,  as  it  is 
now  sowed,  it  shall  remain  as  it  is  till  the  crop  is  off  the  land; 
and  that  then  each  one  shall  plough  and  sow  his  land  according 
to  the  last  survey  made  and  staked  off  by  the  sworn  surveyor." 

Again,  Glaude  le  Maistre  claimed  and  put  under  arrest  the 
grain  which  had  been  sowed  by  Joost  Van  Oblinus  on  a  strip 
of  land  that  fell  within  Le  Maistre's  line.  On  a  complaint  by 
Oblinus  July  12,  1677,  the  town  court,  a  little  mystified  in  this 
instance,  directed  "the  plaintiff  to  cut  and  carry  in  his  grain, 
but  that  he  shall  take  account  how  much  has  stood  upon  the 
strip  of  land  in  question,  and  keep  the  same  separate  till  further 
order."* 

Again,  on  September  5,  1678,  Cornells  Jansen  complained 
of  Jan  le  Maistre,  "concerning  a  strip  of  bouwland  upon  Van 
Keulen's  Hook" ;  that  he  "had  not  fixed  his  land  .properly  accord- 
ing to  promise."  Defendant  said  that  he  had  regulated  the  land 
as  it  should  be,  and  that  the  plaintiff  might  have  ploughed  it; 
proves  that  he  had  proposed  and  plaintiff  had  refused  an  arbitra- 
tion as  to  the  fitness.  After  hearing  parties  the  Court  went  out 
and  viewed  the  situation,  "in  order  afterwards  to  judge  as  they 
should" ;  and  then  the  parties  came  to  an  agreement, — ^Jansen  to 
have  his  strip  of  land,  etc.,  and  the  costs  to  be  borne  half  and 
half.     Then  the  Court  passed  the  following  general  order : 

"Is  moreover  resolved  and  established  that  from  now  for- 
ward, to  prevent  further  questions  concerning  the  fences  upon 
Van  Keulen's  Hook  because  of  the  changing  of  some  strips, 
those  intending  to  reset  their  new  fence  instead  of  old,  remain 
bound  to  remove  the  old  from  the  new,  and  to  set  it  properly; 
according  to  which  each  one  must  conform  himself." 

The  year  1678  at  the  dorp  wore  away  with  no  other  notice- 
able incident  except  the  usual  choice  of  town  officers,  and  the 
visit  from  Dominie  Nieuwenhuysen  to  install  an  elder  and  deacon. 
On  the  latter  occasion,  Glaude  le  Maistre,  at  the  expense  of  the 
town,  furnished  "a  half-vat  of  good  beer"  for  the  entertainment 
of  the  dominie  and  the  congregation,  and  Waldron,  Dyckman, 
Bussing,  and  Oblinus,  advanced  the  dominie  each  3  guilders  (in 
all  12)  for  his  services,  while  Jan  Nagel  provided  the  wagon  to 
bring  and  return  his  reverence;  the  visit  costing  the  town  in  all 
41  guilders. 

An  episode  of  the  current  year  was  a  marriage  in  high  life 

*  Coin  was  then  so  rare  an  article  in  the  colony,  that  Vander  Vin  makes  a  note 
to  this  case  as  follows:  "The  Plaintiff  paid  for  the  extraordinary  session  a  double 
gold  ducat,  9  guilders  Holland;  in  sewant,  36  guilders."  So  it  then  took  four  guilders 
in  sewant  to  make  one  in  coin. 


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at  New  York,  that  of  Thomas  Codrington,  merchant,  to  Margaret, 
daughter  of  the  then  mayor,  Captain  Delavall.  Having  resumed 
active  business  on  his  return  from  England,  the  captain  was 
now  in  the  height  of  his  prosperity,  and  enabled  to  do  hand- 
somely by  his  daughter,  upon  whom,  October  9th,  in  view  of  her 
nuptials  soon  "to  be  solemnized,"  he  settled  the  sum  of  £500. 
Twenty  years  later,  Captain  Codrington,  meanwhile  risen  to 
wealth  and  official  distinction,  became  a  freeholder  of  Harlem, 
by  the  purchase  of  the  Baignoux  farm;  the  good  services  which 
he  rendered  the  town  in  its  public  affairs  only  ending  with  his 
death  in  1710. 

It  speaks  well  for  the  prevailing  security  at  this  period, 
that  but  seldom  an  act  of  robbery  comes  to  notice.  A  flagrant 
case  which  occurred  in  the  spring  of  1679  n^ade  the  greater  ex- 
citement at  Harlem,  as  one  of  the  thefts  was  committed  at  "the 
house  of  Daniel  Tourneur's  sister,"  the  wife  of  Frederick  De 
Voe.  The  thief  was  one  Williams,  who  having  stolen  a  horse 
at  Stamford,  had  also  robbed  several  persons  in  Fordham.  Being 
arrested,  and,  by  an  order  from  the  Governor  of  March  3d, 
"delivered  pinioned  into  the  hands  of  the  constable  of  Harlem," 
Waldron  conducted  him  to  New  York  for  trial.  He  was  con- 
victed on  May  8th,  of  horse  stealing,  upon  several  affidavits  taken 
at  Stamford. 

This  year  another  French  refugee  left  the  town  with  his 
family.  This  was  Pierre  Cresson.  After  selling  out  his  farm. 
May  23,  1677,  to  Jan  Hendricks  Van  Brevoort,  who  had  had  it 
a  year  under  lease,  he  built  upon  and  occupied  his  outside  gar- 
den No.  14.  This  he  now  sold,  March  5,  1679,  to  Jan  Nagel, 
who  owned  No.  13,  for  100  guilders  in  goods  or  grain,  a  pair 
of  oxen,  one  cow,  and  a  half-firkin  of  soap.  Cresson  removed  to 
Staten  Island,  having  already  secured  a  lot  of  land  at  or  near 
Long  Neck,  on  the  northwest  side  of  the  island,  for  laying  out 
which  an  order  had  issued  from  the  Secretary's  office,  Mayi4, 
1678.  A  small  stream,  on  which  lay  his  meadow  at  Sherman's 
Creek,  was  long  called  after  him  "Pieter  Tuynier's  Run." 

This  year  gave  rise  to  a  protracted  law-suit  between  Daniel 
Tourneur  and  Cornells  Laurens"  Jansen,  as  plaintiffs,  and  Colonel 
Lewis  Morris,  defendant,  concerning  certain  meadows  on  Stony 
Island,  which  the  plaintiffs  claimed  to  have  owned  "upwards  of 
sixteen  years."  This  carried  their  title  back  to  Stuyvesant's 
grants,  in  1663,  to  Tourneur,  Cogu,  and  De  Meyer.  Morris 
claiming  the  meadows  as  within  his  purchase,  had  sent  his  men 
in  haying  time  to  mow  and  gather  the  grass.     The  others  com- 


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plaining  of  this  trespass,  obtained  from  the  Council  the  following 
mandate  in  their  favor: 

^'Ordered  that  the  Petitioners  do  continue  in  quiet  poses- 
sion  of  the  said  meadows  at  Stone  Island,  according  to  their 
grants.  And  if  Colonel  Morris  have  any  claim  or  pretence 
thereto,  the  same  is  to  be  heard  and  determined  at  the  next  Gen- 
eral Court  of  Assizes." 

Thus  the  matter  rested  till  the  next  annual  return  of  the 
haying  season. 

The  signal  event  of  the  year  was  the  visit  of  the  two  Laba- 
dist  travelers,  Sluyter  and  Bankers,  from  Wieward,  in  Fries- 
land.  Their  journal  affords  us  this  interesting  description  of 
their  visit. 

Under  date  of  October  6,  1679,  they  say:  "We  left  the 
village  called  the  Bouwery,  lying  on  the  right  hand,  and  went 
through  the  woods  to  New  Harlem,  a  tolerable  village  situated 
on  the  south  side  of  the  Island,  directly  opposite  the  place  where 
the  northeast  creek  and  the  East  River  come  together."  Their 
object  was  "to  explore  the  Island  of  Manhattan,"  which  in  their 
view  ran  east  and  west,  but  in  this  respect  we  correct  their 
account  in  italics.  "This  island  is  about  seven  hours'  distance 
in  length,  but  is  not  a  full  hour  broad.  The  sides  are  indented 
with  bays,  coves,  and  creeks.  It  is  almost  entirely  taken  up; 
that  is,  the  land  is  held  by  private  owners,  but  not  half  of  it  is 
cultivated.  Much  of  it  is  good  woodland.  The  south  end  on 
which  the  city  lies  is  entirely  cleared  for  more  than  an  hour's 
distance,  though  that  is  the  poorest  ground;  the  best  being  on 
the  east  or  north  side.  There  are  many  brooks  of  fresh  water 
running  through  it,  wholesome,  and  fit  for  man  and  beast  to 
drink,  as  well  as  agreeable  to  behold;  affording  cool  and  pleas- 
ant resting-places,  but  especially  suitable  for  the  construction 
of  mills,  for  while  there  is  no  overflow  of  water,  yet  it  can  be 
shut  off  and  so  used." 

With  eyes  accustomed  only  to  monotonous  plains  and  pas- 
tures, they  viewed  with  delight  the  variety  of  landscape.  Mount 
Morris  and  the  heights  lying  westward  of  the  flats  they  describe 
as  "two  ridges  of  very  high  rocks,  with  a  considerable  space 
between  them,  displaying  themselves  very  majestically,  and  in- 
viting all  men  to  acknowledge  in  them  the  majesty,  grandeur, 
power,  and  glory  of  their  Creator,  who  has  impressed  such 
marks  upon  them."  The  last  reference  is  probably  to  the  out- 
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heights.  **Between  them  runs  the  road  to  Spyt  den  duyvel.* 
The  one  to  the  west  is  most  conspicuous;  the  east  ridge  is  cov- 
ered with  earth  on  its  west  side,  but  it  can  be  seen  from  the  water 
or  from  the  mainland  beyond  to  the  east.  The  soil  between  these 
ridges  is  very  good,  though  a  little  hilly  and  stony,  and  would 
be  very  suitable  in  my  opinion  for  planting  vineyards,  in  conse- 
quence of  its  being  shut  off  on  both  sides  from  the  winds  which 
would   injure  them." 

With  Gerrit  Van  Duyn,  of  Long  Island,  who  had  volunteered 
to  show  them  the  way,  they  reached  Harlem.  "As  our  guide, 
Gerrit,  had  some  business  here  and  found  many  acquaintances, 
we  remained  over  night  at  the  house  of  one  Geresolveert  (mean- 
ing Resolved  Waldron),  constable  of  the  place,  who  had  formerly 
lived  in  Brazil,  and  whose  heart  was  still  full  of  it.  This  house 
was  constantly  filled  with  people,  all  the  time  drinking;  for  the 
most  part  that  detestable  rum.  He  had  also  the  best  cider  we 
have  tasted. 

"Among  the  crowd  we  found  a  person  of  quality,  an  Eng- 
lishman named  Captain  Carteret,  whose  father  is  in  great  favor 
with  the  king,  and  he  himself  had  assisted  in  several  exploits  in 
the  kings  service.  This  son  is  a  very  profligate  person.  He 
married  a  merchant's  daughter  here,  and  has  so  lived  with  his 
wife  that  her  father  has  been  compelled  to  take  her  home  again. 
He  runs  about  among  the  farmers  and  stays  where  he  can  find 
most  to  drink,  and  sleeps  in  barns  on  the  straw.  If  he  conducted 
himself  properly,  he  could  be  not  only  governor  here,  but  hold 

*  llarlem  lane.  (See  note  p.  282).  The  road  from  Harlem  village  to  Spuyten 
Dtayvcl  had  been  laid  out  recently  by  order  of  the  Mayor's  Court  of  November  7. 
1676,  and  pursuant  to  which  the  inhabitants  on  December  7,  met  and  "resolved  to  make 
the  road  between  this  village  and  Spuyten  Duyvel;  to  begin  on  Saturday  the  9th  of 
this   month."      Harlem   lane    was   probably    regulated    about   the   same   time.      Its  first 


avenue  intersectes  115th  street."  Says  one  looking  back  over  half  a  century,  "I  re- 
member the  depression  where  the  partly  filled  up  cellar  was,  and  the  two  large  old 
ox-hearted-cherry  trees  that  stood  probably  in  front  of  the  house."  The  only  ancient 
"     ■  :m  lane  is  the  old   V^an   Bramer  bouse,  on  the  east  side  of  the 


lane  midway  between  117th  and  1 18th  streets,  its  gable  end  to  the  road,  and  fronting 
to  the  south.  It  was  built  not  long  before  the  Revolution,  probably  by  Hendrick  Van 
Bramer,  who  lived  there  in  1774.  Fifteen  years  ago  we  noted:  The  front  and  the 
west  end  were  laid  up  of  hammered  red  or  free  stone.  Query,  why  were  not  all 
sides  of  stone?  The  oldest  portion  measured  18  by  31  feet;  for  the  frame  addition  of 
15  feet  6  inches  on  the  east  end  was  modern.  Its  exterior  was  tasty.  The  eaves  were 
low,  the  roof  had  a  modern  pitch;  while  the  short  beveled  chimney  tops,  and  the 
quaint  dormer  windows,  with  fiat  roofs  sloping  downward  toward  the  front,  had  a 
deddedlv  antique  air.  The  weather-beaten  clapboards  (on  the  rear  and  on  the  gable 
above  the  eaves  the  same),  were  very  thick,  rabbeted  deep,  finished  with  a  half-inch 
bead,  and  put  on  w^ith  large  wrought  nails.  The  window  sills,  etc.,  were  of  black 
walnut,  the  sash  stiles  very  heavy  and  the  glass  all  7  by  9.  The  two  front  doors 
were  in  halves  after  the  old  fashion,  and  hung  on  strap  hinges.  The  ceilings  low,  not 
plastered,  showed  the  bare,  heavy  oaken  timbers,  planed  and  beaded;  and  the  stair 
to  the  loft  was  a  perpendicular  ladder!  Some  claim  it  to  be  the  very  house  that  Dc 
Forest  and  Montagne  built  on  this  Flat  in  1637,  which  had  two  doors  and  was  18  feet 
wide.  But  that  was  42  feet  long,  and  measured  by  Dutch  feet.  Plainly  no  such 
antiquity  can  be  assigned  it,  as  the  deed  for  the  land  given  by  Arent  and  Lourens 
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higher  positions,  for  he  has  studied  the  moralities,  and  seems  to 
have  been  of  good  understanding;  but  that  is  all  now  drowned. 
His  father,  who  will  not  acknowledge  him  as  his  son,  as  before, 
allows  him  yearly  as  much  only  as  is  necessary  for  him  to  live. 

"Saturday,  7th. — This  morning,  about  half-past  six,  we  set 
out  for  the  village,  in  order  to  go  to  the  end  of  the  Island ;  but 
before  we  left  we  did  not  omit  supplying  ourselves  with  peaches 
which  grew  in  an  orchard  along  the  road.  The  whole  ground 
was  covered  with  them  and  with  apples,  lying  upon  the  new 
grain  with  which  the  orchard  was  planted.  The  peaches  were 
the  most  delicious  we  had  eaten."  Proceeding  up  the  Island, 
they  add : 

"We  crossed  over  the  Spyt  den  duyvel  in  a  canoe  and  paid  9 
stivers  fare  for  us  three,  which  was  very  dear.  We  followed  the 
oppKDsite  side  of  the  land  and  came  to  the  house  of  one  Valen- 
tyn" — ^this  was  the  ancestor  of  the  Valentines  of  Westchester. 
He  was  not  at  home,  but  his  Dutch  vrouw,  who  was  from  Beest, 
in  Gelderland,  glad  to  see  the  Hollanders,  entertained  them  at 
breakfast ;  after  which  they  came  down  on  that  side  to  Col. 
Morris's,  meeting  his  nephew  Walter  Webley,  ready  to  cross  the 
river.  "He  carried  us  over  with  him  and  refused  to  take  any  pay 
for  our  passage,  offering  us  at  the  same  time  some  of  his  rum,  a 
liquor  which  is  everywhere.  We  were  now  again  at  New  Har- 
lem, and  dined  with  Geresolveert,  at  whose  house  we  slept  the 
night  before,  and  who  made  us  welcome.  It  was  now  two  o'clock ; 
and  leaving  there  we  crossed  over  the  Island,  which  takes  about 
three  quarters  of  an  hour  to  do,  and  came  to  the  North  River, 
which  we  followed  a  little  within  the  woods,  to  Sappokanikke." 
A  few  days  after  at  Staten  Island  they  fell  in  with  Pierre 
Cresson.*     Had  the  elder  Tourneur  been  living,  this  visit  of  the 

•  Pierre  Cresson,  or  Moy  Pier  Cresson  (me  Pier  Cresson),  as  he  always  wrote 
his  name,  is  the  subject  of  interesting  notice  in  the  journal  of  these  Labadists.  Under 
date  of  October  13,  1679,  they  say,  **We  pursued  our  journey  this  morning  from 
plantation  to  plantation,  the  same  as  yesterday,  until  we  came  to  that  6f  Pierre  le 
Gardinier,  who  had  been  a  gardener  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  and  had  known  him 
well.  He  had  a  large  family  of  children  and  grand  children.  He  was  about  seventy 
years  of  age,  and  was  still  as  fresh  and  active  as  a  young  person.  He  was  so  glad  to 
see  strangers  who  conversed  with  him  in  the  French  language  about  the  good,  that 
he  leaped  for  joy.  After  we  had  breakfasted  here  they  told  us  that  we  had  another 
large  creek  to  pass  called  the  Fresh  Kill,  and  there  we  could  perhaps  be  set  across  the 
Kill  van  Kol  to  the  Ppint  of  Mill  Creek,  where  we  might  wait  for  a  boat  to  convey  us 
to  the  Manhattans.  The  road  was  long  and  difficult,  and  we  asked  for  a  guide,  but  he 
had  no  one,  in  consequence  of  several  of  his  children  being  sick.  At  last  he  de- 
termined to  go  himself,  and  accordingly  carried  us  in  his  canoe  over  to  the  point  of 
Mill  Creek  in  New  Jersey."  Here  they  "thanked  and  parted  with  Pierre  Ic  Gardinier." 
Pierre  and  his  son  Joshua,  had  each  obtained  a  grant  of  88  acres  on  the  west  side 
of  the  island,  which  were  surveyed  for  them  December  24,  i680j  and  patents  issued 
December  30.  This  is  the  latest  notice  found  of  Pierre.  His  children,  so  far  as  ap- 
pears, were  Susannah,  Jaques,  Christina,  Rachel,  Joshua  and  Klias.  Susannah,  born 
at  Ryswyk,  married,  1658,  at  New  Amsterdam^  Nicholas  Delaplaine.  Her  father  gave 
her  a  marriage  portion  of  200  guilders.  Christina,  born  at  Sluis,  married  Jean  Letelier 
and  Jacob  Gerntsz  Haas.  Rachel,  born  at  Delft,  married  David  Demarest.  Jr.,  Jean 
Dnric   and    Roelof   Vandcrlinde.     Joshua   Cresson,    born    1659,   and    Ellas,   bom    1662, 


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Labadists  must  have  restored  faded  reminiscences  of  the  father 
of  the  sect,  Labadie,  when  by  his  eloquence  he  so  moved  the 
hearts  of  the  people  of  Amiens.  If  others  had  personal  knowl- 
edge of  those  scenes,  as  Demarest,  Disosway,  Cresson,  they  had 
removed,  and  the  interest  which  the  travelers  awakened  at  Har- 
lem was  probably  confined  to  the  objects  of  their  visit,  their 
character  and  movements.  Professing  the  doctrines  of  the  Dutch 
Church,  but  warmly  advocating  a  higher  religious  life,  they  ap- 
pear to  have  won  the  respect  of  all  till  they  began  to  make 
proselytes  to  their  peculiar  social  ideas,  which  nearly  resembled 
those  of  the  Shaking  Quakers.  But  they  gained  over  to  their 
views  members  of  several  respectable  families,  as  those  of  Beek- 
man.  Bayard,  Cresson,  and  Montanye,  some  of  whom  were  per- 
suaded to  join  the  community  established  by  Sluyter  at  Bohemia 
Manor,  in  Maryland. 

The  travelers  staying  a  night  with  Waldron  and  dining  with 
him  the  next  day,  should  have  made  no  mistakes  in  speaking  of 
him.  Yet  we  suspect  they  have.  Waldron's  history  is  sufficient- 
ly known  to  make  it  improbable  that  he  had  ever  visited  Brazil. 
But  the  voorleser,  Vander  Vin,  whom  they  must  have  seen  and 
conversed  with,  had  spent  some  of  his  earlier  years  in  that 
country,  when  clerk  of  the  High  Court  of  Justice  at  Maurits- 
stadt,  during  the  presidency  of  the  Heer  Johan  van  Raasvelt.  He 
kept  the  minutes  of  this  court.  Here  he  had  met  with  Hon. 
Matthys  Beck  and  his  uncle  Jacob  Alrichs — both  afterward  vice- 
directors,  the  one  at  Curacao  and  the  other  on  the  Delaware — 
who  were  then  among  the  Heere  Electors  of  Schepens  at  Maurits- 
stadt.  Vander  Vin  might  well  retain  vivid  impressions  of  his 
experiences  in  Brazil  at  a  very  exciting  period  in  the  history  of 
the  Dutch  occupation  there,  to  which  we  have  before  alluded,  and 
have  been  ''still  full  of  it,"  as  the  travelers  say  of  Waldron.  Mis- 
takes easily  find  place  in  the  hastily-written  notes  of  tourists,  and 
the  journal  of  these  travelers  forms  no  exception. 

both  lived  upon  Staten  Island,  the  latter,  we  presume,  succeeding  to  his  father's 
farm.  He  was  high  sheriff  of  Richmond  County,  under  Leislcr.  One  Joshua  Cresson 
lived  at  North  Branch,  N.  J.,  in  1720. 

Jacques  Cresson,  of  good  repute  and  much  respected  at  Harlem  where  he  owned 
property  and  held  office,  married,  1663,  Marie  Renard,  of  whom  we  have  given  some 
account.  They  had  issue,  Jaques,  born  1665;  Maria,  1670;  Susannah,  1671;  Solomon. 
1674;  Abraham,  and  Isaac,  1676;  Sarah,  1678;  Anna,  1679;  Rachel,  168a.  Taqucs* 
iniury,  January  31,  1677,  and  sad  death,  August  1,  1684,  we  leave  unrecorded.  His 
widow,  with  her  son  Taques  or  Jacobus,  sold  their  house  in  Stone  street,  September  9, 
1685,  and  taking  a  church  letter,  November  2§,  she  sailed,  with  her  family,  for  the 
Island  of  Curacao.  Later  they  returned,  and  Mrs.  Cresson  reunited  with  the  church 
at  New  York,  May  28,  1701,  but  it  is  evident  they  soon  left  again  for  Philadelphia. 
Solomon  Cresson  served  as  constable  there  in  1705,  and  others  of  the  family  are  found 
in  that  vicinity.  The  descendants  include  the  late  eminent  philanthropist,  Elliot  Cres- 
son, and  the  present  Dr.  Charles  M.  Cresson.  The  name  of  late  years  has  worked  up 
the  valley  of  the  Susquehanna  into  New  York  State. 


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"Great  injustice  has  been  done  to  the  memory  of  Capt. 
James  Carteret/'  says  the  historian  of  Elizabeth ;  and  a  truer  re- 
mark was  never  uttered.  We  do  not  believe  all  the  hard  things 
said  of  him  by  the  Labadist  travelers,  for  we  recall  the  oft-told 
story  of  his  illegitimacy,  now  at  length  admitted  to  be  a  fiction. 
In  quest  of  information  wherewith  to  embellish  the  narrative  of 
Adr  tour^  and  strongly  inclined  to  the  hypercritical,  the  tourists 
were  likely  to  swallow  any  bit  of  scandal  which  their  fellow 
Dutchmen  at  Harlem  were  ready  to  deal  out  to  them  against  the 
English  in  general,  and  Delavall's  family  and  kin  in  particular; 
one-sided  stories,  which  the  brevity  of  their  stay  gave  no  oppor- 
tunity to  correct.  Into  these  old  prejudices  none  probably  entered 
more  heartily  than  Waldron,  who,  albeit  he  was  of  English  ex- 
traction, evidently  cherished  no  affection  for  the  land  of  his 
ancestors.* 

Carteret,  it  is  true,  had  been  unsuccessful  in  business  ven- 
tures, incurring  debts  which,  maugre  his  willingness  and 
promises,  he  found  it  hard  to  pay ;  but  it  is  difficult  to  believe  him 
so  utterly  the  vagrant  he  is  represented,  being  still  a  land-holder 
at  Harlem.  That  Mrs.  Carteret,  having  young  children,  should 
prefer  a  comfortable  city  home  under  her  father's  roof,  was  not 
so  strange  for  one  to  whom  the  society  at  Harlem  was  uncon- 
genial, or  could  offer  little  that  was  attractive.  And  so  there  was 
room  for  dislike  or  prejudice  to  put  the  worst  construction  upon 
it.  But  why  argue  about  that  which  could  have  been  scarcely 
more  than  a  matter  of  temporary  convenience?  as  Mrs.  Carteret, 
while  her  father  was  still  living,  accompanied  her  husband  to 
Europe,  to  look  after  his  landed  interests  there ;  probably  making 
their  principal  home  in  the  Island  of  Jersey,  where  their  only 
daughter  was  married  in  1699,  and  so  respectfully  noticed  as 
"daughter  of  the  Honorable  James  De  Carteret."  Certainly  Capt. 
Carteret  was  treated  with  much  consideration  at  Harlem,  where 
on  Oct.  20th,  1677,  he  received  a  nomination  for  magistrate. 
If  he  was  a  hard  drinker,  he  lived  in  a  day  and  community  when 
indulgence  was  the  rule.  He  was  well  read  in  the  Scriptures; 
and  also  reverenced  them,  if  his  apt  quotations  in  his  letter  re- 
ferred to  be  taken  as  evidence.    That  his  heart  had  a  tender  side, 

*  The  Labadist  views  were  embraced  by  Nicasius  de  La  Montajfne,  Jaques  Cres- 
son,  Petrus  Bayard,  William  Beckman  and  his  aunt,  Susanna,  widow  of  Arcnt  Keteltas, 
named  p.  277.  Cresson  could  hardly  have  joined  the  community,  as  he  died  but  a  year 
after  Peter  Sluyter's  second  arrival  at  New  York,  July  27,  1683,  on  his  way  to  Mary- 
land. Beekman  and  Montagne  were  but  young  men.  Bayard  left  his  wife,  Blandina 
Kicrstede,  in  New  York,  but  returned  and  died  here  m  1699.  His  son  Samuel, 
bom  1675,  married  Susanna  Bouchelle,  Sluyter's  stepdaughter,  and,  in  1698,  Sluyter 
conveyed  him  part  of  the  manor.  Sluyter  had  married  Anna  Margareta  Coude,  then 
the  widow  Bouchelle.  She  died  in  1721,  he  in  1722,  and  the  community  dissolved. 
(Sec  Jour,  of  Dankers  and  Sluyter,  and  N.  Y.  G.  &  B.  Rec.  1878,  188). 


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let  an  incident  show.  It  was  in  the  winter  of  1676 ;  Jean  le  Roy 
became  embarrassed,  and  unable  to  pay  his  last  year's  rent  for 
the  town  lot.  When  told  to  the  generous  Captain,  he  headed  a 
subscription  for  his  relief  with  10  gl. ;  more  than  was  given  by 
all  the  rest  besides. 

The  last  mention  of  Capt.  Carteret  at  Harlem  is  under  date 
of  Nov.  21st,  1679,  when  he  sold  his  land  on  Montagne's  Flat  to 
Glaude  Delamater,  "for  200  guilders  and  a  wether."  Certain 
provisions  in  the  will  of  his  father,  Sir  George  Carteret,  whose 
death  occurred  Jan  14th  ensuing,  made  it  necessary  for  him  to 
return  promptly  to  England  and  Jersey;  and  he  appears  no 
more  in  this  country.  He  still  held  the  farm  and  mill  property 
with  Little  Barents  Island,  the  title  to  all  which  descended  to 
his  daughter,  Mrs.  Pipon,  of  Jersey. 

On  the  6th  of  November,  1679,  died  at  the  house  of  Johannes 
Vermel je,  the  worthy  old  Norwegian  settler,  Claes  Carstensen,* 
whose  age  was  72  years.  He  had  been  for  some  time  in  needy 
circumstances  and  was  aided  by  the  deacons,  having  been  a 
church  member  for  many  years. 

On  the  same  date  Abraham  Shotwell  sold  the  Sawkill  farm 
to  John  Robinson,  of  New  York,  merchant. 

A  question  of  some  local  interest  had  arisen  between  Jan 
Louwe  Bogert  and  Joost  van  Oblinus,  touching  a  piece  of  salt 
meadow  at  Hoorn's  Hook,  which  Oblinus  (in  behalf  of  his  son 
Peter,  still  a  minor)  claimed  as  belonging  to  the  lot  laid  out  to 
Peter  on  Aug.  6th,  1677,  by  Robert  Ryder,  the  surveyor,  and 
described  as  *'a  parcel  of  land  being  the  tenth  lot  in  the  row,  in 
breadth  on  the  river  side  twelve  rods,  bounded  southwest  by  the 
land  of  Jan  Hendricks,  stretches  northwest  into  the  common 
woods  one  hundred  and  sixty  rods,  and  northeast  by  the  river, 
including  all  points  and  morasses  therein  comprehended,  con- 
taining twelve  acres." 

On  the  1 2th  of  November  Louwe  procured  a  citation  for 
Oblinus,  requiring  him  to  answer  next  court  day  "why  he  has 
forbidden  him  to  set  off  his  meadows."     The  case  came  up  on 

*  Clacs  Carstensen  being  from  Saht,  in  Norway,  was  called  "the  Norman."  He 
was  here  prior  to  the  Indian  war  of  164:?,  had  learned  the  Indian  language,  and  figures 
as  public  interpreter,  at  the  forming  of  treaties,  &c.  In  1646  he  married  Helena  lien- 
dricks,  served,  in  1653,  as  corporal  in  the  burgher  corps  at  New  Amsterdam,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  small  burgher  right  in  1657.  After  the  English  came  in  power,  he 
removed  to  Tlirlcm,  and  on  March  2,  1671,  was  granted  a  small  house  lot  for  the 
term  of  his  life.  On  his  decease,  and  at  the  rcouest  of  Resolved  Waldron,  elder  and 
constable,  the  deacons,  Arent  Hermcns  and  Jan  Nagel,  took  an  inventory  of  his  effects, 
found  in  his  house  and  at  Vermilye's,  where  he  died;  these  being  sold,  November  10, 
1679,  at  public  vendue  for  268  guilders,  16  stivers  *'for  the  benefit  of  the  deaconry 
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the  4th  of  December,   Oblinus  appearing  as  plaintiff,  and  the 
following  is  the  minute: 


JoosT  VAN  Oblinus.  Pltf. 
Jan  Louwe. 


Whereas  a  dispute  has  arisen  between 
Joost  van  Oblinus  and  Jan  Louwe  van 
Schoonrewoert  over  a  certaio  small  meadow 
lying  in  the  Bay  of  Hellgate,  which  each  of 
the  parties  claims  as  belonging  to  him;  after  several  debates  and  rebuts 
on  either  side,  it  was  decided  by  the  Honorable  Court  (the  said  small 
meadow  being  the  most  southerly  in  the  range  under  against  the  steep 
hill  next  the  little  kil)  that  Jan  Louwe  for  his  meadows  shall  have  those 
that  stretch  from  his  great  kil  till  to  the  little  kil  from  anckers  house;* 
the  rest  to  Joost  van  Oblinus.  And  ordered  that  each  shall  bear  his  own 
costs  attaching  to  this  case. 

The  line  of  partition  here  indicated  was  apparently  the  same 
as  that  afterward  fixed  and  described  in  the  deeds  for  the 
adjacent  upland,  given  by  the  town,  March  2d,  1701,  to  Jan 
Louwe  Bogert  and  Jan  Delamater,  the  latter  then  owning  the 
Hoom's  Hook  or  Waldron  farm,  which  included  the  Oblinus  lot. 
By  the  above  decision  Oblinus  plainly  took  a  small  share  of  the 
meadows  claimed  by  Bogert  under  the  town's  grant  to  his  pre- 
decessor Montague. 

Bogert's  shrewdness  in  protecting  his  own  interests  more 
than  once  exposed  him  to  the  charge  of  being  disobliging,  if  not 
churlish.  Some  time  before — in  1675 — he  had  forbidden  David 
du  Four  and  others  from  passing  over  his  land,  as  they  had 
been  wont  to  do,  to  shorten  their  travel  from  Hoorn's  Hook  to 
the  mill,  the  village,  and  church.  It  happened  that  Du  Four  and 
wife,  in  passing  this  way  on  Sunday,  April  i8th,  in  the  said 
year,  noticed  a  cow,  one  of  two  which  Bogert  had  taken  of  Hans 
Jacobs  Harding,  "to  winter,  and  to  feed  and  water  with  his  own 
cattle,"  lying  out  in  the  road  alone,  while  Bogert's  cattle  were 
grazing  in  the  meadows.  Harding's  cow  died,  as  he  charged, 
from  neglect ;  and  the  honest  Swiss,  finding  such  fruits  of  a  friend- 
ship with  Bogert  running  back  to  their  emigration  in  the  same 
ship,  brought  his  suit,  Du  Four  being  a  witness  for  him.*     Hence 

*The  Dutch  word  used  (anckers)  may  be  either  the  possessive  or  plural  form. 
Here  it  probably  means  anchor,  perhaps  the  anchorage  bouse;  though  the  reference  is 
by  no  means  clear.  For  those  whom  it  may  interest,  we  give  the  record  in  the 
original : 

Alsoo  questie  was  geresen  tusschen  Joost  van  Oblinnis  cnde  Tan  I^ouwe  van 
Schoonrewoert  over  seccker  valecytge.  gelegen  in  de  boght  vant  Hellegal  die  elck 
van  parthyen  sustincerde  hem  toe  te  behooren,  naer  v'scheyden  debatten  en  rebattcii 
ten  wedcr  zyde,  is  by  den  E  gcrechtc  verstaen  dat  bet  geseyde  valeytge  synde  hct 
suydelycxte  in  die  rygh  ondcr  tegcn  de  stelve  bergh  naest  het  killetge,  dat  Jan 
Louwe  voor  valeyen  sal  hebben  die  haer  strecken  van  syn  groote  kil  tot  aen  het  killetge 
van  anckers  buys,  de  rest  aen  Joost  van  Oblinnis.  Enn  ordonneren  dat  ider  syn 
cygcn  costen  over  dese  saecke  gevallcn,  sal  dragen. 

*  Hans  Jacobs  Harding  was  a  weaver,  and  then  lived  at  Stuyvesant's  Bowery, 
where  he  had  bought  a  small  place,  February  12.  1669,  from  Jan.  Piertersen  Slot. 
He  was  a  native  of  Bern,  and  married  here  July  29,  1668,  Geertie,  daughter  of  Lam- 
bert  Moll,  of  Bushwick.     She  was  born  1648.     Her  older  sister  Marritie,  also  born  here. 


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Du  Four  and  others,  going  that  road  again  August  5th,  were  for- 
bidden and  threatened  by  Bogert,  who  called  them  "rebels  and 
highwaymen."'  David  complained  Sept.  2d,  but  the  Court  so 
far  sustained  Bogert  as  to  decide  "that  there  is  no  common  way 
over  defendant's  land."  At  another  time,  William  Waldron,  of 
New  York,  cooper,  accused  Bogert  of  having  for  spite  unfastened 
and  taken  to  his  house  a  cutting  bench,  two  of  which  Waldron 
had  been  using,  and  left  nailed  to  stumps  in  the  woods  on  Bogert's 
point.  But  Bogert  denied  doing  it,  and  after  a  long  debate,  pro 
and  con,  they  were  reconciled.  It  was  the  tradition — so  said  a 
descendant  of  Jan  Louwe,  the  late  excellent  James  Bogert,  Jr. — 
that  Louwe's  credit  with  the  Indians  for  veracity  led  them  to  call 
him  in  their  language  Schoonrewoerd,  or  True  Lips!  But  as 
this  term  is  Dutch  and  not  Indian,  alas  for  the  tradition.* 

The  winter  of  1679-80  was  barren  of  noteworthy  incidents, 
unless  it  was  a  bear  hunt  which  took  place  on  the  farm  of  Mr. 
John  Robinson,  at  the  Saw  Kill;  for  bears,  wolves,  and  other 
noxious  animals  still  infested  the  woods  on  Manhattan  Island, 
and  were  so  troublesome,  especially  the  latter,  even  years  after, 
that  official  encouragement  was  given  to  destroy  them.t  In  the 
bear  hunt  here  noticed  **very  good  diversion  and  sport"  was 
afforded  those  who  took  part  in  it,  one  of  whom  was  the  Rev. 
Charles  Wolley,  chaplain  of  the  garrison  at  New  York.  Bruin 
was  chased  and  treed  in  Robinson's  orchard;  "and,"  says  the 
chaplain,  giving  an  account  of  it  in  his  Journal,  "when  he  got 
to  his  resting  place  perched  upon  a  high  branch ;  we  dispatched 
a  youth  after  him  with  a  club  to  an  opposite  bough,  who,  knock- 
married,  in  1646,  Gerrit  Hendrickse  Blauvclt,  from  Dcventer,  who  died  in  New  York 
about  1684,  his  sons  Hendrick,  Huybert,  Johannes,  Abraham  and  Isaac,  who  all  had 
families,  removing  to  Tappan  or  Orangctown,  Rockland  County,  and  whence  sprang 
the  numerous  Blauvelts.  Harding  died  in  1685.  The  next  year  his  widow  married 
Thys  Fransz  Oudewater,  of  Tappan,  whither  she  and  her  children  went  to  live.  This 
name  took  the  form  of  Cutwater,  and  probably  Atwater.  Thys  had  a  brother  Thomas, 
of  New  York;  they  were  both  born  at  Albany,  and  were  sons  of  Frans  Jacobsen,  who 
lircd  at  Fort  Orange  as  early  as  1657.  Dr.  Thomas  Cutwater,  of  Rockland,  of  Revo- 
lutionary meritj   was  a  descendant. 

The  Harding  children  were  Tryntie,  bom  1670;  Frena,  1671;  Conrad,  1673; 
Lambert,  1676;  Reyer,  1678;  Johannes,  1679;  Jacob,  1681;  Lambert.  1683;  Emelinc, 
1685.  The  last  married  Johannes  Verveelen.  All  the  sons  marriecl,  except  perhaps 
Lambert,  and  the  Hardings  in  time  spread  through  the  counties  of  Rockland,  Crange 
and  Ulster,   some  being  sturdy  patriots  in  the  Revolution. 

•  Schoonderwoerd,  as  more  correctly  written,  was  obviously  so  called  from  the 
Dutch  schoonder,  signifying  fairer,  finer,  &c.,  and  woerd,  another  term  for  polder,  a 
tract  of  low  land  recovered  from  the  overflow  of  the  sea  or  surrounding  rivers  b,- 
dykes  and  drainage;  this  term  (woerd)  applying  as  well  to  islands  that  had  under- 
gone the  same  reclaiming  process.  Very  many  such  places  throughout  Holland  bear 
names,  of  which  this  term  forms  the  endinjj;  variously  written  waard,  woerd,  woert, 
ttc.  Schoonderwoerd  was  simply  the  Fairer-podlcr.  We  suspect  the  "tradition" 
aforesaid  came  from  mistaking  this  term  woerd  for  the  more  familiar  woord,  so  tak- 
ing Schoonderwoerd  to  mean  fairer  word;    and  fancy  supplying  the  rest. 

t  The  modern  annotator  of  WooUey's  Journal,  aware  of  the  prevalence  of  "bears" 
about  Wall  street,  may  be  pardoned  for  locating  Robinson's  farm,  the  scene  of  this 
boir  hunt,  near  that  section  of  the  city;  Journal,  Note  33.  He  only  failed  to  bear  in 
mind  that  the  old  species,  more  cautious,  and  less  disposed  to  risks,  seldom  ventured 
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ing  his  paws,  he  comes  grumbling  down  with  a  thump  upon  the 
ground;  and  so  we  after  him  again."  The  sequel  is  not  told; 
we  know  the  youth  was  dispatched,  but  whether  the  bear  was,  is 
more  than  doubtful,  since  Mr.  Wolley  says  they  had  neither  gxin 
nor  weapon,  except  "a  good  cudgel;"  whence  also  it  may  be 
inferred  that  the  hunt  was  not  prearranged,  but  incidental  to  one 
of  those  not  agreeable  surprises,  which  till  years  later  often 
awaited  the  astonished  farmer,  on  visiting  his  barnyard  upon  a 
winter's  morning. 

We  naturally  connect  Mr.  Wolley *s  visit  to  Robinson's  farm 
with  the  sale  which  Robinson  made,  Jan.  ist,  1680,  of  the  half 
of  said  farm,  with  the  leather  mill,  etc.,  to  John  Lewin,  Esq., 
and  Mr.  Robert  Wolley,  of  London,  merchants, .  the  latter 
probably  a  brother  of  the  chaplain ;  which  purchase  was  effected 
through  the  immediate  agency  of  William  Pinhome,  who  had 
returned  from  England  in  1678,  in  the  same  vessel  with  Chap- 
lain Wolley,  directly  after  a  business  interview  with  Lewin  and 
Wolley  in  London,  at  which  the  chaplain  was  present.  Lewin 
soon  visited  his  purchase,  as  he  arrived  in  New  York  on  October 
1 6th  ensuing,  commissioned  by  the  Duke  of  York  to  inquire  into 
and  report  upon  the  administration  of  Gov.  Andros. 

Jan  Nagel,  Jan  Dyckman,  Arent  Hermens  Bussing,  Adolph 
Meyer,  and  Jan  Delamater  were  busy  hewing  timber  to  fill  a  con- 
tract made  Jan.  2d,  1680,  with  Nicholas  de  Meyer  as  agent  for 
Hendrick  Cuyler,  of  Albany,  for  whom  they  were  to  furnish  tim- 
ber for  a  house,  including  "beams,  posts,  rafters,  plates,  sleepers, 
door-posts,  and  casings,  according  to  the  plan  thereof,"  to  be 
delivered  in  the  ensuing  May,  part  at  the  water  side,  and  part 
in  New  York,  at  the  Burgher's  Path;  and  for  which  they  were 
to  receive  "the  sum  of  1300  guilders  with  a  half-ancker  of  rum, 
to  wit:  one  third  in  silver  money  or  sewant,  one  third  in  good 
winter  wheat,  and  one  third  in  goods  at  such  price  as  he  (De 
Meyer)  sells  the  same  at  his  store  for  current  sewant."* 

The  timber  for  the  town  house  had  been  ready  for  some  time. 
As  early  as  December  20th  preceding,  a  vote  was  taken  to  give 
out  the  contract  for  building  it,  but  it  had  been  delayed  in  order 

*  Hendrick  Cuvler,  tailor,  was  born  in  1673.  His  brother.  Rcynicr,  button  maker, 
resided  at  Amsterdam.  Hendrick  married,  at  New  Amsterdam,  Anna,  daughter  ot 
Jan  Schepmoes,  and  about  t66-i  went  to  Albany,  where  he  acquired  property.  He 
eventually  returned  to  New  York,  and  with  his  wife  united  with  the  church  by  letter, 
November  29,  1688.  He  died  soon  after,  in  1690.  His  daughters,  Maria,  Sarah. 
Rachel  and  Eva,  married  respectively  John  Cruger,  Peter  Van  Brugh,  Myndert 
Schuyler  and  Rev.  Pctrus  Van  Driessen.  His  son,  Johannes  Culler,  bom  1661,  was 
mayor  of  Albanv  in  1725-6.  He  married  Elsie,  daughter  of  Major  Dirk  Ten  Broek. 
From  him  and  his  brothers,  Henry,  married  to  Maria  Jacobs,  and  Abraham,  whose  wife 
was  Catrina,  daughter  of  Hon.  Jan  Jansen  Bleecker,  come  the  respectable  family  of 
Cuyler,  allied  from  an  early  day  to  many  others  noted  in  the  annals  of  New  York. 


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that  debts  due  the  town  might  first  be  collected.  On  May 
6th,  1680,  action  was  taken  regarding  the  house  for  the  clerk ;  a 
visitation  of  the  outside  lands  was  authorized  with  a  view  to  as- 
sessing those  in  fence;  several  small  pieces  of  land  were  sold  or 
granted ;  and  a  resolution  was  passed  to  sell  Moertje  David's  Fly. 
But  to  particularize : 

Constable  Johannes  Vermel je  and  Daniel  Toumeur  were  ap- 
pointed and  empowered  to  employ  a  carpenter  to  build  the  house, 
**for  the  least  cost  to  the  town."  It  was  to  be  made  22  feet  long 
and  20  feet  broad,  and  all  complete  with  chimney,  mantelpiece, 
doors  and  windows.  Adolph  Pietersen  De  Groot,  carpenter  at 
New  York,  took  the  job  at  250  guilders.*  The  inhabitants  agreed 
to  work  at  the  building  a  certain  number  of  days  gratis. 

The  visit  to  the  outside  lands  under  the  town's  jurisdiction 
was  to  ascertain  the  quantity  enclosed  within  fence,  with  a  view- 
to  making  an  assessment  for  town  expenses.  It  was  intrusted 
to  the  constable,  with  Arent  Hermens  and  Joost  van  Oblinus, 
and  who  reported  as  follows : 

Hendrick  Bosch,  at  Moertje  Davids  Fly,  i  erf,  i  morgen. 

John  Robinson,  at  the  Saw-kill,  i  erf. 

Jacob  Young,  i  erf,  2  morgen. 

Jean  Baignoux,  on  Hoorn's  Hook,  i  erf,  i  morgen. 

Jean  Belin  and   I 

Eticnne  Button, ) 

on  ditto,  I  erf,  i  morgen. 
Jan  Dircksen,  on  ditto,  i  erf,  i  morgen. 
Michiel  Bastiaensen  and  ) 

Hendrick  Kiersen,  at  Spuyten  Duyvel.  ] 
(No  quantity 
reported.) 

Cornelis  Jansen  purchased  of  the  town  **a  small  piece  of  land 
lying  next  to  his  land  upon  Montague's  Flat  next  the  run  (de 
fonteyn),  paying  therefor  to  this  town  at  once  25  guilders." 
Johannes  Vermelje  "was  granted  and  allowed  the  place  before 
his  house  extending  into  the  street,  from  the  corner  post  of  Jan 
Dyckman,  on  a  line  straight  to  the  corner  of  Laurens  Jansen's 

•  Gerard  Magister,  and  his  wife  Madeleine  TAdmiral,  had  now  left  the  town, 
posibly  to  join  Demarest's  colony.  But  inquiry,  even  an  appeal  made  and  repeated  in 
the  columns  of  that  valuable  medium,  the  N.  Y.  G.  and  B.  Record,  fails  to  recall  this 
worthy  Hu^enot  pair  from  their  subsequent  obscurity.  A  bill  for  carpenter  work, 
written  by  Magister's  own  hand,  reads  as  follows: 

}bIemoire  de  Touvrage  que  ici  fait  pour  le  comunaute  de  Harlem. 

le   14   fevriere   1677,   fait  une  bariere 10  franc 

fait  une  siviere  a  Fcter  le  mort 10  franc 

le   17   decembre    1877,   reclove  une  table  ct   fait  2  banc  pour  le 

maitre    d'ccole 1 a  franc 

le   16   fevriere    1678   fait   2   banc 8  franc 

la    somme    et 32  franc 

fait  par  moi 

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house,  as  broad  as  his  erf  and  land  may  stretch,  for  him  to  set 
off  and  use."  Laurens  Jansen  was  in  like  manner  allowed  to 
take  in  the  street  so  far  as  his  land  stretched,  and  Arent  Her- 
mens  was  permitted  to  set  off  for  his  use  a  place  33  feet  in  the 
street  ''along  his  two  gardens";  for  which  he  was  charged  12  gl. 
It  was  resolved  to  sell  Moertje  Davids  Fly  at  public  vendue, 
on  Monday,  the  loth  instant.  Whoever  wanted  it  was  invited 
to  come,  hear  the  conditions,  and  benefit  himself.  The  constable 
was  authorized  to  extend  the  notice,  and  the  secretary  to  post 
a  handbill.  On  May  10,  1680,  toward  evening,  the  time  appointed, 
the  constable  and  magistrates  being  present,  the  terms  of  sale 
were  made  known  as  follows: 

Conditions  and  Terms  on  which  the  constable  and  magistrates  have 
a  mind  to  sell  to  the  highest  bidder  a  certain  meadow  lying  in  this  town's 
jurisdiction,  at  the  North  River,  named  Moertje  Davids  Valey. 

1st.  Whoever  remains  purchaser  shall  be  held  to  pay  in  the  following 
February,  1680-81,  punctually,  with  good  winter  wheat,  without  any  de- 
fault. 

2.  The  cost  attending  this  sale,  as  stiver  money  and  other  expense  of 
writing,  shall  be  borne  and  paid  by  the  buyer. 

Vander  Vin  started  the  sale  with  a  bid  of  50  gl.  from  Re- 
solved Waldron,  between  whom  and  Hendrick  Bosch  was  the 
principal  contest.  Finally,  Barent  Waldron  gave  the  sixteenth  bid, 
advancing  50  gl.  and  calling  out  "Mine,"  as  was  then  the  custom, 
when  it  was  struck  off  to  him  at  205  gl. 

Meanwhile,  Daniel  Tourneur  and  the  Jansens  commenced  a 
prosecution  against  Colonel  Lewis  Morris  for  the  trespass  upon 
their  meadows  at  Stony  Island  the  previous  year.  This  case 
assumed  a  graver  importance,  as  upon  its  legal  decision  seemed 
to  hang  other  landed  rights  which  the  inhabitants  had  upon  that 
side  of  Harlem  River. 

On  June  5th  a  formal  declaration  was  entered  in  the  Mayor's 
Court,  or  Court  of  Record,  at  New  York,  as  follows: 

Daniel  Tourneur,  Cornelius  Jansen  and  his  brother  Lawrence  Jansen, 
Plaintiff,  against  Lewis  Morris,  Sen.,  Defendant 

The  Plaintiffs  declare  against  the  Defendant  in  an  action  of  Trespass 
upon  the  Case,  for  that  he  the  Defendant  sometime  in  or  about  the 
month  of  July  or  August,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six 
hundred  and  seventy-nine,  contrary  to  law  and  against  the  public  peace, 
did  enter  into  and  upon  Plaintiff's  meadow  upon  Stone  Island,  over 
against  New  Harlem,  and  then  and  there  by  force  and  arms  did  with 
scythes  mow  and  cut  down  the  grass  which  was  growing  upon  the  said 
meadow,  and  with  force  and  arms  carried  the  hay  away,  whereby  the 
Plaintiffs  were  much  damnified  for  want  of  hay  for  their  own  cattle  in 
the    winter    season,    which    is    to    the    damage    of    the    Plaintiffs,    Forty 


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Pounds.    And  thereupon  the  Plaintiffs  bring  their  Suit  and  crave  Judg- 
ment, with  costs  of  Court,  et  dam.  ad  quoquc. 

To  which  Colonel  Morris  entered  this  counter  plea: 

City  of  New  York,  Ss.  And  the  said  Col.  Lewis  Morris  comes  and 
defends  the  wrong  and  injury  to  him  done,  etc.,  and  saith  that  the  said 
Daniel  Tourneur,  Cornelius  Jansen,  and  Lawrence  Jansen  their  action 
against  him  ought  not  to  have,  for  that  he  knoweth  not  of  any  such 
place  as  Stone  Island  over  against  New  Harlem,  as  in  the  Declaration  is 
set  forth,  or  that  any  Trespass  is  by  him  committed.  But  if  by  it  shall 
be  meant  a  certain  Island  called  Stone  Island  adjoining  to  his  Plantation 
and  belonging  to  him,  and  that  thereon  the  pretended  Trespass  should 
be  committed,  he  the  said  Col.  Lewis  Morris  doth  plead  in  bar  to  the 
said  action,  that  the  said  Island  is  not  within  the  Jurisdiction  of  this  Court, 
and  therefore  not  triable  in  this  Court.  And  therefore  prays  Judgment, 
that  the  Plaintiffs  may  be  nonsuited  and  pay  costs,  etc. 

Having  thus  joined  issue,  the  case  came  to  trial  as  follows : 

City  of  New  York.  The  Court  of  Record  of  the  City  aforesaid,  holden 
at  the  City  Hall  within  the  said  City,  the  6th  day  of  July,  1680.  Before 
Francis  Rombouts,  Mayor;  William  Beeckman,  Johannes  Van  Brugge, 
Peter  Jacobs,  Gulian  Verplanck,  Samuel  Wilson,  Aldermen. 

Daniel  Tourneur  ct  a/11, 1 

against  f  about  a  Trespass  upon  a  marsh. 

Col.  Lewis  Morris,      J 

Mr.  William  Pinhorne,  Mr.  Jacob  Leisler,  1 

Mr.  Paul  Richard,  Mr.  James  Matthews,  \ 

Mr.  William  Cox,  Mr.  Baltus  Bayard,  1    r^^.^. 

Mr.  Thomas  Codrington,  Mr.  Norton  Claypole,  I   Jurors. 

Mr.  John  Lawrence,  Jun.  Mr.  Albert  Bush,  I 

Mr.  John  Robinson,  Mr.  Philip  Smith,  J 

The  Deposition  of  John  Delamater  saith,  that  as  he  was  going  to  the 
Mill-dam,  he  saw  three  canoes  loaden  with  hay,  and  he  asked  the  negroes 
where  they  had  the  hay  so  soon;  they  answered  they  had  it  at  Stony 
Island. 

The  Deposition  of  John  Dyckman :  Being  at  the  meadow  where  the 
hay  was  cut  which  is  now  in  question;  seeing  negroes  cut  grass  there, 
asked  the  negroes  who  set  them  to  cut  the  hay;  they  told  him  that  their 
master  Col.  Morris  set  them  to  do  it.  This  deponent  said  that  he  could 
find  it  in  his  heart  to  take  away  the  hay  which  was  made.  The  negroes 
answered,  he  should  not.  This  deponent  asked  why  he  should  not  carry 
it  away.     The  negroes  answered,  for  because  they  were  stronger  than  he. 

Mr.  Nicholas  Demeyer  sworn,  saith  that  Col.  Morris  did  confess  that 
he  did  send  his  negroes  to  cut  the  grass  off  the  land  in  question,  and  said 
he  would  send  them  to  cut  it  again  this  year. 

Verdict.  The  Jury  find  for  the  Plaintiffs ;  fifty  shillings  damage,  and 
costs  of  court. 

The  Court  agree  with  the  verdict,  for  all  charges  whatsoever. 

Morris  had  relied  with  too  great  confidence  upon  the  inability 
of  the  other  side  to  prove  that  he  cut  and  took  away  the  hay,  or 
ordered  it  done.  He  insisted  "that  they  prove  their  damage  how 
much  it  is,"  and  declared  the  jury  was  "not  lawfully  impan- 


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elled,"  that  "the  Smith," — alluding  to  Bush, — was  "no  jury- 
man."* 

Morris  paid  no  heed  to  the  decision,  but  soon  made  good 
his  threat  by  again  mowing  the  meadows.  Of  this  Tourneur 
and  the  Jansens  complained  July  26th,  and  the  next  day  the 
Mayor  issued  his  warrant  to  the  constable  of  Harlem  to  'give 
warning  unto  the  said  Colonel  Lewis  Morris,  his  agents,  work- 
men, and  servants,  that  they  presume  not  to  mow,  cut,  or  carry 
away,  any  of  the  grass  or  hay  from  off  the  said  marsh  or  meadow 
late  in  the  controversy  as  aforesaid,  as  they  and  every  of  them 
will  answer  the  contrary  at  their  perils,"  etc. 

Nor  did  this  notice  move  Morris,  who  still  denied  the  juris- 
diction of  the  Mayor's  Court.  Whereupon  the  plaintiffs  appealed 
to  Governor  Andros.     In  this  appeal  they  say: 

"That  your  petitioners  about  seventeen  years  past  did  buy 
and  was  possest  of  our  several  lands  lying  at  Harlem,  to  which 
belongeth  a  certain  marsh  or  meadow  ground  called  by  the  name 
of  Stony  Island;  for  which  land  and  meadow  ground  your  peti- 
tioners hath  and  can  produce  patents  signed  in  Governor  Stuy- 
vesant's  time  and  afterward  renewed  by  Governor  Nicolls,  yet 
notwithstanding  and  although  it  is  our  just  right.  Colonel  Morris 
the  last  year  did  send  his  servants  and  workmen  to  cut  the  grass 
off  our  said  meadow  and  carried  the  same  away  before  we  had 
knowledge  of  it ;  and  the  6th  day  of  July  last  past  we  had  a  trial 
in  the  Mayor's  Court,  where  we  obtained  a  judgment  against 
him,  with  damage  and  costs  of  court;  yet  notwithstanding  the 
same,  he  hath  sent  his  servants  and  workmen  to  mow  the  said 
meadow  and  make  it  into  hay,  and  saith  he  will  carry  it  away, 
although  he  hath  been  forewarned  to  the  contrary.     Whereupon 

*  Hendrick  Bosch,  ancestor  of  the  Bush  family,  was  a  native^  of  Lcyden,  his 
father  bearing  the  same  name,  Hendrick.  The  son  married  Ann  Maria  Rembach,  from 
which  union  was  Albert  Bush,  named  in  the  text,  bom  at  Leyden  in  1645.  .Losing  his 
wife,  Hendrick  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Gerrit  Eshuysen,  with  whom,  his  said  son 
Albert,  and  an  infant  of  two  years  (which  last  died  early),  he  embarked  for  America. 
December  23,  1660 — a  wrong  year  being  given  in  N.  Y.  Col.  Mss.  vol.  XIV,  He 
established  himself  as  a  sword-cutter  in  New  York,  where  he  had  other  children,  viz.: 
Dorothy,  born  1661,  who  married  Isaac  Caspars  Halenbeck,  of  Albany;  two  Cerrits. 
born  1663,  and  1665,  both  died  early;  and  Hillegond,  born  1666,  who  married  Lodcwyck 
Ackerman.  By  a  third  wife,  Egbcrtie  Dircks,  widow  of  Hage  Bruynsen,  of  Harlem,  he 
had  also  Cornelia,  born  1672,  who  married  Peter  Gerard  Cavalier;  Hendrick,  bom  1674; 
Samuel,  1677,  and  Joshua,  1678.  His  farm  near  Moertje  Davids  Fly,  referred  to 
elsewhere  in  the  text,  was  sold  before  his  death  to  Thomas  Tourneur.  Being  of  a 
"great  age,"  he  made  his  will  April  23,  1701,  when  all  his  children  were  living,  save 
those  above  excepted,  and  said  son  Albert.  He  cut  off  from  sharing  his  estate,  his 
two  eldest  daughters,  for  "stubborn  and  disobedient  carriagje  toward  me  these  manv 
years,"  &c.  AH  the  sons  had  families.  Albert  learned  his  father's  trade,  married, 
1668,  Elsie,  daughter  of  Jurian  Blanck,  and  had  children,  Turian,  born  1660;  Anna 
Maria,  born  1672;  Justus,  bora  1674;  Albcrtus-Conradus,  bora  1681,  and  Casparus, 
bora  1683.  The  daufirhter  married  Edward  Marshall,  tailor.  On  May  24,  1721, 
Albert's  widow  and  children,  except  Jurian,  petitioned  the  Assembly;  wish  to  sell  his 
house  and  lot.  The  registers  of  the  Collegiate  Church,  New  York,  give  the  descendants 
of  Albert  and  others.  Joshua  Bush  settled  on  Staten  Island,  his  posterity  being  still 
there;  Justus  Bush  removed  to  Rye;  others  of  the  family  went  to  Hackensack. 
Marshall,  bom  in  Barbadoes,  died  June  i,   1704,  aged  37  years. 


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the  Mayor  hath  directed  a  warrant  to  the  Constable  of  Harlem 
to  forewarn  them  from  such  unjust,  illegal  actings,  and  to  forbear; 
yet  would  he  take  no  notice  thereof,  and  did  say  that  he  won- 
dered that  the  Mayor  was  so  bold  as  to  issue  forth  his  warrant 
there.  Which,  if  we  are  deprived  of  this  our  just  right,  we  shall 
be  destitute  of  food  for  our  cattle  in  the  winter  time,  and  must 
be  constrained  to  turn  our  stocks  out  into  the  woods,  where  we 
shall  be  in  danger  of  being  damnified  by  several  inconveniences 
that  attend  the  same ;  it  being  the  chiefest  of  our  pasture-ground.** 
They  pray  for  his  Excellency's  consideration,  etc. 

On  the  above  being  submitted  to  Colonel  Morris,  he  indorsed 
upon  it  the  following  answer: 

"I  have  seen  the  contents  of  this  petition,  and  in  answer  say, 
that  what  hay  hath  been  cut  and  carried  away  has  been  from 
and  off  my  own  land,  which  I  am  ready  to  make  appear  and 
justify  in  the  Court  at  Jamaica  (in  which  precincts,  as  I  am 
informed,  the  land  lies),  and  to  make  good  my  title,  or  pay  the 
condemnation  for  the  trespass  thereon  committed,  according  to 
the  verdict  of  the  jury.     New  York,  the  28th  July,  1680. 

"Lewis  Morris." 

To  Morris'  proposal  to  change  the  venue  to  Jamaica,  excep- 
tion could  hardly  be  taken,  that  town  being  the  seat  of  justice 
for  the  North  Riding,  in  which  Westchester  was  included.  But 
a  year  now  slipped  by,  when  Toumeur  again  essaying  to  mow 
his  meadows  was  forcibly  ejected  by  Morris,  who  seized  his  hay. 
And  thus  the  matter  rested  for  another  two  years. 

Things  went  on  as  usual  in  the  village.  On  September  ist, 
1680,  there  was  a  full  turnout  of  the  inhabitants  to  repair  the 
king's  highway.  Barent  Waldron  was  missing,  and  thus  liable 
to  a  fine  of  6  gl.,  which  was  to  be  put  upon  every  delinquent. 
The  four  magistrates,  conferring  together,  repaired  in  the  eve- 
ning to  the  house  of  Constable  Johannes  Vermel je,  and  in  the 
name  of  the  community  requested  him  to  collect  the  fine  from 
Waldron.  Vermel  je,  who  was  a  brother-in-law  to  Waldron, 
refused,  said  he  was  not  bound  to,  that  they  were  fools  to  ask 
it,  and,  moreover,  that  they  had  no  right  to  command  him ;  that 
being  constable  it  was  his  prerogative  to  command  in  this  town, 
and  not  the  magistrates',  who  could  not  hold  a  court  without 
him.  On  September  4th,  the  court  having  met,  Vermelje,  whose 
dignity  had  been  touched  because  the  magistrates  had  presumed 
to  act  in  his  absence,  took  them  to  task  for  it.  In  vain  they 
explained  that  they  had  held  no  court,  but  only  a  conference: 
Vermelje  protested   that   his   authority   as   constable   should   be 


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maintained  or  he  would  appeal  to  the  High  Court.  The  magis- 
trates also  insisted  that  their  authority  should  be  respected;  and 
so  the  affair  ended. 

The  work  upon  the  town  house  drew  largely  on  the  time  of 
some  of  the  inhabitants,  especially  Daniel  Tourneur  and  Jan 
Delamater ;  and  these,  with  Jan  Hendricks  Brevoort,  Arent  Her- 
mens,  Jan  Nagel,  Adolph  Meyer,  Jan  Dyckman,  and  Laurens 
Jansen,  all  took  part  in  riding  the  shingles  to  enclose  the  house. 
Four  hundred  and  thirty  feet  of  sawed  planks  were  obtained 
from  Gabriel  Legget,  of  Westchester,  "wood-sawyer,"  for  floor- 
ing the  loft;  and  Henricus  de  Forest,  of  New  York,  did  the 
glazing  of  the  windows.  The  inhabitants  had  credit  in  their 
accounts  for  whatever  articles  they  furnished,  or  extra  time  they 
spent ;  the  allowance  for  a  day's  labor  being  5  gl.,  or  two  dollars. 

The  building  of  a  bridge  across  the  Spuyten  Duyvel  had  been 
under  consideration  for  a  year;  on  January  7,  1680,  the  Coun- 
cil had  taken  orler  to  have  the  passage  viewed  for  that  purpose. 
It  caused  Verveelen  some  uneasiness,  as  his  lease  would  run  out 
on  November  i,  1680.  The  time  had  even  expired  when  he  suc- 
ceeded, on  December  30th,  in  getting  from  Governor  Andros  an 
extension  of  his  ferry  privileges  for  seven  years  longer. 

The  Sieur  Dubuisson  visited  the  village  March  28,  1681,  to 
give  testimony  in  a  case  pending  before  the  court.  Marked 
respect  seems  to  have  been  shown  this  Huguenot  stranger,  regard- 
ing whom  we  know  so  little.*  On  April  8th  Paulus  Richard, 
as  administrator  of  the  estate  of  Meynard  Journee,  late  of  Staten 
Island,  deceased,  confirmed  to  Jan  Nagel  and  Jan  Delamater  the 
sale  made  them  by  Journee  before  he  left  Harlem.  A  painful 
incident  of  the  summer  was  the  drowning  of  five  persons,  in 
Hellgate,  caused  by  the  upsetting  of  a  canoe.  It  happened  at 
night,  August  23d.      Thomas  Palmer,  tanner  and  currier,  and 

*  Jean  Baptiste  de  Poicticr,  Sieur  Dubuisson,  of  whom  just  enough  is  recorded  to 
whet  our  curiosity,  was  evidently  a  person  of  character,  and  of  standing  and  influence 
among  the  refugees.  His  interest  in  their  affairs,  and  the  friendly  offices  performed 
for  them,  which  incidentally  appear,  present  him  in  an  amiable  light.  He  remained  a 
number  of  years  in  or  about  New  York,  being  first  noticed  at  Harlem  in  1676  and 
last  in  1681.  If  we  are  not  mistaken,  it  was  he  who  at  a  time  of  popular  excitement 
and  fear  of  a  French  invasion  from  Canada,  was  the  subject  of  the  following  order: 

"Whereas  we  are  informed  that  one  Dubison  is  intending  to  transport  himself 
and  family  to  Canada,  being  suspected  to  have  kept  a  secret  correspondence  with  the 
French  there,  and  it  being  judged  dangerous  to  suffer  such  a  person  to  live  at 
Saratoga,  or  any  place  in  this  country,  at  this  juncture  of  the  time,  where  he  mav 
have  convcniency  to  keep  such  a  correspondence.  You  are  therefore  hereby  required, 
in  his  Majesty's  name,  to  bring  the  said  Dubison  and  family  forthwith  here,  in  order 
that  they  may  be  secured  from  an^  such  dangerous  designs;  in  doing  whereof  this 
shall  be  your  sufficient  warrant.     Given,  etc.,  in  Albany,  the  14th  of  June,   1689. 

"To  Anthony  Van  Skaick,  Constable  of  the  Half  moon." 

As  Dubuisson  is  found  at  Kingston,  November  12,  1693,  standing  as  godfather  for 
two  children  of  Pierre  Montras,  who  had  renounced  Romanism,  we  presume  nothing 
was  found  against  him.  One  Sieur  Dubuisson  was  sent  from  Quebec,  in  171  x,  to  take 
command  at  Detroit. 


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Matthew  Smith,  in  his  employ,  set  out  to  row  to  Flushing,  having 
in  company  Anna  Marlett  and  Ann  Coffin,  of  Staten  Island,  with 
Mary  Marshall,  and  one  other  person.  Getting  into  the  Pot,  and 
being  "by  the  eddy  tide  overset,"  all  but  Smith  were  drowned. 

Mr.  John  de  Forest,  of  New  York,  '*Chirurgeon,"  bought 
November  30th,  from  Jan  Delamater,  his  lot  No.  4  on  Hoorn's 
Hook,  containing  eight  acres,  for  the  sum  of  130  guilders,  or  $52. 
At  the  choice  of  new  town  officers  this  year  was  afforded  a 
striking  instance  of  the  precaution  taken  by  the  appointing  power 
to  prevent  favoritism  on  the  part  of  the  ruling  magistrates  in 
procuring  the  choice  of  successors.  In  presenting  a  nomination 
to  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  if  any  of  the  candidates  were  nearly 
related  to  each  other,  or  to  either  of  the  retiring  magistrates,  the 
fact  was  to  be  expressly  stated.  Jan  Nagel  and  Johannes  Ver- 
mel] e,  two  of  the  nominees,  returned  December  19th  and  acted 
upon  the  next  day,  were  brothers-in-law,  and  also  sons-in-law 
of  Resolved  Waldron,  retiring  magistrate.  Hence  Vermel je 
only  was  accepted.  Cornelis  and  Laurens  Jansen,  being  also 
candidates,  Cornelis  only  was  chosen,  and  his  brother  thrown  out. 
Similar  cases  might  be  cited. 

The  town  house  had  been  finished,  and  must  be  paid  for. 
To  provide  for  this  and  certain  other  claims  against  the  town, 
a  meeting  was  held  February  14,  1682.  On  a  careful  audit  of 
the  accounts,  the  public  debts  were  found  to  amount  to  1,190  fl.,* 
and  the  sums  due  the  town  from  sundry  persons  to  406  fi.  12  st. 
To  meet  the  deficiency  of  783  fi  8  st.  a  tax  of  800  fl.  upon  the 
lands  and  erven  was  voted. 

The  following  is  the  assessment  list,  with  a  description  of 
the  property  annexed ;  the  whole  showing  the  exact  state  of  the 
occupied  lands  as  they  stood  at  this  date,  and  the  changes  which 
had  taken  place  since  the  last  list.  According  to  what  had 
become  the  established  practice  and  so  continued,  two  thirds  of 
the  gross  tax  was  assessed  upon  the  lands,  and  one  third  upon 
the  erven.  Now  each  erf  was  taxed  7  guilders,  and  each  mor- 
gen  2  guilders  14  stivers.  Hitherto  only  the  lands  of  Jochem 
Pieters'  Flat  and  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  with  Bogert's  Point,  had 
been  subject  to  tax.  But  to  make  up  for  Delavall's  54  morgen, 
here  for  some  reason  omitted,  an  equal  quantity  (short  half  a 
morgen)  was  taxed  upon  the  outside  lands,  that  is  to  say,  Mon- 
tague's Flat,  the  New  Lots,  Hoorn's  Hook,  Spuyten  Duyvel,  etc. 
It  will  be  observed  that  the  New  Lots,  so  far  taxed,  are  reckoned 

*  Costs  incurred  in  making  the  Town's  House,  and  some  old  balances,  of  debts, 
etc.,  which  must  be  paid  from  the  present  assessment,  to  wit: 


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at  two  morgen  each,  or  half  their  actual  contents ;  and  the  other 
outside  lots,  so  far  as  included,  at  one  morgen  per  lot,  excepting 
those  at  Spuyten  Duyvel.  For  the  first  time  also  the  outside 
erven  are  included,  swelling  the  list  to  37  whole  and  2  half 
erven,  without  the  two  erven  of  Delavall  or  Carteret.  The  lands 
in  the  list  in  brackets  are  either  not  assesed  or  only  in  part  as 
indicated.  Dr.  De  Forest's  lot  on  Hoorn's  Hook  is  not  in  the 
list.  Delavall's  54  morgen  embraced  Nos.  15  to  22  of  Jochem 
Pieters,  and  Nos.  21,  22  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook. 

To  Daniel  Tourncur,  13  days*  work.  @  5  gmlders  per  day /.6s 


Riding  1650  shingles,  @  5  guilders  per  150. 
cla]  * 


Also    for   shingles   and    clapboards 

2^  lbs.    nails,    @    30   stivers 

Paid  Kleyn  Jan   for  fixing  town's  drum 

I   gallon  of  rum  to   the  carpenter 

A   cord   to   the   drum , 

To  Jan  le  Maistre,  6  days'  work,   @   5  guilders.... 

3  lbs.    nails,    <^    30   stivers 

Kiding   shingles  and   clapboards,    etc 

Taking  a  warrant  to  Spuyten   Duyvel 

To  Adolph  Pieters  for  building  the  town  house. . . 
To    Resolved  Waldron,   10  schcpels  wheat  delivered 

48  lbs.   nails,    @    30   stivers 

Also    to    lath    nails 

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Old  payment    (see  page  352) 

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To  Jan    Dyckman,    i    schepef  wheat   delivered 

Kiding   shingles  and   clapboards,    etc 

Old    payment    (see    page   352) 

To  Arent  Hermens,  1  schepel  wheat  delivered 

Riding   shingles  and   clapboards,   etc 

Old    payment    (see   page   352) 

To  Laurens  Jansen,  riding  shingles,   clapboards,  etc 

To  tan  Hcndricx  Kyckuyt,  riding  shingles,  clapboards,  etc.. 

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To  Isaac  Ic  Maistre,  taking  a  warrant  to  Spuyten  Duyvel 

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CHAPTER  XXII. 

1682-1685. 

INCIDENTS ;  DEATH  OF  DELAV^VLL,  ARCHER,  DELAMATER,  AND  VAN- 

DER  vin;  tourneur  vs.  morris;  dongan's  assembly; 

TOWN    COURT    remodeled;    HALF-WAY    HOUSE; 
GLOUDIE'S  POINT  OCCUPIED,  ETC. 

17  AR  up  the  winding  Neckar  which  joins  the  Rhine  at  Mann- 
heim,  in  a  fruitful  part  of  Germany,  was  the  Uttle  town  of 
Lauffen,  where  Gabriel  Carbosie  was  bom.  Findings  his  way  to 
Holland,  and  thence  to  this  country  while  under  the  Dutch,  Car- 
bosie, used  to  a  rich  soil,  tried  divers  places,  at  both  farming  and 
milling,  and  by  the  way  had  served  on  the  "rattle  watch"  at  New 
Amsterdam  in  1658;  but  yet  this  "very  clever  fellow"  had  accu- 
mulated little.  Again  at  Harlem,  after  years  on  the  Delaware, 
to  which  he  had  gone  when  his  Lutheran  dominie,  Fabricus,  was 
called  thither,  he  was  now  too  old  to  do  much.  Asking  the 
use  only  for  his  lifetime  of  "a  small  piece  of  land  in  the  bend  of 
the  Hellegat,"  whereon  to  set  a  small  house,  and  by  it  make  a 
garden,  from  which,  with  fishing,  to  support  himself  and  his 
Brieta ;  Constable  Oblinus  assembled  the  whole  community  March 
14,  1682,  and,  the  matter  having  already  been  talked  over  one 
with  another,  his  request  was  granted.  But  it  must  be  to  no 
one's  prejudice,  and  Carbosie  was  not  to  keep  over  three  or  four 
swine,  lest  they  should  damage  "the  meadows  there  lying,  belong- 
ing to  Jan  Louwe."  But  were  Carbosie  to  die,  his  widow,  should 
she  marry  again,  must  give  up  the  land,  unless  the  grant  were 
renewed ;  a  wise  provision  (yet  to  Brieta  perhaps  too  palpable  a 
joke),  since  Carbosie  was  her  third  husband,  and  with  another 
chance  she  might  extend  her  tenure  indefinitely.  All  of  which 
was  as  hard  to  foresee  as  what  might  be  her  next  fancy ;  for  her- 
self a  Swedish  woman  from  Gottenburgh,  she  had  already  taken 
to  her  heart  a  Dane,  Freislander,  and  German.* 

•  Carbosic's  first  wife  was  Tcuntic  Straetsman,  whom  he  married  at  New  Amster- 
dam, in  1657.  Her  history  has  a  touch  of  romance.  She  had  lived  in  the  Dutch  colony 
at  I<ort  Margariete,  in  Brazil,  and  had  already  had  three  husbands,  viz.:    Jan  Meyer, 


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While  Carbosie  was  miller  for  Delavall,  his  swine  running 
over  the  milldam  had,  as  we  have  seen,  caused  Bogert  not  a  little 
annoyance.  Whether  he  was  now  the  more  troubled  at  the 
liberties  just  granted  Carbosie,  or  at  being  himself  fined  20  gl., 
"for  the  loss  of  four  days'  work  upon  the  Town  House,"  we 
know  not ;  only  some  things  had  crossed  him.  On  May  4th,  when 
called  to  pay  the  late  assessment  and  other  arrears  which,  aside 
from  the  fine  aforesaid,  relieved  him  of  52  fl.  10  st.,  in  silver,  and 
10  St  in  sewant,  Bogert  tarried  in  the  court-room,  a  full  bench 
being  present,  and  demanded  that  he  might  have  the  same  justice 
as  was  done  to  other  inhabitants.  When  asked  wherein  justice 
had  not  been  done  him,  he  answered  that  in  various  ways  he  had 
been  treated  with  injustice;  and  then  losing  his  usual  control, 
he  outright  charged  their  honors  with  being  unrighteous  rulers, 
and  "vomiting  forth  the  same  in  great  rage  and  railing,"  left 
the  room. 

Recovering  from  their  astonishment,  the  magistrates  resolved 
to  cite  Bogert  to  appear  on  the  next  court  day  and  answer  for 
his  abusive  language.  They  also  ordered  the  debts  still  standing 
out  to  be  collected,  if  necessary,  by  execution.  Bogert  failing 
to  appear  July  6th,  another  citation  was  sent  him.  But  ere  the 
time  arived  he  came  before  the  board,  which  met  August  3d  at 
his  request ;  and  expressing  hearty  sorrow  for  what  he  had  said, 
alleged  it  had  resulted  from  passion,  and  promised,  if  forgiven 
that  time,  never  to  repeat  it.  Thereupon  the  following  action 
was  taken :  "The  magistrates  of  this  Court  having  heard  the  peti- 
tion, do  excuse  the  petitioner  his  fault  this  time;  nevertheless 
that  this  Court  may  maintain  and  defend  its  rights  and  authority, 
and  that  such  conduct  may  not  happen  in  future  from  him  or 
anyone  else,  they  condemn  him  in  a  fine  of  25  gl.  to  this  town." 
The  fine  was  paid  to  the  constable,  and  so  the  affair  ended. 

Next  day,  August  4th,  the  Court  held  its  regular  monthly 
session.  A  summons  had  been  issued  to  Claude  le  Maistre,  pur- 
suant to  a  motion  of  the  constable,  Oblinus,  passed  at  the  July 
term,  to  the  effect  that  the  old  verdict  of  July  12,  1677,  against 

George  Haff  and  Tileman  Jacobs  Vandcr  Mycn.  By  the  first  she  had  a  daughter, 
Margaret  Meyer  (wife  of  Hendrick  Wiltsce,  common  ancestor  of  our  Wiltsee  family,— 
(See  Annals  of  Newton) ;  by  the  second  husband,  "in  his  lifetime,  field  trumpeter  in 
Brazil."  she  had  a  son,  Laurens  Haff  (who  was  born  in  Brazil,  lived  at  Flushing,  Long 
Island,  married,  in  1676,  Kniertie,  daughter  of  Peter  Meet,  and  originated  the  re- 
spectable New  York  family  of  Haff) ;  by  the  third^  a  daughter,  Annetie  Tilcmans 
(who  married  Dirck  Hattem,  of  C^owanus,  and  Hendrick  Van  Pelt,  of  New  Utrecht,— 
(See  Bergen  (jcn.,  2d  edit.,  p.  232) ;  and  by  Carbosie^  a  son,  David,  born  1659.  Teuntie, 
whose  posterity  tnus  remains  among  us,  died  at  Gowanus,  October  19,  1662.  and  a 
dozen  years  later,  one  of  her  former  husbands  in  Brazil,  Vander  Myen,  thought  to  be 
dead  when  she  married  Carbosie^  arrived  safe  and  sound  in  New  York,  found  his 
daughter,  Annetie.  married,  in  1078,  the  widow  of  Jan  Thomasz  Van  Dyck,  of  New 
Utrecht,  and  livea  there  for  some  years  after. 


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376  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Le  Maistre,  be  confirmed,  and  the  debt,  85  gl.,  collected  by  exe- 
cution. Le  Maistre  not  appearing,  the  Court  proceeded  in  a  body 
to  his  house,  but  found  him  as  unwilling  as  ever  to  admit  the 
claim,  he  telling  them,  among  other  things,  that  he  had  "nothing 
to  do  with  the  town  or  town  books."  On  this  they  proceeded 
to  attach  and  seize  three  pieces  of  new  linen,  which  they  meas- 
ured in  the  presence  of  witnesses,  and  found  to  contain  56  ells. 
Notice  was  then  given  by  the  constable,  and  also  posted  up  in 
writing,  that  on  Thursday,  the  i8th  instant,  Delamater's  linen, 
unless  redeemed,  would  be  publicly  sold.  But  the  very  next 
day  (August  5,  1682),  John  and  Isaac  Delamater,  in  behalf  of 
their  father,  came  and  recovered  the  linen,  giving  security  for 
the  debt  and  costs,  93  gl.  10  st.  So  this  vexatious  matter,  many 
years  pending,  was  finally  arranged ;  the  brothers  duly  met  their 
obligation,  and  Glaude  having  died,  his  account  with  the  town 
was  closed  by  John  Delamater  paying  a  small  balance  "for  his 
mother,''  October  3,  1685. 

Petty  troubles  with  the  English  residents  on  or  near  Hoorn's 
Hook  also  drew  upon  the  time  of  the  magistrates.  John  Smith, 
"miller  at  the  mill  of  Mr.  Pinhorne,"  on  the  Saw-kill,  having 
taken  "French  leave,"  his  creditor,  John  London,  seized  a  horse, 
which  he  understood  belonged  to  the  runaway.  But  Robert  Bar- 
lowe  brought  Ralph  Ross  and  William  Engel,  persons  in  his 
employ,  to  prove  that  he  was  the  owner,  whereupon  Barlowe 
obtained  his  steed,  and  London  pocketed  the  costs,  for  which 
Jacob  Young  became  his  bail.     This  suit  was  decided  July  6,  1682. 

Young  himself  now  had  an  issue  with  some  of  the  town's 
folks.  Daniel  Tourneur  and  Johannes  Verveelen,  owning  lots 
on  Hoorn's  Hook,  accused  him  of  taking  their  fence-posts. 
Cited  to  appear  and  answer  on  Aug.  4th,  he  gave  no  heed,  nor  to 
a  second  citation,  but  finally  came,  Dec.  7th,  in  no  amiable  mood. 
He  denied  the  charge,  declared  that  he  bought  the  posts  and 
would  prove  it ;  further  saying  that  "the  whole  town  was  against 
him,  and  that  Jan  Dyckman  (one  of  the  magistrates)  had 
threatened  to  burn  his  house."  The  Court  directed  defendant 
to  bring  evidence  regarding  the  posts  on  the  next  court  day,  and 
also  "to  prove  his  scandalous  words,"  on  pain  of  correction.  The 
finale  is  not  given,  but  within  a  year  Young  left  the  town  and 
went  to  other  parts,  having  sold  his  farm,  Sept.  27th,  1683,  to 
William  Holmes,  of  Turtle  Bay;  this  sale,  including  "buildings, 
bams  and  outhouses,"  with  3  cows,  i  heifer,  2  calves,  4  ewes, 
T  ram,  and  4  stocks  of  bees,  all  for  £50. 

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sen  had  been  productive  of  much  good  among  the  Harlem  people, 
as  results  prove.  The  pastoral  visits,  oftener  devolving  upon 
Nieuwenhuysen,  but  infrequent,  and,  aside  from  weddings  and 
burials,  almost  restricted  to  the  annual  induction  of  new  church 
officers,  became  for  this  reason  signal  events  among  the  villagers, 
and  occasions  for  much  sociality.  But  death  had  recently  taken 
away  these  two  beloved  pastors,  to  the  great  grief  of  the  people. 
In  sympathy  to  the  bereaved  Annetie  Maurits  Sluyswachter, 
whose  good  man,  Nieuwenhuysen,  had  gone  to  rest  Feb.  17th, 
1681,  Jan  Nagel,  "on  account  of  the  town,"  took  her  "two 
schepels  of  wheat,"  and  Resolved  Waldron  also  "two  schepels, 
and  a  bottle  of  rum." 

The  loss  to  the  church  was  in  a  measure  repaired  by  the  ar- 
rival from  Holland,  during  the  summer  of  1682,  of  Do.  Henry 
Sel>Tis,  who  had  now  returned  as  pastor  at  New  York,  but  was 
also  to  follow  up  the  custom  of  preaching  at  Harlem  at  least  once 
a  year,  for  the  purpose  of  confirming  the  elder  and  deacons ;  the 
flock  here,  except  when  called  to  the  city  on  sacramental  seasons, 
to  continue  its  usual  Sabbath  exercises  by  the  voorleser,  as  before. 
The  first  installation  of  an  elder  and  deacon  the  next  fall,  chosen 
in  the  way  then  observed,  was  a  time  of  unusual  interest.  A  few 
still  remained  here  to  welcome  Selyns,  of  his  former  members 
at  the  Bower>' — ^Joost  van  Oblinus  and  Glaude  le  Maistre,  with 
their  wives,  and  the  two  worthy  widows,  Jacqueline  Tourneur 
and  Maria  Kip.  And  there  was  Verveelen,  the  genial  old  deacon, 
who,  to  greet  his  good  dominie,  must  surely  for  this  once  have 
left  his  ferry  at  Papparinamin,  with  its  weighty  responsibilities, 
in  charge  of  his  son  Daniel,  now  living  with  him.  But  while  to 
not  a  few  others  Selyns'  features  were  familiar,  though  eighteen 
years  had  passed,  to  Abram  de  La  Montanie,  who  could  only 
know  him  by  hearsay,  was  reserved  the  gratification  of  taking 
the  hand  which  had  been  laid  on  his  infant  head,  at  his  baptism, 
just  before  the  dominie  left  for  Holland.  It  must  have  been  a 
pleasant  reunion,  evoking  gratitude  to  God ;  while,  with  the  flow 
of  good  feeling,  freely  flowed  Johan  Vermelje's  "good  bier,"  a 
half  vat  nearly  being  consumed  before  it  broke  up.  Arent  Her- 
mens  Bussing  was  the  newly  installed  deacon ;  the  elder's  name 
is  not  mentioned. 

Captain  Thomas  Delavall  died  in  the  summer  of  1682,  in 
New  York  City,  over  which,  during  three  respective  terms,  he 
had  presided  as  mayor.  The  event  necessarily  caused  a  sensation 
at  Harlem,  owing  to  his  long  and  peculiar  relations  to  the  town, 
both  as  a  proprietor  and  a  patentee.    Being  sick  and  weak,  John 


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378  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Tuder,  attorney,  wall  called  in,  June  9th,  and  drew  up  his  will, 
which  he  signed  with  tremulous  hand;  the  next  day  adding  a 
codicil  disposing  of  some  property  not  before  specified.  His  death 
directly  ensuing,  his  will  was  proved  July  i  ith. 

He  bequeathed  to  his  son-in-law,  William  Darvall,  Esq.,  "all 
his  lands  lying  and  being  in  the  bounds  of  Harlem,"  as  also 
"Great  Barnes  Island,  lying  near  Harlem,"  and  his  mill  at 
Esopus,  besides  all  the  debts  due  him,  contracted  since  the  year 
1664;  the  said  Darvall  out  of  the  same  to  pay  such  money  as 
was  due  from  the  testator  to  Mr.  Samuel  Swynock,  of  London, 
merchant.  To  his  son  John  Delavall,  whom  he  made  his  sole 
executor,  he  gave  all  his  houses  and  lands  at  the  Esopus  (the  mill 
excepted),  and  his  share  of  "the  Yonker's  Mill,  lying  in  Hudson's 
River,"  with  such  debts  as  were  due  him,  the  testator,  and  were 
contracted  before  the  year  1664 ;  and  charging  upon  him  the  pay- 
ment of  certain  legacies  and  charities.  To  his  son-in-law  Thomas 
Codrington,  he  gave  all  his  land  and  houses  at  Gravesend,  on 
Long  Island;  and  to  his  (testator's)  grandchild,  Frances  Darvall, 
his  piece  of  ground  "lying  beyond  the  Smith's  Fly,  in  New  York, 
called  by  the  name  of  the  Cherry  Garden."  This  grandchild,  then 
but  a  year  old,  afterward  married  Richard  Willett,  whose  name 
will  occur  again.  Capt.  Delavall  omits  any  reference  to  the 
Moseman  farm,  the  Mill  and  Little  Barent's  Island,  already  con- 
veyed to  his  daughter  Frances  and  to  her  husband,  Capt.  James 
Carteret,  whom  he  does  not  name,  and  who  at  this  date  were  no 
doubt  in  Europe. 

We  may  simply  add  here,  that  subsequently,  to  wit,  on  Nov. 
24th,  1684,  William  Darvall  conveyed  his  lands  in  Harlem,  with 
Great  Barent's  Island,  to  Samuel  Swynock,  aforesaid,  of  London, 
and  Jacob  Milbome,  of  New  York  (formerly  Captain  Delavall's 
book-keeper),  as  trustee  of  said  Swynock;  and  that  the  latter 
buying  Swynock  out,  Aug.  9th,  1687,  afterward  sold  the  island 
to  Thomas  Parcell,  as  will  be  further  noticed.  Abraham 
Gouvemeur  marrying  Milborne's  widow  (who  was  a  daughter 
of  the  iioied  Capt.  Jacob  Leisler),  eventually  came  in  possession 
of  one  third  of  Capt.  Delavall's  lands  in  Harlem — the  other  two 
thirds,  with  Little  Barent's  Island,  going  to  the  Pipons,  as  heirs 
of  Captain  Carteret.  But  not  till  sixty-five  years  after  the  death 
of  Capt.  Delavall  were  these  respective  claims  fully  adjusted,  and 
the  estate — ^much  enhanced  meanwhile  by  drafts  from  the  com- 
mon lands — finally  closed  by  the  sale  of  the  property.     This  in- 


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teresting  title  is  especially  treated  of  in  the  Appendix,  under  the 
head  of  "The  Delavall  Lands.* 

Jacqueline  Parisis,  widow  of  Daniel  Toumeur,  being  "sick 
and  weak  of  body,  and  lying  in  bed,"  made  her  will  Aug.  31st, 
1682,  to  which  were  witnesses  Resolved  Waldron  and  Joost  van 
Oblinus.  The  property,  comprising  "lands,  houses,  house  lots, 
cattle,  ready  money,  credits,"  was  to  be  shared  equally  by  her 
children,  Daniel,  Madeleine,  Esther,  Jaco  and  Thomas,  except 
as  follows :  "Whereas,  Jan  Dyckman,  married  to  Madeleine,  has 
a  lot  of  land  on  Montagne's  Flat,  and  an  erf  and  garden  here  iji 
the  village,  already  in  possession ;"  her  son  Daniel  shall  have  the 
lot  of  land  on  Hoom's  Hook,  which  he  has  procured  in  his  own 
name,  with  a  lot  on  Montagne's  Flat,  and  also  the  carpenter's 
tools.  Jaco  and  Thomas  are  each  to  have  "a  weaver's  loom  and 
its  fixtures."  Daniel  and  Jaco  are  to  engage  to  give  her  youngest 
son,  Thomas,  a  good  trade,  whichever  he  is  best  suited  for,  either 
wheelwright  or  weaver,  which  they  themselves  understand.  Her 
two  daughters  to  divide  her  clothing.  But  Mrs.  Toumeur  sur- 
vived this  illness  eighteen  years.  Not  "sackcloth  and  mourning" 
came  to  her  house,  but  a  happier  event,  the  marriage,  the  ensuing 
winter,  of  her  eldest  son,  Daniel,  to  an  English  maiden,  "Ann 
Wodhull,  of  Seattalcot,  spinster."  By  what  unbidden  chance  or 
love's  deep  art  was  brought  about  this  alliance  with  a  distant 
Long  Island  family,  we  are  not  told.  The  Governor's  license  was 
obtained  Feb.  5th,  1683,  and  the  nuptials  were  probably  celebrated 
at  Setauket,  in  the  hospitable  home  of  the  Woodhulls.  The  next 
summer  the  son  Jacques  married  into  the  Dutch  family  of  Kort- 
right,  and  went  to  live  on  the  farm  on  Montagne's  Flat,  on  the 
expiration  of  the  lease  to  Thomas  Holland,  who  had  taken  it  Oct. 
30th,  1679,  for  four  years,  "with  the  house  and  hoybergh,"  en- 
gaging, the  first  year,  to  clear  and  fence  three  morgen  of  land ; 
the  lessor  (Daniel  Tourneur)  and  lessee  to  use  the  bam  in  com- 
mon, and  together  to  dig  a  well. 

By  a  later  will,  and  a  contract  between  the  children,  both 

•  Jacques  Cousseau,  another  old  merchant  of  New  York,  and  a  Huguenot  exile 
(sec  pp.  48,  100),  associated  with  Harlem  in  his  infancy,  survived  Capt.  Delavall 
but  a  short  time,  after  being  present  as  a  witness  to  his  will.  He  himself  died  in- 
testate. His  account  and  letter  books  running  from  1653  to  1677,  and  described  in 
his  inventory,  taken  December  7,  1682,  evidence  a  long  and  active  business  career, 
chiefly  at  Lia  Rochelle  and  New  York.  He  was  latterly  a  shipping  merchant;  in 
business  affairs  "esteemed  a  person  of  credit  and  honcstv,  and  in  no  manner  suspected 
of  fraudulent  dealings."  In  1665  he  visited  Hamburgh,  and  again  went  to  Holland 
in  1668.  He  had  served  as  schepen  at  New  Amsterdam,  and  was  one  of  the  com- 
missioners who  arranged  the  capitulation  in  1664.  His  connection  with  Harlem  had 
previously  ceased,  on  the  sale  01  his  lands  to  Tourneur.  A  warm  friendship  had  long 
subsisted  between  Mr.  Cousseau  and  Simon  Fell  and  his  wife,  he  a  Hugeunot  from 
Dieppe  (probably  ancestor  of  Judge  John  Fell,  of  New  Jersey),  and,  in  1680,  Cous- 
seau married  Fell's  widow,  Anna  Vincent.  Her  brother,  John  Vincent,  was  Mr. 
Cousseau's  administrator.  Martha  Cousseau,  his  daughter,  as  would  appear,  married 
Daniel  Potreau,  of  New  York. 


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dated  Sept.  7th,  1690,  tlie  Toumeur  lands  were  divided  somewhat 
differently.  Daniel  took  the  land  and  buildings  on  Montagne's 
Flat,  then  occupied  by  his  brother  Jacques,  giving  him  his  own, 
including  three  lots  together  (in  which  the  late  Wood  farm  was 
embraced),  with  the  meadow  on  the  adjoining  creek;  Jacques  and 
Thomas  took  "the  buildings  and  house  lots  and  orchard,  and  the 
five  lots  lying  at  this  village,  to  wit:  a  lot  behind  the  aforesaid 
orchard  (being  No.  i  Jochem  Pieters)  and  four  lots  of  land  lying 
on  Van  Keulen's  Hook ;  with  the  meadows  to  the  same  belonging, 
at  Stony  Point,  and  at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  in  the  Round  Meadow." 
The  children  of  Madeleine  Dyckman,  deceased,  were  to  have  the 
inheritance  from  their  grandfather  and  grandmother,  namely,  a 
lot  on  Montagne's  Flat  and  two  Out-gardens  at  the  village ;  and 
Esther  was  to  retain  the  land  on  which  she  then  lived  (in  West- 
chester), with  the  meadow  on  that  side  of  the  river  at  Spuyten 
Duyvel.  Jacques  and  Thomas  were  to  pay  their  sister  Esther 
400  gl.,  and  the  children  of  their  sister  Madeleine  1,000  gl. ;  all  the 
lands  were  to  pass  into  full  possession  in  May,  1691,  and  the  chil- 
dren were  to  pay  their  mother  for  her  support,  each  the  sum  of  40 
gl.  yearly.  Daniel's  death,  which  happened  only  a  few  days  later, 
made  no  change  in  this  arrangement  of  the  lands ;  for  the  further 
history  of  which  and  of  the  partition  between  Jacques  and 
Thomas,  see  Appendix  E,  F,  G. 

Jan  Hendricks  van  Brevoort  leased  the  town  lot  (church 
farm)  and  meadows,  Jan.  12th,  1683,  for  the  term  of  ten  years, 
at  85  gl.  per  year.  According  to  custom,  it  was  set  up  at  public 
auction,  and  struck  off  to  Brevoort  as  highest  bidder.  On  March 
15th,  Resolved  Waldron,  Johannes  Vermelje,  Jan  Nagel,  and 
Joost  van  Oblinus,  curators  and  guardians  of  the  estate  of  Thomas 
Hedding,  deceased,  advertised  for  creditors  to  present  their 
claims  within  six  weeks.*  After  further  notice,  his  stock,  etc., 
was  sold  at  auction  May  12th  and  June  2d,  1683,  bringing  608 
gl.  Buyers,  Johannes  Vermelje,  Jan  Dyckman,  William  Bickley, 
Barent  Waldron,  Reyer  Michielsen,  Lourens  Jansen,  and  Jan 
Gerrits  de  vries.  Three  cows,  with  each  a  calf,  brought  respec- 
tively, 132,  145,  150  gl. 

Jean  Baignoux  sold  his  farm  on  Hoorn's  Hook,  May  15th, 

*  Thomas  Hedding,  who  leased  a  farm  in  the  town,  had  lately  died.  He  made 
his  will  June  2,  1682,  when  "sick  in  body  and  lying  in  bed."  He  was  then  the 
"widower  of  Maria  Huyberts,"  and  devised  what  he  liad  to  his  children  equally,  after 
gifts  to  Catherine,  the  child  of  his  daughter  Sarah,  and  to  his  youngest  daughter. 
Maria.  Sarah  was  then  the  wife  of  Tohn  Watson.  Lawrence  Hedding,  his  only  son 
known  to  us,  and  who  was  born  in  Amsterdam,  in  1665,  became  a  "mariner**  or  sea 
cai)tain,  and  married,  in  1698,  Johanna,  daughter  of  Laurens  Colevelt.  The  next 
year  he  took  a  dismission  from  the  Harlem  church  to  that  of  New  York.  He  was 
naturalized  in   1702. 


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to  Isaac  Deschamps,  a  French  refugee,  and  well-to-do  merchant 
at  New  York.  On  June  8th  ensuing,  Deschamps  got  a  lien  on 
Jacob  Young's  farm  adjoining,  to  secure  the  payment  of  £20; 
but  three  months  later,  Young  sold  to  Holmes,  as  before  stated. 
The  Saw-kill  farm  was  now  held  jointly  by  Robinson  and  Pin- 
home  (the  last  as  agent  for  Lewin  and  Wolley),  but  Robinson, 
within  a  short  time,  to  wit,  on  Feb.  12th,  1684,  disposed  of  his 
half  to  William  Cox,  a  prominent  New  York  merchant,  largely 
engaged  in  the  West  India  and  foreign  trade.  Deschamps  eventu- 
ally sold  the  Baignoux  farm  to  John  Spragge,  Esq.,  of  New  York. 
The  lands  about  this  lower  section  of  the  town,  already  acquiring 
value,  were  thus  passing  from  the  hands  of  the  sturdy  yeomen 
who  first  settled  and  improved  them,  in  part  to  become,  under  the 
touch  of  wealth  and  refinement,  the  charming  rural  seats  of 
affluent  tradesmen  and  shipping  merchants,  noted  mariners  and 
others.  Later  occupants  of  the  Saw-kill  farm  were  Capt.  Samuel 
Bradley  and  his  son-in-law,  the  famous  Capt.  William  Kidd, 
whose  wife  was  the  former  Mrs.  Cox.* 

Col.  Thomas  Dongan  arrived  at  New  York,  August  25th, 
1683,  with  a  commission  as  governor.  He  was  instructed  to  con- 
vene a  General  Assembly,  to  frame  new  laws  for  the  province, 
and  in  Council,  Sept.  15th,  ordered  a  writ  sent  to  the  Sheriff, 
''to  summon  the  freeholders  of  the  City  of  New  York,  the 
Boweries  or  Farms,  and  Harlem,  to  choose  four  Representatives." 
Due  respect  must  have  been  paid  to  this  notice,  though  the  records 
are  silent  in  regard  to  the  effect  upon  the  Harlem  people,  or  their 
action  thereon.  Exciting  less  enthusiasm  here  than  it  produced 
among  the  English  population,  we  presume  none  of  the  delegates 
were  from  Harlem.  On  Sept.  24th,  John  Delamater's  two  horses 
were  * 'pressed"  for  some  urgent  public  service,  and  he  accompanied 
them  and  was  paid  for  it,  but  we  are  left  to  surmise  the  object. 

Indeed,  a  home  matter  of  great  interest  to  the  freeholders 
had  for  some  months  occupied  the  public  mind.  This  was 
another  suit  brought  by  Tourneur  and  the  Jansens  against  Colonel 

*  Jean  Baignoux  bore  a  good  character,  but  is  little  known.  It  was  he,  we  pre- 
sume, who,  as  Ian  Binjou,  joined  the  church  April  12,  1665,  at  the  same  time  with 
Abraham  du  Toict.  Binjou  (Beenyou)  approaches  his  name  in  sound.  Montage 
writes  it  Bcnu;  the  English  scribes  usually  Benew.  The  cultured  Vander  Yin  using 
a  Latin  prefix  (see  note  p.  120),  writes  it  Abignou,  i.  e.  from  Baip^oux,  the  latter  a 
Burgundian  town,  whence  Jean  probably  came.  Twice  he  calls  him  '*Jean  Abignou, 
alias  Jan  Petit."  The  French  called  him  Jean  Petit,  the  Dutch  Klyn  Jan,  both  mean- 
ing Little  John.  Kleyn  Jan  was  paid  at  Harlem  9  florins  for  "putting  the  drum  in 
order."  I  suspect  he  had  been  one  of  Governor  Nicolls'  soldiers.  He  had  license 
December  6,  1670,  to  marry  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ralph  Hall,  but  his  wife  in  and 
after  1673,  was  Anna  Hoede.  In  1680,  he  married  Jenne  Stevens.  Later,  if  we 
mistake  not,  sailing  a  coasting  vessel,  he  met  with  disaster.  Abraham  Gouverneur, 
writing  from  Boston,  October  12,  1692,  relates  "the  sad  mischance  of  Little  John  and 
his  son,"  who  bound  thence  for  New  York,  "were  cast  away  on  Nantucket  Shoals, 
and  both  drowned." 


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382  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Morris,  for  the  recovery  of  the  meadows  at  Stony  Island.  On 
May  31,  1683,  at  the  instance  of  the  plaintiffs,  Justice  Willett, 
of  the  Court  of  Sessions  for  the  North  Riding,  issued  a  sum- 
mons for  Colonel  Morris ;  an  entry  and  record  of  the  case  being 
also  made  as  follows,  by  John  West,  the  clerk : 

Jamaica  Sessions  Ss:  Col.  Lewis  Morris  was  summoned  to  answer 
Daniel  Tourneur,  Cornelis  Jansen  and  Lawrence  Jansen,  of  a  Plea,  for 
that  he  the  said  Col.  Lewis  Morris  them,  the  said  Daniel  Tourneur, 
Cornelis  Jansen  and  Lawrence  Jansen,  out  of  a  certain  parcel  of  Meadow 
Ground  at  Stone  Island,  being  four  lots,  hath  ejected,  and  from  them 
unjustly  and  unlawfully  does  detain,  etc.  And  thereupon  the  said 
Daniel,  Cornelis  and  Lawrence  say  that  for  divers  years  last  past,  they, 
the  said  Daniel,  Cornelis  and  Lawrence,  have  been  quietly,  peaceably,  and 
lawfully  seized  of  the  before-mentioned  four  lots  of  Meadow  Ground, 
and  to  their  own  proper  use  and  behoof  have  held,  occupied,  and  en- 
joyed the  same;  but  the  said  Col.  Lewis  Morris  the  right,  title,  and 
interest  of  the  said  Daniel,  Cornelis  and  Lawrence  not  at  all  regarding, 
into  the  said  four  lots  of  Meadow  Ground  hath  entered,  and  therefrom 
the  said  Daniel,  Cornelis  and  Lawrence  hath  ejected,  and  by  force  un- 
lawfully anl  injuriously  the  same  doth  withhold  and  detain,  by  which 
they  say  they  are  damnified  the  sum  of  Sixty  Pounds;  Whereupon  they 
bring  this  their  suit,  praying  Judgment  against  the  said  Col.  Lewis  Morris, 
for  the  said  four  lots  of  Meadow  Ground,  with  their  Damage  and  Costs, 
etc. 

The  summons  was  in  these  terms: 

Jamaica  Sessions;   To  Col.  Lewis  Morris. 

You  are  in  his  Majesty's  name  required  to  be  and  personally  to  ap- 
pear at  the  next  Court  of  Sessions  to  be  holden  at  Jamaica  for  the 
North  Riding  of  Yorkshire  on  Long  Island,  on  Wednesday,  the  13th  day 
of  June  next  ensuing,  then  and  there  to  answer  Daniel  Tourneur, 
Cornelis  Jansen  and  Lawrence  Jansen,  for  that  you  them,  the  said  Daniel 
Tourneur,  Cornelis  Jansen  and  Lawrence  Jansen,  out  of  a  certain  parcel 
of  Meadow  Ground  at  Stone  Island,  bein^  four  lots,  have  ejected,  and  un- 
justly and  unlawfully  from  them  do  detam  and  withhold,  to  their  damage 
Sixty  Pounds;  and  thereof  you  are  not  to  fail  at  your  peril.  Dated  the 
31st  day  of  May,  1683.  Thomas    Willett. 

This  summons  was  served  on  Morris,  June  2d,  and  at  the 
time  appointed  the  case  came  to  trial.  Plaintiffs  produced  the 
Harlem  patent,  and  the  special  patents  to  Tourneur  and  De  Meyer, 
in  support  of  their  claim.  Witnesses  were  heard.  Adolph  Meyer 
testified  that  he  had  been  at  Harlem  twenty-two  years,  and  never 
heard  that  any  others  laid  claim  to  the  meadows  in  question  at 
Stony  Point;  further,  that  the  two  brothers,  Jansens,  mowed 
the  hay  before  Governor  Colve's  time,  at  Stony  Point  and  Stony 
Island,  and  that  the  island  belonged  to  Daniel  Tourneur  fifteen 
or  sixteen  years  ago.  Defendant  endeavored  to  show  that  the 
island  so  called  was  not  such  till  "David  Demarest  made  the  Ditch 
between  Stony  Neck  and  the  Main,  in  the  time  of  the  Dutch, 
he  being  then  overseer  of  the  Plantation."     Hnece  he  held  that 


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HISTORY  OF  HARLEM.  383 

it  was  part  of  his  land.  The  case  being  submitted,  the  jury 
returned  a  verdict  for  the  plaintiffs;  but  Morris'  attorney  put 
in  a  plea  for  an  arrest  of  judgment,  which  being  allowed  by  the 
court,  the  verdict  was  quashed,  and  the  plaintiffs  were  ordered 
to  pay  the  costs. 

Thus  the  case  stood  till  after  the  arrival  of  Colonel  Dongan, 
when,  single-handed,  Tourneur  determined  to  renew  the  contest. 
On  September  25th,  he  petitioned  and  obtained  an  order  of  the 
Governor  and  Council,  allowing  him  to  carry  his  suit  to  the 
Court  of  Assize.     Thereupon  the  following  summons  was  issued : 

By  the  Governor. 

You  are,  in  his  Royal  Highness'  name,  required  to  be,  and  personally 
to  appear  at  the  next  General  Court  of  Assizes,  to  be  holden  at  the  City 
of  New  York,  beginning  the  first  Wednesday  in  October  next  ensuing,  by 
nine  of  the  clock  in  the  forenoon  of  the  same  day;  Then  and  there  to 
answer  Daniel  Tourneur  in  an  Action  of  Trespass  on  the  Case,  for  eject- 
ing the  said  Daniel  Tourneur  out  of  a  certain  lot  of  Meadow  Ground 
lying  on  Stone  Island,  in  the  Precincts  of  Harlem,  and  therefore  you  are 
not  to  fail  under  the  Penalty  of  One  Hundred  Pounds.  Given  under  my 
hand  at  Fort  James,  the  25th  day  of  September,  1683. 

Thos.    Dongan. 
To  Col.  Lewis  Morris. 

Toumeur's  statement,  duly  entered,  was  as  follows: 

Declaration  ad  Ami,  Daniel  Tourneur  vs.  Col.  Lewis  Morris. 

Province  of  New  York :  To  the  Honorable  Court  of  Assizes,  etc.  Col. 
Lewis  Morris  was  summoned  to  this  Court  to  answer  Daniel  Tourneur,  of 
the  Town  of  Harlem,  in  plea  of  Trespas  on  the  Case,  for  that  he  the  said 
Lewis  the  said  Daniel  out  of  a  lot  of  meadow  ground  lying  on  Stony 
Island,  in  the  precincts  of  Harlem,  within  the  jurisdiction  of  this  Court, 
did  eject,  expel,  and  from  his  quiet  possession  thereof  did  remove;  And 
whereupon  the  said  Daniel  sayeth,  that  in  the  month  of  June,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord  1681,  he  the  said  Daniel  stood  quietly  and  lawfully 
possessed  of  a  certain  lot  of  meadow,  marked  Number  3,  lying  on  Stony 
Island,  on  the  east  part  of  the  said  Island,  containing  by  estimation  about 
four  acres;  And  being  so  quietly  and  peaceably  possessed,  he  the 
said  Lewis  Morris,  upon  the  2d  day  of  July,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
1681,  with  force  and  arms,  upon  the  said  lot  of  meadow  ground  did  enter, 
and  him  the  said  Daniel  from  his  quiet  and  peaceable  possession 
thereof  did  eject,  expel,  and  remove,  and  the  hay  which  he  the  said 
Daniel  had  mowed  with  force  did  take  and  carry  away,  and  him  the 
said  Daniel  from  his  quiet  possession  thereof  doth  keep,  contrary  to  the 
peace  of  our  Sovereign  Lord  the  King,  etc.,  and  to  the  damage  of  the 
said  Daniel  Forty  Pounds;  which  causes  the  said  Daniel  to  bring  this 
his  suit,  craving  Judgment  of  this  Honorable  Court,  that  he  may  be  re- 
possessed of  the  said  meadow,  and  such  damage  and  cost  may  be  awarded 
him  as  your  Honors  in  your  grave  judgment  shall  think  meet.  And  the 
Plaintiff  will  ever  pray,  etc. 

Morris'  answer,  prepared  with  care,  was  in  these  terms : 


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384  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Ad  Ami,  A\  1683. 

Daniel  Toumeur,  Pit.       I   t    a^  j  i?-     i. 

Col.  Lewis  Morris,  Deft.  \  ^"  trespass  and  Ejectment. 

Declaration.  The  Pit.  declares  in  Trespass  and  Ejectment,  that  the 
Deft,  the  2d  July,  1681,  with  force  and  arms,  etc.,  did  eject  him  out  of 
a  lot  of  meadow  ground  lying  on  Stony  Island,  on  the  east  part  of  the 
said  Island,  in  the  precincts  of  Harlem,  containing  by  estimation  about 
four  acres,  and  the  hay  which  he  had  there  mowed  did  take  and  carry  away, 
to  his  damage  £40. 

Plea.  Deft,  pleads  not  guilty,  etc.,  and  puts  himself  on  the  country, 
etc.  Claims  the  meadow  in  question  belongs  to  tlie  Deft  He  derives  his 
Title  as  followeth,  viz. : 

Oct  20th,  1644,  a  patent  was  granted  by  the  Dutch  Governor  Wm. 
Kieft  unto  Arent  van  Curler,  who  married  the  widow  of  Jonas  Bronck, 
for  a  certain  tract  or  parcel  of  land  formerly  in  the  tenure  or  occupation 
of  the  said  Jonas  Bronck,  and  by  the  English  called  Bronck's  Land, 
lying  and  being  on  the  main  to  the  east  and  over  against  Harlem  town, 
having  a  certain  small  creek  or  kill  which  runs  between  the  south-west 
part  of  it  and  little  Barnes  Island,  near  Hellgate,  and  so  goes  into  the 
East  River,  and  a  greater  creek  or  river  which  divides  it  from  Manhatans 
Island ;  containing  about  500  acres  or  250  morgen  of  land,  and  including 
all  the  fresh  meadow  thereunto  annexed  or  adjoining. 

July  loth,  165 1,  the  said  Arent  van  Curler  conveyed  the  said  land  unto 
Jacob  Jans  Stoll. 

Dec.  19th,  1662,  Mattheus  de  Vos,  as  attorney  of  Geertruyt  Andries, 
the  widow  of  the  said  Jacob  Jans  Stoll,  conveyed  the  said  land  unto 
Geertrieu  Hendricks,  formerly  the  widow  of  Andries  Hoppen.  Upon  the 
same  day  the  said  Geertrieu  Hendricks,  with  the  approbation  and  consent 
of  Dirck  Gerrits  van  Tright,  then  her  husband,  conveyed  the  same  land 
to  Harman  Smeeman. 

Oct.  22d,  1664,  Harman  Smeeman  sold  and  conveyed  the  same  land,  for 
a  valuable  consideration,  to  Samuel  Edsall. 

1668,  Col.  Nicolls,  by  patent,  makes  recital  of  all  the  former  con- 
veyances and  ratified  and  confirmed  to  the  said  Samuel  Edsall,  his  heirs 
and  assigns  forever,  all  the  aforesaid  land  and  premises,  with  its  appur- 
tenances, and  all  meadow  ground,  marshes,  etc.,  to  the  same  belonging 
or  in  anywise  appertaining. 

June  4th,  1668,  The  said  Samuel  Edsall  and  Jannetien  his  wife,  by 
deed  indented,  for  the  consideration  of  £140,  sold  and  conveyed  the  same 
to  the  Deft,  with  all  the  meadows  and  marshes  thereto  belonging;  and 
had  actual  possession  thereof. 

1673.  The  Deft  remained  in  possession  until  Anno  1673,  when  the 
Dutch  taking  the  place,  his  negroes  were  seized,  and  his  family  forced  to 
leave  the  land,  in  which  time  the  Pit.  cut  a  ditch  in  his  meadow  to  make 
that  an  Island  which  was  not  so  before. 

1674.  By  the  Articles  of  Peace,  and  surrender  of  the  place  ,the  Deft, 
was  again  possessed  of  the  land  and  premises,  and  so  remains. 

March  25th,  1676 ;  The  before-mentioned  land,  meadows  and  premises, 
with  an  addition  of  a  larger  quanitiy  of  land,  was  by  patent  from  Sir 
Edmund  Andros  confirmed  to  the  Deft  who  is  in  possession  thereof,  and 
therefore  says  that  the  meadow  in  question  is  part  of  the  land  and  meadow 
mentioned  and  contained  in  all  the  former  grants  and  conveyances;  and 
that  he  ought  to  hold  and  enjoy  the  same,  for  that  his  title  as  aforesaid 
is  far  preferable  and  more  ancient  than  the  Plaintiff's  pretences,  which  are 
but  of  late,  and  on  uncertain  grounds.* 

*  The  Hopper  family,  of  this  country  and  of  good  Holland  antecedents,  arc  de- 
scendants of  Andries  Hoppen,  who  with  his  wife,  Gccrtie  Hendricks,  emigrated  about 
1650.  He  was  enrolled,  in  1653,  i"  the  burgher  corps  at  New  Amsterdam,  and  granted 
the  small  burgher  right  in  1657,  when  he  owned  considerable  property  in  the  dty;    but 


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HISTORY  OF  HARLEM.  385 

Upon  the  trial,  which  came  on  at  the  time  appointed,  and  at 
which  Governor  Dongan  presided,  Engeltie  Burger,  widow  of 
Burger  Joris,  Thomas  Hunt,  Sr.,  Thomas  Hunt,  Jr.,  Walter 
Webley,  John  Archer (  Mr.  Osborne,  and  Thomas  Wandell,  gave 
the  following  testimony  in  behalf  of  the  defendant ;  that  for  the 
plaintiff  has  been  substantially  anticipated: 

Burger  sayeth  that  Bronck  mowed  the  meadow  on  the  Neck  about 
40  years  ago,  three  times;  and  made  a  bridge,  and  put  their  cattle  there. 

Hunt,  Senr.,  had  knowledge  of  the  land  in  Gov.  Kieft's  time,  and  saw 
fences  of  Bronck's  land  standing  on  the  east  side  of  the  creek;  and  a 
bridge  went  over  it,  and  the  land  was  generally  called  by  the  name  of 
Bronck's  land,  and  that  Stone  Island  is  a  new  name. 

Hunt,  Junr.,  that  when  Col.  Morris*  brother  came,  a  report  was  that 
he  had  got  the  land  as  far  as  Bronck's  river;  and  meeting  with  Daniel 
Tourneur,  father  to  the  plaintiff,  he  told  him  thereof;  and  in  discourse 
the  said  Tourneur  showed  him  the  bounds  of  Bronck*s  land,  and  that 
the  land  in  controversy  was  contained  therein;  that  till  the  time  of  the 
Dutch  governor  Colve,  the  same  was  a  firm,  entire  neck,  and  horses  and 
carts  could  go  over,  when  a  ditch  was  made;  and  that  he  never  knew  it 
to  be  called  Stone  Island,  and  that  the  defendant's  land  comes  to  the  East 
River  only  in  that  place. 

Webley  understanding  that  some  Harlem  men  had  been  on  the  land  to 
mow  the  meadow,  he  forewarned  them;  they  went  away.  Next  year  the 
place  being  taken  by  the  Dutch,  Tourneur  hired  one  to  make  a  ditch  round 
the  meadow,  etc.  In  discourse  after,  with  Tourneur,  in  presence  of  Capt. 
Nicolls  and  Capt.  Knapton,  the  draft  being  shown,  they  agreed;  and  the 
defendant  thereon  procured  a  patent  for  it. 

Archer  sayeth  that  long  time  since,  the  town  pretending  want  of 
meadow,  obtained  liberty  of  Stuyvesant  to  mow,  until  the  owners  appeared 
to  forewarn  them,  and  when  Col.  Nicolls  came,  they  underhand  got  a 
patent  of  him,  and  had  none  before,  but  hired  land  of  the  Indians.* 

Osborne  sayeth  he  was  overseer  on  Col.  Morris's  land;  the  plaintiffs 
by  Capt.  Morris's  leave  mowed  there  at  halves,  and  afterwards  were  by 
him  discharged,  and  that  the  meadow  was  then  fast  and  firm,  without  any 
ditch. 

Wandell,  the  same. 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  decision: 

this  honor  he  survived  little  more  than  a  year.  Having  agreed  with  Jacob  Stol  for 
the  purchase  of  Bronck's  land,  and  made  a  payment  on  it,  oe  and  Stol  both  died  be- 
fore the  deed  passed.  The  two  widows  concluded  the  transfer.  In  view  of  her 
marriage  with  Van  Tright,  which  took  place  in  May.  1660,  Mrs.  Hopper  secured  to 
each  of  her  four  children  the  sum  of  aoo  euilders.  These  were  Catherine,  bom  1651, 
who  married  Frederick  Thomasz,  of  New  York;  William,  bom  165A,  married  Minne, 
daughter  of  Jurck  Paulus:  Henry,  born  1656,  married  Maria,  daughter  of  John  Van 
Blarkum;  and  Matthew  Adolphus,  born  16^8,  who  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Jurck 
Paulus.  Part  of  his  family  settled  at  Bloominedale,  part  in  Bergen  County:  and  from 
the  former  came  Yellis  Hopper,  of  Hoorn's  Hook,  grandfather  of  Mrs.  >yilliam  H. 
Colwell,  of  Harlem.  And  tne  author,  makinjg^  his  home  in  Jersey  City  while  passing 
his  work  through  the  press,  has  prepared  this  brief  note  under  the  mayorality  of  an 
estimable  descendant  ox  Andries  Hopper,  the  old  New  Amsterdam  burgher;  we  refer, 
as  is  obvious,  to  the  Hon.  Henry  J.  Hopper. 

•  Archer's  unfriendly  thrust  at  the  Harlem  people  regarding  their  patent,  and  to 
be  readily  accounted  for,  cannot  impair  his  direct  statement,  that  they  had  no  patent 
prior  to  that  of  Governor  Nicolls.  Thus  the  position  taken  on  page  285,  that  Harlem 
bad  no  general  patent  under  the  Dutch,  is  sustained. 


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386  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

At  a  General  Court  of  Assizes  held  in  New  York,  beginning  the  3d  and 
ending  the  6th  day  of  October,  1683. 

Daniel  Tourneur,  Pltf. 

Col.  Lewis  Morris,  Deft. 

Upon  an  Action  brought  into  this  Court  by  the  Plaintiff  against  the 
Deft,  for  being  ejected,  expelled,  and  from  his  quiet  possession  removed 
out  of  this  lot  of  land  lying  on  a  certain  piece  of  ground  called  Stony 
Island,  which  the  Deft,  alleged  to  be  within  his  purchase  as  belonging 
to  the  land  bought  by  his  brother,  of  Samuel  Edsall,  on  his  behalf;  the 
Case  having  been  fully  heard  and  debated,  and  witnesses  on  both  parts 
produced,  the  Jury  brought  in  their  .Verdict  in  writing:  We  find  for  the 
Plaintiff,  with  Costs  of  Suit;  and  the  Court  gave  their  Judgment  accord- 
ingly. The  Defendant  petitioning  the  Court  for  a  review  of  his  case, 
and  desiring  that  the  Jury  may  be  of  the  neighborhood,  it  was  Ordered, 
that  Col.  Lewis  Morris  have  a  review  or  a  hearing  at  the  next  General 
Court  of  Assizes,  and  that  there  be  a  Jury  appointed,  the  one-half  whereof 
is  to  be  of  this  City  of  New  York,  and  the  other  half  from  Long  Island, 
to  view  the  said  Land,  and  to  have  the  patent  of  Arent  van  Curler  along 
with  them. 

By  order  of  the  Governor  and  Court  of  Assizes, 

J.  Spragge,  Secretary. 

Again  this  matter  hung  in  suspense.  By  having  it  submitted 
to  a  jury  **of  the  neighborhood,"  the  defendant  hoped  to  gain 
a  verdict  in  his  favor,  but  to  this  the  Court  would  not  consent. 
As  it  stood,  the  prospects  were  not  very  flattering  for  a  reversal 
of  the  decision  given  and  sustained  in  three  several  courts.* 

Other  matters  were  pending  of  great  import,  touching  the 
public  interests.  The  General  Assembly  met  on  October  17th, 
and  the  next  day  that  august  body,  the  Town  Court,  also  sat  as 
usual  for  the  discharge  of  business.  "To  prevent  as  much  as 
possible  all  accidents  by  fire,  which  may  God  avert," — so  reads 
the  minutes  of  the  latter  body, — an  ordinance  of  September  6, 
1677,  was  re-enacted,  to  wit:  "That  every  one  shall  bring  his 
compost  heap  and  refuse  straw  within  his  inclosure,  and  not  throw 
them  into  the  street."  A  disastrous  fire  the  next  spring  showed 
that  human  foresight  could  not  always  prevent  such  calamities. 
On  the  day  the  General  Assembly  performed  its  crowning  act, 

•  As  a  precedent  for  modern  courts  we  copy  "A  Bill  of  Court  Charges  at  the 
Assizes,  1683;    Daniel  Tourneur,  Pltf.,  Col.  Lewis  Morris,  Deft. 

The  special   warrant  of  summons £0  :  12  :  o 

The  entry   for  trial 5:0 

Filing   the    Declaration 3:6 

Copy     3  :  A 

Filing    the    Answer •. 2:6 

Copy     3:4 

The    High    Sheriff's    fees 12:0 

The  Cryer  and  Marshal 3:8 

Seven  witness  sworn  in  Court 14:0 

To  the  Cryer  for  swearing  them 4:8 

The  Charges  to  the  Publick i  :    0:0 

The  Judgment  of  the  Court 10  :  o 

The    Copy 2:0 

£4  :  IS  :  6" 


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HISTORY   OF  HARLEM.  387 

the  town  magistrates  and  clerk  were  busy  with  Robert  Hudson, 
of  Westchester,  concluding  a  settlement  respecting  a  horse  which 
Hudson  had  attached  in  the  hands  of  Jan  Dyckman  a  full  year 
before.  Hudson  sold  the  horse  to  Resolved  Waldron,  paying  the 
costs  of  keeping  and  clerk  fees,  which  amounted  to  "ii  :ii  :o,  or 
62  guilders." 

The  General  Assembly,  in  session  within  the  walls  of  Fort 
James,  were  framing  a  Charter  of  Liberties  for  the  province, 
which  being  adopted  on  the  30th  of  October,  1683,  was  pub- 
lished on  the  31st,  with  great  acclamation.  It  provided  for  simi- 
lar assemblies,  to  meet  as  often  as  every  three  years ;  admitted 
the  people,  with  some  limitations,  to  a  voice  in  legislation,  by 
their  representatives;  declared  entire  freedom  of  conscience  and 
religion  to  all  professing  faith  in  God  by  Jesus  Christ;  and  for- 
bade any  tax,  assessment,  or  impost  being  laid  upon  any  of  His 
Majesty's  subjects,  or  their  estates,  "but  by  the  act  and  consent 
of  the  Governor,  Council,  and  Representatives  of  the  People,  in 
General  Assembly." 

By  another  act,  the  province  was  divided  into  shires  and 
counties,  in  place  of  the  ridings;  the  city  and  county  of  New 
York  to  embrace,  besides  Manhattan  Island,  also  Manning's,  or 
Blackwell's  Island,  and  the  two  Barne  Islands. 

Another  act  recognized  or  erected  Courts  of  Justice:  the 
Town  Court,  the  County  Court,  or  Court  of  Sessions,  a  General 
Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer,  and  a  Court  of  Chancery.  The 
town  court  was  to  be  composed  of  three  "Commissioners,"  chosen 
by  the  freeholders,  and  to  be  called  the  "Commissioners'  Court" ; 
having  power  to  hear  and  determine  small  causes  to  the  value  of 
forty  shillings.  This  law,  passed  on  the  ist  of  November,  was 
of  special  advantage  to  Harlem,  as  against  the  assumptions  of  the 
city  government. 

The  city  authorities  were  aiming  to  secure  enlarged  preroga- 
tives, and  were  now  in  conference  with  the  Governor  upon  this 
subject;  but  passing  over  details  which  have  no  place  here,  it 
is  sufficient  to  say  that  a  check  was  put  upon  their  aspirations. 
To  the  first  proposition  submitted  by  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen, 
November  9th,  viz.,  "That  all  the  Inhabitants  on  the  Island  Man- 
hattans are  under  the  government  of  the  City  of  New  York," 
the  Council  took  exception.  They  regard  it  but  "reasonable  that 
the  Town  of  Harlem  shall  have  liberty  to  determine  all  matters 
that  come  before  them  under  forty  shillings  at  their  own  Town 
Court."  Whereupon  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen  hastened  to  ex- 
plain thus :  "The  Town  of  Harlem  is  a  village  within  and  belong- 


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388  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

ing  to  this  City  and  Corporation,  and  for  the  more  easy  admin- 
istration and  dispatch  of  Justice,  officers  have  been  annually 
appointed  by  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  to  hold  Courts  and 
determine  matters  not  exceeding  40^.,  both  at  Harlem  and  the 
Bowery,  and  shall  do  the  like  for  the  future." 

The  Out  Ward,  one  of  the  six  wards  into  which  the  city, 
pursuant  to  a  resolution  of  the  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  of  December 
8th,  was  now  divided,  embraced  "the  town  of  Harlem,  with  all 
the  Farms,  Plantations,  and  Settlements  on  this  Island  Manhat- 
tans, from  the  north  side  of  the  Fresh  Water."  It  was  to  be 
subdivided  into  the  Bowery  and  Harlem  Divisions.  The  sepa- 
rating line  between  these  two  divisions,  as  by  a  resolve  of  Decem- 
ber loth,  was  to  "continue  as  formerly  at  the  Sawmill  Creek," 
and  each  division  was  to  have  its  local  court ;  the  people  to  nomi- 
nate a  double  number  of  persons  fit  to  be  commissioners,  and  the 
Mayor  and  Aldermen  to  make  the  appointments. 

Harlem,  upon  being  notified,  made  its  nomination;  and  on 
December  i8th  "Jan  Dyckman,  John  Nagel,  and  Arent  Harmans 
were  appointed  Commissioners  for  the  Harlem  Division,  in  the 
Out  Ward,"  and  took  the  oath  of  office.  Resolved  Waldron 
was  named  Assessor,  and  Daniel  Tourneur  Constable  and  Col- 
lector. William  Cox,  chosen  Alderman  for  the  said  ward,  soon 
secured  a  freehold  here,  as  part  owner  of  the  Saw-kill  farm,  a 
fact  already  noticed.  The  militia  was  organized  the  next  year, 
when  the  inhabitants  of  the  Out  Ward  capable  of  bearing  arms 
were  formed  into  a  company,  under  Captain  Nicholas  William 
Stuyvesant,  with  Daniel  Tourneur  as  lieutenant,  and  Adriaen 
Cornelisz  Van  Schaack  as  ensign. 

Nothing  much  happened  till  the  meeting  of  the  new  court. 
Resolved  Waldron  and  Johannes  Vermilye,  the  guardians  of 
Cornelia  Viervant,  offered  at  auction,  January  16,  1684,  a  horse 
left  by  her  late  father,  but  did  not  succeed  in  selling  it,  only 
37  gl.  being  bid.  It  was  afterward  bought  for  120  gl.  by  Jan 
hired  three  cows  left  by  Viervant,  for  six  years,  for  half  the 
increase.* 

*  Cornells  Arents  Viervant  was  a  native  of  Lexmont,  in  the  I^and  of  Viancn, 
Utrecht.  He  married,  at  Kingston,  in  i66S,  Jeanne  le  Sueur,  sister  of  Francois,  the 
Lozier  ancestor,  and  died  at  Fordham,  in  1675,  leaving  an  only  child,  Cornelia.  She 
married  William  Innis  at  New  York,  in  1686.  William  Innis  had  children,  Alexander, 
bom  1694;    Cornelius,   1696,  etc.     Descendants  are  yet  found. 

Jan  Janscn  Postmael,  whose  children  lived  some  years  in  New  York,  where  he 
seems  to  have  gotten  his  surname,  from  being  employed  as  mail  carrier:  a  family 
legend  gives  it  this  origin,  but  names  no  place.  He  married  Jeanne,  (laughter  of 
Francois  le  Sueur  aforesaid,  and  leased  Laurens  Jansen's  farm  at  Harlem,  April  23, 
1679,  but  the  lease  was  canceled  July  3,  under  a  new  a^eement.  Removing,  about 
1684,  to  Kingston,  there  he  died  a  few  years  later.  His  children  were.  Tan,  bom 
i68o*j  Abraham,  1682;  Anna  Catrina,  1684;  Elsie,  1686;  Anthony,  1688.  His  widow 
married   Thomas   Innis.     Anna   C.   Post  married  Jan   Pearson.     Jan   Post,   for  90  he 


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HISTORY  OF  HARLEM.  389 

On  February  8th  the  Constable  and  Commissioners,  Dyck- 
man  as  President,  held  their  first  court.  The  old  officers  were 
also  present.  It  was  resolved  to  take  up  and  examine  the  town 
accounts,  both  debits  and  credits,  and  to  transfer  them  to  ^  new 
book,  "as  the  old  book  C  is  written  full."  Adolph  Meyer  and 
Resolved  Waldron  were  chosen  inspectors  of  chimneys  and  fire- 
wardens; and  Barent  Waldron  and  Isaac  Delamater,  surveyors 
of  the  common  fences.  These  fences  were  ordered  to  be  repaired 
and  made  of  four  split  rails ;  good  and  suitable.  Barent  Waldron, 
on  his  request,  was  voted  a  deed  for  Moertje  Davids  Meadow, 
which  he  had  purchased  four  years  previous.  The  deed  was  duly 
passed  by  the  Commissioners,  April  8,  1684. 

On  February  21st,  Jan  Dyckman  and  Arent  Harmans  Bus- 
sing, "deacons  of  the  Christian  congregation  of  New  Harlem,'* 
were  called  to  visit  the  aged  Gabriel  Carbosie,  whom  finding  in 
bed  sick  at  the  house  of  Jan  Louwe  Bogert,  they  first  "instructed 
as  far  as  practicable,  with  words  of  comfort."  To  an  inquiry 
as  to  the  disposal  of  his  effects,  "in  case  God  should  with  this 
sickness  take  him  out  of  this  world," — for  his  wife,  Brieta,  had 
gone  before  him, — he  answered  "that  he  should  leave  his  goods 
to  those  who  had  been  kind  to  him";  evidently  the  Bogerts. 
Soon  after,  he  passed  away,  and  on  March  3d  the  deacons  made 
a  record  of  what  was  said  at  this  interview,  for  the  benefit  of 
those  interested. 

Near  this  time  also,  "John  Archer,  Lord  Proprietor  of  the 
Manor  of  Fordham,"  met  with  a  "sudden  and  unexpected  death." 
His  son,  John  Archer,  Jr.,  who  by  this  event  "became  a  poor  or- 
phan, void  and  destitute  of  all  support,"  as  he  himself  alleged,  ap- 
plied to  the  Council,  on  March  ist,  to  appoint  administrators  upon 
his  father's  estate.  A  similar  application  was  made  by  Cor- 
nelis  Steenwyck,  to  whom  Archer  was  indebted  £993:18,  secured 
by  mortgage  on  the  manor;  and  appraisers  were  appointed,  one 
of  whom  was  Daniel  Tourneur. 

On  March  nth,  in  the  evening,  the  village  was  alarmed  by 
the  cry  of  fire.  It  proved  to  be  Jan  Nagel's  barn;  which  was 
not  only  burnt  to  the  ground,  but  with  it  12  head  of  cattle,  includ- 
ing 7  milch  cows.      It  was  found  to  have  been  set  on  fire  by 

was  called,  was  born  at  Harlem,  and  married  at  Kingston,  1702,  Cornelia,  daughter  of 
Martin  Isselsteyn;  he  has  descendants  in  Ulster  County.  Abraham  returned  to 
Harlem,  and,  in  1701,  then  calling  himself  Postmael,  became  farmer  for  Capt.  Jacob 
Dc  Key.  In  1709,  as  witness  in  a  suit  to  which  De  Ke5r  was  a  party,  he  is  called 
Post.  He  was  no  doubt  ancestor  to  the  Post  family  given  in  Bolton's  Westchester,  ii., 
537.  He  had,  however,  a  son  Hendrick  Post,  who  married,  1737,  Rebecca,  daughter 
of  Jan  Nagel,  of  Kingsbridge,  and  died  before  1786,  his  children  being  John,  Abranam, 
Hendrick,  Elizabeth  and  Lena.  One  of  his  daughters  married  Henry  Tison.  who, 
with  John  and  Hendrick  Post,  came  into  possession  of  the  Nagel  lands  at  Kingsbridge, 
on  the  death  of  their  uncle,  William  Nagel,  in   1808. 


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390  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

his  own  negro,  who  then  ran  away,  and  was  discovered  next 
morning  **hanging  to  a  tree  at  the  Little  Hill  by  the  common." 
A  leter  was  sent  to  the  Mayor  and  Court  asking  what  they  should 
do  with  the  body;  to  which,  on  the  14th,  came  an  answer  to 
hang  it  on  a  gibbet,  in  any  place  they  thought  proper.  But  the 
magistrates  and  community,  fearing  the  effect  of  such  a  spectacle 
upon  "their  children,  who  are  in  the  habit  of  going  daily  to  the 
fields  and  woods,  and  who  might  be  terrified  thereby,"  cut  the 
body  down,  and  burnt  it  to  ashes.  No  pen  has  revealed  the 
incentive  to  actions  so  desperate,  on  the  part  of  the  poor  bond- 
man, by  which  we  may  judge  of  this  particular  case.  But  the 
chains  of  slavery  were  sufficiently  galling  even  then  and  there; 
and  the  wonder  is  that  the  free  spirit  of  the  native  African, 
chafing  under  an  involuntary  servitude,  did  not  oftener  avenge 
itself.  Another  case  occurred,  w.ithin  a  year,  on  Colonel  Morris' 
plantation.  His  slave,  Cuffy,  being  guilty  of  arson,  was  hung 
and  buried,  but  afterward  disinterred  and  placed  on  gibbets. 

The  first  direct  step  toward  the  renewal  or  confirmation  of 
the  town  patent  by  Governor  Dongan  was  taken  at  a  Council 
held  on  March  21st,  of  this  year,  by  the  passage  of  an  order  "that 
the  Inhabitants  of  Harlem  bring  in  their  Patents  and  Indian 
Deeds  on  Thursday."  As  for  Indian  Deeds,  the  town  of  Har- 
lem had  none;  but  this  was  the  form  in  which  the  order  went 
forth  to  the  several  towns.  The  "patents"  were  delivered  to 
the  Council,  April  19th,  by  Mr.  Jacobus  Van  Cortlandt,  who, 
in  behalf  of  the  inhabitants,  proceeded  "to  treat  about  Quit 
Rent" ;  to  secure  which  was  the  object  had  in  view  by  the  gov- 
ernment in  calling  for  the  old  patents.  A  year  or  more  later 
this  negotiation  ripened  into  a  formal  demand  upon  the  free- 
holders "to  make  up  the  quit  rent  for  the  Heer  Governor." 

An  event  locally  interesting  was  Cornelis  Jansen's  removal  to 
his  land  on  Montague's  Flat,  since  known  as  the  Nutter  Farm. 
On  April  30th,  1684,  he  engaged  Adrianus  Westerhout  to  build 
him  a  house  there,  22  by  36  feet,  to  be  ready  in  six  weeks,  or  at 
farthest  by  the  20th  of  June;  for  which  he  agreed  to  pay  "800 
guilders  in  fat  cattle,  wheat  and  rye;"  the  cattle  to  be  delivered 
on  All  Saints'  Day,  and  the  grain  the  next  January.  Here  Jansen 
established  the  famous  tavern  and  stopping-place,  "commonly 
called  the  Half- Way  House,"  and  which  continued  to  be  kept 
after  his  death  in  1689,  by  his  widow.  It  stood  on  the  west  side 
of  Harlem  Lane,  at  the  foot  of  the  hill  about  109th  Street.  A 
little  above  this  site,  Valentine  Nutter,  on  getting  possession  of 
the  Kortright  farm  after  the  Revolution,  built  a  new  residence, 


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which  remained  till  swept  away  by  the  opening  of  6th  Avenue, 
on  which  it  stood,  its  north  comer  touching  iioth  Street. 

Mowing-time  was  again  at  hand,  and  Daniel  Tourneur  pe- 
titioned the  Council,  July  9th,  that  whereas  the  review  of  the  case 
between  him  and  Col.  Morris  could  not  take  place  before  the 
Court  of  Assize,  since  that  court  had  been  "wholly  taken  away, 
and  other  courts  constituted,"  he  might  be  secured  in  his  posses- 
sion by  a  **writ  of  habere  facias  possessionem."  But  Col.  Morris, 
being  present  as  a  member  of  the  Council,  "desired  a  writ  of 
error,  which  was  granted."  The  old  Cromwellian  officer,  though 
his  fighting  principles  had  yielded  to  the  pacific  tenets  of  the 
Quaker,  had  thus  far  proved  himself  so  good  a  tactician  as  to 
maintain  his  ground  against  every  attempt  to  dislodge  him.  But 
emboldened  by  success,  he  now  determined,  if  possible,  to  force 
the  case  to  an  issue  before  the  Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  in 
his  own  county,  where  he  might  have  the  advantage  of  his  op- 
ponent ;  and  thereupon  petitioned  as  follows : 

To  the  Hon.  Col.  Thomas  Dongan,  Lieutenant  and  Governor-General, 
etc.,  etc. 

The  petition  of  Lewis  Morris,  the  elder,  commonly  called  Colonel 
Lewis  Morris,  Sheweth :  That  at  a  General  Court  of  Assizes  held  in  New 
York,  beginning  the  3d  and  ending  the  6th  day  of  October,  1683,  an 
Action  was  commenced  against  your  Petitioner  by  Daniel  Tourneur  for 
being  ejected,  expelled,  and  from  his  quiet  possession  removed  out  of 
his  lot  of  land  lying  on  a  certain  piece  of  ground  called  Stony  Island ; 
where  on  the  trial  the  Jury  found  for  the  Plaintiff  with  costs  of  suit,  and 
the  Court  gave  Judgment  accordingly;  whereupon  your  Petitioner,  ac- 
cording to  the  usual  custom  and  practice  of  that  Court,  petitioned  for  a 
Review  of  his  Case,  and  that  the  Jury  might  be  of  the  neighborhood,  to 
view  the  land  in  controversy;  which  was  ordered  accordingly  to  be  done 
at  the  next  General  Court  of  Assizes,  since  which  said  General  Court 
of  Assizes  is  made  void  and  null,  and  Court  of  Oyer  and  Terminer  ap- 
pointed in  each  County,  for  the  trial  of  causes  of  this  nature.  Your 
Petitioner  not  being  willing  that  the  difference  between  him  and  the  said 
Tourneur  should  be  longer  delayed,  but  that  some  speedy  issue  may  be 
put  to  the  same,  humbly  prays  your  Honor  that  the  said  Daniel  Tourneur 
may  be  ordered  to  commence  his  action  at  the  next  Court  of  Oyer  and 
Terminer  to  be  holden  in  the  County  where  the  land  in  controversy  lyeth, 
that  the  same  may  be  reviewed  and  reheard,  and  a  Jury  of  the  neighborhood, 
who  shall  view  the  said  land,  to  pass  thereupon,  etc.  And  your  Petitioner 
shall  pray,  etc.  Lkwis   Morris. 

In  acting  upon  this  petition,  Morris'  plan  was  again  amended 
as  to  having  ''a  jury  of  the  neighborhood;"  but  care  was  taken 
to  secure  a  fair  and  impartial  hearing.    The  record  reads : 

At  a  Council  held  at  Fort  James,  the  13th  September,  1684;  Present, 
The  Governor,  etc. 

This  Petition  being  read,  the  two  Judges,  Capt.  Matthias  Nicolls  and 
Capt.  John  Palmer,  were  consulted,  who  gave  their  advice,  and  it  was 
ordered  by  the  Governor  and  Council  that  a  Special  Commission  be  given 


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to  the  Judges,  and  to  Mr.  Cortlandt,  Mr.  Pell,  Jacques  Cortilieu,  Justices; 
and  a  particular  writ  be  sent  to  the  Sheriff  of  New  York,  and  another 
to  the  Sheriff  of  Queens  County,  one  to  return  twelve  men  and  the  other 
twelve  more,  for  a  Jury  in  the  Action  between  Col.  Lewis  Morris  and 
Daniel  Tourneur,  the  Cause  to  be  tried  at  New  York,  to  begin  on  the 
6th  of  October  next  ensuing;  the  Jury  is  to  view  the  land,  and  the  trial 
is  not  to  continue  above  six  days ;  and  it  is  further  ordered  that  Col.  Lewis 
Morris  is  to  be  at  the  charges  of  the  Review. 

Twenty-two  days  only  were  to  intervene  before  the  meeting 
of  this  Court,  and  as  the  Council  did  not  revoke  the  order,  no 
doubt  it  met  accordingly,  though  its  minutes,  we  regret  to  say, 
have  not  been  found.  But  from  several  considerations,  we  infer 
that  it  changed  nothing.  The  New  York  Court  of  Record  of 
July  6th,  i68o,  had  found  for  the  plaintiffs,  so  had  the  Jamaica 
Sessions  of  June  13th,  1683,  and  then  the  Court  of  Assize  of 
Oct.  3d  ensuing.  This  last  allowed  a  rehearing,  because  that  was 
**the  usual  custom  and  practice  of  that  Court."  But  no  change 
in  the  status  had  occurred  to  warant  any  reverse  of  judgment. 
It  was  a  simple  question  of  fact.  These  courts  had  assumed  that 
when  Stuyvesant  granted  these  meadows,  he  acted  from  the 
knowledge  that  no  one  else  had  a  prior  title.  After  the  last  hear- 
ing, to  wit,  on  November  24th,  1684,  Col.  Morris  paid  to  Secre- 
tary Spragge  the  amount  of  the  bill  given  on  page  386,  as  we 
find  by  an  indorsement  thereon.  And  the  Toumeurs  appear  to 
have  remained  in  possession.  See  page  379.  As  a  piece  of  early 
litigation,  this  case  is  interesting;  but  it  assumes  real  importance 
as  evidence  of  the  high  respect  with  which  the  early  English 
courts  regarded  Stuyvesant's  official  acts,  touching  landed  inter- 
ests. His  grants  were  not  to  be  lightly  set  aside.  And  if  this 
view  obtained  at  a  date  the  most  favorable  for  knowing  the  real 
merits  of  such  cases,  how  wise  the  reticence  of  modern  courts 
to  meddle  with  questions  of  title  reaching  back  into  times  so 
remote ! 

Tourneur,  now  lieutenant  of  the  Out  Ward  Militia,  under 
the  Governor's  commission  of  the  loth  of  September,  was  suc- 
ceeded as  constable  of  the  Harlem  Division  by  Adolph  Meyer, 
who  was  appointed  October  13th,  and  took  the  oath  of  office 
the  18th  of  November. 

Vander  \'in,  the  venerable  secretary  and  voorleser,  who  had 
served  the  town  so  long  and  faithfully,  and  exhibited  much  wis- 
dom and  ability  in  the  discharge  of  his  duties,  now  entered  into 
rest,  having  reached  his  seventieth  year.  As  he  Hves  in  the  work 
of  his  pen,  Vander  Vin  shows  his  culture,  and  incidentally  his 
knowledge  of  Latin  and  Spanish.     He  was  remarkable  for  his 


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accuracy,  very  methodical  and  precise  in  small  as  well  as  greater 
matters.  Clerk  of  the  Court,  both  drafter  and  registrar  of  deeds, 
wills  and  contracts,  accountant  for  the  town  and  church,  all  these 
added  to  his  specific  duties  as  voorleser  and  schoolmaster,  it  is 
amusing  to  find  minuted  in  his  clear,  neat  hand,  "Set  hen  to 
brood,  15th  July,  1675."  He  left  no  family,  and  his  wife  had 
died  within  a  few  years;  therefore,  on  January  28,  1685,  the 
Mayor's  Court  passed  an  order,  "That  Daniel  Tourneur  and 
Cornelis  Jansen  do  appraise  the  estate  of  Hendrick  Jansen  Van- 
der  Vin,  deceased ;  and  that  the  same  be  disposed  of  by  Resolved 
Waldron  and  Johannes  Vermelje,  to  satisfy  his  funeral  charges 
and  debts ;  and  to  make  report  therof  to  this  Court." 

On  the  same  date  Joost  Oblinus,  Johannes  Vermelje,  and 
Jan  Delamater  were  "appointed  and  sworn  Commissioners  for 
Harlem,  for  the  year  ensuing*';  and  Jan  Tibout,  by  birth  a 
Fleming,  and  late  schoolmaster  at  Flatbush,  was  made  Clerk 
for  the  same  term.  Tibout  had  entered  upon  his  duties  January 
20th,  at  a  salary  of  300  gl. ;  he  and  his  family  to  occupy  "the 
town's  house."* 

*  Jan  Tibout  was  born  at  Bruges,  (see  p.  69)  and  after  emigrating  lived  for  a 
short  time  at  Fort  Casimer,  on  the  Delaware,  where  he  was,  in  1656,  and  whence 
coming,  he  and  his  wife,  Sarah  Vander  Vlucht,  joined  the  church  at  New  Amsterdam, 
in  January,  1660.  There  and  at  Flatbush  (save  while  at  Bergen,  where  he  was  court 
messenger,  in  1662,  and  took  the  oath  of  allegiance  to  the  English,  November  20, 
1665),  he  spent  most  of  the  ensuing  years  till  he  came  to  Harlem.  lie  was  voor- 
leser here  from  1685  till  1690,  when  for  a  year  Guiliaem  Bertholf  took  his  place, 
but  resuming  his  office,  in  1691,  he  served  yet  six  years,  and  probably  till  Adrain 
Vertneule  was  employed,  in  1699.  Thence,  and  at  least  till  1709,  he  held  the  same 
office  at  Bushwick.  He  married,  in  1687,  the  widow  of  Claude  Delamater,  and  on  her 
erf  right  drew  Ix)t  13,  on  Jochem  Pieters  Hills,  which  was  sold  to  Jan  Dyckman.  Of 
his  dozen  children  we  give  only  such  as  appear  to  have  reached  maturity  (with  the 
reservation  hereafter  made  as  to  the  first),  viz.:  Marcus,  Theunis,  Johannes,  Andries, 
Jacomina,  who  married  Reyer  Michielsen,  and  Jannetie,  who  married  Hendrick  Van 
Oblinus.  Andries  Tibout  married  Maria  De  Grave,  settled  at  Hackensack;  had 
children,  Johannes,  Peter,  Andries,  Jacobus,  Jacomina,  and  Annetie.  He  died  in 
1704,  and  his  widow  married  Albert  Terhune.  Johannes  Tibout,  son  of  Jan,  was  a 
turner;  married  Teuntie  Van  Rommen;  was  a  zealous  I^islerian  soldier,  1689;  made 
a  freeman  at  New  York,  i6qq,  then  alderman,  and  died  childless,  June  20.  1728, 
leaving  his  property,  after  his  wife's  death,  to  his  brothers  and  sisters.  Theunis 
Tibout,  born  in  New  York,  1663,  married,  1690,  Mary,  daughter  of  Hendrick  Van  de- 
water,  was  a  carpenter;  made  freeman  at  New  York,  1698;  proposed,  1712,  to  erect 
a  horsemill  in  the  city,  "never  before  seen  in  these  parts;"  had  eight  children,  and 
died  July  27,  1754,  aged  90  years.  His  will  was  dated  November  8,  1753.  His 
daughter,  Sarah,  born  1692,  married  Jan  Ewouts;  he  also  had  sons,  whence  the  Tie- 
bouts  of  New  York,  viz.:  Hendrick,  born  1694,  married  1720,  Elizabeth  Burner; 
Johannes,  born  1696,  married  1719,  Maria  Van  Deventer;  Theunis,  born  1705,  married, 
1729,  Margaret  Drinkwater,  and  Albertus,  born  1708,  who  married,  1728,  Cornelia 
Bogert,  and  was  captain  in  the  old  French  war.  Johannes,  a  blockmaker,  living  in 
New  York,  January  2,  1763,  when,  with  his  sister  Sarah,  he  sold  some  property  of 
his  late  father,  diea  September  12,  1773. 

Marcus  Tiebaut,  as  he  wrote  his  name,  was  born  at  Ghent,  Flanders,  and  was 
probably  a  son  of  the  voorleser;  for  though  nowhere  so  called,  he  was  also  a  Fleming; 
lived  at  Harlem  before,  as  well  as  after,  his  marriage,  and  acted  as  town  clerk  after 
Vermeule,  as  would  appear  from  records  of  1710,  written  by  him.  Marcus  married, 
May  29,  1698,  Aefie,  widow  of  Jonas  Lewis,  and  daughter  of  Cornelis  Jansen,  and,  in 
17x3.  was  in  possession"  of  a  house  and  lot  on  the  north  side  of  the  Church  I^ane, 
next  but  one  west  of  the  kerk  erf,  which  no  doubt  came  from  John  Van  Oblinus,  and 
went  to  John  Lewis,  from  whom  it  passed,  in  1748^  to  Dr.  Jfosiah  Paterson.  Marcus 
bought  from  Caspar  Mabie,  March  26,  1700,  a  dwelling,  with  its  lot,  which  had  formed 
Nos.  5,  6,  of  Daniel  Tourneur's  out-gardens.  Here  Marcus  Uvea  after  John  Lewis 
married,  in   171 3,  but  dying  in   17 14,   without  children,  so  far  as  appears;   his  widow 


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Barent  Waldron,  soon  to  marry,  prepared  to  occupy  his 
land,  being  two  of  the  New  Lots  purchased  by  him  November 
21,  1677,  the  one  No.  9,  from  Captain  James  Carteret,  "for  ^yy 
lbs.  of  beef,"  and  the  other,  No.  10,  from  Pieter  Jansen  Bogert 
"for  one  heifer  of  three  years  old."  Waldron  now  bargained 
with  the  magistrates  for  a  house  lot  "on  the  north  side  of  Pieter 
Jansen," — that  is,  lying  at  the  west  end  of  his  lot  No.  10,  where 
it  joined  the  highway,  and  for  which  he  was  to  pay  the  town 
after  two  years,  namely,  in  January,  1687,  "30  gl.  in  cash,  and 
a  gallon  of  rum."  Soon  after  this  the  magistrates  concluded  to 
sell  the  "piece  of  land  called  Gloudie's  Point,  with  a  house  lot 
lying  between  the  swamp  and  the  King's  Way,  next  to  the  house 
lot  of  Barent  Waldron."  It  was  put  up  at  auction  March  15th. 
Johannes  Vermelje  offered  1,200  gl.,  but  Resolved  Waldron, 
wanting  it  for  his  son  Barent,  bid  1,500  gl.,  and  took  it.  Security 
was  given  for  the  payment,  which  was  to  made  in  two  equal 
instalments,  in  one  and  two  years.  Fifteen  years  after, — that  is, 
on  March  7,  1700, — Barent  got  a  deed  from  the  town  for  this 
property,  which  he  occupied  till  1740,  being  that  since  known 
as  the  Bussing  Point  Farm. 

While  the  process  had  thus  begun,  by  which  the  new  lands 
were  to  be  brought  under  the  plough,  or  otherwise  utilized, 
sundry  large  tracts  beyond  and  adjoining  the  patent  lines,  or  too 
near  to  be  matter  of  unconcern  to  the  Harlem  people,  were  being 
eagerly  sought  for  and  taken  up.  On  the  North  River  side. 
settlement  pushing  out  from  the  city,  beyond  Sapokaniken,  or 
Greenwich,  to  the  region  already  called  Bloemendael ;  here 
Theunis  Idens  Van  Huyse,  apparently  by  buying  up  the  title 
to  several  lesser  grants,  had  come  to  own  an  immense  tract,  460 
acres,  by  actual  survey,  which  extended  from  the  present  86th 
Street  to  107th  Street.  From  the  Hudson  it  ran  within  direct 
and  parallel  lines  into  the  woods,  nearly  220  rods,  touching  at 
its  easterly  corner  the  Harlem  patent  line.  Here  Theunis,  after 
toiling  hard  to  "make  tillable  land  out  of  the  rough  woods," 
built  his  dwelling  and  barns,  and  set  out  an  orchard,  for  a  life- 
long home. 

The  high  lands,  stretching  north  from  Van  Huyse's  line  to 
Hendrick  Bosch's  farm  at  IVloertje  David's  Fly  (and  which, 
being  sold  a  few  years  later  to  Jacob  De  Key,  became,  after  his 
time,  the  seats  of  the  De  Peysters  and  others,  and  on  portions 
of  which  stand  the  Asylum  for  the  Insane,  and  the  Leake  and 

sold  it  the  next  year  to  John  Van  Oblinus,  the  trusty  friend  of  Marcus,  and  also  his 
kinsman,  if  we  arc  right  as  to  the  latter's  parentage. 


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Watts  Orphan  House),  were  yet  in  native  woods;  as  was  also 
the  case  with  the  greater  stretch  of  heights  and  hollows  which 
reached  northerly  from  Harlem  Plains  to  Sherman's  Creek;  but 
here  the  plough  was  soon  to  begin  its  work,  in  an  Indian  field, 
near  the  present  Fort  Washington,  called  the  Great  Maize  Land.* 
Colonel  Morris'  trusty  friend,  William  Bickley,  had  made  an 
application,  July  9,  1684,  for  ^  parcel  of  vacant  land  on  the  east 
side  of  the  Harlem  River,  which,  in  the  survey,  made  by  Philip 
Wells,  August  10,  1685,  is  described  as : 

A  certain  neck  of  land — lying  upon  the  main,  and  adjoining  upon  Har- 
lem River;  beginning  at  a  certain  spring  or  run  of  water  to  the  south  of 
Crab  Island,  which  is  the  southwest  corner  of  the  land  of  John  Archer, 
and  runs  into  the  woods  by  his  line  east,  by  a  range  of  marked  trees, 
forty  chains,  to  a  marked  tree  by  a  small  run  of  water  which  is  the  west 
bounds  of  the  land  of  Daniel  Tourneur,  and  so  by  the  run  to  a  creek,t 
and  so  round  by  the  creek  to  Harlem  River,  and  then  by  the  Harlem 
River  to  the  said  small  spring  or  run  of  water  to  the  south  of  Crab  Island ; 
the  whole  bounded  north  by  the  land  of  John  Archer,  east  by  a  run  of 
water,  the  west  bounds  of  Daniel  Tourneur,  south  by  a  creek,  and  west 
by  Harlem  River:  containing  in  all  one  hundred  and  eighty- four  acres 
and  a  half. 

After  an  opportunity  had  been  given  for  presenting  objec- 
tions, 'a  patent  issued  to  Bickley  May  13,  1686.  Bickley  sold 
this  tract  June  25,  1694,  to  Tourneur's  son-in-law,  Frederick 
De  Vaux,  whose  descendants  long  owned  it,  and  whence  it  was 
called  De  Voe's  Point.     Highbridgeville  is  on  this  tract. 

*  The  Mayor,  Aldermen  and  Commonalty,  of  the  city  of  New  York,  convey,  July 
21,  1 70 1,  to  Jacob  De  Key,  of  the  said  city,  bolter,  for  ^ZZT^  *'all  that  certain  tract  or 
MrccI  of  land  situate,  lyinff,  and  being  on  the  Island  Manhattans,  within  the  Out 
Ward  of  the  city  of  New  York,  lying  on  the  north  side  of  the  land  of  Teunis  Ides, 
and  beginncth  at  a  certain  old  black  oak  tree  marked  with  three  notches,  which  stands 
in  the  southeast  corner  of  the  fence  of  Teunis  Ides,  and  ranges  along  the  fence  of 
the  said  Teunis  Ides  northwest  sixty  chains  to  Hudson's  River,  and  from  thence  along 
the  said  river  northeast  and  bv  north  (nearly)  seventy  chains,  and  from  thence  south- 
east and  by  east  till  it  cuts  the  line  of  Harlem,  ten  chains,  and  from  thence  it  runs 
directly  south  along  the  line  of  Harlem  Commons  eighty-eight  chains  to  the  place 
where  it  first  began;  containing  in  all  two  hundred  thirtjr-five  acres,  three  roods  and 
eighteen  perches,  or  thereabouts,  all  English  measure;  being  bounded  on  the  east  by 
the  Commons  of  Harlem,  southerly  by  the  land  of  Teunis  Ides,  and  on  the  northwest 
side  or  thereabouts  by  Hudson's  River,  and  upon  the  corner  northerly  by  lands  of 
Thomas  Turneur;  together  with  all  and  singular  the  pastures,"  etc. — Grants,  City 
Comptroller's  Officej  vol.   2;   38. 

t  The  Mannepies,  or  Cromwell's  Creek,  before  named  (see  pp.  251,  278)  Crab 
Island,  to  which  other  references  will  be  found,  lay  "in  Harlem  River,  at  or  near 
the  outlet  of  a  small  stream,  near  the  old  boundary  line  between  Morrisania  and  the 
Manor  of  Fordham,  which  point  is  just  below  the  Aqueduct  or  High  Bridge."  Com- 
municated, as  the  result  of  his  inquiries,  by  Hon.  Lewis  G.  Morris,  and  which  is 
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1685-1687. 

wolves;  delavall  estate;  tenures;  tenths  canceled;  new 
STONE  church;  great  maize  land;  dongan's  patent; 
QUIT  rent;  corporation  rights;  Indian  claim;  common 
land;  erench  gone;  dutch  manners  and  customs. 

A  S  the  neighboring  woodlands  were  gradually  taken  up,  and 
^^  here  and  there  the  ancient  forest,  subdued  by  the  axe  and 
burnings,  gave  place  to  new  fallows  and  /cornfields,  it  greatly 
disturbed  the  noxious  animals  still  infesting  this  section  of  the 
island,  and  which,  driven  from  their  old  haunts  and  feeding: 
places,  were  led  to  prowl  about  the  open  fields  in  search  of  food 
or  prey,  and  even  to  intrude  within  the  paling  of  the  bamyards. 
The  wolves  were  especially  annoying,  and  very  destructive  to 
the  young  cattle  and  stock  running  at  large  in  the  woods.  The 
following  order  of  the  governor,  authorizing  a  general  foray 
upon  these  dangerous  animals,  to  take  place  on  the  6th  of  August, 
shows  how  serious  was  the  evil,  and  no  doubt  afforded  a  day 
of  rare  and  exciting  sport  for  the  young  hunters  of  the  town: 

Upon  the  many  complaints  of  the  great  mischief  done  by  Wolves  on 
the  Island  of  Manhattans,  and  at  the  request  and  desire  of  several  of  the 
inhabitants  of  the  said  Island  that  they  may  have  liberty  and  license  to 
hunt  and  destroy  the  same :  These  may  certify  that  liberty  and  license  is 
hereby  granted  to  any  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  Island  to  hunt  and 
destroy  the  said  Wolves  on  Thursday  next  after  the  date  hereof.  Given 
under  my  hand  at  Fort  James,  this  ist  day  of  August,  1685. 

Tho.    Donga n. 
Passed  the  office,  J.  Spragge,  Secretary. 

There  was  a  piece  of  woodland,  about  twelve  acres,  for  which 
a  bargain  had  been  pending  between  the  town  and  the  late  Cap- 
tain Delavall,  the  latter  wanting  it  in  exchange  for  two  village 
lots.  This  bargain  was  now  completed  by  John  Delavall.  On 
September  2,  1685,  he  and  the  town  officers  passed  deeds  in  which 
they  "acknowledge  to  have  agreed  upon  an  exchange  of  two 


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house  lots  (erven),  lying  north  of  Johannes  Verveelen,*  and 
south  of  the  highway,  that  belonged  to  Captain  Delavall,  which 
said  house  lots  he,  John  Delavall,  releases  and  delivers  over  to 
the  aforesaid  Constable  and  Magistrates,  for  the  behoof  of  the 
said  Town,  for  a  parcel  of  woodland  lying  behind  the  lots  of 
the  said  John  Delavall,  on  Jochem  Pieters,  being  the  piece  of 
woodland  the  before-named  Captain  Delavall  applied  for/'  This 
woodland,  in  a  release  of  the  "Three  Lots,''  by  Abraham  Gouver- 
neur  to  Johannes  Meyer,  dated  May  2,  1725,  is  referred  to  as 
**lands  in  possession  of  the  heirs  of  James  Carteret,  deceased"; 
and  by  a  subsequent  division  it  came  to  be  included,  part  with 
the  Three  Lots,  and  part  with  the  Six  Lots.  Upon  the  lower 
end  (defined  by  a  double  elbow  in  the  old  Harlem  and  Kings- 
bridge  road,  at  127th  Street),  the  7th  Avenue  and  128th  Street 
cross  each  other,  and  upon  the  upper  end,  the  8th  Avenue  and 
131st  Street. 

John  Delavall,  as  heir  at  law,  had  succeeded  to  the  remainder 
of  all  and  singular  the  rights  and  prerogatives  at  Harlem  which 
had  pertained  to  his  late  father  in  his  twofold  capacity  of  free- 
holder and  town  patentee.  As  his  sole  executor  he  took  the 
custody  of  all  the  lands  and  erven  given  by  his  father  to  his 
sons-in-law  Carteret  and  Darvall.  This  last  became  necessary 
for  the  due  discharge  of  his  trusts  as  executor,  the  respective 
interests  requiring  adjustment,  while  the  devise  to  Darvall  was 
subject  to  the  payment  of  certain  debts  due  by  the  testator,  in  the 
settlement  of  which  it  was  requisite  for  the  executor  to  become  a 
party.  It  does  not  appear  that  the  disposition  of  his  lands  made 
by  Captain  Delavall,  or  his  widow,  ever  pretended  to  any  interest 
in  these,  after  the  14th  of  January,  1687,  when  he  gave  Swynock 
and  Milbome  a  full  and  absolute  release  of  the  lands  conveyed 
to  them  conditionally  by  himself  and  Darvall,  on  the  24th  of 
November,  1684.  Although  such  claim  must  have  been  excluded 
under  the  rule  which  obtained  in  making  the  divisions,  namely, 
that  the  common  lands  belonged  only  to  those  who  held  the  erf 
and  morgen  rights.t 

*  V'ervcclcn's  lots  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook  arc  here  referred  to.  The  bouse  lota 
were  afterward  included  in  the  John  P.  Waldron  farm. 

t  John  Delavall,  quite  young  when  his  father  first  came  to  this  country,  in  1664, 
probably  remained  in  England,  and  arrived  here  with  the  family  a  few  years  later. 
He  was  brought  up  to  a  mercantile  life  in  the  city  of  New  York,  where  he  united 
with  the  Dutch  church  August  29,  1678.  On  October  14  ensuing,  he  sailed  in  the 
strip  Blossom,  upon  a  visit  to  Eng^land.  Returning  to  his  business  here,  his  father,  on 
November  24,  1680,  in  consideration  of  "natural  affection  and  love,"  conveyed  him  a 
house  and  lot  in  Brewers  or  Stone  street.  After  the  death  of  his  father,  two  years 
later,  the  care  of  a  large  and  somewhat  involved  estate  did  not  hinder  him  from  engag- 
ing in  public  duties.     On  September  10,   1684,  he  was  commissioned  captain  of  militia; 


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The  kind  of  tenure  under  which  the  freeholders  held  their 
lands  was  justly  regarded  as  of  vital  importance,  and  invites  a 
notice.  The  grants  made  by  government,  both  the  Dutch  and 
English,  and  whether  to  individuals  or  communities,  were  always 
conditional,  imposing  a  counter  obligation  upon  the  grantee  or 
grantees,  to  recognize  the  superior  right  of  the  lord  or  sovereign, 
and  his  claim  upon  their  obedience  and  service.  Some  visible 
token  of  this  was  required  annually,  and  whether  the  trivial  gift 
of  a  peppercorn  or  fat  capon,  or  a  render  of  greater  intrinsic 
value,  it  was  none  the  less  an  act  of  homage,  an  acknowledgment 
of  fealty  on  the  part  of  the  subject  toward  the  superior.  A  rem- 
nant of  feudal  polity,  it  had  this  important  advantage  that  the 
superior  was  no  longer  some  imperious  lord  or  suzerain,  but  a 
sovereign  amenable  to  a  constitution,  and  a  government  limited 
by  laws  framed  with  regard  to  the  rights  of  the  subject.  So 
little  of  feudal  law  remained  under  the  Dutch,  as  to  impose  few, 
if  any,  hard  conditions  upon  the  colonists,  or  to  render  the  tenure 
of  land  in  any  degree  precarious.  But  in  the  12th  year  of  Charles 
n.,  which  was  prior  to  the  capture  of  New  Netherland,  the  tenure 
by  military  service  was  abolished,  and  all  sorts  of  tenures  held 
of  the  king  or  others,  with  some  unimportant  exceptions,  were 
converted  into  tenures  by  free  and  common  socage,  a  species  of 
tenure  of  great  antiquity,  and  which,  as  then  also  modified,  was 
neither  military  nor  burdensome,  but  whose  requirements  were 
moderate,  well-defined,  and  fixed.  It  was  the  specific  nature  of 
the  service,  duty,  or  render  which  made  this  species  of  tenure  such 
a  safeguard  against  the  wanton  exactions  of  the  feudal  lords, 
and  had  given  it  an  incalculable  value  with  the  English.  When 
the  service  under  this  tenure  was  commutted  to  an  annual  pay- 
but  this  honor  he  was  soon  constrained  to  renounce.  It  was  consequent  upon  that 
radical  change  in  his  rcliRious  views  which  made  him  a  non-combatant,  a  Quaker,  and 
which  is  alluded  to  as  follows,  in  a  notice  of  the  excellent  woman  who  became  his 
wife:  "Being  earnestly  solicited  in  marriage  by  John  Delavall,  who,  though  a  worthy 
man,  was  not  at  that  time  of  the  same  religious  communion,  she,  by  her  prudent  con- 
duct and  pious  resolution  to  maintain  the  principles  she  professed,  without  deviating 
therefrom  in  a  matter  of  such  importance,  did  not  agree  thereto  until  he,  after  some 
time,  embraced  the  truth  in  sincerity  of  heart,  and  bore  his  cross  like  an  humble 
follower  of  Christ.  He  received  a  gift  in  the  ministry,  and  continued  faithful  therein 
to  his  death."  She  was  wont  to  say  of  him  that  "he  never  used  to  her  an  expression 
of  anger,  or  the  product  of  a  disturbed  mind."  This  lady,  to  whom  he  was  married 
May  31,  1686,  was  Hannah,  daughter  of  Thomas  Lloyd,  oi  New  York,  afterward  gov- 
ernor of  Pennsylvania.  She  was  born  in  Wales  in  1666^  and  was  therefore  some  years 
his  junior.  Mr.  Delavall  subsequently  removed  to  Philadelphia,  where  he  continued 
his  business,  associated  with  Mr.  John  White,  his  late  partner  in  New  York.  Here 
he  died  on  August  10,  1693.  "Faithful  and  zealous  for  the  truth,  a  man  of  a  tender, 
broken  spirit,"  wrote  one  of  Mr.  Delavall  who  had  known  him  personally,  "he  finished 
his  testimony  with  a  heart  full  of  love  to  God  and  his  people." 

None  of  his  children  reached  maturity.  Eight  years  after  his  death  his  widow 
married  Richard  Hill,  for  some  years  Mayor  of  Philadelphia,  and  who  survived  her. 
She  entered  into  rest  February  25,  1727.  (See  Memorials,  etc.,  of  the  People  called 
Quakers;  Phila.,  1824.  Also  The  Friend,  Phila.,  vol.  27,  p.  216).  For  the  history  of 
tne  property  at  Harlem,  subsequent  to  the  death  of  John  Delavall,  sec  The  Delavall 
Lands,  A  pp.   I. 


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ment  in  money  or  the  produce  of  the  land,  such  render  was 
called  Quit  Rent. 

The  Tithes  (or  tenth  part  of  the  crop),  which  by  arrange- 
ment between  the  freeholders  of  Harlem  and  Governor  Stuy- 
vesant,  the  government  was  to  receive  annually,  in  and  after  the 
year  1666,  were  never  exacted  by  the  English  rulers,  and  no 
specific  charge  of  quit  rent  was  made  in  Governor  Nicolls* 
patents  to  said  freeholders.  Nor  were  they  called  upon  to  pay 
such  rent  till  the  time  of  Governor  Dongan.  But  now,  in  order 
to  enhance  the  revenues  of  his  master,  the  Duke  of  York,  and 
by  his  direct  instructions,  Dongan  set  about  introducing  a  sys- 
tem of  quit  rents  throughout  the  province,  and  making  it  retro- 
spective in  its  operation.  The  negotiations  had  with  him  by 
Harlem  people  on  this  subject  resulted  in  a  compounding  for  all 
back  rents,  for  the  full  years  expired  since  the  English  took  pos- 
session of  the  country,  beginning  with  1665,  ^^  the  nominal 
charge  per  year  of  one  bushel  of  wheat.  Having  an  obvious 
reference  to  the  old  claim  for  tenths  above  referred  to,  it  at  once 
took  the  place  of  and  canceled  every  such  claim,  while  it  acquitted 
the  inhabitants  of  all  liability  touching  the  same. 

At  a  meeting  of  constable  and  magistrates,  December  3,  1685, 
'■for  making  up  the  quit  rent  for  the  Heer  Governor,"  the  lands 
were  assessed  at  the  rate  of  eight  stivers  per  morgen,  and  the 
house  lots,  one  guilder  seventeen  and  one-half  stivers  each. 
Within  a  few  days  "this  quit  rent  was  paid  to  Mr.  Cox,  according 
to  the  order  of  the  governor,"  and  consisted  of  eighteen  bushels 
of  grain,  which  Adolph  Meyer  delivered,  we  presume  at  the 
mill  on  the  Sawkill.  This  payment  was  in  full  up  to  (but  not 
including)  the  year  1683,  when  Dongan  became  governor. 

The  tax  list,  which  here  follows,  embraces  only  the  erven 
actually  built  upon,  and  also  excludes  the  half  erven.  As  to  the 
outside  lands,  Montague's  Flat  is  taken  at  the  full  number  of 
morgen,  less  one  vacant  lot;  the  New  Lots,  at  three  morgen  per 
lot,  as  far  as  assessed,  those  omitted  being  apparently  such  as 
were  unimproved.  At  Spuyten  Duyvel  the  rate  is  partial,  as 
will  be  seen,  and  on  Hoorn's  Hook,  only  Peter  Van  Oblinus  is 
assessed,  his  eighteen  morgen  being  reckoned  at  half. 

As  exhibiting  the  state  of  the  occupied  lands,  just  prior  to 
the  granting  of  the  Dongan  patent,  this  list  has  special  interest. 
Its  value,  with  that  of  those  previously  given,  may  not  indeed 
be  at  once  apparent  to  the  reader.  Had  the  author's  work  been 
only  for  the  present,  and  his  object  simply  to  gratify  the  popular 
taste  for  something  novel  and  entertaining,  he  should  hardly  have 


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burdened  his  pages  with  these  tables,  much  less  have  imposed 
upon  himself  the  task  of  preparing  them.  But  he  has  done  both, 
and  with  the  deliberate  conviction  that  the  exact  information 
which  these  tables  embody  will  prove  them  to  be  one  of  the 
most  valuable  features  of  this  work.  Time  will  not  render  them 
obsolete,  so  long  at  least  as  any  question  remains  to  be  raised 
which  will  involve  the  landed  rights  of  the  Dongan  patentees 
(and  of  those  deriving  under  them)  ;  inasmuch  as  the  estate  of 
each  patentee  respectively,  as  exhibited  in  these  tables,  determined 
his  share  and  interest  in  the  yet  undivided  common  lands.  Taken 
in  connection  with  lists  of  these  lands  given  in  the  Appendix, 
they  present  a  full  and  consecutive  statement  in  regard  to  the 
original  and  early  ownership,  situation,  quantity,  etc.,  of  the 
Harlem  lands,  such  as  in  all  probability  can  be  shown  of  no  other 
territory  of  equal  extent,  and  undergoing  like  subdivision.  Will 
someone,  keeping  the  record,  do  as  much  for  the  lower  section 
of  Manhattan  Island? 

At  the  meeting,  December  3d,  each  householder  was  ordered 
to  make  a  ladder  to  his  chimney,  within  a  month,  or  to  be  fined 
6  gl.,  and  Jan  Nagel  was  mulct  25  gl.  for  putting  his  compost 
heap  on  the  public  street,  contrary  to  the  town  regulation.  In 
that  era  of  straw  roofs  and  wooden  tenements  special  precaution 
against  fire  was  necessary ;  and  several  fires  had  actually  happened 
in  the  village,  causing  great  alarm  and  heavy  losses. 

This,  no  doubt,  was  one  of  the  reasons  which  led  to  the 
gradual  abandonment  of  the  small  village  plots,  and  removal  to 
their  outside  lands,  for  which  we  now  observe  a  growing  inclina- 
tion. Especially  after  the  grants  of  1677,  the  old  rule  against 
building  out  of  the  village,  the  necessity  for  which  had  ceased, 
fell  into  disuse,  as  it  was  found  to  seriously  hinder  the  growth 
of  the  town,  which  could  best  be  promoted  by  the  occupation  and 
improvement  of  the  new  lands  as  farms  and  homesteads.  So  the 
privilege  to  build  was  granted  whenever  applied  for,  usually  by 
selling  the  party  erf  convenient  to  his  land;  the  dwellings  so 
erected  on  these  farms  being  generally  substantial  stone  houses, 
of  which  a  very  few  are  still  standing.  By  a  careful  computation 
made  at  a  meeting  of  the  old  and  new  magistrates,  January  20, 
1686,  for  laying  a  "repartitie,"  or  assessment,  to  pay  the  parish 
clerk's  salary  due  this  date,  "so  are  found  25  erven  (house  lots), 
and  393  morgen  of  land ;  each  house  lot  must  pay  4  gl.,  and  each 
morgen  of  land  loj^  st.,  for  making  up  300  gl."*     This  rate  was 

*  This  enumeration  is  valuable  as  embracing  all  the  lands  taken  up,  excepting 
the  small  parts  of  the  three  farms  below*  Hoorn's  Hook  which  lay  within  the  patent 
line.     The  list  of  erven  is  obviously  the  same  as  that  of  December  3,   1685;    the  last 


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levied,  and  received  in  grain.     Also  this  year,  as  in  the  last,  the 
inhabitants  contributed  toward  Dominie  Selyn's  salary. 

The  care  taken  to  keep  up  the  common  fences  enclosing  the 
farming  lands  appears  in  another  order,  needed  to  stay  the  dam- 
age being  caused  by  swine. 

There  was  good  cause  found  by  the  Constable  and  the  old  and  new 
Magistrates  for  an  order  in  regard  to  the  running  of  the  hogs :  So  it  was 
Resolved,  to  keep  tight  the  fencing  of  Jochem  Pieters  up  to  the  land  of 
Capt.  Delavall,  and  from  the  village  to  set  it  off  till  into  the  river ;  and  to 
keep  tight  the  fencing  of  Van  Keulen's  Hook  from  the  village  off  till 
into  the  creek  of  the  mill.  And  all  shall  be  held  within  one  year  from  the 
ensuing  May,  being  the  year  1687,  to  make  the  whole  fencing  around 
tight  and  sufficient.  And  if  any  hogs  still  be  found  out  of  the  limits  of 
the  fencing,  the  owners  shall  be  compelled  to  keep  up  their  hogs— and 
shall  continue  till  the  year  1687.  By  order  of  the  Constable  and  Magis- 
trates, this  4th  Feb.,  1685-6. 

Measures  were  now  taken  to  build  a  new  church.  The  old 
church  was  no  longer  adapted  to  the  needs  and  improved  tastes 
of  the  community,  though  still  answering  the  purposes  of  a 
school-house.  An  invitation  given  them  in  1680,  to  aid  in  the 
erection  of  a  new  church  in  the  city,  a  work  not  yet  begun,  had 
perhaps  suggested  the  present  movement;  and,  not  unlikely,  it 
was  part  of  a  new  agreement  already  made  with  Dominie  Selyns, 
by  which  he  was  to  administer  the  Lord's  Supper  at  Harlem 
twice  a  year,  in  the  spring  and  fall,  during  the  intervals  between 
its  occurrence  in  New  York.  It  was  to  be  observed  on  a  week- 
day, and  this  arrangement  had  gone  into  effect  on  Wednesday, 
April  22,  1685,  when  the  first  celebration  of  the  Supper  here, 
as  a  stated  observance,  took  place.  An  extra  large  collection  was 
taken  by  the  deacons,  Adolph  Meyer  and  Jan  Dyckman,  amount- 
ing to  14  florins  9  stivers.  On  the  next  occasion,  and  for  some 
years,  while  this  arrangement  lasted,  the  Supper  was  observed 
on  Thursday,  and  the  preparation  for  it  the  day  before.  From 
this  time  also  obtained  the  practice  of  receiving  new  members 
here. 

three  on  the  said  farms,  being  omitted.     The  list  of  morgen  is  made  up  as  follows: 

Jochem  Pieters  Flat,   13  lots  @   6  morgen  each 78  m. 

do  Delavall,   9  lots  @   6  2-3  m 60  " 

Van   Keulen's  Hook,  22  lots   @   3  m 66" 

do  for  Tourneur's  No.   1 7,  add 3  *' 

Montagne's  Flat,  7  lots  @  6  m.,  3  (©  4  m 54  " 

Hoorn  s  Hook,  9  lots  @  4  m.,  1   @  6  m 4a  ** 

Bogert's    Point 16  " 

New  Lots,  9  lots  ^  4  m.,  i   @  6m 42  *' 

Gloudie's  Point,  now  rated  at 12  " 

Spuyten  Duyvel,  Dyckman  and  Nagel,* 20  " 

393" 

•  Dyckman  and  Nagel  owned  74  acres  at  Spuyten  Duyvel.  How  they  came  to  be 
rated  at  20  morgen  is  shown  in  App.  J. 


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HISTORY  OF   HARLEM.  403 

The  church  was  to  be  built  of  stone,  and  upon  a  new  site; 
an  arrangement  being  made  with  Laurens  Jansen  and  the  Dela- 
mater  family,  who  gave  up  their  two  north  erven  for  this  pur- 
pose, and  which  also  afforded  ample  ground  for  a  new  church- 
yard or  cemetery.  The  community  pledged  themselves  liberally, 
and  assumed  the  labor  of  preparing  and  bringing  the  stone,  lime, 
timber,  shingles,  lath,  etc.,  all  which  was  to  apply  on  their  sub- 
scriptions.* Tobias  Stoutenburgh  and  Hyman  Koninck,  masons, 
the  first  brother-in-law  to  William  Waldron,  were  employed,  and 
by  the  29th  of  March  the  foundation  was  begun;  Resolved 
Waldron,  with  due  ceremony,  placing  the  first  stone,  and  Johan- 
nes Vermel] e  the  second.  The  following  day  the  contract  was 
made  for  the  carpenter  work  with  William  Hellaker,  of  New 
York,  half-brother  of  Teunis  Ides,  a  good  mechanic,  and  honest, 
though  *'a  little  rough."     Here  is  the  agreement: 

Specification  of  tlie  Church  at  Harlem :  The  size  of  the  church,  across 
it  either  way,  is  36  Dutch  feet;  upon  which  William  Hellaker  under- 
takes to  construct  the  roof,  with  an  arch  therein,  and  a  small  steeple 
upon  it,  and  to  cover  all  properly  with  shingles,  and  to  make  a  scuttle 
thereto;  upon  condition  that  the  people  of  the  town  shall  be  obligated 
to  deliver  the  timber  at  the  building  place.  For  which  the  Constable  and 
Magistrates  promise  to  pay  the  aforesaid  William  Hellaker,  the  sum  of 
Seven  Hundred  and  Fifty  Guilders,  in  Wheat,  to  be  delivered  at  the 
current  price.  Thus  arranged  and  agreed  to  in  the  presence  of  the  after- 
named  witnesses,  and  which,  with  our  usual  hand,  is  subscribed.  Done  at 
New  Haerlem,  this  30th  of  March,  1686. 
Witnesses. 

Johannes  Verm  el  je, 

Resalvert  Waldron, 
WiLLEM  Hellaker, 
Jan   De  La  meter.  Constable, 
Daniel  Tourneur, 
Jan    Nagel. 

Before  me, 

Jan   Tibout,    Clerk. 

•  Subscription   for  building  the   Church,    1686. 

Daniel     Tourneur f.  Joo 

Jan     Dyckman "  100 

Isaac     Dclamatcr '*     30 

Cornelia    Jansen    Kortright "  100 

Jan    Louwe    Bogcrt "  100 

Jan    Hendricks    v  an    Brcvoort "  100 

Tan     Dclamater "     75 

Barent    Waldron *\     5© 

Laurens    Jansen "     70 

Jacques     Tourneur **     2$ 

Adolph    Meyer **     90 

Jan     Nagel "100 

Joost    Van    Oblinus **  100 

Arent    Harmans    Bussing *      75 

Resolved     Waldron ^^  100 

Abram     Delamontanic *  ^     25 

Thomas    Tourneur *      25 

Pieter    Van    Oblienis "     50 

Johannes     Vermcljc ,         50 

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The  walls,  laid  in  good  mortar,  were  soon  up ;  the  "bent 
timber"  for  the  arch  being  placed  in  position,  was  well  secured 
with  clamps,  the  rafters  were  set,  and  the  roof  shingled.  Wil- 
liam Haldron,  the  village  smith,  kept  his  forge  and  anvil  busy 
on  the  iron  work,  of  which  he  furnished  139  pounds,  at  i  gl. 
10  St.  a  pound.  And  then  came  a  proud  moment  for  the  vil- 
lagers ;  it  was  when  the  gilded  "haen,''  or  weather-cock,  with  the 
cap  on  which  it  perched,  was  raised  to  its  lofty  position  on  the 
tip  of  the  steeple.* 

On  Thursday,  April  15th,  the  people  had  gathered  around 
the  IvOrd's  table  for  the  last  time  in  that  humble  but  hallowed 
sanctuary  where,  through  their  early  struggles,  they  had  sought 
and  found  inward  strength  and  comfort.  The  collection  was 
large  and  significant,  being  24  florins.  The  work  upon  its  suc- 
cessor was  pushed  forward  so  rapidly,  that  on  Thursday,  Sep- 
tember 30th,  Dominie  Selyns  preached  the  first  sermon  in  the 
new  church,  and  administered  the  Lord's  Supper.  A  liberal 
collection,  22  florins,  was  taken  up.  This  item  is  also  recorded, 
'*i686,  Septemb.  30th,  to  bread  and  wine,  12  florins  10  stivers." 
Before  the  people  separated  they  took  the  opportunity  to  nomi- 
nate new  town  officers;  those  appointed  being  sworn  in,  at  New 
York,  on  the  2d  of  November.  They  were  Jan  Hendricks  Van 
Brevoort,  constable,  and  Jan  Dyckman,  Lawrence  Jansen,  and 
Isaac  Delamater,  magistrates.  On  November  4th  the  constable 
and  magistrates  resolved  that  the  churchyard  (kerckof)  should 
be  inclosed  with  clapboards,  within  the  ensuing  two  months. 

The  secretary,  Tibout,  on  December  13th,  made  up  the  ac- 
counts for  the  building  of  the  church,  and  a  glance  at  which  will 
show  their  way  of  doing  things.  Jan  Hendricks  Van  Brevoort 
offsets  his  pledge  of  100  florins,  by  the  following  work  done, 
materials  furnished,  etc. 

13th  December,  Jan  Hendricks  van  Brevoort,  Credit 

For  stone  broken  and  drawn  to  the  church f.  30  :    o 

"    timber  cut  and  drawn  to  the  church "  14  :  15 

"    300  shingles,  delivered  at  the  church,  7  gls.  the  hundred "  21  :     o 

'*    making  lath "    6  :     5 

"    ID  ton  lime,  i  gl.  10  st.  per  ton "  15  :    o 

"    payment  of  masons,  carpenters,  and  laborer "  17  :  18 

Essentially  the  same  are  the  credits  to  Daniel  Tourneur, 
Jan  Dyckman,  Isaac  Delamater,  Cornells  Jansen,  Jan  Delamater, 
Barent  Waldron,  Laurens  Jansen,  Adolph   Meyer,  Jan   Nagel, 

•  Tan  Delamater  has  credit,  January  15,  1687,  "Acn  cen  ketcl  tot  de  haen  van  de 
toom  f.  9."     Schult  Boeck  (or  Ledger),  page  74. 


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4o6  HISTORY   OF  HARLEM. 

Joost  Van  Oblinus,  Arent  Harmans  Bussing,  and  Resolved 
Waldron,  most  of  whom  exceeded  the  amount  of  their  pledges. 
Others  did  less  as  they  were  able.*  On  the  same  date  Barent 
Waldron,  in  presence  of  the  court  and  community,  accounted  for 
the  moneys  he  had  disbursed  for  nails,  stone,  and  other  things, 
and  which  amounted  to  576  florins.  Resolved  Waldron  was  given 
credit  for  12  florins,  and  Jan  Delamater,  Adolph  Meyer,  and 
Laurens  Jansen,  each  6  florins,  all  **earned  at  the  bent  timber." 

Mr.  John  Delavall  being  in  arrears,  Tibout  and  Dyckman 
were  sent  to  "the  Manhattans,"  to  see  him  about  it.  His  in- 
debtedness, as  made  out  December  13th,  was,  **for  stone,  tim- 
ber, lime,  and  morgen  money,  236  florins;  for  2  years'  salary  of 
voorleser,  95  florins ;  for  quit  rent,  32  florins."  Having  embraced 
Quaker  principles,  Delavall  had  scruples  as  to  paying  toward  the 
church  or  voorleser,  and  had  rather  submit  to  a  distraint  upon  his 
goods.  So  the  town  by  its  constable,  Brevoort,  levied  on  61 
schepels  of  wheat  belonging  to  him,  in  the  hands  of  Laurens 
Jansen,  Adolph  Meyer,  Jan  Delamater,  and  said  Brevoort,  then 
the  lessees  of  Delavall's  lands. 

The  voluntary  subscription  being  insufficient,  a  tax  was  laid 
of  2  guilders  on  the  morgen,  and  afterward,  on  February  24, 
1687,  an  additional  tax  of  8  stivers  per  morgen.  A  special  con- 
tribution was  made  up  for  glazing  the  windows.  The  people 
brought  in  their  wheat  to  the  town  house,  depositing  it  in  the  loft ; 
others  delivered  it  to  the  mechanics  or  at  the  sawmill,  in  pa>Tnent 
for  boards  and  plank,  receiving  credit  therefor  in  their  accounts.* 
Jan  Delamater  paid  to  the  laborer  (opperman)  a  remnant  of 
wheat  left  in  his  hands,  after  the  last  payment  of  the  town's 
quit  rent,  three  schepels,  amounting  to  18  guilders.     Constable 

•  Arcnt  Harmans  has  credit  in  the  church  accounts: 

"Jan.   IS,   1 686-7,  I'or  riding  stone  to  the  city  of  New  York f.iio 

*'    2    schepels    wheat 12:  o." 

It  would  have  been  extraordinary,  a  departure  from  the  universal  practice  in 
Fatherland,  had  the  builders  omitted  to  place  over  the  portal  of  the  church  the  usual 
inscription,  giving  the  date  of  its  erection,  with  perhaps  a  scripture  text  in  Dutch. 
Over  the  entrance  to  the  church  in  the  fort  they  had  often  read:  ''Ao,  Do.  MDCXLII- 
W.  Kieft,  Dr.  Gr.  Heeft  de  Gemecnten  dese  Temple  doen  Bouwen."  It  could  hardly 
have  failed  to  be  imitated,  and  this,  we  think,  explains  the  credit  to  Arent  Bussing; 
one  florin  for  taking  the  stone  to  New  York,  to  be  cut,  and  twelve  florins,  paid  for  it. 

*  idS"^  the  25th  February;  List  of  those  who  have  paid  to  Adolph  Meyer,  Con- 
stable, for  the  glass  at  the  church: 

Adolph    Meyer f.  14  Jan   Louwc   Bogert /.  9 

Arent    Harmans. *'  14  Daniel    Tourneur '*  9 

Tan    Dyckman '*     9  Pieter  Van  Oblinus **  9 

Jacqueline    Tourneur "     9  Jan    Nagel "  9 

Joost  Van  Oblinus "     9  Jan    H.    Brevoort "  9 


tomelis    Jansen "  9  Maria    Vermelje "  9 

Laurens  Jansen. "  9  Resolved   Waldron "  9 

Jan    Delamater *'  9  Barent   Waldron "  9 

saac    Delamater "  9  Johannes    Waldron '*  9 

Johannes   Vermelje. "  9  Samuel  Waldron **  9 

Jacques   Tourneur **  9 


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HISTORY  OF  HARLEM.  407 

Brevoort  afterward  paid  him  2  schepels,  or  12  guilders,  and  the 
balance  of  his  wages,  35  guilders,  on  February  24th,  1687.  To 
Jerome  van  Bommel,  of  New  York,  **smith,'*  was  paid  126 
florins.  At  this  date  the  new  patent  had  also  been  paid  for, 
and  the  mechanics  gave  time  on  their  bills.  The  14th  of  March, 
1688,  the  sum  of  528  florins  yet  due  the  masons  (their  contract 
was  600  florins)  was  paid  to  Stoutenburgh,  by  Barent  Waldron. 
William  Hellaker  had  received  "for  the  building  of  the  church," 
from  Jan  Dyckman  45  florins  12  stivers,  from  Constable  Bre- 
voort 153  florins,  from  Jan  Louwe  Bogert  125  florins,  and  from 
Adolph  Meyer,  Constable,  275  florins.  At  a  final  reckoning  with 
him  March  14th,  1689,  there  was  found  due  him  a  balance  of 
163  florins  13  stivers,  which  included  12  florins  5  stivers,  for 
extras,  over  and  above  the  contract;  and  on  April  i6th,  Barent 
Waldron  was  authorized  to  pay  this  balance  from  funds  in  his 
hands.  Besides  the  work  done  by  the  people  themselves,  and  the 
materials  they  furnished,  the  church  cost  them  over  2600  guilders. 
It  was  spacious  and  substantial,  but  obviously  of  the  plainest 
finish,  according  thus  with  the  simple  tastes  and  strictly 
utilitarian  ideas  of  the  builders,  of  which  the  following  item 
from  the  deacon's  book  for  1687,  's  quite  suggestive:  "July  21, 
gave  to  the  Smith  for  making  of  a  bolt,  also  a  latch,  for  the 
church,  8  guilders."  During  the  first  year  of  its  occupancy,  tlie 
collections  amounted  to  171  guilders  4  stivers,  averaging  3 
guilders  5  stivers  per  Sabbath.* 

•  The  Reformed  Church. — It  was  three-fourths  of  a  century  after  the  new  church 
was  built  before  the  congregation  secured  a  pastor  to  live  amonj;  them.  The  ministry 
of  Dominie  Selyns  seems  to  have  gone  smoothly  till  the  breaking  out  of  the  Leisler 
troubles,  in  i68o.  The  Dutch  at  Harlem,  and  with  them  Tibout,  the  voorleser,  gen- 
erally approved  Leisler's  course.  Selyns  took  the  opposite  ground,  and  this  caused 
an  alienation.  It  went  so  far  that  after  the  celebration  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  October 
9,  1690,  the  arrangement  with  Selyns  was  broken  off,  and  this  ordinance  suspended 
here  for  a  series  of  years,  Tibout  had  closed  his  services  on  preparation  day,  April 
^3,  1690.  Selyns,  in  writing  to  the  Classis  of  Amsterdam,  says  Harlem  had  fallen 
on,  "under  the  idea  that  they  can  live  without  ministers  or  sacraments.*'  The  church 
had  been  much  afflicted  in  the  loss  of  several  of  its  old  members,  Cornells  Jansen, 
Jan  Nagel  and  Mrs.  Maria  Kip,  formerly  Montayne,  all  in  1680,  and  Resolved  Wal- 
dron and  Daniel  Toumeur  in  1690.  Repairs  were  needed  on  the  church  and  church 
yard,  and,  on  September  13,  1690,  Joost  V^an  Oblinus  and  Adolph  Meyer  were  chosen 
church  masters  to  superintend  this  work.  The  Sunday  services  were  kept  up,  how- 
ever, without  interruption;  for  the  first  year  under  the  lead  of  Guiliaem  Bertholf, 
who  came  here  from  New  Jersey  as  voorleser,  and  b^an  serving  April  24,  1690.  He 
also  acted  as  town  clerk  at  Harlem,  but  performed  his  last  service  here  as  voorleser, 
September  13,  i6()i,  Tibout  resuming  his  old  place  the  next  Sabbath.  (See  note  page 
77.)  Tibout  continued  to  serve  the  Harlem  church  six.  if  not  eight  years,  when  be 
entered  on  a  term  of  service  at  Bushwick.  The  breach  with  Selyns  had  meanwhile 
been  healed;  indeed,  his  labors  here  had  never  been  whoUv  suspended.  A  young 
man.  named  Adrian  Vermuele,  from  Vlissengen,  in  Zeeland.  bringing  a  church  letter 
addressed  to  "Henry  Selyns,  Minister  of  Harlem  and  York,  in  America,"  was  now 
engaged  to  fill  Tibout's  place  as  voorleser,  etc.,  and  entered  upon  his  duties  November 
4,  1099.  Judging  from  his  penmanship,  he  was  a  scholar;  the  town  immediatelv 
built  '*a  new  ^use,  as  a  dwelling  for  the  voorleser,  and  as  a  school  and  town  house,  ' 
beside  repairing  the  church;  and  that  the  latter  might  be  taken  out  of  the  control  of 
popular  meetings,  and  placed  directly  under  the  church  officers,  a  deed  was  secured, 
November  2,  1690,  from  "all  the  residents  or  proprietors  of  the  town,"  conveying 
"the  church"  to  the  consistory;  but  those  who  helped  build  the  church  to  retain  their 
seats.     We  have  not  seen  this  deed,  but  only  the  record  by  the  clerk  of  its  having 


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4o8  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Coeval  with  the  church  enterprise,  was  another  looking  to  the 
opening  of  a  new  section  of  the  township  to  the  plough  and  hus- 
bandman, and  to  the  ultimate  increase  of  the  town  revenues. 
Midway  of  the  long  range  of  heights  stretching  from  Moertje 
Davids  Fly  to  Sherman's  Creek,  and  not  far  below  Fort  Wash- 
ington, was  an  Indian  clearing  known  as  the  Great  Maize  Land. 
This  was  now  leased  to  Capt.  Jan  Gerritsen  van  Dalsen  and  his 
son-in-law,  Jan  Kiersen,  upon  the  following  curious  terms : 

On  this  date,  We  the  Constable  and  Magistrates  hereby  acknowledge 
to  have  consented  and  agreed  in  manner  hereafter  written.  Jan  Ger- 
ritse  van  Dalsen  and  Jan  Kiersen  own  and  declare  to  have  received  from 
the  aforesaid  Constable  and  Magistrates,  a  piece  of  land  named  The 
Great  Maize  Land,  belonging  under  the  jurisdiction  of  New  Haerlem ; 
which  aforesaid  piece  of  land  the  before  written  Jan  Gerritse  van  Dalsen 

been  given.  Whether  it  included,  in  express  terms,  the  kerk  lot  or  "church  farm," 
and  the  kerk  erf.  we  do  not  know:  but  nevertheless  these  had  always  been  held  as 
appurtenances  of  the  church,  for  whose  use  and  bencftt  they  were  originally  set 
apart  (the  church  farm  being  expressly  recognized  in  records  as  early  as  1665,  as 
nlso  at  various  subsequent  dates,  as  "the  church  lot"),  so  that  not  merely  by  an  im- 
plied right,  or  with  tne  tacit  consent  of  the  town,  but  under  the  original  allotment, 
always  held  to  give  a  title,  the  consistory  continued  to  possess  the  church  farm,  even 
down   to  our  own  time. 

Adrian  Vermeule  having  served  here  with  acceptance  for  eight  years,  "was  re- 
quested to  be  the  voorleser  at  Bergen;"  and  in  a  meeting  of  the  consistory  at  New 
York.  January  i,  1708,  the  elder  Peter  Van  Oblienis,  and  deacons  Samuel  Waldron 
and  Saihson  Ik^nson,  being  present,  it  was  agreed  to  dismiss  him  with  a  recommenda- 
tion. He  closed  his  term  on  February  r,  ensuing.  While  here  he  married  Dinah, 
daughter  of  William  IlcUaker.  He  married  again  at  Bergen,  Christina  Fredericks. 
granddaughter  of  Andrics  Hopper,  and  here  he  died,  in  1735.  The  cburch  left  without 
a  voorleser,  Col.  Morris,  of  Morrisania,  "endeavored  to  persuade  the  Dutch  in  his 
neighborhood  (that  is,  the  Harlem  people)  into  a  good  opinion  of  the  Church  of 
England,"  and  induced  Rev.  Henricus  Beys,  of  Ksopus,  to  come  and  preach  at  Har- 
lem, as  a  missionary  of  that  church,  with  a  view  to  accepting  Episcopal  ordination. 
The  attempt  seemed  to  promise  success,  and  Mr.  Beys  labored  here  in  the  years  >7ii 
and  1 7 12,  having  the  support  of  Col.  Morris.  Capt.  Congreve,  and  some  other  English 
residents,  but  tne  Venerable  Society  in  England  gave  him  but  little  encouragement, 
and  he  was  obliged  to  give  it  up.  For  the  next  half  century  the  history  of  the  church 
is  scanty.  It  was  still  ministered  to  by  the  pastor  at  New  York,  now  the  Rev. 
Gualterus  Du  Bois,  called  in  1699,  as  colleague  with  Dominie  Selyns,  who  died  July 
iQ,  1701.  In  a  few  years  they  secured  another  voorleser,  Johannes  Martinus  van 
Harlingen,  a  young  man  from  Amsterdam.  He  married  nere,  September  17,  17^2. 
Mary,  youngest  daughter  of  Arent  Bussing.  The  next  year,  June  19,  he  was  natural- 
ized by  act  of  assembly.  He  afterward,  by  the  death  of  his  nephew,  Jan  de  Cerff, 
Ivord  of  Old  Byerland,  fell  heir  in  fee  tail  to  that  lordship.  In  1741  he  removed  to 
New  Brunswick;  N.  T.,  where  he  was  an  elder,  in  1765.  He  was  the  father  of  five 
sons,  of  whom  the  eldest  was  the  Rev.  Johannes  M.  Van  Harlingen,  of  Neshanic  and 
Sourland.  The  question  between  the  conferentie  and  the  coitus  (or  the  adherents  of 
the  Classic  of  Amsterdam,  and  those  who  favored  an  American  classis)  now  greatly 
disturbed  the  Harlem  church.  The  church  was  mainly  of  the  latter,  but  the  dominies 
now  acting,  Ritzema  and  J)e  Ronde,  were  strongly  in  favor  of  the  old  regime.  These 
took  it  very  hard,  in  175s;,  because  the  Hnrlem  folks  subscribed  toward  founding  an 
American  college,  proposed  by  Dominic  Frclinghuysen.  But  in  1765  the  church  called 
Rev.  Martinus  Schoonmaker,  of  the  ccetus.  who  divided  his  services  with  Gravesend. 
but  took  up  his  residence  at  Harlem,  where  he  bought,  August  10,  1678,  a  farm  of 
28  acres,  just  north  of  the  village,  afterward  owned  by  Lawrence,  and  later  by  Wag- 
staflF.  Being  an  ardent  Whig,  he  spent  the  period  of  the  Revolution  within  the  Ameri- 
can lines,  as  did  many  of  his  flock.  He  returned  at  the  peace,  but  left  in  1785.  The 
church  edifice  having  been  ruined  during  the  war,  another  was  begun  in  1788,  and. 
in  1791,  the  Rev.  John  F.  Jackson  was  called  as  pastor.  His  ministry  contmued  till 
1805.  His  successors  have  bc-^n:  Jeremiah  Romeyn,  1806  to  1813;  Cornelius  C. 
Vermuele.  D.D.  (a  descendant  of  the  former  vot»rreser),  1816  to  1836:  Richard  L. 
Schoonmaker,  i8jS  to  1847;  Jeremiah  S.  Lord,  D.D.,  1848  to  1869;  G.  Huiry  Mande- 
ville,  D.D.,  the  pastor  from  1869  to  1881.  For  details  of  these  several  pastorates,  we 
refer  to  "Ck>lden  Memories,"  treasured  by  Doctor  Mandeville  in  his  valuable  discourse 
of  April  20,  1873.  The  r.resent  pastor,  Rev.  George  H.  Smyth,  was  settled  in  the  fall 
of  1881.  Cntil  the  organization  of  the  St.  Mary  Episcopal  Church,  at  Manhattanville, 
in  18:13,  the  Reformed  Church  was  the  only  one  of  any  denomination  within  the 
entire  limits  of  Harlem. 


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and  Jan  Kiersen  shall  use,  build  and  live  upon,  for  the  time  of  twelve 
successive  years,  to  commence  in  the  month  of  August  of  this  year,  1^6, 
and  ending  in  the  month  of  August,  after  the  harvest  is  off;  and  the 
hirers  shall  be  permitted  the  last  years  to  sow  two  schepels  of  buckwheat 
and  to  plant  a  piece  of  maize  (corn)  ;  also  the  lessees,  for  the  first  seven 
years,  shall  occupy  it  free,  only  each  giving  to  the  lessors  a  fat  capon 
yearly,  as  an  acknowledgment,  and  shall  be  obligated  for  the  last  five 
years  to  pay  each  year  two  hundred  guilders  in  good  wheat,  rye,  peas,  or 
barley,  at  the  market  price;  from  each  parcel  the  just  fourth  part  to 
be  j^iven  to  God  the  Lord.  The  lessees  shall  be  allowed  to  make  an  or- 
chard, and  at  the  end  of  their  years,  shall  have  the  right  of  taking  up 
half  of  the  same,  from  the  large  fruit  trees  or  the  nursery;  and  the 
lessees  shall  be  required  to  clear  fourteen  morgen  of  land  in  the  first 
years,  which  will  be  two  morgen  yearly,  and  if  the  lessees  shall  have 
need  of  more  land,  the  lessors  shall  be  required  to  assign  more  land  to 
the  lessees,  at  the  most  convenient  time;  also  is  leased  with  the  land  a 
piece  of  meadow  lying  at  the  farthest  point  at  the  North  River.  So  also 
the  lessees  are  required  to  deliver  up  the  buildings  in  good  condition  at 
the  end  of  the  years,  as  also  to  deliver  the  fencing  of  the  land  tight  and 
sufficient.  To  the  extent  of  fourteen  morgen,  the  lessees  shall  be  obli- 
gated to  bear  the  ordinary  town  charges,  but  no  extraordinary.  The 
lessees  shall  be  allowed  to  continue  living  on  the  aforesaid  land  till 
May  of  the  last  year,  being  the  year  1699.  The  lessees  shall  have  the 
liberty  of  removing,  upon  condition  that  they  signify  one  year  before, 
their  intention  to  give  up  the  lease.  All  thus  performed  and  agreed  to, 
and  with  our  usual  hand  undersigned.  Done  at  New  Haerlem  this  30th 
of  March,  1686.  [Signed  by  Jan  Delamater,  as  Constable,  Daniel  Tour- 
neur,  Jan  Nagel,  Jan  Kiersen,  and  Jan  Gerritsen  van  Dalsen,  in  the 
presence  of  Jan  Tibout,  Clerk.] 

Some  progress  had  been  made  in  clearing  and  cultivating  the 
Hoom's  Hook  lands,  since  known  as  the  Waldron  Farm.  On 
Jan.  8th,  1687,  Peter  van  Oblienis  leased  his  erf  and  four  lots 
here  (Nos.  6,  8,  9,  10),  to  David  Devoor,  junior,  for  six  years,  to 
commence  with  the  ensuing  May.*    He  was  to  have  it  rent  free 

*  David  du  Four,  senior,  thus  wrote  his  surname,  but  it  soon  exchanged  F  for 
V,  then  took  the  form  of  Devoor.  Some  now  write  it  De  Voe,  which  confounds  it 
with  the  name  of  another  and  distinct  family,  herein  noticed,  descended  frorn  the 
brothers  Nicholas  and  Frederick  de  Vaux,  or  De  Voe.  Early  at  ilarlcm.  as  an  original 
proprietor,  the  elder  David  left  again  on  selling  his  allotment  to  Jacob  Elderts,  who 
directly  resold  it,  June  i,  1662,  to  Jean  le  Ro>;.  In  1668,  Du  Four,  passing  in  a 
canoe  un  the  East  River,  and  with  him  his  child,  Anthony,  when,  between  Turtle 
Bay  ana  Blackwell's  Island,  John  Copstaff,  a  drunken  soldier  in  another  boat,  let  off 
a  gun  which  wounded  little  Anthony;  this  was  on  August  18,  and  he  died  August  ^r. 
Copstaff  was  convicted  of  manslaughter.  Du  Four  being  very  ill,  he  and  wife,  Tannetie, 
made  a  will,  September  14,  1671,  naming  the  places  whence  they  came  in  Hainault, 
probabl  •  for  the  reason  that  the  survivor  is  to  enjoy  all  the  property  both  here  and 
"in  their  fatherland."  But  David  recovered  and  lived  long.  In  1677,  Governor  An- 
dros  granted,  for  him  and  his  son  John,  60  acres  of  land  *'on  the  Coale  Kill," 
Turtle  Bay,  and  here  David  spent  the  rest  of  his  life.  His  will  was  proved  May  i, 
i6g9.  It  names  his  children  John,  David,  Peter  and  Claude;  Peter  not  named  again, 
and   Claude  not  after   1687. 

John  Devodr,  born  during  his  father's  sojourn  at  Sedan,  married,  in  1676,  a 
Leyden  girl,  Jannetie,  daughter  of  Jan  Willems  Van  Issclsteyn,  otherwise  called 
Tan  of  Leyden.  He  bought  a  farm  at  Bloomingdale,  where  he  died,  leaving  a  widow, 
Mary.  She  was  daughter  of  Capt.  Peter  Van  Woglum,  of  Albany.  The  twelve  chil- 
dren of  John,  senior,  were  all  by  his  first  wife,  and  all  living  July  24,  1717.  when. 
being  sick,  he  made  his  will;  it  was  proved  April  13,  i724»  after  his  youngest  child 
became  of  age.  These  children,  who  shared  equally  in  his  estate,  were:  Maria,  born 
1677,  who  married  Ccrrit  Roelofs  Vander  Werken,  of  Half  Moon,  near  Albany; 
John,  born  1680;  Margaret,  born  1681,  married  Teunis  Pier;  David,  born  1683; 
Peter,  born  1686;  Rachel,  born  1687;  Adriana,  born  1688,  married  Conrad  Vander- 
beck  and  Jacob  Montanye;  Jannetie,  born  1690,  married  Andrew  Bisset;  Elizabeth, 
born    1693;     Teunis,    born    1696,    married    Georgie    Barheyt    and    Sarah    \'an    Oblinus; 


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for  the  first  year,  for  the  second,  pay  lOO  gl.,  and  for  the  remain- 
ing time,  150  gl.  yearly;  "in  good  wheat,  rye,  barley,  peas  and 
buckwheat."  Devoor  engaged  "to  pay  toward  the  salary  of  the 
V'oorleser,"  and  to  allow  Oblienis  liberty  to  build  a  house  and 
live  there,  but  not  to  the  limiting  of  Devoor  "in  syn  wey  ofte  int 
bos ;"  in  his  pasture  or  in  the  woodland. 

The  neighboring  Baignoux  farm  had  already  passed,  by  a 
transfer  of  Oct.  12th,  1686,  from  Isaac  Deschamps,  also  known 
by  the  name  of  Saviat  Broussard,  to  John  Spragge,  Esq.,  one 
of  Dongan's  councilors. 

Great  Barent's  Island  was  now  to  become  productive  under 
the  well-directed  toil  of  a  new  proprietor  and  experienced  farmer, 
Thomas  Parcell,  late  of  Newtown.  He  contracted  with  Jacob 
Milbome,  Feb.  17th,  1687,  ^or  the  purchase  of  the  Island  for 
i6oo;  Milbome  being  empowered  to  sell  it  by  Samuel  Swynock. 
Having  paid  his  three  instalments,  Parcell,  on  June  23d,  1690, 
obtained  a  full  deed  from  Milborne,  to  whom,  in  the  interim, 
Swynock  had  conveyed  the  Island,  Aug.  9th,  1687. 

Meanwhile  a  matter  of  common  interest  and  of  great  impor- 
tance to  the  freeholders,  the  renewal  or  confirmation  of  the  town 
patent,  had  been  pressed  upon  them  by  the  governor,  who  in 
behalf  of  his  sovereign,  now  King  James  II.,  was  aiming  at  a 

William,  born  1698,  and  Abraham,  born  1701.  John,  eldest  son,  married,  in  1706, 
Catharine,    daughter    of    Roelof    Gerrits    Vander    Werken,    of    Half    Moon,    to    which 

glace  he  removed,  and,  on  April  1,  1724,  sold  his  interest  in  his  father's  farm  to  his 
rothcrs  David  and  William.  He  died  in  1746,  and  his  descendants  are  called  De 
Voe.  (See  Pearson's  Albany  Settlers.)  David,  last  named,  lived  for  a  time  at  Har- 
lem, where  he  married,  in  1726,  Anna,  daughter  of  Thomas  Wakefield,  and  widow  of 
Jacob  Van  Bremen,  ancestor  of  the  Van  Bramers,  late  of  Harlem  Lane.  Devoor  and 
wife  owned  a  place  on  the  upper  side  of  the  Church  Lane,  which  they  sold,  in  the 
year  1745,  to  Daniel  McGowan.  It  was  the  old  Hand  garden,  bought  by  Van  Bremen, 
in    1715,   from  Abraham  Meyer. 

David  Devoor  was  born  in  16K9,  and  married,  1689,  Elizabeth  Jansen,  from  the 
Delaware.  When  his  Hoorn's  Hook  lease  expired,  in  1693.  he  returned  to  the  home- 
stead at  Turtle  Bay,  of  which  he  became  the  owner.  He  had  five  children,  viz.: 
Margaret,  born  1690;  David,  169^;  Jannetie,  1695;  John,  1697,  and  Elizabeth,  1700. 
David,  the  eldest  son,  who  succeeded  to  the  Turtle  Bay  farm,  married,  1715,  Tannetie, 
daughter  of  Abraham  Delamontanie,  of  Harlem,  b)r  whom  he  had  issue,  David;  Eliza- 
beth, married,  1741,  John  Burger,  and  Jane,  married.  i749.  Nicholas 'Burger.  David, 
last  named,  born  1717,  married,  1740,  Mary  Van  VIeckeren.  On  May  2,  1760,  his 
father  conveyed  him  12%  acres  off  the  north  side  of  his  farm;  but  the  former,  then 
living  retirea  in  the  East  Ward,  died  November  12,  ensuing,  leaving  the  remainder  to 
David,  jointly  with  his  two  sisters,  whose  interests  he  acguired.  He  added  to  it 
10%  acres  next  south  of  him,  by  purchase,  in  1769.  AH  this,  at  his  death,  in  1780. 
fell  to  his  daughter,  Ann.  who  married,  successively,  Abraham  Brevoort  and  Gen- 
Jacob  Odell.  (See  N.  Y.  B.  &  G.  Rec.  IX.,  48)  ^  , 
John  Devoor,  born  1697,  and  son  of  David  second,  married,  1722,  Aefie  (Eve) 
daughter  of  Bastiaen  Michiels  Kortright,  and  had  three  children,  to  wit:  Jelantc,  bom 
1723,  married  Abraham  AOcerman;  John,  born  1728,  and  Aefie,  born  1730.  who 
married  John  Courtright,  of  Sherman  s  Creek,  grandson  of  Bastiaen  aforesaid.  In 
1731,  Devoor  bought  tne  Saw-kill  farm  (See  App.  H.),  of  which  at  his  death,  in  1780. 
he  left  14  acres  on  the  upper  side  to  his  son  John,  and  the  remainder,  24^4  acres,  to 
his  daughter,  Aefie  Courtright.  Jelante  received  a  house  and  lot  in  town.  John  De- 
voor, Jr.,  born  October  i,  1728,  bought  and  occupied  4  acres  of  the  Young  farm, 
adjoining  the  14  afterward  received  from  his  father,  which  18  acres  subsequently 
formed  the  southerly  part  of  the  Dr.  Baker  farm,  now  vested  in  the  trustees  of  the 
Trinity  Church  School.  Devoor  married,  May  19,  1752.  Bellitie,  daughter  of  Heo- 
drick  Bogert,  by  whom  he  had  a  son,  John,  born  1757.  and  other  children.  His  prop- 
erty here  passed  into  other  hands  under  mortgages,  one  for  the  4  acres  dated  February 
16,   1774,  and  another  of  the   14  acres,  dated  March   17,   1783. 


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large  increase  of  the  revenue  in  the  form  of  quit  rent,  and  also 
to  fix  the  amount,  and  the  time  and  mode  of  payment,  by  the 
general  issue  of  new  patents.  Cogent  reasons  were  brought  to 
bear  upon  the  people.  James,  Duke  of  York,  had  ascended  the 
throne,  Feb.  6th,  1685;  but  as  king  it  was  by  no  means  certain 
that  he  would  be  bound  by  his  acts  as  duke ;  and  hence  the  wis- 
dom of  taking  out  new  letters  patent  directly  under  the  crown, 
by  the  land  and  its  accredited  agent.  Indeed,  assuming  the  old 
town  patents  to  be  invalid  unless  confirmed,  Dongan  avowed  his 
intention  to  appropriate,  as  belonging  to  the  king,  and  at  his 
disposal,  all  such  tracts  of  common  land  as  could  be  found  within 
the  several  townships,  and  not  yet  purchased  of  the  Indians.  So 
the  inhabitants  "were  willing  rather  to  submit  to  a  greater  quit 
rent,  than  to  have  that  unpurchased  land  disposed  of  to  others 
than  themselves." 

While  the  Harlem  people  were  thus  given  to  expect  great 
trouble  and  loss,  should  they  neglect  to  secure  the  confirmation 
of  their  patented  rights,  the  utmost  benefit  was,  apparently,  to 
accrue  from  such  a  confirmation,  and  especially  in  view  of  a  cer- 
tain clause  contained  in  the  charter  just  granted  by  Gov.  Don- 
gan, to  the  City  of  New  York  (being  dated  April  27th,  1686), 
and  which  clause  reads  as  follows  : 

And  I  do  by  these  presents  give  and  grant  unto  the  said  Mayor,  Alder- 
men, and  Commonalty  of  the  said  City  oiNew  York,  all  the  waste,  vacant, 
unpatented  and  unappropriated  lands  lying  and  being  within  the  said 
Ci^  of  New  York  and  on  Manhattans  Island  aforesaid,  extending  and 
reaching  to  the  low-water  mark  in,  by,  and  through  all  parts  of  the  said 
City  of  New  York  and  Manhattans  Island  aforesaid,  together  with  all 
rivers,  rivulets,  coves,  creeks,  ponds,  waters,  and  watercourses,  in  the  said 
City  and  Island,  or  either  of  them,  not  heretofore  given  or  granted  by  any 
of  the  former  Governors,  etc. 

As  rights  and  privileges  within  the  township  of  Harlem  very 
akin  to  some  of  these,  and  in  some  respects  more  ample,  had 
heretofore  been  granted  the  inhabitants  by  the  patent  of  Gov. 
Nicolls,  its  confirmation  was  now  deemed  imperative  to  pre- 
serve and  insure  these  valuable  franchises  to  them,  their  heirs, 
or  successors.  A  pledge  to  bear  equally  the  expense  of  the  new 
patent  had  been  circulated  in  the  town,  and  signed  by  the  whole 
community.  This  was  entered  on  the  records  at  the  meeting 
held  Nov.  4th,  1686,  when  the  resolution  passed  to  fence  the 
churchyard. 

To  digress  a  little :  At  this  time  action  was  also  taken  for  pro- 
tecting the  common  woodlands.  "Whereas,  great  damage  has 
happened  therein  by  the  destruction  of  the  timber,"  so  the  order 


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412  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

read,  "every  one  is  hereby  forbidden  to  cut  any  wood  within  the 
limits  of  the  Town  more  than  he  wants  for  his  own  use,  under 
penalty  of  £5,  being  200  guilders." 

But  the  court  on  this  occasion  found  itself  "weakened  by 
animosities."  The  old  board  had  been  invited  to  sit  with  the 
new :  but  one  from  each,  namely,  Cornelis  Jansen  and  his  brother 
Laurens,  were  absent,  the  latter  having  just  left  on  a  visit  to  his 
kinsfolk,  the  Roosas,  at  Esopus,  where  he  and  his  cousin  Reyer 
Michielsen  had  been  only  the  year  before.*  Two  of  the  other 
members  had  a  quarrel,  one  of  the  old  and  one  of  the  new  board, 
Jan  Nagel  and  Jan  Dyckman,  before  such  good  friends — all  be- 
cause a  goose  of  Nagel's,  getting  into  Dyckman's  grain,  had  been 
bitten  by  his  dog.  To  settle  this  weighty  matter  Joost  van 
Oblinus  and  Adolph  Meyer  were,  "for  this  time,"^  called  to  the 
bench. 

On  further  deliberation  upon  the  subject  of  their  patent, 
another  paper,  designed  to  amend  the  former  action,  was  drawn 
up  and  signed  by  the  inhabitants,  as  follows,  and  the  value  of 
which  constituted  in  this,  that  it  pledged  them  to  a  pro  rata  dis- 
tribution of  the  lands  held  in  common,  and  which  plan  was 
adhered  to  in  all  the  general  allotments  subsequently  made. 
Those  with  the  signs  made  their  marks. 

The  underwritten  Persons  subscribe  to  pay  according  to  their  estates, 
and  are  to  draw  in  proportion  to  their  estates,  of  the  common  woods : 

Resalvert  Waldron,  Pietcr  van  Oblienis, 

Joost  Van  Oblinus,  Johannes  Vermel je, 

Daniel  Tourneur,  Jan  Delamater, 

Jan  Hendricks  van  Brevoort,  8,  Arent  Harnians, 

Laurens  Jansen,    +  Abram  de  Lamontanie, 

Isaac  Delamatcr,  Jan  Louwe  Bogert, 

Jan  Nagel,  Jacqueline  Tourneur, 

Cornelis  Jansen,  Jacques  Tourneur,  S  T, 

Jan  Dyckman,  Hester  Delamater,  H, 

Barent  Waldron,  Adolph  Meyer,  AD. 
New  Haerlem.  8th  January,  1686-7. 

Jan   Tibout,    Clerk. 

*  The  Roosa  family,  since  so  multiplied  in  Ulster  and  adjacent  counties,  and 
known  also  as  Rosa  and  Rose,  came  from  Ilerwynen,  Gelderland;  sailing  from  Hol- 
land for  this  country,  in  the  ship  Bonte-koe,  April  15,  1660.  There  were  Albert 
Heymans  Roosa,  his  wife,  Weilkc  de  Jonge,  and  eight  children  between  the  ages  of 
2  and  17  years.  Directly  on  arrival,  Roosa  went  to  Esopus  (no  doubt  at  the  instance 
of  Roelof  Swartwout,  a  fellow  passenger  returning  to  that  place);  where  he  and  his 
wife  united  with  the  church,  of  which,  two  years  later,  he  became  an  elder.  Governor 
Stuyvesant  giving  a  name  to  Wiltwyck,  May  16,  1661,  appointed  Roosa  one  of  his 
first  schepens.  Here  he  took  up  land,  for  which  he  got  a  patent  August  19,  >664- 
He  was  a  man  of  firm  will  and  great  energy,  being  also  "wonderful  strong  and  quick." 
Roosa  died  February  27,  1679,  leaving  a  good  estate  to  his  children,  who  were:  He>*- 
man,  born  1641;  Arien,  born  1645.  and  Tan,  born  i6si — by  all  whom  the  name  was 
perpetuated— and  daughters,  like,  Mary,  Neeltie  and  Jannetie.  The  last  was  married 
to  Matthys  Ten  Eyck,  of  New  York,  like  to  Roelof  Kierstead,  Neeltie  to  Henry 
Pawling,  and  Mary  to  Laurens  Jansen,  of  Harlem. 


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HISTORY  OF  HARLEM.  413 

Meanwhile  the  new  patent  was  drawn  up.  The  names  of 
those  who  had  subscribed  the  paper  of  January  8th  were  entered 
as  patentees,  only  that  Jacqueline  Tourneur  stood  also  for  her 
son  Jacques,  and  Peter  Parmentier  took  the  place  of  Jan  Louwe 
Bogert.  Then  four  others  were  added,  namely,  John  Delavall, 
in  the  stead  of  his  father,  the  councilor  Spragge,  Johannes 
\^erveelen,  and  William  Haldron,  the  smith,  all  freeholders. 
Being  submitted  to  the  attorney-general,  James  Graham,  who 
found  **nothing  contained  therein  prejudicial  to  His  Majesty's 
interest,"  the  patent  was  approved  in  council  March  7th,  and 
signed  by  the  governor.*     It  read  as  follows: 

THOMAS  DONGAN,  Captain-General,  Governor-in-Chief,  and 
Vice- Admiral  in  and  over  the  Province  of  New  York,  and  its  dependen- 
cies thereon  in  America,  under  His  Majesty  James  the  Second,  by  the 
Grace  of  God,  of  England,  Scotland,  France,  and  Ireland,  King,  De- 
fender of  the  Faith,  &c.,  To  all  to  whom  these  Presents  shall  come, 
sendeth  Greeting: — Whereas  Richard  Nicolls,  Esq.,  formerly  Governor 
of  this  Province,  hath  by  his  certain  writing  or  Patent,  bearing  date 
the  Eleventh  day  of  October,  Anno  Dom.  One  Thousand  Six  Hundred 
Sixty-Seven,  Did  Give,  ratify,  confirm,  and  grant  unto  Thomas  Dela- 
vall, Esq.,  John  Verveelen,  Daniel  Tourneur,  Joost  Oblinus,  and  Re- 
solved Waldron,  as  Patentees,  for  and  on  the  behalf  of  themselves 
and  their  Associates,  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  of  New  Harlem, 
their  heirs,  successors,  and  assigns.  All  that  tract,  together  with  the 
several  parcels  of  land,  which  they  then  had,  or  after  should  be  pur- 
chased, or  procured,  for  and  on  the  behalf  of  the  said  Town,  within  the 
bounds  and  limits  hereafter  set  forth  and  expressed,  vizt.  That  is  to 
say,  from  the  west  side  of  the  fence  of  the  said  Town,  a  line  being  run 
due  west  four  hundred  English  poles,  without  variation  of  the  compass, 
and  at  the  end  thereof  another  line  being  drawn  across  the  Island  north 
and  south  with  the  variation,  that  is  to  say,  north  from  the  end  of  a  cer- 
tain piece  of  meadow  ground,  commonly  called  the  Round  Meadow,  near 
or  adjoining  unto  Hudson's  or  the  North  River,  and  south  to  the  place 
where  formerly  stood  the  Saw  Mills,  over  against  Verkens  or  Hog  Island 
in  the  Sound  or  East  River,  shall  be  the  western  bounds  of  their  lands, 
and  all  the  lands  lying  and  being  within  the  said  line  so  drawn  north  and 
south  as  aforesaid,  eastward  to  the  end  of  the  Town  and  Harlem  River, 
or  any  part  of  the  said  River  on  which  this  Island  doth  abut,  and  like- 
wise on  the  North  and  East  Rivers,  within  the  limits  aforementioned 
described,  doth  and  shall  belong  to  the  said  Town;  As  also  four  lots 
of  meadow  ground  upon  the  Main,  marked  with  Numbers  i,  2,  3,  4, 
lying  over  against  the  Spring,  where  a  passage  hath  been  used  to  ford 

•  John  Spragge,  being  a  member  of  the  Governor's  Council,  and  owning  the 
Baignoux  farm,  managed  to  get  his  name  into  the  Patent.  He  was  present  in  Council 
when  the  Patent  was  passed  upon,  March  7,  1687,  but  diretly  after  sailed  with 
dispatches  for  England,  and  appears  not  to  have  returned  to  this  country.  On  Decem- 
ber 6,  7,  1690,  he  conveyed  his  farm  aforesaid  to  Dr.  Daniel  Cox,  of  London,  who, 
on  April  28,  1692,  empowered  his  agent,  Jeremiah  Bass,  Esq.,  of  New  Jersey,  to 
sell  it.  No  common  land  was  ever  laid  out  within  the  Harlem  Patent,  in  virtue  01  this 
freehold.  The  next  two  farms  south  of  Spragge's,  also  partly  within  the  patent 
line,  fared  no  better;  except  that  William  Holmes  drew  a  five-morgen  lot  in  1691. 
He  owned  the  centre  farm  and  had  paid  a  small  sum  on  the  Patent.  But  in  the 
subsequent  divisions  these  three  farms  had  no  share;  the  rule  obtaining  that  those 
only  who  had  helped  bear  the  expense  of  the  general  Patent,  were  named  therein, 
and  held  morgen  and  erf  rights  under  it  (the  three  farms  holding  under  special 
patents),  were  entitled  to  draw  of  the  common  land. 


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414  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

over  from  this  Island  to  the  Main,  and  from  thence  hither,  With  a 
small  Island  commonly  called  Stony  Island,  lying  to  the  east  of  the  Town 
and  Harlem  River,  going  through  Bronck's  Kill,  by  the  little  and  great 
Barn's  Islands,  upon  which  there  are  Also  four  other  lots  of  meadow 
ground,  marked  with  Numbers  i,  2,  3,  4;  Together  with  all  the  soils, 
creeks,  quarries,  woods,  meadows,  pastures,  marshes,  waters,  lakes,  fish- 
ing, hawking,  hunting  and  fowling,  and  all  other  profits,  commodities, 
emoluments  and  hereditaments  to  the  said  land  and  premises,  within  the 
bounds  and  limits  set  forth,  belonging,  or  in  any  wise  appertaining.  And 
also  freedom  of  commonage  for  range  and  feed  of  cattle  and  horses,  further 
west  into  the  woods  upon  this  Island,  as  well  without  as  within  their 
bounds  and  limits  set  forth  and  expressed;  To  have  and  to  hold  all 
and  singular  the  said  lands,  island,  commonage,  hereditaments,  and 
premises,  with  their  and  every  of  their  appurtenances,  and  of  every  part 
and  parcel  thereof,  unto  the  said  Patentees  and  their  Associates,  their 
heirs,  successors,  and  assigns,  to  the  proper  use  and  behoof  of  the  said 
Patentees  and  their  Associates,  their  heirs,  successors,  and  assigns 
forever.  And  whereas  Richard  Nicolls,  Esq.,  did  likewise  ratify,  con- 
firm, and  grant  unto  the  said  Patentees  and  their  Associates,  their  heirs, 
successors,  and  assigns.  All  the  rights  and  privileges  belonging  to  a  Town 
within  this  government,  With  this  proviso,  or  exception,  that  in  all  mat- 
ters of  debt  or  trespass  of  or  above  the  value  of  Five  Pounds,  they  shall 
have  relation  unto  and  dependence  upon  the  Courts  of  this  City,  as  the 
other  Towns  have  upon  the  several  Courts  of  Session  to  which  they  do 
belong;  And  that  the  place  of  their  present  habitation  shall  continue 
and  retain  the  name  of  New  Harlem,  by  which  name  and  style  it  shall 
be  distinguished  and  known  in  all  bargains  and  sales,  deeds,  writings, 
and  records;  And  that  no  person  whatsoever  should  be  suffered  or  per- 
mitted to  erect  any  manner  of  house  or  building  upon  this  said  Island, 
within  two  miles  of  the  limits  and  bounds  aforementioned,  without  the 
consent  and  approbation  of  the  major  part  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  said 
Town;  And  whereas  the  said  Town  lies  very  commodious  for  a  Ferry,  to 
and  from  the  Main,  which  may  redound  to  the  particular  benefit  of  the 
inhabitants,  as  well  as  to  a  general  good,  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants 
of  the  said  town  should,  in  consideration  of  the  benefits  and  privi- 
leges therein  granted,  as  also  for  what  advantage  they  might  receive 
thereby,  be  enjoined  and  obliged,  at  their  own  proper  costs  and  charge, 
to  build  or  provide  one  or  more  boats  fit  for  the  transportation  of  men, 
horses,  or  cattle,  for  which  was  to  be  a  certain  allowance  given  by  each 
particular  person,  as  should  be  then  ordered  and  adjudged  fit  and  rea- 
sonable; They,  the  said  Patentees  and  their  Associates,  their  heirs,  suc- 
cessors, and  assigns,  Rendering  and  paying  such  duties  and  acknowledg- 
ments as  then  were  or  after  should  be  established  by  the  laws  of  this 
government,  under  the  obedience  of  His  Royal  Highness,  his  heirs  and 
successors,  as  in  and  by  the  said  Patent,  remaining  upon  record  in  the 
Secretary's  Office,  reference  being  thereunto  had,  doth  fully  and  at 
large  appear.  And  whereas,  the  present  inhabitants  and  freeholders 
of  the  Town  of  New  Harlem  aforesaid  have  made  their  application  unto 
me  for  a  more  full  and  ample  confirmation  of  their  premises  to  them, 
their  heirs,  successors,  and  assigns  forever,  in  their  quiet  and  peaceable 
possession:  Now  know  Ye,  that  by  virtue  of  the  commission  and  au- 
thority to  me  derived,  and  power  in  me  residing,  in  consideration  of 
the  premises,  and  of  the  Quit  Rent  hereinafter  reserved,  1  have  given, 
granted,  ratified,  and  confirmed,  and  by  these  presents  do  give,  grant, 
ratify,  and  confirm  unto  John  Delavall,  Resolved  Waldron,  Joost  van 
Oblinus,  Daniel  Tourneur,  Adolph  Meyer,  John  Spragge,  Jan  Hendricks 
Brevoort,  Jan  Delamater,  Isaac  Delamater,  Barent  Waldron,  Johannes  Ver- 
melje,  Lawrence  Jansen,  Peter  van  Oblinus,  Jan  Dyckman,  Jan  Nagel, 
Arent  Harmanse,  Cornelis  Jansen,  Jacqueline  Tourneur,  Hester  Delamater, 


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HISTORY  OF  HARLEM.  415 

Johannes  Verveelen,  William  Haldron,  Abraham  Montanie,  Peter  Par- 
mentier,*  as  Patentees,  for  and  on  behalf  of  themselves  the  present  free- 
holders and  inhabitants  of  the  said  Town  of  New  Harlem,  their  heirs, 
successors,  and  assigns,  All  and  singular  the  before  recited  tract  ,parcel 
and  parcels  of  land  and  meadow,  butted  and  bounded  as  in  the  said 
Patent  is  mentioned  and  expressed,  together  with  all  and  singular  the  mes- 
suages, tenements,  houses,  buildings,  barns,  stables,  orchards,  gardens, 
pastures,  mills,  mill-dams,  runs,  streams,  ponds,  woods,  underwoods, 
trees,  timber,  fencing,  fishing,  hawking,  hunting,  and  fowling,  liberties, 
pri\'ileges,  hereditaments,  and  improvements  whatsoever  to  the  said  tract 
of  land  and  premises  belonging,  or  in  any  wise  appertaining,  or  accepted, 
reputed,  taken,  or  known,  or  used,  occupied,  and  enjoyed,  as  part,  par- 
cel, or  member  thereof,  with  their  and  every  of  their  appurtenances; 
Always  provided,  that  nothing  contained  therein  shall  be  construed  to 
prejudice  the  right  of  the  City  of  New  York,  or  any  other  particular 
right;  and  saving  to  the  said  City  of  New  York,  and  their  successors 
forever,  and  also  saving  to  every  particular  person,  his  heirs  and  assigns, 
that  have  any  right,  interest  or  estate  within  the  limits  of  the  said 
Town  of  New  Harlem,  as  well  as  without  the  limits  of  the  said  Town 
of  Harlem,  full  power,  liberty  and  privilege  to  build,  cultivate  and  im- 
prove all  such  tracts  and  parcels  of  land  as  the  said  City  of  New  York 
now  have,  or  hereafter  shall  have,  within  or  without  and  adjacent  to 
the  limits  of  the  Town  of  Harlem  aforesaid;  As  also  the  commonage,  of 
the  Town  of  Harlem  aforesaid,  is  to  be  confirmed  within  the  limits  above- 
said,  and  the  right  of  commonage  to  extend  no  further,  any  grant 
or  thing  contained  herein  to  the  contrary  in  any  wise  notwithstanding: 
To  have  and  to  hold  the  said  several  tracts  and  parcels  of  land  and 
premises,  with  their  and  every  of  their  appurtenances,  unto  them  the 
said  John  Delavall,  Resolved  Waldron,  Joost  van  Oblinus,  Daniel  Toiir- 
neur,  Adolph  Meyer,  John  Spragge,  Jan  Hendricks  Brevoort,  Jan  Dela- 
mater,  Isaac  Delamater,  Barent,  Waldron,  Johannes  Vermelje,  Lawrence 
Jansen,  Jan  Dyckman,  Jan  Nagcl,  Arent  Harmanse,  Cornelis  Jansen, 
Peter  van  Oblinus,  Jacqueline  Tourneur,  Hester  Delamater,  Johannes 
Verveelen,  William  Haldron,  Abraham  Montanie,  Peter  Parmentier,  as 
Patentees  for  and  on  the  behalf  of  themselves,  their  heirs,  successors, 
and  assigns,  to  the  sole  and  only  proper  use,  benefit,  and  behoof  of  the 
said  Patentees,  their  heirs,  successors,  and  assigns  forever;  To  be  holden 
of  His  Most  Sacred  Majesty,  his  heirs  and  successors,  in  free  and  common 
socage,  according  to  the  tenure  of  East  Greenwich,  in  the  County  of 
Kent,  in  His  Majesty's  Kingdom  of  England;  Yielding,  rendering  and 
paying  therefor,  yearly  and  every  year  forever,  on  or  before  the  Five 
and  Twentieth  day  of  March,  in  lieu  of  all  services  and  demands  what- 
soever, as  a  Quit  Rent,  to  His  Most  Sacred  Majesty  aforesaid,  his  heirs 
and  successors,  or  to  such  officer  or  officers  as  shall  be  appointed  to  re- 
ceive the  same,  Sixteen  bushels  of  good  winter  merchantable  Wlieat,  at  the 
City  of  New  York.  In  testimony  whereof  I  have  caused  these  presents 
to  be  entered  upon  record  in  the  Secretary's  Office,  and  the  Seal  of  the 
Province  to  be  hereunto  affixed,  this  Seventh  day  of  March,  1686,  and  in 
the  Third  year  of  His  Majesty's  reign.* 

THO.   DONGAN. 

•  These  names  are  strangely  distorted  in  the  Patent,  as  "Recorded  for  the  Inhabi- 
tants of  Harlem,'*  in  Liber  6,  page  192,  of  Patents,  in  the  Secretary  of  State's  Office, 
Albany;  showing  gross  carelessness  somewhere,  either  on  the  part  of  the  recording 
clerk,  the  draftsman,  or  the  person  who  made  out  the  list.  They  arc  here  corrected 
from  indisputable  data;  and  the  entire  document  is  also  relieved  from  the  crudities 
of  the  old  spelling,  which  serve  no  purpose  but  to  mar  the  text. 

•  The  Manor  of  East  Greenwich  was  an  ancient  Crown  domain,  which  had  been 
given  successively  to  several  monastic  institutions,  but  was  finally  recovered  from  one 
of  these,  in  exchange  for  other  lands,  by  Henry  VIII.  in  the  23d  year  of  his  reign. 
On  the  sale  of  the  Crown  lands,  under  Cromwell,  this  Manor  was  reserved  for  the 
use  of  the   State,  and  at  the  Restoration   fell  again  to  the  Crown,    in  which  it  con- 


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4i6  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

It  now  remained  to  discharge  the  arrears  of  quit  rent,  and 
pay  for  the  patent.  To  this,  for  the  time  being,  some  of  the 
payments  on  the  church  had  to  give  way,  as  before  stated.  On 
March  29th  Jan  Louwe  Bogert  brought  in  his  wheat  to  the 
constable,  as  did  others  on  the  same  date,  and  on  April  5th 
nearly  all  the  rest.  It  was  deposited  in  the  loft  of  the  town 
house,  over  130  schepels,  preparatory  to  being  taken  to  New 
York.  Constable  Brevoort  carted  from  the  loft,  April  29th, 
four  bushels  of  wheat  as  the  balance  due  for  quit  rent,  under 
the  commutation,  to  wit,  for  the  years  1683  to  1686  inclusive.t 
On  June  3d  William  Holmes  paid  11  florins  on  the  patent, 
though  not  named  as  a  patentee,  for  which  he  was  allowed  to 
draw  of  the  common  land  in  the  first  general  allotment,  in  1691. 
On  October  i8th  Johannes  Verveelen  made  the  last  payment,  9 
florins,  12  stivers  in  money,  by  the  hand  of  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
Meyer.  The  whole  cost  of  the  patent  was  something  over  800 
guilders. 

The  Dongan  patent  was  professedly  designed  for  quieting 
the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  in  their  ancient  rights  and  priv- 
ileges. Save  that  it  annuls  the  restriction  upon  the  erection  of 
buildings,  and  cuts  oflF  the  outside  commonage  (a  most  unwar- 
rantable measure),  it  simply  confirms  what  Nicolls'  patent  had 
granted.  The  several  persons  holding  under  Andros'  grants  to 
Elphinstone  and  others,  and  not  named  in  the  patent,  were  held 
to  be  thereby  excluded  from  its  provisions,  and  from  any  share 
with  the  other  patentees  in  the  common  lands.  The  limits  of 
the  patent,  recited  somewhat  awkwardly,  but  never  meant  to  be 
indefinite  or  uncertain,  plainly  included  so  much  of  Manhattan 
Island  as  lay  to  the  east  and  north  of  the  given  line,  and  border- 

tinued  till  the  accession  of  James  II.  to  the  throne,  in  1685,  when  it  was  be^owed 
on  his  queen  as  part  of  her  jointure.  It  was  apparently  in  compliment  to  the  queen 
that  it  was  now  taken  and  cited  as  a  pattern  tenure,  enjoying  all  the  advantages  of 
the  free  and  common  socage,  briefly  explained  on  a  former  pa^e.  The  term  socage  as 
here  used  is  derived  by  Blackstonc  from  the  Saxon  soc,  a  privilege,  and  hence  here 
denoting  a  privileged  tenure,  but  others  very  plausiblv  refer  it  to  soca,  a  plough.  (See 
Blackstone;  the  chapters  on  English  Tenures.)  The  date  of  the  above  Patent  is 
given  in  Old  Style,  by  which  the  year  began  March  27.  According  to  our  present 
reckoning  it  should  be  1687. 

t  The  Quit  Rent  charged  by  the  Dongan  Patent  continued  to  be  assessed  upon 
the  freeholders,  and  paid  to  the  Receiver-General,  down  to  the  opening  of  the  Revo- 
lution, from  which  time  no  further  payments  were  made  for  a  term  of  forty  years. 
The  State  Legislature  had  passed  a  law,  in  1786,  providing  for  the  commutation  and 
collection  of  all  quit  rents  due  on  the  numerous  land  patents  granted  by  the  English 
colonial  governors;  but  nothing  was  done  in  relation  to  the  Harlem  Patent  till  1815. 
In  this  year  it  was  advertised,  with  many  others,  to  be  sold  for  the  arrearages;  but 
the  claim  was  then  cancelled  by  the  Comptroller  of  the  city  of  New  York,  Thomas  R. 
Mercein,  who,  on  November  1.  1815,  paid  to  the  State  Treasurer,  in  three  per  cent, 
stock,  the  sum  of  $547.50,  in  full  satisfaction  of  all  the  quit  rents  which  had  accrued 
upon  the  Harlem  Patent  since  March  25,  i774f  and  also  in  commutation  of  all  the 
prospective  rents.  This  exaction  of  the  quit  rent  premises  the  validity  of  the  early 
colonial  patents;  but  this  point  is  clearly  admittM  by  the  contitution  of  this  State, 
which  annuls  all  colonial^  grants  and  charters  made  subsequent  to  October  14,  1775. 
but  affects  none  given  prior  to  that  date. 


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ing  upon  the  "Harlem  River,  or  any  part  of  the  said  river  on  which 
this  Island  doth  abut,  and  likewise  on  the  North  and  East  Rivers." 
It  expressly  comprehended  "all  the  soils,  creeks,  quarries,  woods, 
meadows,  pastures,  marshes,  waters,  lakes,  and  all  other  profits, 
commodities,  emoluments,  and  hereditaments  to  the  said  lands 
and  premises,  within  the  bounds  and  limits  set  forth,  belonging, 
or  in  anywise  appertaining." 

If  these  premises  be  admitted,  and  if  the  vacant  lands,  etc., 
granted  by  Dongan's  charter  to  the  Corporation  of  New  York, 
were,  as  that  charter  says,  only  those  "not  .heretofore  given  or 
granted  by  any  of  the  former  Governors,"  we  may  fairly  question 
whether  Dongan  did  not  violate  the  ancient  rights  of  the  Harlem 
people,  not  only  as  to  their  commonage,  but  in  giving  the  Cor- 
poration the  control  of  the  water-line  along  the  exterior  shore  of 
the  Harlem  patent.  But  while  greater  wrongs  must  inevitably 
follow  any  impairing  of  this  now  venerable  and  generally  con- 
ceded prerogative,  how  can  the  claim  hold  that  it  extends  alike 
to  the  interior  vacant  lands,  creeks  or  marshes,  the  title  to  which 
we  submit  is  rightfully  vested  in  the  heirs  or  assigns  of  the  Don- 
gan patentees?* 

At  the  date  of  Dongan's  patent  all  was  woodland  and  com- 
mons north  of  Moertje  Davids'  Fly  (Manhattanville),  that  is, 
from  what  were  called  Jochem  Pieters'  Hills,  all  the  way  to 
Spuyten  Duyvel ;  the  claims  of  Dyckman  and  Nagel  and  the  salt 
meadows  owned  by  individuals  excepted.  To  this  section  of  the 
island  the  Indians  still  laid  a  claim,  but  which  they  surrendered 
to  the  town,  in  lieu  of  "sundries  delivered  to  the  natives"  by 
Colonel  Stephen  Van  Cortlandt,  in  behalf  of  the  inhabitants,  Feb- 
ruar>'  28,  1688,  and  a  balance  which  was  not  made  up  till  March  i, 
171 5>  when  a  tax  was  raised  by  the  freeholders  for  that  purpose. 

Besides  the  above,  the  yet  unappropriated  woodlands  em- 
braced a  few  inconsiderable  parcels  here  and  there  on  the  Flats, 

*  This  view  is  taken  in  an  opinion,  ffiven  by  the  late  Hon.  Murray  Hoffman, 
March  i^,  1873,  respecting  a  piece  of  land  ownea  by  Mr.  Voorhis,  situate  on  Har- 
lem Creek,  between  ad  and  ^d  avenues,  and  extending  from  io8th  street  toward  109th. 
It  lay  in  a  cove  of  the  creek  and  was  part  of  the  12  arcres  (two  of  the  Van  Keulen 
Hook  lots)  owned  at  an  early  day  by  Capt.  Thomas  Delavall,  and  sold  to  Benjamin 
Benson  by  Simon  Johnson,  1747.     We  quote  one  or  two  paragraphs  from  the  opinion. 

"We  can  here  draw  a  natural  and,  we  think,  legal  distinction  between  the  River 
proper  and  a  creek  of  it.  The  former  is  defined  b^  the  general  course  (filum)  of  the 
body  of  the  stream,  and  such  course  is  from  point  to  point  where  there  is  an  in- 
dentation into  the  land,  properly  a  cove.  The  latter  is  that  indentation.  And  we 
could  very  consistently  hola  that  the  land  under  water  within  the  cove,  between 
high  and  low  water  mark  passed,  but  not  outside  of  it.  This  view  would  be 
tenable  even  if  that  was  an  indentation  from  Harlem  River;  a  fortiori  when  from 
Harlem  Creek.  But  the  creek  itself,  we  contend,  passed;  and  the  case  is  then 
mach  stronger." 

Again,  alluding  to  the  language  of  the  Harlem  Patent,  quoted  in  the  text,  granting 
all  the  soils,  creeks,  etc..  Judge  Hoffman  very  pertinentlv  remarks:  ^  "It  would  be 
difficult  to  get  together  terms  which  would  more  fully  cmSrace  anything  of  land,  of 
water,  and  of  any  combination  of  the  two." 


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a  larger  piece  between  Hoorn's  Hook  and  the  Bogert  (since 
Benson  or  McGown)  farm,  and  the  tract  lying  between  the  vil- 
lage and  Montagne's  Flat,  hitherto  kept  for  pasturage,  contain- 
ing some  250  acres.  It  was  bounded  east  by  Kingsbridge  road, 
west  by  the  creek,  and  stretched  from  where  iiith  Street  and 
Fifth  Avenue  now  intersect  (and  where  said  creek  was  then 
assessed  by  the  road  from  Harlem  to  New  York),  northward  to 
131st  Street  and  Eighth  Avenue.  The  allotments  and  sales  made 
under  the  Dongan  patent,  in  and  between  the  years  1691  and 
1712,  disposed  of  most  of  this  tract  and  nearly  all  the  other  com- 
mon land  within  the  patent  lines,  though  several  small  pieces  were 
not  sold  till  1753.  The  exact  plan  and  history  of  these  several  al- 
lotments, hitherto  unknown  to  modern  conveyancers,  and  which 
will  be  found  in  Appendix  J,  not  only  supply  a  vast  deal  of 
curious  information  upon  a  new  subject,  but,  as  we  conceive, 
have  an  intrinsic  and  permanent  value,  in  connection  with  the 
subsequent  titles,  on  which  they  throw  much  light.* 

There  were  now  remaining  here  but  few  witnesses  to  those 
trials  in  Fatherland  which  had  so  largely  contributed  to  people 
the  town.  Of  the  French  refugees,  filling  heretofore  so  consid- 
erable a  space  in  its  history,  nearly  all  were  either  dead  or  had 
gone  with  their  families  to  other  parts.  Spirited  and  litigious 
as  were  these  refugees,  wearying  the  courts  with  their  petty  dis- 
putes, the  recital  of  which  may  seem  beneath  the  dignity  of  his- 
tory; they  did  not  betray  in  all  this  the  underlying  national 
trait,  extreme  jealousy  of  their  rights,  the  legitimate  fruit  of 
former  and  sharper  conflicts.  For  them,  in  the  fullest  sense, 
* 'self-preservation  was  the  first  law  of  nature.''  But  we  may 
not  forget  their  many  good  qualities,  nor  their  valuable  agency 
in  building  up  the  town,  in  which  quickness  of  perception, 
promptitude  and  efficiency,  whether  in  official  or  business  rela- 
tions, and  greater  skill  in  various  industries,  supplied  elements 
in  which  the  Dutch  were  not  their  equal.  A  principal  cause  of 
the  removal  of  so  many  of  these  families  was  the  better  facility 
for  obtaining  land  in  the  places  to  which  they  went;  but  the 
fact  is  also  obvious  that  they  could  not  well  fraternize  with  the 
Dutch,  for  while  the  latter  were  generally  prosperous,  the  French 
were  commonly  "poor,  and  therefore  forced  to  be  penurious." 
Strongly  attached,  moreover,  to  their  own  frugal  mode  of  living, 

•  The  250  acres  included  the  late  Myer  homestead,  in  the  angle  formed  by  the 
forking  of  tne  road  from  Kingsbridge,  together  with  the  Isaac  Day  plot  iH  ^<^^ 
the  William  Molenaor  17  acres,  the  Lawrence  or  Wagstaff  28  acres,  the  Samson  A- 
Benson  or  Race  Course  farm.  Mount  Morris  Park,  Elizabeth  Benson  25  acres  ana 
Samson  Benson  45  acre  tract.  (See  notices  of  Myer  and  Benson  families,  and  Al»p- 
J.,    I  St   Division.) 


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their  language  and  church  service,  intuitively  they  sought  out 
the  place  and  society  where  these  advantages  could  be  best  se- 
cured and  enjoyed.  A  few  of  the  wealthier  families  remained 
here,  as  the  Toumeurs,  Montanyes,  Delamaters,  and  De  Voes, 
held  either  by  property  ties,  or  intermarriage  with  the  Hollanders, 
to  whom  by  degrees  they  became  assimilated. 

The  court  proceedings  are  curious  and  quite  enjoyable,  as  ex- 
hibiting the  prevailing  causes  of  dispute  between  neighbors,  the 
usual  grounds  of  legal  action,  and  the  court  customs  and  juris- 
prudence of  the  times.  Not  less  valuable  are  the  court  records 
as  an  index  of  the  public  morals.  Cases  of  trespass,  slander,  and 
breach  of  the  peace  were  indeed  too  common,  but  flagrant  crime 
was  almost  unknown.  Not  a  single  manslaughter,  or  action  for 
divorce,  or  bastardy,  or  a  clear  case  of  petty  larceny,  is  reported 
for  the  entire  half-century  under  review.  The  case  of  arson  by 
a  slave,  as  before  noticed,  and  the  beating  to  death  of  a  negro 
child  in  June  of  this  year  (1687),  are  not  to  be  cited  as  against 
the  general  devotion  to  law  and  order,  which  indeed  was  shown 
in  both  these  cases  by  a  prompt  report  to  the  mayor,  and  in  the 
last  case,  an  inquest ;  though  no  particulars  are  given,  not  even 
the  name  of  the  party  implicated.  The  doings  at  town  meetings 
also  prove  beyond  question  the  capacity  of  this  early  community 
for  self-government,  and  for  handling  the  perplexing  questions 
which  came  up  from  time  to  time.  No  superior  ability  is  shown 
in  the  advanced  periods  of  the  town's  history. 

Did  not  the  scope  of  this  volume  limit  it  to  the  "origin  and 
early  annals"  of  the  town,  it  would  be  easy  to  find  in  the  varied 
exigencies  of  succeeding  times  much  food  for  sober  thought. 
The  Leislerian  troubles;  how  deeply  they  affected  some  Harlem 
families!  The  arbitrary  suspension  of  the  local  court  for  eight 
long  years  after  the  colonial  government  was  settled  in  1691 ; 
what  embarrassment  it  caused,  till  it  was  finally  restored  after 
long  soliciting  the  General  Assembly!  Unswerving  friends  of 
the  Dutch  Church,  with  what  alarm  they  beheld  the  efforts  of  Col. 
Morris  and  others  to  introduce  the  English  service,  through  the 
ministrations  of  Rev.  Henricus  Beys !  And  then  grave  questions 
and  difficulties  attended  the  distributions  of  the  common  lands. 
Coercive  measures  taken  by  the  King's  Receiver-General,  in  17 13, 
to  levy  quit  rents  not  justly  chargeable,  subjected  six  of  the  prin- 
cipal inhabitants  to  legal  prosecution  in  the  Court  of  Chancery. 
Other  questions  which  arose  respecting  their  lands  could  only 
be  settled  by  a  reference  to  the  Supreme  Court.  And  the  Pipon- 
Gouvemeur  imbroglio,  and  questions  growing  out  of  it,  kept  the 


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whole  town  disquieted. till  finally  ended  in  1747.  Then  came  the 
sad  discords  and  division  in  the  Church  between  the  Coetus  and 
the  Conferentie.  A  desultory  warfare  with  the  Corporation  of 
New  York,  concerning  the  "Commons,"  began  with  the  century 
and  ended  only  the  year  before  the  Revolution.*  And  a  volume 
of  itself  might  be  written  upon  those  seven  years  of  unprece- 
dented trial,  under  the  galling  domination  of  British  and  Hessian 
soldiery,  before  the  distressed  inhabitants  could  realize  the  bless- 
ings of  independence.  Aside  from  these  and  a  few  similar  pas- 
sages, their  history  as  a  community  is  meagre  during  the  colonial 
period  proper.  The  recovery  from  the  ruin  of  war,  and  the  suc- 
cessive steps  by  which  a  sparsely  settled  rural  district  was  trans- 
muted into  the  teeming  city,  with  its  wonderful  concomitants  of 
churches,  schools,  railways,  parks,  boulevards,  etc. — which  latter 
change  may  be  dated  from  the  sale  of  the  Commons  in  1825,  and 
the  first  disposal  of  some  of  the  farming  lands  as  city  lots — forms 
a  history  of  much  and  varied  interest,  but  still  within  the  knowl- 
edge of  the  living,  and  easily  traced  as  compared  with  that  of 
the  obscure  initial  period  to  which  this  volume  is  chiefly  devoted. 

Not  to  enlarge,  therefore,  upon  these  more  modem  times 
(though  some  of  the  matters  touched  upon  and  others  pertain- 
ing to  these  periods  will  claim  attention  either  in  the  succeeding 
chapter  on  the  patentees,  or  in  the  notes  or  appendix),  the  social 
condition,  at  and  after  the  period  under  review,  presents  some 
interesting  features  yet  to  be  noticed. 

The  inhabitants,  in  their  ways  and  mode  of  living,  preserved 
all  the  characteristics  of  Fatherland.  Wedded  to  their  plain 
and  primitive  habits,  the  portrait  of  our  early  Dutch  yeomanry,  as 
others  have  drawn  it,  is  here  true  to  life,  with  but  slight  retouching. 

The  village  seats  or  scattered  farm-houses :  let  us  enter  one, 
bidden  welcome  by  mine  host,  smoking  his  evening  pipe,  in  his 
wonted  seat  on  the  porch.  An  air  of  hospitality  has  the  prem- 
ises, even  to  the  old  well,  with  watering-trough  beside  it,  which, 
placed  conveniently  before  the  house,  with  mossy  bucket 
hung  from  the  primitive  well-pole,  invites  the  gentle  kine  to 
come  freely  to  water,  or  the  wayfarer  to  stop  and  slake  his 
thirst.  These  houses  have  beg^n  to  be  constructed  with  greater 
regard  to  permanence,  and  even  to  style,  being  solidly  built  of 
stone,  and  of  more  ample  dimensions  than  formerly,  though  only 

•  The  history  of  this  tract  is  particularly  set  forth  in  the  Deduction  of  the  Title 
to  Harlem  Commons,  forming  pages  117  to  175  of  a  volume  prepared  by  the  late 
Isaac  Adriance,  and  entitled  Conveyances  on  record  in  the  Register's  Office  by 
Dudley  Selden,  from  the  ist  January,  1825.  to  the  ist  January,  1838.  Printed  by 
Alexander  S.  Gould,  14^  Nassau  street,  N.  Y.,  1838."  It  contains  maps  of  the  com- 
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of  one  full  story.  The  low  ceilings,  still  void  of  lath  and  plaster, 
expose  the  heavy  oak  beams  as  roughly  hewn,  or,  if  taste  has 
dictated,  planed  and  beaded.  Similar  taste  sometimes  demands 
wainscoting,  either  plain  or  in  panels,  around  the  rooms  and  hall, 
and  up  the  broad  stairway,  with  its  oaken  balustrade,  leading 
to  sleeping-chambers  in  the  loft.  Outer  doors,  swung  upon  heavy 
strap  hinges,  are  invariably  divided  in  halves  horizontally,  the 
upper  one  usually  open  by  day  in  the  warm  season,  for  the  admis- 
sion of  air  and  light.  Above  it  perhaps  is  a  sash,  with  three  or 
four  small  panes  of  thick  green  glass,  blown  with  a  curious  knob 
or  swell  in  the  centre.  The  panes  in  the  windows  measure  not 
over  seven  by  nine  inches,  and  are  sometimes  set  in  leaden  cross- 
bars, being  protected  by  strong,  close  shutters,  instead  of  the  less 
secure  modem  blinds.  The  fireplace,  with  usually  no  jambs  (but 
having  supports  built  into  the  wall),  gives  ample  room  for  all 
around  the  fire.  Thus  suspended,  as  it  were,  overhead,  the 
chimney  mouth  opens  wide  and  flaring  to  catch  the  fugitive 
sparks  and  smoke,  and  forms  a  convenient  place  in  which,  at 
the  proper  season,  to  hang  up  hams,  sausage,  and  beef  to  cure. 
If  the  fireplace  is  built  with  jambs,  these  are  often  faced  with 
glazed  earthen  tile,  imported  from  Holland,  on  which  are 
pictured  Bible  stories  and  other  scenes.  These  amuse  and  instruct 
the  juvenile  part  of  the  family,  who  make  it  a  favorite  pastime 
to  study  out  the  curious  designs.  The  last  of  these  ornamental 
fireplaces  now  recollected  was  in  the  Peter  Benson  stone  house, 
which  stood  in  109th  Street,  between  2d  and  3d  Avenues,  and  was 
demolished  in  1865. 

Plain  and  substantial  were  their  dwellings,  and  in  perfect 
accord  with  the  manners  and  tastes  of  the  occupants,  which 
were  simple,  unaffected,  and  economical.  Slow  and  deliberate 
in  what  they  did,  it  was  made  up  by  patience  and  application. 
-\nd  no  people  could  have  been  more  independent  of  the  outside 
world.  The  farmer  burnt  his  own  lime,  tanned  his  own  leather, 
often  made  all  the  boots  and  shoes  worn  by  himself  and  family, 
and  did  much  of  his  own  carpenter  and  wheelwright  work. 
Their  help  in  the  heavy  farm  work  was  mainly  African  slaves, 
who,  at  this  time,  numbered  as  one  to  four  whites. 

Primitive  were  their  methods  of  farming;  it  was  not  the 
era  of  iron  ploughs,  horse-rakes,  and  reapers.  The  scythe  was 
used  in  mowing  grass.  The  cradle  was  then  unknown,  and 
instead  of  which  all  grain  was  cut  with  sickle,  or  with  the  sith 
and  hook.  The  sith  had  a  blade  similar  to  that  of  the  scythe, 
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the  same  length,  having  at  the  other  end  a  loop  like  that  of  a 
shovel-handle.  The  hook  was  made  of  a  slender  wooden  stock, 
three  feet  long,  from  the  end  of  which  ran  out  at  a  right  angle 
a  small  iron  prong  about  eight  inches  long.  When  used  the  hook 
was  held  in  the  left  hand  near  the  middle,  where,  to  prevent  its 
turning,  was  a  socket  for  the  thumb  to  rest  in,  the  prong  being 
turned  from  the  person.  The  hook,  pressed  against  the  standing 
grain,  served  to  hold  it  in  place,  while  it  was  cut  by  a  swing  of 
the  sith,  which  was  held  in  the  other  hand.  The  cut  grain  was 
thus  left  leaning  against  that  still  uncut,  till  the  reaper,  or  his 
attendant  following  after  him,  gathered  and  bound  it  into  sheaves. 
Nothing  was  deemed  more  important  than  to  cut  and  lay  in  a 
good  supply  of  salt  hay,  which  was  then  thought  indispensable 
for  the  healthy  subsistence  of  cattle  through  the  winter.  It  was 
for  this  reason  that  a  piece  of  salt  meadow  was  regarded  as  a 
necessary  appendage  to  every  farm,  and  was  not  less  valuable  in 
view  of  the  early  settlers  than  so  much  upland. 

The  children  were  brought  up  to  those  habits  of  industry 
which  the  parents  themselves  found  so  profitable.  The  sons 
were  invariably  given  a  useful  trade,  and  the  daughters  well 
taught  in  all  household  duties.  While  the  men  were  engaged  in 
the  out-door  work  of  the  farm,  the  women,  in  short  gown  and 
slippers,  the  common  indoor  dress,  were  as  busy  at  their  special 
avocations.  The  spinning-wheel  was  brought  out  and  set  in 
motion  as  soon  as  wool  and  flax  could  be  prepared  in  the  fall, 
and  so  each  family  made  its  own  "homespun,"  as  it  was  termed, 
both  white  and  colored,  to  supply  its  members  with  clothing; 
while  she  was  considered  but  a  poor  candidate  for  matrimony 
who  could  not  show  her  stores  of  domestic  linens,  and  other  pro- 
ducts of  her  maiden  industry.  The  dames,  so  saving  were  they 
of  their  time,  usually  took  their  spinning-wheels  on  going  to  spend 
a  social  afternoon  with  a  neighbor.  Nor  were  the  females  unwill- 
ing to  help  in  the  field  during  the  busy  season  of  harvest,  or  corn- 
gathering.  Side  by  side  with  their  fathers,  brothers,  and  hus- 
bands, they  vied  with  them  in  raking  hay  or  carrying  sheaves; 
and  their  presence  gave  a  charm  to  the  merry  time  of  husking. 

Broom  and  scrubbing  brush,  with  a  periodical  whitewashing, 
frequently  tinted  yellow  or  green,  kept  their  apartments  cleanly 
and  neat.  The  carpet,  when  first  introduced,  called  in  derision 
a  dirt-cover,  was  in  those  days  unknown  here.  The  bare  floors, 
as  scrupulously  clean  as  the  bare  table  on  which  they  ate  their 
meals,  were  regularly  scrubbed,  then  sprinkled  with  the  fine  beach 
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in  carts  through  the  streets  and  roads  of  the  island.  On  clean- 
ing-day it  was  spread  moistened  in  little  heaps  over  the  floor, 
the  family  being  taught  to  tread  carefully  between  them.  To 
disturb  these  would  sadly  mar  the  economy  of  the  good  housewife, 
and  maybe  provoke  some  good  honest  scolding  in  Dutch.  The 
next  day  the  sand,  now  dry,  was  swept  in  waves,  or  other  figures, 
by  drawing  the  broom  lightly  over  it.  It  was  in  truth  but  a 
sample  of  the  general  tidiness  which  ruled  the  premises. 

Living  so  largely  within  themselves,  they  knew  little  of  the 
dangers  and  diseases  incident  to  luxury  and  indolence.  Their 
clothing,  bedding,  etc.,  all  of  their  own  homespun,  most  that 
their  table  required  the  farm  supplied,  to  which  a  mess  of  clams 
or  fish  often  gave  variety;  but  no  dish,  with  the  Dutch  farmer, 
could  compete  with  his  speck  en  koole,  pork  and  cabbage. 

Their  pride  was  of  a  kind  that  was  no  bar  to  pleasure,  if  their 
only  coach  was  a  common  wagon,  or  perchance  an  ox-cart! 
Home-made  linsey-woolsey  gave  content  equally  with  the  finest 
imported  fabrics,  and,  says  a  contemporary,  "though  their  low- 
roofed  houses  may  seem  to  shut  their  doors  against  pride  and 
luxury,  yet  how  do  they  stand  wide  open  to  let  charity  in  and 
out,  either  to  assist  each  other  or  relieve  a  stranger.''  Another 
bears  this  testimony:  "They  are  sociable  to  a  degree,  their 
tables  being  as  free  to  their  neighbors  as  to  themselves."  And 
hospitality  could  not  do  too  much  for  the  guest  if  welcome;  the 
acme  only  reached  if  he  tarried  for  the  night,  when,  soon  after 
sunset,  he  was  snugly  ensconced  in  the  best  bed,  made  of  softest 
down,  and  between  homespun  linen  sheets,  from  which,  if  cold, 
the  chill  was  taken  by  the  indispensable  warming-pan!  At  the 
same  time  the  idea  of  warming  the  church  was  yet  unfledged, 
nor  was  this  provided  for  till  early  in  the  present  century,  when 
a  stove  was  introduced.  Before  this,  each  church-going  matron 
took  to  comfort  her  her  little  foot-stove  and  her  Dutch  Bible 
with  silver  clasps!  Intermarriages  among  the  resident  families 
was  the  rule,  and  he  was  thought  a  bold  swain  truly  who  ven- 
tured beyond  the  pale  of  the  community  to  woo  a  mate.  And 
with  the  unaffected  welcome,  a  keen-eyed  scrutiny  also  awaited 
the  blushing  bride,  on  her  first  arrival  from  the  charming  vales 
of  Bloomingdale,  the  hills  of  Westchester,  or  rural  home  at 
Bergen,  Hackensack,  or  Esopus.  When  friends  gathered  socially, 
or  happened  to  meet,  as  at  the  village  tavern,  conversation  run- 
ning in  mellifluous  Dutch,  turned,  as  usual  with  farmers,  upon 
their  crops,  or  on  horses  or  cattle,  or  modes  of  farming,  unless 
some  special  topic  intruded.     With  the  good  JuflFrouws,  church 


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matters  and  the  dominie's  last  visit  were  always  in  order.  Not 
many  survived  who  could  speak  from  personal  recollection  of 
the  Fatherlands ;  yet  we  cannot  misjudge  of  the  themes  on  which 
a  few  gray  heads  could  still  dilate,  with  all  the  effect  of  eye- 
witnesses or  actual  participants.  Good  Joost  van  Oblinus, — the 
thrilling  incidents  of  the  French  invasion  of  Flanders,  his  escape 
with  parents  to  Holland,  sojourn  at  Mannheim,  second  flight 
before  French  invaders,  and  final  adieu  to  the  dear  shores  of 
Europe.  Mrs.  Tourneur,  in  tender  childhood  a  victim  of  that 
cruel  war,  and  driven  with  others  of  her  family  from  her  native 
Hesdin,  probably  on  its  capture  by  Louis  XHL,  in  1639;  her's 
was  a  tale  of  trials,  of  which  we  have  but  the  veriest  outline. 
And  Mrs.  Delamater,  the  daughter  of  a  refugee,  depicting  her 
young  life  at  Canterbury,  and  the  humble  abode  where  she  was 
born  and.  reared,  whence  also,  on  the  quiet  Sabbath,  she  was  wont 
to  accompany  her  parents  to  the  grand  old  cathedral,  and  down 
by  a  flight  of  stone  steps  into  the  solemn  crypt  or  vault,  where 
the  French  and  Walloons  used  to  meet  for  divine  service,  a 
privilege  long  before  granted  them  by  good  Queen  Bess.  And 
Frederick  De  Vaux,  or  De  Voe,  who  lived  to  a  patriarchal  age, 
and  probably  was  the  last  survivor  of  the  refugees  experimentally 
familiar  with  persecution  and  hair-breadth  escapes  in  fleeing 
his  native  land;  facts  still  among  the  lingering  traditions  of  his 
family.*  Now  Bogert  and  the  Jansens  grow  mellow  over  the 
good  old  times  at  Schoonrewoert ;  or  the  other  trio,  Meyer,  Dyck- 
man,  and  Bussing,  draw  parallels  between  the  soils  or  productions 
of  Harlem  and  their  native  Bentheim,  so  famed;  or  again  the 

•  Frederick  de  Vaux,  the  ancestor  of  the  De  Voe  family,  has  already  had  a  partial 
notice.  Horn  on  Walloon  soil,  as  records  inform  usl  tradition  has  handed  down 
some  touching  particulars  of  the  flight,  the  pursuit  ot  bloody  persecutors,  and  the 
escape  into  Holland.  How  long  Frederick  de  Vaux  sojourned  at  Mannheim  is  un- 
known, but  long  enough  to  obtain  citizenship.  He  emigrated  in  1675,  bringing  a  pass- 
port from  the  authorities  of  that  place,  a  copy  of  which  is  given  on  a  former  page. 
He  was  then  a  widower,  but  in  1677  he  married  Esther,  daughter  of  Daniel  Tourneur. 
To  the  lands  in  Westchester,  since  the  Cromwell  farm,  gotten  with  his  wife,  he  added, 
as  we  have  seen,  the  Bickley  tract,  or  De  Voe's  Point.  He  also  provided  his  sons* 
Daniel  and  Abel,  with  large  farms  at  Fordham  and  New  Rochelle.  Living  in  his 
later  years  among  his  several  children,  he  died  in  New  Rochelle,  in  1743,  at  the  vener- 
able age  of  about  90  years,  and  was  buried  on  the  farm  of  his  son  Abel.  His  children 
were  Frederick,  Daniel,  Joseph,  Abel,  Rachel,  who  married  Johannes  Dyckman;  Esther, 
married  Levi  Vincent;  Susannah,  married  Andrew  Nodine;  Mary,  married  Evert 
Brown  and  Joshua  Bishop;  Leah,  married  Nathaniel  Baile;r;  Dinah,  married  Louis 
Guion  and  Tobias  Concklin;  Judith,  married  Johannes  Barhite,  and  Abigail,  who  died 
unmarried.  Daniel  De  Voe  settled  in  Fordham,  and  Abel  in  New  Rochelle,  upon  the 
farms  conveyed  to  them  by  their  father  before  his  death.  Joseph  removed  to  the  dty 
of  New  York,  where  he  aied,  in  1764,  leaving  a  family.  Frederick,  the  eldest  son, 
succeeded  to  the  paternal  estate  at  De  Voe's  Point,  under  a  deed  of  June  13,  1721, 
and  where  he  diea  in  1753.  He  married  twice,  and  had  children  Frederick  (3a  of  the 
name),  Daniel,  David,  John,  Thomas,  Abraham,  Abigail,  Hester,  Sarah.  Mary  and 
Leah.  This  old  and  respectable  familv  is  now  widespread  and  numerous.  The  brothers, 
Isaac,  Thomas  Farrington,  James,  Moses  (of  Fordham),  John  Appleby  (deceased), 
George  W.,  and  Frederick  W.  De  Voe,  are  sons  of  the  late  John  De  Voe,  of  New 
York,  who  died  August  29.  1853,  aged  68  years,  having  attained  the  same  sige  as  his 
father,  John  De  Voe,  of  Yonkers,  or  Philips  Manor,  who  died  September  24,  1824, 
being  the  son  of  Frederick  De  Voe.  3d,  aforesaid.  To  the  estimable  CoL  Thomas  r. 
De  Voe,  of  New  York,  we  are  indebted  for  many  of  these  particulars. 


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well-companioned  Waldron  and  Verveelen  live  amid  former 
scenes  in  busy  old  Amsterdam, — ^the  shop-keeper's  son,  perchance, 
garrulous  over  shrewd  bargains  in  trade,  and  the  "book-printer" 
of  the  Teerketels-steeg,  once  more  among  his  type  and  forms,  and, 
as  of  old,  throwing  off  from  his  new  press,  which  his  townsman 
Blaau,  the  map-printer,  and  former  assistant  to  Tycho  Brahe, 
had  brought  to  such  perfection,  fresh  sheets  of  learned  folios,  full 
fifty  impressions  per  hour!  But  should  conversation  chance  to 
turn  upon  some  controverted  question,  either  of  politics  or 
theolog>%  and  the  latent  fire  once  kindle,  the  dispute  was  sure  to 
run  high;  for  only  then  their  tobacco-pipes  lost  the  power  to 
soothe, — ^that  solace  alike  of  their  working  and  their  leisure  hours, 
and  by  no  means  confined  to  the  males ;  but  yet  the  good  dominie 
set  the  example ! 

Large  productive  farms,  and  a  convenient  market  for  all  they 
had  to  sell,  led  to  certain  wealth,  and  no  thriftier  farmers  were 
to  be  found  anywhere.  They  were  proud,  too, — of  their  broad 
acres,  fine  stock,  lands  well  tilled  and  bams  well  filled !  But  not 
the  alluring  example  ever  before  their  eyes  could  win  them  to 
the  display  and  ceremony  of  city  life ;  though  the  latter,  simplicity 
itself  as  compared  with  the  demands  of  modern  fashion,  sets  in 
stronger  contrast  the  style  of  living,  so  unpretentious  yet  rational, 
which  obtained  in  even  the  wealthier  families,  as  the  Waldrons, 
Meyers,  Bensons,  and  Bussings.  English  modes  and  manners 
could  make  but  slow  advance  among  a  people  so  tenacious  of 
the  Holland  tongue,  who  for  half  a  century  later  kept  their 
records  in  Dutch,  and  their  accounts  in  guilders  and  stivers.* 

This  picture  of  the  former  times,  so  rudely  drawn  and  void 
of  limner's  art,  is  yet  worthy  of  thoughtful  study.  As  every  age 
has  had  its  virtues  as  well  as  its  vices,  things  which  men  admire 
and  emulate,  so  the  initial  days  of  our  colonial  history  teem  with 
instructive  lessons  in  all  that  pertains  to  manly  aims  and  right 
living,  the  study  of  which  is  calculated  to  make  one  wiser  and 
better.  If  the  present  effort  to  restore  a  knowledge  of  the  Harlem 
founders  shall  subserve  so  useful  a  purpose,  and  the  sequel  to 
their  histor}- ,  as  now  to  be  given  in  that  of  the  patentees  and  their 
families,  shall  in  any  degree  contribute  to  the  same  result,  we  may 
count  our  labor  not  wholly  lost. 

*  In   1688  the  valuation  of  real  estate  in  the  several  wards  of  the  city  of  New 
York  was  as  follows: 

Oat    Ward,    Harlem    Division £  1,733 

do.  Bowery     Division 4.140 

North     Ward 7,625 

West     Ward 9,600 

East     Ward 9,648 

Dock     Ward 16,241 

South     Ward 29,254 


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CHAPTER    XXIV. 

NOTICES  OF  THE  PATENTEES  AND  THEIR  HEIRS  OR  SUCCESSORS. 

BENSON. 

^^/ ITH  those  whose  recollections  of  Harlem  run  back  a  gener- 
ation or  more,  to  the  time  when  it  yet  retained  all  the 
charms  of  a  quiet  rural  suburb, — ere  "trade's  unfeeling  train 
usurped  the  land  and  dispossessed  the  swain," — ^the  name  of  this 
locality  finds  almost  a  synonym  in  that  of  Benson;  so  largely 
identified  was  this  respectable  family  with  the  history  and 
landed  interests  of  the  town.  Standing  first  in  alphabetical 
order,  we  cheerfully  accord  it  the  precedence,  which  it  may 
properly  claim  among  these  genealogical  notes.* 

Captain  Johannes  Benson,  the  first  of  the  family  to  locate 
here,  is  not  named  in  Dongan's  patent,  as  he  was  not  then  a  resi- 
dent, nor  till  some  ten  years  after;  but,  purchasing  the  Bogert 
farm,  he  thereby  acquired  the  rights  of  a  patentee,  before  the 
final  division  of  the  common  lands,  in  which  he  shared;  and  his 
descendants  continued,  as  we  shall  see,  among  the  largest  pro- 
prietors at  Harlem  till  it  ceased  to  be  an  agricultural  community. 
His  father,  Dirck  Bensingh,  as  commonly  called,  was  not  a  Hol- 
lander, but  a  Swede,  according  to  the  tradition  in  the  family,  as 
old  Lawrence  Benson  used  to  say ;  and  this  is  borne  out  by  the 
original  form  of  the  name.  Perhaps,  to  be  more  exact,  Dirck 
was  a  Dane.  We  have  traced  him  from  Groningen  to  Amster- 
dam, and  thither,  with  his  wife,  Catalina  Berck,  to  New  Amster- 
dam. Here  he  bought  a  house  and  lot  near  the  fort,  August  23, 
1649,  ^"d  the  next  year  another  on  Broadway.  On  June  29,  1654, 
at  his  desire,  the  Director  and  Council  allowed  him  "to  leave  this 

•  These   sketches  do   not   claim   to   be   complete   {genealogies,   but   are   designed   to 

C reserve,  in  the  case  of  each  family,  enough  of^  its  history  to  interest  its  living  mem- 
ers,  and  to  enable  many  of  them  to  identify  their  connection  with  the  parent  stock; 
while  others,  wishing  to  perfect  their  line  of  descent,  will  here  find  a  valuable  be- 
ginning for  such  a  work.  As  serving  to  elucidate  the  land  titles,  by  showing  the  trans- 
mission of  real  property  in  the  several  families,  and  this,  by  including  all  the  paten- 
tees, necessarily  embracing  all  the  lands  within  the  township  or  patent  lines,  these 
sketches  have  a  special  importance.  The  result  of  many  years  search  among  authentic 
records,  they  are  believed  to  be  substantially  correct  and  reliable,  whether  as  geneal- 
ogies or  otherwise;  any  venerable  hearsay  or  family  traditions,  so  called,  to  the  con- 
trary   notwithstanding. 

It  may  be  notecT  that  in  numerous  instances  throughout  these  pages  the  number 
and  not  the  names  of  the  children  of  certain  descendants  are  given. 

By  referring  to  the  New  Harlem  Register  the  names  of  these  children  and  their 
descendants   will  be   found. 


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BENSON   FAMILY.  427 

place  to  promote  his  own  affairs/*  Going  to  Fort  Orange,  he 
built  upon  a  lot  granted  him  October  25,  1653,  and  proved  him- 
self an  industrious  and  worthy  citizen.  He  worked  as  a  carpenter 
on  the  new  church  built  in  1656;  in  1658  he  loaned  the  deacons 
100  guilders.  He  died  February  12,  1659.  Three  years  later 
Dirck's  widow  married  Harman  Tomasz  Hun. 

Dirck  Benson's  children  were  Dirck,  born  1650;  Samson, 
bom  1652 ;  Johannes,  bom  February  8,  1655 ;  Catrina,  bom  1657, 
who  married  Doctor  Reynier  Schaets  and  Jonathan  Bradhurst; 
and  Maria,  bom  1659,  ^'^o  married  Volckert  van  Hoesen.  The 
three  sons  of  Benson  grew  up  in  Albany  much  respected,  and  all 
became  church  members.  Samson  set  up  a  pottery,  and  was 
known  as  the  **pottebacker."  Dirck  became  a  skipper  on  the 
Hudson,  sailing  the  sloop  Eendraght  between  Albany  and  New 
York.  Johannes  was  probably  an  innkeeper,  for  in  1689,  when 
apprehensions  existed  of  a  French  and  Indian  invasion  from 
Canada,  a  committee  of  safety,  of  which  Lieutenant  Johannes 
Benson  was  a  member,  directed  **that  the  people  of  Patcook  do 
make  their  retreat  to  Johannes  Bensing's  upon  occasion."  Raised 
to  a  captaincy  soon  after,  he  performed  useful  service  during 
those  fearful  times.  The  midnight  massacre  at  Schenectady,  Feb- 
ruary 8,  1690,  in  which  their  brother-in-law,  Doctor  Schaets, 
then  a  justice  of  the  peace  at  that  place,  was  slain,  together  with 
one  of  his  sons,  and  the  continuance  of  French  and  Indian  hos- 
tilities, quite  unsettled  the  Bensons  and  their  families  (for  the 
three  brothers  were  now  married),  and  they  finally  transferred 
their  residence  to  New  York,  Dirck  in  1693,  and  Samson  and 
Johannes  in  1696,  when  the  public  alarm  became  so  great  as  to 
cause  many  such  removals. 

Dirck  and  Samson  remained  in  the  city,  while  Johannes  came 
to  Harlem  and  bought  a  place  in  the  village  from  Peter  van 
Oblienis.*     It  consisted  of  the  two  erven  lying  easterly  of  the 

•  The  Bensona,  of  New  York  City,  became  numerous;  we  subjoin  a  brief  notice 
of  them,  as  of  interest  to  their  descendants,  and  to  save  the  mistaking  of  persons  of 
similar  Christian  name,  so  often  recurring  in  both  branches  of  the  family,  a  plan 
we  have  also  pursued  in  regard  to  some  other  names,  for  a  like  reason. 

Derick  Benson,  born  1650,  married  Thysie  Claes,  daughter  of  Claes  Jansen 
Stavast,  of  Albany,  by  whom  were  all  his  children,  and,  secondly,  Jannetie,  daughter 
of  Barent  Pietersen  Coeymans,  of  Albany,  who  survived  him.  Derick  became 
wealthy,  owning,  among  other  property,  1,000  acres  of  land  on  the  Raritan,  which  he 
sold,  in  1697,  to  his  lather-in-law,  Coeymans,  and  on  which  his  son,  Andries  Coey- 
mans, afterward  settled.  In  1701,  Benson  leased  the  ferry  between  New  York  and 
Brooklyn,  for  seven  years,  at  £130  a  year,  but  lost  money  at  it.  For  additional 
items  respecting  Derick  Benson,  see  the  Bergen  Genealogy.  He  died  June  26,  171 7, 
having  had  children,  Catalina,  born  1683,  married  John  F.  Vandermeulen  and  John 
Kelly;  Eve,  born  1686,  died  young;  Rachel,  born  1689,  married  Hans  Bergen;  Kve, 
born  i6j)3,  married,  1717,  Anthony  Duanc,  father  (but  by  a  second  wife)  of  Hon- 
orable James  Duane;  Derick,  born  1696,  died  August  30,  1734;  and  Thysie,  bom 
1609,  who  married  James  Henderson,  of  New  York,  merchant.  As  Derick,  last  named, 
left  no  descendants,  his  uncle,  Samson,  becomes  the  head  of  all  the  later  New  York 
Bensons,   not  of  the  Harlem  branch. 

Samson  Benson,  the  potter,  born  in  1652,  married,  first,  Tryntie  Van  Deusen, 
sister  to  the  wife  of  Johannes,  by  whom  were  all  his  children  but  one;  and,  secondly, 
Grietie,  daughter  of  Abraham  Kermer,  and  widow  of  Capt.  Jacob  Van  Tilburg;  Ben- 
son being  her  third  husband,  and  surviving  her.  We  have  not  located  Benson's  pot- 
tery,  but   he  owned  a   house  and   lot  in    Smith   street    (now    William,   below   Maiden 


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third  cross  street,  which  Peter's  father  secured  from  Lubbert 
Gerritsen,  as  heretofore  noticed,  and  which  he  formally  conveyed 
to  Peter  December  28,  1699,  ^^er  the  latter  had  sold  it  to  Ben- 
son. It  formed  a  part  of  the  late  Dunning  plot  of  4  acres.  Ben- 
son was  still  here  November  16,  1700,  when  he  acted  as  an  arbiter 
in  settling  the  Toumeur  estate,  and  on  December  13  ensuing  he 
voted  for  building  a  new  bridge  "at  the  stone  bridge,"  which 
crossed  the  Mill  Creek  at  iiith  Street.     But,  in  the  meantime. 


Lane),  bought  of  Dr.  Lucas  Van  Tienhoven,  and  which  his  executors  sold  to  his 
son  Harman,  February  4,  1732.  He  died  June  2,  1730,  having  had  thirteen  children, 
viz:  Catalina,  born  1675,  died  1706,  having  married,  1697.  StoflFel  (also  called  The- 
ophilus)  Pelts;  Derick,  bom  1677;  Teuwes,  or  Matthew,  born  1679;  Harman,  bom 
1681;  Samson,  born  1684;  Robert,  born  1686:  William,  bom  1687;  Elizabeth,  bom 
1689,  married  Egbert  Van  Borsum;  Johannes  born  1692;  Helena,  bom  1694;  Maria, 
born  1696,  who  with  William,  Johannes  and  Helena,  died  early;  Henricus,  bom  1698. 
and  Catalina,  born  1707  (after  the  elder  child  so  called  was  dead),  and  who  was 
unmarried  in    1726. 

Derick  Benson,  born  1677,  also  a  potter,  lived  in  Crown  street  (now  Liberty), 
and  died  in  1725.  By  his  wife  Elizabeth  Radcliff,  who  survived  him,  he  had  Samson, 
born  1712  (who  married  Catharine  Peck,  and  had  Derick,  born  1741;  Johannes,  bom 
1744,  etc.,  perhaps  went  to  Albanv) ;  Catharine,  bom  1714,  who  married  Capt. 
Abraham  Eight,  of  New  York,  father  of  the  excellent  Abraham  Eights,  Esa.,  of 
Albany,  deceased  father  of  the  late  Dr.  Jonas  Eights  (see  Pearson's  First  Settlers): 
Rachel,  bom  1716,  who  married  Frederick  Fine,  of  New  York;  Johannes,  bom  1718; 
Derick,  born  1721;  Matthew,  born  1723;  and  Elizabeth,  bom,  1725.  On  April  9, 
1754,  the  widow,  Elizabeth,  and  her  two  daughters,  Catharine  (with  her  husband. 
Captain  Eight)  and  Rachel,  the  last  being  also  a  widow,  sold  the  residence  in  Crown 
street,  to  Kem  Rapelje,  bolter,   for    £300. 

Matthew  Benson,  mason,  born  1679,  died  1721.  He  married,  1706,  Catrina, 
daughter  of  Jonathan  Provoost.  and  their  children  that  reached  maturity,  were 
Samson,  born  17 13;  Catharine,  born  17 16,  and  Catalina,  born  17 19.  His  will,  made 
May  9,  1721,  was  i)roved  December  ^,  1755,  on  the  oath  of  Henry  Riker,  one  of  the 
witnesses.  On  April  30,  1753,  the  widow,  with  Catharine  and  Catalina,  the  surviving 
children,  the  last  unmarried,  and  Catharine,  then  the  wife  of  Thomas  Moore,  weaver, 
sold  property  of  Matthew  Benson  to  Charles  Johnson,  schoolmaster.  But  it  would 
appear  that  Samson  married,  1735,  Tannetie  Arment,  and  had  issue:  Matthew,  bom 
1741;    Jonathan,  born   1744;    Lucas,  born   1746;    Cornelius,  born  1748. 

Harman  Benson,  carpenter,  born  1681,  married,  1702,  Aeltie,  daughter  of  Victor 
Bicker,  and  surviving  her  six  years,  died  October  7,  1743.  Their  children  were 
Catharine,  born  1703,  who  married  John  Leake;  Claesie,  also  called  Cloe,  born  1705. 
married  David  Scott  and  John  Van  Temhem;  Samson,  born  1707;  Catalina.  bom 
171 1,  married  John  Walker;  Victor,  born  1714;  Annetie,  born  1716,  married  John 
Man;    and  Harmanus,  born   i7i9f  who  married,   1742,  Judith  Castang. 

Samson  Benson,  cooper,  born  1684,  married,  1710,  Maria,  daughter  of  Abraham 
Bokee,  and  died  November  29,  1732.  His  children,  except  three  that  died  early, 
were  Abraham,  born  171 2,  living,  1763,  married  Anna  Tilly,  1739,  and  had  a  family; 
Samson,  born  17 14,  was  a  mariner,  married  Elizabeth  Williams,  1737,  had  a  son, 
Samson,  bom  1739,  etc.;  his  widow  was  appointed  administratrix  June  i,  1743; 
Catharine,  born  1715,  married  James  Tavlor;  and  John,  born  1725,  who  died  before 
1763,  leaving  his  property,  by  will  datea  July  2,  1754,  to  his  brother  Abraham  and 
sister    Catherine. 

Henricus  Benson,  potter,  born  1698,  niarriedj  1722,  Catherine,  daughter  of  Gerrit 
Van  Laer.  He  died  October  27,  1742.  Three  children  named  Gerrit,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy, besides  which  he  had  Tryntie,  born  1722;  Henricus,  born  1726;  Samson,  born 
1720,  and  Derick,  born  1:737.  On  December  29,  173?,  Henricus  sold  a  house  and  lot 
in  Smith  street,  deeded  him  February  24,  1727,  by  his  father.  We  trace  his  children 
no   further. 

Robert  Benson,  bom  1686,  married,  1708,  Cornelia,  daughter  of  Johannes  Roos. 
but  died  in  1715,  and  the  next  year  his  widow  married  Anthony  Rutgers.  Benson  had 
children,  Elizabeth,  born  1708,  who  married  Harmanus  Rutgers,  1729:  Tryntie,  bom 
1710,  died  young;  Tryntie,  born  1712,  married  Col.  Martinus  Hoffman,  1733;  and 
Robert,  born  1715,  died  1762,  Who  was  9  brewer,  married,  1738,  Catharine,  daughter 
of  Egbert  Van  Borsum,  became  wealthy,  and  served  in  the  Common  Council  from 
1740  to  1754.  He  was  father  of  Robert  Benson,  born  October  30,  i739,  died  Feb- 
ruary 25,  1823,  assistant  alderman  1766-68,  aid-de-camp  to  Cjovernor  C»eorge  Clinton, 
in  the  Revolution,  clerk  of  the  State  Senate,  and  later  clerk  of  the  New  York  Common 
Council;  also  of  Captain  Henry  Benson,  born  November  17,  1741.  died  unmarried 
August,  1823;  and  ot  late  Judge  Egbert  Benson,  born  June  21,  1746,  died  unmarried 
August  24,  1833.  Robert,  last  named,  was  the  father  of  Honorable  Egbert  Benson, 
of  New  York,  and  later  of  New  Utrecht,  and  his  sister  Maria,  who  married  Judg^ 
Lcffert  Lefferts,  and  was  the  mother  of  Mrs.  J.  Carson  Brevoort. 


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his  brother-in-law,  Van  Hoesen,  also  quitting  Albany,  had  settled 
as  a  farmer  and  innkeeper  at  the  Indian  Sappokaniken,  just 
without  the  city  on  the  North  River  side;  otherwise  called  by 
the  Dutch  New  Nordwyck,  and  also  from  Gerrit  Bas,  a  proprie- 
tor there,  Bassen  Bouwery,  a  contraction  of  "Bas  syn  bouwery." 
It  has  since  been  known  as  Greenwich  Village.  At  this  place 
lived  the  Mandevilles,  the  Van  Schaicks,  etc.,  and  here  Jacob 
Comelissen  Stille  (see  Woertendyk  and  Somerindyk)  had  an 
improved  farm  of  lOO  acres  which  Johannes  Benson  bought  De- 
cember 6,  1699,  for  2000  guilders.  Hither  Benson  soon  removed, 
having  agreed,  November  12,  1701,  to  sell  his  house  and  lot  at 
Harlem  (for  which  he  had  obtained  a  deed  March  15  preceding), 
to  his  eldest  son  Samson,  now  married  to  a  daughter  of  Adolph 
Meyer.  With  it  Samson  bought  "a  negro,  with  a  plough,  and 
iron-work  for  a  wagon,  as  also  37  schepels  of  seed  rye  and  wheat," 
all  for  £130,  which  he  had  till  May,  1705,  to  pay  for,  and  then 
to  receive  his  deed. 

After  several  years  at  the  Bessen  Bouwery,  Captain  Benson 
bought  the  farm  of  Jan  Lou  we  Bogert,  September  21,  1706,  and 
the  next  spring  returned  to  Harlem  to  spend  the  rest  of  his  days. 
In  the  divisions  of  171 2  he  drew  his  proportion  of  land,  for  which 
see  Appendix  J.  He  added  otherwise  to  his  acres,  which  num- 
bered 182  in  1715.  Captain  Benson  died  this  year;  his  widow, 
Elizabeth  van  Deusen,  surviving  till  1746.  She  was  the  daughter 
of  Teuwes  ( Matthew i  van  Deusen,  of  Albany,  where  she  was 
married  July  26,  1676. 

Children  of  Johannes  Benson  and  Elizabeth 
Van  Deusen. 

2.  Samson,  bom  October  15,  1680,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  married, 

July  26,  1699,  Maria  Meyer. 

3.  Helena,  bom  October  8,  1682,  married  Lawrence  Kortright, 

October  22,  1703,  and  had  two  children. 

4.  Derick,  bom  February  28,  1686,  married,  October  16,  1707, 

Jannetie  Vandewater,  and  in  1711,  Catalina,  daughter 
of  Abraham  Bokee. 

5.  Catalina,   bom  August   24,    1688,   married  Jacob   Sammon, 

May  17,  1706,  had  twelve  children. 

6.  Rachel,   bom  August   29,    1690,   married   Johannes   Cowen- 

hoven,  of  Bergen  County,  N.  J.,  May  7,  1707,  had  nine 
children. 

7.  Matthew,  born  January  5,  1693,  married,  December  12,  1716, 

Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Arent  Bussing,  and  on  December 
9,  1727,  Hannah,  daughter  of  John  Edsall,  and  widow 
of  Gerrit  De  Groot. 

8.  Catharine,  bom  August  27,   1695,  married  Abraham  Dela; 


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mater,  February  21,  17 18,  had  four  children.     (See  Dela- 
mater.) 
9.  Marritie,  born  April  26,   1699,  married  Ryck  Lydecker,  of 
Bergen  County,  N.  J.,  April  19,  17 18,  had  eleven  children. 

10.  Johannes,  Jr.,  or  Joanni,  as  he  wrote  his  name,  bom  May  29, 

1 70 1,  married  May  2,  1724,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Ger- 
rit  Lydecker,  of  Bergen  County,  N.  J. 
loa.  Benjamin,  bom  March  14,  1704. 

Samson  (2),  (son  of  Johannes),  with  his  wife  and  a  negro 
servant,  began  life  in  his  own  house  at  Harlem  village,  which 
he  purchased  from  his  father.  On  January  23,  1706,  he  bought 
from  Zachariah  Sickels  part  of  the  Brevoort  property,  being  No.  i 
of  the  New  Lots,  and  two  erven  on  the  east  side  of  his  own,  and 
adjoining  the  cross  street  on  which  were  the  church  and  the 
church  yard.  On  making  a  larger  purchase  he  sold  Lot  i  to  his 
brother  Derick,  from  whom  it  passed  in  17 12  to  Johannes  Meyer. 
In  171 1  Samson  bought  the  property  of  Daniel  Tourneur,  Jr., 
deceased,  embracing  the  farm  on  Montanye's  Flat,  and  lot  No. 
2  in  the  Division  of  1691,  the  first  of  which  he  sold  soon  after 
to  Metje  Cornelis  (reserving  the  Morgen  rights),  and  in  1715 
he  sold  lot  No.  2  to  Adolph  Meyer.  For  his  own  drafts,  in  17 12, 
see  Appendix  J.  On  March  28,  1721,  by  buying  out  the  widow 
and  co-heirs,  Samson  became  owner  of  the  paternal  farm  at  the 
Point,  and  the  lots  drawn  by  his  father  in  the  Four  Divisions; 
his  brother  Derick,  by  an  arrangement  already  noticed,  taking 
other  of  his  father's  lands. 

On  May  4,  1721,  he  exchanged  land  with  Barent  Waldron 
for  lot  No.  6,  First  Division,  lying  between  his  farm  and  the  high- 
way, and  by  a  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court,  of  November  29, 
1723,  was  quitted  in  his  title  to  his  drafted  lands.  (See  account 
of  Abraham  Delamontanie.)  Lot  No.  6  lay  mostly  within  the 
64  acres  (erroneously  called  80)  which  Benjamin  Benson  con- 
veyed to  his  brother  Adolph,  in  1743,  and  which  descended  to 
Adolph's  son,  Lawrence  Benson.  For  notice  of  Samson's  grant 
of  the  Mill  Camp,  and  the  erection  of  a  mill,  etc.,  see  Appendix  F. 
This  mill  stood  on  the  south  side  of  the  creek,  and  had  two  run 
of  stones,  only  some  eighteen  inches  in  diameter.  While  build- 
ing it,  in  1740,  Samson  Benson  died. 

His  children  were: 

11.  Johannes,  bom  February  4,  1700,  married  Tanneke,  daugh- 

ter of  Samuel  Waldron,  September  17,  1722. 

12.  Adolph,  bom  January  8,  1703,  was  made  constable  in  1732, 

soon  after  his  marriage  with  Eve,  daughter  of  Lawrence 
Kortright.  He  married  second,  on  September  28,  1768, 
Martha  Van  Dyck. 

13.  Benjamin,  bom  October  3,  1705,  married  Susannah,  daughter 

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14.  Elizabeth,  born  October  13,  1707,  married  Johannes  Waldron, 

Jr.,  December   10,   1719,  and  had  two  children.      (See 
Waldron.)     She  married  second,  John  Romer. 

15.  Mary,  born  July  4,  1709,  married  Samson  Pelts,  of  New  York, 

January  22,  1725,  and  had  five  children. 

16.  Catharine,  married  Captain  Luke  Shourd,*  January  2,  1728, 

and  had  one  child.     She  married  second,  Capt.  Daniel 
McGown,  in  1740,  and  had  one  child. 

17.  Daniel,  bom  August  10,  1714. 

18.  Helena,  born  November  5,  1716,  married  Peter  Bussing,  of 

Fordham,  April  5,  1740. 

19.  Anne,  bom  March  25,  1720,  married  John  Odell,  of  Fordham, 

and  had  three  children. 

20.  Catalina,  bom  May  5,  1725,  married  Jacob  Dyckman,  Jr.,  of 

Kingsbridge,  about  1742,  and  had  ten  children. 

Derick  (4),  (son  of  Johannes),  in  1715,  owned  57  acres  of 
land,  which  included  the  old  Resolved  Waldron  farm  on  Van 
Keulen's  Hook,  bought,  17 14,  from  John  Van  Horn,  and  since 
known  as  the  Bogert  or  Morris  Randell  farm.  He  got  an  in- 
crease of  40  acres  at  the  settlement  of  his  father's  estate,  in  1721 ; 
by  releasing  to  Samson  the  parts  of  the  lots  in  the  First,  Second 
and  Fourth  Divisions  drawn  with  him  in  171 2  (see  Appendix  J), 
and  taking  Xo.  4,  Second  Division ;  No.  4,  Third  Division ;  No.  6, 
Third  Division,  and  No.  2,  Fourth  Division.  Of  these  he  sold, 
in  1724,  the  first  and  last  to  Johannes  Meyer,  and  33^  acres  of 
Xo.  6  to  John  Lewis.  The  last  named  passed,  in  1726,  to  the 
Kortrights,  later  to  Peter  Waldron,  and  from  him.  May  5,  1768, 
to  John  Bogert,  Jr.  In  1731  Derick  bought  Nos.  19,  20,  Van 
Keulen's  Hook,  from  Grietie  Kortright.  Thus  his  estate  stood 
till  his  death  in  1751.  Derick  was  several  times  constable  of  the 
Harlem  division  of  the  Out  Ward,  and  was  named  as  collector, 
in  Montgomery's  Charter,  1731. 

His  children  were: 

*  Luke  Sioerts,  also  called  Shourd,  was  a  "mariner,"  as  were  others  of  his  race, 
at  a  later  day.  The  name  is  evidently  derived  from  the  Swedish  Christian  name  Shute. 
The  ancestor,  Sioert  Olfertsen,  emigrated  from  Heercnven,  a  large  village  eighteen 
miles  southeast  of  Leuwarden,  and  for  its  beauty  called  the  Friesland  Hague.  He 
sailed  from  Amsterdam  September  27,  1663,  in  the  ship  Statyn,  and  with  him  his 
wife,  Itie  Roclofs,  their  child,  Olfert,  and  servant,  Foppe  Tohannes.  In  the  same 
vessel  came  Minne  Johannes,  also  from  Friesland,  whose  descendants  in  Rockland 
County  have  borne  the  name  of  Minne  or  Manny.  ^  Sioert  was  a  mason,  and  hence 
usually  called  Sioert  de  mctselaer.  He  and  wife  joined  the  church  in  New  York 
August  34.  1671,  at  the  first  communion  under  Dominie  Nieuwenhuysen.  He  was 
assistant  alderman  in  1688  and  1689.  He  married,  secondly,  in  1697,  Heyltie  Pieters, 
widow  of  Comelis  Cloppcr,  and  again,  in  1701,  Janneke  Snediker.  He  died  in  1702, 
leaving  all  his  property  to  his  son  Olfert.  His  daughter,  Maria,  born  1664,  married 
Johannes  Clopper.  Olfert  Sioerts,  as  called,  born  at  Heerenveen,  in  1661,  took  his 
father's  trade,  a  bricklayer,  but  abandoned  it  for  the  sea.  He  married,  in  1682, 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Cornclis  Clopper,  and,  in  1701,  Hillegond,  daughter  of  Skipper 
Lucas  Andriesscn.  Captain  Sioerts  died  in  New  York  in  1710.  His  children  that 
reached  maturity  were  Mary,  born  1686,  Heyltie,  born  1688;  Sioert,  born  1691; 
Aeltic,  born  1695;  Johannes,  born  170*;  Luke,  born  1704,  and  Cornelius,  born  1707. 
Heyltie  married  Johannes  Roosevelt,  and  has  many  descendants.  Luke  married 
Catharine  Benson,  January  6,  1728,  but  within  five  years  left  her  a  widow.  Some  of 
this  family  removed  to  Rockland  County  long  prior  to  the  Revolution. 


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21.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Abraham  Ly decker,  November  26, 
^     1732. 

22.  Tanneke,  baptized  December  2,  1715. 

23.  Helena,  baptized  August  6,  17 18,  married  Peter  Banta,  April 

5,  1740,  and  had  seven  children. 

24.  Catalina,  baptized  July  20,  17^0,  married  Dr.  Josiah  Pater- 

son,*  and  had  nine  children. 

25.  Maria,  baptized  August  14,  1723,  died  April  5,  1754. 

26.  John,  married  May  18,  1747,  Marritie  Lydecker,  of  Hacken- 

sack,  N.  J.,  and  came  to  own  his  father's  lands  at  Har- 
lem. He  sold  the  farm  aforesaid,  March  12,  1766,  to 
John  Bogert,  Jr.,  and,  I  believe,  removed  to  Bergen 
County,  N.  J.  John  was  the  father  of  Cattelyntie,  who 
was  baptized  May  6,  1750. 

Matthew  (7),  (son  of  Johannes),  was  by  trade  a  cooper. 
In  1716  he  bought  30  acres  of  land  at  Harlem  from  his  brother- 
in-law,  Lawrence  Kortright;  sold  it,  in  17 19,  to  John  Delamater; 
in  1724  bought  66  acres  from  his  brother  Samson,  being  lots  2 
and  18  in  Second  Division.  These  he  sold,  in  1730,  to  Nicholas 
Kortright,  and  went  to  Bergen  County,  N.  J.,  he  and  his  wife 
uniting  with  the  church  at  Hackensack,  May  29,  1731,  by  cer- 
tificate from  Harlem.  Matthew  was  afterward  a  "vintner'*  in 
New  York,  owning  a  house  and  lot  in  Dey  Street,  where  he  died, 
leaving  children: 

27.  Gerrit,   baptized  October   15,    1728,   died,   unmarried,    1758, 

aged  30  years. 

28.  Benjamin,  born  February  13,   1732,  married  Catherine  De- 

ronda,  April  30,  1756,  died  August  5,  1779.  Succeeded 
to  the  property  in  Dey  Street,  New  York  City,  which  he 
owned  in  1773,  when  he  resided  on  a  farm  at  Haver- 
straw,  N.  Y. 

29.  Samuel,  of  New  York,  house  carpenter,  married  Ann  Steel, 

December  23,  1759. 

30.  Charity,  baptized  January  26,  1735,  married  William  Sloe, 

July  27,  1755. 

•  Josiah  Paterson,  of  New  York,  "surgeon,"  bousht  the  propcrtv  of  John  Lewis, 
at  Harlem,  in  1748.  Besides  the  house  and  lot  named  in  note  it  embraces  two  others 
in  the  village,  with  eleven  acres  of  woodland  in  second,  third  and  fourth  divisions. 
Dr.  Paterson  was  probably  the  son  of  John  Paterson,  of  New  York,  *'surgeon,"  who 
bought  land  at  the  Fly.  March  25,  i709.  Josiah  owned  property  in  Queen  street 
and  in  Crown  street.  His  widow,  etc.,  sold  the  latter  to  Gualterus  Du  Bois,  in  1767. 
He  also  owned  "part  of  Leonard  Lewis'  right"  in  the  Great  Patent  in  Ulster  County, 
New  York.  He  disposed  of  his  property  at  Harlem,  after  holding  it  ten  years. 
Dr.  Paterson  was  admitted  a  freeman  in  New  York  in  1750^  and  there  he  died, 
October  23,  1766,  leaving  by  his  wife,  said  Catalina  Benson,  children,  John,  Richard. 
Josiah,  Abraham,  Elizabeth,  Ann  and  Mary.  John  became  a  merchant  in  Dutchess 
County,  and,  I  believe,  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  Robert  Livingston,  pro- 
prietor of  the  Manor  of  Livingston,  and  was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  at  the  Manor,  in 
the  time  of  the  Revolution.  Colonel  Peter  R.  Livingston,  who  owned  the  Tudah 
place  (see  page  172),  was  a  brother  of  Mrs.  John  Paterson.  (See  Doc  Hist.  N.  Y. 
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Johannes  (lo),  (son  of  Johannes).  On  June  26,  1724,  he 
bought  from  his  brother  Samson,  Lot  12,  in  First  Division,  which 
their  father  had  drawn.  On  February  19th  ensuing  he  also 
bought  from  Samson  two  other  parcels  of  land,  in  First  and 
Second  Divisions,  as  hereafter  further  designated,  which  gave 
him  in  all  60  acres.  He  and  his  wife  conveyed  these  lands  to 
Peter  Bussing,  March  14,  1733.  That  same  spring  they  removed 
to  Bergen  County,  N.  J.,  and  on  June  3,  joined  the  church  at 
Hackensack,  by  certificate  from  Harlem. 

Their  children  were: 

31.  Elizabeth,  born  October  23,  1725,  married  Hendrick  J.  Banta, 

July  16,  1743,  and  had  five  children. 

32.  Gerrit,  bom  October  3,  1727,  married  Eva  Berdan,  Februarj^ 

9^  1754. 

33.  Johannes,  born  January  29,  1730,  married  Rebecca  Demarest. 

34.  Cornelius,  born  March   17,  1832,  married  Cornelia  Debaun, 

October  16,  1756,  had  eight  children. 

35.  Catrina,  bom  June  29,  1734,  married  Isaac  Lameter,  January 

II,  1756. 

36.  Matthew,  born  November  19,  1736,  married  Marytje  ? 

and  had  issue:  Hannes  (Johannes),  born  September  28, 
1760;  Albert,  baptized  February  12,  1764;  Samuel,  bap- 
tized January  28,  1776;  John  and  Dirck,  twins,  baptized 
March  13,  1779. 

Johannes  Benson  (11),  (son  of  Samson),  was  the  third 
of  the  name  in  the  order  of  descent;  but  being  a  year  older 
than  his  uncle  Joanni,  was  designated  as  "de  ondsie/'  the  old- 
est. The  year  after  his  marriage,  pursuant  to  a  town  custom,  he 
was  made  constable.  In  1727  he  bought  Theunis  Delamontanie's 
place  in  the  village,  being  three  acres,  the  upper  half  of  No.  4, 
Van  Keulen's  Hook,  near  to  which  Benson  lived ;  adding,  in  1742, 
the  adjoining  Peto  lot,  one  acre.  See  Appendix  F.  In  1733  he 
bought  31  acres  from  Nicholas  Kortright,  6  of  which  were  off  the 
north  side  of  lot  No.  17,  3d  Division,  and  25  acres  lay  on  the  west 
side  of  the  Harlem  and  Kingsbridge  Road,  and  included  the 
Ronde  Gebergte,  or  Mount  Morris  (see  p.  122),  being  lot  No.  5, 
First  Division ;  both  lots  having  descended  to  Kortright  from  his 
grandmother,  Metje  Cornelis.  for  whom  they  were  originally  laid 
out.  The  last,  as  enlarged  by  a  strip  of  land  taken  off  the  high- 
way in  1744  (when  the  latter  was  narrowed  to  a  width  of  three 
rods)  and  sold  to  Johannes  Benson  by  the  town,  May  11,  1747, 
for  £10,  came  to  form  part  of  a  title  hitherto  but  imperfectly 
understood.  Johannes  Benson  was  serving  as  deacon  at  Harlem, 
August  30,  1753,  but  was  probably  dead  November  27,  1756, 
when,  his  lands  in  3d  Division  were  in  possession  of  and  sold  by 
his  brother  Adolph.     On  February  21,  1773,  his  widow  Tanneke 


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made  her  will,  which  was  proved  May  25,  1778,  in  Dutchess 
County,  whither  she  had  gone  with  her  nephews,  the  Waldrons  of 
Hoom's  Hook,  and  other  kinsfolk,  at  the  opening  of  the  Revolu- 
tion. Johannes  Benson's  4  acres  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook  were 
bought  by  his  brother  Benjamin  (in  possession  in  1766),  and  his 
other  lands  by  his  brother  Adolph. 
His  children  were: 

37.  Elizabeth,  bom  July  i,  1726. 

38.  Adolph,  bom  April  22,  1728,  died  in  infancy. 

39.  George,  bom  November  21,  1730. 

40.  Maria,  born  July  15,  1733,  died  in  infancy. 

41.  Samuel,  bom  February  25,  1736. 

42.  Jannettie,  born  April  5,  1738,  died  in  infancy. 

43.  John  Henry,  bom  November  17,  1741,  married  Rachel  Brun- 

ston  {or  Bollston),  June  5,  1762.     Had  seven  children. 

Adolph  Benson,  son  of  Samson.  He  bought  his  first  land  in 
1737,  from  his  brother-in-law,  John  Delamater,  being  30  acres  to 
the  south  of  lot  No.  i  (of  1691),  said  tract  having  been  purchased 
from  the  town  in  17 12  by  Benson's  father-in-law,  Kortright,  who 
sold  it  in  171 5  to  Matthew  Benson,  and  he  in  1719  to  said  Dela- 
mater. It  was  the  nucleus  of  the  large  farm  of  90  acres,  lying  cen- 
tral of  Harlem  plains,  and  known  in  our  day  as  the  Samson  A.  Ben- 
son or  Race  Course  Tract ;  its  title  indisputable,  but  its  origin  hith- 
erto an  enigma  to  the  professional  conveyancer.  The  farm  con- 
tained two  other  parcels.  One  of  these  embraced  the  land  lying  be- 
tween the  30  acres  aforesaid  and  the  old  Kingsbridge  Road,  (con- 
tents not  given),  for  which  Adolph  agreed  with  the  town,  in  1747, 
for  £50:  this  sale  being  confirmed  May  30,  1753,  by  an  award  of 
arbitrators,  touching  the  disposal  of  this  and  other  parcels  of  the 
common  land,  pursuant  to  which  the  price,  with  six  years*  interest, 
was  paid,  and  the  title  secured.  The  other  was  the  adjoining 
25-acre  tract  of  his  brother  Johannes  (No.  5,  ist  Division),  as 
enlarged  on  the  northeast  and  east  by  the  strip  from  off  the  road, 
purchased  by  Johannes  from  the  town  as  aforesaid ;  of  which  lot 
Adolph  also  became  the  owner. 

Adolph  also  acquired  the  6  acres  of  lot  17,  3d  Division,  which 
his  brother  Johannes  bought  of  Nicholas  Kortright,  and  lot  18, 
3d  Division,  5  a.  3  q.  2  r.,  originally  of  his  grandfather,  Captain 
Johannes  Benson,  both  which,  making  11  a.  3  q.  2  r.,  he  sold  on 
November  27,  1756,  to  Jacob  Rapelje.  This  formed  part  of  the 
late  Dyckman  Fort  George  tract.  He  died  in  his  99th  year,  April 
30,  1802,  in  his  old  homestead,  which  stood  till  1854  on  the  line 
of  I22d  Street,  one  hundred  feet  or  more  east  of  Seventh  Avenue, 
and  on  his  first  purchase. 


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AD01.PH  (12),  (son  of  Samson),  had  issue: 

44.  Sampson  (also  called  Samuel),  born  1733,  married  on  March 

3,  1763,  Rebecca,  daughter  of  John  Dykman. 

45.  Lawrence,  married  October  25,  1765,  his  cousin,  Mary,  daugh- 

ter of  Benjamin  Benson. 

Benjamin  Benson  (13),  (son  of  Samson),  has  been  men- 
tioned as  the  next  owner  of  the  homestead  or  Point  farm,  and 
mill,  and  as  having  purchased  the  Mill  Camp  and  adjacent  lots, 
together  forming  the  large  Benson  farm  north  of  the  Creek. 
In  1748  he  received  35  acres  (with  2  erven,  we  believe  those 
originally  Slot's)  from  the  estate  of  his  grandfather,  Meyer. 
See  Appendix  F.  For  another  purchase  see  Appendix  G.  On 
May  I,  1770,  he  gave  his  son,  Samson,  a  deed  for  20  acres,  off  the 
south  side  of  the  homestead,  bounded  by  the  river,  the  land  of 
William  Waldron,  and  the  commons,  but  twenty  years  later,  viz., 
on  May  2,  1791,  conveyed  him  the  entire  farm;  having  on  April 
2  preceding  given  his  other  son,  Peter,  a  deed  for  the  farm  north 
of  the  Mill  Creek,  including  the  mill-pond  and  stream,  and  the 
mill  which  Benjamin  had  recently  built.  He  now  bought  the 
homestead  farm  of  John  Bogert,  Jr.,  deceased,  by  deed  of  May  9, 
10,  1 79 1,  and  removed  thither,  but  died  the  following  year.  Main- 
ly by  his  instrumentality  in  securing  funds  was  the  new  church 
erected  at  Harlem,  in  1788. 

The  homestead,  and  other  lands  of  Samson  Benson,  were  sold 
by  deeds  of  September  23,  1740,  and  January  28,  1743,  to  his 
son  Benjamin,  who  the  next  day,  after  the  last  deed  was  given, 
conveyed  the  64  (called  80)  acres  of  the  homestead  before  noticed 
(its  western  part),  to  his  brother,  Adolph,  with  lot  No.  18,  Fourth 
Division  (the  latter  reconveyed  to  Benjamin)  ;  Johannes  at  the 
same  time  getting  the  5  acres  3  q.  2-rod  lot,  being  No.  18,  Third 
Division.  Benjamin  took  the  mill  and  his  father's  rights  in  the 
Mill  Camp,  obtaining  a  full  title  for  the  latter  from  the  town 
in  1753.  With  additions,  it  became  that  since  known  as  the 
Peter  Benson  farm.  The  old  mill  south  of  the  creek  being  burned 
during  the  Revolution,  while  the  British  had  possession  and  the 
Bensons  were  in  exile,  Benjamin  built  a  new  mill  on  this  farm, 
on  the  north  bank  of  the  creek,  which  remained  till  the  construc- 
tion of  the  Harlem  Canal,  when  it  was  taken  down.  See  Appen- 
dix F. 

Benjamin  (13),  (son  ot"  Samson),  had  issue: 

46.  Samson,  "J^- '»  ^^^  September  13,  1736,  married  December 

6,  1762,  Mary,  daughter  of  John  Sickels. 

47.  Peter,   married   Hannah,   daughter   of   John   Horn,   of   the 

Bloomingdale  Road,  who  after  his  death,  in  1802,  mar- 


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ried  Rev.  John  F.  Jackson,*  then  pastor  of  the  church 
at  Harlem. 

48.  Mary,  who  married  Lawrence  Benson,  October  25,  1765,  had 

three  children. 

49.  Rebecca,  who  married  September  9,  1765,  Matthias  Vreden- 

burgh  (whose  son  Benjamin  married  Eve  Benson). 

50.  Susannah,  who  married  Benjamin  Lightbourn.     Their  daugh- 

ter, Maria,  married  Edward  Elting,  of  New  York. 

51.  Elizabeth,  who  died  unmarried  in  1795. 

Benjamin  (28),  (son  of  Matthew),  had  issue: 

52.  Joana,  bom  Februar>'  10,  1757. 

53.  Catherine,  bom  April  3,  1759,  married  John  Harris,  had  one 

child. 

54.  Charity,  born  September  14,  1761. 

55.  Matthew,  born  April  27,  1764,  married  Johanna  Davis,  and 

died  October  23,  1843. 

56.  Henry,  born  September  3,  1766,  died  single,  1782. 

57.  Benjamin,  Jr.,  bom  December  6,    1768,   married   Elizabeth 

Craig,  1790,  died  February  25,  1823. 

58.  Jacob,  bom  March  15,  1771. 

59.  Maria,  born  July  31,   1773,  married  Silas  Davis,  Febmary 

24,  1794.     Both  of  Haverstraw,  N.  Y. 

60.  William,  born  October  3,  1776,  married  Hannah  Fils,  May 

27,  1794. 

61.  Abraham,  bom  January  28,  1780,  married  first,  Esther  Jarvis, 

May  16,  i8io2;  second,  Grissel  Burr,  May  6,   1804,  and 
third,  Finette  Edwards,  June  30,  183 1. 

Gerrit  (32),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

62.  Elizabeth,  bom  April  6,  1755. 

63.  Maria,  baptized  June  26,  1757. 

64.  Johannes,  baptized  October  14,  1759,  married  Mary  Ly decker, 

January  29,  1781,  died  May  8,  1828. 

65.  Jannetie,  born  1761,  married  William  Lozier,  had  one  child. 

66.  Kattelynte,  born  1764. 

Johannes  (33),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 
(yy.  Elizabeth,  born  October  3,   1754,  married  Dirck   S.  Banta, 

and  had  five  children. 
68.  Anna,  bom  March  29,  1757. 

*  Rev.  John  Frclinghuysen  Jackson  was  a  son  of  the  Rev.  William  Jackson, 
whose  father,  Patrick  Jackson,  was  a  son  of  William  Jackson,  from  Edinburgh,  Scot- 
land, a  zealous  Presbyterian,  who  came  out  to  East  Jersey,  in  1685,  with  George  Scot. 
Laird  of  Pitlochie,  and  settled  in  New  York,  where  he  married,  1694,  Anna,  oaughter 
of  Dr.  Hartman  Wcssels.  Rev.  John  F.  Jackson  and  the  widow  Benson  were  married 
February  2,  1804.  He  built  and  occupied  till  his  death,  which  occurred  March  36. 
1836,  in  his  68th  year,  the  stately  frame  house  on  114th  street,  between  Second  and 
Third  avenues,  now  the  residence  of  his  son.  Dr.  William  H.  Jackson. 


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69.  John,  born  June  29,  1759. 

70.  Lana,  bom  May  19,  1762. 

71.  David,    bom    October    17,    1765,    married    Elizabeth    Van 

Houten,  January  21,  1792. 

72.  Catelina,  bom  November  10,  1767. 

73.  Gerritt,  bom  March  20,  1770,  married  Maria  Van  Vranken, 

1797,  died  1 861. 

74.  Daniel,  bom  December  8,  1771,  married  Rachel  D.  Doremus, 

November  11,  1795. 

Cornelius  (34),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

75.  Elizabeth,   bom  January  9,    1762,   married   Edward   Smith, 

June  3,  1787,  and  had  four  children. 

76.  Yannetie  (Jane),  bom  April  29,  1757,  died  single. 
yy,  Johannes,  born  Febmary  20,  1758. 

78.  Carel,  born  July  30,   1764,  married  Hilletje  Van  Der  Bilt, 

April  19,  1787. 

79.  Petms,  born  October  4,  1766,  married  Geya  Demarest,  Octo- 

ber 11,  1795. 

80.  Margrietje,  born  February  24,   1769,  married  Jonas  Green, 

January  12,  1795,  and  had  five  children. 

81.  Catelyntye,  born  November  1771,  married  John  Smith,  May 

9',   1794.     Both  of  Clarkstown.  N.  Y. 

82.  Marya   (Maria),  born  April  22,   1774,  married  William  P. 

Felter,  December  22,  1804,  and  had  three  children. 

83.  Cornelius,  baptized  March  11,  1777,  died  single. 

John  Henry  (43),   (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

84.  Betsy,  bom  October  3,  1762,  died,  unmarried,  1800. 

85.  John,  bom  December  25,  1764. 

86.  Stephen,  born  December    18,    1766,   married   Anna  Trippe, 

December  29,  1791. 

87.  Daniel,  bom  February  4,  1769. 

88.  George,  born  September  17,  1772. 

89.  Jane,  born  June  8,  1774. 

90.  Rachel,  born  April  25,  1776. 

Samson  (44),  also  called  Samuel,  (Son  of  Adolph),  suc- 
ceeded to  his  father's  lands  under  his  will,  dated  August  2,  1795. 
In  1776  Captain  Benson,  with  his  Harlem  company,  rendered 
important  service  in  standing  guard  and  carrying  out  the  orders 
of  the  convention  while  it  met  at  Harlem,  and  till  forced  to 
retire  before  the  enemy.  His  father  and  brother,  Lawrence,  re- 
mained at  Harlem.  Samson  died  on  the  Race  Course  farm  at 
an  extreme  age,  November  22,  1825.  Under  his  will,  made 
April  28,  1823,  the  said  farm  passed  to  his  grandson,  Samson 
Adolphus  Benson,  while  to  his  other  heirs  he  gave  that  other 


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tract  of  45  acres  3  q.  22  rods,  which  Samson  bought,  May  6, 
1787,  from  the  estate  of  Aaron  Bussing,  and  further  described 
in  Appendix  J,  in  notice  of  First  Division.  Mount  Morris  Park, 
20  173-1000  acres,  was  taken  from  the  Race  Course  farm,  by  the 
city,  September  4,  1839. 

Samson  (44)  had  issue: 

91.  John,   born  May  9,    1778,  married  April  28,    1820,   Maria, 

daughter  of  Dr.  Milledoler. 

92.  Susan  S.,  who  died,  unmarried,  1825. 

93.  Eve,  who  married  Benjamin  Vredenburgh. 

94.  Jane,,  who  married  Aaron  Bussing,  August   18,   1891,  and 

had  five  children. 

Lawrence  (45),  (son  of  Adolph),  with  his  wife,  he  obtained 
the  four-acre  plot  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  late  of  his  uncle, 
Johannes,  and  the  house  still  standing,  venerable  and  sole  relic 
of  old  Harlem  village,  and  now  occupied  by  Mr.  Cowperthwait 
(1881).  His  father  conveyed  to  him,  March  10,  1781,  the  so- 
called  eighty-acre  tract  set  off  to  him  from  the  Point  farm,  by 
deed  of  January  29,  1743.  As  Adolph,  in  1748,  had  become  the 
owner  of  the  ten  acres  as  estimated,  west  of  the  highway  (lot  23 
of  1691),  originally  granted  to  Abraham  Delamontanie,  possibly 
this  tract  also  passed  to  Lawrence  under  that  deed,  and  with 
which  it  may  have  grown  to  eighty  acres.  Lawrence  also  bought, 
April  26,  1785,  from  the  heirs  of  John  Bogert,  the  forty-two  acres, 
since  known  as  the  Lawrence  Benson  homestead  (see  Appendix 
E),  on  which  he  thereafter  lived  till  his  death  in  1822. 

Lawrence  (45)  had  issue: 

95.  Adolph,  who  died  unmarried. 

96.  Benjamin  L.,  who  died  in  1852. 

97.  Susannah  L.,  who  married  Rev.  Philip  Milledoler,  D.  D. 

Samson,  "J^-"  (46),  (son  of  Benjamin).  He  succeeded  to 
the  ancestral  farm,  as  before  stated,  on  which  he  lived  until  his 
death,  January  31,  1821.  From  a  weakness  of  the  eyes  he  was 
tamiliarly  called  "Crying  Sam."  His  widow  died,  aged  90 
years,  November  14,  1835,  when  the  farm  fell  to  their  daughter, 
Mrs.  Margaret  McGown,  the  only  child  then  living. 

Samson  (46)  had  issue: 

98.  Margaret,  born  March  10,  1766,  died  May  25,  185 1,  married 

November  21,  1784,  Andrew  McGown,  son  of  Captain 
Daniel  McGown,  already  named  in  this  article.  Had 
four  children. 


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99.  Benjamin,  bom  June  21,  1770,  married  Eliza,  daughter  of 

Xavier  Gautro,  and  died  April  15,  181 5.     No  issue. 

Said  Captain  McGown,  a  shipmaster  of  New  York,  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Shourd,  in  1740,  after  her  widowhood  of  ten  years. 
He  owned  a  residence  in  the  village,  on  the  north  side  of  the 
Church  Lane,  and  adjoining  westerly  on  Petrus  Waldron,  which 
had  once  belonged  to  Dominie  Zyperus.  (See  note,  page  410.) 
It  was  a  one-morgen  lot,  like  others  in  this  range,  but  having 
been  divided,  and  each  part  built  upon,  was  called  two  lots. 
McGown  sold  the  whole,  June  i,  1758,  to  John  Livingston,  and 
it  has  since  made  a  part  of  the  Brady  plot.  (See  note,  page 
172*.)  Captain  McGown  was  lost  at  sea  some  years  before  the 
Revolution,  and  his  widow  soon  after  bought  from  Jacob  Dyck- 
man,  Jr.,  a  few  acres  on  the  hill  back  of  the  old  Benson  farm, 
at  what  became  known  as  McGown's  Pass,  where  she  and  her 
son,  Andrew,  kept  a  public  house  (in  part  the  identical  building 
in  Central  Park  since  known  as  Stetson's  Hotel),  her  house  being 
a  favorite  resort,  before  and  during  the  war,  of  gentlemen  coming 
from  the  city  with  their  hounds  to  indulge  in  the  sport  of  fox- 
hunting. Mr.  Andrew  McGown,  who  died  October  16,  1820, 
aged  78  years,  was  the  father  of  the  late  Major  Andrew  McGown, 
bom  I78i5,  died  March  2,  1870,  and  of  Alderman  Samson  B.  Mc- 
Gown, bom  1797,  who  still  occupies  the  ancestral  seat  of  the 
Bensons  (1881).  A  few  years  since  he  removed  the  venerable 
stone  farm-house,  erected  by  his  great-grandfather,  Benjamin 
Benson,  on  the  south  shore  of  the  Mill  Pond,  and  built  upon  its 
site  his  present  residence,  io6th  Street,  south  side,  between  Third 
and  Fourth  Avenues  (1881). 

Pkter  (47),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

100.  Benjamin  P.,  who  married  April  7,  1821,  Mary  Ann,  daugh- 

ter of  Jonathan  Ferris,  of  Peekskill,  N.  Y.  The  dis- 
tinguished artist,  Eugene  Benson,  now  (1881)  of  Rome, 
Italy,  is  his  son. 

10 1.  Wilhelmina.  who  married  Dr.  Peter  Van  Arsdale,  of  New 

York,  whom  she  survived. 

Matthew  (55),  (son  oe  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

102.  Nancy,  born  May  4,  1797,  married  Samson  Marks,  had  five 

children,  and  died  July  5,  1850. 

•  John  Livinffston,  born  1714,  died  1788,  and  whose  country  scat  was  at  Harlem, 
from  1758  ,to  1780,  was  an  eminent  merchant  of  New  York,  the  uncle  of  Colonel 
Peter  R.  Livingston,  named  in  note  on  p.  4^2.  and  son  of  Philip  Livingston,  second 
proprietor  of  the  Livingston  Manor.  John  Livingston  was  an  assistant  alderman  from 
1750  to  1755-  He  took  a  principal  part  in  the  proceedings  for  settling  the  division 
line  of  the  New  York  and  Harlem  Commons,  in  the  years  1772  to  1775.  His  wife 
was  Catharine  De  Peystcr.     (See  Holgatc's  Am.   Gen.) 


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103.  William,  bom  June  15,  i8cx),  married  Louise  Waldron,  1830, 

died  in  1876. 

104.  George,  born  March  6,  1804,  married  Ann  Hopper,  July  2, 

1828,  died  January  28,  1868. 

105.  Charles,  born  May  4,  1809,  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Wood, 

had  three  children  (names  not  found),  and  died  Decem- 
ber 6,  1886. 

Benjamin,  Jr.,  (57),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

106.  Mary. 

107.  Catherine,  born  1794,  married  Lewis  Mather,  September  2, 

1817. 

108.  Gabriel  Leggett,  bom  September  14,  1796,  married  Abigail 

Mills,  April  13,  1820,  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio. 

109.  Harriette  Davis,  born  January  19,  1801,  married  Hardy  B. 

Lane,  October,  1817,  and  had  twelve  children, 
no.  Benjamin  Whitney  (Col.),  born  in  New  York  City  in  1804, 
married  first,   Esther  Foster,   November  29,    1825,  and 
second,  Mar>'  Kanouse  Brison,  February  18,  1857;  died 
November  22,  1877. 

Abraham  (61),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue,  by 
SECOND  WIFE,  Grissei.  Burr: 

111.  Hevlyn,  born  April  29,  1805,  married  Emeline  Davis. 

112.  Esther  Jarvis,  bom  February   11,    1807,  niarried  Obediah 

Beardsley;  no  issue. 

113.  George  Washington,  born  May  11,  1809. 

114.  Catharin  Abby,  born  March  4,  181 1,  died,  unmarried,  Jan- 

uary II,  1891. 

115.  Mary  Burr,  born  March  11,  1813,  married  Nelson  Brush, 

and  had  nine  children. 

116.  Susan  Ann,  bom  October  26,   1814,  married  John  Ryker, 

October  12,  1840,  and  had  four  children. 

117.  Abraham,  born  August  16,  1816,  married  Julia ?,  died 

October  23,  1855;  "o  issue. 

118.  Oliver  Munroe,  born  August  10,   1818,  died  November  2, 

1819. 

119.  Elizabeth  Frances,  born  March  2,  1820,  married  George  F. 

Griffen,  and  had  five  children. 

120.  Emeline  Maith,  unmarried. 

121.  Caroline  Matilda,  born  December  28,   1823,  married  EHja 

T.  Lewis,  and  had  six  children. 

Abraham   (61),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue 
BY  third  wife,  Finette  Edwards: 

122.  Finette  Edwards,  born  December  26,   1836,  married  John 

Nichols,  November  19,  1863,  and  had  five  children. 


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Johannes  (64),  (son  of  Gerrit),  had  issue: 

123.  Garret  I.,  born  August  11,  1783,  married  Margaret  Brink- 

erhoff,  November  19,  1805,  died  June  3,  1849. 

124.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Daniel  Demarest. 

125.  Effie,  who  married  John  Demarest. 

126.  Rachel  who  married  Tunis  Banta. 

Gerritt  (73),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

127.  John,  bom  February  9,  1798. 

128.  Richard    Van    Vranken,,   born    1807,    married    Mary   Ann 

Becker,  November  25,  1841.     He  of  Schenectady,  N.  Y., 
she  of  Albany,  N.  Y. ;  had  child  named  Albert  N. 

Daniel  (74),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

129.  Rebecca,  who  married  Abraham  Kierstead,  and  had  four 

children. 

130.  David,  born  April   17,  1798,  married  Catherine  Pier,  died 

October  30,  1870. 

131.  John,  born  July  25,  1800,  married  Millie  Helms. 

132.  Jane,   born    September    13,    1802,    married   Robert   Helms, 

December  i,  1824. 
133-  Garret,  born  February  9,  1805,  ^^^^  October  23,  1806. 

134.  Cornelius,  born  May  12,  1807,  married  Catharine  Shawgo, 

April  9,  1828,  died  September  25,  1875. 

135.  Garret,  bom  July  31,  18 10,  married  Caroline  Taylor. 

136.  Peter,  born  August  26,   1812,  married  Virginia  Fox,  died 

without  issue. 

137.  Samuel,  bom  August  10,  1815,  died  November  5,  1815. 

Carel  (78),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

138.  John,  born  January  13,  1790,  died  single. 

139.  Cornelius,  born  March  15,   1793,  married  Maria  Vandeen, 

and  had  child,  Maria  Jane,  baptized  September  7,  1827. 

Petrus  (79),  (son  of  Cornelius),  h.\d  issue: 

140.  Comelia,  bom  July  8,  1796,  died  1798. 

141.  Comelius,  born  May  30,  1803,  died  1804. 

142.  Jane,  bom  June  10,  1806,  married  James  Iseman,  January 

28,  1826.     He  of  Kakiat,  N.  Y.,  she  of  Clarkstown,  N.  Y. 

143.  Daniel,  born   April    19,    1814,   married   Hannah   Eckerson, 

December  31,   1839,  died  November  24,   1895.      He  of 
Clarkstown,  N.  Y.,  she  of  Saddle  River,  N.  J. 

144.  Elizabeth,  born  October  4,  1816,  married  John  G.  Vander- 

bilt,  died  October  27,  1887,  2i"d  had  four  children. 
145-  Comelius,  bom  January  23,  1820,  died  1821. 
146.  Catherine,  born  February  4,  1822,  died  1823. 


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Stephen  (86),  (son  of  John  Henry),  had  issue: 

147.  Betsey,  bom  June  2,  1792,  married  John  Knobles. 

148.  John,  born  April  20,  1794. 

149.  George,  born  August  9,  1796. 

150.  Rachel  Ann,  bom  May  5,  1799,  died  1805. 

151.  Henry,  bom   September   13,    i8io2,  married   Sarah  Thaire, 

February  2,  1828,  died  November  10,  1844,  and  had  seven 
children. 

John  (97),  (son  of  Samson),  was  named  as  an  executor  of 
his  grandfather,  Adolph  Benson.  He  died  shortly  before  his 
father,  leaving  child : 

152.  Samson  Adolphus,  bom  September,  1821,  who  married,  June 

7,  1848,  Louise  Aman,  of  Fishkill.  N.  Y.,  where  he  died 
August  6,  1851. 

Benjamin  L.  (96),  (son  op  Lawrence),  had  issue: 

153.  Benjamin  L. 

154.  Lawrence  A.,  who,  empowered  by  the  Court  of  Common 

Pleas,  May  19,  1875,  changed  his  name  to  George  Gar- 
dener Grennell. 

William  (103),  (son  of  Matthew),  had  issue: 

155.  Mary  Anna,  bom  June  27,    1831,   married   William  Rose 

Osborne,  December  9,  1858,  had  four  children,  and  died 
April  ^,  1900. 

156.  Sarah. Jane,  bom  June   13,   1837,  married  David  Gamer, 

March  2,  1899,  and  had  three  children. 

157.  Henrietta,   bom   June   29,    1840.   married   Martin   Van    B. 

Brooks,  May  25,  1858,  died  April  21,  1888,  and  had  nine 
children. 

158.  Adeline,  who  married  Samuel  Brooks,  deceased. 

159.  Matthew,  born  July  4,  1833,  married  Emalyne  Spader,  de- 

ceased. 

160.  Caroline,  bom  December  16,  1837,  married  Isaac  De  Baun, 

and  had  one  child. 

161.  William,  Jr.,  born  August  20,  1841,  married  Mary  Palmer, 

September  2,  1866. 

George  (104),  (son  of  Matthew),  had  issue: 

162.  Johanna,  bom  March  7,  1826,  married  Nelson  Blauvelt,  June 

29,  1848,  died  August  20,  1899,  and  had  one  child. 

163.  Martha  M.,  bom  January  27,   1828,  married  Samuel  Cos- 

grove,  February  2,   1848,  died  April  10,  1885,  and  had 
three  children. 

164.  Almira,  born  February  23,  1830,  married  Stephen  De  Clark, 

October  17,  1849,  ^"^  ^^^  one  child 


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165.  Elizabeth    D.,    bora    February    22,    1832,    married    Joseph 

Demarest,  October  27,  185 1,  had  two  children,  and  died 
April  30,  1903. 

166.  Emily  A.,  bora  May  23,  1834,  married  James  A.  Barnes, 

January   16,   1856,  had  five  children,  and  died  January 
5,  1889. 

167.  Ann  M.,  bora  June  27,   1836,  married  Abram  B.  Jersey, 

March  28,  1859,  and  had  two  children. 

168.  George  W.,  bora  October  29,  1838,  married  Elizabeth  De 

La  Montanye,  November  20,  1862,  and  died  September 
26,  1896. 

169.  Henry  Clay,  bora  January  6,  1841,  died  January  12,  1841. 

170.  William  Seward,  born  June  9,  1843,  died  June  28,  1854. 

171.  Emma  Louise,  born  July  30,  1847,  married  John  Derbyshire, 

June  5,  1901. 

Colonel  Benjamin  Whitney  (no),  (son  of  Benjamin,  Jr.), 
was  founder  of  the  American  Bank  Note  Company,  was  first 
Chief  of  Police  under  Mayor  Harper,  in  New  York  City,  being 
also  prominently  identified  with  the  old  John  Street  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church,  and  was  actively  interested  in  the  business, 
municipal  and  religious  career  of  old  New  York. 

He  had  issue,  by  his  second  wife,  Mary  Kanouse  Brison,  viz. : 

172.  Mary  Elizabeth,  bora  at  Milburn,  N.  J.,  January  13,  1859, 

married  her  cousin,  James  Frontier  Ives,  September  28, 
1880,  had  one  child,  and  died  June  17,  1892. 

173.  Benjamin  Lane,  born  June  7,  i860,  died  single,  December 

28,  1876. 

174.  Emilie,  born  April  18,  1862,  married  St.  Blouton  C.  Walsh, 

of  the  United  States  Army,  October  2,   1885,  and  had 
two  children. 

Hevlyn  (hi),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

175.  Silas,   who  had  three   children,   namely,   Fred   C,   Arthur 

Davis,  and  Hevelyn  Dirk,  all  single. 

176.  Oliver,  who  died  single. 

Garret  L  (123),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

177.  Jacob. 

178.  Garret. 

179.  Eliza. 
180..  Maria. 

181.  Catherine,  bora  December  19,  1808,  married  Samuel  Vander- 
beek,  January  14,  1830,  and  had  eight  children;  she  de- 
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444  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

David  (130),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

182.  Daniel  P.,  born  January  18,  1825,  married  Catherine  M.  Fox, 

October  16,  1849;  was  father  of  Garry  D.,  bom  May 
13,  1852,  who  married  Laura  E.  Martin,  September  9, 
1874. 

183.  Sally  Ann,  bom  May  30,  1826,  married  John  Babcock,  July 

10,  1845,  ^^^  ^^^  three  children. 

184.  John  D.,  born  May  4,   1828,  married   Sarah  Ann  Fonda, 

October  30,  1853. 

185.  Rachel   Jane,   bom    September   21,    1830,    married   Edwin 

Hitchcock,  February  24,  1858,  died  November  23,  1858. 

186.  Caroline  Abigail,  born  November  20,  1832,  married  Horace 

HalL  September  11,  1851. 

187.  Rebecca  Sophia,  born  September  19,  1835,  married  Chester 

D.  Tuttle,  September  26,  1854,  and  had  one  child. 

188.  Ellen  Arietta,  born  November  15,  1838,  married  Edwin  H. 

Hitchcock,  September  4,  i860. 

189.  Mary  Catherine,  bom  April  8,    184 1,   married   Lyman   F. 

Weeden,  May  6,  1863. 

190.  Lydia    Louisa,    born    May    11,    1844,    married    Frank    F. 

Crooker,  December  20,  1865,  and  had  three  children. 

Cornelius  (134),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

191.  David,  born  January  15,  1829,  married  Mary  Burtch,  Sep- 

tember 25,  1 85 1,  died  October  27 y  1895. 

192.  George,  born  November  4,  1830,  married  Elizabeth  Hodges, 

September  12,  1853,  died"  May  28,  1902. 

193.  Daniel,   bom    November    13,    1832,    married   Ella   Loucke, 

April  16,  1878. 

194.  Peter,  born  March  8,   1835,  married  Ella  Mclntire,  Feb- 

ruary 23,  1857. 

195.  Perry,  bom  May  31,  1837,  married  Hannah  Steams,  Sep- 

tember 8,  1863,  died  November  19,  1881. 

196.  Doremus,  born  August  i,  1840,  married  Jennie  King,  May 

I,  1878. 

197.  Jane,  born  June  23,  1843,  married  E.  White,  Februarv  10, 

1863. 

Daniel  (143),  (son  01?  Petrus),  had  issue: 

198.  Matilda,  bom  December  17,  1841,  died  October  19,   1847. 

199.  Edwin,  bom  May  27,  1843,  married  Rachel  J.  Van  Blar- 

com,  October  25,  1877,  father  of  Clyde,  who  was  bom 
May  31,  1884. 

200.  Almira,  bom  August  9,  1844,  died  October  19,  1847. 

201.  Alfred,  born  March  3,  1849,  married  Margaret  Van  Zandt, 

May  31,  1874,  and  second,  Jane  M.  Vanderbilt,  October 
6,  1887. 

202.  Carrie,  bom  November  29,  i860. 


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Henry  (151),  (son  of  Stephen  and  Anna 
[Trippe]  Benson),  had  issue: 

203.  Elizer,  bom  April  9,  1830,  married  first,  Sarah  L.  Curtis, 

August  30,  1852,^  and  second,  Mrs.  Alice  Davis.  Had  by 
first  wife  one  child,  Laura  J.,  born  May  30,  1853,  who 
married  James  Harris,  April  4,  1876,  died  January  i, 
1900,  and  had  one  child. 

204.  Mary,  born  September  20,  1832,  married  Lewis  D.  Knicker- 

bocker, 1855,  died  December  2,  1864. 

205.  Laura,  bom  January  8,  1834,  married  Everitt  Knickerbocker, 

1862,  died  1877,  and  had  one  child. 

206.  Sally  Ann,  bom  August  22,  1838,  died  April  7,  1845. 

207.  Stephen  Henry,  bom  November  21,  1840,  married  Hannah 

M.  Smith,  March  21,  1868,  died  April  14,  1900. 

208.  Jane,  born  April  11,  1842,  died  unmarried,  April  12,  1865. 

209.  George  W.,  bom  December  24,  1843,  died  single,  1899. 

Samson  Adolphus  (152),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

210.  Maria  Louisa,  bom  September  15,  1849. 

211.  Edward    A.,    born    January    2,    185 1,    married    Georgiana 

Wharm,  February  16,  1881. 

William  (161),  (son  of  William),  h^vd  issue: 

212.  Fidelia,  born  December  18,  1866,  married  Zana  De  Bevoise, 

had  one  child. 

213.  Matthew  Z.,  born  February  13,  1868,  died  April  5,  1872. 

214.  Elizabeth,  bom  June  22,  1869,  married  William  B.  Ganson, 

March  27,  1892,  and  have  two  children. 

215.  Alfred  C,  born  August  i,  1870,  married  Elizabeth  Ryder, 

March  25,  1894,  and  have  two  children,  namely,  Percy 
and  Anness. 

216.  George  S.,  bom  November  27,  1870,  died  August  5,  1877. 

217.  Charles,  bom  March  11,  1872,  married  Sarah  Allinson,  Sep- 

tember II,  1892;  no  issue. 

218.  Reginald,  bom  November  i,  1873,  married  Mamie  Wassy, 

July  II,  1900,  father  of  Helen  P. 

219.  Edwina  DeB.,  born  August  19,  1875,  married  Ira  Demarest, 

December  15,  1897;  "^  issue. 

220.  William  H.,  born  May  21,  1878,  single. 

221.  Ethelbert,  bom  September  2,   1880,  married  Mabel  Felter, 

August  25,  1902,  and  have  one  child  named  Ethel. 

222.  Ira  Hedges,  bom  June  9,  1883,  married  Alice  Springstead, 

November  28,  1901,  and  have  one  child  named  Catherine. 

223.  Amasa  L.,  bom  January  24,  1885,  died  August  7,  1885. 

224.  Kate  E.,  bom  March  13,  1886,  died  December  i,  1888. 


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George  W.  (i68),  (son  of  George),  had  issue: 

225.  Lillian,  born  October  27,    1863,  married  John  W.   Heck, 

October  9,  1884,  and  had  two  children. 

226.  Grace  E.,  bom  November  10,  1864,  unmarried. 

227.  Frederick  Seward,  born  June   14,   1867,  married  Caroline 

Anna  Water,  October  2,  1895 ;  no  issue. 

228.  George,  born  September  i,  1870. 

229.  De  La  Montanye,  bom  January  19,  1876. 

230.  Harry  M.,  born  November  20,  1877. 

George  (192),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

231.  Mina  L.,  born  January  28,  1855,  unmarried. 

232.  Frank  G.,  born  February  9,  1862,  single. 

Perry  (195),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

233.  Jennie    L.,    born    November    11,    1875,    married    Legjand 

Philips,  July  19,  1898. 

234.  Kittie  B.,  born  October  15,  1865,  married  John  A.  King, 

March  29,  1887,  and  had  three  children. 

235.  Rurt  P.,  born  March   i,   1872,  married  Emma  J.  Duffill, 

May  23,  1901. 

236.  William  H.,  born  October  7,  1868,  married  Myrtie  Brown, 

September  20,  1901. 

237.  James  A.,  born  August  17,  1879. 

238.  Clyde  M.,  bom  August  25,  1870. 

Alfred  (201),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

239.  Ella,  bom  December  5,  1875,  died  July  6,  1880. 

240.  Clarence  Everett,  born  March  3,  1880. 

241.  Flora  May,  born  May  29,  1878. 

Alfred  (201)  had  one  child  by  second  wife,  Jane  ^L  Van- 
derbilt,  named: 

242.  Frank,  who  died  in  1893. 

Stephen  Henry  (207),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

243.  George  B.,  born  November  3,  1868,  married  Emma  Ginder, 

April  29,   1887. 

244.  Gertrude  L.,  bom  June  12,  1870,  married  William  Van  der 

Poole,  February  15,  1894. 

245.  Alanson   D.,  born  October   17,    1871,  married  first,   Mary 

Rynehart,  February  14,  1891,  and  second,  Bertha  Honald, 
April  5,  1899. 

246.  Sarah  M.,  born  August  31,  1873,  married  Albert  H.  Van- 

tine,  April  17,  1892. 

247.  Lillian  J.,  bom  April  17,  1875,  died  single  January  29,  1894. 

248.  William  F.,  bom  January  11,  1884,  single. 


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Edward  A.  (211),  (son  01?  Samson  Adolphus), 
HAD  issue: 

249.  Philip  Adolphus,  born  December  17,  1881. 

250.  Helen  Wharm,  bom  February  6,  1883. 

251.  Daniel  Annan,  bom  June  16,  1885. 

2^2,  Margaret  Annan,  born  October  23,  1887. 

:253.  Edward  Adolphus,  born  June  8,  1889. 

254.  Ralph,  bom  December  17,  1891,  died  July  18,  1892. 

BOGERT. 

Jan  Louwe  Bogert,  otherwise,  from  the  place  of  his  nativity, 
called  Jan  Louwe  from  Schoonderwoerd,  claims  a  place  among 
the  patentees,  for  reasons  given  in  the  annexed  note.*  Many 
references  to  him  will  be  found  in  the  preceding  pages.  Having 
spent  nine  years  at  Bedford,  Long  Island,  he  came  to  Harlem, 
in  1672,  as  proprietor  of  the  Montanye  farm,  the  history  of  which, 
up  to  its  purchase  by  Bogert,  has  also  been  given.  He  was  chosen 
a  magistrate  in  1675,  was  re-elected  in  1676,  and  on  November 
30th  of  this  year,  with  his  wife,  Cornelia  Everts,  was  received 
at  New  York  as  a  member  of  the  Harlem  church.  In  1677  Bogert 
drew  lot  No.  6,  on  Hoom's  Hook,  but  sold  it  December  9,  1679, 
to  Joost  van  Oblinus.  He  drew,  in  1691,  lot  No.  25,  adjoining 
his  farm  on  the  south  side,  and  which  in  the  deed  from  the  town, 
March  21,  1701,  is  thus  described: 

"There  is  set  off  for  Jan  Louwe  Bogert,  for  the  right  of  sixteen  morgen 
of  land  and  an  erf  right;  a  piece  of  land  lying  in  the  bend  of  Hellgate, 
beginning  from  the  southwest  comer  of  the  Hop  Garden,  by  a  birch  tree, 
till  to  a  white  oak  tree  which  stands  by  a  small  swamp  {creupelbosje), 
marked  I  L  B  and  I  D  L;  thence  towards  the  River,  past  a  rock  marked 

•  Peter  Parmcntier  was  one  of  the  Mannheim  refugees  who  came  out  in  company 
with  Jan  Louwe  Bogert,  in  1663,  as  heretofore  noticed.  He  and  his  wife,  Antoinette 
Terrin,  bringing  letters  from  Mannheim,  were  received  to  the  Brooklyn  church, 
September  23,  of  that  year.  Parmentier  and  Bogert  lived  as  neighbors  at  Bedford 
for  some  years,  and  the  former  was  one  of  the  four  named  as  trustees  for  the  in- 
habitants at  large,  to  whom  the  Indians,  in  1670,  sold  lands  in  that  vicinity.  Par- 
mentier became  the  owner  of  a  farm  and  grist  mill  in  Bushwick,  where,  in  1675,  one 
other  excepted,  he  paid  the  largest  tax  on  land  and  stock.  Selling  his  farm  to  his 
only  son,  Michiel,  he  kept  the  mill  and  eight  morgen  of  land,  but  these  he  also  con- 
veyed to  Michiel  some  time  after,  and  probably  when  he  sold  (May  31,  1684)  cer- 
tain lots  in  Brooklyn  to  Jacques  Lazillere.  He  soon  came  to  Harlem  and  assuredly 
took  Bogcrt's  place  in  Dongan's  patent,  for  which  there  seems  no  accounting,  except 
on  the  ground  of  a  contract  to  -buy  Bogert's  farm,  whose  milling  facilities  probably 
attracted  him.  Nevertheless,  no  sale  took  place;  Bogert  kept  the  farm,  and  Par- 
mentier is  not  again  named  among  the  freeholders.  He  died  at  Kingston,  Ulster 
County,  in  1701,  evidently  in  reduced  circumstances  as  the  church  officers  attended 
to  his  burial  and  the  wantd  of  his  widow. 

Michiel  Parmentier  sold  his  mill  propertv  in  Bushwick,  January  26,  1696  (owned 
soon  after  by  John  MesuroUe,  Jr.,  and  Charles  Fountain),  and  on  May  6,  1699, 
bought  from  Sanders  and  Harmanse,  land  at  "Wareskeech,"  in  Dutchess  County,  to 
which  he  removed.  He  was  living  there  until  1714  at  the  age  of  60.  He  married 
Necltie,  daughter  of  John  Damen,  of  Brooklyn,  by  whom  he  had  issue,  Peter,  bom 
1680,  married  Sarah  Van  Klcek,  1702,  and  Helena  Vanden  Bogert,  1714;  John,  born 
1682;  Antoinette,  born  1684,  married  Barent  Van  Kleek;  Michael,  born  1687,  married 
Maria  Titsoort,  1717;  Neeltie,  born  1690,  married  Myndert  Bogert;  Damen,  bom 
1694;  Elizabeth,  born  1699,  and  Johanna,  born  1702.  Damen  and  younger  members 
of  the  family  were  still  occupying  the  paternal  lands  in  "Poughkeepsie  Precinct,"  in 
1770,   under  the  name  Palmaticr. 


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I  L  B  and  I  D  L,  and  so  on  to  the  beach,  till  to  the  end  of  a  meadow 
north  of  a  rocky  hill;  as  it  is  at  present  fenced  in."  The  initials  (I  for  J) 
are  those  of  Jan  Louwe  Bogert  and  Jan  De  Lamater. 

Bogert  having  spent  35  years  at  Harlem,  sold  his  farm  to 
Captain  Johannes  Benson,  September  21,  1706,  for  £650,  and  the 
next  spring  removed  to  New  York;  with  his  wife  uniting  with 
the  church  there  by  certificate  from  Harlem,  on  May  27,  1707. 

Jan  Louwe  Bogert  (i)  had  issue: 

2.  Peter,    born    1656,    at    Leerdam,    Holland,    married    Fytie 

(Sophia)  Vlierboom,  September  29,  1686,  had  nine  chil- 
dren. 

3.  Gysbert,  bom  at  Bedford,  L.  1 .  1663,  baptized  September  30, 

1663,  at  Brooklyn,  N.  Y.,  married  Annatie  (Laurens) 
Jansen,  of  Harlem,  had  six  children. 

4.  Claes  (Nicholas),  bom  at  Bedford,  L.  L,  in  1668,  married  first 

Belettie  Van  Schaick,  June  28,  1695,  had  four  children. 
He  married  second,  Margaret  (Consilyea)  Van  Tilburg, 
February  23,  1707,  by  whom  he  had  nine  children.  He 
lived  in  New  York,  was  a  ''baker  and  bolter,"  and  died 
January  5,  1727. 

5.  Johannes,  baptized  September  15,  1675,  died  young. 

6.  Johannes,  baptized  August   16,   1679,  married  Claessie  Van 

Schaick,  June  16,  1700,  but  died  without  issue  in  171 1. 

7.  EHzabeth,  who  married  Harmen  Janse  Knickerbocker  before 

1688,  had  eight  children. 

8.  Catherine,  who  married  Elbert  Harmense    (also  known  as 

Lie  verse). 

9.  Margaret,  who  married  Pieter  J.  Haring,  December  4,  1687, 

had  twelve  children. 
TO.  Jenneke,  who  married  Jooris  (George)  Holmes,  July  8,  1704, 
had  three  children. 

11.  Cornelia,  who  married  Wouter    (Pieterse)    Quackenbos,  of 

Albany,  N.  Y.,  on  October  4,  1696,  had  five  children,  and 
died  November  21,  1736. 

Peter  Bogert  (2)  was  born  in  1656,  in  Leerdam,  Holland ;  we 
presume  the  county,  as  it  included  Schoonrewoerd.  He  is  also 
called  in  Harlem  records,  Peter  Jan  Louwe.  He  married,  Septem- 
ber 29,  1686,  Feytie,  daughter  of  Matthys  Vlierboom,  of  Albany. 
Peter  Bogert  served  as  a  soldier  under  Leisler,  in  holding  the  fort 
at  New  York,  in  1689  and  '90,  and  in  1717  was  paid  for  arms 
given  up  in  1691  to  the  government. 

Peter  (2),  (son  of  Jan  Louwe),  had  issue: 

12.  Cornelia,    baptized    July    3,    1687,    married    Gysbert    Krom, 

August  9,  17 18,  had  three  children. 


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13.  Maria,  baptized  July  21,  1689,  married  Mouris  Klearwater, 

April  18,  1713,  had  five  diildren. 

14.  Elizal^th,  baptized  November  5,  1693,  married  Pieter  Vonck, 

had  five  children. 

15.  Jannetie    (Tanneke),    baptized    October    4,    1691,'   married 

Johannes  Waldron,  August  5,  1720,  had  one  child. 

16.  Catalina,  baptized  May  5,  1697,  married  Pieter  Mabie,  June 

19,  171 5,  had  twelve  children. 

17.  Johannes  P.,  baptized  February  14,  1700,  married  Martyen 

Haring,  December  25,  1720,  had  six  children. 

18.  Matthew  P.,  bom   1702,  married  Margrietje  Talama,  1735, 

had  seven  children,  and  died  in  1784. 

19.  Peter  P.,  baptized  March  18,  1705,  married  first,  Rachel  Van 

Horn,  had  four  children.     He  married  second,  Rachel 
Banta,  by  whom  he  had  two  children,  and  died  in  1786. 

20.  Willemtie,  baptized  February  29,  1708,  married  Albert  Wes- 

tervelt,  had  four  children,  and  died  prior  to  June  18,  1742. 

Gysbert  (3),  (son  of  Jan  Louwe).  About  the  time  his 
parents  left  Harlem  he  removed  to  Tappan  or  Orangetown,  N.  Y., 
where  he  bought  land  from  Hendrick  Lamberts,  October  6,  1707, 
served  the  same  month  as  a  gjand  juror,  and  was  living  in  1729 
on  his  farm  on  the  Sparkhill.     Had  issue : 

21.  John  (Jan),  baptized  May  9,  1705,  married  Catharine  Evert, 

had  six  children. 

22.  Marytje,  baptized  October  14,  1707,  unmarried. 

23.  Mary  (Maria),  bom  June  8,  1707,  married  Isaac  Blauvelt, 

had  five  children. 

24.  Lawrence  (Lourens),  baptized  April  12,  1710. 

25.  Comelius,  iaptized  October  12,  1715,  married  Grietje  Blau- 

velt, had  three  children. 

26.  Nicholas  (Klaas),  born  December  12,  1718,  married  Catherina 

Myer,  had  six  children. 

Claas  (Nicholas)  (4),  (son  of  Jan  Louwe),  had  issue;  by 
first  wife,  Belettie  Van  Schaick,  viz.: 

27.  John,  bom  May  i,  1697,  married  Hannah   (Anna)    Peeck, 

March  10,  17 16,  had  ten  children,  and  died  November  7, 

1775. 

28.  Comelius,  born  Januar>'  9,  1700,  married  Cornelia  Verduin, 

May  I,  1720,  lived  in  New  York,  was  a  baker,  had  eight 
children,  and  died  April  18,  1793. 

29.  Evert,  bom  July  13,  1702,  married  Catherine  Van  Tilburg, 

and  died  without  issue  prior  to  1725. 

30.  Hendrick,  bom  March  18,  1705,  was  a  baker.     He  married 

Comelia  De  Graw  (daughter  of  Gerrit),  November  22, 
1724,  had  ten  children,  and  died  August  20,  1761. 


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Claas  (Nicholas)    (4),   (son  of  Jan  Louwe),  had  issue,  by 
second  wife,  Margaret  Van  Tilburg,  viz.: 

31.  Cornelia  No.  i,  bom  December  26,  1707,  died  young. 

32.  Belletjie  No.  i,  born  November  25,  1708,  died  young. 

33.  Cornelia  No.  2,  born  March  29,  17 10,  married  Albertus  Tie- 

bout,  October  12,  1728,  had  thirteen  children. 

34.  Johannis,  born  August  3,  171 1,  died  single. 

35.  Margaret,  bom  March  i,  1713,  married  Johannes  Quacken- 

bush,  December  20,  1730,  had  eight  children,  and  died 
October  3,  1785. 

36.  EHzabeth,  bom  September  i,  17 14,  married  Elbert  Haring, 

September  17,  1732,  had  thirteen  children. 

37.  Belletjie  No.  2,  born  June  5,  1716,  married  Teunis  Tiebout, 

Jr.,  November  18,  1744,  had  two  children. 

38.  Anneckie,  born  April  i,  17 18,  died  September  10,  1731. 

39.  Petrus,   bom    September    i,    1720,   married   first,   Tannecke 

Pears,  August  2,  1741,  had  two  children.  He  married 
second,  Maria  (Roome)  Phoenix,  February  24,  1748,  had 
six  children  and  died  April  18,  1795. 

Johannes  P.  (17),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

40.  Maria,  born  September  28,  1721,  married  Isaac  Blauvelt,  had 

five  children. 

41.  Gerrit,  born  March  23,  1724,  married  Lea  Blauvelt,  had  five 

children. 

42.  Peter,  bom  April  19,  1726,  married  Jannetje  (Jane)   Parle- 

man,  March  31,  1744,  had  two  children. 

43.  Jacobus,  bom  November  2,   1728,  married  Maria  Blauvelt, 

had  three  children. 

44.  Marritye,  bom  July  11,  1731,  married  Abraham  Smith,  had 

ten  children. 

45.  Catherina,  born  December  15,  1735,  married  Johannes  Ter- 

hune,  had  six  children. 

Matthew  (18),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

46.  Pieter  M.,  bom  April  12,  1736,  married  Rachel  Banta,  March 

22,  1750,  had  seven  children,  and  died  1809. 

47.  Fytie  (Sophia),  bom  January  5,  1740,  married  Peter  Demar- 

est,  had  seven  children. 

48.  Comelius,  bom  March  29,   1742,   married  Annatye   Banta, 

July  14,  1765. 

49.  Maria  No.  i,  born  December  16,  1746,  died  young. 

50.  Materis    (Matthew),   bom   April   24,    1749,   married    Sarah 

Bogert,  1777,  had  seven  children.  She  married  second, 
Martin  Hogan  (Hagens)  1798,  and  died  October  11,  1828. 

51.  Maria  No.  2,  torn  January  13,  1752. 

52.  Douwe,  bom  June  10,  1759. 


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Peter  P.  (19),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

53.  Fytie  (Sophia),  born  April  18,  1738,  married  Dirck  Haring, 

had  five  children. 

54.  Margjietje,  bom  June  6,  1742,  married  Dirck  Wannemaker, 

had  two  children. 

55.  Petrus,  bom  November  26,   1746,  married  Maria  Christie, 

had  eight  children. 

56.  Maria   (Margaret),  bom  May  4,  175 1,  married  James  Ed- 

wards, had  two  children. 

Peter  P.  (19),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue,  by 
SECOND  WIFE,  Rachel  Banta,  viz.: 

57.  Margrietje,   baptized   February   24,    1760,   married   William 

Campbell,  July  i,  1788,  had  one  child. 

58.  Samuel,  baptized  November  12,  1778. 

John  (21),  (son  of  Gysbert),  had  issue: 

59.  Annetie,  born  September  4,  1738. 

60.  Elizabeth,  born  February  i,  1740. 

61.  Maria,  bom  May  25,  1742. 

62.  Catherina,  born  August  16,  1744,  married  Cornelius  Smith, 

had  two  children. 

63.  Jan,  born  September  20,  1747. 

64.  Cornelius,  bom  January  i,  1754,  married  first,  Hester  Roos, 

December   25,    1808,   had   three   children.      He   married 
second,  Abigail  D.  Clark. 

Cornelius  (25),  (son  of  Gysbert),  had  issue: 

65.  Gysbert,  born  October   10,   1742,  married  Maria  Lent,  had 

two  children. 

66.  Grietje    (Margaret),    who   married   Thomas   Eckersen,   had 

seven  children. 

67.  Leah. 

Nicholas  (26),  (son  of  Gysbert),  had  issue: 

68.  Mary,  who  died  unmarried. 

70.  Lawrence. 

71.  Gysbert,  born  June  8,  1745,  married  Geertye  Hendricks,  had 

three  children. 

72.  Johannes,  born  November  11,  1753,  married  Catherine  Mabie, 

had  six  children. 

7^.  Cornelius  Gerret,  born  July  13,  1756,  married  Sara  Mabie, 
February  2,  1784,  had  eight  children. 

74.  Maria,  who  married  Johannis  Vanderbilt,  and  had  six  chil- 
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John  Bogert  was  by  trade  a  mason,  married,  March  lo,  1716, 
Hannah,  born  1695,  daughter  of  Jan  Peek,  by  his  wife,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Gysbert  and  Rachel  (Montanye)  van  Imbroch. 
He  and  his  brothers,  Cornelius  and  Hendrick,  owned  land  at  Fish- 
kill,  N.  Y. ;  they  sold  three-fourths  of  it  to  Jacob  Haff ,  December 
17,  1736,  for  i2,ooo. 

John  (27),  (son  of  Nicholas)  (Claas),  had  issue: 

75.  Beeltje,  baptized  December  25,  1716,  died  young. 

76.  John  (Johannes),  baptized  December  3,  1718,  married  first, 

Abigail  Quick,   March    16,   1737,  had  sixteen   children. 
He  married  second,  Elizabeth  Brasher,  July  7,  1781,  and 
died  December  5,  1782. 
yj.  Isabella    (Belitjie),    bom    1719,    married    Francis    Wessels, 
October  12,  1745,  had  two  children. 

78.  Elizabeth,  baptized  November  25,  1720,  married  first,  Ben- 

jamin Shoed,  November  20,  1736,  had  one  child.  She 
married  second,  John  Leary,  and  died  January  19,  1783. 

79.  Margaret,  baptized  December  19,  1722,  married  Jacobus  Van 

Antwerp,  April  18,  1745,  had  eleven  children. 

80.  Nicholas,  bom  April  2,   1725,  married  first,  Maria  Quick, 

April  29,  1747,  had  eight  children.  He  married  second, 
February  2,  1762,  Alida  Ritzema  (daughter  of  Rev. 
Johannis  Ritzema),  by  whom  he  had  thirteen  children. 
Died  July  23,  1814,  in  Beekman,  Dutchess  County,  New 
York. 

81.  Annatje  No.  i,  baptized  August  20,  1727,  died  September  i, 

1727. 

82.  Annatje  No.  2,  baptized  August  18,  1728,  married  Jacobus 

Roosevelt,  December  4,  1746,  had  seven  children. 

83.  Rachel,  baptized  Febmary  26,  1731,  died  October  5,  1731. 

84.  Jacobus,  baptized   September  8,   1734,  married  first,   Eliza- 

beth Banker,  December  9,  1753,  had  six  children.  He 
married  second,  Judith  Van  Syse,  November  11,  1762, 
had  eight  children,  and  died  October  22,  1811. 

Cornelius  (28),  (son  ot  Nicholas)  (Claas),  had  issue: 

85.  Cornelius  No.  i,  baptized  May  10,  1721,  died  young. 

86.  Belitje,  baptized  April  15,  1722,  married  Charles  Dickenson, 

had  one  child. 

87.  Cornelius  No.  2,  baptized  April  4,  1725,  died  single,  Sep- 

tember 4,  1750. 

88.  Sarah,  baptized  June   16,   1728,  married  Richard   (Robert) 

Ray,  April  23,  1748,  had  one  child. 

89.  Nicholas  No.   i,  baptized  September  30,   1730,  died  young. 

90.  Rachel,  bom  173 1,  married  Charles  Dickenson. 

91.  Henry  C.    (Hendrick),  baptized  September   10,   1732,  mar- 


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ried  Helena  Van  Wyke  (Wyck).  He  and  his  brother, 
Nicholas  C,  were  eminent  merchants  in  New  York.  For 
interesting  details  of  this  branch,  see  Thompson's  Long 
Island,  and  Stevens'  Chamber  of  Commerce. 
92.  Nicholas  C.  No.  2,  baptized  December  22,  1734,  married  first, 
Cornelia  Bradus,  had  two  children.  He  married  second, 
Ann  M)mdert  Schuyler,  November  6,  1766,  had  four 
children,  and  died  September  23,  1794. 

Hendrick  (30),  (son  oe^  Nicholas)  (Claas),  had  issue: 

93.  Belitje  (Isabell),  baptized  January  13,  1724,  married  John 

Devore   (De  Voor),  May  17,  1752,  had  three  children. 

94.  Nicholas,  baptized  January  27,  1727,  died  November  7,  1732. 

95.  Gerrit  No.  i,  baptized  March  23,  1729,  died  May  24,  1730. 

96.  Gerrit  No.  2,  baptized  June  23,  1731. 

97.  Dorotea,  baptized  June  13,  1733. 

98.  Hendricus,  baptized  August  20,  1735,  married  Barbara  Coop- 

man,  had  two  children. 

99.  Cornelius,  baptized  March  5,  1738,  married  Elizabeth  Wil- 

liams, January  12,  1760,  had  one  child. 
100.  Cornelia,  baptized  May  19,  1742. 
loi.  Elizabeth,  baptized  June  20,  1744. 

102.  Annatje,  baptized  October  18,  1747. 

Petrus  (39),  (son  of  Nicholas)  (Claas),  had  issue: 

BY  FIRST  WIFE,  TaNNEKE  PeARS  : 

103.  Marg^ietje,  baptized  April  20,  1743,  married  David  A.  Mas- 

terson,  December  31,  1762,  had  eight  children. 

104.  Hendrick,  baptized  April  28,  1745. 

PeTRUS   (39)   HAD  ISSUE  BY  SECOND  WIFE,  MarIA 

(Roome)  Phoenix: 

105.  Nicholas  P.,  baptized  January  11,  1749,  married  Catharine 

Waldron,   September  21,    1770,  had  five  children,   and 
died  January  3,  1788. 

106.  Susannah  No.  i,  baptized  January  30,  1751,  died  June  12, 

1751- 

107.  Maria,  baptized  March  28,  1755,  married  Andries  Van  Tuyl, 

August  9,  1773,  had  two  children. 

108.  Anna  (Annatje),  baptized  April  24,  1757,  married  Nicholas 

Herring  (Haring),  February  i,  1777,  had  three  children. 

109.  Elizabeth,  baptized  September  20,  1758,  died  December  17, 

1759- 
no.  Susannah  No.  2,  baptized  April  30,  1761,  died  December 
14,  1762. 


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Gerret  (41),  (son  of  Johannes  P.),  had  issue: 

111.  Maritie,  bom  March  13,  1749. 

112.  Grietje,  bom  December  22,  1751. 

113.  Johannes,  bom  August  30,  1755. 

114.  Comelius  No.  i,  bom  May  20,  1760,  died  young. 

115.  Comelius  No.  2,  bom  September  4,   1764,  married  Sarah 

Onderdonk,  January  29,  1788,  had  one  child. 

Peter  (42),  (son  of  Johannes  P.),  had  issue: 

116.  Roelof,  baptized  May  26,  1745. 

117.  Catharina  (Catrina),  baptized  September  18,  1748. 

Jacobus  (43),  (son  of  Johannes  P.),  had  issue: 

118.  Johannis,  bom  January  31,  1760. 

119.  Peter,   born   January   3,    1767,    married    Effie   Westervelt, 

August  23,  1806,  had  four  children. 

120.  Marretje,  bom  September  19,   1775,  married  George  Van 

Alst,  May  19,  1793,  had  three  children. 

Peter  M.  (46),  (son  of  Matthew),  had  issue: 

121.  Margaret,  born  February  8,  1760,  married  William  Camp- 

bell, had  two  children. 

122.  Maria,  bom  June  11,  1762,  married  Matthew  Demarest,  had 

nine  children. 

123.  Anna  (Anaetje),  bom  July  i,  1764. 

124.  Matthew  P.  (Matheus),  born  October  8,  1767,  married  first, 

Polly  (Maria)  Demarest,  October  24,  1786,  had  nine 
children.  He  married  second,  Sarah  Cole  Van  Horn, 
February  21,  1833,  and  died  January  6,  1850. 

125.  Seba  (Seiba),  bom  March  25,  1774,  married  Sarah  Black- 

ledge,  January  2,  1795,  had  ten  children,  and  died  April 
14,  1846. 

126.  Sophia    (Fytie),    bom    August    i,    1776,    married    James 

Demarest. 

127.  Samuel  P.,  born  October  24,  1778,  married  Peggie  (Mar- 

garet) Mead,  March  2,  1803,  had  five  children. 

Materis  (Matthew)   (50),  (son  of  Matthew),  had  issue: 

128.  Margaret  (Margrietje),  bom  May  17,  1771,  married  Abra- 

ham Haring,  November  22,  1787,  had  six  children. 

129.  Sara,  bom  September  17,   1773,  married  John  Blanch,  no 

issue. 

130.  Matthew  (Mattheus)  No.  i,  born  November  25,  1775,  died 

young. 

131.  Maria  (Polly),  born  April  12,  1777,  married  Johannis  En- 

derson,  had  five  children. 


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132.  Matthew  M.   (Mattheus)   No.  2,  born  November  6,  1779, 

married  Willempie  Haring,  May  9,  1801,  had  five  chil- 
dren, and  died  March  30,  1871. 

133.  Albert  M.,  bom  September  13,  1782,  married  first,  Tinie 

(Catharine)  Westervelt,  August  4,  1801,  had  four  chil- 
dren. He  married  second,  Cornelia  Haring,  no  issue,  and 
died  February  21,  1879. 

134.  Fytye   (Sophia),  bom  February  25,   1785,  married  Weart 

Westervelt,  April  5,  1806,  had  seven  children.  He  died 
December  27,  1845. 

Petrus  (55),  (son  of  Peter  P.),  had  issue: 

135.  Johannis,  bom  March  2,  1769,  married  Maria  Kool  (Cole), 

June  I,  1793,  had  four  children. 

136.  Willem  (William),  bom  January  30,  1771. 

137.  Roelof,  bom  December  11,  1773. 

138.  Cathlyntye,  bom  September  19,  1775. 

139.  Petrus,  baptized  December  19,  1779. 

140.  Comelius,  baptized  September  8,  1782. 

141.  Margaret  (Grietie)   No.  i,  born  September  14,  1784,  died 

young. 

142.  Margaret  (Margrietie)  No.  2,  bom  August  10,  1788. 

Cornelius  (64),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

143.  Willempje,  bom  October  27,  1790. 

144.  Jacob,  born  December  22,  1793. 

145.  Sarah,  bom  October  19,  1797. 

Gysbert  (65),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

146.  Grietje    (Margaret),  bom  August  6,   1762,  married  John 

Duryee,  had  three  children. 

147.  Abraham,  born  May  23,  1767,  married  Annatje  (Anna)  Van 

Delinde,  had  three  children. 

Gysbert  (71),  (son  of  Nicholas),  had  issue: 

148.  Comelius,  born  March  13,  1767. 

149.  Jannetje,  bom  October  9,  1769. 

150.  Elisabeth  (Elizabeth),  bom  July  7,  1775. 

Johannes  (72),  (son  of  Nicholas),  had  issue: 

151.  Gerrit  J.,  born  April  4,  1781,  married  Maria  Haring,  Decem- 

ber 10,  1801,  had  six  children. 

152.  Casparis,  bom  July  22,  1784. 

153.  Grietje  (Margaret),  born  March  26,  1786. 

154.  Maria,  bom  August  7,  1788. 

155.  Leah  (Helena),  born  March  18,  1791. 


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156.  John  J.,  bom  May  16,  1793,  married  Sarah  Brouwer,  July 

13,  1816. 

Cornelius  GERREn*  {yz)*  (son  of  Nicholas),  had  issue: 

157.  Gerret,  bom  November  25,  1785,  married  Maria  Blauvelt, 

May  I,  1809,  had  two  children. 

158.  Rachel,  bom  December  12,  1787. 

159.  Leah    (Helena),  bom   March   26,    1790,   married   William 

Naugle,  August  12,  18 13,  had  one  child. 

160.  Jeremias,  born  August  23,  1792,  died  young. 

161.  Jeremiah,  bom  January  7,  1795,  married  Maria  Van  Valen, 

had  five  children,  and  died  January  19,  183 1. 

162.  Sara,  born  January  19,  1798. 

163.  Grietje  (Margaret),  bom  September  17,  1800. 

164.  Catrina  (Catherine),  born  August  i,  181 1. 

John  Bogert,  Junior  (76),  (son  of  John),  bom  1718,  married 
March  16,  1737,  Abigail,  daughter  of  Jacobus  Quick.  A  distin- 
guished and  prosperous  New  York  merchant,  he  served  as  an 
alderman  from  1756  to  1766,  and  during  the  same  period  was  a 
deacon  and  elder  of  the  church  for  several  terms.  On  March 
12,  1766,  he  bought  John  Benson's  farm  at  Harlem,  l)dng  on 
Van  Keulen's  Hook,  adjoining  Harlem  River,  and  thither  he 
removed,  devoting  his  remaining  years  to  husbandry.  He  after- 
ward bought  the  property  known  as  the  Lawrence  Benson  Home- 
stead. In  1776,  when  the  Revolution  opened,  the  Provincial  Con- 
vention, on  leaving  New  York,  met  for  a  month  in  the  church  at 
Harlem,  and  Mr.  Bogert  being  a  good  Whig,  the  records  were  kept 
at  his  house,  which  stood  on  the  same  site  as  the  present  (1881) 
Morris  Randell  house,  at  the  foot  of  125th  Street,  Harlem  River. 
John  Bogert,  Jr.,  died  December  5,  1782,  having  only  the  year 
previous,  July  7,  1781,  married  a  second  wife,  Elizabeth,  daugh- 
ter of  Philip  Daly  and  widow  of  Abraham  Brasher. 

John  (or  Johannes)  (76),  (son  op  John),  had  issue, 
BY  his  first  wife,  Abigaii,  Quick,  viz.  : 

165.  Jacobus  (James),  born  December  25,1737,  married  Elizabeth 

Peacock,  April  23,   1756,  had  eight  children,  and  died 
February  i,  1811. 
166,. Annatje,  bom  December  4,  1739,  married  Peter  B)rvanck, 
March  13,  1758,  died  October  16,  1825. 

167.  Marytje  (Maria),  bom  February  11,  1741,  married  Captain 

Willett  Taylor,  September  10,  1760,  had  one  child. 

168.  John  J.,  bom  February  15,  1743,  died  December  15,  1754. 

169.  Nicholas  No.  i,  bom  March  12,  1745,  died  August  13,  1747. 

170.  Abigail,  bom  July  12,  1751,  died  August  5,  1751. 


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171.  Nicholas  No.  2,  bom  August  18,  1752,  died  single,  Decem- 

ber 19,  1783. 

172.  Cornelius  J.,  bom  October  13,  1754,  married  first,  Ann  Mur- 

ray, February  26,  1772,  had  two  children.  He  married 
second,  Susannah  Bartlett,  December  5,  1795,  had  two 
children,  died  February  16,  1832. 

173.  Peter,  bom  April  29,  1757,  married  Mary  Lawrence,  June 

15,  1783,  had  fifteen  children,  and  died  June  11,  1838. 

174.  Hendrick,  bom  May  31,  1758,  died  September  17,  1783. 

175.  Abraham  No.  i,  bom  May  17,  1759,  died  Febmary  20,  1760. 

176.  Abraham  No.  2,  bom  May  31,  1760,  died  January  14,  1761. 

177.  There   were   four   other   children   whose   names   were   not 

found  that  died  in  infancy. 

Nicholas  (80),  (son  of  John),  had  issue,  by 
FIRST  WIFE,  Maria  Quick,  viz.: 

178.  Jan  (John  N.),  bom  January  28,  1748,  married  Philander 

Forbes,  November  21,  1771,  had  two  children,  and  died 
Febmary  21,  1781. 

179.  Maria  No.  i,  born  November  3,  1749,  died  April  21,  1750. 

180.  Jacobus,  bom  March  17,  1751,  died  June  7,  1780. 

181.  Nicholas,  bom  January  28,  1753,  died  May  15,  1782. 

182.  Maria   No.   2,   bom   March   6,    1755,   married   Theophilus 

Brower,  Febmary  20,  1775,  had  five  children,  and  died 
March  14,  1818. 

183.  Annatje,  bom  May  21,  1757,  died  November  16,  1759. 

184.  Elizabet  (Elizabeth),  born  September  2,  1759,  died  August 

20,  1761.' 

185.  Comelius,  bom  September  21,  1761,  died  October  13,  1761. 

Nicholas  (80)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife, 

AlIDA  RiTZEMA,  VIZ. : 

186.  David  Ritzema,  bom  February  3,  1763,  married  Margaret 

Morton,  181 5.  He  married  second,  Ann  Barkens,  and 
died  June  3,  1839. 

187.  Helena  Ritzema,  born  July  19,  1764,  died  August  19,  1765. 

188.  Rudolphus,  bom  February  16,   1766,  married  Ann  Clark, 

May  22,  1802,  had  ten  children,  and  died  November  16, 
1842. 

189.  Helena  Strachan,  born  February  7,  1768,  married  William 

Strachan,  March  8,  1782,  had  five  children,  and  died  June 
20,1799. 

190.  Annatje  (Nancy),  bom  March  4,  1770,  married  first,  David 

Barkins,  November  4,'  1794,  and  second,  Charles  Russell. 
She  died  August  18,  1847. 

191.  AUida,  born  April  9,  1772,  died  unmarried  about  1857. 


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192.  Cornelius  No.  i,  born  August  i,  1774,  died  October  5,  1775. 

193.  Cornelius  No.  2,  bom  August  14,  1775,  married  Alida  Van 

Dyke,  had  four  children,  and  died  August  11,  1856;  a 
lawyer  of  New  York. 

194.  Margaret,  bom  June  26,  1777,  married  Jacob  J.  Kool,  Sep- 

tember 29,  1804,  but  died  without  issue,  March  25,  1818. 

195.  William,  bom  September  7,  1779,  died  single,  September  4, 

1820. 

196.  Nicholas,  born  April  23,  1782,  married  Eliza  Shear,  had  four 

children,  and  died  June  3,  1804. 

197.  John,  bom  September  19,  1784,  died  single,  1862. 

198.  James,  born  September  6,  1786,  single. 

Jacobus  (84),  (son  of  John),  had  issue  by  his 
FIRST  WIFE,  Elizabeth  Banker,  viz.  : 

199.  Elizabet  (Elizabeth),  baptized  October  2,  1754. 

200.  Jan  (John),  baptized  December  28,  1755,  married  Margareta 

Demarest,  October  7,  1781. 

201.  Neeltje,  baptized  July  15,  1759,  married  William  Leacraft, 

had  four  children. 

202.  Adriann,  baptized  May  24,  1761,  married  Willempie  Suy- 

dam,  had  one  child. 

203.  Beletje,  baptized  May  24,  1761. 

204.  Annetje,  baptized  July  3,  1757,  married  Samuel  Rogers,  had 

one  child. 

Jacobus  (84)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife,  Judith 
Van  Syse,  viz.  : 

205.  Maria  No.  i,  baptized  September  18,  1763,  died  young. 

206.  Maria  No.  2,  baptized  December  5,  1764,  married  Wessel 

Wessels,  April  22,  1792,  had  two  children. 

207.  James,  bom  February  12,  1766. 

208.  Nicholas  No.  i,  baptized  November  15,  1767,  died  young. 

209.  Nicholas  No.  2,  baptized  April  18,  1769,  died  young. 

210.  Judith,  baptized  December  2,  1770. 

211.  Helena  (L^na),  baptized  September  13,  1772,  married  Henry 

Stoutenburg,  July  7,  1799,  had  one  child. 

212.  Nicholas  No.  3,  baptized  December  25,  1774. 

Nicholas  C.  (92),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue, 
by  his  first  wife,  Cornelia  Bradus,  viz.  : 

213.  Nicholas,  baptized  February  18,  1759. 

214.  Cornelia,  baptized  April  15,  1761,  married  John  J.  Banta, 

had  three  children. 


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Nicholas  C.  (92)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife, 
Myndert  Schuyler,  viz.: 

215.  Cornelius  N.,  baptized  December  2,  1768,  died  single,  1821. 

216.  David  Schuyler,  born  January  12,  1770,  married  Elizabeth 

(Jonas)  Piatt,  April  29,  1792,  had  nine  children,  and  died 
July  10,  1839. 

217.  Two  daughters  who  died  in  infancy. 

Hendricus  (98),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

218.  Christiaan,  baptized  January  19,  1755. 

219.  Johannis,  baptized  December  15,  1756. 

Cornelius  (99),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

220.  Cornelia,  baptized  February  29,   1764,  married  Isaac  Tal- 

man,  April  7,  1792,  had  one  child. 

Nicholas  P.  (105),  (son  of  Petrus),  had  issue: 

221.  Maria  No.  i,  baptized  March  22,  1772,  died  January  13,  1774. 

222.  Katharina,  baptized  November  14,  1773,  died  September  18, 

1775. 

223.  Catherine,  who  married  Elam  Williams,  May  18,  1797,  had 

one  child,  and  died  June  23,  1798. 

224.  Ann,  baptized  August  10,  1777. 

225.  Maria  No.  2,  baptized   1779,  married  John  McLeod,  had 

three  children,  and  died  August  4,  1868. 

Cornelius  (115),  (son  of  Gerret),  had  issue: 

226.  Geertye  (Gertrude),  born  June  23,  1789,  baptized  July  26, 

1789. 

Peter  (119),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

227.  John,  bom  July  20,  1807. 

228.  Anna  Demarest,  born  December  19,  1809. 

229.  Margaret,  bom  February  22,  1814. 

230.  Peter,  bom  December  12,  1817. 

Matthew  P.  (124),  (son  of  Peter  M.),  had  issue, 
BY  his  first  wife,  Polly  (Maria)  Demarest,  viz.: 

231.  Peter  M.,  bom  March  3,   1788,  married  Tiny   (Catherine) 

Banta,  December  21,   1811,  had  five  children,  and  died 
January  9,  1833. 

232.  Hetty  (Hester),  born  December  i,  1789,  married  Stephen 

Yeury,  and  died  June  6,  1884. 

233.  David,  bom  September  20,  1791,  married  Sally  Tinkey,  had 

one  child,  and  died  November  i,  1815. 


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234.  Seba   (Siba),  bom  May  2,   1794,  married  Maria   (Polly) 

Bell,  December  25,  1813,  had  one  child,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 10,  1 81 7. 

235.  Rachel,  born  December  21,  1796,  married  John  Brush. 

236.  James  (or  Jacobus),  bom  April  4,  1799,  died  single,  June 

24,  181 5. 

237.  Samuel  M.,  bom  May  29,  1801,  married  Lydia  Powless  (or 

Powlisson),  July  7,  1821,  had  two  children,  and  died 
August  10,  1832. 

238.  Mary,  born  July  4,   1807,  married  Abraham  A.   Blauvelt, 

August  12,  1828,  had  six  children,  and  died  June  14, 
1885. 

239.  Betsy,  born  Julv  25,  181 1,  married  Peter  D.  Haring,  July 

5,  1828. 

Seba  (125),  (son  of  Peter  M.),  had  issue: 

240.  Peter  No.  i,  bom  May  3,  1795,  died  single,  December  25, 

1813. 

241.  Benjamin  S.,  born  February  21,  1797,  married  Sarah  Clark, 

June  8,  1816,  had  two  children,  and  died  March  29,  i860. 

242.  Matthew  S.,  born  April  9,  1799,  married  first,  Maria  (Polly) 

Kip,  January  31,  1824,  had  four  children.  He  married 
second,  Margaret  Christie  (a  widow),  November  13, 
1833,  ^^^  three  children,  and  died  October  23,  1874. 

243.  Cornelius,  bom  May  19,  1801,  married  first,  Effie  Wester- 

velt,  August  14,  181 9,  had  four  children.  He  married 
second,  Hannah  Christie,  April  26,  1842,  had  two  chil- 
dren, and  died  March  27,  1864. 

244.  Samuel,  bom  April  19,  1804,  married  Hetty  (Hester)  Wes- 

tervelt,  April  28,  1826,  had  seven  children,  and  died  Jan- 
uary 5,  1837. 

245.  Elizabeth,  bom  July  9,  1808,  married  Peter  W.  Christie,  had 

nine  children,  and  died  March  9,  1892. 

246.  Jacob  S.,  born  July  7,  1813,  married  Martina  Haring,  March 

7,  1844,  had  five  children,  and  died  March  i,  1886. 

247.  Henry,  born  June  15,  181 1,  died  single,  September  19,  1831. 

248.  Peter  No.  2,  bom  August  6,  1815,  married  Lydia  Bartholf, 

had  four  children,  and  died  May  13,  1871. 

249.  Rachel,  born  March  4,  18 18,  married  Peter  Mabie,  had  six 

children,  and  died  February  14,  1888. 

Samuel  P.  (127),  (son  of  Peter  M.),  had  issue: 

250.  Rachel,  bom  March  6,  1804,  married  Joseph  N.  Blauvelt 

251.  Maria  Klyn,  born  November  3,  1806,  married  James  Van 

Wagoner. 

252.  Margaret,  bom  April  12,  1810,  married  Adam  Alyea. 


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253.  Martha,  bom  January  13,  181 5,  married  James  J.  M.  Mande- 

ville,  had  two  children. 

254.  Henry  M.,  born  April  14,  1818,  married  first,  Peggy  Min- 

tum,  and  second,  Mary  Ann  Smith,  June  9,  1852. 

Matthew  M.  (132),  (son  of  Materis) (Matthew),  had  issue: 

255.  Sally,  born  February  23,    1802,   married   Samuel   Haring, 

May  19,  1824. 

256.  Jane,  born  February  16,  1804,  married  first,  John  D.  Brower, 

May  II,  1822,  and  second,  James  Anderson. 

257.  Margaret,  bom  December  2y,  1809,  married  Paul  Powliss, 

July  28,  1827,  had  two  children. 

258.  Maria,  bom  May  10,  1813,  married  Cornelius  Blauvelt,  Sep- 

tember 6,  1834. 

259.  Jacob  M.,  bom  May  15,  1819,  married  Maria  Haring,  No- 

vember 3,  1842,  had  six  children,  and  died  March  18,  1874. 

Albert  M.  (133),  (son  of  Materis)  (Matthew),  had 

ISSUE^  BY  his  first  WIFE,  TiNIE  WeSTERVELT,  VIZ. : 

260.  ?     (daughter),  who  died  in  infancy. 

261.  Sallie   (Sarah),  born  September  29,   1803,  married  James 

Blauvelt,  December  21,  1822. 

262.  Sophia,  bom  September  28,  1805. 

263.  Mary  Ann,  who  married  Frederick  Haring,  November  3, 

1824. 

Johannis  (135),  (son  OF  Petrus),  had  issue: 

264.  Maria,  bom  March  12,  1794. 

265.  Sarah  No.  i,  bom  August  19,  1795,  died  young. 

266.  Sarah  No.  2,  born  December  22,  1797,  died  young. 

267.  Sarah  No.  3,  bom  June  7,  1799. 

Abraham  (147),  (son  of  Gysbert),  had  issue: 

268.  Maria,  bom  November  4,  1792. 

269.  Roelof,  bom  September  9,  1795. 

270.  Rachel,  bom  December  29,  1797. 

Gerret  J.  (151),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

271.  Johannis  No.  i,  born  February  18,  1802,  died  young. 

272.  Johannis  No.  2,  bom  June  7,  1805. 

273.  Catrina  Haring,  born   May   16,   1807,  married  Daniel  D. 

Clark,  May  19,  1827.     He  of  New  York. 

274.  Martyntje  (Martha),  born  April  17,  1809. 

275.  Leah,  bom  February  11,  1813,  married  James  I.  Ackerson, 

November  4,  1847. 

276.  Petrus,  bom  November  9,  1815. 


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Gerrkt  (157),  (son  of  Cornelius  Gerret),  had  issue: 

277.  Sarah,  born  August  23,  1810,  married  Henry  Blauvelt,  May 

8,  1830. 
^78.  Marragrietje  (Margaret),  born  December  14,  181 3. 

Jeremiah  (161),  (son  of  Cornelius  Gerret),  had  issue: 

279.  Cornelius,  born  December  14,  18 18,  married  Sarah  Gould 

Lovett,  December  25,  1845,  had  three  children,  and  died 
May  23,  1883. 

280.  Daniel  Vanvalen,  bom  July  8,  1822,  died  August  14,  1826. 

281.  Sarah  Ann,  born  December  30,  1824,  married  Elhannan  W. 

Whitney,  March  14,  1843,  had  eight  children,  and  died 
July  30,  1885. 

282.  Jacob,  born  September  20,  1827,  married  Mary  Pitcher,  had 

one  child,  and  died  May  6,  1864. 

283.  Jane,  born  May  24,  1830,  married  James  B.  Leflferts,  Januar)^ 

I,  1854,  had  eight  children. 

Jacobus  Bogert  (165),  born  December  25,  1737,  (son  of  John 
Bogert,  Jr.),  married,  April  23,  1756,  Elizabeth  Peacock,  of  a 
French  Huguenot  family.     He  died  February   i,    181 1. 

Jacobus  (165),  (son  of  John,  Jr.),  had  issue: 

284.  Abigail  No.   i,  baptized  March   16,   1757,  died  March  25, 

1757. 

285.  Johannes,  baptized  August  16,  1758,  married  Elizabeth  Ber- 

rien, August  22,  1778,  had  eight  children,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 16,  1802. 

286.  Maria  No.  i,  baptized  November  10,  1760,  died  April  8,  1761. 

287.  Abigail  No.  2,  baptized  November  18,  1761,  married  Phineas 

Parker,  January  11,  1784,  but  died  without  issue,  April 
15.  1838. 

288.  Maria  No.  2,  baptized  April  12,  1764,  married  first,  Captain 

William  Moore,  May  28,  1786,  and  second,  William  Pea- 
cock, but  died  without  issue,  September  23,  1806. 

289.  James,  Jr.,  born  April  14,  1767,  married  first,  Elizabeth  Bene- 

zet,*  May  10,  179S,  had  eleven  children.  He  married 
second,  Cornelia  Smith,  July  22,  1826,  by  whom  he  had 
one  child,  and  third,  Esther  Crowell,  April  3,  1828,  no 
issue.     He  died  March  30,  1858. 

290.  Ann,  baptized  March   12,    1769,   died  unmarried,  Julv    19, 

1853. 

•  This  lady  was  of  the  Benczct  family  of  Philadelphia,  wliose  ancestor,  Jean 
Benezet,  died  at  Abbeville,  France,  August  15,  1 710.  A  MS.  account  of  the  family, 
yet  preserved,  opens  with  this  entry  made  by  Jean   Benezet: 

"Lc  i6ce  Aoust,  1682,  Je  mesiers  marie  avec  Marie  Madelainc  Testart,  fillc  de 
M.  Pierre  Testart  ct  de  defunte  Rachel  Cromelin,  dc  la  ville  de  St.  Quentin,  en 
Vermandois."     (See  also  Bartow  Genealogy,  p.  53.) 


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291.  Elizabeth,  baptized   September  20,    1770,   died   unmarried, 

August  22,  1844. 

Cornelius  J.  (172),  (son  of  John),  had  issue 

BY  HIS  FIRST  WlFE^  Ann  MuRRAY,  VIZ.  : 

292.  John  G.,  bom  January  19,  1773,  married  first,  Mary  Cor- 

bett  Ludlow,  October  15,  1794,  had  seven  children.  He 
married  second,  Eliza  Robins,  November  4,  1826,  and 
died  December  17,  1828. 

293.  Abigail,  born  May  20,  1774,  married  Robert  Jenkins  Thurs- 

ton, June  4,  1801,  had  four  children,  and  died  May  8, 
1841. 

Cornelius  J.  (172)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife, 
Susannah  Bartlett,  viz.: 
293a.  Cornelia,  bom  January  24,  1797,  died  September  11,  1797. 
2936.    ?     (daughter),  bom  July  2,  1799,  died  July  2,  1799. 

Peter  (173),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

294.  ?     (son),  born  August  16,  1783,  died  August  20,  1785. 

295.  Thomas  Lawrence,  bom  January  21,   1787,  married  Mar- 

garet Green,  October  14,  1819,  had  three  children,  and 
died  June  3,  1866. 

296.  ?     (son),  born  March  22,  1788,  died  May  17,  1788. 

297.  Peter  Byvanck,  born  May  7,   1789,  died  August  7,   181 1. 

298.  Cornells,  bom  January  7,   1791,  died  December   14,   1874. 

299.  Mary  Lawrence,  born  April  2,  1792. 

300.  Eliza,  bom  November  8,  1793,  married  Henry  Green,  but 

died  without  issue,  January  28,  1848. 

301.  James  Lawrence,  born  December  29,  1794,  died  August  19, 

1881. 

302.  Amelia,  born  January  2,  1796,  died  August  21,  1797. 

303.  Edward  L.,  born  January  27,  1797,  died  October  14,  1841. 

304.  Robert,  who  died  November  14,  1799. 

305.  Eloise  Lawrence,  who  married  Augustine  Hicks  Lawrence, 

had  one  child,  and  died  May  15,  1880. 

306.  Henry  Kneeland,  born  March  4,  1801,  married  Mary  Eliza- 

beth Bogert,  January  14,  1826,  had  five  children,  and 
died  August  30,   1875. 

307.  Ann  Amelia,  bom  June  25,   1802,  married  Edwin  Taylor 

Neufville  Taylor,  now  deceased. 

308.  Harriet  L.,  bom  July  7,  1804,  deceased. 

Jan  (John  N.)   (178),  (son  of  Nichoi^as),  had  issue: 

309.  Maria,  baptized  July  5,  1772. 

310.  Philander,  baptized  October  16,  1774. 


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RuDOLPHus  (188),  (son  of  Nichoi^s),  had  issue: 

311.  George  Clark  No.  i,  bom  April  6,  1803,  died  November  9, 

1816. 

312.  Alida  Ann,  bom  July   15,   1804,  married  David   Stafford 

Hickoe,    September   23,    1863,   and   died   December    13, 
1869. 

313.  John  Ritzema  No.   i,  bom  February  3,  1806,  died  single, 

August  17,  1823. 

314.  Helena  Maria,  born  July,   1808,  married  Timothy  Bloom- 

field  Jervis,  May  30,  1837,  had  one  child,  and  died  Jan- 
uary, 1865. 

315.  Rudolphus,  bom  April  9,  181 1,  married  Wealthy  Jane  Gor- 

don, April  8,  1841,  had  five  children,  and  died  June  11, 
1866. 

316.  Elizabeth  Ross,  bom  February  22,  1814,  married  Cornelius 

T.  Brouwer,  and  died  March,  1895. 

317.  George   Clark   No.   2,  bom   November  25,    1816,   married 

Eliza  M.  Toby,  October  30,   1844,  had  seven  children, 
and  died  August  20,  1888. 

318.  Henrietta  Mills,  bom  October  13,   1819,  married  Orsinius 

D.  Day,  and  died  November  16,  i860. 

319.  Emily  Ritzema,  born  May,   1821,  married  Francis  Eaton 

Knight,  August  21,  1851,  had  one  child,  and  died  Feb- 
mary  20,  1^9. 

320.  John  Ritzema,  bom  October  21,  1826,  died  single,  Decem- 

ber 21,  1829. 

Cornelius  (193),  (son  of  Nicholas),  had  issue: 

321.  Horatio  G.,  who  married  Elizabeth  Gill,  had  five  children, 

and  died  in  1882. 

322.  Sophia  Margaretta,  bom  1810,  married  John  Taylor,  M.  D., 

but  had  no  isuue. 

323.  Comelia,  bom  September,  1821,  married  Philip  M.  Brett, 

October,  1839,  had  two  children. 

324.  Sarah  Van  Dyke,  who  married  John  Vanderbilt,  no  issue. 

Nicholas  (196),  (son  of  Nicholas),  had  issue: 

325.  Ann  Eliza,  who  married  Jacob  D.  Fowler,  had  eight  chil- 

dren. 

326.  John  Nichols,  bom  August  22,  1807,  married  Mary  Naylor, 

had  five  or  six  children. 

327.  William  Strachen,  bom  1809,  died  single,  August  14,  1883. 

328.  Alida  Ritzema,  bom  September  6,  1813,  married  Fred  Wil- 

liam Walker,  who  lived  at  Pompton,  N.  J. 

Adriann  (202),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

329.  Susannah,  bom  May  7,  1798,  baptized  June  10,  1798. 


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David  Schuyler  (216),  (son  of  Nicholas  C.)»  had  issue: 

330.  Henry,  born  January  4,  1793,  baptized  March  13,  1793. 

331.  Ann  Schuyler,  born  May  25,  1794,  married  Charles  Debost, 

1817,  had  five  children,  and  died  in  1834. 

332.  Elizabeth,  bom  December  8,  1795,  died  unmarried,  May  12, 

1879. 

333.  David    Schuyler,    bom    1798,    married    (wife's    name    not 

found),  had  one  child,  and  died  in  1849. 

334.  William  Henry,  born  1800,  died  single,  1836. 

335.  Eugene,  bom  April,  1803,  married  Eliza  Ann  Peck,  1828, 

had  four  children,  and  died  1847.  She  a  daughter  of 
David  Peck.     (Names  of  children  not  mentioned.) 

336.  Alwyn,  born  December  8,  1805,  married  Elizabeth  Ludlow 

Walker,  1829,  had  four  children,  and  died  February  7, 
i860.     He  a  physician  of  New  York  City. 

337.  Alexander  J.,  born  April,  1808,  married  first,  Oliva  How- 

land,  1829,  had  four  children.  He  married  second,  Agnes 
Stone  (Stuart),  had  six  children,  and  died  1870.  (Names 
of  children  not  given.) 

338.  Orlando  M.,  bom  December,  1810,  married  first,  Catherina 

Terhune,  1840,  had  six  children.  He  married  second, 
Julia  M.  Lipton  (Lupton),  and  died  1892. 

Peter  M.  (231),  (son  of  Matthew  P.),  had  issue: 

339.  John  Banta,  bom  September  13,  1813,  married  first,  Jane 

Vreeland  Houghwout,  June  15,  1837,  had  four  children. 
He  married  second,  Elizabeth  C.  Bissel,  June  12,  185 1, 
had  two  children. 

340.  James,  born  July  24,   181 5,  married  Maria  Doremus,  De- 

cember 13,  1837,  had  nine  children. 

341.  Cornelia,  bom  December  7,    1820,  married  Jonas   Sparks, 

December  24,  1839,  had  eleven  children,  and  died  April 
2,  1887. 

342.  Matthew  P.,  born  January  9,  1823,  married  Matilda  Cheet- 

hen,  December  19,  1843,  ^^d  two  children. 

343.  Elizabeth  Ann,  bom  June   14,   1830,  married  first,  Jacob 

Cholwell,  May  15,  1850,  had  three  children.  She  mar- 
ried second,  Stephen  Stymets,  October  2rj,  1870. 

David  (233),  (son  oe  Matthew  P.),  had  issue: 

344.  Matthew  D.  (Col.),  bom  September  15,  1813,  died  February 

28,  1898.     Of  Haverstraw,  N.  Y. 

Seba  (234),  (son  of  Matthew  P.),  had  issue: 

345.  Jacobus  Smith,  bom  January  7,  18 15,  baptized  Febmary  6, 

1815. 


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Samuel  M.  (237),  (son  of  Matthew  P.),  had  issue: 

346.  David,  born  September  8,  1822,  died  August  22,  1832,  bur- 

ied at  Closter,  N.  J. 

347.  Matthew,  bom  February  19,  1829,  died  August  14,  1832, 

buried  at  Closter,  N.  J. 

Benjamin  S.  (241),  (son  of  Seba),  had  issue: 

348.  Jacob,  who  married  Julia  Arma,  daughter  of  Rev.   Isaac 

Cole.     He  deceased. 

349.  William  Henry,  who  died  single. 

Matthew  S.  (242),  (son  of  Seba),  had  issue  by 
BOTH  wives: 

350.  Seba  M.,  bom  October  6,  1825,  married  Lavinia  Westervelt, 

May  23,  1844,  had  one  child.  He  married  second,  Cather- 
ine Z.  Connor,  April  2,  1857,  had  one  child,  and  died  July 
25,  1900. 

351.  Eliza,  who  married  Peter  C.  Campbell. 

352.  Sally. 

353.  Catherine. 

354.  David,  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War,  deceased. 

355.  John  M.,  born  August  6,  1839,  married  Jane  Bogert,  June 

5,  1858,  had  seven  children. 

356.  Samuel  M.,  who  married  Mary  H.  Lozier,  November  23, 

1861,  had  three  children  (names  not  mentioned).  He 
deceased. 

Cornelius  (243),  (son  of  Seba),  had  issue  by 

HIS  FIRST  WIFE,  EFFIE  WeSTERVELT,  VIZ. : 

357.  Seba,  born  October  11,  1820,  married  Rachel  Goetchius.    He 

was  a  jeweler  in  New  York  City. 

358.  Benjamin,  born  April  8,   1824,  married  Maria  Myers,  and 

died  January  8,  1880.     She  a  daughter  of  John  C.  Myers. 

359.  Sarah,  bom  December  13,  1826,  married  Edward  Esler. 

360.  Henry,  bora  December  19,  1831,  married  Ann  Westervelt, 

and  died  October  14,  1893. 

Cornelius  (243)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife, 
Hannah  Christie,  viz.  : 

361.  John  Jacob. 

362.  Euphemia. 

Samuel  (244),  (son  of  Seba),  had  issue: 

363.  Sarah,  who  married  J.  P.  Moore,  and  resides  out  west 

364.  John,  who  married  Elizabeth  Clark. 

365.  Eliza,  who  married  Mr. Brown. 


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366.  Sophia^  who  married  Felix  V.  Dillon. 

367.  Catherine,  who  married  Mr. Moore. 

368.  Henry,  who  married  Catherine  Ackerson. 

Jacob  S.  (246),  (son  of  Skba),  had  issue: 

369.  Sarah,  bom  January  5,  1845,  died  January  22,  1845. 

370.  Sarah  Maria,  born  January  5,  1845,  married  Simeon  Wester- 

velt,  November  7,  1866,  had  three  children. 

371.  Lydia  Ann,  bom  March  26,  1847,  married  William  A.  Tall- 

man,  June  I,  1864,  had  five  children. 

372.  Catherine  Elizabeth,  born  October  21,  1848,  married  Wil- 

liam H.  Westervelt,  September  13,  1870,  had  six  children. 

373.  Rosana  R.,  born  September  3,  1850,  unmarried. 

Peter  (248),  (son  of  Seba),  had  issue: 

374.  Sarah  Jane,  who  married  Jacob  Peter  Manselle. 

375.  Rachel  Ann. 

376.  Garret,  who  married  Rebecca  Holman.' 

377.  Ella  Lavinia. 

Jacob  M.  (259),  (son  of  Matthew  M.),  had  issue: 

378.  Henry  Van  Valen,  born  September  18,  1843,  died  Novem- 

ber 30,  1847. 

379.  Matthew  J.,  born  May  i,  1846,  married  Mary  A.  Hopper, 

May  22,  1873,  have  four  children. 

380.  Cornelia,  bom  September  2,  1848,  unmarried. 

381.  Sarah  Jane,  born  February  15,  185 1,  unmarried. 

382.  Leah  E.,  bom  July  23,  1854,  married  Peter  E.  Huyler,  Sep- 

tember 23,  1874,  had  one  child. 

383.  Huyler,  bom  January  7,  1863,  married  Ella  Bogert,  Decem- 

ber 4,  1890,  has  two  children. 

Cornelius  (279),  (son  of  Jeremiah),  had  issue: 

384.  Maria  Augusta,  bom  December  2,   1846,  died  in  infancy. 

385.  Fannie  Adelia,  born  February  2,  1849,  married  Walter  A. 

Davis,  April  28,  1874,  had  two  children. 

386.  Charles  Van  Valen,  bom  April  9,  1853,  married  Annie  A. 

Goodwin,  April  9,  1877,  had  three  children. 

Jacob  (282),  (son  of  Jeremiah),  had  issue: 

387.  Joephine. 

Johannes  (285),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

388.  Jane,  bom  November  20,  1780,  married  David  Banta,  Feb- 

mary  18,  1804,  and  died  September  21,  1843. 

389.  James,  born  October  13,  1782,  was  lost  at  sea. 


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468  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

390.  Elizabeth,  bom  January  10,  1785. 

391.  Mary  Frances,  bom  December  2,  1790,  married  Matthias 

Warner,  had  six  children. 

392.  There  were  four  other  children  that  died  in  infancy. 

Said  James  Bogert,  Jr.,  (289),  bom  April  14,  1767,  was 
married  thirce;  May  10,  1795,  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Benezet; 
second,  Cornelia  Smith,  July  22,  1826;  third,  Esther  Crowell, 
April  3,  1828.  Mr.  Bogert  eventually  came  to  Harlem,  and 
after  two  or  three  years'  residence  bought  (by  two  purchases 
in  181 1  and  1812)  the  farm  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook  before 
owned  by  his  grandfather,  John  Bogert,  Jr.  In  1816  he  joined 
the  Reformed  Dutch  church  at  Harlem,  to  whose  interests 
his  hands  and  purse  were  devoted.  After  living  here  some  years, 
his  house  being  burned,  he  sold  his  farm,  in  1825,  to  Morris 
Randell.  Highly  respected  during  a  useful  life  protracted  to  his 
91st  year,  Mr.  Bogert  died  in  New  York,  March  31,  1858,  two 
sons  and  a  daughter^ surviving  him;  the  latter,  an  estimable  lady, 
now  deceased,  was  the  wife  of  Dr.  Edward  L.  Beadle,  of  Pough- 
keepsie,  but  formerly  of  New  York,  to  whom  I  am  indebted  for 
some  of  these  details. 

James,  Jr.  (289),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue  by 

HIS   FIRST   WIFE,   EUZABETH    BeNEZET,  VIZ.: 

393.  Francis  Bouquet,  bom  April  3,  1797,  died  single. 

394.  James  Benezet,  born  May  31,  1799,  died  aged  six  months. 

395.  Russel  Graffe,  born  June  26,  1800,  baptized  September  11, 

1800,  died  aged  one  year. 

396.  Adeline,  born  December  5,  1801,  who  married  first,  R.  C. 

Willis,  and  second.  Dr.  Edward  L.  Beadle,  October  14, 
1832,  but  died  without  issue,  November  14,  1876. 

397.  Edwin,  born  January  25,  1803,  died  aged  six  months. 

398.  Theodore  Peacock,  born  Febmary  17,  1804,  married  first, 

Frances  Nelson  Jones,  April  15,  1828,  had  two  children. 
He  married  second,  Eliza  Turner  Howe,  November  3, 
185 1,  had  nine  children,  and  died  October  24,  1882. 

399.  Lawrence  Kimball,  born  March  20,  1805,  married  Adeline 

Seaman,  June  16,  1827,  had  nine  children. 

400.  Alexander  Glass,  bom   March   24,    1807.   married   Harriet 

Young,  November  30,  1833,  had  one  child,  and  died 
October  19,  1838. 

401.  Catherine    Elizabeth,    born    September    25,    1809,    married 

Charles  Williams,  December  8,  1830,  had  one  child,  and 
died  February,  1844. 

402.  Abegail  Anna,  born  August  4,  181 2,  married  Ralph  Clark, 

April  26,  183 1,  had  two  children,  and  died  Febmary  28, 
1853. 


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403.  Mary  Benezet,  born  November  25,  1816,  died  unmarried, 

aged  15  years. 

John  G.  (292),  (son  of  Cornei^ius  J.)*  had  issue 

BY  HIS  FIRST  WIFE,  MaRY  CoRBETT  LuDLOW,  VIZ. : 

404.  Aim  Maria,  bom  July  28,  1795,  married  Gerardus  Clarke, 

November  21,  1825,  had  two  children. 

405.  William  Henry,  born  August  5,  1797,  married  in  1824  (name 

of  his  wife  not  found),  and  died  December  26,  1840. 

406.  Robert  Thurston,  bom  March  23,  1799,  died  May  10,  1799. 

407.  Comelius  Robert  (Dr.),  born  February  26,  1800,  married 

Maria  Louisa  Thurston,  and  died  November  10,   1877. 

408.  Charles  William,  born  May  5,  1802,  died  February  5,  1824. 

409.  Mary  Elizabeth,  bom  December  10,  1804,  married  Henry 

Kneeland  Bogert,  January   14,   1826,  had  five  children, 
and  is  now  deceased. 

410.  Cornelia  Henrietta,  born  June  13,  1827,  died  July  20,  1827. 

Thomas  Lawrence  (295),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

411.  Peter,  born  May  2^,   1822,  married,  but  wife's  name  not 

found. 

412.  George  W.,  bom  January  24,   1825,  married  Hibernia  C. 

Michaels,  had  five  children. 

413.  Mary  Eliza,  bom  October  23,  1827,  married  Benjamin  R. 

Robson,  October  10,  1848. 

Henry  Kneeland  (306),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

414.  Henry  Augustine,  bom  May  9,  1827,  married  Mary  Bowne 

Lawrence,  November  5,  1853,  had  eleven  children. 

415.  Edward   Clark,   born   September  3,    1828,   married   Olivia 

Hawks,  October  i,  1853. 

416.  Mary  Anna,  bom  August  25,  1830,  married  Daniel  Jack- 

son Stewart,  had  four  children. 

417.  Charles  Ludlow,  who  married  Julia  T.  Hamilton,  had  five 

children,  and  died  June  15,  1873. 

418.  James  T.,  who  died  in  1838. 

RuDOLPHUs  (315),  (son  of  Rudolphus),  had  issue: 

419.  Rudolphus  Ritzema,  born  February  17,  1842,  married  Elsie 

Comstock,  November  24,  1875,  had  two  children. 

420.  Orlando  Gordon,  bom  August  11,   1844. 

421.  George  Washington,  bom  February  22,  1847,  ^^^^  August 

19,  1848. 

422.  Collingwood,  born  March  6,  1849,  died  March  30,  1850. 

423.  Jane,  bom  January  27,  1852,  died  January  27,  1852. 


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George  Clark  (317),  (son  of  Rudolphus),  had  issue: 

424.  Henrietta  Ann,  bom  November  3,  1845. 

425.  Thomas  Johnston,  born  November  21,  1846,  died  October 

20,  1875. 

426.  Camella  Dameron,  born  November  7,  1848,  married  William 

Leslie  Black,  June  10,  1869. 

427.  Otho  Klemm,  who  died  October  i,  1854. 

428.  Emily  Eliza,  born  November  28,  1856. 

429.  William  Henry  Peet,  born  July  8,   1859,  married  Miriam 

Viola  Pyke,  November  21,  1882,  had  one  child. 

430.  Georgiana,  born  January  16,  1864,  died  August  13,   1865. 

Horatio  G.  (321),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

431.  Alice,  deceased. 

432.  Cornelia,  deceased. 

433.  Walter,  who  married  Miss  Ferris,  but  died  without  issue. 

434.  Louis,  deceased. 

435.  Nora,  unmarried. 

John  Nichols  (326),  (son  of  Nicholas),  had  issue: 

436.  Charles. 

437.  John. 

438.  Alida. 

439.  Maggie, 

440.  Sarah. 

441.  James  Nicholas,  bom  December  2,  1844,  baptized  June  8, 

1845, 2it  Newton,  L.  L 

Orlando  M.  (338),  (son  of  David  Schuyler),  had  issue: 

442.  Mary  Elizabeth,  who  married  Abram  Moorhouse,  October 

30,  1873,  had  three  children. 

443.  William  Henry,  bom  June  8,  1844,  married  Mary  E.  Crane, 

October  15,  1870,  had  two  children. 

444.  Eugenia,   bom   September   10,    1846,   married   Charles   W. 

Townsend,  had  two  children. 

445.  Katherine  Knapp,  born  December  14,  1848,  unmarried. 

446.  Orlando  Myndert,  Jr.,  bom  December   11,   185 1,  married 

Alice  S.  Wheeler,  April  25,  1872,  had  one  child. 

447.  Ellistina  Potter,  bom  May  28,  1854,  died  in  infancy. 

John  Banta  (239),  (son  of  Peter  M.),  had  issue: 

448.  John  Vreeland,  born  April  6,  1839. 

449.  Edward  Hyer,  bom  May  15,  1840,  died  November  23,  1885. 

450.  Augusta,  bom  January  4,  1843,  married  Charles  A.  Place, 

June  15,  1857. 

451.  Elizabeth  Ann,  bom  January  8,  1848. 


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John  Banta  (239)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife^  viz.  : 

452.  Kate  Bissell,  born  September  16,  1852,  married  Charles  T. 

Roe,  187s,  have  two  children. 

453.  Victorine  Bissell,  born  December  5,  1854,  died  March  23, 

1858. 

James  (340),  (son  of  Peter  M.),  had  issue: 

454.  Christina,  bom  October  7,  1838. 

455.  Peter,  bom  Febmary  24,  1840. 

456.  Margaret  Jane,  bom  July  12,  1842,  married  Samuel  Demar- 

est,  M.  D. 

457.  Anna  Maria,  born  December  31,  1844,  married  Charles  H. 

Wessells. 

458.  Cornelia,  bom  August  8,  1845,  married  Nelson  H.  Drake, 

M.D. 

459.  Richard  D.,  bom  July  30,  1847. 

460.  Elizabeth  Caroline,  born  December  18,  185 1,  married  Chris- 

tian H.  Tilljen. 

461.  Mary  Emma,  born  January  7,  1854. 

462.  James,  bom  May  29,  1857. 

Matthew  P.  (342),  (son  of  Peter  M.),  had  issue: 

463.  James,  born  January  7,   1854,  married  Ida  M.  Marshall, 

October  11,  1876,  had  one  child. 

464.  Matthew,  bom  April  7,  1862,  married  Ella  Anderson,  April 

18,  1881. 

Seba  M.  (350),  (son  of  Matthew  S.)^  had  issue 

BY  HIS  FIRST  WIFE^  LaVINIA  WeSTERVELT! 

465.  John  W. 

Seba  M.  (350)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife, 
Catherine  Z.  Connor: 

466.  Mary  C.  Ford,  bom  June  22,  1862. 

John  M.  (355),  (son  of  Matthew  S.),  had  issue: 

467.  Margaret. 

468.  David  C,  who  had  four  children. 

469.  Clark. 

470.  Muton,  had  one  child. 

471.  Emma. 

472.  Mabel. 

473.  Elmer. 

Matthew  J.  (379),  (son  of  Jacob  M.),  had  issue: 

474.  Cora,  bom  June  19,  1874,  died  June  14,  1878. 


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472  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

475.  Jessie,  born  November  28,  1875,  married  Frederick  W.  Mat- 

tocks, June  15,  1900,  have  one  child. 

476.  Virgil,  born  September  22,  1880. 

477.  Clarence,  born  March  22,  1882. 

HuYLER  (383),  (son  of  Jacob  M.),  had  issue: 

478.  Marie,  bom  August  13,  1892. 

479.  Chester,  born  January  12,  1896. 

Charles  Van  Valen  (386),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

480.  Grace  Augusta,  bom  June  8,  1880. 

481.  Ralph  Goodwin,  born  February  9,  1883. 

482.  Walter  Lovell,  bom  October  17,  1895. 

Theodore  Peacock  (398),  (son  oe  James,  Jr.),  had  issue 
BY  HIS  first  wife,  Frances  Nelson  Jones^  viz.: 

483.  Theodore  Parker,  bom  October  22,  1830,  married  Sarah  Bull 

Wilken,  February  17,  1853,  had  seven  children.     He  de- 
ceased. 

484.  Mary  Benezet,  bom  September  14,  1832,  married  Dr.  Samuel 

Conant  Foster,   September  23,   1857,  had  five  children, 
and  died  February  4,  1880. 

Theodore  Peacock  (398),  (son  of  James,  Jr.),  had  issue 
BY  nis  second  wife^  Eliza  Turner  Howe,  viz.  : 

485.  Edward   Langdon,   born   August    18,    1852,   married   first, 

Maria  V.  Lincoln,  September  24,   1884,  had  one  child. 
He  married  second,  Tessie  MacGregor,  January  12,  1898. 

486.  Edith,  bom  December  22,  1853,  ^^^^  August  13,  1855. 

487.  George  Howe,  born  November  11,  1855,  died  April  15,  1864. 

488.  Alice,   bom    November    15,    1857,   married   Edward   Percy 

Guerard,  October  4,  1887,  have  three  children. 

489.  William  Russell,  bom  November  11,  1859,  married  Antoin- 

ette R.  North,  November  15,  1893,  have  two  children. 

490.  Isabel,  bom  September  i,  i860,  died  September  6,  1861. 

491.  Adeline,  bom  September  21,  1862,  died  September  29,  1865. 

492.  Harry  Howe   (Rev.),  born  April   19,   1865,  married  Sadie 

Marie  Nelson,  have  five  children. 

493.  Julia,  born  August  13,  1868,  unmarried  (1902). 

Lawrence  Kimball  (399),  (son  op  James,  Jr.),  had  issue: 

494.  James  Benezet,  bom  April  20,  1828. 

495.  Katherine  Augusta,  bom  April  27,  1830,  married  John  J. 

Doolittle,  June  6,  1840. 

496.  Adeline  Matilda,  bom  Febmary  18,  1833. 

497.  Charles  Clark,  bom  February  12,  1835. 


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BOGERT  FAMILY.  473 

498.  Lawrence  Kimble,  bom  July  14,  1838. 

499.  Edward  Beadle,  bom  January  2(5,  1841. 

500.  Emily  Franklin,  bom  November  3,  1843. 

501.  Alida  Louisa,  bom  1846. 

502.  Anna  Bykbee,  born  April  11,  1850. 

Alexander  Glass  (400),  (son  of  James^  Jr.),  had  issue: 

503.  Anna,  who  married  Dr.  Allen.    Was  living  in  New  York 

in  1883. 

George  W.  (412),  (son  of  Thomas  Lawrence),  had  issue: 

504.  George  A.,  born  May  31,  1869. 

505.  Mary  E.,  born  June  30,  1871. 

506.  Thomas  S.,  bom  March  15,  1873,  died  July  16,  1874. 

507.  Lilly  M.,  born  December  26,  1875. 

508.  Hibemia  J.,  born  June  i,  1885. 

Henry  Augustine  (414),  (son  of  Henry  Kneeland), 
had  issue: 

509.  Mary  Lawrence,  born  January  19,  1855,  married  William 

Elliman,  June  3,  1873,  have  five  children. 

510.  Henry  Lawrence,  born  January  20,   1857,  married  Carrie 

Lawrence  Osgood,  October  8,  1879,  '^ave  four  children. 

511.  John   Lawrence,   born   October   2*jy    1858,   married   Helen 

Lyman  Boardman. 

512.  Emily  Louise,  born  October  29,  i860,  died  April  8,  1864. 

513.  Edward  Ludlow,  bom  December  19,  1862,  died  October  21, 

1863. 

514.  Walter  Lawrence,  born  December  7,  1864. 

515.  James  Lawrence,  born  March  31,  1867,  died  July  21,  1867. 

516.  Marston  Taylor,  born  April   18,    1868,  married  Charlotte 

Elizabeth  Hoogland,  September  12,  1893. 

517.  Frances  Lawrence  No.  i,  bom  July  11,  1869,  died  July  19, 

1870. 

518.  Frances  Lawrence  No.  2,  bom  September  8,  1870,  married 

Robert  Hare  Egbert  Elliot,  August  19,  1890,  have  three 
children. 

519.  Theodore  Lawrence,  born  June  24,  1875. 

Charles  Ludlow   (417),  (son  of  Henry  Kneeland), 
HAD  issue: 

520.  Julia  Hamilton,  born  January  25,  1865,  married  Duncan  M. 

White,  March  18,  1886. 

521.  Henry  Kneeland,  bom  August  3,    1868,  married  Adeline 

Mitchell,  February  21,  1893. 


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474  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

522.  Harriet  Lawrence,  bom  October  28,  1871,  married  Francis 

D.  Gallatin. 

523.  Edward  Sandford,  bom  July  12,  1870,  died  November  28, 

1882. 

524.  Mary  Elizabeth,  bom  February  10,  1873,  married  Horace 

Porter,  Jr.,  November  15,  1892. 

RUDOLPHUS  RiTZEMA    (419),    (SON  OF  RuDOLPHUS),  HAD  ISSUE: 

525.  Helen,  bom  October  10,  1876. 

526.  Charlotte  Ritzema,  bom  September  22,  1880. 

William  Henry  Peet  (429),  (son  of  George  Clark), 
HAD  issue: 

527.  Viola,  born  January  4,  1888. 

William  Henry  (443),  (son  of  Orlando  M.),  had  issue: 

528.  Isabel  Duncan,  bom  January  6,   187 1,  married  Philip  A., 

Fitzpatrick,  June  18,  1890,  have  five  children. 

529.  Helen  Holbrook,  bom  July  9,   1875,   married   George  P. 

Vail,  March  8,  1899,  have  two  children. 

Orlando  M.,  Jr.  (446),  (son  of  Orlando  M.),  had  issue: 

530.  Alice  Wheeler,  bom  April   14,   1878,  married  Harold  W. 

Patterson,  June  10,  1902, 

James  (463),  (son  of  Matthew  P.),  had  issue: 

531.  Clarence  M.,  bom  July  7,  1877. 

Theodore  Parker  (483),  (son  of  Theodore  Peacock), 
had  issue: 

532.  Frances  Nelson,  born  February  i,  1854,  married  first,  Rob- 

ert E.  O'Brien,  September  27,  1883,  had  one  child. 
He  died  October  18,  1896.  She  married  second,  John 
Purdon,  November  3,  1897. 

533.  James,  born  Febmary  13,   1859,  ^i^d  December  17,   1859. 

534.  William  Benezet,  bom  October  2,  i860,  married  Ella  Loomis, 

June  29,  1887,  have  three  children. 

535.  Theodore    Parker    (Peacock),    born    November    14,    1862, 

married  Alice  Weaver  Danielson,  November  14,  1893. 
Adopted  child  named  Alice,  born  September   17,   1901. 

536.  Lawrence. 

537.  Alexander  Glass. 

538.  Elizabeth. 


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BOGERT  FAMILY.  475 

Ej)WARD  Langdon  (485),  (son  OF  Theodore  Peacock), 
HAD  issue: 

539.  Edward  Langdon,  Jr.,  born  August  28,  1885. 

William  Russell  (489),  (son  of  Theodore  Peacock), 
HAD  issue: 

540.  Helen  North,  born  June  15,  1895. 

541.  William  Russell,  Jr.,  born  June  4,  1899. 

Rev.  Harry  Howe  (492),  (son  of  Theodore  Peacock), 
HAD  issue: 

542.  Marie  Nelson,  born  September  10,  1889. 

543.  Edith,  bom  May  12,  1891. 

544.  Elsie,  bom  October  9,  1892. 

545.  Katherine,  bom  May  21,  1896. 

546.  Harry  Howe,  Jr.,  bom  September  7,  1898, 

Henry  Lawrence  (510),  (son  of  Henry  Augustine), 
HAD  issue: 

547.  Caroline  Lawrence,  born  March  26,  1881. 

548.  Henry  Lawrence,  Jr.,  bom  May  7,  1883. 

549.  Mary  Ludlow,  bom  August  22,  1890. 

550.  Edward  Osgood,  bom  January  9,  1894. 

William  Benezet  (534),  (son  of  Theodore  Parker), 
HAD  issue: 

551.  William  Benezet,  Jr.,  bom  May  23,  1888. 

552.  Theodore  Loomis,  bom  November  3,  1890. 

553.  Frances  Hoyt,  bom  October  21,  1892. 

BREVOORT. 

John  Hendricks  Brevoort,  of  humble  origin,  but  attaining 
to  wealth  and  honorable  station,  presents  one  of  many  instances 
among  our  early  colonists  of  similar  rewards  meted  out  to  hon- 
esty and  industry.  When  Harlem  village  was  first  settled,  Bre- 
voort was  a  boy  of  fourteen  years,  and  living  at  Bushwick,  with 
Hendrick  Jansen  van  Brevoort,  his  father,  we  assume,  who  had 
leased  a  farm  from  Reyer  Moll,  owned  later  by  Jean  Mesurolle, 
and  from  an  eminence  called  the  Kyckuyt,  or  Lookout,  known 
as  the  Kyckuyt  Farm.  Hence  its  occupant,  living  there  from 
1659  to  1665,  came  to  be  distinguished  as  Hendrick  Jansen 
Kyckuyt.  Though  Brevoort  in  Guelderland  has  hitherto  had 
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476  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

really  came  from  "Brevoort  in  the  diocese  of  Utrecht/'  It  was 
a  hamlet  to  the  northwest  of  Amersfoort,  and  but  little  over  a  mile 
from  its  walls,  and  here  Hendrick  Jansen  was  bom,  in  1630, 
taking  his  own  statement  as  to  his  age,  made  at  various  times. 
Before  leaving  the  Kyckuyt  farm  he  secured  land  at  Dutch  Kills, 
in  Newtown,  ''which  was  laid  out  for  him  by  Jacques  Cortelyou, 
the  surveyor,  by  order  of  Governor  Stuyvesant."  This  became 
his  home,  and  was  confirmed  to  him  by  Governor  Lovelace,  May 
20,  1672,  the  main  tract  lying  between  lands  then  of  Jan  Hen- 
dricks and  Frans  Hendricks. 

About  this  time  John  Hendricks  Brevoort,  or  Jan  Hendricks 
Kyckuyt,  as  he  was  then  called,  removed  to  New  York,  where  his 
wife's  parents  were  living,  for  he  was  now  married.  Hendrick 
Jansen  Kyckuyt  followed  him,  and  bought  property  in  the  city, 
February  24,  1680,  having,  in  or  after  1675,  sold  his  farm  in  New- 
town to  one  Laurens  Cornelisz,  who  soon  conveyed  it  to  a  neigh- 
boring owner,  Joris  Stevens  van  Alst,  whose  daughter  was  the 
wife  of  Hendricks'  son,  Frans  Hendricks.* 

Hendricks'  daughter,  Marritie,  had  married,  in  1673,  Hen- 
drick Bastiaens,  of  New  York,  brother  to  Annetie  Bastiaens,  Jan 
Hendricks'  wife.  Metje  Bastiaens,  wife  of  Cornelis  Jansen,  of 
Harlem,  being  a  sister  of  Annetie,  this  may  account  for  Jan  Hen- 
dricks going  to  Harlem,  as  he  soon  did.  The  three  Bastiaens  were 
children  of  Bastiaen  Elyessen  (as  he  wrote  his  name),  from 
Werckhoven,  a  wheelwright,  and  who  by  several  purchases,  the 
last  in  1684,  became  the  owner  of  40  acres  of  land  west  of  the 
Bowery  Road  (Fourth  Avenue),  extending  from  loth  Street 
northward,  and  forming  subsequently  the  lower  half  of  the  well- 
known  Brevoort  estate. 

John  Hendricks  Kyckuyt,  living  in  New  York,  in  1673,  on  its 
recapture  by  the  Dutch,  was  among  the  patriotic  carmen  who 
volunteered  to  work  gratuitously  on  the  defences  one  day  in  a 

*  Doubts  have  arisen  as  to  the  relationship  between  Hendrick  Jansen  and  Jan 
Hendricks  Brevoort,  because  of  a  too  close  approximation  in  their  ages  (only  fourteen 
years  intervening,  as  shown  by  their  own  statements),  and  an  apparent  difference  of 
birthplace;  for  Hendrick  and  his  children,  Frans  and  Marritie,  were  born  at  Bre- 
voort, while  Jan  Hendricks'  marriage  registration  names  him  as  "from  Amersfoort." 
As  against  the  last  discrepancy,  we  should  say  it  would  be  quite  as  natural  for  Jan, 
in  stating  where  he  came  from,  to  name  a  well-known  city,  near  which  he  was  bom, 
as  the  obscure  village  (Brevoort)  in  its  suburbs;  and  we  judge  this  the  explanation, 
for  while  in  the  one  instance  only  is  Jan  called  "Van  Amersfoort,"  he  is  many  times 
called  "Van  Brevoort."  The  difficulty  arising  from  his  being  so  nearlv  of  an  age 
with  Hendrick  is  relieved  by  the  record  of  many  similar  and  well  attestea  cases.  We 
premise,  for  reasons  deemed  sufficient,  that  neitner  Hendrick  nor  Jan  had  fallen  into 
an  error  regarding  his  age,  however  common  this  is,  as  we  know,  especially  with  the 
uneducated.  But  it  may  be  urged  further  in  favor  of  the  blood  paternity  in  Hendrick, 
that  the  almost  imperative  custom  of  that  day  would  require  the  eldest  son  of  Hen- 
drick Jansen  to  be  called  Jan  Hendricksen;  while  the  birthplace  of  the  father  and 
younger  children  being  the  same  (indicating  a  fixed  residence),  we  should  look  for 
this  to  correspond  therewith.  But  if  (as  has  been  suggested,  by  way  of  solving  this 
problem)  our  Jan  were  only  an  adopted  son  of  Hendrick,  we  should  not  expect  to 
find,  as  we  do  in  this  case,  the  three  requirements — birthplace,  name  and  priority  as 
eldest  son — to  be  all  exactly  met. 

These  difficulties  obviated,  all  doubt  as  to  the  paternity  of  Jan  Hendricks  Bre- 
voort must  be  dispelled  by  the  direct  testimony  of  the  Newtown  court  records  of 
1669,  where,  on  two  separate  occasions,  Hendrick  and  Jan  are  named  as  father  and  son. 


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week.  The  city  being  restored  to  the  English,  he  was  sworn  ?inew 
as  a  carman,  November  13,  1674.  He  removed  to  Harlem  the 
next  year.  On  March  13,  1676,  he  took  Pierre  Cresson'^  farming 
lot  on  Jochem  Pieters,  No.  5,  on  a  four  years'  lease;  but  bought 
Cresson  out  March  23,  1677,  house  and  house  lot,  said  lot  on 
Jochem  Pieters,  and  No.  20  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  with  meadows 
at  Sherman's  Creek.  He  drew  the  same  year.  No.  i  of  the  New 
Lots.  He  now  began  to  use  the  surname  Brevoort,  and  is  some- 
times called  by  the  clerk,  "J^*^  Hendricks  van  Brevoort,  alias 
Kyckuyt.''  Natural  abilities  making  up  in  a  good  degree  his  lack 
of  education,  Brevoort  arose  to  be  an  overseer  of  the  town  in  1678, 
and  was  reappointed  the  next  year.  He  bore  an  active  part  in  the 
building  of  the  new  church  in  1686.  In  1691  Brevoort  drew  lot 
No.  6,  on  Jochem  Pieters  Hills,  14  morgen,  to  which,  on  May  27, 
1698,  he  added  No.  7,  being  10  morgen,  by  purchase  from 
Jacques  Tourneur.  He  was  living  on  this  property  February  21, 
1 70 1,  when  he  sold  it  to  Johannes  Myer.  The  same  year,  No- 
vember 15,  he  bought  the  farm  of  his  father-in-law,  Bastiaen 
Elyessen,  before  noticed,  and  to  which  he  removed;  he  and  wife 
Anna  selling  their  remaining  lands  and  interests  at  Harlem  to 
their  son-in-law,  Zacharias  Sickles,  February  20,  1705.  Bre- 
voort's  acres  were  subsequently  doubled  by  the  purchase  of 
another  tract  of  45  acres  which  lay  adjoining,  and  ran  up  to  i8th 
Street. 

Mr.  Brevoort  was  elected  assistant  alderman  of  the  Out  Ward 
in  1702,  and  filled  the  same  office  from  1707  to  171 3.  He  died 
in  1714,  leaving  five  children,  viz.: 

John  Hendricks  Brevoort  (i)  had  issue: 

2.  Hendrickje,  baptized  January  13,  1669,  died  young. 

3.  Hendrick,  baptized  December  17,  1670,  married  first,,  Maria 

(Maryken  Van)  Cowenhoven,  August  26,  1699,  had  two 
children.  He  married  second,  Jacomina  Bokee,  October 
9,  1705,  had  seven  children,  and  died  in  1718. 

4.  Marritie,    baptized    November    12,    1673,    married    Zachariah 

Sickles,  August  23,  1693,  had  five  children. 

5.  Elias,  baptized  June  21,   1676,  married  Margaret  Sammans, 

May  16,  1701,  had  eight  children. 

6.  Jannetie,   baptized   April   9,    1679,   married   Thomas    Sickles, 

April  5,  1702,  had  thirteen  children.  He  a  blacksmith 
of  New  Harlem,  brother  of  Zacharias. 

Hendrick  Brevoort  (3),  after  that  excellent  Dutch  usage 
which  gave  each  son  a  trade,  was  bred  a  weaver,  but  followed 
farming.  He  married,  August  26,  1699,  Maria,  daughter  of  Jo- 
hannes Couwenhoven,  deceased,  "late  Secretary  between  Harlem 
and  Bowery" ;  and  October  9,  1705,  Jacomina,  daughter  of  Abra- 
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478  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Hendrick  (3),  (son  of  John  Hendricks),  had  issue 

BY  HIS  FIRST  WIFE^  MaRIA  CoWENHOVEN^  VIZ. : 

7.  Johannes,  baptized  June  2,   1700,  married  Annetje  Idesse, 

October  8,  1726,  had  three  children.     She  a  daughter  of 
Eide  Van  Huyse,  of  Bloomingdale. 

8.  Maria,  baptized  October  5,   1701. 

Hendrick  (3)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife, 
Jacomina  Bokee,  viz.: 

9.  Abraham  No.  i,  baptized  June  23,  1706,  died  young. 

10.  Abraham  No.  2,  baptized  September  24,  1707. 

11.  Annecke,  baptized  October  16,  1709. 

12.  Hendrickus,  baptized  December  9,  171 1,  married  Catherine 

Delamater,    September   29,    1739,   had    eleven    children. 
She  a  daughter  of  Abraham  Delamater. 

13.  Elias  No.  I,  baptized  July  8,  1713,  died  young. 

14.  Elias  No.  2,  baptized  May  i,  171 5,  married  Lea  Persel,  June 

8,  1 74 1,  had  four  children. 

15.  Jacob,  baptized  October  2,  1717,  died  1719. 

Hendrick's  (3)  widow  married,  in  1721,  Jacob  Harsen,  the 
Harsen  ancestor. 

Elias  (5),  (son  of  John  Hendricks),  followed  his  trade  as 
a  carpenter  in  the  city,  of  which  he  was  admitted  a  freeman  in 
1698.  He  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Sammans,  by 
whom  he  had  issue: 

16.  Aefjee  No.  i,  baptized  August  27,  1701,  died  young. 

17.  Anecke   (Anna)   baptized  October  24,   1703. 

18.  Hendrickje,  baptized  November  21,  1705. 

19.  Margaretje,  baptized  February  25,  1708. 

20.  Aejje  No.  2,  baptized  January  17,  171 1. 

21.  Grietje,  baptized  October  28,  1713. 

22.  John,  baptized  September  8,   171 5,  married  Louisa  Abigail 

Kockerthal,   July   30,    1739.      She   a   daughter  of   Rev. 
Joshua  Kockerthal.     He  was  a  goldsmith  in  New  York. 

23.  Elias,  baptized  March  30,  1718,  acted  as  an  executor  of  his 

father's  estate,  with  his  brother  Hendrick,  whom  he  sur- 
vived. 

Johannes  (7),  (son  o^  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

24.  Martje,  baptized  July  23,  1727. 

25.  Henry,  bom  February   12,   1735,  married  Maria  Anthony, 

September  7,  1758,  had  four  children,  and  died  October 
2,  1782. 

26.  Latisse,  baptized  September  10,  1764. 


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Hendrickus  (12),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

27.  Henricus,  baptized  April  5,  1741. 

28.  Jacomyntje  No.  i,  baptized  December  26,  1742,  married  Ben- 

jamin Stout,  Jr.,  August  22,  1776. 

29.  Abraham,   baptized    September    18,    1745,   married   Permile 

Dusentbirre,  had  five  children. 

30.  Henry,  bom  October  19,  1747,  baptized  October  21,  1747, 

married  Sarah  Whetten  (Wheaton),  June  16,  1778,  had 
five  children,  and  died  August  21,  1841. 

31.  Elias,  baptized  December  6,   1749,  married  Maria  Stouten- 

burg,  July  5,  1775,  had  three  children. 

32.  Anna,  baptized  October  25,  1752. 

33.  John    (Johannes),   baptized  April    16,    1755,   married   Mary 

Tweedle,  November  21,  1782. 

34.  Isaac,  baptized  June  11,  1758. 

35.  Catherine,  baptized  February   18,   1761,  married  Dr,  James 

S.  Cannon,  October  6,  1796,  had  one  child. 

36.  Jacomyntje  No.  2,  baptized  December  25,  1762. 

37.  Jeminia,  who  married  Daniel  Lawrence,  August  31,   1781, 

had  six  children. 

Elias  (14),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

38.  Henry,  baptized  March  14,  1742. 

39.  John,  baptized  January  20,  1745. 

40.  Jacomintie,  baptized  December  27,  1747. 

41.  Lea,  baptized  March  14,  1750. 

John  (22),  (son  of  Euas),  had  issue: 

42.  Charlotte,  bom  May  22,  1740,  baptized  May  26,  1740,  mar- 

ried Hon.  Whitehead  Hicks,  October  6,  1757,  had  seven 
children.  He  was  mayor  of  New  York  from  1766  to 
1773.     See  Thompson's  Long  Island,  Vol.  2,  page  510. 

43.  Margrietje,  baptized  June  24,  1741. 

44.  Louisa,  baptized  August  10,  1743. 

Henry  (25),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

45.  Abraham,  bom  June  24,   1762,  married  Ann  Devoor,  May 

20,  1788,  had  two  children,  and  died  November  12,  1794. 

46.  Hester,  born  June  20^  1765,  married  Joseph  Henry,  March 

21,  1785,  had  three  children. 

47.  Nicholaas,  born  August  5,  1767,  married  Rachel  Blann,  Sep- 

tember 19,  1787,  but  died  without  issue,  November  3, 
1798. 

48.  Maria,  born  February  28,  1774,  died  September  7,  1774. 


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Abraham  (29),  (son  of  Hendrikus),  had  issue: 

49.  Permile,  bom  November  15,  1782. 

50.  Hendricus,  bom  July  30,  1779. 

51.  Abraham,  born  December  28,  1786. 

52.  Elizabeth,  baptized  September  20,  1789. 

53.  Abraham  Nicholson,  baptized  November  11,  1792. 

Henry  (30),  (son  of  Hendrikus),  had  issue: 

54.  Henry,   born   September  25,    1782,   married  Laura  Carson, 

1817,  had  eight  children,  and  died  May  17,  1848.    She 

of  Charleston,  S.  C,  born  in  1799.  Resided  at  21  Fifth 
Avenue,  New  York  City. 

55.  William  Whetten,  born  September  17,  1784,  married  Sarah 

Nash,  about  1804,  had  one  child. 

56.  Margaret  Ann,  bom  May  5,  1794,  married  James  Renwick, 

L.L.  D.,  October  10,  1816,  had  four  children.  She  de- 
ceased. He  was  a  professor  at  Columbia  University, 
author,  etc. 

57.  John,  born  February  13,  1797,  died  in  New  Orleans. 

58.  Elias,  bom  August  22,  1804,  married  Mary  Brown,  1830,  had 

two  children. 

Elias  (31),  (son  of  Hendrikus),  had  issue: 

59.  Catharina,  born  February  25,  1777. 

60.  Maria,   bom  April    10,    1779,   married   Jacob   C.   Zabriskie, 

December  20,  1797,  had  nine  children. 

61.  Willemintie,  born  May  13,  1782. 

Abraham  (45),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

62.  Ann,  born  March  21,  1789,  married  William  Bolmer,  July  25, 

1807,  had  six  children,  and  died  August  16,  1821. 

63.  Henry,  born  February  16,  1791,  married  Jane  Stewart,  Sep- 

tember 19,  1838,  had  three  children,  and  died  April  11, 
1874. 

Henry  (54),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

64.  James  Carson,  born  July  10,  1818,  married  Elizabeth  Doro- 

thea Lefferts,  October  8,  1845,  had  one  child. 

65.  William  Augustus,  born  December  24,  1819,  died  about  1832. 

66.  Elizabeth  Neville,  born  January  3,  1821,  married  Frederick 

W.  Collidge,  July  14,  1849,  ^^d  four  children. 

67.  Laura  Whetten,  born  October  6.  1823,  married  Charles  Aster 

Bristed,   1847,  had  one  child,  and  died  abroad  in  i860. 

68.  Margaret  Claudia,  born  November  4,  1825,  unmarried. 


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69.  Constance  Irving,  born  May  22,  1828,  married  William  EUery 

Sedgwick,  of  New  York,  November  26,  1850,  had  six 
children. 

70.  Henry  Wortley,  born  February  20,  183 1,  single. 

71.  Edith,  bom  July  10,  1832,  married  Pierre  C.  Kane,  Septem- 

ber 29,  1853,  had  four  children. 

WiLUAM  Whetten  (55),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

72.  Henry,  bom  in  New  York  City,  August  3,   181 1,  married 

Bridget  Seely,  November  19,  1823,  had  eight  children. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Robert  and  Sarah  (Waters) 
Seely,  and  was  hom  at  Goshen,  N.  Y. 

EuAS  (58),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 
.73.  James  Renwick,  bom  July  20,   1832,  married  first,   Marie 
Louise  Bascom,  had  three  children.     He  married  second, 
Anna  Augusta  Tuthill,  no  children. 

74.  Henry,  who  married  Sarah  Thompson,  i860,  but  had  no  issue. 

Henry  (63),  (son  oe  Abraham),  had  issue: 

75.  Mary  Stewart,  bom  December  15,  1839,  married  Stevenson 

Towle,  October  14,  1863,  had  nine  children,  and  died 
September  20,  1883. 

76.  Annie,  born  May  9,  1841,  married  John  H.  Riker,  September 

I,  1858,  had  one  child. 

77.  Jane,  bom  March  13,  1843,  married  Ulysees  D.  Eddy,  No- 

vember 16,  1871,  have  five  children. 

James  Carson  (64),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

78.  Henry  Leffert,  born  January  27,  1849. 

Henry  {72),  (son  of  Wiluam  Whetton),  had  issue: 

79.  Sarah,  bom  August  14,  1834,  married  Frederick  Potts,  Oc- 

tober 8,  1857,  had  four  children. 

80.  William  Whetton,  born  March  19,  1838,  married  Ella  Gard- 

ner. 

81.  Alice,  bom  August  23,  1839,  niarried  Edward  Sabine  Ren- 

wick, June  4,  1862,  had  three  children. 

82.  Henry  Seely,  bom  April  9,  1843,  married  Aline  Drevit. 

83.  Emily,  born  January  29,  1845,  niarried  W.  Rockhill  Potts. 

84.  Edward  Renwick,  bom  May  5,  1847,  niarried  Mary  Lewis 

Butler,  October  5,  1870,  had  three  children.  She  a  daugh- 
ter of  John  A.  and  Mary  (Lewis)  Butler,  and  was  bom 
December  18,  1847. 

85.  Elizabeth,  bom  April  29,  1849,  married  Robert  L.  Pirsson. 

86.  Laura,  born  November  23,   1853,  married  Gerard  M.  Bar- 

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James  Ren  wick  (73),  (son  of  Euas),  had  issue: 

87.  Rosamond  Renwick,  bom  July  3,  1875. 

88.  Florence  Edith,  born  August  8,  1876. 

89.  Victor,  bom  May  8,  1878. 

Edward  Renwick  (84),  (son  oe  Henry),  had  issue: 

90.  John  Butler,  bom  October  14,  1871,  married  Susette  Terhune, 

had  one  child,  and  died  February  21,  1903.  She  a  daugh- 
ter of  Edward  S.  and  Susette  (Flender)  Terhune,  and 
was  born  July  11,  1872. 

91.  Alice  Renwick,  born  February  22,  1873. 

92.  Edward  Renwick,  bom  April  19,  1875,  married  May  Waldie. 

John  Butler  (90),  (son  of  Edward  Renwick),  had  issue: 

93.  Susette  Terhune,  bom  June  17,  1900. 

BUSSING. 

Arent  Harmans  Bussing,  one  of  the  most  worthy  of  the  Har- 
lem settlers,  appears  in  the  earlier  records  only  as  Arent  Hermens 
(Harmens  or  Harmans,  for  he  thus  varied  the  spelling),  and  is 
so  called  in  the  Dongan  patent;  but  he  finally  dropped  the 
patronymic,  and  took  his  proper  surname.  To  the  former  fre- 
quent mention  of  him  little  need  now  be  added.  By  his  marriage 
in  1673,  w^^^  Susannah  Delamater,  he  obtained  two  of  the  west 
gardens,  Nos.  19,  20,  on  which  he  built  a  house  and  bam,  and 
lived  the  rest  of  his  life ;  being  the  place  afterward  of  his  great- 
grand-daughter.  Mrs.  Catharine  Storm.  When  about  to  marry 
again.  Bussing  bound  himself,  March  8,  1678,  to  pay  his  two 
children  by  said  wife,  Susannah,  when  they  should  be  of  lawful 
age,  the  sum  of  900  guilders,  being  the  portion  received  with  their 
mother;  and  he  then  to  own  the  said  two  gardens,  valued  at 
40C  guilders.  He  had  recently  added  to  these  the  three  Demarest 
gardens  on  the  east  side,  but  these  were  sold  by  his  heirs,  at  a 
later  period,  to  Petrus  Waldron.  He  drew  No.  5  of  the  New  Lots, 
but  sold  it  to  Barent  Waldron.  Serving  often  in  the  magistracy, 
and  bearing  office  in  the  church,  Arent  Bussing  was  not  inatten- 
tive to  his  worldly  estate,  which  he  enhanced  with  a  lot  on  Van 
Keulen's  Hook  and  three  lots  lying  together  on  Jochem  Pieters 
Flat,  the  latter  the  same  tract  sold  by  John  Adriance  to  Charles 
Henry  Hall,  June  27,  1825.  He  drew  lot  8  in  the  Division  of 
1691,  being  12  1-6  morgen,  to  which  4  acres  were  added  in  1720, 
making  it  28  acres,  as  sold  by  the  Bussing  heirs  to  John  Myer, 
November  6,  1790.  For  his  lands  drawn  in  17 12,  see  Appendix 
J.  At  his  death,  in  1718,  he  owned  127  acres,  then  valued,  as  per 
sale  to  his  son  Peter,  at  £511. 

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mater,  May  24,  1673,  had  three  children.  He  married  second, 
Eva  Lubberts,  March  31,  1678,  had  eight  children,  and  died  in 
1718. 

He  had  issue  by  his  first  wife,  viz.  : 

2.  Peter,  bom  1674,  married  Rebecca  Vermilyea,  June  7,  1700, 

had  seven  children,  and  died  in  1737. 

3.  Harman  No.  i,  bom  1675,  died  1676. 

4.  Harman   No.   2,   baptized   March    12,    1677,   niarried   Sarah 

Selover,  January  27,  1707,  had  eight  children,  and  died 
July  29,  1762. 

Arent  Harmanse  Bussing  (i)  had  issue  by  his 
SECOND  wife,  Eva  Lubberts,  viz.  : 

5.  Dirck,  bom  1679,  died  young. 

6.  ^Margaret,   born    1681,   married   Lawrence    Kortright,   about 

1708,  had  five  children. 

7.  Susannah,   baptized   February   23,    1684,   was   unmarried  in 

1718. 

8.  Engelite    (Angeline),  bom   1686,  married  Abraham  Meyer, 

May  10,  1706,  had  five  children. 

9.  Elizabeth,  bom  January  5,  1693,  married  Matthew  Benson, 

December  12,  1716. 

10.  Geesie    (Gertrude),    baptized    September    2,    1694,    married 

Teunis  de  la  Montanye,  November  15,  17 18. 

11.  John,  born  about  1697,  married  Metje  Kortright,  September 

2,  1723,  had  three  children,  and  died  before  1732. 

12.  Mary,  born  about   1700,  married  John  M.  Van  Harlingen, 

September  17,  1722. 

Peter  Bussing (2), born  1674,  married,  June  7,  1700,  Rebecca, 
daughter  of  Captain  Johannes  Vermilye,  and  went  to  Westchester 
County,  N.  Y.,  but  on  the  death  of  his  father,  he  returned  to  Har- 
lem, buying  out  the  interests  of  the  other  heirs  in  the  paternal 
lands,  December  30,  17 18,  for  (less  his  own  share)  the  sum  of 
£454:4:6.  He  also  purchased,  March  14,  1733,  from  Joanni  Ben- 
son, the  60  acres  bought  by  the  latter  from  his  brother  Samson,  and 
which  included  No.  12,  First  Division,  and  6  acres  in  No.  8,  Second 
Division;  besides  Nos.  i  and  2,  First  Division^  being  the  tract 
north  of  the  road  and  the  Benson  or  Mill  farm  (and  opposite  the 
old  Bussing  house),  containing  41  acres  i  q.  23  rods,  which  the 
executors  of  his  son,  Aaron,  sold  to  Samson  Benson,  May  6,  1787. 
In  1726  Peter  Bussing  had  secured  all  Jacques  Tourneur's  lands, 
viz.,  his  lots  drawn  in  the  four  divisions,  and  those  on  Van  Keu- 
len's  Hook,  which  adjoined  southerly  to  the  said  Bussing  house 
lot  (when  the  road  between  them  was  closed  up),  and  westerly  to 
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the  Catharine  Storm  farm.  Peter*s  father  had  purchased  from 
Samuel  Waldron,  January  3,  171 1,  the  two  north  gardens  next  to 
the  Church  Farm,  previously  owned  by  his  father-in-law,  Glaude 
Delamater,  from  whose  surviving  children  and  heirs  Peter  Bus- 
sing obtained  a  quit-claim  deed  June  i,  1726.  This  plot  being 
built  upon  was  held  by  his  descendants  till  sold  by  John  S.  Adri- 
ance  to  Christopher  Heiser,  June  7,  1820.  In  1733  Bussing  sold 
Nos.  II,  12,  13,  First  Division,  and  his  6  acres  in  No.  8,  Second 
Division,  to  Adolph  Meyer,  whence  they  descended  to  William 
Molenaor.  Peter  Bussing  died  in  1737,  leaving  his  house  and 
lands  in  Harlem  to  his  son  Aaron,  and  to  his  sons  Peter  and  Abra- 
ham each  a  farm  at  Fordham. 

Petter  (2),  (son  of  Arent  Harmanse),  had  issue: 

13.  Arent,  bom  January  10,  1701,  married  twice. 

14.  Sarah,  bom  January  27,  1702,  married  Elias  Slater,  August 

30,  1718,  had  seven  children. 

15.  Aaron,  born  December  2y,  1703,  married  Maria  Meyer,  Octo- 

ber 21,  1730,  had  six  children,  and  died  in  1784. 

16.  Nancy,  born  May  6,  1704,  married  Daniel  Pierce,  Alay  29, 

1724,  had  eleven  children. 

17.  John,  born  January  20,  1705,  married  Mary  Bruyn,  June  15, 

1725,  had  three  children,  and  died  about  1732. 

18.  Alexander,  born   September  29,   1706,  married  Effie  Weed, 

November  22,  1730, 

19.  Peter,  bom  January  i,  1707,  married  Helena  Benson,  April 

S,  1740,  had  four  children,  and  died  October  20,  1782. 
She  a  daughter  of  Samson  Benson.  He  was  an  elder  at 
Fordham,  and  left  his  lands  to  his  daughter  Mary  Bus- 
sing and  his  son  Peter. 

20.  Aeltie,  bom  January  20,    1710,  married  Jacob  Meyer,  had 

two  children,  and  died  in  1765. 

21.  Abraham,  bom  May  31,  1714,  was  living  in  1737. 

22.  Susannah,  bom  May   19,   1716,  married  Benjamin   Benson, 

and  had  six  children. 

Harman  (4),  (son  of  Arent  Harmanse),  became  a  car- 
man in  New  York.     His  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Selover. 

23.  Susannah,  bom  1708,  married  John  M.  Montanye,  February 

7,  1726,  had  six  children,  and  died  April  27,  1736. 

24.  Isaac,  baptized  February  5,   1710,  married  Elizabeth  Tilly, 

August  19,  1737,  had  seven  children,  and  died  August 
4,  1757.     He  a  carman. 

25.  Anna,  baptized  October  12,  1712,  died,  unmarried,  October 

19.  1731. 

26.  Eve,  baptized  September  4,  1715,  married  James  Marr  (or 

Man)  July  9,  1738. 


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•27.  Arent,  baptized  February  16,  1718,  married  Sarah  Roome, 
April  29,  1749,  had  nine  children,  and  died  February  17, 
1781. 

28.  Jacobus,  baptized  February  12,  1721,  married  Anna  Bisschop, 

had  seven  children. 

29.  Abraham,  baptized  October  7,  1724,  married  Elizabeth  Mesier, 

1749,  had  four  children,  and  died  in  1798. 

30.  Sarah,  baptized  May  14,  1727,  married  Reynier  Nack,  Sep- 

tember 7,  1760,  had  three  children. 

John  Bussing  (n),  who  married,  September  2,  1723,  Metje, 
daughter  of  Johannes  Kortright,  was  a  weaver,  and  perhaps  left 
the  town;  certainly  did  not  hold  any  real  estate  here.  His 
daughter,  Eva,  married,  October  30,  1756,  Alexander  Forbes, 
shopkeeper,  afterward  of  the  Out  Ward,  farmer,  to  whom  ad- 
ministration on  the  estate  of  widow  Metje  Bussing  was  granted 
January  27,  1774. 

His  children  were: 

31.  Eva,  born  1724,  married  Alexander  Forbes,  October  30,  1756, 

had  two  children. 
^2.  John,  bom  1726,  married  Elizabeth  Tiebout,  October  9,  1750, 
had  four  children. 

33.  Susan,  bom  1728,  married  Peter  Waldron,  April  10,  1750. 

Aaron  Bussing  (15)  married  October  21,  1730,  Maria, 
daughter  of  Johannes  Myer,  the  next  year  was  named  as  con- 
stable in  the  Montgomery  Charter,  and  succeeded  upon  the 
death  of  his  father  to  all  his  lands  at  Harlem,  rated  at  201  acres, 
and  which  he  held  nearly  intact  until  his  death.  He  parted  with 
the  Toumeur  lots.  No.  14,  Second  Division,  and  No.  2,  Third 
Division.  He  died  in  1784,  aged  81  years.  Pursuant  to  the 
will  of  Aaron  Bussing,  made  May  i,  1782,  and  proved  May  27, 
1784,  his  lands  were  sold  by  his  executors  to  various  parties, 
the  homestead  being  purchased  by  his  daughter,  Mrs.   Storm. 

Aaron  (15),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

34.  Catherine,  bom  August  31,  1731,  married  Abraham  Storm, 

October  5,  1759. 

35.  Rebecca,  born  January  8,  1734,  married  John  Waldron,  Feb- 

ruary 2,  1759,  had  two  children. 

36.  Abraham,  born  December  31,  1736,  married  Margaret  Meyer, 

December27,  1764,  had  two  children,  and  died  about  1784. 

37.  Maria  No.  i,  bom  November  29,  1738,  died  September  17, 

1744. 

38.  Maria  No.  2,  bom  January  8,  1745,  married  John  S.  Sickles, 

September  29,  1763. 

39.  Aaron,  born  March  18,  1747,  died  July  6,  1750. 


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486  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

John  Bussing  (17),  bom  January  20,  1705,  married  June  15, 
1725,  Mary,  daughter  of  Evert  Bruyn,  of  Westchester  County, 
New  York.  On  August  26,  1729,  he  contracted  to  complete  the 
church  at  Fordham  for  £4,    He  died  about  1732,  before  his  father. 

John  (17),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

40.  Evert,  was  living  in  Westchester  in  1757. 

41.  Peter,  who  married  Susannah  Myer,  and  had  three  children. 

She  a  daughter  of  Abraham  Myer. 

42.  John,  born  1757,  married  Ann  Bogardus,  October  15,  1817, 

(Was  sixty  years  old  at  date  of  marriage.) 

Peter  (19),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

43.  Peter,  born  October  i,  1735,  married  Charity  Williams,  June 

7,  1757,  had  seven  children,  and  died  July  9,  1790. 

44.  Mary,  bom  July  16,  1738,  died,  unmarried,  July  7,  1751. 

45.  Rebecca  No.  i,  bom  March  3,  1741,  died  June  26,  1751. 

46.  Maria,  born  July  28,  1752,  died  February  9,  1822. 

47.  Rebecca  No.  2,  bom  March  6,  1755,  died,  unmarried,  June 

20,  1771. 

Isaac  (24),  (son  of  Harman),  lived  in  Lombard  Street, 
now  Trinity  Place,  was  deceased  in  1765.     Had  issue: 

48.  Timothy   (Timotheus),  baptized  September   12,   1739,  mar- 

ried Jane  Crosby,  April  29,  1763,  had  eight  children,  and 
died  March  24,  1831,  at  Bethlehem,  N.  Y. 

49.  Isaac,  baptized  July  15,  1741. 

50.  Herman,  baptized  December  '7,  1743. 

51.  Jacobus,  baptized  March   19,  1746,  married  Elizabeth  Fort, 

November  21,  1782. 

52.  Anna  No.  i,  baptized  May  22,  1748,  died  young. 

53.  William,  baptized  August  i,  1750. 

54.  Anna   No.   2,   baptized   October  4,    1752,   married   Richard 

Thomas,  May  21,  1770. 

Arent  (27),  (son  of  Harman),  had  issue: 

55.  Sarah,  baptized  April  29,  1750,  died  May  26,  1812. 

56.  Mary  (Maria)  baptized  January  15,  1752,  married  first,  Ellis 

Wool,  February  15,  1774,  had  two  children.  She  mar- 
ried second,  Simon  Van  Antwerp,  June  12,  1787,  had 
five  children,  and  died  February  15,  1822. 

57.  Anna,  born  October  10,  1753,  married  William  Hyer,  March 

30,  1775,  had  five  children. 

58.  William,  born  January  10,  1756,  married  first,  Mary  Clark, 

December  3,  1788,  had  one  child.  He  married  second, 
Susan  Odell,  March  18,  1792,  had  eleven  children,  and 
died  March  2,  1836. 


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59.  Harmanus,  born  December   19,   1759,  married  Alida  Fort, 

October  6,  1787,  had  eleven  children,  and  died  May  28, 
1845. 

60.  Hester  No.  i,  bom  October  13,  1761,  died  October  29,  1764. 

61.  Peter  No.  i,  born  March  13,  1764,  died  October  9,  1764. 

62.  Peter  (Pieter)  No.  2,  born  May  18,  1766,  married  Catherine 

Weldon,   November   10,   1792,  had  one  child,  and  died 
November  16,  1794. 

63.  Hester  No.  2,  born  October  29,  1768,  died  October  15,  1769. 

Jacobus  (28),  (son  of  Harman),  had  issue: 

64.  Jacobus,  baptized  September  i,  1748. 

65.  Sara,  baptized  October  17,  1750. 

66.  Anna,  baptized  July  5,  1752. 

67.  Maria,  baptized  February  17,  1754. 

68.  Harmanus,  baptized  February  4,  1761. 

69.  Susanna,   baptized   December    10,    1758,    married   Abraham 

Rich,  June  2,  1789. 

70.  Johannes,  baptized  April  29,  1764. 

Abraham  (29),  (son  of  Harman),  had  issue: 

71.  Jane,  bom  July  12,  1750,  married  Simon   (Samuel)   Scher- 

merhorn,  September  3,   1773. 

72.  Elizabeth,  bom  July  24,  1752,  married  Peter  Schermerhom, 

September  5,  1771. 

73.  Sarah,  bom  June  18,  1756,  married  Jacobus  T.  Stoutenberg, 

July  17,  1780. 

74.  Abraham,  bom  March  16,  1770,  married  Hester  Kingsland, 

April  17,  1794,  had  six  children,  and  died  1825. 

John  (32),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

75.  Johannes,  baptized  June  23,  1751,  married  Mally  (Margaret) 

Wilson,  had  five  children. 

76.  Hendrik,  baptized  August  16,  1752,  married  Elizabeth  Ryers, 

March  8,  1774. 
yj.  Elizabeth,   baptized   July   7,    1754,    married   Theunis   Ryer, 
November  26,  1772. 

78.  Gerrett,  baptized  July  25,  1756. 

Abraham  (36),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

79.  Aaron,    who    married    Jane,    daughter   of    Samuel    Benson, 

August  18,   1791,  had  five  children,  and  died  May  22, 

1835. 

80.  Susannah,   who   married  first,   John   Meyer,   December   15, 

1785,  and  second,  Peter  Montfort. 


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Peter  (41)  bought  of  Abraham  Myer,  Jr.,  April  16,  1753,  the 
two  southerly  lots  (called  40  acres),  of  the  old  Toumeur  farm  on 
Harlem  Lane,  to  which,  about  a  year  later,  he  added  the  upper 
lot  by  purchase  from  the  widow  Grietie  Kortright.  The  three 
lots  taking  in  the  land  outside  the  patent  line  in  the  rear,  up  to  the 
hills,  made  about  74  acres,  of  which,  in  1784,  after  the  death  of 
their  father,  the  three  sons  of  Peter,  namely,  Adolph,  Abraham  and 
John  Bussing,  conveyed  that  part  of  the  upper  lot  which  lay  west 
of  Harlem  Lane,  and  containing  14  acres,  to  the  brothers,  Henry 
and  Abraham  Van  Bramer.  The  remainder  of  the  farm  was 
equally  divided  by  the  three  Bussing  brothers,  by  deeds  of  April 
7,  1787.  (See  Appendix  G.)  These  occupied  their  respective 
portions,  and  here  Adolph  closed  his  life,  on  February  3,  1820, 
and  John  on  May  i,  1830. 

Peter  (41),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

81.  Adolph,   who   married   Anna    ?   ,  had   one   child,   and   died 

February  3,  1820. 

82.  Abraham,  who  married  first  Elizabeth  Britt,  November  3, 

1782,  and  second,  Sarah  Brown.     Had  four  children  by 
second  wife. 

83.  John,   who  married  first,   Mary   McCree,  January  3,    1781, 

and  second,  Elizabeth  Lindsley,  October   12,   1784,  and 
died  May  i,   1830. 

Peter  (43),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

84.  Peter,  born  November  24,   1758,  married  Elizabeth  Valen- 

tine, had  three  children. 

85.  Margaret,  born  June  2,  1761,  married  Isaac  Valentine. 

86.  Helena,  bom  October  28,  1763,  married  Andrew  Corsa. 

87.  Mary,  born  January  23,  1766,  married  Walter  Briggs,  Janu- 

ary 15,  1789. 

88.  John,  born  May  26,  1768,  married  Sarah  Valentine,  March 

28,  1790,  and  died  August  26,  1853. 

89.  Sarah  (or  Susan),  bom  September  i,  1770,  married  Dennis 

Valentine. 

90.  Elizabeth,  born  July  11,  1772,  married  John  Valentine,  and 

died  June  3,  1843. 

Timothy  (48),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

91.  Timothy,   born   April   29,    1777,   married   Catherine   Oliver, 

had  two  children. 

92.  William  C,  born  October  19,  1779,  married  Jane  McMurdy, 

July  26,   1823,  had  three  children. 

93.  Harman,  born  April  5,  1782,  baptized  July  3,  1782. 


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94.  Ann,  bom  June  7,  1784,  baptized  October  17,  1784. 

95.  Isaac  (Ysak). 

96.  Betsy  Hannah. 

97.  Two  other  daughters,  names  not  found. 

William  (58),  (son  of  Arent),  had  issue  by 
SECOND  wife: 

98.  Peter  No.  i,  born  December  26,  1792,  died  August  28,  1808. 

99.  John,  bom  March  31,  1795,  died  September  27,  1829. 

100.  Sarah,  born  January  20,  1797,  married  Abraham  B.  Rich, 
had  eight  children,  and  died  in  November,  1870. 

loi.  Maria  (Mary),  born  November  19,  1798,  died  August  26, 
1799. 

102.  William,  born  February  17,  1801,  died  June  30,  1836. 

103.  Susannah,  bom  April  10,  1803,  died  June  26,  1805. 

104.  James,  born  September  17,   1805,  died  Febmary  28,  1836. 

105.  Harman,  born  Febmary  18,  1807,  died  October  7,  1807. 

106.  Peter  No.  2,  born  December  28,  1808,  died  May  16,  1809. 

107.  Hyer,  bom  January  6,  1810,  died  July  6,  1810. 

108.  George  H.,  bom  may  3,  1812,  married  Phynetta  Williams, 

May  4,  1837,  had  four  children,  and  died  June  7,  1877. 

Harmanus  (59),  (son  of  Arent),  had  issue: 

109.  Rebecca,  born  November  23,   1788,  baptized  December  25, 

1788,  died  November  19,  1790. 
no.  Aaron,  bom  September  8,  1790,  was  lost  at  sea. 

111.  John,  bom  September  12,  1792,  married  Mary  Brown,  but 

died  without  issue: 

112.  Peter,   born    September    14,    1794,   married,   and   had   two 

children. 

113.  Sarah,  born  February   i,   1797,  married  Roswell  Granger, 

July  31,  1816,  had  six  children,  and  died  August  22,  1879. 

114.  William,  born  November  10,   1799,  married  first.  Miss     ? 

Long,  had  one  child.  He  married  second,  ?  Winegar, 
but  died  March  28,  i860,  leaving  no  issue  by  second  wife. 

115.  Jane,   born    September   6,    1802,    married    David   Johnson, 

October  18,  1827,  had  six  children. 

116.  Mary  Ann,  born  March  10,  1805,  married  Edwin  B.  Cham- 

berlain, December  29,  1835,  had  three  children. 

117.  Harman,   born  August   22,    1806,   married  first,   Catherine 

Schuyler,  May  20,  1836,  had  one  child.  He  married 
second,  Margaret  Schuyler,  May  21,  1840,  had  three 
children. 

118.  Abraham,  born  August  22,  1808,  died  August  25,  1808. 

119.  Harvey  Hyer,  born  July  10,  1812,  married  Avilda  Hilton, 

September  17,  1839,  had  five  children,  and  died  April 
25,  i860. 


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Peter  (62),  (son  o^  Arent),  had  issue: 

120.  Aaron,  bom  February  3,   1794,  baptized  March   i,   1794, 

died  July  23,  1814. 

Abraham  (74),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

121.  Abraham,  who  married  Hester  Kingsland,  June  9,   1825, 

and  died  January  26,  1853. 

122.  Edmund  Kingsland,  born  January  25,  1798. 

123.  Elizabeth  Mesier,  who  married  William  W.  Moulton,  Sep- 

tember 22,  1 81 7. 

124.  John  Schermerhom,  bom  October  15,  1802,  married  first, 

Ann  Spier,  had  one  child.  He  married  second,  Ann  Van 
Nest,  August  20,  1833,  had  three  children,  and  died  June 
9,  1864. 

125.  Mary  Wilkinson. 

126.  Jane. 

Johannes  (75),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

127.  Cathalyna,  bom  December  7,   1775,  baptized  January   21, 

1776. 

128.  Anna,  bom  April  17,  1777,  baptized  May  ii,  1777. 

129.  Marytje  No.  i,  born  September  2,  1778,  baptized  October 

26,  1778,  died  young. 

130.  Marytje  No.  2,  born  March  9,  1780,  baptized  April  30,  1780. 

131.  Jane,  bom  July  9,  1784,  baptized  August  15,  1784. 

Aaron  (79),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

132.  John  M.,  who  married  Margaret  Legrange,  about  1818,  had 

nine  children. 

133.  Samuel. 

134.  Abraham  Barker. 

135.  Margaret,  who  married  Peter  Myer. 

136.  Rebecca  D.,  who  married  Hon.  Nathaniel  Jarvis,  Septem- 

ber 3,  183 1. 

Adolph  (81),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

137.  Susannah,  who  married  Obadiah  Sands,  and  had  one  child. 

Abraham  (82),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue  by 
second  wife: 

138.  John. 

139.  Peter  (Rev.),  who  had  three  children. 

140.  Anna,  who  married  George  Warner. 

141.  Susan,  who  married  Benjamin  Banks,  had  two  children. 


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Peter  (84),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

142.  Elizabeth,  bom  April   13,   1782,  married  Jeronlmus  Turk, 

Jr.,  had  two  children. 

143.  John,  bom  April  28,  1787. 

144.  Mary  (Corson),  bom  January  12,  1796. 

John  (88),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

145.  Peter,   bom   October    10,    1792,   at.  Fordham,   Westchester 

County,  N.  Y.,  married  Martha  Corsa,  October  12,  1825, 
and  died  October  7,  1864. 

George  H.  (108),  (son  of  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

146.  Sarah  Maria. 

147.  Emma,  who  married  Charles  Corsa,  December   13,   1871, 

had  two  children. 

148.  Susannah. 

149.  Georgianna. 

Peter  (112),  (son  of  Harmanus),  had  issue: 

150.  Mary. 

151.  Harvey. 

WiLUAM  (114),  (son  of  Harmanus),  had  issue 

BY  FIRST  wife: 

152.  Jane  Ann,  who  married  Benjamin  Humphrey,  July  2,  1861, 

had  one  child. 

Harman  (117),  (son  of  Harmanus),  had  issue 
BY  first  wife: 

153.  Catherine,  who  married  Jonathan  Morey,  July  2,  1861,  had 

one  child. 

Harman  (117)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

154.  Daniel  Schuyler,  who  married  Fannie  W.   Starr,  October 

II,  1876. 

155.  John  N. 

156.  Charlotte  S.,  who  married  John  G.  Serviss,  September  25, 

1872. 

Harvey  Hyer  (119),  (son  of  Harmanus),  had  issue: 

157.  ?    (child)  that  died  in  infancy. 

158.  Caroline  A.,  bom  March  11,  1841,  married  Nicholas  Few, 

but  died  without  issue,  July  24,  1867. 

159.  Jane,  who  married  James  Smith,  had  three  children. 

160.  Sarah  G.,  who  married  Putnam  Miller. 


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492  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

i6i.  Mary,  who  married  Jacob  J.  Johnson,  March,  1875. 

Edmund  Kingsland   (122),   (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

162.  Abraham,  who  married  Emma  Frost,  1859.     She  a  daugh- 

ter of  Samuel  Frost  of  New  York  City. 

John  Schermerhorn  (124),  (son  of  Abraham), 

HAD  ISSUE  BY  FIRST  WIFE,  AnN  SpIERI 

163.  Robert    Spier,    bom    September    28,    1826,    married    Mary 

Kingsland  Brown,  January  8,  1850,  had  eight  children. 
He  a  real  estate  dealer. 

John  Schermerhorn  (124),  had  issue  by  his  second 
WIFE,  Ann  Van  Nest,  viz.: 

164.  Abraham  V.  N.,  who  died  in  infancy. 

165.  John  S.,  born  September  21,  1838,  married  first,  Katharine 

Breath,  June  17,  1873,  ^i^d  March  26,  1874.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Emily  Morton,  October  31,  1882,  had  two 
children. 

166.  Mary. 

John  M.   (132),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

167.  Marten,  bom  July  6,  1820,  baptized  August  6,  1820. 

168.  Maria  Ann,  bom  June  10,  1822,  baptized  August  11,  1822. 

169.  John  Legrange,  bom  February   15,   1824,  baptized  March 

7,  1824. 

170.  Adam,  bom  October  25,  1825,  baptized  Febmary  12,  1826. 

171.  Abraham,  born  October  29,   1827,  baptized  November   18, 

1827. 

172.  Christian,  bom  September  21,  1829. 

173.  Margaret,  bom  May  2,  1831,  baptized  July  24,  1831. 

174.  Ellen  Rebecca,  born  February  28,  1833,  baptized  May   19, 

175.  Andrew  Teneick,  bom  May  21,  1835,  baptized  August,  1835. 

Rev.  Peter  (139),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

176.  William  J. 

177.  Julia  A.,  who  married  Horatio  W.  Thompson. 

178.  Elizabeth,  who  married  George  Peck. 

Peter  (145),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

179.  John,  bom  May  i,  1831,  married  Amanda  Valentine,  July 

8,  1863,  had  four  children,  and  died  January  8,  1877. 

180.  Peter  Valentine,  bom  June  5,  1843,  single  (1902). 

181.  Mary,  who  married  William  Johnston,  November  15,  1853, 

now  deceased. 


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182.  Martha  Jane,  who  married  James  B.   Sheridan,   May  20, 

1862,  had  four  children. 

183.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  died  unmarried. 

184.  Hannah,  unmarried. 

185.  Amanda,  unmarried. 

Robert  Spier  (163),  (son  of  John  Schermerhorn), 
HAD  issue: 

186.  Robert  Spier,  Jr.,  bom  January  25,  1853. 

187.  Mary. 

188.  Florence. 

189.  Maude. 

190.  Edith. 

191.  Cornelia. 

192.  George. 

193.  Jennie. 

John  S.  (165),  (son  of  John  Schermerhorn),  had 
issue  by  first  wife,  viz. : 

194.  Kate,  who  died  young. 

195.  Ann,  who  died  young. 

John  (179),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

196.  Martha  Valentine,  unmarried  (1902). 

197.  Mary,  who  married  Ralph  O.  Ives,  July  2,  1890,  have  one 

child. 

198.  Sarah  A.,  unmarried  (1902). 

199.  John,  died  single,  July  15,  1877. 

DELAMATER. 

Glaude  le  Maistre,  born  1620,  as  his  autograph  is,  ancestor  of 
the  entire  Delamater  family  in  this  country,  having  died  before  the 
date  of  the  Dongan  patent,  his  widow,  Hester,  and  sons  Jan  and 
Isaac,  took  his  place  among  the  patentees.  An  exile  from  his  home 
at  Richebourg,  in  Artois,  it  was  while  living  in  the  Loyerdwars- 
straet,  at  Amsterdam,  April  24,  1652,  that  Glaude  married  Hester 
Du  Bois,  who  was  his  second  wife  (his  first  wife  having  been 
Jeanne  De  Lannoy),  and,  as  we  have  seen,  also  of  a  French 
refugee  family.  Glaude  spent  some  of  his  first  years,  in  America 
at  Flatbush,  working  as  a  carpenter,  and  there  four  of  his  six 
children  were  bom.  With  Meyndert  Coerten,  Walraven  Luten, 
Pierre  Billion  and  others  (Mrs.  Billion,  a  Du  Bois,  was  proba- 
bly related  to  Mrs.  Delamater*),  he  applied,  August  22,   1661, 

•  Pierre  Billiou  was  a  Walloon  from  near  Lille,  and  married  at  Lcvdcn,  April 
20,  1649,  Francoise  du  Bois,  a  sister  of  Louis  du  Bois,  later  of  Esopus;   both,  we  think, 


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for  land  on  Staten  Island ;  but  only  Billion  and  Luten  set- 
tled there,  while  he  and  Coerten  soon  came  to  Harlem,  where 
Delamater  served  four  terms  as  a  magistrate,  between  1666  and. 
1673.  He  bought  two  allotments  of  land,  from  Daniel  Toumeur, 
for  which  he  took  out  a  patent  June  25,  1668.  In  1675  ^^  was 
chosen  a  deacon,  but  his  sympathies  were  with  the  French  church 
and  service,  whence  arose  the  controversy  with  the  town  regard- 
ing the  parish  clerk's  salary,  which  so  disturbed  his  latter  years. 
If  impetuous,  Glaude  was  not  incapable  of  generous  acts  when 
approached  kindly;  and  his  obstinacy  in  maintaining  what  he 
conceived  to  be  his  rights  can  hardly  be  deemed  a  defect  in  his 
character.  He  died  in  or  about  1683,  his  years  having  exceeded 
three-score  and  ten. 

Glaude  Delamater,  or  Le  Maistre,  as  he  was  then  called,  mar- 
ried first,  Jeanne  De  Lannoy,  and  second  Hester  Du  Bois,  April 
24,  1652,  had  six  children,  and  died  about  1683.  On  November  6, 
1687,  Claude's  widow  married  Jan  Tibout,  the  parish  clerk.  In 
view  of  this  event,  she  and  Tibout  had  entered  into  an  agreement, 
September  23,  preceding,  with  her  sons  Jan  and  Isaac,  and  son- 
in-law  Bussing  (who  together  took  the  real  estate,  having  power 
to  do  so  from  the  absent  heirs,  Abraham  and  Jacobus  Delamater, 
and  Moses  Le  Count),  by  which  she  was  to  *'have  the  free  use 
of  the  house  and  erf  at  the  strand,"  while  she  lived,  and  Jan  and 
Isaac  were  to  pay  her  twenty-seven  schepels  of  wheat  yearly. 
**Should  any  land  be  drawn  during  Hester  du  Bois'  lifetime,  it 
shall  belong  to  them  both,  to  wit,  Jan  Tibout  and  Hester  Du 
Bois." 

Claude,  by  second  wife,  had  issue: 

2.  Jan,  born  in   1653,  baptized  March  9,   1653,  married  Ruth, 

daughter  of  Resolved  Waldron,  August  11,  1678,  had 
nine  children,  and  died  1702. 

3.  Abraham  Delamater,  bom  at  Flatbush,  in   1656,  removed  in 

his  early  manhood,  with  his  brother  Jacobus,  to  Kings- 
ton, Ulster  County,  N.  Y.  He  there  married,  June  18, 
1682,  Celeste,  daughter  of  Cornelius  Vemoy,  and  had 
four  children.  He  married  a  second  wife,  Elsie,  daugh- 
ter of  Jurian  Tappan,  and  widow  of  Hillebrant  Lechier, 
about    1692,   having   five   children.      A   magistrate   and 

of  the  Canterbury  family,  of  which  was  Mrs.  Delamater;  this  kinship,  probably,  the 
cause  of  three  of  the  Delamater  children  going  to  Esopus.  Billiou  haa  two  daughters, 
bom  at  Leyden.  He  embarked  at  Amsterdam.  May  9,  1661  (see  note  p.  ),  ac- 
companied by  his  wife  and  four  children,  agea  9,  7,  6  and  2^^  years.  They  had  an 
Isaac  baptized  four  days  after  landing  at  New  Amsterdam.  Isaac  was  livini^  in  1707. 
A  son,  Peter,  born  here  in  1668,  married  Maria  Breese  in  1701.  Pierre  Billiou  was 
schout  of  Staten  Island  during  the  Dutch  reoccupation.  He  and  "his  two  sons*' 
received  a  ^ant  of  three  farms,  270  acres,  on  the  south  side  of  that  island,  next  to 
Jacques  Guion,  laid  out  to  them  October  18,  1675.  He  also  acquired  land  at  Pis- 
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elder  at  Kingston,  and  prominent  in  public  affairs,  he 
closed  a  useful  life  November  20,  1734. 

4.  Isaac,  bom  1658,  married  Cornelia  Everts  (Van  Ness),  about 

1 68 1,  had  nine  children. 

5.  Susannah,    born    1660,    married    Arent    Harmanse    Bussing, 

February  24,  1673,  had  three  children. 

6.  Hester,  born  1662,  married  Moses  Le  Count,  had  four  children. 

He  of  Kingston,  N.  Y. 

7.  Jacobus  Delamater,  born  1665,  at  Harlem,  married  at  Kings- 

ton, September  23,  1688,  Gertrude  (born  1666),  daughter 
of  Martin  Cornelisz.  Ysselsteyn  (Esselsteyn),  of  Claver- 
ack.  He  was  a  trustee  of  Kingston,  and  a  firm  supporter 
of  the  church  there  for  some  years,  till  he  settled  in  Mar- 
bletown  upon  land  (296  acres)  bought  in  171 5,  and  where 
he  died  in  1741,  leaving  this  property  to  his  sons  Isaac 
and  Martin,  and  a  farm  at  Claverack  to  his  eldest  son 
Claude.     Had  ten  children. 

Jan  Delamater  (2),  (son  of  Claude),  was,  as  we  have  seen, 
a  worthy  and  useful  resident.  He  operated  considerably  in  lands. 
On  March  7,  1676,  he  and  Jan  Nagel  bought  Journee's  property. 
Dividing  it  July  14,  1677,  Delamater  took  the  house  and  lot  and 
No.  14  Van  Keulen's  Hook.  He  soon  sold  the  latter,  but  after- 
ward acquired  Nos.  10,  11,  in  the  same  tract,  and  No.  7  of  the 
New  Lots.  He  also  succeeded  to  an  erf  and  9  morgen  of  the 
paternal  lands;  this  giving  him  the  lower  half  of  the  farm  on 
Montanye's  Flat,  lot  No.  12  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  and  the  two 
north  gardens  next  the  church  lot.  He  now  sold  No.  7  to 
Samuel  Waldron,  April  21,  1688,  leased  his  three  lots  on  Van 
Keulen's  Hook  to  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  and  on  the  same  date 
conveyed  the  Journee  erf  to  Peter  Van  Oblinus,  who  sold 
it  to  Jacques  Tourneur,  August  7,  1691.  In  May,  1690,  Dela- 
mater bartered  his  Van  Keulen's  Hook  lots  for  others  on  Hoorn's 
Hook,  to  which  he  removed.  See  Appendix  H.  On  October 
25,  1702,  being  "sick  in  bed,''  he  made  his  will,  giving  his  wife 
a  life  use  of  his  estate.  The  will  was  proved  September  9,  1703, 
only  a  few  days  before  the  widow  married  Henry  Bogert,  of 
Marbletown,  to  which  place  she  removed  with  some  of  her  chil- 
dren. The  Hoorn's  Hook  farm  and  other  lands  of  Jan  Dela- 
mater were  sold,  in  1710,  to  Samuel  Waldron. 

Jan  (2),  (son  of  Claude),  had  issue: 

8.  Jannetie,  bom  April  20,  1679,  baptized  April  30,  1679,  ^^^^ 

young. 

9.  Susannah  No.  i,  born  November  25,  1680,  died  young. 

10.  Susannah  No.  2,  baptized  October  11,  1682,  married  Albert 
Low,  October  2,  1702,  had  five  children. 


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11.  Cornelius,   baptized   May  6,    1683,   mamed   Margaret   Van 

Steenburgh,  September  28,  1703,  had  eleven  children. 

12.  Cornelia,    baptized    February    19,    1685,    married    Cornelius 

Bogert,  1707,  had  two  children. 

13.  Susannah,  baptized  December  12,  1685. 

14.  Johannes  No.  i,  baptized  January  29,  1688,  died  young. 

15.  Abraham,  baptized  July    17,    1689,   married   Sarah   Bogert, 

January  19,  171 1,  had  four  children.  He  married 
second,  Catherine ?,  and  had  one  child. 

16.  Jannetje,  baptized  October  13,  1689,  married  William  Elting. 

Abraham   (3),   (son  of  Claude),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

17.  Tanneke,  baptized  March  27,  1692,  married  Martin  Bogert, 

May  7,  17 1 3,  had  five  children. 

18.  Hester,  bom  1694,  married  John  Lewis,  May  22,  1713,  had 

two  children. 

19.  Maria  (Marytje),  bom  August  8,  1696,  married  John  Pierce, 

June  3,  1 716,  had  ten  children. 

20.  Catherine,  baptized  March  21,  1697. 

Abraham  (3)  had  issue  by  second  wife,  Elsie  Lechier: 

21.  Adriana  (Ariaantje),  baptized  November  11,  1694,  married 

Aldert  Kiersted,  October  26,  1714,  had  two  children. 

22.  Johannes    (Joannes),   baptized   July   4,    1697,    married   first 

Christina  Wynkoop,  May  12,  1723,  had  seven  children. 
He  married  second,  Maria  Decker,  November  11,  1738, 
had  two  children,  and  died  1756. 

23.  David,  baptized  February  2,   1701,  married  Laurentia  Ten- 

broek,  May  10,  1728,  had  nine  children.  Will  proved 
December  17,   1771. 

24.  Jacobus   (James),  baptized  April  22,  1705,  married  Catrina 

Schoonmaker,  November  12,  1726,  had  one  child. 

25.  Abraham    (Abram),  baptized  September  28,   1707,  married 

Rachel,  daughter  of  Abraham  Low,  had  seven  children, 
and  died  July  13,  1776. 

Isaac  Delamater  (4),  (son  of  Claude),  was  bom  1658,  at 
Flatbush,  and  married  about  1681,  Cornelia  Everts  (Van  Ness), 
of  Albany,  a  sister  of  Rebecca  Everts,  wife  of  Jerome  Barheyt, 
of  that  place.  Both  Isaac  and  wife  united  with  the  church  at 
New  York,  December  3,  1681,  though  living  at  Harlem,  where 
he  was  afterward  a  deacon.  Later  he  served  the  town  as  a  com- 
missioner, also  a  constable.  Isaac  obtained  the  upper  half  of 
his  father's  farm  on  Montanye's  Flat,  called  six  morgen,  or 
twelve  acres.  He  leased  it,  with  house,  garden,  orchard,  and 
half  the  meadow,  to  Jan  Tibout,  February  13,  1688,  for  12  years. 
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Jan  Dyckman.  He  resumed  his  farm,  and  occupied  it  as  late 
as  December  3,  1726,  on  which  date  he  conveyed  all  his  lands 
to  his  son  John.  He,  or  his  son  Isaac,  bought  No.  6,  New  Lots, 
from  Nicholas  Kortright,  in  1729,  and  sold  it  in  1731  to  Johsuines 
Waldron. 

Isaac  (4),  (son  of  Glaude),  had  issue: 

26.  Hester,  baptized  April  7,  1683,  at  Albany,  married  first  Simon 

Van  Ness,  from  that  place,  January  15,  1701,  but  in  1716 
a  farmer  at  Newark,  N.  J.,  and  second,  Frans  Spuys,  Oc- 
tober 4,  1733. 

27.  Evertie   (Titje),  baptized  January   14,   1685,  married  Bem- 

ardus  Verveelen,  April  6,  17 13,  had  eight  children. 

28.  John    (Jan),   baptized  January   16,    1687,   married   Annatje 

Waldron,  June  11,  1714,  had  ten  children,  and  died  about 

1743- 

29.  Abraham,    baptized    March    29,    1693,    married    Catharine, 

daughter  of  Johannes  Benson,  February  21,  1718,  had 
four  children,  and  died  December  8,  1771.  Was  owner 
from  1727  to  1742  of  the  Louvre,  or  Jones'  Woods  Farm. 
He  lived  for  some  years  at  Tappan,  N.  Y.,  but  returned 
to  New  York,  where  he  died. 

30.  Isaac,  baptized   March   29.    1693,  married   Belitie  Waldron, 

August  9,  1717,  had  fc  ir  children. 

31.  Rebecca,  baptized  November  25,  1696,  married  Captain  Isaac 

Delamater,  October  20,  1717,  had  fourteen  children. 

32.  Jacob,  bom  April  9,  1699. 

33.  Susannah,  who  married  Johannes  B.  Waldron,  June  5,  1719, 

had  five  children. 

34.  Cornelia,  who  married  Cornelius  Quackenbos,  June  16,  1726, 

had  one  child. 

Jacobus  (7),  (son  01?  Glaude),  had  issue: 

35.  Glaude,  bom  1692,  baptized  January  28,  1692,  married  Chris- 

tina Leggett,  had  eight  children,  and  died  1770. 

36.  Isaac,  baptized  June  3,  1694,  known  as  Captain  Delamater, 

who  married  his  cousin,  Rebecca  Delamater,  November 
8,  1717,  had  fourteen  children,  and  on  October  21,  1764, 
married  Catherine  Winegar,  removed  from  Marbletown 
to  Amenia,  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.,  served  in  the  French 
War,  was  a  justice  of  the  peace,  and  died  April  20,  1775. 

37.  Martha,  baptized  November  8,  169^). 

38.  Jacobus,  baptized  May  18,  1699. 

39.  Martin,  baptized  May  4,  1701,  married  Elizabeth  Nottingham, 

April  13,  1728,  had  ten  children,  and  died  about  iy6&, 

40.  Rata,  baptized  December  24,    1703,  married  John  Leggett, 

October  25,  1722,  had  four  children. 


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41.  Hester,  baptized  August  11,  1706. 

42.  Cornelius,  born  1708,  not  mentioned  in  his  father's  will. 

43.  Jannetie,  baptized  January  11,  171 1,  married  Joris  Middagh, 

October  11,  1734,  had  nine  children. 

44.  Susannah,  born  1713,  married  Thomas  Nottingham,  January 

7,  1732,  had  eleven  children. 

Cornelius  (ii),  (son  of  Jan),  had  issue: 

45.  Tebina,  baptized  July  21,  1706. 

46.  Zeletie,    baptized   August   4,    1706,    married    Matheus    Van 

Keuren,  January  26,  1729,  had  six  children. 

47.  Anna  Catharina  No.  i,  baptized  January  28,  1708,  died  young. 

48.  Anna  Catharina  No.  2,  baptized  September  18,  1709,  married 

Ephraim  Dubois,  November  10,  1727,  had  eight  children. 

49.  Mary  Salmi,  baptized  April  22,  171 1. 

50.  Abraham  No.  i,  baptized  September  20,  1713,  died  young. 

51.  Johannes,  baptized  January  15,  17 16. 

52.  Abraham  No.  2,  baptized  January  19,  1718,  married  Sarah 

Chambers,  August  26,  1744,  had  six  children. 

53.  Cornelius   (Comelis),  baptized  December  13,  1719,  married 

Catalyntjen  (Catalina)  Oosterhout,  May  28,  1743,  had 
eleven  children. 

54.  Thomas,  baptized  October  21,  1722. 

55.  Benjamin,  baptized  July  4,  1725,  married  Anna  Hooghtaling, 

November  19,  1762,  had  six  children. 

Abraham  (15),  (son  oe  Jan),  had  issue: 

56.  Margareta,  who  married  Johannis  Picheltzimmer,  had  one 

child. 

57.  Sarah,  born  August  6,  1713,  married  Job  Warfoot,  had  one 

child. 

58.  Catherine,  who  married  W.  J. ?,  had  one  child. 

59.  Rachel,  who  married  Isaac  Isselstein,  had  one  child. 

Johannes  (22),  (son  of  Abraham),  h.u)  issue  by  eirst  wife: 

60.  Cornelia,  baptized  March   i,   1724,  married  Cornelius  Low, 

August  26,  1750,  had  four  children. 

61.  Elsie  (Elsjen),  baptized  April  3,  1726,  married  Dirck  Schep- 

noes,  August  26,  1750,  had  four  children. 

62.  Catrina,  baptized   September   10,    1727,   married  Wilhelmus 

Van  Gaasbeek  (William  Chambers),  December  7,  1750, 
had  four  children. 

63.  Annatje  No.  i,  baptized  September  7,  1729,  died  young. 

64.  Abraham  J.,  baptized  February  18,  1733,  married  first,  Sarah 

Tenbroek,  December  20,  1755,  had  six  children.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Margaret  Tenbroek,  May  5,  1772,  had  two 
children. 


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65.  Johannes,  baptized  February'  2,  1735. 

66.  Annatje  No.  2  (Anna),  baptized  November  21,  1736,  married 

John  Edmonds,  April  20,  1775. 

Johannes  (22)  had  issue  by  second  wife^  Maria  Decker^  viz.: 

67.  Maria    (Marytje),    baptized    September    13,    1741,    married 

Henry  Sleight,  January  15,  1764,  had  two  children. 

68.  Elizabeth. 

David  (23)^  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

69.  Abraham  No.  i,  baptized  March  2,  1729,  died  young. 

70.  Zara  No.  i  (Sarah),  baptized  February  18,  1733,  died  young. 

71.  John,  baptized  April  20,  1735. 
71Z.  Cornelius,  baptized  May  19,  1737. 

73.  James  or  Jacobus,  baptized  October  14,  1739. 

74.  Zara  No.  2  (Sarah),  baptized  March  28,  1742. 

75.  David  D.,  baptized  June  10,  1744,  married  Sarah  Hoffman, 

November  5,   1768,  had  six  children,  and  died  October 
30,  1815. 

76.  Abraham  No.  2,  baptized  February  22,  1747,  married  Eliza- 

beth Low,  had  one  child. 
TJ,  Catherina,  baptized  November  27,  1748,  married  Jacob  Dela- 
mater,  April  14,  1768,  had  seven  children,  and  died  July 
18,  1796. 

Jacobus  (24),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

78.  Anneken,  baptized  February  13,  1732,  married  Abraham  Post. 

Abraham  (25),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

79.  ?  (child),  (name  torn  out  of  record),  baptized  October 

21,  1733. 

80.  Rachel  No.  i,  baptized  December  11,  1737,  died  young. 

81.  Abraham,  baptized  February  18,  1739. 

82.  Catharine,  baptized  August  22^y  1741,  married  Isaac  Roosa, 

November  10,  1764,  had  eight  children. 

83.  David,  baptized  November  27,  1843,  married  Rebecca  Roosa, 

October  18,  1771,  had  one  child. 

84.  John   (Johannes),  baptized  May  3,  1747,  married  Elizabeth 

Brink,  1777,  had  nine  children,  and  died  July  18,  181 1. 

85.  Rachel   No.   2,   baptized  August   13,    1749,  married  Teunis 

Sleight,  October  8,  1771,  had  five  children. 

John  Delamater  (28),  baptized  January  16,  1687,  married 
June  II,  1714,  Anneke,  daughter  of  Johannes  Waldron,  and  in 
1718  was  elected  constable.  In  1715  he  bought  the  property  of 
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consisted  of  lot  No.  5,  of  1691,  and  her  drafts  in  the  four  divis- 
ions, 31  acres  in  all,  with  a  village  seat.  In  17 19  he  added  30 
acres  from  Matthew  Benson  (since  in  the  Samson  A.  Benson 
farm),  and  next,  in  1726,  his  father's  lands,  giving  him  a  total 
of  99  acres.  In  1729  he  sold  four  acres  (the  Vermilye  First 
Division)  to  Johannes  Waldron,  and  in  1737  the  30  acres  afore- 
said, to  Adolph  Benson.  The  rest  of  his  lands,  65  acres,  in  which 
was  included  the  farm  on  Montanye's  Flat,  and  said  lot  No.  5, 
he  sold  March  15,  1742,  to  Arent  Kortright,  who  afterward  mar- 
ried his  daughter.  John  Delamater  died  soon  after,  and  on 
March  24,  1744,  his  will  was  admitted  to  probate,  and  his  son- 
in-law,  Myer,  allowed  to  administer. 

John  (Jan)   (28),  (son  oi^  Isaac),  had  issue: 

86.  Anneke   (Anna),  born  July  15,  171 5,  married  Samuel  Wal- 

dron, of  Newtown,  April  25,  1735,  had  eight  children. 

87.  John,  bom  August   10,   1717,  married  Elizabeth  Post,   had 

seven  children.     He  a  carpenter  of  New  York. 

88.  Samuel,  bom  October  3,  1725,  married  Catalina,  daughter  of 

Benjamin  Waldron,  October  3,  1756,  had  six  children. 
He  *'of  the  Out  Ward,  cordwainer."  Not  mentioned  in 
his  father's  will,  1736. 

89.  Isaac,  bom  November  12,  1727,  married  Anna  Pearse  (Antje 

Peers),  had  five  children,  and  died  February  4,  1790. 

90.  Cornelia,  who  married  John  Myer,  Jr.,  had  three  children. 

91.  Susannah,  who  married  Isaac  Day.     Joined  church  at  Hack- 

ensack,  N.  J.,  May  22,  1742.  He  a  blacksmith  at  Hacken- 
sack,  later  went  to  Harlem,  where  he  kept  Day  Tavern. 

92.  Margaret,  who  married  Aaron  Kortright,  had  three  children. 

93.  Rebecca,  who  married  I^ewis  Williams,  had  seven  children. 

94.  Hester. 

95.  Sarah. 

Abraham  (29),  (son  op  Isaac),  had  issue: 

96.  Catherine,  who  married  Henry  Brevoort,  September  20,  1739, 

had  eight  children. 

97.  Isaac,  who  married  Maria  Richardson,  November  2^,  1744, 

had  four  children. 

98.  John,  who  married  Phebe  (Sytje)  Mabie,  August  15,  1750, 

had  two  children. 

99.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Cornelius  Vanderhoof,  December  9, 

1750,  had  nine  children.  He  of  New  York.  She  of 
Tappan,  N.  Y. 

Isaac  (30),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

100.  Barent,  baptized  April  12,  1720,  married  Rachel  Jewel,  June 


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8,   1745,  had  six  children,  and  died  18 12.      He  bought 
farm  in  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  was  a  deacon  in 
Tarrytown  Church,  1773. 
loi.  Isaac,  who  married  first,  Jannetie  Flierboom,  had  one  child. 
He  married  second  Catalina  Benson,  had  four  children. 

102.  John,  who  married  Jannetie  Post,  August  16,  1755,  ^^^  eight 

children.     He  a  carpenter  of  New  York. 

103.  Abraham,  baptized  March  19,  1732,  married  Maria  Vande- 

water,  of  Bloomingdale,  had  eight  children. 

Claude  (35),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

104.  John,  baptized  July  13,  1718,  married  Hilletje  Muller,  had 

two  children. 

105.  Jacobus,  bom  May  16,  1720,  baptized  June  5,  1720,  married 

Maria  Muller,  February  23,  1752,  had  two  children. 

106.  Dirck,  baptized  June  17,  1722,  married  Thryntie  Osterhout, 

October  13,  1768,  had  eight  children.  He  died  at  Green- 
port,  N.  Y. 

107.  Catalina,  baptized  October  18,  1724,  married  Jacob  Harter 

(Herder),  June  27,  1777,  had  one  child. 

108.  Rachel,  baptized  June  8,  1729,  married  John  Leggett,  Jr., 

April  19,  1764,  had  one  child. 

109.  Jeremiah. 

no.  Gertrude,   who   married   John   M.   Van   Valkenburgh,   had 
eight  children. 

111.  Christina,  who  married  John  Van  Deusen,  May  29,  1750,  had 

seven  children. 

Isaac  (36),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

112.  Jacobus,  baptized  August  24,   1718,  married  Cintie  ?, 

had  one  child. 

113.  Johannes,  baptized  June  5,  1720,  married  Maria  Kip,  Feb- 

Tuary  i,  1752,  had  thirteen  children,  and  died  October  30, 
1793-  Removed  to  Chatham,  Columbia  County,  N.  Y., 
and  bought  farm.     Died  there. 

114.  Jannetie,  baptized  June  8,  1720. 

115.  Bata    (Elizabeth),    baptized    February    17,    1722,    married 

Jacob  Mayer,  December  18,  1755,  had  one  child. 

116.  Janneke,  baptized  July   16,   1723,  married  Robert  George, 

March  26,  1760. 

117.  Isaac,  born  prior  to  1730,  married  Eva  Kip,  February  i, 

1752,  had  four  children.  She  a  daughter  of  Johannes 
Kip,  of  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y. 

118.  Martin,  baptized  September  19,  1731,  married  Ann  Marsh, 

September  8,  1763,  had  nine  children,  and  died  in  1805. 
She  died  in  181 5. 

119.  Benjamin  No.  i,  bom  1733,  died  young. 

120.  Geertie,  baptized  November  4,  1733. 


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121.  Elizabeth,  baptized  February   13,    1737,  married  a  son  of 

Rev.  Cyrus  Marsh,  of  Connecticut. 

122.  Hendrick,  born  January  4,   1739,  married  first,  Catherine 

Kip,  November  18,  1765,  had  four  children.  He  had  one 
child  by  a  second  wife,  and  died  at  Valatie,  Columbia 
County,  N.  Y. 

123.  Cornelius,  baptized  August  17,  1740,  married  Blandina  De 

Graff,  July  11,  1770,  had  three  children. 

124.  Benjamin  No.  2,  baptized  February  13,  1743,  married  Han- 

nah Row,  January  2,  1769,  had  eight  children,  and  died 
August  7,  1800.  He  died  at  Clinton,  Dutchess  County, 
N.  Y. 

125.  Rebecca,  baptized  March  3,  1745,  married  Samuel  Young, 

May  18,  1766,  had  two  children. 

Martin  (39),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

126.  Geertjen,  baptized  September  21,  1729,  married  Daniel  Can- 

tine,  October  30, 1750,  had  one  child,  and  died  before  1768. 

127.  Jacob  No.  I,  baptized  March  17,  1734,  died  young. 

128.  Elizabeth,  baptized  January  18,  1736,  married  Abraham  Can- 

tine,  November  19,  1756,  had  two  children. 

129.  Margriet,  baptized  April  16,  1738,  married  Jan  Elmendorph, 

had  two  children. 

130.  Maria,  baptized  June  22,  1740,  married  Coenraad  Du  Bois, 

had  nine  children. 

131.  Bata,  baptized  April  18,  1742,  married  Gerrit  M.  Niewkirk, 

June  15,  1765. 

132.  Hester  No.  i,  baptized  September  16,  1744,  died  young. 

133.  Jacob   No.   2,   baptized  April    i,    1750,   married   Catherina 

Delamater,  April  14,  1768,  had  seven  children,  and  died 
May  17,  1794. 

134.  William,  baptized  June  14,  1752,  married  Mary  Vandewater, 

December  18,  1770. 

135.  Hester  No.  2,  baptized  October  6,  1747,  married  Jacob  El- 

mendorph, October  16,  1767. 

Abraham  (52),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

136.  Cornelius,    baptized    November    4,    1744,    married    Rachel 

Slaight,  September  26,  1767,  had  eleven  children,  and 
died  May  7,  1812.  She  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  Slaight, 
baptized  March  13,  1748. 

137.  Abraham,  baptized  April  20,  1747,  married  Annetie  Sleight, 

November  15,  1769. 

138.  Peter,  baptized  June  25,  1749,  married  Lavinia  Dean,  had 

three  children.  Settled  at  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  where  he 
died. 

139.  Sarah,  baptized  November  3,  1751. 


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140.  Johannes,    baptized    February    3,    1754,    married    Jennettje 

Whittaker,  October  22,  1779,  had  five  children.     She  a 
daughter  of  Jan  Whittaker  and  Catherine  Hooghtaling. 

141.  Margaret,  baptized  March  7,  1756. 

Cornelius  (53),  (son, of  Corneuus),  had  issue: 

142.  Jan,  baptized  October  23,  1743,  married  Catherine  VanVliet, 

had  four  children. 

143.  Cornelius  No.  i,  baptized  April  12,  1745,  died  young. 

144.  Cornelius  No.  2,  baptized  December  7,  1746,  died  young. 

145.  Abraham  C,  baptized  August  28,  1748,  married  Catharine 

Van  Waggoner,  October   15,   1773,  had  three  children, 
and  died  July  31,  181 2. 

146.  Benjamin,  baptized  January  28,  1750. 

147.  Matheus,  baptized  May  3,  1752. 

148.  Rachel,  baptized  October  21,  1753,  married  David  Low,  May 

13,  1775,  had  nine  children. 

149.  Margaret,  baptized  September   14,   1755,  married  Jeremias 

Hoogtelingh,  June  27,  1770,  had  twelve  children. 

150.  Elizabeth,  baptized  May  8,  1757. 

151.  Cornelius  No.  3,  baptized  April  22,  1759,  ^^^^  young. 

152.  Cornelis  No.  4,  baptized  July  20,  1760,  married  Sarah  Krom, 

November  10,  1782,  had  two  children,  and  died  Novem- 
ber, 1842. 

Benjamin  (55),  (son  of  Corneuus),  had  issue: 

153.  Maria,  baptized  January  15,  1764. 

154.  Margriet,  baptized  April  14,  1765. 

155.  Sarah,  baptized  July  13,  1766. 

156.  Anna,  baptized  March  16,  1769. 

157.  Cornelius  No.  i,  baptized  October  10,  1770,  died  young. 

158.  Cornelius  No.  2,  baptized  November  9,  1771,  married  Helen 

Ostrander,  September  5,  1801. 

Abraham  J.  (64),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue  by 
first  wife  : 

159.  John,  baptized  September  5,  1756,  died  single. 

160.  Blandina,  baptized  September  9,  1759,  married  Peter  Sharp, 

had  eight  children. 

161.  Christina,  baptized  August  23,  1761,  unmarried. 

162.  Cornelius,  baptized  February  19,  1764. 

163.  Maria,  baptized  October  4,  1766,  married  John  Schepnoes, 

November  12,  1787. 

164.  Elizabeth,  baptized  April  13,  1769. 

Abraham  J.  (64)  had  issue  by  second  wife,  Margaret 
Tenbroek  : 
164a.  Jacob,    baptized    August    24,    1773,    married    Magdalena 
Broadhead,  December  16,  1798,  had  two  children. 


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164b.  Catharine,  baptized  December  3,  1775,  married  Jacob  Ten- 
broeck.  Joined  Reformed  Church  at  Germantown,  N.  Y. 
October  6,  1792. 

David  D.  (75),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

165.  David  D.  No.  i,  baptized  October  21,  1764,  died  young. 

166.  David  D.  No.  2,  baptized  June  3,  1766,  died  young. 

167.  Anthony,  baptized   November   2,    1768,  married   Catharine 

Houghtaling,  May  28,  1794,  had  one  child.  He  settled 
at  Rhinebeck,  N.  Y.,  where  he  died  at  an  advanced  age. 
Was  a  captain  in  the  War  of  18 12. 

168.  Abraham,   baptized   February    19,    1770,   married   Engeltje 

Elmendorf,  February  8,  1795,  had  five  children,  and  died 
February  16,  1841.  He  was  a  physician  at  Rhinebeck, 
N.  Y. 

169.  David  D.  No.  3,  baptized  August  13,  1775. 

170.  Catherina,  baptized  March  21,  1779. 

Abraham  (76),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

171.  Abraham,  baptized  January  23,  1787,  died  young. 

David  (83),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

172.  Rachel,  baptized  October  26,  1772,  married  Petrus  P.  Roosa, 

June  13,  1790,  had  twelve  children. 

John  (84),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

173.  Mary  (Maria),  born  February  i,  1774,  married  Petrus  G. 

Ostrander,  January  21,  1796,  had  seven  children. 

174.  John,  baptized  April  25,  1779. 

175.  Rachel,  baptized  June  30,  1782. 

176.  Cornelius,  baptized  January  i,  1785. 

177.  Abraham,  baptized  May  14,  1786. 

178.  Anne  (Annatje),  baptized  May  24,  1789. 

179.  Peter  Low,   baptized   November    17,    1793,   married   Mary 

Brink,  December  29,  18 16,  had  eight  children.  He  bom 
at  Marbletown,  N.  Y.,  was  officer  in  the  Reformed  Dutch 
Church  until  his  death. 

180.  Caterine,  baptized  June  12,  1797. 

181.  Jacob  Brink,  born  March  19,  1799,  married  Rachel  Beenon, 

had  eight  children. 

John  (87),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

182.  John,  baptized  October  9,  1754,  had  one  child. 

183.  Rebecca,  baptized  April  3,  1757. 

184.  Isaac  No.  i,  baptized  August  5,  1759,  died  young. 

185.  Elizabeth  No.  i,  baptized  March  24,  1762,  died  young. 


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186.  Isaac  No.  2,  baptized  March  4,  1764,  married  Ann  Bums, 

September  7,  1783,  had  one  child. 

187.  Abraham,  bom  1765. 

188.  Elizabeth  No.  2,  baptized  November  5,  1769. 

Samuel  (88),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

189.  John   S.,  born   1757,  married  Margaret  Cronk,   had  three 

children.  Served  in  artillery  during  Revolution.  Was 
Health  Officer  of  New  York  for  many  years. 

190.  Samuel,  bom  March  28,    1759,  married  Hannah  Vander- 

burgh, July  4,  1779,  had  eight  children,  and  died  June  8, 
1843.  Was  a  tanner  and  currier  in  New  York.  Died  at 
residence,  No.  20  North  Moore  Street,  New  York  City. 

191.  Ann,  bom  1761,  married  John  M.  Vandenburgh,  had  eight 

children,  and  died  August  9,  1850. 

192.  Cornelia,  bom  1763,  married  Samuel  Gautier,  May  16,  1784, 

had  three  children. 

193.  Benjamin,  born  1765. 

194.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Jonathan  Penny. 

Isaac  (89),  (son  of  John),  Hi\D  issue: 

195.  John  (Jan),  baptized  April  i,  1750,  married  Elizabeth  Cald- 

well, November  29,  1798,  had  two  children,  and  died 
December  7,  1829. 

196.  Maria,  baptized  October  29,  1752,  married  Ashar  Pike,  April 

15,  1772,  had  four  children,  and  died  October  3,  1822. 

197.  Anna,  baptized  June  19,  1755. 

198.  Joseph  No.  I,  baptized  December  7,  1757,  died  young. 

199.  Joseph  No.  2,  baptized  April  15,  1761. 

Isaac  (97),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

200.  Catherine,  born  December  24,  1745. 

201.  William,  bom  January  19,  1747. 

202.  Abraham,  born  September  7,  1749,  baptized  October  8,  1749, 

married  Sarah  Van  Blarcom,  June  13,  1774,  had  three 
children. 

203.  John,  born  April  22,  1752,  baptized  May  31,  1752. 

John  (98),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

204.  Abraham,  bom  January  29,  1751. 

205.  Catalina,  born  February  19,  1753,  married  John  Hendrick 

Harper,  had  one  child. 

Barent  (100),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

206.  Jooris,  baptized  August  21,  1746. 


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207.  Beletje,  baptized  August  30,  1749,  married  Mr.  Knapp,  had 

one  child. 

208.  Rebecka  (Rebecca),  baptized  June  20,  1752,  married  David 

Devoe,  had  two  children. 

209.  Sara,  baptized  September  9,  1755,  married  Mr.  Shule. 

210.  Isaac,  baptized  September  6,  1758,  married  Abigail  Haight, 

December  24,  1785,  had  twelve  children,  and  died  July  8, 

1837. 

211.  Elizabeth,  baptized  September  12,  1761,  married  Mr.  Lani- 

gan. 

Isaac  (ioi),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue  by  i^irst  wife: 

212.  Isaac,  bom  September  i,  1751,  baptized  December  25,  1751, 

married  Jannetie  Meyer,  had  five  children. 

Isaac   (ioi)   had  issue  by  second  wife,  Catalina  Benson: 

213.  Johannes,  born  August  13,  1756,  baptized  September  5,  1756. 

214.  Beletie,  bom  March  20,  1762,  baptized  April  11,  1762. 

215.  Abraham,  baptized  November  25,  1767. 

216.  Gerrit,  baptized  May  28,  1775. 

John  (102),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

217.  Isaac,  baptized  May  11,  1757. 

218.  Sara,  baptized  May  21,  1760. 

219.  John  No.  I   (Johannis),  baptized  September  26,  1762,  died 

young. 

220.  Abraham,  baptized  April  28,  1765. 

221.  Margarita,  baptized  April  12,  1767. 

222.  Evert,  baptized  May  20,  1770,  married  Mary  Cole,  October 

20,  1795,  had  seven  children. 

223.  John  No.  2,  born  1773. 

224.  Jane,  baptized  August  27,  1775. 

Abraham  (103),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

225.  Mary,  born  1770,  married  Abraham  Montfort,  1790. 

226.  William,  born  1772. 

227.  Elizabeth,  bom  1774,  married  John  Lake. 

228.  Isaac,  born  1776,  had  one  child. 

229.  Catherine,  born  April  25,  1778,  married  John  Wilson,  Feb- 

ruary 9,  1797,  had  thirteen  children.     He  of  New  York. 

230.  Cornelia,  bom  1780. 

231.  Benjamin,  bom  1783. 

232.  Abraham,  born  1786. 

John  (104),  (son  of  Claude),  had  issue: 

233.  Jeremias,  baptized  February  14,  1748,  married  Alida  Vos- 


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burgh,  had  one  child,  and  died  February  27 y  182 1.  He 
served  in  the  Eighth  Regiment,  of  Albany  County,  N.  Y., 
militia,  in  the  Revolution.     She  died  March  27,  1848. 

234.  Glaude,  baptized  August  11,  1752,  married  Elizabeth  Herder, 

1778,  had  eight  children,  and  died  in  1842.  He  served 
in  the  Eighth  Regiment,  Albany  County,  N.  Y.,  militia, 
in  the  Revolutionary  War. 

Jacobus  (105),  (son  of  Glaudic),  had  issue: 

235.  Glaude,  baptized  October  25,  1752,  married  first  Maria  Van 

Deusen,  September  9,  1771,  had  five  children.  He  mar- 
ried second  Lea  Mandeville,  April  zy,  1783,  had  three 
children. 

236.  Jeremias,  baptized  August  22,  1756. 

DiRCK  (106),  (son  of  Glaude),  had  issue: 

237.  Cloudy  (Claude),  baptized  February  25,  1770,  married  Jan- 

netje  Elton,  April  7,  1789,  had  six  children. 

238.  Teunis,  baptized  November  7,  1773,  died  young. 

239.  Tones,  baptized  January  24,  1775. 

240.  Christine,  baptized  February  11,  1776,  married  Wilhelmus 

Hoogtaling,  1797. 

241.  Dunis  (Tunis),  baptized  March  6,  1778,  died  young. 

242.  Gertruit  (Gertrude),  baptized  September  5,  1779. 

243.  Theunis,  baptized  October  21,  1781. 

244.  John,  baptized  September  17,  1786,  married  Margaret  Ross- 

more,  had  one  child. 

245.  Komelia,  baptized  February  12,  1744. 

Johannes  (113),  (son  of  Isaac),  ii.\d  issue: 

246.  Isaac,  born  December   13,   1752,  married  Hannah  Barlow, 

Februar>'  8,  1776,  had  seven  children,  and  died  March  12, 
1830.  He  was  bom  at  Amenia,  N.  Y.,  enlisted  and  served 
as  commissary  during  the  Revolution.  He  removed  to 
Pompey,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  there. 

247.  Margaret,  bom  August  21,  1754,  died  unmarried  August  19, 

1769. 

248.  John,  born  September  23,  1756,  died  single,  July  2,  1774. 

249.  Rebecca  No.  i,  bom  September  5,  1758,  died  May  14,  1761. 

250.  Rachel,  baptized  October  26,  1760,  married  Joshua  Neuman, 

October  14,  1779,  had  seven  children.  She  died  at  Delhi, 
N.  Y. 

251.  Jacob,  bom  June  i,  1762,  married  Elizabeth  Dorr,  1786,  had 

six  children,  and  died  June  27,  1828. 

252.  Benjamin,  born  June  i,  1762,  married  first,  Sarah  Gifford, 

of  Chatham,  N.  Y.,  had  one  child.  He  married  second, 
Isabel  Beverly,  had  nine  children,  and  died  April  26,  1832. 


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253.  Rebecca  No.  2,  bom  March  15,  1764,  married  first,  William 

Bullis,  had  one  child.  She  married  second,  Captain  Amos 
Rice,  had  two  children,  and  died  January  11,  1835. 

254.  Abraham  No.  i,  bom  March  4,  1766,  died  young. 

255.  Abraham  No.  2,  born  April  2,  1767,  married  first,  Phebe 

Herrick,  and  second,  Anetje  (Anna)  Storm,  had  seven 
children  by  second  wife,  and  died  August  6,  1845. 

256.  Samuel,  baptized  April  15,  1770,  married  Lucy  Sedgewick, 

1796,  had  six  children,  and  died  in  1822.  Settled  at  Poes- 
tenkill,  Rensselaer  County,  N.  Y.,  at  which  place  he  died. 

257.  Peter,  baptized  February   14,    1773,   married   Sarah   Gage. 

1805,  had  nine  children.  Was  a  physician.  Settled  at 
Duanesburgh,  and  died  there  September  14,  1849. 

258.  Elizabeth,  born  May  11,  1776,  died  February  29,  1790. 

Isaac  (117),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

259.  Margaretha,   baptized    April    14,    1754,    married    Martinus 

Becker,  had  six  children. 

260.  Isaac,  born  1754,  married  Rachel  Kip,  November  30,  1783, 

had  four  children. 

261.  Abraham,  born    1756,   married  Catherine   Miller,  had  five 

children. 

262.  Johannes,  bom  February  26,  1758,  married  first,  Maria  De 

GraflF,  June  17,  1778,  had  one  child.  He  married  second, 
Betsy  Lester,  July  17,  1791,  had  eight  children,  and  died 
March,  1836,  at  Ellenburgh,  N.  Y. 

Martin  (118),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

263.  Cyrus  M.,  baptized  January  13,  1765,  married ?  Lyon, 

had  five  children. 

264.  Isaac,  baptized  October  20,  1765. 

265.  Maria,  who  married  Asel  Terril,  had  two  children. 

266.  Rebecca,  baptized  June  25,  1767,  married  Philip  Winegar, 

had  four  children. 

267.  James,  baptized  March  12,  1768,  not  mentioned  in  his  father's 

will,  dated  1803. 

268.  Susanna,   baptized   July   2,    1770,    married   Rev.    Ebenezer 

Smith,  January  5,  1797,  had  two  children. 

269.  Mercy,  baptized  April  12,  1772. 

270.  Anna,  baptized  December  25,  1774. 

271.  Lydia,   baptized   November    17,    1776.      Not   mentioned   in 

father's  will,  dated  1803. 

Hendrick  (122),   (son  of  Isaac),  had  issuk  by  first  wife: 

272.  Rebecca,  born  December  18,  1767,  married  William  Bray- 

man,  December  31,   1788,  had  nine  children,  settled  on 


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farm  in  BrcxDme,  Schoharie  County,  N.  Y.  She  died  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1837. 

273.  John,  bom  February  18,  1771,  married  Mary  Eaton,  October 

19,  1794,  had  fifteen  children,  settled  at  Westerlo,  Albany 
County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  September  6,  1848. 

274.  Benjamin  Valatie   (Capt.),  born  March  31,   1773,  married 

Anna  Barnes,  1793,  had  eight  children.  He  was  a  cap- 
tain of  a  military  company  during  the  War  of  18 12,  and 
died  June  4,  181 5. 

275.  Abraham  Valatie,  bom  1775,  married  Olive  Chapman,  had 

nine  children,  and  died  1852. 

HeNDRICK    (122)    HAD  ISSUE  BY  SECOND  WIFE! 

276.  Catharine,  who  married  Reuben  C.  Kraig,  March  31,  181 1. 

Settled  in  Cortland  County,  N.  Y. 

Cornelius  (123),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

2^7.  Antonetta,  born  December  16,  1772. 

278.  Moses,  bom  June  9,  1776. 

279.  Isaac,  bom  May  21,  1782. 

Benjamin  (124),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

280.  Benjamin,  bom  October  28,  1778,  married  Almira  Row,  had 

nine  children,  settled  at  Hyde  Park,  Dutchess  County,  N. 
Y.,  and  died  March  21,  1858. 

281.  Elizabeth,  bom  March  5,  1782. 

282.  Nicholas,  baptized  June  20,  1773. 

283.  Jacob,  not  mentioned  in  his  father's  will  of  1798. 

284.  Susanna. 

285.  Sarah.' 

286.  Laura,  not  mentioned  in  her  father's  will  of  1798. 

287.  Mary. 

Jacob  (133),  (son  of  Martin),  had  issue: 

288.  Martyn    (Martin),   baptized   September  26,    1770,   married 

Elizabeth  Nottingham,  had  one  child. 

289.  Laurentia,  baptized  July  18,  1771. 

290.  Elizabeth,  baptized  May  5,  1776. 

291.  Sara,  baptized  May  5,  1776. 

292.  Sally  Malcum,  baptized  May  11,  1783,  married  Charles  De- 

witt,  November  25,  1798,  had  three  children. 

293.  John  Addison,  baptized  August  27,  1785,  married  Anne  De- 

witt,  had  two  children. 

294.  Gerret,  baptized  Febmary  3,  1788,  married  Ann  Tack,  had 

three  children,  and  died  February  9,  1849. 


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Cornelius  (136),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

295.  Sarah,  baptized  November  2,  1768. 

296.  Anna  No.  i,  baptized  February  19,  1771,  died  February'-  25, 

1771. 

297.  Anna  No.  2,  baptized  January  15,  1772,  married  Jacob  Fel- 

ter. 

298.  Thomas,  baptized  April  6,  1774,  married  Christina  Pulver, 

had  five  children. 

299.  Conrad,  baptized  November  i,  1778,  died  single,  September 

I,  1825. 

300.  Catharine,  baptized  May  13,  1781,  married  William  Trem- 

per,  had  four  children. 

301.  Benjamin  S.,  baptized  November  23,  1783,  married  Rachel 

Snyder,  January  29,  1805,  had  three  children. 

302.  Elizabeth,  baptized  October  i,   1786,  married  Tobias  Has- 

brouck. 

303.  William,  baptized  March  28,  1789,  married  Eliza  Douglas. 

304.  Effie,  baptized  March  28,  1789. 

305.  Margaret,  baptized  July  6,  1792,  married  James  Van  Keuren, 

was  living  in  1858. 

Peter  (138),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

306.  Charlotte  Elizabeth,  born  about  1770,  married  Justis  Smith, 

had  five  children,  and  died  1864.  Removed  to  Warren, 
Ohio. 

307.  William  B.,  born  about  1772,  married  first,  Annatje  Sleight, 

January  8,  1795,  and  second,  Jane  Hardenburgh,  June 
6,  1802,  had  five  children.  Settled  at  Rosendale,  N.  Y., 
where  he  died. 

308.  Henry  A. 

Johannes  (140),  (son  oe  Abraham),  had  issue: 

309.  Abraham  No.  i,  baptized  April  30,  1780,  died  young. 

310.  Abraham  No.  2,  baptized  May  5,  1782,  married  Hannah  Rad- 

cliflF,  had  seven  children,  and  died  March  14,  1871. 

311.  John,  baptized  August  15,  1784,  married  Lena  Hulder  (Hol- 

ler), May  29,  1807,  had  four  children. 

312.  Sarah,  baptized  September  15,  1786. 

313.  Margrit,    baptized    October   28,    1787,    married   John   Ten 

Broeck,  Jr.,  had  nine  children. 

Jan  (142),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

314.  Comelis,  baptized  February  10,  1765. 

315.  Wilhelm,  baptized  February  28,  1773. 

316.  Jan,  baptized  August  15,  1779. 

317.  Rachel,  baptized  September  21,  1781. 


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Abraham  C.  (145),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

318.  Sarah,  baptized  August  22,  1774. 

319.  Cornelius,  baptized  April  6,  1777. 

320.  Isaac,  baptized  November  11,  1781. 

Cornelius  (152),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

321.  Maria,  baptized  May  29,  1785,  married  Joshuah  Van  Keuren, 

had  three  children. 

322.  Petrus,  baptized  May  25,  1788,  married  Lena  Van  Keuren, 

had  one  child. 

Jacob  (164a),  (son  of  Abraham  J.),  had  issue: 

323.  Blandina  No.  i,  born  April  24,  1801,  died  young. 

324.  Blandina  No.  2,  baptized  May  17,  1807. 

Anthony  (167),  (son  of  David  D.),  had  issue: 

325.  Catherine,  baptized  October  14,  1798,  married  Egbert  Jan- 

sen,  January  25,  18 15,  had  two  children. 

Abraham  (168),  (son  of  David  D.),  had  issue: 

326.  David,  baptized  November  18,  1796. 

327.  Cornelius,  baptized  March  3,  1799. 

328.  John  Schoonmaker,  bom  March  4,  1802. 

329.  Peter  R.  Roosa,  born  December  23,  1804. 

330.  Mar>%  bom  1816. 

Peter  Low  (179),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

331.  Comelius  Brink,  born  August  i,  1818,  died  August  19,  1819, 

buried  at  Marbletown,  N.  Y. 

332.  John,  born  October  29,  1819,  married  Dina  W.  Brink,  June 

5,  1844,  had  three  children. 

333.  Eliza  (Catherine),  bom  March  29,  1822,  married  Lyman  H. 

Davis,  September  16,  1845,  ^^i^  three  children,  and  died 
July  14,  1881. 

334.  James  Brink,  bom  October   11,   1825,  married  Harriet  F. 

Bailey,  February  10,  1859,  ^^^  one  child.  He  served  in 
95th  Regiment,  Company  E,  Illinois  Volunteers,  in  1862, 
and  died  July  i,  1863. 

335.  Rachel,  who  married  Dr.  James  Northmp,  April  19,  1849, 

had  one  child.     She  of  Woodstock,  111. 

336.  Theodore  C,  born  June  24,   1835,  married  Mary  Fifield, 

November  17,  1859,  had  four  children.  He  resided  at 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

337.  Mary  Jane,  who  married  Bloomer  Sower,   September  30, 

1862,  and  died  October  30,  1867. 


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338.  Cornelius,  bom  September  17,  1828,  died  December  28,  1828, 

buried  at  Marbletown,  N.  Y. 

Jacob  Brink  (181),  (son  of  John),  had  issuis: 

339.  James. 

340.  Lewis. 

341.  Mary  A. 

342.  Samuel  S. 

343.  Eliza  A. 

344.  Sarah  J. 

345.  Wealthy  M. 

346.  John 

John  (182),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

347.  John,  bom  September  5,  1778,  married  Fanny  Decker,  1806, 

had  five  children.     Will  proved  April  26,  i860. 

Isaac  (186),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

348.  Isaac,  who  married  Sarah  Smith,  had  four  children. 

John  S.  (189),  (son  of  Samuel),  h.\d  issue: 

349.  John,  baptized  August  23,  1788. 

350.  Maria,  baptized  July  18,  1790. 

351.  Samuel,  baptized  January  6,  1793. 

Samuel  Delamater  (190)  became  a  tanner  and  currier  in 
New  York,  married  July  4,  1779,  Hannah  Vandenburgh,  and 
died  at  his  residence,  20  North  Moore  Street,  June  8,  1843. 

SamueLt  (190),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

352.  Hannah,  bom  May  20,  1780,  married  Peter  Stryker,  1804, 

had  one  child. 

353.  Catalina,  bom  July  15,  1782,  married  Gysbert  B.  Vroom, 

January  9,  1800,  had  eight  children,  and  died  March  8, 
1836. 

354.  Samuel,  born  July  23,  1784,  died  single,  October  8,  1819. 

Shipmaster.  He  made  his  will  November  25,  1818,  "ex- 
pecting to  sail  to-morrow  for  Mantanzas." 

355.  Garret,  born  July  8,  1787,  died  1797. 

356.  Maria,  born  January  14,  1790,  joined  church  at  Schodack, 

N.  Y.,  August  4,  1 82 1.  She  married  first.  Rev.  Isaiah  Y. 
Johnston,  May  4,  1818.  had  two  children,  and  second, 
Abel  Hine.     She  died  March  6,  1867. 

357.  John,  bom  July  i,  1792,  married  Sophia  J.  Ostrander,  June 

25,  1814,  had  six  children.  Was  a  builder  by  trade,  and 
at  one  time  an  Alderman.     Died  December  21,  1877. 


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358.  Benjamin  Waldron,  bom  March  28,  1795,  was  a  grocer,  and 

later  President  of  the  Long  Island  Insurance  Company. 
He  married  first,  Lucretia  Marquand,  October  3,  1833, 
had  one  child,  and  second,  Mary  Smith  Adams,  Decem- 
ber 23,  1852. 

359.  James  Home,  born  October   11,   1799,  married  Elizabeth 

Beekman,  July  4,  1821,  had  seven  children.  Removed  to 
Ohio,  and  later  to  Meshawaka,  Ind.,  died  September  6, 

1857. 

,  t 

John  (195),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

360.  Caroline,  born   1799,  married  Jacob  Dunton,  October   10, 

1821. 

361.  Anna,  bom  1802,  married  Dr.  John  A.  Elkinton,  October 

10,  1830.     She  of  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Abraham  (202),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

362.  Isaac,  baptized  January  22,  1775,  married  Elizabeth  Webber, 

had  one  child. 

363.  Mary,  bom  May  6,  1784. 

364.  Jane,  bom  September  7,  1787. 

Isaac  (210),  (son  of  Barent),  hap  issue: 

365.  George,  bom  April  11,  1787,  died  young. 

366.  Samuel,  born  February  6,   1789,  married  Hannah  Jewell, 

November  i,  1821. 

367.  Jesse,  bom  March  31,  1791. 

368.  Amy,  bom  May  13,  1793,  married  Jeremiah  Roat,  September 

13,  1821,  had  five  children. 

369.  Abraham,  bom  May  12,  1795,  married  Margaret  Freeman, 

September  7,  1821.  He  resided  in  Michigan  for  a  num- 
ber of  years. 

370.  Isaac  Jewell,  born  August  2y,   1797,  married  Eliza  Doty, 

December  31,  1830,  had  two  children.  Resided  in  West- 
chester County,  N.  Y. 

371.  William  B.,  bom  October  6,  1799,  married  Sarah  Felter,  Jan- 

uary 23,  1823,  had  four  children.  Resided  in  Orange 
County,  N.  Y. 

372.  Ely,  bom  August  i,  1801,  died  single. 

373.  John,  bom  August  13,  1804,  married  Cornelia  McClelland, 

November  15,  1841,  had  six  children. 

374.  Francis,  born  August  6,  1806,  died  single. 

375.  Aseneth,  born  Febmary  18,  1809,  rnarried  William  Felter, 

September  20,  1829.     Resided  in  Orange  County,  N.  Y. 

376.  Edward  D.,  bom  May  19,  1811,  married  Jane  Chesire,  Sep- 

tember 19,  1833,  had  one  child.     Resided  on  Long  Island. 


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Isaac  (212),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

377.  Jannetye,  born  December  13,  1776,  married  Abraham  Nagd, 

June  6,  1797,  had  five  children. 

378.  Jacobus  FHerboom,  born  January  23,  1782. 

379.  John,  bom  July  4,  1787. 

380.  Catrina,  born  December  31,  1791,  married  Abraham  Stagg, 

had  four  children. 

381.  Elizabeth,  bom  November  4,  1794. 

Evert  (222),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

382.  John  Cole,  born  May  21,  1796,  baptized  August  3,  1796. 

383.  Jacob,  who  married  Adelia  Wattles,  had  four  children. 

384.  Charles,  died  voung. 

385.  Ralph. 

386.  William. 

387.  Susan. 

388.  Mary. 

Isaac  (228),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

389.  Catherine,  who  married  Jacob  Weeks. 

Jeremias  (233),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

390.  Jacobus,  baptized  January  6,  1782. 

Claude  (234),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

391.  John,  baptized  May  13,  1780,  died  June  21,  1853. 

392.  Maria,  baptized  March  24,  1782. 

393.  Jacob,  baptized  November  28,  1784. 

394.  Heletje,  baptized  February  18,  1786. 

395.  Richard,  baptized  April  19,  1789. 

396.  Michel,  baptized  April  17,  1791. 

397.  Christinje,  born  December   12,    1793,  baptized  January  5, 

1794. 

398.  Peter,  bom  March  19,  1796,  married  Hannah  Van  Deusen, 

1825,  had  four  children,  and  died  1884. 

C1.AUDE  (235),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue  by  his  first 
wiFE^  Maria  Van  Deusen  : 

399.  Jacobus  No.  i,  baptized  April  21,  1773,  died  young. 

400.  Maria,  baptized  May  6,   1775,  married  Samuel   Salisbur)*, 

September  18,  1792. 

401.  Robert,  baptized  July  20,  1777. 

402.  Jacobus  No.  2,  baptized  December  25,  1779. 

403.  Leynje,  baptized  August  12,  1781,  married  Comelius  Van 

Deusen,  April  3,  1798,  had  one  child. 


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Claude  (235),  had  issue  by  his  second  wife.  Lea 
Mandeville  : 

404.  Dorothea,  baptized  March  7,  1784. 

405.  Gertje,  baptized  December  25,  1785. 

406.  Christina,  bom  September  2,  1792,  baptized  October  14,  1792. 

Cloudy  (Claude)   (237),  (son  of  Dirck),  had  issue: 

407.  Maretje,  born  November  8,   1789,  baptized  November  20, 

1789. 

408.  Marytje,  born  October  25,    1791,   baptized   November    17, 

1791. 

409.  Richard,  baptized  April  19,  1791. 

410.  Trinje,  born  December  16,  1795,  baptized  January  17,  1796. 

411.  Rachel,  bom  November  28,    1797,  baptized  December  23, 

1797. 

412.  Tunis  Osterhout,  born  1807,  married  Mary  Decker,  had  two 

children,  and  died  September  29,  1865. 

John  (244),  (son  of  Dirck),  had  issue: 

413.  Jonas  Rossmore,  born  1807,  married  Sarah  A.  Groat,  had 

one  child,  and  died  1871. 

Isaac  (260),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

414.  Johan  Peters,  born  January  7,  1785. 

415.  Juny,  born  January  30,  1787. 

416.  Eva,  bom  September  5,  1789. 

417.  Maria,  bom  November  21,  1791. 

Abraham  (261),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

418.  John,  bom  July  9,  1789. 

419.  Anna,  born  May  30,  1790. 

420.  Gertje,  baptized  August  18,  1790. 

421.  William,  baptized  January  5,  1797. 

422.  James  Barnes,  born  April  i,  1802,  married  Elizabeth  Lang- 

year,  had  seven  children. 

Johannes  {262).  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue  by  first 
WIFE,  Maria  De  Graff: 

423.  Jacobus,  born  February  6,  1779,  baptized  March  14,  1779. 

Johannes  (262)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife,  B^sy 
Lester  : 

424.  James,  born  1792,  married  Abigail  Norton. 

425.  Anna  Maria,  bom  March  5,   1793,  married  Robert  Grick 

Hudson,  July  4,  1813,  had  three  children.     She  of  Odle 
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426.  William,  bom  February  26,  1798,  married  Sally  Hogle,  June 

23,  1826,  had  five  children.     He  of  Odle  Town,  Canada. 

427.  Sally,  born  1803,  married  Freeborn  Knapp,  had  three  chil- 

dren, and  died  1844.     Of  Canada. 

428.  Lucretia,  born  July  i,  1805,  married  first ?  Latham,  had 

one  child.  She  married  second  Reuben  Knapp,  1830,  had 
one  child. 

429.  Phoebe,  bom  1807,  died  unmarried,  about  1821. 

430.  Caroline,  born  1809,  died  about  18 19. 

431.  Smith,  bom  1810,  married  first,  Phoebe  Leonda  Esterbrook. 

January  15,  1826,  had  twelve  children.  He  married 
second  Sylvana  Ross,  October  29,  1847,  had  four  children. 
Was  living  in  1880  in  Dickinson  Center,  Franklin  County, 
N.  Y. 

Isaac  (246),  (son  01^  Johannes),  had  issue: 

432.  John,  born  July  14,  1776,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.     Was  partner 

with  his  father  at  Oran  Pompey.  Removed  to  Sullivan. 
Madison  County,  N.  Y.  He  married  Zoe  Eaton,  March 
13,  1803,  had  ten  children,  and  died  December  28,  1828, 
at  Sullivan,  N.  Y. 
433-  Stephen,  born  September  27,  1779,  at  Albany,  N.  Y.,  mar- 
ried Abigail  Hollister,  had  six  children,  and  died  at  S.  E. 
End,  Oneida  Lake,  N.  Y. 

434.  Nathan,  bom  April  25,   1787,  married  Sally  Merrill,  had 

three  children,  and  died  January  15,  1818,  at  Pompev, 
N.  Y. 

435.  Abraham,  born  April  25,    1787,  married   Pamelia  Hough, 

January  3,  1808,  had  ten  children.  Removed  in  1833, 
to  Washtenawan  County,  Michigan,  and  died  on  his 
farm  there. 

436.  Isaac,  bom  April  20,  1791,  married  Diadema  Barnes,  had 

ten  children,  and  died  February,  1878. 

437.  Anson,  born  November  8,  1794,  married  Nancy  Weatherby, 

November  8,  1817,  had  five  children,  and  died  at  Colum- 
bia, N.  Y.,  March  23,  1863. 

438.  Maria  Kip,  born  February  26,   1801,  married  Dr.   Daniel 

Dennison,  had  two  children,  and  died  1830. 

Jacob  (251),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

439.  John   (M.  D.,  LL.D.),  born  April  18,  1787,  married  Ruth 

Angel,  April  i,  1810,  had  eight  children,  and  died  March 
30,  1869,  at  Cleveland. 

440.  Edward,  bom  March  20,  1789,  married  Sarah  Hale,  Sep- 

tember, 181 2,  had  seven  children. 

441.  Jacob,  bom  May  20,  1791,  died  single,  October  21,  1814. 

442.  Elizabeth,  bom  January  4,  1794,  at  Duanesburg,  N.  Y.,  mar- 


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ried  Thomas  Van  Dervere,  September  22,  181 1,  had  six 
children,  and  died  January  20,  1840,  at  Florida,  N.  Y. 

443.  Maria,  born  February  4,  1799,  married  Dr.  John  S.  Shuler, 

about  1816,  had  two  children. 

444.  Helen,  bom  June  4,   1801,  married  James  Duane  Shuler, 

February  2,  1830,  had  four  children,  and  died  February 
9,  1865. 

Benjamin  (252),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue  by 
FIRST  wife: 

445.  ?  (child),  died  aged  10  years. 

Benjamin  (252)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife,  Isabei. 

Beverly : 

446.  Benjamin,  bom  1796,  had  two  children. 

447.  John,  born  1798,  married  first,  Hannah  Tripp,  September 

25,  1828,  had  one  child.  He  married  second,  Rosette 
Allen,  June  15,  1852,  had  four  children. 

448.  Maria,  bom  October  20,  1800,  married  Amory  Steams,  July 

20,  1821,  had  six  children.  Was  living  in  1881  at  James- 
town, N.  Y. 

449.  Betsy,  bom  April,  1805,  died  July,  1833. 

450.  Thomas  Jefferson,  bom  1807,  died  April,  183 1. 

451.  George  Clinton,  bom  May  i,  1809,  married  twice,  had  three 

children,  and  died  August  6,   1876.      Was  a  physician. 

452.  Caroline,  bom  1812,  died  May  18,  1824. 

453.  Jacob,  bom  May  3,  181 5,  married  first,  Eliza  Ann  Wood- 

ward, December  24,  1845,  had  three  children,  and  second 
Julia  Bush,  July  4,  1857,  had  two  children.  Was  living 
in  San  Jose,  California,  until  1879. 

454.  Mary  Ann,  bom  June  13,  1818,  married  first,  Amos  R.  Wel- 

ler,  January  3,  1838,  had  three  children,  and  second, 
Moses  L.  Knapp,  October,  1850,  had  two  children. 

Abraham  (255),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue  by 
SECOND  wife: 

455.  Phoebe,  bom  January  7,  1801,  at  Duanesburg,  N.  Y.,  mar- 

ried Caleb  Robbins,  April  27,  1819,  had  two  children,  and 
died  July  31,  1853. 

456.  John,  bom  January  24,  1803,  died  December  10,  1804. 

457.  James,  bom  Febmarv  22,  1804,  died  single,  September  20, 

1823. 

458.  Lafayette,  bom  December  2,  1806,  married  Keturah  Stew- 

art, had  five  children. 

459.  Isaac,  bom  January  4,  1809,  died  Febmary  15,  1811. 

460.  Julia,  bom  January  9,  181 1,  died  December  20,  1813. 

461.  Maria,  bom  July  8,  1814. 


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5i8  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Samuel  (256),  (son  of  Johanne;s),  had  issue: 

462.  Willard. 

463.  John. 

464.  Isaac,  a  clergyman,  settled  in  Indiana  in  1868. 

465.  Anna,  married    ?  Rockenstyne. 

466.  Polly,  who  married  Mr. Stevens. 

467.  Irene,  born  October  3,  1799. 

Peter  (257),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

468.  Maria,  bom  June  24,  1806,  married  John  Q.  Adams  Day, 

1824,  had  one  child,  and  died  September  10,  1825. 

469.  John  M.,  bom  May  4,   1809,  married  Aseneth  Bogardus, 

1832,  and  died  February,  1835. 

470.  Frederick,  born  July  2,  181 1,  married  Maria  Beebe,  January' 

2,  1834,  had  three  children,  and  died  July  9,  1862,  at 
New  Amsterdam,  N.  Y. 

471.  Ann  Eliza,  born  May  13,  1813,  married  first,  Daniel  Coon, 

January  2,  1832,  had  one  child,  and  second,  John  D. 
Jones,  February  5,  1847,  ^^^^  one  child,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 15,  1850. 

472.  Stephen  G.,  bom  March  7,  181 5,  married  Emily  Burbanks, 

April  24,  1842,  had  eleven  children.  Settled  at  Duanes- 
burg,  N.  Y.,  and  died  1888. 

473.  Catharine,  born  April  28,  1817,  married  Stephen  G.  W.  Van 

Natta,  January  2,  1833,  had  ten  children,  and  died  De- 
cember II,  1862. 

474.  Ira  M.  (Dr.),  born  September  28,  1810,  married  Margaret 

Elizabeth  Beebe,  November  25,  1841,  had  seven  children, 
and  died  September  24,  1864.  Settled  in  Albany,  N.  Y. 
Was  a  practising  physician. 

475.  Elizabeth,  bom  February  25,  1824,  married  Henry  Harden, 

April  9,  1846,  had  two  children,  and  died  July  12,  1848. 

476.  Marcus  R.,  born  August  4,  1827,  married  Caroline  Torry, 

March  7,  1847,  had  six  children.  Settled  in  Mariaville, 
Town  of  Duanesburg,  N.  Y.     In  the  milling  business. 

Cyrus  M.  (263),  (son  of  Martin),  had  issue: 

477.  John. 

478.  Isaac. 

479.  William. 

480.  Matilda. 

481.  Nathaniel. 

John  {2y^)j  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

482.  Henry,  born  October  25,  1795,  married  Mary  Titus,  Decem- 

ber 12,  1819,  settled  at  Westerlo,  Albany  County,  N.  Y., 
had  nine  children,  and  died  August  16,  1871. 


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483.  Elizabeth,  bom  June  10,  1797,  died  August  i,  1799. 

484.  Caty  (Catherine),  born  May  19,  1799,  married  Jabez  Jack- 

son, March  14,  1816,  had  nine  children,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 6,  1872. 

485.  Betsy,  born  July  7,  1801,  married  Rufus  Lamreaux,  1817, 

had  four  children,  and  died  September  15,  1845. 

486.  Rebecca,  born  May  17,  1803,  married  Stephen  F.  Cherry- 

tree,  November  15,  1821,  had  three  children.  Settled 
at  Greenville,  Greene  County,  N.  Y. 

487.  Ebenezer,  born  May  11,  1805,  married  Jane  Roberts,  had 

four  children.  Settled  at  Jacksonville,  town  of  Cox- 
sackie,  N.  Y.  Joined  91st  Regiment,  and  was  killed  on 
picket  duty  during  the  Rebellion,  April  14,  1863. 

488.  John,  bom  April  26,  1807,  settled  on  farm  in  Town  of  Wol- 

cott,  Wayne  County,  N.  Y.,  had  one  child,  and  died  1889. 

489.  William,  bom  April  14,  1809,  married.  Lydia  Emeline  Mat- 

thews, January  13,  1836,  had  six  children.  Settled  at 
Windham,  Greene  Countv,  N.  Y.,  and  died  September  21, 
1848. 

490.  Ira,  born  May  6,  181 1,  died  March  26,  1853. 

491.  Lucius,  bom  May  14,  1813,  died  October  28,  1830. 

492.  Mary  Ann,  born  February   10,   181 5,  married  Dr.  W.  R. 

Johnson,  March  i,  1828,  had  three  children.  Settled  at 
Jordan,  Onondaga  County,  N.  Y.,  but  later  resided  near 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

493.  Uriah,  born  January  28,  1817,  married  Delia  A.  Lockwood, 

January  27,  1841,  had  two  children,  settled  at  South  West- 
erlo,  N.  Y.,  and  died  1882. 

494.  George,  born  April  16,  1819,  married  Laura  Chase,  had  two 

children.  Settled  on  farm  at  Lexington,  N.  Y.,  and  died 
December  10,  1862. 

495.  Lousia,  born  May   11,   1821,  married  Alanson  F.  Bryant, 

November  9,  1840,  had  two  children.  Settled  at  Norton 
Hill,  Greene  County,  N.  Y.,  and  died  March  19,   1869. 

496.  Jane,  bom  October  12,  1824,  died  March  8,  1849. 

Benjamin  Valatie  (274),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

497.  Anna,  bom  December  22,   1795,  married  William  Gilbert, 

1814,  had  six  children,  settled  at  Muncie,  Delaware 
County,   Indiana,  and   died   April,    1847. 

498.  Thomas,  born  July  15,  1798,  married  Martha  Day,  January 

15,  1820,  had  seven  children,  and  died  November  26, 
1868. 

499.  Betsy    (Elizabeth),   born   May   22,    1801,   married   Salmon 

Noble,  April  7,  1816,  had  six  children,  and  died  August 
I,  1847. 


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500.  Sibyl,  born  August  18,  1804,  married  Leonard  Reed,  October 

5,  1825,  had  six  children.     Resided  in  1880  at  Erie,  Pa. 

501.  Rosena  (Lena),  bom  January  6,  1806,  married  first,  Georg^e 

W.  Ellison,  had  two  children,  and  second,  Charles  Lester. 
Had  three  children  by  second  marriage. 

502.  Henry    (Harry),   born   February   7,    1808,   married  Lydia 

Pierce,  December  15,  1829,  but  died  May  3,  1873,  with- 
out surviving  issue. 

503.  Abel,  born  April  5,  1810,  married  Celinda  Wilcox,  had  seven 

children,  and  died  July  4,  1869. 

504.  Laura,  bom  May  i,  1813,  married  Nathan  Bull,  February 

I,  183 1,  had  seven  children. 

Abraham  Valatie  (275),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

505.  Dolly,  who  married  Peter  Chulters. 

506.  Reuben  C,  who  married  first,  Eliza  Lambert,  about  1836, 

had  two  children.     He  married  second,  Harriet  Alger, 
about  1869,  had  two  children. 

507.  Asa,  who  died  June,  1881. 

508.  Peter,  who  married Garret. 

509.  Willard,  who  married  Emeline  Traver. 

510.  Anna,  who  married  David  Boice. 

511.  Susan. 

512.  Hannah,  who  married  David  Lawton. 

513.  Polly,  who  married  Nicholas  Van  Loon,  had  two  children. 

Benjamin  (280)^  (son  op  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

514.  Edwin,  bom  February  4,  1810,  died  single,  June  21,  1829. 

515.  William  Harrison,  bom  March  2,  181 3,  married  Elizabeth 

Burroughs,  February  26,  1834,  had  one  child,  and  died 
April  8,  1853. 

516.  Benjamin  Franklin,  bom  March  16,  181 5,  died  April  5,  1816. 

517.  Perry  Decatur,  bom  June  7,  1817,  married  Susan  Swade, 

November  17,  1841,  had  two  children. 

518.  Belden,  bom  February  16,  1819,  married  Elizabeth  0'Lear\% 

February  11,  1842,  had  three  children. 

519.  Catherine  Louisa,  born  February   18,    1821,  married  John 

McLean,  October  24,  1844,  had  two  children,  and  died 
August  10,  1849. 

520.  Susan  Caroline,  born  March  9,  1823,  died  unmarried,  April 

I5>  1854. 

521.  James  Van  Ness,  bom  February  11,  1828,  married  Hannah 

E.  Slocum,  November  20,  1855,  had  one  child. 

522.  Benjamin  Edwin,  born  August  27,   1831,  married  Amelia 

Caroline  Gibbs  Lloyd,  August  8,  1854,  had  two  children, 
and  died  before  i8i52. 


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Martyn  (288),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

523.  Elizabeth. 

John  Addison  (293),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

524.  John  De  Witt,  bom  May  15,  1808. 

525.  Jacob,  born  May  13,  1810. 

Gerret  (294),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

526.  Jacob,  bom  April  28,  1807. 

527.  Sarah  Catherine,  born  October  8,  181 5. 

528.  Charles  De  Witt,  bom  October  5,  18 18. 

Thomas  (298),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

529.  (Child)  that  died  in  infancy. 

530.  (Child)  that  died  in  infancy. 

531.  Mary,  bom  December  9,  1794,  had  two  children,  and  died 

1855. 

532.  Henry  No.  i,  born  July  2,  1798,  died  young. 

533.  Henry  No.  2,  born  November  19,  1800,  married  Julia  Har- 

rison, June  12,  1833,  and  died  before  1868. 

Benjamin  S.  (301),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

534.  Helena,   baptized   September   22,    1805,   married   Abraham 

Auchmoody,  October  30,  1824. 

535.  Ann  Eliza,  baptized  May  8,  1808. 

536.  Abraham  Howard,  bom  April  i,  1810,  married  Maria  H. 

Dolph,  December  24,  1839,  had  four  children. 

William  B.  (307),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

537.  Charles  Dewitt,  bom  September  25,  1804. 

538.  Charlotte,  born  September  25,  1804,  married  Dr.  Daniel  V. 

Deyo,  July  17,  1822,  had  one  child,  and  died  January  14, 
1832,  at  New  Paltz,  N.  Y. 

539.  Jane,  born  November  14,  1807,  married  Dr.  S.  Tomkins,  had 

six  children.     Settled  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y.     Re- 
sided there  in  1880. 

540.  Peter,  bom  June   18,    18 13,   married   Rachel  Auchmoody, 

April  2,  1834,  had  nine  children.     Resided  in  Lansing, 
Michigan,  in  1882. 

541.  Hardenburgh,  who  married  Margaret  Lefre,  May  12,  1858, 

no  issue. 

Abraham   (310),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

542.  Jane  Margriet,  bom  March  26,  1806,  died  January  23,  1840. 

543.  Clarissa,  bom  July  2T,  1808,  died  May  31,  1830. 

544.  Sarah,  born  November  10,  1810,  married  William  Tubbs, 

August  I,  1850,  no  issue. 


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545.  Caroline,  bom  January  17,  1813,  died,  unmarried,  August 

17,  1823. 

546.  Radcliff,  bom  May  31,  181 5,  married  Jane  Magdaline  El- 

ting,  1836,  had  eight  children,  and  died  April  2,  1895. 

547.  William  Peter,  bom  July  20,  1817,  married  Hannah  M.  Hop- 

per, August  15,  1849,  ^^^  eight  children,  and  died  No- 
vember 12,  1 90 1. 

548.  Jennet,  born  January  8,  1821,  died  May  16,  1853. 

John  (311),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

549.  Jane  Eliza,  baptized  August  25,  1807. 

550.  Alexander,  baptized  August  12,  1809. 

551.  Abraham,  born  December  29,   181 1,  married  Maria  Rich. 

Mav  3,   1844,  had  two  children,  and  died  December  9, 
1887. 

552.  John,  baptized  July  12,  1814. 

Petrus  (322),  (son  of  Corneuus),  had  issue: 

553.  Maria,  baptized  June  7,  1807,  married  James  Ellsworth,  July 

8,  1824,  had  seven  children. 

John  (332),  (son  of  Peter  Low),  had  issue: 

554.  Emma  Elizabeth,  born  March  3,  1845.    Lived  in  Maryland. 

555.  Ella  Jessie,  died  aged  three  years. 

556.  ?  (boy),  died  at  birth. 

James  Brink  (334),  (son  of  Peter  Low),  had  issue: 

557.  Alva  James,  born  December  5,  i860,  married  Lida  McCon- 

nell,  September  i,  1886,  had  two  children. 

Theodore  C.  (336),  (son  of  Peter  Low),  had  issue: 

558.  Lyman  Albert. 

559.  Arthur  J.,  who  resided  in  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

560.  Oscar,  who  resided  in  California. 

561.  ?  (boy),  died  in  infancy. 

John  (347),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

562.  Jacob,  born  September  25,   1810,  married   Sarah  C.  Hen- 

dricks, November  22,  1832,  had  one  child.     He  deceased. 

563.  John,  born  November  26,  181 2,  married  Sarah  Terpenning, 

1840,  had  two  children. 

564.  Peter,  born  May  24,  1817,  married  Rosalind  C.  Delamater, 

January  11,  1838,  had  five  children.     He  deceased. 

565.  Catherine   Ann,   born    August    7,    1807,    married    Stephen 

Sleight,  had  seven  children.     Resided  in  Cayuga  County, 
N.  Y. 


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566.  Eliza  Linnet,  born   July  27^    1823,   married   Jacob  Dewitt 

Hammond,  October  10,  1846,  had  five  children.     Resided 
in  Ulster  County,  N.  Y. 

Isaac  (348),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

567.  Catherine,  born  April  3,  1808. 

568.  Abraham,  bom  October  26,  1810,  had  two  children. 

569.  Sally  Ann,  born  March  20,  1817. 

570.  Maria,  born  April  21,  1819. 

John  (357),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

571.  Samuel,  born  July  i,  1815. 

572.  Ann  Eliza  H.,  bom  November  10,  1817,  married  William 

Allason,  now  deceased. 

573.  Harriet,  born  October  26,  1820,  married  Joseph  S.  Myers. 

She  deceased. 

574.  Benjamin,  bom  August  25,  1825,  married  Ann  D.  Ostran- 

der,  had  five  children.     He  deceased. 

575.  John  William,  born  May  15,  1830,  married  Eliza  McBride. 

He  deceased. 

576.  Charles  B.,  born  June  29,  1836,  married  Emma  E.  Pleslin, 

September  8,  1859.     He  deceased. 

Benjamin  Waldron  (358),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

577.  Cornelius  Marquand,  born  September  1834,  died  1836. 

James  Horne  (359),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

578.  Samuel  Martin,  born  February   15,   1823,  married  Lavinia 

Jane  Small,  June  12,  1853.     He  deceased. 

579.  Cornelia  Ann,  born  October  31,  1824,  died,  unmarried,  May 

16,  1850. 

580.  Guysbert  Bogert  Vroom,  born  October  2}^^   1826,  married 

Eliza  A.  Cope,  December  28,  1864,  had  five  children. 

581.  Hannah  Matilda,  bom  August  7,  1828,  married  Edward  A. 

Jessup.  February  11,  1854,  had  two  children. 

582.  James  Watts,  born  August  21,   1830,  married  first,  Mary 

Jane  Alden,  September  24,   1855,  ^'^^  second.  Celestine 
Maria  Grant,  December  2-^,  1859,  had  six  children. 

583.  Peter  Vroom,  born  July  27,  1832,  single. 

584.  Lucretia  Maria,  bom  March  2,  1839,  married  first,  John  C. 

Fuller,  and  second,  C.  C.  Olney,  September  i,  1859. 

Isaac  (362),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

585.  Sarah,  born  October  12,  1797,  baptized  March  18,  1798. 


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524  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

William  B.  (371),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

586.  Sarah,  deceased. 

587.  Susan,  who  married  Joseph  Fink,  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

588.  Mary,  deceased. 

589.  Wilbur  S. 

John  (373),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

590.  Mary  Elizabeth,  bom  September  19,  1842,  married  James 

Thompson,  June  19,  i860. 

591.  William  Gardiner,  bom  November  25,  1844,  married  Caro- 

line A.  Citti,  October  29,  1871,  have  one  child. 

592.  Emma  Frances,  bom  December  16,  1846,  married  Edward 

A.  W.  Smith,  July  6,  1864. 

593.  Edward  W.  C,  bom  December  24,  1848,  single. 

594.  John  Mortimer,  born  January  8,  1851,  died  in  infancy. 

595.  Frederick  Miledge,  who  married  first,  Helen  L.  Thierbock, 

January  14,  1882.     He  married  a  second  wife  in  1898. 
No  issue. 

Jacob  (383),  (son  op  Evert),  had  issue: 

596.  Charles,  who  died  young. 

597.  Mary,  who  married  Mr. Myers,  had  one  child. 

598.  Susan,  who  married  Jabez  H.  Davis,  no  issue. 

599.  Jehiel,  bom  June  28,  183 1,  married  Amelia  A.  Kipp,  March 

20,  1855,  had  one  child. 

Peter  (398),  (son  of  Claude),  had  issue: 

600.  Jacob  H.,  bom   1825,  married  Mary  Jannete  Rote,  April, 

1859,  had  one  child. 

601.  Lewis,  who  resides  in  Columbia  County,  N.  Y. 

602.  Richard. 

603.  Elizabeth. 

Tunis  Osterhout  (412),  (son  of  Cloudy  (Claude), 
HAD  issue: 

604.  Henry,  who  married  Cornelia  Moul,  and  resided  in  Colum- 

bia County,  N.  Y. 

605.  Albert,  who  married  Albertine  Sagendorph,  and  resided  in 

Columbia  County,  N.  Y. 

Jonas  Rossmore  (413),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

606.  Ezra  Doane. 

James  Barnes  (422),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

607.  Jacob,  bom  April  27,  1827,  baptized  January  19,  1833. 

608.  Abraham,  bom  March  27,  1829,  baptized  January  19,  1833. 


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609.  Joseph  Nelson,  born  February  20,   183 1,  baptized  January 

I9»  1833. 

610.  Isaac  Leister,  born  March  30,  1833,  baptized  July  6,  1833. 

611.  Andrew,  bom  March  31,  1835. 

612.  Harry,  born  August  9,  1844,  baptized  July  2,  1854. 

613.  Josephine,  bom  September  16,  1846,  baptized  July  2,  1854. 

W11.UAM  (426),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

614.  Margaret,  bom  about  1828,  married  James  Miller,  July  17, 

1878,  had  one  child. 

615.  Jane,  born  about  1830,  married  Roger  Bresba,  August  2J, 

1873,  had  two  children. 

616.  Caroline,  born  about  1832,  married  Frank  Boone,  January 

4,  1864,  had  three  children. 

617.  Elizabeth,  bom  about    1834,   married   Archibald   McGuire, 

April  3,  1858,  had  five  children. 

618.  John,  born  about  1836,  married  Mary  C.  Nutting,  October 

II,  i860,  had  four  children. 

Smith  (431),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

619.  Julius  S.,  born  April  14,  1827,  married  Amanda  Sweet,  May 

5,  1857,  had  two  children. 

620.  Betsy  C,  born  June  15,  1828,  married  Barney  Philips,  Jan- 

uary I,  1853,  had  four  children. 

621.  William  H.,  born  June  25,  1829,  married  Ruth  Berry,  Janu- 

ary 28,  1850,  had  two  children. 

622.  Horace  N.,  bom  May  26,   183 1,  married  Mary  Brewster, 

March  28,  1859,  had  three  children. 

623.  Joseph  F.,  bom  October  25,  1832,  married  Maria  Mayo,  had 

two  children. 

624.  Maria  J.,  bom  April  11,  1834,  married  first,  Horace  Bellows, 

December  25,  1852,  had  one  child.  He  died  March  21, 
1853,  and  she  married  second,  John  L.  Lang,  having  six 
children  by  this  marriage. 

625.  Sarah  M.,  born  November  6,  1836,  married  Romeo  Emer- 

son, July  3,  1855,  had  fourteen  children. 

626.  Amanda  E.,  born  October  3,  1839,  married  James  Warren, 

March,  1862. 
^627.  James  M.,  bom  Febmary  17,  1841,  married  Emma  Shaw, 
had  six  children. 

628.  Charles  E.,  born  October  28,  1843. 

629.  Lucius  B.,  bom  January  24,  1845,  married  Frances  E.  Gor- 

dell,  had  two  children. 

630.  Mary  J.,  born  September  20,  1847. 


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Smith  (431)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

631.  George,  born  January  8,  1850,  at  Dickenson,  N.  Y.,  married 

Cornelia  Davis,  January  i,  1870,  had  six  children.  • 

632.  Lecta  A.,  bom  December  20,  1852,  married  first,  David  Cook, 

November  15,  1871,  and  second,  William  Quackenbush. 

633.  Emily  L.,  bom  June  3,  1854,  married  Alfred  Drew,  June, 

1872,  had  three  children.     She  deceased. 

634.  John  L.,  bom  March  10,  1857,  married  Delvina  Clark,  De- 

cember 18,  1873,  had  three  children. 

John  (432),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

635.  Matilda,  born  October  10,  1804,  married  first,  Charles  Buell, 

June  25,  1826,  and  second,  Edwin  Merrill,  May  14,  1829, 
had  one  child,  and  died  in  1832. 

636.  Harriet,  born  February  3,  1806,  married  Silas  B.  SafFord, 

had  ten  children. 
^37.  Harr}',  bom  March  1808,  died  in  infancy. 

638.  Caroline,  born  May  23,  1809,  married  Elisha  Adams,  Jan- 

uary 12,  1831,  at  SulHvan,  N.  Y.,  had  one  child. 

639.  Anson  H.,  born  April    13,   181 1,  married  first,  Ann  Alida 

Adams,  January  11,  183 1,  and  second,  Lydia  Ann  Par- 
mentier,  November  16,  1842.  Settled  at  Columbus,  Michi- 
gan. Was  County  Surveyor  in  1836,  and  in  State  Legis- 
lature about  1844. 

640.  DeWitt  C,  bom  March  7,  1813,  married  Jane  Hitt,  had  one 

child.  Settled  at  Columbia,  Michigan,  and  died  Novem- 
ber, 1840. 

641.  Sarah,  born  October  27,  181 4. 

642.  Mary  Etta,  born  June  15,  1817,  married  Marshall  B.  Hart, 

had  three  children. 

643.  John,  born  March  29,  1820,  married  Phebe  O.  Buell,  March 

29,  1843,  ^lad  nine  children.  Settled  at  Brooklyn,  Jack- 
son County,  Michigan. 

644.  Louisa,  born  June  25,  1826,  married  Luther  H.  Buell,  Sep- 

tember 4,  1850,  had  two  children.    She  of  New  York  City. 

Stephen  (433),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

645.  Lizzie. 

646.  Isaac,  born  1810,  married  Jane  Carter,  March,  1844  or  1845, 

had  four  children,  and  died  February  25,  1887. 

647.  Hannah. 

648.  Sally. 

649.  Stephen. 

650.  Nathan. 

Nathan  (434),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 
-651.  Maria,  born  May  8,  1808,  married  Morris  Harrison,  July, 
1832,  had  three  children. 


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652.  James  M.,  born  May  13,  181 1,  married  Mary  Coats,  August 

3,  1832,  had  one  child,  and  died  in  1878. 

653.  Chandler  B.,  bom  February   14,   1814,  at  Pompey,  N.  Y. 

Was  in  brokerage  business  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  where  he 
died  in  1856. 

Abraham  (435),  (son  of  Isaac),  h^vd  issue: 

654.  Nathan,  born  December  i,  1808,  at  Avon,  N.  Y.,  married 

first,  Ursula  Ruby  Rathbone,  January,  1842,  had  one 
child.  He  married  second,  Sjtrah  A.  Miner,  February  11, 
1849,  had  three  children,  and  died  at  Sheridan,  Michigan. 

655.  Emeline,  bom  April  9,  18 10,  married  Josiah  R.  Sloat,  Octo- 

ber I,  1835,  had  one  child,  and  died  March  15,  1837. 

656.  Chandler,  born  April  22,  1812,  died  February  24,  1813. 

657.  Lorenzo  D.,  bom  August  2,  1816,  married  Hannah  Kellogg, 

March  9,  1837,  had  two  children,  and  died  August  18, 
1852. 

658.  Bradley  M.,  bom  May  17,  1819,*  married  Clarissa  J.  Denton, 

June  16,  1842,  had  two  children. 

659.  Maria  Jane,  bom  June  14,  1821,  died  May  18,  1828. 

660.  Benjamin  C..  bom  August  6,  1823,  married  Mary  L.  Hall, 

August  16,  1865,  had  one  child. 

661.  Samuel,  born  April  11,  1825,  died  May  18,  1828. 

662.  Susan   A.   H.,   bom   April   28,    1827,   married   Bradley   F. 

Granger,  October  18,  1848,  had  five  children. 

663.  Helen  S.,  born  April  28,  1830. 

Isaac  (436),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

664.  Edward,  born  August  26,  1812,  married  Mary  Hungerford, 

September  i,  1835,  had  two  children. 

665.  Sophia  No.  i,  born  March,  1815,  died  July  i,  1818. 

666.  Washington,  born  April  7,  1817,  at  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  mar- 

ried first,  Esther  Randall,  March  19,  1845,  ^^^  ^^^  chil- 
dren. He  married  second,  Lucy  Loomis,  had  two  chil- 
dren. 

667.  Maria,  bom  March  29,  1820,  married  Hiram  Tuthill,  Jan- 

uary 7,  1839,  hsid  three  children,  and  died  December  20, 
1849. 

668.  Sophia  No.  2,  bom  May  5,  1822,  married  Lewis  F.  Pickett, 

December  30,  1841,  had  three  children,  and  died  June  7, 

1847. 

669.  Charles,  bom  June  24,  1825,  married  Clara  Lester,  October 

5,  1859,  had  two  children. 

670.  Jackson,  bom  September  11,  1827,  married  Elizabeth  Hol- 

lister,  April  21,  1863,  had  six  children. 

671.  Constant  C,  bom  August  11,  1830,  married  first,  Frances 


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528  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Needham,  December  25,  1868,  and  second,  Mary  Pickett, 

1875. 

672.  William  Wallace,  born  June  22,  1832,  married  Magdalena 

Dubois,  April  6,  1856,  had  four  children. 

673.  Isaac  Newell,  bom  October  i,  1836,  married  Mary  A.  Barry, 

had  one  child. 

Anson  (437),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

674.  Mary  Jane,  born  August  21,  1818,  married  S.  T.  Marsh,  Jr., 

September  17,  1835,  had  two  children. 

675.  Harriet  Louisa,  bom  December  20,  1819,  died  January  11, 

1820. 

676.  Nancy  W.,  bom  June  6,  1824,  married  John  G.  Clark,  Octo- 

ber 6,  1842,  and  died  October,  1843. 

677.  Anson  White,  bom  October  12,  1827,  married  Mary  C.  Pow- 

ers, March  4,  1845,  had  one  child. 

678.  Hannah  Helen,  born  June  7,  1830,  married  John  G.  Clark, 

March  4,  1845,  ^^^  o"^  child. 

John  (439),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

679.  Mehitable,  born  July  31,   181 1,  marriecl  Dr.  James  Davis, 

January  27,  1828,  and  died  May  29,  1836. 

680.  Elizabeth,  bom  February  27,  1813. 

681.  Jacob  (Dr.),  born  June  25,  1815,  married  Sophia  Beckwith, 

January  i,  1838,  had  three  children. 

682.  Gertrude  C.  H.,  born  August  26,  1817,  married  Ellis  Worth- 

ington,  October  27,  1844,  and  died  February  15,  1866. 

683.  John  Angell,  born  July  19,  1819,  died  October  31,  1875. 

684.  Mary  W.,  bom  March  10,  1824,  died  June  3,  185 1. 

685.  Eliza  Sill,  born  February,  1825,  married  Dr.  Rodney  Mat- 

thews, February  14,  1844,  and  died  October  5,  1847. 

686.  Martha,  born  March  31,  1826,  married  Dr.  Bumham,  No- 

vember 3,  1852. 

Edward  (440),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

687.  Maria  Ann,  bom  August  30,  1814,  died  March  18,  1859. 

688.  Jacob,  born  September  6,  18 16,  died  1861. 

689.  Cornelia,  bom  December  12,  181 7,  died  1829. 

690.  Addison,  bom  October  12,  1820. 

691.  Adalina,  bom  October  12,  1820. 

692.  Helen,  bom  September  18,  1826. 

Benjamin  (446),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

693.  Sarah,  who  married  John  W.  Bundy,  and  settled  at  Indian- 

ola,  Warren  County,  Illinois. 

694.  Betsv  Amanda,  who  married  Rufel  P.  King.     Resided   in 

1880,  at  Carthage,  Hancock  County,  Illinois. 


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John  (447),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

695.  Harmon,  bom  August  14,  1831. 

John  (447)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

696.  Benjamin,  bom  July  i,  1853. 

697.  Kate,  bom  September  29,  1855. 

698.  (Son),  bom  1857,  died  in  infancy. 

699.  (Daughter),  bom  1859,  died  in  infancy. 

Jacob  (453),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

700.  Joseph  Benjamin,  born  December  28, 1846,  died  July  28, 1847. 

701.  John  Smith,  born  July  5,  1848,  died  August  i,  1848. 

702.  Albert  F.,  born  September  29,  1849. 

Jacob  (453)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

703.  Alton  Washington,  bom  May  5,  1858. 

704.  Marvin  Levilla,  bom  July  29,  i860. 

Lafayette  (458),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

705.  Martha  Jane,  born  January  15,  1830,  of  Albany  County,  N. 

Y.,  was  unmarried  in  1881,  and  died  1901. 

706.  Maria  Lewis,  bom  April  3,  1832,  married  Ferris  Tripp,  June 

15,  1852,  had  seven  children.     She  of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

707.  James,  bom  September  14,  1834,  married  Mary  Ellen  Coley, 

had  two  children,  and  died  in  1877,  at  Albany,  N.  Y. 

708.  John  Adams,  born  July  22,  1837,  married  Angelica  Wheeler, 

May  20,   18^2,  had  three  children.     Resided  in  Albanv 
County,  N.  Y. 

709.  Stephen  Truesdall,  bom  January  20,   1840,  married  Mary 

(Ellen)  Ann  Lee,  September  22,  1864,  had  four  children. 
He  deceased. 

Frederick  (470),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

710.  Marcus  F.,  born  October  14,  1834,  died  single. 

711.  Henry,  born  September  16,  1836,  died  March  8,  1837. 

712.  William  Henry,  bom  September  16,  1839,  ^^^^  single. 

Stephen  G.  (472),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

713.  Peter,  bom  January  26.  1843,  died  single,  November  24, 1863. 

714.  Ann  Augusta,  bom  June  18,  1845,  died  May  2,  1847. 

715.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  bom  November  i,  1846,  died  June  18,  1858. 

716.  Eliza  M.,  born  April  8,   1849,  married  David  Humphrey, 

December  8,  1875.  had  four  children.     Lived  on  a  farm 
at  Duanesburgh,  N.  Y. 

717.  Horace  B.,  born  April  30,  1851,  died  single,  July  9,  1879. 


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718.  Emily,  born  June  29,  1852,  married  Joseph  Mitchell,  Sep- 

tember 4,  1881,  had  three  children.  Settled  at  Tamaqua, 
Pa.,  and  died  January  18,  1886. 

719.  Marietta,  born  January  22,  1856,  unmarried. 

720.  Laura,  bom  March  20,  1858,  unmarried. 

721.  Helen,  born  June  2y,  i860,  married  John  H.  Veeder,  Octo- 

ber 10,  1900.     No  issue: 

722.  Stephen,  born  August  8,  1862,  died  in  1862. 

723.  Mary,  born  December  16,  1864,  married  John  P.  Bender, 

June  22,  1889,  had  two  children. 

Ira  M.  (474),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

724.  John  M.,  born  May  3,  1843,  married  Mary  Elizabeth  Os- 

trander,  June  21,  1861,  had  seven  children.  Settled  in 
Schenectady  County,  N.  Y.  Enlisted  in  Company  J, 
13th  Regiment  N.  Y.  Volunteers  Heavy  Artillery,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1863,  and  was  mustered  out  of  United  States 
service,  June  28,  1865.     He  deceased. 

725.  Elizabeth,  born  March  25,  1845,  ^^^^  J^^X  24,  1845. 

726.  Nicholas  B.,  born  February  21,  1847,  married  Ella  J.  Link, 

November  3,  1870,  had  one  child.     He  was  a  practising 
physician,  and  settled  in  Chicago,  111. 
J2y,  Helen  Shuler,  bom  February  17,  1849,  married  Benjamin 
Finch,  March  13,  1867,  had  four  children. 

728.  Eliza  Maria,  born  June  2,  1851,  died  June  21,  1851. 

729.  Almira,  bom  June  28,  1857,  died  November  8,  1857. 

730.  Libius,  bom  June  28,  1857,  died  November  8,  1857. 

Marcus  R.  (476),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

731.  Ira,  bom  February  18,  1848,  died  single,  August  28,  1866. 

732.  Austin,  bom  May  25,  1850,  married  Emily  Stoddard,  De- 

cember 13,   1877,  had  two  children. 

733.  Maria  Antoinette,  born  March  i,  1853,  married  Abram  N. 

Brink,  October  21,  1873,  had  three  children.  Settled  at 
Mariaville,  N.  Y. 

734.  Frederick,  born  October  20,   1855,  married  Elizabeth  Van 

Valkenburgh,  July  3,  1877,  had  one  child. 

735.  James  L.,  born  September  16,  1859,  married,  and  had  one 

child. 

736.  William  H.   (Dr.),  born  September  24,  1862,  married  De- 

cember 5,  1888. 

Henry  (482),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

737.  Lucius,  bom  October  22,  1820,  married  first,  Harriet  Con- 

rad, October  15,  1845,  had  three  children.  He  married 
second,  Lusetta  Snyder,  September  11,  1876,  no  issue. 
He  deceased. 


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DELAMATER    FAMILY.  531 

738.  Titus,  born  February  22,  1822,  married  Hannah  M.  Reeves, 

December  24,  1850,  had  two  children.     He  deceased. 

739.  Zebulon,  born  July  22,  1824,  married  Mary  Lounsbury,  Oc- 

tober 25,   1848,  had  four  children.     He  deceased. 

740.  Elizabeth,    bom    June    17,    1827,    married    George    Lewis 

Rogers,  June  21,  1852,  had  two  children.     She  deceased. 

741.  Mary,  born  May  12,  1829,  married  Willett  Lounsbury,  Oc- 

tober 10,  1849,  ^2id  six  children. 

742.  Henry,  born  March  24,   1831,  married  Elizabeth  Mackey. 

743.  Sarah,  born  March  4,  1833,  married  John  W.  Tanner,  De- 

cember 25,  1850,  had  two  children. 

744.  Isaac,  bom  February    18,    1835,  married  Isadora  Winans, 

September  10,  1873,  had  one  child. 

745.  Susan,  born  August  16,  1837,  married  Aaron  Scott,  but  died 

without  issue. 

Ebenezer  (487),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

746.  Ann  Eliza,  bom  1828,  married  Abner  Palmer,  no  issue. 

747.  John,  settled  at  Medway,  Greene  County,  N.  Y.,  had  two 

children.     He  deceased. 

748.  Harriet,  who  married  Mr. Cochran,  and  settled  at  Med- 

way, Greene  County,  N.  Y.     She  deceased. 

749.  William  H. 

William  (489),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

750.  William  Wallace,  bom  November  13,  1836,  married  Anna 

Bevier  Steflfield,  December  16,  1868,  had  one  child. 

751.  Lucius  Matthews,  born  December  16,  1838,  married  Mar- 

garet Gray,  December  24,   1861,  had  two  children. 

752.  Josephine,  bom  December  31,  1841,  married  John  Sturgis, 

April  23,  1861,  had  five  children,  and  died  January  11, 
1880. 

753.  Antoinette,  born  August  9,  1844,  married  Piatt  M.  Snyder, 

1867,  had  two  children. 

754.  Ellen  Eliza,  born  May  10,  1846,  married  Albert  N.  Smith, 

October  11,  1865,  had  one  child. 

755.  Eunice  Rebecca,  born  June  i,  1848,  married  Rev.  Edward  F. 

Barlow,  September  18,  1868. 

Uriah  (493),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

756.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  March  4,  1842,  died  June  2,  1849. 

757.  Horace  L.,  bom  July  6,  1850,  married  Emma  Norton,  March 

27,  1872,  had  one  child.     Settled  at  Westerlo,  N.  Y. 

George  (494),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

758.  Estelle,  who  married  Mr.  Peck. 

759.  Oscar,  who  is  a  farmer  in  Greene  County,  N.  Y. 


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Thomas  (498),  (son  of  Benjamin  Valatik),  had  issue: 

760.  George  Benjamin,  born  January   14,   1821,  married  Susan 

Cowle  Toun,  March  24,  1847,  had  four  children. 

761.  Melisa  Amelia,  born  January  16,  1823,  married  James  Madi- 

son Miller,  June  6,  1839,  had  nine  children. 

762.  Charles  Day,  bom  September  30,  1824,  married  Julia  Hatch, 

November  19,  1846,  had  two  children. 

763.  Lafayette,  born  July  i,  1827,  married  Sarah  Pealman,  had 

,    four  children. 

764.  Thomas  Henry  (Rev.),  born  March  3,  1829,  married  Anna 

(Ann)  Peasley,  September  4,  1856,  had  five  children. 

765.  John,    bom    September    18,    1832,    married    Fannie   Lyon, 

March  5,  1854,  had  one  child,  and  died  June  16,  1867. 

766.  Almon,  born  March  21,  1842,  married  Sylvia  C.  Sanford, 

January  24,  1866,  had  three  children. 

Abel  (503),  (son  of  Benjamin  Valatie),  had  issue: 

767.  Benjamin  F.,  bom  December  21,    1834,  died   October  16, 

1844. 

768.  Leonard,  bom  October  i,  1836,  married  M.  E.  Smith,  No- 

vember 8,  1855,  had  six  children. 

769.  Reuben  S.,  born  June  29,  1838,  married  Amelia  C.  Custiss, 

September  10,  i860,  and  died  July  2,  1862. 

770.  Mary  M.,  born  December  25,  1839,  married  W.  W.  Cutshall, 

November  14,  1858,  and  died  September  22,  1874. 

771.  Thomas,  bom  February  19,  1842,  died  May  11,  1842. 

772.  Martha  A.,  born  November  i,  1846,  died,  unmarried,  No- 

vember 9,   1862. 

773.  William  M.,  bom  July  19,  1854,  died  September  26,  1858. 

Reuben  C.  (506),  (son  of  Abraham  Vai^atie),  had  issue: 

774.  Stephen,  bom  about  1837. 

775.  S.  M.  K.,  bom  about  1839. 

Reuben  C.  (506),  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

776.  Mary  Ann. 

777.  George  C,  who  married  Elizabeth  Fox,  1861. 

William  Harrison   (515),   (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

778.  William  Burrough. 

Perry  Decatur  (517),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

779.  Abraham. 

780.  Sarah  Elizabeth. 


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Belden  (518),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

781.  Belden. 

782.  Caroline  . 

783.  James. 

James  Van  Ness  (521),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

784.  Bayard  Edwin. 

Benjamin  Edwin  (522),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

785.  Frederick  who  resided  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 

786.  Maria  Rose,  who  resided  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 

Abraham  Howard  (536),  (son  of  Benjamin  S.),  had  issue: 

787.  Adelaide  M.,  bom  September  18,  1840,  married  John  Wells 

Hammond,  March  10,   1864,  had  four  children. 

788.  Helen,  bom  May  12,  1844,  married  Harvey  Beers,  had  two 

children. 

789.  Effie,  bom  April  i,  1854,  deceased. 

790.  Reid  A.,  bom  September  21,   1856,  married  Maria  Jones, 

had  two  children. 

Peter  (540),  (son  of  William  B.),  had  issue: 

791.  Charlotte,  born  September  25,   1835,  married  Charles  At- 

wood,  August  24,  1859,  ^^^  ^^^  children. 

792.  Maria,  bom  August  5,  1837,  died  unmarried  May  26,  1858. 

793.  William  B.,  born  June  22,  1840,  married  Emma  C.  Baker, 

September  2,  1867,  had  two  children,  and  died  in  1897. 

794.  Isaac  A.,  bom  February  20,  1842,  married  first,  Harriet  Col- 

ton,  May  10,  1861,  and  second,  Millie  Shelley,  October, 
1871,  had  one  child,  and  died  in  1885. 

795.  Sarah,  born  June  20,  1844,  married  D.  N.  Shull,  April  4, 

1868,  but  died  without  issue. 

796.  Olive,  bom  June  13,  1846,  died  August  8,  185 1. 

797.  Clarissa,  bom  April  21,  1848,  died  March  6,  1855. 

798.  Louis  (Rev.), born  August  16,  1850,  married  Mary  E.  Baker, 

June  4,  1879,  had  four  children. 

799.  Delia,  bom  March  21,  1852,  married  A.  O.  Baker,  January 

9,  1872,  had  two  children,  and  died  in  1887. 

Radcliff  (546),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

800.  Edward  B.,  bom  November  27,  1837,  married  Julia  Myers, 

March  27,  1861,  had  four  children. 

801.  Charles  K.,  bom  August   12,   1839,  married  first,  Lavinia 

Keator,    1866,   had   two   children,   and   second,   Melinda 
Terwilliger,  had  two  children. 

802.  Julia  J.,  born  June  9,  1841,  married  George  E.  Seamon,  Oc- 

tober 27,  1861,  had  five  children. 


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534  HISTORY   OF   HARLEM. 

803.  William  P.,  born  November  13,  1843,  ^^^^  single,  January 

28,  1863. 

804.  Elting,   born    May    10,    1846,   married    Mary   Ann   Roosa, 

August  16,  1872,  had  three  children. 

805.  Radcliffe,  born  June  14,  1850,  married  Louisa  J.  Hildreth, 

January  6,  1875,  had  three  children. 

806.  Antoinette,  born  May  4,  1853,  unmarried. 

807.  Abraham,  born  1859,  died  in  infancy. 

William  Pkter  (547)*  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

808.  Clarissa,  born  April  28,  185 1,  married  Isaac  Carman,  Aug- 

ust 28,  1874,  had  six  children. 

809.  Josephine,   bom   February   20,    1852,   married   Charles   W. 

Maxwell,  October  15,  1874. 

810.  Abram  J.,  born  January  8,  1854,  married  Elizabeth  Ward, 

November  27,  1884. 

811.  George  Wallace,  born  June  15,  1856,  died  i860. 

8x2.  Gertrude,  bom  November  4,  1858,  married  Chester  De  Puy, 
November  10,  1886. 

813.  Charles  Wallace,  born  June  18,  i860,  died  1862. 

814.  Mary  V..  born  September  25,  1865,  married  Luther  Schoon- 

maker,  April  15,  1900. 

815.  Flora,  bom  November  6,   1867,  married  Frank  Allington, 

August  14,  1894. 


Alva  James  (557),  (son  of  James  Brink),  had  issue: 

816.  Tames  Brink,  born  November  18,  1887. 

817.  Theodore  Alva,  bom  August  4,  1900. 


Jacob  (562),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

818.  Peter,   bom   August    13,    1833,    married   first,    Sophia    H. 

Thompson,  November  16,  1854,  had  one  child.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Mary  J.  Styles,  September  11,  1895.  Re- 
sided in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 

John  (563),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

819.  Israel  Van  Keuren,  born  November  i,  1835,  ^^^^  single. 

820.  Eliphaz,  born  March  21,  1842,  married  Anna  M.  Andrews, 

October  25,  1882,  had  six  children. 

Peter  (564),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

821.  William. 

822.  Henry,  died  single. 

823.  Orrin,  married,  but  died  without  issue.  Lived  in  Connecticut. 

824.  Lewis,  died  single.     Was  a  policeman  in  New  York. 

825.  Mamie,  of  New  York. 


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DELAMATER   FAMILY.  535 

Abraham  (568),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

826.  Nelson,  who  married  Eliza  Ann  Slei,^ht,  had  four  children. 

Resided  in  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y. 

827.  Dorcas,  who  married  Christopher  Sleight,  had  one  child. 

Resided  in  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y. 

Benjamin  (574),  (son  op  John),  had  issue: 

828.  Mary  Emma,  who  resided  in  Missouri,  married  James  Beat- 

tie,  had  six  children. 

829.  John  Howard,  of  New  York. 

830.  Ida,  who  married  John  Gardner,  had  one  child.      She  of 

Bayonne,  N.  J. 

831.  Dubois,  who  married  Jennie  Cornell,  had  two  children.     He 

resided  in  New  York. 

832.  Charles  Henry  (D.  D.  S.),  who  married  Josephine  M.  Deane. 

Resided  in  New  York. 

GUYSBERT  BOGERT  VrOOM    (580),   (SON  OF  JaMES  HoRNE), 

HAD  issue: 

833.  Schuyler  C,  born  September  24,  1865,  single. 

834.  Cathleen  M.,  born  1867,  died  in  infancy. 

835.  Gertrude  A.,  bom  May  30,  1868,  married  J.  B.  T.  Tuthill, 

had  three  children. 

836.  Jessie  N.,  born  June  18,  1870,  married  Joseph  G.  Enright. 

837.  Grace  E.,  bom  June  2,  1873,  married  William  H.  William- 

son, had  one  child. 

James  Watts  (582),  (son  of  James  Horne),  had  issue: 

838.  Lucretia  Eliza,  born  October  31,  i860,  married  John  Ives, 

April  12,  1866. 

839.  Mary  Comelia,  bom  April   16,   1862,  married  John  C.  A. 

Pickett,  September  11,  1879. 

840.  Evelyn  Catalina,  born  July  26,   1864,  married  William  F. 

Vallandyham,  September  11,  1884,  had  one  child. 

841.  Guysbert  Watts,  bom  July  20,  1866. 

842.  Schuyler  Beekman,  born  July  26,  1868. 

843.  Erskine  Grant,  bom  November  14,  1874. 

William  Gardiner  (591),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

844.  Maria  Alexina,  bom  December  8,  1875,  died  in  infancy. 

Jehiel  (599),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

845.  Comelia,  bom  April  i,  1862,  married  Frederick  A.  Ryer, 

had  one  child. 


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536  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Jacob  H.  (600),  (son  of  Petter),  had  issue: 

846.  Frederick,  bom  1861,  married  Hattie  A.  Root,  1884.     Re- 

sided in  Humphreysville. 

John  (618),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

847.  Henrietta,  bom  June  4,  1861. 

848.  David  J.,  bom  April  11,  1863. 

849.  William  Rubens,  born  March  22,  1866. 

850.  Mary,  born  May  17,  1868. 

Julius  S.  (619),  (son  of  Smith),  had  issue: 

851.  Eldredge. 

852.  Anna. 

William  H.  (621),  (son  of  Smith),  had  issue: 

853.  Henry  Sabine,  bom  November  5,  1850,  married  Mary  Wat- 

son, November  4,  1874,  had  one  child. 

854.  Louise  Celesta,  born  May  3,   1853,  married  James  Riley, 

July  II,  1870,  had  four  children. 

Horace  N.  (622),  (son  of  Smith),  had  issue: 

855.  Albert  W.,  bom  April  17,  i860. 

856.  Alfred,  born  September  16,  1866. 

857.  Alonzo,  born  August  31,  1869. 

Joseph  F.  (623),  (son  of  Smith),  had  issue: 

858.  Fidelia,  born  March  3,  1864,  died  May  i,  1877. 

859.  Florence,  bom  March  13,  1864. 

James  M.  (627),  (son  of  Smith),  had  issue: 

860.  Etta. 

861.  Minnie. 

862.  Charles. 

863.  Elvina. 

864.  Bertie. 

865.  ?. 

Lucius  B.  (629),  (son  of  Smith),  had  issue: 

866.  Edwin  James. 

867.  Telia  Adella. 

George  (631),  (son  of  Smith),  had  issue: 

868.  Florence,  born  September  5,  1872,  married  Thomas  Tewks- 

bury,  had  two  children. 

869.  Charles,  born  December  12,1874,  married  Orpha  Moody,  had 

two  children. 


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DELAMATER   FAMILY.  537 

870.  Sarah,  born  April  26,  1877,  deceased. 

871.  Maud,  bom  July  15,  1879,  married  Edgar  Hoyt.     She  de- 

ceased. 

872.  Mamie,  bom  June  18,  1882,  deceased. 

873.  George,  born  February  19,  1884. 

John  L.  (634),  (son  of  Smith),  had  issue: 

874.  Emma,  born  October  15,  1874,  died  April,  1883. 

875.  Maggie,  bom  February  4,  1875,  married  Comelius  Clark, 

had  two  children. 

876.  Bert,  bom  April  9,  1878,  married  Lulu  Trim,  had  one  child. 

John  (643),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

877.  DeWitt  Clinton,  bom  January  i,  1844,  married  Kate  Hewitt, 

January  i,  1866,  had  one  child. 

878.  John  Luther,  born  October  4,  1845,  married  Sarah  E.  San- 

ford,  September  14,  1868,  had  two  children.    He  deceased. 

879.  Cynthia  Louisa,  bom  September  20,  1847,  married  Bradley 

M.  Delamater,  Jr.,  had  two  children.     She  deceased. 

880.  Sarah  Odelia,  born  July  25,  1850,  married  John  C.  Covert, 

September  16,  1873,  had  three  children. 

881.  Lillie  D.,  bom  September  29,  1853,  married  James  H.  Dres- 

ser, September  6,  1883,  had  two  children. 

882.  Zoe  Alida,  born  September  29,  1856,  married  Bradley  M. 

Delamater,  Jr.,  April  2,  1897. 

883.  Myra  Eugenia,  bom  1859,  married  J.  W.  Palmer,  November 

9,  1 88 1,  had  one  child. 

884.  Julia  Phebe,  born  June  10,  1862,  died  1863. 

885.  Mary  Jane,  bom  November  9,  1865,  unmarried  (1902). 

Isaac  (646),  (son  of  Stephen),  had  issue: 

886.  Calista,  born  January  10,  1846. 

887.  Webster,  bom  September  6,  1848. 

888.  Endell,  bom  June  25,  1850. 

889.  Elmer  Ellsworth,  born  April  14,  1861. 

James  M.  (652),  (son  of  Nathan),  had  issue: 

890.  Sarah,  bom  August  23,  1837. 

Nathan  (654),  (son  oe  Abraham),  had  issue: 

891.  Helen   Ursula,   born    September    19,    1842,   married   Milan 

Fowler,  had  two  children. 

Nathan  (654)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

892.  Ruby  Maria,  born  January  18,  1850. 

893.  John,  born  September  3,  1851,  died  August  11,  1852. 

894.  Rosett,  bom  June  13,  1853. 


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538  HISTORY  OF   HARLEM. 

Lorenzo  D.  (657),  (son  op  Abraham),  had  issue: 

895.  Merrick  L.,  who  married  Eliza  Wade,  August  i,  i860,  had 

two  children. 

896.  Henlen   E.,   who   married   Warren   R.   Vincent,   had  three 

children. 

Bradley  M.  (658),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

897.  Thomas,  who  died  young. 

898.  Bradley  M..  Jr.,  born  October  24,  1847,  married  first,  Cyn- 

thia Louise  De  Lamater,  had  two  children.     He  married 
second,  Zoe  Alida  De  Lamater,  June  2,  1897. 

Benjamin  C.  (660),  (son  ok  Abraham),  had  issue: 

899.  Charles  Fremont,  born  December  15,   1856,  at  Fox  River 

Township,  Davis  County,  Iowa. 

Edward  (664),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

900.  Henry  Columbus,  born  April  19,  1838,  married  Laura  Smith. 

901.  Jane  E.,  born  February  7,  1846. 

Washington  (666),  (son  op  Isaac),  had  issue: 

902.  Bellona,  bom  October  17,  1846,  married  Joseph  S.  Choat, 

June  4,  1864,  had  four  children. 

903.  Julia,  bom  August  24,  1848,  died  in  infancy. 

Washington  (666)  had  issue  by  second  wiEe: 

904.  John,  born  September  12,  1850,  died  June  30,  1874. 

905.  William  (Dr.),  bom  February  2,  1852. 

Charles  (669),  (son  or  Isaac),  had  issue: 

906.  Maria  E.,  born  June  11,  1866. 

907.  George  L.,  born  June  29,  1874.. 

Jackson   (670),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

908.  Newell,  born  May  14,  1864. 

909.  Frank,  born  September  21,  1865. 

910.  George,  born  May  6.  1868,  died  September  8,  1870. 

911.  Florence  E.,  born  July  2^,  1870. 

912.  Edith  May,  born  October  2,  1871. 

913.  George  Albert,  born  November   14,   1876. 

William  Wallace  (672),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

914.  Henry,  bom  January  9,  1861,  at  Columbia,  Michigan. 

915.  Homer,  bom  March  3,  1868,  at  Columbia,  Michigan. 

916.  Willis,  born  April  22,  1872,  at  Columbia,  Michigan. 

917.  Freddy,  bom  September  14,  1874,  at  Columbia,  Michigan. 


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DELAMATER   FAMILY.  539 

Isaac  Newei*l  (673),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

918.  Diadema,  bom  August  2,  1879. 

Anson  White  (677),  (son  of  Anson),  had  issue: 

919.  James  Willard,  bom  November  16,  1848. 

Dr.  Jacob  (681),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

920.  Annie,  born  May  2,  1842,  died  April  29,  1849. 

921.  Georgie,  bom  April  12,  1848,  married  G.  A.  Hamlin,  Feb- 

ruary 12,  1873. 

922.  George,  born  September  25,  1854,  married  Ida  A.  Gilbert, 

September  26,  1882,  had  one  child. 

James  (707),  (son  of  Lafayette),  had  issue: 

923.  George  Wright,  bom  February  7,  1859,  had  one  child.     He 

deceased. 

924.  Grace  Maria,  born  March  30,  1862,  died  October  27,  1864. 

John  Adams  (708),  (son  of  Lafayette),  had  issue: 

925.  John  Wheeler,  bdrn  March  27^  1863,  died  in  infancy. 

926.  Anna  Wheeler,  born  April  25,  1865,  died  January  17,  1868. 

927.  John  A.,   Jr.,   born   September   30,    1867,   married    Minnie 

Muckudge. 

Stephen  Truesdall  (709),  (son  of  Lafayette), 
HAD  issue: 

928.  Grace,  born  January  9,  1865,  married Ward. 

929.  Sarah   Fayette,  born   November  3,    1867,   married  Charles 

Pratt,  had  three  children. 

930.  Ezra  Lee,  bom  February  13,  1870,  died  November  5,  1870. 

931.  Stephen  Truesdall,  Jr.,  born  February  25,   1877. 

John  M.  (727),  (son  of  Ira  M.),  had  issue: 

932.  Ira  M.,  bom  December  10,  1863,  died  December  20,  1863. 

933.  Walter  James,  born  January  2,  1866. 

934.  Ada  Belle,  born  July  22,  1868. 

935.  Edith  L.,  born  July  22,  1868. 

936.  Mattie  F.,  bom  September  8,  1870. 

937.  Horace  William,  born  May  26,  1872. 

938.  Earl  Mott,  born  March  23,  1878. 

Austin  {7Z2),  (son  of  Marcus  R.),  had  issue: 

939.  Edna,  born  October  2,  1878. 

940.  Frank,  born  November  15,  1880. 

Frederick  (734),  (son  of  Marcus  R.),  had  issue: 

941.  Melvin  Van  Valkenburgh,  bom  December   15,   1878,   died 

April  18,  1879. 


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540  HISTORY  OF   HARLEM. 

Lucius  {7i7),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

942.  Mary   Helen,   born   September   21,    1846,   married  George 

Mackey,  February  28,  1869,  had  two  children. 

943.  Charles  H.,  bom  November  22,  1847,  married  Dora  GiflFord, 

September  20,  1870,  no  issue. 

944.  Frank  L.,  born  December  18,  1851,  married  Josephine  In- 

galls,  July  16,  1873,  had  one  child. 

Titus  (738),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

945.  Julia,  bom  August  9,  1853,  married  Lewis  Litchfield,  had 

two  children. 

946.  William,  born  March   18,   1859,  married  Nettie  A.  Cleve- 

land, had  two  children. 

iZebulon  (739),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

947.  Ira  E.,  bom  September  10,  1853,  married  Mary  C.  Bouton, 

December  24,  1874,  had  one  child. 

948.  Oscar  Z.,  born  November  13,  1855,  married  Anna  Brouk, 

April  4,  1876,  had  two  children. 

949.  Wilson  T.,  born  October  i,  1862. 

950.  Cora  C,  born  July  30,  1865. 

Isaac  (744),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

951.  Roscoe  Winans,  bom  January  9,  1879. 

William  Wallace  (750),  (son  of  William),  h.\d  issue: 

952.  Edward  Sellew,  born  August  30,   1875. 

Lucius  Matthews  (751),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

953.  Anna,  born  September  2,  1863,  married  Emory  G.  Tomp- 

kins, had  one  child. 

954.  Emeline,  bom  April  20,  1874,  died  April  14,  1875. 

Horace  L.  (757),  (son  of  Uriah),  had  issue: 

955.  Bertie,  born  June  26,  1878. 

George  Benjamin  (760),  (son  of  Thomas),  had  issue: 

956.  George  Wallace,  born  March  31,   1849,  married  Mary  E. 

McFarland,  November  23,  187 1,  had  two  children. 

957.  Thomas   Albert,   born   December   7,    1850,   married    Sarah 

Elizabeth  Richmond,  June  i,  1871,  had  two  children. 

958.  Susan    Adelaide,    born    March    27,    1859,    married    Lewis 

Walker,  October  4,  1877,  had  three  children. 

959.  Victor  Morris,  born  November   i,   i860,  married  Frances 

Josephine  Forkes,  September  25,  1884,  had  two  children. 


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DELAMATER   FAMILY.  54i 

Charles  Day  (762),  (son  of  Thomas),  had  issue: 

960.  Mary  Esther,  bom  August  26,  1849,  married  George  Brice. 

961.  Walter  Henry,  bom  .May  29,  1852,  married  twice,  had  one 

child. 

Lafayette  (763),  (son  of  Thomas),  had  issue: 

962.  Flora  Eva,   born   February   22,    1853,   married  Judson   C. 

Sayer,  July  2,  1871. 

963.  Ella  Sarah,  bom  July  21,  1854,  married  Laveme  Devilier 

Aiken,  October  9,  1876. 

964.  Albert  Laverene,  born  October  4,  1856,  married  Sarah  Em- 

ma Bentley. 

965.  Alice  Martha,  bom  October  4,  1856,  married  William  Gus- 

tavus  Bentley,  March  15,  1878. 

Rev.  Thomas  Henry  (764),  (son  of  Thomas),  had  issue: 

966.  Melva  Maria,  born  March  17,  1858. 

967.  Emma  Florence,  bom  December  13,  1859. 

968.  Almon  Herman,  born  December  31,  1862,  died  August  3, 

1864. 

969.  Martha  May,  born  June  15,  1868,  died  October  5,  1869. 

970.  Henry  Bruce,  bom  March  22,  1876. 

John  (765),  (son  of  Thomas),  had  issue: 

971.  Susan    Frances,    born    December   22,    1857,    married    John 

Thomas  Hill,  October  17,  1879,  had  one  child. 

Almon  (766),  (son  of  Thomas),  had  issue: 

972.  Grace  Laura,  born  November  29,  1872. 
^3.  Sylvia  Maude,  born  September  21,  1875. 

974.  Leonie,  born  June  16,  1881. 

Leonard  (768),  (son  of  Abel),  had  issue: 

975.  William  M.,  born  December  13,  1857. 

976.  Horace  L.,  born  December  30,  1859. 

977.  Jennie  M.,  born  May  16,  1862,  married  Albert  L.  Bowman, 

August  14,  1880. 

978.  Amelia,  born  July  21,  1864. 

^9.  Franklin  W.,  born  October  10,  1870. 

980.  Sarah  A.,  born  January  14,  1874. 

Reid  a.  (790),  (son  of  Abraham  Howard),  had  issue: 

981.  Harry  A.,  resided  at  Addison,  N.  Y. 

982.  Florence  A.,  resided  at  Addison,  N.  Y. 


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542  HISTORY  OF   HARLEM. 

WiLUAM  B.  (793),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

983.  Harry  B.,  born  August  29,  1872. 

984.  Fred  M.,  born  February  3,  1874. 

Isaac  A.  (794),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

985.  Louie  J.,  bom  July  29,  1872. 

Rev.  Louis  (798),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

986.  Eric,  born  February  18,  1880. 

987.  Elsie,  bom  April  11,  1883. 

988.  Donald  L.,  born  May  4,  1885. 

989.  Luella  M.,  bom  March  8,  1889. 

Edward  B.    (800),  (son  of  Radcuff),  had  issue: 

990.  Luella  E.  L.,  bom  February   10,   1862,  died  Februar>'  17, 

1866. 

991.  John  W.,  born  May  3,  1863.  married  Emma  J.  Smith,  No- 

vember 7,  1883,  had  three  children. 

992.  Cora   B.,  born   April   20,    1870,   married   Walter   Howard, 

August  24,  1894,  had  one  child. 

993.  Frederick  R.,  bom  August  4,  1874,  married  Clara  Johnson, 

April  15,  1896,  have  one  child. 

Charles  K.  (801),  (son  of  Radcuff),  had  issue: 

994.  Carrie,  bom  June  16,  1867,  married  Freeman  Straight,  Jan- 

uary I,  1900,  no  issue. 

995.  Irving,  born  August,  1870. 

Elting  (804),  (son  of  Radcuff),  had  issue: 

996.  James  C,  bom  September  29,  1873,  died  young. 

997.  William,  born  June  10,  1875,  married  Ethel  Oakley,  Feb- 

ruary 28,  1900,  no  issue. 

998.  Elting  R.,  born  June  23,  1870. 

Radcuffe  (805),  (son  of  R^vdcuff),  had  issue: 
999.  Hildreth,  born  November  28,  1875,  died  young. 
1000.  Claude  Fay,  bom  October  7,  1877. 
looi.  Ethel,  born  January  20,  1879,  d*^^  young. 

Peter  (818),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

1002.  Mary  F.,  bom  December  23,  1855,  died  unmarried,  May 

II,  1873. 

EuPHAz  (820),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

1003.  Emmett,  resided  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y., -deceased. 

1004.  John  Oscar,  single,  resided  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 


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icx)5.  Harold  Waldo,  resided  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 

1006.  Mildred,  resided  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 

1007.  Wilfred  Schuyler,  resided  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 

1008.  Cornelia,  resided  in  Dutchess  County,  N.  Y. 

Nelson  (826),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1009.  Stephen,  of  Cayuga  County,  N.  Y. 

loio.  Phebe,   who   married   John   W.    Bibbins,   and   resided   at 

Brutus,  N.  Y. 
ion.  Fanny,  resided  at  Brutus,  N.  Y.,  married  Frank  Jacobs. 

1012.  Royal,  died  in  1892. 

Henry  Sabine  (853).  (son  of  William  H.),  had  issue: 

1013.  Willard,  bom  August  15,  1876. 

Charles  (869),  (son  of  George),  had  issue: 

1014.  Edgar. 

1015.  Hazel. 

DeWitt  Clinton  (877),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

1016.  Bell,  born  July  20,  1868,  at  Paw  Paw,  Michigan,  married 

David  Kay,  1896,  had  two  children. 

John  Luther  (878),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

1017.  Zella  L.,  born  August  17,   1870,  at  Brooklyn,  Michigan, 

married  Fred  Adams,  had  one  child. 

1018.  Anson,  bom  June  13,  1874,  at  Columbia,  Michigan,  married 

Flora  Miller,  and  had  one  child. 

Merrick  L.  (895),  (son  of  Lorenzo  D.),  had  issue: 

1019.  Minnie  Helen,  born  January  10,  1867. 

1020.  Nellie  Josephine,  bom  August  24,  1869,  died  August  15, 

1876. 

Bradley  M.,  Jr.  (898),  (son  of  Bradley  M.),  had  issue: 

1021.  Allie,  bom  November  27,  1873,  married  E.  R.  Nash,  June 

7,  1899. 

1022.  Edna  Louise,  bom  January  13,  1877,  died  January  5,  1882. 

George  (922),  (son  of  Dr.  Jacob),  had  issue: 

1023.  Foster  Beckwith  Gilbert,  bom  July  9,  1885,  ^^^d  February 

23,  1886. 

Frank  L.  (944),  (son  of  Lucius),  had  issue: 

1024.  Hattie  C,  bom  October  7,  1876,  married  Burton  C.  Dinius, 

October  14,  1897,  no  issue. 


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William  (946),  (son  of  Titus),  had  issue: 

1025.  Leroy,  bom  July  22,  1880,  married  Sarah  Winne. 

1026.  Grace,  born  June  22,  1888,  resided  in  Greene  County,  N.  Y. 

Ira  E.  (947),  (son  of  Zebulon),  had  issue: 

1027.  Lottie,  bom  Febmary  12,  1877. 

Oscar  Z.  (948),  (son  of  Zebulon),  had  issue: 

1028.  Isabella,  bom  March  23,  1877. 

1029.  Frederick,  bom  June,  1879. 

George  Wallace  (956),  (son  of  George  Benjamin), 
had  issue: 

1030.  Susie  Louisa,  born  April  17,  1873,  married  Shirley  P.  Aus- 

tin, February  15,  1897,  ^^ave  one  child. 

103 1.  James  Scott,  bom  June  15,  1877,  married  Jennie  Hutton, 

April  12,  1900,  no  issue. 

Thomas  Albert  (957),  (son  of  George  Benjamin), 
had  issue: 

1032.  Grace  Adelaide,   bom   October  29,    1874,   married   Willis 

McDowell,  June  4,  1899,  had  one  child. 

1033.  George  Richmond,  born  October  14,  1880. 

Victor  Morris  (959),  (son  of  George  Benjamin), 
HAD  issue: 

1034.  Adelaide,  born  May  10,  1889. 

1035.  Mary  Forkes,  born  October  8,  1894. 

John  W.  (991),  (son  of  Edward  B.),  had  issue: 

1036.  Ada  S.,  bom  September  25,  1884,  died  October  22,  1896. 

1037.  Harold  E.,  born   October   10,    1890,  resides  in  Dutchess 

County,  N.  Y. 

1038.  Helen  O.,  bom  April  16,  1896,  resides  in  Dutchess  County, 

N.  Y. 

Frederick  R.  (993),  (son  of  Edward  B.),  had  issue: 

1039.  Edward  Radcliff,  born  December  13,  1897. 

Anson  (1018),  (son  of  John  Luther),  had  issue: 

1040.  Anneke,  born  April  5,  1898. 


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DYCKMAN. 

Jan  Dyckman, — Deekman,  as  then  pronounced, — the  ances- 
tor of  the  Dyckmans  of  Kingsbridge  and  vicinity,  and  ultimately 
one  of  the  wealthiest  of  the  patentees,  came,  as  already  stated, 
from  Bentheim,  in  Westphalia,*  probably  in  company  with  his 
early  and  life-long  friends,  Adolph  Meyer  and  Arent  Bussing, 

•  Johannes  Dvckman,  father  of  Cornclis,  ancestor  of  the  Bloomingdale  family, 
was  the  son  of  Joris  Dyckman  and  Aeltie  Root,  of  Amsterdam,  and  not  related,  so 
far  as  appears,  to  Jan  Dyckman,  of  Kingsbridge.  He  had  been  "first  clerk"  to  the 
West  India  Company,  came  out  in  i6§i,  and  served  as  clerk  and  commissary  at  Fort 
Orange  of  Albany,  but  in  1655  was  laid  aside  by  insanity.  He  died  in  1672,  leaving 
by  his  wife,  Maria  Bosyns,  who  survived  him,  two  sons,  said  Cornelis,  born  1647, 
and  Johannes,  born  1662.  The  last  married  Jannetie,  daughter  of  Cornelis  Viele,  of 
Schenectady,  and  by  her  received  land  at  the  All  Plaats,  on  which  they  had  lived  but  two 
years,  when  the  French  and  Indian  massacre  of  1690  happened.  Dyckman  and  family 
made  their  escape  to  Albany,  and  went  to  Dutchess  County,  but  in  17 15  removed  to 
the  Manor  of  Livingston,  where  he  enjoyed  some  prominence  and  left  posterity.  He 
had  a  son,  Johannes,  born   1690,  and  one  daughter. 

Cornelis  Dyckman,  some  of  whose  descendants  write  the  name  Dikeman,  married 
Jannetie,  daughter  of  Dirck  Claessen,  potter  (see  p.  214),  and  settled  in  Albany  County 
at  Canistigione  (Niskayuna),  buying  lands,  which  he  occupied  five  years  or  more, 
but  abandoned  in  1690,  on  the  French  and  Indian  invasion,  finding  a  temporary  home 
in  Bergen  County,  New  Jersey,  but  removing  thence  to  Harlem,  where  he  lived  in 
1694,  and  was  made  constable  in  1698.  He  was  still  here  on  September  5,  1701, 
when  he  and  wife  sold  80  acres  of  their  Niskayuna  lands  to  Evert  Van  Ness.  Cor- 
nelis finally  buying  a  farm  at  Bloomingdale,  there  died,  leaving  children  Johannes, 
Derick,  George,  Cornelius,  Nicholas,  Wyntie,  married  Johannes  Kortright;  Cornelia, 
married  Jacob  Harsen;  Gcertie,  married  Derick  V'^andcr  Haan,  and  Elizabeth,  married 
John  Sprong.  By  his  will,  made  November  i,  171 1,  when  he  was  "sick  and  weak," 
Cornelis  left  his  farm  to  his  sons  George  and  Cornelius,  who  were  to  remunerate 
the  other  children.  But  "the  executors  not  sworn,  and  no  administration  granted," 
we  infer  that  Derick  and  Nicholas  bought  it,  as  they  owned  parts  of  this  farm,  subse- 
quently, of  about  equal  size  and  extending  together  from  70th  to  78th  street,  on 
North  River,  and  from  68th  to  77th  on  7th  avenue.  Johannes,  the  eldest  son,  bom 
in  Albany,  leased  a  farm  at  Bloomingdale  December  29,  1701,  for  six  years,  from 
Jurien  Rynchout,  and  the  next  year  married  Rachel,  daughter  of  Frederick  De  Voe, 
b^  whom  he  had  Elizabeth,  born  1703;  Janneke,  1705;  Cornelius,  1707;  Hester,  1709; 
Frederick,  171 1;  the  last  two  baptised  at  Hackensack,  whither  Johannes  seems  to 
have  gone  when  his  lease  expired.  Derick  learned  the  art  of  weaving  from  Hendrick 
Brevoort.  He  married,  17 u.  Wilhelmina  Bass,  from  Newtown.  His  will,  dated 
February  i6,  1730,  was  proved  October  12,  1762.  He  left  his  farm  at  Bloomingdale 
to  his  widow  and  children.  The  latter  were:  Cornelius,  born  1713;  Anna,  17 16; 
Cornelia,  1718;  Johannes,  1720;  Derick,  172^;  Aaron,  1726,  and  George,  1729.  His 
daughter  Anna  married  Jacobus  Myer,  and  daughter  Cornelia  married,  1745,  Teunis 
Somerindyke.  Nicholas,  born  in  Bergen,  1692,  married,  1716,  Anneke,  daughter  of 
John  Scvenhoven,  who  by  her  father^s  will  received  half  of  the  Fabricius  farm  on 
the  East  River  side,  and  which  she  and  Nicholas  sold  in  175 1.  Dyckman's  homestead, 
at  Bloomingdale  embraced  94  acres,  which  ran  up  to  73rd  street  at  7th  avenue,  and 
a  little  higher  on  the  river.  Pursuant  to  his  will,  dated  May  29,  1752,  it  was  sold 
March  i,  1763,  by  his  executors,  John  Harsen  and  Garret  Cozine,  to  Jacob  Harsen, 
who,  two  days  later,  reconveyed  the  northern  half  to  said  John  Harsen  (nephew  of 
Dyckman,  and  also  married  to  his  daughter  Rachel),  and  the  southern  half  to  said 
Cozine,  whose  wife  was  Jannetie  Dyckman.  The  southern  half,  with  east  jwrtion  of 
the  northern,   formed  the  well-known  Harsen  estate. 

George  Dyckman  married,  May  17,  17 12,  Catalinav  daughter  of  Teunis  Idens 
Van  Huysc,  of  Bloomingdale,  and  went  to  Bergen  County,  but  returned  to  occupy  115 
acres  conveyed  to  him,  June  23,  1720,  by  his  father-in-law,  from  off  his  farm.  (See 
Van  Huyse.)  In  1729  he  bought  an  adjoining  section  of  the  farm  from  his 
brother-in-law,  Abraham  Montanye,  with  20  acres  in  the  rear,  lying  within  the  Har- 
lem line;  also  Montanye's  erf,  at  Harlem.  In  1748  he  sold  the  erf  and  20  acres  to 
Adolph  Benson  and  Jacob  Dyckman,  Jr.  Jacob  sold  his  10  acres  to  Mrs.  Mc- 
Gown,  being  the  place  in  which  she  lived  at  McCiown's  Pass.  (See  Benson  family.) 
George  Dyckman  owned  a  part  of  the  old  Tourneur  Meadows  on  the  little  Mill 
Creek,  "two  acres,  more  or  less,"  gotten,  we  presume,  with  Montanye's  land,  and 
bought  by  Montanye  when  the  adjacent  Tourneur  farm,  to  which  it  had  belonged, 
was  sold  to  the  Kortri^hts.  Dyckman  sold  these  meadows,  October  19,  1734,  to 
Nicholas  Kortright,  married  to  his  niece,  whence  they  passed  to  Abraham  Myer,  June 
12,  1740,  and  from  Myer  to  Peter  Bussing,  April  16,  1753.  Dyckman  died  January 
16,  1753.  He  had  issue,  Jannetie,  born  1714;  Teuntie,  born  1716;  Cornelius,  born 
1 7 18;  Maria,  1720:  Teunis- Eidesse,  1722;  Georije,  1725,  and  John,  1728.  John  Dike- 
man,  last  named,  first  a  baker  in  New  York,  with  wife  Rebecca  (who  was  a  daughter 


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jointly  with  whom  he  first  became  a  landholder,  March  13,  1666, 
by  the  purchase  of  Simon  De  Ruine's  farm.  But  with  little  means 
of  their  own,  the  borrowed  purchase  money,  2,000  guilders,  was 
apparently  too  heavy  a  burden  to  carry,  for  the  associates,  on 
April  7,  ensuing,  turned  over  their  bargain  to  Captain  Delavall. 
Dyckman  united  with  the  church  at  New  York,  on  February  26, 
1673,  together  with  Bussing  and  others,  his  young  acquaintances, 
of  both  sexes,  to  one  of  whom,  Madelaine,  daughter  of  Daniel 
Tourneur,  Dyckman  was  married  during  the  next  summer.  Ob- 
taining by  her  a  farming  lot  upon  Montanye's  Flat,  and  two  of 
the  out-gardens  on  which  to  build  and  begin  domestic  life,  Dyck- 
man bought  of  Meyer,  November  2,  following,  "a  certain  hook 
of  marsh  land,"  on  the  north  end  of  lot  4,  Van  Keulen's  Hook. 
We  have  taken  notice,  page  344,  of  his  grant  and  purchase  at 
Spu>ten  Duyvel  in  1677,  in  connection  with  Jan  Nagel.  The  lat- 
ter died  in  1689,  ^"^  ^^^  ^^^^  year,  May  19,  1690,  Dyckman,  then 
living  at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  married  his  widow,  Rebecca,  who  was 
a  daughter  of  Resolved  Waldron.  By  this  means  the  union  of 
the  Dyckman  and  Nagel  estates  was  maintained.  They  drew 
jointly  of  the  common  land  in  1691,  but  in  17 12,  the  Nagel  heirs 
being  of  age,  the  drafts  were  made  in  separate  lots,  in  the  names 
of  Jan  Dyckman  and  Jan  Nagel  respectively. 

The  land  drawn  in  1691  lay  in  two  places;  one  parcel,  No. 
14,  of  20  morgen,  being  on  Jochem  Pieters*  Hills  (see  Appendix 
J),  and  the  other.  No.  24,  drawn  mainly  on  their  joint  rights  at 
Spuyten  Duyvel,  embracing  all  the  common  land  north  of  Sher- 
man's Creek,  as  shown  by  the  annexed  extract  from  the  deed 
(groundbrief),  having  the  written  consent  of  the  freeholders, 
and  signed  by  the  town  officers,  March  21,  1701. 

No.  24. 

There  is  set  off  for  Jan  Dyckman  and  Jan  Nagel,  on  account  of  26 
morgen  and  2  erven,*  a  piece  of  land  upon  the  end  of  York  Island,  north 
of  the  Round  Meadow  and  the  Half  Creek,  commonly  called  Pieter 
Tuynier's  Fall,  till  to  the  little  Sand  Bay  lying  at  the  North  River ;  all 
the  common  land  north  of  this  above  written  boundary;  also  a  suitable 
King's  Way  shall  remain  over  the  said  land. 

The  quantity  of  land  strictly  due  upon  the  given  erf  and 
morgen  rights  was  49  acres,  but  the  grant  was  estimated  at  149. 
The  additional  100  acres,  with  16  more  on  Jochem  Pieters'  Hills 
(known  as  Lot  17,  Last  Division},  all  woodland,  were  gotten 
by  agreement  between  Dyckman  and  the  town,  in  exchange  for 

of  John  Buys),  sold  their  city  property  in  1759  and  returned  to  Bloomingdale.  He  was 
alderman  of  the  Out  Ward.  1769  to  i773.  and  died  some  years  after  the  Revolution, 
leaving  children  Teunis-Eidesse,  Matthew,  John,  Catherine  and  Rebecca.  Catherine 
married,  in  1780,  Peter  Grim,  Jr.  These  divided  the  paternal  lands  in  1793.  Of 
this  family  and  branch,  we  believe,  was  Judge  John  Dikeman,  of  Brooklyn. 

*  These  erf  and  morgen  rights  had  been  adjusted  as  early  as  1686.  How  they 
were  made  up  is  shown  in  a  note  in  Appendix  J. 


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cleared  land  on  Jochem  Pieters'  Flat  (29  acres),  which  had 
belonged  to  Nagel,  but  was  now  wanted  in  order  to  make  up 
the  quantity  claimed  by  the  heirs  of  Captain  Delavall,  in  that 
tract.  In  this  exchange  Dyckman  got  four  acres  of  woodland  for 
one  of  tillable  land,  being  the  relative  value  of  the  two  at  that 
date.     See  this  matter  further  explained  in  Appendix  E. 

The  deed  of  necessity  included  the  lands  covered  by  the  old 
Jansen  and  Aertsen  patent,  and  known  latterly  as  the  Dyckman 
Homestead.  Dyckman  and  the  Nagels  also  bought  in  company 
three  lots,  Nos.  11,  12,  13,  adjoining  their  lot  14,  on  Jochem 
Pieters'  Hills.  Thus  in  171 5,  when  Dyckman  died,  his  estate  and 
Nagel's  together  were  rated  at  300  acres ;  which  was  exclusive  of 
the  said  lots  1 1  to  14,  being  90  acres,  then  held  in  his  own  name  by 
Dyckman's  son  Gerrit,  and  also  of  the  three  Nagel  lots  on  Jochem 
Pieters*  Flat,  except  11  acres,  also  of  the  Dyckman  lot  on  Mon- 
tanye's  Flat,  which  had  passed  to  Zacharias  Sickels,  and  the  Nagel 
drafts  in  the  four  divisions  which  had  been  disposed  of  to  Abra- 
ham Myer  and  Johannes  Waldron. 

Jan  Dyckman's  death,  in  17 15,  was  followed  after  four  years 
by  that  of  his  widow. 

The  Dyckman  and  Nagel  children,  under  the  marriage  articles 
between  Dyckman  and  Mrs.  Nagel,  dated  May  12,  1690,  and  their 
joint  will  of  November  2,  1702,  were  to  share  equally  of  the 
patrimonial  estates.  Before  Dyckman  died  his  eldest  son,  Gerrit, 
as  already  seen,  had  come  to  possess  the  90  acres,  or  lots  11  to 
14,  on  Jochem  Pieters'  Hills;  and  other  of  the  separated  parcels 
had  been  disposed  of.  But  the  ample  domain  above  Sherman's 
Creek,  and  Dyckman's  drafts  in  the  four  divisions,  remained 
intact  and  undivided  till  November  10,  1719,  when  the  heirs  of 
both  names  made  a  settlement.  Gerrit  Dyckman  took  30  acres 
more  of  his  father's  estate,  embracing  his  lots  in  ist  and  4th 
Divisions,  and  half  of  No.  17  Last  Division,  being  eight  acres  near 
Kiersen.  Jacob  Dyckman  and  John  Nagel,  Jr.,  on  the  date  afore- 
said, bought  the  interests  of  their  co-heirs  respectively  in  the 
remaining  lands,  which  gave  Dyckman  120  acres  and  Nagel  151 
acres ;  the  latter  taking  the  Dyckman  lots  in  2d  and  3d  Divisions. 
Each  had  an  equal  quantity  above  Sherman's  Creek,  to  wit,  112 
acres,  and  these  lands,  excepting  the  homesteads,  were  held  in 
joint  tenancy  for  another  ten  years.  Their  possessions  were  made 
up  thus: 

NAGEL:     Half  the  5  lots  of  1677 38  a.  o  q.  or. 

Half  No.  24  of  1691 24"  2"  o" 

Half    100   acres 50"  o"  o" 

2d  Div.,  No.  17 19  "  o  "  39  " 

3d  Div.,  No.  10 8"  3"  II" 

On  Jochem  Pieters  Flat 11  "  o  "  o  " 

151  a.    2  q.     10  r. 


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548  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

DYCKMAN:     Half  the  5  lots  of  1677 38  a.  o  q.  or. 

Half  No.  24  of  1691 24  "  2  **  o  •• 

Half  100  acres 50"  o"  o  ** 

Half  No.  17,  Last  Division 8  "  o  "  o  " 

120  a.    2  q.     o  r. 

Jan  Dyckman  (i)  married  first,  Madeline  Toumeur,  June 
15,  1673,  had  six  children.  He  married  second,  Rebecca  Nagel 
(nee  Waldron),  May  19,  1690,  had  two  children,  and  died  1715. 
His  second  wife  was  the  widow  of  Jan  Nagel  and  daughter  of 
Resolved  Waldron. 

He  had  issue  by  first  wife : 

2.  Daniel,  baptized  December  3,  1673,  died  young. 

3.  Maria,  baptized  April  26,  1676,  married  first,  Captain  James 

Hewett,  September  17,  1695,  had  one  child.     She  married 
second,  Peter  Ulregh,  June  22,  1713. 

4.  Gerrit,  baptized  March  6,  1678,  had  two  children,  and  died 

1729. 

5.  Magdalena,  baptized  March  2J,  1680,  married  John  Nagel,  Jr., 

January  2,  1708,  had  seven  children. 

6.  John,  baptized  May  6,  1682,  married  Deborah  Nagel,  March  2, 

1702,  had  one  child. 

7.  Grietie,  baptized  January  11,  1685. 

Jan  Dyckman  (i)  had  issue  by  his  skcond  wife,  viz.  : 

8.  Jacob,  born  May  18,  1692,  married  Jannetie  Kiersen,  June  6. 

17 16,  had  seven  children. 

9.  Rebecca,  born  1695,  married  Joseph  Hadley,  May  8,  1716. 

Gerrit  (4),  (son  of  Jan  Dyckman),  was  constable  in  1710-11. 
He  died  in  1729,  his  property  being  held  by  his  widow  till  1748, 
when  her  son  Jan  Dykman,  who  dropped  the  c  from  his  name, 
came  in  possession. 

Gerrit  (4)  had  issue: 

10.  Jan,  who  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Abraham  ^leyer,  about 

1728,  had  two  children,  and  died  about  1771. 

11.  Jacob,  who  married  Rebecca  Vermilyea,  had  eleven  children. 

John  (6),  (son  of  Jan  Dyckman)^  had  issue: 

12.  Johannes,  Jr.,  born  June  5,  1702,  married  Eliza  Buys,  April 

2,  1750,  had  one  child,  and  died  April  23,  1782. 

Jacob  Dyckman  (8),  (son  of  Jan),  born  1692,  and  from  whom 
the  late  Isaac,  of  Kingsbridge,  was  descended,  married,  June  6, 
1716,  Jannetie,  born  1693,  daughter  of  Jan  and  Gerritie  Kiersen. 


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He  and  Nagel,  joint  owners  of  all  the  lands  from  Sherman's  Creek 
to  Kingsbridge,  passed  deeds  May  15,  1729,  for  their  homesteads, 
then  computed  at  38  acres  each ;  parted  by  the  creek  at  211th  Street 
(where  on  either  side  near  Harlem  River  stood  their  respective 
dwellings),  and  a  line  running  westerly,  in  the  direction  of  said 
street,  to  12th  Avenue.  The  Dyckman  tract  so  conveyed  was 
limited  south  by  the  Kingsbridge  Road,  which  then  deviated  from 
its  present  course  at  204th  (say  Inwood)  Street,  and  ran  nearly 
straight  to  the  foot  of  208th  Street,  at  Harlem  River;  then  for 
some  distance  northward  followed  the  shore.  On  June  9,  1744, 
Dyckman  and  Nagel  completed  the  division  of  their  lands,  passing 
deeds.  Dyckman  took  the  16  acres  at  the  extreme  end  of  the 
island ;  Nagel  the  next  38  acres,  which  came  down  to  his  homestead 
farm,  also  estimated  at  38  acres,  and  which  Nagel  now  transferred 
to  Dyckman,  though  he  or  his  sons  subsequently  bought  it  back. 
The  highlands  next  the  Hudson,  from  Tubby  Hook  upward, 
which  had  been  set  off  by  a  line  run  from  the  little  Sand  Bay, 
north  59  degrees  east,  to  the  Spuyten  Duyvel  Creek,  and  surveyed 
into  six  lots  singularly  corresponding  in  contents  to  the  parcels 
before  disposed  of  on  Jochem  Pieters'  and  Montanye's  Flats,  were 
also  divided  on  the  above  date. 

Jacob  Dyckman  took  part  with  others,  in  1758,  in  building  a 
free  bridge  over  Harlem  River.  By  a  letter  from  him  to  Sir 
William  Johnson,  the  Indian  Agent  on  the  Mohawk,  dated  March 
22,  1675  (see  Documental  History  New  York,  Vol.  ii,  page  816), 
it  appears  he  gave  attention  to  raising  choice  fruit  trees,  and  farm 
stock  *'of  the  right  old  England  breed."  He  lived  to  a  good  age, 
his  will  being  dated  August  10,  1767,  and  admitted  to  probate 
June  16,  1774. 

Jacob  (8),  (son  of  Jan  Dyckman),  had  issue: 

13.  John,  baptized  November  9,  17 18,  died  young. 

14.  Jacob,  lx)m   March    12,    1720,   married   Catalina    (Tryntje) 

Benson,  about  1742,  had  ten  children,  and  died  1773. 

15.  William,  born  August  23,    1725,   married   Mary  Tourneur, 

1747,  had  nine  children,  and  died  August  10,  1787. 

16.  Magdalena,  who  married  Evert  Bruyn. 

17.  Gerretie  (Charity),  who  married  John  Vermilyea,  about  1736, 

had  seven  children. 

18.  Rebecca,  born  December  10,  1727,  married  Abraham  Odell, 

April   12,   1 761,  had  seven  children,  and  died  April   16, 
1821. 

19.  Margaret,   born   about    1732,   married   Jonathan   Odell,   had 

twelve  children,  and  died  March  20,  1783. 

Jan  (10)  was  constable  in  1734-5,  being  chosen  May  10, 
1744,  with  Jacob  Meyer  and  Benjamin  Benson,  to  sell  certain 


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remnants  of  common  land,  and  in  1753  was  acting  as  an  elder. 
Dyckman  sold  lots  Numbers  20,  21,  First  Division,  to  Lawrence 
Low,  and  bought  instead  Number  19,  First  Division,  from  the  heirs 
of  Johannes  Waldron.  p]ut  now  on  November  13,  1767,  he  sold  to 
John  Watkins  his  farm,  with  its  several  appendages,  including,  on 
the  north  side,  lots  No.  15,  22  acres,  the  Lawrence  Low  homestead, 
which  he  had  lately  purchased  of  John  Low.  John  Dykman  died 
^VQ^  years  before  the  Revolution,  and  on  October  8,  1770,  his  sons- 
in-law,  Benson  and  Aleyer.were  appointed  his  administrators.  His 
residence,  a  substantial  stone  house,  built  by  him  or  his  father,  is 
vet  standing  on  Kingsbridge  road,  west  side,  corner  of  I52d 
Street   (1881). 

Jan  (10),  (son  of  Gerrtt),  had  issue: 

20.  Rebecca,  who  married  Samuel  Benson,  March  3,   1763,  had 

four  children. 

21.  Eve,  who  married  John  Myer,  had  five  children,  and  died 

November  i,  1809. 

Jacob  (ii),  (son  01^  Gerrit),  had  issue: 

22.  Jesyntje,  baptized  October  26,  1737. 

23.  Gerrit,  baptized  June  6,  1741,  served  in  First  Regiment,  West- 

chester County  militia.  New  York. 

24.  Isaac,  baptized  Aj^ril  30,  1743,  served  in  Westchester  County, 

New  York,  militia. 

25.  Rebecka  (Rebecca),  baptized  April  20,  1745. 

26.  Jacob,  born  July  i,  1747,  baptized  July  26,  1747. 
2^.  Marytje,  born  June  19,  1749.  baptized  June  21,  1749. 

28.  Helena,  l)orn  August  19,  175 1,  baptized  October  8,  1751. 

29.  Jan  (John),  born  January  20,  1752,  baptized  April  4.  1753, 

married  Antie  Ecker,  December  3,  1774,  had  one  child. 

30.  Maria,  born  September  2,  1755,  baptized  September  9,  1755. 

31.  Aeltie,  born  November  29,  1757,  baptized  April  25,  1758. 
2i2i'  Petrus,  born  July  22,  I7rx),  baptized  September  13,  1760. 

JoHA^VNES,  Jr.  (12),  (son  of  John),  h^\d  issue: 
34.  John,  born  May  3,  1757,  married  Leah  Acker,  December  9, 
1776,  had  three  children.     Was  ensign  in  the  Revolution- 
ary War.     Died  in  Sugar  Hane  Basin,  New  York  City. 

Jacob  Dyckman,  Jr.  (14),  (son  of  Jacob),  born  March  12, 
1720,  a  person  of  prominence  in  the  town,  married  about  1742. 
Catalina,  daughter  of  Samson  Benson,  and  at  first  lived  near 
his  father  at  Spuyten  Duyvel.  In  1748  he  and  his  brother- 
in-law,  Adolph  Benson,  bought  from  George  Dyckman  20  acres 
of  land  adjoining  the  highway,  in  the  rear  of  the  Benson  Point 
farm,   which   they   divided ;   and   here   Dyckman   kept   a   public 


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house  for  about  ten  years,  till  he  sold  his  place  to  ^Irs.  ]\IcGown 
(see  Benson  family,  and  note,  Dyckman  family),  and  returned  to 
Spuyten  Duyvel.  It  was  here  that  the  Colonial  Assembly  met  in 
1752,  from  October  24  to  November  11 ;  the  Governor  and  Council, 
while  in  attendance  staying  at  the  neighboring  house  of  Benjamin 
Benson,  which  stood  where  is  now  (1881)  the  residence  of  S. 
Benson  McGown,  Esq.  Jacob  Dyckman  obtained  from  his  father 
the  16  acres  lying  next  to  Kingsbridge,  and  from  Nagel,  14  acres 
adjoining,  giving  him  30  acres ;  whereon  he  built  the  tavern  since 
kept  up,  which,  on  account  of  the  free  bridge,  became  popular, 
but  not  a  financial  success  for  Dyckman,  who,  becoming  insolvent, 
made  an  assignment.  His  farm,  then  occupied  by  his  son,  Sam- 
son, was  advertised  and  sold  at  the  Merchants'  Coffee  House, 
September  30,  1772  (deed  given  February  11,  1773),  the  pur- 
chaser being  a  New  York  innkeeper,  Caleb  Hyatt,  whose  son, 
Jacob  Hyatt,  owned  it  after  him.     (See  note,  page  345.) 

Jacob  (14),  (son  01?^  Jacob),  had  issue: 

35.  Sampson   (Samuel),  born  September  12,  1748,  married  Re- 

becca Odell,  August  2^,  1770,  had  two  children,  and  died 
in  1792.     She  was  a  daughter  of  Isaac  Odell. 

36.  Staats  ]\Iorris,  born  1755,  married  Eliza  Corne,  had  two  chil- 

dren, and  died  August  14,  1806. 
2;j.  Benjamin,  who  married  ]Martha  Lent,  had  ^v^  children,  and 
died  about  1833.     He  a  post-rider.     Served  as  first  lieu- 
tenant under  Lewis  ^lorris.    Joined  the  Reformed  Church 
at  Cortlandtown,  N.  Y.,  October  23,  1793. 

40.  Jacobus,  who  married  Margaret  Post,  had  eight  children.     He 

served  in  Third  Regiment,  Westchester  County,  New 
York,  militia.     She  a  daughter  of  Martin  Post. 

41.  John,  who  married  Aletta  Goetchius,  had  two  children. 

42.  Garret,  born  March  3,  1756,  married  Joanna  Odell,  April  23, 

1783,  had  three  children,  and  died  May-  17,  1816.  She 
a  daughter  of  Jonathan  Odell,  born  December  28,  1755, 
died  April   12,  1832. 

43.  William  Nagel,  who  married  Rebecca  Odell,  had  five  children, 

and  died  about  1834. 

44.  Maria,  who  married  John  Clark,  1771,  had  four  children. 

45.  Jane,  who  married  John  Van  Vredenburgh,  December  9,  1777. 

46.  Catalina    (Catherine),   who   married   Daniel   Hale,   had  one 

child,  and  died  March  24,  1829. 

William  Dyckman  (15),  (son  of  Jacob),  and  grandson  of  Jan 
Dyckman.  was  born  August  23,  1725,  and  married  Mary,  daughter 
of  Michael  Tourneur,  1747.  She  was  born  February  4,  1728. 
William  succeeded  to  the  homestead  at  Sherman's  Creek,  occupy- 
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River.  In  the  times  which  tried  men's  souls,  the  patriotic  Dyck- 
man  and  his  family  warmly  espoused  the  cause  of  their  country, 
and  upon  the  invasion  by  the  British  army  left  their  home  for  a 
seven  years*  exile.  The  sons,  very  active  during  the  war  in  aiding 
the  American  operations,  immortalized  themselves  as  the  "West- 
chester Guides."  The  survivors  returned  at  the  peace,  and  their 
dwelling  having  been  burnt  by  the  enemy,  built  another  on  a  new 
site,  where  it  yet  remains  on  Kingsbridge  Road,  west  side,  between 
2o8th  and  209th  Streets,  or  more  properly  a  little  north  of  Haw- 
thorne Street.  Here  William  Dyckman  closed  his  life,  August 
10,  1787,  and  his  widow,  February  14,  1802. 

William  (15)  h.\d  issue: 

47.  Jacobus,  bom  September  18,  1748,  married  Hannah  Brown, 

September  10,  1773,  had  eleven  children,  and  died  August 
20,  1832. 

48.  Mary,  born  June  2,  1752,  married  Jacob  Vermilyea,  June  15, 

1773,  ^2id  nine  children,  and  died  February  23,  1826. 

49.  Abraham,  born  August  25,  1754,  served  in  Second  Regiment, 

Orange  County,  New  York,  militia,  in  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  was  lieutenant  in  the  Line,  New  York,  in 
Revolution.     He  died  single,  March  9,  1782. 

50.  Michael,  born  August  9,   1756,  married  Sarah  Oakley,  had 

two  children,  and  died  January,  1808. 

51.  Jane,  born  June  26,  1759,  died  unmarried,  March  24,  1772. 

52.  William,  born  December  9,  1762,  married  Maria  Smith,  Feb- 

ruary 23,  1786,  had  five  children.  He  served  in  Second 
Regiment,  Orange  County,  New  York,  militia,  in  the 
Revolutionary  War.  Removed  to  Western  New  York, 
and  died  in  Pan  Pan,  N.  Y.,  either  79  or  85  years  of  age. 

53.  John,  born  July  28,  1764,  died  April  15,  1774. 

54.  Jemima,  born  February  25,  1765,  married  Evert  Brown,  had 

ten  children. 

55.  Charity,  bom  May  18,  married  Benjamin  Lent,  had  five  chil- 

dren. 

Jan  (29),  (son  of  Jacod),  had  issue: 

56.  Jacob,  baptized  June  17,  1775. 

John  (34),  (son  of  Johannes,  Jr.),  had  issue: 

57.  Abraham,  bom  January  13,  1777,  married  first,  Latty  Lent, 

had  seven  children.  He  married  second,  Eliza  Dusen- 
berry,  September  30,  1838,  no  issue  by  second  wife,  and 
died  January  2,  1856. 

58.  Jacob. 

59.  Catherine,  born  August   5,    1782,  married   Seneca   Stewart, 

1800,  had  fifteen  children,  and  died  February  5,    1865. 


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He  was  bom  April  2,  1780,  and  died  August,  1861,  at 
Cairo,  N.  Y. 

Sampson  (Samuel)  (35),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

60.  Hannah,  born  May  2,  1780,  married  Richard  Covert,  June  20, 

1 80 1,  had  two  children. 

61.  Catherine,  who  married  Matheas  Valentine. 

Staats  Morris  (36),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

62.  Peter  Come,  born  about  1797,  married  Susan  Matilda  Whet- 

ton,  had  one  child,  and  died  April  20,  1824. 

63.  Letitia  Catelina,  bom  June,  1799,  died  July  29,  1800. 

Benjamin  (37),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

64.  Jacob,  mentioned  in  his  father's  will  dated  1833. 

65.  William,  who  married  Mary  Post,  had  seven  children. 

66.  John,  who  married  Leah  Goetschius,  had  four  children. 

67.  Sampson  Benson,  who  married  Rachel  Goetschius,  had  seven 

children. 

68.  Jane  (Jannetje),  born  February  8,  1783,  died  unmarried. 

Jacobus  (40),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

69.  Martin. 

70.  Sampson. 

71.  Benjamin  (Benson),  married  Maria  Lent. 
J2.  Catherine,  who  married  Pell  C.  Vought. 

73.  Martha  Maria,  who  married  Isaac  ]Mandeville. 

74.  Elmira,  who  married  Louis  Levines. 

75.  Elizabeth,  born  November  26,  1803,  baptized  October  13, 1805. 

76.  Staats  Morris. 

John  (41),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 
jy.  Sampson. 

78.  Rachel  Goetschius. 

Garret  (42),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

79.  William  N.,  baptized  May  7,  1787,  married  Eliza  A.  Honey- 

well, September  25,  1831,  had  two  children. 

80.  Jacob  G.,  who  married  Mary  Eliza  Prestwick,  had  three  chil- 

dren.    He  lived  in  Morristown,  N.  J. 

81.  Catalina  Benson,  born  December  30,  1791. 

William  Nacel  (43),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

82.  Sampson  B.,  born  November  5,  1793,  baptized  April  21,  1794, 

died,  1877. 

83.  Jonathan  Odell,  who  married  Sarah  Ann  ?,  died,  1878. 


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His  will  was  proved  May  6,  1878,  no  children  named  in 
will. 

84.  William  W.,  his  will  w^as  proved  December  11,  1883,  "^  chil- 

dren named  in  will. 

85.  Maria,  will  proved  September  28,  1859. 

86.  Rebecca,  died  in  1859. 

Jacobus  Dyckman  (47),  (son  of  William),  married  Septem- 
ber 10,  1773,  Hannah  Brown,  and  became  chief  owner  of  the 
Kingsbride;e  estate,  to  which  he  added  the  Courtright  farm  (see 
note,  page  265),  and  several  lots  in  Third  Division.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Constitutional  Convention  in  1821,  and  alderman 
in  1822.     He  died  in  his  84th  year,  August  20,  1832. 

Jacobus  (47)  had  issue: 

87.  William,  born  about  1775.  ^^^^  single,  August  31,  1803. 

88.  Frederick,  born  December  4,  1776,  married  Eva  Myers,  had 

three  children,  and  died  October  20,  1809. 

89.  John  No.  I,  born  February  10,  1778,  died  September  9,  1778. 

90.  Michael,  born  September  22,  1797,  died  November  24,  1854. 

91.  Hannah   (Annatje),  born  February  3,   1782,  married  Caleb 

Smith,  January  26,  1804,  had  ten  children. 

92.  Abraham,  born  March  14,   1784,  married  Margaret  Honey- 

well, had  three  children,  and  died  April  26,  1815. 

93.  Maria,  born  December  25,  1786,  died,  unmarried,  January  10, 

1816. 

94.  Jacob,  born  October  11,  1788,  was  a  physician,  and  at  one 

time  Health  Commissioner  of  New  York.  He  died  sin- 
gle, December  8,  1822. 

95.  James,  born  December  10,  1790,  died  single. 

96.  Isaac,  born  November  17,  1794.    He  and  his  brother,  Michael, 

being  the  only  surviving  sons,  took  all  the  real  estate  under 
their  father's  will,  and  of  which,  on  the  death  of  Michael, 
in  1854,  Isaac  became  sole  owner.  The  latter  dying  un- 
married, January  6,  1868,  his  nephew,  James  F.  D.  Smith, 
was  made  principal  heir,  and  took  the  name  of  Isaac 
Michael  Dyckman,  but  since  deceased. 

97.  John  No.  2,  born  March  15,  1799,  died  June  28,  1803. 

MiciiAKL  (50),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

98.  Sarah,  who  married  Samuel  Thompson,  had  three  children. 

99.  Maria,  who  died,  unmarried,  at  the  Dyckman  homestead,  Feb- 

ruary 23,  1863. 

William  (52),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

100.  Maria,  who  married  first,  ?  Danforth,  had  one  child. 

She  married  second,  John  A.  Smith. 


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loi.  William,  born  November  24,  1788,  had  six  children. 

102.  Aaron  Smith,  born  September,  1790,  baptized  September  28, 

1790,  resided  in  Michigan. 

103.  Jane,  born  September  11,  1797,  married  first,  Barney  Hicks, 

had  four  children.  She  married  second,  Ovvin  Church, 
and  had  five  children. 

104.  Evert  Brown,  born  September  25,    1799,  married  Harriet 

Hinckley,  had  six  children.     He   resided   in   the  West. 

Abrah.\m  (57),  (son  of  John),  had  issue  by  his 
FIRST  wife: 

105.  John,  born  May  24,  1801,  deceased. 

106.  Isabel,  born  July  i,  1803,  married  Augustus  T.  Lent,  March 

II,   1823,  had  one  child. 

107.  Jacob,  born  August  20,  1805. 

108.  Emeline,  bom  August  3,  1807. 

109.  William  Henry,  born  October  4,  1809. 

no.  Maria  (Jane  Alaria),  born  December  17,  181 1. 

111.  Abigail,  born  April  5,  1814,  married  Wesley  Haines,  April 

15,  1834. 

112.  David  Waters,  born  January  20,  1818,  married  first,  Harriet 

Dyckman,  June  16,  1838,  had  one  child.  He  married 
second,  Catherine  A.  Tuttle,  November  25,  1857,  had  one 
child. 

Peter  Corne  (62),  (son  of  Staats  Morris),  had  issue: 

113.  Eliza,  who  married  Colonel  John  P.  Cruger. 

William  (65),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

114.  Cathrina,  bom  November  17,  1806,  baptized  April  20,  1807. 

115.  Martin  Post,  born  November  8,  1808,  baptized  January  19, 

1812. 

116.  Sampson  Benson,  bom  Januarv  13,  181 1,  baptized  March  15, 

1812. 

117.  Harriet  Douglas,  born  March  10,   1813,  baptized  June  26, 

1816. 

118.  Patty  Maria,  born  October  20,  181 5. 

119.  States  Morris,  born  February  4,  1821,  baptized  July  5,  1829, 

married  Rebecca  ?,  and  died  1873. 

120.  Jane  Almira,  born  August  4,  1824. 

John  (66),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

121.  Garret  (Garnet),  born  May  30,  1814,  married  Martha  Eliza- 

beth Tucker,  February  11,  1848. 

122.  Martha  Margaret,  born  March  3,  1817. 

123.  Betsy  Mary,  born  March  3,  1817. 


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124.  Peter  B.,  bom  March  27,  1827,  married  Mary  A.  Savag^c, 

March  i,  1847. 

Sampson  Brnson  (67),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

125.  Catalina,  born  November  26,  1808,  baptized  July  30,  1809. 

126.  Jane  Maria,  born  July  20,  181 1,  baptized  January  26,  1812. 

127.  Peter  Goetschius,  bom  July  19,  1814,  baptized  May  11,  1815, 

married  Sarah  P.  ?,  had  one  child.      Will  proved 

March  28,  1874. 

128.  Benjamin  Benson,  born  January  4,  1817,  baptized  February 

II,  1818,  married  Maria* ?,  will  proved  April  25,  1891. 

129.  Susan  Matilda,  born  August  8,  1819,  baptized  April  4,  1821. 

130.  Walter  James,  born  January  6,  1822,  baptized  Augpast  21, 

1822. 

131.  Aletta  Eliza,  born  August  2,  1824,  baptized  June  15,  1825. 

William  N.  (79),  (son  o^  Garret),  had  issue: 

132.  William. 

133.  Susan. 

Jacob  G.  (80),  (son  of  Garret),  had  issue: 

134.  Johanna,  who  married  Peter  Morris,  no  issue. 

135.  Eliza. 

136.  William  Henry,  born  November  28,  1823,  married  Frances 

Naomi  McKenzie,  had  seven  children,  and  died  January 
II,  1901,  at  Orange,  N.  J. 

Frederick  (88),  (son  op  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

137.  Mary,  bom  September  27,  1805,  unmarried. 

138.  Maria,  born  September  20,  1806,  died,  unmarried,  February- 

8,  1878. 

139.  Cornelia,  born  November  7,  1809,  unmarried. 

Abraham  (92),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

140.  Jane  Odell,  who  died,  unmarried,  February  i,  1840. 

141.  John  Honeywell,  bom  May  5,   1813,  died  single,  April  6, 

1879. 

142.  Isaac  Vermilye. 

William  (ioi),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

143.  Jane,  who  married  George  Brown. 

144.  Julian. 

145.  Barney. 

146.  Evert. 

147.  Michel. 

148.  Betsey  Taylor. 


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Evert  Brown  (104),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

149.  Prudence  Hale. 

150.  Elizabeth  Cobb. 

151.  Maria  Portland. 

152.  Harriet  De  Puy. 

153.  Smith. 

154.  Esther  Rick. 

David  Waters  (112),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue 
BY  first  wife: 

155.  Jacob  W.,  born  November  28,  1840,  married  Mary  Williams, 

November  25,  1865,  had  five  children. 

David  Waters  (112)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

156.  Myron  Horton,  born  September  3,  1865,  married  Lena  B. 

Lounsbury,  July  13,  1877,  have  two  children. 

Peter  Goetschius  (127),  (son  of  Sampson  Benson), 
HAD  issue: 

157.  Sarah  Catalina. 

William  Henry  (136),  (son  of  Jacob  G.),  had  issue: 

158.  Mary,  who  married  Alexander  Land,  had  one  child. 

159.  Lizzie,  who  married  Edward  Dickinson,  have  three  children. 

160.  Harry. 

161.  Frank  N.,  born  November  6,  1862,  married  Lou  Heroy,  have 

two  children. 

162.  Helen. 

163.  William. 

164.  Isabel. 

Jacob  W.  (155),  (son  of  David  Waters),  had  issue: 

165.  Lillie. 

166.  Louis. 

167.  Edith. 

168.  Harry. 

169.  Percy. 

Myron  Horton  (156),  (son  of  David  Waters),  had 
issue  : 

170.  Blanche  L.,  born  July  27,  1888. 

171.  Amy  ]\L,  born  October  16,  1896. 

Frank  N.  (161),  (son  of  William  Henry),  had  issue: 

172.  Mary. 

173.  Lang. 


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558  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

HALDRON. 

William  Haldron,  referred  to  on  page  297,  etc.,  first  comes 
to  notice  in  1685,  ^s  the  owner  of  a  house  and  lot  (erf),  by  virtue 
of  which  he  was  numbered  with  the  patentees.  By  a  clerical 
error,  as  we  must  regard  it,  his  name  is  entered  in  the  official 
record  of  the  Dongan  Patent  as  Waldron ;  but  fortunately  con- 
temporary records  remove  all  doubt  of  Haldron's  identity  as  the 
patentee.  Being  a  blacksmith,  he  made  most  of  the  iron-work 
for  the  church  built  in  1686,  but  the  next  year  he  was  unfortun- 
ately drowned  in  the  river,  on  or  about  December  7,  1687,  date 
of  the  coroner's  inquest.  His  widow  survived  him  but  a  short 
time,  for  in  April,  1690,  the  town  court  ordered  **that  the  property 
found  in  the  house  where  William  Haldron's  widow  died,  accord- 
ing to  the  inventory,  and  also  the  smithshop,  shall  be  given  over 
to  the  dcaconry  of  New  Harlem  and  to  Johannes  Vermilye." 

On  June  i,  1693,  Zacharias  Sickels,  a  smith  from  Albany, 
was  put  in  possession  as  tenant  of  the  "house,  with  smithshop  and 
garden"  (smith  tools  included),  by  the  deacons,  who  on  April 
18,  1694,  gave  him  a  formal  lease  for  three  years  from  the  date 
of  occupancy. 

We  find  the  following,  written  in  English,  signed  and  dateil 
April  17,  1696:  "I,  Henry  Haldron,  son  of  William  Haldron, 
deceased,  do  hereby  acquit  and  discharge  the  Overseers  and  Poor- 
masters  of  Harlem,  and  by  these  presents  do  give  them  full  power 
to  sell  and  dispose  of  all  the  goods  and  movables  that  did  belong 
to  my  father,  William  Haldron,  deceased."  It  was  soon  after 
this  that  Jan  Kiersen  bought  the  Haldron  property,  in  which  was 
included  lot  Xo.  17,  on  Jochem  Pieters'  Hills,  set  oflF  to  Haldron's 
erf  right  in  1691. 

WiijjAM  Haldron  (t)  had  issue: 

2.  Henry. 

3.  John,  who  married  Cornelia  Van  Tienhoven  Hoist,  May  18, 

1707,  had  eight  children.  Removed  to  Tappan,  X.  Y., 
about  17 1 3.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Dr.  Lucas  Van 
Tienhoven,  and  widow  of  Andries  Hoist. 

4.  Anna  (Johanna),  who  married  first,  John  Allen,  of  Alilford, 

June  28,  1705,  had  three  children.  She  married  second, 
Thomas  Cox,  September  4,  1720,  had  one  child.  Her 
second  husband  was  a  widower,  of  Boston,  Mass. 

John  (3),  (son  ob^  William),  h.xd  issue: 

5.  William  (Willem),  baptized  May  16,  1708,  married  Mar- 
grietie  Peters,  1734,  had  nine  children.  He  purchased 
lands  in  Harington  Township,  N.  J.,  about  1745.  She  a 
daughter  of  Claes  Peters,  of  Rockland  County,  X'.  Y. 


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6.  Elizabeth,  baptized  October  5,  1709. 

7.  Lucas  (Liiykus),  baptized  June  14,  171 1. 

8.  Elsie,  bom  January  13,  1713,  baptized  January  13,  1713. 

9.  Sarah,  born  September  5,  1716,  baptized  October  29,   1716, 

married  Andries  Pieterse,  had  ten  children. 

10.  John,  born  April  21,  1719,  baptized  June  30,  1719. 

11.  Cornelius,  born  Aup^ust   i,   1721,  baptized  August  2,   1721, 

married  Antje  (Anna)  ^leyer,  had  five  children. 

12.  Hester,  who  married  William  Winter,  and  had  three  children. 

William  (5),  (son  op  John),  had  issue: 

13.  Jan   (John),  born  September  11,   1735,  baptized  October  5, 

1735. 

14.  Cathlvntie,  born  October   12,    1737,  baptized   November  20, 

1737. 

15.  Cornelia,  born  April  18,  1739,  baptized  April  29,  1739. 

16.  Claes  (Nicholas),  born  November  12,  1740,  baptized  Decem- 

ber 14,  1740,  married  Marretye  Janse,  had  one  child. 

17.  WilHm  (William),  born  February  15,  1742,  baptized  March 

7,  1742,  married  Margrietye  Alyie,  had  two  children. 
r8.  Maria,  born  May  19,  1745,  baptized  June  30,  1745,  married 
Arie  Ackerman,  had  two  children. 

19.  Abraham,  born  February  27,  1747.  baptized  March  22,  1747. 

20.  Cornelius,  bom  October  22,  1749,  baptized  December  3,  1749, 

married  Elizabeth  Haring,  had  three  children,  and  died 
May  31,  1831. 

21.  Catharine,  bom  May  29,  1751,  baptized  June  20,  1751. 

Cornelius  (11),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

22.  Cornelia,  born  May  31,  1740,  baptized  June  15,  1740. 

2}^,  Jan   (John),  born   September  8,   1744,  baptized  October  7, 

1744. 

24.  William,  born  November  25,  1746,  baptized  January  25,  1747. 

25.  Anatye   (Anna),  born  January  24,   1748,  baptized  February 

12,  1749. 
2^.  Marytye   (Marie),  bom  July  24,  1750,  baptized  October  7, 
1750- 

Claes  (Nicholas)  (16),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

27.  Willem  (William),  bom  November  6,  1766,  baptized  Novem- 

ber 23,  1766,  married  Catriena  ?,  about  1794,  had 

six  children. 

WiLLiM  (William)  (17),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

28.  William,  bom  Febmary  14,  1776,  baptized  March  10,  1776, 

married  Aaltje  Merselis,  April  13,  1816. 

29.  Annatje,  bom  Febmary  5,  1778,  baptized  March  15,  1778. 


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Cornelius  (20),  (son  of  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

30.  James  C.   (Jacobus  C),  born  December  21,   1785,  married 

Margaret  Demarest,  August  26,  1804,  had  two  children, 
and  died  October  5,  1877. 

31.  William  C. 

32.  Cornelius  C. 

Wiu.EM  (William)  (27),  (son  of  Claes)  (Nicholas), 

HAD  issue: 

(All  baptized  at  Paramus,  X.  J.,  Reformed  Church.) 

33.  Johannis,  born  June  3,  1796,  baptized  July  3,  1796. 

34.  Lena,  born  February  28,  1798,  baptized  April  i,  1798. 

35.  Catriena,  born  September  16,  1799,  baptized  October  6,  1799. 

36.  Elizabeth,  born  July  7,  1801,  baptized  August  2,  1801. 

2;j,  Nicholas,  born  January  19,  1806,  baptized  February  9,  1806. 

38.  Marytje,  born  February  28,  1808,  baptized  ]\Iarch  20,  1808.  . 

James  C.  (Jacobus  C.)  (30),  (son  of  Cornelius), 
HAD  issue: 

39.  Cornelius  J.,  bom  March  6,  1806,  married  Elizabeth  De  Pew, 

June  16,  1831,  had  five  children. 

40.  Rachel,  who  died  April  26,  1881. 

Cornelius  J.  (39).  (son  of  James  C.)»  had  issue: 

41.  Martha,  bom  August  20,   1831,  married  Abram  P.  Jersey, 

October  i,  1851,  had  one  child. 

42.  James  C,  born  November  6,  1832,  married  Ellen  M.  Haring, 

April  25,  i860,  had  three  children. 

43.  Catherine  Ann,  born  May  24,  1834,  married  John  J.  Demarest, 

November  20,  1873,  had  six  children. 

44.  Abram  Cornelius  (Hon.),  born  September  23,  1837,  married 

Mary  Leah  Hopper,  January,  1872,  have  two  children. 

45.  John  C,  bom  April  19,  1850,  married  Catherine  D.  Haring, 

November  14,  1877,  had  two  children,  and  died  March 
16,  1897. 

James  C.  (42),  (son  of  Cornelius  J.),  had  issue: 

46.  Mary  Elizabeth,  born  June  25,  1862,  unmarried. 

47.  James  Demarest,  born  October  18,  1865,  married  Ida  May 

Long,  April  6,  1896,  have  four  children. 

48.  Estelle,  born  January  9,  1880,  unmarried. 

Abram  Cornelius  (44),  (son  of  Cornelius  J.),  had  issue: 

49.  Bessie  C,  born  1876,  married  Edwin  St.  George  Hardin,  Jan- 

uary 18,  1900,  have  one  child. 

50.  Garrett's.  M.,  born  1881. 


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John  C.  (45),  (son  of  Cornelius  J.),  had  issue: 

51.  Emily,  born  January  20,  1879,  unmarried. 

52.  Jessie  Louise,  born  September  i,  1889, 

James  Demarest  (47),  (son  of  James  C),  had  issue: 

53.  Percy  Long,  bom  March  12,  1897,  died  March  14,  1897. 

54.  Marie  Roseland,  bom  January  8,  1899. 

55.  Edith  May,  born  May  13,  1900. 

56.  Adele  Ethlyn,  born  June  24,  1902. 

KIERSEN. 

Jan  Kiersen  claims  a  notice  among  the  patentees  as  the  direct 
successor  of  William  Haldron.  He  chose  to  write  his  name 
Ciersen,  a  departure  neither  warranted  by  the  derivative  word 
nor  followed  by  Kiersen's  children,  for  which  reasons  we  adopt 
the  usual  spelling  of  the  records.  He  was  the  son  of  Kier  Wol- 
ters,  and  was  born  at  Amhout,  in  Drenthe,  about  1655.  Sep- 
tember 8,  1685,  ^t  about  30  years  of  age,  he  married  Gerritie, 
daughter  of  Captain  Jan  Van  Dalsen.  She  was  born  in  New 
England.  The  next  year  Kiersen  and  his  father-in-law  obtained 
from  the  town  a  lease  of  part  of  the  Great  Maize  Land,  on  Jochem 
Pieters'  Hills  (Harlem  Heights,  below  Fort  Washington),  for 
a  term  of  12  years.  But  the  lands  there  being  laid  out  and 
allotted  to  the  inhabitants  in  1691,  Kiersen,  on  July  2,  1694, 
bought,  "for  1000  guilders  in  money,"  the  lots,  Nos.  16  and  18, 
from  Thomas  Tourneur,  as  purchased  by  him  from  Holmes  and 
Waldron,  the  original  drawers.  In  March,  1696,  Kiersen  obtained 
the  signatures  of  * 'every  inhabitant  of  the  town"  to  a  paper  grant- 
ing him  "a  half  morgen  of  land  from  the  common  woods,  lying 
at  the  southeast  hook  of  the  land  that  Samuel  Waldron  has  drawn 
out  of  the  common  woods,  which  half  morgen  of  land  he  may 
build  upon,  thereon  setting  a  house,  bam  and  garden,  for  which 
he  promises  to  let  lie  a  morgen  of  land  upon  the  northeast  hook 
of  the  aforesaid  lot ;  leaving  a  suitable  road  or  King's  way  betwixt 
his  house  and  the  lot  of  Samuel  Waldron."  Kiersen  built  his 
house,  etc.,  and  on  March  7,  1700,  the  town  officers  gave  him  a 
deed.  This  was  the  first  settlement  on  the  well  known  Jum,el 
homestead,  and  we  believe  the  first  spot  permanently  occupied  on 
these  heights.  Kiersen,  by  purchasing  the  lands  and  patentee 
rights  of  William  Haldron,  deceased,  came  to  own  the  lot  lying 
between  his  two,  west  of  the  road,  and  which  lot  (No.  17)  Henry 
Haldron,  eldest  son  of  William,  released  to  Kiersen,  November  7, 
1701.  A  resurvey  of  that  tract,  in  1712,  united  those  three  in  one 
lot,  as  No.  18,  and  it  was  subsequently  called  40  acres.  Kiersen 
sold  Haldron's  smithshop  lot  to  Samuel  Waldron,  as  it  joined 
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562  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

he  drew  land  in  1712.  When  those  drafts  were  made,  Kiersen 
enlarged  his  half  morgen  or  house  lot,  east  of  the  road,  to  8  acres, 
but  from  whom  he  got  it  is  not  a  matter  of  positive  record.  To 
this,  in  1720,  he  added  an  adjoining  4  acres,  being  a  remnant  left 
after  the  ist  Division  was  laid  out.  He  afterward  got  the  Ver- 
milye  lot.  No.  6,  2d  Division,  which  joined  his  homestead  on  the 
north,  and  which  gave  him  20  acres  east  of  the  road.  For  his 
drafts  in  1712,  etc.,  see  note,  page  298,  and  Appendix  J. 

Kiersen  joined  the  church  in  1682,  and  later  served  as  dea- 
con. He  was  also  town  collector  and  constable,  and  was  a  party, 
in  1738,  to  the  Mill  Camp  grant.  When  he  died  does  not  appear. 
His  90  acres  (upland)  stand  in  the  tax  lists  in  the  name  of  "Jan 
Kiersen,'*  down  to  1753,  but  we  might  conclude  that  John  senior 
was  not  living  at  so  late  a  date,  and  that  his  son,  John,  bom  1690, 
had  succeeded  him.  Yet,  if  we  mistake  not,  we  find  the  peculiar 
signature  of  John  senior  to  a  town  document  of  March  28,  1749. 
If  his,  he  lived  to  a  great  age.  His  children  were  Jannetje,  bap- 
tized March  13,  1687,  died  unmarried;  Grietje,  baptized  Novem- 
ber 25,  1688 ;  John,  Abraham,  baptized  October  6,  1695,  and  Jan- 
netie,  baptized  May  25,  1693,  who  married  Jacob  Dyckman,  of 
Kingsbridge,  May  16,  17 16,  had  seven  children.  John  and  Abra- 
ham, on  April  23,  1756,  join  in  selling  part  of  their  salt  meadow, 
at  Kingsbridge,  which  the  elder  John  bought  of  Johannes  Wal- 
dron,  January   16,   1703. 

The  names  of  the  two  sons  appear  upon  the  roll  of  Captain 
Stuyvesant's  company  in  1738;  but  devoted  to  husbandry,  their 
quiet,  unobtrusive  lives  seldom  bring  them  into  notice.  John, 
especially,  is  rarely  named  otherwise  than  herein  stated,  nor  is 
there  any  intimation  that  he  left  descendants.  His  brother,  Abra- 
ham, born  1695,  was  constable  in  1728,  and  probably  had  no 
family.  He  acts  alone  with  the  freeholders  in  signing  deeds,  etc., 
in  1747  and  1753,  neither  his  father  nor  brother  being  named.  It 
would  seem  thaj  his  sister,  with  her  husband  and  children,  had 
either  purchased,  or  been  empowered  to  sell  (perhaps  by  the  will 
of  John  senior),  the  Kiersen  property  in  Harlem,  because  these 
join  in  a  deed,  January  29,  1763,  conveying  said  lands  to  James 
Carroll,  of  New  York,  for  £1,000.  Abraham  Kiersen  is  named 
therein  as  a  grantor,  but  does  not  subscribe.  A  clause  in  Jacob 
Dyckman's  will  of  August  10,  1767,  devising  a  share  of  his  prop)- 
erty  to  John  and  Abraham  Kere,  and  directing  that  they  **be 
supported  as  I  have  done,"  shows  a  state  of  dependency  in  their 
old  age,  whatever  else  it  may  imply.  With  their  descendants,  the 
name  disappears  here,  though  probably  perpetuated  in  the  West- 
chester branch.  From  Carroll  the  Kiersen  property  passed  to 
Colonel  Roger  Morris,  whose  stately  mansion,  better  laiown  as  the 
Jumel  house,  still  remains,  being  owned  and  occupied  by  Mr. 
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KORTRIGHT. 

Cornelis  Jansen,  with  whom  the  preceding  pages  have  made 
us  acquainted,  will  be  further  named  only  as  introductory  to  a 
notice  of  his  descendants,  who  composed  the  principal  part  of  the 
late  Kortright  family  of  Harlem.  Born  in  1645,  ^^  Beest,  in 
Gelderland,  he  came  out  with  his  father,  Jan  Bastiaensen,  in  1663 
(see  pages  67,  95,  204,  and  note,  page  258),  and  on  November 
8,  1665,  married  Metje,  daughter  of  Bastiaen  Elyessen,  and  widow 
of  Claes  "Teunisz  van  Appeldorn ;  a  lady  who,  after  Jansen's  early 
death,  in  1689,  proved  her  ability  both  to  manage  his  business  and 
enhance  his  estate,  the  use  of  which,  under  his  will,  dated  Febru- 
ary 25,  of  said  year  (but  not  proved  till  March  18,  1706),  she  was 
to  enjoy  till  her  death  or  remarriage.  Having  been  a  trooper,  he 
gave  his  eldest  son,  Johannes,  **the  best  horse,  and  the  best  saddle, 
and  the  best  boots,  and  the  best  pistols,  and  holsters,  and  carbine 
and  cutlass."  He  also  left  him,  over  and  above  his  share  of  tlie 
estate,  **the  lot  of  land  at  Jochem  Pieters,  to  wit,  the  lot  by  thie 
great  gate."  This  was  No.  3  of  the  old  lots  (afterward  Sickels*), 
and  the  gate  must  have  stood  at  the  upper  corner  of  the  Church 
Farm,  where  the  road  going  north  to  Myer's  narrowed  from  4^^ 
to  3  rods,  as  finally  fixed  by  a  vote  of  the  town  in  1744. 

The  widow,  from  her  husband,  is  usually  called  Metje  Cor- 
nelis, once  Metje  Jansen,  and  sometimes,  from  her  father,  Metje 
Bastiaens.  As  the  lists  show,  she  drew  largely  of  the  common 
lands  in  the  several  divisions;  but  survived  those  of  171 2  only 
a  short  time.  Under  that  of  169 1  she  obtained  an  annex  to  the 
farm  on  Montanye's  Flat;  in  the  deed  dated  March  21,  1701, 
"bounded  by  a  line  leading  from  the  southwest  corner  of  the 
kitchen  as  the  fence  runs,  to  a  small  brook,  and  along  the  brook 
till  it  meets  with  the  patent  line  of  Harlem,  thence  along  said 
line  northerly  till  it  meets  with  the  old  lots  of  Cornelis  Kortright, 
deceased."  In  1715  her  family  held  246  acres,  of  which  Laurens 
Cornelissen  held  exclusively  ';^y;  and  he  and  the  other  heirs 
jointly  169,  which,  from  1715  to  1726,  stood  in  the  name  of 
**Metje  Cornelis'  heirs."  Laurens*  yy  acres  included  30  acres 
sold  by  him  the  same  year,  and  since  in  the  Race  Course  Farm 
(see  Benson  family),  with  No.  i,  2d  Division,  and  half  of  No  17, 
3d  Division,  both  of  which  finally  passed  to  the  Nutters.  In  the 
169  acres  was  the  farm  on  Montanye's  Flat  (since  Nutter's), 
rated  as  36  acres,  the  adjoining  Tourneur  farm  (later  of  Peter 
Bussing),  36  acres;  No.  10,  Jochem  Pieters'  Flat;  No.  16,  Van 
Keulen's  Hook;  No.  6,  New  Lots;  No.  10  of  1691 ;  No.  5,  ist 
Division,  and  half  of  No.  17,  3d  Division.  Widow  Tiebout  and 
her  son,  John  Lewis,  in  1715,  held  each  133/^  acres  in  the  four 
Divisions ;  the  widow's  lots  reverting  the  same  year  to  John  Van 
Oblienis,  in  whose  name  they  had  been  drawn. 


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Cornelius  Jansen  left  six  children,  at  first  called  Comelissen, 
viz.: 

2.  Aefie,  baptized  May  30,  1666,  married  first,  Jonas  Lewis,  Feb- 

ruary 5,  1688,  and  second,  Marcus  Tiebout,  May  29,  1698, 
but  died  in  17 14  without  issue. 

3.  Johannes  No.  i,  baptized  July  30,  1671,  died  young. 

4.  Johannes  Cornelissen  No.  2,  baptized  April  24,  1673,  married 

Wyntie,  daughter  of  Cornelis  Dyckman,  May  26,  1701, 
had  three  children,  and  died  in  171 1.  She  married 
second,  Zacharias  Sickles,  in  1717. 

5.  Maria,  baptized  April  2,  1679. 

6.  Laurens  Comelissen,  baptized  August  20,  1681,  married  first, 

Helena,  daughter  of  Captain  Johannes  Benson,  October 
22,  1703,  had  two  children.  He  married  second,  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Arent  Bussing,  about  1708,  had  five 
children.  He  was  father  of  the  main  branch  of  the  Har- 
lem family  of  this  name.  Served  as  constable  in  1708-9, 
and  succeeded  to  the  homestead  on  Harlem  lane,  which, 
at  his  death  (1726)  fell  in  the  division  to  his  widow. 

7.  Annetie,  who  married  Adrian  Quackenbos,*  August  22,  1701, 

had  two  children.     He  of  Albany,  N.  Y. 

Johannes  Cornelissen  (4),  (son  of  Cornelius  Jansen),  was 
appointed  constable*  in  1702,  and  died  in  171 1.     He  had  issue: 

8.  Metje,  baptized  Februar>'  27,  1702,  married  John  Bussing, 

September  2,  1723,  had  one  child.     (See  Bussing.) 

9.  Nicholas,  who  married  first,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Eide  Van 

Huyse,  of  Bloomingdale.  February  5,  1731,  had  one  child, 
and    second,    Elizabeth    Peltrong    (Conteyn),    April    15, 
1739,  had  two  children,  and  died  November  19,  1751. 
10.  Jannetie,  who  married  Johannes  Van  Wyck,  September  2, 
1723,  had  one  child. 

Laurens  Cornelissen  Kortright  (6),  from  whom  sprang  the 
main  branch  of  the  family  at  Harlem,  was  bom  here  August  20, 
168 1.  On  December  9,  1704,  his  mother  leased  him  for  four  years 
the  farm  "lying  on  the  flats  about  New  Harlem,''  and  also  "the  lot 
on  the  Maize  Land,"  or  Jochem  Pieters'  Hills.  Laurens  served 
as  constable  in  1708-9.  He  succeeded  to  the  homestead  on 
Harlem  Lane  (since  Nutter's),  which  at  his  death,  in  1726,  fell 

•  John  Lewis  was  born  at  Harlem,  married,  May  22,  171 3.  Hester,  daughter  of 
Jan  Delamater,  and  the  next  fall  was  chosen  constaole.  He  succeeded  to  the  allot- 
ment drawn  in  1712  by  Marcus  Tiebaut,  his  step-father,  from  the  common  lands; 
but  not  to  the  half-erf  and  three  morgen  on  which  it  was  drawn.  His  house  lot  was 
on  the  north  side  of  the  Church  Lane,  and  has  since  formed  the  easterly  lot  of  the 

Brady  plot.     (See  notes,  pages .)     In   1740  Lewis  sold  his  lot  in   ist  Division 

to  Adolph  Mycr,  and  in  1748  the  rest  of  his  property  in  Harlem  to  Dr.  Josiah  Pater- 
son.  It  included  two  house  lots  (erven)  besides  that  he  occupied,  one  of  which  he 
bought  of  Simon  Johnson,  in  1747,  out  of  Pipon's  estate.  One  of  Lewis'  daughters* 
Tanneke,  married  Abraham  Montanye,  and  another,  Ruth,  married  John  Cwouts. 


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in  the  division  to  his  widow,  Grietie,  together  with  the  upper 
Tourneur  lot,  and  Nos.  19,  20  (the  last  got  in  1720),  on  Van 
Keulen's  Hook,  No.  i,  2d  Division;  half  of  17,  3d  Division,  and 
^y2  acres  of  No.  6,  3d  Division,  bought  1726  from  John  Lewis. 
In  1740  she  bought  from  Nicholas  Kortright  the  Sickels  lot  on 
Montanye's  Flat,  and  in  1747,  from  Simon  Johnson,  the  parcels 
below  Montanye's  Flat,  and  being  part  of  No.  8,  ist  Division, 
and  mostly  within  the  late  Valentine  Nutter  farm.  These  lands 
(except  Nos.  19,  20,  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  sold,  1730,  to  Derick 
Benson)  descended  to  her  surviving  sons  Aaron  and  Lawrence 
Kortright.  Lawrence  took  the  homestead  and  No  i ,  2d  Division ; 
the  upper  Tourneur  lot  was  sold  to  Peter  Bussing,  and  the  ad- 
joining Sickels  lot,  February  9,  1755,  to  Benjamin  Benson,  the 
deed  also  covering  the  next  lot,  which  Benson  had  inherited  from 
his  father,  bounded  by  Vandewater's  gore  in  the  rear. 

Laurens  Corneussen  (6),  (son  of  Cornelius  Jansen), 
had  issue  by  his  first  wife: 

11.  Cornelius,  baptized  May  30,  1704,  married  Hester,  daughter 

of  John  Cannon,  of  New  York,  November  11,  1727,  had 
seven  children,  and  died  April  15,  1745. 

12.  Elizabeth,  baptized  November  3,  1706,  married  Gilbert  Gar- 

rison, of  New  York,  April  19,  1753. 

Laurens  C.  (6)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

13.  Aaron,  born  1710,  married  about   1733,  had  three  children. 

He  married  second,  Margaret,  daughter  of  John  Dela- 
mater,   1762,  had  six  children,  and  died  November  19, 

1789. 

14.  Lawrence,  who  died  single,  1761. 

15.  Eve,  who  married  Adolph  Benson,  about  1732,  had  two  chil- 

dren.    (See  Benson.) 

16.  Mattie,   who   married    Abraham   Meyer,   had   five   children. 

(See  Meyer.) 

17.  Susannah,  who  married  Aaron  Meyer,*  had  two  children. 

Nicholas  (9),  (son  of  Johannes),  was  constable  of  the  town 
in  1729,  and  afterward  collector.  On  the  death  of  his  uncle 
Laurens,  in  1726,  the  Kortright  lands  were  divided,  and  Nicho- 
las took  as  his  portion  loi  acres,  viz.,  10  acres  from  the  south 
lot  of  the  Tourneur  farm.  No.   10,  of  1691 ;  40  acres.  No.   10, 

*  Adrian  Quackenbos,  or  Quackcnbush,  was  born  at  Albany,  and  probably  the 
brother  of  Wouter  (married  Cornelia,  daughter  of  Tan  Louwe  Bogert),  a  son  of  Pieter 
Quackenbos,  brjckmaker,  from  Oestgeest,  in  Holland,  the  common  ancestor.  (Sec 
Pearson.)  Adrian  married  Annetie  Kortright,  August  22,  1701,  and  for  some  years 
^cupicd  the  Kortright  lot.  No.  10,  on  Jochem  Pietcrs  Hills,  being  part  of  the  Dr. 
bamuel  Bradhurst  tract-  He  had  a  son,  Cornelius,  who  married  Cornelia  Delamater, 
and  Metje,  who  married  Resolved  Waldron,  afterward  of  Haverstraw,  N.  Y.  Cor- 
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Jochem  Pieters'  Flat;  12  acres,  No.  5,  ist  Division,  and  half 
of  No.  17,  3d  Division.  The  middle  lot  of  the  Tourneur  farm 
(on  which  were  the  buildings),  and  2  acres  of  the  south  lot, 
making  14  acres,  were  set  off  for  the  use  of  his  mother,  Wyntie 
Sickels.  In  1729  he  bought  his  stepfather's,  Sickels,  lands, 
No.  5,  Jochem  Pieters'  Flat,  2  q.  23  r.  of  16,  ist  Division;  No. 
12,  2d  Division,  and  a  lot  on  Montanye*s  Flat,  in  all  42  a.  3  q. 
19  r.  This  gave  him  144  acres.  In  1730  he  bought  Nos.  2 
and  18,  2d  Division,  from  M.  Benson,  and  in  1739  succeeded  to 
the  Tourneur  middle  plot,  14  acres.  In  1729  he  sold  No.  6,  New 
Lots,  to  Isaac  Delamater;  in  1731,  Nos.  5,  10,  Jochem  Pieters' 
Flat,  and  No.  12,  2d  Division,  to  Abraham  Myer;  in  1733,  No. 
5,  1st  Division,  and  upper  6  acres  of  17,  3d  Division,  to  Johannes 
Benson;  in  1737,  No.  10  of  1691,  to  Lawrence  Low;  in  1740, 
the  Sickels  lot  on  Montanye's  Flat  to  widow  Grietie  Kortright, 
and  the  remnant  of  his  lands,  being  the  two  southerly  Tourneur 
lots,  and  Nos.  2,  8,  2d  Division,  to  Abraham  Myer.  Kortright 
again,  in  1742,  bought  21  acres  of  land  in  Harlem,  which  at  his 
death  passed  to  John  Van  Zandt.     He  died  November  19,  1751. 

Nicholas   (9)   had  issue  by  his  first  wifk: 

18.  John,  bom  1732. 

Nicholas  (9)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

19.  Frances    (Francyntie),   baptized   October  4,    1741,    married 

John  Norris,  a  peruke  maker. 

20.  Nicholas,   baptized   December   26,    1743,    married    Elizabeth 

?,  had  two  children.     He  a  sailmaker,  was  vestryman 

of  Trinity  Church,  1789-92,  and  died  1820.  Owned 
property  in  New  York,  where  he  lived.  His  wife,  Eliza- 
beth, died  in  1789,  aged  46  years. 

Cornelius  (11)  owned  property  in  Queen  (now  Pearl)  Street, 
where  he  carried  on  the  baking  business.  He  was  assistant  alder- 
man of  Montgomery  Ward,  1738-40.  His  two  slaves,  implicated 
in  the  Negro  Plot,  in  1741,  were  transported  to  San  Domingo. 
After  his  death,  which  happened  April  15,  1745,  his  business  was 
continued  by  his  widow  and  son  Cornelius. 

Cornelius  (ii),  (son  of  Laurens  C),  had  issue: 

21.  Lawrence,   baptized    November   27,    1728.   married    Hannah 

Aspinwall,  May  6,  1755,  had  five  children.  He  was  a 
merchant  of  New  York,  and  died  in  1794. 

22.  John,  baptized  January  3,   1731. 

23.  Cornelius,  baptized  December  17,   1732. 

24.  Maria,  baptized  October  3,   1736,  married  John  Wilkinson 

Hanson,  merchant,  January  29,   1763. 


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25.  Helena,  baptized  April  18,  1739,  married  Abraham  Brasher, 

merchant,  July  13,  1758,  had  ten  children,  and  died  No- 
vember 3,  1819.     He  died  at  Morristown,  N.  J. 

26.  Margrietze,  baptized  October  14,   1741. 

27.  Elizabeth,  baptized  June  30,  1745,  married  William  Ricketts 

Van  Cortland,  merchant,  January  3,  1765. 

Aaron  (13)  had  purchased,  March  15,  1742,  the  Delamater 
farm  on  Montanye's  Flat,  and  accompanying  lands.  The  latter 
embraced  all  Isaac  Delamater's  draft  lots  of  171 2,  and  Aeltie  Ver- 
milye's,  of  1691  and  1712,  except  No.  20,  ist  Division  (see  Ap- 
pendix J).  We  believe  two  acres  of  No.  5,  Van  Keulen's  Hook, 
were  also  included.  Of  these  Aaron  sold  No.  10,  ist  Division, 
to  Adolph  Myer,  in  175 1 ;  part  of  the  large  Molenaor  tract.  He 
sold  No.  5,  of  1691,  to  Jonathan  Odell,  May  11,  1753,  since  of 
Jacob  SchieflFelin;  and  No.  6,  2d  Division,  to  John  Kiersen. 
He  recovered,  by  purchase  from  Peter  Waldron,  the  lower  half 
of  the  Delamater  farm,  which  together  now  embraced  12  acres  east 
of  the  Lane,  on  which  were  the  buildings,  and  west  of  the  Lane,  40 
acres  on  the  Flat,  and  19  1-3  acres  (in  it  part  of  No.  8,  ist 
Division)  on  the  heights.  In  1762  and  1765  Aaron  gave  liens 
on  some  of  the  lands  bought  of  Delamater  to  his  nephew  Law- 
rence Kortright,  of  New  York,  merchant,  and  finally  the  two 
made  an  exchange,  April  28,  1772,  Lawrence  taking  the  farm 
and  some  woodlands,  and  giving  Aaron  and  his  wife  a  deed  for 
241  acres  of  the  Wawayanda  patent,  in  Orange  County, — to  go 
after  their  death  to  their  sons,  Lawrence,  John,  and  Aaron  Kort- 
right,— whither  they  removed,  and  where  their  descendants  are 
still  found. 

Aaron  (13),  (son  of  Laurens  C),  had  issue  by  his 
FIRST  wife: 

28.  Benjamin,  born  about  1731,  married  Catharine  Cudabee,  had 

three  children.     Settled  in  Wyoming  Valley. 

29.  Elisha,  born  about  1740,  married  Huldah  Dingman,  had  seven 

children.     Settled  in  Wyoming  Valley.     Killed  in  mas- 
sacre there  in  182 1. 

30.  John,  bom  1741,  settled  in  Wvoming  Valley,  died  July  13, 

1778. 

Aaron  (13)  h.\d  issue  by  second  wife: 

31.  Eve,  born  July  21,  1752,  married  Casper  Writer,  September 

8,  1772,  had  eight  children,  and  died  December  21,  1830. 

32.  Lawrence,  born  December  21,  1758,  married  Mary  Cox,  June 

4,  1782,  had  five  children,  and  died  February  11,  1843. 

33.  John,  born   1761,   married   Susannah   Kittel,   November  30, 

1782,  had  three  children,  and  died  February  16,  1824. 


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34.  Aaron,  who  married  Heyltje  Van  Garden,  had  three  children. 

35.  Ann  Elizabeth,  who  married  Henry  Sherman,  May  15,  1766, 

had  one  child. 

36.  Susannah,  who  married ?  Spinksted,  had  three  children. 

Lawrence  Kortright  ( 14) ,  last  of  the  name  to  hold  the  home- 
stead, died  in  1761,  unmarried.  He  had  devised  all  his  estate  to 
one  Sarah  Gilmore,  wife  of  William  Nutter,  and  afterward,  on 
April  5,  1760,  gave  her  a  deed  for  the  farm  (which  is  described, 
from  the  old  groundbriefs,  as  in  four  contiguous  parcels)  and  two 
woodland  lots.  But  by  another  will,  of  November  8  ensuing, 
he  revokes,  to  quote  his  words,  "a  pretended  last  will  and  testa- 
ment said  to  have  been  made  by  me  in  favor  of  Sarah  Nutter, 
which  last  will  and  testament  (if  any  such  there  be),  and  also 
certain  deeds  of  lease  and  release  for  my  real  estate  (if  any  such 
there  be),  pretended  to  have  been  made  and  executed  by  me  to 
her,  I  do  hereby,  on  the  faith  of  a  christian,  declare  to  have  been 
obtained  from  me  by  fraud  and  circumvention,  and  without  any 
valuable  consideration  received  by  me  for  the  same."  By  this 
second  will  he  divides  his  property  among  his  kindred.  The 
Kortright  heirs  refusing  to  give  up  the  premises,  Valentine  Nut- 
ter, only  child  and  heir  of  Sarah,  brought  an  ejectment  suit  in 
1771 ;  but  after  "divers  differences,  controversies,  and  disputes 
about  the  said  lands,*'  a  compromise  was  made,  Aaron  Kortright 
(13)  and  his  co-heirs,  for  a  consideration,  releasing  their  claims, 
by  deeds  dated  September  12,  1789,  and  February  28,  1799.  Upon 
getting  possession,  Mr.  Nutter  erected  a  new  dwelling-house  and 
outbuildings  (see  page  390)  ;  living  here  till  90  years  of  age 
(1831),  when  he  went  to  pass  his  remaining  days  with  his  grand- 
son, Gouverneur  M.  Wilkins,  Esq.,  at  Westchester,  where  he 
died  in  1836,  aged  95  years. 

Nicholas  (20),  (son  of  Nicholas),  had  issue: 

2i7.  Nicholas. 

38.  James,  who  married  Elizabeth  Warner,  May  21,  1794. 

Lawrence  (21),  also  a  merchant,  became  wealthy  and 
prominent.  In  the  old  French  war  he  was  part  owner  of  sev- 
eral privateers  fitted  out  at  New  York  against  the  enemy.  He 
was  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce,  in  1768. 
He  had  a  large  interest  in  Tryon  County  lands,  and  on  his  pur- 
chase the  township  of  Kortright  was  settled.  He  had  identified 
himself  with  the  Episcopal  Church,  and  during  the  Revolution 
remained  quiet  at  his  residence.  192  Queen  Street ;  but  his  sym- 
pathies were  with  his  country.  In  1778,  partly  on  his  surety. 
Judge  Fell,  then  a  prisoner  in  the  provost,  obtained  his  release. 
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woodland,  to  his  only  son,  John.     Mr.  Kortright  died  in  1794. 

Lawrence  (21),  (son  o^  Corneuus),  had  issue: 

39.  John  (Capt.),  who  married  Catherine,  daughter  of  Edmund 

Seaman,  May  2,  1793,  had  six  children,  and  died  in  1810. 
She  married  after  his  death,  Henry  B.  Livingston,  Esq. 

40.  Sarah,  who  married,  1775,  Col.  John  Heyliger,  of  Santa  Cruz. 

41.  Hester,  who  married  Nicholas  Gouvemeur,  1790. 

42.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Hon.  James  Munroe,  1786,  had  two 

children.     He  was  President  of  the  United  States. 

43.  Mary,  who  married  Thomas  Knox,  1793. 

Benjamin  (28),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

44.  Cornelius,  born  May  7,   1764,  married  Catherine  Kennedy, 

had  nine  children.  Settled  in  Luzerne  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  died  May  25,  1848. 

45.  John,  who  married  Mary  Abbott,  had  seven  children,  and 

died  in  1822. 

46.  Henry. 

Elisiia  (29),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

47.  Cornelia,  ^rn  October  20,  1768,  married  Emanuel  Hoover. 

48.  Abram,  bom  1769,  married  Sarah  Bouchter,  about  1794,  had 

six  children. 

49.  Euphemia  (Eva),  born  March  4,  1774,  married ?  Drake. 

50.  Isaac,  born  1776,  married  Mary  Dodson,  had  eight  children, 

and  died  1852. 

51.  Andrew,  born  about   1780,  married  Matilda  Bowman,  had 

seven  children. 

52.  Ellen,  who  married  Joseph  Rhoads. 

53.  Margaret,  who  married  Samuel  Seely,  had  five  children. 

Lawrence  (32),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

54.  Lydia,  born  July  25,  1787,  married  Richard  Holley,  had  eight 

children,  and  died  March  6,  1838. 

55.  John  Cooper,  born  October  15,  1788,  married  Almira  Jack- 

son, April  28,  1841,  had  two  children,  and  died  August 
20,  1845. 

56.  Samuel  Delamater,  born  October  15,  1788,  died  single,  June 

14,  1830. 

57.  Aaron,  born  August  13,   1793,  married  first,  Sarah  Writer, 

August  2,  1817,  had  eight  children,  second,  Elizabeth 
Brown,  April  i,  1824,  had  six  children,  and  third,  Helen 
O.  Horton,  December  31,  1839,  had  two  children,  and 
died  July  10,  1867. 

58.  Nancy,  born  August  13,  1793,  died  unmarried,  September  23, 

1841. 


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Captain  John  (39),  (son  of  Lawrence).  His  farm  on  Har- 
lem Lane,  with  the  new  mansion  built  west  of  the  Lane,  descended 
to  his  children,  who  were: 

59.  John  L. 

60.  Edmund. 

61.  Robert. 

62.  Nicholas  G.,  who  married  Sarah  Allaire,  had  one  child,  and 

died  in  1874. 

63.  Eliza,  who  married  Nicholas  Cruger. 

64.  Hester  Mary,  who  married  Billop  B.  Seaman. 

Cornelius  (44),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

65.  Mary,  born  July  29,  1787,  married ?  Murphy. 

66.  Benjamin,  born  March  19,  1789,  married  Clara  Williams,  had 

five  children. 

67.  Catherine,  born  October  11,  1790,  married ?  Tyson. 

68.  John,  born  October  11,  1790,  married  Louisa  Searle,  had  four 

children. 

69.  Hannah,  born  1789,  married  John  Abbott,  had  three  children. 

and  died  May  3,  1892. 

70.  Helen,  born  1802,  married  William  Abbott,  had  four  children, 

and  died  1883. 

71.  Elizabeth,  born  1807,  married  Charles  Wright,  had  five  chil- 

dren.    She  was  living  in  1892. 

72.  Henry,  who  married  Sarah  Bidleman,  had  ten  children. 

y2i^  Milton,  who  married  Hannah  Passmore,  had  four  children. 

John  (45),  (son  ot  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

74.  Hannah,  born  June  9,  1801. 

75.  Cornelius,  born  May  28,  1803,  married  first,  Harriet  Bailey, 

July  10,  1827,  had  eleven  children.  He  married  second, 
Susanna  Luther,  in  1852,  by  whom  he  had  no  issue,  and 
died  March  22,  1895. 

76.  Roxanna,  bom  October  12,  1805. 
yy,  Charles,  born  March  4,   1807. 

78.  John,  born  December  29,  1808. 

79.  Volney,  bom  June  17,  181 1. 

80.  Eliza,  born  May  14,  1814. 

Abram  (48),  (son  of  Elisha),  had  issue: 

81.  Elisha,  born  1795,  married  Sarah  Klinetop,  had  ten  children. 

82.  John   B.,   born   November    t6,    1796,   married   first ,  Nancy 

Santee,  had  three  children,  and  second,  Eliza  Pollock, 
had  three  children,  and  died  March  29,  1874. 

83.  Margaret,  born  1800,  married  Solomon  Parker. 


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84.  Ellen,  bom  1806,  married  first,  Martin  Line,  had  five  chil- 

dren, and  second,  Gerad  Harrison. 

85.  Isaac,    bom    November    11,    1808,    married    IMary    Pollock, 

March  21,  1833,  had  nine  children. 

86.  Joseph,  born  1810,  married  Lydia  Klinetop,  had  one  child. 

Isaac  (50),  (son  of  Eusha),  had  issue: 

87.  Elisha,  born  1803,  married  Martha  Cole,  had  three  children. 

She  deceased. 

88.  Mabel  Dodson,  bom  November  25,  1805,  married  first,  John 

Ramsey,  had  one  child,  and  second,  Samuel  Ransom,  in 
1836,  had  three  children,  and  died  October  8,  1902. 

89.  Nancy,  born   1808,  married  Barton  Mott,  had  six  children, 

and  died  in  1891. 

90.  Thomas  Dingman,  born   1810,  married  Lydia   Bidlack,  but 

died  without  issue. 

91.  Huldah,  born  1813,  died,  unmarried,  in  1834. 

92.  Nathan  D.,  born   181 5,  married  Margaret  L.  Harlan,  Feb- 

ruary 6,   1845,  ^^d  six  children,  and  died  October   11, 
1902.     He  of  Mauch  Chunk,  Pa. 

93.  Abraham  D.,  born  1817,  married  Elizabeth  Lerch,  November 

6,  1844,  had  four  children.     He  deceased. 

94.  Rachel,  born  1819,  died  unmarried. 

Andrew  (51),  (son  of  Elisiia),  had  issue: 

95.  Fletcher. 

96.  Pamelia. 

97.  Dingman. 

98.  Christian. 

99.  Jesse  D.,  born  1819,  married  first,  Mary  Cortright,  had  one 

child,  and  second,  Martha  Turner,  had  five  children. 
100.  Susannah. 
loi.  Ashbel  Morris. 

John  Cooper  (55),  (son  of  Lawrence),  had  issue: 

102.  Mary,  bom  August  16,  1843,  married  Oscar  Halstead,  Octo- 

ber 29,  1862,  had  seven  children. 

103.  John  Jackson,  bom  December  18,  1844,  married  Mary  Grey, 

March  30,  1865,  had  six  children. 

Aaron  (57),  (son  of  Lawrence),  had  issue  by  his 
FIRST  WIFE,  Sarah  Writer: 

104.  Charles  A. 

105.  Mary  H. 

106.  Matilda  E. 

107.  Aaron  Writer,  bom  March  14,  1818,  married  Hester  Mid- 


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572  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

dagh,  December  31,  1842,  had  three  children,  and  died 
July  II,  1894. 

108.  John  Benson,  born  September  6,  18 19,  died  February  2,  1820. 

109.  Maria  Elizabeth,  born  February  5,   1821,  died  unmarried, 

July,  1897. 
no.  Samuel  Denton,  bom  December  18,  1822,  married  first,  Juli- 
ette Phillips,  August  5,  1843,  ^^^  one  child,  and  second, 
Harriett  Devoe,  September  17,  1852,  had  one  child. 

111.  Lawrence  W.,  who  married  first,   Sarah  A.   Nichols,   and 

second,  Emma  Johnson. 

Aaron  (57)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife,  Elizabeth 

Brown  : 

112.  Sarah  Eliza,  born  February  5,  1825,  died  April  23,  1825. 

113.  Lawrence  William,  born  November  28,  182(6,  married  Har- 

riet Eaton,  April  28,  1855,  had  three  children. 

114.  Sarah  Caroline,  born  January  19,  1829,  married  Andrew  T. 

McLaughlin,  November  18,  1855,  had  two  children,  and 
died  February  11,  1896. 

115.  Matilda  Ellen,  born  May  11,   183 1,.  died,  unmarried,  Feb- 

ruary 20,  1 87 1. 

116.  John  C,  bom  February  23,  1834,  married  first,  Julia  Vidella 

Smith,  November  7,  i860,  had  one  child,  and  second,  Mrs. 
Hannah  A.  Weymer,  March  28,  1883.  He  married  third, 
Susan ?. 

117.  Thomas  Brown,  born  March  7,  1838,  died  September  4,1840. 

Aaron  (57)  had  issue  by  his  third  wiee,  Hei.en  O. 

HORTON  : 

118.  Mary  Helen,  bom  April  15,  1842,  married  George  McCiil- 

lough,  April  23,  1858,  had  thirteen  children. 

119.  Charles  Augustine,  born  October  30,  1843,  single. 

Nicholas  G.  (62),  (son  of  Captain  John),  had  issue: 
119a.  Lawrence  M. 

Benjamin  (66),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

120.  John  Milton  (Hamilton),  was  living  in  1892,  deceased. 

121.  Frank,  was  living  in  1892. 

122.  James,  born  November  3,  1831,  had  one  child.     Was  living 

in  1892,  but  now  deceased. 

123.  Thomas,  was  living  in  1892. 

124.  Mary,  was  living  in  1892. 

John  (68),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

125.  George. 


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126.  Cornelius. 

127.  Louisa,  deceased. 

128.  Hannah,  deceased. 

Henry  (72),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

129.  Winfield  Scott,  who  was  living  in  1892. 

130.  William,  was  living  in  1892,  now  deceased. 

131.  Charles,  was  living  in  1892,  now  deceased. 

132.  Henry  Harrison,  was  living  in  1892,  now  deceased. 

133.  Elizabeth. 

134.  Catherine,  deceased. 

135.  Roseanna,  deceased. 

136.  Margarette,  deceased. 

137.  Mary,  deceased. 

138.  Ellen,  deceased. 

Milton  (73),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

139.  Xorman. 

140.  John. 

141.  Elizabeth. 

142.  Alice. 

Cornelius  (75),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

143.  Louisa,  born  January  27,  1829. 

144.  John,  bom  August  6,  1830. 

145.  Roxanna,  born  September  8,  1832. 

146.  Horace,  bom  August  18,  1834. 

147.  Lidia,  bom  June  13,  1836. 

148.  Benjamin,  born  August  12,  1838. 

149.  Harriett,  bom  October  17,  1840. 

150.  Carrie,  bom  November  4,  1842. 

151.  Comelius,  bom  September  19,  1844. 

152.  Charles,  bom  January  30,  1847. 

153.  Chester,  born  March  28,  1849. 

Elisha  (81),  (son  of  Abram),  had  issue: 

154.  John. 

155.  Abram. 

156.  Christopher. 

^57-  Jacob,  bom  December  18,  1825,  married  Nellei ?,  March 

25,  1858,  had  four  children,  and  died  December  24,  1897. 
She  died  October  23,  1900. 

158.  Margaret. 

159.  Lydia. 

160.  Washington. 

161.  Anna. 


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574  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

162.  Erastus. 

163.  Ellen. 

John  B.  (82),  (son  of  Abram),  had  issue  by  his  first 

wife: 

164.  James,  who  died  single. 

165.  Abram,  bom  1829,  married  Lucinda  Fortner,  had  one  child. 

He  deceased. 

166.  Rachel  Caroline,  bom  1832,  married  Tobias  L.  Garner. 

John  B.  (82)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

167.  Nancy  Jane,  born  1840,  unmarried. 

168.  Sylvester,  born  1841,  married  Margaret  Edwards,  and  died 

March  5,  1872. 
i6g.  Theodore,  born  1846,  died  young. 

Isaac  (85),  (son  of  Abram),  had  issue: 

170.  Elisha  Dingman,  born  January  3,  1834,  married  Margaret 

P.  Potter,  July  4,  1861,  had  six  childen. 

171.  William  Pollock,  bom  October  21,  1835,  single. 

172.  John  Wesley,  born  October  13,  1837,  married  Mary  A.  Seitz, 

September  15,  1861,  had  eight  children. 

173.  Joseph   Rhodes,  born   March    19,    1841,   married   Elizabeth 

Jane  Burket,  October  12,  1870,  had  six  children. 

174.  Richard    Pollock,   born   August   31,    1843,   married   Anetta 

Simonson,  November  22,  1876,  no  issue. 

175.  Thomas  Clinton,  born  May  6,  1846,  died  single,  December, 

1868. 

176.  Margaret  Ellen,  born  May  5,   1849,  married  John  Moore, 

had  one  child,  and  died  in  March,  1873. 

177.  Nathan  Alonzo,  bom  September  27,  1852,  married  Catliarine 

A.  Burket,  December  9,  1873,  had  six  children. 

178.  Frank  Stewart,  born  September  29,  1854,  married  Harriet 

Trowbridge,  had  two  children. 

Joseph  (86),  (son  of  Abram),  had  issue: 

179.  Richard. 

Elisha  (87),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

180.  Elias. 

181.  Mary. 

182.  Huldah. 

Nathan  D.  (92),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

183.  Harlen  W.,  bom   November   14,    1845,   married   Eliza   Le 

Fevre,  had  four  children. 


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KORTRIGHT    FAMILY.  575 

184.  Nathan  D.,  Jr.,  born  November  24,  1847,  married  Margaret 

S.  Kennedy,  1875,  had  six  children. 

185.  Gertrude  M.,  born  June  22,  1849,  married  Simon  B.  Cun- 

ningham, no  issue. 

186.  Samuel  M.,  born   November  28,    1852,   died   single,    1896, 

buried  at  Mauch  Chunk,  Pa. 

187.  William  A.,  born  June  12,  1855,  married  Jennie  Rawlings, 

June  5,  1883,  had  six  children. 

188.  Emma  L.,  bom  September   15,   1857,  married  Edward  F. 

Keen,  no  issue. 

Abraham  D.  (93),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

189.  Milton    Lerch,    bom    September    14,    1846,    married    Mary 

Elizabeth  Supplee,  December  7,  187 1,  had  three  children. 

190.  Mary,   born   March   29,    1848,   married   Townsend   George 

Fulmer,  1879,  ^^^  three  children. 

191.  Aseneth,  born  August  14,  1850,  married  Eugene  J.  Boyer, 

February  i,  1877,  had  two  children. 

192.  Clara,  born  September  25,  1853,  married  Morris  Kemerer 

Schweitzer,  August  22,  1882,  had  one  child. 

Jesse  D.  (99),  (son  of  Andrew),  had  issue  by  his 
FIRST  wife: 

193.  Helen  Gertrude. 

Jesse  D.  (99)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife  : 

194.  Bowman,  born   1856,  married  Laura  Kingsbury,   had  one 

child. 

195.  Miner. 

196.  Benton. 

197.  Alice. 

198.  Elizabeth. 

John  Jackson  (103),  (son  of  John  Cooper),  had  issue: 

199.  William  Albert,  born  March  4,   1866,  married  Alice  Hal- 

stead,  October  10,  1880,  had  one  child. 

200.  Ella  Louise,  born  January  14,  1869,  unmarried. 

201.  Charles  Franklin,  bom  January  15,  1871,  married  Elizabeth 

Green,  had  three  children. 

202.  John  Cooper,  bom  June  10,   1873,  married  Ella  Deyo,  no 

issue. 

203.  Lulu  Elizabeth,  bom  October  10,  1875,  unmarried. 

204.  Etta  Carrie,  bom  April  10,  1880,  unmarried. 

Aaron  Writer  (107),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

205.  Emma  M.,  bom  March  16,  1857,  married  first,  James  Wood, 


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576  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

January  lo,  1893,  no  issue.     She  married  second,  Isaac 
Simons,  had  one  child. 

206.  George  Denton,  bom  December  13,  1859,  married  Frances 

Emma  Cox,  June  3,  1896,  no  issue. 

207.  Sarah  A.,  born  January  21,  1845,  married  William  Ketcham, 

have  three  children.     • 

Samuel  D.  (no),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue  by  his 
FIRST  wife: 

208.  John  Jaline. 

Samuel  D.  (no)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

209.  Edgar,  born  August  26,  1857. 

Lawrence  William  (113),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

210.  William  T.,  born  June  14,  1856,  married  Lillian  Carr,  March 

23,  1887,  no  issue. 

211.  Frederick  L.,  born  June  10,   1867,  married  Flora  Corwin, 

1892,  no  issue. 

212.  Martha,  died  unmarried.     Of  Orange  County,  N.  Y. 

John  C.  (116),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue  by  his 
FIRST  wife: 

213.  Scott  Elmer,  bom  May  5,  1869,  married  Delia  Smith. 

James  (122),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

214.  John  Searles,  admitted  to  the  Bar  (presumably  at  Luzerne 

County,  Pa.),  in  1876. 

Jacob  (157),  (son  of  Elisha),  had  issue: 
215J  Mary  E.,  born  April  16,  1859,  married  Edward  Simerson, 
had  one  child. 

216.  A.  Gussie,  born  March  8,  1861,  married  H.  S.  Edsall,  had 

one  child. 

217.  Christopher  Jacob,  born  July  5,  1863,  married  Jessie  Sutphin, 

had  two  children. 

218.  Phillip  Lee,  born  April  7,  1867,  single. 

Elisha  Dingman  (170),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

219.  Joseph  Daniel,  bom  November  17,  1863,  married  Nora  Muf- 

ley,  had  two  children. 

220.  Thomas  C,  born  September  22,   1869,  married  Nellie  M. 

Leavenz,  had  one  child. 

221.  Samuel,  born  October  16,  1871. 

222.  Nathan  D.,  born  September  4,  1875,  single. 
227,.  Isaac,  born  May  i,  1878. 


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KORTRIGHT    FAMILY.  577 

224.  John  M.,  born  September  19,  1879. 

225.  Sarah  H.,  born  May  3,  1882. 

John  Wesley  (172),  (son  op  Isaac),  had  issue: 

226.  Teresa  I.,  bom  June  10,  1862,  married  William  Lough,  had 

two  children,  and  died  October  11,  1890. 

227.  Isaac  H.,  born  June  5,  1867,  married  Ada  Flint,  had  one 

child,  and  died  November  19,  1890. 

228.  May,  born  March  26,  1869,  married  W.  Q.  Edson. 

229.  William  Eddy,  bom  August  27^  iSy2, 

230.  Anna  V.,  bom  January  4,  1874,  married  R.  W.  Perkins,  June 

17,  1900. 

231.  Flora  G.,  bom  October  7,  1875,  married  R.  W.  Dennis. 

232.  Laura. 

233.  Wilson  Grant,  born  June  29,  1877. 

Joseph  Rhodes  (173),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

234.  Molly  J.,  bom  August  6,  1871,  married  W.  G.  Ross. 

235.  Fannie  F.,  bom  October  3,  1873,  married  A.  E.  Correll. 

236.  Grace  K.,  born  March  7,  1877,  married  F.  M.  Mulford. 

237.  Maude  B.,  bom  August  19,  1879. 

238.  Josephine  B.,  bom  January  27,  1882. 

239.  Luther. 

Nathan  Alonzo  (177),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

240.  J.  Wilbur,  born  Febmary  28,  1876,  married  Mary  Smith, 

had  one  child. 

241.  Charles  N.,  born  January  i,  1878. 

242.  Shelby  M.,  born  April  5,  1880. 

243.  Nellie  B.,  born  January  25,  1883. 

244.  Clyde  C,  born  Febmary  i,  1885.  « 

245.  Cecil  J.,  born  August  27,  1888. 

Frank  Stewart  (178),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

246.  Harlen. 

247.  Ethel 

Harlen  W.  (183),  (son  of  Nathan  D.),  had  issue: 

248.  Mabel  Louisa,  born  December  24,  1876. 

249.  William  Le  Fevre,  born  December  3,  1879. 

250.  John  Harlan,  bom  December  24,  1886. 

251.  Abbie  Hope,  bom  February  26,  1889. 

Nathan  D.  (184),  (son  of  Nathan  D.),  had  issue: 

252.  Charles,  born  1878. 

253.  Frank,  born  1880. 


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254.  Henry  L.,  bom  July  14,  1882. 

255.  Edgar,  bom  1884. 

256.  Donald,  bom  1889. 

257.  Margaret,  bom  1895. 

William  A.  (187),  (son  of  Nathan  D.),  had  issue: 

258.  Nannie  Rawlings,  bom  May  9,  1885. 

259.  Edwin  K.,  born  January  18,  1887. 

260.  Nathan  Dodem,  born  January  i,  1890. 

261.  William  Abram,  Jr.,  born  April  12,  1893. 

262.  James,  born  March   11,  1896. 

263.  Frances  Whiley,  bom  October  17,  1898. 

Milton  Lerch  (189),  (son  of  Abraham  D.),  had  issue: 

264.  Grace   Pearl,   born    September    11,    1872,   married   Herbert 

Stanton  Balliet,  had  one  child. 

265.  Robert  Milton,  bom  December  29,  1877,  single. 

266.  Florence  Tear,  born  December  10,  1881. 

Bowman  (194),  (son  of  Jesse  D.),  had  issue: 

267.  Lawrence. 

William  Albert  (199),  (son  of  John  Jackson),  had  issue: 

268.  Warden,  born  November  30,  1889. 

Charles  Franklin  (201),  (son  of  John  Jackson),  had  issue: 

269.  Harold. 

270.  Walter. 

271.  John  J. 

Christopher  Jacob   (217),   (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 
2^2,  Paul  A.,  bom  February  8,  1895. 

273.  Margaret  Genevieve,  born  March  8,  1899. 

Joseph  Daniel  (219),  (son  of  Elisha  Dingman),  had  issue: 

274.  Archie. 

275.  Carl  I. 

Thomas  C.  (220),  (son  of  Elisha  Dingman),  had  issue: 

276.  Blanche  M. 

Isaac  H.  (227),  (son  of  John  Wesley),  had  issue: 

277.  Emma. 

J.  Wilbur  (240),  (son  of  Nathan  Alonzo),  had  issue: 

278.  Vernon  Smith. 


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LOW- 

Laurens  Jansen,  bom  in  Leerdam,  Holland,  in  165 1,  and  an- 
cestor of  the  Low  family  of  Harlem,  was  the  youngest  son  of  Jan 
Bastiaensen,  whose  two  elder  sons  bore  the  name  of  Kortright. 
For  notices  of  their  emigration  see  pages  67,  95,  204,  258 ;  other 
references  to  Laurens  after  he  established  himself  at  Harlem 
may  be  found  in  subsequent  pages.  His  share  of  the  De  Meyer 
lands,  bought  jointly  with  his  brother,  Comelis,  laid  the  founda- 
tion for  the  ample  estate  he  acquired  here;  but  which,  with  his 
grandsons,  passed  out  of  the  name.  His  election  as  an  overseer, 
in  1677,  and  repeatedly  afterward,  and  the  other  responsible 
duties  entrusted  to  him,  evince  the  respect  in  which  he  was  held. 
In  the  division  of  the  De  Meyer  lands,  Laurens  took  lot  No.  2, 
on  Jochem  Pieters'  Flat ;  No.  6,  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  the  two 
north  gardens,  or  orchard,  and  the  two  erven,  on  one  of  which 
the  new  church  was  built  in  1686.  To  said  Lot  6,  on  which 
he  afterward  built,  he  added  the  lower  half  of  No.  5  (rated  at 
two  morgen),  by  purchase  from  Paulus  Richard,  November  17, 
1677.  (See  note,  page  338.)  He  drew  61  acres  in  the  several 
divisions,  for  which  see  Appendix  J.  Prior  to  1715  he  sold 
No.  4,  2d  Division,  to  Johannes  Benson,  and  conveyed  the  orchard 
to  Peter  V^an  Oblienis,  the  last  the  plot  which  passed  to  Peter 
Waldron,  and  since  owned  by  James  Chesterman,  who  built 
thereon  the  Chesterman  house  still  standing  (1881).  Laurens 
married,  in  1672,  Mary,  daughter  of  Albert  Heymans  Roosa,  of 
Esopus.  (See  page  388.)  On  April  13,  1706,  she  and  Laurens 
joined  in  the  sale  of  her  father's  estate  to  her  brother  Arien  Roosa. 
Laurens  Jansen  died  in  1727. 

Laurens  Jansen   (i)   had  issue: 

2.  Annatje,  baptized  July  8,  1674,  married  Gysbert  Bogert,  had 

six  children. 

3.  Albert,    baptized    November    11,    1676,    married    Susannah, 

daughter  of  John  Delamater,  October  2,  1702,  had  five 
children.  Removed  to  Raritan,  Somerset  County,  N.  J., 
in  1709.  Will  dated  September  24,  1739:  probated  Feb- 
ruary 20,  1761.     He  died  1761. 

4.  Wyntie  (Lavinia),  baptized  April  23,  1679. 

5.  Neeltie  (Cornelia),  baptized  May  20,  1682,  married  Conrad 

Lamberts.  May  27,  1703. 

6.  Jan   (John),  baptized  April  29,  1685,  married  Jannetie  Cor- 

sen,  June  20,  1707,  had  eight  children.  Resided  in 
Somerset  County,  N.  J. 

7.  Gysbert,  baptized  August  14,  1687. 

8.  Comelis  (Cornelius),  born  in  1691,  married  Judith  Middagh, 

about  171 5,  had  nine  children,  and  died  in  1763. 


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9.  Belitie  (Isabelle),  baptized  June  18,  1693. 

10.  Lawrence,  born  in  1698,  at  Harlem,  N.  Y.,  married  Jannetie 

Van  Vleckerens,  June  12,  1724,  had  three  children,  and 
died  in  1755. 

Albert  (3),  (son  of  Laurens  Jansen),  served  as  a  deacon 
at  Raritan,  N.  J.,  and  died  in  1761,  leaving  his  farm  to  his  sons 
Abraham  and  Cornelius. 

Albert  (3)  had  issue: 

11.  Marytje  (Maria),  baptized  September  15,  1703,  married  Hen- 

drick  Pettinger,  about   1725,  had  seven  children. 

12.  Jan    (John),  baptized  June  2,    1707,  not  mentioned   in   his 

father's  will. 

13.  Louwerens  (Lawrence),  baptized  October  25,  1710,  not  men- 

tioned in  his  father's  will. 

14.  Abram  (Abraham),  baptized  October  13,  1719,  married  Ida 

Stoothoff,  January  23,  1753,  had  four  children.  Served 
in  the  Revolutionary  War  from  Somerset  County,  N.  J. 
Was  elected  deacon  of  the  Neshanic,  N.  J.,  Reformed 
Church,  April  2y,  1780. 

15.  Cornells    (Cornelius),   baptized   October    13,    1719,   married 

Catrina  Van  Duyn,  September  27,  1746,  had  ^v^  children. 

Jan  (John)  (6),  (son  of  Laurens  Jansen),  was  deacon  of 
the  Reformed  Church  at  North  Branch,  N.  J.,  in  1721. 

Jan  (John)  (6)  had  issue: 

16.  Gysbert,  baptized  October  9,   1714,  married  Persila  ?, 

had  one  child. 

17.  Lawrence,  born  about  171 1,  married  Geertje  Rosa,  had  seven 

children. 

18.  Benjamin,  baptized  October  17,  1716,  married  Neeltje  Van 

Nest,  had  eight  children. 

19.  Cornelius,  born  about  17 18,  married  Johanna  Jansen,  had  two 

children. 

20.  Marytje,  baptized  April  4,  17 19,  married  Jan  Kool,  March 

19,  1749,  had  five  children. 

21.  Wenitje  (Lavinia),  baptized  April  4,  1721. 

22.  Metje  (Mary),  baptized  August  18,  1723. 

23.  Yeunis    (Tunis),  baptized   April   3,    1728,   married   Maayke 

(Mary)  Hall,  had  three  children. 

CoRNEUS  (Cornelius)   (8),  (son  of  Laurens  Jansen), 
HAD  issue: 

24.  Dirck,  bom  September  26,  1717,  married  Rebecca  E::::nons 


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(Emans),  June  i,  1747,  had  fourteen  children,  and  died 
about  1804.  He  resided  at  Hillsborough,  Somerset 
County,  N.  J.  Was  building  master  and  trustee  of  the 
Neshanic,  N.  J.,  Reformed  Church  from  1759  to  1772, 
beingprominently  identified  with  this  church  for  many  years. 

25.  Marytie  (Mary),  baptized  April  14,  1721,  married  Abraham 

Bodine,  had  seven  children. 

26.  Cathelyntje,  baptized  March  3,  1723,  not  mentioned  in  her 

father's  will. 

27.  Gysbert,  baptized  November  14,  1725,  not  mentioned  in  his 

father's  will. 

28.  Comelis    (Cornelius),  baptized  December  3,   1729,  married 

Annatje  Dildein,  had  six  children. 

29.  Judick  (Judith),  baptized  October  25,  1730,  married  Johannes 

Van  Nest. 

30.  Jan   (John),  baptized  February  4,   1733,  married  Catherina 

Emans,  had  four  children. 

31.  Gerrit   (Garret),  baptized  August  3,   1735,  married  Rachel 

?,  had  five  children. 

32.  Antje  (Anna),  baptized  January  21,  1739,  married  Abraham 

Van  Vleet. 

Lawrence  Low  (10),  bom  in  Harlem,  1698,  married  on 
June  12,  1724,  Jannetie,  daughter  of  Marinus  Roelofs  Van  Vleck- 
eren  (whence  Flackra  and  Flack),  of  Bloomingdale.  He  suc- 
ceeded to  his  father's  lands  at  Harlem,  as  we  have  described 
them,  and  which  his  brother,  Albert,  as  heir-at-law,  released 
to  him  December  8,  1731.  On  May  22,  1732,  he  sold  to 
widow  Maria  Myer  his  lot  and  a  half  (now  called  nine  acres) 
on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  and  built  upon  his  Lot  15  of  1691, 
on  the  Heights,  where  he  was  living  May  9,  1738,  when  he 
and  his  wife  conveyed  Lot  No.  2,  Jochem  Pieters'  Flat,  to  Isaac 
Myer.  Low  also  made  several  considerable  purchases;  in  1737 
he  bought  Lot  No.  10  of  the  division  of  1691,  to  which,  in  1747, 
he  added  the  upper  half  of  the  adjoining  Lot  9,  laid  out  to  Dela- 
vall,  and  called  "the  33  morgen  lot"  (this  half,  with  No.  10, 
forming  the  tract  since  of  Samuel  Bradhurst)  ;  and  also  half  of 
Delavall's  No.  9,  4th  Division.  Low  made  his  will  November 
25,  1754,  which  was  proved  November  4,  1755,.  and  by  which  his 
widow  was  to  enjoy  his  estate  during  her  life.  But  ten  years 
before  her  death,  which  happened  in  1772,  in  her  70th  year,  her 
two  sons  made  a  formal  division  of  the  property,  and  sold  some 
of  it,  whence  it  would  appear  that  they  had  acquired  the  interests 
of  their  mother  and  sister. 

Lawrence  (10),  (son  of  Laurens  Jansen),  had  issue: 

33.  Dinah,  baptized  March  11,  1730,  married  Jacobus  Toumeur, 

of  Haverstraw,  N.  Y.,  had  ten  children. 


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34.  Marinus,   born    1734,   married   Deborah,   daughter  of   John 

Oblinus,  February  7,  1754.     See  Vol.  19,  page  2i^7,  of 
Wills  in  the  New  York  Surrogate's  office. 

On  the  division  of  the  lands  by  Marinus  and  John,  February 
2,  1762,  embracing,  as  at  their  father's  death,  149  acres,  Marinus 
took  the  73  acres  in  Lots  9  and  10  of  1691,  with  No.  18,  ist  Divis- 
ion, and  No.  5,  3d  Division.  He  conveyed  to  John  No.  15  of 
1 69 1,  being  the  homestead,  Nos.  20  and  21,  ist  Division,  and 
No.  1 1  and  half  of  9,  4th  Division.  Having  g^ven  sundry  mort- 
gages on  his  lands,  he  sold  out,  in  1766,  to  John  Maunsell,  Esq., 
afterward  Lieutenant-General  in  the  British  army. 

35.  John,  who  married  Bridget,  daughter  of  Adolph  Meyer,  June 

22,  1765,  had  three  children. 

He  added  considerably  to  his  lands ;  including  No.  4,  Second 
Division,  17  acres,  originally  of  his  grandfather  Low,  and 
which  had  passed  from  the  Bensons  to  Johannes  Myer.  He 
also  bought  No.  i.  Second  Division,  41  acres,  and  No.  16,  Last 
Division,  31  acres.  But  he,  too,  sold  out,  in  and  between  the 
years  1762  and  1767;  his  No.  11,  Fourth  Division,  to  Jacob  Dyck- 
man;  Lot  15  of  169 1  to  John  Dykman;  No.  i,  Second  Division, 
to  Benjamin  Waldron,  Sen.,  and  Nos.  20,  21,  First  Division,  No. 
4,  Second  Division,  half  of  9,  Fourth  Division,  and  No.  16,  Last 
Division,  to  John  Watkins.  Thus  within  a  few  years  after  get- 
ting possession,  the  brothers  Low  disposed  of  all  their  lands  here. 
In  1776  they  kept  a  public-house  at  Freshwater,  in  the  suburbs 
of  the  city. 

This  family  must  be  distinguished  from  another  of  the 
same  name,  to  which  it  bore  no  relationship,  that  of  Ulster 
County,  named  page  184;  members  of  which  also  lived  in  New 
York  and  New  Jersey.  It  is  indeed  difficult  to  separate  the  two 
after  the  one  left  Harlem,  and  in  regard  to  the  latter  family  we 
should  welcome  further  information. 

Abram  (Abraham)  (14),  (son  of  Albert),  had  issue: 

36.  Rem,  baptized  January  20,  1754. 

37.  Abraham,  baptized  April  10,  1757,  married  Maria  Garretson, 

had  four  children.     She  joined  the  Reformed  Church  at 
Neshanic,  N.  J.,  October  18,  1793. 

38.  Marya  (Maria),  baptized  August  10,  1760. 

39.  Catreina  (Catherina),  baptized  June  29,  1766. 

CoRNEUS  (Cornelius)  (15),  (son  of  Albert),  had  issue: 

40.  Sara,  baptized  July  26,  1751. 

41.  Cornelius,  baptized  April  27,  1755. 


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42.  Catrentje,  baptized  July  24,  1757,  her  will  recorded  at  Tren- 

ton, N.  J.,  Book  M,  page  iii. 

43.  Willem  (William),  baptized  March  23,  1774. 

44.  John,  baptized  October  20,  1776. 

Gysbert  (16),  (son  of  Jan)  (John),  had  issue: 

45.  Maria,  baptized  December  12,  1773. 

Lawrence  (17),  (son  of  Jan)  (John),  had  issue: 

46.  John,  who  married  Mary  Bodine. 

47.  Guisbert  (Gysbert). 

48.  Henry. 

49.  Yanaca  (Jannetje). 

50.  Elizabeth,  baptized  December  28,  1751. 

51.  Charity. 

52.  Wynca  (Lavinia). 

Benjamin  (18),  (son  of  Jan)  (John),  had  issue: 

53.  Pieter    (Peter),  baptized  November  6,   1743,  married  first, 

Sarah  ?,  had  one  child,  and  second,  Hannah  Ten 

Eyck,  had  three  children. 

54.  Jan  (John),  baptized  March  23,  1746,  married  Maria ?, 

had  two  children. 

55.  Janneke  (Joan),  baptized  March  31,  1748,  died  young. 

56.  Cornelius,  baptized  May  — ,  1750,  married  Catlina  Stryker, 

had  five  children. 

57.  Jannetje  (Jane),  baptized  March  13,  1755. 

58.  Benjamin,  baptized  December  26,    1757,   married  Elizabeth 

?,  had  one  child. 

59.  Gisbert,  baptized  September  25,  1762. 

60.  Isaac,  baptized  June  29,   1766. 

Cornelius  (19),  (son  of  Jan)  (John),  had  issue: 

61.  Jan   (John),  baptized  May  13,   1752,  married  Aeltie  ?, 

had  two  children. 

62.  Benjamin,  baptized  October  28,  1753. 

Yeunis  (Tunis)  (23),  (son  of  Jan)  (John),  had  issue: 

63.  Jan  (John),  baptized  August  2,  1752,  had  one  child. 

64.  Thomas,  baptized  February  6,  1755. 

65.  Metje  (Mary),  baptized  March  21,  1756. 

DiRCK  (24),  (son  of  Cornelis)  (Cornelius),  had  issue: 

66.  Maria,  bom  February  23,  1748,  married  Joseph  Carle. 

67.  Dirck  D.,  born  November  27,  1749,  married  Dorothea  Ten 

Eyck,  had  eight  children,  and  died  February  20,  1826. 


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68.  Johannis  (John),  born  June  23,  175 1,  married  Sarah ?. 

69.  Teuntje  (Eunice),  born  January  4,  1753,  married ?  Sut- 

phin. 

70.  Cathelina  (Catherine),  bom  March  8,  1754,  married  ? 

Kimberly. 

71.  Cornelius  D.,  bom  December  2^,  1755,  was  a  private  in  Con- 

tinental Army  from  New  Jersey.     Single. 

72.  Rebecca,  born  December  12,  1757,  married  William  Verbryck, 

had  one  child. 

73.  Gisbert,  bom  October   19,   1759,  married  Margaret  Emer>', 

had  two  children. 

74.  Ann,  bom  October  20,  1761,  married ?  Hall. 

75.  Judith,  bom  September  11,  1763,  married  John  T.  Hall. 

76.  Abraham,  born  September  10,  1765,  married  first,  Mrs.  Stev- 

enson (nee  Jones). 
TJ,  Jacob  Derrick,  born  May  12,  1767,  married  first,  Martha 
Perlee,  March  6,  1796,  had  six  children,  second,  Martha 
Edgar,  October  5,  181 1,  had  one  child,  and  third,  Frances 
Wilds,  March  23,  181 5,  had  two  children.  He  removed 
to  N.  W.  Territory,  Ohio,  about  1800,  and  died  December 
9,  1839. 

78.  Sarah,  bom  January   15,   1769,  married  Peter  Stryker,  had 

three  children. 

79.  Isaac,  born  February  25,  1772,  married  first,  Elizabeth  Hall, 

had  three  children.     He  married  second,  Jane  Sutphen, 
and  had  four  children. 

CORNELIS   (CORNEIJUS)    (28),   (sON  OF  CoRNELIS),  HAD  ISSUE! 

80.  Cornelius,  baptized  September  9,  1750,  married  Sara  ?, 

had  one  child. 

81.  Cathelyntje,   baptized    November    10,    1751,    married    ? 

Vlereborne. 

82.  Judick,  baptized  September  8,  1754. 

83.  Gysbert,  baptized  October  24,  1757. 

84.  Maria,  baptized  March  4,  1759. 

85.  Rebecca,  baptized  June  21,   1761,  married  Jacobus  Emans, 

had  one  child. 

Jan  (John)  (30),  (son  of  Corneus)  (Cornelius), 
HAD  issue: 

86.  Johannes,  baptized  May  22,    1757,  married  Maria  Stryker, 

had  one  child. 

87.  Abraham,  baptized  July  15,  1759,  married  Phebe  Bodine,  had 

four  children. 

88.  Tuentje,  baptized  October  13,  1765. 

89.  Judick,  baptized  June  12,  1768. 


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GeRRIT    (31),   (son  01^  CORNEUS)    (CoRNEUUS),  HAD  ISSUE: 

90.  Judith,  bom  July  24,  1756,  married  Christopher  Stryker,  had 

five  children,  and  died  November  20,  1830. 

91.  Cornelius,  baptized  February  12,  1758,  married  Jane  Allen, 

October  5,  1788,  had  three  children. 

92.  Sara,  baptized  April  i,  1764,  married  Cornelius  Emans,  had 

three  children. 

93.  Gysbert,  baptized  February  16,  1766. 

94.  Abraham,  baptized  August  7,  1768. 

John  (35),  (son  of  Lawrence),  had  issue: 

95.  Adolf,  born  April  30,  1771. 

96.  Saartje  (Sarah),  bom  April  4,  1773. 

97.  Brechje  (Bridget),  baptized  December  14,  1782. 

Abraham  (37),  (son  of  Abram)  (Abraham),  had  issue: 

98.  Abraham,  baptized  February  20,  1780. 

99.  Gerrit,  baptized  July  31,  1785. 

100.  Pieter  (Peter),  baptized  July  6,  1788,  married  Martha  Ter- 

hune,  December  7,  1809,  had  one  child, 
loi.  Comelus  (Cornelius),  baptized  July  27,  1791. 

Pieter  (Peter)  (53),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue 
by  his  first  wife: 

102.  Daniel,  baptized  March  i,  1767. 

Pieter  (53)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

103.  Comelius,  baptized  December  10,  1780. 

104.  Andries  Ten  Eyck,  baptized  September  21,   1788. 

105.  Rebecca,  baptized  August  22,  1792. 

Jan  (John)   (54),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

106.  Isaac,  baptized  May  2,  1773. 

107.  William,  baptized  May  16,  1776,  married  Frances  Hoff,  had 

five  children. 

Cornelius  (56),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

108.  Comelius,  baptized  March  27,  1774. 

109.  Deneys  Stryker,  baptized  October  19,  1777. 
no.  Lena,  baptized  September  28,  1783. 

111.  Catlina,  baptized  July  2,   1786. 

112.  Barent,  bom  August  2J,  1795. 

Benjamin  (58),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

113.  Elesebath  (Elizabeth),  baptized  June  14,  1777. 


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Jan  (John)  (6i),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

114.  Cathlintie,  baptized  December  4,  1774. 

115.  Bengemen  (Benjamin),  baptized  August  28,  1780,  married 

Annie  Trimmer,  Januar>'  14,  1802. 

Jan  (John)  (63),  (son  of  Yeunis)  (Tunis),  had  issue: 

116.  David. 

DiRCK  D.  (67),  (son  of  Dirck),  had  issue: 

117.  Rebecca,  born  April  28,  1775,  died  young. 

118.  Debora,  born  April  28,  1778,  married  Derrick  Sutphen,  Sep- 

tember I,  1799,  had  four  children,  and  died  August  10, 

1857. 

119.  Dirick  (Richard  D.),  bom  June  3,  1780,  went  West  and  mar- 

ried there.     Returned  and  died  January  9,   1866.     Had 
surviving  issue. 

120.  Maria,  born  May  2;^^  1782,  married  Abraham  R.  Sutphen. 

121.  Rebecca,  bom  June  6,  1785. 

122.  Nelly  (Eleanor),  born  May  i,  1788. 

123.  Annie  Van  D.,  born  March  25,  1792,  married  Peter  Clover 

Schenck,  February  i,  181 2,  and  died  March  5,  1867. 

124.  Peter  Ten  Eyck,  born  July  2,  1794,  married  first,  Sarah  Ott, 

had  three  children,  and  second,  Parmelia  Ott,  by  whom 
he  had  four  children. 

GiSBERT   {73)  y   (son  of  DiRCK),  HAD  ISSUE: 

125.  Mary,  born  January  29,  1795. 

126.  Cornelius,  bom  March  9,  1797,  buried  March  10,  1841,  at 

Readington,  N.  J. 

Jacob  Derrick  (77) y  (son  of  Dirck),  had  issue  by 
FIRST  wife: 

127.  Rebecca  J.,  born  July  2,  1797,  married  James  Kemper,  had 

eight  children,  and  died  April  3,  1851. 

128.  Jacob  J.,  born  March  21,  1799,  died  single,  July  30,  1825. 

129.  Peter  Perlee,  born  June  11,  1801,  married  Ann  Bomberger, 

May  4,  1830,  had  four  children,  and  died  August  7,  1866. 

130.  Derrick  J.,  born  in   Ohio,   May  21,   1803,  married  ? 

Duval,  and  died  April  25,  1856. 

131.  Ralph   Phillips,  bom   November  24,    1805,   married   Phebe 

Carlton,  had  nine  children. 

132.  Isaac,  born  September  22,  1807,  died  single,  Februarv  16, 

1815. 

Jacob  Derrick  (77)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

133.  James  Edgar,  bom  July  22,  1812,  died  September  2,  1812. 


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Jacob  Derrick  {jy)  had  issue  by  his  third  wife: 
134.  James  Kemper,  bom  June  25,  1816,  died  July  6,  1816. 
135-  John  Gilbert,  bom  September  25,  1817,  married  Marianna 
Louise  Thurston  (nee  Phillips),  1843,  had  five  children, 
and  died  July  30,  1892.      She  died  September  7,  1896. 

Isaac  (79),  (son  of  Dirck),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

136.  Mary,  bom  December  25,  1799,  deceased. 

137.  Martha,  bom  August  20,  1803,  married  Dennis  Wyckoff. 

138.  Elsey,  born  August  i,  1807,  married  John  B.  Hoagland,  had 

one  child.     She  deceased. 

Isaac  (79)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

139.  Peter,  bom  January  13,  1814,  married  Sarah  Van  Arsdalc, 

1835,  had  seven  children.     He  deceased. 

140.  Isaac,  bom  March  12,  1816,  married  Rachel  Young,  Sep- 

tember 24,  1836,  had  six  children.     He  deceased. 

141.  Rachel,  born  October  25,  181 8,  married  Aaron  H.  Trimmer, 

but  died  without  issue. 

142.  John,  bom  April  29,  1827,  died  single. 

Cornelius  (80),  (son  of  Corneus),  had  issue: 

143.  Sara,  baptized  December  22,  1782. 

Johannes  (86),  (son  of  Jan)   (John),  had  issue: 

144.  Gerrit,  bom  June  26,  1797,  baptized  September  7,  1798. 

Abraham  (87),  (son  of  Jan)   (John),  had  issue: 

145.  John,  bom  September  20,  1789. 

146.  Esther,  bom  January  2,   1791,  married  David  P.  Schamp, 

had  eight  children. 

147.  Peter  Bodine,  who  married  Harriet  Van  Home,  had  three 

children.     He  kept  a  store  at  Centerville,  N.  J.     Moved 
to  Texas,  and  died  in  Illinois. 

148.  Catherine,  bom  May  15/  1804,  married  Comelius  Booraem. 

Corneuus  (91),  (son  of  Gerrit),  had  issue: 

149.  Garret,  born  July  13,  1789. 

150.  Robert  Allen,  born  September  i,  1791,  married  Maria  Voor- 

hees,  January  19,  1820. 

151.  Elizabeth,  bom  July  20,  1796,  unmarried. 

PiETER  (100),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

152.  G)rnelius  Terhune,  bom  October  7^  1810. 

William  (107),  (son  of  Jan)  (John),  had  issue: 

153.  Abraham  Huff,  baptized  July  23,  17S8. 


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154.  Hannah,  born  June  8,  1791. 

155.  Hendrick,  born  July  6,  1793. 

156.  Neeltje,  baptized  January  24,  1796. 

157.  George  Huff,  who  married  Hannah  Randolph,  had  three 

children. 

Peter  Ten  Eyck  (124),  (son  of  Dirck  D.),  had  issue 
by  his  first  wife: 

158.  Nathaniel   Hilyer,    born   July    i,    1817,    married   Catharine 

?,  had  six  children,  and  died  February  15,  1853. 

159.  Rachel  Ann,  born  April  2,  1819,  died,  unmarried,  October 

27.  1843. 

160.  Nicholas  Ott,  bom  August  2,  1820,  married  Elizabeth  Lud- 

low, November  10,  1847,  had  two  children,  and  died  April 

11,  1854. 

Peter  Ten  Eyck  (124)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

161.  Dorothy,  bom  June  — ,  1823,  died  unmarried. 

162.  Richard,   bom   January   8,    1829,   married   first,    Sallie   M. 

Hoagland,  had  two  children,  and  second,  Hannah  Hoag- 
land.     No  issue  by  second  wife. 

163.  Sarah,  born  May  24,  1830,  married  John  I.  More,  November 

24,  1863. 

164.  John  M.,  born  September  5,  1837. 

Peter  Perle^  (129),  (son  of  Jacob  Derrick),  had  issue: 

165.  Sarah  Perlee,  bom  July  6,  183 1,  died,  unmarried.  May   i, 

1880. 

166.  Jacob  Derrick,  born  September  15,  1833,  died  single,  March 

12,  1859. 

167.  William    Bomberger,    born    September    13,    1835,    married 

Anna  P.  Findlay,  January  20,  1859,  ^^^  died  without 
issue  in  September,  1889.  He  was  captain  in  the  nth 
Infantry,  in  the  United  States  Army,  during  the  Civil 
War. 

168.  Anne,  born  July  19,  1838,  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  married  Joseph 

H.  Rieman,  October  3,  1861,  had  seven  children,  and  died 
in  Baltimore,  Maryland. 

Ralph  Phillips  (131),  (son  of  Jacob  Derrick),  had  issue: 

169.  Carlton,  who  died  single. 

170.  Glenn,  single. 

171.  Clifton. 

172.  Kate,  who  married  George  Kendall,  January  20,  1868,  had 

three  children. 

173.  Lemoni,  who  died  single. 


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174.  Ralph,  who  died  single. 

175.  Peter. 

176.  Nellie,  who  married  Gabriel  F.  Johnston. 

177.  Nathaniel  Edson,  who  was  a  missionary  in  South  America. 

Married  twice. 

John  Gilbert  (135),  (son  of  Jacob  Derrick),  had  issue: 

178.  Frances  Kemper,  bom  September  i,  1844,  married  Charles 

Newbold,  had  six  children. 

179.  Elizabeth  W.,  born  June  17,  1846,  married  E.  Fowler  Stod- 

dard, November  10,  1868,  had  five  children. 

180.  Henry  Clay,  born  February  i,  1848,  married  Ella  Harries, 

had  one  child. 

181.  Houston,  bom  September  18,  1849,  married  Carrie  Harries, 

December  28,  1871,  have  five  children. 

182.  Mary  D.,  born  December  4,  1857,  married  Thomas  P.  Gad- 

dis,  April  16,  1878,  had  one  child. 

Peter  (139),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

183.  John  B.,  born  December  31,  1836,  married  Martha  V.  N. 

Sebring,  had  two  children. 

184.  Ann  Maria,  bom  1838,  married  Peter  Laub,  1861,  had  three 

children. 

185.  Sarah  Jane,  born  1840,  married  William  H.  Dudley,  i860, 

have  four  children. 

186.  Peter,  bom  1843,  married  in  1864. 

187.  Rachel   Trimmer,   born    1845,   married    Samuel   Chevalier, 

1869,  had  one  child,  and  died  in  1872. 

188.  Mary  Louisa,  bom  1848,  died,  unmarried,  1869. 

189.  Rulof,  born  1850,  died  young. 

Isaac  (140),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

190.  Jane  A.,  bom   September  25,    1839,  married  December  7, 

1859. 

191.  Mary  C,  bom  July  7,  1839,  married  December  28,  1854. 

192.  Loretta  L.,  bom  May  3,  1841. 

193.  John  T.,  bom  September  28,  1845. 

194.  Jacob  S.,  bom  December  31,  1847,  married  Jane  A.  Voor- 

hees,  September  20,  187 1,  had  six  children. 

195.  Simeon  D.,  bom  March  23.  1855,  married  May  12,  1883. 

Peter  Bodine  (i47)»  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

196.  Abraham,  single. 

197.  John,  single. 

198.  Phebe  Elizabeth,  who  married ?  Pinnell,  now  deceased. 


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Gex)rge  Huff  (157),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

199.  Ezekiel  F.  R.,  bom  January  i,  1830,  married  Lucy  A.  Low, 

1876,  no  issue. 

200.  David. 

201.  John  R. 

Nathaniel  Hilyer  (158),  (son  of  Peter  Ten  Eyck), 
HAD  issue: 

202.  Henry  O.,  born  June  9,  1841. 

203.  Samuel  E.,  born  June  4,  1843,  ^^^d  September  10,  1857. 

204.  Peter  B.,  born  August  29,  1845,  died  in  August,  1886. 

205.  Josiah  A.,  born  November  4,  1847,  had  one  child. 

206.  Sarah  Ann,  born  February  10,  1849. 

207.  Nathaniel  H.,  born  April  19,  1852,  died  March  14,  1877. 

Nicholas  Ott  (160),  (son  of  Peter  Ten  Eyck), 
HAD  issue: 

208.  Susan  Ludlow,  born  June  30,  1849. 

209.  Helen,  born  October  12,  1853,  married  Charles  Sloan,  Oc- 

tober 12,  187s,  no  issue. 

Richard  (162),  (son  of  Peter  Ten  Eyck),  had  issue 

BY  FIRST   wife: 

210.  Mary  Anna,  born  February  2,  1863,  married  James  S.  Hall, 

November  31,  1884,  no  issue. 

211.  Amelia  Aletta,  born  September  21,  1866,  unmarried. 

Henry  Clay  (180),  (son  of  John  Gilbert),  h.vd  issue: 

212.  Marianna  Louise,  bom  June  14,  1876. 

Houston  (181),  (son  of  John  Gilbert),  had  issue: 

213.  Charles  Harries,  born  June  24,   1873. 

214.  Ella  Harries,  born  January    15,    1875,  married  Lewis  W. 

Gunckel,  November  7,  1895,  no  issue. 

215.  Elizabeth,  born  February  18,  1877. 

216.  Henrietta  C,  bom  November  20,  1882. 

217.  John  Gilbert,  born  March  2,  1884. 

John  B.  (183),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

218.  Vanny  B.,  born  June  8,  1862,  married  Addie  H.  Praul,  1881. 

had  three  children. 

219.  Isaac  S.,  born  August  5,  1866,  married  Margaret  H.  Pol- 

hemus,  1893,  had  one  child. 


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Jacob  S.  (194),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

220.  Anna  Maria,  bom  July  2^,  1872,  married  Theodore  S.  Harm, 

December  25,  189 1. 

221.  Isaac  J.,  born  April  25,  1876. 

222.  Loretta  L.,  bom  November  9,  1879. 

223.  Cora  R.,  born  October  21,  1885. 

224.  Madeline  B.,  bom  September  21,  1890. 

225.  Clara  S.,  born  February  17,  1894. 

JosiAH  A.  (205),  (son  of  Nathaniel  Hilyer),  had  issue: 

226.  Josiah  Appleton,  bom  September  12,  1874. 

Vanny  B.  (218),  (son  of  John  B.),  had  issue: 

227.  Martha  S.,  born  1885,  married  William  Van  Middlesarth, 

February  6,  1902. 

228.  Mary  P.,  bom  1887. 

229.  Isaac  J.,  born  April  21,  1891. 

Isaac  S.  (219),  (son  of  John  B.),  had  issue: 

230.  Ethel  H.,  born  June  16,  1897. 

MONTANYE. 

Abram  De  La  Montanie, — he  so  wrote  his  name, — claims 
a  separate  notice  here  as  one  of  the  patentees,  though  repre- 
senting only  a  lesser  branch  of  this  numerous  family,  of  which 
more  extended  notes  will  be  found  in  Appendix  B.  The  prefix 
De  La,  adopted  by  all  the  sons  of  Dr.  Johannes  La  Montague, 
was  more  generally  retained,  perhaps,  by  his  descendants  of  this 
branch  than  of  any  other,  but  still  was  so  far  common  to  all  of 
the  name,  and  yet  so  generally  treated  as  of  doubtful  utility, — 
to  be  used  or  omitted  at  pleasure, — that  it  becomes  a  very  unre- 
liable means  of  identity.     (See  note,  page  107.) 

Abram  Delamontanie,  bom  in  1664,  baptized  March  16,  1664, 
and  but  eight  years  of  age  when  his  father,  John,  died,  was  the 
only  son  that  remained  at  Harlem.  He  was  bred  a  weaver,  and 
afterward  gave  instruction  in  that  handicraft  to  other  young  men 
of  the  town.  He  married,  March  27,  1689,  Rebecca,  eldest  daugh- 
ter of  Theunis  Idens  Van  Huyse,  of  Bloomingdale,  and  by  the 
death  of  his  mother  soon  after,  near  the  close  of  that  year,  suc- 
ceeded to  her  house  and  lot  in  the  village.  His  rights  as  a  pat- 
entee were  by  virtue  of  this  freehold ;  and  upon  this  he  drew,  in 
1691.  lot  No.  23,  five  morgen,  which  in  the  deed  given  by  the  town 
March  21,  1701,  is  described  as  follows: 

There  is  set  oflF  to  Abraham  de  La  Montanie  (for  the  right  of  one  erf), 
a  piece  of  land  lying  west  of  the  King's  way,  bounded  against  the  Harlem 


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limits  to  a  steep  rock  standing  in  the  run,  upon  it  four  rods  northerly  a 
small  maple  tree  of  Metje  Cornelis;  and  southerly  on  along  the  King's 
way  to  a  run  where  the  King's  way  passes  over. 

This  piece  of  land,  now  within  Central  Park,  lay  opposite  to 
and  below  the  old  McGown  place,  stretching  along  the  west  side 
of  the  road  from  99th  to  104th  Street,  or  thereabouts,  and  upon 
its  southern  end  afterward  stood  the  Black  Horse  Tavern,  of 
Revolutionary  notoriety.  The  west  side  of  this  grant  lay  in 
proximity  to  the  lands  of  his  father-in-law,  Theunis  Idens. 
Samuel  Waldron,  in  17 12,  had  drawn  No.  7  in  ist  Division,  which 
was  in  two  parts,  one  of  nearly  10  acres,  being  identical  with  the 
McGown  place  aforesaid ;  the  other,  some  2J/4  acres,  lying  oppos- 
ite, west  of  the  road,  between  Delamontanie's  grant  above  de- 
scribed, and  a  lot  laid  out  to  the  Delavall  heirs,  and  later  included 
in  the  Nutter  farm.  Delamontanie,  by  an  exchange,  added  Wal- 
dron's  lot  to  his  own,  giving  Waldron  his  drafts  in  2d,  3d,  and 
4th  Divisions.  His  lot  in  ist  Division,  No.  17,  containing  3  a.  i  q. 
24  r.,  lay  on  the  hill  about  145th  Street,  on  the  east  side  of  Kings- 
bridge  Road.  He  sold  this  to  Barent  Waldron,  from  whom  it 
passed  with  his  farm,  in  1740,  to  John  R.  Myer,  and  from  him 
to  Abraham  Myer;  being  the  piece  improperly  described  as  in 
**first  fourth  division,"  and  which  experts  even  have  been  puzzled 
to  locate.  Delamontanie's  lands  in  Harlem  continued  to  be  rated 
at  20  acres.  On  June  22,  1720,  his  father-in-law  conveyed  to 
him  and  his  wife  an  eighth  part  of  his  farm,  said  part  being  57^ 
acres,  running  in  a  strip  from  near  Delamontanie's  land  north- 
westerly to  Hudson  River.* 

There  is  not  a  circumstance  to  show  that  Abraham  Delamon- 
tanie ever  set  up  any  claim  to  the  lands  sold  and  conveyed  by 
his  parents  to  Bogert;  but  he  early  conceived  the  idea,  drawn 
apparently  from  some  clause  in  his  father's  will,  as  well  as  the 
tenor  of  the  deed  to  Bogert,  that  said  deed  merely  conveyed  the 
Point  and  meadows  attached,  but  did  not  carry  the  morgen  right, 

*  Theunis  Idens,  as  his  aiitoRraph  is,  but  also  called  Theunis  Eidesse  Van  Huyse, 
has  been  noticed  as  the  owner  of  a  large  farm  between  89th  and  107th  streets,  on  the 
North  River  side.  He  was  born  in  1639,  probably  in  Holland,  being  son  of  Iden  Van 
Huyse,  by  his  wife  Tryntie  Jacobs,  afterward  married  to  Jacob  Helliker  (or 
Hellaker),  alias  Swart,  who  has  descendants  of  both  names.  Theunis  spent  his  early 
life  on  Long  Island.  A  curious  account  of  him  there  and  after  he  came  to  New  York 
is  given  bv  Dankers  and  Sluyter  of  his  reckless  youth  and  his  reformation.  He  be- 
came a  church  member  June  17,  1680.  When  and  from  whom  he  purchased  at 
Bloomingdale  is  not  ascertained;  the  line  between  his  land  and  Harlem  patent  was 
run  in  1690,  the  town  paying  24  guilders  toward  the  survey.  In  his  old  ag[c  Theunis 
had  his  farm  laid  oflF  by  Peter  Berrien  into  lots  of  57'y^  acres  each,  being  in  breadth 
42  rods,  or  thereabouts,  at  the  river  and  rear,  and  numbered  i  to  8,  from  south  to 
north.  On  June  22  and  23,  1720,  he  and  wife  Jannetie  (daughter  of  Thys  Van  Pell), 
conveyed  these  several  parcels  to  their  children  as  follows  (giving  possession,  after  the 
ancient  usaf;e,  "by  turf  and  twig") :  No.  8  to  their  son-in-law,  Abraham  Delamontanie, 
and  his  wife  aforesaid:  Nos.  6,  7  to  their  son-in-law,  (icorge  Dyckman,  married  to 
their  youngest  daughter,  C^alina;  Nos.  4,  5,  to  their  son,  Eide  Van  Huyse;  No.  3 
and  1-3  of  2.  to  their  son-in-law,  Myndert  Burger  Van  Evera,  married  to  their  daughter 
Sarah,  and  No.  i  and  1-3  of  No.  2,  to  their  son-in-law,  Marinus  Roelofse  Van  \'leck- 
eren,  married  to  their  daughter  Dinah.  Of  these  lots,  Nos.  i  to  5  were  owned  sub- 
sequently by  Charles  Ward  Apthorpe,  and  Nos.  6  to  8  were  held  many  years  hv  the 
Dikemans,  descendants  of  Toris  Dyckman.  To  his  daughter  Maria,  married  to  Jurien 
Rynchout.     Theunis  gave  the  farm  noticed  page  545. 


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or  a  share  in  the  undivided  common  lands.     This  gave  rise  to 
the  following  letter: 

N.  Haarlem,  5  December,  1700. 
To  the  Overseers  of  N.  Haarlem. 
Honorable  Sirs. 

Abram  de  Lamontanie,  inhabitant  of  this  town,  inquires  of  your 
Honors,  whether  you  or  your  predecessors  have  laid  out  any  ground  or 
land  for  the  deed  of  John  de  La  Montanie,  deceased,  which  deed  is  re- 
maining on  the  records  of  this  towh,  and  dated  8  February,  1672. 

Abram  de  La  Montanie. 

To  this,  two  days  after,  the  following  reply  was  given : 

N.  Haarlem,  7  December,  1700. 
We,  Laurens  Jansen,  Jacques  Tourneur  and  Peter  Van  Oblienis,  Over- 
seers of  N.  Haarlem,  having  read  the  writing  of  the  5  December,  1700, 
sent  to  us  by  Abram  de  La  Montanie,  think  proper  to  answer  that  the 
before  named  La  Montanie  may  examine  whether  he  can  obtain  any  ad- 
vantage from  the  deed  which  John  Louwe  Bogert  shall  get  from  our 
hands.     Also,  he  can  then  take  a  copy  thereof.     Witness, 

Adr:     Vermeule,  Secretary. 

It  was  a  disturbing  question  to  Bogert,  who  had  drawn  lot 
No.  25,  adjoining  his  farm,  and  which  now  seemed  to  be  menaced. 
Not  to  rely  wholly  on  the  deed  given  him  March  21,  1701,  he  took 
occasion  to  fortify  himself  by  another  from  Joost  Van  Oblinus, 
the  surviving  Nicolls  patentee,  dated  February  14,  1702,  and  still 
another  from  the  town  trustees,  September  14,  1706,  soon  after 
which  he  sold  out  to  Benson.  The  question  was  not  put  to  issue 
during  the  lifetime  of  the  latter,  but  enough  of  uncertainty  hung 
over  it  to  make  Benson  unwilling  to  pay  quit  rent  on  that  part 
of  his  farm.  After  Samson  Benson  came  in  possession,  Delamon  ■ 
tanie  entered  an  action  of  ejectment  in  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
Province,  October  5,  1723,  which  came  to  trial  at  New  York, 
November  29,  following,  in  the  name  of  John  Simson,  **on  the 
demise  of  Montanye,"  against  Samson  Benson.  Lewis  Morris, 
Chief  Justice,  and  Robert  Walters,  Second  Justice,  presided.  The 
best  counsel  were  employed  on  both  sides.  Defendant  confessed 
lease,  entry,  and  ouster.*  Delamontanie  had  clothed  himself  with 
due  power  in  the  premises,  by  deeds  obtained  from  his  elder 
brother,  John,  and  several  other  of  the  co-heirs.  These  and  vari- 
ous public  records  and  writings  were  read,  including  the  pro- 
ceedings of  the  freeholders,  the  agreements  subscribed  to,  and 
rules  adopted,  for  the  division  of  the  common  lands.  A  number 
of  witnesses  were  also  sworn.     Mr.  Abraham  Gouverneur  acted 

•  This  presupposes  that  Montanye  had  forcibly  entered,  or  by  a  legal  fiction  was  held 
to  have  so  entered  upon  the  land;  that  he  had  given  Simson  a  lease  and  entry  of  the 
premises;  and  that  Simson  had  thereupon  been  ousted  by  Benson.  All  this  taking 
place,  entitled  Simson,  as  Delamontanie's  tenant  to  his  action  of  ejectment.  To 
avoid  being  non-suited,  Benson  must  have  applied  to  be  made  a  defendant,  which 
could  only  be  allowed  upon  condition  that  he  comply  with  a  rule  of  court  to  confess 
at  the  trial  of  the  cause,  the  lease,  entry,  and  ouster,  as  aforesaid,  these  making  three 
of  the  four  requisites  for  the  maintenance  of  the  plaintiff's  action,  and  which  being 
done  the  trial  stood  solely  ui>on  the  merits  of  the  title.     (Blackstone.) 


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as  interpreter,  ex  parte,  for  the  prosecution.  Mr.  Edward  Blagge, 
Zacharias  Sickels,  and  Johannes  Waldron  were  called  to  testify 
for  plaintiff,  and  Peter  Van  Oblienis,  Samuel  Waldron,  and 
Barent  Waldron,  for  defendant.  But  Delamontanie  failed  to 
make  out  a  title,  and  the  jury  found  for  the  defendant.  This  was 
final,  and  we  hear  no  more  of  the  matter. 

In  1729  Abraham  sold  out  to  his  brother-in-law,  George 
Dyckman,  who  owned  an  adjoining  part  of  the  Van  Huyse  farm. 
(See  note  on  Bloomingdale  Dyckmans,  Dyckman  family.)  Abra- 
ham was  living  January  16,  1734,  having  a  second  wife  named 
Aeltie  Hoogland.  His  grave,  as  believed,  was  in  the  old  ceme- 
tery, beneath  a  rude  stone  inscribed  A.  L.  M.,  February  12,  1733-4. 
A  marked  taste  for  the  sea  and  relative  pursuits  is  noticed  among 
the  descendants  of  Abraham  Delamontanie. 

Abraham  Montanye  (i)  married  first,  Rebecca  Van  Huyse, 
March  27,  1689,  had  eight  children.  He  married  second,  Aeltie 
Hoogland,  and  died  February  12,  1734. 

Abraham  (i)  had  issue: 

2.  John,  baptized  October  i,  1693. 

3.  Teunis,  baptized  July  24,  1695,  married  first  Geesie  Bussing. 

November  15,  1718,  had  three  children.  He  married 
second,  Rebecca  ?. 

4.  Isaac,  lived  in  1738  near  his  brothers-in-law,  Devoor  and  Al- 

body,  at  Turtle  Bay,  noted  for  its  shipyards,  in  which  he 
was  probably  employed. 

5.  Jacob,  who  married  Maria  Pell,  April  6,  1729,  had  six  children. 

A  blockmaker  at  New  York.  Was  appointed  fireman  in 
1738.  Some  of  his  kinsmen,  the  Pells,  being  shipbuilders 
at  the  Smith's  Fly.* 

6.  Ide,  who  married  Elizabeth ?,  had  two  children. 

7.  Jannetie,  who  married  David  Devoor,  July  18,  1750,  had  three 

children. 

8.  Maria,  who  married  John  Bass,  November  6,  1714,  had  four 

children. 

9.  Hannah,  who  married  first,  John  Buys,  December  30,  1727,  had 

two  children.  She  married  second,  Andries  Albody 
(alias  Anderson),  in  1732,  had  three  children. 

Teunis  Delamontagnie  (3),  baptized  July  24,  1695,  bought  a 
place  in  Harlem  village,  in  17 19,  having  married  the  year  previous, 
November  15,  1718,  Geesie  Bussing  (see  pages  433,  483.)  He 
and  Ide  were  living  in  Somerset  County,  N.  J.,  in  1731 ;  the 
latter  had  sons  Abraham  and  Ede,  or  Edward,  who  bore  arms  in 
the  Revolution.     In  1735,  Teunis  owned  100  acres  in  Franklin 

•  John  Pell  and  his  brothers,  William,  Thomas  and  Samuel,  of  New  York,  were 
sons  oiF  Samuel,  of  Harlem,  shipcarpenter,  named  page  302,  etc.,  who  was  from  Lon- 
don.    Thomas  was  father-in-law  of  said  Jacob  Delamontagnie. 


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township,  and  had  a  second  wife,  Rebecca.     He  seems  to  have 
returned  to  New  York. 

Teunis  (3),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

10.  Elder,  who  was  the  father  of  four  children. 

11.  Bregie,  born  1723,  baptized  May  i,  1723,  married  Peter  Zen- 

ger,  October  26,  1751.     He  son  of  the  famous  printer. 

12.  Jacobus,  born  December  19,  1731. 

Jacob  Delamontagnie  (5),  blockmaker,  married  April  6, 
1729,  ^laria  Pell.  He  was  one  of  the  city  firemen,  appointed  in 
1738,  all  "strong,  able,  discreet,  honest,  and  sober  men.'' 

Jacob  (5),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

13.  Abraham  No.  i,  baptized  April  29,  1730,  died  March  25,  1731. 
i4.\Aaltje,  baptized  January  i,  1732. 

15.  Abraham  No.  2,  baptized  January   16,  1734,  married  Mary 

Remsen,  1755,  had  seven  children,  and  died  in  1774. 

16.  Thomas,  baptized  March  24,  1736,  died  December  18,  1791. 

17.  Rebecca,   baptized    September   26,    1739,    married    Christian 

Diemer,  had  one  child. 

18.  James,  bom  April  17,  1744. 

Ide  (()),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

19.  Abraham,  baptized  May  28,  1727. 

20.  Eide,  baptized  April  9,  1732,  married  Elizabeth  ?  ,had 

three  children. 

Elder  (10),  (son  of  Teunis).  There  are  reasons  for  believ- 
ing that  the  father  of  Teunis,  Robert,  Joseph,  and  William  Dela- 
montagnie, all,  except  Robert,  members  of  the  New  York  Marine 
Society,  and  shipmasters  in  the  Bermuda  and  West  Indian  trade, 
was  an  elder  son  of  Teunis.  But  unfortunately  neither  his  worthy 
descendants,  living  in  New  York,  nor  the  parish  registers  of  Ber- 
muda, where  he  resided  when  his  children  were  born,  are  able 
to  tell  us  any  mor^  about  the  father  of  these  brave  **toilers  on 
the  sea.''     He  had  issue: 

21.  Teunis,    born    1744,    married    Sarah,    daughter   of    Edward 

Nicoll,  named  on  page  321,  January  14,  1771,  and  the 
next  year  was  admitted  to  the  Marine  Society,  but  died 
prior  to  1783. 

22.  Robert. 

23.  Joseph  (Capt.),  born  November  10,  1747,  in  Bermuda,  mar- 

ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Teunis  Tiebout,  had  six  chil- 
dren, and  died  in  New  York  April  16,  1820.     He  bom 


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at  Bermuda.  Was  a  member  of  the  New  York  Marine 
Society. 

24.  William,  bom  June  27,  1750,  was  a  member  of  N.  Y.  Marine 

Society  in  1774,  also  Shipmaster  in  the  Bermuda  trade. 
His  daughters,  Mrs.  Woodward  and  Mrs.  Asson,  of  Phila- 
delphia, still  survive   (1881). 

Abraham  Delamontagnie  (15),  as  he  called  himself,  took  the 
trade  of  his  father,  Jacob,  a  blockmaker.  He  was  admitted  ta  free- 
manship  in  1769,  and  also  to  honorary  membership  in  the  Marine 
Society.  He  married,  in  1755,  Mary,  daughter  of  Jacob  Remson, 
of  Brooklyn,  and  ultimately  became  a  * 'vintner,"  or  innkeeper,  in 
which  he  was  engaged  in  1769,  his  house  being  near  the  Com- 
mons, and  then  and  thereafter  a  famous  resort  for  the  "Liberty 
Boys."  It  was  probably  the  same  place,  "opposite  the  Green, 
near  the  Bridewell,"  or,  to  exactly  locate  it,  at  the  corner  of 
Broadway  and  Murray  Street,  where  he  leased,  March  25,  1773, 
five  lots  of  ground  from  Trinity  Church,  for  99  years.  Abraham 
did  a  good  thing  for  his  heirs,  but  he  himself  died  the  very  next 
year,  aged  only  40,  and  on  October  17,  1774,  letters  of  administra- 
tion were  taken  out  by  his  widow.  She  continued  the  house, 
253  Broadway,  married,  in  1777,  John  Amory,  whipmaker,  and 
died  in  1797,  in  her  66th  year.    . 

Abraham  (15),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

25.  Maria,  baptized  September  22,  1756,  died  July  22,  1762. 

26.  James  No.  i,  baptized  August  21,  1758,  died  August  15,  1759. 

27.  James  No.  2,  born  December  6,  1760,  died  August  6,  1762. 

28.  Abraham,  born  July  4,  1763,  died  August  29,  1764. 

29.  James  No.  3,  born  September  4,  1764. 

Jacob  (30),  bom  September  15.  1765,  is  remembered  as  one 
of  the  best  of  men.  He  studied  law,  opening  an  office  at  9 
Beekman  Street,  but  removed  before  his  mother  died  to  253 
Broadway.  He  had  married  Mary  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Jolin  Armour,  shipmaster.  In  1792  he  was  lieutenant 
and  adjutant  of  the  First  New  York  Regiment,  was  alderman 
much  of  the  time  from  1796  to  1806,  and  in  1798  member  of 
assembly.  The  99  years  lease  being  sold  in  181 2,  Jacob  was  one 
of  three  purchasers,  but  sold  out,  1817,  to  Benjamin  Ferris  and 
Amos  Butler.  He  died  at  his  residence  in  Beaver  Street,  April 
9,  1823,  without  children,  and  leaving  large  legacies  to  members 
of  the  Armour  and  Moore  families,  besides  providing  amply  for 
his  wife,  Mary  E.  Delamontagnie.  She  survived  him  twenty-five 
years,  and  died  at  Belleville,  New  Jersey.  For  a  portrait  of  Mr. 
Delamontagnie,  see  Documentary  History  of  New  York,  \^ol.  4. 
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31.  Rebecca,  born  June  5,  1766,  died  August  23,  1767. 

EiDE  (20),  (son  of  Ide),  had  issue: 

32.  Eide,  baptized  February  20,  1762,  married  Cathrina  Young, 

had  one  child. 

33.  Anate  (Anna),  baptized  November  24,  1766. 

34.  Yacobes  (Jacobus),  baptized  December  2,  1767. 

Joseph  (23),  (son  of  Elder),  had  issue: 

35.  Sarah,  born  October  7,  1785,  married  Rev.  William  Gray. 

36.  Anna,  born  March  24,  1878,  married  William  J.  Crolius. 

T^y,  William,  born  November  11,  1788,  was  the  father  of  four 
children,  and  died  June  15,  1877.  Was  the  veteran  boat- 
builder  of  Water  Street. 

'^.  Edward,  born  May  5,  1792,  had  two  children,  and  died  March 
19,  1872.     Was  a  boatbuilder. 

39.  Elizabeth,  bom  December  27,  1794,  died  in  infancy. 

40.  Joseph,  born  January  8,  1796,  died  single,  September  23,  1826. 

Eide  {Z'^),  (son  of  Eide),  had  issue: 

41.  Maria,  born  June  19,  1785. 

William  {Z7^y  (son  of  Joseph),  had  issue: 

42.  William. 

43.  John. 

44.  Joseph  E. 

45.  Albert. 

Edward  (38),  (son  of  Joseph),  had  issue: 

46.  Robert. 

47.  Alexander,  born  1824,  married  Mary  Jane  Cox,  July  8,  1847. 

MYER. 

Adolph  Meyer,  the  ancestor  of  the  Myer  family  of  Harlem 
(whose  name,  at  first  pronounced  Mayer,  has  changed  its  sound 
as  well  as  form),  emigrated,  as  before  noticed,  from  Ulsen,  a 
parish  of  Bentheim,  in  the  German  province  of  Westphalia.  He 
arrived  at  Harlem  in  1661,  where  he  gained  a  good  standing; 
and  April  29,  1671,  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Johannes  Ver- 
veelen.  Three  years  later  he  united  with  the  church,  his  wife 
having  done  the  same  some  months  before.  At  their  marriage, 
Verveelen  gave  them  the  two  out-gardens,  Nos.  7,  8,  with  most  of 
the  land  in  the  Hanel  patent,  the  rest  being  promisecl*  and  the  pat- 
ent eventually  transferred  to  Meyer,  October  13, 1683.  Meyer  sold 
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Van  Westerhout  built  him  a  house  25  by  1 8  feet,  with  a  leanto ; 
the  contract  dated  August  18,  1675.  It  cost  360  guilders,  as 
appeared  at  their  settlement  January  6,  1676.  Meyer  bought  the 
Demarest  lot,  No.  5,  on  Jochem  Pieters,  August  i,  1677.  On 
September  4,  1679,  he  and  John  Delamater  leased  for  10  years 
the  Slot  lands  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  with  house  lots,  garden 
and  meadows;  but  just  before  the  lease  expired  Meyer,  whose 
house  and  barn  had  been  burnt,  stating  to  his  father-in-law  that 
he  wished  to  build  a  new  barn,  but  was  afraid  of  another  accident, 
as  he  and  Joost  Van  Oblinus  were  living  so  near,  Verveelen  sold 
him  the  Slot  patent,  June  3,  1689,  for  300  guilders,  "silver  money 
or  in  wheat  as  silver,"  Meyer  engaging,  should  Verveelen  die 
before  receiving  the  money,  to  pay  Daniel  Verveelen  and  his  sister 
Anna  their  respective  shares  of  1,000  guilders  each.  Meyer  no 
doubt  met  his  engagements,  as  he  continued  in  possession,  and 
later,  Daniel  released  to  his  sister,  Mrs.  Meyer,  all  his  interests 
at  Harlem,  by  deeds  of  June  12,  1710,  and  June  30,  1712;  in  the 
latter  expressly  including  all  "the  right  and  property  of  Johan- 
nes Verveelen  deceased,  by  reason  of  his  being  patentee  of  said 
town  and  patent."  The  Hanel  and  Slot  patents  laid  the  founda- 
tion of  the  large  Myer  estates.* 

*  The  Hand  patent  is  unrecorded,  and  I  am  but  too  well  convinced  that  the 
original  (in  fragment*  when  I  saw  it)  has  perished.  Luckily  a  copy  was  taken  which 
saves  to  us  the  text  of  this  ancient  Dutch  grant: 

Wy  Petrus  Stuyvesant,  Directeur-Generacl  ende  Raeden,  wegcns  de  Ho:  Mo:  Heere 
Staaten  Generael  der  vereenighde  Nedcrtants,  zyn  Hoogheyt  van  Orantjie,  ende  Edelc 
Heere  Bewinthebbercn  der  geoctroveerde  West  Indien  Compagnie,  in  Nieuw  Nerder- 
lant  residerende,  oirkonde  en  verclaren  mits  deesen.  dat  wy.  op  huydcn  dato  onder- 
geschreeven,  hebben  tocgestacn  en  vergunt  aen  Juriaen  Hanel,  resident  van  hct 
eylant  van  Manhatans,  en  in  de  dorp  Sieuw  Haerlem,  een  parceel  lant  gelegen  op 
Van  Keulen's  Hook,  gcteykent  No.  4,  suylen  wederzyde  ruyden,  brcet  twaclf  roedcn, 
groot  drie  morgen;  alzo  een  stuck  op  Jochem  Pictersen's  Lant,  tusschen  Hendrick 
Carsense  en  Jan  Le  Roy,  suylen  wederzyden  west  wel  so  ncordelyk,  breet  sestiea 
roeden,  groot  ses  morgen  vier  hondert  rocden;  alzo  een  stuck  lant  op  Montagne's 
Lant,  geteykent  No.  7,  brcet  seven  en  twintigh  rocden,  vier  en  een  half  vocten  suylen 
van  de  kil  tot  bet  gebergte  west,  gfroot  vyf  morgen  en  vier  hondert  roeden;  een 
erf  bezuyden  Montagne,  langh  seven  roeden  negen  voeten,  breet  seven  roeden  scs  en 
een  half  voeten;  item  een  thuyn  bewesten  Jan  Pietersen,  beoosten  Nicholacs  de 
Meyer,  breet  wf  roeden.  langh  twintigh  roeden;  item  een  stuck  valey  getuykent  No. 
5,  gemeen  met  Lubbert  Gcrritscn,  synde  het  noordelyk  streek  tot  eylant  by  't  Springh, 
als  mede  het  noordelyk  streek  in  de  Groot  Valey.  Met  exprcsseerde  conditie  ende 
voorwaarde  dat  by  Juriaen  Hanel,  of  die  uyt  krachte  deses  syn  actic  macht  genomen. 
de  Ed:  Heeren  Bewinthcbberen  voomaemde  voor  syn  heeren  en  patroonen  sal 
erkennen,  onder  de  souvereignteyt  van  hare  Hooge  Moogende  de  Heeren  Staaten 
Generael,  en  hier  haren  Directeur  ende  Raeden  en  alles  gehoorzamen  als  goedc 
ingezetenen  schuldig  syn  te  doen,  mits  hem  wyders  onderwerpende  al  sulckc  lasten 
ende  gerechticheden,  als  by  de  Ed:  Heeren  reets  is  beraemt  ofte  noch  te  beraemen; 
Constitueerende  oversulcx  den  voornoemde  Juriaen  Hanel  in  onzc  staet  rcele  en 
actueele  possessie  vant  voornoemde  parceel  lants,  hem  gevendc  mits  desen  volkomen 
macht,  authoriteyt,  ende  speciael  bevel,  omrae  t  voorschreeven  lant  te  moogen  acn- 
vaerden,  bebouwen,  bewoonen  ende  gebruyckcn,  gelyck  by  met  andere  syne  patri- 
moniale  landed  ende  effecten  doen  soude  moogen,  sonder  dat  wy  cedenten  inde 
qualitc  als  vooren.  daer  aen  cenige  part  actie  oft  gesacht  int  minstc  meer  syn  hebben 
te  reserveren  oft  behouden,  maer  ten  behocve  als  vooren,  van  alles  te  desisteren.  van 
nu  en  voor  eeuwigh,  beloovende  voorts  dit  transpoort  vast,  bondich,  onvcrbreckelyk 
ende  irevocabel  te  behouden,  naer  te  komen  ende  te  volbrengen,  alles  ondert  verbout 
naer  rechten  daer  tocstaendc.  'tOirkondc  is  desen  bv  ons  geteckcnt  en  met  xegcl 
bevestight;    actum  int  Fort  Amsterdam  in  Nieuw  Nederlant.   16  Ma  •.   1664. 

P.   STUYVESANT. 
Ter  Ordonnantie  van  den  E:    Hr:   Dr:  Generael 
ende  Hooge  Raeden  van  Nieuw  Nederlant,   etc 
CORNELIS   VAN   RUYVEN.   Sccrctaris, 

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man  of  the  Out  Ward,  1693-95 ;  also  served  as  an  elder.  Between 
1691  and  1701,  chosen  with  others  for  that  purpose,  he  had  much 
to  do  with  the  first  allotment  of  the  common  land  under  the  Don- 
gan  patent,  and  signed  the  deeds.  The  first  four  lots  in  that  allot- 
ment embraced  that  part  of  Harlem  Flats  which  lay  north  of  the 
Samson  A.  Benson  line,  and  extended  up  between  the  two  roads 
to  the  point  or  forks  at  131st  Street.  (See  list  of  these  lots  in  Ap- 
pendix J).  Myer  drew  lot  No.  4,  at  the  forks,  in  conjunction 
with  his  son,  Johannes,  who  owned  a  7^/2  morgen  right  upon  the 
lots  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  which  came  from  his  gfrandfather, 
V'erveelen.  Here,  at  the  fork  of  the  roads,  Adolph  or  Johannes 
built  a  substantial  stone  house,  as  early  as  1706.  Mr.  Meyer  died 
in  February,  171 1.  By  his  will,  made  the  13th  of  that  month,  he 
left  the  use  of  his  property  to  his  widow.  To  his  grandsons, 
named  for  him,  he  gave  each  a  pair  of  gold  buttons,  and  to  )iis 
granddaughters,  named  for  his  wife,  each  a  gold  ring. 

The  Alyer  estate  was  much  increased,  both  by  purchase  and 
by  the  drafts  from  the  common  lands,  before  Mrs.  Myer  died, 
which  was  not  till  1748.  We  except  the  Delavall  lands,  the  bulk 
of  which  was  bought  by  the  Myers,  but  held  separate  from  the 
common  inheritance.  Adolph  Myer's  will  was  proved  September 
2,  1748,  after  the  death  of  the  widow,  but  when  his  children  were 
all  yet  living,  and  by  whom  a  final  division  of  the  property  was 
made  November  15,  1748,  and  deeds  passed.  How  the  lands  were 
parcelled  out  will  be  shown  as  we  speak  of  the  sons  respectively ; 
here  we  need  only  mention  that  Benjamin  Benson,  grandson  of 
Adolph  Myer,  succeeding  to  his  mother's  share,  took  35  acres, 
which  included  Lots  7,  8,  9,  Van  Keulen's  Hook;  and  another 
grandson,  Johannes  Sickels,  intended  by  his  uncle  Myer  as  his 
sole  heir,  received  said  uncle's  portion,  to  wit:  No.  3,  Jochem 
Pieters,  No.  40,  2d  Division,  and  No.  14,  4th  Division,  as  also 
the  remaining  north  garden,  which  Sickels  sold  July  i,  1758,  to 
John  Livingston.  No.  2,  Jochem  Pieters,  and  No.  6,  half  of  5, 
Van  Keulen's  Hook,  he  took  under  Isaac's  will. 

Adolph  Meyer  (i)  married  Maria  Verveelen,  April  29,  1671, 
had  nine  children,  and  died  in  February,  171 1. 

Adolpii  Meyer  (i)  had  issue: 

2.  Johannes,  baptized  August  13,  1671,  married  Tryntie,  daugh- 
ter of  Jan  Van  Dalsen,*  January  30,  1702,  had  five  chil- 
dren, and  died  in  1755. 

*  Capt.  Jan  Gerritsen  V^an  Dalscn,  elsewhere  called  de  V^ries^  (sec  pages  93, 
236),  was  a  shipcarpenter,  and  married,  1660,  at  New  Amsterdam,  Grietie,  daughter 
of  Tcunis  Cray.  After  the  Dutch  lost  New  York  he  lived  somewhere  in  New  England; 
there  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Kiersen,  was  born.  But  coming,  1667,  to  Harlem  for  the 
inducement,  possibly  (sec  page  z^^)^  he  put  un  a  house,  and  built  one  or  more  vessels 
here.  In  1670  he  sold  his  place  to  Resolvea  Waldron,  but  subsequently  owned  an- 
other, and  appears  among  the  erf-holders,  1681-83,  having  his  home  here,  and  sailing 
an  "ojien  boat"  out  of  New  York.  While  thus  engaged  he  is  noticed  as  follows  in  the 
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3.  Hendrick,  baptized  September  3,  1673,  married  Wyntie  Ray 

(Rhee),  December  10,  1697,  had  ten  children,  and  dieii 
October  31,  1753. 

4.  Anna  Catrina,  baptized  March   12,   1677,  married  Abraham 

Lent,  December  24,  1698,  had  eleven  children,  and  died 
July  21,  1762.  Anna  Catrina's  name,  derived  from  the 
Verveelens,  is  yet  worthily  borne  by  descendants  of  her 
granddaughter,  Anna  Catrina  Riker ;  an  example  of  the 
almost  religious  adherence,  'in  our  Dutch  families,  to  the 
ancestral  Christian  names. 

5.  Maria,  baptized  April  26,  1679,  married  Samson  Benson,  July 

29,1699,  had  nine  children. 

6.  Abraham,  baptized  March  3,  1682,  married  Engeltie  Bussing, 

May  10,  1706,  had  five  children,  and  died  in  1757. 

7.  Isaac,  baptized  April  13,  1684,  purchased  from  Gideon  and 

Bernardus  Verveelen,  in  17 10,  jointly  with  his  brother. 
Jacob,  a  tract  of  land  in  Bergen  County,  New  Jersey, 
Jacob  selling  him  his  share  in  1743.  By  his  will,  dated 
September  12,  1743,  he  gave  "all  his  lands  in  the  provinces 
of  Xew  York  and  New  Jersey"  to  his  nephew,  Johannes 
Sickcls.  He  could  have  left  no  children ;  maybe  he  was 
called  "Widower  Myer."  It  would  appear  that  he  lived 
with  Sickels,  on  the  lower  street,  I  think  on  the  old  Laur- 
ens Jansen  place,  at  the  north  end  of  No.  6,  Van  Keulen's 
Hook,  the  lots  attached  to  which,  half  of  5,  6,  his  mother 
bought  of  Lawrence  Low  in  1732,  and  conveyed  to  Isaac 
in  1735.  Low  sold  him  No.  2,  Jochem  Pieters,  in  1738. 
But  it  is  singular  that  Isaac's  name  never  occurs  in  the 
tax  lists. 

8.  Jacob,  baptized  May  16, 1686,  married  first,  Annatie  Hendricks 

land  at  Harlem.  They  at  Harlem  said  he  formerly  had  land  and  sold  it;  he  said  he 
bought  it;  they  said  it  was  given  to  him,  and  he  was  obliged  to  sell  it  (if  he  parted 
with  it)  to  no  stranger.  He,  not  being  able  to  produce  any  witness  or  writing  of  said 
purchase,  it  was  agreed  by  those  of  Harlem  to  give  him  a  piece  of  ground,  for  him 
and  his  children;  provided  that  he  should  not  sell  it,  but  for  want  of  heirs  it  should 
relapse  to  the  township."  After  this  he  and  Kierscn  got  a  lease  of  the  Great  Maire 
Land.  (Sec  page  408.)  Capt.  Van  Dalsen  subscribes  to  Dominie  Selyns'  salary  in 
1685  and  '86,  and  was  living  in  1602.  His  children  (omitting  the  first  two  who  died 
young)  were  Teunis,  horn  1664;  Gerritie,  born  1667.  married  Jan  Kiersen;  Annetie. 
born  1669,  married  Johannes  Waldron;  Peter,  born  1671;  Tryntie,  born  1674,  married 
Johannes  Meyer;    Jacob,  born   167^;    Lysbet.   born   1682;    Jannetie,  born  1685. 

Teunis  \'an  Dalsen,  in  an  obituary  published  at  the  time  of  his  death,  is  stated 
to  have  been  "the  first  male  person  born  in  this  city  (New  York)  after  it  was  ceded 
to  the  English  by  the  Dutch;  and  with  this  the  family  tradition  accords.  He  lived  at 
Harlem  when  he  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Capt.  Johannes  Vcrmilyc,  in  the  fall 
of  i6q6,  having,  en  May  21.  preceding  bought  No.  8  of  the  New  lots  from  Joosi  Van 
Oblinus.  This  he  sold,  January  1,  1701,  to  Barent  and  J[ohannes  Waldron,  for  1070 
cuildcrs;  in  1721  was  a  farmer  .it  Mamaroneck,  in  Westchester,  but  removed  to 
Goshen,  Orange  County,  where  he  died  August  30,  1766.  aged  102  years.  The  Dolscns 
of  that  county  are  his  descendants.  They  were  great  Whigs  in  the  Revolution^  atid 
from  them  Dolsentown  takes  its  name.  (See  Kager's  Orange  County,  page  412.)  Wc 
are  not  to  confotind  with  these  the  numerous  Dolscns  of  Rockland  and  other  counties, 
descendants  of  Jan  Van  Dalfsen,  from  Haarlem,  Holland,  who.  bringring  certificates 
from  that  place,  with  wife,  Anna  \'an  Kaasvelt,  joined  the  church  in  New  York, 
February  2y,  1702.  He  died  ten  or  fifteen  years  later  at  Tappan,  where  he  had 
served   as   vcorleser. 


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Kammega,  1710,  had  six  children,  and  second,  Rachel 
Baton,  September  16,  1725,  had  three  children. 

9.  Adolph,    baptized    July    24,    1692,    married    first,    Margaret, 

daughter  of  Johannes  Waldron,  October  25,  17 16,  had 
five  children.  He  married  second,  Catherine,  daughter 
of  Peter  Haring,  April  26,  1723,  had  five  children. 

10.  Anneke  (Anna),  baptized  August  3,  1698,  married  first,  Jo- 

hannes Sickels,  May  2,  17 18,  and  second,  Thomas  Storm. 

Johannes  (2)  became  a  large  landholder;  his  first  acquisition 
being  a  share  of  Lot  No.  4,  in  the  Division  of  1691,  drawn  in 
partnership  with  his  father,  the  whole  of  which  he  ultimately 
owned.  On  February  21,  1701,  the  Brevoort  farm,  on  Jochem 
Pieters'  Hills,  being  Lots  6,  7,  of  1691,  was  purchased  in  his 
name,  and  on  March  11,  171 2,  he  bought  of  Derick  Benson,  No. 
I,  New  Lots,  also  once  Brevoort's.  See  page  430.  Johannes 
Myer  drew  jointly  with  his  mother  of  the  common  lands  in  171 2, 
on  his  754  morgen  right,  which  entitled  him  to  just  17  a.  i  q. 
22y2  r.  They  agreed  that  he  should  hold  No.  15,  ist  Division 
(all  but  10  acres  at  the  lower  end),  with  No.  6,  of  1691,  and  that 
she  should  hold  in  her  name  the  lots  No.  i  and  7,  aforesaid; 
however,  on  November  10,  1713,  she  conveyed  the  10  acres  to 
Johannes,  and  in  171 5  gave  him  possession  of  the  No.  i,  New 
Lots.  Among  ]\Iyer's  purchases  was  Sickels'  lot.  No.  16,  ist 
Division,  on  March  3,  1722.  See  also  page  431.  He  bought 
1 14  acres  of  the  Delavall  lands  from  Abraham  Gouverneur,  March 
25,  1720,  but  Philip  Pipon  reclaimed  this  land,  on  his  arrival  the 
next  year.  After  Pipon  and  Gouverneur  had  had  their  claims 
settled  by  a  legal  decision,  the  latter  sold  Myer,  on  May  i,  2, 
1725,  the  three  most  southerly  of  the  "Nine  Lots,"  on  Jochem 
Pieters'  Flat,  with  a  third  of  the  Delavall  drafts  from  the  com- 
mon lands.  Johannes  ultimately  got  a  full  half  of  the  Delavall 
drafted  lands ;  for  more  of  which  see  Appendix  L  Simon  John- 
son, assignee  of  Elias  Pipon,  also  sold  him  that  part  of  "that 
piece  of  land  formerly  belonging  to  the  heirs  of  James  Carteret," 
which  lay  at  the  west  end  of  the  "Three  Lots,"  but  separated  by 
the  road,  and  which  Myer  sold  to  John  Sickels,  April  4,  1754, 
called  five  acres  more  or  less;  Sickels  the  next  year  buying  the 
Three  Lots,  when  the  road  was  altered  and  carried  around  this 
piece.     See  page  397. 

Johannes  Myer  living  to  take  part  in  the  settlement  of  his 
father's  estate  in  1748,  came  in  legal  possession  of  the  homestead 
(No.  4  of  1691),  and  No.  7  of  the  same  allotment.  He  then 
gave  his  sons,  Jacob  and  John,  his  half  of  No.  9,  1691,  and  of 
No.  15,  3d  Division,  both  Delavall  land.  In  1750,  he  further  con- 
veyed to  Jacob  No.  6,  1691,  and  No.  15,  ist  Division.  On  May 
5»  1753^  he  conveyed  to  Jacob  No.  6,  1691,  and  to  his  other  son, 


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John,  Xo.  7,  adjoining;  the  latter  sold  his  lot  to  Jacob,  March 
12,  1758.  Johannes  Myer  died  in  1755  in  his  84th  year.  His 
will,  dated  February  7,  1729,  was  admitted  to  probate  April  5, 
1756.  He  devised  all  his  lands,  after  the  decease  or  remarriage  of 
his  widow,  equally  to  his  two  sons,  but  required  them  to  satisfy 
their  sisters,  by  paying  each  £100,  so  that  all  should  have  an  equal 
share  of  his  estate. 

Johannes  (2),  (son  of  Adolph),  had  issue: 

11.  Jannettie,  born  about  1705,  married  Resolved  Waldron,  Janu- 

ary 25,  1722,  had  four  children. 

12.  Jacob,  baptized  May  8.    1709,  married  Aeltie,  daughter  of 

Peter  Bussing,  1730,  had  two  children,  and  died  Xovem- 
vember  25,  1758. 

13.  Maria,  baptized  May  6,  171 1,  married  Aaron  Bussing,  Octo- 

ber 24,  1730,  had  six  children. 

14.  Elizabeth,  born  17 14,  married  Petrus  Waldron,  had  four  chil- 

dren. 

15.  John,  born  about  1716,  married  first,  Cornelia,  daughter  of 

John  Delamater,  July  20,  1738,  had  three  children.    He 
married  second.  Amy ?,  and  died  in  1773. 

Hendrick  Myer  (3)  bought  the  farm  of  Barent  Waldron, 
Gloudie's  Point:  but  the  deed,  dated  August  6,  1740,  was  made 
in  the  name  of  his  spn  John  (or  properly  John  R.)  aforesaid. 
He  sold  it,  July  21,  1743,  to  his  uncle  Abraham,  who  bought  it 
for  his  son  A  rent  Myer,  and  to  whom  Abraham  gave  a  deed 
March  21,  1747.*  Hendrick  Myer  died  in  New  York,  October 
3I'  1753.  aged  80  years. 

Hendrick  (3),  (son  of  Aix)Lph),  had  issue: 

16.  Maria  No.  i,  baptized  May  14,  1699,  died  young. 

17.  Adolph,  baptized  October  29,  1701,  died  October  7,  1732. 

18.  Johannes  No.  i,  baptized  January  27,  1703,  died  young. 

19.  Johannes  No.  2,  baptized  July  9,  1704,  died  young. 

20.  Abraham,  baptized  July  8,  1705. 

*  The  Gloudic  Point  Title  has  its  beginnings  set  forth  on  paee  394.  Barent  Wal- 
dron drew,  in  169 1,  a  piece  of  land  between  bis  Point  and  lot  No.  10,  which  in  hi« 
deed  of  March  21,  1701,  is  thus  described:  '"There  is  set  off  to  Barent  W^aldron,  for 
.!_  morgen,  more  or  less,  a  piece  of  land  north  of  his  house  lot  (erf),  east  of  the 
King's  Way;  saving  that  a  suitable  road  remain  along  the  swamn  (creupclbosch),  to 
the  meadow  of  Isaac  Delamater,  as  the  fence  at  present  stands."  ** 

The  Bussing  Point  farm  was  therefore  made  up  of  five  parcels,  vir. :  The  Point 
and  adjoining  tract  above  described,  with  lots  10,  9  and  '4  of  8  of  the  New  Lots. 
(See  account  of  Johannes  Waldron.)  This  is  exclusive  of  Barent  Waldron's  draft* 
ill  the  Four  Divisions  and  the  lot  17,  1st  Division,  lying  on  the  hill,  "four  acres  more 
or  less,"  which  he  got  of  Abraham  Delamontanie.  Barent  owned  No.  3,  1691  (late 
^f'lenaor  17  acre  tract),  bought  of  his  brother  Samuel  prior  to  1715,  and  not  sold 
with  the  farm.  1740,  but  apparently  to  Aaron  Bussing,  1746,  who  sold,  1747,  to 
Adolph   Myer. 

*•  In  making  the  four  divisions  in  1712,  all  the  lots  embraced  in  this  ftnn 
en'oved  the  morgen  right,  and  drew  of  the  common  land,  except  this  single  piece, 
which,   as  drafted  land,   bore  no  such  right;    a  curious  distinction. 


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21.  Maria  No.  2,  baptized  September  14,  1707,  died  young. 

22.  Hendrickus  No.  i,  baptized  August  10,  17 12,  died  young. 

22,.  Hendrickus  No.  2,  baptized  July  26,  1713,  married  Maria 
Gouverneur,  September  23,  1735,  had  one  child,  and  died 
December  15,  1740. 

24.  Johannes  No.  3,  baptized  April  15,  1716,  died  young. 

25.  Johannes  No.  4  (John  Ray),  baptized  July  5,  1719,  married 

first,  Anna,  daughter  of  Charles  Crommelin,  of  New 
York,  October  i,  1747,  had  three  children.  He  married 
second,  Helen  Rutgers  Scott,  and  died  August  13,  1807. 

Abraham  Myer  (6),  baptized  March  3,  1682,  married  Engel- 
tie,  daughter  of  Arent  Harmans  Bussing,  May  10,  1706.  On 
August  12,  1713,  he  bought  from  John  Van  Oblienis  Lot  No.  i, 
Jochem  Pieters,  with  the  one  morgen  houselot  attached,  both 
owned  originally  by  Daniel  Tourneur.  This  became  Abraham's 
home.  In  171 5  he  had  acquired  85  acres,  which  included  No.  i 
of  1691,  late  Thomas  Tourneur's,  with  Jan  NageVs  First  Division, 
and  half  of  his  drafts  in  Second,  Third  and  Fourth  Divisions. 
In  1722  he  bought  from  Nagel  11  acres  on  Jochem  Pieters,  and 
from  Zachariah  Sickels,  No.  4,  First  Division.  In  1731  he 
bought  Nos.  5,  ID,  Jochem  Pieters,  and  No.  12,  Second  Division, 
from  Nicholas  Kortright;  and  probably  at  this  date  exchanged 
with  his  mother  No.  i,  1691,  for  No.  4,  Jochem  Pieters.  Before 
1748  he  had  evidently  anticipated  by  possession  what  land  was 
due  him  from  his  mother.  Subsequently  buying  another  lot  on 
Jochem  Pieters,  he  held,  under  Nos.  5,  7,  10,  lying  together,  and 
then  called  40  acres  (see  Appendix  E),  the  tract  later  known  as 
**the  homestead  farm  of  Lawrence  Benson,'*  containing  42  acres, 
2  q.,  16  r.,  the  title  to  which,  after  six  years'  litigation,  was  set- 
tled by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States,  January  19,  1863. 
Mr.  Myer  was  appointed  clerk  of  the  town,  IVIay  11,  1747.  He 
made  his  will  April  3,  1754,  which  was  proved  February  18,  1756. 
Mr.  Myer  had  also  purchased  from  Nicholas  Kortrrght,  June  11, 
12,  1740,  for  his  eldest  son  Abraham,  40  acres  of  the  old  Tour- 
neur farm,  on  Montanye's  Flat,  with  some  meadow  east  of  the 
creek,  and  Lot  18,  Second  Division.  He  had  also  provided  for 
his  younger  son  Arent,  as  we  have  seen,  by  the  purchase,  in  1743, 
of  the  Gloudie  Point  farm,  of  which  Arent  took  immediate  pos- 
session. 

Abraham  (6),  (son  of  Adoi^ph),  had  issue: 

26.  Abraham,  baptized  February  8,  1716,  married  Mattie  Kort- 

right, 1740,  had  five  children,  and  died  in  1772. 

27.  Arent,  born  17 17,  married  Susannah,  daughter  of  Lawrence 

Kortright,  1735,  had  four  children. 

28.  Susannah,  born  1719,  married  Peter  Bussing,  February  19, 

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29.  Maria,  born  1720,  married  John  Dykman,  about  1738,  had  two 

children. 

30.  Eve,  born  1726,  deceased. 

Jacob  Myer  (8),  born  1686,  baptized  May  16,  1686,  married 
Anna,  daughter  of  his  cousin  Hendrick  Cammega,  about  17 10, 
and  settled  at  Closter,  Bergen  County,  New  Jersey,  where,  losing 
his  wife  he  married  secondly,  September  16,  1725,  Rachel  Baton. 
Jacob  was  a  purchaser  of  some  of  the  Delavall  lands  in  1747. 

Jacob  (8),  (son  of  Adolph),  had  issue  by  his  first  wife: 

31.  Adolph  No.  I,  baptized  March  4,  171 1,  died  young. 
^2.  Adolph  No.  2,  baptized  May  18,  1712,  deceased. 

33.  Maria,  born  January  4,  1715. 

34.  Tryntie   (Cathrina),  born  January   15,   1717,  married  Klaas 

(Nicholas)  Pieterse,  had  four  children. 

35.  Adolph  No.  3,  born  March  20,  1720,  married  Lena  Ridnaer, 

had  four  children. 

36.  Annatie,  baptized  May  20,  1722. 

Jacob  (8)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 
^7,  Jacob,  baptized  July  30,  1726. 

38.  John,  born  December  21,  1728,  removed  to  Fishkill,  N.  Y. 

39.  Margrietje,  born  October  25,  1730. 

Adolph  (9)  made  his  first  purchase  of  land  in  171 5,  when  lie 
bought  from  Samson  Benson  IvOt  No.  2  of  1 691,  his  father,  as 
we  have  seen,  having  drawn  No.  4  of  the  same  tract.  Adolph 
eventually  acquired  Nos.  i,  3:  as  also  the  several  parcels  beyond 
the  highway  to  the  westward,  originally  Nos.  8  to  14,  First  Divis- 
ion, laid  out  to  Captain  Delavall's  heirs  and  others,  and  forming 
the  84  acre  tract,  afterward  sold,  with  Lot  3,  etc.,  by  his  son 
Adolph,  to  Charles  Duryee,  and  purchased  soon  after  by  William 
Molenaor.  To  specify:  Adolph  bought  several  lots  in  the  84 
acre  tract  in  1733  (see  page  484),  and  in  1740,  No.  14,  from  John 
Lewis.  He  had  already  built  on  his  No.  2  of  1691,  and  in  1747 
bought  No.  3  from  Aaron  Bussing.  In  1748  he  got  from  his 
mother's  estate  No.  16,  Third  Division,  and  by  pre-arrangement 
with  Abraham,  No.  i  of  1691,  which  gave  him  Nos.  i,  2,  3  in  that 
tract.  These  lands,  excepting  the  "homestead,"  or  Lots  i,  2  of 
1691,  fell  to  Adolph  third  under  his  father's  will,  dated  May  10, 
1760,  and  proved  May  5,  1762. 

Adolph  (9),  (sox  of  Adolph),  had  issue: 

40.  John,  1717,  married  Antie  Waldron,  July  11,  1761,  had  three 

children,  and  died  in  1767.     Succeeded  to  the  homestead 
of  28  acres.     On  August  10,  1768,  his  brother  Adolph, 


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as  executor,  sold  the  homestead  (the  rights  of  dower 
having  been  released)  to  Rev.  Martinus  Schoonmaker, 
then  pastor  at  Harlem. 

41.  Adolph,  bom  1718,  married  Maria  Bussing,  September  12. 

1740,  had  eight  children.  He  added  Nos.  9,  10,  First 
Division,  and  some  other  parcels  of  land,  in  addition  to 
those  described  above. 

42.  Ann  (Anna),  born  1720,  married  William  Waldron,  August 

24»  1744- 

43.  Isaac,  bom  1721,  deceased. 

44.  Abraham,  born  1723,  deceased. 

45.  Margaret,  bom  1725,  married  John  Sickels,  1745. 

46.  Peter    (Petrus),  baptized  October  22,   1729,  married  Mary 

Bunn  (Maria  Bon),  April  16,  1762,  had  one  child. 

47.  Mary  (Maria),  baptized  August  9,  1724,  married  Benjamin 

Vandevvater,  1750. 

48.  Sarah,  born  1731,  married  Elias  De  Crush,  Jr.,  October  17, 

1761. 

49.  Breg^e,  born  1733,  married  John  Low,  June  22,  1765. 

Jacob  (12),  by  lease  and  release  from  Simon  Johnson  and 
others,  trustees  of  Elias  Pipon,  dated  February  11,  12,  1741,  Jacob 
Myer  came  to  own  that  part  of  the  Delavall  estate  called  the  Six 
Lots,  with  two-thirds  of  the  adjacent  Carteret  Lot.  This  pur- 
chase, with  the  adjoining  Lot  No.  i.  New  Lots,  which  Jacob  re- 
ceived from  his  father,  gave  him  that  large  square  tract  since 
known  as  the  Myer  farm,  bounding  upon  the  Harlem  River,  its 
lower  angle  on  128th  Street  just  west  of  7th  Avenue;  its  upper 
angle  on  139th  Street,  a  little  east  of  6th  Avenue.  The  fine  large 
tract  on  the  heights  which  Johannes  Myer  had  gotten  from  Bre- 
voort  came,  as  we  have  seen,  to  be  vested  in  Jacob,  and  reached 
(where  intersected  by  the  Bloomingdale  branch  of  the  Kings- 
bridge  Road)  from  just  below  136th  Street  to  139th  Street.  His 
son,  John,  added  the  Bussing  lot,  next  north,  28  acres,  by  deeds 
dated  1790  and  1791.  Jacob  Myer,  at  forty  years  of  age,  was 
a  prominent  man  in  the  town,  and  at  a  later  period  its  treasurer. 
He  died  November  25,  1758,  leaving  all  his  property  to  his  widow, 
who  survived  till  1765,  when  his  son,  John,  born  173 1,  came  in 
f)ossession,  either  under  his  mother's  will,  or  as  heir-at-law. 
John  provided  in  his  will  for  an  unmarried  sister,  Rebecca,  who 
lived  with  him. 

Jacob  (12),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issuk: 

50.  John,  bom  1731,  married  Eve,  daughter  of  John  Dyckman, 

had  five  children. 

51.  Rebecca,  who  died  unmarried. 

John  (15)  was  constable  in  1 740-1.     In  the  division  of  their 


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inheritance,  between  him  and  his  brother  Jacob,  John  obtained 
the  **Three  Lots,''  which  he  and  wife  sold,  October,  1755,  to 
John  Sickels,  and  which  subsequently  formed  the  well-known 
Richard  Harrison  and  Gabriel  Furman  tracts.  John  Myer's 
home  was  afterward  on  the  west  side  of  Kingsbridge  Road, 
near  Breakneck  Hill  (on  Lot  16,  First  Division,  reaching  from 
140th  to  145th  Streets,  and  part  of  Lot  9  of  1691,  in  the  rear, 
in  all  about  20  acres,  which  had  fallen  to  his  share),  and  here 
he  kept  a  public  house  till  his  death,  in  1773,  at  about  the  age  of 
57  years.     A  second  wife,  Amy ?,  survived  him. 

John  (15),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue  by  his 
FIRST  wife: 

52.  John,  Jr.,  married   Susannah   Bussing,  December   15,    1785. 

53.  Acolph,  baptized  November  27,  1743,  deceased. 

54.  Catherina,  baptized  June  28,   1752,  married  Jonathan  Ran- 

dell,*  July  5,  1770,  had  thirteen  children. 

Hendrickus  (23),  (SON  OF  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

55.  Henricus,  baptized  August  4,  1736,  deceased. 

Johannes  (25).  (son  of  Hendrick),  became  a  wealthy  New 
York  merchant,  and  having  outlived  his  second  wife  (Helena 
Rutgers,  widow  of  Hon.  John  Morin  Scott),  and  attained  to 
near  90  years,  as  one  who  knew  him  informed  us,  died  August 
31,  1807.     He  had  issue: 

56.  Henry  R.,  of  New  York,  merchant,  1774. 

57.  Anna,  baptized  August   10,   1748,  married  Thomas  Sowers, 

of  New  York,  June  2^,  1769.     He  *'Capt.  of  Engineers 
in  His  Majesty's  service,"  who  died  1774. 

58.  Mary,  who  married  Henry  Bowers,  Jr.,  January  8,  1772.     He 

of  Swansea,  Mass.     Mrs.  Bowers  inherited  her  father's 
estate  under  his  will. 

Abraham  Myer  (26),  baptized  December  8,  1716,  married 
Mattie  Kortright,  sister  of  Arent's  wife,  in  1740.  He  succeeded 
to  his  father's  lands,  having  sold  his  farm  on  Montanye's  Flat. 
(See  page  488.)  Abraham  served  as  deacon.  He  died  in  1772, 
his  wife,  Mattie.  surviving,  and  also  five  children.  The  first 
three,  with  the  widow  and  executor,  Adolph  ]Myer,  conveyed  the 
42-acre  tract,  April  20,  1773,  to  John  Bogert,  Jr.,  whose  heirs 
sold  it  to  Lawrence  Benson. 

•  Jonathan  RandcII  came  from  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  being  by  trade  a  car- 
penter. After  his  marriage  he  lived  for  some  time  upon  Harlem  Heights,  but  on 
November  29,  1784,  purchased  Randell's  Island  for  £2.400,  and  by  his  energy  and  in- 
dustry as  a  farmer  paid  for  it  in  ten  years.  Here  he  resided,  greatly  respected,  till 
his  death  at  the  age  of  88  years,  January  17,  1830.  Leaving  this  fine  property  to  his 
heirs,  these  sold  it,  five  years  later,  to  the  Corporation  of  New  York,  for  $50,000. 


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Abraham  (26),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

59.  Abraham,  born  1741,  married  Agnietie  Roome,  June  29,  1771. 

Was  a  weaver. 

60.  Lawrence,  bom  1742,  married  Engeltie,  daughter  of  Samuel 

Waldron,   November    16,    1766,   had  one   child.      He   a 
blacksmith. 

61.  Margaret,  bom  1744. 

62.  Engeltie,  bom  1745. 

63.  Bregie,  born  1747. 

By  Arent  Myer's  (27)  will,  made  November  23,  1773,  and 
proved  September  21,  1784,  he  left  half  his  estate  to  his  grand- 
children, Arent  and  Susannah  Bussing,  and  half  to  his  grand- 
daughter, Susannah  Waldron. 

Arent  {2y)y  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

64.  Engeltie,  born    1736,  married   Peter  Waldron,  January  24, 

1765. 

65.  Margaret,  bom  1737,  married  Abraham  Bussing,  December 

27,   1764,  by  license,  and  Bussing's  bondsman  was  no 
less  a  person  than  George  Clinton,  afterward  Governor. 

66.  Arent,  bom  1739,  deceased. 

67.  John,  born  1741,  deceased. 

Adolph  (35),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

68.  Jacob,  born  January  19,  1744. 

69.  Anatje  No.  i,  born  October  12,  1746,  died  young. 

70.  Anatje  (Anna)  No.  2,  born  September  8,  1748. 

71.  Catherina,  born  July  31,  1752. 

John  (40),  (son  of  Adolph),  had  issue: 

72.  Mary  (Maria),  born  1762,  baptized  February  17,  1762. 
72^,  Catherine,  born  1764. 

74.  Adolph,  born  1766. 

Adolph  (41),  (son  of  Adolph),  was  an  elder  at  Harlem,  and 
signed  the  articles  of  union  in  1772  which  healed  the  divisions 
in  the  Dutch  church.  He  occupied  his  lands,  aforesaid,  till  the 
Revolution,  when,  being  a  Whig,  he  retired  to  Dutchess  County, 
and,  at  the  close  of  the  war,  concluding  to  remain  there,  traded 
farms,  May  i,  1784,  with  Charles  Duryee,  of  New  York,  mer- 
chant ;  as  shown  by  the  deed  from  Duryee  to  Myer,  for  his  lands 
in  Rombout  Precipct,  given,  as  it  states,  "by  virtue  of  a  mutual 
exchange  of  farms";  the  fact  of  said  exchange  being  also  cor- 
roborated by  the  late  Simeon  De  Witt.* 

*  William  Molenaor,  in  wme  records  called  Miller,   this  being  the  Ent^lish  of  his 
name,   was  a  descendant  of  Joost   Adracns  Molenaer,   who   was  born   at   Pynackcr,   a 


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Adolph  (41)  HAD  issue: 

75.  Adolph,  bom  1741. 

76.  John,  born  1742. 
yj,  Mary,  bom  1743. 

78.  Peter,  bom  1745. 

79.  Isaac,  born  1747. 

80.  Anna,  bom  1749.        \  ^    . 

81.  Gertmde,  bom  1749.  j   ^^"^^• 

82.  Elizabeth,   born   April    18,    1751,   married   John   Backhouse, 

April  12,  1770,  had  four  children. 

Peter  (46),  (son  of  Adolph),  had  issue:  . 

83.  Adolph,  baptized  March  2,  1763. 

John  Meyer  ( 50)  was  many  years  town  clerk,  we  believe  the 
last  holding  that  office  here.  He  married  Eve,  daughter  of  John 
Dykman,  who  died  in  her  78th  year,  November  i,  1809.  He 
died,  aged  86  years,  February  23,  18 17.  From  Johannes,  if  not 
from  Adolph,  the  ancestors  down,  this  branch  of  the  family  all 
occupied  the  old  stone  house  which  stood,  till  of  late,  at  the  north- 
ern angle  of  Lot  4  of  169 1,  at  the  junction  of  the  two  roads;  or 
to  otherwise  locate  it,  about  a  hundred  and  fifty  feet  west  of 
8th  Avenue,  on  the  lower  side  of  131st  Street. 

John  (50),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

84.  Jacob,  born  April  23,  1757,  married  Cornelia ?,  June  15, 

1780,  had  five  children,  and  died  October  29,  1813. 

85.  John  Dyckman,  born  December  25,  1759,  married  Catherine 

Ackerman,  December.  19,   1782,  had  four  children,  and 
died  May  4,  1802. 

village  three  miles  east  of  Delft,  and  came  to  this  country  in  the  ship  Faith,  which 
sailed  from  Amsterdam.  December  23,  1660.  At  Esopus,  where  he  went  to  live, 
he  married.  May  20,  1663,  Femmetie  Hendricks,  from  Meppel.  On  June  7,  ensuing, 
the  Indians  rose  against  the  white  settlers  and  killed  and  wounded  many,  carrying 
others  into,  cajitivity,  amon^  whom  was  Molenaer's  wife.  She  was  soon  ransomed, 
and  a  year  later  their  first  child,  Marritie,  was  born.  Toost  married  a  second  wife, 
Lysbcth.  dauKhter  of  William  Krom,  October  28,  1668,  having  first,  on  September  2. 
made  his  will.  By  this  \^ife  he  had  issue,  Jane,  born  1672,  who  married  Jellis  de  la 
tirangc,  of  Albany;  Adrian,  born  1675;  William,  1678,  and  Henry,  168 1.  He 
served  as  deacon,  and  from  1672  to  1678  as  schepen.  On  July  q,  1681,  he  married 
liis  third  wife.  Maria,  daughter  of  Jacob  Hayes,  and  widow  of  Philip  Lecuw,  or  Lyon. 
Tiv  this  wife  he  had  a  daughter,  Sarah,  born  1682.  Removing  to  a  farm  in  Bushwick. 
of  50  acres,  he  and  his  wife  joined  the  church  at  New  York,  May  30,  1683,  but  he  died 
that  same  year  (his  will  being  admitted^  to  probate  at  Kingston,  October  17,  1683), 
and  the  next  year  his  widow  married  Capt.  Peter  Praa.  (See  Annals  of  Newtown, 
page  382,  and  Stiles'  Brooklvn,  volume  ii.,  page  321,  etc.)  Adrian  Molenaer  married 
at  Kingston,  in  i7oo,  Anna  de  la  (frangc.  l)id  he  not  settle  on  the  Raritan?  William 
Molenaer  married.  1704,  Ciertrude,  daughter  of  Caspar  and  Maria  Springsteen,  and 
died  in  Newtown,  an  aged  man."  May  11,  I753-  His  son  David,  who  married  Catherine 
Meserole,  vas  the  father  of  William  Molenaor,  born  1754,  the  first  of  the  name  at 
Harlem.  The  latter,  then  living  in  Bushwick,  bought  the  Adolph  Myer  farm,  April  i. 
1790.  He  died  in  1812,  leaving  by  his  wife,  Mercy,  issue,  David,  William  DcWitt  C, 
and  Catherine,  wife  oif  Charles  W.  (k)rdon.  Dr.  William  Molenaer,  long  a  prac- 
titioner at  Harlem,  married  but  left  no  children,  now  living;  his  brothers  hare 
deceased.  We  remember  the  old  Molenaor  house,  while  yet  standing,  but  in  ruins. 
It  stood  in  a  hollow,  on  the  north  side  of  124th  street,  200  feet  west  of  8th  avenue. 


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86.  Peter,  born  August  9,  1761,  married  Mrs.  Sarah  Westervelt 

(Banta),  had  three  children,  and  died  March  4,  1834. 

87.  Abraham,  born  January  20,  1767,  died  single,  April  2,  1819. 

88.  Garret,  born  March  20,  1775,  married  Jane  Bogert,  December 

18,  1799,  had  three  children,  and  died  January  6,  i860. 
Resided  at  Hackensack,  N.  J. 

Lawrence  (60),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

89.  Samuel,  a  carpenter,  who  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Captain 

John  Waldron,  had  one  child.  He  removed  to  Claverack, 
N.  Y.  Last  of  the  family  to  occupy  the  ancient  stone 
house,  removed  by  Judge  Ingraham  when  125th  Street 
was  opened,  the  well  remaining  on  the  south  side  of  the 
street,  and  in  use  until  a  few  years  ago  (1881). 

This  house  stood  on  the  Tourneur  home-lot,  bought  by  Abra- 
ham Myer  in  171 3,  and  which  Samuel  sold  to  Alexander  Phoenix, 
March  2.7,  1806,  with  the  old  church  lot  joining  it  on  the  easterly 
side ;  his  father,  Lawrence,  holding  that  the  fee  of  the  last-named 
lot  (whereon  the  first  church  had  stood)  was  in  his  father,  Abra- 
ham Myer,  and  passed  by  devise  to  his  children.  These  two  lots 
have  since  formed  the  Eliphalet  Williams  plot.  There  was  a 
house  of  later  construction  on  the  adjoining  farm  lot,  probably 
built  by  Johannes  De  Witt  before  the  Revolution,  which  was 
burned  in  181 1,  and  on  whose  site  Nathaniel  G.  Ingraham  erected 
the  present  Judge  Ingraham  house. 

Jacob  (84),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

90.  Peter,  who  married  Margaret  Van  Bussin. 

91.  John,  who  married  Mary  Amanda,  but  died  without  issue. 

92.  Phebe,  who  married  Francis  Swords,  but  died  without  issue. 

93.  Marcy,  born  April  5,  1781,  married  Smith  Valentine,  but  died 

August  18,  1802,  without  surviving  issue. 

94.  Eve,' who  married  first,  Frederick  Dyckman,  had  three  chil- 

dren.    She  married  second,  Edward  Riker. 

John  Dyckman  (85),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

95.  John,  bom  September  9,   1783,  married  Elizabeth  Johnson, 

had  five  children.     Lived  at  Leonia,  N.  J. 

96.  Gilbert,  bom  September  14,   1785,  married  Mary  Delancey 

JIammond,  June  8,  1841,  had  five  children. 

97.  Hannah,  born  June  25,  1794,  married  David  D.  Meyer,  No- 

vember 30,  1814,  had  three  children. 

98.  Peter,  bom  November  15,  1800,  married  May  A.  Totten,  had 

three  children. 

Peter  (86),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 
99.  Eve  Maria,  who  married  Capt.  Joseph  P.  Dean,  no  issue. 


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lOO.  Cornelia  Frances,  who  married  John  G.  Dietz,  no  issue.  She 
deceased. 

loi.  Abraham  Dyckman,  who  married Kehoe,  had  two  chil- 
dren. 

Garret  (88),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

102.  John  G.,  bom  August  30,  1800,  married  Ellen  Kip,  Novem- 

ber 3,  1825,  but  died  without  issue,  March  15,  1834. 

103.  Harriet,  born  June  7,  1803,  married  first,  John  C.  Z.  Ander- 

son, November  26,  1823,  had  five  children.  She  married 
second,  Robert  C.  A.  Ward,  September  2,  1841,  and  died 
October  23,  1873,  without  issue  by  second  husband. 

104.  Eve,  born  June  11,  1807,  married  Adolph  W.  Campbell,  Sep- 

tember 28,  1826,  had  seven  children,  and  died  April  17, 
1854.     Buried  at  Hackensack,  N.  J. 

Samuel  (89),  (son  of  Lawrence),  had  issue: 

105.  Abraham. 

John  (95),  (son  of  John  Dyckman),  h-\d  issue: 

106.  Maria. 

107.  John,  born  February  10,  1810,  married  Amelia  Purdy,  June 

14,  1831,  had  three  children,  and  died  May  5,  1887.  He 
of  Boonton,  N.  Y. 

108.  Livingston. 

109.  Catherine,  who  married  George  Doremus. 

no.  Eve,  born  1819,  married  Daniel  Riley,  no  issue. 

Gilbert  (96),  (son  of  John  Dyckman),  had  issue: 

111.  Amanda  Fitzallen,  born  October  2,  1819,  married  De  Witt 

C.  Hays,  had  seven  children,  and  died  March  3,  1890. 

112.  Harvey   Elliot,   bom   May   27,    1822,   married   Eleanor   A. 

Pomeroy,  had  two  children.     He  deceased.  - 

113.  Rachel  Hammond,  born  May  2^,   1822,  married  Jeremiah 

Bush,  1844,  had  one  child,  and  died  1845. 

114.  Catherine,  born  March  6,  1824,  unmarried. 

115.  Henrietta,  born  December  2,  1828,  unmarried. 

Peter  (98),  (son  of  John  Dyckman),  had  issue: 

116.  E.  George,  who  married  Charlotte ?.  ' 

117.  James  S.   (M.  D.). 

118.  Rebecca  S. 

Abraham  Dyckman  (ioi),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

1 19.  Mary  Matilda,  who  married  Dr.  William  T.  Lusk. 

120.  Anna  Maria,  who  married  Orlando  Lines. 


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John  (107),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

121.  John,  bom  May  5,  1832,  married  Sarah  Whitehead,  October 

22,  1854,  had  five  children,  and  died  October  22,  1879. 
Resided  at  Boonton,  N.  J. 

122.  Emory,  born  August  8,  1846,  died  December  8,  1847. 

123.  Oscar  W.,  bom  December    13,    1835,  married  Louisa  A. 

Briggs,  July  31,  1859,  had  three  children. 

Harvey  Eluot  (112),  (son  of  Gilbert),  had  issue: 

124.  Charles  A.,  born  1851,  married  Ella  Hays,  had  two  children. 

125.  Nellie  M.,  who  married  Richard  H.  Lippincott,  had  three 

children. 

John  (121),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

126.  Ellis  G.,  bom  November  26,  1855,  married  Frances  Beddon, 

October  14,  1880,  have  four  children. 

127.  Oscar,  born  January  i,  1858,  died  in  February,  1862. 

128.  Enoch  G.,  born  January  21,  1862,  single.* 

129.  John,  born  December   16,    1865,  married   Bertha  Jacobus, 

November  7,  1895,  had  two  children.     She  died  April  6, 
1901. 

130.  Harry,  born  September  16,  1872,  died  March  30,  1894. 

Oscar  W.  (123),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

131.  Emory  Wallace,  born  April  17,  1863,  married  Lena  L.  Pat- 

terson, October  8,  1889,  had  two  children. 

132.  Amelia  P.,  born  July  30,  1864,  unmarried. 

133.  Helen  B.,  born  December  16,  1873,  married  Arthur  H.  Tem- 

ple, June  7,  1899,  no  issue.     He  died  May  23,  1903. 

Charles  A.  (124),  (son  of  Harvey  Eujot),  had  issue: 

134.  W.  H.  H.,  born  1881. 

135.  Charles  A.,  Jr.,  born  1889. 

Elus  G.  (126),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

136.  Alivia,  born  1881,  died  December  15,  1901. 

137.  John,  born  August  25,  1890. 

138.  Caroline,  born  July  8,  1896. 

139.  Sarah,  born  October  31,  1897. 

John  (129),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

140.  Florence,  bom  March  28,  1897. 

141.  Marian  J.,  born  April  3,  1899. 

Emory  Wallace  (131),  (son  of  Oscar  W.),  had  issue: 

142.  Oscar  P.,  born  July  25,  1890. 

143.  Lois  Nye,  born  January  10,  1894. 


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NAGEL. 

John  Nagel  has  no  descendants  of  the  name  at  Harlem, 
though  yet  to  be  found  in  Rockland  County  and  other  localities.* 
The  name  is  now  oftener  written  Nagle  or  Naugle,  the  last  ex- 
pressing its  original  sound.  Jan  Nagel,  born  in  Holland,  1645, 
having  been  "a  soldier  in  the  service  of  the  honorable  West  India 
Company,"  up  to  the  surrender  to  the  English,  in  1664,  then  quit 
the  service  and  retired  in  disgust  to  Harlem,  with  avowed  inten- 
tion to  leave  the  country.  He  saw  fit  to  remain,  but  was  slow  in 
becoming  reconciled  to  the  English  rule.  His  first  essay  as  a  free- 
holder and  marriage,  August  27,  1670,  with  Rebecca  Waldron 
(see  page  267)   require  no  further  notice.      On  the  division,  in 

1677,  of  the  lands  bought  jointly  with  John  Delamater  (see  pages 
272,  495),  Nagel  took  lot  No.  6,  Jochem  Pieters'  Flat,  with  out- 
garden  No.  13,  and  half  the  meadows.  In  1679  he  bought  the 
adjoining  garden,  No.  14,  with  the  dwelling-house  on  it  (see  page 
353),  which  he  may  have  occupied  thereafter.     On  August  16, 

1678.  he  bought  a  third  lot  on  Jochem  Pieters.  (See Appendix  E.) 
His  acquisitions  at  Spuvten  Duyvel  have  been  noticed,  pages  341, 
343.  In  1675  Nagel  was  chosen  deacon,  and  he  seems  to  have 
been  a  man  of  sterling  principles.  Owing  probably  to  his  known 
dislike  of  the  English  government,  his  nomination  for  office  was 
several  times  rejected  by  the  Mayor's  Court,  but  at  length  he  was 
confirmed  as  constable  in  1677,  and  later  served  twice  as  com- 
missioner. He  died  in  1689.  The  next  year  his  widow  became 
the  wife  of  Jan  Dyckman,  then  of  Spu\i:en  Duyvel,  and  there  they 
were  married.  Their  marriage  contract,  made  at  Harlem,  May 
12,  1690,  says:  "As  it  is  found  by  the  testament  of  Jan  Nagel 
that  his  surviving  children  should  receive  the  exact  half  of  his 
estate,  part  of  which  is  lying  here  at  this  dorp,  and  the  other  part 
at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  but,  as  is  thought,  the  part  of  the  aforesaid 
estate  lying  at  the  dorp  is  the  greater  part ;  yet  Rebecca  Waldron 
assigns  to  her  children  by  Jan  Nagel,  deceased,  all  that  is  situated 

*  Jan  G€rritsen  Hagel — Hagel  is  often  written  for  Na^el  in  our  early  records,  a 
mistake  easily  made — was  a  passenger  by  the  ship  Faith,  which  left  Amsterdam  Decem- 
ber 23,  1660,  bringing  also  the  Molenaor  and  Bush  ancestors.  Prior  to  this  dale  our 
Na^el  is  not  named,  while  another  Jan  Nagel  of  that  period,  whom  we  sliall  presently 
notice,  had  just  died,  and  therefore  was  not  the  passenger  referred  to.  Was  this 
passenger  our  Nagel?  As  against  it,  apparently,  Nagel  calls  neither  of  his  sons 
Gcrrit,  but  hiis  eldest,  Barent,  which  would  indicate  that  his  own  patronymic  was 
Barentsen,  judging  from  common  usage.  In  such  case,  and  considering  his  relations 
to  the  Waldrons,  he  might  be  taken  for  a  brother  of  Tanneke  Barents  ^a^el.  But, 
on  the  other  hand,  those  relations  may  have  been  alone  due  to  his  marriage  with 
Rebecca  Waldron,  and  the  child's  name,  Barent,  have  come  from  her  brother  Barent. 
Further,  we  notice  that  Nagel.  though  a  church  member,  is  not  enrolled  on  the  very 
full  register  extant,  either  as  Hagel,  Nagel,  or  Barentsen,  while  the  name  Tan  Gcrrit- 
sen  occurs  twice,  at  the  same  date  with  those  of  persons  uniting,  from  Harlem,  in 
1670  and  1673.  The  presumption  is  that  one  of  these  was  Nagel,  and  renders  probable 
his  identity  with  the  emip-ant  of   1660.     But  with  the  uncertainty  as  to  our  Nagel's 

yatronymic  whether  Gerntsen  or  Barentsen— or  again,  since  he  called  his  second  son 
ohn,  whether  he  may  not  have  been  a  son  of  Sergt.  Jan  Nagel.  hereafter  mentioned — 
we  will  not  assume  to  decide  the  question. 


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and  lying  at  this  dorp."    These  lands,  for  a  time,  stood  in  the 
name  of  her  son  Barent. 

Jan  Nagel  (i),  bom  in  Holland,  about  1645,  married  Re- 
becca Waldron,  August  27 ^  1670,  had  ten  children,  and  died  in 
1689. 

Jan  (i)*  had  issue: 

2.  Barent  No.  i,  baptized  July  23,  167 1,  died  young. 

3.  Jannetie,  baptized  November  2,  1672,  died  young. 

4.  Jan  (John),  baptized  February  24,  1675,  married  Magdalena 

Dyckman,  January  2,  1708,  had  seven  children,  and  died 
in  1763. 

5.  Anna  Catherina,  baptized  November  29,   1676,  married  Jo- 

hannes Berck,  December  4,  1702. 

6.  Barent  No.  2,  baptized  December  18,  1678,  married  Sarah 

Kiersen,    1708,   had   seven   children,   went   to   Rockland 

*  Jan  Nagel — not  ours,  for  he,  as  well  as  Dyckman,  had  a  contemporary  of  like 
name — was  also  a  soldier;  but  nothing  is  found  to  prove  a  relationship  between  the 
two  Nagels,  or  any  intercourse  between  the  families.  Sergt.  Nagel  was  from  Limborg, 
and  is  called  an  Oosterling.  After  five  years  or  more  of  military  service  at  New 
Amsterdam,  he  married  Grietie  Dircks,  in  1652.  It  may  be  that  he  had  a  former 
wife  in  Europe,  as  in  his  marriaee  record  the  customary  mention  whether  he  was  a 
>oiing  man  or  widower  is  omitted.  It  was  usual  for  persons  coming  out  as  soldiers 
to  leave  their  family  at  home.  His  present  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Dirck  Volkcrtsen, 
Norman,  of  Bushwick,  and  her  uncle,  John  Vinge,  was  the  first  male  person  born  in 
the  State  of  New  York.**  Grietie  was  the  young  widow  of  Nagel's  fellow-soldier, 
Sergt.  Tans  Hermans  Schut,  married  but  three  years  before,  and  lately  murdered  by 
the  Indians,  leaving  her  with  a  child,  Phebe,  born  1651,  afterward  wife  of  the  Con- 
»elyea  ancestor.  (See  page  204.)  By  Nagel  she  had  two  children,  viz.:  Juriaen,  born 
1653,  and  Christina,  born  1655.  Na^el  was  enrolled  as  a  burgner,  April  13,  1657, 
but  died  soon  after,  and  in  1658  his  widow  married  Barent  Gerritsen.  Christina 
married  William  Aertscn,  of  New  York.  Juriaen  Nagelj  born  in  New  York,  but  living 
at  Bushwick.  married,  1679,  Tannetie,  daughter  of  Philip  Langclaan.  That  year  Mrs. 
Nagel  joined  the  church  at  New  York,  as  did  Juriaen  in  1683,  when  they  went  to  live 
there,  but  subsequently  returned,  and,  in  1695,  transferred  their  connection  to  the 
Bushwick  church.  Nagel,  in  1689,  and  '90,  served  22  months  as  a  soldier  under 
Leisler.  How  his  independence  revolted  at  the  official  exactions  of  his  time  appears 
from  an  incident  in  Stiles'  Brooklyn,  volume  ii.,  page  ^52,  where  he  is  called  Hagell. 
He  served  as  deacon  at  Bushwick,  and  took  part  m  building  the  new  church  there  in 
1706;  then  owning  a  farm  of  95  acres.  He  died  in  1732.  His  children  were  John, 
born  1679,  died  young;  Philippus,  born  1682;  Margaret,  born  1684,  who  married 
Conselyea  and  Covert;  Jacobus,  born  1687;  Bemamin,  born  1690;  John,  born  1695, 
and  Cornelia,  born  1697,  who  married  Andries  Stockholm.  In  Lieutenant  Philippus 
Nagel  the  military  taste  still  showed  itself.  He  settled  in  Flatbush,  and  was  super- 
visor in  1 719.  constable  1731,  etc.  By  his  wife  Anna,  whom  he  married  in  1703,  he  had 
sons  Juriaen,  Cornelius  and  Philip,  besides  daughters.  Philip  was  long  a  judge  of 
Kings  County,  and  county  treasurer.  He  died  May  11,  I797.  aged  84  years.  (See 
Strong's  Flatbush.)  Some  of  his  family  early  migrated  to  Bucks  County,  Pa.,  and 
have  descendants  in  and  about  Philadelphia. 

•*  Is  there  not  room  to  distrust  the  accuracy  of  the  Labadist  travellers  as  to  John 
Vinge's  age?  (Dankers  and  Sluyter's  Journal,  page  114)  inasmuch  as  he — and  an 
older  sister,  Rachel,  born  in  Europe,  and  afterward  wife  of  Cornelis  Van  Tienhoven — 
were  minors  and  yet  to  be  educated  and  put  to  trades,  on  the  date  of  April  30,  1632, 
when  their  mother,  Adriana  Cuvilly,  contracted  a  second  marriage  with  Jan  Jansen 
Daraen.  (New  York  Colonial  Manuscript,  volume  i.,  page  6.)  On  the  assumption 
that  John's  birth  was  as  early  as  1614,  eleven  years  must  have  transpired  (a  remark- 
able interval  if  there  were  families  here  thus  early)  before  a  girl  was  born,  that  girl 
being  Sarah  Rapelye.  Our  opinion  is  that  (»ulian  Vinge  came  over  with  the  first 
Walloon  colonists  in  1623,  and  that  his  son  John  was  born  in  that  or  the  ensuing  year. 
It  might  otherwise  have  been  rather  stale  news  which  was  sent  to  Holland,  September 
2^,  1626,  that  "the  women  also  have  borne  some  children  here."  (Colonial  Historv 
New  York,  volume  i.,  page  37.)  What  has  been  said  on  page  117  must  be  our 
apology  for  alluding  to  this  matter.     Vinge  was  an  ancestor  of  Gulian  C.  Verplanck. 


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County  with  his  brother,  Resolved,  and  purchased  i,ooo 
acres  of  land  from  Lancaster  Sims. 

7.  Johanna,  baptized  November  25,  1680,  married  William  Wal- 

dron,  March  10,  1705,  had  five  children. 

8.  Jacobus,  baptized  January  10,  1683,  died  young. 

9.  Debora,  baptized  February  23,  1684,  married  Robert  West- 

gate,  had  two  children. 

10.  Resolved,  baptized  August  4,  1687,  married  Clara,  daughter 

of  Gerrit  Leydecker,  May  9,  171 3.  had  seven  children, 
joined  church  at  Hackensack,  X.  J.,  on  certificate  from 
Harlem,  in  1713. 

11.  William,  born  1689,  died  young. 

John  Nagel  (4),  of  Harlem,  was  taught  to  weave  by  Abra- 
ham Delamontanie.  He  married,  January  2,  1708,  Magdalena 
Dyckman,  and  on  November  10,  17 19,  became  sole  owner  of  the 
paternal  lands,  by  deed  from  his  brothers  and  sisters ;  Jacob  Dyck- 
man and  his  sister,  Mrs.  Hadley,  also  joining  in  the  conveyance. 
On  Alay  15,  1729,  and  June  9,  1744,  Nagel  and  Dyckman  passed 
partition  deeds.  (See  Dyckman  family.)  In  1736  Nagel  built 
him  a  stone  dwelling,  which  continued  to  be  the  residence  of  the 
family,  and  is  that  yet  standing  on  the  bank  of  Harlem  River  at 
213th  Street,  and  known  as  the  "Century  House"  (1881).  Nagel 
was  constable  in  171 2,  signed  the  Mill  Camp  grant  in  1738,  and 
deeds  given  for  common  lands,  sold  in  1747.  His  will,  made 
when  "far  advanced  in  years,"  December  14,  1754,  was  proved 
October  11,  1763. 

The  Nagel  estate  descended  by  devise  from  the  other  brothers 
to  William,  the  youngest,  who  in  his  will,  dated  August  31,  1806, 
left  all  his  property  to  his  four  nephews,  Hendrick,  Dennis,  and 
Abraham  Post,  and  Henry  Tison,  and  to  his  niece,  Lena  Post, 
living  with  him.  Making  ample  provision,  in  money,  for  Abra- 
ham and  Lena  Post,  he  distributed  the  real  estate  as  follows: 
To  Henry  Post,  "the  upper  lot  of  land  of  my  farming,  running 
from  the  Post  Road  to  Harlem  River;  likewise  the  opposite  lot 
of  land  running  from  the  Post  Road  westerly  to  Spuyten  Du^'vel 
Creek,  with  the  salt  meadow  joining  to  the  said  lot  on  Spu\ten 
Duyvel  Creek ;  likewise  that  lot  of  land  adjoining  said  lot,  bounded 
north  to  land  of  Caleb  Hyatt,  near  Kingsbridge;  also  two  lots 
of  woodland,  the  one  adjoining  the  Fishing  Rock,  at  the  North 
River,  the  other  the  last  lot  of  woodland  adjoining  Spuyten  Duy- 
vel Creek."  To  Dennis  Post,  **all  the  lands  belonging  to  the 
homestead  whereon  I  live,  except  about  ten  rods  square  of  the 
burying  ground,  with  free  access  from  the  road  to  the  same  for 
interments ;  also  the  Clove  lot  of  w(X)dland ;  also  that  lot  of  land 
known  by  the  name  of  the  Barrick,  with  the  three  Hucklebeny 
Islands,  and  the  salt  meadow  called  Mindersche  Fly."     To  Henrv 


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Tison,  **the  house  and  lot  of  land  whereon  John  Oblenis  now 
lives,  and  a  woodlot  lying  between  the  lots  belonging  to  Jacobus 
Dyckman,  joining  the  North  River;  also  a  lot  of  salt  meadow 
lying  near  the  Round  Meadow  Creek,  three  acres,  more  or  less." 
He  empowered  his  executors  to  sell  his  meadow,  lying  on  the 
other  side  of  Harlem  River,  opposite  his  house. 

Jan  (4),  (son  of  Jan),  had  issue: 

12.  John,  baptized  December  30,  1716,  died  single,  1786. 

13.  Jacob,  who  died  single  in  1806. 

14.  William,  who  died  single  in  1808. 

15.  Rebecca,  who  married  Hendrick  Post,  1737,  had  six  children. 

16.  Magdalena,  who  married  John  Nagel,  September  23,  1754- 

17.  Deborah,  who  married  Benjamin  Waldron,  July  23,  1762. 

18.  Catherine,  who  died  unmarried. 

Barent  (6),  (son  of  Jan),  was  a  justice  of  the  peace  in  1731. 
He  had  issue: 

19.  John,  bom  about  1709,  married  first,  Elizabeth  Blauvelt,  had 

eleven  children.  He  married  second,  Magdalena  Nagel, 
September  23,  1754. 

20.  Rebecca,  baptized  April  14,  1713,  married  Gerrit .  Bruyn,  had 

one  child. 

21.  William,  baptized  April  10,  1716,  married  Lena  Alger,  April 

16,  1748,  had  seven  children. 

22.  Hendrick,  born  March  10,  1718,  married  first,  Catherine  Blau- 

velt, 1745,  had  seven  children.  He  married  second,  Mary 
De  Clark,  November  22,  1764,  and  died  January  7,  1806. 
Buried  at  Closter,  N.  J. 

23.  Sarah,  who  married  Peter  Oblinus,  1732,  had  six  children. 

24.  Johanna,    baptized    April    24,    1724,    married    Nicholas    D. 

Demarest,   1743,  had  one  child. 

25.  Jacob,  baptized  June  8,  1729,  married  Margaret  Lozier,  No- 

vember 19,  1752,  had  eight  children. 

Resolved  (10),  (son  of  Jan),  in  1729.  was  elder  and  trustee 
at  Orangetown.     He  had  issue: 

26.  Cornelia,  baptized  May  2,  1714,  married  Arie  Arieyanse,  had 

seven  children. 
2y,  Rebecca,  baptized  May  20,  1716,  married  Teunis  Van  Houten, 
had  six  children. 

28.  Catrina,  born  1717,  married  Roelof  Van  Houten,  1742,  had 

six  children. 

29.  Elizabeth,    baptized   January    13,    17 19,    married    Stephanus 

Stevenson,  1743,  had  three  children. 

30.  Marrittie,  baptized  October   15,   1723,  married   Petrus  Van 

Houten,  1742,  had  eleven  children. 


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31.  Johanna,  baptized  February  6,  1726,  died  unmarried. 

32.  Janneke,  bom  1728,  married  Hendrick  Stevenson,  September 

19,  1751,  had  five  children. 

John  (19),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue  by  his  first  wife: 

33.  Sarah,  baptized  January  24,  1731,  died  unmarried. 

34.  John,  baptized  July  29,  1733,  married  Elizabeth  Leydecker, 

July  7,  1756,  had  nine  children. 

35.  Barent,  baptized  November  24,  1734,  married  first,  Angenietje 

Dirge,  December  15,  1763,  had  four  children.     He  mar- 
ried second,  Jannetie  Westervelt,  had  three  children. 

36.  Catherine,  baptized  September  5,  1736,  died  unmarried. 

2;j.  Maria,  baptized  March  12,  1738,  married  Albert  Leydecker, 
1759,  had  two  children. 

38.  Elizabeth  No.  i,  baptized  November  4,  1739,  died  in  infancy. 

39.  Hendrick,  baptized  September  6,  1741,  died  in  infancy. 

40.  Rebecca,  baptized  July  24,  1743,  married  Tunis  Quackenbush, 

1770. 

41.  David  No.  i,  baptized  March  31,  1745,  died  in  infancy. 

42.  Elizabeth  No.  2,  baptized  April  20,  1747,  married  Peter  Loz- 

ier,  June  26,  1764. 

43.  David  No.  2,  baptized  October  7,  1750,  married  Dirkie  Har- 

ing,  1775,  ^^^  ^^"^  children,  and  died  May  29,  183 1. 

William  (21),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue: 

44.  Sarah,  born  April  4,  1749,  married  Daniel  De  Klerck,  Sep- 

tember 26,  1766,  had  two  children. 

45.  Petrus,  baptized  March  17,  1751. 

46.  Margritye,    baptized    February   4,    1753,    married    Gerardus 

Ryker,  had  four  children. 

47.  Rebecca,  baptized  March  31,  1755,  married  Cornelius  Blau- 

velt,  April  16,  1773,  had  five  children. 

48.  Lena,  baptized  May  30,  1757,  married  Thomas  Demarest,  in 

August,  1779,  had  four  children. 

49.  Maria,  baptized  October  5,  1759. 

50.  Barent,  baptized  February  21,  1762. 

Hendrick  (22),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue  by  his 
FIRST  wife: 

51.  Sara,  bom  April  i,  1747,  married  Abraham  Haring. 

52.  Elizabeth,  bom  November  30,  1749,  married  Jacob  Voorhees, 

had  six  children. 

53.  John,  born  1751,  married  Elizabeth  Riker,  had  nine  children. 

54.  Isaac,  bom  April  26,  1753,  married  first,  Maria  Arieyanse, 

had  three  children.      He  married  second,  Leah  Powles, 
had  one  child. 


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55.  Barent,  born  April  26,  1753,  married  Maria  Benson,  January 

I,  1779,  had  two  children.  Was  a  deacon  at  Tappan,  N. 
Y.,  in  1783,  and  died  October  14,  1834.  Buried  at  Closter, 
N.J. 

56.  Annetye,  baptized  March  14,  1756,  married  Matthias  Riker, 

had  two  children. 

57.  Maria,  baptized  July  29,  1759. 

Jacob  (25),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue: 

58.  Sara,  baptized  October  i,  1753. 

59.  Antie  No.  i,  baptized  October  12,  1755,  died  young. 

60.  Barent  No.  i,  baptized  September  17,  1758,  died  young. 

61.  Antie  No.  2,  baptized   September   17,    1758,  married  Jacob 

More,  had  seven  children. 

62.  Niclaes    (Nicholas),   baptized    November    i,    1761,   married 

Frenke  Nagel,  had  two  children. 

63.  Rebecca,  baptized  November  i,  1761,  married  Philip  Ryck- 

man,  had  four  children. 

64.  Marya,  baptized  December  18,  1763,  married  Simon  Carlock, 

had  three  children. 

65.  Barent  No.  2,  baptized  July  13,  1766. 

John  (34),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

66.  Elizabeth  No.  i,  born  December  9,  1757,  died  young. 

67.  Wyntie,  baptized  April  16,  1759,  married  William  D.  Camp- 

bell, had  two  children. 

68.  Magdalena,  baptized  January  i,  1761,  married  Joseph  Demar- 

est,  had  one  child. 

69.  Maria,  baptized  October  31,  1762,  married  Jacob  I.  Blauvelt, 

had  nine  children,  and  died  January  18,  1849. 

70.  Catherine,   baptized    September   30,    1764,    married   William 

Harven. 

71.  John  J.,  baptized  November  2, 1766,  married  Cornelia  Auryan- 

sen,  November  11,  1791,  had  five  children. 

72.  Gerrit,  baptized  November  13,   1768,  married  Elizabeth  De 

Graw,  November  10,  1798. 
J7^.  Elizabeth  No.  2,  baptized  February  3,  1771,  married  Daniel 
Vanvalen,  had  one  child. 

74.  Geertye,  baptized  June  13,   1773,  married  David  Anderson, 

October  14,  1791. 

Barent  (35),  (son  of  John),  had  issue  by  his  first  wife: 

75.  Jan,  baptized  April  21,  1765. 

76.  Tryntje,  baptized  April  19,  1767. 

yj,  Hendrick,  baptized  December  3,  1769. 
78.  Wyntje,  baptized  January  26,  1772. 


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BaRENT    (35)    HAD  ISSUE  BY  HIS  SECOND  WIFE: 

79.  Angenitje,  baptized  June  22,  1777. 

80.  Jan,  baptized  November  22,  1778. 

81.  Tryntje,  baptized  November  12,  1780. 

David  (43),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

82.  Jan  D.,  baptized  June  2,  1776,  married  Sarah  ^labie,  October 

12,  1796,  had  five  children,  and  died  October  22,  183 1. 
Buried  at  Closter,  N.  J. 

83.  Rachel,  baptized  February  7,  1779,  married  Henry  Montague, 

April  2,  1802,  had  three  children,  and  died  July  22,  1859 

84.  Frederickus  D.,  baptized  August  20,  1780,  married  Margaret 

Bogert,  January  5,  1804,  but  died  without  issue.     Buried 
at  Tappan,  N.  Y. 

85.  Elizabeth,  baptized  March  31,   1790,  married  Peter  Black- 

ledge,  January    17,    1812,  had  three  children,  and  died 
March  7,  1868.     Buried  at  Closter,  N.  J. 

John  (53),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

86.  Hendrick,  baptized  November  12,  1775. 

87.  Abraham,  baptized  December  7,  1777. 

88.  Barent,  baptized  April  4,  1779. 

89.  William,  baptized  April  i,  1781. 

90.  Sarah,  baptized  September  15,  1782,  married  Bernardus  Van- 

valen,  September  14,  1805. 

91.  Grietye  (Margaret),  baptized  July  4,  1784,  married  Matthew 

Conklin,  December  19,  1801,  had  two  children. 

92.  David,  baptized  April  8,  1787. 

93.  Jacob,  baptized  June  28,  1789. 

94.  Wyntje,  baptized  June  22,  1794. 

Isaac  (54),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue  by  his  first 

wife: 

95.  Catherine,  baptized  March  17,  1776,  married  Barent  Kool. 

96.  Cornelia  No.  i,  baptized  October  29,  1780,  died  unmarried. 

97.  Cornelia  No.  2,  baptized  February  13,  1785.  married  Henry 

Verveelen,  August  i,  1801,  had  one  child. 

Isaac  (54)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

98.  Henry  I.,  born  March  9,  1794,  married  Hester  Westervelt 

August   10,   1816,  had  four  children,  and  died  January 
i3>  1831. 

Barent  (55),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 
99.  Catherine,  baptized  September  16,  1781,  married  Peter  Huy- 


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ler,  March  5,  1803,  had  five  children,  and  died  January  4, 
1867.     Buried  at  Bergenfields,  N.  J. 
icx).  Elizabeth,  born  September  11,  1786,  married  John  Ferdon, 
November  27,  1806,  had  four  children,  and  died  April  7, 
1862.     Buried  at  Closter,  N.  J. 

NicLAES  (62),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

loi.  Jacob,  bom  April  19,  1784. 

102.  Annatie,  bom  April  21,  1786. 

John  J.  (71),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

103.  Elizabeth,  baptized  August  8,   1793,  married  Gabriel  Hill, 

but  died  without  issue. 

104.  Resolvert,  baptized   May    10,   1795,  married  Mary  Lozier, 

November  11,  181 5,  had  four  children,  and  died  January 
25,  1868.     Buried  at  Old  Hook,  N.  J. 

105.  Maria,  baptized  March  8,  1801,  married  James  Haring,  had 

three  children. 

106.  Deetje  (Deborah),  baptized  September  9,  1804,  died  unmar- 

ried, August  II,  1880. 

107.  Geertje,   baptized   November   29,    1807,   married   Abraham 

Haring,  but  died  without  issue,  March  17,  1875.     Buried 
at  Old  Hook,  N.  J. 

Jan  D.  (82),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

108.  David  No.  i,  born  1792,  died  in  infancy. 

109.  David  No.  2,  baptized  February  7,  1798,  died  young. 

no.  Sarah,  born  March  19,  1799,  married  Peter  B.  Westervelt, 
March  29,  1817,  had  six  children,  and  died  December  28, 
1870. 

111.  Rachel,  bom  May  3,  181 1,  married  George  F.  Brickel,  April 

5,  1838,  no  issue. 

112.  John  J.,  born  July  i,  1818,  married  Hannah  Maria  Eckerson, 

August  8,  1839,  h^^  eight  children,  and  died  January  27, 
1882. 

Henry  I.  (98),  (son  of  Isa.\c),  h.\d  issue: 

113.  Leah,  born  September  4,  1817,  married  Jacob  Mabie,  had  six 

children,  and  died  January  i,  1886. 

114.  James   Westerfield,   born   July    23,      1824,    married    Maria 

Christopher,   November   i,    1845,  had  five  children,  and 
died  October  14,  1856.     Buried  at  Bergenfield,  N.  J. 

115.  Eliza    (EHzabeth),  born   March   31,    1828,   married   Hilde- 

brant  Naugle,  August   18,   1845,  had  six  children,  and 
died  February  17,  1889. 

116.  Catherine,  born  December  13,  1830,  died  August  13,  1832. 


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RESOI.VERT   (104),   (son  OF  JOHN  J.),  HAD  ISSUE: 

117.  William,  bom  May  25,  1817,  married  Sarah  Demarest,  Janu- 

ary 2,  1839,  ^^^  six  children,  and  died  May  12,   1886. 
Buried  at  Old  Hook,  N.  J. 

118.  Cornelia,  born  April  24,  1820,  at  Closter,  N.  J.,  married  Peter 

Merseles,  November  19,  1836,  had  four  children,  and  died 
December  5,  1856.     Buried  at  Old  Hook,  N.  J. 

119.  Hildebrandt,    bom    October    28,    1823,    married    Elizabeth 

Naugle,  August    18,   1845,  ^^^  five  children,  and   died 
April  I,  1899. 

120.  Elizabeth,  born  September  27,  1829,  married  Stephen  Bogert, 

March  7,  1850,  had  six  children,  and  died  January  i,  1902. 

John  J.  (112),  (son  of  Jan  D.),  had  issue: 

121.  David,   bom  August   2,    1841,   married  Ella  Wordsworth, 

November  10,  1862,  had  two  children. 

122.  Elizabeth,  born  June  5,  1845,  died  in  infancy. 

123.  Margaret  A.,  born  May  25,   1847,  married  Abraham  Van 

Valen,  November  30,  1867,  ^^^  three  children. 

124.  Rachel,  born  March  25,  1850,  married  James  Kipp,  1872,  had 

three  children. 

125.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  March  25,  1853,  married  William  De 

Graw  Kipp,  had  seven  children. 

126.  Frederick,  born  March   3,    1856,  married   Emily  Augusta 

Corning,  February  10,  1881,  had  six  children. 

127.  James,  born  May  10,  i860,  married  Lillie  ?,  no  issue. 

128.  William  H.,  born  October  25,  1864,  married  Jeanette  Pitot, 

no  issue. 

Jame^s  Westkri^ield  (114),  (son  of  Henry  L),  had  issue: 

129.  Hester  Louise,  born  August  5,   1848,  married  Abraham  J. 

Adriance,  December  30,  1866,  had  three  children. 

130.  John  Henry,  bom  September  15,  1850,  married  Maude  Jas- 

lin,  June  25,  1885,  had  two  children. 

131.  Margaret  J.,  born  September  11,  1852,  unmarried. 

132.  David  F.,  born  March  31,  1854,  single. 

133.  Matthew  Bogert,  born  December  23,  1856,  died  single,  Sep- 

tember 13,  1 88 1.     Buried  at  Bergenfield,  N.  J. 

William  (117),  (son  of  Resolvert),  had  issue: 

134.  Mary  A.,  born  1840,  married  Leroy  Goodrich,  had  five  chil- 

dren, and  died  July  6,  1893. 

135.  Matilda,  bom  about  1852,  married  Nicholas  B.  Van  Houten, 

M.  D.,  had  one  child,  and  died  June  3,  1884. 

136.  Resolvert,  who  died  young. 

137.  Three  other  children   (names  not  found). 


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H11.DEBRANDT  (119),  (son  of  Resolvkrt),  had  issue: 

138.  Debbie  (Deborah),  bom  August  18,  1847,  married  Thomas 

Tate,  December  27,  1863,  had  five  children. 

139.  William  Henry,  born  May  20,  1850,  died  October  13,  1851. 

140.  Leah,  bom  June  18,  1852,  married  Henry  Craft,  December 

25,  1871,  had  two  children. 

141.  Mar}%  born  November  10,  1862,  unmarried. 

142.  Resolvert,  bom  July  20,  1865,  married  Hattie  Bell,  Septem- 

ber 21,  1887,  had  one  child. 

David  (121),  (sox  of  John  J.),  had  issue: 

143.  Margaret  Marvine,  born   1863,  unmarried   (1902). 

144.  Annie,  bom  1872,  unmarried  (1902). 

Frederick  (126),  (son  of  John  J.),  had  issue: 

145.  John  J.,  bom  December  10,  1881,  single  (1902). 

146.  Samuel  A.,  bom  September  i,  1883,  single  (1902). 

147.  Angie,  born  1885,  unmarried  (1902). 

148.  Edith,  born  1887. 

149.  David,  bom  1889. 

150.  Jeanette  P.,  born  1891. 

John  Henry  (130),  (son  of  James  Westerfield)  , 
had  issue: 

151.  Pauline  M.,  born  March  24,  1886. 

152.  Harry  D.,  bom  July  28,  1889. 

Resolvert  (142),  (son  of  Hildebrandt),  had  issue: 

153.  Leroy  Bell,  born  March  25,  1894. 

OBLENIS. 

Joost  Oblinus,  or,  as  his  autograph  is.  Van  Oblinus,  being 
the  person  named  in  the  patents  of  Nicolls  and  Dongan,  was  bom 
in  Holland,  1640,  was  the  son  of  Joost,  who  bought  out  the  heirs 
of  Philip  Casier,  November  8,  1663  (see  pages  198,  205),  and 
who  with  his  wife,  Martina,  and  a  younger  son  soon  after  dis- 
appear from  our  records.  Probably  they  returned  to  Europe, 
where  some  of  the  children  seem  to  have  remained ;  as  in  a  letter 
written  by  the  younger  Joost,  after  the  English  took  New  York, 
to  his  "virtuous,  well-beloved  brother  and  sisters" — ^the  first  of 
whom  he  calls  Jan  Van  Oblinus — he  says:  "Know,  my  beloved 
brother,  that  we.  are  here  in  a  land  before  this  called  New  Nether- 
land  and  now  New  England,  by  the  English  mastered,  being  to 
the  injury  of  our  Dutch  nation,"  etc.  Joost,  second,  succeeded 
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thereto  (see  pages  269,  333,  ^yj,  342,  348,  and  the  Appendix). 
It  was  a  deserved  tribute  to  his  worth  when  in  1666  he  was  made 
a  magistrate,  and  soon  after  one  of  the  five  patentees.  To  the 
former  office  he  was  often  chosen,  besides  serving  as  deacon  and 
elder,  and  it  was  his  peculiar  fortune  to  be  the  last  survivor  of 
the  Nicolls  patentees.  He  married  Maria  Sammis,  in  1661,  and 
died  in  1706. 

JOOST    (l)    HAD  issue: 

2.  Peter,  born  at  Mannheim,   in    1662,  married  first,   Cornelia. 

daughter  of  Resolved  Waldron,  June  8,  1685.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Agnietie  Brett,  in  171 5,  but  died  without 
issue  in  1743. 

3.  John,  born  1664,  died  single,  1717. 

4.  Maria,  born  1668,  married  first,  Thomas  Tourneur,  April  5, 

1692,  had  four  children,  and  second,  ?  Aldrich. 

5.  Hendrick,  baptized  February  18,  1672,  married  Jannetie  Tie- 

bout,  August  28,  1692,  had  seven  children,  and  died  in 

1745- 

6.  Josina,  baptized  August  21,  1678,  died  young. 

7.  Josyntie,  baptized   February    19,    1685,  married  first,   Teunis 

Corssen,  May  29,  1702,  had  one  child.  She  married 
second,  Isaac  Vermilye,  January  16,  1707,  had  eight  chil- 
dren. 

Peter  Van  Oblienis  (2),  (son  of  Joost),  as  he  wrote  his  sur- 
name, was  bom  at  Mannheim,  in  1662,  the  year  before  his  par- 
ents emigrated.  He  was  bred  a  weaver.  At  nineteen  years  of 
age  he  became  a  church-member,  afterward  serving  many  times 
as  deacon  and  elder,  and  for  most  of  his  life,  protracted  to  over 
80  years,  took  the  lead  in  all  the  affairs  both  of  the  church  and 
town.  On  June  8,  1685,  he  was  joined  in  marriage  by  Dominie 
Selyns  to  Cornelia,  daughter  of  Resolved  Waldron.  Three  years 
later,  namely,  on  April  21,  1688,  he  bargained  with  Jan  Dela- 
mater  for  the  house  and  lot  in  the  village,  originally  Jaques  Cres- 
son's,  for  400  guilders,  and  on  the  same  date  his  father  leased 
Delamater's  lots  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  Nos.  10  to  12,  next  his 
own.  This  resulted,  May  lo,  1690,  in  an  exchange  of  property, 
Delamater  giving  Peter  Oblinus  1,100  guilder?  and  deeds  for 
these  three  lots  and  the  Cresson  place,  and  taking  a  deed  for  the 
farm  on  Hoorn's  Hook.  Oblienis  sold  the  house  and  lot  to 
Jacques  Tourneur,  August  7,  1691 ;  his  father  turning  over  to 
him  three  erven,  two  originally  bought  from  the  estates  of  Casier 
and  Karstens,  and  one  (joining  the  Karstens  lot),  gotten  by  Joost 
from  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  in  exchange  for  another  bought  of  the 
Casiers.  Peter  sold  the  Karstens  and  Gerritsen  lots  to  Captain 
Johannes  Benson.      (See  page  429.)      In  the  division  of   1691 


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Peter  Van  Oblienis  drew  lot  No.  20,  being  10  morgen,  "by  the 
Round  JMeadow";  and  the  town  gave  him  a  deed  for  it  March 
21,  1 70 1.  On  September  19  ensuing  he  conveyed  it  to  Bastiaen 
Kortright,  in  whose  family  it  remained  till  after  the  Revolution. 
It  formed  a  part  of  the  late  Dyckman  "Fort  George  Tract."  (See 
page  267.)  On  August  24,  1705,  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  being  near 
his  last  days,  conveyed  to  Peter,  for  £425 : 

All  his  certain  dwelling  house,  barn  and  orchard,  in  the  Town  of  Har- 
lem, aforesaid,  being  formerly  called  four  lots,  and  containing  between 
two  and  three  acres  of  ground,  lying  between  the  lot  of  Arent  Harmense 
and  the  Town  lot.  Also  three  lots  of  land  in  said  Town  lying  together, 
having  the  lot  of  said  Peter  van  Oblienis  joining  to  the  eastward,  and  the 
lot  of  Metje  Cornelisse  adjoining  to  the  westward.  Also  another  lot  of 
land  on  the  north  side  of  Harlem  aforesaid,  lying  between  two  lots  belong- 
ing to  Barent  Nagel.  Also  a  piece  of  meadow  joining  to  the  meadow  which 
did  formerly  belong  to  Thomas  Delavall.  Also  another  piece  of  meadow 
at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  joining  meadow  of  Johannes  Waldron.  As  also  all 
his  right  in  the  undivided  lands  under  the  Patents  of  Nicolls  and  Dongan. 

The  homestead  named  in  this  deed,  and  where  Peter  after- 
ward lived,  comprised  four  of  the  buyten  tuynen,  or  out-gardens, 
being  Nos.  12  to  15;  the  three  lots  of  land  were  Nos.  13  to  15  of 
Van  Keulen's  Hook,  and  the  lot  described  as  between  two  of  Bar- 
rent  Nagel,  was  No.  7  Jochem  Pieters.  The  next  day  Peter  con- 
veyed to  his  brother  Hendrick  the  meadow  at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  and 
half  the  right  in  the  undivided  common  lands  named  in  said  deed 
from  his  father.  But  after  the  death  of  Joost,  the  brothers  and 
sisters  of  Peter  gave  him,  September  6,  1706,  a  quit-claim  of  all 
the  property  covered  by  the  deed  from  his  father,  which  restored 
the  whole  to  Peter  again,  and  hence  he  is  credited  in  the  quit-rent 
list  of  May  24,  1708,  with  his  father's  full  rights;  saving  one  erf 
right  then  held  by  John  and  Hendrick,  but  in  171 2  by  John  alone. 

As  eldest  son  and  heir  of  the  last  survivor  of  the  Nicolls 
patentees,  Peter  Van  Oblienis  held  a  commanding  position,  when 
the  great  division  of  the  common  lands  was  made,  in  17 12,  all 
the  deeds  for  which  had  to  have  his  approval  and  signature. 
Those  allotments  lay  in  four  general  divisions,  and  in  each  of  the 
four' every  freeholder  drew  a  lot,  which  were  scattered  from  94th 
Street  to  Sherman's  Creek.  Oblienis  alone  enjoyed  the  privilege 
of  drawing  his  four  shares  in  one  parcel,  and  this  he  located  at 
an  intermediate  point  near  Fort  Washington,  adjoining  the  farm 
of  his  brother  Hendrick,  to  whom  he  sold  it.  Before  this  date, 
as  we  conclude,  Peter  had  secured  for  his  own  special  use  and 
behoof  the  100  acres  lying  at  Manhattanville  (since  of  Lorillard 
and  others),  of  which  he  was  certainly  the  recognized  owner  in 
1712.  (See  Appendix  J.)  The  adjoining  meadow,  called 
Moertje  David's  Fly,  Oblienis  must  have  gotten  from  his  brothers- 
in-law,  Samuel  and  Johannes  Waldron,  to  whom  it  had  been  sold 
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Abraham  Gouvemeur  conveyed  him  a  piece  of  the  adjoining  Dela- 
vall  woodland,  being  a  part  of  No.  8,  First  Division.  In  1718 
Oblienis  tamsferred  all  his  lands  in  Harlem  to  Samuel  Waldron, 
reserving  only  ten  acres,  not  till  then  named  in  the  tax  lists,  and 
not  located  with  entire  certainty,  but  we  believe  forming  the 
island  adjoining  to  Gloudie's  Point  and  Oblienis'  meadows.  This 
also  he  passed  to  Waldron  two  years  after;  but  in  1728  Oblienis 
regained  possession  of  his  lands,  said  ten  acres  only  excepted. 
Certain  suits  brought  against  him,  at  this  period,  may  explain 
these  transfers. 

Peter  Van  Oblienis,  who  died  in  1743,  left  no  children, 
though  twice  married,  his  last  wife  being  Agnietie,  widow  of 
William  Brett,  married  1715,  whom  he  survived,  and  of  whose 
six  children  by  Brett  he  made  kind  remembrance  in  his  will, 
dated  September  20,  1742,  when  he  was  in  health.  He  further 
left  his  niece,  Tanneke  Benson,  £50,  to  his  "well-beloved  brother 
Hendrick,  one  British  shilling,*'  and  his  whole  estate  otherwise  to 
his  nephew,  Peter  Waldron,  to  whom,  on  the  same  date,  in  con- 
sideration of  good  causes  and  £700,  he  gave  a  deed  for  the  real 
estate,  all  therein  described.  (Deeds,  Secretary  of  State's  office. 
Liber  26,  page  219.)  This  deed  did  not  cover  the  two  home-lots 
(four  acres)  on  the  north  side  of  the  Church  Lane,  bought  by 
Oblienis  from  Laurens  Jansen,  and  since  Chesterman's,  nor  the 
lot  on  Jochem  Pieters'  Flat ;  but  all  these,  if  not  already  sold  to 
Waldron,  he  must  have  taken  under  the  will,  which  was  proved 
January  17,  1744. 

John  Oblienis  (3),  (son  of  Joost),  brother  of  Peter,  was 
made  poundmaster  in  1699,  but  took  no  prominence  in  town 
affairs.  He  made  weavers'  reeds,  and  was  apparently  well  to 
do,  owning  a  house  and  lot  in  Smith  (now  Cedar)  Street,  which 
he  bought  March  27,  1707,  and  an  erf  at  Harlem  village,  on  which 
he  and  Marcus  Tiebaut  drew  land  together,  in  1712.  Marcus' 
step-son,  John  Lewis,  became  the  owner  in  1714.  (See  notes, 
pages  348,  393,  564,  and  Appendix  J.)  That  Oblienis  purposely 
had  nothing  to  do  with  making  the  four  divisions,  in  which  his 
brother  Peter  bore  so  important  a  part,  would  appear  from  his 
not  signing  the  preliminary  agreements,  nor  any  of  the  patentee 
deeds.  He  subscribed  to  articles  of  May  2,  17 13,  by  which  the 
freeholders  bound  themselves  to  pay  their  proportions  of  quit- 
rent,  and  to  defend  their  titles.  He  died  at  Harlem,  in  1717, 
without  issue.  We  judge  favorably  of  his  character  and  tastes 
from  the  items  in  his  inventory:  "The  Book  of  Martyrs  in 
Dutch;  a  Dutch  Psalm  Book,  with  silver  clasps;  one  book  of 
poetry,  one  book  of  history  called  Eupheme,  one  book  of  Com- 
mon Prayer."  In  his  will,  dated  May  11,  and  proved  August 
10,  of  that  year,  he  made  various  bequests  of  £25,  gave  others 
gold  rings,  to  brother  Peter  a  shilling,  to  brother  Hendrick  his 


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clothing  and  sleigh,  and  the  rest  of  his  estate  equally  to  "brother 
Hendrick  Oblienis,  Mary  Alderick,  and  Josantia  Vermillia.r 
The  last  was  his  sister,  but  if  Mary  Alderick  was,  she  must  have 
married  again  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  Tourneur,  and  we 
notice  that  Laurens  Jansen's  wife  was  commonly  called  Mary 
Aldricks. 

John  Oblienis'  lands  stood  in  his  name,  intact,  for  thirty 
years,  his  brother  Hendrick  and  brother-in-law  Vermilye,  named 
as  his  executors,  in  the  meantime  paying  Mary  Alderick  "her  pro- 
portion." On  November  17,  1747,  John  Romer  bought  lot  No. 
II,  Second  Division,  being  six  acres  nine  rods,  from  Isaac  Ver- 
milye and  Johannes  Oblenis,  the  last  acting  instead  of  his  father, 
Hendrick,  then  deceased.  His  lot  9,  First  Division,  was  sold  to 
Adolph  Myer,  but  those  in  Third  and  Fourth  Divisions,  held  in 
common  with  John  Lewis,  who  sold  his  shares  to  Dr.  Paterson, 
we  have  not  traced  later  than  1753. 

Hendrick  Oblienis  (5),  (son  of  Joost),  baptized  February 
18,  1672,  married  August  28,  1692,  Jannetie,  daughter  of  John 
Tibout,  and  was  the  only  son  of  Joost  who  left  descendants.  He 
bore  his  part  in  town  affairs,  being  constable  in  1705,  etc.  His 
father  gave  him  his  allotment  of  1691,  being  No.  19,  containing 
22}i  morgen,  "upon  the  south  end  of  the  Long  Hill,"  or  just 
below  Fort  Washington.  Here  he  had  built  and  was  living  when 
his  father  died.  In  1712  he  added  the  larger  tract  adjoining,  as 
before  stated  (see  Appendix  J),  and  which  increased  his  farm 
to  130  acres,  salt  fneadows  excluded.  In  1709  he  was  a  peti- 
tioner, with  others,  for  1,500  acres  of  land  in  the  Highlands.  At 
his  death,  in  1745,  his  fine  property  in  Harlem  passed  to  his  son 
Johannes.     He  had  issue: 

8.  Sarah,  baptized  November  19,  1693,  married  Teunis  Devoor, 

November  11,  1731,  had  three  children. 

9.  Mary,  baptized  December  29,  1695,  married  ^lichael  Tour- 

neur, February  i,  1717,  had  eight  children. 

10.  Jacomina,  baptized  May  4,  1698,  married  Jacobus  Tourneur, 

May  26,  1720,  had  six  children.  Went  to  Haverstraw, 
N.  Y. 

11.  Josyntie,  bom  1700,  married  Benjamin  De  Voe,  February  8, 

1726.     He  of  Westchester  County,  N.  Y. 

12.  Lucia,  born  1703,  married  John  Brown. 

13.  Peter,  born  1705,  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Barent  Nagel, 

April  10,  173 1,  had  seven  children,  and  died  in  1764. 
Went  to  Rockland  County,  N.  Y.,  and  settled  on  part  of 
the  Kakiat  patent,  at  New  Hempstead,  now  Ramapo. 

14.  Johannes,  bom  17 10,  married  Mary  Devoe,   1731,  had  four 

children,  and  died  in  1775. 


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Peter  (13),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

15.  Hendrick,  bom  April  5,  1732,  married  first,  Antie  Lydecker, 

January  i,  1757,  had  seven  children;  second,  Catrina 
Blauvelt,  December  10,  1792,  and  third,  Bridget  De  Clark. 
He  died  December  14,  1815. 

16.  Sarah,  bom  December  4,   1733,  married  first,  James  Tour- 

neur,  March  26,  1752,  had  one  child,  and  second,  Abra- 
ham Steve. 

17.  Jannetie,  bom  July  26,  1735,  married  Andris  Van  Orden,  De- 

cember 15,  1756,  had  four  children. 

18.  Barent,  born  May  8,  1737,  died  before  1764. 

19.  Maria,  born  October  5,  1739,  married  Johannes  Blauvelt. 

20.  John,  bom  June  26,  1743,  settled  in  Pennsylvania. 

21.  Jonitia  (see  1276,  Calendar  of  Wills). 

Johannes  Oblenis  (14),  (son  of  Hendrick),  was  constable  in 
1736.  Coming  into  possession  of  the  paternal  farm  at  Fort 
Washington,  which  he  occupied  many  years,  he  sold  100  acres 
of  it.  May  23,  1769,  to  Blazius  Moore,  of  New  York,  tobacconist ; 
and  conveying  the  remainder,  the  lower  part,  to  his  son  Hen- 
drick, he  removed  to  the  Manor  of  Cortlandt,  where  he  died  in 
1775,  leaving  him  surviving  his  wife,  Mary  Devoe,  whom  he 
married  1731.  He  gave  his  lands  to  Dennis  and  John.  He  had 
issue : 

22.  Hendrick,  born  1732,  married  Maria  Devoe,  November   12, 

1753,  had  two  children.     Held  his  farm  on  the  Heights 
at  the  opening  of  the  Revolution,  but  it  subsequently 
passed  to  Jacob  Arden. 
2^.  Deborah,  born  1735,  married  Morinus  Low,  February  7,  1754. 

24.  John,  Jr.,  born  1737,  was  the  father  of  one  child. 

25.  Dennis,  bom  July  14,  1740,  married  Catharina  Parsells,  May 

16,  1764,  had  eight  children,  and  died  May  2,  1825. 

Hendrick  (15),  (son  of  Peter),  was  alive  during  the  Revolu- 
tion, when  he  had  a  son  wounded  in  the  service  of  his  country-. 
He  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

26.  Petrus,   bom  December   10,    1757,   married  Maria   Brytseit, 

had  nine  children,  and  died  May  29,  1831. 
2y.  Gerrit,  born  March  27,  1760,  married  Verontjer  Blauvelt,  but 
died  without  issue,  March  4,   1839. 

28.  Maria,  bom  November  22,  1762,  married  Philip  Demarest, 

had  seven  children. 

29.  Albert,  born  July  3,   1765,  married  Aletta  ?,  had  two 

children,  and  died  October  24,  1806. 

30.  Wyntje,  born  April  16,  1768,  married  William  House,  No- 

vember 8,  1792,  had  two  children,  and  died  March  5,  1797. 

31.  Barent,  born  March  20,  1771,  married  Gertrude  Sanders,  had 


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four  children,  and  died  September  11,  1825.  Was  clerk 
of  police  from  1805  to  18 19. 

32.  Sarah,  born  July  30,  1774,  died  September  4,  1776. 

Hendrick  (22),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

33.  John,  bom  1756,  married  Elizabeth  Ostrom,  July  29,   1783, 

had  ten  children,  and  died  in  1808. 

34.  Helen,  who  married  John  Ostrom,  February  5,  1782.  . 

Dennis  (25),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

35.  Elizabeth,  born  December  22,  1764,  married  first,  Joseph  Ver- 

milyie,  1782,  had  three  children.  She  married  second. 
Grands  T.  Willsey,  1793,  had  five  children,  and  died  Janu- 
ary 20,  1825. 

36.  Mary,  bom  November  11,  1766,  married  Jesse  Thorn,  1791, 

had  six  children,  and  died  February  22,  1837. 
^y,  Catherine,    bom    December    9,    1768,    married    Thomas    E. 
Powell,  1793,  had  five  children,  and  died  May  22,  1847. 

38.  John,  born  September  2J,  1770,  married  Anna  Sorless,  1792, 

had  eight  children,  and  died  March  5,  1820. 

39.  Nancy,  bom  December  9,  1772,  married  first,  Simon  Wyman, 

1792,  had  eight  children;  second,  John  Pool,  1820,  and 
third,  Samuel  Jaycox.     She  died  December  19,  1858. 

40.  Deborah,  born  April  2y,  1775,  married  Frederick  Powell,  had 

four  children,  and  died  October  30,  1835. 

41.  Sarah,  bom  April  27,  1777,  married  Daniel  Sorless,  1804,  had 

six  children,  and  died  August  3,  1846. 

42.  Henry  V.,  born  February  22,  1782,  at  Manor  of  Cortlandt, 

married  Elizabeth  Powell,  May  i,  1804,  had  eight  chil- 
dren. Moved  to  Albanv  County  (now  Greenville,  Greene 
County),  N.  Y. 

Petrus  (26),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

43.  Maria,  who  married  Charles  Deady. 

44.  Antje  No.  i,  bom  November  15,  178 1,  died  young. 

45.  Johannis,   born   January    19,    1784,   married    Elizabeth    Van 

Orden,  June  30,  1802,  had  one  child. 

46.  Antje  No.  2,  born  March  21,  1786,  married  Jacob  Meyers, 

had  one  child. 

47.  Hendrick,  bom  December  16,  1787. 

48.  Leah,  bom  November  12,  1790,  married  David  Van  Orden, 

had  seven  children,  and  died  February  12,  1862. 

49.  Sarah,  bom  July  31,  1792,  married  Daniel  Talman,  November 

24,  1810,  had  four  children. 

50.  Garret,  born  1802,  was  the  father  of  four  children. 

51.  Bridget,  who  married  Lavinus  Pruyn,  of  Albany,  N.  Y. 


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Barent  (31),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

52.  John,  born  1801,  married  Maria  Lydecker,  had  one  child. 

53.  William,  born  1803,  married  first,  Ann  Smith,  had  nine  chil- 

dren, and  second,  Margaret  Codington,  by  whom  he  had 
one  child.     He  died  March  3,  1881. 

54.  Maria,  who  died  unmarried. 

55.  Henry,  who  died  single. 

John  (33),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

56.  Mary,  born  June  12,   1785,  married  Elisha  Keely,  July  30, 

1806. 

57.  Henry,  bom  September  19,  1788,  was  the  father  of  two  chil- 

dren. 

58.  Elizabelh,  born  June  26,   1787,  married  John  Francis,  had 

nine  children. 

59.  Catherine,  bom  May  30,  1792,  married  Richard  Gilmore,  had 

seven  children. 

60.  Anna,  bom  March  24,  1794,  married  Henry  Ward,  had  five 

children. 

61.  Charlotte,  born  March  15,  1796,  died  unmarried. 

62.  Mahala,  born  March  5,  1798,  married  John  Sowarby,  about 

1820,  had  seven  children. 

63.  John,  born  May  24,  1800,  married ?  Holly,  had  one  child. 

64.  Dammas,  born  August  14,  1802,  died  in  infancy. 

65.  Abraham,  born  March  i,  1804,  married  Catherine  Quane,  had 

three  children,  and  died  July  12,  1876. 

John  (38),  (son  of  Dennis),  had  issue: 

66.  Dennis,  born  February  10,  1796,  married  Elizabeth  Russell, 

January  12,  18 17,  had  six  children,  and  died  February 
16,  1879. 

67.  John,  born  May  20,  1798,  married  Sarah  Pearsall,  had  two 

children,  and  died  May  11,  1862. 

68.  David,  bom  1799,  died  young. 

69.  Daniel,  bom  March  25,  1800,  married  Catherine  Powell,  in 

March,  1822,  had  one  child,  and  died  March  30,  1863. 

70.  Catherine,  born  August  29,  1801,  married  Matthew  Hollack, 

March  18,  1829,  had  two  children,  and  died  May  27,  1877. 

71.  Henry,  born  March  12,  1803,  married  Hannah  Palmer,  Sep- 

tember 2,  1823,  had  eight  children,  and  died  in  1876. 

72.  Jesse,  born  November  28,  1808,  married  Sarah  Nelson,  De- 

cember 6,  1826,  had  ten  children,  and  died  in  1873. 

73.  Maria,  bom  July  17,  1809. 

Henry  V.  (42),  (son  of  Dennis),  had  issue: 

74.  Oliver,  bom  January  31,  1805,  married  Mary  Ann  Bloomer, 

September  i,  1824,  had  nine  children. 


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75.  Sarah  A.,  bom  October  14,  1806,  married  John  C.  Nelson, 

April  8,  1828,  had  nine  children. 

76.  Lewis    v.,    bom    November    21,    1810,    married    Catherine 

Powell,  June  5,  1838,  had  five  children. 
7T,  Mary  Ann,  born  May  7,  1814,  married  William  M.  Palmer, 
October  16,  1837,  had  two  children,  and  died  September 
10,  1844. 

78.  Elizabeth  Ann,  bom  February  28,  181 6,  married  Thomas  H. 

Powell,  September  12,  1838,  had  ten  children,  and  died 
March  22,  1887. 

79.  Catherine,  bom  October  5,  1818,  died  December  21,  1821. 

80.  Henry  P.,  born  December  22,  1822,  married  first,  Caroline  E. 

Holley,  August  29,  1849,  had  one  child.  He  married 
second,  Nancy  A.  Newman,  September  27,  1853,  had  one 
child. 

81.  Elisha  P.,  bom  June  18,  1825,  married  Louisa  A.  Crum,  June 

18,  185 1,  had  four  children. 

Johannes  (45),  (son  of  Petrus),  had  issue: 

82.  Peter,  born  August   10,   1802,  married  first,  Martha  Mode 

Ackerman,  February  17,  1821,  had  two  children;  second, 
Eliza  Galagar,  January  26,  1833,  had  one  child,  and  third, 
Maria  Leefoy,  May  11,  1845,  ^^ad  one  child. 

John  (52),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue: 

83.  Bernard,  who  married  Elizabeth  Haring,  had  two  children. 

William  (53),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

84.  Henrietta,  bom  1823,  married  John  Hutton,  had  three  chil- 

dren. 

85.  Charles   McK.    (Capt.),   bom   February   28,    1825,   married 

Sarah  Vanderbilt,  April  8,  1846,  had  one  child. 

86.  Smith,  bom  1827,  married  Letitia  Vanderbilt,  1846,  had  three 

children.     He  deceased. 

87.  Mary,  bom  1829,  married  Samuel  G.  Elsworth,  had  one  child. 

88.  Gertrude,  born  183 1,  married  John  Tenyke,  had  one  child. 

89.  John,  bom  1833,  died  single. 

90.  Henry,  bom  1835,  married  Elizabeth  Gurney,  no  issue. 

91.  William,  bom  1837,  married  Annie ?,  had  four  children. 

92.  Edward,  born  1843,  died  single. 

Abraham  (65),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

93.  John,  who  died  in  infancy. 

94.  Peter  Van,  bom  December  21,  1862,  married  Mary  Dugen, 

had  five  children. 

95.  Abraham,  bom  December  23,  1864,  married  Ellen  E.  Dugen, 

had  five  children. 


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Dennis  (66),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

96.  Alpheus,  bom  18 19,  married  Mary  Shaw,  had  three  children, 

and  died  April  11,  1870. 

97.  Francis,  born  May  3,  1822,  married  Helen  Kendall,  1870, 

had  one  chifd,  and  died  October  19,  1879.     He  a  lawyer. 

98.  Catherine  Ann,  bom  October  26,  1826,  married  Aaron  Cor- 

nish, i860,  had  one  child. 

99.  Lewis,  bom  May  i,  183 1,  married  Jane  Brown,  1870. 

100.  Elizabeth,  bom  September  21,   1833,  died  June   18,    1863. 

Was  an  invalid  for  some  time, 
loi.  Lucinda,  born  August  29,  1838,  unmarried  (1887). 

John  (67),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

102.  Ambrose. 

103.  Anna  Maria. 

DANiEiy  (69),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

104.  Frederick,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twelve  years. 

Henry  (71),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

105.  John,  bom  August  28,  1827,  drowned  in  lake  at  Milwaukee, 

Wisconsin,  November  9,  1850. 

106.  David,  born  July  9,  1829,  married  Ruth  Ann  Babbitt,  De- 

cember 18,  i860,  had  seven  children,  and  died  January 
I9»  1883. 

107.  Louisa,  born  September  jo,  1830. 

108.  William,  bom  August  6,  1831,  died  November  9,  1850. 

109.  Harriet  Miera,  bom  February  28,   1834,  married   Charles 

Holley,  September  6,  1853,  had  four  children, 
no.  Japhet  H.,  born  September  24,  1836,  died  November  21,  1843. 

111.  Henry   C,   born  January    12,    1840,   married   Catherine   J. 

Philips,  May  28,  1864,  had  two  children. 

112.  Dennis,  bom  January  21,  1842. 

Jesse  (72),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

113.  Lewis,  bom  November  27^  1827,  married  Ervilla  Carr,  had 

three  children. 

114.  Anna,  bom  April  22,  1829,  married  John  Brower   (Brew- 

ster). 

115.  John  M.,  born  July  5,  1830,  died  young. 

116.  Hannah  Jane,  born  July  21,  1833,  married  Peter  Mannes. 

117.  Sarah  Ann,  born  July  4,  1836,  married  Shubel  Simes,  had 

one  child. 

118.  Joshua    Nelson,   bom   January    i,    1840,   married   Lucinda 

Madison,  1866. 

119.  Fidelia,  bom  April  15,  1842,  married  Gilbert  Crane. 


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120.  Pamelia,  born  March  i8,  1846. 

121.  Cornelia,  born  March  18,  1846. 

122.  Stephen  J.,  born  June  26,  185 1. 

Oliver  (74),  (son  of  Henry  V.),  had  issue: 

123.  Catherine  A.,  born  June  20,  1825,  married  Gilbert  Bogardus, 

had  three  children. 

124.  William,  bom  December  2,  1826,  married  Jane  Rowe  (Roe), 

1850,  had  one  child,  and  died  May  17,  1871. 

125.  Lewis  P.,  bom  June  24,  1830,  married  Eunice  Kimball,  had 

four  children. 

126.  Oliver,  Jr.,  bom  October  16,  1832,  died  in  Civil  War  in 

Virginia,  about  1863. 

127.  Matthew  B.,  bom  August  2,  1834,  married  Elizabeth  Tib- 

bets,  had  two  children. 

128.  Henry  H.,  born  July  12,  1836,  died  single,  i860. 

129.  Mary  A.,  bom  May  i,  1838,  married  Amos  Tibbets,  had  two 

children. 

130.  Thomas,  bom  July  12,  1844,  married  Josephine  Devoe,  had 

two  children. 

131.  Alpheus  (Alfred  P.),  bom  October  4,  1847,  married  Phebe 

C.  Bogardus,  had  one  child. 

Lewis  V.  (76),  (son  of  Henry  V.),  had  issue: 

132.  Eliza  Maria,  born  July  4,  1839,  ^i^d  November  16,  1862. 

133.  Emma  L.,  bom  April  24,  1841. 

134.  Hannah  E.,  born   September  9,   1843,   married  James   H. 

Powell,  October  5,  1865,  had  three  children,  and  died  in 
1874. 

135.  Josephine,  born  December  11,  1849,  married  Oliver  Miller, 

April  7,  1886. 

136.  Willard,  bom  July  16,  1859,  married  Anna  Matthews,  Feb- 

mary  8,  1887. 

.  Henry  P.  (80),  (son  of  Henry  V.),  had  issue  by 
FIRST  wife: 

137.  Charles  Adelbert,  born  August  i,  1850,  married  first,  Alice 

Wood,  December  18,  1872,  had  one  child.  She  died  No- 
vember 14,  1876.  He  married  second,  Caroline  Halstead, 
September  19,  1881,  had  one  child. 

Henry  P.  (80)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

138.  Caroline,  born  May  22,  1855. 

EusHA  P.  (81),  (son  of  Henry  V.),  had  issue: 

139.  Franklin  H.,  bom  September  6,   1852,  married  Sarah  H. 

Loyd,  January  2,  1872,  had  two  children. 


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140.  Martin  Krum,  born  August  21,.  1857,  married  Romette  Chi- 

chester, February  17,  1884. 

141.  Rossettatnine,  bom  November  4,  1863,  unmarried   (1887). 

142.  Rosella,  bom  November  4,  1863,  unmarried  (1887). 

Peter  (82),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

143.  Hester  Ann,  born  March  11,  1823. 

144.  Henry,  bom  May  2,  1826. 

Peter  (82)  had  issue  by  second  wife  : 

145.  Sarah  E.,  bom  October  9,  1834, 

Peter  (82)  had  issue  by  third  wife: 

146.  Emma  Jane,  bom  March  19,  1846. 

Chari.es  McK.  (85),  (son  of  Wii^liam),  had  issue: 

147.  Charles,  born  February  5,  1847,  married  Julia  Stodard,  1872, 

had  two  children. 

Smith  (86),  (son  of  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

148.  George. 

149.  Henry. 

150.  Annie. 

William  (91),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

151.  Annie. 

152.  Minnie. 

153.  Edna. 

154.  Nettie. 

Peter  Van  (94),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

155.  Catherine,  bom  1891. 

156.  Mary. 

157.  Henry. 

158.  John,  died  in  infancy. 

159-  ?  (boy)»  died  in  infancy. 

Abraham  (95),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

160.  Clara  E.,  bom  January  19,  1889. 

161.  Peter  H.,  bom  September  13,  1890. 

162.  Abraham  J.,  bom  September  25,  1892. 

163.  Charlotte,  born  June  11,  1896. 

164.  S.  Joost,  born  November  3,  1898,  died  1902. 

Alpheus  (96),  (son  of  Dennis),  had  issue: 

165.  Mary. 


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166.  Minnie. 

167.  Phila. 


Francis  (97),  (son  of  Dennis),  had  issue: 

168.  Frank  Annettie. 

David  (106),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

169.  Carlisle,  bom  November  26,  1866. 

170.  Hannah,  born  September  11,  1868,  died  in  infancy. 

171.  Carrie  A.,  born  November  29,  1869,  died  March  19,  1872. 

172.  Maggie  C,  born  April  28,  1873,  died  May  20,  1873. 

173.  Anna  L.,  bom  October  17,  1874. 

174.  Lottie  E.,  born  May  6,  1877. 

175.  May  v.,  born  June  28,  1880,  died  February  5,  1885. 

Henry  C.  (iii),  (son  of  Henry),  had* issue: 

176.  Frederick,  born  June  18,  1866. 

177.  Olivia  Agnes,  bom  June  26,  1868.  . 

Lewis  (113),  (son  of  Jesse),  had  issue: 

178.  James  Edward,  bom  .1846,  single  (1887). 

179.  Charles  Orthezo,  born  1849,  married  first,  Sevilla  Sellar,  and 

second,  Lois  Rogers. 

180.  Ray  Rudolphus,  born  185 1,  married  Jennie  Barbarer,  had 

three  children. 

WiLUAM    (124),    (son  of  OuVER),   HAD  ISSUE: 

181.  Alzinia,  who  married  Alexander  Palmer. 

Lewis  P.  (125),  (son  of  Ouver),  had  issue: 

182.  George  K. 

183.  William. 

184.  Charles. 

185.  Fred. 

Matthew  B.  (127),  (son  of  Oliver),  had  issue: 

186.  Delia. 

187.  Henry. 

Charles  Adelbert  (137),  (son  of  Henry  P.),  had 
issue  by  first  wife: 

188.  Alice  Wood,  bom  November  14,  1876. 

Charles  Adelbert  (137)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

189.  Robert  Henry. 


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Franklin  H.  (139),  (son  of  Elisha  P.),  had  issue: 

190.  Waldo  K. 

191.  Ada. 

Charles  (147),  (son  of  Charles  McK.),  had  issue: 

192.  Ora  May,  who  married  Karl  Seager. 

193.  Edward,  bom  1881. 

Ray  Rudolph  us  (180),  (son  of  Lewis),  had  issue: 

194.  Bertie,  bom  1879. 

195.  Minnie,  bom  1881. 

196.  Erville,  bom  1884. 

The  Oblenis  name,  now  quite  extinct  on  Manhattan  Island 
(1881),  is  yet  found  in  other  sections  of  our  State,  taking  in 
some  cases,  by  an  odd  fancy,  an  Irish  form,  O'Blenis! 

TOURNEUR. 

Daniel  Tourneur  being  deceased  at  the  date  of  the  Dongan 
patent,  his  widow,  Jacqueline,  represented  his  rights  among  the 
patentees ;  while  her  son  Daniel  was  named  in  virtue  of  an  erf, 
and  six  morgen  lot,  which  he  owned  on  Montanye's  Flat.  The 
peculiar  circumstances  under  which  the  elder  Tourneur  left  his 
native  Picardy  and  retired  to  Leyden,  with  his  mother  in  that  city, 
and  departure  for  this  country  a  few  months  after  the  baptism, 
July  30,  1 65 1,  of  his  son  Daniel  at  the  Walloon  church,  are 
already  familiar  to  us.  On  coming  here  he  first  lived  at  Flatbush. 
where  a  daughter,  Maria,  was  born,  being  baptized  March  4,  1654, 
who  died  in  infancy,  and  where  Tourneur,  with  some  military 
prestige,  as  would  seem,  was  made  corporal  of  a  company  formed 
April  7,  1654,  for  protection  against  marauders.  Soon  after  this 
he  was  granted  a  comer  lot  in  New  Amsterdam,  with  a  view  to 
put  up  a  house,  but  a  year  or  more  passing  before  the  timber  was 
ready,  he  renewed  his  request,  April  11,  1657,  for  leave  to  build, 
but,  we  suspect,  without  success.  He  afterward  built  a  house 
on  the  Prince's  Graft,  where  he  had  bought  a  lot.  May  31,  1660. 
and  on  August  16  of  the  same  year  was  appointed  a  magistrate 
for  Harlem ;  but  probably  yet  continued  in  business  at  New  Am- 
sterdam, as,  on  October  15  ensuing,  he  was  made  one  of  thie 
"swom  butchers."  The  next  winter  he  put  a  bam  on  his  village 
plot  at  Harlem,  where  he  had  already  built  a  house,  and  whither 
he  soon  removed,  serving  in  the  magistracy  at  various  periods, 
and  for  several  years  as  deputy  sheriff.  He  was  repeatedly 
chosen  deacon,  besides  which  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  General 
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died  in  1673,  leaving  a  goodly  estate,  as  heretofore  particularized. 
(See  pages  379,  380.)  The  widow  Toumeur  survived  her  hus- 
band 27  years,  and  died  in  1700,  and  her  personals,  as  per  inven- 
tory taken  August  22,  that  year,  were  divided  November  16  en- 
suing, each  child  (Daniel's  heirs  in  his  stead)  getting  in  cash 
167  guilders  with  a  fifth  part  of  the  goods. 

Daniel  Tourneur  (i),  born  at  Amens  in  Picardie,  France, 
in  1626,  married  Jacqueline  de  Parisis,  September  5,  1650,  at 
Leyden,  Holland,  had  seven  children,  and  died  at  Harlem,  N.  Y., 
in  1673. 

Daniel  (i)  had  issue: 

2.  Daniel,  Jr.,  baptized  July  30,  1651,  married  Ann  Woodhull, 

had  three  children,  and  died  in  1690. 

3.  Maria,  bom  at  Flatbush,  N.  Y.,  baptized  March  4,  1654,  died 

'  in  infancy. 

5.  Marretje,  baptized  September  4,  1661. 

6.  Jacques,  bom  at  Harlem,  N.  Y.,  married  first,  Aefie,  daughter 

of  Michael  Kortright,  June  7,  1683,  had  seven  children. 
He  married  second,  Engeltie  Thomas,  widow  of  Gregoris 
Storm,  of  Philips  Manor,  May  29,  1714. 

7.  Thomas,  born  at  Harlem,   N.  Y.,   in    1665,  married   Maria, 

daughter  of  Joost  Van  Oblenis,  April  5,  1692,  had  four 
children,  and  died  in  17 10. 

8.  Madeline,  who  married  John  Dyckman,  June  15,  1673,  had  six 

children. 

9.  Esther,  who  married  Frederick  ^e  Vaux,  June  24,  1677,  had 

thirteen  children.     He  of  Westchester  County,  N.  Y. 

Daniel  Toumeur  (2),  (son  of  Daniel),  was  made  "a  free 
denizen  of  this  place  and  province,"  by  special  letters,  dated  Janu- 
ary 13,  1672,  he  having  been  born  in  Holland,  with  which  England 
was  now  at  enmity.  He  served  as  magistrate,  and  was  lieuten- 
ant of  militia,  still  holding  the  latter  office  under  Leisler,  whose 
cause  he  actively  supported,  and  by  whom  he  was  sent  to  Hart- 
ford, in  March,  1690,  to  arrest  Robert  Livingston.  But  his  death 
the  ensuing  fall  spared  him  the  pain  of  witnessing  the  tragic  fate 
of  his  chief  captain,  perhaps  of  sharing  it.  His  inventory,  taken 
October  13,  begins  with  "The  bouwery  lying  upon  Montanye's 
Vlackte,  consisting  of  three  lots  of  land,  house  and  barn,  orchard, 
and  a  piece  of  meadow  lying  on  the  kill  of  the  Vlacte.  Also  an- 
other three  lots  of  land  lying  upon  Hoorn's  Hook."  (See  page 
355.)     By  his  wife,  Ann  Woodhull  (see  page  379)  he  had  issue: 

ID.  Dorothea,  baptized  June  i,  1684,  deceased. 
II.  Woodhull,  bom  about  1685,  married  Hannah  Lawrence,  May 
13,  171 5,  had  four  children. 


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12.  Daniel,  who  owned  lands  in  Westchester  County,  N.  Y.,  which 

he  sold  in  1727. 

Jacques  (6),  (son  of  Daniel),  served  as  a  deacon,  and  also 
as  constable  and  overseer  of  the  town,  succeeding,  in  1691,  to 
that  part  of  his  father's  lands  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook  known  as 
Lots  17,  18,  but  in  quantity  three  lots,  and  since  the  Bussing  or 
Storm  farm.  On  August  7,  1691,  he  bought  from  Peter  Van 
Oblienis,  for  60  guilders,  the  old  Jaques  Cresson  residence,  which 
became  his  home.  On  May  27,  1698,  he  sold  his  lot  No.  7,  of 
the  draft  of  1691,  to  Johannes  Myer.  His  death  is  not  noticed, 
but  his  farm,  and  lots  in  tlie  several  divisions,  in  all  60  acres,  were 
sold  to  Peter  Bussing  in  1726. 

The  Turnures  of  Rockland  County,  N.  Y.,  were  good  Whigs 
in  1776,  as  the  lists  of  associators  witness.  The  name  took  that 
and  other  forms. 

Jacques  (6)  h.\d  issue: 

13.  Anna,  born  1686. 

14.  Adriana  (Ariaentie),  baptized  August  4,  1686,  married  Jacob 

Gerritsen,  June  27,  17 12. 

15.  Maria,  baptized  July  i,  1691. 

16.  Michael,  born   1693,  married  Maria,  daughter  of  Hendrick 

Oblenis,  February  i,  17 17,  had  eight  children,  and  died 
in  1775.     Settled  at  Haverstraw,  N.  Y. 

17.  Jacobus,   baptized    November   20,    1695,    married   Jacomina, 

daughter  of  Hendrick  Oblenis,  May  26,   1720,  had  six 
children,  and  died  at  "Haverstraw,  N.  Y. 

18.  Abraham  (Abram),  baptized  May  25,  1698. 

19.  Isaac,  baptized  February  12,   1701,  was  living  at  Fordham 

in  1733.* 

Thomas  (7),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  just  come  in  possession  of 
his  share  of  the  paternal  lands,  embracing  lots  No.  19  Van  Keu- 
len's  Hook  and  No.  i  Jochem  Pieters,  with  the  adjoining  "or- 
chard/' or  one  morgen  lot,  reaching  from  the  latter  down  to  the 
Church  Lane,  and  on  which  stood  the  house  and  bam.  The  out- 
gardens,  Nos.  I  to  4,  also  fell  to  his  share ;  and  prior  to  1701  he 
became  the  owner  of  the  Bosch  or  Bush  farm,  on  the  North  River 
side.  Thomas  seems  to  have  inherited  largely  the  tastes  and 
spirit  of  his  father.  Besides  filling  lesser  town  offices,  he  was 
the  alderman  of  the  Out  Ward  in  1696-7.     Being  appointed  sur- 

♦  The  Turner  family,  of  Westchester  County,  are  not  to  be  mistaken  for  the  Toumeurs.  The 
former  were  descendants  of  Lawrence  Turner,  who.  as  early  as  1646.  had  dealings  with  English  resi- 
dents at  Manhattan.  He  removed  from  Newport  to  Greenwich,  and  thence  into  "  the  bocoagh  and 
town  of  Westchester,"  where  he  died  in  1668,  leaving  a  widow,  Martha.  His  daughter  Mary  mar- 
ried John  Ferguson ,  Tr.,  and  his  son.  Daniel  Turner,  of  Westchester,  yeoman,  died  May  24,1705. 
leaving  his  widow  Margaret,  a  son  Daniel,  and  f'aughters  Martha,  Mary  and  Rebecca^  the  last  of 
whom  mried  Eleazar  Gedney,  of  Mamaroneck. 


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veyor  of  highways  in  1707,  he  sided  with  the  Harlem  people,  who 
felt  aggrieved  because  required  by  the  mayor  and  aldermen  to 
join  in  working  the  newly  surveyed  roads  outside  of  their  limits, 
and  Toumeur,  refusing,  was  fined  six  shillings  by  Constable 
Sickles,  who  levied  on  his  goods.  Toumeur  thereupon  procured 
a  writ  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  had  the  constable  arrested  for 
trespass.  The  mayor  and  aldermen  resolved  to  defend  the  con- 
stable. It  caused  much  excitement,  but  pleased  the  inhabitants, 
and  the  next  year  Toumeur  was  made  constable.  But  the  city 
council,  on  the  plea  of  his  "having  served  in  the  office  of  alder- 
man," declared  him  exempt,  and  ordered  a  new  election.  On 
September  29,  1709,  he  was  chosen  town  collector.  Toumeur 
probably  died  in  17 10,  as  his  son  Jacobus  is  charged  for  back  quit- 
rent  in  his  stead,  and  that  year  all  his  lands  were  sold.  His  farm, 
last  named,  was  bought  by  Capt.  Jacob  De  Key,  his  Van  Keulen 
Hook  lot  by  John  Dyckman,  his  out-gardens  by  Maria  Meyer,  and 
his  lot  No.  I,,  etc.,  by  Capt.  Charles.  Congreve.  The  latter  sold, 
in  1713,  to  John  Van  Oblenis,  and  he  directly  to  Abraham  Myer. 
The  children  and  their  mother  are  remembered  in  John  Oblienis' 
will  in  1717.  Jacobus,  familiarly  called  Cobus,  to  whom  his  uncle 
John  Oblienis  left  a  legacy  of  £25,  was  probably  the  "chirurgeon," 
Jacob  Tourneur,  who  practiced  in  the  families  of  Frederick  De 
Voe,  Louis  Guion,  and  other  French  residents  of  Westchester, 
and  died  March  9,  1719,  at  the  house  of  Frederick  Bolt,  at  New 
Rochelle. 

Thomas  (7),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

20.  Jacobus,  born  1693,  died  March  9,  1719. 

21.  Magdalena,  born  1695,  baptized  June  26,  1695. 

22.  Martina  ( Marty ntie),  baptized  January  30,  1698. 
■  23.  Thomas,  baptized  February  15,  1702. 

Woodhull  (11),  (son  of  Daniel,  Jr.),  by  trade  a  weaver,  is 
named  in  1706  and  1708  as  holding  his  late  father's  farm  on  Mon- 
tanye's  Flat,  but  in  1711,  he  sold  it  to  Samson  Benson  and  went 
to  Newtown,  L.  I.,  where  he  is  found  the  next  year,  and  on  Janu- 
ary 27,  17 13,  bought  the  farm  since  of  Cornelius  Purdy.  Here 
he  married.  May  13,  171 5,  his  cousin  Hannah  Lawrence,  but  sold 
his  farm  April  8,  17 14,  and  removed  to  Rockland  County,  whither 
most  of  the  Tourneurs,  on  leaving  Harlem,  seemed  to  gravitate. 
He  was  living  in  1728.     He  had  issue: 

24.  Anna,  baptized  June  10,  1717,  deceased. 

25.  Daniel,  bom  November  2,  1718,  deceased. 

26.  Jacobus  (James),  born  1720,  married  Sarah  Oblenis,  March 

26,  1752,  had  two  children. 

27.  Benjamin,  baptized  June  25,  1727,  deceased. 


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Michael  Toumeur  (16),  (son  of  Jacques),  married  Maria 
Oblenis,  February  i,  1717.  In  1743  he  bought  the  old  residence 
of  his  father  and  twelve  acres  of  his  land,  being  lot  No.  2,  Third 
Division,  and  nine  acres  of  No.  14,  Second  Division.  He  got 
from  Bussing,  in  1750,  the  remaining  six  acres  of  the  last-named 
lot.  (See  Benson.)  But  selling  out  within  ten  years  he  re- 
moved, and  died  at  Haverstraw  in  1775,  aged  about  82  years. 

Michael  (16),  (son  of  Jacques),  had  issue: 

28.  Jacobus,  who  married  Dinah,  daughter  of  Lawrence  Low,  of 

Harlem,  had  ten  children. 
29;  John,  deceased. 

30.  Aefie,  who  married  Derrick  De  Clerck,  had  ten  children. 

31.  Sarah,  who  married  Edward  Salyer,  had  five  children. 

32.  Hendrick,  who  married  Margaret  Blauvelt,  April  28,  1758. 

had  four  children.     Succeeded  to  the  homestead  part  of 
the  paternal  farm.    • 
;i;i,  Jannetie,  who  married  John  Tourneur,  had  two  children. 

34.  Mary,  born  February  24,  1728,  married  William  Dyckman, 

had  nine  children,  and  died  February  14,  1802. 

35.  Jeminia,  who  married  William  Chappell,  April  13,  175 1,  had 

one  child. 

Jacobus  (17),  (son  of  Jacques),  had  issue: 

36.  Jacobus,  who  married  first,  Grietie  Kuyper,  had  two  children, 

and  second,  Grietie  Blauvelt,  August  9,  1753,  by  whom 
he  had  three  children,  and  died  in  1773,  at  Haverstraw, 
N.  Y. 
^y.  Hendrick,  who  married  Mary  Kuyper,  September  23,  1753. 

38.  John,  who  married  Jannetie  Tourneur,  had  three  children. 

39.  Aefie,  who  married  Johannes  Van  Dalsen,  December  20,  1751, 

had  two  children. 

40.  Sarah,  bom  February  2^,  1736. 

41.  Jannetie,  who  married  Teunis  Blauvelt,  had  eight  children. 

Jacobus  (James)  (26),  (son  of  Woodhuli.),  had  issue: 

42.  Sarah,  born  January  13,  1753,  married  John  Stegg.  had  six 

children. 

43.  WoodhuU,^  born  October  28,  1754,  married  Elizabeth  Steve, 

had  two  children. 

Jacobus  (28),  (son  of  Michael),  had  issue: 

44.  Jannetje  (Jane),  born  June  17,  1758,  married  Lucas  Camp- 

bell, had  seven  children. 

45.  Maria,  born  October  4,  1760. 

46.  Mary  (Marretye),  born  August  i^  1762. 


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47.  John,  bom  November  8,  1764. 

48.  Sarah,  bom  November  5,  1766. 

49.  Hendrick,  bom  October  4,  1769. 

50.  Breghie,  born  November  16,  1771,  married  Barent  Gardinier, 

had  three  children. 

51.  Michael,  who  married  Leah  Hennion,  December  29,  1775,  had 

one  child,  and  died  in  18 17. 

52.  Lawrence. 

53.  Jacobus,  who  married  Elizabeth  Secor,  December  13,  1792, 

had  one  child. 

Hendrick  (32),  (son  of  Michael),  had  issue: 

54.  Maria,  bom  April  27,  1759. 

55.  Annaetjie,  born  April  10,  1761. 

56.  Michiel,  born  October  2,  1763,  married  Geertje  Blauvelt,  June 

15,  1786,  had  one  child. 

57.  Elizabeth,  bom  January  30,  1771. 

Jacobus  (36),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue  by  his 
first  wife: 

58.  Jacobus,  born  February  28,  1747. 

59.  Grietye  (Margaret),  born  August  i,  1751. 

Jacobus  (36)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

60.  Rachel,   born   December  8,    1760,   married   first,   John   Van 

Orden,  had  five  children,  atid  second,  Abraham  Polhemus, 
April  8,  1803. 

61.  Jacomina,  born  October  7,  1764,  married  Jacobus  Vanderbilt, 

June  6,  1799,  had  three  children. 

62.  David,  born  June  23,  1768. 

John  (38),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

63.  John,  bom  December  28,  1751,  married  Hannah  Bugby,  April 

26,  1776,  had  children. 

64.  Jacobus,  bom  November  17,  1755. 

65.  Daniel,  bom  May  30,  1763. 

W00DHUI.1.  (43),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

66.  Sarah,  born  November  7,  1776. 

67.  Jacobus,  bom  June  28,  1783. 

Mjchael  (51),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

68.  Cornelius,  born  September  30,  1776,  married  Peggy  Baldwin, 

February  13,  1794,  had  one  child,  and  died  July  7,  1852. 

Jacobus  (53),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

69.  Dinah,  born  April  10,  1794. 


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Michael  (56),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

70.  Margritje,  born  March  18,  1790. 

Cornelius  (68),  (son  of  Michael),  had  issue: 

71.  Michael,  bom  October  20,  1797,  married  Margaret  Wilkins, 

had  seven  children,  and  died  in  1863. 

Michael  (71),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 
^2.  Cornelius  Bush,  born  Septep.ber  9,  1841,  married  Kate  Gerst, 
July  15,  1872,  had  five  children. 

73.  John  Henry,  born  April  25,  1844,  married  Emma  Onderdonk, 

October  24,  1869,  had  five  children. 

74.  Irving,  born  April  26,  1846,  married  Ellen  Drain,  1872,  had 

four  children. 

75.  Edward  T.,  bom  December  25,  1847,  married  Julia  Quacken- 

bush,  December  23,  1873,  had  four  children. 

76.  Peter  J.,  born  April  18,  1853,  married  Margaret  E.  Torrens, 

July  15,  1875,  had  four  children. 
yy,  Aaron,  born  May   i,   1856,  married  Elizabeth  Garrabrandt, 
July  25,  1880,  had  eleven  children. 

78.  Julia  Etta,  born  March  27,  1859,  married  F.  Smith,  September 

12,  1870,  no  issue. 

Cornelius  Bush  {72),  (son  of  Michael),  had  issue: 

79.  Mary  Lillian,  born  March  14,  1874,  married  Thomas  James 

Worsey,  February  20,  1902,  no  issue. 

80.  Adolphena,  bom  June  26,  1878,  unmarried. 

81.  Julietta,  born  Januar}*^  16,  1880,  unmarried. 

82.  Elmer,  born  September  2,  1881,  single. 

83. — ? 

John  Henry  (73),  (son  of  Michael),  had  issue: 

84.  William  Henry,  born  July  2,  1870,  married  in  1890,  father  of 

three  children. 

85.  Frank,  bom  December  2,  187 1,  married  in  1899. 

86.  Charles  J.,  born  March  30,  1873,  single. 

87.  John  Lester,  born  May  9,  1880. 

88.  Elizabeth  Morton,  bom  July  10,  1890. 

Irving  (74),  (son  of  Michael),  had  issue: 

89.  Nettie. 

90.  Margaret. 

91.  Olive. 

92.  Ethel. 

Edward  T.  (75),  (son  of  Michael),  had  issue: 

93.  Arthur,  born  May  12,  1881,  deceased. 


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94.  Florence  M.,  bom  August  15,  1884,  married  Benjamin  Don- 

nison,  October  29,  1902. 

95.  Clarence  E.,  born  June  6,  1887. 

96.  Elsie  E.,  born  November  14,  1895. 

Peter  J.  (76),  (son  of  Michael),  had  issue: 

97.  William. 

98.  Lillian. 

99.  Jean. 
100.  Harold. 

Aaron  {77),  (son  of  Michael),  had  issue: 
loi.  Julia,  bom  February  4,  1882. 

102.  Edward,  bom  March  9,  1884. 

103.  Frances  (Mary),  born  November  15,  1885. 

104.  Jeannette,  bom  August  20,  1887. 

105.  Delia,  born  March  14,  1891. 

106.  Emma,  bom  August  28,  1893. 

107.  John,  born  August  11,  1895. 
180.  Georgiana,  born  August  11,  1895. 
109.  Alfred,  born  October  29,  1896. 
no.  Sophronia,  bom  February  25,  1899. 
III.  Russell,  bom  November  19,  1900. 


VERMILYE. 

Johannes  Vermilye,  the  patentee,  was  common  ancestor  of 
all  who  in  this  country  bear  the  name  of  Vermilye  or  Vermilyea. 
His  father,  Isaac  Vermeille,  has  been  already  the  subject  of  notice, 
before  as*  well  as  after  he  emigrated  with  his  family,  in  1662. 
Welcomed  to  Harlem  by  some  of  his  former  acquaintances,  Ver- 
meille's  worth  was  recognized  by  an  appointment  to  command 
a  military  company  in  1663.  Later  he  served  two  terms  as  magis- 
trate. Buying  the  northern  end  (a  morgen)  of  lot  No.  5,  Van 
Keulen's  Hook,  probably  from  Montague,  his  son-in-law,  he 
built  a  house,  planted  fruit  trees,  and  here  made  his  home.  His 
house  occupied  a  spot  nearly  central  of  the  block  between  First 
and  Second  Avenues  and  I22d  and  123d  Streets.  Vermeille  held 
no  other  farming  land,  no  doubt  having  some  other  calling  suited 
to  his  now  advanced  years,  perhaps  with  his  son  in  the  brewery. 
He  was  living  August  29,  1676,  when  he  witnessed  the  will  of 
Aert  Pietersen  Buys  and  wife,  Jenneke  Cornelis,  of  Fordham, 
and  on  September  4,  ensuing,  Vermilye,  either  father  or  son,  is 
called  "clerk''.  Observing  that  on  the  death  of  Jean  le  Comte,  in 
1675,  there  was  paid  "To  Isaac  Vermeille,  for  the  burial,  f.  12,'' 
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dents  at  Harlem.  He  probably  died  in  1676,  and  is  not  among 
the  proprietors,  February  19,  1677,  when  his  house  and  lot  stand 
in  the  name  of  Johannes.*  Isaac's  children  were  Johannes,  afore- 
said; Abraham,  who  had  no  issue;  Maria,  bom  1629,  who  mar- 
ried John  La  Montagne  and  Isaac  Kip,  arid  Rachel,  bom  1637, 
who  married  John  Terbosch  and  Derick  Wessels. 

Johannes  Vermel je,  as  he  wrote  his  name,  was  born  in  1632 
at  Leyden.*  Coming  here  in  ripe  manhood,  and  uniting  in  his 
character  the  sterling  traits  of  the  French  and  Dutch,  he  was 
made  a  court  messenger  in  1665,  and  constable  in  1667,  being  for 
this  year  also  farmer  of  the  excise ;  previous  to  which  he  had  set 
up  a  brewery.  August  2,J,  1670,  then  holding  the  position  of 
magistrate,  he  married  Aeltie,  daughter  of  Resolved  Waldron; 
when  he  probably  built  upon  an  erf,  procured  some  years  before, 
but  which  is  first  taxed  in  1671.  It  lay  in  the  Judah  plot.  (See 
pages  236,  237,  285.)  Mr.  Vermilye  took  a  leading  part  both  in 
civil  and  church  affairs.  In  the  political  crisis  of  1689  he  was 
chosen  one  of  the  Committee  of  Safety,  which,  on  June  8  of  that 
year,  appointed  Capt.  Jacob  Leisler  to  be  "captain  of  the  fort", 
and  on  August  16  signed  his  commission  as  "commander-in-chief" 
of  the  province.  Taking  a  seat  in  Leisler*s  council,  December 
II  ensuing,  he  was  sent  soon  after  upon  an  embassy  to  New 
Haven.  He  continued  a  member  of  the  council  till  a  sudden  end 
was  put  to  Leisler's  rule  by  the  coming  of  Col.  Sloughter,  March 
20,  1 691,  by  whose  orders  Leisler  and  his  council  (Vermilye  in- 
cluded) were  "committed  to  the  guards",  on  a  charge  of  high 
treason.  The  execution  of  Leisler  and  Milbome,  but  two  months 
later,  seemed  to  Vermilye  and  his  fellow-prisoners  to  forebode  a 
similar  fate.  But  after  a  painful  suspense  of  over  seventeen 
months  they  were  liberated  by  Governor  Fletcher,  on  his  arrival, 
and  were  pardoned  by  the  king  February  20,  1693.  Vermilye 
survived  this  trying  ordeal  but  a  short  period,  as  he  was  deceased 
in  March,  1696.  His  widow  sold  out  her  lands  at  Harlem  in 
171 5  to  her  nephew,  John  Delamater  (see  page  499),  and  died 
at  Yonkers  in  1734. 

Johannes  Vermilye  (i),  bom  at  Leyden,  Holland,  in  1632. 
married  Aeltie  Waldron,  August  2*],  1670,  had  ten  children,  and 
died  in  1696. 

Johannes  (i)  had  issue: 
2.  Rebecca,  baptized  December  17,  1671,  married  Peter  Bussing. 
June  7,  1700,  had  seven  children. 

*  Bolton,  History  of  Westchester  County,  volume  ii.  page  .^27,  under  date  of 
1694,  copies  the  name  of  Capt.  Isaac  Van  Vleck  as  Vermilyea!  Such  carelessness  is 
reprehensible. 

•  The  letter  j  (with  Hollanders)  having  the  sound  of  our  English  y  when  the 
latter  bet^ins  a  word  or  syllable;  Johannes  only  conformed  to  the  Dutch  mode  of 
writinjf  his  name,  without  changing  its  terminal  pronunciation,  which  is  well  pre- 
served in  the  modern  spelling  Vermilye,  but  better  (since  e  in  Dutch,  as  in  French, 
takes  the  sound  of  a)  by  Vermilyea. 


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3.  Sarah,   baptized   October  4,    1673,   married   Teunis   Dolsen, 

August  28,  1696,  had  one  child. 

4.  -Rachel,  baptized  November  10,  1675,  married  Charles  Vin- 

cent, 1694. 
_  5.  Abraham  No.  i,  baptized  December  19,  1677,  died  young. 

6.  Abraham  No.  2,  baptized  January  24,  1680,  was  the  father  of 

seven  children,  and  died  in  1734. 

7.  Isaac,  baptized  April  i,  1682,  married  Josyntie  Oblinus,  Janu- 

ary 16,  1707,  had  eight  children,  and  died  in  1767. 

8.  Maria,  baptized  April  13,  1684,  married  Peter  Kierse,  1704. 

9.  Jacob,  baptized  November  24,  1686,  died  young. 

10.  John,  who  married  first,  Sarah  Odell,  October  29,  1713,  had 

twelve  children.     He  married  second,  Maritie ?,  and 

died  in  1782. 

11.  Hannah,   born    1690,   married  Johannes   Odell,   October  29, 

17 13,  had  four  children. 

Isaac  Vermilye  (7),  (son  of  Johannes),  married  January 
16,  1707,  Josyntie,  daughter  of  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  and  widow 
of  Teunis  Corssen,  who  left  her  with  a  child,  Teunis,  living  in 
1748.  Isaac  was  an  executor  of  his  brother-in-law,  John  Van 
Oblinus,  and  well  sustained  the  good  reputation  so  generally 
characteristic  of  the  family.  His  will,  made  IMarch  i,  1748,  was 
proved  March  5,  1767.     He  had  issue: 

12.  Isaac,  bom  June  10,   1708,  married  Mehitabel  Hadley,  had 

eight  children.     Of  Croton  Valley. 

13.  Maritie,  born  May  12,  171 1,  married  Jacobus  Teller,  had  nine 

children. 

14.  John,  born  April  7,  17 14,  married  Charity,  daughter  of  Jacob 

Dyckman,  had  seven  children.  Of  Kingsbridge  (Yon- 
kers)  :  succeeded  to  the  land  his  father  bought  of  An- 
thony Basley. 

15.  Peter,  born  1725,  married  Mary   (Polly)   Pinckney,  had  ten 

children.     Of  Croton  Valley. 

16.  Aeltie,  who  married  John  Teller,  had  ten  children. 

17.  Sarah,  who  married ?  Valentine. 

18.  Rebecca,  who  married  Jacob  Dyckman,  had  eleven  children. 

19.  Hannah,  who  married  Isaac  Odell. 

John  Vermilye  (10),  (son  of  Johannes),  became  rich  in 
landed  property,  by  buying  up  farms  in  Yonkers,  about  Kings- 
bridge,  from  William  and  Benjamin  Betts,  Anthony  Basley,  etc. 
He  lived  till  1782,  "far  advanced  in  years,"  as  he  says  in  his  will, 
dated  June  3,  1776,  and  proved  November  2,  1786.  He  married 
Sarah  Odell,  October  29,  17 13,  but  before  his  death  contracted 

a  second  marriage  with  Maritie ?.     He  distributed  his  lands 

among  his  sons.     He  had  issue  by  first  wife: 


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i20,  Antie  (Anna),  born  1719,  married  Abraham  Brown,  had  two 
children,  and  died  February  28,  1801. 

21.  Johannes  (John),  who  married  twice.     His  second  wife  was 

Jacomina  Corsa,  by  whom  he  had  two  children. 

22.  Abraham,  who  married  Mehitabel  ?,  had  six  children, 

and  died  at  Yonkers  in  1784. 
2;^,  Joshua,  who  married  Sarah  Emans,  had  four  children,  and 
died  in  Westchester  County  in  1782. 

24.  Frederick,  who  married  Catherine  Nodine,  May  27,  1763,  had 

two  children,  and  died  in  1 814. 

25.  Maritie,  who  married  Dirck  Van  Arsdalen,  January  29,  1767, 

had  three  children. 

26.  Sarah,  who  married  Roger  Downing,  September  i,  1757,  had 

two  children. 

27.  Rebecca,  who  married  George  Wherts,  had  one  child. 

28.  Aeltie,  who  married  John  Kortright. 

29.  Benjamin. 

30.  David,  who  married  Patience ?,  had  four  children. 

31.  Gerardus,  who  married  Jane  Valentine,  August  5,  1762,  had 

seven  children.  He  contributed  toward  building  the  Re- 
formed Dutch  Church  at  Hopewell,  N.  Y. 
Some  of  these  removed  to  New  York  as  early  as  1792.  John, 
Gerardus  and  David,  before  the  Revolution,  removed  from  Yon- 
kers to  Lagrange,  Dutchess  County.  They,  in  common  with  their 
kindred,  had  now  yielded  their  French  characteristics,  at  least 
as  to  their  speech,  for  it  is  known  that  John,  called  Honnes  (Jo- 
hannes), was  wont  to  ask  blessings  in  Dutch. 

Isaac  (12),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

32.  John,  who  married  first,  Mary  Vermilye,  had  six  children. 

He  married  second,  Rachel ?,  and  died  in  1812. 

33.  Isaac,  who  married  Mary  ?,  had  one  chilB. 

35.  Joseph,  who  married  Elizabeth  Oblinus,  1782,  had  three  chil- 

dren. 

36.  Rebecca,  deceased. 

37.  C\Tithia,  who  died  unmarried. 

38.  Hannah. 

39.  Nancy,  who  married  Solomon  Owens,  had  one  child. 

40.  Hester   (Mehitabel),  who  married  Ely  Reynolds,  had  three 

children. 

John  (14),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

41.  Jacob,  born  1740,  married  first,  Susannah  Dyckman,  April  10, 

1766.  He  married  second,  Mary  Dyckman,  June  15, 
1773,  having  ten  children  by  both  marriages,  and  died 
January  31,  18 14. 


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42.  William,  born  1749,  married  first,  Mary  Brower,  April  10, 

1773,  had  two  children,  and  second,  Mary  Taylor,  by 
whom  he  had  four  children.     He  died  March  8,  1822. 

43.  Isaac,  who  married  Susannah,  daughter  of  Jacob  Myer,  April 

2,  1756,  had  six  children.     Of  Yonkers. 

44.  Jane,  who  married  Edward  Prior,  April  13.  1767,  had  seven 

children. 

45.  Rebecca,  who  married  William  Maharry,  October  15,  1765. 

46.  Cynthia,  who  married  Timothy  Hunt,  had  twelve  children. 

47.  Aletta,  who  married  James  Teller,  had  two  children. 

Peter  (15),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

48.  Isaac,  deceased. 

49.  Mary   (Polly),  born  1751,  married  John  Vermilye,  had  six 

children. 

50.  Susan,  bom  1758,  married  John  Shear,  had  ten  children,  and 

died  in  1838. 

51.  Philip,  baptized  September  6,  1758,  married  Rebecca  Elliott, 

had  eleven  children. 

52.  Peter,  born  July  31,  1760,  married  Mary  Jewell,  had  seven 

children. 

53.  John,  born  1763. 

54.  William,  bom  1765,  married  Cynthia  Simons. 

55.  Abraham,  born  March  20,   1768,  married  Jemima  Travers, 

1791,  had  twelve  children,  and  died  December  18,  1831. 

56.  Anna,  born  1770,  married  Jesse  Travers. 

57.  Aeltje  (Ally),  born  1773,  married  Obediah  Avery. 

Johannes  (21),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

58.  Benjamin,  borri  August  13,  1759. 

59.  Jacomina,  baptized  March  27;  1768. 

Abraham  (22),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

60.  John,  bom  about  1750,  married  Mary  (Polly) ?,  had  five 

children. 

61.  Edward,  born  June  12,  1759,  married  Sarah  Hyatt,  April  10, 

1790,  had  nine  children,  and  died  July  19,  1832. 

62.  William,  who  married  Phebe  Husted,  had  ten  children. 

63.  Abraham,  who  married  Mary  Brower,  had  one  child. 

64.  Sarah,  who  married  Solomon  Hustis. 

65.  Margaret,  who  married  Abraham  Sloote,  August  24,  1788. 

Joshua  (2^),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

66.  Anna,  born  1772,  married  James  Jarvis,  September  10,  1796. 

67.  Thomas,  born  1774. 

68.  Mary,  bom  1778. 

69.  Isaac,  born  1782. 


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Frederick  (24),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

70.  John. 

71.  Frederick. 

David  (30),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 
^2,  Benjamin,  born  1759,  married  Sarah  Downing,  September  2i 
1781,  had  two  children. 

73.  David,  born  about  1765,  was  the  father  of  eight  children,  and 

died  in  1848. 

74.  John,  born  1767,  married  Aeltie  Jewell,  February  14,  1788 

had  four  children,  and  died  January  26,  1838. 

75.  Isaac  Dyckman,  born  1771,  married  Maria  Jewell,  April  11, 

1792,  had  eight  children,  and  died  in  1853. 

Gerardus  (31),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

76.  Mary,  bom  1765,  married  Jonathan  Brooks. 

7J,  Isaac  G.,  born  1768,  married  Catherine  Kipp,  had  nine  chil- 
dren, and  died  in  1846. 

78.  John  G.,  born  1770,  married  Elizabeth  Asten,  December  27. 

1797,  had  six  children,  and  died  in  1828. 

79.  Sennai,  born  1774,  married  Joseph  Xoxon. 

80.  Rebecca,  born  April  6,  1776,  died  unmarried. 

81.  Gerardus,   born   July   25,    1777,   married   Charlotte    Palmer. 

September  26,  1807,  but  died  without  issue  in  1808. 

82.  Jane,  born  1779,  married  Lewis  Davenport,  October  24,  1797. 

John  (32),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

83.  Mehitabel,    baptized    May    i,    1774,    married    Montgomen 

Moore,  had  four  children. 

84.  Mary,  born  December  28,  1778,  married  Evander  Childs,  Ma\ 

18,  1800,  had  six  children. 

85.  Emily,  bom  1808,  died  unmarried,  February  10,  i860. 

86.  Aletta,  died  unmarried. 

87.  Betsy,  died  unmarried. 

88.  John,  who  married  Mary  Hewson,  had  five  children. 

Isaac  (33),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

89.  Mary,  baptized  July  2,  1783. 

Joseph  (35),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

90.  Catherine,  born  1783,  married  James  Willeey. 

91.  Hetty,  born  1785,  married Arnolds. 

92.  Elizabeth,  born  1787,  married Arnolds. 

Jacob  (41),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 
93.  John,  born  January  2,  1768,  married  Rebecca  Fowler,  had 
nine  children,  and  died  October  15,  1823. 


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94.  Gerardus,  born  June  3,  1771,  died  single,  August  3,  1823. 

95.  William,  bom  about  1776,  died  single,  March  8,  1822. 

96.  Susannah   Maria,   born   February   5,    1777,   married   Jacob 

Cregier,  had  one  child. 

97.  Jacobus,  born  March  8,  1779,  deceased. 

98.  Michael,  bom  August  31,   1781,  married  Susan  Vermilye, 

had  two  children. 

99.  Isaac,  born  1785,  married  Deborah ?,  had  five  children. 

icx).  James,  who  married  Mary  Greenway,  had  six  children. 
loi.  Jane,  died  unmarried. 

102.  Rebecca,  died  unmarried. 

William  (42),  (son  of  John),  went  to  New  York  as  ^rly 
as  1792,  was  a  builder,  and  from  18 12  till  his  death  surveyor  for 
the  Eagle  Insurance  Company.  He  died  March  8,  1822,  aged 
yj^  years,  11  months.     He  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

103.  Maria,  who  married  William  W.   Chardavoyne,  had  nine 

children. 

104.  Gerritie  (Charity),  baptized  February  27,  1774,  died  young. 

W1L1.1AM  (42)  HAD  issue:  by  second  wifk: 

105.  William  W.,  born  December  24,  1780,  married  Mary  Mont- 

gomery, January  11,  1800,  had  twelve  children,  and  died 
November  14,  1849.  Began  business  in  New  York  as 
a  printer  with  Langdon  &  Son. 

106.  Thomas  B.,  born  August  29,  1784,  married  first,  Mary  Hoag- 

land,  September  26,  1804,  had  eight  children.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Jane  Rebecca  Mattocks,  October  18,  i860, 
but  died  without  issue  by  second  wife. 

107.  Robert,  deceased. 

108.  Joanna,  bom  1799,  married  George  ^.  Smith,  had  nine  chil- 

dren, and  died  July  30,  1883. 

Isaac  (43),  (son  op  John),  had  issue: 

109.  William,  born  1757,  married  Fannie  Bonnet,  had  one  child, 

and  died  in  1799. 
no.  John,  who  married  Effie  Clark,  had  one  child. 

111.  Jacob  Meyer,  who  married  Phebe  Vail,  had  one  child. 

112.  Susan,  who  married  Michael  Vermilye,  had  three  children. 

113.  Isaac,  born   1769,  married  Jane  Odell,  had  one  child,  and 

died  in  1855. 

1 14.  Jane,  who  married  Benjamin  Fowler,  had  three  children. 

Philip  (51),  (son  op  Peter),  had  issue: 

115.  Nathaniel  Drake,  who  married  Jane  Eliza  Ackley,  October 

28,  1809,  had  fourteen  children,  and  died  February  2, 
1826. 


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116.  Elizabeth   (Betsey),  who  married  John  Cure. 

117.  Polly,  bom  March  15,  1784,  deceased. 

118.  Nancy,  bom  September  i,  1786,  married Lyons. 

119.  Rebecca,  born  April  11,  1788,  married  Staats  Dyckman. 

120.  Jenny,  bom  September  14,  1790. 

121.  Frances,  born  September  14,  1790,  married  Peter  Shapter, 

had  seven  children. 

122.  James,   bom   October   25,    1792,   married   Rebecca   Fisher, 

November  25,  1817,  had  five  children,  and  died  April  20. 
1832. 

123.  Philip,  bom  November  12,  1794,  married  Ann  ?,  had 

three  children. 

124.  George,  born  March  27,  1796,  married  Mary  Peck,  Mav  10, 

1821. 

125.  Sally   (Sarah),  born  November  12,  1799,  married  John  S. 

Jones. 

Peter  (52),  (son  of  Peter),  h.vd  issue: 

126.  William,  who  married  August  30,  1809,  ^^^  ^"^  child. 

127.  Peter,  who  married  Margaret  Schenck,  had  seven  children. 

128.  Walton. 

129.  Mary. 

130.  Ann. 

131.  Sarah. 

132.  Solomon. 

Abraham  (55),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

133.  Millicent,  born  May  31,  1792,  died  in  1843. 

134.  Mary  (Polly),  born  July  24,  1795,  married  Peter  D.  Taylor, 

had  three  children,  and  died  in  1873. 

135.  David,  born  May  11,  1797,  died  in  1869. 

136.  Amy,  born  March  30,  1799.  died  in  1876. 

137.  Petty  (IVIartha),  born  April  28,  1801,  married  John  Shears, 

Jr.,  and  died  March  29.  1896. 

138.  Philip,  born  February  2,   1803,  married  first,  Jane  Calden, 

had  five  children,  and  second,  Lucy  Higginbotham,  by 
whom  he  had  two  children.     He  died  in  1876. 

139.  Daniel,  born  January  26,  1805,  was  the  father  of  one  child, 

and  died  in  1867  or  1879. 

140.  Livingston,  born  June  i,  1807. 

141.  Abraham,  born  November  17,   1809,  married  Elizabeth  A. 

Showers,  had  nine  children. 

142.  Gilbert,  born  June  27,  1811,  married  Eliza  Edwards,  June 

II,  1834,  had  one  child,  and  died  in  1873. 

143.  Abel,  born  November  25,  1813,  died  in  1879. 

144.  Betsey  (Elizabeth),  born  January  14,  1817. 


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John  (60),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue:. 

145.  John,  bom  about  1770,  married  Abigail  Baxter,  had  four 

children.     He  a  blacksmith  of  Kingsbridge,  N.  Y. 

146.  James. 

147.  William. 

148.  Mehitabel. 

149.  Phoebe,  baptized  May  31,  1793. 

Edward  (61),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

150.  Mary,  born  December  22,   1791,  married  WilHam   Brady, 

June  6,  1807,  had  twelve  children. 

151.  Abraham,  born  June  5,  1793,  married  Mary  Seamore,  and 

died  July  20,  1832. 

152.  Mehitabel,  born  May  15,  1795. 

153.  Eliza,  bom  June  10,  1797. 

154.  William,  born  August  16,  1798,  died  single,  1826. 

155.  Catherine  Ann,  born  March  17,  1801,  deceased. 

156.  Edward,  Jr.,  born  April  21,  1803,  married  Aurelia  A.  Jones, 

August  20,  1829,  had  nine  children,  and  died  December 
22,  1855. 

157.  Sarah,   born   October    19,    1805,    married   Andrew    Howe, 

]March  14,  1824,  had  three  children. 

158.  James,  bom  June  17,  1809,  married  Mary  Ann  Hall,  January 

3,  1841,  had  three  children. 

William  (62),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

160.  Solomon,  born  November  6.  1784,  married  Susan  Mulner, 

had  nine  children,  and  died  June  18,  1872. 

161.  Samuel,  born  January  8,  1793,  married  Catherine  Robinson, 

1815,  had  six  children. 

162.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Amos  SniflFen. 

163.  Jonathan,  who  married  Margaret  Petrie,  had  thirteen  chil- 

dren.    (Not  here  named.) 

164.  Jesse,  who  married  Elizabeth  Vail,  had  twelve  children. 

165.  John,  who  married,  but  left  no  surviving  issue. 

166.  William,  who  married  Abigail  Whitney,  had  six  children. 

167.  Abram,  who  married  Charity  Molineaux,  had  eight  children, 

and  died  in  1822. 

168.  Mehitabel,  who  died  young. 

Abraham  (63),  (sox  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

169.  John  Bruce,  born  September  30,  1808. 

Benjamin  {72),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

170.  George,  baptized  July  15,  1784. 

171.  Anna,  born  July  15,  1785. 


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172.  Joseph,  born  1788,  married  Susannah  Pinckney,  had  eleven 

children. 

173.  Hannah. 

174.  Betsey,  deceased. 

175.  Gilbert,  married  Polly  Dyer,  had  six  children. 

176.  Benjamin. 

177.  David. 

178.  John  D. 

179.  Isaac. 

John  (74),  (son  of  David),  had  issue;: 

180.  Letitia,  born  1788,  married  John  T.  Griffen,  December  13, 

1805,  and  died  January  28,  1839. 

181.  Catherine,  born   1794,  married   Samuel   Flagler,  and   died 

February  8,  1833. 

182.  Nancy,  born  1796,  married  Walen  Patrick,  July  2,  1814. 

183.  Aletta,  born  1798,  married  John  Townsend,  had  four  chil- 

dren, and  died  June  24,  1861. 

*    Isaac  Dyckman  (75),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

184.  Jane,  born  1797,  married  first,  John  Booth,  September  12, 

181 8,  had  three  children.     She  married  second,  John  Van 
Nostrand,  had  two  children. 

185.  Patience,  born  1802,  married  John  N.  Jewell,  March  27, 

1817,  had  four  children. 

186.  Gideon  Townsend,  born  1803,  married  Eliza  Van  Voorhis, 

1826,  had  three  children,  and  died  February  4,  1865. 

187.  Letitia,  born  1805,  married  Richard  Weeks,  April  19,  1821, 

had  seven  children. 
188-  Jerome,  born  March  20,  1808,  married  Phebe  Palmer,  had 
five  children,  and  died  in  December,  1889.     Was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  police  force  of  New  York  City  for  many  years. 

189.  Sarah  A.,  born  1811,  married  first,  Sylvester  Potter,  had  two 

children.     She  married  second,  Daniel  Wickes,  had  two 
children,  and  died  June  12,  1832. 

190.  Maria,  born  1813,  married  Farrington  Ferguson,  had  four 

children. 

191.  Catherine,  born  18 16,  married  Isaac  Sebring  Vermilye,  Oc- 

tober 3,   1841,  had  four  children.     He  of  Cold  Spring, 
N.  Y. 

Isaac  G.  {77),  (son  of  Gerardus),  had  issue: 

192.  Elizabeth,  born  October  23,  1794,  married  Daniel  Billings, 

about  1820,  had  four  children,  and  died  March  6,  1878. 

193.  Jane,   born   March   2,    1796,   married   Alexander   Homans, 

about  1820,  had  three  children. 


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194.  Peter  I.,  born  September  25,   1797,  married  Rosanna  Van 

Nostrand,  had  five  children. 

195.  Maria,  born  April  7,  1799,  married  Enoch  G.  Borland,  No- 

vember 14,  1822,  had  five  children. 

196.  Gerardus,  born  January  26,  1801,  married  Maria  Van  Nos- 

trand, had  eight  children. 

197.  John   Kipp,  born   September   16,    1802,   married   Catherine 

Livingston  Hamlin,  1832,  had  four  children,  and  died  in 

1877. 

198.  Catherine,  born  January  29,  1804,  unmarried. 

199.  Brooks,    born    February   27,    181 1,    married    first,    Charity 

Sheav,  and  second,  Lydia  A.  Donaldson,  by  whom  he 
had  three  children. 

200.  Valentine  Mott   (Dr.),  bom  April  4,  1818,  married  Phcbe 

Ann  Davids,  November  5,  1845,  had  seven  children. 

John  G.  (78),  (son  of  Gerardus),  had  issue: 

201.  Abraham,  born  1798,  deceased. 

202.  John,  born  1803,  died  single,  1850. 

203.  Jane,  who  married  Baiters  S.  Velie,  had  one  child. 

204.  Eliza,  who  married  George  Upton,  had  four  children. 

205.  Crumeline  Verplank,  died  unmarried,  1838. 

206.  Maria,  who  married  Lewis  Wright,  had  two  children. 

John  (88),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

207.  Mary,  born  December  25,  1809,  married  James  Ward,  Feb- 

x\x2xy  9,  1829,  had  seven  children,  and  died  June  14,  1884. 

208.  Isaac,  born   181 1,  married  Mary  Lambet,   1842,  had  three 

children,  and  died  in  1875. 

209.  Sarah,  born  December  15,  1816,  married  Jackson  P.  GaNun, 

March  23,  1842,  had  six  children,  and  died  June  5,  1902. 

210.  Richard,  who  died  young. 

211.  Cynthia  or  Asenath,  who  married  Edwin  Augustus  Firby, 

July  16,  1834. 

John  (93),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

212.  Dorothea,  born  1797,  died,  unmarried,  1861. 

213.  Jacob,  born  1799,  ^^^^  single,  1815. 

214.  Benjamin,  bom  1801,  died  single,  1854. 

215.  Susan,  born  1803,  died  unmarried,  1854. 

216.  Gerardus  (Garrit),  born  1806,  married  Charity  Guyon,  had 

two  children,  and  died  in  i88r. 

217.  Maria,  born  1808,  died  unmarried,  1883. 

218.  Rebecca  Jane,  born  18 10,  died  18 10. 

219.  Abraham  F.,  born  1812,  married  Louisa  Oakley,  November 

9,  185 1,  had  five  children,  and  died  in  1879. 

220.  Isaac,  born  181 5,  died  single,  i860. 


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Michael  (98),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

221.  Abraham. 

222.  Isaac. 

Isaac  (99),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

223.  William. 

224.  Isaac. 

225.  Susan,  unmarried. 

226.  Julia. 

227.  Jane,  unmarried. 

James  (100),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

228.  Julia  A.,  born  1800.  died,  unmarried,  September  20,  1877. 

229.  Jane  Rebecca,  born  1809,  married  William  D.  Smith,  and 

died  August  9,   1855. 

230.  Susan,  unmarried. 

231.  Michael,  single. 

232.  Euretta,  died,  unmarried,  1894. 

233.  Charity,  who  married  Patrick  McGee,  had  two  children. 

WnjjAM  W.  (105),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

234.  William   Montgomery,  born   September  30,    1801,   married 

Hester  Ann  De  Reimer,  April  4,  1827,  had  fi\e  children. 
Founder  of  the  banking  house  of  Vermilye  &  Co.,  to- 
gether with  his  brother  Washington  R.,  who  also  was 
colonel  of  the  Seventh  Regiment,  New  York  Militia.  He 
died  June  18,  1878. 

235.  Thomas  Edward  (Rev.),  born  February  27,  1803,  niarried 

Eliza  B.  Hazard,  had  three  children.  Senior  pastor  of 
the  Collegiate  Reformed  Church  of  New  York. 

236.  Joanna  Maria,  born  July  26,    1804,  married  Benjamin  B. 

Ruton,  May  23,  1838,  had  three  children,  and  died  Janu- 
ary 4,  1877. 

237.  Margaret  Louisa,  born  July  23,  1806,  died  August  31,  1874. 

238.  Robert  George  No.  1,  born  June  24,  1808,  died  Januarv  20, 

1810. 

239.  Washington   Romeyn,   born    September   29.    1810,   married 

Elizabeth  Dwight  Lathrop,  had  five  children,  and  died 
December  23,  1876. 

240.  Robert  George  No.  2  (Rev.),  born  March  3,  18 12,  married 

Anna  McCarty,  had  three  children,  and  died  July  5,  1875. 

241.  Mary  Ann,  born  April  19,  1814,  died  October  i,  1838. 

242.  Jacob  Dyckman,  bom  July   15,   1817,  married  first,  Mary 

Cornelia  Lathrop,  had  three  children.  He  married 
second,  Mrs.  Baldwin,  no  issue  by  second  marriage.  Was 
a  Presbyterian  clergyman,  at  one  time  professor  in  Hart- 
ford Theological  Seminary.  President  of  the  Merchants* 
Bank  (i88t). 


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243.  Rebecca,    born    November    15,    1818,    married    Fergus    A. 

Hathorn,  had  six  children. 

244.  Erskine  Rockwood,  bom  December  20,  1821. 

245.  Ebenezer,  born  January  20,  1823,  died  January  20,  1823. 

Thomas  B.  (106),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

246.  Robertanna,  born  September  15,  1804. 

247.  Thomas  Edward,  bom  January  15,  1809,  married  Jane  Mag- 

dalena  Chardavoyne,  April  14,  1834,  but  died  without 
issue,  November  25,  1841. 

248.  William  Henry  No.  i,  born  August  25,  181 2,  died  young. 

249.  William  Henry  No.  2,  bom  Febmary  12,  1814,  married  first, 

Ann  Maria  Van  Wart,  February  16,  1841.  He  married 
second,  Phebe  Louisa  Babbitt,  February  3,  1853,  had  two 
children. 

250.  John  Robert,  born  August  9,  1816,  died.  April  3,  1883. 

251.  Isaac  Dyckman  (Rev.),  born  June  19,  1819,  married  Jose- 

phine Ward,  October  5,  1842,  had  twelve  children,  and 
died  August  24,  1864.  Was  a  Protestant  Episcopal 
clergyman  and  educator  of  note. 

252.  John   Hoagland,   born    September   26,    1822,   married   first, 

Phebe  Ann  Lippincott,  February  4,  1847.  He  married 
second,  Sarah  Elizabeth  Hatch,  January  12,  1848,  had 
four  children,  and  died  May  17,  1889.  Was  president  of 
Stock  Yards  National  Bank  of  Chicago,  III. 

253.  Theodore  Chardavoyne,  born  December   18,   1824,  married 

Hannah  Minthom  Tompkins,*  May  24,  1848,  had  six 
children,  and  died  November  13,  1879.  Was  a  lawyer 
and  judge  in  New  York  City. 

William  (109),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

254.  Peter    Bonnett,    born    1788,    married    first.    Elizabeth    Van 

Wart,  had  one  child.  He  married  second,  Martha  See, 
had  one  child,  and  died  in  1864. 

John  (no),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issuk: 

255.  Jacob  Meyer,  baptized  May  21,  1797. 

Jacob  Meyer  (hi),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

256.  Elizabeth,  baptized  May  31,  1793. 

Isaac  (113),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

257.  Rebecca,  who  died  unmarried. 

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Nathaniel  Drake  (115),  (son  of  Philip),  had  issue: 

258.  John  Akley,  bom  May  20,  1833,  married  Mary  E.  Duryea, 

September  10,  1857,  and  died  March  2^,  1903. 

259.  Jane  Eliza,  born  March  25,  1835,  died  May  2,  1838. 

260.  Alary  Elizabeth,  born  July  11,  1836,  died  May  9,  1838. 

261.  Martin  V^an  Beuren,  born  April  17,  1838,  died  March  25, 

1839. 

262.  Nathaniel  Drake,  Jr.,  born  March  13,  1840. 

263.  Sarah  Lavinia,  bom  January  25,   1842,  married  Almerson 

Gwynne,  had  seven  children. 

264.  Charlotte  Nelson,  born  November  18,  1843,  married  George 

W.  Phillips,  had  twelve  children. 

265.  Andrew  Jackson,  born  August   15,   1845,  married  Belinda 

Cruse. 

266.  William  Henry,  bom  October  10,  1847,  <iJ^^  ^^^y  i*  1900. 

267.  Benjamin  Franklin,  born  October  19,  1849,  married  Anna 

?,  had   fourteen   children,  and   died   November  29, 

1895. 

268.  James  Martin,  born  August  3,  1851,  died  October  10,  1864. 

269.  Maria  Rebecca,  born  August  27,  1853,  married  first, ? 

Barnet,  and  second,  Rev.  A.  A.  Robertson. 

270.  Catherine   Matilda,   born   March   29,    1856,   married   Oscar 

Waldemar  Yonder  Bosch,  April  26,  1877,  had  one  child. 

271.  Julia  Augusta,  born  January  6,   1858,  married  Lewis  Van 

Whicklen,  December  22,  1879,  had  three  children. 

Jamks  (122),  (son  of  Philip),  had  issce: 

272.  Sarah  Ann,  born  July  7,  18 18,  married  Henry  TaflF,  January 

1,  1839,  had  six  children,  and  died  June  8,  1885. 

273.  Jackson,  born  October  19,  1819,  married  Amelia ?,  1856. 

274.  Hannah  Maria,  born  January,  1824,  married  first,  Leonard 

R.  Rhodes,  February  16,  1841,  had  five  children.  She  mar- 
ried second,  Charles  D.  Van  Dvke,  had  two  children,  and 
died  July  8,  1875. 

275.  Jane,  born  February  i,  1827,  married  John  H.  Depuy,  De- 

cember 14,  1842,  and  died  }llay  6,  1896. 

276.  William    Pierce,   born   January   31,    1829,   married    Rachel 

Beach  Clark,  had  five  children,  and  died  July  5,  1865. 

Philip  (123),  (son  of  Philip),  had  issue: 

277.  Mary,  born  March  17,  1827. 

278.  Edward,  born  December  9,  1828. 

279.  Richard,  born  July  19,  1833. 

William  (126).  (son  of  Petter),  had  issue: 

280.  Peter. 


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Peter  (127),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

281.  Sarah  Maria,  born  July  14,  1810,  died  September  24,  1812. 

282.  Richard  Jewell,  bom  June  2,  1813,  married  first,  Ann  Barnes, 

and  second,  Sarah  Jane  Serine.     He  deceased. 

283.  Isaac  Sebring,  born  March  20,  1817,  married  Catherine  Ver- 

milye,  October  3,  1841,  had  four  children. 

284.  Sarah,  bom  July  25,  1820,  unmarried. 

285.  Maria    Schenck,   born    March   25,    1823,   died,    unmarried, 

August  25,  1840. 

286.  Jane  Elinor,  born  October  5,  1825,  married  David  St.  John. 
2^%j,  Ralph  Schenck,  born  September  29,  1830,  married  Fanny  J. 

Kniflfen,  had  two  children. 

Philip  (138),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

288.  Marion  Anne,  born  December   13,   1825,  married  Thomas 

Fitzgerald,  December  9,   1845,  had  three  children.     She 
deceased. 

289.  Abraham  Augustus,  born  October  12,  1827,  married  first, 

Julia  Crispell,  and  second,  Sarah  Groves,  March  7,  1858, 
by  whom  he  had  six  children.     He  died  in  January,  1897. 

290.  Rachel  Elizabeth,  born  February  4,  1829,  deceased. 

291.  Joseph  Calder,  born  September  8,  1830,  married  first,  Isa-. 

bella  Bassett,  October,  1859,  had  five  children,  and  second, 
Mary  Barnum.     He  died  in  February,  1894. 

292.  Elizabeth  Rachel,  bom  September  10,  1833,  married  Abner 

Lewis,  had  four  children. 

PhIUP    (138)    HAD  ISSUE  BY  SECOND  WIFE: 

292a.  Aribell  Jane,  born  July  9,  1855,  married  Charles  Frink,  had 

two  children.     She  deceased. 
292^.  Anna  M.,  born  December  14,  i860,  married  J.  S.  Gault, 

1876,  had  seven  children. 

DanieIv  (139),  (son  of  Abraham),  h.\d  issue: 

293.  Daniel. 

Abraham  (141),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

294.  George  H.,  bom  July  8,   1848,  married  Romelia  F.  Scott, 

1868,  had  five  children. 

295.  Gilbert. 

296.  Mary,  who  married  Joel  Smith. 

297.  Ann. 

298.  Jane,  who  married  Sylvester  Cooper. 

299.  John. 

300.  Daniel. 

301.  David. 

302.  Charles. 


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Gilbert  (142),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

303.  Jemima,  bom  August  18,   1836,  married  Roland  Simpson, 

February  16,  1853,  had  five  children. 

John  (145),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

304.  James  Hustis,  bom  April  11,  1801,  married  Maria  Warner, 

had  three  children,  and  died  in  1894. 

305.  William,  died  single. 

306.  Mary,  who  married  Garret  Holmes,  October  12,  1835,  had 

two  children. 

307.  John,  who  married  Harriet  Brown,  had  five  children.     He 

deceased. 

Edward,  Jr.  (156),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

308.  Fanny  Jane,  bom  1830,  married  Homer  Ruggles,  April  24, 

1867,  but  died  without  issue  in  April,  1900. 

309.  Martha  Woodward,  bom  1832.  died  in  1855. 

310.  Edward  Lyman,  bom  1835,  married  Mary  E.  Russell,  No- 

vember 16,  1859,  had  six  children. 

311.  Amos  Jones,  bom  1837.  died  April  23,  185 1. 

312.  Aurelia  Emma,  born  1840,  died  October  11,  1846. 

313.  Charlotte  Amelia,  born  1842,  married  B.  J.  Cruser,  March 

29,  1867,  had  four  children. 

314.  Henry  Marcellus,  born  1845,  »iiarried  Mary  L.  Graff,  April 

23,  1 87 1,  had  six  children. 

315.  Sarah  Hester,  born  1847,  married  William  Garretson,  No- 

vember 18,  1868,  had  eleven  children. 

316.  Aurelia  Emily,  born  1849,  ^i^^  April  8,  1862. 

Edward  (159),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

317.  Phebe,  born   1795,  married  David  Burr,  but  died  without 

issue,  February  20,  1837. 

318.  Rachel,  bom  1799.  died  young. 

319.  Banheba,  bom  1800,  died  young. 

320.  Robert  Wright,  born  December  19,  1801,  married  Malvina 

Phelps,  A I  ay  4,  1826,  had  seven  children,  and  died  No- 
vember 15,  1842. 

321.  John  Cole,  born  September  11,  1803,  married  first.  Catherine 

Murphy,  1823,  second.  Mary  Ann  Carter,  December  i, 
1846,  had  four  children.  He  married  third,  Mrs.  Car- 
penter, and  died  January  12.  1897.  No  issue  by  first  and 
third  marriages. 

322.  Mehitabel,  born  May   i,    1805.  married  first.  Rev.  Walter 

Benton,  March  31.  1824.  had  nine  children.  She  married 
second,  Albert  Banks,  January  i,  1871,  no  issue,  and  died 
November  6,  1875. 


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323.  William,  bom  May  31,  1807,  married  Sarah ?,  had  one 

child,  and  died  October  2i6,  1835. 

324.  Jesse,  bom  May  18,  1809,  married  Maria  M.  Taggert,  July 

4,  1832,  had  five  children,  and  died  August  11,  1846. 

325.  Adeline,  bora  June  2,  181 1,  married  Alexander  Worth,  had 

ten  children.     She  deceased. 

326.  Solomon,  born  March  2,  1813,  married  Mary  Jane  Wiley, 

November  18,  1835,  had  seven  children,  and  died  January 
21,  1849. 

327.  Joanna,  bom  1816,  married  James  Sweetser,  July  23,  1837, 

had  six  children,  and  died  October  31,  1877. 

Solomon  (160),  (son  of  William),  had  issue; 

328.  Noah  D.,  born  March  2^,  1823,  was  the  father  of  one  child, 

died  March  14,  1898. 

329.  Levi. 

330.  William  D.  )  ^    . 

331.  Mary.  \  ^^^"'• 

332.  Phebe. 

333.  Anna. 

334.  Emmeline. 

335.  Eliff. 

336.  Hannah. 

Samuel  (161),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

337.  Edward,  bom  1818,  married  Martha  Whipple. 

338.  Orville,  bom  1822,  married  Margaret  Stone,  had  five  chil- 

dren. 

339.  William,  bom  1829,  married  Lydia  Kelly. 

340.  Melissa,  born  1835,  married  Nelson  Beardsley. 

341.  Edgar  A.,  bom  1940,  married  Melissa  C.  Todd,  1864,  had 

one  child. 

342.  Oliva  S.,  bom   1842,  married  first,  John  B.  Elsmore,  and 

second.  Rex  Hewitt. 

Jesse  (164),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

343.  Edward,  born  February  16,  1795,  married  first,  Mary  Went- 

worth,  December  17,  1817,  had  thirteen  children.  He 
married  second,  Lydia  Higby,  and  died  February  22, 
1890. 

344.  Sarah,  who  married  Joseph  Wentworth,  1826,  had  one  child. 

345.  Emmeline,  bom   181 1,  married  Ezra  Howard,  March    18, 

1834,  had  eight  children. 

346.  Angeline,  who  married  William  Cheney. 

347.  Samuel,  who  married  Rebecca  St.  John.     He  deceased. 

348.  William,  who  married  Hannah  Hill.     He  deceased. 

349.  John,  who  married  Mary  Bunnell. 


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350.  Hannah,  who  married  Willard  Benson.     She  deceased. 

351.  Barnabas. 

352.  Mehitabel. 

353.  Chester. 

354;  Phebe,  who  married ?  Crandall. 

WiLUAM   (166),   (son  of  WiI^UAM),  HAD  ISSUE: 

355.  William. 

356.  Mary. 

357.  Tumey. 

358.  Hanna. 

359.  Arvilla  No.  i,  died  young. 

360.  Arvilla  No.  2. 

Abram  (167),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

361.  Mercy,  bom  1809,  married  Erastus  Dodge,  had  eight  chil- 

dren. 

362.  Solomon,  bom  181 1,  married  Deborah  Pierce,  had  five  chil- 

dren. 

363.  Phebe,  bom  1813,  married  Patrick  Redman,  had  six  chil- 

dren. 

364.  Susan,  bom   1815,  married  Abel  Lawrence,  February  15, 

1852,  no  issue. 

365.  John,  bom  1816,  was  the  father  of  two  children. 

366.  Cynthia,  bom  1818,  married  Samuel  Gaskill,  had  six  chil- 

dren. 

367.  Avery,  bom  September  20,   1820,  married  Fanny  Meade, 

March  20,  1844,  had  eleven  children. 

368.  Abram,  bom  1822,  married  Sarah  Griffen,  had  three  chil- 

dren.    He  deceased. 

Joseph  (172),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

369.  David,  born  November  11,  1812,  married  Leney  Dietz,  had 

three  children,  and  died  December  11,  1848. 

370.  John  P.,  bom  October  5,  1813,  died  in  1884. 

371.  Patience,  born  May  10,  181 5,  married ?  Chatterton,  had 

two  children,  and  died  in  February,  1882. 

372.  Gilbert  H.,  bom  August  26,  1817,  died  single,  November  15, 

1890. 

373.  Maria,  bom  February  14,  1820,  married  Robert  Bogardus, 

and  died  January  19,  1882. 

374.  George,  bom  January  17,  1822,  married  Helen ?,  had 

five  children. 

375.  Julia  Ann,  born  November  21,  1824,  married  Charles  Down- 

ing. 

376.  Joseph,  bom  August  7,  1825,  married  Louisa  Van  Luven, 

had  five  children,  and  died  September  28,  1895. 


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377.  Isaac,  born  May  19,  1827. 

378.  Sarah  L.,  bom  May  2,  1829,  married  Thomas  Hyzer. 

379.  Louise  E.,  born  May  15,  1832,  married  Lucius  Merrihew. 

GiiyBERT  (175),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

3^.  Emma,  bom  181 1,  died  in  1870. 

381.  Catherine,  born  May  6,  1813,  married  Christian  Dietz,  May 

26,  1830,  had  nine  children,  and  died  August  23,  1871.  • 

382.  Charles,  bora   1815,  married  Maryette  Fowler;   1841,  had 

eight  children,  and  died  in  1895. 

383.  Lucius. 

384.  James,  deceased. 

385.  Gilbert,  who  married  Jane  A.  Groat,  had  two  children. 

Gideon  Townsend  (186),  (son  of  Isaac  Dyckman), 
HAD  issue: 

386.  John,  bora  Ocotber  5,  1831,  married  Catherine  E.  Jewell, 

October  5,  1859,  had  four  children,  and  died  October  19, 
1897. 

387.  Maria,  unmarried. 

388.  Sylvester,  who  married  Anna  Goodwin,  had  five  children. 

Jerome  (188),  (son  of  Isaac  Dyckman),  had  issue: 

389.  Mary  Jane,  who  died  unmarried,  September,  1838. 

390.  George  W.,  born  May  26,  1833,  married  Jane  F.  Getston, 

1857,  had  three  children,  and  died  May  4,  1903. 

391.  Charles  B.,  born  June  2T,  1836,  married  Emma  A.  Hadley, 

March  7,  i860,  had  three  children. 

392.  Franklin  S.,  born  August  3,  1839,  married  Elizabeth  Tilton, 

had  two  children,  and  died  January  23,  1903. 

393.  Susan  Elizabeth,  who  died  unmarried  in  November,  1850. 

Peter  I.  (194),  (son  of  Isaac  G.),  had  issue: 

394.  George  P.,  bom  1852,  married  Nettie  M.  Myers,  Febmary 

21,  1872,  had  eight  children. 

395.  Paul,  bom  June  28,  1854,  married  Lizzie  Van  Vlack,  June 

28,  1877,  had  ten  children. 

396.  Isaac  v.,  bom   1856,  married  Orpha  J.  Vandewater,  had 

eight  children. 

397.  Mary  K.,  born   i860,  married  Julius  O.  Donald,  had  one 

child. 

398.  John  G.,  born  1863,  single. 

Gerardus  (196),  (son  oe  Isaac  G.),  had  issue: 

399.  Cromwell,  who  married  Jessie  Trembly  Lynch,  July  4,  1897. 

400.  Isaac. 


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401.  Oscar,  single. 

402.  Walter. 

403.-  Callie,  who  married  Irving  Vermilyea 

404.  Jane,  unmarried. 

405.  Minnie,  unmarried. 

406.  Catherine,  who  married  George  Holmes,  no  issue. 

John  Kipp  (197),  (son  of  Isaac  G.),  had  issue: 

407.  Dupuyster  (Rev.),  born  September  16,  1833,  married  Lea 

Aletta  Zabriskie,  had  one  child. 

408.  Anna  Romeyn,   bom    1839,   niarried   Ezra  James   Haight, 

about  i860,  had  four  children. 

409.  Gerardus,  born  1840,  married  first,  Kate  Kimbark,  had  one 

child,  and  second,  Sarah  E.  Wilcox. 

410.  Lucy  David,  bom  1846,  married  Edwin  J.  Jones,  had  one 

child. 

Brooks  (199),  (son  of  Isaac  G.),  had  issue: 

411.  Addison,  born  1841,  single. 

412.  Irving,  born  1843,  rnarried  Callie  Vermilyea,  had  one  child. 

413.  Abram,  who  died  young. 

Dr.  Valentine  Mott  (200),  (son  of  Isaac  G.),  had  issue: 

414.  Ino,  bom  December  28,  1846,  married  Robert  K.  Woodward, 

December  28,  1868,  and  died  February  14,  1882. 

415.  Larry,   bom  December    19,    1847,   niarried  Jennie   Bames, 

July  19,  1871. 

416.  Phebe  Catherine,  born  May  28,  1849,  ^^^^  J^^e  2,  1853. 

417.  Maria,  born  December  19,  1852,  married  Thomas  A.  Weir, 

May  18,  1883,  had  one  child. 

418.  Jessie,  bom  January  17,   1857,  married  Robert  K.  Wood- 

ward, July  19,  1883,  had  four  children. 

419.  Oscar,  born  August  6,  1859,  married  Carrie  Case,  Februar}' 

27,  1882,  had  three  children. 

420.  Kate,  born  May  24,  1861,  married  John  Potter,  April  26, 

1883,  had  two  children. 

Isaac  (208),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

421.  Isaac,  born  1848,  married  Mary  White,  1876,  had  four  chil- 

dren. 

422.  Sarah  Emma,  who  married  Edward  Bonnell,  July  15,  1853. 

423.  Mary  Elizabeth,  who  married  E.  Turner. 

Gerardus  (216),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

424.  Mary,  who  died  unmarried,  1891. 

425.  John,  who  died  single. 


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Abraham  F.  (219),  (son  oi^  John),  had  issue: 

426.  George  H.,  born  1853,  died  single,  1877. 

427.  Benjamin  F.,  born  1855,  married  Clara  A.  Seeley,  1877,  had 

six  children. 

428.  Clarence  Oakley,  bom  1857,  married  Emily  A.  Seeley,  1878, 

had  three  children,  and  died  in  1890. 

429.  Irving,  bom  1863,  marrried  Ida  Sammis,  1892,  and  died  in 

1896. 

430.  William  E.,  bom  i860,  married  Carrie  Graham,  1882,  had 

three  children. 

William  Montgomery  (234),  (son  of  William  W.), 
HAD  issue: 

431.  Mary  Anthony,   bom   1830,   married  Charles  A.   Davison, 

June  6,  1850,  had  two  children.     She  deceased. 

432.  William  Edward,  who  was  the  father  of  one  child.     He  de- 

ceased. 

433.  Robert  Montgomery,  who  married  Amanda  Conover,  had 

one  child.     He  married  a  second  time,  and  is  now  de- 
ceased. 

434.  Charles  Augustus  Morford,  single. 

435.  Louisa,  who  married  John  E.  Burrill,  had  five  children.     She 

deceased. 

Rev.  Thomas  Edward  (235),  (son  of  William  W.), 
HAD  issue: 

436.  Ashbel  G.  (Rev.),  married  Helen ?,  had  three  children. 

437.  Thomas  E.,  single. 

438.  EHzabeth,  who  married  Edward  Smith. 

Washington  Romeyn  (239),  (son  of  William  W.), 
HAD  issue: 

439.  Washington  Romeyn,  who  married  Harriet  Comstock,  no 

issue. 

440.  Emily  Augusta,  who  married  Elbert  A.  Brinckerhoflf,  had 

six  children. 

441.  Three  other  children  (names  not  found). 

Rev.  Robert  George  (240),  (son  of  William  W.), 
HAD  issue: 

442.  Elizabeth,  who  died  unmarried. 

443.  Anna,  who  died  unmarried. 

444.  Mary,  unmarried. 

Jacob  Dyckman  (242),  (son  of  William  W.),  had  issue: 

445.  William  Gerard,  who  married  Cornelia  Whitney  Rowland, 


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December  13,  1863,  had  five  children,  and  died  in  1901. 
Was  treasurer  of  the  Union  India  Rubber  Company.* 

446.  Louise  C,  who  died  young. 

447.  Mary  Anna,  who  married  Henry  W.  Baldwin,  had  four  chil- 

dren. 

WiLUAM  Henry  (249),  (son  of  Thomas  B.),  had  issue 

BY  SECOND   wife: 

448.  Daniel   Babbitt,   bom    1854,   married  first,   Mary   Cornelia 

Holmes,  April  30,    1879,  had  one   child.      He   married 
second,  Elise  Calame,  July  3,  1886,  had  one  child. 

449.  Katharine  Holmes,  bom  1856,  unmarried. 

Rev.  Isaac  Dyckman  (251),  (son  of  Thomas  B.), 
HAD  issue: 

450.  Thomas  Edward,  born  1843. 

451.  William  Henry,  born  1845,  married  Kitty  Depew,  July  24, 

1876,  no  issue. 

452.  Isaac  Ward,  born  1846,  died  young. 

453.  Henry  Fisher,  born  1848,  married  Anna  Scofield,  September 

17,  1870,  had  one  child,  and  died  February  3,  1872. 

454.  Joseph  Fenelon,  born  1850,  died  single,  August  17,  1884. 

455.  Charles  A.  Townsend,  bom  1851,  died. young. 

456.  Lewis  Chauncey,  born  1851,  died  young. 

457.  Annie  Ward,  born  1853,  married  Walter  Ruckel,  had  one 

child. 

458.  Robert  C.  Halsey,  born   1855,  married  Rebecca  Elizabeth 

Southard,  September  28,  1881,  had  two  children. 

459.  Marion  Hoagland,  born  1865,  married  first,  Hannah  Earle, 

second,  Josephine  Ware,  had  two  children. 

460.  Hobart  Potter,  bom  1858,  married  Elizabeth  Wallace,  had 

one  child. 

461.  Mary  Josephine,  born  i860,  died  young. 

John  Hoagland  (252),  (son  of  Thomas  B.),  had  issue: 

462.  Thomas  Bean,  born  1851,  died  young. 

463.  Mary  Caroline,  bom  1853,  married  John  Rossiter  Redfield. 

December  13,  1877,  had  one  child,  and  died  November 
I,  1887. 

464.  John  De  Wint,  bom  1856,  died  young. 

465.  William  Gray   (Dr.),  born   1857,  married  first,  Eva  Viola 

Van  Syckel,  October  22,  188(5,  had  one  child.     He  had  a 
second  wife  named  Anna. 

•  To  the  gentleman  last  mentioned,  whose  tastes  and  foresight  led  him  years 
ago  to  investigate  his  family  history,  are  we  indebted  for  most  of  the  later  details 
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Theodore  Chardavoyne  (253),  (son  of  Thomas  B.), 
HAD  issue: 

466.  Theodore  Chardavoyne,  bom  September  27,  1849,  married 

Jane  Catherine  Van  Howenberg,  August  27,  1876,  had 
one  child,  and  died  in  1889. 

467.  Mary  Hoagland,  bom  May  4,  1851,  married  Samuel  Russell 

Ludlow,  January  30,  1878,  had  three  children,  and  died 
November  16,  1884. 

468.  Cornelia  Tompkins,  born  December  16,  1852,  married  Ed- 

ward A.  Caner,  June  4,  1877,  no  issue. 

469.  Hannah  Tompkins,  borA.  August  23,  1855,  married  Frank 

E.  Van  Auken,  had  six  children. 

470.  Isaac  Dyckman,  bom  November  13,  i860,  died  young. 

471.  Sarah  Hatch,  born  December  9,  1865,  died  young. 

Peter  Bonnett  (254),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

472.  William,  bom  1822,  married  Maria  Webb  Sherwood,  had 

seven  children,  and  died  in  190 1. 

Peter  Bonnett  (254)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

473.  Jane,  bom  1852,  died  unmarried,  1892. 

Benjamin  Franklin  (267),  (son  of  Nathaniel  Drake), 

HAD  issue: 

474.  Charles  H.,  born  November  15,  1868. 

475.  Benjamin  F.,  born  January  16,  1870,  married  Clara  Wood- 

ford, November  28,  1891,  had  three  children. 

476.  William  E.,  born  September  22,  1872,  married  Bertha  Eliza- 

beth Ralph,  had  three  children. 

477.  James  M.,  born  August  13,  1873,  deceased. 

478.  Sarah  A.,  born  September  24,  1874,  deceased. 

479.  Edith  L.,  born  August  ^,  1876. 

480.  Clara  B.,  bom  March  i,  1879. 

481.  Thomas  M.,  born  July  25,  1881,  deceased. 

482.  Nathaniel  D.,  born  September  10,  1883. 

483.  George  W.,  born  November  15,  1885. 

484.  Gussie,  born  February  22,  1887. 

485.  Mabel,  born  April  24,  1888. 

486.  Eddie  E.,  born  January  7,  1891. 

487.  Russel  S.,  born  December  8,  1892. 

Isaac  Sebring  (283),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

488.  Theodore,  bom  1844,  single. 

489.  Francis  H.,  bom  1847,  married  Jane  Van  Arsdale,  had  three 

children. 


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490.  Eugene,  born  1850,  married  Hannah  Thompson,  had  two 

children. 

491.  Mary  Ida,  bom  1858,  unmarried. 

Ralph  Schenck  (287),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

492.  Barent,  who  married  Ruth  E.  Michaels,  had  one  child. 

493.  Howard,  who  married  Georgie  Williams,  had  one  child. 

Abraham  Augustus  (289),  (son  of  Philip),  had  issue: 

494.  Henry  G.,  bom  July  8,  1859,  married  Anna  Alwild  Jones, 

had  five  children. 

495.  !Mary  V.,  born  January  8,  1865,  married  Virgil  Pock,  had 

six  children. 

496.  Joseph  C,  born  December  19,  1869,  married  Florence  Down- 

ing, had  six  children. 

497.  Ira  A.,  born  April  5,  1872,  single. 

498.  Gertmde,  bom  January  27 y  1879,  married  Francis  Morton 

David,  April  12,  1897,  had  one  child. 

499.  Lewis  M.,  bom  January  31,  1881,  single. 

Joseph  Calder  (291),  (son  of  Philip),  had  issue: 

500.  Jane,  bom  July  6,  i860. 

501.  Piatt    Rassett,   born   November    10,    1861,   married    Letitia 

Jones,  November  9,  1887. 

502.  Mary,  bom  January  19,  1865,  married  Marvin  H.  Gesamin, 

January  25,  1888,  had  four  children. 

503.  Jessie,  bom  October   17,   1874,  married  twice,  her  second 

husband  being  Frank  C.  Goodrich. 

504.  Forest  A.,  born  May  19,  1879. 

George  H.  (294),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

505.  Carrie  B.,  born  August  17,  1869,  married  Edward  Scott,  had 

three  children. 

506.  Frank  S.,  born  July  30,  1871,  married  Bertha  Yeumans,  had 

two  children. 

507.  George  S.,  born  December  6,  1873,  married  Nellie  George, 

had  two  children. 

508.  Nettie  M.,  bom  February  14,  1878,  unmarried. 

509.  Anna  E.,  bom  November  26,  1881,  unmarried. 

James  Hustis  (304),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

510.  James  Heustis,  born  April  14,  1836,  married  Sarah  A.  Ber- 

lin, November,  1865,  no  issue. 

511.  Hannah  Louisa,  born  about  1838,  married  Robert  H.  Ship- 

ley,  about  1856,  had  two  children,  and  died  in  1872. 

512.  John,  died  young. 


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John  (307),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

513.  Ann  Maria,  who  married  Henry  Newkirk. 

514.  Helen  Louisa,  died  young. 

515.  William  Henry,  who  married  Eleanor  U.  Hawkins,  had  two 

children. 

516.  John  Gifford,  who  married  Mary  Cole,  had  two  children. 

517.  Edna,  who  married  first, Van  Cleeve,  and  second, 

Loderbaugh. 

Edward  Lyman  (310),  (son  of  Edward,  Jr.),  had  issue: 

518.  Lyman  R.,  born  1861. 

519.  Frank,  bom  1863. 

520.  Mary  C,  born  1867. 

521.  Fred,  born  1869. 

522.  Emily,  born  1870. 

523.  George  Albert,  born  1874. 

Henry  Marcellus  (314),  (son  of  Edward,  Jr.),  had 

ISSUE : 

524.  Alvin  Graflf,  born  February   12,   1872,  married  Louise  E. 

Gabelman,  November  18,  1896,  no  issue. 

525.  Herbert,  born  June  11,  1874,  died  July  11,  1874. 

526.  Arthur  Lewis,  bom  August  19,   1875,  married  Aida  Belle 

Fisher,  December  31,  1901,  no  issue. 

527.  Aurelia   Abby,   bom   May   24,    1878,    married   Edward   R. 

Mould,  October  17,  1901,  have  one  child. 

528.  Claude  Kingdon,  bom  April  23,  1880,  single. 

529.  Henriette,  born  November  16,  1882,  unmarried. 

Robert  Wright  (320),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

530.  Eunice  C,  born  April  15,  1828,  died  in  infancy. 

531.  Edward  Alexander,  born  November  26,  1829,  married  first, 

Marian  Amanda  Oviatt,  January  4,  1853,  ^^^  ^^e  chil- 
dren. He  married  second,  Eliza  Enoch,  March  25,  1869, 
had  three  children. 

532.  Joanna,  born  November  3,  1831,  married  Robert  Shaw  Gray. 

533.  Adeline,  born  October  6,   1833,  married  Jacob  McDonald, 

October  19,  1848,  had  four  children. 

534.  William  Francis,  born  October  31,  1836,  married  Mary  E. 

Dean,  October  9,  1864,  had  one  child,  and  died  May  18, 
1879. 

535.  Robert  Davis  Burr,  born  June  23,  1840,  married  Barbara  C. 

Ramsey,  December  23^  1864,  had  five  children. 

536.  Virginia  V.,  born  January  24,  1838,  died  in  infancy. 

John  Cole  (321),  (son  01^  Edward),  had  issue: 

537.  Ann  Maria,  born  August  21,  1847,  died  November  18,  1849. 


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538.  Mary  Catherine,  bom  July  12,  1848. 

539.  Delight  Sweetser,  born  September  28,  1850,  married  Joseph 

Gardner  Strong,  August  27,  1868,  had  one  child,  and  died 
December  2^,  1886. 

540.  Asenath   Burr,  bom  May   11,   1855,  married  Arthur  Lee 

Brooks,  September  4,  1876,  had  four  children. 

WiLUAM  (323),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

541.  Lucinda. 

Jesse  (324),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

542.  Burr,  born  1833,  ^i^^  young. 

543.  Marietta,  born  August   19,   1834,  married  Ezekiel  Merrill 

Talbot,  December  30,  1857,  had  two  children. 

544.  Adaline  V.,  bom  December  30,  1837,  married  John  M.  Tur- 

ner. 

545.  Ann  Eliza,  born  May  16,  1840,  married  M.  S.  Robinson. 

546.  Jessie  Maria,  bom  July  15,  1843,  married  Stephen  B.  Bond, 

had  ten  children. 

Solomon  (326),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

547.  William  Burr,  born  August  21,  1837,  married  first,  Louisa 

Ellen  Knox,  June  21,  1866,  had  two  children.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Lorinda  Ellen  DriscoU,  May  14,  1891,  had 
two  children. 

548.  Phebe  Burr,  bom  January  19,  1839,  married  first,  John  An- 

drew Puflfenberger,  June  21,  1855,  had  six  children.  She 
married  second,  John  Allen,  January  16,  1870,  had  four 
children. 

549.  Hetty  Ann,  born  December  26,  1840,  married  Anthony  Cyrus 

Willey,  June  18,  1857,  had  eight  children. 

550.  Wright,  bom  August  11,  1843,  married  Josephine  E.  Miller, 

September  2,  1869,  had  six  children. 

551.  Agnes  Adaline,  bom  June  6,  1845,  juarried  Dr.  William  H. 

Ireland,  August  7,  1865,  had  three  children. 

552.  Edward,  born  February  10,  1847,  ^i^d  young. 
553-  Joanna,  born  May  i,  1848,  died  young. 

Noah  D.  (328),  (son  of  Solomon),  had  issue: 

554.  William  D. 

Orville  {zz^)y  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

555.  Mary  Frances,  born  July  14,  1849,  married  William  Henry 

O'Connor. 

556.  Charles,  bom  March  17,  185 1,  married  Loretta  Doolittle,  no 

issue. 


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VERMILYE  FAMILY.  667 

557.  R.  Willard,  bom  November  9,  1853,  married  Almena  Van 

Houten,  October  29,  1883,  had  one  child. 

558.  Judson,  bom  December  6,  1855,  single. 

559.  George,  deceased. 

Edgar  A.  (341),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

560.  Herbert  Scudder,  born  September  26,  1867,  married  Augusta 

Maude  Banker,  June  20,  1894,  had  one  child. 

.  Edward  (343),  (son  of  Jesse),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

561.  Elvira,  born  February  11,  1819,  married  Aaron  Christopher, 

May  I,  1845,  h^d  one  child,  and  died  May  3,  1856. 

562.  Melissa,  bom  January  10,  1821,  unmarried. 

563.  George  W.,  born  March   i,   1823,  married  Lavina  White, 

October  8,  1848,  had  four  children. 

564.  Elijah  Wentworth,  born  November  27,  1824,  married  Cyn- 

thia A.  Leslie,  April  27,  1852,  had  five  children. 

565.  Mary,  bom  December  27,   1826,  married  Martin  Marble, 

June  29,  1853,  no  issue. 

566.  Edward,  bom  December  27,   1826,  married  first,  Eva  A. 

Upton,  September  9,  1855.     He  married  second,  Sarah 
Chapin,  had  six  children. 

567.  Emily,  bom   May   25,    1829,   married  Aaron   Christopher, 

August  25,  185 1,  had  seven  children. 

568.  Helen,  bom  April  23,  1831,  married  Archibald  B.  Johnson, 

July  4,  1855,  had  four  children. 

569.  Harriet  M.,  born  November  27,  1832,  married  Joshua  W. 

Thompson,  January,  1858,  had  one  child,  and  died  August 
I,  1863. 

570.  Jane  M.,  bom  April  8,  1835,  married  James  Neath,  Septem- 

ber 7,  1857,  had  three  children. 

571.  John  W.,  bom  March  13,  1837,  married  Flora  A.  Preston, 

June  30,  1866,  had  two  children. 

572.  Angelica,  bom  June  10,  1840,  died  October  24,  1847. 

573.  Charles  Harbert,  bom  April  16,  1843,  ^^^d  single,  June  21, 

1864. 

Solomon  (362),  (son  of  Abram),  had  issue: 

574.  Lonson,  single. 

575.  Delphine,  who  married  Edwin  Grant,  had  four  children. 

576.  Solomon,  Jr.,  died  in  the  army,  1863. 

577.  Isa,  who  married  Dell  Sisson. 

578.  Ella,  unmarried. 

Avery  (367),  (son  of  Abram),  had  issue: 

579.  David  M.,  bom  June  9,  1845,  married  Catherine  E.  Walters, 

no  issue,  died  in  October,  1887. 


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668  HISTORY   OF  HARLEM. 

580.  Abraham,  born  December  2,  1846,  married  Mary  T.  Benner, 

had  four  children. 

581.  James  I.,  born  November  30,  1848,  married  Mary  Hinton, 

had  four  children. 

582.  John  K.,  bom  September  12,  1852,  married  Alice  Whitney, 

had  five  children. 

583.  Joseph,  born  November  29,   1854,  married  Martha  Cham- 

berlain, had  six  children. 

584.  Josephine,  born  November  29,  1854,  married  James  L.  Put- 

nam, had  four  children. 

585.  Samuel  E.,  born  May  28,  1858,  married  Minerva  A.  Doyle, 

had  one  child. 

586.  Orville,  born  April  25,   1861,  married  Samantha  Morrow, 

had  seven  children. 

587.  Jesse  C,  bom  June  26,  1863,  married  first,  Anna  T.  Weide- 

man,  had  two  children.     He  married  second,  Grace  E. 
Huntoon,  had  one  child. 

588.  Eulalia  E.,  born  November  5,  1866,  married  N.  A.  Frost, 

had  six  children. 

589.  Reuben,  bom  January  5,  1869,  married  Rose  Huntoon,  had 

two  children. 

Abram  (368),  (son  of  Abram),  had  issue: 

590.  Mary. 

591.  Alice. 

592.  Emily. 

Joseph  (376),  (son  of  Joseph),  had  issue: 

593.  Harriet,  born  August  30,  1850,  married  H.  Leslie  Brown, 

no  issue. 

594.  Eugene,  born  June  2,  1852,  single. 

595.  Ella  M.,  born  February  15,  1854,  married  John  W.  Fox,  no 

issue. 

596.  Isabella,  bom  1856,  married  Frank  Foster,  no  issue. 

597.  Clinton  I.,  born  1859,  married  Annie  Adams,  had  three  chil- 

dren. 

Chari.es  (382),  (son  of  Gilbert),  had  issue: 

598.  Patience,  born  July  29,  1842,  died  1842. 

599.  Le  Roy,  born  November  21,  1843,  married  Eliza  Ferguson, 

November  20,  1879,  had  two  children. 

600.  Phebe  Elizabeth,  born  April  10,  1845,  unmarried. 

601.  Mary  Helen,  born  March  17,  1847,  died  1847. 

602.  Emma  Jane,  born  September  27,  1849. 

603.  Sarahette  F.,  born  September  26,  1851,  married  Lawrence 

A.  Hallenbeck,  1870,  had  two  children. 

604.  Charles  W.,  born  1855. 


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VERMILYE  FAMILY.  669 

605.  Frank,  bom  September  30,  1866,  died  April  15,  1899. 

Gilbert  (385),  (son  of  Gilbert),  had  issue: 

606.  George,  who  died  August,  1863. 

607.  Eugene,  bom  July  15,  1856,  married  Celia  A.  Small,  No- 

vember 6,  1875,  had  ten  children. 

John  (386),  (son  of  Gideon  Townsend),  had  issue: 

608.  Millard  G.,  born  December  13,  i860,  married  Katharine  Far- 

ley, no  issue. 

609.  Elmer  J.,  bom  September  2,  1862,  died  September  23,  1862. 

610.  Luella,  bom  June  6,  1864,  died  August  13,  1864. 

611.  Mortimore,  bom  April  30,  1866,  died  August  9,  1866. 

Sylvester  (388),  (son  of  Gideon  Townsend),  had  issue: 

612.  Comelia  R.,  bom  i860,  died  February  20,  1866. 

613.  Alphonso  R.,  bom  June  8,  1861. 

614.  Francis   Goodwin,  bom   January   24,    1867,   married   Eliza 

Wood,  September  24,  1893,  had  three  children,  and  died 
November  16,  1900. 

615.  Sylvester  P.,  born  December  2,  1868,  deceased.    ^  ^    • 

616.  Crucer  McRae,  bom  December  2,  1868.  f  iwins. 

George  W.  (390),  (son  of  Jerome),  had  issue: 

617.  George  F. 

618.  Jerome  C. 

619.  Lizzie. 

Charles  B.  (391),  (son  of  Jerome),  had  issue: 

620.  Hattie  L.,  bom  January  20,  1864. 

621.  Edward  M. 

622.  Ida  A.,  born  December  i,  1869,  married  Walter  S.  Burdett, 

April  9,  1 88 1. 

Franklin  S.  (392),  (son  of  Jerome),  had  issue: 

623.  John  R.,  who  was  the  father  of  one  child. 

624.  Phoebe  Elizabeth. 

George  P.  (394),  (son  of  Peter  I.),  had  issue: 

625.  Grace  P.,  bom  1874,  married  William  Palmer,  had  five  chil- 

dren. 

626.  Roy  M.,  bom  1878,  died  young. 

627.  George  P.,  Jr.,  born  1897,  married  Annie  J.  Travaskus. 

628.  Blanche  R.,  bom  1880. 

629.  Goldie  G.,  born  1883. 


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670  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

630.  Winslow  S.,  born  1885,  died  young. 

631.  Mary  Case,  bom  1888,  died  young. 

632.  Walter  Ortis,  bom  1892,  died  young. 

Paui.  (395),  (son  of  Peter  I.),  had  issue: 

633.  Rosanna   Martha,   bom   April   23,    1878,   married   Charles 

Storm,  had  one  child. 

634.  Clarence  Edward,  bom  September  10,  1880,  married  Ida  F. 

Hall,  had  one  child. 

635.  Daisy  May,  born  November  17,  1882,  married  Melvin  Bas- 

sett. 

636.  Edith,  born  October  7,  1885. 

637.  Mildred,  born  April  7,  18^,  died  May  21,  1891. 

638.  Verdine,  born  March  6,  1891. 

639.  Rufus  Franklin,  born  February  i,  1894. 

640.  Elizabeth  Pauline,  born  March  10,  1897. 

641.  Paul,  bom  April  11,  1901. 

642.  Claude,  born  January  21,  1903,  died  March  15,  1903. 

Isaac  V.  (396),  (son  of  Peter  I.),  had  issue: 

643.  Martha  J.,  bom  1880. 

644.  William  I.,  born  1881. 

645.  Verno;i  Lester,  born  1883. 

646.  Lois  S.,  born  1885. 

647.  Alfred,  born  1887. 

648.  Florence  M.,  bom  1896. 

649.  Gladys  Belle,  born  1897. 

650.  Abram  Floyd,  born  1899. 

Rev.  Dupuyster  (407),  (son  of  John  Kipp),  had  issue: 

651.  Eliza  Pell,  born  1873,  married  Bernard  O'Blenis  Bogert. 

Gerardus  (409),  (son  of  John  Kipp),  had  issue: 

652.  Kate  Estella,  who  married  John  R.  Lovatt,  had  one  child. 

Irving  (412),  (son  of  Brooks),  had  issue: 

653.  Horatio  S. 

Oscar  (419),  (son  of  Dr.  Valentine  Mott),  had  issue: 

654.  Ino  Louise,  born  January  14,  1886. 

655.  Hazel,  bom  February  8,  1889. 

656.  Oscar  Valentine,  born  September  16,  1892. 

Isaac  (421),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

657.  Isaac,  Jr.,  bom  January  24,  1877. 

658.  Lester,  bom  September  25,  1881. 


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VERMILYE  FAMII.Y.  671 

659.  Millard,  born  November  29,  1885. 

660.  Howard,  bom  April  29,  1888. 

Benjamin  F.  (427),  (son  of  Abraham  F.),  had  issuis: 

661.  Louise,  bom  1878. 

662.  Florence,  bom  1881,  died  in  1889. 

663.  Bessie,  born  1885. 

664.  Frank,  bom  1887. 

665.  Arthur  F.,  bom  1891. 

666.  Herbert,  bom  1895. 

Clarence  Oakley  (428),  (son  of  Abraham  F.), 
HAD  issue: 

667.  Edwin  S.,  bom  1879,  ^^^^  single,  1902. 

668.  -George  H.,  bom  1881. 

669.  William  Russell,  bom  1885. 

William  E.  (430),  (son  of  Abraham  F.),  had  issue: 

670.  Irving,  bom  1890. 

671.  Edgar^  bom  1892. 

672.  Roy,  bom  1894. 

William  Edward  (432),  (son  of  William  Montgomery), 

HAD  issue: 

673.  Frederick  Montgomery. 

Rev.  Ashbel  G.  {436),  (son  of  Rev.  Thomas  Edward), 
HAD  issue: 

674.  Thomas  Edward,  who  marriel  Gertrude ?,  had  one  child. 

675.  Helen,  who  married  George  Hutchings,  had  one  child. 

676.  Elizabeth,  unmarried. 

William  Gerard  (445),  (son  of  Jacob  Dyckman), 
HAD  issue: 

677.  William  Gerard,  Jr.,  bom  1867,  married  Flora  Sherwood, 

had  three  children. 

678.  Henry  Rowland,  bom  1869,  married  Nettie  De  Milt,  had 

one  child. 

679.  Comelia  L.,  born  1873,  unmarried. 

680.  Jennie  T.,  bom  1875,  unmarried. 

681.  Annie  B.,  bom  1877,  unmarried. 

Daniel  Babbitt  (448),  (son  of  William  Henry),  had 
issue  by  first  wife : 

682.  William  Moorehead,  born  April  6,  1880. 


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672  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Daniel  Babbitt  (448)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

683.  Herbert  Noble,  bom  November  16,  1887. 

Henry  Fisher  (453),  (son  of  Rev.  Isaac  Dyckman), 
had  issue: 

684.  Anna  Josephine,  bom  May  28,  1871. 

Robert  C.  Halsey  (458),  (son  of  Rev.  Isaac  Dyckman), 
had  issue: 

685.  Emma  Southard',  born  June  28,  1883. 

686.  Margaret  Elizabeth,  bom  March  17,  1886. 

Marion  Hoagland  (459),  (son  of  Rev.  Isaac  Dyckman), 

HAD  issue: 

687.  Hazel. 

688.  Joseph. 

HoBART  Potter  (460),  (son  of  Rev.  Isaac  Dyckman), 
HAD  issue: 

689.  Hobart  Potter,  Jr.,  bom  1900. 

Dr.  Wili^iam  Gray  (465),  (son  of  John  Hoagland), 
HAD  issue: 

690.  John  Hoagland,  bom  May  6,  1889. 

Theodore  Chardavoyne  (466),  (son  of  Theodore  Char- 
da  voyne),  HAD  issue: 

691.  Theodore  Chardavoyne,  born  1886. 

William  (472),  (son  of  Peter  Bonnett),  had  issu^: 

692.  Elizabeth,  born  1848,  died  young. 

693.  Peter  Bonnett,  bom  1848,  married  Carrie  M.  Park,  October 

19,  1869,  had  six  children. 

694.  Sarah  Newman,  born  1852,  married  William. S.  Hartwell, 

had  one  child. 

695.  Samuel,  bom  1853,  died  young. 

696.  Allen  George  Newman,  born  1854,  married  Irene  Norman, 

October  29,  1890,  had  four  children. 

697.  Mary,  born  1857,  died  young. 

698.  William,  bom  1859,  died  young. 

Benjamin  F.  (475),  (son  of  Benjamin  Franklin), 
HAD  issue:  *  • 

699.  George  Washington,  bom  February  22,  1893. 


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VERMILYE  FAMILY.  673 

700.  Frank,  bom  February  3,  1899. 

701.  Lillian,  bom  December  3,  1900. 

WiLUAM  E.  (476),  (son  of  Benjamin  Frankun), 
HAD  issue: 
70a.  George,  born  July  18,  1896. 

703.  Willie,  born  September  11,  i8g8. 

704.  Herbert,  born  May  24,  1902. 

Francis  11.(489),  (son  of  Isaac  Sebring),  had  issue: 

705.  Oscar. 

706.  Frank. 

707.  Florence. 

Eugene  (490),  (son  of  Isaac  Sebring),  had  issue: 

708.  Edward  A.,  bom  1881. 

709.  Harold  E.,  born  1889. 

Barent  (492),  (son  of  Ralph  Schenck),  had  issue:  ' 

710.  Maude  M.,  born  August  20,  1884. 

Howard  (493),  (son  of  Ralph  Schenck),  had  issue: 

711.  Ralph,  bom  December  i,  1897. 

Henry  G.  (494),  (son  of  Abraham  Augustus),  had  issue: 

712.  Mabel. 

713.  Robert. 

714.  Fay. 

715.  Abram  A. 

716.  ? 

Joseph  C.  (496),  (son  of  Abraham  Augustus),  had  issue: 

717.  Russell  .L. 

718.  Elva.  ' 

719.  Slye. 

720.  Luca. 

721.  Forrest. 

722.  - — .? 

Frank's.  (506),  (son  of  George  H.),  had  issue: 
72Z,  Grey. 

724.  Lillian. 

George  S.  (507),  (son  of  George  H.),  had  issue: 

725.  Maurice. 

726.  Ina. 


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674  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

WiLUAM  Henry  (515),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

727.  Jessie  M. 

728.  Irene  H. 

John  Gifford  (516),  (son  of  John),  had  issje: 

729.  William,  who  married,  but  died  without  issue. 

730.  John,  who  married,  but  died  without  issue. 

Edward  Alexander  (531),  (son  of  Robert  Wright), 

HAD  issue  by  first  WIFE: 

731.  Robert  Wright,  bom  September  14,  1854,  deceased. 

732.  Edward  Oviatt,  bom  June  11,  1856. 

733.  Susan  Adelaide,  born  October  10,  1858. 

734.  Guy  Ellsworth,  born  July  26,  1861,  deceased. 

735.  William  Burr,  bom  November  9,  1863,  deceased. 

Edward  Alexander  (531)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

736.  Charles,  born  July  9,  1873,  deceased. 

737.  Persis  Malvina,  bom  May  28,  1875,  deceased. 

738.  Grace  E.,  born  March  16,  1877. 

William  Francis  (534),  (son  of  Robert  Wright), 
HAD  issue: 

739.  Victor  v.,  born  January  31,  1869,  died  August  30,  1891. 

Robert  David  Burr  (535),  (son  of  Robert  Wright), 
had  issue: 

740.  Fred,  born  August  3,  1866. 

741.  Ora,  born  April  7,  1871,  died  in  infancy. 

742.  Gertrude,  bom  January  26,  1874. 

743.  Robert,  bom  March,  1880,  died  young. 

744.  Anna,  born  November  6,  1883. 

William  Burr  (547),  (son  of  Solomon),  had  issue 
BY  first  wife  : 

745.  Cora  May,  born  November  18,  1867,  married  Ora  Maharr>^ 

Brindle,  February  14,  1887,  had  three  children. 

746.  Solomon  Walter,  bom  March  18,  1869,  died  August  12,  1869. 

William  Burr  (547)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

747.  Ethel,  born  June  18,  1892. 

748.  Wright,  born  December  12,  1893. 

Wright  (550),  (son  of  Solomon),  had  issue: 

749.  Edwin  L.,  born  July  4,  1870,  married  Anna  Stilwell,  De- 

cember 2,  1894,  had  two  children. 


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VERMILYE  FAMILY.  675 

750.  Joseph  Clyde,  born  April  26,  1872,  married  Anglie  Hinder- 

lider,  April  15,  1896,  no  issue. 

751.  Solomon  Earle,  born  November  18,  1874. 

752.  William  Ray,  born  January  22,  1877,  married  Bertha  Truitt, 

January  22,  1903. 
753-  Wright,  bom  January  23,  1880,  died  September  2^,  1883. 

754.  Lilla  Marie,  born  November  29,  1884. 

R.  WlLLARD   (557),    (son  of  OrVILLE),  HAD  ISSUE: 

755.  Mabel,  bom  Aug^ist  31,  1886. 

Herbert  Scudder  (560),  (son  of  Edgar  A.),  had  issue: 

756.  Macia  Alleine,  born  December  21,  1900. 

George  W.  (563),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

757.  Mark  Edward,  born  November  12,  185 1. 

758.  Mary  Edith,  born  August  4,  1854,  married  Otto  K.  Dean, 

had  two  children. 

759.  Rachel,  born  May  10,   1864,  married  J.  Henry  Loeb,  had 

three  children. 

760.  George  Orton,  born  March  i,  1866. 

Eujah  Wentworth  (564),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

761.  Harriet  Martin,  born  August  26,  1853. 

762.  Milton  Edward,  born  October  4,  1859. 

763.  Ella  V'irginia,  born  March  20,  1862,  married  William  Boe- 

ner,  March  27,  1890,  had  three  children. 

764.  Martha  Isadore,  born  March  15,  1864. 

765.  Lois  Cordelia,  born  March  23,  1867. 

Edward  (566),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

766.  Daniel  Irving,  born  November  21,  1859. 

767.  Martha  Evelyn,  born  March  28,  1861,  married  Arthur  Toger. 

768.  Willard  Martin,  born  July  7,  1863,  died  May  9,  1865. 

769.  Harry  Lincoln,  born  June  21,  1865. 

770.  Orilla  v.,  born  June  23,  1867. 

771.  Allie,  born  January  24,  1874. 

John  W.  (571),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

772.  Maggie  B.,  born  April  20,  1868. 

773.  Charles  H.,  born  May  14,  1871. 

Abraham  (580),  (son  of  Avery),  had  issue: 

774.  Maude. 

775.  Kathleen. 

776.  George. 


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676  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

y^y,  Jesse. 

James  I.  (581),  (son  of  Avery),  had  issue: 

778.  Cora. 

779.  Meade. 

780.  Irving. 

781.  George. 

John  K.  (582),  (son  of  Avery),  had  issue: 

782.  Avery. 

783.  Earle. 

784.  David. 

785.  Emma. 

786.  Fanny. 

Joseph  (583),  (son  of  Avery),  had  issue: 

787.  Joseph,  Jr. 

788.  Isa. 

789.  Paul. 

790.  Silas. 

791.  Seth. 

792.  Hiram. 

Samuel  E.  (585),  (son  of  Avery),  had  issue: 

793.  Frances  D. 

,  Orville  (586),  (son  of  Avery),  had  issue: 

794.  Blanche. 

795.  Leo. 

796.  Mabel. 

797.  Glen. 

798.  Dale. 

799.  Orvis. 

800.  Vera. 

Jesse  C.  (587),  (son  of  Avery),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

801.  Minerva. 

802.  Leland. 

Jesse  C.  (587)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

803.  Mildred. 

Reuben  (589),  (son  of  Avery),  had  issue: 

804.  Gladys. 

805.  Harold. 


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VERMILYE  FAMILY.  677 

Clinton  I.  (597),  (son  of  Joseph),  had  issue: 

806.  Gilbert,  born  December  3,  1883. 

807.  Rena,  bom  March  28,  1887. 

808.  Roy,  bom  July  7,  1889. 

Le  Roy  (599),  (son  of  Charles),  had  issue: 

809.  Helen  Ferguson,  born  August  26,   1882,  died  August  15, 

1889. 

810.  Le  Roy  S.,  born  March  7,  1887. 

Eugene  (607),  (son  of  Gilbert),  had  issue: 

811.  George   Gilbert,   bom   February    14,    1877,   married   Jenny 

Kftmnear,  have  two  children. 

812.  Effie  May,  born  October  15,  1878,  married  Andrew  Mohr, 

have  one  child. 

813.  Ernest,  born  July  22^  1880,  married  Florence  Wait,  have  one 

child. 

814.  Chester,  born  May  20,  1882. 

815.  Eva  G.,  born  August  13,  1884. 

816.  Eugene,  Jr.,  born  April  16,  1886. 

817.  Roy  Elbert,  bom  December  i,  1888. 

818.  Arthur  Louis,  born  July  18,  1891. 

819.  Wesley  Floyd,  bora  July  11,  1894. 

820.  Ina  Elizabeth,  bom  August  8,  1889. 

Francis  Goodwin  (614),  (son  of  Sylvester),  h^\d  issue: 

821.  Anna  E.,  bom  November  19,  1895. 

822.  Maria  E.,  born  March  28,  1897. 

823.  Mary  Kate,  born  March  2,  1899. 

John  R.  (623),  (son  of  Franklin  S.),  had  issue: 

824.  Robert. 

Clarence  Edward  (634),  (son  of  Paul),  had  issue: 

825.  Ruth  May,  bom  May  18,  1903. 

Thomas  Edward  (674),  (son  of  Rev.  Ashbel  G.), 
had  issue: 

826.  Ashbel  G. 

William  Gerard,  Jr.  (677),  (son  of  William  Gerard), 
HAD  issue: 

827.  Katharine  Rowland,  born  1895. 

828.  Sherwood,  born  1901. 

829.  William  Gerard,  Jr. 


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678  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Henry  Rowland  (678),  (son  of  William  Gerard), 
HAD  issue: 

830.  Louise  Rowland,  bom  1894. 

Peter  Bonnett  (693),  (son  oe  William),  had  issue: 

831.  Arthur  Park,  bom  187 1,  married  Grace  E.  Hill,  had  three 

children. 

832.  Herbert  Marshall,  bom  1873,  married  Maud  Smith. 

833.  Frank  Bayles,  born  1876,  married  Anna  O'Beime. 

834.  Percy  Sherwood,  born  1878,  single. 

835.  Helen  Bonnett,  bom  1880,  unmarried. 

836.  Norman  Loutrell,  born  1884,  single. 

Allen  George  Newman  (696),  (son  of  William), 
had  issue: 

837.  Sybil,  born  1891. 

838.  Allen  Bonnett,  born  1893. 

839.  Norman  Sherwood,  born  1897. 

840.  Aeltje,  bom  1900. 

Edwin  L.  (749),  (son  of  Wright),  had  issue: 

841.  Wright,  born  January  16,  1897. 

842.  Herschel,  born  October  28,  1898. 

Ernest  (813),  (son  of  Eugene),  had  issue: 

843.  Leona. 

Arthur  Park  (831),  (son  of  Peter  Bonnett),  had  issue: 

844.  Howard  Hill. 

845.  Wallace  P. 

846.  Jean. 

VERVEELEN. 

Johannes  Verveelen,*  bom  about  1616,  in  Amsterdam,  held 
a  prominent  place  in  the  history  of  the  town,  and  was  one  of  the 
five  original  patentees.  As  before  stated,  his  ancestors  were 
German,  and  citizens  of  Cologne,  at  the  terminus  of  the  highlands 
of  the  Rhine ;  whence  his  grandfather,  Hans  Verveelen,  with  his 
family,  removed,  about  1610,  to  Amsterdam,  obviously  to  escape 
the  oppressive  policy  dealt  out  to  those  of  the  reformed  faith  at 
Cologne — a  fact  in  the  family  history  to  be  cherished  by  the  pres- 
ent numerous  descendants  of  Hans  and  Catrina  Verveelen.  To 
our  account  of  Johannes,  his  birth  and  marriage  at  Amsterdam, 
emigration,  and  subsequent  career  at  Harlem,  a  few  particulars 

*  This  name  has  assumed  various  forms,  as  Vervalin,  Vanvalin,  Vanvaler,  etc. 


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may  be  added.  A  first  step  after  his  arrival,  with  his  wife,  Anna 
Jaarsvelt,  whom  he  married  in  1637  at  Amsterdam,  was  to  enroll 
his  name,  April  24,  1657,  among  the  burghers,  and  to  unite  with 
the  church  here,  where  Verveelen,  whose  social  habits,  if  we 
rightly  apprehend  him,  won  him  friends  and  popularity,  soon 
found  himself  at  home  engaged  in  the  brewing  business  in  part- 
nership with  Isaac  de  Forest.  He  also  bought  a  house  and  lot 
in  the  Mafckvelt-steeg  from  John  La  Montague,  Jr.,  June  27, 
1659.  Nominated  for  schepen,  first  in  1660,  then  in  1661,  but 
not  a  successful  candidate,  he  removed  to  Harlem,  in  which  place 
from  the  first  he  had  taken  an  interest,  and  where  he  was  made 
a  magistrate  in  1663,  a  delegate  to  the  General  Assembly  of  1664, 
and,  as  intimated,  a  patentee  in  1667.  By  the  purchase  of  the 
groundbriefs  of  Jan  Pietersen  Slot  and  Jurian  Hanel,  one  dated 
January-  4,  the  other  May  16,  1664,  Verveelen  had  become  a  large 
proprietor.  For  the  subsequent  history  of  these  patents,  see  Myer 
family.  The  public  duties  intrusted  to  Verveelen,  and  his  long 
retention  as  ferrymaster,  evidence  the  favor  in  which  he  was  held. 
When  his  second  lease  of  the  ferry  expired,  his  son  Daniel,  in 
his  behalf,  petitioned  Governor  Dongan,  April  2,  1688,  for  its 
renewal.  He  was  told  to  *'hold  the  premises  until  further  order 
to  the  contrary".  Four  years  later  Frederick  Philips  brought  a 
suit  in  the  Supreme  Court  to  eject  Verveelen  from  the  island 
Papparinamin,  which  Philips  claimed  under  a  title  derived  from 
Vander  Donck.  Verveelen  complaining,  the  council,  February 
25,  1692,  resolved  to  defend  their  tenant  and  his  Majesty's  title. 
But  the  same  year  the  governor  proposed  that  the  city  build  a 
bridge  across  the  Spuyten  Duyvel ;  the  mayor  and  aldermen  were 
quite  willing  to  oust  Verveelen,  and  hereupon  Philips,  on  his 
petition,  readily  procured  an  order,  January  19,  1693,  for  con- 
verting his  lands  in  Westchester  County,  with  the  neck  or  island, 
Papparinamin,  into  the  Manor  of  Philipsburgh.  and  empowering 
him  to  build  a  drawbridge,  across  the  Spuyten  Duyvel,  to  be 
called  King's  Bridge,  and  to  collect  certain  tolls  from  passengers. 
This  was  amply  assured  by  the  charter  of  June  12,  ensuing, 
erecting  the  said  manor ;  and  the  bridge  was  built  forthwith.  (See 
Bolton's  History  of  Westchester  County.)* 

Verveelen,  now  grown  to  be  an  old  man,  is  known  to  have 
been  living  March  13,  1693.  when,  styling  himself  "of  the  county 
of  Westchester,  yeoman,"  he  sold  a  house  and  lot  in  New  York. 

*  An  application  by  Jasper  Ncsscpott  to  the  common  council,  January  i6,  1700, 
for  leave  to  build  a  grist-mill  at  Kingsbridge.  was  submitted  to  a  committee,  which  re- 
ported in  favor  "on  condition  that  he  take  cut  of  the  way  the  stones  and  rocks  on  the 
other  side  thereof,  that  the  same  may  not  hinder  the  passage  of  boats  and  canoes,  and 
when  any  is  to  pass,  at  their  reasonable  request,  he  is  to  shut  the  sluices:  and  on 
the  other  side  of  the  bridge  erect  a  post  in  the  water,  and  have  a  rope  ready  to  assist 
them  in  passing."  John  Marsh,  millwright,  "being  projector  and  contriver  of  the  mill," 
Xcssc|>ott  bought  him  out,  when  the  mayor  and  aldermen  formally  granted  Nessepott 
said  'mill  or  mills,  under  one  roof,"  and  "the  ground  whereon  the  said  mill  or 
mills  doth  stand,"  with  toll  for  grinding,  and  other  mill  privileges:  by  deed  of 
January  29,  1700,  or  1701  (New  Style)  Grants,  City  Comptroller's  Office,  vol.  2, 
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68o  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

On  January  lo,  1699,  Johannes  Verveelen  brought  a  suit  in  the 
Mayor's  Court  against  one  Huling,  a  citizen,  to  recover  pay  for 
eight  barrels  of  beer.  If  this  was  our  Johannes  (and  not  his 
grandson)  he  was  83  years  of  age.  Witnesses  were  cited,  No- 
vember 24,  1 701,  to  prove  the  deed  last  named,  whence  we  con- 
clude he  was  then  deceased,  as  he  certainly  was  February  14,  1702, 
having  outlived  all  but  one  of  the  Nicolls'  patentees.  He  made 
a  will,  in  which  he  gave  his  lands  at  Harlem  to  his  daughter, 
Maria.     (See  page  95.) 

Johannes  Verveelen  (i),  born  at  Amsterdam,  Holland,  about 
1616,  married  there,  Anna  Jaarsvelt,  had  three  children,  and  died 
in  1700.     He  had  issue: 

2.  Anna,  born  1638,  joined  the  church  at  New  Amsterdam  in 

1662,  married  February  9,  1664,  Derick  Looten,  commis- 
sary, with  whom,  as  before  noticed,  she  returned  to  Hol- 
land. 

3.  Daniel,  who  married  Aletta  Schaets,  about   1662,  had  eight 

children. 

4.  Maria,  born  1656,  married  Adolph  Meyer,  April  29,  1671,  had 

nine  children,  and  died  in  1748.     (See  pages  273,  597.) 

Daniel  Verveelen  (3),  (son  of  Johannes),  who  was  nearly 
of  age  with  his  sister,  Anna,  preceded  his  parents  to  this  country*, 
coming,  as  is  believed,  in  1652,  with  Rev.  Gideon  Schaets,  whose 
daughter  he  afterward  married  in  Albany,  about  1662.  At  Al- 
bany (then  Beverwyck),  Daniel,  a  mere  youth,  engaged  in  trade, 
as  early  as  1655,  but  several  years  later  joined  his  father  at  New 
Amsterdam,  uniting  with  the  church  there  January  2,  1661.  It 
was  probably  during  the  next  summer  (when  he  visited  Albany, 
and  on  August  25  sold  an  interest  in  a  house  and  lot  there)  that 
he  married  Aletta  Schaets,  who,  as  his  wife,  joined  the  diurch 
at  New  Amsterdam  October  2  ensuing.  The  next  month  ( Novem- 
ber 7)  Daniel  and  his  father  secured  a  lot  adjoining  one  owned 
by  the  latter,  on  the  Prince's,  now  Beaver  Street,  and  on  February 
14  following  they  also  bought  out  Isaac  de  Forest's  interest  in  the 
brewery  in  Prince's  Street,  of  which  for  some  years  Johannes 
had  been  part  owner.  At  the  surrender  Daniel  was  opposed  to 
resisting  the  English,  and  took  the  oath  of  allegiance.  The  next 
year  he  had  a  narrow  escape  from  some  riotous  soldiers,  one  of 
whom  cut  him  with  his  sword.  Several  years  later  he  left  the 
city,  and  went  to  New  Utrecht,  L.  I.,  with  his  wife,  taking  letters 
to  the  church  there,  of  which  Verveelen,  in  1678,  was  chosen  an 
elder.  He  next  went  to  Spuyten  Duyvel,  whether  "to  live  at 
Fordham,"  as  Archer  had  expected,  does  not  appear.  Subse- 
quently he  and  his  family  settled  in  the  neighborhood  of  Hacken- 
sack,  X.  J.,  where  Daniel  was  living  in  1712. 


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Daniel  (3)  had  issue: 

5.  Anna  Maria,  born  April  2,  1663,  died  young. 

6.  Anna  Maria  No.  2,  baptized  January  10,  1666,  married  Hen- 

drick  Jansz  Caramega,  February  9,  17 17. 

7.  Hendrick,  bom  1668,  last  mentioned  in  1688. 

8.  Gideon,  born  1680,  married  first,  Marritie  Koch,  March  23, 

1712,  and  second,  Susannah  De  Graef,  1714,  had  ten  chil- 
dren. 

9.  Bernardus,  who  married  first,  Evertie  Delamater,  had  eight 

children,  and  second,  Jannetie  Vanderbeek,  by  whom  he 
also  had  eight  children. 

10.  Reynier.     We  have   failed  to  find  evidence  that  he  had  a 

family.  He  was  named  for  his  uncle,  Dr.  Reynier 
Schaets,  slain  at  the  burning  of  Schenectady.* 

11.  Johanna,  who  married  first,  Johannes  Schuerman,  had  four 

children,    and    second,    Nicholas    Peterson,    January    19, 

1723. 

12.  Johannes,  born  in  New  Utrecht,  married  Amelyntie  Heerte 

(Emeline,  daughter  of  Hans  Jacobs  Harding),  January 
2,  1703,  had  two  children.  His  widow  married  Wouter 
Willemsen,  in  1710.     (See  page  362.) 

Gideon  Verveelen  (8),  (son  of  Daniel),  born  1680,  at  New 
Utrecht,  married  March  2^^,  ^712,  Marritie  Koch,  and  in  1714 
Susannah,  daughter  of  Moses  and  Hester  Dc  Graaf.  He  re- 
moved from  Rockland  to  Dutchess  County,  and,  on  May  20,  1740, 
bought  3,115  acres  of  land  in  Rombout  Precinct,  from  which  he 
sold  oflf  twelve  parcels,  but  kept  enough  to  give  his  four  children 
each  252  acres.  These,  named  in  his  will,  dated  January  25,  1755, 
and  proved  June  26,  1762,  were  Marritie,  Hester,  Alida  and 
Moses.  If  all  his  other  children  were  deceased  without  issue,  at 
the  date  of  his  will,  it  appears  remarkable;  if  living,  they  must 
have  been  otherwise  provided  for. 

Gideon  (8)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

13.  Marritie,  baptized  April  12,   171 5,  married  William  Rogers, 

October  12,  1749. 

14.  Hester,  baptized  January  15,  1717,  married  Johannes  Rogers, 

had  five  children. 

*  Rev.  Gideon  Schaets,  the  worthy  minister  of  Albany,  and  of  whose  blood  are  all 
the  Vervcelens,  is  too  well  known  through  the  works  of  O'Callaghan,  Broadhead  and 
Pearson  to  require  further  notice  here.  But,  strangely  enough,  all  the  printed  ac- 
counts ignore  his  daughter  Alida,  who  married  Verveelen.  Another  mistake  occurs 
in  regard  to  his  son  Bartholomew,  who  is  confounded  with  a  later  person  of  that 
name.  The  first,  said  to  have  gone  to  Holland  in  1670,  died  prior  to  1680,  when  his 
widow,  Willemtie,  daughter  of  Hugh  Barents  de  Kleyn  (see  page  97),  married  again. 
Bartholomew,  who  came  from  Albany  to  the  city  of  New  York,  in  1706,  and  whose 
posterity  are  noticed  upjon  its  records  down  to  the  Revolution,  was  probably  the  son 
of  Gideon,  son  of  Doctor  Reynier  Schaets,  as  the  name  Reynier  ran  in  the  New  York 
fa.mil^.  Doctor  Schaets'  first  wife  was  Agnictie  Moriaens.  He  married  his  second 
wife  in   1683,   survived   her  five  years,   and  died   February  27,   1694,  in  his  87th  year. 


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15.  Alida,  baptized  October  15,  1718,  married  Isaac  Cote. 

16.  Moses,  born  1720,  married  Hester  De  Graaf,  had  seven  chil- 

dren. The  homestead  farm  was  devised  to  Moses,  but  he 
died  before  his  father.  His  son  Gideon  succeeded  to 
the  farm. 

17.  Daniel,  baptized  January  15,  1723. 

18.  Johaona,  baptized  October  29,  1725. 

19.  Cloudie  (Claude),  baptized  December  17,  1727. 

20.  Jan  (John),  baptized  June  27,  1731. 

21.  Johannes,  baptized  October  18,  1733. 

22.  Gideon,  deceased. 

Bernardus  Verveelen  (9),  (son  of  Daniel),  joined  the  church 
at  Hackensack,  N.  J.,  in  1704,  at  the  same  time  with  his  brother, 
Reynier.  In  1708  he  obtained  a  patent  for  a  large  tract  of  land 
in  Rockland  County,  described  as  between  the  Hudson  and  Over- 
peck  Kill,  part  of  which  he  sold  his  brother  Gideon ;  the  two  con- 
veying 1,000  acres  to  Lancaster  Sims,  in  1709.  Bernardus  mar- 
ried Evertie,  or  Titje  Delamater  (see  page  497).     He- had  issue: 

23.  Alida,  baptized  January  14,  1714,  married  Hubartus  Blauvelt, 

had  ten  children. 

24.  Isaac,  baptized  April  12,  171 5,  married  Trintie  Van  Scheyren, 

August  12,  1736,  had  three  children.  Removed  to  the 
City  of  New  York  years  before  the  Revolution. 

25.  Cornelia,   baptized   January    15,    1717,   married    Pieter    Van 

Scheyren,  October  30,  1749,  had  eleven  children. 

26.  Daniel,  baptized  December  6,    17 19,  married  Jannetie   Van 

Scheyren,  had  ten  children. 

27.  Johannes,  born  June    13,    1723,   married   Sarah   Westervelt, 

had  four  children. 

28.  Hester,  baptized  October  19,  1725,  married  Jacob  Cool,  had 

two  children. 

29.  Fredericus,  baptized   December  8,    1728,  married   Catryntje 

Pessel,  July  31,  1752. 

30.  Abraham,  baptized  May  16,  1731,  married  Elizabeth  Allen, 

June  28,  1752,  had  three  children. 

Bernardus  (9)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

31.  Jacobus,  baptized  September  22,  1734,  married  Sarah  Nagel, 

had  seven  children,  and  died  February  8,   1816,  at  22 
Walker  Street.     Removed  to  the  City  of  New  York  years 
.    before  the  Revolution. 

32.  Lybetie    (Elizabeth),   baptized   February   22,    1736,   married 

William  Persel,  February  7,  1752,  had  three  children. 

33.  Bernardus,  bom  October  30,  1737,  married  Mary  Blauvelt, 

had  five  children,  and  died  April  20,  1820 ;  buried  at  Old 
Tappan,  N.  Y. 


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34.  Gideon,  born  August  i,  1739,  married  Maria  Banta,  May  5, 

1768,  had  six  children. 

35.  Jan  (John),  baptized  August  2,  1741. 

36.  Aengenietje,   baptized   March   27,    1743,   married   Abraham 

Persel,  1763,  had  three  children. 

37.  Cornelius,  baptized  September  15,  1745. 

38.  Abram. 

Johannes  (12),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

39.  Alida,  baptized  January  11,  1704,  married  Rev.  Fredericus 

Muzelius,  and  had  one  child. 

40.  Francyntie,  baptized  June  28,  1706. 

Moses  (16),  (son  of  Gideon),  had  issue: 

41.  Gideon,  baptized  February  13,  1743,  succeeded  to  the  home- 

stead farm,  and  -was  an  active  patriot  during  the  Revolu- 
tion. 

42.  Moses,  who  married  Annatja  Cool,  October  27,   1767,  had 

eight  children. 

43.  John,  baptized  May  18,  1756. 

44.  Daniel  A.,  who  married  Rachel  Volk,  October  26,  1788,  had 

nine  children. 

45.  Jeremiah. 

46.  Elizabeth. 

47.  Hannah. 

Isaac  (24),  (son  of  Bernardus),  had  issue: 

48.  Tittye,  born  May  12,  1738,  baptized  June  4,  1738. 

49.  Jan,  baptized  April  15,  1744. 

50.  Isaac,    baptized    December    18,    175 1,    married    Margaretje 

Moore,  had  four  children. 

Daniel  (26),  (son  of  Bernardus),  had  issue: 

51.  Tittye,  born  November  22,  1738,  died  unmarried. 

52.  Geertye,  born  February  i,   1741,  married  Jacobus  Blauvelt, 

had  eight  children. 

53.  Maria,  baptized  May  27,  1744,  married  Jan  Arieyanse,  had 

three  children. 

54.  Tietje,  baptized  December  6,  1747. 

55.  Jan,  baptized  April  i,  1750. 

56.  Abraham,   baptized   December   25,    1752,   married   Elizabeth 

Benson,  had  one  child. 

57.  Jacobus,  baptized  August  31,  1755. 

58.  Debora,  bom  March  19,  1757,  married  Geresolveert  Ariey- 

anse, August  I,  1773,  had  three  children,  and  died  Janu- 
uary  4,  1820. 


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59.  Elizabeth,  baptized  October  25,  1761. 

60.  Catharine,    baptized    February    12,    1764,    married    Richard 

Blanch,  February  22,  1788,  had  five  children. 

Johannes  {27),  (son  of  Bernardus),  had  issue: 

61.  Titye,  born  June  28,  1746,  married  Wilhelmus  Ferdon,  had 

four  children. 

62.  Dirkie,  bom  January  26,   1749,  married  Christian  Cammel, 

August  25,  1766. 

63.  Jannetie,  baptized  September  18,1757,  married  Jacob  Paulisse, 

had  three  children. 

64.  Jan    (John),  baptized   September   18,    1760,   married   Maria 

Banta,  had  four  children. 

Abraham  (30),  (son  of  Bernardus),  had  issue: 

65.  Jannetje,  baptized  July  28,  1755. 

66.  Petrus,  baptized  July  2,  1757. 

67.  Catharina,  baptized  June  4,  1769. 

Jacobus  (31),  (son  of  Bernardus),  was  a  grocer,  and  died  at 
22  Walker  Street,  New  York  City,  Februar}-  8,  1816.  We  pre- 
sume Henry  and  James,  then  of  20  Walker  Street,  were  his  sons. 
He  had  issue: 

68.  Elizabeth,    baptized    August    11,    1756,    married    Abraham 

Ryken,  had  two  children. 

69.  Jan  No.  I,  baptized  February  11,  1759,  died  young. 

70.  Jan  No.  2,  baptized  December  14,  1760. 

71.  Hendrick,  baptized  June  15,  1763,  married  Mary  Drake,  Jan- 

uary 10,  1789,  had  five  children. 

72.  Jannetje,  baptized  October  4,   1767,  married  Arthur  Smith, 

July  7,  1790,  had  four  children. 

73.  Sara,  baptized  July  30,  1769. 

74.  Jacobus,  baptized  xA^pril  5,  1772. 

Bernardus  (33),  (son  ob^  Bernardus),  had  issue: 

75.  Jacobus  (James),  born  January  25,  1760,  married  Elizabeth 

Eckerson,  had  three  children,  and  died  August  10,  1786, 
at  Clarkstown,  N.  Y. 

76.  Cornelius,  born  May  14,   1762,  married  Antje  Van  Orden, 

March  17,  1783,  had  six  children,  and  died  April  19,  1820. 
yy.  Jannetye,  born  April  30,  1765,  married  John  Gilbert,  had  two 

children,  and  died  October,  1786. 
78.,  Isaac,  born  June  30,  1768,  married  Elizabeth  Haring,  Januarj- 

22,  1814,  had  three  children. 
79.  Andrew. 


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Gideon  (34),  (son  of  Bernardus),  had  issue: 

80.  Lizabeth   (Elizabeth),  born  February  21,   1769. 

81.  Daniel,  born  January  3,  1772,  married  first  Hannah  (Annatje) 

Randall,  April  24,  1796,  had  six  children.  He  married 
second,  Agnes  Christie  (Volk),  had  two  children,  and 
died  December  2,  1834. 

82.  Jacob,  born  December  27,  1774. 

83.  Jan  (John),  born  January  5,  1778. 

84.  Catlynte,  born  July  14,  1789. 

85.  Maria,  born  January  18,  1793. 

Moses  (42),  (son  of  Moses),  had  issue: 

86.  Hester,  born  August  27,  1768. 

87.  Moses,  bom  October  5,  1770. 

88.  Arie,  born  July  17,  1772. 

89.  Annatie,  born  May  2,  1774. 

90.  Gideon,  born  January  20,  1777. 

91.  Mary,  born  February  20,  1779. 

92.  Elizabeth,  born  May  12,  1782. 

93.  Benjamin,  bom  June  6,  1784. 

Daniel  A.  (44),  (son  of  Moses),  had  issue: 

94.  Elizabeth,  bom  January  4,  1790. 

95.  Maria,  born  October  28,  1793. 

96.  Abraham,  bom  May  3,  1796. 

97.  Jannetje,  bom  July  17,  1798. 

98.  Annaatje,  born  September  28,  1800. 

99.  Hendrick,  born  June  16,  1802. 
100.  Rachel,  born  May  5,  1804. 

loi.  Eleanor,  born  December  9,  1806. 

102.  Gerrit,  born  November  25,  1808. 

Isaac  (50),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

103.  Isaac,  baptized  June  3,  1778,  married  Margaret  Myers,  of 

Harlem,  about  1799,  had  six  children,  and  died  December 
4,  1858.     Was  buried  at  Closter,  N.  J. 

104.  Catrina,  baptized  February  15,  1784. 

105.  John,  bom  September  16,  1789,  married  Margaret  Blauvelt, 

of  Blauveltville. 

106.  Margaret    (Polly),   born   August   30,    1790,   married   John 

Blauvelt. 

Abraham  (56),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

107.  Maria,  baptized  November  6,  1795. 

Jan  (John)  (64),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

108.  Sarah,   baptized  May   16,    1779,   married  Thomas   Dubois, 

April  4,  1790,  had  four  children. 


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109.  Hendrick,  baptized  April  21,  1783,  married  Cornelia  Nagel, 

August  I,  1 80 1,  had  one  child, 
no.  Teitye,  baptized  June  i,  1788. 

111.  Johannis,  baptized  August  19,  1792. 

Hendrick  (71),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

112.  Martha,  born  December  3,  1789. 

113.  James,  born  September  19,  1791. 

114.  Sarah,  born  January  19,  1793. 

115.  Phebe,  born  September  30,  1796. 

116.  Elizabeth,  born  November  12,  1797. 

Jacobus  (75),  (son  of  Bernardus),  had  issue: 

117.  Barnardus,  born  September  i,  1782,  married  Sarah  Nagd, 

September  14,  1805,  had  five  children. 

118.  Sarah,  bom  January  13,  1784,  married  Henry  Westervelt, 

February  14,  1807,  had  seven  children,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 17,  1871. 

119.  Cornelius,  born  May  21,  1786,  married  first,  Elizabeth  Black- 

ledge,  December  31,  1808,  had  three  children.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Jane  Zabriskie,  had  five  children,  and  died 
August  10,  1865. 

Cornelius  (76),  (son  of  Bernardus),  had  issue: 
130.  Marritye,  born  June  27,  1784,  died  April  22,  1850. 

121.  Andrias,  born  October  24,  1786,  married  Hester  Little,  had 

six  children,  and  died  March  15,  1882. 

122.  Jannetje  (Jane),  born  July  24,  1789,  married  Nathan  Ly- 

man, April  10,  181 3,  had  ten  children,  and  died  March  23, 
1879. 

123.  Jacobus,  born  August  26,  1790,  died  May  26,  1869. 

124.  Sara,  baptized  August  18,  1794,  died  February  6,  1795. 

125.  Elizabeth,  born  May  29,  1796,  married  Fosdick,  had 

one  child,  and  died  May,  1890. 

Isaac  (78),  (son  of  Bernardus),  had  issue: 

126.  Barney,  who  married  Margaret  ?,  and  died  April  17, 

i860,  without  issue. 

127.  John  I.,  bom  September  20,  1820,  married  Maria  Post,  had 

five  children,  and  died  December  3,  1899. 

128.  Sarah,  who  married  John  Muckey,  had  two  children.     Lived 

at  Binghamton,  N.  Y.,  and  died  August  i,  1897. 

Daniel  (81),  (son  of  Gideon),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

129.  Maria,   born   February   26,    1797,    married   first,    Jeremiah 

Bogert,  1817,  had  five  children.  She  married  second, 
Robert  Pitcher. 


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130.  Elizabeth,  born  January  29,  1798,  married  John  Campbell, 

had  two  children. 

131.  Johannis,  born  January  11,  1802. 

132.  Jenny  (Jane),  born  March  11,  1804,  married  Albert  Tall- 

man,  January  7,  1821,  had  seven  children,  and  died  April 
2,  1893. 

133.  Jacob,  born  May  2,  1807,  married  Hannah  Maria  Wilson, 

had  three  children,  and  died  in  1856. 

134.  Fannie,  born  1812,  married  Luther  Shattuck,  had  three  chil- 

dren, and  died  in  1842. 

Daniel  (81)  had  issue  by  his  second  wife: 

135.  William  Christie,  born  May  26,  1823,  died  single,  August  5, 

1840. 

136.  Rachel  Hannah,  born  September  12,  1825,  married  John  T. 

Banta,  had  eight  children,  and  died  January  26,  1893. 

Isaac  (103),  (son  oe  Isaac),  had  issue: 

137.  Abraham  Myers,  born  1802,  married  Nancy  C.  Sellick,  had 

eight  children. 

138.  Maria,  bom  March  i,  1805,  married  Alva  Lockwood,  last 

heard  of  in  Ohio. 

139.  John,  bom  September   14,   1806,  married  Jane  Chatterton, 

had  one  child.     He  deceased. 

140.  Samuel,  bom  December  28,  1807,  died  single. 

141.  Isaac,  born  February  26,  1810,  married  Elizabeth  Naugel, 

March  16,  1830,  had  seven  children,  and  died  September 
10,  1852. 

142.  Jacob,  died  single. 

Hendrick  (109),  (son  oe  Jan),  had  issue: 

143.  Leah,  born  October  17,  1802,  married  David  Haring,  had 

two  children. 

Barnardus  (117),  (son  oe  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

144.  Kobus  (Jacobus),  baptized  December  21,  1806. 

145.  Elizabeth,  baptized  December  17,  1808. 

146.  John  Gilbert,  baptized  April  14,  181 1. 

147.  Jane  Gilbert,  baptized  October  10,  1813. 

148.  Cornelius,  baptized  August  20,  1815. 

Cornelius  (119),  (son  oe  Jacobus),  had  issue  by 
EiRST  wife: 

149.  Catelyntie,  bom  April  13,  1810,  married  David  Lamberson, 

December  11,  1829,  had  six  children.     She  deceased. 

150.  James,  bom  January  24,  1821,  died  young. 


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151.  Cornelius,  bom  March  18,  1823,  died  single,  November  29, 

1869. 

Cornelius  (119)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

152.  Eliza  J.,  born  June  22,  1840,  at  Teaneck,  N.  J.,  married  Ed- 

ward Barr,  September,  1862,  had  two  children,  and  died 
April  3,  1867. 

153.  James  M.   (Judge),  bom  July  21,  1842,  married  Anna  A. 

Smith,  June  24,  1874,  had  nine  children. 

154.  Sarah  A.,  born  November  24,  1843,  married  Cornelius  D. 

Schor,  June  23,  1874,  had  two  children. 

155.  Carrie  J.,  born  November  23,  1862,  married Mabie,  had 

one  child. 

156.  Ella  L.,  born  February  i,  1865,  married  Lindsay  J.  Rigg^ns, 

had  one  child. 

♦    Andries  (121),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

157.  Ann  Maria,  bom  May  2*],  1809,  married  Archibald  Scobey, 

had  one  child,  and  died  November  4,  1866. 

158.  Cornelius,  born  January  31,   181 1,  married  Matilda  Bush, 

November  25,  1829,  had  five  children,  and  died  June  i, 
1854. 

159.  Hannah,  bom  March  9,  181 5,  died  unmarried. 

160.  Jane,  born  November  22,  1817,  married  William  Knight,  and 

died  April  29,  1864. 

161.  Sarah,  bom  June  22^  1820,  married  David  Swezey  Mapes, 

1848,  had  one  child,  and  died  November  18,  1891. 

162.  Hester,  born  July  10,  1826,  married  William  E.  Mapes,  had 

two  children,  and  died  December  6,  1890. 

John  L  (127),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

163.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  born  March  12,  1843,  niarried  Joseph  T. 

Healey,  October  i,  1862,  had  three  children. 

164.  Abraham,  born  February  25,  1847,  ^^^^  single,  October  10, 

1881. 

165.  John  J.,  born  July  21,  1850,  single. 

166.  Hannah  Jane,  bom  March  22,  1856,  married  Henry  J.  Her- 

ing,  April  10,  1889,  no  issue. 

167.  Ralph,  bom  March  27,  1858,  single. 

Jacob  (133),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

168.  Joseph  Randall,  born   September  2,   1839,  married  Rachel 

Elizabeth   Quackenbush,   November  ^7,   i860,  had   four 
children,  and  died  September  15,  1895. 

169.  Daniel,  who  died  in  infancy. 

170.  Jacob,  who  died  in  infancy. 


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Abraham  Myers  (137),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

171.  Margaret,  born  September  i,  1832,  married  Simon  Dunn, 

October  5,  1857,  had  three  children,  and  died  October, 
1879. 

172.  Annie,  bom  March  26,   1835,  married  James  D.  Retallie, 

June  I,  1854,  had  four  children. 

173.  Catherine,  born  February  25,  1837,  married  Lyman  (Lysien) 

Van  Alstyne,  August  15,  1855,  had  one  child. 

174.  Mary,  who  married  William  T.  Davis  Walker,  January  6, 

1856,  had  eight  children. 

175.  Isaac. 

176.  Phoebe  Jane,  who  married  first,  Samuel  G.  Walker,  1863, 

had  one  child.  She  married  second,  Thomas  Palmer, 
1875,  h^d  five  children,  and  is  now  deceased. 

177.  Nancy,  who  married  Jesse  W.  Spencer,  had  two  children. 

She  deceased. 

178.  James  Harvey,  born  February  16,  1850,  married  first,  Sarah 

A.  Hayner,  October  7,  1874,  had  one  child.  He  married 
second,  Clara  W.  Baerr,  September  24,  1883,  had  one 
child. 

John   (139),   (son  oe  Isaac),  had  issue: 

179.  Mary  Jane. 

Isaac  (141),  (son  oe  Isaac),  had  issue: 

180.  Daniel,  bom  May  2,    1832,  married   Mary  E.   Vanderbilt, 

March  23,  1854,  had  two  children. 

181.  Catherine,  born  September  18,   1834,  married  Abraham  J. 

Smith,  November  26,  1854,  had  four  children. 

182.  Euphemia,   born    October   3,    1836,    married   Cornelius    H. 

Demarest,  November  5,  1857,  ^^^  three  children. 

183.  Richard,  bom  May  26,  1839,  married  Henrietta  Hunter,  Oc- 

tober 12,  1 87 1,  had  five  children. 

184.  William,  born   January  31,    1842,   married   Emma  Likely, 

May  28,  1873,  and  died  July  31,  1877,  without  issue. 

185.  Jane  Elizabeth,  born  May  31,  1845,  rnarried  Peter  J.  Ste- 

phens, September  8,  1880,  no  issue. 

186.  Margaret  Ann,  bom  August  28,  1848,  died  unmarried,  April 

27,  1900. 

James  M.  (153),  (son  op  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

187.  James  A.,  born  October   13,    1877,  married  Elizabeth  W. 

Walker,  October  15,  1902. 

188.  Garrett  A*.,  bom  November  16,  1881. 

189.  Emma  E.,  born  October  31,  1884. 

190.  Frederick  M.,  bom  October  15,  1886. 

191.  Raymond  S.,  born  October  17,  1888. 


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192.  George  W.,  born  February  22,  1890. 

193.  Arthur,  born  July  25,  1893. 

194.  Howard  W.,  bom  January,  1895. 

195.  Anna  E.,  bom  November  24,  1897. 

Cornelius  (158),  (son  of  Andrias),  had  issue: 

196.  Andrew,  Jr.,  born  September  i,  1830,  married,  but  died  with- 

out issue,  April  23,  1877. 

197.  Peter,  born  January  8,  1832,  married  Sarah  Knight,  Septem- 

ber 2\s  185 1,  had  four  children. 

198.  William  Henry,  born  January  31,  1843,  married  Margaret 

B.  Ridgeway,  and  died  October  25,  1902. 

199.  Nathaniel,  born  March  29,  1845,  married  Victoria  Guiter- 

ray,  January  31,  1884,  had  six  children. 

200.  Edwin  L.,  born  February  8,  1849,  married  Sarah  Ridgeway, 

had  two  children,  and  died  March  30,  1894. 

Joseph  Randall  (168),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

201.  Carrie,  bom  December  9,  1861,  died  August  22,  1868. 

202.  Morris  Bartow,  bom  November  26,  1863,  married  May  Con- 

ger Wamer,  November  3,  1886,  had  two  children. 

203.  William  Randall,  born  May  29,  1866,  married  Alma  C.  Hart- 

man,  July  21,  1892,  no  issue. 

204.  Charles  Banta,  bom  August  5,  1869,  married  Jennie  Louise 

Sandford,  October  19,  1892,  had  two  children. 

James  Harvey  (178),  (son  of  Abraham  Myers),  had 

ISSUE  BY  first  WIFE : 

205.  Archie,  born  September  10,  1879,  single. 

James  Harvey  (178)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

206.  Ellia  May,  born  March  13,  1888,  died  September  8,  1889. 

Daniel  (180),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

207.  George,  born  April  29,  1855,  married  Kate  Dalton. 

208.  Eugene,  born  December  13,  1856,  single. 

Richard  (183),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

209.  Henrietta,  bom  February  18,  1874. 

210.  Richard,  Jr.,  born  November  18,  1875. 

211.  Jane  Elizabeth,  born  September  13,  1877. 

212.  William,  born  August  21,  1880,  married  Elizabeth  Connor, 

May  13,  1899,  have  6ne  child. 

213.  Grace,  bom  August  28,  1889. 

Peter  (197),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

214.  John  K.,  bom  July  22,  1852,  married  Fanny  R.  Cass,  July 


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22,  1889,  had  two  children. 

215.  Cornelius,  born  December  24,  1855,  married  Carrie  V.  B. 

Rea,  April  21,  1898,  but  died  July  14,  1901,  without  issue. 

216.  Matilda,  born  February  6,  1854,  married  William  D.  Hall, 

June  7,  1872,  and  died  without  issue,  June  10,  1874. 

217.  Eugenia  A.,  born  August  17,   1858,  married  Brewster  S. 

Gurnee,  September  29,  1881,  had  four  children. 

N^ATHANIEL    (199),    (SON  01^  CORNEUUS),  HAD  ISSUE: 

218.  Josephine,  bom  November  21,  1885. 
219.-  William,  born  November  8,  1887. 

220.  Alvin,  born  May  21,  1889. 

221.  Victor,  born  October  4,  1890. 
222.,  Matilda,  born  July  27,  18^. 

223.  Victoria,  born  July  20,  1901. 

Edwin  L.  (200),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

224.  Clarence. 

225.  Claude. 

Morris  Bartow  (202),  (son  of  Joseph  Randall), 
HAD  issue: 

226.  Maud  W.,  born  November  i,  1888. 
2.2^.  Morris  Bartow,  Jr.,  born  March  7,  1893. 

Charles  Banta  (204),  (son  of  Joseph  Randall), 
HAD  issue: 

228.  Joseph  Randall,  born  January  5,  1894. 

229.  Edward  Sandford,  born  June  7,   1898,  died  February  23, 

1901. 

William  (212),  (son  of  Richard),  had  issue: 

230.  Bessie  Adelaide,  born  October  18,  1890. 

John  K.  (214),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

231.  Fanny  R.,  born  August  29,  1892. 

232.  Helen,  born  December  13,  1897. 

WALDRON. 

Resolved  Waldron,  born  May  10,  1610,  the  most  noted,  as 
he  was  one  of  the  most  intelligent,  of  the  Harlem  settlers,  needed 
not  the  titular  dignity  of  baron,  which  some  of  poetic  humor  claim 
for  him;  yet  might  he  well  have  graced  the  title.  As  we  have 
seen,  he  had  been  in  the  printing  business  at  Amsterdam,  and 


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emigrated  with  his  family  to  New  Netherland  late  in  1654.  Re- 
ceived with  his  brother,  Joseph,  and  their  wives,  to  the  fellowship 
of  the  church  at  New  Amsterdam,  the  first  care  was  to  secure  a 
home,  and  on  April  3  ensuing  the  brothers  bought  a  house  and 
lot  on  Broadway,  near  Wall  Street.  Both  entered  the  public  ser- 
vice.  Resolved  being  made   "overseer  of  the  workmen".*     On 


*  Joseph  Waldron,   "living  near  the  hocck  of  Passenger  Street,"  in  Amsterdam, 

1  on  the  eve  of  his  second  marriage,  appeared  before  the  orphan  master.  May   12, 

1649,   according  to  custom,  and  gave  bonds  for  the  maintenance  of  his  two  children 


and  on  the  eve  of  his  second  marriage,  appeared  before  the  orphan  master.  May  12, 
1649,  according  to  custom,  and  gave  bonds  for  the  maintenance  of  his  two  children 
by  his  late  wife,  Aeltie  Hendricks;    as  "the  children  by  the  former  marriage  had  no 


property."  One  of  these  perhaps  was  left  at  Amsterdam  with  its  grandmother,  Maria 
Goverts,  since  it  is  not  named  in  our  records  here,  and  Waldron  was  wont  to  order 
part  of  his  salary  to  be  paid  his  said  mother.  The  last  time  noticed  was  on  August 
30,  166 1,  being  two  months'  wages,  48  florins.  He  was  butler  to  the  garrison,  and  had 
charge  of  the  magazine  of  the  company.  Waldron  died  in  1663.  Just  before  bis 
end,  sending  for  a  notary  to  draw  up  his  will,  he  said  "there  would  be  nothing  left, 
but  if  anything  should  remain,  it  should  not  be  touched,  but  go  to  pay  the  passage 
of  his  widow,  who  intended  to  leave  for  Fatherland."  Upon  these  representations, 
and  it  appearing  that  there  were  "six  minor  children,  two  of  whom  are  of  a  former 
marriage,  the  orphan's  court  of  New  Amsterdam,  December  10,  1663,  at  the  desire 
of  the  widow,  Annetic  Daniels,  appointed  Resolved  Waldron,  "her  husband's  brother," 
and  Hendrick  Janscn  Vander  Yin,  "who  is  her  oldest  and  most  intimate  friend,"  as 
guardians  of  her  surviving  children.  It  is  uncertain  whether  she  visited  Holland,  as 
she  was  married  here,  in  1668,  to  Harman  Smceman,  and  again,  in  1682,  to  Coenraet 
Ten  Eyck.  Joseph  Waldron's  children  known  to  us  were  Sarah,  Daniel,  Mary,  Anna, 
Deborah  and  John.  Deborah  died  in  infancy,  and  John,  when  not  quite  8  years  old, 
was  accidentally  killed  in  his  step-father's  mill,  January  23,  1669.  Sarah,  bom  about 
1646,  at  Amsterdam,  married,  in  1662,  Jan  Gerritsen  Van  Voorst,  and  in  1666  Laurens 

iansen  Colevelt,  by  whom  she  had  children  whose  descendants  are  yet  found.  Mary, 
orn  1652,  married  Hendrick  Gerritsen  Blauvelt  (see  page  363),  and  Anna,  bom 
1657,  married  John  Delamontagne.  To  her  son  Daniel  and  son-in-law  DelamontagTic, 
Annctie  Daniels,  then  for  tHe  third  time  a  widow,  conveyed  some  city  property.  May 
10,  1688.  She  was  afterward  allowed  pay  by  government  "for  tending  sick  soldiers. 
Daniel  Waldron,  born  1650,  at  Amsterdam,  married,  in  1673,  Sarah  Rutgers,  daughter 
of  Rutger  Willemsen.  He  was  a  gun-stock  maker,  but  while  serving  in  the  city  guards 
against  Leisler  lost  an  eye  and  was  otherwise  badly  hurt  by  the  premature  discharge 
or  "a  great  gone,"  March  19,  169 1.  and  which  killed  several  persons,  including  Jacob 
De  Key,  the  De  Key  ancestor,  and  Major  Patrick  MacGregory,  from  whom  are 
descendants,  I  believe,  the  Gregory  family  of  Orange  County,  of  which  was  the  late 
Dr.  H.  H.  Gregory,*  of  Harlem.  Daniel  Waldron  and  his  son  Joseph  were  admitted 
freemen  August  30,  1698.  He  had  children,  Joseph,  born  1674;  Judith,  born  1675, 
married  Mr.  Isaac  Selover;  Rutger,  born  1677;  Annetie,  born  1681,  married  Francis 
Buys  and  Isaac  Van  Duersen;  Sarah,  born  1683,  married  Carsten  Burger;  John, 
born  1685 ;  Maria,  born  1686,  married  Frederick  Williams;  Cornelia,  bom  1688, 
married  Gcrrit  de  Forest;  and  CatharinCj  born  1689,  married  Isaac  Boelen.  The 
last  died  in  her  83d  year,  in  1772,  her  sisters,  Sarah  and  Cornelia,  surviving  her; 
and  of  the  others,  JuSith  lived  to  be  85,  Annetie,  84,  and  Mary  80.  Their  mother 
died  January  7,   1738,  having  reached  her  95th  year.     Truly  a  long-lived  race. 

*  Joseph  Waldron,  a  "cordwainer,"  married,  in  1696,  Anna  Woodward;  his  ^rill, 
dated  New  York,  May  5,  171S,  was  proved  October  10,  1722.  His  children  that  sur- 
vived infancy  were  Jannetic,  born  1698,  who  married  Henricus  Boelen;  Sarah,  bom 
1701;  Catharine,  bom  1703,  married,  1726,  Hendrick  Van  Winckel,  of  Bergen,  New- 
Jersey;  Joseph,  born  1708,  cordwainer,  married,  1731,  Effie  Hellacker,  both  livtni?, 
1758,  at  "Pemberpogh,  on  Ben?en  Neck  (parents  of  Jacobus,  of  Staten  Island,  black- 
smith, who  married,  1762,  Elizabeth  Holland,  widow,  and  had  issue  Joseph,  1765, 
etc.);  Benjamin,  born  171 1,  hatter,  married  Maria  Debevoise  (by  whom  a  daughter, 
Maria,  who  married  Isaac  Meet),  and  was  living  in  1758  with  his  second  wife,  Bridget 
Haviland,  at  Newtown,  L.  I.;  Daniel,  born  1713,  a  cordwainer,  admitted  freeman, 
N.  Y.,  1737,  where  he  died  about  1756,  having  married  three  wives,  viz.:  Maria 
Pell,  1735;  Maria  Gauticr,  1743;  and  Teuntie  Bogert,  1746,  and  leaving  two  sons, 
Daniel,  house  carpenter  (married,  1759.  Catharine  Turner) ,  and  Joseph,  born  1740, 
feltmaker  (married,  1761,  Mary  Foshay) ;  and  Jacobus,  born  1717,  who  died  July 
22,    1730. 

Rutger  Waldron,  a  turner,  made  freeman  February  3,  1699,  married,  1700,  De- 
borah Pell,  and.  1714,  Cornelia  Morse.  He  died,  1720,  leaving  Daniel,  bom  1703 
(father  of  William,  of  New  York.  bakei\  who  married,  1752,  Hillegond  Minthome, 
and  died  1762,  leaving  children  Jane,  Tohn,  Daniel  and  Richard);  Samuel,  bom 
1705,  of  New  York,  blockmaker,  married.  1746,  Mary  Kip,  and  died  April  2,  177*. 
leaving  son  Richard;  Richard,  born  1707,  made  freeman,  1732,  married,  1734. 
Anna  de  Graaf,  widow  of  John  Langedyke.  made  property  as  a  baker  and  shopkeeper, 
and  died  January  4,  i775,  without  surviving  children;  Johannes,  born  i7i3»  married, 
1741,  Margaret  Van  Ness,  was  living  1774.  with  children  Christopher,  bom  1743; 
Deborah,   born    1745;   and   Rachael,   born    1746;     Sarah,   born    1716,   living  unmarried 


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April  17,  1657,  he  applied  for  the  burgher  right,  and  under  May  3 
occurs  this  entry:  "Resolved  Waldron  being  admitted  a  burgher, 
hath  on  this  date  taken  the  oath  of  fidelity/'  His  salary  was  in- 
creased soon  after.  Found  to  be  efficient,  the  Director  and  Coun- 
cil, on  May  25,  1658,  appointed  him  deputy  to  the  schout-fiscael, 
or  attorney-general,  de  Sille;  the  Burgomasters  being  ordered, 
October  28,  to  recognize  him  as  deputy  sheriff.  Very  exact  in 
carrying  out  his  orders  and  in  enforcing  the  laws,  he  was  charged 
by  the  Quakers,  some  of  whom  he  arrested,  with  being  "hard- 
hearted". He  visited,  upon  public  errands,  every  part  of  the 
province,  and  even  the  neighboring  colonies ;  and  in  1659  was  sent 
with  Augustine  Heermans  to  Maryland,  to  vindicate  the  Dutch 
title  on  the  Delaware.  The  next  year  the  directors  in  Holland 
would  have  made  Waldron  sheriff  of  the  Dutch  towns  on  Long 
Island,  but  Stuyvesant  wrote  them,  June  25,  1660:  "Respecting 
the  person,  Resolved  Waldron,  we  may  be  permitted  to  remark, 
that  when  appointed  as  a  deputy  to  the  fiscael,  and  as  schout-by- 
nacht,  in  this  city,  he  conducted  himself  with  so  much  fidelity  and 
vigilance  that  he  gave  to  us  and  the  magistrates  great  satisfac- 
tion, so  that  his  services,  both  as  respects  the  Company  and  the 
fiscael,  can  hardly  be  dispensed  with,  besides  that  he  would  not 
be  so  well  fitted  for  the  shrievalty  of  the  said  villages,  as  he  can- 
not well  wield  his  pen ;  wherefore,  till  your  further  orders  on  this 
point,  we  shall  ask  his  continuance  in  that  office."  Stuyvesant 
was  allowed  to  retain  his  favorite  officer  while  his  own  rule  lasted. 
On  the  accession  of  the  English,  Waldron  took  the  oath  of 
allegiance  (October,  1664),  but  retired  to  private  life  at  Harlem 
with  the  disappointment  of  one  whose  interests,  as  well  as  sym- 
pathies, all  lay  with  the  former  government.  It  was  still  a  pleas- 
ure to  correspond  with  kindred  in  Holland.  Mortien  Covert,  of 
Amsterdam,  writing  to  Resolved,  April  12,  1666,  says,  "Brother: 
Tall  Anna  has  gone  over  with  the  supercargo  who  lived  in 
Nicholas  Carmen's  house."  Waldron  had  secured  some  property 
at  Harlem  (see  pages  256,  264,  267),  and  was  soon  called  to 
public  office,  from  which  he  seldom  had  a  respite  for  the  rest  of 
his  life.  He  was  one  of  the  five  patentees  named  in  Nicolls' 
patent,  and  also  served  in  the  eldership.  He  died  in  1690;  his 
inventory  taken  that  year,  May  17,  embraced  lands,  slaves,  farm- 
stock,  etc.  The  following  items  stand  first :  "Three  lots  of  land 
lying  upon  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  with  one  lot  of  land  lying  upon 

1774;    and  Cornelia,  born   171 8,  who  married  Juriaen  Blaau,  issue  William,  Cornelia, 
Sarah  and  Tlonry  Blaau,  or  Blaw. 

John  Waldron  was  a  turner,  and  married  Rachel  LefTerts,  daughter  of  Leffert 
Pietcrsen  Van  Haughwout,  of  Flatbush,  to  which  place  Waldron  removed,  and  was 
there  living  in  1755.  a  farmer.  He  had  issue  Daniel,  Leffert.  Benjamin,  etc.,  of 
whom  Leffert,  who  died  1748,  was  father  of  Johannes,  of  Middlebusb.  New  Jersey. 
(See  Leffert  Genealogy,  pages  28,  29,  from  which  we  differ  somewhat.)  Daniel  and 
his  wife,  Hepzibah,  also  went  to  New  Jersey,  had  Johannes,  born  1737,  etc.,  and  one 
of  their  younger  sons,  Leffert,  born  i754.  died  August  20,  1847,  was  the  father  by 
his  wife,  Sarah  Colthar,  of  the  present  respected  Cornelius  L.  Waldron,  of  Martin- 
ville,  New  Jersey,  father-in-law  of  Charles  H.  Horton,  M.  D. 


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Jochem  Pieters,  and  a  house  with  its  lot  (erf),  comprising  build- 
ings and  plantation,  as  it  is  situate  and  lying  at  this  village;  as 
also  a  piece  of  meadow  lying  in  the  Round  Meadow."* 

But  Waldron  owed  so  much  that  the  heirs  agreed  to  let  his 
son  Samuel  take  all  the  property,  real  and  personal,  on  condition 
that  he  assume  the  debts  and  the  support  of  the  widow.  This  was 
subscribed  to  May  lo,  1690,  and  pursuant  to  which,  on  the  17th, 
the  town  clerk,  Bertholf,  took  a  list  of  the  lands  and  effects,  in 
presence  of  the  constable,  etc.,  and  on  June  5  the  magistrates  ap- 
pointed Adolph  Meyer  and  Daniel  Toumeur  to  appraise  the  same. 
But  on  the  14th  the  heirs  executed  a  paper  assigning  '*two-thirds 
of  the  estate  of  our  deceased  father,  aforesaid,  to  his  creditors,  for 
the  payment  of  his  debts,  and  the  widow  agreeably  to  law  shall 
retain  one-third."  On  July  16  ensuing,  the  widow,  for  1,200 
guilders,  conveyed  to  Arent  Harmens,  **a  lot  of  land  on  Jochem 
Pieters,  being  No.  12  on  the  survey."  On  the  25th  ensuing  a 
public  sale  of  part  of  the  farm-stock,  etc.,  took  place ;  and  the  next 
day  the  widow  sold  to  John  Hendricks  Van  Brevoort,  for  600 
guilders,  **a  half  lot  lying  upon  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  being  No.  9, 
the  other  half  belonging  to  Adolph  Meyer."  On  November  25, 
1690,  the  widow  and  heirs  sold  to  Samuel  Waldron,  for  3,800 
guilders,  "the  farm  of  his  deceased  father,  Resolved  Waldron, 
consisting  of  two  lots  and  a  half  of  land,  lying  upon  Van  Keulen's 
Hook,  with  the  meadows,  buildings,  and  planting;"  on  the  same 
date  released  to  John  Dyckman,  for  400  guilders,  "a  certain  piece 
of  meadow  lying  in  the  Round  Meadow,  at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  next 
to  the  meadow  of  Coenraet  and  Meyndert ;"  and  also  ratified  the 
sale  of  Nos.  3  and  4,  New  Lots,  which  Resolved  Waldron  had 
deeded  to  Samuel,  February  20,  1686,  and  he  to  his  brother,  Jo- 
hannes, May  21,  1689. 

Resolved  Waldron  (i),  bom  May  10,  1610,  married  first 
Rebecca  Hendricks,  before  1647,  had  three  children.  He  married 
second,  Tanneke  Nagel,  May  10,  1654,  had  five  children,  and  died 
in  1690.     He  had  issue  by  first  wife : 

2.  William,  born  at  Amsterdam,   Holland,   February   10,    1647, 

married  Engeltie  Stoutenburg,  February   10,   167 1,  had 
seven  children. 

3.  Rebecca,   born   at   Amsterdam,   in    1649.   married  first,   John 

Nagel,  August  2y,  1670,  had  ten  children,  and  second, 
John  Dyckman,  May  15,  1690,  had  two  children. 

4.  Aeltie,  born  at  Amsterdam,  in  165 1,  married  Captain  Johannes 

Vermilye,  August  27,  1670,  had  ten  children. 

*  The  statement  in  the  Annals  of  Newtown,  page  381,  that  Resolved  Waldron 
"acquired  a  large  property  at  Hoorn's  Hook,  within  the  limnts  of  Harlem,  on  which 
he  located,"  was  made  on  the  authority  of  Mr.  Isaac  Adriance,  seldom  inaccurate  in 
such  matters:  but  was  found,  on  fuller  investigation,  to  apply  to  Samuel,  son  of 
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Resolved  (i)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

5.  Barent,  born  at  New  Amsterdam,  in  1655,  married  Jannetie 

Meynderts,  September  25,  1687,  had  six  children. 

6.  Ruth,  baptized  May  10,  1657,  married  first,  John  Delamater, 

August  II,  1678,  had  nine  children.  She  married  second, 
Hendrick  Bogert,  September  15,  1703. 

7.  Cornelia,   baptized   February   30,    1659,    married    Peter   Van 

Oblienis,  June  8,  1685. 

8.  Johannes,  born  at  Harlem,  September  12,  1665,  married  Anna 

Van  Dalsen,  April  25,  1690,  had  seven  children,  and  died 

in  1753- 

9.  Samuel,  born  at  Harlem,  April  10,  1670,  married  Neeltie  Blood- 

good,  March  5,  1692,  had  ten  children,  and  died  in  1737. 

William  Waldron  (2),  (son  of  Resolved),*  of  New  York, 
cooper  (see  page  SSS),  was  made  viewer  of  pipestaves,  June  7, 
1676.  On  December  17,  1679,  he  and  the  other  coopers,  in  all 
twenty-two,  formed  a  combination  to  maintain  their  prices  upon 
casks  and  barrels,  and  prevent  underselling.  For  this  they  were 
proceeded  against  before  the  governor  and  council,  and  fined  each 
fifty  shillings,  for  "the  church  or  pious  uses".  The  cullers  of 
pipestaves  were  dismissed,  and  Waldron  and  his  partner,  Peter- 
sen, were  sworn  as  cullers,  February  16,  1680.  Waldron  was  ap- 
pointed one  of  the  public  measurers  December  i,  1702,  He  was 
still  living  in  1710.  By  Engeltie,  daughter  of  Peter  Stouten- 
burgh,  married  February  10,  1671  (see  page  272), 

WlIXIAM    (2)   HAD  ISSUE: 

10.  Rebecca,  baptized  June  21,  1672,  married  first,  John  Daven- 

port, August  28,  1696,  had  two  children.  She  married 
second,  David  Kent,  had  one  child. 

11.  Peter,  baptized  June  23,  1675,  married  Tryntie,  daughter  of 

Cornelius  Vandenbergh,  September  9,  1698,  had  ten  chil- 
dren, and  died  May  3,  1725.  Went  to  Albany  and  died 
there. 

12.  Hendrick,  born  April  10,  1677,  married  Maria  Van  Tassel, 

March  2,  1706,  had  six  children. 

13.  William,  born  January  16,  1680,  married  Johanna,  daughter 

of  John  Nagel,  March  10,  1705,  had  five  children.  After 
17 17  he  seems  to  have  left  the  city.     On  his  petition  an 

•  Capt  John  Waldron,  who  commanded  his  Majesty's  ship  "Greyhound"  was 
probably  not  from  either  of  our  Waldron  famflies.  He  married  at  New  York,  by 
license  of  October  27,  1704,  Cornelia  Hardenberg.  About  1721  he  gave  up  his  com- 
mand, and  became  a  merchant;  was  vestryman  of  Trinity  Church,  1735  to  1732.  apd 
captain  of  the  Blue  Artillery  company,  and  as  such  had  charge  of  the  military  stores 
for  some  20  years.  He  died  about  1762.  His  daughter  Mary  married  Daniel  Stiles. 
1713,  married,  1716,  Elizabeth  Hose,  but  both  died  soon  after  their  marriage  (Gerar- 
dus  in  1737,  at  Hurley,  Ulster  County),  leaving  no  issue.  The  widow  of  John,  Jr., 
married,  1737,  Johannes  Remsen. 


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act  was  passed  in  1717  to  exempt  his  sloop,  the  "Mar>' 
and  Hannah",  from  paying  tonnage. 

14.  Aefie,  bom  1682. 

15.  Jannetie,  bom  1692,  married  first,  Thomas  Powell,  March  25, . 

171 1,  had  three  children.  She  married  second,  William 
Adams,  had  two  children. 

16.  Wyntie,  baptized  September  30,  1694. 

Barent  Waldron  (5),  (son  of  Resolved),  whose  possession 
of  Gloudie's  Point  gave  him  a  place  among  the  patentees,  married 
September  25,  1687,  Jannetie,  daughter  of  John  Meynderts. 
(See  page  212.)  Having  much  of  his  father's  aptness  for  pub- 
lic business,  he  served  the  town  in  various  trusts,  especially  in  that 
of  collector.  His  name  as  assessor  stands  in  Montgomery's  char- 
ter, 1731,  and  he  signs  the  Mill  Camp  grant  in  1738.  At  this 
date  Jochem  and  Jacob  Gardenier  appear  to  occupy  his  farm. 
Being  aged,  he  sold  his  farm,  Augusf  6,  1740,  to  John  R.  Myer, 
of  New  York.     (See  page  602.) 

Barent  (5)  had  issue: 

17.  Tanneke,  born  November  3,   1688,  married  John  Adriaens 

(Ariaense),  March  25,  1720,  had  four  children. 

18.  Belitie,  baptized  April  6,  1690,  married  Isaac  Delamater,  Jr., 

August  9,  1 717,  had  four  children. 

19.  Johannes,  baptized  August  7,  1692,  married  first,  Susannah, 

daughter  of  Isaac  Delamater,  June  5,  1719,  had  seven  chil- 
dren. He  married  second,  Margaret  Roll,  April  13,  1729, 
had  five  children.  Later  removed  to  Philipsburgh,  West- 
chester County,  N.  Y.,  both  living  to  an  advanced  age.* 

•  There  was  also  Johannes  Waldron,  who  lived  at  Philipsburgh,  probably  related 
to,  hut  not  easily  identified  with,  our  Waldrons,  if,  as  his  marriage  record  says,  he 
was  born  "at  Utrecht,  in  Holland."  He  married,  in  1720,  Jannekc  Bogert,  of  Tappan, 
probably  a  daughter  (not  named,  page  448)  of  Peter  and  Feytie,  and,  if  we  mistake 
not,  was  the  father  of  Peter  Waldron.  born  in  Fordham,  who,  while  living  at  Philips- 
burgh, married  October  10,  1747,  Marritic  Ackcrman.t  He  became  a  freeman  of  New- 
York  in  175 J,  and  had  sons  David,  born  1754,  and  Isaac,  iTS^;  the  first,  by  trade 
a  gunsmith,  and  a  much  respected  citizen,  married,  1773,  Elizabeth  Trempcr,  and 
died  November  0,    18 11,   at   418   Broadway. 

t  David  Ackerman,  whose  descendants  are  very  numerous,  was  from  Berlikmn. 
in  Brabant.  His  departure  from  Amsterdam  for  this  country,  in  1662,  is  mentioned 
page  95,  but  considering  the  silence  of  our  records  regarding  him  it  may  be  doubter/ 
whether  he  survived  the  voyage.  He  had  six  children,  who  came  over,  viz. :  Lyrf>eth, 
born  1642;  Anncken,  born  1644;  David,  born  1646;  Lourens,  born  1650;  Lodcwyck, 
born  1654,  and  Abraham,  born  i6«;6.  Lysbeth  being  the  eldest,  upon  her  seems  to 
have  devolved  the  care  of  the  younger  children.  She  and  her  sister  joined  the 
church  at  New  Amsterdam  January  6,  1663,  being  the  first  communion  season  after 
their  arrival.  They  lived  in  the  Marckvelt  Steeg.  In  1664  Anneke  married  Nathaniel 
Pietersen  Hennion,  from  Levden;  and  in  1668  Lysbeth  became  the  wife  of  Kier 
VVolters,  of  Harlem,  whence  for  several  years  some  of  the  family  are  found  here  and 
at  Fordham,  where  Lourens  rented  a  farm.  (See  pages  249  and  3»3')  In  1679 
Lourens  married  C.eertie  Egberts.  David,  living  in  New  \ork,  married,  in  1680, 
Hillegond,  daughter  of  Abram  Isaacs  Verplanck.  Lodewyck  married  at  Kingston,  in 
1681,  Janneke,  born  in  New  England,  daughter  of  Jacob  Blacck,  of  New  York  (see 
page  205),  and  Abraham,  living  at  Bergen,  married,  in  1683,  Aeltie,  daughter  of 
Adrian  Van  Laer.  All  the  family  ultimately  went  to  Hackensack;  David,  Lourens 
and  Lodewyck.  with  their  wives,  helping  to  organize  the  church  there  in  1686,  the 
nearest  church  previouslv  being  the  newly  formed  French  society  at  Kinkacketneck. 
or  Kinderkameck.     Abraham  also  joined  in   1696.     Lodewyck  losing  his  wife,  married. 


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20.  Resolved,  baptized  September  i,  1695. 

21.  Catherine,  baptized  May  25,  1698,  married  John  Foshay,  May 

18,  1728,  had  one  child. 

22.  Margaret,  bom  1700,  married  Cornelius  Lydecker,  June  24, 

1721. 

Johannes  Waldron  (8),  (son  of  Resolved),  married  April  25, 
1690,  Anna,  daughter  of  Captain  Jan  V^an  Dalsen ;  and  living  close 
under  Jochem  Pieters'  fiills  (133d  Street,  between  Eighth  and 
Ninth  Avenues),  he  was  usually  called  of  the  Hill,  to  distinguish 
him  from  his  namesake  of  Hoorn's  Hook.  His  house-lot,  which 
lay  at  the  end  of  the  New  Lots,  but  west  of  the  highway,  was 
bought  from  the  town,  May  10,  1688,  for  12  guilders,  by  his 
brother  Samuel,  who,  after  building  on  it,  sold  it  to  Johannes, 
May  21,  1689,  together  with  the  New  Lots,  Nos.  3,  4,  5,  7,  which, 
had  come  to  Samuel  from  his  father  and  others.  On  April  3, 
1690,  the  town  sold  Johannes  an  addition  to  his  hou3e-lot,  mak- 
ing it  17  rods  on  the  road,  and  to  extend  back  to  the  foot  of  the 
hill.  Johannes  and  Barent  together  bought  No.  8  of  the  New 
Lots,  January  i,  1701,  from  Johannes'  brother-in-law,  Teunis 
Van  Dalsen,  who  had  obtained  it,  May  i,  1696,  from  Joost  Van 
Oblinus.  This  lot  they  divided,  Johannes  taking  the  western  half. 
He  had  already  secured  No.  2,  originally  Glaude  Delamater's, 
from  his  son-in-law,  Arent  Bussing,  and  in  1731  bought  No.  6 
from  Isaac  Delamater,  who  had  received  it  in  1729  from  Nicholas 
Kortright,  grandson  of  Cornelis  Jansen,  the  first  owner.  Thus 
Johannes  came  to  hold  Nos.  2  to  7  and  half  of  8,  being  6j4  lots. 
His  large  acquisitions  from  the  drafted  lands  are  shown  in  Ap- 
pendix J.  He  died  in  I7S3,  having  survived  his  wife  and  all  his 
children,  except  his  son  Resolved. 

Johannes  (8),  (son  of  Resolved),  had  issue: 

23.  Anneken,  baptized  February  22,  1691,  died  young. 

24.  Annetie,  baptized  April  17,   1692,  married  John  Delamater, 

June  II,  1714,  had  ten  children. 

in  1699.  Hillegond.  daughter  of  Hendrick  Bosch,  and  removed  to  Philipsburgh,  West- 
chester Counts.  We  give  a  list  of  children,  but  incomplete.  Di^id  had  issue,  David, 
bom  1681,  married  Gcrbrecht  Romeyn;  Johannes,  born  1684,  married  Jannctic  Lozier; 
Marritie.  born  1690,  married  Cornelius  V'anderhoof,  from  Albany;  Jannetie,  born 
1682,  married  Jacobus  Van  Voorhees;  Egbert,  born  1685,  married  Elizabeth  Bryant: 
Catharine,  born  1687,  married  John  Verwey;  David,  born  1689,  married  Sarah 
Culver,  and  Johannes,  who  married  Jacomina  Demarest.  Abraham  had  David,  born 
1684,  married  Margaret  Jurcks;  Gerrit,  born  1685.  married  Jannetie  Van  V^oorhees; 
Abigail,  boni  1687,  married  Andrics  Hopper  and  Derick  Brinkerhoff.  Lysbeth,  born 
i'>89.  married  Johannes  Doremus;  Anneken,  born  1691,  married  Thomas  Doremus; 
Adrian,  born  1605,  married  Mary  Van  Blarcom;  Johannes,  born  1696,  married,  1721. 
Maria  Wakeficlcf,  and,  1728,  Elizabeth  Staggr  Gulian,  born  1697,  married  Rachel 
Van  \'oorhees;  Anna  Maria,  born  1701.  married  Albert  Terhune;  Abraham,  born 
1702,  married  Ilendrica  Hopper,  and  Sarah,  born  1705,  married  Cornelius  Boers, 
ijodcwvrk,  of  Philipsburgh,  had  a  daughter,  Lysbeth,  born  1684,  married  Arent  Foot- 
man (Putnam) J  of  Schenectady,  but  who  moved  to  the  "Maquaas  country;"  and 
daughter  Francina,  born  1696,  married  Samuel  Williams,  of  Albany.  His  son  David, 
born  1694,  married,  1719,  Mar  •  See.  was  a  deacon  in  the  Philipsburgh  Church,  and 
father  of  Mary,  who  married  Peter  Waldron,  as  in  the  text.  We  have  not  space  for 
fuller  details,  but  hope  this  brief  sketch  may  aid  some  descendant,  with  a  becoming 
pride  in  his  ancestry,  to  fill  out  the  family  tree. 


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25.  Margaret,  baptized  October  22,  1693,  married  Adolph  Myer, 

October  25,  17 16,  had  five  children. 

26.  Cornelia,  bom  March  4,  1696,  married  Ryck  Lent,  December 

26,  1722,  had  four  children. 
2y.  Johannes,  baptized  May  22,  1698,  married  Elizabeth  Benson, 
December  10,  17 19,  had  two  children,  and  died  December 
10,  1724. 

28.  Resolved,  born  May  6,  1702,  married  Mattie  Quackenbush, 

May  9,  1729,  had  seven  children,  and  died  January  10, 
1761. 

29.  Samuel,  born  about  1705,  married  Engeltie  Myers,  1725,  had 

one  child,  and  died  in  1752.  Bought  his  father's  farm 
and  stock,  November  17,  1748,  his  widow,  Engeltie,  oc- 
cupying the  farm  till  the  Revolution.  His  heirs  sold  it 
to  John  Delancey,  July  10,  1776,  the  principal  heir  being 
his.  daughter,  Engel,  who  married  November  16,  1766, 
LawTence  Myer,  father  of  Samuel  Myer. 

Samuel  Waldron  (9),  (son  of  Resolved),  purchased  tlie 
paternal  farm  upon  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  November  25,  1690,  as 
before  mentioned.  He  married  Neeltie,  daughter  of  Francis 
Bloodgood,  of  Flushing,  March  5,  1692.*  Waldron  was  among 
the  first  to  discard  the  common  fences.  On  October  26,  1704,  he 
gave  notice  that  he  should  do  so,  and,  within  a  year  and  six  weeks, 
fence  in  his  lands  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook.  The  same  notice  was 
given  by  Arent  Bussing;  and  also  by  Johannes  Waldron,  Joost 
and  Peter  Van  Oblienis,  and  Barent  Nagel,  owning  lots  on  Jochem 
Pieters.  Waldron  had  a  share  in  the  Hoorn  Frigate,  a  somewhat 
noted  vessel,  which,  being  sent  out  by  Governor  Slough ter  on  the 
public  service,  was  captured  by  the  enemy.  In  1710  he  bought 
the  John  Delamater  lands,  including  the  Hoorn's  Hook  farm,  tw^o 
north  gardens  (see  page  484),  a  lot  on  Montanye's  Flat,  and  No. 
I,  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  the  last  adjoining  his  farm  there,  which 
embraced  lots  2,  3,  and  half  of  4.  This  farm  he  sold,  March  23, 
171 1,  to  Capt.  Charles  Congreve  and  John  James,  reserving  the 
morgen  rights,  but  allowing  the  purchasers  "all  those  undivided 

*  Capt.  Frans  Jansen  Blood^ood,  or  Bloctgoet,  as  then  written,  was  from  Amster- 
dam, ana  one  of  the  early  colonists  to  New  Amstcl,  whither  he  was  accompanied  by  his 
wife,  Lysbcth  Jans,  a  native  of  Gouda,  and  an  infant,  Geertie.  In  1659  he  came  to 
New  Amsterdam,  but  settled  in  Flushing,  owninp,  when  he  died,  land,  cattle  and 
sheep.  On  May  24,  1674,  he  was  commissioned  chief  officer  of  the  Dutch  militia  of 
Flushing,  Hempstead,  Jamaica  and  Newtown.  Two  years  after,  "being  sorely  wounded 
and  very  weak,"  he  gave  directions  as  to  his  property,  and  died  December  i<j,  1676. 
His  widow,  three  years  later,  married  Wouter  Gysberts,  from  Hilverzum.  His  chil- 
dren were  Geertie,  born  1658  at  Amsterdam,  married  John  Marston;  Adriana,  bom 
i66a,  married  Hendrick  Hegcman;  Isabella,  born  1662,  married  Idc  Van  Schaick: 
Judith,  born  1665,  married  Johannes  Wynkoop;  William,  bom  1667;  Neeltie,  bom 
1670,  married  Samuel  Waldron;  John,  born  1672.  and  Lysbeth,  born  1675,  and  un- 
married in  1698.  At  this  date  John  and  his  wife  Mary  were  living  at  Flushing. 
William  belonged  to  Lieut.  Schuyler's  troop  in  1687,  was  elected  one  of  the  first 
vestrymen  for  Jamaica  parish  in  1703,  and  in  1714  was  justice  of  the  peace.  De- 
scendants of  Frans  Bloodgood  went  to  Albany  in  the  next  century  (Pearson) ;  and  the 
New  York  Directory  witnesses  to  their  increase  in  this  city,  some  of  them  dis- 
tinguished for  their  wealth. 


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sixteen  acres  of  l^nd  in  the  commons  of  Harlem,  of  the  first  and 
second  draft  belonging  to  the  said  Samuel  Waldron."  On  selling 
this  farm  to  John  Van  Horn,  March  2^,  171 1,  Congreve  substi- 
tuted for  this  sixteen  acres  his  lot  No.  7,  Second  Division,  retain- 
ing his  lot  in  First  Division,  which  he  sold,  December  26,  1713, 
to  Johannes  Waldron.  Removing  to  Hoorn's  Hook,  Samuel 
Waldron  secured  a  patentee  deed  for  his  new  farm,  of  115  acres, 
December  20,  1712.  For  his  draft  lots  see  page  592,  also  Ap- 
pendix J.  He  sold,  prior  to  17 15,  his  lot  in  First  Division  to 
Abram  Delamontanie,  his  Second  Division  to  Samson  Benson,  and 
Third  Division  to  Johannes  Benson.  He  got  an  additional  ten 
acres  from  Peter  Van  Oblienis  in  1720.  Its  situation  is  not 
clearly  shown;  but  what  is  said  (Oblenis  family)  may  be  com- 
pared with  the  further  reference  to  it  here.  Waldron  died  in 
1737,  his  lands,  now  rated  156  acres,  passing  to  his  son  Johannes, 
and  from  him,  in  1741,  to  his  brother  William,  who  the  year  fol- 
lowing conveyed  part  of  the  farm  ( 17  acres,  say  the  Hopper  place) 
to  his  brother  Benjamin,  and  the  lot  on  Montanye's  Flat,  with  lot 
No.  12,  Fourth  Division,  and  four  acres  of  the  ten-acre  lot  afore- 
said to  his  brother  Peter.  William  kept  three  acres  of  the  last  lot, 
and  the  remaining  three  acres  were  bought  by  Hendrick  Myer, 
apparently  because  adjacent  to  the  Gloudie  Point  Farm,  which 
Myer  had  recently  purchased  (see  page  602).  If  not  here,  we 
know  not  where  to  locate  this  ten-acre  lot.  From  William  and 
Benjamin  the  title  to  the  farm  is  readily  traced.-  (See  Appen- 
dix H.) 

SamueIv  (9),  (son  of  Resou'ed),  had  issue: 

30.  Johannes,  bom  December  23,  1693,  died  without  issue,  No- 

vember 7,  1741.  He  was  assistant  alderman  of  the'  Out 
Ward  from  1731  to  1737,  excepting  one  year.  A  stone, 
rudely  inscribed  IWxDx23xAOxi693x  and  rescued  by 
Mr.  Rufus  Prime  from  the  venerable  Waldron  house 
(88th  Street,  north  side,  a  little  east  of  Avenue  A),  when 
its  walls  were  demolished  in  1870,  takes  us  back  to  the 
boyhood  of  Johannes  Waldron ;  his  own  record,  no  doubt, 
of  his  initials  and  birthday,  "Johannes  Waldron,  Decem- 
ber 23,  Anno  1693." 

31.  Francis  No.  i,  born  September  i,  1695,  died  December  19, 

32.  Francis  No.  2,  born  February  14,  1697,  married  Catherine 

Brunneal,  had  thirteen  children,  and  died  in  1765. 

33.  Resolved,  baptized  May   14,    1699,  married  Jannetie  Myer, 

January  25,  1722,  had  four  children,  and  died  October  21, 
1772. 

34.  Elizabeth,  born  January  26,  1701,  married  Martin  Beekman,* 

*  Martin    Beekman    is    named   by    two    respectable   authorities    (Our    Home,    page 
492,  Bergen  Genealogy,  page  348),  as  a  descendant  of  Wilhelmus  Beeckman,   noticed 


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June  21,  1724,  had  five  children,  and  died  November  27, 
1760. 

35.  Tanneke,  born  April  7,  1703,  married  Johannes  Benson,  Sep- 

tember 17,  1722,  but  died  without  issue. 

36.  William,  bom  February  10,  1705,  married  first,  Angie  Sam- 

mon,  April  13,  1729,  second,  Catherine  Mandeville,  Octo- 
ber 6,  1734,  and  third,  Antie  Myer,  August  24,  1744.  By 
his  three  wives  he  had  fourteen  children,  and  died  Decem- 
ber 5,  1769. 

37.  Peter,  born  January  15,  1708,  married  Elizabeth  Myer,  Janu- 

ary 24,  1732,  had  four  children,  and  died  July  12,  1772. 

38.  Samuel,  born  February  13,  1710,  married  Anna  Delamater, 

April  6,  1739,  had  eight  children,  and  died.  August  23. 
1771. 

39.  Benjamin,  bom  November  15,  17 14,  married  first,  Elizabeth 

on  page  t6i.  This  is  a  mistake.  Martin  was  the  son  of  Hendrick  and  grandson  of 
Marten  Hendrickscn,  of  Fort  Orange,  or  Albany,  apparently  the  person  so-called, 
from  Hamelwaard,  in  the  duchy  of  Bremen,  who  came  out  in  1638,  in  the  service 
of  the  Patroon  Van  Rensselaer.  Marten  Hendricksen  Beeckman  was  a  sturdy  black- 
smith, such  a  character,  we  may  judge,  as  gives  dignity  to  labor,  for  during  a  resi- 
dence of  some  years  he  maintained  a  good  credit  with  the  deacons,  who  loaned  him 
considerable  sums,  in  1652  and  later.  By  his  wife,  Susannah  Jans,  he  had,  as  iden- 
tified, five  children,  viz.:  Hendrick,  Johannes,  Marten,  Metje,  who  married  Comelis 
Vanderhoof,  of  Albany,  and  Tan  Bebout,  of  Brooklyn,  and  Nceltie,  who  married 
Jacob  Bennett,  of  Brooklyn.  Johannes  Martensen  Beekman,  who  married  Machteli, 
daughter  of  Jacob  Schermerhorn,  and  Eva,  daughter  of  John  Vinhaegen,  is  noticed 
in  the  works  of  Holgate  and  Pearson.  His  brother  Marten  married  Neeltie,  daughter 
of  Teunis  and  Engeltie  Slingerlant,  of  Albany,  removed,  in  1692,  to  New  York,  and 
had,   so  far  as  known,  seven  daughters,  but  no  sons. 

Hendrick  Martensen  Beekman,  of  Scotia,  near  Schenectady,  married  Annetie. 
daughter  of  Peter  Quackenbos.  and  had  issue,  Martin,  born  1685;  Susanna,  bom 
1686;  Lydia,  born  1689;  Henarick,  born  1692;  Mary,  born  1695;  Peter,  born  1697, 
and  Magdalcna,  born  1701.  He  removed  to  Somerset  County,  New  Jersey,  where  be 
was  living  on  November  13,  17 10,  when  he  bought  from  Octavio  Conraets,  of  New 
York,  a  large  tract  of  land  on  the  Raritan  River,  about  three  miles  above  Somervillc. 
part  of  which  is  now  occupied  by  the  widow  of  ex-Sheriff  Van  Doren  Vredenbur|:h- 
Wilhelmus  Beeckman's  sons  also  owned  various  tracts  on  the  Raritan,  some  of  which 
Dr.  Gpradus  Beekman  conveyed  and  devised  to  his  son  Hendrick,  a  merchant  in  New 
York,  and  the  two  Hendricks  being  taken  as  one  person  has  led  to  the  error  pointed 
out  at  the  beginning  of  this  note.  Hendrick  M.  Beekman  died  prior  to  Se^Jtember  20. 
1735.  as  we  find  by  an  agreement  of  that  date  between  his  sons  Martin  and  Peter, 
and  which  states  that  they,  with  their  brother  Hendrick,  had  "hitherto  jointly  en- 
joyed" his  lands.  Peter  Beekman,  who  died  in  1773,  left  a  widow,  Grietie,  and 
daughters  Lcentie,  married  Fcrnandus  Gulick,  Annetie,  married  Peter  Peterson,  and 
Neeltie,  married  Bernardus  V^an  Zandt.  Hendrick,  brother  of  Peter,  died  a  bachelor, 
in  his  77th  year,  March  19.  1767,  and  by  will  gave  his  property  to  the  five  children  of 
his  brother  Martin,  deceased,  said  Martin  having  died  October  27,  1757.  aged  72 
years.  These  children  fall  by  his  wife  Elizabeth  VValdron,  of  Hoorn's  Hook»  whom 
he  married  June  21,  1724,  and  who  died  November  27,  1760,  aged  60  years),  were, 
Elizabeth,  born  August  30,  1725,  married  P'rancis  Brazier,  and  died  November  9,  1810; 
Hendrick,  born  March  24,  1727,  married  Phebe  Bloomfield.  and  died  January  26. 
1796;  Samuel,  born  November  26,  1729,  married  Elizabeth  Waldron.  of  Newtown,  L. 
1.,  and  died  October  19,  1808;  Anna,  born  Tunc  28,  17 14.  married  Johannes  Waldron 
November  12.  1766,  and  died  September  5.  1795  (he  died  September  10,  1795).  and 
John,  born  November  5.  17-11.  Of  these  Hendrick  and  Phebe  had  eight  children,  of 
whom  Benjamin  (born  October  26,  1766,  married  Cornelia  Beekman,  and  died  March 
21,  1838),  was  father  of  Bloomfield  Beekman,  and  of  Elizabeth,  now  the  respected 
widow  of  Van  Dorn  Vredenburgh,  Esc.,  deceased.  Sam'.icl  and  Elizabeth  had  five 
children,  of  whom  two  were  sons,  vi;:. :  Samuel  and  Martin,  the  last  (born  May  14, 
^773j  married  Matilda  Brokaw  and  Mary  Powelson,  and  died  August  26,  1844,  in 
Somerset  County)  having  fourteen  children,  of  whom  Joseph  B.  was  father  of  Revs. 
John  S.  and  Abraham  J.  Beekman.  Martin's  brother  Samuel  (born  September  21, 
1766,  married  Helena  Ten  Broeck,  and  died  March  4,  1850,  at  Harlingen),  was  father 
of  Rev.  Jacob  Ten  Broeck  Beekman,  born  April  10,  1801.  married  Ann  Crawford,  and 
died  April  23,  1875,  being  the  father  of  Hon.  (jcorgc  C.  Beekman,  of  Freehold,  X. 
J.,  without  whose  friendly  co-operation  we  may  have  been  less  successful  in  correcting 
the  current  mistakes  regarding  the  early  history  of  this  important  branch  of  the 
Beekman   family. 


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Samnion,  September.  19,  1736,  had  eight  children.  He 
married  second,  Debora  Nagle,  July  23,  1762,  and  died 
in  1782. 

Peter  (ii),  (son  oe  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

40.  Engeltie  No.  i,  baptized  February  19,  1699,  died  young. 

41.  William,  bom  April   13,   1700,  married  Elizabeth  Beekman, 

January  19,  1720,  had  twelve  children.  Removed  to  the 
City  of  New  York,  but  eventually  returned  to  Albany. 
Was  a  mason.     Will  dated  1768,  proved  1774. 

42.  Cornelia,  baptized  December  2,  1702,  married  Derick  Bratt, 

Jr.,  September  6,  17 19,  had  two  children. 

43.  Cornelius,  baptized  November  18,  1705,  married  Jannetie  Van 

Ness,  September  26,  1732,  had  eight  children,  and  died 
May  18,  1756. 

44.  Engeltie  No.  2,  baptized  May  23,  1708,  died  unmarried. 

45.  Catherine,  baptized  October  24,  171 1,  married  Hendrick  Van 

Wie,  October  21,  1732,  had  eight  children. 

46.  Eva,  baptized  April  11,  1714,  married  John  F.  Whitbeck,  May 

9,  1740,  had  six  children. 

47.  Peter,  baptized  July  26,  1717,  died  May  29,  1728. 

•48.  Rebecca,  baptized  August  30,  17 19,  married  John  G.  Yates, 
November  28,  1737,  had  seven  children. 

49.  Gerrit,  baptized  April  7,  1723,  married  Maria  de  Forest,  Octo- 

ber 21,  1744,  had  eight  children.  A  mason;  removed  to 
to  New  York  City. 

Hendrick  (12),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

50.  Stephen,  born  October  12,  1716,  married  Martha  A.  Pierce, 

April  12,  1736,  had  six  children. 

51.  Samuel,  born  April  12,  1715,  married  Deborah  Vandenburgh, ' 

May,  1736,  had  six  children. 

52.  Hendrick. 

53.  Maria. 

54.  William. 

55.  Rebecca. 

William  (13),  (son  op  William),  had  issue: 

56.  Resolved,  baptized  October  9,  1706. 

57.  Rebecca,  baptized  December  21,  1709. 

58.  William,    baptized    January    25,    1712,    married    Margrietye 

Pieterse,  had  one  child. 

59.  Johanna,  baptized  March  2y,  17 15. 

60.  Deborah,  baptized  July  21,  1717. 

Johannes  (19),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue: 

61.  Barent,  born   November  6,   1720,  married  Lena  Gardenier, 

June  9,  1744,  had  thirteen  children. 


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62.  Peter,  born  September  5,  1723,  .married  Marritie  Ackerman, 

October  10,  1747,  had  twelve  children,  and  died  in  1806. 

63.  Isaac,  born  October  7,  1722,  married  Francina  Flierboom,  had 

two  children. 

64.  Cornelia,  who  married  Jacob  Gardenier,  had  four  children. 

65.  Catherine,  who  married  Reynier  Quackenbush,  had  thirteen 

children. 

66.  Rebecca,  who  married  Jacob  Flierboom,  July  7,  1753,  had  one 

child. 

67.  George,  born  January  10,  1732,  married  Annetta  Hagemian, 

January  10.  1752,  had  eight  children. 

Johannes  (19)  had  issue  by  second  wi^: 

68.  Hester,  born  April  23,  1734,  married  William  Williams,  De- 

cember 10,  1748. 

69.  Femmetye,  baptized  November  20,  1736,  married  Archey  Wil- 

liams, January  23,  1753. 

70.  Jacobus,  baptized  October  24,  1738,  married  Claessie  Quack- 

enbush, had  two  children. 

71.  Margrietie,  baptized  January  12,  1742. 

^2.  Nicholas,  baptized  April  19,  1746,  married  Marritje  Acker- 
man,  had  five  children. 

Johannes  Waldron  {2^),  (son  of  Johannes),  of  the  Hill, 
married  December  10,  17 19,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Samson  Ben- 
son, but  died  December  10, 1724.  His  widow  married  JohnRomer, 
and  went  to  live  in  Bergen  County,  New  Jersey,  but  returned  to 
Harlem,  where  Romer  purchased,  in  1744,  and  held  till  the  Revol- 
ution or  later,  the  square  plot  in  the  village,  south  of  the  Church 
Lane,  which  John  P.  Waldron  devised,  in  1806,  to  his  daughter 
Cornelia,  who  married  S.  D.  Ingraham. 

Johannes  (27)  had  issue: 

73.  Johannes,  born  April  12,  1721,  married  first,  Wyntie  Terhune, 

April  28,  1745,  had  ten  children.  He  married  second, 
Maria  Vermilye,  November  18,  1781,  and  died  October, 
1813. 

74.  Samuel,  born  May  10,  1723. 

Resolved  Waldron  (28),  (son  of  Johannes),  of  the  Hill, 
married  May  9,  1729,  Mattie,  daughter  of  Adrian  and  Anna 
Quackenbush,  and  removed  to  Hackensack,  joining  the  church 
there  in  1731.  On  April  10,  1751,  he  bought  a  farm  of  135  acres 
on  Floris'  Fall,  at  Haverstraw,  to  which,  after  his  decease,  Janu- 
ary 10,  1 76 1,  his  sons  John  and  Jacob  succeeded,  purchasing  from 
the  co-heirs,  June  17,  1789,  and  making  a  division  October  23, 


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1800.     Resolved  being  weak,  made  his  will,  December  22,  1756; 
it  was  proved  June  i,  1761. 

Resoi^ved  (28),  (son  01^  Johannes),  had  issue: 

75.  Mary,  born  1730,  married  Abraham  H.  Lent. 

76.  John  (Johannes),  baptized  May  28,  1732,  married  Elizabeth 

Lamb,  had  one  child. 
jy,  Anna,  born  1733,  married  Johannes  Springsteen.* 

78.  Catherine,  bom  1735,  married  Alexander  Bulen. 

79.  Adrian  (Edward),  bom  May  5,  1736,  married  Hannah  Alli- 

son, January  6,  1773,  had  seven  children. 

80.  Jacob,  born  February  16,  1737,  married  Catherine  Lamb,  Feb- 

ruary 6,  1765,  had  eight  children,  and  died  February  17, 
1805. 

81.  Elizabeth,  bom  1740,  married  Patrick  Hine. 

Samuel  (29),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

82.  Engeltie,  who  married  Lawrence  Meyer,  November  16,  1766. 

Francis  (32),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

83.  Gertrude,  bom  March  2,  1722. 

84.  Elizabeth,  baptized  December  16,  1722. 

85.  Martha,  born  July  5,  1724. 

86.  Neeltje,  baptized  October  18,  1724. 

87.  Agnietie  Neisje,  baptized  May  18,  1727. 

88.  Samuel,  bom  March  3,  1729,  married  Gertrude  Van  Ness, 

May  12,  1751,  had  eight  children,  and  died  May  17,  1791. 

89.  Hieronimus    (Jerome),  baptized  October   14,   173 1,  married 

Lydia ?,  had  six  children. 

90.  Catherine  (Catlyna),  baptized  May  19,  1734. 

91.  John  Obadiah,  born  March  21,  1738,  married  Nancy  Hager- 

man,  March  21,  1765,  had  five  children. 

92.  Francis,  bom  March  20,  1739,  rnarried  Nelly  Hagerman,  1760, 

had  six  children. 

93.  Johannes,  born  February  i,  1740. 

94.  William,  born  March  13,  1744. 

95.  Tunis,  bom  March  3,  1746. 

Resolved  Waldron  (33),  (son  of  Samuel),  married  January 
25,  1722,  Jannetie,  daughter  of  Johannes  Myer,  settled  near  Har- 

*  The  Springfstecns  have  a  good  claim,  in  the  matter  of  ancestry,  to  the  tradi- 
tional *'three  brothers;"  for  to  J[oost  and  Johannes  Springsteen,  named  in  the  Annals 
of  Newtown,  page  130,  as  coming  from  Groningen  in  1652,  must  be  added  Melle. 
or  Melchert,  at  Bushwick,  1663,  who  married  Gertrude  Bartelsen,  became  a  freeman 
of  New  York,  January  23,  1606,  but  ultimately  removed  to  Rockland  County.  He 
had  sons  Casparus,  Juriaen  and  Isaac;  the  first  the  miller  who  went  to  Schenectady. 
(See  Pearson  s  Albanjr  Settlers.)  Caspar,  of  Haverstraw,  1702,  son  of  Johannes  afore- 
said, also  left  a  family,  whence,  probably,  Johannes  named  in  the  text.  We  have 
gathered  other  items  respecting  the  Springsteens,  which  would  aid  in  making  up  a 
genealogy.  The  first  were  Swedes.  The  Delaware  branch  shortened  the  name  to 
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lingen,  N.  J.,  where  he  was  a  deacon  and  elder;  returned  eventu- 
ally and  lived  at  Eastchester,  then  became  a  baker  in  New  York, 
and  later  a  farmer  in  Brooklyn.  He  died  there  October  21,  1772, 
and  was  buried  in  New  York,  administration  on  his  estate  being 
granted  on  October  23d  to  his  youngest  son,  Adolph,  also  of 
Kings  County,  yeoman. 

Resolved  (33)  had  issue: 

96.  Samuel,  born  1723,  married  Mary  Bassett,  June  10,  1749,  had 

ten  children,  and  died  October,  1771.  Was  a  farmer  at 
the  ferry  in  Brooklyn. 

97.  John,  baptized  April  24,  1726,  married  Rebecca  Bussing,  Feb- 

ruary I,  1759,  had  two  children.  "Of  New  York,  mar- 
iner." 

98.  Adolph,  bom  March  30,  1729,  married  Catharine,  daughter 

of  Capt.  Alexander  Phoenix,  March  15,  1758,  had  eight 
children,  and  died  August  25,  1818.  Was  a  baker  and 
shop-keeper. 

99.  Catharina,  baptized  September  17,  1735. 

William  Waldron  (36),  (son  of  Samuel),  bom  February  10, 
T705,  married  April  13,  1729,  Aagie,  daughter  of  Jacob  Sammon; 
October  6,  1734,  Catharine,  daughter  of  David  Mandeville,  and 
as  his  third  wife,  August  24,  1744,  Antie,  daughter  of  Adolph 
Myer,  who  survived  him.  He  was  made  constable  in  1734,  and 
soon  after  sergeant  in  the  company  of  Capt.  Stuyvesant.  Enjoy- 
ing the  confidence  of  his  townsmen,  by  whom  on  various  occa- 
sions he  was  intrusted  with  the  public  interests,  Mr.  Waldron 
fairly  represented  the  stability  and  respectability  so  largely  char- 
acteristic of  the  family.  He  died  December  5,  1769,  and  was  bur- 
ied with  his  fathers  in  the  old  graveyard  at  Harlem. 

William  (36)  had  issue: 

100.  Tanneke,  bom  April  22,  1730,  married  Matthew  Mandeville, 

October  26,  1751,  had  seven  children. 

10 1.  Jacobus,  born  November  6,  1731,  died  1740. 

102.  Aggie  No.  I,  born  August,  1735. 

103.  David,  born  May  23,  1737,  married  first,  Cornelia  Waldron, 

December  i,  1763,  had  four  children.  He  married  second, 
Sarah  Meyer,  1802,  but  died  without  issue  by  second  wife, 
October  10,  1813. 

104.  Maria  No.  i,  born  January  8,  died  in  infancy. 

105.  Mary  (Maria  No.  2),  born  October  12,  1740,  married  first, 

Stephen  Brinckerhoff,  April  3,  1755,  had  one  child.  She 
married  second,  John  Vredenburgh,  1760,  had  three  chil- 
dren. 

106.  Samuel,  born  August  3,  1742,  married  Aefie  Waldron,  April 

10,  1774,  had  four  children,  and  died  in  1798. 


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107.  Aggie  No.  2,  born  July  19,  1745. 

108.  William,  bom  September  11,  1746,  married  Lena  Van  Tas- 

sel, July  26,  1760,  had  six  children. 

109.  Adolph,  born  April  4, 1748,  married  Christina  Zabriskie,  Sep- 

tember 12,  1775,  had  seven  children,  and  died  April  i, 

1798. 
no.  Margaret,  bom  December  8,  1749,  married  Abraham  Lent, 

January  10,  1779,  had  eight  children. 
HI.  John,  born  November  3,  1751,  married  first,  Elizabeth  Oaks, 

November    12,    1772,    had    five    children.      He    married 

second,  Aletta  Bicker,  October  9,  1785,  had  eight  children, 

died  September  19,  1798.     Was  a  tailor. 

112.  Peter,  bom  April  23,  1754,  married  Edna  Swartwout,  Feb- 

ruary 21,  1796,  had  ten  children,  and  died  May  10,  1827. 

113.  Benjamin,  born  February  15,  1759,  married  Maria  Brincker- 

hoflf,  December  5,  1779,  had  seven  children. 

Peter  Waldron  (37),  (son  of  Samuel),  also  called  Petrus, 
was  named  for  his  uncle,  Peter  Van  Oblienis,  to  whose  lands  he 
afterward  succeeded.  He  married  January  24,  1732,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Johannes  Myer,  and  was  made  constable  in  1735.  In 
1738  he  occupied  the  plot  before  of  Peter  Van  Oblienis,  and  since 
of  James  Chesterman  (see  page  172).  Coming  into  possession 
of  the  Oblienis  farm  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  Peter  Waldron  made 
additions  to  that  part  of  it  which  joined  on  the  Church  Lane. 
One  piece,  known  as  "the  hoeck",  comer  or  end,  "of  the  Klaaver 
wey",  or  Clover  Pasture  (see  page  307)  and  described  as  "lying 
in  the  village  of  Harlem,  aforesaid,  bounded  west  against  the  land 
now  in  possession  of  Peter  Waldron,  north  by  the  highway,  east 
by  the  street  or  lane,  south  by  the  old  lots  of  Van  Keulen's  Flats," 
was  sold  him  by  the  town,  May  11,  1747,  for  ii6:io,  "upon  con- 
dition that  Maria  Meyer  may  have  a  convenient  way  to  her  land." 
A  question  between  him  and  Benjamin  Benson,  who  owned  lots 
7  to  9,  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  was  settled  by  the  award  of  May  30, 
1753,  which  decided  "that  Peter  Waldron  hath  a  just  right  to, 
and  that  he  be  at  liberty  to  take  in  and  enclose  to  his  own  use  and 
possession,  a  small  slip  of  land  which  lies  within  the  fence  of  said 
Benjamin  Benson,  behind  the  Cloverwey,  so  as  the  same  is  now 
staked  out  to  him  for  that  purpose."     Waldron  died  July  12,  1772. 

Peter  (z?)  had  issue: 

114.  Cornelia,  born  December  19,  1733,  married  David  Waldron, 

December  i,  1763,  had  four  children,  and  died  March  28, 
1796. 

115.  Peter,  bom  December  15,   1736,  married  Engeltie  Meyer, 

January  24,  1765,  had  one  child. 

116.  John,  born  June  30,  1741,  died  November  12,  1741. 


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£17.  John  P.,  born  April  i,  1748,  married  Elizabeth  Bend,  1770. 
had  four  children,  and  died  in  1806.  At  a  meeting  of  the 
Harlem  freeholders,  held  at  Mariner's  Inn,  December  19, 
1801,  John  P.  Waldron  and  five  others  were  chosen  com- 
missioners to  carry  into  effect  a  plan  for  dividing  up  the 
Harlem  Commons  among  the  freeholders,  and  laying  an 
annual  ground-rent  which  should  be  applied  to  the  sup- 
port of  an  academy  in  said  town.  Register's  Office,  Deeds, 
73:420. 

Samuel  Waldron  (38),  (son  of  Samuel),  bom  February  13, 
1710,  was  a  blacksmith,  married  April  25,  1735,  Anna  Delamater, 
bom  July  15,  17 15,  and  removed  to  Newtown,  Long  Island,  where 
he  bought  a  small  farm,  February  6,  1736 ;  joined  church  at  New- 
town, Long  Island,  November  i,  1741,  and  was  an  elder  and  a 
deacon,  and  died  August  23,  1771. 

Samuei.  (38)  HAD  issue: 

118.  Anne,  born  January  29,  1736,  married  Richard  Rapelye. 

119.  Samuel,  born  March  13,  1738,  married  Hannah  Van  Alst, 

March  4,  1763,  had  five  children,  and  died  September  4, 
1799.  Joined  church  at  Newtown,  L.  I.,  November  24, 
1788,  was  an  elder  there  till  1795.  (See  Annals  of  New- 
town, page  381.) 

120.  John  S.,  born  June  18,  1741,  died  single,  February  18,  1795. 

121.  Elizabeth,  born  January  29,  1744,  married  Samuel  Beekman, 

December  5,  1765,  had  five  children. 

122.  Margaret,  bom  July  13,   1746,  married  Jacobus  Waldron, 

March  10,  1772,  had  three  children,  and  died  August  5, 

1834. 

123.  Comelia   (Catherine),  born  September  11,  1749,  died,  un- 

married, April  5,  1769. 

124.  William,  born  October  22,    1752,  married   Mary    (Maria) 

Waldron,  May  20,  1781,  had  nine  children,  and  died  April 
1824. 

125.  Benjamin,   born   February   25,    1755,   married   first,   Pheby 

Wood,  1780,  had  two  children.  He  married  second, 
Maria  Southard,  February  27,  1795,  had  nine  children, 
and  died  March  15,  1830. 

Benjamin  Waldron  (39),  (son  of  Samuel),  married  Septem- 
ber 19,  1736,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jacob  Sammon,  and  on  July 
23,  1762,  he  married  Debora  Nagle.  Obtaining  the  two  lower 
lots  of  the  Hoorn's  Hook  farm,  known  as  Nos.  3,  4,  of  the  grants 
of  1677,  he  exchanged  with  John  Brown,  owning  the  Codrington 
farm,  giving  the  easterly  half  of  these  for  the  westerly  half  of 
his  lots  Nos.  I,  2,  by  which  both  tracts  were  made  nearer  square. 


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Waldron  built  on  his  part,  and  for  many  years  carried  on  a  tan- 
nery and  shoe  factory.  He  died  in  1782,  and  the  property  passing 
to  Yellis  Hopper,  was  thence  known  as  the  Hopper  place,  the 
quaint  old  stone  house  standing  till  late  on  Second  Avenue,  west 
side,  between  83d  and  84th  Streets. 

Benjamin  (39),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

126.  John,  born  April  2,  1739,  married  Anna  Beekman,  November 

12,  1766,  had  two  children,  and  died  September  10,  1795. 

127.  Elizabeth,  born  October  3,  1740,  married  Yellis  Hopper,  July 

15,  1759,  had  six  children. 

128.  Jacobus,  born  May  6,    1741,   married   Margaret  Waldron, 

March  10,  1772,  had  three  children.  Settled  at  New- 
town, L.  I.,  where  he  was  a  deacon  of  the  church,  Novem- 
ber 15,  1795. 

129.  Benjamin,  born  September  10,  1743,  married  Hannah  Van 

Sise,  March  10,  1779,  had  three  children,  and  died  August, 
1832. 

130.  Catalina,  born  June   5,    1744,  married   S&muel  Delamater, 

October  3,  1756,  had  six  children. 

131.  Aeffie,  born  April  10,  1746,  married  Samuel  Waldron,  April 

10,  1774,  had  four  children,  and  died  April  18,  1825. 

132.  Cornelia,  born  November  3,  1747,  married  Ide  Hennion,  June 

14,  1760,  had  seven  children. 

133.  Eve,  who  married  Robert  Boyle,  March  12,  1758. 

WiLUAM  (41),  (son  of  Peter),  h.\d  issue: 

134.  Pieter,  born  April  10,  1720,  married  first,  Neeltie  Lansing, 

December  3,  1743,  had  six  children.  He  married  second, 
Antje  Onderkerk,  April  14,  1764,  had  seven  children. 

135.  Neeltie  No.  i,  baptized  August  13,  1721,  died  young. 

136.  Tryntje  (Catharine),  baptized  September  2^y  1722,  married 

Arent  Van  Deusen,  April  20,  1745,  had  two  children. 

137.  Martin,  baptized  November  22,  1725. 

138.  Susanna,  baptized  September  ii,  1726. 

139.  Cornelia  No.  i,  baptized  January  10,  1728,  died  young. 

140.  Cornelia  No.  2,  baptized  August  22,  1730,  married  Patrick 

Clark,  had  ten  children. 

141.  Neeltie  No.  2,  baptized  December  24,  1732,  married  Folkert 

Vandenbergh,  May  10,  1755,  had  seven  children. 

142.  Anna  No.  i,  baptized  June  22,  1735,  died  young. 

143.  Anna  No.  2,  baptized  February  5,  1738. 

144.  James  (Jacobus),  born  October  10,  1740,  married  Catherine 

Vanburen,  November  10,  1764,  had  three  children. 

145.  Elizabeth,   baptized   August    16,    1741,    married    Frederick 

Meinerssen,  April  23,  1765,  had  nine  children. 


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Cornelius  (43),  (son  of  Poter),  had  issue: 

146.  Pieter,  bom  June  10,  1734,  married  Rachel  Vandenbergh, 

had  one  child. 

147.  Evert,  bom  May  8,  1736,  died  June  20,  1829. 

148.  Garret,  born  May  31,  1738,  married  Catherine  Van  Den- 

burgh,  November  26,  1761,  had  ten  children,  and  died  in 
1829. 

149.  Geertje,  born  February  22,  1741,  married  Nicholas  Groes- 

beck,  June  27,  1766,  had  eight  children. 

150.  Comelius,  bom  May  17,  1743,  married  Alida  Goewey,  July 

2,  1769,  had  seven  children. 

151.  Hendrick   (Capt.),  bom  May  2,   1745,  married  Margarita 

Van  Vranken,  November  26,  1771,  had  nine  children. 

152.  Tryntje    (Catherine),   born    November   25,    1747,    married 

Nicholas  Vandenbergh,  January  3,  1779,  had  seven  chil- 
dren. 
153-  Willem  (William),  bom  March  3,  1749,  married  Margarita 
Van  der  Werken,  February  10,  1777,  had  eight  children, 
and  died  November  26,  1832. 

Gerrit  (49),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

154.  Pieter,  baptized  June  15,  1746,  died  young. 

155.  Tryntje    (Catherine),   baptized   August    10,    1748,   married 

Alexander  Exceen,  April  13,  1769,  had  two  children. 

156.  Engeltie  No.  i,  baptized  December  20,  1749,  died  young. 

157.  Peter,  baptized  September  15,  1751. 

158.  Johannes  No.  i,  baptized  March  24,  1754,  died  young. 

159.  Cornelius,  baptized  October  2,  1755. 

160.  John  (Johannes  No.  2),  baptized  June  4,  1758. 

161.  Engeltie  No.  2,  baptized  August  17,  1760. 

Stephen  (50),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

162.  Joseph,  bom  May  23,  1737,  married  Anna  Shaw,  March  10, 

1757. 

163.  Robert. 

164.  Sylvester. 

165.  Nancy. 

166.  Betsey. 

167.  Hannah. 

Samuei.  (51),  (son  op  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

168.  Abiather,  bom  1750,  married  Malinda  Ostrander,  1775,  had 

eight  children. 

169.  William. 

170.  Hendrick. 

171.  Samuel. 


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172.  Deborah. 

173.  Maria. 


W11.UAM  (58),  (son  of  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

174.  Andreas,  bom  November  29,  1743,  baptized  December  25, 

1743- 

Barent  (61),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

175.  Rachel,  baptized  April  20,  1745. 

176.  Susanna,  baptized  July  26,  1747,  married  William  Peterson, 

had  one  child. 

177.  Albartus,  baptized  June  9,   1750,  married  Rachel  Haring, 

1785,  had  two  children,  and  died  April  27,  1833. 

178.  Johannes,  bom  July  25,  1752,  married  Annatye  Blauvelt,  had 

two  children. 

179.  Barent,  bom  November  20,  1754. 

180.  Jacobus   (James),  bom  February  24,  1757,  married  Lydia 

Haring,  had  two  children,  and  died  April  18,  1836. 

181.  Isaac,  born  June  7,  1759. 

182.  Jannetee,  born  May  22,  1761,  married  Cornelius  Peterson, 

had  four  children. 

183.  Rebecca,  bom  December  18,   1763,  married  Johannes  Van 

Hoom,  January  22,  1794,  had  two  children. 

184.  Abraham,   baptized   October   26,    1766,   married   Elizabeth 

Crum,  had  three  children. 

185.  Petrus,  born   December    11,    1768,   married   Charity   King, 

October  2,  1798. 

186.  Margrietje,  born  February  15,  1771. 

187.  Helena,  baptized  February  28,  1779. 

Peter  (62),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

188.  Johannes,  baptized  April  25,  1749. 

189.  Maretje  (Maria),  baptized  August  19,  1750,  married  Abra- 

ham Van  Tassell,  October  3,  1769,  had  four  children. 

190.  David,  baptized  September  11,  175 1,  married  first,  Elizabeth 

Sempee,  July  25,  1773,  had  one  child.  He  married 
second,  Mrs.  Fanny  Morgan,  1778,  had  two  children,  and 
died  November  9,  1819. 

191.  Jannetje,  baptized  July  5,  1752. 

192.  Isaac  No.  i,  baptized  November  24,  1756,  died  young. 

193.  Isaac  No.  2,  baptized  October  24,  1758. 

194.  Petrus,  baptized  February  4,  1761. 

195.  William,  baptized  September  18,  1763. 

196.  Catherina,  baptized  December  22,  1765. 

197.  Jacobus,  baptized  July  17,  1768. 

198.  Abraham,  bom  April  i,  1770,  married  first,  Mary  Conklin, 


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May  lo,  1797,  had  six  children.     He  had  a  second  wife, 
by  whom  he  had  three  children,  and  died  in  1834. 

199.  Henrikus,  baptized  January  30,  1773. 

Isaac  (63),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

200.  Margrietje,  bom  August  11,  1751,  married  John  Taylor,  had 

two  children. 

201.  John,  bom  December  13,  1760,  married  Aeltje  Onderdonck, 

had  seven  children. 

George  (67),  (son  oe  Johannes),  had  issue: 

202.  Joseph,  born  May  23,  1753,  married  Emily  Pierce,  May  15, 

1776,  had  one  child. 

203.  George,  bom  1755. 

204.  Thomas,  born  1758. 

205.  Anna,  born  1760. 

206.  William,  born  1761. 

207.  Philip,  born  April  10,  1763,  married  Anna  Catherine  Keller, 

April  10,  1786,  had  nine  children,  and  died  January  i, 

1857. 

208.  Maria,  bom  1767. 

209.  Ely,  bom  1767,  was  the  father  of  three  children. 

Jacobus  (70),  (son  oe  Johannes),  had  issue: 

210.  Susanna,  born  May  21,  1766,  married  John  Coe,  had  one 

child. 

211.  Jacob,  born  December  2,  1767. 

Nicholas  (72),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

212.  Marritje,  born  1770. 

213.  Rebecca,  bom  1771. 

214.  Johannes,  born  January  24,   1773,  married  Sarah  Levines, 

September  20,  1796,  had  eight  children. 

215.  Abraham,  born  1715. 

216.  Nicholas,  born  1777. 

Johannes  (73) y  (son  of  Johannes),  built  a  house  on  the  Com- 
mons, at  96th  Street,  at  the  junction  of  Kingsbridge  Road  with 
the  Bloomingdale  New  Cross  Road,  also  called  Apthorpe's  or 
Jauncey's  Lane.  Though  originally,  we  believe,  without  a  written 
title  to  the  land  he  had  inclosed,  he  continued  in  possession  till 
his  death  in  October,  1813,  at  the  age  of  91  years.  His  old  house, 
which  stood  in  Central  Park,  was  afterward  burned.  •  He  was 
twice  married,  first  April  28,  1745,  to  Wyntie  Terhune,  of  Hack- 
ensack,  N.  J.,  and  secondly  November  18,  1781,  to  Maria  Ver- 
milye;  by  the  first  wife  having  a  large  family,  his  son,  Samuel 
Benson,  succeeding  to  his  "possession." 


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JOHANNBS   (73)    HAD  ISSUE: 

217.  John,  baptized  March  23,  1746. 

218.  Elizabeth,  baptized   November   15,    1747,  married  William 

Sandallen,  April  20,  1764. 

219.  Albert,  bom  1749. 

220.  Antie  (Anna),  baptized  November  10,  1751,  married  Samuel 

Jones,  1767. 

221.  Peter,  baptized  March  20,  1753,  married  Hannah  Van  Blar- 

com,  April  17,  1774,  but  died  without  issue  in  1780. 

222.  Oliver,  born  November  12,  1753,  married  Sarah  Jay,  June 

10,  1778,  had  six  children.     Of  New  York ;  freeman. 

223.  Geesje,  baptized  July  7,  1754. 

224.  Marytie,  bom  January  i,  1756,  married  William  Shaw,  had 

twelve  children,  and  died  April  11,  1819. 

225.  Samuel  Benson,  born  August  28,  1757,  married  first,  Ger- 

trude Somerndyke,  June  10,  1782,  had  two  children.  .  He 
married  second,  Polly  Holmes,  in  1824,  and  died  in  1848. 

226.  Benjamin,  born   May   12,    1762,   married   Sarah   Vermilye, 

1790,  died  at  his  residence,  near  St.  Mark's  Church,  New 
York  City,  about  1823. 

John  (76),  (son  of  Resolved),  had  issue: 

227.  John,  bom  December  25,  1780. 

Adrian  (79),  (son  of  Resolved),  had  issue: 

228.  John,  bom  July  18,  1774,  married  Anna  Gardener,  Septem- 

ber 3,  1798,  had  twelve  children. 

229.  Edward,  bom  July  15,  1779,  married  Annie  Secor,  had  ten 

children. 

230.  Resolvert  E.,  born  July  29,   1781,  married  Elizabeth  Ten 

Eyck,  had  nine  children. 

231.  Joseph,  who  married  Katherine  Demarest,  had  nine  children. 

232.  Elizabeth,  who  married  David  Babcock. 

233.  Deborah,  who  married  Anthony  Call. 

234.  Martha,  who  married  James  Du  Boice.  • 

Jacob  (80),  (son  of  Resolved),  had  issue: 

235-  Jacob,  born  August  6,  1766,  died  single,  September  3,  1787. 
236.  Resolved  No.  i,  born  February  19,  1768,  died  young. 
^yj'  Abraham,  born  March  14,   1769,  married  Maria  Deronda, 
April  6,  1791,  had  ten  children,  and  died  May  19,  1815. 

238.  Rachel,  born  November  i,  1772,  married  John  Blauvelt,  and 

died  October  10,  1795. 

239.  Resolved  No.  2,  bom  July  8,  1775,  married,  but  died  without 

issue,  June  17,  1856. 

240.  Catherine,   born  July   20,    1777,   married   George   Weiantt, 


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February  lo,  1796,  had  ten  children,  and  died  March  25, 
1851. 

241.  Margaret,  born  December  4,  1781,  died,  unmarried,  in  1872. 

242.  Hannah,  bom  July  10,  1785,  mafried Blanchard. 

Samuel  (88),  (son  of  Francis),  had  issue: 

243.  Samuel  Van  Ness,  bom  August  19,  1752,  married  Magda- 

lena  Simpson,  April  26,  1774,  had  ten  children,  and  died 
January  23,  1849. 

244.  Mary  (Polly),  born  October  10,  1753. 

245.  Maria,   bom   April    10,    1754,   married   William   Waldron, 

May.  20,  1781,  had  nine  children. 

246.  Francis,  born  May  12,  1755,  died  December  25,  1799. 

247.  Jeremiah,  bom  1756. 

248.  Jerome,  bom  May  11,  1760,  married  Maria  Hagerman,  Sep- 

tember 6,  1780,  had  four  children. 

249.  Catherine,  bom  April  12,  1762,  married  Francis  Hagerman. 

250.  John,  born  September  18,  1769. 

HiERONiMus  (Jerome)   (89),  (son  of  Francis), 
HAD  issue: 

251.  Derick   (Richard),  bom  January  15,   1764,  married  Eliza- 

beth Weezer,  September  19,  1790,  had  thirteen  children. 

252.  Francis,  born  1767. 

253.  John,  bom  1769,  married  Maria  Van  Fleet,  had  eight  chil- 

dren. 

254.  Tanneke,  baptized  May  23,  1773,  married  first,  Noah  Phil- 

lips, had  eight  children.     She  married  second, Stout 

255.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Hardenbrook. 

256.  Catherine,  who  married  Isaac  Huff,  had  one  child. 

John  Obadiah  (91),  (son  of  Francis),  had  issue: 

257.  Francis,  bom   1761,  married  Nancy  Petit,   1782,  had  four 

children,  and  died  in  1835. 

258.  Derick  (Richard). 

259.  John. 

260.  Nancy. 

261.  William,  bom  September  12,  1780,  married  Sarah  Lunger, 

1813,  had  five  children. 

Francis  (92),  (son  of  Francis),  had  issue: 

262.  Jerome,  born   November   i,    1760,   married  Elizabeth  Van 

Fleet,   September   10,   1786,  had  six  children,  and  died 
January  5,  1848. 

263.  Samuel,  born  August  11,   1762,  married  Nelly  Van  Fleet, 

May  20,  1783,  had  six  children,  and  died  March  6,  1838. 


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264.  Maria  (Mary),  bom  1763. 

265.  Catherine,  born  1766. 

266.  Francis,  bom  1767. 

267.  Nelly,  born  1769. 

Samuel  (96),  (son  of  Resolved),  had  issue: 

268.  Catherine,  baptized  July  25,  1750,  married  Captain  Nicholas 

P.  Bogert,  had  five  children. 

269.  Johannes  No.  i,  baptized  October  9,  175 1,  died  young. 

270.  Maria,  baptized  September  26,  1753,  married  Elias  Nexsen, 

October  3,  1775,  had  six  children. 

271.  Margaret,  baptized  August  20,  1755,  married  Frederick  de 

la  Montagnie,  1775. 
2.'j2,  Samuel,  baptized  September  14,  1757. 

273.  William,  baptized  August  5,  1759,  died  in  infancy. 

274.  Elsie,  baptized  August  5,  1759,  married  Peter  Parcels,  1779, 

had  five  children. 

275.  John   (Johannes  No.  2),  baptized  May   16,   1761,  married 

Maria  Vandenburgh,  1782. 

2,^6,  Jannetje  (Jane),  baptized  June  10,  1763,  married  Elias  Nex- 
sen, 1795. 

2rjj.  Efje  (Eve),  baptized  January  2^,  1765. 

John  (97),  (son  of  Resolved),  had  issue: 

278.  Mary    (Maria),  baptized  June  20,    1762,   married   Samuel 

Myer,  1782. 

279.  John  (Johannes),  baptized  September  29,  1771. 

Adolph  Waldron  (98),  (son  of  Resolved),  born  March  30, 

1729,  of  New  York,  baker  and  shop-keeper,  married  March  15. 
1758,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Capt.  Alexander  Phoenix,  removed 
to  Eastchester,  returned  to  New  York,  sold  out  here  after  the 
death  of  his  brother  Samuel,  and  became  a  farmer  and  innkeeper 
at  Brooklyn  ferry.  In  1775  he  was  made  captain  of  the  troop 
of  light-horse  and  soon  called  into  active  service  to  guard  the 
coast.  During  the  war  he  lived  at  Preakness,  New  Jersey.  In 
179s  he  sold  his  Brooklyn  property,  and  died  in  1802. 

Adolph  (98)  had  issue  : 

280.  Catharine  No.  i,  born  March  10,  1759,  died  young. 

281.  Elizabeth  No.  i,  born  April  13,  1761,  died  April  26,  1775. 

282.  Resolvert  (Capt.),  born  August  13,  1763,  married  Elizabeth 

Godwin,  January  30,  1782,  had  four  children,  and  died 
June  6,  1810.     "Of  New  York;  shipmaster." 

283.  Alexander  Phoenix,  bom  September  13,  1765,  married  first, 

Maria,  daughter  of  Rev.  Harmanus  Meier,  April  8,  1789, 


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had  three  children.  He  married  second,  Hannah  Robert- 
son, December  ii,  1796,  had  two  children,  and  died  Oc- 
tober 6,  1798. 

284.  Catherine  No.  2,  born  December  12,  1768,  married  David 

Godwin,  March  18,  1791,  had  four  children. 

285.  Maria,  bom  October  12,  1770. 

286.  Jane,  bom  June  30,  1772,  married  Dr.  John  R.  Campbell, 

November  28,  1792,  had  eleven  children. 

287.  Elizabeth  No.  2,  bom  September  3,  1777,  died  unmarried, 

June  9,  1802. 

David  (103),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

288.  Catherine,  bom  December  i,  1766,  married  Jonathan  Ran- 

dell,  January  19,  1794,  had  five  children. 

289.  William,  bom  May  3,  1767,  married  Mary  Boyce,  October 

17,  1789,  had  three  children,  and  died  in  181 1. 

290.  Eliza,  bom  September  8,  1769,  married  John  Dawson,  May 

23,  1790,  had  three  children,  and  died  January  4,   1802. 

291.  Peter,  born  March  8,  1777,  married  Sarah  Williams,   1810, 

had  two  children,  and  died  in  1830. 

Samuel  (106),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

292.  Elizabeth,  bom  1778,  died  young. 

293.  Samuel  Resolved,  born   September  7,   1780,  married  Ger- 

trude Waldron,  May  12,  1805,  had  eight  children,  and 
died  December  31,  1824. 

294.  David,  born  December  15,  1788,  died  single  in  1814. 

295.  Benjamin,  born  September  5,  1792,  died  young. 

William  (108),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

296.  Joseph,  baptized  February  13,  1762. 

297.  Anna,  baptized  February  12,  1764. 

298.  Johannes,  baptized  August  27,  1767. 

299.  Effye,  baptized  June  3,  1770. 

300.  Catherine,  baptized  November  20,  1774. 

301.  John,  born  June  i,  1776. 

Adolph  (109),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

302.  William,  born  July  23,  1776,  died  single,  March  14,  1807. 

303.  Catherine,  bom  September  17,  1778,  died  unmarried,  Octo- 

ber 2,   1798. 

304.  Wilhelmus,  bom  December  27,  1780. 

305.  Antje    (Anna),   bom    September   23,    1783,    married    John 

Young,  had  four  children,  and  died  June  18,  1825. 

306.  Tunis  A.,  bom  April  10,  1786,  married  first,  Julia  St.  John, 

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June  28,  1834,  had  two  children,  and  died  March  2,  1861. 

307.  Sarah,  born  October  29,  1788,  married  Thomas  Williams, 

had  three  children,  and  died  in  1862. 

308.  Benjamin  A.,  bom  November  18,   1794,  married  Ann  M. 

Donelsen,  October  12,  1816,  had  two  children,  and  died 
February  18,  1828. 

John  (hi),  (son  of  William),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

309.  Anna,  bom  September  18,  1773,  married  Robert  H.  Towt, 

June  10,  1793,  had  six  children,  and  died  August  i,  1863. 

310.  William  J.,  bom  October  13,  1774,  married  first,  Elizabeth 

Montanye,  May  5,  1796,  had  five  children.  He  married 
second,  Anna  Collister,  November  i,  1831,  and  died  April 
15,  1851.     Was  a  grocer  and  assistant  alderman,  1811. 

311.  Thomas,  bom  April  26,   1776,  died  single,  December   17, 

1794. 

312.  Eve,  born  June  13,  1778,  married  Abraham  Freelove,  No- 

vember 26,  1796,  had  three  childsen,  and  died  January 
20,  1805. 

313.  Elizabeth,  born  November  20,  1780,  died  unmarried,  Sep- 

tember 19,  1798. 

John  (hi)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

314.  Nelly  Bicker    (Elinor),  born  February  20,   1786,  married 

William  Seamon,  March  23,  1805,  had  ten  children,  and 
died  October  9,  i860. 

315.  John  Vredenburgh,  bom  July  16,  1788,  married  Maria  Wil- 

liams, April  23,  1818,  and  died  April  9,  1825. 

316.  Ann  Catherine,  born  November  20,  1789,  died  September  2, 

1790. 

317.  Victor  Bicker  No.  i,  born  July  i,   1791,  died  August  30, 

1792. 

318.  Margaret,  bom  October  16,  1792,  married  Ebenezer  Bald- 

win Nuttman,  April  4,  181 5,  had  four  children,  and  died 
May  12,  1871. 

319.  Maria,  born   September  26,    1794,   married  James   Calvert 

Faulkner,  September  26,  18 15. 

320.  Annetje.  bom  February  24,  1796,  married  James  Gillespie, 

March  9,  1815,  and  died  December,  1876. 

321.  Victor    Bicker    No.    2,    born    February    8,    1798,    married 

Catharine  Deliverance  Adeline  Mapes,  October  15,  1822, 
had  four  children,  and  died  March  3,  1848. 

Peter  (112),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

322.  Edward  H.,  born  April  22,  1798,  died  single,  1884. 

323.  Sarah  Hunting,  born  April  28,  1800,  married  John  Bedford, 

February  20,  1828,  had  two  children. 


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324.  Jacobus  Swarthout,  baptized  April  10,  1802. 

325.  Anna  Rebecca,  baptized  January  i,  1804,  married  Abraham 

Rappelye,  December  20,  1836,  had  ten  children,  and  died 
January  14,  1868. 

326.  Letta,  bom  1804,  ^^^d  unmarried. 

327.  Alletie  Swarthout,  born  April  13,  1806. 

328.  Four  other  children  that  died  young. 

Benjamin  (113),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

329.  Mereca  (Maria),  baptized  November  26,  1780,  married  John 

Hoogland,  January  8,  1806,  had  five  children. 

330.  Willem  (William),  bom  December  3,  1782,  married  Sarah 

Wood,  1809,  had  six  children. 

331.  Anna,  born  October  16,  1783. 

332.  John    Brinkerhoff,   born   October    18,    1787,   married   Jane 

Sleight,  February  28,  18 16,  had  two  children. 

333.  Peter,  baptized  May  21,  1790. 

334.  Stephen  Brinkerhoff,  baptized  November  14,  1793,  married 

Susan ?,  had  two  children,  and  died  March  7,  1850. 

335.  Benjamin,  bom  November  20,  1800. 

Peter  (115),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

336.  Susannah,  born  January  20,  1766,  married  Peter  Myer,  1786. 

John  P.  (117),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

337.  Peter,  born  1772. 

338.  Grove  Bend,  bom  1776. 

339.  John  P.,  Jr.,  born  1780,  married  Catherine  Maria  McGown, 

181 2,  had  one  child. 

340.  Cornelia,  born  1784,  married  Samuel  Dana  Ingraham,  1804. 

Samuel  (119),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

341.  Aletta,  born  December  8,  1763,  married  Adrian  Montfort, 

1783,  had  three  children,  and  died  July  29,  1802. 

342.  Anna,  born  July  25,  1765,  married  Isaac  Bragaw,  August 

16,  1782,  had  nine  children,  and  died  March,  1814. 

343.  Hannah,  born  November  15,  1770,  married  Edward  Moore, 

1792,  and  died  November,  1854. 

344.  Samuel,  bom  Julv   16,   1775,  married  first,  Ann  Emmons, 

February    3,    1803,    had    four    children.      He    married 
second,  Mary  Rider,  had  one  child,  and  died  May  6,  1856. 

345.  Cornelia,  born  March  10,  1788,  married  Dr.  Joseph  Rodgers 

(or  Rogers),  1800,  had  three  children,  and  died  April  19, 
1814. 

WiLUAM  (124),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

346.  Samuel  No.  i,  bom  February  3,  1782,  died  August  25,  1784. 


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347.  Jerome  (Jeremiah),  bom  April  12,  1783. 

348.  Samuel  No.  2,  bom  September  29,   1784,  married   Sarah 

Stout,  June  24,  1813,  had  ten  children,  and  died  January 
23,  1870. 

349.  John,  born  December  30,  1786,  married  Lydia  Hagerman, 

June  II,  181 1,  but  died  without  issue,  February  11,  1867. 

350.  William,  born  January  12,  1789,  married  Hester  Matthews, 

February  2,  1814,  had  nine  children,  and  died  November 
14,  1833. 

351.  Richard,  born  March  2,  1791,  married  Mary  Stout,  June  12, 

1813,  had  five  children,  and  died  August  6,  182(6. 

352.  Francis,  bom  July  29,  1793,  died  September  10,  1793. 

353.  Anna,  bom  November  18,  1.798,  died  March  13,  1800. 

354.  Elizabeth,  born  February  25,  1801,  died  unmarried,  July  9, 

1847. 

Benjamin  (125),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue  by 
FIRST  wife: 

355.  Samuel,  baptized  November  18,  1781. 

356.  Benjamin,  bom  1790,  died  young. 

Benjamin  (125)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

357.  Elizabeth,  bom  1792,  married  Franklin  Roe,  had  three  chil- 

dren, and  died  in  1865. 

358.  Benjamin,    bom    September    15,    1795,   married    Sarah    A. 

Eiden,  and  died  April  10,  1874. 

359.  Emily,  bom  1800,  married  James  Pine,  December  30,  1827, 

had  six  children,  and  died  in  1875. 

360.  Thomas,  born  September,  1802,  married  Charlotte  Bloom- 

field,  1830,  had  nine  children,  and  died  in  1861. 

361.  Mary,  born  December  30,    1807,   married  Thomas   Bowie, 

had  five  children,  and  died  May  11,  1868. 

362.  Anna,  bom  181 7,  married  first,  John  Caden,  had  one  child. 

She  married  second, Parsells,  had  six  children,  and 

died  in  1882. 

363.  Amelia,  bom  August  3,  1818,  married  Robert  P.  Pierson, 

September  6,  1846,  had  two  children,  and  died  February 
I,  1889. 

364.  James,  bom  1819,  was  the  father  of  six  children,  and  died 

in  1883. 

365.  Catherine,  bom  1821,  married  Jacob  Melvin,  1840,  had  five 

children.     She  deceased. 

John  (126),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

366.  Elizabeth,  bom  December  6,  1771,  married  Hendrick  Van 

Arsdale,  October  16,  1800,  had  two  children. 

367.  Anna. 


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Jacobus  (128),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

368.  Benjamin,  bom  December  22,   1780,  married  Rachel  Wil- 

morth,  November  25,  1803,  had  ten  children,  and  died 
September  6,  1834. 

369.  Margaret,  born  September  10,  1782,  married  John  Lott. 

370.  Antje  (Anna),  bom  June  12,  1785,  married  John  D.  Bough, 

1806. 

Benjamin  (129),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

371.  Gertrude,  bom  January  5,  1784,  married  Samuel  Waldron, 

May  12,  1805,  had  eight  children. 

372.  James,  bom  1786,  married  Mary  Gellen,  had  four  children. 

373.  Elizabeth  Maria,  baptized  October  5,  1788. 

PiETER  (134),  (son  of  William),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

374.  Elizabeth,  bom  July  7,  1745. 

375.  Jannettie,  baptized  April  7,  1751,  married  Nicholas  Jerola- 

men,  May  14,  1770,  had  eight  children. 

376.  Willem    (William)    No.    i,   baptized   June    17,    1753,   died 

young. 

377.  Willem  (William)  No.  2,  baptized  April  20,  1755,  married 

Catherine  Van  Derzee,  had  two  children. 

378.  Machtelt,  baptized  November  27,  1757. 

379.  Susanna,  bom  October  7,  1763. 

PlETER   (134)    HAD  ISSUE  BY  SECOND  WIFE: 

380.  Cornelis,  bom  February  6,  1769. 

381.  Abraham,  bom  September  13,  1771,  married  first,  Hannah 

Christancy,  April  17,  1793,  had  six  children.  He  married 
second,  Hannah  Quackenbush,  November  30,  1803,  had 
two  children. 

382.  Evert,  bom  October  8.  1773. 

383.  Hester  No.  i,  baptized  June  6,  1776,  died  young. 

384.  Hester  No.  2,  baptized  November  23,  1778. 

385.  Isaac,  baptized  April  8,  1781. 

386.  Tryntje  (Catherine),  born  June  3,  1785. 

James  (Jacobus)  (104),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

387.  James,  born  August  28,   1767,  married  Eytie  Ten  Eyck, 

March  3,  1788,  had  seven  children,  and  died  March  23, 
1813. 

388.  Philip,  born  August  28,  1767. 

389.  Aeffie,  born  June  26,  1776,  died  unmarried,  January  i,  1826. 

PiETER  (146),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

390.  Cornelia,  born  August  29,  1768. 


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Garret  (148),  (son  of  Corneuus),  had  issue: 

391.  Cornelius   G.,   born  January   28,    1763,   married   Catherine 

Becker,  December  12,  1790,  had  five  children,  and  died 
July  15,  1813. 

392.  Annatie  (Hannah),  born  October  12,  1764,  married  Evert 

Ostrander,  February  3,  1788,  had  nine  children,  and  died 
1820. 

393.  Wynand,  born  December  18,  1766. 

394.  Peter,  born  November  11,   1768,  married  Margaret  Steen- 

burgh,   August  2,    1791,  had  seven   children,   and   died 
March  23,  1847. 

395.  Abram,  bom  April  14,  1771,  married  Helen  Clute,  January 

3,  1794,  had  one  child. 

396.  Evert  G.,  born  October  17,   1773,  married  Elizabeth  Van 

Derwerken,  April  24,    1797,  had  thirteen  children,  and 
died  March  28,  i860. 

397.  Henry  G.,  born  November   11,    1774,   married   Gitty  Van 

Derwerken,  September  12,  181 1,  had  nine  children,  and 
died  March  28,  1858. 

398.  Jeannettie,  bom  March  15,  1776,  died,  unmarried,  Septem- 

ber, 1843. 

399.  Gisebert,  born  February  11,  1778,  married  Margaret  Craw- 

bank,  May  12,  1802,  had  ten  children,  and  died  May  6, 
1830. 

400.  William  G.,  born  November  9,  1783,  married  Judith  Brodt, 

May  9,  1804,  had  fourteen  children,  and  died  March  7, 
1874. 

Cornelius  (150),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

401.  Cornelius,  born  March  4,  1770,  married  Susanna  Wermer, 

had  thirteen  children. 

402.  Benjamin,  born  Febmary  i,  1772,  married  Elizabeth  Borst, 

October  28,  1798,  had  seven  children. 

403.  Hendrick,  born  February  17,  1774. 

404.  Solomon,  born  August  30,  1776. 

405.  Pieter  C,  born  April  7,  1779,  married  Caty  Winne,  March 

8,  1802,  had  ten  children. 

406.  Gerrit,  born  July  24,  1781,  married  Hannah  Devoe,  Decem- 

ber, 1803,  had  four  children,  and  died  August,  1847. 

407.  Evert,  born  April  19,  1785,  married  Mary  Earl,  1813,  had 

nine  children. 

Hendrick  (151),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

408.  Comelius,  bom  December   18,    1772,  married  Hester  Van 

Aernam.  June  7,  1796,  had  six  children. 

409.  Richard  (Ryckert),  born  September  23,  1774,  married  Cath- 

erine Peak. 


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410.  Jannettie  (Jane),  married  Henry  Van  Aemam,  August  6, 

1793,  had  six  children. 

411.  Maas  (Moses),  born  March  6,  1779. 

412.  Nancy  (Anna),  who  married  Capt.  George  Young,  had  three 

children. 

413.  William,  who  married  Elizabeth  Winne,  had  two  children. 

414.  Christina,  born  May  3,  1788,  married  Jacob  Hallenbeck,  had 

five  children. 

415.  Henry,  bom  December  25,  1790,  married  JuUa  N.  Newman, 

April  21,  1818,  had  six  children,  and  died  December  31, 
1829. 

416.  Gertrude,  born  April  27,  1792,  married  first.  Evert  M.  Bark- 

ley,  had  three  children.     She  married  second,  Dr.  Jona- 
than Johnson. 

WiLLEM  (William)  (153),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had 

ISSUE : 

417.  Cornelius  W.,  bom  September  22,  1778,  married  Jane  Van 

Wie,  January  20,  1802,  had  four  children,  and  died  1852. 

418.  Maria,  baptized  February   12,   1781,  married  Peter  Yates, 

March  8,  1801,  had  five  children. 

419.  Jenny    (Jane),  born  March  29,   1783,  married   Peter  Van 

Veghten,  June  20,  1802,  had  two  children,  and  died  1876. 

420.  Henrietta    (Hendrickye),  baptized  April  2,    1786,  married 

Cornelius  Yates,  March  2,  1805,  had  seven  children,  and 
died  July  8,  1868. 

421.  William  W.,  bom  May  26,  1790,  married  Phebe  Buckhout, 

had  twelve  children,  and  died  August  24,  1851. 

422.  Hannah  (Annatie),  born  January  25,  1793,  married  James 

Webster,  December  2,  1812,  had  six  children. 

423.  Tunis,  born  April  30,  1796,  married  Mary  Ann  Story,  had 

two  children,  and  died  December  28,  1874. 

424.  Charity,  born  December  28,  1798,  died  young. 

Abiather  (168),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

425.  Samuel,  bom  1780,  married  Rhoda  Grennels,  had  eight  chil- 

dren. 

426.  James. 

427.  John. 

428.  Moses. 

429.  Silas. 

430.  Linus. 

431.  MaHnda. 

432.  Florilla. 

Albartus  (177),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue: 

433.  Feytye  (Sophia),  baptized  August  5,  1787,  married  George 


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W.  Woods,  had  six  children,  and  died  May  23,  1826. 

434.  Peter,  who  died  November  19,  1850. 

Johannes  (178),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue: 

435.  Margrietye,  bom  February  17,  1776. 

436.  Barent,  baptized  July  5,  1778. 

Jacobus  (James)  (180),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue: 

437.  Johannes,  bom  August  27,  1796. 

438.  Peter,  bom  August  11,  1801,  died  October  16,  1826. 

Abraham  (184),  (son  of  Barent),  had  issue: 

439.  Caty,  bom  August  26,  1797. 

440.  John,  bom  August  12,  1800. 

441.  Peggy,  born  June  29,  1805. 

David  (190),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

442.  Mary,  baptized  September  18,  1774. 

David  (190)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

443.  James,  bom  1780,  died  single,  1798. 

444.  Joseph,  born  August  28,  1784,  married  Martha  Perry,  1803, 

had  eight  children. 

Abraham  (198),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

445.  Betsey,  bom  March  18,  1798,  married  Truman  Southwick, 

November  25,  1819,  had  eleven  children,  and  died  July 
10,  1865. 

446.  Mary,  bom  April   11,   1800,  married  John  Greenfield,  had 

five  children. 

447.  Amy,  born  May  4,  1802,  married  John  Kent,  no  issue. 

448.  David,  bom  September  10,  1803. 

449.  Joseph,  born  December  15,  1804,  married  Rebecca  Doane, 

1825,  had  ten  children. 

450.  Almira,  bom  July  31,  1805,  married  Jacob  Hinds,  1826,  had 

five  children,  and  died  January  29,  1874. 

John  (201),  (son  of  Isaac),  had  issue: 

451.  Abraham,  bom  April  4,  1793. 

452.  Antje  (Anna),  bom  July  23,  1795. 

453.  Sarah,  bom  July  17,  1797. 

454.  Aeltje,  born  September  28,  1799. 

455.  John,  bom  January  3,  1802. 

456.  Femmetye,  bom  January  17,  1804. 

457.  William,  born  August  4,  1805. 


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Joseph  (202),  (son  of  George),  had  issue: 

458.  Stephen,  bom  February  4,  1780,  married  first,  Martha  Wes- 

coat,  September  15,  1801,  had  three  children.     He  mar- 
ried second,  Lucinda  Picksley,  had  five  children. 

Phiup  (207),  (son  of  George),  had  issue: 

459.  Sarah,  born  1787,  married  John  Hoever. 

460.  Thomas,  bom  1789. 

461.  James,  born  1791,  married  Mary  Reade,  had  two  children, 

died  June,  1885. 

462.  Hosanna,  born  1793,  married  first,  John  Boots,  1811,  had 

one  child.     She  married  second,  Mitchell  Sellars,  1819, 
had  six  children. 

463.  George,  born  1797,  married  Charlotta  Morley,  had  four  chil- 

dren. 

464.  John,  born   1799,  married  Mary  Doty  Anthony,  had  four 

children. 

465.  Solomon,  born  1799,  was  the  father  of  twenty-two  children 

by  his  three  wives. 

466.  Elizabeth,  born  1805,  married  William  Graves,  March  25, 

1824. 

467.  fiiram,  bora  June  26,  1810,  married  Elsey  Graves,  October 

30,  1830,  had  ten  children,  and  died  1858. 

Johannes  (214),  (son  of  Nichoi^as),  had  issue: 

468.  John,  born  1797. 

469.  Nicholas,  born  1799. 

470.  Rebecca,  born  1800,  married  Charles  Porter. 

471.  Maria,  born  1802,  married  Wesley  Sherwood. 

472.  George,  born  April  10,   1804,  married  Mary  Evarts,  1837, 

and  died  1879. 

473.  Ophelia,  bom  1805,  married  William  Flanders. 

474.  Susan,  born  August,  1807,  married  Elijah  Barton,  August 

10,  1836,  had  four  children,  and  died  February  4,  1841. 

475.  Hannah,  born  1809,  married  Charles  Gilbert. 

Oliver  (222),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

476.  Thomas  (Df.),  born  May  5,  1779,  ^^^^  single. 

477.  Sarah,  born  June  3,  1781,  married  first,  Capt.  Ennes  Hoyt, 

June  3,  1795,  had  three  children.     She  married  second 
George  Le  Baron,  1801,  had  four  children,  and  died  1855. 

478.  Oliver,  Jr.,  born  April  15,  1783,  married  Mary  Ellen  Shep- 

pard,  April  10,  1810,  had  four  children,  and  died  about 
1830. 

479.  Gertrude,  born  November  6,  1784. 

480.  Mary  Sedallia,  born  April,  1788,  married  Robert  Bogardus, 

1802,  had  six  children,  and  died  before  1870. 


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481.  Eliza,  born  1790,  married  Edward  Byrnes,  1812,  had  four 

children,  and  died  1877. 

Samuel  Benson  (225),  (son  of  Johannes),  had  issue: 

482.  John,  bom  April  12,  1783,  married  Lydia  Burroughs,  July 

20,  1822,  had  two  children,  and  died  1845. 

483.  Anna,  bom  1790. 

John  (228),  (son  op  Adrian),  had  issue: 

484.  Hannah,  born   May   10,   1797,  married  Jacob  I.  Garrison, 

November  11,  1815,  had  four  children,  and  died  June  29, 
1871. 

485.  Susan,  born  November  2,  1798,  married  John  Stanton,  Octo- 

ber 10,  1822,  had  six  children. 

486.  Edward,  born  September  10,  1800,  married  Maria  C.  Mande- 

ville,  November  11,  1825,  had  seven  children,  and  died 
1851. 

487.  Harrison,  born  September   10,   1803,  married  Susan  Olm- 

stead,  1840,  and  died  May  30,  1875. 

488.  Phebe,  bom  August  27,  1804,  married  Philip  Van  Ornum, 

February  28,  1830,  had  seven  children,  and  died  1886. 

489.  Nancy,  born  October  5,  1806,  married  Robert  Case,  July  18, 

1822,  had  five  children,  and,  died  June  30,  1878. 

490.  Robert,  born  October  9,  1808,  married  Nancy  Holmes,  July 

I5»  1833- 

491.  Julia,  born  July  19,  1819,  married  John  J.  Young. 

492.  Mary,  bom  July  19,  1819,  married  James  S.  Young,  Decem- 

ber I,  1842. 

493.  John. 

494.  Eliza. 

495.  Margaret,  who  died  unmarried. 

Edward  (229),  (son  of  Adrian),  had  issue: 

496.  Calvin,  bom  October  24,    1814,   married   Mary  Youmans, 

1836,  had  ten  children,  and  died  February  26,  1896. 

497.  Isaac. 

498.  Edward. 

499.  Abraham. 

500.  John. 

501.  Jacob. 

502.  Matthew. 

503.  Nancy. 

504.  Eliza. 

505.  Sarah  (Sally). 

Resolvert  E.  (230),  (son  of  Adrian),  had  issue: 

506.  Henry,  born  October  25,   1808,  died  single,  February   16, 

1840. 


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507.  Hannah,  bom  November  11,  1810,  died,  unmarried,  May  28, 

1850. 

508.  Elizabeth,  horn  October  3,  1812,  died,  unmarried,  September 

23,  1850. 

509.  Washington,   borri   October   4,    1814,   married    Mary  Ann 

Knapp,  June  23,  1842,  had  eleven  children,  and  died  April 

15,  1898. 

510.  Resolvert,  born  January  i,  1816,  died  single,  September  5, 

1891. 

511.  William,  bom  July  8,  1819,  died  single,  December  14,  1843. 

512.  Matilda,  born  August  16,  1821. 

513.  Harrison,  bom  September  i,  1824,  married  Katharine  Rose, 

April  II,  1849,  had  one  child,  and  died  August  8,  1852. 

514.  Deborah,  bom  April  6,  1826,  married  James  Brooks,  June 

18,  1862,  had  three  children,  and  died  August  24,  1899. 

Joseph  (231),  (son  of  Adrian),  had  issue: 

515.  James,  born  May  10,  1819,  married  Sarah  Babcock,  Januan^ 

I,  1838,  had  fourteen  children. 

516.  Martha,  bom  May  10,  1819,  married  William  Jackson,  April 

19,  1849,  had  one  child,  and  died  March  7,  1883. 

517.  Michael,  who  married  Mary  Lumain. 

518.  John,  who  married  Emily ?,  had  three  children. 

519.  William. 

520.  Sarah,  who  married Degroot. 

521.  Margaret,  who  married  John  Teed,  February  29,  1836,  had 

six  children.     She  deceased. 

522.  Elizabeth,  who  married  Abraham  Bulson,  had  one  child. 

523.  Deborah,  who  married Marshall,  had  one  child. 

Abraham  (237),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

524.  Maria,  bom  April  27,   1792,  died,  unmarried,  January  29, 

1870. 

525.  Jacob  J.,  born  January  12,  1794,  married  first,  Eliza  Brew- 

ster, April  12,  1820,  had  two  children.  He  married 
second,  Rebecca  Conklin,  May  10,  1830,  had  three  chil- 
dren, and  died  June  7,  1867. 

526.  Tobias,  bom  February  8,  1796,  married  Harriet  Byron,  No- 

vember 16,  1825,  had  one  child,  and  died  April  18,  1837. 

527.  Rachel,  bom  July  23,  1798,  died,  unmarried,  December  11, 

1818. 

528.  Catherine  Hannah,  born  January  23,  1801,  died,  unmarried. 

October  24,  181 7. 

529.  Alexander  (Judge),  bom  April  16,  1803,  died  single,  March 

17,  1877. 

530.  Louisa,  born  October  26,   1805,  married  William  Benson, 

1830,  had  five  children. 


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531.  Sarah  No.  i,  bom  October  26,  1807,  died  in  infancy. 

532.  Sarah  No.  2,  bom  March  6,  1809,  married  George  Byron, 

June  II,  1825,  had  one  child,  and  died  March  2^^  1842. 

533.  Margaret,  bom  December  12,  181 1,  died  September  19,  1813. 

Samuel  Van  Ness  (243),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

534.  Daniel  No.  i,  born  May  i,  1775,  died  November  i,  1776. 

535.  Mary,  born  May  6,  1778,  died  1782. 

536.  David,  bom  March  3,   1780,  married  first,  Jane  Scudder, 

April,  1802,  had  five  children.  He  had  two  children  by 
a  second  wife,  and  died  1867. 

537.  Daniel   No.   2,  born  March  3,    1780,   married  first,   Mary 

Clark,  May  10,  1804,  had  six  children.  He  married 
second,  Hannah  Osbom,  1819,  had  three  children,  and 
died  December  i,  1853. 

538.  Sarah,  bom  June  12,  1782,  married  first,  Samuel  Coleman, 

no  issue.  She  married  second,  John  Simpson,  1800,  no 
issue,  and  died  1839. 

539.  John,  born  April  17,  1785,  married  Maria  Lindsey,  1808,  had 

eight  children,  and  died  1853. 

540.  Samuel,  bom  September  29,  1787,  died  in  infancy. 

541.  Margaret,  bom  October  27,  1790,  married  Thomas  Mont- 

gomery, June  30,  1814,  had  nine  children,  and  died  May 
17,  1852. 

542.  Samuel  Oliver,  born  November  7,  1792,  married  Elizabeth 

Martin,  March  i,  1821,  had  seven  children,  and  died  April 
19,  1849. 

543.  Stephen  D.,  born  October  4,  1795,  died  single,  June  29,  1817. 

Jerome  (248),  (son  op  Samuel),  had  issue: 

544.  Samuel. 

545.  Jeremiah.   . 

546.  Anna. 

547.  William. 

Derick  (Richard)  (251),  (son  of  Hieronimus)  (Jerome), 

HAD  issue: 

548.  Mary,  born  August  14,  1791,  married  Jacob  Quick,  had  six 

children,  and  died  July  26,  1850. 

549.  Susannah,  born  March   i,   1793,  married  George  Forker, 

July  6,  1810,  had  seven  children,  and  died  November  14, 
1882. 

550.  John,  bom  March  9,  1795. 

551.  Joseph,  born  February  2,  1797. 

552.  Samuel,  bom  February  i,  1799. 

553.  Elizabeth,  born  April  13,  1801,  married  Patrick  Gunn. 

554.  Jane,  born  March  15,  1803. 


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726  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

555.  Richard,  born  April  17,  1805,  married  Mary  Elliott,  Novem- 

ber 28,  1826,  had  five  children,  and  died  July  21,  1885. 

556.  Sarah,  bom  February  6,   1807,  married  first,  William  B. 

Gundrey,  had  one  child.  She  married  second,  Louis 
Woolman,  July,  i860,  no  issue  by  second  marriage,  and 
died  March  27,  1866. 

557.  Catherine,  bom  May  7,  1809,  married  James  Peterson,  had 

six  children,  and  died  November  28,  1886. 

558.  Rebecca,  born  August  25,  181 1,  married  Jacob  B.  Jackson, 

July  19,  1829,  had  one  child,  and  died  August  17,  1882. 

559.  Hannah,  born  September  20,  1813,  married  George  Benner. 

had  one  child,  and  died  September  13,  1866. 

560.  Marinda  Ann,  born  April  8,  1816,  married  James  M.  Hen- 

derson, July  28,  1836,  had  nine  children,  and  died  June 
23,  1889. 

John  (253),  (son  of  Hieronimus)  (Jerome),  had  issue: 

561.  Elizabeth,  bom  February  26,   1801,  married  Austin  Grey, 

had  one  child. 

562.  William,  bom  October  14,  1803,  married  Abigail  Vandeven- 
.    ter,  had  seven  children. 

653.  Jerome,  bom  June  14,  1806,  died  single. 

564.  Elisha,  born  April  17,  1809,  married  Mary  Hoffman. 

565.  John,  born  May  6,  1812,  died  single. 

566.  Ann,  born  March  11,  1815,  married  Everett. 

567.  Catherine,  bom  May  8,  1820. 

568.  Rebecca,  born  June  21,  1822. 

Francis  (257),  (son  of  John  Obadiah),  had  issue: 

569.  John  Obadiah,  born  March,  1783,  married  Julia  Ann  Argo. 

570.  Mary,  born  September  25,  1796,  married  Jonathan  Tipton. 

August  6,  181 5,  had  six  children,  and  died  October  6. 
1846. 

571.  Anna  H.,  born  1800,  married  David  Russell,  September  25, 

1 817,  had  nine  children. 

572.  Sarah,  born  November  10,  1804,  married  William  Kinney. 

July  I,  1824,  had  twelve  children,  and  died  March  9,  1882. 

William  (261),  (son  of  John  Obadiah),  had  issue: 

573.  John,  bom  18 14,  married  Sarah  Ann  Girton,  July  2,  1836. 

574.  Charlotte,  born  18 16,  married  John  Lockhart. 

575.  Jane,  born  1818,  married  Alonzo  Douglas. 

576.  Rebecca,  born  1821,  married  John  Hitchen. 

577.  Sarah  A.,  born  1824,  died  unmarried. 

Jerome  (262),  (son  of  Francis,),  had  issue: 

578.  Catriena  (Catherine),  baptized  October  23,  1785. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  727 

579.  William,  born  May  10,  1788,  married  Mary  Latourette,  had 

two  children. 

580.  Margaret,  born  April  12,  1790,  married  Joseph  Whitenach. 

581.  Moriah,  bom  May  5,  1795,  married  George  Wyckoff. 

582.  Ellen,  born   September   10,    1800,  married  Elisha  Morrell, 

1827,  had  three  children. 

583.  Samuel,  bom  April  6,  1808,  married  Ellen  Ann  Mine,  April 

5,  1831,  had  eight  children. 

Samuel  (263),  (son  of  Francis),  had  issue: 

584.  Catherine,  bom  December  18,  1784,  married  Samuel  Blain, 

November  20,  1802,  had  two  children. 

585.  Thomas,  born  August  27,   1787,  married  Elizabeth   Stout, 

March  15,  1814,  had  six  children,  and  died  June  7,  1828. 

586.  Margaret,  born  March  8,   1790,  married  William  Wisner, 

December  31,  1805. 

587.  Elizabeth,  bom  May  25,  1793,  married  first,  Gilbert  A.  Mun- 

son,  September  5,  181 1,  had  eleven  children.     She  mar- 
ried second, Kennan,  and  died  August  24,  1857. 

588.  Leah,  born  January  17,  1796,  married  Caleb  Sutton  Turner, 

January  3,  1822,  had  eight  children. 

589.  Samuel  S.,  born  May  5,  1802,  married  Dinah  Coryell,  Feb- 

mary  23,  1823,  had  thirteen  children,  and  died  January 
17,  1864. 

Capt.  Resolvert  (282),  (son  op  Adolph),  had  issue: 

590.  Adolph,  bom  October  22,  1786. 

591.  Abraham  Godwin,  born  August  12,  1788. 

592.  Elizabeth,  born  September  10,  1789. 

593.  Phoebe,  baptized  January  21,  1790. 

Alexander  Phoenix  (283),  (son  of  Adolph),  had 
issue  by  first  wife: 

594.  Catherine  P.,  born  September  11,  1790. 

595.  Rachel  M.,  born  September  18,  1791. 

596.  Harmen  M.,  born  February  22,  1792. 

Alexander  Phoenix  (283)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

597.  Hannah  Maria  Phenix,  born  March,   1798,  married  Judge 

Crane. 

598.  James  R.,  born  April  20,  1799.  married  Sarah  E.  Lupton, 

September  8,  1829,  had  seven  children. 

William  (289),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

599.  Cornelia,  bom  February  10,  1792,  died,  unmarried,  Novem- 

ber 29,  1878. 


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728  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

600.  Maria,  born  March  10,  1797,  married  William  F.  Hoggins, 

May  19,  1822,  had  seven  children,  and  died  1885. 

601.  David,  bom  August  23,  1800,  married  Sarah  Sparks,  May 

24,   1827,  had  seven  children,  and  died   September  18, 
1866. 

Peter  (291),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

602.  Peter,  born  October,  1810. 

603.  Sara,  bom  181 5,  unmarried. 

Samuel  Resolved  (293),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

604.  Samuel  James,  born  May  17,  181 3,  married  Laura  A.  Sher- 

man, October  17,  1836,  had  nine  children,  and  died  April 
21,  1890. 

605.  Gertrude    Sige,   bom   August    10,    1815,    died,    unmarried, 

August  21,  1864. 

606.  Elizabeth,  born  September  15,  1823,  married  John  Sherman, 

May  10,  1840,  but  died  without  issue,  November  10,  1850. 

607.  Five  other  children  that  died  young  (names  not  found). 

Tunis  A.  (306),  (son  of  Adolph),  had  issue  by 
FIRST  wife: 

608.  Adolphus,  born  1817,  deceased. 

609.  Tunis,  born  1819,  deceased. 

610.  Anna  Elfrida,  born  1821,  married  Willis  Balden,  had  two 

children,  and  died  in  1856,  at  Newark,  N.  J. 

611.  George,  born  1822,  deceased. 

612.  Sarah,  born  1824,  deceased. 

Tunis  A.  (306)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

613.  Amanda,  born  June  5,  1835,  unmarried. 

614.  Edith  M.,  bom  May  i,  1848,  married  William  Weeks,  Octo- 

ber 23,  1872. 

Benjamin  A.  (308),  (son  of  Adolph),  had  issue: 

615.  James,  bom  1818,  single,  was  killed  in  the  Mexican  War. 

616.  Catherine,  bom  1820,  married  Jacob  Vanderpool,  Novem- 

ber 4,  1835,  had  six  children,  and  died  1872. 

William  J.  (310),  (son  of  John),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

617.  Catharine,  born  March  23,  1798,  died  June  4,  1807. 

618.  Elizabeth,  born  April  12,  1800,  died  unmarried.  May  6,  1851. 

619.  John  D.,  born  May  19,  1802,  married  Caroline  Van  Norden, 

March  7,  1827,  had  twelve  children,  and  died  October  2, 
1861. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  729 

620.  William  P.,  bom  December  5,  1804,  died  single,  May  4,  1819. 

621.  Louis  Thibon,  born  July  18,  1808,  died  August  26,  1808. 

Victor  Bicker  (321),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

622.  Elizabeth  Eglentine,  bom  October  15,  1823,  married  Wil- 

liam H.  Furman,  October  15,  1840,  had  five  children,  and 
died  October  10,  1901. 

623.  Carolin  Amanda,  born  September  3,  1826,  married  Nathaniel 

L.  McCready,  had  three  children. 

624.  Matilda  A.,  born  May  18,   1834,  married  George  William 

Elder,  January  28,  1852,  had  four  children. 

625.  Louizine,  who  died  September  11,  1856. 

WiLLEM    (WiIvUAM)    (330),    (son  OF  BeNJAMIN),  HAD 

ISSUE : 

626.  Abraham,  bom  18 15,  married  Sarah  E.  Baxter,  October  24, 

1856,  had  five  children,  and  died  1870. 

627.  Rachel  Ann,  who  married  John  Gary,  November  6,  1842, 

had  three  children,  and  died  April  10,  1889. 

628.  Sarah,  who  married  John  Van  Slyck,  November  16,  1850, 

had  one  child,  and  died  April,  1903. 

629.  Edward,  who  died  single,  April,  1893. 

630.  Jane,  who  married  John  Senical,  February  14,  1856. 

631.  Mary  Eliza,  who  married  Anthony  Edwards,  September  7, 

1869,  but  died  without  issue,  April,  1903. 

John  Brinkerhoff  (332),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had 
issue: 

632.  John  BrinckerhoflF,  born   181 5,  married  Belinda  Diamond, 

had  two  children,  and  died  1881. 

633.  Maria,  born  September,  1817,  married  William  Baxter. 

Stephen  Brinkerhoff  (334),  (son  of  Benjamin), 
HAD  issue: 

634.  Aleta  Maria,  bom  July  7,  1819,  died  August  23,  1849. 

635.  Henry  D.,  born  January  12,  1821,  died  November  17,  1821. 

John  P.,  Jr.  (339),  (son  of  John  P.),  had  issue: 

636.  Margaret  Ann,  born   1813,  married  Isaac  Adriance,   1830, 

had  three  children. 

Samuel  (344),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

637.  Hendrick  E.,  born  January  15,  1804,  married  Mary  E.  Dur- 

yee,  July  10,  1845,  had  two  children,  and  died  July  20, 
1864. 


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730  HISTORY   OF  HARLEM. 

638.  Isaac,  bom  August  9,  1806,  died  Januan-  6,  1812. 

639.  Sarah,  bom  May  2,  181 1,  married  John  R.  Debevoise,  1835, 

but  died  without  issue,  August  2,  1881. 

640.  Aletta,  bom  May  2,  181 1,  unmarried. 

641.  Anna  Mariah  (Anne),  bom  July  20,  1825,  died  unmarried, 

December  27,  1852. 

Samuel  (348),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

642.  John,  bom  18 14. 

643.  Hiram,  born  181 5. 

644.  WilHam,  bom  18 16. 

645.  Anna,  bom  18 18. 

646.  Jeremiah,' bom  1820. 

647.  Matilda,  bom  1822. 

648.  Betsev,  born  1824. 

649.  Samuel,  bom  18^.    »  ^^^j^^ 

650.  George,  bom  1826.    ) 

651.  Hildah,  born  1828. 

William  (350),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

652.  John,  bom  March  5,  181 5,  married  Cynthia  Earl,  1835,  had 

one  child.     He  deceased. 

653.  Maria,  born  April  12,  1817,  died  unmarried,  1831. 

654.  Rachel   Maria,  bom   March  4,    182 1,  married  first,   James 

Whitbeck,  1838,  no  issue.     She  married  second,  George 
W.  Martin,  April  15,  1862,  but  died  without  issue,  April 

23»  1893- 

655.  Aaron,  bom  October  2,   1823,  married  Sarah  Gunderman, 

1846,  had  six  children,  and  died  1896. 

656.  Rebecca,  born  November  12,  1825,  died  unmarried. 

657.  James,  bom  October  22,  1827,  married  Emily  De  Bell,  Octo- 

ber II,  1856,  had  three  children. 

658.  William,  bom  September  19,  1828,  married  Harriet  Bendell, 

1848,  had  two  children.     He  deceased. 

659.  Peter,  born  February  i,  1831,  was  the  father  of  two  children, 

and  is  now  deceased. 

660.  Richard,  born  March  19,  1833,  married  Martha  Swick,  1864, 

had  two  children,  and  died  February  6,  1891. 

Richard  (351),  (son  01^  William),  had  issue: 

661.  William  Richard,  bom  January  22,   1814,  married  Martha 

Ayers,  February  28,  1839,  had  seven  children.     He  de- 
ceased. 

662.  Anna,  born  1816,  married  Warren  Hamilton,  had  three  chil- 

dren.    She  deceased. 

663.  iZebidee,  born  18 18,  married  Tamar  Ann  Hatch,  1836,  had 

three  children.     He  deceased. 


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WALDRON   FAMILY.  731 

664.  Elizabeth,  bom   1819,  married  Horace  Hamilton,  had  five 

children.     She  deceased. 

665.  Lydia,  bom  March  16,  1825,  married  Nelson  Benjamin,  June 

4,  1845,  had  tfiree  children.  , 

Thomas  (360),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

666.  Benjamin  No.  i,  bom  1831,  died  in  infancy. 

667.  Edward   Bloomfield,   bom   May   25,    1832,    married   Juline 

Blackington,  October  23,  1876,  had  three  children,  and 
died  July  31,  1901. 

668.  Walter  S.,  born  1833,  died  young. 

669.  Robert  H.,  born  November  11,  1837,  married  Glyceria  Le 

Count,  no  issue. 

670.  Catherine,  bom  December  8,  1839,  unmarried. 

671.  Thomas,  bom  December  21,  1841,  died  young. 

672.  Mar}'  E.,  born  December  21,  1841,  married  Isaac  Wright, 

no  issue. 

673.  Benjamin  No.  2,  bom  August  6,  1848,  married  Lois  Lessey, 

November  4,  1874,  had  four  children. 

674.  Caroline,  bom  June  6,  1850,  married  Dr.  Charles  Lee,  had 

one  child. 

James  (364),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

675.  Julian. 

676.  Mary. 

677.  Lavinia. 

678.  Sarah. 

679.  Charles. 

680.  Edward. 

Benjamin  (368),  (son  of  Jacobus),  had  issue: 

681.  James,  born  March  12,  1805,  married  Hannah  Van  Slyke, 

June  II,  1829,  had  four  children,  and  died  December  25, 
1846. 

682.  Wilmarth,  born  April  20,   1807,  died  single,  September  5, 

1834. 

683.  Margaret  Ann,  bom  June  28,  1810,  married  Jacob  E.  Etzell, 

had  six  children. 

684.  Rachel  Catherina,  born  May  5,  1812,  died  unmarried. 

685.  John,  born  September  7,  1814,  died  single,  June  9,  1824. 

686.  Elizabeth  No.  i,  born  August  12,  1817,  died  November  10, 

1818. 

687.  Charles  Lott,  born  January  25,  1820,  married  first,  Emily 

Van  Wart,  1839,  had  one  child.  He  married  second, 
Thoma  Sprock,  March  10,  1852,  had  one  child,  and  died 
September  7,  1898. 


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688.  Elizabeth  No.  2,  bom  October  19,  1823,  married  John  J. 

Varick,  July  25,  1842,  had  nine  children. 

689.  John  B.,  bom  October  11,  1824,  died  Tune  9,  1834. 

690.  Sarah  Jane,  bom  May  19,  1830,  died  October  21,  1834. 

James  (372),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

691.  Sarah  A. 

692.  Eliza. 

693.  Levonica. 

694.  Charles. 

WiLLEM  (William)  (377),  (son  of  Pieter),  had  issue: 

695.  Maritie,  bom  October  25,  1792. 

696.  Peter,  born  December  17,  1797. 

Abraham  (381),  (son  of  Pieter),  had  issue  by  first 

WIFE : 

697.  Evert  A.,  born  1794,  married  Catherine  Vanderwerker,  had 

one  child. 

698.  Peter,  born  1796,  married  Elizabeth  Voorhis,  had  six  chil- 

dren, and  died  1842. 

699.  Abraham,  bom  1798. 

700.  Hannah,  born  1799,  died  unmarried. 

701.  Cornelius  A.,  bom  April   16,   1800,  married  first,  Johanna 

Schoonmaker,  November  22,  1821,  had  five  children.  He 
married  second,  Elizabeth  C.  Teller,  April  28,  1834,  had 
six  children,  and  died  June  23,  1879. 

702.  Maria,  born  1802,  died  unmarried. 

Abraham  (381)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

703.  George    Washington,    bom    November    30,    1804,    married 

Temperance  Bates,  May  12,  1850,  had  six  children,  and 
died  September  8,  1876. 

704.  John  C,  born  June  3,  1809,  married  Johanna  De  Boyce,  De- 

cember 3,  1828,  had  one  child. 

James  (387),  (son  of  James)  (Jacobus),  had  issue: 

705.  Elizabeth,  bom  November  27,  1788,  died,  unmarried,  August 

19,  1865. 

706.  Elsie,  bom  November  18,  1790,  died,  unmarried,  October  12, 

1882. 

707.  Tobias  T.  E..  born  December  17,  1792,  married  first,  Cor- 

nelia Vanderzee,  December  17,  1817,  had  three  children. 
He  married  second,  Magdalen  Slingerland  (Arnold), 
November  6,  183 1,  had  four  children,  and  died  October 
21,  1875. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  733 

708.  Jacobus    (James),  bom   September   15,    1794,   died  single, 

March  26,  1816. 

709.  Judith,  bom  September  7,  1796,  married  John  C.  Ten  Eyck, 

had  three  children,  and  died  April  i,  1823. 

710.  Barent,  bom  December   17,   1798,  died  single,  January  2, 

1880. 

711.  Annatie  Ten  Eyck,  born  December  5,  1800,  unmarried. 

CoRNEUUS  G.  (391),  (son  of  Garret),  had  issue: 

712.  Elizabeth,  born  August  20,  1791,  married  Joseph  McGuire, 

February  13,  1814,  had  seven  children,  and  died  May  14, 
i860. 

713.  Garret  C,  born  January  11,  1795,  married  Catherine  Van 

Wort,  May  16,  1816,  had  six  children,  and  died  October 
15,  1873. 

714.  Catherine,    bom    September    28,    1797,    married    William 

Shirts,  Febmary  21,  1840,  but  died  without  issue,  March 

I,  1873- 

715.  Sara,   bom  January  23,    1800,   married   Samuel   Anthony, 

April  10,  1819,  had  four  children. 

716.  Abraham,  born  November  i,  1802,  died  single,  1863. 

Peter  (394),  (son  oe  Garret),  had  issue: 

717.  Catherine  (Cata),  born  July  5,  1793,  married  Benjamin  Goe- 

wey,  August  15,  1824,  had  three  children,  and  died  No- 
vember 8,  1868. 

718.  Maria,  born  November  5,   1800,  married  William  H.  Van 

Amum,  December  2,   1822,  had  five  children,  and  died 
October  24,  1853. 

719.  Jane,  born  June  19,  1803,  married  first,  Benjamin  Reid,  Sep- 

tember  10,    1827.     She  married  second,  John   Howlett, 

1835. 

720.  Margaret,  bom  August  30,  1805. 

721.  Hannah,  born  March  11,  1809,  married  first,  Richard  West, 

December  5,  1827,  no  issue.     She  married  second,  Wil- 
liam Travis,  June  5,  1839,  ^^^  three  children. 

722.  Garret  P.,  bom  October   14,   1812,  married  Jane  Carhart, 

1835,  had  six  children,  and  died  April  4,  1850. 

723.  Ephraim  D.,  born  June  12,   1816,  married  Sarah  Watson, 

February  12,  1840. 

Abram  (395),  (son  of  Garret),  had  issue: 

724.  Maria,  born  October  24,  1794. 

E\^rt  G.  (396),  (son  op  Garret),  had  issue: 

725.  Catherine,  bom  April   19,  1796,  married  William  L.  Bab- 

cock,  1816,  had  five  children,  and  died  December  2,  1871. 


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734  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM, 

726.  Martin  (Rev.)»  bom  August  i,  1798,  married  Liddie  Chase, 
November  15,  1822,  had  eleven  children,  and  died  Febru- 
ary II,  1864. 

^27,  Ephraim  B.,  born  April  29,  1804,  married  Emily  Killecutt, 
January  7,  1830,  had  nine  children. 

728.  Ebenezer  B.,  born  February  14,  1810,  married  Lavinia  R. 

Burton  (Benton),  January  16,  1839,  had  three  children, 
and  died  February  10,  1895. 

729.  Mariah    (Polly),  born  February   14,   1810,  married  David 

Babcock,  August  28,  1828,  had  seven  children. 

730.  Garrett. 

731.  Jesse,  who  married  Sarah  Fredenburgh. 
732."*Wynant,  who  married  Polly  House. 

733.  Peter,  who  married  Olive  Sabens. 

734.  William. 

735.  Margaret,  who  married  Henry  Guliger. 

736.  Eliza,  who  married  Isaac  Woodruff. 

737.  Jane,  who  married  William  Vieley. 

Henry  G.  (397),  (son  of  Garret),  had  issue: 

738.  Mary  Ann,  born  July  11,  181 1. 

.739.  Wynant  G.,  born  September  11,  1812,  married  Maria  Winne, 
April  II,  1848,  had  three  children,  and  died  Februarv  3, 
1872. 

740.  Henry,  born  February  28,  1816. 

741.  Margaret,  born  May  4,  1817. 

742.  Jane  Maria,  born  April  4,  1819,  married  Daniel  Edge,  1854. 

743.  Catherine,  born  April  4,  181 9. 

744.  Eleanor,  born  May  14,  1821,  married  John  Hinchman,  May 

26,  1843,  bad  one  child. 

745.  Susan,    born   January    26,    1824,    married   John    Kennedy, 

August  22,  1847,  bad  four  children. 

746.  Getty  B.  (Gertrude),  born  April  7,  1829. 

GiSKBERT   (399),    (son  OF  GaRRET),  HAD  ISSUE: 

747.  Abraham,  bom  January  8,  1803,  married  Janet  Renier,  April 

II,  1836,  had  five  children,  and  died  May  22,  1873. 

748.  Maria  Gertrude,  born  September  14,  1804,  married  Thomas 

L.  Reese,  January  31,  1831,  had  two  children,  and  died 
July  22,  1889. 

749.  Catherine,  born  December  3,  1806,  married  Jacob  Lovejoy, 

had  seven  children.     She  deceased. 

750.  Jane  Ann,  born  December  18,  1808,  married  Phineas  Tyler, 

183 1,  had  seven  children.     She  deceased. 

751.  Elizabeth,  born  November  29,  1810,  married  Jacob  Tutor. 

She  deceased. 

752.  Amelia,  born  February  11,   1813,  married  James  Morgan, 

had  three  children.     She  deceased. 


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753.  George  R.,  bom  March  10,  181 5,  married  Mary  E.  Crissman, 

December  3,  1835,  had  ten  children.     He  deceased. 

754.  Margaret,  bom  July  7,  18 18,  married  Jacob  Atwater.     She 

deceased. 

755.  Caroline,  bom  September  18,  1821,  married  William  Rogers, 

had  one  child.     She  deceased. 

756.  Elias  Hawley,  bom  December  23,  1824,  died  single,  at  sea. 

WiLUAM  G.  (400),  (son  o^  Garret),  had  issue: 

757.  Garret,  bom  November  29,   1804,  married  Betsey  Grover, 

November  11,  1826,  had  six  children,  and  died  1849. 

758.  Wynant  Vandenburgh  No.  i,  bom  September  20,  1806,  died 

in  infancy. 

759.  Eveline,  bom  March  18,  1808,  jnarried  Hugh  Waddell,  De- 

cember 3,  1827,  had  five  children.     She  deceased. 

760.  Wynant  Vandenburgh  No.  2,  born  March  23,  1810,  married 

first,  Laura  Roblee,  September  25,  1834,  had  one  child. 
He  married  second,  Ann  West,  May  9,  1847,  had  three 
children.     He  deceased. 

761.  Daniel,   born   February   21,    181 2,   married   Asenath   Hills, 

January  20,  1852,  had  seven  children,  and  died  April  15, 
1871. 

762.  Margaret  Ann,  born  October  20,  1813,  married  Luther  Rob- 

lee, June  24,  1832,  had  four  children.     She  deceased. 

763.  Alidah,  born  October  23,   1815,  married  Ashbel  Bostwick, 

December  20,  1837,  had  five  children,  and  died  June  11, 
1861. 

764.  Cornelius,  bom  August  15,  1817,  married  Margaret  Wash- 

burn, September  26,  1838,  had  five  children.  He  de- 
ceased. 

765.  John  D.,  born  August  25,  1822,  married  Alice  West,  Novem- 

ber 25,  1844,  had  five  children.     He  deceased. 

766.  Jacob,  born  September  12,  1824,  married  Lucy  J.  Roblee, 

November  7,  1845,  ^^d  four  children,  and  died  March  22, 
1898. 
^67.  WiUiam  H.,  born  1827,  married  Betsey  D.  Roblee,  October 
19,  1845,  had  one  child. 

768.  Harmon,  who  married  Augusta  Corey,  February  14,  1853, 

had  three  children. 

769.  Mariah,  who  married  James  M.  Cross,  1840,  had  six  chil- 

dren.    She  deceased. 

770.  Fanny,  who  married  John  Straight,  January  i,   1843,  had 

nine  children.     She  deceased. 

CORNEUUS   (401),    (son  of  CoRNEUUS),  HAD  ISSUE: 

771.  Alida,  born  August  31,  1805,  died,  unmarried,  January  24, 

1834. 


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736  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

772.  Aaron,  born  April  5,   1807,  married  Susan  Bloomingdale, 

had  four  children.     He  deceased. 
TJ^,  Elshe  No.  i  (Alice),  bom  December  16,  1808,  died  young. 

774.  Cornelius,   bom   September    11,   181 1,  married   Edna  Ann 

Hall,  had  ten  children.     He  deceased. 

775.  Isaac,  born  August  29,  1812,  married  Julia  Ann  Douglass, 

had  three  children.     He  deceased. 

776.  Henry,  bom  August  29,  1812,  married  Mary  J.  Douglass, 

had  two  children.     He  deceased. 
Tjy,  Elshe  No.  2  (Alice),  born  September  9,  1814,  married  Dr. 
Weatherby.     She  deceased. 

778.  John  Evertson,  born  September  21,  18 16,  deceased. 

779.  Anna  Maria,  bom  August  30,  1818,  married Campbell. 

780.  Benjamin,  bom  March   i,    1820,  married  first,  Melissa  J. 

Daniels,  October  15,*  1843,  had  three  children.     He  mar- 
ried second,  Frances  A. ?,  and  died  May  12,  1900. 

781.  Margaret  J.,  born  September  11,  1824,  died  unmarried. 

782.  Harriet  E.,  born  July  14,  1826,  married  Bruce  Turner.     She 

deceased. 

783.  Sarah,  born  January  9,  1828,  married  Stephen  H.  Viele,  had 

four  children.     She  deceased. 

Benjamin  (402),  (son  op  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

784.  Henry  No.  i,  bom  June  18,  1799,  ^^^^  March  9,  1800. 

785.  Alida,  born  January  28,  1801. 

786.  Henry    (Hudson),   bom    May    2,    1803,    married   Malinda 

Decker,  1824,  had  three  children,  and  died  1877. 

787.  Katy,  born  April   16,   1805,  married  Abraham  Bergh,  had 

three  children. 

788.  John  B.,  born  March  29,  1807,  married  Dorothy  E.  Free- 

meyer,  183 1,  had  nine  children. 

789.  David,  born  August  19,  1809,  married  Abigail  Billings,  had 

two  children. 

790.  Peter,  born  August  11,  181 1. 

PlETER  C.    (405),    (son  of  CoRNEUUS),  HAD  ISSUE: 

791.  Alida,  born  November  4,  1802,  married  Charles  Broot,  1823, 

had  five  children. 

792.  Catherine,  bom  August  5,  1804,  married  Abel  S.  Reed,  May 

I,  1830. 

793.  Henry,  bom  July  i,  1806. 

794.  Peter  Winne,  born  January  6,  1809,  married  Maria  Hem- 

street,  February  15,  1837,  had  five  children. 

795.  Comelius,  born  August  7,  1812. 

796.  John,  born   November   12,    1814,   married  Alida  Waldron, 

March  18,  1848,  had  three  children. 

797.  David,  bom  March  18,  1817. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  737 

798.  Evert,  born  November  12,  18 19. 

799.  James,  bom  December  4,  1822. 

800.  Winant,  bom  April  16,  1825. 

Gerrit  (406),  (son  of  Corneuus),  had  issue: 

801.  Alida,  born  January  13,  1805. 

802.  Comelius,  bom  October  5,  1807,  married  Mary  Magdalena 

Frederick,  had  six  children,  and  died  1890. 
380.  Margaret,  bom  1813,  married  Robert  Vine,  had  three  chil- 
dren, and  died  1887. 

804.  John,  born  March  4,  1821,  married  Mary  Vroman. 

Evert  (407),  (son  of  Cornei^ius),  had  issue: 

805.  Cornelius  E.,  bom  December  i,  1814. 

806.  William,  born  July  26,  1816. 

807.  Alida,  bom   December  21,   181 7,  married  John  Waldron, 

March  18,  1848,  had  three  children. 

808.  Elizabeth  Ann,  bom  June  14,  1819. 

809.  Henry  E.,  bom  September  i,  1821. 

810.  Lena,  bom  January  31,  1823. 

811.  Peter,  bom  March  16,  1825. 

812.  Susan,  born  March  7,  1830. 

813.  Margaret,  bom  May  23,  1832. 

Cornelius  (408),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

814.  Henry  C,  bom  July  4,  1797. 

815.  Catherine  Banker,  born  October  27,   1798,  married  Peter 

Shaver,  had  two  children. 

816.  John  Van  Aemam,  bom  January  16,  1801,  married  Mary 

Wales  Keys,  December  17,  1823,  had  seven  children. 

817.  Richard  Van  Vranken,  born  October  3,  1803,  married  De- 

borah Weaver,  January  20,  1827. 

818.  Jacob  Van  Aemam  No.  i,  bom  April  27,  1807,  died  1813. 

819.  Jacob  Van  Aernam  No.  2,  born  September  i,  1816,  married 

Eliza  Ann  Lawrence. 

William  (413),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

820.  Henry,  bom  June  8,  1810. 

821.  Stephen,  bom  March  28,  181 5. 

Henry  (415),  (son  of  Hendrick),  had  issue: 

822.  Henry,  bom  1819,  married  Caroline  M.  Bard,  July  18,  1844, 

had  one  child. 

823.  Mary  E.,  bom  1820,  married  Jeremiah  Waterman,  had  seven 

children. 

824.  Charles  Newman  (Rev.),  born  December  25,  1822,  married 


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738  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

first,  Eveline  M.  Adams,  October  14,  1852,  had  one  child. 
He  married  second,  Georgie  S.  Waldron,  July  i,  1857, 
had  two  children,  and  died  March  2,  1885. 

825.  William,  born  November  2,  1824,  married  first,  Mary  Moon, 

August  15,  1848,  had  four  children.  He  married  second, 
Caroline  Walters  Osband,  September  23,  1873,  no  issue, 
and  died  December  11,  1877. 

826.  Margaret,  born  1826. 

827.  Julia,  born  1830,  died  unmarried,  December  31,  1853. 

Cornelius  W.  (417),  (son  of  Willem)  (William), 
HAD  issue: 

828.  Margaret,  born  November  2,  1803,  married  John  Quacken- 

bush,  had  four  children.     She  deceased. 

829.  Abraham  C,  born   May  7,    1805,  married  first,   Elizabeth 

Groesbeck,  June  12,  1827,  had  seven  children.  He  mar- 
ried second,  Eleanor  Vanderwerker,  September  2^,  1838, 
had  two  children.     He  deceased. 

830.  William,   born    February    16,    1809,    married   first,    Nancy 

Force,  1830,  had  three  children.  He  married  second, 
Phebe  Hicks,  had  three  children.     He  deceased. 

831.  Jemina,  bom  July  27,  181 2,  married  Stephen  Viele,  had  five 

children. 

William  W.  (421),  (son  of  Willem)  (William), 
had  issue*: 

832.  Abraham  Buckhout,  bom  May  15,  1812,  died  young. 

833.  William  No.  i,  born  1814,  died  young. 

834.  Harmon  Knickerbocker,  born   1816,  married  Polly   Perry, 

had  five  children,  and  died  1873. 

835.  Marietta,  born  1817,  married  Lemuel  S.  Jenks,  October  19, 

1833,  had  one  child. 

836.  Margaret  Jane,  born  1818,  married  Joseph  Wilkie,  no  issue, 

and  died  1892. 

837.  William  No.  2,  born  1822,  married  Mary  Jacobs,  had  two 

children.     He  deceased. 

838.  Edward  Augustus,  born   1824,  married  Jane  Wilson,  had 

one  child. 

839.  Abby  Emeline,  born  1826,  married  Shubel  Cross,  had  one 

child,  and  died  1902. 

840.  Amanda,  born  1830,  married  Harvey  W.  Green,  no  issue. 
941.  Elizabeth,  born  1832,  died  unmarried,  1847. 

842.  Joseph  Hunt,  bom  July  24,  1834,  married  Sarah  Bracken- 

bury,  had  nine  children. 

843.  Caroline,  bom  July  24,   1834,  married  William  R.   Parks, 

November  7,  1856,  had  three  children. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  739 

Tunis  (423),  (son  of  Willem)  (William),  had  issue: 

844.  Francis  Story,  bom  December  11,  1822. 

845.  Georgie  Story,  who  married  Rev.  Charles  Newman  Wal- 

dron,  July  i,  1857,  had  two  children. 

Samuel  (425),  (son  of  Abiather),  had  issue: 

846.  Willard  Earl,  born  June  20,  1837,  married  Dunston, 

185 1,  had  five  children. 

847.  John,  who  died  single. 

848.  Icabod. 

849.  Samuel. 

850.  Luke. 

851.  James. 

852.  Betsey. 

853.  Mar>. 

Joseph  (444),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

854.  Richard  Varick,  bom  May  25,  1804,  married  Ann  Roberts, 

December  24,  183 1,  had  five  children. 

855.  Mary,  bom  August  17,  1807,  married  Hugh  Perry,  1824, 

had  three  children,  and  died  August  26,  1847. 

856.  Ann,  born  March  2y,  1809,  married  Charles  Fowler,  May 

24,  1825. 

857.  Daniel,  bom  September  26,  181 1. 

858.  Ephraim   G.,   bom   August   2,    1813,   married   Harriet   M. 

Brown,  September  21,  1836. 

859.  John  P.,  born  March  8,   1816,  married  Matilda  Bowman, 

October  6,  1847. 

860.  Margaret,  bom  June  13,  1820,  married  Stanley  Bostwick, 

September  27,  1838. 

861.  Jane,  bom  October  30,  1822,  married  Henry  Shaw,  June  18, 

1844. 

Joseph  (449),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

862.  Amy  M.,  who  married  Samuel  J.  Hake. 

863.  Betsey  C,  who  married  Samuel  Westcott. 

864.  Daniel. 

865.  David. 

866.  Marinda,  who  married  Samuel  Coum. 

867.  Sarah  J.,  who  married  Elnathan  Gates. 

868.  Francis  M. 

869.  Albert  M. 

870.  Asenath. 

871.  James  H.  • 


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I 

740  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Stephen  (458),  (son  of  Joseph),  had  issue  by  first 
wife:  ' 

872.  Leonard  F.,  bom  October  30,  1802,  married  Nancy  Bennett, 

May  30,  1831,  had  six  children,  and  died  June  22,  1866. 

873.  Martha,  born  1803. 

874.  Nathan,  bom  1805. 

Stephen  (458)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

875.  Lucinda. 

876.  Martha. 

877.  George  W. 

878.  Ruth. 

879.  Francis  P. 

James  (461),  (son  of  Phiup),  had  issue: 

880.  Malon  L. 

881.  ?. 

John  (464),  (son  of  Phiup),  had  issue: 

882.  Thomas. 

883.  WilHam. 

884.  John. 

885.  Hosanna. 

Hiram  (467),  (son  of  Phiup),  had  issue: 

886.  Sarah  Samantha,  born  November  25,  1832. 

887.  Uriah,  bom  November  5,  1834,  was  the  father  of  seventeen 

children. 

888.  Catherine,  bom  July  5,  1837. 

889.  Bersheba,  bom  March  7,  1840. 

890.  Mary,  born  May  28,  1842. 

891.  Andrew  Jackson,  bom  March  5,  1845,  married  MaCry  I.  Mor- 

rison, December  14,  1871,  had  five  children. 

892.  Margaret,  born  March  7,  1847. 

893.  James  H.,  bom  March  15,  1850. 

894.  Nancy  J.,  born  November  11,  1853. 

895.  William  H.,  born  August  2^,  1856. 

OuvER,  Jr.  (478),  (son  of  Oliver),  had  issuer 

896.  Mary  Ellen,  born  June  6,   1814,  married  Edward  Quyer, 

April  5,  1848,  had  two  children. 

897.  Sarah  J.,  bom  May  10,  181 5. 

898.  John  O.,  bom  October  12,  1817. 

899.  Thomas,  born  May  12,  1819. 


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John  (482),  (son  of  Samuki*  Benson),  had  issue: 

900.  Mary  Catherine,  bom  April  26,   1824,  married  Van 

Cott,  June  13,  1846. 

901.  Joseph,  born  May  12,  1826. 

Edward  (486),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

902.  John  M.,  bom  October  15,  1826,  married  Elmira  Fox,  1855, 

had  five  children. 

903.  Jacob  N.,  bom  September  4,  1828,  married  Elizabeth  Green. 
9CH.  Sarah  M.,  bom  August  10,  1830,  unmarried. 

905.  Charles  G.,  bom  January  19,  1833. 

906.  Clark  J.,  born  November  30,  1834,  married  Caroline  Lincoln. 

He  deceased. 

907.  Cornelia  S.,  born  January  6,  1837,  married  George  Munson. 

908.  Edward  H.,  born  September  30,  1838. 

CAI.VIN  (496),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

909.  John,  born  November  25,  1838,  married  Carrie  Dickson,  no 

issue. 

910.  Martin,  born  November  30,  1840,  married  Elizabeth  Ham- 

mond, October  26,  1861,  had  six  children. 

911.  Matthew,  born  December  8,    1843,  married  Margaret  W. 

Sutton,  had  two  children. 

912.  Anna,  born   April  3,    1846,   married   Charles  Rickson    (or 

Rickim),  no  issue.     She  deceased. 

913.  Andrew  (Andress),  born  December  16,  1849,  married  Car- 

rie Goble,  had  two  children. 

914.  Isaac,  bom  February  28,   1854,  married  Martha  Herring, 

September  21,  1876.  had  ten  children. 

915.  Thomas,  bom  Febmary  9,  1856,  married  Amanda  Hinkell, 

1875,  had  three  children,  and  died  August  28,  1898. 

916.  Charles,  born  February  9,  1856,  married  Ellen  Tickel,  had 

four  children. 

917.  Calvin,  bom  July  3,  1859,  married  Anna  Heller,  October  24, 

1880,  had  ten  children. 

918.  James  Harrison  (Harry),  born  April  11,  1862,  had  two  chil- 

dren by  his  first  wife.     He  married  second.  Flora  Totten, 
November  25,  1897,  had  one  child. 

Washington  (509),  (son  of  Resoi^vert  E.),  had  issue: 

919.  Margaret  Knapp,  bom  December  30,  1850,  married  Samuel 

L.  Secor,  December  29,  1870,  had  three  children. 

920.  William  H. 

921.  George. 

922.  Elizabeth  (Sarah  E.),  who  married  George  Carpenter. 

923.  Josephine  (Mary  J.),  who  married  Charles  Carson. 


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742  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

924.  Matilda,  who  married  William  Allen.     She  deceased. 

925.  Lottie  (Charlotte),  deceased. 

926.  Alida,  who  married  Alfred  Thomans. 

927.  Minnie,  who  married  Warren  Felter. 

928.  Ella,  who  married  Milton  Rose. 

929.  Laura,  who  died  in  infancy. 

Harrison  (513),  (son  of  Resolvert  E.),  had  issue: 

930.  Charles  Pitman,  bom  1850,  married  Maryetta  L.  Cole,  Sep- 

tember, 1 88 1,  had  one  child. 

James  (515),  (son  of  Joseph),  had  issue: 

931.  Jackson,  born  February  15,  1839,  married  Mary  E.  Jones, 

August  15,  1866,  had  five  children. 

932.  Charles,  born  December  31,  1840. 

933.  Charlotte,  born  October  8,  1842,  married Ballard,  July 

3,  1871. 

934.  Matthew,  born  December  10,  1843,  married  Charlotte  Louise 

Smith,  April  8,  1869,  had  three  children. 

935.  Sophia,  bom  February  15,  1845,  married Mackey,  De- 

cember 24,  1862.  .  . 

936.  James,  born  January  15,  1847. 

937.  Edward,  bom  April  17,  1849. 

938.  Henry,  bom  November  5,  1850. 

939.  Madison,  born  January  29,  1853. 

940.  Sarah,  born  November  12,  1854,  died  young. 

941.  Elias,  bom  July  13,  1857. 

942.  Martha,  bom  March  13,  1861,  married  Isaac  M.  Bradbury. 

943.  Sarah  E.,  born  May  26,  1863. 

944.  Theodore,  born  May  28,  1865. 

John  (518),  (son  of  Joseph),  had  issue: 

945.  Charles,  born  December  4,   1836,  married  Elizabeth  Rock, 

March  4,  1871,  no  issue. 

946.  Mary,  unmarried. 

947.  William,  who  married  Emily  C. ?.     He  deceased. 

Jacob  J.  (525),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue  by 
first  wife: 

948.  Harriet    W.,    born    February    24,    1822,    married    Samuel 

Weiant. 

949.  Abraham,  born  November  28,  1824,  married  Maria  Witbeck, 

October  7,  1850,  had  two  children,  and  died  February  3, 
1864. 

Jacob  J.  (525)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

950.  Catharine,  bom  1831. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  743 

951.  Sarah  E.,  bom  January  25,  1835. 

952.  Margaret  E.  L.,  bom  October  2,  1838. 

Tobias  (526),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

953-  William  Alexander,  bom  August  13,  1827,  died  April  26, 
1849. 

David  (536),  (son  of  Samuel  Van  Ness),  had  issue 
BY  first  wife: 

954.  Corbet  Scudder,  born  1799,  died  single,  1865. 

955.  Isaac,  bom  November  24,   1807,  married  Jane  E.  Guion, 

August  26,   1829,  had  one  child,  and  died  October  13, 
1831. 

956.  Joseph  Wildey,  born  April  8,  1812,  married  Martha  H.  Bea- 

man,  July  3,  1836,  had  four  children,  and  died  1862. 

957.  Jane. 

958.  Frances,  who  married  Joseph  Wildey,  had  one  child. 

David  (536)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

959.  Cornelius,  single,  who  was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Alamo, 

Texas. 

960.  David. 

Daniei.  (537),  (son  of  Samuel  Van  Ness),  had  issue: 

961.  Anna,  born  April  7,  1805,  married  William  Mayes,  April  18, 

1825,  had  six  children,  and  died  1848. 

962.  Polly,  born  May  12,  1807,  died  young. 

963.  Lemuel,  born  September   12,   1809,  niarried  Almyra  Pike, 

June  9,  1834,  had  six  children,  and  died  May,  1857. 

964.  Nancy,  bom  September  12,  181 1,  married  Christopher  Os- 

bourn,  October  17,  1838. 

965.  Samuel,  bom  December  6,  1813,  died  1873,  or  1874. 

966.  Lucinda,  born   November  21,    1816,   married   Patrick   Mc- 

Dowell, July  13,  1838,  had  two  children,  and  died  1844. 

Daniel  (537)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

967.  William,  born  1820,  died  in  infancy. 

9^.  Simeon  D.,  born  May  22,  1821,  married  Nancy  T.  Tumer, 
January  2,  1849,  bad  four  children,  and  died  June  2, 
1896. 

969.  Mary,  born  February  2^,  1823,  died  1827. 

John  (539),  (son  of  Samuel  Van  Ness),  had  issue: 

970.  Margaret,  born  February  7,  1809,  married  William  Dunlap, 

February  i,  1835,  had  four  children. 


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744  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

971.  Isabel,  bom  October  21,  1810,  married  George  Wilson,  April 

12,  1835,  had  one  child. 

972.  Jemima,  bom  July  15,  1812,  married  Thomas  P.  Lushbaugh, 

July  4,  1841,  had  five  children,  and  died  July  19,  1892. 

973.  Alexander,  bom  January  19,  1814,  married  Mary  Kirk,  April 

II,  1837,  had  nine  children,  and  died  April  2,  1879. 

974.  Samuel,  bom  December  10,  181 5,  married  first,  Elizabeth 

Schleppy,  June  2,  1843,  had  five  children.     He  married 
second,  Elizabeth  Hanesch,  May  3,  1853,  had  ten  children. 

975.  John  L.,  bom  May  24,  1818,  married  Bella  Stewart,  Septem- 

ber 4,  1844,  had  one  child.     He  had  three  children  by  a 
second  wife,  and  died  April  17,  1900. 

976.  Susan,  born  November  13,  1820,  married  John  M.  Adams, 

April  2,  1843,  had  two  children. 

977.  William  S.,  born  June  23,  1823,  married  Eliza  M.  Belles, 

September  3,  1846,  had  fourteen  children. 

Samuel  Oliver  (542),  (son  of  Samuel  Van  Ness), 
HAD  issue: 

978.  Jane,  born  April  17,  1822,  married  James  H.  White,  Decem- 

ber II,  1850. 

979.  Sarah  A.,  bom  January  29,  1824,  married  Joseph  S.  Parks, 

June  9,  1849. 

980.  James,  born  January  3,  1827,  died  January  28,  1827. 

981.  Elizabeth,  born  April  11,  1828,  married  Thomas  Campbell, 

January  24,  1850,  had  six  children,  and  died  1900. 

982.  Samuel  S.,  bom  April  3,  1830,  married  Mary  A.  Giebner, 

February  9,  1858,  had  six  children,  and  died  October  31, 
1889. 

983.  Nancy,  born  April  14,  1883,  unmarried. 

984.  David  M.,  born  May  28,  1835,  married  Pelina  Shira,  No- 

vember 15,  i860,  had  two  children. 

Richard  (555),  (son  of  Derick)  (Richard),  had  issue: 

985.  Charles   B.,   bom  April   2,    183 1,   married   Sophia  Taylor, 

August  22,  1852,  had  two  children,  and  died  December 
26,  1895. 

986.  Margaret,  who  married  William   Stratton,  had  one  child. 

She  deceased. 

987.  Richard,  deceased. 

988.  George  W..  bom  December  14,  1842,  married  Martha  El- 

dridge,  May  29,  1866,  had  four  children. 

989.  James,  who  married  Jane  Lennon,  April,    1869.      He  de- 

ceased. 

William  (562),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

990.  John  No.  I,  died  in  infancy. 


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WALDRON   FAMILY.  745 

991.  James,  died  single. 

992.  William  B.  F.,  died  single. 

993.  Maria  E.,  who  died  unmarried. 

994.  Edward,  who  married  Frances  Murdin,  had  two  children. 

995.  Annie,  unmarried. 

996.  John  No.  2,  who  married  Jane  Hubele,  had  seven  children. 

William  (579),  (son  of  Jerome),  had  issue: 

997.  Peter  V.,  who  married  Louisa  West. 

998.  Mary,  who  married  John  Nixson. 

Samuel  (583),  (son  of  Jerome),  had  issue: 
999.  Elizabeth,  bom  February  3,  1832. 
1000.  John,  bom  October  i,  1834. 
looi.  Ida,  bom  August  13,  1837. 

1002.  Anna,  born  January  23,  1842. 

1003.  Jerome,  born  January  23,  1845. 

1004.  Julia,  bom  July  15,  1848. 

1005.  Lewis  E.,  born  February  19,  185 1. 

1006.  Mary  Ellen,  born  August  25,  1853. 

Thomas  (585),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

1007.  Ira,  born  June  10,  181 5,  died  January  29,  1866. 

1008.  Sarah,  born  May  4,  1816,  married  Clarkson  Wame,  Decem- 

ber 26,  1833,  had  ten  children. 

1009.  George,  bom  April  8,  1818,  died  January  22,  1819. 
loio.  Nancy,  bom  January  29,  1820. 

loii.  Jane,  born  July  16,  1822. 

1012.  Mary,  born  September  6,  1824. 

Samuel  S.  (589),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

1013.  William  V.,  bom  March  28,  1825,  married  Cornelia  Doty, 

June  3,  1846,  and  died  June  17,  1851. 

1014.  Charity  G.,  born  December  18,  1826,  died  unmarried,  No- 

vember 22,  1880. 

1015.  Ellen,  born  October  4,  1829,  married  Cornelius  HoUiday, 

November  11,  1849,  ^"^  ^^^^  March  14,  1865. 

1016.  Philetus  A.,  born  July  16,  1831. 

1017.  Phileta  A.,  born  July   16,   1831,  married  Orrin  Baldwin, 

November  19,  1854. 

1018.  David  C,  born  September  22,  1833,  married  Margaret  Mc- 

Ghen,  November  9,  1856. 

1019.  Elizabeth,  born  December  9,  1835,  married  David  J.  Claus, 

July  4,  1855. 

1020.  Samuel  J.,  born  March  3,  1838,  married  Rachel  McGhen, 

January  28,  1857,  and  died  January  31,  1865. 

102 1.  Clark,  born  August  12,  1840,  died  August  18,  1840. 


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746  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

1022.  John  Thomas,  bom  Sq>tember  29,  1841,  di^  May  26,  1864. 

1023.  Catherine,  bom  November  3,  1844,  married  George  John- 

ston, May  30,  1869. 

1024.  Mary  V.,  bom  July  10,  1846,  married  Cornelius  Holliday, 

August  18,  1865. 

1025.  Martha  A.,  born  October  11,  1849,  married  Byron  S.  Nel- 

son, June  26,  1875. 

James  R.  (598),  (son  of  Alexander  Phoenix),  had  issue: 

1026.  Alexander  P.,  bom  July  4,  1830. 

1027.  Samuel  L.,  bom  March  2,    1833,  married  first,  Martha 

Horan,  January   i,   1865,  had  one  child.      He  married 
second,  Charlotte  McGill,  no  issue. 

1028.  Hannah  M.  P.,  born  June  8,   1834,  married  Charles  G. 

Johnston,  had  one  child.     She  deceased. 

1029.  James  Jacob,  bom  December  30,  1835,  died  single. 

1030.  Silas  Butler,  born  November  28,  1837,  died  single. 

103 1.  Brant  Schuyler,  bom  October  21,  1839,  died  single. 

1032.  Thomas  Howland,  bom  May  3,  1842,  married  Martha  M. 

Hale,  had  four  children. 

David  (601),  (son  of  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

1033.  William  F.,  born  April  2,  1828,  died  single,  June  3,  1871. 

1034.  Alexander  M.,  born  December  11,  1829,  married  Amelia 

Fairchild,  i8i5o,  but  died  without  issue,  June  30,  1890. 

1035.  Walter  S.,  bom  January  9,   1832,  married  Adeline  Mc- 

Cready,  1855,  had  one  child. 

1036.  James  A.,  born  September  16,  1833,  married  first,  Terese 

Ball,  May  26,  1859,  had  one  child.     He  married  second, 
Elizabeth ?. 

1037.  Sarah  Agnes,  born  March  8,  1837,  unmarried. 

1038.  Isaac  D.,  born  August  2,  1838,  single. 

1039.  Mary  B.,  born  March  17,  1840,  unmarried. 

Samuel  James  (604),  (son  op  Samuel  Resolved),  had 

issue: 

1040.  Edward,  bom  October   i,    1837,  married  Amelia  Hegen, 

1856,  had  two  children. 

1041.  Benjamin,  born  February  18,  1839,  married  Louise  Travis, 

September,  1875,  ^^^  three  children. 

1042.  Caroline,  born  March  14,  1841,  married  James  Creed,  De- 

cember, 1862,  had  three  children.     She  deceased. 

1043.  Laura,  born  January  27,  1843,  niarried  James  Edward  Sim- 

mons, June  28,  1876,  no  issue. 

1044.  Gertrude  E.,  born  August  16,   1848,  married  William  C. 

Hicks,  October  18,  1871,  had  two  children. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  747 

1045.  Sarah,  bom  April  5,  185 1,  married  Wilfred  B.  Hanmore, 

February  23,  1881,  had  five  children. 

1046.  Elizabeth,  bom  April  5,  185 1,  died  unmarried. 

1047.  Samuel  R.  (Rev.),  born  July  14,  1854,  married  Louise  Ar- 

nold, February  22,  1881,  had  three  diildren. 

1048.  Matilda   L.,   born   August   2y,    1856,   married   James   H. 

Hamilton,  1893,  no  issue. 

John  D.  (619),  (son  of  William  J.),  had  issue: 

1049.  William  John,  bora  December  31,   1827,  married  Teresa 

Beers,  April  28,  1852,  had  five  children,  and  died  July  2, 
1899. 

1050.  Harriet  Augusta,  born  March  14,  1829,  died  May  11,  1831. 

105 1.  Theodore  Van  Norden,  born  May  9,  1830,  died  October  24, 

1830. 
105  la.  Julia,  born  July  20,  1831,  died  August  28,  1831. 

1052.  Theodore,  born  September  4,  1832,  died  October  14,  1832. 

1053.  Augustus  Henry,  born  August  20,  1833,  died  September  22, 

1834. 

1054.  Victor  Salinas  Hopkins,  bom  September  3,  1835,  married 

Mary  Louise  Clark,  September  6,  1862,  had  seven  chil- 
dren. 

1055.  Carroll  Scott,  born  September  9,  1837,  married  Ina  A.  Kil- 

bum,  September  6,  1866,  had  eleven  children. 

1056.  Edgar  N.,  bom  May  8,  1840,  married  Emma  Cross,  June 

15,  1879,  "<^  issue. 

1057.  Ann  Avonia  Eliza,  born  June  8,  1843,  married  Henry  B. 

Corwin,  January  6,  1881,  no  issue,  and  died  November  6, 
1886. 

1058.  Jacob  John,  born  September  19,  1841,  died  single,  Septem-     ^ 

ber  24,  1862. 

1059.  Sarah   Van   Norden,   born   September    18,    1845,   married 

Henry  B.  Corwin,  April  8,  1875,  had  two  children,  and 
died  November  8,  1879. 

Abraham  (626),  (son  of  Willem)  (William),  had  issue: 

1060.  John  C,  bom  December  17,  1857,  married  Elizabeth  Mur- 

phy, August  I,  1882,  had  eight  children. 

1 06 1.  Charles  A.,  who  married  Ella  Haight.     He  deceased. 

1062.  William  B. 

1063.  Bertram  A. 

1064.  Abraham  B. 

John  Brinkerhofi?  (632),  (son  of  John  Brinkerhoff), 

HAD  issue: 

1065.  Cornelius. 

1066.  Anna,  who  died  unmarried,  1883. 


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748  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Henry  E.  (637),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

1067.  William  Henry,  born  January  3,  1850,  married  Mary  E. 

Albertson,  October  15,  1873. 

1068.  Mary  Frances,   born  January   12,    1855,   married  George 

Stewart  Gunnison,  September  11,  1872,  and  died  May, 
1878. 

John  (652),  (son  of  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

1069.  Lewis  E. 

Aaron  (655),  (son  of  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

1070.  Lewis    M.,    bom    March    12,    1848,    married    Emma    J. 

Schroeder,  December  23,  1887,  had  one  child. 

1071.  William  J.,  born  December  9,  1850,  married  Fredine ?, 

1 88 1,  had  one  child. 

1072.  Charles  A.,  born  March  4,  1854,  married  Josie ?,  1880, 

had  two  children. 

1073.  Clara,  born  April  19,  1859. 

1074.  Ada,  born  June  19,  1864,  married  Clifton  Payne,  1894,  had 

two  children. 

1075.  Sarah  H.,  born  September  12,  1867. 

James.  (657),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

1076.  Clara,  born  1857,  married Miller. 

1077.  Peter,  bom  1861,  single. 

1078.  Herman,  born  1865,  single. 

William  (658),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

1079.  Truman. 

1080.  ?. 

Peter  (659),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

1 08 1.  Jonas  K. 

1082.  Peter  J. 

Richard  (660),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

1083.  Martin,   bom  August   22,    1865,   married  Fannie   Harris, 

June  21,  1888,  had  two  children. 

1084.  Cora  E.,  born  September  23,  1868,  married  Andrew  Jones, 

December  2j^,  1886,  had  three  children. 

William  Richard  (661),  (son  of  Richard),  had  issue: 

1085.  Edward  A.,  bom  December  28,  1839,  married  Salina  Kim- 

berly,  May  21,  1863,  had  four  children.     He  deceased. 

1086.  Mary,  bom  December  18,  1841,  unmarried. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  749 

1087.  Richard,  bom  April  11,  1844,  married  first,  Emma  A.  Ber- 

rien, had  two  children;  second,  Mary  H.  Jameson,  had 
four  children,  and  third,  Augusta  D.  Hall.  No  issue  by 
last  marriage. 

1088.  Jane  M.,  born  September  2,  1845,  married  James  M.  Hal- 

lock,  February,  1868,  had  two  children. 

1089.  Warren  H.,  born  November  22,  1850,  married  Eliza  Ken- 

ney,  had  three  children. 

1090.  Salletta,  bom  December  7,  1852,  married  Edgar  Cranson, 

no  issue. 

1091.  Martha   A.,   bom   October    13,    1857,   married   Olean   A. 

Vaughan,  had  three  children. 

Zebidee  (663),  (son  of  Richard),  had  issue:" 

1092.  Charles  Richard,  born  1838,  died  single,  1861. 

1093.  Henry  C,  bom  1842,  married  Amanda  Van  Schaick. 

1094.  Anna,  born  1844,  married  W.  B.  Thompson,  1876,  no  issue. 

Edward  Bloomfield  (667),  (son  of  Thomas),  had  issue: 

1095.  Charlotte  F.,  bom  October  4,  1880,  died  July  2y,  1881. 

1096.  Roy  S.  F.,  born  April  23,  1883. 

1097.  Ethel,  born  February  28,  1886. 

Benjamin  (673),  (son  of  Thomas),  had  issue: 

1098.  Mabel  B.,  bom  January  12,  1876,  married  Harry  J.  Powell, 

January  23,  1899,  no  issue. 

1099.  Maud  L.,  born  June  25,  1877,  unmarried. 

1 100.  Lois  L.,  bom  September  25,  1887.  \  Twins 
iioi.  Ethel,  born  September  25,  1887.      J" 

James  (681),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

1 102.  Mary  Jane,  born  August  i,  1830,  married  George  S.  Ap- 

plegate,  March  20,  1848,  and  died  October  10,  1890. 

1 103.  James  Lawrence,  born  March  25,  1834,  married  Eliza  Van 

Mater,  June  9,  1856,  had  five  children. 

1 104.  Catherine  Louisa,  bom  February   i,   1836,  married  Capt. 

Brandon,  1878,  and  died  November  18,  1886. 

1 105.  Evan  Nelson,  bom  July  19,  1842,  died  October  28,  1844. 

Charles  Lott  (687),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue  by 
FIRST  wife: 

1106.  Charles   H.,   born   December   23,    184O,   married  Elsa  A. 

Odell,  July  11,  1863,  had  one  child. 

Charles  Lott  (687)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1 107.  George  W.,  bom  October  3,  1854,  married  Parthenia  Crain. 


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750  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Evert  A.  (697),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1 108.  Catherine. 

Peter  (698),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1 109.  Asa  H.,  born  1821. 

1 1 10.  Anna,  bom  1823. 

mi.  Jeremiah,  bom  March  5,  1824,  married  Mary  Card,  1844, 
had  two  children. 

1 1 12.  Sidney  T.,  born  October  5,  1826,  married  Charlotte  Vos- 

burgh,  had  two  children. 

1 1 13.  Mary  Ann,  bom  1828,  married  Charles  W.  Bowen. 

1 1 14.  Fanny  C,  bom  1830. 

CORNEUUS  A.   (701),   (son  of  Ab£L\HAm),  HAD  ISSUE  BY 

FIRST  wife: 

1 1 15.  Elizabeth  Ann,  born  March  16,  1824,  married  Emmett  P. 

Rumsey,  April  21,  1842,  had  two  children,  and  died  Janu- 
ary, 1880. 

1 1 16.  George  Washington,  born  February  22,  1826. 

1 1 17.  James  Henry,  bom  September  21,  1828,  died  single,  De- 

cember 23,  1856. 

1 1 18.  Mary  Jane,  born  November  26,  1830,  died  August  20,  1832. 

1 1 19.  Isaac  Ferris,  born  May  17,  1833,  married  Adele  Decosenine, 

January  18,  1858,  had  one  child,  and  died  October  13, 
1866. 

Cornelius  A.  (701)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1 120.  Martha  Jane,  born  January  11,  1835,  died  November  25, 

1839. 

1 121.  Harriet  Lansing,  born  December  15,  1836. 

1 122.  Henrietta  Beatie,  born  November  30,  1838,  married  George 

H.  Melville,  December  11,  1864,  had  three  children. 

1 123.  Cornelius  Abraham,  born  October  17,  1840,  married  Annie 

S.  Hartuss,  December  16,  1863,  had  five  children. 

1 1 24.  Erastus  Corning,  born  January  i,  1844,  married  Maria  De 

Forest,  1870,  had  four  children. 

1 125.  Sarah  J.,  bom  March  16,  1846,  married  John  Schoonmaker, 

January  29,  1866,  had  two  children. 

George  Washington  (703),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1 1 26.  Henry  E.,  born  June  10,  185 1,  married  Maria  A.  Mote,  July 

19,  1882,  had  two  children. 

1 127.  Lydia  L.,  born  November  30,  1854,  married  George  W. 

Evans,  December  20,  1877,  had  two  children. 

1128.  George  Marion,  bom  April  12,  1857,  married  Mary  Brown, 

September  30,  1877,  ^^^  three  children. 


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1 1 29.  Elsie  Ann,  bom  March  18,  1859,  married  first,  William  V. 

Brogaine,  February  12,  1879,  ^^^  second,  William  Lawry, 
had  one  child. 

1 130.  Edward  Lincoln,  born  January  22,  1861. 

1 131.  Harrison  Johnson,  born  August  2,  1867. 

John  C.  (704),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1 132.  Halsey,  born  June  30,  1830,  married  Bridget  Roach,  No- 

vember 3,  1858,  had  five  children. 

Tobias  T.  E.  (707),  (son  of  James),  had  issue  by 
FIRST  wife: 

1 133.  Edith    (Eyckie),    born    October    3,    1818,    married   John 

Mosher,  December  7,  1841,  had  five  children.     She  de- 
ceased. / 

1134.  Henry,  bom  September  21,  1820,  died  single. 

1 135-  Cornelia,  bom  April  28,  1822,  married  Gilbert  R.  Spauld- 
ing,  August  5,  1838,  had  one  child,  and  died  September 
22,  1880. 

Tobias  T.  E.  (707)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

11 36.  Elizabeth  Ann,  bom  June  30,  1834,  married  William  W. 

Springsteed,  had  one  child. 

1 1 37.  Leah,  tom  September  29,  1837,  married  Leonard  Coonley, 

had  four  children.     She  deceased. 

1138.  Helena,  bom  July  31,  1842,  married  Smith  Moorehouse, 

had  three  children.     She  deceased. 

1 1 39.  Barent  T.,  born  July  31,  1842,  married  Annie  Winne,  had 

three  children,  and  died  April  24,  1901. 

Garret  C.  (713),  (son  of  Cornei^ius  G.),  had  issue: 

1 140.  Cornelius  G.,  bom  May  11,  1817,  married  Maria  Crapo, 

January  i,  1838. 

1141.  Sally  Maria,  bom  April  8,   1819,  married  Joseph  Moll, 

October  10,  1847,  had  two  children. 

1 142.  Jacob  v.,  bom  1821,  married  Comelia  MacGuire,  May  24, 

1842,  had  nine  children. 

1 143.  James  L.,  born  Febmary  25,  1825,  married  Tamer  Brad- 

ford, March,  1849,  had  two  children. 

1144.  Eleanor  Ann,  bom  October   13,    1828,  married   Silas  J. 

Shepard,  April  22,  1852,  had  two  children,  and  died  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1901. 

1 145.  Charles  E.,  bom  February  28,  1838,  single. 

Garret  P.  (722),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

1146.  Margaret,  bom  1836,  married  Sylvanus  Haverly. 


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752  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

1 147.  Susan,  born  January   10,    1838,  married  first,  Lewis  H. 

Smith,  1856,  had  two  children,  and  second,  William  H. 
Hall,  1887,  no  issue. 

1 148.  Peter,  born  1840,  married  Margaret  Carl. 

1 149.  James,  born  1844,  deceased. 

1 1 50.  Asa,  born  1846,  married  Sarah  R.  Porter. 

1 151.  Eliza,  born  1848,  married  Samuel  Snyder. 

Rev.  Martin  (726),  (son  of  Evert  G.),  had  issue: 

1 152.  Francis,  born  June  17,  1825. 

1153-  William,  born  August  28,  1827,  married  Rosa  Kelly,  July 
4,  1852,  had  eight  children. 

11 54.  Daniel,  bom  June  22,  1829,  died  June  18,  1832. 

1 155.  Smith,  born  November  25,  1831,  died  June  18,  1832. 

1 1 56.  John,  born  November  30,  1833. 

1 1 57.  Traverse,  born  October  29,  1837,  died  single,  June  20,  1863. 

1 158.  Philetus,  bom  November  21,  1839. 

1 159.  Henry,  bom  December  15,  1841,  died  single,  April  20,  1864. 

1 160.  Sarah,  born  August  2^y  1843. 

1 161.  Emma,  bom  September  17,  1845. 

1 162.  Edward,  born  October  5,  1847. 

Ephraim  B.  {727),  (son  oe  Evert  G.),  had  issue: 

1 163.  Sarah  A.,  born  June  29,  1832,  married  Philetus  Coleman. 

1 164.  Ephraim,  bom  October  11,  1836,  married  first,  Lucy  Fair- 

banks, October  24,  1857,  had  one  child.  He  married 
second,  Eliza  Luddington,  September  8,  1875,  had  one 
child. 

1 165.  George  Sylvester,' bom  March  31,  1838,  married  Amanda 

L.  Coe,  June  21,  1876,  had  two  children. 

1 166.  Augustine  W.,  bom  March  20,  1840,  married  Mary  D.  Tur- 

ner, July  4,  i860,  had  two  children. 

1 167.  Mary  E.,  born  March  24,  1842,  married  Martin  V.  Chase, 

August  16,  1858,  had  four  children. 

1 168.  Aaron,  born  August   16,   1844,  married  Martha  C.  Rich, 

married  January  10,  1866,  had  five  children. 

1169.  Elizabeth,  born  July  4,   1846,  married  Charles  Holcomb, 

September  24,  1862,  no  issue. 

1 170.  Wayland,  born  July  24,  1848,  married  Florence  Armstrong, 

March  10,  1868,  no  issue. 

1 171.  Lucy  E.,  born  September  15,   1852,  married  first,  Edwin 

Higley,  June  15,  1869,  had  two  children.  He  had  a 
second  wife. 

Ebenezer  B.  (728),  (son  of  Evert  G.),  had  issue: 

1 172.  James  A.,  bom  September  25,   1851,  married  Mary  Jane 

Denel,  April  10,  1870,  had  three  children. 


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WALDRON   FAMILY.  753 

1 173.  George  W.,  born  March  i,  1857,  married  Florence  Adelia 

Bams,  October  13,  1886,  no  issue. 

1 174.  John  B.,  who  died  young. 

Wynant  G.  (739),  (son  of  Henry  G.),  had  issue: 

1 175.  Gertrude,   born   November   4,    1849,   married   George   E. 

Brown,  December  22,  1870,  and  died  June  29,  1874. 

1 1 76.  Orrin,  bom  August  6,  1855,  married  Mary  Bumham,  Sep- 

tember 30,  1874. 

1 177.  Henry  G.,  bom  June  7,  1857. 

Abraham  (747),  (son  of  Gisebert),  had  issue: 

1 178.  Frederick  H.,  born  March  14,  1840,  married  Alice  Bottom- 

ley,  July  20,  1871,  had  five  children. 

1 179.  Henry   Oscar,   born  June    11,    1842,   married   Minnie   L. 

Spindler,  December  20,  1883,  had  two  children. 

1 180.  William  I.,  born  May  30,  184^,  died  June  8,  1847. 

1 181.  Samuel  C,  born  April  4,  1846,  married  Jennie  M.  Hall, 

March  9,  1887. 

1 182.  Frances  H.,  born  March  17,  1848,  married  Joshua  G.  Leete, 

April  17,  1887. 

George  R.   (753),  (son  of  Gisebert),  had  issue: 

1 183.  Margaret  C,  born  November  11,  1836,  married  Wilim  N. 

Fox,  March  29,  i860. 

1 184.  Jane  V.,  born  October  6,  1838,  married  Rev.  Charles  E. 

Simmons,  August  24,  1858. 

1 185.  George  Gilbert,  born  July  18,  1842,  married  Mary  E.  Harri-» 

son,  November  2,  1863,  had  one  child. 

1 186.  Coraline,  born  March  17,  1843,  ^^^^  September  29,  1844. 

1187.  Harriet  E.,  born  February  4,  1845,  married  Alonzo  Slaw- 

son,  June  8,  1867,  had  five  children. 

1188.  Jesse  C.,  born  December  25,  1847,  married  Anna  L.  Hud- 

son, March  15,  1871,  had  two  children. 

1 189.  Abram  D.,  bom  June  29,  1848,  died  May  8,  1854. 

1 190.  Marcella  P.,  born  February  26,  1850,  married  A.  Milo  Rus- 

sell, May  28,  1879,  had  six  children. 

1 191.  Franklin  T.,  bom  June  29,  1853,  died  November  20,  1863. 

1 192.  Ida  B.,  bom  December  10,  1856,  married  Henry  Miller. 

Garret  (757),  (son  of  William  G.),  had  issue: 

1 193.  Catherine,  born  July  29,  1827,  married  Montraville  Bron- 

son,  1852,  had  six  children. 

1 194.  William,  born  November  21,  1828,  died  single,  1849. 

1195.  John  Clark,  bom  January  15,  1831. 

1 196.  Eveline  Judith,  born  May  29,  1833,  married  first,  James 


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754  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

McCormick,    August,    1849,    ^^^    second,    Thomas    J. 
Thomill,  June  17,  1851,  had  four  children. 

1 197.  Alida  A.,  bom  May  22,  1836,  married  Charles  E.  Scarlett, 

July  13,  1858,  had  four  children. 

1 198.  Calvin  M.,  born  March  25,  1839,  married  Emeline  J.  Med- 

sell,  March,  1861,  had  three  children. 

Wynant  Vandenburgh  (760),  (son  of  William  G.), 
had  issue  by  first  wife: 

1199.  Abraham. 

Wynant  Vandenburgh  (760)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1200.  Helen  M.,  born  June  30,  1857,  married  Charles  Dickinson, 

had  one  child,  and  died  July  30,  1901. 

1201.  Orrin  W.,  born  July  13,  1859,  married  Mary  E.  Phillips, 

had  five  children. 

1202.  Emma,  born  August  5,  1863,  married  Jefferson  Davison. 

had  one  child. 

Daniel  (761),  (son  of  William  G.),  had  issue: 

1203.  Sally  Ann,  born  March  26,  1834,  married Roblee. 

1204.  William  A.,  bom  March  26,  1836. 

1205.  Jane,  born  April  15,  1838,  married Rogers. 

1206.  Luther  A.,  born  January  10,  1843,  married  Eliza  J.  Cross, 

November  10,  1867,  had  five  children. 

1207.  John  D.,  born  May,  1845. 

1208.  Mary  Etta,  born  May  4,  1849,  niarried Roblee. 

1209.  Walter  L.,  born  May  12,  1857. 

Cornelius  (764),  (son  of  William  G.),  had  issue: 

1 2 10.  Mary. 

121 1.  Judah. 

12 12.  Delia. 

1 2 13.  James. 

1 2 14.  Cornelia  J. 

John  D.  (765),  (son  of  William  G.),  had  issue: 

121 5.  Josiah  D.,  bom  January  22,  1846. 

1216.  Sophia,  born  February  21,  1848. 

12 1 7.  Sarah  Alidah,  bom  May  8,  185 1. 

1218.  William  G.,  born  October  4,  1853. 

1219.  Charles,  born  July  4,  1855. 

Jacob  (766),  (son  of  William  G.),  had  issue: 

1220.  Harvey,  born  April  13,   1847,  married  Charlotte  Russell. 

had  five  children. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  755 

1221.  Mary  E.,  born  April  10,  1852,  married  Henry  Straight,  had 

four  children. 

1222.  Philetus  F.,  bom  March  30,  1856,  married  Maggie  Bush, 

January  22,  1881,  had  three  children. 

1223.  Joseph,  bom  July  16,  1864,  married  Clara  Reitter. 

WiLUAM  H.  (767),  (son  of  William  G.),  had  issue: 

1224.  Roxey  Ann,  born  December  29,  1859,  married  Joseph  H. 

Higgins,  May  28,  1878,  had  four  children. 

Harmon  (768),  (son  of  William  G.),  had  issue: 

1225.  Robert. 

1226.  Edward. 

1227.  Howard. 

Aaron  (772),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

1228.  Margaret  Jane,  born  December  24,  1832. 

1229.  Anna  Maria,  born  June  14,  1835,  rnarried  Elias  Osterhout, 

March  30,  1853. 

1230.  Isaac  Henry,  born  December  23,  1837. 

1 23 1.  John,  born  February  9,  1841. 

Cornelius  (774),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

1232.  Harriet. 

1233.  Mary,  deceased. 

1234.  Benjamin. 

1235.  Rhoda  Ann. 

1236.  Mary  Jane,  married Moorehouse. 

1237.  Susan. 

1238.  Sarah  A. 

1239.  Edna  J. 

1240.  Martha. 

1 24 1.  John  A. 

Isaac  (775),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

1242.  Mary  A.,  who  married Edwards. 

1243.  Helen  A.,  who  married Gilmore. 

1244.  Emma. 

Henry  (776),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

1245.  Mortimer,  who  married Turner. 

1246.  Nancy  Jane. 

Benjamin  (789),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

1247.  Harriet  A.,  bom  April  17,  1845,  married  Henry  Mott,  Feb- 

ruary 21,  1861,  had  four  children. 


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756  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

1248.  Adelbert  S.,  bom  July  17,  1854,  died  single,  Januar}'   i, 

1878. 

1249.  I^^  M.,  bom  September  i,  1863,  married  Adelbert  Teach- 

out,  January  i,  1878,  had  three  children. 

Henry  (Hudson)  (786),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

1250.  Benjamin,  bom  1827,  married  Rebecca  Mitchell,  1850,  had 

one  child,  and  died  1881. 

1 25 1.  Alida,  who  married Stevens,  had  one  child. 

1252.  Elizabeth. 

John  B.  (788),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

1253.  William  M.,  bom  May  23,  1834,  died  single. 

1254.  Albert  (Rev.),  born  July  i,  1836,  married  Celia  Bissell,  had 

two  children.     He  deceased. 

1255.  Catherine,  born  September  3,  1838,  married  Ransom  Sis- 

son,  September  25,  1865,  had  one  child.     She  deceased. 

1256.  Abraham,  born  January  29,  1841,  married  Mary  E.  Harvey, 

January  6,  1870,  had  five  children. 

1257.  Edwin,  bom  April  2,    1843,   married  Harriet  R.   Porter, 

April,  1874,  had  two  children. 

1258.  George  (Dr.),  bom  April  27,  1845,  married  Alida  Eudora 

Whitney,  had  four  children. 

1259.  Aurelia,  born  May  31,  1847,  died  unmarried,  1897. 

1260.  John,  born  November  3,  1849,  married  Azuma  Shaffer,  had 

two  children. 

1261.  Charles    Alfred,    bom   January   20,    1855,    married    Alice 

Bergh,  no  issue. 

David  (789),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

1262.  Harriet,  who  married Perry. 

1263.  William. 

Peter  Winne  (794)1  (son  of  Pieter  C),  had  issue: 

1264.  Peter. 

1265.  Catherine. 

1266.  Alida. 

1267.  Mary  E. 

1268.  Jacob. 

John  (796),  (son  of  Pieter  C),  had  issue: 

1269.  John,  bom  September  ip,  1849. 

1270.  Evert,  bom  August  15,  1853. 

1271.  Benjamin  H.,  bom  January  24,  1858. 


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Cornelius  (802),  (son  of  Gerrit),  had  issue: 

1272.  Garrett  C,  bom  May  15,  1829,  married  Angelica  Salisbury, 

May  15,  1848,  had  five  children. 

1273.  Ag^es  G.,  bom  October  4,  1831,  married White. 

1274.  Stephen,  born  August  22,  1834,  died  single. 

1275.  Elizabeth,  unmarried. 

1276.  Tillie,  died  unmarried. 

1277.  John,  who  died  single. 

John  Van  Aernam  (816),  (son  of  Corneuus),  had  issue: 

1278.  Cornelius  J.,  born  February  6,  1825,  married  Mary  Ann 

Van  Wormer,  September  5,  1849,  ^^^  seven  children,  and 
died  1901. 

1279.  Stephen  Pearl  Keyes,  bom  August  16,  1828,  married  Sarah 

Maria  Rogers,  November  25,  1852,  had  ten  children,  and 
died  November  10,  1888. 

1280.  Henry  J.,  born  September  22,  1830,  was  the  father  of  seven 

children,  and  died  1878. 

1 28 1.  Zachariah  Keyes,  bom  January  23,  1833,  married  Margaret 

Archbold,  December  20,  1855,  had  ten  children. 

1282.  Hester,  born  May  9,  1835,  married  Emory  K.  Sheak,  Octo- 

ber 6,  1853,  had  four  children. 

1283.  George  M.,  bom  January  27,  1838,  died  1902. 

1284.  Charles  D.,  bom  April  9,  1841. 

Henry  (822),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue: 

1285.  Mary,  bom  September  20,  1845,  died  June  26,  1846. 

Rev.  Charles  Newman  (824),  (son  of  Henry),  had 
issue  by  first  wife: 

1286.  Henry  Adams  (Dr.),  who  married  Elizabeth  E.  Miller. 

Rev.  Charles  Newman  (824)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1287.  William  Augustus,  who  married  Lydia  Gail  King,  June  7, 

1882,  had  two  children. 

1288.  Charles  Francis. 

William  (825),  (son  of  Henry),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

1289.  William  Henry,  born  September  3,  1853,  died  July  14,  1854. 

1290.  Charles  Waterman. 

1 29 1.  Howard  Baldy,  bom  March  8,  1866,  married  Maud  Berry 

Read,  November  14,  1900,  have  one  child. 

1292.  Mary   Frances,   born   May    15,    1871,   married   Henry   K. 

Bradley,  have  one  child. 


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Abraham  C.  (829),  (son  of  Cornelius  W.),  had  issue 

BY  FIRST  wife: 

1293.  George,  bom  October  22,  1828,  deceased. 

1294.  Cornelius  Augustus,  bom  July  23,  1829. 

1295.  Ann  Jane,  bom  November  24,  1831,  married Dixon. 

1296.  Robert,  born  September  7,  1833. 

1297.  Daniel,  bom  August  10,  1835. 

1298.  Catherine,  born  August  7,  1837,  married Stillman. 

1299.  Mary,  who  married McCrea. 

Abraham  C.  (829)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1300.  John  A.,  born  August  2^.  1839,  deceased. 

1301.  Charles,  born  June  12,  1841,  deceased. 

William  (830),  (son  of  Cornelius  W.),  had  issue 
BY  first  wife  : 

1302.  Mary  Jane,   born   October    19,    1831,   married    Sewall    S. 

Davis,  February  26,  1855,  had  three  children. 

1303.  Charlotte  Ann,  born  1835,  unmarried. 

1304.  John,  born  1837,  died  single. 

William  (830)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1305.  Hicks  B.,  born  July  17,  1840,  married  first,  Eva  G.  Gun- 

saulus,  had  two  children,   and  second,   Harriet   Gilder- 
sleeve,  had  four  children. 

1306.  Zaremba  W.  (Dr.),  bom  April  15,  1843,  married  Jennie  B. 

Minty,  October  5,  1871,  had  two  children. 

1307.  Le  Grand  C,  bom  1846,  married  Sarah  Wiswell,  had  two 

children,  and  died  January',  1903. 

Harmon  Knickerbocker  (834),  (son  of  William  W.), 
had  issue: 

1308.  Lois,  born  1847.  died  unmarried,  1873. 

1309.  Tunis,  born  1864,  died  single,  1882. 

13 10.  George,  who  married  Clara  Strong,  had  three  children. 

131 1.  Theodore,  who  married Smith,  had  two  children. 

13 1 2.  William,  who  married  Betsey  J.  Smith,  had  one  child. 

William  (837),  (son  of  William  W.),  had  issue: 

13 13.  Williette,  who  married Jewell. 

1314.  Oliver. 

Edward  Augustus  (838),  (son  of  William  W.),  had 

ISSUE : 

1315.  Estella,  who  married  William  D.  Osborn,  Jr. 


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Joseph  Hunt  (842),  (son  of  William  W.),  had  issue: 

1 3 16.  Lemuel,  who  died  young. 

13 17.  Frederick,  who  married  Lois  Waldron. 

13 18.  Edward,  who  died  April  2,  1900. 

13 19.  Joseph,  who  married  May ?. 

1320.  Clayton,  who  died  1897. 

1 32 1.  Amanda. 

1322.  Georgiana. 

1323.  Cornelius,  deceased. 

1324.  Guy. 

WiLLARD  Earl  (846),  (son  of  Samuel),  H/\d  issue: 

1325.  Willard  A.,  bom  May  12,  1852. 

1326.  Alice  G.,  born  March  26,  1854,  married Mosher. 

1327.  Jane  B.,  bom  May  20,  1858,  married Aiken. 

1328.  Arthur  W.,  born  May  27,  1863. 

1329.  Silas  S.,  born  February  20,  1867. 

Richard  Varick  (854),  (son  of  Joseph),  had  issue: 

1330.  Eliza  Jane,  born  June  4,  1835,  married  Theodore  Ackerman, 

July  3,  1861,  had  four  children. 

1 33 1.  Hiram  Sprague,  born  October  9,   1837. 

1332.  Anna,  born  December  8,  1839,  married  Dewitt  C.  Church, 

February  28,  1861,  had  three  children,  and  died  April  2, 

1875. 

1333.  Albert,  born  February  6,  1842,  married  Caroline  F.  Clarke, 

May  30,  187 1,  had  "four  children. 

1334-  Martha,  born  October  4,  1849,  married  John  Sharp,  Sep- 

tember 30,  1873,  had  one  child,  and  died  June  30,  1883. 

Leonard  F.  (872),  (son  of  Stephen),  had  issue: 

1335-  Martha  J.,  born  June  9,  1832,  married  first.  Rev.  John  A. 

Soben,  October  12,  1852,  had  two  children.     She  married 
second,  Rev.  H.  H.  Janes,  May  2^,  1867,  no  issue. 

1336.  Elizabeth,  bom  September  27,  1833,  married  Leonard  E. 

Leah. 

1337.  Leonard  A.,  born  September  8,  1834. 

1338.  Sylvanius,  born  July  4,  1836. 

1339-  Emeline  E.,  bom  August  19,  1837,  married  first,  Thomas 
Stephens,  February  4,  1861,  and  second,  Thomas  Nevill, 
December  25,  1875. 

1340.  Charles  E.,  born  January  5,  1849. 

Andrew  Jackson  (891),  (son  of  Hiram),  had  issue: 

1341.  J  (child),  that  died  in  infancy. 

1342.  Cora  May,  born  July  20,  1874. 


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76o  HISTORY  OF  HARJ..EM. 

1343.  Bertha  Angeline,  born  March  8,  1876. 

1344.  Maud  Elsey,  born  March  4,  1881. 

1345.  Claud  Ernest,  bom  February  10,  1883. 

John  M.  (902),  (son  of  Edward),  had  issue: 

1346.  Edward,  born  1856,  died  1862. 

1347.  Ida,  born  1858,  married  William  Metcalf,  1882. 

1348.  Clara,  bom  i860,  married  T.  J.  Jenkins,  1885. 

1349.  Ella,  born  1862,  unmarried. 

1350.  John  P.,  bom  1870,  single. 

Martin  (910),  (son  of  Calvin),  had  issue: 

1 35 1.  Philander. 

1352.  Nora,  who  married Wetzel. 

1353.  Elmer. 

1354.  Almeada,  who  married  David. 

1355.  Benjamin. 

1356.  Edith. 

Matthew  (911),  (son  of  Calvin),  had  issue: 

1357.  William,  born  December  15,  1870,  married  Harriet  J.  Hol- 

ley,  had  two  children. 

1358.  Susan  L..  born  March  20,  1886,  died  unmarried. 

Andrew  (913).  (son  of  Calvin),  had  issue: 

1359.  Mamie  A.,  born  September  22,  1878. 
13O0.  Calvin,  born  April  3,  1882. 

Isaac  (914),  (son  of  Calvin),  had  issue: 

1 36 1.  Caroline,  born  July  19,  1878,  married  Sylvester  Buchman, 

had  four  children. 

1362.  Lulu,  born  March  13,  1879. 

1363.  Samuel,  born  February  6,  1881. 

1364.  Lucy  M.,  bom  March  9,  1883. 

1365.  Thomas,  born  November  25,  1885. 

1366.  Myrtie,  born  August  7,  1887. 

1367.  Maggie,  born  December  4,  1890. 

1368.  Florence,  born  July  24,  1894. 

1360.  Laura,  born  May  11,  1895. 

1370.  Sylvia,  bom  June  12,  1899. 

Thomas  (915),  (son  of  Calvin),  had  issue: 

1 37 1.  Charles,  born  May  3,  1876,  married  Jennie  Stage,  May  21, 

1898,  had  two  children. 

1372.  John,  born  1877,  died  single. 

1373.  David  J.,  born  October  14,  1879,  married  Jennie  Dougherty, 

have  two  children. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  761 

Charles  (916),  (son  of  Calvin),  had  issuk: 

1374.  Ellen. 

1375.  Charles. 

1376.  Thomas. 

1377.  Susan. 

Calvin  (917),  (son  of  Calvin),  had  issuk: 

1378.  Emma,  born  October  26,  1883. 

1379.  James  H.,  born  October  i,  1885. 

1380.  Bertha,  born  July  20,  1887. 

1 38 1.  Calvin,  Jr.,  bom  December  29,  1888. 

1382.  Clara,  born  June  28,  1891. 

1383.  Tilley,  bom  June  18,  1893. 

1384.  Ruth,  bom  April  4,  1895. 

1385.  Joseph,  born  September  i,  1896. 

1386.  Florence,  born  April  14,  1900. 

1387.  Ida  E.,  bom  April  28,  1902. 

James  Harrison  (918),  (son  op  Calvin),  had  issuk 

BY  FIRST  wife: 

1388.  Andres  James,  bom  July  3,  1890. 

1389.  Arthur,  born  October  31,  1892. 

James  Harrison  (918)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1390.  Clarence,  born  October  2^,  1898. 

^Charles  Pitman  (930),  (soi^oF  Harrison),  had  issue: 

1391.  Catherine  R.,  bom  August  i,  1882,  unmarried. 

Jackson  (931),  (son  of  James),  had  issue: 

1392.  Mary  Emma,  born  September  6,  1861,  died  September  22, 

1862. 

1393.  Minnie  May,  born  August  i,  1863,  died  August  13,  1863. 

1394.  William  Curtis,  born  November  30,  1864,  died  September 

28,  1865. 

1395.  John  Wesley,  born  March  5,  1868,  died  August  i,  1868. 

1396.  Olive  Louise,  bom  August  26,  1873. 

Matthew  (934),  (son  of  James),  had  issue: 

1397.  Annie  Louise,  bom  July  i,  1873,  married Jerome,  No- 

vember 17,  1897.  , 

1398.  Embree,  born  March  27,  1880. 

1399.  Marguerite,  born  June  3,  1887. 


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762  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Abraham  (949),  (son  of  Jacob  J.),  had  issue: 

1400.  Charles  M.,  born  December  18,  1852,  died  single,  September 

9.  1899- 

1 40 1.  Frank  E.,  bom  June  30,  1856,  married  Margaret  Cassidy, 

January  i,  1893,  had  two  children. 

Isaac  (955),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

1402.  Hannah  Jane,  bom  June  8,  1830,  married  first,  John  Booth, 

had  two  children,  and  second,  William  H.  Hasson,  had 
one  child. 

Joseph  Wildev  (956),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

1403.  Julia  Frances,  who  married  first,  Cyrus  Holland,  August, 

i860,  and  second,  David  Galerctine. 

1404.  Sarah  Cornelia,  who  married  G.  Downing,  1864. 

1405.  Mary  Emily,  who  married  S.  W.  Childs,  1865. 

1406.  Ef!ie  ]\lary,  who  married  A.  J.  Cooley,  1876. 

Lemuel  (963),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

1407.  Polly. 

1408.  John. 

1409.  Debora. 

1410.  Sauannah. 

1411.  ? 

141 2.  Constantine  D. 

Simeon  D.  (968),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

1413.  Loduska,  born  November  3,  1849,  niarried Morrison, 

November  23,  1869.     ' 

1414.  Florissa,  born  June  15,  1852,  married Shaw,  April  12, 

1880. 

1415.  Dorcas,  born  September  22,   1855,  married  Sopher, 

March  16,  1876. 

1416.  James  S.,  born  November  25,   1859,  married  Minnie  ]M. 

Sopher,  February  23,  1882,  had  two  children. 

Alexander  (973),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

1417.  Samuel,  J.,  born  January  23,  1838,  married  Jane  Harper. 

1418.  William  O.,  born  March  28,  1840,  married  Mary  E.  Phil- 

lips, January  20,  1869,  had  three  children. 

1419.  Maria  L.,  bom  February  24,  1842,  married  C.  S.  Burt,  Oc- 

tober 10,  1867. 

1420.  James  A.,  bom  January  28,  1844,  married  Jennie  Slenmons, 

October  9,  1867,  h,ad  eight  children. 

1421.  Abigail  (Mary  A.),  born  Febmary  18,  1846,  married  Rob- 

ert Taylor,  December  7,  1875. 


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WALDRON   FAMILY.  763 

1422.  Susanna,  born  March  20,  1848,  died  unmarried,  October 

31,  1865. 

1423.  Erasmus  K.,  bom  April  4,  1850,  died  single,  November  7, 

1868. 

1424.  Belle  (Eliza  B.),  born  December  14,  1852,  married  Maurice 

Kinsey. 

1425.  Frank,  born  August  26,  1856,  died  November  2T,  1865. 

Samuel  (974),  (son  of  John),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

1426.  Samantha  J.,  bom  June  11,  1844,  married  Charles  B.  Sea- 

man. 

1427.  Almerin  John,  born  October  2,  1845,  ^^^^  ^^7  ^8,  1850. 

1428.  Agnes  M.,  born  June  10,  1847,  married  James  Davison,  had 

five  children,  and  died  October  10,  1884. 

1429.  Isaphena,  born  February  12,  1849,  married  Benton  Collard. 

1430.  Angelina,    born    November    18,    1850,    married    Thomas 

Sharth. 

Samuel  (974)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1431.  George  W.,  born  August  26,  1854,  married  Amanda  Ad- 

kins,  1877,  had  three  children. 

1432.  Martha  Emma,  born  September  28,  1856,  married  Joseph 

Harrington. 

1433.  Ann  Elizabeth,  born  November  23,  1858,  married  William 

O.  Sperr)%  September  28,  1879,  no  issue. 

1434.  John  A.  Lincoln,  born  October  5,  i860,  married  May  Bat- 

ten. 

1435.  Gabrielle,  born  Februar>'  i,  1863,  married  W.  Warren. 

1436.  Samuel  O.,  born  February  2,  1865,  died  April  14,  1873. 

1437.  Christina,  bom  December  24,  1866,  married  Richard  Bar- 

bour. 

1438.  Henry  A.,  born  November  2,  1868,  married  Ethel  B.  Bat- 

ten, September  29,  1896,  had  two  children. 

1439.  Jessie  Rosaline,  born  October  30,   1871,  married  Millard 

Hyatt. 

1440.  Edgar  Milton,  bom   November  21,    1873,  married  Izetta 

Rider,  October  6,  1896,  had  one  child. 

John  L.  (975),  (son  of  John),  had  issue  by  first  wife: 

1441.  Louis  K. 

John  L.  (975)  had  issue  by  second  w^ife: 

1442.  Winfield  C,  born  November  19,  i860,  married  Kate  Paulus, 

January,  1889. 

1443.  Ella  M.,  born  October  17,  1862,  married  Edwin  M.  Whit- 

ing, October  18,  1887. 


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764  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

1444.  V^emon,  born  June  5,  1864,  married  Bessie  A.  Gaskill,  De- 

cember 24,  1894,  had  one  child. 

William  S.  (977),  (son  of  John),  had  issue: 

1445.  Orlando  K.,  born  February  2,   1847,  married  B.  Fredly, 

November  2,  1882. 

1446.  Susan  O.,  born  July  20,  1849,  married  N.  B.  Duncan,  Feb- 

ruary 22,  1869. 

1447.  Theodore  C,  born  November  2,  1850,  single. 

1448.  William  S.,  born  June  23,  1857,  married  Mary  McChain, 

September  — ,  1872,  had  one  child,  and  died  October  12, 
1890. 

1449.  Laura  H.,  born  December  5,  1853,  married  R.  M.  Kinnear, 

June  9,  1870. 

1450.  John  C,  born  November  9,   1855,  married  Mary  Leach, 

November  9,  1886,  had  one  child. 

1451.  Eva  M.,  born  July  20,  1857,  married  J.  B.  Evans,  April 

10,  1874. 

1452.  Reuben  O.,  born  August  14,  1858,  single. 

1453.  Maria  B.,  born  February  21,  i860,  married  F.  B.  Dodds, 

June  20,  1879. 

1454.  Frederick  \\.  born  July  12,  1862,  married  Gertrude  Robin- 

son, July  10,  1894. 

1455.  Wina  E.,  born  October  7,  1863,  unmarried. 

1456.  Ulysses  S.  G.,  born  July  6,  1865,  single. 

1456a.  Ada  Malinda,  born  November  14,  1866,  married  Benja- 
min S.  Buhl,  November  3,  1890. 

14566.  Leota  Elfonza,  bom  September  25,  1868,  married  O.  S. 
Sutton,  October  20,  1890. 

Samuel  S.  (982),  (son  of  Samuel  Oliver),  had  issue: 

1457.  Minnie  M.,  who  married Michael. 

1458.  William  Curtin,  who  died  single,  August  6,  1863. 

1459.  Elzie  Elmer,  who  died  unmarried,  March  6,  1862. 

1460.  Eddie  Oliver,  who  died  single,  August  18,  1864. 

1461.  Valentine  Pickney,  who  died  single,  September  12,  1868. 

1462.  Hattie  Dale,  who  married \^ensel. 

David  M.  (984),  (son  of  Samuel  Oliver),  had  issue: 

1463.  Emburetta,  born  April  9,  1863,  married  George  W.  Camp- 

bell,  September  24,    1885,  had  one  child.  # 

1464.  Friend  Alford,  born  May  7,  1869,  married  Lou  Ramsey, 

August  28,  1900. 

Charles  B.  (985),  (son  of  Richard),  had  issue: 

1465.  Richard,  born  January  6,  1854,  married  Margaret  O'Hara, 

July  12,  1877,  had  nine  children. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  765 

1466.  Eliza,  born  June  3,  1856,  married  Henry  Bush,  1878,  had 

one  child. 

i    George  W.  (988),  (son  oe  Richard),  had  issue: 

1467.  Annie,  born  August  20,    1871,  married   George   Shaffer, 

December  19,  1894,  no  issue. 

1468.  Joseph  G.,  born  July  26,  1874. 

1469.  Maggie  E.,  born  June  3,  1878. 

1470.  George  W.,  Jr.,  born  September  20,  1881. 

Edward  (994),  (son  oe  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

1 47 1.  Elizabeth. 

1472.  Annie. 

John  (996),  (son  of  Wiluam),  h/\d  issue: 

1473.  William  H. 

1474.  Edward  A.,  who  married  Helen  Robbins,  March  18,  1903. 

1475.  Jerome,  deceased. 

1476.  Francis. 

1477.  Herbert  M. 

1478.  Howard  V.  D. 

1479.  Florence. 

Samuel  L.  (1027),  (son  of  James  R.),  had  issue  by 
first  wife. 

1480.  Sarah  Esther,  born  November  13,  1865,  married  James  H. 

L.  Moore,  October  12,  1886,  had  three  children. 

Thomas  Howland  (1032),  (son  of  James  R.),  had  issue: 

1481.  James  A.,  born  December  13,  1872,  married  D.  C.  Cox. 

1482.  Stella  E.,  born  October  13,  1885. 

1483.  Mattie  M.,  born  April  6,  1886,  died  September  28,  1886. 

1484.  Jessie  G.,  born  October  13,  1890. 

Walter  S.  (1035),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 

1485.  Ida,  born  1857,  married  Walter  Smith,  1871,  no  issue,  and 

died  August,  1885. 

James  A.  (1036),  (son  of  David),  had  issue: 
i486.  Arthur,  born  December  22,  1859,  married  Jeannette  Ben- 
nett, June,  1886,  no  issue. 

Edward  (1640),  (son  of  Samuel  James),  had  issue: 
1487.  Elizabeth,  born  April  29,   1861,  married  Frank  Edwards, 
March  27,  1891,  no  issue. 


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766  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

1488.  Isabella,  who  died  at  the  age  of  eighteen. 

Benjamin  (1041),  (son  of  Samuel  James),  had  issue: 

1489.  Victor  B.,  born  February  3,  1877,  single. 

1490.  Caroline  L.,  bom  October  2,  1878,  unmarried. 

1491.  Gilbert  Travis,  single. 

Samuei.  R.  (1047),  (son  of  Samuel  James),  had  issue: 

1492.  Hinton  S.,  born  December  10,  1882,  single. 

1493.  Clarence  H.,  born  January  i,  1887,  single. 

1494.  ?  (child)  that  died  at  birth. 

William  John  (1049),  (son  of  John  D.),  had  issue: 

1495.  Caroline,  born  April  22,   1853,  married  Winifred  Jersey, 

had  four  children,  and  died  September  i,  1886. 

1496.  Mary  Louisa,  born  October  4,  1855,  died  February  6,  1856. 

1497.  Helen,  born  April  24,  1857,  married  Byron  H.  Stickney, 

January  i,  1881,  no  issue,  and  died  November  20,  1882. 

1498.  Arthur,  born  October  30,  i860,  married  Mary  Nickerson, 

had  two  children. 

1499.  Wilbur,  born  January  18,  1864,  married  Hattie  Williams, 

December  10,  1887,  had  six  children. 

Victor  Salinas  Hopkins  (1054),  (son  of  John  D.),  had 

issue: 

1500.  Minnie  Louise,  bom  July  28,  1863,  married  Byron  H.  Stick- 

ney, November  11,  1885,  had  five  children. 

1 501.  Carroll  Edgar,  born   May   10,    1865,  married   Bertha   A. 

Frost,  November  19,  1902,  no  issue. 

1502.  Louis  Victor,  born  ^Iarch  4,  1863,  married  Addie  A.  Blau- 

velt,  June  26,  1902,  no  issue. 

1503.  Annie  Lockwood,  born  May  7,  1871. 

1504.  Maggie  Warner,  born  June  25,  1876,  died  August  14,  1877. 

1505.  Florence  Mortimer,  born  June  10,   1880,  died  October  9, 

1886. 

1506.  Edward  Langdon,  born  October  3,   1881,  died  April  27, 

1888. 

Carroll  Scott  (1055),  (son  of  John  D.),  had  issue: 

1507.  Henry  Percival,  born  May  30,  1867,  died  single,  March  28, 

1890. 

1508.  John  D.,  born  May  18,  1868,  married  Bessie  Crossit,  De- 

cember 21,  1897,  had  two  children. 

1509.  Alice  Kilburn,  born  April  5,  1870,  married  S.  George  Graul, 

April  4,  1894,  no  issue. 

1 5 10.  Charles  Elmer,  born  March  21,  1872. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  767 

151 1.  David    Sterling,   born    September   3,    1874,   married   Etta 

Phipps,  had  three  children. 

1512.  Sarah  Eliza,  born  March  5,  1877. 

1513.  Bertha  Louise,  bom  January  29,  1880. 

1 5 14.  Carroll  Scott,  born  December  28,  1882. 

1515.  Ina  Almira,  bom  November  i,  1885. 

1516.  Margaret  Elizc^beth,  bom  December  5,  1888,  died  May  14, 

1894. 

1517.  Caroline  Dorothea,  born  July  7,  1892. 

John  C.  (1060),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1 5 18.  Grace  A.,  born  June  17,  1883,  unmarried. 

1 5 19.  William  A.,  bom  January  5,  1885. 

1520.  Caroline  E.,  bom  December  i,  1886. 

1 521.  Edna  D.,  born  October  7,  1888. 

1522.  May  E.,  born  May  13,  1891. 

1523.  John  A.,  born  February  17,  1895. 

1524.  Dorothy  L,  born  November  11,  1899. 

1525.  Wesley  D.,  bom  February  24,  1901. 

Lewis  M.  (1070),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

1526.  Margaret,  born  July  4,  1890. 

William  J.  (1071),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

1527.  Wilfred,  born  1887. 

Charles  A.  (1072),  (son  of  Aaron),  had  issue: 

1528.  James,  born  1887. 

1529.  Clara  May,  born  1889. 

Martin  (1083),  (son  of  Richard),  had  issue: 

1530.  Ethel  Maude,  born  1891. 

1531.  Martha  F.,  born  1901,  died  1901. 

Edward  A.   (1085),   (son  of  William  Richard),  had 

ISSUE : 

1532.  Lambert  S.,  bom  November  22,  1863,  deceased. 

1533.  Lamont   K.,  born  January    16,    1865,   married  Emma   R. 

Story,  September  24,  1890,  had  two  children. 

1534.  Martha  A.,  born  September  2y,  1874,  married  Willard  H. 

Benton,  had  two  children.     She  deceased. 

1535.  Grace  E.,  bom  August  4,  1876,  unmarried. 

Richard  (1087),  (son  of  William  Richard),  had  issue 
BY  first  wife: 

1536.  Marian,  bom  March  19,  1865,  married  Robert  Campbell, 

had  four  children. 


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768  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

1537.  William    B.,    bom    September    13,    1867,    married   Marie 

Durand,  had  two  children. 

Richard  (1087)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1538.  Richard,  bom  August  28,  1877,  single. 

1539.  Ruth,  bom  May  17,  1880,  unmarried. 

1540.  Walter  J.,  born  August  30,  1883,  single. 

1 541.  Edith,  born  August  6,  1887. 

Warren  H.  (1089),  (son  of  William  Richard),  had  issue: 

1542.  Clarence  R.,  bom  December   14,   1875,  married  Gertrude 

Ball,  had  one  child. 

1543.  Norris  W.,  bom  April  15,  1878,  married  Pearl  Lucas,  had 

one  child. 

1544.  Rose  E.,  born  December  14,  1896. 

James  Lawrence  (1103),  (son  of  James),  had  issue: 

1545.  James  Lawrence,  Jr.,  born  May  10,  1858,  married  Louisa 

Rousseau,  July,  1886,  had  one  child. 

1546.  Ida  L.,  born  April  13,  1861,  died  May  19,  1861. 

1547.  George   E.,   born    September    17,    1863,   married   Eugenia 

Hammer. 

1548.  Frederick  Van  Iderstine,  born  December  21.  1867,  married 

Lena  Hammer,  September  29,  1885,  had  two  children. 

1549.  Maude    E.,    born    December    6,    1875,    married    Alonzo 

Schwartz,  November  6,  1894,  had  one  child. 

Charles  H.  <iio6),  (son  of  Charles  Lott),  had  issl^e: 

1550.  Julia  R.,  born  March  21,  1866,  married  George  Ashmore, 

had  two  children. 

Jeremiah  (iiii),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

1 55 1.  Percy  C. 

1552.  Emma. 

Sidney  T.  (1112),  (son  of  Peter),  had  issue: 

1553.  Asa  H. 

1554.  Anna. 

Isaac  Ferris  (1119),  (son  of  Cornelius  A.),  had  issue: 

1555.  Delia,  born  >rovember  2,  1862,  married  Charles  P.  Forbush. 

1884. 

Cornelius  Abraham  (1123),  (son  or  Cornelius  A.), 
had  issue: 

1556.  Harvey. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  769 

1557.  Albert. 

1558.  George. 

1559.  Elizabeth. 

1560.  Guy. 

Henry  E.  (1126),  (son  of  George  Washington),  had 

ISSUE : 

1 561.  Henry  O. 

1562.  Chester  E. 

George  Marion  (1128),  (son  of  George  Washington), 
HAD  issue: 

1563.  Noble  B. 

1564.  George  M. 

1565.  Clarissa  Bell. 

Halsey  (1132),  (son  of  John  C),  had  issue: 

1566.  Marv  E.,  bom  Julv  4,  i860,  married  John  Holmes,  June 

14,^1884. 

1567.  Halsey  J.,  born  Febryary  25,  1863,  died  October  — ,  1879. 

1568.  George,  born  August  11,  1865. 

1569.  Nellie  A.,  born  September  18,  1868,  died  August  10,  1869. 

1570.  Agnes,  bom  November  19,  1870. 

Barent  T.  (1139),  (son  of  Tobias  T.  E.),  h.\d  issue: 

1 57 1.  Henrietta,  born  January  27,  1869,  died  April  27,  1884. 

1572.  ]^Iabel  S.,  born  September  25,  1876. 

1573.  Winnie  B.,  born  July  26,  1882. 

Jacob  V.  (1142),  (son  of  Garret  C),  had  issue: 

1574.  John  J.,  born  November  14,  1843. 

1575.  Ellen  M.,  born  February  13,  1845. 

1576.  Charles  L.,  born  March  31,  1846. 

1577.  Truman  B.,  born  January  31,  1848. 

1578.  Elizabeth  A.,  born  October  29,  1850,  married  Henry  Good- 

win, September  23,  1874,  had  one  child. 

1579.  William  B.,  born  November  14,  1852. 

1580.  Eugenia,  born  August  4,  1855. 

1 581.  Lewis  v.,  born  August  13,  1856. 

1582.  Celia  A.,  born  ]May  7,  1870,  married Dorsey. 

James  L.  (1143),  (son  of  Garret  C),  had  issue: 

1583.  Mary  J.,  born  June  28,  1853,  married  Charles  P.  Barnes, 

had  five  children. 

1584.  Anna  L.,  who  married Counsell. 


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770  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Willi  AM  (1153),  (son  of  Rev.  Martin),  had  issue: 

1585.  Sarah,  born  September  15,  1853,  died  September  15,  1853. 

1586.  William  Francis,  bom  April  22,  1855,  married  Margaret 

Owens. 

1587.  Marcella,  born  December  24,  1857,  married  J.  B.  Pfordt. 

1588.  George,  born  September  16,  1859,  married  Catherine  Rapp, 

had  one  child. 

1589.  John  R.,  born  April  11,  1871,  married  Amelia  Gosha. 

1590.  Emma,  born  August  5,  1863,  married' M.  J.  O'Riley. 

1591.  Edward,  born  May  11,  1865,  married  Alice  ]\Iorris. 

1592.  Peter  P.,  born  August  9,  1867,  married  Ellen  Byrnes,  Xo- 

vember  27,  1890,  had  two  children. 

Ephraim  (1164),  (son  of  Ephraim  B.),  h.\d  issue  by 

FIRST  wife: 

1593.  Emma,  born  August  31,  1861. 

Ephraim  (1164)  hap  issue  by  second  wife: 

1594.  Fanny  M.,  born  February  17,  1876. 

George  Sylvester  (1165),  (son  of  Ephraim  B.),  had 

issue: 

1595.  George  H.,  born  1878,  married  Vinie  Crooks. 

1596.  Grace  E.,  born  1880,  married  Joseph  S.  Morgan. 

Augustine  W.  (1166),  (son  of  Ei'Hraim  B.),  h.\d  issue: 

1597.  Minerva   C,  born   March   25,    1862,   married   George   L. 

Cottle,  November  28,  1882,  had  four  children,  and  died 
October  26,  1896. 

1598.  Ida  M.,  born  August  11,  1868,  married  H.  Seymour  Sw^eet- 

ing,  September  30,  1883,  had  two  children,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 12,  1893. 

Aaron  (1168),  (son  of  Ephraim  B.),  had  issue: 

1599.  Marian  L.,  born  May  29,  1867,  married  Clarence  Wood- 

ford, April  II,  1889. 

1600.  Elizabeth,  born  July  4,  1869,  unmarried. 

1 601.  Frederick,  born  June  23,  1873,  died  March  2,  1877. 

1602.  Frances  M.,  born  August  18,  1876,  unmarried. 

1603.  Ada  L.,  born  August  7,  1879,  unmarried. 

James  A.  (1172),  (son  of  Ebenezer  B.),  had  issue: 

1604.  La  Monte  Raymond,  bom  October  18,  1871,  married  Nellie 

Swartwout,  March  12,  1891,  had  two  children. 


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WALDRON   FAMILY.  771 

1605.  Olive  Lavinia,  bom  June  14,  1874,  married  first,  James  L. 

Carlisle,  August  24,  1891,  had  one  child.     She  married 
second,  George  F.  Dorr. 

1606.  George  Albert,  born  December  26,  1879,  married  Anna  B. 

True,  October  i,  1902. 

Frederick  H.  (1178),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1607.  George  Remer,  born  December  2,   1874,  married   Phoebe 

Rice. 

1608.  Alice  M.,  born  May  i,  1878,  married  Harry  W.  Vanderbilt, 

June  18,  1902. 

1609.  Charles  W.,  born  November  25,  1881. 

1610.  Frederick  H.,  Jr.,  bom  August  10,  1883. 

161 1.  Harry  P.,  born  March  29,  1885. 

Henry  Oscar  (1179),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1612.  Lillian  L.,  born  October  2,  1884,  died  August  10,  1885. 

1613.  Albert  F.,  bom  August  9,  1887. 

George  Gilbert  (1185),  (son  of  George  R.),  had  issue: 

1614.  Jennie  E.,  who  married  Albert  G.  Sanford. 

Jesse  C.  (1188),  (son  of  George  R.),  had  issue: 

161 5.  George  Leon,  born  September  24,  1872,  married  Marion  C. 

Newton,  January  26,  1896,  no  issue. 

1616.  Grace  L.,  born  August  i,  1875,  unmarried. 

Calvin  yi.  (1198),  (son  of  Garret),  had  issue: 

1 61 7.  George. 

1618.  William. 

16 1 9.  Francis. 

Orrin  W.  (1201),  (son  of  Wynant  Vandenburgh), 
HAD  issue: 

1620.  Grace  E. 

1 62 1.  Harold. 

1622.  Dean. 

1623.  Ralph. 

1624.  Elizabeth. 

Luther  A.  (1206),  (son  of  Daniel),  had  issue: 

1625.  Lilly  A.,  born  September  18,  1868,  married Osbom. 

1626.  Frank,  bom  January  18,  1871. 

1627.  Parry  A.,  born  March  3,  1874. 

1628.  Martha,  bom  July  24,  1877,  married Convers. 

1629.  Clara,  born  September  26,  1886. 


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TJ2  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Harvey  (1220),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

1630.  Addie,  who  married Mowery. 

1 63 1.  Grace. 

1632.  Burt. 

1633.  Walter. 

1634.  Jessie. 

Philetus  F.  (1222),  (son  of  Jacob),  had  issue: 

1635.  Evelyn,  born  April  8,  1882,  unmarried. 

1636.  Ella,  born  February  9,  1884,  unmarried. 

1637.  Charlotte,  born  March  24,  1886,  immarried. 

Benjamin  (1250),  (son  of  Henry),  h.\d  issue: 

1638.  Erskine,  born  1851,  married  Anna  E.  Burdione,  1877,  had 

one  child. 

Rev.  Albert  (1254),  (son  of  John  B.),  had  issue: 

1639.  Edna  Pamelia,  born  July  14,  1862. 

1640.  Celia  Alberta,  born  February  12,  1866. 

Abraham  (1256),  (son  of  John  B.),  had  issue: 

1 64 1.  Joel  Harvey  (Dr.),  bom  June  i,  1871,  married  Zenaida  L. 

Stewart,  May  24,  1894,  had  two  children. 

1642.  Albert  Edwin,  born  November  5,  1873,  married  Mollie  Orr, 

February  18,  1899,  had  one  child. 

1643.  Ralph  Irving,  born  January  7,  1879. 

1644.  Rachel,  born  June  10,  1881.         )  r^    . 

1645.  Raymond,  born  June  10,  1881.    )  ^^'"^• 

Edwin  (1257),  (son  of  John  B.),  had  issue: 

1646.  Stuart  P.,  born  September  6,  1876. 

1647.  Ray,  born  July  31,  1880. 

Dr.  George  (1258),  (son  of  John  B.),  had  issue: 

1648.  George  Albert. 

1649.  Clarence  R. 

1650.  Clare. 

1651.  ? 

John  (1260),  (son  of  John  B.),  had  issue: 

1652.  Alice  Mary,  born  September  7,  1874. 

1653.  Eugene. 

Garrett  C.  (1272),  (son  of  Cornelius),  had  issue: 

1654.  Charles  E.,  born  October  20,  1849,  died  single,  December  4, 

1868. 


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WALDROX  FAMILY.  773 

1655.  Andrew  S.,  born  September  17,  1859,  died  single,  March 

29,  1894. 

1656.  Agnes  G.,  bom  November  13,  1861,  unmarried. 

1657.  John  W.,  born  April  25,  1867,  single. 

1658.  Helen  W.,  born  September  14,  1869,  married  Francis  S. 

Weis,  September  10,  1900,  had  one  child. 

CoRNEUus  J.  (1278),  (son  of  John  Van  Aernam),  had 

issue: 

1659.  Eliza  Jane,  bom  May  15,  1850,  died  December  20,  1858. 

1660.  Arthur  K.,  born  February  29,    1852,  married  Carrie   N. 

Boone,  had  two  children. 

1661.  Charles  F.,  born  February  25,  i860,  died  March  15,  1861. 

1662.  Francis,  born  April  18,  1862,  died  April  26,  1863. 

1663.  Ann  Elizabeth,  born  January  14,  1868,  married  Charles  L. 

Preston,  no  issue. 

1664.  Elizabeth,  born  December  9,  1870,  married  Fred  L.  Chi- 

chester. 

1665.  John  V.  A.,  bom  September  16,   1875,  died  October  27, 

1884. 

Stephen  Pearl  Keyes  (1279),  (son  op  John  Van 
Aernam),  had  issue: 

1666.  William  A.,  born  January  30,  1856,  died  1863. 

1667.  Mary  E.,  born  August  6,  1858,  died  1863. 

1668.  George  S.,  bom  August  26,  i860,  died  1863. 

1669.  Henry  Stanton,  born  December  23,  1862,  married  Carolyn 

Elizabeth  Moddy,  Febmary  18,  1892,  had  two  children. 

1670.  Margaret,  born  August  5,  1865. 

1671.  Charles  S.,  bom  September  18,  1867. 

1672.  John  S.,  bom  December  19,  1868,  died  1868. 

1673.  Ada,  born  December  18,  1869. 

1674.  Carrie  May,  born  February  4,  1873. 

1675.  Frank  Rogers,  bom  July  4,  1875. 

Henry  J.  (1280),  (son  op  John  Van  Aernam),  had 
ISSUE : 

1676.  Ella,  who  married Williams. 

1677.  Nellie  M. 

1678.  Frank  C. 

1679.  William  H. 

1680.  Carrie  A. 

1681.  Emma  J.,  who  married  George  A.  Herzer. 

1682.  Ida,  who  married Richards,  had  one  child.     She  de- 

ceased. 


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774  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Zachariah  Keyes  (1281),  (son  of  John  Van  Aernam), 
HAD  issue: 

1683.  W.  Archbold,  bom  November  28,  1856. 

1684.  Carrie,  bom  December  10,  1858,  married  Lewis  P.  Tier, 

October  9,  1879,  ^^  issue. 

1685.  Catherine  A.,  bom  July  29,  i860,  married  Charles  Poffen- 

berger,  no  issue. 

1686.  Sue,  bom  March  26,  1862,  married  William  J.  Shelley,  Oc- 

tober 14,  1896,  no  issue. 

1687.  Mary,  born  January  30,  1864,  married  H.  D.  Giggs. 

1688.  John  V.  A.,  born  March  8,  1866. 

1689.  George  H.,  bom  August  9,  1868. 

1690.  Louisa,  bom  March  31,  1870,  married  W.  Henderson. 

1691.  Zachar>%  born  February  16,  1872. 

1692.  William,  born  August  26,  1875,  died  single. 

William  Augustus  (1287),  (son  of  Rev.  Charles  New- 
man), HAD  issue: 

1693.  Charles  Newman. 

1694.  Gail  King. 

Howard  Baldy  (1291),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

1695.  Phylis  Read,  born  September  3,  1901. 

Hicks  B.  (1305),  (son  of  William),  had  issue  by  first 

wife: 

1696.  William  Gunsaul,  bom  December  8,  1866,  married  Mary 

Voorhees,  August,  1888,  no  issue. 

1697.  Frank  E.,  bom  September  4,  1868,  married  Louisa  J.  Mil- 

ler, 1885,  had  four  children,  and  died  April  19,  1901. 

Hicks  B.  (1305)  had  issue  by  second  wife: 

1698.  George  G.,  bom  January  22,  1881. 

1699.  Kitty  May,  born  May  10,  1884. 

1700.  Lillian  P.,  born  April  3,  1887. 

1701.  Harriet  L.,  born  December  30,  1894. 

Dr.  Zaremba  W.  (1306),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

1702.  Frederick  Rice  (Dr.),  born  March  24,  1876,  married  Clara 

Sherwood  Carter,  November  19,  1902. 

1703.  Alexander  Minty,  born  June  7,  1880,  died  single,  Septem- 

ber 26,  1900. 

Le  Grand  C.  (1307),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

1704.  Edward  L. 

1705.  Cora  M.,  who  married  John  B.  Sowle. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  775 

George  (1310),  (son  of  Harmon  Knickerbocker),  had 

ISSUE : 

1706.  Lewis  P. 

1707.  Ermine,  who  married Cannon. 

1708.  Carl. 

Theodore  (1311),  (son  of  Harmon  Knickerbocker), 
HAD  issue: 

1709.  Clara. 

1 710.  Enos. 

William  (1312),  (son  of  Harmon  Knickerbocker),  had 

issue: 

1711.  Lois. 

Albert  (1333),  (son  of  Richard  Varick),  h.\d  issue: 

1712.  Kate  C,  born  August  14,  1872. 

1713.  Anna  F.,  born  August  20,  1877. 

1714.  Ruth  F.  S.,  born  November  15,  1879. 

1 71 5.  Albert  V.,  born  1883. 

William  (1357),  (son  of  Matthew),  had  issue: 

1 7 16.  Rosamond,  born  October  i,  1899. 

1717.  Lewis,  born  April  9,  1902. 

Charles  (1371),  (son  of.  Thomas),  had  issue: 

1718.  David  C,  born  May  4,  1899. 

1719.  Blanche  L.,  born  July  23,  1901. 

David  J.   (1373),   (son  Thomas),  h/\d  issue: 

1720.  Bonnie  A.,  born  March  12,  1900. 

1721.  David  K.,  born  June  9,  1901. 

Frank  E.,  (1401),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1722.  Bessie,  born  April  18,  1894. 

1723.  Margaret,  born  May  22,  1899. 

James  S.  (1416),  (son  of  Simeon  D.),  had  issue: 

1724.  Dona  B.,  born  September  14,  1883,  unmarried. 

1725.  Charles,  born  October  22,  1885. 

William  O.  (1418),  (son  of  Alexander),  had  issue: 

1726.  Charles  P.,  born  May  — ,  1871,  single. 

1727.  Edwin  D.,  born  June  4,  1874,  single. 

1728.  Helen,  born  November  28,  1877,  unmarried. 


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776  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

James  A.  (1420),  (son  of  Alexander),  had  issue: 

1729.  Walter,  bom  August  2,  1868,  married  Eva  Evans,  March 

7,  1894. 

1730.  John,  born  December  30,  1870,  single. 

1731.  Anna,  born  December  30,  1870,  married  F.  K.  B}Tkit,  Oc- 

tober 23,  1896. 

1732.  Libbie,  born  March  23,  1873,  unmarried. 

1733.  James  R.,  born  June  24,  1875,  single. 

1734.  Ralph  O.,  born  November  15,  1877,  single. 

1735.  Alice  M.,  born  July  27,  1880,  unmarried. 

1736.  Garvin  B.,  born  October  17,  1886,  single. 

George  W.  (1431),  (son  of  Samuel),  had  issue: 

1737.  George  C,  born  1878,  single. 

1738.  Cora  L.,  born  1880,  unmarried. 

1739.  Jennie  E.,  born  1883,  unmarried. 

Henry  A.   (1438),  (son  of  Samuel),  h.\d  issue: 

1740.  Dorla,  born  1898. 

1 74 1.  Ronald,  born  1899. 

Edgar  Milton  (1440),  (son  of  Samuel),  h.\d  issue: 

1742.  Guy  E.,  born  April  9,  1897. 

Vernon  (1444),  (son  of  John  L.),  had  issue: 

1743.  Marjorie,  born  October  7,  1895. 

William  S.  (1448),  (son  of  William  S.),  had  issue: 

1744.  Frank  W. 

John  C.  (1450),  (son  of  William  S.),  had  issue: 

1745.  Ha^el,  born  April  21,  1889. 

Richard   (1465),   (son  of  Charles  B.),  had  issue: 

1746.  Sophia,  born  July  2,  1880. 

1747.  Mattie,  born  March  2,  1882,  married Blum. 

1748.  Maggie,  born  February  29,  1884. 

1749.  Kate,  born  January  28,  1886. 

1750.  Richard,  born  April  29,  1888. 

1 75 1.  Charles,  born  March  4,  1889. 

1752.  Henry,  born  November  20,  1894. 

1753.  Edith,  born  August  28,  1898. 

1754.  Walter,  born  October  4,  1900. 


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WALDRON  FAMILY.  7J7 

Arthur  (1498),  (son  of  William  John),  had  issue: 

1755.  Arthur  Raymond,  born  September  17,  1887. 

1756.  Pearl  Martha,  born  August  16,  1890. 

Wilbur  (1499),  (son  of  William  John),  had  issue: 

1757.  Edith  Frances,  bom  July  2,  1888. 

1758.  Lillian  Elizabeth,  born  August  23,  1890. 

1759.  William  Clenton,  born  August  23,  1890. 

1760.  Melvin  H.,  born  July  13,  1892. 

1761.  Clyde  Chester,  born  March  22,  1896. 

1762.  Earle  Edward,  born  May  25,  1897. 

John  D.  (1508),  (son  of  Carroll  Scott),  had  issue: 

1763.  La  Perceil  Joan,  born  June  4,  1899. 

1764.  John  Brown,  born  November  18,  1901. 

David  Sterling  (1511),  (son  of  Carroll  Scott),  had 

ISSUE : 

1765.  David  Henry,  born  November  4,  1898. 

1766.  Edna  Gertrude,  born  September  3,  1900. 

1767.  Carroll  Edmond,  born  January  19,  1903. 

Lamont  Jv.  (1533),  (son  of  Edward  A.),  h.\d  issue: 

1768.  Blanche  M.,  born  July  17,  1891. 

1769.  Lavem  F.,  born  May  24,  .1896. 

William  B.  (1537),  (son  of  Richard),  had  issue: 

1770.  Douglas  Durand,  born  1898. 

1771.  (daughter),  born  October,  1902. 

Clarence  R.  (1542),  (son  of  Warren  H.),  had  issue: 

1772.  Warren  W.  , 

NoRRis  W.  (1543),  (son  of  Warren  H.),  had  issue: 

1773.  Helen. 

James  Lawrence,  Jr.  (1545),  (son  of  James  Lawrence), 
HAD  issue: 

1774.  Louisa,  born  June  11,  1888. 

Frederick  Van  Iderstine  (1548),  (son  of  James  Law- 
rence), HAD  issue: 

1775.  Tessie,  born  April  12,  1887. 

1776.  Frank,  born  March  5,  1889. 


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George  (1588),  (son  of  Wiluam),  had  issue: 

1777.  William,  bom  February  13,  1880,  married  Barbara  Reine- 

man. 

Peter  P.  (1592),  (son  of  William),  had  issue: 

1778.  Catherine,  born  September  22,  1901. 

1779.  Annetta,  bom  April  23,  1893. 

La  Monte  Raymond  (1604),  (son  of  James  A.),  had  issue: 

1780.  Nina,  born  April  26,  1892,  died  young. 

1781.  Lawrence,  bom  September  28,   1898. 

Erskine  (1638),  (son  of  Benjamin),  had  issue: 

1782.  E.  Mitchell,  born  1877,  married  Katherine  Golden. 

1783.  Lucile  Alberta,  born  February  10,  1895. 

Joel  Harvey  (1641),  (son  of  Abraham),  had  issue: 

1784.  Aileen  Elizabeth,  born  July  30,  1897. 

Albert  Edwin  (1642),  (son  of  Abraham),  h^\d  issue: 

1785.  Margaret  Elliott,  bom  July  7,  1902. 

Arthur  K.  (1660),  (son  of  Cornelius  J.),  had  issue: 

1786.  Clement. 

1787.  Mabel. 

Henry  Stanton  (1669),  (son  of  Stephen  Pearl  Keyes), 
HAD  issue: 

1788.  Helen  Margaret,  born  October  31,  1893. 
1789..  Gladys  Katherine,  bom  September  8,  1896. 

Frank  E.  (1697),  (son  of  Hicks  B.),  had  issue: 

1790.  John  M.,  born  June;  1886. 

1791.  Hicks  B.,  bom  March  16,  1891. 

1792.  Louisa,  born  July  16,  1892. 

1793.  Esther,  born  August  10,  1893. 


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APPENDIX. 


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CONTENTS  OF  THE  APPENDIX. 


PAGI 

A.  The  De  Forest  Family, 781 

B.  The  Montanye  Family, 784 

C.  Town  Officers,  1660-1710, 791 

D.  Letter  :  Dr.  Montanye  to  Stuyvesant,    ....  793 

E.  JOCHEM    PlETERS'    FlAT 794 

F.  Van  Keulen's  Hook, 798 

G.  Montanye's  Flat, 802 

H.  The  Hoorn's  Hook  Farms, 804 

I.   The  Delavall  Lands, 809 

J.    Division  of  the  Common  Lands, 814 


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APPENDIX. 


A.  Page  151. 

THE  DE  FOREST  FAMILY. 

The  history  of  the  De  Forest  ancestors,  as  the  pioneer  settlers  at 
Harlem,  early  engaged  the  author's  attention,  since  it  promised  him  the 
leading  historic  thread  for  the  yet  unwoven  fabric  of  his  story.  Extend- 
ing his  inquiry  to  the  Fatherlands,  the  result  is  already  known  to  the 
reader.  Driven  by  persecution  from  the  French  Netherlands,  the  De 
Forests  became  identified  in  Holland  with  the  beginnings  of  our  colonial 
emigration, — some  of  its  phases,  developed  in  their  unpretentious  yet 
eventful  career,  in  a  manner  equally  novel  and  touching, — till  it  culmin- 
ated in  the  first  settlement  upon  the  then  wild  and  solitary  "Flats  of 
Manhattan."  Hence  the  pre-eminence  here  given  them:  a  deserved 
tribute  to  their  trials  in  their  own  and  other  lands,  and  to  their  well-con- 
ceived enterprises,  of  no  less  local  significance  because  thwarted  or  marred 
by  disasters  beyond  human  control.  As  supplementary  to  these  inter- 
esting details,  we  here  add  some  further  notes  upon  the  family  in  this 
country,  premising  that  this  name,  which  under  the  Dutch  took  the  form 
De  Foreest,  is  quite  distinct  from  those  of  De  La  Forest,  and  Van  Foreest, 
the  last  an  old  titled  family  of  Holland. 

Isaac  De  Forest,  younger  of  the  two  brothers  who  emigrated  in  1636, 
was  the  common  ancestor.  Born  at  Leyden,  in  1616,  as  elsewhere  stated, 
he  married  at  New  Amsterdam,  1641,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Philippe  Du 
Trieux  (Truax),  and  Susannah  De  Chiney,  Walloons  of  the  early  migra- 
tion, Sarah  being  bom  here  in  the  semi-fabulous  days  of  Peter  Minuit. 
The  same  year  De  Forest  built  at  Harlem  a  dwelling  and  tobacco-house 
on  his  plantation,  subsequently  the  site  of  Harlem  village.  In  1643  he 
leased  it  to  John  Denton,  for  raising  tobacco  on  shares,  and  opened  a 
tobacco  wareroom  on  the  Strand,  now  Pearl  Street,  in  what  had  been 
the  first  church.  Coming  to  own  that  property,  he  built  there  a  fine  house, 
"an  ornament  to  the  city."  In  1650  he  sold  his  bouwery  at  Harlem  to 
William  Beeckman.  Later  he  became  a  brewer;  his  malt-house  and  resi- 
dence were  in  Stone  Street,  north  side,  near  Whitehall.  lie  also  had  "a 
hop-garden  and  orchard  at  Norman's  Bight."  He  was  among  the  affluent 
citizens  who  loaned  100  guilders  each  for  repairing  the  city  defences  in 
1653.  On  April  6,  1657,  "Isaac  De  Forest  requests  by  petition  the  privi- 
leges of  the  Great  Burgher  right,  as  he  has  been  in  this  country  over 
twenty  years,  has  built  considerably  in  this  city,  and  performed  many  ser- 
vices." The  burgomasters  deferred  his  request,  but  on  January  28,  1658, 
as  one  of  six  "suitable  persons"  recommended  by  Stuyvesant  and  council, 
De  Forest  was  made  a  Great  Burgher.  The  same  year  he  was  elected 
schepen,  having  served  sundry  times  in  the  board  of  selectmen.  In  1664, 
when  the  English  fleet,  which  took  New  York,  entered  the  harbor,  among 
some  persons  seized  was  De  Forest;  released  August  31,  he  afterward 
swore  allegiance.  His  will  is  dated  June  4,  1672.  He  died  in  1674,  but 
his  widow  not  until  November  9,  1692.     She  sold  the  property  "called  the 


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782  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

Old  Kerck,"  June  30,  1682;  that  in  Stone  Street  was  sold  by  the  children 
May  2,  1693,  to  Harman  Rutgers,  bfewer,  from  Albany.  Isaac  De  For- 
est's children  were  Jesse,  born  1642 ;  Susannah,  1645 ;  Gerrit,  1647 1  Michael, 
1649;  John,  1650;  Philip,  1652;  Isaac,  1655;  Hendrick,  1657;  Maria,  1666, 
and  David,  1669;  of  whom,  the  three  elder  sons  died  early.  Susannah 
married,  1665,  Peter  De  Riemen  and  Maria  married,  1687,  Bernard  Darby, 
from  London,  mariner,  and  1706,  Alderman  Isaac  De  Reimer,  son  of  Peter. 

John  De  Forest  was  educated  a  "chirurgeon,"  or  physician;  his 
brothers  were  given  trades, — Philip  a  cooper,  Isaac  a  baker,  Hendrick  and 
David,  glaziers.  Dr.  De  Forest  married,  June  8,  1673,  Susannah,  daugh- 
ter of  Nicholas  Verlet;  bought  a  house  and  lot  in  Beaver  Street,  February 
20,  1682 ;  on  October  4,  1687,  sold  for  i6  :S,  lot  No.  4,  Room's  Hook,  to 
Wm.  Presker.  See  page  371.  Of  several  children,  but  one  survived  child- 
hood, viz.,  Susannah,  bom  1676,  married  Robert  Hickman,  1703.  Philip 
De  Forest  married,  January  5,  1676,  Tryntie,  daughter  of  Hendricks  Kip, 
and  removed  to  Albany,  served  as  high-sheriff,  etc.,  and  died  1727,  having 
had  sons  Isaac,  Jesse,  Johannes,  David,  Abraham;  David  being  ancestor 
of  Colonel  Jacob  J.  De  Forest,  of  Duanesburgh.  See  Pearson's  Albany 
Settlers. 

Isaac  De  Forest,  born  1655,  only  son  of  Isaac  that  remained  in  New 
York,  married  September  4,  1681,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Lawrence  Van- 
derspiegel,  was  serving  the  Dutch  church  as  a  deacon,  1690  and  1696,  and 
1699  was  appointed  an  overseer  of  public  works.  He  died  within  a  year 
or  two,  his  widow,  it  seems,  continuing  his  business;  she  furnished  pro- 
visions for  the  expedition  to  Canada,  in  171 1.  In  1741,  in  her  8oth  year, 
she  changed  her  church  relation  to  Hackensack,  the  home  of  her  daughter, 
Elizabeth,  wife  of  Rev.  Antonius  Curtenius.  Isaac  De  Forest  left  nine 
children,  of  whom  reached  maturity:  'Johannes,  born  1684;  Sarah,  1686. 
married  John  Myer;  Margaret,  1689,  married  Harman  Rutgers;  Maria, 
1694,  and  Elizabeth,  1697,  who,  1732.  married  as  aforesaid.  Johannes  Di 
Forest  was  a  baker,  married  June  23,  1705,  Catharine,  daughter  of  Gerrit 
Van  Ravenstein,  and  buying  property  March  22,  1715,  in  Marketfield  -Street, 
resided  in  New  York  till  his  death,  July  30,  1757.  His  children  named 
in  his  will,  December  25,  1746,  were  Isaac,  bom  1705;  Nicholas,  1710; 
Johannes,  171 1 ;  Maria,  1718,  who  marriedGerritWaldron;  Lawrence,  1720; 
Gerrit,  1723;  Elizabeth,  1725.  Of  these,  Lawrence  married,  1744,  Sarah, 
daughter  of  Mansfield  Tucker;  issue  Mansfield,  born  1746,  perhaps  others. 
Isaac  became  a  freeman,  in  New  York,  1734,  his  brother  Nicholas,  1735. 
and  Johannes,  1748;  the  last  probably  •  father  of  Theodorus,  grocer,  at 
Fly  Market,  who  married,  1778,  Mary  Doughty;  issue  John,  born  August 
II,  1780;  Mary,  December  22,  1782;  Theodorus,  May  11,  1786,  etc 
Nicholas  married  Maria  Barker,  October  17,  1736,  and  had  a  son  John, 
born  1739,  probably  the  sailmaker,  freeman  1765,  who  married,  1768,  Jane 
Albouy;  in  ij8o  a  widow,  when  she  married  George  Scott,  mariner. 
Bernard  De  Forest,  shopkeeper,  freeman  1768,  apparently  brother  of  the 
sailmaker,  married,  1767,  Martha  Albouy,  in  1773,  a  widow,  and  married 
Nathaniel  Harriott,  mariner.  Isaac,  born  1705,  removed  to  Adamsville, 
Somerset  County,  New  Jersey,  died  about  1800;  issue  by  wife 
Maria  Brokaw,  Maria,  born  1740,  John,  1743;  Catharine,  1745; 
Abraham,  1749.  His  son,  John,  born  July  28,  1743,  died  in  New 
York  May  t6,  1825,  leaving  five  children  by  his  wife  Maria  Van 
Nest,  viz.,  Isaac,  born  March  3,  1764;  Catharine,  January  17,  1766; 
Abraham,  April  2,  1774;  Lawrence- Vanderveer,  May  11,  1782,  and  John, 
May  8,  1784;  of  whom  Catharine  died  November  19,  1846.  John  died  in 
his  8oth  year,  November  16,  1864,  having  married  Surviah  Whitehead;  his 
only  child  being  Mr.  Isaac  De  Foreest,  Sr.,  of  No.  2  Old  Slip.  Abraham 
aforesaid  married  Catharine  Fulkerson,  and  died  in  his  57th  year,  August 
30,  1830,  was  father  of  Richard  and  Maria;  his  brother  Isaac,  who  mar- 
ried Kneertie  Wortman,  and  died  March  13,  j8o8,  was  father  of  the  late 


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APPENDIX.  783 

Peter  and  John  I.  De  Foreest,  of  New  York,  grocers,  and  their  sisters, 
Maria,  Sarah,  Catharine,  and  Margaret;  and  Lawrence  V.,  of  New  York, 
merchant,  who  married  Jane,  daughter  of  Peter  Davis,  of  Somerville,  New 
Jersey,  and  died  May  7,  1858,  aged  nearly  76  years,  was  father  of  the 
late  Alderman  Theodore  Romaine  De  Foreest,  M.  D.,  John  Abeel  De 
Foreest,  and  Jane  Lawrence  De  Foreest,  the  accomplished  and  lamented 
Mrs.  Dr.  Hull,  of  New  York,  murdered  in  her  bed,  June  11,  1879,  by  the 
burglar  Cox.  Gerrit  De  Forest,  born  1723,  called  Gerardus,  married,  1744, 
Sarah  Hardenbrook,  and  had  issue  John,  born  1745;  Andrew,  1751 ;  Ger- 
ardus, 1753;  Theodorus,  1756,  etc.,  of  whom  Theodorus  married,  1779, 
Susannah  Leggett.  Gerardus  was  a  shipwright,  married  Rachel  Kings- 
land,  and  died  April  19,  1802,  in  Harrison  Street,  leaving  his  widow,  who 
survived  many  years,  and  sons  John,  Gerardus,  and  David,  besides  seven 
daughters,  of  whom  Sarah,  the  eldest,  married  Hugh  Fairley.  John  was 
father  <5f  Cornelius  V.  and  Charles  S. 

Hendrick  De  Forest,  bom  1657,  married  July  5,  1682,  Phebe,  daugh- 
ter of  Barent  Van  Flaesbeek,  and  settled  at  Bushwick,  Long  Island,  was 
commissioned  justice  of  the  peace  1698,  in  1705  bought  land  at  and  removed 
to  Madnan's  Neck,  and  died  in  1715,  having  issue  Barent,  bom  1684; 
Sarah,  1686;  Gerrit,  1689;  Henricus,  1691 ;  Susannah,  1693;  Phebe,  1695; 
Maria,  1696,  and  Jesse,  1698;  of  whom  Susannah  married  Abraham  Kon- 
ing,  and  Phebe  married  Henry  Cole.  Several  of  the  sons  returned  to 
New  York.  Henricus  was  probably  the  sea-captain,  of  1747.  Barent  mar- 
ried, 1708,  Catalina,  daughter  of  Anthony  Sarley,  and  1723  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Cornelius  Verduyn.  He  was  teacher  of  the  Dutch  church 
school,  serving  as  late  as  1726,  in  which  year  he  probably  died.  His  widow 
died  March  i,  1736.  His  children,  save  some  who  died  in  infancy,  were, 
so  far  as  known,  Henricus,  born  1712;  Phebe,  1714,  married  Benjamin 
Stout;  Sarah,  1717;  Catalina,  1720,  married  Hendrick  Van  Beuren;  Cor- 
nelius, 1725.  Comelius  married  Antie  Van  Winkle.  Gerrit  married,  1716, 
Cornelia  Waldron;  he  died  October  14,  1744,  she  May  9,  1772;  issue 
Sarah,  born  1719,  married  Hendrick  Vandewater;  Henry,  1722;  Phebe, 
about  1725,  married  Andrew  Gewara;  and  Gerrit,  1731.  Henry,  last  named, 
was  perhaps  the  blockmaker.  made  freeman  1770,  and  Gerrit,  the  store- 
keeper at  Fly  Market,  1776.  Henricus,  born  1712,  freeman  1734,  married  that 
year  Susannah,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Bill,  and  widow  of  William  Golding, 
and  was  a  printer  in  King  (now  Pine)  Street,  in  1753.  His  widow  sold 
part  of  the  property  August  2,  1766.  His  children  known  but  in  part; 
his  daughter,  Susannah,  married,  1754,  Samuel  Brown,  stationer,  and 
daughter  Caroline,  married,  1759,  Richard  King,  mariner.  Jesse  married, 
June  14,  1719,  Teuntie  Titsoort.  He  died  April  12,  1755;  she  September 
3,  1761.  Their  children  who  reached  maturity  were  Abraham,  born  1722; 
Henricus,  1724,  and  Margaret,  1732,  who  married  Captain  William  Long. 
Of  these,  Henricus,  blacksmith,  married  Elizabeth  Young,  and  died  prior 
to  August  21,  1772,  when  administration  on  his  estate  was  granted  his 
widow.  Abraham,  hatter,  married,  in  1744,  Elizabeth  Myer;  in  1758  went 
out  as  master-at-arms  in  the  privateer  Peggy;  in  1760,  *i  and  '2,  com- 
manded companies  from  New  York  against  the  French,  on  the  frontiers. 
His  wife  died  April  6,  1761.  Captain  De  Forest  removed  to  Dutchess 
County,  and  was  living  in  1774.  His  children  were  Jesse,  born  1745; 
Elizabeth,  1746;  Peter,  1748;  Anna,  1752;  Abraham,  1754;  Henry,  1756; 
Cornelia,  1758,  and  Deborah,  1759.  , 

David  De  Forest,  born  1669,  removed  to  Stratford,  Connecticut,  sub- 
sequent to  1693,  where  he  married  in  1696.  His  wife  was  Martha,  her 
maiden  name  Blagge,  as  says  tradition,  with  probable  truth.  Evidently 
she  was  related  to  Edward,  Samuel,  and  Benjamin  Blagge,  of  New  York, 
but  not  a  sister,  as  we  conclude  from  the  will  of  their  father,  Captain 
Benjamin  Blagge,  dated  June  6,  1695,  and  other  records.  David  died  in 
April,  1721,  his  widow  (after  a  second  marriage)  in  1740,  aged  63  years. 


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784  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

For  a  list  of  his  male  descendants,  who  have  mostly  lived  in  Connecticut, 
see  Bronson's  History  of  Waterbury.  His  children  were  Mary,  Sarah, 
Martha,  David,  Samuel,  Isaac,  Edward,  Henry,  Elizabeth,  and  Benjamia 
The  last,  born  1716,  married  Esther  Beardslee,  and  was  father  of 
Benjamin,  born  1749  (who  married  Mehitable  Curtis),  father  of  Ben- 
jamin, born  1780  (married  Alma  Southmayd),  father  of  John  De  Forest, 
M.  D.,  of  Watertown,  Connecticut,  whose  wife  was  Lucy  S.  Lyman.  His 
only  child  is  Mr.  Erastus  L.  De  Forest.  Said  Benjamin,  born  1749,  was 
father  of  David  C,  born  1774,  founder  of  the  "De  I^orest  Fund,"  of  Yale 
College,  and  whose  son,  Carlos  M.  De  Forest,  born  181 3,  removed  to 
Troy,  Pennsylvania,  where  his  children  now  reside.  Hezekiah,  bom  1745, 
a  son  of  Benjamin,  born  17 16,  was  father  of  Samuel  A.,  of  Stratford,  bom 
1784,  died  1852,  who  settled  in  Danby,  Tioga  County,  New  York,  and  was 
the  father  of  Mr.  Charles  De  Forest,  of  Waverly.  Samuel  De  Forest, 
born  1704,  son  of  David  and  Martha,  was  father  of  Joseph,  bom  1731, 
whose  son  Gideon  removed  to  Edmeston,  Otsego  County,  New  York,  died 
in  1840,  and  had  sons  Abel  B.,  Lee,  Cyrus  H.  (of  Buffalo),  Charles  A, 
and  Tracy  R.  De  Forest.  Nehemiah,  born  1743,  a  brother  of  Joseph,  was 
father  of  Lockwood,  bom  March  5,  1775,  who  niarried  Mehitable  Wheeler, 
and  began  business  as  a  merchant  in  Greenwich  Street,  New  York,  in 
1816,  but  three  years  later,  with  his  son  William,  founded  the  well-kno^-n 
mercantile  house  of  De  Forest  &  Son,  at  82  South  Street.  Mr.  Lock- 
wood  De  Forest  died  November  28,  1848.  His  sons,  like  himself,  nearly 
all  merchants  and  enterprising  business  men,  were  William  W.,  George  B.. 
Alfred,  Frederick  L.,  James  G.,  Henry  G.  (lawyer),  and  Frederick  L.,  2d. 
His  daughters  were  Mary  L.,  who  married  Roger  Sherman  Skinner,  of 
New  Haven ;  Susan,  who  married  Daniel  Lord ;  Eliza,  who  married  Samue! 
Downer ;  Jane,  who  married  Burr  Wakeman ;  Ann,  who  married  Simeon 
Baldwin;  Sarah,  who  married  Walter  Edwards,  and  Louisa,  the  wife  suc- 
cessively of  Samuel  Woodruff  and  Thomas  F.  Cock,  M.  D. 


B.  Page  269. 

THE  MONTANYE  FAMILY.* 

Dr.  Johannes  La  Montagne,  prominent  in  the  affairs  of  New  Nether- 
land,  has  a  relatively  important  place  in  Harlem  history,  as  is  set  forth 
in  the  preceding  pages.  We  give  briefly  the  sequel  of  his  life;  then  notice 
his  descendants.  Derick  Corssen  Stam,  supercargo  in  the  vessel  which 
brought  the  De  Forests  over,  had  a  brother  Arent,  whose  wi do w%*  Agnes, 
a  daughter  of  Gillis  Ten  Waert,  was  wooed  by  the  Doctor,  after  the  death 
of  his  wife,  Rachel  De  Forest.  As  Arent  had  been  lost  at  sea  (see  page 
ISO),  it  proved  an  obstacle  to  their  union,  but  this  was  overcome,  as  is 
shown  by  the  following  proceeding  of  July  i8,  1647:  "Mr.  Johannes  La 
Montagne  appeared  before  the  council,  and  requested  leave  to  marry 
Angenietie  (iillis  Ten  Waert,  widow  of  Arent  Corssen.  Being  fully  per- 
suaded that  he  perished,  as  the  Lords  Directors  have  written,  that  they 
had  left  nothing  untried  to  learn  about  him,  but  were  entirely  ignorant  of 
his  fate;  therefore  if  Mr.  La  Montagne,  and  she  Angenietie,  have  no 
scruples  regarding  it,  they  are  at  liberty  to  marry."  Two  months  later 
they  were  married. 

•  We  cannot  follow  here  the  various  spellings  of  this  name  which  occur,  but  ob- 
serve the  form  Montanye,  as  most  accordant  with  modern  usage,  and  with  its  original, 
the  Latin  Mons,  in  French  Alontagnc,  Mountain;  see  page  48.  The  change  of  the  tv 
in  some  branches,  to  a  and  i,  seems  unfortunate.  After  he  came  to  this  country.  Dr. 
Montanye,  previously  signing  his  name  "Mousnier  de  La  Montagne,"  invariably 
wrote  it  "La  Montagne,"  omitting  his  family  name  Mousnier  or  Monier,  whicb.  how- 
ever, was  sometimes  used  by  all  his  sons,  and  even  grandsons,  before  it  was  finally 
dropped.     (Sec  pp.  79,  591.) 


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APPENDIX.  785 

Montanye  was  commended  for  his  discreet  rule  as  vice-director  at 
Fort  Orange,  which  lasted  till  1664;  much  of  his  official  correspondence 
with  Stuyvesant  is  preserved.  He  prudently  swore  allegiance  to  the  new 
government,  but  from  this  date  is  lost  sight  of,  and  probably  accompanied 
his  old  friend  Stuyvesant  on  his  errand  to  Holland  in  1665,  to  defend  his 
course  in  surrendering  the  country  to  the  English.  There  is  reason  to 
conclude  that  Dr.  Montanye  died  abroad  in  1670.  He  had  eight  children, 
viz.,  Jolant,  born  1627;  Jesse,  1629;  John,  1632;  Rachel,  1634;  Maria, 
1637;  William,  1641 ;  Gillis,  1650,  and  Jesse,  1653.  The  last  two  died 
young,  as  had  Jolant.  The  first  Jesse  was  commissary  of  stores,  1647, 
but  died  soon  after.  Rachel  married  Dr.  Gysbert  Van  Imbroch,  and  Maria 
married  Jacob  Kip,  whose  descendants  have  been  locally  prominent* 

William  Montanye  (he  styled  himself  De  La  Montague)  joined  the 
church  at  New  Amsterdam  October  2,  1661,  when  he  came  to  Harlem. 
Called  to  be  voorleser  at  Esopus,  he  held  that  office  till  1678;  from  1668 
adding  the  duties  of  secretary.  He  married  May  19,  1673,  Elenora,  daugh- 
ter of  Anthony  De,  Hooges,  and  that  year  drew  300  guilders  from  the 
Orphan  Chamber,  at  Ley  den  (whence  derived  is  left  to  conjecture) ;  to 
obtain  which  he  chose  as  guardians  his  cousins,  Panhuysen  and  Du  Toict, 
the  sons-in-law  of  Gerard  De  Forest.t  Leisler  made  him  high  sheriff  of 
Ulster  County,  December  24,  1689.  He  had  removed  to  Mombackus,  town 
of  Rochester,  and  was  living  1695.  His  children  were  Rachel,  bom  1674, 
^'ho  married  Harman  Decker;  Johanna,  1676,  living  1699;  William,  1678; 
!Maria,  1680,  married  Nicholas  Westfall;  Johannes,  1682;  Jesse,.  1684;  Eve, 
1686,  married  Derick  Krom,  and  Catharine,  1688,  who  married  John  Bevier. 
Ulster  County  records  are  strangely  silent  as  to  William's  sons. 

John  Montanye  was  born  at  Leyden,  arid  first  appears  as  Jean  Monier 
De  La  Montague,  Jr.,  later  as  Jan  La  Montagne,  Jr.  He  early  joined  the 
church  at  New  Amsterdam,  where,  in  1652,  he  taught  school  a  few  months, 
under  an  appointment  from  the  directors  in  Holland;  then  was  made  com- 

*  Dr.  Gysbert  Van  Imbroch,  descendants  of  whom,  in  New  York  and  New  Jersey, 
Tvrite  their  name  Van  Emburgh  and  Van  Amburg,  was  a  physician;  had  a  sister, 
Barbara,  the  first  wife  of  Thomas  Verdon;  sec  p.  164.  In  1655  Van  Imbroch,  then 
for  two  years  a  shopkeeper  at  New  Amsterdam,  was  permitted  "to  make  a  lottery 
of  a  certain  number  of  bibles,  testaments  and  other  books."  His  marriage  probably 
took  place  at  Fort  Orange,  whither  he  went  to  live,  Rachel  being  his  second  wife. 
They  removed  to  Wiltwyck  or  Kingston,  joining  the  church  by  letter,  December  16. 
1662  (see  pp.  200,  202)  and  here  Van  Imbroch  practiced  medicine,  being  one  of  the 
schepens  from  1663  till  his  death,  August  29,  1665,  his  wife  having  died  October 
4,  1664.  Their  children  were,  Elizabeth,  born  1659;  Johannes,  1661,  and  Gysbert,  1664; 
all  of  whom  removed  to  New  York.  Elizabeth  married  John  Peeck.  Gysbert,  shoe- 
maker, came  to  New  York  in  1686,  married,  1688,  Jannctie,  daughter  of  Peter  Mcsier, 
and  acquired  property;  sec  Deeds  N.  Y.  26,  z^j^  and  Albany,  14,  11.  He  had  nine 
children;  some  died  in  infancy.  Sec  N.  Y.  Corp.  Manual  for  1863,  j).  825,  and  1864,  p. 
829.  Johannes  Van  Imbroch  was  "doctor  oi  physic;"  married,  in  1687,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Arie  Van  Schaick,  and  later  Catherine,  daughter  of  Capt.  William  Sand- 
fordi,  of  Bergen  County,  N.  J.,  where  Dr.  Van  Imbroch  then  lived,  and  where  he 
made  his  will,  June  6,  1^29,  proved  Septerabet  13,  174a.  He  had  sons  and  daughters, 
the  former,  Gysbert,  William  and  John.  His  daughter,  Mary,  married  J<5hn  Sand- 
ford;  Catherine  married  Richard  Gibbs,  of  New  Brunswick,  and  Elizabeth  married 
Jacobus  Bertholf,   1729. 

t  We^  Commissaries  of  the  Court  at  Kingston,  do  certify  that  before  us  has 
appeared  William  Monier  de  I^a  Montagne,  son  of  the  elder  deceased  Johanfies  Monier 
de  La  Montagne,  begotten  bv  Rachel  de  Forest;  that  said  William  Monier  de  La 
Montagne  has  given  to  Mr.  Gabriel  Monviellc,  merchant  at  New  York,  a  bill  of  ex- 
change for  three  hundred  guilders  Holland  money,  reckoned  at  twenty  stivers  per 
ffuilder:  And  that  Mr.  Monville  or  his  order  may  receive  the  same,  therefore  the 
above  named  William  Monier  de  La  Montagne  by  these  constitutes  and  makes,  even 
as  he  is  himself  authorized  and  fully  empowered  to  do,  his  guardians  or  friends, 
Sicur  Johannes  Panhuysen  and  Mr.  Da\'id  du  Toict,  living  in  the  city  of  Leyden,  on 
his  behalf  and  in  the  constituent's  name,  to  take  up  from  his  money  due  from  the 
Orphan  Chamber  of  the  said  city,  the  betorenamed  three  hundred  guilders,  and  to 
deliver  the  same  according  to  the  bill  of  exchange,  to  Mr.  Gabriel  Monville  or  to 
bis  order,  promising  to  hold  good  that  which  they  shall  do  in  the  premises.  In  witness 
whereof,  we  with  our  own  hand,  as  also  the  Hon.  Commissaries,  Cornelius  Wynkoop 
and  Joost  Adriaens,  have  subscribed  this  on  the  date,  27th  March,  1673,  at  Kingston, 
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missary  of  accounts.  Entering  into  trade  with  Vincent  Pikes,  in  1654, 
Montanye,  about  midsummer  of  that  year,  sailed  for  Holland,  and  while 
there  (as  noticed  page  94)  married  Peternella  Pikes,  two  years  his 
junior.  Returning  alone  to  this  country,  he  bought  a  residence  on  Marck- 
velt-steeg,  from  his  uncle  De  Forest,  September  26,  1655,  preparatory  to 
the  coming  of  his  wife,  who  soon  arrived,  with  her  infant,  John,  bom  at 
Amsterdam,  and  there  baptized,  at  the  Walloon  church,  October  21,  1655. 
On  the  institution  of  the  burgher  right,  Montanye's  name  was  the  first 
enrolled  on  the  list  of  Great  Burghers,  April  10,  1657.  That  year  he  was 
Farmer  of  the  Retail  Excise,  and  was  made  a  Fire-warden,  December  23, 
1658. 

One  of  the  first,  if  not  the  first,  to  take  up  land  at  the  proposed  New 
Haerlem,  in  which  enterprise  he  felt  a  special  interest,  owing  to  the 
proximity  of  his  father's  lands,  Yredendal,  he  sold  his  home  on  the 
Marckvelt-steeg  to  Johannes  Verveelen,  June  27,  1659,  and  removed  hither, 
being  chosen  deacon  in  1660.  He  was  living  here  the  next  winter,  when  he 
bought  "a  horse,  with  a  saddle  and  bridle,"  for  300  guilders,  "in  good 
strung  current  wampum."  His  next  appointment  was  that  of  schepen  of 
the  new  village,  where  all  his  interests  centred,  after  the  sale,  February 
14,  1662,  of  another  house  and  lot,  adjoining  one  owned  by  his  father 
in  Beaver  Street.  His  service  as  schout,  secretary,  and  voorlescr,  has 
been  duly  noticed.  Having  lost  his  wife,  he  married,  June  10,  1663,  Maria, 
daughter  of  Isaac  Vermilye,  Dominie  Selyns  officiating;  the  bride's  sis- 
ter, Rachel,  being  also  married  to  John  Terbosh.  How  Montanye  acquired 
the  property  known  as  the  Point,  before  patented  to  his  father,  as  also  its 
history  till  sold  to  Bogert,  has  been  stated  in  the  general  history  of  the 
town,  to  which  it  properly  belongs.  As  Montanye  left  the  village  within 
two  years  after  getting  permission  to  build  on  his  Point  (see  page  236), 
but  remained  "in  the  jurisdiction  of  New  Haerlem,"  it  may  be  inferred  that 
he  put  up  buildings  there,  yet  neither  the  bill  of  sale  nor  deed  to  Bogert 
mention  any.  They  may  have  been  destroyed.  He  or  Bogert  built  the 
stone  house  whose  ruins  have  disappeared  within  the  last  fifty  years ;  it 
stood  nearer  the  Mill  Pond,  and  westerly  a  little  from  the  late  farm 
house,  torn  down  by  S.  B.  McGown,  Esq.,  when  about  to  erect  his  present 
dwelling.  It  antedated  the  late  house,  itself  considerably  over  100  years 
old,  and  built  in  the  early  childhood  of  Samson  Benson,  born  1736. 

In  May,  1670,  Montanye  dropped  the  Jr.  from  his  name,  indicating 
his  father's  decease.  He  himself  died  in  1672.  His  widow  surviving 
another  husband  (see  page  350).  was  buried  November  23,  1689.  Mon- 
tanye had  children,  John,  bom  1655;  Vincent,  1657;  Nicasius,  1659;  Abra- 
ham, 1664;  Jelante,  1667;  Isaac,  1669;  Peternella,  1671,  and  Johanna,  1673. 
Jelante  married  Bastiaen  Kortright;  Peternella  married  Peter  See,  and 
Johanna,  posthumous,  married  Johannes  Vredenburgh.*  For  Abraham 
and  descendants,  see  page  591.  Nicasius,  named  for  his  god- father,  Hon. 
Nicasius  De  Sille,  joined  the  Labadists  at  Bohemia  Manor  (see  page 
359),  and  was  of  those  who  shared  the  lands  in  1698.  He  then  returned 
to  New  York  and  bought  a  lot  on  Broadway,  June  10,  1702.  His  only 
children,  Samuel,  born  June  2,  1698.  and  Jesse,  bom  November  21,  j6gQ, 
were  baptized  June  26,  1703,  near  which  date  Nicasius  died.  His  widow, 
Christina,   a   daughter   of   Nicholas   Martensen   Roosevelt,   married  John 

•  Peter  See  was  son  of  Isaac  and  Maria,  named  p.  371,  and  father  of  Isaac  Sec,  bom 
1703,  who  married  Eve  Foshav^  October  5,  1734.  Their  son,  Peter,  bom  March  20,  1737, 
married,  June  29,  176.S,  Sophia  De  Kevere,  and  died  October  18,  1800;  issue,  Isaac, 
bom  July  12,  1766;  John,  April  18,  1768;  Abraham,  April  16,  1770;  Jacobus,  Jan- 
uary I,  1772;  Catrina,  November  21,  1774;  Maria,  June  32,  1780,  and  Leah,  Octo- 
ber i3»  1784.  John,  last  named,  married  Maria  Seaman,  December  2,  1797,  and  re- 
moved to  New  York.  Their  children  were,  John  D.,  born  September  20,  1799;  Isaac, 
July  14,  1801;  Clara,  August  2,  1803;  KHza  Ann,  January  13,  1806;  MahaJa,  June 
7,  1809:  Barney,  January  27,  1812;  David,  November  16,  1813;  Georore  Comb, 
Aufi^ust  24,  18 18;  Catherine,  October  7,  1820,  and  Maria,  August  4.  1822.  Isaac,  last 
named,  married  Grace  Sands  Hudson,  July  iq.  1821,  and  died  December  2s,  1829, 
being  father  of  Rev.  John  L.  See,  D.D..  Rev.  Wm.  G.  E.  Sec,  and  Rev.  Isaac  M.  See. 


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Hammell ;  they  sold  said  lot  February  26,  1704,  and  are  traced  no  further. 

Isaac  Montanye,  usually  called  Isaac  Monier  De  La  Montagne,  on 
April  26,  1679,  when  10  years  old,  was  bound  by  his  mother  for  3  years 
to  John  Dyckman,  who  was  to  clothe  him  and  send  him  "to  the  day  or 
evening  school."  When  grown  up  he  served  as  a  soldier  in  His  Majest/s 
•fort  at  New  York,  under  Captain  Leisler.  In  1696  he  married  Hester  Van 
Voorst,  from  Albany,  and  died  in  1703;  the  next  year  his  widow  married 
Alexander  Phoenix.  Isaac  left  issue  Sarah,  born  1696;  Johannes,  1698; 
Jacobus,  1700,  and  Isaac,  1702.  Sarah  married  1717  James  Mackintosh, 
and  1730  Samuel  Van  Naamen.  Jacobus  was  in  New  York  1738;  Isaac, 
not  named,  appears  to  have  gone  to  New  Jersey;  neither  traced  further. 
Johannes,  born  1698,  remained  in  New  York,  married,  February  7,  1726, 
Susannah,  daughter  of  Harman  Bussing.  She  died  April  27,  1736;  he  on 
September  26,  1762.  Their  children  were  Sarah,  bom  1726,  married  Daniel 
Brand;  Isaac,  1729;  John,  1730;  Hester,  1733,  married  Captain  Lazarus 
Peperall,  and  Harman,  1736,  the  last  a  mason,  and  living  1763.  His  brother 
John,  painter  and  glazier,  married  1760  Catharine  White,  and  died  in  1772, 
his  widow,  in  1814,  aged  87  years.  John  left  issue,  Susannah,  bom  1763, 
married  William  Gibson;  John,  1766,  not  in  his  mother's  will,  181 1,  per- 
haps he  who  died  April  i,  1802;  and  Catharine,  1768,  who  married  William 
Gamble.  Isaac,  born  1729,  died  April  26,  1814,  in  Cedar  Street,  had  by 
wife  Anna  Speer,  sons  Isaac,  born  1763;  John,  1765,  and  Harmanus,  1769, 
besides  daughters.  Harmanus  was  a  house-carpenter,  married,  November 
I,  1794,  Anna  Tabele,  and  lived  in  1798  at  46  Cortlandt  Street.  Isaac  and 
John,  like  their  father,  were  masons;  the  first  married,  September  18, 
1785,  Sarah  Stitcher,  had  known  issue  John,  born  1786,  and  Ann,  1788, 
and  lived  in  1798  at  34  Lumber  Street.  John,  born  February,  1765,  mar- 
ried Mary  Weldon,  May  3,  1788,  and  died  December  13,  1820;  issue  that 
reached  maturity,  Catharine,  born  December  18,  1790,  married  J.  Wyck- 
liffe  Donnington,  printer;  Isaac,  August  8,  1793;  William,  November  14, 
1796;  Abraham,  March  8,  1799;  and  Ann  Maria,  November  2,  1803,  who 
survives.  William,  lapidary,  who  married  Elizabeth  Marshall,  and  died 
February  3,  1842,  aged  45  years,  was  father  of  William  H.  Montanye,  coffee 
and  spice  dealer,  62  Barclay  Street. 

John  Montanye,  often  called  Delamontagne,  was  born,  1655,  in  Am- 
sterdam, became  a  "master  cooper"  in  New  York,  married,  September  4, 
1678,  Annetie,  daughter  of  Joseph  Waldron.  He  married  secondly,  Sep- 
tember 8,  1701,  a  widow,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Frederick  A.  Bloom;  see 
page  129.  Mr.  Montanye  lived  on  Broadway,  where  he  had  bought,  May 
IP,  1688,  as  on  page  692.  From  his  22d  year  a  church  member,  he  was 
long  the  sexton,  both  in  the  fort  and  in  Garden  Street;  and  as  an  elder, 
was  named  in  the  charter  granted  the  Colonial  Dutch  Church,  May  11, 
1696.*  He  died  July  12,  1730,  in  his  75th  year.  His  children  sold  his 
residence,  May  31,  1748.  These  were  Annetie,  born  1679,  married  Fred- 
erick Bloom  and  John  Peterse;  Johannes,  1681 ;  Peternella,  1683,  married 
Jacob  Brower;  Joseph,  1684;  Jesse,  1687;  Abraham,  1688;  Rachel,  1691, 
married  Patrick  Smith;  Jacobus,  1693,  and  Marritie,  1695,  who  married 
Adrian  Bogert.  Smith,  an  innkeeper,  died  December  6,  1755;  his  widow, 
who  survived  but  two  years,  having  no  children,  gave  her  property  to  her 
Montanye  kindred.  Of  John  Montanye's  sons,  Abraham  removed  to 
Foster's  Meadow,  Long  Island,  early  as  171 5;  subscribed  that  year  for 
building  a  Dutch  church  at  Jamaica.  His  son,  John,  born  1723,  farmer, 
received  as  church  member  at  Success,  in  1766,  died  without  issue  during 
the  Revolution ;  his  widow,  Mercy,  in  1784.  Jesse  Montanye,  born  16^, 
married  Charity  Yates,  May  29,  1714,  and  died  in  New  York  April  25, 
1745;  the  city  granted  his  widow,  February  12,  1751,  the  water  lot  No.  4,  in 

*  Bolton,  History  Westchester,  ii.,  332,  wresting  this  charter  to  his  purpose,  makes 
John  Montagne  minister  at  Fordhara,  and  Henry  Selyns  an  elder;  whereas  Selyns 
was  minister  at  New  York,  and  Montanye  an  elder!  This  error  is  copied  in  Corwm's 
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Montgomery  Ward.  She  died  March  28,  1762;  issue,  John,  bom  1715*. 
Ann,  L716;  Joseph,  1718;  Charity,  1720,  died  April  18,  1751;  Jesse,  1722; 
Mary,  1725,  married  William  Van  Sise;  and  Sarah,  1727,  who  married 
Robert  Finley.  Jesse  died  January  6,  1756 ;  Ann,  named  in  Rachel  Smith's 
will  of  September  17,  1757,  died  May  4,  1758;  of  the  others,  nothing  cer- 
tain known;  Joseph,  freeman  1740,  probably  married  Maria  Bragaw,  of 
Newtown,  and  went  to  New  Jersey.  Joseph,  bom  1684,  married  Margaret 
Roll,  March  2,  1728;  his  son  Joseph,  bom  1732,  lived  at  Stroudsburgh, 
Pennsylvania,  and  married  Mary  Brodhead.  Their  son  Abraham,  bom 
1772,  died  1825,  married  Elizabeth  Buflfum,  and  was  father  of  the  estima- 
ble Joseph  D.  L.  Montanye,  of  Towanda,  Pennsylvania,  bom  November 
12,  1802,  died  May  18,  1880. 

Johannes  Montanye,  born  1681,  married  Sarah  Parcell,  January  27, 
1706,  was  admitted  a  freeman  1716,  succeeded  his  father  as  sexton,  and 
died  very  aged.  His  will,  made  in  health  December  12,  1770,  was  proved 
October  17,  1774.  Judge  Benson,  "in  his  earliest  youth,"  saw  and  con- 
versed with  Montanye,  when,  "approaching  to  four-score,"  he  went  his 
round  to  collect  the  dominie's  salary.  See  Benson's  Memoir.  His  chil- 
dren, all  living  1770.  were,  Sarah,  born  1708;  John,  1710;  Ann,  1716,  mar- 
ried Captain  John  Tomkins;  Joseph,  1719,  and  Abraham,  1722.  The  sons, 
all  made  freemen  1743,  became  tradesmen.  Abraham,  born  August  25. 
1722,  carpenter  by  trade,  married,  1749,  Tanneke  Lewis;  she  and  infant 
John  died  next  year.  He  then  married  Sarah  Christeen,  of  English 
Neighborhood,  New  Jersey,  where  he  took  up  his  residence  on  a  farm, 
and  served  as  an  elder.  His  father  left  him  his  own  dwelling  in  New 
York,  and  on  March  26,  1775,  he  and  his  brothers  bought  a  house  in  Cort- 
landt  Street,  formerly  of  their  aunt  Rachel  Smith.  He  died  February'  7, 
1801,  and  was  buried  on  his  farm,  now  in  possession  of  Mr.  Samuel  Edsall. 
Under  his  will,  dated  October  30,  1789,  his  executor  sold  his  property 
corner  of  Cedar  and  Lumber  Streets,  May  14,  1801.  Joseph,  in  1770,  occu- 
pied a  house  in  Cortlandt  Street,  given  him  by  his  father.  He  married 
Phebe  Barnes;  issue,  Sarah,  born  1756;  Rachel,  1757;  John,  1759;  Phebe, 
1762;  Anna,  1765,  and  Joseph,  1770.  On  June  2,  1796,  John  J.  Montanye, 
blacksmith,  and  wife  Martha,  and  Simon  Kiersted,  blockmaker,  and  wife 
Sarah  (Montanye),  sell  to  John  Moore,  mason,  their  two-thirds  interest 
in  said  house,  "formerly  the  property  of  Joseph  Montanye,  deceased." 
John  J.  removed  the  same  year  to  Haverstraw.  By  his  wife  Martha 
Strachen,  he  had  Phebe,  born  1785;  Sarah  Christeen,  1787;  Nancy,  1790; 
Joseph,  1791,  and  John,  1792. 

John  Montanye,  born  1710,  was  a  carpenter;  perhaps  constable  of  Dock 
Ward,  1734.  He  married  March  14,  1741,  Mary,  daughter  of  Philip  Daly, 
and  later  set  up  a  bakery.  He  in  turn  became  sexton,  serving  "till  the 
dispersion  of  the  congregation  on  the  invasion  of  the  city  in  1776."  Re- 
turning, he  died  at  24  Pine  Street  in  1794,  having  had  issue,  Sarah,  bom 
i743»/vvho  married  John  Barrea;  John,  1744;  Philip,  1746;  Cornelia,  1751, 

married Demarest;  Catharine,  1753,  married  Philip  Min thorn;  Mary, 

I755»  married  William  Ash;  and  Abraham,  1759.  Of  these,  John,  then 
a  baker,  married,  1767,  Abigail  Wilsey,  and  died  soon  after  his  father, 
apparently  without  leaving  issue.  Abraham  was  a  brass- founder,  named 
1786  to  1796,  died  at  38  Cedar  Street,  near  Nassau,  where  his  widow,  Ruth 
Decker,  lived  in  1798;  issue,  John,  born  March  13,  1794- 

Jacobus  Montanye,  born  1693,  married,  July  6,  171 7,  Adriana,  daugh- 
ter of  John  Devoor,  and  widow  of  Conrad  Vanderbeck.  She  died  Jan- 
uary 5,  1758;  he  on  December  5,  1761.  Their  children  were  John,  bom 
1718;  Ann,  1722,  married  Benjamin  Paine;  William,  1725,  died  1737;  Maria, 
1728,  married  John  Tomkins,  and  Adriana  and  Elizabeth,  twins,  1730,  who 
married,  the  first,  1750,  to  Stephen  Callow;  the  last,  1751,  to  George 
Giffing.  Callow,  upholsterer,  left  sons  in  the  city,  and  was  god-father  of 
Mr.  William  Stackhouse,  of  Columbus,  Ohio.    Giffing  died  1771 ;  was  father 


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of  the  Giffings,  formerly  of  40  Chapel  Street,  now  College  Place.  Rachel 
Smith's  will  names  Jacobus*  four  daughters;  omits  his  son  John.  Per- 
haps he  was  the  feltmaker,  or  hatter,  long  at  187  Broadway.  The  latter 
probably  married  twice.  He  lost  a  child  August  17,  1770;  on  April  30, 
1773,  bought  his  place  in  Broadway,  then  known  as  Pelt's  Ropewalk,  and 
sold  the  rear  part  May  3  ensuing,  naming  no  wife.  His  daughter  Mary, 
by  his  wife  Mary  Lowry,  was  born  March  29,  1774.  He  died  prior  to 
1798.  On  May  10,  1800,  Mary  and  Elizabeth  Montanye,  spinsters;  James 
Anderson,  gunsmith,  and  Ann  his  wife,  sold  three-fourths  of  the  lot  on 
Broadway,  and  on  August  19,  1801,  John  Montanye,  bookbinder,  "one  of 
the  heirs"  of  John,  hatter,  conveyed  his  one- fourth  of  said  lot.  He  lived 
at  20  Christie  Street  in  1822. 

Vincent  Montanye,  born  1657,  married,  March  5,  1684,  Adriana,  daugh- 
ter of  Jan  Thomasz  Aken  (see  page  168)  ;  first  lived  in  New  Street,  being 
church  member;  afterward  "at  Sclavonia,  in  Bowery  Division  of  Out 
Ward";  Vincent,  then  a  brickmaker,  constable  there  in  1695.  Here,  four- 
teen years  later,  his  domestic  peace  was  interrupted  by  the  wiles  of  one 
Cordaz,  a  neighbor  brickmaker,  who,  found  guilty,  was  fined  by  the  Court 
of  Sessions.  Vincent  left  the  city,  perhaps  temporarily;  was  living  1713. 
His  children,  save  two  which  died  young,  were  John,  born  1689;  Thomas, 
1691 ;  Apollonia,  1694;  Jesse,  1696;  Petrus,  1698;  Peternella,  1701,  who 
married  Godfricus  Bennoe;  Annetie,  1703,  who  married  Henry  Dyer; 
Vincent,  1705,  and  Rachel,  1707.  John,  we  suspect,  was  he  who  died  in 
Great  Britain,  leaving  a  son  Henry,  for  whom  George  Harrison,  of  New 
York,  was  allowed  to  administer,  October  24,  1743.  Vincent,  born  1705, 
married,  1737,  Elizabeth  Murray;  issue,  Vincent,  born  1738.  Petrus  mar- 
ried Jannetie  Dyer,  April  17,  1723,  was  constable  of  Montgomery  Ward 
in  1734,  and  died  June  i,  1751 ;  issue  Maria,  born  1724;  Adriana,  1728; 
Vincent,  1731;  Rebecca,  1732;  Thomas,  1735;  of  whom  Rebecca  married 
Captain  Richard  Martin  and  Captain  Richard  Richards.  Was  this  the 
Thomas,  cabinet-maker,  who  died  in  the  Island  of  Grenada,  administration 
on  his  estate  being  granted  Philip  Pelton,  at  New  York,  December  9,  1774? 

Thomas  Montanye,  born  1691,  married  November  25,  1718,  Rebecca 
Bruyn,  was  ultimately  a  shopkeeper,  but  died  October  12,  1761,  his  widow 
not  till  September  15,  1775.  His  dwelling-house,  in  Prince  Street,  sold 
by  his  son  Peter,  as  executor,  May  15,  1784.  Of  fifteen  children  there 
reached  maturity,  ,Vincent,  born  1721 ;  Peter,  1723;  Adriana,  1724,  mar- 
ried Abraham  Lefoy;  Martha,  1726,  married  Abraham  Allener;  Thomas, 
1731,  died  unmarried  June  19,  1758;  Rebecca,  1735;  Hannah,  1737,  mar- 
ried Morris  Earl;  Jane,  1739,  married  John  Wright;  Appollonia  (called 
Prudence),  1741,  married  Elbert  Amerman;  John,  1743;  Benjamin,  1745, 
and  Peternella  (called  Nelly),  1747,  who  married  Isaac  Vredenburgh. 
Of  these,  John  T.,  as  called,  married  Mary  Blain,  lived  in  New  York  when 
the  Revolution  opened,  and  the  brothers  Peter,  Isaac,  and  Jacob  Mon- 
tanye, who  early  removed  to  Central  New  York,  are  believed  to  have  been 
his  sons;  a  conclusion  arrived  at  after  careful  inquiry;  still  an  intelligent 
descendant  says  they  were  sons  of  Jesse,  and  from  Morris  County,  New 
Jersey.  Isaac,  who  died  1825,  aged  45  years,  was  father  of  Joseph  B. 
Mintonye,  now  of  Conquest,  and  of  the  late  John,  of  Lysander;  Peter, 
bom  1775,  died  1850,  at  Sempronius,  was  father  of  John,  late  of  West- 
field,  Pennsylvania;  Elijah,  who  removed  to  Ohio,  and  William,  father 
of  William  J.  Mantanye,  lawyer.  Marathon,  New  York.  Vincent,  shop- 
keeper, married.  May  8,  1743,  Catharine  Harte,  who  died  August  29,  1760; 
married  April  12,  1761,  Gertrude  Vonck,  who  died  September  15,  1766; 
married,  July  6,  1767,  Mary  Brundige,  who  survived  him.  He  died  May 
26,  1773,  aged  52  years.  Dr.  O'Callaghan  (Hist.  N.  N.),  misled  by  those 
w^ho  confounded  the  two  Vincents,  makes  the  latter  116  years  old!  the 
"connecting  link  between  Stuyvesant  and  Washington."  We  regret  to 
spoil  this  pretty  fiction,  which  we  see  is  copied  in  our  N.  Y.  B.  &  G.  Rec., 


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vii,  119.  Vincent  had  children  (with  four  that  died  young), 
Thomas,  born  1745;  John,  1747;  Isaac,  1751 ;  Rebecca,  1752;  Peter,  1757, 
and  Mary,  1768,  who  died  unmarried  August  14,  1814.  Rebecca  married 
Peter  Truman,  godfather  of  the  late  James  A.  Cosse,  known  for  his  per- 
sistent but  ineffectual  efforts  to  recover  the  Montanye  lands  at  Harlem. 
Thomas  last  named  married,  May  4,  1766,  Catharine  Smith,  who  died 
September  20,  1770,  and  by  whom  he  had  two  sons,  viz.,  Vincent,  bom 
1767,  who,  with  the  father,  was  deceased  in  1789;  and  Henry,  born  1769, 
who  removed  to  Tappan,  and  married,  in  1802,  Rebecca  Nagel ;  issue,  John, 
bom  April  i,  1805;  David,  December  12,  1808,  etc.*  Peter,  born  1757,  son 
of  Vincent,  was  a  tailor,  removed  to  Orange  County,  and  had  sons  George, 
Isaac,  and  Abraham;  Isaac,  born  1783,  died  1840,  being  father  of  the  late 
John,  father  of  William  D.  L.  Montanye,  M.  D.,  of  Rondout.  Isaac, 
born  1751,  grocer  in  New  York,  1786;  his  descendants,  if  any,  not  traced. 
John,  born  1747,  tailor,  married  Mary  Briggs,  and  lived  at  Tappan  before 
and  during  the  Revolution;  then  returning  to  Ne^y  York,  lived  from  1810 
in  Elm  Street,  where  he  owned  property,  and  died  September  24,  18291 
His  wife  died  March  29,  1825,  aged  70  years.  He  left  daughters,  Mar>% 
widow  of  James  Brown,  merchant;  Elizabeth,  widow  of  James  Lorton, 
and  Gertrude,  wife  of  Charles  Denison.  Another  daughter,  Catharine, 
married  Elijah  Fountain.  His  eldest  son  was  Isaac,  born  March  4,  1774- 
The  late  John  Delamontanye,  tailor,  born  February  16,  1778,  was  another 
son;  issue,  Matilda,  Stanley,  Mary  A,  Vincent.  Another  was  Vincent 
bom  March  8,  1784,  who  at  his  death,  December  8,  1827,  kept  the  Cold 
Spring  Garden,  corner  of  Greenwich  and  Leroy  Streets.  His  daughter, 
Sarah  Ann,  married  Aris  Bogart,  and  was  the  mother  of  Mr.  Vincent  D. 
L.  M.  Bogart.  His  other  children  were  Mary,  who  married  Richard  D. 
Blauvelt;  Susan,  married  William  Gary;  and  George  Fowler  Delamon- 
tanye, who  died  March  12,  1857,  in  his  42d  year;  issue,  Vincent,  Sophia, 
George  A.,  Mary  J.,  Charles  H.,  Maria  L.,  and  Clarence. 

Peter  Montanye,  born  1723,  was  a  blacksmith,  made  freeman  1746, 
married,  June  10,  1754,  Catharine  Vanderhoof,  and  acquired  property. 
He  died  June  20,  1798,  at  281  Pearl  Street.  He  had  children,  Ann,  bom 
1756,  married  Thomas  Parcells,  coachmaker;  Peter,  1759,  not  in  father's 
will,  dated  June  17,  1798;  Catharine,  1761,  married  John  Van  Yarick, 
baker;  Thomas,  1763,  not  in  father's  will;  Benjamin,  1766;  John,  1768; 
Isaac,  1770;  Elizabeth,  1774,  who  married  William  J.  Waldron,  grocer. 
Said  John,  master- cooper,  inspector  of  provisions  in  1805,  died  a  bachelor, 
1823.  His  brother,  Isaac,  married  Mary  Foskett,  and  died  July  i,  1805, 
his  only  child  being  John,  of  New  York,  cedar-cooper,  born  January  31, 
1802,  died  at  Hoboken,  January  18,  1862.  Benjamin,  born  1766,  in  1798 
china  dealer  at  281  Pearl  Street,  died  September  12,  1816,  leaving  by  his 
wife,  Sarah,  daughter  of  Peter  Rushton  Maverick,  whom  he  married 
May  10,  1792,  children  Charles  Kearney,  Benjamin  Maverick,  and  Maria, 
who  married  Andrew  D.  Veitch. 

Benjamin  Montanye,  born  1745,  son  of  Thomas,  was  a  blacksmith,  and 
married  Elizabeth  Norris,  April  14,  1768.  Siding  with  his  country  at 
the  Revolution,  he  left  the  city  in  1776,  as  did  most  of  the  Montanyes, 
and  retired  up  the  Hudson,  being  employed  as  confidential  messenger  by 
the  Provincial  Convention.  Once,  sent  by  Washington  with  secret  dis- 
patches, he  was  taken  by  the  enemy,  and  endured  a  cruel  imprisonment  in 
the  Old  Sugar  House,  at  New  York.  He  resumed  his  trade  here  at  the 
close  of  the  war,  but  soon  after  gave  himself  to  the  Baptist  ministry,  and 
in  1791  became  pastor  of  the  Oliver  Street  church.     He  still  worked  at  his 

•  This  Thomas,  born  174S.  is  named  in  his  father's  will,  February  3,  1773,  but 
not  in  the  list  of  citizens,  May  2,  1774;  N.  Y.  Corp.  Man.,  1850,  427.  Moreover, 
his  grandmother,  Rebecca,  in  her  will  ot  October  25.  1774,  gives  a  tenth  of  her  estate 
to  her  son  Vincent's  "five  children;"  whence  it  would  follow  (as  the  others  were 
living)  that  Thomas  was  deceased.  Most  likely  he  was  the  cabinetmaker  before 
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forge,  at  8  Prince  Street.  In  1794  he  removed  to  New  Vernon,  Orange 
County,  New  York,  where  he  founded  a  church,  and  preached,  beloved 
and  revered,  till  his  death,  December  25,  1825.  Elder  Montanye  married 
secondly  Cornelia  Cooper,  an  excellent  woman,  but  his  children  were  by 
his  first  wife,  being  Thomas  B.,  Benjamin,  Rebecca,  who  married  William 
Ustick;  Nancy,  who  married  Samuel  King,  and  Elizabeth,  who  married 
James  Thompson,  father  of  the  late  Deacon  Benjamin  M.  Thompson,  of 
Harlem.  Thomas  B.  Montanye,  born  in  New  York,  January  29,  1769, 
first  joined  the  church  under  the  care  of  Rev.  John  Gano  (see  page  324), 
and  in  his  20th  year,  namely,  on  November  20,  1788,  was  ordained  as 
pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  at  Warwick,  N.  Y.,  whence,  in  1801,  he  re- 
moved to  Southampton,  Pa.,  where  he  ministered  till  his  death,  September 
27,  1829.  He  wrote  for  his  epitaph,  "The  chief  of  sinners  and  the  least 
of  saints."  By  his  wife,  Ann  Edmonds,  whom  he  married,  May  20,  1788, 
he  had  eleven  children;  four,  namely,  Sarah  Ann,  Eliza,  Rebecca,  and 
Thomas,  still  living.  Benjamin,  brother  of  Elder  Thomas,  was  born  in 
New  York  City  in  1786,  spent  his  life  in  Orange  CountyJ  was  a  man 
much  respected,  and  at  one  time  deputy  sheriff.  He  married  Theodocia, 
daughter  of  Colonel  Samuel  Clark,  and  died  at  New  Vernon,  April  19, 
1848,  aged  62  years,  having  had  thirteen  children,  several  of  whom  went 
west,  the  seventh  son  being  the  Hon.  Isaac  V.  Montanye,  of  Goshen, 
New  York,  editor  and  proprietor  of  the  Independent  Republican. 

c. 

TOWN  OFFICERS,  1660  TO  1710;  WITH  DATE  OF 
APPOINTMENT. 

Benson,  Johannes,  surveyor  of  highways,  September  29,  1710.  Samson, 
constable,  September  29,  1700;  collector,  September  29,  1704;  assessor, 
September  29,  1708. 

Bertholf,  Guiliaem,  clerk  and  voorleser,  March  6,  1690. 

BoGERT,  John  Louwe,  overseer,  October  29,  1675;  October  23,  1676. 

Brevoort,  Hendrick,  collector,  September  29,  1697.  John  Hendrick,  over- 
seer, October  28,  1678,  December  4,  1679,  December,  1682;  constable, 
November  2,  1686,  October  14,  1689;  authorized  man,  November  29, 
1691 ;   surveyor  of  highways,   September  29,    1697. 

Bussing,  Arent  Harmans,  schepen,  August  23,  1673;  overseer,  October 
23,  1676,  October  28,  1678,  December  4,  1679;  constable,  November  10, 
1680;  commissioner  of  the  town  court,  December  18,  1683;  constable, 
1690;  surveyor  of  highways,  September  29,  1694,  September  29,  1695; 
authorized  man,  December  14,  1699;  assessor,  September  29,  1700. 

Caster,   Philip,   schepen.   November   16,   1662. 

Claessen,  Derick,  schepen,  November  16,   1662. 

Cresson,  Jaques,  constable,  December  7,  1669.  Pierre,  schepen,  August 
16,   1660. 

Dalsen,  Teunis,  constable,  September  29,  1697. 

Delamater,  Glaude,  overseer,  June  12,  1666,  December  7,  1669,  Decem- 
ber 3,  1672.  Isaac,  commissioner  of  the  town  court,  November  2,  1686; 
constable,  September  29,  1693;  surveyor  of  highways,  November  9, 
1700;  overseer,  September  29,  1701,  September  29,  1702.  John,  overseer, 
December,  1682;  commissioner  of  the  town  court,  January  28,  1685; 
constable,  October  13,  1685;  commissioner  of  the  town  court,  November 
I,  1687. 

Demarest,  David,  overseer,  August  6,  1667,  October  2,  1668,  February  7, 
1671,  December  3,  1672;  schepen,  August  23,  1673;  constable,  December 
8,   1674.    John,  constable,  June   i,   1670. 

Dyckman,    Cornelius,    constable,    September    28,    1698.    Gerrit,    collector, 


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September  29,  1707;  constable,  September  29,  1710.  John,  schepen,  Oc- 
tober I,  1674;  overseer,  December  8,  1674;  constable,  October  29,  1675; 
overseer,  October  23,  1677,  October  28,  1678,  November  10,  i^,  De- 
cember 19,  i^i ;  commissioner  of  the  town  court,  December  18,  1685, 
November  2,  1686 ;  assessor,  September  29,  1691 ;  constable,  September 
29,  1695;  assessor,  September  29,  1699;  surveyor  of  highways,  Septem- 
ber 29,  1708. 

Gerritsen,  Lubbert,  overseer,  December  3,  1672. 

Harmansen,  Arent.     See  Bussing. 

Hoi^MES,  George,  constable,  September  29,  1704. 

Jansen,  Cornelius.  See  Kortright.  Lawrence,  overseer,  November  7, 
1677,  October  28,  1678;  commissioner  of  the  town  court,  November  2. 
1686,  October  14,  1689 ;  constable,  March,  1691 ;  surveyor  of  highways, 
September  29,  1694,  September  29,  1695;  overseer,  September  29,  1699, 
September  29,  1700. 

Journeay,  Meynard,  overseer,  October  29,  1675. 

KiERSEN,  John,  assessor,  September  29,  1695,  September  29,  1696,  Septem- 
ber 29,  1697;  collector,  November  9,  1700;  constable,  September  29,  1701; 
assessor,  September  29,  1706. 

Kortright,  Cornelius  Jansen,  constable,  December  3,  1672;  overseer,  De- 
cember 8,  1674,  December  19,  1681,  December,  1682;  commissioner  of  the 
town  court,  February  2,  i68i5,  November  i,  1687.  Johannes  Comelissen, 
collector,  September  29,  1698;  constable,  September  29,  1702;  surveyor 
of  highways,  September  29,  1705.  Lawrence  Cornelissen,  surveyor  of 
highways,  September  29,  1706;  constable,  October,  1708. 

Mabie,  Caspar,  constable,   September  29,  1696. 

Matthyssen,  Nelis,  overseer,  June  12,  1666. 

MoNTANYE,  Abraham,  constable,  September  29,  1694;  collector,  Septem- 
ber 29,  1702;  surveyor  of  highways,  September  29,  1704,  September  29, 
1707.  John,  schepen,  November  3,  1661 ;  schout,  November  16,  1662, 
November  17,  1663,  retired  June  17,  1665;  clerk,  1660-1672;  voorleser, 
1 663- 1 670. 

Myer,  Adolph,  schepen,  October  i,  1674;  overseer,  December  8,  1674, 
October  23,  1676,  October  23,  1677,  December,  1682;  constable,  October 

13,  1684,  October  14,  1687;  authorized  man,  November  29,  1691 ;  assist- 
ant alderman,  September  29,  1693,  September  29,  1694;  surveyor  of  high- 

-    ways,  September  29,  1696,  September  29,  1697 ;  authorized  man,  December 

14,  1699;  overseer,  September  29,  1701,  September  29,  1702;  assessor, 
September  29,  1703;  surveyor  of  highways,  September  29,  1710.  Johannes, 
collector,  September  29,  1699;  assessor,  September  29,  1707;  surveyor  ot 
highways,  September  29,  1709;  assessor,  September  29,  1710. 

Nagel,  Barent,  surveyor  of  highways,  September  29,  1705 ;  constable,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1709.  John,  constable,  October  23,  1677;  commissioner  of 
the  town  court,  December  18,   1683,   Februar>'  2,   1686. 

Oblenis,  Hendrick,  constable,  September  29,  1705;  surveyor  of  highways, 
September  29,  1706,  September  29,  1708.  Joost,  overseer,  June  12,  1666, 
August  6,  1667,  January  25,  1670,  December  3,  1672;  schepen,  August 
23j  ^^73f  October  i,  1674;  overseer,  December  8,  1674,  October  29,  1675, 
October  2;^,  1677,  December  4,  1679,  November  10,  1680;  constable,  De- 
cember 19,  1681 ;  commissioner  of  the  town  court,  January  28,  1685. 
Peter,  commissioner  of  the  town  court,  October  14,  1689,  1696;  con- 
stable, September  29,  1691 ;  authorized  man,  November  29,  1691 ;  assessor, 
Septenjber  29,  1694;  assistant  alderman,  September  29,  1696;  overseer, 
September  29.  1699,  September  29,  1700;  collector,  September  29,  1705; 
assessor,   September  29,   1709. 

RoELOFSEN,  Peter,  constable,  October  2,  1668,  February  7,  1671. 

SiCKELS,  Zacharias,  constable,   September  29,   1707. 

Slot,  John  Pietersen,  schout  and  schepen,  August  16,  1660,  November  3, 
1 661 ;  schepen,  November  17,  1663,  retired  June  17,  1665. 


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TiBouT,  John,  clerk  and  voorleser,  January  20,  1685  to  1690,  September  20, 
1691  to  1697. 

TiEBAUT,  Marcus,  collector,  September  29,  1700,  September  29,  1708. 

TouRNEUR,  Daniel,  schepen,  August  16,  1660,  November  r  1661,  November 
17,  1663;  magistrate,  June  17,  1665;  deputy  sheriff,  1605-1^70;  overseer, 
February  7,  1671.  Daniel,  Jr.,  overseer,  October  23,  1676,  October  23, 
1677,  December  4,  1679,  November  10,  1680,  December  19,  1681 ;  con- 
stable, December  18,  1683;  collector,  January  22,  1684;  commissioner  of 
the  town  court,  February  2,  1686.  Jacques,  constable,  September  29, 
1692;  overseer,  September  29,  1699,  September  29,  1700.  Thomas, 
assessor,  September  29,  1692;  alderman,  September  29,  1696;  assessor, 
September  29,  1704;  collector,  September  29,  1706;  surveyor  of  high- 
ways, September  29,  1707;  constable,  September  29,  1708;  collector,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1709. 

Vandervin,  Hendrick  Jansen,  voorleser,  1670;  clerk  and  voorleser,  1672 
to   1684. 

.Vermeule,  Adrian,  clerk  and  voorleser,  September  29,  1699,  to  February 

1,  1708. 

Vermii^ye,  Isaac,  overseer,  June  12,  1666,  August  6,  1667.  Johannes,  court 
messenger,  June  17,  1665;  constable,  August  6,  1667;  overseer,  December 
7,  1669,  February  7,  1671 ;  constable,  December  4,  1679;  overseer,  Decem- 
ber 19,  i68i ;  constable,  December,  1682;  assessor,  October  13,  1684; 
commissioner  of  the  town  court,  January  28,  1685,  November  i,  1687, 
October   14,   1689. 

Verveelen,  Johannes,  schepen,  November  17,  1663;  constable,  May  15, 
1666;  overseer,  August  6,   1667,  October  2,   1668. 

Waldron,  Barent,  court  messenger,  September  25,  1673;  assessor,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1698;  surveyor  of  highways,  September  29,  1702;  collector, 
September  29,  1703.  Johannes,  surveyor  of  highways,  November  9,  1700; 
overseer,  September  29,  1701,  September  29,  1702;  constable,  September 
29,  1703;  surveyor  of  highways,  September  29,  1704;  assessor,  September 
29,  1705;  constable,  September  29,  1706;  surveyor  of  highways,  Sep- 
tember 29,  1709.    Resolved,  constable,  June  17,  1665;  overseer,  October 

2,  1668,  December  7,  1669,  February  7,  1671 ;  schout  and  schepen,  August 
23,  1673,  October  i,  1674;  overseer,  October  29,  1675;  constable,  October 
23,  1676,  October  28,  1678,  November  10,  1680;  assessor,  December  10, 
1683,  October  13,  1685.  Samuel,  authorized  man,  November  29,  1691 ; 
assessor,  September  29,  1693 ;  surveyor  of  highways,  September  29,  1696, 

'  September   29,    1697;    constable.    September   29,    1699;    authorized   man, 
December  14,   1699;  assessor,   September  29,   1702. 
WoLTERS,  Kier,  overseer,  October  2,  1668,  December  7,   1669. 

D.  Page  189. 

LETTER:    DR.  MONTANYE  TO  STUYVESANT  AND  COUNCIL. 

Honorable,  Valiant  and  Worthy  Lords. 

My  Lords,  I  have  received  here  a  letter  of  the  ist  July  last,  and  read 
the  same  with  sorrow,  not  for  the  reproof,  which  I  accept  with  thanks, 
but  for  my  accounts  which  to  me  appear  astonishing:  because  from  the 
extract  sent  me  by  Sieur  Jacob  Sam  the  previous  year,  in  October,  I  find 
myself  credited  upon  the  last  of  December  A°  1660,  for  the  sum  of  f.  96; 
and  in  the  extract  from  the  monthly  pay  book  of  the  year.  1661,  I  am 
debited  for  f.  1936:12;  so  that  I  the  same  cannot  comprehend,  since  in 
my  book  of  the  year  1662,  I  find  myself  indebted  for  not  rhore  than  f. 
1159-5:8,  whence  I  judge  (under  correction  from  my  superiors),  that  a 
mistake  must  exist  in  the  said  reckoning:  for  of  the  two,  either  I  was 
owing,  at  the  end  of  the  year  1660,  more  than  f.  96:,  or  I  am  now  not 


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so  much  indebted  as  in  my  accounts  stands.  Further,  in  the  year  1659, 
per  balance  of  accounts  from  my  book,  I  find  myself  to  be  indebted  f. 
432:13,  to  which  added  f.  1338:13:10,  of  the  year  1660,  makes  the  sum  t 
1771 :6:io,  from  which  my  wages  deducted,  to  wit,  f.  900,  I  should  remain 
indebted  for  f.  871:6:10,  which  yet  added  to  f.  1159:5:8,  being  the  whole 
that  I  for  the  year  1661,  on  my  book  sent  off,  was  also  indebted,  makes 
f.  2030:12:2;  now  the  wages  of  the  year  1661  being  deducted  therefrom, 
I- remain  still  indebted  f.  1130:12:2,  and  not  f.  1936:12  (but  I  refer  me 
to  the  examination  of  Sieur  Jacob  Sam)  ;  which  same  excessive  sum  I 
behold  with  great  heart  grief,  not  that  my  conscience  witnesses  to  me 
that  I  am  fallen  into  the  same  by  any  quis  cingit  ostio  that  I  may  have 
practiced,  having  (without  boasting)  always  kept  my  household  in  victuals 
and  clothes  as  temperately  as  a  common  burgher  here;  but  the  excessive 
dearth  of  all  things  has  driven  me  insensibly  into  such  need  and  povcrity, 
as  that  never  in  the  68  years  that  I  have  lived,  so  great  distress  have  felt, 
finding  myself  destitute  of  all  means  to  provide  for  my  daily  bread,  and 
provisions  for  the  winter;  but  my  hope  rests  in  those  who  until  now  have 
always  helped  me.  It  were  well  if  that  considering  my  suppori  one  should 
deem  it  to  be  sufficient;  but  those  who  have  knowledge  of  the  advantages 
of  this  place  can  well  judge,  that  I,  spending  in  bread,  small  beer  and 
wood  f.  800,  have  of  necessity  light  money  of  the  balance  left  to  speak  of. 

I  should  to  your  Worthy  Honors  send  a  request,  with  an  obligation 
in  the  form  of  a  Note  of  the  Honorable  Lord  Director  Kieft,  deceased, 
to  me  given ;  but  the  sudden  departure  of  this  yacht  in  haste,  did  not  per- 
mit me,  yet  hope  to  do  it  the  coming  Monday  with  the  other  yacht. 

In  the  meanwhile  I  remain,  your  Worthy  Honors'  humble  and  willing 
servant. 

In  Fort  Orange, 
i8th  August  A°.  1662.  La  Montacne. 

(Superscribed)  : 

Honorable,  Valiant  and  Worthy  Lords,  My  Lords  Petrus  Stuyvesant 
Directr.  General  and  the  Council  of  New  Nctherland. 

E.  Page  186. 

JOCHEM    PIETERS    FLAT. 

This  large  tract  embraced  three-fourths  of  the  grant  made  in  1639  to 
Jochem  Pietcrsen  Kuyter,  and  whence  its  name.  It  lay  between  the  old 
Kingsbridge  Road  and  Harlem  River,  and  extended,  say  from  the  north- 
em  line  of  the  old  Church  Farm  and  village  plots  of  Heiser,  Chesterman, 
etc.,  upward,  including  nearly  all  the  late  Myer  Farm.  The  preceding 
pages  may  be  consulted  for  its  history  prior  to  1661,  when  it  was  divided 
into  22  lots,  each  6  2-;^  morgen,  or  13  acres,  as  usually  rated. 

The  earliest  list  of  proprietors  is  that  of  1670,  given  on  page  266, 
but  we  know,  for  the  most  part,  who  were  the  original  owners.  The  sub- 
sequent titles,  though  difficult  to  trace,  because  of  exchanges  made  from 
time  to  time  (to  group  together  lots  having  the  same  owner),  and  the 
vacating  of  three  lots  or  numbers,  as  will  further  appear,  have  been  clearly 
made  out,  it  is  believed ;  a  work,  which  if  it  but  adds  a  technical  \-alue 
to  the  modern  title,  is  of  real  significance.  It  holds  true  (all  modem  l^s- 
lation  notwithstanding)  that  ordinarily  every  link  carried  backward  into 
the  "good  old  honest  times,"  serves  to  improve  the  chain  and  strengfthen 
confidence  in  the  title.  We  believe  our  efforts  to  restore  such  lost  links 
will  also  prove  a  material  help  to  the  modern  conveyancer  in  his  often 
perplexing  work.  To  each  of  these  lots  on  **Jochem  Pieters"  was  originally 
attached  a  house  lot  in  the  village  and  a  share  of  salt  meadow.  For  many 
years  these  allotments  were  usually  sold  together;  often  a  lot  on  Van 


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Keulen's  Hook  being  included.  A  knowledge  of  this  fact  is  not  without 
its  value  in  tracing  the  title  to  the  several  parcels.  It  must  also  open  to 
many  a  one  a  new  source  of  pleasure,  to  discover  the  homes  where  the  ster- 
ling characters  treated  of  in  these  pages  spent  their  years  and  energies,  and 
which  of  these  in  the  olden  time  tilled  the  soil  he  now  occupies — reft  indeed 
of  its  former  rural  charms,  but  invested  by  modem  taste  with  other  attrac- 
tions no  less  endearing. 

We  name  the  owners  of  these  lots  in  the  order  of  the  numbers,  as 
on  May  i,  1670;  premising  that  No.  i  lay  at  the  south  end: 

No.    I.  Daniel  Tourneur.  No.  12.  Thomas  Delavall. 


2.  Laurens  Jansen. 

**     13.  Joost  Van  Oblinus. 

3.  Thomas  Delavall. 

"     14.  Glaude  Delamater. 

4.  Lubbert  Gerritsen. 

"     15.             do. 

5.  Pierre  Cresson. 

"     16.  Jan  Nagel. 

"    17.  Daniel  Tourneur. 

6.  Meynard  Journee. 

7.  David  Demarest. 

"     18.  Cornells  Jansen. 

8.  Resolved  Waldron. 

"     19.  Thomas  Delavall. 

9.  Hendrick  Karstens'  heirs. 

"    20.              do. 

10.  Johannes  Verveelen. 

"    21.              do. 

II.  Jean  Le  Roy. 

"    22.              do. 

Lot  No.  I,  as  it  was  originally  laid  out  in  1658,  belonged  to  John  Mon- 
tanye,  who  gave  it  up  in  1661,  for  other  land,  when  the  upper  part,  with 
the  lower  part  of  No.  2,  was  taken  to  form  No.  i,  and  to  which  Tourneur 
succeeded,  as  he  had  owned  No.  2.  See  pages  185,  186.  Tourneur's 
children  dividing  up  his  property  in  1690,  this  lot  fell  to  his  son  Thomas, 
and  passed  in  1710  to  Captain  Charles  Congreve.  He  sold  it,  July  22, 
1 71 3,  to  John  Van  Oblienis,  and  he,  August  12  ensuing,  to  Abraham  Myer, 
whose  son  Abraham,  with  his  wife  Mattie,  conveyed  the  eastern  part  to 
Johannes  De  Witt  (since  Hon.  D.  P.  Ingraham's)  ;  and  the  western  part, 
called  the  Pond  Lot,  containing  7  acres  4  r.,  to  Johannes  Sickels,  by  deed 
of  September  6,  1768,  Sickels  building  a  farm-house  at  the  west  end  next 
the  Kingsbridge  Road,  its  site  on  123d  Street,  south  side,  midway  of 
Third  and  Fourth  Avenues.  His  son  John  S.  succeeding  by  devise,  this 
house  became  the  home  of  his  son-in-law,  John  Adriance,  and  the  birth- 
place of  the  late  Isaac  Adriance,  Esq.,  named  page  155.    See  Nos.  2,  3,  4. 

No  2.  Nicholas  De  Meyer  owned  this  lot,  and  No.  18,  in  1662;  one 
of  them  bought  that  year  from  Simon  Lucas.  He  sold  both  in  1669  to 
Cornelius  and  Laurens  Jansen  (see  page  258) ;  the  latter  getting  No.  2. 
From  him  descending  to  his  son  Albert  Low,  of  Somerset  County,  New 
Jersey,  he  released  it  to  his  brother  Lawrence,  December  8,  1731.  Law- 
rence sold  to  Isaac  Myer,  May  9,  1738,  who  gave  it  to  his  nephew  Johannes 
Sickels.     See  page  600. 

No.  3.  Simort  De  Ruine,  called  the  Walloon,  had  this  lot  in  1662. 
He  sold,  March  13,  1666,  to  Bussing  and  others  (see  page  546),  and  they 
April  7  following,  to  Captain  Delavall.  He  exchanged  it  for  No.  18,  with 
Cornelis  Jansen  (Kortright),  from  whose  widow,  Metje  Comelis,  it  was 
gotten  by  Adolph  Meyer,  April  6,  1697,  in  lieu  of  No.  10.  Meyer's  heirs 
conveyed  No.  3  to  Johannes  Sickels,  November  15,  1748,  when  it  is  called 
18  acres.     See  No.  4. 

No.  4.  Hendrick  J.  Vander  Vin  apparently  owned  this  lot  in  1662. 
Lubbert  Gerritsen  succeeded  about  1664,  at  the  sale  of  whose  lands,  July 
5,  1674,  it  was  bought  by  David  Demarest,  Sr.  •  He  sold  it,  March  12, 
1677,  to  Paulus  Richard,  and  he,  August  i,  1677,  to  Adolph  Meyer,  to 
whose  son  Abraham  the  other  heirs  conveyed  it  November  15,  1748.  This 
lot  had  then  received  an  addition  of  6  acres,  as  No.  3  had  of  5  acres; 
caused  as  follows :  The  New  Lots  of  Jochem  Pieters,  so  called,  were  laid 
out,  as  we  have  seen,*  in  1677,  beginning  at  Delavall's  or  Carteret's  northern 
line.     By  mistake  or  otherwise  in  fixing  this  line,  the  "old  lots,"  yet  lying 


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in  common  fence,  were  encroached  upon  full  three  lots;  to  remedy  which, 
afterward,  and  give  the  Delavall  heirs  the  quantity  claimed  by  them  in 
this  tract,  the  town  assigned  to  them  the  adjoining  island,  thence  known 
as  Carteret's  Island,  containing  12  acres  of  upland,  and  bargained  with 
Dyckman  and  the  Nagel  heirs  for  29  acres  of  the  three  lots  which  the 
latter  owned  here,  and  for  which  they  took  other  land  at  Spu>'ten  Duy\'eL 
See  page  546.  This  arrangement  could  hardly  have  dated  prior  to  1690, 
nor  later  than  1700,  but  the  Nagels  retained  a  nominal  possession  of  these 
lots  for  some  years  thereafter,  and  drew  land  on  the  morgen  rights  in 
1712.  In  1724  this  flat  was  resurveyed,  at  the  instance  of  Pipon  and 
Gouverneur,  claiming  under  Delavall.  Nine  lots  due  the  claimants  being 
set  off  to  them  at  the  upper  end  without  regard  to  the  old  lines ;  and 
then  the  other  lots  to  the  several  owners  down  to  and  including  Zacharias 
Sickels,  who  held  No.  5,  there  remained  an  excess  of  11  acres,  which  had 
already  been  ascertained,  and  sold  by  John  Nagel,  in  1722,  to  Abraham 
Myer;  and  of  which  5  acres  were  added  to  No.  3,  making  it  18  acres. 
and  6  acres  to  No.  4,  making  it  19  acres  (See  remark  under  No.  la) 
Abraham  Meyer  having  set  off  from  No.  4  alx)ut  2  acres  at  the  west 
end  on  the  Kingsbridge  Road,  as  a  building  plot,  and  also  reserving  the 
river  end,  since  in  part  the  Coles  property,  sold  the  main  portion  of  the 
lot  to  Johannes  Sickels,  September  6,  1768.  The  2-acre  piece,  mortgaged 
to  Sickels  by  Abraham  Myer,  May  i,  1774,  was  purchased  in  181 5  by 
T.  W.  Van  Norden.  With  these  additions  and  exceptions  noted,  Johanne? 
Sickels  came  to  hold  the  Nos.  i  to  4;  all  which  passed  under  his  will  oi 
February  12,  1781,  proved  November  10,  1784.  to  his  son  John,  known 
as  John  S.  Sickles,  remaining  in  his  possession  till  his  death,  June  4. 
1804,  when  it  fell  by  devise  to  the  heirs  of  his  daughter  Mary,  Mrs.  John 
Adriance.  Thus  the  survey  of  1724  affected  the  division  lines  of  all  the 
remaining  lots  yet  to  be  described,  as  must  be  borne  in  mind  by  the  inquirer 
after  the  original  lines  as  they  were  prior  to  said  survey,  if  he  would 
fix  these  even  approximately, — for  more  than  this  can  hardly  be  expected 

No.  5.  Pierre  Cresson,  originally  holding  No.  6,  exchanged,  in  1661, 
for  No.  5,  in  the  way  before  shown.  He  sold  to  John  Brevoort,  May 
23,  1677;  he  to  his  son-in-law,  Zacharias  Sickles,  Februarj'  20,  1705,  and 
he  to  Nicholas  Kortright,  January  15,  1729.     See  next  Nos. 

No.  6,  owned  by  Michiel  Muyden,  was  bought  by  Jaques  Cresson. 
He  sold,  December  4,  1669,  to  Meynard  Journee,  and  he  March  7,  1676. 
to  John  Nagel  and  John  Delamater.  These  making  a  division  of  tht 
Journee  lands,  July  14,  1677,  Nagel  took  this  lot  or  number,  being  one 
of  those  vacated  by  his  heirs. 

No.  7  was  owned  by  John  De  Pre,  who  bought  Simon  Lane's  allot- 
ment. De  Pre  sold,  April  7,  1662,  to  William  Montanye,  who  conveyed 
it  to  his  brother  John,  and  he,  in  1655,  to  David  Demarest.  Demarest  sold. 
March  12,  1677,  to  Paulus  Richard ;  he,  July  31,  1677,  to  Joost  Van  Obhnus. 
and  he  to  his  son  Peter,  August  24,  1705.  From  the  latter  to  Peter  Wal- 
dron,  and  thence  to  Abraham  Myer. 

No.  8.  Lubbert  Gerritsen  having  bought  the  allotment  of  Matthys 
Boon,  including  this  number,  sold  it,  November  22,  1662,  to  Jan  Laurens 
Duyts.  He  sold  to  Resolved  Waldron,  who  exchanged  it  for  No.  12, 
with  his  son-in-law   Nagel,  whose  heirs  vacated  it. 

No.  9.  Hendrick  Karstens  held  this  number,  probably  from  1662. 
At  the  sale  of  his  estate,  July  5,  1674,  it  was  bought  by  his  son  Conrad 
Hendricks.  He  sold  it,  August  16,  1678,  to  John  Nagel,  whose  heirs 
vacated  it  with  Nos.  6,  8.  These  three  numbers  were  therefore  dropped 
out,  while  the  land  embraced  under  them  being  assigned  to  the  next  owners 
in  their  order,  left  the  requisite  quantity  to  make  up  the  nine  lots  for  the 
Delavall  heirs.  We  describe  the  remaining  lots  under  the  old  numbers, 
which  were  in  some  cases   retained. 

No.    ID  was  owned  successively  by  Dominie  Zyperus,   Jurian    Hand 


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(see  his  patent,  page  598),  and  Johannes  Verveelen.  The  latter  sold  to 
Adolph  Meyer,  October  13,  1683,  and  on  April  6,  1697,  he  let  Metje  Cor- 
nells have  it  for  No.  3.  Thus  the  Kortrights  came  to  own  Nos.  5  and 
10,  which  two  lots  Nicholas  Kortright,  the  heir  to  a  large  part  of  Metje 
Comelis*  lands,  sold  in  1731  to  Abraham  Myer,  The  now  united  Nos. 
5,  7,  10,  passed  to  Abraham's  heirs,  and  became  the  famous  42  acre  tract, 
or  Lawrence  Benson  homestead.  See  page  603.  These  three  lots,  com- 
puted at  6  2-3  morgen  each  (and  2  acres  to  the  morgen),  made  just  40 
acres,  and  with  No.  4  adjoining,  at  first  13  acres,  but  increased  as  before- 
said  to  19,  made  together  59  acres,  being  so  estimated  in  a  mortgage  for 
this  tract,  therein  bounded  north  by  Aaron  Bussing,  and  south  by  John 
Sickles,  given  by  Abraham  Myer  to  St.  George  Talbot,  June  7,  1766. 

No.  II  w^as  purchased  from  Jacob  Elderts,  June  i,  1662,  by  Jean  Le 
Roy,  being  part  of  an  allotment  Elderts  had  recently  bought  from  David 
Du  Four.  Le  Roy  sold,  May  2,  1674,  to  Simon  Cornier,  he,  July  26,  1675, 
to  Paulus  Richard,  and  he,  the  same  day,  to  David  Demarest,  Jr.  Dem- 
arest  conveyed  it  back  to  Richard,  April  12,  1677,  and  he  on  the  same 
date  to  Joost  Van  Oblinus.  Oblinus  sold  it,  some  twenty  years  later,  to 
Arent  Bussing.     See  Nos.  12,  13. 

No.  12  Captain  Delavall  bought  out  of  the  estate  of  Jan  Cogu.  He 
exchanged  with  John  Nagel  for  No.  16;  Nagel  exchanged  with  his  father- 
in-law,  Waldron,  for  No.  8.  Waldron*s  widow  sold  No.  12  tp  Arent 
Bussing,  July  16,  1690,  and  Johannes  Waldron  confirmed  the  sale  April 
5,  1697. 

No.  13  was  bought  by  Joost  Van  Oblinus,  November  8,  1663,  from 
Philip  Casier's  widow  and  son-in-law  Uzille ;  Casier  having  gotten  it  from 
Jean  Gervoe.  Oblinus  conveyed  it  to  Arent  Bussing,  October  26,  1693. 
Bussing  thus  acquired  Nos.  11,  12,  13,  which  passed  in  1718  to  his  son 
Peter,  and  in  1737  to  his  son  Aaron,  under  whose  will  (see  page  485),  his 
executor,  Adolph  Myer,  conveyed  said  tract.  May  10,  1787,  to  John 
Adriance,  who  sold  it,  June  27,  1825,  to  Charles  Henry  Hall. 

Nos.  14,  15.  Jacques  Cousseau,  owning  No.  15,  March  25,  1662,  on 
that  date  bought  14,  from  John  Sneden's  estate.  He  sold  both  to  Daniel 
Toumeur,  and  he  directly  to  Delamater,  whose  patent  of  June  25,  1668, 
includes  them.  Delamater,  about  1676,  transferred  15  to  Delavall,  and 
shortly  before  his  death  No.  14  also.  See  ensuing  numbers,  all  which 
unite  in  Delavall. 

No.  16,  given  by  Jan  Pietersen  Slot  to  his  son  Peter,  was  sold  by 
the  latter,  in  1665,  to  Resolved  Waldron,  who  assigned  it  to  John  Nagel, 
by  deed  of  June  2,  1670,  Nagel  afterward  exchanging  it  with  Delavall 
for  No.   12. 

No.  17.  Tourneur  bought,  February  i,  1667,  from  Dirck  Claessen, 
potbaker,  who  having  owned  it  five  years  at  least,  was  probably  the  original 
drawer.    Tourneur  sold  it,  about  1676,  to  Captain  Delavall. 

No.  18.  Nicholas  De  Meyer,  as  before  said,  owned  this  and  No.  2, 
in  1662,  and  sold  them  to  the  Jansens.  No.  18,  in  the  division,  fell  to 
Cornelis,  who  exchanged  with  Delavall  for  No.  3. 

No.  19  was  obtained  by  Delavall  from  Jacques  Cresson,  who  bought 
it  with  No.  6,  from  Michiel  Muyden. 

Nos.  20,  21,  22,  Delavall  purchased,  as  would  appear,  two  from  Arent 
Moesman,  and  one  from  Valentine  Claessen;  in  this  order  as  to  date,  but 
their  respective  numbers  we  are  not  sure  of.  Claessen,  we  believe,  bought 
Adam  Dericksen*s  allotment.  One  of  Moesman's  had  probably  belonged 
to  Philip  Casier,  and  the  other  to  Jean  Le  Roy,  who  bought,  1662,  of 
Philip  Presto.  In  1673,  Delavall  was  the  ostensible  owner  of  nine  lots  here 
(see  page  307),  of  which  he  probably  gave  six  to  his  son-in-law,  (jarteret, 
in  1676  (see  page  339),  as  in  the  subsequent  division  of  DelavalPs  lands, 
Carteret's  heirs  got  six,  and  Darvall's  successors  (see  page  378),  three 
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the  Delavall  lands  hereafter  given,  Appendix  I.  In  an  adjustment  of 
their  respective  claims  by  Carteret's  son-in-law,  Philip  Pipon,  and  Abraham 
Gouverneur,  deriving  from  Darvall,  Pipon  took  the  six  uppermost  lots, 
and  Gouverneur  the  three  lower  lots.  By  the  survey  of  1724,  these  nine 
lots  were  run  out  as  each  6  morgen,  the  additional  two-thirds  of  a  morgen 
on  each  lot,  making  together  6  morgen,  being  put  in  Carteret's  Island.  It 
was  this  contraction  of  the  nine  lots  that  gave  the  11  acres  to  lots  Nos. 
3,  4.  On  May  i,  2,  1725,  by  lease  and  release,  Gouverneur  and  wife  con- 
veyed the  "Three  Lots,"  containing  18  morgen,  to  Johannes  Myer,  and 
on  February  11,  12,  1740-1,  Simon  Johnson,  John  Amboyneau,  and  James 
Faviere,  as  trustees  of  Elias  Pipon,  son  of  Philip,  conveyed  the  "Six  Lots," 
including  an  additional  acre,  probably  for  the  road,*  with  nearly  8  acres 
of  adjoining  woodland  (known  as  the  Carteret  Lot)  and  Carteret's  Island, 
to  Jacob  Myer.  This  property  descended  to  Jacob's  grandchildren.  See 
page  605.  In  the  division  of  Johannes  Myer's  lands,  in  1753,  between  his 
sons  Jacob  and  John,  tlie  latter  took  the  Three  Lots,  together  with  the 
residue  (called  5  acres,  see  page  606)  of  the  Carteret  Lot  From  John 
Myer  the  title  (terminating,  seepage  606,  in  deeds  from  Gabriel  Furman 
and  Richard  Harrison  to  (Charles  Henry  Hall,  in  1825  and  1826)  forms 
one  of  Mr.  Adriance's  valuable  series  of  printed  abstracts. 

F.  Page  186- 

VAN   KEULEN'S   HOOK. 

This  tract,  known  originally  as  the  Otterspoor,  but  renamed  frorc 
an  early  owner,  Conrad  yan  Keulen,  of  Amsterdam,  included  the  range 
of  farms  to  the  north  of  the  Mill  C!reek  (io8th  Street)  ;  from  the  late 
Morris  Randell  farm,  on  Harlem  River,  westward  to  the  Peter  Benson 
or  Mill  farm.  A  line  drawn  from  the  foot  of  125th  Street  westward  to 
the  Fifth  Avenue  at  iiith  Street  would  nearly  describe  its  northern 
bolindary.  Laid  out  in  1661,  in  22  lots  of  equal  breadth,  all 
running  to  the  river  or  creek,  and  designed  to  be  three  morgen  each,  the 
contents  necessarily  varied  with  the  length,  and  this  led,  in  1676,  to  a 
new  survey,  by  which  most  of  the  lines  were  contracted,  and  the  lots 
equalized.  The  many  transfers  and  exchanges  occurring  make  it  diflScuh 
to  trace  these  lots  by  the  numbers,  but  out  of  "confusion  worse  con- 
founded" a  result  has  been  attained,  which  is  here  given  with  a  reasonable 
assurance.     See  the  names  of  the  original  grantees,  page  186. 

Lot  No.  I  passed  from  Du  Four,  with  his  other  lands,  to  Jacob  Elderts, 
and  from  him,  June  i,  1662,  to  Jean  Le  Roy.  The  latter  sold  out.  May  2, 
1674,  to  Simeon  Cornier;  he,  July  26,  1675,  to  Paulus  Richard;  he,  the 
same  date,  to  David  Demarest,  Jr.;  he  again  to  Richard,  and  he  to  Joost 
Oblinus,  on  the  same  day,  April  12,  1677.  Sold  by  Oblinus  to  John  Dela- 
mater,  it  was  bought  of  his  heirs,  in  1710,  by  Samuel  Waldron,  and 
annexed  to  the  adjoining  farm,  late  of  his  father.  Resolved  Waldron. 

No.  2  Resolved  Waldron  bought  at  the  sale  of  Cogu's  estate,  in  1665. 
See  No.  3. 

No.  3  was  sold  by  Gerritsen,  with  other  lands,  November  22,  1662,  to 
John  Duyts ;  he  sold  these  to  Resolved  Waldron,  who  bought  himself  a 
residence  directly  north  of  this  lot,  on  the  street,  which  ultimately  formed 
the  northwest  corner  of  his  farrn.  See  pages  264,  297.  Waldron  also 
secured  the  lower  half  of  the  adjoining  lot,  No.  4,  giving  him  2^  lots 
together.  His  son  Samuel,  who  bought  the  farm  November  25,  1690, 
added,  by  sundry  purchases,  Lot  No.  i,  and  all  the  upland  and  meadow 

*  On  laying  out  the  New  Lots,  in  1677,  a  road  five  rods  broad  was  left  "for  thcnst 
of  the  land  of  Mr.  De  Lavall,"  along  the  north  side  of  his  lots.  Deed,  Zacharias 
Sickels  to  Samson  Benson,  January  23,   1706. 


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lying  between  these  lots  and  the  street,  including  the  old  Haldron  lot, 
which  he  bought  of  Kiersen,  January  i,  1701.  We  except,  however,  the 
small  open  space  at  the  landing,  kept  till  many  years  later  for  public  use, 
and  on  which  stood  Colonel  I^ewis  Morris's  coach-house,  the  town  having 
gfranted  Morris,  June  26,  1724,  a  plot  twenty  feet  square  whereon  to  place  it. 
Samuel  Waldron  sold  the  farm  to  Captain  Congreve  and  John  James, 
March  23,  171 1,  and  they,  on  March  27  ensuing,  to  John  Van  Horn,  who 
soon  after  conveyed  it  to  Derick  Benson.  Sec  pages  431,  456,  468,  698. 
Benson  died  in  possession  in  1751,  and  his  only  son,  John,  remained  upon 
the  property,  for  which  he  ultimately  took  a  deed  from  Peter  Lott,  of 
New  York,  November  2,  1758.  John  being  an  executor,  with  the  widow 
and  Dr.  Paterson,  he  probably  joined  with  these  in  conveying  to  Lott, 
in  order  to  get  a  lawful  title.  Benson  built  a  new  house  on  the  farm 
proper;  his  old  house  stood  on  the  north  side  of  the  street,  on  one  of  the 
old  erven  joining  the  river.  He  sold  to  John  Bogert,  Jr.,  March  12,  1766. 
See  page  435.  After  his  grandson,  James  Bogert,  Jr.,  came  to  own  the 
farm,  in  181 1,  he  took  down  the  farm-house  and  built  another;  but  this 
being  burnt,  Morris  Randell  bought  the  property  in  1825,  and  erected 
on  the  old  foundation  a  fine  residence,  still  seen  at  the  foot  of  125th 
Street,  south  side. 

No.  4.  Dominie  Zyperus,  Jurian  Hanel,  Johannes  Verveelen,  and  his 
son-in-law,  Adolph  Meyer,  were  the  successive  owners,  Meyer  getting  it 
by  the  marriage  contract  with  Maria  Verveelen,  though  the  patent  was 
not  transferred  to  him  till  October  13,  1683.  But  it  was  then  agreed  that 
Verveelen  should  use  this  lot  (i.  e.,  what  remained  of  it)  till  his  death. 
Meyer  had  sold  John  Dyckman,  November  9,  1673,  a  piece  of  the  north 
end,  and  Dyckman  appears  to  have  leased  for  Verveelen's  lifetime  the  rest 
of  the  half  lot,  with  an  acre  in  the  rear  left  by  the  survey  of  1676,  making 
2  morgen.  This  eventually  returned  to  Meyer,  after  whose  death  it  was 
c'jnveyed  to  Kiersen  for  half  of  No  9.  Teunis  Delamontanie  got  three 
acres  of  it,  which  he  sold,  in  1727,  to  Johannes  Benson,  who  added  in 
1742  an  acre  adjoining,  on  which  had  stood  the  first  Vermilye  house.  This 
four  acres  eventually  passed  to  Benjamin  Benson,  brother  of  Johannes, 
from  him  to  his  son-in-law  Lawrence  Benson,  and  was  conveyed,  Sep- 
temebr  4,  1797,  to  his  daughter  Susannah,  wife  of  Dr.  Philip  Milledoler. 
No.  5  Toumeur  exchanged  for  No.  19,  before  or  while  John  Mon- 
tanye  owned  it,  whose  father-in-law,  Isaac  iVermilye,  occupied  a  morgen 
at  the  upper  end;  see  pages  297,  641.  His  son  Johannes  adding  an  acre 
at  the  rear  left  vacant  by  the  survey  of  1676,  his  widow  sold,  in  1715,  to 
John  Delamater,  who  directly  sold  the  house  and  one  acre  of  the  land 
to  Humphrey  Peto.  Peto,  in  his  will,  proved  July  20,  1742,  says:  "My 
house  and  lot  of  land  in  the  township  of  Harlem,  where  I  now  live,  I 
give  and  bequeath  unto  my  nephew,  Thomas  Van  Bremen,  second  son 
of  my  sister,  Johanna  Wickfield,  now  the  wife  of  David  Devoor."  See 
page  409.  It  was  sold  that  year  to  Johannes  Benson,  as  before  noticed. 
Montanye  sold  the  lower  part  of  No.  5  to  Demarest,  he  to  Paulus  Richard, 
and  he  to  Laurens  Jansen,  November  19,  1677,  whence  it  rated  as  two 
morgen. 

No.  6  was  sold  by  Lucas,  in  1662,  to  Nicholas  De  Meyer;  by  him, 
in  1669,  to  the  Jansens,  and  falling  to  Laurens'  share,  he  built  on  the 
northern  end,  and  lived  there.  It  and  the  half  of  No.  5  descended,  with 
his  other  lands,  to  his  eldest  son,  Albert  Low,  who  conveyed  the  whole, 
December  8,  1731,  to  his  brother  Lawrence,  from  whom  Maria  Myer 
bought  this  tract.  May  22,  1732.  She  deeded  it,  August  i,  1735,  to  her 
son  Isaac,  whence  it  passed  by  devise  to  his  nephew,  Johannes  Sickels, 
who  devised  it  to  his  daughter  Mary,  wife  of  Samson  Benson.  Benson 
and  wife  sold  the  same,  October  8,  1803,  to  their  daughter  Margaret,  wife 
of  Andrew  McGown,  and  these,  October  31  ensuing,  to  John  G.  Bogert 
and  Jacob  Bradford,  who  made  a  division  of  the  tract  March  15,  1809. 


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Nos.  7,  8,  9.  Jan  Pietersen  Slot  gave  his  son,  Peter,  one  morgen 
off  the  west  side  of  No.  9;  the  rest  of  the  tract  was  included  in  his  patent 
sold  Johannes  Verveelen.  See  page  679.  Verveelen  sold  this  patent 
August  21,  1689,  to  his  son-in-law  Meyer,  whose  widow  acquired  the  one 
morgen  of  No.  9,  now  rated  as  a  half  lot.  This  had  passed,  in  1665,  from 
Peter  Slot  to  Resolved  Waldron;  from  his  widow,  in  1690,  to  John  Bre- 
voort;  from  his  son-in-law  Sickels  to  John  Kiersen,  and  to  Mrs.  Meyer. 
At  her  death  her  children  transferred  the  three  lots  to  her  grandson,  Ben- 
jamin Benson,  November  15,  1748.  Benson  gave  them  to  his  son-in-law, 
Lawrence  Benson,  who  conveyed  them  to  his  daughter  Susannah,  wife  of 
Rev.  Philip  Milledoler,  September  4,  1797,  and  to  said  Philip,  September 
21,  1804. 

No.  10  was  sold  by  Casier's  widow  and  son-in-law,  Uzille,  to  Joost 
Oblinus,  November  8,  1663.     See  Nos.  11  to  16. 

No.  II  was  sold  by  Gervoe  to  Philip  Casier,  who  exchanged  with  Uzille 
for  16.  Uzille  and  the  widow  Casier  conveyed  it  with  No.  10  to  Oblinus, 
who  about  1688  sold  these  numbers  to  John  Delamater. 

No.  12  was  sold  by  De  Ruine,  with  his  other  lands,  March  13,  1666, 
to  Bussing,  etc.,  who  sold  out  directly  to  Captain  Delavall.  See  page  546. 
Delavall  soon  exchanged  it  for  No.  21,  with  Claude  Delamater,  whose 
son  John  sold  it,  with  Nos.  10,  11,  to  Peter  Oblienis,  May  10,  i6go. 

No.  13  evidently  passed  from  Adam  Dericksen's  widow  (married  to 
Moenis  Peterson),  to  Valentine  Claessen,  from  him  to  Delavall,  from  him 
to  Verveelen  and  Bussing,  and  from  them  to  Joost  Oblinus,  who  sold 
Nos.  13,  14,  15,  to  his  son  Peter,  August  24,  1705. 

No.  14  Jaques  Cresson  sold,  with  his  other  land,  December  4,  1669, 
to  Meyndert  Journee,  and  he,  March  7,  1676,  to  John  Nagel  and  John 
Delamater.  The  latter  took  this  lot  in  a  division  made  July  14,  1677,  2ind 
sold  the  half,  then  the  whole  of  it,  to  Cornel  is  Jansen,  who  conveyed  it  to 
Adolph  Meyer,  and  he  to  Joost  Oblinus,  in  exchange  for  20.  Joost  to 
Peter  as  aforesaid. 

No.  15,  in  the  division  of  the  De  Meyer  farm  by  the  Jansens,  fell  to 
Comelis,  from  whose  widow,  Metje  Cornelis,  Joost  Oblinus  obtained  it, 
in  exchange  for  No.  16,  which  see. 

No.  16  Uzille  exchanged  for  No.  11,  with  Casier,  who  sold  it,  January 
II,  1663,  to  Jacob  Elderts,  he  to  Delavall,  and  he  to  Joost  Oblinus  and 
John  Brevoort  as  joint  owners.  Oblinus,  getting  the  other  half,  exchanged 
this  lot  with  Metje  Comelis  for  No.  15.  His  son  Peter  buying  this  lot 
also,  thus  came  to  own  Nos.  10  to  16,  which  he  ultimately  conveyed  to 
his  nephew,  Peter  Waldron,  September  20,  1742,  with  the  house,  bam,  and 
orchard,  which  occupied  five  of  the  out-gardens,  lying  north  of  the  seven 
lots,  and  finally  joined  to  them  by  the  closing  of  the  lower  street  Waldron 
bought  up  the  rest  of  these  gardens  (save  Nos.  19,  20),  and  also  an  adjoin- 
ing plot,  once  within  the  old  village,  by  deed  from  the  town,  March  11. 
1747.  See  page  705.  This  strip  along  the  Church  Lane,  and  the  said 
seven  lots,  composed  the  late  John  P.  Waldron  farm. 

No.  17  was  sold  by  Derick  Claessen  to  Daniel  Tourneur,  February  i, 
1667,  and  is  described  in  his  patent  of  September  i,  1669,  as  "13  acres,  or 
6  morgen  and  240  rod."  It  was  equal  to  two  of  the  other  lots,  and 
always  carried  a  six  morgen  right. 

No.  18  Tourneur  bought  from  Cousseau.  On  the  partition  of  Tour- 
neur's  lands  in  1691,  this  and  Lot  17  fell  to  his  son  Jacques,  to  whom 
Peter  Bussing  succeeded  in  1726.  They  passed  by  devise  to  his  son  Aaron, 
whose  daughter,  Mrs.  Storm,  succeeded  by  deed  from  her  father's  execu- 
tors, August  18,  1784,  whence  its  title  is  well  known.  See  page  485, 
The  two  out-gardens,  Nos.  19,  20,  attached  to  these  lots,  contained  the 
farm-house,  the  original  home  of  the  Bussings.    See  page  230. 

No.  19  passed  with  De  Pre's  property,  in  1662,  to  William  Montanye, 
from  whom,  or  his  brother  John,  Daniel  Tourneur  obtained  it  for  No.  5. 


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In  1691  it  fell  to  Thomas  Toumeur,  and  passed,  in  1710,  to  John  Dyck- 
man,  who  drew  land  upon  it  in  1712.  This  lot  was  untaxed  from  1715 
to  1720.  Doubt  hangs  around  the  after-history  of  this  and  the  remaining 
lots;  but  more  anon. 

No.  20  was  sold  by  Pierre  Cresson,  May  23,  1677,  to  John  Brevoort, 
from  whom,  prior  to  1700,  as  would  appear,  Joost  Oblinus  got  it,  and 
bartered  with  Adolph  Meyer  for  No.  14.  Mrs.  Meyer  drew  land  on  it 
in  1712. 

No.  21  Cousseau  sold  to  Tourneur,  and  he  to  Glaude  Delamater,  who, 
prior  to  1676,  exchanged  with  Captain  Delavall  for  No.  12.  But  the  last 
two  persons  being  dead,  Delamater's  widow  claimed  this  lot,  and  on 
January  4,  1690,  sold  it  to  her  son-in-law,  Arent  Bussing,  to  whom  Samuel 
Waldron,  as  successor  to  all  the  lands  and  rights  of  Claude's  eldest  son, 
John  Delamater,  gave  a  quit-claim,  January  3,  171 1,  and  it  is  named  in 
his   patentee  deed,   171 5. 

No.  22,  drawn  by  Jean  Le  Roy,  on  the  allotment  gotten  of  Philip 
Presto,  was  sold  to  Arent  Moesman,  and  by  him  to  Captain  Delavall,  who 
upon  it  built  his  grist-mill  in  1667.     See  pages  232-236. 

Bussing*s  right  to  No.  21  was  allowed,  but  it  caused  trouble  among 
the  lot-holders  at  this  end,  as  there  were  more  claimants  than  lots.  To 
obviate  the  difficulty  in  part  another  lot.  No.  23,  was  projected,  for  John 
Delavall,  on  the  other  side  of  his  mill  lot,  which  itself,  on  account  of  the 
mill,  admitted  of  no  substitution;  and  it  seems  indicated  that  the  Dyck- 
man  and  Bussing  heirs  gave  up  or  sold  out  their  rights;  various  small 
parcels  of  land  being  distributed  to  Peter  Bussing  and  others  in  1720, 
when  this  vexatious  matter  was  finally  arranged.  This  adjusted  the  num- 
ber of  lots  existing  to  the  number  claimed.  A  "small  strip  of  land  l3ring 
west  of  the  lot  of  Arent  Bussing  (No.  21)  and  east  of  the  lots  of  John 
Delavall,"  called  three  acres,  a  motion  to  sell  which,  in  1691,  was  negatived, 
was  added  to  Jacques  Tourneur's  lots.  The  two  Delavall  lots  were  pur- 
chased, September  24,  25,  1747,  by  Benjamin  Benson,  from  Simon  John- 
son, assignee  of  Elias  Pipon;  and  Benson,  we  believe,  also  succeeded  to 
the  Meyer  lot,  November  15,  1748.  The  Kortrights  claimed  two  lots  here, 
but  under  the  numbers  14,  15,  before  held  by  Comelis  Jansen,  and  on 
which  Metje  Comelis  and  Marcus  Tiebaut  drew  land  in  1712.  See  page 
564.  The  heirs  had  divided  one  or  both  of  these  lots  transversely  into 
equal  halves,  but  the  whole  came,  in  1726,  to  widow  Grietie  Kortright, 
who  sold  them,  in  1730,  to  Derick  Benson,  from  whose  son  John,  Ben- 
jamin Benson  obtained  them,  half  at  a  time,  December  30,  1755,  and  May 
II,  1764.  Thus  the  title  to  all  the  lots  (we  believe  five  in  number)  lying 
west  of  Jacques  Tourneur,  to  whom  Peter  Bussing  had  succeeded,  passed 
to  Benjamin  Benson,  and  came  to  form  part  of  the  Benson  farm,  the 
remainder  being  taken  from  the  Mill  Camp,  whose  title  we  notice  briefly. 
By  the  disuse  of  the  mill,  some  years  after  the  death  of  John  Delavall, 
the  privilege  of  using  this  land  for  mill  purposes  became  void.  On  October 
23,  1738,  the  town  granted  a  similar  privilege  to  Samson  Benson,  owning 
the  farm  on  the  opposite  side  of  the  creek,  who  was  authorized  "to  place 
a  mill,  with  a  dam,  on  the  Mill  Camp,  wherever  it  may  suit  him  best"; 
this  right  to  revert  to  the  town  should  the  mill  cease  to  run  for  two 
years.  Benson  built  the  mill  on  his  said  farm,  but  it  was  scarcely  fin- 
ished when  he  died,  in  1740.  His  son  Benjamin  succeeding  to  the  farm 
and  mill,  and  buying  several  of  the  lots  before  mentioned,  obtained  from 
the  town,  by  an  award  of  May  30,  1753,  and  for  the  sum  of  160 1.,  a  deed 
for  the  Mill  Camp,  by  the  following  description :  "Beginning  at  the  fence 
of  the  said  Benjamin  Benson  by  the  Mill  Creek,  and  runs  along  his  fence 
Northwardly  to  Harlem  Road,  about  thirty-one  chains,  thence  along  said 
Road  twenty-three  chains  and  one-half,*  which  is  three  chains  beyond  a 

•  This  course  followed  for  a  short  distance  the  old  road  which  bridged  the  little 
creek  at  iiith  street,  then  took  that  laid  out  later,  which,  branching  from  the  former. 


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large  Oak  Tree  near  Van  Breemen's  House,  thence  South,  ten  deg^rees 
East,  to  the  said  Mill  Creek,  thence  along  the  said  Creek  to  the  place 
where  it  began."  Besides  providing  for  a  road  to  the  mill,  it  enjoined 
**that  no  encroachments  shall  be  made  from  the  westernmost  limits  of  this 
grant  to  Benjamin  Benson,  but  that  the  small  part  of  the  Mill  Camp  which 
remains  undisposed  of,  lying  between  his  westernmost  bounds  and  the 
Mill  Creek,  so  far  as  the  bridge,  shall  be  and  remain  in  common,  free, 
and  open  for  the  benefit  of  all  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants,  for  their 
creatures  feeding  and  going  to  salt." 

During  the  Revolution  the  old  mill  on  the  south  side  of  the  creek 
was  burnt,  and  after  the  war  Benjamin  Benson  built  a  new  one  oa  the 
Mill  Camp  farm,  as  also  a  substantial  stone  dwelling,  which  with  the 
said  farm  and  the  creek  itself  he  conveyed,  April  2,  1791,  to  his  son  Peter, 
whose  son  Benjamin  P.  Benson,  and  daughter,  Mrs.  Dr.  Peter  Van  Ars- 
dale,  afterward  shared  it.  In  1827,  when  the  Harlem  Canal  was  begun, 
the  mill,  a  frame  building  three  stories  high,  was  taken  down;  but  the 
dwelling  stood  till  1865.     See  page  421. 

G.  Page  191. 

MONTANYE'S    FLAT. 

This  tract  granted  to  Henry  De  Forest,  in  1636,  and  subsequently 
patented  to  Hudde  and  La  Montagne,  has  a  remarkably  interesting  his- 
tory, for  which  reference  must  be  had  to  the  foregoing  text,  where  both 
patents  are  recited  (see  pages  129,  150),  as  also  the  circumstances  which 
constrained  the  government  to  resume  possession  of  these  lands  in  1662, 
and  distribute  them  among  the  Harlem  settlers.  The  Flat  embraced  the 
lands  intersected  by  Harlem  Lane,  from  the  late  Nutter  farm  to  the  Cap- 
tain John  Kortright  farm,  both  inclusive  (109th  Street  to  124th  Street) ; 
the  whole  bounded  easterly  by  the  creek,  and  westerly  by  the  heights. 

It  is  apparent  that  the  Flat  was  originally  laid  out  in  lots  of  unequal 
quantity,  to  suit  the  requirements  of  those  applying  for  land.  See  pages 
185-191.  Original  descriptions  of  nine  of  the  lots  name  them  as  on  "Mon- 
tagne's  Land,"  or  "Montagne's  Flat";  six  as  running  "from  the  hills  east 
to  the  kill,"  and  one  "from  the  kill  to  the  hills  west."  The  Flat  was  not 
so  much  as  fenced  in  till  1673  (see  page  289),  and  the  first  house,  after 
De  Forest's,  was  not  built  till  some  years  later.  See  pages  355,  379.  As 
in  the  other  tracts,  early  exchanges  among  the  owners  broke  up  the  order 
of  the  original  numbers;  and  eventually  there  came  to  be  ten  lots,  of 
nearly  equal  size,  and  rated  as  six  morgen  each.  The  lots  first  built  upon 
by  Tourneur  and  Delamater  began  to  be  taxed  in  1682,  and  all  the  rest 
in  1685,  amounting  to  54  morgen,  Le  Ro/s  lot,  vacated,  being  excepted. 
This  was  added  in  1725,  making  60  morgen  (120  acres),  being  twelve  acres 
*  per  lot;  and  even  down  to  the  Revolution  they  were  never  rated  higher 
in  the  tax  lists,  though  usually  sold  for  20  acres.  In  further  tracing  these 
lots,  we  will  refer  to  them  as  the  ist  lot,  2d  lot,  etc.,  with  regard  to  the 
actual  order  in  which  they  lay,  beginning  at  the  south  end  of  the  Flat 

The  1st  and  2d  lots,  described  in  De  Meyer's  patent  of  January  29, 
1664,  as  80  rods  broad  and  containing  12  morgen  360  rods,  were  bought, 
September  25,  1669,  by  Comelis  and  Laurens  Jansen.    (Zornelis  took  them 

crossed  the  creek  at  109th  street.  This  last  road  cut  off  a  gore  from  Van  Ketilen's 
Hook,  of  ahout  4  acres,  since  known  as  the  Lanaw  Benson  tract.  It  was  sold  by  the 
town  to  Aaron  Bussingr.  and  confirmed  to  him  by  the  award  of  May  30,  1753.  Tbe 
upper  road  being  closed,  joined  it  to  Bussing's  other  land  known  as  No.  i,  ist 
Division;  but  it  was  sold  separately  bv  his  executor^  Adolph  Meyer,  to  David  Waldron, 
May  I,  1788,  as  4  acres,  19  rods.  Waldron  sold  it,  June  6,  1793,  to  Lanaw  Benson 
(colored  woman),  who  conveyed  it,  all  but  %  of  an  acre  of  woodland  at  the  east 
point,  to  John  Rankin.  April  9,   1799. 


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in  a  division  of  their  lands,  February  6,  1675,  and  on  November  17,  1677, 
added  Demarest's  lot  (the  3d  lot,  but  originally  No.  4) ;  which  is  de- 
scribed in  Demarest's  patent  of  March  3,  i^i,  as  26  rods  broad,  160  rods 
long,  and  containing  about  13  acres,  or  6  morgen  300  rods.  These  three 
lots,  with  drafts  from  the  adjacent  common  land,  descending  to  Lawrence 
Kortright,  son  of  Cornelis  Jansen,  and  to  his  son  Lawrence,  who  on  April 
5,  1760,  conveyed  it  to  Mrs.  Sarah  Nutter,  became  the  well-known  Nutter 
farm.  See  pages  563,  565.  Here  was  the  "Half- Way  House,"  established 
in  1684  by  Cornelis  Jansen,  and  kept  after  his  death  by  his  widow  Metje 
Cornelis.  See  page  390.  On  October  13,  1694,  she  was  allowed  pay  "for 
entertaining  his  Excellency  the  Governor,  on  his  return  from  Connecti- 
cut." She  or  her  family,  at  one  time  or  another,  owned  all  of  Montanye's 
Flat.  After  the  tavern  here  was  discontinued,  the  "Black  Horse,"  below 
McGown's  Pass  (see  page  592),  became  the  Half- Way  House.  It  was  kept 
during  the  Revolution  by  Richard  Vandenburgh.  The  piece  of  the  Nutter 
farm  east  of  the  lane  (8  acres),  sold  by  Valentine  Nutter  to  Daniel  Mc- 
Cormick,  November  8,  1806,  was  a  part  of  the  3d  lot ;  the  adjoining  pieces 
occupied  by  Nutter's  son-in-law,  Henry  G.  Livingston,  and  James  Beek- 
man,  included  parts  of  the  ist  and  2d  lots. 

Daniel  Toumeur,  holding  the  5th  lot,  by  deed  of  February  i,  1667, 
from  Derick  Claessen,  and  described  in  Toumeur's  patent  of  September 
I,  1669,  as  No.  6,  24  rods  broad,  and  containing  about  13  acres,  or  6 
morgen,  480  rods,  also  purchased  the  6th  lot,  from  Adolph  Meyer,  Janu- 
ary, 28,  1673,  described  in  Hand's  patent  (see  page  598),  as  No.  7,  2y  rods 
4J^  feet  broad,  and  containing  5  morgen  400  rods.  This  lot  had  come 
from  Dominie  Zyperus.  Daniel  Toumeur,  taking  these  two  lots  in  his 
patrimony,  bought  the  4th  lot  in  the  range,  December  6,  1679,  from 
Resolved  Waldron  (described  as  No.  5,  and  30  rods  broad),  Waldron 
deriving  title  from  Lubbert  Gerritsen,  to  whom  was  originally  allotted 
No.  3.  In  171 1,  Tourneur's  son  WoodhuU  sold  the  three  lots  to  Samson 
Benson,  who  sold  them  directly  to  Metje  Cornelis.  Their  later  history 
is  to  be  traced  through  the  Kortrights,  Myers,  and  Bussings;  see  pages 
485,  488,  563,  565,  603.  In  the  division  of  this  farm  made  by  John  Adolph, 
and  Abraham  Bussing,  April  6,  1787,  each  had  an  equal  share  of  19  acres 
I  q.  13  r.,  A.dolph  taking  most  of  the  4th  lot.  The  highway  parted  the 
other  two  shares ;  that  to  the  west  fell  to  Abraham,  and  subsequently,  after 
passing  through  several  hands,  was  bought,  March  8,  181 5,  by  David  Wood, 
who  had  already  purchased  part  of  the  adjoining  Van  Bramer  tract,  from 
Abraham  Van  Bramer,  May  2,  1812.*  These  composed  Mr.  Wood's  farm, 
which  at  his  death,  Mav  12,  1842,  descended  to  his  widow,  and  children, 
William  G.  Wood,  M.  D.,  etc. 

The  7th  lot  was  sold  by  De  Ruine,  March  13,  1666,  to  Arent  Bussing 
and  others  (see  page  545),  as  No.  8,  being  16  rods  broad,  and  containing 
4  morgen  320  rods.  Bussing,  etc.,  sold,  April  7  ensuing,  to  Captain  Thomas 
Delavall,  from  whom  it  passed  to  his  son-in-law,  Carteret,  who  sold  it, 
November  21,  1679,  to  Glaude  Delamater.  The  latter  exchanged  it  for 
another  lot,  with  John  Dyckman;  Dyckman  sold  half  to  John  Brevoort 
(which   half  passed  to  Zacharias   Sickels),  and  later  the  other  half  to 

•  The  Van  Bramer  family  (oris:inallv  Van  Bremen)  came  from  Albany.  Jacob, 
son  of  Abraham  Van  Bremen  and  Maria  Van  Nostrand,  married,  in  17 11,  Johanna,  or 
Anna  Wakefield,  from  Albany  (see  p.  410).  and  had  sons,  Abraham,  of  Harlem,  and 
Thomas,  of  Peramus,  N.  J.  (See  p.  799.)  Abraham,  to  whom,  in  173^,  his  step- 
father, David  Dcvoor,  transferred  an  erf,  which  he  soon  sold  to  John  Lewis,  and  was 
living  some  years  after  near  the  bridge  crossing  the  Mill  Creek  (I  believe  the  place 
later  of  John  Rankin),  was  father  of  Hendrick  and  Abraham,  of  Harlem  Lane,  the 
first  a  wheelwright  and  bachelor.  These  brothers  divided  the  land  bought  or  the 
Bussings  in  1784  (see  p.  488).  Hendrick,  by  his  will  of  January  14,  1805,  left  his 
residence  on  Harlem  Lane  to  his  nephew,  Henry  Van  Bramer,  whose  brother-in-law, 
Tyler,  afterward  owned  it.  Abraham  married  Abigail  Brown,  who  survived  him. 
She  was  a  sister  of  Abraham  Bussing's  wife.  Their  children  were,  Henry,  deceased, 
unmarried;  James,  mariner,  lost  at  sea;  Abraham,  Hester,  who  married  John  Kimmel, 
and  Susan,  who  married  William  Tyler. 


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Sickels  direct,  who  sold  the  lot,  January  15,  1729,  to  Nicholas  Kortrigbt, 
from  whom  it  passed  in  1740  to  his  aunt  Grietie  Kortright,  and  from  her 
sons  to  Benjamin  Benson,  who  owned  the  next  lot,  afterward,  of  Ben- 
jamin Vandewater.    See  pages  565,  566.! 

The  8th  lot,  in  possession  of  John  Le  Roy  as  late  as  1668,  is  pre- 
sumed to  have  been  given  up  by  him  for  his  indebtedness  to  the  town. 
See  page  360.  It  is  not  included  among  his  lands  sold  to  Simeon  Cornier, 
May  2,  1674,  and  is  omitted  from  the  tax  lists  down  to  1724.  Samson 
Benson  then  appears  as  the  owner,  and  without  doubt  it  descended  to 
his  son  Benjamin  aforesaid.  From  the  latter  the  parts  of  the  7th  and 
8th  lots,  which  lay  to  the  west  of  Harlem  Lane,  passed,  the  first  to  Robert 
Hunter,  the  second  to  Benjamin  Vandewater;  the  latter  conveying  his 
part,  with  his  farm  on  the  adjoining  heights,  to  James  W.  De  Peyster, 
October  16,  1785.  The  remnants  east  of  the  Lane  were  sold  to  Adolph 
Myer,  who  conveyed  the  part  of  the  7th  lot  to  John  Dykman,  excqrt 
an  acre  sold  to  Hendrick  Van  Bramer  on  which  his  house  was  built, 
described  on  page  355. 

Two  lots  sold  by  Cousseau  to  Tourneur,  and  by  him  to  Glaude  Dela- 
mater,  are  described  in  Delamater's  patent  of  June  25,  1668,  as  situated 
"to  the  north  of  John  Le  Roy,  to  the  south  of  Daniel  Tourneur,  an  east 
line  being  run  from  the  hills  to  the  kill;  it's  in  breadth  48,  and  in  length 
100  rod,  and  makes  in  all  about  16  acres  or  8  morgen."  By  adding^  to 
this  the  adjoining  Tourneur  lot  (which  Tourneur  had  given  to  his  son- 
in-law  Dyckman,  who  exchanged  with  Delamater  for  the  7th  lot),  Dela- 
mater  came  to  be  rated  at  12  morgen.  This  being  divided  into  halves, 
by  his  sons  John  and  Isaac,  formed  the  9th  and  loth  lots,  of  which  John 
took  the  lower  one,  and  Isaac  the  upper.  John's  share  passed,  in  17 10, 
to  Samuel  Waldron,  and  thence  to  his  son  Peter.  Isaac's  lot  passed, 
December  3,  1726,  to  his  son  John  Delamater,  who  sold  it  to  Aaron  Kort- 
right, March  12,  1742.  See  its  history  continued,  on  page  567.  The 
old  Delamater  homestead  stood  on  the  east  side  of  the  Lane."  Captain 
John  Kortright  built  the  large  mansion  which  stood  at  a  centre  point  in 
the  block  between  119th  and  120th  Streets,  and  8th  and  9th  Avenues. 

H.  Page  341. 

THE   HOORN'S   HOOK   FARMS.* 

I.      SAW-KILL    FARM. 

George  Elphinstone,  the  grantee  of  this  tract,  transferred  his  claim 
to  Abraham  Shotwell,  to  whom  the  patent  was  issued  by  Governor  Andros, 

t  The  Vandcwatcrs  and  Hooglands,  of  Harlem,  had  this  origin:  Cornclis  Dircksen 
Hoogland,  born  1599,  was  living  at  Brooklyn  in  1638,  and  for  many  years  kept  the 
ferrv.  By  his  wife,  Aeltie  Adraens,  he  had  a  son,  Dcrick,  bom  1638,  who  married 
Lysbeth,  daughter  of  Joris  Jansen  Rapelje.  From  this  union  came,  with  other  chil- 
dren, Johannes,  born  1666;  Adrian,  1670,  and  Aeltie,  1681,  who  married  Abraham 
Delamontanie.  Johannes  and  Adrian  removed  to  New  York,  where  the  latter,  a  re- 
spected merchant,  was  murdered  by  his  own  slave,  Robin,  in  the  negro  outbreak,  jast 
after  midnight,  April  7,  1712;  at  which  time  Joris  Marschalk,  Henry  Brazier,  Au^o^ 
tus  Grassett  and  Adrian  Bcekman  were  also  killed.  (See  pp.  161,  220.)  Johannes 
Hoogland  married  twice:  in  1686,  Anna  Duyckinck,  widow  ot  Peter  Vandewater,  from 
Amsterdam;  in  1706,  Jenneke  Peet;  and  by  the  latter  was  father  of  Adrian,  bom 
1716.  who  lived  on  Bloomingdale  Heights,  owning  half  of  the  De  Key  Tract,  purchased 
of  Thomas  De  Key,  in  1738,  in  company  with  Harman  Vandewater.  He  died  in 
1772.  and  his  executors,  Benjamin  and  William  Hoogland,  sold  his  lands  to  Nicholas 
De  Peyster,  December  7,  1785.  Peter  Vandewater's  son  Benjamin,  bom  1677,  was 
father,  we  believ^  to  said  Harman  (see  p.  501),  whose  son  Benjamin,  in  1751,  suc- 
ceeded to  his  lands,  which,  with  what  he  had  acq^uired  on  Harlem  Lane,  he  sold  to 
iames  W.  De  Peyster,  October  16,  1785.  His  wife  was  Mary,  daughter  of  Adolph 
leyer. 

•  The  Dutch  word  hoeck,  or  hook,  is  rendered  **a  nook,  a  corner,  or  an  angle," 
in   Hexham's   Groot   Wordenboeck,    Rotterdam:    1658.     In  common  usage,    a   ne^   of 


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September  29,  1677.  See  pages  340-341.  It  grants  a  tract  of  land  upon 
Manhattan  Island,  in  breadth  51  rods,  running  from  the  East  River  north- 
west into  the  woods  120  rods,  including  the  run  of  water  formerly  called 
the  Saw  Mill  Creek,  together  with  the  pond;  being  bounded  southwest 
by  the  land  of  John  Bassett,  and  northeast  by  the  land  of  Jacob  Young, 
and  containing  38^   acres. 

Abraham  Shotwell,  with  consent  of  his  son  John,  sold  the  farm  and 
improvements  November  6,  1679,  to  John  Robinson,  who,  on  January  i, 
1680,  conveyed  one  half  to  John  Lewin  and  Robert  Wolley,  of  London, 
for  i6o;  and  on  February  12,  1684,  the  other  half  to  William  Cox,  for 
£160.    See  pages  360,  364,  381. 

Mr.  Cox  was  drowned  in  July,  1689,  in  returning  from  Amboy,  whither 
he  had  been  sent  by  Leisler  to  proclaim  the  accession  of  William  and  Mary. 
On  July  15,  before  taking  his  last  fatal  journey,  he  made  his  will,  amply 
providing  for  his  wife  Sarah,  and  devising  his  share  of  the  Saw-kill  farm 
to  her  brother,  Henry  Bradley.  The  latter,  named  in  his  brother  Samuel 
Bradley's  will,  July  5,  1693,  died  soon  after,  without  issue,  his  estate  falling 
to  his  said  brother  Samuel  and  sister  Sarah,  late  Mrs.  Cox,  who  being 
left  "a  good  rich  widow,"  had  meanwhile  married  John  Oort,  merchant, 
and  now  had  her  third  husband,  the  noted  Captain  William  Kidd.  She 
married  Captain  Kidd  by  license  of  May  16,  1691.  On  June  i,  1695,  Kidd 
and  his  brother-in-law  Samuel  Bradley  (soon  to  sail  for  England,  to  pre- 
pare for  that  nefarious  voyage  in  the  Adventure  Galley,  from  which 
Bradley  returned  only  to  be  landed  sick  and  dying  on  the  island  of  St. 
Thomas,  and  Kidd  to  be  arrested,  sent  to  London,  and  executed  for 
piracy),  joined  in  conveying  their  half  of  the  farm,  etc.,  to  Mrs.  Kidd's 
father.  Captain  Samuel  Bradley,  for  the  term  of  his  life.  The  reversion 
of  the  half  farm  falling  to  Mrs.  Kidd  by  the  death  of  her  husband  and 
brother  Samuel,  she  obtained  administration  on  the  will  of  the  latter,  April 
I3»  1703,  and  on  September  14  following,  quit-claimed  all  her  right  and 
interest  in  the  farm  to  her  father.  Captain  Bradley.  Before  the  year  closed 
she  noarried  Christopher  Rousby.  On  January  7,  1704,  Bradley  conveyed 
the  said  half  farm  to  Rousby.  But  Rousby  and  wife  doubting  the  suf- 
ficiency in  the  law  of  the  patents  to  Shotwell  and  Cox,  for  the  half  farm 
and  other  their  property,  to  assure  them  the  legal  possession  (such  at 
least  was  their  plea),  petitioned  Governor  Cornbury,  March  23,  1704,  to 
accept  a  deed  of  sale  for  their  said  property  to  her  Majesty  Queen  Anne, 
and  then  to  re-grant  the  same  to  them  and  their  heirs  forever.  Obviously 
the  true  reason  for  this  lay  in  the  fact,  as  stated  in  a  warrant  of  August 
4,  1701,  for  the  seizure  of  Kidd's  effects,  that  he  had  "been  executed  in 
England  for  piracy,  whereby  all  his  estate,  both  real  and  personal,  is  for- 
feited to  his  Majesty."  With  this  request  the  governor  complied;  the 
deed  to  the  Queen  is  dated  March  31,  1704,  and  Cornbur/s  patent  to  the 
petitioners,  May  2,  1704.  The  Harlem  freeholders,  April  15,  1703,  had 
voted  "Wolley  and  partner"  a  release  of  what  part  of  their  land  lay  within 
the  town  patent;  and  on  February  i,  1705,  Rousby  obtained  from  Charles 
Wolley,  of  New  York,  merchant,  son  and  successor  of  '^Robert  Wolley, 
citizen  and  cloth-worker,  of  London,"  a  deed  for  the  other  half  of  the 
Saw-kill  farm. 

From  Rousby  the  farm  passed  to  John  Gurney,  of  New  York,  baker. 
Under  Gurne/s  will,  dated  September  23,  1708,  his  widow,  Mary  (Van 
Hosen),  sold  the  farm,  May  24,  1709,  to  Thomas  Hook,  Jr.,  of  New  York, 
gentleman,  for  £400.  The  parties  to  this  sale  were  married  July  10,  ensuing. 
Mr,  Hook  made  his  will  March  13,  1713,  as  he  "designed  to  take  a  voy- 
age for  London."  He  was  deceased  May  29,  1723,  the  date  his  will  was 
proved,  but  the  farm  stood  in  his  name  till  1730,  and  was  then  sold  to 

land  bounded  on  three  sides  by  streams  or  meadows;  or  where  these  limits  were 
roads,  or  even  surveyor's  lines,  was  called  a  hook  (sec  examples,  pp.  561,  697), 
Hoorn*s  Hook,  originallyj  was  regarded  as  being  bounded  south  by  Marston's  Creek, 
which  emptied  into  the  river  near  80th  street. 


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John  Devoor,  who  occupied  it  half  a  century.  By  will  dated  June  26, 
1778,  proved  October  2,  1780,  Devoor  gave  14  acres  off  the  upper  side  of 
the  farm  to  his  son  John,  and  the  other  24^4  acres  to  his  daughter  Aefie, 
wife  of  John  Courtright.  Courtright  and  wife  sold  their  part,  May  20, 
22,  1786,  to  Isaac  Gouvemeur,  and  he  on  September  9,  1791,  to  John  Lcary, 
Jr.,  whence  it  passed  to  David  Dickson  and  Andrew  Stockholm.  These, 
loaning  £3,000  from  the  State  Treasurer,  Gerard  Banker,  on  a  mortgage, 
July  30,  1793,  put  up  near  the  river  extensive  cotton  mills;  employing 
workmen  from  Manchester,  England.  But  this  enterprise  failed,  and  on 
December  26,  1799,  Dickson  and  Stockholm,  for  i4,8oo,  conveyed  the 
property,  now  called  28  acres,  to  Isaac  Gouvemeur.  The  latter  died  intes- 
tate, the  State  foreclosed,  and  under  a  decree  of  December  14,  1805,  the 
premises  were  publicly  sold  March  6,  1806,  and  bought  by  John  Lawrence 
for  $30,000,  the  deed  to  him  being  executed  the  same  day  by  Pierre  C. 
.Van  Wyck,  master  in  chancery.  Richard  Riker  and  John  Tom  being 
partners  in  this  purchase  (the  three  were  brothers-in-law),  Lawrence,  by 
deeds  of  March  20,  1807,  assigned  portions  of  the  premises  to  his  said 
copartners.  On  July  21,  1807,  Mr.  Tom's  executors  reconveyed  his  share 
to  Lawrence,  who  with  Mr.  Riker  made  a  formal  division  June  21,  181 1, 
the  first  having  made  his  residence  upon  the  upper,  the  other  upon  the 
lower  part.  For  this  purpose  Mr.  Lawrence  had  repaired  the  old  house 
on  his  tract,  while  Mr.  Riker  built  upon  his  part,  now  named  Arch-Brook, 
a  fine  stone  dwelling,  occupied  by  him  till  his  death  in  1841.  His  heirs 
divided  the  property  into  city  lots. 

John  Devoor,  Jr.,  mortgaged  his  14  acres  of  this  farm  to  Mangle  Min- 
thorne,  March  17,  1783;  he  assigned  the  mortgage  to  Anthony  L.  White, 
November  25,  1786,  and  he,  the  same  day,  to  Mary  Ellis,  "formerly  of  the 
Out  Ward,  now  of  the  State  of  New  Jersey,  singlewoman."     See  next  title. 

II.      THE  BAKER  FARM. 

The  patent  to  Jacob  Young,  dated  May  i,  1677,  grants  a  piece  of  land 
on  Manhattan  Island,  in  breadth  by  the  riverside  43  rods,  ranging  thence 
northwest  into  the  woods  120  rods ;  being  bounded  northeast  by  the  Com- 
mons, or  a  certain  run  of  water,  and  southwest  by  the  land  of  George 
Elphinstonc,  and  containing  32J4  acres.  On  September  27,  1683,  Young 
conveyed  this  land  to  William  Holmes.  See  page  376.  The  latter,  bom 
in  1644,  was  a  son  of  George  Holmes,  of  Turtle  Bay,  and  married,  in  1675, 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Claes  Wyp,  of  Albany.  On  April  15,  1703,  the 
town  voted  him  a  similar  release  as  that  to  Wolley  and  partner.  Holmes, 
by  will  made  September  18,  1705,  gave  his  wife  Elizabeth,  the  use  of 
his  farm,  which  at  her  death  was  to  be  shared  half  by  his  son  George, 
and  half  by  his  daughters  Bregie,  Jannetie,  Judith,  and  Priscilla.  Of  these 
Jannetic  married,  1712,  Cornelius  Mesurolle,  and  Judith  married,  1718, 
Martin  Van  Iveren;  the  other  daughters  died  unmarried  and  intestate. 
George  Holmes,  born  1678  (see  his  marriage,  page  448),  came  in  posses- 
sion of  his  patrimony  prior  to  1710,  and  by  the  death  of  his  unmarried 
sisters,  and  the  purchase,  December  29,  1746,  of  Jannetie's  interest,  acquired 
seven-eighths  of  the  farm.  Under  his  will,  dated  September  13,  1743, 
his  widow  Janneke  took  the  estate  in  fee,  and  after  her  death  Peter  Ander- 
son, with  his  wife  Cornelia,  only  child  and  heiress  of  George  and  Janneke 
Holmes,  conveyed  the  farm,  March  30,  1756,  to  Abraham  Lefferts,  for 
£410.  Lefferts  devised  it  to  his  son  Derick,  and  daughter  Elizabeth,  wife 
of  Peter  Clopper,  and  Clopper  and  wife  sold  their  half  to  Derick,  May  16, 
1769,  for  ii,400.  Lefferts  resided  here  till  after  the  Revolution,  and  on 
June  25,  1788,  conveyed  the  farm,  28  acres,  to  Mary  Ellis,  for  £3,900,  "in 
Spanish  Milled  Dollars." 

Before  Abraham  Lefferts  made  his  purchase,  the  remaining  one-eighth 
of  the  farm,  being  a  four  acre  strip  on  its  southerly  side,  held  by  Martin 
and  Judith  Van  Iveren,  had  come  to  be  owned  by  John  Devoor,  Jr.,  from 


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whom  it  passed,  by  deed  and  mortprage  of  February  15,  16,  1774,  to  David 
Provoost,  and  subsequently  was  purchased  by  Mary  Ellis.  On  May  i, 
1 791,  said  Mary  Ellis  conveyed  to  John  Baker,  her  farm  called  Sans  Souci, 
46  acres,  which  included  the  28  acres,  4,  and  14  acre  tracts.  The  mort- 
gages on  the  lesser  pieces  were  assigned  to  Dr.  Baker,  who  thus  got  title 
to  this  valuable  property,  which  after  his  death,  in  1796,  and  the  expira- 
tion and  surrender  of  certain  life  interests,  enjoyed  by  the  Dela^elds  under 
the  will  of  Dr.  Baker,  passed  to  the  trustees  of  the  New  York  Protestant 
Episcopal  Public  School. 

III.  THE    MARSTON    FARM. 

The  patent  for  this  farm,  dated  September  29,  1677,  describes  it  as 
44  rods  in  breadth  by  the  water  side,  ranging  in  length  northwest  into  the 
woods  120  rods;  being  bounded  southwest  by  Jacob  Young's  land,  and 
northeast  and  northwest  by  the  Commons;  and  containing  30  acres. 

John  Baignoux,  the  patentee  (see  page  380).  sold  the  farm  May  15, 
1683,  to  Isaac  Deschamps,  he  on  October  12,  1686,  to  John  Spragge,  and 
the  latter,  on  December  7,  1690,  to  Daniel  Cox,  of  London,  Doctor  in 
Physic,  and  then  principal  proprietor  of  West  Jersey.  On  April  13,  1698, 
Dr.  Cox,  by  his  attorney,  Jeremiah  Bass,  Governor  of  New  Jersey,  and 
in  consideration  of  £24,  leased  the  farm  to  Thomas  Codrington,  of  Rari- 
tan,  for  99  years,  at  the  yearly  rent  of  one  pepper-corn.  On  June  28,  1701, 
Dr.  Cox  conveyed  the  said  farm  in  fee  simple  to  his  son,  Daniel  Cox. 
Codrington  must  afterward  have  gotten  a  release  of  the  fee.  He  also 
secured  Nos.  i,  2,  of  the  Hoorn's  Hook  lots,  16  acres;  in  exchange,  one 
for  No.  4,  which  he  bought  September  4,  1700,  from  Israel  Honeywell, 
who  got  it,  August  I,  1699,  of  William  Presker  (see  page  782)  ;  the 
other  for  No.  3,  obtained  from  Thomas  Tourneur,  or  his  heirs,  Tourneur 
having  gotten  it,  March  13,  1689,  from  Johannes  Verveelen.  In  1704  the 
corporation  leased  him  60  acres  of  the  commons,  adjoining  his  farm,  for 
21  years,  at  six  pence  an  acre  per  annum.  Codrington  set  up  a  brewery, 
kept  cattle  and  sheep,  and  owned  half  a  dozen  slaves.  He  left  no  children. 
By  will  made  April  9,  and  proved  April  20,  1710,  he  gave  £50  to  each  of 
his  four  sisters;  £200  to  his  "cousin  Frances  Willett"  (wife  of  Richard 
Willett;  see  page  378),  and  his  "farm  at  Harlem,"  etc.,  to  his  wife  Mar- 
garet. See  page  353.  Under  her  will,  dated  September  2,  proved  Sep- 
tember 24,  1728,  Martha,  daughter  of  Richard  Willett,  and  wife  of  Cap- 
tain William  Lawrence,  should  have  taken  the  farm,  as  residuary  legatee. 
But  it  paid  quit  rent  for  ten  years  later  as  "the  estate  of  Mr.  Codrington." 
On  July  24,  1738,  "the  Plantation  of  the  late  Captain  Thomas  Codrington, 
containing  about  thirty  acres  of  land,  besides  two  Out  Lots  of  about  eight 
acres  each,  with  the  Orchard  and  Dwelling  House  and  Appurtenances; 
All  in  the  Bounds  of  Harlem,"  was  advertised  in  the  New  York  Gazette, 
to  be  sold  at  public  vendue,  on  September  2  ensuing,  in  the  Exchange 
Market  House.  "The  Title  is  good,  and  may  be  seen  at  the  house  of 
John  Chambers,  who  is  one  of  the  persons  impowered  to  sell  the  same." 

The  property  v/as  bought  by  John  Brown.  He  exchanged  parts  of 
the  Out  Lots  with  Waldron  (see  page  706),  who  built  the  "Hopper  House," 
on  No.  I.  In  1749  the  farm  was  purchased  by  Nathaniel  Marston,  of 
N.  Y.,  merchant,  and  by  his  will,  made  February  8,  1776,  passed  to  his 
son  Thomas,  excepting  the  eight  acres  gotten  by  Brown  from  Waldron, 
which  Marston  left  to  his  son  John,  who  sold  it  to  Thomas,  June  5,  1795. 
The  Prospect  Farm,  as  called,  was  sold  in  parcels  by  Thomas  Marston, 
and  formed  the  seats  of  Jones,  Schermerhorn,  etc. ;  but  here  we  rest  our 
notes,  and  with  pleasure  refer  the  inquirer  for  the  later  title  to  Tuttle's 
Abstracts.* 

IV.  THE    WALDRON    FARM. 

This  farm  was  made  up  of  eight  of  the  ten  lots  laid  out  in  1677  (see 
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pages  341-342),  with  later  additions.  It  is  a  mistake  to  deduce  the  title 
from  Resolved  Waldron,  who  never  owned  a  foot  of  it  Peter  Van  Oblienis 
had  drawn  lot  No.  10  (see  description,  page  360)  ;  his  father  {>ought  No. 
6,  from  Bogert,  December  9,  1679,  and  gave  it  to  Peter  (the  deed  passing 
December  28,  1699)  ;  and  Peter  also  acquired  Nos.  7,  8,  9,  from  various 
parties  to  whom  they  had  been  trans'ferred.  See  page  409.  Toumeur  had 
exchanged^ No.  7  for  No.  i,  with  Adolph  Meyer;  Oblienis  agreed  to  give 
Meyer  300  guilders  for  it,  and  thereupon  sold  the  five  lots,  with  the  improve- 
ments, May  10,  1690,  to  John  Delamater.  See  pages  495,  622.  Delamater 
added  three  more  lots,  bought  from  Daniel  Toumeur's  heirs  (see  page 
635),  and  came  to  own  Nos.  3  to  10,  being  68  acres.  In  the  allotment 
of  1691  he  secured  an  adjoining  tract,  described  in  his  deed  of  March  21, 
1701,  from  the  town  as  "a  piece  of  land  lying  in  the  Bay  of  Hellgate,  ex- 
tending from  the  northwest  comer  of  the  end  of  his  lots  to  a  white  oak  tree 
marked  J.  D.  L.  and  J.  L.  B.  To  the  river  past  a  rock  marked  J.  D.  L. 
and  J.  L.  B.,  and  so  onward  by  the  strand  till  to  the  end  of  the  meadow 
north  of  a  rocky  hill." 

Samuel  Waldron  bought  this  farm  in  1710,  from  the  Delamater  heirs 
(see  page  495),  and  on  December  20,  1712,  obtained  a  patentee  deed  tak- 
ing in  the  land  westward  to  "the  patent  line."  It  is  therein  described  as 
"All  that  tract  of  land  commonly  called  or  known  as  Hoorn's  Hook,  afore- 
said, with  all  and  singular  tlie  houses,  house  lots,  lots  of  land,  now  in 
the  possession  of  the  said  Samuel  Waldron,  as  they  are  hereinafter  named, 
expressed,  bounded  and  numbered,  that  is  to  say:  on  the  south,  over 
against  Hog  Island,  als  Koreans  Island,  by  the  river  of  Harlem ;  on  the 
southwest  by  the  lot  No.  2,  now  in  the  possession  of  Margaret  Codrington, 
widow;  on  the  northwest  by  the  patent  line  of  Harlem;  on  the  norA  by 
a  white  oak  stump  upon  the  bounds  of  the  lands  now  in  the  possession 
of  Barent  Waldron  and  John  Benson;  on  the  northeast  by  a  rock  marked 
on  the  northeast  side  thereof  with  the  letters  L.  B.,  on  the  southwest  by  L. 
M. ;  and  so  goes  down  to  the  said  river  by  several  marked  trees  witll  the  afore- 
said letters,  and  runs  on  the  north  side  of  a  rocky  hill,  and  on  the  south 
side  by  a  piece  of  meadow,  and  thence  along  the  river  to  the  said  lot  No. 
2 ;  including  all  points,  meadows,  and  marshes  within  the  bounds  above 
mentioned;  containing  by  estimation  one  hundred  and  fifteen  acres,  be 
the  same  more  or  less." 

The  farm  remained  intact  during  the  life  of  Samuel  Waldron.  His 
son  William,  who  came  in  possession  in  1741,  set  off  lots  3,  4,  to  his 
brother  Benjamin  (see  page  698),  and,  on  November  29,  1759,  sold 
2154  acres  at  the  southerly  side  of  the  farm  to  Jacob  Leroy,  (since  the 
Com.  Chauncey  seat) ;  but  otherwise  the  farm  underwent  no  material 
change,  till  divided  by  William's  heirs,  after  his  death.  From  that  period 
dated  the  improvements,  which  the  last  few  years  have  almost  obliterated 
that  first  associated  with  this  fine  property  other  notable  names,  such  as 
Astor,  Gracia,  Prime,  and  Rhinelander.  It  is  not  in  our  plan  to  extend 
these  notes  beyond  this  brief  compendium  of  the  early  titles.  Tuttle's 
Abstracts  give  full  details  as  to  the  modern  titles;  and  a  volume  only 
would  suffice  for  the  stirring  reminiscences  connected  with  the  Hoorn's 
Hook  farms. 

church,  New  York,  named  in  its  charter,  1697,  and  actine  much  of  the  time  till  1731. 
His  wife  was  Margaret,  daughter  of  Abel  Hardenbrook.  Their  son  John  marncd 
and  went  to  Jamaica,  VV.  I.  Their  daughter,  Ann,  married  Ebenezer  Grant.  Nathaniel 
married  Mary,  daughter  of  Tohn  Crook,  and  became  wealthy.  In  1731  he  succeeded 
his  father  as  vestryman,  and,  in  1770,  was  made  warden.  He  died  in  his  75th  year, 
October  21,  1778.  His  children  were,  Nathaniel,  whose  daughter,  Mary,  mairried 
Capt.  Fred.  Philinse;  Thomas,  Tohn,  member  of  the  New  York  Provincial  Congress; 
Margjaret,  married  Hon.  Philip  Philipse  and  Rev.  John  Ogilvie,  and  Frances.  T&>inas 
married,  1759,  Cornelia,  daughter  of  Leonard  I^ispenard.  He  died  in  New  York, 
January  tt,  1814,  in  his  75th  year.  For  his  portrait  see  Stevens*  Chamber  of  Com- 
merce.    His  eldest  daughter  married  Francis  Bayard  Winthrop. 


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I.  Page  378. 

THE  DELAVALL  LANDS. 

The  considerable  tracts  of  land  at  Harlem  held  by  Captain  Thomas 
Delavall  and  his  heirs  have  a  history  as  little  known  as  it  is  curious  and 
interesting.  For  details  regarding  his  purchases,  the  disposition  he  made 
of  his  lands,  etc.,  the  reader  should  consult  the  general  history  of  the 
town.* 

Captain  Delavall  released,  August  8,  1676,  to  his  son-in-law  Captain 
James  Carteret  and  wife :  "All  that  messuage,  tenement  and  farm  which 
the  said  Delavall  formerly  bought  of  one  Moseman,  situate  lying  and 
being  in  the  township  of  Harlem,  within  or  upon  a  certain  island  called 
or  known  by  the  name  of  Manhattan  Island,  in  America;  and  all  that 
water  mill  which  the  said  Thomas  Delavall  built  or  caused  to  be  built, 
situate,  lying  and  being  in  and  upon  Manhattan  Island  aforesaid,  together 
with  all  the  land  and  meadows  and  pastures  to  the  said  mill  belonging 
or  adjoining,  or  therewithal  usually  held,  used,  occupied  or  enjoyed;  and 
also  all  that  island  called  Little  Barnes  Island,  near  adjoining  to  Manhat- 
tan Island,  aforesaid ;  and  all  and  singular  houses,"  etc.    See  page  339. 

By  his  will,  admitted  to  probate  July  25,  1682,  Captain  Delavall  devised 
the  lands  he  then  owned  at  Harlem,  together  with  Great  Barnes  Island, 
to  his  son-in-law,  William  Darvall;  he  to  pay  certain  moneys  to  Samuel 
Swynock,  of  London.  See  page  378.  On  November  24,  1684,  William  Dar- 
vall and  wife,  and  John  Delavall,  son  and  heir  of  Captain  Thomas  Delavall, 
of  the  first  part ;  Joseph  Benbrigge  and  others  named,  of  London,  creditors 
of  said  William  Darvall,  of  the  second  part;  and  Samuel  Swynock,  of 
London,  and  Jacob  Milborne,  of  New  York,  trustee  for  said  Swynock, 
of  the  third  part;  joined  in  a  deed,  by  which  the  parties  of  the  first  and 
second  parts,  for  and  in  consideration  of  certain  specified  sums  paid  them 
by  said  Swynock,  conveyed  to  said  Swynock  and  Milborne,  all  those  mes- 
suages, tenements,  lands,  etc.  (those  in  Harlem,  with  Great  Barnes  Island, 
included),  which  were  devised  by  said  Thomas  Delavall  to  said  William 
Darvall:  But  nevertheless  providing  that  if  said  Darvall  should  duly  pay 
to  said  Samuel  Swynock,  the  sum  of  £1,657:65.,  on  August  26,  1686,  at 
his  house  in  Pye  Alley,  Fanchurch  Street,  London;  then  said  Swjmock 
would  reconvey  all  said  premises  to  said  Darvall. 

Darvall  failing  to  pay  any  part  of  the  money  due  Swynock  as  afore- 
said, John  Delavall  executed  the  release  to  Swynock  and  Milborne  referred 
to  on  page  397.  On  August  9,  1687,  Swynock  conveyed  to  Milborne  all 
the  said  lands  at  Harlem,  with  Great  Barnes  Island.  Milborne  sold  the 
island  to  Thomas  Parcell.     See  pages  378,  410.*    Milborne,  on  losing  his 

•  See  pages  212,  232,  235,  246,  288,  306,  323,  333,  34 1,  348,  353,  372,  377,  378, 
393,   397.   401,   402,  406,  456. 

•  Thomas  Parcell  was  a  son  of  John  Parcell  otherwise  **Tohn  Butcher,"  from 
Huntingdon  County,  England,  who  early  settled  at  Dutch  Kills,  I,.  I.,  died  in 
1680,  and  left  children,  Thomas,  William,  Henry  and  Catherine,  with  an  estate  worth 
6,000  guilders.  Thomas,  born  i6s3,  and  bred  a  blacksmith,  married  Christina  Van 
Hattem.  On  removing  to  Great  Barents  Island  he  sold  his  lands  at  Dutch  Kills  to 
Bourgon  Broucard  and  Hans  Covert,  June  21,  1600,  for  £4.087.  Parcell  built  a  grist 
mill  on  the  race  at  the  upper  side  of  his  island.  His  son,  John,  bought  the  north 
half  of  the  island,  June  4,  1722,  and,  on  March  29,  1723,  Thomas  and  Christina 
sold  the  other  half  to  their  son-in-law,  John  Lanyon,  of  New  York,  innkeeper.  Parcell 
died  prior  to  1732,  on  Spectacle  or  Hart  Island,  which  he  then  owned.  He  left 
children,  Nicholas,  John,  Henry,  Hannah,  married,  successively,  Jeremiah  Redding, 
John  Lanyon  and  Thomas  Behena,  and  Eda,  who  married  Walter  Dobbs.  Nicholas 
married  a  daughter  of  Hon.  Rip  Van  Dam.  Henry  succeeded  to  Hart  Island,  and 
John,    holding  his  half  of  Great   Barents  or  Parcelrs    '"      '     " 


s  Island  till   his  death,   in    175 1, 

._   ,  „  --.  --   -line  children,  by  his  wife,  Leah. 

ughter  of  Johannes  Van  Alst.     Thomas,   who  married  Deborah,   daughter  of  Capt. 


aged   75  years,  gave  it  to  his  son,  Thomas,  one  of  nine  children,  by  his  wife,  Leah. 


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first  wife  Joanna,  daughter  of  Samuel  Edsall,  married  Maria,  daughter 
of  Captain  Jacob  Leisler,  and  being  involved  with  Leisler  in  the  political 
tumults  which  brought  both  to  the  scaffold  May  i6,  1691,  left  besides  his 
widow  an  only  son,  Jacob.  Upon  these  two,  or  the  survivor  of  them,  by 
an  Act  of  Assembly  of  May  16,  1699,  was  settled  the  title  to  all  the  lands 
and  tenements  within  the  province  of  New  York,  of  which  the  elder  Mil- 
borne  died  seized.  On  the  day  this  act  passed  the  widow  married  Abraham 
Gouverneur;  and  Jacob  Milborne,  Jr.,  died  unmarried  some  time  after. 

In  the  division  of  the  Harlem  common  land  made  in  1691  there  was 
laid  out  to  the  right  of  Captain  Delavall,  lot  No.  9,  on  Jochem  Pieters' 
Hills,  containing  33  1-3  morgen.  See  Appendix  J.  Other  lots  were  laid 
out  to  Delavall's  heirs,  on  the  further  division  in  1712,  according  to  the 
surveyor's  certificate  annexed: 

"At  the  request  and  by  the  direction  of  Samuel  Waldron,  Zacharias 
Sickels  and  Johannes  Meyer,  persons  authorized  thereto  by  the  owners 
of  the  undivided  lands  of  New  Harlem,  in  the  City  of  New  York,  in  an 
Instrument  under  their  hands  and  seals  dated  the  19th  May,  171 1,  I  have 
surveyed  and  laid  out  these  following  parcels  of  land  to  the  nght  of  Cap- 
tain Delavall,  deceased,  viz :  in  the  First  Division,  No.  8,  16  acres,  3  q^ 
and  28  r.,  adjoining  to  the  land  of  Mettie  Cornelisse  and  the  brook,  the 
land  now  allotted  to  Samuel  Waldron,  and  the  highway;  i  acre,  3  q.  and 
24  r.  of  land  and  meadow,  lying  on  the  other  side  of  the  highway,  between 
the  same  and  the  mill  creek,  adjoining  also  to  the  land  of  the  said  Mettie: 
and  also,  35  acres  and  25  rods,  beginning  at  the  top  of  the  hill  against 
the  said  ^lettie's  land,  and  runs  thence  northward  along  the  land  of  Cap- 
tain De  Key  to  the  comer  of  the  land  now  allotted  to  John  V.  Oblienis, 
thence  along  the  same  North  79°  E.  to  the  land  of  Peter  Van  Oblienis, 
thence  S.  31^°  E.  to  the  highway,  thence  S.  4554°  W.  to  the  land  of 
Isaac  Delamater,  and  then  along  the  same  with  a  crook  to  the  upper  end 
thereof  until  it  even  meets  again  with  the  land  of  the  said  John  Van 
Oblienis,  and  from  thence,  along  the  fence  and  land  of  several  i>eople. 
with  a  crooked  line,  to  the  place  where  the  same  first  began;  in  the  Second 
Division,  No.  16,  jTf  acres,  and  20  rods  (with  two  acres  allowance  for  the 
way  which  leads  through  the  same  to  Harlem  River),  the  same  contains 
in  breadth  about  four  score  rods,  and  runs  from  the  highway  between  the 
land  of  Marcus  Tiebout  and  John  Dyckman,  S.  53**  E.  to  Harlem  River; 
in  the  Third  Division,  No.  15,  18  acres,  3  q.  and  20  r.,  being  in  breadth 
44  rods,  and  runs  from  the  middle  line  in  said  division,  between  the  land 
of  Isaac  Delamater  and  Mary  Meyer,  S.  53°  E.  to  said  river;  and,  in 
the  Fourth  Division,  No.  9,  2^2  acres,  i  q.  and  20  r.,  being  in  breadth  43  1-3 
rods,  and  runs  from  the  said  highway  between  the  land  of  Arent  Bussing 
and  John  Nagel,  N.  67"  W.  to  Hudson's  River;  as  appears  by  the  several 
drafts  of  the  same.     Witness  my  hand,  the  25th  June,  Anno  Dni,    1712. 

Peter  Berrien." 

On  February  i,  1713,  Peter  Van  Oblienis,  Johannes  Waldron,  etc, 
patentees  of  Harlem,  confirmed  to  Abraham  Gouverneur  the  several  parcels 
of  common  land  laid  out  to  the  right  of  Captain  Delavall.  Gouverneur 
and  wife,  on  February  13,  1720,  obtained  from  William  Milborne.  of  Bos- 
ton, N.  E.,  baker,  son  and  heir  of  William  Milborne,  brother  and  heir  of 
Jacob  Milborne,  Sr.,  deceased,  a  release  of  all  the  estate,  real  and  personal, 
of  said  Jacob  Milborne,  including  all  the  lands  he  had  or  ought  to  have  at 
Harlem. 

Captain  James  Carteret,  son-in-law  of  Captain  Delavall,  left  a  son 
George,  who  died  without  issue,  and  a  daughter  Elizabeth,  who  was  mar- 
William  Pcnfold,  was  drowned  in  Ilellffate,  August  i,  1766,  in  the  evening,  in  at- 
tempting to  swim  his  horse  over  to  his  island.  Behcna  succeeding  to  Lanyon's  half 
of  the  island,  it  was  mortgaged  by  his  widow,  in  1765,  and  eventually  passed  to 
Benjamin  Hildrcth;  Parcelrs  half  passed  to  his  kinsman,  John  Wm.  Penfold!  Valen- 
tine s  Mannual,  1855,  p.  495,  gives  other  details  regarding  this  property,  now  Ward's 
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ried  in  the  Island  of  Jersey,  November  ii,  1699,  to  Philip  Pipon,  Esq.,  of 
Noircmont.  On  August  11,  1705,  Pipon  and  his  wife,  then  residing  in 
London,  empowered  Thomas  Newton,  of  Boston,  N.  E.,  to  enter  upon 
and  take  legal  possession  of  all  their  lands,  etc.,  upon  Manhattan  Island, 
and  Little  Barnes  Island,  or  elsewhere  in  America,  whereof  she,  Elizabeth 
(or  he,  Philip,  in  her  right),  is  seized,  interested  or  entitled,  as  grand- 
daughter or  heir. of  Thomas  Delavall.  deceased,  as  daughter  or  heir  of 
her  father  or  mother,  James  Carteret,  Esq.,  and  Frances  his  wife,  or  either 
of  them,  or  as  sister  or  heir  to  George  Carteret,  Esq.,  also  deceased; 
authorizing  said  Newton  to  lease  said  premises  for  a  term  not  to  exceed 
five  years.     What  Judge  Newton  did  in  the  case  we  know  not. 

Mrs.  Pipon  died  in  Jersey,  near  November  11,  1720,  the  date  of  her 
burial  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Brelade.  Mr.  Pipon,  attended  by  one 
of  his  sons  now  came  to  New  York,  **about  his  private  affairs,"  arriving 
toward  the  close  of  1721.  For  some  years  the  Delavall  lands  had  been 
partly  in  charge  of  Pipon's  kinsman  and  agent,  Richard  Willett,  of  New 
York,  merchant  (see  page  378),  but  had  been  mainly  engrossed  by 
Abraham  Gouverneur,  who,  aspiring  to  four  lots  on  Jochem  Pieters  and 
all  the  drafted  lands,  had,  as  we  have  seen,  gotten  a  patentee  deed,  Feb- 
ruary I,  1713,  and  had  disposed  of  about  150  acres  to  Peter  Van  Oblienis, 
Isaac  Delamater,  and  Johannes  Myer. 

Pipon,  however,  claimed  the  entire  property ;  at  least  it  stands  in  his 
name  in  the  quit  rent  lists  for  1722  and  1723.  There  was  now  an  appar- 
ent agreement  among  the  parties  interested,  to  have  the  title  to  all  the 
Delavall  lands  settled  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  Province.  Pipon  first 
brought  suits  against  Samuel  and  Barent  Waldron,  evidently  to  test  the 
validity  of  Captain  Carteret's  sales,  mentioned  on  pages  360,  394,  which  lots 
were  now  held  by  these  defendants.*  The  last  named  case  was  tried 
November  27,  1723,  and  Barent  Waldron's  title  sustained.  In  regard  to 
the  other  lands,  Pipon  proceeded  to  eject  Robert  Crannell,  Gouverneur's 
tenant,  who  thereupon  ?>rought  his  suit  to  regain  possession.  The  cause 
was  tried,  with  great  array  of  evidence,  on  June  8  and  9,  1724;  a  verdict 
being  rendered  as  follows :  *'The  Jury  do  find  that,  as  to  a  certain  piece 
of  ground  known  by  the  name  of  the  Clover  Wey,  and  as  to  the  three 
southernmost  lots  of  the  Nine  Lots,  at  the  place  called  Jochem  Pieters' 
Flat,  and  as  to  one  third  part  of  the  common  lands  that  have  been  laid 
out  in  right  of  the  estate  of  Thomas  Delavall  and  John  Delavall,  deceased ; 
the  Defendant  is  guilty,  and  they  do  find  for  the  Plaintiff  sixpence  and 
costs  and  sixpence  damages.  And  as  to  all  the  residue  of  the  premises, 
they  find  the  Defendant  not  guilty."  The  record  adds :  "It  is  agreed  by 
Abraham  Gouverneur,  lessor  of  Robert  Crannell  in  ejectment,  and  Philip 

*  I  have  not  ascertained  Capt.  Carteret's  ultimate  history,  nor  where  he  died. 
"He  certainly  did  not  die  in  Jersey,"  says  an  able  genealogist  of  that  island,  but,  he 
adds,  "most  likeljr  in  Bedfordshire,  England."  His  father  left  ample  estates  and 
scats  at  Hawnes,  in  that  county.  I  should  expect  further  traces  of  him  at  London. 
In  the  will  of  Sir  George  Carteret,  dated  December  s,  1678,  occurs  the  following: 

'*And  whereas  I  am  desirous  to  make  some  provision  for  mv  son,  Captain  James 
Carteret,  for  his  life.  Therefore  my  mind  and  will  is  that  the  said  Manor  and  premises 
[the  Manor  of  Epworth,  with  Trestwood  and  Haxey,  in  Lincolnshire!,  be  charged 
and  chargeable  with  the  payment  of  one  annuity  or  yearly  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds 
of  lawful  English  money,  to  be  paid  and  payable  unto  my  said  son  and  his  assigns 
for  and  during  his  life,  .  .  .  m  half  yearly  payments,  namely  every  Lady  day  and 
Michaelmas  day,  the  first  payment  to  begin  and  to  be  made  at  such  of  the  said  days 
as  shall  first  and  next  happen  after  my  decease.  .  .  .  But  this  bequest  of  mine 
to  my  said  son,  Tames  Carteret,  as  aforesaid,  is  upon  this  condition,  tnat  he  within 
two  years  next  after  my  decease,  shall  convey  or  otherwise  release  unto  my  heirs  at 
law,  all  such  right,  title,  interest,  claims  and  demand  which  he,  the  said  James  Carteret, 
hath  or  shall  pretend  to  have,  of,  in  and  unto  my  lands  and  hereditaments  in  the  said 
Island  of  Jersey.  And  in  case  my  said  son  shall  refuse  to  make  such  conveyance  or 
release,  as  aforesaid,  and  shall  not  do  the  same.  Then  mv  will  and  meaning  is  that 
this  bequest  of  mine,  of  the  said  yearly  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds,  limited  to  him 
for  life,  and  charged  upon  the  lands  in  manner  as  aforesaid,  shall  be  void  and  of 
none  effect,  to  all  intents  whatsoever.' 


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Pipon,  defendant,  that  the  costs  and  charges  in  this  cause  may  be  equally 
paid  between  the  parties." 

This  decision  confirmed  Pipon's  title,  except  as  to  the  Three  Lots, 
and  one  third  of  the  drafted  lands,  which  went  to  Gouvemeur.  For  the 
Clover  Wey,  consult  the  Key  to  Titles. 

Pipon  and  Gouvemeur  now  petitioned  the  Governor  and  Council 
July  I,  1724,  and  representing  that  they  were  owners,  Pipon  of  two  thirds, 
and  Gouvemeur  of  one  third,  of  certain  Nine  Lots,  at  Harlem,  on  Jochcm 
Pieters'  Flat,  and  containing  60  morgen  of  land;  and  further  that  said 
lots  having  for  some  time  laid  unimproved,  the  bounds  thereof  could  not 
be  well  ascertained  except  by  a  survey  of  all  the  tract  called  JocTiem 
Pieters'  Flat,  which  contained  about  66  morgen  more,  owned  by  several 
people  of  Harlem;  prayed  for  a  warrant  to  have  said  tract  surveyed.  This 
was  granted,  and  the  survey  made,  as  already  described  in  Appendix  E 

On  May  2,  1725,  Abraham  Gouvemeur,  and  Maria,  his  wife,  for  £255, 
released  to  Johannes  Myer,  their  tract  known  as  the  Three  Lots,  being 
eighteen  morgen,  bounded  south  by  Peter  Bussing,  north  by  the  Six  Lots, 
east  by  Harlem  River,  and  west  by  lands  in  possession  of  the  heirs  of 
James  Carteret ;  and  also  an  undivided  third  of  lot  No.  9,  Jochem  Pieters' 
Hills,  and  of  the  Delavall  lots  in  the  four  divisions.  This  gave  Myer  114 
acres,  making  good  to  him  the  quantity  sold  him  by  Gouvemeur  March  25. 
1720,  though  but  in  part  the  same  lands.  In  this  later  deed  Gouvemeur 
particularly  excepts  and  reserves  all  his  right  in  any  lands  in  Harlem 
"which  now  are  held  or  claimed  by  the  heirs  or  assigns  of  James  Car- 
teret, and  Frances,  his  wife,  deceased."  What  limit  Gouvemeur  put  to 
his  claim,  to  which  he  so  firmly  adhered,  is  not  apparent;  only  that  it 
extended  to  all  the  drafted  lands.* 

Philip  Pipon  entailed  upon  his  son  James  and  his  heirs  male  his  estate 
in  Jersey,  and  upon  his  son  Elias  and  heirs  male  his  property  in  America. 
Elias,  being  twenty- four  years  of  age,  came  hither  to  enjoy  his  possessions. 
He  built  up  Little  Barent's  Island,  which  he  renamed  Belle  Isle,  and 
married  Blanche,  daughter  of  Mr.  John  Lafons.  After  several  years, 
unable  to  support  himself  upon  the  scanty  income  derived  from  his  mainly 
unproductive  property.  Pipon  resolved  to  ask  the  Colonial  Assembly  to 
remove  the  entail  and  empower  him  to  sell  a  part  of  his  land,  in  order 
that  he  might  improve  the  rest.  Notice  of  his  intentions  was  publicly  read 
in  the  church  at  Harlem  by  the  parish  clerk,  Van  Harlingen,  on  three 
successive  Sundays,  beginning  September  27,  1730,  and  duly  certified  to 
the  Governor  and  Council,  October  15;  but  Pipon's  application  to  the 
Assembly  was  stayed  by  the  adjournment  of  that  body  for  a  long  interval 
During  this  time  the  brothers  Pipon  exchanged  releases,  James  conveying 
to  Elias  all  his  interest  in  the  lands  at  Harlem  and  in  Little  Barent's  Island 
by  lease  and  release  executed  in  the  Island  of  Jersey,  May  18,  19,  1732. 
Pipon's  needs  at  length  forced  him  to  mortgage  Belle  Isle,  for  £432,  to 
St.  George  Talbot,  July  3,  1735.  On  October  29,  ensuing,  he  petitioned  the 
Assembly  for  the  proposed  relief.  A  bill  was  introduced,  read  twice  and 
committed,  but  nothing  came  of  it.  He  was  soon  compelled  to  make 
an  assignment  to  three  principal  creditors,  Simon  Johnson,  John  Auboy- 
neau  and  James  Faviere,  in  trust  also  for  the  rest;  his  wife  joining  with 

•  Abraham  Gouvemeur  was  the  son  of  Nicholas  and  Machtelt  (de  Riemer) 
Gouverneur,  and  was  born  in  1671,  "upon  the  Single,  near  the  Konings  Plcyn,"  in 
Amsterdam.  He  took  a  zealous  part  for  Leisler,  though  yet  a  minor,  and  was 
charged  with  having  shot  the  parish  clerk  four  days  before  Governor  Sloughter  arrived. 
His  father  had  been  dead  for  years,  his  mother  being  married  to  Jaspar  Nesscpott 
(Nesbitt),  named  p.  679.  Gouverneur  was  afterward  Recorder  of  New  York,  and 
member  of  the  Assembly,  and  enjoyed  considerable  notoriety.  He  died  tunc  16, 
1740.  By  Maria  Leisler  he  had  four  children  who  reached  maturity,  viz.:  Nicholas, 
Tacoba,  Elizabeth  and  Maria,  of  whom  the  last  married  Henry  Meyer,  Jr.,  and  Capt 
Jaspar  Farmer.  The  son  Nicholas  died  March  20,  i739,  aged  .19  years,  leaving  issue. 
Abraham,  Esther,  Barent  and  Nicholas.  Bolton,  i:  380,  mistakes  for  descendants  of 
Abraham  Gouvemeur  those  of  his  brother  Isaac. 


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him.*  These  three,  with  Pipon,  intending  another  appeal  to  the  Assembly, 
gave  notice  as  before  by  a  poster  upon  the  church  door  at  Harlem.  But 
a  fatality  seemed  to  attend  their  applications  to  the  Assembly.  A  bill  was 
brought  in,  but  failed  by  a  sudden  dissolving  of  that  body;  another  bill 
introduced  at  the  next  session,  was  agreed  upon  and  ordered  to  be  en- 
grossed, though  opposed  by  Gouvemeur,  who  alleged  that  he  or  his 
assigns  were  in  lawful  possession  of  part  of  said  lands,  "and  claim  a  great 
part  of  the  rest."  This  bill  also  failed,  by  an  adjournment  of  the  Assem- 
bly, December  16,  1737,  and  no  further  attempt  was  made  in  that  body. 

Meanwhile  Gouverneur  died.  By  will,  dated  September  12,  1739,  and 
proved  October  8,  1740,  he  gave  his  estate  to  his  wife,  with  power  to  sell, 
or  to  devise  to  the  children;  named  her  sole  executrix,  but  appointed  to 
act  after  her  decease,  his  daughters  Jacoba,  Elizabeth,  and  Maria,  his 
nephew  Nicholas  Gouverneur,  and  friend  Paul  Richard.  The  trustees  of 
Pipon  and  the  widow  Maria  Gouverneur,  now  came  to  an  agreement,  in 
virtue  of  which  she  transferred  all  her  right  in  the  Six  Lots  and  several 
other  pieces  of  land  in  Harlem  to  said  trustees,  Johnson,  Aubo3meau,  and 
Faviere,  by  lease  and  release  of  February  9,  10,  1741 ;  while  they  conveyed 
to  her  at  the  same  time,  the  Three  Lots,  together  with  half  the  wood- 
lands, or  commons  before  allotted  to  the  right  of  Captain  Delavall.  On 
February  11,  12,  1741,  the  said  trustees  sold  to  Jacob  Myer,  of  Harlem, 
the  Six  Lots  aforesaid,  with  7  a.  3  q.  37  r.  of  the  adjoining  Carteret  wood- 
lot,  also  Carteret's  Island,  containing  12  a.  13  r.  of  upland,  and  10  a.  i  q. 
31  r.  of  meadow;  in  all  by  survey  107  a.  18  r.  By  a  separate  writing, 
Johnson  and  Faviere  also  promised  to  warrant  and  defend  Jthe  title,  in 
proportion  to  Pipon's  indebtedness  to  them. 

The  balance  of  Pipon's  land  stood  in  his  name  till  1743,  when  Simon 
Johnson  succeeded.*  The  latter,  on  September  12,  1747  (Pipon,  Auboy- 
neau,  and  Faviere,  were  now  all  dead),  sold  to  Jacob  Myer,  of  Bergen 
County,  N.  J.,  all  his  half  of  a  lot  at  Round  Meadow  Hill;  being  the 
Delavall  lot  No.  15,  Third  Division.  On  September  25,  1747,  he  conveyed 
to  said  Jacob  Myer  all  his  half  of  the  woodlot  No.  16,  Second  Division, 
and  to  Benjamin  Benson  the  two  lots  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  next  the 
Mill  Camp.  He  also  sold  Lawrence  Low  his  half  of  lot  No.  9,  of  1691, 
and  his  half  of  lot  No.  9,  Fourth  Division.  Grietie  Kortright  bought  par- 
cels I  and  2  of  No.  8,  First  Division  (later  added  to  the  Nutter  Farm) ; 
Harman  Vandewater  17  acres  of  third  parcel,  and  Adolph  Myer,  Jr.,  a 
remnant  of  the  same,  4  acres,  being  exclusive  of  a  piece  held  by  Peter 
Waldron  (see  page  400).  Johnson  sold  the  balance  of  the  Carteret  wood- 
lot,  w^hich  joined  upon  the  Three  Lots,  to  Johannes  Myer;  and  the  two 
erven  or  village  houselots  to  Derick  Benson  and  John  Lewis.    And  lastly, 

t  Simon  Johnson  was  the  Recorder  of  New  York  from  1747  to  1769;  had  previ- 
ously served  as  Alderman  and  Assemblyman.  He  died  March  9,  1773,  in  his  70th 
year. 

*  Elias  Pipon  succeeded  his  father  in  1726.  Whether  he  or  a  brother  was  the 
"young  Mr.  Pipon"  who  came  out  with  the  senior  Pipon,  but  returned  to  Europe  at  the 
close  of  1723,  we  know  not.  Mrs.  Coddineton,  in  her  will,  dated  September  2,  1728, 
bequeaths  "to  Elias  Pipon  of  the  city  of  New  York,  Gent,  £10,  ana  my  negro  girl, 
Betty."     The  records  of  the  French  Church  Du  St.  Esprit  contain  the  following: 

A  la  Nouvelle  York  le  10  de  Juin  1730,  Baptesme.  Aujourd'hui  Mercredi  apres 
la  priere,  a  etc  baptiste  par  moi  L:  Rou,  ministrc  de  cette  EgHse,  Tean  Pipon,  ne  a  la 
Nouve  York,  le  28  de  May  dernier,  fils  d'Elic  Pipon  et  de  Blanche  La  Fonds,  etant 
presente  au  St.  Baptesme  par  Mr.  Jean  La  Fonds  et  Madcmlle  Charlotte  Faviere  ses 
parrain  et  marraine.      h:  Rou,  Pasteur. 

Jean  Lafons.  Elie  Pipon. 

Charlotte    Fauviere.  • 

Elias  was  born  in  Jersey,  in  170a.  He  died  in  this  country,  having  survived  his 
wife.  Bein^  sick  and  weak,  he  made  his  will^  August  30,  1744,  leaving  his  estate  to 
his  four  children,  John,  Jane,  Mary  and  Elizabeth.  It  was  proved  September  30, 
1746.  "John  Pipon,  "Esq.,  of  the  Island  of  Jersey,"  died  at  Cardiff,  South  Wales, 
October  5,  1815.  Mrs.  Braithwaite  (see  p.  13)  thinks  he  may  have  been  the  John  born 
May   28,    1730,  as  aforesaid. 


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on  January  21,  1748,  he  released  Belle  Isle  (Randell's  Island),  to  St 
George  Talbot.  See  page  605,  also  Valentine's  Manual.  1855,  page  49S- 
A  deed  from  Jacoba  Gouverneur,  etc.,  children,  etc.,  of  Maria  Gouvemcur, 
deceased,  to  Johannes  Myer,  April  30,  1748,  conveying  one-half  of  a  third 
of  the  Delavall  common  lands,  a  third  having  been  before  sold  him  by 
Abraham  Gouverneur,  perfected  Myer's  title  to  one-half  of  said  lands. 
Thus  the  estate  of  Captain  Delavall  fell  to  many  owners,  originating  as 
many  separate  titles.  We  only  add  that  parcel  3  of  No.  8,  First  Division, 
was  subsequently  included,  mainly,  in  the  Molenaor  and  Captain  John 
Kortright  farms ;  lot  No.  16,  Second  Division,  extending  along  the  Kings- 
bridge  Road,  between  179th  and  185th  Streets,  and  thence  to  Harlem 
River,  was  afterward  owned  by  Blazius  Moore  and  others;  Jot  No.  15, 
Third  Division,  running  from  the  Cut  Line  in  that  division  to  Harlem 
River,  has  since  formed  a  part  of  Dyckman's  Fort  George  Tract  See 
abstract  by  Lockwood  &  Crosby.  Of  No.  9,  Fourth  Division,  which  ran 
from  Kingsbridge  Road  to  Hudson  River,  Myer  took  the  upper,  and  Low 
the  lower  half;  Myer's  part  passing  to  Adolph  Myer,  later  to  William 
Molenaor,  and  Low's  part  to  General  John  Maunsell,  being  subsequently 
included  in  the  large  tract  owned  by  Dr.  Samuel  Watkins,  above  Fort 
Washington. 


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DIVISION  OF  THE  COMMON  LANDS. 

Under  the  Dongan  Patent. 

/.     Division  of  1691. 

At  the  date  of  the  Dongan  patent  (see  page  413)  the  appropriated 
lands  at  Harlem  were  held  principally  under  the  three  general  allotments 
made  in  1658,  1661,  and  1677,  of  which  a  full  history  has  been  given.  The 
patent  conferred  upon  these  proprietors,  or  properly  such  as  were  named 
therein,  a  joint  interest  in  all  the  unappropriated  or  common  lands.  Four 
years  having  expired,  the  patentees  agreed  to  make  an  allotment,  and  at 
a  meeting  held  November  29,  1691,  chose  Adolph  Meyer,  John  Hendricks 
van  Brevoort,  Samuel  Waldron,  and  Peter  van  Oblienis,  "to  consider- 
and  devise  such  measures  as  shall  be  most  proper  for  the  benefit  and  best 
interests  of  the  town  and  inhabitants  thereof.'*  The  following  resolutions 
were  then  passed: 

1.  It  is  resolved  that  the  land  lying  in  the  common  woods,  so  much 
as  may  be  found  suitable  for  making  good  tillable  land,  shall  be  laid  out 
and  surveyed  into  lots,  or  parcels,  whereof  each  inhabitant  of  this  town 
shall  draw  a  part  as  his  property,  every  one  according  to  his  estate  or 
proportion. 

2.  It  is  also  resolved  that  the  parcel  of  land  lying  at  the  end  of  the 
lots  named  Jochem  Pieters  shall  be  laid  out,  from  the  end  of  the  old  lots 
to  the  hill,  and  so  again  to  the  Clove  of  the  Kill,  behind  the  high  hill  in 
the  hills;  on  condition  that  a  good  and  sufficient  King's  or  high  way  shall 
be  left  around  the  fencing  of  the  same. 

3.  It  is  resolved  to  lay  out  a  parcel  of  land  situated  and  compre- 
hended from  ^loertje  Davids'  Meadow  eastward  up  Jochem  Pieters*  Hills, 
and  northerly  so  far  as  good  tillable  Und  shall  be  found.  Provided,  that 
the  land  of  Barent  Waldron  being  extended,  the  east  side  from  the  island 
according  to  the  river,  shall  claim  no  further  in  than  the  King's  way  is 
now  running. 

4. .  It  is  also  resolved  to  lay  out  a  parcel  of  land  at  the  southerly  end 
of  the  Long  Hill,  so  much  as  shall  be  found  good  tillable  land. 


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5.  It  is  also  resolved  to  lay  out  a  parcel  of  land  at  Spuyten  Duyvel, 
between  the  high  hills  by  the  Round  Meadow,  on  the  other  side  of  the 
swamp  (morass  creupelbos),  so  much  as  shall  be  found  fit  for  tillage; 
on  condition  that  there  remain  a  good  and  sufficient  King's  way  where 
shall  be  found  best  and  most  convenient. 

6.  The  land  lying  at  the  end  of  the  lots  named  Jochem  Pieters  shall 
be  so  estimated  that  one  morgen  shall  go  for  two  morgen  upon  any  of 
the  other  parcels  that  shall  be  laid  out.  Also  that  the  hills  shall  be  fenced 
off  from  the  corner  of  the  land  behind  the  high  hill  to  the  meadow  of 
Daniel  Toumeur  at  Montanye's  Kill,  for  a  sheep  pasture, — those  having 
fences  within  this  stretch  to  keep  the  same  tight  and  in  good  order, — with 
a  draw-rail  (draei-hek)  at  the  road;  and  that  a  bridge  shall  be  made 
there,  beyond  the  stone  bridge  or  thereabouts. 

7.  It  is  further  resolved  that  when  the  said  surveys  shall  take  place, 
each  inhabitant  shall  have  the  privilege  to  draw  according  to  his  right  or 
apportionment,  for  the  erven  a  third  part;  and  then  the  rest  shall  be 
drawn  according  to  the  number  of  morgen. 

The  Authorized  Men,  with  the  aid  of  Adrian  Appel,  surveyor,  made 
up  a  list  of  the  freeholders,  with  the  numoer  of  erven  and  morgen  each 
one  held,  and  on  which  lands  could  be  drawn;  and  proceeded  to  survey 
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In  computing  this  allotment,  5  morgen,  or  10  acres,  were  allowed  for 
each  erf  right,  and  333-600  of  a  morgen,  or  333  square  Dutch  rods,  for  each 
morgen  right*  To  avoid  many  fractional  parts,  where  the  quantity  fell 
less  than  100  rods  short  of  a  full  morgen,  it  was  counted  as  a  morgen,  while 
fractions  of  a  morgen  below  100  rods  were  thrown  out.  In  addition  to  the 
tracts  designated,  the  authorized  men  had  disposed  of  some  other  parcels 
(the  lots  21  to  26),  which  lay  adjoining  the  farms  of  the  persons  to  whom 
granted.  The  last  was  formally  allowed  and  approved  of  by  the  freehold- 
ers, December  11,  as  appears  by  the  following  document,  of  that  date: 

"Whereas  on  this  day  have  assembled  the  community  of  New  Harlem, 
and  having  from  among  themselves  chosen  and  authorized  Adolph  Meyer, 
John  Hendricks  van  Brevoort,  Peter  van  Oblienis,  and  Samuel  Waldron 
to  lay  out  the  available  land,  according  to  the  surveyor's  schedule  hereunto 
annexed;  So  we  undersigned  promise  to  hold  inviolate  that  which  the  four 
persons  before  named  have  caused  to  be  measured  and  set  off  (aange- 
wesen),  to  Metje  Comelis,  John  Louwe  Bogert,  John  Delamater,  Abraham 
Delamontanie,  Barent  Waldron,  and  John  Dyckman.  Nota,  All  the  lands 
that  are  unsuitable  for  tillage  shall  bear  half  costs.  And  all  those  who 
have  drawn  the  land  behind  the  old  land  of  Jochem  Pieters  shall  be 
obligated  to  leave  a  convenient  road  for  the  town's  use.  The  erven  which 
have  been  drawn  shall  be  required  to  contribute  to  town  expenses.  The 
path  or  road  shall  be  taken  from  the  newly  drawn  land.  AH  this  have 
we  subscribed  with  our  hands."  [Signed  by  Adolph  Meyer,  Pieter  van 
Oblienis,  Joost  van  Oblinus,  Jan  Louwe  Bogert,  Arent  Harmans,  Jan  Hen- 
dricks van  Brevoort,  Samuel  Waldron,  Johannes  Waldron,  Jan  Delamater, 
Jan  Dyckman,  Metje  Cornel  is,  Johannes  Vermel  je,  Barent  Waldron, 
Laurens  Jansen,  Isaac  Delamater,  Abraham  Delamontanie,  an(|  Jan 
Tibout.] 

During  the  years  which  expired  before  the  title  deeds  for  these  lots 
were  given,  the  town  made  several  small  grants  and  sales,  hereafter  noticed ; 
and  at  a  meeting  held  Nov.  2,  1699,  "all  the  residents  or  proprietors  of  the 
town  made  a  conveyance  of  the  church,  to  the  Reverend  Consistory,  upon 
condition  that  the  proprietors  who  have  helped  build  the  church  shall 
continue  to  hold  their  seats."t  And  on  December  14,  following,  Arent 
Bussing,  Adolph  Meyer,  and  Samuel  Waldron  were  chosen  as  Authorized 
Men,  to  act  with  the  overseers,  Laurens  Jansen,  Peter  van  Oblienis,  and 
Jacques  Tourneur,  in  giving  the  freeholders  their  deeds  for  the  newly 
drawn  lands.  The  six  persons  met  December  18,  "to  commence  the  busi- 
ness," and  approved  "the  last  survey,  made  by  the  surveyor,  Adrian  Appel." 
After  fourteen  days,  allowed  to  hear  objections,  another  meeting  was  held, 
January  4,  1700,  and  no  one  having  appeared  to  oppose  the  survey  it  was 
finally  adopted.    The  inhabitants  then  subscribed  another  paper  promising  to 

•  The  erven  were  only  the  original  village  plots  so  called,  with  such  other  house 
lota  as  had  been  granted  or  sold  for  that  purpose  by  the  town,  for  a  price,  usually  25 
guilders;  no  other  house  lot  was  countca  as  an  erf,  or  invested  with  the  erf  right. 
So  the  morgen  right  only  attached  to  the  lots  on  Jochem  Pieters*  Flat,  Van  Keulen's 
Hook,  Montanye's  Flat,  the  New  Lots,  Bogert's  or  Benson's  Point,  Gloudie's  or 
Bussing's  Point,  and  tne  Dyckman  and  Nagel  lots,  near  Kingsbridge.  This  right 
never  attached  to  the  lands  allotted  under  the  Dongan  patent.  (See  last  note  on  p. 
602.  This  principle  carried  out  with  referercnce  to  any  claim  which  the  present  Har- 
lem proprietors  may  have  upon  such  new  lands  as  have  been  made  by  nlling  in  the 
creeks  and  marshes,  and  never  allotted  to  anyone,  must  necessarily  limit  such  claims 
to  those  holding  the  original  morgen  lands  and  erven  I 

t  Donderdag  den  2  Novemb:  Anno  1699,  N:  Haarlem.  Present,  de  Overciers 
Irouwrens  Jansen,  Pieter  Oblinis  en  Jacques  Tourneur. 

♦  ♦•♦«•»•« 

Oock  is  hede  ten  dage  voornoemt,  van  alle  de  inwoondcrs,  off  eygenaars,  deses 
dorps*  «cn  opdragt  gedaan  van  de  Kerck,  aan  de  eerwaarde  Kerck-Raaden,  onder 
conditie  dat  ae  eygenaars  die  de  Kerck  hebben  helpen  maaken  sullen  behouden  haare 
vastc  plaats. 

•  •»••»••• 

Attesteert,   datum  ut  supra, 

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pay  their  proportion  of  town  charges,  and  agreeing  to  a  pro  rata  distribution 
of  the  common  lands.  The  meeting  also  voted  a  deed  to  Bastiaen  Kort- 
right  for  two  pieces  of  meadow  (see  p.  265),  "as  soon  as  the  purchase 
money  shall  be  paid."  The  overseers  and  authorized  men  met  on  March 
7,  1700,  and  gave  the  deeds  referred  to  pp.  394,  561 ;  also  one  to  Adolph 
Meyer  for  "three  feet  of  ground  lying  north  of  his  house,"  and  granted 
him  in  1694.  On  May  2,  deeds  for  all  the  newly  drawn  lands  were  ordered 
These  being  prepared,  were  signed  by  the  overseers  and  authorized  men 
March  21,  1701.     But  to  a  brief  notice  of  these  lots: 

Nos.  I  to  4,  lying  on  the  flats,  and  described  as  "behind  the  old  lots  of 
Jochem  Pieters,  by  the  high  hill,"  were  identical  with  the  Lawrence,  Mole- 
naor,  and  Myer  tracts,  filling  the  space  above  the  Samson  A.  Benson 
farm,  to  the  junction  of  the  roads.  They  were  those  which  came  under 
the  rule  making  one  morgen  here  equal  to  two  in  the  other  places.  See 
references  to  these  lots  pp.  417,  418,  599,  604,  607,  608.  Day's  Tavern  (pp. 
418,  500)  was  on  No.  4,  on  the  line  of  126th  Street,  200  feet  west  of  Eighth 
Avenue. 

Nos.  5  to  18  lay  upon  the  heights  above  Manhattanville ;  the  southeast 
corner  of  No.  5  touching  133d  Street,  say  100  feet  west  of  Ninth  Avenue; 
its  southwest  corner  the  North  River  at  136th  Street.  No.  18  reached  up 
nearly  to  i62d  Street,  at  the  Kingsbridge  Road.  The  lots  ran  from  the 
river  within  parallel  lines,  southeast,  "according  to  the  course  of  a  pocket 
compass,"  and  were  200  Dutch  rods  in  length.  Their  breadth  was  as  fol- 
lows, Dutch  measure:  No.  5,  18  rods;  No.  6,  42  rods;  No.  7,  30  rods,  9 
feet;  No.  8,  36^  rods;  No.  9,  100  rods;  No.  10,  615^  rods;  No.  11,  25 
rods;  No.  12,  36  rods;  No.  13,  15  rods;  No.  14,  60  rods;  No.  15,  33  rods; 
No.  16,  15  rods;  No.  17,  15  rods;  No.  18,  285/^  rods. 

No.  5,  since  owned  by  Schieffelin,  may  be  traced  by  reference  to  pp. 
500,  567,  642.  For  Nos.  6  and  7,  owned  latterly  by  the  Myer  family, 
see  pp.  477,  6oi,  605.  No.  8,  its  lines  crossing  Bloomingdale  Road  at 
139th  and  I4rst  Streets,  passed  from  Arent  Bussmg  to  his  son  Peter,  and 
to  his  son  Aaron,  whose  heirs  sold  it  to  John  Myer,  November  6,  1790, 
and  May  19,  1791.  See  pp.  482,  605.  No.  9,  extending  (where  intersected 
by  the  Bloomingdale  Road)  from  141st  Street  to  145th,  is  particularly 
referred  to  in  Appendix  I.  In  a  resurvey  it  was  called  No.  6  (the  Peter 
van  Oblinus  100  acre  tract  taken  as  No.  i),  was  20  chains  85  links  broad, 
and  ran  from  lot  No.  16,  First  Division  (which  lay  between  it  and  the 
highway),  north  38°  west  to  Hudson  River,  being  in  length  on  the  south 
side  36  chains  43  links,  and  on  the  north  side  Z7  chains  26  links.  It  was 
divided  by  Delavall's  successors,  first  crosswise,  afterward  lengthwise,  the 
upper  half  subsequently  owned  by  Gen.  John  Maunsell,  and  later  by  Dr. 
Samuel  Bradhurst;  the  lower  half  sold  by  Samuel  Kelly  to  Jacob  Schieffe- 
lin,  January  15th,  1799.  "Hamilton  Grange,"  the  former  seat  of  OexL 
Alexander  Hamilton,  occupied  part  of  this  lot. 

No.  10,  first  in  the  range  reaching  to  the  highway,  its  northerly  line 
touching  it  at  148th  Street,*  was  latterly  owned  by  Dr.  Bradhurst;  the 
lower  corner  was  included  in  Hamilton  Grange.    See  pp.  563,  565,  581. 

Nos.  II  to  13  were  bought  up  by  John  Dyckman  and  the  Nagel  heirs. 
Dyckman  had  drawn  No.  14,  on  his  rights  and  those  of  John  Nagel  jointly, 
the  latter  i  erf,  15  morgen,  and  Dyckman's,  i  erf,  3  morgen;  the  morgen 
rights  being  upon  their  lots  on  Jochem  Pieters'  and  Montanye*s  Flat  Each 
had  a  deed  for  his  share  of  No.  14,  Dyckman  for  62-3  morgen,  and  Nagel 
for  13  1-3  morgen.  Dyckman's  patentee  deed,  of  June  i,  1713,  covers  his 
undivided  half,  or  45  acres,  of  Nos.  11  to  14.  See  further  pp.  547,  549. 
Trinity  Church  Cemetery  is  on  these  lots ;  also  "Minniesland,"  the  seat  of 
the  late  John  J.  Audubon.  As  this  tract,  when  sold  to  John  Watldns,  in 
1767  (it  reaching  nearly  to  156th  Street  on  Kingsbridge  Road,  and  to  i^th 

•  That  is  the  old  Kingsbridge  Road.  The  first  move  for  extending  the  Blooming- 
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Street,  North  River),  contained  about  112  acres,  we  infer  that  it  took 
in  the  Low  lot.  No.  15,  22  acres.  The  lots  in  this  range  were  resurveyed 
by  Peter  Berrien,  and  some  surplus  pieces  were  found  and  disposed  of, 
forming  the  "Last  Division."  This  survey  is  not  well  understood,  yet 
it  would  appear  that  space  was  found  between  Lawrence  Jansen  and  John 
Kiersen  for  two  new  lots  (Nos.  16,  17),  the  last  of  these,  containing  16 
acres,  being  allotted  to  John  Dyckman  (see  p.  546),  but  subsequently  added 
to  Kiersen's  tract.  No.  16,  extending  upward  to  a  line  from  Kingsbridge 
Road,  S6  feet  below  158th  Street,  to  the  North  River  at  161  st  Street,  was 
sold  by  John  Low,  as  31  acres,  to  John  Watkins,  enlarging  Watkins'  tract 
to  1421/2  acres.  This  tract,  embracing  lots  11  to  16,  being  sold  with  other 
parcels,  under  a  foreclosure  by  Gen.  John  Maunsell,  to  Charles  Watkins, 
was  reconveyed  to  Maunsell,  March  28,  1793.  Two  years  later  General 
Maunsell's  widow  succeeded  under  his  will,  and  devised  her  lands  here, 
May  20,  181 5,  to  her  nephew.  Dr.  Samuel  Watkins  (son  of  said  John),  and 
her  nieces,  Lydia,  wife  of  James  Beekman,  and  Elizabeth,  widow  of 
Robert  H.  Dunkin.  These  divided  the  142^/^  acres  into  equal  parts,  under 
Nos.  I,  2,  3,  and  passed  deeds  October  17,  1816;  Mrs.  Beekman  taking 
No.  I  (the  lower  lot),  Mrs.  Dunkin  No.  2,  and  Dr.  Watkins  No.  3.  Dr. 
Watkins  subsequently  removed  to  Jefferson  (since  for  him  called  Wat- 
kins), at  the  head  of  Seneca  Lake. 

The  old  Nos.  16  to  18,  which  completed  this  range  of  lots,  and  were 
bounded  northerly  by  a  line  touching  Kingsbridge  Road,  say  50  feet  below 
i62d  Street,  and  the  North  River,  midway  of  164th  and  165th  Streets, 
formed  a  part  of  the  Kiersen  lands,  which  shortly  before  the  Revolution 
came  into  possession  of  Col.  Roger  Morris.  See  pp.  558,  561.  This 
tract  then  contained  57  acres,  which  included  No.  17,  Last  Division. 
Colonel  Morris'  estates  being  confiscated,  because  of  his  supporting  the 
royal  cause,  his  Harlem  lands,  called  115  acres,  were  sold,  July  9,  1784,  by 
the  Commissioners  of  Forfeiture,  to  John  Berrien  and  Isaac  Ledyard,  and 
passed  by  several  mesne  conveyances,  all  of  record,  to  William  Kenyon, 
who  sold  this  tract  with  others,  August  29,  1799,  to  Leonard  Parkinson, 
Esq.,  of  Kinnersley  Castle,  Herefordshire,  England.*  Colonel  Morris 
owned  the  Kiersen  homestead,  lying  opposite,  east  of  the  road  (see  p.  561), 
and  built  the  fine  residence  known  as  the  Jumel  House.t  He  enlarged 
this  tract,  which  already  included  lot  No.  6,  Second  Division,  by  the  pur- 
chase of  No.  7,  being  16  acres,  from  John  Bogert,  and  giving  Morris 
35  acres  i  q.  36  rods,  or  36J4  acres,  as  subsequently  surveyed  by  Charles 
Loss.     This  too  passed  through  the  same  hands  to  Parkinson,  who  con- 

•  William  Kenyon,  son  of  David  Kenyon,  of  Liverpool,  England,  ironmonger,  and 
of  Dorothy  Barnes,  his  wife,  was  born  February  2,  1753.  At  about  twenty-one  years 
of  age  he  came  to  New  York,  where  he  was  successful  in  business,  and  became  an 
eminent  shipping  merchant.  In  1779  he  was  admitted  a  member  of  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce.  He  was  one  of  the  governors  of  the  New  York  Hospital  from  1705  to 
1797.  For  some  years  he  made  his  residence  upon  Hoorn's  Hook,  having  purchased 
from  Joseph  Blackwell,  May  4,  i799.  »2  acres  of  land,  since  in  the  Prime  tract;  the 
house  he  is  said  to  have  built.  lie  died  at  Gloucester,  Va.,  November  29,  1826.  Mr. 
Kcnyon's  parents  were  Quakers,  and  he  adorned  the  same  profession  bv  an  exemplary 
life.  He  was  married  m  New  York  April  8,  1778,  to  Abigail,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Bowne.  Their  children,  save  two  who  aied  in  infancy,  were  Samuel,  born  March  6, 
1780,  died  unmarried  September  6,  1803;  William  Barnes,  born  August  7,  I784» 
married  in  1815  (see  p.  298),  died  at  Harlem  May  26,  1866,  bein^  father  of  Mr. 
Samuel  B.  Kenyon,  etc.,  and  James,  born  August  20.  1791,  who  married  in  18 13  (see 
same  p.),  and  died  at  Harlem  December  10,  1852,  being  the  father  of  Mr.  John  S. 
Kenyon,   etc. 

t  Col.  Morris's  115  acres  included,  with  his  said  homestead,  and  the  57  acre  trad, 
the  lots,  Nos.  3,  2d  Division,  8,  3d  Division,  and  7,  4th  Division,  besides  salt  meadows 
(sec  p.  298)  not  counted  in  the  115  acres.  The  Dyckmans  seem  to  have  gotten  the  lot 
in  3d  Division  in  exchange  for  8  acres  of  No.  17,  2d  Division,  before  September  25,  179^, 
when  William  Kenyon  bought  the  Morris  lands  from  Anthony  J.  Bleeker.  Col.  Morns 
died  in  England  in  1794;  and  it  appearing  that  the  Confiscation  Act  did  not  affect 
the  rights  of  his  children,  it  was  not  till  1828,  after  satisfaction  had  been  made  b^ 
the  State,  etCj.  that  the  persons  who  held  the  confiscated  lands  were  quieted  in  their 
possession.     (See  Sabine's  Loyalists,  ii.,  104.) 


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820  HISTORY  OF  HARLEM. 

veyed  the  said  homestead-tract  to  Stephen  Jumel,  April  28,  1810.  Of 
Parkinson  more  anon.  Melbourne,  the  rural  seat  of  the  late  Shepherd 
Knapp,  is  on  the  57  acre  tract. 

The  remaining  numbers  of  the  allotment  of  1691  are  sufficiently  noticed 
as  follows:  No.  19,  on  p.  625;  No.  20,  on  p.  267;  No.  21,  in  note  p.  602; 
No.  22,  on  p.  563 ;  No.  23,  on  p.  591 ;  No.  24,  on  p.  546 ;  No.  25,  on  p.  447 ; 
and  No.  26,  on  p.  808.  We  notice  that  these  lots  are  described  in  the 
deeds,  as  set  off  or  designated  {aangczvesen)  ;  but  all  the  others,  as  sur- 
veyed (gemeetcn).  This  choice  of  terms  was  not  without  reason.  These 
six  lots  lying  adjacent  to  the  farms  or  other  lands  of  the  grantees,  and 
allotted,  as  we  must  conclude,  under  special  arrangement  between  the 
latter  and  the  town  authorities,  were  taken  as  the  tracts  lay,  consisting 
largely  of  heights,  abrupt  slopes  or  rocky  land,  not  answering  the  descrip- 
tion of  "good  and  tillable,"  and  allowing  a  margin  in  the  measurement. 
Nos.  21,  22,  23  took  in  order  (north  to  south)  the  small  grants  which  con- 
formed nearly  to  what  was  due  on  their  rights,  and  Nos.  24,  25,  26,  the 
principal  grants;  this  explains  the  seeming  want  of  order  in  the  num- 
bering. The  reasons  for  the  extraordinary  grant  to  Dyckman  and  Nagel, 
at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  have  been  given  p.  546.*  What  interest  gathers  about 
this  tract,  whose  title,  in  fact,  reaches  backward  over  two  centuries  to 
the  closing  days  of  Governor  Kieft's  directorship;  and  whose  history,  in 
the  times  agone,  recalls  the  most  stirring  incidents,  whether  of  early 
Indian  barbarity,  or  of  civil  contests  for  its  ownership,  or  yet  of  Britfsh 
and  Hessian  sway,  when  the  patriotic  Dyckmans  being  fled,  their  homes 
in  ashes,  and  their  fields  a  military  camp,  with  breastworks  and  cannon 
frowning  from  every  neighboring  hill,  this  charming  section  of  Man- 
hattan was  given  over,  for  seven  years,  .to  the  rude  alarms  of  war! 
Pleasanter  the  anticipations  of  1883,  when  on  this  very  spot,  now  known 
as  Inwood,  visitors  from  every  state  and  nation  shall  gather  in  friendly 
concourse  at  the  World's  Fair. 

n.     THE    FOUR    DIVISIONS. 

Under  an  act  passed  by  the  Governor,  Council,  and  General  Assembly, 
October  30,  1708,  entitled  "An  Act  for  the  easier  Partition  of  Lands  in 
Joint  Tenancy,  or  in  Common,"  steps  were  taken  by  the  Harlem  freehold- 
ers for  a  more  complete  division  of  their  common  lands. 

This  act  allowed  a  majority  of  the  resident  ow;ners  to  make  a  division, 
after  giving  public  notice  for  three  months  previous,  and  required  such 
division  to  be  made  by  drawing  lots  in  the  presence  of  at  least  three  dis- 
interested persons  to  be  named  by  the  dividers,  and  paid  five  shillings  per 
day  "for  their  trouble  had  in  the  making  of  said  division."  The  survesrs 
were  to  be  made  by  a  sworn  surveyor,  or  any  three  neighbors,  men  of  in- 
telligence and  integrity,  to  be  chosen  by  the  dividers;  the  lots  after  being 
laid  out  "as  equally  as  possible  in  regard  both  to  quantity  and  quality," 
must  be  numbered  and  then  publicly  drawn  for;  and  in  order  to  prevent 
dispute  as  to  the  costs  of  making  the  division,  it  provided  that  before  any 
division  was  made,  such  part  of  the  land  as  they  should  judge  reasonable 
for  defraying  said  costs  should  be  laid  out  and  sold  by  the  majority  of 
the  dividers,  whose  conveyance  thereof  should  be  good  and  effectual  in  the 
law. 

Pursuant  to  a  Justice's  warrant,  issued  May  9,  1711,  and  directed  to 

♦  Dyckman  and  Nagel,  having,  in  1677,  gotten  74  acres  at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  or  as 
subsequently  estimated,  76  acres  (sec  pp.  304,  ^06,  S4^)»  their  rights  upon  these  were 
arranged  as  follows:  The  76  acres  making  38  morgen,  from  this  count  18  moreen 
were  taken  and  the  two  house  lots  substituted,  these  being  classed  as  erven  and  talons 
erf  rights.  This  gave  them  2  erven,  20  morgen  (or  1  erf  10  morgen  each),  ui>on 
which  they  were  entitled  to  draw  land.  The  additional  6  morgen  rights  on  which 
they  drew  here  were  partly  on  the  Nagel  lots  on  J[ochem  Pieters*  Flat,  and  partly 
on  Dyckman's  lot  on  Montanye's  Flat,  3  morgen  rights  at  each  place.  Thus  they 
drew  together  upon  equal  rights  at  Spuyten  Duyvel,  viz.:  each  on  a  i  erf  13  morgen 
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Gerrit  Dyckman,  constable  of  Harlem,  authorizing  a  meeting  for  that 
purpose,  the  inhabitants  and  freeholders  assembled  on  the  19th,  and  agreed 
that  a  division  of  the  common  land  should  be  made  forthwith;  appointed 
Samuel  Waldron,  Zacharias  Sickles,  and  Johannes  Meyer  to  engage  one 
or  more  surveyors  to  make  a  fair  and  equal  division,  and  promised  to 
defray  the  costs  of  the  survey  and  all  other  charges  attending  such  divi- 
sion, according  to  each  one's  proportion,  A  writing  to  this  effect,  dated 
at  the  town  house,  Harlem,  May  19,  171 1,  was  subscribed  by  Zacharias 
Sickels,  Abram  de  Lamontanie,  Samson  Benson,  Jan  Kiersen,  Metje  Jan- 
sen,  Johannes  Meyer,  Charles  Congreve,  Marcus  Tiebaut,  Laurens  Cor- 
nelis^en,  Maria  Meyer,  Richard  Willett,  Pieter  Oblienis,  Samuel  Waldron, 
Bareht  Waldron,  Johannes  Waldron,  Abram  Meyer,  Jan  Dyckman,  Arent 
Bussing,  Isaac  Delamater,  Gerrit  Dyckman,  Laurens  Jansen,  Jan  Nagel, 
Derick  Benson,  Abraham  Gouverneur,  and  Woodhull  Tourneur. 

The  business  was  promptly  undertaken,  and  so  far  as  possible  in  the 
mode  prescribed  by  the  act  of  1708.  Peter  Berrien,  of  Newtown,  an  ex- 
perienced surveyor,  was  employed;  and  three  disinterested  persons,  to  wit, 
John  Lawrence,  Cornelis  Luyster,  and  Edward  Blagge,  were  chosen  by  the 
freeholders  and  inhabitants,  "to  see  that  a  just  and  equal  division  be  made 
of  their  undivided  lands."  No  record  remains  of  any  sales  of  land,  as 
provided  for  by  the  act,  for  meeting  the  necessary  expenses ;  but  it  may  be 
presumed  that  such  sales  took  place,  since  a  disregard  of  this  provision 
might  have  caused  dissatisfaction  and  impaired  the  legality  of  the  entire 
proceedings,  and  because  the  records  show  that  several  tracts  of  the  common 
land,  not  in  the  regular  allotments,  passed  into  private  hands  at  about  this 
date.  These  tracts  consisted  of  100  acres  adjoining  the  North  River  and 
lot  No.  5  of  1691  (now  Manhattanville),  which  passed  to  Peter  van  Oblie- 
nis (see  p.  623)  ;  30  acres  next  to  lot  No.  i,  of  1691,  which  passed  to  Law- 
rence Kortright,  and  since  forming  a  part  of  the  Samson  A.  Benson  farm 
(see  p.  434)1  and  other  parcels  adjoining  to  the  farms  of  Capt.  Johannes 
Benson,  Samuel  Waldron,  and  John  Kiersen,  and  which  these  persons 
secured.  In  making  this  division  Peter  van  Oblienis  figures  prominently; 
no  one  did  more  to  further  the  business,  according  to  the  wishes  of  the 
freeholcjjers.  Legal  advisers  held  that  whereas  the  Nicholls  patentees  had 
at  no  time  during  their  joint  tenancy  made  any  lawful  partition  among 
themselves  to  alter  said  joint  tenancy,  the  premises,  on  the  decease  of  the 
other  four  patentees,  became  vested  in  the  survivor,  Joost  van  Oblinus, 
and  at  his  death,  in  1706,  in  Peter,  as  his  eldest  son  and  heir.  But  never- 
theless, it  was  a  trust;  not  to  inure  to  his  peculiar  benefit,  but,  on  the 
contrary,  held  ?ind  to  be  used  for  the  benefit  of  the  whole  body  of  free- 
holders who  had  rights  in  the  land.  The  Nicolls  patent  constituted  the 
freeholders  and  inhabitants  a  corporation,  so  far  as  was  requisite  to  the 
ownership  and  enjoyment  of  their  common  lands,  with  the  inevitable  right 
of  alienation.  The  patentees  named  therein  received  a  trust,  to  be  ad- 
ministered for  and  on  behalf  of  all  the  freeholders  in  common.  But  these 
patentees,  in  such  capacity,  made  no  grants  and  gave  no  deeds.  Interpreted 
by  the  usage  which  from  the  first  obtained  under  the  patent,  we  find  the 
principle  constantly  recognized  and  acted  upon,  that  the  power  to  grant 
lands  and  give  deeds  resided  in  the  body  of  freeholders,  except  when  dele- 
gated by  them  to  others.  Hence  such  business  was  invariably  done  either 
in  town  meeting,  or  by  the  magistrates,  or  other  persons  chosen  for  that 
purpose.  The  act  of  1708,  therefore,  conferred  no  new  power  upon  the 
freeholders  in  this  regard,  only  so  far  as  to  enable  a  majority  who  should 
be  residents  to  act.  And  Peter  van  Oblienis,  from  the  first  favoring  a  pro 
rata  division  of  the  common  lands,  is  found,  even  after  his  father's  decease, 
still  acting  under  his  former  appointment,  as  one  of  the  "trustees  for  the 
said  town/'  in  signing  deeds.  He  subscribed,  with  the  other  freeholders, 
all  preliminary  agreements  necessary  for  making  the  division  of  1712,  and 
admitted  as  grantors  with  himself  the  heirs  of  the  four  other  patentees. 


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who  also  shared  with  him  in  the  60  acres  of  land  voted  by  the  freeholders, 
March  20,  1712,  to  be  laid  out  before  the  division  should  be  made,  to  the 
only  use  and  behoof  of  the  heirs  or  assigns  of  the  five  original  patentees, 
or  to  such  person  or  persons  as  should  be  adjudged  by  counsel  proper  to 
sign  releases  to  the  rest  of  the  freeholders.  Oblienis*  100  acres  being  in 
his  possession  when  Berrien  laid  out  the  other  lots,  leads  us  to  regard  it 
as  a  purchase;  but  that  he  arbitrarily  appropriated  it,  on  pretense  of  an 
exclusive  fee  in  himself,  is  not  to  be  supposed.  Until  the  deed  to  Oblie- 
nis  be  found  (for  doubtless  he  had  one  from  the  freeholders,  as  author- 
ized by  the  act  and  former  usage),  we  shall  hardly  know  more  about  the 
origin  of  this  title.  This  tract,  in  the  deed  from  Oblienis  to  Peter  Wai- 
dron,  referred  to  p.  624,  is  described  as  "Beginning  at  a  stake  near  a  roclc, 
at  the  land  of  Margreta  Cortright,  thence  north  37*  west,  along  the  said 
land  171  rods  to  Hudson's  River,  thence  along  the  said  River  yz  rods  to  a 
stake  in  the  Meadow  of  Martje  Davids  aforesaid,  thence  along  the  said 
Meadow  to  a  stake  at  the  head  of  the  Swamp  above  the  said  Meadow,  thence 
to  a  highway  or  road,  and  so  along  the  said  highway  to  a  certain  chestnut  tree 
marked  and  standing  on  the  northwest  side  of  the  road,  near  the  house 
of  Johannes  Meyer,  and  from  thence  along  the  land  of  said  Meyer  to  the 
place  where  it  at  first  began;  containing  by  estimation  one  hundred  acres 
of  land."  The  convent  and  chapel  of  the  Sacred  Heart  now  occupy  the 
northeast  corner  of  this  tract.     [1881.] 

Peter  van  Oblienis,  on  his  private  rights  (i  erf  and  24  morgen),  was 
entitled  to  draw  of  the  common  land  8i  acres  i  q.  4  rods,  including  the 
12  acres  allowed  him  as  a  full  patentee  for  signing  deeds.  This  he  sold 
to  his  brother  Hendrick,  who  owned  no  erf  or  morgen  rights.  The  latter 
was  living  on  the  farm  g^ven  him  by  his  father  "upon  the  southern  end 
of  the  Long  Hill"  (see  p.  625),  his  house  standing  at  the  intersection  of 
Twelfth  Avenue  and  176th  Street,  on  the  tract  since  Arden's.  His  81 
acres  were  laid  out  in  one  parcel,  next  above  his  farm,  taking  in  Fort 
Washington  heights.  This  with  6  acres  named  in  the  following  vote  of 
the  town  gave  Hendrick  130  acres  as  rated,  and  which  he  held  unchanged 
till  his  death  in  1745. 

"At  a  town  meeting,  27th  March,  1712;  Memorand;  That  it  was  then 
agreed  by  all  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  then  met,  that  Hendrick  Ob- 
lienis shall  have  laid  out  to  his  own  use  Six  Rod,  (in  consideration  of  his 
share  of  the  undivided  land  now  surveyed),  from  the  southerly  corner  of 
his.  fence  southerly,  thence  in  a  parallel  line  along  the  line  of  his  lands, 
north  67"  west  to  Hudson's  River.  The  said  Hendrick  to  leave  a  sufficient 
open  road,  with  a  swinging  gate,  up  to  the  Long  Hill;  that  is  to  say,  from 
a  certain  brook  where  a  bridge  lies,  where  the  old  highway  went. 

Signed  as  evidence        Corneus  Luyster, 
John  Lawrence." 

The  spring  of  171 2  found  the  work  of  the  surveys  essentially  completed 
The  vacant  lands  to  be  disposed  of  were  laid  out  in  four  general  groups 
called  the  Four  Divisions,  in  each  of  which  every  freeholder  so  entitled, 
drew  a  lot. 

First  Division  embraced  nearly  all  that  remained  of  common  land  on 
and  adjacent  to  Harlem  plains.  It  numbered  21  lots,  which  of  necessity 
lay  considerably  scattering,  as  we  shall  show.  The  60  acres  given  as  a 
consideration  for  signing  deeds  were  included  in  this  division,  except  6 
acres.* 

•  The  60  acres  were  awarded  as  follows:  12  to  Peter  Van  Oblienis:  la  to  Maria 
Meyer;  12  to  the  estate  of  Capt.  Delavall;  6  to  Jacques  Tourneur;  6  to  WoodhuU 
Tourneur;  6  to  Johannes  Waldron,  and  6  to  Samuel  Waldron.  The  distribution  was 
thus  confined  to  the  sons  or  heirs  of  the  five  original  patentees,  and  in  no  case  ex- 
tended beyond  two  representatives  of  any  one  patentee.  At  the  same  time  any  of  the 
heirs  or  assigns  of  these  patentees  were  "adjudged  by  counsel  proper  to  sign  releases 
to   the   rest  of   the    freeholders.**      Hendrick    \'an   Oblienis   signed   patentee   deeds,  as 


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Second  Division  began  above  the  lots  on  Jochem  Pieters  Hills,  laid 
out  in  1691,  at  the  line  heretofore  designated,  which  ran  from  Kingsbridge 
Road,  about  50  feet  below  i62d  Street,  on  a  course  north  34**  west  to 
Hudson  River.  Lots  i  to  5  were  laid  out  on  this  (the  west)  side  of  the 
road,  and  extended  up  the  same  to  Hendrick  van  Oblienis'  line,  which 
began  at  a  point  midway  between  175th  and  176th  Streets,  and  ran  thence 
to  the  Hudson,  north  67**  west.  Easterly  of  the  road  lay  lots  6  to  20, 
beginning  at  the  lower  line,  continued  to  Harlem  River,  and  extending  up 
to  within  a  few  feet  of  190th  Street,  at  the  highway,  being  bounded  north- 
erly by  a  line  south  53"  east. 

Third  Division  beginning  where  the  second  ended,  lay  in  two  parallel 
tiers,  separated  by  what  was  called  the  Cut  Line,  whose  course  was  then 
north  35'  east;  and  extended  up  to  the  farm  of  Bastiaen  Kortright  (see 
p.  267),  and  the  Sherman's  Creek  meadows.  It  contained  18  lots,  of  which 
Nos.  I  to  13  lay  between  the  highway  and  the  Cut  Line,  and  the  remainder 
between  the  Cut  Line  and  Harlem  River. 

Fourth  Division,  which  also  contained  18  lots,  lay  opposite  the  third, 
between  the  highway  and  the  Hudson,  and  beginning  upon  Hendrick  van 
Obelienis'  northern  line,  which  ran  from  a  point  on  the  highway  about 
central  between  185th  and  i86th  Streets,  north  d'j''  west  to  the  river,  ex- 
tended up  to  "the  little  bridge  at  John  Dyckman*s  land,"  where  the  high- 
way crossed  Pieter  Tuynier's  Run;  leaving  a  small  gore  of  common  land 
between  lot  18  and  Dyckman's  line,  which  latter  ran  from  the  bridge 
north  northwest  to  the  "little  Sand  Bay,"  on  the  Hudson. 

There  was  method  in  the  divisions.  These  lands  were  to  be  kept 
chiefly  as  woodlands;  but  Third  Division,  occupying  the  slope  and  com- 
manding the  heights  then  called  the  Rondevlysberg,  or  Round  Meadow 
Hill,  since  known  as  Fort  George,  was  planned  for  a  future  dorp,  and 
indeed  was  often  referred  to  as  "the  village."  Lying  so  near  to  Fourth 
Division,  these  were  often  joined  in  subsequent  sales,  as  some  had  been 
in  the  original  drawing.  The  Second  Division  bore  a  similar  relation  to 
the  First,  or  to  the  homesteads,  to  which  they  were  more  especially  the 
appendages.  The  whole  planning  was  obviously  the  result  of  much  study 
and  wise  forethought. 

"The  several  Highways  laid  out  in  the  new  Divisions"  were  legalized 
by  the  following  action : 

"At  a  town  meeting  held  22d  March,  1711-12:  It  was  then  agreed  by 
the  freeholders  of  the  said  town — 

1.  That  a  sufficient  wagon  road  be  laid  out  and  remain  for  the  use  of 
the  owners  of  the  lands  laid  out  between  the  patent  line  and  the  line  of 
Johannes  Vermilye's  land;  the  said  wagon  road  to  run  across  the  head  of 
each  lot  to  the  Round  Meadow. 

2.  That  a  sufficient  common  wagon  road  be  laid  out  and  remain  for 
the  use  of  all  the  freeholders,  over  the  lot  of  land  laid  out  to  John  Dyck- 
man  in  the  First  Division,  No.  21,  from  the  Queen's  High  Road,  to  the 
usual  landing  place  on  Harlem  River. 

3.  That  a  sufficient  common  wagon  road  be  and  remain  from  the 
Queen's  Road  at  Hendrick  Oblienis'  house  to  the  landing  place  on  Harlem 
River  over  against  Crab  Island;  as  laid  out  in  the  General  Map  of  the 
late  undivided  lands. 

4.  A  road  sufficient  for  wagons  from  the  Round  Meadow  lying  near 
Spuyten  Duyvel,  as  near  the  middle  line  as  conveniently  may  be,  to  the 
road  laid  out  from  the  house  of  Hendrick  Oblienis  and  the  Queen's  Road, 
to  the  landing  place  against  Crab  Island. 

did  Barcnt  Waldron,  Samson  Benson  and  Capt.  Congrcvc;  Congrcvc  and  Benson, 
with  Dyckman,  holding  part  of  the  Tourneur  lands  and  rights,  but  none  of  the  above 
shared  m  the  60  acres.  Woodhull  Tourneur,  by  heirship,  took  a  share,  though  he  had 
sold  his  lands,  and  then  held  neither  erf  nor  morgen  right,  and  was  not  even  a  resi- 
dent. He  signed  deeds  and  was  entitled  to  6  acres  as  a  half  patentee,  but  probably 
sold  his  claim  to  Hendrick  Van  Oblienis.     (See  p.  822.) 


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5.  Another  road  for  wagons,  etc.,  from  the  north  end  of  the  Long 
Hill,  through  the  land  of  Hendrick  Oblienis,  to  the  Queen's  Road. 

6.  Another  road  from  Upbro's  Hook,  below  the  hill,  to  the  land  of 
John  Kiersen,  thence  to  the  Queen's  Road.* 

7.  A  road  from  the  Queen's  Road  along  the  fence  of  Barent  Waldron, 
and  along  the  meadow  of  Isaac  Delamater. 

8.  A  road  from  the  Queen's  Road,  betwixt  the  houses  of  John  Meyer 
and  John  Waldron,  to  the  top  of  the  hill,  to  the  line  of  Peter  Oblienis' 
land,  and  so  along  said  line  northward,  and  along  the  heads  of  the  lots, 
to  the  land  laid  out  to  right  of  Capt.  Delavall." 

Messrs.  Lawrence,  Luyster  and  Blagge  made  a  return,  June  20,  1712, 
of  the  land  due  each  person  upon  his  erf  and  morgen  rights,  and  of  which 
we  annex  a  copy;  the  apportionment  being  made  upon  the  following  basis, 
to  wit:  In  First  Division,  3  acres  iq.  20  rods  to  each  erf  or  house  lot, 
and  2  q.  14  rods  to  each  morgen;  In  Second  Division  6  acres  per  house 
lot,  and  I  acre  3  rods  per  morgen;  In  the  Third  Division  i  acre  2  q.  10 
rods  per  house  lot,  and  iq.  2  rods  per  morgen;  In  the  Fourth  Division, 
2  acres  2q.  30  rods  per  house  lot,  and  i  q.  32  rods  per  morgen. 

Peter  Berrien,  on  June  25,  signed  certificates  of  the  lands  laid  out  for 
each  person,  similar  in  form  to  that  given  p.  810,  and  of  these  also,  which 
give  the  quantities  actually  drawn,  we  append  a  summary.  From  these 
the  deeds  were  prepared  and  executed;  and  in  which  the  other  lands  of 
the  grantee  were  included  or  not,  at  his  option.  '  These  date  all  the  way 
from  1712  to  1715.  We  would  gladly  learn  the  whereabouts  of  any  of  these 
patentee  deeds;  such  as  we  have  seen  are  engrossed  on  large  sheets  of 
vellum,  and  usually  done  by  Capt  Congreve,  then  the  town  clerk. 

The  situation  of  the  lots  in  the  First  Division  will  be  better  understood 
by  a  brief  description;  as  these  lots  lay  in  several  detached  groups,  and 
some  of  the  lots  consisted  of  more  than  one  piece.  These  lots  usually 
overran  by  a  few  rods  the  quantity  called  for,  owing  to  surplusage  in  the 
tracts  divided.    Lots  i  to  5  lay  in  one  tract  adjacent  to  the  village. 

No.  I,  containing  24  acres,  ran  from  the  end  of  the  Bujrten  Tuynen,  or 
Out  Gardens,  westerly,  on  the  north  side  of  the  highway,  to  the  Mill 
Creek.  It  was  bought  from  Waldron  by  Samson  Benson,  and  included 
in  his  patentee  deed  of  April  20,  171 3. 

No.  2,  which  Benson  had  drawn,  lay  next  north,  and  butted  easterly 
on  the  Kingsbridge  Road,  opposite  the  Church  Farm.t  He  set  off,  prob- 
ably at  this  end,  to  his  brother  Derick,  a  plot  of  3  acres  iq.  39  rods,  which 
Derick  gave  back  under  a  later  agreement;  when  Samson  conveyed  the 
two  lots  entire,  in  all  41  acres  i  q.  23  rods,  to  his  brother  Johannes  Benson, 
February  19,  1724-5.  Johannes  sold  the  tract,  March  14,  1732-3,  to  Peter 
Bussing,  it  passing  under  his  will  of  February  19,  1733-4,  proved  July  27, 
^7^7 i  to  his  son  Aaron.  In  1753,  Aaron  buying  some  strips  next  the  roads, 
frjom  the  town,  increased  the  contents  to  45  acres  3  q.  22  rod^,  as  per 
Goerik's  survey  of  May  5,  1787.  On  May  6,  1787,  Bussing's  executor  sold 
this  tract  to  Capt.  Samson  Benson,  who  near  the  close  of  his  life  had  it 
laid  off  into  several  parcels,  which  by  his  will  dated  April  28,  1823,  he 
distributed  among  his  heirs.  St.  Paul's  Church  (Catholic)  stands  on  the 
eastern  part  of  said  lot  No.  i.  First  Division  [1881J.  See  Deduction  of  the 
Title  of  Peter  Poillon,  etc.,  by  Mr.  Adriance. 

*  Tubby  Hook,  a  point  of  land  on  the  North  River  side,  at  206th  street,  is  here 
referred  to.  It  took  its  name  from  Peter  Ubregt,  a  Brabanter.  (Sec  p.  548.)  Ubrcjct, 
by  a  dipt  pronunciation,  became  Upbro,  and  Ubby,  or  as  the  Dutch  made  it,  *t  Ubby, 
or  Tubby  Hook. 

t  On  this  comer  where  the  roads  met  Capt.  Benson  built  a  large  tavern  early  in 
the  present  century — the  site  since  within  the  "Harlem  Park" — and  which  was  con- 
ducted for  some  years  by  Capt.  Marriner,  who  had  previously  kept  the  Ferry  House 
(see  p.  172),  and  who  gainea  a  great  celebrity  for  the  excellent  table  he  set  for  his 
guests,  as  for  his  whale  boat  exploits  during  the  Revolution,  which  he  was  never 
tired  of  relating.  He  was  an  intelligent,  well  educated  man.  (See  notice  of  him  in 
Thompson's  Long  Island.) 


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No.  3  (23  acres  32  rods)  lay  above  No.  2,  extending  from  Kings- 
bridge  Road  westward  to  the  meadows;  its  southern  line  running  north 
86j4  west,  its  northern,  north  64**  west  It  was  sold  directly  by  Nagel  to 
Abraham  Myer,  who  in  1720  added  2  acres  lying  "in  the  hills,"  (Mount 
Morris),  for  which,  in  1747,  he  paid  the  town  16  shillings,  and  took  a  deed. 
The  lot  passed  to  Abraham  Myer,  Jr.,  thence  to  his  kinsman  Johannes  De 
Witt,  Jr.,  who  sold  it  to  Peter  Benson,  April  9,  1789.  See  said  Poillon  Title, 
p.  30. 

No.  4  (3  acres  i  q.  29  rods)  lay  next  to  No.  3,  and  was  5  rods  broad; 
its  lines  parallel,  and  north  64**  west  It  ran  "almost  to  the  meadow  at 
the  Mill  Creek."  Zacharias  Sickels  took  it  in  exchange  for  other  land,  as 
per  his  patentee  deed  mentioned  p.  298,  but  sold  it  in  1722  to  Abraham 
Meyer,  whence  we  believe  it  passed  to  Adolph  Benson,  owning  No.  5, 
which  lay  next  northerly. 

No.  5  (25  acres  i  rod)  included  "the  hills,"  or  Mount  Morris.  Pass- 
ing through  several  hands  to  Adolph  Benson  (see  p.  434),  it  became  a 
part  of  the  Samson  A.  Benson  farm.  This  exhausted  the  conmion  land 
in  this  tract,  except  some  30  acres  still  reserved  by  the  town,  but  subse- 
quently sold  to  Adolph  Benson,  in  1747,  for  £50. 

No.  6  (16  acres  i  q.  8  rods)  embraced  a  strip  of  common  land  stretch- 
ing along  the  Harlem  patent  line  and  the  highway,  from  the  northern  end 
of  the  Room's  Hook  or  Waldron  farm  (94th  Street),  up  to  lot  No.  7  (the 
late  McGown  place,  I02d  Street),  being  bounded  easterly  by  a  crooked 
fence  of  Capt  John  Benson.  Samson  Benson  bought  it  May  4,  1721  (see 
P-  430) »  as  an  addition  to  his  farm,  but  it  is  now  mostly  within  Central 
Park. 

No.  7  included  the  McGown  plot  referred  to,  laid  out  for  9  acres  3  q. 
32  rods,  and  also  2  acres  2  q.  12  rods  lying  opposite  to  it,  west  of  the  high- 
way, and  along  the  north  side  of  the  grant  made  Abraham  Delamontanie, 
in  1691 ;  both  pieces  being  now  in  Central  Park.  We  have  noticed  this  lot 
fully  on  pp.  439,  545,  551,  592.  The  venerable  McGown  house  made  a 
part  of  the  late  Stetson's,  or  rather  Ryan  and  Radford's  Hotel,  destroyed 
by  fire  Jan.  2,  188 1. 

No.  8,  allotedthe  heirs  of  Capt  Thomas  Delavall,  consisted  of  three 
parcels,  two  of  these  now  in  Central  Park,  the  first  containing  16  acres 
3  q.  28  rods,  being  bounded  south  by  the  small  part  of  No.  7,  east  by  the 
highway,  west  by  the  creek  or  run  called  the  fonteyn,  and  north  by  the 
Metje  Cornelis,  or  Nutter  farm,  to  which  it  was  afterward  added.  The 
second  piece  (i  acre  3  q.  24  rods)  lay  opposite,  across  the  highway; 
bounded  south  and  east  by  the  creeks,  and  north  by  Metje  Cornelis*  farm. 
Later  the  road  to  Harlem  village  was  run  over  this  piece ;  it  is  now  mostly 
within  Harlem  Lake.  The  third  and  chief  part  of  No.  8  (35  acres  25  rods) 
lay  near  the  upper  end  of  Harlem  Lane,  and  was  of  very  irregular  shape ; 
joining  northwesterly  to  No.  9,  of  this  division,  northeasterly  to  Peter  van 
Oblienis'  lOO-acre  tract  before  noticed,  southeasterly  in  part  by  the  high- 
way, and  westerly  upon  Jacob  De  Key's  land,  or  the  Harlem  patent  line, 
along  which  it  ran  southerly,  between  said  line  and  the  Montanye  Flat 
lots,  to  a  point  at  the  old  Tourneur  farm.  The  late  Capt  John  Kortright 
farm  took  in  part  of  this  parcel,  other  parts  (one  owned  by  Peter  van 
Oblienis)  were  bought  up  by  Adolph  Myer,  and  included  in  the  Molenaor 
84-acre  tract    See  pp.  604,  607,  and  Appendix  I. 

Nos.  9,  10,  II,  12,  13,  14,  all  taking  a  course  north  79**  east  and  butting 
upon  the  land  of  Jacob  De  Key  and  the  Oblienis  100  acre  tract  formed  a 
tier  or  wedge-like  plot  which  reached  to  Moertje  Davids'  Fly.  These  lots 
also  were  subsequently  included  in  the  Molenaor  84  acre  tract 

No.  15  (35  acres  32  rods)  laid  out  to  Maria  and  Johannes  Myer,  ex- 
tended along  the  west  side  of  Kingsbridge  Road  from  130th  to  140th 
Streets,  being  bounded  westerly  (nearly  on  the  line  of  Ninth  Avenue)  by 


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the  Oblienis  loo-acre  tract,  and  lot  5  to  8,  of  1691.  It  fell  to  Johannes 
Myer  and  his  son  Jacob.    See  p.  601. 

No.  16  being  in  two  pieces,  the  principal  one,  containing  9  acres  3  q. 
14  rods,  stretched  north  from  No.  15,  between  the  end  of  lot  9  of  1691,  and 
the  highway  to  145th  Street,  or  the  line  of  lot  10  of  1691.  Johannes  Myer 
bought  this  part  in  1722.  See  pp.  601,  605.  A  supplementary  piece  (2  q. 
2S  rods)  lay  opposite,  east  of  the  road,  at  the  south  point  of  the  triangular 
tract,  since  owned  by  Samuel  Bradhurst,  and  probably  not  reaching  above 
145th  Street. 

No.  17  (3  acres  i  q.  20  rods)  lay  next  north,  and  was  sold  by  Dela- 
montanie  to  Barent  Waldron,  by  the  latter,  August  6,  1740,  to  John  R. 
Myer,  and  called  "four  acres  more  or  less,"  and  by  John  to  Abraham  Myer, 
July  21,  1743.    It  came  to  be  included  in  the  Bradhurst  tract. 

No.  18  lying  next  north,  extended  up  between  the  highway  and  Buss- 
ing's  Point  inlet  to  150th  Street.  It  passed  through  the  Low  family  (see 
p.  582)  to  John  Maunsell,  from  him  to  Bradhurst. 

No.  19  was  sold  by  Congreve,  December  26,  171 3,  to  Johannes  Waldron, 
and  by  him  to  his  son  Samuel,  November  17,  1748.  It  passed  to  John 
Dykman,  thence  to  John  Watkins  (see  p.  550),  thence  to  John  Maunsell, 
and  from  his  widow  to  Mrs.  Beekman.* 

No.  20  was  sold  by  John  Delamater  to  Johannes  Waldron,  in  1729, 
passed  to  John  Dykman,  thence  to  Lawrence  Low,  thence  to  his  son  John, 
thence  to  John  Watkins  (see  pp.  550,  582),  thence  to  John  Maunsell.  Sec 
No.  21. 

No.  21,  (12  acres  3q.  7  rods)  making  the  last  lot  in  First  Division, 
extended  up,  on  Kingsbridge  Road,  to  159th  Street,  to  the  Kiersen  or  Jumel 
Homestead  line.  It  passed  to  Gerrit  Dyckman,  to  his  son  John,  to  Law- 
rence Low,  to  his  son  John,  to  John  Watkins  (see  pp.  548,  550),  to 
John  Maunsell,  to  his  widow,  and  with  No.  20,  to  Dr.  Samuel  Watkins. 

We  do  not  see  an  equal  necessity  for  tracing  the  lots  in  the  other  three 
divisions,  many  references  to  which  will  be  found  in  the  foregoing  pages. 
This  may  be  done,  usually,  without  much  difficulty ;  care  being  taken  to 
avoid  the  confusion  which  may  arise  in  some  cases  from  the  re-plotting 
and  re-numbering.  This  applies  particularly  to  the  lands  purchased  by 
Leonard  Parkinson,  who  came  to  own  (with  the  Roger  Morris,  or  Jumel 
Homestead,  and  the  57-acre  tract  opposite),  the  lots  i  to  5,  Second  Divi- 
sion, on  the  west  of  the  highway,  and  on  the  east  side,  lots  8  to  11,  in- 
clusive, less  the  Wear  portion  of  No.  8.  He  caused  all  these  lands  to  be 
mapped  l)y  Charles  Loss,  and  divided  up  into  15  parcels,  by  new  numbers, 
and  which  ignored  all  the  original  dividing  lines.  The  Jumel  Homestead 
alone  remained  unchanged,  and  this  was  called  No.  8.  From  the  57-acre 
tract  opposite,  48  acres  20  rods  were  set  off  as  No.  i.  This  he  sold  March 
9,  1810,  to  Ebenezer  Burrill.  Above  it,  37  acres  2  q.  were  laid  off  as  No.  2, 
and  sold,  the  same  day,  to  R.  C.  Smith;  later  Dickey's.    "Fanwood,"  the 

•  Charles  Congreve,  Gent.,  arrived  at  New  York,  May  3,  1702,  in  the  suite  of 
Governor  Cornburv;  the  next  year,  as  lieutenant,  commanded  a  force  sent  to  Albany, 
to  guard  the  frontiers;  in  1704,  by  Cornbury's  orders,  reported  to  the  Lords  of  Trade, 
upon  the  military  resources  of  the  province,  and  to  the  Venerable  Society,  upon  the 
state  of  reli^ion^  and,  in  1706,  being  in  England  helped  Oldmixon  to  facts  for  his 
British  Empire  in  America.  Capt.  Congreve  s  zeal  as  a  Churchman,  with  other  cir- 
cumstances, induces  the  belief  that  his  clerkship  at  Harlem  was  not  merely  secular, 
but  was  designed  for  introducing  the  English  liturgy.  (See  p.  408.)  Here  he  ac- 
quired property,  as  noticed  pp.  637,  698.  His  land  in  the  4  Divisions  were  drawn  on 
a  6  morgen  i  erf  right,  upon  his  lot  on  Jochem  Pieters'  Flat,  and  its  adjoining  house 
lot;  except  16  acres  "of  first  and  second  draft,"  gotten  of  Samuel  Waldron.  His  lot 
in  2d  Division  he  sold,  with  his  farm  on  Van  Keulen's  Hook,  to  John  Van  Horn,  of 
New  York,  merchant;  those  in  ist,  3d  and  4th  Divisions  to  Job.  Waldron.  Congreve 
was  a  frequent  petitioner  to  the  government  for  land,  between  1702  and  1723,  and  re- 
ceived several  grants.  In  1736  he  commanded  at  Oswego;  in  1740,  with  his  son-in- 
law,  John  Lindesay,  went  to  Cherry  Valley,  but  left  on  the  breaking  out  of  the 
French  War,  in  1744;  Mr.  Lindesay,  in  whose  favor  Congreve  had  resigned  his  lieu- 
tenancy in  the  Independent  Fusilcers,  going  to  take  command  at  Oswego.  And  here 
we  lose  sight  of  Capt.  Congreve.     (Sec  N.  Y.  Col.  Hist,  vi.,  707,  note.) 


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residence  of  the  late  Colonel  Monroe,  is  on  this  lot  No.  2,  as  also  the 
Deaf  and  Dumb  Institution,  the  latter  building  being  intersected  by  the  line 
which  before  parted  the  Second  Division  from  the  Division  of  1691.  Next 
came  Nos.  3,  4,  together  67  acres  2  q.,  sold  the  same  date  to  John  R. 
Murray.  And  next  above  this  lay  lot  5  (39  acres  i  q.),  reaching  to  Arden*s 
line,  and  sold  the  same  day  to  Stephen  Jumel,  together  with  his  lots  7, 

9,  10,  II,  12,  13,  14,  15,  which  embraced  the  old  lots  8  to  11,  with  the  ex- 
ception of  Wear's  part  of  No.  8;  and  also  excepting  parts  of  the  old  lots 

10,  II,  next  the  Kingsbridge  Road,  and  a  gore  from  No.  9,  which  made  up 
his  lot  No.  6.  This  he  sold  on  the  same  date  to  Gerardus  Post,  who  con- 
veyed it  to  Jumel,  May  3,  1814.  On  April  28,  1810,  Parkinson  also  sold 
Jumel  the  Colonel  Morris  Homestead.  Thus  Jumel  came  to  own  39  acres 
west  of  Kingsbridge  Road  (being  the  old  lot  5,  and  most  of  4),  and  131 
acres  east  of  said  road,  the  last  stretching  from  159th  Street  to  midway  of 
174th  and  175th  Streets,  excepting  where  separated  by  the  6  acres  owned 
by  Wear.* 

As  little  common  lands  remained  within  the  patent  lines  after  the 
division  of  1712,  except  the  tracts  already  named  in  connection  with  the 
farms  to  which  they  were  finally  attached,  we  will  not  extend  these  notes. 
It  only  remains  to  give  the  lists  of  the  lands  in  the  Four  Divisions,  as 
awarded  upon  the  erf,  or  house  lot,  and  morgen  rights ;  and  an  alphabetical 
"Summary,"  which  shows  the  actual  contents  of  the  lots  as  laid  out;  the 
latter  varying  from  the  former  in  some  cases,  for  reasons  which  are  also 
noted. 

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John  Nagel    

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Samuel  Waldron   

Thomas    Delavall    

John  van  Oblenis 

Isaac    Delamater    

Arent  H.  Bussing   

John  Benson   

Jacques  Tourneur    

Marcus  Tiebaut   

Maria    Meyer    

Zacharias  Sickels   

Abraham   Dclamontanie 
Lawrence  Jansen  Low  . 

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*  George  Wear,  the  sturdy  blacksmith,  we  may  thank  him  for  holding  on  to  his 
little  6  acre  lot  (the  lower  part  of  No.  8,  2d  Division),  which  he  bought  November 
7,  1803,  from  Ithamar  Heily;  although  called  6^  acres,  and  all  its  boundaries  re- 
versed, with  Benson,  from  whose  lot  it  was  taken,  called  Bussing!  Because  its  transfer 
being  clear  to  Heily  through  William  Molenaor  and  others,  back  to  Capt.  Johannes  Ben- 
fvin,  who   drew  it  in  1712,  it   becomes  an  invaluable  landmark  in  fixing  the  starting  line  of 


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Aeltie  Vermilye   

Charles   Congreve    . . . 

John    Benson    

John  Nagel    

Maria    Meyer    

John  van  Oblenis   . . . 

Zacharias  Sickles 

John   Waldron    

Jacques  Tourneur   . . . 

Marcus  Tiebaut   

Thomas  Delavall   

John  Dykeman  

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John    Kiersen    

Marcus  Tiebaut   

John  Dykeman 

Charles   Congreve    . . . . 

John  Nagel 

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the  2d  Division.  Its  lower  line  began  at  Kingsbridge  Road,  in  the  centre  of  x65th 
street,  and  nearly  touched  164th  street  at  the  bluflf  on  Harlem  River.  But  improve- 
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We  whose  names  are  here  underwritten,  elected,  nominated  and  ap- 
pointed by  the  freeholders  and  inhabitants  of  New  Harlem,  to  see  that  a 
just  and  equal  division  be  made  of  their  undivided  Lands,  Do  by  these 
presents  Certify  that  there  is  a  just  and  equal  division  made  according  to 
the  proportions  of  right  of  every  house  lot  and  every  morgen  right,  as  it 
is  here  above  expressed* ;  as  witness  our  hands  this  twentieth  day  of  June, 
Anno  Dom.  1712. 

John   Lawrence, 
cornelis   luyster, 
E.    B1.AGGE. 

The  causes  of  the  material  variations,  which  appear  in  certain  lots, 
between  the  quantity  of  land  due  on  the  rights,  and  the  quantity  actually 
drawn,  were  these,  viz. : 

First  Division.  No.  i,  as  laid  out,  contained  6  acres  awarded  Johannes 
Waldron,  "as  a  half  patentee  right  for  signing  releases,"  and  i  acre  2  q. 
32  rods  allowed  him  by  his  brother  Samuel.  No.  2 :  Derick  Benson  buying 
a  house  and  lot  of  his  brother  Samson,  drew  with  him  on  an  erf  right  in 
the  several  Divisions.  See  pp.  430,  431.  No.  7:  Samuel  Waldron  took  6 
acres  as  a  half  patentee,  but  allowing  his  brother  Johannes,  i  acre  2  q.  32 
rods,  and  Captain  Congreve  12  acres,  in  this  Division,  was  entitled  to  only 
12  acres  19  rods  here.  He  got  i  q.  25  rods  in  excess  of  this,  for  which  % 
an  acre  was  taken  from  his  Third  Division.  No.  8  was  increased  12  acres, 
as  a  patentee's  share.  The  lot  ran  short  3  rods  of  the  quantity  due;  but 
it  was  fully  made  up  in  Second  Division.  No.  13  took  6  acres  as  a  half 
patentee  share.  No.  15  took  12  acres  as  a  full  patentee  share.  No.  19: 
Samuel  Waldron  allowed  Capt  Congreve  12  acres  in  this  lot.  No.  21  in- 
cluded 2  acres  for  a  road  through  it  from  the  highway  to  Harlem  River. 

•  The  original  list  first  gives  the  quantity  due  on  the  house  lots,  and  the  quantity 
due  on  the  morgen  rights,  and  then  the  total.  But  we  omit  the  two  former,  as  they 
may  be  easily  computed  from  the  scale  given  p.  824. 


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Second  Division.  No.  i,  as  laid  out,  contained  but  41  acres  33  rods, 
owing  to  a  mistake  of  the  chain-bearers;  but  the  deficiency,  2  acres  i  q. 
20  rods,  was  added  to  No.  '17,  Third  Division.  Laurens  Cornelissen  is 
named  as  drawing  with  his  mother  Metje,  in  Second  and  Third  Divisions, 
and  she  with  him  in  the  Fourth  Division.  No.  2  was  reduced  4  acres, 
allowed  Capt.  Congreve  by  Waldron  in  this  Division.  Waldron  drew  on 
Abram  Delamontanie's  erf  right,  in  Second,  Third  and  Fourth  Divisions. 
No.  7 :  Congreve  took  4  acres  in  this  lot,  allowed  him  by  Samuel  Waldron. 
No.  16:  2  acres  were  added  to  this  lot  for  a  road  through  it  to  Harlem 
River.  No.  17:  3  acres  9  rods  left  out  of  this  lot,  were  added  to  No.  la 
Third  Division. 

Third  Division.  No.  6:  See  remark  under  No.  7,  First  Division. 
No.  8:  Kiersen  drew  Sickels'  share  in  Third  and  Fourth  Divisions.  No.  9: 
John  van  Oblienis  drew  with  Marcus  Tiebaut  in  Third  and  Fourth  Divi- 
sions ;  these  lots  were  divided  accordingly.  No.  10 :  See  remark  to  No.  17, 
Second  Division.     No.  17:    See  remark  to  (No.  i,  Second  Division. 

Fourth  Division.  No.  2:  Metje  Cornelis  also  drew  with  her  son 
Laurens  in  this  Division,  as  in  Second  and  Third;  this  No.  2  was  soon 
sold  to  Johannes  Benson.  No.  7 :  See  remark  to  No.  8,  Third  Division.  Na 
12:  See  remark  to  No.  2,  Second  Division.  No.  13:  See  remark  to  No. 
9,  Third  Division. 

Summary  of  the  Four   Divisions;    Showing  the  Actual   Contents 
OF  THE  Several  Lots. 


I  si  DivisioH.    2ud  Diviston,  \  3d  Division.   1   4ih  Divisi**. 


Benson,    John 

Benson,    Samson 

Bussing,  Arent 

Congreve,  Charles 

Cornelis,  Metje  and  Lourens 

Delamater,  Isaac 

Delamontanie,   Abraham  . . 
Delavall,   Thomas,  heirs  of. 

Dyckman,  John 

Jansen,    Lourens 

Kiersen,  John 

Meyer,    Maria 

Nagel,   John 

Sickels,   Zacharias 

Tiebaut,   Marcus 

» Tourneur,   Jacques 

Van  Oblienis,   John 

Vermilye,  Aeltie 

Waldron,  Barent 

Waldron,  John 

Waldron,   Samuel 


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N.  B. — ^Different  designatioDB  are  sometime  applied  to  the  same  tract. 

Adriance  Tract,  482,  797. 

Baker  Farm,  410,  806. 

Benson  (Elizabeth)  Tract,  418;  see  First  Division,  No.  3. 

Benson  (Lawrence)  Homestead,  438,  456,  606,  797. 

Benson  (Peter)  Farm,  430,  435,  801,  802. 

Benson  Point  Farm,  122,  150,  189,  417,  429,  448,  817 ;  see  Bogert  Point  Farm. 

Benson  (Samson  A.) Farm;  see  Race  Course  Farm. 

Bickley  Tract  (De  Voe's  Point),  395,  424. 

Bogert  Point  Farm,  371,  402,  418,  447,  592,  593,  817 ;  see  Index,  Montanye's 
Point 

Bogert  (John  J.)  Farm,  456,  468;  see  Randall  Farm. 

Brady  Plot,  439,  564. 

Bronck's  Land,  233,  234,  235,  251,  278,  284,  384,  385. 

Bronck's  Meadow,  197. 

Bush  Farm,  636;  see  Index,  Bush. 

Bussing  Farm  (Harlem  Lane),  483,  563,  802,  803. 

Bussing  Meadows,  237,  545. 

Bussing  Point  Farm,  342,  394,  485,  602,  603,  606,  817. 

Carteret  Island,  796,  798,  813. 

Carteret  Lot,  601,  605,  798,  813. 

Chesterman  Plot,  579,  623,  705,  794. 

Church  Farm,  172,  229,  238,  337,  563,  824. 

Clover  Wey  (Clover  Pasture),  307,  396,  705,  811. 

De  Key  Tract,  394,  395,  ^yjy  804. 

Delavall  Lands,  809;  see  also  581,  599,  601,  604,  605,  607,  623,  822,  824,  825, 
827,  830. 

De  Peyster  Tracts,  804. 

De  Voe*s  Point,  251,  278,  329,  395,  424. 

Division  of  the  Common  Lands;  Remark  upon,  417;  History  of,  814;  see 
also  Division  of  1691,  etc. 

Division  of  1691,  List  of,  816;  Lots  in,  referred  to,  393,  430,  434,  477,  482, 
495,  500,  546,  547,  553,  561,  563,  565,  581,  591,  599,  601,  603,  604,  605,  622, 
636,  810,  816. 

Division,  The  First,  What  it  embraced,  822 ;  Lists  of  827,  830 ;  Lots  in,  re- 
ferred to,  298,  430,  433,  438,  483.  500,  547,  550,  562,  563,  566,  567,  582,  592, 
601,  603,  604,  607,  624,  625,  699,  827 ;  see  The  Four  Divisions. 

Division,  The  Second,  Where  located,  823;  Lists  of,  828,  830;  Lots  in,  re- 
ferred to,  298,  433,  483,  547,  562,  563,  566,  567,  579,  582,  592,  599,  603,  625, 
6^  699,  828 ;  see  The  Four  Divisions. 

Division,  The  Third,  Where  located,  823;  Lists  of,  828,  830;  Lots  in,  re- 
ferred to,  298,  433,  434,  435,  547,  554,  5^3,  566,  582,  592,  603,  604,  625,  638, 
699,  810,  828 ;  see  The  Four  Divisions. 

Division,  The  Fourth,  Where  located,  823;  Lists  of,  829,  830;  Lots  in,  re- 


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ferred  to,  298,  430,  431,  547,  582,  592,  599,  603,  625,  699,  810,  829;  see  The 

Four  Divisions. 
Division,  The  Last,  546,  547,  582,  819. 
Divisions,  The  Four;  Summary  of,  830;  Referred  to,  430,  483,  500,  547,  563, 

579,  624  636,  820. 
Dunning  Plot,  428. 
Dyckman  Homestead,  104,  149,  345,  547,  551,  821,  826;  see  Index,  Jansen- 

Aertsen  Patent. 
Dyckman  Lands,  Spuyten  Duyvel,  341,  345,  373,  402,  546,  561. 
Fort  George  Tract,  267,  434,  623,  814,  823. 
Gloudie  Point  Farm;  see  Bussing  Point  Farm. 
Hall  (Charles  Henry)  Tracts,  797,  798. 
Hanel  Patent,  598,  679. 
Heiser  Plot,  484, 
Hoom's  Hook  Farm,  804. 
Hunter  Tract,  804. 
Hopper  (Yellis)  Farm,  707. 
Jochem  Pieters'  Flat,  794. 
Judah  Plot;  see  Index. 
Jumel  Homestead,  561,  820,  826,  827. 
Lanaw  Benson  Tract,  802. 

Lands,  Lists  and  Tables  of  the,  288,  338,  341,  342,  373,  401,  795,  816,  829,  83a 
Lawrence  Tract,  418,  818. 
Marston  Farm,  807. 
McGown  Farm,  122,  150,  418,  439. 
McGown  Place,  439,  551,  592,  825. 
Milledoler  Tracts,  799. 
Moesman  Farm ;  see  Delavall  Lands. 
Molenaor,  84-acre  Tract,  567,  604;  Small  Tract,  418,  818. 
Montanye's  Flat,  802. 
Mount  Morris  Park,  802. 
Myer  (Adolph)  Homestead,  418,  604. 
Myer  Tract  (Forks),  418,  599,  605. 
Myer  Tract  (Jochem  Pieters),  304,  605,  794. 
Nagel  Burying  Ground,  614. 

Nagel  Lands,  341,  343,  373,  4Q2,  547,  551,  612,  614,  796. 
Negro  Burying  Ground,  238. 
New  Lots ;  see  Index. 
Nine  Lots,  The,  601,  797,  811. 
Nutter  Farm,  338,  390,  563,  592,  803,  813,  825. 
Oblienis,  loo-acre  Tract,  623,  821,  822,  825. 
Out  Gardens,  482,  546,  597,  612,  623,  636. 
Pond  Lot,  795. 

.lace  Course  Farm,  418,  427,  434,  437,  500,  563,  818,  821,  823. 
Randell  (Morris)  Farm,  123,  431,  432,  435,  456,  798. 
Randeirs  Island;  see  Index,  Little  Barent's  Island. 
Roads,  170,  172,  232,  252,  273,  280,  285,  305,  355,  369,  550,  563,  702,  710,  798, 

802,  818,  822,  823. 
Sawkill  Farm,  804;  see  also  340,  341,  360,  363,  381,  388. 
Sickels  (Johannes)  Tract,  795. 
Six  Lots,  The,  304,  605,  797,  812,  814. 
Slot  Patent,  598,  679. 
Storm  Farm,  482,  484,  485,  636,  800. 
Three  Lots,  The,  601,  606,  797,  811,  812,  813. 
Tourneur  Farm,  825 ;  see  Appendix  G. 
.Vandewater  Tract,  804. 
Van  Keulen's  Hook,  798. 
Wagstaff  Tract,  408,  418,  818. 


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Waldron  (Hoorn's  Hook)  Farm,  804;  see  also  362,  409,  495,  622,  698,  782, 

825. 
Waldron  (John  P.)  Farm,  800. 
Waldron  Tract ;  see  Oblienis  lOO-acre  Tract. 

Ward's  Island ;  see  Index,  Great  Barent's  Island,  and  Ward's  Island. 
Williams  (Eliphalet)  Plot,  609. 
Wood  Farm  (Harlem  Lane),  380,  803. 
Young  Farm;  see  Marston  Farm. 


KEY  TO  ABBREVIATIONS. 

The  Abbrsviatxons  used  in  this  work  are:  ab.,  for  about;  ae.,  for  aged;  anc,  for 
ancestor;  a.  q.  r.,  for  acres,  quarters,  rods;  b.,  for  born;  br.,  for  brother;  brs., 
brothers;  ch.,  for  child;  chn.,  for  children;  chh.,  for  church;  d.,  for  died, 
death;  dcsc,  for  descendant,  descended;  dr.,  for  daughter;  drs.,  daughters;  d.  y., 
died  young;  f.  or  fl.,  for  florin;  fa.,  for  father;  gd-fa.,  for  grandfather;  gt-gd-fa., 
for  great-grandfather;  gl.,  for  guilder;  bus.,  for  husband;  inf.,  for  infancy;  m., 
for  married,  marriage;  mem.,  for  member;  mo.,  for  mother;  nfa.,  for  no  further 
account;  sr.,  for  sister;  srs.,  for  sisters;  St.,  for  stiver,  or  street;  unm.,  for 
unmarried;  w.,  for  wife;  wid.,  for  widow;  yr.,  for  year;  yrs.,  years;  Corn., 
for  Cornelius;    Hend.,  for  Hendrick;    Joh.,  for  Johannes,  etc. 


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Aarsen,  Jan,  249. 
Abbott,  John,  670. 

Mary.  569. 

William.  670. 
Abeel,  Magdalena,  16L 

Stoffel  Janse,  161. 
Abrahams.  Ck>rnelis,  96. 
Acker.   Barent.  201,  203. 

L«ah.   650. 
Ackerman.   237. 

Abigail.  607^ 

Abraham.  696.  697,  410. 

Adrian.  697. 
■  Anna  Maria.  697. 

Anneken.  686,  697. 

Arie.  569. 

Catherine.  608.  697. 

David.  95.  696.  697. 

David  L..  206. 

Egbert.  697. 

Gerrit.  697. 

Oulian.  697. 

Jannetie.  697. 

Johannes.  697. 

Iiodewyck.  313.  369,  696,  697. 

Lourens,  696. 

Louwerens.  249. 

Lysbet.  263.  696.  697. 

Marritie.  696.  697.  702. 

Marritje.  702. 

Martha  Mode,  629. 

Mary.  697. 

Sarah.  697. 

Theodore,  759. 
Ackerson,  Anna,  200. 

Catherine,  467. 

James  I..  461. 
Ackley.  Jane  Eliza,  647. 
Adams,  Ann  Alida.  626. 

Annie.  668. 

Blisba.  626. 

Fred,  643. 

John  M.,  744. 

Mary  Smith,  613. 

William.  696. 
Adklns,  Amanda,  763. 
Adolph.  John.  803. 
Adolphus.  Matthew.  386. 
Adraens.  Aeltie.  804. 
Adrlaens,  Joost,  786. 
Adrlaens  (Arieanse),  John,  696. 
Adriance,  Abraham.  166. 

Abraham  J.,  620. 

Anneke.  166. 

Caroline,  166. 

Blbert,  166. 


Adriance,  George.  166. 

Isaac.  166.  166,  298,  420,  729,  796. 

Jacob.  166. 

John,  166,  298,  482,  796,  797. 

John  (Mrs.),  796. 

John  S..  172.  298.  484. 

Mr..  226,  798. 

Rem,  156. 

Theodore,  166. 
Ael,  Martin  (Sergt.),  144. 

Sergeant.  143. 
Aertsen,  149.  261.  268.  286. 

Huyck,  148.  247. 

Jan.  296. 

William.  613. 
Ahriaens,  Neeltie,  256. 
Aiken.  759. 

Laveme  Devilier.  641. 
Aken.  Adriana.  789. 

Jan  Thomasz.   168,  789. 
Alain,  Lord.  32. 
Albertson.  Mary  E..  748. 
Albertus.  Peter  Caesar,  126. 
Albody.  Andries.  594. 
Albony.  Jane.  782. 

Martha,  782. 
Alden.  Mary  Jane,  623. 
Alderick.  Mary.  625. 
Aldrich.  276.  622. 
Aldricks.  Mary,  626. 
Alger.  Harriet,  620. 

Lena,  616. 
Allaire,  Sarah.  670. 
Allason,  William,  623. 
Allen.  Dr..  473. 

Elizabeth.  682. 

Jane.  685. 

John.  658.  666. 

Rosette,   617. 

William,  742. 
Alienor,   Abraham,   789. 
Allington,  Frank.  634. 
Allinson,  Sarah,  446. 
Allison.  Hannah.  703. 
Alrichs.  Evert,  302,  303. 

Jacob.  368. 
Alteras,  Jan  Claessen,  132. 
Alyea,  Adam.  460. 
Alyie,  Margrietye,  669. 
Aman.  Louise,  442. 
Amanda,  Mary,  609. 
Amboyneau,  John,  798. 
Amerman,  Elbert,  789. 
Amory.   John.  696. 
Anderson.  Ann.  789. 

Cornelia,  806. 

David.  617. 

Ella,  471. 


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Anderson,  James,  461,  789. 
John  C.  Z.,  610. 
Peter,  806. 
William.  32L 
Andre.  256. 

Andrews,  Anna  M.,  634. 
Andrles,  Geertruyt,  384. 

Jannetle,  217. 
Andrlesen,  Pleter.  136. 
Andrlessen,  Hillegond,  431. 
Lucas,  431. 
Pleter.  163. 
Andros.  332.  340,  343. 
Bdmund  (Sir),  318,  884. 
Governor.  188.  323,  325,  327,  328,  331,  338. 
364.  368.  370.  409.  804. 
Angel,  Ruth.  516. 
Anthony,  Allard,  241,  294. 
Maria,  478. 
Mary  Doty,  722. 
Samuel,  733. 
Aoelofsen,  249. 
Appel.  Adrian.  815.  817. 
Applegate.   George  S..   749. 
Apthorpe.  Charles  Ward,  592. 
Arcer,  Jan.  251. 
Archbold,  Margaret,  757. 
Archer,  247,  249,  250,  261,  268.  271,  277,  319. 
326,  327.   680. 
John,  242.  243.  248,  263,  275,  278,  284,  306, 

385.  389,  395. 
John,  Jr.,  389. 
Arden,  827. 

Jacob.  626. 
Argo,  Julia  Ann,  726. 
Arieyanse.  Arle.  615. 
Geresolveert.   683. 
Jan.   683. 
Maria,  616. 
Arment,  Jannetle,  428. 
Armour.  John  (Captain),  596. 

Mary  Elizabeth.  596. 
Armstrong.  Florence,  752. 
Amauds,  Madeline,  204. 
Arnold.  Louise,  747. 
Arnolds.  646. 
Ash,   William,   788. 
Asbmore,  George.  768. 
Askew,  John.  257. 
Aspinwall,  Hannah,  566. 
Asson,  Mrs.  596. 
Asten,   Elizabeth,  646. 
Astor.   808. 
Atwater,  Jacob,  735. 
Auboyneau.  813. 

John.  812. 
Auchmoody.  Abraham,  52L 

Rachel,   521. 
Audubon.  John  J.,  818. 
Auryansen,  Cornelia.  617. 
Austin,   Shirley  P..   644. 
Avery,  Obediah,  645. 
Ayers,   Martha,  730. 


Babbitt,  Phebe  Louisa,  663. 

Ruth  Ann,  630. 
Babcock,  David,  711,  734. 

John.  444. 

Sarah,  724. 

William  L..  733. 
Backhouse.  John,  608. 
Baerr,  Clara  W.,  689. 
Balgnoux.  353.  373. 

Jeaen,  247. 

Jean.  332.  340.  365.  380,  381. 

John,  807. 
BaUey,  Ellas,  294. 


Bailey,  Harriet.  670. 
Harriet  F.,  61L 
Nathaniel,  424. 
Baillet.  Herbert  Stanton,  678. 
Baker,  A.  O..  633. 
Dr.,  410,  807. 
Emma  C,  533. 
Hendrlck  Jansen,  268. 
John,  807. 
Mary  E.,  633. 
Balden.  Willis.  728. 
Baldwin.  Henry  W.,  662. 
Mrs.,  662. 
Orrln,  745. 
Peggy,  639. 
Simeon,  784. 
Ball,  Gtortrude,  768. 

Terese,  746. 
Ballard,  742. 

Banker,  Augusta  Maude,  667. 
Elizabeth,  452,  468. 
Gerard,  806. 
Banks,  Albert.  666. 

Benjamin,  490. 
Banta.  Annatye,  450. 
Antie,  196. 

Cornelius.  191,  217,  350. 
David.  467. 
Derick.  196. 
Dlrck  S..  436. 
Epke  Jacobs,  19L 
Hendrlck  J.,  433. 
John  J.,  458. 
John  T.,  687. 
Maria,  683,  684. 
Peter.  432. 
Rachel.  449,  450,  46L 
Siba,  350. 
Sitske.  350. 

Tiny   (Catherine),  469. 
Tunis.   441. 
Wiert.  350. 
Barbarer,  Jennie,  633. 
Barberie,  Peter,  320. 
Barbour,   Richard,  763. 
Bard,  Caroline  M„  737. 
Bardy.  M.  Louts,  13. 
Barents,  Bruyn.  236. 
Barentsen,  Benjamin,  106. 
Captain,  105. 
Simon,  166. 
Barheyt,  (ieorgie,  409. 

Jerome.  496. 
Barhite.  Johannes.  424. 
Barkens.  Ann.  467. 
Barker,  John,  248. 

Maria.  782. 
Barklns,  David,  467. 
Barkley,  Evert  M.,  720. 
Barlow,  Edward  F.,  (Rev.),  631. 

Hannah,  507. 
Barlowe,  Robert,  376. 
Barnes,  Ann,  656. 
Anna.  509. 
Charles  P..  769. 
Diadema,  616. 
Dorothy,  819. 
James  A.,  443. 
Jennie,  660. 
Phebe.  788. 
William.  819. 
Barnet,  664. 

Bams,  Florence  Adella,  763. 
Bamum.  Mary,  665. 
Barr,  Edward,  688. 
Barrea.  John,  788. 
Barretts.  Gerard  M..  481. 
Barry,  Mary  A..  628. 
Bartelsen,  (Sertrude,  703. 
Bartholf,  Lydia,  460. 


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BarUett,  Susannah,  467.  463. 
Barton.  Elijah.  276.  722. 

Roger.  276. 
Bartow,  Evelyn  (Rev.),  332. 
Bas,  Gerrit.  429. 
Bascom,  Marie  Louise,  481. 
Basley,  Anthony,  643. 
Bass,  Jeremiah.  413,  807. 

John,  594. 

WUhelmina,  545. 
Bas  sett,  Isabella,  655. 

John,  340,  805. 

Mary.  704. 

Melvin,  670. 
Bastiaens.  Annetie,  476. 

Hendrick.  476. 

Metje,   476,   663. 

Michiel,  276. 
Bastiaense,  Jan,  274.  § 

Bastiaensen,  205. 

Aefle,   265. 

Annetie.  265. 

Bastiaen,  265. 

Jan.  105,   258.  563.  679. 

MetJe,  265. 

Michiel.   243.   249,   258.   263.   265,   306.   311. 
329,  343,  344,  346,  349.  365.  373. 

Reyer,  265.  ^ 

Bastlaesen.  Jan.  98. 

Michiel.  818. 
Bates,  Temperance,  732. 
Baton,  Rachel,  601.  604. 
Batten.  Ethel  B.,  763. 

May.  763. 
Baudartius,  Mary.  161. 

Wilhelmus  (Rev.).  87.  161. 
Baudius,  Dominie.  90. 
Baudoine,  Jacques.  270. 
Baxter.  Abigail.  649. 

Sarah  E.,  729. 

William.  729. 
Bayard.  315.  358. 

Baltus.  367. 

Catherine,  321. 

N..  300,  301.  306.  307. 

Nicholas.  276.  286.  372. 

Nicholas   (Col.),  321. 

Nicolaes.  337. 

Petrus.  359. 

Samuel,  359. 
Beadle,  Edward  L.   (Dr.),  468. 
Beado.  Francois,  311,  332. 
Beaman,  Martha  H.,  743. 
Beardslee,  Esther,  784. 
Beardsley,  Nelson,  657. 

Obedlah,  440. 
Beattie,  James.  535. 
Bebout,   Jan,  700. 
Beck.  Matthys  (Hon.).  358. 
Becker,  Catherine,  719. 

John,  200. 

Martinus.  508. 

Mary  Ann.  441. 
Beck  with,  Sophia.  628. 
Beddon,  Frances,  611. 
Bedford,  John.  715. 
Bedlo.  Isaac.  280. 
Beebe.  Margaret  Elizabeth,  518. 

Maria.  618. 
Beeck,  164. 

Cornelia,  155. 

Cornelius,  155. 

Deborah.  155. 

Elizabeth.  155. 

Henry,  155. 

Isaac,  156. 

John  155. 

Marritie,   155. 

Nicholas.  165.      » 

Peter,  155. 


Beeck,  Pieter  Cornelissen,  156. 

William,  155. 
Beeckman,  159,  275. 

Catherine,  161. 

Christopher,  161. 

Cornelia,  161. 

Qerardus.  161. 

Hendrick,  161,  700. 

Jacobus,  161. 

Jochem,  261. 

Johannes.  161.   700. 

Maria.  161. 

Marten,  700. 

Marten  Hendricksen.  700. 

Martinus.   161. 

Mary,  161. 

Metje,  700. 

Neeltie,   700. 

Rachel,  161. 

Thomas.  161. 

Wilhelmus,   87.  142,  166,  161.  699.  700. 

Wilhelmus   (Mrs.),  277. 

William,  157,  161,  367,  781. 
Beekman.  162.  340,  358. 

Abraham  J.  (Rev.).  700. 

Adrian,   804. 

Anna.  700.  707. 

Annetie,  700. 

Bloomfield,   700. 

Cornelia.  700. 

Elizabeth,  513,  700,  701. 

George  C.   (Hon.),  700. 

Gerardus  (Dr.).  700. 

Oesina,  16S. 

Grietie,  700. 

Hendrick,   700. 

Hendrick  M..  700. 

Hendrick  Marten  sen.  700. 

Jacob  Ten  Broeck  (Rev.),  700. 

James,  803.  819. 

Johannes  Martensen,  700. 

John,  700. 

John  S.  (Rev.),  700. 

Leentie,  700. 

Lydia,   700.   819. 

Magdalena,  700. 

Marten.   700. 

Martin,  699,  700. 

Mary,  700. 

Mrs.,  826. 

Peter.  700. 

Phebe.  700. 

Samuel,  700.  706. 

Susanna.   700. 

William,  359. 
Been.  Hendrick  Jansen,  206. 
Beenon.   Rachel,   504. 
Beers,  Harvey,  533. 

Teresa,  747. 
Beets.  William.  327. 
Behena,  810. 

Thomas.  809. 
Bel  in,  Jean,  365. 
Bell.   Hattle,  621. 

Maria  (Polly),  460. 
Belles.  Eliza  M.,  744. 
Belleville.  270. 

Jean,  198.  269. 

Philip.  198. 
Bellows,  Horace.  525. 
Benbrigge.  Joseph.  809. 
Bend,  Elizabeth,  706. 
Bendell.   Harriet.   730. 
Benezet,  Elizabeth,  462.  468. 

Jean.  462. 
Benjamin.   Nelson,  731. 
Benner,  George,  726. 

Mary  T.,  668. 
Bennett.  Jacob.  700. 

Jeannette,  765. 


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BeoDett,  Nancy,  740. 

Bennoe,  Oodfrlcus,  789. 

Bensing,  Johannes,  427. 

Bensingh.  Dirck.  426. 

Benson.  12.  93.  122.  150.  172.  418.  425,  817. 

Abraham.  428,  436,  440. 

Adeline.  442. 

Adolph.  430.  433.  434,  435.  438,  442,  500, 
545.  550.  565.  825. 

Alanson  D.,  446. 

Albert,  433. 

Alfred.  444.  446. 

Alfred  C.  445. 

Almira.  442.  444. 

Amasa  L.,  445. 

Ann  M..  443. 

Anna.  436. 

Anne.   431. 

Anness,  445. 

Annetie,  428. 

Benjamin,  365,  417,  430,  432,  435,  436,  439, 
443,  484.  549,  551,  565,  599,  705,  799,  800, 
801.  802.  804.  813. 

Benjamin,  Jr.,  436,  440. 

Benjamin   L.,   438,   442. 

Benjamin  P..  439. 

Benjamin  Whitney  (Col.),  440. 

Betsey,   442. 

Betsy,  437. 

Burt  P.,  446. 

Captain.   429,   437. 

Carel.  437,  441. 

Caroline,  442. 

Caroline  Abigail.  444. 

Caroline  Matilda.  440. 

Carrie,  444. 

Catalina.  427,  428,  429,  431,  432,  501,  506, 
550. 

Catalina   (Tryntje),   549. 

Catelina.  437. 

Catelyntye.  437. 

Catharin  Abby,  440. 

Catharine,   428,   429,   431,   497. 

Catherine.  436.  440,  441,  443. 

Catrlna,   427,  433. 

Cattelyntie.  432. 

Charity.   432.  436. 

Charles.  440.  445. 

Claesle  (Cloe).  428. 

Clarence  Everett,  446. 

Clyde  M.,  446. 

Cornelia,  441. 

Cornelius.  428.  433.  437.  441,  444. 

Daniel,  431,  437,  441,  444. 

Daniel  Annan,  447. 

Daniel  P.,  444. 

David,  437.  441,  444. 

De  La  Montanye,  446. 

Derick,  220.  427,  428,  429.  430.  431.  565. 
601.  799.  801.  813.  821,  824,  829. 

Dirck.  93.   427,  433. 

Doremus,   444. 

Edward  A.,  445.  447. 

Edward  Adolphus,  447 

Edwin.  444. 

Edwina  De  B.,  445. 

Effle.  441. 

Egbert   (Honorable).   428. 

Egbert  (Judge),  428. 

Eliza,  443. 

Elizabeth,  418.  428,  431,  432,  433,  434,  436, 
437.  441.   445,  683,   698,  702. 

Elizabeth  D.,  443. 

Elizabeth  Frances,  440. 

Elizer.   445. 

Ela.  446. 

Ellen  Arietta,  444. 

Emeline  Malth,   440. 

Emilie.   443. 

Emily  A.,  443. 


Benson.  Emma  Lioulse,  443. 
Esther  Jarvls,  440. 
Ethel,  445. 
Bthelbert.  445. 
Eugene,  439. 
Eve,  427.  436,  438. 
Fidelia,  445. 
Finette  Edwards.  440. 
Flora  May,  446. 
Frank,  446. 
Frank  G.,  446. 
Frederick  Seward,  446. 
Gabriel  Leggett,  440. 
Garret,  441,  443. 
Garret  I.,  441,  443. 
George,  434,  437,  440.  442,  444,  446. 
George  B.,  446. 
George  S.,  445. 
George  W.,  443,  445,  446. 
George  Washington,  440. 
Gerrit,  428,  432,  433,  436. 
Gerritt,  44L 
Gertrude  L.,  446. 
Grace  E.,  446. 
Hannes  (Johannes),  433. 
Harman,  428. 
Harmanus,  428. 
Harriette  Davis,  440. 
Harry  M.,  446. 
Helen  P.,  445. 
Helen  Wharm,  447. 
Helena.  428.  429,  431,  432,  484,  564. 
Henricus,  428. 
Henrietta.  442. 
Henry,  436.  442,  445. 
Henry  (Capt.).  428. 
Henry  Clay,  443. 
Hevlyn,   440,   443. 
Ira  Hedges,  445. 
Jacob,  436,  443. 
James  A.,  446. 
Jane,  437.  438,  441,  444,  487. 
Jannetie,  436. 
Jannettie,  434. 
Jennie  L.,  446. 
Joana,  436. 
Joanni,  483. 
Johanna,  442. 
Johannes,  427,  428,  429,  430,  431,  432,   433, 

434.  435.  436.  437,  438,  441.  497,  566,   579, 

699,  700,  791,  799.  824,  830. 
Johannes  (Capt).  426,  448,  664,  622,   821. 

827. 
Johannes  (Lieutenant).  427. 
Johannes.  Jr.  (Johannl),  430. 
John,  428,  432,  433,  437,  438.  441,  442,  466. 

799,  808,  827,  828,  829,  830. 
John  (Capt.),  825. 
John  D.,  444. 
John  Henry,  434,  437. 
John  P.,  630. 
Jonathan.  428. 
Judge.  788. 
Julia.  440. 
Kate  B..  445. 
Kattelyntie.  436. 
Kittie  B..  446. 
Lana.  437. 
Lanaw,  802. 
Laura,  445. 
Laura  J.,  445. 
Lawrence,  172,  426,  430,  436,  436,  437,  438. 

456,  603.  606,  797,  799,  800. 
Lawrence  A.,  442. 
Lillian,  446. 
Lillian  J.,  446. 
Lucas,  428. 
Lydia  Louise,  444. 
M.,  566.  • 

Margaret,  438,  799. 


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Benson,  Margaret  Annan,  447. 

Margrietje,  437. 

Maria.  427,  428.  432,  434,  436.  443,  617. 

Maria  Jane,   441. 

Maria  Louisa,  445. 

MarriUe,  430. 

Martha  M.,  442. 

Mary,  431.  435.  440,  445. 

Mary  Anna,  442. 

Mary  Burr.  440. 

Mary  Catherine,  444. 

Mary  Elizabeth.  443. 

Marya  (Maria),  437. 

Marytje,  433. 

Matilda.  444. 

Matthew.  428.  429,  432,  433,  434,  436,  439. 
442.   483.   500. 

Matthew  Z..  445. 

Mina  L..  446. 

Nancy.  439. 

Oliver,  443. 

Oliver  Munroe.  440. 

Percy,  445. 

Perry.  444.  446. 

Peter.'  421.'  435,*  439,  441,  444.  798.  802.  825. 

Petrus,  437.  441. 

Philip  Adolphus,   447. 

Rachel.  427.  428.  429,  437,  441. 

Rachel  Ann.  442. 

Rachel  Jane,  444. 

Ralph,  447. 

Rebecca.   436.  441. 

Rebecca  Sophia,  444. 

Reginald,  445. 

Richard  Van  Vranken,  441. 

Robert,  428. 

Sally  Ann.  444.  445. 

Sampson,  827. 

Samson.  238,  298.  408.  427.  428.  429.  430, 
431.  432.  433.  435.  483.  484.  550.  593.  600, 
604.  637,  699,  702,  786.  791.  798,  799.  801. 
808.  8(H.  821.  823,  824.  828,  829.  830. 

Samson  (Capt.).  824. 

Samson   (Samuel).  437.  438. 

Samson  A..  418.  434.  500,  599,  818.  821.  825. 

Samson  Adolphus,  437,  442,  445. 

Samson,  Jr.,  435.  438. 

Samuel,  298.  432.  433.  434.  441,  487.  550, 
710. 

Sarah  Jane.  442. 

Sarah  M.,  446. 

Silas.  443. 

Stephen,  437,  442. 

Stephen  Henry.  445.  446. 

Susan  Ann,  440. 

Susan  S..  438. 

Susannah.  436,  799,  800. 

Susannah  L..  438. 

Tanneke,  432.  624. 

Teuwes  (or  Matthew).  428. 

Thysie,  427. 

Tryntle.  428. 

Victor.   428. 

Wilhelmina.  439. 

Wlllard.  668. 

William,  428,  436,  440,  442.  445.  724. 

William  P.,  446. 

William  H..  445,  446. 

William.    Jr..    442. 

William  Seward,  443. 

Tannetie  (Jane),  437. 
Bentley,   Sarah  Emma.  54L 

William  Gustavus.  541. 
Benton.  Walter  (Rev.),  656. 

Wlllard  H..  767. 
Berck.  CaUlina,  93.  426. 

Johannes.  613. 

Samson.   93. 
Berdan.  Eva.  433. 
Bergen,  Hans,  427. 


Bergen,  Jan,  98. 

Jan  (Captain).  212. 
Bergh.  Abraham,  736. 

Alice,   756. 
Berlin,  Sarah  A.,  664. 
Berrien.  822. 

Elizabeth,  462. 

Emma  A.,  749. 

John,   819. 

Peter,  592,  810,  819,  821,  824. 
Berry,   John   (Capt),   322. 

Ruth.  625. 
Bertholf,  694. 

Anna.  69. 

Corynus.  69. 

Elizabeth.  69. 

Ouiliaem,  69,  393,  407,  791. 

Guiliaem  (Rev.),  350. 

Hendrick.  69. 

Jacobus,  69,   785. 

Maria.  69. 

Martha,  69. 

Sarah,  69.  350. 
Bestevaer.    Captain,  99. 
Betts.  Benjamin.  643. 

William,   256.  643. 
Beverly.  Isabel,  507,  517. 
Bevier.  John.  786. 
Beys.  Henricus  (Rev.).  408,  419. 
Bibbins,  John  W.,  543. 
Bicker,    Aeltie.    428. 

Aletta,  705. 

Jacob,  90. 

Victor.   428. 
Bickley.  424. 

William.   380.    395. 
Bidlack.   Lydia,   571. 
Bidleman.   Sarah.  570. 
Bill.   Benjamin.  783. 

Susannah.  783. 
Billings.  Abigail,  736. 

Daniel.   650. 
Billion.  494. 

Isaac,  494. 

Mrs.,  493. 

Peter,  494. 

Pierre,  183,  493.  494. 
Binjou.   Jan.   381. 
Bishop,  Joshua,. 424. 
Bison.  Jean  Baptiste,  347. 
Bisschop,  Anna.  485. 
Bissel.  Elizabeth  C,  465. 
Bissell,   Celia.  756. 
Bisset.   Andrew,   409. 
Blaau.  425. 

Cornelia.  693. 

Henry.  693. 

Juriaen,  693. 

Sarah,  693. 

William.  693. 
Black.  William  Leslie.  470. 
Blackington.  Juline,  731. 
Blackledge.  Elizabeth.  686. 

Peter.   618. 

Sarah.  454. 
Blackstone.  416. 
Blackwell.  Joseph,  819. 
Blaeck.  Jacob.  696. 

Jacob  Jansen,   205. 

Janneke.   696. 
Blagge.   824. 

Benjamin,  783. 

E..  829. 

Edward,  594.  783,  821. 

Martha.  783. 

Samuel.  783. 
Blain.  Mary,  789. 

Samuel.  727. 
Blanch.  John,  454. 

Richard.   684. 


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INDEX. 


Blanchan.  104.  184. 

Catherine,  183. 

Elizabeth,  183.  184. 

Madelatne,  148. 

Madeleine.  183.  184. 

Matthew.  148.  183. 

Matthieu.  103. 

Nicholas.  184. 
Blanchard.  712. 
Blanck.  Elsie.  368. 

Jurian.   368. 
Blank.  Nicholas.  158. 
Blann.  Rachel.  479. 
Blauvelt.  626. 

Abraham.  363. 

Abraham  A..  460. 

Addie  A..  766. 

Annatye.  709. 

Catherine.  615. 

Catrina.  626. 

Cornelius.  461.  616. 

Elizabeth.  615. 

Oeertje,  639. 

Gerrit  Hendrickse.  363. 

Grietie.   638. 

Orietje.   449. 

Hendriclc.   363. 

Hendrick  Oerritsen,  692. 

Henry.  462. 

HubartUB.  682. 

Huybert,  363. 

Isaac,  363.  449,  450. 

Jacob  I..  617. 

Jacobus.  683. 

James.  461. 

Johannes.  363. 

John,  685,  7U. 

Joseph  N..  460. 

Lea.   450. 

Margaret.  638.  685. 

Maria.  450.  456. 

Mary,  682. 

Nelson.   442. 

Richard  D.,  790. 

Teunis,  638. 

Verontjer.  626. 
Bleecker,   Catrina,  364. 

Jan  Jan  sen    (Hon.),   97,  364. 
Bleeker.  Anthony  J.,  819. 
Bloem.  Arent,  128. 

Frederick  Arents.  128. 

Jacob,    128. 

Johannes,  128. 

Pieter.  128. 
Blom,  Abraham,  128. 

Barbara,  128. 

Barent.  128. 

Barent  Jansen.  127. 

Barent  Jensen,  128. 

Beruardus,   128. 

Claes.  128. 

Claes  Barentse,  128. 

Dominie.   183. 

Elizabeth,  128. 

Engeltie.   128. 

Garret.   128. 

George,   128. 

Isaac,   128, 

Jacob,   128. 

Jan,    128. 

Jan  Barentsen,  128. 

Jane.  128. 

Jennetle,   128. 

John,  128. 

Maria,  128. 

MatMe,  128. 

Nicholas.   128. 

Phebe,  128. 

Simon,  128. 

Tutie,   128. 


Bloodgood,  Adriana,  698. 

Frances.  698. 

Frans,  698. 

Frans  Jansen  (Capt),  698. 

Geertie.  698. 

Isabella.  698. 

John.  698. 

Judith.  698. 

Lysbeth.  698. 

Neeltie,  695.  698. 

William,  698. 
Bloom.   BeroardUB  (Capt),  128. 

Elizabeth.    787. 

Frederick,   787. 

Frederick  A.,  787. 
Bloomer.  Mary  Ann,  628. 
Bloomfleld.   Charlotte,  717. 

Phebe,  700. 
Bloomingdale.  Susan,  736. 
Blot,  Pierre  (Prof.).  13. 
Blum,  776. 

Roardman,  Helen  Lyman,  473. 
Boch.  343. 

Conrad  Hendricks,  278,  320,  328,  341,  342. 

Jen  Hendrick,  249. 

Jan  Hendricks.  328. 
Bodine.  Abraham,  581. 

Mary.  583. 

Phebe.  584. 
Boelen.  Henricus,  692. 

Isaac.   692. 
Boener,  William,  675. 
Boers.  Cornelius.  697. 
BogardUR.  128. 

Ann.  486. 

Aseneth.  518. 

Dominie.  130.  142,  151,  152. 

Everardus.  164. 

Gilbert.  631. 

Phebe  C.  631. 

Robert.    658.   722. 
Bogart,  Albert,  69. 

Aris.  790. 

John,  69. 

Roelof.  69. 

Vincent  D.  L.  M..  790. 
Bogert.  105.  123.  205.  271,  279,  281.  282.  285,. 
296.  375,  424.  426.  592,  786,  808,  817. 

Abegail  Anna.   468. 

Abigail.  456,  462.  463. 

Abraham,  455,  457,  461. 

Adeline.  468.  472. 

Adeline  Matilda,  472. 

Adrian,  787. 

Adriann.  458.  464. 

Albert  M..  455,  461. 

Alexander  Glass.  468,  473,  474. 

Alexander  J..  465. 

Alice,  470,  472.  474. 

Alice  Wheeler,  474. 

Alida.  470. 

Alida  Ann.   464. 

Alida  Louisa.  473. 

Alida  Ritzema.  464. 

Allida.    457. 

Alwyn.  465. 

Amelia.   463. 

Ann.  459.  462. 

Ann  Amelia.   463. 

Ann  Eliza.  464. 

Ann  Maria.  469. 

Ann  Schuyler,  465. 

Anna,  473. 

Anna  (Anaetje),  454. 

Anna  (Annatje),  453. 

Anna  Bykbee.  473. 

Anna  Demarest.  459. 

Anna  Maria.  471. 

Annatje.    452.   453.   456.   467. 

Annatje  (Nancy),  457. 


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843 


Bogert.  Anneckie,  460. 
Annetie,   461. 
Annetje,  468. 
Augusta,   470. 
Beeltje,  452. 
Beletje.  468. 
Belltje.   462. 
Belitje  (Isabell).  453. 
Belletjie,  450. 
Bellitie,  410. 
Benjamin,  466. 
Benjamin  S..  460.  466. 
Bernard  O'Blenis,  670. 
Betsy,  460. 

Camella  Dameron.  470. 
Caroline  Lawrence,  475. 
Casparis,  456. 
Catalina,  449. 
Catharina  (Catrlna),  454. 
Catberina,  450,  451. 
Catherine,   448,   459,   466.   467. 
Catherine  Elizabeth,  467,   468. 
Cathlyntye.  456. 
Catrina  (Catherine),  456. 
Charles,  470. 
Charles  Clark,  472. 
Charles  Ludlow,  469,  473. 
Charles  Van  Valen,  467,  472. 
Charles  William,  469. 
Charlotte  Ritzema,  474. 
Chester,  472. 
Christiaan,  459. 
Christina.    471. 
Claas  (Nicholas),  449,  450. 
Claes,  205,  220. 
Claes  (Nicholas),  448. 
Clarence,  472. 
Clarence  M.,  474. 
Clark,  471. 
Collingwood,  469. 
Cora.  471. 
Cornelia.  393,  448.  450.  453.  458,  459,  463, 

464,  465,  467,  470.  471.  565. 
Cornelia  Henrietta,  469. 
Cornells,  463. 
Cornelius,  449,  450,  451,  452,  453.  454.  455, 

457,  458.  459,  460.  462,  464,  466,  467,  496. 
Cornelius  Gerret,  451,  456. 
Cornelius  J.,  457.  463. 
Cornelius  N.,  459. 
Cornelius  Robert   (Dr.),  469. 
David,   459,   465,   466. 
David  C.  471. 
David   Ritzema,   457. 
David  Schuyler,  459.  465. 
David   Vanvalen,   462. 
Dorotea,    453. 
Douwe,  450. 
Edith,   472.    475. 
Edward  Beadle,  473. 
E^dward  Clark,  469. 
Edward  Hyer.  470. 
Edward  L..  463. 
Edward  Langdon.  472,  475. 
Edward  Langdon,  Jr.,  475. 
Edward  Ludlow,  473. 
Edward  Osgood,  475. 
Edward   Sandford,   474. 
Edwin.  468. 

Elisabeth    (Elizabeth).  455. 
Eliza,  463.   466. 
Elizabet  (Elizabeth).  457.  458. 
Elizabeth,  448,  449,  450.  451,  452,  453,  460. 

463.  465.  468,  474. 
Elizabeth  Ann.  465.   470. 
Elizabeth  Caroline.  471. 
Elizabeth  Ross,  464. 
Ella,  467. 
Ella  Lavlnla.  467. 
Ellistina  Potter,  470. 


Bogert.  Elmer,  471. 
Eloise  Lawrence,  463. 
Elsie,  475. 
Emily   Eliza.    470. 
Emily  Franklin.  473. 
Emily  Louise,  473. 
Emily  Ritzema,  464. 
Emma,   471. 
Eugene.  466. 
Eugenia.  470. 
Euphemia,  466. 
Evert,  449. 
Fannie  Adella,  467. 
Frances  Hoyt.  475. 
Frances  Lawrence.  473. 
Frances  Nelson.  474. 
Francis   Bouquet.   468. 
Fytle  (Sophia).  450.  451. 
Fytye   (Sophia),  455. 
Garret.   467. 

Geertye  (Gertrude),  459. 
George  A.,  473. 
George  Clark.  464.  470. 
George  Howe.  472. 
George  W.,  469,  473. 
George  Washington,  469. 
Georgian  a,   470. 
Gerret,  454,  456,  462. 
Gerret  J..  461. 
Gerrit.   450.  453. 
Gerrit  J..  455. 
Grace  Augusta,  472. 
Grietje,  454. 

Grietje  (Margaret).  451.  455.  456. 
Gysbert.  448,  449.  451.  455,  579. 
Harry  Howe  (Rev.).  472,  475. 
Harry  Howe.  Jr.,  475. 
Harriet  L..  463. 
Harriet  Lawrence,  474. 
Helen,  474. 
Helen  Holbrook,  474. 
Helen  North,  475. 
Helena  (Lena),  458. 
Helena  Maria,  464. 
Helena  Ritzema,  457. 
Helena  Strachan,  457. 
Hendrick.  410.  449.  452,  453,  457,  695. 
Hendricus.   453,   459. 
Henrietta  Ann.  470. 
Henrietta   Mills,   464. 
Henry,  460.  465.  466.  467.  495. 
Henry  Augustine.  469.  473. 
Henry  C.    (Hendrick),  452. 
Henry  Kneeland.  463,  469.  473. 
Henry   Lawrence.   473.   475. 
Henry  Lawrence,   Jr.,  475. 
Henry  M..   461. 
Henry  Van  Valen,  467. 
Hetty  (Hester).   459. 
Hibemia  J.,   473. 
Horatio  G.,  464.  470. 
Huyler,  467,   472. 
Isabel,  472. 
Isabel  Duncan.  474. 
Isabella  (Belitjle).  452. 
Jacob,  455,  462,  466,  467. 
Jacob  M.,  461,  467. 
Jacob  S.,  460,  467. 
Jacobus,  450.  452.  454.   457.  458,  462. 
Jacobus   (James).   456. 
Jacobus  Smith.  465. 
James,   458,   465.   467.   471,  474. 
James   (or  Jacobus),  460. 
James  Benezet.  468.  472. 
James,  Jr..  363.  462.  468.  799. 
James  Lawrence.   463,   473. 
Jamee  Nichols,  470. 
James  T.,  469. 
Jan,  451. 
Jan   (John),  458. 


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INDEX. 


Bogert,  Jan  (John  N.),  457,  463. 
Jan  Louwe,,  98,  258,  274.  290,  332.  334.  360. 

362.  363.  373.  389.  403,  406,  407.  412.  413. 

416.  429.  447.  448,  565.  816. 
Jane.  461.  462,  466,  467.  469.  609. 
Janneke.  696. 
Jannetie  (Tanneke).  449. 
Jannetje.  455. 
Jenneke,  448. 
Jeremiah,  456.  462.  686. 
Jeremias,  456. 
Jessie.  472. 
John.  438.  449.  451,  452.  458.  459.  466.  470. 

819. 
John  (Jan).  449. 
John   (Johannes).  452. 
John  Banta.  465.  470,  471. 
John  O..  463,  469,  799. 
John  J.,  456. 
John  Jacob,  466. 
John,  Jr..  431.  432.  435,  456.  462.  468.  606, 

799. 
John  Lawrence.  473. 
John  Louwe.  292,  593.  791.  817. 
John  M..   466.  471. 
John  Nichols,  464,  470. 
John  Ritzema,  464. 
John   Vreeland.   470. 
John  W.,  471. 

Johannes,  448,  451.  454.  455.  462,  467. 
Johannes  P.,  449,  450. 
Johannls,  450.  454.  455,  459.  461. 
Josephine.  467. 
Judith.  458. 
Julia,  472. 

Julia  Hamilton,  473. 
Kate  Bissell.  471. 
Katharlna.  459. 
Katherine,   475. 
Katherine  Augusta,  472. 
Katherine  Knapp,  470. 
Lawrence.  451,  474. 
Lawrence  (Lourens),  449. 
Lawrence   Kimball,  468,  472. 
Lawrence  Kimble,  473. 
Leah,  451,  461. 
Leah  (Helena),  455.  456. 
Leah  E..  467. 
Lilly  M..  473. 
Louis.  470. 
Lydia  Ann.  467. 
Mabel.   471. 
Maggie,  470. 
Margaret.  448.  450,  452,  454,  458,  459.  460. 

461,  471.  480.  618. 
Margaret  (Orietle),  456. 
Margaret  (Margrietje).  454,  455. 
Margaret  Ann.  480. 
Margaret  Jane,  471. 
Margrietje.  451,   453. 
Maria,  449.  450,  451.  453.  454,  455,  457,  458, 

459,  461,  462,  463. 
Maria  (Margaret),  451. 
Maria  (Polly),  454. 
Maria  Augusta.  467. 
Maria  Klyn,  460. 
Marie,  472. 
Marie  Nelson,  475. 
Mantle,  454. 

Marragrietje  (Margaret).  462. 
Marretje,  454. 
Marritye.  450. 
Marston  Taylor,  473. 
Mary.  451.  460. 
Mary  (Maria).  449. 
Mary  Ann.  461. 
Mary  Anna,  469. 
Mary  Benezet.  469.  472. 
Mary  C.  Ford.  471. 
Mary  E..  473. 


Bogert.  Mary  Eliza.  469. 
Mary  Elizabeth.  463.  469.  470.  474. 
Mary  Emma.  471. 
Mary  Frances.  468. 
Mary  Lawrence.  463.  473. 
Mary  Ludlow.  475. 
Marytje.  449. 
Marytje  (Maria).  456. 
Martha,  46L 
Martin,   496. 

Martyntje  (Martha).  461. 
Materis,  454. 
Materia   (Matthew).  450. 
Matthew,  450,  466.  471. 
Matthew  (Mattheus).  454. 
Matthew  D.,  465. 
Matthew  J..  467.  471. 
Matthew  M..  461. 
Matthew  M.  (Mattheus).  455. 
Matthew  P..  449.  459.  465.  471. 
Matthew  P.  (Matheus).  454. 
MaUhew  S..  460,  466. 
Mr.,  456. 
Mrs.,  282. 
Muton.  471. 
Myndert.   447. 
Neeltje.  458. 

Nicholas,  451.  452,  453.  456,  457.  458.  464. 
Nicholas  (Klaas),  449. 
Nicholas  C,  453,  458.  459. 
Nicholas  P..  463.  459. 
Nicholas  P.   (Captain),  713. 
Nora,  470. 

Orlando  Gordon,  469. 
Orlando  M..  465.  470. 
Orlando  M.,  Jr.,  474. 
Orlando  Myndert,  Jr.,  470. 
Otho  Klemm.  470. 
P.,  346. 
Peter,  448.  450.  454.  457,  459.  460.  463.  467, 

469.  471. 
Peter  Byvanck,  463. 
Peter  M.,  454.  459.  465. 
Peter  P.,  449.  450. 
Petrus,  450.  451.  453,  455,  461. 
Philander,  463. 
Pieter  Jansen,  342,  394. 
Pieter  M.,  450. 
Rachel,  452.  456,  460,  46L 
Rachel  Ann,  467. 
Ralph  Goodwin,  472. 
Richard  D.,  471. 
Robert,  463. 
Robert  Thurston,  469. 
Roelof.  454,  455.  461. 
Rosana  R..  467. 
Rudolphus.  457.  464.  469. 
Rudolphus  Ritzema.  469.  474. 
Ruesel  Oraffe,  468. 
Sallie  (Sarah),  461. 
Sally,  461.  466. 
Samuel,  451.  460.  466. 
Samuel  M..  460,  466. 
Samuel  P.,  454,  460. 
Sara,  454,  456. 

Sarah.  450.  452,  455,  461,  462.  466.  467.  470. 
Sarah  Ann,  462. 
Sarah  Jane,  467. 
Sarah  Maria.  467. 
Seba.  460.  465.  466. 
Seba  (Selba).  454. 
Seba   (Siba).  460. 
Seba  M.,  466.  47L 
Sophia.  461.  467. 
Sophia  (Fytie),  454. 
Sophia  Margaretta,  464. 
Susannah,  453.  464. 
Stephen,  620. 
Teunis  Gysbert.  274. 
Teuntie.  692. 


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845 


Bogert.  Theodore  Lawrence,  473. 

Theodore  Loom  Is,  475. 

Theodore  Parker,  472,  474. 

Theodore  Parker   (Peacock),   474. 

Theodore  Peacock,  468,  472. 

Theunia  Oysberts,  98. 

Thomas  Johnston,  470. 

Thomas  Lawrence,  463,  469. 

Thomas  S..  473. 

Victorlne  Bissell,  471. 

Viola.  474. 

Virgil,  472. 

Walter,  470. 

Walter  Lawrence,  473. 

Walter  Lovell,  472. 

Wlllem  (William).  455. 

Willempje,  455. 

Willemtie,  449. 

William,  458. 

William   Beneiet.   474,   475. 

William  Benezet,  Jr.,  475. 

William  Henry,  465.  466.  469,  470.  474. 

William  Henry  Peet.  470,  474. 

William  Russell,  472,  475. 

William  Russell,  Jr..  475. 

William  Strachen,  464. 
Boice,  David,  520. 
Bokee.  Abraham,  428,  429,  477. 

Catolina.  429. 

Jacomina.  477.  478. 

Maria.  428. 
Bolmer.  WUliam.  480. 
Bolt.  Frederick.  637. 
Bolton.  Mr..  120. 
Bomberger.  Ann.  586. 
Bond.  Stephen  B..  666. 
Bonnell.  Edward,  660. 
Bonnet.  Fannie.  647. 
Bont.  134. 

Wlllem,  140.  164. 

Willem  Fredericks.  91,  140. 
Bookhoolts,  Jan.  204. 
Boon.  MaUhys.  183.  253,  310.  796. 
Boone.  Carrie  N..  773. 

Claes.  162. 

Frank.  526. 

Jannetie,  162. 
Booraem.  Cornelius.  587. 
Booth.  John,  650.  762. 
Boots,  John.  722. 
Bouquet  (Bokee).  Jannetie.  204. 

Jerome,  105,  204. 
Bordelo.  Jacques,  104. 
Bordier.   M.,  13. 
Bomstra,  Gertrude.  90. 

Margareta,  90. 
Borst.  Elizabeth.  719. 
Bos  (Terboscb),  Jan,  320. 
Bosch.  Hendrick.  236.  241^  366.  368.  373.  394, 

697. 
Bostwick.  Stanley.  739. 
Bosyns.  Maria,  545. 
Botack,  Robert.  79. 
Bottomley.  Alice.  753. 
Bouche.  Simon,  100. 
Bouchelle.   Susanna.  359. 
Bouchter,  Sarah.  569. 
Boudewyns,  Oillls.  293. 
Boudewynsen,  Oillis.  281. 
Bough.  John  D.,  718. 
Boulen,  Marie,  100. 
Bouton.  Mary  C,  540. 
Bowen,   Charles  W..  750. 
Bowers,  Henry.  Jr.,  606. 

Mrs.,  606. 
Bowie,  Thomas,  717. 
Bowman,  Albert  L..  54L 

Matilda.  569.  739. 
Bowne,  Abigail.  819. 

Samuel.  819. 


Boyce.  Mary,  714. 
Boyer.  Eugene  J.,  575. 
Boyle,   Robert.  707. 
Brackenbury,  Sarah,  738. 
Bradbury,  Isaac  M..  742. 
Bradford,  80. 

Jacob,  799. 

Tamer,  751. 
Bradhurst,  Dr..  818. 

Jonathan,  427. 

Samuel,  581.  826. 

Samuel  (Dr.).  565.  818. 
Bradley.  Ilenry.  805. 

Henry  K..  757. 

Samuel.  805. 

Samuel  (Capt).  381.  806. 

Thomas  (Capt).  251. 
Bradshaw.  Geo.   (Capt.).  156. 
Bradus.  Cornelia.  453.  458. 
Brady.  172. 

William.  348.  649. 
Bragaw.  Isaac.  716. 

Maria.  788. 
Brabe.  Tycho.  425. 
Braithwaite.  Mrs..  13,  813.  • 
Brand,  Daniel,  787. 
Brandon.  Capt.,  749. 
Brasher,  Abraham.  456.  567. 

Elizabeth.  452. 
Bratt  Derlck.  70L 

Storm,  200. 
Brayman,  William,  508. 
Brazier.  Frances.  700. 

Henry.  804. 
Breath.  Katherlne.  492. 
Brees.  Hendrick.  320. 
Breese.  Maria.  494. 
Bresba,  Roger.  525. 
Breteau,  Francis,  832. 

Francois,  332.  346. 

John.  332. 
Brett.  Agnietie.  622.  624. 

Philip  M.,  464. 

William.  624. 
Brevoort,  373.  605. 

Abraham.  410.  478,  479.  480. 

Abraham  Nicholson.  480. 

Aefjee.  478. 

Aejje.   478. 

Alice.  481. 

Alice  Renwick,  482. 

Anecke  (Anna),  478. 

Ann.  480. 

Anna.   479. 

Annecke.  478. 

Annie.  481. 

Catharlna.  480. 

Catherine.  479. 

Charlotte.  479. 

ConsUble.  407.  416. 

Constance  Irving.  481. 

Edith.  481. 

Edward   Renwick,  481.  482. 

Ellas.  477,  478,  479,  480,  481. 

Elizabeth.  480.  481. 

Elizabeth  NevUle,  480. 

Emily,  481. 

Florence  Edith.  482. 

Grietje.  478. 

Hendrick.  477,  478,  545.  791. 

Hendrlckje,  477,  478. 

Hendrlckus,  478.  479. 

Hendricus.  480. 

Henrlcus.  479. 

Henry,  478,  479.  480,  481.  500. 

Henry  Leffert.  481. 

Henry  Seely.  481. 

Henry  Wortley.  481. 

Hester,  479. 

Isaac,  479. 


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Brevoort,  J.  Carson   (Mrs.),  428. 

Jacob,  478. 

Jaoomintie,  479. 

Jacomyntje,  479. 

James  Carson,  480,  481. 

James  Renwick,  481,  482. 

Jan  Hendricks,  298,  342,  347.  370,  414, 
476. 

Jane,  481. 

Jannetie,  298,  477. 

Jeminia,  479. 

Johannes,  478. 

John,  478,  479,  480,  796,  800,  801,  803. 

John  (Johannes),  479. 

John  Butler,  482. 

John  Hendrick,  790. 

John  Hendricks.  475.  476.  477. 

Latisse,  478. 

Laura,  481. 

Laura  Whetten.  480. 

Lea,   479. 

Louisa,  479. 

Margaret  Claudia,  480. 

Margaretje,  478. 

Margrietje,  479. 

Maria,  478.  479,  480. 

Marritie,   477. 

Martje.  478. 

Mary,  298. 

Mary  Stewart,  48L 

Nicholaas,  479. 

Permile.  480. 

Rosamond  Renwick,  482. 

Sarah,  481. 

Susette  Terhune,  482. 

Victor,  482. 

Willemientie,  480. 

William  Augustus,  480. 

William  Whetten,  480,  481. 
Brewer,  80. 
Brewster,.   80. 

Eliza.  724. 

Mary,  526. 
Brice,  George,  541. 
Brickel,   George  F.,  619. 
Brlckers,  Thomas,  347. 
Bries.  Hendrick,  96. 

Hendrick  Volkertsen,  96. 
Briggs,  Louisa  A..  611. 

Mary,   790. 

Walter    488. 
Brinckerhoff.  Elbert  A..  66L 

George,  156. 

Maria,  706. 

Sarah,  156. 

Stephen,  704. 
Brindle,  Ora  Maharry,  674. 
Brink,  Abram  N..  630. 

Elizabeth,  499. 

Mary,  504. 
Brlnkerhofr,  Derick,  697. 

Margaret.  441. 
Brison.  Mary  Kanouse,  440,  443. 
Bristed.  Charles  Astor.  480. 
Brltt.  Elizabeth,  488. 
Britton,  William,  270. 
Broadhead,  Magdalena,  503. 
Brodhead,  Mary,  788. 

Richard.    148. 
Brodt,  Judith,  719. 
Brogaine,  William  V..  75L 
Brokaw,  Maria,  782. 

Matilda.  700. 
Bronck,  135,  136,  154. 

Jonas.  92.  133.  134,  140.  142.  384.  385. 

Jonas  (Mrs.),  277. 

Peter  Jonassen,  142. 
Bronson,   Montraville,   753. 
Brooks,  Arthur  Lee,  666. 

James.  724. 


415. 


Brooks.  Jonathan,  646. 

Martin  Van  B..  442. 

Samuel,  442. 
Broot,  Charles.  736. 
Brouk,  Anna,  540. 
Broussard.  Savlat,  410. 
Brouwer,   Cornelius  T.,   464. 

Jacob,  247. 

Jacob  Blderts.  183. 

Sarah.  456. 
Brower,  Abraham.  350. 

Adam,  220. 

Jacob,  787. 

John  D.,  461. 

Marritie.  220. 

Mary,  645. 

Mrs..  348. 

Theophilus,  457. 

Ulderrick,  347. 
Brower  (Brewster),  630. 
Brown,  Abigail,  803. 

Abraham.  644. 

Elizabeth.  569,  572. 

Evert,   424,   552. 

George.  666. 

George  B.,  753. 

H.  Leslie.  668. 

Hannah,  562,  664. 

Harriet,  656. 

Harriet  M..  739. 

James,  790. 

Jane,  630. 

John,  625,  706,  807. 

Joseph  O.,  32L 

Mary,  480,  489,  750. 

Mary  Kingsland,  492. 

Mr..   466. 

Myrtle.  446. 

Samuel,  783. 

Sarah,  488. 
Brundige,  Mary,  789. 
Brunneal,  Catherine.  699. 
Brunston,  Rachel,  434. 
Brush,  John,  460. 

Nelson,  440. 
Bruyn,  Byert,  486,  549. 

Gerrit.  615. 

Mary.  484.  486. 

Rebecca.  789. 
Bniynsen.  Hage,  107.  235,  251.  868. 

Hermanns,  236. 
Bryant.  Alanson  F.,  519. 

Elizabeth.  697. 
Brytseit,  Maria,  626. 
Buchanan,  340. 
Buchman,  Sylvester,  760. 
Buckhout,  204. 

Peter.  204.  261. 

Phebe.  720. 
Buckley.  Amanda,  714. 
Buell.  Charles.  526. 

Luther  H..  526. 

Phebe  O..  526. 
Buffum,   Elizabeth.   788. 
Bugby.  Hannah,  639. 
Buhl,  Benjamin  S.,  764. 
Bulderen,  Gertrude.  188. 
Bulen,  Alexander,  708. 
Bull,  Nathan,  620. 
Bullis,  William,  508. 
Bulson,  Abraham,  724. 
Bundy,  John  W.,  628. 
Bunn  (Bon).  Mary  (Maria).  605. 
Bunnell,  Mary,  657. 
Bunschoten,   Elias.   148. 
Burbanks.  Emily.  518. 
Burdett.  Walter  S.,  669. 
Burdione,  Anna  E.,  772. 
Burger.  Carsten,  692. 

Elizabeth,   393. 


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847 


Burger,  Engeltie,  386. 

John,   410. 

Jorls,  310. 

Nicholas,  410. 
Burbans,  Barent,  148. 
Burket.  Catharine  A.,  674. 

Bllzabeth  Jane,  574. 
Bumllam,  Dr.,  763. 

Mary,  753. 
Bums,   Ann,   506. 
Burr,   David,  666. 

Qrissel,  436.  440. 
Burrlli,    Bbenezer,    826. 

John  E.,  661. 
Burroughs,  Elizabeth,  620. 

Lydia,  723. 
Burt,  C.  S.,  762. 
Burtch,  Mary,  444. 
Burton  (Benton),  Lavinla  R.,  734. 
Bush,  270. 

Albert.  367,  368. 

Albertus  Conradus,  368. 

Anna  Maria.  368. 

Casparus,  368. 

Cornelia,   368. 

Dorothy,  368. 

Gerrlt.  368. 

Henry,  765. 

Hillegond,  368. 

Jeremiah,  610. 

Joshua,  368. 

Julia,  517. 

Jurian,  868. 

Justus.  368. 

Maggie,  755. 

Matilda,  688. 

Samuel,  368. 
Bussing.  172.  203,  230,  238,  802,  352. 
494.  546.  636.  795.  800,  803,  826. 

Aaron,  230,  274,  298.  438,  483,  484, 
489,  602,  604,  797.  800.  802,  818, 

Abraham,  484,  485,  487,  488,  489, 
607,  803. 

Abraham  Barker,  490. 

Abraham  V.  N.,  492. 

Adam.  492. 

Adolph,  488,  490. 

Aeltie.  484,  602. 

Alexander.  484. 

Amanda,  493. 

Andrew   Tenelck,   492. 

Ann,  489.  493. 

Anna.  484.  486.  487.  490. 

Arena  Harmans,  295. 

Arent,  333,. 345,  429,  484,  486,  486, 
607,  697,  698,  797.  801,  803,  810. 
821.  828.  829,  830. 

Arent  H.,  827,  828. 

Arent  Harmans.  93,  201,  242,  278, 
316,  ^89.  403.  406,  408,  482,  603, 

Arent  Harmanse,   483,   495. 

Arent  Harmens,  297. 

Arent  Hermens,  364.  377. 

Arent  Hermensen.  329. 

Betsy  Hannah.  489. 

Caroline  A..  491. 

Catalyna,  490. 

Cathertne.  274.   485,  491. 

Charlotte  S.,  491. 

Christian,    492. 

Cornelia,  493. 

Daniel  Schuyler.  491. 

Dirck,  483. 

Edith.  493. 

Edmund  Klngsland,  490,  492. 

Elizabeth,  429,  483,  487,  488,  491. 

Elizabeth  Mesier.  490. 

Ellen  Rebecca.  492. 

Emma,  491. 

Engelite,  483. 


424,  425. 

485,  487, 
824. 

490.  492. 


545,  564. 
817,  818, 


301,  310. 
791,  816. 


492. 


Bussing,  Engeltie,  600. 
Eva,  486. 
Eve.  484. 
Evert,  486. 
Florence,  493. 
Geesie,  594. 

Geesie  (Gertrude).  483. 
George,  493. 
George  H.,  489,  491. 
Georglanna,  491. 
Gerrett,  487. 
Hannah.  493. 

Harman,  483,  484.  488,  489.  491.  787. 
Harmanus,  487.  489. 
Harvey,  491. 
Harvey  Hyer,  489,  491. 
Helena,  488. 
Hendrik,  487. 
Herman,  486. 
Hester,  487. 
Hyer,  489. 
Isaac.  484,  486,  489. 
Jacobus,  485.  486.  487. 
James,  489. 

Jane,  487,  489,  490,  491. 
Jane  Ann,  491. 
Jennie,  493. 
Johannes,  487,  490. 
John,  483,  484,  485,  486,  487.  488,  489,  490. 

491,  492,  493,  564. 
John  Legrange,  492. 
John  M.,  490,  492. 
John  N.,  491. 
John  S.    492.  493. 
John  Schermerhorn.  490.  492. 
Julia  A..  492. 
Kate.  493. 

Margaret.  483.  488.  490.  492.  564. 
Maria,  298.  485,  486.  487.  605. 
Maria  (Mary).  489. 
Maria  Ann,  492. 
Marten,  492. 
Martha,  493. 
Martha  Jane.  493. 

Mary,  408,  484,  486.  488.  491.  492.  493. 
Mary  (Corson),  491. 
Mary  (Maria),  486. 
Mary  Ann,  489. 
Mary  Wilkinson,  490. 
Marytje,  490. 
Maude,  493. 
Nancy,  484. 
Peter,  430,  431,  433,  482,  483.  484,  486,  487, 

488,  489.  490.  491,  492,  545,  565.  602.  603. 

636.  642.  797.  800.  801.  818,  824. 
Peter  (Pieter),  487. 
Peter  (Rev.).  490,  492. 
Peter  Valentine,  492. 
Rebecca,  485,  486,  489.  704. 
Rebecca  D.,  490. 
Robert  Spier,  492,  493. 
Robert  Spier,  Jr..  493. 
Samuel.  490. 
Sara,  487. 

Sarah,  484.  485,  486,  487.  489. 
Sarah  (Susan),  488. 
Sarah  A.,  493. 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  493. 
Sarah  O.,  49L 
Sarah  Maria,  491. 
Susan,  485.  490. 
Susanna,  487. 
Susannah,  430,  483,  484.  487.  489.  490.  491. 

606.  607,  787. 
Timothy,  488. 
Timothy  (Timotheus),  486. 
William,  486.  489,  491. 
William  C,  488. 
William  J.,  492. 
Butcher.  John.  809. 


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Butler.  Amos,  686. 

John  A.,  481. 

Mary  Lewis,  481. 
Button,  Etienne,  365. 

Jacques,  347. 

Maria,  350. 
Buur.  Jan  Hendricks,  148. 
Buys,  Aert  P.,  202. 

Aert  Pletersen.  183,  201.  203.  275,  641. 

Aert  Pleterz,  218. 

Cornells,  96. 

Cornells  Aertse,  201. 

Cornells  Aertsen,  203. 

Eliza,  548. 

Francis.  692. 

Jacob.  347. 

Jan  Pleters,  277. 

Jan  Pletersen,  249. 

Joh.  Pletersen,  208,  242. 

Johannes,  96,  204,  219. 

Johannes  Plet'n,  201. 

Johannes  Pietersz,  240. 

John,  546.  594. 

Peter,  96. 

Rebecca,  845. 
Byrklt,  F.  K.,  776. 
Byrnes,  Edward,  723. 

Ellen,  770. 
Byron,  George,  725. 

Harriet,  724. 
Byvanck,  Peter,  456. 


Caden,  John,  717. 
Calame,  Elise,  662. 
Calden.  Jane.  648. 
Caldwell,  Elizabeth,  505. 
Call.  Anthony,  711. 
Callanan.  John,  13. 
Callow,  Stephen,  788. 
Calvin,  11. 
Cammega,  Anna,  604. 

Hendrick,  347,  604. 

Hendrlck  Jansz,  681. 
Cammel.   Christian,  684. 
Campbell,  736. 

Adolph  W.,  610. 

George  W.,  764. 

John.  687. 

John  R.  (Dr.),  714. 

Lucas,  638. 

Peter  C,  466. 

Robert,  767. 

Thomas,  744. 

William,  451,  464. 

William  D.,  617. 

Caner,  Edward  A.,  663. 
Cannon,  775. 

Hester,  565. 

James  S.,   (Dr.),  479. 

John,  665. 
Canon,  Abraham,  350. 
Canterbury.  494. 
Cantine,  Abraham,  502. 

Daniel.  502. 
Capito.  Matthys,  259. 
Carbosie,  303,  304,  375. 

Brleta,  374.  389. 

David,  375. 

Gabriel.  293.  302.  340,  374,  389. 
Card,  Mary,  750. 
Carhart,  Jane.  733. 
Carl,   Margaret,  752. 
Carle,  Joseph.  583. 
Carleton,  Dudley  (Sir),  81,  82,  117. 
Carlisle,  James  L..  771. 
Carlock,   Simon,  617. 
Carlton,  Phebe,  686. 


Carman,  Isaac,  634. 
Carmen,  Nicholas,  693. 
Carpenter,   (George,  741. 

Mrs.,  656. 
Carr,  Ervilla,  630. 

Lillian,   576. 
Carroll,  James.  298,  662. 
Carsense,  Hendrick,  698. 
Carson,  Charles,  741. 

Laura,  480. 
Carsten,  Claes,  145,  273,  802,  360. 
Cartaret,  606. 

James  (Capt),  323. 
Carter,    Clara   Sherwood,   775. 
Jane,  626. 
Mary  Ann,  656. 
Zebulon   (Capt.),  217. 
Carteret.  13,  206.  323,  372,  797,  808,  813. 
Captain,  323,  324,  340,  842,  346,  355. 
Elizabeth,  810. 
Frances,   811. 
George,  810,  811. 
George  (Sir),  322,  360. 
James,  397,  601,  811,  812. 
James   (Captain),   13,   321,   322,  339,   342. 

359,  360.  378,  394.  809.  810. 
James  (Mrs.),  809. 
Mrs.,  359. 

Philip  (Capt.),  322. 
Philip  (Governor),  322. 
Cartler,  11,  76. 
Carver,  80. 
Gary,  John,  729. 

William,  790. 
Case,  Carrie,  660. 

Robert,  723. 
Cashow,  204. 

easier,  47,  60.  61,  270.  622. 
Elizabeth,  198. 
Hester,  198. 
Jacques,  198. 
Jean,  198,  201,  203. 
Jean   (Mrs.),  200. 
Maria,  200. 
Marie,  104. 
Peter,  198.. 
Philip,  47,  65,  190,  194,  196,  198,  200.  206, 

221,  272,  621,  791,  797,  800. 
Philippe.  103,  183.  186.  193. 
Sarah,  198. 
Sophia.  198. 
Widow,  800. 
Cass,  Fanny  R.,  690. 
Cassldy,  Margaret,  762. 
Castang,  Judith,  428. 
Cavalier,  Peter  Gerard,  368. 
Chaigneux,  Pierre,  220. 
Chamberlain,  Edwin  B.,  489. 

Martha,  668. 
Chambers.  John,  807. 
Sarah,  498. 
Thomas,  148. 
William,  498. 
Champlain.  11. 
Chapin.  Sarah.  667. 
Chapman,  Olive.  609. 
Chappell.  William,  638. 
Chardavoyne.    Jane   Magdalena,   653. 

William  W.,  647. 
Chartier.  Francis.  272. 
Chase.  Laura,  519. 
Liddie,  734. 
Martin  V..  752. 
Nelson,   562. 
Chatterton,  658. 

Jane,  687. 
Chauncey,   Isaac   (Com.),   298. 
Cheethen.  Matilda.  465. 
Cheney.  William.  667. 
Cherry  tree,  Stephen  F.,  519. 


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849 


Chesire.   Jane.  513. 
Chesterman,  172.  794. 

James,  172,  579,  706. 
Chevalier,  Samuel,  589. 
Chichester,   Fred  L..,  773. 

Romette.   632. 
Chllds.  Evander,  646, 

S.  W.,  762. 
Cheat,  Joseph  S.,  638. 
Choi  well.  Jacob,  465. 
Chrlstancy,  Hannah. 
Christeen.  Sarah,  788. 
Christiaens,  Barent,  234. 
Christie,   Hannah,  460,  466. 

James.  350. 

Margaret,  460. 

Maria.  451. 

Peter  W.,  460. 
Christie   (Volk),   Agnes.  685. 
Christopher,  Aaron,  667. 

Maria,  619. 
Church,  Dewitt  C,  769. 

Owin.  555. 
Citti,  Caroline  A.,  624. 
Claes,  Thysie,  427. 
Claessen,  106,  190,  200,  833,  342,  797. 

Claesie,  234. 

Deride.  191,  195,  206,  234,  791.  800,  8 

Dlrck,  183.  186,  199,  219,  221»  545. 

Oeertie,  234. 

Oisberta.   234. 

Jacob,  277. 

Jannetie.   234.  646. 

John,  277,  278. 

Marritle.  166. 

Mary,  278. 

Matthias,  278. 

Matthys,  277.  278. 

Pieter,  293,  294. 

Sibout.  146.  166.  247. 

Valentine.  219,  234,  239,  240,  242,  277, 
797,  800. 
Clark.  Abigail  ru,  461. 

Ann,  457. 

Cornelius,   537. 

Daniel  D.,  461. 

DelTina.  526. 

BflBe.  647. 

Elizabeth,  466. 

John,  551. 

John  O..  528. 

Mary.  486,  725. 

Mary  Louise,  747. 

Patrtck.  707. 

Rachel  Beach,  664. 

Ralph,  468. 

Samuel    (Colonel),  791. 

Sarah,  460. 

Theodocia.   791. 
Clarke.  Caroline  F.,  759. 

Gerardus.  469. 
Claus.   David  J.,  745. 
Claypole,   Norton,  367. 
Cleveland.  Nettie  A.,  540. 
Clinton,    George,   607. 

George  (Governor),  428. 
Cloos,   Rachel,  101,   221,  292. 
Clopper,  Cornells,  431. 

Johannes,  431. 

Margaret.   431. 

Peter,  806. 
Clute.  F.  N.,  168. 

Francina,  295. 

Frederick,  295. 

Frederick  N.,  169. 

Helen,  719. 

Nicholas  F.,  169. 
Coats,  Mary,  527. 
Cochran,  Mr..  531. 
Coddington,  Mrs.,  813. 


806. 


Codington,  Margaret.  628. 
Codrington.  Captain.  353. 

Margaret.  807.  808. 

Thomas,  363,  367.  378,  807. 
Coe,  49. 

Amanda  L.,  752. 

John,  710. 
Coen,  Adrian  Dircksen.  311. 
Coenraet,  694. 

Goenraets.  Femmetie.  251.  269,  310. 
Coerten,  494. 

Meyndert,  183.  187,  189,  193,  493. 
Coeymans,  Andries,  427. 

Barent  Pietersen,  427. 

Jannetie,  427. 
Coffin,  Ann.  371. 
Cogu,  353,  798. 

Jan.  183.  186.  190,  194,  201,  203,  225,  287, 
246,  333.  797. 
Cole,  Henry,  783. 

Isaac,  682. 

Isaac  (Rev.),  466. 

Julia  Anna,  466. 

Martha.   571. 

Mary,  506.  665. 

Maryetta  L...  742. 
Ck>Ieman,   John,  112. 

Philetus,  752. 

Samuel,  726. 
Coles.  John  B..  238. 
Colevelt.  Johanna.  380. 

Laurens,  271.  380. 

Laurens  Jans  en.  692. 
Coley,  Mary  Ellen,  529. 
Collgnv.  11. 

Admiral.  38. 
Collard.  Benton,  763. 
Gollidge.   Frederick  W.,  480. 
Collister.  Anna.  715. 
Colonius,  84. 

Daniel,  74. 
Colthar.  693. 
Colton,  Harriet,  533. 
Colve.  A..  310. 

Anthony    (Governor).   306.   306. 

Governor.  312,  817,  382,  385. 
Colwell.   William  H.   (Mrs.).  386. 
Comstock.  Elsie,  469. 

Harriet.  661. 
Concini,  42. 
Concklin,  Tobias.  424. 
Congreve.  828. 

Captoin.  408.  799.  823.  824.  829.  830. 

Charles.  821.  826.  827.  828.  829,  830. 

Charles   (CapUin),  637.  698.  795. 
Conklin.  Mary.  709. 

Matthew,  618. 

Rebecca,   724. 
Conner,   Elizabeth,  690. 
Connor.  Catherine.  Z..  466.  471. 
Conover,  Amanda.  661. 
Conrad.  Harriet.  530. 
Conselyea.   204.  205,  613. 

John.  205.  220. 

Margaret.  205.  220. 

Peter,  205. 
Convers,  771. 
Cook,  David,  526. 

Thomas  F.  (M.  D.).  784. 
Cool.  Jacob.  682. 
Cooley,  A.  J.,  762. 
Coon,  Daniel.  518. 
Coonley.  751. 
Cooper,  Cornelia.  791. 
Coopman,  Barbara.  453. 
Cope.  Eliza  A..  523. 
CopRtaff,  John.  409. 
Cordaz.  789. 
Corey,  Augusta.  735. 
Cornbury,  826. 


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Cornbury,  QoYomor,  806»  826. 
Corne,  Eliza,  661. 

Peter  (Capt.)»  294. 
Cornells,  Ariaentie,  209. 

Jenneke,  641. 

Metje,  430,  433,  663,  692,  796,  797,  800,  801. 
803.  816,  817,  826,  827,  828,  830. 
Cornelisse,  LOurens,  STB, 

Metje,  623. 

Mettle,  810. 
Cornellssen,  Laurens,  663.  821,  830. 

Matthys,  229. 

MetJe.   830. 
Cornellson,   John   (Rev.),  229. 
Cornelisz.  Claes,  126. 

Laurens.   476. 

Thomas.  85. 
Cornell,  Jennie,  636. 

Thomas.   163. 
Cornier.  329,  348. 

Simeon.   103.    104,   293.   301,   304,  308,   309, 
314.  315,  328,  798,  804. 

Simon,  797. 
Corning.  Emily  Augusta,  620. 
Cornish,  Aaron,  630. 
Correll,  A.  B.,  577. 
Corsa,  Andrew.  488. 

Benjamin,   265. 

Charles.    491. 

Jacomina,  644. 

Martha.  491. 
Corsen,  Jannetie,  679. 
Corssen,   Arent,   784. 

Teunis,  622.  643. 
Cortelyou,  Jacques,  476. 
Cortilieu.  Jacques.  392. 
Cortilleau,  Jaques,  226. 
Cortilyou,  Jacques.  255. 
Cortlandt.  Mr.,  392. 
Cortrlght.  Margareta,  822. 

Mary.   571. 
Cortwright,   Hendrick  W.,  269. 
Corwin.   Flora,  576. 

Henry   B.,   747. 
Coryell,  Dinah,  727. 
Cosart.  Anthony,  205. 

David,  205. 

Francis,  205. 

George,   205. 

Jacob,   205. 

John.    205. 
Cosgrove,    Samuel,.  442. 
CoBsart,  Anthony,  204. 

David,  204. 

Elizabeth.  201. 

Jacob,  204. 

Jaoque.  204. 
Cosse,   James  A..  790. 
Cottin,   184. 

Daniel,  64. 

Jean.   64. 

Susannah,  64. 
Cottle,  George  L.,  770. 
Coude.  Anna  Margareta,  359. 
Coum.   Samuel.  739. 
Counsell.   769. 
Courtrlght,  Aefle,  410. 

John.  267,  410.  806. 
Cousseau,  190.  199.  800.  801.  804. 

Jacques.   48,    100.    183.   186,   191,    194.    204, 
210,   221,   272,   379,   797. 

Martha,  379. 
Couwenhoven,  Johannes,  477. 
Covert,  613. 

Hans,  809. 

John  C,  537. 

Richard,   553. 
Cowenhoven,  Johannes,  429. 

Maria,  478. 

Maria    (Maryken   Van),    477. 


Cowperthwait,  438. 

J.  K.,  172. 

Mr.,  262. 
Cox.  783. 

Daniel.  807. 

Daniel   (Dr.).  413. 

Dr.,  807. 

Frances  Emma.  676. 

Mary,  667. 

Mary  Jane,  697. 

Mr.,  399. 

Mrs.,  381. 

Sarah,  805. 

Thomas,  558. 

William,  367.  381.  388,  401,  806. 
Cozine,  Garret,  546. 
Craft,  Henry.  621. 
Craig.  Elizabeth.  436. 
Crain.  Parthenia.  749. 
Crandall.   658. 
Crane.  Gilbert.  630. 

Judge,  727. 

Mary  E.,  470. 
Crannell,  Robert.  811. 
Cranson.  Edgar,  749. 
Crapo,  Maria,  751. 
Crawbank,  Margaret,  719. 
Crawford,   Ann,  700. 
Cray.  Grietie,  699. 

Jacob,  214. 

Teunis,  214,  282.  599. 
Creed,  James,  746. 
Cregier.  647. 
Crepel,  184. 

Antoinet  183. 

Maria,  183. 
Cresson.  5,  50,  61,  64.  176.  236,  270.  332. 

Abraham.  358. 

Anna.   358. 

Charles  M.  (Dr.).  358. 

Christina,  214.  357. 

Elias.  357. 

Elie,  293. 

Elliot,  358. 

Isaac,  358. 

Jacques.  183.  197.  202.  212.  223.  235,  357. 
358.  359,  636,  791,  796,  800. 

Jaques.  186,  190.  199,  200.  201.  203,  214, 
221.  239,  242.  269,  266.  288.  296.  297,  622. 

Joshua,  357.  358. 

Maria.  358. 

Moy  Pier.  193,  199. 

Mrs..  233,  267,  358. 

Nicolas,  101. 

Peter,  190,  287,  288. 

Pierre,  101,  176.  183.  186.  201.  202,  M3. 
204.  214,  218.  221,  239.  266.  2^7.  271,  284. 
286.  289,  292.  293,  296.  298.  302.  303,  308, 
316,  320.  332,  346.  347,  360,  351,  353,  357, 
477.  791.  795,  796.  801. 

Pieter.  338. 

Rachel.  350,  357.  358. 

Sarah.  358. 

Solomon.  3.'=8. 

Susannah,  292,  357,  358. 

Venant,  101. 
Crey,   Theunis,  288. 
Crispel,   Antoine.  103. 
iCrispell,  184. 
'     Julia,-  655. 
Crispman,  Mary  E.,  735. 
tCrolius.  William  J..  697. 
jCrom,  Catherine,  259. 
I  Cromartie,  John,  191. 

Margaret.  191. 
Cromelin.  Rachel,  462. 
Crommelin,  Anna,  603. 

Charles,  603. 
Cronenberg,  Tryntle  Pleters,  219. 
Cronk,  Margaret,  606. 


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Crook,  John,  808. 

Mary,  808. 
Crooker,  Frank  P.,  444. 
Crooks.  Vlnie,  770. 
Crosby,  Jane,  486. 
Cross,  Eliza  J.,  754. 

Emma,  747. 

James  M.,  735. 

Shubel,  738. 
CroBseron.  Jean,  270. 
Crossit,  Bessie,  766. 
Crouser,  Oerrlt,  270. 
Crowell,  Esther,  462,  468. 
Croy,  Charles,  33. 
Cruger.  John,  364. 

John  P.  (Colonel),  556. 

Nicholas,  670. 
Cnim,  Elizabeth,  709. 

Louisa  A..  629. 
Crundall.  Thomas,  321. 
Cruse,  Belinda.  664. 
Cruser,  B.  J.,  656. 
Cudabee,  Catharine,  567. 
CulTy.  390. 
Culver.  204,  206. 

Gertie,  205. 

Jacob,  205. 

Johannes.  206. 

Maria,  205. 

Sarah,  205,  697. 
Cunningham,  Simon  B.,  675. 
Cure.  John,  648. 

Curtenius,  Antonius  (Rev.),  782. 
Curtis.   Mehitable,  784. 

Sarah  L.,  445. 
Custiss,  Amelia  C,  532. 
Cuthe.  57. 

CJutshall,  W.  W..  532. 
CuviUy,  Adriana,  613. 
Cuyler.   Abraham,  364. 

Hendrlck.  364. 

Henry,  364. 

Johannes.  364. 

Reynier,  364. 


Daille.  Peter  (Dominie).  335. 

Pierre  (Rev.).  319,  335. 
d'Ailly.  Louis,  58. 
d 'Albert,  Charles,  42. 

Henry,  32. 

Honore.  55. 
Dalsen,  Teunls,  791. 
Dalton.  Kate,  690. 
Daly.  Elizabeth,  456. 

Mary,  788. 

Philip,  456,  788. 
Damen.  Cornelia,  200. 

Elizabeth,  198. 

Jan,  302. 

Jan  J  an  sen,  613. 

John.  198.  447. 

Neeltie.  447. 
Damarest,  David,  220. 
Dan  forth.  554. 
Daniels.  Annetie,  94,  692. 

Johan.   274. 

Melissa  J.,  736. 
Danielson,  Alice  Weaver,  474. 
Dankers.  354. 
Darby,  Bernard.  782. 
Darvall.  397,  797,  798. 

Prances,  378. 

William,  378.   809. 

William  (Mrs.),  809. 
d'Aumale,  Count,  58. 
Davenport,  John,  695. 

Lewis,  646. 


d'Avesnes.  Jacques,  31,  64. 
David,  760. 

Francis  Morton,  664. 
Davids.  Martje.  822. 

Moertje.  365,  366,  368,  369,  394,  814,  825. 

Phebe  Ann,  661. 
Davidsen,  Joris,  161. 
Davis.  Alice  (Mrs.),  445. 

Cornelia,  526. 

Emellne,  440. 

Fred  C.  Arthur,  443. 

Jabez  H..  524. 

James   (Dr.),  528. 

Jane,  783. 

Lyman  H.,  511. 

Peter,  783. 

Sewall   S.,  758. 

Silas.  436. 

Walter  A.,  467. 
Davidson,  Charles  A.,  661. 

James,  763. 

Jefferson,   754. 
Dawson.  John,  714. 
Day,  Isaac.  418,  500. 

John  Q.  Adams,  518. 

Martha.   519. 

Orsinius  D..  464. 
Deady,  Charles.  627. 
Dean.  Joseph  P.  (Capt.),  609. 

Lavinia.   C02. 

Mary  E.,  665. 

Otto  K.,  675. 
Deane.  Josephine  M.,  535. 
De  Barradat.   Henri,  54. 
De   Baun.    Isaac,   442. 
Debaun,   Christian,   350. 

Cornelia,  433. 

Mattie,  350. 
de  Beauvois,  Carel.  274. 
De  Bell.  Emily,  730. 
De  Berghes,  Archbishop,  34. 
De  Berguin,  Louis,  58. 
De  Bevoise,  Zana,  445. 
Debevoise,  John  R.,  730. 

Maria,  692. 
de  Boog.   Hendrlck.  161.  220. 

Susannah,  277. 
De  Boog.  Catharine.  161.    ^ 
Debost,  Charles,  465. 
De  Boyce,  Johanna,  732. 
De  Brlchanteau.  Philibert,  64. 
de  Carteret,  Amice,  321. 

Charles,  321. 

Edward,  322. 

Nicholas,  322. 
De  Carteret,  6,  13,  321. 

George  (Sir),  320,  321. 
De  Caumartin,  56. 
de  Cerff,  Jan,  408. 
De  Chaulnes,  Duke,  64,  56,  69. 
Decker,  Fanny,  512. 

Harman,  785. 

Jacob,  259. 

Jacob  JanFen,  258. 

Mai  in  da,   736. 

Maria,  496,  499. 

Mary,  515. 

Ruth,  788. 
De  Clark,  626. 

Mary,  615. 

Stephen,   442. 
De  Clerck,   Derrick,  638. 
Decosenine,   Adeie,  750. 
de  Croy,  Antoine,  38. 

Charles.  32. 

Jean,  32. 

Lord.  30. 

Philip.  32. 
Deen,  Hans,  201,  203. 
De  Foreest,  Catharine,  783. 


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De  Foreest,  John  Abeel,  788. 
John   I.,  783. 
Lawrence  V.,  783. 
Margaret,  783. 
Maria.  783. 
Peter.  783. 
Sarah.  783. 

Theodore  Romaine  (M.  D.).  788. 
de  Forest,  Gerrit,  692. 
Henricus,  870. 
John.  37L 
Maria.  701. 
Philip,  351. 
Rachel.  785. 
De'  Forest.  33.  38.  89.  48,  77.  97,  105,  U7.  130. 

154.  155.  164.  356.  781.  786. 
Ahel  B..  784. 
Abraham.  782.  783. 
Alfred.  784. 
Andrew.  783. 
Ann.  784. 
Anna,  783. 
Barent.  783. 
Benjamin,  784. 
Bernard,  782. 
Captain.  783. 
Carlos  M..  784. 
Caroline.  783. 
Catalina.  783. 
Catharine,  782. 
Charles.  784. 
Charles  A.,  784. 
Charles  S..  783. 
Cornelia.  783. 
Cornelius.  783. 
Cornelius  V..  783. 
Crispin,  89.  90.  91. 
Cyrus  H..  784. 
David,  782,  783,  784. 
David  C,  784. 
Deborah,  783. 
Dr..  372.  782. 
Edward,  784. 
Eliza.  784. 

Elizabeth,  782,  788.  784. 
Erastus  L..  784. 
Frederick  L.,  784. 
George  B..  784. 

Gerard.  76.  84.  85.  88.  89,  90.  131.  204.  785. 
Oerardus.  783. 
Gerrit,  782.  783. 
Gideon,  784. 
Hendrick,  150,  782,  783. 
Henricus,  783. 
Henry.  76,  88,  89.  90.  91,  125,  126,  128,  129. 

134.  783,  784,  802. 
Henry  G.,  784. 
Hezekiah,  784. 
Isaac.  76.  89.  91.  94.  125.  135.  150,  161,  194, 

210.  242,  781.  782.  784. 
Israel,  76. 

Jacob  J.   (Colonel),  782. 
James  G..  784. 
Jane,  784. 

Jean,  36,  76,  82.  88. 
Jeanne,  76. 
Jesse,  76.  77.  81.  82,  83.  84.  85.  88,  89,  782, 

783. 
Johannes,  782. 
John,  782,  783. 
John  (M.  D.).  784. 
Joseph,  784. 
Lawrence,  782. 
Lawrence  Vanderveer,  782. 
Lee,  784. 
Lockwood,  784. 
Louisa.  784. 
Margaret,  782.  783. 
Maria,  750,  782.  783. 
Martha,  784. 


De  Forest.  Mary,  782,  784. 

Mary  L.,  784. 

Michael,  76,  782. 

Mrs.,  136. 

Nehemiah.  784. 

Peter,  783. 

Phebe.  788. 

Philip,  782. 

PhUippe,  76. 

Rachel.  76.  85,  784. 

Richard,  782. 

Samuel,  784. 

Samuel  A.,  784. 

Sarah,  782.  783,  784. 

Susan.  784. 

Susannah.  782,  788. 

Theodorus,  782,  783. 

Tracy  R.,  784. 

William.  784. 

WUllam  W..  784. 
De  Forest  &  Son.  784. 
de  Genlls.  Countess,  17. 
de  Graaf ,  821. 

Anna,  692. 
De  Graaf.  Hester,  681,  682. 

Susannah.  681. 
De  Graef.  Susannah,  68L 
De  Gratr.  Blandlna.  602. 

Maria,  506.  515. 
De  Grave.  Maria.  898. 
De  Graw.  Cornelia,  449. 

Elizabeth.  617. 

Qerrlt.  449. 
De  Groot,  Adolphus  Pletersen,  866. 

Elizabeth,  350. 

Gerrit,  429. 

Leah.  350. 

Peter.  350. 

Rebecca.  350. 
Degroot.  724. 

De  Grush.  Ellas.  Jr.,  606. 
De  Haert.  Jacobus.  155. 
De  Haes.  Jacob,  214. 

Jacob  Gerrlts,  214. 

John,  214. 
de  Hainault,  John   (Sir),  81. 
De  Hedicourt,  Sieur.  99. 
De  Hocqulncourt.  Marqulese,  64. 
De  Hooges.  Anthony,  785. 

Elenora.  785. 
de  Jonge,  Wellke.  412. 
De  Key.  Agnes,  821. 

Captain,  810. 

Jacob,  321,  394,  395,  692,  825. 

Jacob  (Capt.),  389.  637. 

Lucretla,   161. 

Teunls,  276. 

Thomas,  804. 
De  Klerck.  Daniel,  616. 
de  Kleyn.  WlUemtie.  681. 
De-  Kleyn,  Hugh  Barents,  97,  68L 
De  Labadle.  Jean,  62. 
De  Laet,  110,  113.  118. 

Johannes.  86,  87,  89. 
Delafleld,  340,  807. 
de  la  Grange,  Agnes,  76. 

Anna,  608. 

Crispin.  76. 

Hester.  76. 

Jellis*.  608. 
De  Lamater,  Cynthia,  688. 

Jan.  448. 

Zoe  Allda,  538. 
Delamater.  205.  269,  270.  297.  383.  835,  336. 
419.  482.  493.  494.  797,  802. 

Abel.  520,  532. 

Abraham.  196.  346.  429.  478.  494.  496.  497. 
498.  499,  500.  501.  602.  604.  606.  606.  508. 
510,  511,  513,  515,  516,  621,  622,  623,  624, 
627,  532,  534.  535. 


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Delamater,  Abraham  (Abram),  496. 
Abraham  C,  603,  61L 
Abraham  Howard,  621,  633. 
Abraham  J.,  498,  603. 
Abraham  ValaUe,  609,  620. 
Abram  J.,  634. 
Ada  Belle.  639. 
Ada  S.,  644. 
Adalina,  628. 
Addison.  628. 
Adelaide.  644. 
Adelaide  M..  633. 
Adriana  (Arlaantje),  496. 
Albert.  624. 
Albert  F..  629. 
Albert  Laverene,  641. 
Albert  W.,  636. 
Alexander.  622. 
Alfred.  636. 
Alice  Martha,  641. 
Allie,  643. 
Almira,  630. 
Almon,  632.  64t 
Almon  Herman,  641« 
Alonzo.   636. 
Alton  Washington,  629. 
Alva  James,  622.  634. 
Amanda  E.,  626. 
Amelia.  641. 
Amy.  613. 
Andrew.  626. 
Ann.  606. 

Ann  Augusta,  629. 
Ann  Eliza.  618,  621,  631. 
Ann  Eliza  H..  623. 
Anna.  603.  606.  608.  610.  613,  616,  618,  619, 

620.  636.  640.  700.  706. 
Anna  Catharina.  498. 
Anna  Maria,  615. 
Anna  Wheeler,  639. 
Annatje,  498.  499. 
Anne  (Annatje).  604. 
Anneke.  644. 
Anneke  (Anna),  600. 
Anneken,  499. 
Annie,  639. 

Anson,  516.  628.  643.  644. 
Anson  H..  626. 
Anson  White.  628.  639. 
Anthony.  604.  6U. 
Antonnetta.  609. 
Antoinette.  631.  634. 
Arthur  J.,  622. 
Asa.  620. 
Aseneth.  613. 
Austin.  630.  639. 
Barent.  500.  606. 
BaU.  497,  602. 
Bata  (Elizabeth),  601. 
Bayard  E^dwin.  633. 
Belden.  620.  633. 
Beletle.  606. 
Beletje.  606. 
Belle.  643. 
Bellona.  638. 
Benjamin.  498,  601.  602.  603.  606.  606,  607. 

609.  617.  620,  623,  628,  629,  636. 
Benjamin  C,  527.  638. 
Benjamin  Edwin,  620. 
Benjamin  F.,  632. 
Benjamin  Franklin,  620. 
Benjamin  S..  610.  621. 
Benjamin  Valatie,  609.  619. 
Benjamin  Waldron,  613,  623. 
Bert.  687. 
Bertie.  636.  640. 
Betsy.  617.  619. 
Betsy  (Elizabeth).  619. 
Betsy  Amanda.  628. 
Betsy  C.  626. 


Delamater,  Blandina.  608,  611. 
Bradley  M..  627,  628. 
Bradley  M.,  Jr.,  637,  638,  643. 
Calista,  637. 
Captain.   497. 

Caroline.  613,  616,  617,  622,  626,  626,  633. 
Carrie.  642. 

Catalina.  601,  606,  612. 
Caterine.  604. 

Catharine,  499.  604.  609,  610,  618. 
Catherina,  602.  604. 
Catherine,  478,  496,  498,  499.  606,  606,  611, 

514.  623. 
Catherine  Ann,  622. 
Catherine  Louisa,  520. 
Cathleen  M..  635. 
Catrina.  498,  614. 
Caty   (Catherine).  619. 
Chandler.   627. 
Chandler  B.,  627. 
Charles,  614.  624.  627,  636,  638,  643. 
Charles  B.,  623. 
Charles  Day.  532,  541. 
Charles  De  Witt.  621. 
Charles  E..  626. 
Charles  Fremont,  638. 
Charles  H..  640. 
Charles  Henry.  636. 
Charles  K..  633.  542. 
Charles  Wallace,  634. 
Charlotte.  621. 
Charlotte  Elizabeth.  610. 
Christina.  501,  603.  616. 
Christine,  607. 
Christinje,  614. 
Cintie,  601. 

Clarissa,  521.  633.  634. 
Claude.  614,  515. 
Claude  Fay,  642. 
Cloudy.  616. 
Cloudy  (Claude).  607. 
Conrad.  510. 
Constant  C,   627. 
Cora  B..  642. 
Cora  C.  640. 
Cornelia.  496.  497.  498,  600.  606,  606,  636, 

543,  566.  602. 
Cornelia  Ann.  623. 
Cornells.  610. 
Cornelius.  496,  498,  499,  602,  608,  604,  609, 

510,  611,  612. 
Cornelius  (Cornells).  498. 
Cornelius  Brink.  611. 
Cornelius  Marquand,   623. 
Cynthia  Louisa.  637. 
Cyrus  M..  608.  618. 
Daniel.  293. 
David.  496.  499,  5U. 
David  D..  499,  604. 
David  J..  636. 
Delia,  633. 
De  Witt  C,  626. 
DeWitt  Clinton,  637,  643. 
Dladema.  639. 
Dirck.  601.  607. 
Dolly.   620. 
Donald  L..   642. 
Dorcas.  636. 
Dorothea.  615. 
Dubois.  636. 
Dunis  (Tunis).  607. 
Earl  Mott.  639. 
Ebenezer.  619,  63L 
Edgar.  543. 
Edith  L..  639. 
Edith  May.  638. 
Edna.  639. 
Edna  Louise,  643. 
Edward.  516.  627.  528.  638. 
Edward  B.,  633,  642. 


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Delamater,  Edward  D.,  513. 
Edward  Radcliff,  544. 
Edward  Sellew,  640. 
Edward  W.  C,  524. 
Edwin,  520. 
Edwin  James,  536. 
Effie.  533. 
Eldredge,  536. 
Elipbaz,   534.   542. 
Eliza  (Catherine).  511. 
Eliza  A..   512. 
Eliza  Linnet.  523. 
Eliza  M.,   529. 
Eliza  Maria,  630. 
Eliza  Sill.  528. 
Elizabeth,  499,  500,  502,  503,  504.  505,  506. 

508.  509.  510.  514,  516,  518,  519,  521,  524, 

525,  528,  530.  531. 
Ella  Jessie,  &22. 
Ella  Sarah.  541. 
Ellen  Eliza.  531. 
Elmer  Ellsworth.  537. 
Elsie,  542. 
Elsie  (Elsjen).  498. 
Elting,   534,   542. 
Elting  R..  542. 
Elvina.  536. 
Ely,  513. 

Emeline.  527,  540. 
Emily.   530. 
Emily  L.,  526. 
Emma,  537. 
Emma  Elizabeth,  522. 
Emma  Florence.  541. 
Emma  Frances,  524. 
Emmett,  542. 
Endell.  537. 
Eric,  542. 

Erskine  Grant.  535. 
Estelle,  531. 
Ethel,  542. 
Etta.  536. 

Eunice  Rebecca,  531. 
Eva,  515. 

Evelyn  Catalina,  535. 
Evert,  506.  514. 
Evertie  (Titje),  497,  682. 
Ezra  Doane.   524. 
Ezra  Lee,  539. 
Fanny.  543. 
Fidelia.  536. 
Flora,  534. 
Flora  Eva,  541. 
Florence,  636. 
Florence  A.,  641. 
Florence  E.,   538. 
Foster  Beckwith   Gilbert,   643. 
Francis,  513. 
Frank,  538.  639. 
Frank  L.,  640,  543. 
Franklin  W..  641. 
Fred  M..  642. 
Freddy.  538. 

Frederick.  518.  529,  630,  533,  636,  539,  544. 
Frederick  M Hedge,  524. 
Frederick  R.,  542.  544. 
Garret,  512. 
Oeertjen.  502. 
George.    513.   519,    526.   531,    536,   537,   538, 

539.  543. 
George  Albert.   538. 
George  Benjamin,  532,  640. 
George  C.  532. 
George  Clinton.  617. 
George  L..   538. 
George  Richmond,  544. 
George  Wallace,  534.  640,  544. 
George  Wright,  539. 
Georgie,  539. 
Gerret,  509,  521. 


Delamater,  Gerrit,  606. 
Gertje,  515. 
Gertrude,  501,  534. 
Gertrude  A.,  635. 
Gertrude  C.   H.,  528. 
Gertruit  (Gertrude),  507. 
Glaude.  229.  230.  231,  234,  242.  264,  267,  2S9, 

279,  281,  293,  296.  333,  334.  S60,  393.  484. 

494,  495,  497,  601,  507,  697,  791,  795.  800, 

801.  808.  804. 
Glaude  (Mrs.).  401. 
Grace.  539.  644. 
Grace  Adelaide,  644. 
Grace  E..  535. 
Grace  Laura,  641. 
Grace  Maria,  639. 

Guysbert  Bogert  Vroom,  623,  635. 
Guysbert  Watts.  536. 
Hannah.  512,  620.  526. 
Hannah  Helen.  628. 
Hannah  Matilda,  523. 
Hardenburgh.  521. 
Harmon.  529. 
Harold  E..   544. 
Harold  Waldo.  543. 
Harriet,  523.  626.  631. 
Harriet  Louisa,  528. 
Harry,  626,  626. 
Harry  A.,   64L 
Harry  B.,  542. 
Hattie  C.  543. 
Hazel.  543. 

Helen,  617.  528,  630,  633. 
Helen  O..  644. 
Helen  S..  527. 
Helen  Schuler.  530. 
Helen  Ursula,  537. 
Helena,  521. 
Heletje,  514. 
Hendrick.  502.  508,  609. 
Henlen  E.,  538. 
Henrietta,  536. 

Henry,  518,  521.  524.  529,  530,  531.  534,  538. 
Henry  (Harry),  520. 
Henry  A.,  510. 
Henry  Bruce,  541. 
Henry  Columbus,  538. 
Henry  Sabine.  536,  643. 
Hester.  412.  414,  415,  495,  496.  497,  498,  500, 

502.  564. 
Hildreth,  642. 
Homer.  538. 
Horace  B..  529. 
Horace  L..  531.  540.  541. 
Horace  N..  625.  636. 
Horace  William.  539. 
Ida.  535. 
Ira.,  519.  530. 
Ira  E.,  540,  644. 
Ira  M.,  530,  539. 
Ira  M.   (Dr.),  618. 
Irene,   518. 
Irving.  542. 
Isaac,  376,  389.  403.  405.  406,  412,  414,  41S, 

494,  495,  496,  497,  500,  601,  504.  505.  506. 

507.  508,  509.  511.  512.  613.  514,  515,  518, 

517,  518.  523,  626,  627,  631,  537,  540.  566. 

567,  602.  696,  697.  791,  804.  810.  811,  816, 

817.  821.  827.  828.  829,  830. 
Isaac   (Captain).   497. 
Isaac  A..  533,  542. 
Isaac  Jewell,  513. 
Isaac,  Jr.,  966. 
Isaac  Leister,  525. 
Isaac  Newell,  528,  639. 
Isabella.  544. 
Israel  Van  Keuren.  534. 
Jackson,  527.  538. 
Jacob.  497,  499,  602.  603,  507,  609,  5U.  514. 

516,  517,  621,  522.  524,  528,  629.  534. 


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855 


Delamater,  Jacob   (Dr.),  528, 
Jacob  Brink.  604,  512. 
Jacob  H.,  524.  536. 
Jacobus.  494.  497.  499.  501. 
Jacobus  (James),  496. 
Jacobus  Flierboom.  514. 
James.  508.  512.  515.  517.  529, 
James  (or  Jacobus).  499. 
James  Barnes.  515.  524. 
James  Brink.  611.  522,  534. 
James  C.  542. 
James  Home.  513,  523. 
James  L..  530. 
James  M..  525.  527,  536.  537. 
James  Scott.  544. 
James  Van  Ness.  520,  533. 
James  WaUs.  523.  536. 
James  Willard.  539. 
Jan.  272.  319.  348.  362.  364. 

401.  412.  414.  415.  494.  495. 

622.  816.  817. 
Jane.  506.  513.  519.  521.  525. 
Jane  E..  538. 
Jane  Eliza.  522. 
Jane  Margiiet,  521. 
Janneke,  501. 
Jannetle.  495.  498.  501. 
Jannetje,  496. 
Jannetye,  514. 
Jean.  293,  294. 
Jehlel.  524.  535. 
Jennet.  522. 
Jennie  M..  641. 
Jeremiah.  501. 
Jeremias.  506.  507.  514. 
Jesse.  513. 
Jessie  N..  535. 
Johan  Peters.  515. 
Johannes,  496.  498.  499,  501. 

608,  510.  515. 
Johannes  (Joannes).  496. 
John.  367.  376.  381.  434.  497, 

508.  504.  505.  506.  507.  509. 

513.  514.  515.  516,  517.  518, 

524.  525.  526.  528,  529.   531, 

538.  541,  565.  579.  598,  602. 

697.  698.  791,  796,  798,  799. 

808.  817,  826. 
John   (Jan).  497,  500.  505. 
John  (Johannes).  499. 
John  (Johannis),  506. 
John  A..  Jr..  539. 
John  Adams.  529.  539. 
John  Addison,  503,  521. 
John  Angell.  528. 
John  Cole.   514. 
John  De  Witt.  521. 
John  Howard,  635. 
John  L.,  526.  537. 
John  Luther.  537.  543. 
John  M..  518.  530.  539. 
John  Mortimer,  524. 
John  Oscar,  542. 
John  S..  505.   512. 
John  Schoonmaker,  511. 
John  Smith.  529. 
John  W.,  642.  M4. 
John  Wheeler.  539. 
John  William,  523. 
Jonas  Rossmore,  515,  524. 
Jooris,  505. 
Joseph,  505. 
Joseph  P.,  525,  536. 
Joseph  Nelson,  525. 
Josephine,  525,  531.  534. 
Josephine  Benjamin.  529. 
Julia.  517,  538.  540. 
Julia  J..  533. 
Julia  Phebe,  537. 


639. 
507, 
.  533, 


514,  515. 
,  639. 


370. 
603. 


371.  393, 
510.  664. 


503,  506.  607. 


499, 

500. 

501. 

510, 

511, 

512, 

519. 

522. 

523. 

532, 

534. 

538, 

612. 

642. 

695 

800. 

801, 

804 

Delamater.  Julius  S.,  525,  536. 
Juny,  515. 
Kate,  529. 
Kernel  ia,  607. 

Lafayette.  517.  529.  632.  541. 
Laura.  609,  520,  530. 
Laurentia,  609. 
Lecta  A.,  526. 
Leonard.  632,  541. 
Leonie,  541. 
Leroy,  544. 
Lewis.  612,  524,  534. 
Leynje,  514. 
Libius,  630. 
Lillie  D.,  537. 
Lizzie.  526. 
Lorenzo  D..  527,  538. 
Lottie.   544. 
'  Louie  J.,  542. 
Louis  (Rev.).  533,  642. 
Louisa,  519,  526. 
Louise  Celesta.  536. 
Lucius,  519.  530,  640. 
Lucius  B.,  525,  636. 
Lucius  Matthews.  640. 
Lucretia.  516. 
Lucretia  Eliza.  535. 
Lucretia  Maria.  623. 
Lucuis  Matthews.  531. 
Luella  E.  L..  542. 
Luella  M.,  542. 
Lydia,  508. 
Lyman  Albert.  622. 
Maggie.  637. 
Mamie,  534,  537. 
Marcus  P..  629. 
Marcus  R..   518,  630. 
Maretje,  515. 

Margaret.  500.  503.  507.  510,  525,  566. 
Margareta.  498. 
Margaretha.  508. 
Margarita.  506. 
Margriet.  502,  503. 
Margrit,  510. 
Maria,  502.  503.  605.  608.  611.  612.  514.  615, 

517,   518,  522.  526,  523. 
Maria  (Marytje).  496.  499. 
Maria  Alexina.  536. 
Maria  Ann.  528. 
Maria  Antoinette,  530. 
Maria  E.,  638. 
Maria  J..  525. 
Maria  Jane.   527. 
Maria  Kip.  616. 
Maria  Lewis.  529. 
Maria  Rose.  633. 
Marietta.  530. 
Martha.  528.  497. 
Martha  A..   632. 
Martha  Jane.  529. 
Martha  May,  541. 
Martin.  495.  497.  501.  502.  508. 
Martyn.  521. 
Martyn  (Martin),  509. 
Marvin  Levilla,  529. 
Mary.  509.  511.  513.  514,  521.  524,  530,  581, 

536. 
Mary  (Maria).  504. 
Mary  A..  512. 
Mary  Ann,  517.  519.  532. 
Mary  Cornelia.  635. 
Mary  Elizabeth,  524.  531. 
Mary  Emma. '635. 
Mary  Esther.  641. 
Mary  Etta.  526. 
Mary  P..  642. 
Mary  Porkes.  644. 
Mary  Helen.   540. 
Mary  J..  525. 
Mary  Jane.  511.  528,  537. 


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Delamater.  Mary  M.»  632. 
Mary  Salmi,  498. 
Mary  V.,  534. 
Mary  W.,  528. 
Marytje,  516. 
Matheus,  503. 
Matilda.  518.  526. 
Mattie  F.,  539. 
Maud.  537. 
Mehltable.  528. 
Mellsa  Amelia,  632. 
Melva  Maria,  541. 
Melvln   Van   Valkenburgb,    589. 
Mercy,  508. 
Merrick  L...  538,  643. 
Michel.  514. 
Mildred,  543. 
Minnie.  536. 
Minnie  Helen,  543. 
Moses,  509. 
Mrs.,  424.  493.  494. 
Myra  Eugenia.  537. 
Nancy  W..  528. 
Nathan,  516,  526,  527,  537. 
Nathaniel.  518. 
Nellie  Josephine.  543. 
Nelson.  535.  543. 
Nicholas.  509. 
Nicholas  B.,  530. 
Newell,  538. 
Olive.  533. 
Orrln,  534. 
Oscar.  522,  531. 
Oscar  Z..  540,  544. 
Perry  Decatur,  ,520  632. 
Peter.  602,  508,  510,  514,  518,  520.  521.  522, 

524.  529,  534,  542. 
Peter  Low,  504.  511. 
Peter  Vroom.  523. 
Petrus,  511,  522. 
Phoebe,  516.  517,  643. 
Polly,  518,  520. 
Rachel.   498,    499,    501,    503.    504,    507,    510, 

511.  515. 
Radclifr.  521.  533. 
Radcliffe.  534,  542. 
Ralph,   514. 

Rebecca,  497.  500,  502,  504,  507,  508,  519. 
Rebecka  (Rebecca),  506. 
Reld  A.,   533.   541. 
Reuben  C,  520,  532. 
Reuben  S..  532. 
Richard.   514,   515,   624. 
Robert,   514. 
Rosalind   C,   622. 
Roscoe  Wlnans,  540. 
Rosena  (Lena).  520. 
Rosett,  537. 
Royal,  643. 
Ruby  Maria.  537. 
S.  M.  K.,  532. 
Sally,  516,  526. 
Sally  Ann,  523. 
Sally  Malcum.  609. 
Samuel.   500,   505,   508,   512,   613,   518,   623. 

527.  707. 
Samuel  Martin,  623. 
Samuel  S.,  512. 
Sara.  506.  509. 
Sarah.  498.  500,  502,  503,  509,  610,  511,  521, 

523.  524,  526.  528,  531,  533.  537. 
Sarah  A..  541. 
Sarah  Catherine.  521. 
Sarah  Elizabeth.  529.  532. 
Sarah  Fayette,  539. 
Sarah  J..  512. 
Sarah  M..  525. 
Sarah  Odelia.  537. 
Schuyler  Beekman,  535. 
Schuyler  C,    535. 


Delamater,  Sibyl,  620. 

Smith,  51Q.  525,  526. 

Sophia,  527. 

Stephen,  616,  526,  630,  632,  643. 

Stephen  G.,  518.   629. 

Stephen  Truesdall.  629,  639. 

Stephen  Truesdall,  Jr.,  639. 

Susan,  514,  520.  631. 

Susan  Adelaide,  640. 

Susan  Caroline,  620. 

Susan  Frances,  641. 

Susanna,  508. 

Susannah,  482.  495,  496.  497,  498,  600,  500, 
579. 

Susie  Louisa,  644. 

Sylvia  Maude.  541. 

Tanneke.  496. 

Tebina,  498. 

Telia  Adella,  636. 

Teunls.  507. 

Theodore  Alva.  634. 

Theodore  C,  5U,  622. 

Theunls,  607. 

Thomas,  498,  510,  619.  521,  632,  638. 

Thomas  Albert,  540,  644. 

Thomas  Henry  (Rev.),  532,  641. 

Thomas  Jefferson.  617. 

Titus,  531.  540. 

Tones,  507. 

Trinje,  515. 

Tunis  Osterhout,  516,  624. 

Uriah,  519.  531. 

Victor  Morris,  540.  544. 

Walter  Henry,  641. 

Walter  James,  539. 

Washington.   527,   538. 

Wealthy  M..  512. 

Webster,  537. 

Wilbur  S.,  524. 

Wilfred  Schuyler,  643. 

Wllhelm,  510. 

Willard,  518.  520.  543. 

William,  602,  605.  506,   510.   514.  515,   516, 
518.  519.  526,  531.  534,  540.  642,  544. 

William   (Dr.),   538. 

William  B.,  510.  613.  521,  624.  533.  542. 

William  Burrough,  532. 

William  Gardiner.  624.  535. 

William  H..  625,  531.  536. 

William  H.   (Dr.).  530. 

William  Harrison.  520,  532. 

William  Henry,   629. 

William  M.,  532,  54L 

William  P.,  534. 

William  Peter,  522.  534. 

William  Rubens.  536. 

William  Wallace.  528,  531,  538.  640. 

Willis,  638. 

Wilson  T.,  540. 

Zara,  499. 

Zebulon,  531,  540. 

Zeletie.  498. 

Zella  L..  643. 

Zoe  AUda.  637. 
Del  am  at  ie.  Geertie,  601. 
De  Lameter,  Jan,  403,  406,  406.  409. 
Delamont,  John,  169. 
de  La  Montague,  J.,  287. 

Jan,  280. 

John.  283. 

Nicaslus,  359. 

Willem,   221. 
De  La  Montague.  182. 

Jan.  281. 

Jean,  208,  281. 

Jean  Mousnler,  79. 

Johannes   (Dr.).  48. 

John.  Jr.,  181. 

Isaac  Monier,  787. 

William,  181,  191. 


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857 


Delamontagne,  267. 

John,   692. 

Vincent,  168. 
4e  la  Montagnle,  Frederick,  713. 
Delamontagnie.  Abraham,  696. 

Jacob.  594.  595,  596. 

Joseph,  595. 

Mary  E.,  596. 

Robert,  695. 

Teunls,  594.  695. 

William.   596. 
de  La  Montaine,  Abram,  377. 
de  La  Montanie,  Abram,  591.  593. 

John,  593. 
4e  Lamontanie,  Abram,  412,  821. 
Delamontanle,  826. 

Abram,  403.  699,  830. 

Abraham,  410.  430,  438.  592,  594,  602,  614, 
804,    816.   817,   825,   827. 

Jannetie.   410. 

Teunls,  799. 

Theunis,  433. 
<le  la  Montanye,  Teunls,  483. 
De  La  Montanye,  Elizabeth.  443. 
Delamontanye,  George  Fowler,  790. 

John.  790. 
De  Lancaster,  Louise.  269,  272. 
De  Lancastre.  Louise,  98. 
Delancey,  John,  698. 
De  Lannoy.  Jeanne,  99,  493.  494. 
Delanoy,  Catharine,  161. 

Peter,  161. 
De  La  Plain.  Nichols.  224. 
De  La  Plaine.  Nicholas,  269. 
Delaplaine.   Nicholas,  857. 
Delaval,  Capt.,  348. 
De  Lavall,  Mr.,  798. 

Thomas,  212,  216,  232,  242. 
Delavall,  206.  233.  234,  236,  240.  251,  261.  275. 
276,  277.  280,  286,  297,  304,  314,  315,  333, 
359,  371,  372,  375,  401,  581,  592,  601,  605, 

796,  797,  800,  818. 

Captain,   217.   222.   235.   246,   256,  257.   268. 

291.  296.  303,  339,  353,  396.  397,  402,  546, 

547,  604,  795,  797,  801,  810,  813,  814,  824. 
Framoes,  322.  378. 
John.  378.  .396,  397,  398,  406,  413,  414,  415, 

801,  809.  811. 
Margaret.  353. 
Mayor.  223. 
Mr..  281. 

Ralph  (Sir),  232. 
Thomas,   244,   264.   266.   306.  307.  323,   333. 

377.  378.  379,  413,  417,  623,  795,  811,  816, 

827.  828.  829.  830. 
Thomas  (Captain).  803,  809,  826. 
Delius,  Dominie.  140. 
De  Longueville,  Duke,  56,  68. 
De  Luynes,  56. 
Demarest.  5,  12.  47.  50.  61.  64.  65,  103.  105. 

191.  196,  205,  292,  295,  318,  321,  324,  327, 

328,  333.  334.  335.  336,  337,  349.  358,  365, 

788.   803. 
Benjancln,  350. 
Cornelius  H..  689. 
Damare'^t.  315. 
Daniel.  350.  441. 
David.  47,  69,  106,  172,  217,  234,  239,  240, 

242.  259.  266.   269.  275.  276,  278.  279.  281. 

286.  288,  293,  294,  296,  306,  333,  346,  382, 

791,  795,  796. 
David,  Jr.,  330,  334,  336,  346,  348,  350,  367, 

797.  798. 
Geya.  437. 
Ira,  446. 
Jacobus,  360. 
Jacomina,  360,  697. 

John,  102,  217,  246,  267,  286.  293,  297,  303, 
860,  441,  791. 


Demarest,  John  J.,  660. 

Joseph,  443,  617. 

Judith,  350. 

Katherine.  711. 

Leah,  360. 

Lydia,  350. 

Magdalena.  191.  360. 

Margaret,  660. 

Margareta,  458. 

Maria,  350. 

Mary,  217,  350. 

Matthew,  464. 

Nicholas  D.,  616. 

Peter,  350,  450. 

Philip,  626. 

Polly   (Maria),  464.  469. 

Rachel.  350. 

Rebecca.  433. 

Richard,  337.  338. 

Richard,  Jr.,  348. 

Samuel,  246,  293.  360.  471. 

Sarah,  360.  620. 

Simon,  360. 

Susanna,  360. 

Thomas,  616. 
De  MandeviUe.  David,  100. 

Giles,  100. 

Gillis  Jansen,  100. 

Hendrick,  100. 
de  Meyer,  Nicholaes.  598. 

Nicholas.  320,  364. 
De  Meyer,  189,  190,  208^  263.  268,  273,  274. 
320.  321.  333,  363,  382,  800.  802. 

Agnes,  321. 

Anna  Catrina,  821. 

Annecke,  321. 

Benjamin,  321. 

Catherine.  321. 

Catrina,  321. 

Deborah,  321. 

Elizabeth,  321. 

Henricus,  321. 

Jeremiah,  321. 

Johannes,  321. 

Ludia,  321. 

Lydia,   321. 

Nicolaes,  183,  186. 

Nicholas.   92.   107.   187,   191,  210.   218.  221, 
222.  234.  239.  258,  269,  321,  795,  797,  799. 

Wllhelmus.  321. 

William,  320.  321. 
Demeyer,  Nicholas.  367. 
De  Milt,  Nellie,  671. 
De  Monchy,  54. 
De  Muscatel,  Bernard,  153. 
D'Enambus,  50. 

M.,  47. 
Denel.  Mary  Jane.  752. 
Den i son,  Charles.  790. 
Dennis,  R.  W.,  577. 
Dennison,  Daniel  (Dr.),  516. 
Denton,  Clarissa  J..  627. 

John,  781. 
Deny,  Sarah,  320. 
de  Parlsis,  Jacqueline,  636. 
De  Pew,   Elizabeth.  560. 
Depew,  204.  206. 

Aaron,  206. 

Jean,  205. 

Kitty,  662. 

Moses,  205. 

Nicholas.  205. 

Susannah,  206. 
De  Peyster,  394. 

Catharine,  439. 

Elizabeth,  161. 

James  W.,  804. 

Johannes,  161. 

Nicholas.   804. 
De  Picquigny,  56. 


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de  Poictier,  Jean  Baptlste,  246.  347,  370. 

De  Poincy,  47. 

De  Potter.  Cornells.  157,  158.  167,  168. 

Cornelius.  160. 
de  Pre,  Andrlee.  191. 

Francina.  191. 

Jannetie,  191. 

John,  191.  246. 

Maria.  191. 

Simon.  191. 
De  Pre,  67.  189,  800. 

Jan.  183.  186,  190.  191,  192. 

John.  796. 
De  Puy.  Chester,  534. 
Depuy,  John  H.,  654. 
De  Raet,  Ellas.  132. 
De  Rasieres.  Isaac,  119. 
Derbyshire.  John.  443. 
De  Reimer.  Hester  Ann.  652. 

Isaac.  782. 

Peter.  782. 
De  Revere.  Sophia.  786. 
Derlcksen,  Adam.  183.  186,  190,  195,  198,  797, 
800. 

Elizabeth.  128. 

Grietle,  198. 

Paulus.  128. 

Tennis.   295. 
De  Rlemer,  Peter,  782. 
Dermer,  Captain.  116. 
de  Roberval.  Sleur.  11. 
Deronda,  Catherine,  432. 

Maria,  7U. 
De  Ronde,  Dominie.  408. 
de  Rulne.  Jacomlna.  246. 

Jannetie.  191,  246. 

Jeanne.  256. 

Maria.  246. 

Simon.  65.  191.  247.  291.  304. 
De  Ruine.  100,  186,  800,  803. 

Jacomlna,  350. 

Maria,  350. 

Simon.  100.  183.  185,  186.  190.  191,  193.  195, 
199,  201,  203.  235,  246.  348,  350.  546,  795. 
De  Ryck.  Jan  Cornellsz.  2?3. 
Deschamps,  410. 

Isaac,  381,  401,  807. 
des  Conseiller,  Jean,  246. 
de  Sllle.  693. 
De  Sille,  Nicasius.  786. 
des  Mareeet,   David.  264.  266. 
des  Mareset,  David.  271. 
des  Marest.   David.   Jr..  302.  320.  328,  332, 
338. 

Jean,  266,  302. 

Samuel,  302.  309,  328.  332. 
Des  Marest,   David.  102.  103,  279,  284,  287, 
289.   290.  301,  307.  308,  309.  313.  318,  320, 
323,  328.  332.  337.  338.   340.  349. 
Desmarest.  Johannes,  280. 
Des  Marets,  David.  61. 

Samuel.  102. 

Sleur.  47. 
De  Tourneur.  63. 

Daniel,  98. 
De  Valois,  Charles,  55. 
de  Vaux,  Abel,  424. 

Abigail,   424. 

Abraham.  424. 

Daniel,   424. 

David,  424. 

Dinah,  424. 

Esther,  348.  424. 

Frederick,  329,  330,  332,  342,  348,  409.  635. 

Hester.  424. 

Johannes.  348. 

John.  424. 

Judith.  424. 

L«ah.  424. 

Mary.  347,  424. 


de  Vaux.  Nicholas.  318.  324.  328,  329,  33U 
332.  338.  346,  347,  348,  349.  400. 

Rachel,  347,  424. 

Sarah,  424. 

Susanna.  347. 

Susannah,  424. 

Thomas.  424. 
De  Vaux,  11.  103,  318. 

Frederick.  395,  424. 

Jacques  'Rev.),  61. 
De  Voe,  103,  251.  278,  419. 

Benjamin.  625. 

Frederick.  353,  424.  545.  637. 

Frederick  W..  424. 

George  W.,  424. 

Isaac,  424. 

James.  424. 

John  Appleby.  424. 

Moses.  265.  424. 

Rachel,  545. 

Thomas  F.   (Col.).  329.  424. 

Thomas  Farrlngton,  424. 
Devoe,  626. 

David.  506. 

Hannah.  719. 

Harriett.  572. 

Josephine.  631. 

Maria.  626. 

Mary.  625. 
Devoor,  594. 

Abraham.  410. 

Adrlana.  409.  788. 

Aefle.  410.  806. 

Aefle  <Effle).  267. 

Ann,   410,   479. 

David.  410,  594,  799,  803. 

Elizabeth,   409.   410. 

Jane,  410. 

Jannetie,   410. 

Jelante,  410. 

John,  267,  410.  788.  806. 

John.  Jr.,  410.  806. 

Margaret.  409,   410. 

Maria.  409. 

Rachel.  409. 

Tennis.  409.  625. 

William.  410. 
Devore  (De  Voor),  John,  453. 
de  Vos.   Mattheus.  384. 
de  Vouw.   Johannes.  348. 
de  vries.  Jan  Gerrits,  380. 
de  Vries,  Dirck.  203. 

John.   599. 

Phebe.    188. 

Titus  Syrachs   (Capt),  188. 
De  Vries,  133.   267. 

Captain,  132. 

David   (Capt.),  125.  127. 

Derick.  201. 

Jan  Gerritsen.  93.  236,  251.  263.  264,  31U 
373. 
de  Weerham.   Ambrose,   203. 
De  Weerham,  Ambroslus.  201. 
De  Weever,  Jan,   201,  203. 
De  Winter,  Peter,  132. 
De  Wit.   John,   238. 
De  Witt,  Barbara,  148. 

Gerardus.  148. 

Hasuelt,  148. 

Helena,   168. 

Jannetie,  618. 

Johannes,  609.  795. 

Johannes),   Jr..  825. 

Leah.   148. 

Mary,  259. 

Matthys,  148. 

Nicholas.   148. 

Sarah.  148. 

Simeon,  607. 

Thomas,  148. 


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De  Witt,  Tletie,  148. 

TJerck.  148,  168. 
Dewitt,  Anne,   509. 

Charles.  509. 
Deyo,    Daniel   V.    (Dr.),   62L 

Elizabeth,  272. 

Ella,  575. 
d'Heucourt.  Seigneur,  60,  61. 
Diamond,  Belinda.  729. 
Dickenson,    Charles,   452. 
Dickinson,  Charles,  754. 

Edward,  557. 
Dickson,  Carrie,  741. 

David,  806. 
Diemer,  Christian.  595. 
Dietz.  Christian,  659. 

John  O.,  610. 

Leney,  668. 
Dikeman,  John  (Judge),  546. 
Dildeln.   Annatie.  581. 
Dillon.   Felix  V.,  467. 
Dimanche,  Jean.  105. 
Dingman,  Huldah,  567. 
DiniUB,  Burton  C.  543. 
Dircks,  Annetie,  234. 

Barentie,  107. 

Barentien,  247. 

Egbertie,  107,  236,  310,  368. 

(leertie.  107. 

Orietie.  613. 
Dircksen.  Jan,  218,  294,  366,  373. 
Dirge,  Angenietje,  616. 
Dirk,  Hevelyn,  443. 

Disosway,  5,  50,  61,  64,  270,  816,  319,  320, 
358. 

Dame.  319. 

Dianah.  320. 

Elizabeth.  320. 

Gabriel.  320. 

Israel.  320. 

Jean.  320. 

Jeanne.  320. 

Job.  320. 

Madeleine.  319. 

Marc.  63,  335. 

Marcus,  319,  320. 

MarU,  320. 

Mark.  181,  242. 

Mary.  320. 

Sarah,  320. 

Susannah,  320. 
Dixon.  758. 
D.  L.  Montanye.  Joseph,  788. 

William   (M.   D.),790. 
D'Meyer.  N..  199. 
Doane.  Rebecca,  721. 
Dobbs.  Walter.  809. 
Dodds.  P.  B.,  764. 
Dodge.  Erastus.  658. 
Dodson.   Mary,  669. 
d'Oisy.  Ctoswin.  31. 
Dolph.  Maria  H.,  521. 
Dolsen,  373. 

Tennis.  643. 
Dominoes,  Hester,  270. 
Dominicus.  217. 
Donald.  Julius  0.,  659. 
Donaldson,  Lydia  A.,  651. 
Donelsen.  Ann  M.,  715. 
Dongan.  Oovernor.  679. 

Thomas.   270.   273.   278.  381.  383.  385,  390. 
391.  396.  399,  410,  411.  413.  415.  417. 
Dongan  patent.  The.  243,  416.  417.  418,  426, 

447.   493,  558,   599.  623.  634.   817. 
Donnington.    J.    Wyckllffe,   787. 
Donnison.  Benjamin.  641. 
Doolittle.  John  J.,  472. 

Loretta,  666. 
Doremus.  George,  610. 

Johannes,  697. 


Doremus,  Maria,  465. 

Rachel  D.,  437. 

Thomas,  697. 
Dorland,  Enoch  G.,  651. 
Dorr.  Elizabeth.  507. 

George  P.,  771. 
Dorsey,  769. 
Doty,  Cornelia,  745. 

Eliza.  513. 
Dougherty.  Jennie,  760. 
Doughty,  Francis  (Rev.),  147. 

Mary,  782. 
Douglas,  Alonzo,  726. 

Eliza,  510. 
Douglass.  Julia  Ann,  736. 

Mary  J.,  736. 
Douw.   Andries,  821. 
Downer,   Samuel,   784. 
Downing.  Charles,  658. 

Florence,   664. 

G..  762. 

Roger,  644. 

Sarah.  646. 
Doxey,  Ralph.  281,  294. 
Doyle.  Minerva  A.,  668. 
Drain,  Ellen,  640. 
Drake,  569. 

Mary.  684. 

Nelson  H..  471. 
Dresser.  James  H.,  537. 
Drevit,  Aline.  841. 
Drew,  Alfred.  526. 
Drlnkwater.  Margaret,  393. 
Driscoll,  Lorinda  Ellen,  666. 
Drisius,   268. 

Dominie.  282.  376. 

Samuel,  223. 

Samuel  (Dominie),  98. 
Droogscheerder,  Jacob,  201,  203. 
Duane.  Anthony,  427. 

James   (Hon.),  427. 
Dubison,  370. 
Du  Boice,  James.  711. 
du  Bois,  Francolse,  493. 

Hester,  221. 

Louis,  493. 
Du  Bois.  184. 

Coenraad.  502. 

Oualterus,   432. 

Gualterus   (Rev.).   408. 

Hester,  99,  264.  493,  494. 

Louis,  103,  183. 

Matthew.  148. 

Pierre,  99. 
Dubois.   Ephraim,  498. 

Magdalena,  528. 

Thomas.  685. 
du  Buc,   Lideric,  66. 
Dubuisson,  Sieur.  246,  347,  370. 
Du  Can.  Margariete.  83. 
du  Cange.  Sieur.  18. 
Du  Chauchoy.  Marc.  231. 
Du  Cloux.  Marie,  76. 
Dudley,  William  H..  589. 
Du  Ferets.  Sieur,  102. 
DufflU.  Emma  J..  446. 
du  Pour.  David.  340.  862.  363,  409,  410. 
Du  Pour,  100.  189,  194.  225.  798. 

Anthony.   409. 

David,  36.  66,  99,  183,  186,  190,  193,  797. 

Glaude,  409. 

Jannetie.  409. 

Jean,  100. 

John.  409,  410. 

Peter,  409. 
Dugen.  Ellen  E.,  629. 

Mary,  629. 
du  Mont.  Elizabeth,  271. 

John  Baptist.  295. 

Margaret,  271,  272,  296. 


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du  Mont,  Peter,  295. 

Wallerand,  272,  295. 
Du  Mont,  Elizabeth,  287. 
Dumont,   Peter,   295. 
Duncan,  N.  B.,  764. 
Dunkin,  Elizabeth,  819. 

Robert  H.,  819. 
Dunlap,  William,  7i3. 
Dunn,  Simon,  689. 
Dunston,  789.  , 

Dunton,  Jacob,  613. 
du  Puis,  Francois,  270. 

Nicholas.   204. 
Du  Puis  (Depew),  Nicholas,  269. 
Durand,   Marie,  768. 
Durle,  Jean,  349,  357. 

John.  350. 

Peter,  350. 
Duryea,  Mary  E.,  654. 
Duryee,  Charles,  604,  607. 

John,  455. 

Mary  B..  729. 
du  Sauchoy,  264. 

Anna,  204. 

Marc.  249.  272,  319. 

Marcus,  270. 

Madeline.   272. 
Du  Sauchoy.  232,  27L 

Marcus,  275. 
Dusenberry,  Eliza,  552. 
Dusentblrre.  Permlle,  479. 
Dutch  West  India  Co.,  U. 

Amout,   204. 

David.  204.  785. 
Du  Tolct,  785. 
Du  Trleux  (Truax),  Philippe,  781. 

Susannah,  781. 
Du  Tulliere,  Madeleine,  100,  221. 
Duurkoop,  177. 

Claes,  206. 

Jan.  206. 

Jannetie.  206. 
Duval.  586. 
du  Voor,  Daniel.  349. 
Duyckinck,  Anna,  804. 

Evert,   187. 

Gerard.  161. 
Duyts.  183. 

Annetie,  256. 

Catherine.  256. 

Hans.  256. 

Jan.    219,   256,   264. 

Jan  Laurens,  256,  796. 

Jan  Iiourens,  242. 

John.  798. 

Laurens,  135.   256. 
Dyckman.   149.   203.  293.   295,  318,  352, 
424.  434.  623,  787,  796,  801,  814,  817, 

Aaron,  545. 

Aaron  Smith,  555. 

Abigail.  555. 

Abraham.  552,  654,  555,  666. 

Aeltie,  550. 

Aletta  Eliza.  656. 

Amy  M.,  557. 

Andrles.  393. 

Anna,  545. 

Barney.  556. 

Benjamin.  551.  553. 

Benjamin  Benson,  653,  666. 

Betsey  Taylor,  556. 

Betsy  Mary,  555. 

Blanche  L.,  557. 

Catallna.  566. 

Catallna  (Catherine),  661. 

Catallna  Benson,  553. 

Catherine.   546,   552,  653. 

Cathrlna,   555. 

Charity,  662.  643. 

Cornelia,  645,  566. 


417, 
820. 


Dyckman,  Cornells,  234,  545,  564. 
Cornelius.  645.  791. 
Daniel,  548. 

David  Waters,  556,  557. 
Derick,   546. 
Edith,  557. 
Eliza,  555,  656. 
Elizabeth.  546,  653. 
Elizabeth  Cobb,  567. 
Elmlra,  .553. 
Emeline,  555. 
Esther  Rick,  667. 
Eve,  550,  606. 
Evert.  556. 

Evert  Brown,  565.  557. 
Frank  N.,  567. 
Frederick.  645.  654,  666,  609. 
Garret,   551,    553. 
Garret  (Garnet),  656. 
Geertie,  645. 

George,  545.  650.  592,  694. 
Gerretle  (Charity).  649. 
Gerrit.  547.   648,  550,  791,  821,  826. 
Grietie.   548. 
Hannah,  563. 
Hannah   (Annatje),  654. 
Harriet.  565. 
Harriet  De  Puy,  567. 
Harriet   Douglas,   556. 
Harry,  557. 
Helen,  557. 
Helena,  550. 
Hester,  545. 

Isaac,  267,  548,  550,  564. 
Isaac  Michael.  654. 
Isaac  Vermllye,  556. 
Isabel  655,  557. 
Jacob.  345,  647.  548,  649.  550,  561,  552, 

554.  555.  562.  582.  614.  643. 
Jacob  G..  553.  556. 
Jiirnh,   Jr..  431,  4.^.  545,  550. 
Ja.Ml,   \v  .   .V.;. 

J^^MJnJ^-.    -J'-,   :^A.    ,m2,   653.  654,  615. 
J  acorn  Id  SI,  3^3- 
Jame-B,  B£t4. 
Jan.  n,  2S9.  2S0.  '£Si.  ^7.  302,  304,  306. 

3lEi.  32S.  S32,  A.17,  338.  340.  341,  343. 

345,  ;i49,  364,  365,  370.  372,  373.  376. 

SBOp  387.  38S.  35^,  593,  401.  402.  403, 

4013.  mi,  412.  414.   41£.  497.  545,  546. 

5HJ?.  519.   5&0,  551,  ki2,  612,  816,  817, 
Jas  (Jobnl.  &S0. 
Jane,  551.  &5t  S55,  551. 
Jan*  (Janiietje>.  WB, 
June  AiralrR.  5G5. 
jL.i  .     ^r-'...    G56. 

Janneke,  545. 

Jannetie,  393,  646. 

Jemima,  552. 

Jesyntje,  550. 

Johanna,  556. 

Johannes,  393,  424.  645. 

Johannes,   Jr.,   548,   550. 

John.  367.  545.  646.  548.  549.  650,  651, 

553.  554.  555.  605.  635.  637,  694.  792. 

801.  803,  810.  817,  818,  819,  823,  826, 
John  Honeywell,  666. 
Jonathan  Odell,  563. 
Joris.  545.  592. 
Julian.  556. 
Lang.   557. 

Letitla  Catellna.  663. 
Lillle.   557. 
Lizzie.  557. 
Louis.   557. 
Madeleine,  380. 
Magdalena.  548,  649,  613.  614. 
Marcus.  393. 
Margaret,  549. 


653. 


309. 
344. 

379, 
406, 
547. 


562. 
799, 
830. 


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Dyckman,  Marla»  545,  648,  660,  661,  664,  66e. 

Maria  (Jane  Maria),  656. 

Maria  Portland.  567. 

Martha  Margaret,  665. 

Martha  Maria,  563. 

Martin,  563. 

Martin  Post,   566. 

Mary,  552.  656,  567,  644. 

Marytje,   550. 

Matthew,  546. 

Michael.  552,  664. 

Michel,  666. 

Mis..  316. 

Myron  Horton,  557. 

Nicholas,  545. 

Patty  Maria,  666. 

Percy,  657. 

Peter  B..  556. 

Peter  Come.  663.  666. 

Peter  Goetschius,  666,  667. 

Petrus,  550. 

Prudence  Hale,  667. 

Rachel  Qoetschius,  663. 

Rebecca,  546.  648,  549.  560,  664,  666. 

Rebecka  (Rebecca),  660. 

Sampson,  553. 

Sampson   (Samuel),  651,  653. 

Sampson  B..  653. 

Sampson  Benson,  563,  656,  556. 

Samson.  551. 

Sarah,  664. 

Sarflh   Ann.   553. 

Sarah  (^talina,  657. 

Sarah  P..  556. 

Smith,  657. 

Staats,  648. 

Staats  Morris,  u61,  653,  656. 

Susan,  556. 

Susan  Matilda,  666. 

Susannah    644. 

Teunfs-Rldesse,  645,  646. 

Teuntie.  545. 

Theunis,   393. 

Walter  James.  666. 

William.  549,  551.  652,  663,  654,  666,  656, 
557.  638. 

William  Henry.  666.  556.  657. 

William  M..  553.  556. 

William  Nagel.  551,  563. 

William  W..  554. 

Wyntie.  298.  545.  564. 
Dykeman,  John,  827,  828,  829. 
Dykman.  Eve.  60S. 

John.  435.  604,  608,  804,  826. 

Rebecca,  435. 
Dyer,  Henry.  789. 

Jannetle.  789. 

Polly,  650. 


Barl,  Cynthia,  730. 

Mary.  719. 

Morris,  789. 
Earle,  Hannah,  662. 
Bast  India  Company, 
Eaton.  Harriet,  672. 

Mary.  509. 

Zoe.  516. 
Ecker,  Antie.  650. 
Eckerson,  Elizabeth.  684. 

Hannah,  441. 

Hannah  Maria.  619. 
Bckereen,  Thomas.  451. 
Eddy,  Ulysees  D.,  481. 
Edgar,  Martha.  584. 
Edge,  Daniel.  734. 
Edmonds.  Ann,  791. 

John,  499. 


109. 


Edsall.  236. 

Hannah.  429. 

H.  S..  576. 

Jannetien,  384. 

Joanna,  810. 

John,  429. 

Samuel,  234,  384.  386,  788,  810. 
Bdson,  W.  Q.,  577. 
Edwards.  755. 

Anthony,  729. 

Eliza,   648. 

Finette,  436,  440. 

Prank.  765. 

James,  451. 

Margaret,  674. 

Walter,  784. 
Egberts,  Geertie,  696. 
Eiden,  Sarah  A.,  717. 
Eight,   Abraham    (Capt.),   428. 
Eights,  Abraham,  428. 

Jonas  (Dr.),  428. 
Blberts,  Metje,  234. 

Reyer,  156. 
Elder,   George  William,  729. 
Elderts.  183. 

Jacob,  193,  197.  198.  200.  409,  797.  798,  800. 
Eldertsen,  Jacob.  190,  1^8. 
Eldridge.  Martha,  744. 
Elkhout,  Anna,  95. 
Elkinton,  John  A.  (Dr.),  613. 
Elliman.  William,  473. 
Elliot,  Robert  Hare  Egbert,  473. 
Elliott,  Mary,  726.' 

Rebecca,  645. 

Ellis.  Mary,  806.  807. 
Ellison,  v;reorge  W.,  620. 
Ellsworth,  James,  522. 
Elmendorf.  Engeltje,  504. 
Elmendorph,  Jacob,  502. 

Jan,  502. 
Elphinstone,  416. 

George.  340,  341.  804,  806. 
el  Roe,  Jaco.  328.  332. 

Jacque.  309.  336.  337. 
el  Roey.  Jaco,  302. 
Etoevier,  W.  J.  C.  Rammelman  (Baron)» 

13. 
Elsmore.  John  B.,  657. 
Elsworth.   Clement,  176. 

Judith,  217. 

Samuel  G.,  629. 

Stoffel,  175,  217. 

Verdine    (Capt.). 
Biting,  Edyard,  436. 

Jane  Magdaline.  522. 

William,  196,  496. 
Elton,  Jannetje,  507. 
Blyessen,  Bastlaen,  274,  476.  477,  563. 

Metje,  563. 
Emans,  Catherina.  581. 

Cornelius,  585. 

Jacobus,  584. 

Sarah.  644. 
Emanuel,  Philip,  58. 
Emerson.  Romeo,  526. 
Emery,  Margaret,  584. 
Emmons.  Ann,  716. 
Emmons  (Emans).  Rebecca,  580. 
Enderson.  Johannls,  454. 
Engel.  William,  376. 
Engelbert,   Jochem.  302,  309. 
Bngelberts.  Anna  Maria,  176. 

Eldert.  175. 
Enoch.  Eliza,  665. 
Enrlght,  Joseph  G.,  535. 
Erluin,   Bishop,  34. 
Eshuysen,  Gerrit,  368. 

Maria,  368. 
Esler,  Edward,  466. 
Esterbrook,  Phoebe  Leonda.  516. 


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Ether Ington,  ThomaB,  294. 
Btzell.  Jacob  E.,  731. 
Evans.  Eva,  776. 

George  W.,  750. 

J.  B..  764. 
Bvarts,  Mary,  722. 
Evert,  Catherine.  449. 
Everts,  Allda,  3U. 

Cornelia.  274,  447.  495. 

John,  234. 

Rebecca,  496. 
Everts  (Van  Ness).  Cornelia.  496. 
Everett,  726. 
Ewouts,  Jan,  393. 

John.  564. 
Exceen,  Alexander,  708. 
Eyres.  Thomas,  320. 


Pabriclus,  Jacobus.  340. 
Pabricus,  Dominie,  374. 
Fairbanks,   Lucy,   752. 
Fairchild.  Amelia,  746. 
Fairley,  Hugh.  783. 
Farley.  Katharine,  669. 
Farmer,  Jasper  (CapL),  812. 
Faulkner,  James  Calvert,  715. 
Fauviere,  Charlotte,  813. 
Faviere,  813. 

James.   798,  812.  « 

Fell.  John  (Judge),  379. 

Judge.  568. 

Simon.  379. 
Felter.  Jacob,  510. 

Mabel.  445. 

Sarah.  513. 

Warren,  742. 

William,  513. 

William  P..  437. 
Ferdon.  John.  619. 

Wilhelmus,  684. 
Ferguson,  Eliza,  668. 

Farrington.  650. 

John,  Jr.,  636. 
Ferris.  Benjamin,  596. 

Jonathan,  439. 

Mary  Ann,  439. 

Miss.  470. 
Few.  Nicholas,  49L 
Field.  Osgood,  13. 
Fifield,  Mary,  511. 
Fils,  Hannah,  436. 
Finch,  Benjamin.  530. 
Findlay,  Anna  P..  588. 
Fine,  Frederick,  428. 
Finley,  Robert,  788. 
Firby,  Edwin  Augustus,  65L 
Fisher,  Aida  Belle.  665. 

Hester,  168. 

Rebecca.  648. 
Fitzgerald,  Thomas,  655. 
Fitzpatrick,   Philip  A.,  474. 
Flagler,  Samuel,  650. 
Flanders,  William,  722. 
Flender,  Susette,  482. 
Fletcher.  Governor,  290,  292,  642. 
Flier  boom,  Francina.  702. 

Jacob,  702. 

Jannetie,   501. 
Flint.   Ada,   577. 
Fluyt.   Dirck  Evertson,  310. 
Follett,  John,  277. 
Fonda.  Sarah  Ann,  444. 
Fontaine,  Vincent,  270. 
Forbes.  Alexander,  485. 

Philander.  457. 
Forbush,  Charles  P.,  768. 
Force,  Nancy,  738. 


Forest.  HendHck.  150. 
Forker.  George,  725. 
Forkes.  Frances  Josephine,  540. 
Fort,   Allda,   487. 

Elizabeth.   486. 
Fortner.  Lucinda.  674. 
Fosdick,  686. 
Foshay.  Eve.  788. 

John,  697. 

Mary.  692. 
Foskett.  Mary.  790. 
Foster,  Esther,  440. 

Frank,  668. 

Samuel  Conant  (Dr.),  472. 

Thomas.  144. 
Fountain,   Charles.   447. 

Elijah,  790. 
Fowler,  Benjamin.  647. 

Charles.  7^9. 

Jacob  D..  464. 

Maryette.  659. 

Milan.  537. 

Rebecca.  646. 
Pox.  Catherine  M..  444. 

Elizabeth.  532. 

Elmira.  741. 

John  W..  668. 

Virginia,  441. 

Willm  N..  753. 
Prances.  808. 

Jeanne.  100. 
Francis.  John.  628. 
Pranssen,   Bout.  143. 
Fredenburgh.  Sarah,  734. 
Frederick,   Mary   Magdalena,   737. 
Fredericks.  Christina,  408. 
Predly  B.,  764. 
Freelove.  Abraham,  715. 
Freeman,  Margaret.  513. 
Preemeyer.  Dorothy  E..  736. 
Frellnghuysen,   Dominie,  408. 
French  West  India  Co.,  The,  103. 
Frenchman,  Jean.  203. 
Prink.  Charles.  655. 
Froissart,  31. 
Frost.   Bertha  A..  766. 

Emma,  492. 

N.  A..  668. 

Samuel.  492. 
Fulkerson,  Catharine,  782. 
Puller.  John  C.  523. 
Fulmer,  Townsend  George,  575. 
Purman.  Gabriel.  606,  798. 

William  H.,  729. 


Gabelman.  Louise  E.,  665. 
Gaddis.  Thomas  P.,  589. 
Gage,  Sarah,  508. 
Galagar,  Eliza.  629. 
Gale.   Dorothy,  175. 
Galerctine,   David,  762. 
Gallatin,  Francis  D..  474. 
Gamble,  William,  787. 
Gamer,  David.  442. 
Cancel,  John,  205. 

Mary.  206. 
Gano.  John   (Rev.),  324.  791. 
Ganson.  William  B..  445. 
Garden ier.  Jacob,  696,  702. 

Lena,  701. 

Barent.  639. 
Gardner.  Ella,  481. 

John,  535. 
Garner,  Tobias  L.,  574. 
Garrabrandt,  Elizabeth,  640. 
Garret,  520. 
Garretson,  Maria,  582. 


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863 


Oanretson,  William,  666. 
Garrison,  Gilbert.  565. 

Jacob  I.,  723. 
Gasklll.  Bessie  A.,  764. 

Samuel,  658. 
Gates,  Elnathan.  739. 
Gault,  J.  S..  656. 
Qautier.  Maria,  692. 

Samuel.  505. 
Gautro.  Eliza,  439. 

Xavier,  439. 
Gedney,  Bleazar.  636. 
Gellen,  Mary.  718. 
Gemelll.  Dr.,  35. 
Geneau,  324. 

Etlenne,  97. 

Francis,  324. 
George.   Nellie,  664. 

Robert,  501. 
Gerlach.  M.,  13. 
Gerrltfi,  Geertie,  97. 

Marritie  Frans,  97. 

Tryntie.  269. 
Gerrltsen,  194,  333,  798. 

Barent.  613. 

Derick,  144. 

Dirck,  310. 

Eva.  298.  310^ 

Florls.  333. 

Gerrit.  310. 

Jacob,  636. 

L.,  269. 

Lubbert.  183.  186,  190,  191,  193,  194. 
208.  219.  234,  239,  240,  242,  247,  251. 
266.  269,  273,  279,  281.  286,  288,  298. 
308,  309.  310,  314,  428,  698,  622,  792, 
796.  803. 

Lysbeth,  310. 

W..  269. 

Wouter.  100.  246,  264,  296. 
Gerst,  Kate,  640. 
Gervoe,  189,  800. 

Jean,  65.  100,  183,  186,  190,  194,  797. 

Jena,  194. 
GeBamin,  Marvin  H.,  664. 
Getston,  Jane  F.,  659. 
viewara,  Andrew.  783. 
Gibbon.  51. 
Gibbs.  311. 

Richard.  785. 
Gibson.  William.  787. 
Giebner,  Mary  A..  744. 
Giffing.  George,  788. 
Gifford,  Dora.  540. 

Sarah.   507. 
Giggs.  H.  D.,  774. 
Gilbert.  Charles,  723. 

Ida  A.,  539. 

John,  684. 

William.  519. 
Gilders leeve.  Harriet,  758. 
Gilford.  William.  144. 
Gill.  Elizabeth.  464. 
Gillespie.  James,  715. 

Gilmore.  75.=>. 

Richard,  628. 

Sarah.  568. 
Ginder,  Emma,  446. 
Gipsen   (Gibbs),  293. 
Glrton,  Sarah  Ann,  726. 
Gloudie  Point  Title,  The,  602. 
Goble.   Carrie,  741. 
Godwin,  David,  714. 

Elizabeth,  713. 
Goetchius.  Aletta,  551. 

Leah.  553. 

Rachel,  466.  553. 
Goewey.  Alida.  708. 

Benjamin.  733. 
Golden,  Katherlne,  778. 


201. 
256. 
301. 
795. 


Golding,  William,  783. 
Goodrich,  Frank  C,  664. 

Leroy,  620. 
Goodwin,  Anna,  659. 

Annie  A.,  467. 

Henry,  769. 
Goore.  Magdeleine.  183. 
Gordell.  Frances  B.,  525. 
Gordon.  Charles  W..  608. 

Wealthy  Jane,  464. 
Gosha,  Amelia,  770. 
Gould,  Alexander  S.,  420. 

R  (Rev.).  13. 
Gouverneur,  796,  813. 

Abraham,  378,  381,  397.  593,  601,.  624,  798, 
810,  811.  812,  814,  821. 

Barent.  812. 

Elizabeth,  812,  813. 

Esther.  812. 

Isaac.  806,  812. 

Jacoba.   812.  813.  814. 

Machtelt  (de  Riemer).  812. 

Maria,  603.  812,  813.  814. 

Nicholas.  569,  812,  813. 
Govert,   Mortien,  693. 
Gracia,  808. 
Graff.  Mary  L.,  656. 
Graham,  Carrie,  661. 

James,  413. 
Grandpre,  Pierre,  248. 
Granger.   Bradley  F.,  627. 

Roswell.  489. 
Grant,  Celestine  Maria,  623. 

Ebenezer.  808. 

Edwin,  667. 
Grassett,  Augustus,  804. 
Graul,  S.  George,  766. 
Graves.   Elsey.   722. 

William,  722. 
Gray,  Margaret,  631. 

Robert  Shaw,  665. 

William   (Rev.),  597. 
Green,  Elizabeth.  741. 

Harvey  W.,  738. 

Henry,  463. 

Jonas,  437. 

Margaret,  463. 
Greenfield,  John,  721. 
Green  leaf,  John  (Dr.),  261. 
Greenway,  Mary,  647. 
Grennell,  George  Gardener,  442. 
Grennels,   Rhoda.  720. 
Grey.  Austin,  726. 

Mary,  571. 
Grlffen,  George  F.,  440. 

John  T..  650. 

Sarah.  658. 
Grim,  Peter.  Jr..  546. 
Griswold.  Nathaniel,  298. 
Groat,  Jane  R.,  659. 

Sarah  A.,  515. 
Groesbeck,  Elizabeth,  738. 

Nicholas,   708. 
Groot.   Simon,  168. 

Susanna,  168. 
Orover,  Betsey,  735. 
Groves,  Sarah.  656. 
Guenon.  Hannah.  195. 

Jean.  99,  195.  246. 

Jeremiah.  195. 

John,  195. 

Susannah,    195. 
Guerard.   Edward  Percy,  472. 
Guion,  270. 

Jacques.  198.  494. 

IJane  E.,   743. 

Louis,  424,  637. 
Guiterray.   Victoria,  690. 
Gulcke,  Jan,  222. 
Gulick,  Fernandus,  700. 


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INDEX. 


Gulick.   Jan,  222. 
Ouliger.  Henry,  734. 
Gunckel.  Lewis  W.,  690. 
Gunderman,  Sarah,  730. 
Gundrey.  William  B.,  726. 
Gunn.  Patrick,  725. 
Gunnison,  George  Stewart,  748. 
Gunsaulus,  Eva  G.,  758. 
Gumee.  Brewster  S.,  691. 
Gurney,  Elizabeth,  629. 

John,  805. 
Guyon,  Charity,  651. 
Gwynne,  Almerson,  654. 
Gysbert,  Frederick,  837. 
Gysberts,  Wouter,  698. 
Gysbertsen,  Fredr.,  287. 


H 

Haas,  Jacob  Gerritsz,  367. 
Hadley,  Emma  A.,  659. 

Joseph.  548. 

Mehltabel,  643. 

Mrs..  614. 
Haff,  George,  376. 

Jacob.  452. 

Laurens,  375. 
Hagel.  Jan  Gerritsen,  612. 
Hagenaer.  Jeremias  Jansen,  219. 
Hagerman,  Annetta,  702. 

Francis.  712. 

Lydia,  717. 

Maria,  712. 

Nancy,  703. 

Nelly,  703. 
Halght,  AbigaU,  506. 

Ella,  747. 

Szra  James,  660. 
nault.  32,  33. 
Haines.  Wesley,  556. 
Hake.  Samuel  J.,  739. 
Haldron,  Abraham,  569. 

Abram  Cornelius,  560. 

Abram  Cornelius  (Hon.),  660. 

Adele  Ethlyn.  561. 

Anatye   (Anna).   559. 

Anna  (Johanna),  558. 

Annatje.  569. 

Bessie  C,  560. 

Catharine,  559. 

Catherine  Ann,  660. 

Cathlyntle.  559. 

Catriena,  559.  560. 

Claes  (Nicholas),  559. 

Cornelia.  659. 

Cornelius,  559.  560. 

Cornelius  C,  560. 

Cornelius  J.,  660. 

Edith  May,  561. 

Elizabeth,  659,  560. 

Elsie.  559. 

Emily.  561. 

Estelle.  560. 

Garrett  S.  M.,  660. 

Henry,  658,  561. 

Hester,  569. 

James  C,  660. 

James  C.  (Jacobus  C).  660. 

James  Demarest,  660,  bbi. 

Jan    (John),   569. 

Jessie  Louise,  561. 

Johannls,  560. 

John.  568,  559. 

John  C,  560,  561. 

Lena,  660. 

Lucas  (Luykus),  569. 

Maria.  569. 

Marie  Roceland,  661. 

Martha.  560. 


Haldron.    Mary   Elizabeth.   560. 

Marytje,  560. 

Marytye  (Marie),  669. 

Nicholas.  5o0. 

Percy  Long,  56L 

Rachel,  660. 

Sarah,  559. 

William,  297,  401,  406,  413.  415,  558.  6a, 
661.  816. 

William  (WUlem),  668. 

William  C.  560. 

WUlem  (William),  659,  560. 

WiUim  (William),  559. 
Hale.  Daniel,  55L 

Martha  M.,  746. 

Sarah,  616. 
Halenbeck,  Isaac  Caspars.  868. 
Hall,  684. 

Augusta  D.,  749. 

Charles  Henry,  482,  797,  798. 

Edna  Ann,  736. 

Elizabeth,  381.  684. 

Horace,  444. 

Ida  F.,  670. 

James  S.,  690. 

Jennie  M.,  753. 

John  T.,  584. 

Maayke  (Mary),  680. 

Mary  Ann,  649.  * 

Mary  L..  527. 

Ralph,  881. 

William  D.,  691. 

William  H.,  752. 
Hallenbeck,  Jacob,  720. 

Lawrence  A.,  668. 
Hallett.  William,  163. 
Hallock,  Jamee  M.,  749. 
Halstead.  Alice,  575. 

Caroline.   631. 

Oscar,  571. 
Hamilton.  Alexander,  818. 

Horace.  731. 

James  H.,  747. 

Julia  T.,  469. 

Warren,  730. 
Hamlin,  Catherine  Livingston,  65L 

G.  A.,  539. 
Hammell,  John,  78. 
Hammer  Eugenia,  768. 

Lena.  768. 
Hammond.  Elizabeth,  741. 

Jacob  Dewitt,  523. 

John  Wells,  533. 

Mary  Delancey.  609. 
Hanel.  Juriaen.  211,  221,  264,  598. 

Juriaen  (Sergeant),  206. 

Jurlan.  679.  796,  799. 
Hanel  and  Slot  Patents,  The,  G98. 
Hanesch,   Elizabeth,   744. 
Hanmore.  Wilfred  B..  747. 
Hansen.  Catherine,  259. 

Hans.  129. 

Mary,  128. 

Simon,  128. 
Hanson.  John  Wilkinson,  566. 
Harden,  Henry.  518. 
Hardenberg,  Cornelia,  695. 
Hardenbrook,  712. 

Abel.  808. 

Margaret.  808. 

Sarah,  783. 
Hardewyn.   Martin,  272,   275,  815.  819. 
Hardin,  Edwin  St.  (George,  560. 
Harding,   Conrad.   363. 

Emeline.  363,  68L 

Frena.    363. 

Hans  Jacobs.  362,  363,  681. 

Lambert,  363. 

Tryntle,  363. 
Haring.  Abraham,  454,  616,  619. 


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865 


Haring  Catherine,  601. 

Catherine  D..  660. 

Catrina,  461. 

Cornelia.  455. 

David,  687. 

Dirck.   450. 

Dirkie,  616. 

Elbert.  450. 

Elizabeth,  559,  629,  684. 

Ellen  M.,  560. 

Frederick,  461. 

James,  619. 

Lydia,  709. 

Maria,  455,  461. 

Martina.  460. 

Marty  en,  449. 

Peter,  601. 

Peter  D..  460. 

Pieter  J..  448. 

Rachel,  709. 

Samuel,  461. 

Willempie.  456. 
Harlan,  Margaret  L.,  571. 
Harm,  Theodore  S.,  591. 
Hlu-mans,  Arent,  308,  338.  388,  401,  412,  817. 
Harmanse,  447. 

Arent,  414,  415. 

Elbert,  448. 
Harmansen,  Arent,  792. 
Harmens,  Arent.  694. 
Harper,  Jane,  762. 

John  Hendrick,  606. 

Mayor,  443. 
Harries,  Carrie,  589. 

Ella,  689. 
Harrington,  Joseph,  768. 
Harriott,  Nathaniel,  782. 
Harris.  Fannie,  748. 

James,  445. 
Harrison,  George,  789. 

Oerad,  571. 

Julia,  52L 

Mary  E.,  753. 

Morris,  526. 

Richard.  606,  798. 
Harsen,  Cornelius,  267. 

Jacob,  478,  545. 

John,  545. 
Hart,  Jonathan,  217. 

Marshall  B.,  526. 
Harte.  Catharine,  789. 
Harter  (Herder),  Jacob,  501. 
Hartman,  Alma  C,  690. 
Hartuss,  Annie  S.,  750. 
Hartwell,  William  S.,  672. 
Harven,*  William,  617. 
Harvey,  Mary  E.,  766. 
Hasbrouck,  Peter,  206. 

Sarah.  205. 

Tobias,  510. 
Hasson,  William  H..  762. 
Hatch,  Julia,  532. 

Sarah  Elizabeth,  653. 

Tamar  Ann,  730. 
Hathom,  Fergus  A.,  653. 
Hattem,  Dirck,  375. 
Haverly,  751. 
Haviland,  Benjamin,  265. 

Bridget,  692. 

Joseph,  265. 
Hawkins,  Eleanor,  665. 
Hawks,  Olivia,  469. 
Hayes,  Jacob,  608. 

Maria,  608. 
Hayner.  Sarah  A.,  689. 
Hays,  De  Witt  C,  610. 

Ella,  611. 
Hazard,  Eliza  B..  652. 
Healey,  Joseph  T.,  688. 
Heard,  James,  298. 


Heck.  John  W.,  446. 
Redding,  Lawrence,  380. 

Thomas,  380. 
Heddy.  Elizabeth.  263. 

John,  2n,  283,  327. 
Hedger,  Jbseph,  195. 
Heermans,  Augustine.  693. 
Heerte,  Amelyntle,  681. 
Heertgers,  Pletertle,  234. 
Hegeman,  Hendrick,  698. 

Jan.  144. 
Hegen,  Amelia,  746. 
Heily,  Ithamar,  827. 
Heiser.  794. 

Christopher,  172,  484. 
Hel lacker,  Effle,  692. 
Hellaker,  Dinah,  406. 

William,  403,  407,  408. 
Heller,  Anna,  741. 
Helllker,  Jacob.  236,  592. 
Helling.  Hendrick  Teunisz,  328. 

Samuel.  350. 

Wybrecht,  328. 
Helmont,  Jan,  309. 
Helms,   Millie.   441. 

Robert.  441. 
Hemstreet,  Maria,  786. 
Henderson.  James,  427. 

James  M.,  726. 

W.,  774. 
Hendricks,  Aeltie,  94,  692. 

Coenraet,  269,  302. 

Conrad,  330,  338,  796. 

Conradus.  320,  332,  349. 

Daniel.  320. 

Elsie.  100. 

Femmetie.  608. 

Frans,  476. 

Oeertrieu.  384. 

Geertye,  451. 

Grietie,  147. 

Helena.  360. 

Jan.  263,  269,  283,  332,  349,  360,  476. 

Karsten,  251. 

Margaret,  148,  295. 

Marritie,  476. 

Rebecca,  94,  694. 

Sarah  C,  522. 

Tryntie,  229. 
Hendricksen  Conrad,  266,  315,  316. 

Conradus,  309. 

Jan.  325.  476. 

Marten,  700. 

Samuel,  229. 
Hendrlcx,  Conradus,  344. 
Hennlon,  Ide,  707. 

Leah,  639. 

Nathaniel  Pletersen,  696. 
Henry,  Joseph,  479. 
Herder.  Elizabeth,  507. 
Hering,  Henry  J.,  688. 
Hermans.  Arent,  365. 

Beatrice.  162. 
Hermans;  Arent.  308.  320.  330.  337,  338,  842, 

343.  349.  360.  366,  370,  372,  373. 
Hermensen.  Arent,  307,  313,  328,  332,  336. 
Heroy,  Lou,  557. 
Herrlck,  Phebe.  508. 
Herring,  Cosyn,  350. 

Grietie.  350. 

Margaret,  350. 

Martha.  741. 

Vrouwtie.  350. 
Herring  (Haring),  Nicholas,  453. 
Herzer.  George  A.,  773. 
Heumius,  79. 

Hewett.   James   (Captain),   548. 
Hewitt,  Kate,  537. 

Rex.  667. 
Hewson,  Mary,  646. 


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Heyer,  Catherine,  298. 
Heyllger,  John  (Col.),  G69. 
Hickman,  Robert.  782. 
Hlckoe,  David  Stafford,  464. 
Hicks.  Barney,  656. 

Phebe,  738. 

Whitehead  (Hon.),  479. 

William  C,  746. 
Hlgby,  Lydia,  667. 
Higginbotham,  Lucy,  648. 
Higgins.  Joseph  H.,  766. 
Higley.  Edwin,  762. 
Hildreth,  Benjamin,  810. 

Louisa  J.,  634. 
Hill,  Gabriel,  619. 

Qrace  B.,  678. 

Hannah.  667. 

John  Thomas,  641. 

Richard.  398. 
Hills.  Asenath,  735. 
Hilton,  Avilda,  489. 
Hlnchman,  John,  734. 
Hinckley,  Harriet,  655. 
Hinderlfnder,  Anglie,  675. 
Hinds,  Jacob.  721. 
Hlne.  Abel.  512. 

Patrick.  703. 
Hinkell.  Amanda.  741. 
Hlnton.   Mary,  668. 
Hitchcock,  Edwin,  444. 

Edwin  H..  444. 
Hitchen.  John,  726. 
Hitt,  Jane,  526. 
Hoagland.   Hannah,   588. 

John  B.,  687. 

Mary,  647. 

Sallie  M..  588. 
Hodges.  Elizabeth,  444. 
Hoede.  Anna,  381. 
Hoever,  John,  722. 
Hoff,   Prances,  685. 
Hoffman,  340. 

Judge.  417. 

Martinus  (Col.),  428. 

Mary,  726. 

Murray  (Hon.),  417. 

Sarah.  499. 
Hogan  (Hagens),  Martin,  450. 
Hoggins,  William  F.,  728. 
Hogle,  Sally,  616. 
Holcomb,  Charles.  752. 
Hollack.  Matthew.  628. 
Holland.  Cyrus,  762. 

Elizabeth,  692. 

Thomas,  379. 
Hoi  ley.  Caroline  E.,  629. 

Charles.  630. 

Harriet  J..  760. 

Richard,  569. 
Holllday.  Cornelius,  745,  746. 
Hollls.  329. 

Robert.  286.  289,  302.  309,  328. 
Holllster.  Abigail,  616. 

Elizabeth,  527. 
Holly.  628. 

Holman,  Rebecca,  467. 
Holmes.  381,  661. 

Bregle,  806. 

Cornelia.  806. 

Elizabeth.   806. 

Garret.  656. 

George.  660.  792,  806. 

Janneke,  806. 

Jannetie,  806. 

John.  769. 

Joorl8(  George),  448. 

Judith.  806. 

Mary  Cornelia,  662. 

Nancy,  723. 

Obadiah,  272. 


Holmes,  Polly,  711. 

PrisclUa,  806. 

William,  376.  401,  413.  416,  806.  816. 
Hoist,  Cornelia  Van  Tienhoven,  566. 
Homans,  Alexander,  650. 
Honald,  Bertha,  446. 
Honeywell,  Eliza  A.,  563. 

Israel.  807. 

Margaret,  554. 
Hooghtallng,  Anna,  498. 

Catherine,  603. 
Hooghteeling.  William,  200. 
Hoogland.  Adrian,  804. 

Aeltle,  694,  804. 

Benjamin,  804. 

Charlotte  Elizabeth,  473. 

Cornells  Dlrcksen,  804. 

Derlck,  804. 

Johannes,  804. 

John,  716. 

William,  804. 
Hoogtallng.  Wllhelmus,  607. 
Hoogtelingh.    Jeremlas,    503. 
Hook,  Thomas,  Jr.,  806. 
Hoover,  Emanuel,  569. 
Hoppen,  Andrles.  384. 
Hopper,  Andrles,  385,  408,  687. 

Ann,  440. 

Catherine.    385. 

Hannah  M..  522. 

Hendrlca,  697. 

Henry.  385. 

Henry  J.,   (Hon.),  386. 

Mary  A.,  467. 

Mary  Leah,  660. 

Mrs.  386. 

William.  385. 

Yell  Is,  385.  707. 
Horan.  Martha,  746. 
Horn,  Hannah,  435. 

John.  436. 
Home.  Gustavus  Adolphus,  234. 
Horton,  Charles  H.  (M.  D.),  693, 

Helen   O.,  669,  572. 
Hose,   Elizabeth.  696. 
Hough.  Pamella,  516. 
HoughUling,  Catharine,  504. 
Houghwout.  Jane  Vreeland,  465. 
House.  Polly,  734. 

William.  626. 
Howard.  Ezra.  657. 

Walter.  542. 
Howe,  Andrew,  649. 

Eliza  Turner.  468.  472. 
Howland,  Ollva,  466. 
Hewlett,  John.  733. 
Hoyt,  Edgar.   537. 

Ennes  (Capt.).  722. 
Hubbard.  James  (Capt),  240. 
Hubele.  Jane.  745. 
Hudde.  134.  802. 

Andrles.  106,  129,  130,  133,  135. 

Claea,  130. 

Rutger,  130,  135. 
Hudson,  11. 

Anna  L.,  753. 

Grace  Sands,  786. 

Henry,  109.  110,  111,  112,  113,  114,  115,  111 

Robert.  387. 

Robert  Grlck.  515. 
Huff.  Isaac.  712. 
Hulder  (Holler).  Lena,  510. 
Hull.  Dr.    (Mrs.).  783. 
Humphrey.  Benjamin,  491. 

David.  629. 
Hun.  Harman  Tomasz,  427. 
Hungerford.  Mary,  627. 
Hunt.  317. 

Thomas.  Jr.,  283.  316,  385. 

Thomas,  Sr.,  385. 


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Hunt.  Timothy.  645. 
Hunter.  Henrietta,  689. 

Robert.  804. 
Huntoon,  Grace  E.,  668. 

Rose.  668. 
Husted.  Pbebe.  646. 
Hustis.  Solomon,  645. 
Hutch  tngs,  George,  671. 
Hutton.  Jennie.  544. 

John,  629. 
Huyberts,  Maria.  380. 
Huyler,  Peter,  618. 

Peter  E.,  467. 
Huys,  Jacob  (Capt.),  05. 
Hyatt.  Caleb,  345,  551.  614. 

Jacob.  551. 

Millard.  763. 

Sarah.  645. 

Thomas.  350. 
Hyer.  William.  486. 
Hyzer,  Thomas.  659. 


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Idens.  Theunia.  592. 
Ides.  Teunis.  395,  403. 
Idesse.  Annetje.  478. 
Ing:all8.  Josephine,  540. 
Ingraham.  D.  P.  (Hon.),  796. 

Judge,  172,  609. 

Nathaniel  G.,  609. 

Samuel  Dana.  716. 
Innis.  Alexander,  388. 

Cornelius,  388. 

Thomas.  196.  388. 

William.  388. 
Ireland.  William  H.   (Dr.),  666. 
Isaacs,  Abraham,  297. 
Iseman,  James.  441. 
Isselstein.  Isaac.  498. 
Isselsteyn,  Cornelia.  389. 

Martin,  389. 
Ives,  James  Frontier.  443. 

John,  535. 

Ralph  O.,  493. 


Jaarsyelt,  Anna,  95.  679,  680. 
Jackson,  Almira,  569. 

Jabez,  519. 

Jacob  B.,  726. 

John  F.,  436. 

John  F.  (Rev.),  408. 

John  Frelinghuysen  (Rev.),  436. 

Patrick,  436. 

William,  724. 

WUllam  (Rev.),  436. 

William  H.   (Dr.),  436. 
Jacobs,  Frank,  543. 

Jacomina.  106.  221. 

Maria.  364. 

Marritie.  277. 

Mary.  738. 

Peter,  367. 

Tryntie,  592. 
Jacobsen,  Claes.  234. 

Frans.  363. 

Jacob  Franssen.  96,  97. 

Margaret,  97. 

Robert,  236. 

Rutger,  97. 

Teunis,  97. 
Jacobson.  Frans,  96. 
Jacobus,  Bertha,  61L 
Jaersvelt.  Anna,  221. 
James.  John,  698,  799. 
Jameson,  Mary  H.,  749. 


Jan.  Kleyn,  372. 
Janes,  H.  H.  (Rev.),  759. 
Janeway,  William,  321. 
Jans,  Aeltie,  217. 

Annecke,   236. 

Engeltie.  188. 

Grietle.  95. 

Jannetie,  263. 

Lysbeth,  698. 

Margaret,  347. 

Susannah,  700. 

Wlllemtie,  261. 
Janse,  Marretye,  559. 
Jansen,  147,  149.  184,  261,  268, 
381.  424,  797,  799. 

Abraham.  388. 

Anna  Catrlna.  888. 

Annatie  (Laurens).  448. 

Anneke.  148. 

Anthony.  388. 

Belltie.  258. 

C.  329. 

Catalina.  351. 

Catherine.  148. 

Cornells.  219.  243.  258.  266. 
278.  286.  287.  288.  289,  292, 
304.  308.  309.  313,  315,  316, 
328.  330,  332,  333.  338.  342. 
371.  373,  382.  390,  393,  401, 
412,  414,  415,  476,  697,  795, 
802.  803. 

Cornells  Laurens,  353. 

Cornelius,  273.  296,  366,  367, 

Dirck.  236.  261. 

Egbert,  61J. 

Elizabeth,  410. 

Elsie.  388. 

Evert.   234. 

Frans.  476. 

Hendrick,  258,  351,  476. 

Jan.  148.  346.  388. 

Johanna    580. 

Laurens,  258.  273.  274.  296, 
332,  333,  3.38.  340.  342,  343. 
386.  370,  371.  372.  373.  388. 


286,  366,  368, 


274.  276, 

293,  297. 

318,  320, 

349,  352, 

405,  406. 

797,  800, 


792.  795. 


tn, 

301, 
324. 
365, 
407, 
801, 


297,  320, 
345,  349, 
401,  403, 
795,  799, 


365, 
406, 
802, 


I 


406,  412,  593,  600,  624,  625, 
817    821 

Lawrence,  366,  367,  382,  405,  414,  415,  792, 
803.  819. 

Lourens.  289,  290,  320,  329,  380,  816,  830. 

Lysbet,  148. 

Maria,   298. 

Marritie,  476. 

Matthys.  164.  341,  342,  345. 

Metje,  bW.  821. 

Pieter.  144.  148,  247,  268. 

Tapster.   276. 

Willem,   162. 
Jansen   (Kortright),  Cornells,  795. 
Jarvls,  Esther,  436. 

James.  645. 

Nathaniel   (Hon.).  490. 
Jaslin.  Maude,  620. 
Jay,  Sarah.  711. 
Jaycox,  Samuel,  627. 
Jenkins,  T.  J.,  760. 
Jenks.  Lemuel  S.,  738. 
Jensen  Willem.  201. 
Jerolamen.  Nicholas.  718. 
Jerome,  761. 
Jersey,  Abram  B.,  443. 

Abram  P.,  560. 

Winifred.  766. 
Jervis,  Timothy  Bloomfleld,  464. 
Jessup,  Edward  A..  523. 
Jeurians,  Jannetie.  256. 
Jewel,  Rachel.  500. 
Jewell,  768. 

Aeltie.  646. 

Catherine  E.,  659. 


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INDEX. 


Jewell,  Hannah,  613. 

John  N.,  650. 

Maria,  646. 

Mary.  645. 
Johannes,  Foppe,  431. 

Minne,  431. 
John,  Don.  38. 
Johnson,  813. 

Archibald  B.,  667. 

Charles,  428. 

Clara,  542. 

David,  489. 

Elisabeth.  609. 

Emma,  572. 

Jacob  J.,  492. 

Jonathan  (Dr.),  720. 

Simon,  417,  564,  565.  601,  606,  798.  801,  812. 
813 

W.  R.  (Dr.),  519. 

William  (Sir).  649. 
Johnston,  Charles  O..  746. 

Gabriel  P.,  589. 

George,  746. 

Isaiah  Y.  (Rev.),  612. 

Mary,  492. 
Jones,  340,  807. 

Andrew,  748. 

Anna  Alwild,  664. 

Aurella  A.,  649. 

Edwin  J..  660. 

Frances  Nelson.  468,  472. 

John  D.,  618. 

John  S.,  648. 

Letitia,  664. 

Maria.  533. 

Mary  E.,  742. 

Samuel,  711. 
Joris,  Burger,  181,  236,  308,  386. 
Journeay,  270. 

John,  272. 

Meynard,  271,  792. 
Journee.  105.  206,  329,  831.  496. 

Meynard,  68.   103.  259.  274.  289.  296.  320, 
324,  328,  370,  795,  796. 

Meyndert.  284,  286.  287,  301.  308.  309.  800. 
Juet.  110.  113. 
Jumel.  826. 

Stephen.  820,  827. 
Jurcks.  Margaret,  697. 

K 

Kalshoven,  Ed,  13. 

Kammega.  Annatie  Hendricks.  600. 

Kane.  Pierre  C,  481. 

Karsten,  236.  269. 

Hendrick.  795. 
Karstens.  622. 

Coenraet.  251. 

H.  H..  193. 

Hendrick.  93.  188.  190.  195,  198,  199.  201, 
203.  222,  230,  239,  242,  251,  296.  796. 

Jan.  251. 

Wybrecht.  251. 
Kay.  David.  543. 
Keator,  Lavinia.  533. 
Keely,  Elisha.  628. 
Keeter.  Melchert  Claesz.  162. 
Kehoe.  610. 

Kellenaer.  Sarah,  321. 
Keller.  Anna  Catherine.  710. 
Kellogg.  Hannah,  527. 
Kelly,  John,  427. 

Lydia.  657. 

Rosa.  762. 

Samuel.  818. 
Kemper.  James.  586. 
Kendall.  George,  588. 

Helen,  630. 


Kennan,  727. 

Kennedy,  Catherine.  569. 

John,  734. 

Margaret  S.,  576. 
Kenney,  Eliza.  749. 
Kent,  David.  696. 

John,  721. 
Kenyon,  David,  819. 

James.  298.  819. 

John  S.,  819. 

Samuel  B.,  819. 

William.  819. 

Wm.  B..  298. 
Kere,  Abraham,  662. 

John.  562. 
Kermer,  Abraham.  220.  427. 

Grietie,  220,  427. 
Ketcham.  William.  676. 
Keteltas,  Arent,  369. 

Arent  Evertsen,  266.  277. 

Evert  Pietersen,  97,  277. 

Susanna,  359. 
Keys,  Mary  Wales.  737. 
Kidd,  William  (C!apt),  381,  806. 
Kieft,  132,  144,  147,  151.  162.  15S.  IM.  345. 

Director,  129,  130,  133,  138,  139,  140,  141. 
142.  146,  794. 

Ctovemor,  126,  247,  260.  292,  830. 

W..  406. 

W.  (Hon.  Dr.),  168. 

William,  160. 

Wm.  (Governor).  384,  885. 
Kiers.  Hendrick,  349,  873. 
Kierse,  Peter,  643. 
Kiersen,  93.  95.  547,  600,  799.  819,  826. 

Abraham,  662. 

Gerritie,  548. 

Grietie,  268. 

Grietje,  662. 

Hendrick,  249,  263.  266.  276,  312.  318,  S18, 
329,  343,  344,  346,  351,  366. 

Jan.  263.  298,  346,  408,  400,  648,  668,  661, 
562,  600,  821. 

Jannetie,  283,  648,  662. 

Jannetje.  562. 

John,  562.  567,  792.  800.  819.  821,  827,  t2S, 
829,  830. 

Kler.  263. 

Maria,  268. 

Michiel,  263. 

Mrs.,  599. 

Peter.  263. 

Rachel,  268. 

Sarah.  263,  613. 

TJerck,  263. 

Walter,  263. 
Kierstead,  Abraham.  441. 

Roelof,  412. 
Kiersted,  Aldert,  496. 

Christopher,  321. 

Simon,  788. 
Klerstede.  Blandina,  369. 
Kilbum.  Ina  A.,  747. 
Killecutt,  Emily,  734. 
Kimball,  Eunice.  631. 
Kim  bark,  Kate,  660. 
Kimberly,  584. 

Salina,  748. 
Kimmel.  John,  803. 
King.   Charity.  709. 

Jennie,  444. 

John  A.,  446. 

Lydia  Gail.  757. 

Richard.  783. 

Rufel  P..  528. 

Samuel.  791. 
Kingsbury,  Laura,  676. 
Kingsland.  Hester,  487.  480. 

Rachel.  783. 
Kinnear,  R.  M..  764. 


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869 


Kinney,  WUliam,  726. 
Klnsey,  Maurice,  7C8. 
Kip,  329. 

Abraham,  351. 

Catherine,  502. 

Enien,  610. 

Hendrlck.  147,  351. 

Hendricks,  782. 

Isaac,  147,  328.  338,  846,  860,  351.  642. 

Jacob,  158,  181,  182.  212,  242,  786. 

Jacob  (Mrs.),  292. 

Jacob  (Sieur),  285. 

Jacobus,  351. 

Johannes.  351,  50L 

Johannesle,  35L 

John,  147. 

Maria.  377,  501. 

Maria  (Mrs.),  407. 

Maria  (Polly),  460. 

Mary,  692. 

Mai7  (Mrs.),  851. 

Rachel,  508. 

Tryntle,  351,  782. 
Klpp,  Amelia  A.,  524. 

Catherine,  646. 

Francis  M.  (Rev.),  851. 

James,  620. 

Johannes,  276. 

William  De  Graw,  620. 

Wm.  I.  (Rev.),  351. 
Kirk,  Mary.  744. 
Kittel,   Susannah,  567. 
Klearwater,  Mouris,  449. 
Klinetop,  Lydla,  571. 

Sarah.  570. 
Knapp,  506. 

Freeborn,  516. 

Mary  Ann,  724. 

Moses  L.,  517. 

Reuben,  516. 

Shepherd,  820. 
Knapton.  Capt,  385. 
Knickerbocker,  Diedrlch,  115. 

Everltt,  445. 

Harmen  Janse,  448. 

Lewis  D.,  445. 
Knlffen.  Fanny  J.,  655. 
Knleht,  Francis  Eaton,  464. 

Sarah,  690. 

William.  688. 
Knobles,  John,  442. 
Knox.  Louisa  Ellen,  666. 

Thomas,  569. 
Knyf.  Captain,  204. 
Koch,  Hendrlck.  94. 

Marrltie.  681. 
Kockerthal,  Joshua  (Rev.),  478. 

Louisa  Abigail.   478. 
Kockuyt,  268. 

Joost  104,  247.  250. 
Kolver,  Jacob.  204. 
Koninck,  Hyman.  403. 
Konlng.  Abraham.  783. 
Kool.  Barent,  618. 

Jacob  J.,  458. 

Jan,  580. 
Kool  (Cole),  Maria.  455. 
Kortrlght,   105.  205.   258,  296,   298.  321,  373, 
4o±.   434,   801,  808. 
A.  Gussie,  576. 

Aaron.  500,  565.  567.  568.  569,  571,  572,  804. 
Aaron  Writer.  571.  575. 
Abbie  Hope.  577. 
Abraham  D..  571,  575. 

Abram,  669,  570,  573,  574. 
Adrian.  259. 
Aefie,  267.  564,  635. 
Aefle  (Eve).  410. 
Alice.  573,  575. 
Andrew,  569,  571. 


Kortrlght,  Ann  Elizabeth,  668. 
Anna.  573. 
Anna  V.,  577. 
Annette,  564,  565. 
Antle.  259. 
Archie,  578. 
Arent,  355,  500. 
Arle,  259. 
Aseneth,  575. 
Ashbel  Morris,  571. 
Bastiaen,  265.  623,  786.  818.  823. 
Bastiaen  Mlchlels.  410. 
Bastiaen  Michlelsen.  267. 
Benjamin,  667,  669,  670,  672,  673. 
Benton,  575. 
Blanche  M..  678. 
Bowman,  575,  578. 
Carl  I..  678. 
Carrie.  573. 

Catherine.  259.  670.  678. 
Cecil  J.,  677. 
Charles,  570,  573,  677. 
Charles  A..  571. 
Charles  Augustine,  572. 
Charles  Franklin.  675,  578. 
Charles  N.,  677. 
Chester,  572. 
Chiel.  97. 
Christian,  571. 
Christopher,  573. 
Christopher  Jacob,  576,  578. 
Clara,  575. 
Clyde  C,  577. 
Cornelia,  569. 

Cornells  Jansen.  267,  563,  564,  403. 
Cornelius.  259,  666.  666,  569,  670,  673. 
Cornelius  Jansen,  792. 
Dingman,  571. 
Donald,  678. 
Edgar.  476.  578. 
Edmund,  570. 
Edwin  K.,  578. 
Ellas,  574. 

Ellsna,  567.  569.  570.  671.  573,  674. 
Elisha  Dingman,  574.  676. 
Eliza,  570. 

Elizabeth,  565.  666.  667,  569,  670,  578,  676. 
Ella  Louise,  675. 
Ellen,  569.  571,  573,  574. 
Emma.  578. 
Emma  L..  575. 
Emma  M..  575. 
Erastus.  ^4. 
Ethel.  577. 
Etta  Carrie,  575. 
Euphemia  (Eva),  569. 
Eve.  430,  565.  567. 
Fannie  F..  577. 
Fletcher,  571. 
Flora  O.,  577. 
Florence  Tear,  578. 
Frances  (Francyntle),  666. 
Frances  Whiley,  578. 
Frank,  572,  577. 
Frank  Stewart,  574.  577. 
Frederick  L.,  576. 
Geertie,  259. 
George,  572. 
George  Denton.  576. 
Gertrude  M.,  575. 
Grace  K.,  577. 
Grace  Pearl,  578. 
Grietie,  431.  488.  666.  801.  804. 
Hannah,  570,  573. 
Harlen.  577. 
Harlen  W.,  674,  577. 
Harold,  578. 
Harriett.  673. 
Helen.  570. 
Helen  Gertrude.  576. 


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Kortright.  Helena,  6C7. 
Hendrlck.  269. 
Henry,  669.  670,  673. 
Henry  Harrison,  678. 
Henry  Y.,  678. 
Hester,  669. 
Hester  Mary,  670. 
Horace,  578. 
Huldah,  671,  674. 
Isaac.  669,  671.  674.  676. 
Isaac  H.,  677,  678. 
J.  WUbur,  577,  678. 
Jacob.  269,  673,  576. 
James.  668,  672,  674.  676.  678. 
Jannetie.  664. 
Jesse  D..  671,  676. 
Job.,  298. 

Johannes,  267.  486.  546.  563,  664,  792. 
Johannes  Cornel Issen,  664.  792. 
John,  259,  566,  567.  669,  570.  672,  673,  644. 

801. 
John  (Captain),  569,  670.  802.  804.  814,  826. 
John  B.,  570.  574. 
John  Benson.  672. 
John  C,  572,  576. 
John  Cooper.  669,  571,  676. 
John  Harlan,  577. 
John  J.,  578. 
John  Jackson,  571,  576. 
John  L.,  570. 
John  M..  577. 

John  Milton  (Hamilton).  572. 
John  Searles.  576. 
John  Wesley.  574,  677. 
Joseph.  571.  574. 
Joseph  Daniel,  576.  578. 
Joseph  Rhodes.  574.  677. 
Josephine  B.,  677. 
Laura.  577. 

Laurens  Comelissen,  564.  666. . 
Lawrence,  259.  429.  430,  432.  483.  666.  666. 

567.  668.  569.  578.  603.  792.  803.  821. 
Lawrence  M..  672. 
Lawrence  W.,  572. 
Lawrence  William  ,672.  676. 
Lidla,  573. 
Louisa.  673. 
Lourens.  355. 
Lulu  Elizabeth.  576. 
Luther.  577. 
Lydla.  669.  673. 
Mabel  Dodson.  671. 
Mabel  Louisa.  677. 
Margaret.  569,  570,  673,  678. 
Margaret  Ellen.  574. 
Margaret  Genevieve,  678. 
Margarette,  673. 
Margrietze.  567. 
Maria,  564.  566. 
Maria  Elizabeth,  572. 
Martha.  576. 

Mary,  569.  570.  571,  672,  674,  676. 
Mary  E.,  576. 
Mary  H..  571. 
Mary  Helen.  672. 
Matilda  E..  671. 
Matilda  Ellen,  572. 
Mattle.  565.  603,  606. 
Maude  B..  577. 
May,  577. 

Metje.  483.  485,  564. 
Michael,  267,  635. 
Milton,  570,  573. 
Milton  Lerch,  575,  578. 
Miner,  575. 
Molly  J..  577. 
Nancy,  569.  571. 
Nancy  Jane,  574. 
Nannie  Rawlins.  578. 
Nathan  Alonzo,  674.  677. 


Kortright,  Nathan  D.,  671,  674,  576,  Sn. 

Nathan  D..  Jr.,  676. 

Nathan  Dodem.  678. 

Nellie.  673. 

Nellie  B..  577. 

Nicholas.  298.  432.  433.  434.  497,  645.  S6i. 
665.  566.  568.  603.  697.  796,  797,  804. 

Nicholas  6..  570,  572. 

Norman.  673. 

Pamelia,  671. 

Paul  A.,  678. 

Peter,  269. 

Rachel.  267.  571. 

Rachel  Caroline.  574. 

Richard.  574. 

Richard  Pollock,  574. 

Robert.  570. 

Robert  MUton.  678. 

Roseanna.  573. 

Roxanna.  570.  673. 

Samuel.  576. 

Samuel  D..  676. 

Samuel  Delamater.  669. 

Samuel  Denton.  672. 

Samuel  M..  676. 

Sarah.  569. 

Sarah  A..  676. 

Sarah  Caroline.  672. 

Sarah  Eliza.  672. 

Sarah  H..  577. 

Scott  Elmer.  576. 

Shelby  M..  677. 

Susan.  572. 

Susannah,  566.  568.  671.  608. 

Sylvester.  674. 

Teresa  I..  677. 

Theodore.  674. 

Thomas.  572. 

Thomas  Brown.  672. 

Thomas  C.  576,  678. 

Thomas  Clinton,  574. 

Thomas  Dingman,  571. 
>  Vernon  Smith,  578. 

Volney,  570. 

Walter,  678. 

Warden,  678. 

Washington.    573. 

William.  259.  673. 

William  A..  575.  678. 

William  Abram,  Jr.,  678. 

William  Albert,  575,  678. 

William  Eddy,  577. 

William  Le  Fevre,  577. 

William  Pollock,  574. 

William  T.,  576. 

Wilson  Grant.  577. 

Winfleld  Scott.  673. 
Kortright  (Courtright).  67. 
Koster,  222. 

Kraig.  Reuben  C.  509. 
Krannear.  Jenny.  677. 
Kray   (Gray).  Tennis.  99. 
Krom.  Derick.  785. 

Gysbert.   448. 

Lysbeth.  608. 

Sarah,  503. 

William.  608. 
Kuyper,  Grietie.  638. 

Mary,  638. 
Kuyter.  135.  137,  139.  142.  144,  146.  148.  150. 
151.  152.  153.  154.  156,  169.  160.  162,  16i 
167.  244.  256.  342. 

Captein.  106.  143. 

Jochem.  140. 

Jochem  Pletersen.  157.  158.  167.  168.  794. 

Jochiem  Pletersen.  92.  162. 

Jochiem  Pletersen  (Capt.),  133,  134. 

Mrs..  160. 
Kyckuyt,  Hendrlck  Jansen.  476.  476. 

Jan,  401. 


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KyckuTt  Jan  Hendricks.  324.  328.  476. 
Jan  Hendricx.  372.  873. 
John  Hendricks,  476. 


Labadie,  62. 

Liaborie.  James  (Rev.).  336. 

Lacheret.  M..  10.  13. 

Lock,  Dominie,  135. 

La  Cloche,  61. 

Lacqnema,   Louis,  204. 

r Admiral.  Madeleine,  348.  366. 

Lafons,  Blanche,  812. 

Jean,  813. 

John,  812. 
Lake,  John,  506. 
Lakeman,  204,  270. 

Abraham,  204. 

Peter.  204. 
I'AIbret,  Louise,  80. 
La  Marthonle.  Bishop,  56. 
Lamb,  Catherine.  703. 

Elizabeth,  703. 
Lamberson,  David,  687. 
Lambert,   Eliza,  520. 
Lamberts,  Conrad,  679. 

Hendrick.  449. 

Thomas.  250.  268,  268. 
Lambertsen,  Jacob.  144. 
Lambet.  Mary,  661. 
Lameter,  Isaac.  433. 

La  Montagne.  48,  80,  81,  85,  131.  134,  145. 
154,  167,   802. 

Carsten.  194. 

Dr..  89,  91.  126,  148,  290. 

Grietie,  194. 

J     Jr     193    247 

Jan.  i94.  195.  202.  203,  206,  207,  211,  215, 
229,  240,  242,  258,  266,  269,  274.  275.  279. 

Jan   (Mrs.).  306. 

Jan,  Jr.,  178,  183,  221.  239,  264. 

Jean,  85,  91,  106,  289. 

Jesse.  91. 

Johannes,  150,  157. 

Johannes  (Dr.),  691.  784. 

Johannes  (Sieur),  150. 

Johannes,  Jr.,  208. 

John.  94.  185.  188,  189,  236,  290,  642. 

John.  Jr..  679. 

Jolante,  267. 

Jr.,   182. 

Rachel,  91. 

William,  189.  212,  290. 
Lamreaux,  Rufus.  519. 
Land,  Alexander,  557. 
Lane.  Hardy  B..  440. 

Simon.  183.  192.  796. 
Lane:.  John  L..  525. 
Langdon  &  Son.  647. 
Langelaan.  Jannetie.  613. 

Philip,  613. 
Lange«traat.  Jan  Jansen,  273. 
Langyear.  Elizabeth.  515. 
Lanigan,  506. 

la  ixoy,  Abraham.  271,  287. 
Lansing,  Neeltie,  707. 
Lanyon.  810. 

John,  809. 
La  Resilier,  Jacques.  270. 
Laroe.  Abraham.  328. 

HendHck,  328.  . 

Jacques.  328.   349. 

Jobanne««.  328. 

Peter,  328. 

Samuel.  328. 
Latham.  516. 
Lathrop.  Elizabeth  D wight,  652. 

Mary  Cornelia.  652. 


Latourette,  Mary.  727. 
Laub.  Peter,  689. 
Lauberan,  61. 
Lauran,  Andre,  188. 
Laurens,  799. 

Jan,  301. 

Magdalena.  360. 

Mary,  321. 
Lawrence,  340,  408.  418.  818.  824. 

Abel,  668. 

Augustine  Hicks.  463. 

Daniel,  479. 

Eliza  Ann,  737. 

Hannah,  636,  637. 

John,  806,  821.  822.  829. 

John  Jun,  367. 

Mary,  457. 

Mary  Bowne,  469. 

Thomas,  229. 

William  (Captein),  807. 
Lawry,  William,  761. 
Lawton,  David.  520. 
Lazillere.  Jacques,  447. 
Leach.  Mary,  764. 
Leacraft,  William,  468. 
Leah,  Leonard  E.,  769. 
Leake,  John,  428. 
Leary,  John,  452. 

John,  Jr.,  806. 
Leavenz.  Nellie  M.,  676. 
Le  Baron,  George,  722. 
Lechier,  Elsie,  496. 

Hillebrant,  494. 
le  Comte,  Jean,  318.  319,  321,  641. 

Moses,  32L 
Le  Comte.  103.  318. 
le  Conseille,  Jean.  204. 
Le  Count,  Olycerla,  731. 

Moses,  495. 
Ledyard,  Isaac,  819. 
Lee,  Charles  (Dr.).  731. 

Ellen  Ann,  529. 
Leefoy,  Maria,  629. 
Leenderts.   Albert.  168,  209. 
Leete.  Joshua  G.,  753. 
Leeuw  (or  Lyon).  Philip,  608. 
Le  Pevre,  57. 

Bishop.  59,  62. 

Francois.  56. 
Lefferts,  Abraham,  806. 

Derlck.  806. 

Elizabeth.  806. 

Elizabeth  Dorothea,  480. 

Jacobus.  128. 

James  B..  462. 

Judge.  128. 

Leffert   (Judge),   428. 

Rachel,  693. 
Le  Fort,  Mrs..  338. 
Le  foy    Abraham,  789. 
Lefre,  Margaret.  521. 
Le  Gardinler,  Pierre,  101. 
Legget.  372. 

Gabriel,  370. 
Leggett,  Christina,  497. 

John,  497. 

John,  Jr.,  601. 

Susannah,  783. 
Legrange.  Margaret,  490. 
Le  Hucker.  61.  _ 

Lelsler,  190.  217,  220,  407,  448,  613,  635,  692= 
785,  805.  812. 

Captain,  787. 

Governor,  168,  350. 

Jacob.  104.  210.  367. 

Jacob  (Capt.).  378,  642,  810. 

Maria,  810.  812. 
Le  Lorraine.  Charles,  54. 
le  Maire,  Robert.  320. 
Le  Maire,  Robert,  50,  96,  236,  237. 


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INDEX. 


Lemaire,  6. 

Levines,  Louis,  553. 

le  Maistre.  296. 

Sarah,  710. 

Abraham,  332. 

Lewln,  381. 

Glaude,   221.   266,   271, 

286, 

287, 

288, 

289. 

John.  364,  805. 

290.  295.  302.  304,  308. 

319, 

320, 

321, 

332, 

Lewis,  Abner,  655. 

337,  338,  342,  349,  852, 

372, 

373, 

375, 

376, 

Aefie,  393. 

377,  493. 

Charles.  103. 

Isaac,  328,  332,  872. 

Elija  T.,  440. 

Jan,  302,  328,  332,  338, 

342. 

349, 

352. 

372, 

John,  348,  393,  431.  432.  496,  563,  664. 

56S. 

373. 

604.  624,  625,  803,  813. 

Jean,  308,  309,  312,  316, 

320. 

Jonas,  393,  564. 

Jean  (Mrs.),  316. 

Leonard,  432. 

Le  Maistre,  313. 

Mary,  481. 

Claude,  99,  221. 

Ruth,  564. 

Glaude.  98,  99,  201,  202 

,  203 

251 

Tanneke,  564,  788. 

Jean,  313. 

Leydecker.   Albert.   616. 

Le   Maistre   (Delamater) 

,   Glaude 

.    49 

66, 

Clara,  614. 

204. 

Elizabeth,  616. 

le  Maltre,  Glaude.  338. 

Gerrit,  614. 

Lemp,  Eduard,  13. 

Llbot,  Louis,  64. 

Lennon.  Jane,  744. 

Lieverse,  Elbert,  448. 

Lent.  Abraham,  600,  705. 

Lightboum,  Benjamin,  436. 

Abraham  H.,  703. 

Maria,  436. 

Augustus  T.,  555. 

Likely,  Emma,  689. 

Benjamin,  552. 

Lincom,  Caroline,  741. 

Latty,  552. 

Maria  V.,  472. 

Maria,  451. 

Lindesay,  John,  826. 

Martha,  551. 

Lindsey,  Maria,  725. 

Ryck.  698. 

Lindsley,  Elizabeth.  488. 

Leopold.  Archduke,  68. 

Line,  Martin,  571. 

Lerch,  Elizabeth.  571. 

Lines,  Orlando,  610. 

Le  Roux,  Charles,  161. 

Link,  Ella  J.,  530. 

le  Roy,  Hendrlck,  348. 

Lippincott,  Phebe  Ann,  653. 
Richard  H.,  611. 

Jan,  286. 

Jean,  98.  198,  221,  271. 

272, 

281. 

287, 

2^, 

Lipton  (Lupton),  Julia  M..  465. 

302,  308,  309,  314,  319, 

320, 

328, 

360, 

409. 

Lispenard,  Aletta,  16L 

John,  348. 

Cornelia,  808. 

Le  Roy.  64,  196,  271,  293, 

329, 

331, 

802. 

Leonard,  808. 

Jan,  598. 

Litchfield,  Lewis,  540. 

Jean,  183,  186,  190,  191, 

195, 

199, 

201, 

202, 

Little,  Hester,  686. 

203.  237.  239,  259,  261, 

266, 

269, 

276, 

795. 

Littou.  Abram.  201.  203. 

797,  798.  801. 

Hans,  201,  203. 

John,  804. 

Mlchlel,  201.  203. 

Jonas,  200. 

Livingston,  172. 

Marc,  261. 

Catherine,  432. 

Stephen.  259. 

Henry  B.,  569. 

Leroy.  Jacob,  808. 

Henry  G.,  803. 

Jean,  242. 

John,  172,  298,  439.  599. 

Leslie.  Cynthia  A.,  667. 

Peter  R.,  172. 

Lessey,  Lois,  731. 

Peter  R.  (Colonel),  432,  439. 

Lester,  Betsy,  508,  515. 

Philip,  439. 

Charles.  520. 

Robert,  432,  635. 

Clara.  527. 

Lloyd,  Amelia  Caroline  Gibbs.  520. 

le  Sueur,  Abraham,  196. 

Hannah,  398. 

Antie,   196. 

Sarah  H.,  631. 

Benjamin,  196. 

Thomas,  398. 

Catherine,  196. 

Lockhart.  John,   726. 

Francois,  196,  388. 

Lockwood.  Alva,  687. 

Hester.  196. 

Lockwood  &  Crosby,  814. 

Hildebrand,  196. 

Loderbaugh,  665. 

Jacob.  196. 

Lodewycks,  Madalena,  247. 

Jacobus.  196. 

Loeb,  J.   Henry,  675. 

Janhetle.  196. 

London,  John,  376. 

Jeanne.  196,  388. 

Long.  Ida  May,  560. 

John.  196. 

Miss.  489. 

Leah.  196. 

William  (Capt.),  783. 

Lucas,  196. 

Loockermans,  Govert,  160. 

Margaret.  196. 

Loomis,  Ella,  474. 

Mary,  196. 

Lucy,  527. 

Nicholas.  196. 

Looten,  Derlck,  176,  212,  680. 

Peter.  196. 

Loper,  Jacob  (Capt),  161. 

Rachel.  196. 

Johanna,   161. 

Tryntle.  196. 

Lord,  Daniel,  784. 

Le  Sueur,  100,  189. 

Jeremiah  S.,  408. 

Francois,  50,  100,  183. 

Lorillard,  623. 

Jeanne,  100. 

Lorton.  James.  790. 

Letelier,  49. 

Losee.  Peter.  205. 

Jean,  214.  357. 

Loss.  Charles.  819,  826. 

Leursen,  Urbane,  162. 

Lott,  John.  718. 

Lever ich,  William  (Rev.) 

.  295 

Peter,  799. 

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Loucke,  Ella.  444. 
LfOuereer,  196. 
LfOUgli,  William,  577. 
Louis,  Henry,  56. 
Lounsbury.  Lena  B.,  557. 

Mary,  631. 

Willett,  531. 
Lourens,  246. 

Hans,  242,  246. 

Jan,  199. 
Louwe,  304. 

Jan,  336.  337,  338.  349.  362.  374,  401,  447. 

Peter  Jan,  448. 
Loyatt,  John  R.,  670. 
Lovejoy,  Jacob,  734. 
Lovelace,  292,  314. 

Francis,  256.  267.  258.  268,  284. 

Francis  (Qovernor),  323.  335. 

Governor,  161,  191.  249,  252,  253,  254,  277, 
306,  322,  476. 
Loveridge,  John.  295. 

Samuel,  295. 

Sarah,  295. 

Temperance,  295. 

Wallerand,  296. 

William,  295. 
Lovett.  Sarah  Gould.  462. 
Low.  205.  321.  373,  814,  826. 

Abraham,  196,  496,  580.  682,  584,  585,  587. 
589. 

Auraham  Huff.  587. 

Abram  (Abraham),  580,  582. 

Adolph,   585. 

Albert,  495,  579,  580,  581,  795,  799. 

Amelia  AletU.  590. 

Andrles  Ten  Eyck,  585. 

Ann.  584. 

Ann  Maria.  589. 

Anna  Maria,  591. 

Annatje,    579. 

Anne.  688. 

Annie  Van  D..  586. 

Antje  (Anna),  681. 

Barent.  585. 

Belitle   (Isabelle),  580. 

Bengenpen  (Benjamin).  585. 

Benjamin.  580.  583.  585. 

Brecbje  (Bridget),  585. 

Carlton.  588. 

Cattaelina  (Catherine),  584. 

Cathelyntle.  581. 

Cathelyntje,  584. 

Catherine.  587,  588. 

Cathllntle.  586. 

Catlina,  585. 

Catrelna  (Catherina),  582. 

Catrentje,  583. 

Charity.  583. 

Char!e«^  Harries.  590. 

Clara  S..  591. 

Clifton.   688. 

Cora  R..  591. 

Cornells    (Cornelius).    579.   580,    581,    582, 
684. 

Comeliu<),  184,  498.  580,  582,  583,  584,  585, 
686.  587. 

Cornelius  D.,  584. 

C!omeliU3  Terhune,  687. 

CornelUB  (Cornelius),  585. 

Daniel,  585. 

David,  586.  590,  503. 

Debora,  686. 

Deneys  Stryker,  585. 

Derrick  J.,  586. 

Dinah.  681,  638. 

Dirck,  580.  683. 

Dirok  D..   683.   586. 

Dirl^k  (Richard  D.).  586. 

Dorothy.  688. 

Elesebath   (Elizabeth).   585. 


Low,  Elizabeth,  499.  583,  587,  590. 

Elizabeth  W.,  589. 

Ella  Harries,  590. 

Elsey,  687. 

Esther,  587. 

Ethel  H.,  591. 

Ezeklel  F.  R.,  590. 

Frances  Kemper,  589. 

Garret,  587. 

George  Huff,  688,  590. 

Gerrlt,  685,  587. 

Gerrit  (Garret),  581, 

Gisbert,  583,  684,  586. 

Glenn.  588. 

Guisbert  (Gysbert),  583. 

Gysbert,  579,  580,  681,  583,  584,  585. 

Hannah,  588. 

Hendrick,  588. 

Henrietta  C,  590. 

Henry,  583. 

Henry  Clay,  589,  590. 

Henry  O.,  590. 

Houston,  589,  590. 

Isaac,  184,  583,  584,  586,  586,  589. 

Isaac  J.,  591. 

Isaac  S..  590,  591. 

Jacob  Derrick,  584,  586,  587,  588. 

Jacob  J.,  586. 

Jacob  S.,  589,  691. 

James  Edgar,  686. 

James  Kemper,  687. 

Jan  (John),  579,  680,  581,  683.  684,  585,  586. 

Jane  A.,  589. 

Janneke  (Joan),  583. 

Jannetje  (Jane),  683. 

Johannes,  584.  587. 

Johannls  (John).  684. 

John.  550.  583.  685,  687,  589,  605.  819,  826. 

John  B.,  589.  690. 

John  GHbert,  587,  589,  590. 

John  M..  588. 

John  R.,  590. 

John  T.,  689. 

Joslah  A..  690,  591. 

Josiah  Appleton,  59L 

Judlck.  584. 

Judlck  (Judith).  681. 

Judith.  584.  685. 

Kate.  588. 

Laurens  Jansen.  579. 

Lawrence,  650.  680.  581,  583,  600,  638,  795, 
799,  813,  826. 

Lawrence.  Jansen.  827,  829. 

Lemon  1,   588. 

Lena,  585. 

Loretta  L.,  589,  591. 
I     Louwerens  (Lawrence),  580. 
'     Lucy  A.,  690. 

Madeline  B.,  691. 

Maria.  683,  584.  586. 

Mariana  Louise,  690. 

Marinus,  582. 

Martha,  587. 

Martha  S.,  691. 

Mary.  586,  587. 

Mary  Anna.  690. 

Mary  C,  589. 

Mary  D.,  589. 

Mary  Louisa,  589. 

Mary  P.,  591. 

Marya  (Maria),  582. 

Marytle  (Mary),  581. 

Marytje,  580. 

Marytje  (Maria),  580. 

Metje  (Mary).  580.  583. 

Morlnus,  626. 

Natnanlel  Edson.  589. 

Nathaniel  H..  590. 

Nathaniel  Hilyer.  688,  590. 

Neeltie  (Cornelia),  579. 


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Law,  NeeHje.  688. 

Nellie.  689. 

Nelly  (Eleanor),  586. 

Nicholas.  184. 

Nicholas  on.  588.  580. 

Peraila.  580. 

Peter,  587.  589. 

Peter  B..  590. 

Peter  Bodine,  587.  589. 

Peter  Perlee.  586.  588. 

Peter  Ten  Byck,  586.  588. 

Phebe  Elizabeth,  589. 

Pieter.  184.  586. 

Pieter  (Peter).  583,  585. 

Pieter  Cornel iss,  184. 

Rachel.  496,  581,  587. 

Rachel  Ann,  588. 

Rachel  Trimmer,  589. 

Ralph.  589. 

Ralph  Phillips,  586.  588. 

Rebecca.  584,  585.  686. 

Rebecca  J.,  586. 

Rem,  582. 

Richard,  588,  590. 

Robert  Allen,  587. 

Rulof.  589. 

Saartje  (Sarah),  685. 

Samuel  E.,  590. 

Sara.  582,  584.  585,  587. 

Sarah.  583.  584.  588. 

Sarah  Ann,  590. 

Sarah  Jane.  589. 

Sarah  Perlee.  588. 

Simon  D..  589. 

Susan  Ludlow.  590. 

Teuntje  (Eunice),  584. 

Thomas,  583. 

Tuentje.  584. 

Vanny  B..  590.  591. 

Wenitje  (Lavinia).  580. 

Willem  (William).  583. 

William,  585.  587. 

William  Bomberger.  588. 

Wynca   (L«avinia).  583. 

Wyntle  (Lavinia).  579. 

Tanaca  (Jannetje).  683. 

Yeunis  (Tunis),  580,  583. 
Lowry,  Mary,  789. 
Lozier,  6. 

Jannetie.  697. 

Margaret.  615. 

Mary.  619. 

Mary  H.,  466. 

Peter.  616. 

William,  436. 
Lubberts.  Eva,  316,  483. 
Lucas,  799. 

Maria.  188. 

Pearl,  768. 

Sigismund.  179.  186.  188. 

Sigismundus,  183.  187. 

Simon.  190,  795. 
Luddlngton.   Eliza,   752. 
Ludlow,  Elizabeth,  588. 

Mary  Corbett,  463.  469. 

Samuel  Russell.  663. 
Lumaln.  Mary.  724. 
Lunger.  Sarah,  712. 
Lupton,   Sarah  E..  727. 
Lushbaugh.  Thomas  P.,  744. 
Lusk.  William  T.   (Dr.),  610. 
Luten.  494. 

Walraven,  493. 
Luther,  Susanna.  570. 
Lutin,  Walraven,  270. 
Luyck.  Egldius.  306. 
Luyster,  824. 

Cornells.  821,  822,  829. 

Peter,  128. 


Ly decker,  Abraham,  4S2. 

Antie.  626. 

Cornelius,  697. 

Elizabeth,  430. 

Oerrtt,  430. 

Maria,  628. 

Marritie,  432. 

Mary,   436. 

Ryck,  430. 
Lyman,  Lucy  S.,  784. 

Nathan,  686. 
Lynch,  Jessie  Trembly,  669. 
Lyndon.  Thomas  (Capt),  321. 
Lyon,  608. 

Fannie,  532. 

Samuel  E.,  316. 
Lyons,  648. 


M 


Mabie,  688. 

Caspar,  792. 

Casper,  393. 

Catherine.  451. 

Jacob.  619. 

Peter,  460. 

Phebe  (Sytje),  600. 

Pieter.  449. 

Sara,  451. 

Sarah,  618. 
Mac  Oregor,  Tessie,  472. 
Mac  Gregory.  Patrick  (Mayor),  692. 
Mac  Ouire.  Cornelia,  761. 
Mackey,  742. 

Elizabeth.  631. 

Qeorge,  540. 
Mackintosh.  James.  787. 
Madison,  LucindA,  630. 
Magister.  348. 

Gerard.  318,  328,  332,  834,  342,  343,  348,  349, 
350.  365. 
Magnin,  13. 

Maharry.  William,  645. 
Maire.  Tilie,  63. 
Maljaart.  Meyndert,  271. 
Man,  John,  428. 
Mandeville,  429. 

Catharine,  704. 

Catherine,  700. 

David,  704. 

G.  Henry,  408. 

Giles  Henry  (Rev.).  100. 

Gillis,  297. 

Isaac,  553. 

James  J.  M.,  461. 

Lea,  507. 

Maria  C,  723. 

Matthew.  704. 
Mannes.   Peter,  630. 
Manning.  High  Sheriff,  248. 

John  (Capt.),  244,  246. 

Sheriff,  219. 
Mantanye,  William  J.,  789. 
Mapes,     Catharine    Deliverance    Adeline, 
715. 

David  Swezey,  688. 

William  E..  688. 
Marble.  Martin,  667. 
Marius,  Pieter  Jacobsen,  155. 
Marks.  Samson.  439. 
Marlett.  204.  270. 

Abraham.  204. 

Anna.  371. 

John.  204. 

Joshua.  204. 

Paul.  204. 
Marquand.  Lucretia,  613. 
Marr,  James,  484. 


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Marrtner,  Capt  S24. 

William  (Capt.).  172. 
Marsc^alk,  Joris,  804. 
Marselis,  Peter,  96. 
Marsh.  Ann,  601. 

Cjrrus  (Rev.),  502. 

Jobn,  679. 

8.  T.,  Jr.,  628. 
Marshall,  724. 

Edward.  368. 

Elizabeth.  787. 

Ida  M.,  471. 

Mary,  371. 
Marston,  Ann,  808. 

John.  698.  807.  808. 

Margaret,  806. 

Mary,  808. 

Nathaniel,  807,  808. 

Thomas,  807,  808. 
Martellng.  Barent,  308. 

Isaac,  303. 
Martelingh,  Abraham.  347. 
Martens,  Leentie,  160,  168. 
Martin,  Elizabeth,  725. 

George  W.,  730. 

Richard  (Captain),  789. 
Martino,  270. 

Francois,  269. 

Stephen,  270. 
Martyn,  Jan,  302. 
Masterson,  David  A.,  463. 
Mather,  Lewis.  440. 
Matthews,  Anna,  631. 

Hester,  717. 

Jacob,  229. 

James,  367. 

Lydia  Bmeline.  519. 

Rodney,  Dr.,  628. 
Matthias,  Captain,  204. 
Matthys,  248. 
Matthysen,  John,  846. 

Nells,  242. 
Matthyssen,  Anna,  229. 

Barentien,  231. 

Catharine,  148. 

Catherine,  229. 

Cornells,  340. 

David,    148. 

Hendrick,  148,  229. 

Jan.  148.  345. 

Liaurens,  309. 

Magdalene,  148. 

Margaret,  148. 

Maria,  229. 

Mary,  148. 

Matthys.  148.  229. 

Nells,  107.  183,  201,  203,  219,  222.  228,  229, 
231.  236.  240,  246,  247,  269.  792. 

Rachel,  229. 

Sarah.  148.  229. 

Thomas.  148. 
MaUhysz..  Jan.  184. 
Mattocks,  Frederick  W.,  472. 

Jane  Rebecca.  647. 
Maunsell.   John,   582.  826. 

John  (General),  814.  818,  819. 

Mrs.,  819. 
Maurice,  Prince,  68,  84. 
Maverick,  Peter  Rushton,  790. 

Sarah,  790. 
Maxwell,  Charles  W.,  534. 
Mayer,  Jacob,  501. 
Mayes,   William,   743. 
Mayo,  Maria,  625. 
McBHde.  Eliza,  523. 
McCarty,  Anna,  652. 
McChain,  Mary,  764. 
McClelland,  Cornelia,  513. 
McConnell,  Llda,  522. 


McCormick,  Daniel,  803. 

James,  758,  764. 
McCrea,  768. 
McCready,  Adeline,  746. 

Nathaniel  L.,  729. 
McCree,  Mary,  488. 
McCuhough,  George,  672. 
McDonald,  Jacob,  665. 
McDowell,  Patrick,  743. 

Willis.  644. 
McFarland,  Mary  E.,  540. 
McGee,  Patrick,  652. 
McGhen,  Margaret,  746. 

Rachel.  745. 
McGlll,   Charlotte,  746. 
McGowan,  Daniel,  410. 
McGown,  122,  150,  418. 

Andrew,  438,  439,  799. 

Andrew  (Major),  439. 

Catherine  Maria,  716. 

Daniel  (Capt),  431,  438,  439. 

Margaret  (Mrs.),  438. 

Mrs.,  545.  551. 

S.  B.,  786. 

S.  Benson,  551. 

Samson  B.,  439. 
McGuire,  Archibald,  626. 

Joseph,  733. 
Mclntire,  Ella.  444. 
McKenzie.  Frances  Naomi,  566. 
Mclaughlin.  Andrew  T.,  572. 
McLean,  John,  520. 
McLeod.  John,  459. 
McMurdy.  Jane.  488. 
Mead,  Peggie  (Margaret),  454. 
Meade,  Fanny,  658. 
Meals.  George,  295. 

Hannah,  295. 
Medsell,  Emeline  J.,  764. 
Meer.  Tilie,  231. 
Meet.  Isaac,  692. 

Kniertle.  375. 

Maria,  350. 

Peter,  375. 
Megapolensis,  268. 

Dominie,  178. 

Samuel  (Do.),  223. 
Meier,  Harmanus  (Rev.),  713. 
Melnerssen,  Frederick,  707. 
Melchert    703. 
Melle.  703. 

Melville,  George  H.,  760. 
Melvin.  Jacob.  717. 
Melyn.  Cornells,  152.  153.  164,  156. 

Isaac  (Capt.),  295. 
Mercein,  Thomas  R.,  416. 
Merlett,  Gideon,  204. 
Merribew,  Lucius,  669. 
Merrill.  Sally.  516. 
Merseles,  Peter,  620. 
Merselis,  Aaltje,  558. 
Meserole.  Catherine.  606. 
Mesier.  Elizabeth,  485. 

Jannetle,  785. 

Peter,  785. 
Messier,  Abraham  (Rev.),  107. 
Mesurolle,  Cornelius,  806. 

Jean.  105,  302,  475. 

John,  Jr..  447. 
Metcalf,  William,  760. 
Metereu,  Lydia,  324. 

Lyria,  97. 
Metselaer.  Jacobus,  107. 

Jan  Adams,  107. 
Meursius.  Pastor,  94. 
Mey  Captain  Cornells,  117. 
Meyer,  93,  172,  318,  434,  425.  436,  646,  800. 

Aaron.  565. 

Abraham,  410,  483,  648,  666,  796,  796,  826. 


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INDEX. 


AdolpH.  n,  IfiS.  2W.  -m,  273,  274,  281.  286. 
296,  29T,  3a>S,  ^01,  :Si>^,  309.  815.  316.  320. 
S3S,  3^,  312.  333,  r;^7.  338.  340.  342.  343. 
34£,  340,  mi,  370,  ?,:2.  373.  382.  389.  392. 
S9»,  401.  402.  403.  li>:i,  406,  407,  412.  414. 
41li,  Am,  430,  484,  r.i:».  582.  597,  598,  599. 
fiSO,  604.  7^5,  79T,  T[i9.  800.  801,  802,  803. 
SOI,  SOR»  814.  &i6.  »17,  818. 

Annecke,  2»8. 

AutJ«  (AiJQaL).  559. 

Bridget.  5S2. 

Da  via  D.,  6«9, 

EnKcltlP,  im. 

lleiidrK'kH  3^4. 

Henry*  Jr.,  812. 

Henry  R..  606. 

Jacob.  484.   549. 

Jan.  374. 

Jannetie,  506. 

Joh..  298. 

Johannes.  397.  430,  431,  599,  600.  810,  821, 
822 

John.  487.  824. 

Liawrence,  703. 

Margaret.  298.  375.  485. 

Maria.  273,  429,  484.  548.  637,  705,  821,  822, 
827.  828.  829.  830. 

Mary,  804.  810. 

Mrs..  416.  598.  800.  801. 

Sarah.  704. 
Meyers.  Jacob.  627. 
Meyndert,  694. 
Meynderts.  212. 

Jan,  93,  100. 

Jannetie,  695. 

John.  696. 

Michael,  764. 
Mlchaelius.  Jonas  (Rev.).  118. 
Michaels.  Hibemla  C.  469. 

Ruth  E..  664. 
Michlel.  205. 
Michlels,  Metje.  263. 

Reyer,  276. 
Michielsen.  Bastiaen,  265. 

Hannah.  265. 

Hendrick.  265. 

Jane.  265. 

Michlel.  265. 

Reyer.  265.  312.  313.  329.  346.  380,  393.  412. 

Sarah.  265. 

Tennis.  265. 
Middagh.  Aert  Teunisz,  97. 

Hester,  571. 

Joris,  498. 

Judith.  579. 
Mllborne,  397,  642. 

Jacob,  378.  410,  809.  810. 

Jacob.  Jr.,  810. 

William,  810. 
Milledoler.  Dr.,  438 

Maria,  438. 

Philip  (Dr.).  799. 

Philip  (Rev.),  438,  800. 
Miller.  748. 

Catherine,  508. 

Elizabeth  E..  757. 

Flora,  543. 

Henry.  753. 

James.  525. 

James  Madison,   532. 

Josephine  B..  666. 

Louisa  J..  774. 

Oliver,  631. 

Putnam.  491. 
Mills,  Abigail,  440. 
Mine,  Ellen  Ann.  727. 
Miner.   Sarah  A..  527. 
Miuthom.  Philip,  788. 


Mlnthome,  Hillegond,  692. 

Mangle,  806. 
Mintonye,  Joseph  B.,  789. 
Mintum,  Peggy.  461. 
Minty.  Jennie  B.,  758. 
Minult.  781. 

Director.  138. 

Peter,  118. 
Mitchell.  Adeline,  473. 

Joseph,  530. 

Rebecca.  756. 
Moddy,  Carolyn  Elisabeth,  773. 
Moesman.  Arent,  203,  212,  797.  SOL 

Arent  J..  201. 

Arent  Jansen,  206,  22L 

Jacob.  212. 
Mohr.  Andrew,  677. 
Moleanor.  William,  418. 
Molenaer,  Adrian,  608. 

Catherine.  608. 

David.  608. 

Henry,  608. 

Jane,  60S. 

Joost  Adraens,  607.  608. 

Marritie.  608. 

Mercy.  608. 

Sarah.  608. 

William  (Dr.).  608. 

William  De  Witt  C,  608. 
Molenaor.  814.  818.  825. 

William.  484.  604.  607,  608,  814,  827. 
Molineaux.  Charity,  649. 
Moll.  Oeertie.  362.   • 

Joseph.  751. 

Lambert.  362. 

Marritie.  362. 

Reyer.  475. 
Monroe.  Colonel.  827. 
Montague,  80.  83.  85.  106,  130,  131.  134.  138, 
139.  141.  143.  151.  158.  163.  169.  175.  190. 
192.  200,  212.  220.  221.  235.  237.  257.  269, 
271.  272.  275.  276.  278.  284,  285,  290,  292, 
296,  337,  356,  698. 

Abraham.  282. 

Dr..  129.  135,  149,  164,  181.  189.  291.  292. 

Henry,  618. 

J..  222. 

Jan.  192.  238. 

John.  246. 

Maria,  320. 

Marie.  126. 

Mrs..  105.  290.  350. 

Widow.  286.  302. 

William.  292. 
Montagnie.  Wilhelm.  192. 
Montanie.  Abraham.  415. 
Montanus.   Johannes  Monerins,  79. 
Montanye.  358.  419,  603,  786.  815.  817,  820. 

Aaltje.  595. 

Abraham.  545.  664,  594,  695,  596,  786,  787, 
788.  790.  792. 

Adriana    788.  789. 

Albert.  597. 

Alexander.  597. 

Anate  (Anna).  697. 

Ann.  787.  788.  790. 

Ann  Maria,  787. 

Anna,  597,  788. 

Annette,  789. 

Apollonia.  789. 

Apollonia  (Prudence).  789. 

Benjamin.  789.  790.  79L 

Benjamin  Maverick,  790. 

Bregie,  595. 

Catharine.  785.  787,  788,  790. 

Charles  H..  790. 

Charles  Kearney,  790. 

Clarence,  790. 

Cornelia.  788. 

David,  790. 


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Montasye.  Dr.,  785,  793. 
Ede  (or  Edward),  ^94. 
Edward,  597. 
Eide,  596.  597. 
Elder,  595,  791. 
ElUah.  789. 
Eliza,  791. 
Elizabeth,  594,  596,  597,  716,  788,  789,  790. 

791. 
Elizabeth  Murray,  789. 
Eve,  786. 
George,  790. 
George  A.,  790. 
Gertrude.  790. 
Gillls,  786. 
Hannah,  594,  789. 
Harman,  787. 
Harmanus,  787. 
Henry,  789,  790. 
Hester,  787. 
Ide.  594.  596. 

Isaac,  694,  786.  787,  789,  790. 
Isaac  V.   (Hon.),  79X. 
Jacob.  409.  594.  696,  696,  789. 
Jacobus,  595.  787,  788,  789. 
James,  596,  596. 
Jane.  789. 
Jannetie,  594. 
Jelante.  786. 
JoFse,  785.  786,  787,  789. 
Johanna,  786,  786. 
Johannes,  785,  787,  788. 
John,  594,  597.  786,  786,  787    788,  789,  790, 

792,  796,  796.  799,  800. 
John  J.,  788. 
John  M..  484. 
John  T.,  789. 
Jolant,  785. 
Joseph,  597.  787,  788. 
Joseph   vv./apt),  696. 
Joseph  E..  597. 

Maria,  407.  694.  696,  697.  786,  788,  789,  790. 
Maria  L.,  790. 
Maria  Pell.  696. 
Marritie,  787. 
Martha.  788.  789. 
Mary,  788,  789,  790. 
Mary  A..  790. 
Mary  J.,  790. 
Matilda,   790. 
Mercy,  787. 
Mrs.    204. 
Nancy,  788.  791. 
Nicaslus.  786. 
Peter,  789.  790. 
Peternella.  786,  787,  789. 
Petemella  (Nelly),  789. 
Petnis,  789. 
Phebe.  788. 
Philip,  788. 

Rachel.  785,  787.  788,  789. 
Rebecca    594.  696,  697,  789,  790,  791. 
Robert,  595,  597. 
Samuel,  786. 
Sarah,  697,  787,  788. 
Sarah  Ann.  790.  791. 
Sarah  Christeen,  788. 
Sophia.  790. 
Stanl^,  790. 
Susan,  790. 
Susannah,  787. 
Teunls,  594.  596. 
Thomas,  595.  789,  790.  79L 
Thomas  (Elder),  791. 
Thomas  B.,  791. 
Vincent.  786.  789,  790. 
William,  596,  597,  785,  787,  788,  789,  796, 

800. 
William  H..  787. 
Tacobes  (Jacobus),  697. 


Montfort,  Abraham,  606. 

Adrian,  716. 

Peter.  487. 
Montgomery,  Mary,  647. 

Thomas,  726. 
Montras,  Pierre,  370. 
Monvielle,  Gabriel,  786. 
Moody,  Orpha.  636. 
Moon.  Mary,  738. 
Moore.  596. 

Blazius,  626.  814. 

Edward,  716. 

J.  P.,  466. 

James  H.  L.,  766. 

John,  172.  574,  788. 

Margaretje,  683. 

Montgomery,  646. 

Mr..  467. 

Thomas,  428. 

William  (Captain),  462. 
Moorehouse.  755. 

Smith.  751. 
Moorhouse,  Abram,  470. 
More.  Jacob.  617. 

John  I..  588. 
Morey,  Jonathan,  491. 
Morgan,  Fanny  (Mrs.),  700. 

James,  734. 

Joseph  S..  770. 
Moriaens,  Agnietle,  681. 
Morley,  Charlotta.  722. 
Morrell.  Elisha,  727. 

Judge.  172. 
Morris.  Alice.  770, 

Capt.  386. 

Colonel.   229.  382,  383,  384,  386,  390,  396, 
408.  419,  827. 

John.  139. 

Lewis,  235.  284,  661.  583. 

Lewis    (Colonel).   236,  363.   364,   367,   366, 
367,  368,  369,  886,  391,  392,  799. 

Lewis  G.  (Hon.),  396. 

Peter,  556. 

Richard   (Capteln),  235,  283,  303. 

Roger.  826. 

Roger  (Colonel),  662,  819. 
Morrison,  762. 

Mary  I..  740. 
Morrow,  Samantha,  668. 
Morse.  Cornelia,  692. 
Morton,  Emily.  492. 

Margaret.  467. 
Moseman.  809. 
Mosher.  759. 

John.  751. 
Mote,  Maria  A..  750. 
Mott.  Barton,  571. 

Henry,  756. 
Moul,  Cornelia,  524. 
Mould,  Edward  R.  666. 
Moulton.  William  W.,  490. 
Mourisse,  Knoet,  248. 
Mowery,  772. 
Muckey.  John.  686. 
Muckudge.  Minnie,  539. 
Mufley,  Nora.  576. 
Mulford.  P.  M.,  577. 
Muller,  Frederick,  13. 

Hilletje.  501. 

Maria.  501. 
Mulner.  Susan.  649. 
Munroe,   James    (Hon.),  669. 
Munson,  George.  741. 

Gilbert  A..  727. 
Murdln.  Frances.  746. 
Murphy.  570. 

Catherine.  656. 

Elizabeth,  747. 
Murray.  Ann.  457.  463. 

John  R.,  827. 


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Mussing  373. 

Muyden.  IdO.  196,  200,  296. 

M.,  199. 

M.  J.,  193. 

Mlchlel,  195,  212,  796,  797. 

Michiel  J.,  198,  202. 

Mlchiel  Janse,  183. 
Muzelius,  Frederick  (Rev.),  688. 
Myer.  418.  500.  794.  803.  814.  818. 

Abrabam.  486.  545.  547.  566.  592,  600.  602, 
603.  604.  605,  606,  607,  609,  610,  637,  795. 
796.  797.  825. 

Abraham  Dyckman,  610. 

Abraham.  Jr.,  488,  825. 

Adolph,  564.  567.  599.  601,  602.  604.  605.  606, 

607.  608.  625,  698,  704,  792.  797,  804,  814. 
Adolph,  Jr..  813. 

Alvivia,  611. 

Amanda  Fitzallen,  610. 

Amelia  P..  611. 

Amy.  602,  606. 

Anatje,  607. 

Anatje  (Anna).  607. 

Ann   (Anna).  606. 

Anna,  606,  608. 

Anna  Catrina.  600. 

Anna  Maria.  610. 

Annatle,  604. 

Anneke,  601. 

Antie.   700,  704. 

Arent,  602,  603.  606,  607. 

Bregie.  605.  607. 

Caroline,  611. 

Catberina,  449,  606.  607. 

Catherine.  607.  610. 

Charles  A.,  611. 

Charles  A.,  Jr..  611. 

Charlotte.  610. 

Cornelia,  608. 

Cornelia  Frances,  610. 

E.  George.  610. 

Elizabeth.  602.  608.  700.  705,  783. 

Ellis  Q..  611. 

Emory,  611. 

Emory  Wallace,  611. 

Engeltie.  607. 

Enoch  O.,  611. 

Eve,  604,  609.  610. 

Eve  Maria,  609. 

Florence,  611. 

Garret.  609.  610. 

Gertrude,  608. 

Gilbert,  609,  610. 

Hannah.  609. 

Harriet,  610. 

Harry,  611. 

Harvey  Elliot,  610,  61L 

Helen  B..  611. 

Hendrick.  600.  602,  699. 

Hendrickus,  603,  606. 

Henricus,  606. 

Henrietta.  610. 

Isaac,  581.  600,  605,  608.  795,  799. 

Jacob,  600,  601,  602,  604,  605,  606,  607,  608, 

609.   645,  798.   813,   826. 
Jacobus,  545. 
James  S.  (M.  D.),  610. 
Jannetie,  699. 
Jannettie,  602. 
Johannes,  477,  485.  582,  599.  601,  602,  603. 

60o,  606.  608.  636,  703.  705.  792,  798,  811. 

812.  813.  814,  825,  826. 
Johannes  (John  Ray),  603. 
John,  482.  550.  601,  602,  604.  605,  606,  607, 

608.  609,  610,  6U.  782.  798,  818. 
John  Dyckman,  608.  609. 
John  G..  610. 

John.  Jr.,  500,  606. 
Joun  R..  592.  696,  826. 
Lawrence,  607,  609,  698. 


Myer,  Ldvingston,  610. 

LfOis  Nye.  611. 

Marcy,  609. 

Margaret.  605.  607. 

Margrietje,  604. 

Maria,  485,  581,  600,  602,  603.  604,  610,  799, 
825. 

Marian  J.,  611. 

Mary,  608. 

Mary  (Maria),  606,  607. 

Mary  Matilda.  610. 

Mattie.  795. 

Mrs..  599. 

Nellie  M.,  611. 

Oscar.  611. 

Oscar  P..  611. 

Oscar  W..  611. 

Peter.  490.  608,  609,  610,  716. 

Peter  (Petrus),  606. 

Phebe.  609. 

Rachel  Hammond,  610. 

Rebecca,  606. 

Rebecca  S..  610. 

Samuel.  238.  609.  610.  698,  713. 

Sarah.  605,  611. 

Susannah,  486.  603,  645. 

Tryntie  (Cathrina),  604. 

W.  H.  H..  611. 

Widower.  600. 
Myers.  Engeltie,  698. 

Eva.  554. 

John  C.  466. 

Joseph  S..  523. 

Julia.  533. 

Margaret.  686. 

Maria.   466. 

Mary.  606. 

Mr..  524. 

Nettie  M..  659. 
Myndertsen.  Jan.  212. 


N 

Nachtegaal.  Elizabeth.  272. 

Lysbeth.  231. 
Nack.  Reynler.  485. 

Nagel.  268,  276,  293,  317,  402,  417,  549,  796, 
817.  820.  825. 

Abraham.  514.  618. 

Angenitje.  618. 

Angle.  621. 

Anna.  613. 

Anna  Catherina,  613. 

Annatle.  619. 

Annetye.  617. 

Annie,  621. 

Antie.  617. 

Barent.  94.  612,  615.  616,  617,  618,  623,  625, 
698.  792. 

Benjamin,  613. 

Catherine.  616.  617,  618,  619. 

Catrina.  615. 

Christina,  613. 

Constable.  346. 

Cornelia.  613.  615.  618,  620,  686. 

Cornelius,  613. 

David.  616.  618.  619,  620,  621. 

David  F.,  620. 

Debbie  (Deborah),  621. 

Debora.  614. 

Deborah.  548.  615. 

Deetje  (Deborah),  619. 

Edith.  621. 

Eliza  (Elizabeth).  619. 

Elizabeth,  615,  616.  617,  618,  619,  620. 

Frederick.  620,  621. 

Frederickus  D.,  618. 

Frenke,  617. 

Geertje,  619. 


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Nagel,  Geertye,  617. 

Gerrit.  612,  617. 

Grletye  (Margaret),  618. 

Harry  D.,  621. 

Hendrick.  615,  616,  617.  618. 

Henry  I.,  618.  619. 

Hester  Louise.  620. 

Hildebrandt,  620.  621. 

Isaac.  616.  618. 

Jacob,  615.  617.  618.  619. 

Jacobus,  613.  614. 

James,  620. 

James  Westerfleld.  619,  620. 

Jan,  245.  246.  266.  267.  269,  272,  279,  286, 
289.  292.  297,  301.  302.  308,  809.  316,  320. 
328.  329.  332,  333.  338,  341,  843,  344,  349. 
352.  353,  360.  364,  370,  871,  872,  373,  3n. 
380,  389.  400.  401,  403,  405,  406,  407.  409, 
412,  414.  415,  495.  546,  548.  603,  612,  613. 
617,  618,  795,  821. 

Jan  (John).  613. 

Jan  (Sergt.).  612,  613. 

Jan  D..  618,  619. 

Janneke.  616. 

Jannetie,  613. 

Jeanette  P..  621. 

Johanna.  614.  615,  616,  695. 

John,  388.  612.  613.  614.  615,  616.  617.  618, 
694,  695,  792,  796,  797,  800.  810.  818.  827. 
828,  829.  880. 

John  Henry.  620,  62L 

John  J.,  617,  619.  620.  621. 

John.  Jr.,  547.  548. 

Juriaen,  613. 

Leah,  619,  621. 

Lena.  616. 

Leroy  Bell.  621. 

LUlie,   620. 

Magdalena.  615,  617. 

Margaret.  613. 

Margaret  A.,  620. 

Margaret  J..  620. 

Margaret  Marvine.  621. 

Margritye.  616. 

Maria,  616.  617.  619. 

Marrittie.  615. 

Mary,  621. 

Mary  A..  620. 

Marya,  617. 

Matilda.  620. 

Matthew  Bogert,  620. 

Mrs..  547. 

Niclaes.  619. 

Niclaes  (Nicholas).  617. 

Pauline  M.,  621. 

Petrus,  616. 

Philip.  613. 

Philippus,  613. 

Rachel.  618.  619.  620. 

Rebecca.  389.  548.  615,  616.  617,  790. 

Resolved,  614,  615. 

Resolvert,  619,  620.  621. 

Samuel  A.,  621. 

Sara,  616.  617. 

Sarah,  615.  616.  618,  619.  626,  682,  686. 

Sarah  Elizabeth,  620. 

Tanneke.  94,  221.  317,  694. 

Tanneke  Barents,  612. 

Tryntje,  617.  618. 

William,  389,  614.  615.  616.  618.  620. 

William  H.,  620. 

William  Henry.  621. 

Wyntie.  617. 

Wyntje.  617,  618. 
Nagle.  Debora.  706. 

Deborah,  701. 
Nannincks.  Beertie,  140. 
Nash.  E.  R..  548. 

Sarah.  480. 


Naugle,  Elizabeth,  620,  687. 

Hildebrant.  619. 

William.  456. 
Naylor,  Mary,  464. 
Neath,  James,  667. 
Neau,  Ellas,  295. 
Needham,  Prances.  527. 
Neering.  Jan  Willems,  32L 
Nelson,  Byron  S.,  746. 

John  C.  629. 

Sadie  Marie.  472. 

Sarah.  628. 
Nessepott,  Jasper,  679. 
Neasepott  (Nesbitt),  Jaspar,  812. 
Neuman,  Joshua.  507. 
Nevill,  Thomas,  759. 
Nevius,  Johannes,  217. 
New  Netherland  Company,  The,  81. 
Newbold,  Charles.  589. 
Newkirk.   Henry,  665. 
Newman,  Abraham.  144. 

Julia  N.,  720. 

Nancy  A.,  629. 
Newton.  Judge.  811. 

Marion  C,  771. 

Thomas.  811. 
Nexsen,  Elias,  713. 
Nicbolls.  693,  821. 
Nichols,  Capt..  288. 

John.  440. 

Sarah  A..  572. 
Nicoll.  Edward.  321.  595. 

Governor.  279. 

Sarah,  595. 
Nicolls,  271.  292.  295.  345.  684,  693. 

Capt.,  287.  385. 

Col.,  384,  385. 

Governor,  119,  191,  209,  212,  224,  232,  239. 
243,  247.  250.  251.  302,  368,  381,  385,  399, 
411. 

Matthias  (Capt.).  265.  266.  283,  391. 

Richard.  215.  216,  226,  227,  413,  414. 

Richard  (Colonel),  211. 

Richard  (Governor).  323. 
Nicolls*  Patent.  The,  416,  623.  821. 
Nickerson.  Mary,  766. 
Nieuwenhuysen.  Dominie.  282.  315.  316.  352, 

376,  377.  431. 
Niewkirk,  Gerrit  M.,  502. 
Nightingale.  Elizabeth.  319. 
Nixson,  John.  745. 
Noble.  Salmon,  519. 
Nodine.  Andrew,  424. 

Catherine,  644. 
Noird,  William.  324.  325. 
Noorman,  Arie,  201,  208. 

Govert.  203. 

Jacob.  201.  203. 

Jan,  201,  203. 

Roelof.  201.  203. 
Norman,  Claes  Carstens.  242. 

Irene.  672. 
Norris,  Elizabeth,  790. 

John.  666. 
North  Antohiette  R..  472. 
Northrup.  James  (Dr.),  511. 
Norton,  Abigail.  515. 

Emma,  531. 
Nottingham.   Elizabeth,  497,  509. 

Thomas,  498. 
None,  Pierre,  105,  271,  295. 
Noxon,  Joseph.  646. 
Noyon.  67. 
Nutter.  Sarah.  668. 

Sarah  (Mrs.).  803. 

Valentine,  390.  565,  568.  803. 

William,  568. 
Nutting,  Mary  C,  625. 
Nuttman,  Ebenezer  Baldwin,  716. 


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Oakley,  Ethel,  542. 

Louisa,  651. 

Sarah,  552. 
Oaks,  Elizabeth.  705. 
O'Beirne.  Anna,  678. 
Oblene,  243. 
Oblenls,  Abraham.  628,  629,  682. 

Abraham  J..  632. 

Ada,  634. 

Albert,  626. 

Aletta.  626. 

Alice  Wood,  633. 

Alpheus,  630,  632. 

Alpheus  (Alfred  P.),  631. 

AlziDla.  633. 

Ambrose,  630. 

Anna,  628,  630. 

Anna  L.,  633. 
'    Anna  Maria.  630. 

Annie.  629,  632. 

Antje,  627. 

Barent,  626.  628. 

Bernard.  629. 

Bertie,  634. 

Bridget.  627. 

Carlisle.  633. 

Caroline.  631. 

Carrie  A.,  633. 

Catherine,  627.  628,  629,  632. 

Catherine  A.,  631. 

Catherine  Ann,  630. 

Charles,  632,  633,  634. 

Charles  Adelbert.  631.  683. 

Charles  McK.,  629.  632. 

Charles  Orthezo.  633. 

Charlotte.  628,  632. 

Clara  B.,  632. 

Cornelia,  631. 

Dammas.  628. 

Daniel.  628.  680. 

David.  628.  630.  633. 

Deborah.  626.  627. 

Delia.  633. 

Dennis.  626.  627.  628.  630. 

Edna,  632. 

Edward.  629.  634. 

Elisha  P..  629.  631. 

Eliza  Maria.  631. 

Elizabeth,  627.  628.  630. 

Elizabeth  Ann.  629. 

Emma  Jane,  632. 

Emma  L..  631. 

Erville.  634. 

Fidelia,  630. 

Francis,  630.  633. 

Frank  Annettie,  633. 

Franklin  H.,  631.  634. 

Fred.  633. 

Frederick,  630,  633. 

Garret,  627. 

George,  632. 

George  K..  633. 

Gerrit.  626. 

Gertrude.   629. 

Hannah.  633. 

Hannah  E..  631. 

Hannah  Jane.  630. 

Harriet  Miera,  630. 

Helen.  627. 

Hendrlck.  622.  623,  624,  626.  627,  636,  792. 

Henrietta.  629. 

Henry.  628.  629.  630,  632,  633. 

Henry  C.  630,  633. 

Henry  H..  631. 

Henry  P..  629.  631. 

Henry  V..  627.  628. 

Hester  Ann.  632. 


Oblenis.  Jacomina.  625.  636. 

James  Edward.  633. 

Jannetie.  626. 

Japhet  H..  630. 

Jesse.  628.  630. 

Johannes,  625,  626,  629. 

Johannis.  627. 

John,  615,  622,  628,  626,  627,  628,  629.  630l 
632. 

John,  Jr.,  626. 

John  M.,  630. 

Jonlta,  626. 

Joost.  625.  792. 

Josephine,  631. 

Joshua  Nelson,  630. 

Josina.  622. 

Josyntie.  622.  625. 

L.eah.  627. 

Lewis.  630.  633. 

Lewis  P..  631.  633. 

Lewis  v.,  629.  63L 

Lottie  E..  633. 

Louisa,  630. 

Lucia,  625. 

Lucinda,  630. 

Maggie  C,  633. 

Mahala.  628. 

Maria.  622.  626,  627,  628,  636,  688. 

Martin  Krum.  632. 

Mary.  625.  627,  628,  629,  632. 

Mary  A.,  631. 

Mary  Ann.  629. 

Matthew  B..  631,  633. 

May  v..  633. 

Minnie,  632,  633.  634. 

Nancy.  627. 

Nettie.  632. 

Oliver.  628.  631. 

Oliver.  Jr..  631. 

Olivia  Agnes,  638. 

Ora  May,  634. 

Pamelia.  631. 

Peter,  622,  625,  626,  629,  632,  792. 

Peter  H.,  632. 

Peter  Van,  629,  632. 

Petrus.  626,  627. 

Phila,  633. 

Ray  Adolphus.  633,  634. 

Robert  Henry,  633. 

Rosella.  632. 

Rossettatnine.  632. 

S.  Joost.  632. 

Sarah.  625.  626.  627.  637. 

Sarah  A..  629. 

Sarah  Ann.  630. 

Sarah  E..  632. 

Smith.  629.   632. 

Stephen  J..  631. 

Thomas.  631. 

Waldo   K..   634. 

Wlllard.  631. 

William.  628,  629,  630,  631.  632.  633. 

Wyntje,  626. 
Oblienls.  410.  822.  826. 

Hendrlck.  625. 

John.  624.  625.  637. 

Peter,  800.  824. 

Pieter.   821. 
Obllnus.  67.  105.  204.  206,  269.  268,  285,  297, 
316.   318.   348.   644. 

Constable.  374.  375. 

Deborah.   582. 

John.   582. 

Joost.  229.  244.  393.  413,  621,  622,  798,  800, 
801. 

Josyntie.   643. 

Mayke.  223. 

Peter.  615.  622. 
O'Brien.  Robert  E..  474. 
O'Callaghan.   Dr.,  83.  789. 


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O'Connor,  William   Henry,   666. 
Odell,  Abraham,  649. 

Elsa  A.,  749. 

Hannah  (Anna),  276. 

Isaac.  651.  643. 

Jacob   (Gen.),  410. 

Jane.  647. 

Joanna,  561. 

Johannes,    643. 

John.  266,  276,  431. 

Jonathan,  549,  661,  667. 

Rebecca.    55L 

Sarah,  643. 

Susan,  486. 
Ogllvie.  John   (Rev.),  808. 
OTHara.  Margaret,  764. 
O'Leary,  Elizabeth,  620. 
Olfertsen.  Sloert,  431. 
Oliver,  Catherine,  488. 
Olivlers,   Catrina,  273. 

John,  96. 
Olmstead,  Susan,  723. 
Olney.  C.  C.  623. 
Onderdonck,  Aeltje,  710. 
Onderdonk,  Emma,  640. 

Sarah,  464. 
Onderkerk,  Antje,  707. 
O'Neale.   Hueh.   248. 
Oort.  John,  806. 

Oosterhout.  Catalyntjen  (Catallna), 
O'RUey,   M.   J.,  770. 
Orr,  MoUle,  77i 
Osband,   Caroline  Walters,  788. 
Osbom,  771. 

Hannah,  726. 

William  D.,  Jr.,  768. 
Osborne,  Mr.,  385. 

William  Rose,  442. 
Osboum,   Christopher,  743. 
Osgood.  Carrie  Lawrence,  473. 
Osterhout,  Ellas,  756. 

Thryntle,  601. 
Ostrander  Ann  D.,  623. 

Evert,    719. 

Helen,  503. 

Mallnda.  708. 

Mary  Elizabeth,  630. 

Petrus  O.,  604. 

Sophia  J.,  612. 
Ostrom,   Elizabeth,  627. 

John,   627. 
Ostrum,  Jannetie.  217. 
Ott.  Parmelia,  586. 

Sarah.  586. 
Ottosen,  Thomas,  201,   203. 
Oudewater,  Thomas,  363. 

Thys   Fransz,   363. 
Oulcs.   Philip  J.,  13. 
Outwater.  Thomas   (Dr.),  863. 
Oviatt.  Marian  Amanda,  665. 
Owens,   Margaret,  770. 

Solomon,  644. 


Pabor,   Alexander  123. 

Martin,  123. 

William  E..  123. 
Page.   Mary,  302. 
Paine,   Benjamin,  788. 
Palmer,  329. 

Abner,  631. 

Alexander,  633. 

Benjamin.  263. 

Charlotte.    644. 

Hannah.  628. 

J.  W.,  537. 

John    (Capt.).   391. 

Mary,  442. 


498. 


Palmer,  Phebe,  650. 

Thomas,  370.  689. 

William,   302,   324,  327,   328,  699. 
Panhuysen,  786. 

Johannes,   89. 

Johannes    (Sieur),    785. 
Parcell,  810. 

Catherine,    809. 

Bda.  809. 

Hannah,  809. 

Henry.  809. 

John.  256,  809. 

Nicholas.  800. 

Sarah,  788. 

Thomas,  378,   410,  809. 

William,   809. 
Parcel  Is,  Thomas.  790. 
Parcels,    Peter,   713. 
Parisis,   Eustacius   (Rev.),  98. 

Jacqueline,  98.  221.  278. 
Park.  Carrie  M.,  672. 
Parker,  Phlneas,  462. 

Solomon,  570. 
Parkinson,  820.  827. 

Leonard,  819,  826. 
Parks.  Joseph  S.,  744. 

William  R..  738. 
Parleman.  Jannetje  (Jane),  450. 
Parmentier,  105. 

Antoinette.  447. 

Damen.  447. 

Elizabeth.    447. 

Johanna.  447. 

John,  447. 

Lydia  Ann.  526. 

Michael,  200,  447. 

Michiel.   447. 

Neeltie,  447. 

Peter,  413,  415,  447. 

Pierre,  103. 
Parsells,  717. 

Catharina.   626. 
Passmore,  Hannah.  570. 

Pasteur,  L.  Rou.  813. 
Pater,  Elizabeth,  261. 

Jan.  261. 
Paterson.  Abraham,  432. 

Dr.,   625,   799. 

Elizabeth.  482. 

John.  432. 

John   (Mrs.),  432. 

Josiah    (Dr.),   393,  432,   564. 

Mary,   432. 

Richard.   482. 
Patrick.  Walen,  660. 
Patterson,  Harold  W.,  474. 

Lena  L.,   611. 
Paulding.  John,  256. 

Joost.  256. 

William(  Oen.),  256. 
Paulisse.  Jacob.  684. 
Paul  us.  Jurck,  885. 

Kate.    763. 

Minne.  385. 
Pawling.  Henry,  412. 
Payne,  Clifton,  748. 
Peacock.   Elizabeth,  456,  462. 

William.  462. 
Peak.    Catherine,   719. 
Pealman.   Sarah,  532. 
Pears,   Tannecke,   450,   463. 
Pearsall,  340. 

Sarah,  428. 
Pearse,  Anna,  500. 
Pearson.    Jan,   388. 
Peasley.   Anna   (Ann),  532. 
Peck  Catharine.  428. 

Eliza  Ann.  465. 

Oeorge.  492. 

Mary,  648. 


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Peeck,   HaDnah   (Anna),  448. 

John.  785. 
Peek.  Hannah,  452. 

JacobuB,  350. 

Jan.   452. 
Peelen,  William,  297. 
Peersen,  Wlllem,  263. 
Peet,  Jenneke,  804. 
Peiret.  Pierre  (Rev.),  336,  350. 
Pell,  Deborah,  692. 

John,   694. 

Maria,  594,  692. 

Mr     392 

Samuel.  302.  303,  309,  594. 

Thomas,   594. 

William,    594. 
Pels,  Elizabeth,  303. 

Evert,  303. 
Pelszer,  286. 

Johannes.   242,   273,   297. 
Pelton,   Philip.   789. 
PeltroDg  (CoDteyn),  Elizabeth,  564. 
Pelts,   Samson,  431. 

Stoffel.  428. 
Pelzer,   Johannes,   251. 
Pen  fold,  Deborah,  809. 

John    Wm.,    810. 

William   (Capt.),  809,  810. 
Penny,    Jonathan.    506. 
Peperall.   Lazarus   (Captain),  787. 
Perkins.   R.  W.,  577. 
Perlee,   Martha.   584. 
Perretrus,   Petrus   (Dom.),  335. 
Perry,  756. 

Hugh,   739. 

Martha.   721. 

Polly,  738. 
Persel.  Abraham,  683. 

Lea    478. 

William.    682. 
Pessel,   Catryntje,   682. 
Peters,  Claes,  558. 

Margrletie,   558. 
PeterFc,  John,  787. 
Petersen,  695. 

John,   33.3. 
Peterson,  Cornelius,  709. 

Israel,    225. 

James,  726. 

Matthew,    225. 

Moenis.   199,   800. 

Men  is,  190,  194,  196,  198,  201,  203,  220,  225, 
256. 

Nicholas.   681. 

Peter.    225,   700. 

William,  709. 
Petit,    Jan.   346. 

Jean,  373. 

Nancy,    712. 

Nicole.  104,  293. 
Peto,  Humphrey,  799. 
Petrle,    Margaret,  649. 
Pettinger,   Hendrick,   580. 
Pfordt,  J.   B.,  770. 
Phelps.  Malvina.  656. 
Philip,   Governor.   323. 
Philippe,    Rev.,    34.    35,   86. 
Philips,  Barney,  525. 

Catherine    J.,    630. 

Frederick,   679. 

Frederick    (Col.),    274. 

Legrand,    446. 
Phi  I  ipse,  Fred  (Capt.),  808. 

Philip   (Hon.),  808. 
Phillips.  George  W.,  664. 

Juliette.  572. 

Mary  E.,  754,  762. 

Noah,   712. 

William,  234. 
Phipps,   Etta,  767. 


Phoonlx,  Alexander,  238,  609,  787. 

Alexander  (Capt),  165,  704,  713. 

Catharine,  704,  713. 

Daniel  (Hon.),  155. 

Maria  (Roome),  460,  463. 
Pia,  Maria.  189. 

Pierre,  189. 
Picheltzlmmer,   Johannis,   498. 
Pickett.  John  C.  A.,  536. 

Lewis  F.,  527. 

Mary,  528. 
Picksley,    Lucinda,   722. 
Pier.   Catherine,  441. 

Tennis,   409. 
Pierce.  Daniel,  484. 

Deborah,  658. 

Emily,  710. 

John,  496. 

Lydia,  520. 

Martha  A..  701. 
Plerson,  Robert  P.,  717. 
Pieters,  Adolph,  372. 

Grietle,   128. 

Heyitle,  431. 

Jochem,   372,   380,  893,  397,  402,  477,  GW, 
600,  601.  603. 

Maria,    274. 

Tryntle,   223. 
Pieterse,  Andries,  659. 

Klaas   (Nicholas),  604. 

Margrietye,  701. 
Pietersen,   Aert.   276. 

Hillebrand,   196. 

Jacob.   220. 

Jan,   176,   199.   208,   333,  698. 

Jannetie,   196. 

Jochem.  134.  170.  698. 

Job.,   229. 
Pletersz.   Jochem,   154. 
Pike.  Almyra,  743. 

Asbar,   505. 
Pikes.    Jan.   94. 

Peternella.  94.  786. 

Vincent.  94,   786. 
Pincheart,   Rev.,   34. 
Pinckney.   Mary   (Polly),  643. 

Susannah,   650. 
Pine.   James,  717. 
Plnette.  61. 
Plnhorne,  381. 

Mr.,   376. 

William,   364,  367. 
Pinnell,  589. 
Pinnet,  James.  311. 
Pipon.  13,  378.  796.  813. 

Ellas.  601.  605.  798,  801,  812,  813. 

Elie,   813. 

Elizabeth,  8U.  813. 

Jane,  813. 

John,   813. 

Mary,   813. 

Mrs..  360. 

Philip.   601.   798.   811.   812. 
Pirsson,    Robert  L.,    481. 
Pitcher.  Mary,  462. 

Robert,  636. 
PI  tot.    Jeanette,   620. 
Place.  Charles  A..  470. 
Piatt,   Charles.  156. 

Elizabeth  (Jonas),  459. 
Pleslin.  Emma  E.,  528. 
Plettenborg.  Belitle,  212. 
Plukellus.  Gautier,  31. 

Nicholas,  31. 
Pock.  Virgil,  664. 
Poffenberger,   Charles,  774. 
Poillon.    Jacques,   270. 

Peter,   824. 
Polhemus,  Abraham,  689. 

Do.,  268. 


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Polhemus,  Margaret  H.,  690. 
Pollock.  Eliza,  570. 

Mary,    571. 
Pomeroy,  Eleanor  A.,  810. 
Pool,  John,  627. 
Pootman   (Putnam),  Arent,  697. 

Francina,   697. 
Pontgrave,  U. 
Pepinga,  Aeltie,  161. 

Thomas,  161. 
Porter,   Harriet  R.,  756. 

Horace,   Jr.,  474. 

Sarah   R.,   762. 
Portor,   Charles,   722. 
Post.  196. 

Abraham,  3S9,  499,  614. 

Anna  C,  388. 

Dennis,  614. 

Elizabeth,  389,  500. 

Gerardus,  827. 

Hendrick.  389,  614,  615. 

Jan,   388. 

Jannetie,  501. 

John,  389. 

Lena,  389,  614. 

Margaret,  551. 

Maria,  686. 

Martin,    551. 

Mary,   553. 

Peter,  69. 
Postmael,  Jan,  196. 

Jan  Jansen,  388,  389. 
Potier,   Augustine,   54. 
Potreau,  Daniel,  379. 
Potter,    Derlck,    234. 

John,  660. 

Margaret  P.,  574. 

Sylvester,  650. 
Potts,   Frederick,   481. 

W.   Rockhill,  481. 
Powell,  Catherine,  628,  629. 

Elizabeth.   627. 

Frederick,   627. 

Harry  J.,  749. 

James   H.,   631. 

Thomas,  696. 

Thomas   E.,   627. 

Thomas  H.,   629. 
Powelson,  Mary,  700. 
Powers,  Mary  C.  528. 
Powles,  Leah,   616. 
Powless    (or  Powlisson),   Lydia,   460. 
Powliss,   Paul,   461. 
Praa,    Peter   (Capt.),   608. 
Prae.   Pierre.   319. 
Prall,  Arend,  270. 
Pratt,  Charles,  539. 
Praul,   Addle   H.,   590. 
Presker,   William,  782,   807. 
Presto.  Philip,  230,  797,  801. 

Philippe.   183. 
Preston,   Charles  L.,   773. 

Flora  A.,  667. 
Prestwick,    Mary  Eliza,    553. 
Prevoost,   Catharine,  161. 
Prime.   808. 

Rufus.  699. 
Prior,  Edward,  645. 
Provoost,    Catrina,    428. 

David,  807. 

Jonathan,   428. 
Pruyn.   Lavinus,  627. 
Puffenberger,  John  Andrew,  666. 
Pulver,   Christina,   610. 
Purdon,  John,  474. 
Purdy,  Amelia.  610. 

Cornelius,  637. 
Putnam,  James  L.,  668. 
Pyke,  Miriam  Viola,  470. 


Quackenbos,  Adrian,  564,  565. 

Annetle,  700. 

Cornelius,  497,  565. 

Peter,   700. 

Pieter,  565. 

Wouter,  565. 

Wouter   (Pteterse),   448. 
Quackenbush,   Adrian,  702. 

Anna,   702. 

Claessie,  702. 

Hannah,  718.^ 

Johannes,  450. 

John,  738. 

Julia,  640. 

Mattie,  698,  702. 

Rachel  Elizabeth,  688. 

Reynier.  702. 

Tunis,  616. 

William,  526. 
Quane,  Catherine,  628. 
Quick,  Abigail,  462.  466. 

Jacob,  725. 

Jacobus.    456. 

Maria,  4d2.  457. 
Quyer,   Edward,  740. 


Radcliff,   Elizabeth.   428. 

Hannah,  510. 
Rademaaker,  Adrian,  132. 

Claes,   132. 

Cornells,  132. 
Ralph,    Bertha  Elizabeth,  663. 
Ramsey,  Barbara  C,  666. 

John,   571. 

Lou.  764. 
Ramus.  57. 
Randall,  Esther.  527. 

Hannah    (Annatje),   685. 
Randell,   Jonathan    606,  714. 

Morris,  431,  456.  468,  798,  799. 
Randolph,   Hannah,   588. 
Rankin.  John,  802,  803. 
Ransom,   Samuel,  571. 
Rapelje,  Jacob,  434. 

Jorls  Jansen.  804. 

Lysbeth.   804. 

Rem.  4^. 
Rapelye,   Richard,.  706. 

Sarah.  613. 
Rapp,    Catherine,   770. 
Rappelye,   Abraham,   716. 
Rathbone.  Ursula  Ruby,  527. 
Ray.  John.  234. 

Richard   (Robert),  452. 

Wyntie,   234. 
Ray  (Rhee),  Wyntie,  600. 
Rawllngs,   Jennie,  575. 
Rea,   Carrie  V.   B.,   691. 
Read.   Maud  Berry,  757. 
Reade,    Mary,    722. 
Reddenhaus,    Abel,    298. 

Geertle,   298. 
Redding,  Jeremiah,  809. 
Redfleld.  John   Rossiter,  662. 
Redman,  Patrick.  658. 
Reed,    Abel    S.,   736. 

Leonard.  520. 
Reese,  Thomas  L..  734. 
Reeves.    Hannah  M.,  531. 
Reid,  Benjamin,  733. 
Relneman.    Barbara,   778. 
Reitter.   Clara.  755. 
Rembach,  Ann  Maria.  368. 
Remsen,   Johannes,   695. 


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Renuen,  Mary,  596. 
Remson,   Jacob,  686. 

Mary,  596. 
Renard,  Katallna,  206. 

Maria,  221. 

Marie,   223,   224,  868. 
ReDdell,  Morris,  123. 
Renier,  Janet,  734. 
Renwick,    Edward   Sabine,    481. 

James,  480. 
Reson.  Sarah,  104. 
Retallie,  James  D.,  689. 
Reyersen,  Anna,  69. 
Reyersz,  Adriaen,  166. 

Elbert,   156. 
Reynolds,  Ely,  644. 
Rhinelander,  808. 
Rboades,  Joseph,  669. 
Rhodes,  Lieonard  R.,  664. 
Rice,  Amos  (Captain),  608. 

Phoebe,  771. 
Rich,  Abraham,  487. 

Abraham  B.,  489. 

Maria,  622. 

Martha  C,  762. 
Richard  Paul,  48,  294,  338,  367,  818. 

Paulus,   268,   271,   272,   288,   836,  337, 
679,  795,  796.  797,  798,  799. 
Richards,  773. 

Richard   (Captain),  789. 

Susanna,   162. 
Richardson,  Maria,  600. 
Richmond,    Sarah   Elizabeth,   640. 
Rickson  (or  Rickim),  Charles,  741. 
Rider,  Izetta,  763. 

Mary,  716. 
Ridgeway,  Margaret  B.,  690. 

Sarah,  690. 
Ridnaer,  Lena,  604. 
Rieman,   Joseph   H.,   688. 
Riggins,  Lindsay  J.,  688. 
Riker.   340. 

Anna  Catrlna,  600. 

Edward.  609. 

Elizabeth,  616. 

Henry,  428. 

John  H.,  481. 

Matthias,  617. 
Riley,  Daniel,  610. 

James,  536. 
Ritzema.  Alida,  452,  467. 

Dominie,  408. 

Jobannis  (Rev.),  452. 
Roach,  Bridget,  751. 
Roat,  Jeremiah,  613. 
Robbins,   Caleb,  617. 

Helen,  765. 
Robert,  William,  38. 
Roberts.  Ann,  739. 

Jane,  519. 
Robertson,  A.  A.  (Rev.),  654. 

Hannah.  714. 
Robin,  804. 
Robins.  Eliza.  463. 
Robinson,  81,  381. 

Catherine,  649. 

Gertrude,   764. 

John,  360,  363.  364,  865,  367,  373,  805. 

John   (Rev.),  116. 

M.   S.,  666. 
Roblee,  754. 

Betsey  D.,  735. 

Laura,  735. 

Lucy  J.,  735. 

Luther,   735. 
Robson,  Benjamin  R.,  469. 
Rochelle,   Etienne.   324. 
Rock.  Elizabeth.  742. 
Rockenstyne,  518. 


870, 


Rodenburg,  Oovemor,  164. 

Lucas.  167.  168,  160. 
Rodgers  (or  Rogers),  Joseph  (Dr.),  71«. 
Roe.  Charles  T.,  471. 

Franklin,  717. 
Roelofs,  Itie.  431. 

Wyntie,  234. 
Roelofsen.  269. 

Abraham.  261. 

Constable.  269. 

Hendrickje.  261. 

Jacobus.  261. 

Johannes,  261. 

Maria,  261. 

Peter,  261,  792. 

Pieter,  249.  269.  276,  279,  280,  286,  297,  337. 

Roelof.   261. 

Susannah.  261. 
Rogers,  764. 

George  Lewis,  631. 

Johannes,  681. 

Lois,  633. 

Samuel.  468. 

Sarah  Maria,  767. 

William,  681,  786. 
Roll,  Margaret,  696,  788. 
Rombouts,   Francis  (Mayor),  867. 
Romer,  John.  431,  626. 

Samson,  702. 

Jeremiah,  406. 
Romp,  Sergt.,  183. 
Roome,  Agnietie,  607. 

Sarah,  485. 
Roos,  Cornelia,  428. 

Hester.  451. 

Johannes.  428. 
Roosa,  412. 

Albert  Heymans,  269,  412,  579. 

Arlen.  412,  679. 

Hey  man,  412. 

like,  412. 

Isaac,  499. 

Jan.  412. 

Jannetie.   412. 

Mary.  259,  412,  679. 

Mary  Ann,  634. 

Neeltie.  412. 

PetruB  P.,  604. 

Rebecca.   499. 
Roosevelt.   Christina,  786. 

Jacobus.  452. 

James,    274. 

Johannes,  431. 

Nicholas  Martensen,  786. 
Root.  Aeltie,  645. 

Hattie  A.,  636. 
Rooy-meester,   Heer   (Hon.),   1S6. 
Rosa,  Geertje,  680. 
Rose,  Katharine,  724. 

Milton,  742. 
Rosecrans,  Christina,  269. 
Ross.   Ralph,  376. 

Sylvana,  516. 

W.  G.,  577. 
Rossignol,  Elizabeth,  99,  281,  232. 

Guillaume.  99. 
Rossmore,  Margaret,  607. 
Rote.  Mary  Jannete,  624. 
Roubley,  Marie,  104. 
Rousby,   Christopher,  805. 
Rousseau.  Louisa,  768. 
Row,  Almira.  509. 

Hannah,  502. 
Rowe   (Roe),   Jane,  631. 
Rowland,  Cornelia  Whitney,  661. 
Ruckel.   Walter,  662. 
Ruckhaber,  M.,  13. 
Ruggles,  Homer.  656. 
Rumsey,  Emmett,  P.,  750. 


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Russell,   A.   Milo,  753. 

Charles,  467. 

Charlotte.  754. 

David,   726. 

Elizaheth,  628. 

Mary  B.,  666. 
Rutgers,  Anthony,  428. 

Harman,  782. 

Harmanus,  428. 

Helena,  606. 

Sarah,  692. 
Ruton,  Benjamin  B.,  652. 
Ryckman,  Philip,  617. 
Ryder,  340.  841. 

Elizabeth.  446. 

Robert,  332,  630. 
Ryer,   205. 

Frederick  A.,  536. 

Theunis,  487. 
Ryers,  Elizabeth.  487. 
Ryken,  Abraham,  684. 
Ryker,   Oerardus,  616. 

John,  440. 
Ryuchout,  Jurlen,  546,  692. 
Rynehart,    Mary,  446. 


Sabens,   Olive,  734. 
Safford,  Silas  B..  526. 
Sagendorph,  Albertine,  524. 
Sainsbury,  W.   Noel,   13,  83. 
Salisbury,  Angelica,  757. 

SUvester   (Capt.).   156. 
Salyer,  Edward,  638. 
Sam,  Jacob  (Sieur),  793,  794. 
Sammans.  John,  478. 

Margaret,   477.   478. 
Sammis,  Adrian,  304. 

Ida,  661. 

Maria.  221.  622. 

Marie.   103. 
Sammon.  Aagie,  704. 

Angle.  700. 

Elizabeth.  700,  706. 

Jacob.   429.   704.   706. 
Sandallen.  William.  711. 
Sanders.  447. 

Gertrude,  626. 
Sandford,  Catherine.  785. 

Jennie  Louise,  690. 

John,  785. 

William   (Capt).   785. 
Sands  Obadiah,  490. 
Sanford,  Albert  O.,  771. 

Sarah  E..  537. 

Sylvia  C.  532. 
Santee.    Nancy,    570. 
Sarley.   Anthony.   783. 

Catalina.   783. 
Savage.  Mary  A..  566. 
Sayer,  Judson  C,  541. 
Scarlett,  Charles  E.,  754. 
Schaeta,  Aletta,  680. 

Dominie,  97. 

Gideon.  95,  681. 

Gideon   (Master).  96. 

Gideon   (Rev.>.  680,  681. 

Mathias,  Bartholomeus.  96. 

Rdynier  (Doctor).  427,  681. 
Schamp,   David  P. 
Schelluyne,   Dirck.   160. 
Schenck.  Anna.  156. 

Ida,  156. 

Margaret.    648. 

Martin,  156. 

Peter  Clover,  586. 
Schepens,  Heere   (Hon),  196. 


Schepmoes,  Anna,  364. 

Eva,  364. 

Jan,  364. 

Maria.   364. 

Rachel,  364. 

Sarah,  364. 
Schepnoes,  Dirck,  498. 

John.   603. 
Schermerhorn,  340,  807. 

Jacob,  700. 

Machtelt,  700. 

Peter,  487. 

Simon    (Samuel),   487. 
SchielTelin.  Jacob.  667.  818. 
Schlnckels.  Aeltie.  130. 
Schleppy,   Elizabeth.   744. 
Schoenmaker,  Jan.  201,  203. 
Schoonmaker,    Catrina,    496. 

Elsie.   321. 

Johanna,  732. 

John,  750. 

Luther.  534. 

Martinus.    (Rev.),  408,  606. 

Richard  L.,  408. 
Schor,  Cornelius  D.,  688. 
Schroeder,  Emma  J..  748. 
Schuerman,  Johannes,  681. 
Schureman.  Frederick,  236. 

Geesie,  236. 
Schut,  Jans  Henuans  (Sergt.),  613. 

Phebe,  206,  613. 
Schuyler,  Ann  Myndert,  463. 

Catherine,   489. 

Lieutenant.  698. 

Margaret.  489. 

Myndert.   364,   459. 

Philip.   321. 
Schwartz.    Alonzo.    768. 
Schweitzer,  Morris  Kemerer,  675. 
Scobey.   Archibald.   688. 
Scofleld.   Anna,   662. 
Scot,    George.   436. 
Scott,  Aaron,  531. 

David.  428. 

Edward,  664. 

George.   782. 

Helen  Rutgers.  603. 

John   Morin   (Hon.),  606. 

Romella  F..  655. 
Scudder,  Jane.  725. 
Seaman,   Adeline,  468. 

Billop  B..  570. 

Catherine.  569. 

Charles  B..  768. 

Edmund.  569. 

Maria.  786. 
Seamon,  George  E.,  633. 

William.   715. 
Seamore.  Mary.  649. 
Searle.  Louisa.  570. 
Sebring,   Martha  V.  N.,  689. 
Secor.   Annie,   711. 

Elizabeth.   639. 

Samuel  L.,  741. 
Sedgewick,   Lucy.  508. 
Sedgwick,   William  EUery,   481. 
See,   270,   329.   348. 

Abraham,  786. 

Barney,  786. 

Catherine.  786. 

Catrina.   786. 

Clara.  786. 

David.  786. 

Eliza  Ann.  786. 

George  Comb.  786. 

Isaac.  318.  331.  786. 

Isaac.  Jr..  318,  328,  33L 

Jacobus.   786. 

John.   786. 

John  D..  786. 


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See,  John  L.  (Rev.).  786. 

Leah.  786. 

Mahala.  786. 

Maria.  331,  786. 

Marie.  347. 

Martha.  653. 

Mary,  697. 

Peter,  786. 
Wm.  G.  E.   (Rev.).  786. 
Seeley.  Clara  A..  661. 

Emily  A.,  661. 
Seely,  Bridget,  481. 

Robert,  481. 

Samuel.  669. 
Seitz.   Mary  A.,   574. 
Selden,  Dudley,  420. 
Sellar,  Sevilla,  638. 
Sellars.    Mitchell.   722. 
Sellick.  Nancy  C,  687. 
Selligx^.  Thomas.  294. 
Selover.  Isaac,  484,  692. 

Sarah.  483. 
Selyn.  Dominie,  600.. 
Selyns,  223. 

Dominie.  220,  402,  405,  407,  406,  622,  786. 

Henry,  787. 

Henry   (Do.),  377. 

Henry   (Rev.),  179. 
Sempee.   Elizabeth,   709. 
Senical.  John.  729. 
Serine,   Sarah  Jane,  655. 
Serviss,   John  O..   491. 
Sevenhoven.  Anneke.  545. 

John,  545. 
Shaffer,  Azuma.  756. 

George,  765. 
Shapter.  Peter.  648. 
Sharp.  John,  271,  287,  759. 

Peter,  503. 
Sharth,  Thomas,  763. 
Shattuck,  Luther.  687. 
Shaver.   Peter,   737. 
Shaw,  762. 

Anna,  708. 

Emma.  525. 

Henry,  739. 

Mary,  630. 

William.   711. 
Shawgo.  Catharine.  441. 
Sheak.  Emory  K.,  757. 
Shear.  Eliza,  458. 

John,   645. 
Shears,  John.  Jr..  648. 
Sheav,   Charity.   651. 
Shelley.  Millie,  533. 

William  J..  774. 
Shepard.   Silas  J..  761. 
Sheppard.  Mary  Ellen,  722. 
Sheridan.   James  B.,  493. 
Sherman,  John.  728. 

Laura  A.,  728. 
Sherwood.  Flora.  671. 

Maria   Webb.    663. 

Wesley,  722. 
Shipley.    Robert   H..   664. 
Shira,  Pelina.  744. 
Shirts,  William,  733. 
Shoed.   Benjamin,   452. 
Shotwell.  Abraham,  341,  360,  804,  805. 

John.   805. 
Shourd,  Luke  (Captain),  431. 

Mrs..   439. 
Showers.  Elizabeth  A.,  648. 
Shule.   506. 
Shuler,  James  Duane,  517. 

John  S.   (Dr.).  517. 
Shull.  D.  N.,  533. 
Slbout,  Claes,  146. 

Hendrick,  146. 
Siboutsen,  Harck,  166. 


Sickels.  172.   800,  804. 

AUette,  298. 

Ann,  298. 

Anna,  297. 

Catherine,  298. 

Cornelius.  298. 

Elizabeth,  297. 

Gerardus,   298. 

Hendrick,  298. 

Jacobus.    298. 

Johannes,  123,  274,  298,  699,  600,  601«  796, 
796,  799. 

John,  274.  298.  4S5.  601,  605,  606. 

John  S.,  156,  172.  296,  796. 

Lambert.  297. 

Latitia.   298. 

Leah.  297. 

Margaret.  297,  298. 

Maria,  297,  298. 

Mary.  166.  298.  435,  799. 

Robert.  297.  298. 

Thomas,  297. 

William,  298. 

Wyntie.  566. 

Zachariah,  430,  603. 

Zacharias.  297,  547,  658,  694.  792,  796.  798, 
803.  810,  825,  827,  828,  830. 
Sickles,  Constable,  637. 

John,  797. 

John  S..  485,  796. 

Mary.  796. 

Thomas.   477. 

Zacharias.  477.  664,  796,  821. 

Jacob,  331. 

Peter,  331. 

Simon,   331. 
Sleeken,   Dirck,   273. 
Simensz,  Johannes,  188. 
Simerson.  Edward,  576. 
Simes,  Shubel.  630. 
Simmons.  Charles  E.   (Rev.),  763. 

James  Edward,  746. 
Simons,  Cynthia,  645. 

Isaac.  576. 
Simons  on,  Anetta,  574. 
Simpson,   John,   725. 

Magdalena.  712. 

Roland.  656. 
Sims.  Lancaster,  614,  682. 
Simson,   John,  593. 
Sioerts.  Aeltle.  431. 

Cornelius.  431. 

Heyltie.  431. 

Johannes,  431. 

Luke,  431. 

Maria.   431. 

Mary,   431. 

Olfert.  431. 

Sioert,  431. 
Sioerts  (Shourd),  Luke,  431. 
Sissin,   Dell,   667. 

Ransom.  756. 
Skinner,  Roger  Sherman,  784. 
Slaessen.  Slbout.  106. 
Slagboom,  Jurlaen,  135. 
Slaight.    Benjamin.   602. 

Rachel,  502. 
Slater.  Ellas.  484. 
Slawson.  Alonzo.  753. 
Sleight.  Annetie,  602. 

Annatje.  510. 

Christopher,  535. 

Eliza  Ann,  535. 

Henry.  499. 

Jane,  716. 

Stephen,  522. 

Teunis.  499. 
Slenmons,  Jennie,  762. 
Slingerland  (Arnold),  Magdalen,  732. 


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Slingerlant,  Bngeltfe,  700. 

Neeltie.   700. 

Teunls.  700. 
Sloan,  Charles.  590. 
Slocum,  Hannah  B.,  520. 
Sloe.  William,  432. 
Sloote.   Abraham,  645, 
Slot.  176.  186,  188,  196,  200,  208,  221. 

Annetie,  217. 

Antie.  350. 

Benjamin,  217. 

Eve,  217. 

Hendrick,  217. 

Heyltie,  217. 

Jacobus,  217. 

Jan,  214,  217,  298,  360. 

Jan  Jansen,  201,  208,  217. 

Jan  P..  193,  195.  202. 

Jan  Piertensen,  362. 

Jan  Pieters,  185. 

Jan  Pietersen,  92.  94,   176,  177,  183,   186, 
190,  203.  206.  217,  679,  797,  800. 

Johannes,   217. 

John,   217. 

John  Pietersen,  792. 

Jonas,  217. 

Jonathan.  217. 

Judith.  217. 

Leah.  217. 

Peter,  196.  350,  797,  800. 

Petrus,   217. 

Pieter.  217,  267. 

Pieter  Jansen,  197,  201.  203,  217,  221. 

Sarah,  217. 

Sergeant.  176. 

Stoffel,  217. 

Tryntie.  196,  217. 
Slots.   93. 
Sloughter.  812. 

Col.,  642. 

Governor,  321.  698. 
Sluyswachter.  Annetie  Maurits,  377. 

Sluyter.   354.  358. 

Peter.  359. 
Small.  Celia  A..  669. 

Lavinia  Jane.   523. 
Smedes,   Abraham,    212. 

Benjamin,  212. 

Johannes.  99,  212. 

Rachel.   196. 
Smeeman.   Harman,  384,  692. 
Smith,  212,  758. 

Abraham.  450. 

Abraham  J.,  689. 

Albert  N.,   531. 

Ann.  628. 

Anna  A..  688. 

Arthur.  684. 

Betsey  J..  758. 

Caleb.  554. 

Catharine.  790. 

Charlotte  Louise.  742. 

Cornelia.  462.  468. 

Cornelius,  451. 

Delia.   576. 

Ebenezer  (Rev.>.  508. 

Edward.  437.  661. 

Edward  A.  W..  524. 

Edward   M.    (Hon.),  13. 

Emma  J.,  542. 

P..  640. 

George  B.,  647. 

Hannah  M.,  445. 

Hendrick  Barens,  220. 

James,  491. 

James  F.  D.,  554. 

John.  302,   303,  376,   437. 

John  A..  564. 

Julia  Vidella.  572. 

JusUs,  510. 


Smith,  Laura,  538. 

Lewis  H.,  752. 

M.  E.,  532. 

Maria,  552. 

Mary,  677. 

Mary  Ann,  461. 

Matthew.  371. 

Maud,  678. 

Patrick,  787. 

Philip,   367,  368. 

R.  C,  826. 

Rachel,  788,  789. 

Sarah. 

Walter.  765. 

William.   283.  311. 

William  D.,  662. 
Smyth,  George  H.  (Rev.),  408. 
Sneden.  93. 

Ccu'sten  Jansen,  195. 

Claes,   95,  195. 

Jan.  95.  183,  186,  194. 

Jan  (Mrs.),  190. 

John.  797. 
Snediker,  Janneke.  431. 
Sniffen,  Amos,  649. 
Snyder.  Arent,  203. 

Lusetta,  530. 

Piatt  M.,  531. 

Rachel.   510. 

Samuel.  752. 
Soben.  John  A.  (Rev.),  759. 
Sohier.   Marie,   103.   278. 
Somerby.  H.  G.,  13. 
Somerindyke,    Tennis,    545. 
Somerndyke,  Gertrude,  711. 
Sopher,  762. 

Minnie  M..  762. 
Sorless.  Anna,  627. 

Daniel.  627. 
Southard.  Maria.  706. 

Rebecca  Elizabeth.   662. 
Southmayd.  Alma.  784. 
South  wick,  Truman.  721. 
Sowarby,  John,  628. 
Sower.   Bloomer,  511. 
Sowers,  Thomas,  606. 
Sowle,  John  B..  774. 
Spader,   Bmalyne.  442. 
Sparks.  Jonas.  465. 

Sarah,  728. 
Sparrow,  William  (Rev.),  206. 
Spaulding.  Gilbert  R.,  751. 
Speer,  Anna.  787. 
Spencer,  Jesse  W..  689. 
Sperry,  William  O.,  763. 
Spier.  Ann.  490,  492. 

Johannes.  97. 
Spindler,  Minnie  L.,  753. 
Splnksted.  568. 
Spragge,  413. 

J..  388.  396. 

John,  381.  410.  413,  414,  415,  807. 

Secretary.  392. 
Sprlngstead.  Alice,  445. 
SprlngBtee,  Joost.   206. 
SprlDgsteed.   William   W..  761. 
Springsteen.  Anna  Maria,  204. 

Caspar,  274.  608. 

Cannarus,  703. 

Gertrude.  608. 

Isaac.   703. 

Jannetle,  205. 

Job.  Caspars.  204,  206. 

Johannes,  703. 

Joost.  703. 

Jurlaen.  703. 

Maria.  608. 
Sprock,  Thorna,  731. 
<2nrong,  John.  545. 
Spuys.  Frans.  497. 


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St.  John,  David,  655. 
Julia,  714. 
Rebecca,  667. 
StaclthouBe,  William,  788. 
Staeck,  Mans,  225. 

Monis  Peterson,  188. 
Stage,  Jennie,  760. 
Stagg,  Abraham,  514. 

Elizabeth,  697. 
Stam,  Arent,  784. 
Arent  Corssen,  150. 
Derlck  Corssen,  784. 
Standish,   80. 
Stanton,  John,  723. 
Starr,  Fannie  W.,  491. 
Stavast,  Claes  Jansen,  427. 

Jannetie,  204. 
Stearns,  Amory,  517. 

Hannah,  444. 
Steel,  Ann,  432. 
Steenburgh,  Margaret,  719. 
Steenwyck.  Capt,  198,  217. 

Cornells,  275,   306,  389. 
Steffield,  Anna  Bevier,  581. 
Stegg,  John,  638. 
Stephens,  Peter  J.,  689. 

Thomas,  759. 
Steve,  Abraham,  626. 

Elizabeth.  638. 
Stevens,  766. 
Jenne,  381. 
Mr.,  618. 
Stevenson,   Hendrick,  616. 
Mra..   684. 
Stephanus.  615. 
Stewart.  Bella.  744. 
Daniel  Jackson,  469. 
Jane,  480. 
John,  360. 
Keturah,  517. 
Seneca,   562. 
Zenaida  L.,  772. 
Stickney,   Byron  H.,  766. 
Stiles,    Daniel,   696. 

Mary,  695. 
Stille.  Comelis  Jacobsen,  135,  294. 
Jacob  Comelissen,  429. 
Jan.  135. 
Stillman,  768. 
Stilwell,   Anna,   674. 

Lieut.,  194. 
Stitcher,  Sarah.  787. 
Stockholm,  Andrew,  806. 

Andries,  613. 
Stodard,  Julia,  632. 
Stoddard.  B.  Fowler,  589. 

Emily,    630. 
Stoffelsen,   Jacob,   134. 
Stol.  Jacob.  385. 
Stoll,  Jacob  Jans,  384. 
Stone.   Margaret,   657. 
Stone  (Stuart).  Agnes,  465. 
Stoothoff.  Ida,  580. 
Storm,  237,  636. 
Abraham.  274.  485. 
Anetje  (Anna),  608. 
Catharine.   484. 
Catherine  (Mrs.),  230,  482. 
Charles,  670. 
David.  274. 
Derick,    274. 
Dh-ck,  95.   274. 
Oerrit,  274.  298. 
Goris.  274. 
Gregorls.  274,  635. 
Isaac,  274. 
Jacob,  274. 
John,  274. 
Maria,   274. 
Mrs.,  485,  800. 


Storm,  Peter,  274. 

Thomas,  m,  298,  601. 
Story,  Emma  R.,  767. 

Mary  Ann.  720. 
Stout,  712. 
Benjamin,  783. 
Benjamin,  Jr.,  479. 
Elizabeth,  427. 
Mary,  717. 
Sarah.  717. 
Stoutenberg,  Jacobus  T.,  487. 
Stoutenburg,  Engeltie,  694. 
Henry.   458. 
Maria.  479. 
Stoutenburgh.   407. 
Engeltie,  272,  695. 
Peter,  272,  695. 
Tobias,   403. 
Strachan,   William,   457. 
Strachen,  Martha,  788. 
Straetsman,  Teuntie,  374,  375. 
Straight,   Freeman,  542. 
Henry,  755. 
John,   735. 
Stratton.  WUliam.  744. 
Strong.  Clara.  758. 

Joseph  Gardner.  666. 
Stryker,  Catlina,  583. 
Christopher.  585. 
Maria.  584. 
Peter,  512,  584. 
Sturgis.  John,  531. 
Sturt.  William,  339. 

Stuyvesant,  147.  161.  164.  166,  167.  168.  178. 
178.  183,  210,  211,  222,  234,  277,  281.  28S, 
291,  292,  297,  353,  385,  392.  693,  781.  786, 
789.  793. 
Captain,  562,  704. 
Director,  159,  160. 
General,  221. 
Governor,  101, .177,  185,  188..  191,  207,  J17, 

263,  285,  368,  412.  476. 
Nicholas.   276. 
Nicholas  Wlliiam,  161. 
Nicholas  William    (Captain),  388. 
Petrus,  115,  157,  158,  578,  794. 
Petrus  ((General).  152.  154.  156. 
Styles,  Mary  J.,  534. 
Stymeta,  Stephen.  465. 
Supplee,   Mary   Elizabeth.   575. 
Sutphen,  Abraham  R.,  586. 

Jane,  684. 
Sutphin.   684. 
Jessie,  676. 
Sutton.  Margaret  W.,  74L 

O.  S.,  764. 
Suydam.  Willempie,  458. 
Swade,  Susan,  620. 
Swartwout,   770. 

Roelof,  412. 
Sweet.  Amanda,  525. 
Sweeting,  H.  Seymour.  770. 
Sweetser.  James,  657. 
Swick,   Martha,   730. 
SwiU.  140,  162.  163,  164.  167. 
Abraham,  168. 
Abraham  J.    (Rev.).   169. 
Andries.  168. 
Apol  Ionia,  168. 
Claes,  138,  141,  168. 
Claes  Cornel Issen,  131,  132. 
Comelis  Claessen,  161,  168,  200. 
Cornelius,  168. 
Isaac,  168. 
Jacob.  168. 
Jannetie.   168. 
Maria,   168. 
Simon,    168. 
Susanna,  168.  169. 
Walter.  168. 


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889 


Swords,  Francis,  609.  - 
Swynock,  397. 

Samuel,  378,  410,  809. 
Sypher,  J.  R.,  206. 


Tabele,  Anna,  787. 
Tack,  Add,  509. 
Taff,  Heory,  654. 
Taggert,  Maria  M.,  657. 
TaiDe,   Isaac,  104. 

Marie,   198,   221.   247,   272. 
Talama,  Margrietje,  449. 
Talbot,   Ezekiel  Merrill,  666. 

St  George,  797,  812,  814. 
TallmaD,  Albert,  687. 

William  A..  467. 
TalmaD,  Daniel,  627. 

Isaac,  459. 
Taoner,  John  W.,  631. 
Tappan,  Elsie,  494. 

Jurian,  494. 

Peter,  148. 
Tappen,  Elsie,  196. 

Jurian,  196. 
Tate.  Thomas,  621. 
Taylor,   Ccu'oline,   441. 

Bdwin  Taylor  Neufville,  463. 

James,  428. 

John,  464.  710. 

Mary,  645. 

Peter  D..  648. 

Robert,  762. 

Sophia,  744. 

Willett  (Captain),  456. 
Tayne,  Isaac.  104. 
Teachout,  Adelbert,  756. 
Teed,  John,  724. 
Teller,  Elizabeth  C,  732., 

Jacobus,  643. 

James,  645. 
Temple.  Arthur  H.,  611. 
Ten  Broeck,  Helena,  700. 

John.  Jr..  510. 
Tenbroeck,  Jacob,  504. 
Ten  Broek.  Dirk  (Major),  364. 

Elsie.   364. 
Tenbroek,  Laurentia,  496. 

Margaret.   498,  503. 

Sarah,  498. 
Tenbrook.  John,  298. 
Ten   Eyck,  692. 

Coenraet,   293. 

Dorothea,  583. 

Elizabeth.  7U. 

Eytie.  718. 

Hannah.  583. 

John  C,  733. 

Matthys.  412. 

Sarah.  259. 
Ten  Waert,  Agnes,  784. 

Angenietie,  784. 

Gillis,  784. 
Tenyke,  John,  629. 
Terbosch.  237. 

Catherine.  237. 

Isaac.  237. 

Jacobus,  237. 

Jan,  93.  96.  237. 

Johanna.  237. 

Johannes.   237. 

John.  642.  786. 

Maria,  237. 

Sarah.  237. 
Terhune,  Albert,  393,  697. 

Catherina,  465. 

Edward  S.,  482. 

Johannes,  450. 


Terhune,  John,  69. 

Martha,  585. 

Mary,  69. 

Stephen,  350. 

Susette,  482. 

Wyntie,  702,  710. 
Terpenning,  Sarah,  522. 
Terracon,  Pierre,  319. 
Terril,   Asel,  508. 
Terrin,  Antoinette,  447. 
Terwilliger.   Melinda,  533. 
Testart.  M.  Pierre,  462. 

Marie  Madelaine,  462. 
Teunis,  Sarah,  223. 
Teunissen.  134.  162,  163,  164,  230. 

Abraham,  219. 

Barent,  219. 

Derick,  295. 

Isaac.  219. 

Jacob,  219. 

Jan.   95,   201,   203,   218,   219,   222,   223,   230, 
234. 

Johannes,  219. 

Peter.  219. 

Susannah,  166. 

Tobias.  91.   140,  148,   162.  164. 

Wyntie,  166. 
Tewksbury.  Thomas,  536. 
Thaire,   Sarah,  442. 
Theunissen.  Cornells,  309. 
Theunisz,  Cornells.  302  ,303,  328. 
Thierbock,  Helen  L.,  524. 
Thierry,  19.  31. 
Thomans.Alfred.    742. 
Thomas.  Engeltie,  635. 

Richard,   488. 
Thomasz,   Frederick,  385. 
Thomlll,  Thomas  J.,  754. 
Thompson,  Benjamin  M.   (Deacon),  79L 

Hannah,  664. 

Horatio  W.,  492. 

James.  524,  791. 

Joshua  W.,  667. 

Samuel,  554. 

Sarah,  481. 

Sophia  H.,  534. 

W.  B..  749. 
Thorn.  Jesse.  627. 
Thurston.  Marie  Louisa,  469. 

Marianna  Louise.  587. 

Robert  Jenkins,  463. 
Tibbets.   Amos.    631. 

Elizabeth,  631. 
Tibout,  405,  406.  407. 

Albertus,  393.  450. 

Andriee,  393. 

Annette.  393. 

Hendrick.  393. 

Jacobus,  393. 

Jacomina.  265.  393. 

Jan.  69.   265,  393.   403,   409,   494,   496,   816, 
817. 

Johannes,  393. 

John,  625.  793. 

Peter,  393. 

Sarah,  393. 

Theunis.  393. 
Tickel.  Ellen.  741. 
Tiebout,  Marcus,  348,  393,  394,  664,  624,  793, 

801,  821,  827,  828,  829,  830. 
Tiebkins,   Jan,  91. 
Tiebout,   Elizabeth,   485,   696. 

Jannetie,  622,  625. 

Marcus,  564,  810. 

Teunis,   595. 

Teunis,  Jr.,  450. 

Widow.  563. 
Tienpont.  Adrian.  117. 
Tier.   Lewis  P..  774. 
Tilba.  Antonie,  196. 


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TUemans,   Annetie,   375. 
Tllljen,  Christian  H.,  471. 
Tilly.   Anna,  428. 
Elizabeth,  484. 
Tilton.   Elizabeth.  658. 
Tincker.  Jan,  270,  309. 
Tinkey.   Sally.  45». 

Tippett,  George.  262.  263,  283«  3U,  327. 
Tipton,  Jonathan.  726. 
Tison,  Henry.  389,  614. 
Titsoort,   Maria,  447. 

Teuntie,  783. 
TltUB,   Mary.   518. 
Syrach,  188. 
Tobias,  126,   131.  134. 
Tennis.  164. 
Toby,  Eliza  M..  464. 
Todd.   Melissa  C.  657. 
Toger,  Arthur,  675. 
Tom,  John.  806. 
Tomkins.   John,  788. 
John   (CapUin),   788. 
S..   (Dr.),  621. 
Tompkins,  Emory  O.,  540. 

Hannah   Minthorn,   653. 
Torrens.   Margaret  E.,  640. 
Torry.  Caroline,  518. 
Totten,   Flora,  741. 

May  A.,  609. 
Town,   Susan  Cowle,  532. 
Tourneur,  5,   50.   64.  99.  175.  188.  194,  196. 
200,  218,  219,  220,  221,  228.  230.  231.  232. 
237.  242.  246,  246.  249,  251,  269,  277,  295, 
297,  298.  315,  319.  329.  333.  348,  353,  355, 
357.  368,  369,  381,  419,  428,  609,  625,  797, 
799,  802,  804. 
Aaron,  640.  641. 
Abraham  (Abram),  636. 
Adolphena.  640. 
Adriana   (Ariaentle),   636. 
Aefle,  638. 
Alfred,  641. 
Anna,  636.  637. 
Annaetjie.  639. 
Arthur.  640. 
Benjamin.  637. 
Breghie,  639. 
Charles  J.,  640. 
Clarence  E..  641. 
Cornelius.  639,  640. 
Cornelius  Bush.  640. 
D..  199.  208.  222.  279.  280. 
Daniel.  63,  176,  18^,  1*6.  im.  191,  193.  195. 
202,  203.  204.  20'k   lUl  211.   221.  229.  230, 
234,  235.  236.  237,  i::::>,  24ft,  241.  242.  244,  247. 
252.  257.   259.  261     '2(\2,   ^h,  2m.  271.  275. 
278.   279,   282.   28:     m,  2S5,  2m,  287,   288. 
289.  290.   294.   29'^    ;:ii2.  n<>S,  1109 .  318.  319. 
320.  .•?28,  329.  33       -l^,   STiR.  3117,  338.  339. 
342.  349.  351.  35  "     ''^'^.   ?^T,  370.  372, 

373.  376.  .r79.  38  ;^^l,  385.  386. 

388.  389.  391,  39  ,    ^'1,  403.  405. 

406,   407.  409,  41-.   --...,   ■,,*.    W^  424.  494. 
546,  603.  634.  63o.  flaS.  6a7.   iiilK  793,  795, 
797.  800.  803,  804,  »rst.   sir. 
Daniel   (Mrs.),  401. 
Daniel  (WId.),  373. 

Daniel,   Jr.,  261,  293,  430,  635,  793,  816. 
David,  639. 
Delia.  641. 
Dinah.  639. 
Dorothea,  635. 
Edward,  641. 
Edward  T.,  640. 
Elizabeth.  639. 
Elizabeth  Morton,  640. 
Elmer.  640. 
Elsie  E..  641. 
Emma.  641. 
Esther,  304,  379,  380,  424.  635. 


Tourneur,  Ethel,  640. 

Florence  M.,  641. 

Frances  (Mary),  64L 

Frank.  640. 

Georgiana.  641. 

Grietye  (Margaret),  639. 

Harold,  641. 

Hendrick.  638,  639. 

Irving,  640. 

Isaac,  636. 

Jaco,  379. 

Jacob,  637. 

Jacobus,  581,  625,  636,  637,  638,  639. 

Jacobus  (James),  637,  638. 

Jacomina.  639. 

Jacqueline,  377,  406,  412.  413,  414,  416. 

Jacques.  265.  274,  276,  315,  380,  4(»,  406. 
412,  413,  477,  483,  496,  593,  622.  635,  636, 
793.  800.  801,  816,  817,  827,  828,  829,  830. 

James,  626. 

Jannetie,  638. 

Jannetje  (Jane),  688. 

Jean,  641. 

Jeannette.  64L 

Jemina.  638. 

John,  638,  639.  641. 

John  Henry,  640. 

John  Lester,  640. 

Johannes,  799. 

Julia,  641. 

Julia  Etta,  640. 

Julietta,  640. 

Lawrence,  639. 

Lillian,  641. 

Madelaine,  546. 

Madeleine,  295,  297,  316,  379. 

Madeline,  548,  635. 

Magdalena,   637. 

Magistrate,   348. 

Margaret,  640. 

Margrietje.  640. 

Maria.  634.  635.'  636,  638,  639. 

Marretje,  635. 

Martina   (Martyntle,   637. 

Mary,  549,  551.  638. 

Mary  (Marretye).  638. 

Mary  Lillian,  640. 

Michael,  561,  625,  636,  638,  639,  640. 

Michiel,   639. 

Mrs..   316.  318,   424. 
•    Nettie.  640. 

Olive.  640. 

Peter  J.,  640,  641. 

Rachel,   639. 

Russell.  641. 

Sarah.  638.  639. 

Sophronia.   641. 

Thomas,  368,  379,  380.  403.  561,  603.  622. 
635.  636.  637,  793,  795,  801,  807,  816. 

Widow.  635. 

William.  641. 

William  Henry,  640. 

Woodhull.  635.  637.  638,  639,  803,  821,  822. 
Towle,   Stevenson,  481. 
Townsend,  Charles  W.,  470. 

John,  650. 
Towt.  Robert  H..  715. 
Travaskus,   Annie  J.,  669. 
Traver.  Emeline,  520. 
Travers,  Jemima,  645. 

Jesse,   645. 
Travi^.  Louise.  746. 

William.  733. 
Tremper.  Elizabeth,  696. 

William,  510. 
Trim.  Lulu.  537. 
Trimmer.  Aaron  H.,  687. 

Annie.  585. 
Tripp.  Ferris,  529. 

Hannah,  517. 


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891 


Trippe,  Anna.  487. 
Trommels,  Adriana,  162. 

Coraelis.  162. 
Tromp,  Admiral,  68. 
Trowbridge,  Harriet.  574. 
True,  Anna  B.,  771. 
Trultt,  Bertha.  675. 
Truman  n,  Peter,  790. 
Trumbull.  J.   Hammond   (Hon.),  124. 
Tubbs,  William,  62L 
Tucker.  Mansfield,  782. 

Martha   Elizabeth,   555. 

Sarah,  782. 
Tuder,  John,  377,378. 
TuUler.  Jean,  350. 
Tulp,  Claes  (Dr.),  90. 
Turenne.   Marshal,   318. 
Turk.  Cornelius,  Jr..  220. 

Jeronimus,  Jr.,  491. 
Turner,  243.  765. 

Bruce,  736. 

Caleb  Sutton.  727. 

Catharine.  692. 

Daniel,  636. 

E..  660. 

John  M..  666. 

Lawrence,  636. 

Margaret.  636. 

Martha.  571,  636. 

Mary.   636. 

Mary  D.,  752. 

Nancy  T..  743. 

Rebecca.  636. 
TuthiU.   Anna  Augusta,   481. 

J.   B.  T..  535. 

Hiram.  527. 
Tutor.  Jacob.  734. 
TutUe.  Catherine  A.,  555. 

Chester  D.,  444. 

H.  Croswell,  340. 
Tuynler,  Pleter,  823. 
Tweedle.  Mary,  479. 
Tyler,  Phineas.  734. 

William.  803. 
Tyson,  570. 


u 

Ubregt,   Peter,  824. 
Upton,  Eva  A.,  667. 

George.  661. 
IJptick.  WUllam,  791. 
Usille.  270.  797,  800. 

Adam,  200. 

Annetie.  200. 

Catherine.  200. 

Cornelia.  200. 

David.  49.  65,  104.  183,  186.  200. 

Elizabeth,  200. 

Engeltie,  200. 

Gertrude,  200. 

Helena.  200. 

Janneke,  200. 

John,  200. 

Maria.  200. 

Maria  Magdalen,  200. 

Peter,  104.  200. 

Sophia,  200. 


Vail,  Elizabeth,  649. 

George  P.,  474. 

Phebe,  647. 
Valentine,  643. 

Amanda,  492. 

Benjamin,  277. 

Dennis,  488. 


Valentine.  Elizabeth,  488. 

Isaac.  488. 

Jacob,  276. 

Jan  Tymensen,  204. 

Jane,  644. 

John.  278,  488. 

Matheas,  553. 

Matthias.  278. 

Sarah,  488. 

Smith.  609. 

Valentjm,  357. 
Vallandyham.  William  F.,  535. 
Van  Aemam.  Henry,  720. 

Hester.  719. 
van  Alst.  Joris  Stevens.  476. 
Van  Alst.  George,  454. 

Hannah,  706. 

Johannes,  809. 

Leah,  809. 
Van  Alstyne,  Lyman  (Lyslen),  689. 
Van  Antwerp,   Jacobus,   452. 

Simon.  486. 
van  Appeldorn.  Claes  Teunisz,  663. 
Van  Arnum,  William  H.,  733. 
Van  Arsdale.   Hendrick,  717. 

Jane.  663. 

Peter  (Dr.).  439. 

Peter  (Mrs.  Dr.),  802. 

Pletertle.  125. 

Sarah,  587. 
Van  Arsdalen,  Dlrck,  644. 

Simon  Jansen,  125. 
Van  Auken,  Prank  E..  663. 
Van  Beest,  Hendrick  Jansen,  269. 

Laurens,  259. 
Van  Beuren.  Hendrick,  788. 
Van  Blarcom,  Hannah,  711. 

Mary,  697. 

Rachel  J..  444. 

Sarah.  506. 
Van  Blarkum,  John,  386. 

Maria.  385. 
Van  Bommel,  Jan,  210. 
van   Bommel,   Jerome,   407. 
Van  Borsum.  Catharine,  428. 

Egbert.  428. 

Hermanus.  251. 
Van  Boskrk.  Laurens  Andrisz,  128. 
Van  Bramer.  365. 

Abraham.  488.  803. 

Hendrick.  355.  803.  804. 

Henry,  488.  803. 

Hester,  803. 

Jacob,  803. 

James.  803. 

Susan,  803. 

Thomas,  803. 
Van  Breemen,  802. 
Van  Bremen.  Jacob.  410. 

Thomas,  799. 
van  Brevoort.  Anna,  477. 

Hendrick  Jansen.  475. 

Jan  Hendricks,  95.  349,  353,  380,  403,  406, 
406.   412.  477.  816,  817. 

John  Hendricks.  694.  814.  817. 
Van  Brugge,  Johannes.  367. 
Van   Brugh.   Peter,  364. 
Van  Bunschoten,  Grletie.  259. 
Vanburen.   Catherine,  707. 
Van  Bus  kirk.  Andrles,  350. 

Benjamin.  350. 
Van  Bussin,  Margaret,  609. 
Van  Cleve,  665. 

Van  Cortland,  William  Rlcketto,  667. 
Van  Cortlandt.  343. 

Heer,   315. 

Jacobus,  315.  890. 

Stephen  (Colonel),  417. 
Van  Cott.  741. 
Van  Courtlandt.  Olof  Stevens,  316,  316. 


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van  Curler,  Arent.  384,  386. 
Van  Curler,  122,  129,  131. 

Arent,  142. 

Jacobus,  119,  132,  133. 

Jonkheer,  127,  131. 
Van  Dal f sen,  Jan,  600. 
Van  Dalsen,  Anna,  695,  697. 

Annetle,  600. 

Capt.  600. 

Oerritie.  561.  600. 

Jacob,  600. 

Jan,  699. 

Jan  (Capt),  99,  561,  697. 

Jan  Oerritsen  (Capt),  236,  408,  409,  699. 

Jannetie,   600. 

Johannes,  638. 

Lysbet,  600. 

Peter,  600. 

Teunis,  600,  697. 

Tryntle,   699,   600. 
Van  Dam,  Richard,  161. 

Rip  (Hon.),  809. 
Van    Delinde,  'Annatje    (Anna),    456. 
Vandenbergh,  Cornelius,  696. 

Folkert,  707. 

Nicholas,  708. 

Rachel,  708. 

Tryntle,  696. 
Vanden  Bogert,  Helena,  447. 
Van  Denburgh,  Catherine.  708. 
Vandenburgh,    Deborah,   70L 

Maria,  713. 

Richard,   803. 
Vandeen.  Maria.  441. 
Vanderbeck.  Conrad,  409,  788. 
Vanderbeeck,  Catallna,  156. 

Rem,  156. 
Vanderbeek,    Samuel,   443. 
VanderbiU,  Harry  W.,  771. 

Jacobus,  639. 

Jane  M.,  444.  446. 

Johannis,  451. 

John,  464. 

John  O.,  441. 

Letitia.   629. 

Mary  B.,  689. 

Sarah.  629. 
Van   Der  Bllt,    Hilletje,   437. 
Vanderburgh.  Hannah,  505,  512. 

John  M..  505. 
Vandercliff,  Dirck,  212. 
vander  Clyff,  Dlrck,  373. 
Vander  Donck,   110,  148,   256. 

Adrian   (Dr.),  147. 
Vander  Haan.   Derick,  546. 
Vander  hoof,  Catharine,  790. 

Cornells,  700. 

Cornelius,   500,  697. 
Vanderkempt,  27. 
Vanderlinde.   Roelof,  350,  357. 
Vandermeulen,  John  P.,  427. 
Vander  Myen,  Tileman  Jacobs,  375. 
Vanderpool.  Jacob,  728. 
Van  der  Poole,   William,  446. 
Vanderspiegel,   Elizabeth,   782. 

Lawrence,  782. 
Vanderstraaten,  Magdalena,  100. 
Van    Dervere,    Thomas,   517. 
Vandervin.   Hendrick  J.,  289,  290. 
Vander  VIn,  196,  277,  281,  283.  284.  286,  287, 
293.  300.  301.  302.  308.  312.  316.  320.  323, 
328.  333.  334.  351,  352.  358,  366,  392. 

H.  J.,  178. 

Heer.  198,  199. 

Hendrick,  337. 

Hendrick  F.,  221. 

Hendrick  J..  195,  199,  332.  344.  372,  795. 

Hendrick  Jansen,   93,   168.   269,   335,   393, 
692.  793. 

Wyntie   (Mrs.),   221. 


Vander  Vlucht,  Sarah,  393. 

Vander  Vonck,  679. 

Vandervoort,   Paulus  Michielse,   128. 

Vanderwal.   Celitie,  338. 

Vander  Werken,  Catherine,  410. 

Gerrit  Roelofs.  409. 

Roelof  Oerrits,  410. 
Van  Derwerken,  Elizabeth,  719. 

Oitty,  719. 
Van  der  Werken,  Margarita,  708. 
Vanderwerker,   Catherine,  732. 

Eleanor,  738. 
Van  Derzee,  Catherine,  718. 
Vanderzee,   Cornelia,  782. 
van  Deusen,   Elizabeth,   429. 

Teuwes   (Matthew),  429. 
Van  Deusen,  Arent,  707. 

Cornelius,  614. 

Hannah,  614. 

John,  501. 

Maria,  507,  514. 

Tryntle,  427. 
Vandeventer,  Abigail,  726. 
Van  Deventer,  Gertrude,  320. 

Maria,  393. 
Vandewater,  804. 

Benjamin.  606,  804. 

Harman,  804.  813. 

Hendrick,  893,  783. 

Jannetie.  429. 

Maria,  601. 

Mary,  393,  602. 

Orpha  J.,  659. 

Peter,  804. 
Van  Driessen,  Petrus  (Rev.),  364. 
Van  Duersen.  Isaac,  692. 
Van  Duyn,  Catrina,  680. 

Oerrit  356. 
Van   Dyck,   140. 

Corn  (Dr.),  156. 

Engeltie,  274. 

Hendrick,  256,  321. 

Hendrick  (Ensign),  140. 

Jan  Thomasz,  375. 

Lembert  Jansen,   128. 

Lydia,  221,  321. 

Martha,  430. 

Thomas,  274. 
Van  Dyke.  Allda,  468. 

Charles  D.,  664. 

Sarah,  464. 
Van  Etten,   Arie,  259. 
Van  Evera.  Myndert  Burger,  692. 
Van  Flaesbeek,  Barent,  783. 

Phebe.  783. 
Van   Fleet.   Elizabeth,  712. 

Maria,  712. 

Nelly,  712. 
Van   Gaasbeek,   Wllhelmus,   498. 
Van   Garden.    Heyltje.   668. 

Marritie.  259. 
Van  Gelder,  Jacobus,  847. 
Van  Giesen,  Anna  Maria,  220. 
Van  Oulck.  Jan,  242. 
Van  Harlingen,  812. 

Johannes  Martinus,  408. 

John  M.,  483. 
Van  Hattem,  ChrlstlMC  809. 
Van  Haughwout,  Leffert  Pietersen,  69S. 
Van  Heyningen.  Claes  Jansen,  263. 
Van  Hoesem,  Knoet  Mourisse,  240. 
Van  Hoesen,  429. 
van  Hoesen,  Volckert  427. 
Van  Hooghten,  Frans,  220. 

Lysbeth,  220. 
Van  Hoogvelt,  Lysbet,  132,  133. 
Van  Hoorn,  Annette,  360. 

Cornelius.  350. 

Johannes,  709. 

Joris  Jansen,  206,  S9S. 


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893 


Van  Hoorn,  StynUe,  205. 

Van  Horn,  John,  217,  431,  $99,  799,  826. 

Rachel,  449. 

Sarah  Cole.  454. 
Van  Home,  Anna  Maria,  161. 

Harriet,  687. 
Van  Hosen,  Mary,  806. 
Van  Houten,  Almena,  667. 

Cornelia,  144. 

Blizabeth,  437. 

Nicholas  B.  (M.  D.),  620. 

Petrus,  615. 

Roelof,  615. 

Rynier,  350. 

Tennis,  615. 
Van  Howenberg,  Jane  Catherine,  663. 
Van  Huyse.  Catallna,  545,  592. 

Dinah,  592. 

Eide,  478.  564.  692. 

Blizabeth.  564. 

Maria.  592. 

Rebecca,  591,  694. 

Sarah,  592. 

Tennis  Idens,  546. 

Theunis  Bidesse,  692. 

Theunis  Idens,  394,  691. 
Tan  Imbroch.  Blizabeth,  452. 

Gysbert  (Dr.),  452. 

Rachel   (Montanye),  462. 
Van  Imbroch,  200. 

Barbara,  786. 

Catherine,  785. 

Elizabeth,  785. 

Gysbert,  785. 

Gysbert  (Dr.),  786. 

Johannes,  786. 

John,  785. 

Lysbet,  200. 

Mary.  785. 

Rachel,  785. 

William,  785. 
Van  Imburgh,  Elizabeth,  69. 
Van  Inborgh,  Johannes.  292. 
Van   Isselsteyn,   Jan  Willems,   409. 

Jannetie,  409. 

Machtelt.  212. 

Mary.  409. 
Van  Iveren.  Judith,  806. 

Martin.  806. 
Van  Keulen.  133,  142,  148,  149,  150,  168. 

Coenraet.  131,  132,  139,  798. 

Conrad,  798. 

Matthys.  132. 

Matthys  Jans  en,  147,  149. 
Van  Keuren.  James,  510. 

Joshuah,  511. 

Lena.  511. 

Matheus,  498. 
Van  Kleek,  Barent,  447. 

Sarah,  447. 
Van  Kortright.  Hendrick  Jansen,  269. 
Van  Kortryk,  Bastiaen,  96. 

Jan.  96. 

Michiel,  96. 
Van  Laer,  Adrihn,  696. 

Aeltie,  696. 

Catherine.  428. 

Gerrit,  428. 
Van  Loon.  Nicholas,  620. 
Van  Luven,  Louisa,  658. 
Van  Mater.  Eliza,  749. 
Van  Middlesarth.  William,  691. 
Van  Naamen,  Samuel,  787. 
Van  Namen,  Anna,  303. 

Deliantle,  303. 

Bngelbert,  303. 

BSvert,  303. 

Jochem  Engelbert,  303. 

Johannes,  303. 


Van  Natta,  Stephen  G.  W.,  518. 
Van  Neck,  Secretary,  90. 
Van  Ness,  Evert,  645. 

Gertrude,  703. 

Jannetie,  701. 

Margaret.  692. 

Simon,  497. 
Van  Nest,  Ann,  490,  492. 

Johannes,  581. 

Maria,  782. 

Neeltje.  580. 

Peter.   257. 
Van  Noort,  Gooeen  Jansen,  96. 
Van  Norden,  Adam,  217. 

Andries,  350. 

T.  W.,  796. 
Van  Nostrand,  John,  650. 

Maria.  651.  803. 

Rosanna,  651. 
van  Oblenis,  John.  827,  828. 

Hendrick,  822,  823. 

Pieter,  817. 
Van  Oblenis.  John,  637. 

Joost,  635. 

Maria,  635. 
van  Oblienis,  Peter,  427,  428. 

Pieter,  412. 
Van  Oblienis,  John,  563,  603,  795,  810,  880. 

Joost,  698. 

Peter,  267,  345,  679,  693,  694,  622,  623,  624, 
696,  698,  699,  705,  808,  810,  811,  814,  817, 
821.  822.  825. 

Pieter.  403.  406.  408,  409. 
van  Oblinus,  Joose,  342. 

Joost.  264,  266,  271.  286,  287,  288,  289,  307, 
308,  309.  313,  320.  323,  328,  337,  838,  344, 
349,  352.  360,  362,  365,  377,  379,  380,  401, 
412,  414.  415.  424,  447. 

Peter,  360,  414.  415. 

Pieter,  342,   401. 
Van  Oblinus,  Hendrick,  393. 

Jan.  621. 

John,  393.  394.  643. 

Joost.  103.  198.  201.  221,  229,  230,  234.  239, 
240.  268.  269,  281.  282.  29rf.  301,  304,  315, 
333.  348.  372,  373,  403,  406,  407,  495,  593, 
598,  600,  623,  643.  697,  795,  796,  797,  816, 
817,   821. 

Joost.  Jr.,  221. 

Josyntie,  643. 

Peter.  64.  103.  230.  399,  495,  796.  818,  82L 

Pieter,  278.  322,  816. 

Sarah,  409. 
Van  Orden,  Andris,  626. 

Antje.  684. 

Caroline,  728. 

David.  627. 

Elizabeth,  627. 

John.  639. 
Van  Omum,  Philip,  723. 
Van  Pelt,  Hendrick,  375. 

Jannetie,  592. 

Thys,  592. 
Van  Putten,  Aert  Teunisz,  166. 

Annetie.  147. 

Jan  Aertsen,  147. 
van  Raasvelt,  Johan  (Heer),  358. 
Van  Raasvelt,  Anna.  600. 
Van  Ravenstein,  Catharine.  782. 

Gerrit,  782. 
Van  Rechteren,  Trjrntie,  93. 
Van  Rensselaer,  Kilian,  9L 

Patroon,  700. 
Van  Rommen,  Teuntie,  393. 
Van  Rossum,  164. 

van  Ruyven,  Cornells,  280,  319,  598. 
Van  Ruyven.  175,  178. 

Cornel  is   (Mrs.),  206. 

Cornelius,  178. 

Heer,  201. 


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Van  Schaack,  Adrlaen  Comellsz,  388. 
Van  Schaick,  429. 

Amanda,  749. 

Arie,  785. 

Belettie,  448.  449. 

Claessie.  448. 

Ooosen  Gerritse,  166. 

Ide,  698. 

Margaret,  785. 
Van  Scheyren,  682. 

Jannetie.   682. 

Pleter,  682. 
Van  Schoonhoven,  Margaret,  184. 
Van  Schoonrewoerd,  Jan  Louwe,  274,  293, 

303. 
van  Schroonrewoert,  Jan  Louw,  342. 

Jan  Louwe,  320.  337.  362.  t 

Jan  Louwerens.  306. 
Van  Scbunenburgh,  Jan,  166. 

Susannah,  166. 
Van  Slse,  Hannah,  707. 

William,  788. 
Van  Skaick,  Anthony.  370. 
Van  Slyck,  Cornells,  145. 

John,  729. 
Van  Slyke,   Hannah,  731. 
Van   Sooderwoer,   Jan.  275. 
Van  Steenburgh.  Margaret,  496. 
Van  Syckel,  Eva  Viola.  662. 
Van  Syse,  Judith.  452,  458. 
Van  Tassel,  Lena,  705. 

Maria,  695. 
Van  Tassell,  Abraham,  709. 
Van  Telckhuys,   Lambert,  198. 

Magdalena,  198. 
Van  Ternhem,  John,  428. 
Van  Tienhoven,  131,  132,  138,  140,  141,  144, 
149,  168. 

Cornells,  613. 

Harman,  428. 

Lucas  (Dr.).  428,  558. 
Van  Tilburg,  95. 

Abraham,  220. 

Barent.  220. 

Catherine.  220. 

Prans,  220. 

Geesie,   220. 

Isaac,  220. 

Jacob.  220. 

Jacob  (Capt.),  427. 

Jan,  220. 

Jan  Teunlsz,  240,  242,  249. 

Job..  205. 

Johannes,  220. 

John.  220. 

Margaret  (Consllyea),  448. 

Metje.   220. 

Peter,  219,  220. 

Petrus.  220. 

Tennis,   220. 
Van  Tlllburg.  Catherine,  449,  450. 
Van  tine,  Albert  H..  446. 
van  Tright,  Dirck  Gerrits,  384. 
Van  Tright,  385. 
Gerrit.  351. 

Van  Tuyl.  Andrles.  453. 
Van  Twlller,  127,  128,  129,  135,  235. 

Director,  126. 

Wouter,  119. 
Vanvalen,  Bernardus,  618. 

Daniel.  617. 
Van  Valen,  Abraham,  620. 

Maria,   456. 
Van  Valkenburgh,  Anna,  297. 

Elizabeth,  530. 

John  M.,  501. 

Lambert,  297. 
Van  Varick,  John,  790. 
Van  Vechten,  Jannetie,  295. 


Van  Vechten,  Michael,  296. 

Van  Veghten,  Peter,  720. 

Van  Vlack,  Lizzie,  659. 

Van  Vleck,  Isaac  (Capt.),  161,  642. 

Van  Vleckeren,  Jannetie,  681. 

Marinus   Roelofs,    581,   592. 

Mary,  410. 
Van   Vleckerens.   Jannetie,   580. 
Van  Vleeck,  Aeltie,  155. 

Anna,  155. 

Deborah,   155. 

Isaac.  276. 

Peter,  155. 

Tielman,  155. 
Van  Vleet,  Abraham,  581. 
Van  Vliet.  Catherine.  503. 
Van  Voorhees,  Jacobus,  697. 

Jannetie.  697. 

Rachel,  697. 
Van  Voorhis,  Eliza,  650. 
Van  Voorst,   Hester,  787. 

Jan  Gerrits  en,  692. 
Van  Vranken,  Margarita,  708. 

Maria,  437. 
Van  Vredenburgh,  John,  551. 

Maria,  259. 

William,  259. 
Van  Waggoner,  Catherine,  503. 
Van  Wagoner,   James,  460. 
Van  Wart.  Ann  Maria,  653. 

Elizabeth,  653. 

Emily,  731. 

Isaac,  101. 
Van  Weert,  Marten,  101. 
Van  Westerhout,  Adrlanus  Jansen,  597. 
Van  Whlcklen,  Lewis.  654. 
Van  Wickel.  Jacob  Walings,  125,  217. 

Marritle,  221,  350. 

Tryntle  Walings,   294. 
Van  Wie,  Hendrick,  70L 

Jane.  720. 
Van  Winckel,   Hendrick,  692. 
Van  Winkle,  126. 
Van  Winkle,  Antie.  783. 
Van  Woglum,   Peter  (Capt).  409. 
Van  Wormer,  Mary  Ann,  757. 
Van  Wort,  Catherine,  733. 
Van  Wyck,  Johannes,  564. 

Latetia.  156. 

Pierre  C     806 
Van  Wyke'  (Wyck),  Helena,  453. 
Van  Zandt.  Bernardus,  700. 

John,  566. 

Margaret,  444. 

Neeltie,  700. 
Varick.  Abraham,  69. 

John  J.,  732. 
Vaughan.  Glean  A..  749. 
Veeder,  John  H..  530. 
Veitch, Andrew  D.,  790. 
Velie,  Baiters  S.,  65L 
Vensel,  764. 

Verbnigge,   Johannes  Pletersen,   274. 
Verbryck.   William,   584. 
Verdon,  Thomas,  164,  785. 
Verduin,  Cornelia.  449. 
Verduyn.  Cornelius,  783. 

Elizabeth,  783. 
Verlet.  Nicholas,  782. 

Susannah,   782. 
Vermeille,  48.  105,  204,  221. 

Abram,   201,   202. 

Isaac.  104,  105,  201.  202,  203,  221,  266,  288, 
289,  297,  302,  320,  641. 

Jean,   104.  203. 

Marie,  105,   200,  221. 

Rachel,  104. 

Rebecca,  104. 
Vermelje,  343. 


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895 


VermeU^f  Johan,  377. 

Johannes,  266,  289,  308,  328,  338,  341.  343. 
349.  360,  365.  369,  371,  380,  393.  394,  401, 
403.  406.  412.  414.  415.  642,  817. 

Maria,  342.  349,  351.  373,  401,  406. 

Resalvert,  280. 
Vermeule.  393. 

Adr..  593. 

Adrain.  393. 

Adrian.  793. 
Vermilje,  Johannes.  271.  279,  287,  372,  373. 
Vermille,  Isaac,  293. 
Vermillla.  Josantia,  625. 
Vermilye,  220,  237.  251,  360,  500,  626. 

A.  G.  (Rev.),  104. 

Abel.  648. 

Abraham.  642,  643,  644,  645,  648,  649,  651, 
652.  655,  668.  675. 

Abraham  Augustus,  655,  664. 

Abraham  F.,  651,  661. 

Abram,  649.  658,  660,  668. 

Abram  A.,  673. 

Abram  Floyd.  670. 

Adaline  V..  666. 

Addison.  660. 

Adeline.  657.  665. 

Aeltie,  267.  499.  567,  643,  644,  827,  828,  829, 
830. 

Aeltje.  678. 

Aeltje  (Ally),  645. 

Agnes  Adaline,  666. 

Aletta,  645.  646,  650. 

Alfred,  670. 

Alice.  668. 

Allen  Bonnett,  678. 

Allen  George  Newman,  672,  678. 

AUie.  675. 

Alphonso  R.,  669. 

AlYin  Graff.  665. 

Amelia.  654. 

Amos  Jones,  656. 

Amy.  648. 

Andrew  Jackson.   654. 

Angelica,  667. 

Angeline.  657. 

Ann.  648.  655. 

Ann  Eliza.  666. 

Ann  Maria.  665. 

Anna.  645,  649.  654,  657,  661,  662,  674. 

Anna  E.,  664.  677. 

Anna  Josephine,  672. 

Anna  M.,   655. 

Anna  Romeyn,  660. 

Annie  B..  671. 

Annie  Ward.  662. 

Antie   (Anna),   644. 

Aribell  Jane.  655. 

Arthur  F..  671. 

Arthur  Lewis.  665. 

Arthur  Louis.  677. 

Arthur  Park,  678. 

Arvilla.  658. 

Asenath  Burr,  666. 

Ashbel  G..  677. 

Ashbel  G.    (Rev.).   661,  671. 

Aurelia  Abby,  665. 

Aurelia  Emily.  656. 

Aurelia  Emma.  666. 

Avery.  658,  667.  676. 

Banheba.  656. 

Barent,  664,  673. 

Barnabas.  658. 

Benjamin.  644.  645.  646.  649,  650,  651. 

Benjamin  F..  663.  671.  672. 

Benjamin  Franklin,  654,  663. 

Bessie.  671. 

Betsey.  650. 

Betsey  (Elizabeth),  648. 

Betsy.  646. 

Blanche,  676. 


Vermilye,  Blanche  R.,  669. 

Brooks,  651,  660. 

Burr.  666. 

Callie.  660. 

Carrie  B..  664. 

Catherine.  646.  650.  661,  655,  659,  660. 

Catherine  Ann,  649. 

Catherine  Matilda.  654. 

Charity,  652. 

Charles,  655,  659,  666,  668,  674. 

Charles  A.  Townsend,  662. 

Charles   Augustus   Morford,  66L 

Charles  B..  659,  669. 

Charles  Edward,  670. 

Charles  H.,  663.  675. 

Charles  Harbert,  667. 

Charles  W.,  668. 

Charlotte  Amelia,  656. 

Charlotte  Nelson,  654. 

Chester,  658,  677. 

Clara   B.,  663. 

Clarence  Edward,  677. 

Clarence  Oakley,  661,  671. 

Claude.   670. 

Claude   Kingdon.   665. 

Clinton  L,  668.  677. 

Constable.  288. 

Cora,  676. 

Cora  May.  674. 

Cornelia  L.,   671. 

Cornelia  R.,  669. 

Cornelia  Tompkins,  663. 

Cromwell,  659. 

Crucer  McRae,  669. 

Crumeline  Verplank.  651. 

Cynthia,  644.  645,  658. 

Cynthia  (or  Asenath),  651. 

Daisy  May,  670. 

Dale.  676. 

Daniel,  648.  655. 

Daniel  Babbitt,  662,  671,  672. 

Daniel  Irving,  675. 

David,  644.  646,  650.  655,  658,  676. 

David  M.,  667. 

Delight  Sweetser,  666. 

Delphine,  667. 

Dorothea,  651. 

Dupuyster   (Rev.),  660,  670. 

Earle.  676. 
I     Ebenezer,  653. 

Eddie  E..   663. 

Edgar.  671. 

Edgar  A.,  657,  667. 

Edith,  670. 

Edith  L.,  663. 

Edna.  665. 

Edward.  645.   649.   654,  656,  657,   666,   667. 
675. 

Edward  A..  673. 

Edward  Alexander,  665,  674. 

Edward.  Jr..  649,  656. 

Edward  Lyman.  656,  665. 

Edward  M..  669. 

Edward  Oviatt,  674. 

Edwin  L..  674.  678. 

Edwin  S..  671. 

Effle   May,   677. 

Ellff.   657. 

Elijah  Wentworth,  667,   675. 

Eliza.  649.  651. 

Eliza  Pell,  670. 

Elizabeth.  646.  649.  650.  653.  661,  671,  672. 

Elizabeth   (Betsey),  648. 

Elizabeth  Pauline,  670. 

Elizabeth  Rachel,  655. 

Ella,  667. 

Ella  M..  668. 

Ella  Virginia,   675. 

Elmer  J..  669. 

Elva,  673. 


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Vermilye,  Elvira,  667. 

Emily,  646,  665,  667,  668. 

Emily  Augusta,  661. 

Emma,  669,  676. 

Emma  Jane,  668. 

Emma  Southard,  672. 

Emmellne,  667. 

Ernest,  677,  678. 

Erskine  Rockwood,  663. 

Ethel.  674. 

Eugene.  664,  668,  669,  673,  677. 

Eugene,  Jr.,  677. 

Eulalia  E.,  668. 

Eunice  C,  666. 

Euretta,  662. 

Eva  O.,  677. 

Fanny,  676. 

Fanny  Jane,  666. 

Fay,  673. 

Florence,  671,  673. 

Florence  M.,  670. 

Forest  A.,  664. 

Forrest,  673. 

Frances,  648. 

Frances  D.,  676. 

Francis  Goodwin,  669,  677. 

Francis  H.,  663,  673. 

Frank,  666,  669.  671,  673. 

Frank  Bayles,  678. 

Frank  S.,  664,  673. 

Franklin  S..  669,  669. 

Fred,  666,  674. 

Frederick.  644,  646. 

Frederick  Montgomery,  671. 

George,  648,  649,  668,  667,  669,  673,  676, 
676. 

George  Albert,  666. 

George  F..  669. 

George  Gilbert,  677. 

George  H..  666,  661,  664,  67L 

George  Orton,  675. 

George  P.,  659,  669. 

George  P.,  Jr.,  669. 

George   S.,  664,   673. 

George  W..  659.  663,  667.  669,  676. 

George  Washington.  672. 

Gerardus,  644.  646.  647,  651,  669,  660,  670. 

Gerardus  (Garrit),  651, 

Gerritie  (Charity),  647. 

Gertrude.  664.  671.  674. 

Gideon  Townsend.  650,  659. 

Gilbert.  648.  650,  655,  656.  669,  669,  677. 

Gilbert  H..  658. 

Gladys.  676. 

Gladys  Belle,  670. 

Glen.  676. 

Goldie  G.,  669. 

Grace  B.,  674. 

Grace  P..  669. 

Grey,  673. 

Gussle,  663. 

Guy  Ellsworth,  674. 

Hannah.  643.  644,  650,  657,  658. 

Hannah.   Maria.  654. 

Hannah  Tompkins,  663. 

Harold,   676. 

Harold  E..  673. 

Harriet,  668. 

Harriet  M..  667. 

Harriet  Martin.  675. 

Harry  Lincoln,  675. 

Hattle  L..  669. 

Hazel,  670,  672. 

Helen.  658.  661.  667.  671. 

Helen   Ferguson,   677. 
Helen  Louisa.  665. 
Henriette,  665. 
Henry  Bonnett.  678. 
Henry  Fisher.  662.  672. 
Henry  G.,  664,  673. 


Vermllye,  Henry  Marcellus,  666,  665. 

Henry  Rowland.  671.  678. 

Herbert,  665,  671,  673. 

Herbert  Marshall,  678. 

Herbert  Noble,  672. 

Herbert  Scudder,  667,  675. 

Herschel.  678. 

Hester  (Mehitable),  644. 

Hetty,  646. 

Hetty  Ann,  666. 

Hiram,  676. 

Hobart  Potter,  662,  672. 

Hobart  Potter  (Jr.),  672. 

HoraUo  S.,  670.    • 

Howard,  664,  671.  673. 

Howard  Hill,  678. 

Ida  A..  669. 

Ina,  673. 

Ina  Elisabeth,  677. 

Ino,  660. 

IQO  Louise.  tfTO. 

Ira   A..   064. 

Irene  H*,  674. 

Irving,  6S0,  ^61,  670,  671.  676. 

Iiui,  m.  676, 

I  •"'".    22^.  237,  240,  242,  259,  265.  622, 

'4,  646.  646,  647,  650.  661.  66^ 
u.^,  u^,  uoU,   870,  788.   793,  799. 

Isaac  Dyckman.  646.  650,  663. 

Isaac  Dyckman  (Rev.).  663.  662. 

Isaac  G.,  646.  660. 

Isaac,  Jr..  670. 

Isaac  Sebring,  660.  656.  663. 

Isaac  v.,  669,  670. 

Isaac  Ward,  662. 

Isabella,  668. 
Jackson.  664. 

Jacob,  643,  644,  646.  66L 

Jacob  Dyckman,  652,  661. 

Jacob  Meyer.  647.  653. 

Jacobus,  647. 

Jacomina,  646. 

James,  647,  648,  649.  652.  664.  669. 

James  Hustls,  666. 

James  I.,  668. 

James  M.,  663. 

James  Martin,  664. 

Jane.  645,  646,  647,  660,  651.  652,  664.  665, 

660.  663,  664. 
Jane  Elinor,  656. 
Jane  Elisa.  654. 
Jane  M..  667. 
Jane  Rebecca,  662. 
Jean,  678. 
Jemima.   666. 
Jennie  T.,  671. 
Jenny,  648. 
Jerome.  660.  659. 
Jerome  C,  669. 
Jesse,  649,  657,  666,  676. 
Jesse  C.  668,  676. 
Jessie,  660,  664. 
Jessie  M..  674. 
Jessie  Maria,  666. 
Joanna.  647.  657,  665,  666. 
Johanna  Maria,  662. 
Joh.,   287. 
Johannf      :  '  .   -IT,  236.  237,  242,  286,  388. 

558,  641    N3J    iViSp  793,  816,  823. 
Johanne     h    l].i  ).  483,  600,  694. 
Johanne-      1^11  eh.  644. 
John,  2(-.  f'll,  044,  646,  646,  647,  649,  650, 
651,  6S\  ii".  656,  667,  668,  669.  660.  664. 
665.  66'    ^i7^.  ^ 

John  AIJ-  >.  6:>4. 
John  Cole,   6j6,  eS&. 
John  D..  650. 
John  De  Wint.  662. 
John  G..  646.  651.  669. 
John  Glfford.  665,  674. 


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897 


Vermilye,  John  Hoegland,  663,  662,  672. 
John  K.,  668,  676. 
John  Kipp.  6S1,  660. 
John   P.,  668. 
John  R.,  669,  677. 
John  Robert,  663. 
Jonn  W.,  667,  676. 
Jonathan,  649. 

Joseph,  644,  646,  660,  668,  668,  672,  676. 
Joseph  C,  664,  673. 
Joseph  Calder,  666,  064. 
Joseph  Clyde,  0(6. 
Joseph  Fenelon,  662. 
Joseph,  Jr.,  676. 
Josephine,  668. 
Joshua,  644,  646. 
Judson,  667. 
Julia,  662. 
Julia  A.,  662. 
Julia  Ann,  668. 
Julia  Augusta,  664. 
Kate,  060. 
Kate  Bstella,  670. 
Katharine  Holmes,  662. 
Katharine  Rowland,  677. 
Kathleen.  676. 
Larry,  660. 
Leland,  676. 
Leo,  676. 
Leona.  678. 
Lie  Roy,  668,  677. 
Le  Roy  S.,  677. 
Lester,  670. 
Letitla,  660. 
Levi  667. 

Lerwis  Chauncey,  66^ 
L«wis  M.,  664. 
Lilla  Marie,  676. 
Lillian,  673. 
Livingston,  648. 
Lizzie,  669. 
Lois  Cordelia,  676. 
Lois  S.,  670. 
Lonson,  667. 
Louisa,  661. 
Louise,  671. 
Louise  C,  662. 
Louise  B.,  669. 
Louise  Rowland,  678. 
Luca.  673. 
Lucinda.  666. 
Lucius,  669. 
Lucy  David,  660. 
Luella.  669. 
Lyman  R.,  666. 
Mabel,  663,  673,  676,  676. 
Macla  Alleine,  676. 
Maggie  B.,  676. 
Margaret,  646. 
Margaret  Blizabeth,  672. 
Margaret  Louise,  662. 
Maria,  346,  351,  642,  643,  647,  660,  661,  668, 

659,  660,  702,  710,  786. 
Maria  B.,  667. 
Maria  (Mrs.),   286. 
Maria  Rebecca,  654. 
Maria  Schenck,  666. 
MarietU,  666. 
Marion  Anne,  666. 
Marion  Hoagland,  662,  672. 
Maritie.  643,  644. 
Mark  Eldward,  676. 
Martha  Bvelyn,  676. 
Martha  Isadore,  676. 
Martha  J.,  670. 
Martha  Woodward,  656. 
Martin  Van  Beuren,  654. 
Mai7.  644.  645,  646.  648,  649,  661,  654,  655, 
656,  667,  668.  660,  661,  664,  667,  668,  672. 
Mary  Ann,  652. 


Vermilye,  Mary  Anna,  662. 
Mary  Anthony,  061. 
Mary  C,  665. 
Mary  Caroline,  662. 
Mary  Case,  670. 
Mary  Catherine,  666. 
Mary  Edith,   675. 
Mary  Blizabeth,  654,  660. 
Mary  Prances,  666. 
Mary  Helen,  668. 
Mary  Hoagland,  668. 
Mary  Ida.  664. 
Mary  Jane,  660. 
Mary  Josephine,  662. 
Mary  K.,  659. 
Mary  Kate,  677. 
Mary  (Polly),  645,  648. 
Mary  V..  664. 
Maude,  675. 
Maude  M.,  673. 
Maurice,  673. 
Meade,  676. 

Mehitabel,  644.  646,  649,  666,  668. 
Melissa,  667,  667. 
Mercy.  668. 
Michael,  647,  652. 
Mildred,  670,  676. 
Millard,  671. 
Millard  O..  669. 
Millicent,  648. 
Milton  Edward,  675. 
Minerva,  676. 
Minnie,  660. 
Mortimore,  669. 
Nancy,  644,  660. 
Nathaniel  D.,  663. 
Nathaniel  Drake.  647,  664. 
Nathaniel  Drake,  Jr.,  664. 
Nettie  M.,  664. 
Noah  D.,  657,  666. 
Norman  Loutrell,  678. 
Norman  Sherwood,  678. 
Olivia  S..  667. 
Ora.  674. 
Orilla  v.,  675. 

Orville,  657,  666,  668,  676.  « 

Orvls,  676. 
Oscar,  660,  670,  673. 
Oscar  Valentine.  670. 
Patience,  644.  650.  658,  668. 
Paul,  659,  670,  676. 
Percy  Sherwood,  678. 
Persis  Malvina,  674. 
Peter,  643,  646,  648,  654,  656. 
Peter  Bonnett,  563,  663,  672,  678. 
Peter  I.,  661.  659. 
Petty  (Martha),  648. 
Phebe,  656,  657,  658. 
Phebe  Burr,  666. 
Phebe  Catherine,  660. 
Phebe  Blizabeth,  668. 
Philip,  645,  647,  648,  654,  656. 
Phoebe,  649. 
Phoebe  Elizabeth.  669. 
Piatt  Bassett,  644. 
Polly.   648. 
R.  Willard.  667.  675. 
Rachel.  237,  642.  643.  644,  666,  675,  786. 
Rachel  Elizabeth,  655. 
Ralph,  673. 

Ralph  Schenck,  655.  664. 
Rebecca,  483,  642.  643,  644,  646,  646,  647, 

653. 
Rebecca  Jane,  651. 
Rena.  677. 
Reuben,  668,  676. 
Richard,  651.  654. 
Richard  Jewell,  656. 
Robert.  647,  673.  674,  677. 
Robert  C.  Halsey,  662,  672. 


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Vermllye,  Robert  David  Burr,  874. 

Robert  Davis  Burr,  685. 

Robert  George,  652. 

Robert  Montgomery,  66L 

Robert  Wright,  666.  665,  674. 

Robertanna,  653. 

Rosanna  Martha,  670. 

Roy,  671.  677. 

Roy  Blbert,  677. 

Roy  M..  669. 

Rufua  Franklin,  670. 

Russel  S.,  663. 

RuBsell  L.,  673. 

Ruth  May.  677. 

Sally  (Sarah),  648. 

Samuel,  649,  657,  672. 

Samuel  E.,  668,  676. 

Sarah,  600,  643.  644,  645,  648,  649,  661.  6C5, 
657,  711. 

Sarah  A..  650.  663. 

Sarah  Ann,  654. 

Sarah  Emma,  660. 

Sarah  Hatch,  663. 

Sarah  Hester.  656. 

Sarah  L..  659. 

Sarah  Lavlnia,  654. 

Sarah  Maria.  665. 

Sarah  Newman,  672. 

Sarahette  P.,  668. 

Sennai.  646. 

Seth.  676. 

Sherwood,  677. 

Silas,  676. 

Slye,  673. 

Solomon,  648.  649.  657,  658.  666.  667. 

Solomon  Earle,  675. 

Solomon,  Jr.,  667. 

Solomon  Walter,  674. 

Susan,  645.  647.  651.  652,  658. 

Susan  Adelaide,  674. 

Susan  Elizabeth.  659. 

Susannah  Maria,  647. 

Sybil.  678. 

Sylvester.  659.  669. 

Sylvester  P.,  669. 

The^ore.  663. 

Theodore  Chardavoyne,  658.  668.  672. 

Thomas,  645. 

Thomas  B..  647,  653. 

Thomas  Bean,  662. 

Thomas  E..  661. 

Thomas  Edward.  663.  662,  671,   677. 

Thomas  Edward   (Rev.).  652.  661. 

Thomas  M.,  663. 

Turney,  658. 

Valentine  Mott  (Dr.).  651.  660. 

Vera.  676. 

Verdine,  670. 
,   Vernon  Lester,  670. 

Victor  v.,  674. 

Wallace  P.,  678. 

Walter,  660. 

Walter  Ortis,  670. 

Walton,  648. 

Washington  Roroeyn,  652.  661. 

Wesley  Floyd,  677. 

Willard  Martin,  675. 

William,  645,  647,  648.  649,  652.   653.  654. 
656,  657.  658.  663.  666,  672,  674. 

William  Burr.  666.  674. 

William  D.,  657,  666. 

William  E.,  661.  663.  671.  673. 

William  Edward,  661,  671. 

William  Francis,  665,  674. 

William  Gerard,  661,  671. 

William  Gerard.   Jr.,  677. 

William  Gray  (Dr.),  662,  672. 

William  Henry,  653,  654,  662,  665,  674. 

William  I.,  670. 

William  Montgomery,  652,  661. 


Vermllye,  William  Moorehead,  671. 

WUliam  Pierce.  654. 

William  Ray.  675. 

William  Russell,  671. 

William  W.,  647.  652. 

Willie,  673. 

Wright.  666,   674.   676.  678. 
Vermllye  &  Co.,  652. 
Vermilyea.  483. 

Callie,  660. 

Irving,  660. 

Jacob,  552. 

John,  549. 

Rebecca,  648. 
Vermilyie,  Joseph.  627. 
Vermuele,  Adrian,  ^^i.  406. 

Cornelius  C.  408. 
Verniele.  Isaaco,  105. 
Vernoy,  Celeste,  494. 

Cornelius,  494. 
Verplanck.  Abraham,  1(0., 

Abram  Isaacs,  696. 

Gulian,  367. 

Gulian  C.  613. 

Hillegond,  696. 

ousanna.  101. 
Verrazzano.  11. 
Verren,  Dr.,  335. 
Verschuur.  Lysbeth.  212. 
Verveelen.   93,   212.   221,   222,   240,   243.   245, 
248,  249.  267,  297.  298,  308,  811,  326,  ZX, 
332,  333,  345.  370,  425,  800. 

Abraham.  682.  683.  684.  685.  688. 

Abraham  Myers.  687,  689. 

Abram,  683. 

Alida,  681,  682.  683. 

Alvln.  691. 

Andrew,  684. 

Andrew,  Jr.,  690. 

Andrias,  686. 

Andries.  688. 

Ann  Maria.  688. 

Anna.  96,  212,  221,  698.  680. 

Anna  E.,  690. 

Anna  M..  347. 

Anna  Maria.  681. 

Annaatje.  685. 

Annatie,  685. 

Annie,  687. 

Archie,  690. 

Arle,  685. 

Arthur,  690. 

Barnardus.  686,  687. 

Barney.  686. 

Benjamin,  684. 

Bemardus,  497,  600,  681.  682.  684. 

Bessie  Adelaide.  69L 

Carrie,  690. 

Carrie  J.,  688. 

Catelyntie,   687. 

Catharina,  95. 

Catharine,  684. 

Catherine,  689. 

Cathlynte.  685. 

Catrina.  678,  685. 

Charles  Banta,  690,  691. 

Clarence,  691. 

Claude,  691. 

Cloudle  (Claude),  682. 

Cornelia,  682. 

Cornelius.  683.  684,  686.  687,  688.  690.  691. 

Daniel,  95.  241,  242,  377,  598.  680,  681,  682, 
683,  685,  686,  687.  688,  689,  690. 

Daniel  A.,  683,  685. 

Deacon,  377. 

Debora,  683. 

Dlrkie,  684. 

Edward  Sand  ford.  691. 

Edwin  L.,  690,  691. 

Eleanor,  685. 


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899 


Verveelen.  Bllia  J..  688. 

Elizabeth.  683,  684.  686.  686.  687. 

Ella  L..  688. 

Emma  B..  689. 

Eugene,  690. 

Eugenia  A..  691. 

Euphemia.  689. 

Fannie,  687. 

Fanny  R.,  691. 

Francyntie,  683. 

Frederick  M.,  689. 

Fredericus,  682. 

Garrett  A..  689. 

Oeertye,  683. 

George,  690. 

George  W.,  690. 

Gerrit,  685. 

Gideon.  600,  681,  682,  683.  685. 

Grace,  690. 

Hannah.  683,  688. 

Hannah  Jane,  688. 

Hans,  95,  273,  678. 

Helen,  69L 

Hendrick,  276,  681,  686»  686.  687. 

HenrietU,  690. 

Henry,  618,  684. 

Hester,  681,  682,  688. 

Howard  W.,  690. 

Isaac.  682,  683,  684,  685.  686,  687,  689. 

J.,   287. 

Jacob.  685,  687,  688. 

Jacobus,  682,  683.  684,  686. 

James.  684,  686,  687. 

James  Harvey,  689.  690. 

James  M.,  689. 

James  M.  (Judge),  688. 

Jan,  683. 

Jan   (John),  682,  683,  684,  686. 

Jane.  688. 

Jane  Elizabeth,  689,  690. 

Jane  Gilbert,  687. 

Jannetie,  684. 

Jannetje,  684,  685. 

Jannetje  (Jane),  686. 

Jannetye,  684.   . 

Jenny  (uane),  687. 

Jeremiah,  683. 

Joannes,  373. 

Johan,  171.  296. 

Johanes,  221. 

Johanna.  681.  682. 

Johannes,  95.  204.  206.  208.  210,  211.  217. 
228.  233.  234.  237,  239,  240,  241,  253,  254, 
255,  256,  264,  266.  271,  272,  273.  275.  277, 
283.  286,  287,  288,  289,  306,  333,  338,  341. 
342.  346.  363,  376.  397,  401.  413,  415,  416, 
597,  598,  678,  680.  681,  682,  683,  684,  786, 
793.  795,  797,  799,  800.  807. 

Johannis,   686,  687. 

John,  244.  413,  683,  685,  687,  689. 

John  Gilbert,  687. 

John  I.,  686.  688. 

John  J..  688. 

John  K..  690.  691. 

Joseph  Randall,  688,  690,  691. 

Josephine.  69L 

Leah.   687. 

Lizabeth  (Elizabeth),  685. 

Lybetie  (Elizabeth),  682. 

Margaret,  686,  689. 

Margaret  Ann.  689. 

Margaret  (Polly).  686. 

Maria.  95,  273,  597,  599,  680,  683,  686.  686. 
687,  799. 

Marritie,  681. 

Marritye,  686. 

Martha.  686. 

Mary,  685.  689. 

Mary  Jane.  689. 

Matilda,  690.  691. 


Verveelen,  Maud  W..  691. 

Morris  Bartow,  690,  691. 

Morris  Bartow,   Jr.,   691. 

Moses,  681,  682.  683.  685. 

Mr.,  207. 

Nancy.  689. 

Nathaniel,  690.  69L 

Peter,  690.      . 

Phebe.  686. 

Phoebe  Jane,  689. 

Rachel,  685. 

Rachel  Hannah,  687. 

Ralph.  688. 

Raymond  S.,  689. 

Richard,  689,  690. 

Richard,  Jr.,  690. 

Samuel,  687. 

Sara,  684.  686. 

Sarah,   685,  686.  688. 

Sarah  A.,  688. 

Sarah  Elizabeth.  688. 

Sieur,  218. 

Teitye,  686. 

Tietje,  683. 

Tittye,  683. 

Titye.  684. 

Victor.  691. 

Victoria,  691. 

William,  689,  690.  691. 

William  Christie,  687. 

William  Henry.  690. 

William  Randall.  690. 
Verwey,  John,  697. 

Martina  Hendricks,  69. 
Viele,  Gornelis,  546. 

Jannetie,  545. 

Stephen,  738. 

Stephen  H.,  736. 
Vteley,  William,  734. 
Viervant,  Cornelia,  388. 

Cornells,  196,  275. 

Cornells  A.,  249. 

Cornells  Arents,  388. 
Vincent,  Anna,  379. 

Charles,  643. 

John,  379. 

Leonard,  265. 

Levi.  424. 

Warren  R.,  538. 
Vine.  Robert,  737. 
VInge,  Gulian,  613. 
-   John,  613. 

Rachel,  613. 
Vinhaegen.  Eva,  700. 

John.  700. 
Virginia  Company,  The,  81.  88. 
Vlereborne,  584. 
Vlierboom.  Fytie  (Sophia).  448. 

Matthys,  448. 
Voik.   Rachel.  683. 
Voelkertsen,  Dirck,  613. 
Vonck,  Gertrude,  789. 

Pieter,  449. 
Vonder  Bosch,  Oscar  Waldemar.  664. 
Vender  Donck.  163. 
von  Feder.  Herr,  13. 
Voorhees.  Jacob,  616. 

Jane  R..  589. 

Maria.  587. 

Mary.  774. 
Voorhis.   Elizabeth,  732. 

Mr.,   417. 
Vosburgh,   Alida,   506. 

Charlotte,  750. 
Vought,  Pell  C,  553. 
Vredenal.  169. 
Vredenburgh.  Benjamin.  436.  438. 

Isaac.  789. 

Johannes.  786. 

John,  704. 


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INDEX. 


Vredenburgh,  Matthias.  436. 

Van  Doren,  700. 

Van  Dorn,  700. 
Vredendal,  786. 
Vroman,  Mary,  737. 
Vroom,   Qysbert  B.,   612. 
Vrooman,  Adam,  128. 

Engeltie,  200. 


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Waddell.  Hugh.  735. 
Wade.  Blisa.  638. 
WagsUfT.  408,   41S. 
Wait.  Florence.  677. 
Wakefield.  Anna,  410. 

Johanna  (Anna),  803. 

M?^r«i,  697. 

■i'noDmi^,    4tn, 
WalcemaD^   Burr,   *S4. 

Waldron,  &3.  172.  tXS,  218.  219.  221.  228.  231. 
249,  'JSin,  268,  276.  315.  317.  818.  324.  862. 
aS3,  4S5.  454,  797.  807,  824. 

Aaroa.  730,  738,  748.  752,  766.  770. 

Abby  EmeLlne,  73S. 

Ablathe?.  708,  720. 

Abienll  fMary  AJ.  762. 

Abfuhom.  im,  71*>.  7U.  718.  721.  723.  724. 
729.  732,  733,  734,  742.  747,  763.  764,  766. 
?62,  TiZ. 

Abraham  B.,  747. 

Abraham  Buckhout  788. 

Abraham  C,  738.  758. 

Abraham  Godwin.  727. 

Abram.  719,  733. 

Abram  D..  753. 

Ada.  748.  773. 

Ada  L.,  770. 

Ada  Malinda.  764. 

Addle.  772. 

Adelbert  S..  756. 

Adolph,  704,  705.  713.  714.  727. 

Adolphus.  728. 

Adrian,  711. 

Adrian   (Edward).  703. 

Aeffle,  707,  718. 

Aefle,  676.  704. 

Aeltie,  642,  694. 

Aeltje.  721. 

Aggie.  704.  705. 

Agnes,  769. 

Agnes  Q.,  757.  773. 

Agnes  M.,  763. 

Agnietie.  703. 

Aileen   Elizabeth.   778. 

Albartus.  709,  720. 

Albert,  711,  759,  769.  775. 

Albert  (Rev.).  756,  772. 

Albert  Edwin.  772.  778. 

Albert  P.,  771. 

Albert  M.,  739. 

Albert  V.,  775. 

Aleta  MaHa.  729. 

Aletta.  716,  730. 

Alexander.  744,  762. 

Alexander   (Judge).   724. 

Alexander  M..  746. 

Alexander  Minty,   774. 

Alexander  P.,  746. 

Alexander  Phoenix.  713,  727. 

Alice   G..   759. 

Alice  Kilburn,  766. 

Alice  M.,  771,  776. 

Alice  Mary,  772. 

Alida,  735.  736.  737.  742.  756. 

Alida  A.,  754. 

Alidan.   735. 

Alletie  Swarthout.  716. 

Almeada.  760. 


Waldron.  Almerln  John.  763. 

Almira.  721. 

Amanda.  728,  738.  759. 

Amelia.  717.  734. 

Amy.  721. 

Amy  M..  739. 

Andreas.  709. 

Andres  James.  761. 

Andrew.  760. 

Andrew  (Andress).  741. 

Andrew  Jackson.  740,  768. 

Andrew  S.,  773. 

Angelina.  763. 

Ann.  739. 

Ann  ATonia  Eliza.  747. 

Ann  Catherine.  716. 

Ann  Elisabeth.  763.  773. 

Ann  Jane.  758. 

Anna,  692.  703,  707,  710.  714, 
723.  725.  730.  741.  743,  746, 
759.  768.  776. 

Anna  Elfrida,  728. 

Anna  P..  775. 

Anna  H..  726. 

Anna  L..  769. 

Anna  Maria.  736.  755. 

Anna  Mariah    .Anne).  730. 

Anna  Rebecca,  716. 

Annatie   (Hannah).  719. 

Annatie  Ten  Eyck,  733. 

Annatje,  497. 

Anne.  706. 

Anneke,  499. 

Annetie.  692.  697,  787. 

Annetje,  715. 

Annetta.  778. 

Annie.  745.  765. 

Annie  Lockwood.  768. 

Annie  Louise.  761. 

Antie,  604. 

Antie  (Anna).  711. 

Antje  (Anna).  714.  718.  721. 

Arthur.  761,  765.  766.  777. 

Arthur  K..  773.  778. 

Arthur  Raymond.  777. 

Arthur  W..  769. 

Asa,  752. 

Asa  H..  750,  768. 

Asenath.  739. 

Augustine  W..  762.  770. 

Augustus  Henry.   747. 

Aurelia,  766. 

Barent.  93.  273.  303.  309,  316, 
342.  366.  368.  372.  380.  389, 
405.  406.  407.  412.  414.  416, 
594,  600.  602.  623.  695.  696, 
721.  733.  793,  808.  8U.  814. 
823.  824,  826.  827.  828.  829, 

Barent  (Mrs.).  212. 

Barent  T..  751.  769. 

Belitie.  497.  696. 

Belle  (Eliza  B.),  763. 

Benjamin,  600.  582.  616.  692. 
705,  706,  707.  711.  714,  716, 
731,  736.  746.  749,  766,  766, 
808. 

Benjamin  A.,  716.  728. 

Benjamin  H..  766. 

Bersheba.  740. 

Bertha.  761. 

Bertha  Angeline.  760. 

Bertha  Louise.  767. 

Bertram  A..  747. 

Bessie,  775. 

Betsey,  708,  721.  730,  739. 

Blanche  L.,  776. 

Blanche  M..  777. 

Bonnie  A.,  775. 

Brandon,  749. 

Brant  Schuyler.  746. 


716.  716,  717, 
747,  749,  76Q, 


320.  329,  332, 

894.  401.  403, 

430,  482.  592. 

697,  701,  709, 

816.  817,  821. 
830. 


693,  689.  TOO, 
717,  718.  719. 
760,  766,  772, 


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901 


WaJdron,  Burt,  772. 
Calvin  723,  741,  760,  761. 
Calvin,  Jr.,  76L 
Calvin  M..  754.  771. 
Carl,  775. 

Carolln  Amanda,  729. 
Caroline,  731,  i35,  738,  746.  760. 
Caroline  Dorothea,  767. 
Caroline  B.,  767. 
Caroline  L.,  766. 
Carrie,  774. 
Carrie  A.,  773. 
Carrie  May,  773. 
Carroll  Edgar,  766. 
Carroll  Edmond,  777. 
Carroll  Scott,  747.  766,  767. 
Catalina,  707,  500. 
Catharlna,  704. 
Catharine,  453,  692,  713,  742. 
Catherina.  709. 
Catherine,  697,  701,  702,  708.  711.  712.  713, 

714,  717,  726,  727,  728,  731,  733,  734.  736. 

740,  746,  750,  753,  756.  758.  778. 
Catherine   (Cata).  733. 
Catherine  (Catlyna).  703. 
Catherine  A.,  774. 
Catherine  Banker,  737. 
Catherine  Hannah,  724. 
Catherine  Louisa,  749. 
Catherine  P.,  727. 
Catherine  R..  761. 
Catriena,  726. 
Caty,  721. 
Cella  A.,  769. 
Celia  Alberta,  772. 
Charlt^    720. 
Charity  G.,  745. 
Charles,  731,  732,  741,  742,  754.   758,  760, 

761,  775,  776. 
Charlee  A.,  747,  748,  767. 
Charles  Alfred,  756. 
Charles  B.,  744.  764. 
Charles   D.,   757. 
Charles  B..  751,  759,  772. 
Charles  Elmer,  766. 
Charles  P.,  773. 
Charles  Francis.  757. 
Charles  G..  741. 
Charles  H.,  749,  768. 
Charles  L.,  769. 
Charles  Lott,  731,  749. 
Charles  M.,  762. 
Charles  Newman,  774. 
Charles  Newman  (Rev.),  737,  739,  757. 
Charles  P.,  775. 
Charles  Pitman,  742.  761. 
Charles   Richard,   749. 
Charles  S.,  773. 
Charles  W.,   771. 
Charles  Waterman,  757. 
Charlotte,  726,  742,  772. 
Charlotte  Ann,  758. 
Charlotte  P.,  749. 
Chester  E.,  769. 
Christina.  720.  763. 
Christopher,   692. 
Clara,  748,   760.  761,  771.  775. 
Clara  May,  767. 
Clare,  772. 
Clarence,  761. 
Clarence  H.,  766. 
Clarence  R.,  768,  772,  777. 
Clarissa  Bell.  768. 
Clark,  745. 
Clark  J.,  741. 
Claud  Ernest,  760. 
Clayton,  759. 
Clement,  778. 
Clyde  Chester,  777. 
Constantine  D.,  762. 


WaJdron.  Cora  E..  748. 
Cora  L..  776. 
Cora  M.,  774. 
Cora  May.  759. 
Coral  ine,  753. 
Corbet  Scudder,  743. 
Cornelia,  304.  622,  692,  693,  695.  698,  701, 

702,  704,  705.  707,   a6,  718.  727,  751.  783. 
Cornelia  (Catherine).  706. 
Cornelia  J.,  754. 
Cornelia  S.,  741. 
Cornells,  718. 
Cornelius,  701,  708.  719,  732,  735.  736.  737, 

743,  747,  754,  755,  757,  758,  759. 
Cornelius  A.,  750. 
Cornelius  Abraham,  760,  768. 
Cornelius  E..  737. 
Cornelius  G..  719.  733.  751. 
Cornelius  J.,  757,  773. 
Cornelius  L.,  693. 
Cornelius  W.,   720,  738. 
Daniel.  692.  693,  725.  735.  739.  743.  752.  754, 

758. 
Davi'd,  696,  704.  705,  709,  714,  721,  726.  728, 

736,  739,  743,  746,  756,  802. 
David  C,  745,  775. 
David  Henry,  777. 
David  J.,  760,  775. 
David  K.,  775. 
David  M.,  744,  764. 
David  Sterling.  767,  777. 
Dean,  771. 
Debora,  762. 

Deborah,  692,  701.  709,  711.  724. 
Delia,  754. 
Delia,   768. 

Derlck  (Richard).  712.  725. 
Dona  B.,  775. 
Dorcas,   762. 
Dorla,  776. 
Dorothy  I..  767. 
Douglas  Durand.  777. 
Earle  Edward,  777. 
Ebenezer  B.,  734,  752. 
Eddie  Oliver,  764. 
Edgar  Milton.  763.  776. 
Edgar  N.,  747. 
Edith,  760,  768,  776. 
Edith   (Eyckie),  751. 
Edith  Prances,  777. 
Edith  M.,  728. 
Edna  D.,  767. 
Edna  Gertrude,  777. 
Edna  J.,  755. 
Edna  Pamella,  772. 
Edward,  711.  723.   729,  731,   741,  742.  745, 

746,  752.  765,  759,  760,  765,  770. 
Edward  A.,  748,  765,  767. 
Eklward  Augustus,  738.  758. 
Edward  Bloomfleld.  731.  749. 
Edward  H.,  715.  741. 
Edward  L.,  774. 
Edward  Langdon,  766. 
Edward  Lincoln.  761. 
Edwin.  756,  772. 
Edwin  D.,  775. 
Effle  Mary,  762. 
Effye,  714. 
Efje,  713. 
Eleanor,  734. 
Eleanor  Ann,  751. 
Ellas.  742. 
Ellas  Hawley,  735. 
Elisha,  726. 

Eliza,   714.   723,  732,  734,   762,  766. 
Eliza  Jane,  758,  773. 
Elizabeth,  699,  700,  703,  706,  707,  711,  712. 

713,  714,  715,  717,  718,  722,  724,  725,  726, 

727.  728,  731,  732,  733,  734.  737,  738,  744. 

745,  746,  747.  752.  756,  757,  758,  766.  768, 


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Wfildroa,  Baixabeth,  770,  771,  773. 
BllzabethC  Sarah  B.),  741. 
Elizabeth  A.,  769. 
Bllzabeth  Ann.  760.  761. 
Bllzabeth  Eglentlne,  729. 
Blizabeth  Maria,   718. 
Ella,  742,  760,  772.  773. 
Ella  M.,  763. 
Ellen,  727.  745.  761. 
Ellen  M.,  769. 
Elmer.  760. 
Elshe,  736. 
Elsie,  713.  732. 
Elsie  Ann.  761. 
Elzie  Elmer.  764. 
Ely.  710. 
Fanny.  736. 
Fanny  C,  750. 
Fanny  M.,  770. 
Femmetye,  702,  721. 
Feytye  (Sophia),  720. 
Florence.  760,  761,  765. 
Florence  Mortimer,  766. 
Florilla,  720. 
Florissa,  762. 
Frances,  743. 
Frances  A.,  736. 
Frances  H.,  753. 
Frances  M.,  770. 

Francis,  699.   703,  712,  713,  717.  726,  752, 
•    765,  771,  773. 
Francis  M.,  739. 
Francis  P.,  740. 
Francis  Story.  739. 
Frank.  763,  771,  777. 
Frank  C,  773. 
Frank  E.,  762,  774,  776,  778. 
Frank  Rogers,  773. 
Frank  W.,  776. 
Franklin  T.,  753. 
Frederick,  759,  770. 
Frederick  H.,  753,  771. 
Frederick  H..  Jr.,  771. 
Frederick  Rice  (Dr.),  774. 
Frederick  V.,  764. 
Frederick  Van  Iderstlne,  768,  777. 
Fredlne,  748. 
Friend  Alford,  764. 
Gabriel le,  763. 
Gail   King.   774. 
Garret,  708,  719,  735,  753. 
Garret  C.  733,  751. 
Garret  P.,  733,  761. 
Garrett.  734. 
Garrett  C,  757.  772. 
Garvin  B.,  776. 
Geertje,  708. 
Geesje   711. 
George,   702,   710.   722.   728,   730,   741.   745, 

758,  769,  770,  771,  775,  778. 
George  (Dr.),  756,  772. 
George  Albert,  771.  772. 
George  C,  776. 
George  E.,  768. 
George  G.,  774. 
George  Gilbert.  753,  771. 
George  H..   770,  774. 
George  Leon.  771. 
George  M.,  757,  769. 
George  Marlon,  750,  769. 
George  R.,  735,  753. 
George  Remer.   771. 
George   S.,   773. 
George  Sylvester,  752,  770. 
George  W.,  740.  744,  749,  753,  763.  765.  776. 
George  W.,  Jr.,  765. 
George  Washington.  732,  750. 
Georgian  a,  759. 
Georgie  S..  738. 


Waldron,  Georgie  Story,  739. 
Geresolveert,  356,  367,  368,  359. 
Gerrit,  701,  708,  719,  737.  782. 
Gertrude,  703,  714,  718.  720.  722.  728.  746. 

76t. 
Getty  B.  (Gertrude),  734. 
Gilbert  Travis,  766. 
Gisebert,  719.  734. 
Gladys  Katherine.  778. 
Grace,  772. 
Grace  A.,  767. 
Grace  E.,  767,  770.  771. 
Grove  Bend.  716. 
Guy,  759,  769. 
Guy  E.,  776. 
Halsey.  761,  769. 
Halsey  J.,  769. 
Hannah,  708.   712.   716.   722.  723.  724  726, 

732.  783. 
Hannah  (Annatle),  720. 
Hannah  Jane.  762. 
Hannah  M.  P.,  746. 
Hannah  Marie  Phenix,  727. 
Harmen  M.,  727. 
Harmon,  736,  766. 
Harmon   Knickerbocker,   738,   768. 
Harold.  771. 
Harriet,  766,  766. 
Harriet  A.,  756. 
Harriet  Augusta.  747. 
Harriet  E..  736.  763. 
Harriet  L.,  774. 
Harriet  Lansing,   750. 
Harriet  W.,  742. 
Harrison,  723.  724.  742. 
Harrison  Johnson,  751. 
Harry  P.,  771. 
Harvey,  754,  768.  772. 
Hattle  Dale.  764. 
Hazel,  776. 
Helen,  766,  775.  777. 
Helen  A.,   755. 
Helen  M..  754. 
Helen  Margaret.  778. 
Helen  W.,  773. 
Helena,  709,  761. 
Hendrick,  696.  701.  708,  719. 
Hendrick  (Capt.),  708. 
Hendrick  E.,  729. 
Henrietta,  769. 
HenrietU  (Hendrlchye).  720. 
Henrietta  Beatie,  750. 
Henrikus,  710. 
Henry,  720,  723,  734,  736.  737.  742,  751.  762. 

755.  757.  776. 
Henry  (Hudson),  736,  756. 
Henry  A.,  763,  776. 
Henry  Adams  (Dr.),  767. 
Henry  C.  737,  749. 
Henry  D..  729. 
Henry  E..  737,  748,  750.  769. 
Henry  G.,  719,  734,  753. 
Henry  J.,  757,  773. 
Henry  Oscar,  763,  771. 
Henry  Percival,  766. 
Henry  Stanton,  773,  778. 
Hepzibah,  693. 
Herbert  M..  765. 
Herman,  748. 
Hester,  702,  718,  757. 
Hicks  B.,   758,   774.   778. 
HIeronimus,  712. 
Hieronimus  (Jerome).  703. 
iiildah,  730. 
HInton   S..   766. 
Hiram,  722,  730.  740. 
Hiram  Sprague,  769. 
Hosanna,  7^,  740. 
Howard,  755. 


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903 


Waldron,  Howard.  Baldy,  757,  774. 
Howard  V.  D.,  765. 
Icabod,  739. 
Ida,  746,  760,  765,  773. 
Ida  B.,  763. 
Ida  B..  761. 
Ida  L.,  768. 
Ida  M.,  766,  770. 
Ina  Almlra,  767. 
Ira,  745. 
Isaac.  696.  702.  709,  710,  718,  723,  730,  736, 

741.  743,  766,  760,  762. 
Isaac  D.,  746. 
Isaac  Ferris,  760,  768. 
Isaac  Henry.  766. 
Isabel.  744. 
Isabella.  766. 
Isaphena,  763. 
Jackson.  742.  761. 

Jacob,  702,  703,  710,  711,  723,  764,  766. 
Jacob  J.,  724,  742. 
Jacob  John.  747. 
Jacob  N..  741. 
Jacob  v.,  761,  769. 
Jacob  Van  Aernam,  737. 
Jacobus.  692.  702,  704,  706,  707,  709,  710, 

718. 
Jacobus  (James),  709,  721.  733. 
Jacobus  Swarthout,  716. 
JameP,  717.  718.  720,  721,  722,  724,  728,  730, 

731,  732.  737,  739,  740,  742,  744.  745.  748, 

749,  762,  764,  767. 
James    (Jacobus).   707.  718. 
James  A..  746.  762.  762.  766.  770,  776. 
James  H.,  739,  740,  761. 
James  Harrison.  761. 
James  Harrison  (Harry),  741. 
James  Henry,  760. 
James  Jacob,  746. 
James  L.,  761.  769. 
James  Lawrence.  749.  768. 
James  Lawrence.   Jr..  768,   777. 
James  R.,  727.  746,  776. 
James  S.,  762  776. 
Jane,  692.  714.  726,  726,  729,  733.  734,  739, 

743.  744,  746.  764. 
Jane  Ann.  734. 
Jane  B..  769. 
Jane  M..   749. 
Jane  Maria.  734. 
Jane  V.,  763. 
Jannetee,  709. 
Jannetie.  692,  696. 
Jannetje,  709,  713. 
Jannettle.  718. 
Jannettie(Jane),  720. 
Jeannettie.  719. 
Jemima.  744. 
Jemina,  738. 
Jennie  B..  771,  776. 
Jenny   (Jane).  720. 
Jeremiah,  712.  726.  730,  760.  768. 
Jerome.  712.  726.  726,  745.  766. 
Jerome (  Jeremiah).  717. 
Jesse.  734. 
Jesse  C.  763.  771. 
Jessie,  772. 
Jessie  G.,  766. 
Jessie  Rosaline.  763. 
Joel  Harvey,  778. 
Joel  Harvey  (Dr.),  772. 
Johanna,  701. 
Johannes.  406.  449.  497.  500.  547.  650.  562. 

594.  600.  601.  602.  623.  692.  693.  694.  693. 

696.  697.  698.  699,  700.  701,  702.  703.  708. 

709.  710.  713.  714,  721.  722,  793,  797,  810, 

816.  817,  821.  822.  826.  829. 
Johannes  B.,  497. 


Waldron,  Johannes,  Jr.,  431. 

John,  486,  692,  693,  702.  704,  705,  707,  710, 
711,  712,  713,  714,  715,  717,  720,  721,  722, 
723,  724.  725,  726,  731,  736,  737,  739,  740. 
741,  742,  743,  744,  745,  748.  752,  765,  756, 
758,  760,  762.  766,  772,  776,  824,  827.  828. 
829    830 

John  (Captain),  609,  695. 

John  (Johannes),  703.  708,  713. 

John  A.,  755,  758,  767. 

John  A.   Lincoln,  763. 

John  B.,  732,  736.  753.  756. 

John   Brinkerhoff.  716,  729,  747. 

John  Brown,  777. 

John  C,  732,  747,  760,  764.  767,  776. 

John  Clark.  753. 

John  D.,  728,  735.  747,  754,  766,  777. 

John  Bvertson,  736. 

John  J,,   7f,^ 

John,  Jr  ,  !j:c, 

John  L  .   lU,  763. 

John  M  .  74U  760.  778, 

John  O  ,  74D. 

John  Otadiab,  703.  712.  7^. 

John  P  .  ail,  702,  706,  Til,  739.  760.  800. 

John  P.,  Jr.*  716,  729. 

John  R  ,  77a. 

John   8  .  70*J.  773. 

John  T-  "-'*    rut 

John  V.  A..  T  ,:,     li. 

John  Van  Aernam,  437,  757. 

John  Vredenburgh,  715. 

John  W.,  773. 

John  Wesley,  761. 

Jonas  K.,  748. 

Joseph.  94,  692,  708,  710,  711,  714,  721.  722, 
724,.  725,  739.  741,   755,  759,  761,  787. 

Joseph  G.,  765. 

Joseph  Hunt,  738,  759. 

Joseph  Wildey,  743,  762. 

Josephine  (Mary  J.),  741. 

Josiah  D.,  754. 

Josie.   748. 

Judah,  754. 

Judith,  692,  733. 

Julia,   723,  738.  745.  747. 

Julia  Prances.  762. 

Julia  R..  768. 

Julian.   731. 

Kate.  776. 

Kate  C.  776. 

Katy.  736. 

Kitty  May.  774. 

Lambert  S..  767. 

La  Mont  Raymond.  778. 

La  Monte  Raymond.  .770. 

Lamont  K..  767.  777. 

La  Perceil  Joan.  777. 

Laura.  742,  746,  760. 

Laura  H..  764. 

Lavern  F..  777. 

Lavinia,  731. 

Lawrence.  778. 

Leah.    727.   751. 

Leffert.   693. 

Le  Grand  C.  758.  774. 

Lemuel.   743.    759,   762. 

Lena.  737. 

Leonard   A.,   759. 

Leonard  P..  740.  759. 

Leota  Blfonza.  764. 

Letta,   716. 

Levonica.  732. 

Lewis,    775. 

Lewis  B..  745.  748. 

Lewis  M..  748.  767. 

Lewis  P..  775. 

Lewis  v.,  769. 

Llbbie.  776. 

Lillian  Blizabeth.  777. 


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INDEX. 


Waldron,  Lillian  L.,  771. 
Lillian  P.,  774. 
Lilly  A.,  77L 
Linus,  720. 
Loduska,  762. 
Lois,   758,   759,  775. 
Lois  L.    749. 
Lottie    (Charlotte),   742. 
Louis  K.,  763. 
Louis  Thibon,  729. 
Louis  Victor,  766. 
Louisa,  724,  774,  777,  778. 
Louise,  440. 
Loulzine,   729. 
Lucile  Alberta,  778. 
Luclnda,  740,  743. 
Lucy  B.,  752. 
Lucy  M.,  760. 
Lulce,  739. 
Lulu,  760. 

Luther  A.,  754,  771. 
Lydia.  703,  731. 
Lydia  L.,  750. 
Maas  (Moses),  720. 
Mabel.  778. 
Mabel  B.,  749. 
Mabel  S..  769. 
Machtelt,  718. 
Madison.  742. 
Maggie.  760.  776. 
Maggie  E..  765. 
Maggie  Warner,  766. 
Marjorie,   776. 
Malinda.  720. 
Malon  L..  740. 
Mamie  A..  760. 
Marcella.   770. 
Marcella  P..   753. 
Maretje  (Maria).  709. 
Margaret.  601.  697.  698,  705,  706,  707,  712, 

713,  715.  718,  723.  724,  725.  727,  731,  733, 

734,  735.  737,  738.  739.  740,  744,  743,  751, 

753,  755.  767,  773,  775. 
Margaret  Ann.  729.  735. 
Margaret  E.   L.,  743. 
Margaret   Elizabeth.    767. 
Margaret  Elliott.  778. 
Margaret  J.,  736. 
Margaret   Jane,   738. 
Margaret  Knapp,  741. 
Margrletie,  702. 
Margrietje,  709.  710. 
Margrietye,  721. 
Marguerite,   761. 
Maria.  692,  701,  704,  709,  710,  712,  713,  714, 

715,  720,  722,  724,  728,  729,  730,  732,  733. 
Maria  (Mary),  713. 
Maria  B.,  764. 
Maria  E.,  745. 
Maria  Gertrude,  734. 
Maria  L..  762. 
Mariah,  735. 
Mariah    (Polly),  734. 
Marian,  767. 
Marian  L.,   770. 
Marietta,   738. 
Marlnda,  739. 
Marlnda  Ann,  726. 
Maritie,   732. 
Marritje.  710. 
Martha,   703,   7U,   724,   740.   742,   755,  759, 

771. 
Martha  A..  746,  T49,  767. 
Martha  Emma,  763. 
Martha  P.,  767. 
Martha  J.,  759. 
Martha  Jane.  750. 
Martin,  707,  741,  748,  760,  767. 


Waldron,  Martin  (Rev.),  734,  752. 

Mary.  609.  692.  717,  721  723.  725.  726.  731. 
739,  740,  742.  743,  745,  748,  764,  756,  757. 
758,  774. 

Mary  (Maria).  704.  706.  713. 

Mary   (Polly),  712. 

Mary  A.,  765. 

Mary  Ann,  734,  750. 

Mary  B.,  746. 

Mary  Catherine,  741. 

Mary  E.,  731.  737,  752,  756.  756,  769.  773. 

Mary  Eliza,  729. 

Mary  Ellen.  740,  745. 

Mary  Emily,  762. 

Mary  Emma,  76L 

Mary  Ette,  754. 

Mary  Frances,  748,  757. 

Mary  J.,  769. 

Mary  Jane,  749,  750,  765.  758. 

Mary  Louisa,  766. 

Mary  Sedallia.  722. 

Mary  V.,  746. 

Marytie,  7U. 

Matilda,  724,  730,  742. 

Matilda  A..  729. 

Matilda  *L.,  747. 

Matthew,  723,  741,  742,  760.  76L 

Mattie,  776. 

Mattie  M.,  766. 

Maud  Elsey,  760. 

Maud  L.,  749. 

Maude  &,  768. 

May,  759. 

May  E.,  767. 

Melvin  H.,  777. 

Mereca  (Maria),  716. 

Michael.  724. 

Minerva  C.  770. 

Minnie,  742. 

Minnie  Louise,  766. 

Minnie  M..  764. 

Minnie  May.  ^61. 

Moriah.  727. 

Mortimer.  755. 

Moses.  720. 

Mrs.  317. 

Myrtle.  760. 

Nancy,  712,  723,  743,  744,  745. 

Nancy  (Anna),  720.. 

Nancy  J.,  740. 

Nancy  Jane,  755. 

Nathan,  740. 

Neeltle,   707. 

Neeltje,  703. 

Nellie  A.,  769. 

Nellie  M.,  773. 

Nelly,  713. 

Nelly  Bicker  (Elinor),  716. 

Nicholas,  702.  710,  722. 

Noble  B..  769. 

Nora.  760. 

Norris  W.,  768.  7T7. 

Olive  Lavinia,  771. 

Olive  Louise.  761. 

Oliver.   711,  722.   758. 

Oliver,  Jr..  722,  740. 

Ophelia,  722. 

Orlando  K.,  764. 

Orrln,  753. 

Orrin  W.,  754.  771. 

Parry  A..  771. 

Pearl  Martha.  777. 

Peggy,  721. 

Percy  C.  768. 

Peter.  431,  485,  567,  579,  607,  696,  696,  697. 
699.  700,  701,  702,  705,  708,  709,  711,  714, 
715.  716.  719.  721,  728,  730.  732,  733,  734, 
736.  737.  748,  750,  752,  756,  796,  800,  804. 
813.   822. 

Peter  J.,  748. 


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905 


240, 
267, 


313, 


WaJdron.  Peter  P.,  770,  778. 

Peter  V.,  746. 

Peter  Wlnne.  736,  756. 

Petnis.  230,  439,  482,  602.  709. 

Phebe,  723. 

PhUander,  760. 

PhileU  A.,  745. 

PhUetus.  752. 

Philetus  A.,  745. 

Phlletua  P.,  765,  772. 

Philip,  710,  718,  722. 

Phoebe,  727. 

Phylis  Read,  774. 

Pleter,  707,  708,  718. 

Pleter  C,  719,  736. 

Polly,  743,  762. 

Rachael,  692. 

Rachel,  709,  711.  724.  772. 

Rachel  Ann,  729. 

Rachel  Gather ina,  731. 

Rachel  M.,  727. 

Rachel  Maria,  730. 

Ralph,  771. 

Ralph  Irving,  772. 

Ralph  O..  776. 

Ray,   772. 

HaymoQd,  772. 

Eebeoca.  2i&».  MS.  6I2,  613,  694.  695,  701, 
1Q£,  709,    TIO,   722.   72S,   731). 

Bofiatvert.  279.  290,  337,  349,  412. 

Resolved,  91,  m,  Sll.  2ie,  m,  239. 
^2,  ^44.  2&2.  £56,  26^$.  Ifi4,  2^,  266, 
269,  771,  Til,  2S2.  2M,  2S5.  2."*.  287, 
Z89,  297,  301,  mi,  306.  m.  2m.  312, 
aSO,  ;r2S.  226,  232,  S34.  337,  rm,  342,  360 

see,  an.  372,  373.  an,  g7&,  sso.  387,  388 

3fi9.  3J)3.  394.  4fll.  403.  4m,  m,  413,  414, 
415,  431.  5i6.  548.  BUS,  G02.  622,  642,  691, 
693.  694.  ©5.  697.  ffi>8.  6&9,  701,  702,  703, 
71U  7^,  19S,  796.  797.  m,  SOO.  803,  808. 

Resolverl.  713,  7^1. 

ResolvPrt    (Capt.l.   721, 

Res  Divert   E.,  711,   723. 

R«ubeu  O..  7ISJ. 

Rhoda  Ann.  765. 

Richard,  692,  717,  726,  730,  744,  748,  749, 
764.  767,  768.  776. 

Richard  (Ryckert),  719. 

Richard  Van  Vranken,  737. 

Richard  Varick.   739,  759. 

Robert,  708,  723,  755,  758. 

Robert  H.,   731. 

Ronald,  776. 

Rosamond,  775. 

Rose  E.,  768. 

Roxey  Ann,  756. 

Roy  S.  P.,  749. 

gutger,   692. 
uth,  316,  695.  740,  761,  768. 

Ruth  F.  S.,  775. 

Salletta,  749. 

Sally  Ann,  754. 

Sally  Maria,  751. 

Samantha  J.,  763. 

Samuel.  64,  406.  408,  430,  484,  495,  500, 
661,  592,  594,  602,  607.  623,  692,  694.  695. 
697,  698,  699,  700,  701,  702,  703,  704. 
707,  708,  712.  713.  714,  716.  717.  718, 
725,  727,  729,  730,  739,  743,  744,  745, 
763,  793,  798,  799.  801,  804,  808,  810, 
814,  816,  817,  821,  822,  826,  827,  828, 
830. 

Samuel  Benson,  711,  723. 

Samuel  C,  763. 

Samuel  J.,  746,  762. 

Samuel  James,  728,  746. 

Samuel  L..  746.  765. 

Samuel  O.,  763. 

Samuel  Oliver,  726,  744. 

Samuel  R.,  766. 


706, 
720, 
760, 
811, 


Waldron,  Samuel  R.  (Rev.),  747. 
Siirnuel   Resolved.   714,  728. 
Samuel   S.,  727,   744,   745,  764. 
Sttinu©!  Van  Ness,  712,  725. 
Saxa,  72§.   133. 

Surah.  fi9£.  715,  721,  722,  724,  725,  726,  728, 
729,  730,  731,   7^6.  742.  745.  747.  762,  770. 
Sttmh    (Sally).   7:kj. 
.Sartiii   A..    .-tK    rri    7W,  752,  765. 
Sarah  Agnes,  746. 
Sarah  Alidah.  754. 
Sarah  Cornelia,  762. 
Sarah  E.,  742.  743. 
Sarah  Eliza,  767. 
Sarah  Esther,  766. 
Sarah  H.,  748. 
Sarah  Hunting.  716. 
Sarah  J..  739.  740,  760. 
Sarah  Jane,  732. 
Sarah  M.,  741. 
Sarah  Samantha,  740. 
Sarah  Van  Norden,  747. 
Sauannah,  762. 
Sidney  T.,  760,  768. 
Silas,  720. 
Silas  Butler,  746. 
Silas  S..  769. 
Simeon  D.,743,  762. 
Smith,  752. 
Solomon,   719,  722. 
Sophia,  742,  764,  776. 
Stella  E     766 

Stephen,''701,  *708,  722.  737.  740,  757. 
Stephen   Brinkerhoff,  716,   729. 
Stephen  D.,  725. 
Stephen  Pearl  Keyes,  767,  773. 
Stuart  P.,  772. 
Sue.  774. 
Susan,  716.  722,  723,  734,  737,  744,  752,  755, 

761. 
Susan  L.,  760. 
Susan  O.,  764. 

Susanna.  707,  709,  710,  718,  763. 
Susannah,  607,   716,  726. 
Salvanius,  769. 
Sylvester,  708. 
Sylvia,  760. 

Tanneke,  430,  696,  700,  704,  712. 
Tessie,  777. 

Theodore,  742,  747,  768,  776. 
Theodore  C,  764. 
Theodore  Van  Norden,  747. 
Thomas,  710.  716.  717,  722,  727,  731.  740, 

741,  745,  760,  761. 
Thomas  (Dr.),  722. 
Thomas  Howland,  746,  765. 
Tllley,  761. 
Tillie,  757. 
Tobias,  724,  743. 
Tobias  T.  E.,  732,  760. 
Traverse,  752. 
Truman,  748. 
Truman  B.,  769. 

Tryntje  (Catharine),  707,  708,  718. 
Tunis,  703,  720,  728,  739,  758. 
Tunis  A.,'  714,  728. 
Ulysses  S.  O.,  764. 
Uriah,  740. 

Valentine  Pickney,  764. 
Vernon,  764,  776. 
Victor  B.,  766. 
Victor  Bicker,  715,  729. 
Victor  Salinas  Hopkins.  747,  766. 
W.  Archbold,  774. 
Walter,  772,  776. 
Walter  J..  768. 
Walter  L...  754. 
Walter  S.,  731,  746.  765. 
Warren  H.,  749.  768. 
Warren  W.,  777. 


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Waldron,  Washlnffton,  724,  741. 

Wayland,  752. 

Wesley  D.,  767. 

Widow,  797. 

Wilbur,  766,  777. 

Wilfred.  767. 

Wilhelmus,  714. 

Wlllard  A..  759. 

WlUard  Earl,  739,  759. 

Willem  (William).  708,  716,  718.  720,  729, 
732 

William,  272.  333.  863,  403,  435,  605,  614. 
694,  695,  699,  <00.  701,  708.  704.  706,  706. 
707.  708,  709,  710,  711.  712,  713.  714, 
716.  717,  720,  721,  724,  725,  726,  727,  728, 
730,  734,  787,  738,  740,  742,  743,  744,  745, 
748.  752,  753.  756.  757.  758,  760,  770,  771. 
774.  775.  778.  808. 

William  A..  754.  767,  773. 

William  Alexander.  743. 

William  Augustus,  757,  774. 

William  B.,  747.  768,  769.  777. 

William  B.  P..  745. 

William  Clenton,  777. 

William  Curtln,  764. 

William  Curtis.  761. 

William  P.,  746. 

William  Prancis.  770. 

William  Q.,  719,  735,  754. 

William  Gunsaul.  774. 

William  H.,  735,  740,  741,  755,  765,  773. 

William  Henry,  748,  757. 

William  I.,  753. 

William  J.,  715,  748,  767,  790. 

William  John,  747.  766. 

William  M.,  756. 

William  O.,  762,  775. 

William  P.,  729. 

William  Richard,  730,  748. 

William  S.,  744,   764,   776. 

William  v.,  745. 

William  W.,  720,  738. 

Wllliette.  758. 

Wllmartb.  731. 

WIna  E.,  764. 

Winant    737. 

Winfield  C,  763. 

Winnie  B.,  769. 

Wynand.  719. 

Wynant.  734. 

Wynant  G..  734.  753. 

Wynant  Vandenburgh,  735.  754. 

Wyntie.  696. 

Zachariab,  774. 

Zachariah  Keyes,  757. 

Zachary,  774. 

Zaremba  W.    (Dr.),  758,  T74. 

Zebidee.  730,  749. 
Walker,   Elizabeth   Ludlow,  465. 

Elizabeth  W.,  689. 

Fred  William,  464. 

John.  428. 

Lewis,  540. 

Samuel  G.,  689. 

Sarah,  175. 

William  T.  Davis,  689. 
Wallace.  Elizabeth,  662. 
Walsh.  St.  Blouton  C,  443. 
Walter,   Hans.  303. 
Walters,  Catherine  E.,  667. 

Maria,  204. 

Robert.   593. 
Walton,  Jacob,  162. 
Wandell,  Thomas.  385. 
Wannemaker.  Dirck,  451. 
Wantenaer,  Albert  Corn,  128. 
Ward.  539. 

Elizabeth.   534. 

Henry.  628. 

James,  661. 


Ward.  John.  296. 

Josephine.  653. 

Robert  C.  A.,  610. 
Ware,  Josephine.  662. 
Warfoot,  Job,  498. 
Warne,  Clarkson.  745. 
Warner.  Elizabeth.  668. 

George.   490. 

Maria,  656. 

Matthias,  468. 

May  Conger,  690. 
Warren,  James,  525. 

W.,  763. 
Washburn.  Margaret,  735. 
Washington,  789.  790. 
Wassenaer,  118. 
Wassy,  Mamie,  445. 
Water,  Caroline  Anna,  446. 
Waterman.  Jeremiah.  737. 
Waters,  Sarah,  48L 
Watkins,  Charles,  819. 

John,  650.  582,  818,  819,  826. 

Samuel   (Dr.),  814,  819.  826. 
Watson,   Catherine.  380. 

John,  380. 

Mary,  536. 

Sarah,  380,  733. 
Wattles,  Adelia,  514. 
Way,  James,  205. 

Sarah,  205. 
Wear,  827. 

George,  827. 
Weatherby.  736. 

Nancy,  516. 
Weaver,  Deborah  Weaver.  787. 
Webber.  Elizabeth,  513. 
Weber,  Hans, '269. 
Webley.  Walter,  357.  385. 
Webster,  James,  720. 
Weckman,   Philip,  269. 
Weed.  Effle,  484. 
Weeden,  Lyman  P.,  444. 
Weeks,  Jacob,  514. 

Richard.  650. 

William.  728. 
Weekstein.  John  (Rev.).  32L 
Weezer,   Elizabeth,   712. 
Welantt,  George,  711. 
Weideman,  Anna  T..  668. 
Weir,  Thomas  A.,  660. 
Weis,  Prancis  S.,  773. 
Weiss,  N.  (Rev.),  13. 
Weldon,   Catherine.  487. 

Mary,  787. 
Weller,  Amos  R.,  517. 
Wells,   Philip,   395. 
Wemple,   Abraham,  168. 
Wentworth,  Joseph,  657. 

Mary,   657. 
Wermer,  Susanna,  719. 
Werrlc,  31. 

Wescoat,   Martha,  722. 
Wessells,  Charles  H.,  471. 
Wessels.  222. 

Anna,  436. 

Derick,  642. 

Dirck.  237. 

Francis,  452. 

Hartman  (Dr.),  436. 

Metje,  288. 

Warner,   155,   288. 

Wessel,  458. 
West,  Alice,  735. 

Ann,   735. 

John,  382. 

Louisa,  745. 

Richard,  733. 
West  India  Company.  82,  83,  86.  89,  92,  93, 
100,  105,  117,  119,  128,  129,  132,  133.  160, 
155,  162,  189,  203,  209,  235,  291,  646.  698. 


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907 


Westbrook,  Dominie.  122. 
Westcott,  Samuel,  789. 
Westerhout,  Adrianus,  890. 
Westervelt,  Albert,  448. 

Effle,  454.  460,  466. 

Henry,  686. 

Hester.  618. 

Hetty  (Heater),  460. 

Jannetie.  616. 

John,  350. 

Layinla.  466,  471. 

Peter,  360. 

Peter  B.,  619. 

Sarab,  682. 

Simeon,  467. 

Tinle,  461. 

Tinie  (Catbarine),  466. 

Weart,  455. 

William  H.,  467. 
Westervelt   (Banta),   Sarah   (Mrs.),  600. 
Westfall.   Nicholas,  785. 
Westgate.  Robert.  714. 
Westin,  Martina.  221. 
Wetzel,  760. 

Weymer,  Hannah  A.   (Mrs.),  672. 
Wharm,  Oeorgiana,  445. 
Wheeler,  Alice  S.,  470. 

Angelica.  529. 

Menitable.  784. 
Wherts,  George,  644. 
Whetten   (Wheaton).  Sarah,  479. 
Whetton,  Susan  Matilda,  653. 
Whipple.  Martha.  657. 
Whitbeck.  James,  730. 

John  F.,  701. 
White,  757. 

Anthony  L..  806. 

Catharine,  787. 

Duncan  M.,  473. 

E..  444. 

Jamey  H.,  744. 

John,  398. 

Layina,  667. 

Mary.  660. 
Whitehead,  Sarah,  oU. 

Surviah  ,782. 
Whitenach.  Joseph,  727. 
Whiting.  Edwin  M.,  763. 
Whitney.  Abigail,  649. 

Alice,  668. 

Benjamin  (Colonel),  443. 

Colonel  Benjamin,  443. 

Elhannan  W.,  462. 
Whittaker,  Jan,  608. 

Jennettje.  508. 
Wickes,   Daniel,  660. 
Wickfleld.  Johanna.  799. 
Wucox,  Celinda,  520. 

Sarah  E.,  660. 
Wilds  Frances.  584. 
Wiley,  Mary  Jane.  657. 
Wilken,  Sarah  Bull,  472. 
Wilkie.  Joseph,  738. 
Wilkins,  Gouvemeur  M.,  568. 

Margaret,  640. 

Willeey,  James,  646. 
Willekens.  Jacob  (Admiral),  84,  86. 
Willem.  126,  131,  134. 

Mr..  203. 
Willems.  Aeltie,  155. 

Reynler,  337,  372. 
Willemsen.  Reynier,  166,  288. 

Rutger,  692. 

Wouter.  681. 
Willett,  Frances,  807. 

Justice.  382. 

Martha.  807. 

Richard,  378.  807,  811,  821. 

Thomas,  382. 
•Willey,  Anthony  Cyrus,  666. 


Williams,  353,  773. 

Archey,  702. 

Charity,  486. 

Charles,  468. 

Clara,  570. 

Elam,  459. 

Eliphalet,  238,  600. 

Elizabeth,  428,  463. 

Frederick,  692. 

Georgle,  664. 

Hattie,  766. 

Lewis,  500. 

Lydia,  204. 

Maria,  715. 

Mary,   557. 

Phynetta,  489. 

Samuel,  697. 

Sarah,  714. 

Thomas,  716. 

William,  702. 
Williamson,  William  H..  685. 
Willsey,  Grands  T.,  627. 
Wilmorth,  Rachel,  718. 
Wilsey,  Abigail,  788. 
Wilson,  George,  744. 

Hannah  Maria,  687. 

Jane,  738. 

John,  606. 

Mally  (Margaret),  487. 

Samuel,  367. 
Wlltsee,   Hendrick,  375. 
Winans.  iHadora,  631. 
Winckel,  Marritie  Van,  197. 
Winegar,  Catherine,  497. 

Philip,  508. 
Winne,  Annie,  751. 

Caty,  719. 

Elizabeth.  720.  « 

Maria,  734. 

Sarah.  544. 
Winslow,  80. 
Winter,  William,  559. 
Winthrop,  340. 

Francis  Bayard,  808. 
Wisner,   William,  727. 
Wiswell,  Sarah,  758. 
WItbeck,  Maria.  742. 
Wodhull,  Ann,  379. 
Wolferts.  Brieta,  293. 
Wolley,  381.  806. 

Charles,  806. 

Charles  (Rev.),  863,  364. 

Robert,  364.  805. 
Wolters,  Kler.  93,  95,  249,  256,  263,  266,  277, 

561,  696,  793. 
Wood,  Alice,  631. 

David,  237,  803. 

A...za.  669. 

James,  575. 

Mary  Elizabeth,  440. 

Pheby,  706. 

Sarah,  716. 

William  G.   (M.  D.),  803. 
Woodford,  Clara,  663. 

Clarence,  770. 
Woodhull,  Ann,  636. 
Woodruff,  Isaac,  734. 

Samuel,  784. 
Woods,  George  W.,  720. 
Woodward,  Anna,  692. 

Eliza  Ann,  517. 

Mrs..  596. 

Robert  K.,  660. 
Wool.  Ellis.  486. 
Woolman,  Louis,  726. 
Wordsworth.  Ella,  620. 
Worsey,  Thomas  James,  640. 
Worth.  Alexander,  657. 
Worthington,  Ellis,  628. 
Wortman,  Kneertle,  782. 


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Wright.  Cliarlefl.  B70. 

Isaac,  731. 

John,  789. 

Lewis,  65L 
Writer,  Casper,  667. 

Sarah,  569,  571. 
Wurmel,  Isaac,  105. 
Wyckoff,  Dennis,  587. 

George,  727. 

Pieter  Claessen,  126. 
Wyman,  Simon,  627. 
Wynkoop,  Christina,  496. 

Cornelius,  786. 

Johannes,  698. 
Wyp,  Claes.  806. 

Elizabeth,  806. 


Tansen,  Comelies,  290. 
Tates,  Abraham  788. 

Ann,  788. 

Charity.  787,  788. 

Jesse,  788. 

John,  788. 

John  Q.,  70L 

Joseph.  788. 

Mary,  788. 

Peter.  720. 

Sarah,  788. 
Teumans.  Bertha,  664. 


Teury,  Stephen,  469. 
Youmans.  Mary.  728. 
Young,  Cathrina,  697. 

Elizabeth.  788. 

George  (Capt.),  720. 

Harriet.  468. 

Jacob.  340,  366,  873,  376,  381.  806,  806,  807. 

James  S.,  728. 

John.  714. 

John  J.,  723. 

Rachel,  687. 

Samuel,  602. 
Ysselsteyn   (Esselsteyn),  Gertrude,  495. 

Martin,  Comeliss,  495. 


Zabriskle,  Christina,  706. 

Jacob  C.,  480. 

Jane,  686. 

Lea  Aletta,  660. 
Zeeuw,  Cornells  Jansen,  206. 
Zenger,  Peter,  695. 
Zyperus,  Cornelius,  206. 

Dominie.  178,  179,  190.  191,  192,  306,  2U. 
296.  439,  TM,  799,  803. 

Hillegond.  206. 

Michel.  183,  186,  190. 

Michiel,  177. 

Mrs.,  206. 


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