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Ancestral Tablets
FROM

Colonial

Davs

to

the Present Era,

A RECORD OF THE DESCENDANTS OF
Gov.
Capt.

THOMAS WELLES

of

Connecticut,
of

GERRIT JANSE HARDENBERGH

New

York,

Fiscaal

HENDRICK VAN DYCK

JAN TVSSE GOES
of

of

New Amsterdam,

Beaverwyck,

and nearly one hundred

allied families.

Rev.
of the

THEODORE W. WELLES,
Society and the

New York Genealogical and Biographical New Jersey Historical Society.

"The truest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small,
Are close knit strands
of

an unbroken thread

Where

love ennobles all."

PATER SON,
1893.

N.

J.

THE TRESS PRINTING AND PUBLISHING

CO., 269

MAIN STREET.

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ABBREVIATIONS.

b.=born.
c.

bp.=baptized.
to

a.

=came

America.
d. y.

d.=died.

dau. =daughter.
n.

=died young.

m.=married.
m.
?
I,

m.=never

married.
of times married.

or m.

2,

&c.

=the number

following a date or name=probability,

strong circum-

stantial but
[3] or

no positive documentary evidence.

any other bracketed number following a name indi-

cates the person's position in the family to which he or she

belongs, the progenitor of the family being

[1].

PREFACE.
These Ancestral Tablets are the result of the labor of more than ten moments amid the duties of an active ministry.
been, without writing a biography, to identify each an-

years at spare

The purpose has

that he

cestor with the times in

which he lived and those with

whom

he associated,

not merely a name, but a real personality and that to some exte- the living may be brought into sympathy with the dead. The plan of the work needs but little explanation. Commencing with the American progenitor of the Welles family, there is a history of each
..

may seem

generation and of the families with which through marriage

it

was

allied.

This causes the greater portion of the record to relate to the mothers through whom the family has been perpetuated. Enlightened public sentiment is rapidly placing woman on an equality
with man, and the more the laws of heredity are understood the greater will become the recognized importance of maternal ancestry.

For various reasons, but especially because the compiler has wrought
public,

for

the instruction of his kindred, rather than the information of the general the record
is

not encumbered with constant references to the

sources of his information,

to

many

of

most

of his readers, without an expenditure of

which would be found inaccessible, both money and time. In

it

the place of such references, there are copious foot notes, historical, ge-

ographical and explanatory

the perusal of which,

is

believed,

will

prove instructive and interesting.

An

index systematically arranged renits

ders reference easy and facilitates research.

The

labor of preparation has been pursued as recreation, and in

prose-

cution information has been gathered from every available source accessible through the genealogical literature of America, or so far as possible,

through family records,

official

documents and the written

or verbal testi-

mony of the living. The compiler has sought

to ascertain the truth,

and has made record

only of what he believes to be the truth, but as the purest purpose, however assiduously pursued, and the utmost caution, however constantly main-

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PREFACE.

tained, do not insure infallibility it would be passing strange, ; if in copying dates and names well nigh innumerable, there was never a slip of the pen, and equally strange, if in arranging facts collated from many sources there was never an error of judgment. The reader should,

member
ered in

therefore, re-

was not Divinely inspired, and if errors are discovthe work he has wrought, should regard them as the result of the
" Don't look for the flaws as you go through And even when you find them, It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind
life

that the writer

imperfection that invariably characterizes the labors of mankind.

:

And

look for

the. virtue

behind them.

For the cloudiest night has a tint of light Somewhere in the shadows hiding It is better by far to look for a star, Than the spots on the sun abiding."
,T ^ Paterson, N.

T J.,

Theo. W. Welles.
1893.

Ancestral Tablets.
INTRODUCTORY.
" All that inhabit this great earth, Whatever be their rank or worth, Are kindred and allied by birth,

And made

of the

same

clay."

Surnames

as family

names were unknown, except

after

in

rare

cases, before the

middle of the eleventh century and their use

the
thirteenth.

was
some
to

not firmly established until

They

originally designated occupation, estate, place of residence or

particular thing that related to the person, and not unfreits

quently were formed by adding the word son or

the

equivalent
is

name

of the father.

The patronymic Welles

It first

from

the

Norman French

va/les, a valley.

occurs with the

suffix

subsequently as de
The

de in the ablative plural de vallzbus, from the valleys Welles and finally Welles.

The Welles Family

origin of the Welles family
is

in Europe.
in the

House of Vaux* of

the ancient province ol Neustria.

In 912 the greater portion

forth bears the

of this province was ceded by Charles the Simple of Francey

to

Rollo the

NormanJ and hence

this,

name of Nor-

mandy. But long before

Vaux occupied an

mamage
*This
into Bayeux.

even as early as 794, the House of position and was allied by with most of the Sovereign Princes of Europe.
illustrous
is

name

sometimes written Baux and Beaux and very frequently

Simple, King
of

it is

lengthened

tCharles the

France 898-922, the posthumous son of Louis the

Stammerer, memorable for

+R0II0 the

his misfortunes.

Norman, first Duke of Normandy is thought to have been a Danish pirate. renounced the worship of Odin, was baptised at Rouen, married Giselle, the daughter of Charles the Simple, and made Normandy the most cultured and magnificent province of

He

France.

He

died in 932.

INTRODUCTORY.
Bertrand de

Vaux

great favorite

of Robert

attended a tournament in 1029 and was a I. Duke of Normandy, styled the

Magnificent, the father of William, the Conqueror.

In 1 73 the House of Vaux acquired the principality of Orange by marriage with Tiburge heiress of Orange. In 1393
1

of

an only daughter and heir of Raymond, King of Aries,* Prince Vaux and Orange, married John de Chalons, Great Chamtitles

berlain of France, conveying the

House of Vaux
marriage,
the
alliance the
title

into

that family

and possessions of the from which they passed

'

in 1530, to the

house of Nassau. Through thie members of the House of Nassau have since borne
of Saint Clair at Naples,
to

Princes of Orange.

costly

dedicated by

monument in the church Hyronemus de Vaux

Vaux,

the

memory

of

the

illustrious family of

in the year 1615, bears the followlicet

ing inscription.

Vide
to the

Memory of
Queen of Sicily Queen of Naples
Countess of Savoy
Princess of Piedmont

Antonia de Vaux

Vaux Cecilia de Vaux Sibella de Vaux Maria de Vaux Isabella de Vaux

Isabella de

Dauphiness of Vienna
Despotises of Servia
in

The Weli.es Family

The
first

England.

have of the English branch of the House its origin, is that Harold de Vaux, Lord of Vaux in Normandy, having conferred his seigniory upon the Abbey of the Holy Trinity, founded at Caen, I by Matilda, the wife of William the Conqueror, came into England and settled in Cumberland County about the year 1 120. This county lies in the north western extremity of Engrecord
of Vaux, in which the Welles family has
one of the oldest cities of southern France on the West bank of the lower Ceasar called it Arelate. It became a Roman colony and in the 10th century the capital of a Kingdom of the same name founded by Bozon. It is celebrated for the beauty
* Aries,

we

Rhone.
of its

women.
Cadon, Cathim, Cahem or Caam a city in the department The Abbey founded there by Matilda and in which her remains were was known as Abbaye aux Dames, or Holy Trinity.
old chronicles

tCaen in the
nterred

of Calvados, France.

INTRODUCTORY
Scotland and Solway Firth, havland between Westmoreland, Britain, Carlisle, one of the oldest towns ing its capital at northern picturesque within its boundaries, the

and embracing, whose secluded dales kkes, and mountain ranges and loveliness. of their primeval grandure

still

retain

much

Ranulph and Robert accompanied him, his three sons Hubert, surnamed De Vallibus, which sigand were subsequently from the of brooks or running water, or nifies from the place with the accordance in probably, The name was, valleys
re-ion.

When

Harold de Vaux made

this beautiful region his

home,

of their dwelling in the lake customs of the age, indicative districts, which comprise mountainous instead of in the

more than
In
1

14; Harold de Vaux, Lord of Vaux Vallibus the eldest son of records" Robert de Welles. Normandy, is designated in English as Lords de Welles name his descendants afterwards bear

county. a third of the area of the descendant of lineal a Vallibus, Robert de

Hubert de

This
of

Rayne

The descendants
Harold de Vaux,

Hall, Essex County, England.* second son of of Ranulph de Vallibus. the

also bore the
in the

their sole representative

name De Welles, and when line of descent was a Lady

marriage with the family of Mabel de Welles, were united by son of Harold de Vaux. Robert de Vallibus. the youngest Robert de Vallibus is on record lineal descendant of this Welles of Welles Manor in Lincolnshire, in 1 194 as Adam de

from this Adam de Welles we find In direc t line of descent about in Lincolnshire, England, another Adam de Welles born in 1299. Baron a as parliament to He was summoned r .6s and Keeper of the He was Constable of Rockingham Castle In a letter to the died in 131 1 a peer of the realm.
Forest.t

Pope

:=^^"= "
of

He Rome

he

is

styled

Adam Lord

Welles.

"

ChelmSf rd

'

the Fn-land between u of England tLincolnshire-on east coast

,

Wash and

the

Humber, broad

inlets

from the sea. The capital Northamptonshire tRocldngham, a smah village of

is

Lincoln, the chtef port Boston

-^f

S^S

INTRODUCTORY.

King Edward L* of England, who was known

Longshanks, granted
to

as

Edward

Adam
:

mour which
Field Crest
:

de Welles in 1299 a coat of artail

is

thus described

Gold.

black lion rampant whose

A
:

spreads into two.

demi

lion

rampant

like

first.

Motto

Semper Paratas.

Lord Adam de Welles having died without issue, his brother William de Welles succeeded to the estates and title and became the founder of the long line of noblemen of the family De Welles, whose estates were eleven manors in Lincolnshire and several others in Northamptonshire, Northumberland and Essex, and whose history is given by Dugdale in the Baronage of England.

John, son of Leo Lord Welles, bearing He married in 1487 Cecelia Plantagenet, daughter of Edward IV., of England and Elizabeth Wydeville.j In 1492 he contributed towards the retinue of the King's army, 3 men of arms, 20 launces. 15 archers on horseback and 45 archers on foot He died Tuesday, February 27, 1498, and was buried at Westminster Abbey.
is
_

Among

these

title

Lord Viscount Welles.

||

The Castle known as Rockingham Castle was founded by Willliam what was at the time a considerable forest district, for the
tains

works earned on in the neighborhood. The Church of St. Leonard near the Castle cona full length figure of Anna Baroness Rockingham,

the Conqueror in protection of the extensive iron

died in 1695.

who

reigned from 1274 until death, son of Henry III. and Eleanor of Provence, was one of the ablest sovereigns of England. "His reign was not destitute of great men but history he towers above his earls and bishops as
I.

'Edward

b. 1239, d. 1307,

in life

troth.

he overtopped them Strong and steadfast in every crisis, living his motto 'Pactum ^W-'Keep He was a genuine leader, a real king."

tOld

Humphrey

built of stone,

in "Walks about London," in speaking of the first London bridge commenced in 1126, says: "Here David Earl of Crawford

As no dates
tions a Sir

successfully contended for three days in a great joust against are given, we know not to which Lord Welles
it

of Scotland

John Welles who during the Plantagenet regime manifested by bringing water from Tyburn to London.

Lord Welles of England " refers. Walter Besant men

his public spirit

We lle^

beauty of his person, but neither prudent nor virtuous. He was born in 1442 crowned king June, 1461, died 1483. He married Elizabeth Wydeville and at his death left two sons, Edward V. and Richard Duke of York, who were murdered by Richard Duke of Gloucester. Several daughters also survived him, among whom was Elizabeth who mard enry TUd r aft6rWardS Henry VIL and Cecelia wh0 marrf ed Lord Viscount
'

{Edward Plantagenet-known as Edward IV. of England-was the son of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York. He was a splendid and showy prince, distinguished for
the

^Mackintosh's England.

time of Harold.

Westminster Abbey-the coronation church of the sovereigns of England from the Founded by Seibert the Saxon in honor of St. Peter. The mausoleum of

INTRODUCTORY.
t

Lady Margaret Welles, daughter of Leo Lord Welles and of Lord Viscount Welles, in 1460, married Sir Thomas Dymoke, the King's Champion, of Scrivelsby. Elizabeth Dymoke, her descendent and heir of the estates of Leo Lord
sister

Welles, in 1725 married the Rev. Thomas Welles, Rector of Willington and Springthorpe. Their descendants meeting, it
is

said, in a

common

ancestor

among

the Barons de Welles,

are the representatives in England, at the present time (rSjo), of

the

De Welles

baronage

the children of Lionel

Welles of

Grebby Hall, Lincolnshire, and Mary Ann

ton Castle, Herefordshire.

Galliers of Staple-

Another Welles family was founded by Jocelyn the Fleming, born about 1030. He was a near friend and companion and is supposed to have been a relative of William the Conquerer; with whom he came into England, at the time of the Conquest
and took part in the battle of Hastings. He settled at Somersetshire,* and from him were descended Hugo de Welles, born about 1 135, Bishop of Lincoln and Lord Chancellor of England. He was Chief of the Barons and was instrumental in obtaining from King John at Runnymede, June 15, 121:5,7 the ''Magna Charta"% vviTtten by his own hand. Both he and his brother, Joscelin de Welles, born about 1138, Bishop of Bath and Wells, are mentioned in the Charter and their They jointly founded the Priory of Bath seals are upon it. and Wells. The Prior was called the Lord of St. John. The Knights of St. John, and the Church had their names from
England's illustrious heroes. "Here kings are crowned and here they lie down in the Here they obtain their highest honors and here they sink to the level of the lowsubjects."

grave.

liest of their

Somersetshire borders the Bristol Channel on the South and is separated from the English Channel by Dorset County. There are Cathedrals at Bath and Wells. Glastonbury was once the site of the most extensive Monastery in England.

tRunnymede an

island in the

Thames

river

between Staines and Windsor.

It is

tMagna Charta
plain

or the Great Charter, considered the basis of English liberty.

and clear statement of the accepted principles of good government and provides
for applying them.

means
ral of

is designated at times Joceline de Troteman. The CathedWells was begun before the middle of the 13th century. The entire body of the Church from the west end to the middle of the present choir is supposed to be the work of Bishop Joceline de Welles, who made Wells his place of residence and restored it to the precedence over Bath which it has retained.

Bishop Joceline de Welles

IO
this source. this family.

INTRODUCTORY.

Simon de Welles, Archbishop of Wells, was of born about 1145 and was one of the Crusaders. He was at the renowned seige of St. Jean de Acre,* He was granted a coat-of-arms in 1191, by Richin Palestine.

He was

ard Cour de Lion.f

His

estates in

were

in

Nottinghamshire and
leaders

Somersetshire.

The manor

the latter place, after several

descents, passed into the

Pym

family

who were

among

the Puritans in the seventeenth century. J

The Welles Family

in

America.

what may be called, the transition period Welles family, occasioned by the falling into abeyance of the Barony de Welles, the English revolution of the sixteenth century, the religious persecutions of the age and the extensive emigration from England to America of those

We

now come,

to

in the history of the

desirous of- worshiping

dictate.

God

as their

own

consciences might

Whatever honor

there

may be

in lineal descent

from the ad-

venturous knights who followed William the Conqueror, and, having made conquest of England, laid the foundations of English liberty, it should be esteemed a higher honor to be dethe wilds of America,

scended from the dauntless heroes, who, making conquest of laid the foundations and reared with wisdom unsurpassed, the stable government enjoyed by the people of the United States of

To

build a nation
;

is

a mightier

America. and a grander work than

to

conquer a nation

wrought

for

and to the descendants of those who thus the ages on American soil, there comes from the
some
say, a

*Acre, the "A'ccho" of the Scriptures ancient times a celebrated city.

town and Seaport

of Syria

and

in

tRichard

I.

of

crowned

first,

Sept. 3, 1189;

England, 3d Son of Henry II. and Eleanor of Aquitaine, crowned second, April 17, 1194.

b.

1157, d. 1199;

tJohn Pym was one of the most distinguished men of his day for ability, eloquence and untiring activity. For many years he was a member of the Lower House of Parliament, the leader of the popular party. His protest against the usurpations of the crown caused his imprisonment by King James in 1622. He was foremost in the proceedings against the Earl of Stafford, and was among those whom Charles I., attended by armed men, went to the House of Commons to seize. His associates were Hampton, Lord Saye and others. He died, literally worn out by public labor, in 1643, and was honorably buried by the House of Commons at Westminster Abbey.

INTRODUCTORY.
past, with

I r

an ever increasing emphasis as the years

"Superior worth your rank requires For that, mankind reveres your sires If you degenerate from your race, Their merit heightens your disgrace."
:

roll

by, the

inspiriting admonition

A nobler band
New

of

those sturdy Puritans*

men and women never trod the earth than who with a sublime faith in God, an in-

domitable fortitude and an unwearied patience, founded the

England States of America.

"There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band Why had they come to wither here
:

Away from

their childhood's land?"

fearless eye,
;

"There was woman's

Lit by her deep love's truth

There was manhood's brow serenely high

And

the firey heart of youth."

"What

sought they thus afar?

Bright jewels of the mine?

The wealth of seas? The spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine."

"Ay

call

it

holy ground.
they found,

The soil where first they trod, They have left unstained, what there Freedom to worship God."

It is, therefore, without regret that, from the followers of William the Conqueror, who made conquest of England and secured as their heritage both lands and titles, we pass to those of their descendants who wrought a greater work by participating in the settlement and aiding in the rearing of the American

Republic.

The
land,

brief sketch we have given of the Welles family in Engfrom the advent of Harold de Vaux in 1120, to the year
class of Protestants
strict

The Puritans were a

tury.

which arose

in

England

in the 16th cen-

Calvinism in doctrine, and demanded, in opposition to those who desired a reform of the church service, the substitution of a form from which should be banished all resemblance whatever to the forms of the Roman church. Various repressive measures were directed against them by the British crown and large numbers emigrated to New England. The Pilgrims who founded Plymouth, Mass. in 1620,

They maintained a

were Puritan extremists, from whom the Puritans who in 1628 commenced the ment of the New England States should be carefully distinguished.

settle-

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INTRODUCTORY.
which time the old barony
is

1500, at

De

Welles

fell into

abey-

ance, through lack of male issue

among

the descendants of the

daughters of Leo Lord Welles,

ords,

taken from the English recall

wherein the descent

to

is

traced, through

these centuries,

from father
daughters
tion of the

son.

The

records mention only the sons or

inherited the barony. They give no informayounger sons, whose only inheritance was a small estate, perhaps, and the honored family name. They were as truly the descendants of Harold de Vaux the Norman, as their titled brothers, and if the England of the past was like the England of to-day, they were probably men of stauncher character than those

who

who

enjoyed the luxuries of the barony.

:

Sir Archibald Allison, in his "History of Europe?" says

England are limited to the eldThe younger branches of the aristocraest son of the family. cy relapse into the rank and become identified with the interests of the commons."
privileges of nobility in

"The

These commons are the great and powerful middle rank of England, which was formed, after the Norman conquest, by They were the dispossessed Anglo-Saxon and Danish Thanes. as noble born as their Norman conquerors, and with their families, the younger sons of the Norman aristocracy, as early as " In the middle of the twelfth century, freely intermarried.
the time of
the highest

Henry

II.

1154-1199

it

was impossible, save

in

and lowest ranks,

to distinguish

one race irom the

other."

These Norman English families were the moulders of the

English language, the founders of English liberty; and from the granting of Magna Charta in 1205, have ever been the
strength and glory of the English realm.
is

Their noble origin

the landed estates

attested

now by

the

names they bear and

with which their families are associated.

From

these families

came

the greater portion of the English

Puritans,

"whom

religious oppression," in the language of the

historian Allison, "drove to the forests of

America, and from

whom

have sprung those powerful States which have tried amid transatlantic plenty the doubtful experiment of democratic government." Among" the Puritans who fled from religious

INTRODUCTORY.

persecution to the wilds of America, there were several bear-

ing the surname Welles.

Colchester, Essex County, England, in 1629, NathanWelles and in 1635. from the same locality, Hugh, ThomIn 1635, William as, George, Joseph and Richard Welles. Welles came from Norwich, Norfolkshire, England, and in 1636, Thomas Welles came from Rothwell, Northamptonshire,
;

From

iel

England, and from him have descended through successive generations, the family gi'oups about which these annals center,

and which are here designated, outlining the plan of these

Ancestral Tablets.

The Welles
1.

Families.
c. a.

Gov. Thomas Welles,

b. 1598;
?

1636;

m. 1620,?

Elizabeth Hunt, b. 1600.

2.

Hon. Samuel Welles,

b.

1630;

c. a.

1636; m. 1659,

Elizabeth Hollister, b. 1632.

3.

Capt.

Thomas Welles,

b.

1662; m. 17055

Jerusha Treat,

b. 167S.

4.

Ichabod Welles,

b. 1712;

m. 1733.:

Mary
5.

Hall, b. 1714.

Capt. Hezekiah Welles, b. 1738:? m. 1762,

Phoebe Talcott,
6.

b. 1744-

Elijah Welles, b.

776

m. 1796,?

Mary
7.

Allaben, b. 177S.
b.

Rev. Ransford Welles. D. D.,

iSo^; m. 1S31,

Joanna Hardenbergh,
S.

b. 1S06.

Rev. Theodore

W.

Welles, b. 1S39; m. 1S63,

b. 1S3S.

Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck,

H
9A. Laura
Jr., b. 1S56.

INTRODUCTORY.

Hoes Welles,

b. 1864

in.

1SS3,

John A.

Lott,

9B.

Fanny Reynolds Welles,

b.

1S66;

m. 1SS7, Tunis c
.

Van

Derveer,

b. 1S66.

ioa.

Abraham Lloyd

Lott, b. 1SS4.

iia. Theodore Welles Lott, b. 1SS9.

iob.

Theodore Welles Van Derveer,

b. iSSS.

Gov.

Thomas

Welles.
history
is

trace,

The progenitor of the family whose was Thomas Welles. His name

we

propose

to
it

given as

we

find

written by his

second

own hand. Many of his "e" when writing their names.

descendants omit the

In an autograph
let-

ter written in 1S43, the

Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of

the

Navy of the United States in 1861-69, says: "My father, Samuel Welles, who died in 1834, aged
to tell

eighty years, used

:

me

that our English ancestors were once of the English nobility

his earliest recollections

were the strong injunctions of his grandfather and great uncle never to omit the letter "e" in his name: that the family had once great estates of which they had been wrongfully deprived, and that in due time they should return. These were the remarks of old men, born about thirty years after the death of Gov. Thomas
that

amongst

Welles, and,
ily

who

in

childhood imbibed impressions brought with the fam-

from the parent land."

In

all

original records the

name

is

written Welles, by those

who form

the line of descent given in this volume, until

fifth

we

from Gov. Thomas Welles. From 159S to 1S15, a period of 217 years, the surname, of the ancestors herein described, was Welles, and for the sake of uniformity, is so written throughout the volume, although, after 1776, man} whom we mention omitted the second " e,"
reach Elijah, the
in descent
7

probably through ignorance.

Thomas Welles was born

in

Essex County, England,

in

1S9S, during the latter part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and died at Wethersfield,* Hartford county, Connecticut, Satur-

day, January 14, 1660.

He was descended from the Lincolnshire branch of the De Welles family of England, in which the name of Thomas is of
very frequent occurrence.
*Wethersfield

A small village in

township of same name,

river.

3>-'

miles east of Hartford,

;

on the west bank of the Connecticut

nent residents locating there in 1634.

The

first settled

town of Connecticut

perma-

l6

GOV. THOMAS WELLES.

As

earl}' as

1620 he resided

at

Rothwell,* an ancient village

county the Welles

of Northamptonshire, England, in which

family had large estates.

While living here he became dissatisfied with the forms and ceremonies of the established church. He was a person of such importance and influence in the community, that the Court of Star Chamberj deemed it necessary to bring him to trial
thereby exemplifying the Shakespearean couplet
" Gnats are unnoticed wheresoe'er they
fly,

But eagles gaz'd upon by ev'ry eye."

The comment
ing of the

of Anderson in his History of England, upon

the conduct of Charles I.J during the years preceeding the call-

Long Parliament

in

1640;

is

that,

"through the

court of star chamber, he attempted to punish such of the popular Puritan leaders as

had made themselves particularly ob1635, declares

noxious."

that,

The English Calender of State Papers, for Thomas Welles and Elizabeth his wife,
Recusant

of Rothwell,

Northamptonshire, are "recusant."

signifies, refusal to subscribe to the oath of

conformac-

ity to the established

chui'ch of England,

which required

knowledgment of the King as head of the Church, instead of the Pope. The Puritans would not subscribe to either teaching;
believing that Jesus Christ
is

" head over

all

things to

the

church."
'Rothwell, commonly called Rowell A village of 2,750 inhabitants in 1881 in the county of Northampton, England, 79 miles from London. The church dedicated to the Holy Trinity was originally a Norman structure, and is considered a fine specimen of the Transition and early English periods, and has a tower with peal of six bells. The village is very ancient, and somewhat irregularly laid out. The market house, commenced in 1507 by Sir Thomas Tresham but never finished, is an interesting ruin, appearing like a fragment of ancient Rome transplanted to the spot. Northamptonshire is a long and narrow inland County, touching Lincolnshire on the south and running back from the Wash in a southwesterly direction.
:

tThe Court of Star Chamber was an English Court of very ancient origin. It was so from the anglo-saxon sieoran, to steer or govern, or from being held in the room in the king's exchecquer at Westminster where the Jewish contracts or obligations called sta?-rs, from the Hebrew sketar, pronounced sAiar,~were kept. Its trials were without the intervention of a jury. Its powers were so greatly abused, in the latter part of the
called, either

reign of Charles

I,

that

it

was

abolished.

son of James I. and Anne of Denmark, b. 1600, came to the throne 1625, beheaded 1649, m. Henrietta Maria of France. A polished gentleman, but in his theory of kingly power, a tyrant whose principles of absolute authority persistently practiced, led to war, dethronement, death.
{Charles
I.,

HIS LIFE

AND DEEDS.

1J

tion

Because' of their refusal to take this oath, articles of accusawere drawn against Thomas Welles and Elizabeth, his wife,
to

Court of Star Chamhad declared that all children were within the covenant of God. and would be saved, even if they were not baptized that Christians might lawfully go from their own parish when they had not two sermons on Sunday and that they had spoken against the ceremonies of the Church of England, against the use of the surplice, against baptism and the marriage ring, and had refused to bow at the
in the

and they were summoned

answer

ber.

The charges were,

that they

name of

Jesus.
the}'

For these offences

were

tried

and sentenced, and the

greater portion of their projDerty confiscated, Thursday, Febru-

ary 12, 1635, old style reckoning, but February 23, 1636, by the present calendar.

Because of these proceedings Thomas Welles and his family, and seven children, four sons and three daughters, the youngest child a babe, embarked for America, and arrived
a wife early in the spring of 1636. a short time before the issue of the

Royal Proclamation of King Charles

tation of his

I.

against

"the transpor-

majesties subjects to the plantations within the

parts of

America."
at this

The Connecticut Valley* was

April,
er,
1
,

time a wilderness.

In

63 1 Seguin, the Indian Sagamore of the Connecticut rivhaving been conquored by the Pequots, sent Wahquimacut,

one of his chiefs, to the Massachusetts and Plymouth Colonies,

desiring

them

to

send Englishmen

to settle his country.

An ex-

ploring party from Plymouth, during the

ited

summer
site

of 1632, visfor a trading

the

Connecticut valley and selected a

house, at the mouth of the Tunxis, or Farmington river, near

Matianuck.

Windsor, a locality called by the Indians same time, or June S, 1633, Jacob Van Curler, an agent of Wouter Van Twiller Governor of Xew Netherlands, purchased of Sassacus, a sachem of the Pequots,
the present village of

About

the

at the

request of Seguin the .Sagamore, the land at the junction

is

word Qti which means Long River. about 400 miles long, flowing through the central part of the State bearing its name, and emptying into Long Island Sound, at Saybrook. It was called by the Dutch, Fresh river. 3
"Connecticut
the Americanized Indian the

The stream bearing

name

is

lb

GOV. THOMAS WELLES.

at"

of the Little, and Great or Connecticut rivers,

site

the present

of the city of Hartford, upon which the Dutch built a

trading house and fort, which they

site

named Good Hope, and

the

of which

is still

called

Dutch Point.

The fort was scarcely completed when Capt. William Holmes of Plymouth sailed up the Connecticut river with the necessary materials for building a trading house. The Dutch at Good Hope commanded him to return whence he came and threatened to fire upon his vessel if he attempted to pass the fort, but disregarding this hostile demonstration, Capt. Holmes
proceeded on his way and erected a trading house upon the site previously selected at the mouth of the Tunxis river. Previous to this several companies had arrived in Massachusetts and had turned their attention to the Connecticut val-

A comley as a desirable place for a permanent settlement. pany from Devonshire, Dorchestershire and Somersetshire. England, when embarking from Plymouth had formed themselves into a Church, and after arriving at Boston had located themselves at Dorchester, under the Rev. John Warham, in
1630.*

Another company, among

whom was

Sir Richard Saltonstall,

with Rev. George Phillipsj as pastor, located the same year at Watertown, while a third company, in 1632, from Chelmsford,

Essex Co., England, located at Newtown, afterwards called Cambridge, and in 1633 secured the services of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, i These companies formed the Connecticut Coloiry. The Watertown people erected a few huts at the present site of Weth*Rev. John Warham An eminent minister of the Church of England, at Exeter, who adopted Puritan sentiments and came to America as the pastor of the Dorchester society. He was the first preacher that ever preached without notes in New England. He died at

Windsor, Ct., April

i, 1670.
,

tRev. George Phillips was born at Roudham, Norfolk Co., Eng. and becoming dissatisfied with the Established Church, migrated to New England with John Winthrop in 1630, established a church at Watertown, Mass., and continued its pastor until his death in 1644. He was "so familiar with every part of the Bible that he never needed a concordance."
college,

JRev. Thomas Hooker was born at Marfield, Leicestershire, Eng. educated at Emanuel Cambridge, Eng. was forbidden to preach by the Bishop of L> ndon, and fled to Holland in 1630, from whence he came to America in 1633. He died July 7, 1647, at Hartford, Ct. He is said to have been "the one rich pearl with which Europe more than repaid America for the treasure from her coast,"
, :

HIS LIFE
ersfield,

AND DEEDS.

19

by the Indians Pyquag, and wintered there in During the summer of 1635, the Dorchester compa1634-5. ny made a permanent settlement at Windsor, and in the summer of 1636, "the body of the people of Dorchester, under Mr. Warham, together with those of Newtown under Mr. Hooker, with others from Watertown, whose pastor refused to accompany them, migrated to the Connecticut valley and effected a Mr. Warham led his people to final settlement of the colony." Windsor, the Watertown people went to Wethersfield, and the congregation of Mr. Hooker established themselves at Hartford,* on lands which they purchased from the Indians. Here at Hartford, May 1, 1637, a few months after the arrival of Mr. Hooker and his people, we first find record in America of Thomas Welles, who that clay was chosen one of the first magistrates! of the Connecticut colony, and so remained until the day of his death, or for nearly a quarter ot a century. Tradition affirms that he came to America as the private secretary of Lord Sav-and-SealJ, and that their families were
called

connected
tion,

but there

is

nor indicating when, or where,

no record substantiating such an asserThomas Welles first set

on American soil. probably landed at Boston and then joined the company at Xewtown, from his native county of Essex, a short time previous to their migration to Connecticut. He was one of the chief men among those who settled Hartford, occupying at the
foot

He

*Hartford
site,

lies

the surface of which

first settled,

when

on the Connecticut river sixty miles from its mouth, occupying' a hilly It was called Newtown is somewhat uneven and irregular. but named Hartford for Hartford, England, in 1637.

tThe government of the Connecticut colony was by seven men; one of whom was called Governor, and the other six, Magistrates; "who shall have power to administer justice according to the laws established, and for want thereof, according to the Word of God."
JWilliam Fiennes, Lord Say-and-Seal, was the son of Richard Fiennes, Lord Say-andand Constance, daughter of Sir William Kingsmill. He was born at Oxford in 1582, made Viscount in 1624, and died in 1662. Lord Richard was of Strathfield Say, Northamptonshire, Eng. and a will found among the family papers mentions a certain Barbara Welles among the family connections and heirs.
Seal,
,

New American Cyclopaedia mentions as the chief men of the Connecticut colony, Thomas Hooker, Rev. Samuel Stone, John Haynes, Edward Hopkins, George Wyllys, Thomas Welles, John Webster, William Whitney, John Steele and John Talcott, at Hartford Rev. John Warham, Roger Ludlow, Henry Wolcott, William Phelps and Capt. T John Mason, at Windsor, with William Swaim, Thurston Raynor and Andrew W ard, at
SThe
Rev.
;

Wethersfield.

20

GOV. THOMAS WELLES.

position,
in

founding of the town, and retaining through life, an eminent and aiding in the adoption by the Connecticut colony,
1639, f *he Constitution forever

memorable

in

American

history, as " the first

civil

order in the

New

one written out as a complete form of World, containing all the essential fea-

tures of the constitutions of the

American

states

and of the Re-

public

itself,

as they exist at the present day."

Thomas Welles

resided at Hartford, in a dwelling, on a plot

of ground containing seven or eight acres, on the east side of

Cole street,* which runs about parallel with the river and about midway between the river and Main street. He had a good
proportion of the patents for Swampscot and Dover, which he
sold,

Aug.

1648, to Christopher

Lawson.

Thaddeus Welles,

one of his descendents, resided in 1875, upon land which Thomas Welles purchased from Sowheag, the great sachem at Middletown, Ct.

Thomas Welles moved to Wethersfield, Ct., by the name of Welles, was Ensign Hugh Welles, from Essex Co., England, who is thought to have been a brother of Thomas, and who settled at WethersPrevious
to

1649

of which place the

first settler

field in 1637.

When Thomas Welles was chosen

in

a magistrate of the colony,

May,

1637, the

first

businpss to engage the attention of himhostile attitude of the

self

and his associates, was the

Pequot

Indians, against

whom

they organized an expedition under

Capt. John Mason of Windsor, whose successful operations broke the power of the Pequots and nearly destroyed the
tribe.

In 1639 Thomas Welles was chosen the first Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut under the new constitution, and continued to act in that capacity until 1651, when, at his own reIn 1641 he was elected Secquest, some one else was chosen. retary of the colony, an office which to-day is designated Secretary of State.

In 1649 ne
;

was one

** * ne

the United Colonies

member

of the

first

commissioners of Federal Congress,

by
ster,

whom

the difficulty

between the Massachusetts Bay Colony

*The

first four men who were Governors of Connecticut Edward Hopkins, John WebThomas Welles and George Wylleysresided on Cole street, Hartford, the name of

which was changed March

10, 1851, to

Governor

street.

HIS LIFE

AND DEEDS.
;

21

and Connecticut was adjusted the quarrel between the English and the Dutch concerning the seizure of a vessel by the latter at New Haven, was arranged without resort to open
hostilities

and the Narragansetts and Nehantics compelled to keep the peace. In these proceedings Thomas Welles took an active and influential part, and upon the death of Gov. Haynes, DeputyGov. Hopkins being in England, was placed at the head of the government with the title of Moderator of the General Court. At the ensuing election in 16^4, he "was chosen Deputy Govern;

or,

but discharged

all

the duties of the gubernatorial office,

Gov. Hopkins remaining in England. He procured the appointment of Commissioners to meet Cromwell's officers at Boston;* quieted a dispute between the Indian chief Uncas and New London, concerning lands; and dispatched Lieutenant Seely and Captain Mason, with men and ammunition, to check the
assaults of Ninigrate.
at Hartford, and, in the language of the historian, " a fruitful source of

During his administration Dutch bouse lands and property were sequestered

this year, the

Dutch intrusion and impudence forever abated." The next year, 1655, he was elected Governor;

the fourth

person since the establishment of the colony to enjoy such distinction. In 1656. '57 and '59 he was Deputy Governor, and in 165S Governor for the second time. By a law of the colony

no one could be chosen Governor two years

in succession.

During
through
find
it

his administration the

New

England, but

to

Quaker fanatacism prevailed the honour of Gov. Welles we

little

recorded, that "these religious zealots suffered the most

in Massachusetts

and Plymouth, but comparatively

in

Connecticut."
severe, but reveal the upand character. Usury was forbidden, not only for money, but for cattle and farming implements. Idleness, lying, swearing, and drunkenness, were subjected to

The laws he administered were

rightness ol his

own

life

'Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the British

Sir

Commonwealth, 1649-58, grandson of Henry Cromwell, of Hinchinbrook, surnamed the Golden Knight, son of Robert Crom-

well and Elizabeth Steward.

b. at Huntingdon, April 25,1599^. Sept. 3, 1658, m. James Bourchier of Felsted, Essex Co. To induce the Colonists to remove from New England to the West Indies he sent officers to Boston in 1655. but the Colonists declined the promotion Cromwell was so eager to bestow.

Was

Aug.

22. 1620, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir

22

GOV. THOMAS WELLES.

Kissing a
in

various penalties and marks of disgrace.

the street, even

woman

in

by way of
174
?

civil

salute,

was punished by

flog-

Boston upon he met in the street after a long absence. For certain misdemeanors- one Josias Plaistowe was sentenced to pay a fine and "hereafter to be called Josias and not Mister as he used to be." But few in the colony obtained the title of Mister, still fewer that of Esging.
late as

As

this

law was executed

an English sea captain

for

saluting his wife,

whom

quire, as

''

these distinctive appellations

were given

to

merit

and services rather than wealth."

From the date of its birth to the day of his death, Thomas Welles served the Connecticut colony. He was Magistrate 23 years, Treasurer 12 years, Secretary, Representative in the first
Federal Congress Moderator of the General Court, Deputy Gov-

vernor four
serious

}<ears

and Governor two years.

In

all

these posi-

tions he gave constant proof that he

was

''an active, prudent,

man, deeply interested in the affairs of the colony and promoting its welfare by all the measures in his power. He possessed the full confidence of the people, and many of the most important laws and papers pertaining to the founding of the colony were drafted by him."

He died
was buried
ciates,

during his
in the old

last

term as Deputy Governor

at

'
;

dropping

like ripe fruit, seasonably gathered, into the silent grave."

He

cemetery

Hartford, and with his asso-

Governors Haynes, Wylleys and Webster, awaits the

resurrection of the dead, in a grave devoid of monumental marble

or engraven epitaph; but '"the virtues of these men," the historian declares, ''has

embalmed

their

names and

will render

them

venerable to the latest posterity."

Gov. Welles left a personal estate, which according to the inventory made after his death, amounted to one thousand and sixty-nine pounds and nine shillings, or $5347.25.

He

died at Hartford, Ct., in 1640. taking as his wife Elizabeth

married in England, about 161S, Elizabeth Hunt, who He married the second time, Deming, widow of Nathaniel

Foote of Wethersfield,
of England.

From

this

and the daughter of John Deming an advanced age, July 28, 16S3. marriage there was no issue.
Ct.,

She died

at

HIS CHILDREN.

23

The children Hunt were

:

of

Governor Thomas Welles and Elizabeth

where he resided. 1658 he was Quartermaster under
Hartford,

2.

Ann; m. 1, April 14, 1646, Thomas Thompson, of Farmington. m. 2, Anthony Hawkins.

John;
m.
Elizabeth
Curtis,
d.
6.

3.

Resided first at Hartford 1659. and then at Stratford, Fairfield He was RepreCounty. Conn.
sentative in the Connecticut As-

Major John Mason. 1662-63 ^ e was Deputy Magistrate.! Samuel; b. ab't 1630, d. July
15,

1675, m.

1,

ab't 1659, Elizad. 1673,

beth Hollister,
of

daughter

sembly

in 1656-57,

and Magis-

trate for Stratford in 1659.*

4.

Robert; died about 1658, without

issue.

John Hollister, Sr., and Joanna Treat m. 2, 1675, Hannah Lambertson, daughter of George Lambertson of New Ha:

ven, Ct.
23, 1654,

5.

Thomas; m. June

Han-

7.

Sarah
nf.

b.

1631, d. Dec. 12, 1698, 1654,

nah Tuttle, of Boston, Mass.,

2,

Feby,
b.

Capt.
3,

John
d.

widow
died,

of

Thomas
by

Pantry.

He
S.

Chester,

Aug.

1635,

1668,
tree.

falling

from a

cherry

He was
man
of

the largest

and

tallest

his time in

9.

Feby 23, 1698. Mary; d. ab't 1656. Joseph?; b. at Hartford,

1637.

Elizabeth Hunt, wife of Governor Thomas Welles, was descendant of Sir Thomas de Hunt, of renown in 1366, at

Stoke Daubenny, in the county of Rutland.! She came to America with her husband in 1636, but unable to endure the severe climate of New England and the hardships of a pioneer
life,

died at Hartford, Ct., in 1640.

;

* Among the descendents of John Welles (3) are Gen. Roger Welles, b. 1753 Captain during the Revolution, under Gendral Lafayette, at the seige of Yorktown, and present at the surrender of Cornwallis, he was presented with a sword by General Lafayette as a token of esteem, and was General of the Connecticut Militia. Also Samuel Roberts Welles, born 1820. Phrenologist, of the firm of Fowler & Wells of New York; and Rev. John Lester Wells, of Newark, a Presbyterian clergyman.

born

Thomas Welles (5) are Henry William D wight Wells, American Express Company, and of Wells College, at Aurora, N. Y., David Ames Welles, M. D., L. L. D., D. C. L., b. 1827, Commissioner of the Revenue of the United States, 1866 Foreign Associate of the Institute of France, succeeding J. Stuart Mill 1S74; University Lecturer on Political Economy at Yale College, 1872 President of the American Association for the Promotion of Social Science, succeeding Dr. Woolsey, of New Haven, Conn., 1876; D. C. L. conferred by Oxford
t

Among

the descendents of

1806, founder of the

University, England.

JRutland, the smallest shire in England,

shire,

lies between Lincolnshire and Northamptonand with the adjacent counties forms the East Midlands. The court house is at

Oakham.

Hon. Samuel Welles.

The Hon. Samuel Welles was born
amptonshire, England, about 1630.
at

Rothwell, North-

He

died at Wethersfield,

Hartford Co., Ct., Thursday, July 15, 1675. "He was the fifth child of Gov. Thomas Welles and Elizabeth

Hunt, and came

to

America with

his parents, a lad six or seven

years of age, in 1636.

Manv improvements
yet

connected with domestic

life,

were as

unknown, and

others,

had

just

been introduced.

The use of chimneys was a new thing, which many opposed, on the ground that the smoke was beneficial to health and hardened the timbers of the houses. Wooden dishes and spoons were slowly giving way to pewter ones, boards and unhewn logs were mostly used in building, while rye, barley and^ oats were the common food. The Sabbath commenced on Saturday evening at sunset, and was observed with the utmost strictness. Prayers and sermons
were but little esteemed, unless of great length. The observance of Christmas was forbidden, and although Sunday Schools were unknown, all parents were commanded by law, to instruct and catechise their children and servants, whom the selectmen were directed, "to remove from their authority and commit to fitter hands, if they were found deficient " in this important duty. Children were also allowed to seek redress from the Magistrates " if they were denied convenient marriage." Public worship took place in what was called the Meeting House, where assemblies for transacting the Town's business and for other purIn most of the congregations, bells poses were also held. being obtained but slowly, the assembly was summoned by beat of drum.

HIS LIFE

AND HOME.
tell

25
in

The Wethersfield
Welles was hired
ing, for the setting

records

us,

that

1652,

" Hugh

to beat the

drum

for

one whole year from the

in the

25th of April, that time twelve months, every night and morn-

and the calling of the watch

morning,

and

for to beat

it

every Lord's Day, and the lecture days, and

for all other occasions that the

this service

townsmen may

require."

For

he received twelve pounds. At the religious services

families

were divided, the men and

to

women

sitting apart

on their

respective sides of the house.

The

children sat by themselves,

in

and a man was appointed

the older folks awake.
at

keep them

order, and to keep

He

carried a staff of office with a

knob

one end and a feather brush at the other. With the knob he knocked the heads of the men who slept, and with the feathers he tickled the faces of the women. portion of the men were

The meeting and when the Hymn was not familiar the minister read off two lines, which were sung by the congregation, then other two lines were read and sung, and so on through the hymn. The approved length of a sermon was an hour, measui'ed by an hour glass which stood upon the pulpit, as easily observed by the congregation as by the
inquired to

come

to

worship completely armed.

house was never warmed.

Books were

scarce,

Minister.

Amid
grew
die,

these

to

manhood.
life

surroundings and influences, Samuel Welles When ten years of age, he saw his mother

unable longer to endure the privations and hardships of a

pioneer

and the bleak

New

England winters, "which dur-

ing the early years of the settlement of Connecticut, were ex-

ceedingly severe."

Samuel Welles resided at Hartford until 1649, when he moved to Wethersfield, Ct.. and lived upon the place originally

purchased by his father, on the East side of the Great or He took the Freeman's oath at Hartford, May 21, 1657; was Ensign 165S; Lieutenant 1665 Captain
Connecticut river.
1670
; ;

Deputy Magistrate at Hartford from 1657 to x 662, and also in 1675. He was also a member of the General Assembly, and in the records of the past is frequently styled the Hon. Samuel Welles. He is supposed to have been drowned while crossing the Connecticut river, or to have been killed by the Indians.

26

HON. SAMUEL WELLES.

Samuel Welles married in 1659, Elizabeth Hollister. She died in 1673, and in 1675, he married Hannah Lambertson, daughter of George Lambertson, of New Haven, Ct.* From
this

marriage there was no

children of Hon.

issue.

The
10.

Samuel Welles

(6)

and Elizabeth

Hollister

were

Samuel; b. April 13, 1660, d. Aug. 28, 1 731, m. June 20, 1683,

11.

Ruth Rice.f Thomas; b. July

Dec.
^697.
ter of
7,

1698, m. 1, Dec. 4, 1683, Ephraim Hawley m. 2, Angers Tomlinson, of Stratford, Ct.

:

29,
1,

1662,

d.
7,

13.

Mary;
jr.,

b:

Nov.

23, 1666, d.

Feb'y

1711,

m.

Jan'y

18, 1715,

m. 1695, Samuel Hale,

Thankful Root, daugh-

of Glastonbury, Ct.
b.

John Root,
Mass.,
I

of

North2,

14.

Ann;
ly

166S, d. 1739, m.

1,

Ju-

ampton,
1 7>

m.

May
Treat,
1754,

19,

16S7,
of

Captain

James
Ct.

75>
d.

Jerusha
Jan'y
15,

Steele,

Wethersfield,
20, 1718,

b.

1678,

m.

2,

Nov.

James Judm. April

4,

daughter of Lieut. James Treat

son, of Stratford, Ct.

15.

and Rebecca Lattimer,

ersfield, Ct.
12.

of

Weth-

Elizabeth;
ford, Ct.

b.

1670,

1692, Daniel Shelton of Strat-

Sarah

b. Sept. 29, 1664, d. ab't

*This is probably the George Lambertson who in 1640 fitted out a vessel at New Haven, and with some fifty families endeavored to found a settlement on the Delaware. The vessel touched at Manhattan (New York), and the commander was warned by Gov. Kieft to desist from his enterprise. Disregarding- the warning he proceeded on his way and

commenced two settlements, one on Salem creek and the other on the Schuylkill. But Kieft broke up the settlements, sent the people back to New Haven, and as Lambertson
persisted in trading at the South or Delaware river, arrested him, brought him to Manhattan, and compelled him to pay full duty on his cargo. Hannah Lambertson, after the

death of Samuel Welles, married fhe Hon. John Allyn, of Hartford, Ct.
(10) are Samuel Welles, b. 1689, Judge of the and for many years his majesty's Council for the Colony. He is said to have been one of the wealthiest men of his day. General Arnold Welles, of Boston, b. 1761, son-in-law of General Arnold who fell at Bunker General Henry Welles of Pennsylvania, b. 1780, Representative and SenaHill. tor from Lycoming County in the Legislature of Pennsylvania, and Aide on the staff of Gov. Snyder of Pennsylvania. Samuel Welles, the eminent American banker at Paris, France, b. 1778. Established the banking firm of Welles &Co., at Paris, 1815. Acquired great wealth, d. at Paris, 1841. His wife, Adeline Fowle, of Massachusetts, m. Marquis de la Valette. Samuel, her son by her first husband, bearing title Count Welles de la Valette, m. a daughter of M. Routher, Prime Minister to Napoleon III.

tAmong

the descendents of Samuel Welles

at Boston, Mass.,

Lower Court

Also Gideon Welles,

roller 1S35, '42, '48,

b. 1802,

Member

of the Connecticut Legislature. 1827-1835,

Compt-

Postmaster at Hartford, 1836, '41, Secretary of the Navy of the United States through the administrations of Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, 1861-69, Henry S. Welles, b. 1821, Civil Engineer and railroad builder, planned d. 1878. and constructed the Brooklyn water-works for $5,000,000. Julia Ann Buckingham, b. 1829, wife of Hon. Samuel S. Cox, known as Sunset Cox, many years Member of Congress from Ohio and

New

York.

ELIZABETH HOLLISTER HIS WIFE.

27

was The

Elizabeth Hollister, wife of Hon. Samuel Welles (6), the daughter of John Hollister, Sr., and Joanna Treat.
date of her birth
is

not known.

She died

at Wethersfield,

Ct., in 1675.

The Hollister
Hollister
least, to the
is

Family.
was bounded bv
w

a family

name

of ancient origin, dating back, at

life

time of Henry VIII. whose

the years 1491 and 1547.

The name

is

derived from

'

holly"
;

and

'

terra ", and signifies Hollyland, or the place of hollies

title

a descriptive

that

might apply

to

almost any locality in

England where the beauty of well nigh every landscape, is enhanced by the presence of the cheerful and ever-green holly. The Hollister family, we are told by Mr. Alpheus Hollister, of Hollisterville, Pennsylvania, were from Bristol,*. England a good, influential family, hoary with age. certain John Hollister in 160S, was Lord of the Manor of Stinchcombe. After the Protectorate was established in 1654, Dennis Hollister was a member of Cromwell's Privy Council.

John
born

Hollister,

Sr.,

as

he

is

generally designated,
said, a

was

market town, twenty two miles from Bath, near the middle of Somersetshire, England, and once the site of the most ancient and the most extensive monastery in the British realm. He emigrated from Bristol, at the mouth of the Avon, in 1642, and settled at Weymouth, Mass., where he was admitted a freeman in 1643. and chosen deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts for the following session.
in 161 2, in Glastonbury,
it is

Previous
Ct.

to

June, 1644, he became a resident of Wethersfield,

and during that month was member of a Particular court

held at Hartford.

He
was

afterwards
to the

moved

to

Glastenbury, Ct.
in

He was

chosen deputy

General Court of Connecticut

Sept., 1644, and

re-elected fourteen times.

He was

ap-

press

pointed by the Legislature, October, 165 j, on a Committee "to men and necessaries in each town, for the expedition to
,

'Bristol,

England, a

city six miles

from the mouth of the Avon partly

in

Somerset and

partly in Gloucestershire.

First appears in history on a coin bearing date A. D. iooo.

to be, "the fairest

Here is St. Mary Redcliff, which Queen Elizabeth declared famous parish Church in England ".

and most

28
the

HON. SAMUEL WELLES.

Naraganset Country, against Ninigrate." Three years he was appointed, with Deputy Govenor Welles and the Magistrates of the Colony, " to attend any occasions as to the Divers state of the commonwealth in reference to the Indians." other legislative and popular appointments, show the high reslater,

pect in which he
of the State.

was regarded by

the people and the authorities

When he came to Connecticut he bore the prefix, "Mr." which was superceded in 1657 by the military title of Lieutenant. He is described as, "a gentleman of undoubted probity and steadiness of purpose." He died in April, 1665, aged 53 years. His will bears date April 5, 1665. By this will he devised his farm at Noag, afterwards called, Glastenbury, Ct.,* to his son John, who was " to pay his mother, while she lived, twenty barrels of apples and two barrels of cider, yearly." John Hollister, Sr'.. married

Joanna Treat and had

2.

Mary;
John;
20,

in.

John Welles,

of Strat-

5. 6.

ford, Ct.
3.

Joseph Stephen
;

d.
;

Aug.
1,

29, 1674.

m.

Abigail Treat
a

b.

1644, d. 1711, m. Nov.

2,

Elizabeth Reynolds,

m. widow,
:

1667,

Sarah
1700,

Goodrich,

b.
7.

dan. of

John Coleman.
d.

1651, d.

dau. of William

Elizabeth;

1673,111.1659,11011.
[6],

4.

Goodrich and Sarah Marvin. Thomas; d. Nov. 8, 1701, m.

Elizabeth
dau. of
his wife

Samuel Welles
I,

b.

1630,

d.

Lattimer,

b.

1652,

8.

July Sarah
ton
:

15, 1675.
;

111.
111.

1,

Rev.

Hope Atherwho
d.

John Lattimer and Ann,

:

2,

1679, Lieut. Baker, of

111.

2,

Elizabeth Will-

Northampton,
Dec.
8,

Mass.,

iams, a widow.

1691.

husband nearly thirty years. She died in October. 1694. Treat and Joan, his wife.

Joanna Treat, wife of John The

Hollister,

Sr.,

survived her
is

date of her birth

unknown.
Richard

She was

the daughter of

The Treat
Richard Treat and Joan
of Elizabeth Hollister Welles,

Family.
to

his wife, maternal grandparents

came

America

at

an early day.
below Hartford

*Glastenbury, a township and village of Hartford Co., on the east bank of the Connecticut river.

Ct., seven miles

ELIZABETH HOLLISTER HIS WIFE.

29

They were

first in

Massachusetts, and from thence came as

Ct., at

early as 1637 to

Wethersfield,

which place,

in 1699,

Richard Treat died, a very old man. He was a member of the General Court in 1637, tne ^ rst court formed in the colony
of Connecticut.

The
2.

children of Richard Treat and his wife Joan were

ab't 1637,

Honour; m.
ing.

John Dem-

6.

Robert; b. 1621, d. July m. 1, Jane Tapp m.

:

12, 1710,
2,

1705,

Sarah
bell.

m. 1644, Matthew

Camp7.

Elizabeth Bryan.*

James;

b. 1634, d.

Feby.

12, 1709,

Joanna ;

October 1694, m. John Hollister, Sr., and had Elizabeth

d.

m. Jany.

26, 1665,

Rebecca Lat2,

timer, b. 1646, d. April

1734,

Hollister, wife of

Hon. Samuel
8.

daughter of John Lattimer and

Welles Susanna

(6).
;

Ann his
m. 1652, Robert

wife of Wethersfield, Ct.

;

d. 1705,

Catherine

m. Nov.

19, 1695,

Wil-

Webster.
*Robert Treat,
(6), is

liam Johnson or Thompson.

said to

in 1767 by Rev. Abraham Pierson, for Newark in South Britian where he received ordination. Robert Treat, with seven others selected for the purpose, mapped out the town. He and Jasper Crane in 1668 were the first magistrates. He was elected representative to the first assembly of New Jersey, at Elizabeth, May 26, 1668. He was also the first Recorder or Town Clerk. In 1672 he returned to Connecticut and took a prominent part in the wars against the Indians, participating in the massacre of the He was Deputy Governor of Narragansetts, Dec. 19, 1675, and in other engagements. Connecticut in 1676, and Governor fiom 1683 to 98, excepting the two years of the administration of Sir Edmund Andross. Robert Treat Paine a signer of the " Declaration of Independence " was a great-grandson, the grandson of Rev. Samuel Treat, and Abigail Williard, widow of Benjamin Estabrook, and daughter of Rev. Samuel Williard.

was one of the named Newark

first

settlers of

have been the father Newark, New Jersey,

of

twenty-one children.

In 1666

originally

known

as Milford, but

Captain
Thomas Welles,
line,

Thomas
the second of this

Welles.

name

in the ancestral
,

was born

at Wethersfield,

Hartford Co., Ct.

Tuesday,

July 29, 1662.

He
7,

died at the
1711.

A.M., December

same place, Friday, at 5 o'clock He was the second son of the Hon.
Hollister,

Samuel Welles and Elizabeth

His
the
life

and the

first

in the

ancestral line to be born in America.

was

cast in a time of trouble

and his days -were pas-

sed in the midst of events that threatened the very existence of

colony his grandfather had governed.

The

colony of

Connecticut,

which

after the absorption of the

New Haven

Colony

in 1665, contained about fifteen

thousand inhabitants, at

King Philip's war in 1675-76, which ''cost the lives of some of the best men of New England and destroyed a vast amount of property," contained only twelve thousand
the close of

inhabitants.

In 16S5 another danger

of Sir
land*.

Edmund Andross
In 16S7 after

the appointment Royal Governor of New Engdissolving the Assembly of Rhode Island
as the the surrender of
its

was occasioned by

Govenor Andross demanded of Connecticut The Colonial Assembly was then charter.
ford and the

in session at Hart-

longed until evening,

upon

the

demand occasioned a discussion which was prowhen the charter was brought in and laid table. As Gov. Andross was stepping forward to

take the charter, the lights were suddenly extinguished, pro-

ducing a scene of great confusion and disorder. When the candles were relighted, the charter could not be found it had been
;

*Sir Edmund Andross, b. in London, England, Dec. 6, 1637, d. there Feby. 23, 1714; Knighted by Charles II, 1678 Colonial Governor of New York, 1674; Governor General of the British provinces in America 1686. His administration was harsh. He was arrested and sent to England July, 1689, was discharged without trial; made Governor of Virginia 1692, was recalled 1698; and from 1703 to 1706, was Govenor of the island of Guernsey.
;

THE EVENTS OF
carried

HIS LIFE.

31

tree

away and concealed in the heart of a stately oak. This was afterward named the Charter Oak, and being carefully guarded, was preserved until 1S56. In 1693, the Witch superstition and persecution arose, and 'filling New England with the intensest excitement, justly as-

tonished the civilized world."

Thomas Welles

(it) in the midst of these scenes,

tain in the Colonial

army, and

the period, Captain

Thomas

was a capdesignated in the records of Welles. Jan'y 27, 1710, he comis

plained to the authorities that he had received no compensation for acting as

commissary

to his

Hampshire

in the year 170S.

company in the county of Other captains had been com-

recognition of his labors.

the necessary payment.

pensated for similar service, and he desired the same substantial The request was favorably received,

and a committee appointed

In

to investigate the

matter and

make
as

70S Captain

Thomas Welles was admitted

to practice

an attorney by the bar of Hartford County, Ct., the fourth person thus qualified for legal business in the count}'. He was
attorney for the defendants in the important suit of Nathaniel

Hooker

vs.

Wethersfiekl, a case which involved the question of

the right of the plaintiff to share in an allotment of public lands

was sought to be carCourt of Queen's Bench.* The biief which he prepared in this case, is remarkable because of the large number of quotations from the Sacred Scriptures which it contained. The case was not decided until long after his death. Thomas Welles (11) married Jan'y 7, 1697, Thankful Root daughter of John Root of Wethersfiekl, Ct. She died in 1703, and Thomas Welles married May 17, 1705, Jerusha Treat. His children were
nearly forty years before, and which
ried to the
:

made

16.

Thomas;
1753.

b.
-

Jan'y
4,

10,

1698,
,

d.

18.

William;
.

b.

Jan'y
, .

12,

1706,

d.

J u ne
1

173 s
12,
T

Mary
-,

t_

17.

tj u Hezekiah
1

b.
1

a Aug.
1.

T-

1701, d.

Dec. 10

71

Dec 7j I7 8 3 m 1738, Mary Hunn, daughter of Samuel & Hunn, of Wethersfield, Ct.t
'

"The Court of Queen's Bench, or King's Bench, so called because the sovereign used to person. It was formerly the supreme court of common law in England. It is now a division of the High Court of Justice. t Among the descendants of William Welles (iS) is John Gaylord Welles, b. 1821. Pubsit in

lisher,

New

Yurk.

32
ig

CAPT. THOMAS WELLES.

Wait10,
'

b.

Jan'y

4,

1708, m. Jan'y
*

21.

Ichabod;
*758,

b.

April

26,

1712,
b.

d.

1734, /J ^' Jei-usha J

b.

Mary Hall
of

1714,

fdaughter

Ehphalet Hall and

of Guilford, Ct.

20.

John;

Feb'y

10, 1710.

Mary Grimes,

Thomas Welles (11), was born i67Sand died Jan'y 15, 1754. Her husband, Thomas Welles, died Dec. 7, 71 1 and she married Dec. 25, 17 12, Capt. Ephraim Goodrich of Wethersfield, Ct. She was a granddaughter of Richard Treat and Joan his wife, the great -grandparents of Thomas Welles her husband and a daughter of Lieut. James Treat and Rebecca Lattimer.
Jeriisha Treat, wife of Capt.
in
1
;

The Treat Family.

SECOND ALLIANCE.

James Treat

(7), father of Jerusha Treat Welles,

was

a son

of Richard Treat and Joan his wife, whose history has been He was born in 1634. and died Feb'y 12, 1709. He given.
is

designated,

in the

public

records of the day, Lieutenant

James Treat.

He

resided at Wethersfield, Hartford, Co., Ct.

He
9.

married, Thursday, Jan'y 26, 1665, Rebecca Lattimer,

:

and had
James;

b.

April

I,

25, 1746,
ter, b.

m.

1,

1666, d. Feb'y Prudence Ches-

12.

Richard;
23,

d.

May 7,

1713, m.

Nov.

1704,

Catherine

Bulkley,

Dec.
2,

10, 1662, d.

May

8,

daughter of Rev. GershomBulkley, of

13.

1727; m.

Hannah Wright,

Concord, Ct.f
b.

daughter of Samuel Wright, and Widow of Daniel Boardman.

10.

Salmon; (Rev.)
m.
April
28,

1673, d. 1746, 1698,

Dorothy

Jemima;

b.

March

16,

166S,

d.

11.

25, 1727, m. Dec. 17, 1691, Stephen Chester, jr.,b. May 26, a T7 \e, c 1659, d. Feb'y 9, 1698. Samuel; b. 1669, d. March 5,
<l
1
>

May

Noyes, daughter of Rev. James Noyes. f

*4-

Jerusha;
I

1732.
*

b. 1678, d. Jan'y 15, m- 1. May 17, 1705, Thomas Welles (11): m. 2, Dec. Captain Ephraim 1712, 25, Goodrich, of Wethersfield, Ct.

754,

Among
St.

chant at

the descendants of Wait Welles (19) are Lemuel T. Welles, b. 1S09 Louis, and Samuel Welles, a merchant at Cincinnati, Ohio, b. 1836.

a mer-

tRev. Gershom Bulkley, of Concord, Ct., b. Dec. 1636, d. Dec. 2, 1713, graduated at Harvard College 1655, was settled at New London, Ct., about 1658, and 1666, became pastor of the Church at Wea'.hersheld, Ct. He was a man of rare abilities, eminent for
his skill in Chemistry.

tRev. James Noyes, b, Mar. 11, 1640, graduate at Harvard College 1659, ordained at Stonington, Ct., Sept. 10, 1674, d. Dec. 30, 1719.

JERUSHA TREAT WELLES.

15.

33
1655,
d.

Joseph; b. 1680, d. Sept. 15, 1756, m. Tuly 16, 171^, Marv Robbins, t t t> 1,1 t Capt. Robbins, 01 dau. /Joseph
1 1

l6

Rebecca;
T _ I 7 ?'?5 /JJ '
I

b.
-

m ^ Dec.

Dec.
-,,,

26,

27, ^' " 1704, '

Ebene-

Wethersfield, Ct.

zei

"

Deming.

Rebecca Lattimer, wife of Lieut. James Treat (7), was born in 1646, and died 25 years after her husband's death, TuesShe was the day, April 2, 1734, in the SSth year of her age. daughter of John Lattimer and Ann his wife.

The Lattimer

Family.

John Lattimer and Ann his wife emigrated from England and were among the first settlers of Wethersfield, Ct. He died in 1662 and in his will mentions his wife Ann and the following children
2.
:

Rebecca; b. 1646, d. April

2,

1734,

5.

m. Jan'y
Treat,

26, 1665, Lieut.

James
12,

6.

b.

1634,

d.

Feb'y

1709, son of Richard Treat

and

John; b. 1650. Elishaba; b. 1652, m. Thomas Hollister, d. Nov. 8, 1708, son John Hollister, Sr., and Joanna
Treat.

Joan
3.

his wife.
b. 1648.
b.
7.

Naomi;
Abigail;

Jonathan;
Bezaleel;

b. 1655.

4.

1649.

8-

b.

1657.

Ichabod Welles.
Ichabod Welles was born
Ct., Saturday, April 26, 171 2.

in Wethersfield,

Hartford Co.,
(11) and

He

died in 1758, in the 47th

year of his age.

He was

the son of

Thomas Welles

Jerusha Treat (14). He was born four months and nineteen days after his father's death, and was brought up in the family
of Captain

Ephraim Goodrich of Wethersfield. His widowed mother, in accordance with the customs of the age, evidently endeavored through the name she gave her
fatherless child, to perpetuate the

memory

of the desolating

sorrow preceeding his birth. Like the tribes of Israel, the colonists of New England had forsaken their native land and journeyed into the wilderness, for They therefore endeavored to mainthe sake of their religion. tain a resemblance of condition so honorable and so frought with incitements to piety, by cultivating a conformity between their lives, and labors, and customs, and those which had distinguished the people of God.

This occasioned, among other things, " the habit of bestow-

The first three chiling significant names upon their children. dren that were baptized in Boston received the names Joy, Pity, and Recompence." Submit is also a given name found in the
annals of

New

England.

The
recall

birth of a son after his father's death,

would naturally
of Samuel,
'

the sad scene related in the First

Book

IV

21,

kt

And

she

named

the child Ichabod, saying,

departed from Israel,' because the ark of because of her father-in law and her husband." And such a scene, in compliance with prevailing customs, would suggest as an appropriate name for the fatherless little one, Ichabod,

The Glory is God was taken, and

"

the glory has departed."

MARY
Ichabod Welles,
at the

HALT. WELLES.

3^

time of his marriage about 1733, reCt.

sided at Wethersfield, Hartford Co.,

He

probably

re-

mained there about ten

years, but appears

1743, at Bolton, Tolland Co., Ct., -a exclusively to agriculture, with a small hamlet called Bolton

on record Sept. 19, township devoted almost

Center, about eighteen miles east of Hartford.

tinued to reside until, at least,
for the last time
1

753^

when

his

Here he conname appears

until the

on the Bolton records; and probably day of his death, in 175S. He married about i733> Mary Hall, and had
:

22.

Benjamin;
1804,

b.
-

1734,

d.

May

19,

of

Benjamin Talcott and Debb.

June

30, 1757,

Lucy
24.

orah Gillette.

Talcott, b. July 29, 1738, d.

Mary;
Lucy;
Eunice
Eunice

Sept.

19,

1743,

bp.

Aug.

25,

1793, dau. of Ben25.

Sept. 25.
b.

jamin Talcott and Deborah

Gillette.

Aug.

20,

1745,

bp.

He
Ct.

member

of
26.

Aug.
;

25.
b.

Bolton,

Church,

1758,

Jany. 10, 1747, bp.

Jany.
1750.
11,

his wife in 1764.

23.

Feby.
1S15,
27.
;

14, d. y.
b.
5,
7,

Hezckiah;

b. ab't
9,

1738, d.

1749,

bp.

m. Sept.
cott,

1762,
27,

Phebe Tab
1744, dau.
28.

Aug.

b.

Dec.

Joshua; bp. March

1753.*

Mary
Grimes.

Hall, wife of Ichabod Welles, was born at Guilford,

Ct., in i7 x 4-

She was

daughter of Eliphalet Hall and

Mary

The Hall
*-l.
2. 3.

Families.

Gilbert Hall, of England.

William Hall John Hall b.

;

c.

a.

1637, m. Esther.

1648, m. 1669, Elizabeth Smith, b. 1649.

b.

4.
5.

Eliphalet Hall;

16S1, m. 1710,

Mary Grimes.
b. 1712.

Mary Hall;

b.

1714, m. 1733,

Ichabod Welles,

"Talcott's "Genealogical Notes relating to New York and New England families," says, Ichabod Welles married Jan'y 3, 1751, Abigail Bigelow, and had Abigail, b. Oct. 29, 1751 Mary, b. March 24, 1753; Asa, b. Sept. 16, 1755. But the Bolton records give as here stated, Joshua, son ot Ichabod Welles, baptized March'n, 1753. The mother's name is not mentioned, neither is it with the baptism of the other children, but in the Bolton record of births, they are entered as the children of Ichabod and Mary Welles. We could not find a record of the birth of Joshua, bp. March n, 1753. The marriage record Talcott gives, without any reference to a former marriage, is from the Wethersfield record, and refers without doubt to another Ichabod Welles, as the same parents would not be likely to have a child baptized March 11, and another born March 24 of the same year.

36

ICHABOD WELLES.

Gilbert Hall, of Kent County, England, was the progenitor Of his immediate family of the Hall family of Guilford, Ct.

we have no
2.

fuller record than that

he had two children.

William;
8,

b. in

England,

d.

March

3.

daughter;

b.

in

England, m.

1669, m. Esther.

Mr. Snoath, died in England.

William Hall (2), son of Gilbert Hall (1), was born in England, and emigrated, it is said, from Rolvenden, Kent Co., England, in 1637. He died at Guilford, Ct., March 8, 1669. He was one of the First Guilford Company under the Rev. Henry Whitfield.* This company, it it said, was composed mostly of select young men, who formed a plantation covenant and signed it June 1, 1637, during their passage from England They purchased land from the Indians who octo America. cupied it, on the north shore of Long Island Sound, about sixteen miles east of
Guilford, from a

and called their settlement former home of a number of the colonists. In 1S55, the house built by the Rev. Henry Whitfield, at Guilford, was said to be the oldest house William Hall (2) having established in the United States.
Ct..

New

Haven,

town

in Surrey, Eng.', the

himself at Guilford, married Esther,

years,

who
is

survived

him

several

and died about 16S3.

:

There

record of only two

children
4.

John
of

b.

164S,

rn.

Nov.
b.

13, 1669,

1674, Elizabeth Johnson, daughof Dea. William Johnson and Elizabeth Bushnell, of Guilter

Elizabeth Smith,

1649, dau.

5.

George Smith. Samuel a weaver, b. in Guilford, d. Feb'y 11, 1733, m. Dec. 22,
;

ford.

John Hall
died.

(4), son of

William Hall
Ct.,

(2)

and Esther his

wife, was born

at Guilford,

164S, and there lived and

He

married, Nov. 13, 1669, Elizabeth Smith, and had:

*Rev. Henry Whitfield was born in England, the son of an eminent lawyer. He was a Ockham, in Surrey, England, for a period of twenty years, when becoming fully convinced that the views entertained by the Non-conformists
minister of the Established Church at

he declared himself of their number, resigned his charge and his benefice, and He had a large estate and was to New Haven, Ct. in every sense the head and father of the Guilford plantation. He returned to England He is described as " a well-bred gentleman, a good scholar, a great divine and an 1650.

were

right,

in 1637,

came with Governor Eaton

excellent preacher."

MARY
6.

HALT. WELLES.
10.

37
b.

Elizabeth

b.

June

15, 1698,

Nov. 22, 1670, m. Robert Isbell, b.

d.

Silence

Dec.

14,

1679,

m.

Feb'y
ison.
II.

19, 1710,

Abraham Mor13, 1681, d.

1,

Jan'y2o, 1676,
7.

Feb'y

4,

1718.

Mary;
7>
J

b.

May

13,

1672, d. Dec.
>

Eliphalct

b.

755>

J ul y l6

l6 93>

Dan

"

prior to 1721,

Jan'y m.

May

30,

iel
d.
8.

Bishop, a widower,
April
b.

b. 1663,

1705, Abigail Bushnell, b. July

27, 1677, d. Feb'y 28, 1708, daughter of Samuel Bushnell

17, 1 75

1.

John;

Feb'y
b.

28, 1674, d. Sept.,

1724.
9.

m.
;

2,

May
;

31,

1710,

Mary
d.
1

Ebenezer

Nov: 8, 1678, d. Dec. 1723, m. April 11, 1700, Deborah Hiland, b. 1674, d. Oct. daughter of 27, 1758, George Highland and Hannah
Crittenden.

Grimes.
12.

Nathaniel
ly 29,

b.

Dec. 1683,
of
d.

Ju715,

1748, m. Nov. 22,

Rebecca Mallory,
ven,
1767.
Ct.,

New HaSept.
23,

who

ter of

Elizabeth Smith (7), wife of John Hall (4), was a daughGeorge Smith and Sarah his wife, of New Haven, Ct.*
at Guilford, Ct., Sept. 16, 1649.

She was baptized

The Smith

Family.

George Smith appears on record at New Haven, Ct., in But his name is not in the list of freemen twenty-two 1639. years later. He died May 17, 1662. His wife's name was Sarah,
2.

by

whom
;

he had
m.

Sarah

1642,

1661,

John

John

bp. Ap'l 18, 1647.

;

Clark.
3.

Elizabeth
b.

bp. Sept. 16, 1649,

1669,

Martha

1642

twin sister

Nov.

13,

John Hall,

of

of Sarah.
4.

Guilford, Ct.
1644,

Hannah

b.

m. 1663, Ste-

phen Bradley, of Guilford, Ct. Sarah, Martha and Hannah were all baptized by right of their mothe December 14,
1645.
5.

Samuel; b. Dec. 4, 1651. Ebenezer bp. Nov. 15, 1653, m.

;

Aug.
10.

10, 1682,

Esther Goodyear,

daughter of John Goodyear. bp. Aug. 14, 1655, d. Joseph 1697, m. 16S0, Lydia Bristol,
;

Mercy

bp.

Feb'y

22,

.1646,

m.
11.

daughter of Henry Bristol.

1669,

John Benham,
,

Nathan

bp. Dec. 27, 1656.

harbor, an indentation

*Xe\v Haven, Ct.

74 miles N. E. of

New

Vork, on

New Haven
and

of the northern shore of

Long

Island Sound, extending inland about four miles.

Indian

name, Quinnipiac,
lege.

i.

e.,

long-water-land.

Was

settled in 1638,

is

the seat of Yale Col-

3$

ICHABOD WELLES.

Eliphalet Hall (n), son of John Hall (4) and Elizabeth Smith, was born at Guilford, Ct., Jan'y 13, 16S1. He died at the place of his birth, previous to 172 r. He married first,

May

30, 170^, Abigail Bushnell

his wife, he

Bushnell,

After the death of Abigail married again, May 31, 1710, Mary
:

Grimes.
13.

His children were

;

Jerusha

b.

Feb'y

27,

1706,
8,

d.

March
I 735>

Feby
-,-.

5,
,

1736, m.
-r,

Dec.

1726,

Daniel Joowen.
b.

of
28,

1 6, 1782, m. 1, Jan'y 1, Elizabeth Scranton, dau. Samuel Scranton m. 2,

'

T June

2,

14.

Abigail;

Feb'y

1743,
Hill.

A Mercy

'.,,

'

Hill, dau.

1707, d.
;

of
j5_

James

ay r ' P 9> 77 ' 73 6 J hn Fowler. 15. Eliphalet; b. Oct. 22, 1711,

J
>

Mary;
b.

b. Ichabod 1714, m. We'lles, of Wethersfield, Conn.,

d.

April 26, 1712,

d. 1758.

Mary Grimes,
ter,
it

wife of Eliphalet Hall (n), was the daugh-

supposed, of Joseph Grimes, of Haitford, Ct., and Deborah Stebbins. She was born April 3, 16SS, and after the
is

death of Eliphalet Hall, married, Aug. 4, 1721, Richard Falkoner.

The Grimes
1.

Families.

Henry Grimes
Joseph Grimes
;

m. Mary.
b. 1667,

2. 3.

m. 1686, Deborah Stebbins.

1710, Eliphalet Hall, b. 1681.

Mary Grimes b. 1688, m. Mary Hall Welles.

Parents of

Henry Grimes
the possessor of a

appears on record

at Hartford, Ct., in i66r,

good

estate.

His wife's name was Mary.

:

He
2.

died in 16S4, leaving the following children

;

Benjamin
Feb'y
phrey,
1698,

b.

1662, d. 1725, m.

1,

12,
d.

1684,

Abigail

Hum5.

June 27, 1697: m. 2, Sarah Webster. His des-

Deborah Stebbins, d. Jan. 21, 1712, dau. of John Stebbins. Mary; b. 166S.
16S6,

6.

Sarah

b.

1671, m.

May

7,

1691,

cendants took the

name

of Gra7.

John Marvin,
Elizabeth;
8.

of Hartford, Ct.

ham.*
3. 4.

b. 1674.

John

b. ;

1665, d. 1720.
b.

Joseph

1667,

m.

Nov.

24,

9.

Susanna Rebecca

b. 1677. b.

1680.

wife,

Joseph Grimes, son of Henry Grimes (1) and Mary, was born in 1667. He resided at Hartford, Ct.
is
is

his

He

*The surname Grimes

to

not unfrequently spelled Grihme, from which the transition

Graham

easy.

MARY HALL WELLES.

married, Nov. 24, 16S6, Deborah Stebbins, and had:
10.

39

Mary j
31;

b.

April

3,

1688, m.?

May
b.

12.

Joseph;

b.

1693,

d.

Jan'y 22,

1710,
13,

Eliphalet
1681,
2,

Hall,

it2.

Jan'y
1721
:

d.
4,

previous to
1721, Rich-

m.

Aug.

^
x 4-

J osiah

"

Dec

7.

l6 9&-

ard Falkoner.
11.

Hezekiah

b. Sept. 26, 1700.

b.

Henry;

b.

Jan'y

9,

1691.

15.

Deborah;

May

24, 1706.

ter of

Deborah Stebbins, wife of Joseph Grimes was the daughJohn Stebbins, of Hartford, Ct., and Deborah Moore.

The Stebbins
1.
;

Families.

2. 3.

John Stebbins m. Margaret. John Stebbins b. 1640, m. 1663, Deborah Moore. Deborah Stebbins m. 1686, Joseph Grimes, b. 1667.
;
;

Grandparents

of

Mary Hall Welles.

of Watertown, Mass.,* early in the settlement

John Stebbins,
of

Ct., removed thither with his family, and was constable of the town in 1660. He died about i6Sv His wife's name was Margaret by whom he had 2. John b. May 25, 1640, m. ab't Marshall.

New

London.f

1663,
3.

Deborah Moore.
b.

4.

Daniel

m.

Bethia

Comstock,

Mary

Aug.

6,

1641, m.

John

dau. of Daniel Comstock.

John Stebbins
ret his wife,

(2), son of

John Stebbins
25,

(1)

and Marga-

was born May

:

1640.

He

resided at

New

London, Ct., and married, about 1663, Deborah" Moore, bv by whom he had
Deborah
; b. b. 1667.
,

d.

Jan'y 21,

1712,

m. Nov.

24,

1686,

Joseph

Grimes,

Deborah Moore, wife of John

ford, Ct., in 1646,

Stebbins, (2),

is

said to have
at

been the daughter of Miles Moore,

who

is

on record

Mil1657;
in

He removed
is

to

New

London,

Ct., in

was admitted
16S0.

a freeman His wife's name

in 1663,

not

and was known.

called an old

man

*Waterto\vn, Middlesex Co., Mass., a manufacturing town on the Charles river, eight
miles west of Boston.
Ct., township, city and port of entry, on the west bank of the Thames about three miles above its entrance into Long Island Sound, is one of the finest harbors in the world. Was settled by John Winthrop in 1645, and until 1658 was known river,

tNew London,

as

Pequot harbor,

Capt. Hezekiah Welles.

Hezekiah Welles,
Hall,

son of Ichabod Welles (21) and

Mary

Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Ct., about 1738, and died at Sidney, Delaware Co., N. Y,, about 1815.
at

was born
father

His

removed from Wethersfield

a child

to Bolton,

Tolland

Co., Ct.,

when he was

four or five years of age. and

engaged in farming swine were pastured on the common, the farmers adopted certain ear-marks, with which they branded their stock, and a description of which was entered upon the public records, thereby giving them a right to In accordance with this custom the Bolton its exclusive use.
there he resided for
thirty years,

more than

operations.

As

the cattle and

records declare

"Hezekiah Welles' ear-mark

ear.

is

a crop of the

end

of the left ear

and a

half crop the upper side of the right ear and a

slit

the upper side of the left

Entered June

6,

1764."

Hezekiah Welles was admitted a freeman

as a

at Bolton,

April

7,

1766, and appears on the records of the First

member

of the Church, in 1772.

to Wethersfield, Ct.,

Church of Bolton About 1 775 ne removed

until his

from Bolton
of his
life

and there remained

children established

homes

in other places.

The

latter years

were passed with his son Simeon, at Sydney, N. Y., A remark made by the venerable Dr. Porter, a Presbyterian clergyman, of Catskill, N. Y., gives some idea of his character. Meeting a grandson of Hezekiah Welles in the street one day, Dr. Porter* placed his hand upon the lad's

where he

died.

*Rev. David Porter, D. D. b. in 1761. Commenced preaching at Catskill June 7, 1803, and was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church there in September of the same year. He lesigned his charge June 15, 1S31. " He was a man of great dignity, wisdom, simplicity and power, and the impress of his character was deeply made on the society to which he ministered."
,

HIS

CHARACTER AND SERVICES.

4'

"'My son, your grandfather Welles was a great The boy thus addressed was Ransford Welles, who became a minister in the Reformed Church of America. The incident pays tribute to the faithful preaching of the pashead and said
theologian."
:

toi"s

whose ministrations Hezekiah Welles enjoyed, and bearing

testimony to the grandfather's theological attainments, tended

somewhat towards making the grandson a theological student. During the war for American Independence, Hezekiah Welles was captain of the fourth company of Col. Erastus Wolcott's regiment. While the Continental forces were being

Dec, 1 775 Feb'y 1776, were coming and going. Gen. Washington called for regiments from the New England states to guard the lines. Connecticut sent three regiments, under Colonels Erastus Wolcott, James Wadsworth and John Douglas. They reached Boston the latter part of Jan'y, 1776, and remained about six weeks. Col. Wolcott's regiment formed a part of the detachment from the army that occupied Boston after the enemy left the town; Mar. 17, x 77^- -^ was a snoi"t campaign and did not cool the military ardor of Capt. Welles. In a list of Wethersfield men to whom military commissions were issued from the General Assembly of Connecticut, in
reorganized before Boston, Mass.,
the soldiers

when

the

war

of the Revolution, there

is

record as follows

Wk
:

De-

cember, 1776, Hezekiah Welles, Captain. John Belden, Lieutenant. Chester Welles, Ensign. The batallion under the command of Col. Noadiah Hooker." Captain Hezekiah Welles also turned out to repel the enemy at New Haven, in 1779, during Tryon's invasion,* serving under Col. Smith. He married, Thursday, September 9, 1762, Phoebe Talcott, and had
"William Tryon, b. in Ireland ab't 1725, d. in London, Feb'y 27, 1788, Col. in British army, Lieut. Gov. of North Carolina, Gov. of New York, July, 1771 to March, 1778. His invasion of Connecticut was attended by inhumanities that were a disgrace to civilization. With a force of 2600 men, supported by a suitable number of armed vessels, he landed at East Haven and proceeded to New Haven, Fairfield, Danbury and Norwich, making war upon unarmed citizens, burning their homes, destroying their property, breaking their household furniture, insulting their wives and daughters, even stripping the swaddlingclothes from nursing babes, and in one instance cutting out the tongue of an old man, who, because of an impediment in his speech, could not talk plainly enough to suit the wishes of the cultured and refined Briton.

42
29.

CAPT. HEZEKIAH WELLES.

Phoebe;
ley
b.

June
of

5,

1763, m. Par-

captain in the war of 1S12.*

34.

Foster,

Hillsdale,

Co1824,

Lemuel;
1S30.?

b.

Mar.
issue.

31,

1771,

d.

30.

lumbia Co., N. Y. John; b. Nov. 4, 1764,

at

No

d.

35. 36. 37.

Hegeman's

Mills,

ery Co., N. Y.

MontgomHis son John

Joseph; b. Dec. 14, 1772. Levi ; b. Aug. 22, 1774. Elijah; b. 1776,? at Wethersfield, d.

inherited the homestead, and

died there in 1875, eighty years

of age.
31.
32.

Rhoda

b.
;

Feb'y

26, 1766.

33.

Hezekiah Simeon
;

b. Sept. 22, 1767.

b.

Ap'l 10, 1769,

d. at

Arcade, N. Y., 1845.

He was

Mar. 26, 1S29, at Leeds, Green Co., N. Y., m. 1, 1797, Mary, b. 1778, d. Dec. 27, 1818, dau. Jonathan Allaben and Mercy Bouton m. 2, Mary Cooke, widow of James Backus, of Athens, Green Co., N. Y.
:

Phoebe Talcott,
at Bolton,

wife of Capt. Hezekiah Welles, was born Tolland Co., Ct., December 27, i744 She and her

husband were great-great-grandchildren of John Hollister, Sr. and Joanna Treat, daughter of Richard Treat and Joan his wife, who were also through their granddaughter Jerusha Treat, wife of Capt. Thomas Welles the great-great-grandparents of Hezekiah Welles. The issue of Phoebe Talcott and Hezekiah Welles are therefore thrice descended from Richard Treat and Joan his wife. Phoebe Talcott was the daughter of Benjamin Talcott and Deborah Gillette.

The Talcott
1.

Families.
Welles-

John Talcott

of

England, m.

2. 3.

4. 4. 6.
7.

John Talcott of England, m. Annie Skinner. John Talcott c. a. 1632, m. Dorothy Mott. Samuel Talcott ; b. 1635, m. 1661, Hannah Holyoke, b. 1644. Benjamin Talcott; b. 1674, m. 1699, Sarah Hollister, b. 1676. Benjamin Talcott; b. 1702, m. 1738, Deborah Gillette, b. 1709. Phoebe Talcott; b. 1744, m. 1762, Hezekiah Welles, b. 173S.
;
;

The Talcott
land.

family
is

was

originally of Warwickshire. f

Eng/<?/,"

high,
*

The name and "cote"

derived either from the

Welsh "

cottage, a high cottage or a cottage on a high

d. at

the descendants of Simeon Welles (29), are Captain Bostwick Welles, b. 1794, Sydney, N. Y., 1863, and Franklin Joseph Welles, a landscape painter at East Granville, Wyoming Co., N. Y.

Among

tWarwickshire, one of the West Midland counties, between Wales and the Midland The Avon flows midway through the county, and here, at Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespere was born. Here also may be seen the ruins of Kenilworth Castle, where the Earl of Leicester feasted the august Elizabeth.
shires.

PHOEBE TALCOTT WELLES.

place, a cottage on a hill;

43

or from the Saxon "'/o//," a grove, and ^cott" cottage, a grove cottage or a cottage in a grove. After 1634, m ^ie English records, the name is spelt Talcott, and the family coat of arms is thus described
:

"Field

Ar., on a pale sa., three roses of the field.

ar.

"Crest: a demi-griflin erased,

with three roses of the
first.

gorged,

with a

collar,

sa.,

charged

"Motto: Virtus

sola nobilitas, or Virtue

is

the only nobility."

John

Talcott, the

first

known

of that name,
1606, the

was

residing in

Colchester,* Essex County., England, previous to 155S, and died there, Saturday,
estates.

November
first,

1,

owner of

large

He
who
d.

Pullen

Welles, and second, died at Colchester, Eng., about June 19, 1625

married

Mary when

her will was proved.

2.

His children were

ter,

John;
ner.

1604,

m. Annie Skinm.

Eng., and chaplain to the

;? went to Spain and engaged mercantile pursuits at Mad-

Earl Marshall.
d.

3.

Robert; Drane.
t-

Was

Joanna Alderman and Jus1641,

6.

John
in

tice of the

Peace in Colchester,
7.

4.
?.

Aiii A daughter
Thomas
;

m.
.

r> Barnard.
i
;

8.

by J 2d wife

m. Marga&

9.
'

Grace m. after 1606, John Death. Toanna m. after 1606, ' ,, T, Knewstuble. ,, , , Marie m. prior to 1606,
;
;

'

Eng. Was rector of the churches of St. Mary and Mile End, Colchesret Eriggs, of Suffolk Co.,

Marshall.

Ia

Eme m
.

prior to 1606,

Thomas

Adler.

Welles, wife of John Talcott, was probably of the Welles family, of Essex Count}', Eng., where Governor Thomas Welles was born and the Lords de Welles, of Rayne Hall, in former years resided.

John Talcott
was born
in

(2), son of

John Talcott and

Welles,

He

Colchester, Essex Co., Eng., previous to 1558. resided at Braintree, fourteen miles from Colchester, and

died there early in the year 1604.

He
which

married

Anne

Skinner,

and had

time was one of the largest and the site of the first Roman colony in Britain. It was known as Colne Ceaster, from coel or colonia, a colony, and rusfra, a castle or fortress. After the Norman conquest, Colne Ceaster was euphonized into Colchester. It was here that Endo, grandfather of Geoffrey de Mandeville, in 1104,
'Colchester, the British
city
in its

Camulodunum, a

of the ancient British cities, the capital of the Trinobantes,

erected a monastery.

44
II.

CAPT. HEZEKIAH WELLES.

John;
thy,
',

d.

Mar., 1660, m. Doro1670, dau.

12.

d.
-c-

Mark Mott
01
r

1 3-

and r ranees /-tt Gutter,

land.

tt

t,ns.s

prior to 1623. prior to 1623. single in 162^. !4- Rachel ? ^ <15. Grace ; single 111 1623. 16. Sarah ; single in 1623.
5
-

Anne; m. Mal7 m
;

Anne Skinner,

of William Skinner.

wife of John Talcott (2), was the daughter After the death of John Talcott, she

married Moyses Wall,

who

died in 1623 leaving her again a

widow.

Skinner,

John Talcott (n), son of John was born in Braintree, Essex

in the ship

Talcott (2) and Annie Co., Eng. He came to

Lion^ which sailed from England Friday, and arrived Sunday, Sept. 16, 1632. He first settled in Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass. He was admitted a freeman Nov. 6, 1632. He was representative for Newtown in the General Court, May 16, 1634, and was the fifth greatest proprietor of houses and lands in the town. May 1, 1636, he sold his possessions in Newtown, and went with the colony which, under the leadership of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, founded Hartford, Ct. He was Chief Magistrate of the Connecticut Colony until his death, and was styled the Worshipful Mr. John Talcott. He resided in a mansion at the head of Main street, Hartford, where he died March, 1660. He was buried at Hartford, and his name is on the monument erected by the citizens to perpetuate the memory of the founders of the Connecticut Colony. He married Dorothy Mott, and had
Boston

June

22, 1632,

17.

Mary; m. June
John Russell. John; b. ab't
1688, m.
1,

28,

1649,

^ ev

war
jor
;

of 1676, with rank of

Ma-

iS.

1629, d. July 23,

nel,

became Lieutenant-Coloand was known as the "Inb.

Oct. 29, 1650, Hel:

dian fighter."
19.

ena
his

Wakeman

m.

2,
c.

Nov.
a.

9,

Samuel ;
Nov.
1661,
d.
9,

in

America 1635,
m.
b.
1,

d.

1676,

Mary Cook:

with

1691,

Nov.
9,

17,

father; was Ensign and Captain of Colonial troops from

Hannah,
2,

June

1644,

Feb'.y

1677, dau. of Eli-

1650 to '60; Assistant Magistrate of Connecticut

zur

Holyoke and
of
6,

Mary PynMass.
:

uier from

1660 to

and Treas'76; comIndian

chon,

Springfield,

m. 2; Aug.
d.

1679,

Mary

manded

the

army

in the

Jan'y

14, 1710.

PHOEBE TALCOTT WELLES.

45

Dorothy Mott, wife of John Talcott (11), died February, She was a daughter of Mark Mott, Esq. and Frances 1670.
Gutter, of Braintree, Essex Co., England.

The Mott
1.

Families.

2.

Thomas Mott; Mark Mott b.

;

of

England, m. Alice Mead.

c.

3.

Dorothy Mott

1549, m. Frances Gutter. m. John Talcott, c. a. 1632,

a.

1632

great-great-

grandparents of Phoebe Talcott Welles.

Thomas Mott,
2.

in

1599,

was
d.

the proprietor of

Sheme

Hall,
:

Lexenden Hundreds, Eng.

Mark;
d. b.

He

married Alice Mead, and had

14, 1637,

April 25, 1549,

23, 1615.

Dec.

m. Frances Gutter

who

Feb'y

Mark Mott

(2), son of

Thomas Mott and

Alice Mead, was

He inherited died Dec. 14, 1637. the paternal estates, and resided at Braintree, Essex Co., Eng.
born April 25, 1549.

He

He
3.

married Frances Gutter

:

who

died February 23, 1615, leav-

ing the following children

4.
5.

John; m. Alice Harrington. James Dorothv : d. 1670, m. John

cott
('11).

6.

Sarah; m.

i,

Robert Tenborough:

lal7-

m
Dorcas.

gir J j ohn

Henly

John Talcott

Captain Samuel Talcott (19), son of the Worshipful Mr. ) and Dorothy Mott, was probably born at ( 1 Newtown, now Cambridge, Mass.,* about 1634, and died at He graduated at Wethersfield, Ct., Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1691. Harvard College 165s, was made a freeman 1662, and resided He was a commissioner at Wethersfield. Ct. from 1669 to 'S4. of the town from 1670 to 'S4, and a deputy to the General Court, of which he was secretary in the absence of Col. Allyn. At the October session of 1684, he was appointed one of a standing committee t; to order measures and to dispose of such
1

affairs as shall

be necessary

to attend to in the intervals

of the

Settled

Cambridge, Middlesex Co., Mass., three miles N. W. of Boston, on the Charles river. the seat of Harvard University. in 1630, and until 1636 known as Newton Here the first printing press was set up in America, and here the camp of the first American army at the outbreak of the war of the Revolution.
:

46

CAPT. HEZEKTAH WELLES.

General Court."

May

12,

1677. he

was made Lieutenant of

the Wethersfield trained

the troop, and Oct. 16,

Ct.

band; Oct. 14, 1679, Lieutenant of 16S1, Captain of the troop of Hartford,

Glastenbury, Ct.
ried,

one of the original proprietors of the town of He married, Thursday, November 7, 1661, Hannah Holyoke. She died February 2' 1677, and he maralso

He was

August

6,

1679,

Mary

who

died Jan'y 14, 1710.

The
were
20.

children of Captain

Samuel Talcott and Hannah Holyoke

Benjamin ;
Nov.
Sarah,
b.

Samuel;
1698,
in.

b.

1662,

d.

Ap'l

28,

25.

b.

Mar.

1,

1674, d.
5,

Mary
b.

Ellery.

12, 1727,

m. Jan'y

1699,

21.
22.

John

b. 1663, d. y.
;

Oct. 25, 1676, d. Oct.

Hannah

1665,

d.

July 23,

1741, m.

Nov.

25, 1686,
b.
1.

Major
26.

15, 1715, dau. John Hollister and Sarah Goodrich, of Glas-

John Chester,
d.

June

10, 1656,

tenbury, Ct.

Dec.

14, 1 71
b.

Rachel

b.

Ap'l

2,

1676, d.

Nov.
Pe-

23.

Elizur;

July 31, 1669, m. Sa.

22, 1702,

m. Mar.

21, 1700,

rah
24.

ter Buckley.

Joseph Nov.

b.

Feb'y

20,

1671,
5, 1

d.

27.

Nathaniel
d.

b.

Jan'y 28,

1678,

3,

1732, m.

Ap'l

701,

Sarah Deminsr.

Jan'y 30, 1758, m. Mar. 18, 1703, Elizabeth

.

Hannah Holyoke,
born June
1677.
9, 1644.

She died

wife of Capt. Samuel Talcott (19), was at Wethersfield, Ct., Feb'y 2,

She was

a daughter of the

Hon. Elizur Holyoke and

of

Mary Pynchon of Springfield, Mass. A grand-daughter Edward Holyoke and Prudence Stockton.

The Holyoke
Edward Holyoke,
Lynn,* Mass.,
died at
ders of Warwickshire, Eng.,
as early as 1630.

Family.

of Tamworth, Staffordshire, on the bor-

came

to

America and was

at

He

returned to England and

Rumsey, where he had large estates, May 4, 1660. He married, June iS, 1612. Prudence, daughter, of Rev. John Stockton, of Kinholt, Eng., and had
:

*Lynn, Essex Co., Mass., ten miles N. E. of Boston, near the northern extremity of Massachusetts Bay, on a harbor formed by the peninsula of Nahant. Its principal industry is the manufacture of boots and shoes.

PHOEBE TALCOTT WELLES.

2.

47
2,

Elizur ; b. ab't 1613, d. Feb'y 6, 1676, m. Nov. 20, 1640, Mary Pynchon.

6.

Ann; m.
Putnam.

Oct.

1643,

Thomas

7.

Mary

m.

Feb'y

10,

1647, J onn

3.

John

d.

Ap'l 24, 1641.

8.

Tuttle.

4.
5.

Elizabeth; m. George Keyser.

Susanna; m. Sept.
ael Martin.

12, 1656,

Mich-

Sarah

m.

Andrews.

Elizur HoJyoke (2), son of Edward Holyoke and Prudence

Stockton, was born about 1613.

He

resided at Springfield.
6,

Mass..* where he died, Sunday, Feb'y

1676.

He was

prominent man in the colony. He married, Friday, Nov. 20, She died Oct. 26, 1657, and he married 1640, Mary Pynchon. Stebbins, the widow of Robert Day, of Hartford, Ct., whom she married while the widow of Tohn Maynard. She
died Oct. 24, 16SS.

The

children of Elizur

Holyoke and Mary

b.

Pynchon, were
9.

John

b.

Aug.
Aug.
b.

27, 1641, d. Oct. S,

14.

Edward
June
Elizur;
11,

Aug.

S,

1649,

d.

1641.
10.

16, 1708.
b.

John
>

b.
-

5,

1642, d. Feb'y

15.

Oct. 13, 1651,

2,

cl.

Aug.

I/ 12

1711, m. Jan'y

1678,
. ,-

Ma,

li.

Hannah;
/

June
1

Feb'y 2, / Captain c Samuel

12.

1678, m. Nov.
i

1644, d. 7, 1661, ..// t\ 1 alcott (19).

9,
, ,

ry,
,

dau. Jacob Eliot.

,

For sev-

era! J years representative of the L

A
.

daughter
b.

, ;

born dead,
9,

May 21,
r
-

General Court, and father of

'

13.

z^A^ Samuel;

Rev.

Edward Holyoke, D. D.f

;

June

1647, d

Oct-

l6,

Mary

'

Nov

"

I4
'

l6 5 6

'

cL J ul >'

31; 1676.

14, 1678,

m. James Russell.

Mary Pynchon,
the

wife of Elizur Holyoke, was a daughter of Hon. William Pynchon, of Springfield, Mass., at which

place she died, Oct. 26, 1657.

Her monument

is still

standing
:

(1890) in the cemetery there, and bears the inscription

was while she stood, A very glory of womanhood. Even here, was sown most precious dust, Which, surely, will rise with the just."
that lies here

"She

of the Connecticut river, settled in 1636

Hampden Co., on the east bank and renowned for the beauty of its location, its picturesque environment and the United States arsenal founded there in 1777.
*Springtield, largest city of western Mass., capital of
;

tEdward Holyoke, b. at Boston in 1690. Graduated from Harvard College 1705. Tutor at Harvard 1712, a Fellow of the Corporation 1713 was ordained pastor of the Second Church at Marblehead, Ap'l 25, 1716; was elected President of Harvard College and inducted into office Sept. 28, 1737 d. June 1, 1769. He was a person of a fine commanding presence, and united great dignity with great urbanity in his manners. He was remarkable for his abstemious habits, his cheerful disposition and his virtuous life,
:

4S

CAPT. HEZEKIAH WELLES.

The Pynchon
Nicholas Pynchon
;
;

Families.

of Wales. John Pynchon of England, m. Jane Empson. Orchard. John Pynchon ; of England, m. William Pynchon; c. a. 1630, m. Mary Pynchon ; m. 1640, Elizur Holyoke, b. 1613. grandparents of Phoebe Talcott Welles.
.

Great-great-

Nicholas Pynchon, of Wales, was the 'progenitor of the American Pynchon family. In 1532 he was Sheriff of London.

John Pynchon, son of Nicholas Pynchon, lived at Writtle, Essex Co., Eng., and died there in 1553. He married Jane Empson, and had
:

3.

William

4.
5. 6.

John
Sir

m.

m. Rose Reeding. Orchard.

7.

Flizabeth
St.

m.

George Gates, of
Bury, Eng.
Pascal,
of

Edmands
;

Edward
of

Agnes; m. Thomas Chicele,

& J^e

m.

Andrew

Hingham

Ferries, Eng.

Springthorpe, Essex Co., Eng.

heiress of Sir Richard

Jane Empson, wife of John Pynchon, was the daughter and Empson. After the death of John

Pynchon, she married Dr. Thomas Wilson, Secretary of State, England.

John PyncllOIl
son,

(4)

son of John Pynchon and Jane

at Writtle,

Empre-

was probably born

:

sided at Springfield, in

Essex Co., Eng., but he the same county. He married

1662, m.
d.

Orchard, and had

9.

William ;

b. 1590, d. Oct.
:

29,

1,

a lady

whose name

is

not

known

m.

2,

Frances Sandford,

Oct. 10, 1657.

Hon. William Pynchon (9). son of John Pynchon and Orchard, his wife, was born in Springfield, Eng., in
1590, and died at
29. 1662.

Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire,* Eng., Oct.

He was one of the patentees of the charter granted bv

lies

*Buckinghamshire

on the

left

bank

of the

Thames, with Northamptonshire on the

north, Berkshire on the south, Oxfordshire on the west, and Middlesex, Hertfordshire and

Bedfordshire on the east. The borough of Windsor includes portions of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire. Wraysbury is near the town of Windsor, so long renowned for its
royal castle,

PHOEBE TALCOTT WELLES.

Charles

49

He I., of England to Massachusetts, March 4, 1629. was chosen Assistant Magistrate of the General Court by the Massachusetts Company in London, October 20, 1629, and came to America in company with John Winthrop, in 1630. He was one of the founders of the church and town of Roxbury,* Mass., where for a time, he engaged in the fur trade. He was treasurer of the Massachusetts Colony and took the lead in settling the town of Springfield, Mass., in 1636, making it his place ot residence and becoming its Chief Magistrate. In 1650, he visited London, Eng., and while there published
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption" -which was pronounced heretical and he was removed from office. The General Court of Massachusetts in May, 1652, ordered the book to be burnt and directed the Rev. John Norton of Boston,! to prepare a refutation of its offensive doctrines, which he did in a book entitled. "A Discussion of that great point in Divinity, the Sufferings of Christ; and the questions about his active and passive righteousness and the imputation thereof." In consequence of this violent action of the colonial authorities, and the ill treatment to which he was subjected, he returned to England in Sept., 1652, resided near Windsor, on the Thames, and engaged in theological writings which were characterized by great ability, and were in conformity with the teachings of the Church of England. He married in England about 1620, and brought his wife, whose name is not known, with him to America, only to find for her a grave on the bleak coasts of New England. She died Aug. 30, 1630, a short time after her arrival. He subsequently married Frances Sandford. who died without issue, at Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire, Eng., Oct. 10, 1657. His children by his first wife were
a book, entitled:
' ; 1 :

10.

John;

1625, d. Jan'y 17, 1705, m. Oct. 30, 1645, Amy, dau. of George Wyllys, Governor of
b.

12.

Margaret; d. July 3, 1653, m. Dec. 6, 1644, Capt William

Davis.

11.

Connecticut. Anna; m. Henry Smith and returned to England.

13.

Mary ;

d.

Oct. 26, 1657, m. Nov.

20, 1640, Hon. Elizur Holyoke, b. ab't 1613, d. Feb'y 6, 1676.

*Ro vbury, Mass.

corporated.

A town

in Norfolk Co., near Boston,

with which, in 1868,

it

was

in-

tRev. John Norton, b. at Storford, Hertfordshire, Eng-., May 6, 1606; d. at Boston, Mass., Ap'l 5, 1663; c. a. 1635; at Ipswich, 1638; at Boston 1656. " He was endowed with the tongue of the learned, a wise steward of the thing's of Jesus Christ, and also a wise statesman. His death was a great loss to the whole land." 7

CAPT. HEZEKIAH WELLES.

Talcott and

Deacon Benjamin Talcott (25), son of Captain Samuel Hannah Holyoke, was born at Wethersfield, Ct., Sunday, March 1, 1674. He died Sunday, November 12, 1727. He settled at Glastenbury, Ct., where he built a house in 1699. The property he occupied is still (1890) in the possession of Deacon Benjamin Talcott held rank as the Talcott family.
lieutenant in the trained
left large estates in

married January
28.

5,

band of Connecticut, and at his death Glastenbury and adjacent localities. He 1699, Sarah Hollister, and had
:

Sarah; b. Oct. 30, 1699, d. July 15, 1743, m. Nov. 23, 1717, Jonathan Hale.
32.
*

Feb'y
I

7 2 9>

m. Jan'y Benjamin Hale.

6,

1796,

30,

Samuel;
Sept. 26

b.

29.

Benjamin:

June 27, 1702, d. Mar. 9, 1785, rn. Aug. 26, 1724, Esther Lyman, d. Aug. 22,
b.

Hannah
33.
"

Feb'y 12, 170S, d. 1768 m. Oct. 5, 1732, Moseley.

Elizur
24,

10, 111/2, Dec. 1737, Deborah Gillette, b. Feb'y 28,

1736:

Dec. 31, 1709, d. Nov. fa. Dec. 31, 1730, Ruth Wright.
;

b.

1797,

1709, d. Mar. 19, 1795.

30.

34

Mehitabel

John;
25,

Dec. 17, 1704, d. Aug. 1745, m. 1731, Lucy Burnb.

b. July 17, 1713, d. Ap'l 20, 1781, m. Nov. 29, 1733, Hezekiah Wright.
;

ham.
31.

35.
;

Abigail

Hannah

b.

Oct

16,

1706,

d.

b. Oct. Oct. 28, 1715.

;

10,

1715,

d.

Sarah Hollister, wife of Deacon Benjamin Talcott, was born Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1676, and died at Glastenbury, Ct., Saturday, Oct. 15, 171 5. She was a daughter of John Hollister

and Sarah Goodrich.

The Hollister

Family.

SECOND ALLIANCE.-

John Hollister, son of John Hollister, Sr., and Joanna Treat whose history has been given, was born in Wethersfield, He marCt., in 1644, and died at Glastenbury, Ct., in 171 1. ried, Wednesday, Nov. 20 1667, Sarah Goodrich, and had
:

9.

John;

Aug. 9, 1669, d. Dec. 13, 1741, m. June 7, 1693, Abia,

b.

dau. of Lieut.
ter. (4)

Thomas

Hollis-

13.

jamin Talcott. b. Mar. 1, 1674, d. Nov. 12, 1727. Elizabeth; b. Mar. 30, 1678, d.
y-

10.

Thomas;
Oct. 12,

Jan'y 14, 1672, d. 1741, m. June 7, 1696,

b.

14.

David;

11.

Dorothv, dau. Joseph Hill. Joseph b. July 8, 1674, d. July 1746, m. Nov. 22, 1694, Ann
;
.

15.

Nov. 21, 1681, d. Dec. m. Charity Ephraim ; b. Mar. 15, 1684, d. 1733, m. Ap'l 1, 1707, Elizabeth
b.

27, 1753,

16.
b. Oct. 25, 1676, d.

12.

Sarah;

Oct.

17.

15, 1715,

m. Jan'y

5,

1699, Ben-

Green. Charles b. July 29, 1686. Elizabeth; m. Feb'y 16, 1715, Dr. Joseph Steel.
;

PHOEBE TALCOTT WELLES.

Sarah Goodrich, wife of John Hollister, Jr., was born 1 65 1 and died in 1700. She was the eldest daughter of Ensign William Goodrich and Sarah Marvin.
about

The Goodrich
Ensign William Goodrich, with came to America in early life, from
rich castle, in the

Family.
his brother

the neighborhood of
to the

John Goodrich Goodtestimony

west of England, according

of Rev. Chauncy A. Goodrich, D. D., professor in Yale college,

1856,* but from St. Edmunds Bury which is in the east of England, according to the statements made in Talcott's Genealogical Notes. 1 883. He settled first, it is supposed, at Watertown, Mass., about 1640, and then moved to Wethersfield, Ct., where he held land in 1666. He died 1676. He married, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 16^8, Sarah Marvin, and had:
William
b.

2.

Aug.

8,

1649, d.

y.

7.

Ephraim
Feb'y
1684,

b.

June
m.
:

2,
1,

1663,

d.

3.

Sarah;
d.

b.

1651, d. 1700, m.

Nov.

27,

1739,

May
2,

20,

20, 1667,

John

Hollister, b. 1644,

Sarah Treat

m.

Dec.

1711.
;

4.

John
1

b.

May

20,

1653, d. 1737,

Jerusha Treat, widow of Thomas Welles (11).

25, 1712,
S.

m. March
Elizabeth;
1698,

2S. 1678,

Rebecca Al-

David
2 3>

b.

May

4,

1667,

d.
7,

Jan'y
1689,
1,

5.

b.

165S,
9,

d.

Feb'v

17,

I 75S

h Mar.
:

m.

June

1675,

Capt.

Hannah Wright

m.

2,

Dec.

6.

Robert Welles, son of John Welles (3) and Elizabeth Curtis. William; b. Feb'y 8, 1661, d. Dec. 27, 1737, m. 1, Nov. 22,
16S0,

l6 9 8 > Prudence Churchill.

M
'

d June Joseph Butlel,

d.

m
7,

^
m.

Grace Riley: m.
Ayrault, widow.

2,

Mary

10.

Abigail;
1680,

Nov.

1684,

Ann

Thomas

Fitch.

*Rev. Chauncey Allen Goodrich, D. D.,was born at New Haven, Ct. Oct. 1700, the descent from Ensign William Goodrich was professor of rhetoric and oratory in Yale college, 1817-39. He then filled the chair of theology there, and edited " Webster's Unabridged Dictionary" and other works. He died in i860. Rev. Elizur Goodrich. D. D., his grandfather, born at Wethersfield., Oct. 26, 1734, d.
,

fifth in

"

Nov. 1797; was pastor of the Congregational Church, Durham, Ct. for about 42 years. A man of distinguished learning and understanding, of unusual prudence, and of singular skill and experience in the concerns of congregations, churches and ministers."
,

y*

CAPT. HEZEKIAII WELLES.

Sarah Marvin, wife of Ensign William Goodrich, was a daughter of Matthew Marvin and Elizabeth his wife. She was Xp* born in England in 1632, and died at Hartford, Ct., in 1702.
After the death of Ensign William Goodrich, which occurred in 1676, she married Captain William Curtis, of Hartford, Ct.

The Marvin
Matthew Marvin, w as born
r

Family-

in England in i6co and died at between 16S0 and 87. He came to this country He and his sister Elizabeth Marvin,* together with in 1635. his wife Elizabeth and their children, were recorded for transportation to Xew England, in the office of the Rolls Court, London, April 15, 1635. They came in the ship Increase, Robert Lea, master. Matthew Marvin was one of the first or original settlers of Hartford, Ct., where he owned considerable land, and resided for some years on the corner of Village and Front streets. He was also a pioneer in the settlement of the town of Norwalk, f Ct., and represented the town in the General Court in 1654. The children of Matthew Marvin and Elizabeth his wife, were

Norwalk,

Ct.,

2.

Matthew;

b. 1627, m. Mary Represented Norwalk, Ct., the General Court, 1696-97. b. 1629, d.

5.

in

Hannah; b. 1634, m. Jan'y 1654, Thomas Seymour, and had Elizabeth Seymour, who m. Eleazer
Bouton
(17).
b. at

3.

Maria; m. 1.

Mar.
164S,

29, 1713,
6.

4.

Richard Bushnell, of Savbrook, Ct. m. 2 1680, Thomas Adgate. & Sarah; b. 1632, d. 1702, m. 1, Oct. 4, 1648, Ensign William Goodrich m. 2, Capt. William
Oct.
11,
: , ' '
:

Abigail l6 40,

Hartford, Ct., ab't

Norwalk. ab't 1672, ne *' l6 $<\ J.hn * Ut0n l a widower, b. in France, (1), T 6i 5) d. at Danbury, Ct., 1704.
d.

at

>

Samuel

b.
b.

Feb'y, 1648.

g.

R acne

l ;

Dec. 1649, m. Samuel

Curtis.

Smith.

*This Elizabeth Marvin is sometimes placed as the first born child of Matthew Marvin and Elizabeth his wife, and is said to have been born about 1624, and to have married Dr. John Olmstead of Hartford, Ct. But on the records in the office of the " Rolls Court," London, she does not so appear. The children are mentioned, and Elizabeth Marvin is not in the list. We think she was a sister of Matthew, and probably 17 or is 37 ears of age
in 1635.

tNorwalk, township and village of Fairfield Co., Ct. on Long Island Sound, 43 miles N. E. of New York.

PHOEBE TAIXOTT WELLES.

53

Benjamin Talcott, (29) son of Deacon Benjamin Talcott and Sarah Hollister, was born at Glastenbury, Ct., Saturday, June 27, 1702, and died at Bolton, Toland Co., Ct., Wednesday. March 9, 1 7S5. He was a farmer, and resided in Bolton townHe is enship, on lands "which he inherited from his father.
tered as a

member

of the church at Bolton in 1731

is

styled

Deacon, and also Captain Benjamin TalHe marcott, and was frequently called the Duke of Bolton. Feb'y Lyman, born Esther ried August 26, 1724, 15, 169S, Lyman and Mindwell of daughter died Aug. 22, 1736, John Pomeroy of Northampton, Mass. He married again, Dec. io, His children were: 1737, Deborah Gillette.
in the public records
36.

Benjamin

b.

June

io,

1725, d.

May
42
.

19,

1804,

son of Ichabod

Ap'l 18, 1S11, m. Mar. 15, 1758,

Welles and Mary Hall.

Sarah;
b.

Elizabeth
Sept.
37.
1

Lyman,

b.

1730,

d.

Mar.

II,

1740, m.

John

810.
b.

Carver.

Joseph;

January
10,

31,

1728,

geth

b Dec
_

drowned June
J
'

1789,

m.

^
27,

Tan'y Eunice J g, y 17^2 3 '

b.
i

Lyman. J
d. y.
1

Ap'l 2 1, 1763, , of Coventry.

.

Anna White
17,14,

^
'

38.

Caleb;
/i

Aug.

II, 1730,

39.

Caleb; bp. at May

i

13, 1733, d.

i )i Ap'l

44-

Phebe

b.

Dec.

m.
'

~ ., , Ar ,, 1802, m. Mar. 27, 1765, Martha

-n

Parsons, m.
, t

2,

XT

Aov.
24,

r ' c 26. 1767,

Sept. Hezekiah Welles, 1702, 9, ' v y ' ' b. 17^8,? d, 181^, -" son of Icha'
' '

,-t.wh

r, Rachel Andrus.
,

bod Welles and Mary ' Hall,

45-

40.

Esther;

b.

July

1736,

d.

Anna;
John;

b.

June

23, 1747,

m. El-

May
41.

23, 1808.

kana Porter.
46.
*

Lucy;
25,

July 29, 1738, d. Aug. 1793, m. June 30, 1757,

b.

b.

Aug.

21, 1749,

m. Sarah

Stinson.

Benjamin Welles,

b.

1734,

d.

47.

Deborah

b. ab't 1751.

Benjamin Talcott (29), was born March 11, 1709, by the present calendar, at Windsor, Ct., a town and village at the confluence of the Tunxis and Connecticut rivers. She is en-

Deborah

Gillette, wife of
style

Feb'y 29, 170S, old

reckoning, but

tered as

member
is

of the church at

Bolton,

Tolland Co.,

Ct., in 1735,
in

designated a resident of Bolton

when married

1737, and died at Bolton.

March
is

19, 1795,

having survived

her husband ten years.

Gillette

by the name of town records of Bolton during the eighteenth century. She was the daughter of Cornelius Gillette and Rowel. She
the only person

whose name appears on

either the church or

54

CAPT. HEZEKIAH WELLES.

(

The Gillette
i.

Families.
1630, m. Priscilla Kelsey.

Jonathan Gillette

and
Jr.

wife,

c.

a.
c.

1630.
a.

2.

Cornelius Gillette; Cornelius Gillette,

b. in
;

Eng.,

3. 4.

b.

1665, m. 1737,

Rowel.

Deborah Gillette; b. 1709, m. Phoebe Talcott Welles.

Benjamin Talcott.

Parents of

Jonathan Gillette and

his brother
to

Nathan were among those

who having determined

Hospital
at

emigrate, assembled in the

New

Plymouth, England, in Jan'y, 1630, and, in view of their departure for New England, organized a Church, selecting as their pastor the Rev. John Warham of Exeter, Eng., and as their teacher the Rev. John Maverick. They arrived at Nantasket, May 30 1630, and in June began a settlement at Dorchester, near Boston, Mass. Jonathan Gillette was admitted a freeman at Dorchester, May 6, 1635, and during the summer of 1636, migrated with the
Dorchester Company, overland
to Windsor, Ct., working his way, with a hundred others, men, women and children, through a wilderness which civilized man had never before explored. They subsisted chiefly upon milk furnished by the cattle they drove along. They prayed and sang as they marched, and the Indians gazed at them in silent wonder. They were fourteen days in performing the journey, and reached their destination on the banks of the Tunxis and Connecticut rivers, in the latter Here they founded the town of Windsor, and part of June. here Jonathan Gillette, who when coming to America was accompanied by his wife and at least one child, spent the rest of his days, acquired a considerable amount of real estate, was chosen Constable of the town in 16s 6, and died in 1677. His wife's name is unknown. His children were
:

2.

Cornelius
26,

; b.

in

England,
.

d.

June
Hart-

4.

Mary;
July

b.
15,

previous to 1636,
l6 5,

m.

17

dau

oi 01 \\ llliam lvelsev, -

...

m. ab't 1657,

Priscilla,
.

p eter Brown.
.

e.

Anna; V

ford, Ct.
3.

b. at Windsor, Ct., Dec. ' rr C c 29, 1039, rn. Oct. 29, 1666, Samue l Filley.

Jonathan

b, previous to 1636, d. ; 1698, m. 1, Ap'l 23, 1661, Mary, dau. of William Kelsey, of Hartford, Ct. m. 2, Dec. 14, 1676, Miriam, dau. of Thomas Dee:

6.

Joseph bp. July 25, 1641, settled in Simsbury, Hartford Co., Ct., was killed by the Indians, "with Capt. Lathrop and the flower of Essex," Sept. 18, 1675, m. 1664,
;

ble.

Elizabeth Hawks.

PHOEBE TALCOTT WELLES.

7.

DD

S.

Samuel b. Jan'y 22, 1642. John b. Oct. 5, 1644, d. previous

; ;

10.

to 16S3,

m. July
1683,

8,

1669, Mar}-,
:

Jeremiah b. Feb'y 12, 1647, d. Mar. I, 1693, m. Oct. 15, 1685, Deborah, eldest dau. of Benja;

dau.

Thomas Barker
20,

she m.

2,

min
11.

Bartlett.

June
9.

George Norton,
Mass.
28,

of Springfield,

Jonas; bp. July 14, 1650, settled at Simsbury, Hartford Co.. Ct.,
rri.

Abigail
1648.

bp.

June

1646,

d.

June

30, 1676,

Joanna Taint-

er.

in

Cornelius Gillette (2), son of Jonathan Gillette, was born England and came with his father to America in 1630. He resided at Windsor, Ct., where he owned a goodly portion of He united with the church Jan'}-, 1665, and died real estate.
7

June 26, 17
12.

He
May

married, 1657.? Prissilla Kelse}-, and had:

y.

Prissilla; b. Jan'y 1659, d. Prissilla; b.

iS.

13.

1661,

m. m.

19.

Grimes.
14.

Sarah; b. Jan'y 3, 1673. Joanna; b. Ap'l 22, "bap. ye 23d clay," 1676, m. 1, Allyn
:

Abigail

b. Sept. 20, 1663,

;

1,

m.

2,

Bancroft.

Loomis
15.

m. m.

2,

Birge.
1665, m.

20.

Daniel;
"ae.

Cornelius;
1,

b.
:

Dec.
2,

15,

July 1, 1679, "bap. ye 27th day," d. Aug. 16, 1753,

b.

Rowel.

75,"

m.

Jan'y 28,

1703,
17,

16. 17.

Mary;

b.

Aug.
b.

12, 166S.

Mary Eno,
1

b. 1681, d.

Dec.

Hester;

May

24, 1671.

773, "ae. 92."

have been a
record
at

Prissilla Kelsey, wife of Cornelius Gillette (2), is said to sister of Mary Kelsey, wife of Jonathan Gillette, the
ol

brother of Cornelius, a daughter

William Kelsey,

who

is

on

Newtown

or Cambridge. Mass., in 1632.

He moved

to Hartford, Ct., afterwards appears at Killingworth in 1663.

Prissilla is entered as a

member

of the church at Windsor, Ct.

is

in Feb'y, 1671.

The

date of her death

not

known.

silla

Cornelius Gillette (15), son of Cornelius Gillette and PrisKelsey, was born at Windsor, Ct., Dec. 15, i66 ', and
r

there resided.

He

married, about 1692, some one unknown,

and about 1702,

given
21.

a lady

name

is
b.

not on record.
1693,
d.

whose surname was Rowel, but whose His children were

;

Cornelius;
1746.

Sept.

5,

26.

Deborah;
Mar.

b.

Feb'y

29, 1708-9, d.
10, 1737,

19, 1795,

m. Dec.
b.

22.

Daniel

b. b.

23.

Samuel;

Mar. Mar. Aug.

b.

11, 1696. 19, 1703.

1,

Benjamin Talcott,
1702, d. Mar.
27.
9,

June

27,

17S5.
30,

,24.
25.

Thomas;

b.

1705.

Stephen;

b.

June

1713, m.

Elizabeth;

May

31, 1707.

Sept. 21, 173S,

Ann Loomis.

Elijah Welles.
Elijah Welles, son of Hezekiah Welles (23) and Phoebe was born at Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Ct., about died at Leeds, a small village near Catskill, Green and 1776 He was the first of the ancesCo., N. Y., March 26, 1S29.
his

Talcott,

tors to write

name Wells.

In early

life

he resided

at

Columbia Co., N. Y., but previous to 180=5 settled at Catskill, N. Y. and henceforth abode in the immediate He was a carpenter and wheelwright, a skillful vicinity. workman, a genial companion, witty and jovial, but like many others of excellent social and dispositional virtues, somewhat dissipated and found life because of his dissolute habits a conHillsdale,
stant struggle.

He

married about 1797 a * Hillsdale,

Mary

She died in 1S1S and he married Mary Cooke, widow of James Backus of Athens, Green Co., N. Y. His children were
Allaben.
38.

Alanson

b. 1799, a printer, ; listed in the regular army

en-

and

43.

died on duty near Philadelphia,

Pa.
39.

No
;

issue.
b.

J an 'y 2 , !853, Sarah Clute. Elijah ; b. Aug. 28, 1814, m. 1, Feb'y 5, 1S42, Mary Mulforci Sayre, b. July 18, 1S1S, d. June
28, 1843,

40.

Dec. 25, 1800, d. m. Ap'l 1, 1829, Mary Ann, b. Aug. 2, 1808, d. Juiy 2, 1886, dau. Nathaniel Thorn and Anah Dusinberry, b. July 5, 1760, d. May, 1S42. James b. Jan'y 2, 1803, a farmer, Lowell, Kent Co., Michb
Ap'l 1873,
;
-

Almern

>

Ha Ann Minor,
m.
3,

Nov. ^46, Ded. Dec. 2, 184S,

5,

Sept.
of

1850.

Eliza

Trnmpbour
44.

Saugerties,

Green Co., N. Y. George; b. ab't 1816, a sailor and a volunteer in the Union
army, 1861-65, in 1887 at the Soldiers' Home, Bath, Steuben

gan, twice married, no issue. 41. Ransford ; b. Sept. 6, 1805, d Mar. 4, 1889, m. Ap'l 20, 1831, Joanna, b. June 26, 1S06, d. Jan'y 9, 1878, dau. Jacob R.

Co ->
45. 46.

N Y
-

Laura;

b.

Aug. 1S1S,

Mary; by 2d

Manitou Springs,
47.

d. 1832. wife, b. 1820, d. at Col., Ap'l 27,

42.

Hardenbergh and Mary M. Lowe, of New Brunswick, N. J. Lewis; b. Jan'y 26, 1S11, d. Aug. n, 1SS5, m. 1, Nov. 10, 1S36, Caroline Barton, m. 2,

Jane;

48.

1S91, m. Nicholas F. Clute. b. Ap'l. 29, 1S22, m. Dec. Pie 24, 1846, Benford Deacon. died May 1, 1887. Catherine, b. 1824, d. y.

HIS CHILDREN.

57

Additional data in relation

Welles
1.

to

the children of Elijah

and Mary

Allaben.

Welles (39) was a wheelwright and carriage Green Co., N. Y., a small village ten miles from Catskill. He was an upright, conscientious man, universally esteemed and respected. His children were:
manufacturer
at Cairo,
A.
I.

Almem

James Ransford, a farmer

25,

at

Windham, Green

Co., N. Y., b. Dec.

1829 ; _m. Anna Abiah, b. 1S30, dau. of Amzi Doolittle and Betsey Bouton of Windham. Issue, twins, b. 1S61 Emma, m. Arlington Fayer, William S., m. Betsey Morse.
:

A.

2.

Laura Ann,
fin,

June 14, 1S32 m. April, 1856, Rev. Thomas A. GrifMethodist Episcopal Church, and a Presiding Elder of the Saratoga Conference. Issue, Mary Ann, J. Wesley, Thomas Almern, Sarah Ellen, and Jennie Holman Griffin.
b.
;

of the

A.

3.

Ellen, b.

Mar.

4,

1S35

.m.

1,

Oct.

3,

1863,

Amos

S.

Cornwall,

b.

Feb. 27, 1824, d. Dec. 21, 1884. Issue, Anna Laura, b. Dec. 16, 1864; m. 2, Jan. 31, 1892, Joseph W. Slater, b. 1814, resided at Cairo, N. Y.
A.
4.

Joanna,

b.

Nov.

4,

1837

m.

May

22, i858,

turer and dealer in harness at Cairo, N. Y.,

Orlando Post, manufacand for many years an

Issue,

Elder
A.

in the Presbyterian

Church

at Cairo.

James Palmer

Post, b. Sept. 22, 1869.

5.

Almern,

A.

6.

1861, in the 90th Newand served through the Civil war. Maria, b. May 18, 1843 m Aug. 14, 1S72, George Mortimer Darby, M. D., b. Sept. 8, 1841, druggist and hardware merchant, North Adams, Mass., served in the army during the Civil war, Deacon in. First Baptist Church of North Adams for twenty years. Issue, William Wells, b. May 6, 1874, student in academy at Worcester, Mass., in preparation for the ministry; Nellie May, b. Feb. 18, 1876, d. Mar. 23, 1S76; Arthur Burlingame, b. Nov. T, 1877; Herbert Judson, b. Feb. 9, 18S0 Minnie Alice, b. June 6, 1882;
b.

Oct.

I,

1840

enlisted Feb. 22,

York Regiment

of Volunteers,
'>

Carrie Ingraliam,
iSSS, d. Aug.
9,

b.

June

6,

1884
Feb.

Dana
19,

Board/nan,

b.

April

2,

iSSS.
1S45, d.

A.

7.

Henrietta, b. June 21,

1S89
S.

m. Sept.

10,

1867,

Amasa,
len.

b.

Sept. 25, 1844, son of

at

Resided
friend

Keith and Julia A. PaVineland, Cumberland Co., N. J. A memorial

Edwin

sketch by Mrs. L. A.
er, a

Wood,

of Vineland, says:

"As

a wife, a

mothall cir-

and neighbor, she was preeminently good under

58

ELIJAH WELLES.
cumstances, in sickness and in health, 'yesterday, to-day and forever,

the same,'

character.

and far above the average in her truly Christlike She lived the golden rule so well that it seemed her

great delight to sacrifice her

own comfort
;

to

make

others happy.

She never spoke evil of any one she pitied the poor, the forsaken, the friendless no one could fall below her pity, or wander too far 'Her heart was like the open day, and she shed for her sympathy.
;

kindness as the sun sheds

she

light.'

In later years, with poor health,

self,

her burdens were sometimes heavy, but, true to her inward

murmured
its

not,

'And now her

spirit

has found a better way

out of

night has
b.

come
I,

a bright

win Almcrn,
sician, b.
b.

June

1869, d. Oct.

and golden day.'" Issue, Ed22, 1873; Benjamin, a mu-

Feb.

July

9,

10, 1872; Minnie Wells, b. July 30, 1874; Joanna, 1877; Florence, b. June 1, 18S0; a.\\d Jo/in Amasa Keith,

b.

Mar.

15, 18S6, d.
b.

July 26, 1S86.

A.

8.

Hiland Rushmore,
N. Y.

May
;

1,

1848; a bachelor, resides at Cairo, 1882; Ezra M.,

b.

A.

9.

Martha,

b.

May

1,

1S51

m. Oct.

4,

Feb.

16, 1816,
;

son of Gershom Stevens, of Gilboa, Schoharie Co., N. Y.

at Cairo,

resides

N. Y.

No

issue.

2.

Lewis Welles
life

(42)

was

a miller, residing the greater

Waterford, Saratoga Co., N. Y., or in its immediate vicinity. He went to California in 1S49-50 and remained several years. He was a volunteer in the Federal army
part of his
at

four

during the Southern rebellion, 1S61-65. He had seven children, by his first wife, Caroline Barton, and three by his second

wife, Sarah Clute.

L.
1.

His children were

b.

Elijah Revills,
bellion he

May

m. Elizabeth Vosburgh.

was in Sydney Johnson, in a company of dragoons. He served with Gens. Pleasanton and Sheridan. At the battle of Brandy Station he was He afterwards received a bad severely wounded in the breast.

Albany, N. Y, Mar. 21, 1891 At the breaking out of the Southern Rethe regular army of the United States with Gen.
13, 1S3S, d. at

wound in his bridle-arm. He was with Gen. Sheridan during his famous raid through the Shenandoah valley and was promoted from After the the ranks to Brevet Major for bravery and efficiency. war he served for some years on the frontier as Post Commander. He was honorably retired on half pay with the rank of Captain in the regular army, and by brevet, Major.
L.
2.

Caroline Augusta,

b.

Feb.

24,

1S42

m. Fielding Magness, and had

Charles Magness, Lewis Magness, and a child whose

name

is

not

known.

HIS CHILDREN.
L.
3.

59

Lewis Barton,
1864.

b.

Oct. 15, 1845

'>

killed in the Federal army, Mar. 4,

L.

4.

Adelaide,

b. Jan. 14, 1848, d. Mar. 9, 1S90; m. William Clark and had Carrie Clark, Grace Clark, Kittie Clark and Nettie Clark.

L.
L. L.

5.

6.
7.

Charles Edgar, b. Jan. 17, 1854. William Henry, b. May 29, 1857,

d.

June

15, 1858.

Andrew Herman,
Otterson.

b.

Sept. 24, i860;

m. Oct.

18, 18S7,

N. Florence

3- .Elijah.

ker

at Cairo,

Welles (43) was a wheelwright and carriage maN, Y., an industrious and prudent man, respected

and esteemed. When about 6^ years of age he fell from a fruit tree he was trimming and so injured his spine that he was compelled to spend the greater portion of his days i-eclining on a couch. He was also exceedingly deal. His only issue was two daughters, one by his first and one by his second wife. They were
:

E.

1.

Mary

Sayre, b. 1843

>

r>

Finley Coes
SS2

m.

2,

Jules Talulue, and

resided, in 1891, at Philadelphia, Pa.

E.

2.

Marcia Snyder,

b.

1847, ^- Aug. I2

>

m. Charles Miles and had

Lizzie Miles, Lester Miles

and Charles Wells Miles.

4.

Jane Welles
:

(47), by her

husband Benford Deacon, a

1848; m. Jan. 27, 1S70, Asher P.

machinist, had
2.

Mary Elizabeth Deacon,

Curtis, of Lafayette, N.

b.

Jan

23,

J. in 1891.

3.

Sophia

J.

Deacon,

b.

Nov.

20, 1851

m. June

29, 1872,

James Stan-

ley, of
4.

New York
B.

city.

George
vir.ia

Deacon,
b.

b.

Beach,

Aug.

m. June 17, 1882, Elizabeth LaJuly 23, 1853 11, 1865, of Dover, N. J.
;

5.

6.

Ruth R. Deacon, New York City. Lucy E., b. Sept.

b. Oct. 9,

1S55

m. Oct.

9,

1874, Chas. Stewart, of

2,

1S57, d. Oct. 20, 1864.

Mary Allaben,

177S, and died Dec.

wife of Elijah Welles (37), was born about 27, 1S1S, at Leeds, Green Co., N. Y.

of Cortland Manor, L.

She was the daughter of Jonathan Allaben and Mercy Bouton, I., and was generally called Polly. She was bright and intelligent, a good housewife and fond of

60
reading.

ELIJAH WELLES.

was

The name she gave one name she saw and admired
It is

of her children, Ransford,

in a

work of
far as

fiction a short

time preceding his birth.

the family, as

almost the peculiar property of

rived

it

all bearing the name, so from Ransford Welles.

known, have de-

The Allaben
i.

Families.

2.
3.

John Allaben, of Brookhaven, L. I. Jonathan Allaben, b. 1754; m. 1775, Mercy Bouton,

b.

1759.

Mary Allaben,

b.

177S; m. 1796, Elijah Welles,

b. 1776.

The Allaben
England and

family

is

said to have originated in southwest-

ern Asia, from whence they came to Europe, subsequently to

finally to

America.*

The proper

spelling of the

Allowbin, Allobon, Albin, Alabin, Alleby, are some of the forms the name has assumed. The Allabens were early settlers in Southold, Suffolk
is

name

a difficult matter to determine.

Co., N. Y., the settlement of which

was commenced about

1640 by

New

England

families.

John Alabin appears on record at Southold, as a weaver, n, 1694, when he bought of Benjamin Yongs, Sr., one acre of woodland near Goose creek, on Hogs Neck Benjamin
Sept.
;

Y^ongs engaging

him a frame house, on the purchased land, twenty feet long and sixteen feet wide, and John Alabin so agreeing to teach a son of Benjamin Yongs how to weave far as he was capable, but not the weaving of bed ticking." June 24, 1696, John Alabin bought an acre of upland of Jonathan Mapes, adjoining or near the former purchase, at the mouth of Goose creek on Hogs Neck, "the right to wash sheep
to build
'

in the creek

being reserved to the inhabitants of the town."

his homestead, his family

Here John Alabin had

remaining

in

the vicinity and paying taxes until about 175? probably about the time of John Alabin's death.

In a
the

list

of the inhabitants of Southold in 169S, published in

"Documentary History of

New

York," we

find

John Al-

*So stated by Hon. Orson M. Allaben, M. D., of Margaretville, Delaware Co., N. Y.

MARY ALLABEN WELLES.

lowbin, Tabitha Allowbin,

6l

Hannah Allowbin, and Mary Alio w-

bin, following each othei" in order here given as if of one house-

and then, after a number of other names William AlloAs John Alabin was a resident of Southold at this time, the first four names were undoubtedly his family John Alabin and Tabetha his wife Hannah and Mary his daughters and justify the supposition that when contracting for a house at Southold in 1694, John Alabin had recently been or was about to be married. He was probably the progenitor of the Allaben family in America, and is supposed to have been the
hold
;

bon.

grandfather of John Allaben.

John Allaben

resided at Blue Point* in the

haven, Suffolk Co., N. Y.

He was He

a hotel keeper of
as

town of Brooksome

notoriety, the proprietor of a house

known

and was said

to

be wealthy.

died about

The Red Lionj, jSi^ and was

I. He had thirteen children, four sons and nine daughters only four of whom are known. The sons were in the order of their naming

buried at Manorville, L.

2.

Jonathan ; m. Feb'y 6, 1775, Mercy, b. 1759 d. Aug., 1829; dau. Samuel Bouton and Abigail
,

6.

Jeremiah; has a granddaughter

living in 1892, at Manorville, L.
I.,

Mrs.

Hannah
cannot

his wife.
3.

of age, but
2,
7,
,

Kent, 78 years tell her grand-

John was a sergeant fiom Oct.

to

mother's name.
Ebenezer.
Sally,

Nov.

2,

1777, in

Company

7.

Capt. Henry Godwin, in regiment commanded by Col. Lewis

8.

m.

Roger,

b.

ab't

1757,

son of Samuel Bouton and Abigail

Du
4.
5.

Bois.

his wife,

resided at Rox-

Patience.

bury,
9.

Delaware Co., N. Y.

Hannah.

Prudence.

Jonathan Allaben, son of John Allaben of Blue Point, Brookhaven, Suffolk Co., N. Y., resided when he married, at Cortland Manor, Westchester Co., N. Y. During the Revo*Blue Point extreme
Indians Manowtasquott.
S.

W.

corner of Brookhaven, Suffolk Co., N. Y., called by the

penalties

tlnns were regulated in the early days of America with great strictness. Under severe all inn-keepers were required to restrain the excesses of their guests or to acquaint the magistrates with their perpetration. Only persons of approved character and

competent estate were permitted to follow such a calling and thus an employment very little respected in other countries was pursued by men from the most honorable stations in the civic and military service of the State.

62
lution,

ELIJAH WELLES,

he was a private in the Company of Capt. Ebenezer in the regiment Commanded by Col. Thaddeus Crane and Maj. Nathaniel Delavan.* This company was divided, making two parts, the first with Daniel Bonton, vice-captain; Gilbert Reynolds, ist Lieutenant and Ebenezer Avery, Ensign; the second with Samuel Lewis, Captain;
Schofield

Bennajah Brown, ist Lieutenant and Jehiel Bouton, Ensign. To which of these divisions Jonathan Allaben belonged we do not know, but when serving in the army probably in 1779, he was taken prisoner by the Tories, while foraging with a com-

pany of Americans on
to the

the

Neutral Gi'ound
at the

the name

given

country north of Kingsbridge

confluence of the

Hudson and Harlem rivers and south of the Croton river and lodged in the old Sugar House prison in New York.f His wife traveled, with her babe in her arms, all the way from her home to New York, to see him, and found him in prison
making
shoes.

He was drowned 'in

in a vessel

the winter of ijS'j, while

returning

York, whither he had gone after a cargo of leather. He is supposed to have been a manufacturer and dealer in shoes. He is said to have been a fine looking man, rather thick set, of ordinarv height, with very black and very long hair, a ruddy countenance and a disposition He married, Feb'y 6, 1775? that would not pocket an insult. Mercy Bouton of Cortland Manor, L. I., and had
from
:

home

New

Revolutionary archives, Jonathan Allaben' s surname is Alleby. As notice that the officers of the regiment Capt. Daniel Bouton and Ensign Jehiel Bouton were his wife's uncles, and that he was known as Jonathan Alleby, Hon. Orson M. Allaben says " I well remember when my father, Jonathan's son, wrote his name Alaby and have his autograph so written. His brother James changed the spelling to Allaben, and father afterwards did the same. When at Blue Point I saw an old lady of 80 years who knew Jeremiah Allaben Jonathan's brother and she invariably
*In the

New Vork

evidence of identity

we

called

him Jeremiah Alleby."

built in 1689

tThe Sugar House was

and stood

until 1840,

on Liberty Street near Nas-

sau, a stone building five stories in height, with thick walls and small deep windows. Each story was divided into two rooms, with ceilings so low and windows so small that
air could scarcely find entrance.

In these gloomy quarters, the prisoners were at times,

huddled so closely they panted for breath, and were kept for months on poor and insufficient food, without fire or blankets and with no other clothes than those they had worn on their entrance. No other nation claiming to be civilized ever treated prisoners of war with such inhuman cruelty as the English treated American prisoners at New York, destroying more lives in this way than in honorable warfare and disgracing their boasted civilization. Let Americans remember it forever.

MARY ALLABEN WELLES.

10.

63

Sally, b. ab't

1776;

d. ab't 1852,

11.

William Holmes; m. 2, Dugald Harrower, resided at Colchester, Delaware Co., N. Y. Alary or Polly, b. ab't 1778; d.
m.
I.

1822; m. June 3, 1806, Salina Stratton residence, Roxbury, Delaware Co., N. Y.

4,
;

13.

John,
3,

Dec.
jah,

27,
b.

1818;
1776,?

m. 1797,? Elid. Mar. 26,

Aug. Fezon Mclntyre, residence, Roxbury, N. Y.*

b.

Sept. 15, 1875; d.

1845;

m.

14.

Esther,
16,

b.

Ap'l

7,

1787; m. Oct.
Stratton
of

1829,

son of Hezekiah Welles

1808,

Walter

and Phoebe Talcott.

12.

Roxbury, N. Y.

James,

b.

Aug.

25, 1S70; d.

Aug.

Mercy Bouton, wife of Jonathan Allaben, is said to have been the daughter of Samuel Bouton and Abigail, his wife. She was born, probably at New Canaan, in the town of Stamford, Ct, in 1759, and died at Roxbury, Delaware Co., N. Y., August, 1S29. After the death of Jonathan Allaben she married Joel Carley of Hillsdale, Columbia Co., N. Y., who in 1S03, moved to Delhi, Delaware Co., N. Y., and from thence in 1S13 to Roxbury, iu said County. j

The Bouton Families

1.

Nicholas Bouton,

b. 1580,

Count Chamilly.

2. 3.

John Bouton, John Bouton,

4.
5.

m. 1657, Abigail Marvin, b. 1640. b. 1659; m. 1685,? Sarah Greggorie, b. 1667. Nathaniel Bouton, b. 1691 m. 1720,? Mary
c.

a.

1635

6.

Samuel Bouton, b. 1730; m. 1748, Abigail Mercy Bouton, b. 1759 m. 1775, Jonathan Allaben,
.

b.

1754,? parents

of

Mary Allaben Welles.

family
is

The Bouton

of French origin.

The

ancient Bou-

ton shield or coat of arms had the following motto, on a ground

*John Allaben (13) was the father of Orson M. Allaben M. >. b. Aug. 5, 1808. m. Thankful Dimmick; had a large practice at Margaretville, N. "'.; member New York Assembly and also State Senator. Jonathan C. f ben, M. L\, b. Dec. 26, iSrs; m. Angeline Decker member New York Assembly, kev. Willian. N. Allaben, b. June 20,
'
:

1816, Baptist minister.

Abigail D. Allaben

b.

M&fe,

1819; m. Buell

Maben
;

of Halcott,

Green Co., N. Y., member 1846, New York Assembly- their son W. B. Maben, a lawyer, Brooklyn, N. Y. James R. Allaben, b. Oct. 20, 1823, m. Ellen P. Smith a lawyer, Brooklyn and represented the city in New York Assembly, 1869.
Joel Carley, Mercy Bouton had Prudence Carley, b. Aug. 3, m. Smith Fuller of Warwarsing, Ulster Co., N. Y.; and Brookins Miller Carley, b. Aug. 22, 1805 d. Oct. 9, 1859 m. Oct. 7, 1824, Lydia Ann Ellis resided at Middletown,N. Y.

tBy her second husband

;

1800

d.

June

20, 1883

64

ELIJAH WELLES.
'

work of perpendicular lines: De Gules a la Fasce d Or, which is old French and freely translated would signify: "A force as of a leopard when it attacks with its red mouth open." The military and Court records of France from 1350 abound with the Bouton name for two centuries. A French historian
says,
'*

a proclivity for
all

patriotism, education and religion

is

seen in the family

down

the ages."

Nicholas Bouton, who bore the title of Count Chamilly, Baron Montague de Xaton, born it is supposed about 15S0, had three sons, Harard Bouton, John Bouton and Noel Bouton.

who were Huguenots* and

cutions of the Protestants

refugees through the violent perse-

Roman Catholics under the predominence of the Guises in France. During this period Noel Bouton distinguished himself, and having returned to France was known as the Marquis de Chamilly, and subseHis life size portrait adorns quently Marchall of all France. the gallery of French nobles at Versailles; France.
by the

John Bouton.
ten

the progenitor of the Bouton, or as

it is

writ-

by some of his descendants Boughton, family of America, was born in France in 1615, came to America in 1635 and died He is supposed to have at Danburv, Fairfield Co., Ct., 1704. been the son of Count Nicholas Bouton. He was a Huguenot, and during the existence of the great persecution fled to England, where the government was offering to send emigrants to America on condition that they would swear allegiance to Great Britain. In July, 1635. being then twenty years of age, he set sail from Gravesend, England, in the barque Assurance, and the following December landed at Boston, Mass. He resided for a time at Boston and then at Watertown, in the same
*Huguenot, originally a nick-name applied
or adherents of the Reformation in France.
in derision

and contempt to the Protestants

The

origin of the
it is

word

is

doubtful.

Fifteen

derivations have been, suggested, the most plausible, that

from Huguon, a. word applied in Touraine to persons who walk at night in the street; the early French Protestants, like the early Christians, having chosen that time for their religious assemblies. Their persecution began in 1545 and raged with greater or less severity for two hundred years. The massacre on S:. Bartholemew's Eve, Aug. 24, 1572, brought death to 60,000 people. French historians say, " the Huguenot persecutions drove 300,000 people from France and that a like number perished in prison, at the stake or by the sword."_

tCondensed from " Diciionnaire des Generaux Francais."

MARY ALLABEX WELLES.

State.
thither,

6^

Early in the settlement of Hartford, Ct., he moved and in 165 e, soon after the commencement of settle-

ment
an

at

Norwalk, Fairfield Co.,

and
in 1671,

Ct., he settled there,

became

influential citizen, served his

townsmen

in

many

official ca-

pacities,

and

for several subsequent years,

was a

representative in the General Court of Connecticut.

His will was dated Dec. 25, 1700, and was probated Jan. 2, 1704-5, from which it appears that he possessed considerable real estate and personal property to the amount of 260. He married, first, Joan Turney. She died soon after his settlement at Norwalk. He married, second, Jan'y 1, 1637, Abigail Marvin. She died about 1672, and he married for the third time, about 1673, Mrs. Mary Stevenson, widow of Jonathan Stevenson,
fight
2.

who was

with the Indians.

b.
;

killed near Norwalk in John Bouton's children were

Mass.
;

a
:

swamp

Richard,
ab't 1639

probably in
d.
,

June

27, 1665

m.

8.

Ruth
3.

who

survived him.
9.

Bridget, b. probably in Hartford,

Ct.,

Norwalk, May 26, 1671 m. David Waterbury. Joseph, by 3d wife, b. ab't 1674;
b.

1670 Mary,

m.
at

Smith.

ab't 1642; m. at

Norwalk,
10.

m.

Mary
b.

4.

Daniel Kellogg. John, by 2d wife, b. at Norwalk, m. there Ct., Sept. 30, 1659
Ct., 1660,
;

Thomas,

ab't 1676

is

men-

tioned as one of the constituent

members
ton.
11.

of the society of Wil-

ab't

1685,

Sarah,

dau.

John
24,

Greggorie of the same place.

5.

Elizabeth, b. ab't 1679; m. Oct.

6,

Matthew,
1661.

b. at

Norwalk, Dec.

1698,

Edmund Waring
b.

or
5,

Warren,
b.

1673

d.

Aug.

6.

Rachel,
;

St. 1667 in. John, grandson of Matthias, who emigrated from England and

Norwalk, Dec. ab't 1690 Matthias

at

16,

749>

son probably of Richard

of Oyster Bay, L.
b. ab't
I.

Waring
12.

Richard,

1680,

was elected

clerk of the society at Wilton,

1726.

settled at
7.

Abigail,

b.

Norwalk, ab't 1650. at Norwalk, Ap'l

1,

Ct. in 1640,

Abigail Marvin, wife of John Bouton, was born and died at Norwalk, Ct. about 1672.

at

Hartford,

She was a

daughter of Matthew Marvin and Elizabeth his wife, and a

sister

of Sarah Marvin, wife of William Goodrich, great-great-

great-grandparents of Elijah Welles.

The

families of the sis-

66
ters

ELIJAH WELLES.

Allaben,

were united by the marriage of Elijah Welles and Mary who were fifth cousins.*
(4), son of
at

John Bouton
Marvin, was born

John Bouton

(1)

and Abigail

Norwalk,

Ct., Sept. 30, 1659.

He was

farmer, owning land at his native place jointly with his brother
of

Matthew Bouton, which he sold Jan'y 25, 1693, to Mercy, widow Ephraim Lockwood. He also owned lands at Danbury, Ct., and the records mention him among the constituents of the
society of

New

Canaan, Ct.

He
:

married at Norwalk, ab't

16S5, Sarah Greggorie, and had

13. 14. 15.

Abigail, b. Norwalk, Ct., 1686.

Petit,

widow
b.

of

his

brother,

Norwalk, 1688.' Nathaniel, b. Norwalk,

Mary,
hi.

b.

John Bouton
1691
;

(18). t

18.

John,

ab't

1701

m.

Mary

I,

Hannah
.

m.

2,

Petit; after his death she mar-

Mary
16.
17.

ried his brother Eleazer Boud. y.

Joseph,
dan.

b.

1693;

ton (17).
Elizabeth,
19.

Eleazer, b. 1696; m.

Daniel,

b.

1705;

m.

July

12,

Thomas Seymour and Hannah Marvin m. 2, Mary

;

1733, Elizabeth Robert.

Sarah Greggorie, wife of John Bouton, (4) was born Dec, Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Ct. She was the daughter of John Greggorie.
1667, at

The Greggorie
John Greggorie was one

Family.

of the early settlers of

New

Haven,

In 1653 he moved to Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Ct., and after 1662 was a representaCt., locating there probably about 1645.
* After page 52 was printed the following additional data were found concerning Mathew Marvin-. He was S-.lrveyor of Highways from 1639 to 164?. In 165s his personal property was rated at .279. His will was dated Dec. 20, 1678 and the inventory of his estate was made July 13, 1680. Elizabeth Marvin, mentioned in the foot note page 52, was his daughter, born ab't 1624, and when marrying Dr. Olmsted was the widow of Thomas

Gregory.

tAmong
1784
;

d. 1851

the descendants of Eleazer Bouton (17) are: Claudius Victor Boughton, b. ; for whom the town of Victor, N. Y. was named. The State presented him
;

a sword for services on the Niagara frontier, in 1813. Lieut. Geo. H. Boughton, b. 1792 founder of Grace Episcopal Church, and Postmaster for two administrations from 1822, at Lockport, N. Y.; State Senator, 1829-33 Canal Appraiser 1855, Harbor Commission; ;

er,

New York

City.-

MARY ALLABEN WELLES.

tive for several years.

6>J

He was
5.

living in
:

16SS.

His wife's
19,

name
2.

is

not known.
b. ab't
.

His children were

Dec.

John,

1642; m. ab't 1663,

Thomas,

bp.

Mar.

1648: m.

25, 1670, Elizabeth, dau. of

3.

Jachin,

b. ab't 1644.
6.

George Pardie.
Sarah, m.

4.

Joseph, bp. July 26, 1646, had no

family.

May

10,

1676,

James

Benedict.

Ct.,

John Greggorie (2), son of John Greggorie of New Haven, was known as John Greggorie of Norwalk, Ct., wither he
a lady
:

went with his father in 1653. He married about 1663 whose name is not known and had
7.

Elizabeth,

b.

Jan'y, 1665.
ab't

9.

Jonathan,

b.

June, 1671.

8.

Sarah,
1685,

b.

Dec, 1667; m.
(4) b.

10.
II.

Abigail, b. June, 1672.

John Bouton

Sept.

Mary,

b.

Dec,

1674.

30, 1659.

Nathaniel Bouton (15) son of John Bouton (4) and Sarah

,

Greggorie, was born at Norwalk, Fairfield Co., Ct., in 1691, but must have moved to New Canaan, town of Stamford, Ct.,
a constituent member of the New Canaan CongregaChurch. His will in the possession of his great-great grandson, Nathaniel W. Bouton, M. D., of Ashland, Benton Co., Mo., bears date 1775. He married first Hannah and second Mary His children were

as he

was

tional

20.

Hannah,

b. at New Canaan, Ct., Nov. 24, 1721; m. at Norwalk, by the Rev. Mr. Eells of Canaan, Feb'y 23, 1737. Timothy, son of Cornelius Delavan and Deborah Green. Timothy and Hannah, parents of Maj. Nathaniel Delavan and Lieut. Timothy Delavan of Revolutionary fame, and great-great grand parents of Edward Close Delavan, Jr., of 56 Wall Street,

23.

24.

Lydia Penoyer, b. Ap'l m. 2, Rachel Kellogg of Norwalk, Ct. Samuel, b. Stamford, Ct., Ap'l 11, 1730; m. Abigail Jehiel, b. Stamford, Ct., Feb'y
1

755,

15, 1724,

17,

1732;

m.
;

July

4,

1754,

Anne Finch resided den, Tompkins Co.,

25.

at

DryY.,

N.

Lieutenant in the Revolution, Mary, b. Stamford, Ct., Nov.

11,

1734;
b.
;

d.

Nov.

1,

18285

New
21.

York.
26.

Samuel Scribner.
John,

Abigail, b. Stamford, Ct., Feb'y

Stamford, Ct., July

23,

1723; m. Ap'l 15, 1742, Josiah Weed of Stamford.

28,
22.

prob.'d. unmarried pre1737 vious to 1775.

27.

Nathaniel 2d,
Sept,
6,

b.

Stamford, Ct.,

Daniel,

b. d.

Stamford,
at

Oct.

24,

1726;

m.

Ap'l

15,

1740;

New

Canaan, Ct,

68
Feb'y
d. 12,

ELIJAH WELLES.
1S21
;

m.

I,

Dec.

31,

a shot from a British vessel

also

1767, Mary, b. Greenwich, Ct.,

Deacon,

June, 1801, dau. Peter

2,

Mead;

m.

Oct.

17,

1S02,

Widow
d.

1797 till Church.

28.

from June 10, death, in New Canaan

Stamford,
Ct., 1742;

Hannah Hoyt.
1S23.

She
at

June

Rebecca,
prob.
1775.

b..

He

captain in the Rev-

died

unmarried before

olution,

wounded

Coscob by

Samuel Boilton (23), son of Nathaniel Bouton (15) and Mary his wife, was born at New Canaan, in the town of StamApril 11, 1730, and about 1764 settled at Pound ford, Ct Ridge, N. Y., and later on Long Island. He married Abit

gail
29.

and had
Jan'y 25, 1761, d. 1841 at Huntington, L. I.
33.
;

David,?
d.

30.

New Canaan, 174S, Middletown, Delaware Co., N. Y., 1830, aged 82 years; m. ab't 1782, Esther Belden. Roger,? b. ab't 1757; m. at Blue Point, L. I., Sally Allaben, and
b. at

settled

at

Sarah,

b.

Ap'l

7,

1763.

34.

James, b. 1764, d. June 7, 1843; m. Mar. 9, 1793, Sarah Sanford,

of

Redding,

Ct.,

b.

Feb'y' 18,

settled at Roxbury,
Co., X. Y.
31.

Delaware
Aug., 1S29;
35. 36.

1778, d.
1793,

June 24, 1839; settled in Roxbury, Delaware

1,

Mercy,!
1,

b. in 1759, d.

Co., X. Y.*

Feb'y 6, 1775, Jonathan Allaben, of Cortland Manor, L. m. 2, I., drowned ab't 17S7;
Joel Carley, of Hillsdale, Co-

Cloe, b. Ap'l

Samuel,
lyn,

jr., b.
;

Matilda
X. Y.

1766; n. m. Mar. 2, 1768; m. resided in Brook-

lumbia Co., X. V.
32.

37. 31,

Abigail, b. July 15, 1770, d.

y.

Bennajah,

b.

Oct.

1760,
,

d. b.

38.
39.

Mary,

b.

Dec.

7,

1772.

ab't 1S3S;

m. Ruth
was

Abigail, b. July 18, 1779.

'James Bouton

(34)

the father of Betsy Bouton,

Doolittle, wife of

Windham, N.

Y., and had

Ann Abiah

who married Amzi Doolittle, of James Ransford Welles, (23 A 1).

Rev. Ransford Welles, D. D.

Ransford Welles, born

Friday, September
6.

at Catskill,

Green Co., X. Y.,

1S05, died at Philadelphia, Pa.,

Monday,

March

and Mary Allaben. He wellnigh invariably signed his name R. Wells. His father was unable to give him the educational advantages he greatly desired, and he therefore worked through the day and studied at night to secure the knowledge to which he aspired. Early in life he made a profession of his faith in Christ and united with the Reformed Church of Madison, now Leeds, He was working at this time in Whitnear Catskill. N. Y. tlesey's fulling mill, on the banks of the Catskill. The Rev. Isaac N. Wyckoff, D. D.,* had recently become pastor of the Madison church, and visiting the mill one day, made him a proposal which opening a way for the gratification of his de4, 18S9,

was

the third son of Elijah Welles

sire, gave,

shape

to ail his after life.

It

was, "Cease your wooltill

carding and

make your home with me

in

you can become

ready for school and college,

preparation for the ministry."

"That morning's
in the Christian

talk," says the

Intelligencer,

whirr of wheels in young pastor and the earnest young convert, gave Ransford Welles to a most faithful and efficient ministry of more than fifty years, and a whole family to perpetuate his zeal and consecration, and to keep green his happy memory in our church since he has gone to his reward."
*Rev. Isaac N. Wyckoff, D. D.,
College, 1813,
b.

Rev. Anson DuBois, D. D., "amid the smell of oil and Whittlesey's mill, between the earnest

Brunswick Seminar}-, 1S17 formed Church of Albany from 1836 to 1866

;

New

near Millstone, N. J., 1792, graduated at Rutgers pastor at Leeds, Catskill, and the 2d Re;

d.

1869.

He was

active, energetic

voted

especially noted for his kind offices to all in need of consolation or advice,

and deand in-

fluential in the councils of the church.

ijO

REV. RANSFORD WELLES, D. D.

After entering college he added to his means by teaching in young ladies at New Brunswick, N. J. He gradfirst

a school for

uated from Rutgers College, taking the

honor, in 1827, and

from the Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, 1830. He was licensed the same year and ordained pastor of the Reformed Church at Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., N. Y. On the occasion of his death, the consistory of this church placed
on record the following
"Resolved,
:

we gratefully recognize the honored service Ransford Welles, D. D., and that we place upon record our hearty appreciation of the work that he rendered here in the early days of our church's existence."
That
as a church of our first pastor the Rev.

In 1S33 he

Newark, N.

became pastor of the gathered J., where he

First

Reformed Church of

a flourishing congregation

and secured the erection of their first house of worship on MarIn 1S42-44 he was secretary of the Board of Misket street. He resumed the active duties sions of the Reformed Church. of the ministry and was pastor of the Reformed Church, in in 1S57, at Fulton1844, at Schoharie, Schoharie Co., N. Y. in 1S6S, at Stuyvesant Falls, ville, Montgomery Co., N. Y. Columbia Co., N. Y. in 1S71, at Brookfield, Fairfield Co., in 1S76, at Cato, Cayuga Co., N. Y. Ct.
;

In 188 1

he retired from the active duties of the ministry.

He He
gift

received the degree of D. D. from Rutgers College in 1851. occupied every position and received every honor in the

of the church save that of professor in the Theological Seminary, for which position he was nominated in 1S52, but the

Rev. John Ludlow, D. D., LL.D., was elected by a majority of three votes.* He was always a sound, practical, evangelical preacher, maintaining his standing wherever he ministered, and enjoying the esteem, the confidence and the respect of the communities in which he labored. He ever took an active and
a foremost part in the ecclesiastical assemblies of the church.

*Rev. John Ludlow, D. D., LL.D., b. 1793 at Acquackanonk, Passaic Co., N. J., graduated at Rutgers and the New Brunswick seminary, pastor ot Reformed Church at New Brunswick and Alba'ny, Prof. Hebrew and other branches at New Brunswick Seminary 1817-23. and when elected in 1852, Prof. Ecclesiastical History in the same institution, was Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. He is described as strong of person, voice,
intellect, will, affections

and

faith.

He

died 1857.

HIS

CHARACTER.

Reports from
eral

his pen may be found in the minutes of the GenSynod of the Reformed Church in America from 1S35 to 18S5, on almost every question that agitated the church during

that period.

From

early

manhood he advocated and

that intoxicates,"

practiced "total absti-

and while not an abolitionist, was a radical anti-slavery champion from the beginning of " the irrepressible conflict," abandoning the Democratic party in 1S4S, under the lead of Martin Van Buren the Freesoiler. During the Civil war of 1S61-64, he was a member of the Christian Commission and was with the Army of the Potomac through the summer of 1S64. Rev. A. R. Van Nest, D. D.,* editor of Life and Letters of George W. BetJiune, jD, D.,j in introducing a letter from Dr. Welles to Dr. Bethune says: "'Iron sharpeneth iron, so a ?nan sharpens the countenance of his friend.' man, aye every inch a man, writes to 'his friend' in Utica." The New York correspondent of the Rochester Democrat in an article on the Reformed Church, bears the following testimony in
all

nence from

1S67:
"Dr. Welles has served
in the ministry over thirty years

and
is

is

now

in

undoubtedly one of the ablest church lawyers in the denomination, and had he pursued the legal, instead of the clerical profession he would have achieved both wealth and fame."
the full vigor of his faculties.

In addition to his other gifts he

From comments in we select as follows

Ohio
:

the newspapers, occasioned

by

his death,

'Journal

and

iSLessenger, Cincinnati,

Van Nest who c. a. graduated Rutgers College 1S41, New Brunswick Seminary 1847; pastor Reformed Church, New York, 1848, Ameiican Chapel, Paris, France, 1863, American Chaplain, Rome, Italy, 1864, American Union Church, Florence, Italy, 1866, 3d Church, Philadelphia, Pa. 1878-81; a thorough gentleman, of literary tastes, sincere piety and ardent attachment to the church of his fathers.
*Rev.

Abram R. Van
;

Nest, D. D., Great-great-grandson of Peter

from Ho!landT647

b. 1823, d. 1892,

tRev. Geo.

W.

Bethune, D. D.,
;

b. 1S05, d. 1862 at

Florence, Italy; son of Divie Beth-

une and Joanna Graham his father c. a. from Scotland, whither the family during the Huguenot persecution fled from Bethune. a town in Picardy. His mother was dau. of Dr. John Graham and Isabella Marshall, who in Christian biography, as Mrs. Isabella Graham, is noted for her piety. He graduated at Dickinson College 1S23, Princeton Seminary 1826; pastor of Reformed Churches at Rhinebeck 1827, Utica 1831, 1st Philadelphia Of poetic genius, a 1834, 3d Philadelphia 1837, Brooklyn Heights, 1850, New York 1859. thorough master of English, a proficient in belles lettres and skilled in dialectics, he stood
in the frQnt

rank of ministers of the Gospel.

72

REV. RAXSFORD WELLES,

D. D.

of the man, a consistency of and an evident sincerity which took strong hold upon the youth, and produced impressions not soon dispelled."

"There was something about the manner

character, an urbanity

Rev. William V. V. Mabon, D. D., Prof, of Theology in New Brunswick Seminary, says in the Christian Intelligencer :
the

"At
May,
for

the meeting of the

Alumni

iSSS, the

remarks

of Dr.

of the Seminary, at New Brunswick, in Welles excited the utmost interest in view
of the circle,

of the liveliness,

geniality

and wit displayed by the Nestor

he was, although

in the eighty-third year of his age,

the most impres-

sive speaker present."

From
1SS9:

obituary in the Christian Intelligencer,

March

20,

" The beautiful Christian

life

which Dr. Welles

lived, has closed

by the

beautiful and befitting Christian death he was permitted to die."

Dr. Welles died at the residence of his son, Rev. Theo. W. Welles, 145 Grape St., Philadelphia, Pa., Monday, March 4, While waiting for a carriage to take him to the cars that 1S89.

he might return to Flatbush where he made his home, he complained of a pain in his throat, walked about the room for a

back in the chair unconscious, neither hearing nor speaking again, and His remains were inin a few moments breathed his last. terred in the Elmwood cemetery at New Brunswick, N. J., in Section D. Lot 2S5. Dr. Welles married, April 20, 1831, Joanna Hardenbergh. The officiating clergyman was the Rev. Jacob Broadhead, D. D., of New York, and the old marriage ceremony of the Reformed Dutch Church was used, which because of its length, merited the Apostolic description of the Jewish rites, a ceremony "which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear." On this occasion the bride found it well nigh intolerable, and in after years frequently spoke to her children of the weariness it
lips
fell

few minutes, when sitting down, he The words were scarcely out of his

said,

"I

feel better

now."

when he

occasioned.

was settled at Canaon the bank of the Mohawk river, in Montgomerv Co., N. Y. and thither he took his bride to commence housekeeping experiences. The journey was looked upon as a

At

the time of his marriage Dr. Welles

joharie, a village

HIS CHILDREN.

73

formidable undertaking.

It

was about 225 miles from

fleetest

New
up

York

to

Canajoharie and the

mode

of conveyance after
fitted

reaching Albany was a canal-boat.

These boats,

with berths and comfortable saloons for the use of passengers, were called packets. There were regular lines running be-

tween Albany and Buffalo, N. Y., and they made the trip at an average of about five miles an hour. On one of these packets the newly married couple reached their home in Canajoharie.
this journey they were accompanied by a colored Margaret Staats, who, with the exception of a few years, remained in the family until her death in 186S. She was known as Peggy. She had been a slave in the family of Rev. Isaac N. Wyckoff, D. D., at Leeds, near Catskill, X. Y., and was manumitted by the operation of the law abolishing slavery in the state of Xew York. She was an excellent cook and a faithful servant, a member in good standing of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was warmly attached to all the mem-

In

making

servant,

bers of the family, especially to the children, each of she cared for in infancy.

whom

The

last

years of her

life

she lived

with the writer of these annals,

boy."

whom

she always called "her

The children of Rev. Ransford Welles, D. D., and Joanna Hardenbergh, were
:

49.

Cornelius Low,

b. Sept. 6,

1S33
51.

19,

1835

d.

Sept. 21, 1S36.

b.

m.

1,

Nov.

14, 1S55,
6,

Lucia L.

Theodore
1839;

Wyckoff,

May
5,

6,

Butler, b. April
!9

1S35, d. Jan.

m. MayZ^;, 1S63, Jane

b.

lS 73.

ler

dau Thomas L. Butand Lydia Wiley:* m. 2,

-

Elizabeth,

Jan.

183S,

dau. Rev. L. H.

Van Dyck and

Sept.

1,

1S75, 1S36,

Oct.

3,

Abby L. widow

Lott,t
of

b.

Christina Hoes,
52.

(11 -

Durye*.,

fi;

John

Mary,

Howard, and dau. Hon. John A. Lott, LL. D. and Catherine L. Lott.
Erskine
50.

1S40; m. June i5j ^59, Rev. Philip Furbeck, b. Dec. 29 i8~>2.

b.

Nov.

27,

53.

Laura,

b. at

Troy, N. Y., Nov.

6,

6,

Ransford,
*Lydia Wiley,

b.

at

Newark,

May

^43,

d.

Oct

1S44.

b. in Schoharie Co., N. Y., Nov. 22, 1808, d. at Binghamton, N. Y., Jan'y have been unable to ascertain the given names of her father and mother. The maiden surname of her mother was Pangburn. She married first, at Schoharie, N. Y. in 1S32, Jacob Vrooman, and had Nancy L. Vrooman who married Henry L. Manning, and in 1892 resided at Binghamton, N. Y. She married, second, in 1834, at East Cobles-

26, 1S85.

We

kill,

Schoharie Co., N. Y.,

of

Thomas

L. Butler
is

who

died in 1841.

tThe aenealogy 10

Abbey

L. Lott,

given with the genealogy of John A. Lott, in

y^

REV. RANSFORD WELLES,

D. D.

Additional data concerning the children of Rev. Ransjord

Welles,

D. D. and Joanna Hardenbergh.

i. Rev. Cornelius Low Wells, D. I)., (49)' so he wrote his name, was born at the residence of his grandfather, Jacob R. Hardenbergh, George St., New Brunswick, N. J., Sept. 16, He prepared for college at the Schoharie academy, 1S33. Schoharie, N. Y., entered junior class at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., 1850; was junior orator at commencement entered Theological Seminary at New graduated 1S52 1S51 Brunswick, graduated in 18^5, was licensed the same year, to preach the Gospel, by the Classis of Schoharie, and ordained
;
;

by the Classis of Schenectady, pastor of the churches of Nisthe former in Schenectady and the kayuna and Lisha's Kill In 1S58 he became pastor of the latter in Albany Co., N. Y. Third Reformed Church of Jersey City, N. J., since known as Park Avenue Church, and, having secured the building of their house of worship on Pavonia avenue, resigned the charge in 1S63. and became pastor of the Reformed Church at Flatbush, King's Co., N. Y. He received the degree of D. D. from Rutgers College in 1S78, and the same year was a delegate from the Reformed Church in America to the General Conference on Foreign Missions, held at Mildmay Park, London, England. In 1S67 he was elected a member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Reformed Church, and so continues through sucr
;

cessive triennial elections

for

many

years also a trustee of

Erasmus Hall Academy, at Flatbush, N. Y., and in 1SS4 represented the Reformed Church in the Council of Churches
holding the Presbyterian system of government, at Belfast,
Ireland.

The publications of the Rev. C. L. Wells, D. D. have been Sermon at Dedication of Park Reformed Church, Jersey Present Condition of National City, N. J., 1S60; A Sermon

Affairs,

A Theme for Thanksgiving,

1S61

Memorial Dis-

course on the Life and Character of Stephen Garretson, of Jer-

HIS CHILDREN.
sey City, 1S62

75

The

Sacrifice of Continual Praise, a

Thanks-

giving Sermon, 1S64;

The Rough and

Perfect Ashler, Address

before Kings Co. Lodge, 511, F. and A. M., 5th Anniversary,

Hope in Death and Comfort in Mourning, a Sermon on Death of Louisa D. Morgan, of Flatbush, N. Y., 1865 Tribute to the Memory of Rev. Robert Grier Strong, of Sermon at the Dedication of the Flatbush, N. Y., 1S92. Series of First Reformed Church, Brooklyn, N. Y., 1891 also a Articles in Christian Intelligencer, on Benevolence Sketches of Travel from the Pacific to the Series of Letters Atlantic, in Rural Gazette, Flatbush, N. Y., 1889. By his second marriage Cornelius L. Wells had no children by his first wife, Lucia L. Butler, he had
1866;
the

54.

Ransford, b; at Niskayiina, Schenectady Co., N. Y., Nov.

at Portland,

4,

1856, d.

Oregon, Nov.

30,

1SS3; graduated from Rutgers College,

55.

Charles Whitbeck,

and from Columbia Law School, 1877. b. at Niskayuna, Schenectady Co., N. Y., Nov. 8, Issue, 1858; m. Mary A., b. Aug. 26. 1S63, dau. Rev. M. C. Reed. Lucia, b. Mar. 26, 1SS8, d. Mar. 27, 18S8; Cornelius Low, b. Feb'y
1875,
13, 1SS9.
b. at Flatbush, Kings Co., N. ., Sept. 4, 1865; m. Kate Lyles, b. April 11, 1S68, dau. Rev. Jeremiah Lott Zabriskie and Sarah Stoothoff Lyles, of Flatbush, Teller in Brooklyn City Bank.
12, 1893,
b.

56.

Henry Manning,
April

57.

Lucius Butler,

Jan'y

19, 1S73.

2.

Mary Welles,
was educated

(52)

was born

at

Newark, N.

J,,

Nov.

27,

1S40,

at

Schoharie Academy, Schoharie, N. Y.,

and married, in the Reformed Church at Fultonville, N. Y., Wednesday, June 15, 1859, Rev. Philip Furbeck,* born Dec.
*Rev. Philip Furbeck was a grandson of John Furbeck, a native of Rodhime, a small two and a half miles from Frankfort, Germany, where he was born April 26, 1760, and died at New Scotland, Albany Co., N. Y., Jan'y 5, 1840. His tombstone in the New Scotland cemetery bears the inscription "Weep not for me my dearest friend
village

For

die like

me you must
was impressed
into the

My
To

spirit shall descend again claim this precious dust."

When

a lad about sixteen years of age John Furbeck

army and came

as a Hessian to America under Gen. John Burgoyne, leaving a brother

German who

escaped impressment because small of stature, and two sisters one of

whom

married Mr.

Worhume and

the other Mr. Hoffman.

short time prior to Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga, Oct. 17, T777, he

was taken

prisoner and sent to Albany, N. Y., from

whence he was taken

to Hartford to be ex-

j6
29, 1832,

REV. RANSFORD WELLES,

son of
at

D. D.

graduated

Henry R. Furbeck and Eve Passage. He Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., 1S54, at trie Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, N. J., 1S59; was licensed, the same year to preach the Gospel by the Classis of Schenectady, and ordained pastor of the Reformed Church at Fonda, Montgomery Co., N. Y., by the Classis of Montgomery. In 1S62 he became pastor of the Reformed Church at Westerlo, Albany Co., N. Y., 1867 at Buskirk's Bridge, Washington Co., N. Y., 1S75 at Farmer Village, Cayuga Co., N. Y., 1 88 1 at Little Falls, Passaic Co., N. J., iSSS at St. Johnsonville, Montgomery Co., N. Y., 1892 at West Copake, Columbia Co., N. Y. The children of Rev. Philip Furbeck and Mary Welles, were
:

2.

Henry Liddle,
1881.

b.

Ap'l 16, i860

St.

graduated

Physician at

Johnsville,

at Albany Medical College, Montgomery Co., N. Y. 1S93.

3.

Ransford Welles, b. Dec. 2, 1861 ; druggist at Little Falls, Passaic m. Jan'y 25. Co., N. J., postmaster during Harrison's administration 1888, M. Kittie Covert, b. Ap'l 22, 1866, d. July 30, 1892, dan. Claud;

ius
b.

Coan

Covert, of Lodi,

Seneca Co., N. Y.
b.

Issue, Philip

Coan,

Jan'y

18,

1889; Ransford Welles,

July 21, 1S92.

Sept. 26, 1890;

Alson Henry,

b. Oct. 12, 1891, d,

changed, but no exchange having been perfected he was billeted upon some Connecticut farmer. Becoming weary of such a life he enlisted as a teamster in the New England He was shortly transferred to the New York line in which he line of the American army. served for two years, receiving as compensation for his labor fifteen or twenty dollars in Continental currency at a time when it required five dollars to purchase a razor which now

can be bought for

fifty

or seventy-five cents.

Family tradition declares that with four others, one of whom was Justis Artmen, of Albany, N. Y. he was captured by Indians from whose custody he was released by one Brown, who paid the Indians $100 for their five captives, and then giving each of them a loaf of bread in the center of which he had placed a lump of butter, sent them away free. The liberated captives disguised themselves as best they could by blacking their faces with charcoal from burned tree stumps, and at length reached a place of safety.
,

In 1794 John Furbeck bought a farm in New Scotland, where he resided until death, and which is now owned and occupied by his grandson, John I. Furbeck. He married, December 30, 1784, Susannah Koon, born Jan'y 26, 1770. She died Oct. 25, 1840, and her tombstone in the New Scotland cemetery bears the inscription

"Far from

this

world of

toil

and

strife

She's present with the Lord

beck,

fifth of whom was Henry R. FurAug. 28, 1793, d. March 5, 1867 m. 2, Nov. 22, 1817, Eve Passage, b. June 15, 1797. He was a prominent Elder in the Reformed Church and intimately identified with the organization of the Second Reformed Church, of Schenectady, N. Y. By his second wife he had nine children, the seventh of whom was the Rev. Philip Furbeck.

The

issue of this

The labor of this mortal life Ends in a large reward." marriage was twelve children, the
;

b.

JOANNA HARDENBERGH WELLES.

4.

*J

Theodore Van Dyck,

10, 1SS0.

b.

Ap'l

7,

1863, d. suddenly with diptheria, Jan'y

5.

George Warren,
ren Mitchel,

Abbey; dau. WarGraduated from Union College, Schenectady, N. Y., 1S07, from Theological Seminary, New Brunswick', N. J., 1890; licensed to preach the Gospel, the same year, by
b.

Oct. 23, 1864; m. Oct. 23, 1890,

of Preakness,

N.

J.

the Classis of Passaic, arid ordained, pastor of the

at

Reformed Church
Issue',

Stuyvesant Landing, N. Y., by the Classis of Rensselaer.

Elizabeth,
b.

Mary
6.

Dec.

18, 1891.

Joanna Welles,

b. Mar. 7, 1867; m. June 22, 1S92, Bert S. Briggs, of Lincoln Park, Morris Co., N. J. Issue, Clarence, b. March 27, 1893.

7. 8.

Mary

Elizabeth,

b.

Oct. 28, 1870.

Lucia, b. Aug. iS, 1872.

9.

Howard

Rutsen,

b.

10.

William Rensselaer,

June 19, 1S76. b. Mar. 20, 18S4.

Joanna Hardenberg, wife of Rev. Ransford Welles, D. D., was the youngest daughter of Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh and Mary Margaret Lowe, of New Brunswick, N. J., at which place she was born, Thursday, June 26, 1S06. She died at Cato, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Wednesday, Jan'y 9, 1872, and was
buried in the
tion

Elmwood cemetery

near her native

city, in

Sec-

D. Lot

2S5.

When

about eighteen years of age, she

made

a profession of

faith in Christ

and was received to full communion in the First Reformed Church of New Brunswick, April 3, 1S24, during the pastorate of Rev. Isaac Ferris, D. D., LL. D. She was small of stature, never weighing more than a hundred pounds, and seldom that. Her eyes and hair were dark, the former retaining their lustre and the latter its color all through life. Her death was sudden but peaceful. She had been confined to the house for several days with a slight cold, and after entertaining a few friends who called in the evening, retired for the night. In the morning she was dead by her husband's side, lying as if asleep. She was fully prepared for the scenes to which she was so suddenly summoned, and in the manner of her departure from earth, realized a desire often expressed, the desire that she might be spared the agony of a lin-

7$

REV. RAXSFORD WELLES, D. D.

gefing death.

She

lived a quiet, Christian

life

the

life

of a

Christian mother in a Christian

the dead

home a

life

crowned with a

Christian death and the fulfilment of the promise, "Blessed are

who

die in the Lord,

Spirit, that they

may

rest

from henceforth, yea saith the from their labors and their works do

follow them."

"Hundreds of stars in the lovely sky, Hundreds of shells on the shore together, Hundreds of birds that go singing by, Hundreds of birds in the sunny weather. Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn, Hundreds of bees in the purple clover, Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother, the wide world over
!"

Note.

The

history of the ancestry of Joanna Hardenbergh, wife of

is

Rev. Ransford "Welles, D. D.,

the headlines will indicate
he?-

so extensive that to facilitate reference

ancestors.

The Hardenbergh
1.

Families.

2.
3.

4.

Jan Van Hardenbergh, c. a. prior to 1644. Gerrit Janse Hardenbergh, m. 1665,? Jaepie Schepmoes, b. 1647. Major Johannes Hardenbergh, m. 1699, Catherine Rutsen, b. 1676. m. 172S, Maria DuBois, Col. Joannes Hardenbergh, b. 1706;
1706.

b.

5.

Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, D. D.,

S.

T. P., b. 1736;

m. 1756,

6.

7.

Dina Van Bergh, b. 1725. Hon. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, Lowe, b. 1769. Joanna Hardenbergh, b. 1806 m.
;

b.

1768; m. 1789,

Mary Margaret

1831, Rev.

Ransford "Welles, D. D.,

b.

1S05.

Hardenbergh is an ancient family name of Germanic origin. The name, probably, refers to the Harz mountains, the German Harzgebirge, as amid their rugged slopes and towering crags those who bore the name resided when first they appear
on the pages of history.
ver,

the present kingdom of the former Electorate of Hanobetween Gottingen and Xordheim, built in the later style, lies the castle Hardenberg, whose extensive farm buildings extend nearly to the highway." This castle was the residence of Karl August, Prince of Hardenberg, who was born at Essenroda, May 31, 1750, and died at Genoa, Nov. 26, 1S22. He was one of the most illustrious statesmen of Prussia, and for his services was made a Prince by Frederick William III., at A park runs back from the castle to the Paris, June 3^ 1S14. mountains, in which is the fine ruin of the old stronghold Har-

"In

denberg, bearing the inscription Verbum

Domini Manet

in

Acternum. Time and the many wars of which Germany has been the theatre, have destroyed this ancient ancestral hall of the Hardenbergs, save a few battlements whose crumbling
walls, illustrating the transitory nature of "the things that are

seen," render impressively eloquent the truth they proclaim,

u The word of the Lord endureth

for

ever."

The

annals

So

ARXOLDUS VAN HARDENBERGH,

of the noble ancestry of the Hardenberg family reach back into the gray past of the 12th century, sti etching on and on in unbroken line more than seven hundred years to 1174? when the old castle was the abode of Dietrich von Harclenberg, the supposed founder of the family. In that year the castle was erected, we are told, and was owned by the convent of Mainz. It was guarded by menat-arms, and Dietrich von Hardenberg was the trusted warIn the 14th century, on account of a heavy debt owed den. them by the convent, the castle passed into the possession of the Hardenbergs who since its erection had been its wardens, and in their possession it has continued to the present At a subsequent period the family appears in Westphatime. lia, Franconia and Denmark, branching off into three different Descendants, probably from the Westphalian branch of lines. the family, at an early day passed over to Holland, leaving, as
a

memorial of

their presence there, not onlv those river Vechte,

who

bear

the name, but Hardenbergh, on the

23 miles

from Zwolle, the capital of Overyssel. Here was born in 1510 Albrecht Hardenbergh, an eminent divine who died in 1574, and who while studying theology at Louvain, embraced the Reformed faith, became a friend of the gentle Melancthon, and gained notoriety in church history for his attempt, in 1536, to introduce into the Republic of Bremen the doctrine of Calvin respecting the Lord's Supper.
ArnoldllS
sterdam,

Tan Hardenbergh, a free merchant of New Amwho '"accompanied Hey Jansen with a cargo of

goods for his brother," and cast anchor off Manhattan Island in 1644, was the first of the name to appear on record in AmerHollander by birth and lineage, he took an active ica. part in public affairs, and in 1649 was one of the Nine

Men,

the action of the

Dissatisfied with he appealed to the Hague, and for so doing was fined 25 guilders. This resulted in a controversy with Gov. Stuyvesant, and Hardenbergh, to secure if possible the Governor's removal from office, returned

or Council of the Director General.

New

Netheriand

officials,

to

Holland where he probably remained as there quent record of his residence in America.

is

no subse-

Jan van Hardenbergh.

Jan van Hardenbergh was probably
the brother for

whom

Arnoldus brought over a cargo in 1644. He is at least the only Hardenbergh on record who may have been here at that early day, and of him the only mention is to the effect that Govert Loockermans, as attorney and agent for the guardians of the estate left by Jan Van Hardenbergh, executed a deed to Frerick Lubberse, April 30, 1659, for

"a

house,

lot

and garden,

fenced, built on and bounded," on the northwest corner of the

Heere-Graft and the Brouwers Straat, or what

ner of Broad and Stone streets in the city of
length and breadth according to

is

now

the cor-

Vork, "in the ground brief of June 20,

New

1652."

vious to 1659,

Arnoldus Van Hardenbergh, who returned to Holland prewas probably one of these guardians, and his in-

timate association in public affairs while residing in

New Am-

with him for several years was a member of the Council of the Director General, would naturally cause the selection of Loockermans as attorney

sterdam with Govert Loockermans,

who

and agent for the estate committed to his care. These data indicate that Tan Van Hardenbergh, a brother of Arnoldus* came to America from Holland previous to 1644, was a land holder in New x\msterdam, engaged in mercantile pursuits was living June 20, 1652, and having lost his
.

l eavm g a child or children whose minority and orphanage necessitated the appointment of

wife, died prior to April 30, 1659,

guardians.
*The evidence that Jan and Arnoldus Van Hardenbergh were brothers is this Arnoldcame to America "with a cargo for his brother" Jan dies leaving children for whom guardians are appointed Arnoldus returns to Holland, and Jan's estate is administered by an attorney and agent for the appointed guardians. The evidence is not con:

us, in 1644,

clusive but indicates a strong probability of the indicated relationship.

11

Capt. Gerrit Janse Hardenbergh.

Gerrit Janse Hardenbergh, who first appears on record in
young man
is

recently mar-

ried

1667, at Albany,

N. Y.,

as

the purchaser of goods at an auction sale,

believed to have

been the son of Jan Van Hardenbergh. Tradition* declares that he was a Prussian by birth, and that he came to this country in 1664 as an officer in the service of Great Britain, in the army under Col Nicholls, to which Gov. Stuyvesant surrendered the

New

Netherlands.
is

The
but
it is

tradition

related because of

its

general acceptance,
cir-

unsupported by documentary, and contradicted by

cumstantial evidence.

The

officers

of a British

army composed

of Englishmen, are generally English rather than Prussian, and

whatever his nationality, remaining in this counwould have retained his military title but Gerrit Janse Hardenbergh bears no such title until it was conferred by Gov. Leisler in 1690. Gerrit Janse Hardenbereh is not a Prussian but a Hollandish name. The given
such an
officer,

try after the English conquest,

;

Hollandish, while the final " h " in the family has always been careful to use, which the patronymic, This name distinguishes it from the German Hardenberg. translated is Gerrit the son of Jan Hardenbergh. Jan Van Hardenbergh died in New Amsterdam previous to While living he re1659, leaving issue still in their minority. sided, as already said, on the corner of Broad and Stone streets, Ten not far from the house and lot of Jan Jansen Schepmoes. or twelve vears after his death, a young man, Gerrit Janse Haidenbergh, marries a young woman of New Amsterdam, born in 1647, the daughter of Jan Jansen Schepmoes, Jan Van Har-

names

are intensely

*Historical Notes, by Rev. Abraham Messier, D. D. There was a Johannes Hardenbergh matriculated at Groeningen University, Holland, in 1647. A Hollander,

HIS COMMISSION.

S3
to avoid the

denbergh's near neighbor.

issue left fatheiless

It

seems impossible

conclusion that this Gerrit, son of Jan Hardenbergh

was of the

by the death of Jan Van Hardenbergh and that he was either born in America or came here when a child. He purchased a lot at Albany in 1669. on Chapel street and Maiden lane, another on Maiden lane between North Pearl and Chapel streets in 1672, and another on State street between North Pearl and Chapel streets in 1676. He had a child baptized at Albany in 1683, but in 16S6 he and his wife appear as residents of New York city, in a list of the members of the Reformed Church of New York, made by the Rev. Henricus Selyns, and are represented as dwelling in a house on Pearl street, between State and Whitehall streets. He was the owner and captain of a sloop known as the Royal Albany which plyed between New York and Albany on the Hudson river. It must have been a vessel of goodly dimensions, as May 19, 1690, he and his sloop were commissioned* to war against the French in Canada, by Gov. Jacob Leisler who designates him Captain Gerrit Hardenbergh. He was living in 1696, which is the latest date when his

name appears on

record, that

we

have found.

He

seems

to

*Jacob Leisler, Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of New York and its dependencies under his Majesty William HI, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland,
the French and Ireland, Defender of the Faith,

York and

Supreme Lord of the Province Crown of England belonging. To Captain Gerrit Hardenbergh, Commander of the sloop the Royal Albany :
all

of

New

other territories and dominions to the

Greeting.

Reposing great trust and confidence in the prudence and courage and abilHardenbergh, as well in military, as maritime affairs, I do hereby constitute and appoint you to be captain of the said sloop and to take the care and charge of the same with all the men that now do or hereafter shall belong unto the said sloop, requiring them to be obedient unto you; withall, ordering you to obey all such orders as you shall from time to time receive from me or others, your superior officers, hereby commissioning and empowering you with the said sloop and company forthwith to sail for Quebec, in Canada, to war as to your wisdom may seem meet, and to assault, attack, destroy as much as in you lies and to oppose and destruction bring all or any that shall defend or assist the French interest, as well as in your journey to Canada and return upon the bank, or elsewhere you can meet any, to take, seize and make prize of all goods, on shore or vessels at sea, belonging to the French King or any inhabitants under his government, as also all Frenchmen themselves, to take, slay, kill or save alive, and to Commanding you to bring all vessels and goods injure them in what you possibly can that you shall take from them to this, your commission port, for condemnation. And for your so acting therein this shall be your sufficient commission. Given &c this 19th day of May 1690, &c in New York. Jacob Leisler.
ity of

you the

said Captain Gerrit

S4

CAPT. GERRIT JAXSE HARDEXBERGH,

a quiet,

have been
but
little

God fearing citizen, mingling and with no business other than the care and management of the Royal Albany. He married after coming to America, probably about 1666, Jaepie or Jobje Schepmoes, with whom, in 167S, he made a joint will in which children are mentioned but not by name. They had
law-abiding,
in public affairs,
:

Elizabeth,
7,

b.

16S8,

ab't 1668, m. Nov. Leendert Liewens or

in

1700 of a Troope of Horse

in the
5.

town
ab't

of Oyster Bay, L.

I.

Leonard

Lewis,
of

Capt.

of

Mary,

Company
city

in

1700,

Foot of New York and one of the

Albany, N. Y.,

6.

1674; m. June 4, 1694, William Pead. Xeeltje, b. ab't 1677 ; m. Feb'y

b.

Hardenbergh patentees.
Johannes,
b.

21, 1701,
7.

at

Rachel,

b. ab't

Jacob Ten Eyck. 1679 ; m. William

m. Capt.

ab't 1670:

m. 1, July 10, 1696. Hillegonde, dau. ? Andries My-

Grant.
8.

Cornelia, b. ab't 16S1

ers

and Yrouwtje Van Yorst

2,

m.
bp.

Dec.

5,

1699, Catherine, 1676,

Oct.

14,

dau. Jacob
9.

John Waldron of His Majesty's Ship Greyhound he d. ab't 17624

;

Rutsen and Maria Hansen Bergen of Kingston.

Sara, b. ab't 1672;

Barendena,
1683 Andries,
16,
;

bp.

at

Albany, Oct.
1,

m.

Feb'y

1710,

appears as a

member

of

Reformed church,
;

of

New
or

York, 16S6

m. Jan Fini

son Conraedt Ten Eyck and Maria Boele who came from
b.

July

15, 1662,

John Finney, Quartermaster

Amsterdam

in 1650.

Jaepie Seliepnioes. wife of Gerrit Janse Hardenbergh, was

baptised at

New

Amsterdam, Jan'y

6,

1647;

her baptismal
descend-

name

written Jobje on the church register, but afterwards ap-

pearing as above given, was perpetuated

ents in the euphonized

among her

form Jacoba. She was the daughter of Jan Jansen Schepmoes and Sara Pietersen.
tCaptain John Waldron gave up his command of the Grej-hound about 1721, and bewas a vestryman of Trinity Church from 1725 to 1732; was Capt. of the Blue Artillery Company, and as such had charge of the military stores for 20 years. His dau. Mary m. Daniel Stiles. His sou John, b. 1709, m. 1732, Elizabeth Breestede, who m. 2, 1737, Johannes Remsen. Gerardus, another son,b. 1713, m. 1736, Elizabeth Rose.

came a merchant

Both sons died'without

issue.

JAEPIE SCHEPMOES HARDEXBERGH.

85

The Schepmoes
Jail

Family.

the shepherd,

Jansen Schepmoes, or as the name signifies, Jan Jansen came to Beaverwyck* from Holland as early as

163S, with his wife Sara Pietersen.

From
lot,

thence he

moved

to

New Amsterdam where

ly 6, 1643,
street,

he purchased a
S, 1644.

and another Sept.

another JuHere he resided, on Pearl

iS,

Alay

He seems to have been a carpenter or builder, as there is record of his contracting with one Thomas Chambers,! a prominent man at Kingston, N. Y., to build him a house, from material which Chambers would furnish, for ir6 guilders.
probably until his death in 1655.

The
at
2.

only record

we have
;

of his children
:

is

of those baptized

New

Amsterdam.
3,

These were
d. y.
6.
;

Abraham,
ly 7,
las,

bp. Dec. 25, 1643

Ursel, bp. Jan'y

1,

1650

m. Dirck

3.

Aeltje, bp. Sept.

m. Ju1669, Jan Evertsen Keted. prior to 1686, leaving

1645

FranszeD.
7.

Tryntje, bp. June 23, 1652.

Sara, bp. Ap'l 12, 1654; m. Mar.
16,

8.

her a widow.
4.

1672,
>

Johannis de Wandeas

Jobje or Jaepie, bp. Jan'y 6. 1647 m. ab't 1666, Gerrit Janse Har'>

'

ear

trader from Holland.

In

1690,

Deacon

of

the

denbergh.
5.

church at Albany, superintendSept.

:

Dirck, bp.

2,

1648
2,

m.

r,

Maria Willems

m.

Sept. 28,

ed a charitable distribution of goods, after the burning of the

town, to the Schenectady refugees,

1703, Margrietje, dau.

Jurrian

Teunisse Tappan.
Justice of

In 1693 a

Ulster Co., N. Y.

and was still a resident Albany in 1700.

of

Sara Pietersen. wife of Jan Jansen Schepmoes, was probably the sister of Gilles and Cornells Pietersen both of
resided near or adjoining Schepmoes.
ried the

whom

Frerick Lubberse mar-

widow

of Cornelis Pietersen, and Sara Pietersen, af-

ter the death of

Schepmoes. married Willem Tomasse Cock.

Y., at the head of tide water on the Hudson.

Beaverwyck, now Albany, N.

to 1664

Previous

known

as Fort Orange, Rensselaerwyck, Beaverwyck, and afterwards for a short

time, Williamstadt.

employed eight Indians to assist him in husking them with brandy. This led to a midnight carouse in which the savages, bereft of reason, howled and shrieked, and fired their muskets. The uproar alarmed the Esopus garrison. Jansen Stot and others of the garrison, in defiance of their Ensign's commands, left the fort, and creeping through the underbrush, discharged a volley of bullets upon the inebriated savages, killing one and severely injuring several others. This led to the uprising of the Esopus Indians and the terrible Esopus war.
in

tThomas Chambers,

Aug.

1659,

corn, and at the end of their day's labor, insanely supplied

Maj. Johannes Hardenbergh.

Johanxks Hardenbergh

(3), son of Gerrit Janse Hardenwas born about 1670, at Albany, Schepmoes, bergh and Jaepie record appears on and N. Y., Jan'y 2, 16S9, as the purchaser of a lot from the Trustees of the town, "on the'corner of the street opposite the house and barn of Cornells Masten," in the He was commissioned village of Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y. July 30, 1690, High Sheriff of Ulster County, by Jacob Leisand in the political controverler,* Governor of New York sies occasioned by the Leisler administration, and which raged
;

throughout the
In
1709,

state for

many

years with great bitterness,

was

a staunch Leisterian.

he was again appointed

High

Sheriff of Ulster

County by Gov. Lovelace, and was a trustee of the town of Kingston in 1707, 9 and 12; a Major of the Ulster County Militia in the regiment of Col. Jacob Rutsen in 1728; and although at a later date he was Colonel of the same regiment, he is almost invariably designated Major Johannes Hardenbergh. He represented the people as delegate from Ulster County, July 15, 1737, in the General Assembly of the State of New
*Jacob Leisler emigrated from Frankfort to New Amsterdam in the ship Otter, 1660, as a soldier in the service of the West India Company. He married Elsje Loockermans, widow ot Cornelius P. Van Derveen was one of the leading merchants of the city was appointed in 1683, commander of the admiralty by Gov. Thomas Dongan. When King James II. abdicated, he was senior Captain of the five train bands of the city militia was selected by the citizens, Captain of the Fort, and Dec. 1689, received commission from England as Lieut. Governor, and with a council of eight citizens, administered the Government in the name of William and Mary. The Tories denounced him as an usurper. After a sham trial, he was executed as a traitor by his political opponents, May 14, 1691. " He was a martyr of the people. He stood at their head to preserve their civil and religious liberties. He was the first victim in the cause of freedom, and the pioneer of the long train that followed on the fields of the Revolution a century afterward. His opponents were the aristocrats of the country, w ho sought to perpetuate on American soil the despotic principles of the old world."
;
;

THE HARDENBERGH PATENT.

York, and seems
to

87

confidence of those

among whom
renown

have been the recipient of the respect and he dwelt.

public affairs for

He was intimately associated with

half a century, but his

more than
it

as a public officer

whatever

may have
taining,

been,

is

eclipsed by his fame as the principal propri-

etor of the Great, or

it is

Hardenbergh Patent.

This patent, con-

said,

2,000,000 acres of land in the counties of

Ulster, Orange, Green, Sullivan and Delaware, in the State of

New

York, was obtained by purchase from the Indians in 1706 and confirmed by Royal grant under Queen Ann, April 23, 1 70S, to Johannes Hardenbergh. Leonard Lewis. Philip Rokeby, William Nottingham. Benjamin Fanieul, Peter Fauconier and Robert Lurting.* It was bounded
rivers,

the East by the watershed between the Hudson and the Delaware on the Northeast by a line drawn from the lakes on Pine orchard to the head of the Delaware river, on the North West by Lake Utsayantha, on the West by the Delaware river, on the South by a line leaving the Delaware about twelve miles from North of Port Jervis and reaching the Watershed by courses 45 East and North 53 East."

"On

A general

survey of this immense tract of land was begun

in 1749, but created such great dissatisfaction

with the Indians,

Johannes Hardenbergh entered into negotiations with them and they conveyed to him by written deed, bearing date June 3, 1751, and signed by twenty-one Inthat to appease their anger.

dians, the portion of land in dispute, for the

sum

of 149.195.,
:

or $750.

The

land conveyed by this deed

head
of Fishkill,

is

thus described

line to the

"Beginning head

at the

of Catricks Kill,

and from thence running in a direct and from the head of Catricks Kill with

head of Papagonk river, and thence down the east side Papagonk to a certain place called, Shokakem, where the Papagonk river falls in the Fishkill, and thence up the said Fishkill including the same to the head thereof or the place of beginning."
a direct line to the
of the said river

^Leonard Lewis married a sister and William Nottingham a sister-in-law of Johannes Hardenbergh. Benjamin Fanieul appears among the signers to a "Petition of the Protestants of New Vork to King William III.," Dec. 30, 1701, and to an "Address of the inhabitants of the Province of New Vork to Lord Cornbury," Oct. 2, 1702. Peter Fauconier, Collector and Receiver-General under Lord Cornbury. Gov. Robert Hunter says he would not vouch for his accounts. Also naval officer of the Province. Obtained many patents for good and valuable land, but is described as a Frenchman and bankrupt. His record is not stainless. Robert Lurting, a shipping merchant of New Vork city, d. 1735. One of the Alderman for several years, and Mayor 1726-34. first wardens of Trinity church
;

88

MAJ. JOHANNES

HARDENBERGH.
,

Twenty-five years after this, in 1 77 1 the validity of the Hardenbergh Patent was contested by Lieut. Col. Bradstreet,* who in his petition to the Earl of Dunmore, Governor of the State of New York, says
:

"It

is

necessary to observe to your Lordship that the patent contains

1,500,000 acres and was granted to seven persons only, and no more than three pounds annual quit rent reserved, whereby a manifest injustice is

done
on

to his majesty's revenues,

and the patentees have been

in

possession

of the land since April 10, 1706 yet there are not ten families settled thereat this time."

In this controversv. Col. Bradstreet endeavored to

the patent

show

that

was issued on
to
letter

false

suggestions and without the

forms necessary
lied

upon a

make it legal and valid, and to this end refrom Sir William Johnson, in which his hon:

ored correspondent says

:

'The Chiefs of the Six Nations, declare that their lands extend to the Papaghtunk branch of the Delaware and that the lands over or to the north west of that branch claimed by Mr. Hardenberglvs Patent were their property and had never been sold by them nor any other Indians ; but they sold them to you, that you might patent them, and would consider the land

between the Mohawk and Papaghtunk

as your property."

The

authorities in

America,

in

response

to the petition

of
in-

Col. Bradstreet, refused to declare the

valid, but

Hardenbergh Patent

in dispute,

gave Bradstreet a grant for 20.000 acres of the land as compensation for expenses in endeavoring to

prove his allegation of fraud. When the Earl of Dunmore informed the British Government of the result of the controversy, the Earl ot Hillsborough, Secretary of State, protested
against the grant of land to Bradstreet, saying:
large a quantity of land to one person.

on what grounds the Council should grant so I cannot but condemn such proceedings as irregular and shall advise his Majesty not to consent to the
at a loss to guess

"I am

grant."

This controversy was the cause of great bitterness and animosity, which in Sullivan count}- a century has not allayed.

great portion of the land has passed out of the possession of

was subsequently Major General Bradstreet, and Foundland. He was a brave soldier and a capable commander of his majesty's forces. The services he had rendered his country gave him more consideration in his controversy with Hardenbergh than he otherwise would have re*Lieut. Col. Bradstreet. b. 1711
;

Lieut.

Governor

of St John,

New

ceived from the British Crown.

HIS

CHILDREN

s9

the descendants of the original proprietors,

but

much of it by sale, by adverse possession for a long term of years. One of the townships of Ulster county, however, commemorates Hardenbergh's proprietorship by bearing the name Harmuch
also

denbergh.

Major Johannes Hardenbergh, described in the church Regyoung man from New Albanien, married Julv 10, 1696, Hillegcnde Myers, a young woman from Nexv Torek* the daughter probably of Andries Myers and Vrouwtje Van Vorst, as they v'..i Gerrit Hardenbergh are on record as sponsors at the bajDtism of the only child from this marriage, a daughter Catherine, baptized Oct. 4, 1696. The child's mother died sometime previous to September. 169S, and the child probably followed her mother to the grave previous to October, 70S, as Johannes Hardenbergh at that time named another
ister as a
1

daughter, Catherine.

He
10.

married the second time. December

^,

1699, by license

granted September^ 12, 169S, Catherine Rutsen. and had:

Gerardus, bp. Sept. 1, 1700; m. Ap'l 22, 1726, Janneken, bp. Feb'y 23, 1707, dau. Jacobus
14.

Joannes, bp. July 28, 1706- d. Aug 20, 1786 m. Dec 25, 1728, Maria, bp. Mar. 24, 1706, dau.
1

Elmendorf who was bp. Nov. 29, 1678, and Antje Cool whom
he m. Sept.
11.

Louis DuBois and Rachel Hasbrouck.

15.

22, 1706.

Catherina Rutse, bp.

1708.

Oct.

31,

Jacobus, a twin brother of Gerardus, bp. same date ; d. young.

Marrytie, bp. Feb'y I, 1702; m. Dec, 23, 1725, Charles, bp. Ap'l 26, 1696, son of Charles

16.

Abraham,
1,

12.

Broadhead
Broeck.
13.

and

Maria

Ten

Jacoba, bp. Ap'l 2, 1704; m. Dec. 19, 1729, Edward Whitaker or Wittaker.
of

bp. Jan'y 7, 171 1 m. Marytje bp. Feb'y 26, 1721, dau. Nicklas Roosa and Sara Rutsen; m. 2, at New Paltz, June 1, 1752, Mary, bp. Jan'y 10, 1 7 14, dau. Joseph Hasbrook and Elisie Schoonmaker, and
;

widow

of

James Gasherie. *

bp. Ap'l 10, 1743, m Rachel Broadhead; Nicholas, bp. Ap'l 20, 1740, d. y. Nicholas by 2d wife, bp. May 16, 1753, m. Maria Bruyn Elias, bp. Oct. 13, 1754, m. Cornelia Hardenbergh Marytje, bp. Jan'y 16, 1757. m. Nicolas Jansen Rachel, bp. Aug. 20, 1758, m. Nathan Jansen, Jr. Johannes Hardenbergh and Rachel DuBois, mentioned in this note, had Rev. Charles Hardenbergh, who was pastor of the Reformed Church at Warwick, N. .,1804; Bedminster, J.,i8oS; New York City, Cor. Bleecker and Amos streets, 1820; Trustee of Rutgers College, 1812, d. i82r. They also had Abraham who married Margaret DuBois and had Charles who by his second wife, Mary E. Chandler, had Henry Hardenbergh. M.

The children

Abraham Hardenbergh were: Johannes,

16, 1745,

Dubois; Sarah, bp. June

;

m. Charles

D of

Port Jervis, N. Y.

J2

go
17.

MAJ. JOHANNES HARDENBERGH,

Sara, twin sister of

Abraham,
5,

bp.

,d.

1S06;

Lieut.

7th

Company

same
18. 19.

date, d. young.
1713.
30,

of

New

York, 1776; Adjutant,

Barendena, bp. Ap'l

Leonardus, bp.
m.

May

1714;

20.

Jacob,

1780; Captain of levies, 1782. bp. Mar. 10, 1717; d.

Nov.

17,

1738,

Rachel

Feb'y
dau.

27,

1773; m. Oct., 1737,

bp.
Oct.,

Hooghteling, great-grand dau.

of

Pieternella,
of

1718,

Hooghteling and Greetje Cornelisse, and had Lieut. Johannes Leonard Hardenbergh, bp. Jan'y 24, 1748. Settled at Auburn, N. Y., 1792 ;

William

21.

Jacobus Bruyn and Tryntje Schoonmaker. Zara or Sara, a twin sister of Jacob, bp. Mar. 10, 171
7.

Catherine Rutseil, wife of Johannes Hardenbergh (5), was born at Kingston, Ulster Co N. Y., and baptized at New York. October 14, 1676. She was the daughter of Jacob Rutsen and Marry tie Hansen Bergen.
,

The Rutsen
1.

Families.

2. 3.

4.

Jacob Van Schoenderwoert, Holland. Rutger Jacobse, c. a. 1636 m. 1646, Tryntje Jansse Van Breestede. Jacob Rutsen, b. 1650?; m. 1675,. Maria Hansen Bergen. Catherine Rutsen, b. 1676; rh. 1699, Johannes Hardenbergh, b. 1670?,
;

great-great-grandparents of Joanna Hardenbergh Welles.

The supposed prowas one Jacob van Schoenderwoert, or Jacob from Schoenderwoert, or the shining fields, a place two miles north of Leerdam, and four miles from Vianen, Holland, So far as known, JaKillian Van Rensselaer's* country seat. cob van Schoenderwoert never came to Ameiica, but two of his sons, the one Rutger Jacobse, came in 1636, and the other
Rutseil
is

not technically a family name.

genitor of the family

Tunis Jacobse,
"Kiliaen

in

1640.

The

latter resided

in

Beaverwyck,

Van

Rensselaer, a wealthy merchant in Amsterdam, Holland, a dealer in

by the States General of Holland to the West India Company, was one of the chief Pat?~oons of New Netherland. India Company " shall be The terms of the charter were, that all members of the West acknowledged Patroons of New Netherland who shall within the space of four years undertake to plant a colony there of fifty souls upward of 15 years of age. The patroons by virtue of their power shall be permitted at such places as they shall settle their colonies to extend their limits four miles along the shore Dutch miles equal to 16 English miles and so far into the country as the situation of the occupiers will admit." Van Rensselaer became possessed of nearly the whole of the present counties of Albany and Rensselaer, N, Y., an area of 1141. square miles,
pearls and diamonds, availing himself of the privileges granted

CATHERINE RUTSEN IIARDENBERGH.

and was
a

91

man

of some prominence in the community.

His

descendants adopted as their patronymic,

Van Woert
embarked
from
the

Rlltger

JaCObse,
for Fort

October

1,

1636,

Texel*on sel bound

the yacht Rensselaerwyck, JanTibbins, skipper, a ves-

Orange,

in service of the first Patroon,

and

shortly thereafter reached the

New World

and made Beaver-

wyck

his

home.

In 1647, he went into partnership with Goosen

Gerritse

Van

Schaick and rented the brewery of

Van Rens-

selaer the Patroon.

The

business prospered, and, in 1654. he

He bought a brew-house from Jan Jansen Van Noorstrand. engaged in shipping beaver skins, owned a sloop, which run on the Hudson river from Beaverwyck to New Amsterdam, which he sometimes commanded himself, but which was generally commanded by Abraham De Truwe. In 166 1 he owned a share in Mohicander Island, and seems to have been a man of considerable means. In 165^ he was one of the magistrates of Beaverwyck and is mentioned in the records as Hon. Rutger Jacobse. June 2, 1656, he laid the corner stone of the new church at Beaverwyck. He died 1665. Ryckert Van Rensselaer and Jan Van Bael, acting as administrators for his estate, realso

ported the amount of his personal property 983 guilders and 10 stivers silverware and jewelry alone amounting to ^ 12 guilders
;

and 14 stivers. f known, and had

*The

He

married

first
J

some one whose name

is

not

a son

Harman

He

married the second time

island of Texel, the first of a chain of Islands across the Zuyder Zee. It has a harbor where the largest ships can ride at anchor. It was from Texel, Barent set sail 1594, on his memorable northern voyage commemorated by Tolling, in the poem, " The winter of the Hollanders in Nova Zembla."
fine

tA guilder was about

40 cents and a stiver 2 cents.

^Published statements in relation to the family of Rutger Jacobse

say, that those

make

it

necessary to

Tryntje Jansse fact that in 1653 Harman Rutgers is on record as a private in one of the Burgher Corps of New Amsterdam seven years after the marriage of Rutger Jacobse and Tryntje J. Van Breestede. However precocious he may have been we cannot believe he occupied such a position when only 6 or 7 years of " It is evident that Harman Rutgers ivas not the son of age. O'Callaghan well says
:

who place Harman Rutgers among Van Breestede, are confronted by the

the children of Rutger Jacobse and

Tryntje Jansse Van Breestede, but may have been the son of Rutger Jacobse by a former marriage." History ef the New Netherlands, vol. 2,/>$6(). As published statements declare that

Harman was Rutger Jacobse's only son, we offer the following' as proof that he had a son Jacob 1. There is record at Kingston, N. V.., of Jacob Rutgers, in 1678, who is subsequently
:

92
in

MAJ. JOHANNES HARDENBERGH.

June, 1646, Tryntje Jansse
:

Van

Breestede.

His children
of Albany, N. Y.
;

were
2.

Harman, m.

Catrina, dau. Anthony de Hooges, Secretary of the Colony of Rensselaerwyck, for whom one of the mountains along the Hudson river was named, Anthony's Nose. Harman's descendants adopted as
their patronymic, Rutgers.

1641,
4.

Mayor

Engeltje,

m.

buried July 11. 1728 Melgert Abrahamse Van

Deusen, who was buried Papsknee, Jan'y 6, 1742.

5.

at

Jacob,

m. Marrytie Hansen, bp.

S,

Oct.

1651,

dau.

Hans Hanadopted
as

sen Bergen and Sara Rapelle.

3.

Margaret, by 2d wife, m.

1667,

His

descendants

Jan Janse Bleecker, b. in Meppel, Overyssel, Holland in

;

their patronymic

"Rutsen."

Tryntje Jansse Van Breestede, wife of Rutger Jacobse, was the daughter of Jan Janse Van Breestede and Engeltje The date of her birth is not known. She died at the Jans.
residence of Jacob Rutsen, her son, at Rosendale, Ulster Co.,

N. Y.,

in 171 1.

The Van Breestede Family.

Jan Janse Van Breestede, was born
in

Breestede, DenHe was

certainly the

designated Jacob Rutgersen, Rutse, Ruthse, and finally Rutsen. son of Rutger somebody.
2.

The names given

if

his children are such as they should be, according to

:

Dutch cusis

tom,
first

Rutger Jacobse and Tryntje Jansse Van Breestede were his parents
is

Catherine, the
of

born,

English for Tryntje, the child's paternal grandmother.

Sara, the second,

for the child's maternal grandmother.

Margaret, the

third,

was

the

name

Rutger Ja-

cobse's eldest daughter and probably the

was the was the name of Van Breestede's mother. Rutger, the sixth, was the name of the child's grandfather. Johannes, the seventh, is a substitute for both Jan and Hans, the names of Jan Van Breestede and Hans Bergen, the child's grandfathers. Jacob, the eighth and last,

name

of his mother.

Bregie, or Brechtje
fifth,

name

of

one of the

sisters of the child's

mother.

Engeltie, the

Tryntje Jansse

is

ily of

Rutger Jacobse and Tryntje Jansse Van Breestede could not have a famgrandchildren more fully named for them than the family of Jacob Rutsen. At the baptisms of Jacob Rutsen's children the following persons are witnesses or 3. sponsors Tryntje J. Van Breestede, Rutger Jacobse's widow, Engeltie Van Breestede her
for his father.
:

sister

daughter of Jan Janse Van Breestede Rutger Jacobse's brotherTrytnje Rutsen, Rutger Jacobse's widow. Engeltie Rutsen, Rutger Jacobse's daughter. Jan Jansen Bleecker, husband of Margaret, Rutger Jacobse's daughter. The
in-law.

or perhaps the
of these

names
4.

women

are not recorded as witnesses or sponsors at any other baptism on

the Kingston register.

This

is

good proof of family

relation.

Netherlands" we learn that Tryntje Jansse Van Van Breestede "died at her son's in Rosendale in 1711." So far as we know Harman Rutgers did not reside at Rosendale in 1711 or at any time, but Jacob Rutsen did the Rutsen homestead had been at Rosendale for years. We think the proof everwhelming and conclusive that Jacob Rutsen, of Ulster Co., N. Y. was the son of Rutger Jacobse and Tryntje Jansse Van Breestede.
the "History of the

Frcm

New

CATHERINE RUTSEN HAP.DENBERGH.

mark now Germany, and was among the earliest residents Amsterdam. He married Engeltje Jans, and had
:

93
of

New
1.

Jan Janse, m. Marritje Andries, resided on High street, New

York.
Elsie, m.
1, Adriaen Pulisen Van Alcmaer: m. 2, Hendrick Jom. 3, chemse Schoonmaker
:

Tryntje Tyssen Bos.

3.

Tryntje,

d. 1711 m. June, 1646, Rutger Jacobse van Schoender;

2.

woert.
4.

Dorothe, m. April
kert Janse
J.

19,

1650, Vol-

Sept.

6,

1684,
Slight,

Cornelius

Baof

Douw, ancestors of Elizabeth Van Dyck Welles,

rentse

widower

Jacob Rlltsen, born about 1650, son ot Rutger Jacobse and Tryntie Jansse Van Breestede, first appears on record at the
baptism of a child
167s.
at

New York
a

City, Oct.

14,

1676. and at

Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y., at

similar ceremony,

Nov.

171

Between

the times thus designated he probably settled

in the vicinity of

Kingston, as he obtained a patent for a tract

of land in Ulster County, near Kingston, Aug. 26, 1677, for an annual quit rent of five bushels of wheat, and another grant,
Oct. 8
so
,

1677, with quit rent of one bushel of wheat.

in the

He

is al-

Kingston patent granted by Gov. Thomas Dongan, May 17, 1687. He was a large land holder and erected his homstead at Rosendale, near Kingston, N. Y., to the occupancy of which his son Jacob Rutsen, Jr., succeeded. In 1689, he was chosen a magistrate for the town of Kingston, but refused to serve. In 1692, '93. '99, and 1701, he represented Ulster and Dutchess counties in the Colonial Assembly of New York, and Ulster County, in 1714-15. In 1693 he verimentioned
fied a

deed, as Justice of the Peace, signing his

name Jacob

Rutgersen.

In 1694, Sept 15, he bought a lot at the lerry in Brooklyn, N. Y., of Claes Teunisse Clear. In 1695 he bought

of Peter Schuyler, for 70, "'one-third of a tract of land called Warwarsinck," in Ulster County, the remaining two-thirds being
Jacobse,
tioned

owned by Jan Janse Bleecker, the son-in-law of Rutger and at one time Mayor of Albany; and Jochem
Samuel
Staats.

is menCounty Militia, with rank of Lient. Col., was afterward Colonel, and is frequently mentioned as such. He married Maria Hansen Bergen

Staats, a brother of Dr.

In 1700 he

among

the field officers of the Ulster

and had

94
(5.

MAj.
Catherine, bp. at
14,

JOHANNES HARDENBERGH.
York, Oct.
5,

New

Col.
ton,

1676

m. Dec.

1699, Jo-

hannes,
rit

b.

ab't 1670, son Ger-

Henry Beekman, of KingsN. Y., where he died in 1716, and Joanna de Loper, of
Mass.,
of

Janse

Hardenbergh

and

Boston,

Jaepie Schepmoes, of Albany,

daughter
b.

and grandWilliam Beekman,

Overyssel, Ap'l

N. Y.
7.

at

Statselt,

Sara, bp. at Kingston, N. Y., Nov.

17,

2S, 1628, d. Sept. 21, 1707,

and

1678; m.
;

1,?

Andries LafeiS,

Catherine de Bough

after the

ver

m.

2,?

Dec.

1720,

death of Johannes Rutsen she m. Albert Pawling

Niclass Roosa, of Hurley, N.

Y.
;

who

d.

with-

their dau. Marytie m. Abra(16).

;

ham Hardenberg
8.

out issue in 1745. Jacob, designated Captain Nov.

17, 1719, in

Margaret,
14,

b. ab't

16S0

m.

May

charter for a church

,

1702, William, b. in
d.
8,

land,

1730
;

will

Mar.

1731

son of

Engproved William
of

at

Kingston, N. Y.

was subsethe
First

quently Colonel of
Ulster Co. Militia
;

frequently

Nottingham and Anne Tye,

England.
1719-21
Rev.
9.

called Jacob Rutsen Jr.; bp. at

Surrogate of Ulster

Kingston, N. Y., Nov.

in.
1,
;

5,

1693

Co., N. Y., 1710;

;

Couny Clerk
Ancestors,

Dec.

9,
2,

1720,

Lea Niew-

proprietor of the Harpatent.

kerk

m.

denbergh

Lieut. Gov.
24,

with license from George Clark, Nov.

dau.

Thomas DeWitt, D. D.*

1737,

Alida,

Gilbert

Bregie, bp. Kingston, N. Y., Nov.

11, 16S3.

Livingston, Clerk of Ulster Co.,

N. Y., and Cornelia Beekman,

10.

Engeltie, bp. at Kingston, N. Y.,

Mar.
11.

14, 1686.

and granddaughter of Robert Livingston, b. at Aucram, Scotland, Dec. 13, 1654, d. 1718,
a.
c.

Rutger bp.
Feb'y

at

Kingston, N. Y.,

27, 16S7.

12.

Johannes, a magistrate and Captain of Dragoons, Ulster Co., N. Y., bp. at Kingston, Aug. 1690; m. Dec. 4, 1712, Catryntie, b.

and Alida, widow of Rev. Nicholas van Rensselaer and dau. of Philip Schuyafter the death of Jacob ler
ab't 1674,
:

24,

Rutsen she m. Henry van Rensselaer.

Sept. 16, 16S3, wid-

ow

of Cornelius Exveen, dau.

Maria or Marrytie Hansen Bergen, wife of Jacob Rutsen, was baptized Oct. S, 1651. She was the daughter of Hans Hansen Bergen and Sarah Rapelle.
*Mary Nottingham, dau. William Nottingham and Margaret Rutsen, m. previous to Egbert DeWitt, b. Mar. 18, 1699, d. i/6i,had Thomas DeWitt who m. Elsie Has,

1730,

brouck and had Rev. Thomas DeWitt, D. D., b. Sept. 13, 1701, d. May 18, 1874, graduated at New Brunswick Seminary, 1812, pastor at Hopewell, N. Y. from 1812 to 1827, and of the Collegiate Reformed Church, New York City, from 1827 until death. D. D. 1828. Trustee Rutgers College, 1840, of Columbia College, 1858. Editor of the Christian Inelligencer 1831-43 one of the most eminent divines of the Reformed Church in America.
;

CATHERINE RUTSEN HAHrENBERGH.

95

The Bergen Family.

Hans Hansen,
Island,
the progenitor of the

Bergen family of Long

was a native of Bergen, Norway.* lie was sometimes called Hans the Noorman, but gave his descendants as their patronymic title the name of his native city. After residing in Holland, probably in Amsterdam, as he was a ship-carpenter, he emigrated to America and arrived at New Amsterdam in company with VV'outer Van Twiller,j Director General of the

He had a tobacco plantaManhattan Island, and in 164s obtained a patent from Gov. Kieft, containing about 400 acres of land at
Netherlands, in April, 1633.
in

New

tion, J

163S, on

the VVallabout,
trict

now known

as Williamsburgh, or the 4th Dis-

of Brooklyn, N. Y., where he resided until his death in

1654.

He
Jan'y

married, in 1639, Sarah Rapalle, and had:

22,

Anneken, bp. July

1,

1640;

m.

1661, Jan Clercq or John Clark, of Brazil, who d. Nov. 15, 1661 m. 2, Oct. 8,
17,
:

1662, Dirck Janse Hooglandt, of Maerseveen, province of

6.

Amsterdam, dau. Theunis Denyse and Phabea Seals. Ancestors of John A. Lott, who married Laura H., dau. of Rev. Theodore W. Welles, D. D. Joris or George Hansen, bp. July
al) 't i 7jS; m. Aug. Sarah, dau. Jan Stryker, of Flatbush, L. I.

Utrecht, Holland, from

whence
and
;

iS,

1649,

Cl -

he emigrated
Bricktje,

in

1657,

re-

11, 167S,

sided at Flatbush, X. V.
bp. July 27, 1642 m. Aert Anthonisze Middagh from Hevkoop, in Utrecht, Holland, from whence he emigrated in
7.

Marrytje or Maria Hansen, bp. Oct. 8, 165 1 m. Jacob Ruth;

May,
Jan,
bp.

1661.

zen or Rutsen, of Ulster Co., N. V., son of Rutger Jacobse and Tryntje Jansse Van Breestide.
S.

Ap'l 17, 1644; d. ab't 1730; m. Jannetje Teunisse, d.

ab't 1735, dau. of nise, of Gowanus, Phabea Seals.

Tennis DeL. I., and

.Michael or Miggiel Hansen, bp. Nov. 4, 1646, d. ab't 1732; m. ab't 1677, Fcmnietje Thennisse, b. Ap'l 3, 1650, at New

9.

Jacob Hansen, bp. Sept. 21, 1653; m. July 8, 1677, Elsje Fredricks, of the Kreest, bp. July 7, 1658, dau. Fredrick Lubbertsen and Trvntie Hendricks of Brooklyn, N. Y. Catalyn, bp. Nov. 1653 cl. y.
;

*Bergen, a fortified city and seaport founded in the gen, a province and diocese in Southern Norway.

nth century

the capital ot Ber-

tWouter Van Twiller, an inexperienced young man who owed his appointment to the powerful patronage he enjoyed from having married a neice of the Patroon Van Rensselaer. He neglected the affairs of the Colony, directed his energies to personal aggrandizement and became one of the richest landholders in the province.

tA
w'.iich

plantation

no

settler dwelt.

was an extended tract of land which was partly cultivated but upon A bouwery was a farm on which a family resided,

96

MAJ. JOHANNES IIARDENBEKGH.

Sarah Rapalle, wife of Hans Hansen Bergen, was born

Beaverwyck, June
the
9,

at

1625

the

first

female white child born in

is

New

Netherlands.

The

date of her birth

established by

the testimony of her mother

when

S3 years of age before Gov-

"There is a tiadition in the family," says the Hon. Egbert Benson, the first Attorney General of the State of New York, "that the Indians, induced by the circumstance of
ernor Dongan.*
her being the
first

brethren, with the French

cent to the bay;
the foreigners,

white child born here, gave to her father and who followed them, the lands adja-

hence called Met- Walle- B^ght" the bay of which has since been corrupted into Wallabout Bay. This family tiadition, found in Thompson's History <// Long Island, seems to be corroborated by the earliest deed for land on Long Island, given in 163^ by Gov. Kieft to Abraham Rvcken, conveying land near the head of the bay '"and one third of the Hay Vly situated behind the land of Joris RaThis makes it evident that although a palle," Sarah's father. resident of New Amsterdam until 1653, Joris Rapalle had obtained acknowledged title in some way, most probably from
the Canarsie Indians
vicinity of the

who

occupied the territory, to land in the

Walle-Boght, previous to 163S. In the Journal of the Dutch Council for the year 1656, it is related that '-the widow of Hans Hansen, the first born Christian daughter in the New Netherlands, burdened with seven
children, petitions for a grant of a piece of
tion to the 20

meadow,

in addi-

Morgen granted
document

to her at the

lVa//e-Bog/it."

This

is

an

official

testifying that thirty years after the

settlement of the country by the Dutch, Sarah Rapalle enjoyed

the distinction of being the the
jurisdiction of the
first

female white child born within

centuries have passed over her

New

Netherlands, and should silence

those

who,

after

more than two

grave, to question her right to the honor.

Hans Hansen Bergen, which occurred in Gysbert-e Bogaert by whom she had Tennis married 1654, she Aurtie, Antye, Neelje. Aultje, Catalyntje six children, namely
After the death of
:

and Guysbert. She was the daughter of Joris Jansen De Rapalle and Catalyntie Trico.
^Documentary History
of

New York,

III., 45, 51.

CATHERINE RUTSEX HARDEXBERGH.

97

The De Rapalle
JoriS JaRSen

Family.
to

De Rapalle*

emigrated

America from RoHolland, as he ar-

chelle, France, in 1623,

probably by

way

ot

rived off the island of Manhattan in the ship

Eendragt

or

Unity,

commanded by Adrien

Joris.

He

settled at

Beaver-

wyck, where he resided until 1626, when he moved to Xew Amsterdam and occupied a house on the north side of Pearl street, near the Fort, where he kept a tavern or tap-house.
Previous to 163S he acquired
title

to land in the vicinity

of

Waale-Boght and about 1653 moved to Breucklen, the broken or hilly land on Long Island, since known as Brooklyn, and was appointed one of the magistrates of the town April
13, 16:55. in the place of Pieter Cornelisse.

He

married Cata-

lyntie Trico.
2.

and had

Sarah,

first feb. June 9, 1625 male white child born in the New Netherlands m. 1, Hans Hansen Bergen m. 2, Teunis
;
: :

the Hague.
7.

No
28,

issue.

Jacob,

1639 ; shot by the Indians while standing in

b.

May

his doorway.
S.

Gysbertse Bogaert.
Marritie, b.

Catalyntie, b. Mar. 28, 1641

1664,

Nov.

iS,

Mar. n, 1627; m. 1640, Michael Paulus

der9.

m. ; Jeremiah Jansen Wester-

hout.

Van Dervoort, from Van

monde, the progenitor

Jeroiimus,

of the

Van Dervoort
4.
I

family.
;

b. June 27, 1643 m Anna, dau. Teunis Denyse and Phabea Seals.
> -

Jannetie, b. Aug. 1629

21,
J
I

m. Dec.

10.

Annetie,

b.

Feb'y

8,

1646

m.

1642,

Rem

Jansen

Van

Derbeck, from Severen, YVestphalia, ancestor of the

Remsen
11.

Marten Reyerse or Reyyese, of Amsterdam, progenitor of the Ryerson farn14, 1663,

lly.

May

family.
5.

Judith,
ter

b.

Van Van Nest

m. Pie1635 Nest, projenitor of the

July
5,
;

Elizabeth, b. Mar. 28, 1648;

m.

Dirk Cornelisse Hooglandt.

12.

family.

Daniel,

b.

Dec.

6.

Jan, b. Aug. 2S,

m A.p'1 1637 26, 1650, Maria Fredericks, of

b. in

May

27, 1674,

m. 29, 1650 Sarah Klock, of

;

Fort Orange.

of Joris Jansen De Rapalle has been traced to Gaspard De Rapalje or France, at Chatillon Sur Loir, in 1505. He signalized himself, during the reigns of Francis I. and Henry II., and Dec. 22, 1545, was made Colonel of Infantry. Because of his Protestant faith, he was deprived of his commission and fled to Holland. He married a daughter of Victor Antonie Janssen, of Antwerp, a house and sign painter, and had Gaspard Coligne Rapalle, Abram Colet Rapalle, and Breckje Rapalle, who in 1569 married her cousin Victor Honorius Jansen, an artist of some renown, and had Abraham or All am Jansen, who June 13, 1594, m. a daughter of Hans Lodewyck of Amsterdam,

The ancestry

Rapalle,

13

98

MAJ. JOHANNES HARDENBERGH,

Catalyntie Trico, wife of Joris Jansen De Rapalle, was the daughter of Jeronimus Trico, of Paris, France, where, in
1605, she
ted to

was born.
-

When

eighteen years of age she emigra-

Amei ica, probably by way

of Holland, in the ship Een-

whom were She probably followed their example, or married immediately after reaching America, Joris Jansen De Rapalle, who with her had made the transatlantic voyage in the good ship Eendragt or Unity^ which seems to have justified its name bv the union of hearts and hands the voyage occasioned. She survived her husband many years, and died near Brooklyn, N. Y., September 11, 1689, in the 85th year of her age. In 1679 the was visited by several travellers, because the
dragt, with several other young women, four of

married on ship-board.

colonists regarded her as a distinguished historical, personage,

identified with the colony well nigh

from

its

infancy

their notes of travel they express their delight with

and in " her little

;

cottage,

where she

lived

by

herself,

having a garden and other

conveniences."*
Holland, and had William Jansen
Trico, and Antonia Jansen
Salers, a

town

in

De Rapelle, who m. Catalyntie name Antonia Van Salers, from upper Auvergne, France, where he had large estates. The accuracy of
Rapella Joris Jansen

De

De

Rapelle,

who adopted

the

these statements
the
ly,

is

name

Breckje perpetuated
plausible.

denied by some authorities. We cannot substantiate them, although in the family of Sarah Rapelle and in her daughter's fami-

makes them

"These travelers were Labadists. or followers of Jean de Laiadie,

of France,

who, ed-

ucated by the Jesuits, joined the Reformed Church and with the aid of Anna Maria Schurmann, founded in the Netherlands, a sect who insisted upon an inner Christianity, in
true mystic style.

They

visited

of establishing a Labadist colony,

America to gain information in regard to the feasibility and kept a journal of their travels, which is both inter'

esting and instructive.

Col.

Joannes Hardenbergh.
,

Col. Joannes Hardenbergh ( 14) appears on record generJohannes Hardenbergh but signed his name Joannes. He was the son of Johannes Hardenbergh and Catherine Rutsen, was born at Kingston, Ulster Co.. N. Y., June 1, and He resided at Rosendale, bethere baptized July 2S, .1706. tween New Paltz and Kingston and there died Sunday, Aually as
,

gust 20, 17S6.

He was
lic

a large land holder and a

prominent

man

in all

pub-

affairs.

He was

Colonel of the First Regiment of Ulster

County militia for twenty years, and as such is mentioned in a from Sir William Johnson, bearing date Mar. 23, 17^6, which says that Col. Hardenbergh, of Ulster county, gave Sir William timely notice of an Indian attack. He was a member of the Colonial Assembly from 1743 to 17 SO, and a member of the State Legislature from 17S1 to 17S2. In 1763, he is on record as a Justice of the peace. He was a member of the first Provincial Congress, which met at New York, May 23, 177s and by this Congress was commissioned a colonel in the Regular army, Oct. 25, 1775, and is mentioned, in the New York Archives nf the Revolution* among the field officers, as Col. Joannes Hardenbergh. For many years he was engaged in litigation in defending the title of the Hardenbergh Patent, and carried the contest to a successful issue. A few years before his death, when Gen'l Washington, in June, 17S3, visited the county of Ulster, Col. Hardenbergh entertained the General and Mrs. Washington, with Governor and Mrs. Clinton, at his residence in Rosenletter
;

dale.

Col. Hardenbergh was an active Elder in the Reformed Church, and frequently represented the Church of New Paltz,

100

COL.
in

JOAXNES HARDEXBERGH.
assemblies.

N. Y.,

ecclesiastical

He was
all

an influential
the

member
tled

of what was known, through

tbe communities set-

by the Hollanders,

as the Coetus party; so

named from

Latin Coetus, from Coco, to meet, or come together, and

may

properly be translated the Union party. It is difficult to comprehend the bitterness that existed between the Coetus and the Conferentie the former advocating an organic union of the Reformed Churches in America the latter a mere confederaIt was a fierce chui-ch-quarrel. occasioned by the growth cy. of the Church and the need of some more efficient government than the churches in America enjoyed under the care of

the Classis of

Amsterdam, Holland,
ordain
ministers
in
to

to

whose supervision they

had been committed by the Synod of Holland.

The

right to

churches.
ministry,

Young men born

were obliged
to

wfts denied the American America and educated for the

go

Holland

for ordination before

It

entering upon the duties of their calling.

required

much

time and the expense was great.

ing the voyage, perished at sea.

Seyeral young men, in mak-

This caused a demand, loud

and earnest,

for the right of ordination.

The Coetus proposed the organization of an American Classis, a large number of the churches assented, and the Coetus assumed all the powers of a Classis, May 30, 1755. Many in the
the

churches were indignant, and these formed the Conferentie party opposed to the independence of the Reformed

Church

in

America.

The surrender of the Dutch provinces to the English crown in 1664, and the subsequent attempt, in opposition to the conditions of surrender, to foist English prelacy upon the people, with all that it implies obnoxious to a Presbyterian, caused the Coetus to clamor more earnestly for home rule and the Conferentie to think the only place of safety was beneath the shelThe estabtering arms of the Holland classis of Amsterdam. lishment of Kings, now Columbia College, at New York, by

royal charter,

upon

the condition that the President should althat the

ways be an Episcopalian and

Book

of

Common

Prayer

should be used, intensified this feeling and caused the Coetus

party to seek a college under the care of the Reformed Church
;

HIS CHILDREN.
a project

IOI

which the Conference ridiculed and opposed. The Conference were the Tories of the Church the Coetus were the Continentals. The controversy disturbed the whole church,
;

filling

with animosity until 7 7 r a year after the charter of now Rutgers, college was obtained. Col. Joannes Hardenbergh was one of the original trustees, from the State of New York, mentioned in this charter for the
it
1
.

Queens,

college; granted

by King George
Jersey,

III.

Governor of

New

March

20. 1770.

and William Franklin, His name is sub-

scribed to the

"Rules and Regulations

for the formation of the

Coetus," April, 1748. He also subscribed to tne plan adopted for the peace and unity of the churches, at New York city, October 17, 1771 and was present at the meeting, for the consum,

mation and
the

ratification of the

same
soil.

city

June

was
ican

established as

union of the churches, held in by which the Reformed Church an independent ecclesiastical body on Amer16, 1772,
6,

He
22.

married
:

at

Kingston, N. Y. Dec.

T72S,

Maria Du

Bois, and had

Johannes, bp. at Kingston, Sept.

1729 m. Maria Lefevre. Loijs or Lewis, bp. at New Paltz,
14,
;

Rev. John Frelinghuysen.

26.

Rachel,
19,

bp. at Kingston,

Nov.

23.

173S; m. Ap'l 17, 1764, Rev.

Mar.

21,

1731

m.

Sept.

20,

1753, Catherine
24.

Waldron.
Paltz,

Bremen,
Jan'y
27,

Hermanus Meyer, D. D., b. in Lower Saxony, July

1733; d. at his residence at Pacquanac, or Two Bridges,
Passaic Co.,
I 79 I -

Charles, bp. at
7,
;

New

m. Mar. 20, 1755, 1733 Catherine Smedes, of Kings-

N.
at

J.,

Oct.

27,

She m. 2, July Abraham Helm.

ton.
25.

10, 1761,

27.

Catherine,

bp.

New

Paltz,

Jacob Rutse,

bp.

at
d.

Kingston,
at

June
28.
17,

3,

1741.

Feb'y

22,

1736;
J.,

New

Gerardus, bp. at Kingston, June

Brunswick, N.
m. Mar.
18,

Oct. 30, 1790;

1744; m. ab't 1766, Nancy

1756, Dina, b. in

or

Ann,

b.

1747,

dau.

Marten

Amsterdam,
10,

Holland,

1726, d. at
J.,

New

Feb'y Brunswick,

Ryerson, of Readington, Hunterdon Co., N.

J.,

and Cather-

N.
is

Mar.

26, 1807, dau.

Louof

ine Coxe, of England,

Van

Bemh and widow

i02

COL. JOANNES

HARDENBERGH.

Additional data concerning- the Children

of foamies

Hardenbergh and Maria

Du

Bois.

i. Johannes Hardenbergh (22) was both Lieutenant and Colonel of the Fourth Ulster Co. Regiment during the Revolu-

As

received his appointment as Colonel, Feb'y 27, 1779. Lieu't Col., early in the struggle tor independence, he was stationed at York City with his regiment, under command
tion.

He

New

of Gen. Washington, to aid in the defence of the city. His regiment was composed of local companies from Ulster county

and Livingston Manor. Some of the troops were without arms and destitute of the accoutrements of war. This caused Lieu't Col. Hardenbergh, Aug. 9, 1776, to address a letter to Gen. Woodhull, President of the State Convention, informing
the convention of the deplorable condition of his troops and

had done all in his power, since he had been in the city, supply their great need, but had failed. He solicited the convention to put him in some way to secure relief, and informed them that the men were willing to have the expense taken out of their pay. To this request the convention returned a favorthat he
to

able reply.
2. Bachel Hardenbergh, (26) of whom but little is known, worthy of special mention because of the renown of her husband, the Rev. Hermanus Meyer, D. D., a graduate of Gronis

ingen University, distinguished for his deep reading and learnwarmth of his piety and the ardor of his evangelical preaching. His sermons were practical and pointed: on one
ing, the

occasion after preaching on the necessity of regeneration, one of his officers met him and said "Flesh and blood cannot en-

dure such preaching." He quickly answered, "Flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God "
In 1764 he wT as obliged to take the oath of allegiance to Great Britain, renouncing all allegiance, civil or ecclesiastical, to any
other power.

By

so doing he thought he

had abjured the au-

thority of the Classis of

Amsterdam, Holland, and gave great

HIS CHILDREN.
offense to his consistory

IO3

who were

of the Conference party.

He was

then pastor at Kingston, N. Y., having settled there in

1763.* In 1773 he Passaic Co., and at

became pastor at Totowa. j and Fairfield, Pompton Plains. Morris Co., N. J., and so

remained

until his death.

October, 1784, he was appointed Professor of Hebrew, and in 17S6 Lector or Assistant to the Professor of Divinity in the

Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church.

the degree of

He

received

D. D. from Queens, now Rutgers College, in He died after a brief illness widely lamented, and was 17S9. buried under the pulpit of the Pompton Plains church. His remains have never been disturbed. He was a profound scholar and had begun a new translation of the Old Testament, but only completed the Psalms. "It is said that his last sermon was from the text He that hath the Son hath life/ dwelling particularly on the last clause of the text, 'hath life.' He had contemplated administering the Lord's Supper two weeks from that day but he was taken ill. During his sickness he sent for one of the Elders and gave him directions about his funeral. He also remarked. I meant to have administered the Lord's Supper next Sabbath but the Lord has intended otherwise, and I shall not drink wine again until I drink it in my Father's Kingdom.' As expressive of his pious sentiments he said, after taking a little refreshment, 'I have no more taste for what I once relished but the bread of heaven is provided for me.' "J Among his children was Rev. John H. Myer, born at Pacquank

'

*In 1763 Dr. Meyer,

it is

said,
in

made

a trip from Kingston to Albany, about

fifty

miles

away.

"The congregation

view

of the contemplated journey held a meeting,

and the

consistory prepared a form of prayer to be used

of the pastor during his long

by the people

'for the special protection

him as

far as Catskill to protect

and perilous journey to Albany.' Two Elders accompanied him." It now takes about an hour to go from Kingston

to Catskill

by railway.

tTotowa, now Paterson, N. J. The church was a stone building about 30x40 feet in area, on Ryle avenue, about one hundred feet south of Matlock street. It was destroyed by fire March 26, 1827. The project of rebuilding divided the congregation, one portion calling themselves the First Reformed Church of Totowa crossed the Passaic river and erected a house of worship on Main street, which was dedicated March 15, 1829. The other portion known as the Second Reformed Church of Totowa remained on the Totowa side of the river, and erected a house of worship corner of Water and Temple streets, which was dedicated June 8, 1828. Rev. Theo. W. Welles, D. D., was installed pastor of

the Second church,

May

6, 1889.

^Manuscript of Rev. John H. Duryea, D. D., pastor from 1839 to 1S82, of the Second Reformed Church of Totowa, at Paterson, N. J.

104
ac,

COL.
or

JOANNES HARDENBERGH.
19,

Two

Bridges, Passaic Co., N. J., Oct.

at

1774;

graduate of Columbia College and pastor

New

Paltz,

New

Hurley and Schenectady, N. Y., dying at the latter place in 1S06; also a daughter who married Rev. Jeremiah Romeyn, D. D., who was born in New York city in 1768, died July 1S1S, having been Professor of Hebrew in the Theological Seminary of the Reformed Churcn since 1797.*

Gerard US Hardenbergk (28), during the Revolutionary was Captain, being re-appointed, it is said in the New York Archives of the Revolution, May 28, 1778? Captain of of the 7th Company of the Northern Regiment of Ulster Co., under command of Col. Abraham Hasbrouck. He was a bold and intrepid leader, and in August, 1781, with a force of only nine men, defeated the Indians 400 strong, thereby saving War3.

struggle

warsing from annihilation. He subsequently resided in Sullivan Co., N. Y.. near the present village of Woodbourne,! and asserting proprietorship of the lands covered by the Harden*The children
!5i t-1&1\ 19, '774-

of

Hermanus M) er were:
r

Jacob, bp. Jan'y 22, 1766;

Maria, bp. Nov.

Rebecca, bp. Nov.

18, 1769

all

at Kingston; Johannus, b. at Pacquanac, Oct.

14, 1768

tGerardus Hardenbergh (28) and Nancy Ryerson had issue Catherine (201), bp. Aug. Maria (202), bp. Nov. 5, 1769 Rachel (203), bp. Feb'y 3, 1770, m. Josiah Depuy Elleanor (204), bp. May 24, 1772. These baptisms were at Kingston, N. Y. Benjamin (20=;), m. Cornelia Wynkoop; Thomas (206), m. Rachel Bevier; Herman Me)-er (207), m. Elsie Hasbrouck; Lewis (208) Nancy (209), is said to have had three husbands. Herman Meyer Hardenbergh (207) and Elsie Hasbrouck had five daughters Rachel, Sophie, Nancy, Catherine Maria and six sons, Martin Ryerson, Thomas, Benjamin, IsaOf these children our only data is concerning iah, Herman Myer, Augustus. Martin Ryerson Hardenbergh (210), b. at New Paltz, Ulster Co., N. Y., Oct. 16, 1803, d. at Woodbourne, Sullivan Co., N Y. Sept. 17, 1870; m. Jan'y 3, 1833, Eleanor Depuy, b.
:
; ; ;

Hasbrouck, Sullivan Co., N. V., Dec. 14, 1808, d. at Greenfield, Ulster Co., N. Y., Jan'y and Catherine Hardenbergh 18, 1884, dau. Josiah Depuy and Rachel Hardenbergh (203) m. June 15, 1832, Reuben Van Wagner. (211), b. Dec. 24, 1805 Herman Myer (212), b. Martin Ryerson Hardenbergh (210) and Eleanor Depuy, had Rachel (213), b. at Woodbourne, Sullivan at Hasbrouck, Sullivan Co., N. Y., Nov, 2, 1833 m. May 23, 1855, William W. Smith, b. at Greenfield, Ulster Co., N. Y., Sept. 28, 1S35 Co., N. Y., May 16, 1829, a lawyer at Woodbourne, N. Y., Supervisor of the town of Fallsburgh, Sullivan Co., N. Y., 1871 and '75, District Attorney of Sullivan Co. from 1884 Josiah F. (214), b. at Woodbourne, N. Y., to 1S87, son of Peter Smith and Adah Holmes AlApril 8. 1S40; m. Mary Smith, b. Jan'y 2S, 1844, dau. Peter Smith and Adah Holmes Hylah H. (216), b. at Woodbourne, exander (215), b, at Woodbourne, N. Y., Sept. 1, 1841 m. Sept. 24, 1S67, John A. Smith, b. at Greenfield, Ulster Co., N. N. V., Jan'y 20, 1S43 Y. April 24, 1841, farmer and milk dealer at Woodbourne and Centreville, N. Y. son Peter Smith and Adah Holmes; Julia (217), b. at Woodbourne, Jan'y 1, 1845; m. Abijah Overbaugh of Flatlands, Kings Co., N. Y. a lumber dealer, son of Voorhees Overbaugh
at
; ;

HIS CHILDREN'.

IO5

bergh patent, had a great deal of trouble with the squatters who had seized the fairest portions of his inheritance. He offered these trespassing settlers ioo acres of wild or uncultivated land in fee simple, for their improvements, but only a few would acEjectment suits followed, fierce passions were cept the offer.
aroused and Hardenbergh was murdered by the squatters shot by a lurking assassin while passing on horseback along a
public road through wood-land.

The low moral

culture of the

squatter settlers revealed itself in their lauding the

assassin as a hero.
is

unknown
county

Hardenbergh's memory
to us

in Sullivan
it

not enviable, but the traditions which give

this

dark color-

ing are handed

down

by

his implacable

enemies the

squatters wliD killed the heir that the inheritance might be

theirs.

at

Maria Dll Bois, wife of Joannes Hardenbergh, was baptized Kingston, N. Y., March 24, 1706. She was the daughter

of Louis
Isaac

Du
at

Bois and Rachel Hasbrouck.

Woodbourne, N. Y.
(211)
,

(218). b.

Sept. 30, 1846;

Maria

(219), b. at

Woodbourne, N.

V., July 21, 1851.

Ann Van Wagner, 29, 1850, Henry Sccvill; Henrietta Van Wagner, b. Oct. 4, Nancy Van Wagner, b. Sept. 26, 1840, m. Oct. 4, 1861, Eli J. 5, 1835 Crandall Herman Nicholas Van Wagner, b. Oct. 2, 1844, d. Ap'l 3, 1849. Elsie Ann Van Wagner and Henry Scovill, had Ellen Julia Scovill, b. Nov. 4, 1853, and Florence Scoville, b. March 2, 1874. Ellen Julia Scovill, m. Nov. 10, 1870, Moses Swain, and had: Kate Blanch Swain, born in 1871, m. Sept. 15, 1889, David I. ThompCatherine Hardenbergh
26, 1S33;
:

and Reuben Van Wagner, had

Elsie

b.

March

m. Jan'y
;

1834, d.

July
;

Ellen

son

Walter Swain,
m. Oct.

b.

Nov.

2, 1889.

Ellen
1867,

Nancy Van Wagner and

15, 1390,

Eli

J.

Crandall, had:
:

Lena Kate Crandall,

b.

Ap'l 21,
b.

Alfred E. Bradwell, and had

Edmund
:

Crandall Bradwell,

Aug.

4, 1891.

Rachel Hardenbergh (213) and William W. Smith, had Henrietta Smith, b. at Woodbourne, N. Y., Feb'y 24, 1856 m. by Rev. Theo. W. Welles, D. D. Jan'y 20, 1892, Rev. Ben-iamin T. Statesir, b. in Monmouth Co. ,N. J., 1841, Pastor Reformed Church at Woodbourne, N. Y., and had, William Hardenbergh Statesir, b. Jan'y 2, 1S93 Henry Willis Smith, b. Woodbourne, N. Y. Mar. 4, 1857, a lawyer, firm of Stapler, Smith &Tomlinson,
; ; ,

11 Pine St., New York Peter Austin Smith, b. Aug. 31, 1858, lumber dealer in New York City; Martin Ryerson Smith, b. Feb'y 27, 1863, lumber dealer in New York City George Holmes Smith, b. Oct. 8, 1864, lawyer in Woodbourne, N. Y. Josiah F. Hardenbergh (214) and Mary Smith, had Benjamin and Addie Harden-

No.

bergh.

Hyfah H. Hardenbergh
N. V.. Feb'y
16, 1871
;

(216)

and John A. Smith, had

b. at

Grace Smith,

b. at

Greenfield,

Edna G. Smith,

Greenfield, Dec. 24, 1873.

H.

106

COL.

JOANNES HARDENBERGH.

The Du
1.

Bois Families.
1626;
c.

Louis

Du Bois,
Du Bois, Du Bois,

b. in Artois,

a.

1660; m. 1655, Catherine Blan-

ch an.
2. 3.

Louis

b.

1677; m. 1701, Rachel Hasbrouck,

b.

1676.
b.

Maria

17065 m. 1728, Joannes Hardenbergh, grandparents of Joanna Hardenbergh Welles.

b.

1706, great-

Artois* and

and was a family name in the Conqueror left his the Royal Library of native Paris, declare that the Du Bois family is one of the oldest of the noble families of the bailiwick of Contend n, NormanThe genealogy begins with Geoffroi du Bois, a knight bandy. neret under William the Conqueror, wliom he accompanied, in Seventeen generations from this Geoffroi 1066, to England. du Bois, descending through the eldest male line, all of whom were seigneurs and chevaliers, brings the record down to 164S.
Bois
signifies

Du

from the

forest,

Normandy before William The heraldic records, in shores.

Christian

Du

Bois, a peasant proprietor of Artois, in north-

ern France, born about 1595, is thought to have been a descendant of Geoffroi du Bois through some one of the younger sons
of the seigneurs and chevaliers of the

Du

Bois family.

The

farm he occupied,
Lille, the chief
eler,

in 1626, at

Wicres, twenty miles southwest of

town of Artois, is still pointed out to the travand lies in a region inhabited by a frugal and industrious yeomanrv. Cheese is made in large quantities, orchards are numerous, and rye and flax are cultivated in abundance. There is no lack of water in the sluggish streams, and the ochre tinted sails and red tow^ers of the wind-mills, are never out of the
traveler's sight.

Louis Dll Bois, the progenitor of the Du Bois family of America, was the son of Christian Du Bois, and was born on But little is known of the farm at Wicres, October 27, 1626. His handwriting proves that he went to school, his early life.
* Artois, an ancient province of France, which after the death of Robert II., 1302, passed into the possession of Flanders, but was ceded to France in 1659 and forms the modern province of Pas de Calais. Artesian wells derive their name from Artois,

MARIA DU
and
his life in this country

BOIS

HARDEXBERGH.
it

Ib^

makes

certain that he

was

a Prot-

and a Calvinist, or one who in his native land was called a Huguenot. When quite a young man, he was constrained by a desire to better his condition, or by the hope of more religious freedom, to leave his native land and make his abode at
estant

Manheim,

in the Paltz or

German

Palatinate.

While

living

here he married Catherine Blanchan, Oct. 10, 1655, and a few years afterwards emigrated with his wife and children to

America.

The date of his landing upon American soil is not definitelv known, but he probably came with his brother-in-law, Pierre Billiou, in the ship St Jan Baptist which arrived Aug. 6^
1661.

Tradition declares that

when he

landed, he gathered his

family about him, reverently opened the old French Bible that

had been the companion of his voyage, read the 23d Psalm and offered a devout prayer to Almighty God, acknowledging His providential care and imploring His future guidance. He first appears on record at Wildwyck, or Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y., which at that time was a small village in the Hudson river valley, s, on a fei'tile plain a little distance from the
fort"

or the pallisaded village of Esopus,

when, Oct.

1,

i66r.

he and his wife were received as members of the Reformed

and the following week had a child bapground brief April 2^, 1663, and was dwelling at Kingston with his family at the time of the Esopus massacre the 7th day of the following June. It w as a terrible day. Between eleven and twelve o'clock at noon, an unusual number of savages spread themselves through the villages and entered the dwellings of the settlers. They were apparently unarmed, and to allay suspicion brought corn and beans and other trifling articles for sale. Suddenly the war-whoop was uttered as a signal, and tomahawks, and knives and battle-axes gleamed in the air. The settlers w ere taken entirely by surprise. Every Indian had marked his man neither women nor children w^ere spared. Houses w ere plundered and set on fire. For several hours the most deadly battle raged, until at length,

Church by

attestation,

tized.

He

received a

through valiant resistance, the colonists succeeded in driving the savages from within the palisades and in-shutting the gates.

IoS

COI..

JOANNES HARDEXBERGH.
in ashes.

The

outer village

was

The

village within the palis-

ades had been set on

had been burned, but a change of the wind had saved the greater part of the village from destruction. Twenty-one of the settlers had been killed, nine were severely wounded, and forty-five, mostly women and children, were taken captive, to be carried into a bondage more dreadful than death. The retreating Indians were pursued. All but three of the captives were eventually recovered, and
fire,

a few houses

hostilities

continued until the Esopus tribe of Indians was ex-

terminated.

Among

the

captives

were

Airs.

Du

Bois and three of her

children, but all of them, after enduring captivity with the rav-

ages for three months, were rescued and restored to the loved

ones at home, September

5,

1663.

When
Delft, in

first

settling in this country,

Louis

Du Bois was a

store-

keeper, trading in cloths from Antwerp, earthenware from

Barbadoes sugar and alum, and in beaver and other and the Indians of the upper Esopus. Oct. 6. 1673, he was appointed one of the magistrates of Kingston. He and his sons, Abraham and Isaac, were among the twelve men to whom a patent was granted by Gov. Andross,
skins, with his neighbors

Sept. 29, 1677, f r a tract of land, in the Wallkill valley, seven miles long and four miles wide, not very far from the present
city of

Kingston, N. Y., for an annual rental of

"-five

bushels

of good wheat." Within the borders of this patent they founded the towns of New Paltz and Hurley, and previous to 1683 erected a church at the former place, in which the French language was used in worship until 733' when Dutch was used until 1S00. The first officers of this church were Louis Du
1

Bois, Elder

and

Hugh

Frere,

Deacon
T

ordained to their

res-

pective offices in 16S3 by Rev. Pierre Daille,

fessor at

formerly pro-

Saumur, France. He w as banished on account of his religion, and became the first Huguenot pastor of the scattered French Reformed congregations of the New Netherlands. After 1677 Louis Du Bois resided at Hurley until a few years before his death, when he returned to Kingston and dwelt on the north west corner of Clinton Ave. and John St., where he
died in 1696.

He

married Oct.

10, 1655.

Catherine Blanchan,

and had

MARIA
2.

Dl*

BOIS

HARDEXBERGH.
5.

IO9
;

Abraham,
d.

c.

a.

with his father

Sarah, bp. Sept. 1664

J.

m. Roelof
1667

Oct.

7,

1731

the
;

survivor,
6.

Eltinge.

his

twelve patentees
ret
3.

tombstone declares, of the m. Margab.

David, bp.

Mar.

13,

m.

Mar.
7.

8,

1689, Cornelia Varnoye.

b. 1670, d.

Deyo.
at

Solomon,

Feb'y, 1759;
;

Isaac,

Manheym
;

in

the

m. Tryntje Gerritsen
kill,

owned
:

Paltz or Palatinate
1683,

m. June,

large tracts of land" about Cats-

Maria Haasbrouck, b. "in Moudestad in the Paltz in

Duytslants,"
Palatinate.
4.
i.

and

in

Pennsylvania

an-

cestors of Rev.

Anson Du

Bois,

e.

the

German
8.

D. D.f Rebecca,
Rachel,
Lewis,

d. y.

Jacob, b. at Wildwyck, or Kingston,

9.

d. y.
b.

N. Y.,
;

Oct.
8,

9,

1661,

d.

10.

at Horley, or Hurley,
19,

1745

m. Mar.
:

1689,

Lysbeth
ances-

1677; m. Jan'y
chel,
b.

1701,

Ra-

Varnoye
sen
tors
of

m.

2,

Gerritje Gerrit-

1676,

dau.

Abraham
;

Van Niewkerk. The

Rev.

Benjamin

Du

11.

Bois.*

Hasbrouck and Maria Deyo. Matthew, b. ab't 1679 m. Jan'y 17, 1 71 7, Sara Matthysen.

Catherine

Blanchan, wife of Louis

Du

Bois,

was

the

daughter of Matthys Blanchan and Madaline Goore. She came to America with her husband, was taken captive by the Indians June
7,

1663, and remained in captivity until Sept. 5, 1663.

Her

three sons,

Abraham, Isaac and Jacob

the eldest not more

Of these wear}
7

than seven or eight years of age, and the youngest only eight-

een months old

were

also captives with her.

months but

little is

known.

The

Indians carried their captives

about thirty miles south-west of Esopus to a strong fortress,

whose existence and location was made known to the colonists by Mrs. Dr. Van Imbroeck, j who in some way effected her esSalem Co., N. J., Mar. 30, 1739, d. Aug-. 21, Tunis Denise and Francynthe Hendrickson, of Freehold, N. J. grandson of Jacob Du Bois and Gerritje Gerretsen Van Niewkerk son of Louis Du Bois, b. Jan'y 6, 1695; m. Margaret Jansen, of Kingston, N. Y. He was pastor for 63 years, of the "United Dutch Church of Freehold and Middletown." Trustee of Rutgers College from 1783 to 1827. A faithful and efficient servant of God.
*Rev. Denjamin
Bois, b. at Pittsgrove, 1827: m. Phemertje, dau.
;

Du

gers College, 1847, Theological Seminary,

graduated from RutBrunswick, 1850; D. D. by Union College, 1865; Pastor of Reformed Churches at Thousand Islands, Kingston, Schenectady, Flatlands, N. Y., and Athenia, N. J.
Bois, D. D., b. Aug. 29, 1821, at Catskill, N. Y.
;

tRev. Anson

Du

New

*Mrs. Van Imbroeck or Rachel Montague, d. Oct. 4, 1664 dau. Dr. Johannes La tagne and Rachel Monjour, and wife of Guysbert Van Imbroeck, M. D., of Esopus.
;

MonHer

father, b. 1592,

c. a.

1637,

was one

of the

most noted men

of

New

Amsterdam.

IIO

COL.

JOANNES HARDENBERGH.

cape from captivity, and after enduring

ships, reached her

many

home.

A party of two

perils and hardhundred and ten men,

under Captain Crygier, at once started, July 26, 1663, to rescue the lost. Their path was a rugged one, overhigh hills and across mountain streams, and when at length they reached the fort, they
found
it

abandoned.

The wary

Indians, through their scouts,

having ascertained their approach, had fled with the prisoners captured Indian woman having made to the mountains.

known

which the Indians had fled, the. march was continued, through many and great difficulties, but brought them only to an abandoned camp. Their guide said that the people they sought must have fled to a fortress some six miles further on, but the rescuers, again pressing forward, were rewarded only by finding traces of a retreating foe, and with
the direction in

heavy hearts returned

to

their

nothing but the destruction of the abandoned fortress.

homes, having accomplished In Sep-

tember, news reached Esopus that the savages were building another fort about thirty-six miles southwest of the settlement,

N. Y.
gier,

probably near the present town of Mamakating, Sullivan Co., hundred and twenty-five men, under Captain Cry-

organized at once to destroy the works.

After two days

toilsome marching they emerged from the forest in view of the

fort.
It stood upon an elevated plain, a square inclosure surrounded by two rows of strong palisades, while a third row had already been commenced. The posts forming the palisades were firmly planted in the ground, pointed at the top, and rose about fifteen feet in the air. Captain Crygier divided his force,

one division crept cautiously along beneath the cover of a hill until coming to an open plain, when they "were discovered by A sudden a squaw who aroused the whole garrison of Indians. onslaught was then made by both divisions of the rescuing parThe savages, taken by surprise, were thrown into a panic. ty. They rushed out of the fort without their weapons. The Europeans followed them, shooting them down and cutting them with their keen sabres. Papoquanchen, the chief, was slain with fourteen of his warriors, and twenty-two captives were recovered, among whom were Mrs. Du Bois and her three
children.

MARIA DUBOIS HARDEXBERGH.

Ill

The

captive colonists,

it

is

said, beguiled the

hours of their

on their weary marches, by singing the songs of Zion, awakening within the primeval forests through which they passed, the first notes of praise they ever echoed to God the Father and Jesus Christ his Son,
captivity

and encouraged

their hearts

Du Bois, marJean Cottin, of Xew York, a Huguenot fugitive from Rohe died at an advanced age in 1721, and bequeathed 36 hain to the Reformed Church of Harlem, the income thereof to be yearly employed for the minister's maintainance.
Catherine Blanchan, after the death of Louis
ried
;

The Blanchan

Family.

Matthys or Matthew Blaildian, with his wife Mandaline Goore or Jorissen, as it is sometimes written came to America from Manheim in the ship Gilded Otter* and arrived at New Amsterdam April 27, 1660. They were accompanied by excepting Mrs. Louis Du Bois and by their all their children son-in-law, Antonie Civpel. They were Huguenots, originally of Artois, Matthew Blanchan having been a man of some note in his native town of Nouville le-Conte, but compelled to flee

for refuge to

Manheim

in the

German

Palatinate.

The

party

was

cordially

welcomed

to

the

New
a letter

Stuyvesant,

who gave Blanchan

Netherlands by Gov. to Sergeant Romp at

Esopus, directing him to provide them with all needed accomHere they found a home so congenial to their demodations.
sire

and so

secui'e in its religious privileges, that after

having

commemorated declared it was

loss of

the Saviour's death, Dec. 25, 1660, Blanchan

a solace for all that

he had suffered, and for the

at

property at his native place and

Armeulieres (Flan-

and elsewhere, to sit clown with his wife, his daughter and her husband at the Lord's Supper. About 1677 he moved to Hurley, Ulster Co., N. Y., where he built a distillery but probably did not run it many years, as
ders)

May
were

iS, 1679,

"lying sick in bed," he made his will, bequeathto his

ing his farm at Hurley

:

son Matthys, Jr.

His children

112
2.

COE. JOANNES
or Catherine,

HARDENBERGH.
Warwick, Orange Co., N. Y. b. 1648; m. Sept. 28, IDD 7> Matthys Jansen. Ancestors of the Jansen family. Elizabeth, b. 165 1 m. Oct. 27, 166S, Pieter Cornellessen Lowe,
of

Katryn
10,

m.

I,

Oct.
b.
4.

1655,

Louis

Du

Bois,
:

Magdalena,

3.

1626, c. a. 1661, d. 1696 m. 2, Jean Cottin, of New York. Maria, m. in Manheim, Anthonie

5.

Crepel, ancestors of the Crispell

family

among whom

are Rev.
6.

c.

a.

1659.
b.

Cornelius E, Crispell, D. D., of

Matthys,

at 30,

Manheim, 1655;
1679,

Spring Valley, Rockland Co.,

m.

Mar.

Margaret

N. Y., and Rev. Peter Crispell,

Van Schoonhoven.

LOUIS Du Bois, (10) son of Louis Du Bois and Catherine Blanchan, was born at Horly or Hurley, Ulster Co., N. Y., in He married, Jan'y 19, 1 70T Rachel Hasbrouck, of 1677.
3

Kingston, N. Y.

The ceremony was performed, "on account

by Captain Hasebroek, Justice."
will
:

of the minister's absence,

Their children were

12.

Maria, bp. Dec.

Nathaniel,
b.

7,

1701, d.

y.

made 1746; m. Elizabeth

13.

14.

June 3, 1703; m. m. 2, 1, Gertrude Bruyn; Hoffman. Mary or Maria, b. Mar. 2, 1705, bp. Mar. 24, 1706; m. Dec: 6, Hardenbergh, 1728, Joannes b. June 1, 1706, d. Aug. 20,
1786.

Lefevre.
17.

Catiina, bp. Oct. 30,

1714; m. J an 'y 2 5, !734) Wessel Broad head, bp. Jan'y 21, 1703, son of Charles Broadhead and Maria

Ten Broeck.
18.

Louis,
i
j

b.

1717;

m.

Jan'y

15,

15.

Jonas, bp. June 20, 170S.

73 2 Charity Audrevelt. resided on Staten Island.

He

16.

Jonathan,

bp.

Dec.

21,

1710;

Additional data in relation

Bois

to the

children of Loin's

Du

and Rachel Hasbrouck.

1. Nathaniel Dll Bois, (13) by his first wife, Gertrude Bruyn, had Louis, who m. Rachel Du Bois and was a ColHis descendants are in Marlonel in the Revolutionary war. borough, New York and Rachel, who m. Andreas Lefevre. of New Paltz, N. Y. By his second wife he had Jonas, Hesa chart as who was a major in ter, who m. Mr. Woodhull and Their descendants are living near and in the Revolution. Washingtonville, Orange Co., N. Y.
:

2.

Jonathan
first,

Du

BoiS (16) had

a family of

seven children.

Louis, his

born, m. Catherine Broadhead, and their de-

MARIA DUBOIS I-IARDEXBERGII.

scendants,
are very
still

13

holding the lands from die original patentees,

numerous about Libertwille, near New Paltz, N. Y. Their son Jonathan, of Springtown, Ulster Co., N. Y., was County Judge and the father of Rev. George Du Bois.* Their daughter Elizabeth m. Rev. Stephen Goetschius. f Andreas

Du

Bois, son of Jonathan,

6) built the first brick

house
first

at

New
NaIt is

Paltz,

N. Y., which

at this date, 1S91, is still standing.

thaniel

Du
to

Bois, son of Jonathan, (16) built the

flouring

mill run

claimed

by water power in that part of the country. have been the first of any in the country.

3. LoiliS Dll Bois, (iS) of Staten Island, has

numerous de-

scendants in the southern

tier

of

Xew York

counties.

The

most noted is perhaps John Du Bois, a bridge builder. He had various patents on bridge building, and built the important He railroad bridge of Haver de Gras on the Susquehanna. was extensively engaged in rafting was sometimes called the lumber king. He owned the town of Du Bois in western Pennsylvania, and was reported to be worth eight million dol-

lars at the

time of his death.

Rachel HaSDl'OUCk, wife of Louis Du Bois, was baptized in York, May 13, 16S0. She was the daughter of Abraham Hasbrouck and Maria Deyo.

Xew

Bois, b. at New Paltz, N. Y. 1S00 was licensed by the Classis of PaPastor of the Reformed Church at Bloomin^burgh, Mamakating, Franklin St., New York city and Tarrytown, where he died, 1844. He was remarkable for the amiability of his spirit and the propriety of his conduct, commanding the increasing respect and attachment of the charges to which he ministered by the uniformly edifying character of his preaching, the consistency of his character and the practical wisdom and diligence displayed in prosecuting all the details of his ministerial and pastoral works.

*Rev. Geo.

Du

ramus

in 1819;

J.

tRev. Stephen Goetschius, son of Rev. Johannes Henricus Goetschius, Hackensack, N. grandson of Rev. John Henry Goetschy, New Gossenhoppen, Montgomery Co., Pa. licensed in 1775 pastor of the Reformed Church of New Paltz and New Hurley, Marbletown and Shokan, N. Y. Saddle River and Pascack, N. J. He was small in stature and somewhat bent in form, a man of deep thought and great vigor. After the war of 1776, he organized no less than nine churches in Ulster Co., N. Y. He was not fluent in the
:

English language.

He

died 1S37.

15

T1 4

CQI -

JOANNES HARDENBERGH.

The Hasbrouck
Abraham HasbrOUCk,
France.
a

Family.
at

Huguenot, was born

Calais,

Because of the religious persecutions of the age, he emigrated to Manheim, from thence to Holland, and then to America in 1675. His brother Jean with his wife Anna Deyo, had preceded him and had settled at Esopus, X. Y. Abraham landed at Boston and immediately came from thence to Esopus. He was one of the New Paltz patentees but resided at Kingsa member of the Provincial assembly for several and Major of the Ulster Co. Regiment. He died March He married, Nov. 27, 1675, Maria Deyo, and had 17, 171 7. 2. Rachel, bp. in N. Y., May 12, 5. Solomon, bp. Oct 17, 16S6, d.

ton.

He was

years,

J6S0; m. at Kingston, Jan'y 19, 1701, Louis, b. 1677, son f Louis Du Bois and Catherine Blanchan.
3. 4.

"

1753; m. Ap'l 7, 1721, Dec. 1, 1701, dan. of Jacob Aartsen Van Wagenen and Sara Pells.
3,

Ap'l

Sara,

b.

Anna, bp. Oct.

9,

16S2, d.

y.

6.
7.

Joseph, bp. Oct. 20, 16S4, d. Jan'y 28, 1724; m. Oct. 27, 1706, Elsie, bp. Dec. 13, i6S6,,-d. July
27, 1764, dau. Jochem Schoonmaker and Petronella Sleght.

Jonas, bp. Oct. 14, 1691, Daniel, bp. June 3, 1694,

25,

d. y.

8.

d. Jan'y 1759; m. April 2, 1734, Wyntje Deyo, d. Oct. 30, 1787. Benjamin, bp. May 31, 1696.

Maria Deyo, wife of Abraham Hasbrouck, was born in 16^3, town of Rhenish Bavaria, in the Palatinate, six miles southwest of Manheim. She died March 27. 1741, in the SSth year of her age. She was a French Huguenot. Her name is sometimes written Doiau and Duvou. She came to America in 1675 with Abraham Hasbrouck whom she had known in the old country, and to whom she was married a short time after their arrival, at Hurly, N. Y. Her father was Christian Deyo, who gave up many loved ties, for conscience
at Mutterstadt, a

sake,

it is

said,

when emigrating

to

America.

short time

after his arrival, he

was followed by

his brother Pieter,

wife, adhering to the

Roman
His

Catholics, refused to

whose accompany

him.

Pieter

was

killed in the

posed, by the Indians.

place of his death
their identity established

fate

woods near Esopus, it is supwas long unknown, but the

the discovery of his bones,

was revealed by

by the silver knee buckles found with them. Christian Deyo was one of the twelve New Paltz patentees, and his daughter Elizabeth married Simon Lefevre, who was also one of the twelve patentees.

Rev. Jacob R. Hardenbergh, D. D.

Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, D. D.,
of Col. Joannes Hardenbergh (14) and Maria
S. T. D., son

Du

Bois,

was

born

at

Rosendale, and baptized

at

Kingston, Ulster Co., X.

Y., Feb'y 23, 1736.

30, 1790.*

He

died at

New

Brunswick, N.

J., Oct.

academy and prepared for the John Frelinghuysen, of Raritan, Somerset Co., N. J. He was licensed by the American Chassis or Coetus in 1 757, and was tne first minister in the Reformed Dutch Church in America, '-who had not been obliged to go
studied at the Kingston

He

Gospel ministry with the Rev.

to

Holland for the purpose of study, examination and

licen-

sure."!

May

1.

i7^S,

he became

pastor of the

Reformed

Churches of Raritan, Readmgton and Bedminster, in Somerset Co. N. J., together with the Reformed Churches of Harlingen and Neshanic, in Hunterdon Co., of the same state, which formed one ministerial charge until 1761, when the two last

named churches became a separate pastorate. sumed the pastorate of the Reformed Churches
Rochester and Warwarsing.
in Ulster Co.,

In 17S1 he asat

of the First Reformed Church of

New

Marbletown, N. Y., and in 17S5, Brunswick, N. J., where

first

he remained until his death in 179His ministry while connected with his

pastoral charge,

continuing through a period of twenty-five years, embraced the

'The date of his death on his tombstone
course delivered at his funeral, Nov.
date of his funeral.
Oct. 30, 1790,
2, 1790.
is

Oct. 30, but on the

title

We

think the latter date

page of the dismust have been the

days after death

was Saturday; Nov. 2, was Tuesday. Burial three accordance with long established custom, while the empty pulpit on the intervening Sabbnlh would cause the tidings of the pastor's death to reach every part
is in

of the congregation.

tRev. David Marinus was ordained at Acquackanonk.N.

Holland.

J., in 1752,

but was previously

licensed by the Coetus of Pennsylvania, and theii action had been ratified by the

Synod

of

Il6

REV. JACOB

R.

HARDEN'BERGH,

P.

t>.

tus

important era of the distracting controversy between the Coeand Conferentie parties. He warmly espoused the cause of
the Coetus or evangelical party, but the Malcontents, as the

Conferentie party
dispute

was

called, while

forming a minority, were

an influential portion of the congregation under his care.

the contest

The

was became

carried on with unusual violence, and at one time

so intense that the regular ministrations of

the Gospel

were interrupted.

While
1762, he
to

the controversy

was raging, some time during

Holland
for the

the year

purpose of bringing America the mother of his wife, who, having become a widto enjoy the society of

made

a voyage to

ow, desired
first

her only child.

He was
in

the

minister of the

to visit

America, the Fatherland, and the favorable impression he made

Reformed Church, ordained

upon

the Chassis of

Amsterdam, together with

his beneficial in-

fluence in behalf of the Coetus, did

much towards

securing the

independence of the Reformed Churches of America.

After his return to this country, he was largely instrumental
in

securing a charter for Queens,

now Rutgers

College, and

was one of the

of
tne

original trustees of the institution for the State

New Jersey. He
k

was

the

first

President of the college, ac-

cepting the position,

'in his zeal for religion

111

and attachment

to

Church of

his fathers," in 17S5,

connection with the pas-

Church of New Brunswick. The labor was exceedingly arduous. With only a single assistant in the college, he was "a teacher of the whole circle of the sciences and liberal arts," and so discharged his parochial duties, that ''as a minister and pastor he was not excelled." At each communion season he welcomed members into the church, and "his entire ministry seems to have been a But the task was too severe. "He graducontinual revival." ally wasted his strength and sank under a burden too heavy for one man however fortified with genius or industry to sustain."
toral care of the First

of filling the two positions

A. M. in 177? anc^ f 77 1, from the College of New Jersey, now known as Princeton college and the degree of S. T. D. in 17S9 from
received the honorary degree of
in
1

He

D. D.

Columbia
Provincial

college,

New York city. He was a Congress of New Jersey, convened

delegate to the
at

Burlington,

HIS PATRIOTIC ZEAL.

II?

June

10,

1776, the last Provincial Congress of

New

Jersey,

which, after receiving the tidings of the declaration of independence by the Continental Congress, ratified their action in

manner following
Resolved: That whereas the honorable, the Continental Congress have

declared .the United States free and independent

We,

the deputies of

New

Jersey in provincial Congress assembled, do resolve and declare that

we support the freedom and independence of the said States, with our lives and fortunes and with the whole force of New Jersey."

On

the succeeding day, July iS, 1776, the Provincial

title

Con-

"The Convention of the State of New Jersey," and framed and adopted a constitution for the State, which continued unchanged until 1S41. For several sessions Dr. Hardenbergh was a member of the General Assembly of the State he had been instrumental in forming, and his associates in office testified their confidence in his political wisdom and patriotism by appointing him chairman of important committees and intrusting to him much of the
gress assumed the

business of legislation.

During

the conflict with Great Britain his record places

him

among
patriot

the

warmest friends of American

to the

liberty.

An

ardent

and a devoted friend

Federal cause, '"he took no

sanctuary,

pains to conceal his opinions," and frequently "stirred up the

people" through the pulpit ministrations of the

mination to achieve their country's independence.
zeal for his native land

arousing their enthusiasm and encouraging them in their deter-

His public

provoked the enmity of

life.

his

Tory neigh-

bors and endangered his

The

British general offered a re-

ward of one hundred pounds for his apprehension. His peril was such that he was obliged to sleep with a loaded musket by the side of his bed, and was frequently compelled "to leave his home, fully armed, and to roam about the country, to prevent being seized by the Tories." While the Revolutionary struggle was in progress, the army of Washington was encamped, for two winters, within tire bounds of the congregations to which Dr. Hardenbergh ministered. During one, if not both of these winters, Gen. Washington's headquarters were in the first house west of Dr. Hardenbergh's residence at Somerville
;

and the General frequently

IlS

REV. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH,

D. D.

home, as a friend. Their mutual resoect and kindly feeling, one towards the other, are clearly revealed by the correspondence which follows
visited the Di\ at his

"The

Minister, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Dutch Church of Raritan to General George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the United States of North America

" May

it

please your Excellency.

"We,
itan,

the Consistory of the

Dutch Reformed Church

of Rar-

beg leave

to

embrace

this opportunity to declare to

your Excellency

the real sentiments of our hearts.

wish to adore the directing hand of Providence, so we acknowledge that spirit of patriotism which has induced your Excellency to sacrifice the sweets of an affluent domestic life, to put yourself and your most virtuous consort to repeated and affecting separations, for no other reason than defending the just rights and liberties of your
are

"As we would
bound
to

bleeding country in the trying winter of 1777 when after two memorable victories, your Excellency by masterly strokes of generalship defended us
:

with a hand

full

of undisciplined militia,

against the depredations of a

formidable army of our enemies, collected and quartered in our vicinity. We cannot help admiring that gracious Providence which has made the
success and victories of your arms to bare

down

the remembrance of dis-

couraging disappointments, and we cordially hope that the agreeable prospect of a speedy termination of the present troubles, in favor of our distressed nation

may

fully

answer your and our wishes and support your Ex-

cellency under the present weight of perplexing cares and concerns, insep-

arable from your station.

"Though
strained to

the quartering of armies

among
latter,

citizens

is

always attended

with unavoidable inconveniences to the

we are agreeably conacknowledge, that your Excellency has been pleased to take
yet

particular care throughout this last winter, to prevent and alleviate these

calamities as

much

as possible.

Your Excellency's concern for the support of civil government in its just and equitable execution, has endeared you to our fellow citizens, and the strict discipline, which the gentlemen officers under your Excellency's more immediate command at this place, have observed, not only at head quarters, but also throughout the body of this army, we are persuaded, has merited the approbation and applause of the good people of this neighhood.

"We
when we

beg your Excellency

will

do us the justice

to believe us sincere,

declare our affection and true regard for your person, and the

deep sense we entertain of the important services your Excellency, and the gentlemen officers and soldiers under your command have rendered their country in the course ot this severe contest; and we assure you, sir, that

THE REVENGE OF THE TORIES.

we
the
shall

II9
to
;

deem
of

it

our duty and privilege to

make our warmest addresses

God

armies, for the preservation of your health and invaluable

life

and soldiers of your army, praying that indulgent Heaven may direct your counsels, and crown your exertion in the ensuing campaign with such victories and success, as shall compel a haughty, cruel and relei.tless enemy to consent to the terms of a safe, honorable and lasting peace." "Signed by order of the consistory, June 1, 1779.
as also that of the brave officers

"Jacob
In

R.

Hardenbergh

V. D. M. Praes.

response to this courtly and cordial

at once,

Washington
ing reply
:

General on the very next day. returned the followaddress,

"To the

Minister, Elders and Deacons of the Reformed

Dutch

Church of Raritan"

Camp Middlebrook June

Gentlemen
:

2d 1779

To meet
Your
izen.

the approbation of good

men cannot

but be agreeable.

affectionate expressions
its

make

it

more

so.

In quartering an

army and
cit-

supplying

wants, distress and inconvenience will often occur to the

I feel

myself happy

in the

consciousness that these have been strictly

limited by necessity, and in your opinion of

of

my

attention to the rights of

thank you gentlemen sincerely for the sense you entertain of the conduct of the army, and for the interest you take in my
fellow citizens.
I

my

welfare.
ple,

trust the

under the Divine protection

Suffer

goodness of the cause, and the exertions of the peowill give us that honorable peace for which
to

we are contending.

me gentlemen,

wish the Reformed Dutch Church at Raritan,

present Minister and Consistory,
I

a long continuance of its

and

all

the

blessings which flow from piety and religion.

am,

etc.

Geo. Washington.

In the Fall immediately following this exchange of courtesies

between the Church of Raritan and the Commander-in-Chief Army, October 26, 1779, a company of the Queen's Rangers, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Simcoe, made an incursion into Somerset County, for the pinpose of burning some boats, which had been transported from the Delaware and were lying in the waters of the Raritan, near Van Yechten's bridge, about a quarter of a mile from the Raritan church, which stood on a knoll on the north side of the river, two miles below the present village of Somerville. But, not satisfied with accomplishing successfullv their object, they also set fire to and burned the church edifice to the srround.
of the Federal

120

REV. JACOB R. HARDEXBERGH, D. D.

this outrage,

Colonel Simcoe, in the account he has given of

excuses the act, by saying that the church had been

made

a depot

of forage, and that a rifle-shot was fired

opposite side of the river.
sisted of

at the soldiers

from the

As

the only visible ''forage" con-

were used in bringing the was from a young man, who had been out shooting pigeons, and who seeing the dragoons engaged in setting fire to the boats, from a distance of two hundred yards, discharged his shot-gun to alarm them and
tackle that

some ropes and

boats from the Delaware, and the shot

then ran off to escape pursuit; Colonel Simcoe, in calling the

"a depot of forage," probably referred to the patriits pulpit by its ardent pastor, the friend of Washington, the representative of the people in Congress, the loyal citizen whose zeal for his country's freedom had caused a large reward to be-oftered for his apprehension.
old church
otic

sentiments dispensed from

I>

person Dr. Hardenbergh was slender, but his appearance

dignified.

was grave and

as one of the distinguished lights of his profession,

His contemporaries regarded him and honored

him by choosing him, on four different occasions, President of One of them has g the General Synod of the Reformed Church. placed on record the following testimony to his character
"His mind was
discrimination.

not only strong but distinguished by the power of nice

He was

thoroughly read in theology and possessed besides

a large stock of general learning for the times, and to crown the whole he

was distinguished for his piety. Wherever he went a blessing attended his labors. As might be expected from such endowments he maintained a Large confidence was reposed in him, and high standing in the ministry. He was elohis influence in the church seemed scarcely to have a limit. quent in the pulpit and impressed every one with his tone of devotional feeling. A minister beloved by all who knew him."

Dr. Hardenbergh gave early indications of pulmonary affecand finally fell a victim to the insidious disease, in the The closing scene of his life was a fifty-fifth year of his age. triumph of Divine grace. His last words were *T am going to
tion cast

my crown
go
to

before the thione.

Now

I shall
!"

go

to rest, for

I shall

be with the Lord.

Hosanna

New

services were held in the Old Dutch church at Brunswick, of which at the time of his decease he was Pastor, and the pulpit of which was heavily draped for the oc-

Memorial

HIS SEPULCHRE.
casion, with the insignia of

121

mourning.
the

The

discourse, subse-

quently published,

was delivered by

Rev. Peter Studdiford,

faithful

of Readington, N. J.,* who took for his text "Well done thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been
over a few things
:

I will

make
St.

thee ruler over

many

things

enter thou in-

to the joy of thy lord."

Matthew, 25:21.

He was

buried in the church yard near the rear of the pres-

ent church edifice, j

said to have been written

His tomb bears this inscription, which is by the Rev. John H. Livingston,
"Here
lies

D.

the

body

of

Jacob R. Hardenbergh, D. D., late pastor of this Church, who departed this
30th day of October, 1790, aged 52 years! months and

life

the

days.
and conversation
him, a bright example of

He was

a zealous preacher of the Gospel,

and

his life

afforded, from his earliest days, to all

real piety.

who knew

He was a steady patriot and in his public and private conduct he manifested himself to be the enemy of tyranny and oppression, the lover of freedom and the friend of his country. He has gone to his Lord and
Redeemer,
in

whose atonement he confidently

trusted.

He

is

gone

to relife.

ceive the fruits of his faithful labors and the reward of a well spent

Reader, while you lament the loss to society and his friends, go walk in his
virtuous footsteps, and
shall rest with

when you have

peace."

finished the

work assigned you, you

him

in eternal

The patriotic zeal of Dr. Hardenbergh, which Dr. Livingsdeemed worthy of record in monumental epitaph, is illustrated by the following incidents unknown to the writer until
ton
after the

foregoing pages were in print, but published several

b. in

New York city 1763. Graduated at Columbia College with Dr. Livingston, was ordained at Readington and Bedminster, 1787. Bedminster became a separate charge in 1800, and he continued to serve Readington until his death, Nov. 30, 1826; was a trustee of Rutgers college 17S8-1826, and appointed Prof, of Theology in 1812. He excelled as an extemporaneous preacher, transcending himself when suddenly called to make an address. His grandson, Rev. Peter Augustus Studdiford, preached the sermon at the ordination, at Bayonne, N. J., in 1865, of Rev. Theo. W. Welles, D. D., a great-grandson of Dr. Hardenbergh.
*Rev. Peter Studdiford,
1786, prepared for the ministry

tThis is what his tombstone says, but the funeral discourse to which reference has been made, speaks of his remains " entombed before us," and in a foot note explains the language by saying, " He was buried in front of the pulpit." The body, for some reason, may have been removed from its first resting place.

JAn

error.

Dr. Hardenbergh

was baptized Feb'y,

1736.

He

died Oct. 30, 1790, and

was

therefore in the fifty-fifth year of his age.

16

123

REV. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH,

D. D.

years ago in the Somerset Unionist, and preserved by

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, of High

danger.

Falls, Ulster Co.,

Mr. N. Y.*

"During the Revolutionary war Dr. Hardenbergh's life was in constant Foes lurked about him and with stealthy enmnity followed his Once while returning to his home in Somerville from a meetfootsteps. ing at Neshanic, he was fired at while passing through a dense woods, the
ball going

through his hat but fortunately missing his head.

On

another

was seized and a Tory, in disguise, who had ridden up to him professing friendship, aimed a pisWithout quailing he tol at his breast and ordered him to surrender. knocked the pistol high in the air and drawing his own pistol from its hiding place therewith confronted his would-be captor, and increased his astonishment and terror by taking from his saddle-bags three straps, one having a running noose in the end, into which he ordered his prisoner to slip both Drawing the noose, tightly with one hand while he held his pistol hands. cocked in the other, he made the strap secure to the trappings of the horse. With the other straps he fastened the Tory's legs under the horse. In this position he carried him off to camp, where he was recognized as one who had long been a spy upon the loyal men in the region about Somerville, and was afterwards treated as his traitorous conduct deserved."
occasion, while on his
to Millstone, his bridle

way

9, 1790,

last will and testament was executed Sept. proved March 10, 1791, and recorded in Liber 32, of Wills, in the office of the Prerogative Court, at Trenton, N. J. From this it appears that he was in affluent circumstances, possessing not less than forty thousand acres of land a portion of the Great or Hardenbergh patent, in Ulster and Sullivan counties, N. Y. In his will he makes mention of his wife, his children and his step-children by name. He married, Thursday, March 18, 17=56, Dina Van Bergh, widow of Rev. John Frelinghuy-

Dr. Hardenberg's

sen,

and had

Charles

a descendant of 'Jacob R. Hardenbergh (146), proprietor of the village smuhery Hardenbergh (24) and Catherine Smedes see page iot who had John C. Hardenbergh (140) who married Jane DeWitt, a cousin of DeVVitt Clinton, and had
; ; ;

Mary (143), b. Aug. 6, Charles (141), b. Sept. 17, 1783, d. y Jane (142), b. Feb'y 4, 17S5 Charles Smedus (144), b. Jan'y 22, 1789, m. Jane Wood who d. Ap'l 12, 1865 Cathe17S7 rine (145), b. Ap'l 28, 1798, m. John James Snyder and had Andrew J. Snyder, b. July 5,
; ;

A general mer1823, m. Catherine Snyder; resides at Snyders, near Rosendale, N. Y. chant and manufacturer of cement. Charles Smedus Hardenbergh (144) and Jane Wood, had Jacob R. Hardenbergh (146), b. June 9, 1817, m. Oct. 21, 1844, Anna Maria, b. Ap'l 13, 1826, d. Oct. 30, 1880, dau. of
James H. Elmendorf and Esther Sheeley, and had: }ohn C.
Sept. 27, 1851
;

(147), b.

May

17, 1846, d.

Jacob R.
;

(148), b.

Jan'y 29, 1853, d, Dec.

(150), b.

13, 1S56;
;

Andrew

(149), b.

Oct. 25'

Feb'y 2, 1859, a teacher Jennie E. (T51), b. Sept. James H. (152), b. June 19, 1865, m. Feb'y 23, 1893, Sarah, b. Oct. 27, 1S69, dau. 14, 1862 of Isaac Peloubet and Elizabeth Berry, and has, Grace (153)1 b Jan'y 17, 1S94.
1855, d, Dec. 6, 1856
; -

Emma R.

HIS CHILDREN.
29.

123
at Somerville, adjoining

Maria,

b.

July

25, 1757, d. prior

,

House

to 1790;

m.
Caty,

had
30.

Dina,

Jacob

and and

Hendrick.*
Laura,
sister
;

in 1778 William Wallace built what has since been known as the Washington

farm on which

b.

of

July 25, 1757 twin Maria, d. prior to

; ,

House
sue
:

or

Headquarters.

Is-

31.

1790 m. Caty and Jacob R. * Johannes, or John,

.

and had
at

Marie (130), m. Andrew Howell, of Somerville, a trus;\

tee of Rutgers College, 1823

b.
2,

Som-

Dina

(131), bp. July 2, 1780, d.

erville,
30,

N.

J.,

Ap'l

bp.

May
1798,

1826, m.

Benjamin Decamp

;$

1759,

d.

July

23,

"aged 39 years 3 months and 12 He is on record, June 15, 1784, as one of a committee "to build a house for the pubAlmighty God lic worship of at Somerset Court House," now
days."
Somerville, N.
in
J.

Frederick F. (132), b. Feb'y 5, 1788, d. Dec. 25, 1864; Joshua

W.

(133),

b.

Aug.
m.
or
bp.

5,

17S9, d.

Mai-. 26, 1863, n.

Elinor,

or Nela,
17,

Nelly,

b.

Dec.
1

1760,

Jan'y n,

761

m.

May

27, 1781,

Henry

Did much
for

collecting
;

funds

the

building

appears as a pew-

holder in the completed edifice,

but not
cants
;

in the list of

communiSomerset

was
;

sheriff of

H. Schenk, M. D., of Neshanic, N. J., b. Aug. 9, 1760. Issue Henry Schenk, b. Mar. 1, 17S2 Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh Schenk, M. D., b. Nov. b. 26, 1783; Maria Schenk,
:

County

a trustee of Rutgers

College from 1790 until death, and treasurer of the college,

Mar. 26, 1790; John Frelinghuysen Schenk, M. D., of Farmingdale, N. J., b. June
6,

1790-91
dau.
of

m.

Nancy

or

Ann,

1799, m. Oct.

9,

1850,
b.

Anna
17,

Joseph Wallace, b. May, 1758, d. Nov. 26, 1793, "aged 35 years and 6 months." This and former quotation contombstones
near
the
in

Maria Churchill,
1817, d.

Sept.

cerning her husband's age, are

from
plot

small

Descendants reside at Flemington, N. J., among whom are Nelly Hardenbergh Schenk and John F. Schenk, of the "Improved NatJune
7,

1865.

Hardenbergh

ural

Stone Filter Company,"

them his deceased daughters, and mentions the names of but after searching all records that might possibly reveal the names of their husbands, it has been so far impossible to identify them. Their memory among the living by the name of Hardenbergh has perished.
'Their father in his will calls
;

their children

Dr. Griffith

tMarie Hardenbergh (130) and Andrew Howell had Anna Maria, also sons whose descendants reside at Somerville.
;

b.

Mar.

22, 179S,

m.

and Benjamin DeCamp had John, bp. Dec. 11, 1803. m. 1, Van Dorn Nancy, m. Joel Kinsey, of Newark, N. J Andrew Howell, resided in Ohio Joshua Wallace, bp. May 21, 1808, m. Young William Hardenbergh, bp. July 21, 1811, m. Jane McColm, is living at Newark, N. J,, where his sons William H. and Benjamin also reside; Peter Messier, resided in Ohio; Eliza Wallace, n. m., bp. Mar. 10, 1816 Frederick F., m. Lavinia resided at Plainfield, N. J.; Samuel, d. jr., bp. Jan'y 1, 181S Gertrude F., bp. Jan'y 19, 1823.

JDina Hardenbergh
2,

(131)

Letty Stryker, m.

Catherine

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REV. JACOB
and editor
itor.

R.

HARDENBERGH,
Vis-

D. D.

of

The

Home

about to marry for the fourth

time, but her intended, Cornelius Cole,

Din a, bp.

Sept.

7,

1762, proba-

was drowned a few

bly died without issue previous

to 1790, as she is not

days previous to the time appointed for the marriage.

mentioned
bp.

in her father's will.

Jacob Ratsen,
ly,

Jacob Rutsen,

b.

Ap'l 27,

June

5,

1763, d. July 17, 1764.

b.

Rachel,

Nov. 29, 1765; d. Ap'l 26, 1845, buried at Milford,

June 19, bp. JuFeb'y 13, 1841 ; m. Oct. 26, 17S9, Mary Margaret, bp. Oct. 6, 1768, d. Feb'y
b.

17, 1767, d.

23,-

841
b.

dau.

of

Cornelius

Pa.

111.

1,

May
b.

8,

1786,
31,
-

Lowe and Catherine Hude.

37-

Evert C. "Wynkoop,
1760, d.

May

Lewis,

May

14, 1771, inherit-

June

20,

1807;

-1

ed

the homestead

at

Rosen-

Jan'y 15, 1S09, Elias Depuy,

b.

dale, N. Y., but

none

of his de-

June 14, 1763, d. May 1, 1829; m. 3, Ap'l 28, 1830, Simon Depuy. He died, and she was

name of Hardenbergh can be found in the

scendants by the
vicinity.

Dilia

Van Bergh,
10, 1725,

wife of Rev. Jacob R. Hardenbergh, D.

in

D., S. T. D.,

was born

Amsterdam,* Holland, Wednesday,

and died at New Brunswick, N. J., ThursShe was the daughter of Louis Van day, March 26, 1S07. Bergh, a merchant of Amsterdam, who had accumulated a large fortune in the East India trade, and resided at the time of He was a Dina's birth, in a house on the Prince Graaft. man of fashion and of pleasure, delighting in his wealth and devoting much of his time to the amusements of the day, a man of the world without any special regard for religion. He had but two children, both of whom were daughters, and one He died previous to 1760, and his of whom died in early life. widow came to America that her declining years might be passed in the enjoyment of the society of her only daughter. She resided with Dr. Hardenbergh, and died at his house at Her remains repose in the burying ground Somerville, N. J.

February

of the old Raritan church.

Dina Van Bergh, enjoying the advantages of her father's was instructed in the best schools of her native city, received a superior education and developed a refined literary The author has two of her manuscript poems, written taste.
wealth,
*Amsterdam, the commercial metropolis of Holland, built on the banks of the river Amstel, which divides the city into almost equal parts.

DIXA VAN BERGH HARDEXBERGH.

125

in a small, lady-like and beautiful hand; the one, dated 1 747, containing 3S stanzas, and entitled, ''The Prince of Orange

and Nassau," the other, dated March 8, 1748, containing 30 stanzas and addressed to the "Princess of Orange and Nassau manuscript is on the occasion of her giving birth to a son." spoken of "as containing poems which she composed after each of the visits which she received from her first husband before her marriage to him, with many others breathing out her religious affections and commemorating the various dealings of God with her soul." She became the subject of Divine grace in the sixteenth year ot her age, Feb'y 2, i74 2 an d was remarkable for her rapid attainments in godliness and faith. She felt that she had a work to do in the church of Christ and was entirely out of harmony with the worldly spirit of her home. On one occasion when compelled by her father to attend a dancing school, she hid behind the seats and resolutely refused to participate in the

exercise.

On another occasion when her father and some friends were playing cards for money, in the parlor, she walked into the room and solemnly warned them against the sin and danger
of gambling.

In the *Sage Library at

New

Brunswick, there

is

a folio vol-

ume

of sixty pages, written in Dutch and

known

as the

of Dina

Van Bergh," which

relates the operation of her

"Diary mind

under the Divine guidance, and furnishes evidence of her literarv taste and culture. In this diary she assisrns the bes;inninof the year 17471 when she was in her twenty-first year, "as the time when she decidedly and forever gave herself unto the

be his and to live for middle of the night, after twelve o'clock, when she had been engaged in prayer, that she felt her

Lord,

to his service
It

and

to his people, to

him

alone.

was

in the

heart

drawn

to Christ."

It

was

five

years after her conversion,

to

and of

this entire

and renewed consecration

God

she writes

and how I longed to have all that which was old in me taken away and to have more and more of that which was new wrought in me by the Holy Spirit, and how I rejoiced in the fullness of the provisions of his gracious Covesoul then knew,

"Oh how

sweet was the happiness which

my

nant."

The

diary abounds with passages breathing the most ardent

Christian love.

"She

adverts to the enjoyment which

she

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REV. JACOri R. HARDENfiERGH, D. D;

found
age,

in a little praying circle of young females of her owri and records many of the subjects which they were accustomed to make a matter of special intercession the church, the their interests of religion in her native land and in the world,

country at

war with France,

Orange and

the English chuixh at

Amsterdam,

the Prince of

the Princess.

She

also gives expres-

sion to the pleasure she experienced in the public worship of

God. Several individuals whose preaching she heard are named, but she styles Dominie Temmink her dear and heartloved father in the Gospel."

The
affairs.

diary also shows that she took a lively interest in public

When

Louis

XV

and Frederick the Great were pur-

suing their designs against Maria Theresa in the Netherlands, and when the French king continuing his cai-eer of success after

Fontenoy had subdued nearly

write
"It

all

Flanders, the barbarous

and vile treatment of the Hollanders by the French, caused her

to
:

stirs

me up

the

mote

to protest against

them

at the throne, to

im-

precate righteous vengeance on that Assyrian and oppressor."

But while she prayed that the Netherlands might be delivered from the French, the wickedness of the land constrained her to
say
:

"I could inwardly approve of it and justify God should he give us over to destruction and bring in upon our land that boar of the wood, I mean France, that enemy of the heritage of God."

When Zealand was threatened with an invasion by the French, over the frozen bays and rivers so numerous in the land, and so essential, with their flowing waters, for the land's defence, she prayed all day Sunday, and makes this entry in
her diary
:

was enabled to continue in filial supplications to God in might so be, a change might occur in the weather, and Oh! adorable goodness, there was on Tuesday as powerful and delightful Oh how humble was I thus rendered beforea thaw as was ever seen. my compassionate God, and what a lesson of confidence was I thereby Our enemies had boasted that they would do something with taught. which the whole of Europe would resound. Now I was led to say, 'Oh enemy, the daughter of Zion hath laughed thee to scorn and shaken her

"On Monday
if it

Christ that,

head

at thee.

For the Lord hath shaken the bars of our gates.'"

DINA VAN BERGH HARDENBERGH.

12 ]
1

dation,

At another time, when Zealand was threatened with an inunowing to a strong northerly wind, which had prevailed
Divine interposition, and
:

for several days, she supplicated the

records her gratitude by writing

"The Lord was pleased to moderate the calamity by giving us an east wind and that for days in succession connected with weather of a most delightful character."

She was

in the

constant habit of

making everything which

concerned her a matter of prayer, seeking guidance from God. The following incident related by herself is given as abridged

from her manuscript by Dr. Messier, of Somerville, N.

'

J.

to spend some time with a She felt at first indisposed to accept, hut afterward, thought that in answer to prayer she had received She went, but was soon prostrated an invitation that would result in good. with a severe illness which brought her very low and continued for several

"On

one occasion she received an invitation

Christian friend in the city of Rotterdam.

months.

Her

physician,

whom

she represents as an unbeliever in the doc-

was hopeless, and intimated that she ought to abandon the idea of life or of returning again to her friends, and prepare herself for death. But at night, when alone, she lifted up her heart to God, and thought she had an intimation she would leave her that on a certain day the sixteenth of September bed and become convalescent. She mentioned it to her intimate friend, and confidently trusted in God to bring it to pass. The day came, and although previous to that morning she had been so weak as to be unable to help herself from her bed to the sick-chair, she arose, and with a little assistance walked several times across the room, and was soon able to return The attendant physician had thought her death imto her father's house. minent and was so affected by her sudden restoration to health that it reand she always thought that this visit to her sulted in his conversion friend was divinely directed, that her miraculous healing might be the means of awakening the soul of the sceptical doctor."
trine of a special providence, told her at last that her case

Some
the Rev.

time during 1748 or 49, she became acquainted with John Frelinghuysen who was then studying theology

in the city of

a letter, dated

of the

Amsterdam, and whom she married in 1750. In Amsterdam, January 10, 1750, in the possession writer of these annals, she addresses Mr. Frelinghuysen
:

" Reverend Sir.

"My

betrothed and beloved friend."

This was. probably, a short time after their engagement, as speaking of her lover's work in the ministry she says
:

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REV. JACOB R. HARDENBERGH. D.

I

D.

"Might

be therein a help and support to you,

would regard

it

a dis-

tinguished privilege.

Higher

bliss I

do not know."

She then

refers to

God

as the arbiter of all destinies

and ex-

presses her entire submission to his will, saying:

"Behold the hand-maid

word."

of the .Lord, be

it

unto

me

according to thy

And

then, as an evidence of the direction in

which God

is

leading her, she makes the confession which every lover delights to hear

"I have found, during the last visit you made us, that the Lord has drawn you into closer bonds to me, and may he cause us to stand fast in
one mind."

This declaration of her growing attachment was, probably,

first rejected Mr. Freiinghuysen's had just completed his theological studies and after his rejection had said farewell, with the expectation of immediately starting for his home in America. But soon after setting out on his homeward voyage the vessel was disabled in a violent storm and compelled to return to port. After the lapse of a few days he surprised her by his sudden appearance and renewed his wooing. His absence, very prob-

occasioned by her having at

offer of

marriage.

He

ably, caused her to realize the

affections,

warm

place he occupied in her

in his

and as God by his providence had interposed

it

behalf and made

refusal,

necessary for her to reconsider her former

it

she regarded the storm as a Divine intimation that

marry her importunate suitThe engagement was or, and promised to become his bride. contrary to the wishes of her family, and was strenuously opposed. In a letter, dated Amsterdam, Jan'y 31, 1750, in possession of the writer of these annals, she tells Mr. Frelinghuysen of a communication, received from the Rev. Father Schuylerborg, so bitter in its tone and severe in its censure of her
the Lord's will that she should

was

purpose, that
"If caused

it

occasioned not only surprise but the greatest

:

agitation of mind, and then says

it

me

were possible for anything to change my mind, but it is

to please

to

do

so,

it

would certainly have

still

the same.

As

did not enter

upon
until

this

way

my

friends, but to

do the

will of

God, /

am yours

we

are parted

by death."
to set apart. the

She then asks Mr. Frelinghuysen

of February as a day for prayer to

second day

God

that in all things they

DINA VAX BERGH IIARDEXBEKGH.

20,

may

be enabled

to

do his will

as

that

day

is

the eighth anniits

versary of her conversion, and she will occupy

prayer.

hours in

The Rev. John Frelinghuysen

to

whom

these

letters

were

He was the addressed was born in 1727 and died in 1754. second son of the Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen* and
Co., X.

Eva Terhune, daughter of Albert Terhune of Flatbush, Kings Y. While pursuing his theological studies in HolChurches
in

land his father died and he received an invitation from the

Somerset Co., X.

J., to return

and occupy

his

father's place.

He

accepted the invitation, married Dina

Van

Bergh, and.

after a

long and tedious passage, arrived with his

During the voyage a and caused the greatest dismav among those on board. To add to their terror, the vessel sprung a leak and the pumps were unable to keep The Captain abandoned all hope of the water from gaining. saving the vessel, and so informed trie passengers and crew. In the midst of the confusion, Dinah Van Bergh sat in a chair that was lashed to one of the masts of the vessel, submitted the case to her Heavenly Father, and having full confidence in the efficacy of her prayer, awaited with composure the issue. She
bride at Raritan, in
1750.
violent storm arose, tossed the vessel with fury

midsummer

did not wait long, for almost immediately the waters ceased

rushing into the hold, the

ship

was

saved.

pumps again did their work the Upon an examination being made, it was
;

found that a sword

fish

was wedged

in the

open seam of the

aL times spelled Frelinghausen, Frelinghaus born in West Freisland, 1691; licensed to preach at Embden, Holland, 1717. Came to America, 1720, and was pastor of the Reformed Church at Raritan, New Brunswick, Six Mile Run, Three Mile Run and North Branch, N. J. until his death about 1748. He married about 1722, Eva, dau. Albert Turhune of Flatbush, Kings Co., N. Y., and had Theodorus, bp. May 26, 1723, ordained by Classis of Amsterdam, 1745, pastor at Albany, N. V. 1745-59; accidently drowned when returning from Holland while the vessel was lying off Sandy Hook, 1761 m. Elizabeth Symes, dau. Lancaster Sym;s and Mrs. May Lydius, by whom he had two daughters both of whom died in infancy. John, b. 1727, ordained by Classis of Amsterdam, 1749; d. Sept. 5, 1754: m. ab't 1750 Dina Van Bergh of Amsterdam. Jacobus, ordained by Classis of Amsterdam, July 3, 1752, d. 1753, while returning to America. Ferdinandus, ordained by Classis of Amsterdam, July 3, 1752, d. 1753, while returning to America. Henricus, licensed by the American Classis, 1754, pastor at Warwarsing, Rochester and Marbletown, N. V., 1654-57, when he died. Margaret, b. Nov. 12, 1737, d. Dec. 23, 1757, m. June 29, 1756, Rev. Thomas Romeyn b. Mar. 2^9, 1729, d. Oct. 22, 1794. Issue Rev. Theodore F. Romeyn, b. Nov. 28. 1757, d. Sept. 1785. Anna b., 1738, d. May 3, 1810, m. Rev. William Jackson, b. 1732, d. 1813, pastor at Bergen, N. J. 17

*Rev. Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen

was

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REV. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH, The
the
It

D. D.

vessel, effectually stopping the leak.

this occasion,

was aiterwards named

life.

chair she used on Ebenezer chair and

was used by her throughout her

and
at

passed into the pos-

session of her grandson, Cornelius L. Hardenbergh,

his

LL. D.,

death was taken possession of by his widow, his

fourth wife

years past,

by whom he had no children and of we have no knowledge.

whom for several

Immediately after their arrival in this country Mr. Frelinghuysen built a commodious house at Somerville, "with bricks, which had been sent over with him from Holland," which is still standing, somewhat modernized in external appearance, in
the westerly portion of the village,

south of the railroad.

It

was

the residence for a quarter of a century after Frelinghuy-

sen's death, of Dr.

Hardenbergh, and from 17S1

to

1798 of

John Hardenbergh, the doctor's eldest son. It is known, both as Mr. Frelingthe Frelinghuvsen, and the Hardenbergh house.

huysen entered with ardor upon the work of the ministry, labored with great acceptance to the people and gained distinction for The future was bright with fairest his pulpit eloquence. promise of a useful life, when he suddenly died at the house of his grand-parents on Long Island, Sept. 15, 1 754-5 leaving his widow with two small children, Frederick and Eva.*
*Eva Frelinghuyson, b. Sept. 5, 1754, m. Casper Van Nostrand of Ulster Co., N. V. Frederick Frelinghuysen, b. April 13, 1753, d. 1804, m. ab't 1775, Gertrude Schenck; m. 2,

Ann

Yard.

He was

member

of the Provincial

Congress 1775, of the Convention of

New

Jersey, 1776, of the Continental Congress, 1778-82-83, of the United States Senate, 1793-96. captain and colonel he took part in engagements at Trenton and Monmouth, N. J., dur-

was appointed Major General by President Washington in 1791 during the Whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania. All the Frelinghuysen's of America are his descendants. His children were: John, b. March 21, 1776, d. 1833, m. 1, 1797, Louisa Mercer; m. 2, Elizabeth Mercereau Van Vechten, by whom he had Louisa, who m. Ap'l 27, 1841, Rev, Talbot W. Chambers D. D. LL. D., pastor Collegiate Reformed Church, New York. Maria, b. Mar. 12, 177S, d. Ap'l 13, 1832, m. Ap'l 20, 1798, Rev. John Cornell, b. 1774, d. 1835, from whom, Rev. Frederick F. Cornell, D. D.,b. Nov. 16, 1804, Theodore, d. Aug. 7, 1875, and Rev. James A. H. Cornell, D. D. b.Aug. 29, 1S1S, d.
ing the Revolution and
, ,
.

Mar. 28, 1787, d. Ap'l 12, 1S62, m. 1, 1809, Charlotte Mercer, m. 2, 1857, Harriet Pompelly, no issue. Was Attorney General of New Jersey, 1817-29, United States Senator, 1829-35, Mayor of Newark, N. J. Chancellor of the University of the City of New York, 1S39-50, President of Rutgers College, N. J., 1850-62, Whig candidate for Vice-President of the United States, Henry Clay heading the ticket 1S44. Frederick,\>. 1788, m. Aug. 4, 1812, Jane Dumont, and had Frederick, LL. D., b. Aug. 4, 1817, d. May 20, 1S85, m. 1839, MaWas Attorney General of New Jersey, 1861 and 1866, United States tilda E. Griswold. Senator, 1867-77, Delegate to Peace Convention at Washington, 1861, was offered the position of Minister to England by President Grant but declined to serve, was member of the Electoral Commission 1S76, and Secretary of State in President Arthur's Cabinet, Catherine, m. Rev. Gideon N. Judd. Sarah, d. ab't 18 years of age. Elizabeth 1881-85. Yard, m. Dr. James Elmendorf.

LL. D.,

b.

>L\A

VAN BERGH HARDENBERGH.

affliction,

Dina Van Berg was on the point preparations were all made and the day appointed to leave Raritan for the purpose of embarking at New Yoi'k, when Jacob R. Hardenbergh. who had been studying theology with her deceased husband, surprised her bv an offer of marriage. He had contemplated so doing for some weeks and had consulted with some of the officers of the church but on account of the yet so recent in regard to its propriety death of her husband, only brought himself to the point of making an avowal of his feelings when it could be no longer postponed. She is said to have received this expression of the young man's desire with an exclamation of surprise, Mv child What are you thinking about?" and continued her preparations for her homeward journey. A storm prevented her from reaching the vessel on which she expected to embark for Holland. Young Hardenberg regarded the delay as a Divine interposition in his behalf, renewed his wooing and won his preceptoi-'s widow for his bride. They were married soon after and she went to reside with his father at Rosendale, N. Y., until he had finished his theological course and received license
After this trying
of returning to Holland.

The

* ;

to

preach the Gospel.

During he.r husband's long pastorate over the churches of Somerset county, she became known throughout the surrounding region, and, under the familiar name of the Jaffro-w Hardenbergh, gained a reputation for intelligence and piety and consecration to God, which distinguishes her as "one of the most remarkable women of the century." In the interval between the services on the Sabbath, she seldom failed to improve
the time for religious conversation, and, with marvellous

reenforced her husband's teaching from the pulpit.

power, She was

occurrences of

eminently devotional, and habitually made the most ordinary life, an occasion of prayer and pious discourse.
w

She regarded convictions wrought upon the mind in praver as revelations of the Holy Spirit. In the fields, every tree and shrub and flower afforded an emblem of some gospel truth. In the spring, the first flowers were hailed with delight, and in the summer, she seldom sat down with her needle without having first gathered and placed before her a vase of flowers, and then
'

1^2

REV. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH.

"D.

D.

she would gaze upon them, drink in their fragrance, spiritualize their beauties,

and seem

to

be

filled

with an endless and

tints

and their aroma." walk and conversation abounded in evidences that to her the interests of religion were paramount to every duty and pleasure and experience. She seemed to live so near to God that she was regarded by the pious as a safe counsellor in their various trials, and was sought by both the weak and strong for direction and advice. It is said that the Rev. Dr. Condict* who succeeded her husband in the pastorate of the church at New Brunswick, " seldom entered the pulpit on Sabbath morning without pausing for a moment at her pew, to listen to a word of encouragement or comfort which she was sure to have
boundless admiration of their forms, their

Her

daily

in store for

him."

After her husband's death she was exceedingly anxious that

the Rev. John

H. Livingston, D. D..j of

the Collegiate

Church

of

New York city, should succeed to the Presidency of the college at New Brunswick. To induce him so to do, she addressed
him
in a

long letter which clearly reveals her powers of per-

suasion.

The

letter

begins

"Most Reverend Sir," "and worthy Brother

Zion's King."

in

our blessed and all-worthy Lord Jesus,

"Constrained by a sense of duty and by love to our Dutch Zion, I take the liberty to send your Reverence a few lines and once more to commend to you our College and Church."
-Rev. Ira Condict, D. D. son of Daniel Condict and Ruth Harrison, b. at Orange, N, Feb'y 21, 1764, d. June 1, 1811. Graduated at Princeton College, 1784; studied theology with Rev. John Woodhul, D. D., at Freerlbld, N. J.; licensed by Presbytery of New Brunswick, 17S6 settled at Newton, Hardvvick and Shappenack, N. J; at New Brunswick, 1793 Vice President of Queen's College, 1808 until death. His monument is inscribed, '" Pious and learned, prudent and zealous, successful in his ministry and greatly
,

J.,

beloved."

tRev. John H. Livingston, D. D., S. T. D., son of Henry Livingston and Sarah ConkPoughksepsie, N. Y., May 30, 1746, d. at New Brunswick, N. J., Jan'y 20, 1825, Graduated at Yale college, 1762 University of Utrecht, Holland, 1769 licensed same year June 5, by Classis of Amsterdam, Holland D. D. University of Utrecht, 1770; Pastor Reformed Church, New York city, 1770-1810; Professor of Theology, 1784-1825; President of Queens college 1810-1825. From the beginning of his course he was a dislin, b. at
; ; ;

man and an honor to the Reformed Church. Without any human appointment, he was the acknowledged and cheerfully accorded Bishop of the denomination, and contributed largely, through his abundant labors and pacific disposition, towards the unification of the Reformed Churches and the establishment of the denomination in America.
tinguished

DINA VAN BERGH HARDEXBERGH.

133

She believed and

leave

felt

that

New York
:

for

New

it was Dr. Livingston's duty to Brunswick, and after telling him so,

wrote
"I

fear that

you perhaps are not obedient to the voice of the Lord as

people."

sounding forth

in the voice of the

tures to strengthen any inclination he

She then furnished him with numerous texts from the Scripmight have towards the open door set before him at New Brunswick, and remarks
:

"I have heard your Reverence say to ray now departed husband that you regarded the college as the fountain of our Church why then be engaged by the streams and let the fountain dry up? The Holy Ghost has
:

made you

overseer of that part of his house.

Oh! that

like another Zerub-

babel you might be encouraged."

She

also ventures the information, in fear

:

it

may have

es-

caped the Dr.'s mind

"Large
for

cities are often

very dangerous

God

is

certainly your delight

is

and your happiness.

* To labor The Lord enable

you to discover what

His holy

will."

After having finished her argument, she makes the following

appeal to that which

is

most precious

to the Christian,

saying

"Now
mind

worthy

Sir, I

Reverence speedily
in relation to

let

have a single request to make to you. Will your me know whether you have perfect peace in your

your residing in

New York?"

She closes the long epistle by expressing her hearty love for Mrs. Livingston and the hope that the Lord would sustain her
ladyship in her infirmities.

And

then with ceremonious salu-

tations she subscribes herself:

"Most Reverend

Sir your Reverence's

hand-maid and loving friend

in

our Lord Jesus Christ.

"Dina Harbenbergij, "by birth Van Bergi-i."

It is a
it

letter

of marvellous power, but written by a

woman,
It is

of course has a postscript

this letter excepting

"P. S. No one knows of between the Lord and us."

one female friend.

The following tributes to the memory of Dina Van Bergh Hnrdenbergh are recorded as we find them. Andrew D. Mellick, author of the Story of an Old Farm, from which we
have freely quoted, says
:

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llEV

JACOR

R.

HARDENBERGH,

D.

D.

" Her marked characteristic was the rounded harmony existing between
the religious and worldly parts.
all

The

spiritual

and material blended, and

temporal relations were

in

perfect adjustment with external condi-

tions.

in

complete correspondence with

ers of

Hers was a nature that always and under every circumstance was its spiritual environment, and while oththe brightest faith were often attacked by misgivings, her belief was
hills,

ever as steadfast as the everlasting

enabling her at

all

times to say
art

with the Psalmist, 'For thou art

my hope

oh Lord God, Thou

my

trust

from

my

youth.' "

The Rev. Abraham

tury her husband

Messier, D. D.,* for

many

years pastor

of the old Church at Raritan

parishioners could
left

of which

for a quarter of a cen-

was pastor and at a time when the older remember the Jaffrow Hardenbergh has

on record

this

memorial
in her

"She was eminent

wise in spiritual things.
Jesus.

knowledge

of experimental

Godliness and
feet of

Like Mary, she delighted

to sit at the

Like Hannah, she devoted all that she had to the Lord. Like Harriet Newell, she forsook her home, her native land, the refinements of polished society, the pleasures of literary culture, the fellowship of her Church and her Christian companions, and the instruction and care of her heart loved, spiritual father, and went forth as a missionary, the wife of a missionary, into a distant, uncultivated, almost uncivilized land, never again to see the features of those she loved or to feast her eyes with the beauty of those pleasant faces upon which her heart dwelt with unmingled
rapture, or to
of parental love.
!

commune with familiar friends or repose under the shelter Noble resolution that could attempt so Noble woman much Noble piety that could make such sacrifices for the love of souls Nor did she, when they were made, repine in secret at the experience of Her courage never forsook her. Her confidence in the painful reality. God never failed; nor did she, in her exile, ever "cast one longing, linger!
!

ing look behind.

She lived for the cause she had chosen, and died

in the

land of her adoption."

After the decease of her husband, Mrs. Hardenbergh made the house of her youngest son, at Rosendale, her home for a short time, but subsequently resided with her son John in the old homestead at Somerville, probably until his death in 179S.
*Rev. Abraham Messier, D. D., b. at Whitehouse, N. J., Nov. 15, 1800, d. 1882. GradMissionary uated at Union college, 1821, Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, 1S24 pastor in various places until 1829, when he assumed the pastorate of the Reformed Church at Pompton Plains, N. J., and in 1832 of the First Reformed Church of Raritan, N. J.,
;

where he continued in the active duties of the ministry until 1880. He received the degree of D. D. from Rutgers College in 1845, and was a trustee of the college from 1845 to 1882. He was a sound Evangelical preacher, and efficient pastor, a faithful servant of the Lord.

DINA VAX BERGH HAEDENBERGH.

35

Her name during

cants and
first

this

period appears in the

list

of

communi-

pew

holders of the church at Somerville.

When

coming to America she united with the church at ReadingDina Van Bergh, now ton where we find the record, " 1 75
1

Frelinghuvsen.

were passed

at

By attestation." The last years of her life New Brunswick, with her son Jacob R. Here
was buried by
:

she died in 1S07, and

the side of her husband

in the churchyard of the First Reformed Church.

Her monu-

ment bears the inscription

"This monument
lict
is

erected to the

memory

of
S.

of the Rev.

Jacob R. Hardenbergh, D. D.,

Dina Hardenbergh, reT. P. Of high attain-

ments here

in grace,

now

resting in Glory.

"Tell how she climbed the everlasting hills, Surveying all the realms above, Born on a strong-winged faith, and on The firev wheels of an immortal love."

Hon. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh.

Hox. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (36) son of Rev. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, D. D. and Dina Van Bergh, was born at Somerville, Somerset Co., Tuesday, Jarfy 19. 1767. and died at New Brunswick, Middlesex Co., N. J., Saturday, Feb'y 13,
,

1841.

He was

the

first in

the ancestral line

who

could talk the

English language as fluently as the Holland. The change from Dutch to English preaching divided the Reformed churches and
created

much discord during the years

last

of his youth and early man-

hood, his father being the

pastor of the church at

New

Brunswick who preached

in

Dutch.

He

graduated from Rut-

gers College in 178S, received the degree of A.

M.

1J91, about

which time he became an attorney and counsellor at law and commenced practicing at New Brunswick, N. J. He was president for many years of the Bank of New Brunswick which was chartered in 1807 and occupied the large brick building with double entrance, where he also resided, on the corner of George and Patterson streets and which He in 1S93 was leased by the Government for a Post Office. also resided at Spottswood, N. J., and was influential in the establishment of the Reformed Church there in 1821, but returned to New Brunswick and dwelt on George street near the College Campus and later in life on Albairy street where he died. He was a ruling Elder of the First Reformed Church into the communion of which he was received Nov. 9, 1S14, a trustee of Rutgers College from 1792 until his death and secretarv of the Board of Trustees from 1795 to 1S00.

He owned extensive powder mills, known Works, near Spottswood, Middlesex Co.. N.
for the

as the Bloomriekl
J.,

and also mills

mills

manufacture of hard-wood veneering.

The powder

were blown up several times and the

loss of a large raft of

ma-

HIS

ZEAL FOR THE COLLEGE.

137

hogany timber, while being- towed up the Raritan river in a heavy storm, greatly crippled his finances. His father bequeathed him a large tract of land in the Great or Hardenbergh patent, but it was occupied by squatters, who at one time, when he sought to collect the rent, made a forceable reHe died insistance and drove him off, endangering his life. testate and his heirs through ignorance of their legal rights or it may be through negligence never derived any benefit from About 1S55 some of his the Hardenbergh-patent lands. grand-children collated evidence of title, clear and indisputable and even acknowledged in decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, but peaceable adverse possession for over sixty years was an effectual bar to any legal proceedings.
Mr. Hardenbergh was frequently a delegate to Synod of the Reformed Church and served on
portant committees.
the General
its

most imis

His

visit in this

capacity to the church at thus

Bergen. X.
described
:

|., in

1S23 to raise funds for a professorship

"Dr. Ludlow preached. The people heard. The request was announced for the entire congregation to remain after the benediction should They complied. The people were called upon have been pronounced. For some little time all was silence. to express their views on the subject. Presently, an aged man broke the silence by putting the question direct, 'Will the Committee of the General Synod please to tell us exactly what Quickly, that noble hearted man they want from this congregation?' who started the projeet, Mr. Hardenbergh, arose and bowing reverently to 'I thank that father in the aged inquirer, Mr. Richard Cadmus, replied We want a subscripthis Israel for that plain question, I will answer it. tion lor the professorship from this congregation before we leave this house for one thousand dollars.' The keynote was struck. An answer 'Put my name down for two hundred and fifty dollars,' was followed. the word from a liberal heart, and sixteen others immediately pledged themselves in writing for the remaining seven hundred and fifty dollars. With this encouragement the committee went onward and in a comparatively few congregations secured twenty-five thousand dollars."
:

Air.

Hardenbergh was

member

of the

Synod of 1825, whose

action revived the drooping condition of the college at

New

Brunswick, and substituted for the name of Queens, as it recalled the vassalage from which the nation had been delivered,
the
'

name
IS

of

Rutgers which

it still

bears

and was appointed

I3S

HOX. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH.

with Rev. Selah S. Woodhull. D. D. and Rev. Philip Milledoler, D. D., S. T. P., to inform Col. Henry Rutgers that: "The General Synod, as a mark of their respect for his character, and in gratitude for his numerous services rendered the Reformed Dutch Church, have resolved to connect his name with the college located in

New

Brunswick and that the same be called Rutgers College."

He was

deeply interested in

all that

pertained to the welfare

its

of the college and labored diligently to increase

financial re-

sources and extend

the

its

influence.

The

result of his toil

is

and

labor of others having the same aim,

the Rtttgers of

to-day, unexcelled for efficienc}' and practical educational equip-

ment by any

institution of learning in the land.*

He saw

the

seed he had sown, growing- luxuriantly and giving promise of

an abundant harvest, but died before the rejoicings of the reapers were heard, aged seventy-three years, eight months and
three days.
life

He was the only one of his father's sons whose was prolonged beyond middle age. His elder brother, Tohn (31). died in the fortieth year of his age, his younger brother, Lewis (37),! was killed a short time after reaching
*The
identification of the
its

Hardenbergh family with Rutgers College for the first cenworthy of note. Col. Joannes Hardenbergh (14), Trustee from 1770 to 1786 Rev. Jacob R. Hardenbergh D. D., (25). Trustee from 1 770 to 1790, Secretary from 1770 101782, President from 1782 to 1790; John Hardenbergh, Esq. (31), Trustee from 1790 to 1798, and Treasurer of the Board from 1790 to 1791 Hon. Jacob R. Hardenbergh (-36), Trustee from 1792 to 1841 and Secretary from 1793 to 1800; Hon. Cornelius L. Hardenburgh, LL. D. (39), Prof, of Law from 1821 to 1825, Trustee from 1815 to iS5o and Secretary from 1821 to 1825 Hon. James R. Hardenbergh (49), Secretary from 1S33 to 1835; Theodore F. Hardenbergh, M. D. (48), Secretary from 1S35 to 1844; John P. Hardenbergh (56), Secretary from 1844 to 1S49; Warren Hardenbergh (51), Secretary from 1849 to 1859. To these descendants of Col. Joannes Hardenbergh we can add Rev. Charles Hardenberg, Trustee from 1812 to 1821, a descendant of Abraham Hardenbergh (16); Rev. Jacob Brodhead, D. D., Trustee from 1812 to 1S45, and his son, John Romeyn Brodhead, LL.D., Trustee from 1853 to 3875; the former a son of Charles W. Brodhead and Sarah Hardenbergh, dau. of Abraham Hardenbergh Rev. James B. Hardenbergh, D. D. Trustee from 1825 to 1S70, the centennial year (16) of the college, a descendant of Gerardus Hardenbergh (10) Andrew Howell who married Marie Hardenbergh, daughter of Johannes Hardenbergh (31).
tury of
existence
is
; ; ;

tLewis Hardenbergh (37) page 124 was killed in 1791 or '92. He married Maritie Hardenbergh) b. Aug. 24, 1771, granddaughter of Abraham Hardenburgh (16) and Maritje Roosa, and daughter of Johannes Hardenbergh and Rachel DuBois. She afterwards married Abraham Jansen. The only issne of Lewis Hardenbergh (37), and Maritje his wife, was Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (160), b. at Rdsendale, N. V., Feb'y 3, 1791, d. Dec. 23, 1858; m. i by Rev. Abraham D. Wilson, Ap'l 3. 1822, Rachel, b. at Shawangunk, Ulster County, N. Y., Jan'y 31, 179S, d. Dec. 14, 1833, dau. of Matthew Jansen and Rachel Harby whom he had five daughters and one son, names denbergh; m. 2, Louis Van De unknown. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (160) and Rachel Jansen had Bergh (161), b. Jan'y 26, 1S23, d. ab't 1S90, n. m., merchant, a partner in carpet warehouse
, :

HIS CHILDREN.
maturity, by falling from a horse while acting as marshal His sister Rachel (35), the Fourth of July celebration.

39

at a
last

living representative of his father's family, died in 1S45, one

day previous to the eighty-second anniversary of her birth. He was buried near the tombs of his father and mother in the yard of the First Reformed Church of Xew Brunswick, where
the tablet erected over his grave bears the inscription
In
:.

Memory
R.,

of

Jacob

Son of the Rev. Dr. Hardenbergh. He was born 19 June 1768 and died 13 Feb'y 1841.! A father tender and affectionate, a citizen, public spirited, generous and benevolent. A patron of science and a friend of religion. This tablet is a feeble memento to his worth which will long be held in grateful remembrance.

He

died in the Christian hope and

in thy mercy,

we

trust has received the

Christian's reward.

"I have trusted

my

heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.'

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (36), married October

26, 17S9,

Mary Margaret Lowe, and had

39.

Cornelius Low,
d.

b.
;

July
1,

4,

1790,
19,

Mary,
8,

b.

July

14,

i860

m.

Ap'l

1S56, dau. of

July 23, 1794; d. July John Pool and

1S13, Catharine, dau. of James Richmond and Sarah Wieser

Mary Voorhies.
41.

Catharine Low,
d.

b.
; -

Aug.
n
-

4,
-

1794,
>

m.

2,

Aug.

dau. of
lia

Helen Mary, John Crooke and Corne24, 1820,

;

Livingston

m.

3,

Feb'y

15,

1826,

John G. Warren and Ann Kearney m.

dau.
of
;

Mary,

was two generations, one of the kindest, noblest and best of women, endeared to all
6,

May

1873

Aunt Kitty

to

who knew
42.

her.
21, 1795
;

4,

Jan'y

12,

1S54, Marcella V.,

John,
26,

b.

Dec.

d.

Oct.
of

dau. of William V.

Graves and

1796,

from the

effects

Marcella his wife.

40.

swallowing a pin.
43.

Jacob Rutsen, b. Oct. 13, 1792, d. Aug. 3, 1S29; m. May 17, 1S15,
,

Dinah Maria, d. March II,

;

b.

July

14,

1797

1822.

Her tomb-

of

1824, d.

Hardenbergh and Co., Brooklyn, N. Y. where he resided Matthew, (162), b. Ap'l 24, Feb'y 22, 1894. m. at New Orleans, La., Dec. 15, 1S61, Anna M. Latham, no issue merchant, a partner with Hardenbergh and Co., Brooklyn, N. Y., where he reMartin Stanley (164). b. sided Cornelius Abraham Jansen (163), b. Jan'y 31. 1S26, n. m. ". Abraham Jansen (165), b. Dec. 17, 1830, m. Mary Carson, and had, 1828, n. m. 5
;
; 1
> ,

Abraham Jansen, Jr. (166); Thomas Nicholas Abraham Jansen (165), died in childhood.
tDate of birth
is

(167), b.

Dec.

17, 1830,

twin brother of

wrong.

He was

baptized in 1767.

140
stone

HON*. JACOI? R.
bears
in

HARDEXBERGH.
9,

the

inscription

1S05
1,

d.

June

3,

1S46

in.

"Gentle

her disposition and

in

Sept.

1829, Emeline, d.

Oct.

amiable in her deportment;

large
circle

the death of this young lady, a

of

relatives

and
to

47.

12, 1845, dan. of James Morgan and Ann Van Wickle. Joanna, b. June 26, 1S06 d.
;

friends

have

been

called

Jan'y
Sept.

44.

mourn her early loss." James Hude, b. Jan'y

m.' Jan'y
6,

1878; m. April 20, 1831. Rev. Ransford Welles, D. D., b.

9,
6,

19,

1S00;

1805

d.

March

4,

1889,

1821,
in

Eliza
early

Knight.

Died

Mcman4S.
J.

son of Elijah Welles and

Mary
Mar.
;

Allaben.

hood, without issue we' believe.

Is 45.

Theodore Frelinghuysen,
10,

b.

buried at Spotswood, N.
b.

1808;

d.

Lewis Dunham,
d.

Nov.

17, 1S03,

graduated
1828,

Ap'l2o, 1877, n. m. at Rutgers College

Dec.
1S03,

8,

1S57; m.

Oct. 29,
b.

medical college of
1834, Secretary of
of

New
of

1S37, Ellen
4,

Jan'y dau. of Jacques Vor-

Van Dora,

York

Board

Trustees
1835-44,

Rutgers

College
in
for

hees and Dinah Stryker, who were m. March II, 1788.

46.

"New

House Physician York City Infirmary"

Frederick Frelinghuysen,

b.

June

over twenty years.

Additional data concerning the children of Jacob Rutsen

Hardenbergh and Mary Margaret Lowe.

1. Cornelius L. Hardenbergh, LL. D. -(39), graduated from Rutgers College in 1S09, received the degree of A. M. in 1S12, about which time he commenced the practice of law at New Brunswick, N. J., where throughout his life he resided,

the greater part of the time on a farm in the suburbs of the

as the College farm, and is employed and development of agriculture by the State College of New Jersey, organized in 1864 by the Legislature of He attained a the State as a department of Rutgers College. high degree of eminence in his profession and in 1821 was elected Professor of Law in Rutgers College, occupying the In after years the Hon. Jonathan Dixon, position until 1825. LL. D., justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, was a Mr. Hardenstudent in his law office at New Brunswick. bergh was also Mayor of the city of New Brunswick, a member of the Assembly of New Jersey, and President of the Bank From 1S15 to 1S60 he was a trustee of of New Brunswick.
city,

which

is

now known

for the illustration

HIS CHILDREN".

I4I

Rutgers College, and from 1S21 to 1S25 Secretary of the Board. He was an elder of the First Reformed church of his native city and a frequent delegate to the General Synod. He was stricken with blindness about 1S50 and his brilliant prospects of high political preferment thereby destroyed. He received the degree of LL. D. from Rutgers College in 18^2.

He was the father of six children a son by each of his first two wives, Catherine Richmond and Ellen Mary Crooke, three sons and a daughter by his third wife, Mary Warren. His children were
:

49.

James

Richmond,
30,

b.

1S14,

d.

Oct.

17,

1S53,

Cornelia
dau.

Van

May
1S36;
1815,

18S5

m.
b.

Nov. Nov.
J., b.

23,
11,

Rensselaer,

b. Oct. 17, 1S33, d.

Eliza
dau.

R.,

Dec.

21,

1S67,

Anthony

Samuel Brush,
Aug.

of

New
19,

Brunswick, N.
d.

Mar.

1775,
8,

7,

1825; m.

Sarah Johnson ; m. 2, Nov. 22, 1871, Catherine M., b. Nov. 22, 1844, dau. Geo.

Rutgers and

.Mar.

1798,

Elizabeth Rich3,

mond,
12,

b.

Dec.

1777, d. Aug.

Ashton and Plelen Bradley. Augustus A., b. May 18, 1S30,

d.

1S60. James Richmond Hardenbergh was divorced from Eliza R. Brush because of her hopeless insanity, and m. 2, Mrs. Maria Hastings.
50.

Oct.

5,

18S9

m. Nov.
b.

24,
16,

1S59,
1S39,

Catherine,
dau.

Aug.

53-

Jacob Van Home and Harriet Outwater. Nancy, b. 1S32, d. 1852, n. m.

Cornelius Low,
b.

Jacob Rutsen,
d.

b.

July
;

11,

1S24,
7,

54.

July 29, 1834,

Jan'y 25, 1S92

Oct.

m. Nov.
1856,

m. Ap'l
fiekl,
b.

16,'

1S73, Isabella

DufRev.

1850, Catherine Sarah, b. Mar.

21, 1825, d.
7,

ab't 1838, dau.

dau.

51.

John Van Dyck and Martha Beekman. Warren, b. April 23, 1827, m. 1,

Alexander McClelland, D. D., and Mary Ann, dau. of Charles

Dickinson, of the city of

New
1S16.

York,

whom he m.

Aug.

6,

^2.

chant
55.

at

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergll (40), commission merNew Brunswick, N. J. Married Mary Pool and had
:

Mary Louisa,
liamson.

b.

Ap'l 24, 1S16,

56.

John

Pool,

b.
9,

Sept.

19,

1S24

m. Ap'l 22, 1S40. James A. Wil-

m. March
za Eddy.

1843, Frances Eli-

3. Lewis Dunham Hardenbergh (45), studied law with George Wood, Esq.. and was admitted to the Bar of New Jer-

sey as an attorney

in

1S25. and as counsellor in 1S2S.

He

shortly thereafter settled at Utica,

X. Y., and commenced the

I42

HON. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH.

practice of his profession.

subsequently Governor of

New

While so doing, Horatio Seymour, York, and the leader of the

Democratic party of the State during the Southern Rebellion, in his law office. Unable to endure the rigors of the climate, he returned to New Jersey and settled in Hackensack, becoming Prosecutor of Pieas for Bergen County in 1S36, and then removing to Jersey City, was appointed Prosecutor of the Pleas for Hudson County. in 1840, and so continued for five years. His health not being good, he relinquished the practice of law, and was Secretary of the "Hudson County Mutual Insurance Company" until his death. He was one of the first deacons of the Third Reformed, or Park avenue Reformed church of Jersey city. A man noted for his strict conThe issue of Lewis scientiousness and unbending integrity. D. Hardenbergh and Ellen Van Dorn Voorhies, nis wife, were

was a student

57-

Jacques Voorhies,
1S2S, d.

b.

Sept.

10,

61.

Abraham
835 phia
J
;

ab't 1870;

m. Feb'y,
of Bel-

1S56,

Annie E. Morris,
J., b.

Voorhies, b. July n, m. June, 1857, Mary SoWestcott, of Marshall-

videre, N.

Aug.

20, 1833, 62.

town, Iowa.

No
<-^

issue.
b.

d. Sept. 7, 1868,

and had: MaFeb'y3, 1857,

Theodore Frelinghuysen,
2>
I

Aug.

ria
d.

Louisa
1876.

(90), b.

^37

ct

9; 6,

I ^73>

Alice,
b.

b.

Feb'y

J uh a 1846, dau.

58.

Mary Lowe,

Sept. 23, 1830, d.

E. K. Fitz Randolph and

Mary

Oct. 17, 1830.

59.

Teresa Hoffman, of Boone Co.,

b.

Jacob Rutsen,
d.

Ap'l 30, 1832,

63.

Illinois.

1893; m. 1, Aug. 24, 1S59. Elizabeth T. Stetson, b.

24, 1837, d.

May 24,

Aug. m. 2,

May

18, 1893,

July 24, 1889: Elizabeth,

George Bethune, b. May 11, 1839; n. m. Farmer, Voorhies Station, Middlesex Co., N. J.

64.

Mary
d.

Ellen,
21,

b.

March

4,

1S41,
ic,

dau. of William H.

Mintum,
J.,

of

Dec.

1S74; m. Oct.

New Brunswick,
oline his wife.
60.

N.

and Car-

Lewis,
29,

b.

Oct.

7,

1833, d. Feb'y

M. Parker, of Lincoln, Nebraska, and had Minnie Parker, b. 1873.

1872,

Charles

1S50.

of the

Frederick Freliiiglmysen Hardenbergh (46), cashier Bank of New Brunswick, resided at the Morgan homesince known as Hardenbergh's stead in Middlesex Co., N. J Corners, between New Brunswick and Spotswood, and by Emaline Morgan, his wife, had
4.
,
:

HIS GRAND-CHILDREN".
65.

I43
Jersey City, N.
R. Berry,

Margareta O.,
hi.

b.

Aug.
J.

3,

1S50

24, 1S66, at

J.,

Ap'l 19,

Rodgers, Rodgers,

Kearney son of J. Kearney M. D., and Mary

1853,
b.

by Rev.
N.
68.

J.

D.

D.,

Olivia Perrine of South

J.,

Amboy,

b.

in

1847,

au ^ had:

Ridgely Nicholson.
66.

Charles Morgan,

Jan'y

4,

1S33,

Maud (114), Eugene (115). Edwin Hanks, b. May 30, 1837,

m. Dec.
April
12, 1870,

m. Aug.
1,

17, i860,

1S37,

dau.

Mary, b. Dec. William Tully

Florence An-

nette, b. in Addison,
8,

Vermont,

67.

Lee and Mary Alderman. Eugene Beauharnais, b. Nov.

1S34, d. Oct.
1,

1S46,

dau. of Roswell

2,

B. Staples of Lockport, Illinois,

1C71

m. Mar.

and Anna M. Day.

Additional data in ralation

to the

Graud-CJiildrcn of Jacob

Rv.tsen Hardenbcrglt and

1.

Mary Margaret Lowe.

(49), graduated from

James Richmond Hardenbergli

:
;

Rutgers College, 1S33; was Secretary of the Board of Truspracticed law at New Brunstees of said college 1S33 to S35

wick 183^-^0; moved to California was Mayor of SacramenSurveyor General of the State o\ California, and Suto. Cal. perintendent of the United States Mint at San Francisco, Cal. His first wife. Eliza R. Brush, became hopelessly insane prior After every means had been employed in vain to acto 1S60. complish a cure, she was sent to the asylum, where, in 1S93, In she was still living, as insane as she was thirty yeirs ago. view of the hopeless nature of her insanity Mr. Hardenbergh was granted an absolute divorce and he married Mrs. Maria Hastings, whose earlv home was near Rochester, N. Y. By this marriage there was no issue. His children by Eliza R. Brush were
; :

69.

Samuel Brush,
n.

b.

Oct. 27, 1838;

m.

Clerk of

"The
b.

Bald71. 19,

1841, m. Ap'l 5, 1873, Sarah Wadleigb, of Brooklyn, Cal.

win," San Francisco, Cal.

70.

Charles. Probasco,
1S46.

b.

Sept.

21,

James
2.

Richmond,

Ap'l

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergli (50). signed

his

name

J.

Kutsen and was known generally as Rutsen Hardenbergli. He was born in the city of New Brunswick, N. J.. July n.
1S24,

where

lie

resided through

life,

the greater portion of the

time engaged as a real estate and insurance broker, having an

T/|/|

HON. JACOB

R.

HAEDEXBERGH.

the strongest

on George street above Albany, representing some of companies doing business in America and ever esteemed and respected for his unbending integrity. From an
office

obituary notice in the

as follows
:

Christian Intelligencer

we

transcribe

."Air. Hardenbergh was for many years a member of the Second Reformed Church, constant in attendance upon its services, frequently servHe was an huming in its consistory and ever ready to promote its welfare. ble, conscientious, consistent Christian, unassuming and faithful, quietly In business he was honest and upright, to all duties serving the Lord. and responsibilities true as steel, 'a man, aye, every inch a man,' warm
in his friendships, chaste in thought, cordial in

sympathy, genial in all the and faith and hope because of the revelalie leaves two daughters and a large circle of tion of God in Christ. friends to lament his departure, but to rejoice in the assurance that he has gone to be with Him 'whom having not seen' he served and loved."
relations of
life,

man

of prayer

His children by Catherine S. Van D\ ck

T

his wife

were
:

72. 73.

Catherine L.,
m.

b.

May

17, 1852.

Alary Cornelia,

b.

Nov.

20, 1854,

and Mary Parsell, of New Brunswick, N. J., and had Catherine

Api

14, 1892,

Henry Schnee-

Hardenbergh
Oct.
5,

Schneevveiss,

b.

weiss, son Franz M. Schneeweiss

1893.

(Si), lawyer and real estate and subsequently at Xew Brunswick, N. Graduated from Rutgers College 1S44, was Secretary of J. the Board of Trustees of said college 1S49-59 and for several years Commissioner of Public Works for the city of Xew Brunswick, X. J., where from childhood he resided, spending the summer months during the latter years of his life on account of his health on the sea-coast of Xew Jersey, where he He had six children bv his possesses a comfortable cottage. first wife Cornelia V. R. Rutgers, and a daughter by his second wife Catherine M. Ashton. His children' are
3.

Warren Hardenbergh
at

broker

Xew York

74.

Mary Warren,
m.
Oct.
17,

b.

Sept.

5,

1S54,
78.

d.

March

19, i85o.
b.

1SS2,

George M.
1856.
23,

Charles
1861, d.

Johnson,

Aug.

3,

75. 76.

Wahl. Gerard Rutgers,

1858.

March
b.

23, 1864.
9,

b.

Dec.
b.

9,

79.

Warren,

June

1863, m.

May
of

Elizabeth Rutgers,

March

13, 1891,

Lena Von Deinzer,

J.

Xew
b.

Brunswick, N.
b.

77.

Annie Warren,

Feb'y

19, i860,

So.

Helen Ashton,

Ap'l 29, 1874.

HIS GRAND-CHILDREN".
4.

145

Augustus A. Hardenbergh (52), in early life, i. e. in became connected with the Hudson County Bank, at Jersey City. N. J., and continued his connection therewith, filling every subordinate position, until in 1S7S he was elected its President, and remained such until his death. He was a mem1S52,

ber of the
tinction

New

Jersey Legislature in 1S54, and achieved dis-

on behalf of the general banking law, and by his opposition to the Camden and Amboy railroad. In 1S57 he was a member of the Common Council of Jersey City and so continued until 1S63, a part of the time serving on the War Committee, and part of the time as president, doing much towards supplying the city's quota of men for the army and avoiding the suffering entailed by a draft. In 1S6S he became State Director ot Railroads, and in 1S74, being then a resident of Bergen Co., N. J., was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention that met at Baltimore. In the same year he became President of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, and, having moved back to Jersey City, was
his service

by

elected a

member
1S76,

of the Forty-fourth Congress. In 1SS3 he

He was
a

re-

elected in

declined the nomination in 1S7S, and

was
of

again elected in 1SS0.

the

was appointed

member

Board of Finance and Taxation, and remained a member thereof until 1SS9, when the Board was legislated out of existence. In 1SS4 he was appointed a Trustee of the State Reform School, and during the same year was also a Democratic
Presidential elector.
City,
said
:

He

resided at 2S6

Barrow

street,

Jersey

N.

J.

At

the time of his death one of the local papers

"Mr. Hardenbergh's public

in this city for

services

have been varied and continuous

tariff

forty years.

He was

a war-Democrat of the most outspo-

ken character,- a hard

speeches in Congress were notable

thority.

money man and a protective among the best

advocate.

His

efforts of the nation.

His arguments on the national bank question have become standard auHe was a member of the Centennial Committee in Congress, and it was largely through his efforts that the appropriation for the exhibition was secured. He pushed through Congress the bill making Jersey City a

port of entry.
life

He was elected by Indiana to deliver the address on the and character of the late Senator Morgan, and did so in language just and true, and gracefully eloquent. When the Democrats, in 1S76, proposed
1

lv

measure, to impeach Secretary Robeson, with the intention of

19

14.6

HON JACOB R. HARDEXBERGH.

using the act as an argument in the Grant campaign without bringing Robeson to trial, his action prevented that great outrage, while his chivalrous
attitude

and courage made a deep impression on the whole nation."

The
Si.
J.

only issue of Augustus A. Hardenbergh and Catherine

:

Van Home was

Warren,
b.

Aug.

16,

i860, resides at Jersey City,

;

X.

J.,

and

is

Hudson County National Bank m. Dec. 8, 1S86, Lilian, dau. of LeGrand K. 'Wilson and Anna M. Williams, and has: Katharine Warren (119), b. Oct. 19, 1887.
Cashier of the

Cornelius L. Hardenbergh (54), real estate broker at Brunswick, X. J., resides on Livingston avenue and has his office on George street, where for 3-ears he has conducted a He married Isabella D. McClelland* and lucrative business.
5.

New

had
82.

Alexander McClelland,
6.

b.

Feb'y

27, 1S74.

Mary Louisa Hai'denberg

(55), married

James A. Wil-

liamson, a commission merchant, doing business in Xew York They resided in Jersey City for many years and then at city.

Wyoming, X.

where April 22, 1S90, they celebrated their J., golden wedding. Mr. Williamson is an Elder of the Reformed Church and for a long time has been a member of the Board of Foreign Missions, and one of its Executive Committee since James A. Williamson and Mary Louisa Hardenbergh 1S63.
had
2.
:

John Q. Aymar,
m. Sept.
derson,
14,
b.

b.

Jan'y

15, 1841,

Theodore Yarick
I 3-

(7), b.

Ap'l

9,

1S70,

Lizzie
16,
:

Hend.

S79, d. Feb'y 22, 1S80.

Jan'y

1S43,

May
(5),

7,

1S79.

Issue
5,

Louisa A.
Bessie H.

J air*es Rutsen, b. July 25, 1S46, m. Ap'l 9, 1874, Nellie Alford,

b.

(4), b.

July

1871

Ap'l 29, 1S49.

(Sj, b.

Issue

James

b.

Oct. 25,
(6), b.

1S74;

George
1876
;

A.

May

13, 1S75.

Danforth

Feb'y

11,

*Rev. Alexander McClelland, D. D. father of Mrs. C. L. Hardenbergh (54), after a ministry of seven years, commenced in his 10th year, in the Rutgers street Presbyterian Church of Xew Vork, was elected in 1822 Professor of Rhetoric, Logic and Metaphysics In 1829 he was called to Xew Brunswick, X. J., at in Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa. first to Rutgers College as Professor of Languages and afterwards to the Theological Seminary' of the Reformed Church in the department of Oriental Literature and Biblical Criticism. Few men in the pulpit were so widely popular. His reading of the Scriptures was an intellectual treat his prayers simple, humble, reverent his utterances as pregnant as those of Bacon his exegesis masterly, his style, clear as crystal, and when the occasion prompted bursts of eloquence would carry captive the audience. His success as a professor was unexcelled. He roused the dullest mind, making the dryest of themes atHe died in the 69th year of his age Dec. 19, 1864. tractive.
; ;

HIS GRAXD-CIIILDREX.

H7
many years

John Pool Hardenbergh

(56)

was

a resident for

of Jersey City, X. J., but at present resides at New York City, where, March 9th, 1893, he celebrated his golden wedding.

A
co,

commission merchant the greater part of

his

life,

he

is

now

shipping agent for the Geo. \V. Gibbs

Company, San Francis-

From Cal., with offices at 146 Broadway, Xew York. 1S44 to 1S49 he was Secretary of the Board of Trustees of ruling elder in the Reformed church, he Rutgers College.

served the denomination for a term of years as a

member
:

of the
of the

Board of Domestic Missions, and

Board.

in 1S74

was President
Boston,
Mass.,
Issue
:

By

his wife,

Frances E. Eddy, he had

Thomas Eddy,
York
city;
26,
b.

resides in

Xew
1844,

art,

of

where

Mar.

17,

she

resides.

Fanny
b.

m. Ap'l
Finch, of

1879,

Xew York
Thomas
E.

Louisa M. city, and

b.

Marie Jordan Stewart,

4,

Sept.

1S73.

had
1,

Ambrose

(120),

June
b.

87.

John
Ap'l
of

Pool,

b.

Jan'y 23,
city

ii
;

1SS0;

(121),

architect,

Xew York
Mary
X".

m.

Oct. 23, 1SS2; Rutsen (122), b.

12, 1882,

A. Knapp,
J.,

July 23, 18S5, d. Mar. Hildegard, (123), b.

1888.

3,

1887;
28,

Flackensack,

where
3,

May

she died without issue, June

1890.
SS.

84

Henry Janeway,
1847,
St.,

b.

Feb'y

6,

architect,

10

West 23d
27,

Xew York;

m. June

Emily Irene Leeds Keene, dau. of John W. Leeds and Eliza Leeds, and a des1893, Mrs.

cendant of Miles Standish.*

85.

William Phillips, b. Jan'y 23, 1855, manager of "New Jersey Iron and Zinc Works," Newark, X. Jm. Jan'y 3, 1883, Adelaide M. Clarke, of Jersey City, Sarah Clarke N. J., and had (127), b. Nov. 21, 1SS6, Wil;
:

James Williamson,
Mass.
;

b.

Feb'y

26,
84.

liam

P. (12S), b. Sept. 12, 1SS7.

b.

1849, resides at X'orth

Adams,

Louisa Hoppin,
m. Nov.
ling,

Nov.

17, 1S57,

Hunt
X~.

m. Nov. 24, 1874, Ella Schenck, of Jersey City,

24, 18S2,

of
:

New
d.

John T. PulYork city, and

b.

J.,

and had: Harry

(124),

had
6,

Adelaide Pulling,

Nov.
1891
;

Dec. 24, 1882, Helen Hunt (125), b. Feb'y 5, 1SS4, Frank

b.

1SS4,

Feb'y

12,

Eddy
86.

(126), b.

June

3,
7,

18S5.
1S51,

Fanny Jordon Pulling, b. May 12, 1886; John T. Pulling, b.

Nov.
14, 1887.

Mary
Dec.

Pool, b. Feb'y
1,

m.

1S70,

Lispenard Stew-

'Among

the exhibits in the transportation building at the

Columbian Exposition, Chiof

cago, 1893, there

was an open

carriage, or

spring wagon, bearing the inscription:

"Owned by Nancy Standish Welles, about 1750, a descendant of Miles Standish and Thomas Welles, 4th Governor of Connecticut," whose history is given, pages 15-23.

148
8.

HON. JACOB

It.

HARDENBEKGM.

Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergli (59) was born in the city of He studied law with his father, Utica, N. Y., April 30, 1832. and when little more than twenty-one years of age was licensed as an attorney and counsellor at law, and entered upon the A few years practice of his profession at Jersey City, N. J. after his marriage in 18^9, he migrated to Lincoln, Neb., and
soon established a lucrative practice, but failing health at length

caused him

to

relinquish his professional engagements there

and return to the East. soon found employment

He

located at

New

Brunswick, and

At the time of AssoBuilding-Loan his death he was counsel for the Security several years For clientage. remunerative a ciation, and had he was an elder in the Suydam Street Reformed Church. A delegate to the General Synod, June, 1S91, when he served on
for his legal talents.

the

Committee on Overtures, and was

also a

standing committee on Federal Union with the

member of the German Re2'ork

formed Church.
after his

He

died suddenly of heart disease five days

second marriage.

Of

this event the

New

Re-

corder,

May

25, 1S93, said:

The

R. Hardenberg, a well-known citizen of surprise to the

very sudden death yesterday morning in New York city of Jacob New Brunswick, N. J., was a great
last

community in which he has lived for many years. He was Thursday to Miss Elizabeth Mintum at her residence at Bayard and Kirkpatrick streets, and the ceremony was a notable one, the The bride and bride's residence being thronged with prominent people. groom were expected home from their wedding tour in a few days.
married

From

obituary notice in the Christian Intellige?icer, June

14, 1S93, we insert He was called away unexpectedly, but was ready to enter the eternal world. He was a man of strong faith and confiding trust in the promises of redemption, fully persuaded that the grace of God is all sufficent for the sinner's need. He was a man of prayer, knowing through his own experience that those who ask, receive, and that help from God is found at the

mercy

seat.

He

sorrows of Christian defeat, but through

in the darkness as in the sunshine,

experienced the joys of Christian victory, he knew the all the checkered scenes of life,

he held fast the profession of his faith

firm unto the end, and never doubting Christ's

power

to save, finished his

course with joy, enrolling himself

the promise
is fulfilled,

among

those

who overcome and

to

whom

"He

that overcometh shall inherit all things."

By

his first wife,

:

Elizabeth T. Stetson, Jacob R. Harden-

denbergfh had

HIS GRAXD-CHILDREX.
91.

I49
b.

Lewis Stetson,
d.

b.

Jan'y

3,

1861,

94.

Minnie Anna,
d.

May

23, 1865,

Jan'y

13,

1861.

Sept.

1,

1867.

92.

Julia Ellen, b.

May

19, 1862,

m.

95.

Lizzie Stetson, b. Aug. 31, 1S67,

d.

Arthur L.
Mass.
93.

Wyman,
b.

of Boston,
96.

Sept.

5,

1867.

Elizabeth Stetson,

Feb'y

22,

97.

Jacob Rutsen, b. June 11, 1869. Frederick Reed, b. Mar. 3, 1873.

Stetson Pratt,
b.

1864, d. July 27, 1S64.

98.

Dec. 31, 1878.

9.
tate

Theodore Frelinghuysen Hardenbergh

;
:

(62), real es-

broker, Tacoma, Washington

married Jnlia A. Randolph.

Lewis Randolph, b. June 9, 1878. Gertrude Van Dorn, b. Aug. 29,
J S79-

Issue
99.

Alice Mary, b. Aug.

d.

5,

1S74;

101.
102.

Aug.

16, 1874. b.

100.

George Edmund,
1876.

April 30,
103.

Julia Ellen,

b.

Aug.

21, 1882.

10.

ington, Middlesex Co.,

Margareta 0. Hardenbergll (6$), resides near WashN. J. married J. Kearney Rodgers

; :

and had
2.

John Kearney Rodgers, b. Dec. 2, 1S56, m. 1, 18S1, Elizabeth, who d. The issue of this marriage 1SS6, dau. of John and Margaret Goode. was Emily K. Rodgers, b. Sept. 29, 18S2, and Mary R. Rodgers, b. He m. 2, Emma H. Robertson and had Marguireta Jan'y 10, 1885.
:

Rodgers,

b.

Aug.

15,

18S9.

11. Charles Morgan Hardenbergh (66), of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a flour, grain and feed merchant and shipper in cor-

poration designated "

offices
104.

The National Commission Company" Block Beery married Mary Lee and had and 402 404
;

Mary,

b.

Oct.

7,

1S61, d. Oct.

m.
rie,

May

2,

1S91,

Louise Ma-

12, 1S67.

105.

Charles Morgan,
1862, d. Feb'y
3,

b.

Aug.
1S63

16,

1863.
;

b. Feb'y 10, 1S64, dau. Louis Legas and Heloise Josephine Legrand.

106.

Agnes,

b.
5,

Dec.
1888,

22,

m.

108.

Collis

Rodgers,

b.

Sept

19,

June

William Pearson Hallowell, jr., b. Nov. 30, 1S63, son of William Pearson Hallowell and Elizabeth Corbet Davis, and had William
:

1S66, d.
109.

May
b.

5,

1888.
6,

Ernest Lee,
Alice, b.
iS,

March
8,

1S68.

no.

Nov.
Nov.

1869, d. Aug.

1S70.
b.

in. Bessie,
112.

25, 1S70.

Pearson Hallowell, 3d,

14, 1S91.

b.

Ap'l

Elsie, b.

113.
b.

June 19, 1S77. Clarence Morgan, b. June

18S0.

23,

107.

Fred Eugene,

June

20, 1S65;

150
12.

HON. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH.
(6S), resides at Ontona;

Edwin Hanks Hardenbergh

Is in the

gon, Michigan.
last Territorial

lumber trade

was

member

of the

and of the first State Legislature of Nebraska. In 1 89 1 Justice of the Peace for Ontonagon County, Mich. Married Florence A. Staples and had
:

114.

Anna

Margretta,
13,

b. in

Chicago,
15,

go, Sept. 12, 1875.

116.

Feb'y
1872.
115.

1872, d.

March

Edna Hanks,

b.

in

Chicago,

May
b. in

21, 1878.

Florance Morgan,

Chica-

Mary Margaret Lowe, wife of Hon. Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (36), was born at New Brunswick, N. J., and baptized She died in her in Christ's Episcopal church, Oct. 26, 176S. She was the daughter of Cornenative city, Feb'y 24, 1841.
lius

Lowe and

Catherine Hude.

At

the time of her marriage

a widow, at the Lowe Homestead, near Raritan Landing, N. J. She was buried in the churchyard of the First Reformed Church at New Brunswick, N. J., and on her tombstone we find the inscription she resided with her mother

who was

In

Memory

of

daughter of Cornelius

Mary M., Low and wife of

Jacob R. Hardenbergh:

who

died Feby 23, 1841, in the y2d year of her age.

A vigorous
her
parent,
life

mind, chastened and directed by a fervent piety, illustrated in

the virtues which adorn the wife, the mother and the Christian.

Her

offspring

have erected
to

this tribute of regard to a

all

fond and devoted

who was endeared

them by

the ties which can consecrate a

a mother's love.

"The memory

of the just is blessed."

The Lowe
1.

Families.

Pieter Cornellisen Lowe,

2. 3.

Cornelius Lowe,

b.
b.

Cornelius Lowe, Cornelius Lowe,

m., 166S, Elizabeth Blanchan. c. a. 1659: 1670; m., 1695, Margareta Van Borsum, b. 1679. 1700; m., 1729, Johanna Gouveneur, b. 1705.

4.
5.

b.

1736; m., i76o,(?) Catherine Hude,

b.

b.

I736.(?)

Mary Margaret Lowe,

b.

1767,

and had

1768; m., 17S9, Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh, Joanna Hardenbergh Welles, b. 1S06.

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDEXBERGH.

Pieter CornelleSSen
1659,

151

tne

sm P

ki

Faith."

Lowe sailed from Holstein, February, He settled at Esopus, or Kingston,

a farmer,

Ulster Co., N. Y.
pasture,
bridge.'.'

He was

and Feb'y
t5

14, 16SS, in-

creased his possessions by the purchase of north

a small piece of

He
:

of Kingston, east of the way to the great married, October 27, [668, Elizabeth Blanchan,
Mar.
174S;

and had
2.

Cornelius, b.
Sept.
1695,
10,

17,

1670, d.

Hemigen.
7.
'

m.

July

5,

Peter, m.

Jan'y

11,

1702, Geer-

Margareta, bp. Sept. 20, 1679, d. Mar. iS, 1761, dau. of Tymon Van Borsom and Grietje Fockens, of
3.

truy Yernoy.
8.

Abraham, m. Dec.
netie Lesier.

14, 1709,

Jan-

New

York.

9.

Johannes, m.
1714,

1,

Ap'l
:

5,

1707,
2,

En-

Madaline, m. Benjamin Smedes.

Antje, m. Philip Yiele.

gelizen Breestede
6,

m.

May
b.

4.
5.

Christina Yas,

in

Maria, m. Aurt

Van Wagonen.
1,

Holland.
10.

6.

Matthys, m. Sept.
netje,

1698, Jan-

Jacob, m. June 28, 1715, Saara

dau.

of

Johannes Van

Turk, of Albany.

Elizabeth Blanchan, wife of Pieter Cornellessen Lowe, was daughter of Matthys Blanchan and Madaline Goore, and a sister of Catherine Blanchan, wife of Louis DuBois. The fama

of the two sisters were united by the marriage of Jacob Rutsen Hardenbergh (36) and Mary Margaret Lowe, who were fourth cousins, the great-great-great grand-children of Matthys Blanchan whose history is given on page hi.
ilies

Cornelius

Lowe

(2), son of Pieter Cornellessen

Lowe and

Elizabeth Blanchan, was born at Esopus, Ulster Co., N. Y.,

Mar. 17, 1670. He died Sept. 10, 1748. ""aged 7S years and 6 months less 7 days." The greater part of his life he was a resident of New York city, and in 1 719 was a trustee of the Collegiate School of the Reformed Church located there. He seems to have enjoyed much social distinction, but no reference

we have found
11.

discloses his occupation.

He
:

married, July

^,

1695, Margareta

Van Borsum, and had

17,

Tymon,
Petrus,

bp. Feb'y 13, 1696.

bp.

May
April

10,
15,

1729, 1705,

Johanna,
d.

bp.
17,

12.

Oct.

1697; m.

Oct.

Aug.
13.

9,

1721,

Cornelius,
will

Rachel Rosevelt. bp. Mar. 31, 1700,

5,

1763, dau. Isaac

Gouveneur and
0,

Sara Staats.
14.

executed April

1777

m.

Johannes, bp. Sept.

1702, d.

152

HON. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH.
died young.
17. 18.
19.

rah,

1774; m. Jan'y 30, 1724, Sadau. John Provoost and

of Albany, his

Abraham,

bp. Aug. 11, 1708.

Maria Van Derpool,

N.
Y.,
will,

Hendrick, bp.

May

14,
1,

1710. 1712.

styles himself in

Elizabeth, bp. Oct.

15, 1774, J. Low, Newark, N. J., now of the County of Alban)', N. Y.

March

20.

Wilhelmus, bp. Nov.

Annatje, bp. Oct.

27, 1714.

late of

21. 22.
23.

10, 1716.

15.
16.

Margrietje, bp. July

16,

1704.

Elizabeth,

bp.

July

21,

1706;

Maria, bp. July 9, 1718. Helena, bp. Sept. 14, 1720, m. Dec. 1, 1741. Henry Kip.

Margareta Tan BorSOm, wife of Cornelius Lowe (2), was New York, September 20, 1679, died March 18, She was the daughter 1761, and was buried at Newark, N. J. of Tymon Van Borsom and Grietje Fockens.
baptized at

The Van Borsom

1.

Families.

Egbert Van Borsom, Hendricks.

c.

a;

from Amsterdam, Holland, m. Anneken

m. 1675, Grietje Fockens.
;

2. 3.

Tymon Van Borsom,

b. 165

1,

Margareta Van Borsom, b. 1679 m. 1695, Cornelius Lowe, great-great- grandparents of Joanna Hardenbergh Welles.

b. 1670,

Egbert Tan BorSOm emigrated from Amsterdam, Holland. took the oath of allegiance in 1644, and in that year is said to have been the skipper of the ship King William. He was a member of the Reformed church of New Amsterdam, but resided on the Brooklyn side of the East river where he owned several lots at the ferry. June 1, 1654-5 he leased the ferry from Gov. Stuyvesant for three years, and erected a ferry house or tavern on the Long Island shore. He was pi'obably the first licensed ferryman, as the ferry was established the year his lease was obtained, and remained in his possession as late as June 15, 1663, at which time the governor allowed him fifty

He

guilders for public services as ferryman.

ferry he obligated himself

When

leasing the

"to keep suitable boats and also a lodge on each side of the river to protect passengers from the weather."* The ferry was from the foot of the present Ful
'The character
"
of this ferry

house

is

revealed by the following contract

Cornelisen, Abram Jacobsen and Jan Hendricksen have contracted to construct a house over at the ferry of Egbert Van Borsom, ferryman, thirty feet

We carpenters, Jan

MARY MARGARET

I.OWE IIARDENBERGH.

^3

ton street, Brooklyn, to the foot of the present Peck Slip, New-

York. The hours of travel were from 5 a. m. to S p. m. in summer, and from 7 A. m. to 5 p. m. in winter, but "not during a tempest or when the wind mill on the battery of Manhattan hath lowered its sail in consequence of a storm or otherwise." The toll established by law, was for a wagon and two horses, one dollar; for a wagon and one horse, eighty cents for a savage male or female thirty cents; and for each other person fifteen cents. In addition to running the ferry, Van Borsom was the host of the Ferry Tavern on the Brooklyn shore, and Jan'y 22, 165S, made a claim against Cornells Van Tienhoven, late Attorney General, of New Amsterdam, of 127, 1. 8 for liquors and ferriage and therein calls himself '-only a ferryman, who unremittingly employed in ferrying passengers from the one side to the other and cannot even write was obliged to leave the account of liquors used by Van
;

in it seven girders, with be planed and grooved, and the rear front to have boards overlapped in order to be tight with doors and windows therein and a floor and garret grooved and planed beneath (on the under side to saw the roof thereon, and more over to set a window frame with a glass light in the front side to make a chimney mantel and to wainscot the fore room below, and divide it in the cento set a frame with two glass lights therein furtre across with a door in the partition ther to wainscot the east side the whole length of the house and in the recess two bedsteads, one in the front room and one in the inside room, with a pantry at the end of the bedstead a winding stair case in the fore room. Further more we, the carpenters, are bound to deliver all the square timber to wit beams, posts and frame timber, with a pillar for the winding staircase, spars, and worm and girders and foundation timbers required for the work also the spikes and nails for the interior work; also rails for the wainscot are to be delivered by us. For which work Egbert Van Borsom is to pay live hundred and fifty guilders ($220), one third in beavers, one third in good merchantable wampum, one third in good silver coin and free passage over the ferry so loner as the work continues and small beer to be drunk during work. We have subsequently contracted with said Egbert Van Borsom to build a cellar-kitchen under said house and to furnish the wood for it to wit beams and frame timber. There must be made two door frames and two circular frames w.ith windows therein, with a stair way to enter it and to line the stairs in the cellar round about with boards with a chimney mantel in the kitchen, and to groove and plane the ceiling. Egbert must exca-

long and eighteen feet wide, with an outlet of four feet, to place
three transome

windows and one door

in the front, the front to

vate the cellar at his

own

expense.

The

carpenters must furnish the

nails.

For

this

work

one hundred guilders ($40) are promised together with one whole good otter skin. Moreover Egbert must deliver all the flat wood-work required for the house to wit boards and

wainscotting." " Dated 26th April 1655 at

New Amsterdam
(Signed)

"Jan Cokneliskx Cley.n

his

"Egbert X Van Borsom mark

20

'

r54

HON*.

JACOB

R.

HAKDENBERGH.
to his

Tienhoven during
times to his son,

his absence,

sometimes

wife and some-

who

can read and write, and with whose cor-

rectness he has never found any fault, and thinks every article

was conscientiously marked by them."

He

died shortly prior to the surrenderof the

New Netherlands

to the British,

and

his

widow continued

the business of tavern

keeper and mistress of the ferry for several years, the latter department of business being performed by her son Harmanus. Egbert Van Borsom's wife was Anneken Hendricks, by whom he had
:

2.

Hermanus,?
m.
July

bp.
3c,

Sept.

7,

1640;
5.

nelisse

Van Der Kuyl.

bp.
Sept.
17,

1669.

Wybrecht
1642
;

Tymon,
Feb'y

1651

m.

Hendricks.
3.

3,

1675, Grietje Fockens,

of

Cornelius, bp. Oct.

Sept.
1,

5,

m.

widow
Yos.
6.

Philip

Jansen

De
;

166S,

Sara

Roelofs,

widow

of

Hans

Kierstede.

His

property was assessed for taxation in 1674, at S,ooo florins, or

Janneken, bp. Nov. 23, 1653 m. J 679, Pieter AdolphJ an 'y x

>

son,
7.

from Amsterdam, Holland.

4,

$3,200.
4.

Annetje, bp. April 30, 1656; m.

Hendrick,
m. June

bp.

April 26,

1648;

Nov.

1674,

An dries Van

28, 1676,

Marritje Cor-

Breestee.

wife of Egbert Van Borsom, or as was generally known, Annetje Van Borsom, was distinguished for the skill with which she presided over the culinary department of the Ferry Tavern kept by her husband, and her The customs of the Dutch tavgenial manner as a hostess.

Anneken Hendricks,

she

erns of

New

cribed by one*
visited a

Netherlands, such as she presided over, are deswho thirty years ago, as a matter of curiosity,

part of the Netherlands

for centuries.

where customs have not

changed
traveller,

He

says

"It was the business of the good vrow, or her maid, to show up the and open the door in the smooth partition of the boxf which was to receive his weary limbs for the night, and which otherwise he might not be able to discover, and after he crept into it, to come back again and blow out the candle, and in the morning to draw the curtains of the window at There was generally one room in which all the the hour he fixed to rise.
guests were received, and where there was a pleasant reunion in the even*Hon. Henry C. Murphy, of Brooklyn, U.
S.

Minister at the Hague.

like

tThe
tition,

bedstead was a part of the house constructed with doors closing upon it when unoccupied.
bctsie or

a cupboard in a par-

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDENBERGH.

ing and
closet,

1^5

all the visitors ate, drank and smoked. It had in one corner a which when opened (and honestly it was not (.infrequently opened,) and on one side of disclosed sundry decanters, glasses, and black bottles the room, a rack in which were suspended, by their bowls, a score or two of very long pipes, each one inscribed with the name of a neighbor, its owner. This was the room of mynheer, the landlord, who found all his He had no occupation here in attending to the pleasure of his guests. his vrow was the head of the house she attended to all care beyond this the wants of the guests, and gave them the information they might desire. She was always on the spot, as when with a tacl te rustenf like a good mother she bade you good-night and when with a hoo-y-reisj like an old friend she bade you good-by."
; ;

'

'

As

an evidence of the aristocratic character of the

mistress

Van

Bor-

sum Ferry Tavern, where

Van Borsom,

the faithful

vrow, '-'attended to all the wants of the guests," we find as follows in the records of the Burgomasters and Schepens of Xew

Amsterdam

"Egbert Van Borsom sues Capt. Beaulien, Nicholas Boot, Jacob linger and Simon Felle, demanding from Beaulien 310 florins for an entertainment given by the captain at Van Borsom's. To this complaint the captain

answers that the other defendants should pay their share.

ger says he was invited by the captain.

lien says there

Felle declares the same.

Jacob HuBeau;

the were fourteen of them, and he was to pay one half Annetje Van Borsom says that the captain alone made the agreement and she looks to him, whereupon the Court condemns him to pay the same Anno 1658."
others, the remaining portion of the expense.

The comments made upon

these proceedings in Valentine's

Manual iox
First,

iSy^, are logical and just

the Ferry Hotel was a fashionable one, else so fine a

irot

man

as

Captain Beaulien would

friends.

have chosen

it

for the entertainment of his

Second,

it

was an expensive hotel

for the charge of

310

florins be-

ing divided
dollars
:

fourteen guests makes 22 florins per man, or about 9 a respectajde price for a dinner even in these days of extravagant

among

Third, the feast was worth the money, else so just a forum as that of the magistrates of New Amsterdam would never have enforced its payment. From these premises our conclusion that Annetje Van Borsum was a notable woman, is abundantly confirmed and the reputation of the Ferry Tavern in its day and generation, is well established by
entertainments.
extant documents."

Tymon Van BorSOin (5 was the son of Egbert Van Borsom and Anneken Hendricks. He was baptized September
) ,

i7 165 1.

He

married Feb'y

3,

167^-,

Grietje Fockens. and

had:

v'j

HOW
Egbert, bp. Mar.
Eg!>ert,
15,

JACOB
1676;

R.

IIARDENBERGH.
12.

8. 9.

d. y.

Margariet,
Sept.
20,
;

or

Margareta,
d.

bp.
iS,

bp.

Ap'l

14,

1677; m.
clau.

1679;
5,

Mar.

Jan'y

17, 1711,

Elizabeth,
of

1761
lius
d.

m. July
b.

1695, Corne17,

Sampson Benson,
sterdam.
10. 11.
*

New Am13.

Lowe,

Mar.

1670,

Sept. 10, 174S.

bp. Mar.
4,

Thymon,
tiled

Hendrick, bp. July 31, 167S. bp. Feb'y 25, 1682';

young.

Thymon,

16S5.

14.
15.

Anneken, bp. Sept.

Annetje,? bp. Oct.

21, 16S7.
3,

1686.

first;

Orietje Fockens, wife of Tymon Van Borsom (5), married Philip Jansen De Vos, February 25, 1671, and in the

record is described as a young- woman "van Rhuyne," or from the Rhine. This makes it evident that shewas not born in America. She was soon a widow, and as such married, Feb. 3, 1675, Tymon Van Borsom.

marriage

Cornelius
garita
1700.

Lowe 12), son of Cornelius Lowe (3) and MarVan Borsom, was baptized at New York, March 3:,
(

He
(it

settled

in

East

veyor

land, did

much
1

Jersey in 1730, and as a surtoward defining the boundaries of im-

New

portant estates.

In

741 he built a fine colonial mansion

the mountain" near Raritan Landing. t in the vicinity of

Brook, not
feet square

far

from
if

New

Brunswick.

"on Bound 'This mansion was surNearly fifty roof, above

in

passed by few,
it

any, residences in the province.

elevated a

dormer-windowed hipped

two stone

stories,

presenting a strong contrast to the ordinary

wooden buildings of the surrounding country-"

an ancient growth of ivy,
it is

Embowered

still

to

be seen on the hillside

After Mr.

opposite the road leading to the covered bridge.

mansion with surrounding land passed into the possession of John Pool and was known as the Pool farm. Cornelius Lowe wrote his name Low, and is often designaHis name appears in a list of twenty ted Cornelius Low, jr.

Lowe's death,

this

*Egben Van Borsom (9), was one of the jurors, Aug. 4, 1735, in the celebrated trial of John Peter Zenger, publisher of the Neiu York Weekly Journal, the second newspaper published in the city, first issued Nov. 5, 1733. He was charged with uttering " a false, scandalous and malicious libel against the Government." He was defended by Andrew Hamilton of Philadelphia, one of the most distinguished barristers of the day. The jury brought in a verdict of "not guilty." The court room rung with huzzas. It was the first vindication of the press in 'America, and has been designated the dawn of the Revolution.
tRaritan Landing
is

two

miles above

New

on the left bank of the Raritan river at the head of tide water, Brunswick, in Piscataway township, Middlesex Co., N. J.

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDEXBERGH.

I^J

communicants, which without date, is on the record of the church op de Millstone," that is the Reformed Church of Hiirlingen, N. J., between entries for 1746 and 17^2, when the Coetus and Conferentie controversy was raging throughout the Reformed Church. It is thought to be a list of the malcontents brought by the Rev. Johannes Arondeus* to strengthen his hands and form a company to support him in the congregation. In recording the baptism of one of his children, Cornelius Low styles the said Arondeus, "our pastor Arondeus," and as he was one of the most violent of the Conferentie ministers, and
k
-

exercised the functions of his office chiefly

ed, there
is

no doubt that Cornelius

among the disaffectLowe consorted with

the Conferentie.

His will was executed April, 5, 1777, and made by name of all his children then living and also of the children of his deceased son Cornelius. He was married by the Rev. Gaulterus Du Bois,j of New York Citv,
mention

May
24.

31, 1739, to
son,
15,
b.

Johanna Gouveneur, and had

1730;
d.

May
April

13,

May

Catherine,

b.

ab't

1736,

dau.

1730.
1).

Hon. James Hude and Mary

Johnson,
N.
J.

25.

Isaac,
at

13,

1731, d. 1791,'
of "Wight
;

of

New

Brunswick,

Cowes,
17,
S,

Isle

m.
b.
29.

July

1760, 1738,

Margrieta,
d.

Samuel,

Dec.

at

London,
30.

b. Aug. 13, 1737; shot dead on Lake Ontario, June

Cuyler and Catherina

ler,

England, 1S20, dau. Cornelius Schuyof Albany, N. Y.

b.

24,

756.
b.

Nicholas,

March
;

30, 1739, d.

Nov.

16,

1S26

m.

"Tuesday

26.

Sarah,

Jan'y 20,

Hon. Hugh York city.

27.

1733; m. Wallace, of New

July 24, 1734,
d.

evening,

Nov. 15, 1794, at 24 Broadway, New York city, by

Fleming, former])- Hali burton,

the Rev. Dr. John Rogers, Alice

Margareta,
July
S,

b.

1755.
b.

who was born

Jan'y
m.
1,

at

Limerick, Ire-

28.

Cornelius,
Oct.
3,

1736,

d.

land, Jan'y 22, 1760," d. April

ir,

1769;

ab't

1760,

1818,

and buried

in

the

Rev. Johannes Arondeus

in

came from Holland,

1742.

He was

captured at sea on his

pastor at Bushwick, Flatlands, Brooklyn, New Utrecht and Gravesend, 1742-7 at Raritan, Reading-ton, Harlingen, Six Mile Run and Three Mile Run, 1747-54, where he died. "He was a very troublesome and contrary man, determined

America.
;

Was

to rule or ruin."

tRev. Gualterus DuBois, son of Peter

<

"

He

Du Bois, of Amsterdam, was born at Strcefkerk, graduated from University of Leyden 1697, married Helena Boelen and .lor of the Reformed Church of New York city from 1699 to 1751, when he died, was more like a Bishop among the Dutch churches than the pastor of a single organI,

1666,

ization."

1'5'8

HOX. JACOB
Presbyterian

R.

HARDENBERGH.
34.

church yard,

in

Gertrude,

b.

Jan'y

2,

1747, bp.

Wall
31.

street,
b.

New

York.

William,

"at the new house

1742, d.

"in the barn of Arie Moolman, by our pastor Arondeus," d.

Oct.
35.
I,

on the mountain, Raritan Landing," Jan'y 24,

12,

1747.
b.

Dec. Dec.

Gertrude,
J an ')j
l

Jan'y
St.,

15,

1748, d.

1749.
b.

&j6> at her residence,

32.

John,

April

6,

1743;
29,

cl.

Queen

Ann

Cavendish
;

21, 1743.
33.

Square, London, England

b.
1

m.

Johanna,
Dec. 29,

Feb'y
75
1.

1745.

d.

Alexander Wallace,

d.

1792.

Additional data in relation

to

the children of Cornelius

Lowe (12) and JoJianna Gouveneur.

" an elegant mansion" on His wile, a daughter of Cornelius Cuyler, Mayor or Albany, according to the testimony of He was a prominent critical John Adams, was "a beauty."
1.

Isaac

Low

(2^),

resided in

Dock

street,

New York

city.

merchant, in partnership with Abraham Lott, doing business under the title of u Lott and Low," near Coenties Market, as importers of dry-goods. They had almost a monopoly of the fur trade, through the Schuylers, who were relatives of Mr. Low's wife. He owned large tracts of land in Tryon, now Montgomery, county. N. Y.. and was considered a wealthy

From 1775 to 17S3, he was President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, the seventh person to occupy the posiman.
tion.

American Government, Mr. Low's stand for He was a member of colonial rights was manly and faithful. the celebrated and popular committee of one hundred for the public defense and a delegate to the General Congress of all He was the colonies held in Philadelphia September, 1774. elected as a prominent Whig, and on his departure from New York to attend the Congress, was accompanied to the ferry by the people with bands of music and flying colors. April 29, 1775, in urging the people to form a compact bod}' "to prevent mobs, to support the civil authority and to defend the rights and liberties of the people against the unjust

At

the beginning of the difficulties between the

Colonies and the British

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDEXBERGH.

claims of the British ministry,''
a
it is

*59

said, that

although he was
the King,

member

of the Church ol England,

"he damned

cursed the ministry and insisted'' in a speech of impassioned

eloquence "that a systematic plan was formed by Great Bri-

America" and that all who refused to sign the agreement" which he was advocating, " should be published as the enemies of America and the rights of mankind." He was re-elected a delegate to the Continental Congress of = when, to the surprise of his constituents, instead of main>i taining his hostile attitude towards England, he was suspected He deprecated any aspirations to of giving aid to the enemy. independence and insisted that i% we ought not to deny the just With many others he opposed rights of our mother country." separation and "felt that it was a desertion of the men who had fought their battles in the British Parliament to break away from them forever." He became a Royalist or Torv,
tain to enslave

"

articles of

used the
ties

Chamber

of

Commerce

in aid of the military authori-

and entered heart and soul into the British cause. Oct. 22, 1779, he was attainted of treason by the Legislature of New York,* his property confiscated, and his person banished' from the State. He fled to England, and his only son Isaac became Commissary General in the Royal army. In Jones' History of the Revolution he is said to have been "A man of unbounded ambition, violent and turbulent in disposition,
:

remarkably obstinate,

with a good share

of understanding,

extremely

"The bill of attainter against Hon. Hugh Wallace, Alexander Wallace and Isaac Low and others, is one of great length and contains much of little interest. The portions affecting the persons mentioned are as follows An act for the forfeiture and sale of the Estates of persons who have adhered to the enemies of this State, passed Oct. 22, 1770: Whereas, during the present unjust and cruel war waged by the King of Great Britain against this State and the other United States of America, divers persons holding or claiming property within this State have voluntarily been adherent to the said King, &c, &c. And whereas the public justice and safety absolutely require that the most notorious offenders should be immediately convicted and attainted of the offense aforesaid.

Be it therefore enacted, &c. That Hugh Wallace, late member of the Council of said Colony, Isaac Low, Alexander Wallace now or late of the City of New York, merchants, &c. &c. be and each of them are hereby severally declared to be, ipso facto, convicted and attainted of the offense aforesaid and that all and singular; the estates, both real and
, , ,

by them in possession, reversion or remainder, shall be and hereby is declared to be forfeited to, and vested in, the people of this State and the said persons ari declared to be forever banished from this S:ate and each or every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony and shail suffer death, as in cases of felony, without
personal, held or claimed
benefit of clergy.

l6o

HON. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH.

opinionated, fond of being the head of a parly and never su well pleased
as

when Chairman
This
is

of a

Committee

or the principal speaker at a

critic.

mob meet-

ing."

the language of an unfriendly

2.

Sarah Lowe

(26) and

brothers, the former the

Wallace, both of

whom
a

Gertrude Lowe (35), married Hon. Hugh, and the latter Alexander were merchants in New York city.
of the King's Council for the

Hugh Wallace was

Colony of

member

York, and the second President of the Chamber of Commerce. Jan'}- 25, 1775, when Governor William Tryon, in the ship "Juliana. Capt. Montgomery, arrived from London, he was escorted '*by great numbers of people to the residence of Hon. Hugh Wallace, on Dock St." The Wallaces were Irish by birth and were steadfast in their allegiance
'

New

to

jects,

Great Britain. They considered themselves British subbound by every principle of honor to uphold the British

Government.

August, 1776. they were apprehended by the

order of General Washington, sent to Connecticut and intrusted to the care of Governor Trumbull, the original Brother Jonathan. In the following December, Washington gave them

permission to return upon parole

to their

homes, which were

then in the actual possession of the British.

tainted of treason

So

far as

known
at-

they never broke the terms of their parole, but thev were

by the

ished the country.

York, and banIn 17S9, Alexander Wallace was living at

legislature of
in

New

Watertown. Ireland, and died there

3.

1792.

city of

merchant in the and trusted counsellor of the Federalists from the beginning to the close of
Nicholas
;

LOW (30). was a prominent New York before the revolution a

tried

the struggle for independence, representing the city in the State

Assembly and
States,

as a

member

of the

New York

convention for

deliberating on the adoption of the constitution of the United

Poughkeepsie June 17, 17SS. He was a was one of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Society, formed by Alexander Hamilton for die establishment and promotion of useful manufactures, by whose labors the city of Paterson, N. J. was founded, July 4, 1792. A few years later, in 1796, he became
assembled
at

man

of considerable wealth, and

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDENBERGH.

part proprietor of a large tract of land in Jefferson and
counties, built a hotel

l6l

Lewis

and cotton factory about 1S10,

at Balston,

and devoted himself

cludes the sites of

to the settlement of the land which inAdams, Watertown and Lowville, N. Y. His daughter Henrietta, married Charles King, LL. D., for many years President of Columbia College, New York city. She died in Paris, France, several years ago. Her daughter

James.

married Mr. Waddington, French Minister at the Court of This is the record of her birth in the family Bible

St.
:

"July 21st, 1799. On Sunday at h past 12 O'Clock my first daughter Henrietta was born and was baptised on Sunday 6th of October at 1. O'Clock P. M. at the house of William Bayard Esq at Greenwich, by the
Right Rev Bishop Benjamin Moore
the
wife,
;

her Godfather Robert Listen Esq,

British Minister,

and her Godmothers Mrs. Henrietta Listen, his and Cornelia Paterson, the last represented by my wife as her

proxy."

Johanna Goiiveneiir, wife of Cornelius Lowe (12), was baptized April 15, 1705 and died October 17, 1763. On the records of the Reformed Church "op de Millstone" we find,
"June 10, 1730, on certificate Johanna Gouveneur." was the daughter of Isaac Gouveneur and Sarah Staats.
She

The Gouveneur
1.

Families.
:

Nicholas Gouveneur,

c.

a.

prior to 1663

m. Machtelt

De

Reimer.
Great-

2.
3.

Isaac Gouveneur, m. 1704 Sarah Staats.

Johanna Gouveneur,

b. 1705 m. 1729 Cornelius Lowe, grand parents of Joar na Hardenbergh Welles.

;

b. 1700.

Nicholas Gouveneur was a native of France, from whence he migrated to Holland and became a prominent merchant in

Amsterdam, engaged in trade with the New Netherlands. He subsequently came to America and resided in New Amsterdam, where July 9, 1663, he united with the Dutch Reformed Church. Fourteen years later, July 12, 1677, he was living in Amsterdam. His business required him to spend a considerable portion of his time in France and Holland. He died prior to i6Sv He married Machtelt De Reimer and had
:

21

162

HON. JACOB
b.

R.

HARDENBERGH.
was reversed and
stored. his estates re-

Abraham,

1671; will dated Sept.

proved Oct. 8, 1740; m. May 16, 1699, Mary, dau. Gov. Jacob Leisler, and widow ot Jacob Milbourne. * He was
12, 1739,

Elected a

member

of in

the
1699,

New York Assembly

he served until 1702 and was Speaker of the Assembly in

1701.
Isaac, d.

clerk of Leisler's

Committee
Clerk
of

of

Safety and

Town

New
high
Mil-

Aug.

25,

York

was

attainted

of

24, 1704, Sara, d.

1728; m. June Nov. 8, 1726,

treason with Leisler and

bourne and his property confiscated, but in 1695 the judgment

Samuel Staats and Johanna Reynders.

dau. Dr.

Maclltelt De Reinier, wife of Nicholas Gouveneur, was born Jan'y iS, 1644, and died Sept. 27, 172!. After Gouveneur' death she married Oct. 14, 1685, Jasper Nissepadt, a baker,

whose name appears on the membership roll of the Reformed Church of the city of New York. Nov. 29, 16S2. She was a daughter of Isaac De Reimer and Lysbeth Grevenraet.

The De Reimer Family.

Isaac
liest

De

residents of
is

Reinier,! a French Huguenot, was one of the earNew Amsterdam, of whom our only informa-

tion
2.

that he married Lysbeth Grevenraet,

d.

and had

Margaretta,

ab't

1712

m.

1,

June

5,

165S,

Cornelius Steen-

wyck, a merchant distinguished

for his wealth,
integrity,

m. 2, Oct. 20, 1686, Rev. Henricus Selyns, who said "she was rich in temporal goods but
lace
:

unbounded
of the

popularity,

and was one

richer in spiritual

:"

he was

b. in

commissioners appoint-

Holland, 1656, pastor at Brooklyn 1660-64 New York 1682;

ed to draft articles of surrender

to Col. Nicholls in 1664,

1701,

and did much

to enlarge

Maytern.

the usefulness of the Reformed

or of

New

York, 1668-70 and

16S2-S3, and Governor pro

during absence of Gov. Love-

church and secure for it an independent foundation under the English government.

fJacob Milbourne was Secretary of Gov. Jacob Leisler and his right hand man. He was executed with Leisler, on the charge of high treason, May 15, i69T,by the order of Gov. Sloughter. By act of parliament the attainder was reversed and Leisler's conduct

approved, and in 1698 the remains of Leisler and Milbourne were exhumed, by order of Lord Bellomont, Governor of New York, and with great parade buried under the floor of the Dutch Church in Garden street.

tDeReimer is probably the original of Doremus. The descendants of George De Reimer, one of the purchasers of the Preakness tract in Passaic Co., N, J., in 1723, wrote their names Teremis, Deiemis, Doorremus, Doremus.

MARY MAKGARET LOWE HARDENBERGH.

3.

163
I,

Peter, a glazier, b. ab't 1643, will

Sept. 27, 1721

m.

Nicholas
Oct.
14,

dated Jan'y 29, 1697, Oct. 5, 1702; m. June

dau. Isaac

proved
3,

Gouveneur;
5.

m.

2,

1665,

16S5, Jasper Nissepadt.

Susanna, bp. Jan'y 22, 1645, De Foreest and Sara

b.

Huybert,

naval

surgeon,

united

with Reformed church at

New

duTrieux.*
4.

York, Aug.
Jan'y
18,

24, 1671
.

m. Cath-

Machtelt,

1644,

d.

erine

Lysfoetll Greveiiraet, wife of Isaac

25, 16S7.

De Reimer,

died Dec.

name is not known. Her mother, Metje Grevenraet, a widow, was from Amsterdam, HolHer land, and a resident of New Amsterdam prior to 1632.
Her
father's given

brother, Isaac Grevenraet, inherited

considerable real estate

from his mother, was a dry-goods merchant, and in 1664, a Schepcn of New Amsterdam. He married first, March 24, 1652, Lysbeth Jurianse, and second, June 2, 1663, Marritje After De Reimer's death, Lysbeth Grevenraet married Jans. Elbertsen, and again a widow, mariied, Feb'y 14, 1660, Elbert born in Germany in 1602, and having Samuel Drisius, Rev. been pastor of the Dutch Reformed church in London, came to America in 1652 and was pastor of the church of New Amsterdam. He could preach in the German, Dutch, French and
English languages.

He

died April iS, 1673.

telt

Isaac Gouveneur (3,) son of Nicholas Gouveneur and MachDe Reimer, was a prominent merchant in the city of New

York.
of foot

He

commanded by

appears on record in 1700 as Ensign of a company Capt. Leonard Lewis, one of the Hard-

enbergh patentees.

With others he

petitioned

Lord Viscount

Cornbury, Feb'y 19, 1704, in relation to regulating the value of Foreign coin. April 3, 172S, a short time before his death he united with the Reformed Church at Harlingen, N. J., by
certificate.

Several of his children in subsequent years were

this

also

members of

church, and

it

may be

that during the lat-

ter years of his life

he was a resident of

New

Jersey, but he

probably placed his certificate in the Harlingen Church, be''Peter

city.

De Reimer's

son Isaac was a merchant in

Also, served as Assistant

Alderman

1696-7,

New York, and in 1700, Mayor of the ana as Alderman 1699, 1702, '07, '14-17.

164

HON. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH.

pastor,

cause of his sympathy with the Conferentie sentiments of the Rev. Johannes Arondeus. His will bears date May 16,

and he died Aug. Staats and had

:

25, 1728.

He
;

married June 24, 1704,

Sai'a

4.

Johanna bp. Ap'l

Oct. 17, 1763, m.

15,

1705

d.

July

3,

1762,

"at 3 o'clock A.

May

10, 1729,

Cornelius Lowe, bp. Mar. 31, 1700, d. 1777, son of Cornelius

M.," widower of Tryntie Staats, and son of Lewis Morris, Governor of New Jersey, and Isabella
11.

Lowe and Margareta Van

som.
5.

Bor-

Graham.*
b.

Geertruy or Gertrude,
1716;
d.

Mar.

5,

Magdalena, bp. Aug. 18, 1706, United with Harlingen, N. J. Reformed Church, Ap'l 3, 1728,

1775; m. David Ogden of Newark, N. J,,

Dec.
30,
b.

6.

by certificate, m. John Hall. Samuel, bp. Feb'y 29, 170S;

Oct.
3,

d.

1709.
3,

1707; d. at Jamaica, L. I., 1798; graduated Yale College 1728; a renowned lawyer, his house was burned during the
anti-lawyer riots 1769-70, Judge

7.

Margrita, bp. Sept.

Alida, b.
2,

1709.
;

8.

March

31, 1711

d.

Sept.

1758; m. Broughton.
9.

May
Aug.
as

12, 1737,

John

Supreme Court of New Jersey a Tory in the Revo1772-76

;

lution and
7,

member of

the Board

Nicholas, b.

1713.

He
mer-

of

and

his brother Isaac (13) are

described

"English
in

1745 at Curacoa, " an island in the Carrib-

chants residing

Refugees 1779. His father, Col. Josiah Ogden, b. 1679, d. built Trinity Church, 1763, New York.t
b.

12. 13.

Samuel,

Feb'y
3,

24, 1720.

bean Sea
zuela.
10.

off

the coast of Vene-

Isaac, b. Oct.

1721.

In busi-

ness with his brother Nicholas

;

Sara, b. Oct. 14, 1714

14,

d.

Jnn'y

(9) at

Curacoa

in 1745. %

1786; m. Nov.
b.

3,

1746,

Lewis
;

14.

Abraham,

b. Sept.

1723.

Morris,

Sept.

23,

1698

d.

Jan'y 31, 1752,

*Sara Gouveneur and Lewis Morris had Gouverneur Morris, b. at Morrisania, N. Y., d. Nov. 6, 1816. One of the delegates that framed the Constitution of the
;

United States several minor

difficulties

Minister to France 1791, and agent to the British Government to adjust returned in 1798 and filled a vacancy in the U, S. Senate from
;

May
cies

3,

1800 to

March

3, 1801.
iri

tThe
and

anti-lawjrer riots occurred

suits at

a time of great financial distress

when

bankrupt-

law were common and the prosecuting creditor and his attorney odious In Monmouth and Essex counties, on the day for holding to the debtor and his friends. court, the people violently prevented the judges from executing their office alleging oppression by the lawyers through their exorbitant charges for cost. There were many acts of violence but the sedition was soon quelled. The Board of Refugees was composed of the rankest Tories of the Revolution. " Their hostility to the patriots was more maglignant than that of the British soldiery and being generally directed by revenge was more brutally practiced and more keenly felt." John Ogden and Richard Ogden of Stamford, Ct., ancestors of the New York and New Jersey Ogdens, in 1642 built the first church erected in New Amsterdam. t" Whereas a most false and wicked report has been invented and spread in the Prov-

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDENBERGH.

65

land.

Sarah StaatS, wife of Isaac Gouveneur, was born in HolShe died Nov. 8, 1726. She was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Staats and Johanna Reynders.

The Staats
1.

Families.
LINE.
d. 1664.

HARDENBERGH
Maj.

Abram

Staats,

c.

a.

1642

m. Tryntie Jochernse Wessels,

2.

Samuel

Staats,

M. D.,

b. 1657,

m. Johanna Reynders,

d. d.

prior to 1705.
1728.

3.

Sara Staats,

b. in

Holland, m. 1704, Isaac Gouveneur,

Great-

great-great-grand-parents of Joanna Hardenbergh Welles.

Major Abram Staats,

ca in the ship Houttuyn,

original

name

Staes,

came

to

Ameri-

Adriaen Dircksen Houttuyn, Skipper. He came as a licensed chirurgeon or surgeon, bringing with him a servant, and arrived at Rensselaerwyck August, 1642, with the Rev. Johannes Megapolensis, the first minister at Albany, N. Y. In 1643 he became one of the Council of Rensselaerwyck, was on the committee appointed to enclose the village of Beaverwyck and was made President of the Board of
Council in 1644,
at a salary

of 100 florins or $40 per

annum.

obtained a license to trade in furs, and in 1657 sent 4200 He had also a large boubeaver skins to New Amsterdam.

He

wery or farm and considerable professional practice. For many years he was a skipper on the Hudson river, commanding the sloop Claverack, plying between Albany and New York. July n, 1664, his house at Claverack was fired by the
Indians,

and

his wife

it

is

said perished in the flames.

:

He

married Tryntie Jochernse Wessels, and had

inces of

New Vork
come

and Pennsylvania, that Nicholas and Isaac Gouveneur English merseveral

chants nowresidirg at Curacoa, where concerned as owners in a French privateer; which

report having

ways

to said Nicholas

and Isaac Gouveneur they have directed

of

a reward of one hundred pistoles to be paid to such person or persons as should discover the author or authors of the said report so that

any

them may be found

guilty

by due

course of law, and have directed action or actions forthwith to be commenced at law, upon the discovery of such evidence as by advice of counsel learned in the law shall be conceived sufficient to find him guilty and immediately upon their being found guilty, the said one hundred pistoles shall be paid by Brandt Schuyler, merchant in New York, who

has orders from said Nicholas and Isaac Gouveneur, to pay the said money and affix their names to this admonition this 22d day of July 1745." Nicholas Gouveneur, Isaac Gouveneur. New York WeeklyPost Boy. By Brandt Schuyler.

HON. JACOB
Samuel,
ders
b.
;

R.

HARDENBERGli.
genealogy.
4.

May,
111.

1657,

d.

Sept.

27, 1715
:

1,

Johanna Reyn-

Jochem, commissioned captain

of

m.

2,

arina, bp.

May 7, 1709, CathMay 22, 1664, wid-

the fort at Albany, N. Y., by

Gov. Leisler, Dec. 26, 16S9, m.

1,

ow

of

Thomas Howarden and

Isaac Bedlow and Eliza-

Antje,

who
Dec.

d.
:

1707.,

dau.

dau.

Barent Reynders
cina,
b.

m.

2,

Frandau.

beth de Potter.
Elizabeth,
d.

16,

1676,

June,

1737

m.

I,

Johannis Wendell, of Albany, N. Y., bp. Feb'y 2, 1649, d. 1691 ; Magistrate, 1684, Cap-

5.

Gov. Jacob Leisler. Jacob, Surgeon at Albany, N. Y.,

Master

of sloop Unity, Justice

of the Peace, 1690;

,

m. Rycke

Alderman, 1686; son of Johannis Wendell and Susanna De Trieux m. 2, Ap'l

tain,

1685,

6.

Sara,? m.

who d. Sept., 1709. Abraham Provost, who

town
of

dwelt in the present

25,

1695,

Johannis,

b.

Ap'l

5,

Athens, Green Co., N. Y., on

the Loonenburg patent in the

1668, d. P'eb'y, 1747, son of Philip Schuyler and Margarita

Van
of

Slichtenhorst.

See record

63-.

"Korst veloren" Abraham, b. 166'

Wendell.

tract.*
3,

Elsje

Annatje Staats, in Van Dyck

Tryntie Jockemse Wessels, wife of Major Abram

is

Staats,

said to have perished July 11,

1664,

when

her

burned by the Indians. She was the daughter of sels and Geertruy Hieronimus.

home was Jochim Wes-

The Wessels
JocMm

Family.

Wessels, name sometimes written Jochim Wessels, was an early resident of Beaverwyck. He took the Backer,
oath of allegiance to the Patroon

Van

Rensselaer

May 31,

1652.

His house was on the south corner of Broadway and State St., He the lot extending east to the river and south to Rutten kill. also had a lot on the south side of " Yonkers St., upon the hills there, next above Capt. Philip Schuyler's, near Lodge His will St.," which, in 1674, he sold to Hendrick Cuyler. was executed Feb'y 9. i6So, the year of his death. He married Greetruy Hieronimus. and had
:

2.

Tryntie Jochemse,
1664; m.

who d. July n, Major Abram Staats.

4.

sold

to

his

brother-in-law,

Abram

Staats.

3.

Hendrick Jochemse, owned lot on east corner of Broadway and State St., at Albany, which he
*History of Green Co., N. Y.

Andries Jochemse, was in Beaverwyck, 1663-5.

No

dates are given.

She

may have been

the daughter

of

Abraham

(6>s>.

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDEXBERGH.

Greetl'liy HieronimilS, wife of

167

ow when

Jochem Wessels, was a widJochem Wessels. Jan Casperse was her son and heir, and in 1657. William Hoffmeyer called Jochem Wessels his step- father.* Her first husband was probably Casshe married

per Hoffmeyer.

Samuel StaatS, M. D., (2), son of Maj. Abram Staats and Jochemse Wessels, was born in May, 16^7, and "died Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 27. 1715."

When

the

New

Netherlands

surrendered to the English, in 1664, he was sent to Holland, where he learned his pi'ofession, and remained until the Prince
the English throne in 16S8, when he rewith his family and took an active part in He was one of the Council of eight Leisler's administration.
of

Orange ascended

turned to
persons-

New York

whom Gov. Leisler appointed to assist him in the government of the province,! an d was afterward appointed by Lord
Bellamont, one of the King's Council, retaining the position
he was suspended by Lord Cornbury. He Johanna Reynders, and had, it is said, nine children. He married again, May 7, 1709, Catharina Bedlow, widow of Thomas Howarden. Hi-s children so far as known, were
until

1702,

when

married

first,

7.

Sara,

b.

in

Holland,

d.

Nov.

8,

9.

Catrina, bp. at
16, 1689.

New

York, June
at

1726; m. June 24, 1704, Isaac, son of Nicholas Gouveneur and

10.

Anna

Elizabeth,
21,

bp.

New

Machtelt
8.

De
b.

Reimer.
in

Geertruey,

Holland, m.
Peter

1,
:

May
m.
2,

25,

1711,

Nagel

1690; m. Aug. 28, 1719, Philip, bp. Nov. 6, 16S3, son of Brant Schuyler and
York, Dec.
Cornelia Van Cortlandt, of

June 3, 1716, Andries, son of Barent Pieterse Coeymans, the emigrant.

New

York,
11.

Joanna, bp. Jan'y

31, 1694.

until the fine

'William Hoffmeyer, in 1656, was fined 500 guilders and sentenced to be imprisoned was paid, and also banished three years from the Manhattans for conveying beer up the river and selling it to the Indians. He returned to Beavervvyck, and in 1657,

Jochem Wessels brought an action against him for the possession of a house. Hoffmeyer alleged that the plaintiff was his step-father and had made him a present of the house on his wedding day, but the plaintiff put in a special agreement in relation to the house, and
gained the case.
tLeisler's Council consisted of Pieter DeLanoy, Samuel Staats, Hendrick Jansen, Johannes Vermilye, Gerardus Beekman, Samuel Edsall, Thomas Williams, William Lawrence, all of them the most prominent men in the city.

l68
12.

HON. JACOB
Tryntie,
bp.
11,

R.

HARDENBERGH.
1711
nis
;

Ap'l
;

5,

1697,

d.

m.

May

5,

1743, Johan-

Mar.
d.

1731

m.

Mar.

17,

Van Derpoel,
of

bp.

Mar.

4,

1723, Lewis, b.

Sept. 23, 169S,

JyoS-

Great-great-gran
of

July 3, 1762, at 3 o'clock A. M., son of Gov. Lewis Morris,

of

rents

dp a Jane Elizabeth Van

Rev. Theodore D.

Dyck, wife

New

Jersey,

and Isabella
wife,
b.

13.

Graham.* Annatje, by 2d

W. Welles, D. Dyck genealogy.

See

Van

ab't

Johanna KeynderS, wife

bly a
sister

of Dr.

of Antje Keynders. wife of

therefore a

doctor's brother, and

dertse.

Samuel Staats. was probaJochem Staats, the daughter of Barent Reyn-

Barent Beyndertse,
in 16=57,

a smith,

purchased a

lot in

Beaverwyck

and there resided

lots

until his death in 1682.

and sold divers

in the village,

He bought and the year of his death

Jochim
Staats.

made

a sale of a lot to " his son-in-law,"

Cornelius Lowe (28), son of Cornelius Lowe (13) and Johanna Gouveneur, wrote his name Low. He was born Thursday, Jan'y 1, 1736, at Raritan Landing, near New Brunswick, N. J., and was baptized by the Rev. Henricus Boel,| Sunday, March 14, 1736, "in the old church," Garden street, erected in
Governor of New Jersey as an independent province, married James Graham, Esq., Attorney General of the province of New York, and left two sons, Robert Hunter Morris, who settled in the vicinity of Tinton Falls, Monmouth Co., N. J., and Lewis Morris, b. Sept. 23, 1698, d. July 3, 1762; m. Mar. 17,
*Levvis Morris, the first
Isabella, dau. of
1723, Tryntie Staats.

He was

the eldest son and inherited the paternal estates at Morris-

of Westchesone of his Majesty's Council, and Judge of the Admiralty for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. By his first wife Tryntie Lewis Morris, b. 1726, d. Jan'y 22, 1798 a delegate to the ConStaats, he left three sons gress of 1775, a signer of the declaration of independence, although he knew that a British army laid near his estate. His extensive possessions were laid waste and his family driven from their home. He was a Major General of militia during the Revolution, and afterwards served as a member of the New York Legislature. Staats Long Morris, espoused the cause of the loyalists, went to England, married Lady Catherine Gordon, dau. of William, 2d Lord of Aberdeen, and widow of Cosmo George, 3d Duke of Gordon. Richard Morris, the third son, was Chief Justice of New York. Tryntie Staats, wife of Lewis Morris, died in 1731 and he married, Nov. 3, 1746, Sara, dau. of Isaac Gouveneur and Sara Staats, and a neice of his first wife. See previous foot note in connection with children of

ania, Westchester Co., N. Y.

ter in the Legislature,

For several years he represented the borough

of the house,

was speaker
:

Isaac Gouveneur.

tRev. Henricus Boel, pastor of the Reformed church, of New York city, from 1713 to when he died. He frequently officiated in the surrounding churches. He was a bitter enemy of the Coetus party, in some instances re-baptizing children baptized by the Coetus ministers.
1 7S4i

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDEXBERGH.

1693,

.69

New

and afterwards called the South Dutch Church, of New The coat of arms bearing his name, hereCity. with presented, was recently discovered in an old desk that had long been in the possession of his great-grandson, J. Rutsen

York

Hardenbergh (50).
is

With

the exception of the lambrequin,

it

a reproduction of the coat of

was

a shield

arms used by his father, which with the same design on the field as here given,

and the same

obtained, or

crest

without surrounding ornamentation, and be-

From whence it was why adopted, we have been unable to ascertain, but its use by the Lowe family between the years 1700 and 777 s absolutely certain. Cornelius Lowe (28), died Tuesday, Oct. 3,
neath the shield the motto Ex-Necessitate.
1
^

1769, in the 34th year of his age.

After reaching maturity he

became
N.
J.
22

identified with the Protestant

Episcopal church, and was

buried in the graveyard of Christ church, at

New

Brunswick,
:

He

married, about 1760, Catherine Hude, and had

I^O
36.

HON. JACOB
b.

R.

HARDENBERGH.
d.

James Hude,
ter

ab't 1763

was

Feb'y

23, 1841

m. Oct.

26,

living in 1789, died not long af-

I79> Jacob Rutsen, b. Jan'y 19, 1767, d. Feb'y 13, 1841, son of

without issue.
y.
6,

37.
38.

Johanna, b. ab't 1766, d. Mary Margaret, bp. Oct.

Rev.
1768,

Jacob R. Ffardenbergh, D. D., and Dina Van Bergh.

Catherine Hude, wife of Cornelius Lowe (28), was the daughter of the Hon. James Hude and Mary Johnson, of New Brunswick, N. J. She was born about 1736. Her husband
died in 1769 and she survived him many years. The date of her death is not known. letter, received in 1789 from her

sister-in-law, Gertrude

Lowe, wife of Alexander Wallace who

interest:

was banished from the country in 1779? contains much ing information, which is given as it was written
"I congratulate you my dear
settlement.
sister

on the happy prospects

of Polly's*

may you spend your latter days in peace and happiness. I am very glad to hear Your experience will be useful to her, and that you intend living with her. You told me the young I am sure it must be her wish to make you happy. gentleman was son to the president but you forgot to tell me his name. Whatever it is I shall always be happy to acknowledge the relationship if he makes her a good husband. I, with you, sincerely hope Jamesf was spared for a good purpose. He has been an unfortunate young man, but it is not too late to mend if he could be roused from indolence. Can't you persuade him to go to sea. I should think it would be the only means of Tell him I feel for him and give him bringing him to his proper senses. If he the advice that I would give my own son if he was in the same way. could see his cousins, Cornelius and Alexander They often work in the office till twelve o'clock at night and are up two hours before it is light. Alexander stays most of the day on vessels to see them loaded and someHad Hugh been destined for times has scarce time to get his dinner. trade, I am afraid he would not have been quite so industrious, but, as he He has been very fortunate in his is, he may indulge a little in idleness. He has made some good acquaintances that lead him recruiting quarters. He has been rather extravagant and wild, but a little in good company. pride has been of use to him, it has made him carefully avoid low compaJ thank God, that we have been as fortunate with our children as we ny. could wish, and our settlement here has answered full as well as we could Their manners and cusI did not like Ireland for the first year. expect. toms were not exactly what I had been used to, and perhaps, a little envy
she enjoy every blessing heaven can send and
:

May

*Mary Margaret Lowe

tJames Hude Lowe
rine

(38).

(36),

son of Cornelius

Lowe

(28) the writer's broth?r^=and Cathe*

Hude

to

whom

this letter

was

written,

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDENBERGH.

in

1^1

somej helped to keep

can say with truth,
I

me
off,

back, but as I got acquainted with the inhabi-

manners became familiar to me and as if I had been born here and my family respected by the first people. If it was our wish, we might be in company every night but the men of the house have not time and Joanna and I are not fond of cards. We are sometimes obliged to attend large parties but prefer a few friends in the snug way. Mr. and Mrs. Low* promised me a visit last summer I hope to have them next summer but my brother was prevented by business. Our beTo one that does not ing so nigh England is an agreeable circumstance. fear the sea the trip is nothing. I spent three months there, very agreeaIsaac is a wonderful young man.f If indulgence bly, a twelve month ago. would spoil a lad he had a bad chance, but I think I never saw so good a disposition. He has not so handsome a face as I expected but the most pleasing manners. His mother doats over him and it is no wonder. She is miserable if he is a moment out of her sight and she don't know exactly what he is about and he, with the greatest good humor, accounts to her My master and all my flock, join me in best wishes for all his actions. and congratulations to you and yours. I am, dear sister, yours
tants their stiffness wore
I

and

their
at

am

as

much

home

Affectionately
G.

WALLACE

Waterford, Nov.

25th, 1789.

The Hude
I.

Families.

Adam -Hude,

b.

166 1,
b.

c.

a.

1685; m. Marion
;

2. 3.

Hon. James Hude,

Catherine Hude,
b.

1695

m.

Mary Johnson.
b. 1736.

1736; m. 1760,? Cornelius Lowe, parents of Joanna Hardenbergh Welles.

Grand-

Adam Hude was born in Woodb ridge, N. J., June 27,

of age he sailed for

Scotland in 1661.
1746.

He

died at

When

twenty-four years

America from Leith, Scotland, with two

ill-

hundred of
tle,

his

banished and oppressed countrymen, in the

fated, "fever-stricken ship,

Henry and Francis,

of

New

Cas-

3^0 tons and 20 great guns, Richard Hutton, Master." This vessel had been chartered by George Scott, the Laird of Pitlochie, who had been many times fined and imprisoned ''for absence from the Kings host," attending conventicles and other
*Isaac
land.

Low

and his wife, who, having been banished the country, were living
of Isaac, the writer's brother. of Great Britain.

in

Eng-

tlsaac

Low, son
Royal

He

was, later

in life,

Commissary Gen-

eral in the

Army

i'72

HON. JACOB

R.

HARDENBERGH.

Government, and was finally released from prison upon his engaging to go "to the plantations within the parts of America." He then published ''A Model of the Government of East New Jersey in America," which induced many of his countrymen to join him. He was authorized by the Crown to take with him 105 prisoners from the tollbooth
offences obnoxious to the

or

jail at

Leith.

Many

of these prisoners protested in writing

against their banishment for conscience sake, "in that they had

refused allegiance to a king whom they felt bound to withstand and disown, considering him an enemy in religion and an avowed papist." All of these " protestants " were prisoners, some of whom are said to have " suffered for their belief, to
the loss of a
left

ear and

many

of

whom

were

in clanger of

death."

Among

these prisoners for conscience sake from the

tollbooth at Leith

was

Adam

oath of allegiance to the king

Hude, who refusing to take the was banished to East Jersey in

Sept. 5, 16S5,

America.

The

ship sailed from Leith

but scarcely

reached Land's

End

before a malignant fever broke out

passengers and crew.

George

Scott, the Laird

among w ho had charT

tered the vessel, and his wife

were among the

first

victims.

His son-in-law, "John Johnstone, a druggist from Edinborough at the sign of the Unicorn," then took command of the
expedition, but

when

the vessel reached Perth

Amboy

seventy

who had embarked at Adam Hude is said

tled

Leath had been buried in the sea. to have been a weaver, and probably

set-

on Staten Island. He was residing there in 1695, but during that year he purchased lands at Woodbridge,* Middlesex Co., N. J., where he resided, " a mile north of the meeting
house," for the remainder of his days.
In October, 1710, he
at to the

was admitted

membership of the Presbyterian church

Woodbridge, and
the

for

many

years took an active and prominent

its

part in the administration of

affairs.

He was

member

of

Provincial
1

Assembly of
7 1 S,

New
J.,

Jersey in 1701.

appointed, in

one of the judges of the Court of

He was Common
by one
of

Pleas for Middlesex Co.,

N.

and acted

in the capacity of
1680,

*Woodbridge was incorporated by Governor Philip Carteret prior to it is said, that had ever been given in America. sex Co., N. J., about two miles north of Perth Amboy.
the most liberal charters,

It is in

Middle-

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDENBERGH.

Presiding Judge as late as T733.

173"

He was recommended

to the

English Authorities by Gov. Robert Hunter, Nov. 3, 1 71S, for appointment as a member of the King's Council. He was also
a

Master

in

dence of his fellow citizens. the Presbyterian churchyard

tion
:

Chancery, and enjoyed in a great degree the confiHis tombstone, still to be seen in
at

Woodbridge, bears tne

of

inscrip-

"Here

lyes ye
27.

body

Adam Hude,

Esq.

Departed June

1746 in ye 85 year of his age."

In the same ship that brought

Adam Hude
own
age,

to

sailed a Scotch lassie of about his

America there named Marion.

They may have known each other previous to the memorable Saturday when they embarked for the Xew World, or they

may have
They

fallen in love

with each other during the voyage.

certainly found delight in each others society while glid-

ing over the waters of the Atlantic, for after their arrival in

America they were married, in 16S6. Hude and Marion his wife, were
:

The

children of

Adam

2.

John,

b.

July 23, 1687,

Oct. 29, 1689.

d.

Nov.

1687.
3.

inscription:
b. b.

Agnes,
Robert,
30,

Woodbridge, bears the simple "Here lyes ye body of Robert Hude Esq Deceased

4.

Sept. 25, 1691, d. July

1748;

member

of the Pro5.

Jan'y ye 30th 1748 in ye 58 year of his age."

vincial

Jersey, 1740

Assembly of New Jerand 1742, Judge of

Andrew,
James,
1,

b.

6.

b.

July Aug.

13, 1693, d- I 7 I 6. 14, 1695, d.

Nov.

the Court of

Common

Pleas for
7.

Middlesex Co., N. J. He reHis sided at New Brunswick. tombstone in the churchyard at

1762; m. Mary Johnson. Mary, b. July 27, 1696, d. July 21, Bloomfield, of 1773 m.
;

Woodbridge, N.

J.

Marion, wife of Adam Hude, was born in Scotland in Feb'y, 1661, came to America in 1685, and died at Woodbridge, N.
J.,

her bereaved husband which is copied from a book in the possession of Rev. Ravaud Kearney Rodgers, D. D., for many years pastor of the Presbyterian church at Bound Brook, N. J., a great-great-grandson of Adam Hude and Marion
20, 1732.
this sad affliction

Nov.

Of

made

the following record,

"My

allow dear wife departed this

life

the 20th day of

November

She and I lived 46 years 1732 in the 70 year and nine months of her age. together, man and wife in sweet society. And as she lived in sweet peace and
quiet, fell asleep in Jesus at 5 o'clock of the

morning, the said day

1^4
abovesaid,

HON. JACOB
And

R.

HARDENBERGH.
God
will bring her to

as she sleepeth in Jesus

shall appear in the clouds with his holy angels

him when he and saints with the Lord

Jesus in glorious appearance.

Ameane"

In addition to this loving tribute to her

for nearly half a century, her

many

virtues

from
yard

her bereaved husband, so eloquently testifying of a happy married

life

tombstone

in the

of the Presbyterian church at

story of domestic bliss
:

Woodbridge repeats
of

the pleasing

"Here

lies

the body of

Mrs Marion Hude, wife

Adam Hude Esq

and lamented in death. She lived a pattern of piety, patience, meekness and affibility, and after she had served her generation in ye love and fear of God, in ye 71st year of her age fell asleep in Jesus Nov. ye 20th 1732."
for the space" of 46 years, dearly beloved in life

Hon. James Hude (6), son of Adam Hude and Marion his was born at Woodbridge, Middlesex Co., N. J., WedHe died at New Brunswick, N. J., nesday, August 14, 1695. November 1, 1762, where for many years he resided. He apwife,

pears
chant.

first

on record

at

New

Brunswick,

in

1726, as a mer-

December

30, 1730, he with others, petitioned the king

for a charter for the city of New Brunswick, N. J.,* which was favorably regarded and James Hude became the first Recorder for the new city. From 1732 till 174S, he was Judge of

the Court of
a

Common

pleas for Middlesex County, and in 173S

member

of the Provincial

the accession of Gov.

to the Council,

Assembly of New Jersey. Lewis Morris, in 173S, he was taken

On
in-

and continued the Governor's constant supportalso a

er throughout his administration, following his lifeless remains to

the grave.

He was

member

of the Council with Gov.

Josiah Hardy, a Master in Chancery, Trustee of Rutgers ColThe lege and Mayor of the Corporation of New Brunswick.

Neiv York Mercury, in speaking of his death, says Monday, Nov. S, 1762:

in its issue

*New Brunswick, the seat of justice for Middlesex Co,, N. J., on the Raritan river, about as miles southwest of New York. The place where the city stands was originally covered with woods and called Prigmore's Swamp. A ferry where the post-road, now Albany street, crossed the river, was called Inian's Ferry, the proprietors having granted the ferry in 1697, to Inian and his wife for their lives, at a rent of five shillings sterling per annum. The first European inhabitants were from Long Island the pioneer being one Daniel Cooper. About 1730, several Dutch families emigrated from Albany, bringing building material such as bricks and tiles imported from Holland. About this time the settlement, which had hitherto been known as " The River," was named New Brunswick.

MARY MARGARET LOWE HARDENBERGH.

"On Monday
last,

75

noon, departed this

between the hours of eleven and twelve in the forein an advanced age, after a long and tedious indisposition, the Hon. Col. James Hude, Esq., of New Brunswick, IN. J., a gentleman who for his probity, justice, affability, moral and political virHe tues, was universally esteemed and beloved by those who knew him. passed through almost all the honorable offices and employments in the Government where he lived, as well as those in the voice of the people. "At the time of his death he was one of His Majesty's Council, and Mayor of the Corporation of New Brunswick. His death is not only an irreparable loss to the poor who had at all times free access to his person, his advice and his assistance, without fee or reward, but to the public, is a He was a most tender and loving husband, an insubject of great regret. He has left a disconsolate and weeping dulgent father and kind master.
life,

widow and

children.

" 'Blefsed are the dead

who

die in the Lord.'"

his will Feb'y 2, 1749-50, and changing the executors of the will, He mentions his wife ->nd children by name in Sept., 1762. given, with the exception of John, who had recently order the the children were minors when the will was exeAll died. cuted, and the codicil shows there were no additions to the fam-

The Hon. James Hude made

a

added therelo

codicil

ily after that date, 1749.

The

loss of the records of the First

Brunswick, renders it impossible He married Alary to give the dates of the children's baptism. Johnson, and had
Presbyterian church of
8.

New

James,
N.

b.

ab't
of

1732.

Deputy
ap11.

Cornelius

Lowe and Johanna

County Clerk
J.,

Somerset Co.,

Gouveneur.

1765-74.

He was

pointed a Trustee of Rutgers

college, 1782.
9.

Anne, b. 1738, d. Ap'l 3, 1828, aged 90 years ; in. Ravaud, b.

X

73S, d. Sept.

3,

1806, son Phil-

Mary,

b.

ab't 1734; m.

Robert
m. ab't

ip

Kearneyf and Lady Barney

Livingston.*
10.

Dexter.
;
.

"She

retained in a

Catherine, b. ab't 1736

1760,

Cornelius,
d.

b.

Jan'y

1,

1736,

Oct.

3,

1769, son of

remarkable degree that suavity of manners and mild, amiable, Christian deportment which

*Ann,dau. of Robert Livingston and Mary Hude, m. Augustus Van Home, of New Susa/i, who m. Jared Stuyvesant, of New York, and Eliza, who m. Samuel Ellis who died at Oakland, Cal., June 20, 1874, aged 71 yrs. father of Col. Augustus V. H. Ellis, killed at Gettysburg, July 2, 1S63, of Julius Ellis who died from wounds received
York, and had
;

in battle

during the Rebellion of 1861-64, and of Mrs. John Heuston, of Oakland, Cal.

tRavand Kearney's father died July 25, 1775. His mother's maiden name was Ravaud. His grandparents were Michael Kearney, from Ireland, and Sarah, dau. of Gov. Lewis Morris. Gen. Phil. Kearney, distinguished for his dash and bravery during the Rebellion of 1861-64, vy as a descendant of Ravaud Kearney.

176

HON. JACOB
endeared her to
all."

R.

HARDENBERGH.
1766, William Neilson from from Londonderry, Ireland, a shipping merchant of wealth, with a country seat near John Jacob Astor's, west of the hill at junction of Broadway and Anthony St., above Bleeker St.,

12.

John,
bears

b.

1739.

His tombstone

the

inscription:

"In

memory of John ye son of James Hude and Mary his wife. Died March ye 15, 1747 aged 8 dys." y'r's. 3 mns

13.

Robert,

b.

ab't 1741, resided at

;

New

York.
b. ab't 1744. b. ab't 1746.

New
life.

Brunswick

m.

late

in

Hallenah,
Margret,

No

issue.
b. ab't

14.

Susannah,

1742; m. ab't

Mary

Simon Johnson, of

JohnSOIl, wife of Hon. James Hude, was a New York city, but her parentage

sister

of

we have

have been unable to ascertain. Her brother Simon was Alderman for the South ward of New York, 1734-47, a member of the Colonial Assembly, 1737-391 Recorder for the city, ^4760, and Charter Trustee of Queens, now Rutgers college, 1700^ He married, Nov. 7, 1737, Margarita Van Home, of New York, was one of the executors of James Hude's will, and
died about 1772.

nil

Rev. Theodore

W.

Welles, D. D.

Theodore Wyckoff Welles was the third son of the Rev. Ransford Welles, D. D., and Joanna Hardenbergh. After He was born at 18S3 he signed his name Theo. W. Welles. Newark, Essex Co., N. J., Monday, May 6, and was baptized

November
citv.
ily

29, 1839, in the First

Reformed Church of his

native

In personal appearance he resembled his mother's fam-

and was frequently asked if his name was not Hardenbergh. measured five feet, eight and three-quarter inches in height his average weight, after maturity, was 150 pounds; his eyes and hair were dark his voice, full his enunciation, clear and

He

distinct.

He
health

attended the

Academy

in

Schoharie Village, Schoharie

all

Co., N. Y., until about fourteen years of age,

made
at

it

necessary for him to cease

study.

when failing To occupy

the time he
kill

became a

clerk in stores at Schoharie, at Cobles-

Albany, N. Y. When eighteen years of age he taught school at Niskayuna, Schenectady Co., N. Y., and subsequently at Fonda, the meanwhile reading law with the Hon. Frothingham Fish, of Fultonville, Montgomery Co., N. Y. He made a public profession of his faith in Christ, October 16, 1S59, m tne Third Reformed Church, since known as the Park Avenue Reformed Church, of Jersey City, N. J. Having determined to study for the ministry, he pursued his studies at home during the winter of 1S59-60, and in the spring of 1S60, was engaged as an assistant teacher in the Academy at Lansingburgh, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Peter R. Furbeck, Principal, and there finished his preparation for college. He entered the junior class of Rutgers College, September, 1S60; was junior orator at the College Commencement in 1S61, and, having

and

23

78

REV. THEODORE W. WELLES, D. D.

maintained an average scholarship of 94, graduated in 1862,

receiving the degree of A. B.

He was

thessophian Literary Society and of the Delta

Fraternity.

member of the PeiKappa Epsilon

When

receiving the degree of

first

delivered the Master's oration, the

A. M., in 1865, he of the graduates of Rut-

gers College to enjoy this honor.

He

entered the Theological

Brunswick, N. J., and graduated therefrom The same year he Was licensed to preach the Gospel in 1S65. by the Classis of Montgomery, and ordained, by the South Classis of Bergen, pastor of the Reformed Church of Bergen Neck, Hudson Co., N. J., the pulpit of which during his last year in the Seminary he had supplied. A short time after his settlement, the name of the Church was changed to the First Reformed Church of Bayonne. The congregation rapidly increased, a parsonage was built and a new house of worship was erected on the corner of Avenue C and Bayonnia Avenue. In 1S73, October 7th, he became pastor of the First Reformed Church of Freehold, known as the Old Brick Church, at Marl-

Seminary

at

New

borough, Monmouth Co., N. J. After a pastorate here of more than fourteen years he accepted a call from the Fourth Reformed Church, of Philadelphia, Pa., and on Thursday evening, Dec.
1,

1SS7,

was

installed pastor of the church.

In a

few months he was called to the pastorate of the Second Reformed Church of Totowa, at Paterson, N. J., and was there
installed,

May

6,

1889, the

fiftieth

anniversary of his birth.

He
er,

received the honorary degree of D. D. in 1S93, from Rut-

gers College, "for his eminent success as a pastor and a preach-

and

for his varied contributions to

theological literature."

was superintendent of the public schools of Bavonne, and a member of the Board of School Examiners for 1870-76, member of the Board of PubliHudson Co., N. J. cation of the Reformed Church in America, and its recording
In 1866-67, he
;

secretary;

187S-S7, stated clerk of the Classis of

of the

Monmouth;

Board of Education of the Reformed 1S80-, Church in America, and after 1S90, its recording secretary; 1S7S-80, a member of the Board of Superintendents of the The18S3-4, president ological Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J.
;

member

of the

Monmouth Co.

Bible Society and also president of the

HIS PUBLICATIONS.

79

Monmouth

Co. Sunday School Association; 1SS4-87, corresponding secretary and treasurer of the Monmouth Co. Sunday School Association 1890-91, p resident of the Passaic Co. Sunday School Association 1891-, a member of the New Jersey Historical Society and of the New York Genealogical and
;

Biographical Society

1S92-, trustee of the Paterson

;

Orphan

Asylum, and 1893-, vice president of the Board 1S92-, stated 1S93-, a direcclerk and treasurer of the Classis of Paramus tor of the Rescue Mission, also a trustee of the Stinson Library, Paterson, N. J. His publications have been: ''Amusements," in Rutgers "The Victories of the Union College Quarterly, January, 1861 the Victories of the Lord," a Thanksgiving sermon, 1863; ''Victory Turned to Mourning." a sermon on the death of Pres; ;

ident Lincoln, 1S65

"The

Christian Life," a series of articles

in the Christian Intelligencer, 1867; Editorial Articles in the

Bayonfte Herald, 1S6S; "Bible Lessons on the Heidelberg "The Lessons of the Day," Thanksgiving Catechism," 1S73 sermon, 1S74; "The Days of Old," Brick Church memorial,
;

"The Monster Evil," a temperance lectm-e, 1878 "The the Kingdom of Heaven," a sermon on the Pope's death, 1S7S; "A Statistical History of the Classis of Monmouth," 1879; "A Manual for the use of the Classis of Mon1S77
; ;

Keys of

mouth," 1S79;
containing
the

"Gospel Ceasarism," Fourth of July sermon,

18S0; "Faith's Triumph," a memorial of Jennie A. Schenck,

"The Dying Message of the Savior and the Saved," Address before the sermon preached at her funeral, 1SS1 General Svnod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church at Philadelphia, Pa., 1883, "God's Work with Luther and Luther's Work for God," 1SS3 "Death, What is it?" a funeral sermon, 1SS5; "The Brick Church, Marlborough, N. J.," in Ellis's History of Monmouth County, N. J., 1SS5 Obituary of Rev. "The Decorated Grave," an oraGarret C. Schenck, 1SS8 "The Enduring tion delivered on Decoration Day, 1S91 Word," a sermon preached at the 75th Anniversary of the Monmouth Co. Bible Society, 1S92 Ancestral Tablets, from Colonial Davs to the Present Era, 1S93. He married, Wednesdav, May 27, 1863, Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck, at the residence of the Hon. Henry H. Van Dyck, the
;
;

So

REV. THEODORE W. WELLES,

D. D.

bride's uncle, 149

ny was

at

officiating,

Hamilton St., Albany, N. Y. The ceremoM., the Rev. Lawrence H. Van Dyck The assisted by the Rev. Ransford Welles, D. D.
2

o'clock P.

issue of this marriage

58.

was
12,

Laura Hoes,
m. June
jr.,

b.

Feb'y

1864;
son of

1866,

son of D.

Arthur Van
G.

20, 1883, 30,

John A. Lott,
1S56,

Derveer and Ellenor

Schenck, of Marlborough,

b.

June

Mon-

Hon. Abraham Lott and Gertrude

mouth
22,

Co., N.

J.

Bergen,

of

Flatbush, 60. Christine

Van Dyck,

b.

October
b.

Kings Co., N. Y.
59.

1868.

Fanny
S.

Reynolds,
2,

b.

July
Sept.

23,

61.

Joanna
Isabella

Hardenbergh,
April
5,

Dec.

1866; m. Nov.

1887,
b.

Tunis
29,
62.

16, 1S69, d.

1870.

Van Derveer,

Sill, b.

Dec. 23, 1871.

Additional data in relation

to

the children

of Rev. Theodore

W.

Welles,

D. D., and Jane Elisabeth Van Dyck.

1. Laura Hoes Welles (58), was born at Fultonville, Montgomery Co., N. Y., February 12, 1864. She attended school at New Brunswick, N..J., at the Glenwood Institute, Matawan, N. J., and at the Packer Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. She made a public profession of faith in Christ and was received to full communion in the First Reformed Church of She was married, Wednesday, Freehold, March 4, 1S76.

N.

June 20, 1SS3, at the Marlborough parsonage, Monmouth Co., J., by her father. Rev. Theodore W. Welles, assisted by the Rev. Cornelius L. Wells, D. D., to John A. Lott, jr.. son
of Judge Abraham Lott and Gertrude Bergen, of Flatbush, Kings Co., N. Y. The day was delightfully pleasant and the wedding was attended by about fifty guests from the immediate She resides at No. 10 Avefamilies of the bride and groom. nue A, Flatbush, Brooklyn, N. Y. Issue
:

44. 45.

Abraham Lloyd

Lott,
Lott,

b.

April 20, 1S84.

Theodore Welles
2.

b.

November

2,

1889.

Fanny Reynolds Welles

(59),

was born

at

Bayonne,

Co., N. J., Monday, July 23, 1S66. Wednesday, June 11, 1S73, she met with a terrible accident. While she

Hudson

HIS CHILDREN.

l8l

was playing
dirt cart

home, a careless driver of a She saw the cart coming, but in running to get out of the way, she fell and the heavy wheels of the cart passed over her abdomen, inflicting internal For several days the injuries, and breaking one of her arms. gravest results were apprehended, but skillful treatment and faithful nursing soon caused hopes of recovery to dispel gloomy fears, and in a few months these hopes were fully realized. Fanny attended the Marlborough Select School, and the Young Ladies Seminary at Freehold, Monmouth Co., N. J. She made a public profession of faith in Christ and was received to full communion, in the First Reformed Chuich of Freehold, June 2, 1SS3. She was married, Wednesday, November 2, 1S87, in the Old Brick Church, Marlborough, N. J., by the Rev. Theodore W. Welles, assisted by the Rev. Henry G. Smith of the First Presbyterian Church of Freehold, N. J., to Tunis Schenck Van Derveer, son of David Arthur Van Derveer and Ellenor Gaywood Schenck, of Freehold, Monmouth Co. N. J. The church was full, and when the question was asked, 'Who gives this woman to this man?" her little nephew, Lloyd Lott, shouted out '"My papa," just as his father stepped forward Fanny Welles Van Derto perform this part of the ceremony. Issue veer resides on a farm near Freehold, N. J.
a short distance from

drove directly over her.

52.

Theodore Welles Van Derveer,

b.

September

3,

1888.

3. Christine Van Dyck Welles (60), was born at Bayonne, Hudson Co., N. J., Thursday, October 22, 186S. She graduated from the Young Ladies Seminary at Freehold, in 18S7, at which time the ^lonmouth Democrat, in commenting upon the commencement exercises, said
:

"Miss Christine V. D. Welles, of Marlborough, by her frank, honest manner, clear enunciation and bright, sparkling thought upon a most charming subject well wrought out and delineated, was received with the highest favor and will be long remembered. Her topic was The Imagination and she evidently knew what she was writing about."
Christine made a public profession of her faith in Christ and was received to full communion, in the First Keformed Church of Freehold, March 1, 1884. Since 1S90, she has been preceptress of the West Side Kindergarten, and April, 1S94, was

lS2
elected a

REV. THEODORE W. WELLES,

D. D.

member

of the Board of Directors of the General

Hospital, Paterson,
4.

N.

J.

onne,

Joanna Hardenbergh Welles (61), was born at BayHudson Co., N. J., Thursday, December 16, 1S69. She

died from congestion of the lungs, Tuesday, April 5, 1S70. The following lines written by her father, a short time after

her death, were first published in the JBayonne Herald and were copied by several religious papers. They were entitled

Only

Babe.

Only a babe; scarcely four months old. Were the heartless words we heard spoken, While babie was lying silent and cold And our family circle was broken.

Only

babe

How

harsh the words

fall

On
The

the ears of those

loss of a babe,

who are grieving who though she is small,

Is a loss there

can be no retrieving.

Only

babe

but a dear, sweet babe,

gone, and a breach
filled

And

a link in love's golden chain

is is

An,d the link

made

That can never be

Only
a

up again.

babe

a dear

little thing,

So mild and so gentle and winning,

She ruled our hearts like a mimic king, Since the day she first had a beginning.

Only a babe
If

Oh do not say thus, you wish to give comfort and cheer, Only a babe she was precious to us And the joy of our home life the most dear.
! ! !

Only

babe
the

but such,
of

Form

kingdom

We'll find her a saint

we are taught, Heaven above, when home we're brought

love.

By the Saviour we adoringly

5. Isabella Sill

Welles (62), was born at Bayonne, HudShe attended the Marl23, 1S71. borough Select School and the Young Ladies Seminary at Freeson Co., N. J.,

December

J.

ELIZABETH VA-n DYCK WELLES.

ill

hold,

the last

was compelled to leave She made a public profession of faith in Christ and was received to full communion in the First Reformed Church of Freehold, February
N.
J.,

but on account of

health

named

institution before graduating.

2S, 1SS5.

Welles, D. D..

Jane Elizabeth Yan Dyck, wife of Rev. Theodore W. was born at Cairo, Green Co., N. Y., January v 1S3S. She was the second daughter of Rev. Lawrence H.
Christina Hoes.

Van Dyck and

On

the day of her birth, one

of the eiders of her father's congregation, a

Dutchman, inquired

of his pastor the child's sex.

'"A girl," was the reply of the

proud
fully,

" Well, Mr. Van Dyck," said the elder sorrowdan notting" that is better than nothing. The child who was the object of this dubious praise was her She was educated at Schomother's only legacy to the world. harie Academy, Schoharie, N. Y., and at the Young Ladies Seminary at Cherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y. December 2, 1S59, sne became a communicant in the Reformed Church at Blooming Gi"ove, Rensselaer Co. N. Y. For several years prefather,

"dat

is

petter

vious to her marriage she

made her home with her uncle, Hon. Henry H. Van Dyck, at Albany, N. Y., at whose house, 149 Hamilton St., she was married. Her eyes were grey and her hair dark brown her height, five feet four and a half inches.
;

Note.
tors.

The history of

the ancestry of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

is

so

extensive that to facilitate reference the headlines will indicate her ances-

The Van Dyck

i.

Families.

Hendrick Van Dyck,

Cornelius

c.

a.

1640; m. Divertje Cornelisse.

2.

Van Dyck, M.

D., b. 1642; m. 1664?, Elizabeth Lakens.

b.

3.

Hendrick Van Dyck, M. D.,

1666.

1665?;

m. 16S9, Marie Schuyler,

b.

4.
5.

Arent Van Dyck, b. 1700; m. 1722, Heyltje Van Alen, b. 1705. Lourens Van Dyck, b. 1739 m. 1762, Maria Van Derpoel, b. 1745.
;

6.

Henry
b.

L.

Van Dyck, M.

D., b. 1773;

m. 1795, Catherine

Van

Alen,

1775.

7.

Rev. Lawrence H.
1 So 7.

Van Dyck,
b.

b.

1807

m. 1833, Christina Hoes,

b.

8.

Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck, D. D., b. 1839.

1S3S; m. 1S63, Rev. Theo.

W.

Welles,

of

The Van Dyck family is identified with the early settlement New York by the Hollanders, who came to America, not

like the Puritans of

tion,

New

England

to

escape religious persecu-

but to establish trading posts and colonies, under the protecting care of the United Netherlands or Dutch Republic.

The Hollanders
erty

possessed in the Fatherland, the religious

lib-

which the Puritans sought in America, and transplanted it on American soil, denying no one the rights of citizenship in
the

New
;

Netherlands because of his religious creed.

religions should be tolerated

As

early

as 1 561, the public authorities of Holland

were of the opinion

all ciyil restraint

that

-all

and that

in matters of religion is as detestible as the inquisition."

This
ob-

catholic spirit
ject

made

the Netheriand city of

Amsterdam an

of ridicule in other countries, and caused the religious big-

ots of the

day

to style

The English

poet,
:

it "the common harbor for all herisies." Andrew Marvel, in denunciation of this tol-

erant spirit, says

"Hence Amsterdam, Turk,

That bank
of conscience,

Christian, Pagan, Jew,

Staple of sects and mint of schisms grew,

where not one so strange

Opinion, but finds credit and exchange.

In vain for Catholics ourselves

we

bear,

The Universal church

is

onlv there."

DUTCH INLFUENCE

IN

AMERICA.

l8$

From
ers

this early cradle of religious liberty the

Pilgrim Fath-

embarked on the May Flower and weighed anchor for the voyage forever memorable in the annals of America, which resulted in the establishment of the Plymouth colony on the bleak coasts of New England. From this land also, between the years 1615 and 1664, there came to America, a quiet, order-loving, peaceable and conservative people, who established settlements at the mouth of the Hudson river and along its banks to the head of tide-water. The greater portion were God-fearing people, of approved character in the old world, who formed a church wherever they made a settlement, and endeavored to mould their government and laws in accordance with the faith once delivered to the saints and the manners and customs of the Fatherland. Their success in this direction was beyond the
range of their expectations,
excelling
that
its

their influence in the New World

nationality,

of

any other

however large the

number of

representatives, or persistent their claims.

Hu-

government of the people by the people and for the people, the town-meeting, the public school, were ideas borrowed from the Hollanders. Even the national name the United States of America was suggested by the name of the Dutch Republic, the United Netherlands and the form of government at present prevailing, copied from the goverment of the Netherlandish Reformed Church. In farming, gardening, flori-culture, stock raising and breeding they surpassed all others were the first to introduce and acclimate the Oriental fruits, flowers, grains and plants, that are now so common, as well as the popular American breakfast luxury, the bock-weit or buckwheat cake. They invented the enclosed and covered forcing bed, the hot-house, the winnowing fan, the plow in its modern form, and taught the use of artificial grasses and the
equality, the

man

rotation of crops.
lands,

The best dykes, drainage, reclamation of gardens and farms in colonial days, were along the Hudson River and in the Mohawk Valley. From them came
sleighs

the

and the skates, which make winter a season of

which our homes would be well nigh cheerless. " It was on a Dutch sleigh that the Rhode Islander, Oliver H. Perry, of Ensrlish-

delight and pleasure, and also the stove, without

86

THE VAN DYCK FAMILY.

Quaker, and Scotch-Irish descent, made rapid transit to Lake by means of the Dutch invention, called a camel, floated his green-timber ships over the bar and out to victory, under the same red and white stripes that floated from the masts of Piet Hein, Von Tromp and De Ruyter." The
Erie, and

Dutch with
city of the

taught the

their saw-mills, built New Amsterdam, the capital New Netherlands, with sawed lumber, and thereby New Englander to abandon the laborious saw-pit

and

to

reap wealth from his forests.

its

They invented

linen

under-clothing, besides starch and

application to ornamental

dress, leading the way also in the manufacture of soap from wood-ashes. " In the evolution of the post and frame, enclosed

and canopied bed, the bolster and the modern pillow, covered with removable case in the invention of the thimble, in the perfection and multiplication of spinning wheels for the domestic treatment of yarn, and of home machinery for the preparthe Dutch were the invenation of flax into linsey-woolsey either side of the Atlantic the borEnglish on the and tors rowers." Because of their advance in civilization and their acknowledged superiority, their neighbors in Connecticut, it invariably said of any new invention or improvement, beats the Dutch," as if that was proof undoubted of its excel"Whenever we utter the anglecized words, lency and merit.
;
;

' v

anchor, caboose, ballast, sloop, stoker, stove, doily, brandy,

duffel,

cambric, easel,
school

landscape, boss,
fishes,

stoop,

forlorn-hope,

body-guard,

of

boodle,

scow,

Santa

Claris,

blickey, pinkster, and a host of

words

in art, music,

seaman-

ship, handicraft, war, exploration, and the lines of human achievement most followed in the seventeenth century, we are but mispronouncing more or less fluently Dutch words, the labels of things borrowed from the Netherlander who settled in

New York and New Jersey."* The scenes and homes from whence these Netherlander came, are described with much poetic

beauty in the following lines

* See " The Puritan in Holland, England and America," by Douglas Campbell, also " The Influence of the Netherlands in the Making of the English Commonwealth and the American Republic," and " The Dutch Influence in New England," by William Elliot
Griffis.

THE FATHERLAND.
"What
land
is this,

87

that seems to be
?

mingling of the land and sea

This land of sluices, dikes and dunes ? This water net, that tesselates The landscape? This unending maze

Of gardens, through whose

latticed gates

The imprisoned pinks and tulips gaze ? Where in long summer afternoons The sunshine softened by the haze, Comes streaming down as through a screen Where over fields and pastures green The painted ships float high in air,

And
The

over

all

sails of

and everywhere wind mills sink and soar

?

Like wings of sea-gulls on the shore

"

" See

every house and room

is

bright

With glimmers

of reflected light
:

From

plates that on the dresser shine

Flagons to foam with Flemish beer,

Or sparkle with the Rheinish wine,

And And And

pilgrim flasks with fleur-de-lis,

ships upon a rolling sea

tankards, pewter topped and queer,

:

With grotesque mask and musketeer Each hospitable chimney smiles A welcome from its painted tiles The parlor walls, the painted floors,
:

The stairways and the corridors, The borders of the garden walks,
Are beautiful with fadeless flowers, That never droop in wind or showers, And never wither on their stalks."

Hendrick Van Dyck.

Hendrick Van Dyck, "one
of the most noted

men"

of

New

Amsterdam, with " influential friends " at Amsterdam, Holland, and occupying high official position in the colony

New Netherlands, gained an unenviable reputation, and suffered reproach through the political ambitions and power of his enemies. He came to America from Utrecht, Holland, and arrived at New Amsterdam, as the settlement on Manhatof the
tan Island, the present city of
1640, as ensign

New

Yoi'k was called, about

commandant,
In

in the service of the

West India
Director

Company
Kieft,* in

of Holland.

1642,

he was sent by

command

of a party of eighty men, against the

Weckquaesqeeks, f with orders to exterminate them by fire and sword. He was accompanied by a guide, one Tobias
Teunisse,

who

professed to

know

the country, but before they

set
in,
'

reached the Indian village, night

the guide lost his

way. Van Dyck

During

lost his

temper, and the party returned inno-

cent of the death of a single Indian."

Kieft's administration, the Indians

became

so

bold

that their scouting parties constantly threatened the

advanced

sentinels of the garrison.

Ensign Van Dyck, while relieving

* William Kieft, born at Amsterdam, Holland, educated as a merchant, became a bankrupt and his portrait was affixed to the public gallows, after the custom of the city. He was sent to ransom captive Christians from the Turks and was accused of leaving several in bondage, retaining the money entrusted to him for their purchase. He was appointed to succeed Van Twiller, as director of New Netherland, and arrived at New

Amsterdam

in 1638.

A bustling,

excitable

man of

considerable energy, devoid of stability,

sound judgment and cool prudence, his administration was a failure. When returning to Holland after his recall he was wrecked on the coast of Wales and perished in the
waters.

tThe Weckquaesqeeks had their capital, or chief seat of the clan, near Stamford, Ct. They occupied the present site of Dobb's Ferry. Wicker's Creek where they were located on the Hudson was called Wysquaqua. A second village on the Hudson was Alipconk,

now Tarrytown.

INDIAN WARFARE.
guard
at

l8o

in his arm.

one of the outposts, was wounded, by a musket ball The wound soon healed, and Ensign Van Dyck,

sometime in February, 1644, was dispatched, with one hundred and fifty men in three vessels, on an expedition under the com-

mand

of

Capt.

John Underbill,
five

against

the

Connecticut
in

Indians,

who, over

hundred

in

number, were assembled

a strongly palisaded village in the vicinity of Stamford.

"The

expedition landed at Greenwich, and after tramping through

the

snow
It

all

night.

reflected
brilliant

was clear and by the dazzling

'

day long approached the Indian village at midcold, with a full moon whose rays,
surface of hill and valley,

were

so

that

many winter days were

not brighter.'

The

Dutch, discharging a volley of bullets upon the doomed village, charged sword in hand. The savages, emboldened by their
superior

numbers made a desperate

resistance.
to

But arrows

are comparatively powerless

when opposed
endeavoring

muskets.

The
sev-

Indians, unable to reach their foes with their arrows,

eral very bold sallies, recklessly
to

made

break the Dutch They were invariably driven back with great loss. lines. Not one of them could show himself outside of the Palisades
without being shot down.
the blood-crimsoned snow.

In less than an hour the dark forms

of one hundred and eighty Indian warriors lay spread out upon

The Dutch then succeeded in applying the torch, and the whole village, composed of the most
combustible materials, was instantly in flames.
lost all self-possession.

The Indians
in a
state

They

ran to and fro

of

frenzy.

As

they endeavored to escape, they

ing aim shot

*

down

or driven back into their

were with unerrblazing huts. Over

Captain John Underhill was " one of the most dramatic persons in the early history A British officer in the low countries, in Ireland and at Cadiz, he came to Massachusetts previous to 1632. He was bold and daring, energetic and resolute, but a " man of assumed piety and deep hypocrisy." He was one of the first deputies from
of America.

Boslon to the General Court, and one of the earliest officers of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, winning renown in Indian warfare. He was a personal and political friend of Sir Henry Vane, Governor, in 1637, of Massachusetts. Charged with adultery in 1638, he was banished the colony, returned to England, but on account of his licentious conduct was compelled to leave the country, and appearing in this country confessed his sin, besought the church to show mercy and to deliver him from the hands of Satan, whereupon the decree of banishment was removed in 1640, and in 1641, he was chosen Governor of Exeter and Dover. He removed to Stamford, and was delegate to the General Court at New Haven. He finally settled at Killingworth, in the town of Oyster Bay, L. I., on lands conveyed to him by the Matinecock Indians, and there died in 1672.

190
five

HENDRICK VAN DYCK.

hundred perished.

Of

all

who crowded

the

little

village

at nightfall but eight escaped,

only eight of the Dutch were

wounded and
laid the

not one fatally. The conflagration of an hour bark village in ashes; nothing remained. The victors The next day built large fires and bivouacked upon the snow. they returned to Stamford and two days afterward reached
the
re-

Fort Amsterdam." The victory practically put an end to war with the Connecticut Indians and Ensign Van Dyck
turned to Holland.

about this time, in response to the Netherland colonists, determined on the recall of Director Kieft, and reorganized the colonial government by appointing Petrus Stuyvesant, First Director ; Lubbertus Van Dincklagen, Vice Director, and Hendrick
India

The West

Company

complaints of the

New

Van Dyck,

Fiscaal, or Treasurer and Attorney General.

Petrus Stuyvesant,

was

the son of a clergyman in Friesland,

He had received an academic education, entered the military service and because of his energy and administrative ability was appointed Director In an attack upon the Portuof the Dutch colony at Curacoa. gese island of St. Martin in 1644, he lost a leg, and returning to Holland for surgical aid, was residing there, with re-established health, ready for service, when chosen First Director of New Netherland. He was "vain, overbearing and tyranical." Lubbertus Van Dincklagen had been a resident of New Amsterdam for many years. He succeeded Conrad Notleman as Fiscaal, in Van Twiller's administration, whose rapacity he He rerebuked, and for so doing was removed from office.
a northern province of the Netherlands.
taliated

by going to Holland, procuring Van Twiller's recall and returning Vice Director of the colony. He was a man of "marked ability, upright and efficient.'" These two men with Hendrick Van Dyck were constituted a council, by whom, in the language of the Directors of the West India Company,
"all occuring affairs relating to police, justice, militia, tne dignity

company, should be administered." newly appointed officers left the Texel, on Christmas day 1646, and sailing in a southerly direcThe imperious tion, first reached the West India islands.
and the
just rights of the

With

a fleet of four vessels, the

IMPRISONED AT CURACOA.

191

temper of Gov. Stuyvesant was soon revealed. Holland was at war with Spain, and a prize having been captured, a quesFiscaai Van Dyck, by virtion arose respecting its disposal. the claimed a voice decision,* but the Govoffice, in tue of his
ernor rudely repulsed him with the words.

admitted you into the Council

you."

Arriving

at

"Get out who '-When I want you, I will call Curacoa, Van Dyck again attempted to gain
;

the place in the Council to

which

his office entitled

him, but,

for this assertion of his official rights, Stuyvesant confined

to the ship

him

and would not allow him to step on shore, although the other officers and soldiers were permitted to do so at their The historian says, ' they were two obstinate pleasure.

Dutchmen and seem to have West Indies to America," but

quarrelled
the

all

the

way from
is

the

man who

obstinately opposes

the oppressions of a despotic usurper of authority,

worthy of

admiration, instead of censure or ridicule, j

*The written instructions for Hendrick Van Dyck Fiscaai, issued by the West India Documentary History of New York. They are very long, containing nineteen specifications only two of which are pertinent to his conflict with StuyveCo., can be found in the

sant at Curacoa.

" 2. He shall be and form a party, when necessary, in all questions of police, justice and finance, before our Director and Council resident in New Netherland, and before the naval and military councils there or which shall resort under the authority of the aforesaid Director or Council, to any forts, roads or havens in and on the coast of Ne-zv Netherland and the places thereunto adjoining, at all which he shall have free access and a seat, but no vote. He shall inform himself of all prizes, which may be captured anywhere io. within his jurisdiction, by the ships or yachts of the company or private persons of the time, place and persons, nations and causes, whereby these should be holden and declared to be good prizes, and obtain all accounts regarding the quantity and quality of the captured property, and cause the same after previous taxation, to be declared good prizes by our Director and Council there."
;

of Hendrick Van Dyck Schout-fiscaal of New Netherland. " The Directors of the Privileged West India Company at the Chambers at Amsterdam To all those who shall see or hear these presents read Health.

tCommission

cipline,

known Whereas, we, for the maintenance of all good order, regularity and disamong the people in New Netherland, and the places situate thereabout, under the command of our beloved, faithful Director there residing, have found it necessary, at the said place, to appoint a good Fiscaai; to make complaints against all delinquents and
Be
it
:

trangressors of the military laws, and

to arraign
;

all other our instructions and commands, the same and cause to be punished and therefore has been proposed to us the person of Hendrick Van Dyck. Therefore we, confiding fully in his fitness and diligence, for the performance of said office, have deputed, authorized and appointed, and hereby depute, authorize and appoint the said Hendrick Van Dyck as Fiscaai over the aforesaid countries of New Netherland and the places situate thereabout giving him full power, charge and authority, the same office to fill and attend, both by land and water to take cognizance and information on all forfeits,
;

I92

HENDRICK VAN DYCK.

appointees for
.the

The new

Government of

the

New

erlands, landed at

New Amsterdam, May n,

community with great

1647, and

ceived by the whole

gala day, but
its

rejoicing.

Nethwere reIt was a

bright hopes for the future were soon dispelled

by Gov. Stuyvesant's arbitrary bearing and determination to ignore the counsel of those associated with him in the government.

He

almost immediately availed himself of absolute

power ' taking counsel of no one." He exacted profound homage and assumed "state and pomp like a peacock." As the days went by he became more and more despotic, publicly
declaring
I
tk

If

any one during

my

administration, shall appeal,

and send the pieces to Holland." He excluded the Vice Director from the Council and imprisoned him in the guard room for several days. In writing, of Stuyvesant's conduct, to the Holland authorities, Vice Director Van Dincklagen says
will a foot shorter
:

make him

excluded the Fiscaal twenty-nine months from the Council Board for the reason among others, as his honor stated, that he could not keep a
secret,

"He

he also declared that he was a

is

villain,

a scoundrel, and a thief.

;

All this

well

known

to the Fiscaal

(Van Dyck)

but he dare not adopt

it

the right course in the matter

and in our

opinion

is

not advisable for

him

do so for he (Stuyvesant) is a man wholly intollerable alike in words and deeds.* His head is a trouble to him and his screw is loose especially when surrounded by a little sap in the wood."
to
excesses and crimes
;

all

delinquents, contraveners and transgressors of the law martial,

other instructions and orders, as well of the aforesaid Assembly of the XIX, as of the aforesaid Director; to summon and, according to demand and circumstances, to

and

all

prosecute to proceed to definative judgment, to execute the same, and delinquents to cause to be punished pursuant to the contents thereof, and moreover to do and observe all that it behooves a good Fiscaal to perform, following and observing in his proceedings
;
;

and complaints all proper formalities, in conformity to the placards and ordinances which have been promulgated here and moieover conformably to written laws. We therefore order and command all officers, as well political, military as naval, together with 'all common marir.ers, soldiers, and all other inhabitants under our obedience there, or who shall hereafter come thither, to acknowledge and to respect the said Hendrick Van Dyck as our Fiscaal, and him in the prosecution of his office in no way interrupt, but in support of justice, all help and furtherance by deeds to show and afford. Therein shall our earnest intentions be met. Given at the Assembly in Amsterdam this 20th June 1645."
;

Stuyvesant is evident from the nature and purpose of the writcomplaining of Stuyvesant's conduct. He charges him with excluding the Fiscaal from the Council Board. He charges .him with persisting in this unjustifiable exercise of authority for nearly two years and a half. He charges him with heaping upon the Fiscaal the most opprobrious epithets. He says the Fiscaal dare not take the right course in the matter, and that it is not advisable for him to do so. Why is it

*That

this refers to
is

ing.

The author

DISMISSED FROM OFFICE.

93

Not

satisfied

with excluding

Van Dyck from

the Council

Board, Director Stuyvesant, March 28, 1652, formally dismissed him and placed another in the office he had held. In
justification of his

conduct he said that he dismissed

Van Dyck

for being

drunken and quarrelsome but the imprisonment of Vice Director Van Dincklagen and the dismission of Fiscaal Van Dyck were alike, because, with other prominent citizens,
signed a complaint to the Directors of the

they

West

India

Company, of Stuyvesant's
tyranical

arrogant, arbitrary, intollerable and

affairs

conduct in administering the

of the govern-

ment.
said
:

In writing to the Holland authorities

-

Van Dincklagen

" Our great muscovy duke keeps on as of old, something like the wolf, the older he gi ows the worse he bites." Besides this a silly lampoon against the Director-General, made its appearance in the spring of 1652, and Van Dyck was put down as its author. The pasquinade was in these terms

"Myn Heer General

Excellency, that
of
I

March

at

It is impossible for me to conceal from your heard you scolded and cursed, on the evening of the nth Mr. Fyn's house, as a rogue and a tyrant, with many other
!

calumacious defamations, which cut

appointed of God
feel very
!

me

to the heart.

Thou
it,

art a

God,

pray you for Christ's sake to prevent

or I shall

you with
heard
is
it

unhappy, for I can no longer listen to it, and dare not acquaint by word of mouth. Christman, Fyn and two others, women, also. I wish that the Fiscaal would bestir himself, no other man
it

better."

Van Dyck
his clerk,
not advisable?

accused Cornelius
others, of

Van Tienhoven,* Christman

this plot

and

having concocted

and of

cir-

Is it because the Fiscaal is an intollerable man, and the Director Generconduct therefore excusable ? That is not the conclusion which the writer desired the Holland authorities to reach but on the other hand, that Van Dyck did not dare to take the light course under Stuyvesant's ill treatment because Stuyvesant is " a man wholly intollerable alike in words and deeds." This strengthens the writer's argument and gives a reason for Stuyvesant's recall. But if his language applies to Van Dyck it weakens the writer's argument, tends to justify Stuyvesant's treatment of Van Dyck, of which he is complaining, and requires us to believe that a man of unbridled speech and brutal deed intollerable alike in words and deeds did not dare to resent Stuyvesant's personal animosity, oppression and tyranny. Such a man would be the very one to return vile epithets with viler epithets and to give a blow for a blow, and instead of not daring to take the right course in the matter, would be among the first to do so and to pursue it to
al's
:

the end.

Van Tienhoven, a native of Utrecht, Holland, first appears on record in book-keeper of monthly wages for the Colony of New Netherlands in 1638 he was made Colonial Secretary, was in the confidence of Director Kieft, advocated the extermination of the Indians and was principal actor in the Indian massacre at Pavonia in
^Cornelius
1633, as a
;

25

94

HENDRICK VAN DYCK.

culating the lampoon, for the purpose of securing his retire-

ment from
dismissing

office.

It

was accordingly followed by

a resolution,

Van Dyck "on

account of the multitude of his mis;

issued by Stuyvesant, but purdemeanors and connivances" porting to be ''by and with the advice of the Nine Men.'''* But they repudiated the assertion and declared "that they never had any knowledge of the commonalty having complained of Van Dyck; that they had never agreed to the resolution ordering his dismission; that Stuyvesant had passed it on his own authority and that the Secretary had falsely appended to it their names." To fill the vacancy occasioned by the dismissal of Van Dyck, Cornelius Van Tienhoven. the putative author of the above intrigue,

openly declared

was appointed Fiscaal, a man of whom Van Dyck "were an honorable person appointed in my stead, the false accusations against me, which have been so long resolved upon and written, might have some semblance of

truth, but this

man

is

the purjured Secretary of the Director-

General, a public, notorious and convicted whore-monger and oath breaker, a reproach to the country, a scourge to both
Christians and heathens, with

whose

sensualities the Director

himself has been always acquainted, as he has frequently come out of the tavern so full of strong drink that he was forced to
lie

down

in the gutter;

the vice of drunkenness could not

easily be

imputed

to jne."

Confident of the righteousness of his cause, Van Dyck appealed to the authorities in Holland, formulating for this purpose, a long and able arraignment of Gov. Stuyvesant and
those about him.

With

clear cut statements, substantiated

sets forth the

by

the affidavits of the citizens, he

1643.

corruption of the

Gov. Stuyvesant found him useful, continued him as Secretary and sent him to Holland, in 1651, to defend him against the complaints of the citizens. While in Holland he was convicted of public concubinage, fined and forbidden to return to his wife in America. He disregarded the injunction, induced the victim of his lust to accompany him, and came to New Amsterdam, where " through the influence of men high in office " heresumed
his position as Colonial Secretary.

His wife was Rachel, daughter of Guelyn Vigne and

Ariaantje Cuvilje.

people

*The nine men represented the principal classes of the community were chosen by the and had part in the government, theoretically at all times, but practically when it

suited Stuyvesant's pleasure.

Appeals to holLaxd.

95

Government and the unreliable character of his accusers; with bittery irony and sarcasm, he acknowledges that he himself is not

without

fault, but, in so

doing, exhibits the greater

faults of his

enemies, giving evidence, in every

word he

writes,

of mental ability and intellectual culture far above the average, and claiming for himself an impartial

hearing,

because

he had served the West India

eral for

and, at

Company and the States Genthirteen years as Ensign Commandant and Fiscaal, that time, 1652, "was burtherned with a wife and

four children."
past

He was
attention

not ashamed
to
it

of his record

in the

and

calls

for

the

purpose

of refuting

Gov. Stuyvesant's trumped up charge that he was a drunken, quarrelsome man, inattentive to his duties and unworthy of
confidence.

when

which wine was freely used and some show of reason, could probably be made against any one who occupied a public
It

was an age

in

a charge of drunkenness, with

position, but the authorities at Holland, evidently regarded the

charge against
their sanction

Van Dyck

as

ordered Stuyvesant to dismiss

In 1655,

more malicious than true, as they Van Tienhoven and withheld

from Van Dyck's removal. Van Dyck, it is said, detected an Indian woman
shot
the the

gathering fruit in his orchard and

intruder dead.

This
tribes

brutal

act,

it

is

claimed,
Sept.

roused

of

Indians and they united to

the

neighbom-ing avenge the woman's

nineteen

death.

On
armed
the

night

ot

15,

1655,

hun-

dred
ually,

Indians
inhabitants

landed
streets,

near

Fort

Amsterdam and
attack.

crept through the silent

were

but made no awakened and

object of

Gradthem,

the

principal

men were assembled.

but

They
declare

called

the chiefs before

their

they refused

to

the

visit.

At

length,

watching

his opportunity,

the

bosom of Van

one of the warriors pierced Dyck with an arrow. The cry of murder,

rang through the

streets.

The

inhabitants

military rushed from the fort, the Indians

were prepared, the were driven to their

canoes, and, crossing to the Jersey shore, fired the flourishing

villages of

more
facts

Pavonia and Hoboken. The story is rendered still by those who draw upon their imagination for and close the scene with dramatic power, by saying that
tragic,

I96

HENDRICK VAN DYCKi

killed by the Indian's blow,* although, as pubdocuments show, he did not die until 16SS thirty-three

Van Dyck was

lic

years after receiving the fatal

as

wound.
in

We relate

the incident

we
is

find

it

recorded, but
is

'"Schuyler's

Colonial

New

York,"f attention
tion

called to

its

improbability and the declarais

made

that while confirmatory evidence

is

lacking, con-

tradictory evidence

abundant.

At

the time of the outbreak

the Director General

was absent and

:

the official letter sent to

inform him of the

state of affairs,

assigning no cause for the

conduct of the Indians, says

"Many
assault

Indians from the upper and lower Hudson, have

made an

upon the inhabitants, wounding; Hendrick Van Dyck standing in his garden gate, with an arrow, but not mortally, and nearly cleaving Paulus Leendertsen's head with an axe, as he stood by his wife."

When
"We

Director Stuyvesant returned he carefully investigated

the matter and sent to Holland the following statement

agree with the general opinion that the Indians upon their first arhad no other intentions than to fight the Indians on the east end of Long Island, and that careless watching and all too hasty inconsiderateness on the part of some hot headed individuals, diverted them and gave them a just cause for their subsequent actions."

rival

Van Dyck owned an orchard and may have woman, but the charge against him of having hostile attack, was evidently manufactured for poses by one whom the Directors of the West
say,

shot an Indian

thus caused the

revengeful purIndia
if

Company

"could have prevented the Indian attack,

this,
it is

he would."

Besides

not reasonable to suppose that a large

of Indian warriors, 1900 strong,

some

say,

accomplish the assassination of a citizen, sent on such a mission, would be more likely
execution.

number would enter a city to when two or three, if

to

succeed in

its

The purpose

of the Indians in visiting

New Ams-

terdam,!

if

other than warfare with the Indians of

Long Island,

was probably to burn and Hoboken and the

in

the city as they afterward burned Pavonia

settlements on Staten Island.

*This statement is made in the " History of New York," by E. H. Roberts, 1885, also " The History of the City of New York," by Mrs. Martha J. Lamb, 1876.
t" Colonial

New York or

Philip Schuyler and his family,"

by G. W. Schuyler,
If

1885.

JNew Amsterdam, in 1656, contained 125 houses and had selected a man or woman or child to slay on this
been no one
left to tell

1,000 souls.

each two warriors

the

let of 1,000 souls to kill

eventful night, there would have armed warriors suddenly invading a sleeping hamone man, savors more of exaggeration than truth.
tale.
i,<;oo

A REIGN OF TERROR.

97

The hostility of the Indians inaugurated a reign of terror. The settlers with their families, fled from all directions to Fort Amsterdam for protection. The farms on Long Island were
abandoned
one dared
captivity,
in

dismay.

Prowling bands of savages wandered

over the island of Manhattan, burning and destroying.

to

No

venture any distance from the

fort.

Many

of the

number were driven into Indian and much valuable property was destroyed. But the man, who by a cruel murder, if we believe his enemies, was
Colonists were killed, a large

the cause of this wide-spread devastation,

strange as

it

may

seem, peacefully dwelt

respected,

among
and

the distressed colonists, honored,

esteemed,

influential.

different

destiny

awaited the person

who endeavored

to fasten

the responsiblity of the Indian uprising.

upon Van Dyck This was Cornelius

Van Tienhoven, whom Stuyvesant had made Fiscaal when dismissing Van Dyck, and whose character, Van Dyck, in his appeal to Holland, had exhibited in darkest lines of debauchery

and licentiousness. Of this man, at this time, the historian says: " He had gradually fallen into almost every known vice.

He was
face

believed to have given serious cause for the terrible

uprising of the Indians.

Every honest heart and every honest was turned against him. He finally absconded, leaving

his hat and cane floating on the river' to give the idea of suicide. But Gov. Stuyvesant clung to him to the last and tried by every means in his power to palliate his misconduct."* When out of politics Van Dyck was not idle, but a prudent, thrifty, prosperous man, dealing in real estate and loaning money. If during the sway of Gov. Stuyvesant, he was the drunken, troublesome man he was accused of being, advancing years wrought a reform. He had " a country seat" in New Amsterdam, at Morris street, on the west side of Broadway above the graveyard,

where,

''not

troubling himself with the cares of office he lived

life

many

years in private

as an honorable gentleman."

His

peach-orchard, so renowned in history, was on Broadway, just

below Rector

street,

near Bowling Green.

He was

in

more

than comfortable circumstances.

*The History
of the City of

He

appears in 1657 in the

J.

New York by

Mrs. Martha

Lamb,

vol.

i.

pp. 178.

I9S
list

HENfjRICk VAN DYCK.

of Groot Bingenecht 1 the Great Citizenship,* which con-

tains but eighteen

names, the aristocracy of

New Amsterdam.
Botjagers, with

He

married,

first,

Divertje Cornelisse, alias,

whom, Aug. 13, 1655, he executed a joint will before the notary Dirck Van Schelluyn. He married the second time, June 20, 1675, Madalentje Jacobse Rysen, widow of Jacob Van Couwenhoven,| son of Wolfert Gerritse Van Couwenhoven, the emigrant. By this marriage there was, we believe! no issue. The joint will which Van Dyck and his wife executed in 1655,
was proved March
16, 16SS,

probably not long after his death.

Divertje Cornelisse,

The
2.

children of Hendrick

Van Dyck and

were
; :

mentioned

in their joint will,

b.

Lida or Lydia,
m. June
6,

in

Holland

the festivities to an abrupt end.

1665, Nicholas

De

Their dau. Elizabeth de Meyer,

m.
July 25,
8,

Meyer, one of the most enterprising traders of the province,

1687,

Philip,

b.

Feb'y
gareta
3.

1666, d.

May

24, 1724,

and

in 1676, the

Mayor

of

New

son of Philip Schuyler and Mar-

York.

He

and his wife were

of

Van

Sleghtenhorst.

members

the

Reformed

Rycke

or Ulrica, b. at Utrect, Hol;

Church of Harlem. Their wedding was a notable event. The Van Dyck mansion on Broadway was brilliantly lighted and
the
filled

with the

elite of

Among the was Gabriel De Haas,

city.

guests
a dis-

4.

carded lover of the bride, who,

m. Nov. 1, 1654, Jan Dareth or Durett, from Utrecht. He resided first at New Amsterdam, but moved to Beaverwyck where he died, May 1669. Cornells, bp. at New Amsterdam, Mar. 16, 1642, d. 1687; m. 1, Elizabeth Lakens m. 2, Elizaland
:

when

seeing her the wife of

beth, dau.

Pieter Cornellissen

another, was so vexed and angered, that he rudely assaulted

his successful rival

Beeck, and
Jannetje,

widow
in

of Sylvester

Salisbury, of Catskill, N. Y.
5.

a disturbance

and created which brought

b.

Euckhuysen on
;

the Zuider Zea, in 1646

united

cities of Holland for a long time enjoyed certain municipal privileges called and small burgher rights. The great burghers were the official class, and were exempt from attainder and confiscation of goods the small burgher had the freedom of trade only. These burgherships were hereditary in Holland, and could pass by marriage and be acquired by females. In 1657, " in conformity to the laudable custom of Amsterdam in Europe, this great burgher right was introduced into New Amsterdam." " The Great Citizenship " in 1657, was as follows Johannes La Montague, Jr.. Jan Gillesen Van Burggh, Hendricksen Kip, Gov. Peter Stuyvesant, Domine Megapolensis, Jacob Gerritsen Strycker, Jan Vigne, Mrs. Cornells Van Tienhoven, Hendrick Van Dyck, Kip Hendrick, Jr. Capt. Martin Krigier, Karl Van Burggh, Jacob Van Couwenhoven, Wilb. Bogardus, Laurissen Cornelisen Van Wyck, Daniel Litschoe, Johannes Pietersen Van Burggh, Pieter Van Couwenhoven.

*The

great

tJacob

Van Couwenhoven

(2)

in

ancestry of John A. Lott,

Jr.

DIVERTJE CORNEEISSE.
with the Dutch Church in

99

New

in

1672-3,

Amsterdam, Oct. 12, 1664; m. March 22, 1665, Johannes Coly or Coely, a blacksmith from London, England. He furnished the iron to repair Fort James

Is said to

and also in 1691 have been a Roman

His
will

Catholic in 1696.

was

dated Jan'y 22, 1689, and proved

March

22, 1709.

Van Dyck,
to

Bivertje Cornelisse, alias, Botjagers, wife of Hendrick probably came with her husband to America in

1640, as she

was

in

New Amsterdam

in

1642.

She returned

Holland with her husband in 1644, as her youngest child was born in Holland in 1646. She came to America again
with her husband in 1647, and became a communicant of the Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, May 30, 1672, a short time
before her death

which occurred about 1673-4.

Divertje

is

Dutch

for

Debora.

Cornelis

Van Dyck, M.

D.

Cokxei.is Van Dyck, M. D., son of Hendvick Van Dyck and Divertje Cornelisse, was born in New Amsterdam in 1642, and died in 16S7. His baptism at New Amsterdam, March His Excellency, Wil16, 1642, was an imposing ceremony. liam Kieft, Director General of the New Netherlands, the Hon. Cornelius Teroyken, Fiscaal of the New Netherlands, together with Jochem Richnz Kuyter and Syntie Martense, From appearing as the child's sponsors or godparents. Jacob De Hinsse, M. D., a surgeon in Beaverwyck, 1654-67, having his office on the east side of Broadway, a little south of
Pearl street, with

whom

he persued his studies; he received a

chirurgeori''s or surgeon's certificate in 1661, although only in

the twentieth year of his age.
his profession at

He

entered upon the duties of

Beaverwyck,

in the midst of customs

and

social

manners strange
edies,

to the present living,

making

all his visits

all

foot, prescribing,

compounding and furnishing

on needed rem-

and charging only moderately for his services. better class of dwellings in which his patients resided, were built of bricks imported from Holland, and were modeled after the houses of Amsterdam and other places in the Fatherland, with " thatched roofs, wooden chimneys dormer windows, and gable ends always towards the street. Inside were all the neatness, frugality, order and industry, which the inmates

The

brought from their native land. Every house was surrounded by a garden, and directly in front of the doorway was the
household tree."
size,

were of immense whole hog, while in them, iron cranes swung, from which pot hooks hung and dangled. All the cooking was done before this open fire. For bakinsf there were larsre brick ovens in which a fire was
kitchen
fireplaces

The
to

large

enough

roast a sheep or

DUTCH CUSTOMS.
made, and

20I

when

the

wood

was

thoroughly

burned,

the

bread, and pastry and cookies were placed in to bake.

parlor, a cheerful fire place,

In the

sometimes
tiles,

in the corner, but

frequently reaching nearly across the back of the room,

inlaid

more was

with imported Holland

there

representing,

in

bright

colors, all kinds of Scriptural stories.

In one corner of the

room,
or
k'

was always

a chest of

drawers'' with

huge oaken, iron-bound chest, its shining brass rings and key

holes,

hold linen

somewhat like a chiffotnier, filled with piles of housewoven by the ladies of the family, the proof of their
In another corner, stood

industry and the pride of their hearts.

the cupboard with glass doors, conspicuously displaying shin-

ing silver and pewter ware, and delicate china or porcelain.

The

floors

were sanded, and great

taste

and

skill

were

dis-

played in the devices and figures, which the matron or her

daughters wrought in the sand with a broom.

But the chief

ornament
a lighter

in

the

parlor

\v:is

the bed, with heavy curtains, a

valance of camlet, a tick

filled

with

flu fly

live-geese feathers,

one of down for the covering, and over the whole a bed-quilt of patchwork wrought into every conceivable shape

and imaginable design.

On Sunday
sen
ice, to

all classes,

arrayed in their best, attended Divine

which they were summoned by the ringing of a bell, and in the undisturbed enjoyment of which, they were protected by the schout who went his rounds to see that quiet was kept in the streets. The monotony of toil was also relieved by
the annual occurance of the national festivals, Kerstrydt, or

Christmas,

Nieww Jar,

or

New

Year, -Pass, or Passover,

Santa Clans, or Chriss Kinkle day, Pinxter, or Whitsuntide,

and occasional social gathering? on birthdays, marriage anniversaries, and at christenings, quilting parties, husking bees and apple-paring frolics.

Among

this

people, of
a

whom

he was one, Dr. Cornells

and July 26, 16S3. bought, with others,* a parcel of land on each side of the Hudlucrative
practice,

Van Dyck gained

son river, 22 miles from north to south and 12 miles from east
*The patent was granted to Cornells Van Dyck, John Johnson Bleecker, Peter Philpse Schuyler, Johannes Wendell, Dirk Wessclse Ten Broeck, David Schuyler and Robert Livngston, tor an annual quit-rent of 20 bushels of wheat.

202
to west, or

CORNELIS VAN DYCK.

along the river from Mechanics Ville to Battenkill, N. Y., known as the Ochseratitogue or Sarachtogie, or in modern speech, Saratoga lands. His will bears date Nov. 5, [6S6, by which he bequeaths 9 plots in lot 7 of these lands, to

Hendrick. In a deed bearing date March 28, 16S1, he mentioned with Dirk Wessels Ten Broeck, Honorable Heereii or Magistrates of Albany County, Rensselaerwyck and Schenectady, and May 1, 16S3, he signed Philip Schuyler's will as Commissary of Albany. The two titles denote the same civil Three or four commissaries constituted a court of comofficer.
his son
is

mon

pleas,

and were then,

strictly

speaking, magistrates;

but

when
official

not exercising judicial authority, although acting in an

capacity, they

were commissaries, and with the Vice-

Director governed the colony.

Elizabeth Lakens, of

whom

been unable to obtain the least Elizabeth daughter of Pieter Cornellissen Beeck, a master carpenter from Rotterdam, Holland, and widow of Capt. Syl;

Dr. Van Dyck married first, and whose parentage we have information and after her death,

vester Salisbury,* of Catskill,

N. V., who died

in 16S0.

Alter

Van

Dyck's death, she married again, Oct. 29, 1691, Capt. George Bradshaw, of the British Army. He died in 1692,

leaving her again a widow.

She died
m.

in

1701.
:

Dr. Cornells
Church
St.,

Van Dyck
6.

(4), had the following children

d
Ap'l

Hendrick,

n.

1707;

the west side of

feet

50

Feb'y

3,

16S9, Marie, b.

Sept.

north of State

St.

For

29, 1666, dau.

David

Pieterse,

many
S.

years he was surgeon of

Schuyler
planck.
7.

and

Catalyna

Ver-

the Fort, at one shilling a day.

Alida,
1684.

by 2d

wife,

bp. Ap'l 20,

Jacobus, m. Jacomyntie Glen, was

a chirurgeon
at

Schenectady,

Elizabeth, bp. Aug. 22, 1686.

N.

Y.

His house-lot was on

Sylvester Salisbury was a descendant of Adam de Salzburg, youngest son of the Duke whose offspring became Knights of Lleweny in Wales. Among the relics of his ancestry are a sword bearing date 1544, the family coat of arms and a portrait of Queen Anne Boleyn. They were brought to America by Capt. Sylvester Salisbury. He was born in England or Wales, about 1629, and came to America as an officer of the English army that wrested the New Netherlands from the Dutch in 1664. After the conquest he was assigned to command, July, 1670, at Fort Albany and the region round about. This afforded him facilities for the selection of land, and with a single colleague he purchased a tract several miles in circumference, having its centre in the most fertile spot in the vicinity of the Catskills. His will was executed Aug. 26, 1679, and proved March 24,
of Bavaria,
1680.

Hendrick Van Dyck, M. D.

Hendrick Van Dyck, M. D., son of Dr. Cornells Van Dyck (4) and Elizabeth Lakens, was probably born about He studied medicine with his father, and was a prac1665. tising physician. He resided on the east side of Broadway at
the corner of State street, Albany,

N. Y., and Oct.

in the

27. 1706=.

conveyed the " Sarachtogie

to his son Cornelius.

" property, obtained

from his father,

He was drowned

Hudson

river,

April 11, 1707. He married, February 3, 16S9, Marie Schuyler, and the following children were baptized at Albany, N. Y.
:

10.

Cornelius,

bp.

Nov.

17,

16S9

Nov.
11,

28, 1717, Isaac, bp.

Nov.

m. Maria Brice.
11.
12.

1688,

son of Capt. Johan-

Elizabeth, bp. Ap'l 23, 1692.

nes
is

Wendell
Nov.

and

Elizabeth

David,

bp.

Nov.

26,

1693,

Staats.
14.
15.

mentioned as Commissioner of Indian affairs at Albany, 1724;

m.
Christina,

Pieter, bp.

7,

1697.

dau.

YVessels

Arent or Arnold, bp. Jan'y 5, 1700; m. Nov. 16, 1722, Heyltje,

Ten Broeck and

Jacobse Loockermans. His dau., Mary Van Dyck, m. Sept. 28, 1742, Martin Gerretse Van Bergen.
13.

bp. Ap'l

8,

1705,

dan.

of

Stephanus Van Alen and Maria Cornelisse Mulder.

16.

Maria, bp. Sept. 2S, 1701.

Lidia, bp. July 16, 1704.

Catalyna, bp. Oct.

6,

1695; m.

17.

Made
terse

Schuyler, wife of Hendrick

29, 1666.

was born Sept.

Van Dyck, M. D., (6), She was the daughter of David Pie-

Schuyler and Catalyna Verplanck.

The Schuyler
David Pieterse Schuyler, with
Pieterse Schuyler, emigrated from

Family.
his

FIRST ALLIANCE.
elder brother, Philip

vious to i6^S, and

is

on record as a

Amsterdam, Holland, preresident of Beaverwvck in

204
1660.

HEXDRICK VAN DYCK, M.

D.

At

the time of his death he resided near the northeast

corner of the city walls, by the water side, on the. south corner
of

Broadway and Steuben

street.

In

1699 his

widow

peti-

tioned for an addition of fourteen feet to the north side of her

lot,

but her request was refused by the city authorities, because

This property, Jacobus and Abraham. He was a successful and prosperous business man, a large buyer and seller of real estate, a magistrate of the city, a Justice of the Peace by appointment of Gov. Dongan, and in 16S6, an Alder"it will reach too near ye Citty Stockadoes."
in 1709,

was occupied by

his sons

man.
the
ity.

He was

an officer in the church and a

city

member

of the

convention which during the Leisler administration assumed

government of the

in opposition to Leisler's author-

Hon. David Peterse Schuyler. His will was executed May 21, 168S, and proved Ap'l 11, 1691. He married at New Amsterdam, Oct. 13, 1657, Catalyna Verplanck, and had
is

He

styled in the records,

He

died Feb. 3, 1690.

2.

Peter,
7,

b.

Ap'l 18,

1659, d.

Mar.

Jan'y

1,

1696; m. Alida Slechtenhorst,

of
;

m.

2,

at

1694 Elsje Rutgers New York, May 3,

wid.

Gerrit

Goosen,

Van
7.

1719,

Elizabeth

Marschalk.

was judge of the Court of Oyer and Terminer refor Albany County, 1685
Schaick
;

1706-7,

Mayor
b.

of

Albany.
16,

Myndert,

Jan'y

1672,

was

sided at Claverack, 1694.

3.

buried Oct. 21, 1755; m. Oct. 26, 1693, Rachel Cuyler, who

Gertrude,

b.

Sept.

19,

1661

m.

was buried July

24,

1747.

In

Willem, son of Claas and Elizabeth Groesbeck, from Rotterdam, Holland.

ab't 16S4,
4.

1703 he resided south side of State St., west of Pearl St.,

Albany, was a merchant, and

in 1719-21

Abraham,
July
9,

b.

Aug.

16,

1663,

d.

and 1723-25, Mayor

14,
1,

1726; m. Nov. 10, 1691, Gertrude Tenbroeck, was master in 1684, of the
well,

of the city.
8.

Jacob,
22,

b.

June
;

1675, d Mar.

Sloop Hope-

1707
;

m.
m.
2,

Calhalyntia

plying between

New York
1666
;

and Albany where he resided.

5.

Wendell Susanna

Marie, b. Sept. Feb'y 3, 16S9,

29,

m.

Dr.
b.

Hendrick
ab't

Van Dyck,
d.

(6)

1665
of

Ap'l

11,

1707,

son

Dr.
9.

June 3, 1704, probably Wendell, daughters of Johannis Wendell and Elizabeth Slaats. Resided at Albany, south, cor. of Broadway and Steuben St.
b.

Cornells

Van Dyck and

11,
1,

Eliza-

Catlyn,

Jan'y

14,

167S

m.

1,

beth Lakens.
6.

Ap'l
1669, d. Dec.
at

10, 1694,
2,

David,
16,

b.
1

June
;

m.

May

Johannes Abeel; 26, 1712, Rutger

715

m.

Albany,

Bleecker.

MARIE SCHUYLER VAN DYCK.

205

Catalyna Terplanck, wife of David Pieterse Schuyler, was born about 163S, and died Oct. 8, 170S. She was the eldest daughter of Abraham Isaacse Verplanck and Maria Vigne.

The Verplanck
He came

Family.

Abraham Isaacse Verplanck, surname sometimes written Planck, and Yer Planck, was born prior to 1610, and died bewas probably
to New Netherlands about 1636, and Jacob Alberts Planck, first sheriff of Rensselaer wyck. He is represented as having been a wealthy, as well as an excellent farmer, and to have been the proprietor In 1638 he received a grant by " Letters of a large dairy.

tween 16S9-91.

a relative of

Patent from Sir William Kieft, Director General of the Dutch

J., as

Company," for the land comprising Jersey Citv, N. bounded by its first charter in 1S20, called by its original possessors the Lenape Indians Areseoh Houck, said to mean a burying ground, but by the Dutch, Paulus Hook, because of its having been purchased in 1630 by Michael Pauvv, the first
West
India

purchaser of land in ScJieyiehby, the Indian

ritory, constituting the present State of
this

name

for the ter-

New

Jersey.

In 1668

grant was confirmed by Gov. Cartaret.

then an island, and so remained until after

used as a race course, being about one mile

in

Hook was 1S04 when it was around. On this

Paulus
latter por-

land Verplanck had a farm, another on the Delaware, and a lot

Smith's Valley,*
life

in

New

York, where during the

tion of his

he resided.

Aug.

29,

1 641,

he was appointed
in the administra-

one of the twelve

men

assistant to

Gov. Kieft

tion of public affairs.

Jan'y 2S 1636, he was a witness to a deed of conveyance from the Indians to Gov. Stuyvesant.
Sept. 3, 1664, he, with others, signed Remonstrance from New Netherlands to the Director General and
' k

the People of

Council of the Dutch West India

the British forces.
to

Company"

against resisting

October, 1664, he took the oath of allegiance the British Crown, but March 31, 1665, when the authorities
city gate

*The road between the

and the ferry at what

is

now

Peck's Slip,

was

known as "de

smits valey," or the smiths valley, because Cornelius Clopper, a blacksmith, established his shop on the corner of Maiden Lane and Pearl St. The original name of Maiden Lane was Maargde Paatje, or the " Maidens Path," a rural shady walk along a

charming

little

rivulet, south of

which stretched the Clover Watie, or" Pasture

field.''

2o6

HE.NDRICK

VAX DYCK,

M.

1).

endeavored
any."
2.

to find quarters for the British troops

among

the

inhabitants of the city, he returned the answer "'Cannot take

He

married Maria Vigne, and had:

b.

Catalyna,
S,

ab't

163S,

d.

Oct.
1657,
b.
5.

company
Isaac, bp.

of

militia,

170S; m.

Oct.

13,

1677, 78, 79-S3, an

and in Alderman.
1642
;

David
3.

Pieterse

Schuyler,
3,
;

June

26, 1641, d. y. 25,

;

ab't 1630, d.

Feb'y
1640

1690.

6.

Susanna, bp.

May

m.

I,

Abigail,
1672,

b.

ab't

m.

Ap'l,

Marten Van Woert

20, 1669,
7.

m.

2,

Ap'l

Adrian Van Lear, or Van

b. Jan'y, 1637,
8.

John Garlandt.
6, 2,

Laets.
4.

Guelyn, or Gulian,
d.

Jacomyntie, bp. July Ariaantje, bp. Dec.

ab't

1644.

1646, d.
d.

Ap'l 23, 1684; m. June 20,

1690;
of

m.

Melgert,

by Rev. S. Drisius, at New York, Henrica Wessels, from Aernheim, b. Sept. 1644, dau. of Metje Wessels, a tavern keeper. She m. 2, Jacobus Kip. He was bound as an apprentice to Allard Anthony, became a merchant, and Aug. 16, 1673, was made Schepen, because "one of the best and most respectable citizens of the Reformed Christian religion." The same year was Ensign of a
1668,

^00, son
gers.
9.

Wynant

Gerritse

Van Derpoel and Tryntie MelHillegond, bp. Nov.

1,

164S

m.

David Ackerman,
sack, N.
10.
J".

of

Hacken1651,
d.

Isaac,

bp.

Feb'y

26,

ab't 1729; m.

Abigail Wyten:

bogart, or Uytenbogaardt

re-

sided at Albany, N. Y., was an

assistant

Alderman, named
charter granted
22, 1686.

in

the

first

by

Gov. Dongan, July

Maria Vigne, wife of Abraham Isaacse Verplanck, when marrying Mr. Verplanck, was the widow of a Mr. Ross. She died in 1671. and was the daughter of Guelyn Vigne and
Ariaantje Cuvilje.

The Vigne Family.

Guelyn Yigne was
a

Huguenot, from Valenciennes, France,

157 miles n. N. e. of Paris, on the road to Brussels, a town once renowned for the manufacture of a peculiar lace, but little
is now made. He was among the very earliest of Netherland colonists. If, as it is claimed, his son Jan was born in America in 1614, he must have been among those who erected the first stockade known as Fort Manhattan, one

of which

the

New

of the traders sent here under Hendrick Christiansen by the

MARIE SCHUYLER VAN DYCK.

United
Cuvilje,
2.

New
and
it

Netherland comp my.

his children
said,

His wife was Ariaantje

for several years,

were
;

Jan,

b.

is

on Manhattan
d.

and

in 1657,

Island in 1614,
,

1691

m.

I,

a great burgher.*
3.

m.

2,

Feb'y

15, 16S2,

Christina,

m.
of

Dirck Volkertsen
in

Wieske Huypkens. He resided, in 16S6, on Smith St., New York, and died without issue. He had a farm near the corner of Pearl and Wall Sts., also a brewery, and "kept his windmill at work." He was Schepen

who appears
citizens

list

of L.

the
I.,

Bushwick,

Mar.
4.
;

14,

1661.
;

Maria m. I, Ross m. Abraham Isaacse Verplanck,

a. alj't

2,
c.

1636, d. ab't 1690.

5.

Rachel, m. Cornelius

Van Tien-

hoven.

See page

193.

Ariaailtje Clivilje, wife of Guelyn Vigne, came to America with her husband, from Valenciennes, France, and after his

death married
herited.

Jan Jansen Damen, whose property she She died about 164S, having been a widow

in-

for

several years.

When

Cornelius

Van Tienhoven,

her son-in-

law, returned from the massacre of the Pavonia Indians, Feb'y

1643,
"'

with thirty prisoners and the heads of several of the

enemy," it is said, that *' forgetful of those finer feelings which do honor to her sex, she amused herself in kicking about the heads of the dead men which had been brought in as bloody If the statement is true, trophies of the midnight slaughter." we should " chide gently the erring." The constant terror of
pioneer

women was
is

the Indian warrior.

given as the date of Jan Vigne's birth, on the testimony of the Labavisited Jan Vigne, who they say was hale and hearty, " sixty-live years of age, the first of the colonists born in America." If he was born in America, we doubt the accuracy of 1614 as the date of his birth. At that time, ten years previous to the purchase of Manhattan Island from the Indians by Pieter Minuet, no attempt had been made Those who came were mere traders, having no intention of reto colonize the country.

"The year 1614

disl travellers.

They

maining, and did not, so far as known, unless with this exception, bring their wives with them. The testimony of all the histories we have consulted, and they are many, is that at this time not a family or female had emigrated from Europe to America. We think the
fifty-five, that Guelyn Vigne came to America with the Huguenot company that arrived in 1624, and that Jan Vigne was born a short time after their arrival, the first child of European parents,

Labadist travellers have erroneously written sixty-five for

his wife

and

born

in

the

New

Netherlands.

Arent
Arent Van Dyck
D.
(6),

Van Dyck.

(15), son of Hendrick Van Dyck, M. and Marie Schuyler, was baptized at Albany, N. Y.,

Jan'y 5, 1700.

Instead of adopting his father's profession he

became

and after his marriage resided at Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N. Y.,* about twenty miles below Albany, east of the Hudson river, on a farm in what was then called De Bruyns Right, but is now corrupted into Browns Right. About 1740, he went to Fredericksburgh, Upper Canada, but returned to Kinderhook, with his family about He was one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for 1750. the colony, "a gentleman of education and talent and the general scribe for the region in which he lived." He married, Nov. 16, 1722, Heyltie Van Alen, and had d. May 3, 1S22, n. iS. Maria, bp. at Albany, Jan'y 26, 1 732
a tiller of the soil,
:

111.

1724, d.
19.

y.

23.

Christina,

bp.

at

Kinderhook,

Stephanas, bp.
13, 1726.

at

Albany, Dec.
24.

Sept. 29, 1734.

Lourens, bp. at Albany, Dec. 20,

20.

Elizabeth,

bp.

at

Kinderhook,
m.

*73S

d.

July

14,

1S14

m.

Dec.

22,

1728;

Jacobus

Dec.

2,

1762, Maria, b. 1745,? d.

Huyck
21.

of

Pompaonia.
at

Lidia, bp. at Kinderhook, 1730.

Nov. 3, 1823, dau. Johannis Van Derpoel and Annatje Slaals.

22.

Hendrick, bp.

Albany, July

2,

Additional Data.
Stephanus Van Dyck
remained
in
(19),

when

his father returned to

Kinderhook,

Canada, and there died. Hendrick Van Dyck (22), was a cooper, and resided after his father's For many years he was the Voorleser of death with his brother, Lourens.
'Kinderhook so called by the Dutch who when first ascending the river, saw several Indian children playing about a small headland. On their return voyage one of them pointed towards the place saying, there is the Kinder^s hook or children's point. In 1700, it was a preaching station of Albany, but without a pastor until 1753, the reason probably

why

so

many

children of Kinderhook families were baptized at Albany.

HEYLTJE VAN ALEN VAN DYCK.

200,

He was the Kinderhook Reformed Church, an officer of much importance. Chorister and Clerk, and the keeper of the Registers of Baptisms, ComHe generally had a little municants, Marriages, Deaths and Burials.
By his pew, just in front of the pulpit, with a book-board rising from it. side was a rod, in one end of which was a slit in which notices were placed, and by his quietly passing the rod up to the pulpit, which was
quite
high,

the

minister received the notices to be published.

In the

and read a sermon Hendrick Van Dyck, was well suited to for the edification of the people. the office, and is said to have been a devout and pious man, to whose godly
minister's absence, the Voorleser conducted the service

care his brother's children, according to their

own

testimony, were indebted,

under God, for their Christian education.

Heyltje Van Alen, wife of Arent Van Dyck, was baptized Albany, April 8, 1705. She was the daughter of Stephanus Van Alen and Maria Cornelisse Mulder of Kinderhook, N. Y.
at

The Van Alen

1.

Families.

FIRST LINE OF DESCENT.

Lourens Van Alen,

c.

a.

prior to 1630.

2. 3.

Lourens Van Alen, m. Elbertje Evertse.

Stephanus Van Alen, m. 1702, Maria Cornelisse Mulder.
Heyltje

4.

Van

Alen,

b.

1705:

m.

1722,

Arent Van

Dyck,

b.

1700

great-great-grandparents of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Welles.

Van Alen, pronounced Van Awlen,

or Haalen, a

town

in Belgian,

family name, familar in

is derived from Haelen, Limbourg. It has long been a Holland and represented by a coat of is

arms, of which the following description

Field
Crest
:

given

Gules, a chevron argent.

Two wings

endorsed gules with as

many chevrons

argent.

Lourens Van Alen, the supposed progenitor of the Van Alen family, had two sons who emigrated to America, and were among the earliest residents of Beaverwyck. He is said to have been a merchant of Amsterdam, Holland, but in 1664, after the conquest of the New Netherlands by the British, the property of his son, Pieter, is described as "forfeited and confiscated to his Majesty, as

belonging

to a subject

of the States
in

General of the United Belgic Provinces."

His children

America were
27

2IO
2.

ARENT VAN DYCK.

d.

Pieter,

prior
;

to

1677
2,

m.

I,

ID 77> Gerrit

Van Ness of Green-

Maria Teller m. Loockermans, dau. Janse Loockermans ;

Maria

bush, N. Y.
3.

Pieter
she, m. 2,

Lourens, in Beaverwyck, 1630.

resident of

Lourens Van Alen, son of Lourens Van Alen (1), was a Beaverwyck as early, it is said, as 1630. In 1673,

he resided on the east side of Pearl St., between Steuben St. and Maiden Lane. Our information concerning him is limited

by

the statement that he

4.

had a son
;

Lourens, of Kinderhook, N. Y.

m. Elbertje Evertse.

(4) son of Lourens Van Alen (3) is Lourens of Kinderhook. He owned a lot, in 1677, on the west side of Broadway, between Steuben St. and Maiden Lane, Albany, N. Y. He appears on record at Kinderhook, N. Y., in 1673. He was commissioned a Justice of the Peace in 1690, and was elected one of the Trustees of Kinderhook, in He married about 1675, Elbertje Evertse, and had 1703.

Lourens Van Alen

as

known

5.

Catherine, m.
gert

May

17, 1696,
Jr., b.

Melab't
S.

Loockermans.
Pieter, m. Dec. 30, 1704, Josina,

Van

Derpoel,

1675, son of Melgert

Van DerSara
9.

bp. Sept. 28,

1684, dau.

Adam
not re-

poel and Ariaantje Verplanck.

6.

Dingman and

Aeltje Gardinier.
is

Johannes, m. July

3,

1697,

child

whose name
7,

Dingman.
7.

corded, bp. Nov.

2,

16S6.

Stephanus, m. July
Cornelisse,

1702,

Maria
Ste-

10.

Lourens, bp. Feb'y

6,

1689.

dau. Cornelis

n. Jacobus,

bp. Oct. 23, 1691.

phanse

Mulder

and

Heyltje

Elbertje Evertse, it is supposed, was a daughter of Evert De Bruyn, to whose brother a large patent of land on the banks of portion of this land was the Hudson River was granted. about Kinderhook, N. Y.. and was known as De Bruyns Right,

corrupted into

Browns Right.

Stephanus Van Alen (7), son of Lourens Van Alen (4), and Elbertje Evertse, was a farmer in the vicinity of Kinderhook village, N. Y. He married July 2, 1702, Maria Cornelisse Mulder, and had
12.

Lourens, bp. Oct.

3,

1703

m.

13.

Heyltje,

b.

Ap'l

8,

1705

m.

Margarita

Van

Schaick.

Nov.

16, 1722,

Aient Van Dyck,

HEYLTJE VAN ALEN VAN DYCKi

bp. jan'y
5,

21

1700,

son of Dr.

Hendrick Van Dyck and Marie

Schuyler.
14. 15.

17.
3,

dau. Arent Pruyn and Catryna Gansevoort. Ephraim, bp. Oct. 5, 1718.
bp. Mar. 11, 1716
;

Ephraim,

bp. Oct.

1708;

d. y.

18.

Jannetie, bp. Dec. 26, 1720.

Christina, bp. Jan'y 16, 1723
;

Jacobus, bp.
Cornelius,

Oct.

19,

1713; m.

19.

m.

Helena Van Alstyne.

16.

William Van Alstyne.

b. ab't

1715; m. Alida,

Maria Cornelis^e Mulder, wife of Stephanus Van Alen (7), was the daughter of Cornells Stephanse Mulder and Heyltje Loockermans.

The Mulder
resident of Beaverwyck, and

Family.

Cornelis Stephanse Mulder, Muller or Miller, was an early owned a large lot of more than
ft.

100

front

on the west

side of

Broadway, two rods and ten

feet

north of
his sons

Maiden Lane.

This property passed by

his will to

Jacob and Johannes.

1663, and at Claverack in 1720.

He He
8.

resided at Greenbush in

married Heyltje Loocker8,

mans. and had

2.

Jannetie, m. Pieter

Meese Hooge.

Jacob, bp. Jan'y

nietje
.

1688; m. Ag-

boom.
3 Stephen, m. Maria
4.
9.

Johannes, bp. Mar.

Jeremias, m. Feb'y

10, 1705,

Lys-

June
24,
10.

5.

beth Halenbeck. Maria, m. July 2, 1702, Stephanus, son of Lourens Van Alen and
Elbertje Evertse.
Pieter, bp. Dec. 25, 16S3.

9, 1690 ; m. Lysbeth Halenbeck, who was buried, Mar.

5,

1715,

1727.

Christoffel,

bp. Nov.
6,

19,

1693

m. Sept.
lenbeck.
11.

1719,

Rachel Hal-

6.
7.

Cornells, bp. Oct. 28, 1685.

Ariaantje, bp. July 19, 1696.

Killian, bp.

12.

May

12, 1700.

was

Heyltje Loockermans, wife of Cornelis Stephanse Mulder, the daughter of Pieter Janse Loockermans.

The Loockermans
Govert, with their

Family.

Pieter Janse Loockermans and his brothers, Jacob and sister, Anneken, who married Oloff Ste-

Van Cortlandt, emigrated from Turnhout Holland. Govert was the pioneer of the family, leaving Holland with
phense

212

ARfiNT

VAN DYCK.

T wilier, Director Genei'al of the New Netherand reaching Manhattan Island in 1633. -^ e visited Holland in 1640, and returning in November of the following year, brought with him his sister, Anneken, and probably his brother, Pieter, who first appears on record at New Amsterdam, in Jan'y, 1642. Pieter remained a resident of New Amsterdam, for seveial years, but appears on record at Beaverwyck, in 1656, when, Nov. 16, he purchased a house-lot of Hendrick Van Wie or Verwey. In 1653, he was in the 2d Burgher Corps of New Amsterdam. In 165S, he was a boatswain in the service of the West India Company. He is said to have been a neighbor to his son-in-law, Cornells Stephanse Mulder. His wife's name is not known. His children were
Woutev Van
lands,
:

Pieter,

who had two

Dec.

daughters,
1694,

son of Lourens

Marrytje, m.

Jo-

ower
1677,

hannes Fonda ; Lammertje, m. Nov. 3, 1700, Aarian Oothout.

Caatje,

(1), and widMaria Teller; m. 2, Genet Van Ness of Green-

of

bush, N. Y.

m.

prior

to

1683,

Jan.

Anna, m.

1,

prior to 1684,

Adam
2,

Soloraonse Goeway.
Hcyltjc,

Winne
Stephense
18,

of

Albany

m.

Oct.

m.
m.

Cornells

Mulder.
Maria,
1,

Jacob Teunisse Van Woert, widower of Catryn Claas

1691,
of Albany.

Pieter

Van

Alen,

if

Lourens

Van

Dyck.

Heyltje

Lourens Van Dyck, son of Arent Van Dyck (15) and Van Alen, name sometimes written Laurens, was

born in November. 1738, and died at Kinderhook, N. Y., Thursday July 14, 1S14. He inherited from his father the Bruyn Right farm, near the village of Kinderhook, and spent his life in agricultural labors and persuits. In accordance with an almost universal custom throughout the American colonies, there were several slaves in the household of Lourens Van Dyck. In 1760. the slaves, in what are now the Middle States, numbered So. 000. The female slaves were house servants, and the males were employed as farm
laborers.
It

was slavery

in its mildst form.

How large

numnot

ber of slaves there were in the

Van Dyck household we do

know, but five are mentioned as growing up with the family. These were all able to read and were all professors of religion. Both they and their children, after obtaining their freedom, were respected in the humble sphere in which they moved and by the community generally. Lourens Van Dyck married, Thursday December 2, 1762, Maria Van Derpoel, and had:
25.

Arent, b.

May

13,

1-764;
;

Catherine

Van Buren
;

m. m.

1,

!795)

Catherine,
'>

b.

Aug.
;

17,

2.

*774

d.

May

15,

1863

dau.

Ap'l 27, 1798, Cynthia Goes, b.

June
26.

4,

1769

d.

Oct. 18, 1833.

;

geltie
30.

Stephanus Van Alen and AnWitbeck.

b.

John,

b.

July 23, 1766

m. Sally
n.

Isaac,

Ap'l

25,

1776;

m.

Tobias, b. 1770. 27. Stephen, b. Aug.

28. 29.

Feb. 1805, Margaret

9,

Van

Alen,

1768;

m.
31.
;

b. Sept. 15, 1774.

Isaac, b. 1770;

Henry
Dec.

L.
7,

b.

d 1775. Nov. 12, 1773

m.
Jan'y

Abraham,*
Feb'y
5,

b.

d.

1835

July 28; 1778; m. Nov. ;

d.
8.

1840,

27,

1812, Catherine Bronk, b.

,

Nov.

Abraham Van Dyck (31) was a lawyer at Coxsackie, N. Y. greatly esteemed for his and piety. Among his children were, Rev. Leonard Van Dyck, Presbyterian clergyman, at Windham, Green Co., N. V. Jacob Cuyler Van Dyck, of Coxsackie,
integrity

father

of Francis Cuyler Van Dyck, Ph. D., Professor of Physics and Experimental Mechanics, at Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J.; Maria Van Dyck, wife of Rev. Jacob Van Vechten, D. D., Schenectady, N. Y. Leonard Bronk, was member of the Assembly 1786-98. State Senator 1800. A son of Leonard Bronk whose homestead was on the Coxsackie creek near Stony Kill.

2l4
15,

HIS CHILDREN.
1784;
d.

Aug.

24,

1S34,

31,

1787,

widow
d. y.

of

Van

dau. Leonard Bronk and Tryntie

Schaack.
33.
34.

Van Den Bergh who were

11, 1779.
b.

Elizabeth,
Peter, b.

32.

m. Jan'y Lawrence,
1.

Sept.

13,

1790

m. m.

1.

Mar.

30,

17S4; m.
;

Cornelia

Van Alstyne
1794,

2.

Elizabeth

Catherine

Dunham Wynkoop
;

m.

2.

May
b.

31, 1817,
11,

Maria Trhnper,

m.

3.

June

widow

of

July 1S31, Clarissa

Bill, b.

Oct.

Miller,

Additional data relating

to

the children

of Lourens

Van

Dyck and Maria Van

At
a meeting of the children of

Derpoel.

Lourens Van Dyck, (24) at Kinderhook homestead, Friday. September 14, 1S32, the following facts were ascertained and recorded The issue of Lourens Van Dyck and Maria Van Derpoel, were nine sons and one daughter. The daughter died in inOf the livfancy and one of the sons, a lad five years of age. ing sons, all were married except one who was then in his sixtyThe eight sons and their seven wives, were all profifth year.
the old
:

fessors

of religion.
all

They were
in
spirits,

They all maintained family worship. members of temperance societies, a rare thing

and abstained entirely fiom the use of ardent them even as medicine. The descendants of Lourens Van Dyck (24) ani Maria Van Derpoel, at this time, numbered 112, of which number 84 were living.
that day,

not using

about 174V

Marin Tan Derpoel, wife of Lourens Van Dyck, was born She died at Kinderhook, N. Y., Monday, Nov. 78th year of her age. She was daughter of in the 1823, 3,
Staats.

Johannes Van Derpoel and Annatje

The Vanderpoel
1.

Families.
Melgers.
b. 1646.

Wynant

Gerritse

Van Derpoel, m. Tryntje

2.
3.

Melgert Van Melgert Van

Derpoel, m. Ariaantje Verplanck,

Derpoel,
b.

1675

m. 1696, Catherine

Van

Alen,
b.

b.

1676.

4.
5.

Johannis Van Derpoel,

b.

1705, m. 1745, Annatje Staats.

1762,

1719.
b.

Maria Van Derpoel,

b.

1745, m.

great-grandparents of Jane Elizabeth

Lourens Van Dyck, Van Dyck Welles.

1738

LOURENS VAN DYCK.

2 [5

The Van Derpoel Family, was

the Rhine.
going- to

originally

from Gorichen, on
it

In 1600, they dispersed, one branch of the family

this

the

Amsterdam, Holland. In American family has its origin.

branch,

is

thought,

Gerritse Van Derpoel, son of Gen-it Van Derpoel, Beaverwyck, as early as 1657, having emigrated, it is supposed, from Holland. He continued to reside in Albany, until about 1694. In 1674, he purchased, from the widow of Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh, a half interest in a saw-miil, on the east bank of the Hudson river, at what is now known as Wynant's Kill. His will is endorsed, "the last will and testament of Wynant Gerritse Van Derpoel, late of Albany, now of New York." It was dated Feb'y 29, 1695, and proved Ap'l 1, 1702. By this well he left only six shillings to his son, Melgert, and the balance of his property to his son-in-law, Willem G. Van Den Bergh. He married Tryntje Melgers, and had

Wynant
in

was

2.

Cornelia,

m. prior to 1685, Cornelius Gysbertse, son of Gys-

4.
5.

plank and Maria Vigne. Gerrit, m. Catrina Van Zandt.

Catryn,

Van Den Bergh and Lysbet Classen Van Voorbert Corn< Use

m.

Willem

Gysbertse,

houdt.
bp.

Their

dau.

Geertje,

Dec. 20, 1691, m. Oct. n, 17x9, Abraham Vosburgh.

d.

Van Den Berg and Lysbet Claasen Van Voorhoudt.

son of Gysbert Cornelisse
6.

3.

Melgert,

1700,
2,

m.

Ariaantje,
ab't 1690,

Margaret, m. ab't 1683, Johannes, son of Jan. Van Zandt or Van

Santen,

bp. Dec.

1646, d.

who emigrated from

dau.

Abraham

Isaacse

Ver(3). son of

Spain, and Jannetie, his wife.

Melgert Van Derpoel

Wynant

Gerritse

Van Der-

poel and Tryntje Melgers, resided at Albany, N. V., where he died about 1702. He is said to have been a gun-stocker. His

house and his father's house, on the south side of State St.

in 1675. fronted the fort,

probably

He

married

first,

Ariaantje Ver-

planck, and after her death, married, June 29, 1692 Elizabeth Teller, born 1652, died 1720. widow of Abraham Van Tricht

and daughter of Willem Teller and Margaret Donchessen. His children were
:

Melgert, m.
erine

May

17,

1696,

Cath-

8.

Van Alen, b. 1676,? dau. Lourens Van Alen and Elbertje

Evertse,

Maria, m.? June 1, 1699, Jacob Provoost of Albany. Their dau.

Sarah,

m. Jan'y
(14).

30,

1724,

To-

hannes Lowe

2l6
9.

LOURENS VAN DYCK.

12.
3,

Trinke.

Gelyn, bp.

May

17,
9,

1685.

10.

Abraham, m.'Jan'y

1713, Antje

13.

Jacobus, bp. Mar.

1687.

Van Den Bergh.

11.

14. 14,

Wynant,
Aug.

bp.

Oct.

1683,

m.

15.

Hendrick, bp. June 2, 1689. Wilhelm, b. Mar. 19, 1693.

Ariaantje, b. Nov.
17, 1695.

17,

1706,

Catherine

De

16.

Hooges.

Ariaantje Verplanck, wife of Melgert Van Derpoel (3), 2, 1643, she was a daughter of Abraham Isaacse Verplanck and Maria Vigne, and a sister of Catalyna Verplanck, wife of David Pieterse Schuyler, whose history has

was baptized Dec.

been given. The families of the two sisters were united by the marriage of Lourens Van Dyck and Maria Van Derpoel, who were the great-great-grandchildren of Abraham Isaacse Verplanck and Maria Vigne, or third cousins.
Melgei't Yanderpoel (7), Jr., was a son of Melgert

known as Melgert Van Derpoel, Van Derpoel and Ariaantje VerAlbany, N. V., about 1675.

planck.

He was

born

at

He
to

resided at Kinderhook, N. Y., for

many

years, but

moved

Poelsburgh, where he died.

arine
17.

He
:

married,

May

17, 1696,

Cath-

Van Alen
23,
1

(3),

and had
3,

Elbertje, bp. Feb'y

1697, m.

21.

Johannis, bp. Mar.

Ap'l
11,
5,

4,
1.

1705,
,

d.
2,

Dec.

719,

Martin, son of

1717

m.

m.

Melgert Abrahamse Van Deusen and Engeltje Rutgers (4),

May
1

1745, Annatje, b. ab't

of

719, dau.

Abraham

Staats

page
18.
19.

92.
3,

Ariaantje, bp. Sept.

1699.

22.

Lourens, bp. Jan'y 26, 1701, m. Oct. 29, 1726, Ariaantje Van

and Maria Schuyler. Abraham, bp. Feb'y 9, 1707, m. Oct. 26, 1738, Elizabeth Quin-

len.

Den
20.

Bergh.
bp.
8,

23.

Jacobus,
Isaac, bp.

bp. Ap'l 17,

1709, m.

Maria,

Jan'y

10,

1703, m.
b.

Oct. 16, 1740, Neeltje Huyck.

24.

Nov.

1724,

David,

Mar.

October
.

14,

171

1,

m.

Feb'y 3, 1763, son of William Groesbeck and Gertrade Schuyler (3), page 204.
17, 1692, d.

Anna
25.

Catryna, bp. Dec.

16,

1716.

Catherine Van Alen, wife of Melgert Van Derpoel (7), was born about 1676, she was a daughter of Lourens Van Alen, of Kinderhook and Elbertje Evertse, and a sister of Stephanus Van Alen, the father of Heyltje Van Alen, wife of Arent Van Dyck. The families of the brother and sister, were united by the mar-

MARIA VAN DERPOEL VAN DVCK.

riage of Lourens

2l*J

great-grandchildren of Lourens
or second cousins.

VanDyck and Maria Van Derpoel, who were Van Alen and Elbertje Evertse
This
is

the second alliance of the ancestors

of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Welles with the descendants of

Lourens Van Alen,

Johannes Van Derpoel (21), the second son of Melgert Van Derpoel (/), and Catherine Van Alen, was born at Kinderhook, N. Y., and baptized, March 4, 1705. He resided at Kinderhook, where he died, Friday, April 11, 1 777- He was buried at Poel'sburgh. He mariied, Nov. S, 1736, but the name of the bride is not known. He was married the second time at the house of Madam Schuvler, the American Lady,"
; "

Thursday,
26.

May
ab't

^,

1743. to Annatje Staats, and had

d.

Marin,

b.

1745,

Nov.

3,

Manor; John,
d.

b.

June

10, 174S,

1823; m. Nov. 19, 1762, Lourens, b. Nov., 173S, d. July 14, 1 814, son of Arent Van Dyck

Mar.

26, 1815,

son of Fran-

cis

Pruyn

(17)

and Christina
1747;
d.

Goes,
2S.

and Heyltje Van Alen.

27,

Isaac, b. Dec.
25, 1807, at

8,

Dec.

Catherine,

b.

Ap'l

10,

1746,

d.

Chatham, Colum-

June

22, 1826, m. Nov. 28, by license from Sir Henry Moore, dated Oct. 27, 1767, at Liidithgo Church, Livingston

bia, Co.,

N. V., m. 17S3,

Moyca

1767,

Huyck.
29.

Etje, m.

John Van Valkenbergh.

30.

Sarah, m. John

Van

Alstyne.

Annatje StaatS, wife of Johannis Van Derpoel, was the Abraham Staats (15), and Maria Schuyler (116).* There is no record of her baptism, but her parentage is established, beyond all doubt, by the will of her uncle, Philip Schuyler (11S), the husband of the "American Lady," at whose house she was married. In his will he bequeathed to his two sisters, Margrita Livingston and Gertruy Lansing, and his nephew, Barent .Staats, Jr., his ninth share in the patent of
daughter of
YVestenhook, Derpoel,
the

each a third.

He

then

declares

that

Barent
records

Staats, Jr., must

pay from
fifty

his share to his sister,

Anna Van

sum of

pounds."

The baptismal

*.Mr. Samuel V. Talcott in " Genealogical Notes," says that Annatje Staats was the daughter of Dr. Samuel Staats, by his 2d wife, Catherena Hovvarden, wid. of Thomas Howarden and dau. of Isaac Bedlow and Elizabeth De Potter. In preparing the annals of the Hardenbergh family we were misled by Mr. Talcott's statement and placed Annatje

Staats

among

the children of Dr.

Samuel Staats, page

i63.

28

2l8

I.OURENS

VAX DYCK.

declare Barent Staats, Jr., to be the son of Abraham Staats (15), and Maria Schuyler (116). the sister of Philip Schuyler (11S). And, therefore Anna or Annatje Staats Van Derpoel, must have been their daughter. As her father was a nephew of Dr. Samuel Staats (2), son of Major Abram Staats (1), the families of the uncle and nephew were united by the marriage of Rev. Theo. W. Welles, D. D. (51), and Jane Elizabeth Van

Dyck

Abram

(45) great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren of Major Staats and Tryntje Jochemse Wesselse or sixth cousins
,

see Staats Families, pages

165-S.

The "American Lady," at whose house Annatje Staats was married, was Margarita Schuyler, a daughter of Johannes
Schuyler (no), and Elizabeth Staats (.3), page 116. She was born Jan'y 12, 1700, and died Aug. 28, 1782, in the 83d
year of her age.

She was a cousin of Abraham Staats (1^), and Maria Schuyler (116), the parents of Annatje Staats. She married Dec. 29 1720, her cousin, Col. Philip Schuyler (r iS) and thus became Annatje Staats' aunt. She resided on the Flaats, along the west bank of the Hudson river, three or four miles above Albany, in the old Schuyler homstead, which during her occupancy was a childless house, where nephews and Annatje neices found a cordial welcome from loving hearts. Staats at the time of her marriage was an orphan and spent much*of her time, if she did not make her home, with Aunt Schuyler. A Mrs. Grant, of Laggan, Scotland, was with her father, a British officer, stationed at Albany, N. Y., and after returning to her native land published a book descriptive of American life and exceedingly laudatory of Aunt Schuyler, whom she styled the ''American Lady." This book entitled "Memoirs of an American Lady," w as re-published in 1S76, by Munsel and Company, Albany, N. Y.
T

The Staats
Van Dyck
1.

Families.
line.

2.

3.

a.

Maj. Abram Staats, c. a., 1642, m. Tryntje Jochemse Wessells, d. 1664. Jochem, m. Antje Reynders, d. 1707. Abraham, m. Maria Schuyler, b. 1692. Great-greatAnnatje, m. 1743, Johannis Van Derpoel, b. 1705, d. 1777.
grandparents of Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck Welles,

MARIE VAN DER POEL VAN DYCK.

2l0

of America.

Maj. Abraill Staats, was the progenitor of the Staats family His history is given on page 165.

Staats and Tryntie JoAlbany, N. Y., in 1682, In of his father-in-law, Barent Reyndertse, and there resided.

Jochem

Staats, son of Maj.

Abram

chemse

VVessels, purchased a lot in

1695, he

owned

a third part of a tract of land, called

Warwar-

N. Y., the remaining two-thirds being held by Jan Janse Bleecker and Jacob Rutsen. He was commissioned a Captain of the fort at Albany, N. Y., by Gov. Jacob Leisler, Dec. 26, 16S9, and took a prominent part in the Leissing, in Ulster Co.,

terian

controversey,

maintaining Leisler's

authority

in

the

stronghold of his opponents.

the fort, with sixty

He was
17,

placed in

command

of

men, Mar.
16,

1690.

He

married previan d ne mar-

ous to 1682, Antje Reynders.

ried Francina, born Dec.

She died

in 170/5

1676, daughter of Gov. Jacob

Leisler and Elsje Loockermans.

14.

His children were

20.

Barent, m. Dec. iS, 1701, Neeltje

Reynier, bp. in
29, 1696.

New
New

York, July York, Aug.

Geiretse
15.

Van Den
of

Berg.
bp.

Abraham, m. Maria,
1692,

May

8,

21.

Richard, bp. in
10, 1698.

dau.

Peter

Schuyler
22.

and Maria Van Rensselaer.

16. 17.

Isaac, bp. July 20, 1701, m.

23, 1728,

Tryntie, bp. Jan'y

7,

16S5,

d. y.
y.

Isaac, bp. Jan'y 15, 1688, d.

Tryr.tie, bp. Sept. 8, 1689.

23.

18.
19.

June Maria Van Deusen. Elizabeth, by 2d wife, bp. in New York, June 18, 1712.

Isaack, bp.

June

28, 1691, d. y.

Antje Reynders, wife of Jochem Staats, was a daughter of Barent Reyndertse, whose history is given on page 168. She was a sister of Johanna Reynders, wife of Dr. Samuel Staats, the families of the two sisters were united by the marriage of Rev. Theo. W. Welles. D. D. (51), and Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck (45), who were great-great-great-great-great-grand children of Barent Reyndertse, or sixth cousins.

Abraham Staats
ders,
is

(15)? son of
to

Jochem

Staats

and Antje Reyn-

supposed
in

probably died

have been a resident of Albany, and He married Maria Schuyler, early manhood.

and had

220
24.
25.

LOUREXS VAN DYCK.

Pieter, bp. Jan'y
7,

1713. 1717,
at

sanna, his wife.

Parent, bp. Mar. 20,

was
the

26.

Annajte^
5,

b.

ab't.

1719,

m.

May
4,

buried July 28,

1752,

1743, Johannis, bp.

d.

Mar.

Hoogeburgh, m. Nov. 2, 1743, Magdalena, bp. Nov. 10, 1723, was buried June 16, 1749, dau. of Jeremiah Schuyler and Su-

^1^
erine

Ap'l

11,

1777,

son of

Melgert

Van Derpoel and CathVan Alen.

Maria Schuyler, wife of Abraham Staats (15), was the daughter of Peter Schuyler and Maria Van Rensselaer, and was
baptized

May

8,

1692.

The Schuyler
1.

Families.
Van

SECOND LINE.
Philip Pieterse Schuyler,
c.

a.,

1650, d.

16S3, m.

1650, Margarita

Slechtenhorst,
2.
3.

d.

1711.

Peter Schuyler,

Maria Schuyler,

parents of

Maria Van Rensselaer. Abraham Staats, great-great-great-grandJane Elizabeth Van Dyck Welles.
b.

1657, m. 1691,
1692,

b.

m.

Philip Pieterse Schuyler (101), a brother of David Pieterse is given on page 203-4, came to America about 16^0, with some capital of his own, and settling in
Schuvler, whose history

Beaverwyck, engaged in trade, the extent of which must have been considerable if judged from evidence furnished by the transactions requiring a local record, and from the extent of his
estate at the time of his death.
estate,

He

dealt very largely in real

thereby rendering a record of his transactions in con-

It may be well, however, to mention, that his first purchase was for his own use, on Beaver St., Aibairy, N. Y., where he erected a large He owned house, about which there was an ample vard. property also in New York, on the southeast corner of Broadway and Exchange Place, and also on the west corner of Broadway and Rector St., the former, when purchased, being "a In Albanv, great, new house and the latter a small, old one." he had propertv on Broadway, Beaver St., State St., and North He also Pearl St.. where at the time of his death he resided. owned the country seat or farm known as the Flatts, four miles north of State St., Albany, along the Hudson river, ad-

nection therewith both useless and tedious.

MARIA VAN DERPOEL VAX DVCK.

joining the

221

Van

the present city of

Rensselaer estate and embracing a portion of West Troy. The old brick house on this

farm has since been known as the Schuyler homestead. Philip Pieterse Schuyler first appears in public position, in November, 1655, as a delegate of the colonists to an Indian Council or Conference. He was a warm friend of the Indians and, ever treating them with great kindness, possessed their He built a house for their accommoconfidence and esteem. dation and use when they visited the settlement for barter and exchange, near his own residence on Beaver St., and also permitted them to pitch their tents or occupy the outbuildings on His kindness was not forgotten. Several years the Flatts. after his death, the Indians presented his youngest daughter, Margaret, two thousand acres of land ''on the north bank of
their river

the Mohawk in remembrance

a

of the kindness of

her father and mother."

Beaverwyck was governed by

called commissaries, of

Vice Director,

who was

the chief officer of the settlement, with a

number of

magistrates,

whom

three or four constituted a court

of

common

pleas.

The Vice Director was appointed by

the Director General of the Philip Peterse Schuyler,

New

Netherlands

and

in

1656,

was appointed by Director General

Stuyvesant, Vice Director of Beaverwyck, holding the position

for seven years,

and then reappointed by Gov. Nicholls, retained

the office, with short intervals, until near the time of his death.

He was

also commissioned Nov. 1, 1667, a captain "of a company of foote" in Albany, and two years after, captain of a
in the

company
9, 16S3,

neighboring town of Schenectady.

evidently one of the prominent

men

of his day.

He

died

He was May

enterprise, he

c 'ty f Albany, to whose growth, through his had greatly contributed. When the first church was erected in 1656, on the corner of State St. and Broadway, he contributed an emblazoned window bearing the Schuyler coat of arms, which is thus described
t ' ie
:

Field
or,

vert, a falcon sable,

hooded, breasted, beaked and membered,

side of the shieid.

perched upon the dexter hand of the falconer issuing from the sinister The arm clothed or, surmounted by a helmet of steel standing in profile, open faced, and a vizor of five bars or, bordered and
flowered of the same and ornamented with
its

lambrequins

or,

lined vert.

Crest, a falcon of the shield on a mount

vert.

222

LOURENS VAN DYCK.

married by Anthony de Hooges, Seci-etary of the

He was

colony of Rensselaerwyck, Dec. 12, 1650, to Margarita Slechtenhorst, and had

:

Van

102.
103.

Gysbert,

b. July 2, 1652, cl. y. Geertru or Gertrude, b. Feb'y

4,

Nov.
d.

-26,

1688,

Janeke Teller,

1654, d. ab't

7 19,

m. Sept.

1700; m. 2. Jan'y, 1703, Swantie Van Duyckhuvsen, d.

10,

1671, Stephanus, b.

May

7,

1723; m.
ter.

3.

1724,
2.

Maria Wal-

1643, d-

Nov.

25,

1700, son of

She

m.

Dec,

1736,

Oloff Stephense

Van Cortlandt

Archibald Kennedy,

Receiver

104.

Alyda,

and Anneken Loockermans. b. Feb'y 28, 1656, m. I. Feb'y 10, 1675, Rev. Nicholas
Rensselaer,
108.
109.

General and Director of Customs at New York ; her will

was dated Ap'l

9,

and proved
1664, d.

Van

who d. Nov., 1678, son of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer and Anna Van Weely,
m.
2.

May

23, 1764.

Sybilla, b.
Philip,
b.

Nov.

12,
8,

y.

Feb'y
m.

1666,

d.

Robert Livingston,
Scotland,

b. at

May
olas

24,

1724,

1.

July 25,

Aucram,
1654, 1718.
105.

Dec.

13,
d.

1687, Elizabeth,

dau. of Nich-

emigrated ab't 1674,

b.

Dyck
Sept.
1724,
b.

De Meyer and Lydia Van m. 2. May 19, 1719, (2)

;

Peter,

17,

1657,
1.

d.

Catherine

Schierph,
April

wid.

of

Feb'y

19,

m.

16S1,?

Ritsert Brouwer.

Engeltie,
of Capt.

1659, d. 16S9, dau.

no. Johannes,

b.

5,

1668, d.

Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick and Annatje Lievens,

2.

Feb'y, 1747, m. 1695, Elizabeth, dau. of Maj. Abram Staats and

m.

Sept.

14, 1691,

Maria,

b.

Jochemse Wessels, and wid.

Johannes, bp. Feb'y
del
2,

of

Oct. 25, 1672, dau. of Jeremiad

1649, d.

Van Rensselaer and Maria Van

Cortlandt.
106.

169T, son of Evert Janse

Wen-

Brant,

b.

Dec.

iS,

1659, d. ab't

and Susanna De Trieux, and widower of Maritie, bp.

Jan'y
21,

1702, m. July 12, 1682, Cornelia

b.

16^2, dau.
of

of Gillis.

Nov.

21, 1655, dau. of Oloff

Pieterse

Meyer
b.

New
2,

York.
1672,
d.

Stephense Van Cortlandt and Anneken Loockermans.

107.

Margaret,

Jan'y

May
Sept.

15,

and was

buried
1748,

at
I.

Arent,
1731.
of

b.

June

25,

1662, d. ab't

Albany,
8,

May
1691,

16,

m.

He settled in the vicinity Two Bridges, Morris Co.,

and ab'ti7i9, discovered
left

by Rev. Good-

werkeis Delius; Jacobus, b. Dec.

1,

N.

J.,

1671, d. Oct. 30, 1699, son of

a copper mine, near Belleville,

Gulian

Yerplanck

on the
river,

bank

of the Passaic

drickje "Wessels, m.
1

and Hen2. Nov. 2,

City,

seven miles from Jersey from which at the time of

701,

John
at

Collins, a lieuten-

ant in Capt.

Henry Hollands
Albany, N. Y.,
d.

he had shipped 1386 tons of ore to the Bristol copper works in England. He m. 1.
his death

company
Ap'l

13, 172S.

MARIA VAN DERPOEL VAN DYCK.

223

Margarita VailSleclltenllOrst, wife of Philip Pieterse Schuywas the daughter of Brant Arentse Van Slechtenhorst. She was born atNykerk, Gelderland, Holland, in 162S, and came to She survived her husband this country with her father in 1648. many years and died at the Flaats, in 1711, in the 84th year of her age. She was a remarkable woman, managing the large estate left her by her husband, with energy, prudence and liberalty, taking a lively interest in public affairs and during the Leisterian controversy, aiding the city, with gifts and loans of money, in its opposition to Leisler's authority.
ler,

The Van Slechtenhorst

there

Family.
to

Brant Arentse Van Slechtenhorst, came

is

America

in

164s, from Nykerk, in Gelderland, Holland, near which place

a tract of land called Slechtenhorst, in the vicinity

of

Rensselaer and Olden Barneveldt

one

of the estates

owned by

Brant Arentse
called

Van

Slechtenhorst,
estate

when

" Gijse Westphalenx

leaving Holland, and on de Slechtenhorst." He

a man of good family in the old country, well educated and possessed of more than ordinary ability. His brother Arent was a Jurisconsult* also a poet and historian whose

was

literary productions are

still

extant.

Brant Arentse
colony.

Van

Slechtenhorst came to America, as the

Director, Magistrate and Superintendent of the Rensselaerwyck

He was

conscientious in the discharge of his duties,

true to the interests committed to his care, and fearless in main-

Having an unyielding will, taining the rights of the Patroon. and scorning oppression, he was soon in conflict with Director General Stuyvesant, who thinking it not improbable that it might be necessary to appeal to arms to resist the encroachments of the English, demanded a subsidy of the authorities of Rensselaerwyck. Van Slechtenhorst, deeming the demand unjust,

went

to

New

Amsterdam,

to

remonstrate against

it,

when

Stuyvesant arrested him and held him in close confinement for four months, and would have detained him longer, but he secreted himself on board a sloop and escaped

up the river to Beaverwyck. The skipper of the sloop, on his return, was seized and compelled to pay a heavy fine. short time after this, Stuyvesant sent a party of fourteen soldiers armed with

224

LOUR ENS VAN DYCK.

to the Patroon's house,

muskets
a volley

who

entered the enclosure, fired

and hauled down the flag of the Patroon. He then issued a decree that Beaverwyck, which included the territory now occupied by the city of Albany, was independent of the Patroon's government and was subject to the jurisdiction of the
colon)' of

New

Amsterdam.

Van

Slechtenhorst ordered the

governor's placards announcing this change to be torn down,

Patroon under Stuyvesant's orders, broke into his house and dragged him to the lockup in the fort, where during his detention he was not allowed to communicate with his family or his friends. After a while, he was taken to New Amsterdam, and there detained a prisoner until sometime in December, 1652, when Jan Baptist

and
to

a counter proclamation affirming the claims of the

in its stead.

be posted

The

soldiers acting

Van

Renssellaer, a brother of the Patroon.

was appointed

in

his place, Director of

Rensselaerwyck.
of age.

Previous to 1660. he

returned to Holland, being somewhat advanced in

ginning

to feel the infirmities

his emigration to

America, and in accompanied only by his two children

Margarita
Dec.
12,
b.

life and beHis wife died prior to making the journey he was
:

2.

162S,

d.

1711, m.

z 679,

son of Goosen Gerrit.se

3.

1650, Philip Pieterse Schuyler, d. May 9, 1683. Gerrit, acquired a fair estate, was an officer in the church, a magislrate of the colony, and 1672, Schenectady, of magistrate near the close of his life he settled at Esopus, where he died in 1684, leaving a son who

Van Schaick and Geertie Baranise Peelen Van Nieukerk,

m.
d.
2.

Peter,
7,

b.

Apl.

18, 1659,

Mar.

1696, son of
;

David

Pieterse Schuyler and Catalyna

Verplanck

died without issue, and five daughters: Alida, m. 1. 1678, Gerrit, b. 1650, d. Nov. 11,

m. Jan Clute of Niskayuna, N. Y. Elizabeth, m. Nicholas Williamse Stuyvesant, grand son of Gov. Pieter S t u y v e s a n t Rachel, m. Thomas Ecker of New York Heligonda, n. m.
;

Baata,

Peter Schuyler, son of Philip Pieterse Schuyler and MargaVan Slechtenhorst, was born Sept. 17, 1657, anc^ died Feb'y 19. 1734. He resided at Albany, N. Y., on the east side of Broadway below State St., at the great bridge, as it was He is said to have called, which then crossed the Rutten Kill. been a trader, and was evidently properous, as he acquired a large amount of real estate, and was among the original prorita

prietors of several extensive land patents: the Saratoga already

described on page 201

the

Kinderhook of Soo

acres, south of

MARIA VAX DEPPOEL VAN DYCK.

the

225

Manor of Rensselaerwyck and extendingto

;

the Great Kinder-

Westenhook, on the creek of that name, a branch of the Housatonic river; together with the Oriskany and Mohawk along the streams they designate. As a civil and

hook Creek

the

military officer he gained an enviable reputation for wise counsel, skillful

generalship and intelligent fidelity to every trust.

In reviewing the history of the era,

the

when he

acted his part in

drama of

life,

Bancroft styles him -the brave," William

times."

Smith, '-the celebrated," and Drake, "the Washington of his Following the example of his father he maintained
Indians and possessed their confi-

pacific relations with the

was known and loved, to use Quidor, the Indians friend, and through his intercourse with them was kept acquainted with the projects and movements of the French in Canada, by whom he was both respected, and feared as one of the great obHe first appears on recstacles to their schemes of conquest. ord as a deacon of the Reformed Dutch Church at Albany in In March, 16S2, and in 16S3, as the treasurer of the Church. 16S5, he was commissioned Lieutenant of Cavalry in the Militia of Albany, and in a few years rose to the rank of Colonel, the
dence.
the Iroquois he
the Indian dialect for Peter,
as

Among

highest military grade conceded by the British authorities to a

native of the

New

Netherlands.

In April,

16S5. he
ot

pointed, by Gov.

Dongan, Judge of the Court

in

was apOver and Ter-

miner for one year, and

the city of

October

a Justice of the Peace.

When

Albany was incorporated July 22, 16S6, be became the first Mayor of the city, and as such was Chairman of the Board of Commissioners for Indian Affairs. July 1, 16S9, he
proclaimed the accession of William and Man to the throne of Great Britain, and their consequent authority over the British
-

opposed Leisler's claim to exercise jurand county of Albany. andAug. 1, 16S9, calling a convention of the civil and military officers of the province, they committed the management of public affairs to the Mayor, Common Council, Justices of the Peace and commissioned officers of the city and county, until such time
colonies.
bitterly

He

isdiction over the city

as the Sovereigns of
trary.
2J

England should send orders

to the con-

To

enforce his authority, Leisler, sent a detachment of

226
soldiers to

LOURENS VAN DYCK.

Albany, under the

command

of Milbourn, his son-

indaw, which tended to strengthen his opponents and caused the "convention" which had declared against him, to put Mayor Schuyler in command and to conduct him with some degree of ostentation to the fort, Nov. 8, 16S9. In the following winter the aggressions of the French and their Indian allies,
resulting in the burning of Schenectady, occupied the attention

of the authorities at Albany, and Leisler gained possession of

the fort a short
arrival of

time

before his career

was checked by

the

Governor Sloughter.
to the

Under

the

new

regime, Peter

Schuyler was called

oath of allegiance,
i,

King's Council and took the required

June 30, 1692, and the month following, Aug. military career by defeating the forces of his crowned 1692, Count Frontenac, Governor of Canada, and capturing Fort La About 17 10, he visited London, England, with a Prairie. number of Mohawk Indians, and while there procured a full length portrait of himself, which is still in the possession of his He married first in 16S1, or early in 16S2, Endescendants. geltie, daughter of Capt. Goosen Gerritse Van Schaick and Annatje Lievens. She was born in 1659, and died in 1689. He married again Sept. 14, 1691, Maria Van Rensselaer. His children were
:

112.

Margarita,

b.

Nov.,

1682,

m.
118.

Sln g
(2).

and Geertje Van Schaick

Aug.
of

26,

1697, Robert,

son of

James Livingston and nephew

Robert Livingston, first proprietor of Livingston Manor.
y.

Philip,

bp. Jan'y 15, 1696, d. without issue, 1758, m. Dec.

29,

1720,

Margarita,

b.

Jan'y
dau.

113.

Philip, bp. Oct., 1684, d.

12, 1700, d.

Aug.

12, 1782,

114.

Anna, bp. Sept. aged 12 years.

Gertrude, bp. Aug.

12,

16S6,

d.

of

Johannes Schuyler (no), and

(3).

Elizabeth Staats
17, 1689, d. y.

115.

119.

Peter,

bp.
4,

Jan'y

12,

1698,

m.

116.

Maria, by 2d wife, bp.

1692,

May

8,

Nov.
beck.
120.

1722, Catherine Groes-

m.

ab't.

71

1,

Abraham

Staats,

son of Jochem Staats

bp.

and Antje Reynders.

ll 7.

Jeremiah, bp. Jan'y 12, 1698, twin brother of Peter, was buried
at

Gertrude,

Feb'y n, 1694,

the Flaats,

Dec.

10,

June 18, 1714, Johannes, son of Johannes Gerritse Lanm.

1753, m. Susanna, a

French lady

residing in

New

York.

Maria Van Keiisspla^r, wife of Peter Schuyler, was born She was Opt. 25, 1672; the date of her death is not known.

Maria van derPoel van dyckj

the daughter of Jeremias
landt.

227

Van

Rensselaer and Maria

Van

"Corfc-

The Van Rensselaer

1.

Families.

2.
3.

4.
5.

Hendrick Wolter Van Rensselaer of Holland, m. Swene Van Imyck; Jobannis Hendrickse Van Rensselaer, m. Derykebia Van Lupoel. Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, m. Nelle Van Vrenokum. Hendrick Van Rensselaer, m. Maria Pasraat.
Kiliaen
1670.

Van

Rensselaer,

c.

a.,

1637, d.

1645, m.

Anna Van Weely,

d.

6.

Jeremias Van Rensselaer,

1689.

d.

1674,

m.

1662,

Maria Van Cortlandt,

b.

d.

7.

Maria Van Rensselaer,

1724,

b.

1672,

m. 1691, Peter Schuyler,

1657,

d.

great-great-great-great-gi and parents of Jane Elizabeth

Van

Dyck Welles.

The Van Rensselaer

family were early land owners in the

province of Gelderland in die Netherlands, occuping an estate

three miles northeast of Nykerk, called Rensselaer
nifies,

which

sig-

Deer's

lair,

an estate which originally

it is

said conferred

nobility.

After the

dawn of

the seventeen century the family the

seat

was

at Crailo, a fortified

Zee not

far

town of Naardam on from Amsterdam.

Zuyder
from

Hendrick Wolter Van Rensselaer

(r), of Holland,
their descent,

whom

Van Rensselaer family trace Swene Van Imyck, and had Johannis
the

married

(2).

Jobannis Hendrick e Van Ken^selaer (2), was probably Johan Van Rensselaer, captain of a hundred men. who did good service in Friesland for the King of Spain, early in the century. He married Derykebia Van Lupoel and had 1 6th Walter Yans (3), and Kiliaen (4).
the

Kiliaen and had

:

Van Rensselaer

(4), married Nelle

Van Vrenokum

5.

6.

Hendrick, m. Maria Pasraat. Engel, m. Genet William Van Pallen, lieutenant of a company

7.

of foot in army of Holland. Claas, m. Jacobina Schrassent.

S.

Johannes, m. Sandrina

Van

Erp.

Hendrick Van Rensselaer (5), son of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (4), and Nelle Van Vrenokum, married Maria Pasraat,
and had
9.
:

10.

Maria, m. Rykert Van Twiller. Kiliaen, m. i. Hillegonda Van By] ant, m. 2. Anna; dau. of

Jan Van Weely and Leonora Hankins.

228

J.OURENS VAN bYCKi

selaer

Kiliaen Van Bensselaer (io), son of Hendrick Van Retisand Maria Pasraat, was born at Nykerk in the province He died at Amsterdam, Holland, of Gelderland, Holland. in 1645, where he had resided for many years engaged in the diamond and pearl trade, carried on by the Dutch East India

Company, and had amassed considerable wealth. He was also one of the Directors of the West India Company, and to avail
himself of the privileges granted by the States General of Holland, to this Association,

came

to

America,

it

is

said in 16^7.

soon returned to Holland, but during his short stay in this country became one of the Chief Patroons of the New Nether-

He

acquiring possession of eleven hundred and forty-one square miles of land, or nearly the whole of the present counIt ties of Albany and Rensselaer in the State of New York.
lands,

was
in

a small principality
to

and during the supremacy of the Dutch

to the

America, and

some extent even

outbreak of the

Revolution, the Patroon of Rensselaerwyck, the name given He to Van Rensselaer's possessions, was almost a feudal lord.
flaunted a coat-of-arms. unfurled his

own flag and

received quit-

rent from the colonists for the land they tilled.

He

settled all

disputes in civil cases between

officers

man and man,

appointed local

and magistrates, erected courts and punished all crimes committed within his jurisdiction, even to inflicting death upon 'On the Van Rensselaer Manor,*' says an old the gallows. writer, "-there were, at one time, several thousand tenants, and
their gathering

was

like that of the Scottish

Clans.

When

came down to Albany, to do member the hogsheads of good ale were many and funeral, the at honor which were broached for them." They reverenced the Patroon
of the family died, they

Previous to the Revoas the nobility are reverenced in Europe. When it lution this feeling was shared by the whole country.

was announced

in

New

York, prior

to the

achievement of na-

tional independence, that the Patroon was coming down from Albany by land the day he was expected to reach the city, crowds turned out to see him enter in his coach and four. The
;

system of quit-rents continued nearly a century after the organization of the Federal Government, giving rise to anti-rent riots,
cases

innumerable law-suits and bitter animosities. The rent in most was only a few bushels of wheat, three or four fat fowls,

MARlA VAN DERPOEI. VAN DVCK.

229

In 1844, Or a day's service with wagon and horses each year. the Legislature having tried in vain to settle the difficulty, the
anti-renters, disguised as Indians,

tarred and feathered those

who

paid their rent, and resisted and even killed the officers In 1S46, the leaders were taken, tried,
to

sent to serve warrants.

condemned and sentenced

life,

imprisonment, some of them for

but in 1S47, they were pardoned by Gov. Young.

The

trouble continued for

many

years.

short time before the

Southern Rebellion, farmers were dispossessed of

Rensselaer county, which had been occupied and
ancestors for
istic to

lands in

tilled

by

their

more than a Century. American institutions and

The system was antagonthe land

is

no longer sold

subject to such exactions.

Kiliaen

Van

Rensselaer married

first

Hillegonda

Van

Bylant,

by
11.

whom

he had one son.

He

married after her decease,

:

Anna

Van Weely.
T wilier.
12.

His children were

Johannes, c. a., but returned to Holland, m. Elizabeth V a n

Maria,
d. in

Holy orders
Charles
II.,

in

the

reign of

settled in Albany,

attempted
Holland,
n.

to exercise

the per-

m.

ogatives of a minister, but was

13.
14.

Elonora, by 2d wife.

prevented from so doing by the

la

Susanna,

rrr.

Jan de
c.

Court, in

public authorities on
of

account
;

Holland.
15.

his

Episcopal
10,

ordination

Jan Baptist,
Director
of

a.,

in

1652,

as

m.

Feb'y

1675, Alyda,

b.

Rensselaerwyck,

Feb'y
rita
18.

28, 1656, dau. 'of Philip

returned in a few years to Hoiland,

Pieterse Schuyler and Marga-

where

he

m.

Susanna

Van
of

Slechtenhorst.

Van Weely.
16.

Rikert or

Richard,

c.

a.,

was

Jereinias, b. in

Amsterdam, Hold.

owner
m.

the Flatts,

soon re-

land,
12,

c.

a.,

ab't 1660,

Oct.
1662,

turned to Holland, where he

1674,
b.

m.

July
d.

12,

Anna Van Beaumont, was

and
stadeholder
of

Maria,

1645,

Jan'y 29,

treasurer

1689, dan.

of Oloff

Stephense

the estates in Vianeu, his father's

Van Cortlandt and Anneken

Loockermans.
17.

country seat, and the head

family in Holland, which

ot the

Nicolas,

d. 1678,

graduated from

in the

male

line

has there be-

University of Leyden, received

come

extinct.

Anna Tan Weely, wife of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, died June 12, 1670, having survived her husband twenty-five years. She was the daughter of Jan Van Weely of Barneveldt, in the province of Gelderland, and Leonora Hankins of Antwerp, Holland. Her father resided at the Hague, but is said to have

236

LOURENS VAX DYCK.

Amsterdam, and was admodiator or addomain of the Prince of He was evidently in good worldly circumstances, as
at

been a merchant
Orange.

ministrator of the county of Buren, a

he gave his daughter a marriage portion of $7,200, a snug forIn 1600, he was chosen by the meixhants tune in those days.
of Amsterdam, as their representative with them informed of all movements that might

the army, to keep

affect or influence
fidelity that

trade,

and discharged

his duties

with such
is

he was

presented with a gold medal, which

descendants.

still

preserved by his
for inspection.

In 16.6, he was requested by Prince Maurice to

bring an assortment of diamonds to the

In compliance with
the

Hague

Prince's wish he brought with

him

and while waiting for the Prince in his cabinet was set upon and murdered by two officers of the guard, who concealed his body under a table, and then buried it in an ash-pit.

diamonds

to the value of 100, coo florins

JeremiilS

Tan

Kensselaer. son of Kiliaen

Van Rensselaer

and Anna Van Weely, was born in Amsterdam, Holland and was a minor at the time of his father's death in 1645. He came to America about 1660, and was the first of his father's He was children to make his home permanently in America. the first resident Patroon of Rensselaerwyck, and the progeniHe took the tor of the Van Rensselaer family of America. oath of allegiance to Great "Britain in :656, and died at the Manor House, Oct. 12, 1674. He married April 27, or July 12, 1662, Maria Van Cortlandt, and had
:

19.

Kiliaen,
1719.

b.

Aug.

24,

1663,

d.

21.

Hendrick,
Co., N.

b.

Oct. 23,

1667,

re-

Succeeded his father as Patroon, was deputy from the Manor to the Provincial As-

sided at Greenbush, Rensselaer

Y.
,

m.

Catherine, bp.
of

April
nis

19,

1665, dau.

Johanof

sembly from 1691 to 1703, and was afterwards called to one

Provincial Council; m. Oct. 15, Maria, b. 1680, dau. of 1 701,

Pieterse

Van Brugh and

wid.

Catherine

Roeloffse,

Stephanus Van Corlandt and

Geertru Schuyler (103). 20. Anna, b. Aug. 1, 1665, m. 1. Kiliaen, son of Johannis Van Rensselaer and Elizabeth
Twiller, m.
2.

22.

Lucas Rodenburgh, and dau. of the renowned Anneke Janse. Maria, b. Oct. 25, 1672, m. Sept.
14,

1691,

Peter,
P'eb.
19,

b.

Sept.

17,

1657, d.

1724, son of

Philip

Pieterse

Schuyler

and

Van

Margarita Van Slechtenhorst.

William Xichol.

MARIA VAN DERPOEL VAX DVCK.

23 I

Maria Tan Cortlandt. wife of Jeremias Van Rensselaer, was born in New Amsterdam, Jul}- 30, 1645, anc^ died at the Manor Rensselaerwyck, January 29, 16S9, aged 44 years. She was a daughter of Oloff Stephense Van Cortlandt and Anneken Loockermans.

The Van Cortlandt Family.

Oloff Stephense
in 1637. in the ship

Van Cortlandt. came

to

New Amsterdam,
During the was appointed,

West

India

Having Company. He

as a soldier, in the service of the

died April 4, 16S4.

administration of Director General Kieft, he

July, 163),

Commissary of Cargoes, at 30 guilders $12 month. In 164:5. he was one of the Board of Eight Men to adopt measures against the Indians, in 1649. one of the Board of Nine Men, or Council of the Director General, and the following year President of the Board. He was elected Schepen
in
1

6^4, and in the following year Burgomaster, and subsein

He 63 and 65. and served as such in 1667, 71 and 73, in the latter year filling the vacancy occasioned by the death of Isaac Bedlow. He was Captain of the train band, and possessing the confidence of Director General Stuyvesant, ?was sent as a delegate to Hartford in 1663. to settle boundaries between Connecticut and the New Netherlands, and the next year was one of the commissioners appointed bv Gov. Stuyvequently served as such
1656, 5S. 59, 62,

was elected an Alderman

in 1666,

sant, to treat

with Col. Nicolls, in regard

to the

surrender of

the province to the British Straat

Crown.

He

resided on

Brouwer

now Stone

street.

New York was

the proprietor of a

brewery and became quite wealthy. He is said to have been a worthy citizen and a man most liberal in his charities. He married Feb'y 26, 1642, in New Amsterdam, Anneken Loockermans. and had
:

2.

Stephen,
25,

ov 7, 1643, ^. Sept. 10, 1671; Gertrude, b. Feb'y 4, 1654, d. 1719, dau. of Philip Pieterse
b.
-

May
m.

OI

Kiliaen
b.

Van Rensselaer and

W'eely.

1700,

Anna Van
4.

Schuyler and Margareta

3.

Van

5.

Slechtenhorst. Maria, b. July 30, 1645, d. Jan'y 2q, 1689, m. Jeremias, b. in Holland, d. Oct. 12, 1674, son

31, 1651, m. Andries Teller, Esq. Catherine, b. Oct. 25, 1652, m. 1. Johannes Dervall, Esq., m. 2. Col. Frederick Phillpse, c. a., was 1st Lord of the 1658, Manor of Phillipsburg, widower

Sophia,

May

232
of
6.

LOURENS VAN DYCK.

Margaret Hardenbrrok, wid.
7.

of Pieter Rodolphus.

Cornelia,

July
18,

Nov. 21, 1655, 1682, Brant, b. Dec. 1659, d. ab't 1702, son of
b.
-

Margareta Van Slechtenhorst. Jacob or Jacobus, b. July 7, 165S,

m May
-

12,

1691, Eve, b. July 7, 1658, dau. of Col. Frederick Phillipse and Margaret Hard6,

Philip

Piterse

Schuyler

and

enbrook.

Ann^ken liOoekmn <n. wife of Olofi Stephense Van Cortwas a sister of Pieter Janse, Jacob and Govert Loockermans, and came to New Amsterdam, at an early date, probalandt,

bly

1641,

from Turnhout, Holland.

Pieter Janse Loocker-

mans was the great-great-gran;lfather of Lourens Van Dyck, by whose marriage with Maria Van Derpoel, a great-greatgreat granddaughter of Anneken Loockermans, the families of
the brother and sister

were united.
a resident

(See page

).

Jacob

Janse Loockermans was

28, 16^7, v/as fined

of Beaverwyck, and July

300 guilders

for assaulting

Meuwes Hogen-

boom,and "

from his forehead to his upper lip, with his knife." Govert Loockermans, came to New Amsterdam in 1633. He left Holland with Wouter Van Twilspliting his face open,

On the voyage they captured a SpanMartyns, which Loockermans brought into port. After his arrival he went into the service of the West India Company, returned to Holland in i6_|o, and Feb'y 26, 1641, married at Amsterdam, Ariaantje Jans, a sister of Hester Jans, wife of Jacob Wolfertse Van Couwenhoven, a companion of He married the second time, his first voyage to America. July 11. 1649, in New Amsterdam, Marritje Jans. He was one of the Nine Men, in 1647, 49., 50; Schepen 1657. 6 Orphan Master, Sept. 10, 1663; Indian interpreter, 165S; Commissioner with Martin Cregier to extinguish Indian title to the lands from Barnegat to the Raritan, and in 1653, with Johannes De La Montague and David Provoost, to attend the investigation of an alleged conspiracy of the Dutch and the Indians to slaughter the English. July 13. 1670, he was comHe posmissioned Lieut, of a company of foot in New York. sessed a superior education for the times, was bold and enterprising, but not much troubled with conscientious scruples, and amassed a lar^e fortune.
ler in the ship

Soutberg.

ish caraval, the St.

Henry

L.

Van Dyck, M.

D.

Henry L. Van Dyck, M. D., fifth son of Lourens Van Dyck (24) and Maria A^an Derpoel, was born at the Van Dyck homestead in Kinderhook, Columbia County, N. Y., Friday, November 12, 1773. He died at Kinderhook, from apoplexy, Monday, December 7, 1S40. He was an old-school physician, and among the practitioners of the day occupied a prominent position and had a very extensive practice. He was a man of ardent piety, a leading elder of the Reformed Church
of Kinderhook, helpful to his pastor, frequently conducting even-

ing services for

him,^nd

active in all church

work.

He
a

repre-

sented the Classis of Rensselaer in the General

Synod of the

Reformed Church

in 1821

and 1S24, when he served as

at

mem-

ber of the Committee on Correspondence and of the Committee

on the Professorate. He was married Rev. Isaac Labagh,* Monday, January Van Alen, and had
:

Kinderhook by the

27, 1795, to Catherine

35.

Maria,
Jan'y
July

b.
8,

Jan'y

27,

1797,

d.

36.

Stephen,

b.

June

S,

1799,

d.

1875; m. at Kinderhook by Rev. Jacob Sickles,t

Mar.
37.

15, 1803.

John A., b. Ap'l 22, 1792, d. Feb'y 10, 1866, son of Arent Van Dyck, (25) and Cynthia Goes.
19, 1817,

Andrew, b. Jan'y 27, 1801, d. at Oswego, N. Y., Aug. 31, 1871

m. Sept.
b.

13,

1S23, Catherine,

Mar.

27,

1801/d. at Oswego,
29, 1875,
c^

N. Y., April

au f
-

*Rev. Isaac Labagh studied under Rev. John H. Livingston, D. D., and was licensed He was pastor at Kinderhook from 1789 to 1801, and afterwards at Canajoharie, New Rhinebeck, Greenbush and Winant's Kill. From 1827 to 1S37 was a missionary at Utica, N. Y. where he died.
in 178S.
,

tRev. Jacob Sickles, D. D., b. at Tappan, N. Y., 1772, d. 1845 graduated from Columbia College 1792, studied with Rev. Solomon Froelegh and Rev. J. H. Livingston, was called to assist the eminent Dirk Romeyn at Schenectady, N. Y.,in 1794, was pastor at Coxsackie and Coeymans, 1797-1801, and at Kinderhook from 1S01 to 1835. D. D. from Rutgers College 1S38. "He was noted for his uniform and sincere affection, his enlarged benevolence, his remarkable humility and his proverbial prudence, together with his un;

tiring assiduity in

winning souls for Christ."

30

234
Daniel

HENRY
Staats,
of

L.

VAN DYCK,
and

M. D.

Valatia,
Y.,

Blenheim, Schoharie Co., N.

Y.
41.

Columbia
Margaret,
erine
38.

Co.,
b.

N.

Ap'l 20,

1775,

Henry H.,

b. Sept. 3, 1S09, d. at

dau. of John Pruyn and Cath-

Brooklyn,

N.
1,

Y.,

Jan'y 22,
d.

Van
b.

Derpoel.

1888; m.
ab't

Eliza A. Clark,

Elizabeth,

May

14, 1803, d. at

Columbus,
D.,

Ohio,

1834
in

m.

1829, Rev. Peter Jackson,

born ab't 1S00,

b.

M. Engd.

Feb'y 24, 1864, Frances Augusta Kelly. dau. of Forrester Kelly and Elizabeth Pangburn, of Al1862;
2,

m.

land.
39.

bany, N. Y.

Stephen,
at

Feb'y
b.

27,

1805,

42.

Engeltie or Ann,
d.

b.

Oct.

5,

1812,
9,

Hallowel, Canada, 182S.

Sept.
3,

Mar.

21,

1878; m. June

40.

Lawrence H.,
d. at

1806,

Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan'y

;

24, 1893

m.

1,

Aug.

27, 1833,

Christina, b. Dec. 12, 1807, d.

Jan'y

2,

1851,

dau. of

Barend

43.

Newton, b. Feb'y 26, 1805; son of Ezra Reed and Esther Edgerton, of South Amenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y. Cornelius Van Alen, b. Aug. 13,
'&'}'>

Hoes and Dirickie Van Buren; m. 2, Oct. 5, 1853, Mary

Decia,

1S1S
F.

m. Dec.
b.

23, .1842, Julia

A.,

at

Beirut,

Syria,

Nov. 7, 1829, dau. of Hezekiah Holdridge and Catherine Marten, of North

b.

dau. of Peter Abbott,

M. Consul

for Syria,

H. B. and As-

sunta Daviii, of Siena, Italy.

Additional data relating to the children of Henry L. Van Dyck, A/. D., and Catherine Van Alen.
1. Maria Tan Dyt'k (35)i married her cousin, John A. Van Dyck, a farmer who in the earlier years of their wedded life resided in Canada, but for many years preceding his death, in Kinderhook, N. Y. He was a man of education and culture, influential in the community, an officer in the church and an ardent advocate of total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors.

Issue
51.

Henry,
11,

b.

July 24, 1S1S, Dec.

1S19,

d.

Aug.
Ap'l

55.

Henry,

1S1S.
b.
8,

b. Jan'y 12, 1824; m. by Rev. L. H. Van Dyck, Feb'y

52.

Henry,
2,

d.

4,

1853,

1820.
b.

resides

Jane Anna Van Slyck; in Canada, has had

53.

Stephen,
in

July
1S65,

11,

1821,

d.

seven children, six of

are living.
56.

whom

July 21,

was drowned
in

Lake Ontario; m.

New

Arent,

York, Mary Swartz, of Cassel,

Germany.
54.

Cynthia,

b.

Feb'y

28,

1823, d.

b. June 7, 1826, d. in Canada, Jan'y 16, 1855; nl -J Rev. L. H. Van Dyck, the same day that his brother was
-

July 22, 1823.

married, Feb'y

4,

1853,

Maria

HIS CHILDREN.

35

W.

Lees,

who

after his

death

60.

Ann
d.

Elizabeth, b. Aug.
Sept.
1861,
26,

17, 1S33,

m. William Bradley, and is now again a widow. Issue: Arent and John, the former of whom
d.

17,

m. Jan'y Aaron Van Alen.

1877;

July

19, 1874,

57.

Andrew,
17,

b.

Ap'l

6,

1828, d. Sept.
61.

1828.
b. Sept. 21,

58.

John,

1S29, d. Sept.

Maria Van Dyck Van Alen and David Bigelow Van Alen, who d. Aug. 15, 1876. Catherine, b. Mar. 23, 1836, resides at Malden-on-the-HudIssue,
son, Ulster Co., N. Y.

27, 1830. 59.

Catherine,

b.

July

2,

1831,

d.

62.

John,
6,

b.

Feb'y

3,

1840, d. Feb'y

March

12, 1832.

1840.

2. Andrew H. Van Dyck (37), was an eminent physician, and for twenty-three years a ruling Elder in the Presbyterian Church at Oswego, N. Y. 1S60-65 he was Collector of Customs at the port of Oswego. His pastor, Rev. James H. Worden, D. D., in a memorial discourse, says:
;

"His
tongue.
duty,

religion

was

far

from that spurious kind which

is

only in word and

He was

conscientious in the discharge of moral and religious

to

and was careful

show
at

his faith

by

his works."

He had

eleven

children, only seven of

63.

whom

reached maturity.

Henry

Francis,

b.

Kinder-

hook, N. Y., Jan'y 13, 1824, d. at Chicago, 111., May 9, 1893;

Canada, Oct. 14, 1834; m. at Oswego, N. Y., Dec. 28, i860, Edwin E. Leach, b. at Barre,

m. at Utica, N. Y., Sept.

Issue:

13,

Washington

Co.,

Vermont,
Co.,

1850, Charlotte Case, d. 1855.

May
tario,

13,

1S29; resides at On-

Catherine
Jane,

E.,
17,

b.

at

San

Bernardino
Issue:
b.

Oswego, N. Y., Sept.

1851;

California.

Mary
64.

d. y.

Louisa

Leach,

Margaret at Cedar
3,

Margaret Ann,

b. at

Kinderbook,

Rapids, Iowa,

Mar.

1862;

N. Y., June 10, 1S26; m. G. V. N. Relyea, dental surgeon,

m. at Chicago,
2,

Illinois,

Nov.

1893,

William
b. in

Thomas

65.

Oswego, N. Y. No issue: Daniel Staats, b. at Bath, Canada, Nov. 1830, d. at Toledo,

Canada, 1S49. Catherine Maria, b. at Bath, Canada, June 24, 1832; m. at Oswego, N. Y. where she
,

Landale,
13,

Scotland,

May
d.

1S53;
b.

Catherine Drusilla

Leach,
Dec.
sides
15,

Aug.
Mar.

28,

1866,

1868;
b.

Henry Wood
11,

66.

Leach,

1869, reCal.,

at

Ontario,

m.

Sept. 30, 1890, Mildred Rein-

still

resides,

June

14,

1S70,

hardt, b. Ap'l,

1872,

and has
b.

Philo

Bundy.

Issue:
b. at

Mary
OsweBath,

Edwin Gleason Leach: Charlotte

Van Dyck Bundy,

go, Sept. 11, 1S71.
67.

Elizabeth
18,
b.

Leach,
1S73.

Mar.
at

1870;

James May

Sarah

Elizabeth,

b.

Leach,

Nov.

7,

236
68.

HENRY
Henrietta Wynkoop,
derhook,
1840, m.

L.

VAN DYCK,

M. D.
D. Fort,
b. at

b. at

Kin16,

sue: Gerret V.

N.

Y.,

June
N.

June

22, 1864,

James
Y.

H.

Goldy,

Brooklyn,

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Nov. 12, 1865, m. Eleanor Cleary, resides in New York; Andrew

Issue: Esther, d. aged 4 years, Caroline, d. aged 18 months,

Van Dyck
1870, m.

Fort,
9,

b.

Jan'y,

May
111.;

1894, Carrie

69.

James, d. aged 4 years. Caroline Matilda, b. at Kinderhook,

Evalina
Chicago,
Fort,
b.

Couch,
at

resides

at

James
Cedar

Goldy
Rapids,

N. Y., June. 2S, 1841,

m.

at

Oswego, N. Y., Dec.

Iowa, Nov.
at Chicago.

12,

1874, resides

28, 1864,

Hiram

P. Fort.

Is-

M.

Elizabeth Tan Dyck (38), wife of Rev. Peter Jackson, left two children: Stephen Jackson, b. in 1830, d. After her 18S3, and Catherine Sarah Jackson, b. June, 1S32. mother's death, when two or three years of age, Catherine
3.

D.,

Sarah Jackson was legally adopted by her uncle, Henry H. Van Dyck, (39) and her name was changed to Catherine Sarah

Van Dyck
7,

(70).

(70) married at Albany, N. Y., May William H., b. at Mt. Lebanon, Syria, Nov. 1, 1831, son of Rev. William M. Thomson, D. D.,* and Eliza Nelson Hanna.

Catherine Sarah Van Dyck,

1861,

William H. Thomson, M. D., LL. D., is Professor of Materia Medica and Theraputics and Diseases of the Nervous System, in the University Medical College of the city of New York, also visiting physician of Roseveit and Bellevue Hospitals; member of the American Association of Physicians at Washington, D. C. Senior Deacon in Broadway Tabernacle Church, New York; author of The Great Argtiment, besides many essays, He resides at dissertations, lectures and addresses on medical subjects. No. 7 West 56th street, New York city, and has a large and lucrative pracIssue, all born in New York city: tice.
;

2.

Henry Van Dyck,

1862, d. in
1866.

b.

Feb'y

27, 19,

3.

Eliza Hanna,
in

New York

Mar.

New

b. Jan'y 18, 1864, d. York, Oct. 21, 1S66. b.

4-

Wallace Lincoln,

Sept.

18,

William McClure Thomson, D. D., son of Rev. John Thomson, a Presclergyman, b. in Springfield, Ohio, d. in Denver, Col., April 8, 1894, in the 89th year of his age; m. 1, Eliza Nelson Hanna, of New York; m. 2, Assunta graduated at Miami UniDaviti, wid. of Peter Abbott, British Consul-General at Syria versity and Princeton Theological Seminary; from 1832 to 1878, Missionary at Syria; Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society; author of "The Land and the Book," a standard work issued in 1858, illustrative of the manners and customs of Palestine, which having the largest sale of all similar works in America, was said by the Commission of the British Parliament on International copyright to have had the largest sale in Great Britain of all
*Rev.
byterian
;

American works except "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

HIS CHILDREN.
1866,
d.
iii

2?>7

New
Nov.

York, Feb'y
20, 1867.

Anchor Fence Post Co. and

Superintendent of the Broad-

26, 1884.
5. 6.
7.

Mary Hanna,

b.

way
School.
8.

Tabernacle

Sabbath

Evelyn May, b. Ap'l 27, 1869. Herbert Gordon, b. Dec. 23, 1870; graduated at Yale College,

William
I 873>

De
is

Forest,

at

b. Jan'y 5, Yale College, Class

1893; proprietor of the

of '95.

4.

Henry H. Van Dyck

(39)

was

editor of the

Goshen

Independetit Republican in 1S30 and of the Albany Atlas in 1834, and so continued for over twenty years, when the last

named journal was consolidated with the Albany Argus. He was State Senator from Albany, N. Y., 1S50; Superintendent of Public Instruction, N. Y., 18^3; Superintendent of Banking, N. Y., 1S60; Assistant United States Treasurer at the SubTreasury. New York city, 186^ President of the New York and Boston Railroad and of the Erie Transportation Company, 1S69-83 President of the American Safe Deposit Company of New York city, from 1883 until his death, in 1888. He was deacon in the Clinton Avenne Congregational Church of Brooklyn, N. Y., a genial companion, kind-hearted and liberal, ever ready to lend a helping hand and abounding in good
;
;

works.
71.

By

hid first wife, Eliza

Clark, he had

Henry H., jr., b. in 1839; d. June 23, 1859. The Albany Evening Journal of that date says: "During the forenoon of Tuesday he left home accompanied by a friend, for a ride. On their way home, in descending a hill, the pole of the wagon broke. The horses immediately became unmanageable and ran. His friend leaped out and escaped any serious injury, but Van Dyck, after retaining his seat for a time, was thrown out, and becoming in some way entangled in the vehicle, was dragged some distance. When taken up his skull was fractured, his jaw broken, and his body severely bruised. The
fractures were pronounced fatal

and he remained insensible

to the terrible

calamity that had befallen him.

man,

was a gentlewinning and affectionate; every one loved him, and by his intelligence, genius and industry he gave promise of a useful and honorable manhood. He will be sadly missed from his accustomed place, and many a tear will be shed to his memory by those most intimately associated with
his early youth he
quiet,

From

him."

By his second wife, Frances A. Kelly, H. H. Van Dyck (39) had several children three of whom were living at the time of
his decease
:

23S
72

HENRY
Morgan,
sister

T..

VAN DYCK,
26,

M. D.
of

Edwin
1S92,
soil,

m.

Oct.

guson,

Brooklyn,

N.

Y.^
b.

Adeline Weeks Ingerof

and has Frances Ferguson,

Aug.
in
18,

Oliver

Weeks
N. Y.

1892.

Ingersoll, of Brooklyn,

74 Edith Alenia, at present studying

73 Elizabeth
Oct. 21,

Maria Theresa, m. 1891, William C: Fer-

Germany.

5.

Cornelius

Tan Alen Yan Dyck, M.

D., D. D., L. H.

D.,

LL. D.,

(43) studied the classics and other branches at the

his father,

Kinderhook Academy, read medicine with

and then

attended lectures in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa., from which, in 1S39, he received the degree of

M.

D. In Jan'y, 1S40, he was sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions to Syria, as a missionary
physician. He at once applied himself to the study of the Arabic language, and had charge of a seminary until 1851, at Abeih, on Mt. Lebanon, 25 miles south of Beirut. ''When the missionaries who accompanied him were not yet able to offer a prayer or to hold services in Arabic, he could do both with facility and great acceptability." This and a pressing need for more missionaries, led to his being licensed to preach His complete the Gospel and to his ordination as a missionary.

command of the Arabic language almost cost him his life. "He lived among the people of Lebanon dressed like themselves,
assuming the native costume, turban and all. In 1S4S there hostilities between the Druzes and the Maronites. Dr. Van Dyck had been attending to the wounded on both sides, and on his way home a party of Druzes met him. They refused to let him pass, and when he told them that he was an American they declared that no foreigner ever spoke their language as he spoke it, but just as they were about and they would have undoubtedly cut to proceed to extremes party arrived on the scene and declared one of their his throat that he had seen the doctor bandaging the wounds of a Druze The suspect immediately became a only a short time before.

was an outbreak of

hero in the eyes of the chivalrous Druzes,

safely."

who

sent

him home

From

85 1

to

1S55 he labored at Sidon, but during the

death of the Rev. Eli Smith, D. D.,

latter year, after the

who

had been engaged

for

about eight years on the Arabic version

HIS CHILDREN.

239

American Board,

of the Scriptures, he was called, by the mission and by the to Beirut, to take up and complete the work of that eminent and distinguished scholar.
qualifications for the execution of the called
:

Dr.
to

work

Van Dyck's which he was

were many and varied "He spoke the Arabic language and knew all the niceties of Arab speech better than He was thoroughly acquainted with the Arabs themselves. the poetry, proverbs, history, and indeed the whole range of Arabic literature. He had an ear for delicate shades and tones an intense thirst for knowledge legarding the Arab of sound unwearied perseverance in study a rerace, which he loved the art of tentive memory, always strengthened by exercise conversation, which not only charmed the natives as they listened to the poetry of their tongue flowing from his lips, but also inspired them to pour out at his feet their choicest stores of jewelled thought; and above all, with his strong American head was allied a large, warm, loving heart with a simple living faith that made him a prince of Bible translators." Dr. Smith had devoted much of his time to the formation of an eclectic text from which to translate. He selected the readings that pleased him best from all versions, and did not follow any one in particular. Dr. Van Dyck returned at once to the Textus Recefitus, and could therefore avail himself of the
faultlessly,
; ; ; ;

work

of his predecessor only to a limited

extent, while his

greater purity of style and

entire change.

more

classic diction necessitated

an

performed the whole work anew, excepting the Pentateuch, which he revised, using accm ate and idioSeptember matic Arabic and giving it the style of the Koran.
-

He

15th, 1S64, he reported the translation of the Bible complete,

and came
the

to America the following year, under the auspices of American Bible Society, to superintend the preparation of electrotype plates for two octavo editions, one with and one without vowel points, from type after models which he designed

and furnished.
exactness of
style,

This version of the Arabic Scriptures is "pre-eminent for the its conformity to the original and the purity of its
so pleasing to the

Arab

taste.

It

renders

all

further

Arabic superfluous, and will prove an abiding monument of Dr. Van Dyck's scholarship
translation of the Scriptures in

24O

HENRY

L.

VAX DYCK,

M. D.

and industiy." Rev. William Wright, D. D., says: "Dr. Van Dyck, is the doyen of living translators, standing pre-eminent above them all, and when the history of Bible linguists comes to be written, he will occupy an honorable place in the front
rank of translators of
all

the centuries."

During the two years required for editing the Arabic Scriptures he was Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature in Union Theological Seminary of New York city. He was offered the permanent Professorship, but declined the offer
and
time
-

eturned in 1867 to his mission

Beirut.

work

in Syria, accepting a

Professorship in the Syrian Protestant College, founded at that

at

In this

new

college he taught

astronomy,

chemistry and the theory and practice of medicine, and while

doing so superintended the publication of the Arabic Bible by

the Beirut press, edited various mathematical and scientific text

books

in

Arabic and visited the hospital twice a week.

He

re-

ceived the degree of D. D. from Rutgers' College prior to 1S67.

and from the same institution in 1890 the degree of L. H. D. In 18S0 he was honored with the decoration of the Order of the Golden Cross, given by the Emperor William I. of Germany at the instigation of the Knights of St. John and accompanied with a letter from Prince Frederick Charles, Master of In 1S92 he received the the Order of St. John's Hospitallers. degree of LL. D., with full diploma, from Edinborough UniverThe fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of his sity, Scotland.
labors in Syria. April
2,

1890,

was commemorated

at

Beirut

with imposing civic demonstrations, in which Moslems and Christians alike united, and all classes of citizens eagerly
joined.

Dr.

Van Dyck

Peter Abbot and Assunta Daviti, an Italian lady.

married Julia F. A. Abbot, a daughter of Peter Abbot

was

the British Consul for Syria, and at that time the only foreign
in Syria.

Consul
he did

As

the friend and protector of missionaries

advance the Kingdom of God, proving himself He died in Ehden, above a "fellow helper to the truth." Tripoli, in the mountains near the Cedars, and was buried at His widow married Rev. Beirut, in the Mission Cemetery.

much

to

William M. Thomson, D. D.. author of The Land and the Book. See page 236. In a very sprightly article in the N. Y.

HIS CHILDREN.

241

Evangelist, Dec, 1S94, the esteemed missionary to Syria, Dr. Jessup, pays the following tribute to Dr. Van Dyck
:

If

any

man

deserves the

title

of Patriarch of Syria Mission,

it is

the.

venerable Dr. Van Dyck, translator of the Bible into the Arabic language, the beloved physician, the eminent astronomer, the profound scholar, honored by foreign universities, idolized by the Syrian people, and whose lovely home at Ras Beirut it is the delight of all missionaries and foreign travellers to visit.

bless Syria by his wise

His old age is serene and beautiful. and loving counsels

!

Long may he

live to

Dr.
75.

Van Dyck's

children were
b.

Henry Laurence,
d.

in

Abeih,

School for Girls at Shemlan,

Mt. Lebanon, under the English Society for

Mt. Lebanon, Dec. 28, 1843,

at

Limosel Cyprus, Sept.

b.

Female Ednb. at

27, 1S83.
76.

cation in the East.

at

Edward Abbot,
Syria,
ent,

Beirut,

79.

William Thomson,
Dec.
I

Beirut
4,

Mar.

31, 1846; at pres-

21,

1S57,

m.

Nov.

1S93,

teacher in the
in Cairo,

884,

Helen M., dau. Rev.

Missionary

S.

Government school
Egypt.
77.

H.

Calhoun,

to

Syria; he graduated from the

b.

Ellen Maria,

at
3,

Abeih, Mt.
1848, d. at

Lebanon, Jan'y
Abeih, July
78.

10, 1S49.

Medical College of the UniSyria, and is now, 1S93, practicing his

versity of Beirut,

Eliza Ann,

b.

at

Abeih,
4,

Mt.
at 80.

profession in Beirut.

Lebanon,

Ap'l

1851;

Florence Katherine,

b. at

Beirut,

present, 1893, a teacher in the

Mar. 29, 1871.

6.

Engeltie or

Ann Tan Dyck

resided at South
a

Amenia, N. Y.

man

of culture, influential in
trie

(43) wife of Newton Reed, Her husband, a farmer, was the community and a prominent
,

Elder of

Presbyterian Church.

work
2.

entitled

Early History of Amenia.

b.

In 1875 he published a Issue

:

Mary Hoes Reed,

1837.

July

10,

son of

Ebenezer
b.

Cline and

Asenath Hitchcock.
Reed,
b.

3.

Clara Cline

May
b.

15,

6.

Albert B. Reed,
d.

Oct.

7,

1844,

1839, d. Jan'y 10, 1886.

4.

at

YVarrenton,

Ya.,

Sept.

Henry Van Dyck Reed,

21,

Mar.
1866,

16,

1863,

1841,

m.

Oct.
b.

17,

Sept.,

1862,

having enlisted in with the 150th

Helen Maria,
dau.
of

May

16, 1845,

Regiment
Volunteers.
7.

New York
b.

State

Edward Bird and

Reed,
b.

Maria Paine.
5.

John Horace Reed,

18465 m.
Ap'l
1,

Sept. 24,

Frances

Adam

Sept. 20,

Sept. 22, 1870, Florb.

1S42, m. Jan'y 1, 1862, Edward Ebenezer, b. Aug. 8, 1839,

ence Adelia,
d.
2,

Feb'y

4,

1S49,

1S81,

dau. of

Eben

31

242

HENRY
W.
Chaffee
2,

L.

VAN DYCK,

M. D.

and

Amanda

Cornelius

Van Alen Reed,

b.

Fuller; m.

Cornelia F.,
d.

Feb'y 17, 1891, b. Aug. 8, 1856,

dau. of

Jan'y 22, 1852; m. 1, Aug. 23, 1871, Emma Louisa, b. Oct.

23,

May

12, 1892,

My-

1855,

dau.

of

Mrs. Julia

ers

Lawrence

and Clonnda

8.

Bouton. Katharine Matilda Reed, b. July 27, 1848; m. Jan'y 1, 1869, Harry Sedgwick, b. May 6, 1848, son of Philo Sedgwick

and Eliza Adam.

Beach Lane and adopted dau. Horace of her stepfather, Reed; m. 2, Feb'y 6, 1886, Mrs. Ada Augusta Swett, b. at Weld, Feb'y 6, 1853, of Leonard dau. Maine, Stoner and Julia Snowman.

Catherine Yan Alen, wife of Henry L. Van Dyck, M. D., (29), was born at Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N. Y., August 19, 1775, and died at Amenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y., at the residence of her son-in-law, Newton Reed, May 15, 1S6}. She was a good woman, a true helpmeet to her pious husband and

model grandmother, in the estimation of her grandchildren. She was a granddaughter of Cornelius Van Alen (14), who was a brother of Heyltje Van Alen (n), wife of Arent Van Dyck (15). The families of the brother and sister were united by the marriage of Henry L. Van Dyck and Catherine Van Alen, both of whom were great-grandchildren of Stephanus Van Alen (5), and Maria Cornelisse Mulder, or second
a

cousins.

The Van Alen

I
2.

Families.

THIRD LINE OF DESCENT.

Lourens Van Alen, c. a. prior to 1630. Lourens Van Alen, m. Elbert je Evertse. Stephanus Van Alen, m. 1702, Maria Cornelisse Mulder.
Cornelius

3.

4.
5.

6.

1715? m. Alida Pruyn, b. 1716. m. 1770, Angeltie Witbeck, b. 1748. Catherine Van Alen, b. 1775, m. 1795, Henry L. Van Dyck, b: 1775, grandparents of Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck Welles.

Van

Alen,

b.

Stephanus Van Alen,

b. 1748,

Lourens Yan Alen was

family.

of his

the progenitor of the Van Alen His history, together with that of his son Lourens and grandson Stephanus (7), are given on pages 209-10-11.

CATHERINE VAX ALLEN VAN DYCK.

243

Cornelius Tan Alen (16), son of Stephanus Van Alen (7) and Maria Cornelisse Mulder, was born about iyi^and resided at Kinderhook, N. Y., on a farm about a mile West of the Kinderhook Church, on the left hand side of the road leading to the landing, in a good substantial house, still standing, and known as the Van Alen homestead. When, in 17^6, the Reformed Churches of Kinderhook, Claverack and Livingston Manor, united to secure the pastoral services of the Rev. Johannes Casperus Fryenmoet,* he, with Abraham Van Alstyne and Johannis Goes, was an Elder in the Kinderhook Church. He married Alida Pruyn, and had
:

20.

Maria, bp. at Kinderhook March

3.

1745, d. Dec. 24, 1814, at 4

1787; m. April 3, 1770, Angeltie Witbeck, bp. Feb'y 28,

i 749j

o'clock A.
21.

M.
at

d.

Oct.

1790,

dau. of

Christina,

bp.

Kinderhook,
Claverack
23.

22.

Jan'y 24, 1747. Stephanus, bp. at

Andries Witbeck and Wyntie Bronk.

Alida, bp. at Kinderhook, Feb'y
10, 1750.

Jan'y

16,

1748, d.

March

20,

Alida Pruyn, wife of Cornelis Van Alen (14"), was baptized Albany. N. Y., March 11, 1 716, and appears on record Feb'y 9, 1740, as a member of the Reformed Church at Kinderhook, N. Y. She was a daughter of Arent Pruyn and Catryna
at

Gansevoort.

The Pruyn
1.

Families.

Francis Pruyn, m. Alida.

2. 3.

Arent Pruyn, Alida Pruyn,

b. b.

1688; m. 17 14, Catryna Gransevoort.

1716; m.

Cornelis

Van Alen,

b.

I7I5(?); great-great-

grand-parents of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Welles.

Francis Pruyn Or Pruen, called Frans Jansen, son of John

Pruyn was
is

a resident of
7,

New Amsterdam

as early as 1641, but

on record Aug.

1661 with his wife Alida at Albany,

N.

*Rev. Johannis Casperus Fryenmoet, a native of Switzerland, b. in 1720, d. 1778. In life he settled near Port Jervis, N. Y., and in 1841 was ordained to the Gospel ministry by the Rev. Geo. Wilhelmus Mancius, of Kingston, N. Y., but this ordination
early

was deemed

illegal and he was ordained "according to the church order" Dec. 16, 1744. Previous to 1756 he ministered to the churches on the Delaware, was very popular as a preacher, and was a candidate for the pulpit made vacant by the death of Rev. John Frelinghuy sen, but the call was given to Rev. Jacob R. Hardenbergh. He served Kinderhook, Claverack and Livingston Manor from 1756 to 1770.

244

HEXRY

L.

VAN DVCK,

M. D.

Y., where he had a tailor shop. In 166S as the representative of Jacques Cornelesse Van Slyck he conveyed a piece of property
the

Rensselaerwyck to Jan Labatie and later in same year bought from Gerret Slichtenhorst a lot on the north-west corder of Maiden Lane and James street, which in He bought Feb'y 19. 1703 was sold to Johannes Mingael. 16S6-7, from Johannes Clute and Bata his wife for which he gave satisfaction in "Ye Somme of Two and Twenty Beavers,
in the colony of
a Certain Lott of ground,

whereon ye said frans Janse Pruyn hath

built a

new

house, scituate, lyeing and Being here in Albany in ye Brewers street,

between ye house & Lott of Jacob Lokermans, and ye Lott of geurt hendricks, haveing to ye East ye- high Street and to ye west ye Back Street which goes from Jamsz Pruyn to ye Townes Stockadoes Containing in Bredth towards the Street Thirty foott & a half, Rynlans measure and behinde Two and Twenty foot nine jnches, is in lenth on ye South Side Six Rod Seven foot & a half & on ye north Side ye same lenth"
:

This

lot

runs through from

Broadway

to

James

street

and

Was

the third or fourth lot south from Steuben street.

Sept.

11, 1705, he was fined by the Justices of the City and County of Albany, "for not having paved before his dwelling house, according to a Proclamation of the cit)"." In 1706 he took a mortgage on the farm of Conrad Borghart at Kinderhook, N.

Y., for which his executors and administrators, John Pruyn and Jacob Lansing, declared satisfaction Feb. 6, 17 13-14. He
refused to take the oath of allegiance to
1699, because he

King William, Jan'y

was

a Papist but declared his willingness to

swear
71 2.

fidelity.

Albany
1
2.

His wife united with the Reformed Church of She died Sept. 20, 1704, and he died May 6, His children were
in 16S3.
:

Anna,

Nov. and was buried under the Reformed Church at Albany, N. Y., Nov. 20, 1722; m. June 8, 1696, Warner, b. Dec. 8, 1663, son of Casparus Van Yueren resided east side of North Pearl St. bet w e e n Maiden Lane and Steuben St.
b.
11, 1665,
d.

May

m. Sept.

3,

1705,

Emilia, b.

17

May

16, 16S0,

dau. of Robert
;

Sanders and Elsie Barentse

resided on the east side of

James

St.

three or four lots

St.,

south of Steuben

Albany,

N. Y., a
ant

Reformed Church 1683, Assistof the

member

Alderman 1710-11, Alder1718-26,

Justice of

Albany.
3.

man
b.

the

John or Johannes,

Mar.
23,

1,
;

1667, buried Aug.

1749

4.

Peace for Albany County 1728. Hendrick, b. June 13, 1670, will

CATHERINE VAX ALEX VAX DYCK.

dated Mar.
23,

245

1743,

proved

Bogart and Jeanette Quacken-

May

1752; m. at Kingston, Ulster Co., N. V., Anna Hof6,

bush
in

was one

of those

who

mans

of Albany,

N. Y.,
of

re-

1703 furnished materials for the Dominie's house, ap-

sided at Kingston,

which

pears as a Freeholder of the

town he was a trustee in 1725, a member of the Reformed

Church, Mar.
Maria,
b.

3d ward, Albany, N. Y., 1720

-42.

21, 1695.
9,

Helena,
Sept.

b.

Feb'y
of

Ap'l

with the

1672; united Reformed Church,

member
6,

6, 1681, was a Reformed Church,

1696, buried July II,

Aug.
21,

6,

1690,

was buried Aug.

m. July 2, 1693, 1 731; Elbert Gerritse, buried Nov.

18, 1750,

1755; m. Sept. 27, 1701, Jacob, buried near his house Oct. 17,
1753,

son of

Hendrick
of

and

son of Gerrit Ryerse

Lysbet Lansing
N. Y.
1.

Albany,
1683,

Utrecht, and Anna Janse Amsterdam, Holland, who were m. in New Amsterdam,
of

of

Francis, b.

Sept. 23,

was

bap. at the Reformed Church,

Ap'l

11, 1665.
9,

Christine, b. Aug.

1674, united

and was m. Margareta a Freeholder at Albany, N. Y.

.

with the Reformed

Ap'l
6,

Church,
7,

1694, d.
S,

Ap'l

1707
Gerrit1725,
:.

Bernardine or Barentje, 16S6, buried Feb'y

sen.

b.
5,

Ap'l

7,

m.
sen,

May

1706,

John
12,

1752; m. July 28, 1712, John Evertbp.

buried Nov.

probably a brother of Elbert

the husband of Maria
(5).

Ar7iold or Arent,
1688, in the

May

24,

Reformed Church,
1714,

Madeline,

b.

Jan'y

8,

1676.
1677,

m. Nov.
buried
dau.
of

21,

Catryna,

Samuel,

b.

Dec.

2,

Harman Harmense
and

Jan'y 27, 1752; m. Jan'y 15, 1704, Maria, b. June 14, 1681,
dau.
of

Gansevoort

Ma

i t i

Conyn.

Jacob

Cornelisse

Arent Or Arnold Priiyn (12), son of Francis or Frans Janse Pruyn and Alicia his wife, was baptized in the Reformed Church at Albany, N. Y., May 24, 16SS. In accordance with Dutch custom, which required every male to learn some trade as the foundation of his education, he became a blacksmith and wrought at the forge, in an age when Longfellow's words were
true
:

With

smith a mighty man is he, large and sinewy hands ; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.

"The

is wet with honest sweat earns whate'er he can ; And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man."

His brow

He

246

HENRY

T,i

VAN DYCK,

M.

f).

In 1736 he moved to Kinderhook. N. Y., and May 6, purchased from Cornells Schermerhorn, for 150 pounds current of the State ot New York, adjoining lands of Jan Goes and Stephanis Van Alen, including what has since been known as the Pruyn farm,

money

"A

piece of land on the west side of the creek, being the half of a cer-

tain piece of land called the

belongs to Stephanis

S Irook, Van Alen."

the north end thereof, the other half

The greater portion of this farm is now in the possession of William Van Schaick Beekman. Before moving to Kinderhook Arent Pruyn was Fire Master at Albany, 1716-17, and He united with the KinConstable for the 2d ward, 1718-19. derhook Church in 1736, and served in its Consistory both as deacon and elder. He married, Nov. 21, 1714, at the house of her parents, it is said, Catryna Gansevoort, and had
:

13.

Alida, bp. at Albany, Mar.

II,

bp. at Albany, Aug. 28, 1726.

b.

1716; m. ab't 1743, Cornells, son of Stephanns 1 71 5,?

Cornel-

He was
and
30,

engaged

in the grain

freighting

business

at

Van Alen and Maria

isse
14.

Stuyvesant, N. Y., and Aug.

1770,
is

Mulder.

described

in

Maria, bp.

May
1726.

31, 1719,

buried

Nov.
15.

1,

Christina, bp. Jan'y 24, 1722.

16.

Lydia, a twin sister of Christina

(15)

bp.

Peter
17.

Van

Jan'y 24, Buren.

1722,

m.

Frans or Francis, bp. Feb'y 2, m. 1724, d. Nov. 26, 1783

;

deed as Harman Pruyn Sloopmaster. He was a Deacon in the Kinderhook Church in 1776; sympathized with the Loyalists during the Revolution and was banished from Kinderhook. His store was
broken open by Col. Hoes, the grain confiscated and fed
to the horses of the

prior to 1748, Christina Goes,

d.

Feb'y

16, 1805: a black smith,

American

Deacon

Kinderhook Church 1758-60, and 1766-68; Elder

in

army.

He

appears again at

1774-76.
18.

Harman,

bp. at Albany, Oct. 19,

at

Aug. 20, 1758, Kinderhook, Jannetje Goes,

1727; m.

Kinderhook as an elder of the church in 1787, but disappears in 1792, about which time he went to Canada, became one of the United Empire of Loyalists

probably

dau.

of

Johannes
his wife

and settled near Bath on

Goes and Jannetie

Lake Ontario.

Catryna Gansevoort, wife of Arnold or Arent Pruyn (12), was the daughter of Harman Harmanse Gansevoort and Maritie
Conyn, according
to the records in the

Family Bible

in posses-

CATHERINE VAN ALEN VAN DYCK.

sion of his descendants.

247

There

is

no record of her baptism, but

of the Reformed Church at

she appears in 1736 as a

member

Kinderhook.

The Gansevoort
Harman Harmanse Gansevoort
to

Family.

or Van Gansevoort is said have been a descendant of Wessel Van Gansevoort, ' one of He was the Morning Stars of the Reformation in Holland."

Beaverwyck, a man of good position and family, as by an old silver tankard, which he brought with him to America, which bears the Gansevoort coat-of-arms and is In 1660 he bought, from still in the possession of the family.* Paulus Martense Van Benthuysen, a lot on the south corner of Broadway and Maiden Lane, Albany, N. Y. He married Maritie Conyn and had
a

brewer

in

is testified

2.

Leendert, bp. Sept.

19,

1683,

d.

5.

Nov.

1763; m. May 11, 1712, Catrina de Wandelear, d. Aug. 1767. He owned the
30,
lot at

6.

Rebecca, bp. July 9, 1693. Hendrick, bp. Sept. 27,

1696,

7.

buried Sept. 27, 1746. Catryna, b. ab't 1698, m. Nov. 21,

I7!4,

Albany where Stanwix

stands.
'

Arent Pruyn, bp.

(1)

May
.

Hall
3.

now

24, 1688,

son of Frans Jansen

Rachel, bp. June 20, 1686.

Lydia, bp. July 20, 1690.

Pruyn

and Alida

4.

Maritie Conyn wife of

Harman Harmanse Gansevoort was

Conyn.

the daughter of Leendert Phillipse

The Conyn Family.

in 1665,

Leendert Phillipse Conyn appears on record in Beaverwyck and died there in i74' He married Agnietie
. :

Issue
2.

3. 4.

5.

Wyntie Dirkse. Caspar, m. Colette Winnen. Cammertje, m. Jan, son of Pieter Bronk and Hillitie Tyssinck. Jacob.
Philip, m.
*

6.

Lysbeth, m. Johannes, son of Jan Thomasse Witbeck, the emigrant.

7.

Maritie,

m. Harman Harmanse Gansevoort.

Among his

descendants,

rad Gansevoort, and Elizabeth

was Maria Gansevoort, b. 1797, d. June 19, 1831, dau. of ConRoseboom, b. Dec. 25, 1769, d. Jan'y 11, 1850. And wife of
d.

Rev. Samuel A. Van Vranken, S. T. D., b. 1790, Van Vranken and Professor of Didactic Theology
to 61.

Jan'y

1,

1861, son of

in

New Brunswick

Rev. Nicholas Seminary from 1S41

248
SteplianilS

HENRY

L.

VAN DYCK,

M. D.

Van

Aleil (22), son of Cornells

Van Alen

(16)

and Alida Pruyn, was baptized at Claverack, N. Y., Jan'y 16, He was a farmer, residing 1748, and died March 20, 1787on the Van Alen homestead in the town of Kinderhook, N. Y. He married April 3, 1770, Angeltie Witbeck, by license granted Oct. 24, 1769, and had
:

24.

Allida, b.

March

8,

1771.
17,

1775, d.
d.

December
1).

7,

1840. 1778,
d.

25.

Wyntie,

b.

August

1773,

27.

Cornelius,

July

2,

26.

Apl. 25, 1841, h' m. Caty or Catherine, b. August 19,

1775,
d.

Nov.
28.
29.

19, 1842, n'

b. b.

m.
1781.

Andrieu,
Stephen,
Sarah,

Oct.

5,

May

15,

1863;
L.

m.

Jan'y

27, 1795,

Henry

Van
12, 30.

1S53, n'
b.

Nov. m.

24, 1783, d. ab't

Dyck, M. D.

(25), b.

Nov.

March

4,

1786, n' m.

Allgeltie Witbeck, wife of Stephanus

tized at

Van

Kinderhook, N. Y., "by Dominie linghuysen, Feb'y 29, 174S," old style, but new style reckoning. She died in October the daughter of Andries Witbeck and Wyntie

Alen, was bapTheodorus Fre-

March
179-

ir,

1749,

She was

Bronk.

The Witbeck
1.

Families.

Jan Thomasse Witbeck, m. Geertruy Andrisse Dochter.

Andries Witbeck, m. 1683, Engeltie Volkertse Douw.

2.

3.
4.
5.

Andries Witbeck,
Andries Witbeck,
Angeltie Witbeck,

b. 1692,
b.
1

m. 1722 Engeltie
m. Wyntie Bronk,
b.

723,

1726.

b. 1749,

m. 1770, Stephanus

Van

Alen,

b.

174S, great-

grandparents of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Welles.

Jan ThomaSSe Witbeck,

Witbeck,
in

alias

Van Witbeck, was

born

at

Holstein,

province of northwestern Prussia,

between the Eider river on the north and the Elbe on the south. He came to America early in the settlement of the New Netherlands, and from 1652, when Beaverwyck was laid out, to 167S, was one of the most extensive dealers in house-lots in the village. In i66j, he bought from the natives, Apjes island or Schotach and the mainland on the east side of the Hudson river. He married Geertruy Andrisse Dochter, who was born and had in New Amsterdam
;

CATHERINE VAX ALEX VAX DYCK.

2.

249
i

Andries, m. Engeltje, dau. Volkert

Douw and Dorothe

Breestede.

Janse

Van
3.

Marten C o r n e 1 s s e Van Buren (3), and Maritie, m. 2, ab't 1705, Catherena Van Deuof
sen.
7.

Johannes, m. Lysbeth, dau. Leendert Philipse Conyn and Agnietie

.

Thomas, m.
netje

Sept.

5,

1702, Jan-

Van Deusen and was

4.

Lucas, m. June 28, 1691,? Catrine,

dau. Melgert

buried
knee.
8.

May
1,

6,

1731, at Paps-

Abrahamse Van
at

Deusen and Engeltie Rutgers.

5.

Catherine, m. Glen,

Jacob Sanderse
April 24,
1696,

Hendrick, resided
m.
1,

Claverack,

m.

2,

Lyntie Winne,

m.

2,

Jonas, son of Volkert

Douw,

Lena Bout.
6.

Jonathan, m. Jan'y 7, 1697, Caatje or Catalena Van Buren, dau.

and Dorothe Janse Van Breesand widower of Magdalena Quackenbush.

tede,

Andries Janse Witoeck (2), was the eldest son of Jan Thomasse Van Witbeck, the emigrant, and Geertruy Andrisse
Dochter.

He
:

married about 16S3, Engeltje Volkertse

equinox in March.
12.

Douw,

and had
9.

10.

Andries, bp. April 23, 1684, d. y. Jan, bp. April 24, 1687, m. April
7,

Hellitje, bp.

June

30, 1689.
1,

1705, Agnietje Bronk.

Ason

13:

Andries, bp. Jan'y

1692,
.

m.

Andries, m. Marytje, dau. of

Pieter Barentse

ab't 1722, Engeltje

14. 15.
16.

Coeymans and

Gertruy, bp. Dec. 26, 1694.

Elizabeth Grevenraet.
11.

Lucas, bp. Jan'y 16, 16S7, o. s. years commenced at vernal

Dorothee, bp. Jan'y 1, 1698. Jonas, bp. Nov. 10, 1700,

m.

Dec. 27, 1728. Dorothea Douw.

Engeltje Volkertse DOUW, wife of Andries Janse Witbeck was a daughter of Volkert Douw and Dorothe Janse Van Breestede, a granddaughter of Jan Douw.
(2),

The Douw
1.

Families.

Jan

2. 3.

Volkert Douw,

Leeuwarden Holland. d. 16S6, m. 1650, Dorothe Janse Van Breestede. Engeltje Douw, m. 16S3? Andries Jans Witbeck, great-great-great-greatof

Douw

grandparents of Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck Welles.

Leeuwarden, u an exceptionally

clean, tasteful

and

attractive

town, with parks, pleasure grounds and drives," in Friesland, the most northerly province of the Netherlands, was the home
of Jan Douw, burgher, early in the seventeenth century. The town, is seventeen miles inland from Harlingen, and grew up
32

2KO

HENRY

L.

VAN DYCK,

M. D.

round the Court of Frisian stadtholders, as the Hague grew up round the Court of the counts of Holland. Jan Douw was a buro-her in this courtly town, of sufficient importance to bear a
coat-of arms,
"Field
ter
:

which

is

thus described

ar,

on a fess

az. a

demi female robed

gu, holding in her dex-

hand a bird sa, behind an anchor sa. In chief on dexter, a tree proper, and on sinister, a mountain proper. In base a bird sejant, with wings disLambrequin crimson, lining white. played sa. Over an Esquire's helmet a wreath az. ar. surmounted by a Crest
:

cross-crosslet within a ray az.

Motto

Cruci

dum

fido spiro."

Jan
neer
2.

DOUW

of Leeuwarden, so far as known, never emigrated

to this country,
settlers.

but some ot his children were among These children were

:

its

pio-

Volkert, d. 1686,

m: April

19, 1650,

ancestor of John A. Lott,Jr.,

Dorothe
tede,
of
d.

Janse Van BreesNov. 22, 1681, dau.

45.

who m. Laura H. Welles

2,

m.

Jan Janse Van Breestede

Jan'y 9, 1650, Louis Joriszen Van Derveer.

Andries.

3.

and Engeltje Jans. Neeltje, m. 1, Jan Jansen Van Ditmarsen, the emigrant, and

Lysbeth, m. Johannes

Van Eps

of

Schenectady, N. Y.

Capt. Yolkert Janszen Douw (2), son of Jan Douw of Leeuwarden, held rank in the Dutch army as designated by his military title and while living in Friesland embraced the religious principles of the Mennonites or Anabaptists and to escape religious persecution fled to Fredrickstadt, a fortified town of Norway at the mouth of the Glommen. where religious liberty was granted the disciples of Menno. About 1637 the opposition of the authorities to the
o-rate to

Mennonites caused him to emiAmerica. He settled first at Catskill, N. Y., but in 163S he was at Beaverwyck, and dwelt on the west corner of He was a trader and brewer and a State St. and Broadway. His brewery, which he sold in large dealer in real estate.
In company 1675, occupied the east half of Exchange block. with Jan Thomasse Witbeck, he bought of the Indians in 1663, Apje's, or Little Monkey's island, sometimes called Schotach,

and the mainland east of

river.

it,

on the banks of the Hudson

island, lying opposite Beth-

He

also

owned Constapels

lehem,

half of w'hich he sold, in 1677. to Pieter

Winne, and

CATHERINE VAN ALLEN VAN DYCK.

251

Schutters island, below Beeran island, which in 1673, he sold

to

Barent Pieterse Coeymans.

In 1666 he had a

summer house on Papssickenekas or Papsknee island, which was inundated by an extraordinary flood, which swept away the breweries of which there were several, the house and outbuildings, the fences and the cattle, the family barely escaping with their all his records and papers lives. Not a thing was saved, with the exception of a small round table and a colt which were carried by the current, through the hoist door, into the second story of the house. This same year he purchased what has since been known as Douw's Point or Wolvenhoeck, below Greenbush. He was a deacon in the church, which would seem to indicate a change in his religious views, and in 1654 was guardian of the widows and the poor, under the Church's care. From 16=54 t 60 he served as Magistrate and was also an Indian Commissioner. He married in New Amsterdam, April 19, 1650, Dorothe Janse Van Breestede and had
; :

6.

Jonas, m.

I,

Sept. 20, 1683,

Mag-

9.

Dovothe.
Catrina, or Caatje, m. April 30,
1684,

dalena Quackenbush, dau. of

Pieter van Quackenbosch, the

10.

Hendrick Jans Oothout.

emigrant; m.
beck,
dau.

2,

Catrina Wit-

II.

Engcltje, m. ab't 1683, Andries,

of

Witbeck,

the
of

emigrant,

Jan Thomase and

Sanderse
12.

son of Jan Thomasse Witbeck

and Geertruy Andrisse Dochter.

widow
Glen.
7.

Jacob
1.

Hendrick,

d.
3,

prior

to 1704,

m.

Andries,

m.

June
;

24,
2,

1685,
23,

October
dertse

Annetje

m.

June

MynVan Yveren, widow of

1697, Neeltje

1697, Elsje, dau. of Johannis

Capt.

Marten Gerritsen Van

Hendrickse Hanse and Efne m. 3, Oct. 21, 1702, Jellise Lydia, dau. of Nicholas de Meyer and Lydia Van Dyck; in. 4, in New York, Feb'y 24, 1 70S, Adrianna Van Dergrift.
;

Bergen.
13.
14.

Elsje.

Rebecca.
Volckert, m. Nov. 16, 1701, Mar-

15.

gareta
16.

Van

Tricht.

Greetje, m. Gerrit Tunisse

Van

8.

Volkertje, m. Claes Jansen Brock-

Vechten.

hoven.

(2)

Dorothe Janse Tan Breestede, wife of Volkert Jans Douw died Nov. 22, 1701. She was a daughter of Jan Janse Van
,

Breestede and Engeltje Jans, and a sister of Tryntje Janse

Breestede, wife of Rutger Jacobse van Schoenderwoert.

Van
The

252
families of the

HENRY
two

L.

VAN DYCK,

M. D.

sisters unite in the

marriage'of Jane Eliza-

beth

Van Dyck,

a descendant in the seventh generation, with

W. Welles, D. D., a descendant in the eighth genJan Janse Van Breestede and Engeltje Jans. See history of the Rutsen Family, page 90.
Rev. Theo.
eration, of

Andries Witbeck (13), son of Andries Janse Witbeck (2), and Engeltje Volkertse Douw, was baptized January 1, 1692. and had: He married about 1722 Engeltje
,

17.

Andries, bp. August

ab't 1747,

5,

1723, m.

Maria Matthews.
19.

Wyntie Bronk,

bp.

Johannes, bp. Dec.

Hester, bp. July

17, 1727.

May
18.

1,

1726,

dau. of Philip

20. 21.

Engeltie, bp. Feb'y 22, 1730.

2,

Bronk and Sara Conyn.

Albert, bp.

1732.

Feb'y

24,

1725,

m.

22.

Gurtruy, bp. Jan'y 10, 1739.

Andries Witbeck (17), son of Andries Witbeck (13), and

Engeltje his wife, was baptized, August
in the
5, 1723.

He

resided

town of Kinderhook, N. Y., and married about 1747 Wyntie Bronk, and had
:

23.

Engeltie, bp. Feb'y 29, 1748-9,

d.

20,

1787,

son

of

Cornelius
Pruyn.

Oct.

1790; m. Stephanus,
16,

Van Alen and Alida

24.

bp.

Jany

1748,

d.

March

Sara, bp. Feb'y 27, 1752.

Wyntie Bronk,
tized

May

1,

1726.

wife of Andries Witbeck (17), was bapShe was a daughter of Philip Bronk (8)

and Sara Conyn.

The Bronk
1.

Families.

Pieter Bronk, m. Hillitje Tyssinck.

2. 3.

Jan Bronk, m. Commertje Leendertse Conyn.

Philip Bronk, m. 1723? Sara Conyn.

4.

Wyntie Bronk,

b. 1726, m. 1747? Andries Witbeck, b. 1723, greatgreat-grandparents of Jane Elizabeth Van )yck Welles.
1

Pieter Bronk or Bronck, the

latter spelling

of the

name

more ancient than the former, was at Beaverwyck in 1646, owning and operating a brewery. He built a tavern there, in He also owned 165 1, which was then the third in the place.
several house-lots in the village, but in 1662 disposed of both

brewery and upon which,

lots

by

sale

and purchased lands

at

Coxsackie,
at

in

1665, he

made

his residence.

The creek

CATHERINE VAX ALEN VAN DYCK.

253

Coxsackie was called, by the Dutch, Peter Bronck's kill. His farm contained 176 morgens of land "-besides a calf pasture of six morgens of land." He married Hillitje Tyssinck and had
at least
2.
3.

Jan.

111.

Commertje Leendertse Conyn.

Pieter.

Jail
a

Bronk, son of

Pieter

Bronk and

Hillitje

Tyssinck, was

resident

of Coxsackie,

then a part of Catskill township,

Green Co., N. Y., where he is said to have built a mill in 1670, the iron work for which he bought of Albert Andmse Brael of Albany, N. Y. He made his will Sept. 9, 173S, which was proved. October 6, 1 74 3 m which he mentions his children, but not his wife, who was probably dead. His wife was Commertje Leendertse Conyn and his children were
?
:

4.

Pieter,

"in
2,

Katskill,"

1720,

111.

April

1705, Antje or

Han8.
9.

Jan'y 27, 1689, dau. f Philip Leendertse Conyn and Wyntie

nah, daughter of
gardus.
5.

Pieter Bo-

Dirkse.
y.

Philip, bp. Sept. 20, 1691, d.

Leendert, or Leonard, of Catskill,

111.

Philip, bp. Sept.

7,

1692,

111.

Sara
1698,

Feb'y 26, 1717, Anna Wandelaer.

2,

De

Conyn,
dau.
of

bp.

July

17,

Philip

Leendertse

6.
7.

Antje, bp. Feb'y

16S6.
10. 11.

Conyn and Wyntie Dirkse.

Helena, bp. April
Casper, bp. July
28, 1695.
?

Jonas, bp. Ap'l 28, 1689, m. Nov.

5,

1721,

Antje

Conyn, bp

12, 1697.

Commertje Leendertse Conyn, wife

thought
to

of Jan

Bronk

(2),

is

have been the daughter of Leendert Phillipse

his wife,

Conyn
She

and Agnietie,

whose

history

is

given on page 247.

was

a great-great-great-great-grandmother of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Welles.

Philip Bronk (9), son of Jan Bronk (2) and Commertje Leendertse Conyn, was baptized, Sept. 7, 1692, and married
about 1723, Sara Conyn.
12.
13.

Their children were

1724.
14.

Commertje, bp. Oct.

Wyntie,
1747?

11,

Aug.

5,

1723.

bp. May 1, 1726, m. Andries Witbeck, bp.

Philip, bp. April 16, 1731.

Sara Conyn, wife of Philip Bronk

(S),

was baptized July

254
17, 169S, the
tie

HENRY

L.

VAN DYCK.

M. D.

daughter of Philip Leendertse Conyn and

Wyn-

Dirkse.

The Conyn
1.

Families.
.

THIRD LINE OF DESCENT.

Leendert Philipse Conyn d. 1704, m. Agnietie Philip Conyn m. Wyntie Dirkse.
Sara Conyn
b.

2. 3.

1698,

m.

1723 Philip Bronk, great-great-great-grand-

parents of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Welles.

family.

Leendert Pllillipse Conyn was the progenitor of the Conyn His history is given on page 247.

Philip Leendertse Conyn (2), son of Leendert Phillipse Conyn and Agnietie, his 'wife, resided in 1720, at Coxsackie, N. Y. He married Wyntie Dirkse and had
:

8.
9.

Leendert,
Dirk, bp.

b.

Sept.
19,

9,

1683.

Commertje Leendertse Conyn.

m. in
12.

Ap'l

1685,

Feytie, bp. Jan'y 15, 1693.

Philip, resided at Coxsackie, N. Y., 1720, m. Catharina
.

York, Oct. 24, 1707, the bans having been published in

New

13.

Albany, Sept.

16, 1707,

Rachel
J.

14.

Saartie or Sara,
1698,

bp. July 17,

1723,
Philip,

Andrisse, of Bergen, N.
10. 11.

m.

abt.

Agniete, bp. Feb'y,

Antie,

6,

1687.
16S9, m.?

son of Jan Bronk and Coni-

bp. Jan'y 27,

5,

mertje Leendertse Conyn.

15.

Nov.

1721, Jonas,

bp. Ap'l

Johannes, bp. June

15, 1701.

28, 1689,

son of Jan Bronk and

Rev. Lawrence H.

Van Dyck.

Rev. Lawrence H. Van Dvck (40), the seventh child and D. (29), and Catherine Henry L. Van Dyck, Kinderhook, at Columbia Co., N. Y., born Van Alen, was and died at Brooklyn. N. Y., Tuesday, Monday, Oct. 5, 1807, homestead in which The he was born was 1S93. Jan'y 24,
fourth son of

heated, as were

all

houses in those days, with open

fire

places,

large and capacious, in

which hard wood logs were burned.

fell

When
among
hand

quite a small lad, while playing about the room, he

the burning coals of the fire place and injured his right
it was somewhat disfigured. made a public profession of was received into the communion of the

so badly that ever afterwards

When

fourteen years of age he

his faith in Christ, .and

Reformed Church of

his native village.

He

graduated from Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., in

1S30, and from the Theological

in 1S33.
to the

Seminary

at

Auburn, N. Y.,

He was

licensed to preach the Gospel and ordained

ministry the same year by the Presbytery of Cayuga, N. Y., and was agent for the American Tract Society for two
years in Kentucky, residing near Paris, in that State.

In 1S35,

he accepted the pastorate of the Presbyterian Church at Cairo, Green Co., N. Y., and in 1839 of the Presbyterian Church In 1844 he became at Spencertown, in the same county.
identified with the

Reformed Church and was pastor

at Gilboa,

Schoharie Co.

in

1S52 at Helderbergh or Guilderland, Al;

bany Co.
1S61
at

in in 1S56 at Blooming Grove, Rensselaer Co. in 1S70 at Union Stone Arabia, Montgomery Co. In 1S76 he was Ville. Westchester Co., all in New York. elected Rector of "Peter Hertzog Theological Hall" at New
; ;

ners,

Brunswick, N. J. in 1SS1 he bought a farm at Merritt's CorWestchester Co., N. Y., and retired from the active In 1S90 he moved to Brooklyn, N. Y., duties of the ministry.
;

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REV.

LAWRENCE

H.

VAX DVCK,

and there died at his residence 1057 Bedford avenue. His remains were interred in the burying' ground of the Reformed Church at Union Ville, Westchester Co., N. Y., among the people to whom he last ministered.

He was

faithful,

conscientious

minister of the Gospel,

preaching the truth plainly, rebuking sin fearlessly and ever He was pointing to Christ as the only hope of the perishing.
very eloquent in prayer, a modest, unassuming man, lacking,
perhaps, in self-assertion, but true and steadfast to principle

and duty.

In

1S47 he published a sermon entitled.

"The

Death of the Righteous Desirable"

sion of the death of Mrs. Clarissa

delivered on the occain 1S67 a ''His-

Page; and

tory of the JSIontgomery County Bible Society.'''' From obitThe Rev. Daniel Van Pelt. uary notices we .select as follows
:

who was a student Brunswick during Mr. Van Dyck's

of Brooklyn,

in

the

Seminary
:

at

New

rectorship, says

"The

students of his day remembered

him with

grateful regard as a

father and friend in Christ whose help was very serviceable to

them while

preparing for their lifework for the Lord."

The Rev. David Cole, D. D., of Yonkers, N. Y.. in A Tribute to his memory "by one who knew him well," published in the Christian Intelligencer Feb'y 8, 1S93, says:
"This aged minister of our Reformed Church has just passed to his His health had long been poor and he had grown infirm. His final illness was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage, after which he lingered seventeen days. During delirium he labored under the delusion that it was the Sabbath and that he must go to church. When fourteen years of From this age, he determined to devote his life, to the Gospel ministry. purpose he never wavered. He was a pure hearted, consecrated minister of the Lord Jesus Christ, devoted to the work of his Master and earnestly concerned for the edification and salvation of men. He was true, from the beginning to the end, to the admirable doctrinal system of our Reformed Church, and as a result of his glorious faith, with him a genuine, life inspiration, became the simple hearted Christian that he was in his old
eternal rest.

age."

He was married Tuesday, August 27, 1S33, a ^ Kinderhook, N. Y., by the Rev. Jacob Sickles, D. D., to Christina Hoes. She died Jan'y 2, 1S51, and he married Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1852, at Great Barrington, Mass., by the Rev. Jacob H. Van Woert, Mary Decia, born Nov. 7, 1S29, daughter of Hezekiah Augus-

CHRISTIXA HOES VAX DYCK.

tus

:>7

Schoharie Co., N. Y.

Holdridge and Catherine Marten, of North Blenheim, His chi ldren were
:

44. Elizabeth, h. near Paris, Kentucky, Oct. 14, 1834; d. Jan'y

31, 1836.

Edward,
Syria;

b.

Ap'l 29, 1841, in

d. at

Denver, Colorado,
son of Rev.

Jan'y
b. at

13,

1889,

45.

Jane Elizabeth,
Y., Jan'y
1863,
5,

Cairo, N.

1838; m.

May
6,

27,

William M. Thomson, D. D., and Assunta Daviti, of the

Syrian mission.
48.

Rev.

Theodore
b.

W.
1839,

Welles, D. D.,

May

Maria,

b. at

Blooming Grove, N.

son of Rev. Ransford Welles,

Y., Dec. 10, 1858; d. at Stone

D. D., and Joanna Hardenbergh.

46. 49.
b. at

Albert Reed,

Arabia, N. Y., Dec. 29, 1861. b. at Stone Arabia,

17,

George Edward,
Y.,

Gilboa, N.
d.

N. Y., Dec.

1863;

d.

at

Mar.

21,

1844;

Mar.
50.
b.

28, 1845. 47.

same place Henry H., b.

Y.,

Sept. 12, 1866.

at

Canajdharie, N.
1868.

Julia Abbott,

by 2d

wife,

at

Feb'y

21,

Proof

Guilderland, N. Y., Sept. 25,

1854; m. Feb'y
3,

reader,

Publishing
Y.

House

1887,

Henry

Funk & Wagnals, N.

Christina Hoes, wife of Lawrence H. Van Dyck (40), was born December 12, 1807, at Kinderhook, N. Y. died at Gilboa, Schoharie Co., N. Y., from rheumatism of the heart, Jan'y 2, 1851, and was buried in the Cemetery of the Gilboa Reformed Church, Jan'y 5, the 13th anniversary of the birth of
;

her only surviving child, Jane Elizabeth.

stature, spare in flesh,

She was small of

with light brown hair and blue eyes, the

daughter of Barend Hoes and Diricke uary notices

Van Buren.
the heart,

From

obit-

we

quote

January 2d, 1851,

thy and attention of

at Gilboa, of disease of

Christina Hoes,
universal sympa-

wife of the Rev. L. H.

all

Van Dyck, aged 43

classes during the

years.

The

the high estimation in which she

few days of her illness, showed was held by the people among whom she

* had lived during the past eight years. Her death has removed another lovely exemplification of female Christian character, and we feel no common sorrow in recording it. Not only has a dear brother been sorely afflicted, but a church has lost the benefit of that sweet Christian influence which our departed friend admirably exerted, and which rendered her eminently useful to the people of her husband's charge. There was no ostentation in her religion. Her piety and worth were best known in her immediate sphere of action, and she accomplished a vast deal without an obtrusion to the public gaze, so that at her

death only
deared
33

it

became known how large

number

of friends she

had en-

to herself,

and brought within reach

of gospel influence.

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REV. I,AWRENCE H.
life

VAX DYCK.
in a practical

early devoted to God,

was closed

demonstration of

the power of religion, and at death our- friend was ready to die.

Though

her dissolution was in a measure sudden, yet it seemed to be anticipated, and as the time of her departure drew near, she was often alone with her

God, and drew from

pressive at seasons
disease,

Him

strength for the last conflict.

We may say with-

out recounting each particular, that her death-bed exercises were most im-

when she enjoyed some

and we are conscious that they have

influence behind.

We

enjoy in

from the oppressions of most salutary abiding her death the most comforting hopes that
relief
left a

she

is at rest,

and these console

a large circle of

mourning

friends.

The Hoes
1.

Families.

2. 3.

Tan Tysse Goes, m. Styntje Janse Van Hoesen. Dirk Goes, m. Lysbeth Luykasse Wyngaart.

4.
5.

6.
7.

Johannes Goes, b. 1700; m. 1722 Jannetje Dirck Goes, b. 1724; m. Christina Van Alen, b. 1722. John D. Hoes, b. 1754; m. 1776, Maria Quackenboss, b. 1753. Barend Hoes, b. 1779; m. 1806, Dirickie Van Buren, b. 1777. Christina Hoes, b. 1807; m. 1S33, ^- ev Lawrence H. Van Dyck, 1807, parents of Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck Welles.
. -

b.

Hoes

is

the

American corruption of Goes,

distinction
in

a family

name

of

considerable

the

history

of

the

Netherlands.

Goes is a town of the Netherlands, in the province of Zealand, on the Island of South Beveland. The Reformed Church
there, St. Alary Magdalen's,
finest ecclesiastical

built in 1423, building in the province.

artist,

is

considered the

Hugo Van Der

gium,

Goes, an eminent

renowned

for his

delineation of the Crucifixion, and

in 14S2, as his

who

died at Burges, Bel-

the Lords Directors of the

indicates, was from Goes. Among West India Company in behalf of the Maeze Chamber at Delft, was Adriaen Van der Goes, from from whence also, in all probability, the Goes the same place or Hoes family of America has its origin.

name

Jan TySSe Goes,

of Beaverwyck
nicant of the Dutch

son of Matthys Janse Goes, was a resident

as early as 1661,

hook, N. Y.
Claes Cornelise

He

and there appears as a commuhe afterwards moved to Kindermarried first, Brichje Maryns, widow of

Church

Van Voorhoudt.

She died Feb'y

1,

1663, and

CHRISTIXA HOES VAX DVCK.

259

May
2.

His will, bearing- date he married Styntje Janse Van Hoesen. 31, 1705, mentions his wife and the following children
:

Tys,

in.

Oct.

21,

1685,

Cornelia,
5.

daughter of Matthevves Teunisse Van Deusen.

3.

was dated June Anna, m. 1686,

1,

1732.

Isaac,

son of

Abraham

Pieterse

Vosburgh

Jan,

m.

Eytie
as
6,

He

is

mentioned
ceased
4.

recently
1736.

de6.
7.

and Grutruy mans.

Teuntje, m.

Pieterse Coey-

May

Thomas Winne.

Dirk, m. Lysbeth, dau. of Luykas

Gerritse

Judith, m. Isaac Burger.

Wyngaart and Anna

His
will

8. 9.

Mayke.
Jacobus.

Janse Van Hoesen.

1)

Styntje Janse Tan Hoesen, wife of Jan Tysse Goes (Hoes was the daughter of Jan Franse Van Hoesen and Volkie

Jurrianse.

The Van Hoesen Family.

Jan Franse Van Hoesen was an early resident of Fort Orange and Beaverwyck, buying a lot there Oct. 25, 1653. In 1662, he bought land at Claverack,* N. Y., of the Indians. He and his wife were Lutherns. He died about 1700. He married Volkie Jurrianse and had
:

2.

Jurrian,
1745.

came

to

Beaverwyck

in

Winne;
6.

will

made

1724,

when

3.

Jacob, m. Judik Franse Claw, re-

he was "an old man." Anna, m. Luykasse Gerritse Wyngaart.

sidedat Claverack,
4.

in 1720.
in.
7.

Volkert, buried Aug. 30, 1725,

Styntje,

m.
1.)

Jan

Tysse

Goes.

Marritje Bensing.
5.

(Hoes

Johannes,

m.
m.
2,

1,

Jannatie,
19,

De

8. 9.

Marya, m. Hendrick Coenraetse.

Catherine, m. Frank Hardingh.

Ryk,

June

1709,

Willempe

Viele, wid. Livinus

Volkie Jurrianse, wife of Jan Franse Vau Hoesen, was a Annatie Jurrianse, wife of Andries Herbertsen Constapel. After the death of Jan Franse Van Hoesen, she married Gerrit Visbeeck and letters of administration were granted to her eldest son Jurrian, Aug. 2. 1703. She was the
sister of
*Claverack
the
is

said to

have received
its

its

name from

its

situation

between four
is

cliffs

on

Hudson and

four others on

eastern boundary.

In Dutch Klauffer acht

the place

of eight cliffs. Others say the bluffs fronting' the river were called Klauvers or Clovers, and, as the town extended to these bluffs it was called Klauvcr rach or the Clover reach.

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REV.

LAWRENCE

H.

VAX DYCK,

great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Welles.
4). son of

Dirk Goes, (Hoes

Stvntje Janse

Jan Tysse Goes, (Hoes

a farmer.

1)

and

Van Hoesen, was

His

He

married Lys,

beth Ltrykasse Wyngaart.

will dated

tions the following children, baptized at

10.

June 1, 173-2 menAlbany, N. Y.

Johannes, bp.

May

12,

1700; m.
.

Martense Van Buren and Ariaantje Barentse.

12.
13.

ab't 1722, Jannetje

11.

Anna,
Jan'y

bp.
10,
7,

Feb'y
172 1,
1697,

3,

1704; m.
bp.

Tobias, bp. June

3,

1706.

Tobias,

Luykas, bp. June

22, 1707.

Nov.

son of Pieter

Lysbeth Luykasse Wyngaart, wife of Dirk Goes (Hoes 4) was the daughter of Luykas Gerritse Wyngaart and Anna Janse Van Hoesen. She and her husband were first cousins.

The Wyngaart
in

Family.

Luykas Gerritse Wyngaart, at an early date, was a baker Beaverwyck. He married Anna Janse Van Hoesen, and
Geriit,

had:
2.

m.

Nov.

4,

1694,

Sara

4.

Jacobus, m. Nov.

3,

1700, Martje

Harmense
a trader,

Visscher.

He was
5.

and 1703 had a lol in Albany, N. Y., on the south

side of State St., next to Pieter

Quackenboss, dau. Pieter Van Quackenbosch, the emigrant.

Lysbeth, m. ab't 1699, Dirk, son
of Jan Tysse Goes (Hoes 1) and Styntje Janse Van Hoesen.
6.
7.

Van

Burgh's, near

Lodge

St.,

30 ft. d^ep, "if not hindered by the stockades.''

3.

Maria, bp. Feb'y Lucas, bp. Nov.

15,

1685.

Johannes, m. Ap'l

25,

1695,

Sara

21, 1686.

Wendell.

was

wife of Lucas Gerritse Wyngaart, Jan Franse Van Hoesen and Volkie Jurianse, and a sister of Styntje Janse Van Hoesen, wife of Jan Tysse Goes. The families of the sisters were united by the marriage of Dirk Goes and Lysbeth Luykasse Wyngaart, grandchildren of Jan Franse Van Hoesen and Volkie Jurrithe daughter of

Anna Janse Tan Hoesen,

anse, or

first

cousins.

Johannes Goes (Hoes 10) son of Dirk Janse Goes (Hoes 4) and Lysbeth Luykasse Wyngaart, was baptized, at Albany, N.

CHRISTINA HOES VAN DYCK.

Y.,

2UI

and resided at Kinderan elder in die Reformed Church of Kinderhook in 1756. He married about and had the following children bap1722 Jannetie at Kinderhook, with the exceptions mentioned tized
12, 1700.

May

He was

a farmer,

hook, N. Y., where he was born.

He was

14.

Dirck,

lip.

Sept.

6,

1724;

m.

17.

Laurens,

b.

Christina, dau. of Pieter

Van

18. 19.

Lucas, bp.

May 11, 1729. May 23, 1731.

3,

Alen and Josinia Dingman.

15.

Elizabeth, bp. Oct.

J an '.v

1736.

Jannetje, bp. at Albany Aug. 28,

1726,

20.

Maria, bp. at Claverack, N. Y.j

x 6,

m.

probably Aug.
bp.

20,
19,

1748; m.

1,

Johan2,

1758,

Harman,

Oct.

nes Jacobus

Van Alen; m.

1727, son of Arent

Pruyn and

Abraham,

Catryna Gansevoort.
16.

Catalyna,
12, 1727.

bp.

at

Albany Feb'y

Feb'y 27, 1737; d. 1814; son of Martin Van Buren and Dirckie Van Albp. styne.

Dirck Goes (Hoes

ber
6, 1724.

14), son of

Johannis Goes (Hoes 10) and

at

Jannetie his wife, was baptized at Kinderhook, N. Y., Septem-

He was

farmer and resided

Kinderhook, N.

Y.

He
:

married Christina

Van

Alen, and had the following

children baptized at
stated
21.

Kinderhook, N. Y., except

Vosburgh.

when

so

Tannetje,

bp.

at

Claverack, X.

Y., Jan'y 16, 1748.

22.
23.

24
25.
26.

Pieter, bp. at Claverack,

N. Y.,

Josina, bp. Jan'y 11, 1752.

Sept. 12, 1756.

Johannes, bp. Jan'y 23, 1754, m. Maria, Feb'y 4, 1776, b.

Laurans, bp. Sept. 30, 1758.

Dirk, bp. Oct. 26, 1760.

Aug.

15,

1753,

dau.

Anthony

27.
28.

Lucas, bp. Sept.

Lisbeth, bp.

19,

1762.

Quackenboss
Christina

and Anna

May

26, 1766.

Van Alen,

baptized Feb'y 17, 1722.

wife of Dirck Goes (Hoes 14), She was the daughter of Pieter

was

Van

Alen and Josinia Dingman.

The Van Alen

1.

Families.

FOURTH LINE OF DESCENT.

Lourens Van Alen, c. a. prior to 1630. Lourens Van Alen, m. Elbertje Evertse. Pieter Van Alen m. 1704 Josinia Dingman.
Christina

2. 3. 4.

Van

Alen,

b. 1722,

m. Dirk Goes,

b.

1724, great-great-grand-

parents of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck Welles.

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Rev.

Lawrence

h.

van dyck. Van Alen fam-

Lourens Tan Alen was

ily.

the progenitor of the

His history

is

given on page 209.

Pieter Van Alen, his grandson, was a son of Lourens Van Alen and Elbertje Evertse. He was a farmer and resided in the town of Kinderhook, N. Y. He married December 30, 1704, Josinia Dingman, and had the following children baptized at
30. 31. 32.

Albany, except when so stated

Lourens, bp.

May

19, 1706.

34. 35.

Lucas, bp. April

Christina,
bp.

21, 1717.

Adam,

bp. Aug. 21, 1709.

at

Kinderhook
14).

Elbertje, bp. Feb'y 17, 1712.

Feb'y

17,

1722; m. ab't 1746,

33.

Alida, bp. Aug. 29, 1714.

Dirck Goes (Hoes

josinia

Dingman,

wife of Pieter

Van Alen, was

baptized

September 28, 1684. She was the daughter of man and Aeltje Gardinier.

Adam

Ding-

The Dingman Family.

Adam Dingman was
sided, in 166^. at

born in Haerlem, Holland. He reGreenbush, near Albany, N. Y. He bought

a farm, in 1677, of his father-in-law,

Kinderhook, N. Y.
his wite, in

He
made

Jacob Janse Gardinier, at married Aeltje Gardinier, and with

a joint will,

16S3,

in

which they mention

their children,

but not by name, and also their son-in-law,

Pieter Cool.
2.
3. 4.

Their children were

Jacob.

son of Lourens

Van Alen and

%

Janneke, m. Pieter Cool.

Josyntie or Josinia, bp. Sept. 28,
1684,
ra.
5.

Elberje Evertse.
Garret, bp. Jan'y 16, 1687.

Dec.

30, 1704, Pieter,

ter of

Aeltje Gardinier, wife of Adam Dingman, was the daughJacob Janse Gardinier and Josyna. his wife.

The Gardinier
Jacob Janse Gardinier was
early as 163S.
a

Family.
the north side

carpenter in Beaverwyck as

In 1656 he

owned property on

of Wall street, from William to Pearl, which he divided and

sold in lots through his agent, Sander Leendertse Glen. At an early date he bought land at Kinderhook, N. Y., together

CHRISTINA HOES VAN DYCK.

263

with the Goyer's Kill, opposite or near to Apjes Island, or Schotack. He married first, Josyna who died Feb'y, 1669, after which he married Barentje Stfatsmans, widow of
,

Hans Coenraatse. Jacob Janse Gardinier died in 16SS, leavwidow with ten children by her first husband and five by her second. The following children of Jacob Janse Garing his
dinier arrived at mature age
2.
:

Jan, a millwright at Kinderhook;

made
3.

his will Sept. 24, 1689,

5.

m. Sara Van Bremen.

Samuel, of Kinderhook, m. Hel-

ena Dirkse Bye.

4.

made July 1, 1704, proved Aug. 13, 1717. Hendrick, m. Neeltie Claase, he d. ab't 1694, wid. m. 1695 Johannes Onderkerk.
will

Andries, of Kinderhook, m. Nov.

13, 1692,

6.

Albert,

carpenter in Albany, N.

Eytie Ariaanse, wid.

7.

Y., 1677; m. Maritie.

Aeltic,

Hendrick Gerritse Van Wyen;

,

m.

Adam Dingman.

Johannes D. Hoes (23) or as he was styled, John D. Hoes, was a son of Dirck Goes (Hoes 14) and Christina Van Alen. He was baptized Jan'y 23, 1754, at Kinderhook, N. Y., where he resided throughout his life; married Feb'y 4, 776, Maria
J

Quackenboss, and had the following children baptized

29.

Dirck, bp. Jan'y

1,

1777,

at Al-

b.

Dec.

5,

17S2;

d.

July

24,

bany, N. Y.
30.

1862,

son of

Abraham Van

Baj'etid,

bp.

Jan'y

March
Buren,

15, 1806,
b.

1779; m. 3, Dirickie Van

Buren and Maria Goes. "She was shy and retiring, scarcely

Jan'y, 1777; d. Oct.

known
except

out of her

own home,
poor,
in

18, 1865,

dau.

Abraham Van

among

the

31.

Buren and Maria Goes. Annatie or Hannah, bp. Ap'l 6, from consumption, d. 1783, 1817; m. 1807 Martin Van
Buren, 8th President of U.
S.,

whose hearts she lived long after she was forgotten by her

own
32.

social circle."
3,

Pieter, bp. April

1785.

Maria Quackenboss, wife of John D. Hoes, was baptized Aug. 15, 1753. She was the daughter of Anthony Quackenboss and Anna Vosburgh.

The Quackenboss
t.

Families.
.

2. 3.

4.

Pieter Van Quackenbosch, c. a. prior 1688; m. Martje Adriaan Quackenbush; m. 1699, Catherine Van Schaick. Anthony Quackenboss, b. 1717; m. Anna Vosburgh. Maria Quackenboss, b. 1753; m. 1776, John D. Hoes,

b.

1754, great-

grandparents

of

Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck Welles,

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REV. LAWRENCE H.
is

VAN DYCK.

Quackenboss
from
its

Kwakkel or

said to have been originally Kivakkelbosch quakkel, a quail and bosch, a forest. The

name appears once with

meaning from
its

the prefix

Van, which would make

Variations in spelling have

the quail forest.

caused

derivation to be traced to quakkenbos, from quak-

ken, or quaaken, to croak as a frog, and bos, a bush. This would make its meaning the croaking bush. The spelling

seems

to

have been a matter of fancy

Quakken, Quacken,
the

Kwakken, Kwacken, Kwaklen and Kwacklen, each with

termination sometimes bosch and sometimes bos, denote
bers of the same family and frequently the same person.

memThe

Brunswick, N. J., evidently preferred Quackenbush, while elsewhere Quackenbos was the chosen orthography, and at Kinderhook, N. Y., Quackfamily in Albany, N. Y., and in
enboss.

New

Pieter
land, to

Van

QliackeilbOSell emigrated from Oestgeest, Hol-

Amsterdam, and previous to 16S8 moved from He was a brick maker and bought a thence to Albany, N. Y. He was marbrick-kiln and yard of Adriaan Van Ilpendam. His His wife's name was Martje ried in Holland. children were
. :

New

2.

Reynier Pieterse or Pieterszoon, in Holland, m. 1, Mar.

bp.

b.
2,

his brother

Reynier

(2)

owned

farms north side of

river in present

Mohawk
of Clif-

1674, Elizabeth Janse Masten,

town
d.

June 3, 1637, dau. of Jan Mast or Masten, of Flushing, and Divertje Jans, I., L.
2,

ton Park.
4.

Jannetje, b. 1663,
J ail 'y
5,

at

Albany

m.

Sept. 13,

1692,

Claasje

Jacob
ID 54>

1734; m. Jan'y, 1679, Cornelisse Bogaert, b_

or Nichola Jacobse Stille, bp.

d. b.
1 5>

Ap'l

3,

1725;
1681,

dau.

Feb.

11,

1672,

dau. of Jacob

Maria
J an '}'
(8).
5.

June
I

14,

m.

Cornelis Stille and Aaltje, or

/04,

Samuel

Pruyrj

Alida Fredericks, from Braseel,

she m.

2,

Aug.
m.

25,

71

1,

Magdalena, m. Sept. 20 or Nov.

14, 1683,

Jacob Koning.
3.

Jonas, son of Volkert

Johannes,

b.

1662,

I,

1683,

Douw and
Van

Dorothe

Janse
m.
2,

Machteld Janse Post at Niscayuna, Schenectady Co., N. Y. m. 2, Oct. 20, 1700, Anna, dau. of Johannes Clute and
;

Breestede.

He

Catrina Witbeck, dau. of Jan

Thomasse Witbeck and

of
6.

wid.

Baata Van Slichtenhorst; with

Jacob Sanderse Glen. Annetje, m. I,? Hermanus Rniqk-

CHRISTIXA HOES VAX DVCK.

erbocker,

26

m.

2,

1685,

Hen-

9.

Geertruy, m. ab't 1693, Johannes

drick, son of

Martin Beekman
10.

Groesbeck.
Martji,
bus,

and Susanna Jans. Wouter, resided at Albany, N. Y., m. r, Neeltje Gysbertse

Bogaert,

m. Nov.
son of

3,

1700, Jaco-

m.

2,

Oct. 4,

1696,
b.
18,
11.

Cornelia Laurense Bogaert,

Nov.
1735-

21,

1676,

d.

Nov.

Adriaan resided
m. Jan'y
b.

at Schaghticoke,

Lucas Geriitse Wyngaart and Anna Janse Van Hoesen. Pieter, in 1733, bought lands on Mohawk river from Edward Collins, was buried July 20, 1748, m. at Albany Nov. 1,
1

18,

1699,
of

Catherine,

701, Neeltje,

dau.

of

David

1679, dau.

Sybrant

Schaick and
Derpoel.

Elizabeth

Van Van

12.

Marinus. Claasje, m. 1694 Dirk or Takelas.

Todebow

Adriaan Quackenblish

<S),

son of Pieter

Van Quacken-

bosch and Martje, his wife, resided at Schaghticoke, RensseHe married Jan'y iS, 1699, Catherine Van laer Co., N. Y.
Schaick, and had
13.
:

Machtel, bp. Jan'y

Sybrant, bp. June

7,

1700.

beth Rumbly.
18. 19.

14.

14,

1702; m.

Gosen, bp. Oct.

Gideon, bp. Dec.

19, 1712.

Feb'y 8, 1725, Knickerbocker.

15. 16.

Elizabeth

25, 1714;

buried

Sept. 13, 1747. 1704, d.

17,
y.

Adriaan, bp. Dec.

6,

20.

Adriaan,

bp.

Aug.

1707,

Anthony, bp. Oct. 13 1717; m. 1, Anna, bp. Nov. 2 5. i7 2 5>

of Abraham Vosburgh and Geertie Van DenBergh,

Johannes

bought lands with his brother (17) at Schaghticoke

dau.

May
17.

24, 1733.

m.
28,

2,

Antje Le Grange.

Johannes, bp. October

1710,

Elizabeth, bp. Oct. 28, 1719.

m. December 22, 1729, Eliza-

the daughter of Sybrant poel.

Catherine Van Schaick, wife of Adrian Quackenbush, was Van Schaick and Elizabeth Van Der-

The Van Schaick

1.

Families.
Van Derpoel.
Welles.

Goosen Geriitse Van Schaick, m. Geertie Barentse Peelen Van Neeukirk.

Sybrant Van Schaick,
Catherine
b.

2.
3.

1653; m. Elizabeth

Van

Schaick; m. 1699, Adriaan Quackenbush, great-great-

great-grandparents of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Capt. Goosen Gerritse

residents of
3i

Tan Schaick was among the earliest Beaverwyck, having emigrated in 1637. He died

266
about 1676.
of
a

REV.

LAWRENCE
a self-made
is

H.

VAN DYCK.
the advantages

He was

man, without

liberal education, as

write his name.

self a

He

evidenced by his not being able to was successful in business and won for him-

prominent position in the community. He went into partnership with Rutger Jacobse in 1647, rented the brewery of Van Rensselaer, the Patroon, and did a prosperous business. In 167^, with Peter Lansingh, he purchased Harman Rutger's

brewery on Exchange block. In 1664, after much solicitation, "he accepted the office of Magistrate, or Gorechts -persoon^ and the same year, with Philip Pieterse Schuyler, was granted permission to purchase from the Indians, to prevent its purchase

by the inhabitants of Connecticut, a tract of land in the vicinity of Mechanics Ville and Waterford, Saratoga County, N. Y., "' Haalve Maan, and by the Indians called by the Dutch the Nachtenach. In 1664 he also bought a lot 6 rods by 4 rods of his stepfather, Ryer Elbertse, on the north corner of Columbia When about to marry street and Broadway, Albany. N. Y. the second time he made a contract by which he reserved from his estate 6,000 guilders for his four children by his first wife,
that being her separate estate. for a visit to
will,
in

In 1668,

when about

to

depart

Holland, he and his second wife made a joint

his

which

children then living were mentioned by

first,

Van Nieumarried again in 1657, Annatie Lievense, who was a daughter of Lievens Janssen, and is said to have been "lively and popular in society, a great belle
name.

He

married

Geertie Barentse Peelen

kerk,

who

died about 1650.

He

and perhaps
ception of
will
2.

a coquette."
last

The

following children, with the ex-

trie

two

that are

named, were mentioned

Sybrant,
nelisse
b.

in his

Geertie, m.

I,

Hendrick Costar;
Johannes

4.

1653,

d.

1685,

m.

m.

2,

prior to 16S1,

Elizabeth, dau. of Tunis Cor-

Gerritse Lansing.
3.

Van

)erpoel

and

Gerrit, b. 1650, d.
in

Nov. 11, 1679, 1668, was in Holland, m.

Alida,

Catrina Croon.
5.

1678,

dau.

of

Gerrit

Anthony, a merchant at Albany, N. Y., b. 1655, buried Feb'y

4,

Van
2,

Sleghtenhorst.
b.

She m.
d.

Peter,
7,

Ap'l 18, 1637,

Mar.

1696,

son of David
6.

1737, m. Maria, dau. of Tunis Cornelisse Van Derpoel and Catrina Croon.
b.

Pieterse

Schuyler and Cata-

Gerritie,

1657,

m.

Jan'y

17,

lyna Verplanck.

1674,

Capt. Andries Drayer,

CHRISTINA HOES VAX DYCK.

Commander
bany.
of the fort at Al8.

267

Maria Van Cortlandt.

Livinus,
b.

She united with the Dutch Church at New York

city

1661,

Alderman

at

Albany, 16S6.
9.

March
there
of

2,

1699, by certifi-

Cornells,

b.

1663.

cate
is

from Copenhagen,
designated

and
"the

10.

Margarita,
I

b.
-

1665; d. Jan'y 18,

25,

73&>

Aug.

1705,

Rev.
b.

widow
fleet

Andries
of

Drayer,

Rear Admiral
of

the King's
11.

Bernard us Freeman, Westphalia, d. 1743.*

Barent,
b.

in

Denmark and Norb.

1668.

way."
7.

12.

Catherine,

m.

Jan'y
of

19,

1692,

Engeltie,

1659, d.

16S9; m.
first

Matthew, son
land;

Rev. David

1681, Col. Pieter Schuyler,

Clarkson, of Yorkshire, Eng-

Mayor
Sept.
1724,

of Albany,
17,

N. Y.,

b.

1657,

d.

Feb'y

19,

came to America 1684, and was Secretary under Gov.

Sloughter.
13.

son of Philip Pieterse

Schuyler and Margarita

Slechtenhorst.
14, 1691,

Yan
Sept.

Anna Maria,

b.

ab't

1674,

m.

He m.

2,

Maria, dau. of Jere-

mias

Van

Rensselaei

and

June 23, 1695, Johannes, son of Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Gertruyd Schuyler.

Van Nieukerk, wife of Goosen Van Schaick, was the daughter of Brandt Peelen Van He Nieukirk, who in 1630 was Schepen, of Beaverwyck.
Geertie Barentse Peelen
Girretse

died 1644.

He

is

said to have raised

wheat on the same

soil

field

eleven years in succession, with no enriching ot the

other

than the plowed under stubble.

His descendants go by the

name

of Brandt.
(4),

Sybrant Van Schaick

in

son of Goosen

Schaick and Geertie Barentse Peelen

^

Gerritse Van Van Nieukerk, was born

Beaverwyck in 16=53, ant died in 16S5. In 167S his stepmother agreed to sell him her half of the brewery on the easterof the

ly half

Exchange block
May 29,
in
of

for

100 beavers,
:

= $320.
St.;

He
\\\.

married Elizabeth
12.

Van Derpoel and had

1715,

Goosen,
1725.

b.

1677; buried
resided,

way and
Dec.
Staats.
10,

Exchange
1698,

He

Catharina

on the south corner

Broad-

a tailor, but licensed by country in 1700. His natural talents were remarkable, but the American Classis deemed his education insufficient and refused, at first, to ordain him. He became pastor of the church at Schenectady. He was very useful among the Indians, and became more efficient in the language of the Mohawks than any Dutch minister. He was influential in establishing the first Reformed
the Classis of Lingen for service in America, and

"Rev. Bernardus Freeman was born in Westphalia.

He was

came

to this

Church

in

Monmouth

Co., N.

J.

He

died in 1743.

268
13.

REV.
Catharine,
b.

LAWRENCE

H.

VAN DYCK.
i

1679; m. Jan'y 18,

the emi15.

77j

Anna Catharina TenShe was buried Dec.

Jan'y
4,

1699, Adriaan, son of Pieter

Broeck.
30, 1756.

Van Quackenbosch,
grant,
14.

and Martje,
b.

his wife.

Genii,

bp.

1685;

m.

Anthony,
of

1681,

a glazier, re16.

Oct. 23, 1705, Sara

siding on the present corner

Alida, b. ab't

Goeway. 1687; m. Solomon

Pearl and State Sts., Alin

Goeway.

bany,

1704;

m.

Oct.

19,

Elizabeth

Van Derpoel,

wife of Sybrant

Van

Schaick (3),

husband married Benoni Van Corlear. She was the daughter of Anthony Cornelisse Van Derpoel and Catrina Croon.
after the death of her

The Van Derpoel Family.

SECOND ALLIANCE.

Anthony Cornelisse Van Derpoel (31), alias Spitzbergen, was in Albany, N. Y., 1660S7. He owned half of Constapel's Island opposite Paerde Hoeck. In 1671, he was one of the Magistrates of Albany. He made his will June 17, 16S7, in which he devised a house and lot in Amsterdam, Holland, to his wife, and she willed the same to her daughters. His relationship, if any, to Wynant from whom are descended the preGerritse Van Derpoel
frequently called Tunis Cornelisse,
;

viously mentioned

Van Derpoel families, is not known. He may have been his cousin. He married Catrina Croon and had
:

32.

Elizabeth, m.
d.

I,

Sybrant, b. 1653,

737,

son

of

Capt.

1685, son of Capt.

Gerritse

Van
;

Goosen Schaick and

Gerretse

Van

Schaick

Goosen and

Geertse Barentse

Pelen

Van

Geertie Barentse Peelen

Niunkerk
Corlear.
33:

m.

2,

Van Benoni Van

b.

Nieukerk.
34.

Johanna, m. 1, Barent Lewis m. 2, 1694, Jan Van Struydam.

Maria, m. Anthony,

1655, d.

Catrina CrOOn, wife of Anthony Cornelisse Van Derpoel, the daughter of John Croon and probably a sister of Dirk Janse Croon, a magistrate in Beaverwyck, 16^5-58.

was

and Catherine

Anthony QuackenhOSS (19), son of Adriaan Quackenbush Van Schaick, was baptized, Oct. 13, 71 7* He
1

CHRISTINA HOES VAX DYCK.

kept an inn by the river in Kinderhook, N. Y.

269

He

married
Issue
:

Anna Vosburgh, and

22.
23.

after her deatli

24.
;

Antje

Le Grange.

Catrina, bp. Feb'y 10, 1750.

Gosen, bp. April

23, 1765.

23, 1755.

Maria,
Feb'y

bp.
4,

Aug.

15,

1753

m.

25.

Elizabeth, by 2d wife, bp. June

Isaac, bp.

1776, Johannes, bp.

1754,

Jan'y 23,

son of Dirck

26.
27.

Nov.

6,

1766.
2,

Hoes
Alen.

(14)

and Christina Van

Abraham,

bp. July

1769.

Anna Vosburgh,

wife of

baptized Nov. 25, 1725. bnrgh and Geertie Van

Anthony Quackenboss (20), was She was a daughter of Abraham Vos-

Den Bergh.

The Vosburgh
1.

Families.

Pieter Jacobse Vosburgh.

2.

Abraham

Pieterse Vosburgh, m. Geertruy Pieterse Coeymans.

3.

4.
5.

Anna Janse Goes. Abraham Vosburgh, m. 17x9, Geertje Van Den Bergh. Anna Vosburgh, b. 1725 m. Anthony Quackenbush, b. great-grandparents of Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck Welles.
Isaac Vosburgh, m. 1686,
;

1717, great-

early resident of

Pieter Jacobse Vosburgh, emigrated from Holland, was an Beaverwyck, and had an only son Abraham.

Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh (2), son of Pieter Jacobse Vosburgh, was a carpenter and fur-trader. He received a patent of land in Rensselaerwyck in 1652, south of the stockades of Beaverwyck and west of Fort Orange, and took the oath of allegiance to the Patroon Van Rensselaer May 21, 1652. He owned a saw-mill on what is now known as Wynant's Kill, which after his death, which occurred about 1660, his widow
sold in 1674 to

Wynant
trace.

Gerritse

Van

Derpoel.
:

In 16^4 he

married Geertruy Pieterse Coeymans, and had

3.

Abraham.
Isaac,

No

negro

named Jack

in

1681 to

4.

m.

16S6 Anna, dau. Jan.

Tjerk

Harm

for 57 beavers or

5.

Goes (Hoes 1,) and Van Hoesen. Jacob, m. Dorothea Janse. Sold a
Tysse
Styntje Janse

118.40.
6.

Pieter, m. Jannetje Barentse.

Geertruy Peterse Coeymans, wife of Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh (2) was a daughter of Pieter Coevmans.

2/0

REV.

LAWRENCE

II.

VAN DYCK,

The Coeymans
Pietei*

Family.
never

CoeyilianS,

of Utrecht,

Holland,

came

to
in

America. Several of his children came to Rensselaerwyck His family in this country was as follows 1636.
:

2.

Barent Pieterse,
along the
the

miller,
tract

who

4.
5.

Arent.

bought a large

of land

Jacob.

Hudson river where town of Coeymans lies.

6.
7.

Lucas, m. Ariaantje
Dirkje, m. Cornells Vos.

He
3.

married a daughter of An-

8.

Geertruy,

hi.

Abraham

Pieterse

dries Vos.

Vosburgh.

David.

Isaac Vosburgh (4), son of Abraham Pieterse Vosburgh (2) and Geertruy Pieterse Coeymans, married, 16S6, Anna Janse Goes (Hoes 5) and had
:

7.

Abraham,
Pieter,

bp. Oct. 16, 1687,

d. y.

hi.

Oct.

11,

1719, Geertje, bp.

8.

bp.

Aug.

3,

1690,

m.

Dec. 20, 1691, dau. of Cornells

Jan'y 30, 1720, Lena Goes.

9.

Gysbertse
y.

Geertruy, bp. Ap'l

Jan, bp. July 28,

4,

1689, d.

Cornelia Wynantse
poel.
13.

Van Den Bergh and Van Der7,

10.

1692,

m.

May
8,

27, 1722, Maritie,

bp. Mar.

Styntje, bp. Nov.

1697.

1696, dau. of Pieter

Martense
his

14. 15.
16.

Jacob, bp. Sept.

Antje, bp. Jan'y
Isaac, bp.

3, 4,

1699.
1702.

Van Buren and

wife.
11.

Maritie,

Feb'y

13, 1704.

Geertruy, bp. Dec.

17, 1694.
II,

17.

Martje, bp. Feb'y 22, 170S.

12.

Abraham,

bp.

Mar.

1696,

Anna Janse Goes (Hoes

5)

wife of Isaac Vosburgh,

was

the.

daughter of Jan Tysse Goes (Hoes 1) and Styntje Janse Van Hoesen, and a sister of Dirk Goes (Hoes 4) who married
his cousin,

Lysbeth Luykasse Wyngaart.

The

families of the

brother and sister were united by the marriage of John D.

Hoes and Maria Quackenboss, great-great-grandchildren of Jan Tysse Goes and Styntje Janse Van Hoesen. As John D. Hoes was also the great-great-grandson of A nn a Janse Van Hoesen, both he and his wife, Maria Quackenboss, were great-greatgreat-grandchildren of Jan Franse Van Hoesen and Volkie
Jurrianse.

Abraham Vosburgh Anna Janse Goes (Hoes

(13), son of Isaac

5),

Vosburgh (4) and was baptized March 11, 1696. He

CHRISTINA HOES VAX DYCK.

resided at Kinderhook, N. Y., and married October 11,
1

27

7 19,

Geertje
18.

Van Den Bergh, and had

1720; m.
1,

Isaac, bp. July 15,

and Catherine Van Schaick.

21.

Catarina Van Woert, buried

Catherine, bp. April 21, 1728.

Petrus,
bp.

May
19.

2,

17^7;
bp.

rh.

2,

Jan'y
1722;

27,* 22.

Oct.

17,

1730;

m.

1759, Catharina Staats.

Willem,

Dec.

2,

m.
23. 24. 25.

June 9, 1752, Anna Brouwer, "both of Hoosack.''

Geertie, bp. Oct.
2,

Christina
20.

Van Woert.

1733.
6,

Anna, lip. Nov. 25, 1725; m. Anthony, bp. Oct. 13, 171 7, son of Adriaan Quackenbush

Johannes, bp. Oct.

Maritie, bp. Jan'y

1737.

9,

1740.

Geertje Van Den Bergh, wife of Abraham Vosburgh (13), was baptized December 20, 1691, daughter of Cornelis Gysbertse Van Den Bergh and Cornelia Wyantse Van Derpoel.

The Van Den Bergh

1.

Families.
Van

Gysbert Cornelisse Van

Den

Bergh,

c.

a.

1645; m. Lysbet Claassen

Voorhoudt.
2.

Cornelis Gysbertse
poel
(2).

Van Den Bergh, m. Cornelia Wynantse Van Derb.

3.

Geertje

Van Den

Bergh,

1691, m. 1719,

great-great-great-grandparents of Jane Elizabeth

Abraham Vosburgh, b. 1696, Van Dyck Welles.

Gysbert Cornelise Van Den Bergh, original name Van is also designated Gysbert op de Bergh, arrived in the colony of Rensselaerwyck in 1645. He resided on a farm called Hooge Bergh or High Bergh on the east side of the In 1663 he bought a house, barn river a little below Albany. and adjacent lands ''lying this side of Bethlehem," Albany Co., N. Y., of Marten Cornelisse Van Buren. He married Lysbet Claasen Van Voorhoudt, and had
Wesep.
^
:

2.

Cornelis, m.

i,

Cornelia, dau. of

4.

Gerrit, in 1663 a servant

of

Wynant

Gerritse

Van Derpoel

and Tryntje Melgers; m. 2, Maria, dau. of Marten Corneliss<=! Van Buren and Maritie,
3.

on farm Jan Barentse Wemp. His dau. Neeltje, m. Dec. 15, 1701, Barent Staats (14.)
ser-

5.

Frederick, Corporal in 1661 in the

his wife.

West Indian Company's

William, m. Catryn, dau. of nant

Gerritse

Wy6.

vice at Fort Orange.

Van Derpoel

Maritie, bp. July

5,

1685.

and Tryntje Melgers.

Z'-jZ

REV.

LAWRENCE

H.

VAX DYCK.

Lysbet Claasen Van Voorhoudt, wife of Gysbert Cornelise Van Den Bergh, was the daughter of Claas Cornelise Seger? Van Voorhoudt and Brichje Manns.

The Van Voorhoudt

i.

Families.
m. Bregje Jacobsen,
d.

Comelis Segerse Van Voorhoudt,

1667.

c.

a.

1642,

2.

Claas Cornelise Van Voorhoudt,

d.

1662, m. Brichje Maryns, d. 1663.

3.

Lysbet Classen Van Voorhoudt,

Bergh,
c.

b. 1655,

m. Gysbert Cornelise

Van Den
Jane

a.

1645, great-great-great-great-great-grandparents of

Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Welles.

Cornelis Segerse
1642.

Van Voorhoudt came

is

to

Beaverwyck
k;

in
is

The

family

the patronymic of

succeeded Van Der Donck on the farm called Welysburgh on Castle His wife was Bregje Jacobsen. She died in April, Island."
1667.

name some

said to

have been Segers, and

of his descendants.

He

His children were

2.

Cornelis Cornelise.

6.

Neeltje, m.

Hans Carelse Noor-

3.

Seger Cornelise, m. Jannetie, dau. of Tennis Dirkse Van Vechten.

man.
7.

Lysbeth, m. Francis Boon, against

the wishes of her parents and was disinherited, her father bequeathingheronly*i Flemish.

4.

Claas Cornelise, d. 1662, m. Brichje

Maryns,
5.

d.

Feb'y

I,

1663.

Jannetje, m. Jacob Janse Schemerhorn.

Claas Segerse

Cornelise Van Voorhoudt (4), son Van Voorhoudt and Bregje Jacobsen, was

of

Cornelis

accidentally

killed in a brawl, in 1662,

ried Brichje
8. 9.

by Andries Herpertsen. Maryns, and had

:

He
Bergh.

mar-

Maryn,
Jacob,

b.

1651.

nelise
II.

Van Den
b.

b.

1653.

Tryntie,

1660.

10.

Lysbet, b. 1655, m. Gysbert Cor-

Brichje Maryns, wife of Claas Cornelise Van Voorhoudt, his death married Jan Tysse Goes (Hoes 1) and died Feb'y 1, 1663, a short time after her marriage.
after

Van Den

Cornelis Gysbertse Van Den Benrh (2), son of Gysbert He Bergh, resided at the Manor Rensselaerwyck.

CHRISTINA HOES VAX DVCK.

73
6,
1

made

his will

March

3,

7 14,

which was proved July

717

He
ried
sen,
itie.

married

Van Derpoel. He maragain Nov. 21, 1702, Maria, widow of Teunisse Van Deuand daughter of Marten Cornelisse Van Buren, and Marfirst,

Cornelia Wynantse

his wile.
:

The following
Mar.
8,

children were mentioned in his

will
7.

8.

Mar. n, 1659, son of Isaac Vosburgh and Anna Janse Cornelia, bp. Oct. 2, 16S7; m. Goes (Hoes 5.) Nov. 10, 1705, Marten Janse n. Wynant, bp. June 24, 1694. Van Alstyne, widower of Jan- 12. Goosen.
Maritie,
bp.

1685; m.

Cornelis

Van

Alstyne.

netje Cornelisse.
9.

13.

Gysbert.
Garret, bp. Sept. 19, 1703.

Matthys, bp. Mar.

Geertje,
bp.

23, 1690.

14. 15.

10.

Dec. 20, 1691; m.

1719,

Tryntie, m. Pieter Waldron.

Oct. 11,

Abraham,

bp.

bertse

Cornelia Wynantse Yan Derpoel, wife of Cornells GysVan Den Bergh, was a daughter of Wynant Gerritse

Van Derpoel and Tryntje Melgers, and a sister of Melgert Van who married Ariaantje Verplanck, an account of whom has been given. The families of the brother and sister were united by the marriage of Rev. L. H. Van Dvck and
Derpoel,
Christina Hoes, great-great-great-great-grandchildren of

Wy-

nant Gerritse

Van Derpoel and

s

Tryntje Melgers.

Barend Hoes (30 ), generally known as Barent, son of John D. Hoes (23) and Maria Quackenboss, was born at Kinderhook, N. Y., and baptized Jan'y 3, 1779. He was a merchant in his native village, "one of the most quiet men I ever knew," is the testimony of an acquaintance. He married March 15,
1806, Dirickie
33.

Van Buren, and had

bp.

Mary

Elizabeth,
d. at

Aug.
111.,

12,

35.
36.

Johannes,

b.
b.

Oct. 11, 1S09.

Sept. 23,

1806;

Ottawa,

1S79;

Jane Ann,

1S10; d.
1865.
31,

m. Dr.

Van Schaack,
Dec.
12,

of

Kin37.

at

Kinderhook
d. at

ab't

derhook, N. Y.
34.

John Yan Alen,

1812;

bp.

Oct.
111.,

Christina, b.

1S07;

d-

Ottawa,

ab't

Jan'y

2,

1851;

m.

Aug.
IT.

27,

1S75;

Fanny Reynolds;

1833, Rev.

Lawrence
Oct.
5,

Van
d.

Dyck,

b.

1S07,

was Attorney and Counsellorat-Law in partnership with

Gen'l
dau.

Jan'y 24, T893, soa f Henry L. Van Dyck and Catherine

W. H.
Ella,

S.

Wallace,
Peake,

left

Mrs.

of

Van
35

Alen.

Green Bav, Wisconsin.

274
38.

REV.
Abram,
b.

LAWRENCE
1S14;
,

H.

VAN DYCK.
Peter, b. April 23, 1S18.

Aug.

13,

d.

39.

1858?; m. Marcia
yer at Ottawa,

Lawdan.

40.

Cantine,

b.

May

18,

1821;

d.

at

II]., left

Mary, Mrs. Bartol, Brooklyn.

Kinderhook, N. V., 11. m.

ab't 1863,

at

Dirickie Tail Bliren, wife of Barend Hoes (30) was born Kinderhook, N. Y., Jan'y, 1777? and died at her native place
,

Oct. 18, 1S65.

(26) and Maria

She was the daughter of Abraham Van Buren Goes (Hoes 20) and a sister of Martin Van

Buren, eighth President of the United States.

The Van Buren

1.

Families.

Cornells

Maasen Van Buren,

c.

a.

1631; m. Catalyntie Martense.

.

2. 3.

Marten Comelisse Van Buren, c. a. 1631; m. Maritie Peter Martense Van Buren; m. 1692, Ariaantje Barentse.
Martin Van Buren, b. Abraham Van Buren, Dirickie Van Buren,
1701; m. 1729, Dirickie
b.

4.
5.

Van

Alstyne,

b. 1710.

6.

b.

Maria Goes, b. 1748. 1777; m. 1S06, Barend Hoes, b. 1779, grand1737; m. 1776
?

parents of Jane Elizabeth

Van Dyck

Welles.

Cornells Maasen

Van Buren came from Holland

in

163 1 in

the ship Rensselaerzvyck and subsequently settled on a farm

belonging

to the

Van

Rensselaer Manor, at Papsickanekas

',

corrupted into Papasskenea and Papsknee, the Indian

for the region

name

on each side of the Hudson river, between Castle and Swack's islands below Albany in the vicinity of GreenIn an account of moneys paid by Kiliaen Van bush, N. Y.
Rensselaer, the Patroon, there are these entries
"June
26, 1631.
:

of 12 florins,

To Maryn Adriaensen Van der Veere,* repaid the half which he paid to Cornelis Maasen Van Buren Maasen, to be deducted from his hire." "June 30. For remaining days wages to Jasper Ferlyn and Cornelis Maasen, who embark on board together, 2 florins."
This
fixes the date

of the vessel's sailing, abont July

to

i,

163

*Maryn Adriaensen Van der Veere was a noted freebooter, who came
contract with

Van

Rensselaer, the Patroon, to establish a tobacco plantation.

America under In 1646 he

attempted the assassination of

Gov. Kieft, and was sent to Holland

in chains.

He

subse-

quently returned and obtained a grant for "a piece of land

named 'Awichaken' or We-

hawken."

CHRISTINA HOES VAX DYCK.

275

but the long name, Cornells Maasen Van Buren Maasen, furnishes but little data by which to determine from what part of

Holland he

names of

it came. Maas, Maese and Meuse are which flows through France, Belgium and Holland and empties into the North Sea or German Ocean. Buren signifies a neighbor, and is the name of a village of 1900

who

bore

a river

inhabitants in the province of Gelderland, Holland.

the province in 1654 represents

map

of

Buren

as a fortified town, near

title

which

is

the castle of the Counts Buren, a

belonging at

that time to the house of Nassau.

Jan Van Weely, the fatherin-law of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the Patroon, was then admodiator or administrator of the county of Buren, which makes this it highly probable that the Van Buren family were from locality, although one of the children of Cornelis Maasen Van Buren is said to have been born at Houten, in the province of
Utrecht, which,
if

correct,

makes

it

evident that at one time he

resided in that village.

When embarking for America Cornelis Maasen Van Buren was accompanied by his wife? Catalyntie Martense, and "Cornelis Teunissen Bos, bouucknecht to Cornelis Maasen," that is,
In 1662 this Cornelis Teunissen Bos was Commissary at Fort Orange. During the passage to America Mrs. Van Buren gave birth to a son who is said to have been her first born, but as two of her children are on record as having been born in Holland, the child born at sea was probably Maas, her third born. But little is known of Cornelis Maasen Van Buren after his settlement in America. From a memorandum entitled "Tenths of those who still reside with the Patroon on the common doa farm laborer or servant.

main," we learn that during the years 1644-45-46 he harvested 390 schepels of Wheat, 640 of Oats, 120 of Rye, 120 of Barley, 20 of Buckwheat and 60 of Peas.
In 164S both he and his wife died. The church record says "they were both buried the same "day." His estate was com-

mitted to the care of Teunis Dirkse

Van Vechten and Teunis

his children, the following

Cornelissen

Van Vechten,
-

farmers in Greenbush, Rensselaer-

wyck,
ing of

as trustees

whom

and guai dians of were living in 1663

:

276
2.

REV.

LAWRENCE

H.

VAN DYCK.
d.

3.

b. in HoiLysbeth Marten, b. at Houten, Holland, d. Nov. 13, 1703, m. Mar-

Hendrick, eldest son,

land,
hi.

5.

Styntie or Christina,

Sept. 13,

17x7; m. 1663 Dirk Wesselse

Ten Broeck,

"a

free

mer-

chant" at Beaverwyck, whose

house-lot was the present site
of the ISlerchants

itie
4.

Maas,

d.

Nov.

22, 1704;

m. Josina

and Farmers

or Jacomyntie Janse Gardinier, d.

Bank, Albany,
5^,

July, 1701.

Tobias.

Marten Cornelisse Van Buren, son of Cornells Maasen Van Buren and Catalyntie Martense was born in Houten, province He and his wife appear as members of of Utrecht, Holland. the Dutch Church at Albany in a list prepared by Rev. Godfriedus Dellius. He died Nov. 13, 1703. He was called "Black Marten," and was probably of very dark complexion. He owned a farm "this side of Bethlehem, " near Albany, N. Y., which he sold in 1663 to Gysbert Cornelisse Van Den
Bergh.
In
167=;

he leased half of Constaples Island in the

below Albany. He subsequently bought of Dirk Wesselse Ten Broeck a farm at Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N. Y., for which a deed was given May 10. 1703, and which became the Van Buren homestead the birthplace

Hudson

river

Buren, eighth President of the United States. His will was dated April 10, 1703, and proved June 7, 1710, In this will he refers six years and six months after his death. to his wife Maritie and the following children
of Martin
:

Van

6.
7.

Cornelia, m. Robert

Van Deusen.
Coen11.

sen;

m.

2,

Nov.

21,

1702,

Cornelius, m. Ariaantie Gerritse.

Cornells Gysbertse

Van Den

She m.
5.

2,

June

28, 1693,

Bergh.
Catalina, m. Jan'y
than,
7,

raed Elmendorf.
Pieter,

1697, Jona-

m. Jan'y

15,

1692,

Aria-

son of Jan Thomasse

antje Barentse.
9.

Witbeck
23,

and

Geertruy An2,

Marten, buried Oct.

1740,?

drisse Dochter; he m.
I

ab't

"near his
10.

own house;" m.
12.

Judikje Barentse.

Catharena Van Deusen. Magdalena.

7S)

Maria, m.

1,

Teunisse Van Deu-

Pieter Martense

Tan Buren

(S)

son of Marten Cornelisse

Van Buren and

his wife Maritie appears

on record

at

Kinder-

hook, N. Y., about 1690 and subsequently occupied the farm, purchased by his father a short time before his death, of Dirk

CHRISTINA HtOES VAN DYCK.

Wesselse Ten Broeck. Barentse, and had
:

277
Ariaantje

He

married Jan'y
Tobias,
Jan.

15, 1693,

13.

Cornells, bp.
Sept.
S,

May

14,

1693; m.
Lister.

16.

1724,

Maria

14.

Barent, bp. Jan'y 20, 1695; m.

Dec.
m.
2,

29,

1719,

Dec. 23,

Maria Winne; 1737, Margaat

17. iS. 11,

1697; m. Anna, bp. Feb'y 3, 1704, dau, Dirk Goes and Styntje Janse Van Hoebp.
7,

Nov.

10,

1721,

sen.

reta

Van Vechten, buried

Eytje, bp. Jan'y

7,

1700.

Papsknee Aug.
3,

1743; m.

ab't 1747, Catalyntje

Schem-

Marten, bp. Dec. 28, 1701; m. Nov. 7, 1729, Dirckie, bp.

Ap'l 30,

erhorn.
15.

Maretje,

bp.

Mar.
28,

S,

1696; m.

Janse
itie

May
bp.

27, 1722,

Jan Vosburgh,
1692,

1710, dau. Abraham Van Alste'yne and MarVan Deusen.

July

son

of

19.

Cornelia, bp. Aug. 24, 1707.

Isaac

Vosburgh

and

Anna

20.
21.

Ephraim, bp. March

Maria, bp. Dec.

11, 1711.

Janse Goes.

iS, 1715.

(18), son of Pieter Martense Van Buren and Ariaantje Barentse, was baptized at Albany, N. Y., December 2$, 1701, and succeeded to the paternal estates at Kinderhook, N. Y. He married Nov. 7, 1729, at Kiriderhook, his native place, Dirckie Van Alsteyne, and had the following children baptized at Kinderhook, N. Y., with the excep-

Marten Van Bliren

(8)

tions noted
22.

Marytie,
d. y.

bp.

Jan'y

iS,

1730,

23.

Pieter, bp. Oct. 27, 1731, d. y.

Pieter, bp. July 22, 1733.
27.
Y-

Johannes Jacobus Van Alen and dau. Johannes Goes (Hoes 10) and Jannetie
.

24.
25.

Ariaantje, bp.

March
2,

4,

1739.

Marytie, bp, April

6,

1735, d.

2 &29.

Marytje, bp. Oct.

1743.

26.

Abraham,

bp. at Albany,

N. V.,

Marten, bp.
J an 'y ID
>

at
I

Claverack, X. V.,

Feb'y 27, 1737; m. ab't 1776, Maria Goes (Hoes 20), wid.

747-

Alsteyne, wife of Marten Van Buren (iS), Albany, N. Y. April 30, 17 10. She was a daughter of Abraham Janse Van Alsteyne and Maritie Van Deusen.

Dirckie

Tan
at

was baptized

The Van Alsteyne

1.

Families.

2.

3.

Jan Van Aksteyne. Abraham Janse Van Alsteyne, m. 1694 Maritie Van Deusen. Dirckie Van Alsteyne, b. 1710, m. 1729, Marten Van Buren,
great-great-grandparents of Jane Elizabeth

b.

1701,

Van Dyck Welles.

2jS

REV.

LAWRENCE

H.

VAN DVCK,

Jail Vail Alsteyne, of

the progenitor of the

had the following hook and vicinity

2.

whom we have found no record, was Van Alsteyne families of America. He sons, who were early residents of Kinder1741; m.
;

Abraham
1,

Janse,

d. ab't

4.

Lambert Janse,
2,

d. Oct.

16,

1703;

m.

2,

m. Jannetie Minsaal; she m.

Jan'y
13,

Jan'y

17,

1694,

Maritie

Van
ra.
5.

1713,

Jochem Van
1,

Deusen.
3.

Valkenbergh.

Isaac Janse, of Kinderhook,

1,

Marten
i

Janse,

m.

Jannetje

Oct. 20, 1689,

2,

Abbedie Vos20,

Cornelisse;
75j

m.

2,

Nov.

16,

burgh; m.
enbergh.

Feb'y

169S,

Cornelia

Van

Den

Jannatje Jochemse Van Valk-

Bergh.

poenick, and

is said to have been of Pommentioned also as residing at Kinderhook. N. Y. He died about 1 741 He married first, some one whose name is not known, and had three children. He married the second time, Jan'y 17, 1694. Maritie Van Deusen. His chilis
.

Abraham Janse Tan Alsteyne

dren were
6.
7.

Janneke, bp. March

Jan, bp.

15, 16S5.

14.
115.

Lena,

lip.

Nov.

iS, 1705.

May

22, 16S7.
S,

Isaac, bp. Jan'y 28, 1708.

8.

Jacob, bp. Sept.

16S9.
26, 1694.
14,
.

16.

Dirfije or Dirckie,

bp.
7,

Ap'l

30,

9.

io.

Johannes, bp. Aug. Mattheus, bp. June

1710; m. Nov.
ten, bp.

1729,

Mar-

1696; m.

Dec.

28, 1701,

son of

Susanna
11.

of Pieter
y.

Martense Van Buren

12,

Dirkje, bp. Dec.

4,
5,

169S, d.
1701.

and Ariaantje Baventse.

17.
iS.

12.
13.

Sander, bp. Jan'y

Catryntie, bp. Oct.

1713.

Abraham, bp. Aug. 15, 1703; m. 1734, Wyntje Conyn.

Jacobus, bp. Ap'l 21, 1717.

19.

Marten, bp.

May

3,

1719.

is

Maritie Van Deusen. wife of Abraham Janse Van Alsteyne, supposed to have been the daughter of Mattheus or Teuwis
.

Abrahamse Van Deusen and Helena

The Van Deusen

1.

Families.
.

2.

3.

Abraham Van Deusen. Mattheus Abrahamse Van Deusen m. Helena Maritie Van Deusen, m. 1694 Abraham Janse Van Alsteyne, great-great-grandparents of Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck Welles.

great-

Abraham Van

DeilSen, of

whom we

have no record, was

CHRISTINA HOES VAN DVCK.

the progenitor of the

279

Van Deusen
settlers

families of

America.
:

The
.

following sons were early

2.

of

New

Netherlands

Melgert

Abrahamse, buried at Papsknee Jan'y 6, 1742; m.

11,

4.

Abrahamse, m. Helena Jacob Abrahamse, a cooper, m.

in

Engeltie Rutgers, buried July

1728, dau. Rulger Jacobse

New Amsterdam,
1663,

Sept.

23,

Catalyntie

Van Eslant;

and Tryntie Janse Van Breestede.

3.

dau. Claes Van Eslant and Willemtie Harpers Van Der

Mattheus Abrahamse or T>uwis

Linde, of

New Amsterdam.

Matthews Abrahamse Van Deusen, son of Abraham Van Deusen, sometimes called Teuwis Abrahamse, m. Helena and had
,

5.

Marine, m. Jan'y

17, 1694,

Abraham,

d.

1741, son of

Jan Van Alsteyne.

'

Abraham Van Bliren (26), was a son of Marten Van Buren and Dircke Van Alsteyn. He was baptized, at Albany, N. Y.. Feb'y 27, 1737. He died in 1S14. He was a farmer, and succeeded to the moderate estate, known as the Van Binen Homestead, in Kinderhook, N. Y., where he was born and died. This homestead, of some historic interest as the birthplace of Martin Van Buren the eighth President of the United States, was about sixty rods east of the central part of the vilIt was lage of Kinderhook, near the banks of the creek. standing several years ago, a plain, unpretentious, one story, frame building. On one of the beams in the main room could be seen the initials, M. V. B., said to have been cut in the timber by President Van Buren when a child, but which may
have been the work of the President's grandfather, the
first

Marten Van Buren of Kinderhook or of the President's Uncle

Marten.

Abraham Van Buren

in the

took an active part in his country's

first

successful struggle for national independence,

as a private

company commanded by Capt.

Staats, in the

regiment
in

of Col.

Van

Rensselaer and subsequently as Captain

the

regiment of Col.

Abraham Van

Alstyne.

After the declaration

of peace, in connection with his farming operations he kept a

public house, or a country tavern, an occupation which, in his day, was not considered incompatible with the highest respectability.

He

is

described as an

upright, amiable,

intelligent

2S0

REV.
of strong

LAWRENCE

H.

VAN DYCK.

man

common

sense and distinguished for his pacific

disposition.

"

patriot of the Revolution he loved the soil

which held the graves of his forefathers for several generations and of which he had assisted to achieve the independence, and with hearty assent embraced the principles on which that independence was made to rest." He married about 1776 Maria Goes and had
:

29. Dirickie, b. Jan'y, 1777, d.

18,

Oct.
1806,

merit

State
;

militia,

war

of

1S65, m.

Mar.

15,

1812-15

presidential

elector

Barend Hoes, bp. Jan'y 3, 1779, son John D. Hoes and Maria Quackenboss.
30.

33.

on Democratic ticket 1852. Abraham, known as Abraham

A.,
b.

17S7.

His tombstone

Jannetje, bp. Jan'y 16, 1780, m.

bears

the

inscription:

"In

Moses
31.

I.

Cantine.

Martin, 8th President of United

States, b.

memory of Abraham A. Van Buren who died at Hudson,

Oct. 30, 1S36 in the 49th year
of his age.

Dec.

5,

1782,

bp.
24,

Dec.
1862
Ap'l
;

15,

1782;
1783,
d.

d.

July

He had been
was
at

for

m.
6,

1807 Hannah,
1817,

bp.

many

years and

the

dau.

time of his death Surrogate of

the county of Columbia, and by his talents and integrity secured universal respect and esteem. Peace be to his ashes.''

John
32.

D.

Hoes and
I,

Maria
d.

Quackenboss.
Laurens, bp. Jan'y
July
1,
;

17S6;

1868, m.

Harriet Vosregi-

burgh

was Major 9U1

Additional data in relation

to the

children of

Abraham Van
of

Buren and Maria Goes.

Martin Tan Buren (31), was
of William P.
a

law student

in the

office

Francis Sylvester, of Kinderhook, and subsequently in the office

Van

Nest, of

New
duel.

York, who carried Aaron

Burr's second markedly handin some, cordial in his manner, with shining abilities and a temper that nothing could ruffle." Thus endowed and well qualified by study, he was admitted to the bar in iSot and his professional career, which lasted twenty-five years, brought him a competency which his prudence And skill made grow into an
the memorable Wehawken

Burr's challenge to Alexander Hamilton and

was

"He was

bia Co.,

ample fortune. N. Y.

His

first

public office

was Surrogate of ColumState Senator

He was New York

1811-12,

United States Senator 1S21-37, Governor of the State of New York 1S2S, United States Secretary of State, in the Cabinet of

CHRISTIXA HOES VAX DYCK.

2S1

1829-30, when he was appointed minister to Great Britain and entered upon his duties at London in 1S31,* but the Senate refusing to confirm the nomination he was re-

Andrew Jackson

and returning home received in succession the two highcountrymen Vice-President of the United States during Andrew Jackson's second term, 1S33-37, and President of the United States, 1 S3 7-41. He was scarcely
called,
est offices in the gift of his

seated in the. Presidential chair

when

financial distress threat-

ened universal bankruptcy. The remedy proposed by the Administration was the Sub-Treasury Bill, requiring all Government dues to be paid in gold or silver and to be kept in subtreasuries in the chief cities of the Union, under the cai*e of subThe bill became a law in 1840, was repealed by treasurers.
the succeeding Administration in 1S41. but in a modified

form

become the settled' financial policy of the Republic. Mr. Van Buren was nominated for a second Presidential term, but was defeated by the election of William H. Harrison. In 1S4S
has

he accepted the Presidential nomination of the Freesoil faction of the Democratic party, split the party, accomplished the defeat of Lewis Cass and laid the foundation of the Republican
party which
'little

came

into

power

in

rS6o.

He was

called the

magician," because of his political sagacitv and talents, and "-little Van" because, like Zaccheus, he was small of stature. During his long political career and the bitter political

campaigns he waged, "no accusation was ever made against In 1S53 55 he made a tour through Europe and passed the remainder of his days at Lindenwald, his home, near Kinderhook, N. Y. When he took possession of the White House he had been a widower for twenty years, and was accompanied only bv his
the purity and uprightness of his private life."

four sons, but maintained the hospitalities of the

Executive
dis-

much elegance and taste as were ever played under any woman's sway. "He presided over the
Mansion with
ners
as

din-

and receptions with perfect

tact

and politeness.

His

"During his short stay at the Court of St. James, Van Buren, it is said by John S. Jenkins in his "Lives of the Governors of New York," was one day asked by Queen Adelaide how far back he could trace his ancestry. With the greatest gravity he at once replied: "As far back as Kinderhook, may it please your Majesty," and his Royal questioner, t is said, supposing that Kinderhook was one of the ancient Sovereigns of America, was henceforth more gracious than ever.

36

2S2
glass, china

REV.

LAWRENCE

H.

VAN DYCK.

and silverware surpassed anything that had ever been seen in the country, and his golddined spoons gave him as much obloquy among the opposition as if he had committed
treason."

Not long

after

his

inauguration

his

eldest

son,

Abraham Van Buren,* who was

his private secretary,

married

Miss Angelica Singleton, of South Carolina,

5
',

a cousin of

Mrs.

James Madison, nee Dolly Payne who, when mistress of the White House, was known as >ueen Dolly and through whose management the marriage of Abraham Van Buren and Miss Throughout the remainder of Singleton was brought about.
Mrs. Abraham Van Buren presided at the ib Her youth and beauty, her tact, her graciousness, the patience and pleasant courtesy, which never flagged through the long hours, made her universally admired, and the Executive Mansion, until the close of the Administration, the centre of social elegance and gayety."
his administration

Executive Mansion.

Maria Goes.t wife of Abraham Van Buren (26), is said to have been a woman of exemplary piety, tender hearted and She was the daughter of Johannes Goes (Hoes 10) and true.

was baptized at Claverack, N. Y., She married first Johannes Jacobus Van Alen (1=0, an d Helena Van Alstyne, and a grandson of Stephanus Van Alen (7), and Maria Cornelisse Mulder. By this marriage she had three children. Van Alen died about 1774 and as his widow, si e married Abraham Van Buren.
Tannetie
his

wife

and

Tan'y

16,

174S.

* Abraham Van Buren, b. Nov. 27, 1S07, d. Mar. 15, 1873 graduated at West Point 1827, 2d Lieut, in 2d Infantry; Aide-de-Camp to Gen. Alex. Macomb 1836; Capt. 1st Dragoons July 4, 1S36 Major June 26, 1846 in Mexican war on staff of Gen. Zachariah Taybreveted Aug. 20, 1847, f r bravlor and subsequently on staff of Gen. Winfield S. Scott ery at Contreras and Churubusco m. Angelica, dau. of Hon. Richard S. Singleton, of Sumpter District South Carolina, b. ab't 1820, d. in New York city Dec. 29, 1878. She was a niece of Hon. Andrew Stevenson, U. S. Minister to Great Britain, a cousin of the Hon. William C. Preston and also of Mrs. James Madison. Abraham's brother John, known as Prince John, b. Feb'y 18, 1810 d. at sea Oct. 13, 1866 graduated at Yale College 1829 studied law with Benjamin F. Butler admitted to the bar 1830 Attorney-General of NewYork 1845-47 attained considerable eminence in his profession and was a noted politician. From the New York Recorder May 19, 1892, we quote "In the far-away days when Martin Van Buren was President and before Queen Victoria had met the German Prince whom she married, John Van Buren, the son of the President, visited England, and at an imperial ball was the partner of Queen Victoria, then unmarried, but to-day a great-grandmother. The student of history knows what fun was made out of the event. John Van Buren was immediately called "the Prince," and "the match" was arranged berween him and the young English Queen. He was the A man of charming personality, as true a gentleman first of the Presidential "Princes." as ever lived, an American in every sense of the word; the name followed him to his grave and destroyed his political life. tThe children of Maria Goes and Johannes Jacobus Van Alen, were Marytje, bp. Aug. 20, 1763, m. Judge Julius Wilcoxson of Kinderhook, N. Y., Johannes, bp. Aug. 1, 1770, and
;

Jacobus, bp. Jan'y

1, 1778.

THE ANCESTRY OF

John A. Lott
Who Married
June
20, 1883,

Jr.,

Laura Hoes Welles.

The Lott Families

1.

Peter Lott,

c.

a.

1652, m. Gertrude
b.

2. 3.

Englebart Lott,

1654, m. 167S, Cornelia 16S4, m. 1709, Catherine

De La Nov.
b.

Abraham

Lott,

b.

4.
5.

Englebart Lott,

b."

1719, m. 1742,
b.

Hegeman, Mantle Ditmars, b.

1691.

1723.
b.

Johannes E. Lott,

1746, m. 1775, Catherine

Van

Derbilt,

1757.

6.
7.

Abraham
John A.
John A.

Lott, b. ^83, m. 1835,

Maria Lott,

b.

1785.
b.

Lott, b. 1806, m. 1S29, Catherine L. Lott,

1807.

8. 9.

Abraham

Lott, b. 1S31, m. 1S55, Gertrude Bergen, b. 1829.

Lott, b. 1856, m. 1883, Lott, b. 1884,

10.

Abraham Lloyd

Laura IT. Welles, b. 1864. and Theodore Welles Lott,

b.

1SS9.

Peter Lott.
Lott,
a given
it is

said, in the

History of the City of Brooklyn,

is

name

contracted and corrupted from the Dutch Lodo-

wyck, which in English is Lewis. Lodewyck contracted into Lodts would signify a son of Lodewyck, Lodts corrupted becomes Lotts and finally Lott. Peter Lott, the progenitor of the Lott family of Long N. Y., emigrated to America in 16^2. He wrote his name Lot. His sons Englebart and Abraham wrote their names Lott, but his son Peter wrote his name Lodt. He probably came to America in company with Bartel Englebartsen Lot, who is entered on the Marriage Records of the Reformed Dutch church of New York city, December 16, 1662, "Bartel Englebartsen Loth from Reynerwont or RuinerIsland.

284

Ancestry of
a

wold,

village

in the province of

Drenthe, in the Nether-

lands."

Peter and

wrote his
Peter, in

were probably brothers. Bartel name' Bartel Lot, as Peter wrote his name Peter Lot.
Bartel

naming his eldest son Englebart, has perpetuated in name of Bartel's, and most probably, if not cerThey both settled in Midwout, or Flattainly, his own father. bush, on Long Island, and July 2S, 1663, jointly purchased of Edward Griffin, as granted to him by Garret Stryker, 25 morgens of land "on the west side of the road, next to the ministhe land owned or occupied by the Rev. Johannes ter's land,"
the family the

Theodorus Polhemus, the first minister of Flatbush.* Peter Lot was a magistrate of Flatbush in 1656 and 1673, and is one one of the patentees named in the patent granted by Lieut.
Gov. Thomas Dongan He married Gertrude
2.

to the inhabitants of
,

Flatbush in 16S5.
:

who
4.
5.

died in 1703, and had

marseirand Aeltje Douw.

Englebart,
30,

b.

1730,

Dec. 1654, d. Ap'l m. Oct. 30, 167S,

dau.
of

Peter, m. Sarah

Cornelia,

Abraham

Abraham, m. Gertruye
Hendrick, m. Catrya,
Witt.
b.

De La Noy and Marryke Lubberse.

3.

6.

May

10,

I0 54> dau. Pieter Jansen De-

Catrina, m. Sept. 22, 16S7, Doiuv,

son of Jan Jansen

Van

Dit-

7.

Johanna.

Englebart Lott.
Engi/ebart Lott (2), son of Peter Lott and Gertrude, his wife, was born at Flatbush, Kings Co., N. Y., in December,
1654.

He

Castle, on the west

He purchased lands at New died April 30, 1730. bank of the Delaware river, about 35 miles

below Philadelphia, Pa., upon which he settled. He was also the owner of a large tract of land on Christiana creek, which
*Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus was
Brazil, previous to his settlement at Flatbush.
b. in

He

Holland, 1598, was pastor at Itamarcas, died June 8, 1676. Descendants bear-

name are still numerous in New Jersey. Henry D. Polhemus, an old and respected Brooklynite, died yesterday morning at his residence, 88 Remsen street, and with him passed away the last one of the city's oldest He was born here sixty-five years ago, and one of his forefathers, the Rev. families. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, who came from Holland in 1654, was the first pastor of the First Dutch church erected on Long Island. About thirty-five years ago the deceased married Miss Herriman, who survives him. There are no children, but the widow is left with a large estate.- New York Rccoi-der, Feb'y 15, 1895.
ing his

JOHN' A. LOTT, JR.

2S5

he retained until 1707. In 16S2 he returned to Flatbush, N. Y., where both he and his wife were received as members of the Reformed Church. In 1698 lie was high Sheriff of Kings

County, N. Y., and held the office during the administration of Gov. Bellamont. which was only for one year. Jan'y 23, 170S,

Gov. Cornbury for a new ferry across some point on Long Island, between the old ferry and Red Hook to the center of the city of New York, but the petition was not granted. He married Oct. 30, 1678, Cornelia De La Noy, and had
he signed a petition
to

the East river from

S.
9.

Pieter, bp.

Nov.
b.

16,

1682;
7,

d. y. d.

Sept.
13.

11,

1699.
b.
-

Abraham,
July
29,

Sept.

16S4,

Johannes,
I

July 22, 1701,

4,

d.

Nov. 1709, Catharine Hegeraan, Nov. 11, 1691, d. Nov.

1754,
ra.

15,
b.

73 2 ;

Nov.

1721,

LamChris-

metie Stryker,

who

after her

19,

husband's

death

m.

1741.
ro.

tianus Lupardus.
d. y.

Johannes,

11.

Gertruy, bp.

Jan'y 29, 1701. Feb'y 5, 1696, d.

July
169S, d.

14.

Gertruy, b. Dec.

4,

1703.
12, 1715,

15.

Elizabeth, bp. Mar.

on

Sept. 23, 1701.

12.

Staten Island.
31,

Cornelia,

bp.

Cornelia daughter of

De La Noy, wife of Englebart Lott (2), was Abraham De La Noy and Marryke Lubberse.

The De La Noy
Abraham De La Noy was
sided in

Family.

Fie reof Huguenot extraction. Amsterdam, and in 1653 was a Corporal in the He appears in a list of Small 2d Burgher Corps of the city. Burghers, bearing date April 19, 1657. He took a mortgage Sept. 1, 1659 for 313 whole beavers from Pieter Hartgers, to

New

whom
the

his

widow

subsequently sold a house and

lot

north of the

Brouwers Straat. and May 4, 1662, he bought two lots on Broadway, which seems to indicate business prosperity. He married Marryke Lubberse, and had at least
2.

Cornelia,

m.

Oct.
.

30,

167S,

Englebart, son of Peter Lott and Ger-

trude

2S6

ANCESTRY OF

Abraham
Abraham Lott
Cornelia
7,
life

Lott.
and

(9), second son of Englebart Lott (2)

1684.

De La Noy, was born at Flatbush, N. Y., September He died July 29, 1754. In the earlier part of his
to the

he made several voyages on board a trading vessel

Indies as super cargo.

West

After marriage he cultivated his

father's farm,

which he

inherited.

representative from Kings county to the Colonial

New

York, and served therein

for

but died before the term expired.

was elected a Assembly of seven years, was re-elected He married Nov. 15, 1709,
In 1743 he
x

Catherine Hegeman, and had

16.

Jacobus,

b. d.

d.

1757;

m.

7 2 3;

d.

Ap'l 27,

1797,

dau.

Teuentie,

1757, dau.

Simon

De Hart and

Angenietje

Van
18.

Johannes Ditmars and netje Remsen.

Cornelia, m. John
of Keuter's
19.

Jan-

Dyck, and resided on a farm at Flatbush, N. Y.

17.

Van Derveer, Hook.

Englebart,

b.

May

7,

17 19,

d.

Nov.
1742,

17,

1779;

in.

Dec.
Jan'y

14,
8,

Abraham, m. 1, Gertrude, dau. Andrew Coeymans; m. 2,

Maritie,

b.

May

9,

1750,

Jane Goelet.

Catherine Hegeman, wife of Abraham Lott (9), was born Nov. 11, 1691, died Nov. 19, 1741. We have not been able to discover her parentage. j Tradition declares that she was
He officiated as clerk of the Colo(19) was a merchant of New York. Assembly and was treasurer of the colony of New York in 1776 at the breaking out of the Revolution. He was an eminent elder in the Reformed Church of the city, a warm friend of Rev. John H. Livingston, D. D., and influential in securing the independence of the church. His business partner was Jsaac Low, see page 158.
*Abraham Lott
nial

fTunis G. Bergen, in "Kings County Families" places Catherine Hegeman, born Nov. Nov. 19, 1741, among the children of Elbert Heg-eman, of New Lotts, L. I. and says she married Abraham Lott Nov. 15, 1709. But this Elbert Hegeman was not born until 1687 and died in 1777 in the 91st year of his age. He was only four years old when his supposed daughter was born. He was not married until Ap'l 30, 1710, a half a year after his supposed daughter was married. He married Marry tie Rapalje, who was born in 1677. She may have been a young widow when he married her and may have had a daughter Catherine, born Nov. n, 1691, when she was in the fifteenth year of her age. This would make Catherine Hegeman the step-daughter of Elbert Hegeman, of New
11, 1691, died

Lotts.

The Hegeman family is descended from Adriaen Hegeman, who emigrated from Amsterdam, Holland, with his wife and children in 1650-51. He died ab't 1672. His wife died
in 1690.

He

resided

first

in

New Amsterdam.

He

gens of land at Flatbush, Kings Co.,

Y.,

was magistrate

obtained a patent for 50 morof the town from 1654-58,

JOHN
the daughter of Elbert

A. I.OTT, JR.

2S7
Lotts, L.
I.

Hegeman

of

New

If so

she

was

his

adopted daughter.

Englebart Lott.
Englebart Lott (17), the second of that name in the ancesson of Abraham Lott (9) and Catharine Hegeman, was born at Flatbusn, N. Y., May 7, 7 9. He died at the He carried on the busiplace of his birth Nov. 17th, 1779.
tral line,
1
1

ness of a house carpenter and wheelwright in addition to farming,

and was

at

county.

He was

one time the principal land surveyor of the also one of the Judges of the Court of Commarried Dec.
14,

mon

Pleas for Kings County, N. Y., an active and well in-

formed man. and had

:

He
Sept.

^742, Maritie

Ditmars,

20.

Johannes,

b.

1,

1746,
1,

d.

b.

Feb'y

13, 1757,

cl.

Oct. 23,

Aug.
3,

II,

1S11;

m.

May
Sept.
1773,
2,

1766,
1746,

Adriantie,
d.

b.

4,

Oct.

21,

21. 22.

dau.

Adrian
12,

Voorhees;

Jeremiah Van Derbilt and Sarah Van Brunt. Abraham E., d. Mar. 4, 1785. Englebart, d. Nov. 29, 1779.*
1840, dau.

Jan'y

1775,

Catherine,

and from 1660-62, inclusive, was Schout Fiscaal, of the "Five Dutch Towns," in 1661, and Secretary of all but Gravesend in 1662-63. His wife's' name was Catherine. His children were Joseph, b. in Holland, m. Oct. 21, 1677, Femmetje Retnsen, b. Aug. 1, 1657, parents Hendricus, b. in Holland, m. Ariaantie Bloodof Elbert Hegeman, of New Lotts, b. 16S7 good Jacobus, bp. Mar. 9; 1653, m. Oct. 14, 1683, Jannetie Arians, of Flatbush, N. Y.; Abraham, m. Aug. 30, 1690, Gertruy Jans; Denyse, m. Lucretia and was taken Isaac, m. Feb'y 15, 1687, Marilce Roeloise, b. 1667, dau Roeprisoner in the French war Benjamin, m. Barentie loff Martense Schenck and Neeltje Gerritse Van Couwenhoven Jansen Elizabeth, m. Ap'l 12, 16S4, Tobias Ten Eyck John. From the dates of marriage of the sons above-named it is evident that Catherine Hegeman, b. Nov. 11, 1691, if a descendant of Adriaen Hegeman and Catherine, his wife, was a granddaughter by some son other than Joseph, whose daughter Catherine m. Oct. 20, 1711, Tunis Bogaert. Without asserting it as an indisputable fact, we think Adrian- Hegeman, the emigrant, had a son Elbert, who, as Elbert Adrianse, m. Catalena Remsen, b. Oct. 4, 1655, and that Catherine Hegeman was their daughter. See Remsen families, children of Rem Jansen Van Derbeck.
; ;

"Englebart Lott
tured by Gen.

(22)

and his brother Abraham E. were merchants

in

New
Island

York.

At

the beginning of the Revolution they

went

to Flatbush, but

when Long

was cap-

Howe's army the greater portion of the inhabitants of Flatbush left their homes and went into the adjacent county of Queens. In this flight Englebart and Abraham E. Lott were pursued. Englebart was taken prisoner and brought back to Flatbush, then in possession of the British, and was confined in the Flatbush church, but was soon set at liberty on parole. Abraham E. escaped by hiding in a cornfield, from whence he proceeded to the shore and crossed Long Island Sound to the Westchester side. He then went South and settled at Edenton, North Carolina, where he died.

2S8

ANCESTRY OF
(17,)-

Maritie Ditmars, wife of Englebart Lott

was born

She died April 37, 1797- She was die daughJan'y S, 1723. ter of Johannes Ditmars (6) and Jannetje Remsen.

The Ditmars
1.

Families.

2.

3.

4.

Jan Jansen Van Ditmarsen, .m. Aeltje Douw. Jan Jansen Ditmarsen, m. Adriana Johannes Ditmars, m. 1717?; Jannetje Remsen. Maritie Ditmars, b. 1723, m. 1742, Englebart Lott,
.

b.

1719, great-great-

great-grandparents of John A. Lott,

Jr.

of Holstein,

Jan Jansen Yan Ditmarsen, from Ditmarsen in the Dutchy was sometimes called Jan Platneus, or flat nose. He died prior to 16^0. He owned and occupied a farm in

1647 at Dutch Kills, Queens Co., N. Y.

or Neeltje
2.

He

married Aeltje

Douw, and had

b. ab't

Jan,

Jr.,

1643,

m. Adri-

Lott, dau. of

Peter Lott, the

3.

Douw, m.

Sept. 22, 1687, Catrina

4.

Reynier.

wife of Jan Jansen Van DitmarJan Douw, of Leeuwarden, Holland, and a sister of Volkert Douw. See page 2S9. The descendants of the brother and sister were united by the marriage of John A. Lott, Jr., and Laura H. Welles, who were both the

Aeltje

01'

Neeltje

DOUW,

sen,

was

the daughter of

great-great- great-great-great-great- great-grandchildren

of

Jan

Duow,

or eighth cousins.

Jan Jansen Ditmarsen,

Jansen Van Ditmarsen and
kept a tavern in 1676
in 167S.
5.

Jr.. born about

.1643,

son of Jan
a

Aeltje

Douw, owned

farm and
a

at

Flatbush, N. Y.

He was
and had:
m.
Pieter

member

of the Reformed Church in 1677 and took the oath of allegiance

He

married Adriana
7.

Lourens, bap. Ap'l 25, 16S0, m. Oct. 29, 1701, Elizabeth Hege-

Rebecca,

Staats,

of

Gowarms.
S.

man.
6.

Jane, m. Daniel Remsen,

b. 1665,

Johannes, m. Jannetje, dau. Jan

son of

Remsen and Martha Damen.

Jansen Van Derbeeck and Jannetje Rapalie.

Rem

JOHN

A. LOTT, JR.

289

Johannes DitmarS, son of Jan Jansen Ditmarsen, Jr., and Adriana, his wife, bought a farm April 27, 1719, of his grandfather at Flatbush,

N. Y.

He

married Jannetje Remsen, and

Johannes, bp.

had
9.

Jan, bp. Aug. 31, 1718, d. 1756,

11.

May

23,

1725, m.

m. Femmetje Voorhees.
10.

Mar ret'je
1723,

or Maritie, b. Jan'y
Ap'l27,

8,

12.

Ap'l 20, 1748, Rebecca Staats. Annetje, bp. Mar. 26, 1727, m.
Leffert Leffevts.

d.

1797,

m.
b.

Dec.

14,
7,

1742, Englebart,

13.

Abraham,
Staats.

bp.

Nov.

26, 1731.

May
son

1719, d.

Nov.

17, 1779,

14.

Jannetje, m. ab't

1770,

Pieter

Abraham Lott and Catherine Hegeman.

ter, it is

Jannetje Remsen, wife of Johannes Ditmars, was a daughsupposed, of Jan Remsen and Martha Daraen.

The Remsen
1.

Families.

2.

3.

Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, m. 1642, Jannetje Rapalie. Jan Remsen, m. 16S1, Martha Damen. Jannetje Remsen, m. 1717, Johannes Ditmars, great-great-great-greatgrandparents of John A. Lott, Jr.

Jansen Yanderbeeck, a blacksmith, the progenitor of families of America, emigrated from Severen Westphalia. He settled first at Beaverwyck, where he owned a house and lot which in 1660 he sold, and thereafter occupied a plantation in the Wallabout which he had purchased prior to He was nominated as a Commissioner or Magistrate in 1643. 1655 and was highly esteemed in Brooklyn, where he died in 16S1, leaving a widow, who survived him for many years, and fourteen children, all of whom, according to tradition, were
the

Rem

Remsen

present at his funeral.

He

married Dec. 21, 1642, Jannetje

dau. Dirck Janse Woertman; built a mansion near

Rapalie, and had

2. 3.

Annetje, bp. Mar.

Hellitje or Belitje

12, 164^, d. y.

m.

Remsen, bp.
164S,

Jan'y 20, 1647,

4.

d. y.

Jan Remsen,
d.

bp. Jan'y 12,

the brow of Brooklyn Heights, which in the Revolution was

.

1696,

m. Dec.

11,

1681,

Martha, dau. Jan Sophia Martens.

5.

Damen and
2,

used as a hospital, was subsequently occupied by William

Cutting, the partner of

Rob-

Joris

Remsen,

b.

Feb'y

1650,

ert

Fulton, in the steamboat

37

290
business, and
of
6.

ANCESTRY OF
is

now

the site
11.
2,

Rem
m.

Grace Church. Remsen, b. Dec.

1652,

12.

Marritje Janse, dau. Jan

13.

m. Jan Gerretsen Dorlandt. Jacob Remsen, b. Ap'l 11, 1662. Jeronymus Remsen, b. 1664. Daniel Remsen, b. 1665, m. Jannetje or Jane, dau. Jan Jansen Ditmarsen, Jr., and
Adriana, his wife.

Aertsen Van Derbilt and An-

7.

neken Hendricks. Hildegonde or Hellitje Remsen,

b. Sept. 16,

1653,

m.

Oct.

6,

14.

Abraham Remsen,
1667.

b.

Sept.

16,

1677, Aris Janse,

son of Jan
15.

Aertsen Van Derbilt and Anneken Hendricks.

S.

Catalina

Remsen,

b.

Oct.

4,

16.

Sarah Remsen, b. Dec. 6, 1670, m. Marten Adrianse. Jeremias Remsen, b. Sept. 10,
1675.

1655, m. Elbert Adrianse.

9.

Femmetje Remsen,
1657,

b.

Aug.

1,

17.

m.

Oct.

2T,

1677, Jo-

Jannetje Remsen, m. 1685, Gerret, son

Ap'l 30,
of

seph, son of Adriaen Hege-

10.

man and Catherine, his wife. Anna Remsen, b. Ap'l 11, 1660,

Hans Hansen Van Noorstrand and Janneken Gerritse Van Loon.

Jannetje Rapalie, wife of Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, was born August, 1629. She was the daughter of Joris Jansen de Rapalie and Catalyntie Trice, and a sister of Sarah Rapalie, wife of Hans Hansen Bergen, see page 95. The descendants of the two sisters were united by the marriage of John A. Lott,
Jr.,

and Laura H. Welles, who were both the great-greatof Toris Tansen de

o-reat- or reat-srreat-g'reat-2'reat-s:randchildren

Rapalie, or eighth cousins.

Jan Remsen

(4), son of

Rem

Jansen

Van Derbeeck and

Jannetje Rapalie, was baptized Jan. 12. 164S, and died in 1696. He was a Magistrate of Flatbush, N. Y., in 16S2. He took the
oath of allegiance in 16S7, and was a Grand Juryman in 1695. He married December 11, 16S1, Martha Damen, daughter of

Jan Damen, and had

18.

Rem,

bp. Oct.

6,

1682, d.

y.

son of Jan Jansen Ditmarsen,

21,
Jr.,

19.

Rem Van

Derbeeck, bp. Oct.

and Adriana, his

wife.

1683, m.
20.
21. 22.

Deborah Cortelyou.

23.
24.

Martha.
Cornelius.
Peter.

Sophia, bp. Jan'y 23, 16S5. John, bp. Ap'l 17, 1687. Jannetje or Jane, m. ? Johannes,

25.
26.

Elizabeth.

Martha Damen, wife

Jan Damen and

of

Feitie or Sophia

Jan Remsen, was the daughter of Martens of Hamburg.

JOHN
Jan Damen, bought of
of land with a river or

A. LOTT, JR.

2^1

Cassar Alberti

May

17, 1647, a tract

meadow

front of 699 feet, comprising

the land now lying in Brookhn, between Clermont and Hampden avenue. He is mentioned in the charter granted to the town of Brooklyn, by Gov. Dongan, May 6, 16S6, during which year he also took the oath of allegiance. He and his wife, Sophia Martens, were members of the Brooklyn Reformed Church during the pastorate of Rev. Casparus Van Zuuren.* His wife united with the church May 22, 1662. We have no record of children other than Martha, wife of Jan

Remsen.

Johannes E.
Johannes E. Lott
11, 1S11.

Lott.

and Maritie Ditmars, was born Sept

(20), eldest son of Englebart Lott (17) i, 1746, and died Aug.

ConYork, representing Kings County, N. Y. Upon the expected landing of the British Army on Long Island, he left Flatbush. where he resided, and went to Cedar Swamp, in Queens County, for safety, taking his wife with him and remaining there until the hostile troops were withdrawn. After the Revolution, in 17S4, he was a member of Assembly from Kings County, N. Y. He was appointed, in 17S7, the first .Surrogate of the County of Kings under the Constitution of the State of New York. He was also one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1793 was
a delegate, in 1776. to the Provincial

He was

gress held in the city of

New

appointed one of the

1801.

first

Judges of

this Court, resigning in

3, 1766, Adriantie Yoorhees, born Sept. 4, 1746, died Oct. 21, 1773, daughter of Adrian Yoorhees. He married second, Jan'y 12, 1775, Catherine Van Derbilt.
23.

He

married

May

His children were

d.

Phoebe,

without issue.
L.

25.

Jeremiah,

b.

Oct.
1861,

14,

1776,

d.

24.

Englebert, settled on a farm in

Aug.

16,

New Utrecht,
*Rev. Casparus

I.

1805, Lydia, b.

m. Jan'y 17, Nov. 20, 1785,

lands, N. Y., from 1677 to 1685,

tor at Gonderach, Holland.

Van Zuuren was pastor at Flatbush, New Utrecht, Brooklyn and Flatwhen May 17 he returned to the Fatherland and was pas-

292
d.

'

Ancestry of
dau.

Ap'l

17,

1865,

Bate-

28.

Abraham,
m.
1785,

b. 1783, d.

Nov. 1840,
b.

man Lloyd and

ferts.

Abigail Lef-

1805,
d.

Maria,
Oct.
2,

Dec.
1,

1,

181

dau.

26.

Johr>, b. 1778, d. 1858, m. Eliza-

Jeromas Lott and Lammetie

Rapalje.
29.

beth, dau. of

Samuel GarretI.

son, of Gravesend, L.
27.

Sarah,
10,

b.

Oct. 10, 1795, m. Feb'y

Maritie,

b.

Oct.

10,

1781,

d.

1S17,

John,

1852, m. Aug. 19, 1802,

Jacob

1842, son of
bilt

d. June 15, John Van Der-.

Van
L.
I.,

Pelt,

of

New

Utrecht,

and Maritje

Y.

Catherine Tail Derbilt, wife of Johannes E. Lott (20), was She was a 13, 1757, and died Oct. 23, 1840. daughter of Jeremiah Van Derbilt and Sarah Van Brunt.
born Feb'y

The Van Derbilt

1.

Families.

2. 3.

4.
5.

Jan Aertsen Van Derbilt, c. a. 1650, m. 1650, Anneken Hendricks, b. in Norway. Aris Janse Vanderbilt, m. 1677, Heldegonde Remsen, b. 1653. Jeremyas Van Derbilt, b. 1695, m. 1715, Peternella Wyckoff. Sara Van Brunt. Jeremias Van Derbilt, m. Catherine Van Derbilt, b. 1757, m. 1775, Johannes E. Lott, great-great,

grandparents of John A. Lott,

Jr.

Jan Aertsen Yan. Derbilt,

grated to America in 1650.

or Jan, the son of Aert, from

the Bilt, a village in the province of Utrecht, Holland, emi-

He

resided for several years in

and in 1663 settled at Flatbush, N. Y. He gave a mortgage on his bouwery to Nicholas De Meyer and moved to Bergen, Hudson Co., N. J., where he died, Feb'y 2, He married first, Feb'y 6, 1650. Anneken Hendricks, 1705. Norway second, Dierber Cornelise third, Dec. Bergen, from 16, 1 68 1, Magdalena Hanse, widow of Hendrick Jansen Spier, He had: of Bergen, N. J.

New Amsterdam

2.

3.

4.

Aris Janse, m. Oct. 6, 1677, Hildegonde or Hilletje, dau. Rem Jansen Van Derbeeck and Jannetje Rapalie. Geertje Janse, m. Jan Spiegelaer. Jacob Janse, m. Aug. 13, 1687, Andries wid. of Marritje, Onjlerclonk and dau. of Der-

rick,

Janse Van Dervliet and Lyntie Aertsen, who emi-

grated from Rylevelt in 1660.

5.

Marritje Janse, m.
of

Rem Remsen, New Lotts, L. I., son of Rem Jansen Van Derbeeck
and Jannetje Rapalie. Jr., by 3d wife.

6.

Jan Jansen,

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A. LOTT, JR.

293

Aris Janse Tan Derbilt, son of Jan Aertsen

resided at Flatbush, N. Y.,

Van

Derbilt,

where he died after 1711. His name appears on the Assessment Rolls of the town for 1675 and 1683. He took the oath of allegiance at Flatbush in 16S7 is mentioned in a land patent granted 16S5 in the town census for 169S, and was Captain of the Militia in 1700. He married Oct. 6, 1677. Hildegonde or Hilletje Remsen, and had
; ;
:

7.

Jan Aertse, bp. Aug.

at

11,

1678,

13.

Jeremyas, bp. Oct.

19,

169^, m.

New

Utrecht,

m. Hilletje
1681, d. y.

Nov.
off

n,
and
b.
j

1715,

Peternella,

Remsen.
8. 9.

dau. Cornells Pieterse

9,

Jannetje, bp. Jan'y

Gertrude
Jan'y
I 7S2,

WyckSymonse
1697, d.

Jannetje, bp. Sept. 17,

1683,

m.
or
14.

Van Aeisdalen.
Cornelius,
11,

s'
10.

Eyzebrand
Isbrant

Van
Cleef.

Kloof
14,

Van

J an 'y 22
1684,
15.

m. Jannetje
?

Ferametje, bp.

Sept.

Wyckoff.

m. Gosen Adrianse Ryerson.

11.

Hendrick Aertse,

m.

Neeltje

Rem

Aertse, bp. Aug. 29,

.

1686,
16.

Van

Cleef.

m. Margreta
12.

Aert Aertse, bp. June 11, 1693, m. Mar. 14, Seytie 17 17,
Strycker.

17.

Jacob Aertse, ? m. Altie or Neltie, dau. Jacobus Lefferts. Catherine, ? b. Mar. 1, 1713, m.

Jacobus Lefferts, of Flatbush.

Hildegonde or Hilletje Remsen, wife of Aris Janse Van was born Sept. 16, 1653. She was the daughter of Rem Jansen Van Derbeeck and Jannetje Rapalie, and a niece of Sarah Rapalie, wife of Hans Hansen Bergen; see page 95. The descendants of the niece and aunt were united by the marriage of John A. Lott, Jr., a great-great-great-great-greatgrandson of the niece and Laura H. Welles a great-great-greatDerbilt,

great-great-great-granddaughter of the aunt.

Jeremyas Tan Derbilt, son of Aris Janse Van Derbilt (2) and Heldegonde Remsen, was baptized at Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 19, 1695. He resided at Flatbush and married Nov. 11, 1 715, Peternella Wyckoff, and had
:

18.

Jeremias,
b.

b. ab't 1716,
4,

m. Sarah,

19.

George, bp. Dec.

Hilletje, bp.

10, 171S.

May

1718,
of

d.

Nov.

12,

20.

1814,

dau.

Rutgert

Brunt

and

Elizabeth

Van Van
21.

Feb'y 29, 1721, m. Leffert Martense, of Flatbush,

N. Y.
1727.

Voorhies.

Pieternella, bp. Mar.

5,

Peternella Wyckoff, wife of Jeremyas

Van

Derbilt (13),

294

Ancestry of
Pieterse

was a daughter of Cornells Symonse Van Aersdalen.

Wyckoff and Gertrude

The Wyckoff
1.

Families,
Ness.

Pieter Claesz Wyckoff, m. Grietje

Van

2. 3.

Cornelius Pieterse Wyckoff, m. 1678, Gertrude Symonse

Peternella Wyckoff, m.
1715,

Van Aersdalen.
b.

Jeremyas Van Derbilt,

Jr.

1695,

g r e at "

great-great-great-grandparents of John A. Lott,

Wykhof. The first syllable Greek Oi-kos, a house, and The name, therefore, desigthe second means yard or court.

Wyckoff was formerly

written

is

said to be the first syllable of the

nated orignally the household courtier or the possessor, overseer or keeper of a house-yard.

Pieter Claesz Wyckoff, the ancestor of the Wyckoff family, emigrated from the Netherlands in 1636 and settled at FlatIn 1653 he bought 29 morgens of land of Wollands, N. Y.
fert

Gerritse

Van Couwenhoven, and

in 1656 another tract of

town of Flatlands. He cultivated the bouwery of Gov. Stuyvesant, lying in the same town, and evidently with profit He was a magistrate of the town in 1655-62-67, and appears as a member of the Reformed Church at Flatbush, He married Grietje Van Ness, and had 1677.
land, both in the
:

Annetje Pieterse, ? bp. Nov. 27, 1650, m. 1675 as his 2d wife, Roelof Martense Schenck, the
emigrant.

Pieterje Claesen Wyckoff.

8.

Hendrick
,

Pieterse, m.

1,

Geertie
,

m.
Dec.

2, 6,

Helena
1744.

who
?

d.

Mayken
lemse.

or

Maria Pieterse,

bp.
VVil-

9.

Garret Pieterse,

m.

Catherine,

Oct. 17, 1653; m.

Willem

dau. Johannes Nevius.

10.

Geertje Pieterse, m. Christoffel

Janse Romeyn.
Margrietje Pieterse, m.

Martin Pieterse, m. 1, Femmetje Aukes Van Nuyse; m. 2, May 17 or 27, 1683, Hannah Willemse; m.
3,

Adamse
11.

Jannetje

Brower.
Claes or Nicholas Pieterse, m.
Sarah,
bp.

Pieter

Pieterse,

m.

Willemtje

Ap'l

2,

1656, d.

1704; dau. Pieter Montfoort and Sarah de Plancken.

Cornells Pieterse,
1678,

Both members First Church of Freehold, N. J. He an Elder,

Schenck.

Reformed

m.

Oct.

13,

12.

Gertrude,

dau.

Symon
and

Janse

Van

Aersdalen

Jan Pieterse, b. Feb'y 16, 1665: m. Neeltje, b. Feb'y 7, 1649, dau. William Gerritse Cou-

JOHN

A. LOTT, JR.

295
of

wenhoven, of Flatlands, N. Y., and Jannetje Montfoort. Both members First Reformed

Church

Freehold,

N.

J.

He

one

of the first Elders.

Grietje Van Ness, wife of Pieter Claesz Wyckoff, was a daughter of Cornells Hendrickse Van Ness and Mayken Hendrickse Burchgraeff.

The Van Ness Family.

Cornelise Hendrickse Yan Ness, 1625, resided upon die Havendyck, in Holland. He was an early resident of Beaverwyck, where he had a brewery. In 1642 he owned a house, He married in Holland, lot and brewery in Greenbush, N. Y. about 162c;, Mayken Hendrickse Burchgraeff, who died previous to 664, when he married Maritie Damen, widow, first of Dirk Van Eps and second of Hendrick Andrisse Van DoesHis children were burgh.
j
:

2.

Hendrick, m.
m.
2,

1,

Annatje Evertse,
6.

Pieter
Gerritje,

Van
m.

Alen.
Roeloff

Catryn Van Dam.

m. Pieter Claesz

Cornelise

3.

Grietje,
off.

Wyck7.

Van Houten.
Hendrickje, m. Jan Janse Onthout.

4.
5.

Jan, m. Aaltie
Gerrit, m.
1,
;

m.

2,

Maria
wid.

8.

Simon,? m. Rachel Melgertse.

Pieterse

Loockermans,

drickse

Mayken Hendrickse Burchgraeff, wife of Cornells HenVan Ness, was a daughter of Hendrick Adriaense
In

Burchgraeff" and Annetie Janse, of Laeckervelt. Holland.

1630 she received from her parents a legacy of 3 morgens of land in Scherpenwyck, Holland. She died previous to 1664.

off

Cornelis Pieterse Wyckoff (7), son of Pieter Claesz Wyckand Grietje Van Ness, resided at Oostwoud, or New Lotts,
I.,

L.

but was a
in 1677.

N. Y.,

member of the Reformed Church of Flatbush, His name appears on the Assessment Rolls of
Having
a large family of

16S3-93, an d in the census of 169S.

children, nine sons and five daughters, he purchased, in 1703, a few years after his eldest son was of age, 1200 acres of land
in

Middlebush, Somerset Co.,

his sons, as they attained

New Jersey, to which State all manhood, migrated, and established

296

ANCESTRY OF
His will was executed April 4, 1736, and proved May He married October 13, 1678, Gertrude Simonse Aersdalen, and had
:

homes.

10, 1746.

Van
13.

Peter Cornelise,
1679.

bp.

Sept.

14,

20.
21.

John Cornelise.
Petronella,

m.

Nov.

II, 19,

1715,
1695,

14.

Mary
1

or

Maria,
y.

bp.

Dec.

11,

Jeremyas, bp. Oct.

son of Aris Janse

681, d.

Van Derbilt
b.

15.

Simon
1683,

Cornelise,

bp.
of

Nov.
N.

23,
22.

and Hildegonde Remsen.

Margaret, m. Jonathan,
1688,
d.

Elder

Reformed
J.,

Sept.

Church,
1720.
16.

Raritan,

in

Dec.

1762,

son of

Nicholas Cornelise, appears

list of

in a

23. 24.

John Forman, the emigrant. Hannah.

Cornells Cornelise, bp. Dec. 19, at Millstone, 1694, resided

subscribers for a minisat

ter

from Holland Mile Run, N. J., in

Three25.

1703.

N.
Free26.

J.

17.

Jacob Cornelise, member First

Marritje or Mary, bp.

1701.

May

16,

Reformed
hold, N.
18.
19.
J.,

Church
1709.

of

Martin Cornelisse, resided Readington, N.

J.

Hendrick Cornelise.
Charles Cornelise.

terse

Gertrude Simonse Van Aersdalen, wife of Cornells PieWyckofT(7) was the daughter of Symon Janse Van Aers-

dalen and Pieterje Claesen Wyckoff.

The Van Aersdalen Family.

Symon Janse Tan
Johnson,
is

4ersdalen, sometimes designated Simon regarded as the progenitor of the Van Arsdale

Jan Van Aersdalen, America in 1653 in the ship Dynasty^ empowered by the Government or some company in Holland, to examine the country about New Amsterdam to ascertain whether it was practicable to establish in
families of America.

He was

the son of

from Aers Dale,

in Holland.

He came

to

this

country a pottery for the manufacture of chinaware.

object of his mission,

After

fulfilling the

and with his baggage on

board the vessel awaiting the day to set sail for his native land, he received a letter from his father stating that a pestilence was then raging there, and that his wife and two children had deThe sad news caused him to change his departed this life.
sign of returning to Holland, and he settled at Flatlands, Kings

JOHN

A. LOTT, JR.

297

Co., N. Y., of which town he became a Magistrate in 1661 and 1686. March 27, 1660. he received by commission from Peter, Jacob and Willem Couwenhoven a tract of land in the same town, and another May 28, 1675, from Gov. Stuyvesant and Usiair Birian. He appears as a member of the Reformed Church of Flatbush in 1677 and as a Deacon of the Church in He took the oath of allegiance in 1687 and is mentioned 16S6. The last record of him is under date of in the census of 1698. He married Pieterje Claesen Wyckoff, and had: Jan'y, 1701.
2.

Geertje or Gertrude Simonse, m.

Oct.
13,

5.

Cornells Symondse,

m.

1,

Aeltje

1678,

Cornells

Pie-

or Aletty Williamse,

b.

Dec.

terse Wyckoff.
3.

14, 1665, d. prior to 1691, dau.

Jannetje
;

Simonse,

m.

1,

John
16S9,

William

Gerritse

CouwenN. Y.,

m.

2,

Ap'l

16,

hoven, of Flatlands,

Gysbert Teunisse Bogaert.

4.

and Jannetje Montfoort; m.

22,
2,
6.

John Simonse,
Lammetje,
Probasco;

m.

'

1,

Oct.

2,

Mary

.*
?

1719, Jannetje Dorlant; m.

Marytje Symonse,
endsz.

m. Jan Bar-

dau.

Christoffel

m.

3,

Sarah Van

7.

Voorhees; m. 4, Ap'l 2, 1751, Libertje Newbeirie, a widow.

8.

Symon Symonse ? Matty Symonse, m. Jansen Van

Marklen.

dalen,

Pieterje Claesen Wyckoff, wife of Symon Janse Van Aerswas probably a sister of Pieter Claesz Wyckoff, the emi-

grant, see

page 294.

JeremiaS Vanderbilt (r8), son of Jeremyas Van Derbilt was born about 1716 and resided on a farm at Flatbush, N. Y. April 15, 1 775' ne was appointed a deputy from Kings County to the convention for choosing
(13) and Peternella Wyckoff,

delegates to the Continental Congress to be held at Philadel-

phia in May.
22.

He
b.

married Sarah
1,

Van

Brunt, and had

Feb'y

Elizabeth,

Ap'l

1745;

d.

23. 24.

Sarah.

Ap'l 20,

1813;

m.

Nicholas

John,

b.

16,

1752;

d.

Nov.
24,

Williamson.
*Cornelis Simondse

28, 1812; will

proved

May

Van Arsdale had son

aged 94 years, 4 months and 4 days," m. 1, Red Mills, near Brooklyn, b. Feb'y 12, 1701; d. Nov. 23, 1747; m. 2, Ap'l 3, 1750, Hannah Magnish, who d. Sept. 10, 1778. In 1727 he moved to Somerset Co., N. J., and is the ancestor of the greater portion of Van Arsdale families of New Jersey. His children by his first wife were Cornelius, b. Ap'l 22, 1727; Hendrick, b. May 16, 1729; Maria, b. Dec. 4, 1731; Isaac, b. Mar. 30, 1734, d. July 22, 1776; Philip, b. May 31, 1738; John,b. Oct. 9, 1740; Jacob, b. Feb'y 3. 1745; Abraham, b. Sept. 25, 1747.

Philip born Feb'y 25, 1702, d. "June 28, 1796, April 30, 1726," Jannetje or Jane Van Dyck, of

38

298

ANCESTRY OF
1813; m. 1778, Marretie Dit1775,

Johannes E.
1,

Lott,

b. 11,

mas; had farm

at Flatbush,
is

Sept.

1746,

d.

Aug.

the greater part of which

1S11, son Englebart Lott

and

now
25-

within the limits of Pros-

Marretie Ditmars.
Ida.
Elsie, b. Ap'l 16, 1766.

pect Park, Brooklyn, N. Y.

Catherine, b. Feb'y 13, 1757, d.
Oct.
23,

1840;

m. Jan'y

12,

Sarah Tan

May

4, 1718,

Rutgfert

Van

Brilllt, wife of Jeremias Van Derbilt was born and died Nov. 12, 1814. She was a daughter of Brunt and Elizabeth Van Voorhies.

The Van Brunt

1.

Families.

Rutger Joosten Van Brunt,

Cornelius Rutgersz

c. a.

1653.
b.

2. 3.

Van

Brunt, m. 1685, Tryntie Bennet,

1664.

Rutgert

Van

Brunt, m. 1714, Elizabeth Voorhies.

4.

Sarah Van Brunt, b. 171S; m. Jeremias Van Derbilt, great-great-greatgrandparents of John A. Lott, Jr.

Rlltger Joosten Tan Brunt emigrated from the Netherlands in 1653 and was one of the first settlers of New Utrecht, Kings Co., N. V., where he appears in 1657. He was apafter the

pointed Schepen or Magistrate of the town Dec. 22, 1661, and English conquest Opzianders or Overseer, the prin-

cipal magistrate of the place,

from 167S to i68r, and again in His name appears on the patent granted by Gov. Dongan in 16S6 and he took the oath of allegiance in 1687. He married first, 16^7, Tryntie Claes or Claesen, born about 1618, widow of Stoffel Harmensen, a cloth shearer, who was killed by the Indians in 1655. His second wife was Gretien who was living in 1721. His children were
1685.
,
:

2.

Nicholas,
1683,

a farmer, m. Aug. 19,

dau. Adriaen Bennet and

natje
4.

An-

Helena,

dau.

Jacques

Van Dyck.
1,
,

Cortelyou and

Neeltje
'

Van

Joost, m.

she

d.

1684;
Altie,

3.

Duyn. He d. 1684. She m. Dionys Teunisse Denise; 2, m. 3, Hendrick Hendrickson. Cornelius, d. ab't 174S, m. Nov.
12,

m.
dau.

2,

Ap'l

16,

1687,

Coert Stevense Van Voorhis and Marritje Gerritse

Van Couwenhoven,

1685,

Tryntie,

b.

1664,

JOHN
Cornelius Rutgersz
Brunt,
Island,

A. LOTT, JR.

299

Tan Brunt,

son of Rutger Joosten

at

Van

was

farmer,

and resided

New

Utrecht,

Long

Kings Co., N. Y., where he died about 1748.

He was

a large landholder in the town, and bought the Pennoyer patent

Gravesend of James Hubbard, of Monmouth Co., N. J. took the oath of allegiance in 1687, and was a member of He the Colonial Assembly of New York from 1698 to 1 717. married November 12, 1685, Tryntie Bennet, and had:
in

He

5.

Rutgert,

b.

d.

April

7,

7.

William.
Adriaen.
Angenietje, bp. June 30, 1689. Maria, bp. Dec. 10, 1694, m.

1760, m. Nov.

3,

1714,

Elizaof

8. 9.

beth

Van

Voorhies, dau.

Albert Coertse
6.

Van Voorhies.
J.,

to.

Nicholas, of N.
dau. of

m. Geesje,
it.

James Spencer,
Tryntie, m.
1,

of

New

York.

Hendrick Hendrickson, of "the Narrows," New Both members First Utrecht. Reformed Church, Freehold,
1731.
cial

Jacob Van Dyck, of Staten Island; m. 2, Louis DuBois, of Staten Island.

12.

Gretien or Margaret, m.
Pollock, of

Thomas

Delegate to the Provin13.

New

Utrecht.

Congress of New Jersey, from Monmouth County, May, June and August, 1775.
.

NeeUie,

m. Derrick Pieters, or

Pietersen.

Tryntie Bennet, wife of Cornelius Rutgersz

Van

Brunt, was

Dorn in 1664. She was a member of the Brooklyn Reformed Church during the pastorate of Rev. Casparus Van Zuuren.

She was

daughter of Adriaen Bennet and Annietje

Van Dyck.

The Bennet
1.

Families.

2. 3.

William Adriaense Bennet, c. a. prior to 1636, m. Marie Baddia. Adriaen Bennet, b. 1637, m. 1662, Annietje Van Dyck.
Tryntie Bennet,
b.

1664, m. 1685, Cornelius Rutgersz

Van

Brunt, great-

great-great-great-great-grandparents of

John A.

Lott, Jr.

William Adriaense Bennet, a cooper, came to America from England prior to 1636, as that year he and Jacques Bentyn purchased from the Indian Sachem Ka a tract of land on Long Island containing 930 acres, extending from the vicinity of Twenty-eighth street. Brooklyn, along Gowanus Cove and the bay to the New Utrecht line. few years later, Dec. 26, 1639, he bought Bentyn's interest in tnis tract of land and

became

its

sole possessor,

named

the locality

Gowanus, which

300

ANCESTRY OF

subsequently became the

name

of

all

the

land fronting

on

Gowanus Bay and

and
built himself a

traversed by the creek of the same name,

house on or near Third avenue and Twenty-

eighth street, which

was burned down during

the Indian wars

of 1643 in Gov. Kieft's administration. This is considered the first step in the settlement of the city of Brooklyn. Bennet
died prior to 1644.

His wife was Marie Baddia,

m. Dec.
Christian, bp. at

his children

were
2.

Arie or Adriaen,
3,

b. 1637,

4.

New Amsterdam

1662,

Annietje,

dau.

Jan
5. 6. 7.

Thomasse Van Dyck.

3.

J an 'y > 1641, d. y. Sara, bp. Nov. 10, 1641.

Christian, bp, Mar. 30, 1642.
Marritje, bp.

William, m. Ap'l
truyt

9,

1660, Geerof Menes.

Van Mullen,

May

9,

1644, united

Both united with Reformed Church, Brooklyn, Dec. 25,

1661.

with Reformed Church, Brooklyn,

during pastorate of Rev.

He

Deacon

1664.

Casparus Van Zuuren.

Marie Baddia, wife of William Adriaense Bennet, was livHer name is sometimes written Badye, and at Baddia is the orthography of her pastimes Mary Thomas. tors, Rev. Theodorus Polhemus and Rev. Henricus Selyns. Her father was probably Thomas Baddia. Her mother Aeltje Brackunee or Brackhonge, who after the death of her first husband married Cornells Lambertse Cool, of Gowanus, L. I., (See the Cool and after his death, William Bredenbent. Family). When Marie Baddia married William Adriaense Bennet she was the widow of Jacob Varden. She survived her second husband and married Faulus Van Derbeeck, "surgeon and farmer," and one of the patentees mentioned in the charter given to the town of Brooklyn in 1667 by Gov. NichShe united with the Brooklyn Reformed Church Sept. olls. 27, 1662, and Oct. 3, 16S4, presented the church with a silver
ing in 16S7.

beecker or

communion

cup.

Adriaen Or Arie Bennet, son of William Adriaense Bennet and Marv Baddia, was born in 16^7. He resided at New He was a deacon of the Reformed Church Utrecht, N. Y. of the town in 1676, appears on the Constable there in 1677, Assessment Roll of Brooklyn in 1683, on Dongan's patent in 1 686, took the oath of allegiance at Gowanus in 1687, and that

JOHN

A. LOTT, JR.

30I

year was appointed a Commissions for the town.

'

He

married

Annietje
8.

Van Dyck, and had

Jan, m. Jan'y6, 1696, Femmetje, dau. Jeronemus Rapalie.

15.

9.

Tryntie,

b.

1664,

m. Nov.

12,

Jannetje Folcken. Antje Adriaense, m. Jacob Sutphen, of Freehold, N. J.

1685, Cornelius Rutgersz

Van
16.

Brunt.
10.

Aris

Adriaense,
,

m.
in of

Barbara N. JerFirst
of

Members of the First Reformed Church 1727. Marike, m. Jacob Van Dorn, of
Freehold, N.
the
1709.
J.

settled

Members
of

of

sey.

Members

the

First

Reformed
one

Church
the
first

Reformed
1719.
11.

Church

Free-

He

hold in 1709.

He

an Elder
17.

Deacons and an Elder

3,

in 1714.

Agnietje, bp. at Brooklyn Sept.

16S2.

Jacob

Adriaense,

m. Barbara,
of

dau. Jacob Ferdon,

New

18.

Engel, bp. at
1685,

New York
Jan
J.

July 26,
of

Utrecht, N. Y.
12.

m.

Sutphin,

Cornells Adriaense.Isaac Adriaense.

Freehold, N.
bers of First
bp.
25,

13.
14.

Both memReformed Church

Abraham Adriaense,
20,

March
1702,

1713.

He

an elder 1721.

16S0,

m. Dec.

of Jan

Annatje Tall Dyck, wife of Adrien Bennet, was a daughter Thomasse Van Dyck.
~

The Van Dyck Families

OF LONG ISLAND.
i.

2.

Thomas Janse Van Dyck, Jan Thomasse Van Dyck,

Annietje

c. c.

a. a.

1652, m. Sytie Dirks.

1652, m. Tryntie Agias.

3.

b. 1637; great-great-greatgreat-great-great-grandparents of John A. Lott, Jr.

Van Dyck, m.

1662 Adriaen Bennet,

Thomas Janse Van Dyck,

families of

the progeniter of the

Van Dyck
in

Long

Island,

N. Y., emigrated from Holland

1652 with his wife Sytie Dirks and their children.

his wife are enrolled as

He

and

members of

the

Reformed Church of

New Amsterdam

His sons held farms at Yr ellow T Hook, fronting on New Y ork Bay, in Brooklyn and New Utrecht. Long Island. We have no information concerning his daughters, if he had any. There is no evidence of relationship between the family of Thomas Janse Van Dyck and the family of Hendrick Van Dyck Fiscaal, of New Amsterdam.
in

1661.

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ANCESTRY OF
children of
:

The
were
202.

Thomas Janse Van Dyck and

m.
I
;

Sytie

Dirks

Jan
2,

Tho?iiasse,

m.
204.

1692,

Fransyntie

Hendricks,

Tryntie Agias.

of Flatbush, N. Y.

203.

Claes
20,

Thomasse,
16S9,

m.

1,

Ap'i

Hendrick Thomasse, m. Sept.

7,

Tryntje

Rinerse,
of Flat-

1679, Neeltje Adriaen, wid.

dau. Rinier Arends,

of

Jan Lauwrensz,

of

New

bush,

N. Y.

m.

2,

June

4,

Utrecht, N. Y.

Jail Thomasse Tan Dyck (202), son of Thomas Janse Van Dyck and Sytie Dirks, emigrated from Holland in 1652, and

bought land at New Utrecht, upon which he settled and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was appointed Schepen or Judge for New Utrecht in 1673, by Governor Clove. The name of his first wife is not known. His second wife was Tryntie i\gias, or Achias, or Hagen, who after his death married Tileman Jacobsz Van Der Meyer. The children of Jan Thomasse Van Dyck were
:

205.

Thomas

Janse,

d.

prior

Sept.

who

d. at

New York

1671, ab't

1695, m. Maritje Andrisse.

206.

11 years after his arrival

from

Derick Janse, m. at
Ap'l 25,
of

New

York,
211.

Borkelo, in Zutphen province

of Guilderland, Holland.

1674,

Urseltje Jans,

New

York.
d.

Jan Janse, emigrated in 1652,

d.

207.

Carel or Charles,

1734,

m.

1730,

m.
b.

May

9,

1673,

at

June

Lysbeth Aardse Van Der Hard, resided at Shrewsbury, N. J.

27, 1680,

New
Van

York,
Pelt,

Teuntje

Tyssen 1648, dau. MatPelt,

thys Janse
212. 213.

Lanen Van

208.

Pieter Janse, of

New

Utrecht,

the emigrant.

m. Annetje Jansz. Achias emigrated 1652, m. 1, m. 2, Jannetje Lambert?; Dec. 1693, Magdalena Henderse, wid. Minne Johannes. 210. Hendrick Janse, bp. July 2, 1653, in New Utrecht, m. Feb'y 29, 1680, Jannetje Hermanse, dau. Herman Janse Van Borkuloo, the emigrant
209.

Antje Janse, m. Pieter Staats. Angientje Janse, m. Dec. 3, 1662, Adriaen, b. 1637, son of William Adriaense Bennet and

Mary Baddia.
214.

Mayke, m. Johannis Danielse

Rinckerhout.
Tryntie.
? ?

215.

216.

Lambert,

m. Fytie Barents.

tie

Rutgert Van Brunt, son of Cornelius Van Brunt and Tr> nBennet. was a farmer and resided at New Utrecht, N. Y. He was a deacon of the Reformed Church of New Utrecht from 71 7 to 1723, and an Elder from 1726 to 1729. He was
1

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A. LOTT, JR.

303

Captain of the Militia in 1722 and in 1740 Colonel. He died April 7, 1760. He married Nov. 3, 1714, Elizabeth Van
Voorhies, and had
14.
:

Cornelius,

of

New

Utrecht,

b.

Mar.
m.

6,

1716, d.
1,

June,

1748,

May

1735, Helletje or

Magdalena Finton.
15.

d. Feb'y 8, June 16, 1757, Lydia, dau. of John Griggs, of Gravesend, N. Y. ; m. 2,

b.

Mar.

4,

1731,

i8r4,

m.

1,

Sartie or Sarah,
d.

b.

May

4,

1718,
21.

Elizabeth Duryea.
Rutgert,
b.
,

Nov.

12, 1814,

m. Jeremias,

of

Gravesend, N. Y.,

b. ab't 1716,

son of Jeremyas

Van
16.

Derbilt

and Peternella
Utrecht, b. Nov.

Wyckoff.
Albert, of

Jan'y 16, 1733, d. May 18, 1812, m. June 21, 1757, Altje, b. Oct. 3, 1734, d. Ap'l 15,
I 797)

New
d.

dan.

OI

Jacques

and

14, 1720,

Oct. 16, 1781, m.

Mary
22.
5,

Cortelyou.

Oct.,

1745,

Jannetje

Van

Adrian, of
1735,

New
d.

Utrecht, b. Nov.

Brunt.
17.

Sept. iS, 1785, m.

Wilhelmus, of
July 26,

New

.Utrecht, b.

J an 'y I2 > 1760,

alje,
b.

Engeltie Rap17,

1723,

d.

Jan'y 25,
1750,

Jan'y
1821.

1741,

d.

1790, m. Aug. 25,

netje, b. Sept.
18,
7,

Jan23.

Aug.

23,

1728, d. Dec.

Catryntie, b. Jan'y 29,

1738, m.

1788,

dau. of Coert

Van
1726,
24.

1756, Daniel Hendrickson, a

Voorhees.
18.

surveyor, in 1760, of Middle-

Catryntie,
d. y.

b.

Feb'y
Sept.

14,

town, N.

J.

Elizabeth, b. Nov. 28, 1740, m.

19.

Rutgert,
1732.

b.

13,

1728, d.

Hendrick Jansen,
town, N.
J.

of

Middle-

20.

Joost, or George, of

New Utrecht,
wife of Rutgert

Elizabeth

Tan Yoorhies.

Van

Brunt,

was

baptized Dec. 10, 1693. She was a daughter of Albert Coertse Van Voorhies and Sara Willemse Cornell.

The Van Voorhies

1.

Families.
Willempe
Roelffse.

Steven Coertse Van Voorhies,

Coert Stevense

c. a.

1660, m.

2.
3.

4.

Van Voorhies, b. 1637, m. Marritje Van Couwenhoven. Albert Coertse Van Voorhies, m. Sarah Willemse Cornell. Elizabeth Van Voorhies, b. 1693, m. 1714, Rutgert Van Brunt, greatgreat-great-great-grandparents of John A. Lott,
Jr.

Steven Coerte, or Koers, Van Yoorhies, or Steven, son of

Coert, from before Hees, or Hies, a small neighborhood of

nine houses and and

of Drenthe, Holland.

fifty

people, near Ruinen, in the province His father was Coerte Alberts, who re-

34

ANCESTRY OF

was born

Steven Coerte Voorhies and when an old man emigrated to America, in April, 1660, in the ship Bontekoe., "Spotted Cow," Captain Pieter Lucassen, with his wife and all his chilHe purchased a dren, save Merghein, a married daughter. farm on Long Island at Flatlands, N. Y., Nov. 29, 1660, on which he settled, and where he died Feb'y 16, 1684. He mar_ ried, in Holland, Willempe Roelffse, and had
sided in front of Hies or Voorhies.
in

Holland

in 1600,

2.

Merghein,
28, 1702,

d.

in Holland,
1,

Oct.
mr. 2,
6.

26,

16S9,
3,

m.

Roelofs;

m.

Jannetje Mennes; Catherine Van Dyck.

b.

Remmelt Willemse.
3.

Jan Stevense,
at Flatlands,

1652,

resided

Hendrickyn Stevense, m. 1, Holland, Jan Kierstead; m. Albert Albertse Terhune, Flatlands and Hackensack.
Coert Stevense,
';

in
2,

was

living 1719,

m.
d.

1,

Mar.

17,

1678,

Cornelia

of

Reiniers YVizzelpenning,

who
Oct.,
12,

Jan'y

7,

1680; m.

2,

4.

b.
2,

1637,

m.

1,

16S0,

Femmetje, bp. Mar.

m.

Marretje,

b.

1662, dau. of

1643,

d.

prior to 1709,

dau.

Nuyse and
terse.
7.

Auke Janse Van Magdalena Pieb.

Gerrit VVolferse,Van

CouwenCornelise

hoven
Cool.
5.

and

Altie

Albert

Stevense,

1654,

m.'

Ap'l 24, 1681, Tjelletje Reinb. 1650,

Lucas Stevense,
at Flatlands,

resided
8.

iers "YVizzelpenning.

m.

1,

was living 1719; Catherine Hansen, dau.

Altje

Stevense,

b.

1658,

m.

1,

Jan Martense
emigrant;
1690,
10.

Schenck,

the
29,

Hans Hansen

Van Noorsof
2.

trand and Janneken Gerritse

m. 2, Feb'y Alexander Symson.

Stevense,

Van Loon; ancestors S. Van Dei-veer; m.

Tunis
Jan'y

Abraham
Stryker.

m.

Aaltje

Willempe Roelffse, wife of Steven Coerts Van Voorhies, was born in Holland in 1619, came to America with her husband
in

1660 and died

at Flatlands,

N. Y.,

in 1690.

Coert Stevense Yoorhies (4), son of Steven Coert Van Voorhies and Willempe Roelffse, was born in .1637, near Ruinen, Holland, and came to America, in 1660, with his He resided at Flatlands, N. Y., and executed his parents.

and testament Aug. 26, 1677. The name of his first His second wife was Marritje Gerritse, b. 1643, d. prior to 1709, dau. of Gerrit Wolferse Van Couwenhoven and Altie Cornelisse Cool. His children were
last will
is

wife

not on record.

JOHN
ii.

A.

LOTT, JR.
15.

35
b.

Steven Coerts,

d.

Feb'y

16, 1723,

Neeltje Coerts,
d.

June

30, 1676,

12.

m. Eagje Jans. Albert Coerts, d.

Aug.

4, b.

1748: m. 1, Sarah Willemse Cornell; m. m. 3, 2, Margrietje ; May 15, 1743, Willemptje

Genet,
Sept.
5,

1750; m. ab't 1693, Oct. 27, 1671, d.

1745, son of Roeloff

Martense Schenckand Neeltje Gerretse Van Couwenhoven.

16.

Suydam; m.
bilt.

4,

Ida Van Der1703,

2,

Cornells

Coerts,

bp. Jan'y 23,

.

1678, m. Altje
d.

'3

Garret Coerts,

m.

I,

17. 18.

Minse Janse; m. 1685, Willemptje

14-

Ap'l 26,
16,

Pieterse.

Altie Coerts,
Joost,

m. Ap'l
of

16S7,

son

Rutger

Joost

Annetje Coerts, bp. Dec. 6, 1680. Johannes Coerts, bp. Ap'l 22, 1683, m. Barbara Van Dyck, resided in Dutchess County, N. V.

Van

Brunt, the emigrant.

Albert Coerts Tan Yoorhies, son of Coert Stevense Van Voorhies, and his first wife, whose name is not known, was born at Flatlands where he took the oath of allegiance in 1687,

and was ensign from 1691 to 1700. He subsequently resided at Gravesend. His will was dated May 14, 1747, an<^ P r oved Ap'l 14, 1748. He obtained from the freeholders and inhabitants of Gravesend Aug. 6, 1718, the privilege of erecting a mill on De Bruyn's Creek, which for a long time was known as Vooree's Mill, and was used for grinding grist. It was bought by a Mr. Patridge and employed in grinding paint. The power was obtained from the rising and the falling of the tide. Many years ago it was destroyed by fire. The mill site and surrounding property is now in the possession of John A. Lott, Jr., and others, and is neatly laid out for building purposes, with broad avenues and wide streets. Albert Coerts Van Voorhies married first, Sarah Willemse Cornell second, Margarietje third. May 15, 1743, Willemptje Suydam fourth, Ida Van Derbilt. His children were
; ; ; :

19.

Coert Albertse,
in.

d.

May 31,

1757;
22.

trand.

Annatie

Van Dyck.
Rutgert
7,

Margaret,
hoff;

m.

1,

Petrus

Stoot-

20.

Elizabeth, bp. Dec. 10, 1693, m.

Nov.

3,

1714,

Van

23. 24.

m. 2, David Xevius. Altie, m. YVilhelmus Stoothoff.

Neeltje,
land,

Brunt, d. Ap'l

1760,

son of

m. Christopher Hoogick Cortelyou.

Cornelius Rutgersz

Van Brunt
25.

21.

Mary
39

and Tryntie Bennet. or Maria, m. John Nos-

Ann, m. Hendi

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ancestry of

Sara Willemse Cornell, wife of Albert Coerts Van VoorShe hies, the date of whose birth is not known, died in 1736Cornell, and Margarita Guljanse Willem of daughter the was
Polhemus.

The Cornell
1.

Families.

Gelyam
Willem

Cornelise,

d.

prior to 1666.

2.
3.

Guljanse Cornell, d. prior to 1702, m. Margarita Polhemus.

d. 1736,

Sarah Willemse Cornell,

m. -Albert Coerts

Van

Voorhies, great-

great-great-great-great grandparents of

John A.

Lott, Jr.

Gelyam or Gulliame
nell family

emigrated

at

Cornelise, the progenitor of the Coran early period and settled at Flatbush,

N. Y. He died previous to July, 1666. His descendants are most numerous in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Their surname for many years was pronounced Cornale, with the accent on the final e, and became Cornell at a comparatively recent The surname of the progenitor of the family is not date. known. He was evidently a Huguenot, and Aug. 9, 1659, ^" tained from Gov. Stuyvesant a plantation in Midwout or Flatbush, N. Y. He and his son Pieter Gulliamse, in i66r, bought of Jan Evertse Bout a bowery on the west side of the highway containing about 49 morgens of land. Also two pieces of plain land and two pieces of salt meadow, the former measuring five and the latter three morgens, together with two house lots, their houses and barns, two black draw-oxen, three milk-cows, a wagon, a plow, an iron chain and a cramping pin to hold saw
teeth

His
2. 3.

wife's

when filing, all for the sum of 4500 guilders name is unknown. His children were
:

or $iSoo.

Pieter,

m. Margaritje
d. abt.

Catharena Van Werven.

4.
5.

Willem,
rita,

1702; m. Marga-

Cornelis.

dau.

of

Rev. Johannes

Jacob.

Theodorus

Polhemus

and

6.

Maria.

William Guljanse Cornell son of Gelyam

ery in the township of that

alotted in pursuance of the patent of Flatbush,

was N. Y., a bowname containing 26 morgens of land,

Cornelise,

with plain and

toffelse

between lands of Johannis Chrisand Hendrick Jorrise. He appears upon the Assessland,

meadow

John

a.

lott, jr.

307

ment Rolls of Flatbush in 1675-83, and on the patent granted by Gov. Andross to New Lots in 1677. He was a magistrate for Flatbush from 1659 to 1664, and a member of the Reformed Church of Flatbush in 1677. He married Margarita Polhemus and had
:

7.

Johannes Willemse m. Altie

Pieter Willemse.

II.

Cornelis Willemse.

8.
9.

12.
13.

Rachel Willemse.

10.

Marike or Maria Willemse m. Jacobus Aucke Van Nuyse. Catherine Willemse m. Aug. 17,
1690,

Sarah

Willemse,

d.

1736,

m.

Alberts Coerts, son of Coert

Stephense Van Voorhies and

Johannes Fonteyn.

Willempe

Roelffse.

Margareta Polhemus, wife of Wiilem Guljanse Cornell, was the daughter of Rev. Johannis Theodorus Polhemus and Catharena Van Werven.

The Polhemus Family.

Rev. Johannes Theodorus Polhemus,
written Pol'iemius,
his

surname formerly

was the first minister of the Gospel at FlatHe was born in Holland in 159S, and after his bush, N. Y. ordination was pastor at Itamarcas, Brazil, until the West India

Company
leave
it

in

to the Portugese.
to

1654 were obliged to evacuate the country and This rendered it impossible for Mr.

Polhemus

continue his pastoral labors there, and he came to

organized a Reformed church at New Amstel, Delaware, and reached New Amsterdam a short time after the Rev. Johannes Megapolensis and a committee appointed for the purpose had organized a church at Midwout, or Flatbush,
this country,

and requested the Classis of Amsterdam to Mr. Polhemus was assigned to the pastorate of the new organization, and June 2^, 1662. obtained a patent for 25 morgens of land at Flatbush. The people, having proFebruary
9, 1654,

select a preacher.

vided abundantly for his temporal needs, he bought,

1674, of

March

6,

John Sebering, 24 morgens of land which had been previously granted June 25, 1662, to Cornells Swaelwood and sold to Mr. Sebering. Mr. Polhemus died June S, 1676, and Dec. 25, 16S0, a confirmatory patent for this land was granted to his widow by Gov. Andross. He married Catharena Van Werven previous to his coming to this country, and had
:

308
2.

ANCESTRY OF
b.

Theoclorus,

in Brazil, resided

Mandeville
.

m.

2,

Cornelia

at Jamaica, N. Y., d. 1722; m.

Antje,

dau.

of

Teunis Gys-

6.

Margareta, m. Willem Guljanse

Cornell, son of
nelise.

bertse Bogaert and Sarah Rapalle,

Gelyam Cor-

wid. of

Hans Hansen
7.

Bergen.
3.

Adriana,
bring.

m.
d.

Jan Roelofse Sueprior to

1682,

Lammetie,
lemse.

m. Johannes Wei8.

Elizabeth,
Oct.

1685

m.
16,

4.

Anna, m. Cornelis Barentse Van

22,

Dionys Teubp.
Ap'l.

Der Wyck.
5.

nesse Denise,
1654,

Daniel, resided at Flatbush, N.

Y.
;

son of Teunis Nyssen

m.

1,

Aug.

15,

1685,
9.

and Phabea Seals.

Catrina.

Neeltje, dau. of Cornelis Janse

Van Der Veer and

Tryntie de

Catharena Tan Werven, wife of Rev. Johannes Theodoras Polhemus, when her husband left Brazil, went to Holland to endeavor to secure the arrears due him from the West India Company. Her labors were not at first productive of much
benefit, but in

May,

1656, the Classis of

Amsterdam,

sanction-

ing the pastorate of her husband at Flatbush, N. Y., promised

to

help her to go to

Long
to

Island and rejoin her husband, and

bore this testimony

her character
to
straits,

"She is a very worthy matron, has great desire and has struggled along here in poverty and great ing herself modestly and piously."

be with her husband always conduct-

Abraham
Abraham Lott

Lott.
name
in the ancestral

(2S), the third of that

line, was also the third son. of Johannes E. Lott (20) and Catherine Van Derbilt. He was born at Flatbush, N. Y., in He died Nov., 1S40. He was a farmer and resided at 1783.

Flatlands,

N. Y.

He

married

first,

in 1S05,

Maria Lott;

sec-

ond, Jane Voorhees, widow of Lawrence Voorhees and daughter of Samuel Garretson of Gravesend, whose daughter Elizathird, Lavinia beth was the wife of his brother, John Lott (26)
;

Betts.
issue.

From By his

the second and third

first

marriages there was no

:

wife,

Maria Lott, he had

JOHN
30.

A. LOTT, JR.
July 20, 1878, m. Feb'y
d.

309
16,

John A.,
(25)

b.

Feb'y
b.

II, 1S06, d.
17,

1829, Cath-

erine L.,

Oct.

1807,

July 20, 1878, dau. Jeremiah Lott

and Lydia Lloyd.

Maria Lott, wife of Abraham Lott(2S), was born Dec. i, She was the daughter of Jeromas Lott and Lammetie Rapalje, a great-great-granddaughter of Peter Lott, the emigrant, who was also her husband's great17S5, and died Oct. 2, 1S11.
great-great-grandfather.

The Lott
i.

Families.

SECOND LINE.
2.
3.
c. a. 1652, m. Gertrude. Hendrick Lott, m. 16S5, ? Catrya De Witt, b. 1654. Johannes Lott, b. 1692, m. 1714? Jeromas Lott, b. 1743, m. 1763, Lammetie Rapalje, b. 1743. Maria Lott, b. 178^, m. 1805, Abraham Lott, b. 1783; great-grandparents of John A. Lott, Jr.

Peter Lott,

4.
5.

Hendrick Lott,
in 16S3.

the youngest son of Peter Lott, the emi-

grant, and Gertrude, his wife, settled in Jamaica,

Long

Island,

16S7.

He took the oath of allegiance at Flatbush, N. He married Catrya or Catherine DeWitt, and had
:

Y.,

206. Dorothy, b. Dec. 14, 1686.

Ap'l
210.

8,

1775, m.

Mar. 4, 168S, m. Andries Onderdonk. 208. Peter, b. Mar. 1, 1690, m. Nov.

207. Geertruy,
b.

Maria,

b.

Oct.

30,

1693,

m.

211.

Johannes Schenck. Antie ? b. Aug. 23, 1696, m.

Folkert Folkertsen.

12, 1709,

Femmetje Remsen.

209. Johannes, b.

May

11,

1692,

d.

Catrya or Catherine DeWitt, wife of Hendrick Lott

(6),

was born May

10, 1654, an<^

was baptized

in

New Amsterdam
Jansen DeWit.

May

17, 1654.

She was

a daughter of Pieter

Pieter Jansen DeWit emigrated in 1652 and settled in Bushwick, L. I. He was magistrate for the town in 1661-62 and 1665. His name appears on the Assessment Rolls for 1675 and 16S3; also in the Census of 169S. He took the oath of His wife's name is not known. His children allegiance 1687. were
:

2. 3.

Maria, bp. Dec. 25, 1652. CatJierine or Catrya, bp.

May

17, 1654, at

New Amsterdam;

m. 16S5,

Hendrick, son of Pieter Lott, the emigrant.

3l6

ANCESTRY OF

Johannes Lott (209), son of Hendrick Lott (6) and Catrya was born May ir, 1692, died Ap'l 8, 1775. He was a member of the Provincial Assembly from 1727 to 1761 from Kings Co., N. Y. His wife's name is not known. He had
DeVVitt,
:

212.

Hendrick,
of

b.

Nov.

7,

1715.
b.

219. Johannes,

b.

Dec. 31, 1731.

5,

213. Joris,
3,

New
b.

Utrecht,

Oct.

220. 221.

Folkert, b. Oct.

1732.

1717.

Antie,

b.

Mar.

19,

1737,

m.

214.

Katrina,

Oct. 22,

1719,

m.

215.

Maria,

Derick Remsen. Mar. b.

Carel Boerum.

7,

1722,

m.

216.
217.

Petrus, b. Nov. 20, 1723.

Stephen Lott. 222. Doritie, b. Nov. 10, 1740, m. John Van Leuwen. 223. Jeromas, b. Jan'y 26, 1743, d. Feb'y 19, 1794, m. 1763, Lammetie
Rapalje,
b.

Nicklaes, b. Ap'l 30, 1728.

b.

May

29,

218. Nieltien,

Nov.

13,

1730,

m.

743> d. Oct. 16, 1825.

John Snedeker.

Jeromas Lott
January
224.

(223), son of Johannes Lott (209),

19, 1794.

was born

and died Feb'y Lammetie Rapalje, and had

26, 1743.
:

He

married 1763

Maria,
b.

b.

Dec.

I,

1785, d. Oct.

2,

1S11, m. 1805,

Abraham Lott

(28),

1783, d.

Nov.

1840.

Lammetje

29, 1743, died Oct. 16, 1S25.

Rapalje, wife of Jeromas Lott, was born May She was the daughter of Daniel

Rapalje and Altie Cornell.

The Rapalje Family.

1.

Joris Jansen

De

Rapalle

c. a.

1623, m. Catalyntie Trico, b. 1605.

2.
3.

Daniel Joriose Rapalle, b. 1650, m. 1674, Sarah Klock. Daniel Rapalje, b. 1691, m. 1711, Altie Cornell.

4.

Lammetje Rapalje,

b. 1743,

m. 1763, Jeromas Lott,

Jr.

b. 1743,

great-great-

grandparents of John A. Lott,

JoriS Jansen

De

Rapalle'S history

is

given on page 97.

Daniel JoriSSe Rapalle (19) was the youngest son and child Sarah Joris Jansen De Rapalle and Catalyntie Trico. Rapalle, his sister, wife of Flans Hansen Bergen, was the eldest of his father's family. The families of the eldest and youngest child were united by the marriage of Jonn A. Lott, Jr., a great-great-great-great-great-grandson and Laura Hoes Welles,
of

JOHN
a

A. LOTT, JR.

3II
of

great-great-great-great-great-great-great- granddaughter

Joris Jansen

De

Rapalle.

Dec. 29, 1650. He Wallabout near Brooklyn, N. Y. His name appears on the assessment rolls of Brooklyn 1675-83, in the list of communicants of the Brooklyn Reformed Church 1677, and in the census for 1698.
in 16S7,

Daniel Jorisse Rapalle was born died Dec. 26, 1725. He resided at the

He

took the oath of allegiance as a native in

a

was ensign of

Brooklyn company

in 1673

and Lieu-

tenant in 1700.

He

married

May

27, 1674, Sarah,

Abraham Klock,
ther knowledge.
20.

of Fort Orange, but of

whom we

daughter of have no far-

His children were

1675,

Joris, b.

Mar.
b.

4,

m. Agnes

24.

Annetje, bp.
Sarah,
bp.

March
July

27, 1681.

Berrian.
21.

25.

3,

1687,

m.

Marytje,

1677,

m. Ap'l

30, 26.

Pieter Luyster.
Altie,

1710, Elbert, b. 1687, d. 1777,

m. Gilbert Schenck.
bp.

son of Joseph
22. 23.

Hegeman and
1677. 1679,

27.

Daniel,

Ap'l
1711,

11,

1691,

m.

Femmetje Remsen. Abraham, b. Jan'y 14,

Catherine,
b.

Oct. 17,

Altie,

dau. of

Johannes Cornell.
m.
28.

Feb'y

7,

Cornelia, m. Hendrick Brinckerhoff.

Joseph Van Cleaf.

Daniel Rapalje (27), son of Daniel Jorisse Rapalle (19) and Sarah Klock, resided at Newtown, Long Island. He was baptized April 11, 1691, and married Oct. 17, 1711, Altie Cornell, a daughter, it is supposed, of Johannes Cornell (7) and His children were Altie his wife, see page 307.
:

29.
30.
31.

Ann. Mary.
Catherine.

nes Lott (209. 33. Sarah, m. Isaac Brinckerhoff.

)

34.
b.

Margaret,
Lott; m.

b. 2,

1720,

m. Johannis

32.

Lammetje,
mas,
b.

May

29,

1743,

d.

Isaac Cortelyou.
I.
I.

Oct. 16, 1825, m.

1763, Jero-

35.

Daniel, of Newtown, L.

Feb'y

19,

Jan'y 26, 1743, d. 36. Johannes, of New Lotts, L. 1794, son of Johan- 37. Joris, of Newtown, L. I.

John A.
John A. Lott, LL. D.
Lott and Maria Lott.
1S06.

Lott,
(30),

LL. D.
the only son of

was

Abraham

He

died at

He wis born at Flatlands, N. Y.. Feb. 11, Flatbush, N. Y., July 20, 1S7S. He attendin

ed school

at the

Erasmus Academy

Flatbush and was ad-

3 I2

ANCESTRY

OF"

mitted to the Bar of Kings County, N. Y., in 1833.

In 1835

he entered into partnership with Henry C. Murphy and John Van Derbilt, establishing the. law firm of Lott, Murphy and

For many years these three men controlled the Kings County and wielded great power. Mr. Murphy became Minister to the Hague. Mr. Lott, in 1S3S, became the first Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Kings County. In 1842 he was a member of the New York State Assembly. In 185S he was elected a Justice of the Superior

Van

Derbilt.

politics of

was

Court of the State. On the expiration of his term of office he elected an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals and subsequently was appointed Chief Commissioner of Appeals. He was a Trustee of Rutgers College from 1S60 until his
death.

LL.D. from the University York. He was a member of the Reformed Church at Flatbush and a ruling Elder in the same. His habits were methodical and his investigations of legal questions local paper comprehensive and full to the minutest detail. of the day says "He was one of Brooklyn's most distinguished citizens and made for himself a name as a jurist that was known and honored far and wide.

He

received the degree of

of the City of

New

His decisions were seldom

set aside.

His honesty of purpose unquestioned.

He
31.

married February
b.

16, 1S29,
;

Catherine L. Lott, and had

Jeremiah,

Dec.

24,

1S29

d.

Mar.
32.

12, 1837.
b.

35.

Abraham,
Jan'y
1,

Aug.
1889
;

28,

1831

d.

13,

m. Sept.

26,

36.

1855, Gertrude Bergen, b. Oct.

and Joanna Hardenbergh. John Zabriskie, b. July 11, 1838; m. Maria Ditmas. Maria Jane, b. Sept. 4, 1S40 m. Oct. 8, 1S68, John H. Livingston.

1829

dau. of

John

C. Ber37.
;

gen and Belinda Antonides.

33.

Henry,
Sept.

b.
3,

Dec.
1842.

18,

1841

d.

Anna
d.

Maria, b. Jan'y 30, 1S34

Nov.

14, 1837.
b. Oct. 3,

38.

Jeremiah,

34.

Abby

m. 1. June 4, 1862, John Erskine Howard ; m. 2. Sept. 1, 1875, Rev. Cornelius L. Wells, D.
Lloyd,

1836

b. Mar. 24, 1844; Jan'y 29, 1868, Ida L. Garvin, who d. Feb'y 13, 1872; m. 2.
-

Caroline V. Cortelyou.
39.

Lydia Lloyd,
d.

b.

Ap'l 13, 1847

D., b.

1833; son of Rev. Ransford Welles, D. D.,

Sept.
6,

June

26, 1848.

Catherine L. Lott, wife of John A. Lott (30), was born at Flatbush, N. Y., October 17, 1S07, and died there July 20,

JOHN
1S7S.

A. I.OTT, JR.

313

She was educated at Erasmus Flail Academy, in her was then sent to the Moravian Seminary for Young Ladies at Bethlehem. Pa., an institution justly renowned She was a sincere, devoted Chrisfor its thorough instruction. tian, for many years an active member of the Reformed Church,
native village, and
a friend of the needy, a liberal supporter of benevolent enterprises, a

woman

esteemed and beloved by

all

her acquaintances.

Jeremiah Lott (35), and Lydia Lloyd of Flatbush, a granddaughter of Johannes E. Lott and Catherine Van Derbilt, who were al^o her husband's grandparents.

She was

a daughter of

The Lott
i.

Families.
.

THIRD LINE.
Peter Lott,
c.

a.,

1652, m. Gertrude
h.

2.
3.

Englebart Lott,

1654, m. 1678, Cornelia

De La Noy.
b.

Abraham

Lott, b.'i6S4, m. 1709, Catherine

b.

4.
5.

Englebart Lott,

1719, m. 1742,
b.

Hegeman, Marine Ditmars, b:

1691.

1723.

6.
7.

Johannes E. Lott, Jeremiah Lott, b.

Catherine L. Lott,
ents ot

1746, m. 1775, Catherine

Van
b.

Derbilt, b. 1757.
1806, grandpar-

1776, m. 1805,
b.

Lydia Lloyd,

178,.
b.

1807, m. 1829,

John A.

Lott,

John A.

Lott, Jr.

Jeremiah Lott (25), was the son of Johannes E. Lott (20), and Catherine Van Derbilt. See page 291. He was born at He died at his native place Flatbush, N. Y., October 14. 1776.
August
16, 1S61
.

He was

Flatbush, N. Y,. which he

In 1801 he

left in

educated at Erasmus Hall Academy, In 1796 he commenced 1793.

which he followed for about 3^ was appointed Clerk of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Kings, and held the position uninterHe was a Member of the Assembly of ruptedly for 42 years. the Legislature of the State of New York, from the County of Kings in 1814-21-22-29. In 1S14, he was appointed Surrogate for Kings County and served as such for 19 years. During the war of 1S12 with Great Britain, he was Captain of the Flatbush Militia, and in September, 1S14, was called with his company into the United States service under Brigadier General Johnson and stationed at Fort Green in Brooklyn, N. Y.
the business of land surveying
years.

He

married Jan'y
10

17, 1S05,

Lydia Lloyd, and had

314
302.

ANCESTRY OF
Catherine L.,
d.

b. Oct. 17, 1807; 303. July 20, 1878; m. Feb'y 16,

Abbey
d.

Lefferts, b. Ap'l 12, i8ti;

;

July 29, 1S84

m. John

B..
;

1829,

John
;

A., b.

Feb'y
;

11,

a physician, b.
d.

Ap'l 25, 1S05

July 20, 1S7S son of Abraham Lott and Maria

1806
d.

Feb'y

8,

1848, son of Rev.

John Lansing Zabriskie and

Sarah Barrea.*

Lott.

Lydia Lloyd, wife of Jeremiah Lott (25), was born Nov. and died April 17, 1S65. She was the daughter of Bateman Lloyd and Abigail Lefferts.
20, 17S5,

The Lloyd
1.

Families.

Bateman Lloyd, m. Lydia Ware.

2.
3.

Bateman Lloyd,
Lydia Lloyd,
b.

b.

1756; m. 1780, Abigail Lefferts,

b.

b.

1759.

1785; m. 1805, Jeremiah Lott,

Jr.

1776; great-grand-

parents of John A. Lott,

Bateman Lloyd (i), a Quaker, resided at Woodstown, Salem Co., N. J., and having married Lydia Ware had Bateman Lloyd (2).

Bateman Lloyd
N. Y.

(2)

was born Aug.

and died

28,
5,

town, Salem Co., N.

He was

J., in his twentieth year at the

May

1756, at Woods1814, at Flatbush,

breaking out of the

Revolutionary War, but his Quaker principles were overshadowed by his patriotic ardor, and he enrolled himself among the
defenders of his country.
ant in Captain Kinsey's

Feb'y 17, 1777' ne was Is ^ LieutenCompany, 4th Battalion, 2d. Establishment. Nov. 12, 1777^ he was Captain of the same company. Feb'y 27, 177S, he was taken prisoner and remained He was Captain of the such until exchanged Ap'l 1, 17S1. 3d Continental Regiment Sept. 26, 17S1 and then of the 2d
,

Continental Regiment.
sey State Militia,

He was

also Captain of the

New

Jei at

and held the position of Forage Master

Salem.
*Rev. John Lansing Zabriskie, b. Mar. 4, 1779, d. Aug. 13, 1850, graduated at Union College 1798, studied theology with Dr. Derick Romeyn, was licensed by the Classis of Rensselaer in 1801 and settled at Greenbush and Wynants Kill, N. Y. From 1811 to 1848 he was pastor of the Reformed Church at Millstone, N. J. He married Sarah Barrea, b.

May

11, 1786,' d. Dec. 21, Saborowiske, of Poland,

1856.

He was
to

who came

America

a descendant in the fourth generation from Albert in the Fox in 1662.

JOHN

A. LOTT, JR.

$1$

After the cessation of hostilities he resided at Woodstown,

his native place,

and was

a Justice of the Peace,

noted for his

young couples who had failed to obtain parental consent to their union. He remembered the days of his youth. After the death of his father-in-law, Mr. Lefferts, he moved to Flatbush, N. Y., and engaged in mercantile pursuits. He was a warm friend of the colored race, a bitter opreadiness to marry

ponent of slavery and

of

member

of the Emancipation Society

temperance and opposed the drinking customs of the day. He is described as a fine looking man, with dark hair and a pleasant cast of features, which included a "Roman nose," indicative of the force of character for which he was noted. Quaker bv birth, his religious tendencies were towards the Moravians, but while at Woodstown he attended
Jersey.
also an advocate of

New

He was

moving to Flatbush, the Reformed Church. He married Jan'y 19, 17S0, Abigail Lefferts, under circumstances which reveal a large element of romance and illustrate the sentiment of the Lady of the Lake. But he who stems a stream with sand, And fetters flame with flaxen band, Has yet a harder task to prove By firm command to conquer love.
the Presbyterian Church, and after

Bateman Lloyd,

a prisoner of war,

was

billeted in Flatbush

and probably upon the family of Mr. Jacobus Lefferts. An attachment was formed between the young Captain and his host's daughter Abigail, which the young lady's father did not at all relish. His opposition was such that he refused to consent to their union, and the result, as might have heen expected, was what is technically termed "'a run away match." Leaving home for the ostensible purpose of spending the afternoon with her uncle, Mr. Jacobus Van Deventer, who had married her father's sister Abigail, and resided but a short distance away, Miss Lefferts failed to return at the expected time, but excited no surprise by her absence. The family retired for the night with the supposition that their daughter was safe in her uncle's household. The next morning Mr. Van Deventer occasioned great surprise and displeasure when, in response to Mr. Lefferts, who asked him if Abbe}' was at his house, he re-

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plied
:

ANCESTRY OF

The old gentleman ''Yes. and herhusband with her." wasveiy indignant but at length, like a wise man, yielded to
the advice of his brother-in-law and allowed "the erring ones
lo
3.

go

in peace."
b.

Bateman Lloyd and Abigail

16,
;

Lefferts
m. Jan'y
b.

had

Catherine,

Oct.

17S0,

d.

17,

1865

17, 1805,

Mar.

10,

1856

m.

Sept. 24,

Jeremiah,

Oct. 14, 1776, d.

1801, Geo. A. Duryea, b. Aug.

1,

Aug.
nes

16, 1S61,

son of Johan-

1769, d. Mar. iS, 1S24.

b.

E.

Lott

and

Catherine
1788,
29,

4.

Harriet Lydia,
d.

Nov.

14, 1782,
7.

Van
Lefferts
d.

Derbilt.

Ap'l

5,

1783.
29, 1783, d.

Ware,
19,

b.

Feb'y
;

4,

5.

Leffert, b.

Dec.

Feb.

Jan'y

1841

m, Dec.
b.

24, 1784.
6.

1S10,
20,

Sarah Franklin,
Aug.

June

Lydia,

b.

Nov.

1785, d. Ap'l

29, 1796, d.

25, 1832.

Abigail Lefferts, wife of Bateman Lloyd (2) was born Jan'y and died August 31, 1S47. She was the daughter of She is described Jacobus Lefferts and Catherine Van Derveer as tall and slender, but finely formed and of a dignified car12, 1759,

She was a devout, God-fearing woman, abounding in Kingdom of God. To her is ascribed an active part in the founding of the Long Island Bible Society and also She was fond of chilof the first Sabbath School at Flatbush. dren and delighted in their society, a woman of great force and
riage.

labor for the

independence of character.

The Lefferts
1.

Families.
Van Nuyse,
b.

Lieffies Pietersen,

c.

a.

1660; m. Abigail

1654.

2.
3.

Pieter Leffertse, b. 1680; m. Eytie

Suydam.

Jacob Lefferts,

b.

171 7;

m".

1741, Catherine

4.

Abigail Lefferts, b. 1759; m. 1780,

Van Derveer. Bateman Lloyd, b. 1756;

Jr.

great-great-

grandparents of John A. Lott,

There is Lefferts is said to have been derived from Laftert. Brunswick family by name Von Laftert and a town Le Ferde Laftert signifies a loaf or bread giver in the same principality. and is nearly synonymous with the English lord. The progenitor

of the Lefferts family of

Long

Island and of the Leftersen

family of

Jersey was Lieffies Pietersen Van Hagewout, or Haughwout, or Lieftees, son of Pieter, of Hagewout, a village near the Hoorn. in the province of North Holland, where the

New

JOHX
family probably
resided,

A. as

LOTT, JR.
there
the
is

3I7

record

of one Leffert

Stephense

Van Hagewout.

latter

name

equivalent to

There is no evidence of consanguinity between Leffert Stephense and Lieffies Pietersen, but these data indicate that Lefferts was a baptismal or given name.
Petersen emigrated to America in 1660 and settled X. Y. where he died Dec. S, 1 704. He owned seventeen morgens of land in Flatbush at the time of his marriage and resided thereon. He prospered sufficiently to be assessed in 16S3 for 54 acres of land, and subsequently became wealthy, owning large tracts of land on Long Island and in Xew Jersey. He was a deacon in the Reformen Church of Flatbush, in 16S0, is mentioned in Dongan's patent, Nov. 12, 16S5, and in the eensus of 169S, took oath of allegiance in 16S7, was a grand juror 16SS-9, a constable of the town in 1692. and assessor in i73- He married Abigail Van Xuyse and had
Lieffies
at Flatbush,
:

Hedgewood.

2.

Aeltie,
15,

b.

June
n.

2,

1676, d. July

m. Oct.

7,

1716, Jannetje, b.

1735;
b.

m.
1678, m.
1,

3.

Auke,
m.

Ap'l

4,

May
S.

Jan'y 18, 1694, dau. Nicholas or Claus Barentse Blom. She

29, 1703,
2,

Marytie Ten Eyck;

30,

m.

2,

Peter Luyster.

July

1735,

Cather-

Isaac, b.
18,

June
b.

15,

1688;

d.

Oct.
.

ine,

widow

dau.

Vonk and Benjamin Hegeman and

of

1746; m.

Harmpie
1,

9.

Abraham,
bp.
at

Sept.

1692; d.

Barentie Jansen.
in

He
N.

settled
J.

Oct. 1767; m. Sarah Hoogland,

Sept.
28,

Monmouth

Co.,

He
were
10.

1692

resided

and his wife

Marytie

New York

city,

among
ganized

the 49 persons who orthe First Reformed

of Freehold.

Madalena,
L.
I.

b. Aug. 20, 1694; m. Garret Martense, of Flatbush,

Church

His de-

;hed. 1734-5; m,
Mar.
b.
1,

2,

John
Mar.
d.

scendants
Leffersen.
4.

write

their

name
March
12.

Van
n. Ann,
19,

Derbilt, of Bergen.

b.

1696;

d.

Pieter, b.

May

18,

1680; d.

17S2.

13, 1774,

m. Eytie or Ida Suy-

Abigail,

Aug.

14,

1698;

dam.
5.

Nov.
13.

14, 1704.
b.

Rachel, b. Jan'y 17, 1682; m. John

Leffert,

May
1774;

22,

1701;

d.

Waldron.
6.

Jan,

b.

Jan'y

14,

1684; m.
.

Marb.
14.

grietje
7.

Jacob, or Jacobus, of Bedford,

June

9,

16S6;

d.

Sept.

3,

1768;

m. Nov. 15, 1724, Catryntie Dorlandt, b. July 19, 1705, d. Dec. 4, 1766. Benjamin, b. May 2, 1704; d. Nov. 17, 1707.
Sept. 27,

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ANCESTRY OF

Abigail VaQ Nuyse, wife of Lieffies Petersen, was born about 1654; she died aged 94 years July 19, 174S. She was a daughter of Auke Jansen Van Nuys and Magdalena Pieterse

Alike Jansen Van Nuys, of Langdendyck, with his wife and some of his children, emigrated about 165 from Amsterdam, Holland, to New Amsterdam. He was probably born in the After reaching America he revillage of Nuis, in Groningen. sided first at New Amsterdam, then at the Ferry in Brooklyn and finally settled at Flatbush, N. Y. He was a carpenter and He was Magistrate of the built the first church in Flatbush. town in 1673, and represented the town in convention held at New Orange March 20, 1674, to confer with Gov. Colve. His wife Magdalena Pieterse died prior to October 1662, and he married Jan'y 2, 1676. Lysbet Jans, widow of Jan Clausen. Geertie Gysbrechtsz widow of Jan Jacobse was his third wife. From the second and third marriages there was no issue. His children were
1
:

2.

Anneken Auckersz, m. 1, Dec. 4, 1661, Winant Pieterse Van

Eyck;
Gertruyd m.
2,

6.

Peter

Auckersz,

bp.

Oct.

13,

1652.
7.

Dirk
d.

Jansen
prior

A bigail A uckcrsz,
tersen

m. Lieffies Pie-

Woortman,
3.

of Brooklyn.
8.

Van Hagewout.

Auckersz,
Auckersz,

[695; m. Franz Joosten.

4.

Jacobus Auckersz, m. Ap'l 26, !6S5, Maria or Mary Will ems.

Janneke

m.

Rienier

9.

Femmetje Auckersz,
12,

bp.

Mar.

Arendsz, a widower.
5.

1662,

m.

as

his 2d wife

Jan Auckersz, b. in Amsterdam, Hol'd, m. 1, July 29, 1673, Barbara Provoost; m. 2, Ap'l
4,

Jan Stevense, b. 1652, son of Steven Coerts Van Voorheis and Willempe Roelffse.
10.

1680,

Eva

Janse.

Yda

Auckersz,

m. Aucke Ryn-

ierse.

Pieter Lefferts, son of Lieffies Pieterse and Abigail

Van

Nuyse was born May

iS, 16S0, at

Flatbush, N. Y., where he

1

resided until his death,

March
roll

13,

774->

pect Park, Brooklyn, which he inherited from his father.

on a farm near ProsHis

name appears on
hagewoutt.

the

of the Flatbush militia as Pieter

He was

and

in 1737 was 1772 at a salary of thirty shillings per annum, which was subsequently increased by tae Colonial Assembly. He owned sev-

supervisor of the town in 1726 and 1727, appointed county treasurer and served until

JOHN
eral slaves,

A.

J.OTT, JR.

319

among whom were three, Ben, Dyne and Isabel, whose names appear in the annals of the family. October S, 17S3, his house was robbed of several silver tankards and cups and other valuables for which he offered a reward of fifteen pounds but with what success is not known. He was a man of tnfluence and wealth, an elder in the Reformed Church of his native town in 1751-52, and represented the church in the 9th and 12th Reverend Coetus convened in New York in 1754 and He married Eytie, or Ida Suydam, and had 1755.
:

15.

Leffert,

d.

1773; m. Artie, dau.

Dervilt.

nerst in

the councils of the Re-

of Art
16.

Van

Jacobus, b.
21,

May 9,
m.
b.

171

7, d.

Feb'y
1741, 1722,

formed Church; also Gertrude Lefferts, wid. Hon. John Van

Derbilt, widely

1S02;

May
Mar.

30,
30,

known by her

Catryna,

writings over the initials G.

L. V.
iS.

dau. Dorainicus

and
lyck;
b.

Van Derveer Maria Margaret Noortin.

2,

Lytie, b. Jan'y
to 1747;

8,

1721,

d.

prior

Nov.

27,

Jan'y 1777, Ida, 1723, d. Feb'y 24,

m. William Johnson of Gravesend, b. July 4, 1718,

d.
19.

1807, dau.

Abraham Van Derb.

Dec.

13, 1797.
;

veer, of Flatbush.
17.

Adriantie, d. Nov. 28, 1800

m.

Jan or John,
Oct.
20,

Mar.
;

16, 1719, d.

May
20.

9,

1747,

Abraham Voor8,

1776

m. Ap'l

29,

hies, b.

juue

1724.

1746, Sarah, b. Nov. 23, 1727,

Antje, b.
19,

May
;

12, 1728. d.

Mar.
1748,
d.

dau. of Garret Martense and

17S2

m.

May

7,

Magdalena Lefferts.
son John,

He had a
21. 22.

Garret Rouwenhoven,
Sept. 25, 1777.

who

whom.

Maria, dau.

and Dorothy Couwenhoven, the parents of John Lefferts, of Flatbush, who d. 1893, and was promiLeffert Lefferts

Geertje, b. July
Abigail, b.

n,

1731.

Sept.
1758,

12,

1735;

m.

Oct.

n,

Jacobus

Van

Deventer, bp. Lefferts,

May 20,

1732.

Ida Suydam, wife of Pieter

was

the daughter of

Jacob Hendrickse Suydam and Sytje Jacobse. Flatbush, N. Y., Sept. 25, 1777.

She died

at

The Suydam
1.

Family.

2.
3.

Hendrick Reycke Van Suydam, c. a. 1663, m. Ida Jacobse. Jacob Hendrickse Suydam, b. 1666, m. Sytie Jacobse. Ida Suydam, d. 1777, m. Pieter Lefferts, great-great-great-great-grandparents of John A. Lott, Jr.

Hendrick Reycke Van Suydam,

the

emigrant, and Ida

Jacobs, his wife, came to America in 1663, according to

some

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authorities,

ANCESTRY OF

from Suyt-dam. i. <?., from South of the dam, but more probably from Zutphen, Holland. He died 1701. For some years he was a blacksmith in New Amsterdam. Feb'y 5, 1677, he bought a farm in Flatbush, N. Y., on which he reHis children were sided.
:
.

2. 3.

Ryck, bp. Oct.

Jacob,
b.

10,
d.

1666;

d. y.

8.

Jannetje,
d. y.

bp.

June
Sept.

27,

1680;

1666;

1738; m. Sytje
9.

Jacobse.
4.
5.

Jannetje,
d. y.

bp.

23,

1683;

Cornelius.

Hendrick.
Ryck, bp. Oct.
Ida, bp.
10,
6,

6.
7.

1675.

Ap'l

1678;

m. Jan

Aertsen.

10. Abraham, bp. Mar. 12, 1684. n. Jannetje, bp. June 23, 1685; m. Tunis Rapalje. 12. Gertrude, bp. Mar. 20, 1692.

Jacob Hendrickse Suydaill (3), son of Hendrick Reycke Ida Jacobs, was born 1666; died :7^8. He was a blacksmith. He married Sytje Jacobse, and had

Van Suydam and

Jacob,
bp.

13.

Mar.

29,

1696;

m.
19.

Sicklen.

Ante Luquier.
14.

Jannetie,

bp.

Aug.

7,

1705; m.

Hendrick, bp. Mar.

Ap'l 24,
1719,

29, 1696;

m.
20.
21.

Thomas Van Dyck.

Adriaentje.

Geertje, dau.

Van Wickelen and Elizabeth Van Liew.

Evert Janse
15.
16.

Geertie or Gertrude.
Isabella or Belitie.

22. 23. 24.

Johannes.
Jan.

Eytie or Ida, m. Pieter Lefferts.

Sytje.

17. 18.

Ryck,

b.

1703.
rn.

25.

Dow,

b.

1707; m. Sara

Van Der-

Cornelius,

Margaret

Van

veer.

Jacobus Lefferts (16) or Leffertse, as he generally wrote name, was a younger son of Peter Lefferts (14) and Ida Suydam. He -was born at Flatbush, N. Y., May 9, 1 7 7, where he died February 21, 1S02.. He possessed a kind and generous disposition. He was neat and careful with his dress, a diligent student of the Scriptures and able to converse in both Dutch and English He was one of the original founders and incorporators of Erasmus Hall, at Flatbush, one of the oldest
his
1

educational institutions in the State of

New

York.

In 1754 he

was Commissioner of Highways for the town of Flatbush, a man greatly beloved by his family and respected in the community. He was several times an Elder in the Reformed Church at Flatbush. By his last will and testament he manu-

JOHN
mitted
all his

A. LOTT, JR.

32 I

bors.

much to the consternation of his neighboth a farmer and a storekeeper, and resided opposite the Reformed church on the corner of Church lane
slaves,

He was

and Main street. During the Revolutionary war his house was sacked by the
British soldiery,

whose

arrival caused a precipitate retreat of

the family.

was

left

of which they were about to partake untouched upon the table and only sufficient time was
in the well.

The dinner

taken to deposit the family silver

his family

Mr.

LefFerts

and

took refuge with a friend at Black Stump, in the town of Jamaica, from whence he soon returned and took the
oath of allegiance to

King George,

as did the greater portion

of the inhabitants of Flatbush.

married May 30, 1741, Catryna or Catherine Van Derveer. He married again Jan'y 1777, Ida Van Derveer, born Nov. 27, 1723 died February 24.
1S07, daughter of

He

marriage was without

dren, only three of
23.

Abraham Van Derveer of Flatbush. This issue. By his first wife he had ten chil-

whom

reached maturity
bush,
Oct.
25.
7,

Ida,
2,

b.

Jan'y 26, 1745; d. July 182S; m. Nov. 24, 1767,

Pelt,

b.

Dec.

27,

1758;

d.

1791.
b.

Rem Van
recht,
b.
iS,

of
17,

New
173S;

Utd.

Abigail,

Jan'y
1847;

12,

1759;
J an 'y

d.

Ap'l
1829.

Aug.
1780,

31,

m
I

I9>

Mar.
24.

Bateman,
-

b.

Aug.

28,

Jannetje,

b.

May
1783;

3,

1753;

d.
13,

^S^'- d

^ ay

5>

Si4,

son of

Feb'y

21,

m.

May

Bateman
Ware.

Lloyd

and

Lydia

1775, Peter Lefferts, of Flat-

Lefferts (16),

Catryna or Catherine Van Derveer (17), wife of Jacobus was born March 30, 1722 she was a daughter of Dominicus Van Derveer (4) and Maria Margaret Noortlyck,
;

an account of

whom

is

given in the ancestry of Tunis S.

Van

Derveer (50) husband of Fanny R. Welles.

Abraham
Abraham Lott
cestral
line,

Lott.

(32), the fourth of that

was

the second son of

Catherine L. Lott (302).

Aug.
41

28, 1831,

and died

at

name in the anJohn A. Lott (30) and He was born at Flatbush, N. Y., the same place Jan'y 13, 1SS9. He

322
studied at

ANCESTRY OF
Erasmus Hall Academy
in his native village

tered the University of the City of

New York

in

1S45.

and enGrad-

& Van

uating in 1S49, he studied law with the firm of Lott, Derbilt, of which his father was the head, and

Murphy
was ad-

mitted to the bar in 1S52.

In

He

gained a large business and a

reputation for ability and thoroughness.

1SS5 he

was appointed Surrogate of Kings County by

Governor of the State of

David

B. Hill,

New

York,

to

fill

the

unexpired term of the deceased Surrogate, Jacob I. Bergen, and in November of the same year was elected by a large maWhile in office he died. jority for the full term of six years. He was the third of the descendants of Englebart Lott (17) to

occupv the
(20
),

His great-grandfather, Johannes E. Lott to 1793. His grandfather, 1 7S7 Jeremiah Lott (25), from 1S14 to 1S32. Abraham Lott (32) from 1SS5 to 1SS9. Abraham Lott (32) was a member of the Brooklyn Club,
office.

was Surrogate from

and of the Holland Society of New York city. At his death he was also a Trustee and Treasurer of Erasmus Hall Academv, a director of the Alechanics' Bank of Brooklyn, of the Lon- Island Safe Deposit Company and of the Montauck Fire Insurance Companv. The following extracts from the papers,
at the

time of his death, exhibit the public estimate of his char-

acter.

The Brooklyn Eagle

said

He was

a laborious, painstaking, learned lawyer,

model

citizen,

an

upright, fearless, public officer, a plain, blunt citizen,

with old-fashioned

ways and old-fashioned ideas of what constitutes official duty and personal As a jurist he was upright, impartial, sagacious and remarkably honor. industrious; as a citizen he was useful, progressive and devoted to the best interests of the community; as a member of the legal profession he In established a reputation as a safe, energetic and worthy practitioner. his social relations he was highly regarded as a genial companion and a Politically, his course was manly and outspoken and alfaithful friend. ways consistent. He died, as he had lived, hedged about with the respect
of his fellow citizens

and invested with the appreciative

affection of his

neighbors.

The Christian Intelligencer

He was
a diligent,

said

hard-working,

successful

Surrogate.

During the

years of his service there have been an unusual

number

of contested wills,

but his decisions have been accepted as

final.

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A. I.OTf, JR.

323

He
40.

married Sept. 26, 1S55, Gertrude Bergen, and had:

b.

John Abraham,

June

30, 1856,

m.

Nov.

23,

18S7,

Freeman
1862,

m. June 20, 1883, Laura Hoes, b. Feb'y 12, 1864, dau. Rev. Theodore W. Welles, D. D.,
41.

Clarkson, of Flatbush, N. V.
42.

James Lloyd,
d.

b.

Sept. 25,

Aug.

29, 1S67.
b.

and Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck. Maria Bergen, b. Aug. 26, 1858,

43.

Katherine Lydia,

July

3,

1S68.

Gertrude Bergen, wife of Abraham Lott (32), was born at She was the daughter of 1, 1S29. John C. Bergen and Belinda Antonides.
Flatbush, N. Y., October

The Bergen
1.

Families.
Femmetje Theunise Denyse,

2.

Hans Hansen Bergen, c. Michael Hansen Bergen,

b.

a.

1633; m. 1639, Sarah Rapelle, b. 1625.

b.

1641; m. 1677?

1650.
b.

3.

Hans Bergen,

1689; m. Rachel Benson, b. 1689.

b.

4.
5.

Johannes Bergen,
Cornelius Bergen,

1721; m. Catryntie

De

Hart,

b.

1726.

b.

1761; m. 1785, Gertrude 1829; m. Sept. 26, 1S55,

Jr.

Suydam.

6.
7.

John

C. Bergen, b. 1786; m. 1826, Belinda Antonides, b. 1S04.

b.

Gertrude Bergen,

Abraham

Lott,

b.

1831.

Parents John A. Lott,

family of

Hans Hansen Bergen was the Long Island, see page 95.
his wife,

progenitor of the Bergen

John A. Lott,

Jr.,

Laura H. Welles, in the seventh and

were each

a descendant, the

and former

the latter in the eighth generation.

Michael or Miggael Hansen Bergen (5), son of Hans Hanwas baptized at New Amsterdam Nov. 4, 1646, and died about (732. He obtained a patent May 1^, 1664, for 20 morgens of land at New Bedford, in the Wallabout near his father's property, where he probably reOctober 25, 1675, he was appointed Lieutenant of sided. Militia by Anthony Colve, Governor of New Netherlands. In 16SS he was appointed one of the Assessors of Brooklyn and, October 26 of the same year, was commissioned a Captain of the Brooklyn militia. He supported Leisler's Administration, and in 1698 was appointed a Justice of the Peace by the Earl of Bellamont, Governor of the provinces, and held the office
sen Bergen and Sarah Rapelle

3M
until

ANCESTRY OF
1703.

He
:

married

about

1677

Femmetje Theunise
d. 1 731,
13,

Denyse, and had

10.

Sara,

bp.
d.

at

Brooklyn June
July
1722,
15,

2,

16S9,

m. Rachel,
d.

b.

1678;

1750;

m.

Ap'l

1689,

1752,

dau.

Feb'y
11.

17,

Jan Stryker,
13.

Dirick

Benson

and

Tytie

of Flatbush.

Classe Stevast.

Teunis, bp. at
16,

New Utrecht, May

lip.

1680;

d. y.

12.

Hans

Michielse,

Mar.

II,

14.

Femmetje, m. Jan'y6, 1695, John Cornelisse Van Derveer (5). Mary.

Femmetje Theunise Denyse, wife of Michael Hansen Bergen (5) was born at New Amsterdam April 3, 1650. She was a daughter of Theunis Denyse and Phabea Seals.
Tennis Nyssen or Theunis Denyse emigrated
Binnick or Bunnik, Utrecht, Holland,
to in

163S from

New Amsterdam.

He had a
61,

farm on Manhattan Island, and

in Flatbush,

N. Y.

He was

in 1655 bought a farm Magistrate of Brooklyn in 165S-

and

in

1660 a

member

of the Reformed Church of Brook:

lyn,
2.

N. Y.

He

married Phabea Seals, and had

son of

Jarnetje Teunisse, bp. Dec. 22, m. Jan 1641, d. ab't 1735,

Hans Hansen Bergen

bp.
22,

Hansen, bp. Ap'l

ab't 1730, son of

17, 1644,

d.

S.

and Sarah Rapella. Denys or Uionys Teunisse,

Ap'l
1682,
16,

Hans HanRap3,

1654;

m.

Oct.

sen Bergen and Sarah

alle.
3.

Elizabeth,

dau.

Rev.

Marritje Teunisse,
1G44,
111.

bp. Ap'l

Johannes mus; m.
Brunt, of

Theodorus
2,

PolheT685,

Aug.

12,

Janse Woertman.

Helena, wid. of Nicholas Van

4.
5.

Aertje Teunisse.

New
16,

Utrecht,

and

Annetje Teunisse, bp. Feb'y

1646, m.

18,
9.

dau. of Jacques Cortelyou.

Jan,
?

Hieronemus

or Jeron-

m. Nov.
dau.

1679,

Cata-

imus, b. June 27, 1643, son ^ Joris Janse Rapalle and Catalyntie Trico.
6.

lina,

Tunis

Gysbertse

Bogaert.
10.

Elsje

Teunisse,

bp.

May

10,

Teunis Teunisse, m. 1, Geesje Hendricks; m. 2, Susanna

1648,

m. Dec,

1669,

Garret

11. 12.

James Teunisse.
Joris

7.

Snedeker. Femmetje, bp. Ap'l 3, 1650, m. ab't 1677, Michael Hansen, bp. Nov. 4, 1646, d. ab't 1732,

Teunisse,
;

m. Femmetje

his descendants bear

the

name

Middles-wart.

Phabea Seals, wife of Theunis Denyse, was the daughter of John Seals, of Devonshire, England, who came to New Am-

JOHN
sterdam from

A. LOTT, JR.

325

England as early as 163S, at which date he on Manhattan Island. Phabea Seals, at the time of her marriage to Theunise Denyse. was the widow of Hendrick Faelix, of Jarleston, England, who was known as Hendrick, the Boor, and his wife as Femmetje Jans. After the death of her second husband, Theunis Denyse, she married

New

was

a planter

Jan Cornelise Buys.

or Hans Bergen (12), son of Michael Hanand Femmetje Theunise Denyse, was baptized March n, 16S9, and died about 1 73 3 He was a baker and resided at the Brooklyn Ferry, between what are now Fulton and Doughty streets, and below Elizabeth street, Brooklyn, N. Y. In 1724 he was Supervisor of Brooklyn. He married Rachel Benson, and had

Hans Michielse
(=;)

sen Bergen

15.

Annetje, bp. at
12,

New
9,

York, Mar.

Nov.

19,

1759; m. 1749,
b.

Deb29,

17 10; d. y.

orah Cortelyou,
171 1; d.
y.

Nov.

16.
17.

Tiesje, b.

June
b.

1720; d. Jan'y 15, 1808; dau.

Meighiel,

Dec. 20, 1712; m.

Jacomintie Van Pelt.

20.

Catalyna, dau.

Hans Jacobus
d. 18,

/fans or Johannes or John, b.

iS.

Bergen and Sarah Rapelle. Femmetje, b. July 29, 1715;

Oct.
31,

July
1786;

12,

1721;

d.

Ap'l
b.

28,

m.

Catryntie,

July

1793;

m.

Ap'l

25, 1726, d. Oct. 6, 1775, dau.

19.

Marius Groen, a widower, whose descendants write their name Morris for Marius, having dropped the Groen. He was a descendant of Pieter Jacobsen Marius Groen, who emigrated from Hoogwoudt, North Holland. Derick, b. Feb'y 28, 1718; d.
1745, Sylvester

Simon DeHart and Angenietje Van Dyck.

21.

Tunis,
2,

b.

Oct. 15,

1730,

d.

May
A11-

1807,

Ap'l,

1760,

netje or Johanna, b. Feb'y 21,

I

743>

d.

July 23,

1819,

dau.

Gerrit Stoothoff, of Flatlands,

N. V.

Rachel Bensen, wife of Hans Bergen (12), was born April an d died in 1752. She was a daughter of Dirick Benson and Tytje Claesse Stevast.
13, 1689,

The Benson
1.

Families.
b. 1625.

Dirck Benson,
Dirick Benson,

c.

a.

164S; m. 1648, Catalena Bereck,

2. 3.

b.

1649;

IO S2, Tytie Claesse Stevast.

Rachel Benson,

b.

1689; m.

Hans Bergen,
Jr.

b.

1689,

great-great-reat-

grandparents of John A. Lott,

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ANCESTRY OF
or Bensingh, emigrated from Groningen purchased from Hendrick Egbertson Aug. 3, on the northeast side of Fort Amsterdam,
in a

Dirck BeDSOn,
about 164S.

He

1649, a half lot

on Manhattan Island. He was the owner of a house and lot,

Jan'y
6,

Albany

as early as

1654,

prosperous man, buying a

yacht for 197 r guilders, of Willem Frederickse Bout.

16^9.

He

died

While
by
m.

residing at

New Amsterdam
:

he mar-

ried Catalina Berek,

2.

whom
9,
1,

he had

Dirck or Dirick,
d.

b.

Nov.
m.

1649:

dau. Theunis Matthews.

tied at

Set-

June

26, 171 7;

Tytje
Jan5.

Claesse Stevast;
netje Coeymans.
3.

2,

Samson,
2,

b.

July

4,

1652;

in.

Feb'y
6.

Harlem. Cateryna, b. Feb'y 12, 1657; m. 1, Dr. Reynier Schaets; m. 2, Ap'l 23, 1696, Jonathan Broadhorst.

1680,

Tryntje, dau. Robert

of Claverack.
;

Van Deusen,
4.

Maria,
kert

b.

July

1^,

1659; m.

Vol-

Johannes,

b.

1665

m.

Lysbet,

Van Heusen.

was

Catalena Berek, wife of Dirk Benson, was born 1625. She a daughter of Samson Berek and Tryntie Van Rechteren. After the death of Dirk Benson, she married May 26, 1661,

Harmon Tomes Hun.

Benson (2), son of Dirck Benson and was born Nov. 9, 1649. He died June 26, He was a member of the Reformed Church at Albany 1 71 7. in 1683. He moved to Claverack and from thence to New
Dirck
or Dirick

Catalina Berek,

York.

Nov., 1696, he purchased 1,000 acres of land, on the

Raritan river, N. J., which he sold the following May. He leased the Brooklyn Ferry in 1701. He owned land in Piscat-

away, N. J. There is record, bearing date March 20, 1707, that "Dirick Benson, Gentleman, loaned money on mortgage to Cornelis Van Derhogen." He obtained a grant in 1714 for 2,000 acres of land on the south of the mountain called the Dunder Bergh on the Hudson River. He was also owner and master of an "open boat" plying between Albany and New York city where, in 1717, he died. He married Tytie Claesse Stevast, daughter of Claes Jansen Stevast and Effie Garritsen, and after her death Jannetje Barentse Coeymans, daughter of Barent Peterse Coeymans, the emigrant and founder of

JOHX
the village of

A.

LOTT, JR.
river.

327

Coeymans, on the Hudson

1683;

The

children
;

of Dirick Benson (2) and Tytie Claesse Stevast were

7.

Catalina,

b.

m.

1,

Van Der Meulen; m.

Kelly.
8.

2,

John John

10.

Eva,
19,

b. in

New York 1693, m. May 4,

b.

city
1

Mar.

717,

AnJuly

thony Duaw.
3,

Eva, bp. Feb'y

16S6;

d. y. d. 1752,

11.

Dirck,
5,

in

New

York

city

9.

Rachel, b. Ap'l 13, 1689,

1696.
b.

m. Hans, bp.
d.

Mar. n,

16S9,

12.

Tytie,
13,

in

New York
in

city Sept.

1731, son of

sen

Bergen Theunise Denyse.

Michael Hanand Femanetje

1699;

m. James Hender-

son, a

merchant

New York.

Hans, Johannes
died April 28, 17S6

or
;

was

and Rachel Benson. mon Pleas of Kings Co., N. Y., and Assistant Judge from 1762 to 1777, also Supervisor of Brooklyn, N. Y., from 1764 to 7S4. He was elected April 15, 1775, a Representative from Brook1

John Bergen (20), born July 12. 1721, a son of Hans Michielse Bergen (f2) He was Justice of the Sessions and Com-

lyn, in a convention

called to choose delegates to the Conti-

nental Congress at Philadelphia, Pa.,

10, 177=;.
22. 23.

which assembled
d.

May

He
d. y. b.

married Catryntie
13,

De

Hart, and had:

1768;

Rachel,

June

16,

1S46; dau.

Simon,
Feb'y
1767,

Oct.

1746;

d.
18,

Cornelius

22,

1777;

m.

May
1744;

Leah, dau.
28.

Van Derveer and Jan Van Kerk.

Dec.
10,

his
b.

cousin

Geshe
4,

De
d.

Cornelius, b.
Oct.
9,

1761;
2,

d.

Hart,

Feb'y
1781.

1824; m. Ap'l

1785,

Mar.
24.

18,
b.

Gertrude Suydam,
11,
1,

b.

Jan'y

Michael,

Jan'y
1752;

1751;

d. b.

28,

1761;

Mar.
July
1786;

3, 6,

1825; m.

Anthe,

dau.

Nov. 22, 1840; Hendrick Suydam and

d.

d.

Nov.

24,

dau.

Theodorus
Lefferts,
d.

Van
b.

29.

Agnes,

Wyck and Sarah Martense;

m.
2,

Rebecca
17,

30.

June
1828,

1764;

Oct.

20,

dau.

Leffert

Lefferts

Maria Ammerman. d. Feb'y 12, 1803; m Ap'l, 1770, Daniel Rapalje. Peter, b. Feb'y 25, 1765; d. Feb'y 29, 1844; m. Mar. 3, !796, Mary, b. July 7, 1777;
-

25. 26.

and Catryntie Dorlandt. Hans, d. y.

Derick,
d. ab't

d.

Jan'y 29,
Basset.

1854; dau. Rev.

Martenus

Schoonmaker
16,

and
July

1808; m.

1,

Maria,
31.

Mary
Jacob,
5,

dau. Garrit
retje,

Boerum and Marwidow of Johannes Rap2,

b.

Ap'l

1767;
9,

d.

1S45; m. July
b.

1800, Cath-

alje;

m.

Elizabeth KingsSept.,

erine,

Feb'y
1S36;

22,

17S1; d.

land.
27.

Tunis,

J.,

b.

1759;

d. b.

Nov.

26,

1826;

m. Annie,

32.

Isaac Eldert and Maria Wyckoff. Rachel, d. y.

21,

J an 'y

dau.

32S

ANCESTRY OF

Catryntie De Hart, wife of Hans or Johannes Bergen (20) was born July 25, 1726, and died Oct. 6, 1795. She was a daughter of Simon De Hart and Angenietje Van Dyck.

The De Hart
1.

Families.

2.
3.

Simon Aertsen De Hart, c. a. 1663, m. Geertie Cornelisse. Simon DeHart m. Angenietje Van Dyck. Tryntie De Hart, b. 1726, m. Johannes Bergen, b. 1721, grandparents of John A. Lott, Jr.
SiniOIl

great-great-

Aertsen De Hart, name sometimes written Ter

Island,

Hart, emigrated from Holland in 1664 and purchased a farm

at

Gowanus, Long

of the heirs of William Adrianse

Bennet, upon which he built a house on the shore of Gowanus Cove, west of Third avenue, near Thirty-seventh and Thirtyeighth streets, Brooklyn, and subsequently

known
is

as the

De

Hart or Bergen house.

The main

portion

of stone, and in

1S70 was considered the most ancient house in Brooklyn. In 1703 ''Brookland's improveable lands and meadows within

owner at that time was Simon Aertsen De Hart, who owned 200 acres. An interesting description is given by the Labadist travellers, who visited this country in 1679, of the hospitality extended to them by Simon De Hart "He was verv glad to see us, and so was his wife. He took us into his
fence" were surveyed, and the greatest land
house and entertained us exceedingly well. We found a good fire, halfway up the chimney, of clear oak and hickory, of which they made not the We let it penetrate us thoroughly. least scruple of burning profusely. There had been already thrown upon it, to be roasted, a full pail of

Gowanus oysters, which are the best in the country. Thev are fully as good as those of England and better than those we eat at Falmouth. I had to try some of them raw. They are large and full and some of them not less than a foot long and they grow sometimes ten, twelve and sixteen Others are young and small. together and are then like a piece of rock. In consequence of th. great quantities of them everybody keeps the shells They pickle the oysters in for the purpose of burning them into lime. We had small casks and send them to Barbadoes and the other islands. for supper a roasted haunch of venison which he had bought of the Indians for three guilders and a half of seewaiit, that
is,

fifteen

stivers of

Dutch money (15 cents), and which weighed was exceedingly tender and good and also quite

thirty pounds.
fat.

The meat
a slight aro-

It

had

JOHN
mitic
flavor.

A. I.OTT, JR.

329

We were also served with wild turkey, which was also fat good flavor, and a wild goose, but that was rather dry. EveryWe saw here lything we had was the natural production of the country. ing in a heap a whole hill of watermelons which were as large as pumpThey were kins and which Simon was going to take to the city to sell. very good, though there is a difference between them and those of the Carrihby islands but this may be owing to its being very late in the season,
and
of a
;

and these were the

to rest in a

last pulling.

It

was very

late at night,

when we went

Kermis
fire.

bed, as

it is

called, in the corner of the hearth along-

side of a good

Simon Aertsen De Hart married

first,

Geertie Cornelisse,

and married again June, 1691, Annatie, the widow of William Hnycken, of Gowanus. We have no record of his children other than Simon.

Simon DeHart
I.,
3.

(2), son of

Geertie Cornelisse. inherited his father's farm at

Simon Aertsen DeHart and Gowanus, L.

and married Angenietje Van Dyck, by

Seymen,
tie

whom
28,

he had
son

d.

Mar. 1746, m. Tryn-

Ap'l

1786,

of

Hans

or Catherine, dau. Roeloff

Schenck
Angenietje
Jan'y
4,

and
or

Geesie
J.

Henb.
8,

6.
7.

Bergen and Rachel Bensen. Mayke, bp. May 18, 1729, d. y.

Teuntje,
d.

drickson, of N.
4.

1757;

m.

Jacobus,

Annahietie,

son of
nelia
8.

1722;

m.

Jan'y
bp.

Abraham Lott and CorDe La Noy.

1,

1743, Peter Cortelyou.

5.

Geertie, m.

Cornelius Sawtford,
2,

Tryntic or
14, 1726,

Catryntie,
d.
b.

Oct.

6,

Aug. 1795, m.
9.

widower; m.

July

11,

1745,

Jores Remsen.
Jannetje, m. Peter Remsen.

Johannes,

July

12, 1721, d.

baptized Ap'l 29, 16S6.

Angenietje Tan Dyck, wife of Simon De Hart (2), was She was a daughter of Jan Janse Van Dyck and Teuntje Tyssen Van Pelt.

The Van Dyck

-f

Family,

OF LONG ISLAND, 2ND ALLIANCE.

America

emigrated to and died at New Utrecht, N. Y., where he resided on a farm, which he owned, adjoining the Brooklyn line. He appears on the Assessment Roll of the town in 1675,
302.
in 1652,

Jan :in >e Van Dyck (211), was the Van Dyck and Sytie Dirks, see page

son of

Thomas Janse

He

12

33
as a

ANCESTRY OF

in 1679.

member He

of the Reforms J Church in 1677 and a Magistrate His will was took the oath of allegiance in 16S7.
1735, and proved

dated

May

16,

May
217.

9,

167 }, at

New

Nov. 9, 1736. He married York, Teuntje Tyssen Van Pelt, and had
13,

Catalyntie,

bp.

Nov.

1681;

220.

Angenietje,

bp.

218. John,

m. Genet Ketteltas. m. Martha, dan.

Griggs, of Gravesend, L.
of

m.

Simon De

Ap'l 29, 1686; Hart, son of

John
I.

Simon, the emigrant.

221.

Tryntje, m. Daniel
son.

Hendrick-

219.

"Hiys,
4,

Red Hock,
d.
.

bp. Nov.

16S3;

March, 1749; m.

222. Jannetje, m. Rutgert

of

Van

Brunt,

Angenitje

New

Utrecht.

Teuntje Tyssen Van Pelt, wife of Jan Janse Van Dyck, was born in Holland in 164S. She was the daughter of Matthys Janse Lanen Van Pelt, with whom she came to America.

The Van Pelt Family.

brother, Teunis Janse, from the land of

an Pelt emigrated with his 'Luyck," Liege, in His wife and four children accompanied him, but she 1663. He settled at New died on the voyage and was buried at sea.
V
k

Matthys or Thys Janse Lanen

Utrecht, L.

I.,

who
were
2.

after his death

:

and married, second, Adriaentje Hendricks, married Cornelis Wynhard. His children
b.

Anthoine Thyssen,
1663; resided at

1646;

c.

a.

Laen, the patronymic adopted by his descendants,

with Lane.
6.

New
9,

Utrecht.
b.

together

3.

Teuntje or Tryntje Thyssen,

1648;

m.

May

1673,
c.

Jan
1652;

Annetje

Thyssen,

m.

Jurian

Janse Van Dyck,

d.
4.

a.

1736.
b.

7.

Lootman, of Esopus. Jan Thyssen Lanen, 111.

dau.
Gerrit

Aeltie,

Hendrick,
28,

1650; m.

1,

Sept.

Cornelis

Van

1670;

Annetje
m.
Marritje

Tileman
2,

Van Der Meyer;

25,

April

8.

1690,
of

Bennet,

Duyn. Adriaan Thyssen, ? m. Maryken Smack; resided at Middletown, N.

J.

wid.

Johannis Christoffel

Schairs, of
5.

Gowanus,
?

L.
b.

I.

9.

Pieter

Gysbrecht Thyssen,
m.
near Freehold, N.
his wife

1652;

Thyssen ? m. Barbara Houlton; resided at New UtN. Y.

Jannetje Aliens; resided

J.

recht,
10.

He

and

Jannetje
Idense.

Thyssen,

m.

Tunis

members of the First Reformed Church, of Freehold when organized, 1709,

where he appears
as Gysbert

11.

Lysbeth,

m. Anthoni Juchum,
I.

of Bushwick, L.

JOHN

A.

LOTT, JR.
;

33 I

1S24;

Cornelius Bergen (2S) born Dec. 10, 1761 d. October 9, was a son of Hans or Johannes Bergen (20) and

Catryntie
is

De

Hart.

He

resided at Flatbush,

N. Y.,

at

what

now

the west corner of

Avenue

A and

Flatbush avenue.

He

was Sheriff of Kings County, 1794-9S, and from 1800 to 1S05. He was appointed Captain of Militia March 14, 1797, and was
a Presidential Elector in 1S04

and 1S12.

He

married April

2,

17S5, Gertrude
33.

Suydam, and had:

Mar.
7,

John C,
1826,

b.

1786;

d.
5,

Maria Van Sicklen.

34.

July 30,
1S04; d.

1870;

m.
b.

Feb'y
Oct.

Maria,
26,

b.

Belinda,

11,

1S68;

Dec. 29, 1787; d. July m. Dec. 16, 1S05,

Dec. 26,

1872; dau.
i cl

Garret Kouwenhoven.

Cornelius

An

o n

e s

and

Gertrude Suydam, wife of Cornelius Bergen (2S), was

born Jan'y 28, 1761, and died Nov. 22, 1S40. She was the daughter of Hendrick Suydam and Maria Ammerman, and a great-niece of Ida Suydam, wife of Pieter Lefferts, see page 319. The descendants of the great niece and of the aunt were united by the marriage of Gertrude Bergen, granddaughter of Gertrude Suydam and Abraham Lott, great-great-great-grandson
of Ida Suydam.

The Suydam
1.

Families.

SECOND ALLIANCE.
Hendrick Rycke Van Suydam, c. a. 1663; m. Ida Jacobs, c. a. 1663. Jacob Hendrickse Suydam, m. Sytie Jacobs. Hendrick Jacobse Suydam, b. 1696; m. 1719, Geertje Van Wickelen. Hendrick Suydam, b. 1731; m. Maria Ammerman.
Gertrude Suydam,
b.

2.
3.

4.
5.

1761,

m.
Jr.

1785,

Cornelius Bergen, great-grand-

parents of John A. Lott,

family,

Hendrick Rycke Tan Suydam, the ancestor of the Suydam came to America in 1663, see page 320.

Hendrick Jacobse Suydam (14), son of Jacob Hendrickse Sytje Jacobse, was born Feb'y 28. 1696; baptized Mar. 29, 1696; died 1774. He married April 24, 1719,

Suydam and
Geertje

Van Wickelen, and had

33 2
26.

ANCESTRY OF
Evert,
b.

Mar.

24,

1720;

m.

30.
31.

Gurtje,

b.

Dec.
b.

31, 1729.
9,

27.

Maria Bogert. Jacob, b. Nov. 18, 1722;

15, 1S01.

Hendrick,
Nelletie,

Feb'y

1731; m,

d.

Nov.
32.

Maria Ammerman.
b. Feb'y 15. 1734; m. Jacobus Van Derveer.

28.

Seytie,

b.

Sept.

28,

1725;

m.
33.

Evert Hegeman.
29.

Jan, b. Feb'y 10, 1737; m.

Fem-

Mette,

b. Sept. 4,

1727; m. Sam34.

metje Hegeman.
Cornelius, b. Feb'y
19,

uel Garretsen.

1739.

(eertje
(14),

Van Wickelen,
the

wife of Hendrick Jacobse

was

daughter of Evert Janse

Suydam Van Wickelen and

Elizabeth

Van Liew.

The Van Wickelen

Evert Janse Van Wickelen emigrated
or Wykeler, Friesland.

Family.
in 1664

from Wykel,

He

resided at
1687.

New
He

Lotts in 1686, and

took the oath of allegiance in

married Elizabeth
:

Van Liew,
2.

daughter of Frederick
m. Jan'y
3,

Van Liew, and had

Gerrelt, m. Tryntje
Geertje,

Jan,

d.

1632;

1723,
7.

hoven; resided Raritan, N.

.

J.

Ida, dau. Jeremias

3.

Remsen.

Zytie, m.

Hans Bergen.
.

8.

m. April

24, 1719,

Hend.

4.
5.

Coevert, m. Martjie
Pieternelletje, m.

drick, b.

Feb'y

28,

1696,

Rem Hegeman.

1774, son of

Jacob Hendrickse
Sytje Jacobse.

6.

Symon,

m.

Gerradine Kouwen-

Suydam and

Hendrick Suydam (3t), son of Hendrick Jacobse Suydam He marand Geertje Van Wickelen was born Feb'y 9, 73 1 ried Maria Ammerman. whom we have failed to identify, and had
1
. :

35.

Gertrude,
lius, b.

b. Jan'y 28, 1761; d. Nov. 22, 1840; m. Ap'l 2, 1785, CorneDec. 10, 1761, d. Oct. 9, 1824, son of Johannes Bergen and

Catryntie DeHart.

John
1S70.

C.

Bergen

(33), born

March

7,

1786; died July 30,

He was a son of Cornelius Bergen (2S) and Gertrude Suydam. He resided at Flatbush, N. Y., and occupied the homestead corner of Flatbush avenue and Avenue A. He married Feb'y 5, 1826, Belinda Antonides,
35.

and had
b.

Cornelia

Lozier,

b.
10,

July
1855;

14,

36.

Gertrude,
Sept.

Oct.
1855,
1831,

1,

1S29,

m.
b.

1827; m.
C.

May

Bush

26,

Abraham,
d.

Brown.

Aug.

28,

Jan'y 13,

JOHN
1SS9, son of

A. LOTT, JR.
38.

333
J.,

John A. Lott and

Cornelius
Ap'l

b.

Oct.

7,

1839, m.

Catherine L. Lott.
37.

12,

i860,

Anna Maria,

Maria,
7,

b.

1872,

Aug. 4, 1S33, m. Nov. William Story, of

dau. Stephen N. Stillwell, of

Gravesend, N. V.

Flatbush, N. Y.

Belinda AlltonideS, wife of John C. Bergen

(33),

was

born October n, 1S04, and died Dec. 26, 1S72. She was a daughter of Cornelius Antonides and Maria Van Sicklen.

The Antonides
1.

Families.
d.

Rev. Vincentius Antonides,

c.

a.

1705,

1744.

2.

Johanna Antonides,
1695.

c.

a.

1705;

m.

1722,

Johanna Couwenhoven,
b.

b.

3.

Peter Antonides,

b.

1727; m. 1759, Catherine VanDerveer,

b.

1732.

4.
5.

Cornelius Antonides,

1763; m. 1797, Maria

Van

Sicklen.
b.

Belinda Antonides,

b.

1804;

1826,

John

C. Bergen,

1786; grand-

parents of John A. Lott,

Jr.

in 1666.
1,

Rev. Vincentius Antonides was born in Bergen. Friesland, from whence he emigrated to America, arriving Tan'y
i75-

Wickant.
bush,

He died July He was pastor

iS,

i/JJ.

The

family

name was

of the churches at Bushwick, Flat-

Flatlands,

Jamaica.

He was

Brooklyn, New Utrecht, Gravesend and one of the ministers from Long Island

whose

services in

Monmouth County, N.

J.,

resulted

in

the
T.,

establishment of the First Reformed Church of Freehold, N.

of which, in 1S73, Rev. Theodore
pastor.
to a call

W.

Welles, D. D., became

About

the time of his arrival in America, in response

from the Long Island churches

after
civil

Freeman, of Schenectady,
them, accepted of a

the Rev. Bernardus having declined a call from license from Governor Cornbury Dec.
.

26, 1705, to officiate in the

churches on

Long

Island.

This
part of

usurpation of the Governor in ecclesiastical matters

a settled policy to gain control over the

was

Dutch churches and

ultimately to establish Episcopacy in fact, as well as in law, the

having been accomplished by the ministry act in 1693 This was the beginning of troubles on Long Island and of a controversy between Freeman and Antonides which lasted for many years. The Classis approved of the course taken by
latter

334

ANCESTRY OF

Antonides, but the controversy was bitter and threatened the

complete
churches.

loss

of ecclesiastical

independence by

the

Dutch

In self-defence Antonides was obliged to get out a

civil license.

At

length both pastors were

accepted by the

somewhat more good man but his Concerning Mr. motives at this time are incomprehensible. Antonides, a newspaper published about the time of his death,
churches, after a fashion, and matters became
Christian.

Mr. Freeman was an able and

says

"On

Vincentius Antonides,

the 18th of July, 1744, died at his house at Flatbush the Rev. Mr. He was a gentleman of in the 74th year of his age.

extensive learning, of an easy, condescending behavior and conversation, and of a regular exemplary piety, endeavoring to practice himself what he

preached to others, was kind, benevolent and charitable to all according to his abilities, meek, humble, patriotic and resigned under all afflictions, losses, calamities and misfortunes which befell him in his own person and family, which were not a few, and after a lingering disease, full of hopes of a blessed immortality, departed this life to the great and irreparable loss of
his relations

and friends and

to the great grief of his congregation."

He
a

published

among

other things a volume of sermons and

;

work entitled De Spiegel der Selfken nis or, "Mirror of Self-Knowledge," a collection of ancient, moral and philosophHis children were ical maxims.
:

2.

Johannis,

b. in

the Netherlands,

Aug.
Barbara,

17,

1711,

Jeronemis

Johanna, b. Oct. 2, 1695, dau. Peter Couwenhoven and Patience Daws. m.

ab't 1722,
3.

Rapelje.
4.

b. in

Bergen, Friesland;
2,

m. Nov. Vechten,

1719,

Dirk Van
1699;
d.

Johanna, b. Oct. 21, 1690, in Francker in Freisland; m.

b.

July

15,

Nov.

28, 1781.*

Johannis Antonides (2), son of Rev. Vincentius Antonides, was born in the Netherlands, and emigrated to America with He settled in Monmouth county, N. J., about i7 2 4' his father. and was a deacon in the First Reformed Church of Freehold in He married about 1722, Johanna Couwenhoven, and 1726.
had:
Van Vechten was the son of Michael Van Vechten, b. Nov. 28, 1668, and JanDumont, of Raritan, N. J. He was married three times first to Judith, dau. of Anhony Brochols and Susanna Schrick, and second to Barbara Antonides, both of which marriages were before he was 21 years of age, and third to Sarah Middah who, when he died in 1781, aged 82 years, was just half his age, as she died Nov. 15, 1785, aged 45 years. He was 41 years older than his third wife.
*Dirck
netje
t

JOIIX A. LOTT, JR.

5.

335
1796,

Vincentius, bp. Feb'y

16, 1724, at

27,

m.

Catherine,

b.

Freehold, N.
1745, Antie
6.

J.,

m.
26,

Oct.

25,

Aug.

11, 1732, d.

May 8,

1796,

Bennem.
1726,
at
8.

dau. Michiel

Van Derveer and

1733; m.

Petrus,

bp.

Aug.
J.,

Belitje his wife.

Freehold, N.
7.

d. y.

Pieter, b. July 31,

1727; d. Ap'l

Johannes, bp. June 24, Sarah Van Dorn.

Johanna Couwenhoveil. wife of Johannis Antonides, was She was the daughter of Peter Couwen2, 169S. hoven and Patience Daws.
born Oct.

The Couwenhoven
1.

Families.
1630.

Wolfert Gerritse Van Couwenhoven,

Gerrit Wolferse
lisse Cool.

c.

a.

2.

Van Couwenhoven,

b.

1610;? m. 1635,? Altie Corne1636; m. 1665, Jannetie Mont-

3.

William Gerritse Van Couwenhoven,

foort, b. 1646.

b.

4.
5.

Peter Couwenhoven, b. 1671; m. 1694, Patience Daws. Johanna Couwenhoven, b. 1695; m. 1722,? Johannis Antonides, great-great-grandparents of John A. Lott, Jr.

great-

Wolfert Gerritse Van Conwenlioven emigrated in 1630 from Amersfoort in the province of Utrecht. Holland, with the colonists who settled Rensselaerwyck. He is the progenitor of the extensive Couwenhoven or Conover family of America. The name was probably taken from the village of Couwenhoven, located a little northwest of Amersfoort, an ancient city in the province of Utrecht, Holland, on the river Ems, about ten miles from its mouth, the landscape in its vicinity abounding in well cultivated fields of corn and tobacco.

The
less.

variations in the spelling of the

name

are almost endit

Kowenhoven
imagine

is

frequent, also

Coveiihoven, but

is

difficult to

how Cotiwenhoven

ever degenerated into

Conover, the form most prevalent

at present,

although a num-

ber of families wiselv retain the ancient orthography.

Van Couwenhoven was employed by KilRensselaer, the Patroon. as superintendent of his farms, and was therefore most probably a farmer before coming
Wolfert Gerritse
lian

Van

to

this

country.

In

1636 he with others bought from

the

Indians, and in 1637 obtained a patent for the

ter

same from Wouthe

Van

Twiller,

Governor of the

New

Netherlands,

336

ANCESTRY OF
flats

on Long Islands,* which were afterwards Amersfoort, then as the Baal or Bay, and finally as Flatlands, now one of the townships of Kings Co., few years later he made Flatlands his place of resiN. Y. dence and there remained until his death. When coming to
westernmost
first

known

as

New

America he brought with him

the sons.
2.

three sons, perhaps a wite and

is

daughters, but of his immediate issue there

record only of

These were
d. ab't 1670,

Jacob,

m.

r,

Hester Jansen, m.

2,

Magdalena

or

Mada-

lentje

Jacobse Rysen, who subsequently married June 20, 1675, Hendrick Van Dyck, widower of Divertje Cornelisse Botjagers and

of John A. Lott, Jr. He reand carried on a brewery. His name appears in the list of the "Great Citizenship" in 1657, and he was one of the nine men who represented the principal classes of the community and, in 1649 was one of the agents of the Province to Holland to protest against the arbitrary measures of Governor Stuyvesant. His daughter Neeltje was the first child whose baptism is recorded on the Register of the Reformed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, Sept. 5, 1639.

ancestor of Laura
sided at

Hoes Welles, wife

New Amsterdam

__3.

Gerrit, b, 1610, d. ab't 1645; m. Altie Cornelisse, dau. Cornells

Lam-

bertse Cool and Altien Brackhonge.

4.

Peter,

Nov. iS, 1640, Hester Simon Daws, J DeVernurs; m. 2, Nov. 22, 1655, Aeltje Sibrands, a widow. He owned a brewery corner of Pearl and Whitehall Is on record as an Indian interpreter, streets, in New Amsterdam. Jan'y 30, 1658, before the Director General and Council at Fort Amsterdam. His name is also in the list of the "Great Citizenship,"

was

living in 1673; m<

>

widow

of Jacques

i 6 57-

Gerrit Wolferse
ritse

Van Couwenhoven, son of Wolfert GerVan Couwenhoven, was born in 1610, and died in 1645.
a farm at Flatlands, N. Y., and
in

He owned
the

was

a magistrate of

town
:

1644.

He
d.

married Altie Cornelisse Cool, and

had
5.

William,
m.
1,

b.

1636,

after 1727;

1665,

Jannetje,
dau.

bp.

May

12,

1660,

Altie
2,

Dircksen
Feb'y
12,

1646,

Pieter

Montfoort

Brinckerhoff; m.

and Sarah de Plancken.

*These flats were miniature prairies, devoid of trees, with a dark, rich soil, and having been rudely cultivated by the Indians were ready without much previous'toil for the plow on which account they were highly prized by the original settlers, accustomed to the lowlands of Holland and inexperienced in clearing forests.

JOHN
6.

A.

LOTT, JR.
N. Y., 1705.
8.

337

Jan,

1).

^
7.

Narcissus
of

1639; m. Gerdientje, dau. De Sills* Fiscaal,

Marritje,
l

b.

1643,
-

d.

prior

to
b.

New

Netherlands.
Sept.
20,

19'>

Coert Stevense,

Neeltje,
ab't

bp.

1641,

d.

I 637,

son of

Steven

Coerts

1672;

m.

1660,

Roeloff

Van Yoorhies and Willempe

Roelffse.

Martense Schenck,
land
1620,
d.

b. in

Hoi-

at

Flatlands,

Altie COMielise Cool, wife of Garret Wolferse Van Couwenhoven, was a daughter of Cornelis Lambertse Cool and Allien

Brackhonge.

After the death of Garret Wolferse

Stoothoff.

Van Cou-

wenhoven she married Elbert Elbertse

Cornells Lambertse Cool, a resident of New Amsterdam, bought of Thomas Bescher or Beets, May 17, 1639, a plantation in Gowanus, Kings Co., N. Y., for which he obtained a patent Apiil 5, 1642, and henceforth, until death, was a resident of Gowanus. He married Altien Brackhonge, and had
:

2.

Altie

Genet Wolferse Van Couwenhoven;

Cornelise,

m.

1,

3.

Pieterje Cornelise, m. Claes Jan-

sen Parmerent, alias Jan Pottagie.

4.

m.

2,

Elbert Elbertse Stoot-

lioff.

Lambert Cornelise.

bertse Cool,

Altien Brackhonge or Breckanne, wife of Cornelis Lamwas the widow of Thomas Baddia, by whom she

had Mary, wife of William Adrianse Bennet. See Bennet Families. After the death of Mr. Cool she married William Bredenbent, who in March, 1664, was a delegate from Brooklyn to the
lands.
first

representative

Assembly of

the

New

Nether-

William Gerritse Couwenhoven, was a son of Gen-it Van Couwenhoven and Altie Cornelisse Cool. He was born in 1636 and died after 3 7He resided first at Brooklyn and then at Flatlands, N. Y., where he owned a farm which he sold in July, 1727, to his son William, having moved to Monmouth County, New Jersey, previous to 1721, as at that time he and his wife w ere received into the memberWolferse
1
r

*Hon. Narcissus de Sills was a gentleman of culture, it is said, a thorough statesman and an experienced lawyer. "He brought more silver pla'.e to this country than any before him." He built the first stone house in New Utrecht, Kings Co., N. Y.

i2

33 s
ship of the First

ANCESTRY OF

Reformed Church of Freehold. Most of his the exception of those descended from his with descendants, son William, are to be found in Monmouth County, N. J.
were membership of the First Reformed Church of Freehold when it was organAmong this number there were also four ized, in 1709. daughters-in-law and two sons-in-law, making thirteen persons from his immediate family, or more than one-fourth of the whole church. He married first in 1660, Altie, dau. of Joris Dircksen Brinckerhoff, and a widow of one Matthys. She
Seven of
his children,
five

sons and two

daughters,

among

the forty-nine persons

who

constituted the

died June 3, 1663, and he married again Feb'y 12, 1665, JanHis children were netje Montfoort.
:

9.

Garret,
Altje,

b.

of

Jan'y 4, 1662, Flatlands, N.

m.
Y.

31, 1761,

m. 1692, John R.,

1670,
d.

b.

Mar.

1,

Jan'y 30,

He
10.

resided in
or
d.

New
b.

Jersey.

Aeltje
1665,

Aletty,

Dec.
1691,

14,

prior

to

m.
15.

Martense Schenck and Neeltje Gerritse Van Couwenhoven.

1753, son of Roeloff

Cornells

Symondse, son of Symon Janse Van Aersdalen and Pieterje Claesen Wyckoff.

Albert,
2,
1

b.

Dec.

7,

1676,
b.
1

m. Oct.
Jan'y
3,

701,
d.

Neeltje,

1682,

July

7,

75

1,

dau.

He
11.

m.

2,

Mary
Feb'y Feb'y
7,

Roeloff Martense Schenck and

Neeltje,

b. b.

1669,
1665,

m.
son

Annetje

John,

16,

of Pieter Claesz

Wyckoff and
16.

Pietetse Wyckoff. deacon in the Reformed Church, Freehold, 1719.*

He

Grietje
12.

Van

Ness.
12,

Jacob,
1,

b.

Peter,

b.

Feb'y

1671,

m.

1744,

Jan'y 29, 1679, d. Dec. m. Nov. 12, 1705,

Patience, b. 1674, dau. Elias

Sarah, bp. Dec. 18, 1685, dau.

Roeloff Martense Schenck and

Daws. *
13.

Cornells,
Sept.

b.
8,

Nov.
1700, 1677,

20,

1672,

m.
b. 16,
17.

Margrieta,
d.

Feb'y. 14,
1751,

Dec.

Annetje Pieterse Wyckoff, a deacon in the Reformed Church, Freehold, 1724*.

John,
bp.
b.

dau.

Roeloff Martense

Ap'l

9,

1681, m. Jacoba,
1681,

Schenck and Annetje Pieterse Wyckoff, an elder in the Reformed

1726.*
14.

Ap'l 29,

dau. Cor-

nelis

Janse Van Derveer and

Church,
Dec.

Freehold,

Tryntie de Mandeville, elder

in the

Reformed Church, Free1724.1

Sarah,

b.

27, 1674, d.

Jan'y

hold,

*He and

his wife

were members
the First

of the First

Reformed Church of Freehold

at its organization,

at its or

ganization in 1709.

tHe was a member of came a member in 1712.

Reformed Church

and

his wife be-

JOHX
IS.

A.

LOTT, JR.
Catherine Hansen

339
Van Noor-

Annet,
ir,

b.

Ap'l

13,

16S3, m. Nov.

1704,

Aert

Williamson,
20.
7,

strand, resided at Flatlands,

members Reformed Church,

19.

N. Y.

Freehold, 1717. William, b. Mar.

Jan'y
1709,
19,

Jacomina,

b.

Dec.
1700,

28,

16S9,

m.

16S6,

d.
5,

June

5,

Elbert

Wil-

1769,

m.
b.

June
Ap'l

liamse,

members
1721.

Reformed

Annetie,

25,

Church, Freehold, 1717.

a

He

16S6, d. Sept. 30,

1774,

dan.

Deacon

Lucas Stevense Voorhies and

Jannetje or Janica Montfoort, wife of William Genitse

Couwenhoven, was baptized May

Pieter Montfoort and Sarah

De

12, 1646; a daughter of Plancken. The date of her

death

is

not

known

The Montfoort

Family.

Pieter Montfoort emigrated from Holland, probably from Amsterdam, about 1635. He died Jan'y 4, 1661. He appears

on record Dec.

15, 1639,

Peter Ceasar Alburtus, to

when he contracted with an Italian, make him a plantation and build him

a house, which was probably located at the Wallabout, as he had a plantation there May 29, 1641, to which he added 220 rods square by purchase May 1, 1647. His land had a river or meadow front of about 900 feet and is now comprised between Hamilton avenue and a line a little beyond the line of Clermont avenue, Brooklyn. He was a magistiate of Brooklyn in 165S and at the time of his death a deacon in the Reformed Church of Brooklyn. He married at Amsterdam, Holland, Jan'y 12, 1630, Sarah de Plancken, and had:
2.

bp. May 12, Janica Pieterse, 1646; m. Feb'y 12, 1665, Wil-

Biinckerhoff, of Newton, L.
4.

I.

Pieter Pieterse, bp. July 21, 1652,

d.

Ham

Gerritse, b. 1636,

son of

June

2,

1636; m. Marritje

Gerrit Wolferse

Van CouwenCornelisse
5.

Pieterse,

dau.

Pieter

Cor-

hoven
Cool;

and

Altie

nelisse Luyster.

appears as a catechu-

men
lyn
3.

in the

church

at

Brook-

Sarah Pieterse, bp. Ap'l 2, 1656, d. 1704, m. Claus Pieterse,

son of Pieter Claesz Wyckoff

May
1737,

26, 1662.
23, 1648,

Jan Pieterse, bp. Feb'y

d.

m.
2,

1,

Geertie
17,

Pie-

6.

and Grietje Van Ness-. Willempje Pieterse, in.

Elbertse Stoothoff.

Gerrit

terse;

m.
dau.

May

1687,

Ida,

Abraham

Jorisse

34

ANCESTRY OK

Sarah (le Plancken, wife of Pieter Montfoort, was born in Amsterdam, Holland, and came to America with her husband. After his death, which occurred in 1661, she married Lambert Janse Bosch.

Peter Coil wen h oven, son of William Gerritse Couwenhoven and Jannetje Montfoort, was born Feb'y 12, 1671. He was among the first of the Dutch settlers in the region lying between the present villages of Matawan and Freehold, Monmouth Co., N. J. He and his wife were among those who organized the First Reformed Church of Freehold, in i7o
of which church he

was an Elder in
2,

171

2.

He married
of

Patience
Theodore
d. ab't

Daws, and had

21.

Johanna, b. Johannes,

Oct.

1695,

m.
Vin25.

grandparents
Elias, b. Sept. 12,

son of Rev.
of

Welles VanDerveer.
1708,

centius Antonides,

Flat-

bush, N. Y.
22.

1750; m. ab't 1729

b.

Willempe
Mar.
24,

Mary

or

Marritie,
1787,
b.

1700;

d.

Wall,

b.

1709,

d.

May
June

17,

m. ab't 1724,
ab't

1759, resided at Middletow.n,

Kortenus,
2,

1702,

d.

N.J.
26.

1771,

son of Gerrit

Peter,
14,

b.

Jan'y

12, 1712,

d.

May
1735,
24,

Roelofse Schenck and Neeltie Voorhies. She and her hus-

1774,

m. Dec.
b.

17,

Lea

Schenck,
1st

Dec.

band members
Freehold,

1st

1731.

church of Their son

1714, d. Mar. 14, 1764.

Both

members

church of Free-

William,
a

b. Oct. 13, 1740,

was
cler-

hold, 1750.

He

an Elder 1764,

23.
24.

prominent Presbyterian gyman. Anna, m. John Longstreet.

William,
b.

and one of the original trustees of Queens, now Rutgers

27.

1706;

d.

May

3,

Altje,

College in charter, 1770. m. William Williamson.

1777, m. May 1, 1724, Mary Colyer,great-great-great-great-

Both members
Freehold, 1750.

1st

church of

Patience Daws, wife of Pieter Couwenhoven (12), was born in 1674. She was a daughter of Elias Daws.

The Daws
a resident of

Family-

Gravesend, Kings Co., N. Y., Elias Daws was i"oll in 16SS. He lelt the assessment on name is His in 1672. name is not on record. His chilwife's His issue. male no dren were
:

2.
3.

Rebecca,

b. 1672.

Patience, b. 1674,

m. Peter Cou-

wenhoven, b. Feb'y 12, 1671, son of William Gerritse Cou-

JOHN

A. LOTT, JR.
the
1st

34.I

wenhoven and Jannetje Montfoort.

Reformed Church of
J.,

Freehold, N.
b.

when organ

Annetje,

1676,

m.

Joseph
of
5.

ized, 1709.

Golder.

Both

members

Maria, m. Jan Karsten.

Pieter Antonides (7), born July 31, 1727; died April 27, 1796 was a son of Johannis Antonides and Johanna Cou wenhoven. He resided at Flatbush, N. Y. His will was dated
;

April 20, and proved June 21, 1796. He married Nov. 1 759' Catherine Van Derveer, and had:
9.

10,

Michael,

b.

Dec.

13,

1752;

d. y.
y.
8,

Sicklen, b.

July 20, 1773,

22,
ra
-

d.

10. 11.

Johanna,
1758;

Jan'y 26, 1756; d. Beleytje or Belinda, b. Nov.

b.
d. y.

^S 2
14-

Belinda,

b.

April
!844;

1770;

d.

J an 'y 2 3>

Thomas
177S; m.

12.

Johannis,

b.

Aug.

27,

1760; d.
15.

Hegeman.
Johannah,
b.

13.

prior to 1793. Cornelius, b. Nov. 17,

Aug.

28,

1763;

d.

June
dyck.

4,

1797,

James Gronen-

Aug.

8,

1832; m.

Maria Van

Catherine Van Derveer, wife of Pieter Antonides (7), was born Aug. 11, 1732; died May S, 1796. She was a daughter of Michiel Van Derveer (7) and Belitje, his wife, son of Cornelis

whom

Janse Van Derveer (1), the emigrant, an account of is given in the ancestry of Tunis S. Van Derveer (50),

husband of Fanny R. Welles.

Cornelius Antonides (13), son of Pieter Antonides (7) and Catherine Van Derveer, was born Nov. 17. 1763, and died August S, 1832. He was a blacksmith and resided at Flatbush, N. Y. He and his wife, and by the Asiatic cholera in one week. Maria Van Sicklen, and had
:

their only son

were cut

off

He

married Nov.

9, 1797,

16.

Catherine,

b.

Oct. 15,

1798,

m.

gen, b. Mar.
30, 1870,

Dec.
Jane,

28, 1837,

Cornelius

Van
19.

1786; d. July 7, son of Cornelius Ber-

Clief, of
17. b.

Brooklyn.
n.

July 22, 1S01,

b.
5,

m.
m.
Ber-

Peter, b. Dec. 13,

12, 1832,

gen and Gertrude Suydam. 1809, d. Aug.

with Asiatic cholera.

18.

Belinda,

Oct.
1826,

11,

1804:
C.

Feb'y

John

born July
1S32.

Maria Van Sicklen, wife of Cornelius Antonides (13), was 20, 1773, and died with Asiatic cholera Aug. 6,

John A.

Lott, Jr.

John Abraham Lott, Jr. (40), son of Abraham Lott (32) and Gertrude Bergen, was born at Flatbush, Kings Co., N. Y., June 30, 1S56. He studied at Erasmus Hall Academy in his At the native village, and in 1S71 entered Rutgers College. close of the sophomore year he was transferred to the UniversiFrom this institution he graduty of the City of New York. He ated in 1875, and from the Columbia Law School in 1877. commenced his professional career in his father's office, making a specialty of real estate, and after his father's death succeeded to the clientage of the office. He resides at No. 10 Avenue A, Flatbush, in a Queen Anne cottage which he erected as a homestead in 1SS8. His law offices are in the FrankHe married June lin building near the City Hall, Brooklyn. 20, 1 SS3, Laura Hoes Welles (58) eldest daughter of Rev. Theodore W. Welles, D. D., and Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck, and has Abraham Lloyd Lott, born April 20, 1SS4, and Theodore Welles Lott, born

November

2,

1SS9.

THE ANCESTRY OF

Tunis
Who

S.

Van
2,

Derveer,
Fanny R. Weli.es.

Married, November

1SS7,

The Van Derveer

1.

Families.
m. 1672,? Tryntie de Man-

Cornells Janse
deville.

Van Derveer,

c.

a.

1659;

2. 3.

4.
5. 6. 7.

Dominions Van Derveer, b. 1679; m. 1702, Maria Margaret Noortlyck. Tunis Van Derveei", b. 1704?; m. 1723?, Alhie Schenck, b. 1705. Tunis Van Derveer, b. 1739; m. 1759?, Jance Honce. John Van Derveer, b. 1763; m. 1789, Ann Bowen, b. 1769. David G. Van Derveer, b. 1806; m. 1828, Mary Couwenhoven, b. 1809. m. 1865, Ellanor Gaywood David Arthur Van Derveer, b. 1844
;

Schenck,
S.

b. 1844.
b.

Tunis Schenck Van Derveer,

b.
1

1866

m. 1SS7, Fanny Reynolds Welles,

866.
b.

9.

Theodore Welles Van Derveer,

18S8.

The Van Derveers

of Holland have held the rank of Counts

last

of the Batavian Republic, for the

four centuries.

of the family in 1865, was Nicholas, Count of Hemsflite.

The head The

name

signifies,

from the

ferry.

Cornells Janse

Van

Derveer.

Cornelis Janse Van Derveer came to America from Alkmaar in North Holland, in the ship Gilded Otter, early in
February, 1659. He purchased a farm February 24, 167S-9, of Jan Janse Fyn for 2600 guilders, which contained about 26

morgens of land, on the north side of the land of Jan Snedeker, town of Flatbush, Kings Co., N. Y. Of this town he was His name also appears in the patent magistrate in 167S-S0. a
in the

344

ANCESTRY OF

granted the town in 1685.

de Mandeville, and had
2.
:

He
;

married, about 1672, Tryntie

Cornells, resided at Flatbush

m.

6. 7.

Jannetje
3.

Van Noorstrand.
m. Aug.
15,

Neeltje Cornelisse,
1685,

Daniel Polhemus.

(See

8.

Jacobus Cornelise. Michael Cornelisse, m. Beletje (See page 341). Maria Cornelisse, bp. July 30,
.

page 308).
4.

1682.
16, 1679, d.
9.

Dominicus, bp. Nov.

1755; m.
I.

Hendrickje
Aug.
17,

Cornelissen,

bp.

Jannetje

10.

16S4;

m. Johannes

5.

Feb'y 7, 1702, Maria 2, Margaret Noortlyck. Jan Cornelisse, m. Jan'y 6, 1695, Femmetje, dau. Michael Hanm.
sen Bergen and
nise.

Wyck.
Jacoba Cornelissen, bp. Ap'l
16S1; m. John,
b.

29,

Ap'l

9,

1681,

son of William Gerretse Cou-

Femmetje De-

wenhoven and Janica Monlfoort.

(See page 324).

veer,

Tryntie de Mandeville, wife of Cornells Janse Van Derwas a daughter of Giles de Mandeville and Elsie Hend-

ricks.

The De Mandeville Family.

is derived from the Norman French, Magna pronounced Mannavilla, which became at length Mandeville. The name signifies, trom the great or magnificent villa. The family at an early day occupied a prominent position in Europe.

De Mandeville

villa,

GodfriduS de Maiinaville English, Geoffrey de Mande came into England from Normandy with William the Conqueror in 1066, and in the distribution of lands and lordships which followed the conquest of Great Britain was very His name appears in the liberally rewarded for his services. Doomsday Book. He was the first constable or governor of the Tower of London, and laid out much money on the building. His titles and estates descended to his son William de Mandeville
ville,

who

married Margaret, daughter of

Endo

Dassifer, or

Endo, the steward of William the Conqueror, who in 1104 erected a monastery at Colchester, England. Geoffrey de Mandeville, eldest son of William, inherited the barony and

TUNIS
estates of his father.

S.

VAN DERVEER.
fifth

345

In the

year of the reign of

King

Stephen, 1140, he was fined for the living of his inheritance.* He was hereditary constable of the Tower of London, f and

was

created by

King Stephen, % Earl of Essex.

Yellis> a

Giles JaBSen de Mandeville, the sirname formerly written supposed descendant of Geoffrey de Mandeville, in

from Normandy, France, Holland, the peaceful haven for religious refugees of all lands. In 1659 ne came to America and bought a farm in the
the days of religious persecution fled
to

Kings Co., N. Y. He afterwards bought Manhattan Island, lying between Sth avenue and the Hudson river and extending from Bethune St. to Twentieth St. He made his will in 1696, and the same was
vicinity of Flatbush,

a farm of 30 acres on

probated in i7 OI v
2.

He

married while in Holland, about 1645,

:

Elsie or Eliza Hendricks, and had

Hendrick,
b. in

Gelderland, Hoi4.

Y.

m. Maria van Hoboken. m. ab't

Cornells Janse
c.

land: inherited the Flatbush

farm, ab't
1

Tryntie, b. in Holland;
1:672,

701

moved
:

to Pacof
5.

Van Der-

quanac in the Pompton, N. J.

iS, 1680,

vicinity

veer;

a.

1659.

m.

I.

July
I.;

David,

b.

in

America, inherited

Annetje, dau. of Pe-

the Manhattan Island farm.

6.

ter Schell, of

Hemstead, L.

Gerretje, m. Sept. 4, 1681,

Aeltje, m.

Wyert

m.

2.

Elizabeth

Hansen Ber||

Epens, of Ester Burum.

7.

ry, of
3.

New

York.

Laurence Janse.

Jan.

who

settled at Peekskill, N.
,

*Jehan de Mandeville, born at St. Albans, Eng. about 1300, died at Liege, Belgium, was the compiler of a singular book of travels written in French and translated into many other languages. It acquired an extraordinary popularity, but is not reliable authority in history. Bernard de Mandeville, M. D., born at Rotterdam in 1670, died at London, Jan'yai, 1733; was the son of a physician. He studied at Leyden and received his degree of M. D., 1691. Went to London to learn the English language, and became so proficient therein that people doubted his Dutch extraction. His notoriety rests upon a miscellaneous work entitled, The Fable of the Bees. tLondon Tower, famous as a fortress, a palace and a prison, was founded by William the Conqueror carried on by his son Rufus repaired by Thomas a Becket enlarged by Longchamp, bishop of Ely and finished by Henry III. Edward IV., Richard III., and Henry VIII., made some additions and repairs. It is a confused heap, made up of towers of stone, brick and cement; of houses, bastions, batteries and turrets of walls, sentinels, chimney-pots and vanes. JStephen of Blois, son of Adela, daughter of William the Conquerer and Stephen, Count of Blois and Chartres. He reigned over England from 113510 1154, in which year he died, Oct. 25. He married Matilda, Countess of Boulogne. He was a handsome, hearty fellow, ready with sword or song, a liberal and chivalrous knight, but his reign was a carnival of war, robbery, lawless violence and private feuds. !!Rev. Giles Henry Mandeville, D. D., b. Dec. 12, 1825 m. July 29, 1851, Rachel Jacoin 1372
; ;
; ; ;
;

11

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ANCESTRY OF

in

Elsie Hendricks, the wife of Giles de Mandeville, was born Holland and came to America with her husband. The

Mandeville family are said to have been

Stuyvesant, and the following
is

warm

friends of

Gov.

related as one of the Governor's

practical jokes. While living on the Manhattan island farm, Mrs. Mandeville, on one occasion, looked into her flour barrel and found no more than meal enough to make two loaves of bread. The loaves were made and one was eaten. For the greater security of the other, she placed it on a shelf in the interior of the enormous Dutch oven or chimney with which the house was garnished. The next day, returning from a short
visit to
loaf,

neighbors to prepare dinner, she looked for her precious

!

She supposed it had been stolen it had vanished. lo by some prowling Indian, but several weeks after the event the whole affair was explained by the appearance of two fine milch cows, a present from Gov. Stuyvesant, attended by the Governor himself, to inform her that in passing that way he had entered the house during her absence and discovering the loaf just at a moment when he felt particularly hungry, had eaten
and
it

with

much

pleasure.

Dominicus Van Derveer.

Dominicus Van Derveer (4), son of Cornells Janse Van Derveer and Tryntie de Mandeville, was baptized November He died 1755. He resided at Flatbush, N. Y., and 1.6,. 1679. was sheriff of Kings county in 1736. He married first, JanHe married the second time, Feb'y 7, 1702, net je Maria Margaret Noortlyck, or Van Orteck, of whom we have no further knowledge, and had
.
:

11.

Tunis,

1704; m. ab't 1723, Aeltje or Alhie Schenck,

b.

ab't

12.

Cornelius, m. Moitje, Moictie or

Marytje, Schenck.

He

resid-

b.

May

29,

1705, dau.

Gerrit

ed at Shrewsbury,
county,
13-

Monmouth
Van
Cleef,

Roelfse Schenck and Neeltje

Voorhies.

New

Jersey.

Hendrick, m. Neeltje

Hendrick (2) and his wife Elizabus b. Oct. 20, 1826. beth. He graduated from Rutgers College, 1848, from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, 1S51. Was ordained at Flushing, N. Y., the same year, settled at Newburgh, Secretary Board of Education of the 1859, Harlem, New York City, 1S69, Corresponding
Is a great-great-great-grandson of

Reformed Church,

1886, D. D., 1S70.

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and resided
14. 15.

S.

VAN DERVEER.
July 25,
I

347
1725;

in

New
1,

Jersey.
1719.
J.,

m.

Jannetje, bp. June

74 I Jacobus, b.

May 30, May 9, 1717,

Jacobus, of the Raritan, N.

bp. Dec. 10, 1721; m.
1745,

d.

Feb. 21, 1802.

May 25,
18.

ter Lefferts

Son of Pieand Ida Suydam.

9,

Femmetje
2,

Stryker.

Seepage
28, 1767;
ter, b.

16.

Dominicus, bp.
m.
Co.,

Nov.
1748,

July

1723; Elizabeth
3,

Neejtje, bp. July

1727, d. Aug.

Luqueer.

Represented Kings

m. July 9, 1749, PeAug. 14, 1726, d. Aug.

son
of

N. Y., in Colonial As-

12,

1775,

Johannes

sembly 1750-59.
17.

Lott and Lammetie Stryker.

19.

Catalyntje, or Catryna, or Catherine,

b.

Antje, bp. Oct. 17, 1731.

Jan, bp. Aug. 19, 1733.

Mar.

30,

1722; bp.

20.

Tunis Van Derveer.

Tunis
(4)

Van Derveer (ii), son of Dominicus Van Derveer and Maria Margaret Noortlyck, was born at Flatbush, N.
He was
the
first

about 1704.

of the

name

to settle in

Mon-

J., and purchased lands about midway bevillages of Marlborough and Freehold. He married about i7 2 3? Alhie Schenck, and had

mouth county, N. tween the present

21.

John,
Jacob,

b.

Nov.

8,

1724, d.

abt.

25.

Nelly, bp. Jan'y

2,

1764.
22.
b. abt.

Hendrick
1726; m.
1.

Voorhees

1734; m. m.
:

1,

2,

Peter Voorhees.
26.

and had 14 children; m. 2. Aaltje Wyckoff, and had 6

children.
23.

Tenuis, bp. Ap'l 19, 1739, d. Oct. I, 1801; m. Jane Honce.

Cornelis, bp.
ab't 1764,

27.

May 24,

1741; m.

I,

Phoebe,
N.

b.

ab't

1729;

Voorhees, of
J.

New
14,
;

m. John Brunswick,
731
28.

Maria Conover, dan. of William Conover and Jan

netje Williamse.

14.

Garret,

b.

Dec.
1803

d.

Allchy,

b.

May
2,

26,

1745

m.

Jan'y 31,
d.

m. Ap'l

23,
29.

James Connalon.
David,
28,
b.

1756, Jane, b.

Sept. 17, 1735,

Aug.

1748; m. Feb'y

Nov. 3, 1813; dau. Hendrick Voorhees.*

1765, Catherine Conover,

9,

bp. Feb'y

1746.

Alhie Schenck, wife of Tunis Van Derveer [n], was born

*Garret Van Derveer (24) and Jane Voorhies, were the great grandparents of Hon. Garret A. Hobart, of Paterson, N. J., who has represented Passaic County in both branches of the Legislature, was Speaker of the House, and in 1881 President of the Senate of New Jersey a man prominent in the councils of the Republicans. His grandparents were David G. Van Derveer and Katy, dau. Rev. Benjamin DuBois, of Freehold. His
;

parents, Addison

W. Hobart,

d.

Nov.

11, 1892,

and Sophia Van Derveer,

b. 1829;

d. Ap'l

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ANCESTRY OF

May

She was the daughter of Gerret Roelfse 29, 1705. Schenck and Neeltje Voorhees.

The Schenck
1.

Families.
1660, Neeltje Gertitse

FIRST LINE OF DESCENT.

Roeloff Martense Schenck,
c.

a.

1650; m.

Van

Couwenhoven.
2.

Genet Roelofse Schenck,

hies, b. 1676.

b.

1671; m. 1693, Neeltje Coertse

Van V001Great-

3.

Alhie Schenck,

b.

1705; m. 1723, Tunis

great-great grandparents of Tunis S.

Van Derveer, b. Van Derveer.

1704.?

The

ScllOTlck family claims a remote antiquity, tracing

its

descent through the Barons of Tautenberg, to A. D. 330. The family is said to have derived its name from Edgar de Schenck en, chief butler to Charlemagne,* Emperor of Germany and

France,
turies,

who

about 79S granted to Edgar a

title

of nobility and
the cen-

assigned him a coat of arms.

Coming down through

we
as

find Christianus

known
on the

Schenck Van Roer, iS miles east of Aix la Chapelle. Among these was Gen. Peter Schenck Van Nydeck the progenitor of the larger number of those bearing the name in America.
river
'Charlemagne, or Charles the Great, b. 742, d. Jan'y 28, 814; son o Pepin the Short, of the Franks, reigned from 768 to 814. His empire embraced Germany, France and Italy. He looms over the feudal times as the genius of order, continually inviting the dispersed races to emerge from chaos and to seek union and peace under the protec-

Schenck, whose descendants were Nydeck, from the town of Nydeggan

King

tion of a strong

government.

^Christianus Schenck

Van Nydeck

is

said to

have been a younger son of Reynier

Schenck, Baron Van Toutenburg, cup-bearer to the Count Van Julich, residing at Nydeggan castle. Wilhelmus, son of Christianus, d. previous to 1292, was called Whitstone, and in 1275 appears as a Justice of the Peace between the ministry at Kerpen and the Lord of the castle. He married Mechtildis, who d. 1271. Heinrich, supposed to have been a grandson of Wilhelmus, was Lord of Afferden and Walbeck, having married Aleid Van

Rayde, heiress of Walbeck. Heinrich, son of Heinrich and Aleid Van Rayde, was Knight; Lord of Afferden, Walbeck and Blymbeck, and Feoffer of Gelden, d. Dec. 8, 1452 m. Alheid Van Goen Van Keldenbrock, dau. of Allard, Lord Van Keldenbrock and Anna MontDiederich, son of Heinrich and Alheid Van Goen, Knight, Lord of Afferden, &c, foort. &c, d. 1487 m. Aleid, dau. of Johann Van Buren and Aleid Van Arendahl. Derick, son m. Alheid Custers. Diederich and Aleid Van Buren, Lord of Blymbeck, d. Aug. 3, 1525 Derick, son of Derick and Alheid Custeis; b. ab't 1485, lived at Goch m. Maria Van GaDederick, son of Derick and Maria Van Galen, b. ab't 1507, lived at Goch m. Anna len. Van Berlaer. Peter, son of Dederick and Anna Van Berlaer, b. at Goch, 1547 known as General Peter Schenck Van Neydeck; m. at Doesburg, May 17, 1580, Johanna Scherpen;

ziel.

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S.

VAN DERVEER.

349

Gen. Peter Schenck Tan Nydeck was born at Goch, HolA. D. 1547. -^ e s su PP osec^ to have been a brother of Col. or Sir Martin Schenck, an active partizan of the Revolution in Holland, brave, courageous and daring, and who was drowned through the great weight of his armor, while conducting an attack by water on the city of Nymegen, in 15S9. Gen. Peter Schenck married, May 17, 15S0, Johanna Scherpenziel, by whom he had a son Martin.
land,
*

Martin Schenck, son of Gen. Peter Schenck, was born at Doesbergh in the province of Guilderland, Holland, A. D. 15S4, and is supposed to have been the father of Roeloff, Jan and Annetje Martense Schenck, who came to America in i6c;o. Anuetje married Adrian Ryerse, and is the female progenitor of the Martense and Adriance families.
Koelof Martense Schenck was born
Co., N. Y., in 1705.
at

Doesbergh, Province
in

of Guilderland, Holland, in 1620, and died at Flatlands, Kings

He came

to

America

1650 and was

among

the

first

enrolled as a

member

of the church.

He

ob-

morgens 75 rods of land in Flatlands, N. Y., and afterwards .bought until he had 300 acres. His assessment for taxation was the highest in the town. He was a leading man in the community. He held the office of Justice of the peace several times, and once that of Schepen or judge. He was appointed by Gov. Leisler, Captain of cavalry of Kings Co. N. Y. He married in 1660, Neeltje Gerretse Van Couwenhoven. She died in 1672, and in 1675 he married Annetje Pieterse Wyckoff. She died about
tained a patent Jan'y 29, 1661, for 23
16S6, and Oct. 30, 16SS, he married Catrina Crequers,

widow

of StofTel Hooglandt.
2.

His children were

June
m.
22,
1,

Marten Roelofse,
1661, d.

b.

3.

Oct.

8,

1727;

June

20, 16S6,

hams
1690.

Brinckerhoff.

Susanna AbraShe d.
1,

Annetje Roelfse, b. 1663?, d. 1690?; m. July r, 1683, Jan Alburtus Terhune.

Jannetje Roelfse,
b.

4.

1665;

m.

m. 2, Ap'l Minne Voorhies. She

lie m.
3,

He

1693,

d.

1703.

5.

Feb'y

25, 1704,

Jan-

netje, b. Oct. 8, 1681, d. Ap'l

17,

175S

dau. Lucas

Voor6.

June 22, 16S4, Pieter Nevius. Marike Roelfse, b. 1667; m. Feb'y 15, 1687, Isaac, son of Adrian and Catherine Hegeman.
Jan Roelofse,
b.

hies.

Mar.

1,

1670, d.

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ANCESTRY OF
Jan'y 30, 1753; m. ab't 1692, Sara, b. Dec. 27, 1674, d.
Jan'y 31, 1761; dau. William
9.

Neeltje

Roelofse,
7,

b.

Jan'y

3,

1682, d. July
2,

175 1 ; m. Oct.
b.

1701,

Albert,

Dec.

7,

Gerretse Couwenhoven

(5)

and

Jannetje Montfoort.
Gcrrct Roclfosc,
d. Sept. 5, b.

William Gerritse Couwenhoven and Jannetje

1676,

son

Oct. 27, 1671,

10.

Montfoort.

1745; m. ab't 1693,

(15), b.
4,

Mayken
16S4,

Roelofse, b. Jan'y 14,

d.

Neeltje Coei-tse
30, 1676, d.

June

Nov.

25,

1736;

m.

Aug.

1750; dau.

Van Voorhies and Marritje Gerritse Van Couwenhoven. Margrietje Roelofse, b. Feb'y 14, 1677, d. Dec. 16, 1751 ; m.
Coert Stevense
(4)

11.

Sept.

8,

1700,

Cornelis,

b.

Nov.

20,

1672;

son William
(5)

Gerritse

Couwenhoven

and

Mar. 5, 1703, Jan Luykasse, son Lucas Stevense Van Voorhies (5) and Catherine Hansen Van Noorstrand. Sara Roelofse, bp. Dec. iS, 1685; m. Nov. 11, 1705, Jacob, b. Jan'y 29, 1679, d. Dec. 1, 1744 ; son William Gerritse Couwenhoven (5) and Jannetje Montfoort.

Jannetje Montfoort.

tense

Van Couwenhoven, wife of Roeloft MarSchenck (1) was baptized Sept. 20, 1641 and died about She was a daughter of Gerrit Wolferse Van Couwen1672. hoven and Altie Cornelisse Cool, whose history has been given in ancestry of John A. Lott, Jr., who because a descendant of Gerrit Wolferse Van Couwenhoven, is Tunis S. Van Derveer's
Neeltje Gerritse
,
;

sixth cousin.

Gerrit Roelofse Schenck (7), born Oct. 27, 1671 'died Sept. 1745 son of Roeloft' Martense Schenck and Neeltje Gerritse Van Couwenhoven, came to Monmouth County. N. J. in 1695
;

^,

and

settled in the region, a little

beyond the present

village of

Matawan, known
pears
his

as Pleasant Valley.
list

among

the

In 1697 his of grand jurors for the county.

name

ap-

He

and

wife were among the members of the First Reformed Church of Freehold at its organization in 1709. He was one From of the first deacons of the church and an elder in 715. 721 to 1727 he represented Monmouth County in the ProvinHe accumulated and left a cial Assembly of New Jersey.
1 1

large estate.

He

married about 1693, Neeltje Voorhies, and

united with Freehold Church
1715, her

had
12.

Antje, b. Nov. 15, 1694, d. prior

to

1759;

thias

m. ab't 1712, MatLane of Micklletown,

husband having done

so in 1713.

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S.

VAX DERVEER,
26,

53
2.

Roeloff, b. Ap'l 27, 1697, d. Aug.

22, 1768;
tje,

1707, d. 1758; m.

Oct.

m. ab't 171S, Engel-

23, 1763,
3.

b. 1697; dau. Jacob Van Dorn and Maria Bennet. He and his wife members of the

Jacob Van Dorn; m. Dec. 3, 1779, Teunis Deof

30,

nise.
19.

Gerrit,

Pleasant Valley,
1

b.

Freehold Church, 1727. M- Mary, b. Nov. 1, 1699, d. Sept. Hendrick m. 1724, 1747; Smock, b. Oct. 16, 16S9; d.
1st

Aug.

712,

d.

Aug.

20,

or Jane,

1757; m. Nov. 1737, Jannetie, b. Oct. 6, 17 14, d.

14,

Feb'y
cobus

1792;

widow

of Ja-

May
15.
2,

30, 1747b. ab't

Kortenus,

1702, d.

June

17715 m. ab't 1724, Marritor Mary, b.

1700,
d.

and dau. William Couwenhoven (19) and Annetie Voorhies.

20.

Emmons

je,

May

Margaret,
1735,

b.

Ap'l

17,

1715, m.

1.

Couwenhoven and Patience Daws. He and his wife members of

17,

1787; dau. Peter

William Van Couwenhoven of Penns Neck, N. J.

m.
21.
2.

Derrick Longslreet of
J.

the 1st Freehold church, 1 731. His son William was a Pies-

Princeton, N.
Jan, b. Dec.
7, 1.

1717, d. Feb'y iS,

byterian clergyman.*
16.

1775;

m.

Nov.

22,
b.

1737,

Alhie, b.
1723,

May

29, 1705;
b.

m. ab't
1704;

Ann Couwenhoven,
23^ 1720, d.
2.

Mar.
m.

Teunis,

ab't

Aug.
1741,
1

iS, 1739;

son of Dominicus
veer

Van DeiMargaret
m.
'

Feb'y

5,

Mary John721, d.

and
b.

Maria
ab't

son, b. Aug. 25,

7,

Nov.

Noortlyck.
17.

1767; m.

3.

Catrina Holmes.

Neelhie,

1707;

1,

22.

Albert, b. Ap'l 19, 1721, d.

21,

May

1725, Plendrick Hendrickson,

b.
2,

17S6; m.

1,

Caty or Cata1722; dau. of

1700, d. Feb'y 21, 1753; m.

lyna, b. Ap'l

1,

Elias

Golden.

She and

her 1st husband

members
1710; m.
b.

of

the 1st Freehold Church, 1740

18.

Rachel, bp. Ap'l

2,

1.

Guysbert Longstreet,

Nov.

William Couwenhoven (19) and Annetie Voorhies: m. 2, Agnes, bp. Feb'y 9, 1734, dau. of Nicholas Van Brunt and Geertje Hendrickson.

Neeltje Yoorllies, wile of Gerret Roelofse Schenck, was born June 30, 1676, and died Aug. 4, 1750. She was a daughter of Coert Stevense Voorhies and Marritje Gerritse Van Cou-

wenhoven whose

history has

been given

in the ancestry of John

3, 1748,

*Rev. William Schenck, b. Oct. 13, 1740, d. Sept. 1, 1S23; m. Mar. 7, 176S, Anna, b. dau. Robert Cummings and Mary Noble, and a granddaughter of Catherine

May
Van

Brugh who married as her second husband Aug. 23, 173S, Rev. William Tennent with whom William Schenck studied. He was ordained pastor of Presbyterian Church at Allentown, N. J., 1 771, pastor of Reformed Churches North and South Hampton, Pa., 1777,
Presbyterian Church, Pittsgrove, N.
tired 1817
J., 17S0, Balston, 1786, Huntington, N. Y., 1793, reand removed to Franklin Co., Ohio, where he died. His grandson, was an admiral in the U. S. Navy. " He was a man of much personal dignity and sustained a character that challenged the respect of all who knew him,"

35'

ANCESTRY OF
Lott, Jr.,
is

A.

who

because a descendant of Coert Stevense

Van

Voorhies

Tunis S. Van Derveer's 5th cousin one remove.

Tunis Van Derveer.

Tunis Van Derveer (26), the sixth child and fourth son oi Tunis Van Derveer and Alhie Schenck, was baptized Api'il 19, He died October 1, 1S01. He was a farmer in the vi1739. He married Jance cinity of Freehold, Monmouth Co., N. J. or Jane Honce, of whom we have no fuller information, and had
:

30. Tunis, bp. Dec.

14,

1760; m.

I.

Oct. 28, 1781, Patty Seabrook;

John, choked to death while eating his supper.

33.

m.
31.

2.

Sally

Van Derveer.
4,

Arthur,

b.

Mar.
4,

19, 1769, d. y.

John,

b.

Ap'l

1763, d. Jan'y

3,

34.

Jane, b. Ap'l
1 ^>S9J

1781, d. Oct. 12,

19, 1801,

1844;

Bowne,
32.

b.

Feb'y iS, 1789, Ann Mar. 23, 1769; d.

35n.

m
I.

Feb'y
1769,

Wil-

Ham
Helen,

Conover.
b.
d.

Oct. 13, 1849.

Jan'y 27,
176S;

David,

1).

Jan'y 26, 1766,

all

m.

1796; m. Ap'l 12, 1792, Tunis

He

lived to a

working old homestead

after

good age, and day at the

for his brother

Denise,

b.

Oct.

2,

d.

Aug.

30, 1803.

John Van Derveer.

John Van Derveer (31), son of Tunis Van Derveer and Jance Honce, was born April 4, 1763, and died Jan'y 3, 1844. He was a farmer and resided near Freehold in the Township
of Marlborough,
to

during the battle of

Monmouth Co., N. J. Tradition asserts that Monmouth his patriotic ardor caused him
forces,

abandon the farm and mingle with the American

assigned the position of a

among whom he was

spot

fifer.

The

where he stood while discharging the hastily assumed duty, is still pointed out by his descendants. He married, Feb'y 18, 17S9, Anna Bowne, and had:
36.

Joseph Nov.
Tunis,

I.,
5,

b. Jan'y 9, 1790; d. 1878; m. Jane Smock.

15,

1S76;

m. Ap'l
1793;
d.

20,

1813,
b.

Benjamin D. Van Derveer,

Nov.
i7315,

37.

b.

Aug.

15,

1792; m. Ger-

Sept.

26,

trade
38.
39.

Van

Pelt.
8,

John,
Jane,

b.
b.

Feb'y

1795.

June

II,

1798, d.

May

She was the mother and 100 grandchildren. She resided at Carof 18 children

TUNIS
lisle

S.

VAN DERVEER.
of
43.

353

Station,

Ohio.

Two

1828,

Mary Couwenhoven.
Aug.
14, 1808, d. Sept.

her sons perished

eral

in the

Fed-

Anna,
12,

b.

Army during
Rebellion.
b.

the South-

1887; m. William Harts-

em
40.

home.
27,

Lydia,

Dec.

1S00,

d.

44.

Catherine,

b.

Feb'y

16,

1811; m.

Feb'y
41.

23, 1802. 2r,

Roland A.
1S03;

Ellis, b. 1S10, d. at
18, 1S7S.

Hannah, b. Oct. Aaron Combs.

m.
45.

Freehold, Jan'y
S.irnh, b.
I.

42.

David

/.,

b.

Ap'l

19,

1S06, d.

June 18, 1814; m. John Halloway.

July 23,

18S4;

m.

Feb'y

13,

23, 1709,

Anil Bowne, wife of John and died October

Van Derveer
13, 1S49.

(31 was born March She was a daughter of

)

Joseph Bowne and Hannah Anderson.

The Bowne
r.

Families.

2.
3.

4.
5.

6.

William Bowne, c. a. prior to 1637. James Bowne, b. 1636; m. Mary Stoute. Andrew Bowne, m. Anna Seabrook. Peter Bowne, b. 1710, d. 1773. Joseph Bowne, b. 1735; m. Hannah Anderson, b. 1740. Ann Bowne, b. 1769; m. 1789, John Van Derveer, b. grand-parents Tunis S. Van Derveer.

1763;

great-

Jersey,

William Bowne, the progenitor of the Bowne family of New was recorded a freeman in Massachusetts in 1637. His
him
to leave

religious sentiments

tism, caused

and especially his opposition to infant bapNew England and to settle in Graves-

end, Kings Co., N. Y., where the Dutch held sway, and relig-

Here he purchased a planters' and appears in a list ol the inhabitants of the town in 1656. He is also mentioned as one of the town's magistrates. His wife is not known. He had
ious liberty could be enjoyed.
lot,

May

12, 1646,

2.

John,
rah

d.

Jan'y

1684.

m.

Lydia

clay a
of

member
1700.

of the Council

Holmes.
James,
b.

See ancestry of SaSalter.

ab't

East Jersey,

1692,

served

Bowne

until

President of the

3.

1636;

m.

Mary
5.

Stoute.
4.

Court of Sessions 169S. a son, Obadiah.

Philip,
b.

Had

Andrew,

b.

ab't

163S; will dated

26,
J.,

ab't 1640.
d.

May

16, 1707,

1708; d.

proved June at Middletown, N.

6.

Gershom,
Bridget

prior
.

to

1709;
a

m.

Had

son

1707; merchant in
1680,
15

New

York,

William.

appointed by Gov. Bar-

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ANCESTRY OF
(3)

James Bowne

was

a son of

William Bowne (i).

He
:

was born about 1636, and 1667 was deputy to the General Assembly of New Jersey. He married Mary Stoute and had
16.

Andrew, m. Anna Seabrook.

Andrew Bowne (16), was the son of James Bowne (3) and Mary Stoute. He resided at Middletown, N. J., and married Anna Seabrook. His children so far as known were
:

17.

18.

Andrew. Nemiah, m. Deborah Bray.

19.

Peter, b. Oct. 30, 1710, d. Sept.

1773.

ter of

Anna Seabrook, wife of Andrew Bowne 16) was the daughThomas Seabrooke and Mary his wife. When marrying Andrew Bowne she was the widow Bray with two children, Andrew and Daniel Bray. Her mother was the second wife of Thomas Whitlock who came to Middletown after his second
(
;

marriage from Westchester, N. Y.

Peter Bowne (19} was the son of Andrew Bowne (16) and Anna Seabrook. He was born Oct. 30, 1710, at Middletown, N. J. He made his will Sept. 13. and the same was proved
WilSept. 27. 1773 by William Taylor Esq., at Perth Amboy of the province of Governor Gen'l and Capt. liam Franklyn,
;

New

The executors named in the will were Joseph Jersey. Bowne, the testator's eldest son, and Tunis Van Derveer there was also mention of his wife, two daughters and three sons, The but the names of his wife and one daughter are not given. farms, furniture and farming utensils were bequeathed to his wife and sons; moneys and bonds were bequeathed to his two His children named in the will were daughters. 21. Jonathan. 20. Joseph, b. May 17, 1735; d. Oct.
; :

8,

1812;

m.

Hannah Ander-

22. 23,

David,

b. 1748.

son, b. Jan'y 25, 1740; d.

1,

May

Lydia, unmarried in 1773.

1S23.

Joseph Bowne

(20), son of Peter

8, 1S12.

173^, and died Oct. tion he was Corporal

Bowne, was born May 17, During the American Revolu-

in

Captain Wardell's

Company New

Jer-

sey State Militia.

ried about 1762

He

resided near Freehold, N. J.

:

He

mar-

Hannah Anderson, and had

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S.

VAN DERVEER.
d.

355

Hannah,
Obadiah,
John,
b.

b.

Mar.

31,

1763;

Sept. 15, 1802.

25.
b.

Aug.
2,

19,

1765.

26.

Sept.

1767; a phy.

sician,

m.

Nancy
Bowne.
23,
-

Is-

sue: Gardiner
27.

Ann,
13,

b.

Mar.

1769, d. Oct.
18,

Bowne (37), Bowne Reid; Molly Bowne (38) m. William Bowne (50); Lydia Bowne (39) m. Simon Abraros: m. 2. Mary Craig, sister of
Issue:

Cornelia

m. James A. Reid; had

1S49;
b.

Feb'y
4,

17S9,

Major

James

Craig,

Issue:

John,
3,

Apl.

1763, d. Jan'y

Hannah Bo w n e

(40),

m.

1844,

son of

Tunis
1772:
d.
,

Van
Oct.

Derveer and Jance Honce.

28.

Peter, b.
3,

June

27,
1.

1835; m.

had
Wil-

Schureman Nevius, parents of Henry M. Nevius, State Senator, Red Bank, N. J. Ellen Bowne (41), m. Esek Harts;

Hannah Bowne
James W.
ier First
S.

(35) m.

horne; William C.

Bowne

(42),

liam Campbell, grandparent of

m. Sarah Ann, dau. of Joseph

I. Van Derveer and Jane Smock; Joseph Holmes Bowne,

Campbell Cashm.
2.

National Bank, FreeJ,;

hold,

N.

Amelia
(36),
30. 31.

d. v.

Craig, had

Ann Bowne

David,

b.

Oct.
b.

1,

1777.

m. Enoch L. Cowart parents

of

Catherine,

Samuel Craig Cowart, At32.

June 12, 1779; m. Kenneth Hankinson.

b.

torney and Counsellor at Law,

Lydia,
14,

Feb'y

28, 1782, d. Ap'l

Freehold, N.
29.

J.

1799.

James,

b.

Sept. 20, 1775, d. Ap'l

Hannah Anderson, wife of Joseph Brown (20), was born January 25, 1740, and died May 1, 1S23. She was a granddaughter of Col. John Anderson and Anna Reid.

The Anderson Family.

John Anderson was born
in

Scotland about 1665, and was

baptized in the Episcopal Church there, with the "Right Revfather.

erend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of Ross," his godHe was a sea-captain commanding the ship Unicorn,
in a Scottish

with which he sailed

a cruise of three

expedition to Darien.

After

years he brought his vessel to Perth

Amboy,
in

and became
a

a resident of East Jersey.

He

seems

to

have heen
1710;
the

Council in 1736, during which year Gov. William Cosby died, and the executive power of the State devolved on Col. John AnderHe died March son until his death, about two weeks later.
1

man of education and ability. He was justice member of Colonial Council 7 3 and President of
1
;

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ANCESTRY OF
"lamented by
:

2S, 1736,

all his

acquaintances."

His tombstone

bears the inscription

UNDER
Here Lyes Interred the Body,
Col.
;-i

of

John Anderson,

once President of His Majesty's Council for the Province of

New
He Departed
this Life

Jersey.

March

the 28th

Anno Domini

1736 aged 71 years.

His Country's true friend; obliging to neighbors, Gave no man offence, paid each for his labors, Was easie at home or abroad dare appear, Gave each man his due and no man did fear.

He married Anna Reid and had sons John, James, Kenneth and Jonathan, and daughters Margaret, Helena, Anna, Elizabeth and Isabella. His son Kenneth was a Colonel in the Revolution. His daughter Isabella married Col. Nathaniel
Scudder. We do not know which son was the father of Hanmah, wife of Joseph Bowne probably James.
:

Anna Reid, wife of Col. John Anderson, was born land and came to America with her father, John Reid,

in

Scot-

in 1683.

The Reid
John Reid with
shores of
his wife

Family.
upon
the

Margaret, came from Scotland,

Jersey, in 1683, landing
9th.

their native country, to

New

America December
settled

He

located

first at

Perth

Amboy,
N.
J.,

but a short time thereafter went to

Monmouth County,

and

jacent to

Hop

on a Brook.

tract of land called Hortensia, lying ad-

He was
also

ince of East Jersey,

and
:

Surveyor General of the ProvCounty Judge. His tombstone

his native

bears the inscription

" Here
of
lies

the body of

John Reid who came from Scotland

country with his wife Margaret and three daughters to

Dec'br,

New

Jersey the 9th

Anno Dom.

1683.

He

died the 16th of Nov'br

Anno Dom.

1723, aged 67 years."

TUNIS-

S.

VAN DERVEKU.

\$?j

David
David
(31) and

I.

Van

Derveer.
son of John

I. Van Derveer (43). Anna Bowne, was born

Van Derveer

April

19,

1S06, and died

He was a farmer and resided on the farm forJuly 28, 1S84. merly occupied by his father in Marlborough Township. Monmouth Co., N. J. He was a prominent member of the old Tennent Church of historic renown, with which lie united in 1 S3 1. For several years he was a deacon, but in the latter part of his life transferred his membership to the First Presbyterian He was noted for his un;Church in the village of Freehold.
bending integrity, uprightness and honesty, and by frugality and industry acquired a comfortable estate. His executive
ability

rendered his services frequently

in

demand

as trustee,
filled

executor and guardian, which offices he invariably

fidelity

with

and acceptance.

In politics he adhered to the

Demo-

cratic party, but was neither a politician nor an office seeker. His death resulted from injuries received while endeavoring to drive a young bull out of a field into which he had strayed. The beast turned upon him and gored him so badly that in a few days he died. He was buried in the cemetery of the old Tennent Church. He married, Feb'y 13, r82S, Mary Couwenhoven, and had
:

46.

Hannah
Clark

Matilda,
5,

b.

1829; m. Feb'y
Perrine,

185

June 4, 1, David prominent

22,

49.

John Henry Van Derveer, son Joseph I. Van Derveer. David Arthur, b. June 23, 1844;
m. Nov.
2,

47.

merchant of Freehold. William Conover, b. July

1831; settled in Ohio.

1865, Ellanor
b.

Gay18,

wood Sehenck,
1844, dau.

May

Tunis V. Sehenck

48.

John D.
Nov.

b.

Sept.

28,

1836; m.

and Mary Ann Hartshorne.

30, 1859,

Jane Ann, dau.

Mary CouwenllOVen.

wife of David

I.

Van
1

Derveer, was
;

born June 20, 1809, and died October 22, 861 ter of William I. Couwenhoven and Jane Davis.

only daugh-

35S

ANX'ESTRY OF

The Couwenhoven
i.

Families.

SECOND LINE OF DESCENT.

Wolfert Gerritse
Gerret Wolferse
Cool.
3.

2.

Van Couwenhoven, Van Couwenhoven,

b.

c.

a.

1630.
?

b.

1610;

m. 1635, Altie Cornelisse

William Gerritse Couwenhoven,

b. 1646.

1636; m, 1665, Jannetie Montfoort,

.4.

5.

6.
7.

8.

Peter Couwenhoven, b. 1671; m. 1694, Patience Daws. William Couwenhoven, b. 1706; m. 1724, Mary Colyer. John Couwenhoven, b. 1746; m. 1770, Mary Ackens. William I. Couwenhoven, b. 1774; in. 1805, Jane Davis. Mary Couwenhoven, b. 1809; m. 182S, David I. Van Derveer, grand parents of Tunis S. Van Derveer.

Wolfert Gerritse Yan Couwenhoren's history together with that of his descendants in a direct line, including Peter Couwenhoven (12) of the third generation, has been given in
the ancestry of

John A.

Lott, Jr.

William CouwenllOTen (24), a great-great-grand son of Van Couwenhoven (1), was a son of Peter Couwenhoven (12) and Patience Daws. He was born iu 1706 and died May 3, 1777. He was a farmer residing near EnHe married May 1, 1724, glishtown, Monmouth Co., N. J.
Wolfert Gerritse

Mary
28.

Colyer,
b.

whom we
i,

have been unable

34.

to identify,

and had
1738;

Peter,
5,

May
b.

1726; m. July

1749,

Anna
b.

Davis.

1767, Allchy Jewel. Samuel, b. Aug. 27,

d.

29. 30. 31.

Catherine,
Patience,

Oct. 11, 1727.

35.
36.

Ap'l 24, 1729.

24, 1731;

Aug. 1760. Sarah, b. Aug.

5,

1739.

32.

m. June 11, 1753, Squire Peter Schenck. Theodorus, b. May 24, 1733; d.

Mary,

b.

June

Neeltje, m. William Rue.

37.

John,
3,

b.

1824;

July 11, 1746; d. Nov. m. Jan'y 12, 1770,

b.

Dec.
33.

10, 1825.
b.

Mary Ackens,
13,

Ap'l 28, 1741;

William,

Mar.
1853;

1735;

d.

Feb'y

13,

m. Nov.

12,

Nov. 14, 1826, dau. Thomas Ackens.

d.

John Couwenhoven (37) was a son of William Couwenhoven (24) and Mary Colyer. He was born July n, 1746, and died Nov. 3, 1S24. During the war for American inde-

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VAX DERVEER

359

pendence he was a private in Capt. John Walton's troop of Light Dragoons. He married, Jan'y 12, 1770, Mary, born Ap'l 2S, 1741, died Nov. 14. 1S26, daughter of Thomas Ackens,* and had
:

38. Catherine, bp. July 14, 177139.

Davis and Janet Rhea.

41.
d.
7,

Abigail, bp. June 13, 1773.

Dorus.
John,
bp.

40.

William,

b.

June
1852;
b.

22,

1774,

42.

Oct.

1776, d.

Oct.

3,

Aug.
d.

12,

m.

Dec.

1804.
43.
44.

1S05, Jane,

Aug.

29, 1774,

Gertrude, m. Joseph Conover.

Jan'y

16, 1855,

dau.

Aaron

Samuel, bp. June 20, 1780.

William I. Couwenhoven (40), son of John Couwenhoven and Mary Ackens, was born June 22. 1774^ an d died August He was a farmer and resided in the vicinity of the 12, 1852. He married old Tennent Church near Englishtown, N. J.

December
45.

7,

1S05, Jane Davis, and had

20, 1809,
b. d.

Mary,

b.

June

Oct. 22, 1861; m. Feb'y 13, 1828,

David

I.

Van Derveer,

Ap'l

19,

1S06;

d.

July 28, 1884.

Jane Davis, wife of William I. Couwenhoven (40), was born Aug. 29, 1774, and died Jan'y 16, 1855. She was the daughter of Aaron Davis, t of whom our onlv information is
that he died Jan'y 2S, 1S03,

and Janet Rhea, who died on the

anniversary of her husband's death, Jan'y 28, 1S13.

Janet Rhea, wife of Aaron Davis, died Jan'y

2S,

1S13.

Rhea is pronounced as if written Ray. The family bearing the name is of Scottish oiigin. and was among the earliest in the settlement of Monmouth County, N. J. We can not give a connected history of the family. The first we find is Janet Rhea (i),born in 1625, died in 1 7 5, aged 90 years, according
1

to the

testimony of her tombstone in the family burying ground.

say she emigrated from Scctland.
is

It is safe to

The given name

(2),

of her husband

unknown.

Robert Rhea

who

died

Jan'y 18, 1729, and Vanar Rhea (3), born in 166S, and died All Jan'y 15, 1761, aged 93 years, may have been her sons.
Ackens
is

at times written Akins.

There was a Thomas Akin and

his wife

Lydia at

Penh Amboy,

N.

J.

in 1752.

tNicholas Davis
others in 1666, and

was one of the patentees of Middletown, N. J., with John Bowne and was probably the progenitor of the Davis family.

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ANCESTRY OF

of Robert's children at that time, five in number, were baptized

Freehold, Jan'y 4, 1703. at his own and his wife's desire by George Keith, Surveyor General of East Jersey, who having abandoned his Quaker principles and views and entered the Church of England had become an evangelist. His labois in Monmouth County resulted in the establishment of the ProtestDavid Rhea (4), born in' ant Episcopal Church of Freehold. 1700, died May 1 761 aged 61 years, and Jonathan Rhea (5),
at
,

1707, died May 23, 177' a g e d 63 years, may have been the sons of Robert Rhea (2). David Rhea (4) was a prominent elder in the Scotch Presbyterian Church now known

born

in

as the old

probably the David Rhea

in

Tennent Church, near Englishtown, N. J., and is who occupied with Samuel Forman 1753 pew No. 10. The church records inform us that:
13, 1734.

"Feb.
Robert

dimming were

Archibald Craig, Jonathan Forman, David Rhe and appointed to purchase a farm for the congregatio/h.

In March, 1734-5 they reported that they had purchased a farm of YYm.

Covenhoven, lying between Spotswoods, Middle and South Brooks for The glebe or tract of land comprised considerably over one hundred acres, and was "an excellent plantation." The house, said to have been erected in 1706, was situated about one and a half miles by carriage road from the Tennent Church, and was used by its pastors for upwards of one hundred years. It was the home of Win. Tennent for forty years. To this place he brought his wife, whom he had both courted and married
500."
wi*hin about one week's time, and who afterwards, with much "prudence and economy," successfully managed its affairs.

Robert Rhea (6) married Mary, daughter of Jonathan Forman and Margaret Wyckoff and granddaughter of John Forman the emigrant. We do not know whose son he was. David Rhea (7), supposed grandson of David (4), was appointed by the Legislature of the State of New Jersey, Lieutenant ColoHe took an active part in the war for Independnel in 1779. ence and was a Colonel in the Federal Army during the war of David Rhea, jf?-. (S), is mentioned as one of twelve 1S12. jurors to decide on an inquisition, held Nov. 23, 17S0, before Peter Forman, Esq., at Colt's Neck, N. J., at the house of Joshua Huddy, who was hung April 12, 17S2, by the refugees and In 17S:; he was sheriff of Monmouth Connty. tories. Janet Rhea (9) wife of Aaron Davis, was a sister of David Rhea (7) She was a srreat-STeat-scrandmother of Tunis S. Van Derveer.
,

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S.

VAN DERVEER.

361

David Arthur Van Derveer.

David Arthur Van Derveer
1S44.
ry
(49),

He was

a son of

David

I.

Van Derveer

was born June 23, (42) and Ma-

death in 1SS4,

Couwenhoven, and resided with his father until his father's when he came into possession of the homestead

farm.

He

directed his attention especially to the raising of

blooded stock and the establishment of a dairy farm.

ted quite early in
life

He

uni-

with the First Presbyterian church, of

Freehold, X. J., and affiliates with the Democratic party. He married, Nov. 2, 1S65, Ellanor Gaywood Schenck, and had:
50.

Tunis Schenck,
m. Nov.
Rev.
2,

b. Sept. 29, 1866:

D.

D.,

and Jane Elizabeth

b. Sept. 8, 1S81.

1887,

Fanny Rey1S66, dau.

51.

Van Dyck.
Arthur Perrine,

nolds, b. July 23,

Theodore

W.

Welles,

Ellanor Gaywood Schenck, wife of David Arthur Van Derveer (49), was born May iS, 1844. She was a daughter of Tunis V. Schenck and Mary Ann Hartsl orne.

The Schenck
1.

Families.
;

SECOND LINE OF DESCENT.

Roeloff Martense Schenck,
c.

a.

1650

m. 1660, Neeltje Gerritse

Van

Couwenhoven.
2.

Gerret Roelofse Schenck,

hies, b. 1678.

b.

1671

m. 1693, Neeltje Coertse

Van Voor1714.

3.

Gerrit Schenck, b. 1712;

m. 1767, Jannetje Couwenhoven,

;

b.

4.
5. 6.
7.

Capt. John Schenck, b. 1745

m. 1767, Maria Denise,

b. 1750.

Tunis Schenck,

b.

1770; m. 1792, Ollie

b.

Van

Derveer,

b. 1777.
b. 1S05.

Tunis V. Schenck,

1S07
b.

in.
;

1827,

Mary Ann Hartshorne,

Ellanor G. Schenck,
1S44.

1S44

m. 1S65, David Arthur

Van

Derveer,

b.

Parents of Tunis

S.

Van

Derveer.

Roeloff Martense Sehenek's history with that of his sons,

has been given with the ancestry of Alhie Schenck, wife ot

Tunis
46

Van Derveer

(11).

Gerret

Schenck

(19),

was

his

grandson.

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ANCESTRY OF

Gerret Schenck (19), son of Gerrit Roelofse Schenck (7) and Neeltje Cortse Voorhies, was born August 30, 171 2, and He resided on the Homestead farm at died August 20, 1757. He and his wife Pleasant Valley, Monmouth County, N. J. united with the First church, of Freehold, N, J., in 1740. He married November, 1736, Jannetje or Jane Couwenhoven, and
had:
23. 24.

Neeltje, b. Aug. 24, 1737, d.

y.

28,

William,
Sept.
8,

b.

Nov.
8,

21,

1739,

d.

1834; m. July 31, 1767, Maria, b. July 9, 1750, d. July

1757. 1741, d. Aug. 9,

28.

25.

Army,

b.

July

26.

1742. Garret, b. Oct. 24, 1743, d. Sept.

29,

IS; 1S29; dau. Teunis Denise and Francinke Hendrickson. Anny, b. July 23, 1747, d. Sept. 1824; m. 1, Jacques De4,

Sara,
16,

m. Jan'y 7, 1762, July 23, 1747, d. Nov. 1S05 ; dau. Roeloff Cou1797;
b.

ruse,

d.
8,

Sept. 12, 1791;

1797,
29,

m.

2,

Oct.
b.

May

William Berry, 1734, d. Feb'y 12,

wenhoven and Sara Voorhies.

27.

1S26.

John,

b.

Aug.

28, 1745, d.

Aug.

Jannetje or Jane Couwenhoven, wife of Gerrit Schenck (19), was born October 6, 1714, and died February 14, 1792. She married, first, Jacobus Emmons, and after his death, GerShe and her second husband were rit Schenck, Nov. 1736. second cousins, the great-grandchildren of Gerret Wolferse Couwenhoven and Altie Cornelisse Cool, and second cousins also, as the great-grandchildren of Steven Courts Van Voorhies and Willempe Roeloffse. She was the daughter of William

Couwenhoven and Annetie Voorhies.

The Couwenhoven Family.

THIRD ALLIANCE.
1.

Wolfert Gerritse
Gerret Wolfertse
Cool.

Van Couwenhoven,
Van Couwenhoven,
b.

c.

a.

1630.

2.

b.

1610; m. 1635, Altie Cornelisse

3.

William Gerretse Couvenhoven,

b. 1646.

1636

m. 1665, Jannetie Montfoort,

1686.
b.

4.
5.

William Couwenhoven,

b. 1686;

m. 1709, Annetie Voorhies,

b.

Jannetje Couwenhoven, b. 1714; m. 1736, Gerrit Schenck, great-great-great-grandparents of Tunis S. Van Derveer.

1712

TUNIS

S.

VAN DERVEER.

3 63

Wolfert Gerritse Tan Con wenh oven's history, with that of two generations, is given in the ancestry of John A. Lott, Jr. William Couwenhoven (19), was his greathis descendents for

grandson.

William Couwenhoven (19), was a son of William Gerritse Couwenhoven and Jannetje Montfoort. He was born Mar. 7,
16S6.

He

died Jan'y

19,

1769.

He
5,

resided

at

Flatlands,

Kings Co., N. Y. hies, and had

:

He
10,

married June

1709, Annetie

Voor-

46.

William,

b.

Mar.

1710,

d.

Cornelis Voorhies.

June
47.

7,

1710.

Annetje,

b.

Mar.
Ap'l Ap'l

23,

1720,

d.

Catalina, b. July 27, 1711, d. July 28, 1720.

Aug.

18, 1739. b.
b.
I,

Catalyna,

1722

m.
d.

48.

William,
1735, 1715,

b.

Jan'y, 22, 1713;

b.

m.
17,

Albert,

19,
;

1721,

Margrieta,
dau.
(7)

Ap'l

May

21,

1786

son

Gerrit

Gerrit

Roelofse

Roelofse
Neeltje,
b.

Schenck
Mar.
6,

(7)

and

Schenck
hies.

He
or

and Neeltje Voorresided at Penns

Jane,
14,
b.

Neeltje Voorhies.
54.

1724

Grove, N.
49.

J.

Sept. 19, 1745,

Johannes Dur-

Jannetie,
1714, d.

Oct.

6,
1,

yea.
55.

Feb'y
Gerrit,

1792; m.

Gerrit, b.
23,

Nov.
;

11, 1726, d. Sept.

Jacobus
1737,

Emmons;

m. son

2,

Nov.,
Gerrit

m. 1777 Antie Lefferts,

1782.
56.

May
d.

7,

1748,
19,

Mar.

Roelofse

Schenck
1716;

(7)

and

Neeltje Voorhies.
50.

Sara,

b.

July
-

23,

1728, d. Feb'y

Luke,
Aeltie,

b.

June

3,

settled
57.

24, I73 2

in N. J.
51.
b.

Jacoba, bp. Oct. 27, 1734,

d. y.

Mar.

21,

1718;

m.

Annetie Yoorhies, wife of William Couwenhoven (19), was born April 25, 16S6, and died Sept. 30, 1774. She was the daughter of Lucas Stevense Voorhies and Catherine Hansen

Van

Noorstrand.

The Voorhies
i.

Family.
Willempe
Roeloffse.

SECOND ALLIANCE,
Steven Coerts

Van

Voorhies,
b.

c.

a.

1660; m.
;

2.

Lucas Stevense Voorhies,

trand.

1650

Catherine Hansen

Van Noorsb.

3.

Annetie Voorhies,

b.

16S6; m.

1709,

William Couwenhoven,
S.

16S6

great-great-great-great-grandparents of Tunis

Van Derveer.

3 64

ANCESTRY OF
is

cestry of

Steven Ooerts Tan Yoorllies' history John A. Lott, Jr.

given with the An-

hies and

Lucas Stevense Yoorhees, son of Steven Coert Van VoorWillempe Roelffse, was born in 1650 and was living He resided at Flatlands, N. Y., where he appears on in 1719He was a member of the Rethe assessment rolls in 1675.
formed church of Flatlands in 1677, and a magistrate of the town in 16S0. In 1685 he resided in Hackensack, but in 1687
took the oath of allegiance at Flatlands. He signed his name Luichas Voorhees. He married first, Catherine Hansen Van

Noorstrand
ter of

second, Jan'y 26, 16S9, Jannetje Minnes, daughthird,

it is

Minne Johannis,

supposed, in 1703, Cather:

ine
26.

Van Dyck.

His children were

Eldert Lucasse, m. Styntje Hendricks, dau. of Hendriclc Her-

1769, son of

Couwenhoven and
Montfoort.
33.

William Gerritse Jannetye

27.

manse. Jan Lucasse, bp. Feb'y 19, 1675; m. 1, Oct. 10, 1699, Ann Van Duyckhuysen ; m. 2, Mar. 5,
1704,

Catryntie, m. Roeloff Mevius of

N.
4.

J.

Elsje.

Mayke,

or

Sara

R.

35. 36.

Reinsche, m. Johannis Nostrand.

Schenck.
28.
29.

Willemptje, m. Martin Nevius.

Stephen, bp. Sept.

6,
7,

1677.

37.

Albert Lucasse, of N.
10,

J., b.

May
2,

Hans,
sup.

bp.

Sept.
17,

May

1679; m., 1715, Neeltje

d.

1698; m.

1,

May

10, 1720,

Arre Jeantje Ditmarse; m.

1722, Catryntie Cornell.
will

Nevius.
30.

His

Jannetje, bp. Dec. 25, 16S1,

Ap'l 17, 175S;

1704, as 3d wife,

m. Feb'y

25, 38.

was dated Jan'y 22, 1730, and proved Dec. 2, 1734.

Roelof, of N. J.;
1

Marten

R., b.

m.

1,

Ap'l 26,

June
son

22, 1661; d. Oct. 8, 1727,

714,

Helen,
;

dau.
2,

Garret

of

Roeloff

Martense
39.
19,

Stoothoff

m.

Margareta
N.
25,
d.

Schenck and Neeltje Gerritse

Cortelyou.

He

died 1751.
of
J.,

Van Couwenhoven.
31.

Minne Lucasse,
1733 Antje,
;

Willemptje, bp. Nov.

d. y.

1683,

m
;

h Ap'l
Gerret
2,

1717,

dau.

Pieterse

32.

Annatjc, or Anna,
1686,
d.
5, 7,

b.

Ap'l 25,
;

Wyckoff

m.

Sup.

Lam-

Sept.
1709,

30,

June
Mar.

m. 1774 William, b.
Jan'y 19,
40.

mertje, dau. Gerrit Stryker, of

Six-mile Run, N.

J.

1686,

d.

Abraham

Lucasse.

Catherine Hansen Van Noorstrand, wife of Lucas Stevense Voorhees (5), was a daughter of Hans Hansen Van Noorstrand.

TUNIS

S.

VAN DERVEER.

365

The Van Noorstrand Family.

Hans Hansen Van Noorstrand emigrated
Noordstraat in Holstein.
in

1639,

from

He

married, Nov.

29,' 1652,
2,

Jannek.

en Gerretse

Van Loon, and

30, 1685,

after her death

:

m.

He
2.

died in 1679.
m. Ap'l
je

His children were

Jannet6.

Gerrit,

Jan, m.

1,

Marritje

m.
1681,

2,

Wil-

Remsen, dau. Rem Jansen Van Derbeeck and Jannetje

Rapalie.
3.

luntje
7.

Van Boxum.
m. Ap'l
3,

Volkert,

Sarah

Albertse Terhune, of Najack,

Hilletje

Peter,

m. m.

Andriesse
8.

New

Utrecht.

Janse.
4.

Catherine,

m.

Lucas
b. 1650,

Stevense
son of Ste-

Jannetje,

Peter

Schenck, of

Voorhees,

N.
5.

J.

ven Coert Van Voorhees and

24,

Symon, m. Oct.
Fredericks.

1663,

Maria

Willempe

Roelffse.

(27), son of Gerrit Schenck (19) and JanCouwenhoven, was born on the homestead farm at Pleasant Valley, near Matawan, N. J., Aug. 28, 1745, and died on his birthday, Aug. 28, 1S34. His remains sleep beneath a becoming monument in the old family burying ground at Pleasant Valley. He was a brave officer in the American Revolution with the rank of captain. He was celebrated alike for his
netie

John Schenck

" dash," his perseverence, and his endurance. The wilds of New Jersey were alive with his bold exploits. He seemed at one time to lead a charmed life. During the seven years' strife for Independence, he was so eagerly sought by the public foe and the secret agents of the British soldiery, that he knew but little of the comforts of home. Many a night he slept concealed in stacks in the field. To wear him out in pursuit seemed impossible, and scarcely less so to find his hiding place,
East
as

Monmouth county was

at that

time but

little less

than woods.

A
for

sister,

Island,

Anny, Mrs. Jacques Denise, residing on Long overheard some British officers in conversation and

thereby learned that a reward of

fifty guineas had been offered "the head of Captain Schenck alive or dead." She in-

formed her brother of his danger. At the same time she presented him with a brace of pistols which she had purchased, and accompanied the gift with the earnest words: "John,

366

ANCESTRY OP

certain haystack never permit yourself to be taken alive." at last became known to his enemies as his nightly covert.

This being discovered by a friend, Captain Schenck was promptly put on his guard. The ensuing night a plot was exThe stack was surrounded ecuted for his surprise and capture. and then set on fire, but, to the chagrin of the parties, the prey had escaped. Almost at the beginning of the Revolutionary
conflict, the effect of British
ally.

gold was tried upon him person-

He was

asked what would secure his services for the

Royal side. His answer was u The whole of Europe cannot buy me. Give me Liberty." In 17S1, his home was the center of a battle between the local militia and a detachment of the famous '" Fifteen Hundred" that invaded Monmouth county. The skirmishers surrounded the homestead which received
a portion of the balls of the hostile soldiery.

The

family of

Captain Schenck, his wife and her children, the youngest a small babe, during the fray were obliged to take refuge in the Captain John Schenck marcellar for concealment and safety.
ried,
29.

July 31, 1767, Maria Denise, and had

b.

Garret,
Sept.

May,
1795;
d.

14,

1768,

d.
5,

33.

Denise,
2,

25,

m.

May
b.
7,

1791, Sara
23,

VanDyck,
Feb'y

Jan'y
1857.

July 5, 1776, d. Aug. 1834; m. Oct. 10, 1798, Margaret, b. Ap'l 7, 1781, d.
b.

1769,
2,

Nov.
34.

19,

1867,

dau.

Tobias
1778,
d. 10,

Nov. 3, 1796, JoShe m. 3, Dec. seph Dubois. 26, 1802, Daniel Polhemus.
30.

She m.

Polhemus and Mary Schenck.

Daniel
I., b.

Dec.
;

26,

Oct. 23, 185S

m. Feb'y

Tttnis, b. July 27, 1770,

3,

d. Sept.

1S01, Nelly, b. Jan'y 17, 1783,

d.

1806

m.

Dec.
b.

13,

1792,
11,

July

15, 1858,

dau. Garret

Aeltje or
1777,
d.

Ollie,

Aug.

Schenck
over.
35.

(26)

and Sara Conob.

Oct. 22,

1826, dau.
(29)

David Van Derveer

Catherine Conover.
31.

and
d.

De

LaFayette,
Sept.
11,

May
;

27, 17S1,

d.

1862

m. Dec.

William,

b.

June

14,

1772,
5,

17, 1S05,

without issue, Mar.

32.

1842.
d.

17S7,

d.

Ellanor, b. Dec. 13, Mar; 21, 1873, dau.

Col. John, b.

June

26, 1774,

Garret

June 19, 1864; m. Moyka Van Nuys, b. 1777; d. 1825.*

"Col.
:

Schenck.

Conover and Anna He was the father

Schenck.f
;

of Rev. Garret C.

d.

John Schenck and Moyca Van Nuys had Daniel S. Schenck, b. June 3, 1812 m. -March 23, 1842, Ann Smock. He was the founder of the Schenck Observatory for Rutgers College, at New Brunswick, N. J. His widow donated the plot of ground occupied by the Battle of Monmouth monument, at Freehold, N. J.

may

5, 1872

tRev. Garret C. Schenck,

b. Sept.

14, 1806, d. Sept.

17, 1888.

Graduated from Rut-

TUXIS
36.

S.

VAN DERVEER.
24, 1789, d. Feb'y, i860.
39.

367

David,
23,

b.

May

10, 1783, d.

Ap'l
1S1S,

1872;

m. Nov.
2,

12,

Jane,

b.

July
b.

12,

1789,

d.

Ap'l

Sara, b. Dec.
2,

1799, d. Feb'y
40.

23, 1791.

37.

1832, dau. George Smock and Margaret Van Deventer. Mary, b. June 7, 17S5, d. May m. Feb'y 20, 1S10, 23, 1S57 John Whitlock, b. Aug. 22,
;

Hendrick,
Dec.
2,

July 23, 1791; m.

1812, Sara, b. Ap'l 30,

1797, dau.

Peter Schenck and

Sara Shepherd.
41.

Jane, b. Aug.
20,

3,

1793, d.
15,
15,

Aug.
1816,

1772, d. Dec. 23, 185S.

38.

Catherine,

b.

June
;

16, 17S7,
in.

d.

1836; m. May Aaron Lane, b. June

d.

1792,

Ap'l
1816,

16,

1862

Sept. 23,
b.

Ap'l

iS, 1879.

No

issue.

Joseph Combs,

May

Maria or Polly Deilise, wife of Capt. John Schenck, was born July 9, 1750, and died July 15, i'S2C). She was a daughter of Tunis Denise and Francinke Hendrickson.

The Denise
1.

Families.
Seals.

SECOND LINE OF DESCENT.

Teunis Nyssen,
c.

a.

1638; m.
b.

Phabea

2.

Denys Teunisse Denise,

Tunis Denise,
b.

1&54; m. 16S5, Helena Cortelyou.

3.

1692; m. Francinke Hendrickson.

b.

4.

Maria Denise,

1750; m. 1767, Capt. John Schenck, great-great-grandparents of Tunis S. Van Derveer.

b.

1745, great-

Tennis Nyssen's history

Lott,
jr.

is

given in the ancestry of John A.

Dionys Teunisse Denise given name sometimes written Denys was a son of Teunis Nyssen and Phabea Seals. He was baptized April 16, 1654. He was a resident of Flatbush, Kings Co., N. Y., and married first, Oct. 22, 1682, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. Theodorus Polhemus. He married second, Aug. 12, 16S5, Helena Cortelyou. His children were

13.

Jacques,

d.

1730; m. Reymeriga

15.

Neeltje, bp. Sept. 22, 1689;

Simonson.
14.

m. Jacob Van Derbilt, of Staten

Island.

Thunis, bp. Ap'l 24, 1687;

d. y.

gers College in 1828, and from New Brunswick Seminaiy, 1S32. Was pastor at Marshallville, Walpeck, Clover Hill, and Pompton Plains, N. J. In 1853 retired from the active
duties of the ministry and

a Trustee of Rutgers College.

to Monmouth County, N. J. In 1866 he was elected His later years were devoted to genealogical and historical research. He was humble and unostentatious, content to be Godly, caring more for the approbation of his own conscience than for the applause and honors of the world.

removed

36S
16.

ANCESTRY OF
Tunis, bp. Ap'l
2,

1692; m.
;

I,

of Six
iS.

Mile Run, N.
b. 1700, d.
9,

J.

Helena Van Dyck

m.

2,

Cornelius, bp. Ap'l 26, 1696.

Francinke, dau. Daniel Hendrickson and Catalyntie

19.

Helena,
rn.

Mar.
or

6,

1784;
of

Van

Mar.

1717,

Frederick

Dyck.
17.

Van Leuwen,
Gerretson,

Leiw,
J.

Feminetje; m.

Three Mile Run, N.

Helena CorteljOU, the second wife of Dionys Teunisse Denise and the mother of his children, at the time of her marriage to Mr. Denise, was the widow of Nicholas Van Brunt, of Kings Co., N. Y. After the death of Mr. Denise she married Hendrick Hendrickson. She was the daughter of Jacques
Cortelyou and Xeeltje

Van Duyn.

The Cortelyou
Jacques Cortelyou came
hoven.
first

Family.

to

America from Utrecht, Holland,

about 16^2, as a tutor in the family of Cornells

Van

VVerck-

He was

a professional surveyor of lands,

and resided

in

New

Amsterdam.

He

obtained a patent for the

Nyack

from Gov. Nicolls, Surveyor General of the Colony in 1657, founded the town of New LT trecht, on Long Island, N. Y., and represented the same in the Hempstead conHe was appointed a Justice of the Peace, vention of i66v Oct. 20, 16S5, owned plantation No. 10, containing 30 morgens of land, in New Utrecht, and appears to have been interested
tract of land

some 12,000 morgens at Acquackanonck on the Passaic, purchased by himself and others from He died about 1693. His wife was Neeltje Van the Indians. .Duyn a sister of Gerret Cornelisse Van Duyn, who came from Nieuwkerk, in Zealand. His children were
in a tract of land containing
:

2.

Jacques Mar.
16S5,

b.
4,

Ab't 1662, will dated

1726 ; m. 1, Oct. 4, Marretje Hendrickse
1706, Al-

1692; m. Neejtje Volckus, of Brooklyn.

5.

Helena;

Smack; m. 2, Jan'y, lie I. Boerman.

3.

Pieter,

b.
;

ab't 1664, d. Ap'l 10,

Nicholas Van Aug. 12, 1685, Dionys Teunisse Denise; m. 3, Hendrick Hendrickson.

m.

1,

Brunt;

m.

2,

1757
Cornelis,

m. prior to Nov.

15,

6.

Willem; took oath

as a native of L.
I.

of allegiance

1694, Diewertje
4.

DeWitt.
1660,
d.

New

Utrecht,

b.

ab't

ab't

in 1687.

TUNIS

S.

VAX DERVEER.

369

Tunis Denise, son of Dionys Teimisse Denise and Helena Cortelyou was baptized April 2, 1692. He married first, Helena Van Dvck, and second, Fiancinke Hendrickson. He and
his second wife united with

the First

Freehold, N. J., 1740.

20.

His children
SamSept.

so far as

Reformed Church of known, were

:

Helena; m. Ap'l
uel, b.

17, 1759,

1714, d.

1793,
b.

son of

Their dau. Fiancinke, b. 1759, d. 1S15, m. William Forman,

b. 1751,
d.

Jonathan

Forman,

1823, son of Peter

1688, d. Dec. 1762, and

garet Wyckoff

Margrandson of
1st.*

Forman and Margaret Williamson.

24.

John Forman the

21.

Phemertje,
Jan'y
7,

b.

Aug.
:

11, 1743,

d.

Eleanor,

b.
I.

1734,

d. b.

1796

m.
d.

John
1S11
;

Forman,

1731,

1839 in the 96th year of her age; m. ab t 1765, Rev.

Surveyor and Judge of Monmouth Co., N. J.; son of

Benjamin DuBois,
3>
J
-

b.

March

Samuel
22.

Forman,

b.

1686

739; d Au S- 2I > l82 7> in Pastor 89th year of his age.

grandson of John Forman 1st. Anna, b. 1736, d. 179S; m. David Forman, Sheriff of Mon-

for

many
J.

years of the 1st Reof Freehold,

formed Church,
N.
25.

mouth
1812
;

Co., N. J., b. son of Peter

1733, d.

Daniel,

b.

1748;
b.

in.

1771, Jane
2,

Justice of

Forman, the Peace, commisb.

Schenck,
Stillwell.
26.

1754; m.

Mary

sioned by Gov. Livingston,

1718, d.

Maria,
15,

-5-

and Margaret Williamson whom he m. 1742. Catherine; m. Garret Hendrickson, of Middletown, N. J.

1785,

9, 1750, d. July m. July 31, 1767, Capt. John Schenck, b. Aug.

b.

July
;

1S29

28, 1745, d.

Aug.

28, 1834.

Tunis Schenck, (30) son of Capt. John Schenck (27) and Maria Denise, was born July 27, 1770, and died Sept. 3, 1S06. He resided in Manalapan township, Monmouth Co., X. J. He was a man of enterprise, managing a farm, running a sawmill, and engaged in manufacturing. He married, Dec. 13, 1792, Aeltje or Ollie Van Derveer, and had
:

42. Catherine,

b.

Sept
b.

26,

Jan'y 12, 1794; m. 1816, Peter Smock,

at Carlisle, Ohio.
43.

Maria, Jan'y

b.

Ap'l
1S11,
:

12,

1795

m.

June

25,

1792; she resided

31,

Chreinyonce

Among the children of Samuel Forman and Helena Denise, were Eleanor, who m. Capt. Philip Freneau, "The poet of the Revolution" Col. Jonathan, of the Army of the Revolution, and Commander of the New Jersey regiment in the whiskey insurrection in
:

Pennsylvania.

He

mother
of

of Horatio

m. Mary Ledyard of Seymour, Governor of

New
47

London,

Ct.,

moved

to

western

New London, Ct., and their daughter was the New York Mai. Samuel S. m. Sarah McCarty New York, and was one of the founders of the
:

city of Syracuse.

37
Schenck; m.
bert
2,

ANCESTRY OF
Aug. 1832, Gilresided
at

Sept.

24,

1862

m.

1,

Mar.

Lane;

she

25, 1830,

Sara West, divorced;

Carlisle, Ohio.
44.

m.
b.

2,

Gertrude Arrowsmith,
6,

Sara, b. Sept. 28, 1797; m. Feb.

27,

Sept.

1815, d.

Feb'y

26,

William Robinson ; her descendants have taken the name of Schenck, and re1819,

1S5S.
47.

Jane, b. Dec. 29, 1804; m.

uel Craig,
lisle,

Sam-

and resided

at Car-

side in Iowa.
45.

Ohio.

David

V.,

b.

Dec.

1,

1798,

d.

48.

Ttinis V., b. Feb'y 27, 1807; d.

Jan'y 21, 1867; m. May 19, 1824, Ellen Sutphin, b. Oct.

6,

Jan'y 26, 1890

1827,
x 8o5,

m.
b.

May
Aug.

31,
15,

Mary Ann,
d.

1807;

d.

resided in
46.

Nov. 17, 1876; he Michigan.

Oct. 23, 1801;
d.

July
S.

12,

184S; dau.

Richard

Hartshorne

and

Roeloff V.,

b.

Hannah

Stevenson.

OUie Yan Derveer, wife of Tunis Schenck, (30) was born August 11, 1777 and died Oct. 22, 1S26. She was a daughter of David Van Derveer and Catherine Couwenhoven, or Conover. She and her husband were second cousins, great-grandchildren of Gerret Roelofse Schenck and Neeltje Voorhies.

The Van DerVeer

1.

Families.
Mande-

SECOND LINE OF DESCENT.

Cornelius Janse
ville.
2. 3. 4.

Van Derveer,
b.

c.

a.

1659; m. 1672, Tryntie de

Dominicus Van Derveer,

Tunis Van Derveer,
Conover,
b.

1679;

m. 1702, Maria Margaret Noortlyck.

b.

1704; m. 1723,(7) Alhie Schenck,

b.

1705.

David Van Derveer,

b.

174S; m. 1765,

Catherine Couwenhoven, or

1746.
b.

5.

Ollie

VanDerveer, b. 1777; m. 1792, Tunis Schenck, grandparents of Tunis Schenck Van Derveer.

1770;

great

Cornelius Janse
vid

Van Derveer's
was

history and that of his de-

scendants for more than two generations, has been given.

Da-

Van Derveer

(29)

his great grandson.

David Tanderveer

(29), a son of Tunis

2,

Van Derveer
:

(11)

and Alhie Schenck, was born August

174S

the date of his

He lived on' a farm about midway bedeath is not known. tween Freehold and Marlborough. He married, February 28, 176^, Catherine Conover or Couwenhoven, and had
:

TUNIS
60.
Ollie,

S.

VAN DERVEER.
m. Dec.
13, 1792,

37i
Tunis

b.

Aug.
b.

it,

1777, d. Oct. 22, 1826;

d.

Schenck,

July 27, 1770,

Sept.

3,

1806.

Catherine Conoyer, or Couwenhoven, wife of David Van

Derveer, was baptized February
is

not known.

We

the date of her death 9. 1746 have not been able to trace her parentage.
:

Tunis V. Schenck (48), youngest child of Tunis Schenck (30) and Ollie Van Derveer, was born February 20, 1807, died January 26, 1S90. He was a farmer and resided near Freehold,

N. J. He was a man of unbending integrity, esteemed and respected by all who knew him. Throughout his life he
a regular attendant at church, but did not

was

become

mem-

ber of the church in

his death.

In

communion until 1886 he was enfeebled by a

full

few years before

last

stroke of paralysis

from which he never

1827,
49.

fully

recovered.

His

years were

passed almost entirely within doors.

He
:

married,

May

31,

Mary Ann Hartshorne, and had

b.

Elizabeth Ann,
d.

May

i,

1828,

i860, John, son

Hendrick
Dec.
b.

P.

Ap'l

14, 1890,

without issue.
53. 54.

Conover.

50.

51.
52.

Susanna Ustic, b. Aug. 12, 1820, d. Feb'y 25, 1835. Mary Jane Ustic, b. July 3, 1832. Hannah H., b. Feb'y 28, 1834, d. Jan'y 13, 1890; m. Dec. 6,

Lucy Williams,
Ellenor
A.

b.

16, 1839.

Gaywood,
2,

May

18,

1844; m. Nov.

1865,
(49),

Van Derveer

David b. June

29, 1844.

Mary Ann Hartshorne, wife of Tunis V. Schenck, was born August 15, 1S05 and died July 12, 1S4S. She was a daughter of Richard S. Hartshorne and Hannah Stevenson.

The Hartshorne
1.

Families.

Richard Hartshorne,

b.

1641,

c.

a.

1669; m. 1670, Margaret Carr.

2. 3.

William Hartshorne,

b.

1678; m. Elizabeth Lawrence.

Esek Hartshorne,
Richard
S.

b.

1728;
b.

m. Elizabeth Salter,
1765; m. 1805;
S.

b. 1739.

4.
5.

Hartshorne,

Hannah
-

Stevenson.
b.

Mary Ann Hartshorne,

Grand parents
of

b.

^ 2 7>

Tunis V. Schenck,

1807.

Tunis

Van

Derveer.

family of

Richard Hartshorne, the progenitor of the Hartshorne New Jersey, was the son of William Hartshorne, of

372
Licestershire, England.

ANCESTRY OF

born in Hathearn, Oct. 24, from London in September, 1669,* and purchased land at Wakecake Creek, Monmouth Co., X. T.. where he built a house and resided until 1700. Concerning this purchase of land at Wakecake there is an au1641, and died in 1722.

He was He came

tographic record which reads

house and laid their hands on the post and frame of the house and said that the house was theirs as they never had anything for it, and told me also that if I would not buy the land, I must be gone. But I minded it not, thinking it was Davis' land and that they wanted to get something of me. At last they told me they would kill my Then I cattle and burn my hay if I would not buy the land nor begone. went to the patentees which were James Grover, Richard Stout, John BowThey told me the land was never bought, nor en and Richard Gibbons. * But I told them I would had the Indians anything for it. not live on those terms and not only so, but it was dangerous; for the IndiThey told me no man had power to buy ans threatened to kill my cattle. Thus it continued some months. but the patentees and they would buy it. I considered the thing as well as I then was capable, and went to Gravesend, bought William Goulder out, and when I came back the Indians were at me again and I did buy the land of them. James Grover, Richard Stout and Samuel Spicer were at Wakecake when I bought Wakecake and paid

"The

Indians came to

my

for

it,

being then a patentee as well as the rest."

This is said to have been the first permanent settlement in Middletown township, Monmouth Co., X. J. It was on the Navesink river, and was subsequently called by its proprietor
Portland Point.
still,

The house he

erected

is

said to be standing

and is next to the Baptist parsonage. He was an English Quaker, and when appointed in 16S3, High Sheriff of the He was town clerk of Middletown county, declined to serve. 167576, and represented the county in the Colonial LegislaHe was Speaker of the House in 16S6. ture, 16S3-S6-9S-99. He was also a member of the Kings Council in 16S4-9S-99. He married Nov. 27, 1670, Margaret Carr,f and had:
*Hugh Hartshorne was one of the twelve proprietors, with William Penn to whom in widow of Sir George Carteret and others conveyed the eastern division of New Jersey in fee simple. He was probably an uncle perhaps a brother of Richard the emigrant and never came to America.
1682 the

Robert Carr commanded the fleet which brought Col. Richard Nicholls to New in August 16S4 and secured the surrender of the New Netherlands to the British Crown. Margaret Carr, as she named her first born son Robert, may have been his
tSir

Amsterdam
daughter.

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2.
3.

S.

VAX DERVEER.
7.

Robert,

b.

Dec.

12, 1671.
y.

Richard,

b.

Feb'y
b.

17, 1681, d. y.
2,

4.
5. 6.

Hugh, b. July 15, 1673; d. Thomas, b. Sept. 9, 1674.

Mary,
b.

8.
9.

Katherine,

Mar.
21,

1682.
;

Hugh,

b.

June

1685

m.(?)

Aug.
b.

14, 1676.

Oct. 16, 1723, Sarah Fish, of

William,
m.

174S; m.
2,

I,

Jan'y 22, 1678; Catherine Bowne;

the Nevasink, N.
10.
II.

J.

Sarah,

b.

Mar.
b.

7,

1687.
15, 16:

Helena Willets; m. 3, Lawrence and Lucy Stout.

Elizabeth, dau. Elisha

Richard,

Dec.
5,

12.

Mercy,

b.

Dec.

1693.

William HartsllOrne (6) son of Richard Hartshorne and Margaret Carr, was born at Wakecake or Portland Point, Monmouth Co., N. J., Jan'y 22, 1678, and died in 1748. He married first Catherine Bowen. He married second Helena Willets we have no record of the issue of these marriages other than that previous to his third marriage he had a daughter Mary. He married third Elizabeth Lawrence. His children were
,
: :

13. 14.

Richard by 1st wife. Margaret, m. William

1699,

b.

Nov.

9,

18.

son of Gershom Mott

15.

and Catherine Bowne (12)*. Mary, by 2d wife, m. 1730, John

b.

19.

and Hannah Lawrence. b. 1725, d. 1813 m. Lucy, dau. of Richard Salter and Hannah Lawrence. Esek, b. 1728, d. 1795; m. Nov.
John,
;

1708, son of

Elisha Law-

25,
31,

1764,

Elizabeth,
dau.
of

b.

Oct.

rence and Lucy Stout.

16.

Hugh,

b.

1719;
b.

d.

1777.

Richard Salter and Hannah Lawrence.

1739,
b.

17.

Robert,

1721;

represented

20.

Rachel,

1730,
2,

Monmouth County,

N.

J.,

in

Robinson; m.
Salter and

as his third

Provincial Assembly, 1769, m. Sarah, dau. of Richard Salter

wife, Joseph, son of

Richard

Hannah Lawrence.

Esek Hartshorne
17, 1784,

(19),

son of William

Hartshorne and

*William Mott and Margaret Hartshorne had: John Mott, b. Jan'y iS, 1743,, m. June Eleanor Johnston, widow of Capt. Alexander of the British Navy. During the American Revolution he was captain of the 5th Company, 3d Battalion of the New Jersey Line known as Maxwell's Brigade. He had, Gershom Mott, b. July 12, 1785, d. Oct. 14, 1848, m. Ap'l 11, 1811, Phoebe Rose, dau. of John Scudder and Mary Keen; was collector of the port of Lamberton from 1828 and judge of the court of common pleas of Burlington Co., N. J., from 1833 until his death in 1848. He was the father of Gershom Mott, b. Ap'l 7, 1822, d. Nov. 29, 1884, m. Aug. 8, 1849, Elizabeth Smith; served as 2d Lieut, of the 10th U. S. Infantry in the Mexican war, and at the breaking out of the Southern Rebellion was appointed Lieut. Col. of the 5th New Jersey Regiment, was wounded at the second battle of Bull Run, at Chancellorsville and at Amelia Springs and through successive promotions on account of his efficiency and bravery was commissioned Major General, December 1, 186:5.

3^4
Elizabeth Lawrence,

ANCESTRY OF

was born in 172S and died in 1795. married Nov. 25, 1764, Elizabeth Salter, and had
:

He

18.

Richard Salter,
d.

b. Oct.

1,

1765;
21.

Treat.

1S31; m.
2.

1.,

Hannah

Steven-

Elizabeth, b. Jan'y

1,

1771, m.

son; m.
19.

Stevenson.
22.

Tylee Williams.

William,

20.

b. May 23, 1767, m. Jane Ustick. Esek, b. June 18, 1769, m. Susan

Hannah,
m.
2,

b.

Sept.
1,

11,

1778, d.

1869; m.

Thomas

Ustick;

Jacob Codies.

Elizabeth Salter, wife of Esek Hartshorne, was born Oct. She was a daughter of Richard Salter and Hannah 31, 1739-

Lawrence.

The Salter
1.

Families.
Bowne.
b. 1695.

Richard Salter;

c.

a.

i664(?); m. Sarah

2.
3.

Richard

Salter, b. 1699(7);
b. 1739,

m. 1721,
m.
1764,
S.

Hannah Lawrence,
Esek Hartshorne,

Elizabath Salter,

b. 1728,

great-

great-grand parents of Tunis

Van

Derveer.

The
reign of

Salter

Family is of considerable antiquity. Henry VI., 1422-72, William Salter appears on

good
estate, the

In the
record,

the possessor of a

descendant of ancestors

who

resided at and were the Lords, for over two hundred years, of
a

manor

called

Bokenhamis,

in

England.

the reign of Richard III., 14S3, there

ory of Walter Salter and his lady, in

Sometime during was erected to the memthe Church of Tottengen,

:

Norforkshire, Eng., a tablet with the following inscription

Orate pro animabus

Walter Salter

et Alice uxoris ejus

Et pro quibus

tenentus.

Coming down
in 1524,

through the centuries,

sheriffs

we

find

Henry

Salter

one of the

of Norwich.

In 1655, John Salter,

born in 1592, was Mayor of Norwich, and when in 1663, the charter of the city w as renewed by Charles II., John Salter was appointed one of the twenty-four aldermen. He died Nov.
r

20, 1669

and was buried

in the

Church of St. Andrews.

Bridal-

get, the wife of

Matthew

Salter, died

Dec. 31, 1670, and

his wife,

*Freely translated this inscription reads "Pray for the souls of Walter Salter and Alice, and for the souls of all that belong to them."

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375

though only forty-two years of age, is positively asserted to have been the mother of twenty-four children. Her remains were interred in the Church of St. Ethelred, and on her tomb
appears the epitaph
:

" Tho' dead, yet dear, Tho' dead, yet dear

to

me,

Dead

is

her body,

Dear her memorie."

Jersey,

Richard Salter, the progenitor of the Salter family of New was doubtless descended from some of the persons we

have mentioned.

The

family tradition asserts, that about the

II. to

time of the accession of Charles

ably in 1664, several brothers

the British throne, prob-

came to America. They landed at or near Boston, Mass., where one remained, while two others removed to the State of New Jersey, one of whom setthe other, tled in Salem County, and died without issue
;

Richard Salter, the youngest of the three, settled in Middletown, Monmouth County. From some caprice he changed the spelling of his name from Salter to Saltar, which some of his descendants still use, though many have returned to the old
orthography.

He first appears on record in Monmouth County in 16S7, and is then a prominent and influential personage among his fellow-townsmen. He was a man of marked ability, high social standing, and a lawyer by education. He espoused the cause of the Middletown patentees and their successors, and thereby provoked the ill will of the Proprietors, who denounced him as " a factious and seditious person." The people honored him as the champion of their rights and liberties, electing him in 1695 a member of the House of Deputies and in 1704, a member of the Second Assembly of Representatives. He was also judge and justice, and in addition to these titles, is designated in the old records as Mr., Esq. and Captain. He married Sarah Bowne, and had
:

2.

John,

b.

ab't 1694: resided near

J.
;

Elisha
Stout.
3.

Lawrence and
resided

Lucy

Freehold, N.

will

made
1,

May
1723;

4,

and probated Oct.

m.
Elizabeth,

Ebenezer,
Island,

on Stat en
m. Rebecca,

dan,

N. Y.

376
dau.

ANCESTRY OF
John
Stillwell,

Esq., of

will dated

June
.

13, 1722, pro-

Staten

Island

and
1699;

Rebecca
will
is
6.

bated

April

25,

1723;

m.

Throckmorton.
4.

Rachel

Richard,

b.

ab't
11,

Hannah,

111.

prior to 1714,

Mor-

dated Feb'y
23,

1762; m. June
1695,

decai Lincon or Lincoln; sup-

1721,

dau.

Elisha
Stout.

Hannah, b. Lawrence
at

posed ancestors of Abraham

Lincoln,

and
:

President

of

the

5.

Lucy Thomas,

United States, 1S61-65.*

resided

Freehold

Sarah Bowne, wife of Richard Salter (1) was a daughter of Bowne and Lydia Holmes. She was born at Gravesend, Kings Co., N. Y., Nov. 27, 1669, and was living
Capt. John
as late as 1714.

The Bowen Family.

SECOND ALLIANCE.
1.

William Bowne

c.

a.

prior to 1637.

2.
3.

John Bowne, m. Lydia Holmes.

Sarah Bowne,
b.

1669; m. Richard Salter,

S.

c.

a.

ab't 1664.

Great-great-

great-great-grand parents of Tunis

Van Derveer.
the ancestry of

William Bowne's history is given in Bowne, wife of John Van Derveer (31).

Ann

John Bowne

(2),

was

a son of

William Bowne

(1).

He
for a

migrated from Gravesend, Kings Co., N. Y., to

New

Jersey,

and obtained with others from Gov. Nichols, a patent

*From " Abraham
that in that
all

Lincoln;

A History,"

by John G. Nicolay and John Hay, we learn

of

probability
in

name who

Abraham Lincoln was descended from a Massachusetts family 1638 settled at Hingham, coming from Norfolkshire, Eng. The first

of

was Samuel Lincoln of Norwich, Eng. He died at Hingham, Mass., leaving a son Mordecai, whose son Mordecai removed to Monmouth, N. J. This is the Mordecai Lincoln that married Hannah Salter. He subsequently moved to Amity township, in Berks Co., Pa., where he died ab't 173s, fifty years old, a man of considerable property as shown by his will, and styled by the appraisers "Mordecai Lincoln, Gentleman." His son John settled in Rockingham Co., Va., had a family of sons, among whom was Abraham, who migrated to Jefferson County, Kentucky, and cleared a small farm in the forest. In 1786 he was shot by an Indian and instantly killed. He left three sons, Mordecai, JosAll of whom with their mother soon removed to a ias and Thomas, and two daughters. more thickly settled neighborhood in Washington County. Thomas, the youngest son, while learning the carpenters' trade in the shop of Joseph Hanks in Elizabethtown, marHe settled on a little farm ried, June 12, 1806, Nancy Hanks, the neice of his employer. in what is now La Rue County, Kentucky, three miles from Hodgensville and there on the 12th day of Feb'y, 1809, Abraham Lincoln, the American hero of the nineteenth century, was born.
this family

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S.

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377

tract of land in Monmouth County, beginning at Sandy Hook and extending along the Bay to the Raritan river. This led to He the settlement of Middletown and Shrewsbury townships. was one of the founders of the Baptist Church at Middletown, Deputy to the first Assembly in Gov. Cartaret's time, 166S, and again in 1673 in 16S3 member and speaker of the first Legislature under the proprietors, and was commissioned to hold a court at Middletown in 1677, of which town he was magistrate in 1683. He married Lydia Holmes, and had
; :

7.

John,

b.

Ap'l

1,

1664,

d.

ab't

8.

no issue.* Obadiah, b. July 18, 1666, will dated 1725, d. prior to 1730.
1715,

grandson of Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke, and

was ancestress
12.

of the

Herbert

Member

of

New

Jersey As-

family of N. J.f Catherine, m. Gershom; son of

sembly, 1704.

M. Elizabeth,

Adam Mott of

9.

Deborah,
Sara//,
b.

b.

Jan'y 26, 1668.

10.

11.

27, 1669, m. Richard Salter the emigrant. Hannah(?), m. Francis Herbert,

Nov.

Essex, and Jane Hulet of Buckingham, England, who were married at New Amsterdam, April 23, 1646. See page
.

Richard Salter (4) son of Richard Salter and Sarah Bowne, was born probably in 1699. In 1749 he was proposed " as a
,

man

of good understanding," for

member

of the council, and

11, 1762-3.

receiving the appointment, held the position until the date of

his death about the time his will

was executed. Feb

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey, June 9, 1754- He was also appointed a commissioner to buy lands, to make Indian treaties, and to do other public work

He became

also at

during the years 1749-63. He resided in Trenton for awhile, Allentown, and subsequently built a large, substantial

house on Black Point, west of the Naevesinks

present village
*John

river,

near the

of Seabright.
was

He

is

frequently

designated
J., 1683.

Bowne
of the

(7)

styled Capt.,

justice of the peace for

Middletown, N.

A
his

member
fore

New Jersey

Assembly and candidate for Speaker of the House.

With

brother-in-law Richard Salter, he raised

beLord Cornbury, governor of the province. This the Proprietors claimed was an attempt to bribe the governor and caused Bowne's expulsion from the Assembly, April 30,
1707.

money

to defend the rights of the patentees

tSo stated by John W. Herbert, Esq., of Marlborough, History of the County.

Monmouth

Co., N.

J., in Ellis'

48

37S

ANCESTRY OF
Jr.
:

Richard Salter, rence, and had

7.

He

married, June 23, 1721,

Hannah Lawshe d.
Jan-

Catherine, d.

y.
;

1765, Rachal Rheese;

8.

Sarah, m. Robert, b. 1721

of

son

1770;
dau.
et,

m.

2,

1774,

Elizabeth,

William

Hartshorne and
14.

Thomas Gordon and

David Mundie.

Elizabeth Lawrence.
9.

dau.

Richard.
Elisha,
b.

William.

10. 11.

1727, d. 1756.
b.

15.

Lucy, m. John,
son

1725, d. 1813;

Lawrence, m. 1, Mary Tremaine; m. 2, 1769, Dorothy or Dolly,

dau.
et

of William Hartshorne and Elizabeth Lawrence.

12.

Thomas Gordon and JanMoundie: no issue.

Nov.
d.

Joseph, m.
b.

1,

ab't

1775,

Sally,

16.

Elizabeth, b. Oct. 31, 1739; m.

1,

1734; dau.
2.

m.

Samuel Holmes; Hulda Mott m. 3, Ra;

25,

1764,

Esek,

b.

1728,

1795;

son William
Elizabeth
2,

chel,

widow

Robinson;

Hartshorne

and
m.

dau. William Hartshorne and

Lawrence
Ustick.
17.

Thomas

Elizabeth Lawrence.*
13.

John,

b.

Nov.

17,

1733;

m.

1,

James.

Hannah Lawrence,

wife of Richard Salter, (4) was born in

1696, and survived her husband

who

died in 1762.

She was

daughter of Elisha Lawrence and Lucy Stout.

The Lawrence
rence

Family.

This family is supposed to have been related to Henry Lawwho with Lord Say and Seal, Loi'd Brooke and others obtained a grant of land on the Connecticut river, and in 1635 commissioned John Winthrope, jr., Governor of the same.

Henry Lawrence was

in Essex.

member

of parliament, successively rep-

resenting Westminster, Hertfordshire and Colchester borough

of the

An old pamphlet of 1660, entitled " The Mystery Good Old Cause, briefly unfolded in a catalogue of the members of the long parliament, that held office both civil and
military, contrary to the self

denying ordinance," furnishes the

fell off at

information that
" Henry Lawrence a member of the long parliament,
the mur-

der of his majesty, for which the Protector with great, zeal declared that
*Joseph Salter (12) was founder of the Atsion iron furnace about 1770. Was member New Jersey Provincial Congress 1775. Lieut. Col. 2d Regiment Monmouth MiliHe was imprisoned at Burlington, N. J., from April to Octotia, resigning Oct. 25, 1775. ber, 1777, no reason being assigned, by order of the Council of Safety.
of the
,

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379

spirit, that such such a day as that, when God was cutting down kingship root and branch,' but he came into play again and

'A neutral spirit was more to be abhorred than a Cavilier

as

men

he were not

fit

to be used in

much to the setting up of the Protector, for which worthy was made and continued lord president of the Protector's council; being also one of the lords of the other house and afterwards one of the honorable committee of safety."
contributed
service he

the Lawrences of by the seals, appended to wills now on file at New York, and on old plate still possessed by the family. The crest and arms are the same as those upon the tomb of Henry Lawrence, Lord President of Cromwell's
relationship of
is

The

Henry Lawrence and

America

substantiated

council.

Elisliil

Lawrence, born

in

1666, died at

Upper Freehold,
lat-

May

27, 1724-

He commenced
Monmouth

business as a merchant the

ter part of the 17th century, at

Cheesequakes, on the south side

of Raritan bay, in nected with the

sailors

vious to this date are

Co., N. J. His antecedents preunknown. He is said to have been conLawrences of Essex Co., N. J., who were

and farmers, with farms on the meadows northeast of While living at Cheesequakes his store was pillaged by the crew of a French privateer, and to escape a repetition of a loss so perplexing he moved to Upper Freehold, which was then a wilderness, where he erected a dwelling of some pretensions, and called his residence Chestnut Grove. He was a man of note in the community, and in 1708-9 and 1 716, represented Monmouth county in the Provincial Assembly. He married Lucy Stout and had

Rahway.

2.

Hannah,
1

b.

1695;

m.

June

23,

721, Richard, b. 1699, son of

New York, but of New Jersey.

6.

subsequently

Richard

Salter

and
b. ab't

Sarah

Elisha,

b.

1701,

d.

1793
of

m.

Bowne.
3.

Elizabeth,
1694,
7.

dau'.

John

Elizabeth, m. John,
d.

1723;

son of Richard Sal-

John,

ter
4.

and Sarah Bowne.

Sarah, m. John Ember, of

Jersey.

New
of

Brown, M. D. b. 1708; m. 1730, Mary, b. ab't 1710, dau. William Hartshome, son of Richard and Margaret Carr.

5.

Rebecca,

m.

Watson,

3S0

ANCESTRY OF
of Elisha Lawrence,

Lucy Stout, wife

able to trace.

we have

not been

Tradition asserts that the progenitors of the

Stout family of New Jersey were Richard Stout and Penelope Vanprinces. The latter, it is said, was a young Holland woman, who with her husband and others, was wrecked near Sandy Hook, and washed ashore on the coasts of the bay.
sick was unable to travel as rapidly as the through fear of the Indians made their way with It was not long before the sick all haste to Manhattan island. man and his wife were discovered by a party of Indians coming down to the shore. They killed the man and left the woman

Her husband being

others,

who

on the beach, cruelly cut and mangled, supposing she was After they were gone she crawled to some logs near by dead. and among these, somewhat protected from the weather and wanned by a fire kindled from coals left by the Indians, she remained for several days, subsisting on berries, when she was discovered by two Indians, one an old and the other a young man. The latter came towards her to knock her in the head, but the older man prevented him from doing so, and insisted upon keeping her alive. After a long dispute with his companion the elderly man hastily took her up and tossing her upon his shoulder carried her to his wigwam, where he dressed her wounds and soon restored her to health. When the settlers on Manhattan island heard there was a white woman among the Indians they searched her out and took her to their own Here she married Richard Stout an Englishman settlement.
of good family, a

man

forty years of age, while she

was only
to

in

her twenty-second year.

They subsequently moved

town, N. J., and there in maternal delights the heroine of these tragic scenes lived

Middlethe enjoyment of domestic bliss and

to a

good old age.*

*This tradition is abridged from the version given in Rauuis History of New Jersey omitting details which are evidently erroneous. Raum says This woman was born in 1602 and was only 22 years old when married to Stout. This makes the shipwreck prior to He subsequently says that at this time there were fifty white families in the vicin1624. The circumstances ity of Middletown, N. J., but this was not the case until nearly 1675.
:

apparently point to 1655-60, a time of Indian hostility, and just before the permanent settlement of Middletown. The death of Mrs. Stout, at the age of no years as Raum declares, is doubtful, although he says her descendants numbered at the time, 502.

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381

Richard Salter Hartshorne, (iS) son of Esek Hartshorne and Elizabeth Lawrence, was born at the Highlands, N. J.,
Oct.
1,

1765, and died in 1S31.

village until 1S0S,

He

kept a general store at

to

MidJletown

when he moved

Middletown

J., and carried on a general country store under the name of "Van Mater and Hartshorne," and engaged also in running vessels between Middletown Point and New York. He married first, Hannah

Point, the present village of

Matawan, N.

Stevenson, and second, his

first

wife's sister,
:

whose Christian
1807;
d.

name
23.

is

not

known.

His children were

Esek, m. Ellen, dau. James, son

Feb'y
1890.
27.

20,

J an 'y 2 6j

Joseph Bowne and Han11 ah Anderson.

of
24.
25.

Richard
1814;

Salter, Jr., b. Jan'y 6,

Elizabeth,

d. single. b.

William,

1S03
1808,

>

m
d.

Anna,
Sept.

b.

Aug.

14,

n,

26.

John Van Derveer and Anna Bowne. Mary Ann, b. Aug. 15, 1S05
1887; dau.
;

d. July 29, 1872; m. Nov. 22, 1837, Eleanor Gaywood, dau. Isaac Morris, contractor and builder, New York

City.
28.

d.

July

12,

1848; m.

May

31,
b.

1827,

Tunis V.

Schenck,

29.

James M. Bowne. Tylee, by second

m. Jane A.

wife.

Hannah Stevenson and

of Burlington, N. J., three brothers by the

her

sister,

wives of Richard Salter

Hartshorne, were probably descendants of Samuel Jennings*

who

left

three daughters

who married
and

name

of Stevenson, and

whose descen-

dents according to Gordon's Gazetter, reside in

New Jersey

Pennsylvania.

Tunis Schenck Van Derveer.

Tunis Schenck Yan Derveer, (50) son of David Arthur Van Derveer (49) and Eleanor Gaywood Schenck (54), was born
*Samuel Jennings, a quaker, came to America about 1670, took an active part in public and was distinguished alike for ability and integrity. An ardent lover of liberty, firm and fearless in its defence, he was Speaker of the Assembly of New Jersey in 1707 and read to Lord Cornbury, governor of the province, a remonstrance citing the grievances of the people. It was a very caustic production, and Lord Cornbury endeavored to prevent its rending by frequently crying out, as the more offensive passages were read: Stop Stop What's that ? Mr. Jennings whenever interrupted, calmly desired to read the passage again, and with additional emphasis made the second reading more offensive than the first. Lord Cornbury said that Jennings had impudence enough to face the devil.
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April, 1S95, he occupied a farm near Hagersville, a

few miles from Pekasir, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the 1st Presbyterian Church of Freehold, N. J., and is considered a Democrat. He married November, 1887, Fanny Reynolds Welles, born July 23, 1866, dau. of the Rev. Theodore VV. Welles, D. D., and Jane Elizabeth Van Dyck, and had Theodore Welles (52), born Sept. 3, 1888.

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