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GENEALOGICAL
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FAMILY HISTORY
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A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Building of a Nation
COMPILED UNDER THE EDITORIAL SUPERVISION OF
CUYLER REYNOLDS
Curator of The Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society, since 1898; Director of
New York State History Exhibit at Jamestown Exhibition, 1907; Author of
"Albany Chronicles," "Classified Quotations," etc., etc.
VOL. II
ILLUSTRATED
NEW^ YORK
LEWIS HISTORICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY
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PUBLISHERS' NOTE
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As previously shown, the VAN NAME name of Van Name is an old and honored one on Staten Island, and derives its origin from the locality whence came the founder of the family to America. The church records of Staten Island contain many references to David Van Name, and record several marriages, but none corresponding to that given in the family rec- ords of this branch of the family. There can .be no question, however, that it belongs to the old family of that name.
(I) David Van Name, born 1799, on Staten Island, died there in 1879, at the age of eighty years. He was a builder and con- tractor, and operated exclusively on the Island. In early life he was a member of the Dutch Reformed church, but later affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal denomination. Politically he is described by his descendants as a Whig, and it is presumable that he acted with the Republican party, successor of the Whigs. He married (first) Catherine John- son, and (second) x\bigail Jane Conklin. Children of first marriage were: i. Mary, wife of William Cuddy, who had a son Her- bert Burton. 2. Cornelius, married Nettie Tuttle, and had a son Myers Ludington. 3. George Edgar, mentioned below. 4. John, died at the age of fourteen years. Children of second marriage were : 5. William Conk- lin. 6. John Frederick.
(II) George Edgar, second son of David and Catherine (Johnson) Van Name, was born August 24, 1839. on Staten Island. He was a wholesale and retail dealer in oysters for many years at Hartford, Connecticut, and is now living there, retired. He enlisted in October, 1862, as a member of the One Hun- dred and Seventv-sixth Reg-iment New York Infantry, under Captain William B. Coe, and took part in several engagements, receiving his discharge in February, 1864, with the rank of corporal. He is now a member of Robert O. Tyler Post, Grand Army of the Republic, of Hartford, and of the Methodist Episcopal church of that city. Politically he has always sustained the Republican party. He married (first! September, T862, Antoinette Bray, born in 1844, in Brooklyn. He married (sec- ond! Francps McCune. Issue of first mar- riage: I. Frances, born 1864; married Dr. F. Taylor. 2. Antoinette, born 1866. died
in infancy. 3. Frank, twin of Antoinette, born 1866, died in infancy. 4. George Edgar Jr., born July, 1868; married Emma Hewitt. 5. Holley, born 1871, died in infancy. 6. Joseph Mason, mentioned below. Child of second marriage : 7. Frank, born February, 1884, died in childhood.
(Ill) Joseph Mason, son of George Edgar and Antoinette (Bray) Van Name, was born May 27, 1874, in Hartford, Connecticut. He was placed in a private school in Brooklyn, New York, at the age of six years, and two years later entered the public schools of Hart- ford, where he continued until fourteen years old. He was then apprenticed to George Den- nison, of Hartford, a builder, and continued five years, after which he entered the employ of Herman Mohl, a builder and contractor. He later formed a partnership with Peter Zyk- kie in the building business, which continued two years, and after this Mr. Van Name be- gan dealing in coal and building materials in the City of New York, and later organized the firm of Van Name & Company, which con- tinued the business five years After selling out his interest, he was appointed superintendent of construction for the American Tobacco Company. This position he resigned to become the general manager of the Church Construc- tion Company, of New York City, and con- tinued in that position six years. Many pri- vate and public buildings in and around New York City have been erected by this firm, as have also a number of Carnegie libraries in various portions of the state of New York. Under the recent appropriation of twelve mil- lion dollars by Congress for improvements at West Point, the firm were employed in the construction af new buildings at the Military Academy. After resigning, he again organized the firm of Van Name & Company, which engages exclusively in building construction, with offices at No. '80 Wall Street, New York City.
Mr Van Name and family still retain mem- bership in the Methodist Episcopal church of Hartford. Connecticut, and he is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the Engineers Club, of New York. Thou.gh he has given little time to politics and has no desire for official station, he gives consistent support to the principles and policies of the Republican party.
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He married, June 6, 1894, at the Dutch Re- formed church, in Brooklyn, New York, Net- tie AmeHa Hansbrough, born January 22, 1873, in Woodside, Long Island, daughter of Charles Hansbrough. The last named was born June 3, 1845, in Manchester, England. As a boy he came to America, and served as a soldier in the latter part of the civil war. Later he became a painter and decorator. He married, October 21, 1871, in Red Bank, New Jersey, Anne Eliza White, born October 6, 1849, in Red Bank, daughter of Robert White, a native of Birmingham, England, and Mary (Coles) W^hite, born at Wadesden, in Buck- inghamshire, England. Mr. White emigrated to America and settled in Red Bank, New Jersey, where he had the following children: George, died October 8, 1851 : Harriet Jane, wife of Jacob Antonias, of Red Bank; Sarah Elizabeth, married (first) George McQueen, (second) Thomas Swannell; Mary Hannah, married (first) Jeflferson Hillier, (second) Oscar Leith ; John R., married Catherine Way; Anne Eliza, wife of Joseph M. Van Name; William Henry and Lucy Ann, twins, the former died October 16, and the latter, October 31, 1857; Henrietta, wife of William Conklin Van Name. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph M. Van Name had a daughter, Edna, born May 17, 1896, died in infancy.
A branch of the Goelet family GOELET being Protestants, to avoid per- secution, removed from Ro- chelle in France in the year 1621 and settled in Amsterdam where they remained until 1676, and Francis Goelet, the youngest son of the family, having lost his wife, with an only child. Jacobus Goelet, a boy about ten years of age, came to New York. He left his son in the care of Mr. Frederick PhilHpse, a merchant of New York, and sailed for Amsterdam with the intention of returning with his effects, but as he was never afterwards heard of, it was supposed that he was lost at sea, after which Jacobus Goelet married Jannetie, daughter of Mr. Coesaar, likewise a Rochelle refugee fam- ily, and had six children: i. Jacobus, the eldest, married Miss Buller and had children. 2. James, who died at about twenty years of ^S^- 3- Jannetie, who married Mr. John Dies. They had several children. This family moved from New York and settled at Kaats
Kill. 4. Francis, was a surgeon on an Eng- lish man-of-war and was lost in the river St. Lawrence in the expedition against Can- ada, under Sir Hovenden Walker, a. d. 171 i. 5. John, married Jannetie Cannon, of a Protestant refugee family from France (from whom Peter Goelet is descended) and had several children : Raphael, married Miss Pelse and died without issue. Phillip, married Miss Buller, had one son and two daughters. The son died in St. Eustatia at about thirty . years of age and was not married. Jannetie, married Alderman Abraham P. Lott and had no children. The other daughter, Catherine, married Peter Cartenius and had several children. 6. Effe, married Mr. Burger and had children.
It is related, that about 1710, Jacobus Goelet went to Amsterdam and was directed by his father had built, and that he would know the and informed him in what part of the city they had lived and also a house his grand- father had built, and that he would know the house by the family arms being cut in stone on the front of it, and to inquire for the Spoorinburgh family into which one of his father's aunts had married. He found the house, it being a very large building and being informed where the Spoorinburgh family re- sided, he called upon them and found them far advanced in life. They had two daugh- ters married, and were a wealthy family, and one of the Goelets was captain of an Indiaman. They were all in the mer- cantile business and in the India trade. He found that the family in Amsterdam had never heard of the family in New York since the latter first left Holland, suppos- ing them to be lost at sea, there being at that time but one American vessel in Dutch trade and she very irregular in her voyages, sometimes making one in each year, some- times one in two years and sometimes one voyage in three years. Jacobus Goelet died on the 20th of August, 1731, at sixty-six years of age, and was buried in the Old Dutch Church, about the middle of the left aisle in the church when entered from the street, called Garden Street.
John Goelet, the third son of Jacobus Goe- let by Jannetie Coesaar, his wife, born Feb- ruary I, 1694, married Jannetie Cannon, daughter of John Cannon by Mary Le Grand,
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his wife, descended from a refugee family of Rochelle in France, and died July 13, 1753, age fifty-nine years. Had thirteen children, several of them dying quite young.
Peter Goelet, the fifth child, was born Janu- ary 5, 1727, died October 11, 181 1, age eighty- four years. He was married on April 27, 1755, to Elizabeth Ratsey and had children: Alice, Jannetie, John, Peter P., Elizabeth On December 6, 1770, Peter Goelet was mar- ried to Mary Ludlow, daughter of Henry Lud- low Esq., of New York, and had issue: Mary, born June 17, 1773, died January 31, 1774, age eight months. On October 26, 1775, Peter Goelet was married to Elizabeth Farmer, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Farmer, who, having inherited the estate of Bentley in Staten Island, assumed the name of Billop, the old proprietor. They had issue, five chil- dren: Sarah, Thomas Billop, Mary, Cather- ine, Christopher Billop. February i, 1792', Peter Goelet was married to Rachael Farmer, the daughter of the aforesaid Thomas and Sarah Billop ; had no issue.
Peter P. Goelet, the son of Peter Goelet by Elizabeth Ratsey, was born on August 18, 1764, and was christened on Friday morning, August 24, in Trinity Church by the Rev. Mr. Auchmuty. In the Year of Our Lord 1799, on the 9th day of May, Peter P. Goelet was married to Almy Buchanan, the daughter of Thomas Buchanan by Almy Townsend, his wife, at the house of Thomas Buchanan in Wall Street. They had issue: i. Peter, born June 22, 1800, died November 21, 1879. 2. Jean Buchanan, born February 7, 1802. 3. Francis, born March 2, 1804, died July, 1804, and was buried in the Goelet family vault in Trinity churchyard. 4. Hannah Green, born January 19, 1806, at the house of Peter Goelet in Water Street, was married, June 30, 1830, to Thomas R. Gerry, son of Elbridge Gerry and Ann Gerry. 5. Francis (2), born January 12, 1808, died January 16, 1809, buried in Trinity churchyard. 6. Robert, born September 19, 1809. Married Sarah Ogden, the daughter of the late Jonathan Ogden, October 16, 1839 Married by the Rev Berrian, rector of Trinity Church ; died September 22, 1879. Buried in the Marble cemetery. New York City, Second Avenue. They had issue : Robert, born September 29, 1841. Helen, borfi March 8, 1843, died
March 15, 1844. Ogden, born June 11, 1846.
Robert Goelet was married to Harriette Louise Warren, (the daughter of George Henry Warren and Mary Phoenix), by the Rev. Dr. Tucker, at No. 520 Fifth Avenue, the 17th day of April, 1879. Died April 27, 1889, at Naples, Italy, on his steam yacht "Nahma." Buried in the Goelet family vault at Woodlawn. They had issue: i. Robert Walton, born March 19, 1880, at 279 Madison Avenue. 2. Beatrice, born December 11, 1885, died February 11, 1902, and interred in the Goelet vault in Woodlawn cemetery.
Ogden Goelet was married to Mary R. Wil- son, the daughter of Richard Thornton Wil- son. He died August 27, 1897, on board his steam yacht "Mayflower" at Cowes, England, and was interred in the Goelet family vault in Woodlawn cemetery. They had issue: i. Mary Wilson, born October 6, 1878. Married, November 10, 1903, to Henry John Innes- Kerr, eighth Duke of Roxburghe. 2. Robert Goelet, born January 9, 1880. Married to Elsie Whelen, daughter of Henry Whelen Jr., on June 14, 1904, at Wayne, Pennsylvania. They had issue: Ogden, born January 17, 1907, and Peter, born June 8, 191 1.
It is now a pretty well estab- BEEKMAN lished fact that the families
in New Jersey bearing the name of Beekman are descended from two distinct sources, one of which is Willem Beeckman (Beekman), of New York, who emigrated to New Amsterdam in 1647, and the other Maarten Beeckman, of Albany, who is the progenitor of the branch of the family at present under consideration.
(I) Maarten Beeckman emigrated to New Netherland in 1638, and settled in Albany, where he plied his trade of blacksmith, and died before June 21, 1677. He married Su- sanna Jans, and had at least three children: Johannes; Hendrick, referred to below; Metie.
(II) Hendrick, son of Maarten and Su- sanna (Jans) Beeckman, lived for a number of years at Schodack, near Albany, and November 13, 1710, purchased from Octavo Coenraats, merchant of New York, two hun- dred and fifty acres of land on the Raritap river in Somerset county, New Jersey, it being a part of the tract bought by Coenraats
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from Peter Sonmans, who in turn had pur- chased it from the proprietors of East Jersey. The deed for this land has never been re- corded, and is now in possession of Mrs. Elizabeth (Beekman) Vredenburgh, who still owns a portion of the land described, which she inherited from her father, Benjamin Beekman, and her mother, Cornelia Beekman. He married Annetje, daughter of Peter Quackenbush and among his children was Marten, referred to below.
(III) Marten Beekman, son of Hendrick Beeckman, was born in 1685, died October 27, 1757. The descendants of his three sons are very numerous in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Oregon, and elsewhere. He married, June 21, 1734, Elizabeth, daugh- ter of Samuel and Neeltje fBloetjoet) Wald- ron. and granddaughter of Resolved Waldron, of Harlem, who was sheriff of New York City under Governor Peter Stuyvesant. She was born in 1700 and died November 27, 1760. Children : Elizabeth, Hendrick, Samuel, Annatie and Johannes.
(IV) Johannes (John"), youngest child of Marten and Elizabeth (Waldron) Beekman, was born November 5. 1741. in .Somerset county. New Jersey, where he died March 17, 1789 He married, July 30. 1769. Arriantje Tunison, born October 12, 1753, died Janu- ary 31, 1835. They were the parents of four children.
(V) Cornelius, son of John and Arriantie (Tunisonl Beekman. was born January 28, 1772, in Somerville, New Jersey, and died July 5, 1850. He married, in 1702, Rebecca Sharp, born January 2. 1772, died February 27, 1844, aged seventy-two years. They had three sons and two daughters.
(VI) Beniamin. son of Cornelius and Re- becca C Sharp) Beekman. was born Aoril 27, 1804, in Si^merville, and died at Dundee New York, Aoril 8, 1879. ^^ married, at Plain- field, New Tersev. March 21, 1827. Lvdia Comnton. born there March 3. i8o5, died in Dundee. New York. October 2. i8qt, daugh- ter of Toshua and Catherine (Co«ad) Comn- ton. He resided in Somerville. New Tersev, and New York Citv. and removed to Dimdee after T820. Children: i. Corneliiis C, born Januarv 27, T828, in New York, now resides at Jacksonville, Oregfon ; married, at Jacksonville, Julia E. Hoffman. 2. Abram.
mentioned below. 3. John, born March 9, 1832, at Dundee; married (first) Elizabeth Disbrow, (second) Helena Ackerson, and died at Bath. 4. Lydia Ann, May 30, 1834, died in Dundee in 1910; married there in 1853, Marcus T. Seely. 5. Thomas De Witt. August 22, 1841, now resides at Dundee, New York : married, in 1863, Isadore Fowler, of Elmira, New York. 6 and 7. Cyrus and Augustus, twins, born August 25, 1844, i" Dundee. The former died there in 185 1, and the latter when four days old.
(VII) Abram, second son of Benjamin and Lydia (Compton) Beekman, was bom December 26, 1829, in New York City, died at Bath, Steuben county, New York, May 10, 1907. He married, October 30, 1861, Sarah McKay Fowler, of Bath, born there Novem- ber 21, 1843, died there September 27, 1905, daughter of John W. and Helen D. (Clement) Fowler, who were married November 12, 1823. Children: i. Lydia, born June 28, 1863, married George H. Parker, of Bath. 2. George N., born September 17, 1865, in Bath, now resides there; married there, in 1891, Julia E. Averell. 3. John Fowler, mentioned below. 4. Edgar, mentioned below. 5. Cor- nelius C, mentioned below.
(A'lII) John Fowler, second son of Abram and Sarah M. (Fowler) Beekman, was born February 18, 1869, in Bath, where he is now living engaged in the manufacturing business. He is a Presbyterian in religious faith, and a Republican in politics. He re- ceived his education in Bath and for a short time resided in New York City, returning to his native place in 1912. He married, in New York City, May 22, i88g, Caroline A. Young, daughter of William H. and Polly (Brund- age) Young.
(VIID Edgar, third son of Abram and Sarah M. (Fowler) Beekman, was born March iq, 1872, at Bath, and now resides at Bronxville, New York. He was educated at the Haverling Union School in his native place and became an expert in corporation taxation. He is a Presbyterian in religious faith, a Republican in politics, a member of the Aero Club of .A.merica, the RTasonic Club, and the Bronxville Athletic Association. He married, at Jersey Citv, New Jersey, Decem- ber 21, 1893, May Hastings Leonard, bom August 23, 1869, in Troy, Pennsylvania,
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daughter of Solyman and Elizabeth (Hast- ings) Leonard. They have one son, Abram Leonard, born August 21, 1895, at Forest Hill, New Jersey.
(VHI) Cornelius C, youngest child of Abram and Sarah M. (Fowler) Beekman, was born August 17, 1880, at Bath, where he grew up, receiving his primary education at the Haverling High School of his native town. He subsequently entered Columbia Law School of New York City and is now engaged in the practice of law in New York, with residence in Brooklyn. He is a Presby- terian in religion, and a Republican in his political views. He married, in Brooklyn, November 8, 191 1, Josephine Estelle Egan, born November 9, 1882, in Syracuse, New York, daughter of the late William G. Egan and Josephine M. Egan, now Mrs. H. R. H. Nicholas, of Brooklyn, New York.
This surname in the old WORTENDYKE records is also found in
the forms of Woorten- dyck, Woertendky and Weortendijck. The bearers of the name have a common ancestry with those who bear the name Somerindyke, the other forms of which, found in the old records, are: Somerindyck, Somerindyk, Somerindick, Somerindicke and Somerindijck. The immigrant ancestor, Cornelius Jacobsen, is found at an early date bearing the sobriquet of Stille (or The Silent), which may have been no true surname, but merely an appella- tion given to him to denote one of his charac- teristics. Cornelius Jacobsen came to this country with his brother John, and it has been said that the descendants of Cornelius adopted the surname of Wortendyke, while the de- scendants of John assumed that of Somerin- dyke. Cornelius, however, had a large family of children, and the descendants of some of the sons took the surname Wortendyke, and the descendants of the others took that of Somerindyke. What were the motives gov- erning the choice are not now quite clear.
(I) Cornelius Jacobsen, alias Stille, the immigrant ancestor of the Wortendyke familv. came to this country from Amsterdam. Hol- land, with his brother, John, in 1639. Shortly after their arrival they are said by one author- ity to have assumed the name of Somerin- dyke, which in the case of Cornelius was sub-
sequently changed to Wortendyke. Besides the sobriquet of Stille, Cornelius also appears to have been known as "Van Vreelandt," in- dicating from what part of Holland he had come. One authority states that Cornelius, and perhaps also John, his brother, was in New Amsterdam as early as 1631, and re- sided at the head of what is now Chatham Square. The records indicate that after re- maining a short time in New Amsterdam (later New York) he bought and located on a plantation at Bushwick, Long Island. From there he removed to what is now the Williams- burg district of Brooklyn. In 1664 he took the oath of allegiance to the British govern- ment, at which time he was residing on a farm of a hundred acres in what was formerly the Greenwich district of New York City. He married (first) August 24, 1692, Classic Teunis; (second) July 28, 1675, Trynte Wait- ings Van Winkle, of Amsterdam, Holland, Among his children was Jacob, mentioned below.
(II) Jacob, son of Cornelius Jacobsen, surnamed Stille, also Van Vreelandt, also Somerindyke, and also Wortendyke. and his wife, Trynte Wallings Van Winkle, was born in New Amsterdam (later New York) in 1644. Very little concerning the details of his career is given in the records, but he prob- ably died at a not very advanced age, for his children numbered only four. He married, March 11, 1671, Aeltje Fredericks, an estim- able Brazilian lady. Children : Jacob, Nicho- las, Frederick Jacobsen, mentioned below; Cornelius.
(III) Frederick Jacobsen, son of Jacob and Aeltje (Fredericks) Wortendyke, was born on Manhattan Island, probably about 1679. He spent his boyhood on his father's farm, and seems to have taken advantage of the educational facilities then offered. In course of time he located on the upper west side of Manhattan Island. Concerning him it is said by one authority that he and his descendants permanently adopted the surname of Wortendyke, which had been somewhat loosely applied up to that time, while the descendants of his brother retained the name of Somerindyke, which had till that time alter nated with Wortendyke as the family cogno- men. The old Somerindyke mansion hoii=e. built of stone, stood a few years ago on the
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Bloomingdale road near the west of Seventy- fifth Street. About 1722 Frederick removed to Bergen county, New Jersey, where he pur- chased several tracts of land, the principal one of which was nearly five hundred acres in area at what is now Park Ridge, formerly Pascack. On this tract, lying on both sides of Pascack Brook, he built his residence and two or more mills. He was founder of the Pascack settlement, and left a large landed estate. After his death his will became the subject of judicial construction in an eject- ment suit reported in 7 New Jersey Law Re- ports, page 363. He married Divertie Rynear- sen Quackenbush. Children : Aeltie, Reynier, mentioned below ; Elizabeth, Frederick F., Classic.
(IV) Reynier, eldest son of Frederick Jacobsen and Divertie Rynearsen (Quacken- bush) Wortendyke, was born in New York, and baptized March 14, 1714. His mother was the granddaughter of Peter Quackenbush, of Oostergeest, Holland. With his brother, Frederick F., he obtained part of the home- stead farm at Pascack. Reynier was a man of considerable varied ability, not content with the scope that agricultural interests alone offered. He was a successful farmer and brought his property to a high state of devel- opment. But a good deal of his time was also occupied in running a mill and in other avo- cations leading him into the industrial and commercial field. He married (first) Decem- ber 10, 1746, Jannetje Peters Durie. He mar- ried (second) March 2, 1752, Jannetje Smith. His original will was made February 24, 1799, and to this he added a codicil, February 6, 1799. By this will be bequeaths to his eldest son, Frederick, his old Dutch Bible, which was to continue in descent to the eldest son. This will indicates possession of a large amount of real estate and personal property Probably not all of his children were living at that time, as several are not mentioned in the will. To each of the living sons he gave valuable lands, and provided for liberal lega- cies in cash to his daughter and to the children of a deceased daughter. Children : Frederick, Peter, Jannetje, Cornelius, died young; Diver- tie, Cornelius, Reynier, Jenny, married Fred- erick Wortendyke ; John, Jacob, mentioned be- low ; Mary, Albert, Aeltje, married John De- baun.
(V) Jacob, son of Reynier and Jannetje Peters (Durie) Wortendyke, was born May 5, 1763, at Pascack, died December 18, 1858. From his father he received the land on which he was then living in the town of Harring- ton, Bergen county, containing fifty acres, and three other parcels amounting to eleven acres, including three acres of fresh meadow at Tap- pan. Besides this he was to receive one-fourth of his father's right in the swamp known as Bear Gat, lying in the town of Harrington, and in consideration of this inheritance he was to pay thirty pounds cash to one of his sisters. He continued in the cultivation of his lands at Pascack, and by his skillful op- eration and development his estate became very valuable. He married Elizabeth Camp- bell, born October 10, 1773, at Pascack, Park Ridge, New Jersey, and died March 20, 1862. Children : Luthische, Reynier, mentioned be- low; Elizabeth.
(VI) Reynier (2), son of Jacob and Eliza- beth (Campbell) Wortendyke, was born De- cember, 1792, at Chestnut Ridge, Bergen county. New Jersey, died December 3, 1884. He was a farmer, and owned several hundred acres of land in Chestnut Ridge, where he died. He was a Democrat in politics, and a member of the Dutch Reformed church. He took considerable interest in public afifairs, as also in the welfare of his party, and he held several local offices in the gift of the town. He was a man of considerable ability, and much respected throughout his long life. To the property that come to him by inheritance he added considerably, and greatly developed it along various lines. He sought always to use the most approved methods in farming, and his main farm was one of the model ones of the country. He owned a considerable amount of live stock as well. He married Cornelia Haring. She died August 12, 1891. Children : Jacob Reynier, mentioned below ; Peter Reynier, Garrett, Elizabeth, who mar- ried Peter Merseles Holdrom.
(VII) Jacob Reynier, son of Reynier (2) and Cornelia (Haring) Wortendyke, was born at Chestnut Ridge, Bergen county. New Jersey, November 18, 1818, died in Jersey City. November 2, 1868. He was graduated from Rutgers College in 1839, after which he read law in the office and became a partner of Chancellor A. O. Zabriskie. After his ad-
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mission to the bar he attained great success in the practice of his profession and held numer- ous official positions in Hudson county. He organized the Jersey City water board and served as a member of the riparian commis- sion. In 1857 he was elected to congress from the Hudson district and served two terms in that body. In 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. His posi- tion as a prominent lawyer of New Jersey made him well known, and he was held in the highest esteem by his colleagues and friends. In religion he was affiliated with the Dutch Reformed church. He was always a staunch Democrat in active public life and remained such until his death. He married Susan Jane Doremus, born August 18, 1826, in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, died August 25, 1910. Children : Nicholas Doremus, married Mary Elizabeth Quick ; Cornelia Elizabeth, married William Perry Watson, M.D. ; Reynier Jacob, mentioned below; Jacob, died in 1867; Jacob Reynier, married Anna Traphagan.
(VIII) Reynier Jacob, son of Jacob Rey- nier and Susan Jane (Doremus) Wortendyke, was born August 24, i860, in Jersey City, New Jersey. He graduated from Rutgers College in 1882, with degree of Bachelor of Arts. He was admitted to the bar of the State of New Jersey in the June term of 1885, and has since been engaged in the general practice of law in Jersey City, becoming a member of the law firm of Carrick & Wortendyke, in May, 1890, with offices at No. 15 Exchange Place, Jersey City, New Jersey. Mr. Wortendyke is a Dem- ocrat in politics, and is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City. He mar- ried (first), at Newtonville, Massachusetts, October 17, 1893, Carolyn M. Cooley, born in Springfield, Massachusetts, October 27. 1870, died September 22, 1900. He married (second) Carolina Laubach, born in Hamil- ton, Ohio ; the second marriage occurring at Hamilton, Ohio, October 17, 1906. Children by first wife : Reynier J., Jr. ; Howard Blakes- ley and Carolyn,
The vast majority of people BOGARDUS bearing the name of Bogar-
dus are descended from the Rev. Everardus Bogardus, the minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Amsterdam, who came from Holland in 1633 with Gov-
ernor Wouter Van Twiller. The church in which he preached stood at what is now No. 33 Pearl Street, and his residence was at No. 23 Whitehall Street. He married the widow of Roeloff Jansen, the famous Anneke Jans, and had children: Jonas, Willem, Cornelis, Peter. Several branches of the family were deeply involved in the well known contest between the heirs of Anneke Jans and Trinity Church. Anneke came to Rensselaerwyck in 1630 with her husband, Roeloff Jansen, who acted as assistant bouwmeister for the patroon at a salary of one hundred and eighty guilders. Her marriage w^ith the Rev. Everardus Bogar- dus or Bogart or Bogard, took place in 1637. There were others of the name at that early time and their connection with the Rev. Ever- ardus is not very clear. Willem Bogardus, of New Amsterdam, in 1656 was appointed clerk in the secretary's office in New Amsterdam, and in 1687 postmaster of the province. This Willem Bogardus married and had eight chil- dren. Another Bogardus, Cornelis, married Helena Teller, daughter of Willem Teller, of Albany. He lived in Albany, where he died in 1666. leaving one son, Cornelis, who mar- ried Rachel De Wit, and died October 13, 1707. Peter Bogardus, mariner, resided in Albany near the close of his life, and then he removed to Kingston where he died in 1703. In 1673 he was one of the magistrates of the town, and in 1690 was commissioned with others to treat with the Five Nations and to look after the defense of the town. He made his will February 3, 1701. His wife was Wyntie Cornelis (Bosch) Borgardus, daughter of Cornelis Teunise and Maritie Thomas (Mingael) Bosch, who afterwards married Jurriaen Janse Groenwout in 1664. Cornelis Bogardus was a schoolmaster in Albany in 1700, and shortly after that year he removed with his wife, Rachel Tjerckse (De Wit) Bogardus. to Kingston, his wife's native place. He died October 13, 1707. Shibboleth Bogar- dus and Ann, his wife, lived in Albany. His house in 1720 and from that year to 1737 was on the north corner of James and Steuben Streets. They had nine children, most of whom grew up.
In the annals of Albany at an early period we read also of other men of the name of Bogardus, Anthony Bogardus, Ephraim Bo- gardus, Petrus Bogardus, and others. The-
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name itself is found in the form of Bogard and Bogardus, as well as Bogart. The name is, however, distinct from that of Bogert, the bearers of which are in the main descended from Cornelis Jansen Bogaerdt, who came from Holland before 1661, and settled on a village lot at Flatbush, Long Island, which he shortly sold to Peter Jansen. In 1677 Cornelis Jansen Bogaerdt was one of the pro- prietors of the Flatbush patent, and died at that place in 1684. The name of his wife who accompanied him from Holland is given as Geesie Williams, which indicates that her father's christian name was William. They had a number of children who settled at Hack- ensack, New Jersey. This name of Bogert is often found in various spellings resembling the variations of Bogardus, and there has been a certain amount of confusion in consequence. Of the name two distinct forms are widely in use at the present day, many employing both Bogert and Bogart. There were several im- migrants bearing the name among the early settlers of New Amsterdam and Long Island, and their descendants have scattered over a wide region, being especially numerous in northeastern New Jersey.
The conspicuous Dutch traits of industry and thrift have been well perpetuated in both the Bogardus and Bogart families, who are connected in various ways. A great number of the members of various branches of the family have been engaged in agriculture and its allied interests and industries from the be- ginning. In later generations many bearing the Bogardus name have also been conspicuous in the ranks of the professions as well as in mercantile life. The family is a fine one, with a Dutch ancestry second to none, associated for all time with the development of the new world, in the founding of whom they bore ■\ worthy part.
(I) Stephen H. Bogardus, ancestor of the Bogardus family, was born probably near Poughkeepsie, New York. The facts relating to his life are meagre, but there can be very little doubt that he was a direct descendant of the Rev. Everardus Bogardus, the first set- tled Dutch minister of any religion in the New Netherlands. Investigation so far has not revealed the name of his wife or any of his children except one. He was engaged in
the leather business, and died in the early eighties.
(II) Stephen H. (2), son of Stephen H. ( I ) Bogardus, was probably born in Pough- keepsie, New York, and died of yellow fever in the South. He received his education in the public schools, and enlisted as corporal in the New York Volunteers in the company known as the Duryea Zouaves. He was ad- jutant of Purneirs Legion of Maryland Vol- unteers, and was captain of the One Hundred and Ninety-second Regiment, New York Volunteers. He was also second lieutenant of the Fourth Infantry Regulars, United States Army, and was mustered out in Janu- ary, 1871, after he had been wounded. The principal items of his military history are set forth in "Heitman's Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army," 1789- 1903. Captain Bogardus was a Republican in politics, and most of his life was spent at Poughkeepsie, Dutchess county, New York. He married Ellen Mary, daughter of John James and Harriet (Willard) Haile, of Platts- burg. She was bom at Plattsburg, New York, March 19, 1849, and died at Green- wich, Connecticut, in January, 1903. Their only child was John Haile, mentioned below.
(HI) John Haile, son of Stephen H. (2) and Ellen Mary (Haile) Bogardus, was born at Plattsburg. New York, January 29, 1870. He received his preliminary education at the Plattsburg Academy, New York, at the board- ing school at Westport, Connecticut, and at the boarding school at Hamden. Connecticut, near New Haven. He was also for some time at a boarding school at Cornwall-on-Hud- son. After leaving school he went into the hardware business with Russell & Erwin, who were hardware manufacturers, and he re- mained with that concern about one year. His health, however, was not very strong, and he decided that a change of occupation would be agreeable He thus came to teach school at Lakewood. New Jersey, his subjects being mathematics and English, and he continued at that occupation for a period of from two to three vears. From New Jersey he went to San Francisco, California, and there he engaged in teaching for about another year. At the end of that time he returned to New York, and took up the study of law in the office of Jay & Candler, at 48 Wall Street.
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He was admitted to the bar of New York in October, 1902, and has practiced in New York since that time. Mr. Bogardus enlisted in the Twenty-third Infantry, National Guard, New York, February 7, 1893, and was promoted corporal, sergeant, color sergeant, battalion sergeant major, battalion quarter- master and commissary, with rank of second lieutenant, and battalion adjutant, with rank of first lieutenant. In politics he is a Re- publican, and he is a member of the American Bar Association, New York County Lawyers' Association, Marine and Field Club, United Service Club, National Geographic Society, Military Service Institution and United States Infantry Association.
He married, at Brooklyn, New York, Jan- uary 17, 1900, Lillian May, born in New York City, March 4, 1870, daughter of William Henry and Harriet E. (Wiggins) Stewart.
The Sahler family is of Ger- SAHLER man origin and dates back to the tenth century when we find the record of Heinrich von der Sahle, who participated in one of the tournaments of that day. The family was noble as well as ancient and had its home in that part of the Rhen- ish Palatinate that is now in Hesse-Darm- stadt. The original name of the family was von Heppenheim, derived from their ancestral home, but in 1019 Werner von Heppenheim removed to Alzey on the Selz, near Mentz, and lived in the Saal or "Hall" there, whence he received the name Werner von Heppen- heim von dem Saale which later on became corrupted to von Sahler or Sahler.
(I) Abraham Sahler, the founder of the family in America, emigrated about 1736 and settled on the banks of the Perkiomen river about twenty-five miles from Philadelphia and became a large landowner there. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Rachel (Du Bois) Du Bois, who was born at Perkiomen, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, Septem- ber 10, 1724 (see Du Bois V). Children: i. Isaac, married Eleanor Hartley, of York county, Pennsylvania. 2. Abraham (2), re- ferred to below. 3. Elizabeth, married Robert Patton,- 4. Rachel, married John Gross. 5. Catherine, married Christian Gross. 6. Dan- iel, born April 16, 1762, died February 20, 1834; married, May 8, 1786, Elizabeth Van
Wagenen. 7. John, born November 23, 1765; married Ann Barlow.
(II) Abraham (2), son of Abraham (l) and Elizabeth (Du Bois) Sahler, was born at Perkiomen, Montgomery county, Pennsyl- vania, in September, 1738, died in the town of Rochester, Ulster county, New York, Jan- uary 14, 1800, and was buried in the Kyserike cemetery. He married first) Tryntje, daugh- ter of Solomon and Hannah (Bruyn) Van Wagenen, who was baptized at Kingston, New York, January 7, 1752. He married (second) Hester, daughter of Isaac and Maria (Bruyn) Hasbrouck, who was born January 8, 1760 (see Hasbrouck in Index). Chil- dren (two by first marriage) : Abraham (3), referred to below ; Solomon, referred to be- low ; daughter, who married Louis Stilwell ; daughter, who married Simeon Du Bois ; daughter, who married Elias De Puy.
(III) Abraham (3), son of Abraham (2) and Tryntje (Van Wagenen) Sahler, was born in the town of Rochester, Ulster county. New York, and died there. He married Nellie Hasbrouck. Children : Abraham Louis ; Jacob R. H., referred to below; James B. ; Ann Eliza.
(IV) Jacob R. H., son of Abraham (3^ and Nellie (Hasbrouck) Sahler, married El- mira, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Sah- ler) van de Mark, and granddaughter of Dan- iel and Elizabeth (Van Wagenen) Sahler, referred to above. Children : Abraham J., Henry, James, referred to below; Isaac L., Daniel, Catherine J.. Elizabeth.
(V) James, son of Jacob R. H. and Elmira (van de Mark) Sahler, married Sarah AUiger. Children: Jennie, referred to below; Eliza- beth, married Dr. N. A. Monroe, of Stone Ridge, Ulster county. New York; Irving, James B., Louis D., twin with James B., Har- ry, Olive Reid.
(VI) Jennie, daughter of James and Sarah (Alliger) Sahler, married in 1880, Dr. Charles Oliver Sahler, son of Solomon and Caroline (Winfield) Sahler, referred to below.
(Ill) Solomon, son of Abraham (2) and Tryntje (Van Wagenen) Sahler, was born in the town of Rochester, Ulster county. New York, November 14, 1775, died there Febru- ary 13, 1827. He was a landowner and slave- holder, a surveyor and supervisor of the town from 1819 to 1827. In 1816 he was appointed
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coroner by Governor Tompkins. He married (first) August 25, 1797, Nellie, daughter of John and Sophie (Burgess) Perrine, who was born June 6, 1777, died February 14, 1805. He married (second) Catherine Davis. Chil- dren (four by first marriage) : Tryantje Van Wagenen, married Andries Roosa; Daniel, died in infancy; Abraham, referred to below; John Perrine, born January 26, 1805, died June 27, 1866, married, February 3, 1830, Maria Hasbrouck; Isaac Du Bois, married Maria Schoonmaker ; Jacob, died unmarried ; Sarah Catherine, married Dr. George Chambers.
(IV) Abraham (4), son of Solomon and Nellie (Perrine) Sahler, was born in the town of Rochester, Ulster county, New York, Oc- tober 14, 1802, died there in March, 1857. He inherited his father's homestead near Ky- serike and lived there until 1840 when he bought and removed to the Van Wagenen homestead in the same place. He was super- visor from 1839 to 1841 and from 1845 to 1851. He was a veterinary surgeon and also captain of cavalry in the state militia. He married, January 3, 1822, Catherine, daughter of Judge Richard and Wyntje (Robinson) Davis, who was born February i, 1803. Chil- dren : Solomon, referred to below ; Isaac Robinson, married Kate Schoonmaker; Mary Ellen, married Lyman Terpenning.
(V) Solomon (2), son of Abraham (4) and Catherine (Davis) Sahler, was born in the town of Rochester, Ulster county. New York, December 22, 1827. He inherited the Van Wagenen homestead at Kyserike. He married, February 24, 1852, Caroline, daughter of Casparus and Jane (Van Aken) Winfield, who was born February 20, 1832 (see Win- field). Children: Charles Oliver, referred to below ; Kate Jane, married Luther H., son of Abraham J. and grandson of Jacob R. H. and Elmira (van de Mark) Sahler, referred to above ; Mary Elizabeth, married Lawrence H. Swisher; Caspar, died in infancy; Jeannette. died in infancy.
(VI) Dr. Charles Oliver Sahler, son of Solomon (2) and CaroHne (Winfield) Sahler, was born at the home of his maternal grand- father in the town of Esopus, Ulster county. New York, June 23, 1854, and is now living in Kingston, Ulster county. New York. He leceived his early education in the public
schools, and also under the tutorship of John H. Van Wagenen, who was at one time princi- pal of the University of Northern Pennsyl- vania. He also took up the study of medi- cine and at the age of twenty years entered the College of Physicians and Surgeons (med- ical department of Columbia University), in New York City, from which he graduated in the class of 1878. He immediately commenced the active practice of his profession in Ky- serike, and remained there for thirteen years, at the end of which time he opened an office in Kingston. Early in his career he became interested in mental therapeutics, and for many years, even as a young physician and knowing nothing of the experiments that were then being made in Europe, he made use of it in his practice, often being himself aston- ished at the results that he obtained, and he was among the first of the regular practitioners in this country to recognize the power of the mind as a curative agency, and largely through his own experiments discovered that diseases could be overcome through the mind, that failed to respond to ordinary medical methods, and began using mental suggestion in his prac- tice with most gratifying results. This fact becoming known, his services were sought to such an extent that he finally abandoned his large lucrative medical and surgical practice and opened a sanitarium for the treatment of nervous, mental and functional disorders by the then almost unknown methods of psycho- theraphy. In 1893 he purchased the fine old estate of Marius Schoonmaker, in Kingston, and in 1898 founded there the first mental healing sanitarium in America. From the first the success of the undertaking was phe- nomenal, and it was but a short time before he was compelled to make extensive addi- tions to the building, and to erect others, be- sides taking in all the available cottages and extra rooms in the neighborhood; and in 191 1 he erected a handsome, five story, stone struc- ture to accommodate the patients who came to him from all parts of the world. He is the author of the book "Psychic Life and Laws," is a contributor to several magazines, and for a time occupied the chair of Nervous Diseases and Suggestive Therapeutics of the post-graduate school of Eastern College and of the Psychological Medical Society at Phil- adelphia. He has been vice-president of the
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coroner by Governor Tompkins, (first) August 25, 1797, Nellk, John and Sophie (Burgess) Per: i>om June 6, 1777, died Febru- Hc married T second) Cathtrin. ,'r--i ffour ".- "-" ■■ -
Sir.th Catherine, married Dr. George
Chambers.
(IV^ Abraham (4), son of Solomon and Nellie ( Pcrrine) Sahler, was born in the town of Rochester, Ulster county, New York, Oc- tober 14, 1802, died there in March, 1857. He inherited his father's homestead near Ky-, serike and \v.i-C: il^ < until 1840 when he bought atu: the Van Wagenen
homebtead .e. He was super-
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dren: Solomon, referred to bein- ; ij.'ir
Robinson, married Kate Schoonmaker ; Mary
Ellen, married Lyman Terpenning.
(V) Solomon (2), son of Abraham (4) and Catherine (Davis) Sahler, was bom in the town of Rochester, Ulster county,. New York, December 22, 1827. He inherited the \'an Wagenen homestead at Kyserike. He married, February 24, 1852, Caroline, daughter of Casparus and Jane (Van Aken) Winfield, who was born February 20, 1832 (see Win- field). Children; Charles Oliver, referred to below ; Kate Jane, married Luther H., son of Abraham J. and grandson of Jacob R. H. and Elmira (van de Mark) Sahler, referred to above ; Mary Elizabeth, married Lawrence H. Swisher; Caspar, died in infancy; Jeannette, died in infancy.
(VI) Dr. Charles Oliver Sahler. son of Solomon (2) and Caroline (Winfield) Sahler, was born at the home of his maternal grand- fath(.-r in the town of Esopus, Ulster county, New York, June 23, 1854, and is now living in Kingston, Ulster county. New York. He K'ceived hi* early education in the ptri)lit
!^. and also under the tutorship of John an Wagenen, who was at one time princi- t the University of Northern Pennsyl- He also took up the study of medi- iid at the age of twenty years entered ■\^r,^ , ( )-'!,,,. ;-..,. ..-.,1 c;-irgeons (med- ■liversity), in ■j:ra<luated in (. .iiu :;,(i' rniy commenced of his profession in Ky- icd there for thirteen years, it ;;.:■ eu^; u\ \\ iich time he opened an office in Kingston. Early in his career he became interested in mental therapeutics, and for many years, even as a young physician and knowing nothing of the experimcnis that were then being made in Europe, he niai1<; use of it in his practice, often being himself aston- ished at the results that he obtained, and he was among the first of the regular practitioners in this country to recognize the power of the mind as a curative agency, and largely ihrougl; hiv (,UM i^x-nei inients discovered that diseases ■ ne through the mind, that ■ ordinary medical methods,
large lucrative medical and .-i and opened a sanitarium for tli nervous, mental and functional ms); ;- d, the then almost unknown methods of psycho- thcraphy. In 1^3 he purchased the fine old estate of Marius Schoonmaker. in Kingston, and in 1898 founded there the first mental healing sanitarium in America. From the first the .success of the undertaking was phe- nomenal, and it was but a short time before he was compelled to make extensive addi- tions to the building, and to erect others, be- sides taking in all the available cottages and extra rooms in the neighborhood; and in 191 1 he erected a handsome, five story, stone struc- ture to accommodate the patients who came to him from all parts of the world. He is the author of the bo(jk "Psychic Life and Laws." is a contributor t" ss-vfral magazines, and for a time occupied ii -' .^Jervous
Diseases and Suggestiv, of the
post-graduate school o* gc and
of the Psychological M it Phil-
adelphia. He has beei> ' of the
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American Association of Physicians and Sur- geons, and is a member of the American Psychological Medical and Surgical Society, and of the Medico-Legal Society, and has lectured before the Phrenological Institute and Medical and Psychic Study societies of New York and New Jersey. He is a mem- ber of Kingston Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons ; Mount Horeb Chapter, and Rondout Commandery, Knights Templar. He married, in 1880, Jennie, daughter of James and Sarah (Alliger) Sahler, referred to above. Child (adopted) : Nellie, daughter of Simon Daven- port and Jennie (Sahler) Davenport.
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The Du Bois family is one of the oldest of the noble houses of Cotentin, in the duchy of Normandy, the heraldic records in Paris beginning with Geofifroi du Bois, a knight banneret, and a companion of Duke William in the conquest of England in 1066.
(I) Chretien Du Bois, the first member of the branch of the family under consideration of whom we have any definite information, was a Huguenot gentleman of the family of Du Bois, seigneurs de Beau-fermez et de Bourse, and owned an estate at Wicres, in La Bassee, near Lille, in French Flanders, now Artois. Among his children were : Louis, re- ferred to below ; Jacques, baptized June 18, 1622, died in 1676, married April 25, 1663, Pieronne Bentyn, emigrated to Esopus, New York, in 1675; Albert, baptized November 13, 1625 ; Francoise, married April 20, 1649, Pierre Biljouw ; Anne.
(H) Louis, son of le sieur Chretien Du Bois, was born at Wicres, October 27, 1627, died in Kingston, New York, in June, 1696. He emigrated first to Mannheim, in the Pala- tinate, where he married and two of his sons were born ; April 27, 1660, came with his fam- ily in the ship "Gilded Otter" to New Nether- land. He and his father-in-law were granted by patent considerable tracts of land in Hur- ley where they both lived until their removal to New Paltz. June 7, 1663, his wife and three sons were captured with others by the Indians and held prisoners for three months, and the campaign to rescue them resulted in the purchase of the Walkill Valley, by the Huguenot settlers, from the Indians, which purchase was patented to them by Governor Edmund Andros, September 29, 1677. Here
during the following spring they founded "Le nouveau Palatinat" or New Paltz. In 1686 Louis Du Bois and his wife removed from New Paltz to Kingston. He married, in the French church in Mannheim, October 10, 1665, Catherine, daughter of Mathew and Madeline (Jorisse) Blanchan, who died in Kingston, New York, in 1706. Children : Abraham, referred to below ; Isaac, born in 1659, died June 28, 1690, married in June, 1683, Maria Hasbrouck; Jacob, baptized Oc- tober 9, 1661, died in 1745, married, March 8, 1689, Lysbeth Varnoye; Sarah, baptized September 14, 1664, married, December 12, 1682, Joost Janz, of Marbletown ; David, bap- tized March 13, 1667, married, March 8, 1689, Cornelia Varnoye; Solomon, referred to be- low; Rebecca, baptized June 18, 1671, died yotmg; Ragel, baptized in April, 1675, died young; Louis, born in 1677, married, Janu- ary 19, 1701, Rachel, daughter of Abraham and Maria (Deyo) Hasbrouck; Martin, born January 3, 1679, married, January 17, 1697, Sara Matthyssen.
(III) Abraham, son of Louis and Catherme (Blanchan) Du Bois, was born in Mannheim, Germany, December 26, 1657, died at New Paltz, Ulster county. New York, October 7, 1 73 1. He married, March 6, 1681, Margaret, daughter of Christian Deyo. Children : Sara, baptized June 20, 1682, married, June 13, 1703, Roelof Eltinge; Abraham (2), born April 17, 1685; Lea, born October 16, 1687, married Philip Fires or Ferre ; Rachel, referred to below ; Mary, twin with Rachel, baptized Oc- tober 13, 1689, died young; Catherine, born May 21, 1693, married, October 4, 1728, Wil- liam Danielsz; Noah, baptized February 18, 1700, died young; Joel, baptized June 20, 1703, died in 1734.
(IV) Rachel, daughter of Abraham and Margaret (Deyo) Du Bois, was baptized at New Paltz, Ulster county, New York, Oc- tober 13, 1689. She married (first) April 6, 1713, Isaac, son of Solomon and Tryntje (Gerritson) Du Bois, referred to below, and married (second) Coats.
(Ill) Solomon, son of Louis and Catherine (Blanchan) Du Bois, was born at Wiltwyck or Hurley, about 1670, died at New Paltz, Ulster county. New York, between June 26, 1756, and February 15, 1759. He married about 1690, Tryntje Gerritsen, daughter of
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Gerrit Focken and Jacomyntje Sleght. Chil- dren: Isaac, referred to below; Jacomyntje, baptized November 5, 1693, married, April 23, 1715, Barent, son of Isaac and Maria (Hasbrouck) Du Bois; Benjamin, baptized May 16, 1697, married Catrina Zuylant; Sarah, baptized February 11, 1700, married, November 17, 1720, Simon Jacobse Van Wagenen; Catryn, baptized October 18, 1702, died in infancy; Cornelis. died in 1798, mar- ried, April 7, 1 729. Anna Margaret Hooghtel- ing; Magdalena, baptized April 15, 1705, died young; Catherine, married December 9, 1722, Petrus Matheus Louw ; Deborah, died young ; Hendrikus, baptized December 31, 1710, mar- ried. May 6, 1733, Jannetje Hooghteling; Magdalena, baptized December 20, 1713, mar- ried. July 14, 1734, Josiah Eltinge.
(lY) Isaac, son of Solomon and Tryntje (Gerritsen) Du Bois, was baptized at New Paltz, September 21, 1691, died at Perkiomen, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, February 10, 1729. He married, April 6, 1713, Rachel, daughter of Abraham and Margaret (Deyo) Du Bois, referred to above. Children : Cath- erine, born February 13, 1715; Margaret, born about 1717; Sarah, born March 19, 1720; Re- becca, born August 14, 1722; Elizabeth, re- ferred to below.
(V) Elizabeth, daughter of Isaac and Rachel (Du Bois) Du Bois, was born September 10, 1724. She married Abraham Sahler, the em- igrant, referred to above.
(The Winfield Line.)
Caroline Winfield, mother of Charles Oliver Sahler, M.D., was born February 20, 1832, died March 2, 1896. She was married to Solomon Sahler, February 24, 1852.
Casparus Winfield, grandfather of Charles Oliver Sahler, was born August 4, 1795, died January 15, 1879. His wife, Jane Van Aken, was born October 9, 1798, and died June 14, 1842. She was the daughter of John Van Aken and Maria Degruff. Grandmother and grandfather Winfield were both from the town of Esopus, and buried in the Grand View cemetery, town of Esopus.
John Winfield, great-grandfather of Charles Oliver Sahler. was born September 9, 1764, died February 5, 1853 ; and his wife, Jane Van Nostrand, was born March 12, 1770, died October 26, 1849. John Winfield was a soldier in the revolution. His gun is now in posses-
sion of James M. Winfield, M.D., Brooklyn, New York. He also was made member of the Livingston Lodge, No. 23, December 18, 1799. There is a silver medal with name, date of initiation and with the dove and olive branch on one side, and on the reverse side all of the emblems of the Master Mason. This jewel was given to his son, Casparus Winfield, who was also a member of the same lodge, called Kingston No. 10. He, John Winfield, attended a banquet given by the city of Kingston to its veterans September 10, 1832 ; was over- seer for Hurley in 1781 ; assessor for Esopus in 181 1 ; trustee of the corporation of Kings- ton, 1813-14-15; school commissioner for Esopus, 1813-44. Jane Van Nostrand was a daughter of Casparus Van Nostrand. a soldier of the revolution, and Eva Freling- huysen ; and a granddaughter of Judge Van Nostrand and Annatie Steimets. Eva Frel- inghuysen was a daughter of the Rev. Johan- nes Frelinghuysen and Dinah Van Berr, and a sister of General Frederick Frelinghuysen. Their grandfather, the Rev. Jacobus Freling- huysen, was sent by the classes of Amster- dam to take charge of the Dutch Reformed Church in New Jersey in 1719. He married Eva Terhune.
John Winfield, great-great-grandfather of Charles Oliver Sahler, was born March 8, 1727, died January 9, 1798. His wife. Eliza- beth Smit, was born August 11, 1828.
John Winfield, great-great-great-grand- father of Charles Oliver Sahler, was born
September 6, . He was a soldier in the
foot militia for the battle of Shawangunk, under Colonel Rutsert, in 171 5, Zara Kool, his wife, born November 16, 1694. and mar- ried in 1716, was the daughter of Simon Kool and Biliye Pieters ; granddaughter of Jacob Barent Kool, and Maria Simmons, and great- granddaughter of Barent Jacobset Kool and Marie Leenderts.
Richard Winfield (Rutsert Wintveld), great- great-great-great-grandfather of Charles Ol- iver Sahler, was born in Derby, England, in 1657. He also lived in Albany, New York. His wife, Magdalena Schutt, was a widow of Gerrit Decker, and daughter of William Jan- sen Schutt. Of the family of Winfield. says Camden, famous for their knighthood and ancient nobility, as stated of them before, seated at Wingfield, county of Suffolk, before
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the conquest of 1066. The castle of Wing- field is situated low, without any earthmarks for its defense. The ruined walls are still standing, the south front or principal entrance entire. The chequered fates and fortunes of its noble, but often turbulent inmates, ex- pressed this term, "Magnificence of feudal times."
Of the many prominent fam- ERVING ilies in America none can claim
a more honorable lineage. They trace their ancestry to the Celts, who at an early date settled on the east coast of Erin and the west hills and islands of Albyn. The word was originally written Erevine, meaning a stout, westland man, and is derived from the Celtic-Scythic words, Erin-vine, or fein, Erin meaning west, and the early name for Ireland, the westland, and vine or fein, a strong and resolute man. The name is vari- ously written : Erevine, Erwine, Ervine, Er- ving, de Irvin, Irvine and Irving. One of the first of the name was Crine Erevine, who was Abthaine of Dull and senechal and collector of "all the King's rent in the western isles." He married the Princess Beatrix, eldest daugh- ter of Malcolm II. Their son became Dun- can I. of Scotland. Descendants of Crine Erevine located in Bonshaw, where about I2q6 Robert the Bruce found an asylum in the castle, when a fugitive from Edward Long- shanks. Here he was concealed for some time. Sir William Irvine (de Irvine), a son of the owner of the castle, became an ardent supporter of the cause of Robert the Bruce. He was appointed his squire and armor bearer and accompanied his royal master in his vari- ous wanderings. He shared in his many nar- row escapes and took part in his many excit- ing encounters and battles, culminating in the battle of Bannockburn in 1306, which resulted in victory for the heroic Bruce. In 1323 Robert the Bruce awarded him for his ser- vices and fidelity in his support the forest of Drum in Aberdeenshire, originally the Royal forest, and one of the hunting seats of the Kings of Scotland ; also his coat-of-arms. which he wore during the time he was con- cealed in the Bonshaw castle. William Ir- vine was also knighted by Robert the Bruce, who gave him for his coat-of-arms : Three holly leaves branded together on a shield
arant ; also his own motto, sub sole sub umbra virens. A direct descendant of Sir William Irvine located in the Orkneys, and from there descendants of the family went to Stromness, where John Irving, father of the progenitor of the family in America, was born.
(I) John (2), son of John (i) Irving, born in the island of Shapinsha in the Orkneys, in 1693, came to America about 1700 and located in Boston, where he made his home until his death, August 30, 1786. He was buried in the Granary cemetery on Tremont Street, after coming to this country he changed the spell- ing of his name from Irving to Erving. At an early age he began a mercantile business, in which avocation he gained distinction, be- coming one of the most prosperous and best known merchants in the colonies. He took an active interest in the civic and business affairs of Boston, serving for twenty years as a member of the council of Massachusetts, He also took a deep interest in the educational system of Boston. His portrait painted by Copley is now in the possession of his great- great-grandson, John Erving, of New York City. He was married in Boston, December I, 1725, to Abigail, daughter of John and Mary Philips. She died June 20, 1759, and was buried in King's Chapel, Boston. Chil- dren: I. John, mentioned below. 2. George, graduated from Har\'ard University in 1757; married (first) Lucy Winslow, (second) Mary Mcintosh Royall ; he died in London, Eng- land, January 16, 1806; his son, George Wil- liam, became American Consul at London and minister to Denmark and Spain. 3. Abigail, born May 16, 1729, died young. 4. Mary, married Governor Scott, of the island of St. Christopher. 5. Elizabeth, born September 14, 1731, died May 5, 1803; married Governor James Bowdoin. 6. Abigail, born September 17, 1733. 7. William, born September 8, 1734. died in Jamaica Plains, Massachusetts, May 27, 1791 ; graduated from Harvard University in 1753: he served as major in the British army and took part in General Wolfe's cam- paign against Quebec; at the commencement of the revolutionary war he resigned from the army ; the British government, in recognition of his services, gave him a grant of land in Coos county, New Hampshire, which for many years was known as the Erving loca- tion; he bequeathed one thousand pounds to
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Harvard University to found the Erving Pro- fessorship of Chemistry. 8. James, born April 14, 1736. 9. Sarah, born June 8, 1737; mar- ried Brigadier-General Waldo. 10. Ann, born January 20, 1740; married Duncan Stewart.
(II) John (3), son of John (2) and Abi- gail (Philips) Erving, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, January 26, 1727, died in Bath, England, July 22, 1816, and was buried in Walcot Parish churchyard (St. Swithins), Bath. He attended the schools of his native city, and in 1747 graduated from Harvard University with the degree of A.B. He took a prominent part in the civic affairs of his native city and the Massachusetts colony. In 1760 he was one of the fifty-eight who signed the "Boston Memorial," thus being one of the first in America to oppose the officers of the Crown; in 1774 he was an addressor of Hut- chinson and in the same year was appointed a mandamus councillor. In 1776 he fled to Hal- ifax, and from there proceeded to England. In 1778 he was proscribed and banished from America; in 1779 his property was confiscated under the Conspiracy Act. He married, April 18, 1754, Maria Catharina, youngest daughter of William Shirley, governor of Massachusetts Bay, and commander-in-chief of the British forces in North America. She died March 12. 1816, aged eighty-seven years, and was buried in the Walcot Parish church yard. Children: I. Maria Catharina, christened August 17, 1755. 2. Frances, baptized Sep- tember 24, 1756. 3. John, mentioned below. 4. William, born in 1758, died November 14, 1772. 5. Shirley, christened November 23, 1759. 6. Abigail, born April 20, 1760.
(III) John (4), son of John (3) and Maria Catharina (Shirley) Erving, was christened in Boston, Massachusetts, November 20, 1757, died there about 1847. He received a liberal education, and for many years engaged in mer- cantile business in his native city. He took a prominent part in the civic and social af- fairs of Boston. He married, September 24, 1785, Ann (Nancy), daughter of William Sheaffe, collector of the port of Boston, and sister of General Sir Robert Hale Sheaffe, Baronet. Children: i. John, mentioned below.
2. William, born in 1790, died June 7, 1791.
3. Frances Anne, died in Waltham, Massa- chusetts, May 12, 1880.
(IV) Colonel John (5) Erving, son of
John (4) and Ann (Sheaffe) Erving, was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1789, died in New York City, October 26, 1862. He at- tended the schools of his native city. On Jan- uary 9, 1809, he was appointed second lieu- tenant of the United States army. He then for two years at the National Academy at West Point. He was promoted first lieu- tenant, August 16, 1812, and from April 6, 1813, to June 15, 1815, during the war of 1812, served as assistant adjutant-general, with the rank of major. He was retained as first lieutenant artillery corps. May 17, 1815, and from March, 1817, to April, 1818, was battalion adjutant. On April 25, 1818, he was promoted captain and transferred to the Fourth Artillery ; was brevetted major, April 28, 1828, for "ten years of faithful service in one grade." He was commissioned major, June I, 1821, and assigned to the Third Artil- lery, and on December 2, 1843, was trans- ferred to the Second Artillery. He performed gallant service in the Seminole and Greek wars in Florida. He was commissioned lieu- tenant-colonel, August 16, 1846, and served with distinction during the Mexican war. On October 5, 1837, he was promoted colonel and transferred to the First Artillery. He was retired from active service because of failing health, October 26, 1861.
He married, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 6, 1831, Emily Sophia, daughter of Thomas Langdon-Elwyn, of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, born March 12, 1802. died March 13, 1878. Children: i. John, mentioned below. 2. Langdon. born November 20. 1834, died May 20, 1862 ; married, in Baltimore, Maryland, December 18, i860, Sophia Clap- ham, daughter of Josiah Pennington. 3. Ehvyn, born June, 1839, died November 8, 1867 ; married, in Baltimore, April, i860, Lydia Hollingsworth, daughter of Captain Adams, United States navy. Mrs. Erving was a granddaughter of John Langdon, born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, June 25, 1 74 1. He became one of the most prominent citizens of the state, serving as delegate to the continental congress, 1775-76 and 1783; and was for several years a member of the house of representatives, being speaker of the house, 1776-82, 1804-05. He was president of New Hampshire in 1785, and in 1787 was delegate to the federal constitutional conven-
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tion. He was governor of the state in 1788, 1805-09-10-11, and served as United States .senator from New Hampshire, March 4, 1789, to March 3, 1801, being for some time presi- dent of that body. He decHned the appoint- ment of secretary of the navy in 181 1. In 1812 he was the Democratic nominee for vice- president of the United States. He died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 18, 1819. Governor Langdon married, February 3. 1776, Elizabeth Sherburne, and had one child, Elizabeth, born December 4, 1777. She married, July 16, 1797, Thomas Elwyn, and Tiad nine children. A daughter, Emily Sophia Langdon-Elwyn, married Colonel John Er- ving. United Stales Army, mentioned above. (V) John (6), son of Colonel John (5) and Emily Sophia (Langdon-Elwyn) Erving. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 6, 1833. After a five years' course of study at the Brothers Peugnet School in New York City, he entered the sophomore class of Har- vard University in 1850, and graduated in 1853 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts In 1858 his alma mater conferred upon him the degree of master of arts. He entered the Harvard University Law School in 1853 and graduated in 1855 with the degree of LL.B In 1856 he was admitted to the bar in New York City, but for many years has been re- tired from active practice. He joined the Seventh Regiment New York National Guard, in i860, and was honorably discharged in 1868. In 1861 and 1863 he served with his regiment in the war. He is a member of the Union League and Harvard clubs, and a charter member of the New York Bar As- sociation. Mr. Erving married, April 22, 1862, Cornelia, second daughter of William Paterson Van Rensselaer, son of Stephen Van Rensselaer, of Albany, the last Patroon (see Van Rensselaer V). She was born Septem- ber 22, 1841. Children: i. Susan Van Rens- selaer, born May 11, 1863, died July i, 191 2 2. Cornelia Van Rennsselaer, born April 6, 1865; married (first) John V. L. Pruyn, June II, 1895; children: John V. L., Jr., born June 6,- 1896, died May 17, 1897; Erving, born Oc- tober 26, 1897; Hendrik, born December 28, 1900; she married (second) April 6, 1908, Hamilton L. Hoppin. 3. John Langdon, men- tioned below. 4. Emily Elwyn, born June 29, 1868 ; married Henry Woodward Cooper, Jan-
uary 22, 1895; he died April 30, 1912; chil- dren : Cornelia Van Rensselaer, born Febru- ary 6, 1896, died July 20, 1899; Lamberton, born February 16, 1900; John Erving, born September 30, 1905. 5. Sarah Elizabeth, born May 4, 1870; married, April 22, 1896, James Gore King; children: James Gore, Jr., born May 25, 1898. Eleanor Erving, born Novem- ber 29, 1900; Edward Ramsay, born May 20, 1905, died October 21, 1907; Cornelia Van Rensselaer, born February 7, 191 1. 6. Wil- liam Van Rensselaer, born November 15, 1871 ; is a lawyer residing in Albany, where he is a representative of the estate of his grand- father, the late William Paterson Van Rens- selaer ; Mr. Erving was municipal civil ser- vice commissioner for ten years, and is now commissioner of public safety in Albany. 7. Katharine Van Rensselaer, born November
19, 1873. 8. Eleanor Cecilia, born September
20, 1875. 9. Frances Shirley, born Novem- ber 7, 1877, died September 29, 1878. 10. Walter Shirley, born January 3, 1880. 11. Justine Bayard, born December 22, 1881. 12. Philip Livingston, born March 12, 1884, died May II, 1885.
(VI) John Langdon, son of John (6) and Cornelia (Van Rensselaer) Erving, was born on Manising Island, Rye, New York, July 31, 1866. He was educated in private schools of New York City, and for twenty years was connected with the Mexican Cable Company. In January, 1885, he enlisted in the Sixth Company, Seventh Regiment New York Na- tional Guard. In August, 1887, he was com- missioned first lieutenant in the Twelfth Regi- ment. In March, 1895, he enlisted in Troop A, Second Army Corps, United States Army, and served with his troop in the campaign in Porto Rico during the Spanish-American war in 1898, and in the fall of this year was hon- orably discharged. He married, November 3, 1904, Alice Hanchet Rutherford. Children: I. Alice Rutherford, born May 24, 1906. 2. Cornelia Van Rensselaer, born November 23, 1907. 3. John Langdon, Jr., born August i, 1909- "
The surnames Dickey, Dick DICKEY and the like are manifestly de- rived from the personal or bap- tismal name Richard. Richard besides being itself a surname, like a number of other per-
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sonal names having the dual capacity, has given rise to other surnames. Among the surnames that have been derived from Rich- ard and its modifications in almost every country of Europe, are Richards, Richardson, MacRichard, Rich, Riche, Ritchie, Riches, Rick, Dick, Hitchin, Dix, Dickinson and so on. These names are common, some of them to every country in Europe, though Dickey is confined for the most part to England and Ireland. It is in some cases a rendering from the Gaelic term, MacRiocard, which is also in many cases rendered as Richardson. The Dickey family or rather families bearing the name of Dickey were known in America in the early part of the eighteenth century.
(I) Robert Dickey, immigrant ancestor of the Dickey family, was born in Ireland, and died in New York City. He came from Ire- land in 1798 and was a shipping merchant in New York. He married Anne Brown. Chil- dren : Hugh T., Anne, Elizabeth, Jane, George, Robert, John, Charles Denston, mentioned be- low : Mary.
(II) Charles Denston, son of Robert and Anne (Brown) Dickey, was born October 8, 1818, in New York City, and died at Islip, Long Island, in 1897. He received his pre- liminary education in the schools of the city, and in 1835 entered the office of Brown Brothers & Company, remaining with the firm till his death in 1897. During this period he represented the house at various times in Sa- vannah, New Orleans and Mobile, and became a partner in 1859. In 1850 he married, at Greensboro, Alabama, Mary, born October 28, 1825, daughter of Dr. John and Sophia (Graham) Witherspoon. Sophia (Graham) Witherspoon, mother of Mary (Witherspoon) Dickey, and grandmother of Charles Denston (2) Dickey, was a daughter of Governor Jo- seph Graham, of North Carolina. Children of Charles Denston and Mary (Witherspoon) Dickey: Eliza Goldthwaite, born in Mobile, Alabama, 1853; Charles Denston, mentioned below; Sophia Witherspoon, New York, 1864; Mary Witherspoon, New York, 1866.
(III) Charles Denston (2), son of Charles Denston (i) and Mary (Witherspoon) Dickey, was born at Mobile, Alabama, May 8, i860. He was educated in St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and at Har- vard University, graduating in the class of
1882. After leaving college he entered the office of Brown Brothers & Company. In 1885 he became their representative in Phil- adelphia, where he lived for a period of about two years, afterwards returning to New York as a partner in the New York house. Mr. Dickey is a director of the Commercial Trust Company of New Jersey, trustee of the Green- wich Savings Bank, trustee of the London Assurance Corporation, director of the Mer- chants' National Bank of the City of New York, director of the Niagara Falls Power Company, United States trustee of the North- ern Assurance Company, Limited, of London, trustee of the Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation, and director of the United States Mortgage and Trust Company. Mr. Dickey also belongs to a number of leading clubs.
He married, in New York City, March 14, 1893, Louise, daughter of Stephen and Mar- garet (Johnson) Whitney, of New Haven. Children: Charles Denston (3), born Decem- ber 3, 1893; Stephen Whitney, January 2, 1897; Lawrence Witherspoon, April 12, 1906.
Originally spelled Rosseter, ROSSITER this name is of undoubted Saxon or Norman origin, and probably was carried into England with the conquering army of William the Norman. It is still a conspicuous one in England, as well as in the United States, and has borne its part in developing this country in the various branches of progress.
(I) Sir Edward Rossiter, the founder of the family in the United States, came from a good substantial family of the English gentry, and owned a large estate in the county of Somerset, England. He was commissioned in London in 1629 as one of the assistants to Governor Winthrop, and embarked for the colonies from Plymouth, England, March 20, 1630, in the ship "Mary and John," com- manded by Captain Syuet, with one hundred and forty persons abroad. Their original destination was the Charles river, but the cap- tain decided to land them at Dorchester Neck, at the end of a two months' voyage. In the histories of the colonies Edward is spoken of as a "godly man of good repute,"' who left England for the sake of religion. He lived to fill his position but a few months after his arrival in this country, and died October 23.
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1630. There is no mention of Sir Edward's wife, and it is supposed that she had previ- ously died.
(II) Dr. Brayard Rossiter, son of Sir Ed- ward Rossiter, was the only member of his family who came with him. He was accom- panied by his wife, Elizabeth (Alsop) Ros- siter, whom he had married in England. Dr. Rossiter is spoken of in history as a finely educated man from the best schools in Eng- land. He was one of the principal men who commenced the settlement of Windsor, Con- necticut, in 1636, where he was a magistrate for eighteen years, and became widely known as a physician. In 1652 he removed to Guil- ford, Connecticut. On March 11, 1662, he performed the first post-mortem examination in the Connecticut colony, and history has it that it was the first autopsy of which there is any record in New England, antedating by a dozen years the one in Boston, in 1674, an account of which is given by Dr. Greene in his "History of Medicine." Dr. Rossiter died in Guilford, September 30, 1672. He had five sons and five daughters, but the only son who had descendants was Josiah.
(III) Josiah, son of Dr. Brayard and Eliza- beth (Alsop) Rossiter, was born in 1646, in Windsor, died January 31, 1716, in Guilford, whither he had removed with his father when a boy. He was one of the twelve patentees of the town of Guilford in 1685, and was a very prominent man in that community, fill- ing many official positions. He represented the town in the state legislature nine times, the last year being 1700. He was town clerk from 1695 to 17015, and from 1707 to 1716, the time of his death. In 1676 he was ensign of the local militia company; he served as county and probate judge of New Haven, Connecticut, and was for ten years one of the assistants of the governor, and was also the first naval officer of the port of Guilford. He married, in 1676, Sarah, daughter of the Hon, Samuel Sherman, of Stamford and Wood- bury, Connecticut, from whose grandfather descended Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, General William Tecumseh Sherman and Senator John Sherman. Children of Josiah Rossiter : Sarah, who died young; Elizabeth, born in April, 1679; Josiah (2), born March 31, 1680; Samuel, died young; Timothy, born June 5,
1683; John born October 13, 1684; Samuel, born February 28, 1686 ,■* David, born April 17, 1687; Jonathan, born April 3, 1688; Nathaniel, of whom further; Sarah, born Feb- ruary 25, 1691 ; Patience, born April 6, 1692; Johanna, born April 23, 1693.
(IV) Ensign Nathaniel Rossiter, eighth son of Josiah and Sarah (Sherman) Rossiter, was born November 10, 1689, in Guilford, where he died October 4, 1751. He resided in his native town, and was a joiner by occupation. In 1716 his property was valued for taxation at fifty-eight pounds, nineteen shillings and six pence. He married Anna, daughter of Lieu- tenant Nathaniel Stone. She died April 20, 1776, having survived her husband about a quarter of a century. Children: Nathaniel (2), born March 23, 1716; Benjamin, born September 25, 1718; Sarah, born June i, 1720; Noah, born April 15, 1725, died February, 1757; David, born in October, 1728, died in September, 1731 ; Nathan, of whom further.
(V) Nathan, youngest child of Ensign Nathaniel and Anna (Stone) Rossiter, was born October 31, 1730, in Guilford, died in 1788, in Richmond, Berkshire county, Mass- achusetts. He settled in the latter town in 1775, locating in the western part, a little over one mile west of the village of Richmond, at the intersection of two roads. He married, June 14, 1755, Sarah, daughter of Timothy and Bathsheba (Stone) Baldwin, of North Guilford, born July 24, 1735, in that town. Children: Nathan (2), of whom further; Noah, born June 5, 1759, resided on the paternal homestead; Abraham, died young; Sarah, born August 28, 1763; Abraham, born October 20, 1765, resided on the homestead; Samuel, born February 26, 1768 ; Benjamin, born November 23, 1771, lived in New York; Rebecca, born June 20, 1774.
(VI) Nathan (2), eldest child of Nathan (i) and Sarah (Baldwin) Rossiter, was born in 1756, in Guilford. He settled in the south- ern part of the town of Williamstown, Berk- shire county. New York, where he was a prominent citizen, and died in 1829. His name appears frequently as a witness to deeds and other legal documents. He married Han- nah, daughter of Timothy and Hannah (Wad- hams) Tuttle, of Goshen, Connecticut, born there August 10, 1758. Children: Dr. David, born in February, 1783, died in February,
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1870; Timothy Tuttle, of whom further; Louis Nathan, born in 1788 ; MeHssa, born in 1790, died in June, 1859; Edward.
(VTI) Timothy Tuttle, second son of Na- than (2) and Hannah (Tuttle) Rossiter, was born in 1785, probably in Williamstown, though his birth is not there recorded. He died in that town, July 29, 1809, at the age of twenty-four years. He married Cynthia Powers. She married (second) intentions re- corded December 20, 1813, in WilHamstown, Charles Bulkeley, of Granville, Massachusetts. Son of Timothy Tuttle and Cynthia (Powers) Rossiter ; Lucius Tuttle, of whom further.
(Vni) Lucius Tuttle, only son of Timothy Tuttle and Cynthia (Powers) Rossiter, was born October 2, 1809, in Williamstown. though not recorded there, and died August 24, 1879, in Guilford, Connecticut. In 1843 he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he was a dry-goods merchant until 185 — , when he retired and settled in Brooklyn, New York. He always maintained a summer home in Guilford. Owing to business reverses in 1865 he entered the service of the United States in the customs department in New York City, where he continued ten years. Following this he became secretary of the York County Iron Company, of York, Pennsylvania, but did not remove his residence from Brooklyn. He continued in this capacity until a short time before his death, being prevented by illness in his last years from further activity. He was a regular attendant of the Lafayette Ave- nue Presbyterian Church, of Brooklyn, and a steadfast supporter of Republican principles, but not an active politician. He married, August 28, 1843, at Troy, New York, Mary Wickes, bom January 30, 1817, at Jamaica, Long Island, died January 4, 1907, at the home of her daughter in New York City. She was a descendant of General Van Wyck Wickes, of Jamaica. Children of Lucius Tut- tle Rossiter and wife: i. Edward Van Wyck, of whom further. 2. Walter King, born May 25. 1846, died October i, 1910; married, April 26, 1 87 1, Emilie K. Mayo, daughter of Joshua C. Mayo. Children : i. Marie Louise born February 16, 1872. ii. Ethel Mayo, born March 28, 1874, married Peter Duncan Mc- Naughton; child, Walter, iii. Helen Wickes, born March 14, 1876. 3. William Wickes, of whom further. 4. Mary Wickes, bom Au-
gust 19, 1849, died January, 1852. 5. Frank Powers, born August 19, 1852. 6. Anna, born October 7, 1853, died February, 1856. 7. Elizabeth, born December 12, 1854. 8. Lucius Tuttle, born September 4, 1856. 9. Arthur Lawrence, born October 18, 1857, died in August, 1858. 10. CHnton Lawrence.
(IX) Edward Van Wyck, oldest child of Lucius Tuttle and Mary (Wickes) Rossiter, was born July 13, 1844, in St. Louis, Missouri, died December 10, 1910, at Flushing, New York. He was educated at the Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, of Brooklyn, and upon attaining his majority became a clerk in the office of the Hudson River Railroad Company, where he continued two years. For the suc- ceeding seven years he was a clerk in the treasurer's ofifice of the same company, and from 1867 to 1877 was cashier of the com- pany. From 1877 to 1901 he was treasurer of the company, and after 1901 was vice-presi- dent of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Company, and from 1883 to 1900 he was treasurer of the same company. After November 9, 1900, was vice-president of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, and since January 3, 1905, of the Michigan Central Railroad Company. He was a vice-president of the Cleveland, Cin- cinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railway Com- pany, and an officer and director in other sub- sidiary companies of the New York Central system. He was a vice-president and a di- rector of the Lincoln National Bank of New York; vice-president and trustee of the Lin- coln Safe Deposit Company ; trustee of the Bowery Savings Bank ; director of the Queens Insurance Company of America; and also of many coal and other corporations. He was a member of the Chamber of Commerce of New York ; New England Society of New York, and of the Union League Club ; and for many years he was a warden of St. George's Pro- testant Episcopal Church, of Flushing. He married, at Great Neck, Long Island, June 16, 1S69, Estelle Hewlett, born 1845. daughter of Joseph Lawrence and Mary (Cromwell) Hewlett, of Hewlett's Point, Great Neck, Long Island. Children: i. Edward Lawrence, of whom further. 2. Estelle Hewlett, born Oc- tober 6, 1872 ; married, November, 1898, Charles Edward Titus, and resides in New
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York City; children: Arthur Rossiter, born November, 1899; Charles Edward, March, 1902. 3. Arthur Wickes, of whom further. 4. Frank Herriman, born March, 1878; con- nected with the accounting department of the New York Central Railroad. 5. Mary Hew- lett, residing in New York City. 6. Ernest Tuttle, born April, 1884; graduated from a school in Pomfret, Connecticut; unmarried; resides in New York City.
(X) Edward Lawrence, eldest child of Ed- ward Van Wyck and Estelle (Hewlett) Ros- siter, was bom August 14, 1870, at Great Neck, Long Island. He was educated in Flushing Institute, and in 1887, at the age of seventeen years, entered business as a clerk in the office of the New York Central & Hud- son River Railroad Company. In 1900 he became assistant treasurer of the same, and in November, 1902, became treasurer. Since December, 1910, he has been a director of the Lincoln National Bank of New York ; is a director in a number of subsidiary companies of the New York Central railroad system. For two years he was a member of the Seventh Regiment, National Guard State of New York, receiving his discharge about 1897. He is a member of Christ (Protestant Episcopal) Church, of Greenwich, Connecticut, and is identified with numerous clubs, including the LTnion League of New York, Transportation, Greenwich Country, and Field of Greenwich. Politically he is an Independent. He now resides at Greenwich, Connecticut.
Mr. Rossister married, June 5, 1895, i" Brooklyn, Ella Fowler, a graduate of Packer Institute, born October 29. 1875, daughter of Henry J. and Sarah (Quimby) Fowler, of Brooklyn, New York. Children : Lawrence Fowler, born March 23, 1896, in Brooklyn, now a member of the class of 1913, afthe Al- len-Stevenson School, of New York City ; Dorothy, a student at the Ely School of Green- wich.
(X) Arthur Wickes, second son of Edward Van Wyck and Estelle (Hewlett) Rossiter, was born October 8, 1874, at Flushing, Long Island. He attended the Flushing Institute and Drisler's private school of New York City. In 1892, at the age of eighteen, he entered the employ of J. W. Davis & Com- pany, bankers and brokers (then located at No. 66 Broadway, but now at No. 100 Broad-
way), as a boy, and since then has filled by steady advancement every position in the busi- ness. In 1900 he became a member of the firm. At the present time (1913) he is one of the active members of the Stock Exchange. He holds membership in the Union Club, Racquet and Tennis Club, Automobile Club, the Stock Exchange Lunch Club, the Nassau Country Club, the Piping Rock Country Club, and the Oakland Golf Club. ■ He is a Re- publican in politics. He resides at Glen Cove, Long Island.
He married, in 1906, Alice Riggs Colgate, of Flushing, Long Island, daughter of Robert and Henrietta (Craig) Colgate. Children: Henrietta Craig, born March 22, 1907; Arthur Wickes, Jr., born March 30, 1908.
(IX) William Wickes, son of Lucius Tuttle and Mary (Wickes) Rossiter, was born in Troy, February 9, 1848, and died in Brook- lyn, April 27, 1897. As a merchant in general produce he began business with the firm of Wallace & Wickes ; afterwards the company was reorganized under the name of Rossiter & Skidmore, and Mr. Rossiter was its principal member until the time of his death. He was also the president of the Terminal Warehouse Company, in New York City. He was a Re- publican and a member of the Presbyterian church. He was prominent in the social and club life of Brooklyn, serving on the boards of such organizations as the Hamilton Club, Chil- dren's Aid Society, etc. He married (first) in Brooklyn, August 2, 1870, Emma L., daugh- ter of Robert Richmond, who was born in Brooklyn, in 1849, and died October 23. 18S8; (second) Helen, daughter of James Hendrick, of Albany, New York. All his children were by the first wife. Her father, Robert Rich- mond, was born in Scotland, and came to America at the age of twenty-one, and died in 1879. Children: Van Wyck, of whom further: Julie, born January 21, 1875, married, April 29, 1896, John J. Hinchman ; William Wickes. born November 13, 1877.
(X) Van Wyck, son of William Wickes and Emma L. (Richmond) Rossiter, was born in Brooklyn, May 12, 1871. After having had a thorough preliminary course of study in the Holbrook School, Ossinning, he completed his education at the Polytechnic Institute, of Brooklyn. His first business experience was with H. A. Rogers, at No. 19 John Street,
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New York City ; but this position he was after a time compelled to give up on account of ill health, and going out to California for re- cuperation, he remained for a year. In 1893 he organized the firm of Rossiter, McGovern & Company, the company being incorporated in 1899, and Mr. Rossiter serving as its presi- dent until he retired from the business. He was also president of the Queensboro Electric Light & Power Company, of the borough of Queens, New York City; of the Citizens' Elec- tric Lighting Company, of Far Rockaway, Long Island, New York ; of the Liberty Light & Power Company, of Liberty, Sullivan county. New York, and a director of many other companies. He organized and was for six years the president of the Rockland County Trust Company ; is president of the Gregory & Sherman Company, and of the Braeburn Association, all three of these organizations being of Nyack, Rockland county, New York, Mr. Rossiter making his home at Upper Nyack. He is president of the Nyack Country Club, and is a member of the Union League Club, of New York City. In politics he is a Republican, and he has served as village trustee of Upper Nyack.
Mr. Rossiter married, in California, Octo- ber 10, 1895, Mabel, daughter of Lewis Cass and Anna L. (Davis) Fuller, who was born in Portland, Oregon. Her father was a well- known banker of that state. Children: Rich- mond, born November 8, 1896; Ruth Mabel, born September 29, 1897; Van Wyck, born May 26, 1900; Margaret, born April 22, 1901 ; Elizabeth, born July 23, 191 1.
This old Dutch family has been con- SIP tinuously located in New Jersey for two and a half centuries, and seven generations have been born in one house, lo- cated at the south corner of Bergen Avenue and Newkirk Street in Jersey City. This house was built by Adraen Hendrickse Sip about 1664, and is still occupied by his lineal descendant, who was born there.
(I) Adraen Hendrickse Sip, of Breda, Hol- land, came to America in 1641, and joined the church in Bergen, November 13, 1666. The house which he built there in 1664 is still standing in almost its original form. The h-omes of that period were usually one-story
structures built of stone or wood and some- times of both, and were comfortable and hospitable in appearance. The steep roof curved slightly toward the lower part and often extended beyond the walls to form a piazza, the edge being supported by pillars. There were spacious rooms on either side of a wide hall which ran through the middle of the house, and the attic contained several sleeping apart- ments, a spinning and loom room and a store- room. A very fair example of one of these is the Sip homestead. Adraen H. Sip married (first) February 4, 1656, Grietje Warnants Van Schonevelt, and (second) Geertje Aur- ians, a widow, who survived him and died May 17, 1691. Children: Henricus, Jan Arianse, Antje, became the wife of Symon Jacobse Van Winkle ; Maritje, married Sibi Opdyke. He was one of the original purchasers on January 30, 1658, of the Peninsula between the Hudson and Hackensack rivers, south from Weehawken to Bergen Point, from the Indians, which was finally granted to the in- habitants of Bergen in the year 1661.
(II) Jan Arianse, second son of Adraen Hendrickse and Grietje Warnants (Van Schonevelt) Sip, was born May 24, 1662, died August 12, 1729. He was an important and influential person in the town of Bergen. He was lieutenant in the Bergen militia under Captain John Pinhorne from 1703 to 171 1, and later captain. He married, April 22, 1683, Johanna Van Vorst. Children, all baptized in New York: Arie, born October 25, 1684, bap- tized November 11, 1684: Hillegend, bap- tized August 28, 1687 ; Ide, twin of Hillegond, died in infancy; Margaret, August 17, 1690; Annetje, February 22, 1693; Ide, mentioned below: Johannis. born May 10, 1698; Abra- ham, April II, 1704; Lena, baptized Decem- ber I, 1708.
(III) Ide, son of Jan Arianse and Johanna (Van Vorst) Sip, was born September 3, 1695, in Bergen, and died February 26, 1762. He was commissioned lieutenant of the Sixth Company of the Bergen militia under captain Michael C. Vreeland. March 13, 17^3, and was active in the affairs of the town. He mar- ried (first) April 12, 1715, at Hackensack, Ariantje Cornelisse Cadmuys, a native of Passaic, and (second) June 9. 1725, in New York, Antje Van Wagenen, born about 1704, daughter of Johannis and Catalyntje (Hel-
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migse) Van Wagenen, died January 25, 1749. Children of second marriage : John, Cornelius, Annetje, Catalyntje, born August 5, 1731 ; Ar- riantje, baptized June 2, 1733; Jannetje, Sep- tember 30, 1735; Garret, mentioned below.
(IV) Garret, youngest child of Ide and Antje (Van Wagenen) Sip, was baptized Au- gust 21, 1740, in Bergen, and died October 4, 1775. He married Jannetje Merselis, who survived him almost fifty years, dying October 4, 1775. Children: Antje, born September 6, 1764; Peter, mentioned below; Jenneke, March 12, 1770.
(V) Peter, only son of Garret and Jannetje (Merselis) Sip. was born August 18, 1767, in Bergen, and died May i, 1852. He was a jurist of the finest type, being judge of the Bergen Court of Common Pleas, and in 1840 was elected county judge of Hudson county by the Republican party, of which he was an earnest supporter. He was the founder of the New Jersey Railroad & Transportation Company; Newark Plank Road Company; Mechanics Bank, Newark ; Jersey City & Ber- gen railroad, which has since grown to enor- mous proportions He married, November i, 1789, Elizabeth Vreeland, who died March i, 1827. Children: Garret, born March 11, 1791 ; Marritje, February 27, 1795 ; Richard, men- tioned below.
(VI) Richard, second son of Peter and Eli- zabeth (Vreeland) Sip, was born August 31, 1800, in Bergen, and died April 10, 1865. He was engaged in looking after his father's es- tate, and bv his good judgment and foresight the value of the property was greatly increased. He was a member of the Dutch Reformed church of Bergen, now Jersey City, and in politics was a Republican. He married, in Jersey City, September 5, 1856, Sarah Eliza- beth Wayland, born July 31, 1818, in New York City, died October 20, 1910, daughter of Letitia Wayland, born in Bath, England, June 22, 1789, died July 12, 1864. They had one son, Richard Garret, mentioned below.
(VII) Richard Garret, only son of Richard and Sarah Elizabeth (Wayland) Sip, was born July 2, i860, in Jersey City, New Jer-
■ sey. He first attended private schools in New York City, and later Professor Anthon's Grammar School, where he remained until he was sixteen years of age, when he entered the School of Mines. He studied Chemistry
and Mining Engineering. He then made an extensive tour of the world in a 560-ton bark, when he returned to Jersey City He is now retired and is living in the old homestead built by Adraen Hendrickse Sip in 1664. In poli- tics he is a Republican. Mr. Sip is vice-presi- dent of the Holland Society of New York, president of the Hudson County Holland So- ciety, and of the Alpha Beta Delta. He is a charter member of the Carteret Club of Jersey City, Indian Harbor Yacht Club, Lake Hopat- cong YacTit Club, Manhattan Bicycle Club, New York, and member of Chamber of Com- merce, Jersey City, New Jersey.
Mr. Sip married, December 31, 1889, in Jersey City, Mary Ella Riker, born March 26, 1863, in Jersey City, daughter of John Kidney and Martha Ann (Van Derlinder) Riker. The latter was born December 16, 1832, and died November 9, 1908, in Jersey City. John K. Riker was engaged in the hotel business. He died April 14, 1867. Mr. and Mrs. Riker had children : John Romine, born October, 1855; Henry H., December 3, 1857; Albert : Mary Ella, above mentioned as the wife of Richard Garret Sip.
Captain John Luther was born LUTHER in Shrewsbury, England. He
set sail from Dorset county, England, for the new world, landing in Bos- ton, Massachusetts, in 1635. and in 1637 was one of the first purchasers and settlers of Swansea ; his ninety acres of land were said to have been purchased from the Indians for a peck of white beans. It is quite probable that the land was assigned by the government and the peck of beans merely quieted any claim made by the Indians. He sold his in- terests there and in 1642 became one of the fir.st settlers of Gloucester; in the same year he was made governor of Rhode Island. He was employed by the merchants of Boston as captain of a vessel to go to Delaware Bay on a trading voyage, and while there was killed by the Indians in 1644. Evidently his son was captured at the same time, for on May 2, 1646, the general court of Massachusetts decreed that the widow Luther should have the balance of her husband's wages according to the cus- tom, after allowing the merchants what they paid for the redemption of her son. Children:
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Samuel, of whom further; Hezekiah, of whom further, and James.
(II) Rev. Samuel Luther, son of Captain John Luther, was born in 1636, in Taunton, and died December 20, 1716, at Kickemuit, Rhode Island. He was among the first set- tlers of Swansea, Massachusetts, in 1667, and made a demand upon the town of Taunton, October 19, 1672, for his father's purchase rights, but it was shown that his brother had been for many years in peaceful possession of the property and his appeal was denied. He served as selectman of Swansea before 1675. His wife bore the baptismal name of Mary, and they had children ; Samuel, born October 25, 1663; Theophilus, October 9, 1665; Mary, July 25, 1668; Ebenezer, December 27, 1678; Mehitable, married Ebenezer Cole; Martha, married Huge Cole. The first four are re- corded at Rehoboth.
(II) Hezekiah, son of Captain John Luther, was born about 1639-40, in Taunton, and died July 23, 1723, in Swansea, Massachusetts, where he was one of the first settlers, in asso- ciation with his brother Samuel. His descend- ants continued to itside there and in Rehoboth. and in Warren and other towns in Rhode Island. His first wife bore the name of Eliza- beth, and his second that of Sarah, Children of first wife, born in Swansea: John, born 1663, died 1697; Nathaniel, 1664, married, June 28, 1693, Ruth Cole. Children of second wife: Joseph, born February 12, 1669, died March 23, 1736; Elizabeth, December 29, 1671, married John Kinnicutt ; Edward, April 27, 1674, married (first) Sarah Callender, (second) Elizabeth Mason; Hezekiah, men- tioned below; Hannah, married Dr. Richard Winslow.
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(i) and Sarah ( ) Luther, was born
August 27, 1676. in Swansea, and married. March 23, 1704, Martha Gardner. They were the parents of twelve children.
(IV) Hezekiah (3), .son of Hezekiah (2) and Martha (Gardner) Luther, was born Feb- ruary 19, 1728, in Swansea, where he resided. He married, December 23, 1750, Mary Jolls, and they were the parents of eight children : Hannah, born 175 1 ; William, mentioned be- low; Mehitable, 1755; Israel, 1757; Elizabeth, 1759; Rebecca, 1761 ; Hezekiah and Hopestill (twins), 1763.
(V) William, eldest son of Hezekiah (3)
and Mary (Jolls) Luther, was born December 31, 1752, and died at sea, May 11, 1784. He was a soldier of the revolution, serving first under Captain Ezra Ormsbee, of the town of Warren, in 1776, and in 1781 in Captain Cur- tis Cole's company of Colonel Nathan Miller's regiment. Caleb Salisbury was a soldier in the same companies, as was also his relative Gideon Luther. He married, about 1774, Patience Miller, and they were the parents of the following children, born in Warren : James Miller, October 23, 1776; Hezekiah, Novem- ber 26, 1778 ; Asa, mentioned below ; William. April I, 1784. The mother married (second) Caleb Salisbury.
(VI) Asa, third son of William and Pa- tience (Miller) Luther, was born April 24, 1781, in Warren, Rhode Island, and settled when a young man in Albany county, New York. Thence he removed to Saratoga county, where he engaged in the manufacture of pottery ware and lived until his death. He married Phebe Purinton, a native of Saratoga county, and they were the parents of three children: John Purinton, George W., and Caroline.
(VII) George Washington, son of Asa and Phebe (Purinton) Luther, was born October 5, 1815, in Saratoga county, New York, and died May 10, 1889, in Albany. For more than forty years he conducted a retail coal busi- ness in Albany, and was successful in business and esteemed as a private citizen. He mar- ried Phebe Andrews, born March 28. 1813. in Stillwater, Saratoga county, and died in Al- bany, September 23, 1882, daughter of Machiavel Andrews ; her father was a prom- inent civil engineer, residing in Stillwater, Saratoga county, and constructed vari- ous water works in the state of Pennsylvania, and was chief engineer in charge of construc- tion of the Delaware & Hudson canal. George W. Luther and wife have three children: i. Ellen Elizabeth, wife of Edward Gary, who has been for several years editor of the New York Times, and has a daughter Elisabeth Luther Gary. 2. John Asa. 3. George Mar- tin, mentioned below.
(VIII) George Martin, junior son of George W. and Phebe (Andrews) Luther, was born .'\ugust 25, 1849. '" Greenbush, \'an Rensselaer countv. New York, and attended
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Albany Academy. Entering Cornell Univers- ity, he graduated in 1870, in his twenty-first year, after which he continued to reside at home, assisting his father in business until 1885. In the last named year he removed to New York City and engaged in the manufac- turing business, becoming treasurer of the C. W. Hunt Company of New York, in which position he continued until 1890. At this time the Nichols Chemical Company was formed and Mr. Luther became its secretary, and soon after was made secretary and gen- eral manager of the Nichols Copper Company of New York, in which relation he has con- tinued until the present time. He is also presi- dent of the Granby Consolidated Mining Smelting and Power Company. Ltd., of Brit- ish Columbia, and is vice-president of the Albert Mines Company of Canada. He is a member of the Albany Society of New York. He married, February 12, 1873, Mary H. Gould, born in Albany, New York, daughter of William and Sarah (Hartness) Gould. Mr. and Mrs. Luther are the parents of two daughters: Mary Gould and Phebe Andrews. The" latter is the wife of Philip Lee Gill, of Brooklyn, New York, and is mother of Philip Lee Gill Jr., born in that borough.
The Saugerties and Albany MYERS families of the Myer or Myers
name are descendants of Chris- tian Myers, who was born in the village of Wolferlingen, about six miles northeast of Coblenz, in the Palatinate on the banks of the Rhine, March 11, 1688, and died in Sau- gerties, New York, January 5, 1781. He and his wife are buried on the old Christian Myers farm at Churchland, town of Sauger- ties, New York. He married, 1710, Ann Geer trury Theunyes, born May 15, 1690, died Jan- uary 9, 1766. Christian Myers and wife, with the Palatinate emigration, arrived in New York, June 24, 1710, remaining with Governor Robert Hunter during the summer, and were then transported to West Camp, Ulster county New York, the exact date of their arrival there not being known, nor the length of their stay at that place. We next hear of him as the purchaser of the farm at Churchland, just west of the village of Saugerties, February 24, 1724, and there he spent his remaining days. In the course of time he added a large tract of
land to his original purchase, and this was later apportioned as farms among several of his sons. He also erected a mill on the Mud- dah Kill. In 1738 he was named as one of the freeholders of Kingston, and he was an elder in the Kaatsbaan church. His will, ex- ecuted March 15, 1773, proved May 8, 1783, bequeaths to his sons Willem, Johannis, Ben- jamin (of whom further), Petrus and Tobias; and children of his son Christian, deceased, and heirs of his daughters, Marytje, Christina and Catrina (deceased), and his daughter Geertje ; it also liberates and provides for his old slave Cut? during his life.
(II) Benjamin, son of Christian and Ann Geertruy (Theuyes) Myers, born October 21, 1730, died December 12, 1819. He married Leah, daughter of Teunis and Catrina (Legg) Osterhoudt, the banns of marriage being pub- lished August 13, 1756. Children: i. Teunis, of whom further. 2. Christian, born June 5, 1759; unmarried. 3. Stephanus, born Decem- ber 27, 1760, died March, 1841 ; married Helen Low. 4, Petrus, born November 17, 1762, died March, 1841. 5. Catherine, born April 10, 1769; married David Myer. 6. Annetje (or Anna), born June 23, 1772; married Isaac Vandenberg. 7. Marytje, born May 10, 1775; married Tjerck Schoonmaker, Sr. 8. Solomon, born October i, 1786; died unmarried.
(HI) Teunis. son of Benjamin and Leah (Osterhoudt) Myers, was born in 1757, and died November 22, 183 1. He resided at Sau- gerties, New York, where he owned consider- able property, on which was a stone house typical of the period and bearing upon its portals the date of its erection, 1746. This house was not far from Mount Marion, in the Catskill mountains, a beautiful location for a residence. It was long and low, with an unusually steep roof, and was still stand- ing in 1910. Teunis Myers married, 1781, Cornelia, daughter of John Legg, who resided where in 1910 was the Shefifield place, now the property of Henry Barclay, of Saugerties. Cornelia (Legg) Myers was an intimate friend of the wife of George Clinton, and when the British proceeded up the Hudson, working devastation, she witnessed the burning of Kingston, October 13, 1777. Children: i. Ben- jamin Teunis, of whom further. 2. Jane, born September 17, 1793, died November, 1872; married Peter G. Post, born January 19, 1792.
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3. Solomon, born July 14, 1798; married Eliza- beth Goodwin.
(IV) Benjamin Teunis, son of Teunis and Cornelia (Legg) Myers, was born at Platt- skill, Ulster county, New York, May 9, 1783, died at Saugerties, January 31, 1869. He was originally a farmer on a somewhat large scale, supplying the neighborhood and river towns with the produce from his estate, but in the later years of his life he was able to retire from business cares and all activities in Sau- gerties, where he lived the greater part of his life. He married, at Plattskill, September 2, 1804, Sarah, only daughter of Johannes and Leah (Myer) Snyder, and granddaughter of Colonel Johannes Snyder, of Ulster county, who was colonel of the First Regiment of Ulster, May i, 1776, also delegate to the pro- vincial congress, member of the council of safety, member of assembly, and president five terms of the board of trustees of Kingston corporation. Sarah (Snyder) Myers inherited a number of slaves as a portion of her dowry, one of whom (Flora) taught Mrs. S. M. Tay- lor to knit, and another was known as "Old Rub."
(V) John Benjamin, child of Benjamin Teunis and Sarah (Snyder) Myers, was born at Brabant, near Kingston, New York, Febru- ary 27, 1806, and died in the town of Mentz, near Port Byron, New York, February 27, 1861, buried in Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn. New York. His birth took place on a farm rented of a Mr. Cockburn by his father, who soon purchased a farm where the other chil- dren were born. He married, at Saugerties, August 12, 1828, Arriet, daughter of Captain John Gillespy, who had a record as a fighter in the American cause, and was son of Major John Gillespy, who engaged in the French and Indian wars, and afterwards in the war of the Revolution as a member of the Fourth Ulster County Militia. Captain John Gillespy fought at the head of his company in the War of 1812; for a time he was stationed on Staten Island. Children: i. Benjamin Gillespy, born at Saugerties, August 20, 1829, died at No. 372 Clinton avenue, Albany, New York, March 5;, 1901 ; married, at Port Byron, New York, November 23, 1858: Minerva Kerns; children: Howard Gillespy, born at Port Byron; Leila Whitney, born in New York City; Lotta Wright, born in New York City.
2. John Gillespy, of whom further. 3. Sarah, born September 21, 1833; was residing in Al- bany in 1910; married, at Port Byron, May 28, 1863, Captain David Austin Taylor; chil- dren: John Myers, born near Port Byron; Lawrence Hartshorne, born at Camden, New Jersey ; Grace Brown, born at Oneida, New York ; Ernest Chandler, born at Guineys, Vir- ginia ; Marion Lee, bom at Albany, New York ; Bessie Myers, born at Albany. 4. Jason Gil- lespy, born January 25, 1840; unmarried. 5. Lavinia, died at Albany, October 29, 1855, buried at Auburn, New York. 6. Elizabeth, born near Port Byron; died young. 7. Eliza- beth (2d), living at present time (1913). 8. Selina, married, at Auburn, New York, July 10, 1878, S. Henry Atwater ; children: Wini- fred Moore, born at Windham, New York; Reginald Myers, born at Canon City, Colorado. (VI) John Gillespy, son of John Benjamin and Arriet (Gillespy) Myers, was born in Saugerties, New York, August 4, 1832, died in Albany, December i, 1901. Until the age of eight years he lived with his parents on their farm in their typical Dutch farm house in the shadow of Mount Marion, in the Catskill mountain range. About that time his father selected better land than the rocky soil of Ulster county, purchasing a tract near Montezuma, Cayuga county, and here his son aided him in agricultural pursuits. When fourteen years old he returned to Saugerties and began his business career as a store boy and general clerk for his uncle, P. M. Gillespy. He had been accus- tomed from early youth to dispose of the produce of his father's farm, and he acquired a strong tendency for trade, made keen by his competition with other lads of the neighbor- hood. The connection with the store in a minor capacity -simply interested and aroused him to make more rapid progress in some- thing better. But until he became of age he remained in the employ of his uncle, except such times as he was engaged in study in the little red school house. He was fond of read- ing and very quick to observe, so that he ac- quired much knowledge even when not in school, and what he learned in this fashion he was clever enough to turn to good account in later life. Even in those days he possessed a keen insight into character, a faculty for de-
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originally a fjni.cr 'jh a soicvw!.!'. lar^v; --ii-;, supplying the neighborhood and river towns with the produce from his estate, but in the later years of his life he was able to retire from business cares and all activities in Sau- gertics, where he lived the greater part of his life. He married, at Plattskill, September 2, 1804, Sarah, only daughter of Johannes and Leah ( Myer) Snyder, and granddaughter of Colonel Johannes Snyder, of Ulster county, who was colonel of the First Regiment of Ulster, May i, 1776, also delegate to the pro- vincial congress, member of the council of safety, member of assembly, and president five terms of the board of trustees of Kingston corjjoration. Sarah (Snyderl Myers inherited a number of slaves as a portion of her dowry one of whom (Flora) taught Mrs. S. M. Tay lor to knit, and another was known as "Ol-' Rub."
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ary 27, 1806, and died in the t near Port Byron, New York, 1861, buried in Fort Hill Con. ; New York. His birth took phce o; ;i ia; rented of a Mr. Cockburn by his father, who soon purchased a farm where the other chil- dren were born. He married, at Saiieerties, August 12, 1828. .A.rriet, daughtc oi Captain John Gillespy, who had a record .1- a' fighter in the American cause, and was sot, of Major John Gillespy, who engaged in the French and Indian wars, and afterwards in tlie war of the Revolution as a member of the Fourth Ulste- County^ Militia. Captain John Cjiliesnv foughi at the head of his company in the War ot 181 2; for a time he was stationed on State ; Island. Children: i. Benjamin Giile=pv bon at Saugerties, August. 20, 182*), died at No. 2,7-2 Clinton avenue. Albany, New York. March s. 1901 ; married, at Pon Byron. New York, November 23, 1858; Miner\a Kerns; children: Howard Gillespy, bom at Port Bvron: Leila Whitney, born in New York r-;,, . i „>.. Wright, borr i- ^'i - ^' -• ' -—
2. loi.ri ijiiitspy. of whom turllier. 3. .Sarah, born Septembta- 21, 1833; was residing in Al- bany in 1910; married, at Port Byron, May 28, 1863, Captain David Austin Taylor; chil- dren: John Myers, born near Port Byron; Ijiwrence Hartshorne. born at Camden, New Jersey; Grace Brown, born at Oneida, New York ; Ernest Chandler, born at Guineys, Vir- ginia ; Marion Lee, boni at .-Albany, New York ; Bessie Myers, born at Albany. 4. Jason Gil- lespy. bom Jainiary 25, 1840; unmarried. 5. Lavinia, die. I .1; V.b.v... October 29, 1855,
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cision and rapid action, and these governed him throughout his life.
When twenty-one years old he became asso- ciated with two men in the conduct of a gen- eral country store at Port Byron, Cayuga county, but this partnership did not last long, and finally he was left in sole possession to dispose of the stock for the benefit of the cred- itors. He succeeded in doing this by means of a trip through the west, and the result was that through his ability every creditor was paid in full. After this he obtained a position in the large wholesale house of Clapp & Kent, clothing and dry goods merchants of New York City, and was rapidly promoted. At the commencement of the rebellion he started in business for himself in New York, securing for a location the corner of Bleecker and Christopher streets, and here he made some money. In 1865 he formed a partnership with William M. Whitney, in Albany, where they succeeded the firm of Ubsdell, Pierson & Lenox, in the dry goods business, and the store on North Pearl street. Albany, was known as the "New York Store." It was by far the largest of its kind in Albany, and was a pro- nounced success. This partnership continued five years, when it was dissolved, each partner continuing in business for himself. Mr. Myers opened another large store at Nos. 39-41 North Pearl street. An incident in its his- tory was a catastrophe on the morning of August 8, 1905, when, during the course of repairs and alterations, the floors sank, and as a result the handsome new building was erected immediately upon the site of the old one, and is a leading adornment of the business section of the city. But of far more importance than a beautiful building in showing the character of the merchant, stands the system inaugurated by him through which method the employees receive each year proportionate financial re- turns dependent upon the success of the year, and it is safe to say that no employees are more interested in doing their best by co- operation than are these, and at the same time he gained what he most desired — their good will and high regard.
The business career of Mr. Myers knew no wavering from that time on. His strict attention even to details, and thorough know- ledge of the requirements of each depart- ment, to make for absolute success, were the great factors which brought such excellent
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results. As his wealth increased he became associated with the development of local en- terprise, and his name was valued on dififer- ent boards and companies for it was a guar- antee of high standard. While aiding many institutions liberally, probably more so in some instances than any other citizen, he was decidedly averse to any publicity. He was among the four special commissioners ap- pointed from among the citizens by the mayor, in 1891, to investigate means by which an in- creased and purer water supply could be se- cured to the city, which was prior to the attempt to acquire a driven well supply and the installation of the filtration system.
He joined the Holland Society, December 7, 1888, as one of the earliest members, and always took a decided interest therein. He also joined Philip Livingston Chapter, Sons of the Revolution, and aided in all of its movements. He was a member of the Fort Orange Club, and his religious association was with the Presbyterian faith. In politics he was a staunch Republican throughout his life, and a firm believer in the policies of that party. He was president of the Albany Hos- pital, which probably interested him more than any other institution in the city with which he was associated, and it received his most liberal support and thoughtful attention. He was a governor of the Albany Orphan Asy- lum, a director of the Albany railway ; vice- president of the Merchants' National Bank in 1880; trustee of the Albany Female Acad- emy, now known as the Albany Girls' Acad- emy, and in the erection of its new and hand- some edifice he played an important part ; was first vice-president of the newly organized Albany Trust Company, and had been a lead- ing spirit in its organization as one of the foremost business institutions ; vice-president of the Commerce Insurance Company ; and a trustee of the Albany Rural Cemetery.
The death of Mr, Myers occurred on a Sunday morning, at his home, No. 240 State Street, Albany, following an illness of a few weeks' duration. In his demise the citizens as a body felt that from their midst had been removed one who had been respected among the best of them, and who had been a pillar of strength to many philanthropic institutions. His honesty and painstaking measures had brought about a success well merited and far beyond the average. His mode of living had'
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been simple, although his home was one of the most beautiful in the city, and his bene- factions were the unostentatious acts of a man bent upon doing good, tlis associates in business admired his straightforward, manly methods, imd those who met him so- cially were impressed by his charming person- ality. Both in public and in the privacy of his family he lived the conscientious, kindly life of a Christian. The Albany Hospital, having long received the benefits of his coun- sel and benefactions, felt his loss keenly, and the board declared that "while his death is a loss to the whole city, it falls especially upon the hospital board, and on the benevolent work in which with them he was so deeply inter- ested." He had been governor of this insti- tution for many years, and both his wisdom and liberality had been of the greatest ser- vice, with a record of never having been ab- sent from a meeting when possible to attend When the work of constructing a new hos- pital was begun, his contributions created one of the pavilions, and were also an encourage- ment to those struggling with the enormous undertaking.
John Gillespy Myers married, at Cayuga, New York, August 19, 1857, Mary Augusta Young, the Rev. Frederick Starr, of Auburn, officiating. She was born at Auburn, Febru- ary 22, 1833, died at her home in Albany, February 9, 1904, daughter of Jacob Young, of Auburn, who enlisted at the age of sixteen years, served in the War of 1812, and was present at the sortie at Fort Erie ; and grand- daughter of Christian Young, who served throughout the Revolution, and received his honorable discharge, which is signed by Gen- ,eral George Washington.
During their long residence in Albany Mr. and Mrs. Myers co-operated with each other in philanthropic work, she making good use of the means placed at her disposal for the alleviation of suffering and the comfort of the afflicted. But the good accomplished was not allowed to reach the public ear, for it was her own pleasure akin to her nature. She was a woman of sympathetic nature, and more than willing to listen to appeals. She was a member of the State Presbyterian Church, aided in its various interests, belong- ing also to a number of local institutions. Of her it was said : "When the final honors have been paid to her mortality, and her last rest-
ing place on earth has become a reality, the world will know no more a woman who bene- fited it by her bemg, and whose memory will long be cherished for the good that she did." Children of John Gillespy and Mary Au- gusta (Young) Myers, are as follows: i. Margaret Fuller, born at Mintline, Cayuga county, New York, May 6, 1858 ; married, at Saugerties, New York, September 2, 1891, Henry King Sturdee, born in London, Eng- land, August 13, 1859, son of Captain Edwin Thomas Sturdee, of the Royal Navy, and had children : Georgiana Myers, born at Albany, April 7, 1892; Flora Margaret, born at Al- bany. November 27, 1894. 2. Jessie Kenyon, born at Auburn, October 19, 1859; married at Albany, September 14, 1899, Colonel George Porter Hilton, son of Charles and Mary Etta (MacWhorter) Hilton, born in Albany, March 19, 1859, died at his home. No. 240 State Street, Albany, October 7, 1909; had one son : John Gillespy Myers Hilton, born in Albany, May 11, 1901. 3. Georgiana Seymour, born in New York City, August 14, 1861, died at Saugerties, New York, June 13, 1893; married, at Albany, November 24, 1891, Walter Launt Palmer, A. N. A., born at Al- bany, August I, 1854, son of Erastus Dow and Mary (Seaman) Palmer.
One finds the signifi- VAN ALSTYNE cance of the family name of Van Alstyne in the Dutch, meaning from the old or high stone, and therefore those who first bore that name as a distinctive family in Holland dwelt upon the top of a rocky eminence, or near to some enormous boulder which for years had been a prominent landmark among all the in- habitants of that neighborhood. There have been a number of forms for the spelling of the name, as the early records show by the variety of signatures attached to official docu- ments, such as Van Aelsteyn, Van Aalsteyn, Van Alstyn, Van Alstein and Van Alstine. Since coming to this country the centuries have not added to the diversity, but rather simplified matters, for at the present time the chief forms are Van Alstyne, Van Alstine and Van Alstyn.
Those who have delved deeply into the family history have demonstrated that the records still preserved in Holland show that the line of descent mav be traced tc the vear
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936, dating contemporaneous with the crown- ing of Otho, Henry Van Alstyn was present. It may seem peculiar, but the family name first appears as Ralsko, which was abandoned in order to take that of Wartemberg, which it bore for several centuries. Jean Ralsko who died in Flanders, in 1236, had built there the Chateau de Waldstein, the name of which he took in order to distinguish himself from his brother, who bore that of Wartemberg. The family has been traced under the name of Balstein in Spain, Vallenstcin in France. Halsteyn in Flanders, and Van Alstein in Holland. From Waldstein the name changed to Wallenstein, Walstein, Valstein, and finally became Van Alstein. Those who located in Flanders were loyal to the Church of Rome, and those living in Holland allied themselves to the Reformation of Martin Luther, and displayed the courage of their convictions. Those who came to America have particularly demonstrated their courage of independent thought and action, and were well represented in the war of American independence as well as in the Civil War. Invariably they have been men of middle ground, neither acquiring great riches nor suffering poverty, freed both from the worries of life and the cares of wealth. In like degree they have been prom- inent in politics and religion, as well as in the professions,
(I) Jan Martense Van Alstyne was the pro- genitor of the family in America. He was the son of Marten (or Martin) Van Alstyne, of Holland. There is a record to prove that he was in New Amsterdam (New York City) as early as 1646, the exact date of this entry being December T7, 1646, upon a bill of sale of a yacht, namely, Thomas Hall and Jan Peterson to Hendrick Jansen and Jan Mar- tense. It seems evident from what transpired later, that he engaged in transportation upon the Hudson river, between New York and Albany, for within a decade he began buying land at the latter place. It is not known just how long he remained upon Manhattan, but he was recorded in 1657 as owner of a lot in Beverwyck, or Albany, New York, located upon the east side of Broadway and north of Columbia street, which was beyond the north wall of the stockade, built to keep out the Indians about that time. This land he held as late as 1693, and in the meanwhile had be- come the patentee of two tracts of land in
Ulster county. Possibly he had stopped there while making one of his trips and had been shown good land which was offered to him. He likewise purchased a large tract of land "behind" Kinderhook, New York, about a score of miles from Albany and east of it. This became the real home of the family, and he the founder of it in every sense. The place was so named because in the Dutch it signifies "Children's Point," which is thought to have been bestowed because of the great number of Indian children who ran out on the point of land the better to observe the passing of Hen- drick Hudson's ships. (Rev. Mr. Collier's ad- dress, "Kinderhook.") The first proprietor re- sided there until his death, which was about 1698, and the land continued for more than two centuries in the possession of the descend- ants of his son Abraham, to whom he con- veyed the farm in 1695, conditioned on his paying the other heirs certain sums of money as provided explicitly. He married Dirckje Harmense, a woman endowed with all the characteristics necessary to make her a fitting helpmate for a pioneer husband. Their chil- dren were named Marten, Abraham, Lambert and Isaac.
(II) Lambert Janse, son of Jan Martense and Dirckje (Harmense) Van Alstyne, emi- grated to this country in 1665, and settled in Kings county. New York ; but no record has been found of his birth. About 1684 he came into possession of a tract of land lying on the east side of Kinderhook Creek, and adjoining the lands of his father. This he acquired by purchase of the patent or lease from the heirs of Peter Van Alen. He held it until his death, October 13, 1703. About the year 1682 he married Jannetje, daughter of Thomas and Marritje Abrahamse (Vosburgh) Mingael, she and her husband being first cousins once removed, as her father and her husband were first cousins. There is no record of her birth, but she was doubtless much younger than he, for following his demise she married, Febru- ary 2, 1713. Jochem Lambertse Van Valken- burgh, and had five sons. As all their chil- dren excepting the first-born were baptized in Kinderhook, it is safe to believe that the eldest was born in Kings county. New York, and all the others after his removal, about 1684, in Kinderhook. Children: i. Catherine, born about 1683; married Bartholomeus Van Val- kenburgh. 2. Marritje, baptized December 2y.
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1685. 3. Thomas (see forward). 4. Johan- nes, baptized August 11, 1691. 5. Dirckje, baptized May 26, 1695 ; married Pieter Vos- burgh. 6. Antje, or Annetje, baptized Janu- ary 16, 1698; died young. 7. Annetje, bap- tized July 28, 1700. 8. Pieter, baptized Au- gust 9, 1702.
(III) Thomas, son of Lambert Janse and Jannetje (Mingael) Van Alstyne, was bap- tized in Kinderhook, New York, August 22, 1688. Upon the death of his father in 1703 he came into possession of the homestead ly- ing along Kinderhook Creek, adjacent to the farm of his grandfather, the pioneer settler. He was a member of the Dutch church of Muitzeskill, where were baptized most of his offspring, although one of them. Maria, was baptized in Albany. In 1752 he bought a tract of land in the district of Claverack, described in the records kept at Hudson, New York, as lying between the Claverack and Kinderhook creeks. His will, dated November 15, 1760, on file in Albany, devises the farm occupied by William and his big gun to that son, provided that he pay off the debt on it, amounting to £100, and divided the property among five children, after providing for the support of his wife during life, and to Pieter his bouwerie or whole farm, with all belongings thereto, pro- vided that he pay his brother Lambert £400 in current money within six years of the tes- tator's death. He died in August, 1765, at Kinderhook. He married, December 12, 1718, Maria Van Alen. She was baptized June 21, 1695, daughter of Willem and Marritje (Van Patten) Van Alen. Children: i. Jannetje, baptized March 6, 1720; died young. 2. Wil- liam (see forward). 3. Lambert, baptized October 4, 1724; married (first) Alida Conyn ; (second) Aletteka Osterhout. 4. Maria, bap- tized September 10 1727; died young. 5. Catherine, baptized January 17, 1731 ; married Petrus Hoffman. 6. Maria, baptized Novem- ber 18, 1733; married Dr. Johannes Paterson. 7. Pieter, baptized May 16, 1736; married Marritje Conyn.
(IV) William, son of Thomas and Maria (Van Alen) Van Alstyne, was baptized at Muitzeskill (near Troy), New York, Decem- ber 10, 1721. In 1752 he and his wife were members of the Dutch church of Kinderhook. He probably settled upon the farm which had just come into possession of his father by pur- chase of the patent from John Van Rensse-
laer, and which was bequeathed to him out- right on his father's death, situate between Kinderhook and Claverack creeks. On May
1, 1772, he leased a house, shop and a fulling- mill, with dam and two acres, to Thomas Avery, and as much wood as he required for burning. In August, 1791, he bought a farm in Hillside, from John Collier. A document bearing date October 19, 1793, deeds a negro boy named Tom to his son Lawrence. On July 12, 1799, he sold to the same son the farm he had bought of Nicholas and Philip Hoffman a few years before. He was com- missioned a captain in Colonel Jeremiah Hoge- boom's regiment, which served in the revolu- tionary war; his commission signed by Gov- ernor Cadwalader Colden, preserved by the Holland Society, bears date April 4, 1770. He died May 22, 1802, and his tombstone was found a century ;ater on the farm which he had bought of the Hoffmans. William Van Alstyne married (first) in 1744, Christina Van Alen, baptized June 16, 1723, daughter of Stephanus and Mary (Muller) Van Alen, by whom he had five children. He married (sec- ond) September 17, 1762, Catherine Knicker- bocker, who was baptized October 19, 1731, daughter of Lawrence and Catherine (Van Home) Knickerbocker; by whom he had four children. Children: i. Maria, baptized March 23, 1745 ; married Richard Esselstyn.
2. Hilletje, baptized January 25, 1746; died young. 3. Jannetje, baptized February 29, 1749: married William Winne, Jr. 4. Alber- tina, born in 1754 ; married John De Forest. 5. Thomas (see forward). 6. Lawrence, born June 22, 1767; married Mary Murdock. 7. William, born January 31, 1770; married Maria Vosburgh. 8. Mary, born January 6, 1773; married John Leggett.
(V) Thomas (2), son of William and Cath- erine (Knickerbocker) Van Alstyne, was born at Kinderhook, New York. February 18, 1765, In the Columbia county records, under date of May 7, 1795, it is stated that he and his wife, together with other owner<;hip claim- ants, deeded the farm which ■>rently the property of the first Thomas van .-vlstyne secured from John Van Rensselaer, in 1752, to Thomas Goldthwait. He died September 10, 1838. Thomas Van Alstyne married Ma- bel Butler, born January 3, 1768. died January 10, 1832, daughter of Ezekiel and Mabel (Jones) Butler. Her father displayed so much
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zeal in the American cause for liberty that the British offered a reward for his head, dead or alive, and it is probable that he died before the close of hostilities, because he was privately buried for fear that his body would be disinterred for the sake of the reward. Mabel Butler was a lineal descendant of Colonel John Jones, one of the regicides of Charles I., whose wife Henrietta was sister of Oliver Cromwell. Children: i. William, born November 12, 1791 ; died October 12, 1867; married Polly Ostrander. 2. Maria, married February 14, 1815, Martin Barton. 3. Catherine, married, March 13, 1819, Scovil Martin. 4. Thomas Butler (see forward). 5. John Thomas, born September 28, 1800; mar- ried, February 8, 1826, Jane Ackerman ; died February 10, 1876. 6. Temperance, born in 1802; died October 29, 1877. 7. Jane, born March 4, 1805 ; died December 18, 1886; mar- ried, December 27, 1827, Dr. Levi B. Skinner. 8. Lawrence, born February 16, 1807 ; died January 18, 1835 ; married, March 28, 1829, Eliza Van Hoesen. 9. Sally, married John Van Bramer. 10. Ezekiel Butler, born No- vember 6, 181 1. II. Louisa, born November 27, 1813; died February 11, 1871 ; married, December 14, 1839, Rev. Nicholas Van Alstine.
(VI) Dr. Thomas Butler Van Alstyne, son of Thomas (2) and Mabel (Butler) Van Al- styne, was born in Ghent, Columbia county, New York, July 27, 1797, and died at Rich- mondville, Schoharie county, New York, Octo- ber 26, 1867. He was a well-known physician of Richmondville, Schoharie county, New York. After attending school in his native place he went to Hudson, near there, as a clerk in a gen- eral merchandise store. This work was not con- genial, hence he decided to follow his inclina- nation, which was for the medical profession. With this in view he began his studies under Dr. Samuel White, of Hudson, and graduated in 1818 from the Fairfield Medical College. The following year, according to the advice of his forrner friend, Dr. White, he located at Rio'' Jlle, and continued . to practice
there •. .-^^.^vi forty years, making consider- able success and gaining a reputation through out a wide area. He was often summoned in consultation cases, and was offered a medical professorship, which he declined. He was a forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery, and not only practiced what he preached in
that line during the civil war; but was also a strong advocate on the platform in the move- ment for abstinence from intoxicants.
Dr. Thomas B. Van Alstyne married, Au- gust 10, 1820, Eliza Shepard Giles, who was born October 28, 1799, and died at Richmond- ville, New York, May 13, 1877. Children; I. Jane Ann, born May 22, 1821 ; died De- cember 4, 1853 ; married, October 8, 1839 Rev. Joseph Kingsley Barry. 2. Thomas W., born December 12, 1822; died A.pril 25, 1825. 3. Thomas Jefferson (see forward). 4. Syl- vester Memford, born February 28, 1833; died October 28, 1882; married, July 9, 1855, Cynthia E. Whitney. 5. Fayette Edgar, born June 15, 1837; died September 30, 1905; mar- ried, August 19, 1857, Rose M. Markel. 6. John Lawrence, born October 8, 1840; mar- ried, October 8, 1868, Carrie A. Shults. 7. Mary Eliza, born March 18, 1846; married, November 7, 1873, J. Leslie Multer.
(VH) Hon. Thomas Jefferson Van Alstyne, son of Dr. Thomas Butler and Eliza Shepard (Giles) Van Alstyne, was born in Richmond- ville, Schoharie county, New York, July 25, 1827, where his father was practicing medi cine, and died at his home. No. 289 State street, Albany, of heart failure, October 26, 1903. He first attended the public schools, but his strong inclination for knowledge and a desire for success in life's work led him to prepare for higher education. At the age of thirteen, while visiting at the home of his brother-in-law, a Baptist minister in Cayuga county, he conceived the purpose of acquiring an education which would place him in position to make his mark, if backed by serious effort, so he entered the Moravia Academy. After that he pre- pared for college at Hartwick Seminary, and with six companions matriculated at Ham- ilton College, from which he was graduated in 1848, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and in 185 1 that of Master of Arts. He was especially excellent in mathematics, and had a high general standing He then took up the study of law under Professor Theodore W. Dwight, who was prominent later on at Columbia College. Having graduated, he en- tered the law office of Harris & Van Vorst. at Albany, and by diligent application, com- bined with his previous study of the law, was able to pass a most satisfactory examination before the close of the year, the examining
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committee consisting of the well-known attor- neys, Hon. John H. Reynolds, Hon. John K. Porter and Orlando Meads. He was admitted to the bar on March 6, 1848, and in 1850 opened his office, continuing to practice alone until 1853, when he formed a partnership with Matthew McMahon, which firm continued four years, when Mr. Van Alstyne formed a partnership in 1858 with Winfield Scott Heve- nor, of Albany, and they opened their office in the old Douw Building, at the southwest corner of Broadway and State street, Albany. From 1858 until he died in 1903, or for forty- five years, he practiced there.
Mr. Van Alstyne had a noteworthy political life, and ranked high in the councils of the Democratic party, at whose hands he received a number of offices, each of which he filled with a noble record for efficiency and integ- rity. He was elected judge of Albany county in 1871, and presided for twelve years. In 1882 he was elected congressman, taking his seat in the Forty-eighth Congress, and was appointed a member of the committee on claims, and also on that of expenditures of the department of justice. To his constitu- ents he gave thorough attention to their needs, and he furnished entire satisfaction to friends and foes alike. His party renominated him, but dissension in the ranks ruined his chances. Judge Van Alstyne was elected mayor of Albany on November 2, 1897, and served from January i, 1898, to 1900. His oppo- nents were General Selden E. Marvin, of the Republican party, who received 6,014 votes ; Alderman George H. Stevens, Independent, who received 6,012 votes; Robert H. Moore and George Du Bois ; and the judge received 8,172 votes. Judge Van Alstyne was a prom- inent Mason, associating himself with that body when a young man by entering Mount Vernon Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, October 4, 1855; made master mason, Novem- ber 19, 1855; master, 1858-61; marshal, 1865. He officiated frequently on various commit- tees and often rendered excellent service by sound advice. In his religion he was a mem- ber of the Emmanuel Baptish Church at Al- bany, and along the lines of Christian work he became a life member of the Young Men's Association, organized for the upbuild- ing of the youth, in those days conducting the only city library and educating by the medium ■of platform lectures addressed by lyceum
speakers. He was particularly concerned in the work of the Albany Institute, and the preparatory work of its curator, Cuyler Reyn- olds, in combining that old organization with the Albany Historical and Art Society, was only carried through by the vigorous speech in the advocacy of the plan made by Judge Van Alstyne, for there was almost overwhelm- ing opposition to what has since proved a prac- tical combination of societies performing simi- lar work. He had the faculty of being aggres- sive in the right, along logical lines, and his arguments were always convincing. He was impatient at delay in discussions at meetings of any sort, when lay members talked around the subject, and when satisfied he saw the features would introduce his views through the medium of a resolution which usually closed the matter immediately. In this man- ner he would have made an exceedingly able executive official of a big corporation ; but he enjoyed the practice of law, and maintained in his office an ample library of legal works. He was very fond of his well stocked home library of more than 10,000 volumes, which contained mostly histories, biographies and works pertaining to America. One of his greatest pleasures was to gather them where- ever he traveled. He was a man of more than ordinary physique both in stature and power of frame, with a bright, piercing eye, and a firm, elastic step. His ready wit and delightful conversational powers were charm- ing attributes of one who was welcomed so- cially everywhere he went. Best of all there was no hypocrisy about him, and those who were his friends and family could ever rely upon his deep affection and help. In a word, he was a good official and citizen.
Judge Thomas J. Van Alstyne married (first), at Albany, September 2. 1851, Sarah Clapp ; she was born at Albany, February 29, 1832, died there, September 25, 1859, daughter of Reuel Clapp, of the Albany firm of Clapp & Townsend. and Sarah Coon, of Dorchester, Massachusetts. He married (second), at Al- bany, New York, September 2, 1875. Nancy Louisa Peck, of Albany, New York ; she was born July 14, 1842, died at Albany, New York. November 12, 1884, daughter of Samuel S Peck and Eliza M. (Collum) Peck. He mar- ried (third), at Washington, D. C, February 17, 1886, Laura Louisa, daughter of Williani and Lydia (Van Derbilt) Wiirdemann, of
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Washington. D. C, the former having been a noted manufacturer of astronomical and mathematical instruments. Children: i. Thomas Butler, born at Albany, June 3, 1852 ; married, May 7, 1879, Anna Richards, daugh- ter of Lysander and Content (Clapp) Rich- ards, of Washington, D. C. 2. Charles Edwin, born at Albany, July 18, 1855 ; died at Albany, New York, July 10, 1858. 3. William Thomas (see forward).
(VIII) William Thomas Van Alstyne, son of Hon. Thomas Jefferson and Laura (Wiir- demann) Van Alstyne, was born at Albany, New York, in his father's home, No. 289 State street, July 28, 1887. He received his prepa- ratory education at the Albany Academy, un der a private tutor, and then entered Yale University. While there he belonged to the Yale Chapter of the Acacia fraternity, and graduated Ph.B., in 1910. He studied law at Columbia University, having selected upon the profession in which his father had made his mark, graduated February, 1913, LL.B., and November 10, 1913, it was announced that he had passed his examination for admission to the bar of New York State. He associated himself with Charles Oakes, formerly of Al- bany, at No. 2 Rector street. New York City. He joined the Seventh Regim.ent in April, 191 1, and in December, 1913, was promoted to the grade of second lieutenant and assigned to the First Regiment Field Artillery, N. G. N. Y. He is a member of Mount Vernon Lodge No. 3, Free and Accepted Masons; in politics he is a Democrat and attends the Baptist church. He is a member of the Uni- versity Club of Albany, and the Yale Club, of New York City, where he resides.
The highly distinguished fam CLINTON ily of Clinton traces its ances- try in America to Charles Clinton (1690-1773), who in 1729 came from county Longford, Ireland, and with other Protestant immigrants organized a settlement at Little Britain in what was then Ulster (now Orange) county. New York. A descendant in a cadet branch of Edward Clinton (1512- 85), ninth Baron Clinton and first Earl of Lincoln, he belonged to that historic house of Clinton, which was established in England at the Norman conquest, received extensive grants of estates, and, enjoying constantly in- creasing dignities, with the highest distinction
for public services and the fairest pedigree and reputation, came down to his time in an unbroken male succession for six centuries. A man of character, attainments and ability Charles Clinton was a useful and influential citizen of New York, commanded a regiment in the French and Indian war (participating in the capture of Fort Frontenac), was a com- missioner for the settlement of the boundary dispute with New Jersey, and was judge of his county.
He had four sons, two of whom left issue and to-day have posterity. These were James Clinton (1736-1812), the eminent revolution- ary general, and George Clinton (1739-18 12), the first governor of the State of New York, for twenty-one years the incumbent of that office, and for eight years vice-president of the United States. Arms: Argent, six crosses crosslet fitchee sable ; on a chief azure two mullets pierced or. Crest: Out of a coronet gules five ostrich feathers argent, banded azure. Motto: Patria cara carior libcrtas. In a British work of eminent au- thority occurs the following striking charac- terization of the Clinton family:
"It is really a great house, . . . and fot seven hundred years has thrown a scarcely in- termitted succession of men who have spent their lives in the furtherance of England's greatness and policy. If it has never had genius it has also never produced a traitor, and if it has never risen to the lofty position of one or two of its rivals, it has not in its records chapters which it would give estates to conceal. Always in front but never in command, this great house had the clearest pedigree in all England."
This expresses in brief the conclusions of all writers who have given critical attention to the Clinton family history. The pedigree is one of the most remarkable to be found in the whole scope of genealogical science. It is completely and precisely traceable from the Norman conquest to the present time, a most exceptional fact, as every j^eneilogist knows. As long ago as 1558, in an examination by the House of Lords to determine the exact status (as to precedence) of the th^n head of the Clinton house, reference was made to the "great antiquity" and "long continuance" of his ancestral line, and he was declared the "second lord of the realm." Moreover, the Clinton descent — embracing at the present time
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some twenty-five generations — has never suf- fered any interregnum in the male stem (re- medied by subsequent resumption of the fam- ily name in the female succession), as is so often the case in pedigrees of such length. There is historical evidence that the Clinton name existed in England before the conquest. In 1592 John Hakluyt, the antiquarian, dis- covered in the church of Loominster a brass tablet which perpetuated, in the Saxon lan- guage, the memory of one Kenelm, of the Saxon royal house, who was buried in that place in 1060. The inscription included the fol- lowing: "My fathers did build upon this, my town, and at Kenelmsford, Kenelmswearth (Kenilworth) and at Clint . . and
Reinelmebald at Clinton is my kinsman." The early adoption after the conquest of the sur- name de Clinton by the Norman founders of the family in England indicates the pre-exis- tence there of the name and probably the blood. The most authentic genealogists of the peerage — Dugdale Collins, and others — trace the ancestry of the Clintons to the ducal house of Normandy. A progenitor was William, Earl of Arques, son of Richard, second Duke of Normandy (known as Richard the Good). William, Earl of Arques, had a daughter, Maud, who married William, Earl of Tancker- ville. Of their grandsons w^ere the brothers Geoffrey and Osbert, who, established in Eng- land on estates inherited from their father (the gift of his kinsman, the Conqueror), took the surname of de Clinton. GeoiTrey de Clin- ton the elder brother, is in most American ac- counts of the ancestry of the Clinton family designated as the founder of the line, but this is erroneous, as his branch soon expired through the failure of male succession. He was lord chamberlain and treasurer to Henry I., and afterward chief justice of England. The manor of Kenilworth in the county of Warwick was bestowed upon him by the king, and he built the great and strong castle of Kenilworth, so famous in English history. He married Agnes, daughter of Roger, Earl of Warwick, and was succeeded by his son, Henry de Clinton. The latter married Amicia de Bidun and had a son, Henry de Clinton, who died without issue in 1233. (English Lineage.) (I) Osbert de Clinton, brother of Geoffrey, left four sons: Osbert, Roger (who as bishop of Coventry died in 1148), Hugh, Maurice.
(H) Osbert (2) de CHnton, eldest son of Osbert ( i ) de Clinton, was granted the lord- ship of Coleshill by his kinsman, Geoffrey de Clinton, and he was denominated as of Coles- hill. He married Margaret, daughter of Wil- liam de Hatton, who was the son of Hugh, founder of the priory of Wroxhall.
(HI) Osbert (3) de Clinton, son and heir of Osbert (2) de Clinton, received, in addi- tion to the lordship of Coleshil! that of Am- ington in County Warwick, as the inheritance of his mother. Living in the reign of John he was one of the insurgent barons who wrested from the king the Magna Charta. In consequence of his rebellion his lands were seized, but upon the accession of Henry III. (1216) he "made his peace'' and they were restored to him. He died in 1223. His wife's name was Elisant.
(IV) Thomas de Clinton, son and heir of Osbert (3) de Clinton and his wife Elisant, was resident at Amington in Warwickshire; justice of assize for County Warwick. He married Mazera, daughter and heir of James de Bisege, of Badsley, Warwick, and had five sons : Thomas, mentioned below ; Sir John de Clinton, of Coleshill; Osbert de Clinton, lord of the manor of Austrey, County Warwick, no issue; William de Clinton, rector of Aus- trey ; James de Clinton, seated at Badsley, the inheritance of his mother, which to the present time has retained the name of Badsley Clin- ton. His son and heir, Thomas, was survived by daughters only — Joan, who married (first) John Coningsby, and (second) John Fowkes; and Petronilla, who married John Woodward, of Solihull in Warwickshire.
(V) Thomas (2) de Clinton, son of Thomas (i) and Mazera (de Bisege^ de Clinton (first Baron by tenure), married Maud Bracebridge, of Kingsbury, and was succeeded by his son.
(VI) John de Clinton, son of Thomas (2) and Maud (Bracebridge) de Clinton, resided at Amington and later at Maxtock Castle, which he had from his wife. On February 6, 1298, he was summoned to parliament as Baron Clinton. In 1301 he was "specially summoned among divers great men to attend the king (Edward I.) at Berwick-upon-Tweed on June 25. the feast day of St. John the Baptist, to march against the Scots, at which time the king, invading Scotland with his royal army, as a particular badge of his favor to him for
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his special services in that expedition, called him his beloved Esquire. He, by letters patent dated August 2, at Glasgow, granted him lands in that kingdom which were part of the pos- sessions of Malcolm Dromond (ancestor of the family of Perth), then in arms against Edward." In 1305 he participated in another Scottish expedition, and in 1308 by the king's special command, accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales, to Pronthieu. During the latter year the castle and honor of Wallingford were committed 10 his keeping. He married Ida, eldest of the four daughters and coheirs of Sir William de Odingsells, lord of Maxtock Castle and other possessions in Warwickshire whose wife was Ela, daughter of William Longspee (second of that name), Earl of Salisbury. Two sons were born of this mar- riage : John, mentioned below ; William.
( VII) Sir John de Clinton, second Baron Clinton, eldest son of John and Ida (de Oding- sells) de Clinton, was knighted before 1325, in which year he was returned among the prin- cipal knights of the county of Warwick, who bore ancient arms from their ancestors. As a baron of the realm he was summoned to par- liament. In 1326 he accompanied John, Earl of Warren, in the expedition for the relief of the duchy of Guyen. He died after 1333 He married Margery, daughter of Sir Wil- liam Corbet, of Chadsley Corbet in Worcester- shire. Children : John, mentioned below ; Mary, married Baldwin de Mountfort, of Coleshill.
(VIII) Sir John de Clinton, third Baron Clinton, son of John, second Baron Clinton, and Margery (Corbet) de Clinton, was born 1326. From youth he fought in the wars under his uncle, the Earl of Huntingdon. Later he participated in the glorious French campaigns of Edward the Black Prince, and he was at the great historic battle of Poictiers in 1356. Upon his return to England, his father being deceased, he was summoned to parliament by virtue of his position as a baron of the realm. In the French military expeditions of Thomas Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, Thomas of Woodstock, and several others he performed conspicuous services. He was the Lord Clinton who. as observed by Froissard, in the English invasion of Brittany "rode with his banner displayed and performed certain feats of arms at Nantes with Sir Galoys D'Aunoy." When Thomas Beauch-
amp, Earl of Warwick, was attainted and ban- ished (1397), the custody of Warwick Castle and all the manors and lands belonging to it was confided to him. He died September 8, 1399. He married (first) Idonea, eldest daughter of Jeffery, Lord Say, and grand- daughter, maternally, of Guy Beauchamp, Ear! of Warwick. She was coheir with her brother, William, Lord Say, cousin and heir of Wil- liam de Say, Baron of Sele. As the result of the failure of male issue in the Say line, she became the eldest coheir of this noble family, which from the time of the conquest had pro- duced men of distinction. Children: Cather- ine de Clinton, married Thomas, Lord Berke- ley; Sir William de Clinton, mentioned be- low ; Sir Thomas de Clinton ; Edward de Clin- ton, died unmarried 1400. Sir John de Clin- ton, the third Lord, married (second) Eliza- beth, daughter and at length heir of William de la Plaunch, of Haversham, County Buck- ingham (cousin and heir of Sir Roger Hillary, knight), and widow of Sir Robert Grey, of Rotherfield, knight. No issue.
(IX) Sir William Clinton, eldest son of Sir John, third Baron Clinton, and Idonea (Say) de Clinton, died during the lifetime of his father. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Deincourt, knight, by Alice his wife, who was the daughter of Lord John Nevile, of Raby, and sister of Ralph, first Earl of Westmoreland.
(X) Sir William Clinton, fourth Baron Clinton, eldest son of Sir William and Eliza- beth (Deincourt) Clinton, succeeding his grandfather in the estates, title and arms, was, like his ancestors, summoned to parliament as a baron of the realm ; his name appears in this connection continuously from 1400 to his death. During the reigns of Henry IV. and Henry V., and a portion of that of Henry VI., much of his time was engaged in the wars After serving in expeditions to Ireland and Scotland, he took part in the campaigns in France, where he was concerned in many no- table sieges and engagements. At various times he was "retained by indenture" to serve the king with his followers, who on one occa- sion consisted of thirty-eight men at arms and three hundred archers. In addition to his hereditary dignity of Lord Clinton, he bore the title of Lord Say by virtue of his heirship to William de Say and to his grandmother, Idonea. His landed possessions, as enumer-
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ated by Collins, consisted of manors and ham- lets in the counties of Kent, Sussex and War- wick. He died July 30, 1432. He married Anne, daughter of William, Lord Botreaux. and widow of Sir Fouke Fitzwaryn, knight.
(XI) John Clinton, fifth Baron Clinton, son of Sir William, fourth Baron Clinton, and Anne (Botreaux) Clinton, was born about 1410. In 1438 he exchanged with Humphrey, Earl of Stafford, his castle and manor of Max- stock for the manors of Whiston and Wood- ford in County Northampton. To his kins- man. Sir James Fynes, knight, he resigned, in 1449, his title of Lord Say. From early man- hood he fought valiantly in the French wars. In 1441, while serving in the retinue of Rich- ard, Duke of York, he was taken prisoner by the French and he remained in captivity for six years, when he bought his ransom for six thousand marks. Returning to England he received from the king a special license to buy and sell wool and woolen cloths as a means of reimbursing himself. He was one of the no- bles (1459) who revolted against Henry VI. and sustained the pretension of Richard, Duke of York, to the throne. He was consequently attainted and his estates were seized, but upon the accession of Edward IV. (Richard's son) in 1461 his property was restored to him. He afterward served in another expedition to France and in a successful campaign made by Edward against the Lancastrian party in the north of England. He died September 25, 1464. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Fynes, Lord Dacre of Hurst-Mon- ceaux in Sussex.
(XII) John Clinton, sixth Baron Clinton, only son of John, fifth Baron Clinton, and Elizabeth (Fynes) Clinton, was born about 1434, died February 29, 1488. He married Anne, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford.
(XIII) John Clinton, seventh Baron Clin- ton, son of John, sixth Baron Clinton, and Anne (Stafford) Clinton, died June 4, 1515 He was with Sir Henry Poynings in the expedition in aid of Margaret, Duchess of Savoy, against the Duke of Guelders and in 15 14, "with divers other persons of honor and four hun- dred men at arms, went over to Calais for the better defense of that garrison." He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Morgan, knight, of Tredegar, Countv Monmouth.
(XIV) Thomas Clinton, eighth Baron Clinton, son of John, seventh Baron Clinton,
and Elizabeth (Morgan) Clinton, was born | 1491. He "succeeded to the manor of Folke- i stone in Kent with other large possessions, and having summons to parliament took his place among the barons of the realm. But two years after a distemper called the sweating sickness raging with that malignity as to kill in three hours divers knights, gentlemen, and officers of the king's court, the Lord Clinton and others of quality, who are recited by Lord Herbert in his life of Henry VIII. as of the king's court, died thereof (August 7, 1517)- He married Mary, daughter of Sir Edward Poynings, baronet and knight of the Garter.
(X\') Edward Clinton, ninth Baron Clin- ton and first Earl of Lincoln, son of Thomas, eighth Baron Clinton and Marv (Poynings) Clinton, was born 1512. His career, beginning in the time of Henry VIII., extended through the reigns of Edward VI. and Mary I. and a portion of Elizabeth's; and under all these sovereigns he served with distinction in mili- tary, naval and civic employments, becoming, says Collins, "one of the most en inent persons this nation has produced." An infant at his father's decease, he was reared as a ward to the king (Henry VIII.) and received a care- ful and polished education At the age of twenty he attended the king in his memorable interview with Francis I. of France at Sand- ingfield and in the subsequent entertainments at Boulogne and Calais. Mention of him ap- pears frequently in connection with the con- cerns of the court. In 1541, "a great joust at tourney and barriers having been pro- claimed in France. Flanders. Scotland, and Spain for all comers, to be holden at West- minster May I, the Lord Clinton was the third of the forty-six defendants who very richly apparelled, appeared on that occasion, which continued five days, the king, queen, and whole court being present."
Having at an early age contracted an inti- macy with John, Viscount of Lisle, Lord High Admiral, he entered the naval service, in which he rose rapidly to distinction. He was with the fleet which in 1544 escorted the Earl of Hertford, general of the army, to Scot- land, and after the successful assault on the Canongate he was the first of those who for meritorious conduct received the honor of knighthood. The fleet then scoured the coasts of Scotland and besieged and took Boulogne, of which he was made governor; and in con-
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junction with Lord Lisle he was a witness to the resulting agreement signed by the French king to observe the treaty (June 7, 1546). At the funeral of Henry VHI. (1547) he was one of the twelve principal peers who were appointed chief mourners. After the accession of Edward VL he was appointed admiral of the fleet which was to assist the Duke of Som- erset in the expedition against Scotland for refusing to comply with the treaty that pledged the young Mary (Mary Queen of Scots) to marry King Edward. With fifty men-of-war and twelve galleys, he rode into Edinburgh Frith, greatly contributing to the memorable victory of Musselborough ( September 10, 1547). On his return he was the object of marked evidences of favor, being granted ex- tensive estates in the County of Lincoln. He was next sent to Boulogne as the ablest person to defend that place against a threatened siege by the French. This trust he discharged with signal courage and skill, only surrendering the town when ordered to do so by the king and council pursuant to the treaty of peace. For his great services at Boulogne he received the personal thanks of the king and council, was made one of the privy council and a lord of the bedchamber with the title of Edward, Lord Clinton and Say, was appointed for life lord high admiral and chief commander of the fleets and seas, and was endowed with numer- ous other estates and manors. On April 24, 1551, he was elected a knight of the Garter with Henry H., king of France, and about the same time he was appointed, with the Earl of Rutland, lord Heutenant of Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. Being designated to receive the embassy (1552) which came to propose a marriage between Edward and the Lady Eliza- beth of France, he personally conducted the ambassadors to the king. Afterward he was sent on a special mission to France, bearing costly presents, and concluded the negotiations for the marriage. Other honors which he en- joyed under Edward were those of sole lord lieutenant of the County of Lincoln and gov- ernor of the Tower of London. During the reign of Mary L he also rendered conspicuous services, retaining his previous dignities. He was present at the marriage of that sovereign to Philip of Spain. Upon the breaking out of war in 1557 he was appointed general of the army, and subsequently was lieutenant-general and chief commander of the fleet and forces
against France and Scotland. He was in chief command of the military and naval expedition against Brest in 1558. During the same year, becoming involved with Lord Stafl^ord in a dispute as to precedence, the matter was re- ferred to the peers, and after an exhaustive examination of all the records it was decided "that the Lord Clinton had place next above the Lord Audley and next to Lord Abergave- ney, and that he was the second lord of the realm because of the long continuance of the Lords Clinton and of the great antiquity of the family, and that the Lord Stafi^ord was eleventh in rank or order of precedence." When Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558 she appointed him privy councillor and con- tinued him as lord high admiral. In the sixth year of her reign he attended her to the Uni- versity of Cambridge, and there received the degree of master of arts as a person of the highest rank. With other lords he was ap- pointed during the eleventh Elizabeth to "hear and examine matters brought against the Queen of Scots by the Earl of Murray, regent of Scotland." In conjunction with the Earl of Warwick he marched against the rebellious Earls of Northumberland and Westmoreland (1569) and dispersed their forces. In recog- nition of his prolonged and eminent services he was elevated by Elizabeth to the peerage, May 4, 1572, as Earl of Lincoln. The next year, "attended by a great train of noblemen," he was sent to France to receive from Charles IX. the ratification of the treaty of Bloise. He was one of the commissioners named by the queen to treat of her proposed marriage to the Duke of Anjou. He died January 16, 1585. "Always of unspotted report, specially for allegiance," says Hollinshead, "and there- fore singularly beloved in his life, so accord- ingly he was bemoaned in his death." He was buried in the south isle of the Chapel of St. George in Windsor. The tomb is a sumptuous monument of alabaster, with pillars of por- phyry. The Earl "lies in armor with his lady by him, in full proportions, their heads on a pillow and their hands uplifted as praying; on one side three sons in armor kneeling, and on the other five daughters in the same atti- tude." There is an elaborate Latin inscrip- tion.
He married (first) EHzabeth, daughter of John Blount and widow of Gilbert, Lord Tal- boys. She was known as "the beautiful Eliza-
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beth Blount." Children: i. Bridget, married Robert Dymock, Esq., of Scrivelby, County Lincoln. 2. Catharine, married William, Lord Brough. 3. Margaret, married Charles, Lord Willoughby of Parham. The Earl married (second) Ursula, daughter of William, Lord Stourton. Children : 4. Sir Henry Clinton, tenth Lord Clinton and second Earl of Lin- coln. He married (first) Catherine, daughter of Francis Hastings, Earl of Huntingdon. Two sons, of whom the elder, Thomas, suc- ceeded as third earl ; but owing to ultimate failure of male issue in the line ci this Thomas the succession to the earldom finally reverted to the descendants of his younger brother, Sir Edward, who married Mary, diughter of Sir Thomas Dighton, Esq., of Stourton, county Lincoln. A descendant of this Sir Edward was Henry Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln; married, 1744, Catherine, eldest daughter and heir of Rt. Hon. Henry Pelham. Her uncle. Thomas Pelham Holies, was created duke of Newcastle-under-Lymp on the 17th of No- vember, 1756, with special remainder to the Earl of Lincoln ; and upon the death of this Thomas, first duke, in 1768, Henry Clinton, ninth Earl of Lincoln, succeeded as seconJ Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme, assuming by royal license the surname of Pelham — whence the present family name, Pelham-Clinton. The head of this house is now Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, seventh Duke of Newcastle and fourteenth Earl of Lincoln, born September 28, 1864. Another present representative is Mr. Charles Staple- ton Pelham-Clinton, of Moor St. Stoud, Eng- land, born 1857, giandson of the fourth duke, who married, in 1886. Lizzie, only daughter of Louis di Zeresra, of New York City. Re- curring to the Clinton line previous to the merging of the earldom of Lincoln in the dukedom of Newcastle, we find that Francis Clinton, sixth Earl of Lincoln, died 1693, aged fifty-eight, was the father, by his sec- ond countess, Susan, daughter of Anthony Penniston, Esq., of Hon. George Clinton, royal governor of the province of New York from 174-^ to 1753. This provincial governor, George Clinton, who died July 10, 1761, mar- ried Anne, daughter and heir of Hon. Peter Carle, major-general, their onlv surviving son being the distinguished Sir Henry Clinton, born 1738. died December 23, 17Q5, wlio was Knight of the Bath, member of parliament.
lieutenant-general, and commander-in-chief of his majesty's forces in America during the revolutionary war, with headquarters in New York City. It was he who led the brilliant and successful expedition against Forts Clin- ton and Montgomery on the Hudson (1777), defended by his American kinsmen, General James Clinton and General George Clinton (then governor of the State of New York). Sir Henry left descendants in England. 5. Edward, unmarried. 6. Thomas, mentioned below. 7. Anne, married William Ascough, son and heir of Sir Francis Ascough, knight of Kelsy, county Lincoln. 8 Frances, mar- ried Gyles Bruges, third Lord Chandos. Ed- ward Clinton, first Earl of Lincoln, married (third) Elizabeth, daughter of Gerald Fitz- gerald, ninth Earl of Kildare, and widow of Sir Anthony Browne, knight. This was the lady celebrated by Henry, Earl of Surrey, as the Fair Geraldine. No issue.
(X\T) Sir Thomas Clinton, third son of Edward, ninth Baron Clinton and first Earl of Lincoln, and Ursula Stourton, inherited estates in Ireland; in 1618 was seated at Dowdston in that country. He married Mary, daughter of John Tirrell, Esq., of Warley, in county Essex. England. Children : William, mentioned below ; Margery, married James Crelie, of the Newry, Ireland, who was drowned at Ringshead, April 2, 1618.
(XVII) Sir William Clinton, son of Sir Thomas and Mary (Tirrell) Clinton, like his father, resided in Ireland. In the civil wars he supported the fortunes of Charles I. and was an ofiicer in the royalist armies. It may be remarked that the head of the Clinton house at that period, Theophilus, fourth Earl of Lincoln, was also a royalist, and for his ac- tivity in the cause his estates were seized. .^fter the triumph of Cromwell. Sir William Clinton went into exile on the continent, liv- ing in France and Spain. Later he was for some time in Scotland, where he married. He died in Glenwharry, Ireland. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Kennedy, Earl of Cassilis in the Scotch peerage, known as "the grave and solemn earl." Kennedy, and the Earls of Cassilis, were descended from Duncan de Carrick, who lived in the reign of Malcolm IV. of Scotland (beginning about 1150). The grandson of Duncan, Roland of Carrick, had a grant of the country of Car- rick from Neil, Earl of Carrick, and was de-
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clared chief of his name, this grant being confirmed by Alexander III. Sixth in descent from Roland was Sir John Kennedy (desig- nated as son of Sir Gilbert de Carrick in many writs), who had a confirmatory charter from David II. of the lands of Castlys, county Ayr, with other lands which came to him from his wife, Mary, daughter of Sir Neil Mont- gomery. Descended from him in a distin- guished line was Lord David Kennedy, who was created Earl of Cassilis by James IV., 1509. The earldom of Cassilis is now sub- ordinate to the marquisate of Ailsa, Archi- bald Kennedy, twelfth Earl of Cassilis, having been created, 1831, marquis of Ailsa. This Archibald, twelfth earl, was the son of Archi- bald, eleventh earl, who married (first) Cath- erine Schuyler, daughter of Peter Schuyler of New Jersey, and (second) Anne Watts, daughter of Hon. John Watts of New York (the descent being through the second mar- riage). Children of Sir William Clinton and Elizabeth Kennedy: i. Margaret, married John Parks ; children : John Parks ; Jane Parks, married John Young; Barbara Parks, married John Crawford. 2. James, mentioned below.
(XVTII) James Clinton, son of Sir Wil- liam and Elizabeth (Kennedy) Clinton, was an infant at his father's death. He was born in Ireland and continued there, residing in county Longford, where he had considerable estates. A portion of his life was passed, however, as an officer in the military service under Queen Anne in England, where he made an effort to recover patrimonial lands, in which he was unsuccessful on account of the limita- tion of an act of parliament. He died in ■county Longford, Ireland, January 24, 1718. He married Elizabeth Smith, of an English family, daughter of William Smith, a Crom- wellian officer. She died December 5, 1728. Issue: Christina, Mary, Charles, mentioned below.
(The Family in America.)
(I) Charles Clinton, son of James and Eliza- beth (Smith) Clinton, the founder of the family in America, was born in Ireland about 1690 According to a letter brought by him to. America from Rev. James Bond, pastor of the dissenting (Presbvterian) congregation at Corbay, countv Longford, both he and his wife lived "within the bounds" of that con- gregation "from their infancy." He was active and prominent in the afifairs of the church,
occupying the position of ruling elder. After his mother's death (1728) he made prepara- tions for removal to the colonies and was the leading spirit in organizing a company hav- ing for its object the founding of a settlement. On the 20th of May, 1729, with his wife and three young children, his two sisters, and his associates, he sailed from Dublin on the ship "George and Ann," bound for Philadelphia. The party numbered ninety-four persons, in whose behalf he paid the passage money. The voyage, chronicled in his diary, which is now preserved in the New York State Library in Albany, was one of the most unfortunate and distressing in colonial records. There was a shortage of supplies, the vessel was over- crowded, and many died of disease and famine, including two of Clinton's children. It was not until October 4, four and a half months, that land was seen, and instead of Philadelphia, whither the emigrants were destined, they were put ashore on Cape Cod, the master, who appears to have been a man of the greatest barbarity, positively refusing to carry them further. The Clintons passed the winter in Massachusetts. After due in- vestigation land for a settlement was selected in the province of New York some six miles southwest of the present city of Newburgh. The tract, about four miles square, received the name of Little Britain, also being called the "precinct of the Highlands." Though within a short distance of the Hudson river and only sixty or seventy miles from New York City, it was wholly unsettled, "border land to the Indians" In a petition asking for protection, which was addressed to the colonial legislature after this period by some inhabitants of Ulster county, it was stated that they were bounded on the west by the desert, where only the wild Indian made his home and grave. Here Clinton and his com- panions from Ireland built their homes, and the country being fertile and salubrious, grad- ually advanced to prosperity. His house was very strongly constructed as a frontier post and fortification for security against the Indians, and was often called "the fort." From an early period of his settlement Clinton, known for energy and ability, exercised a marked influence. Being a proficient surveyor and mathematical scholar, he was employed in various important matters in this connpction and so came into association with the officials
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of the provincial government. In November, 1736, he joined with a son of Governor Cosby in petitioning for a grant of land extending on both sides of the Mohawk river around Fort Stanwix. He was appointed in 1738 clerk of a military organization in the pre- cinct of the Highlands. During the admin- istration of his relative, George Clinton, royal governor of New York from 1743 to 1753, he formed an acquaintance with him which rip- ened into intimacy. Continuing his identifica- tion with the militia, he was promoted to lieu- tenant-colonel and colonel, and in 1758 he led in person a regiment against the French, which marched to the Mohawk Valley and was sta- tioned at Fort Herkimer, where he was for a time in command. Soon afterward he joined with his forces the main army under General Bradstreet and participated in the taking of Fort Frontenac on Lake Ontario, one of the most brilliant and important events of the war. In this campaign he was near seventy. Two of his sons, James and George, were of- ficers under him, the former as captain, the latter as lieutenant. For manv years he oc- cupied the position of justice of the peace In 1764 he was one of the commissioners named to settle the controversies as to the New Jersey boundary line and similar vexed matters resulting from the confusion of the old Dutch grants. His last public employment was that of county judge of Ulster county (1769). He died at his residence, Little Britain, New York, November 19, 1773. In his will he directed that he be buried in the graveyard on his farm beside his daughter Catherine, and added the following request: "That my executors procure a suitable stone to lay over my grave, whereon I would have the time of my death, my age, and coat-of- arms cut. I hope they will indulge me in this last piece of vanity." Charles Clinton was distinguished for dignity and refinement of manners, purity and elevation of character, sincere devotion to the interests of religion, and earnest attachment to his adopted country. He lived to witness the events which fore- shadowed the conflict with Great Britain, and his dying injunction to his sons was to main- tain the liberties of America
He married, in Ireland, Elizabeth Dennis- ton, born about 1705. died December 25, 1779. She was of the very ancient Scottish family of Dennistoun, from which Robert II. was
descended ; over the mantel in the hall of the ancestral castle were inscribed the words: "Kings came of us, not we of kings." An exceptionally accomplished and intelligent lady, she gave every encouragement to her husband and sons in their various activities, and shared in their patriotic ardor. Issue: i. Catherine, born in Ireland, August 11, 1723, died in Little Britain, New York, November 28, 1762 ; she married, June 22, 1749, Captain James McClaughry, who came to America with the Clinton party in 1729; no issue. 2. James, born in 1726, died on the passage to America, August 28, 1729. 3. Mary, born in Ireland, July 11, 1728, died on the passage, August 2, 1729. 4. Alexander, born in Little Britain, New York, April 28, 1732, died in Shawangunk, New York, March 11, 1758; he was graduated from Princeton College in 1750, studied medicine under Dr Peter Middleton in New York City, and practiced his profes- sion in his native neighborhood; no issue. 5. Charles, born in Little Britain, July 20, 1734, died April 3, 1791, unmarried. 6. James, men- tioned below. 7. George, born in Little Britain, July 26, 1739, died in Washington, D. C, April 20, 1812.
(II) James, sixth child of Charles and Elizabeth (Denniston) Clinton, was born August 9, 1736, in Little Britain, Ulster coun- ty (now Orange county). New York. During his entire life he resided in his native locality. "With a hardy and vigorous constitution, ac- customed to alarms and Indian incursions, he became in early life attached to the profession of arms," and it is as a soldier that he is chiefly remembered. In 1757, at the age of twenty-one, he was commissioned ensign, and the following year was made first lieutenant with power to enlist troops in the war with France. He commanded a company of his father's regiment in the expedition against Fort Frontenac (1758), and with his brother, George, exhibited an intrepidity in the result- ing attack which gained him great credit. On the same occasion the brothers further dis- tinguished themselves by the capture of a French vessel on Lake Ontario Continuing in the army until the peace of 1763, he was variously employed throughout these five years as an ofiRcer at frontier posts, in border skirmishes, and in enlisting new recruits under orders from the colonial governors, achieving a high reputation for soldierly qualities. In
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1763 he organized and commanded a corps of two hundred frontier guards. After the war he resumed the duties of peaceful Hfe at his native place, but, retaining his military enthusiasm, was active in promoting the effi- ciency of the local militia, in which he was advanced to lieutenant-colonel. In the devel- opments which led up to the separation of the colonies from the mother country he took an intense interest, and his name appears prom- inently in the early movements both for mili- tary and civil preparation. After the battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775^ he, with his brothers. Dr. Charles and George, and brother- in-law, Captain McClaughry, was instrumental in the formation of the committees which met at New Paltz on May 11. He was one of the delegates from Ulster county to the first provincial convention, held in New York City, and signed the strong document promulgated by that body on May 26. Later he was conspicuous in circulating the "association" agreements for support of the continental congress and in organizing forces. On June 30, 1775, he was unanimously ap- pointed by the provincial congress colonel of the Third New York Regiment; and in the fall he was made colonel of one of the new regiments which had been raised in Ulster county. With a portion of his command he accompanied General Montgomery to Canada, and he was with the army before the walls of Quebec when that heroic leader fell. In June, 1776, Colonel Clinton was stationed at Fort Montgomery on the Hudson. Under his supervision the works there and at the neigh- boring Fort Clinton were completed, and with great energy he labored to put them and their garrisons in readiness for defense. Only scanty munitions being sent him, he manufac- tured his own powder and ball. He was pro- moted to brigadier-general in the army of the United States in August. Possessing the especial confidence of General Washington, who regarded the security of the Hudson as of the very highest importance, he was continued in the command at Fort Montgomery. The next year occurred the memorable descent of Burgoyne's army from Canada, the prime object of this invasion being the mastery of the Hudson, which if realized would have isolated New England and have prevented all future conjunction be- tween the eastern and western colonies. At
the same time that Burgoyne advanced from Canada, Howe, the British commander in New York, sailed with a formidable expedition for Philadelphia, thus engaging the main Ameri- can army under Washington in that quarter. Thereupon Sir Henry Clinton, Howe's suc- cessor in New York, proceeded to carry out that very vital part of the British plans which involved forcing the defenses of the lower Hudson and effecting a junction with Bur- goyne. On the 4th of October, 1777, Sir Henry embarked his forces, some four thousand men, at New York, sailed up the Hudson, and landed at Verplanck's Point be- low Peekskill in Westchester county. Peeks- kill was at that time the headquarters of the military district of the Highlands, which com- prehended Forts Montgomery and Clinton. The command of the district was held by General Israel Putnam at Peekskill, subor- dinate to him being the brothers. General (Governor) George Clinton at Fort Mont- gomery and General James Clinton at Fort Clinton. (In the very grave military situation Governor George Clinton had leemed it his duty to take the field in person, and had come to the support of his brother in the Highland forts.) General Putnam, at Peekskill, mis- apprehended Sir Henry's object, supposing it was to attack his main position in force, and he not only neglected to strengthen the Clinton brothers in the forts, but even sent to them for troops. In the night the British com- mander transferred some three thousand of his men to the west bank of the river, leaving the remainder of Verplanck's Point to con- tinue the ruse. Everything worked to his sat- isfaction ; Putnam still thought the objective of the enemy was Peekskill, and it is said that though he received early intelligence of the passage of a body of the British to the other •,ide, he concluded this was only a detachment ; certain it is he took no measure to reinforce the brothers, for which he had ample time after hearing of the new movement. On the morn- ing of October 5, the three thousand British who had landed on the west side took up the difficult march northward through the moun- tain passes. About five o'clock in the after- noon they arrived in the vicinity of the forts,, and, surrender being refused, divided into two columns and stormed them from the rear. The forces under the brothers did not exceed five hundred, but a terrific resistance was made
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which lasted till after nightfall, when the overwhelming power of numbers prevailed. In the fight General James Clinton suffered a severe bayonet wound. The last to leave Fort Clinton, he escaped down a precipice, one hundred feet high, fronting the river, and made his way to his home at Little Britain. The governor crossed in a rowboat to the op- posite shore. The taking of the Highland forts was one of the most sensational events of the revolution, standing as much to the credit of the British general who planned and executed the enterprise as did the subsequent capture of Stony Point, a few miles below, to that of the American General Wayne. Sir Henry Clinton, having an unobstructed path before him (West Point had not then liieen built,) immediately marched to assist Bur- goyne. but was too late, and so, after burning Kingston and committing other ravages, re- turned to New York. Forts Montgomery and Clinton were demolished and never recon- structed. For this disastrous afifair Putnam was sharply criticised but the conduct of the Clinton brothers was regarded by both Wash- ington and congress with unmixed approba- tion. Against odds of six to one their situation was hopeless unless reinforced ; but as help miglit still come from Putnam, and as in any case it was their duty to maintain the honor of the American arms, they made a desperate defense, prolonging it in sheer heroism until further fighting could have had no other issue than the mere massacre of their little remnant. After recovering from hi? wounds. Genera! James Clinton returned to the army and was stationed at the new post of West Point on the Hudson. As a result of the Wvoming and Cherry Valley massacres it was decided to di=patch a strong expcd'tinn against the Indians. To the details of this matter ^^''ash- ington gave very particular attention, and the preservation among Tames Clinton's papers of the original letter of the commander-in-chief shows that it was referred to him General Sullivan was placed at the head of the expedi- tion, with Clinton second in command. In June, 1779, Clinton moved with his division of two tliousand from Albany, proceeded up the Mohawk Valley, crossed to Lake Otsego, and there embarked in two hundred and eighteen boats which had been carried over- land with great labor. At the lower extremity of the lake, where it has its outlet in the east-
ern branch of the Susquehanna river — ordin- arily an unnavigable stream — he built a dam, elevating the water several feet. Men were sent ahead to clear the river of driftwood, the flood was released, and the troops rode quickly and safely down, reaching the point of ren- dezvous in the Susquehanna Valley before the main army. On the 29th of August, Sul- livan having arrived, the united forces en- countered the Indians at Newtown (now El- mira, New York), and completely defeated them. The object of the campaign being re- ■ tributive, an extensive march was then made through the country of the Onondagas, Cayu- gas and Senecas. which was thoroughly laid waste, villages, stores and crops being de- stroyed. This was one of the most comprehen- sive and successful expeditions ever under- taken against the savages. Years afterward General Clinton, revisiting the scene, was re- membered by the chiefs of the tribes and was offered large donations of land (which he declined) because of their admiration for him as a brave man. In 1780, after the treason of Arnold, Washington wrote to Clinton, then at West Point: "As it is necessary there should be an ofificer in whom the state has confidence to take the general direction of afifairs at Al- bany and on the frontier, I have fixed upon you for this purpose, and request you will proceed to Albany without delay and assume command." He administered this post — the northern department — very efficiently until August, 1781. when, with his troops, he joined Washington and accompanied him in the York- town campaign. It was his brigade which received the colors of the British army at the surrender of Cornwallis. Afterwards he was for several months in command of the Ameri- can forces at Pompton, New Jersey. He was one of the distinguished officers present at the evacuation of New York in November, 1783. LTpon his retirement from the army he held the rank of maior-general.
The remainder of his life was for the most part passed in the privacy of his home, al- though on several occasions he was summoned to the public service in honorable position. In 1784 he was appointed regent of the LTni- versity of the State of New York. He was a delegate to the famous Pous^hkeepsie con- vention of 1788. held to consider the Ignited States constitution, and strongly supported his brother in opposition to that instrument : but
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after its ratification he defended it with his accustomed sincerity and energy. At various times he was a member of the assembly and state senate, and he also was a commissioner on the New Jersey boundary and sat in the convention of 1801 which revised the state constitution. He died in Little Britain, New York, December 22, 1812.
In person General Clinton was one of the most striking individualities of his times — of commanding stature and powerful physique, finely proportioned, and with features of re- markable beauty, indicative of the greatest dignity, resolution and candor. As a military leader he was above all distinguished by ef- ficiency— self-possessed amid the most serious dangers, a firm disciplinari?cn, and absolutely loyal to every trust. These qualities led to his constant employment by Washington in responsible commands on the Hudson river, where unquestionable reliability, incessant alertness, and administrative vigor were the prime requirements. On the other hand, his campaign of 1779 to the Indian country, in- volving an extraordinarily toilsome march and a delicate engineering feat, executed with pre- cision of detail and surprising dispatch, dem- onstrates that as a field commander he also possessed exceptional abilities. His son. Gov- ernor De Witt Clinton, in a tribute to his character said: "He was ?. p^ood man and a sincere patriot, performing in the most ex- emplary manner, all the duties of life, and he died as he had lived, without fear and without reproach."
He married ffirst) February t8, 1761;, Marv (baptized Maria) De Witt, onlv daughter of Egbert De Witt, of Naoonach, Ulster county. New York, and Mary (Nottingham) De Witt. Her ancestry was as follows : Tjerck Claesen De Witt, from the Netherlands ; married, in the Reformed Dutch Church, New Amster- dam, April 24, 1656, Barbara Andriessen ; fourteen children, of whom the eldest was Andries De Witt, born in New Amsterdam, 1657. died July 22, T710: lived for some years in Marbleton, New York, later removing to Kingston ; married. March 7, 1682, Jannetje Egbertsen, daug-hter of Egbert Meindertse and Jaepe Tans : twelve children, the tenth of whom was Esjbert De Witt, born March 18. i6qq; lived in Naponach, Ulster county, married, November .1. 1726, Mary Nottino-ham, daugh- ter, of William and Margaret (Rutsen) Not-
tingham ; nine sons and one daughter, Mary De Witt, married James Clinton, mentioned above. Issue of James and Mary (De Witt) Clinton: i. Alexander, born in Deer- park, Orange county. New Y'ork, 1765, drowned in the Hudson river, March 15, 1787; he served as lieutenant in Colonel Lamb's regi- ment of artillery during the revolution, and was for a time private secretary to his Uncle George ; unmarried. 2. Charles, mentioned be- low. 3. De Witt, governor of New York, etc., born in Little Britain, March 2, 1769, died in Albany, New York, February 11, 1828. 4. George, born July 6, 1771. 5. Mary, born July 20, 1773; married (first) Robert Burrage Norton, (second) Judge Ambrose Spencer; no issue. 6. Elizabeth, born January 15, 1776; married Lieutenant WilHam Stuart, who served in the revolutionary army ; seveil chil- dren. 7. Katherine, born September 24, 1778. died 1837; married (first) Samuel Lake Nor- ton, brother of Robert Burrage Norton, her sister Mary's first husband ; no issue ; married (second) Judge Ambrose Spencer, her sister'.'; widower. General James Clinton married (second) Mrs. Mary (Little) Gray, widow of Alexander Gray. .She was born in county Longford, Ireland, August 22, 1768, died in Newburgh, Orange county, New York, June 22, 1835. Issue: 8. James, died young. 9. Caroline H., born March 27. 1800; married Judge Charles A. Dewey, of Northampton, Massachusetts. 10. Emma L., born February, 1802, died July 6, 1823 ; unmarried. 11. James Graham, born January 2, 1804, died May 28, 1849, "Honored, loved, lamented." 12. Leti- tia, born April 12, 1806. died April 23, 1842, aged thirty-six ; married Dr. Francis Bolton ; children: Thomas Bolton, died young; James Clinton Bolton, lawyer in New York; married Laura Tallmadge. 13. Anna, born July 26, 1809, died December 11, 1833, aged twenty- four ; married Lieutenant Edward Ross, of the LTnited States army.
(Ill) Charles (2), second son of James and Mary (De Witt) Clinton, was born February t8, 1767, in Little Britain, and died in New York Citv, April 20, T829. He prepared for the practice of law, was admitted to the bar, and gave much of his time to his profession. He had a particular taste for surveying, in which he was very skillful and devoted consid- erable time to that occupation. His home was in Newburgh, New York, where he filled vari-
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ous positions of irust and responsibility. In 1802 he represented his district in the state assembly. He married, in 1790, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Mary (Denniston) Mulliner, of Little Britain, born there April 27, 1770, died August 15, 1865, in New York City. Children: Maria, born March 26, 1791, married Robert Gourlay Jr. ; Alexander, men- tioned below.
(IV) Dr. Alexander Clinton, only son of Charles (2) and Elizabeth (Mulliner) Clin- ton, was born April 7, 1793. in Newburgh, and died February 16, 1878, in New York City. He studied medicine and engaged in practice. He joined the United States army in which he attained the rank of lieutenant He married Adeline Arden Hamilton, daugh- ter of ^Captain James and Mary (Dean) Ham- ilton, natives of Scotland. Captain Hamilton was a descendant of the ancient family of that name of the Baronage of Innerwick. Children : Mary Elizabeth, married John Rhinelander, of Bleecker ; Adeline Arden, wife of Thomas E. Brown ; Alexander James, many years president of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company, of New York City ; Ann Eliza, Mrs. Thomas A.. Wilmerding; Charles Wil- liam, a noted architect of New York City De Witt, mentioned below ; Katherine Spen- cer, died in childhood.
(V) De Witt, third son of Dr. Alexander and Adeline Arden (Hamilton) Clinton, was born July 5, 1835, in New York City. He re- ceived his education in private schools of his native place. From i860 to 1897 he was a member of the New York Stock Exchange and is now retired from :ictive business, re- siding in Ridgewood, New Jersey. He is not affiliated with any religious body. During the first thirty-three years of his life his home was in New York City, and from 1868 to 1897 he resided in South Orange, New lersey, whence he removed to Ridgewood. Politically he is a Republican. He served a term of en- listment in the Seventh Regiment, National Guard, State of New York, during the period of the civil war and the draft riots. He was married in St. Anne's Church, New York City. September 25, 1862, to E'izabeth Sigourney Burnham, born August 9, 1840. in New York City, died at Ridgewood, New Jersey. Janu- ary 9. 1912. daughter of Michael and Jane (Carter") (Si.Erourneyl Burnham, of New York City. Children: Alexander, born August 11,
1863, in New York, died at Norwalk, Connecti- cut, July 23, 1864; De Witt, mentioned below; Jennie Sigourney, born September 14, 1867, in New York ; Roland Burnham, mentioned below; Elizabeth Sigourney born December 13, 1880, at South Orange, New Jersey.
(VI) De Witt (2), second son of De Witt (i) and Elizabeth Sigourney (Burnham) Clinton, was born October 23, 1864, in New York City. He attended private schools in South Orange, New Jersey He is connected in business with the firm of Clinton & Russell, architects, with offices in Liberty street. New York City, practicing architecture. He is also a professional musician and church organist, and has been director of various choruses and church choirs, though not connected otherwise with any religious organization. He is a mem- ber of the Architectural League of New York, and the Manhattan Single Tax Club and Sun- rise Club of the same city. He has long en- gaged actively in the single tax propaganda, and other economic and social reform work, and is politically independent. He was reared at South Orange. New Jersey, and now resides at Ridgewood. same state.
(YD Roland Burnham, third son of De Witt (i) and Elizabeth Sigourney (Burnham) Clinton, was born October 14, 1878, in South Orange, New Jersey. He attended public and private schools in that place. Since attaining manhood his time has been devoted principally to literary work. He is not connected with any religious organization, and is politically independent. His home is now at Ridgewood, New Jersey, where he was married, November 8. 191 1, to Pauline L. Provine, born Novem- ber 2, 1887, in New York City, daughter of James Edwin and Stella Mary (Bates) Pro- vine. They have one son • De Witt Provine Clinton, born October 18, 1912. in Brooklyn. New York.
In preparing the gene- FLOYD-JONES alogy of the Floyd- Jones family it becomes necessary to take into consideration two fam- ilies which for centuries have been of fore- most account in the State of New York, and with an influence much wider. For genera- tions the Jones family, settled on Long Island, has contributed a line of distinguished legisla tors and jurists, and has maintained promin-
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€nce in political life under both British and American rule. The Floyd family was among those of this state which were held in esteem before the revolution, gained distinction at that period, and since then its members have invariably been worthy.
The line of descent to be considered here is traced separately through the Floyd and Jones families. In the year 1757 they were united by an important intermarriage, and the united strains became known as Floyd-Jones by the legislative enactment of 1788, which enabled Colonel David Richard Floyd to add the name of Jones to his surname, hence he and all of his descent since then to the present day have borne the name Floyd-Jones. As the male line was that of the Floyd family, at tention will first be paid to it.
(I) Colonel Richard Floyd was the first of this family in America. He was born about 1620, and was a native of Brecknockshire, Wales. He came to this country in 1656, set- tling in Setauket, Long Island. There he be- came one of the fifty-five original proprietors of Brookhaven, was made a justice, and ap- pointed a colonel of the Suffolk militia com- pany. His wife, Susanna , was born in
1626, and died in 1700. They had one child, who bore the name of its father.
(II) Colonel Richard (2) Floyd, son of Colonel Richard d) Floyd and his wife Sus- anna, was born May 12, 1661, and died Febru- ary 28, 1737. He was appointed county colonel m the days when King William's war made troubled times, and by the grace of Anne be- came a judge of the court of common pleas. He married, September 10. 1686, Margaret, daughter of Colonel Matthias Nicoll, secre- tary of New York colony, and many years judge of Sufifolk county, anci his wife Abigail. Margaret Nicoll was born in 1662 and died in 1718. The inscription upon Colonel Floyd's tombstone, still in a state of preservation at Setauket, Long Island, reads: "Here lies ye body of Richard Floyd, Esqre.. late Collonel of this County, and a Judge of ye Court of Common Pleas, who deed. Febry 28, 1737, in ye 73 year of his age." Children : i. Su.sannah. born 1688; married Edmund Smith, son of Adam, son of Richard, of the "Bull" Smith family of Smithtown. 2. Marg-aret, born 1690: married Rev. John Thomas, of Hempstead. 3. Charity, born 1692, died in 1758; married (first) Benjamin Nicoll; (second) Dr. Samuel
Johnson. 4. Eunice, born 1694; married Wil- liam Stephens. 5. Ruth, born 1699; married Walter Dongan. 6. Richard, born 1703 (see forward). 7. Nicoll, born 1705, died 1752; married Tabitha Smith.
(III) Colonel Richard (3) Floyd, son of Colonel Richard (2) Floyd and Margaret Nicoll, was born December 29, 1703, and died April 21, 1771. He married Elizabeth Hut- chinson, born in 1709, died in 1778, daughter of Benjamin and Martha Hutchinson, large property owners bordering on Long Island sound. Children: Richard, of whom further; Elizabeth ; John ; Margaret ; Benjamin ; Gil- bert : William ; Samuel ; Mary ; Anna.
(IV) Colonel Richard (4) Floyd, son of Colonel Richard (3) and Elizabeth (Hutchin- son) Floyd, was born February 26. 1731, and died February 6, 1791. He settled upon the estate left to him by his father at Mastic, Suf folk county. Long Island, where he was re garded by all as the most generous man who had ever resided within that county. He en- tertained all ranks of neighbors not only courteously but cordially, and sustained the reputation of keeping the most hospitable table on the entire island. Needless to say, these characteristics of his nature made him num- erous friends and precluded enemies. To the poor he likewise extended unstinted generosity, and all those in distress lived to revere his memory as their best friend. He was a Tory of the deepest dye throughout the revolution, and became one of the proscribed individuals who came under the Act of Attainder. For this reason he was obliged to leave the country in order to save any portion of his valuable property. The remainder, including the fine family place at Mastic, Long Island, was con- fiscated, and his wife fortunately succeeded to the property bequeathed b^ her father Colonel Richard Floyd was also related to General Nathaniel Woodhull, of the American army, who married Ruth Floyd, first cousin of Richard, and they were near neighbors at Mastic. The battle of Long Island was fought August 27, 1776, in which the British arms were victorious. Nathaniel Woodhull was ap- pointed brigadier-general and commander-in- chief of all the militia on Long Island. Before he reached Jamaica, with less than one hun- dred men, the battle was decided, so he re- mained there at an inn kept by a man named Carpenter, about two miles east of the village.
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for reinforcements, which he could not get, as the American army had escaped from Long Island, leaving the enemy in possession. The British received information where he was, and surrounded the house, making him and all his party prisoners. This happened on the night of August 28, 1776, and not a gun was fired. The general, favored by darkness, at- tempted to escape; but being discovered by sentries while attempting to get over a fence, he received a number of strokes from their .swords, particularly a severe one upon the arm. He was carried aboard a man-of-war, and treated with hospitality. The surgeons advised amputation, but he would not give his consent, and hence the wound mortified, caus- ing his death, which occurred September 20, 1776.
Colonel Richard Floyd married, November 2, 1757, Arabella Jones, born December 7, 1734, died May 29, 1785, daughter of Judge David Jones and Anna Willett. The judge amassed a fortune of considerable size, being a large property owner on Long Island. His daughter Arabella thus became wealthy by inheritance, and through her issue the property was to descend provided a child of hers would carry down the name of Jones. In order to take the best of care of