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VOLUME XVI., 188S.
PUBLISHED FOR THE SOCIETY,
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SAMUEL S. PURPLE, JOHN J. LATTING,
CHARLES B. MOORE, JAMES GRANT WILSON,
HENRY R. STILES,
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INDEX TO SUBJECTS.
Ancestry of Ann Campbell, wife of Hon. John Stevens, 6. Anniversary Address before the New York Genealogical and Biographic
ruary 27, 1885, 40. Annual Meeting of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 43. Arms of the State of New York and How They have been Altered, by Rev. Beverley
Betts, 145.
Baptisms in the Reformed Dutch Church of New York City, 32. S~, 115. Baptisms in the First and Second Presbyterian Churches of New York City, 13S. Bayard, Col. John, 173S-1S07, Genl. Wilson's Address on, 49; Descendants of, 70.
Peek! ■ , G rg'e C, P. \ Y1. Ecel LFamiiv of New York' ancENew Jersey, 133.
" " Genealogical Record of the Ten Broeck Family, 153.
Betts, "William, EL. D., Memoir of, by William A. Jones, 1. Betts, Rev. Beverley R., on the Arms of the State of New York, 145. Brookhaven, L. E, Epitaphs, by William Kelby, 131.
Campbell, Ann, The Ancestry of, by R. F. Stevens, 6. Crawford Family, Genealogy of, by Charles B. Moore, 113,
Descendants of Col, John Bayard, by Genl. James Grant Wilson, 70. Dwight, Rev, Benjamin W., en the Rogers Lineage, 10. 72, 157.
Early Settlers of Ulster County, N. Y., by G. IE Yan Wagenen, 25. Elting Family, by G. II. Yan Wagenen, 25.
Fassau Family Record, by Charles W. Baird, 41.
Genealogy of the Rogers Family, by Benjamin W. Dwight, 10, 72. 157.
" of the Bayard Family, by Gen!. James Grant Wilson, 70.
* of the Eking Family, by G. H. Van Wagenen, 25,
(i of the Crawford Family of Orange Co., N. Y., 113.
" of the Beekman Family of New Jersey, by George C. Beekman, Esq., 153.
" of the Ten Broeck Family, by George C. Beekman, 133.
Gravesend (L. E), Oid and New, by Rev. A. P. Stockwell, 97.
icks, Benjamin D., Esq,, his Copy of the Records of the Society of Friends of West- bury, L. E, 171.
Inscriptions from Tombstones in a Cemetery at Rye, N. Y., by William Kelby, 137.
Jones, Wm. A., Memoir of William Betts, LL.D., 1.
Kelby, William, Copy of Brookhaven (L. I.) Epitaphs, 131.
Lawrence Family, by Edwin Salter, 141, 1S5.
Marriages in the First and Second Presbyterian Churches in New Yoik, 40, S6, 114.
il in the Reformed Dutch Church in New York City, 123. Memoir of William Betts, LL.D., by William Alfred Jones, A.M., I. Moore, Charles B., Genealogy of the Crawford Family, 113.
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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Annual Meeting of, 43.
Notes and Queries. — Annual Address, 43; Bogert Family, 45; Carpenter, 43; Chaffee Family, 184; Cornell, 1S4; Early Settlers of Monmouth County, N. J., 141; Eliot Family, 184; Estabrook Family, 1S4 ; Feke, [42; Fitch-Rogers, 43; Gracie-Gesner, 95; Gracie and Mann Family, 184; Harencarspcl, 143; Hin- man's Manuscripts, 1S5 ; Jones, of Surrey, Eng., 44; Lawrence, 141; Lawrence Wills, 185; Lyon Family, 1S5 ; Mandeville Family Data, 95, 143; Mol, 143, 1S5 ; Ogilvie, 44; Rhode Island Genealogical Dictionary, 1 S 5 ; Riker. 185 ; Rob- inson, 95 ; Seaman Powell, 95 ; Sharpless Genealogy, 1S6 ; Spratt Family, 44; Stiles Family. 1S6; Williams, rS6; Willis, 44, [86.
Notes on Books. — Genealogy of the Van Wagenen Family, 45; A Genealogical Memoir of the Lathrop Family, 45; History of the Ancient Ryedales and their Descend- ants, 96; Diary of David Ginsberger, by Eugene F. Bliss, 186; Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Vale College, wit}) Annals (4" the College History, 18/ ; Biography of a Pioneer Manufacturer — Zenal Crane, 1S7 ; Genealogy of the De Veaux Family, by Col. Thomas F. De Voe, 1S7 : Descendants of Peter Wil- lems Roome, by Peter R. Warner, iSS ; Seventeen Pedigrees from " Family Memorials," by Edward E. Salisbury, iSS ; Life and Public Services of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, by Gen. Tames Grant Wilson, iSS ; Catalogue of the Library of the State Historical Library of Wisconsin, vol. vi. , by Daniel S. Durrie, 18S.
Obituary. — Armstrong, 47 ; Bechthold, 47; Churchill, 143; Dwight, 96; Greene, 4S ; Preble, 143.
Records of the Hutch Cbnrch in New York City, 32. 87, 115. 123.
" of the First and Second Presbyterian Church in New York City, 40, S.6, 13S.
" of the Society of Friends, of Westbury, L. L, by Benjamin D. Hicks, 171.
" of the Fassau Family, by Charles W. Baird, 41.
" of the Ten Broeck Family of New Jersey, 156. Rogers Lineage, by Rev. Benjamin W. Dwight, io, 72, 157,
Stevens, R. F., The Ancestry of Ann Campbell, etc., 6.
Stockwell, P.ev. A. P., Address on Old and New Gravesend, L. L, 97.
Ten Broeck Family, Genealogical Record of, by George C. Beekman, 153.
Van Wagenen, G. H., on Early Settlers of Ulster County, N. Y., 25.
" " t; on Inscriptions from Tombstones at Rye, N. Y., 135.
Westbury, L. I.. Records of the Society of Friends of, by Benjamin D. Hicks, Esq., 171. Wilson, Gen; James Grant, Address on Colonel John Bayard, 49.
THE NEW YORK
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Vol, XVI. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1885.
MEMOIR OF WILLIAM BETTS, LL.D.
By William Alfred Tones, A.M.
.^...~ _....;. the New 1 ark Genealogical 5 riety, December ir. :: :^ ]
William Betts, the third and snly surviving son of Samuel and Susan- nah Bens, was born at Becksgrove (the name of a] aternal estate), on the Island of Santa Cruz, in the We >t Indies, January 28, i::2,
His fatKer, Samuel Betts, c E N : vt : wn, N. Y., a men t er of an Id and highly respectable " ng Island family, was a descendant of Ri ard Betts, one of the seven patentee f that town see " Biker's An ilsof^N p. 5:7'. bom April 29. 1764 (about eleven years before the war), who had removed to the Danish Island, about 17 an< married there, in 1796, Susannah, daughter and co-hcire^s of Manning 1 ake3 )f Becksgrove, b) his intermarriage with Mary, lau hterofWiilia - Zi ty, Governor of AngiiitiaJ1
The subject of this notice, bom abroad, was ... to Jai aica, L. I., to school at a very early age mine or ten years). Coming in f p. hboo* to this country and passing his long life here in peace and prosperity . . . .- an I beloved. Mr. Betts became as truly America . as Hamilton . use .1 who was also a native of Santa Cruz, and whe was sent, a mere youth, to New York, and was educated at Kings, now Columbia Cohere. Of that i istitu- tion he and Dewitt Clinton were afterward perhaps the most distinguished graduates. John Jay, Robert R. Livingston, and Philip Livingston were earlier.
The young student, William Betts, was prepared for college at Union Hall Academy by Lewis E. A. Eigenbrodt. In 1816 he entered Union College. Schenectady, in its early cays, but finding it remote, and not being satisned with his progress, he applied for admission to the next sophomore class in Columbia College, in the spring of 1S17. An obstacle to this project was presented by me then president, the ver able and :: lly ' ; aternal ': Dr. Harris, who tola him it 1 be impossible for hii ]
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to enter at the studies (the curriculum) of Columbia College, which were, at that time (as indeed they continued till within the past twenty years), a year in advance of any oilier American College. Thereupon he read diligently dining the summer and entered the sophomore class in the autumn of the same year, graduating in 1S20. From the beginning an earnest and attentive student, he matured into a scholar, "a ripe and good one," not only learned in his profession, but a classical scholar of taste and superior acquirements, and a wide and judicious reader, not only of law, but of history, literature, and philosophy, well informed in theology, aid in other departments of inquiry and speculation; from the outset to the end of his career an honor to his College and to the city of his adoption.*
The vacancy he has left in the Board of Trustees, as a wise counsellor and a judicious manager, it will be very difficult to fill with his equal.
On leaving college Mr. Letts entered the law office of David B. Ogden, one of the remarkable names in the history of the Bar of Xew York, where he studied his profession in a school of the highest character. Shortly after he commenced practice the young lawyer was employed by the late Judge John Duer, distinguished as an able, active, and learned jurist and advocate — at that time United States District Attorney under General Jackson's earlv administration — to assist him ; in effect, practically to do or direct the work of the office. We are told on the best authority, that although Mr. Duer held the office only for a few months, his indefatigable assistant con- trived to earn enough to support his family for several years while he was, as a young lawyer, waiting for clients, so great was his assiduity and atten- tion to business. f
Though possessed of natural gifts, for the successful advocate, in an im- pressive manner and graceful address, Mr. Belts' range of practice became that of the trusted and confidential chamber counsel, rather than of the pop- ular speaker in the gladiatorial contests of the bar. His business, as we learn, was of a comparatively private character : that of counsellor and con- veyancer, more than a court lawyer, and especially for great corporations.]; Thus, Mr. Betts became counsel to the New York Life Insurance and Trust Company since 1S42 ; avid trustee and counsel of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of Xew York from 1850 to 1 S 79. in both of these companies succeeding Mr. Duer and Mr. Beverly Robinson, who had married the sister and was the partner in the law business of Mr. Duer. Always exact and methodical, judicious and painstaking, acting from a high sense of duty and principle, invariably courteous and considerate, Mr. Betts was trusted to manage vast amounts of property and to see to its security as a lawyer. He was one of the most eminent instances we have ever known of the combination of character and capacity, in the .legal profession, or indeed, in any other. Ili^ natural acuteness and fine
* Nearly all Lis classmates have passe I i y 1 J 'r-. \\ tm Mitchell remains, and the lawyers
C. R. Disoswayand A. G. Rogers, per) AH : '.-::.• llcge in office before him died or resigned and' retired before he di 1. — LkS.
t He married in 1-826, and after man tgc ... several years at Brooklyn. He purchased house- lots there in 183 1.
X The eminence of Mr. Duer as an orator 1 : re t! t ; lurts, on l^ng and noted
triaL; and before the public on imp >rtar : the tapis, Mr. Duer could give
litttle attention to ordinary :alls, 3 ■ ft to his a sociate* •" d triced friends a
large share of office business. In Ne f the r oe to care tor and manage
the different kindb of business for .<l their < Conn cted offices with one en-
larged library would result, and no clients • .■ : •'•■ to a legal opinion, ^izzn having
many branches, as well as to a nation c,:;.;v,. : ; • ■• - Mi i »uer became a judge in 1848 and abandoned his law business.— Eds.
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sense, his learning and skill, were based upon moral worth and a deep feeling of responsibility. His sense of Right and of Justice were as characteristic as his moderation and kindly feeling, and inspired his clients with confidence, while the)' confirmed his rank and position as a pro- fessional man of distinction. In ecclesiastical affairs Mr. Betts took a very decided interest, and as a layman did more than his fair share of church work. He was an enlightened, active, and conservative church- man throughout his long and useful life. Pure and religious, without pre- tence or ostentation, he was also an intelligent and valuable officer in several church institutions. Attention to these affairs occupied much of his time and thoughts, freely given in the midst of his important and varied business concerns. As for instance, he was vestryman of St. Ann's, Brook- lyn, L. I., 1S32-3S, and warden of Grace Church. Jamaica, L. I., 1S42.
He sat frequently in the Convention (especially in 1837 and 1S38, in the important sessions when the diocese was divided), chosen from St. Ann's, Brooklyn, and from the Church of the Transfiguration, New York City ; also, trustee of the Society for the Promotion of Religion and Learn- ing, and treasurer of the Society for the Rrlief of Widows and Children of Clergymen, 1858-74 ; and trustee of the Aged and Infirm Clergymen's Fund, New York, for about the same period.
Education, of the ideal character, high-toned, thorough, effective, and practical, for the citizen and man of business, but more particularly for the gentleman and the professional man, was a favorite stud}' for him ; both in theory as a philosophic student, and in practice as a scholastic instructor, in its connection with the curriculum and routine of the college. Indeed, so close and long was his connection with Columbia College, ?s under- graduate, alumnus, trustee, professor, and officer of the board, covering the years of an ordinary lifetime — over sixty years— that something more than a superficial notice is demanded in tracing Mr. Betts' intimate rela- tions with his Alma Mater.
Perhaps to no one alumnus has Columbia College been more indebted than to the subject of the present sketch. A bare enumeration of offices filled by him, so worthily and for so long a period, affords ample confir- mation of this statement. Graduating in 1820, and invested with the degree of Doctor of Raws in 1S50, in the interval elected a Trustee, in 1842, he held this post until his death. In 1S37, at the semi-centennial celebration of the establishment of Columbia College, Mr. Betts was the poet. This poem was printed, as were afterward several of the reports to the Trustees from his classical pen. In particular, we should mention a scholarly inaugural address, at the introduction of the four newly appointed professors, Joy, Davies, Nairne, and Lieber, 185S. Previously to this, Mr. Betts was appointed Professor of Law, j 848-54, succeeding Chancellor Kent in the same chair. A series of lectures, used by the Professor on International Law, were never published.4"'
In 1S50 he was elected Clerk of the Board. This post was occupied by Dr. Clement C. Moore for thirty- five years, 181 5-1 850, and by Mr. Betts, his successor, from 1S50 to 1S74.
The present Law School, on a new and greatly enlarged footing, and which lias become a most useful and important adjunct to the College or
* It is believed that the work of Mr. Wheaton, repeatedly enlarged, and republished by Mr. William Beach Lawrence, an alumnus of the College, and by others, interfered with the publication of the lectures, which, of course, covered in part the same ground.
a Memoir of William Beits, LL.D. [Jan.,
University, was established in 1858, at his suggestion and by his aid, as was also the Sehool of Mines, the very popular and scientific department, in 1864.
In 1858 Mr. Betts was elected a Trustee of the Medical Department of Columbia College, and few of that Board now survive.
Mr. Betts had genuine literary traits, as well as the habits and applica- tion of the man of business. He kept up his classical reading to the last. Immediately after leaving college, a few members of the classes from 1819 to 182 1, with two other intimate friends associated themselves together in a club, partly for classical reading, partly to maintain their friendship, which they did through life. The members were : Henry D. Cruger, Benj. McVickar, Samuel Verplanck, Garrit G. Van Wagenen, William Henderson, Richard Kemble, James I. Rumsey, all deceased (1884), and two yet living, Thomas L. Wells and William Moore. Mr. Betts was the youngest member. They met irregularly at one another's houses, and their wives were admitted. The lady of the house always presided at their suppers.
Besides his few publications connected with the College we should mention that Mr. Betts prepared other lectures besides those on inter- national law, and not printed. A printed Fourth of July oration, at Ja- maica, in 1840, we have never met with, nor have we seen a review of President W. A. DucVs *? Outlines of Constitutional Law," in the Methodist Quarterly. The St. Nicholas address, read in December, 1851, before that society (of which and of the New York Historical Society Mr. Betts was a member), is a philosophical and elegant paper of permanent interest and value. In these and ail of the literary productions we have read, by the same writer, we find justness and propriety of thought and sentiment, accuracy and clearness of statement and discussion, couched in a pure, unaffected, idiomatic English style. The judgment and refinement of the scholar weie apparent, also, in his artistic tastes and accomplishments.
He had the cultivated eye and judgment of the amateur in works of art (pictorial design), and was particularly fond of music and of the flute, on which, we are told by a relative, he was singularly proficient. In his fondness for the flute he was distinguished when a mere child. He began to take lessons at tne tender age of five or six years, and to practise for his own ear at the coach-house at Becksgrove, out of hearing of the family. He was a member of a musical society when a young man — an association of gentlemen of New York, who themselves played at their own concerts. Mr. Betts' instrument was the flute, Mr. Henderson's the violin. It is said when they played together the effect was marvellous.
As his library marks the scholar, we have learnt that it was small but choice ; had been collecting for three generations ; classical, historical, and literary. It comprised excellent English editions of standard histories and a few rare classics, and included, besides, a large number of early New York editions of good authors. But his studies and reading were unhappily brought to a close by one of the greatest physical evils that can be endured by the student — the loss of sight, a calamity that came upon him in 1863, in his sixty-first year, when he first knew of the existence of a cataract. His failure of sight was gradual. Pie ceased to be able to read, ten years later, in his seventy-third year, but could see to write. For several years he was in the habit of taking down rough minutes of the meetings of the Board of Trustees, which his devoted and faithful son (his secretary and
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companion, his friend and nurse) copied and wrote out fairly. We are informed, moreover, that this manly sufferer carried on the conveyancing business foi the Mutual Comj my nearly three years after he could not lead a word. The papers were read to him. His sight, it is thought, had not wholly failed (as we are told by the most reliable informant) for more than two years previous to his death.. On occasional visits we could not but admire his patient, uncomplaining, truly Christian fortitude and mildness in bearing this almost intolerable misfortune, which clouded and darkened the last fourteen years of his life. This severe trial served as a crucial test of temper and humility, and was borne with philosophic courage and equanimity, elevated and dignified by the religious faith and pious sub- mission of the Christian. His mind was certainly well stored with all the resources winch a solitary person could use to advantage. The personal appearance and bearing of Mr. Betts was emphatically that of a gentleman. The feeling and instincts, the tact and delicacy of that rare character (so often ill assumed, and of which counterfeits are abundant) were distinctly evident in movement and gesture, in the play of expression of his features, and in the inflections and tones of his voice. All expressed high breeding, lie united the essential qualities of the born gentleman wit]} the acquired and adventitious graces of the cultivated man of the world. His features and head were cast in a classic mould, and his countenance was full of intelligence, sweetness, and natural dignity. His person was tall and well formed, and we are not surprised to be told that he and Mr. Berriman (" Old Merchants of Xew York," 2 ser., p. 199) were considered the hand- somest men of their time in Xew York Society.
There have been several miniatures and portraits of Mr. Betts — a childish likeness at the age of eight or nine ; a grown young man of twenty- four, by Rogers (of Bridgehampton) ; a small portrait, by Lawson, 1842, and, notably, a fine life-size photograph, taken for the Mutual Company in 1865 or about that date. This is remarkably handsome, and equally faithful and spirited; a fine head, very characteristic, conveying a just expression of noble sentiment, refined intelligence, and charming urbanity of temper — the head of a scholar and gentleman.
In 185S, some years earlier, Dr. N. F. Moore, ex-President of Columbia College, who added to his scholarship and classical cast of manners and tastes the talent of an amateur artist, executed a fine photograph of his friend, which we have never seen. But we have seen a remarkable instance of his skill in a photograph of himself, which he presented to the late Dr. Samuel Seabury, the eminent theologian, and member of the well-known church family which gave the first bishop to the American Church. Jt almost produces the effect of a fine etching by Rembrandt.
Mr. Betts was married October 28, 1826, to Anna Dorothea, eldest daughters of Beverly Robinson. Esq. (the contemporary and peer of the celebrated lawyers of the first half of the present century), by his inter- marriage with Frances, eldest daughter of Col. William Duer (who married Katharine, second daughter of General William Alexander, Ford Stirling, of Revolutionary celebrity). And he had issue two sons and one daughter : 1. Beverley Robinson, b. Aug. 3, 1827, the well and worthily known clergyman of the church, and for eighteen years the accomplished Librarian of Columbia College. *
* With whom we are acquainted as a member of <r;r Society, and for many year? a member of our Com- mittee of Publication, and who has written on topics of heraldry with much approbation. — Eos.
6 The Ancestry of Ann Campbell, Wife of 1 Ion. John [Jan.,
2. Caroline, b. Aug. 17, 1831, who m., 1852, Henry B. Robinson,
of Frederick ton, N. B., and has issue surviving : i. John Beverley, b. June 10, 1853. ii. Anne Morris, b. Nov. 10, 1855, m., 1878, to James Cooper Wheeler, and has issue a daughter, Can dace, b. 1SS0. iii. Candace Alice, b. Feb. 5, 1S63. iv. Katharine Beverley, b. April 2, 1865. v. Frederick DeLancy, b. Jul}- t6, 1867. vi. Frances Duer, b. Oct. 4, 1872.
3. William, b. March 2, 1835, who married Isabel Ford, eldest
daughter of William H. Needham, of Frederickton, N. B., and who died Feb. 14, 1869, leaving one surviving child, Isabel Ford, b. Feb. 17, 1S64. Mr. Betts died on Saturday, July 5, 1884, at his house in Jamaica, of old age, without any actual illness, and was buried on the Tuesday follow- ing in the parish churchyard of Jamaica, the Rev. Dr. Houghton, Rector of the Church of the Transfiguration in New York, officiating, whose church he had attended in the city, the Bishop of Long Island, and many other clergymen, as well as lawyers and laymen from a distance, attending
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THE ANCESTRY OF ANN CAMPBELL, WIFE OF HON. JOHN STEVENS, OF PERTH AMBOY, N. J., AND OF NEW YORK.
By Richard F. Stevens.
On the sixteenth clay of April, a.d. 16S4, John Drummond, of Lun- dine, deededf to John Campbell, gent., of the kingdom of Scotland, one- eighth of one-twenty-fourth part of the land belonging to the East Jersey proprietors, and in the same year, the month and day of the month being omitted, but most probably at the same time.* gave him a full power of attorney to act as Ins proxy in the disposition, sale, and management of all his lands and proprietary rights in the province of Nova Caesaria, or New Jersey, stating his reasons for doing so were his inability to leave the kingdom of England and Scotland, and reposing full and entire confidence in the integrity and ability of his friend, John Campbell.
The John Drummond above alluded to, was the Honorable John Drum- mond. § of Lundy, Lundine, or Landry, the second son of James, third Earl of Perth. He was Baron Drummond, of Gdestown, and created Vis- count Melfort in 1685, and was assigned part of the confiscated estates of the Earl of Argyll in Argyllshire.
On the 1 2th of August, 1686, he was created || Earl, and, in 1696, Duke of Melfort. Besides being Secretary of State for the kingdom of
* In our view tie was one of a class which it becomes us 10 preserve in memory. — Eds.
t Book of Deeds, "A," p. 210. J Ibid., p. 211. £ Douglas' Peerage.
\ Baron Drummond, of Researtown, and Far! of Forth. The patent for these creations, made while James II. was king, passed over the children by his first wife (including two sons), of the family of Lundin, it'ho -t<>cre staunch Protestants^ and limited the peerage to the heirs made by the second wife, who were Papists. — See note to p. 33 of the Letters from James IV., Farl of Forth, published by the Camden Society, in 1843.
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Scotland, and one of the members of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councill in both kingdoms ; he was one of the original twenty-four proprietors, to whom, on the fourteenth of March, a.d. 1682, James, Duke of York, confirmed the sale of the Province of East Jersey.*
John Campbell, his proxy and partner, as he is frequently styled in State papers, held a very prominent position in the Colony from the date of his arrival.
He appears to have landed in this country some time in October, 1684. f accompanied by his wife Alary Campbell, his three children, Ann, Gawinetta, and John, and eleven servants, by name, Robt Moore, Alex- ander Mickle, Alex. Scott, Colin Campbill, Samll Mathew, Patrick Rob- inson, Esabell Mathew, Margrett Stuere, Mary Still, Mary Mitchell, and Robert Campbill ; these servants, according to the custom of the times, were indentured to him for four years, dating from 15 S'"r, 1685, after which period of servitude they were allowed to form homes for themselves in the infant colony.
From letters sent home at that time, the vessel he came in first put in at the Capes of Virginia, and many of the passengers landed and travelled overland from Maryland. Mr. Campbell appears to have been one of this number, as we find in a letter from him to Mr. John DobieJ — to whom he had sold a \ jrtion of his share in the proprietorship — as follows :
" New Perth, 8th of November, 16S4. " B. John : I wrote a line from PJiiladcIpJiia to you, as we were com- ing hither, your cusin, James Dobie, the bearer, is in such haste that I cannot write what I would say ; but in short, we are come here to a good wholesome countrey, in which with little industrie a man may have a comfortable life. There is good Wheat and Oats growing here, and Indian Corn, which our servants like very well ; There is Fish and Fowl (in) abundance, and cows and Horses ; they labour with Horse and Oxen. There is Deer throughout all the countrey, and Turkies which some of our servants have Killed a part of already. There is Partrages and Quails very rife, that my wife yesterday morning saw about 20 of them walking before the door like Chickens. I shall say no more till I see further, for I am with others going to the countrey on Monday to see for the countrey lotts; for I have taken up the Towns already, and cut down the trees of two acres of ground with six men in three days. My service to all Friends. I am your most assured Friend, John Campbell."
His addressing Mr. Dobie as B. John, would seem to intimate that they were brothers -in-law, though possibly the B may stand for Beloved.
Besides his own servants he brought over three for Mr. John Doby or Dobbie (Dobie), one of whom was named Archibald Campbell, and whom Whitehead, in his "East Jersey under the Proprietors," probably confounds with Mr. Archibald Campbell, the son of Lord Xeill Campbell, § who came over in the same vessel with his father, Mr. David Symson, and fifth-three servants in December, 1685.
The Books of Deeds among the archives in the custody of the Secre- tary of State at Trenton, N. J., contain deeds of property to an Archibald
* Book of N. J. Archives, vol. i, p. 460. t Book of Deeds, "A," p. 103.
% Ge )r-- Scott's "Model of the Government" of the Province of Last New Jersey, p. 261. § Book of Deeds, "A," 2.
S The Ancestry of Ann Campbell, Wife of Hon. John [Jan.,
Campbell, styled in one place a yeoman (while in the same deed John Campbell is given the title of Gent.), and in another, a workman." This Archibald Campbell died in the early part of 1702, and his will, which was probated May 15, 1702, appoints John Campbell, of Raritan River, his heir and executor, and is signed only by a cross or mark.
Dr. Archibald Campbell, the second son of Lord Neill Campbell, re- turned to his native country, where he became an eminent divine, was created a Kishop of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, August 25, 171 1, and died at London in June, 1744.
Another proof that the Archibald Campbell who died in 1702 was not the son of Lord Neill, is found in a deed from the Proprietors of East Jersey "to Archibald Campbell, Esqr., son and heir of Lord Xeill Camp- bell, Dec'd, and Robert Blackwood,f Merchant, of Edinburgh in ye King- dom of Scotland, who holdeth between them three quarters of a proprie- tor of ye sd province," of certain lands formerly patented to Lord Neill Campbell, deceased.
This deed is dated April 1, 1703, some time after the death of the other Archibald Campbell.
That John Campbell immediately after his arrival took a prominent position in the Colony, is proven by the fact that before he had been six months rh**re. he was appointed and commissioned"! one of the two "Members or Justices of the Court of Common Rights, outside the Mem- bers of the Council!."
This Court of Common Rights was the highest court in the Colony, and was equivalent to the present Court of Errors and Appeals. The members composing it were the members of Council, ex-pfficio, with ad- ditional members probably selected for their legal knowledge.
His commission § dated from May 27, 16S5, and he was reappointed March 14, 16S6, and May 9, 16S7.
The town of Amboy perth desiring to be represented in the Generall Assembly, he was elected on April 8, 1686, one of the two Deputies as- signed to that town.
On the 3d day of July, 1685, the Governor and Proprietors issued an order ) for laying out lands in which, under the seal of all the Proprietors, they gave authorization for certain gentlemen to act as proxies for particu- lar proprietors, and John Campbell was designated as the proxy for Lord Viscount Melfort.
In an obligation given by the Deputy Governor and Proprietors of West Jersey to fulfil certain agreements with those of East Jersey.6" they gave a bond for ^5,000 to Lord Neill Campbell Governor of East Jersey, Captain Andrew Hamilton, afterward Governor, and John Campbell, pro- prietors, said bond to be forfeited if the conditions recited were not ful- filled.
On the 14th of April, 1687, we find him appointed by the East Jersey Proprietors as a Commissioner** in conjunction with Sam1 Winder and Miles fibster, to confer with the Governor of West Jersey relative to run- ning the line between the two provinces. How the work was accom- plished the records 60 not show.
A very singular and curious document has been preserved among the
* F.ook of Deeds. ^ fbid., pp. 122, no. ^ I^tti., p. 522.
+ Ibid., '• C," p. 267. \ N. J. Aichives, vol. u, p. 499. ** Ibid.y vol.ii., p. 1.
%Ikid., "C," P- 9s-
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records of the old colonial deeds of New Jersey, and is in the form of a rough draft for a more formal agreement; it is between John Campbell and David Toshack of Moneybaird or Monyweard, and reads thus :
" That John Campbell send a footman in velvett to waitt on Mony- baird, his heires anal assignes leaving (or bearing) the name & amies of Toshack, which man so cladd is to wait on Monybaird as aforesd dureing the tyme of parliament & that to hold his stirrup dureing the fores'd tyme so cladd as said is, ffor the whole causes Monybaird is to dispone his in- terest in Amboy Towne to the sd John his heirs leaving (bearing) the name 6c amies of Campbell, failing the said John losses his interest to Ann & his, & that what interest Monybaird dispones to the foresd John Campbell in Amboy to returne to Monybaird leaving (bearing) the foresd amies, & his (this) paper is to be extended in forme as aforesd, cSc signed by both party es, & each, to have a double Registrat, at Amboy the sixteenth day of december one thousand six hundred eighty & four.
"Toshack. j'on. Campbell: p Mcgregor. "witnes Benjamin Clark."
This curious document seems to have been made soon after John Camp- bell's arrival in the colony." The parliament alluded to was the Grand Council, which consisted of the Governor and twenty-four proprietors, or their proxies, and twenty-eight representatives chosen by the colonists, which met once a year, and the Common Council, which consisted of the twenty-four proprietors and nine representatives, which sat constantly to transact the ordinary business of the colony.
David Toshack, of Monybaird, was styled in the instruction to Deputy Governor Laurie, etc.,f sent by the proprietors in London, August, 16S4, as the " partner with James, Earl of Perth, and Sir George McKenzie, of Tarbutt, and proxy for them."
The Toshacks, of Monybaird, intermarried with the Campbells, of Glenuchy, several times ; one of them, probably the person above alluded to, marrying the daughter of Sir Robert Campbell, of Glenuchy, grand- father of the first Earl of Breadalbane.
These Campbells were descended from Sir Colin Campbell, of Glen- uchy, uncle of the first Earl of Argyle. who was the third son of Sir Dun- can Campbell, of Lochow, a direct descendant of Diarmed O'Dubin, a.d., 404.
John Campbell, the subject of this sketch, was probably descended from this branch of the family. As David Toshack and John Campbell represented the several interests of two brothers, viz.: Perth and Drum- mond, it is presumable they were on intimate relations with each other, and from Mr. Campbell taking the arms and livery of the Campbells, he must have been a near relation of Argyll and Lord Neill Campbell, with whom he seems to have had many close business connections.
Whitehead, in his " East Jersey under the Proprietors," makes him a son of Lord Neill Campbell, while Dr. Messier, in his ;- Centennial History of Somerset County," at one time styles him his son, and at another time his nephew. These gentlemen must both be mistaken, as Lord Neill had but two sons, Colonel Charles, who fought in the rebellion of 16S5, and Bishop Alexander, who is mentioned before. His nephew, John Campbell,
* George Scott's Model of die Government, etc. + New Jersey Archives, vol. i., p. 460.
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of Mamore, was also engaged in this rebellion, and was the father of the second Duke of Argyll and was never in America.
John Campbell was the owner of a large tract of land of eighteen hun- dred and seventy acres on the West Si \e of South Branch of the Ra John Dobbie (to whom he sold), Lord Melfort, Governor Andrew Hamil- ton, and Lord Neill Campbell, all owned land in the vicinity ; their deeds are dated November 9, 16S5.
John Campbell died in the summer of 1690, and in his will which was probated August 2, 1690, he declares himself "sick in boddy but of sound and perfect memory, thanks be to Almighty God."' lie leaves to his wife, Mary Campbell, after the payment of the debts he owes in right or con- fidence to any person whatsoever, his entire temporall estate, he also leaves to her the Disposal! of his three children, Ann, Gawinetta, and John, and constitutes her as Executrix.
His eldest daughter, Ann, married John Stevens, of Amboy, about 17 10, and had issue as follows : Campbell, a captain in Colonel Schuyler's regi- ment of " Old Blues," who fought in the French wars at Oswego, and Fort William Henry. John, who was a distinguished citizen of Xew Jersey, and took a prominent part in the American Revolution as Vice-President of his Colony and State, and Member of the Continental ^Congress. William, 1 ^^n'o Richard, Sarah, and Mary, who intermarried with Fenwick Lyell, a well known member of the Xew Jersey Bar.
Gawinetta, the second child of John Campbell, married William Harri- son, one of a family that figured prominently in the history of East Jersey during its infancy.
His son, John Campbell, settled on the banks of the Raritan and held the office of High Sheriff of Middlesex and Somerset.f He died in the spring of 1733, and his will, which was probated on April iSth of that year, shows that he left a numerous family. It mentions his wife Mary, and his children John, Douglass, James, Margret, Janet, Ann, and Neill. Many of his descendants most probably are now living in Somerset County.
ROGERS LINEAGE.
By Benjamin W. Dwight, of Clinton, Oneida County, N. Y.
(Continued from Vol. XV., p. 150.;
A few errors of a typographical, or numerical sort must be corrected, and some valued items of new information, very recently procured, must be communicated to the reader, while yet we stand on the threshold of the present number of this article.
I. The words, p. 153 of Vol. XV. of Record, " 6. iv. James Rogers," should have been '•' 5. iv.," agreeing with preceding page.
II. i; Gen. John Cotton Smith," p. 154. should have been "Gov.," etc.
III. On same page, middle letter iv' R.'' in Abial R. Botsford, should have been " K"
IV. On p. 155 (third line from top), the words, "or that of Samuel," should have been, li or that of Morris? Note, also, that the words imme-
* Dr. Messlcr»s Records. t Book of Deeds.
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diately following, viz., "This family, if related to him" (that is, to Dea. Jedediah R. Hawley), ''must have been so related, as nephews of Dr. Uriah Rogers," are words of Mr. Hawley, and not of the narrator at all. They are worth) of being carefully studied for more light.
V. Quite a number of such informants of Rogers family facts, as the writer could find in various parts of the land, have seemed to be surpris- ingly ignorant of the real and most interesting story of their lineage ; and, worse than that, well-nigh indifferent to it. Very few have seemed to have any strong sense of kinship with those of their own name, or blood, or any great curiosity to know what kind of an experience those have had who have been "bone of their bone, and flesh of their flesh," as they have sailed, one after another, on "life's solemn main" — whether in the sunshine, or in cloud and storm continually, and whether having had a large heritage themselves of noble ideas and aims and deeds, received from other days and other hearts, and transmitted, enlarged, and improved by them to those who were their successors: or possessing, at the best, but a poor pittance of nobility in their own souls, they were satisfied with that little, as their portion of good under the sun. Often does it happen in family history that, by the power of new additions from without, of splendid, morally splendid affinities, established in a new generation^ a great and permanent exaltation ;:~ given to the tone of family feeling, and a new sense of the true ends of human aspiration and endeavor. New native fire is thus sometimes imported into the blood, and new vigor of accom- plishment into muscle and nerve, where before they were wanting.
The writer, while not having a particle of Rogers blood from any source in his veins, has taken great pleasure in seeking to summon those who belong to that family by right, in name, or feeling, to cherish their ancestry with reverence and affection, and " to esteem" all its worthy actors on life's busy stage (i very highly in love, for their works' sake." Scarcely one of the family has been found that knew that Dr. Uriah Rogers and Samuel Rogers were brothers, and that they were both resi- dents of Norwalk, Conn. Who and what their descendants have been, where they have lived, and what they have. sought to do for their kind and actually have done for them; and the fact of the broad mutual relation- ship of the Lockwoods, Hawleys, Rogerses, Kents, Kings, Scribners, and Gracies — all these facts that should have been of high account surely with them, as a family, wherever known, have remained quite unknown to most of them until now. To one considering these facts it will not seem so strange, as it otherwise might, that the writer could have found the moderate appreciation that he did, and even the imperfect understanding of the fact of Chancellor Kent's membership in the family. The presence of so bright a legal star, shining steadily, high and clear, in the horizon of the times, for more than a century, would be enough to give a special illumination of its own to any family history, however distinguished by other merits. That the writer could have been so misinformed by any member of the family not cognizant of the real facts of the case, as to state (p- i5j) "that Chancellor Kent had no children," he regrets: and he takes great pleasure in stating now, contrarily, at the first opportunity for doing so publicly, that Chancellor Kent had four children, viz. :
i. Elizabeth Kent, b. March 25, 1 791 ; d. March 26, T793.
ii. Elizabeth Kent, 2d, b. Feb. 16, 1796 (she always called her own name '-Eliza"), m., Sept. 16, 1S16, Isaac Stoutenburgh Hone, b. Feb. 14,
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1794 (son of John and Hannah Hone), a prominent New York merchant, and a gentleman of much talent, worth, and culture. He d. June 5, 1856, and she d. in Philadelphia, Pa., April 29, 1S77. They had one child, Elizabeth Kent Hone, b. Oct. 28, 1819, wno rn-» ^ec« l3i I^3^) William Henry Ashhurst, of Philadelphia, b. there Aug. 16, 1S15 (son of Richard and Elizabeth Ashhurst of that city). He is a resident (1885) of Phila- delphia, without professional employment. They have had live children : 1. Henry Ashhurst, who m. a Miss Potter, of South Carolina, and re- sides in Philadelphia, without professional occupation. 2. Emily Ash- hurst, who resides in Philadelphia, unmarried. 3. Elizabeth Kent Ashhurst, who m. Richard Lloyd Williams, of Philadelphia, and now re- sides in Newport. R. I. 4. Alice Ashhurst, who resides unmarried in Philadelphia. 5. Fanny Ashhurst, who m. Lieutenant Lambert Y. Palmer, who was lost in the United States Steamer Huron, November, 1877.
iii. Judge William Kent, b. in Albany, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1802, graduated at Union College, an eminent lawyer in New York City; judge of the Cir- cuit Court (1841-5) ; Professor Harvard College Law School, succeeding Judge Story in " The Royal Professorship of Law " (1846-7). He returned afterward to the practice of law in New York City (1S47-61). He m. Nov. 2, 1821, Helen Riggs, b. in New York, May 18,-1802 (dau. of Caleb Riggs and Abigail Burner, granddaughter of Colonel William Burnet, Sur- veyor-General of the Continental Army). He died at Fishkill, N. Y., Jan. 4, 1 86 1 ; she d. there Aug. 18, 1S70. They had but one son, James Kent, b. Sept. 21, 1S30. He m., April 30, 1853, Sarah Irving (dau. of Edwin Clark Irving and Sarah Sanders). He studied law in his father's office, and was admitted to the bar in 1851, and resides now in Fishkill-on-the- Hudson, practising his profession.
From his active, helpful interest in furthering the zeal of the writer to do justice to the Kent part of the Rogers lineage, the facts here cited have been largely obtained.
He has had four children, viz. :
1. James Irving Kent, b. April 2, 1S54, in New York, m., June 3,
1875, Louisa Morris Stewart (dau. of William Pinckney Stew- art and Helen Le Roy). He was graduated at Columbia Col- lege Law School, and admitted to the New York Bar in 1876, and is now (1SS5) practising law in New York City. Pie was a member of the New York Assembly in 18S3-4. His chil- dren are :
(1) James Kent, b. March 1, 1876.
(2) William Pinkney Kent, b. Feb. 27, 1877.
' (3) Helen Van Cortland Kent, b. Sept. 21, 1879.
2. Edwin Clark Kent (son of James Kent, of Fishkill, and Sarah
Irving), b. Aug. 2, 1S56; graduated at Columbia College, and is now (1885) a lawyer in Fishkill, N. Y., and unmarried.
3. William Kent (son of James and Sarah Kent), b. March 19,
185S, grad. at Columbia College, and studied law in Newburgh, N, Y., m., April 30, 1SS1, Emily Loriliard (dau. of Pierre Loril- lard and Emily Taylor). He is a practising lawyer in New York. He has two children, viz. :
(1) William Kent, b. in New York, April 14, 1882.
(2) Emily Lorillard Kent, b. in Pelham, N. Y., Oct. 23,
1883.
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4. William Irving Kent (son of James and Sarah Kent), b. Jan. 8, 1 86 1, is now in the sugar business in the Philippine Islands (1885). He m., at Yokohama, Japan, Dec. 10, 1884, Helen Van ( lortland Stewart (dau. of the late William Pinkney Stewart and Helen Le Roy).
iv. Mary Kent (dau. of Chancellor James Kent and Elizabeth Bailey), b. May 19, 1807, m., as his second wife, Sept. 5, 1839, Rev. John Seely Stone, D.D.j b. in West Stockbridge, Mass. (son of Ezekiel Stone, a farmer there, and Mary Seely). He was grad. at Union College, New York, in 1S23, and at the General Episcopal Seminary, New York, in 1825, and ordained deacon by Bishop Hobart in 1S26. lie was rector for about two years each respectively in succession, at Litchfield, Conn. (St. Michael's); Frederick, Md. (All Saints); and New Haven, Conn., 1S30-32 (Trinity); at which last place a revival under his ministry, at the time, gave a special charm always in his thoughts to his remembrance of his rectorship there. From New Haven, which he left with regret, he went to Boston, Mass., and took the rectorship of St. Paul's (1832-41); and afterwards (1841-53) that of Christ Church in Brooklyn, N. Y., and last of all, that of St. Paul's in Brookline, Mass. (1853-63). He was for a few years (1863-66) Lec- turer in the Episcopal Theological School in Philadelphia, Pa.; and in July 1867 was elected Professor of Systematic Divinity in the Episcopal The- ological School at Cambridge, Mass., and Dean of the Faculty of the same institution — to reside at Cambridge. He gave his whole time and care to the organization and progress of that then new institution, from that time ( 1 S 6 7 ) until his retirement from his labors at Easter in 1S76. He d. in his eighty-seventh year at Cambridge, Mass., after a long life of wisdom, piety, and honor, January 13, 1SS2.
Dr. Stone published several works of great interest and value, as "The Evangelical and Tractarian Systems Compared" in 1853; "Scripture- Views of the Church of Christ," 1S66; " Lectures on the Christian Sab- bath," 1867; "Scriptural Yiews of Baptism and The Lord's Supper," 1S67, and "The Life of Bishop Griswold," and " The Life of Dr. Milnor," etc.
[Dr. John S. Stone m. for his first wife, May, 1S26, Sophia Morrison Adams, of Schenectady, b. Nov. 6, 1802 (dau. of James Adams and Susan Robinson Morrison). She was gr. -granddaughter of Rev. Elisha Kent, of Putnam County, N. Y., by his daughter Mrs. Morrison. She d. in Boston, Mass., in March, 1838. He had by this marriage two children: (1) Archi- bald M. Stone, who, in after life, dropped, in compliance with an uncle's will, the name Stone, and took the name Morrison. He was b. in Litch- field, Conn., in 1827, and now resides, as a retired Episcopal clergyman (R.ev. A. M. Morrison), in South Orange, N. J. (2) Mary Kent Adams Stone, b. in 1835, living now, unmarried, in Cambridge, Mass.].
Madam Mary Kent Stone resides now (1S85), greatly venerated, in her seventy-eighth year, among her children and many personal friends, at Cam- bridge, Mass., w here the cherished memory of Dr. John S. Stone is held in ever fresh delight in the hearts of all who knew him, and only to love and honor him. They had six children :
1. Rev. James Kent Stone, b. Nov. 10, 1840, grad. at Harvard in 1 86 1, ordained an Episcopal clergyman, made Professor of Creek and Latin, in Kenj-on College, Gambler, O., and afterwards (1S67) President of same ; and, in 1S69, President of Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y. In 1S71 he became a Roman Catholic priest, and a novice, in same year, in a Passion-
I a . Rogers Lineage. [Jan.,
ist Institution in Pittsburg, Pa., and was afterwards a Paulist Father in New York. In 1S79 ne went to South America, and is now (1S85), as he has been for several years, the head of a Passionist Monastery in Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, S. A.
lie in., Aug., 1863, Cornelia Fay, oi Brookline, Mass., b. Sept., 1S34 (dau. of Harrison Fay and Sarah Kelsey). She d. at her father's house in Brooklirie, Feb. 16. 1869.
In the late Union war he enlisted early as a private in the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers, and went at once to the front in Virginia, and was promoted to a lieutenancy, but was compelled to resign his commission soon, on account of continued ill-health.
2. William Kent Stone, b. Jan. 31, 1842. He is now a student and teacher in The Art Museum in Boston, and resides, unmarried, in Cam- bridge, .Mass.
3. Henry Van Dyke Stone, b. August 9, iSj.3. He left the Scien- tific School at Xew Haven, Conn., where he was pursuing his studies, when the rebel war broke out, and joined with his brother James, as a private, the Second Massachusetts Regiment of Volunteers, and went at once to Vir- ginia, and was made second lieutenant. He was instantly killed in the battle of Gettysburg. Pa., on the morning of July 3, 1S63. His revered mother rejoices to think of" him. ever, in the solitude of her own peaceful thoughts, as "a noble youth that lived and died without a stain," at the early age of nearly twenty, in the service of his country.
4. Elizabeth Kent Stone, b. March. 22, 1846, m., June, 1S72, Rev. Professor Alexander Viets Griswold Alien, D.I)., b. in Otis, Mass.. May 4, 3841 (son of Rev. Ethan Allen and Lydia Child Burr). He is Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, Mass. They have two sons :
(1) Henry Van Dyke Allen, b. May 5, 1S73.
(2) John Stone Allen, b. Oct. 5, 1S75.
5. Charles Simeon Stone, b. Nov. 26, 1848. He is connected with Dnpee's Chemical and Dye Works, at Walpole, Mass., where he resides, unmarried.
6. Philip Sidney StOne, b. Jan. 29, 1852, grad. at Harvard in 1872, and was admitted to the bar in 1S82. He m.. Oct. 17, 1882, Anna Flake Abbott, b. March 12. 1S54, dan. of Samuel Leonard Abbott, M.D., of Bos- ton, Mass. (son of Samuel Leonard Abbott and Matilda Campbell), and Eliza Jones Hoppin (dau. of Thomas Cole Hoppin, of Providence, R. L, and Harriet Dunn). He is connected with the American Bell Telephone Company at Boston, and resides at Cambridge.
VI. As to Moss Kent, Esq. (father of Chancellor James Kent), see p. 152, the writer was wrongly informed when he stated that "he had other children by his second marriage." His second wife was Mrs. Mary Hazard, widow of John Ha/ard, o( Green's Farms, Fairfield County, Conn. She had, at the time, three sons — Joseph, Samuel, and John Hazard — and four daughters — Mary, Mercy, Anna, and Abigail Hazard — but had no children ever of Kent paternity.
VII. Likevise as to Judge Moss Kent {the brother of the Chancellor), p. 153, No. 12, ii.. the writer has been able to gather some facts of interest not before known to him. He was b. April 3, 1766. He d. at Plattsburg, N. Y., May 30, 1838, aged nearly seventy-two. He was a practising law- yer at first, but was made State Senator from the western Senatorial district
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for the sessions of 1800—1803, four years, and a member of Assembly from Jefferson County, N. V., 1807-10. He was also a member of Congress, 1S13-17, and First Judge of the County Court (Common Pleas), appointed such in rSio, and holding office until 1817, at which time he was appointed Register of the Court of Chancery, when he resigned his judgeship — his brother being Chancellor.
While County Judge he resided at Le Raysville, Jefferson County, N. Y., instead of Plattsburg. To John J. Lai ting, Esq., of the editorial corps of the Record, the writer is indebted for this interesting leaf of new matter for his history of Kent facts.
In still one more line of discovery the writer has succeeded, by much continued, and inventive, and patient effort, in obtaining considerable valu- able informal ion concerning another branch of Kent development.
VIII. Hannah Kent, sister of Chancellor James Kent (dau. of Moss Kent, Esq., and Hannah Rogers), b. Oct. to, 1768; m., Oct. n, 1790, William Pitt Piatt, of Plattsburg, Clinton County, N. Y. (son of Judge Zephaniah Piatt,* the original proprietor of a large part of Plattsburg, and his second wife, Mary Van Wyck).
She d. at Plattsburg, Dec. 12. 1842, aged seventy-four. She was a lady of superior intellect and culture, and, though totally blind during the last twenty years of her life, her features were still full of the-beauty of her earlier days unto the end, and she was ever bright, intelligent, and attractive, and always gentle, affectionate, and cheerful in her spirit and her manners to all around her, and she had ever at ready command a large fund of anecdotes and of pleasing reminiscences, and delighted in sharing them, with a charming enthusiasm of her own, with others. They had six chil- dren.
Dea. William P. Piatt, as he was commonly called, was b. April 30,
* Judge Zephaniah Piatt, the father of Dea. William P. Piatt, was the son' of Zephaniah Piatt, who was the son of Jonas ; and he was the son of Kpenetus, the common ancestor of most of the Piatts on Long Island. !!:•> home and that of the family for several generations was at Huntington, L. I. His father, Zeph- aniah Piatt, was a man of substance and of mark. He was one of those imprisoned by Andros, in 1661. He d. in Huntington m 1673. He had a son, Epenetus. also, who was in public life from Huntington (a representative o{ Suffolk County in the 17th, iSth, 19th, and 20th State Colonial Assemblies'. Judge Zepha- niah Piatt was, for many years, a resident of Poughkeepsie, N. V., before removing to Piattsburg. He was a member of the Provincial Congress ; a member of the Council of Safety: a member of the Continental Congress ; County Judge of Duchess County ; a member of the Convention of 178S ; a Regent of the Univer- sity ; a State Senator.
Judge Zephaniah Piatt was born at Huntington, L. I., May 27, 173?, and d. Sept. 12. 1S07, aged 72. He m. Hannah Davis, and had by her two children; and for a second wife, Mary Van Wyck-, and had by this marriage twelve children. She was born June 20, 1743, ar'd d. Oct. 18, 1809, agfd 66. His children were '.
1. Zephaniah Platt, b. Jan. 3, 1756.
2. Hannah Platt, b. March 26, 1758.
3. Theodorus Platt, b. March 23, 1763.
4. Elizabeth Platt, b. April 12, 1765.
5. Mary Platt, b. July 12. 1767, d. young.
6. Jonas Platt, b. 'June 30, 1769.
7. William Pitt. Platt, b. April 30, 1771, d. Aug. 12, 1835.
8. Charles Z. Platt. b July 12, 1773.
9. Nathaniel Platt. b. Dec. 16, 1775.
10. Robert Platt, b. Oct. 21, 1778.
11. Mary Platt, 2d, b. Aug. 21. 1780.
12. Levi Platt, b. April 17th, 17S2.
13. David Platt, b. June 6, 1784.
14. James Platt, b. January 2, 1788.
Ten of his children were sons. yoaas Platt (No. 6) was a Member of the N. Y. Assembly, Member of Congress State Senator, and Judge of the Supreme Court of N. V.: Theodorus V\a.lt (No. 3) was the first Surrogate of Clinton County, N. V. (1788) ; Nathaniel Platt 1 No. c; Mas a Member of Assembly from Chit- ton County in 1807 : Cnarc-.s Z. Piatt (No. 8) was a Member of Assembly from Oneida County in 1807, and was appointed State Treasurer in 1813 -.Robert Platt (No. 10) was a Member of Assembly from Clinton County in 1814, and from Franklin County in 1815 ; James Platt (No. 14) was elected Mayor of Oswego in 1S48, and was State Senator (1832-33). Pew families have furnished so many distinguished names, and ail in close proximity to each other, to the Civil Service of the State.
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1771, and was a large landholder and farmer, living on "Cumberland Head," in Plattsburg (the scene of the naval engagement called "the Battle of Plattsburg") in 1814. He was honest, earnest, and energetic, and a man of strong convictions and opinions. He d. Aug. 12, 1835, set. 64.
CHILDREN OF DEA. WILLIAM P. PLATT.
i. James Kent Platt, M.D., b. Feb. it, 1792, d. April 4, 1824, set.
31. He was fitted for college by his uncle Moss. Kent, Esq., and wasgrad. at Middlebury College, Vermont, and pursued his medical studies at New York, completing them by several additional years of further study in London and on the Continent — a custom not of such frequent occurrence in that day as in this. He m., Sept. 13, 1S1S, Eliza Hallam Henshaw, b. in 1801 (sister of Bishop Henshaw, of Middlebury, Vt.). He practised medicine for a time with Dr. B. J. Mooers, of Plattsburg, and was appointed Pro- fessor in the Medical Department of Burlington College, Vt., and lived long enough to give a single course of lectures in the institution, but was com- pelled to resign his post of usefulness and honor on account of disease and feebleness, and d. April 4, 1824. He had two children who both d. young. A daughter lived to be fifteen years of age, and d. in Middlebury. Mrs. Dr. james iv. Piatt, d. in Philadelphia, in 1003, ait. S2.
ii. Zephaniah Platt (son of William P. Platt and Hannah Kent), b. Aug. 12, 1794, m. Feb. 3, 1S28, Lucretia, dau. of Thomas Miller. They had two children :
1. Elizabeth Platt, who d. young.
2. May Platt, who m. James Westcott, and for a second husband,
Edmund Hathaway, but had no children by either marriage.
She d. March 29, 1880. iii. Mary Platt (dau. of Dea. William P. Platt and Hannah Kent), b. July 15, 1796,111. Dec. 30, 1813 (when but seventeen years old), Benjamin John Mooers, M.D. (son of John Mooers, of Haverhill, Mass., and after- ward of Corinth, N. H., and Plattsburg, N. Y., and of Susan Morrill), b. at Haverhill, Sept. n, 1787. She was a lad}' of superior abilities and of refined tastes. Eew lives on earth are spent in a more honorable and use- ful way than that of a wise, active, skilled physician intent upon meeting with promptness and effect the many varied troubles, mental and bodily, of our common humanity. She d. April S, 1869, ret. 72. They had ten children :
1. Eliza ?s[ooers, b. July 24, 1815, m. Amherst Douglas Fouquet,
of Plattsburg, and had four children, viz. :
(1.) Susan Abigail Fouquet, b. March 9, 1S37, who m. P. Tenney Gates.
(2.) Mary Platt Fouquet, b. Oct. 22, 1842, who m. Archi- bald Achison.
(3.) Elizabeth Platt Fouquet, b. Dec. 13, 1S4S, who re- sides unmarried at home.
(4.) Anna Douglas Fouquet, b. April 5, 1850, who resides unmarried at home,
2. Susan Mooers, b. Aug. 27, 181S. d. April 8, 1822.
3. Hannah Maria Mooers (dau. of Dr. Benjamin J. Mooers and
Hannah Platt), b. Nov. 27, 1S21, m. Theodore Platt Cady, of
1885.] jRogers Lineage. \j
Plattsburg, and after his death, for a second husband, Dewitt
Clinton Boynton, of same place. She had four children and
all by the first marriage :
(1.) Pauline Cady, b. Aug. 25, 1S40, whom. Chauncey Stod- dard without issue.
(2.) Hiram Walworth Cady, b. Nov. 19, 1842, who m. Augusta Wood, and has had two children : § 1. Theodore Cady ; § 2. Catharine Wood Cady.
(3.) Benjamin Mooers Cady, b. April 6, 1845, w^° m- ^^a Wood, and has had two children : § 1. Frederica Mooers Cady; § 2. Walworth Cady.
(4.) Theodora Cady, b. April 14, 1847, who m. Robert Bailey, without issue.
4. William (Pitt) Plait Mooers, b. Jan. 9, 1824, m. Jan. 27,
1846, Marion Catharine Koynton. To him the writer is largely indebted for the account here given of the descendants of Dea. William P. Piatt. He is a merchant in Plattsburg. He was a member of the New York Legislature (187S-80J. Treasurer Clinton County, N. Y., 1S55-57, and in 1864-66, of the White- hall & Plattsburg R. R. Co., President of the Board of Educa- tion of the Village of Plattsburg, for several years, and for nearly twenty years a Director in First National Bank. He has had five children :
(r.) John Boynton Mooers, who d. young. (2.) Moss Pratt Mooers, b. in 1850, who d. Sept., 1877, aet. 27. (3.) William Boynton Mooers, b. about 1855, in. Jeanette
McCain, and has one child, Benjamin Knox Mooers. (4.) Catherine Marion Mooers, b. about i860, m. Andrew
Mount Piatt. (5.) Mary Helen Mooers (dau. of Wm. P. Mooers), b. about
1S70.
5. Mary Mooers (dau. of Dr. Benjamin J. Mooers and Mary
Piatt), b. July 11, 1S25, m. June 1, 1842, Arnold Stukely Stoddard, b. Aug. 26, 1S16, in Peru, N. Y. (son of Chauncey Stoddard, of Woodbury, Conn., and Matilda Arnold); resi- dence, St. Louis, Mo. Three children : (1.) Matilda Arnold Stoddard, b. May 25, 1844, m. P. C.
Dooley, a lawyer at Little Rock, Ark. (2.) Eliza Fouquet Stoddard, b. Mar. 31, 1846, m. Charles
H. Peck, Jr., of St. Louis, Mo. (3.) Mary Mooers Stoddard, b. Nov. 3, 1S51, m. a Mr.
Drummond, of Little Rock, Ark.
6. John Henry Mooers, M.D. (son of Dr. Benjamin J. Mooers
and Mary Piatt), b. Nov. 27, 1S27, m. Helen Boynton. He entered the Union Army in 1S61 as assistant surgeon in the 1 6th Regiment, U. S. Volunteers, and was promoted to be sur- geon in the 118th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers, and served to the end of the war; and was appointed surgeon in an expedi- tion against the Indians under Colonel Forsythe, and was killed in battle by them in 186S. He had one child, John Boynton Mooers, b. about 1858, who is still living (1885).
7. Moss Kent Mooers, b. (when not stated), and d. early.
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8. Benjamin Mooers, b. (when not stated), and d. young.
9. Sophia Whiteside Mooers, b. July 26, 1829, m. William Dem-
ning Morgan, and had three children :
(1.) Lucy Morgan, b. Oct. 29, 1850.
(2.) Elizabeth Morgan, b. Feb. 6, 1S57, d. in 18S2.
(3.) Platt Morgan, b. Sept. 8, 1S00.
10. Robert Platt Mooers (youngest son of Dr. Benjamin J. Mooers and Mary Platt), b. about 1835, was a civil engineer and surveyor. He went to Decorah, la., about the year 1858. Here he m. Phebe Edwards, and had one child, Eiien Edwards. In 1861 he raised a company of which he was made captain, and joined with it the 5th Minn. Regiment of Union Volunteers, commanded by Colonel Sanborn. He was killed at the Battle of Corinth, Miss., in 1S62.
iv. William Plait (son of William Pitt Platt and Hannah Kent), b. Feb. 25, 1799. d. Feb. ic, 1S.--9, aged 30; unmarried.
v. Elizabeth Platt (dau. of Dea. Win. P. Platt and Hannah Kent), b. May 15, 1S06; in., May 29, 1S24, Henry Ketchum Averill.
She d. March 21, 1S42, aged thirty-five. Chancellor Kent says of her, in a letter of consolation to her mother (his sister), which is still extant : " Z\^ had been greatly ?^,vted rliifhig her life with bodily infirmities — a fact which attached her friends all the more strongly to her by the power of sympathy. She was a woman of strong mind and of strong feelings and of great energy and decision of character. She had won deeply upon my respect and regard for her. Mrs. Kent (your sister) sends her warmest affection. " He adds : " Her sympathies are, as they always have been, active and tender*' (she was then seventy-three years old, and the Chan- cellor seventy-nine), ''and no person of whom I know interests herself more deeply than my beloved wife in the sorrows as well as the joys of her friends. Devotedly and most affectionately, your brother, James Kent.-'
Mrs. Averill suffered much from asthma. While moving herself in the highest circles of social life she was ever thoughtful of the interests and the comfort of the poor and lowly.
They had five children :
1. James Kent Averill, b. "March to, 1825, a lawyer at Cham-
plain, X. Y. He m. Jeanette Evans, of Grafton, Vt., and has
had four children :
(1.) Susan Averill, who m. Sylvester Alonzo Kellogg, of
Plattsburg. (2.) Jeanette Evans Averill, who m. Royal Corbin, a lawyer
in Piattsburg. (3.) Mary B. Averill, who m. Henry Hoyle, of Champlain. (4.) James Averill.
The children of Sylvester Alonzo Kellogg and of Susan Averill (Xo. 1) are as follows, viz.: § 1. Ralph Averill Kellogg, who is now (1S85) a student in Harvard College ; $ 2. Henry Theodore Kellogg ; ^ 3. George Caspar Kellogg ; § 4. Augusta Kellogg. S. Alonzo Kellogg, their father, was State Senator, in Xevada (1864-6); District Attorney of Clinton County, X. Y. (1874-6); and was elected Judge of Clinton County for six years in 1882.
2. Henry Ketchum Averill, Jr., b. xMarch 26, 1830, is a civil
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engineer, surveyor, and draughtsman in Plattsburg. He m.
Almira Elizabeth Miller, and has had four children :
(i.) Charles Ketchum Averill, who d. young.
(2.) Frank Lloyd Averill.
(3.) Maria Elizabeth Averill.
(4.) Grace Platt Averill. 3. Mary Elizabeth Averill, b. July 19, 1831 ; m. Perry E.
Burch, and has had four children :
(1.) Martha Laura Burch.
(2.) Mary Burch.
(3.) Jean ie Burch.
(4.) William Put Burch, who d. in infancy. vi. Hon. Moss Kent Platt (son of William Pitt Piatt, Esq., and Han- nah Kent), b. at Plattsburg, May 3, 1S09. He had not the advantages of a collegiate or classical education, but only those of the ordinary village school of the times, and was in early life a clerk in a store (1823-30), until of age, when he became a merchant (1830-56), and engaged, at the same time, largely in the manufacture of iron. Pie was always interested in all i is of public and political importance, and all forms of social progress,
an 1 in whatever would tend to promote the welfare of any-communities, r*r ?ven individual?, v;t] ;" His sphere of influence or range of vision, and is remembered by great numbers, who knew him well, as a large-minded, public-spirited, Christian gentleman, who rejoiced in using life's true bene- fit-, aright himself, and in diffusing them, as widely as possible, to all around him.
He was State Senator from the Sixteenth District in the New York Legislature (1866-67), and exerted a great influence in it by his superior judgment, and weight of character, and his effective reasoning and elo- (. icnce as a public speaker. In 1S6S he was a Presidential Elector (Re- an). In 1872 he was elected Inspector of State Prisons, whose opportunities of usefulness and whose active duties he greatly enjoyed as giving him many coveted fields and forms of accomplishing lasting results for good to the community in prison-reform. He was, for many years, a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church of Plattsburg, and was everywhere a pronounced and positive Christian in his principles and purposes in life, and in his manners toward all around him.
He m., Oct. 14, 1830, Elizabeth Sarah Freligh, b. Sept. 25, 1810 (dau. of John E. George Freligh, of Plattsburg, N. Y., and Betsey Deming, of Bennington, Vt.). She d. March 25, 1856, and he m., for second wife, May 20, 1858, Margaret Anne Freligh (dau. of John George Freligh and Margaret Olive Savage, his second wife); so that his two wives were half- sisters to each other.
Fie had, by his first marriage, four daughters and one son. Mrs. Moss K. Platt now resides (1885) in Plattsburg. She writes to the author, January 10, 1S85 : "My husband would, I am sure, have been greatly interested in the genealogical undertaking in which you are engaged. He was tenderly devoted to his mother, who died in his house, and it gives me great pleasure to aid you in any way to prepare any worthy memorials of her ancestry and kindred.''
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CHILDREN.
(i.) Hannah Kent Platt, b. Oca : a i : 52, I 2 '. : - -
fos€ Matthew Myers f Lawi I . .
Delia - tla : . She d. Aug . 1 5 . tei ily as ]
5. b. Tap.. :: - ' 25, 1856. Mr. Joseph ^1
Myers now (1885) resi 3 i Plain field, X .
' ■:. : -• { Maria Pj i . t Platl 1 Elizabeth S.
Frel . . . May 15, 1835, m., Nov. 27, ] ; . . .. Stetson - J
of Hon. Lemuel Stef I Helei Haskel] He was a
la ; r Plattsburs but Ma] li 1 . ned the Uni Army with a :ompany of soldiers that he y for 1 • th N. Y.
1 i *nt of Unioi \ mteers. ■ " 1 at e head f . . _ »c I
b) ly 1 attle :'' Anti . m, Md.3 ar I i 2nd lie nant-colonel. =
was :illed, Sej temt r a : ': — sh mting, "M 1 all; ; ur colors
as he fell, amid a si . : : - ' n the ei y,
5. hnFi u [ Platt, b. I 1 [S3 7, entered, i sn agedfif
the Sophomore year of the class f 1S55. Pc alt] necessitated his
ie ture from college 1 " , t! . - ft] :..... E fte] I ■
3 e .- ai . more of e l for the f his health he rejoined th
colleg in th dass af 1S58), but '. the senior year from consump-
ti Feb. 25, r858.
(4.) Sarj 1 ml r, b. Oct . 59. m., Oct. 17, 185c V ..-
lard Ainsworth Fuller, of Plattsb org : liam Fi sr, of St. All
Yt.. an 1 Eliza Greene merchant, 1 and now resi ling v ith his ' il'e in that place. They have I st six chi Iren, all when infa ts names not givei . T • : iaughl . . - ir I one s - 1 .
g 1. M a A3 ei Platt Fuller, b. May 27, 1
g 2. Moss K R, b; 2 fay :. 1868.
§ 5. Elizai eth Freligi 1 ller, b. Sept. 9, iS 74, Margarei Frei :. Platt aughter of Hon. Moss Kent Platt andEJ .:'. S. Freligi , b. Nov. • : 1843, m.f Aug. 29, 1866, Michael Pe:er Myers, a merchant of Plaits a son f Lawrence Myers, :: Plattsburg, and Maria I :- lia Kirtlan . . They reside now at Plattsburg. They have no children
IX. The scattered threads ." H ley genealogy w] ± have be - carefully laid or careless!] hopped int [iter's hands he ever in ci-
de ta] •. and chiefly in a : n 3f Dea. Jedediah 2.
Ha1 ley, Xo. $c. viii., p. 15, u I at . ... a ■■-:•. fragmentary way, he has carefully preserved foi . ; ..." ire : i g •:- of my who are interested
in the:: perusal.
The gr.-gr.-grandfathei -f said Dei J. R. Hawley, rf Redding, Conn., now eighty-one yea- )ld. Joseph I a . :' 1 eddii .. He a: ' his
wife are recorded as havir a a ted tc ihurch membershij I ..a.
as early as 1 740. Hera., len name is :nc a They had four children : i William I a : - - 5.
ii. Mary Ha 1 a bapt 7, j 742.
a. Ri ::i EIawlev, b; a N ■ . ; iv. Eva: :e H a . '. - . :. X. . . : 5. 175a i. William Hawley sor rf J . H . jf Redding), b. about
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173S, m. July 12, 1 75S, Lydia Nash, of Redding. He d. Feb., 1797; she d. April 26, 1S12. They had seven children :
1. Lydia Hawley, b. about T760, and died in infancy.
2. Joseph Hawley, b. May 23, 1762, and had eight children.
3. Lydia Hawley, 2d, b. Dec. 13, 1763,111. Aaron Sanford, of
Redding.
4. William Hawley, b. about 1765, d. in infancy.
5. William Hawley, 2d, b. Feb. 9, 1767, Fie m., Dec' 24,
1794, Sarah Marshall, of Woodbury, Conn., b. Dec. 24, 1771 (dau. of Rev. John Rutgers Marshal], first rector of St. Paul's Church, Woodbury, and Sarah Bryan, of Milford, Conn., who were in. Nov. 19, 1766). They removed to Oswego, N. Y. , about the period of 1825-28; and she d. there June 24, 1845. Their children, seven in number were : (1) William Marshall, b. Jan. 12, 1795. (2) Sarah Lydia Marshall, b. May 10, 1797. (3) William Marshall, b. May 23, 1799. (4) Susanna Anna Maria Marshall, b. Nov. 19, 1801. (5) John Panel Marshall, b. Feb. 23. 1804. (6) Henry Rutgers Marshall, b. April 29, 1806. (7) Mary Sophia Marshall, b. Aug. 29, 1809.
6. Hezekiah Hawley (son of Joseph Hawley, of~Redding), b.
about 1769, d. in infancy.
7. HlzeivIah Hawley, 2d, b. March 10, 1772, m. Rebecca San-
ford. of Redding, and had seven children. 3. Lydia Hawley (dau. of William Hawley, of Redding), b. Dec. 13, 1763, m., about 1783, Rev. Aaron Sanford, of Redding, one of the first local elders (Methodist) in New England. She d. March 21, 1847. He d. Feb. S, 1 84 7. Their children were :
(1.) Betsey Sanford, b. Oct. 5. 1781, m., March 23, 1799, John
R. Mill. She died July 29, 1818. (2.) Hannah Sanford. b. May 31, 1784, m., Nov. 13, 1S06, Rev.
Aaron Hunt. She d. Sept. 18, 183 1. (3.) Aaron Sanford, b. July 8, 1786, m., Dec. 19, 1S13, Fanny
Hill. He d. Aug. -21,* 1S73. (4.) Rev. Hawley Sanford, b. July 16, 1789, m., Nov. 2, 1S14,
Betsey Stowe. (5.) Jesse Lee Sanford, b. July 27, 1791, d. unmarried, April 9,
1S13. (6.) Eunice Sanford, b. Aug. 10, 1793, m., March 30, 1S14, Isaac
Gorham. She d. Dec. 22, 1827. (7.) Rev. Walter Sanford, b. Feb. iS, 1796, m., Dec. 6, 182 r,
Harriet M. Booth. (8.) Charlotte Sanford, b. Jan. 8, 1800, m., May 23, 1S19,
. Thomas B. Fanton. She d. in 1857. (9.) Lydia Sanford, b. Sept. 23, 1803, m., April 30, 182 1, Aaron
S. Hyatt. (10.) William A. Sanford, b. Jan. 15, 1807, m,, May 2, 1S32, Flarriet T little. Dea. Jedediah R. Hawley tells the writer that the descendants of Aaron Sanford and Lydia Flawley have amounted to a large number of persons under various names, well known, in many communities of the land, for their talent, integrity, piety, industry, thrift, and their political and legis- lative prominence, and their success in large and commanding business
2 2 Roger* Lineage. [Jan.,
relations. The plain country farming towns, with their simple and quiet ideas and manners, which abounded in ear!}- New England life, furnished ju^t the best material possible in their style of organization, and of direct energetic activity for the development of the best forms of superior social growth and advancement.
X. Warren R. Dix, Esq., a lawyer at 160 Broadway, N. Y. (the Guernsey Building), and a resident, with his family, at Elizabeth, N. J., writes, under date of Xov. iS, 1804, as follows: "I now know, beyond controversy, that Miss Caulkins' Major Uriah Rogers, of Southampton, L. I., Norwich, etc., was the Major Uriah Rogers, b. Sept. 9, 1737, who was my mother's, and also Miss Caulkins', great uncle, and the son of James Rogers and of Mary Harris, of New London. The Son, in the firm name (Uriah Rogers c> Son), was William /Rogers, of Norwich, at whose house my mother visited in 1S40, or so, and with whose daughter I have been in correspondence for some time past, and who has promised to bestow upon .me the sword worn in the Revolutionary War by her grand- father, Major Uriah Rogers, son of James Rogers, of New London, Conn. I am also personally acquainted with a granddaughter of this Major Uriah Rogers, of Norwich, now living in Xew York City. She is the daughter of John Rogers (son of Major Uriah), who remained behind in Southampton, ana u;ea Lhere some Uveiit) years ago. But my great grandfather, Jere- miah Rogers, and his brother, Major Uriah, left Southampton, L. I., at about the same time- — the first named of the two brothers going to Clinton (as it was then called) to reside, but now Hyde Park, Duchess County, N. Y., and the second (Major Uriah) to Norwich, Conn., and each dying, in the end, in the place to which they then removed."
In a previous letter to the writer, dated Xew York, June 30, 18S4, W. R, Dix, Esq., had stated "that Elizabeth Rogers, b. Jan. 27, 1741, who m. Robert Manwaring (see, on p. 151, list of children of James Rogers and Mary Harris), was the grandmother of Miss Frances M. Caulkins, the historian of New London. Miss Caulkins is said to have known more about the history of the Rogers family than any other member of it. She prepared a statement of the result of her researches, which is known to have been in the possession, at o; e time, of my mother's late cousin, Rev. Dr. Ebenezer Pratt Rogers (b. Dec. 18, 1817, and d. Oct. 22, 1SS1). long the successful and beloved pastor oi ' The Collegiate Reformed (Dutch) Church ! in Fifth Avenue, New York."
XI. Abigail Rogers (dau. of Dr. Uriah Rogers, of Xorwalk, Conn., and Hannah Lockwood), b. Oct. 14, 1749 5 m-> -bout 1776, Rev. Matthew Scribner, b. Feb. 7, 1746. graduated at Yale in 1775 (son of Matthew Scribner, a farmer at Norwalk, Conn., and Martha Smith, of Long Island, whom he m. Xov. 10, 1742). He was ordained and installed as a Con- gregational clergyman at Westford, Middlesex County, Mass., Oct. 5. 1779, but, after a few years of restless discontentment with his pastorate, resigned it Nov. 10, 17S9, and removed soon to the adjoining town of Tyngsboro, Mass., where he resided until his death in 18 13, aged sixty-seven. On Oct. 6, 1788, a committee was chosen to try and settle "the difficulties ex- isting between some of the inhabitants of Westford and Rev. Mr. Scribner, their pastor." They advised the calling of a council of representatives of seven neighboring churches, who met early in December following, and advised the troubled pastor to stay at his post. It is manifest from the record still remaining, that whatever virtues the people of Westford may
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have had in Mr. S poor habit
J obligations 1 . : \
. . ..':.: - f 1 itisfac-
I perp] . 5 relatioi te I .. ty gen-
?, 13 I . voted not to accept the result
late ouncil and to 1 se "25 for Re Mr. Scri tier's bad y" i -i
t remissness they had been s] \ ard his da
r res ful and ' rem his pecui . y 1
p parent 1 ' 1 salary that they 1 ed themsel 5 to fur-
nish him ] be keeping for a
I : ad for tw and twenty rds of 1 . .:.-.- - -' :
for his j . si yea expecting : . : increase t ;
sti] ■■ ] -.".' t y year, ace . the goc '. 1 Its of the s] itual
f his ] itorate). His brief and satisfactory experiei t of minis- : seems t hav been such that he had n ' . • e to pi tract it to y great length. He was son of Matthew Sc
. was . '_ ".:... her being : Lh. of Long
.- ' 11 le in :---. ai ' : :k his A.M. ■*: gree in 17S3. He third of his life in the aui _-. pursu ts -:" farm life its fre from all public res] Lties an ' cares, its e >yment : \ : n ;
- sercise, and its easil 'ed sense of c itentme
- : aiary c ndition an 3 pr >pects; and it might seem both natural
leass tt revert again after the tui toil of his life at Westford to the
- " at Lis later life of early tastes long ch tied, to the leasures
nte itive life, a It the freed m of thought that he might enjoy,
- led in any way, in his personal opinions and sentiments. Ler the d f his ife, * 1 I Rogers, which must have occurred
- ly as 1778, tie m., Decembei 16, 1779 San Porter, if Topsneld, - ] 1754 (dau. :.' Elijah and Dorothy Porter). : - : .. .- f wil '.. !, just over the line m the tc v :" Socially I religiousl he maintained his : : -.ec::::: :; ."..- Lhe people FWestfc i but lived in Tyngsboro, on his farm, 1 if.il • '■ .:-::. aged >/. He is said to have tried the experi :. her things, : :' raisins merinc sheep, at :. j rofit, but without suc- - - paying : great price for the stock. He had by his first wife,
• R gers, >ne : : . ' Uriah Re gers S :rihr.er, and by his se :::..". wife, ter, ten o:her chil : ren, viz. :
1. Sarah 5:r:?:;zr. b. Sept. 15. 17S1. d. Oz:. 4, 17S1.
2. Elijah Porter Scri ner, b. Oct. n. 1782.
3. Xath^n::: S .:- n :•: t.. b. June 30, : - : _•
4. Hannah Scribner, b. Feb. 12. 1786.
5. Sarah S:?a5>:ia. ';. Se; ;::. ::. 17S7.
6. William Scribner. ':. Tv.:y 27. 1 7S9, d. Dec. n. 1790. 7- Samuel Scribner, ;:' I altimore, Md.,b. Dec. 9. 179c.
8. William Scribner, b. ] me 22. 1792.
9. Abigail Scribner, b. Feb. :". 1794. 10. Rufus Scri] . b Aug. 2:. 1795.
One of these laughters not ated which m Leonard Kendall, : f >boro, and Hannah (No. 4) m. William Usher, of Charlestc 0 . ■ ". :24.
le first of the Scribner family that appeared at Nbrwalk, Conn., Benjamin Scrivener is he called :::: se: . ..ho m. March 5, 166c Hannah
•
24 Rogers Lineage. [Jan.,
Crampton, of that place, and had by her four sons — Thomas, John, Abra- ham, and Matthew. They changed their name to Scribner — as it has re- mained ever since, and been brought by their reeent descendants into con picuous honor in the land. Matthew Scribner, Sr., and Martha Smith, of Long Island, had nine children : i, Nathaniel Scribner, b. about 174.; ; 2, Rev. Matthew Scribner, b. Feb. 7, 1746, grad. at Yale in 1775, settled at Westford, Mass., in 1779; 3, Martha Scribner; 4, Enoch Scribner ; 5, Elijah Scribner; 6, Jeremiah Scribner ; 7, Iveziah Scribner, b. about 1754, whom. Thomas Hawley, of Ridgefield, Conn.; 8, Abigail Scribner; 9, Elizabeth Scribner.]
The only child of Rev. Matthew Scribner and Abigail Rogers was Uriah Rogers Scribner, b. in 1776. He was a jobbing merchant in New York for fifty years, of moderate success in business, and d. there Jan, 7, 1853, aged 77. Uriah Rogers Scribner, b. in 1776, m. his cousin, Martha, dau. of Nathaniel Scribner, of Norwalk, who d. earl)-, and had two daugh- ters : (1) Abby Scribner, who d. young; (2) Matilda Scribner, b. Jul}- 26, 1S09, who m. George \V. Schuyler, of Ithaca, N. Y. Uriah Rogers Scrib- ner, m. for a second wife, about 18 12, Betsey Hawley, dau. of Thomas Hawley, of Ridgefield (son of Rev. Thomas Hawley,* of same place, 1714- 38, b.in 1690, grad. at Harvard in 1709, and originally from Northampton, Mass.)3 and had by this marriage eleven children:
1. Matilda Scribner (daughter by first wife, Abigail Rogers), b. July 26, 1S09, m., April, 1839, George \V. Schuyler, of Ithaca, N. Y., a druggist and a dealer in coal there now (1885). She is still living.
The children (eleven in number) by the second wife, Betsey Hawley, were :
1. Edward Scribner, b. March 28, 18 13, who m. E. Gertrude
Brown and had seven children. He was a merchant in New York City, and d. Jan. 7, 1S64.
2. Jane Scribner, who d. young.
3. Maria Scribner, b. in 1816, m. Zalmon S. Mead, a merchant
in New York.
4. Julia Scribner, b. about 1S18, who d. young.
5. William Scribner, b. Jan. 20, 1820, grad. at Princeton, studied
theology there, and was settled at Stroudsbur^r, Pa., and at Red Bank, N. J. He resigned the ministry on account of the failure of his health, and removed to Plainfield, N. J., where he d. March 3, 1864. He in. Caroline E. Hitchcock and had two sons by her, John and William Scribner ; and he in., for his second wife, Julia Sayre, and had two sons and two daugh- ters by that marriage.
6. Charles Scribner, b. Feb.. 1S21. grad. at Princeton, in same
class with his bro. William. He was the well-known book- seller and publisher in New York, and d. when abroad, in Switzerland, Aug. 26, 1871. He m. Emma Blair, of Blairstown, N. J., and had four children : John Blair, Emma, Charles, and
* Eor some brief sketches of early Hawley *"= r in tv^ country, and of value to the investigators
of Scribner lineage, see pp. 624-5 of the History >ht Family. 1. 5 Ha
(Rev.Tb mas Hawley, of Ridg i •-.•'.. and the .son of Captain J >e| Hav . y, . t Harvard in 1674, and of Lydia Marsh Ji, t >rn Feb- ruary 18. 1655-3 Marshall, of Windsor, Conn., and of Mary W ter of Lieutenant D •■ I ■ Ison. I r Dwig t kii . je ac ntofDwightde endants (descendants of Captain Henry Dwight, of Hatfiel I, Mass.), pp. 620 . .
1885.] Early Settlers of Ulster County, N. V. 2 s
Arthur. Charles and Arthur compose the present well-known firm of lt Charles Scribner's Sons."
7. Henry Scribner, b. June 28, 1822, nl. Abigail Farnam, and
had children, George and Minnie, lie was a lumber mer- chant in Des Moines, la., where he d. Sept. 10, 1882.
8. Jane Scribner, b. Nov. 28, 1824, m. Judge Samuel P, Wisner,
of Cedar Rapids, la., and has two sons and a dau.
9. Julia Scribner, b. about 1824, m. Clinton Hitchcock, a mer-
chant in NewYork City, and had three daughters. She d. in 1865.
10. Walter Scrilner, b. about 1826, d. soon.
11. Walter Scribner, 2d, b. about 1S28, m. Harriet Kimball. He
was a druggist in Rock Island, 111., and returned to NewYork to
reside in his later years, and d. there Oct. 15, 1873. He has
two sons now living in New York City, Frederic and Frank.
To Mr. George W. Schuyler, of Ithaca, the writer is largely indebted
[<>x many of the details of Scribner history here furnished. But he could
not be induced by any urgent solicitations to be more complete and full in
such communications that were greatly desired.
(To be continued.) / (a \ '**" \
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EARLY SETTLERS OF ULSTER COUNTY, X. Y. — --'
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Compiled by G. H. Van Wagenen, of Rye, N. Y.
(From the Church P.ecorcs of Kingston, N. Y., and from other sources.)
The Elting Family, First Three Generations.
Jan Elten, or Eltynge, the ancestor probably of all the families of the name of Eiting in the State of NewYork, was born at Switchelaer in the Province ofprenthe, in Holland, July 29, 1632, old style, and was son of Roeloffe and Aeltje Elten.
1 have not found any record of his arrival in this country, but in 1663, lie was living in FJatbush and working as a carpenter on the church there. (Bergen's " Kings County Settlers,'' p. 108). From there he moved to Ulster County, and in 1677 was a witness, with his wife, to the Indian Deed to Lewis Dubois and others, for land at New Paltz (Documents Colonial History, vol. 13, p. 507). He married Jacomynte Slegt (or Slecht), daughter of Cornells Barents Slegt, born in Woerden, in South Holland, eighteen miles from Leyden. She had been twice married before, first to Cornells Barents Kunst, at Kingston, April 29, 1663 ; second to Gerrit Foeken, at Kingston, October 27, 1668. The date of marriage to Jan Elting I do not rind on record. By these two marriages she had four chil- dren, whose names appear in the deed given further on.
In 1679, for some reason unknown. Jan Elting takes great pains to prove his identity, both by his own oath and that of several of his former townsmen from Holland, and by a cenifkate from the Church in the place of his birth.
These documents are important as giving us reliable information of Jan Elting's birth and parentage, which could not probably be obtained from any other source.
26 Early Settlers of Ulster County, N. Y. [Jan.,
In 16S6, Jan Elton was one of the partners in the Arie Roosa patent in Dutchess County. The other partners were, Gerrit Aartsen, Arie Roosa, Hendrick Kip, and Jacob Kip. This patent contained about one thou- sand five hundred acres, opposite the Rondout Creek and extending along- the bank of the Hudson River.
Jan Elting's share of the property was purchased from his heirs in 17 13 by Gerrit Aartsen (E. M. Smith's " History of Rhinebeck "). The will of Jan Elting does not appear on record at New York or Albany.
Certificate No. i.
To-day, the 10th of Oct., 1679, appeared before us, Capt. James Hub- bard. Elbert Elbertsen StoothofT and Jacques Corteljou, at the request of Jan Elten, a resident of Kingston, now about to depart for the Fatherland, the Worshipful Steven Coerten, aged 79, Willem Roeloffs, aged 60, Jan Strycker, Armorer, aged 64, Jan Sebringh, aged 48, Coert Stevensen, aged 42, all natives of the province of Urenthe, who declare that the above named petitioner is the lawful son of Roelof Elten, by his wife, Aeltje Elten, of the village of Swigtel, in said land of Drenthe. They further de- clare to the Lest 5 their information, that they have always known him as an honest and virtuous man, and that as far as they can remember they never knew any other man of the same name. They are willing to con- firm their testimony by a solemn oath. In witness of the truth, they sign this with their own hands at New Amersfoort, in Long Island, in America.
Steven Coerten, Wm. Roeloffs — mark -f, Jan Strycker, Gunsmith, Jan Sueberingh, Coert Stevensen.
Testified in presence of us underwritten under oath : J. Hubbard, Justice, Elbert Elbertsen, Justice, James Corteljou, Justice.
(New York Colonial Manuscripts, vol. 28, folios 135 and 136; page 80. Calendar of English Manuscripts.)
Certificate No. 2.
" A certificate concerning Jan Elten alias Elting and his oath there- upon sent by him into Holland, attested Oct. 13, 1679. Hee went for England." (Endorsement of Certificate.)
" New7 Yorke on Manhatans Island in America, Oct. 13, 1679.
"This day appeared before mee, Jan EUen alias Eltynge, and tooke his oath upon the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, that hee is and hath allwayes been taken and reputed to bee the person whom those within specifyde have certifyed their knowledge of before ye three Justices of the
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Peace, and that hce never knew or heard of any other of his name to bee the son of Roeloffe Elten his Father and Aeltien, his Mother.
" Matthias Nicolls,
11 See. of the Provhiee of New Yorke."
(New York Colonial Manuscripts, vol. 28, folios 135 and 136; p. So, Calendar of English Manuscripts.)
For the copy of this certificate I am indebted to Mr. Fernow, keeper of the manuscripts in the State Library at Albany. Mr. Bergen, in his " Kings County Settlers," page 10S, refers to this manuscript as statii Jan Elten was "the son of Roeloffe Elting, or Elten, and Strycker Sc- oring," whereas both certificates state that his parents were Roeloffe and Aeltie Elten.
Certificate Xo.
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From Edmund Eltinge, Esq., of New Paltz, N. Y., certificate of church
membership for Jan Eltinge, Beyle, 16S0. The original certificate in Dutch, now in the possession of Edmund Eltinge, Esq., of New Paltz, uisici iuua.ii), Las uccu tid.ii3id.Lcci by Lt. hj, 13. O. Caliaghan.
Extract from the Church Records at Beyle :
'•Jan Eltinge, son of Roelif and Aaltje Eltinge, was born at Switche- laer, a dependency of Beyle ; situate in the Province of Drenthe, in the year 1632, on the 29th of July, old style and hath received Christian . tism at the hands of our Rev. Mr. and Father in-Law Dr. Johannes Beeit- snyder, and was named Jan Eltinge. Born of honest and virtuous parents who have always sustained a good reputation among us, and whose kindred is still numerous. Whereof, he having requested our testimony, we have therefore not been able to refuse the same to him, but have granted him this our certincate in order that he may avail himself thereof according to circumstances.
"Done at Beyle 20th Jan. 16S0.
GUILIELMUS HOFSTEDE,
Eccls' Beylensis at Classis of Meppelanae, p. t. Deputatis.
" Maria Eltinge, his sister is born the 28th Feb., in the year 1630, old style.
"Bartelt Eltinge, his brother, is born the iSth Dec, in the year 1631."
Quit Claim Deed.
To all Christian people to whom this present writing shall come, Roe- loff Eltinge of the Xew Paltz, in the Co. of Ulster and Province of New York in America, Yeoman, Cornelius Eltinge of Marbletown in sd. co., yeoman, William Eltinge of Kingston in sd. co., Carpenter, Ger. Yan Wagenen, of Kingston, aforesaid yeoman, Geertje Hall widow of Thomas Hah late of Raretan in the Co. of Somerset in N. J., Gerrit Wynkoop and
Early Settlers of Ulster Comity, JV. Y.
[Jan.,
Hilletje his wife of Philadelphia in Penn., yeoman, Jannetje Newkerk widow of Cornelius Newkerk late of Hurley, Ulster Co., Henry Pawling and Tacomynte Ins wife of Philadelphia in Perm., yeoman. Greeting.
Now know ye, that, whereas Jan Eltinge, late of Hurley in Ulster Co., did by his last will and Testament bequeath to his five children, RoelofV, Cornelius, William, Geertje Hall and Altje Eltinge, mother of the afore- said Gerrit Van Wagenen, one just half of his Estate, and the other half to his wife's nine children, viz., Jannetje Newkerk, Hilletje Wynkoop, Jacomynte Pawling, RoelofT, Cornelius and William Eltinge, Gerrit Van Wagenen, Geertje Hall, Tryntje, late wife of Solomon Dubois of New Paltz, and in consideration the children of said Dubois of their just right should be assured, the said [here follow the names of the heirs] have granted, etc., to the children of said Dubois, one just ninth part in the lot No. 5, lying in Dutchess Co. over against Rondout Creek, bounded Northerly by lot of Evert Van Wagenen, Easterly by a creek, Southerly by land of Evert Roosa, Westerly by Hudson River. Also a just eighteenth part in a certain Meadow commonly called Jacomynte's rly. To have, hold, etc.
August 2, 1729, Sealed and de- livered in presence of — johannes schepmoes. Hendrik Fruyn. Nicholas Hofman. John Cock. George Hall. John Hall. Henry Stevens.
Henry Pawling. Gerrit Wynkoop. jAXNEijE Newkerk. Hilletje "Wynkoop. Jacomyntie Pawling. Roeloef Eltinge. Cornelius Eltinge. Willem Eltinge. Ger. Van Wagenen.
second generation.
Children of Jan El ting, No. 1, and Jacomyntje Slecht :
2. Geertje (Gertrude), b. at Hurley, living at Kingston ; m. at
Kingston, July 6, 1699, Thomas Hall, b. at Kingston, and living at Marbletown (Ch. Marriage Records).
The baptisms of Geenje Elting and Thomas Hall are not on record at Kingston. In the deed given in 1729, Thomas Hall is mentioned as of Raritan, Somerset Co., N. J.
3. Aaltje (Adeline), b. at Hurley, bapt. not on record ; m. at
Kingston, Oct. 26, 1695, Aart Gerritse (Van Wagenen). b. about 1670 — his baptism is not on record — oldest child of Gerrit Aartse and Clara Pels.
Aart Gerritse d. before 1699, for Barent Van Benthuysen m. at Kingston, April 17, 1699, Aaltje Elting, widow of Aart Ger- rits, deceased. Aaltje died soon after, for " Barent van Ben- thuysen, widower of Aaltje Elting, deceased, m., April 21, i7or, Jannetje Van Wagenen," daughter of Gerrit Aartsen and Clara Pels. Aart Gerrits and Aaltje Elting left one child, b. Jan. 23, 1697, and named Gerrit Van Wagenen. For Aaltje Eltir.g"s descendants, see New York G. and B. Record, vol. 8, p. 131, and <; Van Wagenen Genealogy."
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4. Roeloff, b. at Hurley, bapt. at I " ii I n, Oct. 27, 1678 ; spon-
sors, Hendrick and Elsje Slegt. Married at Kingston, June
13, 1703, Sara Dubois, b. at NewPaltz, bapt. at Kingston. June 20, 16S2, dau. of Abram Dubois (b. at .Mannheim, in 1 one of the twelve patentees of New Paltz) and Margaret Deyo (see "Dubois Reunion.'' p. 97K
The will of Roeloff Elting, ofXew Paltz, dated Oct. 29. 174". is on record in New York, in Liber 16, p. 21S of Wills. His wife was living and his son Abraham deceased at that date.
5. Cornelis, b. at Hurley, bapt. at Kingston, Dec. 29, 16S1 ;
sponsors, Jochem and Engeltje Hendricks. Married at Kii ton, Sept. 3, 1704, Rebecca Van Meeteren, b. at M rbl ;to\vn, bapt. at Kingston, April 26. 1686, dau. of Joos: Janse Van Meeteren 'born in Gelderland, living in Marbletown) and Sara Dubois.
I do not find Cornelius Elting' s will on record in New York or Albany, nor can I find at Kingston the marriages of any of his children.
6. "Wilt. la:i. bapt. at Kingston, Jan. 19, 16S5: , Magda-
lena Crispel and Jochem Hendricks. MarriecLfdate not re- corded^ Ta : I,e Sn'<?ur, bant at Ktnerston, Mar. 3, 16S0,
dau. of Hillebrand Le Sueur and Elsje Jurians, dau. of Jurian Tappen.
" Francois Le Sueur, who left the town in 1663, was ances- tor of the families cf Le Sueur and Lozier, now mostly s in Xew York City and Bergen Co., X. J. Francois first lived in Flatbush after coming to Manhattan, and in 1649 m- Jan_ netje, dau. of Hillebrand Pietersen, of Amsterdam — his son, Hillebrand. m. Elsje, dau. of Jurian Tappen, of Esopus (Mar. n. 1688), but soon died, leaving apparently but one child, Jan- netje, who m. Win. Elting" (Riker's "Harlem," p. 217).
The will (in Dutch) of " William Eltinge of Kingston.*' dated Dec. 7, 1740, proved Feb. 13, 1743. is recorded in New York, in Liber 12, p. 212 of Will:
THIRD GENERATION.
Children of Geert;e Elting Xo. 2 and Thomas Hall :
7. Jaerds, bapt. at Kingston. Mar. 17. 1720 ; sponsors. Jaerds and
Mary Hall.
8. Elizabeth, bapt. at Kingston, Nov. 16, 1701 ; sponsors, Wil-
liam and Catharina De Meyer and Elizabeth Hall. Probably married Jacobus Elting. Xo. 31.
9. Jan, bapt. at Kingston, Oct. 31, 1703; sponsors, Roelof and
Jacomynte Elting.
10. Jacomynte, bapt. at Kingston, Mar. 17, 1706; sponsors, Mat-
thew Slegt and Annetje Hogeboom.
Children of Roelof Elting Xo. 4 and Sara Dubois :
11. Johannes, bapt. at Kingston, Sept. 3, 1704; sponsors, Cornelis
Elting and Rebecca De la Mater. Married at Kingston, April
^O Early Settlers of Ulster County •, X. Y. [Jan.,
24. 172S, \Taritje Gemaar, probably dau. of Pieter Gemaar and Hester Hasbrouck, bapt. at Kingston, Jan. 24, 1703. Married second at Kingston, Jan. 24, 1734, Jannetje Jansen, widow of Charles Bettis, and dan. of Thomas Jansen and Mayke Bogard, bapt. at Kingston, Jan. 9, 1704.
The will (in Dutch) of "Johannes Eltinge of Mormcls," in Ulster Co., dated Sept. 4, 1750, is recorded in New York, in Liber 19, p. 283 of Wills. He mentions his wife Jannetje, and his oldest son Petrus, to whom he leaves his great Bible — and his other children Sara. RoelorT, and Maike. Tins son Petrus I do not find in the church records of baptisms at Kingston.
12. Jacomyntje (Jemima), bapt. at Kingston, Afar. 17, 1706;
sponsors, Abram Dubois and Jacomyntje De Kunst. Married William Koddebeck, May 2, 1733, at Kingston.
13. Ar;RA:.f. bapt. at Kingston, Oct. 31, 170S; sponsors, William Siting and Jannetje Lesier (Le Sueur). Married at Kingston, Mar. 4. 1732. Sara Persen, bapt. at Kingston, Oct. 10, 1710, dau. of Matthys Persen and Tanna Winne. Abram was de- ceased in 1745.
14. Josiah, bapt. at Kingston, Oct. 12, 17 12; sponsors, Abram
Dubois. Margaret Deyo, Gerrit Wynkoop, and Hilletje Ger- ritts. Married at Kingston, July 14, 1734, Magdakna Dubois, dau. of Solomon Dubois and Tryntje Gerritse, bapt. at King- ston, April 15, 1705 ('•' Dubois Reunion," p. 99).
His will, dated April 4, 1767, is recorded in Xew York, in Liber 37, folio 27 of Wills.
15. Margrietjex, bapt. at Kingston, May iS, 171S; sponsors, Noah and Catryntje Dubois. Married at Kingston, Jan. 22, 1742, Abraham Bevier, Jr., b. at Wawarsing.
^ 16. Noach, bapt. at Kingston. Dec. 3. 1721 ; sponsors, Johannes Hardenberg and Catrina Rutse, his wife. Married at Kingston, Oct. 16, 1742, Jacomyntje Eking, the dau. of William Eltinge, No. 6. They had one child, Sarah, bapt. Mar. 29, 1747, who m. Nov. 15, 1765, Derick D. Wynkoop (" Wynkoop Gen., "
P- 52)-
The will of " Noach Eltinge of New Paltz,*' dated April 5,
1775, is recorded in New York, in Liber ^^, folio 239 of Wills. He mentions his wife, Jacomyntje, his niece, Annetje, dan. of his brother-in-law, Jacobus Ekir.g, his son-in-law, Derick Wyn- koop, granddaughters. Cornelia and Geertje Wynkoop, and Thomas, son of Jacobus Elting. Signs his name i; Noach" Eltinge.
Children of Cornells Elting No. 5 and Rebekka Van Meeteren :
17. Cornelis, bapt. at Kingston, Aug. iS, 1706; sponsors, Roelof Elting and Annetje Hogeboom.
18. Isaac, bapt. at Kingston, Oct. 24, 17CS; sponsors, Daniel and Lena Dubois.
19. Cornelis, bapt. at Kingston, Oct. 10, 1710; sponsors, Willem
Elting and Jannetje Lesier.
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20. Jacomynte, bapt. at Kingston, July 27. 1712; 5; onsors, Roelof
Elting and ; . j Kunst.
21. Sara, bapt at Kingston, Feb. 6. 1715: sponsors, Jm Van Meet* Jan I ] ytje Zu md.
22. Ezekiel, bapt. at Kingston, 11 16, 17:7: sponsors, Genit Van Wage:/ ' Irik; : :>!.
23. Elizabeth, bapt. at Kingston, .' ag. 50, 17:9: sponsors, mas Janse and Maai : 1a
24. Annaatji :". 1 : t. at Kingst :.. Dec. 31, 1721 \ sponsors, Solo-
d Dubois and Tryntje Gerritts.
25. Alt:- bs ., at Kingston, May 3, 1724; sponsors, A::: Slegt anil Neeltje 1 Dgaard.
26. Gideon, bar:, at Kingston, Oct 13, 1 7 2 S ; sponsors, Johan- nes El ting and Maria Gemaar.
Children of William Elting, Xo. 6, and Jannetje Lesier (Le Sueur):
27. Jan. bar:, a: Kingston, Feb. n, 1709; sponsors, Roe ' ] .-
ting and Sara Da. .:.- ; married, Nov. 15, 1730, ^Rachel Whit- aker, daughter of Tames Whitaker and Elizabeth Tits . ' aj u at Kingston, ] an. 1 :. 1 709, die i ]\ ly 2 7. 1 746 ; :.-./ rried, sec- ond, Sept. 3. 1747, Rachel Hue rouck, born Nov. n, 1715, died April 19, 1756, daughter of Joseph Hasbrouck and Elsje Schoonrcaker.
Jan Elting died March 7. 1762 (Bible Record). His will, dated Jan. 12, 1760, is recorded in New York, in Liber 23, folio 32S of Wills.
28. Elsten, bapt at Kir ::n. Sept 9. 1711 : sponsors. .'. - La Meter and Elsje Tappen; married at Kingston, Oct. ::. 1 734. Isaac Van Kampen.
29. Wiuliam, bap:, a: Kingston. Sept. 6, 1713: sponsors,
V\Vnkoop and Kiiletie Gerritts ; not mentioned in hi< father's -. ill
30. Jacomyntjen, bapt a: Kingston, Nov. 27. 1715: sponsors,
Solomon Dubois ana Tryntje Gerritts : married Noah Elting, son of Roeloff Elting and Sara Dubois.
31. Jacobus, bapt a: Kingston, Dec. 15, 1717 : sponsors, Aldert
Kierstedc aa '. a riantje De la Mater; married Elizabeth Hall, Xo. S.
32. Petrtjs, bapt. at Kingston, March 20. 1720: sponsors, Hans
Kierstede and Ariantje Tappen ; not mentioned in his father's will. II, Hexd?.::ys, bapt. at Kingston. Varca 25, 1722; sponsors, Cornelius Elting aad Rebeu.-ta Van Meeteren.
34. Jannetjen, bapt at Kingston, April 26. 1724; sponsors, Jo- hannes De la Matei and Christina V - nkc : p.
35. Annaatjen, bapt at Kingston, Dec. 18, 17:0: sponsors, Da- vid De la Mater aad Ariantje Tappen.
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I .: senstein. Jacot us Vat ierS ie- Jac gel, Annatje San- ' ders. T >hannes Vrel ' Enogh. Maritje Krigic -.
Johannes Bant, Wil- _ Aannes.
lemyni e Philips. L : iwerens Vai Bei jam n.
Hoek, Johann 3
Luykas Stevens Teiintj Catharina VanDyk.
G err e : Schuyl •: r. Janneke
A::;: de _-..." Gerret Van Laai Gabriel. 1 .:".;-:; -:- Stre '. \e\z. February 6. Jan M IdroD . I . 1- Johanne* metj e Van Bossi ::.
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Bant, 5. E . iter. Barnardus Smith, Anatje C alevelt, £. h. v.
Michiel Janse, Olfert
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Johannes Janse, & Jo- hanna, 5. r.. v.
Philippus Van \ -
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dito 9.
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dito 19.
April 6.
OUDERS. KINDERS.
Jeremias Borres, Cor- Jeremias. nelia Eckeson.
John Broad ids, AT aria Maria.
Van der Spiegel. M a t th e us Benson, Tryntje.
Catharin a P r o-
voost. . Ed Card Blagge, Jo- Judith.
hanna Vikkers. Potiwelus Mouritz, Jacob,
Margrietje Ketel-
tas. Samuel Philips, Aeltje Samuel.
Dame. John Anderson, Ju- Styntje.
dith Janse. Casparus Blank. An- Catharina.
genietje Post. Leonard Leuwis, Eli- Leonard.
zabethHertenberg. Sybrant Brouvrer, Sa- Jacob.
ra Webbers. Nathan Daley, Sara Johannes.
Huvsman. Wessel Wesselse, Ma- Tryntje.
rytje ten Yk. Johannis Van Vorst, Marytje.
Antje Harks.
Augustus Jay, Anna Anna.
Maria Beiard. Thomas Sikkels, Jan- Johannes.
netje Brevoort. Marten Dufress, Ju- Martha. . dith Bant. Edmond Thomas, So- Elizabeth.
fia de Wirt. Thomas Pel, Aaltje Samuel.
Beek Isaac Bratt, Dievertje Isaac.
Wessels. Hendrik Franse Hendrik.
Reuth, Hendrik Samuel.
Franse Reuth. Lazerus Barow, Mar- Pieter Laze-
tha Coderett. rus.
Vredrik Fyn, Johan- Hester.
na Van 't Zant.
James Manney, Anna Frausoa. Finsang.
GETUYGEN.
Vincent de Lamontanje, Jannetje Eckeson.
Hendrikus Van der Spie- gel, Saratje Thang.
Samson Bensen, Cathari- no Provoost.
Johannes Edsall, Catha- rina Clouwes.
Abraham Keteltas, Jan- netje Mouritz.
Reni Remsen, Martha
Simpson. Jan Woiiterse, Maria, h.
v. van Jan Andriesse. Cornells Post. Catlvntje
Post. Abraham Keteltas, Gees-
je Liewis, Wede. Jacobus Kip, Antje Brou-
wers. Nicolaas Daley, Johanna
Bogardus. Coenraat ten Yk, Tryntje
Wessels. Tennis Quik, Anna Leiir-
se, h. v. van Johannes
Janse. Samuel Beiard, Judith
Beiard, j : doght. Jan Willemse Rome, Ma-
ritje, s. h. vrou. Pieter Bant, Margrietje
Bant. Johannes ten Yk, Wyntje
Aarsen. Balthazar de Hart, Catha-
lina Kip. Salomon Van de Boog,
Maritje Wessels.
Belitje Christiaanse.
Pieter Casjee, Hester Foley.
Johannes Fyn, Johannes Van 't Zant, Susanna Witsengaem.
Jeremiah Maney, Eliza- beth Mainerd.
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OUDERS. KINDERS.
Cornells de Peister, Anna. Maritje Banker.
Johannes Narbury, Samuel.
Angenietj e Pro-
voost. CornelusTurk, Eliza- Neeltje.
beth Van Schaik.
Meindert Burger, Sa- Jannetje. ra Yedesse.
Jan David, Lowise Petrus.
Strer.g. Daniel Pietersen, An- Pieter.
na Maria Plevier. Johannes de Freest, Marvtie.
Catharina Rave- stein, Jeremiah Manev, Jeremias,
Margreta Finsang. Fincent de Lamon- Rachel.
tanje, Ariaantje
Eckeson. Joost Lynsen, Eliza- Anneke.
beth Henejon. Jan Lathen, Maria Elizabeth,
Koning. Tacob Nicolaas, Maria Jacob.
Moll.
Steven Richard, Ma- Stephanas.
ria van Brug. Thomas Eckeson, Theunis.
Elizabeth Slinger-
lant. Adriaan Van Schaik, Jacob.
Jannetje T h 0-
masse. Willem Grant, Rachel Willem.
Hartenberg. Steven Kent, Abigail Rebecka.
Miles. Pieter Bant, Martha Johannes.
White. John Coeper, Anne- Annetje.
tje Van Vorst. Jacob Wiltze, Abigail Hendrik.
Faggissen. Alexander Fenix, Hester.
Hester Van Vorst.
GETUYGEN.
Johannes Banker, Anna
de Peister. Abraham Wandell, Geer-
truy Staats.
Johannes Bogert, Xeeltje Stiile, h. v. van Hend\ V: Schaik.
Tennis Iedesse, Harma- nus van Gelder, Teutje van Gelder.
Pieter Savouret, Charelott Sibon.
Abraham Mesier, Eliza- beth, s. h. vrou.
Hendrik Kermer, Maritje Rollegom, s. h. v.
Fransoa Finsang, Magda- lena Maney.
Volkert Heermans, Elisa- beth Montanje.
Adriaan Hooglant, Anna- tje, Syn huys Vrou.
Alexander Lam, Grietje Koning.
Meindert Steen en Engel- tje, s. h. vrou.
Willem Teller, Margareta
van Briig. Abraham Kip, Xeeltje
Slingerlant.
Jacob Thomasse, Klaasje
Van Schaik.
Jan Waaldrom, Cornelia,
s. h. vrou. Pieter Van Velse, Chris- tina de Witt. Johannes Bant en Wilie-
myntie, s. h. vrou. Alexander Fenix, Geer-
truv Van Vorst Hendrik Wiltzen, Styntje
Arianse. Isaac Kip, Elizabeth
Blom, h. v. van Jan
Montanje.
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35
A* 1707.
dito 2. dito 18.
dito 22.
dito 29.
July 2. duo 27.
OUDERS.
Albert Loiiwe, Susan-
KINDKRS.
Jan.
na Lamatre. Daniel Meynor,Eliza- Daniel, beth Finsang.
dito 30. Augustus 3.
dito 6.
[308] Augustus 10.
Pieter Bos, Susanna Barentz.
A 1 ay k e Va n R o n 1 e n .
Jacob Bennet, Neel- tie Beekman.
Benjamin Wynkoop, Femmetje Van der Heul.
Hendrik Jan sen, Wy 11 1 j e H e n dri kz.
Harme Luykasse, A Tina Maria Sippe.
Jacob Massing, Ama- rencra Van G elder.
Pieter Gerretse, Jan- netje Slyk.
Michiel Faling, Eliza- beth Van Trigr,
Willem De, Susanna
Salomons. Samson Ben sen,
Grietje Kermer. Harme Bensen, Ael-
tje Bikker. Christoffel Beekman,
Marytje Lanoy.
Petrus. Hendrikus.
Geertriiyd.
Catharina.
Hendrik. Jan.
Elizabeth. Jan netje. Jacobus.
Salomon. Cathalina. Samson, Gerrardus.
dito 1
dito 17.
Harmanus Van Gel- Harmanus.
der, Teuntje
Ydesse. Gysbert Van Imburg, Johannes.
Jannetje Mezier.
Bartholomews La- Jaquemyn-
roex, Geertruy Van tje.
Rollegom. Vfedrik Van der Gerretje.
Grist, Willem pje
Smith. Robbert Sikkels, Elizabeth.
Geertruy Rednars. Jacob Swaan, Dirkje Nicolaas,
Schepmoes.
GETUYGE^.
Jan Loiiwe, Maritje Roos, h.v. vanLourensJanse.
Am an Bonyn, Maria Duboa, h. v. van Mr. Lafong.
Gerret Hyer, Ytje Bos, jong, d°r.
Jesaias Van Rom en, Ariaantje Van Romen.
Jan Bennet, Maria Ben- net oc Antje Van Sig- cele.
Pieter de Mill & Maria, s. h. vroii.
Aarnout Hendrikz, Geer- tje Klaase.
Johannes Burger, Helena, s. h. vrou.
Harmanus Van Gelder, Elizabeth Marchalk.
Mathys Van Velzen, Catharina Houwarts.
Mathys de Hart, Jannetje Van Trigt, h. v. van Will. Lods.
Samuel De, Marretje Sa- lomons, Wed.
The.ophilus Pels, Grietje, de h.v. van Evert Pels.
Ficktoor Bikker, Catha- rina Bensen.
W i 1 h el m usKeekman, Catharina Lanoy.
Philippus Dayley, Ame- rentia Hassing.
Johannes Van Imburg & Ab. Keteltas, Cathari- na Van Kortlant, Wed; van Vredrik Flipse.
YedeMyer, Catharina Van Rollegom, Wed.
Bamardus Smith, Antje Smith, h. v. van Justes Bosch.
Thomas Sikkels, Jannetje Sikkels.
Leonard Leuwes, Eliza- beth Hertenberg, s. h. vrou.
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Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York.
[Jan.,
A6 1707.
dito 24. dito 27.
dito 31.
Septemb. 5.
dito 7.
dito 14.
dito 2i. dito 24.
[309] Septemb:
OUDERS. KINDERS.
Olphcrt Sjoerts, Hil- Cornelus.
legont Luykas. A am out Hendriks, Gerrethol-
Geertje Klaase. lart.
Pieter de Mill, Maria Maria.
Van der He til. Jacob Arentse Ske- Arent.
rendregt, Maria
Hoist. Johannes Vreden- Annatje.
burg, Janna de La-
montangne. Philippus D a y 1 e v. Joris.
Cornelia A'an G ei- der. Anthony Kaar, Anne- Elizabeth.
Ije Huyke. Johannes ten Yk, Herculus.
V.*, '•; V"Z \ a
Pieter Wesselse, An- Pieter.
tje Oosterhave.
Cornelus Aarlant, Eli- Cornelus.
zabeth Woedert. Elans Kierstede,Dina Adriaan.
Van Schaik.
Johannes Turk, An- Aaltje. '
netje Corneles. Hendrikus My er, Maria.
Wyntje Rhee. Johannes Van de Albartus.
Water, Baafje
Sippe. Abraham Wendel, Helena.
Catharina de Kav.
Pieter Paret, Maria Pieter. Bryan.
Adriaan Man, Hester Xicolaas.
Bording. Hendrik Brevoort, Abraham.
Jaquemyntje Poke.
24. Elbert Aartse, Johan- Maritje.
11a ten Yk. Jan Herres, Jannetje Maria.
Nessepat. Cosyn Andriesse, Annetje.
Margrietje Some-
rendyk.
GETUYGEN.
Steve A'an Brakele, Tryn- tje Woed.
Samuel Chahaan, Aaltje Jonkers.
Albert Klok, Tryntje Van der Heul, s. h. v.
Frans Reinderse, Eliza- beth Jans.
Fincent deLamontangne, en Ariaantje, s. h. vrou.
Jan Day ley*, Hester Rome, h. v. v. Piet: Rome.
Abraham Van Dyk, en
Elizabeth, s. h. vrou. PieterBrestede, Marritje
Aartse, Wed. Barnardus Smith, Maria
Salusbury, h. v. v. Jac.
Groen. Isaac Anderson, Antje
Waldron. Adriaan Van Schaik &
Gerret Onkelbag, Neel-
tje Van Schaik. Pouwelus Turk. Aaltje
Corneles. • Dirk Rhee, Elsje Sanders,
s. h. vrou. Will em Bennet, Pieter-
nella Kloppers.
Pieter A'an Brug,. Efrom
Wendel. Helena de
Kay, Wed. B a r t h o 1 o m e u L e f o r d,
Maffdalena Paret, s. h.
vrou. Nicolaa Davie v, Annatje
de Mill. Jan Brevoort. Tanneke
Van Driesse, h. v. van
Abraham Boke. Coenraat ten Yk, Zenr,
Marretje Aartse. Gerret Burger, en Saartje,
s. h. vrou. Theunis Somerendyk, An- tje, s. h. vrow.
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37
A° 1707. dito 2S.
Ocktob: 1. dito 5. dito 8.
dito 12. dito 15.
OUDERS. KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
Abraham Pro v 00 st, Hendrik. Samuel Staats, Marretje
Jannetje Myer. Van der Heul.
Rip V a !i D a m, Catharina. Johannes Myer, Maria
Saratje Van der
Spiegel. Lammert Van Dyk, Dirk.
Marretje Hooglant. Johannes I, a n g e- G eertriiy.
straat, Antje Pels. Johannes Boke, Mar- Tanneke.
retje de Langet,
Barent Van Kleek, Baltus. Antenetto Palme- tier.
Richard Stout, Eva Willem. Tri-ex.
Bradeth.
Adriaan Hooglant, Eliza- beth Hooglant, Wed.
Cornel us Langestraat, Teuntje Tibout.
Frans Langet, Tanneke Van Driese, h. v. van Alb. Boke.
Baltus Van Kleek, Tryn- tje, s. h. vrou.
Cornells Smits, van Al- bany, Susanna Tri-ex.
Barnardiis Smith, An- Barnardus. Willem Roseboom, Anne-
natje Colevelt.
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Josua. |
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dito 19. |
Adriaan Appel, Maria Ten Yk. |
Helena. |
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dito 22. |
Dirk de Groof, Ari- aantje Kierstede. |
Jacobus. |
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Jacob Blorn, Mayke |
Petrus. |
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dito 26. |
Jan Van Hoorn, Mag- dalena Karstens. |
Karste. |
Jacobus Cosyn, Aefje Gerret. Aemek. dito 29. Johannis Marlings, Aaltje.
Rebekka Van Amen. Jacobus Mol, Lidia Catharina. Wen ham.
Pieter Kouwenhove, Sara. Wvntje ten Yk.
tje Oosterliave.
W il 1 e m B o g e r t, Maria Quik.
Willem Appel, Helena, s. h. vrou.
Gerret Schuyler, Eliza- beth Kierstede.
Barent Bos, Aeltje Blom.
M anus Burger, S tyntj e
Joris, h. v. van Davidt
Cosaar. Theunis Ammek, Beiitje,
s: h: vrou. Hendrik Marlings, Tryn-
tje Van Alen.
Albartus Coenradus Bosch, Catharina Phi- lips, Wede.
Coenraat ten Yk, Eliza- beth Mezier.
Novemb: 2. Hendrik Dekker, An- Margrietje. Carste Lierse, Anaantje
dito
Waarner. Andries Marschalk, Geer- tje Eierse.
12.
[310;
tje Quik.
Theunis Quik, Vrou- Petrus. tje Herring.
Robbert Bossie, Helena. ) £ Thomas Huik, en Hele- Catharina Van :• I na, s: h: vrou, Jan Ek
Aren. Maria. ) J keson, en Maria, s. h.
vrou.
Novemb. 16. Michiel Stevens, Rev- Johannes. Abraham Mol, Ariaantje ertje Mol. Bais.
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Records of the Refcrmed Dutch Church. in New Y
[Jan.,
dito 19.
dito 23. dito 26.
dito 30.
Decern!}. 6. dito 10.
dito 14.
dito 17.
dito 14.
dito 25. dito 28.
A0 1708. January 1.
OUDERS. K1NDERS.
Davidt Janse, Antje Magdalena.
Croesvelt. Charles Cromlyn, Daniel.
Anna Singelar. Johannes Wanshaar, Johannes.
Susanna Nys. Johannes B u r g e r, Engetje.
Helena Turk. Jan Kruger, Maria Hencrik.
Kuyler.
Gerret de Graw, Do- Annatje.
rathe Hyer, Willem Hyer, Catha- Jacobus.
rina Mol. W o 1 f e r t W e b b e r, Joh an n e s .
Grietje Stille. John Pamerton, Su- Johannes.
sanna uc Feiiw. John Fine v, Sara Barendina.
Hartenberg. Andries Abramse, Ja- Andreas.
qu e in yn tj e W a n 5 -
haar. John Finey, Sara Har- Jacob.
ten berg. John Finey, Sara Har- Maria.
tenberg. Willem Elzewartb, Johannes.
Pieternelle -
Romrae. Pieter Mangelse, Jan- Margrietje.
netje Duschaen. Anthony de Mill, Ma- Isaac.
rytje Provoost. Johannes Myer, Sara- Andries.
tje de Freest. Claas Eogert, Grietje Cornelia.
Concelje. Johannes Provoost, Johannes.
Sara Bayley. Ruthgert YValdron, Richard.
Debora Pell.
Isaac Garnyce, Eli- Jacobus.
zabeth Dublett John Jones, Annetje Symon. Jones.
GETUYGEN.
Johannis Low, Elizabeth
Lynse. Daniel Kromlyn, Maria
Singelar, Weds. Andries Abranise, Jaque-
myntje, s. h. vrou. Cornelui Turk, Ante
Burgers. Johannis Van Giese &
Meindert Schuyler, Ra- chel Kiiylers, h. v. van
Meinder Schuyler. Isaac Kip, Annatje de
Mill. Abraham Mol, Reyertje
Stevens. Cornelus Stille, Jannetje
Stille, Jonge dr. KendrikBrevoort, Catha-
rina Kavelier. Johannes Hartenberg,
Barendina Hartenberg.
Isaac Kip, Try n tje,
Van der Heul, h. v. v.
Albert Klok. Leonard Leu wis Sz Petriis
Kip, Francina Tays. Leonard Leuwis 5c Petrus
Kip Cornelia Walcrom. Cornelus Romme, Mary-
tje Davids.
Mangel Janse, Antje s.
huys vrou. Willem Provoost. Catha-
rina Provoost, Wed. Jan Van Hoorn, Eliza- beth ce Foreest. Elbert Harmese, Catha-
rina Bogert, s. h. v. Pieter Roos, Ammerencia
Proost. Albartus Coenradus
Bosch, Elizabeth Mon-
tanje.
John Tavoo, Hester Foley.
Ruthgert Waldron, Johan- nes Van Giese, Hester Charleton.
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39
A* 1708. OUDERS. KINDERS.
[311] Daniel in de Voor, Jacobus.
January. 4. Engeltje Cornelus. Rachel.
dito 7.
dito 11.
dito 14. dito 18.
dito 2i,
dito 25.
dito 2$.
February 1.
dito 8.
Adolph de Grooff, Rachel Rachel Goderus.
Cornelus Post, Cat- Elyas.
lyntje Potman. Jan Eckeson, Maria Thomas.
Van Aarnera. Hendrikus Van der Davidt.
Spiegel, Anneke
Provoost. Jacob Sammon, Cai- Aegje.
lyntje Bensen. Genet Van Hoorn, Margreta,
Elsje Provoost. Mjchiel Janse, Maria Elizabeth.
Stevens.
Gerret Dusjaen, Eli- Gerret.
zabeth Lamoreux. Cor1. Abraha m d e Piere Guille
Peister, Catharina jaume.
de Peister.
Isaac de Riemer,AaI-
tje Wessels. Wiiiem S j e k k erl y,
Debora Van Dyk,
A n t h o n y B y v a n k, Theuntje Laning.
Burger Manus, Geer- tru\r Korse.
Johannes Low, Engel- tje Brestede.
Pieter Burgers, Catha- rina Henjon.
Jacobus Goelet, Jan- netje Cosaar.
Philip Boyls, Cathari- na Van Giinst.
Alexander Hooms, Janneke de Graw.
Willem Van de Water, Aegje R-ingo.
Char el Sjarmo, Eliza- beth HuVbertz.
Isaac.
Willem.
Anneke.
Manus.
Engeltje.
Pieter.
Philippus.
Philippus. Alekzander.
Albartus. Jan.
GETUYGC^.
Elbert Harmese, Cathari- na Boogert, s. h. v. Jo- hannes Boogert, Claas- je Van Schaik, s. h. v.
Dirk de Grooff, Aefje de Grooff, h. v. van Gert. Schuyler.
Casparus Blank, Cathari- na Ruthgers.
Gerret Viele, Jannetje Eekeson.
Davidt Provoost, Zenior, Antje Stoutenburg.
Johannes Tho m as s e, Grietje Brevoort.
Davidt Provoost, Zenior, Vrouwtje Zantvoort.
Abraham Aalsteyn, Catharina Stevens, h. v. v. Luyk Stevens.
Daniel Sjandyn, Cathari- na, s. h. vrou. - Piere de Peyster, Isaac de Peister, Adriana de Peister, Catharina de Peister.
Pieter Sonnemans, Catha- lina Staats.
Louwerens Van Hook, Debora Anderson.
Benjamin Eldes, Aaltje Schars, s. h. vrou.
Johannes Burger, Mar- greta Smith.
Andries Brestede, Anne- tje, s. h. vroii.
Jan Herres, Maritje Hen- jon, Wed.
Cornelus Klopper, Xeel- tje Jacobz, H: V: van Evert van Hoek.
Corneli Coljer, Maritje Coljer.
Leendert d e G r a \v & Theunis Quik, Gerretje de Graw.
Johannes van de Water, Jannetje Ringo.
Fransoa Ravo, Susanna Colje.
4<D Records of the First and Second Presbyterian Churches. [Jan.>
RECORDS OF THE FIRST AND SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHES OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.— Marriages.
i 7~6 to .
(Continued from Vol. XV., p. 136, of The Record.) 1809.
July 7. Caleb Wiley to Mary Coleman.
July 17. John Bartlit to Mary Bannerman.
July 20. Nathanael Oakley to Catharine Chapel.
July 24. Stephen Bates to Gitty Colles.
July 25. Thomas Thompson to Betsy Lackey.
Aug1 ic. Lewis A. Pickhard to Eliza Kip.
Aug* 22. Duncan McKeichner to Margaret King.
Aug1 30. Archibald McVickar to Catharine Augusta Livingston. (39)
Septr 3. William W. Groesbeck to Elizabeth Cooper Hageman.
Sept* 4. John Malatnby to Maria Mitraux.
OcF 28. Daniel Sickels to Sarah Hunt.
Nov1 1. Joshua Porter to .Mary Ann Wood.
Nov* 16. Williams Allison to Abigail Smith Gilmour.
Decr 14. Francis Sexton to Sarah Mills Ross.
Dec1 19. vviuiani u. Ixuicliings to Ann Styraets.
1810.
Jany " 3. William W. Williamson to Eliza Van Home.
Jany iS. G. Morgan to Elizabeth McCready.
Feb7 3. Henry Ackerman to Catharine Bogart,
Feby iS. James Montgomery to Rebecca Robb.
F*eby 21. Ebenezer Reed to Isabella Pringle.
March 17. Henry Welch to Margaretta McKay. (40)
March 24. Robert Meek to M aria Moore.
March rS. Anthony John Charles Girard to Ann Ivers.
April 5. Hem an Emmons to Ann Aim.
April 5. Thaddeus Goodyear to Elizabeth Van Ranst.
April 7. John W. Tillman to Eliza Conkiin.
April 12. John Mitchell to Mary Freeman (people of colour).
April 28. Samuel Riker, Junr. to Margaret E. Montgomery.
April 28. Edward Chard to Margaret Armstrong.
May 7. John Bowley to Sarah Tichenor (widow Dickinson).
May 12. William Coihoun to Rebecca Keys.
June 9. Tames Ratchford to Ellen Jones.
June 15. Christopher Sammis to Mehitabel Seymour.
June 20. James Baldwin to Sarah Swan.
June 23. Solomon D. Gibson to Ann Martin. (41)
June 27. John Ccdet to Phebe Leonard.
June 30. John Sutherland to Jane Jones.
Septr 15. Thomas Davidson to Eliza Bowers.
Novr 7. Nathaniel Weed to Hannah Smith.
Novr 10. Jacob Lienburgh to Amy Golding.
Nov1 1 7. Hugh Atkins to Elizabeth Mone.
Nov* 22. George W. DeWitt to Sophia M. Howlett.
Nov7 24. John Dunscomb to Euphemia Tofts. (42)
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Fassouer, or Fassaur, Family Record.
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Nov' 24. Walter VanVechten to Mary Hunt.
Nov1 25. Robert Sales to Mary Briggs (people of colour).
Dec' 15. George Bowen to Harriet Seymour (widow Bloodgood).
Dec' 16. Abraham Dickson to Rosetta Johnson (people of colour).
J)ecr 22. William Bistos to Rachel Blizzard.
Decr 24. Benjamin Dibbs to Sarah Griffin. _ _
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Robert Patten to Tace W. Bradford (widow Dickson).
Nathaniel Tylee to Hannah Ann McFarlane.
Isaac Stymes to Angelina Carlton.
Isaac Thomas Heartte to Mary E. Ozeas (widow Dick).
William Given to Phebe Stibbs.
Benjamin Ledyard to Susan F. Livingston.
Maltby Gelston to Mary Jones.
Paul Burrows to Mary Ann Nichols.
Joseph Dodd to Margaret Dougherty.
Ivory White to Elizabeth Van Brunt.
William Young to Mary Britton (widow Nestor).
Philip Schuyler to Grace Hunter.
(To be continued.)
(43)
FASSOUER, OR FASSAUR, FAMILY RECORD.
Communicated by Charles W. Baird.
I am permitted to transcribe for The Record, the marriage certificate of Henry Fassouer, together with some family records in the possession of one of his descendants. By " MorghburglV Fassouers birthplace, it is possible that Marburg, in Hesse-Cassel, may have been intended.
Charles W. Baird. Rye, N. Y.
L. B. S. !
These are to certify, that Mr. Henry Fassouer, Musician in His Ma- jesty's own, or, 4th Regiment, and Miss Elizabeth Lceweisen have on the 4th Day of September, annoque Domini 1778, been lawfully joined to- gether in the Holy [Bo]nds of Matrimony by me the Subscriber. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal — New York Septr. 9th-a-r-s. 1778.
Bernard Michael Houseal [seal].
Witnesses : Mr. Christian Lceweisen and Mistrs. Margareth Lceweisen. Mr. Bogen, Surgeon. Sophia Mayer. Mrs. Houseal. Miss Amalia ■ Sibylla
- — Peggy
Minister of the Antient LutMeran] Trinity Church in the City of New York and, by Royal Charter, one of the Governors of King's College in the said City.
a 2 Fassouer, or Fassaur y Family Record. [J^n-?
New York, den .23. decem[berj War ge Boren Johan Henrich Au [ ] den kriizstag [?] des Ab-
bend urn 8 [ ] und den .6. January gedauf
New York, July den .25. 1783 [I]st Joh?n Henrich gestorben. Und Bekraben \begraberi\ den. 26. July 1st alt worden ein Jahr .5. Monat und .9. daye
New York den . 1. January 1 7 S [4] War gebohren Henrich Mardin [?] In der Ncu Jahrs Nacht Urn .11. uhr und gedauft Feberwa [ J den .20. 1784
New York April the 3 1785 | Anno 1755 Henry Fassaur Born in Morghburgh [ ] old
New York May the 12 1785 Anno 1758 Elizabeth Fassaur Born New York 27 years old
New York September the 5 [ ] [W]as Born Margaret on an Sunday between 7 and S [o'cjlock in the morning September the 26 Chrisned
New York December th 23 1782 [Wa]s Born Henry on Crismas Day in the evineng 6 o'clock and the 6 of January Chrisned.
July the 25 1783 T
rrviVM jjo-nw onrl Buried the ?6 July p^ed one vears [ ] Months & 9 Days.
Was Born Hen[ ] o Clock
and Ch[ristened] February the 20 1784
September the 10 Dyed Henry Martin and Buried the 11 of Septem- ber 1784 aged 8 Monthes 10 Days
New York july the 30 1785
Was Born Laurance at 10 o clock in the morning and Chrisned the 21 of August 1785
New York September the 25 17S8
Was Born Michael & Polly t weens between 12 & one o Clock and Chrisned the 19 of October 17S8
New York October the 6 1792
Was born Catherine Fassaur Between 4 & 5 in the afternoon and Chrisned the 2 of November 1792
September the n 1792 Died Catherine & buried the twelve of Sep- tember 1793 aged 11 months and live days
New York April the 20 179I4]
Was Born SoFiah Fassaur between 3 d* 4 o Clock in the morning and chrisned the 11 of May 1794
New York January 2nd 1796 Dyed Sofiah Fassaur Aged one year and Eight Months 24 Days & Buried 3 of January 1796
New York June the 17 1797 Was born Catherine Fassaur* between three and four o Clock in the afternoon
Died Laurence Fassaur the second of July in the Year of our Lord 1 797 aged 11 years and 11 months and twenty nine days
New York February the 16 179S Died Henry Fassaur aged 42 years 3 months and 3 days
* Catharine Fassaur, widow of George Barry, died at Rye Neck, in the town of Rye, Westchester Co., N. V., June 15, 1884, aged eighty-six years, eleven months, and twenty-nine days. — C. \V. B.
SS5-] Notes and Queries. a 3
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Annual Meeting of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society for 1SS5. — The Annual Meeting of the Society was held on Friday evening, January 9, 1SS5, at 64 Madison Avenue. An interesting paper was read, entitled, "A Consideration of the Acadian Expulsion," by Mr. Philip 11. Smith ; at the conclusion of which brief addresses were made by Edward F. De Lancey and Rev. Dr. Hague, in moving and seconding a vote of thanks to the author of the paper. At the annual elec- tion, the following were elected trustees of the Society for the term expiring, iSSS : Samuel S. Purple, Edward F. De Lancey, and General James Crant Wilson. Subse- quently, at a meeting of the trustees, the following officers were elected for 1SS5 : Presi' dent, Henry F. Drowne ; First Vice-Prseident, Ellsworth Eliot ; Second Vice-President, General James Grant Wilson; Corresponding Secretary, Henry R. Stiles; Recording Secretary, Oliver E. Coles ; Librarian, Samuel Burhans, Jr. ; Treasurer, George H. Butler ; Executive Committee, Ellsworth Eliot, Gerret II. Van Wagenen, Frederick D. Thompson, and Thomas G. Evans ; Committee on Biographical Bibliography, Charles B. Moore and Thomas H. Edsall ; Registrar of Pedigrees, Joseph O. Brown ; Com- mittee on Publication, Samuel S. Purple, Charles B. Moore, John J. Latting, General James Grant Wilson, and Henry R. Stiles.
The Annual Address before the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society will be delivered in the Hall of the Academy of Medicine, 12 West Thirty-first Street, on Friday evening February 27tn. -,f <-:gV o'clock, by General James Grant Wilson, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society. Subject: "Colonel John Bayard, of Bo- hemia Manor (1738-1807), and other Prominent Members of the Bayard Family."
Bogert Family. — Peter Bogert, born about 1775, married his cousin Anne, dau. of David and Elizabeth (Schurman) Nevins; was, prior to 1832, janitor of the College of New Jersey, -Princeton. John Gilbert Bogert, his brother, b. Jan. 21, 1778, was of New York City, and married, 1799, Sarah, dau. of John and Lydia Vanderhoof, of New York, and secondly, in 1803, Jane, dau. of Morris and Elizabeth (Terhune) Earle, of Hackensack. The parentage and ancestry of these brothers is wanted. It is supposed their father's name was Peter, and that they had an uncle, Dr. Jacob Bogert. or Bogart, of Hillsborough, Somerset County, N. J. I. J. greenwood, n. Y.
Carpenter. — Thomas Carpenter, an officer in DeLancey's Third Battalion, was married Aug. 20, 17S1, at St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., to Lucretia Quintard, late of Connecticut, now of Suffolk County. At the peace he went to St. John's, N. B., was one of the grantees of that city, and received half-pay.
Thomas Carpenter, born 1 757, wife Edith Bunce ; he was a prominent member of the old John Street M. E. Church; Alderman of Second Ward, New York City ; Assembly- man, etc. He died 1825, and was at that time Warden of the Port.
Can any of the readers of the Record give me information respecting the descendants of the above ? daniel h. carpenter.
70 Clarkson Street, New York.
Fitch— Rogers. — In the valuable article on the " Rogers Lineage" (Record, vol. xv., p. 150), it is stated that " Samuel Rogers m. about 1748, Elizabeth Fitch, b. about 1724, dau. of Governor Thomas Fitch." Is not this an error ?
I have before rne, through the kindness of Hon. John Fitch, of New York fa descend- ant of the Governor), a letter to him from Samuel Rowland, Esq., of New Haven, dated March 10, 1873, in which the writer, after stating that he is a son of Samuel Rowland and of Sarah (dau. of Captain John Maltbic, U.S.N.), his wife, says that Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Governor Fitch and wife of Andrew Rowland, of Fair- field, was his grandmother, that she was born in 1738, and died at Fairfield, March 29, 1S25, aged eighty-seven, leaving children Samuel (father of the writer), b. 1769, d. 1837, Thomas Fir.ch, b. 1774, d. 1S46, and Elizabeth, b. 1778, m. Gershun Sturges, and d. 1864. The whole letter shows a thorough acquaintance with the subject and Mr. Rowland was then engaged in making up a genealogy of the family of his great uncle Colonel Thomas Fitch.
Besides, in Hall's "Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk," p. 207, it is set forth that Governor Thomas Fitch m. Plannah, dau. of Mr. Richard Hall, of New Haven,
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Sept. 4, 1724, that his son Thomas was b. Aug. 12, 1725, and then a list is given of his chiMren down to 1733, and the name of Elizabeth does not appear.
Elizabeth Fitch was only ten years of age in 1748, the date of her supposed marriage with Samuel Rogers. J. o. B.
Jones, cf the Priory, Reigate, Surrey, Eng. — Are any descendants of Richard Ireland Jones and Alfred, his brother, still living in America ? The latter was at Queens- town, Md., in [826, and, ic is believed, the former married and left four children. The undersigned needs the information to complete a pedigree of the family.
REV. \V. J. WEBBER JONES.
Albury, Ware, Herts, England.
New Jersey Historical Society. — The Fortieth Annual Meeting of the New- Jersey Historical Society was held at Trenton, on January 15th, last. The Rev. Dr. Hamill, the President, stated that of those who aided in framing the Constitution, Feb- ruary 27, 1S4.5, only two survived — the Hon. foseph P. Bradley, of the United States Supreme Court, and the Hon. Courtlandt Parker, of Newark. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President — Rev. Dr. S. M. Hamill, Lawrenceville; Vice-Presidents — John T. Nixon, John Clement, S. II . Pennington; Corresponding Secretary — Dr. Stephen Wickes, Orange ; Recording Secretary — William Nelson, Fat- erson ; Treasurer and Librarian — F. W. Ricord, Newark ; Executive Committee — George A. Halsey, Newark ; Rev. Dr. George S. Mott, Fiemington ; ex-Governor Joel Parker, Freehold; Joseph N. Tuttle, Newark; John F. Hageman, Princeton; David A. Depue, Newark; ex-Speaker Nathaniel Niies, Madison; John I. Blair, Belvidere ; Gen. William S. Striker, Trenton; Committee on Colonial -^Documents — ex-Speaker NiTes, ex-Governor Joel Parker, ex-Mayor Garret D. W. Vroom, and William Nelson. This Committee has charge of the publication of the New Jersey Archives, eight volumes of which have been issued so far, under authority of the State. The importance of gene- alogy as a branch of historical inquiry was recognized by the appointment, on motion of Mr. Nelson, o( a Standing Committee on Genealogy, as follows: Hon. John Clement, of Haddonheld ; Gen. W. S. Stryker, Trenton ; Edwin Salter, Freehold ; Rev. Dr. George S. Mott, Fiemington ; Edmund D. Halsey, Morristown ; Elias N. Miller, New- ark ; Hon. Charles H. Winfield, Jersey City. An able and deeply interesting address was delivered by Gen. H. B. Carrington, U.S.A., retired, of Boston, on "The Strateg- ical Relations of New Jersey to the War for American Independence." The next meet- ing of the Society, in May, is to be devoted chiefly to a memorial of the late William A. Whitehead, for forty years the Corresponding Secretary of the Society. The Rev. Dr. S. I. Prime is to deliver the address. W. N.
Ogilyie. — Can any of the readers of the Record give me information concerning the parentage or pedigree of Dr. John Ogilvie, Assistant to the Rector of Trinity Church, who died in 1774. Bolton is astray in the matter. j. Archibald Murray.
35 Wall Street, New York.
Spratt Family of New York (Record, vi., 21).— James Alexander noted the births of the children of John Spratt as follows, viz.: Cornelia, born July 16, 16SS ; John, born February 1, 16S9-1690 ; Mary (his wife), born April 17, 16*93.
W. KELBY.
[The dates of the births of the children of John Spratt, of Wigton, in Galloway, and Maria de peyster, of Neiw yorke, have already appeared in the Record, vol. ix. , p. 125, and vol. xii., p. 174, where will be found the Spratt family records as copied from the Spratt family Bible!— S. S. P.]
Willis Family of Long Island. — Some additions to this genealogy, published in the Record for October, 1SS4, p. 176, are herewith gleaned from that model work, " Sketches of the First Emigrant Settlers in Newton Township, West New Jersey," by Judge Clement, of the New Jersev Court of Errors and Appeals. Published in Camden, N. J., 1877.
173. Abraham Albertson, m. Sarah Dennis. " He died in 1739, leaving the fol- lowing named family : Isaac; Jacob, who married Patience Chew ; Abraham, D. S. P.; Ephraim, who m. Keziah Chew ; Joseph, m. Rose Hampton ; Aaron, m. Elizabeth Al- bertson; Levi, m. K'esiah Roberts; Jonathan; Rebecca, m. ; Beverly, and < ,
who m. Richard Chew " (Id., p. 106).
174. William Albertson, in. Jane Turner, and had several children. Judge Cle- ment says she was the third wife of Samuel Nicholson, d. 1702. She "was somewhat
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remarkable in her marriage relations, having had four husbands, and, probably, dying a widow. The husbands were John Turner, William Albertson, Samuel Nicholson, and Thomas Middleton." She was a daughter of John Engle (pp. 221, 3^2. i( |
i~~ Esth v. m. William Bates, and had several children. ;> William
Bate? married an.! had tl ren — two of whom died in infancy — lea.
daughter, Mary, who married William lurry, of Philadelphia. Her father died 174S" (Id., 52.).
Abraham Willis, son of John Willis, was baptized in the Dutch Church, at Acquack- f r.nonck, about 1762 (I have not the re '..and just now). Was this family con-
nected with that on Long Island? Al im Willis was a surveyor and sch '.teacher in and about Paterson for many years, and until his death in 1S10. WM. nelson.
Pater son, A. J., January 6, 1885.
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Genealogy of the Van Wagenen Family, from 1650 to 18S4. Part First. Con- taining the first three generations of the family complete, and then following down the descendants of Aart Van W: . ._:., the grai - n of the first ;e ler of the name in America. By Gerrit Hubert Van Wagenex, of Rye, Westcl County, N. Y. Printed for private distribution. 1SS4, Svo, pp. 69.
Aert. or Aart Tacobsen, of Waeeningen, a town near the Rhine, in Guelderland,
came with his wife, Annetje Gerr::-, an ssibiy one or more ii .... to New Amster- dam about the year 1650, and appar< '; ettle " first in Rensselaerwick W am \ and subsequently removed to Wiitwyck (Kingston), Ulster County. His descendant of the eighth generation, the author of this compilation, has, after many years of stud - research, and apparently with great care as to authenticity and a::.. I statements, issued I is
first instalment of a work designed to be a complete gene il ; ' f :>ne of tl e :
distinctive Dutcl fa ilies of this State. Part Second will contain the genealogy of that branch of the family i '. settled in Duchess County; and Part Third, of the des endants of Jacob Aartsen. the eldest son of the immigrant, who settled at Wagendaal, near Kingston, in Ulster County. Two indices — one of the Van Wagenen baptismal, or Christian names (by mistake called surnames), and one of other family surnames — ac- company the volume. The work is well arranged for easy reference, and handsomely printed in clear, large type. L.
A Genealogical Memoir of the Lo-Lathrop Family, in this Country. Embn
the Descei lants, as far as known, of the Rev. John Lothropp, of Scituate and Barnstable, Mass., and Mark Lothrop, of Salem and Eridgewater, Mass. And the First Generation of Descendants of other Names. By the Rev. E. E. Hunt- ington, A.M. Mrs. Julia M. Huntington, Ridgefield, Conn. 1S84. Svo. pp. 457. Fourteen Portraits, and View of Lowthorpe Parish Church.
The first favorable impression of this handsome volume is not wholly confirmed by a closer aeqi tintai . with its contents. It by no means fairly re] resents the family v records it perpetuates, a family which has been prominent among the best of New England families, from the beginning even unto the present. It is well done " as far as i; goes.-' Its fault is that it does not go far enough. Many of its most prominent members . mention beyond record of birth and death ; and. in regard to others, many extremely in- teresting and well-known facts are omitted. This could not have been from want of ma- terial. We should consider the hibtory of the Lathrop (Lothrop) family as one of the easiest to compile. Its early members are larg< - ' in Baylis' New Plymouth,
Morton's Memorial, Thatcher's Plymouth, Neal's Puritans, Freeman's Cape Cod. Otis, of Yarmouth, compiled a very complete genealogy of the Barnstable branch, and an al- most exhaustive history of the pioneer an: his surroundings, - hich latter were published in N. E. Genealogical Register. An excellent g c ai tree was arranged by J
Lathrop in 1S67. Miss Caulkins' historic- of Norv 1 ai New London, Conn., deal ex- tensively with tl e fami y, as do several other acce i be local histories. Chancellor Wal- worth, in the Hyde Genealogy, and even Mr. Huntington himself, in the genealogy of his own family, go over a par; of the gi und ; while the family themselves have generally kept pretty full records.
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With the wealth of existing material, it seems a pity to have to notice these "sins of omission." It is due, undoubtedly, to the author's death, leaving his work unfinished ; and its (evidently hurried) completion by some other hand, less infused with the spirit of the work; and less acquainted, we should judge, with the characteristics of the family. The s characteristics— if we have read New England history aright— were self-respect, strong independence of character, judicial and business ability, and a (comparative) dis- regard for mere money-making. It is a family winch has had its full share of godly ministers, rather more than its share of judges, and a large proportion of soldiers. It is in view of the right of such a family to a full and fair representation, that we venture to complain that many of its most worthy members ^re ki conspicuous only by their ab- sence," in these pages.
The reader will allow us, perhaps, to call attention to some of these neglected points, (i) Joseph Lothrop, 8, p. 40, was first Register of Probate of Barnstable County, 16S6 ; and one of the same family, Freeman Hinckley Lothrop, now occupies the same olhce in that County — about two hundred years later. (2) Barnabas, 10, p. 41, was also Coun- sellor under Sir Edmund Andros, 16^6. See, also, mention in Judge Sewall's Diary, and other sources. (3) In Barnstable, Cape Cod, the family was from the first allied by in- termarriage with Governor Hinckley's family. (4) At 'Plymouth the three Isaacs (viz., 80, p. 55; 1S6. p. 71 ; 394.. p. 103; are all too interesting to be so slenderly noticed. (5) Rev. John, of Boston, p. So, a prominent and talented man, pastor of the Old South Church, is here hardly mentioned. From the few following items, given below, it will be seen how he has been defrauded of Ids due proportions in this genealogy, of which, by right, he is a most conspicuous figure. He was John, a great grandson of Rev. John, graduate of Princeton, N. J. ; Assistant of President Wheelock, in Indian School at Lebanon ; a prominent member of the corporation of Harvard University, from 177S to -1""--, • ; ... jf .'. _ Zzcond" Church in 1706, and when it was burned by the British, of the old North Church (Mather's Church). His wife was the granddaughter of the Elizabeth Rolfe who was hidden under a wash tub when her father was killed by -Indians on the attack upon Haverhill, in 170S. John Lathrop Motley was his grandson. Several of hi; sermons have been published. A Boston ballad, written in 1774, alluding to his sermon on the massacre on March 5, 1770, says: " Lathrop so clever, old North forever,
How pleasing both the sounds ;
Texts he explains in sober strains,
Confined to sober bounds.
But when he treats of bloody streets,
And massacres so dire,
When chous'd of rights by sinful wights,
How dreadful is his ire." Another ballad on the Boston minister, about 1774, says:
"And John, old North, though little worth,
Won't sacrifice to gold." — New England Genealogical Register.
Oliver Wendell Holmes (himself a descendant of the first Rev. John Lothrop) men- tions Rev. John, of Boston, in memoir of Motley.
In " The Massachusetts Historical Collections." Vol. 1 of 2d series, is a biographical memoir of the Pioneer, John Lothrop. by Rev. John, of Boston ; addressed to Rev. Abiel Holmes, D.D. (father of Oliver Wendell), and mentioning the fact of his being Holmes1 great -great-grandfather.
In Mrs. Caulkins' "History of Norwich," from which he freely borrows, he omits, among much else, that the Lathrops were of the first mill owners and manufacturers. "Lothrop Mills" was a local name near Norwich. Besides grist and other mills, Simon and Elijah had linseed-oil and chocolate mills in 177S. In 1790 Joshua established the first cotton mill. Elijah and lus celebrated son-in-law, Nathaniel Niles (inventor, poet, and minister, etc.), had iron wire and wool card factories. Niles was inventor of a process for making wire out of bar iron by wr.ter-power. here first practised.
Dr. Daniel Lathrop left ^500. in 1782, to establish a free Grammar School in Nor- wich. It existed for fifty years, and as the Lathrop School enjoyed considerable repu- tation.
The Lathrops of Norwich were among the earliest of the " Connecticut settlers *' in Pennsylvania. l< Azariah was a large proprietor in Huntington township in first ' Dela- ware purchase.' Zachariah surveyed Warwick township in Pennsylvania, 1773 ; others settled on the Rugiy and Wyalusing."
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In Susquehanna County they were among the earliest pioneers, 1799, an^ became noted citizens. A township, town, and lake still bear the name of Lathrop, and the descendants are prominent people. (Sec Miss Blakeman's " History of Susquehanna County.")
Mr. Huntington failed to see, as it seems to us, that the Rev. John, the American ancestor, was a "Separatist" and not a "Puritan;" and that he belonged to those liberal-minded churchmen, detested by Cotton Mather, who sought refuge at Cape Cod and Plymouth, alike from his church and the Church in England, and who protected Quakers, Indians, and witches during the "persecutions." Deane (" Hist. Scituate"), speaking of his first congregation in this country, says they were " men of Kent, cele- brated in English history as men of gallantry, loyalty, and courtly manners, many of whom had been in his former church in England — Cudworth, Hinckley, Stedman, Tilden (ancestor of Governor Samuel J,), and others."
It is unfortunate that the connection, in England, between the three pioneers of the family, Rev. John, Mark, and the gallant Captain Thomas, which was the principal object of Mr. Huntington's labors abroad, was not established by his researches.
Of course, our animadversions upon the Lo-Lathrop Genealogy do not affect the accuracy or value of whnt has been done ; they simply express our regret that more time and "loving pains" had not been given to the fuller completion of Mr. Huntington's labors. H. R. s.
OBITUARY.
Armstrong. — Henry B. Armstrong, who died November 10, 1SS4, at his residence in Red Hook, Dutchess County, N. Y., was buried from Christ Church, Red Hook, on Monday. Nov. 13th. He was the only surviving son of Genl. John Armstrong, Secretary of War under Madison, and a brother of the late Mrs. William B. Astor, and was born in New York, May 9, 1702. His early years were spent in France, where his father was American Minister to the Court of Napoleon I. He was educated at a French military school, where, he told the writer, he went bareheaded for years — hats of all kinds being considered effeminate — and frequently saw the Emperor Napoleon. In 1810 he returned to the United States, and, on the breaking out of the war with Great Britain, entered the army as Captain of the Thirteenth Regiment of United States Infantry. lie served through the war with gallantry and distinction, having been severely wounded at the as- sault upon Queenstown Heights, and having shared in the capture of Fort George, the battle of Stony Creek, and the sortie from Fort Erie. At the close of the war— in 1S15 — he retired from the army as Lieutenant-Colonel of the First Regiment of Rifles. For nearly seventy years Colonel Armstrong lived the retired life of a country gentleman on his estate in Dutchess County, inherited from his father, where his warm heart and genial disposition made him universally beloved by a large family circle and troops of friends. His mind and memory were richly stored with recollections of many eminent men, whom he had met in the course of his long life of ninety-three years. J. G. w.
Bechthold. — Arend Hendrik Bechthold, Pastor of the Holland Reformed Church of this city, died at his residence, No. 279 West Eleventh Street, on Saturday, Novem- ber 17, 1SS4. He was born in Amsterdam, Holland, April 19, 1S22, and was the young- est of a family of twelve children. His father, Andries Bechthold, and his mother, Anne M. G. Gaatman, of Amsterdam, were pious and devoted Christians in humble but com- fortable circumstances, and reared their children wdth strict regard to a pious and Chris- tian life. When young Bechthold was in his twelfth year his father died. On December 17, 1843, m ^5 twenty-second year, he embarked from Amsterdam for Surinam, in Dutch Guiana, South America, where he was at first employed on a sugar and coffee plantation. He subsequently entered the mercantile house of Jacobus Jongeneel in the city of Par- amaribo. The sudden death of his employer, and the consequent discontinuance of the business, and his own religious convictions decided him thenceforward to devote his life to missionary work. With this view he studied all the theological works he could obtain. On January 27, 1S47, he was united in marriage with Miss Antoinette Elizabeth Cornelie Jongeneel, the daughter of his former employer. During the years 1857 and 1S5S he was superintendent of the "Suriftaamscke Mettray" a farm school for orphans in Suri- nam. His brother-in-law, the Rev. Louis George Jongeneel, being then a missionary in the Dutch Colony at the Cape of Good Hope, Mr. Bechthold was persuaded to join him
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in missionary labors, and on July 17, 1S59, he sailed from Surinam, with his wife and mother-in-law, for Boston, Mass., arriving at that place on August 7th, following, in- tending to take passage thence to the Cape. Before, however, any opportunity offered, his mother-in-law's illness and death, together with the lateness of the season, compelled him to defer his purpose till the following spring. On learning that there were several of his own countrymen in and near Boston lie sought them out, and, in the fall of 1859, commenced religious services among them, and abandoned the project of removal to South Africa. From 1859 to i860 he was constant in his missionary labors principally among the Hollanders in Boston and Roxbury. Aided and supported by the liberality of Mr. Abner Kinsman, a wealthy merchant of Boston, he secured a building in that city, and established a permanent place of worship. On December 16, 1S62, he was licensed as a Missionary by the North Suffolk Association of Massachusetts, and on February 11, 1S63, was ordained by the same in the Spring Street Congregational Church.
In December, 1S65, Mr. Bechthold had received a call from the Reformed Dutch Church in Paterson, N. J., to which place he removed, and where he remained from ■May, 1S66, to July, 1867, when he returned again to Boston, where he continued until 1870, preaching in the Lenox Street Chapel in that city. In January, 1S69, he received a call to preach to his countrymen in tins city in their native language. In the year 1866, they had organized themselves into a congregation under the. name of the Holland Re- formed Church with the Rev. Henry Uiterwyck as their pastor, having, however, no per- manent place of worship. On Mr. Bechthold's arrival, finding them lew in numbers, and very poor, he, at once, in conjunction with the more active elders and deacons, set about securing a place for their meetings. Through the favor of the Reformed Dutch Church they had been accorded the use of the Chapels of the Lafayette Place, and of the Twenty- ninth Street Churches for alternate services morning and evening. In the Chapel of the Twenty-ninth Street Church, on the morning oi Sunday, April 24, 1870, Mr. Bechthold held his first service, talcing for the text of his sermon on the occasion, the seventeenth verse of the ninth chapter of Numbers.
After six years of faithful ministry to this congregation in the Dutch language, his own persistent efforts, in conjunction with those of other members and friends of the church, resulted in raising a fund of X20,ooo, with which the house and ground No. 279 West Eleventh Street were purchased. The lower floor was fitted up as a church, while the upper part was used for trie pastor's residence. Here Mr. Bechthold assiduously and faithfully continued Iris pastoral work until the time of his death, devoting part of his time in attendance at Castle Garden on the arrival of German and Dutch immigrants, aiding them by his counsel and advice, especially succoring the sick and feeble.
On June 14th, last, his wife died after a prolonged and tedious illness of nine years, which she endured with great Christian fortitude. He lias left no iineal descendant. Funeral services were held in the church on the morning of November iSth, and his remains were interred in Greenwood.
Mr. Bechthold's acquaintance with, ana proficiency in the Holland Dutch language, induced the Publication Committee of the New York Genealogical and Biographical So- ciety to procure his aid in transcribing the Early Original Baptismal and Marriage Records of the Dutch Church for publication in the magazine issued by that society. To Ids care- ful and faithful performance of tins task the readers of the Record are indebted for the means of ready research in this invaluable mine of genealogical lore respecting the early residents of New Amsterdam. j. j. l.
Greene. — Samuel Dana Greene, a commander in the United States Navy, and a son of General George S. Greene, late President of the New York Genealogical and Biographi- cal Society, died at Portsmouth Navy Yard, December u, 1SS4. He was born Feb- ruary ii, 1S40; was educated at the Naval Academy, having been appointed from Rhode Island ; was attached to the Hartford of the East India Squadron in 1859, and commis- sioned as lieutenant in 1861. He was the executive officer of the Monitor during her famous engagement with the rebel ram Merrimac in Hampton Roads, March 9, 1862, and her commander after Captain Worden was wounded, just previous to his death, Commander] Greene completed for The Century, an account of the engagement which will appear in that magazine's series of war papers. He was buried at Bristol, R. I., where his widow and two children reside, the eldest, S. Dana Greene, a naval cadet, be- ing absent with the Mediterranean Squadron. Major Charles T. Greene, U.S.A., retired for the loss of a leg, at Ringgold, Ga., and Francis V. Greene, Captain of Engineers, are brothers of the deceased, who served his country faithfully and gallantly, afloat and ashore, 1 for nearly a quarter of a century. J./G.- vvv ., ....- -
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COLONEL JOHN BAYARD (1738-1807) AND THE BAYARD FAMILY OF AMERICA.
The Anniversary Address before the New York Genealogical
4vr> BTO^RAPHICAL SOCIETY, FEBRUARY 27, 1SS5.*
By Gen. Jas. Grant Wilson.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen : Five years ago to-night I had the honor of appearing in this place to deliver the annual address of 1880. On that occasion I selected for my subject Commodore Isaac Hull, the most skilful naval officer of either service engaged in the war of 18 12-15 between the United States and Great Britain, in response to the invitation to address you, with which I have been honored a second time, and remembering what that grim Scotchman Carlyle said to me the summer before he died, that " biography is the most universally pleasant no less than universally profitable of all reading/' I have selected for my subject this evening — which happens to be the anniversary of the birth of Longfellow — one who was a faithful asserter of his country's cause when America rose "to repel her wrongs and to claim her destinies :,? a patriot alike spotless in private and public life, and a personal friend of Franklin, Hamilton, Lafayette, and Washington. A truer servant of his country than the subject of the paper to which I invite your attention, did not live in those trying times —
" Of soul sincere. In action faithful, in honor clear."
Among the hundred thousand Huguenot fugitives driven from France by the edict of Nantes, and by the religious persecutions which preceded that barbarous Jesuit edict of October 25, 1685, were many who fled as the Pilgrims had done to Holland ; others sought refuge in the New World, and their descendants were such men as John Bayard, Elias Bou- dinot, James Bosvdoin, Peter Faneuii, and John Jay.
The annals of the American Army and Navy, of the Church and State, and of Commerce have ail in turn been illustrated by the Huguenot name
* A portion of this address was read before the New Jersey Historical Society, at Newark, May 16, 1878, and published in their volume of Proceedings for that year.
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of Bayard ; but, with a single exception, by none perhaps rendered more celebrated than by the patriotic Christian statesman, soldier, merchant, and philanthropist, Colonel Bayard, a man of singular purity of character, " personally brave, pensive, earnest, and devout," and a member of a family which has in the course of two centuries intermarried with the VVashingtons, of Virginia; the Bassetts, Carrolls, Howards, and Wirts, of Maryland ; the Kembles, Kirkpatricks, Stevenses, and Stocktons, of Xew Jersey ; the DeLanceys, Jays, Livingston?, Pintards, Schuylers, Stuyve- sants, and Van Rensselaers, of Xew Vork ; and the Bowdoins and VVin- throps, of Massachusetts. Four of the Bayards have occupied seats in the United States Senate almost continuously during the present century — a larger and longer representation than has yet been made by any other family. Several of Colonel Bayard's sons and grandsons distinguished themselves in other walks of life, and a great-grandson, General Bayard, of New Jersey, won an enviable reputation as a gallant young cavalry leader in our late war, before he fell on the disastrous field of Fredericksburg.
The same ship that brought to the Western World and landed in Xew Amsterdam, as Xew York was then called, in the month of May, 1647, the last of the Dutch governors of the New Netherlands, had also on board Stuyvesant's beautiful wife, and his stately sister Anna, widow of Samuel Bayard. This iady was accompanied by k:r daughter, Catherine, and three sons, Fetrus. Balthazar, and Nicholas. These brothers are the ancestors of the American Bayards, and from the first named is descended Colonel John Bayard, of Bohemia Manor, Maryland.
It hai been a long-cherished tradition in the family that the father of Samuel Bayard was a French Protestant divine and professor, who, with his wife, Blandina Conde, a lady of rank, fled from Paris to Holland dur- ing the religious troubles which disturbed their native land in the sixteenth century.* It has also been believed that he was a kinsman of the brilliant knight, sans pear ei sans reprcehe, who bore the name of Pierre du Terrail, Seigneur de Bayard, among the most illustrious soldiers of the armies of Fiancis the First, of France. It may be so; but my belief is that tradition is worth little, and that she is the mother of lies, genealogically speaking. While sojourning, a few summers since, at the Hague, I endeavored, with the aid of the king's librarian, to obtain seme trace of the Rev. Balthazar Bayard, and to discover the missing family link, but without success. Among the few Bayards of whom we did find information was a certain Captain Martin Bayard, of Ghent, but a native of France, who was second to no young soldier of his day in chivalric deeds of daring, With his Wal- loon troopers he thundered upon the enemy, like the brilliant chevalier, visor down and lance in rest : — :
" They quitted not their harness bright,
Neither by day, nor yet by night :
They lay down to rest,
With corselet laced, Pillowed on buckler cold and hard :
They carved at the meal
With gloves of steel, And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred."
* A sixteenth-century painting .preserved in New Vork. and believed by its possessor to be the portraits of the Rev. Balthazar Bayard and his wife, Biandina Conde, is probably a representation of the Rev. Bal- thazar Stuyvesant and his vile, Margaret Harcenstein. The clergyman is represented with a Bible and skull, his wife with look and chair, ready f jr church, and both niore resembling natives of Holland than ct France.
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It is very possible that this second Bayard* of the good city of Ghent, who disappears from history in 1576, when he was made prisoner, after slaying several of the enemy, may have been the ancestor of Samuel Bayard, who died previous to 1647, in which year, as has been already stated, his family took ship for New Amsterdam, where they arrived on the eleventh day of May.f Of Samuel Bayard, whose standing in society may be inferred from the marriage connection which he made with the sister of Director-General Stuyvesant, who married his only sister Judith Bayard, so that they were doubly brothers in-law, I was unsuccessful in obtaining any information beyond the fact that he was an opulent merchant of Amster- dam ; but of his wife we know that she was the daughter of the Rev. Bal- thazar Stuyvesant, of Friesland, by his first wife Margaret Hardenstein, that she was a person of imposing presence, highly educated, with great business capacity, and possessing a somewhat imperious temper not unlike that of her worthy brother with the wooden leg. J Madame Bayard was accompanied by a tutor who, however, soon after their arrival was dis- charged as being unfit for the position, and henceforth she herself assumed the duty of instructing her children, teaching them among other things French, English, and Dutch. Her proficiency as a preceptor is~ proved by the fact that her youngest son, NiVhV*!*?, while still a youth, was appointed to a position, the records of which were required to be kept in the Dutch and English languages. §
Petrus, the eldest son of Samuel Bayard, who was named after his uncle Stuyvesant, married, November 4, 1674, Blandina Kierstede, daughter of Dr. Hans Kierstede and Sarah Roelofs, and granddaughter of Jans Roelofs and his wife, the celebrated heiress Annake Jans. They resided on the north- east corner of Broadway and Exchange Place, jl where their children, Samuel. Petrus, and Sarah, were born, the eldest being named after his grandfather. Petrus, or Peter Bayard, in 1667 purchased land in Ulster Count}', N. V..
* In Holland the name is written Bayert and Bayeart. while it appears in ancient New York documents as Baird, Biart, Biard, and Kyard. On the title-page of a unique copy of a Journal of the [.ate Actions of the French at Canada, London, 1693. it appears as Colonel Nicholas Beyard. he and Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Lodowick being the joint authors. This interesting Bayard brochure is included in the valuable Americana of Mrs. John Carter Brown, of Providence. I have also met with the name written Beiard.
t They embarked in the Princess, accompanied by three vessels, the Great < ierrir. the Zwol. and the Raet. In the same ship was William Beekman, a' native of Statselt, in the province of'Overyssel. Holland, the progenitor of the New York family of that name. During their long and boisterous voyage some sixteen men were lost overboard.
% The exact date of Anna Bayard's birth is not known, but she was younger than her brother, immortal- ized by Irving as "'Peter the Headstrong," in Knickerbockers solemn and veracious History of New York, who was born in 1602. Madame Bayard was greatly respected by the public and well known for her many acts of charity and kindness. In 1657 she interfered in the case of the Quaker, Robert Hodgsi n, wh ■'. as un- justly and severely treated by the Governor. She was fuil cf compassion, and at her prayers and righteous indignation, Stuyvesant relented, Hodgson's (or Hodshone's, as it is written- fine was remitted., a. id he was released from prison, but he was banished from the Colony. Owing to Madame Bayard's action in this case, no Quakers were from that time forward so cruelly persecuted in the New Netherlands as He d ;- :>n had been. The original spelling of her name was Stuyfsant. In a list of members of the Church at Benicum in FriesLind where her father officiated, is this entry : ''July 19, 1622, on a Friday, am I Balthazar Stuyfsant with my wife and children come to live at Berlicum." The name is derived from stuiven, to stir or raise a dust, and sand, being the same in both the Dutch and English. His wife died at Berlicum, May 2. 1625. at the age of fifty. Two years later he married Stientie Pieters of Harlem, and of this marriage there was born Balthazar and three others. Stuyfsant left Berlicum for Diefgyl in Guerland in 1634, where he died and was buried in the summer of 1637. The good clergyman and his aristocratic and arbitrary son, at- tained to the same age — four score years.
§ A large painting is preserved in the family, of Samuel and Anna Bayard and their four children at their country-seat at Alphen, a small town of South Holland, on the old Rhine, and some seven miles from Leyden. where Peter was born. The picture was probably painted just previous to Bayard's death, circa 1640. Another family portrait in the p jssessi >n of Edward V. De Lancey, and formerly owned by Sir James Jay. painted about 1690, is that of Anna Maria, daughter of Balthazar Bayard, who married Augustus Jay.
I His bi ther Balthazar lived in Vii adjoining house : his youngest brother. Nicholas, in the High Street, and his sister, Madame de Meyert, in Smith's Valley, near the'present Centre Street. Their aunt, the Widow Stuyvesant, resided on the Bowerie road, "beyond the Fresh Water." Balthazar married Maria Locker- mans in 1664, and Nicholas married Judith Variet in the year 1666. Their descendants in the male line are 1 believe, extinct, while those of the eider brother are numerous.
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and December 27, 1675, received from Governor Andros, a grant or an island of six hundred acres in the Dela >are River, which on May 4. 1879, he purcha If in the In ; ners. The deed* describes it as Be
Hook [slai I (now known as Bombay Hook:, and it is sigi e m k of a turtl z. : . be g the sig f the 3 re chiefs. As rea lers
of Cooper's "Last f the J I remember, the ! overy o: I ■
turtle tatooed or. the reast ofUncas save.; his life. The joining of the son of the chief in this deed uld seem to indicate the exis-
tence : :' a law of entail am ng the 1 . -~;. Al - 5 his pui i>se of
- his new purchase, Peter Baj ard cast i his 1
a company of religious colonists : alle I La lists, lis iples fJeandeLa- badie, a French enthusiast, holding the doctrines of the Dutch Church, but ado] ing other opinions and practices not recognized by the Reformed Church, and, in 1684, assisted them in the purchase and occupancy of tl e four necks 01 Ian 1 have ever since been known as the I al
Tract.f He, however, sc n after disj sed of his share " jpert
returned to New York, sphere, accoi ling to his family Bible.J he died i 1699, possessing, in addition to the property already described, what is now known as numl .: ne Broad ay, which then extended to the Hud- son. It was s I ' by tl z . . irds in 1745. 'v-:- lotsr^two and three, to Captain Kennedy, aft rwards Earl ol Cassiiis, the witnesses being 1 Van Cortlandt and Pete] Schuyler. From the rear windows of the spacious mansion which he soon after erected, there was a fine view of the New Jersey hill-. Among other cherished family souvenirs is a small volume of French f : ins, beautifully bound, with clasps, which was presented to Madame Bayard in the year 1664, She survived hei husband, and died on her Li: a iay in 1 7c:.
The year irefcre i is father's leara. 5j ....el Pay. ' removed from New York to Bohemia Manor, Cecil County, 1 i., and pi ;1 ased, with his brother-in-law, Hendrick Sluyter, r>ne of the four necks of land that srigin-
c For an Ffi - : ■ • : f tl iris ' ; : . " ;bted to the courtesy of the Secretary of State - as
Francis Bayard - : . - g t-gi Basset!, his re lis uncle ] rd
H. Bayard, his fa sr. as 2 of the j states Senate. [ desire als to acknowledge ;.-.:-
deb:: iness for data 1 lb ! . . j I . - ■ . - tor of the Pes sylvania Maga eof Hi yand
Biograf •_.'.-"■. . •_ i r. '-. ..-:•. an ' ... i ! • . - :' I aterscn, X. J.
t Bayard was adra i a > :r the 1 ! turch .-. p tst 3 1674. and -~\ ate '..; 1 tne on the
margin of their records are the . L .-.••.:-:."-.-__- :a Lahadist ppo-
s:te to the name - the Lahadists are - : . die words, " Vitam L.aguea
Jlxipitf" I La : Danker, f net Bayard in Ne Vor nites under date of June 4,
i63o: "Visited - if Augustine 1 nnan, proprietor 1 rtestia Manor), and le - et .-.-
Beyaert 1 deacon t the 1 g sou n the Lord had begun to trouble a L en-
"— Ne 's Fou >of ] id, ! 157.
(This large ai : . ■ ■ :" the j - f his desce [ant. Mrs James Grant "■".' - if
New York, was printed at 1 ire r, in 169a, and is istxated i ... - _ perplate engravings and 1 . - The title-page to t Id Tes : : - ■ - / . le is other se perfect, and the orig-
ina binding th strong brass clasps and corner-pieces. The record is nritten in Dutch, of which the folic - ing is a Iran Jal
1. My father, Petrus Bayard, lied in New York in t e year 1699.
2. My honored mother, 1,0 i in New York, in the year 1702,
3- Samuel Bayard, eldest son of Petru in the year 1675.
4. His • ':-. S . .. ' na 1 eile - - rn it 1677.
5. ' iir daughter, Anna Maria i 1 Jar ary 12 1716
red hus . Sam . '. .-■;.•• evening, November 23, 172T, at ten
>*c md rested in the 1 ere forcer aps in joy what he hath here s a. in sorrow. Ame
- My] >red mother, A . irg ti ia _ let, tied i» S« turday m :. ng, I rceml -.: :;. :-.:. al cine
o'clock, and blessed, rests fore the 1 rd Jes L -:
I. ' '. ■ z lored - ther, H :k S yter, died >n - . lay evei : Fe - 1 u y %. 1722, at - z I
An I : - tered foreve : rest of the Lord, .:. :s . th all his saints, unceasingly rh c.
honor, and pra s to a a A: rn.
9. My 1 - ls Sluyter, died on Friday, April 14, 1714, at three o'c in the afternoon,
u'r.a py, re the - . F . - .1 : t : [ fight . - f ed the reward of a faith - .: : for - 1 be now gives >od praise, b lor, ;..*•*--.. and all to ail eternity.
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ally constituted the Labadie Tract.* In 1716, they divided their posses- sions, Bayard having previously erected on his share what was then and has ever since been known as the " Great House," a large and substantial brick mansion. Here he brought his wife Susannah Bouchelle, and after her death his second wife, Elizabeth Sluyter, the writer of the record in Peter Bayard's Bible. She survived her husband, who died in 1721, and at her death their son James — the other children being Peter, Samuel, and Mary Ann |- — inherited the " Great House." He married Mary Asheton, and had three children — two sons and a daughter, who died in her seven- teenth year. She was engaged to the Rev. John Rodgers, who, four years later, married her cousin Elizabeth Bayard. The sons, John Bubenheim and James Asheton, were twins, their ages differing half an hour. These twin-brothers became objects of the most tender solicitude to their accom- plished grandmother, Mrs. Samuel Bayard, who strove from the earliest dawn of reason to imbue their minds with sentiments of honor and piety. " It is/' says Micheletj " a universal rule that great men resemble their mothers, who impress their mental and physical mark upon their souls." In this instance, although I do not presume to class the twin-brothers among great men, the
_* His cousin Samuel, son of Nicholas Bayard, purchased in i-n apart of the Island of Weehawken. His grandson, Colonel William Bayard, espoused the Loyalist side in the Revolution, and the Hoboken property was confiscated. It was purchased in -^c- by Colone! John Stevens (1749-1838) and by the mar- riage of his son Edwin A., with a descendant of Peter Bayard, the property came back to the Bayards. The original deed now hangs on the walls of the principal apartment at Castle Point, the residence of Mrs. Martha Bayard Stevens. In the writer's possession is an earlier document on heavy yellow parchment and in excellent preservation endorsed as follows, by Samuel Bayard's father: "Deed of Sale from Tadis Mi- chielson and Anna his wife of the Land at Wiehaaken — Nicholas Bayard." The document reads as follows, a few words being illegible :
" To all Christian People to whom This present writing shall come, Tadis Michielse of Wiehaken within the County of Bergen in the Province of East New Yorke. Youman. and Anna his wife send Greeting in our Lord God Everlasting; — Knowyee that the said Tadis Michielse and Anna his wife for and in con- sideration of the sum often shillings currant money of New York before signing and delivery hereof to them in hand paid by Co!!*' Nicholaes Bayard of the City of New York. Merchant, the receipt v. hereof is hereby acknowledged and thereof and of every part and parcel! thereof do acquit, Exhonorate and discharge the said Collo Nicholaes Bayard, his heires and assigns for ye same : Have given, granted, Bargained, sold Transferred and confirmed by these presents do give grannt Bankable sell Transport and Confirme unto the said Co.ilP Nicholaes Bayard, his heires and assignes forever all that thine farme and plantation seituat lying and Beeing at Wiehaken within the County of Bergen aforesaid containing twenty three acres of upland in length along the Foot of the hill, twenty two chaines Northeast and Southwest in breadth, at _ , and
eighteene chaines, and at the northend foure chaines bee it more or lesse. Bounded on the south by his on ne Meddow, east by hudson's river, north by a small Brooke and west by the Mountaine : a parcel of
Meddow containing sixteen acres lying on the Southwest side of said Land, in breadth ten cheanes and in length sixteen cheanes. bee it more or '.esse Bounded on the west by the hills, east by hudson's river, south by the small creeke (called the Northwest bounds of hoboken Creek; and north by its own upland, together with all the bowses outhouses, barnes stabells.orchers, trees, fences, woods & underwood, as allso all the right, titel Intrist property claim & demand whatsoever which the said Tadis Michielse and Anna his wife in right of the said farme-have had or ought to have in and to the Cotnmens and undivided pasture & woodland belonging to the said Corporation of Bergen and adjasent farmes Szc together with all profitts, commoddities and appurtenances thereinto belonging or in anywise appui taining and all the estate, right titel intrest property claime and demand whatsoever of them— the said Tadis Michielse and Anna his wife of, in, or to the same or any part thereof ; To Have and To Hold the said farme or plantation and meddow together with all the bowses, outhouses baernes, stabels, orchers, trees, fences, woods is: underwoods as allso ail their right & titel to the undivided pasture & woodland as aforesaid together with ail and singular the heredite- ments and appurtenances'untoye said Nicnolaes Bayard, his heires and Assignes to the sole and on'y proper use benefit and behove of him, the said Nicholaes Bayard his heires and assignes forever—and the said Tadis Michielse and Anna his wife do for themselfes. theire heires. Exec" & admin'; covenant grannt and agree to & with said Nicholaes Bayard his heires and assignes that hee the said Nicholaes Bayard his heires and assignes shall peacable, and quietly have hold occupy and ye aforesaid ffarme and peece of meddow
with theire appurtenances freed & 'cleared of all & all manner of fformer bargaines sales enfeofments. dow- ries, judgements executions and all other incombriences whatsoever to bee at any time hereafter warranted and defended by ye said Tadis Michielse and Anna his wife and their heires against all persons whatsoever by those present In Wittnisse whereof the said Tadrse Michielse and Anna his wife have hereunto sett their hands & seales this twentieth of March in the sivinth . . . yeare of the Reigne of o«" Sovereign Lord and Lady William and Mary by the grace of God King and Queene of England. Scotland. fTrance. and Ire- land, defender of ye ffaigth and in the yeare of or Lord God, one thousand six hundred ninety and four. Tadis Michielson Anna Michielson,
Sealed and delivered in ye presence of us hur X marke
Jacob Mayle Jr. Gerrit Onckolbag : and sworn to before Clars Arondson, one of the Justices for the County of Bergen.
t Mary Ann Bayard married Peter Bouchelle, whose sister was married to Colonel Peter Bayard, brother of James and Samuel.
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sons appear to have passed by one generation, and to have inherited their grandmother's mental and physical characteristics rather than those of their maternal parent.
John Bubenheim Bayard was born in the " Great House," on Bohemia Manor, August 11, 1 73S. His father, who by adding commercial enter- prise and industry to the successful cultivation of his large estate, had ac- cumulated what at that primitive time was considered a handsome property, died without a will, and being die eldest son, John became, by the Colonial laws of Maryland, entitled to all the real estate. Such, however, was his affection for his brother, that no sooner had he inherited the property, than he conveyed one-half of it to him.* It was at this period, 1 may mention en passant, that he abandoned the use of his middle name, received from John Bubenheim, who spoke of James Bayard as his "well-beloved friend." The twin-brothers were educated at the Nottingham Institution, in Mary- land, conducted by the Rev. Samuel Finley, D.D., afterward President of the College of New Jersey at Princeton. One of the elder brother's de- scendants t remembered often hearing her grandfather relate the story of his school discipline. On Monday morning of every week the master went into the chambers and gave each boy a sound, able-bodied thrashing to brace them up through the ensuing seven days. Young America of 1SS5 would neither approve, nor, I imagine, submit to Dr. Fin-ley's old-time Irish methods of instruction.
Having completed their course at the academy, which acquired and maintained a high reputation, and survived their weekly whippings, the brothers continued their classical studies at Bohemia Manor, having for their private tutor the Rev. George DufnVld, who, a few years later, became an eminent Presbyterian divine. J At eighteen the brothers left their Mary- land home for Philadelphia, " the genealogical centre of the United States," as Dr. Holmes wiitily calls the Quaker City, John to enter the counting-house of John Rhea, a rich and highly respected merchant, while James began the study of medicine with Dr. Thomas Cadwalader. At the age of twenty- one John Bayard married Margaret Hodge, § and in the course of a few years he was recognized as one of the leading merchants of Philadelphia. When only twenty seven his name appears among the first signers of the non-importation agreement of October 25, 1765, to which was appended the signatures of three hundred and seventy-five merchants of Philadelphia. This interesting document, the '-First Declaration of Independence,*' is preserved by the Pennsylvania Historical Society. In the autumn of 1759 Mr. and Mrs. Bayard made a tour to New York |j and Boston, which, in the
* While the writer was in England in 1879, the late Lord Durham died, leaving two sons — twin-brothers — so marvellously alike that the elder had to be marked for identification. By the English law of primo- geniture the eldest inherited both the title and the property. This troubled the kind and considerate father, and he determined that the one who had the bad fortune to come into the world thirty minutes after his luckier brother, the present Lord Durham, should have a handsome provision made for him in spite of the iaw of en- tail. He therefore buiit and laid otic a charming residence, which die dilatory twin, the Hon. Frederick W. Lambton. now own-; and enjoys, t gether with a comfortable income.
t Mrs. Mary Kirkpatrick How. the eldest and last survivor of the six children of Chief Justice Kirk- patrick. She died at New Brunswick, X. J., March, 17, 1882. in the eighty-ninth year of her age.
t "Yesterday I receive i a letter from your brother Samuel informing me of the de3th of my old friend and tutor the Rev. Dr. Dufneld." — Colonel Bayard to his daughter, February 6, 1790, addressed "Miss Jane Bayard, at New Rochelle. Honored by Dr. I. R. 1*. Rodgers."
§ Daughter of Andrew Hodge, of Phih ielphia, and an aunt of the late Professor Charles Hodge, LL.D., of Princeton. X. J, Another daughter soon after married Dr. fames Asheton Bayard.
I From Philadelphia to Nkw-York. — Philadelphia stage wagon and New-York stage boat perform their stages twice a week. John Butler, with his wagon, sets out on Mondays from his house, at the si^n of the Death of the Fox. in Strawberry-alley, rmd drives the same day to Trenton Ferry, when Francis Hol- nvm meets him ami proceeds on Tuesday t > Brunswick, and the passengers and goods being shifted into lb ; v agon uf Isaac I itzrand >\yh he take- them t > the New Blazing Star, to Jacob f itzrandolph's, the same
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estimation of their friends, was as great an event, as a trip in our day to the heart of Russia. They were the guests of Colonel William Bayard, of New York, at his estate on the North River, celebrated for its
" Moss'd trees that have out-liv'd the eagle,"
and of Balthazar Bayard, a Boston kinsman, who married Mary, sister of Governor Bowdoin, of Massachusetts.
John Bayard early became a communicant of the Second Presbyterian Church of Philadelphia, then under the charge of the Rev. Gilbert Terment, and was chosen a trustee and ruling elder. The famous George Whitefield, in his seventh and last visit to this country, in 1769, met Mr. Bayard, whom- he had known as a child and a youth, while visiting his grandmother. They made several tours together, and when Whitefield preached in the vicinity of Bohemia Manor, he was accompanied by his friend Bayard and was his guest, occupying an apartment which was ever afterward known as " White- field's room." So greatly attached was the gifted preacher to his admiring friend Bayard that he often expressed a wish to have his remains deposited in the family burial-place at Bohemia Manor, should it be his lot to die in America.*
Dr. James Asheton Bayard, a man of sootless character, and already of good reputation as a physician, died January 8, 1770. The violence of his brother's grief was so great as to produce a serious illness which con- fined him to his bed for several days. By degrees it subsided into a tender melancholy, which for years after would steal across his mind and tinge his hours of domestic intercourse and solitary devotion with pensive sad- ness. When the widow ivas soon after bid by the side of her husband, John Bayard adopted their children, f educating and treating them in all respects as his own, of whom, by the way, he had a most abundant supply — no less than nine sons, and live daughters. Of these, however, only eight attained to mature years.
John Bayard was among the first to raise his voice in opposition to the attempt of Great Britain to tax and otherwise oppress the American Colonies. He heard his country's call, and it moved his noble nature like the blast of a trumpet. He gave his time to the public weal, acting on the recommendation of the sacred writer, " Whatsoever thy hand fmdeth to do, do it with all thy might." Whoever else quailed in view of the ap- proaching struggle, Bayard never for a moment gave way to doubt of ultimate success, he never despaired,
" Nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bears up and steers Right onward."
He took an active part in all the questions of the day, which in any way affected the interests of the Colonies. He was a member of the Provincial Congress held in July, 1774; the calling of which compelled the Assembly to appoint delegates to the General Congress ; and was one of the sixty citizens chosen on the 12th of November, to see to the fulfilment on the
day, where Rubin Fiurandolph, with a boat well fitted, will receive them and take them to New- York that night. John Butler, returning to Philadelphia on Tuesday with the passensers and goods delivered to him by Francis Hoiman, will again set out for Trenton terry on Thursday, a>id Francis Holman, &C, will carry his passengers and goods with the same expedition as above to New York.— From the Pennsylvania Journal May 24, 1759.
* He died at NV.vburyport, Mass., and was buried there, October third, 1770.
t Jane Bayard, John Hodge Bayard, and James Asheton Bayard.
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part of Philadelphia, of the articles of Association entered into by that body. In January, 1775, he was a member of the Convention of the Province, the ostensible object of which was the encouragement of domes- tic industry, while it really was meant to exercise a supervision of the conduct of the Assembly. John Adams tells us that Bayard early joined the Sons of Liberty, * and in his diary mentions him as one of a Com- mittee of that Association who, with Doctors Rush and Mifflin, intercepted at Frankford, near Philadelphia, the members of Congress of 1775, from the North, as they came, for the purpose of influencing them to choose Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the Army. At the commencement of the war, the Assembly of Pennsylvania was not in favor of Indepen- dence, but the people were bent upon it, and a great public meeting took place in Philadelphia in 1776, the object of which was to compel the mem- bers of the Legislature to declare for independence or resign. " On the twenty-fourth of May," says Bancroft, " a town meeting of more than four thousand men was held in the State House yard to confront the instruc- tions of the Tories as well as of the Assembly against independence, with the vote of the Continental Congress against oaths of allegiance and the exercise of any kind of authority under the Crown. It was called to order by John Bayard, Chairman of the Inspection Committee for the County ot Philadelphia ; a patriot of singular purity of character and disinterestedness, personally brave, earnest, and devout."*]' In the same year his firm of Hodge 6c Bayard was engaged in furnishing arms to Con- gress, and a privateer htted out by him and his friend, General. Roberdeau, of Philadelphia, was among the first to capture a valuable British prize. Bayard was appointed, with others, by the Committee of Safety to superin- tend the erection of powder mills. In June, he attended, as a member, the meeting of the " Committee of Conference " held in Carpenter's Hall, to decide upon the manner in which a convention should be called to alter the Constitution of the Province : it was this body that announced its "willingness to concur in a vote of the Congress," declaring the inde- pendence of the Colonies. In September, Bayard was appointed one of the Council of Safety by the Constitutional Convention, to which position he was reappointed by the Assembly the following year, his associates being such men as Benjamin Franklin, David Rittenhouse, Anthony Wayne, Robert Morris, Daniel Roberdeau, Joseph Reed, and John Cadwalader. In October we find him presiding at a public meeting in the State Plouse grounds, at which the merits of the new State Constitution were debated, and in the month following he took his seat as a member of the Assembly, in the first session of that body held under the new instrument.
When the echoes of the guns of Lexington and Concord were heard in Philadelphia, three battalions of infantry were organized among the lead- ing gentlemen and merchants, and Bayard was chosen Colonel of the second, the first being commanded by Colonel Jacob Morgan, and the third by Colonel John Cadwalader, who, as senior officer, was assigned to the command of the brigade, including three battalions of infantry, and a troop of light horse, J commanded by Capt. Samuel Morris, and known as
* This patriotic association organized in 1776, adopting; Colonel Barre's designation, calling themselves Sons of Liberty. Its organization extended throughout the Colonies from Massachusetts to South Carolina, and included such men as Francis Dana, John Payard, William Faca, and Samuel Chase.
t History of the United States. Centenary Ed. Boston, 1076. vol. v., pp. 264.
J These troops did not belong to the regular Army, but were known as the Philadelphia Associators. lohn Cox \va^ Lieutenant-Colonel, and William Bradford Major of the second battalion. A history of the IrVst Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry from 1774 to 1874, has been courteously sent tome by its present
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the Philadelphia City Cavalry. Christopher Marshall in his diary gives us a glimpse of this corps:
" 1 7 75, June 8th. — I rose before 5, breakfasted and went on the Com- mons past 7, came back past 9 : then by 10 went again and stayed till past 2, viewing the parade of the three battalions of Militia of the City and Liberties, with the Artillery company (with two 12 pounders and four 6 pound brass field pieces), a troop of Light Horse, several companies of Light Infantry, Rangers, and Riflemen; — in the whole above two thousand men, who joined in one brigade, and went through their manual exercises, firings, and manoeuvres in the presence of General Lee, the Continental Congress, and several thousand spectators."
Colonel Bayard was in camp with his command at Amboy, in August, 1776, as we learn from a private letter written by William Bradford, Major of his battalion, who says : "This night I intend sleeping in Camp. We have got a very agreeable Mess, which consists of Dr. Duffield, Colonel Bayard, Colonel Cox, myself, Dr. Shippen, Dr. Jackson, Dr. Philc. We are in the house of the Chief- Justice, who has left part of his Furniture and Two Servants."
Early in the winter of 1776-77, Bayard was in the field with his bat- talion. From his camp at Bristol he writes, under date of December 13th, to the Council of Safety: "We are greatly distressed to find no more of the militia of the State joining General Washington at this time ; for God's Sake what shall we do ; is the cause deserted by our State, and shall a few Brave men offer their Lives as a Sacrifice against treble their number with- out assistance ? For my own part, I came cheerfully out, not doubting we should be joined by a number sufficient to drive our Enemy back with Shame, Despair, and Loss. ... 1 am far from thinking our cause desperate. If our people would but turn out. Jf J thought I
could be of any service I would leave my Battalion and come down for a little while : for God's sake exert yourselves."
Bayard saw active service in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Princeton. His battalion was a part of the force led by Washington in person at Princeton, to resist the attack on General Mercer's demoral- ized brigade. In this battle Major Bradford, of Bayard's battalion, was severely wounded, and his friend, Mercer, killed. Washington personally complimented Colonel Bayard for his gallantry, and on the good conduct of Cadwalader's command, where all the field officers acquitted themselves admirably, and where their example was followed by the inferior officers and privates.
Adam Hubley wrote from Bordentown, January 4, 1777 : "The enemy had a vast number killed at Princeton. Our Philadelphia Associators be- haved like brave soldiers on this occasion. They fought the enemy lor some considerable time, regular, in platoon fires, and repulsed them twice. . . . A number of the Associators fell." Another authority states that " they behaved like heroes, and pressed the British so close that they were at bayonets' points."
Bayard's love of country is well illustrated by two incidents that oc- curred at the London Coffee House,* which was standing till August, 1883.
Captain, General E. B'urd Grubb, who was present with his soldierly command at the celebration of the completion of the Washington Monument, Saturday, February 21, 1885. The Associators were first or- ganized as a regiment of eleven companies in 1747, with Abram Taylor as Colonel, Thomas Lawrence, Lieutenant-Colon'.-!, and Samuel McCall, Major.
* It was built about the year 1702, established as an "Exchange" in 1754, and was a place ot great im- portance, commercially, politically, and socially, in old Philadelphia.
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the oldest building in Philadelphia, with the single exception of the resi- dence of Letitia Perm, and one which has played an important part in the military and civil history of Pennsylvania. William Allen, Jr., son of the ICing's Chief-Justice of Pennsylvania, who afterward commanded Allen's Loyal Legion, meeting Colonel Bayard at the Coffee House, said to him, "I will shed my blood in opposition to Independence." "And 1," answered the sturdy patriot, "will fight for it."* To another bitter Loyalist Bayard said, "I have a wife and a do/en children to provide for, but I will spend my last shilling to secure my country's liberties, and I will spend my life also, if necessary."
On March 13, 1777, Bayard was appointed a member of the State Board of War, and four days later he was elected speaker of the House of Assembly. To this position he was reelected in the following year. In December, 1777, we find Colonel Bayard, in company with James Young, visiting Washington's camp to report on the condition of the Penn sylvania troops, and their letters to President Wharton give a distressing account of the army previous to the occupation of Valley Forge. \ In 1780 Bayard was one of a committee to report the causes of the falling off of the revenues of the State, and in the following year he was a member of the Supreme Executive Council. In 1 7S5 he was elected a member of the Continental Congress, whose meetings were then held in New York City. His associates in that body included, among others, his friends, General St. Clair and Judge Wilson, of Pennsylvania; James Monroe, General Henry Lee, and Colonel Grayson, of Virginia ; Gerry and Rufus King, of Massachusetts; Ellery, of Rhode Island, and Pinckney, of South Carolina.
Before the capture of Philadelphia by the British, in September, r777, Colonel Bayard dispensed a generous hospitality to the many distinguished characters, civil and military, whose duties called them to that city. John Adams, after dining with him, writes, "I shall be killed with kindness in this place. We go to Congress at nine, and there we stay, most earnestly engaged in debates upon the most abstruse mysteries of state, until three in the afternoon ; then we adjourn, and go to dine with some of the nobles of Pennsylvania at four o'clock, and feast upon ten thousand delicacies, and sit drinking Madeira, claret, and Burgundy, till six or seven, and then go home fatigued to death with business, company, and care." In another letter to Mrs. Adams he says, "This will go by Colonel Bayard, a gentle- man of the Presbyterian persuasion in this city, of excellent character, to whom I am indebted for a great many civilities." Others who shared Bayard's hospitality were Hancock, the President of the Congress, who had entertained him in Boston ; Samuel Adams, who shared with Hancock the
* " September 4th, 1776. Yesterday high words passed at the Coffee House : William Allen, Jr., de- claring that he would shed his blood in opposition to Independency, and Colonel John Bayard in the sup- port of Independency. Allen's behaviour was such that William Bradford immediately complained to Samuel Morris. Jr., as a member of the Committee of Safety, of the abuse offered by Allen to the Public." Christopher Marshall's Diary of Events in 1774-1781. [The Bradford mentioned above "entered into active service in July, 1770. as Major of the Second Battalion oi the Pennsylvania Militia, of which the ex- cellent John Bayard was Colonel ; General John Cadwalader commanding the brigade. His son, nineteen years afterwards the accomplished Attorney-General of the United States under Washington, was in the same brigade, though not in the same regiment with him." Wallace's Life of Bradford. Philadelphia, 1084, pp. 121.]
t Writing December 4th, Bayard says: "There are above one-third that have neither breeches, shoes, stockings, or blankets, and who, by that means, are rendered unable to do duty, or indeed to keep the held. It is truly distressing to see these p oor naked fellows encamped on bleak hills ; and yet, when any prospect of an action with trie enemy offers, these brave men appear full of spirit and eager for engaging." In view of an army composed of such men, well might Patrick Henry prophetically exclaim, "We are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us."
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honor of being excepted from a royal pardon ; Elbrid.ce Gerry, afterward Vice-President of the United States; General Lord Stirling; Lafayette, who enjoyed his host's good French — a somewhat rare American accom- plishment a hundred and more years ago; Livingston, of Livingston's Manor on the Hudson ; and the New Jersey delegation, consisting of Richard Stockton, Hopkinson, the wit and poet, and Witherspoon, the President of Princeton College. Another frequent guest at his residence in Arch Street, between First and Second, was James Wilson, one of the signers of the Declaration, and, like Dr. Witherspoon, a native of Scotland ; and Hayward and Middleton, of South Carolina, who, similarly to John Bayard and Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution, sacrificed his fortune in the cause of his country.*
From an unfinished autobiography written a few years before her death by Colonel Bayard's eldest daughter, we obtain some original information concerning her father and his family. Afrs. Kirkpatrick writes: "About this time (the beginning of the Revolutionary War), our public affairs as- sumed an alarming appearance. War was approaching witli all its terrors. My father engaged in the cause of his country with all the ardor of patriot- ism. He was the Colonel of a battalion of the city, but did not enter the United States Army. He afterward was a member of the Assembly. This was a conspicuous station and exposed him to the ill-will of the British. The duties ot his oince drew him from home and caused ad- ditional cares to my mother. Though a delicate woman and placed in trying circumstances, she possessed firmness of mind, and on perilous oc- casions showed much energy and intrepidity.
" My father purchased a farm in what was considered a very safe part of the country. It was eighteen miles from the city, on the Schuylkill. This he designed as a retreat for his family in case the enemy should attack Philadelphia.
"The first alarm that I remember was when it was reported that Roe- buck was in the Delaware and would soon make an attack. I recollect the commotion in the house, boxes piled up in the parlor, furniture pack- ing, and the confusion and the alarm through the house. The Roebuck ! the Roebuck ! t resounded ; but what this was, I had no idea. Many of the family ran up-stairs to look out of the trap-door in the roof. I fol- lowed on but saw nothing ; neither, indeed, was the vessel in sight ; but the idea of a man-of-war approaching so near, filled all the town with con- sternation.
"The family was removed to Plymouth, which from that time became our residence for several successive years. The house was very plain and stood on the road-side, but the views round it were beautiful and became the favorite walk. There was a fine open wood, quite clear of under- brush, through which the path. lay. Here the children delighted to ramble ; the high banks of the river were often resorted to for the beautiful views they afforded of the opposite side, where stood a small stone church called the Swede's Church, and which gave the name to the ford — the Swede's Ford ; afterwards more known by being the passage of a part of the British party.
* Apropos of dinner parties, an invitation to dine with Genera! and Mrs. "Washington during his presi- dency in 1750, was found behind a mantel piece when Colonel Bayard's residence in New Brunswick was undergoing repairs, some sixty years after tint date. . There was also found at the same time a notice of a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Pennsylvania, of which Bayard was elected a member in 17S7.
t The Roebuck was an English frigate of 44 guns, commanded by Captain Hammond. Sor.ie of her cannon balis hred at Christiana during May, 1776, are to be seen in the Historical Society of Delaware.
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" Owing to the progress of the war. and New Jersey being so much the seat of hostile operations, the College of Princeton was vacated. My brother James, among the others, had to return home. He procured a horse, and took what was supposed to be the safest road to avoid the enemy. Unfortunately, he fell in with a party of marauders who seized him and inquired his name. When he told them, they immediately pro- nounced him a rebel and the son of a rebel ; though, from his youthful appearance, it was evident he had never borne arms. But this availed nothing. They pinioned his arms and brought him to Philadelphia and committed him to prison, where a fearful doom awaited him. As soon as the sad news was brought to Plymouth, my mother determined to go im- mediately to the city. My father was at Lancaster, where the Assembly was sitting, and she had no one to assist her ; but her maternal love gave her energy. I do not remember hearing through whose influence she ob- tained a safe conduct, but she hastened forward and made application to the commanding officer. For some days she suffered a most anxious suspense. She met unlooked-for kindness from a Quaker lady — Grace Hastings — which she mentioned with gratitude. Jt was a Christian act for a Tory to aid a Whig in those troublesome times. Application was made to our Commander-in-Chief, and arrangements were made for the rej^^ of" h^r beloved son. and she returned home to her interesting charge. It was a tedious space till he was released. His return occasioned a gleam of joy in the midst of those gloomy days. Several years after- wards he pointed out to me the place where he stood (it was a gate by the road side) waiting to hear his doom, a halter was around his neck, and the intelligence had not come whether life or death was the sentence. The messenger appeared in the distance. The moment was awful. But in a few minutes lie was set at liberty,* and joyfully set off for his home.
u On another occasion, my mother was placed in very trying and agi- tating circumstances. My father was absent, attending to his official duties at Lancaster, where the Assembly met as a place of safety removed from the seat of war, and she had a large family to provide for. A division of the British army was moving to Philadelphia by