5 • I', V M ^& » ... "k- "■** &4 : ...;-■ La? ■".**■ «*■ T . r.-*.* V* ~^ : \ ^ s ' fir--' / ■^ -»«v •V ( S ♦4 f :'S '^> va f * &*■« -:<- mi ^ Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029818576 Cornell University Library CS69 .H72 L 3 1924 029 818 576 olin Overs AMERICAN GENEALOGY, A HISTORY OF BOME OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF NORTH AMERICA AND THEIR DESCENDANTS, THEIR FIRST EMIGRATION TO THE PRESENT TIME, THEIR INTERMARRIAGES AND COLLATERAL BRANCHES, INCLUDING NOTICES OF PROMINENT FAMILIES AND DISTINGUISHED INDP7IDUALS, ANECDOTES, REMINISCENCES, TRADITIONS, SKETCHES OF THE FOUNDING OF CITIES, VILLAGES, MANORS, AND PROGRESSIVE IMPROVEMENTS OF THE COUNTRY FROM ITS WILDERNESS STATE TO THE PRESENT ERA. ILLUSTRATED BY GENEALOGICAL TABLES. BY JEROME B. HOLGATE, A.M. AUTHOR OF CHART OF ANCIENT SCRIPTURE AND PROFANE HISTORY ON A NOVEL AND INTERESTING PLAN, AND ATLAS OF AMERICAN HISTORY. ALBANY: PRINTED BY JOEL MUNSELL. 1848. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848, BY JEROME B. HOLGATE, in the Clerk's Office for the Northern District of New York. EXPLANATIONS. The head of the family is placed on the first page of the genealogical table exhibiting his descendants, with his wife by his side; two lines brought down, one from each, are united in the form of a knot, which represents their marriage, and other lines are brought down from the knot to the children: see pages 20, 25, 78, &c, &c. The reader must be careful to observe, where there are several wives, to which the prong of the knot leads, as she is the mother of the children immediately following, as on page 63, Elizabeth Mul- ford, wife of John, was the mother of Mary, &c. See page 78, Henry and his descendants first appear, then two lines are carried, horizontally, across the page, one to Gerard the next son, on page 79, where are exhibited his descendants; and the other carried over to page 85, to Johannes, another son, where appears his posterity. The daughters, together with bachelors and younger members of the family, come first under the knot. For example, see page 78, the children of Henry, son of William Beekman: first comes William, unmarried; then Catharine m. (married) first, John Rutsen, second, Albert Pawling, &c. The date appearing on the left of, and on a line with the name, always denotes the birth of the indivi- dual, unless otherwise mentioned. The dates referring to marriages, are either placed opposite the knot, as for example, on page 21, Jeromus married 22d of September, 1719; page 78, Henry married 1680, &c, &c, or at the end of the name, as on page 63, Elizabeth (da. of John Gardiner) m. (married) Thomas Green of Boston, (in) 1738, &c, or sometimes under the female, as on page 237, Judith m. (married) Cornelius Van Home, April 6, 1735, and so in every other instance. The figures on the left of names refer to priority of marriage (see page 63); John, a sOn of David, mar- ried first, Elizabeth Mulford, second, Deborah Avery, &c; or to priority of birth, as on page 21, the births of the children of Jeromus are shown by the figures placed on their left, for example: Sylvanus was the fourth child, Elizabeth the fifth, &c. Where the dates are given, these figures are usually omitted. The small figures a little elevated to the right of the name, refer to notes at the bottom of the page. Descendants of the females belong to the family into which they marry. b. signifies born. d. signifies died. m. " marriage. L. I. •* Long Island. da. " daughter. Ch. Rec. " Church Records. EKRATA. Page 31, " 36, " 49, a 59, u 62, a 64, a 64, a 65, a 65, a 80, a 83, a 83, a 87, u 98, for Her Kilaen read Heer Kilaen. note 7, for Norman's creek read Norman's kill. the tracing line from Henry should be car- ried up, so as to connect with the horizontal line on the opposite page, viz.: page 48, he being the son of Hendrick, on page 44. for Black island read Block island. " 1635 read 1636, for birth of David Gardiner. " 1824 read 1844, for marriage of Hon. John Tyler. « 1745 read August 21, 1782, for the time of Col. Abraham Gardiner's de- cease, note 2, for his fourth wife read third wife. note 3, for Gen. Sylvester Dering read Thomas Dering. for land read lane. " Ann Doren read Ann Douw. " Kisse Gile read Christian Gale. note 3, for page 96 refer to page 98. " 1, " " 89 refer to page 87. Page 123, for were entirely changed read was entirely changed, fourteenth line from the bot- tom. " 124, " to the Quaker read of the Quaker. " 126, " Mauschel read Mareschal. " 126, " Glencaiven read Glencairen. " 131, note 7, for see page 134 read see page 135. " 157, for five or six thousand acres was read five or six thousand acres were. " 161, " page 184 read page 183, under Robert Livingston. " 166, note 2, for see page 182 read 181. " 169, " 4, " " " 184 " 183. " 185, for West Indians" read Montreal, the resi- dence of Col. James Livingston. " 188, Jacob, son of James Livingston, men- tioned on this page, is evidently Ja- cobus. In English, James. " 192, for our early colonies read our early colo- nists. ", 204, " 1663 read 1623, for the birth of Wil- liam Lawrence. " 219, note 4, for d' affairs read d'affaires. CONTENTS. This volume contains the genealogical history of the following families: RAPALJE, 16 JOHNSON, 22 VAN RENSSELAER, 33 GARDINER, 56 BEEKMAN, 66 BLEECKER, 87 DE GRAAF, 99 HOFFMAN, 103 KIP, 109 DE LANCEY, 114 BARCLAY, 122 ROOSEVELT, 136 VAN SCHAICK, 143 LIVINGSTON, 155 Consisting of three branches: 1st The branch of Robert Livingston, proprietor of the manor, 163 2d. The branch of Robert Livingston, nephew of the above, — 183 3d. The branch of James Livingston, - - 188 LAWRENCE, 201 Consisting of three branches: 1st. The branch of John Lawrence, -'•- - 203 2d. The branch of William Lawrence, - - 204 3d. The branch of Thomas Lawrence, 217 OSGOOD, 228 JAY, 234 ADVERTISEMENT. The time has arrived in which it becomes all-important to preserve family memo- rials. The history of families from their first emigration to the present time, em- bracing descent and intermarriages, is a field of investigation which has been very much neglected in this country. The discovery and colonization of this continent is a momentous period of its history. The most authentic materials on this subject are family memorials and reminiscences. The generation who were acquainted with the early scenes and improvements of the country have already disappeared. Many of their great-grand- children are still living with grey hairs and tottering steps, the only heralds of the past, who alone possess an accurate and detailed history of the early settlement and subsequent improvements of the country, and, unless speedily consulted, it will be too late.* With their decease will perish every memorial, tradition, reminiscence, and historic fact connected with the colonial chronicles of the country, and the ancestral chronicles of families. For the purpose of preserving these memorials and family documents, I have entered upon the laborious task of tracing the genealogy of families, and writing the ' I cannot refrain in this place from alluding to the no longer among the living. Mr. John Beekman of melancholy change which has occurred within the New York city, Edward P. Livingston of Clermont, last few months in some of the most respectable of and the late Ex-Governor Morgan Lewis, also of New our old families. Peter A. Jay, Esq., President of York, all recently deceased, are sad and mournful tes- the New York Historical Society, from whom I re- timonies of the havoc which time is making in the ceived much valuable information relating to the old generation of our most ancient and respectable early chronicles of the city and its ancient families, families, and other assiduities bespeaking the gentleman, is now 1 2 ADVERTISEMENT. memoirs of individuals. It may be considered unimportant to record the annals of families who are not distinguished in the common acceptation of the term ; but genealogy, as a science, acknowledges none of these distinctions. Her purpose is to ascertain from recorded statistics those mysterious laws by which moral or intel- lectual traits, or physical characteristics of organization, are transmitted in families. The human mind having the opportunity of illimitable expansion, is another reason why the pedigree of such families should be preserved ; for, although not distin- guished in the present century, it may be in the next, and it is a part of genealogical science to investigate the results of the intermarriage of families of different extrac- tion, and determine in what manner the laws of physiology are affected by the con- nection. And in this way much valuable data might be elicited in regard to the influence of republican institutions upon the human mind. Suppose we take two families who are distinguished at the present time, say the Clinton and the Adams families, both of which are equally distinguished ; George and his nephew, De Witt Clinton, in the one, and John and his son, John Quincy Adams, in the other. Now suppose a hundred years to elapse, and beyond the Rocky Mountains, in some transmontane republic, arises a man who is distinguished bv the name of Clinton, who deduces his pedigree direct from the blood of George or De Witt Clinton, but the Adams family is unknown. We look along the stream of time still further, and after the lapse of another hundred years, we find the Adams family again emerging into celebrity, and the Clintons falling into oblivion ? Now why is this ? Why is it that we have two individuals in these families distinguished at the same time, and one century elapses in one instance before another individual appears in one family of equal distinction, and two centuries in the other before a similar event takes place in that ? Now will not genealogical and intermarital statistics furnish a solution to these physiological problems ? That these phenomena are attributable to geographical localities, productions of the soil, intermarriage, educational or political influences, there is no doubt ; but the question is, what proportion of these are con- cerned in their production, and what is the result of certain proportions. The popular opinion that circumstances produce great men would be admissible, provided it appeared that an equal number of eminent personages were furnished by two families at the same period during the existence of the same circumstances, and again both falling into oblivion on a change of those circumstances, and so on. This would be strong testimony in favor of the hypothesis. But another question occurs ADVERTISEMENT. 3 of great interest, and that is the kind of talents developed. One family, for example, is remarkable for its distinguished military men ; others for their statesmen, philoso- phers, belles-lettre, men of science, poets, orators, artists, &c. Now when do these flourish most ? In times of excitement or repose ? The barbarians that overwhelmed with their incursions the empire of the world, at the same time populating the provinces which they desolated, and intermarrying with the nations whom they vanquished, have now become the ancestors of the most refined and intelligent nations of Europe. The fashionable Parisian, the soft Italian, the scholastic German, and the enlightened Englishman are all equally descended from these uncouth northern barbarians. But is it their transfer from a Scandinavian to a mild and balmy climate, or their intermarriages, or both united, that have pro- duced this most marvellous transformation ? Genealogical facts might furnish a clue to these physiological mysteries. It is an interesting and novel subject the endless ramifications of families. It must be admitted that the descendants of Noah are all intermarried, composing one uni- versal family ; and that, had we a name for every variety of kindred, we would have a name signifying some kind of relationship for every individual on the globe. And is it true that the blood of all nations flows in the veins of each individual ! The conclusion must at once be admitted that every family may trace connection, imme- diate or remote, coetaneous or ancestral, with every family on the earth. Are not these investigations also profitable as connected with the history of the country. What family of early emigration has not at some period been identified with its chronicles.* A family, say a father and son, arrives and settles at Plymouth. The father lives and dies on the farm which he first purchased. The son, on arriving at years of maturity, emigrates. Fertility of soil or a mill privilege on some beautiful stream allures his attention. He constructs a log dwelling and settles down ; the forest dis- appears ; the country blooms around him. The log shanty which he first built be- comes the nucleus of a pleasant city or a beautiful village. The children multiply, and reside on the estate till arriving at years of maturity, when, following the father's example, they also emigrate, proceeding still further into the wilderness, •The state of New York has recently expended a yet suffers the founders of the state, those intelligent hundred and fifty thousand dollars in investigating its animals who were created " lords of the fowl and the natural history — rocks, birds, beasts, and reptiles, and brute " to go unnoticed. 4 ADVERTISEMENT. becoming the founders of other villages and cities still further westward ; and thus the process has continued until the whole of New England has been planted, and probably will continue until the sound of the blacksmith's hammer will be heard on the western prairie, and on the shores of the Pacific. And thus the innumerable cities that will adorn the banks of the Missouri will be peopled by myriads of descend- ants of families now inhabiting the eastern states. And will not the descendants of these families be interested in tracing up their multitudinous ancestors to the original emigrant, and note the various generations as they travelled from the Atlantic borders westward to the Rocky Mountains ? There are also many families who have branches or connections still living in Europe, descendants of brothers or relatives of those who originally came to this country, and it would probably be interesting to those descendants to trace up their numerous ramifications on both sides of the Atlantic. Again will not the publication of family memorials have a benign influence upon the character of the rising gene- rations whose families are thus commemorated ? Would a young man, for instance, be the first to contaminate the purity of his family escutcheon if made a subject of history, and the custom become universal of perpetuating the chronicles of families ? And would it not be a stimulating incentive to noble enterprise and magnanimous exertion, either to elevate the family or maintain a reputation which it already possessed 1 The plan of the work embraces the Continent of North America, comprising neces- sarily several prominent divisions, the descendants of the pilgrims, antiquities of the cities and villages of New England, and the New England families forming one divi- sion ; the German and Holland colonists of New Netherlands another. This embraces the early families of New York, Brooklyn, part of New Jersey, a few settlements on the Delaware, Albany, Schenectady, and the valleys of the Mohawk and Hudson. After the conquest of New Netherlands by the English in 1664, the families from Connecticut and Rhode Island who had settled on the eastern extremity and middle section of Long Island, previous to the conquest, now began to infuse themselves among the Dutch population of Brooklyn and New York, and after the revolution in 1784, these same enterprising New Englanders, emanating from the more nothern counties, penetrated the Mohawk valley, already enlivened by the barns and sheds of the Germans, and founded those beautiful cities in the western part of the state. The western section of New York, therefore, was colonized by branches of New England families. Then come the Swedes and Fins on the Delaware, an episode in ADVERTISEMENT. 5 the grand drama of some little consequence ; and next follow the Jamestown colo- nists and Virginia families. The banks of the Ohio, the southern counties of Illinois and Indiana, Kentucky, &c, were populated by families from this state. The Quakers and Germans in Pennsylvania, the Scottish settlements in South Carolina under the superintendence of the far-famed John Locke, Oglethorpe's colony in Georgia, and the French in Louisiana, claim attention if we get so far. De- scendants of the Virginia cavaliers, Hollanders, Germans, and Puritans already commingle in the valley of the Mississippi and territory of Ouisconsin, and their descendants will, at some future day, settle the vast regions between them and the Pacific until swarming with a population of several millions descended from different races ; Irish, German, and Welsh of recent migration, ancient Virginians, and more modern Puritans, amalgamated and constituting one people of a different extraction from any that now exists. What will be the peculiar physiological developments, lineaments, manners, and customs of such a people thus compounded, and inhabiting such a climate as that which prevails at the west, must be left to time to determine. But one grand characteristic will predominate, and that will be a suffusion of Anglo- Saxon blood. AMERICAN GENEALOGY. BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND EXPLORATIONS OF THE DUTCH EAST INDIA AND WEST INDIA COMPANIES. An association of merchants was established in Holland entitled the Dutch West India Company, which originated in the following particulars. Holland 1621. suffered the most ignominious insult from the tyranny of Spain, which was particularly exemplified in 1594 by an oppressive and cruel edict, instituting nn embargo upon her ships, seizing their effects, putting the merchants and masters of ships into prison, under pretence that they came from their enemies' country, exposing them to the rigor of the court of inquisition, and sometimes keeping them for the king's service.* This treatment reducing her to extremity, she was driven to under- take extensive schemes for the discovery of a north-east passage to China. It is interesting to know what gave China and Cathay so much consequence in the ryes of Europe at this period. It was not profitable intercourse with or any benefit received from those countries ; it was the glowing descriptions and splendid visions of ancient poets and chroniclers, after the secrets of the ocean had been explored by the genius of! Columbus, and the mariner's compass had become a safe and sure guide across the trackless waters, that set all Europe in a ferment, and stimulated the most enthusi- astic enterprises for the discovery of a safe and expeditious route to those countries. The only alternative, therefore, left to Holland, was to achieve some such enter- prize around the northern extremity of Asia, through the Tartarean seas. Several merchants and others of Zealand, therefore, forming a company entitled " The Com- pany of Foreign Countries" equipped three vessels in 1594, Avhich sailed for the purpose of exploring the Tartarean seas ; but they returned the same year without succeeding in the objects of their voyage, owing to the quantity of ice which encum- bered those latitudes. * See " Collection of Voyages undertaken by the Dutch East India Company," London, 1703, p. 94. 8 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. In 1595, seven vessels, equipped by the same company, were sent on a similar expedition, but returned the year following with no better success than the former. In 1596, the Council of Amsterdam undertaking the enterprise, despatched two vessels under the charge of able pilots, one of which was shipwrecked on the northern coast of Nova Zembla, and its accomplished pilot, Barentz, found a watery grave. The other returned the following year, much weather-beaten, the voyage proving unsuccessful. About this time the passage by the Cape of Good Hope for the first time became known to the Hollanders in the following singular manner : One Cornelius Hout- man, a shrewd, intelligent Hollander, being in Portugal, obtained all the informa- tion necessary concerning the Indies and the southern passage by the way of the Cape of Good Hope ; but foreigners being strictly prohibited from making these inquiries, Houtman was arrested and imprisoned. His liberty could only be obtained by the payment of a heavy fine, and he wrote to several merchants of Amsterdam on the subject, informing them of his situation, and proposing that, on condition they remitted his fine, he would furnish them the information he had acquired concerning the East Indies and the route thither. The proposal was accepted, and Houtman obtaining his liberty, in 1595, a company was organized for the purpose, and a fleet of four vessels, under the command of Houtman and others, sailed from the Texel, bound on a southern voyage to the Indies. This expedition returning in about two years and four months richly laden with oriental spices, occasioned the formation of other companies ; and other voyages being undertaken, all of which proving profitable, in 1602, the rivalry and collision between these various companies rendered it necessary to unite them all into one, and hence originated the gigantic monopoly of the Dutch East India Company, which, in a few years, astonished all Europe with its extensive power and dominion. It was under the patronage of this company that Henry Hudson made thos.e famous voyages of discovery which immortalize his name. A company, organized at London, for the purpose of exploring the Arctic Ocean, in search of a passage in those lati- tudes to China, contemplated three expeditions, one to the North, one to the North- East, and one to the North- West, around the northern extremity of the American continent, had enlisted the services of the distinguished navigator in question, who made two voyages, one to the North, and the other to the North-East, both of which proving unsuccessful, the company becoming disheartened, and refusing the remaining appropriation for the third voyage, Hudson, not in the least discouraged by these reverses, went to Holland, and unfolded his magnificent scheme to the Dutch East India Company. The Zealand directors of the company declined at first engaging in the enterprise, DUTCH EAST INDIA AND WEST INDIA COMPANIES. 9 but the Amsterdam directors, convinced of the importance of such a discovery to their commerce, and having strong confidence in the abilities of Hudson to conduct the expedition, finally succeeded in getting a majority of the votes of the directors in favor of it, and a small vessel, a yacht or fly-boat, called the Half-Moon, was accordingly equipped, the command of which they gave to the distinguished navigator in question, who sailed from the Texel, April 6, 1609, with a crew of twenty seamen, English and Dutch. We will not follow him among the icebergs on the coast of Norway, nor recapitulate the disasters which he had with his crew ; suffice it that on the twelfth of September of the same year, some natives on the Neversink Hills beheld the same yacht, some- what weather-beaten, gliding slowly along in a direction for the Narrows. In latitude 40 deg. 18 min., it entered a beautiful and spacious bay, surrounded with forest- crowned banks, and interspersed with pleasant islands, and this opened into a magnificent river, flowing through a beautiful country, with romantic hills and mountain gorges, having a calm, unbroken current, and a depth of water sufficient for the largest ships. Hudson explored this river a hundred and fifty miles. Inter- minable forests seemed to expand on every side, the whole covered with a majestic repose, nothing imparting life to the scene except the birds in large swarms descending upon the bosom of the stream, the sturgeon disturbing the waters with his glittering fin, or the smoke curling among the trees, announcing the existence of beings whose manners and customs, and modes of subsistence, were as yet unknown to the hardy mariners who now, for the first time, contemplated the magnificent landscape before them. Barbarous beings in human shape occasionally appeared standing on some promontory, their faces besmeared with paint, their heads garnished with feathers, and their bodies clothed with the skins of wild beasts, having in their noses uncouth jewels, in their ears barbaric rings, and in their hands bows and arrows, short clubs, and hatchets, jabbering and looking at the vessel, and then, with a hideous yell, darting into the woods, and emerging again at a still greater distance up the river with others apparently as much astonished as themselves at the strange apparition now for the first time seen floating upon the bosom of Ca-ho-ha-ta-tea.* The country along the river abounding in fur and other valuables, the question suggested itself whether a profitable traffic in these articles might not be 1610. carried on with the natives. Seizing upon the idea a company of mer- chants,f formed at Amsterdam and Hoorn4 sent out a small vessel *The name given to the Hudson river by the Iroquois. J This company consisted of the following individu- fDe Laet, New Nelh., pp. 291, 305, 309, of N. als : Gerret Jacobsen "Witsen, former burgomaster of Y. Hist. Soc. Col., N. S., Vol. 1. Amsterdam, Jonas Witsen, Simon Morrison, Hans 2 10 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. freighted with merchandize for barter, which, after a tedious voyage, arrived safe in the Hudson. The voyagers durst not land for fear of the natives, and not having suitable accommodations for traffic on shore, the Indians hovering about the vessel in their bark canoes, exchanged their fur, maize, beans, oysters, wild fowl, and tobacco for the baubles and trinkets of Haerlem and Nuremburg. This voyage, proving lucrative, was followed by others of a similar character ; but it was soon found that this traffic was exposed to difficulties not at first anticipated. The charter of the company, originally intended for the East Indies, afforded no protection to their commerce in these regions, and the result was, individuals who had incurred no part of the original expense of discovery and subsequent outfits, entered into a most unreasonable competition with them for the profits accruing therefrom. A memorial was therefore presented to their High Mightinesses, the Lords States General, setting forth their grievance and desiring protection ; and on the 27th of March, 1614, an edict was accordingly issued, of the following purport. " That all persons who had discovered, or who might discover, any rivers, bays, harbors, or countries before unknown, should enjoy, besides other advantages, the exclusive trade for four successive voyages."* The company encouraged by this edict to undertake more extensive voyages of exploration, equipped five vesselsf which sailed from the Texel the 1614. same season,^: on a voyage of discovery to New Netherland. Two of the commanders of this expedition were the celebrated navigators Adriaan Block and Hendrick Christiaansen, whose discoveries are identified with the first explora- tions of our principal rivers and sea coasts. The vessel of Adriaan Block, either the Tiger or Fortune, was accidentally burned in the blue waters of Manhattan Bay ; but Hougers, Paulus Pelgrom, Lambrecht Van Tween- The Tiger and the Fortune, owned by Hans Hou- huysen, Arnold Van Lybergen, Wessel Schenck, Hans gers, Paulus Pelgrom and Lambrecht Van Tween- Claessen, and Barent Sweertsen, merchants of Am- huysen, were commanded by those celebrated navi- sterdam ; Peter Clementsen Brouwer, Jan Clement- gators Adriaan Block and Hendrick Christiaansen. sen Kies, and Cornelius Volkertsen, merchants of The Nightingale, the property of Arnold Van Ly- Hoorn. See Hoi. Doc, in the Sec. of State's office, bergen, "Wessel Schenck, Hans Claessen, and Barent Albany. Sweertsen, merchants of Amsterdam, was commanded *GrootPlakaatboek, I. D., 563. by Skipper Thys. Volkertsen. The fifth, likewise t It is gratifying to give the names of these vessels named the Fortune, owned by Peter Clementsen and their owners, which are preserved among the Brouwer, Jan Clementsen Kies and Cornelius Vol- documents obtained by Mr. J. R. Brodhead, in Hoi- kertsen, merchants of Hoorn, was commanded by land, and deposited in the Sec. of State's office, the distinguished mariner Kornelis Jacobsen Mey, Albany. Their names and owners are as follows : the discoverer of Cape May of the state of Dela- The Fox, owned by Gerret Jacobsen Witsen, for- ware, mer burgomaster of Amsterdam, Jonas Witsen and J See Hoi. Doc, in Secretary of State's office, Simon Morrisen, was commanded by John de Witt. Albany. DUTCH EAST INDIA AND WEST INDIA COMPANIES. 1 1 with wonderful industry and perseverance he soon constructed a new vessel out of American oak, being a yacht with a keel thirty-eight feet long, forty-four and a half feet from stem to stern, and eleven and a half feet wide,* the first sail vessel probably ever built in America, with which he navigated the waters between Long Island and the main land, and getting embarrassed among the whirlpools of Hurlgate he indignantly termed them Helle-gadt, or hole of hell, or hellish hole, proceeding to Cape Holland, so called by Hudson, and then so called, and afterwards Cape Cod by the English, where he found his associate voyager, Hendrick Christiaansen, from whom he had been separated. Abandoning his own vessel at the cape he went on board of Christiaansen' s ship, and after fishing a while off the cape and exploring the bays and inlets westward and the Connecticut river, which they termed De Versche Rivere* The Fresh River, they returned to Manhattan. Christiaansen then proceeded up the Hudson, and on an island a little below the present city of Albany, on the west side of the river, built a redoubt,f fifty-eight feet square,^ surrounded with a ditch or moat eighteen feet wide, and having an equip- ment of eleven stone swivels§ and two brass pieces, and a garrison of ten or twelve soldiers, established himself for the winter, in the meantime, carrying on a desultory traffic with the natives. This fort was called Fort Nassouen|| (Nassau), and the island on which it was erected " Casteel Eylandt " castle island. The first com- mander of this establishment was Hendrick Christiaansen,** and its second his lieu- tenant, Jacques Elckens. Adrian Blockff and others returning to Holland the same autumn, furnished an account of these discoveries to the States General, with a mapjt exhibiting the same, * De Laet. memorandum stating that the map of which that is a f De Laet, pp. 299, 309, of N. Y. Hist. Soc. Col., copy, was attached to a memorial presented to the N. S. t See Map. States General in the year 1616. This was the mc- § " Steen Stucken," De Laet says " Swivels." morial presented by the company who discovered the || See Map, accompanying this work. The name coast between the 38 deg. and 40 deg. N. L. But is derived from the William of Nassau, Prince of in the memorial presented two years before (11 Oct., Orange, and hence the titles are used indiscriminately. 1614), allusion is also made to a map, and it seems In the map it is Nassau. De Laet, p. 309 of Hist, reasonable to infer that this, or a map Very similar to Soc. Col., has it " Orange." it, was made of the coasts and circumjacent territo- ** De Laet. "ft Ibid. ries, as early as that year. It is a valuable document, If This map still remains among the public archives not merely for its exhibition of the extent of the dis- in Holland. The public are indebted to the industry coveries made at that time, but as preserving the of our recent historical agent, Mr. J. R. Brodhead, original Dutch names of places along the coasts and for a beautiful copy of this map on parchment which is principal rivers, and the localities of the various now preserved in the Secretary of State's office, at tribes of Indians which then occupied the country. Albany. Deeming it a great curiosity, I have caused It will be perceived that it exhibits the French explo- a fac simile of it to be prepared and annexed to this rations as well as the Dutch, as far north as about work. On the copy obtained by Mr. Brodhead is a the 49. deg. of latitude. J 2 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. from the 40 deg. to the 45 deg. N. L., and a memorial praying for protection to their trade in those latitudes, by virtue of the general edict passed the twenty-seventh March preceding. An edict was accordingly issued for this purpose, designed to take efFect before or on the first day of January, 1615, allowing the company the exclu- 11 Oct. sive privilege of trading with those countries for a period of three year's* 1614. or for four successive voyages; and commanding the officers and ma- gistrates of those countries not to interfere with .their enjoyment of this privilege. Two years after, Corneliss Hendricksen in a small yacht named the " Onmst,"f built in New Netherland, discovering the American coast two degrees further 1616. south, from the 40 deg. to 38 deg., N. L., reported the same to the enter- prising proprietors of the expedition": Gerret Jacobsen Witsen, burgomaster of Amsterdam, Jonas Witsen, Lambrecht Van Tweenhuysen and Paulus Pelgrom,! Directors of New Netherland, who obtained from the States General an 16 Aug. ordinance similar to the one granted to the Amsterdam Licensed Trading Company, just mentioned. The first of these edicts is said to contain the original recognition of New Nether- land by their High Mightinesses the States General, and was the origin of the Amsterdam Licensed Trading Company, of not much consequence, however, except as filling the chasm between this period and that of the establishment of another extraordinary monopoly the Dutch West India Company, which era we are now approaching. A truce of twelve years with Spain, releasing her merchants from the embarrass- ments and perplexities of war, afforded them an opportunity to engage in commerce, and consequently to become wealthy, while her gallant and enterprising seamen, divested of employment by the dismantling of her ships of war, turned pirates, and plundered the very vessels which they had once deemed it an honor to navigate and defend. Holland, having the greatest commerce, suffered the most from these evils, and an application to France and England for assistance to remove them, proving unsuccessful, the government and wealthiest citizens determined on the organization of a national society, which should not only protect them from these grievances, but also contribute to the further extension of their commerce in remote regions, as well as the plantation of colonies in the newly-discovered countries of North America, and also last, though not least, opposing a colossal front to the antagonistical move- * See the grant itself among Mr. Brodhead's Col. f Restless. Hoi. Doc, Sec. of State's office, of Hoi. Doc, deposited in the Sec. of State's office, J Hoi. Doc, among Mr. Brodhead's collection. Albany. DUTCH EAST INDIA AND WEST INDIA COMPANIES. 13 ments of Spain and Portugal in Africa and America. The grant* to this company is dated the third day of June, 1621, and continues twenty-four years. The Amsterdam Licensed Trading West India Company, above alluded to, was also merged in this association. The following year (1622), another company entitled the Greenland Company was also organized, and the charter of the East India Company renewed the year after (1623) ; and thus originated three of the most extraordinary associations probably known in the annals of commerce. The Greenland Company was to defend the northern fisheries against encroachments from England and Denmark ; the East India Company to extend its magnificent empire in the Indies, and the West India Com- pany to exercise dominion over the Atlantic from the Cape of Good Hope, including the Guinea trade on the coast of Africa, to the Tropic of Cancer on the North, and embracing all the degrees of latitude from the south point of Newfoundland in America to the Straits of Magellan, that of Le Maire or others to the Straits of Anian, both in the North and South Sea ; to crush piracy, extend commerce, found colonies, and combat the power of Spain and Portugal in Africa and America, as well as on all occasions to act as the champions of civil and religious freedom throughout the world, were the grand primary objects of this association. The trade on the Hudson river, under the management of the Amsterdam Licensed Trading Company, becoming of sufficient importance to warrant more extensive efforts in its behalf, the West India Company, on obtaining their charter, began to adopt measures to convert this immense region into a source of still greater profit. The beaver and the otter, from time immemorial inhabiting and multiplying in those solitudes, and only disturbed in them by the solitary Indian desirous of obtaining a single skin for his own use, were now to be hunted in their tangled coverts and lonely retreats by savages stimulated by proffers of hatchets, knives, beads, guns, blankets, and fire water, to assemble in companies and commence a general war upon these now valuable denizens of the forest. Here commences the first radical change in the wilderness of North America. It is a fact well known that the bands of Indians scattered over the continent from the Atlantic to the great lakes, were remarkable for the facility with which any species of intelligence was transmitted among them. We pride ourselves on our mails and expresses as an achievement of modern civilization and science, but it is to be questioned whether a letter is now transmitted by mail to the barracks at Michilimackinack with greater facility than was conveyed the intelligence to the same region that the whites had located at Manhattan and Schenectadea,f at the * For charter of W. I. Company, see Gordon's Gaz. t Now Albany, of New York. Also Haz. Col. of state papers. 14 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. mouth and on s the banks of the Cahohatatea, for the purpose of establishing a system of commercial intercourse between themselves and the natives. To them it was an era of profit. They had only to send their squaws and young men with traps to the beaver dams on the innumerable streams which watered their country, while them- selves, loaded with fur, proceeding to the several depots carried on a continual trade with the whites for the various articles of European manufacture. The principle subject, therefore, now engrossing the attention of the Dutch West India Company was the best course to adopt in order to convert this Great River,* its fringe of wilderness, and natural products, into sources of gain. Land covered with heavy timber, such as Hudson had described, and inhabited by Indians, might be valuable so far as the fur trade was concerned, but then they had a desire also to make the soil itself productive. It readily occurred to them that if this could be effected, it would not only open new and inexhaustible resources in these regions, but it might also incidentally promote their trade with the natives. It was certainly important to have as many settlers in the country as possible. But in order to do this, encouragement must be given to emigration. It was not a pleasant reflection to a mechanic or farmer on the banks of the Rhine to exchange the land of his fathers for an uninhabited quarter of the globe, where he might be roasted by savages or devoured by wild beasts. Some strong temptation must be held out to induce him to do this. Hitherto the only individuals venturing into these remote solitudes, and residing at " Casteel Eylandt " and Manhattan, were reckless adven- turers, outcasts from the pale of civilized society, fit only for the barbarians among whom they had settled ; and it was all important that a more substantial class of citizens should be encouraged to emigrate. Fortunately, however, for the operations of this company at the present time, the Christian world had been fearfully convulsed. France, by her cruel and horrible persecutions, had expelled from her dominions hundreds of thousands of her most enlightened and wealthy citizens.f Many of these took refuge in Holland, the only government cherishing the true principles of toleration. These exiles, feeling abandoned to all worldly hopes and prospects, were ready to engage in any enterprise which promised future spiritual repose, and undis- turbed enjoyment of religion. Many of these families being in Holland at this time, it was thought that if some encouragement could be given to them, having no ties to bind them to their adopted country, they might be induced to emigrate to the * Hudson called the river which he discovered 500,000 of the best families, during this eventful Groote^ Riviere or Great River. period, fled from France, f Gifford, History of France, 4 vols, quarto, says FIRST EMIGRATION TO THE BANKS OF THE HUDSON. 15 The first yielding to this temptation was the family of Rapalje. Consequently, two years after the charter granted to the West India Company, SkaofYheHudson! a vessel, supplied with farming utensils, household furniture, 1623. and several private individuals, for the first time, sailed on a voyage to the mouth of the Hudson. The captain of this vessel was Kornelis Jacobsen Mey, in which Joris Jansen de Kapelje and his brother William took passage. Long and dreary was a voyage then across the Atlantic. Night after night the same heavens illumined with new constellations, and day after day the same illimitable field of waters, with abundance of strange wild birds, but no sail at any time in the horizon to relieve the monotony of the scene. The vessels then were smaller than now, rolling to and fro on the billows like a skiff of modern days. The cabins were cramped and uncomfortable, the decks narrow and dangerous when a heavy sea was rolling. Day after day they gazed on the watery horizon in hope of discovering that dim, misty outline, which argues the appearance of land ; and when it appeared, it was but a gloomy scene. Dark forests rose from the ocean, while at their base flashed the bright foam of the waters upon the rock-bound shore ! RAPALJE. Gtaspard Colet de Rapalje* was born in France, at Chatillon, Sur Loir, in 1505. He signalized himself during the reigns of Francis I. and Henry II., and was made a colonel of infantry Dec. 22, 1545. He became a Protestant, and when the king, in 1548, began to enforce the edicts issued against the Protestants with great severity, *The remark of President Henault concerning royal surnames of honor that it is often difficult to ascertain, not only the reason, but the time when they were conferred, must be admitted by all who attempt to investigate the origin of names. Of the name of Rapalje, the original spelling with the prefix de, the French sign of place and nobility, seems to intimate that it is the appellative of a place which has become a patronymic. The name is not in Vos- gien's French Geographical Dictionary, nor any other work of a similar character, that I have seen. It is difficult to imagine why Judge Benson, who is accounted a man of erudition, should, in his memoir, spell the name with the particle de elided, and with an apostrophe, which is unnecessary, unless it is where two vowels come together. The name should evidently be spelt with the particle in full. How- ever, as the present generation drop the particle altogether, it is not now of much consequence. The spelling of this name, as well as most others trans- planted to American soil, has been corrupted. It is spelt by some branches of the family Rapelye, Rapelja : N. Y. Rec. Rappelie, Ch. Rec. Rappalje, Alb. Rec. Rappaille, but these are no authority. Judge Benson, in a document deposited in the N. Y. Hist. Soc, spells it Rappelje, and in his memoir Rapalje. This or Rapelje is undoubtedly correct, as the French e has a broad sound equivalent to a, and vice versa. The name is probably of Italian ori- gin, Rapalla designating a town in Italy. More- over the family is considered to be Walloon or Walsch, which admits of two significations. Deduced from the old German word Wahle, whence the appella- tive Walsch-land, which signifies Italy, the family would be from' that country. But if Waal or Waalsch be considered, it would be of French origin. It is probable, however, that at a very early period the family migrated from Italy to France, and from thence to Holland in the sixteenth century, and in the seventeenth century to New Netherland. The name is still common in Hamburg and Belgium. RAPALJE. 17 he was deprived of his commission and compelled to flee to Holland. Here he married the daughter of Victor Antonie Janssen, a sign and house painter of Antwerp, hy whom he had three children, Gaspard Coligne de Rapalje, Abram Colet de Rapalje, and a daughter named Breckje. Breckje married her cousin, Victor Honorius Janssen, in 1569, by whom she had one son, Abram Janssen, who is said to have been an historical painter of considerable eminence.* Abram Janssen married, June 13th, 1594, a daughter of Hans Lodewyck,| of Amsterdam, by whom he had three sons, William Janssen de Rapalje, JorisJ Janssen de Rapalje, and Antonie van Salers, so called from the circumstance of inheriting a property left him by one of his grandfather's rela- tions, who resided at Salers, a town of France, in Upper Auvergne. The elder brother, WUliam Jansen de Rapalje (sometimes called the Chevalier), in consequence of a disappointment which affected him deeply, determined to emigrate to America ; and having persuaded his brother George to accompany him, he set sail in 1623 with the commercial agent of the West India Company, Peter Minuit, in the ship of Captain Korneliss Jacobse Mey. William never married. After having been a"merchant for several years in New Amsterdam, he died at Gravesend, L. I., in the house of his younger brother, Antonie Jansen Van Salers, who had followed his brothers in 1631. § Nearly opposite New Amsterdam, a little east of lands at present occupied by the city of Brooklyn, and near the Navy Yard, is a small bay or cove known as the Waale-Boght.|| On the point of land formed by this cove, and which lies on the * Abraham Janssens, an excellent artist, was born Cornelius Janssens, a Dutch painter, who died in at Antwerp in 1569, with a wonderful genius for England in 1665, left some portraits which were painting, and in his youth executed some pieces which esteemed equal to those of Vandyke, set him above all the young painters of his time ; Victor Honorius Janssens, a painter of Brussels, but becoming enamored of a young woman at Ant- who died in 1739, at the age of 75, employed his werp, whom he obtained in marriage, he gave him- pencil successfully in adorning the sacred buildings self up to a dissipated course of life, which soon of his native city. See Alexander Chalmer's Gen. impoverished him, and affected his temper. He grew Biog. Diet. London, 1814. Also Crabbs' Hist, jealous of Rubens, and sent a challenge to that paint- Diet., for a brief notice, er, with a list of the names of such persons as were f^Lodewyck, Eng. Ludovicus. to decide the matter, so soon as their respective works J Joris, Eng. George, should be finished ; but Rubens, instead of accepting § Judge Benson's Notes, in MS. the challenge, answered that he willingly yielded || Het Waale-Boght, signifies the Walloon Bay, as him the preference, leaving the public to do them is supposed, from the circumstance that Rapalje or justice. There are some of Janssens' works in the others who followed him were Walloon (a) or churches at Antwerp. He painted a descent from the cross for the great church of Boisleduc, which (o) Wa „ oonSi the i nhabi tants of the district situated be- has been taken for a piece of Rubens ; and is thought tween the Scheldt and the Lys, to which belongs a part of the DO Ways inferior to any of the works of that great former French Flanders, and the present French department* .... , . , .... x . , of the North and of the Channel (pas de Calaii). In a more painter; but his chief work is his resurrection of . „. ,, ,, . . ... . ,. . !*""*•> general sense, Walloons are the inhabitants of the former Lazarus in the Dusseldorf gallery. Henault, Namur, Luxemburg, Limborg, and of part of the 3 18 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. west of it, was built the first house on Long Island, inhabited by Joris Jansen de Rapalje, one of the first white settlers on the Island,* and in w b£n e tofl»° sSSK™ TcSS' which the first child of European parentage in the state was born. Her name was Sarah Rapalje. It is a tradition in the family that he brought from Holland .£1500 in money, a no trifling sum in those days. This house was made of logs in the usual primitive style, a story and a half high, with one room on the ground floor, appropriated as parlor, kitchen, and bedroom. The bed was screened by a curtain during the day. The room had an old-fashioned fireplace, without jambs, familiarly called a Dutch-back. On one side was a small shelf where articles of food were deposited and kept warm. Walschmen, from Guelderland, in Holland. See Judge Benson's Me., also Moulton's Hist, of New former bishopric of Liege, who speak Walloon or old French, considered by some as a relic of the ancient Gallic language, mixed, however, with Spanish, German, &.c, words. In the old geographical works we find » Walloon Flanders and a Walloon Brabant. The name either comes from Wal (water or sea), as these tribes in Germany lived on the sea-coast, or from the old German word Wahle, which signifies a foreigner, especially an Italian (hence Walnuts), and Walsch-land, in German, signifies Italy. In the same way the Polish word for foreigner is used to signify, particularly, a German. The Walloon Guards, which formerly constituted part of the Spanish household troops, were so called, because, as long as Spain was the mistress of the Netherlands, these guards were recruited from the Walloon part of Flanders. The Walloons in the thirty years war, were distinguished for valor and for their savage spirit. See Enc. Amer., also Art. in Rees. Enc. The Walloons, however, who emigrated to America were descendants of French Protestants, who fled from persecution. Sewall's definition of Wal is a shore, bank or wall. See his Woordenboek der Nederduitsche en Engelsche, 1766. Waal, however, has a different meaning. It is synoni- mous with Waalsch, French, and represents people of French extraction who spoke the old French and Dutch combined. Those people who emigrated to this country, were, undeniably, of French extraction, dating the arrival of their ancestors in Holland only a few generations previous to the time of their migration to this country. The word is correctly written Waal, Waalsch, Walsch-man, Walish-man, Waloon. Netherland. Tradition, however, has a different solu- tion. I was informed by a very elderly lady, a descendant of the family, that a whale had stranded in the bay at an early period, her parents had so in- formed her, and she had always supposed that that was the origin of the name. This is not improb- able. The derivative in that case, would be Waal- visch, the prefix wal only being retained, as in the former case, for in the name Walloon a similar abbreviation takes place. Instead of Walloon-boght, or bogt, as it is in more modern Dutch, abbreviated to Wal-boght, we should have Walvisch-boght, abbre- viated in a similar manner Wal-boght or Wal-bogt. We must substitute then for the bay where the Wal- loon settled, the bay where the whale stranded. The word has been corrupted to Wallabout, and in Indian and Dutch maps to Wal-bocht. * Judge Mersereau, in some MSS. deposited in the New York Hist. Soc, says Rapalje first landed on Staten Island. This is not improbable. His curiosity being naturally arrested by the pleasant woodland and eminences of that delightful island while entering the harbor, before the location which he subsequently occupied at the Wal-boght could become known to him. RAPALJE. 19 PEDIGREE. Joris Jansen de Rapalje had children as follows : Sarah, born June 9th, 1625, married 1st, Han Hanse Bergen, and, 2d, Teunis Gisbert Bogaert. Marretie, born March 11, 1627, " Machiel Van De Voert. Jannetie, born August 16, 1629, " Rem Remsen Van de Beeck. Judick, born July 5, 1635, " Pieter Van Nist. Jan, born August 28, 1637, " Marya Maer. No children. Jacob, born May 28, 1639, killed by Indians. Catalyntie, born March 28, 1641, married Jivimias Westenhout. Died without issue. Jeronimus, born January 17, 1643, " Annetie, the daughter of Van Teunis Denis. Annetie, born February 8, 1646, " Marte Reyerse. Elizabet, born March 28, 1648, " Cornelius Dirrick Hogelant. Daniel, born December 29, 1650, " Sara Clock. See Judge Benson's MS., in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Also Ch. Rec. of N. Y. for births, from the year 1639. His son Jan, mentioned above, which means John in English, also had another wife either before or after his marriage with Maria Maer, who died without children. Her name was Antie Coerta, by whom he had issue. A son Frederick is mentioned in Ch. Rec. N. Y. Bap., April 13, 1662. He would therefore be twenty-five years old on the birth of his son. I, therefore, conclude that this was either his first marriage, or else his first wife died very soon after wedlock, and he married his second wife soon after her decease. The genealogical table, annexed, shows his descendants residing in Missis- sippi, Poughkeepsie, Brooklyn and England. Also the descendants of Jeronimus or Jeromus, residing at Fishkill, Dutchess county, Onondaga county, and New York. Numerous descendants of this family living at Newtown, Brooklyn, New Utrecht, Flatbush, Cripplebush, Bushwick, New Lotts, Flushing, Hallet's Cove, Oyster Bay, and Williamsburgh, Long Island, are derived through his son Jeromus, who married Hilletye Vechte. Descendants, also of this branch of the family are in Canada. Some are in New Jersey. George Rapalje, recently deceased in the city of New York, and at the time of his death a man of vast wealth, was descended from the first Jeromus, through a son Theunis. He is the author of a book of travels. 20 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. JOFJS JANSEN DE RAPALJE Sarah 1623. Founds Brooklyn, L. J. Dianah Middag Joris ( Gerardus Cornelia m Duyckinck Anna Abraham Lott No children. Helen Denis 1730 Of the Narrows. Gerret* Johnf jSusan Livingston Gerardus O. S. May 31, born at Brooklyn, resided at the "Waalboght. Importer. 1 John Fisher m. Dianah 2 Lemuel Sawyer Of Brooklyn. §Jane n Jacob Wilkins m. Anne ij-eorge of Now yort , Anne m. Taylor Of Foughkecpsie. Isaac Died a bachelor, buried in Brooklyn. Colonel Peter Welden Norwich, England. No children. Annatie Van Brunt Of New Utrecht, L. I. Goldstone Lutwyche Colonel in the British Army. m. Catharine Helen m. Anthony Glass Vicksburg, Miss. * Gerrit, who subsequently removed to New Or- leans, owned the Waalbogt. fjohn owned the lands lying between Fulton street and the Navy Yard. He was a member of Assembly. On the 27th Oct., 1779, he was attainted for having abetted and adhered to the enemies of this state during the Revolution, and his property confis- cated. On the 31st Oct., 1780, the same property was sold to Richard Townsend, by indenture of lease and release, for the sum of .£3,750, this currency. J Susan daughter of Dr. Henry Livingston. § Jane Rapalje, fascinated with gold lace and epaulets, at the sweet age of seventeen, eloped with a British officer, and was married by the Reverend Mr. Walters, of Trinity Church, Broadway, New York. This officer, Edward Goldstone Lutwyche, was colonel of a regiment in New Hampshire, in 1767. He owned a fine farm pleasantly situated on the banks of the Merrimack. See Hist. Col. New Hamp- shire, and Month. Lit. Jour., i, 64, 89. BAPALJE. 21 1643. * Jeromus 26th Ma; baptized, Annetie Denis 1682. Jeromus 31 Mar. born, Hilletye Vechte Altje Jeromus Van Artzdalen 22 Sept., 1719, Elizabeth Catalina Brinkerhoof John m. Hooglandt r Margaret Schouten Abraham B. Aletta m. (H" Newtown, L. I. James de Bois, Of Bushwich. Elizabeth Bedell Jeromus Of Heroptead, L. I. Abraham B. Resides in Onondaga County. Stephen Surgeon in the Navy. Richard Resides at Louisville, Ry. Phcebe m. Samuel Brown Resides at Fishkill. William Resides in Onondaga County. Catharine m. Teunis Brinckerhooff Of New York. 1758, Feb. 8. No children. 1. Jane Van Wyck 2. Aletta Van Wyck?|E& fSml' Richard 3. Ann Currie Farmer. Rachel Van Voorhis 1 Sarah 2 Johng-^SKSUL Richard Ann Catharine 3 Abraham B. Waldron 5 Elizabeth 6 Aletta 7 Ann M. 8 Jane M. 4 Sylvanus Susan Van Voorhis Denis W. William Susan A. Stewart Jeromus Adriana * Jeromus, according to Egbert Benson, born Jan. 27, 1643, owned the valuable estate lying south of Fulton street, called Redhook. JOHNSON. This family, though wearing an English surname, is originally of French, and more immediately of Holland extraction. The ancestor of the family in America is Antonie Janssen Van Salers,* the brother of Joris Janssen de Rapalje (see ante p. 17). Acquiring this title from an inheritance left him hy one of his grand-fathers' relations, who resided at Salers, a town of France, in Upper Auvergne. He was born in Holland, and emigrated to America in 1631. If Sake is the place of his origin, then the family is probably descended from the Salii or Salians,f those barba- rians who lived on the banks of the Sale and on the island Batavi, and afterwards, in connection with other barbarians, overwhelmed Gaul with their incursions, and became known as the Franks. Van Salers or Sake was expunged from the rest of the name about the third generation after the arrival of the family in New Netherland, and the simple patronymic Janssen retained, composed of the Dutch compounds jan * This is Judge Benson's orthography, but in the of this family than what is intimated on page 18. old patents and records it is Sake. Is not this meant In their migrations to the countries south of the for Salle, a town in the dept. of the Gard., 15 m. Meuse, some families of the Salii probably dispersing E. N. E. of Vigan, pop. 1280. Judge Benson, and blending with the other barbarians found their however, probably refers to a small -village in the way into Italy at an early period, and from thence to department of Cantal (Auvergne) called Salers. France, and finally back again to Holland, the ori- (Salers petite ville du dep. du Cantal (Auvergne) ginal scene of their wanderings. Among these was comm. de bestiaux, chevaux, fromages, fabr. de fil et probably the family of Rapalje. Still the deducing toile," &c. Nouveaux Dictionnarie Geographique the extraction of individuals from the names of par Vosgien.) places, I acknowledge to be exceedingly dubious. f We must then go back still further, for the origin JOHNSON. 23 and zoon. Zoon corrupted to sen. Hence Jan-sen, English John-son, which has the same signification as in English, viz : the son of John. A singular fatality has befallen this patronymic. The inhabitants of the section where Antonie resided, supposing from his title that he was from Sallee, in Barbary, gave him the singular nickname of Antonie the Turk, and this nickname being perpetuated by some of the descendants as a surname, a distinct family has thus originated, bearing the singular cognomen Turk.* Antonie Janssen was founder of Gravesend (Grave-zande), a small but pleasant village, situated on the south-western extremity of Long Island, GraT fou"d< ! d°if3i! land ' about twelve miles from the Wal-boght where his brother resided. The patent of lands there granted in his name, bears date August 1st, 1639, see Book 1, p. 124, Alb. Rec, comprising one hundred morgans,f extending along the strand two hundred and fifty-three rods opposite Coney Island. This family has been distinguished for extraordinary strength. Antonie himself, the ancestor of the family, was a man of great vigor, and this might have been another reason, besides the one already alledged, why he obtained the singular nickname which we have mentioned. His grandson William being equally remark- able as a man of gigantic size and proportionable muscle ; it being confidently asserted by his descendants that he carried at one time five bags of wheat from his barn to his house, seventy-five yards, and up a steep stairs, one under each arm, one in each hand, and one in his teeth. * I am indebted for this singular fact to Gen. Jere- day, Mr. Charles Dickens, has the soubriquet of miah Johnson of the Wal-boght, a lineal descendant Richardson : Dickenson with the final on omitted, of Antonie. Those, however, who have the good for- The hero of New Orleans and distinguished President tune to derive their blood from this reputable stock, and of the United States, writes Jacfcson for Johnson, the who belong to this branch of the family, should not original and genuine surname of his family. We feel indignant towards their grandsires for entailing have Dickson, Dixon, Dickenson for Richardson ; upon them this unchristian nickname, and inuendo Bill for William ; Bilson, Wills, Wilson, Wilks, Wil- of a Moorish origin. Almost every person is simi- kens, Wilkenson, for Williamson, &c. &c, without larly unfortunate. A much respected Secretary of end. the State ot New York, General Dix, has the nick- f A morgan is little less than two acres, name of Richard. A popular writer of the present 24 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. PEDIGREE. The family of Antonie Janssens, of Gravesend : Claes, died Sept. 11, 1642. Pieter, died in 1696. Four sons, Hans-Pieter, Rem-Jan, Daniel-Rapelle, and Jan. Barent, died in 1698. Three sons, Jan Barentse, Jeronimus de Rapelle, and Lodewyck. Hendrick. MSS. Notes of Judge Benson, also Notes by General Jeremiah Johnson in my possession. The genealogical table following traces down the descendants of Barent and Hen- drick, residing at the "Wal-boght and Jamaica, Long Island. The other sons removed at an early period to New Jersey and Dutchess county, N. Y., from whom several respectable families, at Salem, in New Jersey, near Newark, N. J., and in Ulster and Dutchess counties, N. Y., deduce their extraction. Note. — We have here three distinct families sprung another famtly commenced by the name of Johnson, from one ancestor. The title is retained by the de- by changing its Dutch patronymic Janssens into Eng- scendants of one brother and the surname expunged, lish Johnson ; and finally a popular nickname of and a distinct family thus perpetuated by the name their ancestor is adopted by the ramifications of this of Rapalje. The title is omitted by the descendants branch of the family, and another family founded by of another brother and the surname retained (that of the name of Turk. These are some of the curiosi- a family into which an ancestor inter-married), and so ties of genealogical investigation. AMERICAN GENEALOGY. ANTONIE JANSSENS VAN SALERS* 1 d 9 1 Emigrates lo A merica. ■*■ " ° ■*• • Founds Gravesend, L. I. Claes 11 Sept., 1642, Died. Barent 1698. Died. 25 Hendrickf StillweU Settled at \ /Of Gravesend, L. I. Grave s end. Jan Barentse^: Catelina %£?'• Schenck 23 Sept. 1732. Claes Settled at Six Mile Hun, N. J. Barent & William Settled at Gravesend. im Maria m. Douw Ditmarse toT^t n0ra ° 8 1735. Catelina Dies unmarried. 1737 . Elizabeth m. Abraham Ditmarse Oatnarme D ies uom aiTied. " UI1I1 Dies unmarried. Ann Remsen§ tin.*' Barent|| ¥Bom at Jamaica. 1742 . Martin m. Phoebe Rapalje Born at Jamaica. me"' Gen. Jeremiah m. Sarah Rapalje Bom at the Wal-boght. Elizabeth f 7 el n - Catelina m. Abraham Messerol John B. Luptonff Jeromus Di0 . unmarried. J Onn Di es unmarried. May 11, 1797, ft^-John 1775 . Jeromus m. Mary Carpenter r Go^en. IVlartin Dies unmarried. Maria L. m. Rev. Evan M. Johnson Rector of St. John's Cb. Brooklyn. Rev. "William L. m. Mary Whitlock Resides at Jamaica, L. I. Rev. Samuel R. m. Elizabeth Johnson Resides at Lafayette, Of Hyde Park, N. Y. Indiana. * Anthony Janssens married a Quakeress. His estate, in 1673, was assessed at one thousand guilders. See N. Y. Hist. Soc. Col., N.S. i., 387. f Hendrick had four sons. Jan settled at Graves- end ; Claes settled at Six Mile Run, New Jersey ; Barent and William, the latter renowned for his great strength, settled at Gravesend, L. I., altered their names to Johnson. William owned Coney Island. J Jan Barent-sen, literally John the son of Barent, to distinguish him from Jan the son of Henry. § Ann daughter of Jeromus Remsen, of Newtown, L. I. || Barent Johnson, son of John, took an active part during the Revolutionary war, against Britain for which he and his family suffered much indignity. ** Maria, daughter of Capt. John Guest, who died at Antigua, April 8, 1769. ff Elizabeth, daughter of Wm. Lupton, of New York. MANORS AND PATROONS IN NEW NETHERLANDS. From the organiztion of the West India Company in 1621, to 1630, little was done towards colonizing the banks of the Hudson. It was now six years since 1629. the first emigrant landed at the Waalboght, and the primeval forest, in which were the wigwams of savages, still overspread the ancient soil of New Nether- lands. On the borders of this illimitable wilderness, at the western extremity of Long Island, in a small opening made by the axe of the emigrant, near Brooklyn, the ancient Marechkawieck of the Aborigines, a single column of smoke appearing above its dark, green expanse, proclaimed the only cabin of an European settler. The trade with these regions continued to prosper ;* the vessels of the company, per- forming annual voyages, freighted with peltries, such as bear, deer, elk, muskrat, beaver, otter, ermine, and fox skins ;f and agricultural products, beans, Indian corn, barley and tobacco, and occasionally oysters and clams, from Sewanhacky, or the Island of Shells,% but I have not discovered that a single family, with the exception of the one already mentioned,§ emigrated to New Netherlands, during this * In the year 1624 the commerce of New Nether- in signification with the one here given to Long lands amounted to four thousand beavers and seven Island by the Delawares, viz : Sanc'ha Dvrina which hundred otters, valued at 27,125 guilders ; in 1629, also signifies island of shells. See Capt. Wilford's five thousand, nine hundred and thirteen beavers and Art. in Asiat. Res. vol. iii., p. 342. six hundred and eighty-one otters, valued at 62,185 § A respectable Dutch author, Hermanus Meiier, guilders. De Laet's Hist. W. I. Co. Compare also in his annals of the Netherlands (Kort Verhaal der N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., New Series, i. Nederlantsche Geschiedenissen, etc., door Hermanus fDeLaet,inN.Y.Hist. Soc. Coll., N. Series, i. 299. Meijer, te Groningen, 1747), says several Dutch J It is a remarkable circumstance that there is on families emigrated in 1624. It may be ■ I have not the borders of the Red Sea, in Egypt, a country, discovered their descendants, anciently known by a name, exactly corresponding MANORS AND PATROONS IN NEW NETHERLANDS. 27 whole period. Numerous adventurers came over for the purpose of trading with the Indians, young men,* principally without families. After a few months spent at Fort Orange, New Amsterdam, or along the principal rivers, bays and inlets through Long Island Sound, on the shore of Long Island or Connecticut, along the Jersey shore, around Staten Island or "Sand Punt" trading with the natives, some perished, and some intermarrying with the Indiansf remained in the country, while the ma- jority returned to Holland. About this period, however, a more general interest began to prevail in Holland concerning New Netherlands, occasioned by a publication, which appeared from the pen of Jan de Laet, one of the directors of the West India Company, entitled A History of the West Indies,^ being a history of New Netherlands, and which shows that the ancient appellation bestowed by Columbus upon the countries which he discovered, was not yet supplanted by more modern titles. This work§ was published at Leyden in 1625, and was designed to furnish an accurate description of the soil, climate, and products of New Netherlands, as well as to encourage emigration thither. It attracted a good deal of attention. Still emigration languished, although the interests of the Company, as well as those of the general government, required the country to be colonized. Independent of the agricultural interest, the fur trade and fisheries required a much larger population than could be introduced into the country for a long period. But the great difficulty was, that those who wished to emigrate were unable to defray the expense of transporting themselves and families across the Atlantic ; while those who could do so, having the means of a comfortable subsistence, in their own country, preferred remaining there. It was thought, therefore, that some scheme which would induce men of influence and capital to undertake the colonization of the country, at their own expense, would overcome the principal obstacles now in the way of colonization ; and the half-starved redundant population of the Netherlands, re- moved to the banks of the Hudson, would soon transform that whole region into beautiful farms, orchards, and villages. To effect this, however, business tact and * See Colonial Records, iv, 2, where mention is Beschryvinghe van West Indien, uit veeldcrhande made of the age of several traders. Schriften ende aen-teekeninghen van verscheyden f See account of conference held with the Indians, natien by een versamelt Door Joannes de Laet. Ende by de Vries and others, March 4, 1643. De Vries' met noodighe kaerten ende tafels voorsien. Tot Voyages, in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., N. S., i. 271. Leyden, In de Druckerye van Isaack Elzevier, Anno The statement is made on the authority of the 1625." In 1633 a Latin edition was also published Sachem's assertion. under the title of "Novus Orbis, seu descriptionis t It will be seen by reference to page 12, that the India? Occidentalis, Autore Joanne de Laet. Antuerp- name New Netherlands, was recognised in public iensi," &c. This work is not so exaggerated as the documents lon°- previous. verbal reports of the country which were circulated. §His work is entitled: "Nieuwe Wereldt ofte 28 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. commercial genius were necessary, and they were not wanting. And hence arose that extraordinary institution of Patroonships and Manorial Grants, which we propose to consider, as commencing a new epoch in the history of this country. This institu- tion was remarkable, considering the age and government in which it originated. Holland, at this era, was distinguished for her liberal policy and religious toleration ; and we cannot but wonder that she should so far forget her own professions, as to countenance an institution like that refered to. Still it must be remembered that although a great reformation had transpired among the governments of Europe, in an exchange of the feudal for the monarchical system, the barons having surrendered their prerogatives to their sovereign; the elements of popular freedom, or even of a constitutional and liberal monarchy, were not established, even, in Holland. While the noble, merchant, and artizan, were principally benefitted by this reformation ; the tiller of the soil was as much a slave as ever. We should not be surprised, there- fore, if we find in the organization of this remarkable institution, designed for the purpose of aggrandizing a few wealthy individuals, that the political franchises of the latter class were entirely overlooked. The truth is, that, in Holland, a political was exchanged for a commercial despotism; odious monopolies and grasping cor- porations were substituted for the tyranny of barons, and all the appendages of feu- dalism. The patroonships of New Netherlands may justly be regarded as nothing less than an odious form of feudal aristocracy transferred to American soil.* They were founded upon a charter entitled "A Charter of Liberties and Exemptions to Patroons Masters, &c," granted in 1629, and published at Amsterdam the following year.f It comprised twenty-nine articles. It offered to any individual transporting to New Netherlands, at his own expense, fifty emigrants, over fifteen years of age, within four *It is pleasing, however, to reflect, that Rensse- f This charter had the following title : laerwyck, the only manor of this description remain- « Vryheiden by de Vergaderinghe van de Negen- ing at the present day, has become gradually divested thiene van de geoctroyeerde West-Indische Com- of its manorial character. Shaking off its feudal trap- pagnie vergunt aen alien den ghenen, die eenighe pings on becoming merged in the federal government, colonien, in Nieuw-Nederlandt sullen 'planten. In it possesses nothing, at the present day, which can het licht ghegheven, &c. T'Amsteredam door be considered in the least offensive to our republican Marten Jantz Brandt, &c. Anno 1630 " institutions. Its court-led and court-baron were ex- « Liberties or privileges, granted by the Assembly of changed for sheriffs, constables, justic^|of peace, Nineteen of the authorised West India Company to and the judiciary system of the state government; all such as shall or may settle or plant any colony in and from a feudal vassal the tenant has become trans- New Netherlands. Published with a view to make formed into a citizen of the general government, with known what profits and advantages result to colonists no other relation between himself and proprietor than and their patroons or masters, as also to others who that of landlord and tenant, and we have evidence of settle colonies in New Netherlands." Moulton 389 the fief becoming allodial in the recent subdivision of the estate among the children of the late patroon. MANORS AND PATROONS IN NEW NETHERLANDS. 29 years after giving notice to the chambers at home, or the director and council in New Netherlands, a territory twelve miles in length, if situated on a coast, and six miles if on both sides of a river, running back into the country " as far as the situation of the occupiers will permit.* The territory was made a manor, with feudal appendages. The individual thus undertaking colonization, was designated, in the charter, as a patroon,! and en- dowed with baronial honors. He had, for example, the prerogatives of sovereignty over the domain which he thus acquired; administered the laws personally, or by functionaries of his own appointment; appointed his own civil and military, as well as judiciary officers ; and had magazines, fortifications, and all the equip- ments of a feudal chieftain. His tenants owed him fealty and military service, as vassals ; all adjudications in his courts were final, with the exception of civil suits, amounting to $20.83$ and upwards, when an appeal lay from the judgment of the patroon to the Director General and council, and it is probable, that a similar remedy was also afforded in all criminal offences affecting "life and limb;" this being one of the modifications already engrafted upon the feudal sovereignties of Europe. The whole, as a political machinery, was admirable. The tenant on the manor ac- knowleged fealty to the patroon, while the latter acknowledged the same to the director general and council, and these last to the central government. We thus have a subordinate sovereignty within a more extensive domain, and moving in harmony with it, and the whole in harmony with the general government. The privileges of the patroon on his manor were similar to those of a baron of England. Game and fish within his own territorial limits, were under his own supervision^ Milling privileges, minerals and pearl fisheries if discovered, were his personal emoluments, which last provision was one of those numerous extravagan- cies that for a long period, allured the mercantile adventurers of Europe, parti- cularly exemplified in the El Dorado of Spanish adventurers ; the discoverer receiv- ing a gratuity from the patroon, according to an agreement previously made be- tween them. He could engage with his vessels in the cod fishery along the coast of New Netherlands, the trade in which had become profitable in Europe, transporting the same to Italy or any other neutral country; first paying to the company a fee of recognition of six guilders per last.\\ The patroon, however, was exempt from all recognition for a period of eighL years, only paying during that time two per cent freight, and afterwards one-eighth oPwbat the freight might be worth in Holland. * See Charter Art. 5. § Art. 6. + A Dutch word, signifying proprietor or patron. || Art. 23. A last, applied to the size of ships, t See Char., Art. 20., where the amount is called is reckoned at four thousand pounds weight. — Sewall's 50 guilders. Woord - Md - on En S- 30 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. The charter prohibited the manufacture of linen, woolen, cotton or other fabrics in the colonies, under the penalty of arbitrary punishment "as perjurors," and banish- ment from the colony,* a singular enactment, but made to prevent competition with the mother country. By the 30th article of this extraordinary instrument, slaves might be imported into the colony, and only fulfil a requisition of the charter! It also encouraged a minister and schoolmaster to be maintained in the province, that the cause of edu- cation and religion might not be neglected.f With this brief notice of the prominent principles of the charter, others of which will be mentioned in their proper place, we proceed to explain the machinery, by which the business of the West India Company was managed. The company consisting of stockholders organized into an association, the busi- ness of course, had to be conducted by a few individuals, selected for that purpose, by the votes of its members. First, five chambers or departments composed of directors chosen from among the members were stationed in different places, as follows: One at Amsterdam, consisting of twenty directors, and managing four- ninths of its business ; another at Zealand, consisting of twelve directors, having charge of two-ninths of its business; and the remaining three, consisting of four- teen directors each, and each managing one-ninth of its concerns, were es- tablished at Maeze of North Holland, one at North Holland, and one at Friesland.i Provinces or cities, having no departments, contributing one hundred thousand guilders to the general fund, could be admitted into the association, and have a proportionable number of directors. After this, a certain number of directors were selected from the different departments, as follows: eight from the chamber at Amsterdam ; four from that of Zealand ; two from that of each of the others, and one appointed by the States General, who could also appoint others if necessary to share in their deliberations^ to represent the government interest, and organized into a distinct body, denominated the College of Nineteen, having the management of all the business of the company with the exception of declaring war, which could not be done without the approbation of the States.|| The business of New Netherlands, however, increasing, the College of Nineteen finding the concerns of the Company too burdensome, and the constitution of the general government, having h^m revised so as to admit of it, nine commissioners chosen from among the directoWwere located at Amsterdam, who took the entire management of all business appertaining to New Netherlands. Great advantages were soon realized from the charter; several merchants and capi- talists from among these nine commissioners, viz : Samuel Bloemart, Samuel Goobeyn, * Charter, Art. 29. f Art. 27. J Stadt en Lande. § Art. 18. II Art. 19. MANORS AND PATROONS IN NEW NETHERLANDS. 31 ofNew'NMbSds. Her Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, and Jan de Laet, the historian of New Netherlands, encouraged by the munificent provisions of the charter, determined to engage in colonization. The same year therefore, with the granting of the charter, they despatched three vessels to New Netherlands, to ascer- 1629. tain the most desirable locations for manorial grants. One* of these vessels entered New Port May, or Delaware Bay as now designated; the voyagers landing in the south-west corner of the bay, visited an Indian settlement in the neighborhood, and beholding a fertile and beautiful country, purchased of the natives, in behalf of Samuel Goodeyn, " for a few parcels of goods," an June 1. extensive tract, extending from cape Hinloop, to the mouth of the river, thirty-two miles in lengthf and two miles in breadth, comprehending what are now the two lower counties of Delaware, which may be considered the first transfer of real estate within the limits of New Netherlands. This purchase was recognized by the euphonious appellation of Swaenendael, or Valley of Swans. $ The following year also, another purchase was made for Samuel Goodeyn and Samuel Bloemart, of nine resident chiefs, owners of Cape May, of the 1630. land at that cape; sixteen miles in length along the bay, and sixteen miles May. in breadth, containing sixty-four square miles. Having thus obtained pos- session of his lands, his next object was to colonize them. It was ne- cessary to have some competent person to take charge of the enterprise. It hap- pened, about this time, that there arrived at Amsterdam a distinguished individual by the name of David Pieterszen de Vries, who had been in the employ of the United Provinces in the East Indies, as master of artillery, returning about two months previous; who consented to take charge of the enterprise on con- dition that a copartnership of patrobns should be established, in which 1630. he should be recognized on equal terms with the other patroons,§ which Oct. 16. having been effected, and a ship and yacht prepared for the purpose, he sailed from Amsterdam on the 12th Dec, 1630, for the Zuydt River* or * Was not Jelmer Hinloopen, a Dutch navigator of f Eight Dutch miles, large measure. The deed some celebrity, commander of this vessel ? Or was was executed by three principal chiefs in behalf of he concerned in the expedition under the command of the tribe, viz : Querquakos, Esaugues and Siconesius. skipper Korneliss Jacobsen Mey who visited the It bears date July 15, 1630, and recites the purchase Delaware seven years previous? We find his name made Junjj|g, 1629, in consideration of certain par- attached to the southern cape of Delaware. I am eels of PP§ r received. Compare Moulton's New encouraged in this suggestion by the learned Lam- Neth., p. 401. brechtsen. " De twee kapen der zuid-rivier zyn naar % See Moulton's Hist, of New Netherlands, p. 407. zekeren, waarschynleyk Jelmer Hinlopen (vergelyk § Other patroons were also afterwards added, viz : Scheltema Rusland en de Nederlanden, I. D., vol. Matthys Van Keulen, Nicholaes Van Sittorigh, 53), en Kornelis Jacobse Mey, Kaap- Hinlopen, en Harnick Koeck and Hendrick Harael. See De Kaap-Mey genoemd, en de West-Kaap der Noord- Vries' Voyages, in N. Y. Hist. Soc. Col. i, 250, New Rivier godins^nmt." Lambrecht. (Moulton.) series. 32 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. South River, the Delaware as now termed, in lat. 38 deg. 31 min., with colonists, seed, cattle, implements for the whale fishery, and merchandize for barter, amounting to fifty-seven thousand four hundred and ninety -nine guilders.f The colonists, entering the Delaware, constructed on the banks of a navigable creekj: about two leagues from Cape Cornelius, a temporary build- svreenendaei colonized, ^^ f \ g Sj near the present site of Lewistown, surrounded with 1631. palisades without parapets, answering as a place of rendezvous and trading-house. The season proving mild, the remainder of the winter was passed without much inconvenience, and De Vries in the spring, having occasion to return to Holland, left the colony, composed of thirty-four colonists, under the care of GJ-illis Osset, an individual not at all fitted for such a responsibility. While absent, the plantation was entirely destroyed by the savages. In the 1632. autumn of the following year, De Vries made a second voyage to the South River. After vainly endeavoring to ascertain the perpetrators of the massacre, he sailed for Virginia, and afterwards to New Amsterdam, where he re- mained till the summer of 1633, when he returned to Holland. His attempts at colonization proving abortive, he relinquished his connection with the association of patroons; and thus ended his efforts to plant a colony on the Delaware river. The lands comprised in this settlement, it is supposed, extended as far as Slaughter Creek, in Sussex county, and the whole plantation included within the limits of Goodeyn's purchase extending to the "Little Tree's Corner," as vernacularly de- signated, or, more barbarously, Bombay Hook,\ received the classical appellation of Swaenendael, or Valley of Swans, now comprehending the counties of Sussex and Kent. The next manor founded was Rensselaerwyck, and this was followed by one in New Jersey, opposite New York, styled Pavonia; the patroon of which, was pfvoSa. Michael Pauuw, Heer Van Achthienhoven,|| and hence the name Pavonia. We find, therefore, three manors in contemplation in 1630, in New Nether- lands. One by Samuel Goodeyn, called Swaenendael, the Valley of Swans, on the De- laware; one by Michael Pauuw, entitled Pavonia, the Land of Peacocks,!! in New Jersey; and another by Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, called Rensselaerwyck, on the Hudson. * Zuyd-Rivier, or South River, so^^nated in || Lord of Achthienhoven, one of the directors of contradistinction to the Hudson, wh^Hras called the West India Company. Mord Rivier or North River. IT From Pauuw, a Dutch word, signifying a pea- t See De Laet's Hist, of the W. I. Company. cock, or pavo, a Latin word of the same signification, J Horekill. or may ; t not poss ibly be derived from the proprietor, § Bombayhook, in pure vernacular, Boompjes hoeck, Pauuwonia. of which the former is a corruption. VAN RENSSELAER. The first ancestor of this family in America, was De Heer Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, 1 who was born in the dorp, or village of Niewkirk, province of Gelderland, Netherlands. He was, originally, a pearl and diamond merchant, but had, at the period referred to, be- come a Director of the Dutch West India Company, and one of the nine commissioners appointed to take charge of thsft part of the business of the association, which referred to New Netherland, at Amsterdam. This was a short time previous to the promul- gation of the charter of liberties and exemptions to patroons, already mentioned. He was, evidently, one of the most sagacious and enterprising among the patroons, as we find him, immediately after the publication of the charter above mentioned, availing himself of the advantages of his connexion with the company, to obtain extensive grants of land in New Netherland, which remain in the possession of the family at the present day. There is one individual, however, considerably identified with this period, to whom we must allude in this connection, viz. : Wouter Van Twiller, subsequently Director-general of New Netherland, a near 1 It may be worth while to observe that De Vries, mic, it would be more in accordance with the laws in his journal, in Coll. of New York Historical Society, of language to conjoin it with the rest of the name, v. 1, p. 264, N. S., writes this name without the Van. thus : VanjMMlaer. De Heer signifies the Lord, The fact is, this prefix means simply of, and is a sign of having rell B^riginally to nobility, though, in this place. The name Van Rensselaer, originally referring instance, ll^Rl more properly denote, "thepatroon." to the place where the family resided, or owned pro- It is, also, sometimes employed merely as a title of perty, was subsequently adopted as a surname. The respect, analagous to the monosyllable Sir, or Mr., Van, therefore, is evidently superfluous. However, in English, as it has now become by usage, a part of the patrony- 5 34 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. relative of Mr. Van Rensselaer, and from the same -place, viz. : Niewkirk. Their rela- tionship, was as follows: Van Rensselaer had a sister Maria, who married Rykert Van Twiller, and also a son Johannes, who married Elizabeth Van Twiller, probably his cousin, and a daughter of the above Rykert; and as we find their children Kiliaen and Nelle, making provision for the maintenance, during her natural life, of an aunt named Petermeler Van Twiller, 1 residing at Niewkirk, in 1686 ; we are irresistibly led to the conclusion, that Wouter Van Twiller was the son of Rykert, just mentioned, which making him a brother of Elizabeth, who married Johannes Van Rensselaer, would also make him related to Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the first patroon, so far as to be his nephew. Now is it not probable, that the subsequent honors and emoluments which Van Twiller received from his first appointment as clerk in the office of the Amsterdam commissioners, together with his mission to New Netherland, in- June, 1629, to select for his uncle and patron, as is conjectured by Moulton, 2 a suitable location for a manor, to his final elevation in 1633, 3 to the high honor of director- general of Netherland, may all be attributed to this relationship. Rensselaerwyck. 4 — There is among the ' family memorials of Rensselaerwyck, a handsome topographical map, made according to an inscription upon it, in 1630, representing a portion of the Hudson river, from Coeymans to the mouth of the Mohawk, a distance of 24 miles, with the islands, and, what is more curious still, the original Dutch names of places, in the neighborhood, recorded upon it. It seems, from this map, that the region between Coeymans and Fort Orange, on the west side of the river, was called Bylaer , s s Dal ; that between Port Orange and the Mohawk, Weely's Dal ; e that on the opposite side of the river, Pasraat's or Pajraefs Dal; 7 adjoining this, on the south, was Twillaefs Dal; 8 what is now Greenbush, was 1 Eng. Pernielia. Kiliaen's Will. 4 The legitimate meaning of Wyck, or Wyk, is' a ' Moulton's Hist, of New Neth., p. 400. retreat or place of refuge ; it signifies also, a ward, 3 The time of his arrival to assume the duties of quarter, or parish. It seems, however, in its various this office, is settled hy De Vries, in his journal (a), uses with us ' t0 designate, vernacularly, a town, set- where he informs us that on returning from Virginia tlement > or domain > f °r example, Eensselaer's-reyk, the to Holland, in one of his voyages, he stopped at Fort domam or manor of Eens selaer; Bever-wyk, Bever- Amsterdam, where he beheld the De Zoutberg (£), toWn < or ^ ^-settlement. a ship of twenty guns, which had l^Uit over the '" Bylaer or Bylant, was the family name of Van new governor, Wouter Van TwillerjH Bng in the Rensselaer's first wife. harbor; this was in April, 1633. *3^^ 6 Van Weely was the family name of his second wife. {a) See Jour, in Coll. of N. Y. Hist. Soc., vol. 1, p. 254, N. ' Pasraat or Pafraet was the name of his mother's family. , p rom t j ie Di rec tor-general, Wouter Van Twiller. VAN RENSSELAER. 35 then called De Laefs Burg; 1 at the embouchure of a small creek, north of Fort Orange, was Bloemarfs Burg ; s further south, on the same side of the river, was Goodeyn's Burg f the large island, in the river, opposite Albany, was called Be Laet's Island. There were two imaginary cities, called Rensselaer's Burg and Weely's Burg, on the large island south of Albany, known as Castle and MilPs Island. These are some of the first appellations, conferred on localities by the Dutch, in the colony of Rensselaerwyck, when it was all overshadowed with forest. As the execu- tion of this map indicates an European artist, the original from which it was taken was, probably, obtained by Van Twiller during his visit to New Netherland, in 1629. If we allow one year from the execution of the original draft, to that of the copy, the time will correspond with the period intervening between that in which Van Twiller visited New Netherland, and the date on the map. This map, together with those presented to the states general, in 1614 and 1616, which, probably, exhibits the earliest explorations of Dutch navigators, up to that time, and such intelligence as could be collected from other sources, concerning the climate, soil, topography, and commercial advantages of the various localities along the Hudson river, furnished all the data which Kiliaen Van Rensselaer had, to enable him to determine upon the locality of his manor. He fortunately located upon the banks of the beautiful Hudson, in the neighborhood of Fort Orange. This fort, situated as it was, at the head of the navigable waters of the Hudson, and communicating by navigable streams with the immense regions lying to the north and west, then imperfectly known to the colonists, and with the ocean by one of the grandest rivers in the world, undoubtedly, possessed greater com- mercial advantages than any other point on the river. The descendants of Mr. Van Rensselaer, certainly, have reason to be pleased with bis sagacity, for we now behold the little village of Bever-wyck, arisen to be the capital of the state ; while Lansingburgh, Troy, "West Troy, Bath, Greenbush, with numerous smaller villages, and innumerable fertile farms now adorn those wild regions which Kilaen Van Rensselaer, with sin- gular foresight over 200 years ago, selected for his manorial domain. It will be recollected that the West India Company recognised no title to lands, where there was not first an extinguishment of the Indian title; and Van Rensselaer, therefore, finding it necessary to remove this obstacle to his en terpr ise, opened a correspondence with the Director-general at Fort Amsterdam, whi« Btalted in the extinguishment of the Indian claim to the lands lying on the west s*| ^the river, commencing at a 1 From Jan de Laet, one of the Directors of the of the West India Company. West India Company. 3 From Samuel Goodeyn, another director of the 'From Samuel Bloemart, also one of the directors West India Company. 36 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. point a little above Beeren 1 Island, on the south, extending to Smax Island, on the north, and back two days' journey in the interior, owned by three Indian chiefs, Paps- ick-e-ne-kemp-tas, Naw-toa-tan-hat, and Sick-e-no-sen, 2 and denominated by them Sanck- ha-gag? This purchase was made on the 18th of April, 1630, and was the first made by Van Rensselaer. The Director then despatched one Wolphert Gerretse, to Fort Orange, to purchase the lands in that neighborhood. On his arrival there, however, being informed by the commissary, Bastian Jans Croll, that the Indians would not sell that season, he would, probably, have abandoned the object of his mission, had it not been for one Gillis 4 Hossett, or Hoossett, as he was indifferently called, probably, the same who had com- mand on the Delaware during the absence of De Vries, to Holland, already mentioned, and who perished in the general massacre, at Swa-en-en-dael, the same season, who being in his yacht, a little below Fort Orange, near the west bank of the river, hap- pened to meet there one Janse Jansen Meyns, and several other individuals who were employed in getting out timber for a vessel, then building in the country, and while they were engaged in conversation together, five Indian chiefs, named Kot-te-mack, Haw-ren-e-mit, Al-bant-se-ne, Se-gek-no, and Kan-amo-ack, 5 accoutred with bows, arrows, tomahawks, and war clubs, and with feathered mantles 6 flung over their shoulders, made their appearance from the forest. Now, it so happened that these chiefs were joint proprietors of the whole country on the west side of the river, from Norman's KM, 1 to a little south of Monemin's Castle, 8 1 Beeren, Bear's Island, corrupted to Barren Island, phy, provided this be njt materially effected, as our "Dutch Eec. B. G. G., p. 9, 10, 11. onl y authority for any thing like an approach to the 3 These lands were conveyed on the 22d of October, s P ellin £ of Indian names > is P ublic or P rivate records. 1706, to Barent Bieterse Coeymans and Andries Coey- 6 Hudson, in his journal, alludes to these feathered mans, and the name of these individuals is still per- mantles ; they must have been very picturesque. petuated by a pleasant little village located within 7 T , . „ , _, , . ,. . . It may be necessary to inform the English reader, t „ ., that kill iu Dutch signifies a creek. Norman's creek «n,kT> -a n n a z A therefore is Noordman's, Northman's, or Norman's Dutch Kec. n. lx. Lr., p. 4, o, o. . . . , . , __ r , , creek, derived from Albert de Noordman, Albert the It may be proper to observe that the orthography of , T , ■■,,.„, . . r ,. , , ,., , . ., , Norman, who resided on its fertile banks. The In- these names is exceedingly doubtiul. As the only ,. _, , ■j .. c . , • . . . t . • ., dlan name was 1 a-wal-son-tha, signifying, according guide the first colonists had, was th^ear, in the „ . . . , , ,. , ° v.^"i«ig „• <• T j- .. , B| to Schoolcraft, the place of the dead, though whv so spelling of Indian names, it frequ^ . Kame very , T . , , , ° - j-fl: n . j- .• ■ i- i- . M WL . 1/ named, I have not been able to ascertain. diincult to distinguish between tHM ■rent sylla- Tl . , ,. _^ -.„ ,, , , , , „ , • ,, ^^T „ , II ,s > also - according to Dr. O'Callaghan's late His- bles of a word uttered in the uncouth guttural , „ „ , , , , . & - e ., , . ., . tory of New Netherland, denominated in the old con- 1 argon ot the savage, and hence the same name is ,,.,, , _ r. u A-tr 7i • .v. a u veyances, Mill creek. See vol. 1, p. 125. olten spelt ditierently in the same record. However, r as the sound is the main thing, it cannot make much " Situated upon what is now called Haver Island, difference what letters are employed in the orthogra- at tne mouth of the Mohawk. VAN RENSSELAER. . 37 including Castle Island and a small tongue of land on the south side of Norman's Kill ; and Hosset, aware of the desire of the Director-general to get possession of this territory for Mr. Van Rensselaer, succeeded, after some little bantering, in purchasing it, for a few articles of merchandize, when they immediately proceeded to Fort Orange, where the sachems subscribed a written acknowledgement of the sale, before " Jans. Jansen-Meyns, Wolphert Gerretse, and Jan Tysse, trumpetter," as witnesses, and on the 6th day of August following, having assembled at Fort Amsterdam, they completed the sale by written conveyances, in the presence of Peter Minuit, Director- general and council in behalf of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, then in Holland ; the Director- general and council acting ex-officio as his q.gent. The lands on the east side of the Hudson, comprehending about one-fourth part of the original Manor of Rensselaerwyck, extending from a point opposite Castle, now Mill's or Van Rensselaer's Island, to one opposite an island 1 at the mouth of the Mohawk, denominated Neg-a-gon-se by the Indians, were purchased at the same time, viz.: on the 27th of July, 1630, of a chief named Haw-ren-e-mit. That fragment of it lying between a point opposite Castle Island, and one opposite Fort Orange, was de- nominated Se-mess-eeck by the natives, and probably included what is now the south- ern part of Greenbush. The last purchase made on the 13th of April, 1637, compre- hended the region lying between Castle and Smax's Island, on the east side of the river, called by the Indians Pap-sick-e-ne-kas or Paps-ske-nea, including the adjacent islands, "for certain quantities of duffels, axes, knives, and wampum." Indeed the compensation generally for all lands purchased by the patroon, consisted of merchan- dize or small parcels of goods, as they were termed in the conveyances. These boundaries of Rensselaerswyck are corroborated by the patent of Queen Anne, granted in 1704, confirming a previous one of Gov. Dongan, issued the fourth of March, 1685, which states them to be as follows: "On the south by Beeren Island, (about 138 miles from New York, and 12 from Albany,) and on the north from the Cohoes Falls, extending itself east and west all along from each side of the said river backwards into the woods twenty-four miles." 2 This manor, forty-eight miles one way, and twenty-four the other, with the Hudson river dividing it into two equal parts, the east and west boundaries of which corres- pond in outline with the curvatures of the Hudson^omprises over 700,000 acres of good land; the eastern half comprehending over tM wis of Rensselaer county, the western the whole county of Albany. 9 JF The manor, by virtue of the original copartnership between the patroons, belonged 1 Denominated in the Indian deeds, MonemirCs 2 See patent in N. Y. Assembly Documents, for Castle. April 26, 1844, No. 183. 38 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. equally to all the partners. These partners were Samuel Goodeyn, Johannes de Laet, Samuel Bloemart, Adam Bissels, and Toussaint Moussart, and their respective in- terests were subsequently conveyed to the family of Van Rensselaer, as follows : In 1674, De Laet's interest was conveyed for Fl. 5,672, and 10 stivers. 20th April, 1685, Adam Bissel's interest (being a tenth part,) and Samuel Bloemart's interest, were transferred for the aggregate sum of 3,600 guilders, (1,440 dollars.) I find no minutes of the sales of the other partners. 1 Claverack. 2 — The manor of Claverack, sometimes denominated the Lower Manor, consists of two purchases, one made on the 27th May, 1649, by Brant Van Slechten- horst, director of Rensselaerwyck, and the other on the 15th of January, 1670, by Jeremias Van Rensselaer, also director of Rensselaerwyck, both being confirmed to Stephen Van Cortlandt, who had now become director of the manor, by four Indians, on the 13th October, 1682, in the presence of Mark Gerretse and Corneliss Van Dyck, commissaries of Albany colony, Rensselaerwyck, and Schenectady. One of these Indians was an old chief named Ha-hat-eek-meek-ah, another a young savage named Ka-o-pert-ka-mick-ne-can, and the others were named Mat-ta-ivaw-mick-gaa-er-zen-pack- shaak-wie, and Ara-wigh-tos-agh-kat-a-meek-nong-se-wap-pam-mit. The latter being ab- sent, he was represented by Ha-er-kerk-na-ken-de. We insert these uncouth appella- tives for the benefit of posterity and the future antiquarian in the etymology of Indian words. The boundaries are thus defined in the Indian deed : In breadth along the river from a certain kill or stream 3 to the north of Claverack, to beyond Vastrikken Island to a kill named Waghannkassek, stretching eastward a half- day's journey 4 to the high wood, (high woodland,) Maivanaquasik, and northward until intersecting the before mentioned kill of Claverack, including also a certain stream named Ghohahekanieh by the Indians. The following articles were paid for these lands : 2 guns 3 adzes 2 bags of gunpowder 10 knives 10 bars of lead 3 axes 2 kettles 2 pots 1 measure of strong watery 3 children's coats fathom in size A Ik u lbs. shot 2 blankets ^ W: 2 prs. stockings 1 See Dr. O'Callaghan's Hist, of New Netherland. » Abrahamse's creek, now Kinderhook creek. 8 Kleverack signifies Clover-reach. " 24 miles. VAN RENSSELAER. 39 2 fathoms of cloth 1 pr. shoes 2 coats 1 piece of cloth 3 riding caps 1 barrel of rum 40 guilders worth of wampum And to an Indian named William 4 shirts Eenoogh (Enoch), 1 coat made of 3 cleaving knives Duffels, a coarse cloth. There are about 900 farms, of 150 acres each, within the towns of Westerlo, Rens- selaerville, Berne, and Knox, which were leased by the late patroon, Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, principally between the years 1787 and 1798, generally for the first seven years without rent. There were no leases of any consequence previous to that period ; the tenant meraJK occupied the land by sufferance, and paying for the same ten bushels on a hundred. The lands along the margin of the river, within eight or ten miles, were first settled. Westerlo and Rensselaerville, mostly by New Engend- ers; Berne and Knox by Germans; Bethelehem, Watervliet, New Scotland, Guilder- land, and Coeymans, still earlier by Hollanders. A colony of Scotch established themselves in one of the above towns, and conferred upon it the name of New Scotland. colonization or According to a provision in the charter in relation to the colonization Eensseiawwyck. Q f manorSj th e patroon sent over in the same vessel that brought in- 1630. struction to the Director-general to purchase the soil of the natives, families, servants, and m%chandize, who during the same season erected many good farm houses in the neighborhood of Fort Orange, which were occupied by agricul- turists. 1 This was in the year 1630, and must be considered the first emigration to this state, after the family of Rapelje, had settled seven years previous, at the Waal- Boght, and the same year that John Winthrop laid the foundations of the capital of Massachusetts. Supposing the patroon to have fulfilled the requisition of the charter, there must have arrived at Fort Orange in this expedition, at least twenty-five individuals over fifteen years of age, men, women, and children, and seventy-five colonists more, of a similar character, within three years, from that time, or by the year 1634, so that Bevemyck we may safely calculate that in the year above mentioned, the little f "" ' ' " iJ0 village of Bever-ivyck (the settlemen^^iich they formed immediately around the fort being so named) contained a popuM ■fat least one hundred souls, over fifteen years of age, probably mostly agricultB Bid mechanics, independent of fur traders and other adventurers. The fort being^T place of rendezvous merely for the latter description of persons, its repose was now for the first time disturbed by the hum of agricultural industry. ' See report of Sir Edmund Andross, dated March 29, 1678, among Rensselaerwyck documents. 40 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. About seven years after this, Van Rensselaer himself emigrated. 1 The families of Ten Broeck, Hogeboom, Muller, Benson, Van Cortlandt, and we have reason 1637. to believe, others, came with him. He first landed on the east side of the river, near where G-reenbush now is, and subsequently for the purpose of guarding against attacks from the savages, he removed to the large island_in the river opposite, then denominated Castle Island, at the northern extremity of which he erected a mansion, which he named Rensselaersburg. We afterwards find him removing to the west bank of the river, to a spot now occupied by the Fort Orange Hotel, in the southern suburbs of the city of Albany. The present manor house in the northern suburbs, was erected in 1765. It has within a few years been remodeled, 1 Judge Benson, in a letter to Dr. Miller, (see mss. in N. Y. Hist. Soc.,) affirms that Van Cortlandt came over with Van Eensselaer. A late history of New Netherland (a) places the arrival of the former indi- vidual in New Netherland, in 1637. The Hon. D. D. Barnard, in his Discourse on the Life and Services of Gen. Stephen Van Rensselaer, late patroon, places the arrival of the first patroon, Van Rensselaer, about the same time, viz., 1637. The Albany records fur- nish no direct testimony on the subject, so far as 1 have been able to ascertain, which may occasion some to question whether he ever came over at all. It may be well enough to observe, however, that there is a tradition in the family of his having emigrated, and in other families of their ancestor having come over with him, of which the Albany records would, of course, take no notice. There is one circumstance, however, strong- ly corroboratory of this tradition, and that is a view of his mansion, represented on the old map of the manor of 1630, situated at the northern extremity of Castle, or Mill's Island, and there is, likewise, a tradition of his subsequent residence on the main land, near where now stands the Fort Orange Hotel, in the southern suburbs of the city, which was furnished me by the late Kiliaen K. Van Rensselaer. His family, how- ever, undoubtedly remained in Holland, and he him- self, if he came over at all, did not loj^f fedn in this country, as his business was moslfl Bd by an agent, and we have an account ofiM K, at Am- sterdam, in 1647. Nor js jt probable that the whole family emigrated, (a) £ee Dr.. O'Callagbafl's History of New Netherland. as an account of the^^ease of his wife at Amsterdam, on the 12th of April, 1670, appears from the following letter sent, as is supposed, by the Rev. Nicolaas Van Rensselaer, her son, to his brethren in this country. "Amsterdam, June 12th, 1670. " Dear Brothers — On the 9th inst. I communicated to you, among other things, per ship the Duke of York, Johannes Luyck, skipper, the low condition of our be- loved mother, who accompanied me home, sick, from Cralo to -Amsterdam, on the 1st April. After lying so long, without any jtoong fever, or any great pain, troubled only with asthma, accompanied by consider- able cough and phlegm, and the sprue, she took her departure, with great piety, from the church militant here, to the church triumphant above, on the 12th inst., being this day, about one hour after noon, in the pre- sence of all our sisters and brothers who are in this country, and that with a full understanding and trust in the mercy of God, the merits of her and our Savior Jesus Christ, which through the grace of the Holy Ghost, and the belief in the Triune God, hath so strengthened her, that all her wishes were, to be set free and to be with Christ, who hath taken her so mercifully to himself, that we all, though afflicted children, cannot be sufficiently thankful to God, for so gentle and holy a death. " Her body will be committed to the earth in a Christian manner, as in duty bound, on Tuesday next, being the 17th inst. There is no doubt of a stately funeral. May the good God grant her, and us with her, a joyous resurrection at the last day. Amen." VAN RENSSELAER. 41 quite altering its original exterior, and made more conformable to modern notions of architectural beauty. Mr. Van Rensselaer died in 1647, at Amsterdam, Holland, leaving assets to the amount of $10,207. ANCESTRY. I can discover nothing among the family memorials reflecting any light upon the ancestral history of the family, previous to its emigration to this country, with the exception of the originar^atroon. At present, there are no male descendants of the family in Holland. The last of the name, Jeremias, and two nephews, resided at Krawling, near Utrecht. For- merly, a family of the same name resided at or near Nykerk, in Guelderland, the original seat of the family; and there is a wheat field, also, bearing the name between Puten and Nykerk ; also a Rensselaer's varick, and Rensselaer's hill, in the same province. The coat of arms of the family is remarkable for a cross bearing the motto, Niemand zonder, "No one without" (a cross). The ancestors of the family in Holland, before emigration to this country, were : Hendrick Wolters Van Rensselaer, m. Swene Van Imyck of Hemegseet. Their children were : Johannes Hendrick m. Derykebia 1 Van Lupoel. Geesje 8 m. Advocate Swaaskens. Walter Hendrick, died unmarried. Anna m. Bygimp. Betje 3 m. Noggen. Johannes Hendrick had two sons : Kiliaen, who married Nelle Van Vrenokum. "Walter Yans, who had a son Johannes, whose line we cannot trace further. Kiliaen had the following children : Hendrick, who married Maria Pasraat. Engel m. Gerret William Van Patten, a lieqjgmpt of foot in the army. Claas m. Jacobina Schrassens. «• Johannes m. Sandrina Van Erp, styled Waerdenburgh. 'Derykebia, or Dirkye, feminine of Derrick, or "Geesje, abbreviation of Geertrui, Eng. Gertrude. Dirk, Eng. Dorothea. 'Betje, Eng. Betty, Elizabeth. 6 42 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Hendrick had two children : Kiliaen, ancestor of the family in America ; and Maria, who married Rykert Van Twiller. The family of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, who emigrated to America : Johannes came to America, but returned to Holland. Director of Rens- selaerwyck. Maria, died unmarried in Holland. Hillegonda, died unmarried in Holland. Eleonora. Susanna m. Jan de la Court, in Holland. Jan Baptist m. Susanna Van Weely, in Holland. Director of Rensselaerwyck. One child, Kiliaen, who died young, 1687. Jeremias m. Maria Van Cortlandt. Rev. Nicolaas 1 m. Alida 2 Schuyler. Rikert 3 m. Anna Van Beaumont in Holland. Treasurer and stadtholder van de leene van de noord van Vianen (treasurer and stadtholder of the estates in the north of Vianen.) 1 Eev. Nicholas Van Eensselaer came to Albany in 2 Alida daughter of Philip Pieterse Van Schuyler. 1674, and must have died previous to 1783, for, in "Rikert, Eichard, sometimes written Rykaard, By- that year, his widow married Eobert Livingston. See kert, and Eickert, the last a corruption. Livingston genealogy. VAN RENSSELAER. 43 KILIAEN VAN RENSSELAER m. 1637, emigrated to America ; 1^£, died. 1627. 1. Hillegonda 1 Van By] ant 2. Anna Van Weely 2 0ne 80n - 1670, died. Elizabeth Van Twiller Johannes g£££ oVSeKcT' 1 ,0 HoUaad - lVlaria jjjed unmarried. Jeremias Maria Van Cortlandt Born at Amsterdam. Proprietor of Reusselaer- wyck. 1674 3 died. Anna 3 Van Rensselaer m. Kiliaen 4 Director of the Manor Feb. 1687, died at "Waiervliet, N Y , without children. Johan de Swardt m. Nella 5 Born at Newberg, Holland 1686, resided at Amberg, Holland. 1G45, born at Amsterdam. 1GM>, died. April 27, 1662 AngA^'s. Anna, m 1. Kiliaen V. Rensselaer 8 2. William Nichol oci.'as } Maria m. Peter Schuyler Maria Van Cortlandt A ^j Kiliaen 7 1680, born \ " I 1710, died. Oct 15, 1701. j u Ty it ) Maria m. Frederick Van Cortlandt. oci.'i. |Giertry R m. Adonia" Schuyler jau 'i.j Anna m. John Schuyler. ... 1705 J eren l 13S Propriclor of the Mnnur, did without children. Ehzabet Groesbeeck M ,7 r °Iv. Stephen born . Dledl747 . Proprietor of the Manor. 1713 Jacobus 1716. Jan Baptist Dlcd willl0ut cllildren Elizabeth m. Abraham Ten Broeck. 11 Catharine Livingston 10 1742. Stephen " Burn Proprietor of the Manor. 1760, Died at Wntervlict 1. Margaret 18 Schuyler ne4.Gen. Stephen Cornelia Patterson Bom. 1839, died. 1 1783. 1789. Stephen m. Harriet E. Proprietor of Manor. "Rnirarv-I Resides at Albany. ■ ua J' <" u Catharine W. Die d. '-" See p. 50 for notes. nee Philip S. m. Ann Van Cortlandt 13 Mayor of Albany. i76s Elizabeth m. 1. John Brad street Schuyler 2. John Bleecker William P. m. 1. Eliza B. Rogers S a iE;.. 2. Sarah Rogers J: nllip HI. Mary K. 1 a llmaOgP Resides at Clinton Pt., on the Hudson, Catharine m. GouvapairMorris Wilkins Resides at Costle Hill, ^\^STCli«tOT bounty Rev. Cortlandt m. Catharine Ledyard Cogswell Resides at Burlmirton, N. J. Henry m. Elizabeth Ray King Re8 i diai at ogdensburgh. Cornelia P. . Alexander Euphemia W. Westerlo m4 ,T>M, 44 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. cSJHendrick 1 Born. Resided at Greenbush, r Catharine Van Bruggen 1605, April 19. baptized. Maria m. Samuel Ten Broeck. 1. Engeltie 2 Johannes m. 2. Gertrude Van Cortlandt Resided at Clermont. Tlvinuxfrm / 1711, bom Catharine m. Johannes Ten Broeck s V^X ?£i de ? a J Greenbush - Resided at Claverack. Jan. 1734. ' Anna m. Peter DOUW Resided at Greenbush. Elizabet, m. John Richard Helena m. Jacob Wendell Cat ^ 3 ™? ^ Maj> Gen " Phlll P J - Schuyler Jeremias Diedyoung . w* «**>«* Judit Bayard Jeremias is 1738, born. Robert 3 Catharine / Glen John Jeremias. ri762, Dec. 10, born. Angelica 4 Jacob R. Van Rensselaer m. John No children. Cornelia de Peyster Catharine G m. Nanning Visscher J ohn J eremias Dled W i th01It children. Dr. Jeremias m. 1. Charlotte of New York. Pnatp,. rObter of Boston. 2. Anne F. Waddington of New York, ^"-len Resides at Greenbush. Elizabeth Bayard Cornelius Glen Cornelia Rutsen Sybella Adeline Kane 4fe J £ W ™ : Cornelia Dies . Pierre Dies . Cornelia Pierre Jacob R. obert rent Jeremiah Catharine Cornelia B. m. Francis Granger 9 Alida m. Charles Carroll Catharine S. Robert m. Margaret Stuyvesant Resides in New York. Archibald Kane Jacob R. m. Virginia Hutchins of Norfolk, Va. James Cornelius Jeremiah m. Mary Stock-well of Detroit, Michigan 'Kiliaen Van Rensselaer conveyed the Manor of Claverack, together with 1500 acres from the upper manor, including Greenbush, from Mr. Douw's, called Janoom's path, running back one mile, together with an island in the river, to his brother Hendrick, on the first day of June, 1704. 2 Engeltie (Angelica) d. of Robert Livingston. 3 Born 1740; resided at Greerioush; died 1802. Angelica d. of Henry. 'Appointed post-master-general in 1840. VAN RENSSELAER. 45 Alida m. Elisha Kane Resided at Albany. Catharine m. John A. ££#&. Schuyler Engeltie m. Thomas Howe ofNY _ Henry Catharine Hoffman A James Susan Delancey Cullen 1783, born.\ Resided at Ulica. ^Cornelia m- Robert Rutgers Catharine Alida Angelica Charlotte Adaline Harriet Herman Resides in New York. lsigJoh n C. m. Cornelia I . Codwise Angelica S. Cornelia R. Susan C. m. Henry fston Mary 1 - NY -- Cornelia G. Schuyler 4 46 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Col. Henry Oct. 1742, born, Resided near Hudson. Rachel 1 Douw ) 1. Catharine Van Cortlandt James 2. Elsie Schuyler. 1759, born. 1746, bom. 1827, died. John m. Elizabeth Wendell John m. Elizabeth Van Cortlandt. Resided at Hudson. Resides at Belleville, New Jersey. Annaatie Engeltie Engeltiem. 1. John Van Rensselaer Philip S. m. Henrietta Schuyler 2. John C. Schuyler James 3. Capt. Aaron Lane Magdalen am. William Burrows Resided at Hudson. Volkert P. m. Johannes Hansen Resided at the Butternuts. Robert m. Ann Ten Broeck Resided at Kleverack. Jeremias m. Cornelia Canine Resided at Kleverack. Rachel da. of Volkert Peter Douw, son gfPeter, who married Anna Van Rensselaei. VAN RENSSELAER. 47 Col. Kiliaen 1717, bom. Margaret Saunders Ariaantie 1 Schuyler 2. Maria 2 Low Nochildren . Philip May 19, 1747/ Resided at Cherry Hill, near Albany, Catharine m. William Ludlow No children, Elsie m. Abraham Lansing Maria m. Leonard Gansevoort 170s ' died - 1754 Nicholas 4 . Elsie 5 Van Buren John S. m. Ann Dunkin Maria 3 Saunders it William Richard m. 1 . Elizabeth 6 , . Van Rensselaer 2. Matilda 7 F. Van Rensselaer Barent 8 Reside at Albany. Kiliaen Magdalene Ariaantie Cornelius _Peter Edm'nd Elizabeth m. Elmendorf Resided at Albany. Robert m. Catharine Bogaert Resided at Albany. Saunders m. Abby McCarty Resided at Onondaga. Peter S. m. Sarah Saunders lllliaen R . moV ed, o0nio . died unmarried. Philip (fa: Catharine Lansing Resided at Albany. Maria m. Jacob S. Glen Resided at Glen, Montgomery county. Schuyler m. Rebecca McCarty Harriet m. Gen. Solomon Van Rensselaer 1 Daughter of Nicholas Schuyler, who married Elsie Wendell. "Daughter of Nicholas Low of Greenbush. 3 Maria d. of Kobert Saunders. 1 Born at Greenbush. 8 Elsie d. of Maj. Cornelius Van Buren. 6 'Daughters of Gen. Solomon Van Rensselaer. 8 In English Barnard. 48 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Alida Bradt Major-General Henry K. 1 1744, born. Nancy Simmons Resided at Greenbush. Sept. 9, 1816, died. Si } Henry m. Cornelia Van Allstyne David S. m. Resided at Greenbush; 1795, died. F Ti'7.}Kiliaen Lieut, in the nary; 1S01, died. jj™^ } Catharine m. Cornelius Resides at Geneva Sept, 21, 1797, born; resides at Randolph, Catt. CO, sept^jKiliaen m. Martha Ross Rensselaer oea bury ResMed at Greenbush, Resides in New York. Nov.io. } J-'-l-artnapieij unmari i e d. July 38. I -H-Gnry Midshipman in the june°io.} Stephen m. Schermerhorn a™'o} Solomon 2 m. Harriet 3 Van Resides at Cherry-Hill, Albany. i£™\} Philip m. - a11%b\ John m. Cornelia Lansing s^iJNicolaas m. Nancy Ten Eyck Residedin Montgomery( nary. 1 Henry K. Van Rensselaer was an officer in the re- volution. He was in several engagements, during which he uniformly displayed great coolness and courage. In July, 1777, he resisted an attack from a large body of the enemy at Fort Ann, with a very unequal force, with great obstinacy, until, learn- ing that Ticonderoga had been abandoned hy our troops, he brought his men off -without much loss; receiving at the same time a wound from a musket ball, the effects of which he severely felt through the remainder of his life. The ball entered his thigh, broke the bone, passed by and lodged in the upper part of the limb. It was not extracted till after his death, having remained in his person upwards of thirty- nine years. 2 For a notice of Solomon Van Eensselaer, see p. 50. 3 Harriet da. of Philip Van Rensselaer.^ VAN" RENSSELAER. 49 "^ S} Henry Resided at ' Claverack 1. Elizabeth 1 Van Bruggen 2. Mrs. Jacob Rutsen 2 Lt. Gov. Jeremias in. Helena 3 Resided at Albany. No children. T ,n n March 4, 1803. David Julia Havens 1772, bom. Settled at Flushing, L I, 1815, died, ion Tln-tri/l T (Died unmarried 1829. 1BJJ JJd V1U J . \ g,|, proprietor nf Gardiner's Island. Sarah m. David Thompson John Griswold lVJ_ary Died unmarried Samuel B. m. Mary G. Thompson 8 David m. Frances Huntington V^naneS j); ed unmarried, at Marialta, Ohio. John Lyon Died 1S2i> ^^^ AMERICAN GENEALOGY 64 mi Col. Abraham Mary 8 Smith Died May i 9| ig07i age d 82 1745, died at East ' Hampton, L. I v , June 12) 1745 . ^ } Rachel m. 1. Col David Mulford 2. John Gardiner or Eaton Neckl L . i. ™ 8 6 .}Mary m. Isaac Thompson nsii P ,Li. XXlCBDe Died unmarried in 1775, aped 20. " 5 M Nathaniel 2 m. Elizabeth 3 Dering Died Marcl) 25, 1S04. T 1763 }Capt Abraham Phoebe Dayton 'Dee 12, 1810, d'-- 1 ---•' May 31, 1781. Sept. 10, 1796, died at East \ / Dec 12, 1810, died, aged 53. Hampton, L. I Philip G. Van Wyckm. Mary {^ 3178S wo Samuel S. 4 Mary 1792 Nathaniel Eliza T. AbbyLee ofC on m. Abraham S. hom April 0i 1788 . \ L'Hom- Meroham \ /Francis Settled in Western N. Y : died. 18-27 >0^ m^rlicii 5 tssUtl Died 18-12. ££,}Hon. David 5 Juliana J§l|s Jij. ' McLachlan | Mary John Phcaebe William David L. Frances Mary Alexander Julia m. John Tyler, June SB . 1SS4 . TVTorrrarpt President of the United Slatei. BEEKMAN. NOTES TO PAGE 63. 65 'Mrs. Lion Gardiner died in 1665, having entailed Gardiner's Island, which had been bequeathed to her by the will of her husband, upon her son David. 4 John received from Gov. Dongan the last patent of Gardiner's Island, erecting it into a lordship and manor, and was proprietor there when Eobert Kidd the celebrated pirate buried his treasures upon it, and when it was, afterwards, devastated by the Spanish pirates. He was killed by a fall from his horse, while on a visit to Groton, Conn., June 25, 1738; aged 78. His fourth wife (I have not ascertained her name), survived him. 'Hannah married John Chandler, of Worcester, Mass., who died at Albany in 1763; she was the great- grandmother of George Bancroft, Esq., the historian, and secretary of the navy, and of Mrs. Davis, wife of Gov. Davis of Massachusetts. 4 " 1751, July 4, died, Lord (David) Gardiner, aged 6J), having been ill for some months." Ch. Rec. 6 After the death of John Gardiner, May 19, 1764, his widow married Maj.-Gen. Israel Putnam, of the revo- lution. 6 John was educated at Yale College. He purchased Eaton Neck, L. I., where he died, leaving descendants. * Jerusha, da. of Samuel Buel, D. D. 8 Mary G., da. of Jonathan Thompson, Esq. NOTES TO PAGE 64. 1 Mary, da. of Nathaniel Smith, Esq., of the family of Tangier Smiths, Long Island. "Nathaniel was a surgeon in the American army during the revolution, and afterwards a merchant in New York, and was several years in public life. His daughter, Eliza P., now survives, without children. 3 Elizabeth, da. of Gen. Sylvester Dering, one of the oldest families of the county of Kent, Eng. 4 Samuel S. resides on Shelter Island. "Hon. David Gardiner, born May 2, 1784, was a graduate at Yale College, and was several years in public life. He was, for a time, New York state senator. He was killed by the horrible explosion on board the steam frigate Princeton, on the 28th of February, 1844, by which so many distiguished citizens lost their lives. This occurred while opposite Mt. Vernon on a pleasure excursion, having on board a large party of distinguished individuals, ladies and gentlemen, many of the latter officers of government, when in firing Capt. Stockton's big gun, in honor of Washington's residence, the piece exploded, killing Secretary Upshur (of state), Secretary Gilmer (of the navy,) Com. Kennon, Hon. Vigil Maxcy, and others. * Juliana, da. of Michael McLachlan of the Highland clan of McLachlans, in Scotland. His father perished in the rebellion of 1745, when he emigrated to the Island of Jamaica, and thence to the city of New York. ' Mary, da. o'f Hon. Ezra L'Hommedieu. The L'Hommedieus were Huguenots. BEEKMAN. This family can be traced back to a remote period, in Germany. Cornelius Beekman 1 flourished about 1470. His son, Gerard, born at Cologne, on the 17th of May, 1558, studied divinity at Frankendael, in 1576, 1577, and 1578, and was conversant with the Latin, French, Italian, and German languages. After completing his education, he travelled extensively through Europe. During the great religious- persecution which commenced about this time, several delegates were 1612. selected to visit the Duke of New-Berg, the Elector of Brandenburg, at Berlin, and King James of England, whom the protestant world, flatteringly,, denominated "Protector de la Foi," (Protector of the Faith,) to. obtain assistance in behalf of the reformed religion. Gerard Beekman and Yelt Keyser, a gentleman of superior abilities, were chosen for this important mission, which they executed with so much credit to themselves, that King James caused the coat of arms of the Beekman family to be remodelled, as it now is, namely, to " a rose on either side of a running brook." It will be remembered, that in 1618, the catholics expelled the protestants 1618. from Cologne, but, in a few years, they returned, when the persecution against them being revived, the churches which they erected, were burnt by an infuriated mob, as soon as completed. They then repaired to Mulheim, about three miles below Cologne, on the east bank of the Rhine, where they also commenced building churches, Gerard Beekman and Van Veldhuysen, being appointed super- 1 As far back as the year 1500, the name of Beek- now spell it with a c, that is, Beeckman. . It signifies a man was spelt Beek-man; one branch of the family brodkman or waterman. BEEKMAN. 67 intend ants in this work. Even in this they were not unmolested, but being assailed during the night by an exasperated populace, their half-finished edifices were demolished, and they themselves arrested, and conveyed to prison. Mr. Beekman, however, made his escape, taking refuge with the land-grave of Nassau, sacrificing most of his property, and a profitable employment. After the death of his wife, on the 10th of March, 1614, at Mulheim, he became auditor and secretary of the electoral chamber at Cleves, in the service of the elector of Brandenburg. He died at Emeric, on the 31st of January, 1625, aged 66. His zeal for the protestant religion continued undiminished to the hour of his death. 1 HENRY BEEKMAN. Henry, his eldest son, born at Cologne, resided with his father at that place, but during the disturbances, already mentioned, being also a staunch protestant, he fled from the city. He settled at Berge, where he purchased a piece of land, together with mills. He married for his second wife, Mary, the daughter of Wilhelmus Baudertius, 8 a minister of the reformed church at Zutphen, Guelderland, January 24, 1621. She died the 17th of September, 1630, at Berge, where he remained several years. After- wards, in consequence of the persecution which commenced at this place, he was obliged to escape, leaving his movables, and sacrificing his other property for a mere trifle. He took refuge at his father-in-law's, at Zutphen. He was appointed secretary of the city of Hasselden, Overyssel, and in 1629, by the states general, superintendent of the magazines in the cities of Hasselt and Wezel, and removed thither. He died at the latter place, March 10, 1654, (or December 2, 1642, record dubious,) aged 69. HARMON BEEKMAN. Harmon, the second son of Gerard, after acquiring a liberal education, travelled into foreign, countries. He subsequently became secretary to Bethlem-gabor, prince of Transylvania, in Swenbergen. He afterwards visited Constantinople, where he spent some time with M. Gagha. Returning thence, he was appointed in 1634, lieutenant-colonel in the army of the prince of Muscovy, and served in the wars of that prince, r against the Poles. After peace, he returned home, by the way of Dantzic. During the journey, accidentally becoming acquainted with the widow of his colonel, an English lady, he subsequently married her. This lady had a brother, who was a 'He wrote a psalm book in French, in the posses- 'William Baudertius, a learned divine, was en- sion of Martin Beekman, at S'Grave Haage, in 1726, gaged seven years at Leyden, in translating the Bible and several excellent proverbs. into the Dutch language. For forty years he was an unflinching advocate of the reformation. gg AMERICAN GENEALOGY. member of the house of commons,, and desirous to pay him a visit, he repaired thither the following year. This brother being a brigadier- general under 1635. Charles I., was banished by Oliver Cromwell, on his accession to power. Mr. Beekman, with his lady, resided at Cleves, and different places in Holland, till 1654, when he returned to London, where he died the same year. His brother John, who was married 13th of September, 1635, was a minister of the gospel at Mourick and Lower Betowe, several years. WILLIAM BEEKMAN William Beekman, the son of Henry Beekman, ancestor of the family in America, was born at Statselt, Overyssel, April 28, 1623. In 1647, being a magistrate and an officer in the reformed church in Holland, and twenty-four years of age, he embarked with Peter Stnyvesant, then appointed governor of New Netherland, with a convoy of three ships, the Great Gerrit, the Swal, and the Raid, and on the 27th of May, 1647, after a boisterous passage, during which they lost from sixteen to eighteen men, he arrived at New Amsterdam. In his company, and impliedly regarding him as their patron, came s^reral poor families, from the banks Rhinebeok of the Rhine. Beekman provided them a locality on the banks of the rounded io47. Hudson, where they probably removed before the autumn, and thus was founded the little village of Rhinebeck. 1 About midway between Broadway and Chatham Street, was originally a large pond,, denominated by the Dutch, kolck or marsh, which they also designated as the Fresh Water, and a stream or rivulet from it running eastward, and crossing Chatham street, between Pearl and Roosevelt Streets, and having there a bridge over it. 2 Beyond this fresh water river and swamp meadow, on the East River, what is now called Corlaefs Uoeck, was called by the Indians, Nechtant, and since likewise denominated Crown Point. The lands lying at this place were originally purchased by Jacobus Van Corlaer, who must have emigrated to New Netherland some time during tfie director- ship of Wouter Van Twiller, or just previous, as he had a plantation or bowery there during his administration, 3 and this property was purchased by William Beekman, in 1652, with the ground rent, for the sum of 4,500 guilders, ($750,) "provided the seller pay the ground rent now due." 4 He subsequently made other purchases further to the west, as his possessions afterwards comprised all the lands bounded on the north by Nassau Street, 5 on the 1 The late Peter A. Jay, Pres. of the Hist. Soc. of " Corker's Plantagnie, and Corker's Bouwery."' N. Y., is my authority for this fact. 'Moulton's Hist. N. Y. 3 See Judge Benson's Memoir. 5 Anciently Kip Street.. ' See Dc Vries' second' voyage, who mentions, 1636;.. BEEKMAN. QQ west by Ann Street as far as Gold Street, and down to Pearl, 1 near to the corner of Fulton Street, south by Pearl Street, east by Frankfort Street, including what was originally called Beekman Swamp,' 2 to Frankfort Square. A street was subsequently laid out through this district, and called Beekman Street, in honor of the proprietor. In 1673, Mr. Beekman's estates in the city of New York were assessed at 3,000 guilders, Holland value. 3 In 1653, '54, '56, and '57, he was elected one of the schepens, or assistant-alderman of New Amsterdam. In 1654, in repairing the fort, he was made superintendent of the lumbermen, whom he furnished with timber, for that purpose, probably, from his wooded farm at Nechtant. He was appointed vice-governor on the Delaware, on the 28th of October, 1658. It will be recollected that after the conquest by Stuyvesant, in 1658, the West India Company sold out their possessions lying on the west side of the Delaware, north of Christina Creek, to the city of Amsterdam, for 700,000 guilders, thus constituting two colonies or jurisdictions, the one designated the Colony of the City, the other the Colony of the Company. The former was governed by the burgomaster and council of Amsterdam, the latter by the director-general of New Netherland, and his council. The period which intervened between the conquest alluded to, and Beek- man's arrival, was filled by the administration of one governor, and part of that of another. The first governor was Johan Paul Jacquet, whose administration commenced on the 29th of November, 1655, and terminated on the 12th of April, 1657, when he was succeeded by Jacob Alrich, a miser and tyrant, who administered the govern- ment till the year 1658. The province being then divided, as already described, William Beekman was, on the 28th of October of that year, appointed governor of the Colony of the Company, and Alrich, that of the other colony. We have, therefore, at this period, two jurisdictions on the Delaware, with Jacob Alrich presiding over one, and William Beekman over the other. The former resided at New Amstel* the latter at Christina, 5 (originally called Altona by the Swedes,) from which place most of his letters are dated. His oath of office contained the following requisition. "He swore to maintain the reformed religion, as it is preached in our father-land and here, in conformity with the word of God and the synod of Dor- drecht." There is little difference between the religious character of our Dutch and > Originally Queen Street. the New York Historical Society, new series, vol. 1. • This swamp is delineated on an ancient map dated « Now Marcus Hook, four miles below Chester. 1728, and called Beekman Swamp. » Now Wilmington. » See assessment list published in the Collections of 70 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. New England ancestors. There were Dutch as well as English puritans who emigrated to our shores. Desirous of extending the boundaries of New Sweden, as far as Cape Henlopen, Gov. Stuyvesant advised Beekman to have it done, but that functionary being opposed to new acquisitions of territory, the project was abandoned. The truth is, they had no troops nor funds ; the garrison at Altona consisted of only seven men, with one old drum, which wanted a head, and which could not be supplied without sending to Fort Amsterdam. He fortified the Horekill, however, under the following cir- cumstances. There arrived at that place, from Virginia, a party of fourteen English- men, in small boats, who commenced a settlement, but being attacked by the Indians, they would probably have all been massacred, had not the Dutch come to their assistance. The latter, however, on effecting their rescue, became acquainted with their object, and determined to prevent it. The director-general accordingly instructed Alrich to take possession of the country immediately, in the name of their high mightinesses, [the states general; but that officer refused so to do, on similar grounds to those urged by Beekman on a former occasion, namely, a deficiency of money and soldiers, and when recommended to resort to taxation, as a means of supplying this deficiency, urging that the harvests having been scanty that season, such a proceedure would be oppressive upon the people. This was a miserable apology for a governor, whose whole administration had been one continued series of oppressive acts, and the most unconscionable covetousness. Beekman, however, undertook the enterprise above alluded to. He, on the 23d of May, 1659, set out in company with Alexander Hynoyosa, and arriving there, he purchased the soil of the Indians, and erected a temporary fortification, which he garrisoned with what soldiers he could obtain, and thus annexed this new and valuable region to New Sweden. We will merely mention in this place, that it was during his administration that Col. Utie and five other gentlemen, representatives of Lord Baltimore, arrived at Fort Christina, to adjust the boundary line between that nobleman's plantation and the Swedish settlements, the former claiming the whole country, as far as to within two miles of New Amstel, and granting deeds to that effect, which the Dutch considered an invasion of their territory. The question was warmly debated at the fort for five evenings, during which Beek- man was present, when the ambassador returned home without accomplishing the object of his mission. So indignant was Stuyvesant, that Alrich should even admit an English ambassador and suite into one of his forts, that he complained of it in a despatch to the West India Company. In consequence of the excitement produced by this controversy between the two provinces, the Dutch expected for some time after a hostile inroad from Maryland. This, together with apprehensions of an expedition BEEEMAN. 7J from England, to wrest from them their newly-acquired territories, and an insurrection among the Swedes and Fins to reestablish Queen Christina, kept the honest Dutch burghers, as well as the director-general himself, for months afterwards, in a state of considerable alarm and disquietude. All their fears, however, proved imaginary. A strip of wilderness like that in dispute, being considered at that early period hardly worth the shedding of blood. There are amongst the archives at Albany, a voluminous collection of Beekman's official documents, comprising his correspondence, reports of proceedings in the province, and appeals to the governor-general in litigated cases. The duties of a colonial governor, at that period, consisted mainly of taking due precautions against the Indians, of levying customs upon vessels arriving at New Amstel, of keeping a watchful supervision over the Swedes and the garrison, 1 and settling those petty disputes between individuals, concerning boundaries of lands, trespass upon lots, damage to grain, purloining of poultry and cattle, and those innumerable minor grievances and vexations, so common to a colonial agricultural community. Neither colony prospered. The avarice and tyranny of Alrich were such, that almost every Dutch inhabitant of any enterprise, left his province and went to Maryland. So alarming indeed was this desertion, that severe laws were passed against it, which instead of preventing, probably only increased it; the Dutch population was reduced at one period to scarcely thirty families. "While the authorities in Holland showed themselves no greater politicians than their representative, by establishing a commercial monopoly, and exacting an oath of obedience to their commands, which proved a serious encumbrance upon the prosperity and growth of the colony. The conflicting interests also, of contiguous jurisdictions, produced constant bickerings and contentions between the opposing authorities, which they undertook to remedy, by allowing the two functionaries to officiate occasionally in each other's jurisdiction. Beekman was provisionally permitted, to prosecute smugglers before the city's director and council, until further orders, at the same time being enjoined by his own authorities to be very cautious not to allow of any infringement upon the prerogatives of the company and the director-general and council of New Netherland, while Alrich occasionally granted deeds of land lying within the boundaries of the Colony of the Company. But still the colony did not prosper. Stuyvesant's unreasonable jealousy of the Swedes, the frequent intermeddling of the authorities of the city's colony with those of the company, probably anticipating the future acquisition of the province, the English smuggling from Long Island along the river Delaware, the inadequacy of the revenue to sustain the government, '■Acrtlius. 72 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. altogether sufficed to convince the proprietors that the longer possession of the colony would be an unnecessary burthen, and they finally determined to convey the whole of their possessions on the Delaware, to the city of Amsterdam, which they accordingly did, on the 22d of December, 1663. We must, therefore, here close the official labors of William Beekman on the Delaware. On the 5th of January following, he resigned his office at Altona, in the presence of a great concourse of Swedes and Fins, who had assembled for that purpose, and on the 9th of the same month there was another assemblage at the same place, to take the oath of allegiance to the new authorities. We conclude this article with the following extract from a letter of Beekman, written to Stuyvesant on this occasion. " On the 9th, the Swedish deputies and a great part of that and of the Finnish nation, appeared here to take a new oath, after they had been absolved, at their request and proposal, from the oath they had taken. On the 10th they appeared at New Amstel, ' to which place ' say they, ' we are now sold— so deliver us.' On the 8th the oath was proposed to them by the directors and council in my presence. This they unanimously refused, or rather they required first, in writing, all such privileges of free trade, &c, as they before enjoyed under the company's administration. Without these they said they would be compelled to depart. Eight days were then allowed them to consult their comrades, but they were assured that they must either take the oath or depart. From several persons I learn that they would rather live under your government at Neivesing, 1 or in that neighborhood." His letter, expressing a wish to be continued in the company's service, he was appointed schout or sheriff of Esopus, 2 July 4, 1664. We find him after this, on the 16th of August, 1674, elected burgomaster of New Amsterdam, with fourteen others, whose names are preserved in the ancient Dutch records of this state. He was likewise alderman of the city of New Amsterdam, under the English administration, during the years 1678, '79, '80, '81, '82, and '85. He was alderman of the east ward in 1691-2, 1692-3, '93-4, '94-5, '95-6, when becoming advanced in years, he withdrew from public life. He died in his 85th year, in 1717. He resided in what was styled the "Smit's Valley or Vlie," which ran along about where Pearl Street now is. 3 His residence was near the upper end of this street. 4 1 Now Neversink. seventy years ago." 'Now Kingston, Ulster County, New York. 'Listof themembersoftheReformedDutch Church, a J, W. Moulton's "New York, one hundred and by Domino Henricus Soleyns, 168Q. BEEKMAN. 73 LINEAGE. Cornelius Beekman m. Christiana Huygens, at Cologne. She died Dec. 4, 1506. He had two sons. Engelbert m. Elizabet de Beyer. Some of his descendants were magistrates at Nimiguen and Amsterdam, in 1702. Reynira Engelbartha Joanna, his great-great-great-granddaughter, married Francois Adrian Van der Kemp, who lately resided in this state, and translated the Dutch Records, at Albany. Gerard, born at Cologne, May 17, 1558; died at Emerich, Jan. 31, 1625; married Agnes Stuning, at Cleves, who was born Jan. 13, 1557, and died at Mulheim, March 10, 1614. His children were: Harman d. 1654. Rev. Johan (John) d. Sept. 13, 1635. Catharine d. 1624. Margaretha m. the Rev. N. N. Cnoetz, a reformed preacher at Wezel. Hendrick, born at Cologne, Sept. 14, 1585; died at Wezel, Dec. 2, 1642; progenitor of a long line of descendants, in Holland and America. He had three wives. By his first wife, Geertryd 1 Gomensbagh, whom he married 15th April, 1613, and who died Sept. 10, 1619, he had four children, one of whom married N. N. Cochlin, whose son, N. N. Cochlin, married Eringart Bremer, in Holland. His third wife was Alida Ottenbeeks, born at Cologne, Dec. 8, 1605 ; no children. His second wife was Mary Baudertius, daughter of the Rev. William Baudertius, of the Reformed Church, at Zutphen, born in 1600, died Sept. 17, 1630; married at Zutphen, Guelderland, Jan. 24, 1621; by whom he had seven children, as follows : 1 Ener., Gertrude. e 10 74 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Rev. Gerard, born atZutphen, Feb. 20, 1622; died, 1678; married Joanna Plantius. He was a clergyman in Grofhuysen and Avenhoorn, North Holland, for twenty-five years; and had two children, Josina and Maria. Martin, born at Hasselt, Overyssel, Aug. 25, 1624; married Maria de Bois, at the Hague, Aug. 3, 1650. She was grand-daughter of a seafaring captain under Admiral Pithyn. She was born 1632; died April, 20, 1697. He is said to have had, in addition to the offices of notary and procureur, several commissions and correspondencies^ and to have had the honor of serving or superintending the Dutch West India Company, as well as being director of the Levant trade and of the navigation of the Mediterranean Sea under the Dutch government. His son Hendrick, was a lawyer at Gravenhage, from 1671 to 1694, the year of his death. He had a son Martin, also a lawyer, at the Hague. John, born at Hasselt, Overyssel, Nov. 26, 1626; died Jan. 15, 1684. Had two wives; Arnolda Brouwers and Catharine Van Rysoort. By Arnolda he had a son Henry, who was a captain in the army. Descendants of the other wife resided at Woerde, in Holland. He resided for sometime at S' Gravenhage, as ordinary procureur, and agent to the council of appointment and supreme military council, and had a good knowledge of various languages. Andrew, who died unmarried 1663. Also, two daughters: Alida, married Leonard Winnix. Maria, married, 1. "William Harris, 2. N. N. Sas. And, William, who emigrated to America. BEEKMAN. 75 FAMILY OF WILLIAM BEEKMAN, WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA. Catharine m. Gerardus Duyckinck, of New York. Elizabeth m. Bancker, of Albany. Maria m. Nicholas William Stuyvesant. Cornelia, died April, 1679; m. Isaak Van. Vleek, captain and alderman in New York. Her daughter, Helena, married Alexander Baird, from Scotland, attorney and sheriff of the county where he resided, viz: Newtown, long Island. A list of the sons with their descendants appear in the table. The Beekmans, in this country, are numerous, principally disseminated in New York, New Jersey, about the Millstone, Philadelphia, Tarrytown, Poughkeepsie, Fish- kill, Kingston, Hudson, Kinderhook, Albany, on the Mohawk, in Ohio, and Michigan. They are descended, however, from different ancestors. There was a Jochim Beeckman, the name spelt with a c, who must have emigrated from Holland, to this country, about the same time with William Beekman, whose wife's name was Margaret Henricks. Two of his sons appear on the Church Records. Jochim Beeckman Margaret Henricks Jochim, bapt. Nov. 25, 1650. Henricus, bapt. April 24, 1658. There was, also, a Hendrick Beekman, who obtained a large tract of land on the Raritan, in New Jersey, about three miles above Somerville, in 1710, whose descendants mostly reside in that quarter, in New York, at Caughnawaga, on the Mohawk, in Ohio, and Michigan. It is affirmed among his descendants in New Jersey, that he came from some point on the Hudson, but the exact place of his origin I have not ascertained. He may possibly be the one, however, above referred to, as the son of Jochim. His wife's name was Annetje Quackenboss. 76 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. FAMILY OF HENiDRICK BEEKMAN, WHO SETTLED ON THE RARITAN, NEW JERSEY, IN 1710. Susanna, b. 1686. Lydia, bap. June 2, 1689. Hendrick, b. June 1, 1692, d. March 19, 1769, aged seventy-seven. Maria, b. Jan. 9, 1695. Pieter, b. July 4, 1697. Magdenale (Magdalene), b. Nov. 19, 1701. Hendrick had the following children: Hendrick, who died unmarried. Pieter, who remained in New Jersey; no male descendants; had daughters: Ann, who married Peter Peterson, who remained near Somerville, in New Jersey; another, Mrs. Yuluck; and Bailtje, who married Bernardus Van Zandt, at fourteen years x»f age, and. removed to Caughnawaga, "on the Mohawk. Martin, born 1685; died 27th October, 1757: married Elizabeth (b. 1700, d. Nov. 27, 1760) daughter of William Waldron, of Harlem. He had the following children: Elizabeth, born Aug. 30, 1725; died Nov. 9, 1810; married Francis Brazier. Hendrickkes, born March 24, 1727; died Jan. 26, 1796, aged 69; married Phoebe Bloomfield. Two of his children went to Ohio, and one to Michigan. Samuel, born Nov. 26, 1729; died Oct. 19, 1808, aged 79; married Elizabeth Waldron, daughter of Samuel Waldron. She died April 7, 1806, aged 62. Annatie, born Jan. 28, 1734; died Sept. 5, 1795 ; married Johannes Waldron, who died Sept. 10, 1795. Johannes, born Nov. 5, 1751. JOHANNES BEECKMAN. I find, also, a Johannes Beeckman, one of the patentees of the Kayaderosseras or Queensboro Patent, located in Saratoga County, which seems to be still another branch of the family. The patent is dated November 2, 1708. The following children are mentioned in his will, dated December 16, 1728, recorded December 3, 1732. BEEKMAN. 57 By his first wife, Machtel Schermerhorn: Johannes, bapt. Jan. 27, 1684; married Hester "Wendell. Jacob, bap. Aug. 12, 1685; died 1738; married Deborah Hansen. Susannah, born Sept. 25, 1687; married John Basset, 1719. Jannetje married Isaac Lansing, 1703. Helena born Jan. 13, 1689; married Tobias Bychman, 1715. By his second wife, Eva Vinhagel,-m. Oct. 22, 1692. Johannes Janse, born May 20, 1694; m. Sarah Cuyler, 1729. Martin, born 1695 ; m. Gertrude Visscher, 1721. Marritie, born 1697; m. Gurjaan Hoojer, 1714, Johanna, born 1698; m. Johannis Marselis, 1723. Alida, m. Henry Holland, 1728. Neeltje, born 1710; m. John Van Vechten Jun., 1734. Henry. There was also, a John Beekman, who emigrated from Holland, just before New York was taken possession of by the British, during the revolution, who settled at Albany. He bought a farm on the Mohawk, whither he retired. A son William * resided in Schoharie county in 1842. There is still another progenitor of the name, in this country; and that is Christoffle (Christopher) Beekman, who seems to have emigrated from Germany about the same period with the above, and also settled at Albany. He had several daughters, who married, leaving descendants, and one son unmarried. 78 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. 1623 WILLIAM BEEKMAN Catharine de Bough April 28, born at Statselt, Overyssel. Sept. 31, 1707, died. Sept. 5, 1649. Joanna de Loper 1 Henry 1 Of Boston. \ / Settled at Kingston. Died at Kingston, 1716 1680. 1681 William born at Kingston; died in Holland, atAeageofl8. 1683 Catharine m. 1. John Rutsen 3 16 Sept., born. g Albeft p awling ^ ^ ^ ^^ {Si Cornelia m. Guisbert Livingston C oun. y cie r kofui s ter. was Col. Henry 4 1. Janet Livingston. ja« n '3, 1776, died. V./ 2 ' Gertrude Van Cortland t No children. xienry,)i e d young. Margaret m. Robert R. Livingston Married at the age of 18. (See Livingston Genealogy.) June, 1800, died at Clermont. 1 Joanna, da. of a Dutch admiral. * John Rutsen, a magistrate and captain of dragoons ' Henry was a deacon and elder of the Protestant in Ulster County. Reformed Church at Kingston, and also colonel of the 4 Henry, son of Henry, member of assembly for the militia, judge of the county of Ulster, and member of province of New York, and one of the judges of the the legislature. county. BEEKMAN. 79 •ess Gerard 1 M. D. Magdalen Abeel of ^^ ^ Sept . ,„, 1-30, aged 69 . Resided at Flatbush, L. I, Oct. 10, 1723, died in New York. ,Orl 25. 1CT7 ja?, & V } Chri stopher Mary De la Noy 2 or Xcw York . Merchant 1724, died in New York. ' T an. 2°. I'M. Abraham 3 m Lived a.id died at Trenton, N. J Aaron Guest One daughter. Catharine Resided at Lamington, Somerset Co., N. J.; no children. Cornelia m. Capt. John Machett Magdalen m. Isaak Skillman Maria m. Gerard us Beeckman 4 Adrian m. Brownson N „ chiMrc „. N Christoffle Farmer. Lived 011 the Mill stone, at Lamiug- tou, N. J. Mary Cox LhrJSlOltle Surveyor-General. Lived in North Carolina; removed to PriiKL-ion, N. J ; died in N. Y chy. Van Duyck Gerardus f Lived and died on the Millstone, N- J. William James Mary m. Thomas Skillman 5 le „ chi dren . Anne m. Geret Voorhies „. VC11 e i, it dren. Catharine m. 1. Joseph Van der Veer lwocnildrf . n 2. Jacques Johnson fi , e< .. :i „j r(:11 . Magdalene m. John Van Dyke oaeAm $, x „. Cornelia m. Abraham Stryker Fix or Kycn chi | d ren. 1702 Christopher m. Martha Veghte Live(J „«,„ IIar i enqne ch u re h, n. j. i7M Gerardus m. Aeltje Griggs No ciiiwren. Lived near Six Mile Run Church, N J 1767 Abraham Anne Voorhies Lived on the Mill- atone, N J. Gerardus di( . d 1805 . John, Abraham, Roeloff V., Jacob, Isaac, Nelly, Catharine, Anne 1 Gerard appears to have had a place called the Bay, Catharine Peters De] la Noy, who married William near Flatbush, L. I., where most of his children were Beekman. born. He was a physician, one of the king's council, 'Abraham had one daughter, who married an Eng- and had the honor of presiding in the absence of the lish officer, and went to England, governor. He was also elder and deacon of the Re- * Gerardus, son of Jacobus, formed Dutch Church. 6 Thomas, son of Thomas Skillman. 'Mary, da. of Abraham DelaNoj, and sister to 80 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. ~A j 684 William M. D Aug. 8, born. Merchant in New York. Apr. 26, 1770, died iu N.Y. Catharine Peters De la Noy Died Dec. 14, 1765, aged 74. Oct. 11, 1707. 1 young 1708 Cornelia m. William Walton Oct. 4. born at Jamaica, L. I. of New York. May 10, 1786, died without children. j^'s.} Magdalene. died] 1714 Magdalene Oct. 30, born Died unmarried, Sept. 20, 1784. 1717 Catharine Feb. 23, born. Died unmarried, Jan. 7, 1793. 1723 Maria Feb. 7, born. Died unmarried, Feb. 20, 1793. 1725 William April 13, born. Died unmarried, Oct. 8, 1795. 1727 Elizabeth m. Robert Rutgers April 16, born. Sept. 23, 1755. ]729 Abraham Aug. 4, born. Died unmarried, Oct. 19, 1789. i 718 Gerard W. 1 Dec. 13, b. at Jamaica L I Importing merchant in N.Y., Oct.6, 1781, died at Philadelphia. Mary Duyckinck Died June 4, 1791, aged 63. Catharine m. Isaac Cox Feb 28, 1760, of Philadelphia. He died May 9, 1787, aged 32. 4 children Johanna m. Abraham K. 2 Margaret Magdalene Elizabeth Beekman 1 The residence of Gerard William Beekman, at the comer of Sloat Land and Hanover Square, be- came, during the revolution, the abode of many of the British navy officers, and among others, of Admiral Digby, who had as his protege, Prince William Henry, late king of England, and many of the oldest citizens of New York still remember that king, while quite a youth skating on Kolck Pond, surrounded by a crowd of city boys. s Abraham K., son of James Beekman. BEEKMAN. 81 ^ 1733 James 1 March 5, born. Lived and died in New York Jane Keteltas Oct. 1751 William died unmarried. Jane m. Stephen Van Cortland No children. Resided in New York. Catharine m. Elisha Boudinot Nochilaren . Mary m. Stephen N. Bayard 1831, died. No children. Cornelia m. Isaac B. Cox 4 ch iidren. JOnn died young. Elizabeth dicd yoang . Abraham K. m. Johanna Beekman s No ehadwn . James m. Mrs. Lydia Watkins Drew 3 Noc inid re » 'About three miles from the City Hall, in the city of New York, stands an old mansion, associated with many interesting though melancholy rem iniscences of our revolution. It was built by James Beekman, and was occupied by the commanders in chief of the British army, as their residence while they had pos- session of the city, during that period. There is one room near the head of the stairs, which was occupied by Maj. Andre the night before proceeding up the river, on his ill fated expedition to "West Point, and (strange providence) but a few yards distant still stands the green house, where Capt. M""!"""- Hale, of the ii Af6tfuu*s American army received his trial and condemnation as a spy. There is one room the ceiling of which is ornamented with a belt of green, and the fire place with old fashioned porcelain jambs, looking like some dainty parlor of a fairy queen, where it is stated, was composed the celebrated poem, the " Battle of the Kegs." Like most old buildings it had a room, long celebrated among superstitious servants, for its ghosts and strange outlandish noises. It is still owned by a descendant of the original proprietor. * Johanna, da. of Gerard William Beekman. 3 Maiden name Lydia Watkins, 82 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. m8 John April 29, bom. Dec. 8, 1843, died. Mary E. G-. Bedlow, ' Born Aug. 1, 1771. Nov 3, 1793. Catharine m. A. K. Fish Mary m. William A. De Peyster JohnC. Jane m. J. H. Borrowe, M. D., i 833 Lydia m. Joseph Foulke, Jun., i 831 William F. Catharine A. Neilson ^ 1774 Gerard Dec.' born. July 15, 1833, died Catharine Sanders pril, 1810. 1815 James W Nov. 22, born. Resides in N. York. Abian S. Milledoller March 18, 1840. aarine Readies in New York, Gerard June 1, 1841. William B. John N. BEEKMAN. 83 \ Jan.25 J " llliam j, om a t the bay near Flatbush, L. I ; died young. 1682 Adrian 1 m. Aletta Lispenaer 1705 Aug 22, bom al Flatbush. L I. Died Dec. 19, 1705. without children. , 689 Catharine m. Charles le Roux 2 May 55, born nl New Ulrecht. Goldsmith nnd Jeweller in New York ; died Jan. 30, 17G3. Dec°33 } Cornelia m. Richard Van Dam 1701 -Eienry Meichant and ensign in New York. Dec. 11, born. Died, Sept. 4, 1743 unmarried. 17M Maria m. Jacob Walton 3 Jan. 10, bom. Died March 11, 1794. , oe7 Jacobus 4 M. D. Elizabeth De Peyster bora 1G92 . Aug. 7, born at Flatbush. L. I. 1. Mary Beekman 8 Two children; died young. 2. Ann Doren of Albany. 1710 Anatje born i 722 Jacobus m9 Gerardus Resided at Albany. 1720 John Elizabeth Ellsworth* Peter Ann Gerardus K. Elizabeth Mathews W James m. Sarah LefFerts 7 Resided ill New York Gerardus m. Sarah Paine John m. Kisse Gile No cMdren . Thomas m. Sarah Mathews Theophylus Resided in New York Elizabeth m. James Henry ofN< . wYo rk. Theophylus Resides at Hudson 1 Adrian Beekman, son of Gerard, was a merchant New York, a deacon of the Reformed Dutch Church, in New York. He was killed during the famous in- and lieutenant in the army. surrection in that city among the negroes, on Sunday 3 Jacob Walton built the Walton House, in Pearl night, the 6th of April, 1712. He was coming out of his Street, New York, house to go to the rendezvous (of those who assembled * Jacobus, English, James. to quell the insurrection), when he was stabbed by the 5 Elizabeth, da. of Theophylus Ellsworth, of New door; retiring into an inner apartment, he died in York. the arms of his wife. 'Mary, da. of Christopher Beekman. * Charles Le Roux was a goldsmith and jeweller in ' Sarah, da. of Dirck Lefferts. 84 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. 1. Anna Maria Van Home 1693 Lieut. Gerardus 2. Catharine Provoost June 9, b at Flatbush, L. I Merchant in New York. Elizabeth m. Luke ' William marriedinLiverpoolanddjedthere . Van Rantz Magdalene m. Abraham Lynks of NeW York Cornelius Catharine Aefje 1 m. Samuel Verplanck Ann Van Home Gerard G.\ _^ /Van Home of vei P ianck> B point. Catharine m. Capt. John Lawrence Gerard G. m. Cornelia 2 Cornelia m. Charles Akins VanCortlandt Gerard married in England . ° f s..croi*. 1 Aefje, Eng. Eve, s Cornelia da. of Gov. Pierre Van Cortlandt. BEEKMAN. 85 1657 Johannes 1 bom. 1751 died, aged 94 Aletta Lawrence 2 Mary m. Arnout 3 Schermerhoorn Catharine 1708 ' Rachel m. John Denmark bom Died June 27, 1793, aged 84. Thomas Wynkoop of Kingston. " Van Keuren Judith, Aeltje, Catharine Jonn ofKjng8 | 0n Rachel Dumont 4 Benjamin m. Rebecca Thompson of Redhook. Cornelius m. Burhans rSS^; Tierck 0f K^ff 31011 * Kinderhook of Kingston. \ Dr. John Anna Pruyn G-iertry m. Charles H. Ruggles 1 1 1 } l II Judge, resides in Ponghlreepsie. o Ullll djed unmarried at Kingston. Sarah m. Rev. Cornelius D. Westbrook ofFishkiU, Jan. 1819. Dr. John P. m. 1. Catharine of Kinderhook, ~\T Ci L l state senator. Van ocnaak No children. 2. Eliza Clarke Thomas m. Lydia Van Schaack Moved west. 1 Johannes Beekman and his wife Aletta were mem- bers of the Dutch church, and resided in what was called the Smit's Vlie or Valley in 16S6, neighbor to William Beekman his father. See list of ch. mem- bers by Dominie Selyns, in Coll. of N. Y. Hist. Soc. vol. 1, p. 398. N. S. •Aletta or Aeltje, Eng. Adeline or Adela, da. of Thomas Lawrence. D Arnout Eng. Arnold. 4 Rachel, da. of John Dumont a descendant of a Huguenot. 86 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. \ Cornelius Catharine Schoonmacher Catharine Masten of Kingston. Maria rri. Jacob Klock ofa . JohI1ST a le , Tryntie m. John Van Graasbeeck. Elizabeth and Alida aieunmariied . Xlenry setl i ed at St. Johnsville. Cornelius Thomas John of Kingston. Catharine Kiesterde ' settled at St. Johnsvills,, Cornelius of King9ton . Catharine Elizabeth Henry f K ingstoti. JameS of Kingston. J Ohn in Brooklyn. Walter ; n Brooklyn. Catharine m. Asa Stebbins Besides in Brooklyn. of Brooklyn. all of Kingston. BLEECKER. Jan Janssen Bleecker is the only individual of the name who is known to have emigrated to America. He was bom at Meppel, in the province of Overyssel, in the Netherlands, in 1641, and arrived at New York in 1658, and at Albany, it is supposed, the same year. He married Margaret, daughter of Rutger Jacobsen and Tryntie Jans, of Breesteede, 1 second of January, 1667. He was one of the first aldermen mentioned in the charter of Albany, granted by Gov. Dongan, in 1686. He was, in 1696, recorder of Albany, and in 1700, mayor of the same, and member of the general assembly of the province in 1698-9, and in 1700. 2 His descendants are numerous, and extensively intermarried with New England families. They principally reside at Albany and New York, though they may be found in New Jersey, Westchester County, Troy, Utica, Canada, and some even as far as Green Bay. The genealogical table gives a full list of his descendants, with their intermarriages. LEONARD BLEECKER. Leonard Bleecker 3 received on the 28th of June, 1775, the appointment of second lieutenant in Capt. Marinus Willett's company, in the First New York regiment, commanded by Col. Alexander McDougall; and on the 8th August following, left New York, rendezvousing at Ticonderoga, by the way of Albany, preparatory to a descent on St. Johns, which, it is well known, surrendered to General Montgomery 1 So far as can be interpreted from a very imper/ect * See Journal of the Assembly, record. ' See page 96. gg AMERICAN GENEALOGY. on the 12th Nov. following. Before his return to New York, he was advanced to a second lieutenantcy, in the First New York Regiment, also commanded hy Col. McDougal, and was in the battle of Long Island, and in the memorable retreat from thence into Westchester County ; and having been stationed for a time at Peekskill, crossing the river at King's Ferry, now Verplanck's Point, commenced the celebrated retreat through New Jersey. The misery and destitution of the army at this crisis may be conceived of from the fact that out of four hundred men, which originally composed this regiment, only fifty-five, rank and file, were able to proceed on their march, from Peekskill, for the want of clothing. Bleecker himself lost all his baggage in the retreat from Brooklyn, on the night of the 27th August His entire wardrobe consisted of only a single pair of half-worn worsted stockings, three old shirts, and a miserable uniform, which he had on his back. And thus destitute, without shoes or hats, in a cold autumnal month, they performed their melancholy march, leaving, as is well known, the prints of their bare feet, in blood, upon the frozen soil ! Four captains of this regiment, becoming incapacitated for further service, before reaching the Delaware, returned to their homes, leaving one of the vacancies to be filled by Mr. Bleecker. He accordingly, in this capacity, participated in the famous battles of Trenton and Princeton. He survived all the officers of this regiment. On the first of January, 1 777, the army being newly organized, he was appointed first lieutenant in the Fourth New York Regiment, commanded by Col. Henry B, Livingston, and in the month of March, while recruiting at Esopus, (Kingston, Ulster County,) he was advanced to a captaincy in, the Third New York Regiment, commanded by Colonel Peter G-ansevoort to supply a vacancy occasioned by the desertion of Captain Houston, who went over to the enemy, in New York. This regiment being ordered to Fort Stanwix, in June 1777, participated in the defence of that place, during its memorable investment by St. Leger, with his hordes of British, tories, and savages. Early in March, 1775, he took part in the expedition against the Onondagas, consisting of a detachment of five hundred men, under Col. Goose Van Schaack, of Colonel Willett's regiment, and effected their object without losing a man, capturing some thirty- four men, women and children of the savages. He was likewise in the celebrated expedition of General Sullivan, against the Tnscaroras, Cayugas and Senecas. The regiment to which he belonged, in conjunction with about one thousand other continental troops, under General James Clinton, marching from Saratoga, effected a junction with that officer at Tioga Point, in the month of September 1779. In January 1780, on the reorganization of the army, the four regiments of New BLEECKER. 89 York, being reduced to two, he received the appointment of captain in the First Regiment, commanded by Col. Goose Van Schaick, the light infantry of which he commanded till the close of the war. In 1780 and '81 he served under Gen. Lafayette; in the latter year acting as brigade major, in General Hazen's brigade of Lafayette's division, and witnessing the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, at Yorktown. He received, about the close of the war, a brevet commission, according to act of congress in 1779. In 1785, he made a public profession of religion, and devoted the remainder of his life to works of a philanthropic [and benevolent character. The following are some of the institutions of this nature to which he belonged. He was associated with Dr. William Cogswell in forming the Society for the Relief of Distressed Prisoners; a Trustee in the New York City Dispensary, for twenty years; President of the New York Samaritan Society, its whole existence; Manager of the United Domestic Missionary Society; Manager and First Vice President of the American Tract Society ; Manager, Vice President and President of the New York Bible Society; Vice President of the New York Magdalen Society, its whole existence ; Inspector of the New York State Prison, fifteen years; First Treasurer of the New York Free, now Public School Society, then elected Vice President, which office he filled until he was compelled to leave the city, on account of ill health ; for several years Standing Chairman of the New York Peace Society ; Manager of the original Board of the American Bible Society; Manager of the original Board of the New York Sabbath School Union, and for a number of years, one of its Vice Presidents; Standing Chairman of the weekly meetings of the Sunday School Visiting Committee; First Vice President, and afterwards President, of the Bethel Union ; Standing Chairman of the Weekly Union Prayer Meeting at the Mariners' Church; First Treasurer of the Baptist Theological Society ; Vice President of the New York Baptist Domestic Mis- sionary Society ; Vice President of the New York Baptist Foreign Missionary Society ; Manager of the American and Foreign Bible Society; Life Member of the New York Marine Society since 1791; Treasurer of the New York State Society of Cincinnati eighteen years; Member of the New York Chamber of Commerce nearly fifty years; Member of the Legislature, one year, &c, &c. He died on the 9th of March, 1844, at Newtown, L. I., esteemed and respected by the community in which he lived, and his high character and eminent services were an example worthy the imitation of posterity. 12. 90 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. FAMILY OF JAN JANSEN BLEECKER, WHO SETTLED AT ALBANY, 1658. John, "born on the 2d May, 1668; died 20th Dec, 1738; married Anna Coster, who died 1766. His descendants are given in the table. Nicholas, born between 9th and 10th Dec, at 12 o'clock at night, 1677; died at Albany, unmarried, Jan, 1, 1751. Henry, born April 7, 1686; died at Albany, unmarried, Dec 22, 1767. Catharine, born May 1, 1670,; married Abraham Cuyler of Albany, Nov. 17, 1689. She died April 8th, 1734. Jane, born Jan. 2, 1673; married John Glen, Dec. 11, 1698. He died Sept. 28, 1706; she Jan. 23, 1755. Rutger, born May 13, 1675; died Aug. 4, 1756; married Catalina Schuyler. He resided, in Pearl Street, Albany. His descendants are given in the table. Rachel, born Nov. 12, 1688; "died Aug. 10, 1766. She was buried in the Dutch Church at Albany, very near where she used to sit while attending church. Margaret, born March 8, 1680; married Henry Ten Eyck, 1 of Albany, Nov. 28, 1706, Maria, born March 3, 1682-3; died young. . ,' Maria, bom Feb. 6, 1691-2; also died young. 1 The mother of Henry Ten Eyck was a Coeymans. BLEECKER. 91 Margaeritta Jacobsen 1 JAN JANSEN BLEECKER 2 1647. born. \ / 1641, born at Meppel, in the province of Overyssel, Holland. 1733, died. \^ ^--^ J 1658, emigrated to America. Died, at Albany, Nov. 21, 1732. ^Jan. 2 1007. 1608 John 3 1701, mayor of Albany. Dec. 20, 1738, died at Albany. Anna Coster Died 1766. Oct. 1093. 1696 Gertrude m. Abraham March a, 1709 Maragrieta Wendell 2. Brees April 8, 1712 1004 Anna John 1. Nicholas 1702, born. 1747, died. Ten Eyck 4 Catalina Cuyler Margaret Roseboom Gerritje Van Schaick Gertrude Ann Catharine John I. JNlChOlaS(i; c( i unmarried. 1727 Henry resided in AlbMiy. Margaret m. Harmanus Ten Eyck of Albany. Catharine m. James Van Ingen Neeltje Staats Nicholas ofAU """ r - John m. Ann Van Alen 5 n0 childrcn by brant dicJ without children. JaCOD died unmarried. Jane m. Isaac Truax residcd „ AU)any . xxllllt. d j cd unmarried. 1 Margaret da. of Eutgcr Jacobscn. ^ *He settled at Albany in 165S. 'Johannes, at the age of eighteen, left home the 11th Sept., 16S6, and Schenectady on the 13th of the same month, for the Mohawk Indians. In the begin- ning of May of the same year, he, together with his companions, was made prisoner at Ottawa, by a party of Frenchmen, and carried to Quebec, where he re- mained till the following year, when he was released. 1703 Harrnan ofAlbanjr . Deborah Catharine He returned home, arriving at Albany after the second sermon, on Sunday, the 23d Oct., 16S7, to the aston- ishment and joy of his friends, who supposed him murdered by the Indians. He was recorder of Albany in 1700, and mayor in 1701. He was also member of the general assembly in 1701 and 1702. * Sister of Henry Ten Eyck. "Ann da. of John Van Alen. .* f .-■»'. - !92 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Henry Elizabeth Metcalf Resides in\ Albany. "X 1739 John N. Margaret Van Deusen 1825, died. Cata una / , Catharine Staats / I *. l'«fkHV..< fee t Catharine Henry George M. Charles N. William E. m. Elizabeth Russell 1776 Margaret m. John Van Schaick "so Harriet m. Rev. John B.Romeyn, D.D. 1764 Eliza m. Rev. Jacob Brodhead, D. D. ms Henry I. Mary Storm 1 ^^^. i78oNicholas N /jS - $l\.JL-*l-*i.&- Margaret , Margaret m. 1. Mr. Pinkham 2. Henry Antie 3. Samuel Chapman 'Mary, daughter of Thomas Storm, of New York. BLEECKER. 93 "^ K75 Rutger 1 Catalina Schuyler 4 Resided in Peart Street ' Albany. Aug. 1750, died. A JU ™Hendrick 3 His Anthony , 715 Jacob Margaret Ten Eyck Margaret m. Edward Co]]ins„ s ; de a a , A i bony March 1, born 1747, died. 1715 born. 1777 died. J™ John Rutger 1800, Hied in Pearl Street Albany. Elizabeth Staats 5 i 747 Jacob S2d July, born Elizabeth Wendell 8 1753, born. Feb. IS, 177G. 1760 Barent m. Sarah Lansing 7 June 9, born. Resided in Albany. No children. I745 Rutger Catharine Elmendorff Resided in Albany. 1777 \ Tnrnh T March 3 f «* en. u u x. ,]j e( ] unmarried. 1779 Hon. Harmanus m. Sebastiana 10 Oct 9, born. Resides at Albany. Hnrnplin Mpnt7 Lute minister to the Hague, ^UlllflUl iVieulZ from 1830 to 1812, Elizabeth m. Peter Brinckerhoff 1777, born at Schenectady. of New York. 1. Eliza Bridgen 11 i78o Maria m. Morris S. Miller ofUtiCB> "so Blandina m. lion. Charles E. Dudley 9 mi John R. 2. Mrs. Hetty Lynn 13 J of Albany. XVulgCr died unmarried. Sarah m. George M. Tibbets O frroy. Elizabeth m. Benjamin Tibbets of Albany. .Barent died young. Catharine m. James Neilson of New Brunswick, N, J. Mary m. Horatio Seymour ofUlica . 1 Rutger, Recorder of Albany in 1725, and Mayor in 1726, 27, 28. * Catalina, da. of David I. Schuyler. 3 Hendrick died Oct. 21, 1724 among the Senecas and was buried in a chest made of boards. 'John Rutger was a surveyor and took up large tracts of land on the Mohawk. "Elizabeth, da. of Barent Staats. 6 Margaret, da. of Henry Ten Eyck, who married Margaret Bleecker. * Sarah, da. of Gerrit Larsing. 'Elizabeth, da. of Harmanus I. Wendell. 9 The Hon. Charles E. Dudley was born in Stafford- shire, England. He resided at Albany. He was first state senator, then mayor of Albany, and finally United States senator. 10 Da. of Dirk Mentz and Immetje Keyser, at the Hague, in South Holland. " The name of Bridgen was assumed by her father ; his original name was Atwood. 15 Hetty abbreviation of Mchitabel, da. of Mr. Bailey of Plattsburg, and widow of Rev. John Blair Lynn, of Philadelphia. 94 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. , 75S James Resided at Albany, Rachel Van Zandt 1 1. Jane Gilliland A 17BJ, John 2. Mrs. John B. Schuyler 3 Eliza m. Grant Powell Stephen and John Snrnh m ChavlpS 7 Plfltt Resides at Toronto in Canada. Die unmarried, Stephen d. 1826, John d 1833 1832, died. ' of Albany, state' treasurer. Charlotte m. Vinal Luce Catharine m. Cornelius Catalina m. Barent Sanders Resides at Washington. G. Van Bensselaer 3 1 ]yTarP"aret of Albany. Resides at Greenbush. Vander Voort Gerrit Van Zandt 2. Jane Shepherd Rachel m. Nanning Visscher Winne of New Scotland. Elizabeth S. m. James B. Sanders James m. Ann Corneil Margaret L. m. Henry A. Allen of Albany. Gerrit Van Zandt Anna V. m. Stephen W. Clark Charles E. Sarah G. Thomas S. Eliza M. William R. 1 Rachel, da. of Gerrit Van Zandt, of Albany.. ' Maiden name Elizabeth Van Rensselaer. ' Cornelius, son of John Van Rensselaer. BLEECKER. 95 A James Resided in New York City. Abigail Lispenard 1 Elizabeth m. Col. William De Hart 2 James m2 Anthony L. 3 Mary Noel born nt New Ro- chelle. N. Y. IS] 0, died. Frances E. m. Francis Ellison Mary v 67 Gerrit Noel 1779 Abigail m.'John Neilson ° cl 30 born at Morristown. Resides in New York Elizabeth m. Alexander McDonald of New York. Josepha Jane Byvanck Anthony 5 dic James of New York. Sarah Bache 4 Helena m. Rev. Cornelius Duffy Mary m. Thomas W. Clerke Sarah m. William P. Hansford of Norfolk, Va. Theophylact m. Lydia Frances De Witt ofNew York Anthony J. Cornelia Van Benthuysen Mary J CM) II ,)j C( j unmarried. Matilda Jane m. Leonard Corning Louisa of New York. Sarah m. Fred'k Van Wagenen Elizabeth Emma Gerrit Noel m. Caroline Caldwell Resides in New York. John 1 The Lispenatds were Huguenots. * William De Hart, colonel in the revolution. 1 " You were not much acquainted with Bleecker,* I think ; the most honorable, the most amiable and the most modest of human beings. Fraught with talent, 'Anthony L. Bleecker gave name to Bleecker Street taste, and literature, a wit and a poet; he rarely ap- New York. peared in public as an author himself, whilst his care- « Sarah, da. of Theophylus Bache, of New York. 1«» generosity furnished the best of their capital to • Anthony Bleecker Esq., son of Anthony L. Bloecker of New York. 96 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. A William Phcebe John Smith Si 1 1775 Alexander Frances Wade* 7 5Lh of July born in New York. Mary William Robinson Anthony John Runeck William Catharine Amelia' Margaret of New York. Cornelia Resides at Green Bay, 1787, bora- Mary N. m.Rev. John H. Eeggett of New York. Anna W. m. Francis Von Pfister Frances m. John H. Schuyler Caroline H. William Lieut, in the navy, Anthony deoea5ed , Richard Alexander N. m. Harriet Blackwell dozens of literary adventurers,' sometimes giving them style for their thoughts, and sometimes thoughts for their style. See Reminiscences of New York No. 2 in •the Talisman for 1831. For many years before his death, he was an ex- aminer in chancery, an office requiring great integrity, impartiality, and judgment, the duties of. which he discharged with the utmost fidelity. His last moments were peaceful and tranquil, submitting with calm re- signation to the will of an overruling providence, he expressed his humble reliance on the merits of the Redeemer. He died in 1827. 1 Frances da. of Captain William Wade, of the 38th regiment of the British army. BLEECKER. 97 1. Ann Eliza Schuyler 17 44 John I. 2. Esther Rhinelander Leonard A. Sarah E. Popham Resides in New* York. Margaret m. Edward Brady John A. Eve Anna Faugerers No children. 1811 Mary N. m. Pierre E. F. McDonald William P. m. Maria H. Onderdonck Elizabeth m. Theodore Mallaby Leonard Anthony Julia m. William Onderdonck John Henry Estheria Eve Anna m. J. W. Shippe ofNYorlc Mary m. Joseph Baldwin ofNYork Georgiana m. William Lyman Jessica Rosalie of Newark, N. J. 13 98 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Maj. Leonard 1 1. Joanna AbeeP 2. Grace Moore Berrien of Westchesler County, N. Y. 1755 Dec. 21, born at New Rochelle, N Y 1787 James W Resides inNew York' Frederick D. 1786, born. Sarah Elizabeth Fanning Samuel Sarah F. m. Denniston Sarah Russell James m. 1. Mrs. Ann Driver 2. Sarah Ann Stubbs "Washington m. 1. Phoebe Gordon Reside*™ Brooklyn - 2. Ann E. Watson Gertrude m. Edward Kemeys Eliza - — of Westchester Co ,N.Y. resides at Sinp-Sinf . Huldah R. T t> T7-* . __-_ resides at Mnj*-Sji>{r. 1814 J ames h. m. Victoria Williams Leonard m . Caroline Henderson lew John R. m. Mary E. Clinton 3 wis Louisa M. 1822 Anna E. m. James Wolcott 1824 Henry A. of New Y <»*. 1828 Juliet Resides in New York Edward m. Ann Kinch Resides in New York. 1 See p. S9. 'Joanna da. of Col. James Abeel, of Gen. Wash- ington's staff. 'Mary E., da. of Alexander Clinton, nephew of De Witt Clinton. fei DE GRAAF. This patronymic is common in Holland, generally spelt with, a dipthong, as follows, Greef. 1 There was a Cornelius de Graef, free lord of South Poelsbrook, burgomaster of Amsterdam, in 1656. Also, a John de Graaf, governor of the Dutch island, St. IM Eustatius, the first foreign magistrate who acknowledged the independence of the Mlk United States/ after the revolution. His portrait is now hanging in the state house at « ,l! Concord, New Hampshire. •* A branch of the family emigrated to New Netherland, and settled at New Am- jbU sterdam, as a merchant. His only son, Claas, established himself as would be considered at that early day, far in the interior of the country, on the navigable waters of the Mohawk, on a point of land which he denominated De Graafen Hofstede, about a mile from the city of Schenectady, on the same side of the river. This land he obtained by patent from Gov. Andross, some time between the years 1670 and 1680. Ifl ** t The name has not spread much. Descendants of the first emigrant, reside mostly at and in the vicinity of Schenectady and Amsterdam. Some are at Syracuse, and in Montgomery and Schoharie counties, and they are found, of the female Line, as far as Philadelphia, New Orleans, Michigan. Also at Fort Plain, on the Mohawk. 1 The name signifies an earl or count. Pieter Jacobsz Graff, is also mentioned by Wagenaar, ' An allusion to this individual may be found in p. 206. Botta's American Revolution, vol. ii., p. 331. A 100 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. FAMILY OF CLAAS DE GRAAF, WHO SETTLED AT SCHENECTADY. Jesse, married Alida Henneyon, of the city of New York. Descendants given in the table. Abraham, married Rebecca. Children : Cornelius, married Rebecca Van Patten ; William, born 1735, married Anatje Truax. William, killed by the Indians. Left no descendants. Isaac, married Deborah. Children : Jeremiah, married Anatje Quackenbosh; John, married Anatje Peek ; Elizabeth, married Frederick Clute. Andries. Children: Claas, Frederick. Arnout. Children: Claas, married Catelina Truax; Nelly, married Tacaries Van der Bogart. DEGRAAF. 101 CLAAS DE GRAAF Bmigraled to America. Settled near Schenectady. Jesse Resided at the Hoeck Alida Henneyon of the city of New York. ni3 Gezena Swits 1 , 1709 . 20th April born. \ / Resided at Schenectady. , Daniel Jane 26, 1735. ]757 Isaac Nov. 16, born iu Schenectady l£4t, died. i7 3 7 Susanna m. Andrew Truax May 8, born. Resided at Schenectady. 1745 Jesse m. Rachel Fonda 2 Jan. 13, born. No descendants. 1747 Gezena m. Frederick Visscher O fF nd a born. Resided in town' of Mohawk. Montgomery Co., N. Y. ,750 Alida m. John A. Vedder or s< .. henecta( i y . bom. Resided in the town of Rotterdam. 2. Jane ,„, Simon m. 1. Anatie Schermerhorn 1 Susanna Van Epps Bradt. 5 1753 Resided iu Schenectady. Nu children. i — Nancy m. Jesse Fisher Resides at Fonda. Daniel m. Margaret Swart Resides at Schenectady. JtlarmanUS Lives at Syracuse 'Gezena, daughter of Simon Swits and Gezena Beeckman, who were married Oct. 11, 1711. She was born April 20, 1713; died, and was buried on the 24th Jan., 1801, being the first person carried to a grave on a hearse in Schenectady. ■ Eachel, daughter of Abraham Fonda. 3 John I. de Graaf was member of congress from 1779 Daniel m. Helena Swart Resides ., Amsteruara . Tnhn T 3 wunn j.. Resides nt Schenectady Jesse D. m. Gezena Visscher 6 Resides near Fonda Gezena m. Abraham Oathout Resides at Fort Plain. Eleanor m. C. C. Cuyler, D. D. of Philadelphia. Susan m. Peter Banker n esidesalScheneotndy> Nancy m. Philip R. Toll Resides in Michigan 1&26 to 1829, and in 1837-P9 ; and mayor of Schenec- tady in 1S32-, 3, 4, 5, 6, and in 1842-45. 4 Anatje, da. of Simon Schermerhorn. "Jane, da. of Arent Bradt, of Schenectady, 6 Gezena, grand-daughter of Frederick Visscher. He was scalped by the Indians during the revolution, and survived many years afterwards. 1 02 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Hester m. Simon Toll Resided in the town of Glenville. Eve m. Seth Vrooman Resided in Schenectady. Elebertje m. Peter Van Slyck Resided in Schenectady. Maria in. Jeronimus Barhuydt Resided in Schenectady. Sarah in. Harmanus Peek Resided in Schenectady. Catharine m. Adam Condie 1 Resided in the town of Grlenville Rachel m. Abraham Groote Resided at Niskayuna. Claas 2 Harriet 3 Schermerhorn Resided at the Hoeck."" Aneka m. Gerrit Veeder Resided in the town of Schenectady. > Jesse m. Rebecca Quackenbosh Resided at the Hoeck. 1753 John m. Eva Yan Dreezen Lived in the town of Schenectady. 1 Adam Condie was slain in the Boeckendal battle, 3 Harript, a daughter of Ryer Schermerhorn, one of July 18, 1748, the patentees of Schenectady. a Claas, English Nicholas,- HOFFMAN. This family is of Swedish origin, though the name is distinguished in Dutch and German literature. 1 It is not improbable that these families are also of Swedish extraction, removing thither, as we know large numbers of Scandinavian families did, in the time of G-ustavus Adolphus. There were several individuals of this name who arrived in some of the early migrations of the Swedes to the Delaware, who were included among those transferred by Governor Stuyvesant to the city of New York, on his conquest of New Sweden, to prevent a revolution among them in favor of Queen Christina, where they have commingled Swedish blood with the original Dutch population of the city. The name, however, in the Scandinavian dialect, seems to have been Hoppman, similar in signification to Hoffman, the one being a translation of the other, for Hoffman signifies the same in Dutch that Hopp-man does in Swedish, namely, man of hope, analogous to the Anglo-Saxon patronymic, Hop-kin, an abbreviation of Hope-kin, the e being expunged for the sake of euphony, and which signifies child of hope. I find a Mr. Hoffman authorized by Tjerck Claas de Witt, the ancestor of the De Witts in New York, to recover some property for him, at Ezen, in Ostenbenzie, Holland, who is probably the ancestor of the branch of the family here referred to. He 1 Among the most important of these, were Gas- Philosophico-Politico-Philologicum, published at Ge- par Hoffmann, a German physician, born at Gotha, neva in 1677, in 2 vols., folio. Daniel Hoffman, a in 1572. Also, Maurice Hoffmann, a German phy- Lutheran minister, superintendent and professor at sician, born at Furstenwald, in Brandenburgh, in "Helmstad, during the latter part of the fifteenth cen- 1622. John James Hoffmann, a philologist, born at tury. He died in 1611. Frederick Hoffmann, the Bale, in 1635. He wrote the great work entitled most eminent physician of his name, was born at Lexicon Universale Historico-Geographico- Poelico- Halle, in Saxony, Feb. 19, 1660. 104 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. seems to have originally settled near the Shongum Mountains, 1 in the beautiful valley of the Waalkill, Ulster County, New York, where his descendants became atone time so numerous as to constitute a distinct settlement, which went by the. name of Hoffman Town. A son of the first ancestor married Jane, a daughter of Antonie Crispell, a Huguenot, who settled in that region, and one of the patentees of NewPaltz ; thus transmitting some of the best blood of France in the veins of his descendants. He removed to Esopus, now Kingston, Ulster County, where he settled, and the old fashioned stone mansion, erected by him on the corner of North Front and Green Streets, originally used as a fort, is still standing, owned by one of his descendants. In the following generation, a member of the family located near Red-hook, on the east side of the Hudson River, from whence have originated the New York branch of the family. This branch has become affluent, and highly distinguished for its literary attainments. One of the sons of the original ancestor, at Shongum, remaining on the old homestead, also left descendants, who have, mostly, disappeared from that region. The following genealogical table is particularly valuable as giving the descendants of Jane, a daughter of one of the Huguenots who settled in Ulster County, already referred to, and also as completing a branch of Philip Livingston's descendants, through his daughter Alida. (See Livingston Genealogy.) 1 Awkwardly spelled Sha-wan-gunk, signifying, in chalkly cliffs appearing on the mountainous ridges the Indian language, white rocks, in allusion to the bordering the Waalkill. HOFFMAN. 105 MARTINUS HOFFMAN emigrated from Sweden to America] and settled at Shongnm, Ulster county, N. Y. Feb., 1686. J annitie UriSpell NlCOlaeS settled at Kingston , Ulster county ,N.Y. Died Dec. 30, 1750. Died Feb. 11, 1752. Jan. 14, 1705. Dec. e, 1713. ^echanas m. 1. Helena Van Wyck 5or6childrenjallofwhomdiedyoung March 24, 1798, died at Redhook. 2 . Mrs. Van Wyck 2 of Fishkill . Petrus m. Van Allstyne of KMerhook. Dec. 19, 1727, Aug. 15, 1754, died. Resided near Redhook, Maria m. John Ten Broeck Nov. 7, 1730. Tryntie 3 Benson 1706 Col. Martinus 1765, died. \ ' / Died, Aug. 29, of Hudson. Mrs. Henry Hansen 4 of Hariaem. Sept. 26, 1766. Jan'y 3, 1745. Cornelia Vredenburgh Aug. is, 1734. Cornelia m. Isaac Roosevelt of New Yor k. Born at Kingston. sept. i7, 1737. Robert m. Sarah Van Allstyne Resided at Poughkeepsie. Aug. 1, 1739. Anthony m. Mary Rutgers of New York . Resided at Redhook. June 20. 1743. Maria m. R. Archibald Laidlie rMid(!dinNe wYork. Jan. 12, 1747. Martin m. Margaret Bayard Resided in Dutchess county, N. Y. Zechariah m. Jane Hoffman Resided at Redhook. Feb. 14, 1752. Jane XlarmanUS ),„„, „, Kincratnn /~i ,1 Catharine Verplanck May 10, 1749. born at Kingston. ^Resided at Redhook. 1. Catharine Douw Catharine m. Henry Van Rensselaer Ann m. Barent Ten Eyck William Charlotte Wilkins 2. Wm.McClelland Martin m. Gertrude Van IN eSS f Kinderhook. Charlotte m. Edward Prime C f New York. Isabella m. Stephen Bayard of West Farms, Westchester. William Herman Martin Philip P. m. Lydia Osborn Resides in New York. Of Boston. Maria m. Com. John Downes Of Boston. Margaret E. Herman L. m. Charlotte Clyne of St. Louis. Samuel V. m. Grlovinia Storm Resides at New Brunswick. Lt. Beekman Verplanck 5 of the U.S.N. ' Jannitie (Eng. Jane), da. of Antonie Crispell, a 4 Maiden name Alida, da. of Philip Livingston, Huguenot, and one of the patentees of New Paltz, second proprietor of the manor, and sister to William Ulster county, N. Y. Livingston, governor of New Jersey. 2 Maiden name Letitia Brinckerhoff. 5 Beekman Verplanck Hoffman was first lieutenant 'Tryntie (Eng. Catherine), da. of Robert Benson of the Constitution when she took the Guerriere, and and Cornelia Roos. also when she took the Cyanne and Levant. 14 106 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. ,_ Nicholas Sarah Ogden 1 1756. 1800. Died at Redhook. Died 1821. Nov. 14, 1762. sept. 7, 1773. Mary Grillon m. James Seton 1. Beulah 2 Murray 1763 . Martin 2. Mary Seton Murray m. 1. Frances Burrall 2. Mary. Ogden Assistant Vice-Chancellor. Lindley M. m. Susan Ogden Martin m. Elizabeth H. Gilman Anna m. Anthony Livingston 3 William died young . Mary Seton Serena m. Dr. Chandler G-ilm an ofN Y Matilda m. Dr. Wm. C. Roberts. Edward died y0UEg Maria Colden m. Dr. John Patterson Resides in Goshen. Cecelia Seton m. Richard McAllister Resides in Hamburg. Harriet Cadwallader Colden James Farquhar 1 Sarah, da. of Isaac Ogden and Gertrude Gouver- neur. 2 Beulah, sister to Lindley Murray the grammarian. 3 Son of John Livingston. HOFFMAN. 107 sepias. } Philip L. Helen Kissam Bom in New York "* Removed to Johnstown. of New York. Bom in New York. V ^ Catharine m. Dan'l Coolidge 1. MaryColden^VJJpsiahOgden 1 2 . Maria Fenno Alida Helen Hannah r hllip died anmarjiai. Richard K. Benson Ann m. Chas. Nicholas Charles F. 2 Matilda ofPhiladdI ' hia - George E. Mary m. Philip Rhinelander 3 u ua «uofN«wYo* Hon. Ogden m. Emily Burrall Southard of Virginia. in the navy. Helen m. Woolsey Rogers ' Josiah Ogden Hoffman, late first judge of the 2 Charles F. Hoffman, author of the Winter in the Superior Court of New York. West, and other works. 3 Philip, son of William Rhinelander. 108 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. S March 4, mi. Anthony Dec. 5, 1784, died at Kingston. Catharine Van Gaasbeeck of Kingston, died March 23, 17S5. Sarah married David de la Matre 1740, 1743 . Jane m. John Kierstede of Kingston. 1745 . Nicholas m. Edy Sylvester of New Y ork of Kingston. Nov. S9, 1747. 1 of Kaatskill. Resided at Redhook. Abraham m. Rachel Dubois , Resided at Kingston. i75o. Ann m. Philip Van Buren of Kingston. i 752 . Maria m. John Addison 2 of Kingston . Aug. I7l rat Catharine m. Henry Elting f Kingston. Aug 27, 1756 Anthony m. 1. Elizabeth Snedeker ' Resided at Po>keepsie. 2 Gertrude Verplanck 1 Catharine, da. of Abraham Van Gaasbeeck, of Kingston. 2 John Addison was by birth a Scotchman. He emigrated to America, and settled at Kingston, on the Hudson, just previous to the revolutionary war. Mrs. Addison, then a widow, resided in the outskirts of the village at the time it was destroyed by the British under Capt. Vaughan. The family was making its escape from the house, and had got a short distance when, recollecting that she had left behind her an article of dress which belonged to her mother, and which she was anxious to preserve, she hastened back to recover it. Obtaining it, she was just on the point of reaching the top of the hill, when looking anxiously back, she beheld the flames bursting from her dwelling. The village was entirely destroyed, with the exception of a single house. About the same time, intelligence arriving of the surrender of Burgoyne, the British retreated down the river. KIP. Among the members of the association entitled the " Company of Foreign Coun- tries," alluded to (page 7) as having been organized in the Netherlands in 1588, for the purpose of exploring a northeast passage to the Indies, around the coast of Asia, was an individual named Hendrick Kype, 1 ancestor of a highly respectable family in the state of New York. He left Amsterdam, Holland, and came over with his family to New Netherland in 1635. Returning to Holland, however, soon after, he died there. His sons remaining in this country, seem to have had considerable enter- prise, for we find them securing large tracts of land and holding prominent stations in the government of the colony, as far down as the time of its conquest by the English in 1664. In 1647 and 1649, when Gov. Stuyvesant, to remodel the government, organ- ized a popular assembly, composed of nine men chosen from among the people, who should cooperate with him and his council in the administration of the government, Hendrick Kip, one of these sons, was among those selected for this purpose. Jacobus Kip, another son, was secretary of the council of New Netherland, and obtained a grant of land on the Island of Manhatten, about two miles above the City Hall, on what was afterwards called Kip's bay. Here, in 1641, he erected a house, of bricks imported from Holland, a part of which was afterwards rebuilt in 1670 and 1696. Five generations of the family were born here. A few years since, on the opening of 35th street, on the line of which it stood, the house, at that time the oldest on the island, was taken down. 2 1 After the conquest of New Netherland by the and where the name is Anglicized to Kip, which English, the name was Anglicized to Kip. See royal fixed its spelling. charter granted to Gov. Dongan in 1686, and that of 2 There is on the rock in the rear of the house, a Gov. Montgomerie in 1730, where members of the pear tree, which still bears fruit, and which was planted family are mentioned as officers under the crown, by one of the ladies of the family, in the year 1700. 110 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. In the following generation, we find the family purchasing from the Esopus Indians, .on the east side of the Hudson river, where Rhinebeck now stands, a tract of land extending four miles along the river and several miles inland. The original deed, which is still preserved, is dated July 28, 1686, and signed by three Indian chiefs, Ankony, Anamaton, and Collicoon. Two years afterwards, a royal patent, dated June 2d, 1688, was granted by His Excellency Thomas Dongan, governor of the Province of New York, under the name of the Manor of Kipsburg, in confirmation of the Indian title. One-fifth part of this manor was afterwards sold to Col. Henry Beekman, through whose granddaughter, the mother of Chancellor Livingston, it passed into the Livingston family. About 300 acres of this property are still held by the Kip family, under the original deed. It seems that while a part of the family adhered to the British cause during the revolution, Jacobus Kip, of Kip's bay, was a staunch whig, his son having joined the American army. His residence for a short time was Washington's head quarters. It will be recollected, that on Sunday, September 15, 1776, the British under Sir William Howe, landed at Kip's bay, and after a skirmish with the Americans, in the rear of Mr. Kip's house, they took possession of it, and for several years it was occupied by the British officers as their head quarters. Sir Henry Clinton, Lord Percy, Knyphausen, and the traitor Arnold, in succession, lived under its roof. Mr. Kip, who was too aged and infirm to be removed, remained with his two daughters, had a part of the house assigned them, and were treated by the British with the utmost courtesy and respect. He died before the close of the war. In the latter part of September, 1780, when the place was held as the quarters of Col. Williams of the 80th regiment, a dinner was given there to Sir Henry Clinton and his staff, and also as a parting compliment to Maj. Andre, who was about setting out to meet Arnold. It was Andre's last dinner in New York, and ten days afterwards he was executed. Jacobus Kip, of Kipsburgh, became a captain in the British Infantry, and of another member of the family we find the following account in Bolton's History of Westches- ter County (vol. ii, p. 254). "The command of the Loyalist Rangers afforded Col. de Lancey facilities for communicating with his old associates in this section of the country, and was the means of inducing some of the landed gentry to take an active part in the contest. This was particularly the case with Samuel Kip, Esq., of a family which from the first settlement by the Dutch had possessed a grant of land at Kip's bay, and in other parts of New York island. Having been always associated with the government, and from their landed interest wielding an influence in its affairs they were naturally predisposed to espouse the royal cause. In addition to this, Mr. Kip's estate was near that of Col. de Lancey' s, and a close intimacy had always ex- isted between them. He was, therefore, easily induced to accept a captain's commis- sion from the royal government, and embark all his interests in this contest. He KIP HI raised a company of cavalry, principally from his own tenants, joined the British army with the colonel, and from his intimate knowledge of the country, was enabled to gain the reputation of an active and daring partisan officer. For this reason he was for a time assigned to a command in the Loyalist Rangers. In one of the severe skirmishes which took place in Westchester county in 1781, Capt. Kip, while charging a body of American troops, had his horse killed under him, and received a severe bayonet wound. He survived, however, several years after the war, though like his friend de Lancey, a heavy pecuniary sufferer from the cause he had espoused." The following is a list of the municipal offices the family have held in the city of New York, under the different forms of government, during the last 200 years, taken from the corporation records. Schepen. Hendrick Kip, 1656 Jacobus Kip, 1659, '62, '63, '65, '73, '74 Common Council Men. Johannes Kip, • 16S I Aldermen. Assistant Aldermen. Johannes Kip, 1685, '87, '91, '92, '93, '96, '97 Jacobus Kip, 1709, every year to 1728 SamuelKip, 1729, '30, '31 SamuelKip, 1807, '8 Leonard Kip, 1820, '21 1817, '18, '19 112 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. HEND1UCK K.JJr died at Amsterdam, Holland. Hendrick m. Anna de Sille 1 Feb . 29) 1660 . May is, i63i. Jacobus 2 m. Maria de la Montaigne 3 1. Catalina Hendricks de Suyers Isaac 4 m. 2. Mrs. Maria Vermilyea de la Montaigne 5 Sept . 12jl675 . Feb. 8, 16S3. 1654 . Hendrick 6 m. Magdelina Van Vleeck 1697 . ]656 . Tryntje 1659 . Abraham m. Catalina de la Noy 1697 . ]662 . Isaac m. Sarah de Mill oct^iese. Aug as, 1666. Jacobus 6 m. 1. Mrs. Henrietta WesselsVerplanck 7 Febr U a^28,i753,aied. x 2. Rachel Swarthout 1695. Born April 10, 1669. Died Sept, 16, 1717. Not. 9, 1692. Cornelia Lewis 8 ^e.'} Isaac July 10, 1772, died. ' ' July 2. 1762, died. Jan. 7, 1720. 1721. Elizabeth Rachel died young. 1728 Elizabeth n32 . Dr. Isaac m. Rachel Kip f Kpsburgh. Abraham m. Dorothea Remsen 1767- Jacobus Elizabeth Frazier V^apt. ioamUei f Dragoons in British army. 1 Da. of Hon. Nicasius de Sille, first counsellor to the Director Peter Stuyvesant. 2 Jacobus Kip (Eng. James) was secretary of the council of New Netherland. 3 Maria de la Montaigne, da. of the Hon. Johannes de la Montaigne, a Huguenot, was born at sea, off the Island of Madeira, Jan. 26, 1637. She was married in the fort at New Amsterdam, Feb. 14, 1654, in her 17th year. Her father was associated with Gov. Kieft, in the government of the colony. 4 Isaac Kip purchased above the city, property which now forms a portion of the Park, and a section through which Nassau street — then called Kip street, in honor of himself — now runs. 5 Widow of Johannes de la Montaigne, Jr. See 0'- Callaghan's Hist, of New Netherland, vol. ii, p. 21, note. 6 Hendrick and Jacobus Kip were copatentees of the Manor of Kipsburgh. 7 Widow of Gulian Verplanck of New York. 8 Da. of Leonard Lewis, alderman of New York, 1696-1700. KIP. 113 1725. Leonard 1804, died. Elizabeth Marschalk 1 1732, bom 1818, died 1703. Sarah Smith of Eliznbethtown, N. J. 1843, died. 1764. 1767. Anne ] 7!)C) died Isaac L. 1837, died. 1774 1- 10. died Leonard Maria Ingraham 2 '1784, born. 1809. Brockholst Livingston Leonard Wm. m. Anna Corbet Wilson Anna m. Rev. John E. Miller Pastor of Dutch Church, Staten Island. Sarah Smith m. Wm. C. Miller ofAlbany . 1837, died. Catherine m. Wm. J. Van Buskirk Rev. Francis M. m. Mary Rodgers Bayard Rev. Wm. Ingraham D. D. m. Maria S°iL„ P y an1 ' 8 Elizabeth Lawrence 3 Elizabeth m. Rev. Henry L. Storrs Rector of St. John's Ch.,Yonken>, N. Y. Sophia m. Rt.Rev.Geo. Burgess, D.D. Bishop of Maine. Mary m. John Innes Kane Wood lawn, 'Westchester co , N. Y Leonard Pastor of Dutch Church, Fishkill. 1 Da. of Francis Marschalk of New York. 3 Da. of Isaac Lawrence, of New York. 15 2 Da. of Duncan Ingraham, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y. of Greenvale Farm, DE LANCEY. This family is of Huguenot extraction. 1 Etienne or Stephen de Lanci, 2 the progeni- tor of it in America, was born at Caen, in Normandy. On the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, he was one of those who stripped of their titles and estates, fled from per- secution. Leaving his aged mother, 3 then a widow, in concealment at Caen, he escaped to Holland, where remaining a short time, he proceeded to England, and taking out letters of denization at London, on the 20th of March, 1686, he sailed for New York, where he arrived on the 7th of June following. 4 There taking all the effects he had, together with some family jewels, parting memorials of his mother, he embarked in mercantile pursuits. By great industry and strict application to business, he soon amassed a considerable fortune, 5 becoming a highly esteemed and influential member of society. He held through the greater part of his life, honorable appoint- ments in the councils of the city, as well as in the representative assembly of the pro- vince. He was elected alderman of the west ward of the city five years, after his arrival in 1691. He was representative from the city and county of New York, in the 1 The family in this country is descended from Jean with a pennon, its point in chief debruised of a bar or." De Lanci, Ecuyer* Vicomte of Laval and Nouvian, Motto: Certum voto pete finem. See Bolton's History who flourished in the latter half of the 15th century, of Westchester County. and died May, 1525. The family possessed under 2 The name, originally spelt de Lanci, was altered Louis de Bourbon, bishop and duke of Laon, the he- by the substitution of ey for i, in this country, reditary fief of the four banier of Laval. The arms 3 Her maiden name was Marguerite de Bertrand. of the family originally, were three lances on a field 4 Journal of the General Assemblv of New York, azure, canopied by a black eagle, subsequently changed vol. i, p, 518. by the second English branch, to a lance " in pale, 5 See Smith's Hist, of New York, vol. i, pp. 208, 272. * This title designates a gentleman who possesses coat armor. DE LANCEY. ]]£ provincial assembly, from 1702 to 1716, with the exception of 1709, and in September, 1725, on the decease of General Prevoost, he was elected to fill his place in that body ; the following year he was reelected to the same office which he continued to hold until 1727. In 1716, being vestryman of Trinity church, he contributed .£50, the amount of his salary as representative to the general assembly, to buy a city clock for that church, the first, it is supposed, ever erected in the city. To him and Mr. John Moore, the city is likewise indebted for the introduction of fire engines in 1731. He contri- buted very liberally to the establishment and support of the first French church in the city, 1 and was rigid in the performance of his religious duties. He was vestryman of Trinity church at the time of his death in 1741. The family is not very numerous in this country, many of them removing to England on the commencement of the revo- lution, and it is an interesting circumstance, that the descendants of a poor friendless Huguenot, flying from his native country for protection to the wilds of America, should have become so extensively intermarried with prominent English families, as well as hold high and honorable appointments in the government of Great Britain. 1 See Smith's History of New York, vol. 1, pp. 203, -272. 116 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. ETIENNE 1 DE LANCEY 1686, emigrated to America. 1741] died. Ann Van Cortlandt 1676, born. Jan. 23, 1700. Susan m. Sir Peter Warren, 2 K. B. Ann m. Hon. John Watts ofNewY ork. Stephen and John dieil umnarried . 170 a Lieut.-Gov. James 3 Ann Heathcote 4 July 30, 1760, died. Died, 1779. Elizabeth Floyd 7 of Mastic, L. I. Died 1819. Maria m. Wm. Walton, Esq. 5 of New Yor k. Martha and Susanna died mmmiedl . Ann m. Judge Thos. Jones of FortN ^,ui. No issue. HeatnCOte d j ed unmarried. Stephen m. Hannah Sackett No ohUdren 1795, died. John Peter 6 1753, born. of Mamaroneck, Westchester. Died, 1828. Ann Charlotte m. John Loudon McAdam 8 of England. Susan Augusta m. James Fenimore Cooper Maria Frances died unmarried . Edward Floyd died Domarried) at the age of 22 Elizabeth Caroline Martha Arabella of Cooperstown. 1 Etienne (Eng. Stephen). "Admiral Sir Peter Warren commanded the expe- dition that took Louisbourg. 3 See page 120. "Da. of Col. Caleb Heathcote, of Heathcote Hill, Mamaroneck, and proprietor of the Manor of Scars- dale, Westchester county, and brother of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, chief founder of the Bank of England. 5 William, son of Jacob Walton, who built the Wal- ton House in New York. Mrs. Walton was, conse- quently, the mother of De Lancey Walton, Rear Ad- miral Walton, and Mrs. Verplanck, stepmother of the Hon. Gulian C. Verplanck, of New York. 6 See page 120. 7 Da. of Col Eichard Floyd, of Mastic, L. I. 8 The originator of McAdamized roads. DE LANCEY. 117 James 1 Margaret Allen 2 1789 , Judge Thomas J of Mamaroneck. 1821, died. Mary Jane Ellison 5 Lt. Col. James 3 Anna Susan UnarleS died unmarried. Margaret m. Sir Julius Juckes Clifton of England. Rt. Rev.Wm. H. Frances Munro 8 Bishop of the dio. ceae of Western New York. Thomas James m. Frances Augusta of New York. "RihW XHDUy of Yonkers. 1820. Edward F. m. Josephine Marg^ M. M.deZeng Elizabeth F. John Peter Peter Munro died 1849 . Wm. Heathcote of Geneva, died young, 1 James De Lancey in 1759 was a captain in the army, but sold out his commission on succeeding to the family estates at his father's death. He was a member of the assembly for the city and county of New York, from 1768 to 1775. During the war he retired to England, and was vice-president of the board of loyalist refugees, established for the purpose of ob- taining compensation for their losses. He made the city of Bath, in England, his residence, and died there in 1800. 2 Margaret, da. of Chief Justice Allen, of Pennsyl- vania. 3 Lt. Col. of the 1st Dragoon Guards. 4 Judge of Westchester county. 5 Mary Jane, da. of Thomas Ellison, Esq., of New York. 6 Frances, da. of Peter Jay Munro, of New York, nephew of Chief Justice Jay. 118 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Peter 1 Elizabeth Colden 2 Resided in "Westchester county. N. Y. Ann E. m. of Schenectady. Alice m. Ralph Izard 3 of Carolina. Elizabeth died unmarried. Anne m. John Cox of N. Y. No children. Jane m. John Watts of N . Y . Susannah m. Col. Thomas .Barclay Britirh Consul in N. Y. Peter m. Emily Beresford Killed in a duel No children. Col. James 7 m. Martha Tippett Children in Nova Scotia. of Westchester. Warren 8 m. 1. Mary Lawrence n0 chadren. 2. Sarah Taylor no children . 3. Rebecca Lawrence , Stephen 9 Esther Rynderts of A i bany . John 4 Alida Wickham \ Oliver 5 Gov. Jospeh C. Yates 8 Rachel Hunt of West Farms, West- chester county. Elizabeth Mary Cadwallader ofNovaScolia . 1 Peter De Lancey, the second son, likewise per- formed a conspicuous part in the early annals of New York. He represented the borough of Westchester in the assembly, from 1752 to 1768. Marrying- a daughter of Gov. Colden, he settled upon a large es- tate which he possessed at West Farms, Westchester county, and became the ancestor of that branch of the family known as the "Westchester De Lanceys." 2 Elizabeth, da. of Gov. Cadwallader Colden, of New York. 3 His son, Ralph Izard, was a general in the TJ. S. A., in the late war with England. Eliza m. 1. Stephen Resides in Westchester. Bavard 2. Rev. W.Powell Julia m. Dan'l Coster Resides in Westchester. V^Il Ver ,3i e <3 unmarried. Susan James diedunmarried William A. m. Elizabeth ■Kyfir of West Farms. John m. Eliza Shea Henry Overing JlillZa died unmarried. Mary m. Miller Louisa m. Arthur Powell Henrietta 4 John De Lancey succeeded his father in 1768, as member of assembly for Westchester borough, and served till 1775, when he was elected to the provincial congress, where he served one year. 5 Oliver De Lancey was in the British navy, but during the revolution he resigned his command, under a determination not to fight against his native coun- try. He married and settled at West Farms, West- chester county. 6 Joseph C.Yates was judge of the supreme court of New York, and governor from 1822 to 1828. 7 ' 8 ' 9 See page 120. DE LANCEY. 119 Brig. Gen. Oliver 1 ltt the British army. Phila Franks of Philadelphia. Susan m. Lt. Gen. Sir William Draper, K. B. Charlotte m. Fieldmarshal Sir David Dundas, K. B. 2 noisaue . Commander-in-chief of the British army. Phila m. Stephen Payne Galway, Esq. one daUffhteri ^ of Capl . Gower _ R . N . Anna m. Col. John Harris Cruger 3 Gen. Oliver 4 of the British army. Barrack Master General of the British Emp. M. P. Died at Edinboro' in 1830. Lt. Col. Stephen 5 Cornelia Barclay 6 died at CoIche5teri ^ in 1817 . of the British army. Col. Sir Wm. Howe 7 m. Magdalen Hill 8 Killed at Waterloo. Susan m. 1. Col. William Johnson 9 2. Lt. Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, K. C. B.'° Xlillcl ,ji e j unmarried. Anne m. William Lawson Planter in the colony of Berbice, British Guiana. Charlotte m. Col. Child 1 See page 121. 2 K. B. Knight of the Bath. 3 Col. John Harris Cruger, the gallant defender of Ninety-six. * See page 121. 6 See page 121. 6 Sister to Col. Thomas Barclay, British Consul General at New York. of the British army. 7 See page 121. 8 Da. of Sir James Hall, Bart. ' Son of Sir John Johnson. 10 Gen. Sir Hudson Lowe, K. C. B., was governor of St. Helena during Bonaparte's captivity there. K. C. B. — Knight commander of the Bath. J 20 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. NOTES TO PAGE 116. 3 James De Lancey was born in the city of New York, in 1702. Ha was educated at the University of Cambridge, England, was a fellow commoner of Corpus Christi College, and studied law in the temple. In 1725 he returned to New York, and on the decease of Mr. John Barberie, was appointed by George II to succeed him in the provincial council. He took his seat at the board, January 29, 1729, and held it till April 9, 1733, when he was appointed chief-justice of New York, and continued so the remainder of his life. On the appointment of Sir Danvers Osborn as governor, in the place of George Clinton, he received the commission of lieutenant-governor, which had been conferred upon him in 1747, by George II. The oaths were administered October 10, 1753. The tragical death of Sir Danvers, two days afterwards, occasioned the elevation of Mr. De Lancey to the gubernatorial chair, which he enjoyed till the 2d of September, 1755, when he was succeeded by Sir Charles Hardy, who administered the government till the 2d of July, 1757, when sailing in the expedition to Louisbourg, the duty of administering the government again devolved upon the lieutenant- governor. As Sir Charles, after the capture of Louisbourg, never returned to New York, but embarked for England, Mr. De Lancey administered the government till his death, which occurred July 30, 1760. He was buried in the family vault, Trinity church, N. Y., where lie the remains of all the family who died pre- vious to the revolution. He is spoken of as a gentleman of the old school, possessing great affability, vivacity and high toned chivalric feelings ; his integrity and patriotism seem to have been unquestionable. He gave name to De Lancey street in New York. 6 John Peter De Lancey was educated in England by his eldest brother James. He was a captain in the British army, and participated in the memorable battles of Brandywine and .Monmouth, and accompanied Lord Howe in his southern campaign. In 1789, resigning his commission in the British array, he returned with his wife to America, and resided the remainder of his life at his grandfather Heathcote's old seat, Heath- cote Hill, Mamaroneck, Westchester county, of which he became the proprietor. He died in 1828. NOTES TO PAGE 118. 7 James De Lancey was for many years high sheriff of Westchester county. At the commencement of the revolution he took command as colonel of a regiment, composed of loyalist refugees in Westchester county. At the termination of hostilities he retired to Nova Scotia (whither a large number of families repaired at the commencement of and after the war), and resided at Halifax, where in 1794 he was made a member of the provincial council. He died there in 1800. 8 Warren, at the battle of White Plains, being a mere lad of some fifteen years, was, on account of his gallantry, made a cornet of the 17th British light dragoons, but left the army early, and resided till his death four or five yeaTs ago, in this country. 9 Stephen De Lancey, son of Peter, was an influential character at Albany, where he resided eighty years ago. He was one of the surrogates of the county of Albany, and was a member of the Albany committee of safety, at its first formation ; but during the revolution he was arrested, on account of his partiality to the royal cause, and sent to Hartford, Conn., and confined there as a prisoner, on parole. At the close of the war he removed to Nova Scotia, where his descendants still reside. DE LANCEY 121 NOTES TO PAGE 119. 1 Oliver De Lancet entering the army, soon rose to the rank of brigadier-general. Like his brother James, he took a prominent part in the political affairs of the colony. For many years he was a member of the assembly, and a councillor. In the French war of 1756, he was a colonel, and commanded the New York troops in Gen. Abercrombie's campaign, his gallantry and services in this war obtaining for him the thanks of the legislature of his state ; he commanded the provincial forces most of his life. He organized and equipped at the commencement of the revolution, chiefly at his own expense, the celebrated corps styled " De Lancey's Battalions." He had a fine mansion at Bloomingdale, a few miles from New York, which was burnt during the revolution, in consequence of his adherence to the British cause. At the close of the war, going to England, he made Beverley his residence, where he died in 1785, aged 68 years, and was buried in the choir of the cathedral of that place. 4 Oliver De Lancey, son of Oliver, was a captain of dragoons in the regular service in 1776. He soon became a major, and then a lieutenant-colonel; and while the latter, was appointed to succeed Maj. Andre, after his execution, as adjutant-general, Oct. 9, 1781. After this he became a major-general and deputy- adjutant-general of England, and in 1801 was made lieutenant-general. He was appointed barrack-master- general of the British empire, by the Hon. Wm. Pitt, in 1792. He was also colonel of the 17th light dragoons and in 1796, member of parliament for Maidstone. He died, in 1820, at Edinboro', one of the oldest gene- rals in the British army, and with him this branch of the family became extinct in the males. 5 Stephen De Lancey, son of Oliver, a lieutenant-colonel of the New Jersey volunteers during the revolu- tion, retired to England after the war, and was made chief-justice of the Bahamas, and afterwards, in 1797, governor of Tobago and its dependencies. 7 Col. Sir Wm. Howe De Lancey was quarter-master general of the British army. He belonged to Lord Wellington's staff, and was killed at the battle of Waterloo. Being struck by a spent ball, he was thrown from his horse, and died a few weeks after. 16 BARCLAY. The Scottish families who emigrated to this continent, constitute some of the finest and most substantial elements in our national character. The name of Barclay, like almost every other in this country, is a corruption, being originally Berkeley, 1 which it is only necessary to mention, to suggest to the student of Scottish history, an eminent and distinguished family, who flourished in the early annals of that country, particularly William de Berkeley, 2 and Walter de Berkeley 3 who were great chamberlains of the kingdom, during the reigns of William the Lion of Scotland, A. D. 1220, and Henry II, of England. In connexion with these may also be mentioned Humphrey de Ber- keley, son of William, above mentioned, and Robert de Berkeley, who died about the same period, who is the ancestor of a distinct branch of the family. The American branch however, is deduced from Theobald de Berkeley, who flourished about A. D. 1150, and whose descendants are traced on page 126 to John Barclay, the ancestor of the family in this country. COL. DAVID BARCLAY. Col. David Barclay, of Urie, was born at Kirktownhill, both the seat and birthplace of his father, David Barclay, the last laird of Mathers, A. D. 1610. On completing his education, he visited Germany, where he joined as a volunteer the Swedish army, under Gustavus Adolphus, by whom he was soon after honored with a captaincy (his commission, in the Swedish language, still existing in the family) ; his courage and fine address also, soon advanced him to the rank of major; but his further promotion 1 Changed in the fifteenth century to Barclay. 3 See grant made by him to the monks of Aber- 2 See deed granted by William the lion to the brothwick, confirmed by William the lion, and still monks of the Cistercian order. preserved in the advocate's library at Edinburgh. BARCLAY. 123 i was prevented by the breaking out of the revolution at home, and in compliance with the earnest solicitations of his relatives and friends, he returned to Scotland. He joined the royal party, first as a major of infantry, and then as colonel of a regiment of cavalry. He pursued the earl of Crawford, who had raised an insurrection in the neighborhood of Fraserburgh, which he had burned, together with several other towns, as far as Banff, where he entirely routed him. 1 He also, in connexion with Maj. Gen. Middleton, in May, 1646, dislodged Montrose, and relieved the town of Inverness. 2 This action is said to have been exceedingly gallant, having been accomplished by a sudden passage of the river, and by falling upon Montrose's and Seaforth's forces with his cavalry, putting their columns to rout, and driving them to the mountains. After this he was made governor of Strathbogie. 3 During the confinement of the king in the Isle of Wight, parliament, in order to recruit their army under the Duke of Hamilton, for his relief, divided the kingdom into districts for that purpose, assigning to Barclay for his division, Sutherland, Caithness, and part of Ross. 4 In July, 1648, while Duke Hamilton was in England, in order to protect the Prince of Wales's person, in case he should land, as was expected, the parliament ordered a new levy of fifteen hundred horse, which were divided among three commanders: five hundred to the earl of Lanerk, the duke of Hamilton's brother, who became afterwards duke himself; five hundred to Col. David Barclay, besides his own regiment of horse; and five hun- dred to the laird of G-aifhland. Barclay's locality was to be "all benorth St. Johnston to Dingsbeyhead, which was all Scotland benorth the water of Tay." He left the army after the execution of Duke Hamilton; for Cromwell, it will be remem- bered, after the battle of Preston, coming to Scotland, the face of affairs were entirely changed. For all those who had given assistance in any way in the engagements, were through his advice and desire removed, and their posts filled by others. He accordingly retired from military life. A few years after, he was elected member of parliament for the shire of Sutherland, and in the next parliament, by his own interest, for the shires of Angus and Mearns. In 1656, being again elected member of parlia- ment for these two shires, he vigorously opposed and voted against Cromwell being made king. After this he lived quite private, sometimes at Edinburgh, sometimes at Gordonstown. His malicious imprisonment in the castle of Edinburgh, and his libe- ration, without any thing being laid to his charge, through the interposition of his old friend, general and afterwards earl of Middleton, and king's commissioner to the parliament, needs scarcely to be mentioned. We now come to the most interesting part of his life, and that was his joining the sect of Quakers in the year 1666, in the 56th year of his age ! What an admirable reply was that which he made to a rela- 1 See Gilbert Gordon's (of Sallack) MSS. continua- 3 Ibid, page 67. tion of the family of Sutherland, page 60. 4 Ibid, page 73. " Ibid, page 62. 124 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. tive, who lamenting the persecution and indignaties which he was suffering, on account of his religious opinions, "he found more satisfaction," he said, "in being thus insulted for his religious principles, than when some years ago it was usual, as he passed the city, for the magistrates to meet him several miles, and conduct him to a public entertainment in their town house, and then convey him so far out again, in order to gain his favor." He was imprisoned March 21, 1676, and indicted before a committee of the privy council, for worshipping his Maker contrary to the civil law ! ! He was fined a fourth part of his valued rents, according to an act of parliament made against conventicles, although it was well understood that the act was never designed against the Quakers ; and he, with several others, was remanded to prison until they should pay their fines. Through the instrumentality of his son, however, then in England, and beginning to have some influence at court, seconded by the Princess Elizabeth, who was his cousin, he obtained his freedom. He was afterwards, June 1677, again imprisoned at Aberdeen, together with his eldest son, but was liberated soon after by an order from court. He died at Urie, much respected by gentry and nobility, September, 1686, aged 76. ROBERT BARCLAY. Robert Barclay, his eldest son, also of Urie, was born at Gordonstown, in the shire of Murray, according to Gordon's (of Sallach) MSS., page 77, December 23, 1648. Having received a thorough education at home, he was sent by his father to Paris, to the Scott's college there, the rector of which was his uncle. He became some- what distinguished at this institution for his great readiness in acquiring knowledge, and his vivacity of manners. It is said his uncle took such a fancy to him, that he offered him a greater estate than his father's, if he would remain with him, but his parents, afraid he might be seduced into Popery, brought him home about the seventeenth year of his age. It seems that becoming convinced of the errors of the Romish church, he embraced the same opinions as his father, being 19 years of age, in which his talents were soon brought to perform a very distinguished part. Among the various works which he wrote, that of his celebrated apology for the Quakers, when 27 years of age, probably ranks the highest, which he presented to Charles II, and which was published in the Latin, English, Low Dutch, German, Spanish, and French languages, and passed through six editions of the English. Even the infamous Voltaire, speaking of this production says: "it is surprising how an apology written by a private gentleman should have such an effect as to procure almost a general release to the whole sect from the sufferings they then underwent." His letter to the bishop of St. Andrews, who was considered a great instrument to the Quaker persecution, is also deserving of notice as an able production. It was this abominable persecution that occasioned, about this time, so many of these Quakers to emigrate to New Jersey. BARCLAY. 125 It will be recollected' that Charles II. having conveyed to his brother, the Duke of York and Albany, all that tract of land now comprehending the states of New York and New Jersey, on the 24h of June, 1664, he ceded that portion of it which extends " northward as far as the northernmost branch of the said river of Delaware, lying in 41 deg. 40 min. north latitude, and thence in a straight line to the Hudson river, lying in 41 deg. north latitude, now constituting the state of New Jersey, to Sir George Carteret and John Lord Berkeley, Englishmen. And on the 2d of February, 1682, the trustees of Sir George Carteret having conveyed to "William Penn and eleven other individuals, all that nobleman's interest in the above grant, being one- 1628. half of what is at present called New Jersey, which was again subdivided by a transfer of a moiety of the interests of these shareholders, to as many more individuals, among whom may be mentioned Robert Barclay, above referred to. With- out stopping to explain the difficulty which the proprietors of East New Jersey, 1686. now comprising twenty-four individuals, subsequently experienced in adjusting the boundary line between East and West New Jersey, we will merely mention that this gentleman was elected governor of East New Jersey, at London, in 1682, by the Earls of Perth and Melforth, together with the other proprietors of East New Jersey; 1 and to induce him to accept the appointment, they ceded to him a propriety of 5000 acres, in addition to his former possessions, for his own use, and the government was confirmed to him during life by king Charles II. Having the privilege of appointing a deputy-governor, with a salary of .£400 sterling a year, he accordingly constituted Gauren Lowrie, a merchant in London, his deputy-governor. He was indefatigable in shipping emigrants and provisions, from Aberdeen to East New Jersey, but he did not come over himself. His brothers, David and John, however, both emigrated in 1682; the former dying on the passage over, the melancholy tidings of which he received in 1685 or 6. The latter, John Barclay, arrived in New Jersey, settled there, and intermarrying with a highly respectable Dutch family, the Van Schaicks, became the ancestor of the American branch of the family. Robert Barclay, as stated, remained in Scotland, and marrying Christian Mollison, daughter of Gilbert Mollison, of Aberdeen, his descendants remained in England and Scotland, among whom may be mentioned Robert Barclay the celebrated pedestrian, Robert, the head of the great brewery in London, and Charles, David, and Gurney, members of parliament. The genealogical table annexed, exhibits the descendants of Theobold de Berkeley, from the twelfth century down to Robert and John Barclay, the former governor of New Jersey, and the latter ancestor of the family in America, and immediately following may be found the posterity of these two gentlemen brought down to the present time, the former in England, and the latter in this country. 1 Aaron Sonemans, who had been an eminent merchant in Holland, but now settled in Scotland, was also one of these proprietors. 126 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. mo. THEOBALD DE BERKELEY born . Humphrey John Bichenda XtOpert Predecessors of the Earls of Glencaiven, line extinct. Alexander 3 Catherine Keith 4 de Seton 5 Helen Graeme" David 7 Elizabeth Strachan 9 Alexander Barclay m. Catharine Wishart (See next page for descendants.) 1 Hugh de Berkeley obtained a charter of Westernon lands from King Robert Bruce. 2 Nicoll's Peerage. 3 By this marriage he obtained the lands of Mathers which he added to his paternal estate. The deed is dated A. D. 1351, and confirmed by King David Bruce, 18th March, and 21st year of his reign. These documents are now in possession of the present Bar- clay of Urie, the great pedestrian. 4 Catherine, sister of William Keith Mauschel, of England. 5 Da. of John de Seton. 6 Da. of Graeme, of Morphy. ' David de Berkeley built the castle called the Keirn of Mathers, where the family resided. 8 Elizabeth, da. of Strachan, of Thornton. BARCLAY. Alexander Barclay 1 Catharine Wishart 127 David Janet Irvine 2 Alexander Marjory Auchinleck 3 Marjory Auch- terlony 4 1. Mary Rait David 2. Catherine Home 1. Mary Erskine 5 George 2. Mar^t Wood Alexander 8 Thomas of Mathers. Janet Straiton 1580. David 7 of Mathers. Elizabeth Livingston 8 Anne m. 1. 2. DoUglaSS ofTUlcnhilly. Strachan Rev. Robert 9 Col. David 10 m. Catherine Gordon afterwards Bishop of Brechin. of Mathers. ' Alexander, first who changed the spelling of the name to Barclay. See charter granted to him by William, earl marshal of the shire of Mearns, to our beloved kinsman, Alexander Barclay, &c. He lived to a great age ; was a scholar and poet. 2 Janet, da. of Irvine, of Drum, then a prominent family in the shire of Aberdeen. 3 Auchinleck, pronounced Afflick in Scotland. She was the second daughter of James Auchinleck, laird of Glenbervie. 4 Da. of Sir James Auchterlony, of Kellie, in the shire of Angus. 6 Da. of Sir Thomas Erskine, of Brechin, who was secretary of state during the reign of James V, of Scotland. 6 The lineal male heir of whom is George Barclay, merchant of Banff. 7 Great-grandfather to the present Barclay of TJrie. He sold the estate of Mathers, after the family had had it for near three hundred years, and then the old estate, after they had had it for upwards of five hun- dred years. 8 Da. of Livingston of Dunnipace. 9 Rector of Scott's College, at Paris. 10 Col. David Barclay purchased the estate of Urie, in 1648, from William Earl Mareschal. 128 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. FAMILY OF COL. DAVID BARCLAY, OF URIE. David, died on his passage to America. Robert {appointed governor of East Jersey), married Christian Mollison, daughter of Gilbert Mollison, of Aberdeen. Descendants given in the table following. John (emigrated to East New Jersey), married Cornelia Van Schaick, of East New Jersey. Descendants given in the next table. Lucy (born 1656,), died unmarried, December, 1686, at Cluny, in the shire of Aber- deen, aged 33. Jean 1 married Sir Ewen Cameron, of Lochiel, 1785. Eight children, who were all married. 1 Scotch for Jane. BARCLAY. 1C10 . Col. DAVID BARCLAY Catharine Gordon 1 Died March, 1663. 129 of Urie. Born al Kirtounhill. 1686, Oct. 12, died. 1648. John Emigrated to America. 1731, died in New Jersey. Cornelia Van Schaick Rev. Thomas Anna Dorothea Drauyer 2 of Albany. \ / 1700, admitted member of the Dutch church. Mary Rutgers 4 1 ilOmaS diel j nnm arried. JteV. Henry L). D. of Trinity cnurch,N. Y. Died in N. Y., Aug., 1764. Susan De Lancey 8 Col. Thomas 7 Catherine 5 Cornelia m. Col. Stephen De Lancey Anna Dorothea m. Col. Beverley Robinson Anthony 6 born Oct. 12, 17.53. Henry A. res ided at Newtown, L. I. 3. 4. 1. Eliza m. Schuyler Livingston George Resided in New York Resides in ^ 2. Henry m. Catharine Watts NewYork v Resides at Saugerties, Ulster county. 3^J*l! Col. DeLancey 11 m. Mrs.GurneyBarclay 10 ] Maria m. Simon Fraser Antonia M. m. Francis Resided at Berbice, in British Guiana. TJncnroa 6. Susan m. Peter G. Stuyvesant No children. of New York. 7. Beverley died unmarried . 8. Ann m. William B. Parsons Resides in New York 5. Thomas 11 Catharine Channing 12 In the British 'Vrf^i^ of Boston. Matilda L. Aufrere ' Virginia. Thomas, Walter C, De Lancey, Hotham, and Cuthbert C. 1 Da. of Sir Robert Gordon, of Gordonstown. 2 Da. of Andrew Drauyer. Schout by Nacht, the rank answering to the English, rear admiral in the Danish navy. See Van Schaick family. 3 He gave name to Barclay St., N. Y. See page 125. 4 Da. of Col. Rutgers, of New York. 6 Gave name to Catharine street, NewYork. 6 Anthony Barclay gave name to Anthony street, formerly Catharine street, New York. 7 Consul General of the U. S. 17 8 Da. of Peter De Lancey, of Westchester. See page 118. 9 Col. De Lancey Barclay was colonel in the Gre- nadier guards. 10 Mrs. Barclay's maiden name was MaryE. Fresh- field. She was of Norfolk, England, and widow of the Hon. Gurney Barclay, M. P. See page 131. Thomas Barclay, post captain in the royal navy. 12 Catharine, da. of Walter Channing, of Boston. 130 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Andrew %l' } Helena Roosevelt 1 of New York. 1737. July 3, 1737. ]79 2 . Anthony- Resides in N. Y. ~ as British Consul Anna Waldburg 2 of Georgia. Catharine m. Augustus Van Cortlandt of Yo nker 5 Margaret m. Frederick Jay of Bedfordi Scpt . 7> 1773 No children. Sarah m. Anthony Lispenard of Lispenard Hill , N Y . Helena m. Maj. Thos. Moncrieffe, R. A. Amelia m. Dr. Richard Bayley ofNewYork Anna Dorothea m. Theophylact Bache Merchant at New York. i nomas d j ed in NoTa s cotia W i!i, 0M i BSU0 Henry, Andrew, and John diedwith0Missne . James Mary Van Beverhout Clarence "VV. Henry A. W. m. Cornelia Cochrane 3 Thos. W. De Lancey Anna Matilda W. Geo. Aug. Frederick W. Anthony Adalbert Athelstan W. 1 Da. of Jacobus (James) Roosevelt. See page 141. 2 Da. of J. B. Waldburg, of Georgia. April 22, 1783. Catharine Eliza m. James Roosevelt 4 Feb. 25, 1816, died. of New York. 1812. 3 Da. of Walter Cochrane, of New York. 4 See page 142 for children. BARCLAY. 131 Dec. 22, ic48. Robert of Urie . Christian Mollison 1 1682, Gov. of Bast Jersey. \ / Died Feb. 14, 1723-4. ElizabethBrain 1672. Robert - 2 m. John Cameron David Anne Taylor of Urie. Alexander Une Cameron 3 Anne Hickman of Philadelphia. , m Robert 4 m. 1. Lucy Barclay 5 2. Sarah Ann Allardice of Urie. 1780 Robert Allardice 7 The great pedestrian and representative of the family in Scotland. Robert 6 of Bnry hm. Charles M. P. David M. P. Gurney M. P. m. Mary E. Freshfield Agatha of Norfolk, En*. Lucy m. Fox of Falmouth, Eng. XvaCnei fc^ unmarried. Martha m. Col. Bromhead British army. 1 Da. of Gilbert Mollison, of Aberdeen. 2 See page 134. 3 Da. of Cameron, of Lochiel. 4 Robert Barclay, of Urie, was a great patron and friend to agriculture in Scotland. 6 Da. of David Barclay, his uncle. She was his cousin. 6 Robert Barclay, of Bury Hill, Dorking, county of Surry, and head of the great brewery in London. 7 See page 134. 132 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. NOTE TO PAGE 123. 4 Eev. Henry Barclay, D. D. " This gentleman was appointed catechist to the Mohawk Indians in 1736, ten years before his election to the rectorship of Trinity church. At that time, in the very outset of his labors, he represents to the society that the prospect of converting these Indians was very great, and that in the short time he had been among them, he had met with great success. In the following year he was recommended by the president of the council of New York, by the commissioners of Indian affairs, by the missionaries and inhabitants of the province, and by the Eev. Commissary Vesey, as a person of good morals and learning, who had many years applied himself, with great diligence, to attain their language, and had made such progress as actually to instruct and catechise them and their children in the Mohawk tongue. The society read their petitions with great pleasure, and sent for Mr. Barclay to England, who on his appearance, fully answering the good character transmitted of him, was ordained both deacon and priest. On his return to his mission, he was gladly received by his congregation at Albany, and even with tears of joy by the poor Indians, with whom he purposed to reside half of his time, in great hopes of being serviceable among them, and these hopes were happily fulfilled. For Mr. Barclay informed the society by a letter, of November 10, 1738, that there grew daily a reformation of manners among the Mohawks, and an increase of virtue proportionable to their knowledge, insomuch that they composed a regular sober congregation of five hundred Christian Indians, of whom fifty were very serious communicants. This happy state of things not only continued for many years, but the moral and spiritual condition of the Indians was constantly and gradually improving until in 1744 and 1745, the machinations of the French led them to disaffection towards their rulers, and in some measure alienated their minds from the pastor himself. In this melancholy situation he received the news of his being elected rector of Trinity church. He remained nearly three months in suspense, out of a sincere regard for the interests of Teligion among the native Indians, when, seeing no prospect of being further serviceable to them at present, and being no longer able to abide with safety among them, he accepted of that church, and was inducted into it, October 22, 1746."— Dr. Berrian's Hist. Trinity Church, N. Y., pp. 65-67. The degree of doctor of divinity was conferred upon him by the university of Oxford, in January, 1761. Who can tell how much the arduous self-denying labors of our early clergymen have had to do with the moulding of the religious and moral character of the present generation. The thought is at least worthy of consideration. The following letter, written by the Eev. Thomas Barclay, the father of the above, is valuable as giving an interesting picture of the religious condition of Albany and Schenectady, at that early period. It is directed to the secretary, and dated Albany, the 26th September, 1710. " Honoured Sir: As I did begin from my first coming to Albany, so I go on to catechise the youth ; and it hath pleased God to bless my weak endeavours that way, for a great many Dutch children, who at my first arrival were alto- gether ignorant of the English tongue, can distinctly say our catechism, and make the responses at prayers. Every Sunday, after the second lesson at evening prayer, I explain some part of the catechism in as plain and familiar a manner as I can, shunning all controversies, teaching them such fundamental doctrines as are necessary and tend most to promote piety and a good life. I have taught the scholars the prayers appointed for charity schools, and I have used all possible methods to engage the children to their duty, both by the giving of small presents to the most forward and diligent, and by frequently visiting their schools ; and for encouraging the school masters I give them what charity is collected in our-church, obliging them to bring their scholars to public prayers. At Schenectady I preach once a month, where there is a garrison of forty soldiers, besides about sixteen English and about one hundred Dutch families ; they are all of them my constant hearers. I have this sum- mer got an English school erected amongst them, and in a short time, I hope, their children will be fit for catechising. Schenectady is a village situated upon a pleasant river, twenty English miles above Albany, and the first castle of the Indians is twenty-four miles above Schenectady. In this village there has been no Dutch minister these five years, and there is no probability of any being settled among them. There is a convenient and well built church which they freely gave me the use of. I have taken pains to show them the BARCLAY. J 33 agreement of the articles of our church with theirs. I hope in some time to bring them, not only to be constant hearers, but communicants. Mr. Lydius, the minister of the Dutch congregation at Albany, died the 1st day of March last. He was a good pious man, and lived in entire friendship with me ; sent his own children to be catechised. At present there is no Dutch minister at Albany, neither is any expected 'till next summer; and from New York to the utmost bounds of my parish, there is no minister but myself: most of the inhabitants are Dutch, the garrison excepted, which consists of three companies, each company one hundred men. In the city and county of Albany there are about three thousand souls, besides the garrison: in the mean time some of the Dutch child- ren I have baptized, and married several, and other parts of the service I have performed in the Dutch tongue, and more of them would accept my ministry: but that Mr. De Bois, minister of the Dutch congregation of New York, comes sometimes to Albany; he is a hot man, and an enemy to our church, but a friend to his purse, for he has large contributions from this place. As for myself I take no money, and have no kind of perqui- site. I have used all moderation towards dissenters in this country. There is none but those of the Dutch church, and I found two only not baptized, the one born in West Jersey and bred a Quaker, him I have brought over to our church, and christened him the first day of this year; the other is an Old England man, but of a loose life ; so soon as I can bring him off from his wicked courses, I design to baptize him. Since the death of Mr. Lydius, the Indians have no ministers; there are about thirty communicants, and of the Dutch church, but so ignorant and scandalous, that they can scarce be reputed Christians. The sachems of the five nations, viz: of the Masque, Oneydas, Onnondages, Cayougas, and Senekas, at a meeting with our governor, Col. Hunter, at Albany the 10th August last, when his excellency in his speech to them asked them if they were of the same mind with those four Indians that had been over with Col. Schuyler in desiring missionaries to be sent, and they answered they were, and desired to have forts built among them and a church, and that Mr. Freeman, present minister of the Dutch congregation at Flatbush, near New York, be one of those two missionaries which the queen promised to send them. This Mr. Freeman, five years ago was minister of Schenectady, and converted several of the Indians ; he has acquired more skill in their language than any Dutch minister that has been in this country, and Mr. Dellias is not so well skilled in that tongue ; a great part of our liturgy he has translated into the Indian tongue, in particular morning and evening prayer, the litany, the creed of St. Athanasius, &c, besides several places of the Old and New Testament. He told me when he read to them the litany, they were mightily affected with it. He is a gentleman of a good temper, and well affected to our church, and if there were a bishop in this part of the world, would be pursuaded to take Episcopal ordination. I often entreat him to go over to England, but he is afraid of the danger of the voyage, and his wife will not consent to live among the Indians; he has promised to give me his manuscripts, and what he has done into the Indian tongue. I am sorry to tell you, Sir, that I am afraid the missionaries that are coming over, will find hard work of it, and if the commander of that fort be not a person of singular piety and virtue, all their endeavours will be ineffectual ; these, here, that trade with them, are loath that any religion get any footing among them ; besides, these savages are so given to drinking of that nasty liquor rum, that they are lost to all that is good. I must tell you that the Masque, of whom one of the four that were lately in England was a sachem, have not above fifty men. All the five nations can not make two thousand, and of these, in number, the Senekas, are near one thousand, and most of them are in the French interest. Hendrick, the great prince that was so honoured in England, can not command ten men; the other three were not sachems. How far her majesty and the society have been imposed upon, I leave it to you to judge. I beg leave also to tell you, that the missionaries that are sent over, must have an honourable allowance and large presents to give, otherwise they will have but few proselytes ; and great care must be taken that they be well used, otherwise their mission will prove ineffectual as Mr. Moor's, and how he defeated the design of his mission, Col. Schuyler best knows. I have now worried you with a lung letter, and shall only add, that I shall be always ready to follow the directions of the society, and to endeavour all that in me lieth to propagate religion where it is not, and culti- vate it where it is established." - „ 4 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. NOTES TO PAGE 131. 2 "Among the circles with whom the young Lochiel mingled, Barclay of Urie, the well known apologist of the Quakers, was also accustomed to appear. An attachment was thenceforth formed between John Cameron (the young Lochiel before mentioned, son of Sir Ewan Dhu Cameron) and the daughter of Barclay, and a matrimonial alliance was soon afterwards decided upon between the daughter of that gentleman and the young chieftain. The marriage was completed, and eventually received the approbation of the whole clan of Came- ron. During his latter days, Sir Ewan Dhu had the consolation of seeing his son happy in the choice of a wife. Beautiful and good, the young Quakeress soon established herself in the good opinions of all those who were acquainted with her, and there seems every reason to conclude that she inherited the virtues, with- out the peculiarities, of her father, Robert Barclay, of Urie. That eminent man was descended from a Norman family, which traced its ancestry to Thomas de Berkley, whose descendants established themselves in Scot- land. By his mother's side, Barclay was allied to the house of Huntley, and by his connection with the heiress of the mother's family, a considerable estate in Aberdeenshire was added to the honours of antiquity. Unhappily for the lovers of the old Norman appellations, the name of de Berkley was changed in the fifteenth century to that of Barclay. One of Robert Barclay's sons, who became a mercer in Cheapside, had the rare fortune of entertaining three successive monarchs, when they visited the city on the Lord Mayor's Day — George the First, George the Second, and George the Third — whose heart, as it is well known, was touched by the beauty of one of the fair descendants of Robert Barclay. To the house of Stuart, Barclay was ever fondly attached. The last visit which Barclay paid to London, was rendered memorable by the abdication of James the Second. Barclay only survived that eventful period two years. His children, singular as it may seem, were all living fifty years after their father's death. To the daughter of this inflexible and courageous man was Cameron of Lochiel united. The gentle and happy lady of Lochiel won all hearts. She was dis- tinguished, as tradition reports, for prudence, activity, and affability." " One great defect," adds Mrs. Grant, " she had, however, which was more felt as such in the Highlands than it would have been in any other place. She did not, as a certain resolute countrywoman of her's was advised to do, bring forth men-children only; on the contrary, daughters in succession ; a thing scarce pardonable in one who was looked up to and valued, in a great measure, as being the supposed mother of a future chief. John LochiePs mind was above the illiberal prejudice. He loudly welcomed his daughters, and caressed their mother on their appearance as much as if every one of them had been a young hero in embryo. His friends and neighbors used, on-these occasions, to ask in a sneering manner, ■'' What has the lady got ? " to which he invariably answered, " A lady, indeed ! " This answer had a more pointed significance there, than with us. For in the Highlands, no one is called a lady, but a person named to the proprietors of an estate. Al! others, however rich or high-born, are only gentlewomen. How the prediction intentionally included in the chief's answer was fulfilled, will hereafter appear. At length after the birth of twelve daughters, a son and heir made his appearance. But the satisfac- tion of the clan was abashed by hearing that the ill-starred little laird was fair, like his sisters. The pro- phecy, that a fair Lochiel should never prosper, was recalled with dismay, and unhappily the fears of super- stition were too mournfully realized by fact. The young Cameron was named Donald. His birth was followed by the appearance of two other boys; Archibald, afterwards the ill-fated Dr. Cameron, and John, who was called Fassefun, from an estate. The proud prediction of their father," continues Mrs. Grant, "was soon amply fulfilled with regard to the daughters of this extraordinary family. Their history," she adds, " unites the extravagance of romance with the sober reality of truth. " The twelve daughters of Lochiel were admirably educated, and the fame of their modest virtues soon extended through the Highlands. The great point in matrimonial alliances in those rude regions, was to obtain a wife well born and well allied, and little fortune was ever expected with the daughter of a chief. Ancestry was the great point with a Highlander, for he believed that defects of mind, as well as of person, were hereditary. All, therefore, sought the daughters of Lochiel as coming of an untainted race. The elder ones were married early, and the rest seemed, as Mrs. Grant expressed it, by the solicitude to obtain them, BARCLAY. 135 as ever to increase, like the Sybil's leaves, in value, as they lessened in number. Of the daughters, one, the youngest and the fairest, was actually married to Cameron, of Glendinning, in the twelfth year of her age. She became a widow, and afterwards married Maclean, of Kingasleet, so that she was successively the wife of two heads of houses. Another, Jean Cameron, who was the least comely of her family, but possessed of a commanding figure and powerful understanding, was married to Clunie, the chief of the Clan Macpherson. She is said to have been celebrated in the pathetic poem entitled " Lochaber No More " — the poet who laments his departure from Lochaber, and his farewell to his Jean, having been an officer in one of the regiments sta- tioned at Fort William. " By the marriage of his twelve daughters with the heads of houses, the political importance of Lochiel was considerably enhanced, and a confederacy, containing many noted families who were bound together by opinion and kindred, formed a strong opposition to the reigning government. The sons-in-law of Lochiel, were the following chiefs: Cameron of Dungallan, Barclay of Urie, Grant of Glenmoriston, Macpherson of Clunie, Campbell of Barcaldine, Campbell of Auchalader, Campbell of Auchlyne, Maclean of Lochbury, Macgregor of Bohawslie, Wright of Loss, Maclean of Ardgour, and Cameron of Glendinning. All the daughters became the mothers of families; and these numerous descendants still," observes Mrs. Grant, "cherish the bonds of affinity now so widely diffused, and still boast their descent from these female worthies." See Mrs. Thomp- son's Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington street, 1846. vol. 1. 7 Robert Allardice Barclay, the great pedestrian, is the first man who ever walked a thousand miles in a thousand successive hours. I mention this to show the wonderful power of which the human frame is capable, it being, I understand, the result as much of great training, as that of original muscle. He was in the Walcheren expedition in Holland, being a captain in the 23d fusileer regiment, but retired from the service soon after, and has devoted much of his time since, to the advancemnt of agriculture in Scotland. He is about six feet in height, and of prodigious strength. He is said, for the purpose of amusing a social circle on one occasion, to have taken two full sized men, one on the palm of each hand, and lifting them slowly from the floor, extend them horizon- tally from him, and then place them quietly and respectfully upon a table, in an erect posture. I am not pre- pared to say which is the greatest feat, this or the bags of wheat mentioned page 23. ROOSEVELT. Among the numerous Holland colonists who came over to New Amsterdam, at an early period, was Claas Martenzen Van Roosevelt, 1 who must have emigrated some- where about 1651. He is the ancestor of a numerous family in this state, residing principally in Westchester county, at Poughkeepsie, Stillwater, Skeneateles, but more particularly in the city of New York, where his descendants are intermarried with the Schuylers, Bogaerts, Provosts, Van Schaicks, De Peysters, Latrobes, Hoffmans, Bar- clays, Van Courtlands, Lispenards, &c, &c. The family early obtained an extensive tract of land in the city, extending from Chatham street to the East river, lying between Pearl, Roosevelt, 2 and Catherine streets, or as it was originally, Rutger's Old Farm. Hence in this way, and by its commercial enterprise, it has become affluent ; it furnished one member to the state convention which assembled at Poughkeepsie in June, 1788, to take into consideration the adoption of the constitution of the United States, and at the present day a member of it has officiated in our national council. The fol- lowing genealogical table, it is believed, will furnish a clue to the lineage of all the Roosevelts in this country, as no other individual of the name is known to have emi- grated, with the exception of the one above referred to. 1 This name has the beautiful signification of Eose- 2 Roosevelt street, obtained its name from this field. family. ROOSEVELT. 137 CLAAS MARTENZON VAN ROOSEVELT Emigrated to America. Jannetje Samuels or Thomas Feb. 12, 1652. Elsje m. Hendrick Jillesh oneson>Keleribapti2ed Jan 31)1697 Baptised in New Amsterdam. July 30, 1656. Christina m. 1. Nicalsie De la Montagne Baptised. 2 J ohn H amie Aug. 29, 165*. Anna Margaret baptised . Feb. 23, 1703. Heyltje 2 Jans sept. io, 1662. Anna han , isMi . and Martin baptised, IN lChOlaS baptised Oct. 2, 1658. Removed to Kingston, N. Y. Died July 30, 1742. December 9, 1682. baptised March 12, 1664. ElSje baptised Jan. 1, 1691. Feb. 27, 1689. Jannetje m. Johan Van de Heul ISaaC baptised Feb. 18, 1701. Rachel m. Peter Low 1720 Sarah Solomons Nicholaas Johannes Heyltje Sjoerts Feb. 28, 1700. 1710. Catherine m. Steenwyck de Baptised jan. 7, 1711. Riemer 1731 1. Catharine ±le 5 rlt J e Baptised March 29,1713. 2. Elizabeth Comfort Nicholas Jp^ms. Thurman May s, 1709 Margaret m. Win. de Peyster 1730 Aug. 23, 1776, died. Oct. 5, 1710. Nicholas m. Maria Bosche 1730 Aug. 22, 1735, died in the West Indies. June 12,1720. Maria m. Abraham Duryee 1744 Aug. 8, 1755, died. Feb. 7, 1716. Oliver Elizabeth Lounsbury Sept. 17, 1785, died. " Sept. 8, 1742 1737. Sarah Baptised June 18, 1740. Catharine Baptised MaTCh 22, 1738. Gerard Comfort 1754. Oct. li, 1758. Nicholas Resides at Stillwater. Elizabeth m. Robert Gilchrist sept. is,™. Margaret m. John Cozine Elizabeth m. Casina Th. Goerck Oliver Oct. 8, 1756. Aug. 15, 1759. 1762. Eliza Mary m. No children. Saunders 1 Nicholas returned to New York in 1690. Died 1742. See Vault Middle Dutch Church. 18 'Heyltje, English Hail. 138 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Aug. 13, 1724. > 2. Mrs. Eleonora Thompson one chad, aw young. Jacobus 1. Anatje Bogaert 1746. Anna m. Andrew Heermance March u, 1755. Margaret m. Isaac Van June 10, 1763. Aug. 9. 1761. Jan. 16, 1751. Vleeck _ Maria m. James Provoost Helena m. 1. John Ray 2. Mowers John Mary Schuyler Oct. 25. 1759. f*} Jacobus J. Mary Van Schaack Mary m. Wm.DePeyster J Villi ,ji e d unmarried. JameS lost at sea. Margaret Barnhill Catharine m. Michael Burke HenrV of Now York. Alfred died yonng . 1767. -Nicholas died unmarried. Hon. JameS J. member f congress. Resides at Mamaroneck, Westchester co. 1794. Cornelius V. S. Merchant at N Y. Weir m. Mary West James A. m. Elizabeth Emlen Cornelius V. S. Robert Theodore ROOSEVELT. 139 a July 8, 1731 Cornelius Margaret Herring 1751. Nicholas Lydia Latrobe Resides at Skeneateles, Onondaga county, ^o 2 '} Maria m. John Duffle Wj Elizabeth A i753 2 ' } Johannes Ann Beardsley Henry Latrobe Resides at Charleston, S. C. Samuel m. Mary Horton of New York. Rosetta M. m. Russel Fitch Mary L. Lydia m. Montgomery Schuyler Resides at Buffalo. Julia A. Ellen Ann Lockwood John 1 m. Mary Willis Anna m. Bogardus Maria m. Dr. Merrite Margaret m. Stephen N. Hunt John R. Adeline L. m. James Wilson Lavinia Ann m. James Wilkins Cornelius James W. and George Theodore Caroline m. James McEnally Curalta m. Dr. Davison df New Haven. Antoinette m. Cornelius Van Voorst of Jersey city. Cornelia m. Alonzo D. Thompson Henry Holland and Alfred Bush Margaret Elizabeth m. Edward Gilbert William and Cornelius 1 John had one daughter, who died young. His line extinct 140 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. A Catharine 1 Alida $ 6 > 5 >} Elbert Jane Curtenius Van Allstyne 1755 Cornelius 1 Farquie Eliza m. 1. Walter Evertsen p Sarah m. Alex. Pyke 2 ' Jas ' W " Ste P hens ^ Jon^T^"* J J_UUC.ll JUI1C6 of pelham, Wes. co, 1 Cornelius had ten children, five of whom died young. Pelham, Wes. co. Henry m. Eliza Louisa ofNY - Champlin 1S28 . Washington m. 1. Mary Swift ofNY - 2. Jane M. Young Jane E. ofPelham. Clinton of New York Isaac of p elhara . ROOSEVELT. 141 F B erS.} JaC ° bUS Died May 5, 1776 Catharine Horn Brook 1713. Nicholas Annatie Breestede Baptised Oct. 9,1717, 1740. o^ms.jAdolphus Died in the West \ Indies. Oct. a, ma Helen m. Andrew- Barclay 1 F.Wm} Christopher Died in the West Indies, nWrao.} Sarah m. Chas. Crommelin Ni h i ' iSarn u Van Ranst oM&.} Peter 8 m. 1. E. Brinckerhoff iNlctl0las fearah Van Kanst Cathari 2. Elizabeth Lyms 3 \^e^y Sarah Au Ba fiii e 7 d i5.} John Anantie Luqueer jufyt™.} James N. m. Sarah Van Ranst No children. Catharine m. Abraham Van Ranst 1 Son of the Rev. Thomas Barclay, of Albany, see s After the death of Mr. Roosevelt, in 1762, she page 130. married William Lupton. 2 Peter had two children, both of whom died with- out issue. Branch extinct in second generation. 142 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. D £&. } Christopher Duryee 1772, died. \ d^ 19 '} Isaac 1 Cornelia Hoffman 2 Born Aug. 13, 1734. Died Nov. 13, 1789. 1752. Oct.l3.1774,died. Catharine ssJ^Spcs Byvanck James C. baptised Nov . 10, 1770. Aug. 13, 1753. Abraham died y0Hng , and Martinus b . 1754) died ybung. Aug. 4, 1756. Catharine died May 19, 1P07. Maria m. H. Brown JameS 11. of New York. AUg. 4, 1/30. " UBIIMI"!'™" Nov. is, 1758. Sarah died at Red hook, 1777, and Cornelia b . 1761 , di edyoun g . Aug. 5, 1763. Maria m. Richard Varick 17B6m 2. Catharine E. Barclay 3 May 22, 1765. April 27, 1767. 1768. Jan. 10, 1760. Died 1841. Martin died at college, i78i. Cornelia m. Dr. Benjamin Kissam 1788 . Helena died unm arried, 1793. James 4 3. Harriet Howland born 1784i m . i 82 i. Maria Eliza Walton born 1769 . 1812. J J 3i,i8i3. Susan B. 18 i5 James Barclay deoeased . Nov. 15, 1786. 1792 . Grace m. Dr. Grey Carlton Bayley 1813 . Died 1828. se P i.6,i8oi.Bichard Varick 5 m. Ann Lyle of He dhook. Died at Poughkeepsie, 1835. 1790 . Isaac Mary It. Aspinwall 6 Resided at Po'- keepsie. 1 Isaac Roosevelt was a member of the convention for the adoption of the constitution of the United States, assembled at Poughkeepsie, June 7, 1788, from the city and county of New York. 2 Da. of Col. Martin Hoffman, see page 105. 3 Da. of James Barclay, see page 130. 4 James had the following children, in addition to J ames and J ohn f poughkeepsie. those mentioned in the table, all of whom died young. Walton, born 1796; James died unmarried, 1823, aged 23 ; Edward born 1799, died unmarried ; Alex. H. died young ; Hamilton died at sea, unmarried, 1827 ; Henry W. born 1809, died unmarried, 1827. 6 Richard had two daughters, Harriet and Grace, both of whom died young. 6 Da. of John Aspinwall. VAN SCHAICK. This is another of those ancient and highly respectable colonial families in this state, of Holland extraction, who have assisted in laying the foundations of our civil and religious institutions. The first ancestor of the family of which we have any knowledge, is Gozen Gerritsen Van Schaick, who appeared at Albany as early as 1652. l After this we find him securing a patent of land located at Esopus, consisting of 33 morgans, 2 in the year 1663. 3 He seems to have been also joint proprietor with Philip Pieterse Van Schuyler, under the abridged name of Gozen Gerritse,* of the land where 1 See Albany Records. A patent of a lot of land in Beverwyck (Albany), granted to Gozen Gerrilse Van Schaick, dated 23d April, 1652. It is more than pro- bable that this name was originally spelt Van Schaek. I call that family ancient who came over early to this continent. 2 About 66 acres. 3 See Albany Records of that year. The patent is dated 16th April, 1663. 4 See Judge Benson's Memoir, page 17. The name of Schuyler, as well as that of Van Schaick, are ab- breviated in the deed, which should be noticed as forming a singular feature in the history of Dutch surnames. Van Schaick and Van Schuyler being merely designations of places, our Dutch ancestors sought, by rejecting this part of the name, to restore it to its original character. Hence the rise of distinct families in this state, wearing different surnames, who are all originally descended from the same ancestor. For example, the Myndertses are really descended from Mvndert Van Everen ; the LefTerts from LefFert Van Haggewout ; the Martenses from Martin Schenck; the Remsens from Rembrandt (abbreviated to Rem) Van der Beek; and it is barely possible that some of the Genitsens are in reality Van Schaicks, derived as above, by the substitution of the christian for the ori- ginal surname. To the above may be added the Ryneers in New Jersey, descended from Ryneer Van Angler, Ryneers being an abbreviation of Ryneer-sen, that is the son of Ryneer Van Angler; and the Tuni- sons of the same state, from TheunisVan Middleswaert . The Rikerts are said, in that state, to have come from Rikert Suydam ! It is a curious fact, that from this latter individual, have originated two families, the Rikers and Suydams, in New York. See Rapalje family for a similar piece of history, where two fami- lies, now bearing different surnames, originated from the same ancestor. 144 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. the village of Waterford 1 now stands. "We have no knowledge of the family previous to its emigration to this country. We find, however, a member of it marrying, at an early period, a Danish admiral, of some note; I mean Andrew Drauyer, 2 who, accord- ing to Judge Benson, commanded the Dutch squadron on our coast during that time. He married Gerritje 3 Van Schaick, and on the surrender of the colony to the English, in 1664, he returned to Denmark with his wife, and there died. He left, however, descendants in this country, still living among us, derived through his daughter, Anna Dorothea, who married the Rev. Thomas Barclay, of Albany. See Barclay family. Another branch of the family settled at Kinderhoek, who spell their name Van Schaack. We have no memorials of this branch further back than Cornelius, who must have flourished about the year 1700 or 1720. He was the father of seven child- ren, of whom Henry and Peter were of some considerable note — the former being a lieutenant in the company commanded by Capt. Schuyler, afterwards Gen. Schuyler, of the revolution, in the year 1755. This company, consisting of New York levies, served at Fort George and Fort Edward, in August of that year, when Baron Dieskau defeated Sir William Johnson. It was by a detachment commanded by Lieutenant Van Schaack and Capt. Maginnis, that the retreating troops of the French baron were attacked and defeated, after their unsuccessful assault on the lines at Fort George. The other brother, Peter, was a gentleman of some distinction, as a lawyer in the city of New York, previous to the revolution. He was a graduate of King's (now Colum- bia) college, and connected himself, by marriage, with an opulent and influential family, namely, the Crugers, in that city. In May, 1776, he was appointed with three others, by the electors of the district of Kinderhoek, to represent them in the " Com- mittee of Safety, Correspondence, and Protection," for Albany county, which then comprehended the present county of Columbia. During the revolution, however, he retired to England, where he passed most of his time, under the impression that the British ministry were honorable in their intentions towards this country, but on discovering his mistake, he would have returned, but was prevented by a severe afflic- tion, a cataract of the eye, with which he had been threatened most of his life. He returned, however, after the revolution, and renewed the practice of his profession in New York city. 'The Indian name of this place, as appears in the 2 He was Sehaut by Nacht. See note 3 on page deed, was Nach-te-Nack. Judge Benson's Memoir, 129. page 17 - 3 Feminine of Gerrit. VAN SCHAICK. 145 GOZEN GERRETSE VAN SCHAICK Anetje Livesen k*. AC, £U^h r Jnly, 1657. Gerrit m. AlidaVan Slechtenhorst 1 "+ Nov. 11, 1679, died. No children. Born in Beverwyck. 2 Anthony Maria Vanderpoel Sybrant G. Elizabeth ' Vanderpoel 3 Catrina m. Samuel Coeymans i~1 ••• December 29, 1724. Sept. 11,1687. V^-erriTje baptised.^ Dec e, 1702. Anna Margarita baptised . Anthony Oct. 5, 1684. IjOZen baptised. Died young. 1694. ijrOZen baptised. Died young. Feb. 16, 1696. U"OZen baptised. Anthony Sybrant, Gozen, Jacob, Levinus, AVessel Gozen Anthony Maria, Catharine, Anthony, Gerret W. John G. Anna "VVessel, Anthony Maria, Augustus, John, Christina, Gerard, and Henry 1 Da. of Brant Arent Van Slechtenhorst, of Nieu- death of Mr. Van Schaick, she married Pieter Davidse kerke, Gelderland. He was director of the colony of Schuyler, son of David- Schuyler. / Rensselaerwyck, president of the court of justice, and * Albany, see page 39. superintendent of all the bouweries, farms, mills, and 3 After t h e death of Mr. Van Schaick, she married other property belonging to the young patroon, Johan- ^ eQ0Dl v a n Corlaer, June 2, 1686. nes Van Rensselaer, of Rensselaerwyck. After the 19 L $l t J/U* A* ,^&:t*^ "■<- ?'£"* **~f •itx.-i f*'f*"' \J/*» ''*''/, 146 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. & Levinus 1 Catharine Staats Gozen of Albany. Gerritje m. Andrew Drauyer A Danish admiral in the Dutch service. Dec. 10, 1699. Dec. i9, 1703. Sybrant G. Baptised. 1759, mayor of Albany Roseboom N r 7 v 05 n > } Elizabeth baptised Deborah m. JohannisBeekman 1703. ' } -KyKie baptised. Abraham , Rykie m. PieterWinne Douw July21il762 Mary m. Philip Conine MynCiert died unmarried. A ;? 50 "-}MariaTenBroeck 1737 . Col. Gozen 3 , - died unmarried. J aCOD died 1761 Baptised Oct 7, 1711. of New York. July 4, 1789, died. of Albany. 1C of N.Y. »&?*• } Alida m. Brandt s « } Myndert 4 Elizabeth no issue. Schuyler Swits 1TC6. ' } Elizabeth died young. ^ } Lieut. Sybrant 6 of the v . s . N . Ju i787 8 ' } Abraham died young . J i a 774.' }John 7 Margaret Bleecker Mar. 8,1820, died. Tobias Jane Staats Mary m. Wm.B.Oddie Rockland co., N.Y, Joanna lleceased lgl9 . John Hone Alida Anna Jane died 1841. Eliza m. Simeon De Witt Bloodgood ofN . Y- John B. 9 Qied 1839- Henry bora 1825. "'Seepage 147. 3 See page 14S. 5 Da. of John Hone, of New York. Lieut. Sybrant Van Schaick for a while command- ed the naval station of the United States, at Syra- cuse, in the island of Sicily. After his return from this place in 1806, he was offered the command of a fleet of gun boats at New Orleans, under President Jefferson's new system, which he declined. He after- wards took charge of a merchant vessel for Caraccas, and ha- never since been heard of. 7 See page 147. 8 Da. of John N. Bleecker. See page 39. 9 See page 147. VAN SCHAICK. J 47 NOTES TO PAGE 146. ' Levinus Van Schaick was one of the first aldermen of the city of Albany, appointed July 22, 1686. 2 On the 2d of October, 1750, George II, king of England, appointed this gentleman recorder of Albany, the king reposing special trust in his " learning, fidelity, prudence, circumspection, and loyalty." See original document among family papers. He was also appointed by the same king, commissioner for the county of Albany, on the 28th of April, 1756, and mayor of Albany on the 4th of October, 1759. 4 MyndertVan Schaick. This gentleman deserves notice for his instrumentality in carrying through the magnificent enterprise of the Croton Aqueduct. The first movement, however, in relation to supplying the city of New York with pure and wholesome water, was made in the form of a resolution presented to the board of assistants on the 24th of October, 1831, recommending the appointment of a committee to investigate the subject, which was passed by them, but rejected by the other board ; the project consequently failed for a time, but on the 11th of December following, being again taken up by the board of aldermen, it was referred to the fire and water committee, for a report. The principal point brought under consideration by this committee, was whether the supply for this purpose should be taken from the Bronx river and Rye pond, or from the Croton river. But intimidated by the expense of excavating through a rocky, hilly country, and not comprehending the vast wants of a city destined to contain over a million of inhabitants, they determined upon the former, and actually drew up a law for that purpose, which the common council submitted to the legislature at its ensuing session. The bill, however, was either neglected or suppressed. It was about this time that Mr. Van Schaick became conspicuous in the matter. While alderman of the fifth ward in 1832, and treasurer of the board of health in July of the same year, during the prevalence of the Asiatic cholera in the city, seeing the necessity of having an abundant supply of pure and wholesome water for the use of the city, and clearly foreseeing that the supply to be derived from the Bronx river and Rye pond, would be insufficient for its future demands, he directed his efforts to divert the corporation from this inadequate scheme, to the more appropriate and magni- ficent one of tapping the Croton river. We will add, that while in the senate in 1834, he was also instru- mental in originating atfd carrying through the legislature, the law transfering the management of the work from the common council to commissioners appointed by the governor and senate, and its final consummation was undoubtedly owing, in a great degree, to views and measures originating with him. He should also be mentioned as one of the original projectors of the New York University, and one of the first subscribers to its funds, and also as an annual contributor of prizes of gold medals at the fairs of the American Institute, for the encouragement of silk manufacture, and for his philanthropy and benevolence generally. 'The following notice of John Van Schaick, appeared in one of the Albany papers, dated March 1, 1820. " The inhabitants of Albany, it will not be exaggeration to state, have lost an excellent citizen, a sincere christian, a warm and kind friend, and an upright politician— and that without derogating in the least from living worth, his death has left a void, which, in many respects, it will be difficult to fill." He was a large importing merchant, and at the time of his death, president of the bank of Albany. 9 John B. Van Schaick was educated at Hamilton College. On becoming of age he travelled in Europe, and on his return was distinguished for his elegant prose writings, and by some fugitive poetry, which is said to rank among the highest class of American productions. His early death was the subject of universal regret. GOZEN VAN SCHAICK. Gozen 1 Van Schaick received on the 7th of March, 1759, a commission appointing him a major of the regiment of New York, commanded by Col. John Johnston, signed by the lieutenant-governor, James de Lancey, and on the 20th of March, 1762, he was appointed lieutenant-colonel in the first regiment of New York, commanded by Col. Michael Thodey. He was in the celebrated battle at Ticonderoga, when Lord Howe fell, and received a severe blow on the cheek from a French musket. He was the first to muster the militia on the opposite side of the river near Albany, on the breaking out of the revolution, and on the 28th of June, 1775, he received a commis- sion from congress, appointing him colonel of the second New York regiment, and in the summer of that year we find him stationed at Albany. Col. Van Schaick was a most valuable and efficient officer during this memorable era in our annals. The duties devolving upon him at this place, were of a most laborious and responsible character. The troops arriving there for the northern campaign, were frequently without arms, tents, or blankets, and had to be furnished through his instrumentality. In one of his letters to congress, describing their condition, he mentions the arrival of Col. Clinton's battalion, five companies of which had but few accoutrements, while one company had none at all ; also the arrival of Col. Van Courtlandt, with five compa- nies of Holmes's battalion, all of whom together had not arms enough for one com- pany ! But consider his mortification when he received in reply to his application for the necessary equipments for these men, the disagreeable intelligence that the public magazine might possibly contain arms enough for Col. Holmes's battalion, but no more ! These troops were first rendezvoused at Half-Moon, and then sent on to Ticon- deroga, with provisions for eight days, in divisions of five hundred men each, with an interval of three days between each division. From Fort Edward they turned off to Skeenesborough 2 where boats were furnished for their conveyance to that place, the sick and baggage being taken by the way of Fort George. In addition to this, on receiving intelligence of the invasion of the Mohawk valley by the Indians and tories, he had immediately to march with his regiment in person, summoning, at the same time, the militia officers of the adjoining counties to join him, and defend the country from depredation ! At the time, however, of the devas- 1 This name has been corrupted in our histories to Now Whitehall. Goose Van Schaick. VAN SCHAICK. 149 tation of the Mohawk valley by Sir John Johnson, with his tories and Indians, in the summer of 1780, his regiment being stationed at Fort Herkimer, the defence of the valley devolved upon Brigadier-General Robert Van Rensselaer. In order to protect the inhabitants of Albany against midnight depredations from the numerous soldiers collecting there from all parts, the colonel established a strong patrol, arresting every soldier found in the streets between the hours of 9 P. M. and 5 A. M., without an officer, which effectually checked the evil. In November, 1775, his regiment was stationed at Fort George. On the 30th of October, 1776, the colonel receiving instructions from Gen. Schuyler, repaired to Johnstown for the purpose of taking command of the troops then mustering in Tryon county, not however, with the intention of interfering with Gen. Herkimer's command. In the meanwhile he was ordered to station a detachment of about two hundred men at Sacandaga, under the charge of some active officer, and covered by a breastwork, while he dispatched three small scouting parties, composed of picked men and commanded by vigilant officers, to reconnoilre the country to the north. One party was to proceed north through the wilderness, until coming about west of Fort George, another to proceed more direct towards that fort, until it arrived upon the northerly branch of the Hudson river, and the last to scour the wilderness between that and the northwest branch of the same river! The parties were furnished with a parol, "New York," and a countersign, "Albany." However, receiving intelligence from Gen. Gates of the retreat of the enemy from Crown Point, together with the notorious Sir John Johnson, the militia which had been assembled at Johnstown for the defence of Tryon county, were dismissed November 8, 1776. On the 22d of the same month, he received notice from Robert Yates, chairman of the committee of arrangements, at Fishkill, of his appointment of colonel of the first battalion of New York, in which Leonard Bleecker and Nicholas Van Rensselaer were appointed first lieutenants. On the 29th of April of the following year, we 1777. find him stationed at Saratoga by Maj.-Gen. Gates, who apprehended that the tories and savages might make a descent on that place. On his return to Albany, on the 14th of June following, he was ordered by Maj.-Gen. Schuyler to proceed with one hundred men, under the command of Captain Wiley, who had just arrived from Stillwater, and also fifty men from Col. Tupper's and Col. "Wessen's regi- ments, in all one hundred and fifty, exclusive of commissioned officers, 1 together with a supply of provisions for twenty days, to Cherry Valley, to protect the inhabitants of that place against the incursions of the notorious Joseph Brandt. It would be neces- sary in this expedition to pacify the savages, particularly the Ochguagoes, who had recently evinced strong symptoms of an inclination to violate the treaties which ex- isted between them and the Americans, and we regret to add, one of the most impor- 'Maj. Bedlam was one of these officers. , r/j AMERICAN GENEALOGY. tant instruments of reconciliation, recommended on this occasion, being a barrel of that very fashionable poison, denominated Rum, which was to be furnished him by the commissary! The colonel, however, did not succeed in inducing Brandt and the chiefs of the Ochguagoes to meet him in conference at Cherry Valley, they having resolved to assemble for that purpose at Onondaga. 1 On the 19th of July he received an order from General Schuyler to return to Albany and resume the command there, and also of the troops in Tryon county. He received instructions from the general to open all official letters directed to him from the west, and if containing any intelli- gence of the approach of the enemy upon Fort Schuyler, or any other point on the Mohawk, to assemble immediately the militia of Schoharie, Duanesburgh, Schenec- tady and Tryon counties, and proceed to the scene of action. "When Gen. Gates, in 1777, succeeded General Schuyler in command of the northern army, Colonel Van Schaick was retained in his command at Albany. In the letter which he received from that general on the subject, he was informed that Col. Van Cortlandt and Col. Livingston's regiments were hourly expected there, and he was requested to forward them without delay to the grand camp at or near Half-Moon. He declared that the proximity of the enemy required the strictest discipline and the most vigilant guard, and that scouting parties and patrols should be sent out in various directions over the country, in order to prevent a surprise. He was required to superintend the stores and magazines, and to organize and discipline the militia of the city, under the direction of the committee of arrangements, so as to have them in a state of readiness to cooperate at a moment's summons with the continental troops; and in employing expresses to convey intelligence to head quarters he was to be particularly cautious not to engage treacherous persons for the purpose. In 1778, we find him participating in the battle of Monmouth, acting as brigadier to Lord Sterling. In this engagement he fought most of the time on foot, manifesting the greatest coolness and courage. He seems to have been stationed at Continental village for a while the same year; but on the 19th of October following, we find him making arrangements to convey his regiment to Albany; and on the 4th of November following, being at Peekskill, he re- ceived intelligence from Alexander Hamilton that he had orders from Gen. Washing- ton to transfer his regiment to Fort Schuyler as soon as it had received a supply of clothing. On the 7th of April, 1779, he received the first news of his appointment by Gen. Washington to take charge of the celebrated Onondaga expedition. He commenced his march with five hundred and fifty-eight men, selected from the 1st, 3d, 4th and 5th New York regiments, the 4th Pennsylvania regiment, the 6th Massachusetts regi- ment, and a rifle corps, sixty-two from each, including officers. Rendezvousing at Fort Schuyler, where now stands the beautiful city of Utica, proceeding up the Mo- 1 See letter of Gen. Herkimer to Col. Van Schaick, dated 29th of June, 1777. VAN SCHAICK. ]5| hawk, across the portage to Wood Creek, and down the Oneida lake, they fell upon the Onondaga settlements, which they completely destroyed. The expedition was accomplished in five days and a half, the distance being one hundred and eighty miles, going and returning, and without losing a man; only twelve, mostly warriors, on the part of the enemy being slain, and thirty-four made prisoners, the principal part of them effecting their escape into the woods. The expedition being designed principally to destroy their winter stores, place of refuge daring the winter, and ren- dezvous, and thus compel them to withdraw further from our frontier. Congress con- ferred a vote of thanks upon the colonel and his regiment for their activity and good conduct in this expedition, which Gen. Washington transmitted to him personally, May 9, 1779. On his return from this expedition, being again stationed at Fort Schuy- ler, he found the garriso.n very deficient in arms and accoutrements. On the 1st of May, 1779, while there, he received a letter from Brig.-Gen. Clinton at Albany, in- forming him that a reinforcement was expected from Canada to act in concert with the Indians, and recommending an officer with two or three men, and as many friendly Indians, to be sent to Oswego, in order to ascertain its character and destination. A scout was to be kept constantly there for this purpose, consisting of an officer, three or four men, and as many savages. Between the 18th and 22d of June, 1779, the colonel was again stationed at Albany. In the month of July of this year, the inhabitants of Tryon county, were very much alarmed, expecting an invasion of the enemy. Colo- nels Bellinger and Klock, calling earnestly for a reinforcement, declaring that they would be unable to remain in the country without. Gen. Clinton, however, then stationed at Caughnawaga, to whom Col. Van Schaick on the 27th of July referred his communication on this subject, with a recommendation to send out scouting parties circuitously through the wilderness in such a direction as to fall in with the Mohawk river above Fort Herkimer; by which means he hoped they would be able to ascertain if the enemy was approaching the settlements, did not seem to credit much the representations of Bellinger and Klock, and considers the disposition of the troops such as effectually to screen the settlements of Schoharie, Cherry A T alley and the soulh side of the Mohawk from all invasion. On receiving the first intelligence of the approach of an enemy, however, he had, as a matter of precaution, despatched a force of three hundred men under Col. Gansevoort, to Fort Planck. In August, 1779, when Gen. Clinton took his departure down the Susquehannah, the defence of the upper parts of Tryon county again devolved upon Col. Van Schaick. We will here mention that it was through his instrumentality that Mrs. Mary Tuthill, her four sons, daugh- ter, and a servant girl, together with Amelia Wilkinson and child, obtained their libe- ration September, 1779, from a painful captivity. He also despatched by the indivi- dual who went out for these captives a letter to Gen. Ilaldiman, requesting the re- storation of Mrs. Campbell and her family, who were captured at Cherry Valley in the 152 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. month of November previous. In February and March following, there also succeeded a correspondence between the colonel and Gen. Watson Powell, who was stationed part of the time at St. Johns and part at Quebec, in which they warmly discussed the merits of a warfare conducted upon such a plan; the British officer endeavors to evade the earnest protestations of his opponent by ascribing the barbarities committed on their part to their savage allies, without seeming to be aware, that the employment of such allies in their service, rendered them more or less responsible for their conduct. However, Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Moore, together with their families, were restored to their homes. By this time the enemy had become so bold, that the inhabitants of the frontier settlements along the Mohawk had to retire down the river towards Schenectady. The colonel, in this emergency, wrote to Gen. James Clinton, calling for a reinforcement and also asking for the relief of his regiment at Fort Schuyler, which was very much dissatisfied with their long confinement there, and had petitioned him the 4th of February previous, for relief. He received an answer to this letter, dated Kingston, May 20th, in which the general declares that he was just on the point of setting out for Poughkeepsie, for the purpose of hastening the march of the levies from Dutchess for Schoharie, and requesting him to exert his influence with the militia officers of Gen. Ten Broeck's brigade, to forward theirs to the different stations assigned them, with the least possible delay. The storm which had been so long threatening, 1780. and which Col. Van Schaick had foreseen, and in vain endeavored to prevent, at length burst upon the frontier settlements of Tryon county. On the 20th of May he received from Col. John Harper 1 the dreadful intelligence of the destruction of Caughnawaga by Sir John Johnson, with a party of four hundred whites and two hundred Indians, and the ravages he had committed along the Mohawk. It was during this inroad that Col. Fisher (Vischer) and the old man, Douw Fonda, 2 and seven others, old and respected citizens of the country, were massacred. This was followed by great consternation among the Oneida Indians, who threat- ened to go over to the enemy, as they had received certain intelligence that the latter intended their destruction, preparatory to a wide and extensive invasion of the Mohawk valley, probably as far as Schenectady or Albany. At length the perilous condition of Tryon county attracting the attention of Gen. Washington, he ordered a detachment of five hundred men from the Massachusetts levies, then at Claverack, to march with the utmost expedition into that county, under the command of Gen. Van Rensselaer. 3 It was supposed that this force, in connection with the levies and militia, then under the command of Col. Van Schaick, together with the assistance which might be expected from Gen. Ten Broeck's brigade! 'See MS. letter dated Fort Schuyler, June 19th, 2 84 years old. 1780, from Lieut.-Col. Van Dyck to Col. Van Schaick. 3 Brig.-Gen. Van Rensselaer. VAN SCHAICK. 153 would be sufficient to open the communication with Fort Schuyler, and expel the enemy from the country. Gov. George Clinton, at Peekskill, on the 31st of 1780. July, communicating to Col. Van Schaick intelligence of this movement, re- quests him to hasten, with all possible despatch, the march of these troops ; and providing he should want provisions, enclosing him a warrant to impress one hun- dred and fifty teams or wagons, fifty tons of flour, or an equivalent in wheat, and ninety thousand pounds of beef; authorising him at the same time, for the purpose of raising funds for the expedition, to borrow from the treasury or wherever he could, and with a noble liberality, which should not be overlooked in this connection, adding that he might loan on his own credit, for this purpose, .£2,000, which he would repay, with interest. 1 Some difficulty was experienced in procuring wagons in the township of Schenectady, and Col. Abraham Cuyler, in a letter to Col. Van Schaick, dated Aug. 1, 1780, suggests whether they could not be obtained in " Nistegayouna-the boght," 2 and in the neighborhood of Albany. In the meantime the colonel proceeding as far as Canajoharie fort, near John Abeel's house, on the 3d of August, wrote to Brig.-Gcn. Robert Van Rensselaer, stating that he intended, when he left Schenectady a day or two previous, to have brought along with him a quantity of flour in wagons to Fort Herkimer, but was prevented by the destruction of Fort Planck, and the settlements partly about Canajoharie, they having been burned by the enemy the day previous, August 2, and some of the inhabitants butchered. On the 11th of August following, he received from Gov. Clinton, a package containing a communication from Col. John McCrea, at Stillwater, requesting three hundred pounds of powder, two hundred and fifty pounds of lead, and six hundred flints, to be sent on to him immediately, as his regiment was entirely destitute; the governor being unable to furnish these articles, de- sires to know of the colonel whether they could not be furnished from the public maga- zine. It seems that Col. McCrea considered his regiment in a critical situation. Col. Van Schaick was much chagrined at the appointment of Col. Hazen, his junior in the service, to the rank of brigadier, considering it a gross violation of an act of congress, passed the 25th of May previous, forbidding such injustice to the officers of the army. In June, 1781, we find him at Saratoga, in great want of provisions; and on the 18th of the same month, writing to Brig.-Gen. James Clinton for some musket cartridges and flints; there being only about fifty pounds of powder, six hundred and twenty musket cartridges, one small box and a half of a small keg of musket balls, and four hundred flints, in the magazine at that place. 3 On the 19th of the same month he issued a proclamation to the inhabitants of Stillwater, making known his wants, and 1 See MS. letter of Gov. George Clinton to Col. ' See H. Y. Van Woert's lieutenant and quarter- Van Schaick, dated Peekskill, July 31, 1780. master's report. 2 Now euphonised to Niskiouna. 20 154 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. calling upon them to furnish a few head of cattle. By the 22d his men became so disaffected, that they threatened to leave him, if not furnished with pay and provi- sions within two days. I mention these facts to show the destitution of our army, and the difficulties with which the officers had to contend during this eventful era in our annals. Col. Van Schaick received the appointment of brigadier-general by brevet, October 10, 1783. His death occurred on the 4th of July, 1789. There is in the correspondence of Gen. Schuyler, allusion to his "spirit, activity, and great prudence ;" and in that of Gen. James Clinton, to his "judgment and experience;" and we can not doubt his patriotism, when we consider that his private fortune, during the memorable strug- gle, was freely sacrificed for the public good. He was a rigid disciplinarian, his regiment being considered one of the best in the service, and for that reason, probably, kept longer at Fort Herkimer than was agreeable, either to himself or his men. He seems to have been highly esteemed by his fellow officers, and also by the commander- in-chief. The continual apprehension of invasion of the settlements along the Mo- hawk, by the British, Tories, and Indians, a British army slowly approaching from the north, another from the south, the constant demands made upon him for money, mu- nitions and provisions, and the equipping and transmitting of troops arriving there for the northern campaign, made Albany the most important station on the Hudson river, if not in the whole northern department, requiring from him constant activity and devotion to the public service. That he possessed these qualifications, there can not be a doubt, and we are indebted to him and to such men, for the firm establishment of our republican institutions. It will be found that the great element pervading the minds of almost all our revolutionary worthies, which should not be overlooked, was religious principle ; and if we follow this beautiful example set us by our forefathers, we shall soon become the greatest nation on the globe ! LIVINGSTON. This family, 1 more immediately of Scottish origin, is remotely descended from Livin- gius, a Hungarian nobleman, who came over to Scotland in the suite of Margaret, queen of King Malcolm III, about 1068. DR. JOHN LIVINGSTONE. Dr. John Livingstone was born at Monyabroek, in Stirlingshire, June 21, 1603. Being for a while, chaplain to the countess of Wigtoun, it is related of him that on one occa- sion, about this time, while preaching at the kirk of Shotts, there came up a violent thunder storm at the close of his discourse, when taking another text, he continued for more than an hour, while the storm was raging, preaching a most eloquent extem- poraneous sermon, 2 which is said to have had a wonderful effect. He was shortly after- wards installed over the church of Killinchie, in Ireland, and being persecuted for non- conformity, he determined to emigrate to America, actually embarking for that pur- pose in a vessel bound for Boston, but being driven back by contrary wind*, and aban- doning the resolution, he settled, iu 1638, at Stranrawer, in Scotland. In 1643 he re- moved to Ancram, in Teviotdale, where his son Robert was born. 3 In March, 1650, he was sent as a commissioner to Breda, to negociate terms for the restoration of Charles II. After that event, the persecution against him being revived, he went to Rotterdam, in Holland. Here he began to publish an edition of the Bible, which he did not live to complete. He died on the 9th of August, 1672. 'The name is indifferently spelt in ancient docu- * Fleming upon the Fulfilling of the Scriptures, A. ments, Livingstone, Livingstoune, and Levingstoune. D. 16S1, page 3 IS. 3 Kirkton's History of the Church of Scotland, p. 52. 156 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. ROBERT LIVINGSTON. Robert Livingston his son, and the first ancestor of the family in America, was born at Ancram, as already intimated, a village on the Teviot, in Roxburgshire, Scotland, on the 13th of December, 1654. It is supposed that he accompanied his father in his flight to Holland, soon after the restoration of Charles II, as he was acquainted with the Dutch language. We have before alluded to the instrumentality exerted by Hol- land in the colonization of this continent, and we have here additional proof of it; not only facilitating and encouraging her own sons, but also those of other countries, who sought refuge within her borders, to migrate to the forest-crowned banks of the beau- tiful Hudson! The exact year in which Mr. Livingston emigrated is not known; it is known, however, that he was here as early as February, 1676, as we find, at that time, that he was secretary of the commissaries who then superintended the affairs of Albany, Schenectady, and the parts adjacent, 1 which office he held till July, 1686, when Albany being made a city, the board of commissaries was dissolved. He was appointed to proceed with his brother-in-law, Peter Schuyler, to New York, to obtain the charter 2 of the city from Gov. Dongan, under which he was afterwards made town clerk. We find soon after, the additional office of farmer of the excise annexed to his clerkship. Livingston It was on the 18th of July, 1683, that the lands then overshadowed by a Manor, dense wilderness, extending along the east side of the Hudson river, from Roeloffe Jansen's kill north, lying in three plains, called Ne-kan-kook, Hick-ua, Wic-quas- ka-ka, and two or three other small plains or flats, comprehending about two hundred acres, and all the country, comprising about eighteen hundred acres, between a small creek nearly opposite Kals-kill, called by the Indians Wack-an-ek-as-seck, and also a tract to the south of Roeloffe Jansen's kill, by the river side, called by them Swas-ka- hamp-ka, comprising two hundred acres, and the adjoining lands running back into the woods, making in all about two thousand acres, was purchased of Ot-tow-o-way, Tat-ta-em, Schatt, Ot hoot, Man-et-e-po, and two squaws named Wa-wamtts-a-waw and Tham-ar-an-ac-qua, in behalf of themselves and their relatives, by Robert Livingston, and this purchase was confirmed by Thomas Dongan, lieutenant-governor and vice- admiral, under James, duke of Yorke, and of New Yorke and its dependencies in Ame- rica, on the 4th of November, 1684. In the following year, on the 10th of 1685, August, another purchase was made of Taghkanick, as designated by the Aug. 10. Indians, consisting of six hundred acres, This purchase was confirmed on the 27th of the same month. On the 22d of July, 1686, Gov. Dongan issued a patent, erecting this vast territory into a lordship and manor, to be recognised as the lordship and manor of Livingston, 3 the government of Great Britain requiring in con- 1 Records of Common Council of Albany. » Lib. No. 1, began 1684, pp. 49] to 498, secretary's 2 This charter is dated 26th of July, 1686. office Albany. LIVINGSTON. 157 sideration for the same, the simple annual rent of twenty-eight shillings sterling, to be paid at the city of Albany on the 25th day of March. The manor originally comprised between one hundred and twenty thousand and one hundred and fifty thousand acres, commencing about five miles south of the city of Hudson, running twelve miles on the Hudson river, extending back to the line of Massachusetts, and widening as it receded from the river, so as to embrace not far from twenty miles on the boundary of the latter colony. 1 The patent allowed the proprietor the privilege of holding a court leet and court baron, with the advowson and right of patronage of the churches within the manor. The tenants also having the privilege of assembling together to choose assessors to defray the public charges of cities, counties and towns within the manor, in the same manner as those within the province. It granted the privilege of fishing, hawking, hunting, and fowling, the possession of mines, minerals, (silver and gold mines only excepted) and the right to fish in the Hudson river along the boun- dary of said manor. In 1715, however, the grant being confirmed by royal authority, the additional privileges of electing a representative to the general assembly of the colony, and two constables, were conferred upon the tenants. About five or six German, thousand acres was taken from it in 1710, to constitute a settlement for the town. Palatines, which was called Germantown. It was purchased by the crown for this purpose, for the sum of £200 sterling. 1 The boundaries of this manor are described in a patent of confirmation issued on the first of October, 1715, by Kob't Hunter, Esq., captain-general and go- vernour-in-chiefe of the province of NewYork and New Jersey, and dependencies thereof in America, and vice-admiral of the same, more fully, as follows: " Beginning on the east side of Hudson's river, at a certain place called by the Indians Wa-hank-as-sek, from thence running east by south 3° 45', southerly nine miles and one-half, to a certain place called in the Indian language Ma-wan-ap-quas-seck, where the Indians have laid several heaps of stones together, from an ancient custom used among them, then east three miles and one hundred and fifty-six rods to a run of water in the east end of a certain flat or piece of land called by the Indians Sak-ack-qua, then south by east 8° 30', easterly one hundred and forty rods to five Linden or lime trees, all marked with St. An- drew's cross, standing together where two runs of water meet together on the south side of the said flat, then west-south-west 6° 30', southerly one mile and one half mile and twelve rods, to a rock on the south corner of another flat or piece of low land called by the Indians Nak-a-o-was-ick, then west-north-west thirteen miles and three-quarters of a mile, to the southermost boght or elbow of Roeloffe Jansen's kill, by south 7° 45", southerly nine miles and a half of then north-west 11°, westerly eleven miles and three- a mile and thirty rods, to a heap of stones* laid to- quarters of a mile to a dry gulley at Hudson's river, p-ether on a certain hill called by the Indians A-has- called by the Indians Sas-ka-kampka, opposite to the he-wagk-ka-meek by the north, and of Tagh-ka-nik Sawyer's creek, and from thence up Hudson's river to hills or mountains, then south 2°, west along said hills the first station or place where begun the lines afore- thirteen miles and one-quarter of a mile to a place said," &c, &c. See Book of Patents in secretary of called Wick-qua-puch-at, then east 2° 50', northerly state's office, Albany, began 1711, fol. 113 to 127. • There was another of these heaps of stones "over against the south side or Vaslrix island, in the Hudson river, called Wachankaska, near the head of a certain kill or creek called Nanaptnahtkan, which comes out of a marsh lying near unto the said hills of the said heaps of stones, upon which the In- dians throw upon another as they pass by, from an ancient custom.'' See patent or instrument issued by Gov. Dongan. dated July 22, A. D. 1686, to Robert Livingston. These heaps of stones are certainly remarkable, sug- gesting to the mind a very ancient eosiom prevailing in various ciuntries, and at various epochs, from the building of an altar by Noah, just after the flood, to the gigantic pyramids on the banks of the Nile, the barrows of Scotland, and those mysterious mounds in our western states. Axe they not deserving of consideration ? 158 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Manor or The manor of Clermont, comprising about thirteen thousand acres, was ciermont. seve red from the upper manor by the last will of Robert, the first proprietor, and bequeathed to his youngest son, Robert, 1 the grandfather of the late Chancellor Livingston. This was done to reward him for having discovered and frustrated a plot which had been formed among the Indians, for the massacre of the white inhabitants of the province. In 1689, Livingston attached himself to the Anti-Leislerian faction, as did most of the prominent families in New York. It is singular that both these factions, strongly- attached as they were to Wiluam and Mary, should be bitterly opposed to each other. The truth is, the Anti-Leislerians were unwilling to recognise as their leader, a man whom they contemptuously termed a " Dutch boor." On the defeat of this party, we find Livingston retiring to one of the neighboring provinces, whether to avoid the fury of his enemies or to procure aid for the protection of the northern frontiers of his colony against the French and Indians, as is affirmed, can not now be ascertained. On the 25th of October, 1689, a convention assembled at Albany, acknowledging the sovereignty of William and Mary, but opposed to Leisler's proceedings, to which Mr. Livingston offi- ciated as secretary. Perhaps it might be well enough to allude here to the miserable attempt, about this time, on the part of Richard Pretty, sheriff of Albany, to bring Living- ston into disgrace. It seems that the latter had, in conversation with that individual, made some allusion to certain movements in England in favor of the prince of Orange, whereupon he immediately indited the following epistle to Jacob Milborne, secretary, at Fort William, in New York, who it will be remembered was Leisler's brother-in-law. "About the beginning of April last past, Ro: Livingston towld me that there was a plott of robbery gon out of Holland into England, and the Prince of Orringe was the hed of them, and he might see how he got out again, and should come again to the same end as Mulmouth (Monmouth) did, this I can testify. Richard Pretty." 2 The consequence was, that in the month of March following, Leisler issued a warrant for the apprehen- sion of Livingston as " a rebell, who by his rebelliones hath caused great disorder in the county of Albany, and alsoe in the whole province ; " officers being despatched to Hartford and Boston to arrest him. The arrival of Sloughter, however, in March 1691 and the dissolution of Leisler's faction, prevented the writ from being executed. In the voyage which Livingston made in 1694, to England, on some business matter, being shipwrecked on the coast of Portugal, he was compelled to travel through Spain and France by land, and it was in allusion to this incident that the alteration was made in his coat of arms, namely, a ship in distress in place of the original demi-savage, and the substitution of the motto "spero meliora" 3 for si je puis, 4 which is still inscribed on the Scottish arms of the family. On his return to New York, in September, 1696, 1 See page 181. 3 Latin, " I hope for better things." 'See letter preserved in the secretary of state's 4 French, "If I can." office, Albany, dated January 15, 1689-90. LIVINGSTON. 159 he was acompanied by a nephew, Robert Livingston, who remaining in this country, became the ancestor of a distinct branch of the family. 1 The former, while in England, was by virtue of a royal commission, dated January 27, 1695-6, appointed collector of excise, receiver of quit rents, town clerk, clerk of the peace, clerk of the common pleas for the city and county of Albany, and also "in consideration of the long and faithful services performed for many years past for the crown, in all their treaties and negociations with the Indians," secretary or agent for the government of New York, with those people. Mr. Livingston accused Gov. Fletcher, of New York, of arbitrary exercise of power, and of squandering the public money. He did not succeed, how- ever, in ridding the American seas of buccaneers, as the individual for whom he obtained a commission for that purpose, the notorious Robert Kidd, turned bucca- neer himself! In September, 1696, the council, for the purpose of removing him from the offices which he enjoyed, brought against him a charge of alienism. Through the influence of Lord Bellomont, however, who arrived in April, 1693, to take charge of the govern- ment, he was in September following, appointed one of the council, and in autumn, 1700, reinstated in all his offices. On the division of the council after the decease of that governor, in March, 1701, and the revival of the Leislerian and Anti-Leislerian factions, he again found himself on the side of the minority, and consequently ex- posed to all the animosity of his political antagonists. 2 The party now in power ap- pointing commissioners to examine the accounts of those who had received the public money, Mr. Livingston was cited as the most prominent of these to appear before them, but owing to the fact that Lord Bellomont had, in 1698, transferred all his accounts and vouchers from the hands of the clerk to his own possession, and being for some reason unable to obtain these from the widow, he refused at first to obey the manda- mus, but finally doing so without furnishing the requisite testimony in his own favor, the assembly recommended the confiscation of his estates. The commissioners also accused him on the 13th of September, of employing improper influences to induce the Indians to favor his going to England on behalf of their interests there, which was considered a gross violation of official duty, but which was undoubtedly without foun- dation, as it never was proved against him; he disdained to avail himself of the call made upon him to exonerate himself of the charge by oath. Accordingly on the 15th of September, 1701, an act entitled "An Act to Oblige Robert Livingston to Account," was passed, declaring his estates, both real and personal, responsible for £17,000, the amount of his alleged deficits, and subject to confiscation unless he produce a full and satisfactory .account before the 25th of March, 1702. On the expiration of this period, 1 See pages 161 and 183. The reader will perceive * Smith's History of New York, page 160. that the reference on page 161 to page 134, is a mis- take, it should be 183. 160 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. his estates were accordingly confiscated, and himself, on the 27th of April following, suspended from the council board. The arrival of Lord Cornbury, however, in May, 1702, occasioned a new revolution in his affairs. That governor being a strong Anti- Leislerian, exerted himself in Livingston's behalf. Through his influence the requisite documents being obtained from the Countess Bellomont, 1 he succeeded in removing entirely the aspersions cast upon his character. On the 2d of February, 1703, we behold him once more obtaining possession of his estates, and in September, 1705, receiving from Queen Anne a commission, reinstating him in all his former appoint- ments. 2 A mansion was erected on his manor as early as 1692, but he did not reside there till 1711. 3 In this year he was elected member of assembly from the city and county of Albany, and in June, 1716, representative from his manor. The address of the assembly to Gov. Hunter, on his leaving the province in 171 9, 4 was drawn up by him, in connection with Lewis Morris. In 1718, he was chosen speaker of the assembly, which position he maintained till the year 1725, when he was obliged, by ill health, to retire from public life. It is sup- posed that his death occurred in this or the following year. 1 See letters to George Clarke, on file in office of 2 Bradford's New York Laws, ed. 1726, p. 318. secretary of state of New York. > Council MinuteS) voL x _ 0ct 3) 1706 4 Smith's History of N. Y., vol. i, pp. 208, 249. LIVINGSTON. |f. | Rev. ALEXANDER 1 Barbara Livingstone 2 of ^ w . m Minister of Monyabroek. V _ J & of the home of Kilsyth. Rev. William Agnes Livingstone 3 1600, minisit-r of Monyabroek. 1G14. minister of Lanarke. 1641, died. Mary Fleming 4 J ^, 2l '}Rev John. J b 1003. i cv - JUUU born at Monyabroek, in Stirlingshire. ' i«?o er f y 7 lan, ,, firsl al KUlin S shire - Ireland, then at Siranrawer, Aneram, and Rotterdam, Holland. 1672, died at Rotterdam. See page 155. ,654. Robert William ? Emigrated to America. Descendants given on page 163. HObert emigrated to America, 1696. See descendants on page 184. FAMILY OF ROBERT LIVINGSTON, WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA. John, died young. Phflippina, born 1684. Died unmarried. Philip, born 1686. His descendants are given in the table. Robert, born 1688, married Margaret Howerden. Descendants given in the table. Gysbert, born 1690. Descendants given in the table. William, born 1692. Died without descendants. Catrine, born 1698. Died unmarried. Margaret married Col. Samuel Vetch, governor of Annapolis Royal. Johanna, baptised 1694, married Cornelius Van Home. See Will of Robert Livingston, dated Feb. 10, 1722-23, for children above named, who survived, and left descendants. The blood of this family has been blended with that of almost every other in the state. It consists of three branches: that of Robert the proprietor of the manor on the Hudson river, whose descendants reside mostly in New York city, on the Hudson river, and more or less in other parts of the United States; Robert, the nephew of the above, who came over in 1696, whose posterity remain scattered in New York, on the upper banks of the Hudson, in the valley of the Mohawk, and the 1 Alexander, near relative to the house of Kilsyth. 3 Agnes, da. of Alex. Livingston, of Falkirk. 2 Barbara, of the house of Kilsyth, and related to 4 Mary, eldest daughter of Bartholomew Fleming, the house of Calendar. merchant of Edinburgh. 21 162 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. state of Ohio, &c, &c; and another branch, that of James Livingston, whose son removing, at an early period, from the Hudson river to the beautiful valley of the Schoharie, left descendants now principally residing there and along the upper banks of the Susquehannah. The reader, however, must be cautious not to confound with these another family, of German extraction, whose patronymic, the same as that of the Scottish or Hungarian stock, should be spelt Levingsteen, being descended from John Levingsteen, who came over to this country over a hundred years ago, settling originally in Guelderland, county of Albany, and whose posterity now reside in Mont- gomery county, Albany, &c. For descendants of the three first branches, see genea- logical tables annexed. It will be seen that the lineage commences with the Rev. Alexander Livingstone and Barbara Livingstone, of the house of Kilsyth, being deduced through two genera- tions of divines, the Rev. William and Rev. John Livingstone, the last distinguished in the annals of the Scottish church, to Robert, who emigrated to America, and in the following tables his descendants, those who bear the name, are carried out in full with their intermarriages. LIVINGSTON. ^J 3 } ROBERT LIVINGSTON Mrs. Nicholas Van Rensselaer 1 Born ai Ancram. Scnt'anri. . 163 Born ai Ancram. Scot'and. Ahout IG74 he emigrated to America. l?2d, died. Catharine Van Br ugh 2 Philip 3 .,, °. , * ,l F 2il proprietor of Ihe manor. Born at Albany, 16S«. ' Resided iu Broad street, New York city. Died in New York, February, 1749. 1. Mary Tong Sarah m. William Alexander ^ Slilling . Alida m. 1. Henry Hansen ofHarlem 2. Col. Martin Hoffman* Catherine m. John L. Lawrence *'/ died in Jamaica, numarried. Robert rn. 2. Mrs. Gertrnyd Schuyler * 3d proprietor of the munor. Nov. 37, 1700, died. of New York, alderman. No issue. Mary m. James Duane coun3e ii„rati a w. Alida m. Valentine Gardiner Xlcliry died unmarried on the manor. Catherine m. John Paterson Jrnilip di e j without ]3*uc. May 8, 1737. Peter R. Margaret Livingston Nov. 15, 1794, died. \ / Bom July 4, 1738. J ^ 8 3 '} Margaret m. JohnDePeyster ^j Peter W Jan 31, I80S died. DoUW of A „>a„v J ^f'}Mary T. m. 1. Alexander Wilson Diedibsi. 2 . Geo. Crawford of Hudson . Eliza ^JJamesS. Mary Beekman *Si!' lBa7 '\ _ /Price Eliza m. Col. 1773. John Lafitte died younjr. No issue. ™ms,*'\ William S. died unm „ rrie d A i p 7 r 59 4 '} Robert Tong Margaret Livingston Mary T. m. Alex. Crofts of New York. 'Mrs. Van Rensselaei's maiden name was Alida Schuyler, da. of Philip Schuyler, and widow of the Rev. Nicholas Van Rensselaer. See page 4:2. 2 Catherine, only daughter and heiress of Peter Van Brugh, Esq., who was many years mayor of the city of Albany, and a member of the assembly; a near relation of Sir John Van Brugh, and of Capt. Charles and Philip Van Brugh, commanders of men of war in the English navy. Plympton oftheUS Emily m. Jas.DePeyster of New Yi.rk. Gerard W. m. De or n.y. Peyster XlOratlO aied unmarried. Howard m. Mary Snowdon Peter W. Robert Broekholst Rc-ides in the town of Livingston. Catharine Margaret Cornelia Mary 3 See note at the end of the tables. 4 See page 105. 6 Margaret, da. of James Livingston, a merchant in New York, son of Robert Livingston, who was grand- son of Rev. John Livingston, and nephew of Robert Livingston, first proprietor of the manor. 6 Da. of John Livingston, of New York, see page 171. 164 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. ^•JMoncrieffe Born in N.Y. Resides in to wd o f Livingston. 1797. Frances Covert 1. Eliza Plainer Born June 12, 1772. Died May 19. 1814. 2. Catharine Thorn 1824. One son, died young. ^ 2. Elizabeth Walter Tryon McKinstry 1799. Margaret died unniarr ied. Caroline 1 m. Peter Ostrander AnnLevina dic „ unmarried ofHuds ° n - Mary A. m. Oliver Steele Peter R. died young .° f Alba ^- Robert Thong Rensselaer m. Rachel Petrie of Livingston. John Sanders of Schenectady. Margaret m. "' ociieueciauy. JohnCrawford feusan m - Peter Yan Deusen . ,. — , of Hudson. of Hudson. Eliza rn. Geo Crawford 2 ofHudson . Hellen m. Leonard W. Ten Broeck Peter R. m. Jane Thorn 3 of Livingston, William A. m. Sarah Louisa Jones Moncrieffe Peter F. m. Sarah Bingham Crawford m. Caroline C. Chapman of Alban lgl3 . Frances m. Rensselaer N. Sill ofCddarHill a " T ' 1797. Henry L. 1 Jane Sears DiedatHudson,1819. 1805. 1807. 1809. 1811. Henry L. of williamsburgh, L. I. 1 Caroline and Henry L. were twins. 'The same who married Mary T., da. of Peter R Livingston. See page 163. 3 Da. of Samuel Thorn, son of Thomas Thorn, who married Catharine Livingston. See page 177. -tvtivgSTON. lfi } L/raUIUrd died unmarried. Walter f New Jersey. Maria S. m. John Bibby Albert of New York. Margaretta m. DuncanCooper '■is'- of New York. Althea Oscar Matilda m. Henry Rogers Johnston John Stevens Louis Estelle m. John Watts De Peyster Mary L. m. Henry B. Livingston 4 Clarence died unmarried. HOSa die(i unmarried. Alice m. Howard Nodule. Tilletson ofN . T . Julia m. Charles A. Peabody Charles J. m. Charlotte L. Merry Louisa m. Oliver Jones ' Robert Cambridge Livingston. His middle name death of Mr. Livingston, she married Gov. Craufurd, was assumed from the circumstance of his having of Bermuda, been graduated at Cambridge University, in England. 3 Niece to Alice, who married his father, Robert C. a Da. of John Swift, of Pennsylvania. After the Livingston. See above. 4 Son of Maturin Livingston. See page 184. 22 170 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. ~N Peter Van Brugh m. 2. Mrs. Kicketts. Merchant in the city of New York. Mary Alexander 1 No children. 1 ^s Catharine m. Nicholas Philip P Bayard £«*£ Elizabeth m. Mons. Otto Cornelia Van Home Philip died unmarried. Richard Susannah m. 1. John Kean 2. Count Julian A. Memcewicz 2 All lid died unmarried. Mary m. Maj. JohnBrown {£?£££ Chas.L. 3 Mar^t Allen William of Knockniarlo<; i i - ' of n. y. * J ameS ,j; e( j unmarried. Alexander Sarah m. Maj. James Ricketts Peter V. B. Susan Blundel Resided in N. Y. Mrs.Houston PeterV. Brugh Mary m. Lewis Sartre Prances Richard Louisa Catharine m.Walter Cornelia Langdon Philip Mary Alexander Elizabeth Van Brugh Julia Livingius Kilsyth 1 Da. of James Alexander, and sister to Lord Ster- 3 Charles L. Livingston was speaker of the house of ling- assembly. 2 A Polish count and poet. LIVINGSTON. 171 Catherine De Peyster Margaret m. Rob't T. Livingston 2 Catharine m. AbrahamDePeyster Henry dieil young . Philip J. Frances Bayard 3 John W. Ann Saunders Resided in N. Y. 1830, died. Amelia m. Elijah Ferris Maria m. Andrew Smith Frances m. Sam'l Hoffman Xla.rricl died unmarried. William A. died at Jamaica, W. I. Alfred Eliza Moore Resided v /of Hempstead, L- 1. Eliza m. William Turk, M. D. Surgeon in U. S. Nnvy. Maria m. Christopher Beakley Resides in New "V ork. Catharine m. Prof. Mariano Velasquez Julia Caroline m. Ernest Barsche Broome 4 m8 Lt.-Col. John W. 5 of Now York. Elizabeth m. Henry Hoffman Frances H. m. George W. Burrowe of N Y Ann M. m. Stephen B. Hoffman, Jr, Maria M. Deceased. Judith L. Harriet A. Charles Moulton m. Martha King Alexander H. m. Catharine Lyons William T. m. Elizabeth Evans Julia m. Prof. Henry P. Tappan, D. D. Adele m. Joseph Sampson MaryAugusta m.JohnW Livingston' Born H06. Lieul. in ihe U. S N. 1 John had thirteen children, who died without de- scendants. 2 Son of Peter E. Livingston. See page 163. 3 Da. of Samuel Bayard. 'Da. of Lieut.-Gov. Broome. 6 John W. Livingston was a captain in the second regiment of U. S. artillerists and engineers in 1S01 ; a lieutenant-colonel in the U. S. army in the war of 1812, and marshal of the United t^tates for the north- ern district of New York, from 1815 to 1837, when he resigned. 6 John W. Livingston was a son of Dr. Wm. Turk, surgeon in theU. S. navy, who married Eliza, daughter of John W. Livingston. See above. The name of Livingston was assumed by act of legislature of the state of New York, in 1843. 172 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. J l? i6 15 } PHILIP 1 Christiana Ten Broeck 2 Signer of the Declaration of Independence. Jane 12, 1778, died at York, Penn. 2 1746. 3 Sarah Johnston of Jamaica, West Indies. Richard died ramrri(i 1. Philip P Catharine m. l.S.VanRensselaer 3 jamTc^wj Father of the late Palroon. 2. Rev. EilardusWesterlo of Albany. 5* Petefvan^' rU l r h Th0maS J ° neS — 3. Christiana m. John N. McComb SiSarahm.Rev.DljohTH.eSgston.D.D/ Cath »±™- John Saunders Dec. 29, 1S14, died at New Brunswick. of Poughkeepsie. "H"^,-.™- n nA 'XATadil-nrrtn-n 7. Henry diedunmarried . Henry and Washington died _ ied 8. Abraham ,.■ . ■ . oarah d j ed unmarried died unmarried. W. Allda diedunmarried. Maria 8. George W. ^ unmmied . Maria Livingston 5 1V69 1. Philip H. Born in the island of Jamaica. Resided at Redhook, Dutchess county, N. Y. Died 1831. Sarah R. Lansing 7 Sarah, Cornelia and Maria 7. Gertrude m. Albert G. Greenly William P. diedunmarried . 8. Theodore Washington m. Virginia Clopton TT _ One child. Died young. 4. W alter H. m. RebeccaTurner 5. Edward 6 Resided at Albany. Died June 6, 1840. One child. Died young. Maria L. and Cornelia L. John died y0 u n g. fearan died l1nrnarried . Frances S. and Philip H. John L. and Edward 1 Philip resided at Burnet's key, New York city. See note at the end of the tables. 2 Da. of Richard Ten Broeck, recorder of Albany. s See page 43. 4 Son of Henry Livingston. See page 179 for de- scendants. 5 Da. of Walter Livingston. See page 165. 6 Edward Livingston was district attorney of the county of Albany, and speaker of assembly. T Da. of John Lansing, (chancellor) of Albany. LIVINGSTON. 173 1780 Lieut.-Gov JEdward P of Clermont Elizabeth S. 1. Livingston 1 2. Mary C.Broome No children. Jasper H. Resided at \^ Jamaica. Eliza Livingston 11 L died unmarried. Philip P. Died at Charleston. Eliza Ashe of Charleston, S. C. Mary died young, 1819. Robert Young Margaret m. David Aug. Clarkson Elizabeth 3 m. Edward H. Ludlow Catharine 3 died young. Clermont m. Cornelia Livingston* Robert E. Mary- Emma di e d unmarried, 1828. Edwin < Jasper Eliza Other issue reside in London. Ellen M. John A m. Charlotte Postell Catharine m. T. Hayward Thayer of Charleston, S. C. Julia and Gertrude Eliza m. Singleton ~W alter ah f Charleston, S. C. 'Da. of Robert R. Livingston, chancellor. See page 182. a Da. of Brockholst Livingston, judge of the supreme court of the United States. See page 175. * Catharine and Elizabeth were twins. * Da. of Herman Livingston, of Oakhill. See page 168. 174 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. 7\ WILLIAM, LL. D. 1 Susannah French of New Brunswick, Died juiy n, m 9 . 1723 Governor of New Jersey. Died 1790 September 1,1760. Philip French Drowned at Hackensack, New Jersey. 1748 . Susannah m. John Cleve Symmes 2 September i6, i75i. Catharine m. 1. Matthew Ridley of Ballimore April M) , 787 . Died December 8, 1813. 2. John Livingston 3 February is, 1753. Mary m. James Linn August 2 , 1756. Sarah Van Brugh m. John Jay April; 1774 . Gov. of New York. December 3i, Has. Judith m. John W. Watkins Philip juiy is, 1762. John Lawrence lost atsea> 1781 Apni 5, 1764. Elizabeth Clarkson diea 1765 . ,„, William Jane Jane Philip Brockholst John L. Matthew Clarkson John Jay Essex Ridley ' See notices at the end of the tables. 2 John Cleve Symmes was judge of the north-west 3 Son of Robert Livingston. See page 166. territory. LIVINGSTON. 175 Catharine \ 1. Kettletas HENRY BROCKHOLST 1 iV Bora November 26, 1757. Resided in New York. Mrs. John 3. Kortwright 2 Eliza m. Jasper H. Livingston Resides in England. Susan m. Benj. Ledyard of NY Catharine L. ^d yoang . Catharine A. m. Archibald -n -l i. /-i McVickar Robert C. Ann N. Ludlow 3 of N.Y. died unmarried, in isl. of Jamaica. H. Brockholst Jasper Hall Ann ,1;^ yonng Louisa m. Morris Power, Carroll m. Cornelia |^ p Livingston 5 Anson m. Ann Livingston 5 ' of Cork, Ireland. ' See note at the end of the tables. 2 Maiden name Catharine, da. of Edmund Seamen, and widow of Capt. John Kortwright. 3 Da. of Gabriel Henry Ludlow. * Son of Philip P. Livingston, of the island of Ja- maica, See page 173. 6 Da. of Henry Walter Livingston, of the manor. See page 165. 176 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Gilbert 1 1746, died. Cornelia Beekman 2 born 1690. Margaret m. Peter Stuyvesant Robert Gilbert Joannan m. Gen. Pierre Van Cortlandt 3 Alida m. 1. Jacob Rutsen of Ehine ™ ski11 - 2. Henry Van Rensselaer 4 Catharine m. Thomas Thorn JO [in died unmarried. Catharine McPheadres Margaret Hude' Helen m. Samuel Hake Catharine m. John Reade 5 of Poughkeepsie. HO Dert (j. raided near Redhook. ± 1111 ip died unmarried, at Curacao W llliam di ed unmarried. Octlll llcl died unmarried, at sea. ComelillS die d unmarried. Gilbert dM l789 . Lieut. Gilbert Joy Dorrell n ,, • 1 ■** „. of the army. v ^ j of Bermudas. bathanne m. 1. M. ISnssac 2. ClaudiusG.Massonneau Helen m. Jeremiah Tronson MerchantinNY Cornelia m. John Crooke of Poughkeepsi6 . Margaret m. Augustus C. Van Home Robert G. m. Martha de Riemer Resides near Auburn. of Poughkeepsie. Henry G. m. Catharine Coopernail . Resides near Redhook. 'Gilbert Livingston was county clerk of Ulster. Van Cortlandt, Esq., one of his majesty's council He received from h,s father as a bequest, one-seventh He was a member of the last general assembly of the part of Sarachtog, Saratoga. See his will, dated Feb. province of New York 10, 1722-3. . _ i . . , (i i n r> i i • i -r feee P a g e 49 for children, bister to Lol. Henry Beekman, who married Janet 6 _ Livingston. See page 78. 0ne of the first vestrymen of Trinity church. * Gen. Pierre Van Cortlandt, son of the Hon. Philip 6 Da. of tlle Hon. James Hude, Esq. Dorrell Gilbert LIVINGSTON. 177 Henry G. Ann Nutter Died at Har- laem. Gilbert R. Martha Kane Catharine m. Palmer Cleveland of Rochest(;r . Catharine m. Henry Beekman I tt i j ■ tvt "R «V D »f Merchant in New York. Valentine JN . Jie d unmarried. no Deri died y0Qng . Sarah m. Hon. D. D. Barnard of Albany . John McP. diedyou^. Antoinette m. John T. Talman of Rochester . Martha m. David Codwise __ ™ counsellor al law. Henry Or. died yoms Helen m. William Smith 1 Rev. Gilbert R. m. Burrell 9 , Susan m. John Constable ^ c 1 Son of Gov. Smith, of Sharon, Connecticut. 23 J allies .Kalie „f Rochester. ! Da. of Ebenezer Burrell, merchant in New York. 178 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Susan ^ COnCKIin ]7i4. ' } Henry Die a at bj s paternal estate near Poughkeepsie, Feb. 10, 179D. Catharine I753 . Joannah m. Paul Schenck A *"}!>. John H.,D.D. Died Jan. 16. 1795. Bum at Puughkee|isie. 1755 . Susan m. Gerardus Duyckinck 4 of Pou , hke ^ dJa " Qary2 "' 1&25 - 1758 Alida m. Melancthon Lloyd Woolsey Cornelia m. Myndant Elizabeth Van Kleeck 1. Beekman" I7C7 Helen m. Judge Jonas Piatt 5 Oct. 15, born at Poughkeepsie. of Poughkeepsie. 1742i Gilbert Catharine Crannel 7 Sept. 14, born at Poughkeepsie. laoG. died. \ n £f'}Col. Sarah Livingston 3 Died at New Brunswick, Dec. 29, 1814. Frederika lenryAlex. 2. Sayres of Pough- keepsie. Se. nalor. Died 1849, J uf Bath, Eng. Sarah m. Judge Smith Thompson Sarah m. Rev. Brogan Hoffe Dird Sept. 19, 1S18, aged 22. JjlIZa aiecl unmarried, April 5, 1819. oaran ,i ie( j an j„f ilnt) ig^ John A. m. Louisa Bradford Tn m p<: °f Albany. " allico died at Honduras, unmarried. Abraham H. m. Ann T. Res,des i» n.y. Greene Louisa M. m. Edw'd K. James Resides at Pou-rhkeepsie. Russell m. Louisa B. Finlay Besides at Poughkeepsie. Frederika C. Christina T. B. Cornelia B. Jane Murray Henrietta Ulrika Henry Philip Augustus L. 'Henry Livingston, son of Gilbert Livingston, pos- sessed an amiable disposition, a strong mind, libe- rally educated, elegance of manners, and an irre- proachable character, enjoying the esteem and confi- dence of the community in which he lived. He was for a considerable period, a member of the colonial legislature of New York, and by letters patent, pro- prietor of the office of clerk of Dutchess county, in which he resided. This office he retained until his death, which occurred February 10, 1799, in the 85th year of his age. He was a strong whig during the revolution. 2 Da. of John Concklin. 3 Da. of Philip Livingston. See page 172. 4 Son of Gerardus Duyckinck and Anna Eapalje. See page 20. 5 Son of Zephaniah Piatt, of Plattsburgh. 6 Da. of James Beekraan and Sarah Lefferts. See page 83. 7 Da. of Bartholomew Crannell, of Poughkeepsie. LIVINGSTON- 179 Sarah \ l.Wells 1 °^ 3 - } Henry {ZZTg'A. Jane Patterson \ Catharine °S 0( f}Rob'tH. Tappan 2 D"eU at Pit'keepsie, Aug. 31, 1S04. XlGnry W - ct; e( j a \ Utica, unmarried. Catharine m. Arthur rJreese f u t i C a. Cornelia died unmarried. Charles m. CatharineBrewer Sidney m. Joannah Holthuysen Edwin Jane m. Rev. William Thomas Helen Eliza m. Judge Smith Thompson Susan m. William Gumey Eliza m. Rev. George j5oyd fp Lila< i elpllio OUSan di(Mt nnmanied. George Henry 1 Da. of Rev. Benjamin Wells. *Da. of Dr. Peter Voss Crannel Tappan, of Pough- keepsie. 3 The same who married Sarah, da. of Gilbert Livingston. See page 178. 180 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. James Judith Newcomb 1 Catharine v Marsh ^J 1 } Beeckman Died at Syracuse. Oct 14 1753. county. Cornelia m. 1. Dr. Baltus Van Kleeck t j • , t 2 ; M -f J' Andrew Billings of Poughteepsie . Judith m. John Moore of NewLonion Lt.Gilbert James ^i 25, } Susannah Lewis Resided at Poughkeepsie. Died at Rome, Oneida CO., April 7, 1833, " Feb. 28, 1779. Susan m. Dr. Thomas Groodsell 2 of Utica Maria m. John Watts Cady of Jota3town . Member of congress in 1824 and >25 Cornelia m. 1. Joseph P. Rossiter 3 Resided at Water. o "Pn^-tT- 1own,Jeff.co.N.Y. A - JT Urdy JOllli a i e d unmarried. XiODerT. Merchant at Cincinnati. Henry m. Hannah Huett William Feb. 28. 1779. Sept. 19, 1781. Feb 13, 1784. Sept. 4, 1785. Nov. 16 1787. resides near Ogdensburgh. Nov. 17. 1790 Jan 14 1793. Oct. 28, 1795. Sept. 31. 1798. ' Dec. 26, 1800. 1 Da. of Adonijah Newcomb, of Dutchess county. a Dr. Goodsell, professor of the Berkshire Medical College, Pittsfield, Mass. He was the first person who introduced the celebrated Merino sheep into the state of New York, west of the Hudson river ; this was in 1806. James m. Alida Aursin ofBath; opposite AlbanT . Kichard Lewis dieaMay3jl791 . John Moore diedNoT23>179 .3 } Judith m. Sam'l Butler of Utica , June 21 , 180B . Removed to Columbus. Ohio. } Franklin m. Deborah Tripp 111 Wayne county, Michigan. } Philip Cortlandt 4 {Charles m. Jane Rynerse of Troy. J } Maria m. Wm. Hollister . _. of Rome, Oneida co., N. Y. } Robert diedyoun? . } Cornelia m. Orwell Dibble Resided at Detroit. ' Mr. Rossiter was drowned at Detroit, while bath- ing. Philip Cortlandt Livingston was a midshipman on board the Chesapeake during the last war, and was killed in the action with the Shannon, June 1, 1813, aged 22. LIVINGSTON. 181 \ 1088 . ROBERT Margaret Howerden Margaret Beekman 8 Died at Clermont, June, 1300. Col.HenryB. of the revolution m4 Janet m. Gen.Rich.Montgomery 1750 . No children. 1749 . Margaret m. Dr. Thos. Tilletson 5 of MRiyland . Died al Rhinebeck in 1523 Gertrude m. Gov. Morgan Lewis Died 1P33. Died at New York, April, 1844. Alida m. Gen. John Armstrong Died Dec. 25, 1922. Died al Redhook, 1843. 1760 . Joannah m. Peter R. Livingston 6 No children Died January. l g -17. 1752. Catharine m. Rev. Freeborn Garretson Resided near Rhinebeck. )747 Robert R. 7 Mary Stevens 8 Bom in N. Y. my Chiincellor Died at Clermont, Feb 25, 1813. Elizabeth S. m. Edward P. Livingston 8 Margaret M.m. Robert L. Livingston 10 AnnHornShippen 4 of Philadelphia. Margaret B. Residei at Philadelphia. 1 Robert R. Livingston was a justice of the supreme court of the colony of New York, and member of the stamp act congress. 2 Da. of Col. Henry Beekman and Janet Livingston. See pages 78 and 183. 'Col. Henry Beekman Livingston was in the army during the revolution He was attorney-general, judge and chief justice of the state of New York, and gene- ral in the U. S. army ir. the war of 1812, and presi- dent of the society of Cincinnati. * Ann Horn Shippen was neice of Henry Lee, pre- sident of congress. 6 Dr. Thomas Tilletson was an officer in the revo- lution, and subsequently secretary of state of the state of New York. 6 Son of Robert James Livingston, see page 183. 7 See note at the end of the tables. 8 Da. of John Stevens, of New Jersey. ' Son of Philip P. Livingston. See page 173. 10 See page 166 for descendants. The reference on that page is incorrect ; it should be page 181. 182 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. 1754. John R. m. 1. Margaret Sheafee 1 Resided al Red Hook. 2. Eliza McEvers & ~.v.. ~.~ 1779. of Huston. No children. Hon. Edward 3 m. 1. Mary McEvers Robert Montgomery m. Sarah Bache 4 Angelica d]e( | u „ m! , r ried, wis. Edward m. Sarah Suckley 5 John R. m. Mary McEvers" l^narJeS died unmarried. Serena m. Col. George Croghan of , he u. s. amy. Eliza m. Capt. Benjamin Page oftheU . s.navy. Margaret m. Capt. Lownds Brown oftheU . s . arr , Mayor of New York. Died at ReiliMioli. May S3, 1 C 3G. 2. Louisa D'Avezac 3 Coralie m. Thomas P. Barton of Philadelphia. 'When Lord Piercey was in Boston, meeting there the younger brother of Margaret Sheafee, he took a fancy to him, and desiring to take him to England to educate him, he was permitted to do so, and he be- came Gen. Sheafee, who commanded a British force on the Niagara frontier, during our last war with England ! * Edward Livingston had three children by Mary McEvers, Charles, Lewis, and Julia, all of whom died young. He was mayor of New Yoik, member of congress, U. S. senator from Louisiana, secretary of state of the United States, and minister to France. 3 Sister of Major D'Avezac, aids-de-camp to Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Orleans. 4 Miss Bache, granddaughter of Leonard Lispenard of New York. 6 Da. of George Suckley, of New York. "Mary, da. of Charles McEvers, of New York. LIVINGSTON. 183 ROBERT 1 Mavgaretta Schuyler 2 1697, married at Albany. 1636, emigrat ed to America. im Janet m. Col. Henry Beekman 3 ofEhiuebeck . Died 1724. Angelica m. Johannes Van Rensselaer* of Greenbash) Jan 1734. X leter baptised 1706. Going out to purchase fur of the Indians, he was murdered by them in his encampment, near where Geneva now mi is, at the foot of Seneca lake. Thomas James Elizabeth Kierstede Margaret m. Peter R. Livingston 5 Janet m. William femltll jT ewas appointed chiefja«t:ce ofUpper and T.ower Canada in 1786; and is the author of the history of New York, published under the direction of the New York Historical Society, 183U. lie died Dee. 3, 1793. Elizabeth Mary- Dec 24, i72D. Robert James Susan Smith 6 born Sept u , 1747. Mary m. 1. Dr. Gabriel Maturin of , he Brilisu army . 2. Dr. Jonathan Mallet of the Brhiih „ mT . Dec. 29, 1749. «3tll"S u j el ] unmarried. Sept. 14, 1751. i^llZaDetn died young. Robert James rtieJ „„ m!inie a. Susannah m. Rev. Francis Armstrong of the „. s . A . 1789 . Elizabeth Robert James Peter R. m. Joannah Livingston 7 of Rhiiielieck. No children. Maturin Margaret Lewis 8 ofN.Y. V _ J June 7, 1748. Aug. 29, 1757 July 30, 1758 Oct. 6, 1753. Nov. 5, 1709. April 10, 1766. April 10,1769. Morgan L. m. Catharine Manning ofNY . Julia m. Maj. Joseph Delafield of N . Y . Alfred Gertrude m. Rawlins Lownds ot CaroU i,». Mortimer m. Sylvia De Pau Mary m. William P. Lownds Robert m. Louisa Storm Lewis m. Julia Boggs Maturin Angelica m. Alexander Hamilton Henry B. m. Mary L. Livingston 9 Geraldine m. Lydig Hoyt • See races 159 and 161. 7 Da - of ^^ R - Li«ngston and Margaret Beekman. «Da. of Col. Pieter Schuyler. Seepage] n' \t T • r A r ,u . c nQ 8 Da. of Gov. Morcan Lewis, founder of the com- 3 See page 7H. . i <■ tvt v 1 •Seepage 44 for descendants. mon schools of Netv York. 6 Son of Robert Livingston. See page 163. 9 Da. of John Swift Livingston. See page 169. 'Sister to Chief Justice Smith, of Canada, who married her husband's sister Janet. 184 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Aug. 27, 1755. William S. Catharine Lott Resided in Broad, way, New York. 2. Catharine R. Kissam Caroline m. George Davidson oftheBrilishanny Louisa m. Archibald Turner 1 ofNewaikNJ W llliam. ,ji ed unmarr ; e (i j n England. Francis A. 1. Emma Kissam 2 Resided '-i N V. y Francis A. m. Sarah J. Arden of New York. of New York. Maria m. John Mason Knox of New York. William S. Susan Armstrong 1 Cornelia m. John L. H. McCracken of New York. Emma m. Rev. Joseph Few Smith of Auburn. Frances 'Archibald Turner had a son named Alfred Living- ston Turner, now residing in New Jersey, who pass- ing the early part of his life with Peter E. Livingston, at his request changed his name to Alfred Smith Livingston. 2 Da. of Dr. Benjamin Kissam, of New York. 3 Da. of Robert Armstrong, and granddaughter of the Rev. Francis Armstrong, who married Susannah Livingston. See page 183. LIVINGSTON. 185 ^ 1709 . John Resided at Montreal, Cana- da. After the revolution he re- moved to Still- water, N.Y. Catharine Ten Broeck 1 Margaret m. Edward Chinn of ciaveract Resided at Albany. Janet m. Jacob Van der Heyden 0[AaaD7 . Catharine m. Dr. Elias Willard of ^,0^ Resided at Albany. 1761. J-'laria fc e ^ unmarried, aged 78. Nancy m. Jacob Jordan residedatMontreah Elizabeth JtvO Dert d i ec j in ih e West Indies, unmarried. SimpSOn Col. JameS resided at West Indians. of Montreal, V ^~~ J Canada. Elizabeth m. Peter Smith of Pet erboro'. John Jane Van Vechten Resided at Peterboro'. lYiary di e( i unmarried. Margaret C. m. Daniel Cady of j0 hnstown. Catharine T. B. m. Henry Breevort Henry Resides at Fonda of New York. Elizabeth m. Abraham Livingston 3 Abraham m. Elizabeth Livingston v&n y echten m . Sarah Clark J ameS res ides at Chautauque. of Utica. of Utica. Ann Maria Fonda Maria and others. ' Da. of Gen. Ten Broeck. * Col. James Livingston was colonel of the regiment of Canadian refugees, who originally went from the states to Canada, and returned on the breaking out of the revolution, and who were organized into a regiment about the time of the invasion of Canada, by Gen. 24 Montgomery, accompanying him in that expedition, and participating in the memorable attack on Quebec ! He was within a few feet of that officer when he fell. He was also at the battle of Stillwater. * Son of Col. James Livingston. * Da. of John Livingston. 186 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. 1754 Capt. Abraham 1 1764- Maria Peoples Resided at Montreal. 1803, died. of Half Moon. Col. Edw'd C. Martha Nelson ^ Richard M Lawyer Sarah Jacobs tres. Elizabeth m. Ruggles Hubbard i7S7. Angelica diedyoung ° roy - 1789. Catharine m. Samuel Mather resides at Middletown, Conn. I79L Rosannahm. Philip P. Schuyler of Rhinebeck, Dutchess co. 1793 Capt. John P. 2 m. Sarah Blood No children. Resides at Stillwater. 1795, Maria m. James O'Donnell of Stillwater. Jane m. Edwin Williams -Ur. J ameS of Columbus, Ohio. Edward Other issue. 1798. 1800. Thomas drowned, aged 9 of Middletown, Conn. Mary m. Rev. Mr. Olmstead resides at Chelsea, Boston. Richard Montgomery- resides at St. Louis. George James Monroe Howard De Witt Clinton Edward Mortimer Cortlandt ' Capt. Abraham Livingston also attached to the regiment of Canadian refugees with his two brothers, accompanied it in the invasion of Canada, and in the attack on Quebec. He was also at the battles of Still- water and Monmouth, during the revolution. After the war he removed and settled at Stillwater, near the old battle ground. 2 John P. Livingston was first commissioned second lieutenant, in the war of 1812, and in this capacity- served at the capture of Fort George, Upper Canada; he was then appointed adjutant of the regiment, which commission he held till the close of the war. He was at the battle of La Cole Mills, in Lower Canada ; also in the sanguinary engagement at Lundy's Lane, and at the seige of Fort Erie, where he assisted in repell- ing the assault on the night of the 15th August, 1815; and in the sortie at that place on the 17th of Septem- ber, he acted in the capacity of brigade-major of the column commanded by Col. Brook; at the close of the war he was breveted captain. He accompanied the Yellow Stone expedition in 1S19, commanded by Col. Atkinson, and while there received the full commission of captain in the line, and at Council Bluffs resigned and retired to private life. LIVINGSTON. 187 Lt.-Col. Richard 1 Born 1743. Resided at Mont- real. Died March, 178S. 1740. Elizabeth Rencour of Montreal, Canada. Died 1796. Elizabeth diedyoung . \ Capt. John } a'S.t ^S^ M, F n S 4 15 ' } Stephen M m" 3 ' } Richard Mrs. Charlotte Bush 3 jJfSSS^ Born at Montreal \ / Fullon ' Resides at Low- Y J N. Y ville, Lewis co„ N. Y. 2. Mrs. John Buzzad 2 1. Maria Hartshorn June 23, 1799. John m. Nancy Standing 1S35 resides at Lowville, Lewis county, N. Y. Aug. as, 1803. Stephen m. Anna Belc her { s ^ 3 - Tesides at Lowville. died Oct 6. 1843. Jan. 20,1600. Richard Montgomery m. Anice Humphrey 0ct . 20) 1829 . April 3, isi3. HenrietteE. juiy i7, wis. Permelia m. Otis Searl removed to Ohio. June 6, 1849. Nov. 2, 1820. Margaret m. Wilson Phelps Oct. 3, ISIS sept. 3o, 1822. Edward 4 m. Phoebe Amanda Curtiss Sepl 6 , j 9 4d sept. 3o, 1822. Edwin 4 m. Adaline Stoddard Sept 28, 1*17. lawyer in N Y. Rensselaer m. Catharine Cronk resides at Johnstown. Eliza m. Charles W. Lynde of BroollTn Margaret C. in. John H. Murray of Johnstown. Jane A. m. Edward H. Owen John S. m. Susan resides at .Micanopy, Florida. Maria m. Edward Wells cashier of the Montgomery County Bank, at Johnstown. William H. m. Mary Beekley resides at New York Alfred m. Martha Gillespie resides at New Orleans. Daniel C. m. Sarah Margaret Stewart resides at Johnstown. Edward Willard Selah Otis died young Selah Otis Charles Montgomery resides at New York. 'Lt.-Col. Richard Livingston also belonged to the 2 Maiden name Eleonora Niver, da. of John Niver, regiment commanded by his brother, and was at the of Livingston manor, Columbia county. battle of Quebec. After his return from that place, 3 Maiden name Charlotte Peck. he was also at the battle of Saratoga, and surrender 4r ,, j j t?j • Edward and Jidwin were twins. of Burgoyne. 188 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. JAMES 1 resided on the Hudson river. Elizabeth m. Baltz John Lasher Samuel Jacob resided near Copake lake, Columbia Co., N. Y. Sarah House fcamuel Born near SandIake Resided at Cobleskill. Peter and Catharine Sarah m. James Guernsey- Maria m. Samuel Livingston 3 James John J. Lena Palmateer of Schoharie county . resides at * Owego, Tioga co. Jacob Sarah Van Kleeck Sarah m. Matthew Spohr. No issue. Catharine m. Benj. Borst of Schoharie . Anna m. 1. Wilhelmus Posson 2. John Jost Haveley Mary m. Isaac Vantyle Hannah m. Zenas Case Christina m. David Young Jacob m. Mary Buckhout moved to Indiana. John m. Rhoda Smith William m. Elizabeth Young resides at Owego. James and Cornelius Michael m. Dinah Wolfe Peter Christina Becker Catharine m. William Wetmore resides iu Broome county. JOnn lawyer in New York. Pftpr x cici m Owego. Margaret m. Camp Hannah of0wego . 1 James had other daughters, whose names I have not ascertained. This is the James Livingston re- ferredto page 162. of Schoharie. Sarah Harriet m. Jacob Stevens Hannah m. Cornelius Kane Catharine m. John Lord Ruth m. Solomon Swadlen of t^, Nancy m. Abraham Brizee Elizabeth m. Isaac Dickinson Jane m. William Watson Hugo m. Levina Dickenson Jacob m. Susan Guernsey- John m. Helen Brizee Stephen m. Sophia Vice Ahasuerus m. Margaret Varney Burton and Thomas 1 Son of William Livingston. See page 189. LIVINGSTON. Ig9 William Elizabeth Duyckman resided at Cobleskill. Catharine m. James Woodcock Lydia m. Ezekiel Van der Bogaert Elizabeth m. Adam Segur Harriet m. Philo Doren Ezekiel m. Margaret Grillet m0Tedwest . Cornelius m. Elizabeth Simmons 1783 . James m. Matilda Nathaway fanner at Schoharie. John m. Lynda Nathaway Derrick m. Susan Edwards resided at Richmondville. Samuel m. Maria Livingston 1 William m. Elizabeth Palmateer resides in Carlisle, N. V. Da. of Jacob Livingston. See page 188. 190 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. NOTE TO PAGE 163. 3 Philip Livingston, second proprietor of the manor of Livingston, was born at Albany in 1686, spending there a considerable part of his life, being at one time connected with its municipal government. He was for some time, deputy-secretary of Indian affairs under his father, being on his resignation in 1722, appointed agent in his place. He was as early as 1709, elected member of assembly from the city and county of Albany, and in 1710 he appears to have been at the capture of Port Royal.* He subsequently bore the rank of colonel in the provincial forces. He was, in October, 1725, appointed a member of the council, which office he retained through life; and in 1737, was also appointed one of the commissioners to run the boundary line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, and presided in the board. t He died in the city of New York, in February, 1749. The following description of the funeral rites maybe interesting to his descendants. They were performed both in New York and at his residence on the manor of Livingston. "In the city the lower rooms of most of the houses in Broad street, where he resided, were thrown open to receive the visitors. A pipe of wine was spiced for the occasion, and to each of the eight bearers, with a pair of gloves, mourning ring, scarf and hand- kerchief, a monkey spoont was given. At the manor the whole ceremony was repeated, another pipe of wine was spiced, and besides the same presents to the bearers, a pair of black gloves and a handkerchief were given to each of the tenants." The whole expenses were said to amount to £500 !§ NOTE TO PAGE 172. 'Philip Livingston was born at Albany, January 15, 1716, and was graduated at Yale college, in 1737. He first embarked in mercantile pursuits, accumulating a considerable fortune, but his superior abilities soon brought him into a more elevated sphere of action. Being first elected an alderman of the city of New York, in September, 1754, he was afterwards appointed to various important trusts under the colonial government, becoming on the breaking out of the revolution, a warm advocate of the prerogatives of the people ! He par- ticipated in the deliberations of the first congress assembled at Philadelphia, on the 5th of September, 1774, being appointed on a committee by that body, to prepare an address to the people of Great Britain. He was also a delegate to the second congress, which assembled in 1775. Having full power to confer with the dele- gates of other colonies upon measures to be adopted for securing and preserving American rights and privileges. He was also a member of the memorable congress of 1776, affixing, as is well known, his signature to the "Declaration of Independence." On the 15th of the same month this congress appointed him to the highly responsible trusts of officiating as a member of the board of treasury, and on the 29th of April following, also as a member of the marine committee. He as well as his colleagues must have been highly gratified to receive on his reelection as a delegate to con- gress by the state convention, on the 13th of May, 1777, the thanks of the last mentioned body, for their long and faithful services to the colony and state of New York. Being after this very active in the service of his native state, he assisted in framing the first constitution which she ever enjoyed, being also appointed one of the first senators under it after its adoption. He was also a delegate to congress under the new constitution, in October, 1777, taking his seat in that body in May, 1778, but never surviving to see his country's independence established ; his decease occurring at York, Pennsylvania, on the 12th of June following. I can not refrain, out of regard to the memory of this distinguished patriot noticing that just previous to his decease he sold part of Ins property to sustain the public credit, thereby fulfiW his promise to defend with his life and fortune, the immortal instrument to which he had affixed his signiitos. * Haliburton's Nova Scotia, vol. i, page 88. which was camJ v. ™rj . ... . „ „ , 7 ' as carTed *" sohdo > at lh e extremity of the handle.»-S«i?ewtc4>» t Belknap's New Hampshire, vol. ii, page 112. Life of William Livingston, page 64 t " This spoon differed from the common spoon, in having a circular and * The extravagence of funerals was one of the abases William Livingston very shallow bowl, and took its name from the figure of an ape or monkey attacked in his paper, entitled The Independent Reflector. See page 192. LIVINGSTON. 191 NOTE TO PAGE 175. 1 Henry Beockholst Livingston was born at New York, on the 26th of November, 1757, being graduated at Princeton college in 1774. Entering the army early in the summer of 1776, before arriving at the age of twenty, with the grade of captain, he was soon after selected by Gen. Schuyler as one of his aids, accompany- ing him in his northern campaign with the rank of major. Upon Schuyler's departure he became aid to Gen. St. Clair, participating in this capacity in the siege of Ticonderoga. Being restored, however, in Sep- tember, 1777, to his former position of aid to Gen. Schuyler, while the latter was absent in Albany, receiving an invitation from Gen. Arnold to pay him a visit, he joined him on the 9th inst., and being hourly in expec- tation of a battle, he joined the army as a volunteer, participating, on the 19th of September, in the memo- rable conflict at Stillwater. We find him, shortly afterwards, again joining Gen. Schuyler as his aid. After remaining for a short time at Philadelphia, he was induced, on the appointment of his brother-in-law, John Jay, as minister plenipotentiary to Spain, to accompany him as his private secretary. Receiving October, 1779, a furlough from congress for twelve months, he in connexion with his distinguished relative, took passage in the frigate " Confederacy," on this ever to be remembered mission. Being captured on his voyage home, in 1782, by a British cruiser, he was carried to New York, but was liberated on the arrival of Sir Guy Carle- ton, in the month of May following. Soon after this we find him at Albany, engaged in quite a different sphere, that of reading law in the office of Mr. Peter Yates, at Albany, and commencing in November, 1783, after the evacuation of New York, the practice of law in that city. He became eminent in his profession. In January, 1802, he officiated for the first time as puisne judge in the Supreme Court of the state of New York, and in 1807 was appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to fill the place of William Patterson deceased, which he retained till his death, which occurred at Washington, while attend- ing in his judicial capacity, on the 10th of March, 1823. About the time of the commencement of his profes- sional career, dropping his first Christian name, he became almost entirely known as Brockholst Livingston. NOTE TO PAGE 181. 7 Robert R. Livingston was born in 1747, in the city of New York, and was graduated at King's (now Columbia) college. Studying law with his relative, William Livingston, the governor of New Jersey, he was admitted to the bar in October, 1773, becoming soon after recorder of his native city. In April, 1775, he was elected a member of the second continental congress, but did not attend the sessions of that body until the spring of the next year. After taking his seat, he was, in June, placed upon the committee appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence, being prevented, from signing that document, by absence. In 1780 we find him again returned by New York, a member of the national legislature. He was appointed, in August, 1781 secretary of foreign affairs, and nearly two years after, chancellor of the state of New York. He was a member, in 1788, of the state convention which assembled at Pougbkeepsie to decide upon the adoption of the constitution. He has the honor of having administered, upon his inauguration as president, the consti- tutional oath of office to Washington. In 1801 he went out as minister to the court of France, and was one of the commissioners who negociated the purchase of Louisiana. He died at his seat at Clermont, on the Hudson river, the 26th of February, 1813. He was eminent in his profession, having a fine literary taste, as well as great fondness for agriculture and its kindred pursuits. WILLIAM LIVINGSTON. William Livingston, 1 governor of New Jersey, was born at Albany, in the province of New York, November, 1723. He remained at that place under the protection of his maternal grandmother, Mrs. Sarah Van Brugh, until about 14 years of age, when he resided a year among the Mohawks, becoming acquainted with their language, manners and customs. He had, at this period of his life, a strong passion for the fine arts, desiring to visit Italy, to study the works of the great masters, in which case he might possibly have been an artist instead of a governor and statesman. As it was, entering Yale college as a freshman, he was graduated at the head of his class in 1741, and almost immediately after commenced the study of law in the office of Mr. James Alexander, a Scotch gentleman, who came over to New York in 1715, becoming eminent in his profession. He entered the society of the Middle Temple for the purpose of prosecuting the study of his profession in England, in 1742 ; our early colonies considering no education complete, unless derived from the mother country; but he afterwards abandoned the idea. He was admitted to the bar on the 14th of October, 1748. Being authorized, together with William Smith, Jr., by act of assembly, passed November, 1750, to digest and prepare for publication in a huge folio, the laws of the province extending from 1691 to 1751, then in force, for which they received as a compensation from the legislature, .£280. This, the first publication of the laws of this state, was superseded in 1773 by that of Mr. Van Schaack, which has also given place to subsequent revisions. Mr. Livingston established the first periodical in the state of New York, designed to be independent of party, to attack the abuses of the age in which he lived, and to benefit the masses, entitled The Independent Reflector, the first number of which appeared on the 30th of November, 1752. He was also in June, 1754, in connection with Mr. Murray, Mr. Smith and Mr. Nicoll, employed on the part of his native province, with commissioners appointed by Mas- sachusetts, to adjust the boundary line between these two provinces, being also em- ployed a few years afterwards, for a similar purpose with New Jersey. He also became conspicuous in the memorable controversy attending the founding of King's (now Columbia) college, in the city of New York. It seems that the sum of £3,443, raised by successive lotteries, was vested in 1751, in ten trustees, seven episcopalians, two 1 See page 174, reference 1, of table. LIVINGSTON. 193 Dutch, and one English preshyterian, for the purpose of founding a college in that city; and the controversy alluded to was occasioned by the episcopalians, who, it will be seen, composed the majority of the above trustees, endeavoring to get control of it. Mr. Livingston, who alone represented the English presbyterian party, showed him- self in this contest a staunch republican, assailing them with great power through the Independent Reflector, while they replied through the New York Mercury. The truth is, Mr. Livingston manifested through life, implacable hostilily to the pomp and cere- mony of the church of England, much preferring the simplicity of the primitive worship. He, in connection with his brother Philip, his brother-in-law Mr. Alexander (after- wards, by courtesy, Lord Sterling), and a few other gentlemen, in March, 1754. 1754, became instrumental in establishing the well known library in the city society Library of New York, known as the " Society Library." The result of the contro- roanded in New verg y ^^ th e episcopalians, became in a few years apparent. In the elec- tion for members of assembly in February, 1759, we find him, in connection with three other members of the family from different districts, returned from his brother's manor in that capacity. In this election the De Lancey or High Church party, as it was denominated, was overthrown. He was immediately appointed, on the organization of the house, to prepare an answer to the governor's address, congratulating it on the subjugation of Fort Du Quesne, and recommending various measures to be adopted for the further prosecu- tion of the war; and was also, together with his brother Philip and others, appointed on a committee to carry out the recommendation. He, together with Mr. Smith, was authorised by an act of this assembly to digest all the colonial laws passed subsequent to November, 1751, which was completed in 1762. A few years before the com- mencement of the revolution, Mr. Livingston advocated strongly the prerogatives of the people, opposing the stamp act, as is evident from the Sentinel, a paper commenced on the 28th of February, 1765, and published in Holt's Neio York Weekly Post 1767. Boy. 1 But the contest with the episcopalians was not yet terminated. In the effort which they made to engraft, just previous to the revolution, a church establishment upon our institutions, Mr. Livingston, again entering the field, opposed them through the public press and otherwise with his unrivalled powers of argument and sarcasm. Among his productions at this time, may be mentioned his famous reply to John, lord bishop of Llandaff, comparable in sentiment to the celebrated speech of Barre, in parliament, being couched moreover in a high and independent tone of the most withering rebuke. 2 In truth this was but the commencement of a struggle 'See ibid article, entitled "A New Sermon to an sages in his lordship's sermon, on the 20th of Feb- Old Text," full of sarcasm and pith. ruary, 1767, in which the American colonies are load- ' See a letter to the Right Reverend father in God, ed with great and undeserved reproach. John, lord bishop of Llandaff, occasioned by some pas- 194 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. destined to disfranchise both our civil and ecclesiastical institutions from all connec- tion with the mother county, and to separate them from each other on this continent. It is to be hoped that the same spirit will prevail until the church shall be as it should be, entirely disenthralled from "all communion with the civil governments of the earth. We will merely observe that the lines between those two powerful parties in the province, known as the High Church and Whig parties, which may be considered the germ of the Tory and Whig parties of the revolution, became more distinctly drawn by reason of this discussion. Mr. Livingston, in 1760, purchased a farm at Elizabethtown, New Jersey, consisting at first of about eighty acres, but increased afterwards to one hundred and twenty; and removing to Elizabethtown, in May, 1772, he remained there until a dwelling was erected on his farm, which he designated by the prophetic appellation of "Liberty Hall," when he removed thither in the autumn of 1773, for the purpose of enjoying the repose and sweets of rural life. He was, however, destined to be disappointed. Being soon after disturbed in his retirement, as the storm of the revolution began to lower upon the horizon, by receiving information of his appointment, on the 11th of June, 1774, to represent the county of Essex on a committee of correspondence, those minor and subordinate wheels in the machinery of a popular government, to confer with the committees from other counties in the state, to choose delegates to the first continental congress, and on the 23d of July following, having assembled at New Brunswick, William Livingston, James Kinsey, John de Hart, Richard Smith, and Stephen Crane, the chairman of the meeting, were the delegates chosen. Mr. Livingston was on the committee appointed to prepare the address to the people of Great Britain, which, it will be recollected, was prepared by Mr. Jay ! He was also chosen by the assembly of New Jersey, a delegate to the second con- gress, which assembled on the 11th of May, 1775, in which capacity he served upon eleven committees during the year, among which may be mentioned the following: the one appointed on the 3d of June, comprising among its members Samuel Adams, John Adams, and Mr. Deane, to prepare an address to the people of Ireland, which was adopted on the 2Sth of July; the one appointed on the 13th of November, includ- ing Richard Henry Lee and Mr. Wilson, to answer " sundry illegal ministerial pro- clamations." One appointed on the 17th of the same month, embracing those intel- lectual giants, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin, with Mr. Wythe and others, to take into consideration the subject of naval prizes. He was also appointed on the standing committee to attend to the claims of applicants for offices in the army. Also together with Mr. Lynch, Mr. Deane, Mr. Wythe, and John Jay, on the one appointed on the 28th of the same month, to investigate and report on the popular feeling in the pro- vince of New York in reference to the impending struggle for independence. William LIVINGSTON. iqc Livingston, J. Rutledge, Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and Mr. Johnson, were ap- pointed to prepare a proclamation to be published by Gen. Washington, on his arrival at the camp before Boston, on the 23d of the same month. This document was adopted on the 6th of July following. Being also, together with Mr. De Hart, Mr. Smith, John Cooper, and Jonathan Dick- enson Sergeant, elected a delegate to the third continental congress, by the 1776. provincial congress of New Jersey, he was on the 20th of February, appointed a standing member of the common committee, and also of the one appointed on the 4th of March, together with Mr. Wilson, John Adams, Lewis Morris, and Mr. Tilghman, to take into consideration a memorial from the merchants of Montreal. Mr. Livingston introduced the resolution into the house on the 16th of March, recom- mending a national fast. He was also appointed chairman of two committees, ap- pointed on the 14th and 16th of May, of which John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were members, to take into consideration various letters. He, together with John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Richard Henry Lee and Roger Sherman, was also, on the 21st of the same month, appointed on a committee to prepare an address to the foreign mercenaries employed by England for the invasion of America, and also on another on the 5th of June following, to take into consideration the establishment of expresses for the rapid transmission of intelligence between the colonies. Having been appointed however, the December previous, by the provincial congress, a brigadier-general, he pro- ceeded the same day, with this last appointment, to assume command of the New Jersey militia, at Elizabethtown. It will be recollected that the British fleet about June 28. this time arriving off Staten Island, under the command of Sir William Howe, the province of New Jersey being considered in great danger, Gen. Hugh . Mercer, on the 6th of July, being detached from New York, to take command of the military station at Amboy, Livingston was restricted in his command to Elizabeth- town. The time was now approaching, however, when he was to be transferred from his various other military and congressional duties, to the executive chair of New Jersey. Being chosen on the 31st of August, 1776, governor of that province, in joint ballot of the assembly and legislative council, resigning his command at Elizabethtown, and repairing to Princeton, he was on the 7th of September following inaugurated into his office. His mansion at Elizabethtown was wantonly injured by the British Nov'r, during their memorable march through the province. Being the following 1777. year reelected governor, I cannot refrain from alluding to the highly interest- ing fact of there being a recommendation to the assembly of the abolition of slavery within its jurisdiction, in his address this year. But there is a more interest- ing fact still, of a different character, which must not be overlooked in this place, and that is the strong conviction on the minds of the most intelligent, and reflecting of 196 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. the interposition of Providence in behalf of our cause. This appears from a letter of Gov. Livingston to Henry Laurens, president of congress, dated Morristown, July 23, 1778, which it will he observed, was after the battle of Monmouth. It is as follows: " The miracles which Providence has wrought for us in our most distressed situation, display the most illustrious proofs of His supreme government of the world, and de- mand our most unfeigned gratitude for the continual and astonishing interposition of heaven in our behalf." Should not this beautiful truth be universally appreciated. Governor Livingston was with the provincial assembly at Princeton, at the time of this memorable battle, frequently convening in that town, sometimes in the building kept by Mr. Joline as a tavern in 1833; the dancing room in that building being also appropriated to the sittings of the court of chancery. He was reelected governor on the 31st of October, 1778, by thirty-one votes; his opposing candidate, Gen. Dickin- son, receiving seven. Gov. Livingston's instrumentality in opening negociations, about this time, with Holland, for the establishment of a mutual commerce between the two countries, 1 was acknowledged by Gen. Washington in a complimentary note. 2 He in connection with Thomas Jefferson, Mr. "Witherspoon, and Dr. Duffield, was chosen councillor of the American Philosophical Society, at its first annual election in January, 1781, and in October of the same year was reelected governor. He was also elected in January, 1782, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, at Cambridge, and in the autumn following again governor of New Jersey. He re- tired at the conclusion of the war, in April, 1783, to his farm at Elizabethtown, de- voting himself to his favorite pursuit, that of gardening. He was reelected governor on the 6th of November, 1783, by thirty-three out of thirty-four votes, and also the following year by thirty-eight out of forty-three votes; Gen. Dayton being his opposing candidate. Being nominated in January, 1785, by Mr. Gerry, in congress, one of the commissioners to superintend the construction of the federal buildings, he declined the nomination, and also declined his appointment by congress, on the 23d of June, 1785, to succeed John Adams as minister plenipotentiary to the Hague, owing to his advanced age. He was chosen, in the summer of 1785, an honorary member of the Philadelphia Society for the Promotion of Agriculture. His electionas governor, in October of this year, being by thirty-eight out of forty votes. It was mainly through his instrumentality, that this legislature passed on the 2d of March, 1786, the highly honorable act forbidding the importation of slaves; and setting in the follow- 1787. ing year a noble example, that of manumitting the only two slaves he had, with the resolution never to own another. He was reelected governor in October, 1786, by thirty-eight out of forty-six votes; Abraham Clark being his opposing candidate; and also a delegate to the federal convention which convened in 1787, and ' See his correspondence with the Baron Van der 2 See letter of Gen. Washington, dated Morristown, Capellen, of "Holland, in the year 177S. Dec. 7, 1779. LIVINGSTON. 197 again governor, in the following year, by an unanimous vote ; he was also elected in 1789. His decease took place on Sunday the 25th of July, 1790. Mr. Livingston's writings evince a lively imagination, often combined with sarcasm, making them exceedingly interesting. 1 He possessed great decision and independence of character, having a correct philosophy concerning religion and politics ! He was implacably opposed to hierarchies and monarchies; being fond of agriculture, and deriving great enjoyment from a family circle. He showed his singular veneration for the Supreme Being, by the motto which he substituted in place of the one already inscribed on his coat of arms. (See page 158). That motto, it will be remembered, was "Spero meliora" — "I hope for better things;" considering this as an imputa- tion on the goodness of God, as he had already as much as he deserved, and more too: he substituted in its place, "Autmors, aut vita decora," signifying that he desired either death or a life of virtue. 1 See essays under the titles of " The Sentinel," " Hortensius," " Scipio," and " Primitive Whig," in the New Jersey Gazette, during the years 1777-78. REV. JOHN H. LIVINGSTON, D. D., S. T. P. Rev. John H. Livingston, 1 D. D. S. T. P., was born at Poughkeepsie, in Dutchess county, province of New York, on the 30th of May, A. D. 1746. Receiving the rudi- ments of his education from the Rev. Chauncey Graham, at Fishkill, he was graduated at Yale College, in July, 1762. He commenced the study of law in the autumn of the same year, in the office of Bartholomew Crannel, Esq., of Poughkeepsie, where he remained till the close of the year 1764, when apprehending from the state of his health that he might be suffering from a pulmonary disease, which would soon prove fatal, he concluded to abandon his legal studies, his mind becoming seriously affected with religious subjects. However partially recovering his health, and determining to de- vote himself to the ministry, he embarked on the 12th of May, 1766, for Holland, to prosecute in some university in that country, his theological studies The Dutch church to which Mr. Livingston belonged, in this country, was at this time in a most melancholy condition, occasioned by those memorable parties, the Coetus and Conferentie, 1 growing out of a question referring to the recognition on its part, of the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the classis of Amsterdam, which must be re- garded, however, as only a part of the great struggle which was just commencing for the emancipation of both our civil and religious institutions, from the thraldom of European domination. Mr. Livingston hoped, while in Holland, to heal this grievious wound, that was thus festering the vitals of his favorite church, but he did not succeed. He was much beloved for his amiable qualities while pursuing his theological stu- dies in the University of Utrecht. Being called, in 1769, on the completion of the North Dutch church in the city of New York, to preside over its spiritual concerns, by the consistory of that city. Receiving a license from the classis of Amsterdam, he preached, at Hilversum, a village to the east of Amsterdam, on the 5th of June, 1769, his first sermon in the Dutch language, for the Rev. Mr. Van Issum, his examiner in the classis. 'See page 178. 1747, the Conferentie was organized in 1755, to op- 2 The Coetus was an assembly of ministers and P°se this body, owing to a proposition made by it in elders organized in 1737, for the purpose of exercising 1753, to have an independent classis — thus originating limited jurisdiction in the Dutch church, but subordi- this memorable schism, well nigh destroying the Dutch nate to the classis of Amsterdam, and which that body church in this country ! reluctantly sanctioned about ten years afterwards, in LIVINGSTON. 199 On the 16th of May, 1770, he received from the University of Utrecht, already men- tioned, the degree of doctor of theology, in the 24th year of his age; and on the 1st of June following, embarked at Helvetsluys, for England, where he remained a short time, making the acquaintance of the celebrated Hebrew scholar, the Rev. Dr. Benjamin Kennicott; after which, leaving Falmouth for New York, he arrived there on Sunday morning, the 3d of September following. His first sermon after his arrival, was preached from 1 Cor., i, 22, 23, 24, on the following sabbath, in the Middle Dutch church in Nassau street. A reconciliation between the Coetus and Conference, already referred to, was finally effected, through his efforts, by a convention which assembled in the city of New York, in the month of October, 1771. During the war, while the British occu- pied the city, most of his time was spent at Kingston and Albany, in the autumn of 1776, preaching at the latter place in connection with, the Rev. Dr. Westerlo. He was also, part of the time, at Linlithgow, on the manor of Livingston; and from 1781 to the close of the war, he was engaged in his ministerial duties at Poughkeepsie, his native place. He returned, immediately after this, to New York, taking charge of the congregation belonging to the Old Dutch church, in Garden street, being the only one that escaped injury during the war. He was appointed, in the month of October, 1784 by a convention which assembled in the city of New York for the purpose, a professor of theology, on a recommendation of the classis of Amsterdam. He was very assiduous in bringing about a harmony of feeling between the Dutch reformed, presbyterian, and the associate reformed churches, which bespeaks the nobleness of his character. The law making the ministers, elders, and deacons of the Dutch church, trustees for the same, passed the legislature in 1786, mainly through his agency. His health becoming impaired, by reason of his arduous ministerial labors, in the following summer, he concluded to transfer his residence during the sum- mers, to Flatbush, Long Island, his winters being spent in the city. He officiated as chairman of the committee appointed to prepare the psalms and liturgy of his church for publication. On the reorganization of the church, just after the revolution in this country, it became necessary to embody, in a succinct form, its constitution and form of government, as recognised by the synod of Dort, in 1618-19, and which was confirmed by the assembly, held at New York, in 1771-72; a committee being appointed for that purpose, Dr. Livingston was made a member of it. The work, on its completion, having received the sanction of the general synod, held at New York, October 10, 1792, being published under the title of " The Constitution of the Reformed Dutch Church in the United States of America," has undoubtedly contributed much towards consolidating and perpetuating this denomination of Christians in this country- 200 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. After holding a professorship of theology for over ten years, without performing its duties, he succeeded finally in establishing a theological school at Bedford, a little village about two miles from Brooklyn, on Long Island, which he denominated Divinity Hall, whit,her he removed in the spring of 1776, being in the meanwhile succeeded in his pastoral labors at New York, by the Rev. Mr. Abeel, of Philadelphia. Failing eventually, however, for the want of funds, in this enterprise, he returned to New York, in 1797, resuming there his ministerial labors. He was made a permanent professor of theology in 1804, and in 1809, was appointed a professor of theology, in Queen's College, at New Brunswick, New Jersey, first on a salary of seven hundred and fifty dollars, afterwards increased to fourteen hundred, refusing the presidency of the institution, which was offered to him at the same time. He removed thither on the 10th of October, 1810, to assume this responsible duty. The revision and publication of the psalms and hymns now used in the Dutch church, were made under his supervision. He was indefatigable in furnishing pious and talented young men for the ministry. He failed, for the want of funds, in his efforts ' to convert Queen's College into a theological institute. The celebrated institution known as Rufger's College, in New Jersey, so called in honor of a distinguished citi- zen of New York, is indebted to him for its endowment of a professorship of theology, and for its finally being placed upon a substantial basis. His life was one of con- tinued usefulness. He was a member of the Free School society of New York, of the United Domestic Missionary society, also of the Missionary society of the Reformed Dutch church, and " was one of the vice presidents of the United Foreign Missionary society. He gave a libera] support to the American Bible society, and also to that for ameliorating the condition of the Jews; being, however, opposed to the latter society's favorite scheme of planting a colony of converted Jews in this country. Soon after his return from Europe, in the commencement of his ministry, he was elected a member of the Society of the Hospital in New York. His manners were gentle, bland and dignified. He died at New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jan. 20, 1825. Retiring to rest, the night previous, without complaining of indisposition, he was found next morning reposing in death! One of his grandchildren called to him, "Grandpa, it is 8 o'clock," but there was no response nor sign of his awaking ! 1 See letter of his dated July 24, 1823, directed to published in the magazine of the Reformed Dutch the president of the society, Peter Wilson, L. L. D., church of that year. LAWRENCE. The first ancestor of this family of which we have any knowledge, was Sir Robert Laurens, 1 of Ashton Hall, in Lancastershire, England. It was this individual who accompanied Richard Coeur de Leon in his famous expedition to Palestine, and who signalized himself in the memorable seige of St. Jean d'Acre, in 1191, by being the first to plant the banner of the cross on the battlements of that town, for which he received the honors of knighthood from King Richard, and also a coat of arms 2 at the same time. After this the family became eminent in England, so much so, that Sir John Lawrence, the ninth in lineal descent from the above Sir Robert Laurens, pos- sessed thirty^four manors, the revenue of which amounted, in 1491, to .£6,000 sterling per annum. Having however, killed a gentleman usher of King Henry VII, he was outlawed, and died an exile in France, issueless, when Ashton Hall and his other estates passed by royal decree to his relatives, Lords Monteagle and Gerard. We might also mention in this place, Henry Lawrence, one of the patentees of land on the Connecticut river, granted in 1635, and who with Lords Say, Seal, and Brook, Sir Arthur Hasselrigg, Richard Saltonstall, George Fenwick, and Henry Darley, commissioned John Winthrop, Jr., as governor over this territory, with the follow- ing instructions: "To provide able men for making fortifications and building houses at the mouth of the Connecticut river, and the harbor adjoining; first for their own present accommodation, and then such houses as may receive men of quality, which latter houses we would have to be builded within the fort." This was the same ex- pedition in which Lion Gardiner was appointed chief engineer. 3 The above individu- als intended to accompany John Winthrop, Jr., to America, but were prevented by a decree of Charles I. 'It may perhaps be interesting to this family to 'This coat of arms is still preserved, impressed on know that there is a marriage between a grandson of the seal appended to the will of William Lawrence, this gentleman and the Washington family. Sir 1680, and also to the will of Richard Lawrence, 1711, James Laurens and Matilda Washington, in the reign preserved in the surrogate's office, New York city, of Henry III. ' See page 57. 26 9ft „ AMERICAN GENEALOGY. The above Henry Lawrence, was of some considerable distinction in England, during Cromwell's time. He was born in the year 1600, entered a fellow commoner at Emanuel College, Cambridge, 1622, retired to Holland to escape the persecution of bishops and their courts, was member of parliament for Westmoreland in 1641, but withdrew when the life of the king began to be in jeopardy from the indepen- dants. 1 In 1646, he published at Amsterdam, his book entitled, "Book of our Com- munion and Warre with Angels," and a " Treatise on Baptism," the same year. He married Amy, daughter of Sir Edward Peyton, Bart., of Iselham in Cambridgeshire. He leased his estates at St. Ives, from the year 1631 to 1636, to Oliver Cromwell, to whom he was second cousin. He was twice returned as member of parliament for Hertfordshire, in 1653 and 1654; and once for Colchesterborough in Essex, in 1656; his son Henry representing Caernarvonshire the same year.' He was president of the council in 1656, and gazetted as "lord of the other house," in December, 1657. He proclaimed after the death of Cromwell, his son Richard as his successor. In a Harlaem manuscript,. No. 1460, there is a drawing of all the ensigns and trophies won in battle by Oliver, which is dedicated to his councillors, and ornamented with their arms ; amongst these are those of Henry Lawrence, the lord president. The motto, " Nil Admirari," appears to have been assumed by the president during the revolutionary troubles, probably on his being made a councillor. 2 A picture of the president is inserted in Clarendon's history of the rebellion. His grave stone, not yet effaced, is in the chapel of St. Margarets, alias Thele, in Hertfordshire. There maybe clearly traced on it the arms, viz : a cross, raguly gules, the crest, a fish's tail or demi dolphin. 3 While the Dutch were prosecuting their settlements on Long Island and in New York, English settlers slowly infused themselves among the Dutch population of the island; among which were three brothers, John, William, and Thomas Lawrence, ancestors of a numerous and enterprising family in this country. These three brothers, as well as the above Henry Lawrence, were all descended from John Lawrence, who died in 1538, and was buried in the Abbey of Ramsay. 1 In a curious old pamphlet printed in the year 1660, came into play again, and contributed much to the entitled " The mystery of the good old cause, briefly setting up of the Protector; for which worthy service, unfolded in a catalogue of the members of the late he was made and continued Lord President of the Long Parliament that held office both civil and mili- Protector's Council, being also one of the Lords of tary,' contrary to the self denying audience," is the the other house." following passage : " Henry Lawrence, a member of 2 g ee noteg t0 Bligs> Edition of Wood's Ath. Lex., the Long Parliament, fell off at the murder of his vo |_ 2 pace 63. maiesty, for which the Protector, with great zeal, de- 3x1., j- , 1 1 , • o,. ^. ,.,-, , , , , . . •",.', A letter directed bv him to Sir Simon d'Ewes, is clared that a neutral spirit was more to be abhorred , , . , „ ", , , , ,. . . , , , , sealed with a small red seal, cross raeulv miles, the than a cavalier spirit, and that such men as he, were , r . . , _. , , , lCli , ,. , , , ,<-,, same crest > an d a Lion in the Chief as borne by the not fat to be used in such a day as that, when God o. t r -i 1 .... , , . t>t. Ives family, was cutting down kingship root and branch. Yet he LAWRENCE. 203 JOHN LAWRENCE. John Lawrence, the eldest of the three brothers mentioned above, who emigrated to this country, was born at Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England, in 1618, coming over in the ship Planter, N. Travis, master, in company with Gov. "Winthrop, Jr., and landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1635. He removed from thence to Ipswich, where after residing some time, he removed to Long Island. He became, in 1644, one of the patentees of Hempstead, on that island, under grant from the Dutch gover- nor, Kieft. He was also in 1645, one of the patentees of Flushing, on the same island, under grant from the same governor. Removing in 1658, from Long Island, he settled permanently at New Amsterdam. In 1663 we find him appointed by Gov. Stuyvesant, one of the commissioners to treat with the general court at Hartford, in relation to the boundaries between New England and the Dutch provinces. He was appointed, in 1665, one of the first aldermen of New York, on its incorporation under Nicolls, the first English governor after the conquest. He was also appointed, in 1672, mayor of the city of New York, and in 1674 one of his majesty's council, in which office he continued, by successive appointments, till 1698. He was again appointed mayor, in 1691, and in 1692 judge of the supreme court, in which office he remained till his death in 1699. FAMILY OF JOHN LAWRENCE, WHO EMIGRATED TO PLYMOUTH IN 1635. John Lawrence Susannah 1618. BoiU in Great St. Albany Bert, fordshire, England. Emigrated to Plymouth, Mass. 1635, J OSepn died. One daaghter, died young. John m. Mrs. Thomas Willett 1 No children. 1 homaS died unmarried. Susannah m. 1. Gabriel Minvielle 2 no children. 2. William Smith 3 Maftha m. Thomas Snawsell 3 No children. Mary m. William Whittingham 4 Died in London. The only descendants of this branch are the Whittinghams; the males are extinct. •Maiden name Sarah Cornell. Thomas Willett s One of the aldermen of New York, was the first mayor of New York. « A graduate of Harvard University. 9 One of the council of the province, and mayor of the city of New York. 204 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. WILLIAM LAWRENCE. William Lawrence, the second brother, was born at Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire, in 16^3, England. He embarked, together with his brother John, in the ship Planter, in 1635, for America. He was, in 1645, in the 22dyear of his age, associated with him as one of the patentees of Flushing, on Long Island, in which town he resided during the remainder of his life. His correspondence during the years 1642-3, with Gov. Stuyvesant, may be found among the archives at Albany. He was the largest landed proprietor at Flushing, and seems to have been a gentleman of affluence; his sword, plate, and personals alone, being valued at .£4,430 sterling. 1 He was a magistrate under the Dutch government at Flushing, in 1655, and also held, under the English government, a military commission. He was also in the magistracy of the north riding of Yorkshire, on Long Island. FAMILY OF WILLIAM LAWRENCE, WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA IN 1635. By his first wife — Elizabeth m. Thomas Stevenson, of Newtown, Long Island, 1672. William m. Deborah Smith. Descendants given in the table. John m. Elizabeth . Descendants given in the table. By his second wife, Elizabeth Smith — Thomas. Joseph m. Mary Townley. Descendants given on page 209. Richard m. Charity Clark, 2 in 1699, His children : Charity m. Dayton. Richard boml706 . Samuel. Sakah m. James Tillett. Mary m. 1. Emmott. 2. Rev. Edward Vaughan. James 1 See inventory of his estate on rile in the surro- * Da. of Thomas Clark, of Brookhaven. gate's office, city of New York, recorded in 1680. LAWRENCE. 1(B8 WILLIAM LAWRENCE 205 Born at Great St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Kugland. Died 1G80. 2. Elizabeth Smith 1 William Deborah Smith 2 1664. 1. William died without children. 6. Joshua ,, ied abroad) unmarrie<1 8. Deborah 9. Sarah m. Joseph Rodman 11. Elizabeth m. John Willett 12 Palph T» " theWeStIndieSnnmalTied ' 1723 9. Richard Alice April 26, 1716. Dec i3, 1719. William Margaret TUton May 5, 1748. Dec. 12,1756. Alice Oct. io, 1757. Helen Oct. i, 1761. Elizabeth Aug. 2o,i75o. Daniel i 752 William Aug. 2o, 1759. liichari April 10, 1764. Elisha Mar. 18, 1767. JaCOb April io, 1754. John Resided near Toronto^ Canada, about 1S0O. settled in Canada West. Mary Herean May 4, 1733. sept. 13. 1787. William, Peter, Elisha, James, Charles, Margaret, Sarah, Catharine. 1 Elizabeth, da. of Richard Smith, Esq., the wealthy patentee of Smithtown, on Long Island. The year after the decease of her first husband, William Law- rence, in 1680, she married the Hon. Philip Carte- ret, proprietary governor of New Jersey, removing thither with her young children. She gave name to Elizabethtown, in that state. On her marriage to the Hon. Philip Carteret, Mrs. Lawrence reserved to herself, by an instrument in writing, (see Queen's County Records,) the right of disposing of the lands left her by her first husband, to such of her children by him as she should select. She selected her second son Joseph refered to in the table, page 209, conveying to him, the valuable property lying upon Little Neck Bay, in the township of Flushing, Long Island. He was in- timate with Lord Effingham, who had married his wife's sister, and who commanded a British frigate, at that time anchored in the offing opposite his man- sion, which he frequently visited. His grandson was named in complement to this earl. 2 Deborah, da. of Richard Smith, patentee of Smith- town, on Long Island. She was the younger sister of Elizabeth, her husband's father's second wife. 206 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. 3. Obediah Sarah Died 1732. ) 4. Daniel Mary Redwood 1 1757, died. \ / 1763, died. Deborah m. Jonathan Willett IViary m o c of the British army. J. IlUlIldb di e a unmarried. i69i. Richard Hannah Bowne 2 1719. 1720. 1721. 1728. 1723. Mary m. E. Burling Elizabeth m. John Embrie J OSepll died young Hannah m. Abraham Willett Lydia m. StevanusHunt Caleb Sarah Burling 3 Elizabeth died unmarried. Sarah m. Caleb Newbold Charlotte died unmarried. Hannah d j e d unmarried. Mary m. Fred'k A. De Zeng 5 Esther m. Capt. John Clarke Richard Mary Lawrence 4 Sarah M. De Zeng 7 1783 William m. Jane Hutchinson 9 CaleD died 1847, unmarried. Mary Ann m. Alexander Colden Sarah m. Richard De Zeng Elizabeth Jane Emma m. Chas. McCully Richard 1 Da. of Sir Richard Towneley, son of Chas. Towne- ley, who fell at Marston Moor. At the restoration, he was under the necessity of selling a very valuable estate at Nocton, near Leicester, in consequence of losses sustained by sequestration. His daughter Doro- thy, the youngest sister of Mary, married Francis Howard, of Corby; afterwards Baron Howard, of Ef- fingham, and who on the 8th of December, 1731, was created first earl of Effingham. He died 1743. 'Hannah, da. of Samuel Bowne and Mary Becket. The last was a Quakeress, and came over from Eng- land with William Penn. 27 Mary and Henry Ctheiaabomimaaa. Emma m. William S. Malcom Evestine, George and Eliza 3 SaTah, da. of James Burling. 4 Da. of Dr. William Lawrence. See page 206. s Frederick A. De Zeng was a Hessian officer, who came over with a British force during the revolution, but throwing up his commission, he married Miss Lawrence, and settled in this country, leaving de- scendants. 6 Da. of John Hutchinson. 7 Da. of Frederick A. De Zeng, who married Mary, da. of Caleb Lawrence. See above. 210 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. 1731. John Ann Burling 1 Oct. i7, n63. Mary m. Effingham Embree Died 1831. jmy s, 1758. Hannah m. Jacob Schieffelin Died 1840. Jane m. Isaac Livesay Catharine died unma med. May22,i77?. Anna m. Thomas Buckley Died 1847. June «. 1760. Effingham 2 Dec. 13, 1800, died. of New York. Elizabeth Watson 3 MuyWm.Jas.T.Tallman Effingham W. 4 Rebecca 5 JohnW. 6 MaryK.Bowne 7 Prinro Born 1800. ^ J. llllte Resides in N.Y. Anna W. Watson E. 8 of New York. Augusta Nicoll 9 1824. William H. 1827. Francis E. Frederick 1830 JaneN. m. J.G.Anderson of Florida. Effingham N. m. Margaret C. Bulkley Elizabeth W. m. Lawrence P. Hill John and Augusta N. ^ young . Anna W. m. Mandelbert Canfield Charlotte A., Watson A. diedyoungi and Mary T., Emma Angusta and 1836 . Charles Edward 1 Da. of John Burling. See next page. 3 Da. of Thomas Watson. 4 Effingham W. Lawrence, for many vears one of the county judges of Queens county. " 5 Da. of Benjamin Prince. "John W. Lawrence was a member of the state Caroline B. m. Hon. Henry Bedinger 18#7 .{&g& Eliza S. m. A. M. T. Rust Mary B. °<" Virginia. Emily, and Anna Louisa 1839 . Walter B. 184,. Rebecca died 1817 . Isabella legislature in 1840-41, and in 1846-7, member of congress, and in the latter year was also elected presi- dent of the Seventh Ward bank, of the city of New York. 'Da. of the Hon. Walter Bowne. 8 See next page. "Df. of John Nicoll, Esq., of New Haven. LAWRENCE. 211 ^\ J Z e d 3 '} Edward Merchant in N . Y. Died 1831. Zipporah Lawrence 1 A ?&"'} John B. Hannah Newbold 9 Druggist in N. Y. Died 1841. Phoebe m. Thomas Whiting Cornelia m. Thomas Treadway Jane m. Henry B. Fowler John L. m. Adeline Tupper No issue , Walter m. Malvina Daniels i 789 Edward L. Matilda Whiting 1803. George N. m. Mary A. Newbold 3 Caroline A. m. Wm.E.Lawrence 4 Newbold Alfred N. m. Elizabeth Lawrence* John B. Thomas N. Edward N. LydiaA.Lawrence 8 Died 1840. XtO Deri lost Bl sea . ,\o children. Ann Maria m. Martin Baker Sarah m. Joshua Baker Frederick 1 Da. of Dr. William Lawrence. See page 206. * Da. of Caleb Newbold. 3 Da. of George Newbold, Esq. 4 Son of Hon. Effingham Lawrence. See page 213. NOTES TO 2 Effingham Lawrence was a gentleman of some wealth for the time in which he lived. His name is among those who formed an association in 1794, for the purpose of erecting the well known building in the city of New York, called the " Tontine Coffee House." ' Watson E. Lawrence was for many years, a ma- 5 Da. of the Hon. John L. LawTence. See page 221. 6 Da. of the Hon. Effingham Lawrence, of Flushing, Long Island. See page 213. PAGE 210. gistrate at Flushing, Long Island, where in 1825, being offered the nomination for state senator, he declined, and removed to the city of New York. He was proprietor and founder of Lawrenceville in Ulster county. He is known as the manufacturer of Lawrence's Eosendale Hydraulic Cement, with which most of the government works have been constructed. 212 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. >v 1734 . Effingham 1 Died in Loudon. Catharine Farmer 1737. Norris Ann Pell of Catharine M. m. Col. Sir John T. Jones 2 1816 . William Effingham Baronet - John Effingham m. Caroline Monro Edward Billop Pelhara. Mary m. Burling Martin Hannah m. Jonathan Brake ill OmS ,ji e( ; unmarried. 1 Effingham Lawrence removed, after his marriage, to London, and was appointed to the command of a British frigate, and became one of the corporation of the elder brethren of the Trinity House, London. 2 Col. Sir John Thomas Jones, Baronet of Cranmer Hall, Norfolk county, England, aid to the Duke of Wellington. LAWRENCE. 213 ! Joseph 1 Phoebe Townsend 2 resided in town, ship of Flushing, of Flushing Elizabeth m. Silas Titus Hon.Effingham 3 Anna Townsend 4 Phcebe m. Obadiah Townsend Richard m. Betsey Talman No children. Lydia m. Anthony Franklin Abigail died unmarried. Henry m. 2. Amy Pearsall \ _ 1. Harriet Van Wyck 1791. Catharine H. m. Robert M. Bell Phoebe and Harriet Esther m. William Post CorneliusW. 9 m. 1. MariaC.PralP of New York. 2 . Rachel A. Hicks 11 3. Mrs. E. N. Lawrence 12 Joseph 13 m. Rosetta Townsend 14 of New York. Richard m. Sarah Ann Drake 15 Solomon T. deceased. Henry E. m. Frances Bro wrier 5 Lydia A. m. 1. Edward N. Lawrence 2. Cornelius W. Lawrence William E. m. 1. Caroline A. Lawrence 6 _ , -, 2. Augusta Mickle 7 JiObert 1. deceased. Effingham m. Jane Osgood 8 Mary N. Joseph E. Cornelius Edward A. Hannah T. 'Joseph Lawrence resided in the township of Flushing, Long Island, occupying the old family mansion of his grandfather Joseph. "Da. of Henry Townsend. 5 Effingham Lawrence was for several years first judge of the county of Queens. 4 Da. of Solomon Townsend. 5 Da. of Walter Browrier. 6 Da. of John B. Lawrence. See page 211. 'Da. of the Hon. A. H. Mickle Mayor of New York. 8 Da. of Isaac Osgood of Louisiana. 9 Cornelius W. Lawrence was a merchant of wealth and respectability in the city of New York. He was a member of congress, mayor of the city of New York, president of the Bank of the State, and subse- quently collector of the port of New York. 10 Da. of Abraham Prall. "Da. of Willet Hicks. a Da. of Hon. Effingham Lawrence. See above. 13 Joseph Lawrence was elected president of the Bank of the State on the resignation of his brother. 14 Da. of Thomas S. Townsend. 15 Da. of James Drake. 214 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. \ no3 . John 1 of Newport, R. I. Died Nov. 10, 1781. 2. Elizabeth Little died M arc h, 1781. No children. Mary Woodbury April io, 1737. Mary m. Elisha Callender ma. William NoiS5ue . Feb. 18. 1738. 1. Amy Whipple 3 A $ 9 13 '} Joseph 1734. J- homas No j^,,. 1735. Caleb No issue. i74i, vxideon No jj^e. Walter, Elizabeth, Harriet No i^. 2. Susan Turner } David 3 Sybel Sterry* Sept. 24, 1763. Amy m. Alex.T. Shaw John Martin } Susan m. Joseph B. X etteSjiVl. L). of Providence, E.I, Effingham, Thomas and Walter Catharine Remson 7 Mary m. Col. Green f u.sa. Nancy m. Samuel Jenkins Charles of Hudson. Sarah m. Barent Gardenier William and Eliza ^ ^a^ea. Thomas m. Ann Andre removed to Geneva. N. Y. Samuel A. 6 Joseph Merchant in New York. Christina Haell Samuel S. Samuel R. Edgar 'John Lawrence was born at Flushing, Long Island, removing first to New Jersey, and afterwards to Newport, Rhode Island. 8 Widow of a British officer. 3 David Lawrence was one of the founders of the city of Hudson, whither he removed with his family in 1784. Catharine R. JOUn XV. died young. Ferdinand m. Isabella Burgoyne 8 Julia m. Garret D. Hasbrouck Henry Horace Charles D. Mary V. Eugene 4 Da. of Robert Sterry, of Providence, R. I. 6 Da. of John Whipple. 6 Samuel.A. Lawrence was elected, in 1846, presi- dent of the Croton Insurance company in New York city. 7 Da. of John Remsen. s Da. of William Burgoyne. LAWRENCE. 215 1666. ELISHA 1 Lucy Stout 1701. Hannah m. Richard Salter Elizabeth m. Joseph Salter No children . Sarah m. John Ember resided in New Jersey. Rebecca m. Walton removed to New Jersey. of New York. Joseph Elisha Elizabeth Brown* Died 1793- 1728 . Elizabeth m. Dr. James Newell 1749- Lucy m. Nathaniel Lewis 1751 . Ann m. Reynold Keen -Leonard John B. 3 2. Lawyer. \Removed to Canada. Tallman Elizabeth m. Michael Kearney Sarah m. James Goelette of N Y Catharine m. Jackson B. French of S t.vinceni Ann m. John Parker of Perth Am ^ William Franklin died smarted. John m. Mary A. Waddell* No issue. J-iUCy (ji e( i unmarried. Mary m. Robert Boggs rf New b^,^. Julia Montandevert 6 ^/{Capt. James 5 of ^ u. a . Navy . ieoa. 1811 Mary m. Lt. Wm. Preston Griffen oriheV , s NaTy Died at Florence, Sept 3, 1843. of Virginia, 1838. JameS died jj, infancy. 1 Elisha Lawrence commenced business as a mer- chant in the latter part of the 17th century, at Cheese- quakes, on the south side of Earitan bay, in Mon- mouth county, New Jersey, but his store having been pillaged by the crew of a French privateer, he re- moved to Upper Freehold, then a wilderness. He represented that county in the provincial assembly in 1707 — his residence was called Chesnut Grove. 2 Da. of Dr. John Brown. 3 John Brown Lawrence, soon after the revolution, was elected treasurer of the state of New Jersey. He subsequently removed to Canada where he died. 4 Da. of the Rev. Henry Waddell, who married Lucy da. of John Lawrence. See next page. 5 Capt. James Lawrence was born 1st of October, 1781. He entered the United States navy as a mid- shipman in 1798. After having distinguished himself on various occasions for skill and gallantry, he attained the rank of post captain and fell in the memorable conflict, June 1, 1813, between the Chesapeake and Shannon , off Boston harbor. His daughter Mary , born 1811, married in 1838, Wm. Preston Griffen, of Vir- ginia, a lieutenant in the United States navy, and after giving birth to a daughter on the 31st August, died Sept. 3, 1843, at Florence. 6 Da. of James Montandevert, a French merchant of New York. 216 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. John Mary Hartshorne 1 A 1746 . Elisha 1799, died at Chesnut Grove Rebecca Redmond of Philadelphia. Elizabeth ITXdXy (jjg^ unmarried. Lucy m. Dr. Forshay of Kichmond . XtebeCCa died unmarried. Sarah m. Capt. Wallaby ofNY Joseph R. m. Pierce otBoetm _ l Da. of William Hartshorne. 1730. Ur. JOhn of New York. Died unmarried. Helena m. James Holmes ofNY AmerchliaI Lucy m. Rev. Henry Waddell ofNewYork Elizabeth m. Wm. Lecompte of q,^, Mary and Sarah diedunmarried . Col. Elisha m. Ashfield v of the British army. Died in Wales, England. THOMAS LAWRENCE. Thomas, the youngest of the three brothers who emigrated to America, did not come over till after his two brothers, John and William. He, together with these two brothers, in the year 1655, obtained possession of a tract of land in Newtown, on Long Island, being mentioned as patentees in the patent of that town, granted by Governor Dongan, in 1686. Thomas subsequently purchased the whole of Hell Gate neck, then consisting of several valuable farms, extending along the East river, from Hell Gate cove to Bowery bay. He died at Newtown, Long Island, in 1703. This branch of the family sup- ported the revolution in England, in 1696, which occasioned the removal of Sir Edmund Andros, from the governorship of Massachusetts. His son William was appointed one of the " Committee of Safety," by whom the government of the colony was ad- ministered, and soon after one of the " Council of the Province," which office he held from 1702 to 1706, under a commission from Queen Anne. Another son, John, to- gether with his brother Daniel, was a cornet of dragoons, and in 1698 was appointed high-sheriff of Queens county. THE FAMILY OF THOMAS LAWRENCE, WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA. John, married Deborah Woodhull. Descendants given in the following table. Thomas, ancestor of the East Chester branch, married Mrs. Francina Smith. 1 William, member of the government council from 1702 to 1706. Daniel. Jonathan. 1 Widow of M. Smith. 28 218 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. THOMAS LAWRENCE. died at Newtown, Long Island, July, 1703. DeborahWoodhulP PatienceSackett 3 died 1729. died 1765. Anna m. Wm. Sackett Mary \ Anna i 721 . John m. Catharine 2. Palmer 1729 William 1. BrinckerhofF aediTM . n™ Livingston 4 1725. •K'iciara Noisjue. died 1781. i7S5. Samuel diedlsl0 . No children. 1723 Joseph Patience Moore Anna Charles Mary 1753. JOhn died young. Deantie m. Hon. Jas. Lent ItlCtiard d ; ed without issue. Anna m. Samuel Biker All died young; Jane m. Henry Patience died you ™ ember 01 7Viavrl of Newtown. L. I. ■ llltlloiu died in the West Indies, unmarried. Elizabeth 6. Nathaniel diedunmarried . Van 7. David m. Poppens Kleeck 1. Capt. Jonathan 3 MerchanlinN . Y . 1729 .Isaac removed to Klrza beihlmvn, N. J. Died Ap'l 2,1781 aged 52. Mary Ann Hampton 2 died Dec. 21, 1818. aged 81. Feb. 6 1705. Elizabeth m. Alex. Young ofU | Stei . counly . Catharine m. David Mann nfRocklandcoun , v . 1775 . Thomas m. Sarah Smith 5 }Mary m. Robert Clarke died March, IMS. of Railway, N. J. 1767. '(Susannah diedsept 20, noi. J i"- 7 J!'} Elizabeth m. Joseph Carson Merchant at Philadelphia. Joannah died Sept 54, lt-27 F i«s 9, 'Jonathan H. Merchant at N Y. \ Died June 4, 1814. V Jan 9. 17S8. Toono+to settled in Ulster county, jedlieue n Y. Nine children. 1. Neale Jonathan Born 1759.\ Resides in Rorklnnd county. 2 Mary Mann Blanchard 4 died March 2, 1834. Dec 9, 175f Hurbert rn. Sarah Mann of New York. Chas. G. m. Elizabeth Landen of Unrlington N. J. Eleanor m. John Weld Jonathan m SarahGesner George m. Maria Jaycox resides in Rockland county. Jeanette Miir. 20 17U2 Sept 27, 1794. "Jonathan Lawrence obtained a farm from his father, in 1723, situated on the banks of the Bronx, in Westchester county, where he resided for some time, but subsequently, in 1719, purchasing the seat and farm, consistingof 504 acres, of the Ludlow family, in Tnppan, Rockland county ; he afterwards resided there. 2 Da. of Jonathan Hampton, of Elizabelhtown, N. J. } John Blanchard (lied i.t Natchez, April 20, 1821. i76o.'i Isaac iKi 17nl William Hampton born at Kliznhellnnwn, N.J. Diod at sea, April 23. 1832 Marian Hampton died >'■ uurr 1796 Sarah Childs dif ,d young. s i797 25 "{Marian Hampton m. S™"« Y - JohnLeConte N i8(ii! G {Edward Henry died unmarried at State ulaland, 1845. D iso3.' } Joannah horn at Busking Ridge, N J. lsno. Allrecl djc< i j. 0Dn „ A rio9 U } Joseph in. Marian Bnrritt i° r "•""York , limit { oct. S3, 1814. She married, after the death of Mr. Lawrence, Patrick Dennis, October 26, 17S3. 3 Jonathan Lawrence was one of the commissioners appointed to superintend the building of Fort Wash- ington. He was a captain in the American army during the revolution, participating in the battle of Monmouth. 4 Da. of John Blanchard, of Chatham, New Jersey. 5 Sarah, da. of Nehemiah Smith. 224 AMERICAN GENEALOGY """N Catharine 3. John Riker \ 5. Daniel of Plattskill, Ulster co., N.Y, Phcebe Simmons 8. Thomas Nicholas im Estell m. Mary A. Jones settled in Charleston, S. C. Ann Catharine of N. J. Daniel Helena Mary m. Reuben Burnett Leggett Samuel Jonathan Stephen John removed to Beaufort, South Carolina. LAWRENCE. 225 Thomas Mrs. Francina Smith 1 Jacob m. Lydia of Westchester. Thomas 2 m. Frances Edsall 166S-7. Isaac m. 2. Esther Caniffe Anna Squire Mary Jacob John l.Mrs.Ward Isaac descendants in Westchester, state of New York, bom 1687. Died abont 1768. 2. Ruth Owens Mary m. John Williams died 1714. Rachel m. Jenks died 1717. 1729. Joseph men by „ faI1 from u, ho „„ Stephen ^af'lAnna m. Nehemiah Hunt died Ang. 13, 1796. born May 21, 1724. Died July SO, 1782. Phcebe m. Thomas Bolton Keziah Pell 1724 . Isaac died Mar. 25, 1795. April 9, 1752 Ruth m. Benjamin Corsa Sarah m. Abraham Hatfield Phila m. William Totten Mary m. Cornelius Leggett Joshua m. Rachel Taylor Joseph m. Mary Pell Benjamin David Thomas m. Martha Hunt bom Sept. 7, 1742. Died Feb. 7, 1835. 1 Widow of M. Smith. •Justice of the peace for Bergen county, N. J., from 29 1702 to 1713, and judge of the court of common pleas. Ancestor of the New Jersey branch. 226 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. —\ ^\ 1 rm.' } Jessee Elizabeth Vandostern died ^ Feb.H, 1801. 1738. Gilbert died July 17, 1817. i76o Mary m. Philemon H. Fowler J ??53 6 '}Ruth m. Thomas Sherwood died Oct. 17, 1830 . Abigail m. Thomas Sherwood Noah m. Anne Barnes Moses Jessee m. Mary Cartwright Isaac George Glorianna m. Philip m. 2. Mrs. Magdalen Myres 1. Margaret Eissac Cunningham Wood LAWRENCE. John 2. Mary a??^ dtoYaaC&>} JOHN OSGOOD emigratedt0 died Oct., 1651. - New England. Capt. J OO.I1 resided at Andover, Mass. Died 1693. Peter Samuel Ma. Timothy^ im Ebenezer Timothy Timothy Col. Isaac H. Sarah Thomas Johnson. Capt. Peter 2 June 24 1745 } Peter M " M 17 - } Capt.Timothy — Farnum '?„&*' } Isaac — Pickman A if>} Susanna m.Dr.Kittredge ^n^ died1847 - ^jg ° {Baiaa - F ni8 14 ' } Samuel m. 1. Martha Brandon gJgpeg a^jfeg No C cSwr d n e ' Jan ' 177S ' "Henry Gay ton Pickman 2. Mrs. Maria Franklin 3 Isaac May 24, 1786. F.b « 1787 Martha Brandon m. E. C. Genet au B . i6, 1788. Julianna m. Samuel Osgood Apriii2,n9 5 Susan Kittredge m. Moses Field Walter ' John Osgood was captain, selectman, and repre- sentative of the town of Andover, in 1666, '69, '89, and '90, and also suffered from the illegal punishment inflicted upon his brother Christopher. * On the 21st of October, 1765, Capt. Peter Osgood and Col. John Osgood, with others, were appointed a committee to draw up instructions to their representa- tives, strenuously condemning the stamp act and other unjust taxes and exactions of Great Britain. In March, 1768, Capt. Peter Osgood and six others, composed a committee to encourage manufactures, and discourage superfluities. In December, 1774, he together with Dr. Joseph Osgood, was also a member of the Com- mittee of Safety. 'Widow of Walter Franklin, and da. of Daniel Bowne, of Flushing, Long Island. She had, by her first husband, three daughters, who married respec- tively — John Norton, De Witt Clinton and George Clinton. 232 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. Stephen John* 1644; J U"I1 died 172S. Ebenezer Josiah Clement Vf*y 1682. John died 1765 . J!®* 1 Josiah a*^ltaae Solomon Joseph Jacob Dr.H. Col. Benjamin Col. John Westford Josiah Jonathan Rev. Daniel Methuen Josiah C. Joseph John Samuel Nathaniel Rev. Thadeus 1750. Hooker Joshua Jonathan David Benjamin Moses Aaron Joshua Capt. Isaac Stephen Tewksbury Stephen Rev. David 1 Jacob Dr. Kendall 'Rev. David Osgood was ordained pastor of the church at Medford, Sept. 14, 1774. He stood high as a theologian and preacher. A volume of his ser- mons has been published. OSGOOD. 233 1643. CnriSTOpner resided at Andover, Mass. / died 1723. Ezekiel Christopher 1702 . Capt. Samuel died 174a Jeremiah \ Josiah Thomas John Ebenezer Nathaniel Jeremiah Daniel 1 Christopher Osgood represented the town of Ando- ver, Mass., in 1690, and was probably the one im- prisoned nine or ten days in the time of Sir Edmund Andross, without a " mittimus or any thing being laid to his charge." 30 JAY. This family was early distinguished in France, under the title of Le jay, of which may be mentioned John Le jay, connected with the civil department of the state in the early part of the sixteenth century, and Nicolas le jay, son of Nicolas le jay, "Cor- recteur des comptes a Paris, Baron de Tilley de la Maison Rouge, et St. Fargeau Seigneur de Villiers," who was first president of the parliament of Paris, in 1636. The ancestor, however, of the family in this country, is Pierre jay, 1 a wealthy com- mercial merchant, who resided at La Rochelle, France. He was a Huguenot, and in anticipation of the troubles coming upon the protestants, consequent upon the revo- cation of the edict of Nantes, he sent his eldest son, Isaac, to England, to be educated, who however, dying on the passage, he sent his second son, Augustus, to take his . place. This was in 1677. In 1683, however, Augustus was recalled and sent 1683. to Africa on business. In the meantime the revocation referred to taking place, the protestant church at La Rochelle being demolished, pursuant to a decree issued for that purpose, and the protestants themselves having soldiers quar- tered upon them, at the suggestion of the infamous M. de Louvoy, Mr. Jay set about making arrangements to escape. He first sent his family, together with what few effects he could collect together on the moment, on board of a vessel, and sent them to England, and was himself preparing to follow, when he was arrested by the govern- ment and thrown into prison. Obtaining his liberty, however, soon after, at the in- tercession of some catholic friends, he renewed his arrangements to escape. Finding he could not convert his personal property into money without exciting the suspicion of government, he thought if he could secure one of the numerous vessels he had floating upon the broad ocean, and make his escape in her, he might at the same time carry away with him sufficient property in the cargo and vessel to support him- 1 Pierre is French, in English Peter- JAY. 235 self and family in a foreign land. With this view he saw the pilot of the port, and told him to hring the first vessel of his that arrived, at a particular point off the town; which being done, he got on board of her and sailed for England. He was fortunate in this particular, for both this vessel, together with her cargo, belonged to him, being laden with iron from a Spanish port. He reached England in safety, and was once more united to his family. In the mean time he felt some anxiety concerning the fate of his son, who, as already stated, had gone to Africa, and should he return ignorant of his father's flight, might fall into the hands of his enemies; being of the same religious sentiments as his father. On his return, however, being warned by some friends, he immediately fled on board of a vessel, the only one lying in the harbor in which he could escape, bound for Charleston, South Carolina ; and before the authorities were aware of it, he was on his way to the new world, destined to be the asylum of thousands driven from per- secution in a similar manner, and the happy home of myriads of their descendants. He arrived at Charleston, but the climate being unwholesome, he proceeded to Phila- delphia, and thence to New York, where finding other refugees from France, of a similar character with himself, who having already arrived there and were building a church in Pine street, he concluded to settle there, and go into business; and he is the ancestor of the Jays in this country. He took out letters of denization on the 4th of March, 1686; and on the 29th of September, 1698, King William III, by royal letters, endowed him with all the rights and privileges of a native born English subject. He was admitted to the freedom of the city of New York by the mayor and aldermen, on the 27th of January, 1700. The fortunes of his younger brother, Francis, were quite different. He joined the regiment of French protestant refugees, raised by William of Orange to expel from Ireland his catholic competitor for the throne; and receiving a dangerous wound at the celebrated battle of the Boyne, he died soon after. The subsequent history of Augustus Jay is somewhat interesting. Having occasion, in 1692, to visit Hamburg on business, the vessel on board 'of which he took passage was captured by a French privateer, and carried to St. Maloes. He, together with some others, was imprisoned in a fortress about fifteen miles from that place. He was not confined very closely at first, but on the arrival of the news of the battle of La Hogue, being ordered into closer custody, he determined to make his escape before the order could be executed. On a stormy night, therefore, preceding its execution, he, together with a companion, managed to conceal themselves while the keepers were locking up the prisoners in their dormi- tories; and having, under cover of the darkness, succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the sentinel, and gaining a certain point on the wall unperceived, they dropped them- selves down into a ditch on the outside. Mr. Jay scrambled out of the ditch, and fled amid the bowlings of the storm, without stopping to see what became of his 236 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. friend and companion. He arrived at ftochelle, and hastening at once to the residence of his aunt, Mouchard, by whom he was secreted and protected, until an opportunity- was afforded him to proceed to the isle of Aux Rhe, whence he sailed for Denmark, and thence passing through Holland, finishing his business, he proceeded to England. He now saw, for the first time after a separation of some nine years, his father and sister, his mother being deceased; after which he returned to New York. Becoming affluent, however, in a few years, he sent out to bring these relatives to this country; but the former was too old to undertake so long a voyage, and the latter was unwilling to leave her aged parent, so he never saw them again. He died in the city of New York, at the advanced age of 84 years. His descendants are not very numerous in this country See list in the following genealogical table. PIERRE JAY Judith Francoise of Rocbelle, France. Died in England . JAY. •of La Rocbelle, France. 237 Maroh23,i665 Augustus Anna Maria Bayard 1 Born at Rocbelle, France. v Emigraied to America. Died at New York) March (DiPlO Oct, 29, 1697 10. 1751. Judith m. Hon. Stephen Peloquin T im Aug. 13 Feb. 20 Mary Rutherfurd Clarkson 7 Ang. 13, 1783. Ann DOrn at passy, near Paris. Feb. 20, 1792. Sarah Louisa ai , died 1818. Hon. Peter Augustus 6 born Jan. 24, 1776. Died Feb. 20, 1843. April 16, 1810. Deo. 19, 1811. June 11, 1815. Sept. 12, 1819. Oct. 33, 1821. July 2, 1823. Nov. 29, 1827. Sept. 11, 1808. MaryR. m. Frederick Prime AprU 13> 1829 . died 1835. Sarah m. William Dawson Helen m. Dr. Henry Augustus Dubois Anna Maria m. Henry Pierpont Peter Augustus m. Josephine Pierson Elizabeth Clarkson Susan Matilda John C, M. D. Laura Prime 8 of Rye Neck. Nov. 3, 1531. 1 Da. of Balthazar Bayard, of Amsterdam, Holland. 2 Da. of Jacobus Van Courtlandt, of the old Yonkers. * Son of Jacobus Van Courtlandt. * Da. of the Hon. William Livingston, governor of New Jersey. See page 174. 6 Interred in the vault of the Flemish chapel, at Madrid. J Ohn died 184 n. AugUStUS dec eased. Peter Augustus, John Clarkson, Laura, Mary, Cornelia, Anna Maria, Alice, and Sarah 6 Hon. Peter Augustus Jay was member of the state assembly in 1813, recorder in New York in 1819, and delegate to the convention which framed the constitu- tion of the state of New York in 1821. 7 Da. of Gen. Mathew Clarkson. 8 Da. of Nathaniel Prime. 238 AMERICAN GENEALOGY. ^■JHon.Williarri resides al Bedford, Westchester county. New York. Augusta McVickar 4 Sept. 3, 1812. N r728 9 '}Eve m. Rev. Henry Munro, M. A. 1 died April 7, 1810. March 31, 1766. Ap'l 12, 1 A ,,_„„+„ „ Died at Edinboro', Scotland, 1601. 1730. 1 -o-UgUSl Uh died without children, 1801. Ap'l 27,) To mp «j 1731. ) J d-"ies> d j el j young. % 2 16 -} Sir James D i734 19 '} Peter m. Eupheme Duyckinck 17g9 died July 8, 1813, without children. 1737. ' } Anil MariCKa died unmarried, Sept. 4, 1791. M # 4 i°'i Frederick - 7 V-' i X i ;,.^- V > -Ji\: \ >■ (ft