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JANUARY, 1879.— CONTENTS.
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1. The Early History of Hempstead, L. I. By Charles B. Moore, . . 5
2. Records ok St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I. Baptisms. Com-
municated by Benjamin D. Hicks. Esq. (Continued from Vol. IX., p. 187,
of The Record), . 16
3. Records of Rahvv ay and Pi.ainfield [N. J.] Monthly Meeting of Friends
(formerly held at Amboy and Woodbridge). Births Communicated by Hugh D. Vail, Esq. (Continued from Vol. IX., p. 180, of The Record), . 20
4. Records of the Reformf.d Dutch Church in the City of New York.
Baptisms. (Continued from Vol. IX., p. 139, of The Record), ... 24
5. Smith Family of New York. By Thomas Harrison Montgomery, . . 32
6. Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families of New York.
By Edwin R. Purple. (Continued from Vol. IX., p. 160, of The Record), 35
7. Records of the First Presbyterian Church of the City of New York.
Births and Baptisms. (Continued from Vol. IX., p. 173, of The Record), 44
8. Notes and Queries. — Nichol — Bayard — Van Hook — The Le Roys of New
York — Rogers of Saint John and New York — Akerly Family — Kane-Kent — Adams — Adams' Family — Ponsonby — Van Alstyn— Index to Vol. IX., 47-50
9. Notes on Books. — Centennial History .of Somerset County. By Abraham
Messier, D.D., Somerville — William Wells, of Southokl, and his Descendants, A. D. 163S-187S. By the Rev. Charles Wells Hayes, of Portland, Me— Pierson Genealogical Records. By Lizzie B. Pierson, of Andover, Mass — History of the Church in Burlington, N. J. By Rev. George M. Hills, D.D., Trenton, N. J., 51-52
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INDEX TO SUBJFXTS.
Ancient Families of New York, Contributions to the History of, by Edwin R. Purple, 35.
Baptismal Records of the Reformed Dutch Church, N. Y., 24, 77, III, 162. " " of the First Presbyterian Church, N. Y., 44, 127, 177.
" " of St. George's Church, L. I., 16, 89, 133.
Bergen, Hon. Tennis G. History of Early Settlers of L. I., 85, 155. " Memorials of Francoys D'Bruyne, 85. " Genealogy of the Van Duyn Family, 155. Biography of E. A. Duyckinck, by W. A. Butler, 53. " of Edwin R. Purple, by C. B. Moore, 101.
Birth Records of Friends' Monthly Meeting, Amboy, Rahway, and Plainfield, N. J., 20,
139- " of First Presbyterian Church, N. Y., 44, 127, 177.
Books Noticed. — Centennial History of Somerset County, N. J., 51 ; William Wells, of Southold, L. I., and his Descendants, 1638 to 1878, 52 ; Parsons' Genealogical Records, 52 ; History of the Church in Burlington, N. J., 52 ; History and Gene- alogy of the Family of Thomas Noble, of Westfield, Mass., 99; Genealogical Notes, Part Second, by L. B. Thomas, 100 ; The Wynkoop Genealogy, Second Edition, 100 ; Palgrave Family Memorials, 100 ; Life of Col. Aaron Burr, 100 ; History of Harlem, N. Y. , 146; The Heraldry, etc., of Bar Gate, Southampton, < Eng., 147 ; The Whitney Family of Connecticut and its Affiliations, by S. W. Whitney, 147 ; Genealogy of the Family of Samuel Stebbins, 182 ; Manual of the Reformed Church in America, Third Edition, by E. T. Corwin, D.D., 182; Farwell Ancestral Memorial, by D. P. Holton, M.D., 182; [The White Family Record] Account of the Meeting of the Descendants of Col. Thomas White, of Maryland, June 7, 1877, 183; Paine Family Records, by H. D. Paine, M.D. , No. IV., August, 1879, 183.
D'Bruyn, Francois, Memorials of, by Hon T. G. Bergen, 85. Dutch Aliases, by Edwin R. Purple, 38.
Friends' Birth Records of Amboy, Woodbridge, Rahway, and Plainfield, N. J., 20, 139.
Genealogies — Livingston, 98 ; Sinclair, 170 ; Smith, 32; Varleth-Verlet, 35 ; Van Duyn,
155 ; Van Wagenen, 86, 107, 182. Genealogical Fragments, by John J. Latting, 170.
Harlem, Riker's History of, Noticed, 146.
Hempstead, L. I., Early History of, by Charles B. Moore, 5.
Hicks, Hon. Benj. D., On Records of St. George's Church, L. I., 16, 89, 133.
Index to Volume IX., Note on, 50. " X., Note on, 184.
Latting John J., Genealogical Fragments — Sinclair Family, 170. Livingston Family Records, Note on, 98.
Marriages in Reformed Dutch Church, N. Y., 1 19. Montgomery, T. H. — Account of the Smith Family of N. Y., 32.
Note concerning the Rodgers Family, 146. Monumental Inscriptions in Old Dutch Church at Austin Friars, London, England, 98.
IV Index to Subjects. •
Moore, C. B. , Early History of Hempstead, L. I., 5.
" Shipwrights, Fishermen and Passengers from England, 66, 149.
" Biographical Sketch of E. R. Purple, 101.
Notes and Queries, 47, 96, 146, 181 ; Adams, 49 ; Akerby, 48 ; Bard, 96 ; Bayard, 47 ; Bryant, 96 ; Cornell, 181 ; Dodge, 99 ; Duyckinck Family, 97 ; Evetts, 97 j Jauncey, 181 ; Jones, 181 ; Kane, 49, 98; Le Roys, 47; Livingston Records, 98 ; ■ ' Nicoll, 47 ; Phillipse, 98; Ponsonby, 49; Rogers, 48; Rodgers, 146; Schuyler Family Records, 99 ; Tilley, 147 ; Van Alstyn, 50; Van Hook, 47 ; Van Vech- ten, 146; Willett, 181.
Obituary. — Breese, 184; Wight, 183.
Passengers from England, by C. B. Moore, 66, 149.
Proceedings of the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Society, 144.
Purple, Edwin R., Contributions to the History of the Ancient Families of N. Y., 35.
" List of Dutch Aliases, 38.
" Biographical Sketch of, by C. B. Moore. 101.
Records of St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., 16, 89.
" of Friends' Monthly Meetings, Rahway and Plainfield, 20, 139. " of Reformed Dutch Church in New York, 24, 77, III, 1 19, 162. " of First Presbyterian Church in New York, 44, 93. " of the Schuyler Family, 99. " of the Livingston Family, 98.
Schuyler Family Records, Note on, 99.
Shipwrights, P'ishermen and Passengers from England, 66, 149. Sinclair, Robert, Will of, 171. " Mary, Will of, 173. Smith Family of N. Y., by T. H. Montgomery, 32. St. George's Church, Hempstead, L. I., Baptismal Records of, 16, 89, 133.
Vail, Hugh D., on Records of Friends of Rahway and Plainfield, N. J., 20, 139.
Van Alstyn Family, Note on, 50.
Van Duyn Family, by Hon. T. G. Bergen, 155.
Van Wagenen Family, by G. H. Van Wagenen, 86, 107, 182.
Varleth or Verlet Family, by Edwin R. Purple, 35.
White Family Records, notice of, 183.
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Vol. X. NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1879. No. 1.
THE EARLY HISTORY OF HEMPSTEAD, L.I. By Charles B. Moore.
The earl}' history of this town requires that dates be clearly stated, and places be kept distinct. Both have often been confused.
Long Island could be approached from many directions. Its posses- sion was coveted by the English, then in New England, on the north and east, and by the Dutch at the west, where the passage was narrow. It had numerous bands of Indians, with whom the whites of both nations for several years traded. Both English and Dutch were actively in pur- suit of beaver. The fur trade was profitable. Fishing, also, was an im- portant business ; for food was scarce. The English coming in crowds, sought rish more than the Dutch. The long ocean beach afforded facili- ties for getting wampum, which greatly added to the attractions. There were struggles between English and Dutch about the western part of the island, but none (unless merely on paper), for the eastern half.
The villages of Southampton and Southold, at the east, in the year 1640, were settled by Englishmen, who bargained with the agent of Lord Ster- ling, under his English patent, and with the Indians, and who took posses- sion without the slightest opposition, and without interference from the Dutch. These villages, afterwards the centres of townships, were about eighty- five or ninety miles in a direct line from New York, and were separated from each other by Peconic Bay. Southampton was east of Shinecock Bay, which could be entered at the south from the ocean, and from which the whites and Indians could readily communicate with Peconic Bay at Canoe place ; and thence across Peconic Bay, or across Shelter Island, with Southold. The communications -vestwardly on the north side of Long Island, by the Sound, and on the south side by the great South Bay, were also comparatively easy. Canoes or small boats were used for travel, and occasionally larger vessels.
The principal beaver-dams were west of both these villages. The vacant space between them and the Dutch — occupied only by In- dians— was large ; embracing necks of land projecting out on each side, north and south, many miles, which were separated from each other by bays. Into many of the bays small streams ran, called rivers, being as large as many of the rivers of England, and which generally started from swamps far inland. The island was so closely covered with tangled wood I
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and intersected by streams and morasses as to prevent passages on foot, and prevent travel by land. The swamps and thickets were numerous and large, and in some places the beaver was plenty. " Huppogues," the Narragansett word for "beaver place," was in modern Smithtown. Look at a map, and see how far the Nissequogue River of Smithtown extended south from the Sound across the Island, and how far the Connecticut and the Yaphank (called Carman's) River, extended north from the Bay, and then estimate the swamps (some of them now mill-ponds), at the sources of these streams, and it will be seen how the travel by land east and west was interrupted. The numerous Indians, maddened by defeats, will com- plete the picture.
Purchases from or conquests of the Indians, and actual occupation, were essential to either party, English or Dutch, for a good and peaceable title to land. By the national law of Grotius, both had a right to trade with the Indian residents. By the English rule claimed by Selden, which excluded strangers from the narrow seas, these two English possessions might keep the Dutch out of the Peconic Bay, while it gave the Dutch the East River and the Hudson. The English, in 1637, had greatly awed the Indians by the conquest of the Pequots, and this seriously affected the In- dians at the eastern end of Long Island. The Manhansett tribe left Shel- ter Island, and moved west. The Sachem of Cutchogue, in Southold, was with the Pequots, and when he returned to Long Island, was very submis- sive. Men of his tribe who did not go west and were not destroyed, were completely subjugated.
Early in 1643, Indians at the west combined, made sudden attacks upon Dutch villages, and upon small western places occupied by English- men, and overpowered them. The disasters and distress were eloquently depicted in the Memorial of the Eight Men, who acted as the Dutch Gov- ernor's council, addressed to the States-General in Holland, dated Port Amsterdam (N. Y.), 24th October, 1643.
It commences : " Rightly hath one of the ancients said that there is no misery on earth, however great, that does not manifest itself in time of war." They said :
" Having enjoyed for a long time an indifferent peace with the heathen, Almighty God hath finally, through his righteous judgment, kindled the fire of war around us, during the current year, with the indians ; in which not only numbers of innocent people, men, women, and children have been murdered in their houses and at their work, and swept captives away; whereby this place with all its inhabitants is come to the greatest ruin ; but all the boweries and plantations at Pavonia" (now Jersey City and Hudson City), "with 25 lasts" (2,700 bushels) " of corn, and other produce have been burnt, and the cattle destroyed. Long Island is destitute also of inhabitants and stock, except a few insignificant places over against the main, which are about to be abandoned " (referring, doubtless, to Astoria, and Newtown). "The English who have settled among us have not escaped. They too, except in one place, are all murdered and burnt," etc., etc. (See copy in 1. O'Callaghan's New Netherlands, 289.) The excepted place where the English were saved, was at Gravesend, at the southwest, where Lady Moody had gathered an armed force of forty men and de- fended herself against Indian attacks. This formal paper, it will be re- marked, did not notice nor claim Southold or Southampton as Dutch. They were thriving villages.
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Early in 1644, a military force of white men, Dutch and English, having been raised, organized, and trained, the Indians in Westchester County and the western parts of Long Island, were attacked in their villages and forts, and subdued. There were thirty-five English soldiers at first ; after- wards fifty, gathered chiefly in New England, or by Lady Moody ; and the skill, discipline, and courage of Capt. John Underhill, an experienced Eng- lish soldier, who had fought in Holland, and against Indians in New Eng- land— and of some of his devoted followers — were brought into use and contributed to success. Some of the soldiers had been sent to Stamford, the western settlement of Connecticut, to protect the whites against Indi- ans. There was much slaughter at Greenwich, Conn., near Stamford, and on Long Island, in Queen's County, terrifying the Indians into complete submission.
"They solicited the intervention of Capt. Underhill to procure a cessa- tion of hostilities," and peace was concluded between them and the Dutch. Long Island sachems signed articles, and agreed to communicate these articles to their sachem on " Mr. Fordhanis plains.'"
This was not written so early, but it is one of the earliest notices about the great Hempstead plains — now the site of Garden City. It is reported that in 1643 the Indian sachems had agreed to sell these plains to English- men ; of course, when utterly subdued, they would sell ; but the agreement has not been seen. It may have been made with Rev. Mr. Fordham and his followers before he was employed and settled at Southampton, and before he went there.*
After the fighting and the peace, the Dutch Governor Keift, who was fully authorized, issued his letters patent, dated 16th November, 1644, to Robert Fordham and six other Englishmen (one of whom he had before employed to build the Dutch church in the fort), and unto their heirs and successors, or any they should join in association with them, for land (with all the havens, harbors, riveis, creeks, woodland, marshes, and all other appurtenances thereunto belonging) " upon and about a certain place called the Great Plains on Long Island, from the East River to the South Sea, and from a certain harbor known by the name of Hempsted Bay, and westward as far as Matthew (Martin) Gerretson's Bay ; to begin at the head of the said two bays, and to run in direct lines, that they may be the same latitude in breadth on the south side as on the north ; and as far eastward ; " but with a condition, " /';/ case the patentees and their asso- ciates shall procure 100 families to settle down within the limits of five years after the date hereof ; " granting full authority to build a town or towns, with fortifications, and erect a temple or temples to use and exercise the reformed religion which they profess, with the ecclesiastical discipline thereunto belonging ; and with full power and authority to erect a body politic, or civil combination among themselves, and to nominate magistrates to be presented to the Governor for choice and appointment, etc., etc. And if the patentees cannot within five years procure 100 families to settle on said lands, they shall enjoy, ratum pro rata, land according to the number they shall procure. Reserving (as rent), from the expiration of ten years, the tenth part of all revenue that shall arise from the ground
* Two Dutch papers, without official or responsible signatures, set up the story ; one that there was an English colony at Hempstead, dependent upon the Dutch, before the hostilities of 1643-4, which they sought to protect ; and the other, that in April, 1644, seven Indians were arrested and confined at Hemstede, where "an English clergyman, Mr. Fordham, was Governor." (4 Doc. Hist, of N. Y. 15, 105). But both of these were paitisan productions, and in many particulars inaccurate.
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manured (or cultivated) with the plow or hoe ; if demanded, before it be housed ; gardens and orchards not exceeding one Holland acre excepted. (See copy in 2 Thompson's L. I., 4, 5, 6.)
This very favorable patent implied (as certainly was the fact) that there had been no previous Dutch grant for land within those bounds ; nor probably were there then any settlers ; if any, a very few.
All the patentees were Englishmen, and their associates were generally English ; and no doubt the patent was particularly intended for an English settlement, and was favorably drawn to attract and secure them.
It embraced a large part of the modern towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead, extending across the island north and south where it was wide, and in length east and west about 8^- miles. See a map. Martin Garretsori's Bay came into dispute afterwards ; i. e., whether it meant Manhasset Bay, or was west of Great Neck, and referred to what is now called Eittle Neck Bay. No one could claim under this patent that it was Hempstead Harbor. (See the Historical Magazine, by S. Dawson, Vol. E, Third Series. 368.)
The towns of Jamaica and Flushing, afterwards patented — the latter in 1645 — are on the west, embracing now a part of the land originally granted to Hempstead ; and the town of Oyster Bay was afterwards formed on the east. It is now the eastern town of Queens County. Huntington, the western town of Suffolk County, settled eight or ten years after this patent, was next east of Oyster Hay ; and, adding Oyster Bay to Suffolk, near two-thirds of the island, it will be seen, was east of t/iis Hempstead pate/it. The distance from the village of Hempstead (20 miles from New York) to the village of Southampton, was about 64 miles in a direct line — a distance too often overlooked. There were then no roads, and no horses with which to travel them, if there had been roads.
The first white child born in the town of Hempstead was soon after this patent. He was named Caleb, a son of John Carman, born Jan. 9, 1645, and he was blind through life. His father and others testified in Court to the payments made to Indians for the land. It may be inferred from the name, and from other circumstances, that he was one of the spies who had examined the country possessed by the heathen, made a good report of it, and exhibited (perhaps) some of the native grapes for which it was noted.
The sheltered little harbors now called Hempstead Harbor and Roslyn, at the head of Hempstead Bay ; and Manhasset, at the head of Manhasset (formerly Cow) Bay, were probably places early visited by Englishmen from Connecticut, or from Massachusetts or Rhode Island, trading with the Indians, and exploring the wild country. Indian villages were located at pleasant and convenient sites in all such places. Their marks can yet be traced.
It is admitted by all that what was called Cow Neck, which is termi- nated at the north by Sands' Point, was embraced in this patent. The harbors and creeks on the south side of the island, including Hempstead Bay, south, it is probable, were visited by boats from Southampton, and Indians also found there.
In 1647, as appears by the town records, a division or allotment of land was first made under this patent (/'. e. ) three years after its date.
By reading the general history, we can infer much of what must have occurred. Delays, of course, arose in gathering together such a band of
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interested persons, and in exploring the ground. Men could rove and explore ; but families requiring houses and furniture, and protection, had a slower motion.
The first " meeting-house," to be used also as a town-house, by report, was raised in 1645, ULlt not finished until 1648. It was 24 feet square.
On 4th July, 1647, a deed was obtained from Indian Sachems, which re- ferred to a purchase made in 1643. This latter may have been merely a ver- bal sale, or a sale of a small part. But probably it was the treaty of peace.
In this allotment of 1647, sixty-six proprietors were named ; a large pro- portion of whom, if they ever settled there, did not long remain on the land. They were of the pioneer class ; chiefly from New England, but some from Southampton ; not one from Southold. We cannot tell clearly which of them were soldiers with Underhili in 1643. Arranged alphabetically, we give such details respecting each as are convenient.
The Rev. Robert Fordham, though named as a patentee, went to South- ampton to preach. In April, 1649, ne ma<Je his formal written agree- ment there. It is stated in Thompson's L. I., that he preached at South- ampton two or three years before the date of that agreement.* He re- mained there until his death in 1674. He is not named among the per- sons who had lands allotted them in Hempstead. Doubtless his son John took his place as a landholder, and probably John Moore came from South- ampton to preach in his place, who was at Hempstead in 165 1, but not found at Southampton after 1647.
LIST OF PROPRIETORS OF HEMPSTEAD IN 1647.
i. Ashman, Robert, 1650, at Hempstead ; 1660, at Jamaica.
2. Armitage, Thomas, in 1635, as reported, from Bristol, Eng. One
T. A., as. 24. sailed from Gravesend, near London, for Barbadoes ; 1635-6, at Lynn, Mass.; 1637, at Sandwich; 1641, at Stamford, Conn., afterwards at Oyster Bay, L. I. He mar. twice • Manassah, a son by 1st wife, studied at Cambridge and grad. at Harvard in 1660 ; d. by 1678. (2 Thomp. L. I., 13, note, and Cotton Mather.)
3. Baccus, Samuel, 1637, "Backus," at Saybrook ; 1663, prob. "Samuel
Bache," New Haven, a Yorkshire name.
4. Carman (written Karman) John, 1636, at Lynn ; 1637, at Sandwich ;
one, master of a vessel (Winthrop), 1644, one of the patentees of Hempstead ; he testified, in 1677, that a broad axe was given to the Indians, 32 years before ; 1645, Jany. 9th, son Caleb born, named on Dutch census list 1673, also Josiah ; 1653-4, Mrs. Carman named in New Haven records about a debt which Mr. Sylvester owed her ; 1673, one I. C. named, on Dutch census list ; 1682, at Hemp- stead ; 1685, John and Caleb, each 180 acres.
5. Clark, Samuel, prob. the one who mar. Hannah, dan. of Rev. Robert
Fordham, 1657, at North Sea, Southampton, q. v. ; 1699, one S. C, at Elizabeth, N. J.
6. Coe, Benjamin, son of Robert, b. 1629 ; 1656, interested in Jamaica;
1661, opposed to Quakers; 1663, signed Hartford Petition; 1683, Patentee of Jamaica.
7. Coe, John, son of Robert, b. 1626, Capt. ; 1660, see Baird's History of
* Mr. Howell, the author of the History of Southampton, finds indications that he was there one year before the agreement and see 2d N. Eng. Reg., 263.
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Rye ; 1663, Delegate to Hartford from Hempstead ; at the head of a force ; called Junr. ; 1664, magistrate for Newtown, appointed at Hartford; 1665, Member of Convention from Newtown; 1665, "Miller of Middlebnrg ; " 1685, 150 acres, Hempstead; 1689, Sheriff of Queens ; 1699-1710, Judge of Queens Co.
8. Coe, Robert, b. in Norfolk Co., Eng., about 1594 ; living in 1672 ;
sons : John, b. 1626 ; Benjamin, b. 1629, etc. ; 1634, from Eng., at Watertown, freeman of Mass.; 1640, at Wethersfield, deputed to treat with New Haven for Stamford ; 164 1-2, at Stamford, ap- pointed a deputy for New Haven ; 1653, Memb. of Convention from Newtown ; 1653 ; signed to Gov. Stuyvesant and the States- General ; 1656, interested in Jamaica ; 1661, opposed to Quakers ; 1665, Patentee of Jamaica ; 1669-72, Sheriff of Yorkshire.
9. Denton, Daniel ; the historian, eldest son of Rev. Robert ; 1650,
Sept. 16, Oct. 18 ; as " clericus," he certified "by order the Laws " made, requiring all inhabitants to attend the public meetings on the Sabbath, under penalty, etc. ; 1656, 1st clerk of Rustdorp (Jamaica) ; 1664, had land at Elizabethtown, N. J., sold in 1665 to John Og- den ; 1665 and 1686, Patentee of Jamaica ; 1665, Memb Conven- tion from Jamaica ; 1670, his brief description of New York, pub- lished at London ; 1688-9. Clerk of Queens Co.
10. Denton, Nathaniel, prob. son of Rev. Richard ; in 1656, at Ja-
maica ; 1661, opposed to Quakers; 1664, applied for land at Elizabethtown, N. J. ; 1665, sold to John Ogden ; 1665 and 1686, Patentee of Jamaica.
11. Denton, Rev. Richard, b. in Yorkshire, Eng., in 1586; 1623, grad.
at Camb. Univ. ; d. in Eng., 1662. He became Minister of Hali- fax, Yorkshire ; 4 sons : Daniel, and prob. Richard, Jim., Natha- niel, and Samuel. Deprived of one eye ; and "though he were a little man, yet he had a great soul " (says Cotton Mather). In 1635, at Wethersfield ; 1641-3, at Stamford ; 1647, 61 years of age, at Hempstead ; 1650, the orders to attend church could not be enforced; 1656-9, at Hempstead. His wages not paid; 1659, returned to England (2 Thomp. L. I., 20). He did not please a large proportion of the settlers. Many of them had been accus- tomed to forms, language, and style very different from his, and they were so widely scattered that they could not readily attend at one place.
12. Denton, Richard, Jun., son of Rev. Richard.
13. Denton, Samuel, son of Rev. Richard ; 1673, on Dutch census list
of Hempstead ; 1685, 240 acres.
14. Ellison, John, who prob. had son John, Jun. (on Dutch census list
of 1673) ; son Thomas (on Dutch census list of 1673 ; Sen. in 1685 ; 270 acres); son Richard (on Dutch census list ot 1673 ; in 1685, 60 acres). In 1647 he was at Oyster Bay ; in 1663, on Madnan's Neck ; in 1673, on Dutch census list ; in 1682, Sen., at Hempstead ; in 1685, Sen., 60 acres. [John, 125 acres.]
15. Foucks, John ; not traced.
16. Fordham, John, eldest son of Rev. Robert ; 1640-41, at Southamp-
ton ; died 1683; letters of admn. Fordham, Rev. Robert (see before, No. 1).
17. Poster, Christopher, b. in Engl., 1603; d. 1687; mar. Frances;
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issue — Rebecca, b. 1630 ; Nathaniel, b. 1633, d. 1687 (who settled at Huntington) ; John, b. 1634 ; and afterwards others. In 1635 came on the Abigail, with wife and 3 ch. ; in 1637, freeman of Massachusetts ; resided at Lynn ; in 1638, had 60 acres there ; in 1649 to 1653, at Southampton.
18. Foster, Thomas, prob. son John (in 1664, applying for land at
Elizabeth, N. J. ; in 1685, having 55 acres ; in 1688, a resident of Jamaica). In 1639-47, this name at Weymouth, at Boston, and at Braintree ; in 1644, this No. 18 came from Fairfield, Conn. ; in 1658, William Foster appointed to run lines with Indians ; name preserved by " Foster's Meadow," w. part of Hempstead.
19. Guildersleeve, Richard, a surveyor [he, or his son, or both] ; son
Richard, Jun. (on census list of 1673) ; in 1639, freeman of New Haven; in 1641-2, at Stamford; in 1643, Deputy to New Haven Court (with Capt. Underhill) ; 1658, a Magistrate — acting; 1665, appointed, at Hartford, Magistrate for Hempstead ; 1673. on Dutch census list; 1685, Sen., patentee, roo acres (Jun., 280 acres); 16S8, rated in Huntington, L. I. ; 1696, he or his son living at Huntington (descendants there).
20. Hicks, John ; in 1641, came, with Thomas and Robert, from Hol-
land to New York ; 1645, named in Dutch patent for Flushing ; 1650, or about that date, at Far Rockaway ; 1653, Memb. of Engl. Convention from Flushing; signed the Petition, with others ; 1658, appointed at Hempstead to settle lines with Indians, acting as Assistant Magistrate ; 1663, Delegate to Hartford from Hempstead, and appointed Magistrate ; 1665, Member of Assembly from Hempstead.
21. Hudd, John (or Hews, Hughes, or Hubbs). [In 1637, John Hud-
son, of Lynn, 2 Winthrop, J., 48.]
22. Hudson, Henry [some give the name Stephen]. [In 1685 Hannah
H. had 22 acres.]
23. Ireland, Thomas, d. 1669 ; mar. Joane , who survived him,
and who, on 24th August, 1670, mar. (2d) Richard Letten (G. and B. Rec, 2, 11), prob. left son Thomas [1673, 1682, 1685, at Hemp- stead, 70 acres). In 1659, Jan. 2d, Thomas Ireland, Sen., had suit against Richard Brudenel, and R. Latting was a witness for him.
24. Jackson, Robert, d. about 1682-3; mar. Agnes ; son John
[the Col. on Dutch census, 1673 : in 1685, 430 acres], and dau. Martha; 1641-2, he was at Stamford ; 1656, applicant for Jamaica ; 1658, at Hempstead, appointed to run lines with Indians ; 1665, Member of Assembly at Hempstead ; 1672, Constable of the town [highest office] ; 1673, on Dutch census list ; 1683, May 25, Will, naming wife and two ch.
25. Lawrence, John, b. in Engl, about 1618 ; d. at N. Y., 1699 ;
mar. Susannah ; issue : Joseph, John, Thomas, Susannah,
Martha, Mary. In 1635, came over, aat. 17; 1644, one of the patentees of Hempstead ; 1645, name also in Duxh patent for Flushing ; 1663, an officer under Gov. Stuyvesant ; merchant of N. Y. ; 1672, '3, '4, '5, and 1692-8, Member of N. Y. Gov.'s Council; 1673 and 1691, Mayor of the City of New York; 1691, Sheriff of Queens; 1693-8, Judge of Supreme Court; 1698-9, Will, N. Y. Lib. 5 of Wills, p. 345.
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26. Lawrence, William, called younger brotler of the last ; d. about
1680 ; mar. ( 1st) , and (2d) Elizabeth, eldest dan. of Richard
Smith, who survived, and mar. (2d) Capt. Philip Carteret, and (3d) Col. Richard Townley ; issue by both wives : William, etc ; 16 [5, named in Dutch patent for Flushing ; 1666, Alderman of X. Y., and Patentee for Flushing ; 1680, Inventory, N. Y. (3 G. & B. Rec, 124, 129, <N:c. )
27. Lewis, John (not identified) ; one in 164S at New London ; but in
his place John hum has been named.
28. Lewis, Richard (not traced).
29. Lines, Roger ; 1656, interested in Jamaica ; 1659, had sold meadow
in Hempstead.
30. Ogden, John ; one d. 1683, leaving 3 sons ; one, and prob. this one,
mar. Judith, dau. of Lieut. John Budd. She survived him, and mar. (2d) Francis Brown. i64i-2,he was at Stamford; he con- tracted to build Dutch church at the fort in N. Y. ; 1644, he was one of the patentees of Hempstead ; 1647, had permission to settle six families at North Sea, Southampton ; 1650, freeman of South- ampton ; resided there ; became a Magistrate, and represented the town at Hartford ; 1662, named in the new charter of Connecticut ; 1664, patentee of Elizabeth, N. J, ; 1667, had removed to Eliza- beth, N. J. ; 1673, 'lei or a solb purchased New Barbadoes, N. J. ; 1680, see Baird's History of Rye.
31. Ogden, Richard; 1641-2, at Stamford, co-contractor with the last
to build the Dutch church.
32. Pierson, Henry; d. 1680-81, mar. Mary Cooper, from Lynn ;
issue : John, Daniel, Joseph, Henry, b. 1652 ; Benjamin, Theodore, and Sarah, b. 1560; 1640-1, he was of Southampton "one of the first and leading settlers ; " 1649, 1654, 1659, on list of townsmen, Southampton. He was prob. a brother of Rev. Abraham, b. in Yorkshire.
33. Pope, Thomas; d. before 1677; mar. Mary , who survived
him ; son John, who settled at Elizabeth, N. J. ; 1652, house and lot and 3 acres at Southampton ; 1665, interested in Elizabeth, N. J. See Hist, of Stamford and Elizabeth, and Records of Southampton.
34. Raynor, Edward.
35. Raynor, William.
36. Rogers, William ; d. 13th July, 1664; mar. Ann will in
1669, widow. Issue : prob. Jonathan, of Huntington, not named in her will, Obadiah (of Southampton, 1634-92), John (of Branford), Samuel, Mary, Hannah, Noah (of Huntington and Branford) : 1642-6, at Southampton ; 1649, freeman and townsman of South- ampton ; 1649 to 55, at Southampton; 1652,111st owning land at New 1, 01 don ; 1654, new land at Southampton (Sagahonack).
37. Scott, Joseph (or Schott), inn-keeper; mar. Mary 1658, his wife
prosecuted and fined for favoring Quakers.
38. Scott, Wili i am.
39. Sering (or Si aring) Simon ; 1642, at Stamford ; 1672, at Hempstead
(a permanent settler); 1684, at Hempstead, -Justice ; 1685, Paten- tee for Gov. Dongan's patent, 171 acres.
40. Sewell, John, not traced.
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41. Shadden or Shadding, William , 1658, at Hempstead ; nominated
for Magistrate.
42. Sherman Thomas ; in 1636, one of his name at Ipswich.
43. Smith, Abraham ; In 1641, allowed land at New Haven ; 1656, in-
terested in Jamaica ; 1661, opposed to the Quakers ; 1663, signed Hartford Petition ; 1682, 1685, at Hempstead, 150 acres.
44. Smith, James ; 1756, at Newtown ; 1664, one at Jamaica ; 1673, one
at Huntington.
45. Smith, John, Sen. ; 1641, at Stamford ; 1659, to keep an ordinary at
Hempstead. See Westchester Co.
46. Smith, John, Tun. ; eldest son of John, killed by Indians at Newtown ;
b. in Eng. about 1615, se. 60 in 1675 ! a judge, called Rock John ; 1673. on Dutch census list ; 1685, J. S. Jim., Rock, 230 acres.
47. Smith, William ; d. before 1684 ; mar. prob. by license, 4th
Jan'y, 1668, to Hannah Scudder. issue : Thomas, Jo>ei>h, Nehe- mech, Wait; 1656, one at Gravesend ; 1658, May 17th; signed application of Huntington to New Haven ; 1663, signed Hartf Pet.; 1666, an inhabitant and landholder of Huntington ; 1684, deed by his sons as heirs for land in Huntington.
48. Stephenson, Thomas ; 1643, of Yennycott (Southold), had sold a
boat in Virginia ; 1644, at Stamford and New Haven ; 1645, Prob. mar. at New York ; 1653, law suit in New York ; 1654-5, at Newtown ; 1658, meadow at Southold.
49. Storoe or Storye, John ; 1661 and 1670, "John Storye," of Flushing.
50. Sirickland or Sticklan, John ; mar. ; had son Thwa.it, who
settled at Wethersfield ; dau. Elizabeth, who mar. Jonas Wood, of Halifax, a trader, and a dau. who was the first wife of John Sea- man ; 1629-30, an original setder of Charlestown, Mass. ; 1631, freeman of Mass., memb. of church at Watertown ; afterwards at Wethersfield and Fairfield, Conn.; 1644, one of the patentees of Hempstead ; 1650, represented at Southampton, L. I., by his son- in-law Wood ; 1660-61, applied for land in N. J. (Hatfield's Hist, of Eliz.) ; 1663, signed Hartford Petition at Jamaica ; 1666, at Hun- tington ; inhabitant and landholder ; released land there to Jonas Wood, of Oakham ; 1667, made complaint of ill-treatment of his grandson, at Hempstead.
51. Strickland. Samuel (prob. a son of John, who d.).
52. Tanner, Nicholas ; 1639, at New Haven, servant of Perry,
whipped ; 1641, at New Haven ; ^3 claimed of him by Mr. Bry- an ; 1656, interested at Jamaica ; 1663 (one of his name), at Swan- zey.
53. Toppin, Mr., or Topping, John (in whose name perhaps the title
was placed) ; 1646, one b. at Southampton, son of Capt. Thomas.
54. Thickstone, William ; in 1675, at Hempstead, near the mill ; in
1685, 83 acres.
55. Valentine, Richard ; 1673, on Dutch census list, with Richard, Jun.;
1682-5, Sen., at Hempstead ; Jun., 71 acres.
56. Washrurne, William ; came to L. I. with Rev. Mr. Leverich ; 1653,
he, with John and Daniel at Oyster Kay ; 1653, witness to Indian deed, Oyster Bay ; 1654-5, signed petition with others ; Memb. of Assembly at Hempstead ; 1654, of Hempstead, in court at New Haven.
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57. Whitehead, Daniel, b. about 1603 ; d. Nov., 1668, ae. 65, son
Daniel became Major and Patentee \ 1650, at Smithtown ; 1652, Jan. detained a prisoner at New Amsterdam, but soon released [V. Dutch MSS. Council Miu., pp. 1, 2, 3] ; 1653-6, early pur- chaser at Huntington ; 1668, will dat. Nov. 10, not proved or re- corded ; on file in Surro. office, N. Y. ; 1669, Mar. 21st, Executors renounced and Letters Admn. granted to Stephanus Van Cortlandt, on behalf of Oloff Stephens Van Cortlandt, his father, a creditor. [N. Y. Wills, Lib. I., p. 74]
58. Whitson, Henry. [This family name since numerous.]
59. Willet, Thomas, b. in Eng. about 161 1 ; d. R. L, 4th Aug., 1674;
1629-30, arrived at Plymouth, Mass., from Leyden [1642 and 1645, another, T. W. mar. and died at New York ;] 1650, nego- tia'ed truceline between L)utch and Eng. at Hartford; 1650-51, purchaser of ship Fortune, confiscated; 1651-64, an assistant Magistrate of Plymouth Colony ; 1664, first English Mayor of New York ; 1655-72, Memb. of Gov.'s Council, N. Y. ; 1663, June 21. See the King's Letter to the Colonies (2 N. Hav. Rec, 499).
60. Williams, Robert, b. in Wales, brother of Richard, b. in Wales ; 1647,
1659, 1682, at Hempstead ; 1653, Indian deed, Oyster Bay and Hunt., to him and others ; 1666 (or near), at Huntington ; 1668, Patentee of Dosoris, Oyster Bay. 6r. Williams, William ; 1665, Memb. of Assembly.
62. Wood, Edmund, of Oakham, Yorkshire ; d. before 1669 ; sons,
Jonas and Jeremiah ; 1636,' an original settler of Springfield, Mass. ; May, lots for him and Jonas, adjoining the mill brook ; 1637, at Wethersfield ; ) viz., Edmund, Jeremiah, Jonas, and Jonas, 1641, at Stamford ; \ Jun.
63. Wood, Jeremiah (or Jeremy), son of Edmund ; 1636, '39, and '41,
with the last ; 1685, Sen., at Hempstead, 300 acres ; Jun., 58 acres.
64. Wood, Jonas, son of Edmund, called "Mr.," of Oakham; d. 12th
June, 1689; sons, Jonas, Jun., and John; dau. Elizabeth, mar. Isaac Piatt ; dau. Phebe, mar. Epenetus Piatt ; 1636, '37, '41, see Edmund, above ; 1644, one of the~patentees of Hempstead ; 1658, May 17, at New Haven ; Deputy from Huntington ; 1665, Mem- ber of 1st Assembly, Hempstead. (See Huntington.)
65. Wood, Terry (no trace ; prob. a mistake for Jerry or Timothy).
66. Yates, Framcls [or William, b. 1619 ; a witness in 1677] ; 1658,
1667, at Hempstead (see 10 N. E. Regr., 358) ; 1682, at Westches- ter ; d. there Die. 8, 1682; will dat. Nov. 29. 1682, names five children — Mary, John, Dina, Jonathan, and Dorothy. [N. Y. Wills, Lib. 2, p. 331.]
A few other names have been mentioned, such as John Cornis, (Cornell or Cornells), Robert Dean, John Roads, William Thorn, and Richard Wil- lets ; but we are not sure of the dates.
At least ten of these men can be traced from Yorkshire, England. A much larger number doubtless came from that large county. So many were from Yorkshire, that the settlement was characterized as a Yorkshire one. One of their difficulties we cannot readily appreciate, nor could the Dutch. At that date the provincial dialect of Yorkshire \vi.i so strange, that other Englishmen could not understand their common language ; nor
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could they make themselves understood by strangers without great diffi- culty. By report they were loyal to the English King and shaip at a bargain, but ready to oppose and resent unjust treatment.
We may notice that (as Marshall says) Yorkshire was chiefly " grass- land." Grain (or corn, as they called it) was not much cultivated. They designed to and did keep flocks and herds. They had learned how to procure them in this country. Hempstead exhibited fine places for grazing, over its wide and clear plains, and the salt meadows would pro- duce hay in abundance for the winter, without the use of plough or hoe. The rich " hollows " and the strips along the foot of the long range of hills would afford just the sites required for dwellings, and for gardens and orchards.
Of course, they looked sharply at the terms of their bargain, and espe- cially at the last clause, by which, after the first ten years of exposure and hardship, they were to pay the Dutch Governor one-tenth of all revenue from the land that was ploughed or hoed (for grain or vegetables), except that a Dutch acre, equal to near two English acres, was to be allowed to each, for a garden and orchard (/. <?., without payment). This was all that many of them wanted for cultivation. The D. itch for a long period had not much prospect of revenue from land cultivated by plough or hoe. Before the meadows were allotted, the settlers united to gather the hay, and even erected a " town barn ; " while private barns for the cattle in winter were also built near the meadows.
The village of Hempstead was built on one of the large hollows. A tall steeple is almost alone in sight from the open plain, even now. Formal agreements at different dates were made for herdsmen to attend and watch the common drove of cattle, receive them from the owners half an hour after sunrise, and deliver them back half an hour before sundown. Butter was to be received in payments — the first notice seen of its use as a currency. In 1658 the dues, called tythes or tenths, for the Governor, for two years, after some dispute, were adjusted at 100 sheeples (or bushels) of wheat, showing some regular farming amid all the disturbances. The Dutch officials were doubtless disappointed at the small returns to them, and they used rough words and harsh measures. The new Dutch Governor, incapable of understanding them or the circumstances, was rough and arbitrary. He forbid them to gather crops until his tenths were first paid, which, it seems to us, was contrary to the charter.
In 1650 the truce line was negotiated at Hartford, with much diplomacy and parade, between Dutch and English, by their colonial magnates, and was expected by many to become permanent.
By this the new town of Hempstead fell to the Dutch. Its east line, the west line of Oyster Bay, was the intended boundary-line between English and Dutch. The treaty, locally acquiesced in and long held in suspense, was never approved and exchanged abroad. The line never became a national and regular boundary-line.
The war of 1653-4, between the Dutch and English nations, in Crom- well's time, came very soon, and nearly broke up the Hempstead settle- ment. It was on disputed territory.
Very few Englishmen remained. They generally went eastward into Suffolk County. Some few stopped in Oyster Bay. A larger number fixed themselves in the town of Huntington. Others went back to South- ampton.
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Ten years later, when the English, under Capt. Richard Nicolls, cap- tured New York, he encountered on Long Island, as Englishmen, farther west than others towards New York, a few of these Yorkshiremen, and he called Long Island Yorkshire.
The Dutch census list of 1673 is the earliest general list of residents we have noticed. On this, only eight of the sixty -six persons above named can be clearly traced in Hempstead, and about eight who were probably descendants of the first. There may have been a few more. Twelve names are gone from the census list, or illegible, and several others dis- guised by Dutch spelling.
In the census list of 1698, recertly discovered, only fifteen family names were the same as in this allotment of 1647, viz. : Carman, Denton, Ellison, Foster, Gildersleeve, Hicks, Ireland. Jackson, Raynor, Sering, Smith, Thickstone, Valentine, Williams, and Wood. If Capt. John Seaman (sometimes written Symon) was at Hempstead so early as 1647, his name would be added. He was not from Yorkshire, and was sent by the others on embassies, probably because he, with less difficulty, could make himself understood.
RECORDS OE ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH, HEMPSTEAD, L.
BAPTISMS.
Communicated by Benjamin D. Hicks, Esq.
(Continued from Vol. IX., p. 187, of The Record.)
1737-
April 24. Peter, s., James, s., John, s., Sarah, d., of Isaac and Deborah
Jermain. April 24. Margaret, d. of Elisha and Margaret Gildersleeve. May 27. Margaret, d., Samuel, s., of Edward and Margaret Spragg. Sept. 11. Thomas, s. of John and Abigail Cornel.
Oct. 1. Rachel, d., Susanna, d., John, s., of John and Elizabeth Reyner. Oct. 9. Terujah, s. of Daniel and Sarah Pine. Nov. 13. Ruben, s. of John and Sarah Johnston. Jan. 8. William, s. of James and Martha Lysight. Jan. 12. Daniel, s., George, s., Stephen, s., Catherine, d., Clark, s., of
A 1 lam and Sarah Lawrence, at Sheriff Lawrence's, Flushing, L. I. Jan. 30. Margaret Langdon, Mary Manwaring, Hannah Manwaring
(adults). Jan. 30. Mercy, d., Letitia, d.. Levina, d., Thomas, s., William, s., John,
s., of Thomas and Elizabeth Manwaring. Jan. 30. Jane, d. of Joseph and Jane Alburtus.
1 8 79. J Records of St. George 's Church, Hempstead, L. I.
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Jan. 30. William, s. of Solomon and Margaret Langdon.
Feb. 10. Elijah, s. of James and Mary Wood.
Mar. xo. William, s., John, s., of William and Charity Cornel.
I738-
Mar. 26. Samuel, s. of Lefferts and Mary Hogawout.
April t>°- Elizabeth, d. of Jonathan and Letitia Hazard.
May 21. Mary, d. of Walter and Martha Hetherington.
June 2i. John Smith, Rosanna Smith (adults).
June 21. Millv, d., Caleb, s., John, s., of John and Rosanna Smith.
July 30. Mary, d. of Abram and Anne Losee.
Aug. 7. Millissent, d., James, s., -Sarah, d., of James and Martha Hugins.
Aug. 13. John, s. of John and Jean Doxee.
Sept. 16. Eoie, d., Jane, d., of Coleman and Elizabeth Combs.
Sept. 16. Elizabeth, d., Samuel s., '1 nomas, s., Mary, d., of Samuel and
Mary Southard.
Sept. 19. Joseph, s., Benjamin, s., Solomon, s., Michael, s., of Samuel and
Jasperance Bedel.
Sept. 19. William, s., Phebe,d., John, s., of Thomas and Abigail Gritman.
Sept. 22. Gilbert, s. of Mordecai and Lester.
Sept. 27. Porochis, s. of James and Martha Hugins.
1739-
April 15. April 20. June 3. June 7. June 7. June 7.
ard. June 9. June 2 1. June 21. June 24. July 13. July 22. Sept. 30. Oct. Oct. Dec. Jan. Jan. Jan. Eeb. Feb. Feb. Mar. 2. Mar. 23.
1. 7-
4- 2
2. 2.
4- 24.
28.
, d. of Derrick and ■ Albertson, of Oyster Bay, L. I.
Thomas, s. of Robert and Hannah JViitchel. John, s., Mary, d., of Abraham and Phebe Smaling. Thomas, John, Samuel Treadwell (adults). Mary, d. of John Treadwell.
Richard, s., Daniel, s., Zebulon, s., of Richard and Jane South- Peggy, d. of Solomon and Margaret Langdon. Charles, s. of Charles and Jean Peters. Elizabeth, d. of Jarvis and Elizabeth Dusenberry. John, s. of John and Abigail Cornel. Timothy, s. of James and Mary Johnson. John, s. of Nicholas and Mary Deforrest. John, s. of John and Elizabeth Hall.
Elizabeth, d. of Jonathan (deceased), and * Elizabeth Smith. Richardus, s. of Richard and Elizabeth Cornel. Elizabeth, d. of John and Anne Grit. nan. Amy, wife of Ezekiel Reyner, Elizabeth Smith (Rock). Sarah, d., Rebeckah, d., of Samuel Reyner. Elijah, s. of Ezekiel and Aimy Reyner. Mary, d. of Samuel and Temperance Bedel. Obediah, s. of Dennis and Susanna Wright. Angerich, d. of Symon and Salome Ooster. Anne, d. of Elisha and Margaret Gildersieeve. Anna, d. of Abram and Anne Losee.
* Elizabeth, now wife of Joseph Halstead.
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1740.
May g. Judith, wife of Simon Cooper, of Oyster Bay.
June 13. Mary, d. of John and Sarah Johnston.
June 21. Jemima, d. of Richard and Phebe Gildersleeve.
June 22. William, s. of George and Judith Watsen.
June 27. Hannah Combs, adult.
June 27. Elizabeth, d., John, s., Samuel, s., Thomas, s., of Daniel and
Mary Combs.
June 27. Samuel, s., Benjamin, s., of Ezekiel and Rachel Baldwin.
June 27. Timothy, s. of Richard and Deborah Eliston.
June 27. Richard, s. of Richard and Freelove Baker.
July 2. Peter, s. of Thomas and Elizabeth Lennington.
July 2. John, s. of John and Hannah Lennington.
July 19. Andrew, s. of Freeman and Mary Place.
Aug. 24. Richard, s. of Micah and Phebe Smith.
Oct. 9. Charity, d. of Mercy Peters, widow.
Oct. o. Jane, d. of Charles and Jane Peters.
Oct. 14. Samuel, s. of Major Josiah and Mary Martin.
Nov. 26. Samuel, s., Mary, d., Jacob, s., Deborah, d., of Samuel and
Hannah Totten.
Jan. 2. Richard, s. of Richard and Alice Thorn.
1741.
Aug. 23. Mary, d., Anne, d., of Edward and Catherine White. Aug. 23. Benjamin, s., George, s., of Benjamin and Susanna Halet.
1742.
Oct. 17. Letitia, d. of Richard and Elizabeth Cornel. Oct. 24. Sarah, d. of Philip and Elizabeth Legross. Nov. 21. Gilbert, s. of Jacobus and Sarah Lawrence.
Rev. Samuel Seabury, Rector.
Dec, 1742. Phebe, d. of Micah and Pheby Smith.
Dec, 1 742. At Oyster Bay, Samson Hawxhurst and his four children, viz. :
Hosea, s., Samson, s., of Samson and Amy Hawxhurst.
Jotham, s., Mary, d., of Samson and Jerusha Hawxhurst. Dec, 1742. Sarah, d., Elizabeth, d., of Peter and Mary Baker. Dec, 1742. Isaac, s. of James and Prissilla Whippo.
1743-
May 1. Peter, s., Elizabeth, d., Abraham, s., of Abram and Jane Bond.
May 1. Elizabeth, d. of Joseph and Mary Rodes.
May 1. Timothy, s. of Richard and Mary Rodes.
May 1. Rebecca, d. of Benjamin and Susanna Hulet.
May 1. Thomas, s. of Samuel and Rebecca Clowes.
June 12. Silvester, s. of John and Abigail Cornel.
Aug. 21. Jemima, d. of Philip and Elizabeth Legross.
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Aug. 28. Mary, d. of John and Jane Doxey.
Sept. 1. Abigail, wife of Jacob Mott.
Sept. 11. Thomas, s., John, s., of Thomas and Bethiah Saymore, of Oyster
Bay, L. I. Sept. 18. Jane, wife of Benjamin Hiviland, of Oyster Bay. L. I. Sept. 18. Jane, d., Benjamin, s., Peter, s., of Benjamin and Jane Haviland. Sept. 18. Anna, wife of Samuel Rogers, of Oyster Bay, L. I. Sept. 18. Anna, d., Samuel, s., of Samuel and Anna Rogers. Sept. 18. Mary, d., Charles, s. , of John and Hannah Hulett, at Oyster Bay. Oct. 2. Deborah, wife of Bealy Bassford, of Oyster Bay, L. I. Oct. 2. John, s., Elizabeth, d., Sarah, d., Mary, d., of Bealy and Deborah
Bassford. Oct. 3. Joel, s. of Samson and Jerusha Hawxhurst, at Oyster Bay. Oct. 16. Elizabeth, d. of Samuel and Elizabeth Seabury. Oct. 27. Hannah, d. of Robert and Hannah Michel. Jan. 9. Sarah, d., William, s., Isaac, s., Frances, d., of John and Rachel
Haverland. Mar. 7. Sarah, d. of Bartholomew and Jane Barnwell.
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May 6. Hannah, d. of James and Sarah Hewlet.
May 13. Margaret, d. of Elijah and Margaret Gildersleeve.
June 5. Jacob, s. of Jacob and Phebe Smith.
June 17. Billee, s. of George and Hannah Hulett.
June 23. John, s. of Edward and Phebe Spragg.
June 23. Mikah, s., Hannah, d., Kaziah, d., Phebee, d., Timothy, s.,
James, s., Mille, d., Uriah, s., ofNehemiah and Phebee Spragg. June 23. Benjamin, s. of Joseph and Chinche Southard. June 23. William, s., Michael, s., of Samuel and Temperance Bedell, at
Oyster Bay. June 23. At Huntington, L. I., Cooper, s., John, s., of Robert and Mary
Brook. June 23. Mary, d. of John and Elizabeth Bryan. Aug. 19. Richard, s. of Jacob and Sarah Lawrence. Aug. 26. At Oyster Bay, L. I., Ruth, d. of John and Martha Rutyard. Sept. 10. At Oyster Bay, L. I., Joseph, s. of Simon and Judith Cooper. Oct. 1.1. Deborah, d. of John and Ann Combes. Oct. 13. John, s., Mary, d. , of John and Elizabeth Searing. Oct. 27. At Oyster Bay, L.T., John, s. of Benjamin and Jane Haviland. Nov. 4. Hannah, d., John, s., Margaret, d., of Lefferts and Mary Hogout. Nov. 18. John, son of Peter Baker.
Nov. 22. Mary, d., Sarah, d., Anthony, s., of Kasper and Ruth Wanzer. Feb. 3. Mar)', d. of Isaac and Margaret Smith.
1745.
April 21. James, son of Widow Hall.
April 25. Thomas Smith, Israel Smith. Katherine Smith, Ruth Wanzer
(adults). April 25. Benjamin, s., Anna, d., Amos, s., of Benjamin and Anna Reyner.
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Records of Railway and Plainfield, N. J.
[Jan.,
RECORDS OF RAHWAY AND PLAINFIELD [N. J.] MONTHLY MEETING OF FRIENDS (FORMERLY HELD AT AMBOY AND WOODBRID(JE). BIRTHS.
Communicated by Hugh ]>. Vail, Esq.
(Continued from Vol. IX., p. 180, of The Record.)
] 'ay. Month. Year.
William Shotwell Son of Joseph Shotwell and Sarah his
wife was born 3
Wm Webster son of John Webster and anna his wife was
1 10m 15
Sarah Webster daughter of John Webster and anna his
wife was born 30
Tayler Webster Son of John Webster and anna his wife
was born iS
John \\ ebster son of John Webster and anna his wife was
born 22
Susanah Webster daughtur of John Webster and anna his
wife was born 22
Katharine Webster daughtur of John Webster and anna
Ins wife was born 23
Hugh Webster son of John Webster and anna his wife
was bom 27
Andrew Hamton Son of Andrew Hamton and Mary his
wife was born 10
Abner Hamton Son of Andrew Hamton and Mary his
wife was born 19
Abner Hamton Son of Abner Hamton and Rachel his
wife was born 15
Benjamin Shotwell son of Benjamin Shotwell and Amey
his wife was born 21
Josiah Hunt Son of Solomon Hunt and Catharine his
wife was born 14
Abegail Hunt Daughter of Solomon Hunt and Catharine
his wife was boi n 23
Solomon Hunt Son of Solomon Hunt and Catharine his
wife was born 29
Susannah 1 hint Daughter of Solomon Hunt and Catha- rine his wife was born 15
Nathan Hunt Son of Solomon Hunt and Catharine his
wife was born 2
Catharine Hunt Daughter of Solomon Hunt and Catharine
his wife was born 16
Deboiah Copeland daughter of Coperthwaite Copeland
and Susanah his wile was born 2
Ann Copeland daughtur of Coperthwait Copeland and
Susanah his wife was born n
Jehial Hamton Son of Jacob Hamton and mar)- his wife
was born 25
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1 8 79.] f Records of Railway and Plainjield, N. J. 2 1
Day. Month. Year.
Sarah Hamton Daughtur of Jacob Hamton and mary his
wife was born 27 3
Mary Hamton Daughtur of Jacob Hamton and mary his
wife was born 17 11
Jacob Hamton Son of Jacob Hampton and mary his wife
was born 5 2
John Vail Son of John Vail and Margret his wife was born 29 6 John Brotherton Son of James Brotherton and Alice his
wife was born 25 3
Henry Brotherton Son of James Brotherton and Alice his
wife was born 26 8
Grace Brotherton daughter of James Brotherton and Alice
his wife was born 16 8
Isaac Hamton Son of Abner Hamton and Rachel his
wife was born 14 9
Anna Fitz Randolph Daughter of Hartshorn Fitz Ran- dolph & Ruith his wife was born 10 12
Phinehas Fitz Randolph Son of Hartshorn Fitz Randolph
& Ruith his wife was born 15 10
Mary Fitz Randolph Daughter of Harshorn Fitz Randolph
& Ruith his wife was born 8 10
Katharine Fitz Randolph daughter of Hartshorn Fitz
Randolph & Ruith his wife was born 16 11
Elizabeth Fitz Randolph daughter of Hartshorn Fitz
Randolph & Ruith his wife was born 23 2
Edward Fitz Randolph Son of Hartshorn Fitz Randolph
& Ruith his wife was born 17 5
Richard Fitz Randolph Son of Hartshorn Fitz Randolph
& Ruith his wife was born 1 10
William VVebster son of Hugh Webster and Sarah his wife
was born 10 3
John VVebster son of Hugh Webster and Sarah his wife
was born 23 10
Mary Webster daughter of Hugh Webster and Sarah his
wife was born 10 10
Martha Webster daughter of Hugh Webster and Sarah
his wife was born 30 7
Mary Thorn daughter of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his
wife was born 9 10
Sarah Thorn daughter of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his
wife was born 26 5
Susanah Thorn daughter of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his
wife was born 27 6
Martha Thorn daughter of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his
wife was born 12 12
Jacob Thorn son of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his wife
was born 24 3
Elizabeth Thorn daughter of Jacob Thorn and Susanah
his wife was born 5 12
Joseph Thorn son of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his wife
was born 17 n
2
22 Records of Railway and Plain field, N. J. [Jan.,
Day. Month. Year.
Ann Thorn daughter of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his wife
was horn 23 6
Maitha Thorn daughter of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his
wife was born 9 4
Margrit Thorn daughter of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his
wife was born 3 12
Jacob Thorn Son of Jacob Thorn and Susanah his wife
was born 24 1
Samuel Shotvvell Son of Abraham Shotwell and Mary his
wife was born 24 12
Mary Vail daughter of Nathaniel Vail & Elizabeth his
wife was born 25 7
Elizabeth Vail daughter of Nathanitl Vail & Elizabeth
His wife was born 20 1
Martha Vail daughter of Nathaniel Vail & Elizabeth his
wife was born 13 7
Sarah Vail daughter of Nathaniel Vail & Elizabeth his
wife was born 12 9
*Robert Vail son of Nathaniel Vail & Elizabeth his wife was
born... 31 3
* Esther Vail daughter of Nathaniel Vail & Elizabeth his
wife was born 12 2
Anna Hamton daughter of Jacb Hamton and Mary his
wife was born 18 4
John Laing Son of Samuel Laing and Elizabeth his wife
was born 24 1
Mary Laing daughter of Sam" Laing and Elizabeth his
wife was born 23 6
Arthur Young Son of Thomas Young and thankful his wife
was born 10 7
Margaret Young Daughter of Thomas Young & thankfull
his Wife was born 15 4
Elizabeth Young Daughter of Thomas Young & Thank- ful his Wife was born 27 2
Pheaby Young Daughter of Thomas Young & Thankfull
his Wife was born 19 9
Thomas Young Son of Thomas Young & Thankfull his
wife was born 13 n
Thankfull Young Daughter of Thomas Young & Thank- full his wife was born 26 4
Morgan Young Son of Thomas Young & Thankfull his
wife was bom 18 10
Daniel Young Son of Thomas Young & Thankfull His
Wife was born 20 2
Mary Young Daughter of Thomas Young & Thankfull
\ 1 is wife was Born 16 5
Mary Simcock Daughter of Nathan Simcock & Charity
~~" his wife was born 27 2
Jacob Simcock Son of Nathan Simcock & Charity his
Wife was Born 11 1 1
Jane Symcock Daughter of Nathan Symcock and Charity
his wife was Born 7 12
1879-] Records of Railway and Plainfeld, N. J. 23
Day. Month. Year.
Anna Webster daughter of John Webster and Anna his
wife was born 6 9 1 760
Ann Brotherton Daughter of Henry Brotherton & Mercy
his wife was born 7 9 1753
Elizabeth Brotherton Daughter of Henry Brotherton &
Mercy his wife was Born 23 11 1 755
William Brotherton Son of Henry Brotherton & Mercy
His wife was born 5 n 1757
Mary Brotherton Daughter of Henry Brotherton & Mercy
his wife was born 26 10 1 759
Sarah Brotherton Daughter of Henry Brotherton & Mercy
his wife was born 8 12 1761
Zachariah Pound Son of Elijah Pound and
was Born 9 9 1 738
Benjamin Pound Son of Elijah Pound and
was Born 6 8 1 740
Samuel Pound Son of Elijah Pound & Elizabeth his wife
was Born 15 6 1 745
Bathsheba Pound Daughter of Elijah Pound & Elizabeth
his wife was born \ 13 1 1747
Daniel Pound Son of Elijah Pound & Elizabeth his wife
was Born , 1 1 1 75 1
Sarah Pound Daughter of Elijah Pound & Elizabeth his
wife was Born 20 8 1752
Elizabeth Pound Daughter of Elijah Pound & Elizabeth
his wife was Born 16 n 1 754
Elijah Pound Son of Elijah Pound & Elizabeth his wife
was born 19 11 1756
Thomas Pound Son of Elijah Pound & Elizabeth his wife
was born 14 12 1758
Easter Pound Daughter of Elijah Pound & Elizabeth his
wife was born 17 3 1761
Edward Fitz Randolph son of Robert Fitz Randolph &
Katherian his wife was born 12 5 1 746
Mary Fitz Randolph daughter of Robert Fitz Randolph &
Katherian his wife was born ,. 16 2 1 749
Katharian Fitz Randolph daughter of Robert Fitz Ran- dolph & Katherian his wife was born 22 12 1751
Hope Fitz Randolph daughter of Robert Fitz Randolph
& Katherean his wife was born 7 8 1 754
Tayler Fitz Randolph son of Robert Fitz Randolph &
Katherian his wife was born 21 8 1756
Mary Fitz Randolph daughter of Robert Fitz Randolph &
Katherian his wife was born 2 1 1758
Samuel Webster Son of Hugh Webster and Sarah his
wife was born 1 8 1 762
Richard Dell son of Richard Dell and Elizabeth his wife
was born 20 7 1 762
John Copeland son of Cowperthwaite Copeland and
Susanah his wife was born. . .'". 9 8 1 762
24
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [Jan.,
RECORDS OF THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK.— Baptisms.
(Continued from Vol. IX., p. 139, of The Record.)
A0 1682.
GETUYGEN.
den 2 1 dictO. TheUllis Herck, So- Hendrick. Pieter Brecstede, Geertie Theunis.
phia Hendricx.
den 2Q dictO. SneSSer, Metje Willem. Gabriel Mouvielle, Thomas Larens-
' , zen, Jugen.
Earens. J s
den I Jul. ClaeS Burger, Sara NlColaeS. Johannes Borger, Catharina Bedloo.
Bedloo.
Eodem. Herman Heildr.DraS, Geertruyd. Thomas Laurenszen, Marritie Corne-
Annetie Wynants. Eodem. Tobias ten Evck, Ael- Hendrickje. Gerrit Decking, Aefje Boeien.
tie Duycking. Eodem. Frederick du Voix, Susanna. Jan Dyckman, Maria — .
Hester, den 22 dicto. Jacques Creisson, Ma- Rachel.
ria Reynarts.
den 29 dictO. WillemAeitSZen,Styn- Margaiiet. Barent de Snj?der, Jannetie Jeiiri-
tie Barents. aens'
Eodem. de Hr. Anthony Maria. Willem Teller, Maria Verleth.
Brockholst, Susan- na Schrick. Eodem. Thomas Wallis, Eliza- Mary. wiiiem der Vai, — Caterenton.
beth.
den 5 Aug. Jan Coely, Jannekeil RyCkie. Nicolaes de Meyer, Maritie Pieters.
Van Dyck. Eodem. Willem Bdyl, Jannetie Francyntie. Lysbeth Frans.
Frans.
David de Mareets, Junior, Rachel Creison.
FINIS II PARTIS
[411]
DOOP BOECK
OFT NAEM REGISTER DER
KINDERSKENS
EN BEJAERDE PERSONEN
DIE GEDOOPT ZYN IN DESE KERCKE VAN
NEWYORKE
't Sedert de Overkomste van
HENRICUS SELYNS V D M
III. DEEL.
1 8 79.] Records of tht Reformed Dutch Church in New York.
[Translation.] [BAPTISMAL BOOK
OR REGISTER OF THE NAMES OF THE
CHILDREN
AND THE PERSONS WHO REPRESENTED THEM, BAPTISED IN THIS CHURCH OF NEW YORK During the Ministration of ~
HENRICUS SELYNS V D M
VOLUME III.]
DOOP BOECK A0 1682.
25
L'413]
den 12 Aug. Eodem. den 19 diet, den 23 diet, den 26 diet, den 30 diet. Eodem. den 16 Sept,
Eodem. den 20 diet, den 23 diet, den 27 diet. Eodem.
den 3 Oct. Eodem.
ouders.
Isaac Van Vleck, Ca- talyntie de Lanoy.
Jan Corszen, Metje Cray.
Wiert Epkens, Ger- ritje Jilles.
AnthonyLacont,Styn- tie Jans.
Anthony Thyssen, Neeltie Anthonis.
Gerrit Hendtickszen, JosV'ntie Thomas.
Theunis Roelofszen, Annetie Claes.
Hendr. Jilleszen Ma- niviel, Anna Pie- ters.
Huybert Gerritszen, Willemtie Ariaens.
VVillem Wydt, Catha- rina.
VVillem Larens, An- netie.
Jan de Vries, Grietie Theunis.
Hendrick Van de Wa- ter, Grietie Ver Meiilen.
Joseph Elias, Elisa- beth.
Reyert Tincker, Ma- ria.
kinders. Cornelia.
Geertriiyd.
Wiert.
Styntie.
Johannes.
Pieter.
Annetie.
Pieter.
Ariaen.
Daniel.
Judith.
Elisabeth.
Anna.
Anna. Thomas.
getuygen.
Abraham de Lanoy, Catharina de Boog.
Hendrick Kermer, Grietie Hendricx.
Jilles Janszen, Elsje Jilles.
Dirck Janszen, Grietie Jacobs.
Thomas Lavirenszen, Annetie Jo- sephs.
Gosen Stephenszen, Margrietie Ger- rits.
Helmont Roelofszen.Vrouwtie Claes. Jilles Janszen, Grietie Provoost. 1
Ariaen Lambertszen, Lysbeth Slech- tenhorst.
Thomas Lodowyckszen, Geesje Ba" rents.
Jan Larens, Henrica Wessels.];
Joost Van Harlingen, Mayken Vla- mings.
Isaac Van Vleck, Geertriiyd Ver Meulen.
Jan , Sara ■
Mr. Hartman Wessels, 1 Robbert Saer, Thomas Griffert.j
26
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [Jan.
GETUYGEN.
den 6 diet. Eodem.
Will em ny.
-, Apollo- Abraham. Thomas Scharp, Tryntie Adolfs.
Isaac de Lamaistre, Hester de La Maistre.
Hillegond Joris.
Theunis Gysbertszen,Annetie Corne- lls.
Gerrit Gerritszen, Neeltie Harmens.
Hendr. WeSSelszen Jannetie. Pieter Breestede, MagdaleentieVan
ten Broeck, Janne- Vleck-
tie Breestede. den ii diet. Simon Barentszen, Geertriiyd. Nicoiaes Bianck, Tryntie Reyniers.
WyO'tie Arents. Eodem. Jean de Lamaistre, Susanna.
[414] Ruthje Waldrori.
den 18 diet. Dirck de Wolspinder, Ryntie.
Lysbeth Flut. Eodem. Cornelis Claeszen, Annetie.
Aeltie Theunis. den 21 dicto. Jeuriaen Thomaszen, Harmen.
Grietie Harmens.
den 26 dictO. Corn.JaCObszeilQuick, Abraham. Carsten Luiirsen, Krancyntie An-
Abigael Abrahams. dries-
den 27 dicto. Evert Hendrickszen, Hendrick. Adam Brouwer, Marritie Brouuers. Fytie Brouwers.
Eodem. Evert WeSSelszen, Geertie. Evert Wesselszen, Annetie Kiste-
Aeltje Jans. inaeckers.
den 1 Nov. Denny Malcen, J u- Samuel. Gustaphus Adoiphus, Helena Gias.
tilth.
Eodem. Jan Langestraten, Geertruyd. joris Eisenwaert, — Men-it.
Marritie Arents. Eodem. Theunis de Key, He- Hillegond
lena Van Brug. den 4 dicto. Stoftel Van Laer, Ca- Cornelis.
tharina Boots. Eodem. Balthiis Bayard, Mar- Govert.
ritie Loockermans. Eodem. Johannes Kip, Catha- Jacob.
rina Kierstede. den 13 dicto. Hendrick Kiersen, Sara.
Metje Michiels. Eodem. Tades Michielszen, Jannetie.
Annetie Steenmuts. den 15 dicto. JanThomaszen, Apol- Cornelia.
Ionia Cornelis. Eodem. Albeitus Ringo, Jan- Philip.
netie Stoiitenbiirg. Eodem. Arendt Fredericks- Theunis.
zen, Saertie Theu- nis. Eodem. Jacob Kip, Maria de Salomon.
Lamontagne. den 16 Nov. Engelbert Lot, Come- Pieter.
lia de Lanoy.
den 18 dictO. Gcirit EpkenS, Hes- Margariet. Hans Diederickszen, Margrietie.
ter Hans.
Johannes Van Brug, Hillegond Theunis.
Jacobus Ver Hulst, Grietie Hen- dricx.
Stephanus Van Courtlant, Annetie Loockermans.
Jacob Kip, Sara Roelofs.
Thymen Van Borsum, Grietie Fock- ens.
Cornelis Steenwyck, Margareta de Riemer.
Leenert Albertszen de Grau, C.rietie Kiersen, Susanna de Groot.
Ian Philipszen, Engeltie Stouten- btirg.
Theunis Janszen.
Johannes Kip, Blandina Kierstede. Pieter Lot, Cornelia de Lanoy.
1 8 79.] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York.
27
GETUYGEN.
den 21 dicto. Jacob Claeszen, An- Rachel.
netie Vander Grist, den 28 diet. Jacobus Drayer, Ma- Jacob.
ria. den selfde. Elias Listing, Anna Lysbeth.
Brack, den 6 Dec. Gerrit Hollart, Su- Cornelis.
sanna Thomas, den 10 diet. Fieter Meyer, Batie Cornelia.
[415] Jans.
den 11 diet. Theunis Corneliszen, Jacob.
Annetie Jacobs. Eodem. Abraham de Rycke, Tryntie.
Junior, Grietie Van
Buytenhuysen. den 20 diet. Gerrit Hendricxen, Cornelis.
Svtie Lievens. Eodem. Jacobus de Key, Hil- Samuel.
legond Theunis. Eodem. Claes Lock, Cniertie Margrietie. Dirck Van der cieef, Grietie Hen
Hendricx. dricx-
Eodem. Willein Hoppen, Geertrilyd. Johannes Jiircxen, Jannetie Dret
Paulus.
Leendert Van der Grist, Ytie Roe- lofs.
Assuerus , Lysbeth Pieters. •)
Joost Cossing, Lysbeth Jans.
Dirck Janszen, Neeltie Urbanus. \
Andries Meyer, Margareta de Rie- mer.
Gerrit Corneliszen, en Syn huys vr.
Abraham de Rycke, Tryntie Van Buytenhuysen.
Marritie Pieters.
Pieter Jacobszen Marius, Gerritie Theunis,' Marritie Beeck.
den 23 dicto. Lucas Andrieszen, Lucas.
Aefje Laurens. Eodem. Jan Andrieszen, Grie- Jannetie.
tie Jans. Eodem. Claes Janszen, Anne- Hillegond.
tie Cornelis. den 27 diet. Laurens Hoist, Hille- Ariaentie.
tie Gerrits.
A° 1683.
den 4 Jan. Theunis Corneliszen, Claesje.
Annetie Claes. Eodem. Enoch Michielszen, Isaac.
Dirckje Meyers, den 10 diet. Hendrick Gerritszen, Gerrit.
Marritie VValdron. Eodem. Jan Nagel, Rebecca Jacobus.
VValdron. Eodem. Salsbury, Mar- Willem.
grietie VVillems. den 17 diet. Jan Evertszen Ketel- Grietie.
tas, Aeltie Schep-
moes. den 3 Febr. Claes Tuynnier, Jan- netie Fviersen. Eodem. Fredrick de Boog, Marritie.
Lysbeth Fredricx.
Balthiis Bayard, Jannetie Lucas.
Jan , Sophia Claeszen.
Johannes Van Brug, Pietertie Idens. Nicolaes Meyert, Lydia Van Dyck.
Jan Corneliszen, Jannetie Cornelis.
Hertman Michielszen, Lysbeth Mey- ers.
Daniel Waldron, Margrietie Gerrits. Jacobus Van, Debora Meyers. Willem Robbert, Marritie Brouwers. Thomas Koeck, Harmentie .
Wilhelmus Beeckman, Catharina de Boog.
28
Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [Jan.,
den 7 diet
Eodem.
Eodem.
Eodem.
Eodem. [416]
Joris Elsenwaert, Ari- Annetie.
aentie Jans. Robbert Darkens, Lydia.
Styntie Stephens. David Ackerman, Hil- Johannes, legond Verplanck- en. Willem Post, Aeltie Agnietie.
Coevorst. Died'lot, Elsje Jeu- Claes. riaens. den 10 diet. Wynand Pieterszen, Cornelis.
Annetie Aiikens. den 16 diet. Johannes Christiaens- Christiaen. zen, Anna Corne- liszen. Eodem. Jerver Messer, Tryn Jannetie.
Dircx. Eodem. Laurens Arentszen, Annetie.
Erancyntie Thomas, den 24 diet. Jan Dirckszen Strae- Rachel, temaecker, Geesje Gerrits.
den 3 Mart. Samuel , Agnie- Samuel.
tie.
GETUYGEN.
Elsenwaert, en Syn hiiys vrouw.
Jan Stephenszen, Jannetie Stephens.
Gelyn Verplancken, Annetie Acker- mans.
Lucas Coeverst, Belitie Lodowycx. Gerrit Zeeuw, Susanna Thomas.
Nicolaes Willem Stuyvesant, Lys- beth Slechtenhorst.
Pieter Meyer, Baertie Dircx.
Claes Borger, Margrietie Blanck.
Cornelis Thomaszen, Cathryntie Thomas.
Nicolaes Bayard, Judith Verlet.
Maria Hendricx.
den 7 diet
Eodem.
Eodem.
Eodem.
Eodem.
Gerrit Leydecker, Ryck.
Neeltie Cornelis. Willem Jacobszen, Jacob.
Tryntie Boelen. Hertman Michiels- Fytie.
zen, Marritie Dircx. Elias Pro voost, Come- Emmerens. David
Cornelis Barentszen, Claertie
Boele Roelofszen, Teuntie Idens.
Thomas Laurenszen, Marritie Pie- ters.
lia Roos. Carsten Lufirszen, Henricus.
Geertie Teums. den 1 1 diet. Pieter Bayard, Blan- Sara.
dina Kierstede. Eodem. Jan Carelszen, Hele- Henricus.
na Hendricx. den 25 diet. Wouter Reyerszen. Marritie.
den 27 diet. Anna . Lysbeth.
Eodem. Jan Hendricxen, Susanna.
Martha Josua. Eodem. Jacobus de Beau- Joost.
vois, Marritie Joos-
ten. Eodem. Harmen Janszen, Johannes.
Brechtje Elsenwaert. Eodem. Clement Elsenwaert, Sara.
Anna Maria.
JahnneTen} dc Ke>'"
Johannes Kip, Rachel Kierstede.
Johannes de Foreest, Tryntie Rey- niers.
Joris Walrut, Claesje Blanck.
Jacob Leydsler. Elsje Thymens.
Jacques Creisson, Wybrig Van Bor- sum.
Gerrit Gerritszen, Stymie Jans.
Mr. Hans Kierstede, Styntie Elsen- waert.
Gerrit Leydecker, Annetie Elsen- waert.
1879] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York.
29
Eodem. Eodem.
den 31 Mart.
Eodem.
[417] Eodem.
Eodem.
den 7 Apr.
Eodem.
den 1 1 diet.
Eodem.
den 18 diet.
den 28 diet.
den 31 diet.
Eodem.
den 5 May.
den 31 diet.
Eodem. den 26 diet. Eodem. den 29 diet, den 1 1 Jiin. den 13 diet, den 20 diet. Eodem.
GETUYGEN.
Laurens Van der Spie- gel, Sara Webbers. Henricus de Foreest,
Femmetie Flaes-
beeck. Willem Anthony, Ma- ria Klerek. Thani Hertvelt, Elsje
Evels. Jan Davidszen, Jan-
netie Jans. Claes Emanuels, Lu-
cretia Lowys. Jan de Lamontagne,
Annetie Waldron. Isaac de Lamaistre,
Cornelia Everts. Factoor Bicker, Cla-
esje Blanck. Gosen Stephenszen,
Annetie Jans. Nathaniel Baly, Mar-
gariet Obee. David H end rick szen,
Annetie Burgers. Joris Walgraef, Mag-
dalena Rutgers. Cornelis Verwey,
Hendrickje Jans. Daniel Waldron, Sa-
ertie Rutgers. Daniel Jacobsz. de
Haert, Christina
Van der Grist. Evert Aertszen, Mar-
ritie Hercx. Frans Wesselszen,
Tryntie. Willem Peers, Grietie
Kierssen. Jan Kruck, Geertruyd
de haes. Johannes Thomaszen,
Aefje Jacobs. Willem Horns, Lys-
beth Claeszen. Lucas Tienhoven,
Tryntie Bording. Jacob Mauritszen, Grietie Van der Grist.
Agnietie. Sara.
Anthony.
Pieter.
David.
Emanuel.
Pieternelle.
Hester.
Catharina.
Jacob.
Nathaniel.
Burger.
Elsje.
Annetie.
Sara.
Jacobus.
Elbert.
Jan.
Sara.
Arnoldus.
Jacob.
Maria.
Johannes.
Margareta.
Henricus Selyns V.D.M., Isaac de Foreest, Machtilda Specht.
Barent Flaesbeeck, Sara de Foreest.
Marritie Anthony.
Jan Hendrickszen Van Giinst, Ba- rentje Hendricx.
David Davidszen, Rachel Jans. Pieter Tamboer, Barbara Emanuels. Johannes Kip, Catharina Kierstede.
Hester j de Lamaistre-
Wouter Reyerszen, Elsje Blanck.
Jan Stephenszen, Marritie Hobokt n. Hendrick Obee, Maria Hibon.
Johannes Burger, Francyntie Stiilt- heer.
Arent Luurtszen, en Syn huys vr. Jan Harmenszen, Annetie Gysberts.
Brant Schiller, Geertruyd Van Courtlant.
Jacob Leendertsz. Van der Grist, Rebecca Fredricx.
Hendrick Corneliszen, Stymie Abels. Pieter Janszen, Jannetie Dircx. Gerrit Peers, Saertie Backster. Theunis de Key, Tryntie Koockers. Jan Jacobszen, Belitie Cornelis. Willem Aertszen, Judith Elsenwaert.
Gelyn Verplancken, Elisabeth de Potter.
Cornelis Steenwyck, Mr. Gerrit Van Tricht, Margareta de Riemer.
?0 Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York. [Jan.,
OUDERS. K1NDERS.
GETUYGEN. Willem Janszen, Marritie Jans.
Hendrick Jacobszen, Styntie Ste- phens.
Assuenis Hendricxen, Hillegond Joris.
Latirens Ackerman, Hillegond Ver Plancken.
D!rck Van der Cleef, Maria Gre-
ham.
Gerrit Hendrickszen, Josyntie Ger- rits.
Johannes Provoost, Maria Hibon.
Jacob Maiiritszen, Grietie Van der Grist.
Jannetie Willeras.
Jan de Laval, Maria Greham. Pieter de Lanoy, Styntie Wessels.
den 27 diet. Jeams Woeder, Jan- Metje. netie Theunis.
den 4 Jul. Jan Stephenszen, Lys- Jannetie.
beth Lucas. Eodem. Joris Janszen, Maria Assuerus.
[418J Rutgers,
den 1 1 diet. Nathaniel Pieterszen, Johannes.
Annetie Davids. den 18 dicto. Robbertszen, Marie.
Grietie Hendricx. den 25 dicto. Lambert Ariszen, Marritie.
Margrietie Gerrits. den 1 Aug. Jonathan Provoost, Margariet.
Catharina. Eodem. Mr. Gerrit Van Tricht,
Marritie Van der
Grist. den 8 dicto. Jan Bisselton, Corne- Cornelia.
lia Willems. den 15 dicto. Jan Wydt, Lysbeth. Joseph, den 18 dicto. Pieter Janszen Boec- Johannes.
hour, Lysbeth Pa- pen, den 22 dicto. Stephanus Van Court- Philipptis. jacobus van Courtiant, p>randt
]-nf rV^rtri'r.vl Schuyler. Margrietie Van Slech-
lani, VjeelirUyQ tenhorst, Maria Van Courtiant.
Schuyler. •
Eodem. Jan Peru, Metie Pie- Anna Cath- Hendrick jansz. Van Veerde, Trjn-
ters. ryn.
den 25 dicto. Jan Lubbertszen,Bar- Sem.
bara. Eodem. Johannes Hendricx- Pieter.
en, Helena Pieters. Eodem. Albert Bosch, Elsje Caspariis
Blanck. den 28 dicto. Aernout Webber, Jan- Cornells.
netie Cornells, den 12 Sept. Andries Breestede, Jannetie.
Annetie Van Bor-
siim. den 14 dicto. Olphert Soertszen, Cornelis.
Margariet Cloppers. den 26 dicto. Thomas Willemszen, Dirck.
Harmentie Dircx. Eodem. Abraham Bock, Tan- Maria.
neken Andries.
den 29 dictO. Hendrick Wessels- GeertlU'vd. WouterBreedstede.Mayken Harper
zen, Jannetie Breed- stede.
den 30 Octob. Benjamin Black, Ju- Elisabeth. Hertman Wessels, Taersen.
dith Etsal.
tie Pieters. Dirck Emen,
Jan Janszen Van Flensburg, Corne- lia Liibberts.
Justus Wetvelt, Susanna de Fo- reest.
Ariaen Corneliszen, Lysbeth Van der Spiegel.
Pieter Breestede, Elsje Claes.
Soert Olphertszen, Heyltie Cloppers. Dirck Janszen, Lysbeth Jans.
Jacob Uyttenbogaert, Annetie
Sluys.
1 8 79-] Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New York.
31
OUDERS. KINDERS. GETUYGEN.
den 6 dictO. PaulusVanderBeeck, Sara. Jeiiriaen Blanck, Jannetie Schouten.
Sara Schouten. den 9 dicto. Jan Corneliszen, An- Annetie.
[1683] netje Alberts, den 10 dicto. Jacob Dutruex, Lys- Jacob.
beth Post. Willem.
den selfde. Frans Abrahams, Lu- Anna Maria. Jan Domingo, Anna Maria, Augus
T 1 1 ■ tyn Franciscus.
cretia Hendricx. den 13 dicto. Claes Janszen, Mar- Judith.
ritie Jans, den 20 dicto. Jan Hermanszen, Ael- Harmen.
tie Abrahams, den 6 Nov. Brandt Schuyler, Cor- Philippus
nelia Van Court- Ian t. Eodem. Elias Pos, Marritie Cornelis.
Cornelis. Eodem. Hendrick Van Bor- Annetie.
sum, Marritie Corne- lis. den 21 Nov. Hans Jacobszen, Ge- Lambert.
ertie Lamberts. Eodem. Claes Franszen, Mar- Immetie.
ritie Cornells, den 25 dicto. Carsten Corneliszen, Cathryntie. Egbert Teumszen, Pieter G
, T , . -, J dvck, Cornelia Jans.
N eel tje Jans. Eodem. Jacobus Franszen, Frans.
Magdaleentie Corne-
Elias Post, Willem Post, Sara de Foreest, Rosella dii Trieiix.
Johannes Van Hiichtenbiirg, Carsten ..Liiiirzeii, Elisabeth , Tryn
Jans. Meynard Hendricxen, Sophia Hen-
dricx.
Olof Stephen sz. Van Courtl'., Geer- „_ tfuyd Schuyler.
Reyer Schermerhorn, Lysbeth Cornelis.
Cornells Earentszen, Annetie Van Breedstede.
Herry Breser, Metje Grevenraedt. Tymen Franszen, Urseltje Jans.
Dirck Franszen, Lj?sbeth Cornelis.
den 1 Dec. Joh. Van Couwenho- Pieter.
ven, Sara Frans. den 15 diet. Leendert Van der Rebecca.
Grist, Styntie El-
senwaert. den 19 diet. Gen it Corn. Van Aefje.
Veen, WyntieStou-
tenburg. den 26 dicto. Mvndert Hendricxen, Margrietie.
Jannetie Hendricx. Eodem. Nicolaes Willem Stiiy- Petrus.
vesant, Lysbeth
Slechtenhorst.
Cornelia Liibberts.
Jacob Claeszen, Christina Van der Grist.
|obia^. I Stoutenburg. Jannetie | °
Theunis Hercxen, Grietie Hendricx.
Gerrit Slechtenhorst, Judith Bay- ard.
A° 1684.
den 2 Jan. Andries Schilder, Iden.
Vrouwtie. den 9 dicto. Cornelis Jacobszen, Jacobus.
Abiirael Abrahams.
Ide Corneliszen Van Vorst, Heyltic Cornelis.
Jacob de Key, Geertie Theunis.
32 Smith Family of New York. [Jan.,
SMITH FAMILY OF NEW YORK.
By Thomas Harrison Montgomery.
Dr. O'Callaghan gives an account of the family of William Smith, the historian, in the Historical Magazine for December, 1868, pp. 266-67. He names eleven of his father's children, and adds, "there were four other girls who married, respectively, in South Carolina, a Mr. Torrance, Mr. Rose, Mr. Gardner, and Mr. Gordon." Two of these are buried in the graveyard of the Circular Church, Charleston, as is also their brother Samuel, who d. August 12, 1 77 1, vet. 26; viz.: Catharine, w. of John Gordon, d. December 8, 1776, jet. 33, and Elizabeth B. Hatter Torrans, d. December n, 181 7, set. 82. All three are named as son or daughters of Hon'ble William Smith, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of New York. (See N. Y. G. and B. Record, vol. 7, 1876, p. 44.)
Judge Smith came to this country when about eighteen years of age, with his widowed mother and two brothers, at the instance, Dr. O'Cal- laghan says, of his Uncle William Smith, better known as " Port Royal Smith." Of the descent from this latter gentleman I am now able to give some particulars.
William Smith, otherwise " Port Royal Smith," m. Frances, d. of Col. William Peartree, in Port Royal, December 12, 1693. Col. Peartree had made his residence chiefly at Port Royal, but his property there had suf- fered materially by the earthquake of 1692, and he subsequently made his home in New York, where he attained great prominence, and was Mayor of the city in 1703-6. He had m. March 14, 1675/6, "Anne Tiddeman," the d. of Daniel Litschoe, who was Lieutenant of the Burgher Guard, New York, in 1656 ; she had been previously m., September 18, 1666, but with- out issue, to Thomas Tiddeman ; in the Record of Marriage Licenses her name is there recorded " Hannah Litschoe." He d. in 1714, ret. 72 years. Frances Peartree had accompanied her father in a voyage to Port Royal in 1693, and there young Smith — who had been of the party — mar- ried her. They had three sons :
1. Peartree, b. April 9, 1695, d. young.
2. William. (See below.)
3. Son, still-born, December 28, 1700.
William Smith, b. Feb. 26, 1697/8, who m. October 11, 1721, Catha- rine Harris, of New York. After his death she became the wife of the Reverend Ebenezer Pemberton, D.D., and her death is published in the Pennsylvania Gazette, June 13, 1 75 1. Mr. Smith d. in 1723, leaving an infant son :
Hon. William Peartree Smith,1 who graduated at Yale College in 1742 (his cousin, the historian, graduated there in i745\ ar)d on May 12, 1745, In- Mary, the only d. ot Captain William Bryant, of New York. Judge Smith was " heir to an ample fortune, and devoted himself to no
1 Query f Is it not William Peartree Smith, the patriot, and not his cousin, William Smith, the tory, who was one of "the wicked Triumvirate of New York, S.. L., and Sc." [Smith, W. Livingston, and J. M. Scott], described by Rev. Dr. Johnson to his son William Samuel Johnson, under date of April 22, 1768? Mr. Bancroft is of the opinion that the S. refers to William Smith, the historian (VI. p. 141, note) ; but Wil- liam Peartree Smith was a " Presbyterian lawyer," as was his cousin.
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particular professional calling; he, however, attended to a course of juris- prudence with an eminent attorney." He was one of the projectors, and up to the year 1793 a trustee of the College of New Jersey, "where he was noted for his punctual attendance, and offering, as a reason for his resignation, the infirmities of his advanced age not admitting of that punc- tuality of attendance which he considered indispensably important." With his friend, William Livingston, and others, he was one of the writers for the Independent Reflector, published in New York, 1752-4, and a frequent con- tributor to Parker's American Whig. He removed to Ehzabethtown, New Jersey, of which he became Mayor, retaining the office for several years, residing in the house previously the seat of Governor Belcher. He was a member of the Committee of Safety, and after the Revolution one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Sussex. The last few years of his life he spent with his daughter, Mrs. Boudinot, in Newark, there dying November 20, 1801, net. 78. His widow d. August 16, 181 1, set. 92. Her funeral sermon, by the Rev. James Richards, was printed, and is largely quoted from by Alden. She was an eminent Christian, and the influence of her loveliness and purity of character was felt with great power in a large family and a wide group of friends. {Alden, i. 81-94, 204; Whitehead's Contributions to E. Jersey History, p. 146; Hatfield's Elizabeth, pp. 410, 411, 412, 418, 515, 533, 553, 630.) Of their numerous children but two left any families. These were :
1. Ei.iza, b. July 17, 1746, d. September 10, 1747.
2. Ebenezer, b. February 20, 1747, d. July 12, 1750.
3. William Peartree, b. February 20, 1748, d. August 14, 1748.
4. Catharine, b. December 16, 1749, m- October 14, 1778, Hon. Elisha Boudinot (who was b. January 13, 1749), and d. August 30, 1797, set. 47 years.1 Their children were :
a. Anna Maria, b. November 26, 1780, the eldest grandchild, who had been particularly dear to the grandmother ; and it was Mrs. Smith's last prayer that she might soon be united to her in a better world, and at the same time expressed her firm belief that they should not long be separated one from the other. It is remarkable that this granddaughter, though at the time in her usual good health, died suddenly a fortnight after Mrs. Smith's death, viz. : August 29, 181 1. {Alden, i. 86.)
b. Catharine, b. December 2, 1781, m. Lewis Atterbury.
c. Eliza, b. April 2, 1783. d. August 7, 1783.
d. Susan, b. July 31, 1784, who, in advanced life, m. Mr. Salmon.
e. Julia, b. September 6, 1785, d. 181 2. (See Alden, v. 236-8.)
/. Eliza Emelia Stockton, b. March 1, 178-, d. young. g. William, b. February 11, 1788, d. January 17, 1 789- h. Anna Emelia, b. February 11, 1789, d. August 9, 1793. j. Elias E., b. March 11, 1791, in. Jane M. Kip; d. May 21, 1863.
1 Hon. Elisha Boudinot m. 2dly Rachel, d. of William Bradford, whose son William m. the d. of Hon. Elias Boudinot, his brother. She d. June 6, 1805, aged 41 years.— N. Y. G. and B. Recokd, iv. p. 187. Hem. 3rdly December 17, 1805, "Miss Catherine Beelanan, d. of James Beekman, Esquire, at his seat on this Island." — N. Y. Commercial Advertiser .
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k. Eliza Pintard, b. February 21, 1792, m. John Colt, of
Faterson. /. William Alexander Hamilton, b. February 20, 1795, d.
September 15, 1795.
5. Mary, b. June 26, 1 75 r, d. August 18, 1751.
6. William Peartrf.e, b. July 25, 1752, d. August 12, 1752.
7. William Pkartree, b. September 23, 1755, d. July 17, 1756.
8. Belcher Peartree, b. October 25, 1756. A graduate of the College of New Jersey, 1773. In a raid upon Elizabethtown by the British, he was captured, with others, in his father's house, January 25, 1780 {Hatfield, p. 480). He d. May 10, 1787.
9. Ann Frances, b. May 10, 1758, d. March 10, 1759. 10. William Pitt, of whom next:
Dr. William Put Smith was b. June 7, 1760; became M.D. ; was Professor of Materia Medica in Columbia College in 1792, and d. in 1796, after a brief but eminent professional career. He was known to the literary world as the author of the " Universalist," comprised in seven let- ters, to Amvntor, and "Observations on Conventions," made at a Tam- manial debate. Dr. Francis, in his "Old New York," mentions "William Pitt Smith, a doctor of physic, and a professor of materia medica in Columbia College, who had published his letters of Amyutor long prior to the time of the public discourses of Mitchell and Palmer" on Univer- salism. Dr Smith wrote a number of essays reprobating the slavery of negroes, and many other occasional pieces for the periodical works of his day. His poetical productions were numerous, and his talent for public speaking was distinguished. In the New York Magazi?ie for February, 1796, occurs the following obituary of him : "Dr. William Pitt Smith was the son of William Smith, Esquire, now of New Jersey, and under excel- lent parental guidance, gave very early in life evidences of promising abilities. He served during the latter part of the war in the Hospital De- partment of the Continental Army, and at the return of peace commenced the practice of physic in this city. On the death of the late Dr. Treat he was appointed Health Officer of this port, and was one of the repre- sentatives of this city in the Legislature of the State. The cause of his death (inflammation of the lungs) has been attributed to his having at- tended in his place, in the House, on the morning of January — , expect- ing the production of the Abolition bill (for which he was a strenuous ad- vocate), after having been engaged in the severe exercise of his professional duties, and been exposed to the then inclemency of the weather. As a politician, Dr. Smith had many friends. He was an able speaker, and was listened to with attention. His talents for writing were also gen- erally exercised with success. As a companion in private life, his loss will be regretted by a very numerous acquaintance, and by his family and particular friends will be most severely felt. This city has never perhaps suffered so heavy a loss in respect to professional and useful characters in the same space of time as in the quickly succeeding deaths of Dis. Samuel Nicoll ami Smith."
Dr. Smith m. in June, 1781, Mary Ilolliday, of the Van Ness family, and d. January, 1796, leaving three children. Mrs. Smith d. Nov. 26, 1805.
1. William Peartree, b. July 10, 1790, d. September 20, 1814. lie was master's mate of the schooner "Conquest" on Lake
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Ontario, and was accidentally drowned from that vessel during a gale. " Previously to entering on the public service of his coun- try, he had been impressed by the British, and had suffered greatly, for several years, before he could obtain a release from his irksome situation. . . . An active, enterprising, and courageous young officer," — A/den, v. 243.
2. Eliza, b. September 29, 1 79 r, m. at her Uncle Boudinot's house in Faterson, September 29, 18 19, Henry Mori's, the youngest son of Robert Morris the Financier. She d. March 4, 1844.
3. Amelia, b. July 1, 1796, m. Dr. James Warren, of Faterson.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT FAMILIES OF NEW YORK.
By Edwin R. Purple.
(Continued from Vol. IX., p. 160, of The Record.)
Varleth — Varlet — Varleet — Verlet — Verletii.
5 iv. Catharina Varleth,'2 probably the third daughter of Casper Varleth J and his wife Judith, was born in Amsterdam, and married, in New Amsterdam, August /?), 1657, Francoys De Bruyn (Bruyn, Browne). It has been supposed by some that this Francoys De Bruyn was identical with Francis Browne, or Frans Bruyn, a soldier at Curacoa in 1643, and living, in 1647, in New Amsterdam ; but they were doubtless different per- sons, as the latter was from Yorkshire, while the former was a native of Amsterdam. Francoys or Francis De Bruyn was a member of the church in New Amsterdam prior to 1660. He removed to New Utrecht, L. I., as early as 1663 — was a Schepen there in 1663-1664, and in August, 1673, was appointed Secretary of the Five Dutch Towns on Long Island, and Auctioneer, vice Corteljou, in January following, which is the last notice found of him. His 'wife, Catharina Varleth, probably deceased before September, 1662 — the date of the death of her father. They had the fol- lowing-named children baptized in the Church at New Amsterdam, viz. :
1. Casparus De Bruyn, bap. Sept. 14, 1659. The sponsors
at his baptism were Nicholaes Verleth and Otto Bagelaer.
2. Agatha De Bruyn, bap. Jan. 26, 166 r. The sponsors at her
baptism were Johannes De Peyster and Anna Verleth.
3. Jacob De Bruyn, bap. March 5, 1662. The sponsors at his
baptism were Anthony De Mill and Anna Stiiyvesants. •
6 v. Judith Varleth,2 born in Amsterdam, was probably the youngest daughter of Casper1 and Judith Varleth. She resided for some time with her parents at Hartford, Conn., and in 1662 was imprisoned there on a " pretended accusation of witchery." In that year Ann, daughter of John Cole, "who lived near a Dutch family" at Hartford, "was seized in a
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strange manner with Fits wherein her Tongue was improved by a Demon," &c., who confounded her language, so that she "made Uterances in Dutch of which Language she knew Nothing."* It was probably in this case the accusation of witchery was made against Judith Varleth. Through the interposition of Gov. Stuyvesant she escaped her peril, f and it is re- lated " that as soon as the suspected Witches were executed or fled Mrs. Cole was restored to Health." In happier hour, says the not always pro- saic Mr. Savage, Judith Varleth's power of fascination was sufficient to en- sure her marriage with Nicholas Bayard, one of the patrician families of the neighboring province of New York. She married May 23, 1666, in New York, Nicholas, son of Samuel Bayard and Anna Stuyvesant, born at Alplien, in Holland, who accompanied his widowed mother and uncle, Gov. Petrus Stuyvesant, to New Netherland in May, 1647. In 1654 he was Cierk in the Secretary's office at New Amsterdam, and possessing, with other scholarly attainments, a knowledge of the English language, was appointed, July 1, 1657, English Secretary, and August 16, 1663, was made Commissary of Imports and Exports, vice Jacob Sam, who had returned to Holland. In August, 1673, he was commissioned Secretary of the Prov- ince, and, on the 20th of September following, Receiver-General. He was Mayor of New York in 1685, and for many years a prominent member of the Legislative Council. As the "Dutch head of the English party," he was among the most active of Leisler's opponents, and was imprisoned in the Fort by Leisler's orders for more than a year. Upon the arrival of Gov. Sloughter in New York, he was foremost in urging Leisler's execution. He was tried and condemned to death for high treason in March, 1701 ; but this judgment was reversed by Act of the Legislature during Lord Cornbury's administration. While ostensibly a brewer by occupation, he was from early youth an office-holder, and essentially a politician, with all the name implies. He died in 1709, leaving a large estate to his widow and only son Samuel; and it may be regarded as a fitting commentary upon the slackness of genealogical and biographical investigations in New York, that among his numerous and respectable descendants, male and fe- male, the biography of a man who filled so large a space in the early his- tory of the Colony remains unwritten. His will is dated May 9, 1707, in which he styles himself " of the city of New York Merchant," and names only his wife Judy, and son Samuel, whom he makes executors of his estate.
Nicholas and Judith (Varleth) Bayard had issue : \y 1. Samuel Bayard, bap. Sept. 5, 1669 ; m. March 12, 1696, Mar- garita Van Cortlandt, dau. of Stephanus and Geertruyd (Schuyler) Van Cortlandt ; she was bap. July 29, 1674. He was a merchant in New York, and made his will April 10, 1745, probated May 1, 1746, in which he mentions his two grandchildren, Nicholas and Margaret Van Dam, children of his deceased dau. Judith Van Dam ; his dau. Gertrude, wife of Peter Kemble ; dau. Margaret, wife of James Van Home ; dau. Ann, and his three sons, Stephen, Nicholas, and Samuel, whom he appoints execu-
* Drake's Annals of Witchcraft in New England, p. 120-122.
tGov. Stuyvesant sent the Deputy Governor ami General Court at Hartford, in October, 1662, the fol- lowing letter in her behalf ; " Honored and worthy Sirs : By this occasion of my brother in law [Nicholas VarlelhJ being necessitated to make a second voyage to ayd his distressed sister, Judith Varlet, imprisoned, as we are informed, upon pretend accusation ot witchery, we realey believe, and, out of her well- known education, life, conversation, and profession of faith, we dare assure that she is innocent of such a horrible crimen, and wherefor, I doubt not he will now, as formerly, rinde your honour's favor and ayde for the innocent." Gerard's Old Stadt Huys, p. 47.
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tors. He had issue eleven children, all of whom were bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, except his dan. Geertruyd, viz. :
i. Judith Bayard, bap. Dec. 13, 1696 ; m. Sept. 18, 1710, RlP Van Dam, Jr., son of Rip Van Dam and Sara Van der Spiegel. He was bap. October 7, 1694. They had bap. in the Dutch Church in New York : 1. Margareta bap. October 30, 1720; the sponsors at her baptism were Rip Van Dam, Sen.", and Margareta Bayard She m. Dec. 25, 1747, William Cockroft. 2. Nicholas, bap. March 25, 1722; the sponsors were Samuel Bayard and Sara Van Dam. He was prob. the Nicholas Van Dam who m. March 10, 1749, Sophia Van Home. 2. Nicholas Bavard, bap. August 28, 1698 ; m. irst July -i 1729, Elisabeth Rynders, dau. of Barent and Hester (Leisler) Rynders. For a notice of their children see ante Vol. VII., p. i5I. He m. 2d, Dec. 22, 1755, Margarita Van Beverhout, nee Margarita Langmat, the widow of Johannes Glaudiszen Van Beverhout, by whom he had issue, viz. : 1 Elizabeth, bap. June 17, 1756; sponsors, Samuel Bayard and Miss Judith Bayard. 2. Anna, bap. June 21, 1758; sponsors, William Bayard. Francvntje Moor, his wife, and Samuel Bayard. 3. Stephanus, 'bap. July 16, 1760; sponsors, Gerhardus Stuyvesant, Geertruy Van Cortland, his wife, and Johs Renselaar. The will of Nicholas Bayard of the City of New York Mer chant, is dated Sept. 18, 1760; proved Dec. -xo, 176=: • names dau. Hester Van Cortlandt ; dau. Judith Van Rens- selaer ; son Nicholas, and children by his "last wife, Eliza- beth, Ann, and Stephen." Appoints his son, Nicholas son- m-law John Van Cortland, Esq., son-in-law Jeremiah Van Ransalier, brother Samuel Bayard, and nephew William Bayard, Esq., executors. 3. Stephanus Bayard, bap. May 31, 1700 ; m. March 12, 172=; Alida Vetch.* In his will, dated Jan. 31, i7S3, with codi- ci Dec. 17, 1753 (4?), proved Feb. 9, 1757, lie styles him- self of Bergen County, East New Jersey, Yeoman (in the codicil, Gentleman), and mentions of his children only his eldest son, William; dau. Margaret, and son, Robert Speaks of his father, Samuel Bayard, and mother, Maroaret Bayard. Appoints his son, William, his brother, Nicholas Bayard, and brother-in-law, Peter Schuyler, « with his said children as they shall respectively come to age," executors. He and his wife, Alida Vetch, had ten children bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, viz. : 1. Samuel, bap. Jan 16 1726; the sponsors were Samuel Bayard and Margreta Van Cortlandt, his wife. 2. Nicolaas, bap. Oct. 22, 1727 • spon- sors, Samuel Vatch and Margreta Livenston [Livingston] his wife. 3. William, bap. June 15, 7729; sponsors, Nicolaas Bayard and Margareta Vetch. 4. Stephen, bap. March c 1 73 1 5 sponsors, Philip Livingston, Robert Livingston, and
priof toX£ mbe^r Pr°bably tWiCC married' his SCCOnd Wife bei"S EVE Schuvlkk, whom he married
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Judith Van Dam. 5. Stephanas, bap. Oct. 15,1732; spon- sors, Philip Van Kortland and Geertruyd Bayard, the wife of Pieter Kemble. 6. Nicolaas, bap. April 16, 1735 ; spon- sors, Samuel Bayard, Junior, and Margriet Harden, the wife of Rob' Livingston. 7. Vetch, bap. Sept. 15, 1736; sponsors Gilbert Livingston and Catharina Van Biug, the wife of Philippus Livingston. 8. Nicolaas, bap. April 26, 1738; sponsors, /V/^r Camble [Kemble] and Miss Maria Brokholst. 9. Robert, bap. July 15, 1739; sponsors, Philip Livingston and Elisabet Rynders, the wife of Nicolaus Bayard. 10. Margarita, bap. Aug. 30, 1741 ; sponsors, James de Lancey and Margarita Livingston, widow of Sand. Vetch.
4. Geertruyd Bayard, bap. in the First Ref. Dutch Church at
Hackensack, N. J., October 4, 1702 ; m. Peter Kemble.* They had two sons bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, viz. : 1. Samuel, bap. April 19, 1732 ; the sponsors at his bap- tism were Samuel Bayard and Margareta Van Cortland, his wife. 2. Richard, bap. Sept. 30, 1733; sponsors, .S/c'//^// Bayard and Judit Bayard, widow of R. V. Dam.
5. Margreta Bayard, bap. Dec. 4, 1706 ; died young.
6. JU arc iRETA Bayard, bap. Dec. 15, 1708; died young.
7. Samuel Bayard, ) . , . ,
' T ,, \ twins, bap. July 1, 1711.
8. Jacobus Bayard, \ r J J ' '
9. Samuel Bayard, bap. July 24, 1715.
10. Margareta Bayard, bap. May 24, 1719; m. Dec. 16, 1742, James Van Horne. They had three sons bap. in the Dutch Church in New York, viz. : 1. Johannes, bap. Oct. 12, 1743 ; the sponsors at his baptism were Samuel Bayard and his wife Margritje Van Cortland. 2. Samuel, bap. April 22, 1746; sponsors, John AIcEvers and Catharina Van Home, his wife. 3. James, bap. Nov. 15, 1747 ; sponsors, Stephen Bayard and Aafje Schuyler, his wife. 11. Anna Bayard, bap. August 7, 1720.
DUTCH ALIASES.
The following list gives all, or nearly all, the aliases of males that appear in the Bap- tismal Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in the city of New York, from 1639 to 1756. The dates at the end of each name denote the years in which the baptism of the children of the person mentioned is recorded, and in which his two first names, or his first and surname, are given. Considerable care has been taken in making up the list, and it is offered as a help to those engaged in tracing the pedigrees of the early Dutch Families of New York.
abrahamszen. Jacob Abrahamszen Van Deursen, 1665.
Hendrick Abrahamszen Kermer, 1680-1694 Jacob Abrahamszen Santvoort, 1667-1678 llendrick Abrahamszen Rycke, 1681-1692 Pleter Abrahamszen Van Deursen, 1667- Isaac Abrahamszen Van Deursen, or Van 1684 Deusen, 1659- 1670
* Peter Kemhle was a member of the Council in New Jersey, and in 1732-5, probably longer, was a resident of New Brunswick. His eldest son, Samuel, according to the statement in Stevens' Chamber of Commerce Records, p. 139, was born at New Brunswick, though it appears by the records he was bap. in New York. His dau. Margaret, born about 1734-5, married Dec. 8, 1758, General Gage, who suc- ceeded, in 1763, Genl. Amherst, as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces in America.
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ADAMSZEN.
Jan Adamszen Metselaer, 1658-1676
ADOLPHSZEN.
Dirk Adolphszen De Groof, 1694-1707
ADRIANSZEN.
Ide Adrianszen Van Schaick. 16S6-1692 Jan Adrianszen Sip or Zip, 16S4-170S Jan Adrianszen Van Duyvelant, 1658-1664
ALBERTSZEN.
Adriaen Albertszen Roos, 1678 Leendert Albertszen De Graw, 1685-1703 Hendrick Albertszen Bosch, 1661-1666
ARENTSZEN.
Claes Arentszen Tours, 1685-1694 Evert Arentszen Van Hoeck, 16S7-1700 Harnien Arentszen De Graw, 1686-1690
(to 1704?) Isaac Arentszen Van Hoeck, 16S7-1692 Leendert Arentszen De Graw, 1699-1701
BARENTSZEN.
Cornells Barentszen Van der Ciiyl, 1655-
1665 -Cornells Barentszen Van Wyck, 1677 Jacob Barentszen Cool, 1668-1673
CASPARSZEN.
Pieter Casparszen Van Naerden, 1652-1662
Claeszen. Claes Claeszen Bording, 16=50-1673 Cornells Claeszen Van den Berg, 1696-1697 Cornells Claeszen Switzart, 1641-1655 Dirck Claeszen Draeck, 1657-1659 Hendrick Claeszen Vechten, 1691-1704
Corneliszen. Dirck Corneliszen Hooglant, 1666-1692 Gernt Corneliszen Van Westveen, or Van
Veen. 1681-1683 Ide Corneliszen Van Vorst, 1653-1662 Jacob CorneliszeriiStille, 1672-1692 Jan Corneliszen Nieukerk, or Van Nieu-
kerk, 1710-1727 Jan Corneliszen Ryck, or De Ryck, i6s8-
1666 Jan Corneliszen Van Texel, 1676-1678 Jan Corneliszen Daraen, of Boswyck, 1676-
1680 Laurens Corneliszen Koeck, or Cock, 1677-
1702
Corszen. Cornells Corszen Vroom, 1690
Dirckszen.
Cornells Dirckszen Hoyer, 1690-1706 Jan Dirckszen Meyer, 1652-1663
Jan Dirckszen Stratemaecker, 1671-1685 Jan Dirckszen Van Aernam, 1664-16S0 Jan Dirckszen Woertman {Brooklyn Ch. A\r.), 1691-1698
Elbertszen. Gysbert Elbertszen Van Loenen, 1661-167S
Evertszen. Arent Evertszen Keteltas, 1661-1674 Jan Evertszen Carseboom, or Kerseboom,
1665-16S2 Jan Evertszen Keteltas, 1670-1683
Franszen. Dirck Franszen Van Dyck, 1675-1689 Jacobus Franszen Van Dyck, 1678-1697 Jan Franszen Van Huysen, 1640 Thymen Franszen Van Dyck, 16S2-1704 Wessel Franszen Wessels, 1707-1721
Fredrickszen. Salomon Fredrickszen Boog, 1 691- 1694
Gerritszen. Claes Gerritszen Ravenstein, 16S2-1703 Cornells Gerritszen Van Home, 1724-1739 Gysbert Gerritszen Van Brakel, 1672 Hendrick Claeszen Gerritszen Vechten,
1691-1704 Huybert Gerritszen Van den Berg, 1695-
1714 Jan Gerritszen Van~Boxtel, 1656-1659 Stoffel Gerritszen Van Laer, 1662-1682 Willem Gerritszen Van Coiiwenhoven, 1662
Gilliszen. See Jilliszen.
Gysbertszen. Teunis Gysbertszen Bogaert, 1655-166S Wouter Gysbertszen Verschure, 1667-1688
Hendrickszen. Arie Hendrickszen Sip, 1657-1662 P^vert Hendrickszen Bras, 1686-1703 Folkert Hendrickszen Bries (Brooklyn Ch.
A'ec.), 1696-1701 Fredrick Hendrickszen Boog, 1658-1683 Hendrick Hendrickszen Obee, 1658-1659 Jan Hendrickszen Brevoort, 1669-1679 Jan Heatlrickszen Van Bommel, 1658-16S0 Jan Hendrickszen Van Gunst, 1670-1683 Martin Hendrickszen Wiltsevj {Brooklyn Ch.
Rec, 1693), 1695 &
Herbert. Johannes Herbert Cool, 1 748-1 753
Huybertszen. Lambert Huybertszen Moll, 1642-1648
4o
Contributions to the History of the
[Jan.,
HuYGENS.
Gerrit Huygens Cleyn, 1671
Leendert Huygens De Kleyn, 1684-1698
Idenszen. Cornelis Idenszen Van Vorst, 1687-1694
ISAACKSZEN.
Abraham Isaackszen Planck, 1641-1651 Arent Isaackszen Van Hoeck, 1687-1692 Uenys Isaackszen Van Hartvelt, 1660-1667 Jacobus Isaackszen Van Deiirsen, 1691-
1702 William Isaackszen Vredenburg, or Van
Vredenburg, 1665-1682
Jacobszen.
Barent Jacobszen Cool, 1640- 1 65 7 Cornelis Jacobszen Quick, 16S2-1704 Cornelis Jacobszen Stille, 1643-1672 Cornelis Jacobszen Woertendyk, 1711-1714 Fredrick Jacobszen Somerendyk and Fred- rick Woertendyk, 1 709- 1 7 22 Hans Jacobszen Harberding, 1670-16S5 Isaac Jacobszen Kip, 1721-1728 Jacob Jacobszen Van Winckel, 1676- 16S6 Pieter Jacobszen De Groot, 16S5-1695 Willem Jacobszen Hellaken, 1 683-1 702
Janszen. Abraham Janszen Van Aernem ( Van Alen
and Van Aren), 1696-1705 Abraham Janszen Van der Heul, 1660,1676 Abraham Janszen Van Gelder, 1 724-1 731 Achyas Janszen Van Dyck, 1674-1688. Andries Janszen Meyer, 1672-1689 Barent Janszen Bosch, 1691-1703 Claes Janszen Van Heyningen,* 1668-1695 Cornelis Janszen Scher, or Seeiin, 1677 ; or
Cornelis Janszen De Zeeuw of Boswyck
(Brooklyn Ch. A'ec), 1679-1682 Cornelis Janszen Van Hoorn, 1660-16S1 Dirck Janszen Smith, 1662-1669 Dirck Janszen Woertman, or Veerman,
1669-1677 Evert Janszen Van den Enden [Van Emb-
denj, 1645-1650 Frans Janszen Van Hoogten, 1659-1665 Gerrit Janszen Roos, 1653—1667 Gerrit Janszen Van Oldenburg, 1640-1646 Hendrick Janszen Ruyter, or Van Utrecht,
1650-1662 Hendrick Janszen Spiering, 1655-1667 Hendrick Janszen Van Feurden, 1661-1678 Hendrick Janszen Van Gerwen, 1656 Hendrick Janszen Van Schalckwyck, 1653-
1657 Herman Janszen Van Houten, 1667-1669 Huybert Janszen Van Blerkum, 1704- 17 10 Jacob Janszen Blaeck, 1666-1668
* In 1683 and 1684 his name appears in the Register Claes Janszen Tiiynier.
Jan Janszen Moll, 1677-1692
Jan Janszen Romans, 1661-1686
Jan Janszen Schepmoes, 1642-1654
Jan Janszen Slot, 1672-1687
Jan Janszen Van den Ham, 1653-1662
Jan Janszen Van Harlingen, 16S0-1682
Jan Janszen Van Langeslraeten, 1661-1686
Johannes Janszen Van Tilbuig. 16S6-1703
Joiiannes Janszen Van Quisthout, 1685-
169S Joris Janszen Van Hoorn, 1667-1683 Matthys Janszen Boeckhout, 1679-1688 Mangel Janszen Rol, 1694-17 11 Pieter Janszen Bogcrt, 1687-1695
Pieter Janszen Haring, 1 688-1 706 L _
Pieter Janszen Mesier, 1659-16S1
Pieter Janszen Rommen, 1658-1668
Pieter Janszen Van Tilburg, 16S6-1703
Pieter Janszen Van Langendyk, 1689-1698
Pieter Janszen Wit, 1652-1654
Philip Janszen Ringo, 1648-1658
Philip Janszen Vos, 1673
Roelof Janszen Van Meppelen, 1653-1667
Staets Janszen De Groot, 1676-16S8
Tennis Janszen Coevers (BrooklynCh. Rec),
1661-1663 Thomas Janszen Minsar, 1660-1662 Theunis Janszen Van Pelt, 1691-1715 William Janszen Romen, 1712-1735 William Janszen [Isaackszen] Vredenburg,
1665
Jeirianszen. Arent Jeurianszen Lantsman, 1661-1671
JlLLISZEN, or GlLLISZEN.
Hendrick Jilliszen Maniviel [Mandeviel],
1681-16S2 Hendrick Jilliszen Meyer, 1672-1692 Jan Jilliszen Cock, 1658-1664
JOHANNESZEN.
Johannes Johanneszen Burger, 1 725-1746 Johannes Johanneszen Montagne, 1726- 1736
JORISZEN.
Burger Joriszen (Burger), 1640-1664 Jan Joriszen Van Hoorn, 1703-1713 Jeronymus Joriszen Rappelje, 1671-1690
Joosten. Jan Joosten Van Rollegom, 1660-1676
Josephs, Daniel Josephs Waldron, 1674-1689
Lambertszen. Abraham Lambertszen Moll, 1664-1685
Laurenszen. Wessel Laurenszen Wessels, 1715-1741
[879-J
Ancient Families of New York.
4I
Leendertszen.
Arent Leendertszen De Gravv, 166 1- 1 684 Jacob Leendertszen Van der Grist, 1649-
1667 Paulus Leendertszen Van der Grist, 1649-
1658
LUCASZEN.
Johannes Lucaszen Schouten, 1662-1674
Marius. Jacob Marius Groen, 1702-1716
Martenszen. Claes Martenszen Van Rosenvelt, or Rosen-
velt, 1650-1658 0
Hendrick Martenszen Wiltse, or Wiltsqn,
I 669- 1 676 Joris Martenszen, alias Joris Reyerszen,
1 692-1 706
MlCHIELSZEN.
Enoch Michielszen Vreeland, 1671-1687, and 1705-1717.
Paulttszen. Michiel Pauluszen Van der Voort, 1642- 1658
PlETERSZEN.
Abraham Pieterszen Molenaer, 1642-1644 Adolf Pieterszen Van der Groest, 1657—
1669 Albert Pieterszen De Bruyn, 1649-165 1 Daniel Pieterszen Coolman, 1 702-1 707 Frans Pieterszen De Vries, 1713-1732 Jan Pieterszen Bant, 1672-1693 Jan Pieterszen Bosch, 1664-167S Jan Pieterszen De Wit, 1 730-1 735 — Jan Pieterszen Flaring, 1667-1681 Jan Pieterszen Meet, or Meeck, or Meed,
I 689- 1 702 Jan Pieterszen Van Husen, 1640-1653 Pieter Pieterszen Menist, or Van Nest, 1653-
1678 Reynier Pieterszen Quackenbos, 1693-1705 Wessel Pieterszen Van Norden, 1694-1714
Willem Pieterszen De Groot, 1650- 1660 Willem Pieterszen Romen, or Roome, 1714- 1738
Resolvert. Willem Resolvert Waldron, 1672-1694
Reyerszen. Joris Reyerszen, alias Joris Martenszen, 1 692-1 706
Theuniszen. Aart Theuniszen Middag, 1660-1661 Dirck Theuniszen Quick, 1673-1680 Jacob Theuniszen De Key, 1659- 1686 Jacobus Theuniszen Quick, 1718-1737 Jan Theuniszen Van Tilburg, 1670- 1676 Nicolaas Theuniszen Somerendyk, 1709-
1724. Wouter Theuniszen Van Pelt {Brooklyn
Ck. Rec), 1687-1690
Thomaszen.
Gabriel Thomaszen Studies, 1693-1696 Jan Thomaszen Schouten, 1 720-1 731 Theunis Thomaszen Metselaer, 1640-1648
Wesselszen. Hendrick Wesselszen Ten Broeck, 167 1-
1690 Johannes Wesselszen Van Norden, or Van
Orden, 1721-1751
Willemszen. Andries Willemszen Soppe, or Hoppe, 1651-
T658 Floris Willemszen Crom, or Krom, 1681-
1694 Jan Willemszen Romen, 1685-1695 Jan Willemszen Van Yselsteyn, or Van
Iselsteyn, or Van Leyden, 1650-1669 Pieter Willemszen Romen, or Room, 1685—
1705 Pieter Willemszen Van der Schueren, 1688-
1705 Thomas Willemszen Koeck, or Cock, 1681-
1689
From the same source as the preceding is appended a list of such names as are spelt in two or more ways, together with a few other miscellaneous aliases.
Aalsteyn, Mattheus, see Mattheus Van
Aalsteyn, 1736-1752 a, Brakele Steven, see Steven Brakel, or Van
Brakel, 1706-17 n Albady, Jochem, see Jochem Van Albady,
1720-1727 Alderon, Jan, see Jan Badron and John
Haldron, 1708-1711 Axceen, John, see John Exceen, 1 743-1 751'
Badron, Jan, see John Alderon and John
Haldron, 1708-1711 Boekenhoven, Stephanis, see Stephanis Van
Boekenhoven, 1697-1717 Boog, Isaac, see Isaac Van den Boog, 1703-
1705 Borkens, Robert, see Robert Darkens, 1677-
1695 Brevoort, Hendrick, see Hendrick Van Brevoort, 1700-17 17
42
Contributions to the History of. the
[Jan.,
CANDRF.Y, Cambrick. and Camrik, Richard, Haywood, William, see William Gaywood,
see Richard Kendrik. 1716-1727 1711,-1727
Casjoii, Jacques, see Jacob Casar, 1665- Hoboken, Harm en, see Harmen Van Ho-
1671 boken, 1655-1664
Chahaan, Samuel, see Samuel Sjahaan, Sha- Hoed, or Hood, Ja>per. see Jasper Woed,
haan, and Thahaan, 1700-1717 1697—17 1 1
Chardevine, Isaac, see Isaac Sharduvyn, Hoeder, Jeams, see Jeams Woeder, 166S-
1728-1750 16S6
ChartheiyWilliam, see William Sester, 1678- Hues. Hendri. see Henry Ives. 1699-1703
1690 ! Iluwits, Rendel, see Rendel Guet, 1651-
Cheklen, Robert, see Robert Sjeklen, 1715- 1653
1 7 16 I
Chirurgyn, Paulus, see Paulus Van der In de Voor Daniel, see Daniel De Voor,
Beeck, 1645- 1656 Cise. James, see James Sise, or Seys, 1720-
I730 Cornel. Pieter, see Pieter Kernel, 1749-
1753 Crocker, Charles, see Charles Tockker, or
Tucker, 1695- 1702
Darkens, or Derkens, Robert, see Robert
Borkens. 1677-1695 De La Montague, see Montague, 16S4-
1756 De Tiieux, Jacob, see Jacob Truer, 1675-
1683 De Voor Daniel, see Daniel In de Voor,
1696-1713 De Wendel, Gerrit, see Gerrit Wendel,
1712-1725 Dorsou, Looys, alias Jan Martyn, 1650-
1658
Eldes, Benjamin, see Benj. Oldes, 1705-
J7I3 Elsworth, see Elsw,aert, Elsenwaert, Elze-
waart, Elsward, and Yde Waert. Exceen, Jan, see Jan Axeeen, 1 743-1 751
FAIJNG, Michael, see Michael Valey, 1706-
1707 Pardon, Jacob, see Jacob Verdon, 1721-
1727 Fardon, Thomas, Jr., see Thomas Verdon,
Jr., 1741-1754 Fell, Simon, see Simon Sel, or Vel, 1656-
1667 Fenix, Alexander, see Alexander Phenix,
I7I3-I737 Filips, Charles, see Charles Philips, 1714-
1727 Folleman, Cornelis, see Cornelis Volleman,
1726-1744
GAYWOOD, William, see William Haywood,
1719-1727 Guet, Rendel, see Rendel Iluwits, 165 1-
'653 IIai.dron, John, see Jan Alderon and Jan
Badrou, 170S-1711 Hanszen, Hans, see Hans Noorman,* 1640-
1653
* Ancestor of the Bergen family.
1696-1713 Ives, Henry, see Hendri Hues, 1699-17^3
Jakson, Willem, see Willem Yackson and
Sjeckson, 1694- 1709 Jan sen, Thomas, see Thomas Johnson, 1710-
1723 Jay, Augustus, see Augustus Sjee, 1698-
1707 Jeats, Abraham, see Abraham Yeads, 1727-
1728
Kendrik, Richard, see Richard Candrey,
Cambiick, and Camrik, 1716-1727 Kernel, Pieter, see Pieter Cornel, 1 749—1753 Kwik, see Quick.
Langendyk, Pieter Janszen, see Pieter Van
Langendyk, I 689- I 698 Langestraat, see Van Langestraat, 1661-
16S6, and 1691-1712
Manny, Francis, see Francis Onanrie, 1734-
1747 Martyn, Jan, see Looys Dorsou, 1650-165S Merberg, Johannes Adolphus, see Johannes
Adolphus Otterberg, 1741-1748 Modder. Jeams, see Jeams Woeder, 166S-
16S6 Monckebaen, Adam, see Adam Onckelbaen,
1663-1670 Montagne, see De La Montagne, 16S4-
I756 Muyt, Willem, see Willem Wyten, Wyt, and Wydt, 1671-16S2
Ninster, Pieter, see Pieter Winster, 1664-
1677 Noorman, Hans, see Hans Hanszen, 1640-
1653
Oblinus, see Van Oblinus, 1672-16S5, and
1 693- 1 698 Oldes, Benjamin, see Benj. Eldes, 1705-
1713
Onckelbaen, Adam, see Adam Moncke- baen, 1663-1670
Onanrie, Francis, see Francis Manny, 1734-
1747 Otterbergrjbhannes Adolphus, see Johannes Adolphus Merberg, 1741-1748
i879.]
Ancient Families of New York.
43
Phenix, Alexander, see Alexander Fenix,
I7I3-I737 Philips, Charles, see Charles Filips, 1714-
1727 Philips Fredrick, see Fredrick Philipse,
1720-1742 Pitt, Jacob, see Jacob Piet, or Pet, 175 1—
1755 Post, Elias, see Elias Pos, 1 672-1 689
Quaak, Jan Stevens, see Jan Stevens, 1693- 1711
Rasenburg, Willem, see Willem Van
Rasenburg, 1661-1664 Richt, Jonathan, see Jonathan Wright,
1 694- 1 699 Roeder, Jeams, see J earns Woeder, 166S-
1686 Romans, Jan Janszen, see Jan Janszen
Langestraat, 1661-1686 Romen, Johannes, see Johannes Laage-.
straat, 1691-1712 Romen, Johannes, see Johannes Van Romen, '
1691-1712 Ruvter, Jeams, alias Jeams Woodart, or
Woeder, 1668- 1686 Rycke, Kycken, or De Rycke, Abraham, I
see Abraham Wycke, 1682- 1702
Tuynier, Claes Janszen, see Claes Janszen Van Heyningen, 1668- 1695
Van Albady, Jochem, see Jochem Albady,
1720-1727 Van Boekenhoven, Stephanis, see Stephanis
Boekenhoven, 1697-1717 Van Brake!, Steven, see Steven a, Brakele,
1706-1711 Van Brevoort, Hendrick, see Hendrick
Brevoort, 1700-17 11 Van den Boog, Isaac, see Isaac Boog, 1703-
1705 Van der Beeck, Paulus, see Paulus Chirur-
gyn, 1645-1656 Van Langendyk, see Langendyk, 16S9-1698 Van Langestraat, see Langestraat, 1661-
16S6, and 1691-1712 Van Oblinus, see Oblinus, 1672-1685, and
1 693- 1 698 Van Rasenburg, Willem, see Willem Rasen- burg, 1661-1664 Van Romen, Johannes, see Johannes Romen,
1691-1712 Van St. Cubis, Jan Janszen, see Jan Wans-
haer, 1649-1666 Van Thuyl, Jacob, see Jacob Theuniszen
De K.-y, 1659-1686 Valey, Michiel, see Michiel Faling, 1706-
l 1707 Sel, Simon, see Simon Fell, Vale, or Vel, I Verdon, Jacob, see Jacob Fardon, 1721-
[656-1667 Sester, William, see William Charther, or
C burger, 16 78- 1690 Sharduvyn, Isaac, see Isaac Chardevine,
1728-1750 Simons, Joseph, see Joseph Zeeman, 174S-
1755 Sise, Seys, or Sys, James, see James Cise,
1720-1730 SipkihS, Jan, see Jan Tsipkins, 1675-1695 Sjahaan, Thahaan, or Shahaan, Samuel, see
Samuel Chahaan, 1700-17 17 Sjee, Augustus, see Augustus Jay, 169S-
1707 Sjeckson, Willem, see Willem Jakson and
Yackson. 1694-1709 Sjeklen, Robert, see Robert Cheklen, 1715—
1716 Stevens, Jan, see Jan Stevens Quaak, 1693-
1711
Tanner, Benjamin, see Benjamin Tenner,
1 746- 1 754 Thahaan, Samuel, see Samuel Chahaan,
1700-1717 Tienhoven, Lucas, see Lucas Van Tien-
hoven, 1671-1693 Truer, Jacob, see Jacob De Trieux, 1675-
16S3 Tsipkins, Jan, see Jan Sipkins, 1675-1695 Tucker, Charles, see Charles Crocker, 1695-
1702
1727
Volleman, Cornells, see Cornells Folleman, 1 726-I 744
Wanshaer, Jan, see Jan Janszen Van St.
Cubis, Van St. Ubus, Van St. Obyn, Jan
Van Sara, and Jan St. Benen, 1649-1666 Wendel, Gerrit, see Gerrit De Wendel,
1712-1725 Wessels, Willem, see Willem Welchem,
1674-1676 Winster, Pieter, see Pieter Ninster, 1664-
1667 Woed, Jasper, see Jasper Hoed or Hood,
1697—17 1 1 Woeder, Jeams, see Jeams Hoeder, Modder,
and Roeder, 1668-1686 Wycke, Abraham, see Abraham Rycke,
1682-1702 Wyd, or Weyt, Pieter, see Pieter White,
I73S-I754 Wyten, Wyt, or Wydt, Willem, see Willem
Muyt, 1671-1682
Yackson, Willem, see Willem Sjeckson,
1694-1709 Yde Waert, Christoffel, see ChristofTel Els-
waert, 1655-1670 Yeads, Abraham, see Abraham Jeats, 1727-
1728 Zeeman, Joseph, see Joseph Simons, 174S-
1755
44 Records of the First Presbyterian Church. [Jan.,
RECORDS OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.— BIRTHS AND BAPTISMS.
(Continued from Vol. IX., p. 173, of The Record.) [162] [17731-
April 25th. Anne Susannah, Daughter of Jacob Shourt & Susannah Cole,
his Wife, born April 2d, 1773. April 26th. Jennet, Daughter of John McLloch & Jennet McDonald, his
Wife, born April 26th, 1773. May 2d. Elizabeth, Daughter of Abraham Ely & Mary Demarest, his
Wife, born April 15th, 1773. May 2d. Thomas, Son of Thomas Brinckle & Catharine McCoy, his
Wife, born April 7th, 1773. May 2d. Mary, Daughter of James Thompson & Patience Baldwin, his
Wife, born April 3d, 1773. May 9th. Mary, Daughter of George Werts & Rebecca Vermiller, his Wife,
born Decr 24th, 1 771. May 16th. Sarah, Daughter of James Bttckmaster & Sarah Hill, his Wife,
born April 12th, 1773. May 16th. John, Son of John Thornton of the Royal Train of Artillery &
Christian Russel, his Wife, born May 6th, 1773. May 29th. William, Son of William Scott & Elizabeth Lasher, his Wife,
born April 2d, 1773. May 29th. Ebenezer, Son of Ebenezer Cutter & Sarah Currey his Wife,
born April 24th, 1773. May 29th. Moses Sherwood, Son of George Hettderson & Martha Sher- wood, his Wife, born May 5th, 1773. |une 2d. William David, Son of John Griffiths & Sarah Evans, his Wife,
born Feby 12th, 1773. [une 6th. Elizabeth, Daughter of Peter Wilsey & Margaret Little, his Wife,
born May 13"', 1773. [une 6th. John Oliver, Son of Richard Smith & Mary Oliver, his Wife,
born May 7th, 1773. [une 6th. Hannah, Daughter of Timothy Bussing & Jane Crosby, his Wife,
born March 24"', 1773. [une 6th. Mary, Daughter of John Murray & Hannah Lindley, his Wife,
born May 11th, 1773.
163]
une 6th. Catherine, Daughter of John Lasher and Catharine Ernest, his
Wife, born May i?"', 1773. une 9th. Peter, Son of Peter Giraud & Elizabeth Tempro, his Wife, born
June 4th, 1773. une 11th. Margaret, Daughter of Henry Watson & Jane Beaty, his wife,
born May 26th, 1773. une 13th. Jonathan, Son of John Smith & Martha Scarber, his Wife, born
Augst Ist, 1750.
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June 20th. Priscilla, Daughter of George Woodward & Eleanor Strahan,
his Wife, born May 4th, 1773. June 20th. Ann, Daughter of James Keens & Ann Bate, his Wife, born
May 14th, 1773 June 20th. Sarah Archer, Daughter of Jonathan Smith & Mary Bowdoin,
his Wife, born April 2d, 1773. June 20th. Samuel, Son of John Miller & Mary Kelly, his Wife, born
April 2d, 1773. June 2olh. William, Son of William De Witt & Hester Dyckman, his Wife,
born May 31st, 1773. June 23d. Ann, Daughter of Archibald Miller & Ann Swan, his Wife, born
June 21st, 1773. s June 27th. Mary, Daughter of Daniel Sickles, & Mary Barns, his Wife,
born May 26th, 1773. June 28th. Andrew, Son of John Humphries & Jane Adams, his Wife, born
May 10th, 1773. July 4th. Esther Willis, Daughter of Anthony Simmons & Esther Willis, his
Wife, born June 11th, 1773. July 4lh. Charles, Son of James Jackson & Dinah Relf, his Wife, born June
20th, 1773. July 4th. Jane, Daughter of Henry Cassey & Jane Frasier, his Wife, born
June 2d, 1773. July 4th. John, Son of William Garvin & Margaret Obrian, his Wife, born
June 10th, 1 773.
[164.]
July 4th. Thomas, Son of John Pearce, & Elizabeth Barr, his Wife, born
April 25th, 1773. July 4th. John, Son of John Stephens & Elizabeth Debow, his Wife, born
June 14th, 1773. July 11th. Thomas, Son of Pepperel Bloodgood & Sarah Tomb, his Wife,
born June 28th, 1773. July 11th. William, Son of Capt' Jesse Smith, & Charity Willet, his Wife,
born June 20th, 1773. July 11th. Jane Moore, Daughter of John Shaw & Elizabeth Long, his
Wife, born March 19th, 1773. July 1 ith- William, Son of George Powers, & Ann Guest, his Wife, born
June 19th, 1 773. July 13th. Martha, Daughter of William Love of the Train of Artillery, &
Martha Davis, his Wife, born July 13th, 1773. July 14th. Richard, Son of Richard Minifie & Elizabeth Stillwell, his Wife,
born July 5th, 1773. July 15th. Sarah, Daughter of Robert Johnson & Ann Dean, his Wife, born
June 27*, 1773. July 16th. Elizabeth & Frances, Daughters of Robert Jeffery, Corporal in
the Train of Artillery, & Mary Hunt, his Wife, born June 23d, 1773. July 17th. Francis, Son of Francis Barry & Jane Kieller, his Wife, born
July 3d, 1773. July 18th. Helena, Daughter of John Dubois & Margaret Dubois, his Wife,
born July 5th, 1773. July 18th. Jane, Daughter of Benjamin Griffith & Elizabeth Ellis, his Wife,
born June 14th, 1773.
46 Records of the First Presbyterian Church. [Jan.,
July 23d. Sarah, Daughter of Robert Gibson & Prudence Foster, his Wife, born July 13th, 1 773.
[l65-]
July 24th. William, Son of Robert Cox & Catharine Ogden, his Wife, born
July 18th, 1773- July 25th. Mary, Daughter of Richard Davis & Jane Culver, his Wife, born
July 17th, 1773- Augst ist. Elijah, Son of Joshua Mariner & Elizabeth Walker, his Wife,
born July 21st, 1 773. Augst ist. John, Son of John Totten & Christiana Carmichael, his Wife, born
July 30th, 1773. Aug* Ist. Elizabeth, Daughter of John Kip & Margaret Brott, his Wife,
bom June 15th, 1773. Augst 9th. Sarah, Daughter of Joshua H. Smith & Elizabeth Gordon, his
Wife, born July 15th, 1773. Aug*' 12th. Jeremiah, Son of Jeremiah Spencer & Mary Martin, his Wife,
born July 27th, 1773. Augst 13th. William, Son of Thomas Moore & Mary Brown, his Wife, born
Augst 12th, 1773. Aug" 14th. John, Son of John Lawrence, & Elizabeth Hadley, his Wife,
born Julv 24th, 1 773. Augst 15th. Elizabeth, Daughter of Isaac Varian & Hannah Van Den Bergh,
his Wife, born July Ist, 1773. Augst 16th. Sarah Porter, an Adult. Augst 20th. Thomas, Son of Thomas Rock & Grace Soulenger, his Wife,
born Janry 17 th, 1773. - Augst 22d. Charles, Son of William Frazer & Ruth Sickles, his Wife, born
July 4* 17 73- Augst 2 2d. George, Son of George Crookshank & Catharine Norris, his
Wife, born July 23d, 1773. Augst 22d. Hannah, Daughter of John Laboyteaux & Hannah Smith, his
Wife, born Julv 2 2d, 1773. Augst 27th. Sarah, Daughter of Robert Hobbs of the Royal Welch Fuzileers,
& Grace Biguel, his Wife, born Aug5''' 15th, 1773.
Fl660 . ...
Augst 29th. John, Son of John Vicars & Margaret McKinzey, his Wife,
bom Augst 17th, 1773. Sept' 5th. Cornelius, Son of Sebrent Brower & Rosanna Shaver, his Wife,
born An gst 10th, 1773. Septr 17th. Jennet Livingston, Daughter of John Plenderleath, & Jennet
Smith, his Wife, born Sept' 2d, 1773. Sept' 19th. Ann, Daughter of William Cowley & Rbecca Abbet his Wife,
born Sept' 7th, 1773. Sept' 19th. Myer, Daughter of Alexander Lacky & Margaret Griffith, his
Wife, born Sept' Ist, 1773. Sept' 19th. Sarah, Daughter of William Arnold & Mary Sherwood, his Wife,
born Augst 21st, 1 773. Sept' 19th. John, Son of Alexander Moncrief & Jane Patterson, his Wife,
born Augst 19th, 1773.
1879] Notes and Queries. 47
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Nicoll. — Margarita Nicoll (named Margaret in her father's will) was the daughter of Dr. John Nicoll, an eminent physician of New York, born in Scotland, died in this city in 174^, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He left besides this daughter a son John, " of Winsor."
Bayard. — Rachel, widow of Peti'us Bayard, who married secondly Henry Wileman, had by this second marriage a daughter Elizabeth, mentioned in the will of her son, Peter Bayard (1738), as his " sister Elizabeth Wileman." The will does not name the daughter Rachel, mentioned by Mr. Purple (ante ix. p. 156): perhaps she died young. Of the other sons of Petrus Bayard, Peter's will names only John and Samuel, leaving room for the inference that Ilendrikus had died young. C. vv. B.
Van Hook —A correspondent asks for information regarding this ancient New York family, and furnishes the following items:—" 1640 Lawrence Van Hook (a judge in New
York) married . 1670. A son married France>ca . 1703. Erancesca Van
Hook. New York, married Dr. David Edmeston, of Chester, Penn."
I append the few particulars I have gathered for my correspondent, hoping that other readers of the Record may be able to direct him to fuller sources :
Children of Evert Van Hoeck, baptized in the Dutch Reformed Church, New York City : — Geertruydt, June 29, 1690. Hendrickje, July 31, 1C92. Isaac, Mar. 10, 1695. Cornells, Fell. 20, 1698. Maria, Dec. 15, 1700. Isaac, son of Isaac Van Hoeck, bap- tized May 28, I 92. Children of -Lawrence [Laurens, Lbwerens], Van Hoeck, baptized in the same church -.—Johanna, June 4, 1693. Gerritje, Sept. 29, 1695. Gerritje, Dec. 25, 1696. Arent [Aaron], Oct. 9, 1698. Hendrik, Feb. 19, 1701. Isanc, Aug. 22, 1703. Gerritje. Oct. 1. 1704. Benjamin, Jan. 26. 1707. Maria, April 9, 1710. — [Manual of the Com. Cotntc:l of New York, 1863 and 1S64. )
The marriage license of Evert Van Hook and Neiltie Jacobs is dated April 10, 1705. (N. Y. Gen. and Bjog. Record, vol. ii., p. 27.)
The will of Evert Van Hook, " cordwainer," of New York, dated April 26, 1711, proved June 15, 171 1/ mentions his wife, Neeltje Jacobs, and his sons, Isaac and Cor- nelius. (Surrogate's Office. New York. )
The will of Isaac Van Hook, cordwainer, of Jamaica, L. I., dated Dec. 14, 1 75 1, proved Jane 20, 1770, mentions his wife Catharine, and his three daughters : Jane, mar. Isaac Mills ; Haramtie, mar. John Bennet ; and Catharine, mar. Cornelius Hooglandt. (Surrogate's Office, New York.)
" Lawrence Vanhook " died soon after July 14, 1724, .when he bequeathed a tract of land in Westchester County, N. Y., to his two sons, Aaron and Henry, both of Freehold, Monmouth County, N. J. Aaron's wife, Catharine, and Henry's wife, Deborah, are named in the deed, which recites the above facts, and is dated April 5, 1726. (Register's Office, New York.)
Isaac Van Hoek, cordwainer, of New York, married Feb. 6, 1725, Aegje [Eve] van Schaick, daughter of Adriaen. (N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record, vol. vii., p. 55 )
Arent Van Hook, cordwainer, of New York, and Mary, his wife, are mentioned, Feb. 9> '737- (Register's Office, New York, lib. xl., p. 28.)
Isaac Van Hoeck, cordwainer, and his wife, Jemima, are mentioned July 25, 175^- (Id. lib. xliii., p. 1.)
Isaac Van Hook, tanner, by his will, dated June 9, 1774, left property to his daugh- ters, Jane Herring and Mary Robinson. (Id. lib. xlvi., p. 7.)
New York Marriage licenses: — , Arondt [Arent, Aaron] Van Hook, and Abigail Stevens, March 30, 177 1.
Elinor Van Hook and Jacobus Van Dyck, Sept. 27, 1753.
Mary Van Hook and Joel Baldwin, Sepr. 10, 1773.
Mary Van Hook and Riter Amerman, Ocr. 21, 1765. C. W. B.
The Le Roys of New York. — (The following brief account of this old and dis- tinguished family was received a few years since from the pen of Henry W. Le Roy, Esq., of Albany, by the undersigned, who now commits it to the Record: — William J J all).
" Of late our family traditions have been somewhat forgotten, and facts that could easily have been had twenty years since are now entirely lost. Being Huguenots, our
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family were compelled to leave France on tlie revocation of the Edict of Nantz. They took refuge in Holland, I believe, at the Hague. At least from there Daniel Le Roy sent his son Jacob to New York. In what year I never could find out, but from the family bible I see that in 1753 'ie married Cornelia Rutgers, and in 1766, Catha- rine, her sister. From these marriages were several children, and the five that married went into the Corneills, Livingston, McEvers, Cuyler, and Banyan families. I am now of the fifth and last generation living in this country. The family have always lived in the State, and generally in or near New York. Herman,* the son of Jacob, founded the house of Le Roy, Bayard & McEvers, for many years chief in the mercantile world. He was a large real estate owner in Genessee County, N. Y., and after him the town of Le Roy was named.
" I cannot now give any more facts, but in time I hope to have authentic information of our family while in Holland." w. H.
Rogers of Saint John and New York. — What is the ancestry of the brothers Fitch, Henry, Moses, and Nehemiah Rogers, who were active merchants in this city towards the close of the Revolution, but went to New Brunswick when the British evacu- ated the city, and were among the founders of the loyalist city Saint John ?
Fitch Rogers was the first Warden of Trinity Church, Saint John ; he shortly returned to the States, and settled in Stamford, Connecticut, and we find him subsequently in New York.
Henry Rogers returned with his brothers. His d. is the widow of the late Rev. Smith Pyne, D.D.
Moses Rogers m. Sarah, d. of Benjamin Woolsey. He was one of the founders of Grace Church, N. Y., and the mural tablet to his memory is on the north wall, near the entrance of the present Church.
Nehemiah Rogers was one of the early Mayors of the city of Saint John, and a vestry- man of the new Trinity there. He and Fitch were among the grantees of Saint John in 17S3, and he had been a lieutenant in some Loyalist corps. (Sabine Loyalists, 1864, Vol. II., p. 572.) He m. his cousin, the d. of James Bell, then of Fredericton, N. B., the father of Captain Isaac Bell, of this city, and appears to have returned to New York about 1792, and founded the house of Rogers & Aspinwall. He d. in 1849, aged 95. His widow d. in 1S63, aged 93 years.
Esther Rogers, their only sister, m. Archibald Grade, who was as distinguished in mercantile life as were his brothers-in-law. He has numerous descendants.
" The Old Merchants of New York City," 2d series, and local histories of Saint John, furnish us these meagre particulars, leading to a desire for more, not only of the ancestry, but of the descendants of such a notable family group. T. H. M.
Akerly Family. — The following epitaphs were copied August, 1S78, in the burying ground of the Methodist Church, at Lake Grove, town of Brookhaven, L. I. The stones were removed from the old Akerly farm, near Mooney Pond, to their present position :
In Memory of In
Philip Akerly Memory of
Who Departed this Joannah Akerly
Life Feb.y 8th Wife of Philip Akerly
AD. 1785 Who Died
In the 71s' Year Jan>' 17th 1797
of his Age. Aged^79 Years.
In Memory In
of Jane Memory
Wife of John Akerly of
Who died the 28th John Akerly
of May 1798 Who Departed this Life
In the 48"' Year of her 15"' August 1S1 1
Age. In the 59"' Year of j
his Age.
* The father of Messrs. William and Daniel Le Roy, venerable citizens of New York, now living, and also of Mrs. Daniel Webster, relict of the great American orator and statesman. Mr. Henry W. Le Roy, their great-nephew, is a son of Commodore Le Roy of the U. S. Navy.
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I also noted the death at New York City, October 2, 1830, of Mrs. Priscilla Akerly, aged 79 years, w. K.
Kane-Kent. — In reply to a request Vol. IX., p. 14S, of The Record, for the chil- dren of John and Sybil Kent- Kane, I enclose the following record :
Ist. Martha, m. Gilbert Robert Livingston.
2nd. John, m. Maria Cadwise.
3rd. Charles, m. Maria, dau. of Col. Wray, of Fort Ann.
4th. Abigal, m John P. Lawrence.
5,h. Ehsha Kent, m, Ist wife AlidB, dau. Gen1 Robert Van Renselaer ; 2nd wife, Eliza- beth, dau. Abraham Kintzing, Phila.
6th. Maria, m. Joseph C. Yates, Gov. New York.
7th. Ehas, m. Deborah, dau. Cornelius Van Schuyrline, of Albany.
8th. Sybil, m. Jeremiah, Son of Gen1 Robert Van Renselaer.
g'b. James, a bachelor lived at Albany.
10th. Archibald, a bachelor.
IIth. Oliver, married Clark, dau. of Clark, of Providence.
I2,h. Sarah, m. Thomas Morris, son of Robert Morris, of Philadelphia.
13th. Susan, died in her 13th year. R.
Adams. — Hezekiah Adams, son of Samuel and Phebe (Pellet) Adams, was born in Canterbury, Windham Co., Conn., June 16, 1776. He was therefore of age previous to 1800. It is said in the family that he " went west." Can and will any one furnish information of Hezekiah and his descendants, if he had any ?
Asa Adams, son of Samuel and Phebe (Pellet) Adams, was born in Canterbury, Windham Co., Conn., Nov. 17, 1776. He m. 1st, Susannah, dau. Joseph, Jr., and Rebecca (Robinson Allen (b. March 23, 1767). She died, and he m. her sister Eunice, b. Feb. 13, 1771 ; bcth of Scotland society, town of Windham, Windham Co., Conn. They removed to Green, Chenango Co., N. Y., and had chil. : Rtith, b. Oct. 19, 1773, d. in Scotland (now a town), unmarried, Feb. 7, 1856, £e. 82; Ezra, b. Oct. 21, 1775 ; Rebecca, b. Dec. 3, 1778, d. Dec. 28, 1778.
Further information is wanted of Asa Adams, his wife Eunice, son Ezra, and other members of the family, if there were any.
Information is wanted of any persons bearing the name of Adams, who " went west " at any time from the town of Canterbury, Windham Co., Conn. J. Q. A.
Adams' Family. — The following births and baptisms in the Adams' family appear on the record of the Ist Presbyterian Church, N. Y. City, viz. :
1. 1770, Dec. 8, yacob, son of Francis Adams and Elizabeth Plonkenhorn, his wife, born. Baptized Aug. 18, 1872.
2. 1772, Apr. 4, Peter, s. of same. Bap. Aug. 18, 1772.
3. 1772, Dec. 17, Alexander, s. of Alexander Adams and Elizabeth Smitt, his wife, b. Bap. Jany. 24, 1773.
4. 1773, Feb. 1, Elizabeth, dau. of John Adams and Charity Smitt, his wife, b. Bap. Mar. 13.
5. In the Surrogate Court records, of New York City, 1680, or 1683 (?), the will of one jfokn Adams is found, as I am informed.
Information relative to the ancestry, or descendants, of any one, or all, of the above named Adamses will be gratefully appreciated. NELSON D. ADAMS.
U. S. Genl. Land Office, Washington, D. C.
Ponsonby — May I ask if any of your readers or correspondents can, in reply to this, state the various collateral marriages contracted, between the years 1700 and 1800, by the members of the Ponsonby family upon the female side ? This family is at present represented by several branches, viz., those of the Sixth Earl of Bessborough (Lord Pon- sonby) of Bessborough House Near Pilltown, County Kilkenny (as also in England), and those of the descendants of William Ponsonby-Barker, Esq., of Kilcooly Abbey, County Tipperary, Ireland, and Lord De Mauley, Down Ampney Park, near Cirencester.
If the list of marriages cannot be given in full, I should especially wish to know if Lady Sarah Ponsonby married one Joseph Bigger, Esq., between the dates above given.
"DUNDAS."
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Van Alstyn. — Information is desired of this family. Nothing that I can learn has been written of them, save by Prof. Pearson in his '* First Settlers of Albany County," where we find the marriages of the first generation in America, and the baptismal record of their children, and a few of their grandchildren. The name was earliest written Van Aelsteyn or Aalsteyn.
There were five of that name — doubtless brothers — living at Kinderhook, N. Y. , and vicinity, previous to the year 1700 :
1st. Abraham Janse, born about 1660; married, 1st, , 2d, Maritie Van
Deusen, Jan. 29, 1694. The names of his children (fifteen), as of those of his brothers, are given in "Pearson's Albany Settlers," page 113. 2d. Isaac Janse, m., 1st, Maritie Vosburgh, Oct. 20, 16 ^9, 2d, Jannetie Van Valkenburgh, Feb. 20, 1698. They had eight children. 3d. Lambert Janse, m. Jannetie Mingaal. Had two children. 4th. Cornells Martense, married Maritie Vandenbergh, May 15, 1703. Had eight children. 5U1. Martin Janse, married, 1st, Jannetie Cornelise (Van Schauck), 2d, Cornelise Van- denbergh, Nov. 10, 1705. The last two married sisters. They were daughters of Cornells Gysbert Vandenbergh and Cornelise Wynantse Van der Poel, of Rensselaer- wyck. He mentions them in his will, dated March 3d, 17 14.
The following were the children of Martin Janse Van Alstyn, and date of their bap- tism :
Isaac, June 20, 1703; Martinus, Sept. 22, 1706; Cornells, Sept. 26, 1708; Johan- nes, March II, 1711; Cornelise, Sept. 20, 1713 ; Gysbert, Dec. 3, 1716; Jannetie, Aug. 22, 17 19 ; Gosen, April 8, 1722; Abraham, Oct. 11, 1724.
His descendants intermarried with those of the writer's ancestor, Johannes Rueff (who established himself as an Indian trader at Fort Stanvvix, N. Y., in the year 1760). The record which follows is as complete as possible, and is communicated with the hope that further information from other branches of the family may be obtained.
Martin Janse removed with his family from Rensselaerwyck to Canajoharie, N. Y., in the year 1730, where he soon after erected a stone residence yet standing. As stated in French's Gazetteer of New York, it was palisaded and used as a fort during a part of the revolution, under the name Fort Rensselaer.
He made his will .Sept. 15, 1763, in which he mentions his sons Cornells, Johannes, Gysbert, and Gosen, and daughter Jannetie. Gosen inherited the homestead and farm attached, Cornells land on the Hudson River at Half Moon. His children married as follows: Cornells, Tenntie Fort, March 19, 1738; Jannetie, Johannes Pruyn ; Johan- nes, Lena Scharp, Sept. 30, 176 ^ ; children, Isaac, Jannetie, and Barbara; Gysbert, Annatie He Ridders, Jan. 11, 1744; Gosen, Elizabeth Schermerhorn, Jan. 5, 1749. Cornells made his will July 12, 1787, in which he bequeathed property to his sons Martin, Cornels, and Daniel, and daughter Cornelise ; to Daniel the Hudson River property at Half Moon. Gysbert made his will Aug. 15, 17S0, in which he remembers his sons Nicholas, Johannes, and Martinus, and daughters Rachiel, Jannetie, and Neeltie.
Gosen willed the old residence and farm to his son Philip, and property below Cana- joharie to Martin G.
Philip, son of Gosen, b. 1752, m., 1st, Maritie Davis, of Johnstown, N. Y., June 7, 1785. His daughter Neeltie was b. Sept. 13, 1787; Jannetie, Aug. 4, 1790. He m., 2d, Barbara, second daughter of Johannes Rueff, of Fort Stanwix, March 4, 1794. He died in the year 1805.
Neeltie m. Martin Rueff, fourth son of Johannes, Sept. 8, 1804. She died June 8, 1810.
Jannetie m. Scott Quackenbos, March 11, 1S12. She died in the year 1838.
Martin G. Van Alstyn, b. 1754, m. Margaret Ann , April 3, 1780. Had Maritie
and Ann. He died in 1830.
Grandchildren of Philip are still living. F. A. R.
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Centennial History of Somerset County. By Abraham Messler, D.D., Somer- ville. C. M. Jameson, Publisher, 1878. Including Appendix, pp. 198.
This book contains an interesting and condensed sketch of a portion of New Jersey, many of whose early settlers were emigrants from among the descendants of the Nether- landers who located on Long Island. It contains much valuable historical and genealogi- cal information, not only of the early settlers and their descendants, but also of the opera- tions of the American and British armies in the war of the Revolution, by an author, who from his many years' service, as the pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church of Somerville, has had an opportunity of gathering more local information than any of his contemporaries. The book will be highly prized by those who desire to obtain local knowledge, but the printing of so valuable a work on poor paper is to be regretted. On a critical exan ina- lion the writer has discovered a few errors, or what he views as errors (and what work is free from them), which he will endeavor to correct.
The first which he would point out is the setting forth on the 15th page that "the Tunisons, Cornelius and John, came here from Fort Orange, now Albany, and were ori- ginally from the vicinity of Utrecht in Holland." T unison is not a proper surname, but simply signifies son of Tunis. Pearson's genealogies of the first settlers of Albany enumer- ates numerous Teunises, or sons of Teunis, but of his Cornelius and John Teun^es none accord with the Tunisons of Somerset county. Taking the records of the Kings county. New York, and Raritan churches, it may fairly be inferred that both Cornelius and John were sons of Teunis Nyssen or Uenyse, whose son "Jan" (or John) was bap Apr1 12, 1654, in New Amsterdam, now New York, md Nov. 16, 1679, as per Brooklyn church records, Cateline (or Catharine) Teunise Bogaert, residing at the " Wale-bocht," and had issue: — Femmetje, bap. Augt. 8, 16S0, at Midwoud (Flatbush) ; Tetinis, bap. July 16, 1682, at Amersfoort (Flatlands) ; Sarah, bap. Feb. 1, 1685. at Breuckelen ; and Abraham, bap. Sept. 19, 1699, in the Raritan church, "Cornells Theunissen" and wife being witnesses.
''Cornelis," son of Teunis Nyssen (a minor in 1667), md Ist Augt. 22, 16S7, at Mid- woud, Neeltje Teunise Bogaert, settling near Somerville about 16S3, and suppose md 2'1
Rebeka , and had issue, all bap. in the Raritan church except Teunis; — Tennis
bap. Apr1 22'1, 1688, in New York ; Abraham, bap March 8, 1699, Michael Hansen (Bergen', brother-in-law of said Cornelis, and Femmetje (Uenyse) being witnesses; Abra- ham, bap. Sep. 26, 1700, Jan Theunissen wit. ; Jan, bap. Apr1 20, 1704; Sara, bap. Ap1 3, 1706; and Denyse, bap. Apr1 28, 170S, Teunis and Saertjen Middlesuaert wit. Van Middleswaert may mean from Midwoud or Middlewout, one of the names the present Flatbush on Long Island at that period was known by, which would account for the ori- gin of others of the same name among the early settlers of Somerset county. In addition to the above, as additional evidence bearing on the inference of Jan and Cornelis Theu- nissen being sons of Teunis Nyssen (Denyse), and both having married daughters of Teu- nis Gysbertse Bogaert, it appears by the records of the Raritan church that Jan' 20, 1706, Jan Theunisse and Katlyn (Catharine) his wife were wit. at bap. of Joris. son of Jacob and Geertien Rapalje, Jacob being a cousin of his wife; Apr1 25, 171 1, Jan Theunisse was wit. at bap. of Johannes, son of Cornelis Bogaert (supposed to be a brother of his wife); Apr1 30, 1712, Jan Theunissen was wit. at bap. of Sara, daughter of t he above mentioned Jacob Rapalje; ana Sep. 16, 1710, Cornelis Theunissen was wit. at bap. of Nehien, daughter of said Jacob Rapalje. It was customary in those days for relatives to act as witnesses and Godparents of children at baptisms.
The statement that the Veghte (Cortelyoii) house of Gowanus was built in 1639 with a tile roof is also erroneous. The iron figures of 1699 on the gable of the house indicated its erection in that year, and the writer who was born in the vicinity, whose recollection of the house goes back more than 60 years, found it in his youth covered with shingles, and has not seen any account previous to this, nor heard any of the oldest inhabitants assert that the house was ever covered with tiles. The roof was sleep, and tiles being very durable would most probably have remained on it until its destruction, the same as on the De Sille house in New Utrecht. At the present time the roof is off, the building nearly all tumbled down, and this old and interesting relic of the early settlers of the city of Brooklyn, which ought to have been preserved, will soon disappear.
The common ancestor of the Veghte family of Long Island and New Jersey is Klaes Arents Vecht, as written by himself, who immigrated from the Netherlands in April, 1660,
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in the ship " Bontekoe," with wife, three children, and a boy, and took the oath of alle- giance in Brooklyn in 1687. The " Rynier Vechten," who took the oath of allegiance in Flatbiish at the same date, from the entry on the record appears to have immigrated in the same vessel, was probably one of the children who came over with Klaes Arents, and not his brother, as asserted in the book, there being no emigrant named " Hendrick Veghten " on the passenger list of the "Bontekoe." The Van Veghtens who settled at Albany and on the Hudson River about 1638, are of a different stock.
The first Vroom who settled on the Raritan was Hendrick Corson, son of Cornelis Pietersen and Tryntje Hendricks, bap. Nov. 30, 1653, in New Amsterdam, and not "Court Vroom," as set forth in the book. Corse or Corsen was used as an abbreviation of Cornelis, anil signifies son of Cornelis. He md Josina, daughter of Pieter Van Nest and Judith Rapalje of Brooklyn, several of whose sons also settled on the Raritan.
The battle of Long Island was fought on the 27th of Augt., 1776, and not on the 20,,\ and Fort Washington was taken on the 16th of Nov., and not on the iolh, as set forth on pages 69 and 70 of the book. T. G. B.
William Wells, of Southold, and his descendants, A.D. 1638 to 1878. By the Rev. Charles Wells Hayes, of Portland, Me., Corresponding Secretary of the Maine Historical Society, etc. Buffalo, N. Y. : Baker, Jonas & Co., Printers and Binder?, 1878; pp. 300, with illustrations.
We are indebted to comparative strangers for this elaborate and valuable work, while we have among us and around the old hearth-stone a large number of the descendants of this first educated English lawyer who fixed his home in the colony of New York. We have not time nor space for a criticism, nor any disposition to be critical. <l To the family for whom the book is printed " it will need neither recommendation nor excuse.
Pierson Genealogical Records, collected and compiled by Lizzie B. Pierson, of Andover, Mass. pp. 104. Albany, N. Y. : Joel Munsell, Printer, 1878.
The Editor's Preface, signed Geo. R. Howell, informs us that Miss Pierson, being unable to oversee the issuing of her work from the press, entrusted that duty to him with the liberal privileges of Editor, which have been sparingly exercised ; but he assures us the author has been indefatigable and faithful. He is so well known from his South- hampton works that we need add nothing more. The work is condensed and terse, like those of the editor. It contains a great deal of information and rests very little upon tradition. Perhaps James, p. 78, is an exception, and may prove the propriety of the rule. If it should turn out that he is the same person as James No. 18, p. 13, ten years younger than his brother John (not remembered by young James when living with his father, because John was then away at school or college), we will say Q. E. D. We infer that his history came from the family of his son Moses, in Vermont, corresponding, as it does, in accuracy with some others which rest upon aged recollection of youthful im- pressions. If this guess calls attention to the defective pedigree of the first President of Yale, and to the revolutionary incidents recited, and shall secure fuller accounts, it will answer its purpose. Did the Rector have a second wife about 1679, and after 1680 eight children in nine years? If so the history of one wife and of six children is missing. All the Piersons should have the book, and improve it if they can.
History of the Church in Burlington, N. J. ; comprising the facts and incidents of nearly two hundred years, from Original Contemporaneous Sources. By Rev. George M. Hills, D.D., Trenton, N. J., 1876. 8vo, pp. 739.
This is a comely volume, well printed on good paper, and filled with "facts and inci- dents of nearly two hundred years," appertaining mainly to the history of St. Mary's Church in Burlington, N. J. The original sources drawn from are the " Parochial Regis- ter," commencing in 1702 ; " Minutes of the Vestry," " Collections of the Protestant Episcopal Historical Society," printed in 185 1 ; Letters and documents from Lambeth, Fulham, and Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, procured by the late Rev. Dr. Francis L. Hawks ; Extracts from Wills from the Originals in the office of the Secretary of State at Trenton, N. J., etc. Many of the historical data furnished in this interesting volume have never before been published, and we wish that our space permitted of extracts being made for the service of our readers. But as it is limited, it must suffice to call the attention of our readers to this work and bespeak for it a careful perusal.
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THE NEW YORK
Vol. X. NEW YORK, APRIL, 1879. No. 2.
EVERT A. DUYCKINCK— A MEMORIAL SKETCH.* ( With Portrait.)
By William Allen Butler.
In attempting a sketch of the life and literary labors of our late asso- ciate, Evert A. Duyckinck, I dismiss, at the outset, any misgivings as to the degree of general interest attaching to a career whose daily course came so little under public observation, and whose chosen aims were so far removed from the ordinary pursuits of men. At first thought the life of a scholar and man of letters, passed chiefly among his books, and marked by an avoidance of society and a withdrawal from the world, presents few points of attraction, and may seem to furnish little material for even a brief biographical notice. But the friend whose memory we honor was not a mere recluse, living a selfish life of intellectual ease. He was a faithful and life-long worker. If his field of labor was retired, it was no less the scene of constant and patient toil; if he preferred the quiet of his books and the companionship of their authors to the -stir of active life and the social intercourse of the world, it was not to hide or bury the talents com- mitted to his keeping. In his self-chosen seclusion he was always con- tributing his measure of honest work to that true commonwealth of letters in which there is no conflict between the capital of intellectual gifts or ac- quirements and the labor of brain and hand, but where all are co-workers, each in his own sphere, for the advancement of the best thought and in- telligence of the race.
Evert Augustus Duyckinck, the son of Evert Duyckinck and Harriet June, was born in the city of New York, November 23, 1816. His family name was conspicuous in the list of the early Dutch settlers in this part of the country. In Hazard's collection of State papers there is a notice of the depredations of the Connecticut Colonists upon the lands of the New Amsterdam people, under the rule of the West India Company, in which it is said that " they of Hartford have beaten the servants of the high and mighty, the honored companie from their lands, with sticks and plow staves, and among the rest struck Ever Duckings (Evert Duyckinck) a hole in his head with a stick, so that the bloode ran dovvne very strongly downe upon his body."
Evert Duyckinck, the second of the name, who married Elsie Meyer,
* Read before the New York Historical Society, January 7, 1879.
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February 3, 1704, settled, during the later Colonial times, at Raritan Land- ing, New Jersey. Of the nine children of Evert and Elsie Duyckinck, the third, Christopher, who married Catharine Gautier, was actively engaged during the Revolutionary War in aid of the struggle for independence. His son, Evert, the oldest of seven children, and the father of the subject of the present memorial sketch, became a resident of the city of New York about the beginning of the present century, and engaged in the business of a publisher and bookseller. His house, No. 9 Old Slip, and his store in Water Street, adjoining it in the rear, were well known to the residents of old New York, by whom he was held in high esteem during his thirty or forty years of active business life. He gave to Messrs. J. & J. Harper the first order they ever received for book printing. It was for two thousand copies of Seneca's Morals, a large edition for the time, and, considering the subject, perhaps larger than could be disposed of in these degenerate days by any of our modern publishers with all their increased appliances of trade.
A pleasant allusion to the veteran publisher was made in a letter of Diedrich Knickerbocker, published in the American Citizen, New York, January 23, 18 10, not included in any collection of Washington Irving's Works, but reprinted in Mr. Stevens' Magazine of American History, for May, 1878. In this letter the veracious historian of New York expresses his regret that his work had not been published by his much esteemed friend, Mr. Evert Duyckinck, " a lineal descendant from one of the an- cient heroes of the Manhattoes, whose grandfather and my grandfather were just like brothers." At the time of his retirement from business, Mr. Evert Duyckinck was the oldest publisher in New York. He died in the year 1833. It appears from a passing allusion in a note-book of his son Evert, that a love of domestic retirement and quiet was characteristic of the family. Speaking of the luxury of a wood fire in Paris, he says : " A wood fire will always be associated by me with home and my best early days by my father's and mother's fireside. My father had a Dutch tena- city to domestic habits that no friction of travel will rub out from me either. In his store in Water Street he kept heaped -up fires — a back log m the morning like a hogshead. In the ashes after dinner a few Carolina potatoes were commonly buried, where they lay heaped-up like the tombs of Ajax and Patroclus. In the evening, over the embers, my uncle Long always came to talk over the business of the day, while I kept close to the corner, rarely venturing to go among the dark shades at the further end of the room."
The only children of Evert Duyckinck, the publisher, attaining majority, were Evert Augustus and George Long, the latter named after the uncle just mentioned. The two boys, between whose ages there was a difference of seven years, grew up in that daily contact with books and literary associa- tions which, to a mind naturally intelligent, is often the most potent influ- ence in determining the pursuits of after years. Evert was graduated from Columbia College in the class of 1835, at the age of nineteen, and after- ward spent two years in the law office of the eminent jurist and practi- tioner, John Anthon. He was admitted to the bar in 1837, but the pro- fession of the law presented no attractions to his retiring and contempla- tive nature. His strong bias for literary studies and pursuits, conspicuous during his college course, had been shown in his contributions to leading literary journals published in New York. For Park Benjamin's American
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Monthly he wrote some papers, under the title, " Felix Merry's Fireside Essays," which one of his classmates, a competent critic, characterizes as " a charming series of graceful, gossiping lucubrations." He soon after- ward became a regular contributor to the New York Revietu and Quar- terly Cluirch Journal, for which he wrote reviews of the Poetical Works of Crabbe, Mrs. Hemans, George Herbert, and Goldsmith, besides many other critical pieces. His love of old English literature, the department of study in which he always delighted, was exhibited in an article in one of the earlier numbers of the same review, in which his name is associ- ated as a contributor with those of Chancellor Kent and Bishop Mcll- vaine.
A little brochure, called the " Literary," had been issued as early as 1836, for which young Duyckinck, still in his minority, furnished an essay on the same favorite subject, "The Old Prose Writers," a most graceful paper, showing a thorough insight of the theme he treated, and marked by the taste and discrimination which always guided his pen, and the eleva- tion of thought which was his constant source of inspiration.
In the autumn of 1838 he left home for a year of travel in Europe, which he made not merely an opportunity for gratifying the curiosity of an Ameri- can in Europe, but largely a means of verifying by his own observa- tion what he had learned in his studies of the life, manners, and associa- tions of the Old World. " I desire," he says, in the opening pages of the diary from which a quotation has already been given, '' to traverse Europe and look upon it with the eye of the Past, as Howell, or Evelyn, or Wot- ton travelled in the seventeenth century. I have come to see a various drama acted on a large scene, nor will I be disappointed for want of faith in the ordinary delusions of the theatre." He was most fortunate in forming the acquaintance, in Paris, of Mr. Harmanus Bleeker, of Albany, an eminent lawyer and scholar, a descendant, like himself, of a good Hol- land stock, who was about to visit the land of his ancestors under the most favorable auspices. He invited Mr. Duyckinck, and his friend and fellow traveller, James W. Beekman, to accompany him, an invitation gladly ac- cepted. Mr. Bleeker was versed in the Dutch language and literature, and was well known in Holland, where soon afterward, during the Presi- dency of Mr. Van Buren, he represented the United States as Minister at the Hague. "As honest as Harmanus Bleeker," was a phrase of John Randolph which conveyed a sincere tribute to one of whom Duyckinck says, "he follows truth fearlessly in everything." He proved a most con- genial and instructive companion in travel, delighting his juniors with his good sense and the results of his long experience at the bar and in public life, and with his fund of anecdotes, of which Duyckinck testifies, " they are always good, and always new and rare, and many an hour of travel have they beguiled on the long, straight roads of the Low Countries."
The tourists entered Holland at Grootzundert, a post on the frontier of Belgium. The appearance in their passports of such honest Dutch names as " Bleeker," " Duyckinck," and " Beekman," aided, no doubt, by the in- genuous countenances of their proprietors, elicited a courteous waiver of custom-house scrutiny, and the freedom of the Netherlands seems to have been conferred upon them without any troublesome formalities. A private audience of the King, accorded to Mr. Bleeker, as the President of the Saint Nicholas Society of the ancient city of Albany, and a ball at the palace of the Prince of Orange, were part of a round of entertainments and
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hospitalities from which Duyckinck was disposed, under the impulse of his retiring and independent disposition, to draw back. " I began," he says, to question my position, when I found Mr. Bleeker received by the great lords of the State, and myself included in the invitations. I dislike to re- ceive any attention to which I have not some right in myself. It sacri- fices independence. But I was fairly invited by Mr. Bleeker to accom- pany him as a fellow-traveller. He draws these attentions upon us. For myself, I am a looker-on in Vienna."
Few lookers-on ever brought to the quiet task of observation more good sense or a keener appreciation of whatever was worthy of note. His rare opportunities for seeing life in Holland at its best were well improved. His journal, in the neat, firm handwriting, expressive of his exact method and nicety of taste, is a series of sketches drawn from nature and society with a vivid charm of expression in their descriptions of scenes and inci- dents of travel, which reminds one of the easy grace of Irving, and, in their pictures of social life and personal traits, of the quick vivacity of Horace Walpole. In company with Mr. Bleeker, Duyckinck made a thorough exploration of all the places of interest to a literary man and a Hollander by descent. In a book of heraldry, at the house of Baron Westreenan, a noted antiquarian, they found their respective coats of arms, and at the hospitable tables of the burghers of Amsterdam and the Hague a fraternal welcome. There, as the journal attests, " eternal amity was sworn between Holland and America, and if," says Duyckinck, " the ocean that separates us were of wine (like that in the Veras Historian of Lucian) these Dutchmen would drink it up for the sake of a closer union."
It is curious and pleasant to observe from these notes of travel in Hol- land, more than forty years ago, the high repute in which the best people there held the American authors whose works were familiar to them through their translation into Dutch. With an ignorance as to the condi- tion of society and manners in America so profound, that the question was put to Duyckinck by an intelligent Hollander, at a diplomatic dinner, whether travellers in his country " subsisted by the chase," they were yet highly appreciative of Irving's " Columbus," Marshall's " Life of Washing- ton," and Cooper's novels. Perhaps these last had furnished the ground for the apprehensions of the worthy diner-out, that, in case he visited New Am- sterdam, he would have to depend for his subsistence upon the success of the Leather Stockings of Manhattan Island in bagging their daily game. However this may be, the same kindly greeting given to these well-ac- credited tourists was accorded to the works of their countrymen, a fact which loses none of its interest in the thought that this was long before the history and the heroes of the Netherlands had received their best com- memoration from the pen of an American scholar.
But, pleasant as were these hospitalities, it is evident that the ideal life which our traveller had set before him was quite different from one made up of social gayeties. His longings for quiet study and for labor in his chosen field were not dissipated. A characteristic entry in his journal betrays, perhaps quite unconsciously to himself, his ruling hereditary passion for a sequestered life. Returning from a stroll in the Deer Park, a favorite resort for his solitary rambles while a resident at the Hague, lie writes : " If I were a believer in the ancient transmigration, I would sigh for the quiet, ruminating, contented ideas of a well-antlered deer, browsing lei- surely along and watching the little business of his world around."
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The dream of a home of domestic happiness and of congenial studies and pursuits was not long in having its full realization. After leaving Holland, in April, 1839, he spent the summer and autumn in England and Scotland ; returned to New York late in the year, and renewed at once his cherished associations with his books and his co-workers in literary labors. His first serious work, after his return home, was in the editor- ship, in conjunction with Mr. Cornelius Matthews, of a monthly journal, Arcturus. Mr. William A. Jones was also engaged in the enterprise, and the three wrote almost all the articles. Some of Duyckinck's best work was done in this magazine, which is not inaptly described, in one of Edgar A. Poe's sketches of literary men, as " a little too good to enjoy ex- tensive popularity." It ran through three volumes, and gave Duyckinck the opportunity of using his critical talent on a wider and more inde- pendent field than had formerly been open to him, and brought him into closer contact with authors and publishers, with whom he was always a favorite and a friend.
In April, 1840, he married Miss Margaret Wolfe Panton, and soon after- ward took up his permanent and lifelong residence at No. 20 Clinton Place, a home where the affections of wife, and children, and kindred, and the companionship of friends, all found their springs of happiness in his unvarying serenity of temper, his pure and elevated thought, and his devotion to duty. Here he gathered the treasures he most prized, the books which represented every department of general literature, but specially that in which he was versed. In seeking the best editions and in giving completeness to his collection he was aided, as also in many literary labors, by his brother, George L. Duyckinck, who, being much his junior in years, relied greatly on his counsel and was guided by his example.
In the early part of 1847 Mr. Duyckinck undertook the editorship of the Literary World, a weekly journal, designed as a vehicle for the best criticism on books and art, and the independent and impartial treatment of all topics relating to the cultivation of letters. The paper was hardly established before he resigned the editorial control to Mr. Charles Fenno Hoffman ; but, about a year later, resumed it in connection with his brother George, then just returned from an extended tour in Europe, and by their united efforts it was carried forward with a single eye to the truest interests of a true literature. In the opening article of October 7, 1848, the num- ber of the journal which marked the resumption of its .control by Mr. Duyckinck, he concludes a striking summary of the aims of its conductors with these words, which well express his idea of the functions of the editor : "There is a class of topics to which no journalism should be insensible at the present day. The advancement of a sound popular education ; the extension of the comforts and refinements of the few to the many ; the amelioration of poverty and suffering embraced in those questions of social improvement which afford- chivalric employment to the best men of the times — are all matters which arise naturally in connection with literature, science, and art. Virtue in action is the living body, of which invention and poetry are the eyes and heart."
In the conduct of the Literary World an elevated and inspiring tone was conspicuous, and Mr. Duyckinck drew around him many able coadju- tors. It was at this time I saw him most frequently, always at his own house — for even then he mixed very little in society — where I was attracted
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by the constant presence of men of mark in letters and art, and by the friendship subsisting between the two brothers and myself. The evenings in his library will long be remembered by many men whose ways in life have widely diverged in the years which followed the period to which I now advert, but who then were fond of gathering around his fireside, and there discussing the various topics of the day, or listening to the modest but always forcible expression of his critical opinions, or the quiet humor of his narrative of some incident or reminiscence which gave point to the subject of the moment. He was wholly free from the spirit of detraction, and, as a critic, was most discriminating, always just to authors of estab- lished repute, and always generous and kindly to young aspirants for liter- ary distinction. The office of the critic was not allied, in his view, with the partisanship of special ideas or authors, nor was its chief function the suppression of rivals or the extinction of the weak and feeble. The sav- agery of the trenchant style of criticism was as alien to his idea of the true sphere of the literary censor as it was to the humanity of his nature, and he never turned his pen into a bludgeon or made it the instrument of any selfish or unworthy purpose. His own work, as a writer, was always con- scientious and complete. To extreme delicacy of taste he added a rare grace and nicety of expression, and a certain tact in the handling and exhibition of his subject which gave a peculiar charm to what he wrote. His standard, both as to the style and the purpose of literary composition, was of the highest character. The fine phrase in which Horace describes the accomplishments of his friend,
" ad unguem
Factus homo,"
he applied as the highest praise of a well-written book. It must be fin- ished to the finger-nail, to meet the requirements of a just criticism, and to this severe test he sought to subject his own work as well as that of the authors on whom he sat in judgment.
I have dwelt on this period of his career, because it marked the time, not only of my closest acquaintance with him, but also of the enforced cessation' of our constant intercourse. To a young man, called by neces- sity and choice to the severer studies and active duties of the bar, Ambrosian nights, and the society of even the choicest spirits in literature and art, were temptations to be shunned, and my way of life soon ran in a very different path from his. But to know Duyckinck once was to be intimate with him always, and the infrequent meetings of later years were invariably on the unchanged footing of our first friendship. To turn aside at long intervals from the daily routine of life and its common round of duties, to revisit him in the quiet of his studies, was, as when one leaves the dusty and sun-struck highway to seek in some neighboring and familiar shade and covert the spring he knows is hidden under the thicket close at hand, to thrust aside the intercepting branches, and to find in the clear perennial waters the same refreshment and strength as when he drank them first.
The Literary World was continued to the close of 1853. The experi- ment of a purely literary journal, dependent on its own merits, and not on the patronage of a publishing house, and appealing rather to the sympa- thies than the needs of that very small portion of the public which took satisfaction in a weekly presentation of the progress of ideas, without ref-
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erence to their own party politics, their own religious denomination, their craving for continuous fiction, or their preference for wood cuts and cari- catures, had been fairly tried, and the result was not encouraging. The Duyckincks were men of too much sense and too much substance to pur- sue a literary enterprise for the mere sake of a small corps of contributors, however brilliant, or a select circle of readers, however appreciative. They wisely withdrew from the field of newspaper competition, recogniz- ing that inexorable law of supply and demand which less responsible pro- jectors of like undertakings so often ignore until the very implements and paraphernalia by which they sought to enlighten the world and achieve immortality are sold under a chattel mortgage or a sheriffs execution.
But, although the Literary World was not a permanent success, the work done upon it was not lost. There is this difference between the failures of ventures in journalism and ordinary business reverses, that, while the types and presses and mechanical appliances by which they are carried on, may figure in a bankruptcy schedule as very unavailable assets, the written words to which they have given permanent form and expres- sion on the printed page remain, and become a part of the great body of literature, to survive and to find their permanent place and value, if they are intrinsically worthy of preservation. Many a famous or well-deserv- ing poem, essay, or article, has first seen the light as a contribution to some short-lived magazine or journal, which may have served as a kind of fire-escape for the genius imperilled by its destruction.
After the Literary World had ceased to exist, Duyckinck turned, doubtless with a sense of relief, to the more congenial labors to which the rest of his life was devoted, and in which he found his best sphere as a scholar and expert in English and American literature — the editing of books of permanent value, and the preparation of works of history and biography. He had already formed relations with the publishers as a book editor, the Library of Choice Reading from the press of Messrs. Wiley & Putnam having been one of his earliest projects, and the means of intro- ducing some fresh books, out of the beaten track, to the reading public of thirty years ago.
In 1854 he undertook, with his brother, and under arrangements with Mr. Charles Scribner as its publisher, the preparation of the Cyclopaedia of American Literature, a work of large proportions, demanding most extensive researches and a thorough acquaintance with the works of Ameri- can authors. The design of the Cyclopaedia was to bring together, as far as possible, memorials and records of the writers of the country and their works from the earliest period to the present day. " The voice of two centuries of American literature," says the preface, "may well be worth listening to." In aid of the work, numerous private collections of books and manuscripts were freely opened, and the custodians of leading public libraries took pleasure in furthering it. Eminent literary men made con- tributions of facts and memorabilia, conspicuous among whom was Washington Irving, who attested his early friendship for their father in his kind offices for the brothers Duyckinck. Their warm and constant friend, Dr. John W. Francis, was also most serviceable in his judicious and valu- able aid.
Two years of faithful and diligent work were expended upon die Cyclo- paedia, many difficulties were surmounted, and, when it was finally com- pleted and published, it took its place at once as the standard exposition
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of the history, growth, and development of literature in America, and as a monument of the good taste, judgment, and discrimination of its editors. A supplement was added by Mr. Duyckinck in 1865, after the death of his brother, bringing the work down to that date.
I can only mention briefly the leading literary labors which followed the completion of the Cyclopaedia. In 1856 Duyckinck edited the "Wit and Wisdom of Sidney Smith, with a Biographical Memoir and Notes." In 1862 he undertook the task of preparing the letter-press for the " National Por- trait Gallery of Eminent Americans," published by Messrs. Johnson, Fry & Co., a series of biographical sketches and portraits, forming two quarto volumes. This work had a very extended circulation, the number of copies sold having long since exceeded one hundred thousand. A con- temporary " History of the War for the Union," in three quarto volumes, and another extensive work, " Biographies of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America," were written by him for the same publishers. He also edited for them a History of the World in four quarto volumes, compiled chiefly from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and in great part the work of his son George. These works were all executed with the fidelity and care which marked the performance of every task he undertook. Less elabo- rate works were the editing, with a memoir and notes, of the " Poems of Philip Freneau," the American edition of the " Poets of the Nineteenth Century ;" a memorial of John Allan, the well-known New York book col- lector (printed by the Bradford Club), Commemorative Sketches of the Rev. Doctor Hawks, Henry T. Tuckerman, and James W. Beekman, read before the New York Historical Society, and printed by it, and similar memorials of John David Wolfe and Samuel G. Drake, the last named for the American Ethnological Society. Immediately after the death of Wash- ington living, he gathered together, and published in a single volume, an interesting collection of anecdotes and traits of the great author, under the title '' Irvingiana." In a note to a friend, giving some particulars in ref- erence to this collection, which was made and completed in the short space of. a month, he mentions a fact which accords with and illustrates his uniform delicacy of feeling and sense of propriety. "I wrote," he says, " a little preface in which, among other things, I stated that I had not entered on the work without the approval of Mr. Pierre Irving, who, as Mr. living's literary executor, I felt should be consulted as to the prepa- ration of so extended a notice. For some publisher's notion this preface was omitted."
These various labors fully occupied all of his time aside from that given to his family, his church, and the institutions with whose interests he was identified . these were the New York Historical Society, which he served as a member of its executive committee, and as domestic cor- responding secretary, the American Ethnological Society, the American Geographical Society, the New York Society Library, of which he was for many years, and up to his death, a trustee, aiding it greatly by his full knowledge as to books, and Columbia College, of which he was long an honored trustee. He was also a corresponding member of the New England Historic-Genealogical Society, of the Rhode Island Historical Society, and of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society. In these alliances with institutions designed for the promotion of history and kindred objects he found a companionship which he preferred to general society, and which aided him in his own work. But his chosen
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and favorite place and post was his study, over whose door he might have written Coleridge's invocation,
" Tranquillity, thou better name Than all the family of Fame."
Here, in absolute freedom from the distractions of the world, he pursued his studies and plied his pen in the scholarly tasks which engaged his thoughts. He was fully equipped for the best critical and biographical work. He knew the whole field of English literature, " as seamen know the sea." The authors of the Elizabethan age were as familiar to him as any of their successors of the Victorian era. Those "old fields," out of which comes so much of the " new corn " of modern thought and expres- sion, were to him like the woodland and meadow around an ancestral homestead. In the general range of literature and on most of its special subjects his knowledge was complete as to authors and the proper critical estimate of their works and the various editions through which they had passed, and thus, as scholar, critic, and bibliographer, he was a standard authority. I know of no one to whom any vexed questions on points of literary inquiry could have been as safely referred for decision without further appeal as in a tribunal of last resort. Nor do I know any scholar of our country better fitted, by natural disposition and temperament, by study and research, by constant practice as a writer, by experience as jour- nalist and editor, and by thorough magnanimity and impartiality of judg- ment, to discharge the duty and fulfil the trust of a literary critic.
His collection of books and his use of them was characteristic of the man, and indicated at once his catholic and conservative taste, embracing rare and particular editions of books, of which he knew the history and contents ; special volumes to be prized for their peculiar place in literary annals ; illustrated works, selected not so much for their artistic merit as with reference to the aid which the pencil brought to the text of the author ; and special collections of engravings, among which he greatly prized his Stoddarts and his Cruickshanks. He was careful as to the con- dition and binding of his books, less as a matter of taste than with refer- ence to the desert of the books themselves, and nothing in his library was for show. In fact, only his intimate friends knew the number of his books or their value. They were kept in various rooms of his house, and many of them out of sight ; but they were always at hand when needed for reference, or in aid of any theme of discussion, or of the offices of friendship, and as occasion required he would, like the householder of the Scriptures, " bring forth out of his treasures things new and old." It is characteristic of the modesty of the man that his library, the object of his constant solicitude and of his just pride, should receive special and fitting recognition only after his death. He knew the great importance of pre- serving intact a collection which had grown up as the result of the judi- cious and careful selection of books in this country and in Europe, by himself and his brother, during a period of nearly forty years, and he wisely determined to provide for their permanent deposit in the alcoves of the fine public library with which Mr. Lenox has enriched the city. There the spirit of the gentle and refined scholar will seem to abide among the books he loved, which will perpetuate his name and be the lasting memorial of his taste and learning.
The home of which I have spoken, as the centre of so many domestic
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affections, was visited by repeated and grievous sorrows. All the younger members of the household were, one by one, removed by death : the sisters by marriage, to whom he was as an older brother ; the brother, to whom he was as a second father, and whose fine reverential spirit and intellectual taste found expression in the memoirs of the English Church worthies, Ken and Latimer and Herbert ; and the three sons, whose prom- ise and performance were full of satisfaction. The youngest, already alluded to, for his share in the preparation of the History of the World, died in the twenty-seventh year of his age. The oldest, Evert, lived only sixteen years : he had developed a fine taste and manly spirit, and was the constant companion of his father, to whom he was specially endeared. The second son, Henry, a graduate of Columbia College and a clergyman of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was cut off in his early prime at the post of duty, a victim to his intrepid devotion to the work of beneficence and Christian philanthropy to which he had consecrated himself.
These heavy burdens of domestic grief were borne with a spirit of Christian fortitude. Mr. Duyckinck's religious views were simple and firm, resting on a thorough acquiescence in the verities of the Christian faith, as expressed by the church he revered, and of which he was a devout mem- ber. "The great background of his character," writes the Rev. Dr. Mor- gan, the Rector of St. Thomas's Church, in which he was many years a vestryman, " was his purity, or exquisite delicacy of organization ; it led to extreme modesty and a want of even moderate self-assertion, but for the most part it was his glory. His pure mind and taste marked him in everything. The thing which fell specially under my notice was his pains- taking diligence and fidelity in common, humdrum duties. He was clerk of the vestry of St. Thomas's, and I have still in my possession some of the blank-books which he filled with minutes and memoranda. It must have cost him a great deal of labor and consumed much precious time, but it was conscientiously done, even to the copying of long specifications. But, after all, the mind reverts to his quiet, studious habits and his long commu- nion with the best men and minds of all time."
In a like vein the Rev. Dr. Rylance, Rector of St. Mark's Church, where he worshipped up to the time of his last illness, speaks of him as a "rare illustration of what Wordsworth calls 'natural piety,' beautified and hallowed by the wisdom which is from above." " My visits to him as a pastor," he writes, "were always rewarded by some increase of light or inspiration to my own mind or heart. But only as the last mortal hour approached did the singular excellence of Mr. Duyckinck's Christian char- acter reveal itself. Through the long and painful decay of the outer man, the inner man was renewed day by day. No complaint or murmur did I ever hear from his lips, but the same chastened resignation ever showed itself as I approached the sufferer to minister what little comfort I- could in his time of need. He would speak naturally, and with an earnestness of manner not usual with him, of the future life and of the good hope guaranteed by the gospel."
As an illustration of the catholicity of his religious views, I cite a single paragraph from his memorial sketch of the life of his old friend and com- panion in travel, James W. Beekman. Speaking of the religious side of Mr. Beekman's character, he says, " Parallel with the worth of the Bible to man, he regarded, and ever in his own practice religiously maintained, the observance of the Christian Sabbath, not in any Puritanical exaggeration
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as a day of austerity and gloom, but as a period of repose from labor and its severities, a time for cheerful family and friendly intercourse, of prayer and praise, of the opening of the mind to the higher life of the soul. There was no spirit of exclusiveness in this, no obtrusion of personal views upon others, but a generous liberality of sentiment, which respected the rights of those who, mindful of one great end, might differ from him as to the particular ecclesiastical road in reaching it."
In the last literary work undertaken by Mr. Duyckinck, and which was completed only a short time before illness prevented him from further labor, he was associated with Mr. Bryant. The same publishers, for whom he had been engaged on the most important works already noticed, projected a popular edition of the Plays of Shakespeare, and the work of prepar- ing and annotating the text was undertaken, at their request, by Mr. Bry- ant and Mr. Duyckinck. The editions of Shakespeare are almost innu- merable, and so are the names of Shakesperian editors and commentators ; but seldom has the task of arranging and setting in order that vast array of dramatic scenes and persons, whose infinite variety " age cannot wither nor custom stale," been confided to scholars more competent for its wor- thy execution. For the general supervision of the work and the special duty of scrutinizing the text when prepared, and of its final revision, Mr. Bryant was, of all American authors, best fitted, by his trained skill in the poetic art, his wonderful memory, embracing so much of literature and of literary annals, illustrative of the Shakesperian text, his severe taste, his long labor in the rendering of the Homeric poems into English verse, his large experience of life, his elevated and serene temperament, which made him so much a lover of nature and the human race, and so little dependent on companionship with individual men. These were rare quali- fications for the semi-judicial function of determining the best and truest rendering of the very many obscure and doubtful passages in Shakespeare over which scholars and critics have so long contended. To Duyckinck was confided the severer and laborious task of the first preparation of the text, the collation from various readings and editions of the best version, and the annotation and arrangement of the whole work. Although the duty of the editors was fully discharged some time before the death of either of them, the preparation of the illustrations is not yet completed, so that whatever credit may justly be accorded to Bryant or to Duyckinck, for the work which will associate their names with that of the greatest of their masters in English literature, will be a posthumous honor. But the nature and extent of their respective shares in the editorial work are clearly defined in the manuscript preface by Mr. Bryant, a portion of which has recently been made public in the columns of the Evening Post, and in which he says :
" It now remains that something be said of the present edition and the accompanying notes. Among the variations in the text in the old copies, called readings, are many, the genuineness of which is matter of dispute among commentators. Of these, different minds will be apt to make a dif- ferent choice, and in consequence any edition will, in respect to some of these readings, differ from every other. In selecting the most authentic of this class, I should not have been willing to rely on my own judgment and opportunities, and have therefore sought the co-operation of Mr. Duyckinck, whose studies, habits of research, and discrimination fitted him in a peculiar manner for the task. With the assurance of his assist-
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ance, I undertook the work, and it is due to him to say that, although every syllable of this edition has passed under my eye, and been consid- ered and approved by me, the preliminary labor in the revision and anno- tation has been performed by him."
It is pleasant to think that his last labor was one so congenial to his tastes. Hindered by no calls to alien or disturbing duties, or rough com- petitions in the outer world, it was pursued in the seclusion which he loved, among the ample sources of aid and illustration in the books by which he was surrounded. From the first scene to the last, he went page by page, line by line, through all the dramas which the world accepts under the name of Shakespeare, with the patient and conscientious care imposed by the nature of the work and his sense of duty, and, as we may well imag- ine, with something of the reverent devotion to the minutest details which a mediaeval monk might have given to the task of illuminating the record of the legend of a patron saint or the text of the sacred canon. The labor thus delighted in was often an antidote to sorrow and pain and a source of strength and comfort. He showed me, on one occasion, with evident satisfaction, the portion of the work he had in hand ; and to an intimate friend, in an interview near the close of his life, when he was suf- fering great pain, his patient endurance found relief in words supplied by the great dramatist —
" Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
The review thus taken of this life of literary labor presents a succes- sion of unobtrusive, and yet most faithful and persevering efforts. Under the spur of necessity, or by the help of early association with some lead- ing and liberal publisher, who could have discerned the practical uses of his peculiar gifts, he might, perhaps, have done greater things, and made his name more famous. But it was better that he should have pursued his own chosen path, and left us this rare instance of an unspoiled scholarly life, passed in the midst of a great commercial metropolis, which, with all its varied attractions and temptations, could not divert him from the pur- suits to which he was devoted as by an irrevocable vow. We are under a great obligation to the scholar who thus attests his fealty to the .cause of letters. In a great city, with its countless and ceaseless activities, where the participants in the daily round of duties, from the drudgery of the most menial service to the high-wrought schemes by which the highest material interests are served, are under the whip and spur of a necessity or a com- petition which suffers no choice and no cessation, the scholar and the student are indispensable. The preservation of a literature is no less needful than its growth, and while the great mass of educated men must follow special callings and professions, which debar them from the general studies and researches to which their tastes invite, it is a satisfaction to know that there are men qualified for the task, who keep watch over the sources and springs of literature, who defend it from what is unworthy, who are the custodians of its treasures and the guardians of its permanent interests. Their service is not conspicuous, and may be lightly esteemed, for it is not performed on a wide stage, nor in the glare of competition. They stay by the supplies, and it should be ours to see to it that, in the distribution of rewards, " as his part that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that remaineth by the stuff."
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It may seem, in the retrospect of the life I have sketched, that it presents a character without a fault. If so, I might plead the grateful prerogative and privilege of the delineator of a purely private life, with no relation to public events imposing upon the biographer the duties and restraints which attach to the historian. In the portrait of the friend we love, we want to see him at his best ; and if it is painted by the hand of affection, it may well present, in a single aspect, the idea of all that was most admirable in the original. The famous speech of Cromwell to Sir Peter Lely, " Paint me as I am," may have been only the shrewd self-assertion of a nature which imposed its rude restraint upon whatever was adventitious and not within the compass of its own control. And yet, if I were charged, as on the oath of a witness, to testify as to the failings of the subject of my sketch, I should have to seek for them outside of any knowledge or infor- mation of my own.
His was a life singularly free from blemish or blame, and equally exempt from enmity or detraction. It may be said that he was less exposed to temptation by reason of his seclusion from the world, but while the praises of the solitary life have often been set forth, it cannot be claimed in its behalf that the infirmities of the individual man part company with him when he quits the society of his fellows. He who mixes least with the world is apt to have the worst opinion of his kind, and to become querulous, if not cynical, just as the citizen who is earliest and most fre- quent in his despair of the Republic is usually the last and least service- able in any effort for its rescue. The votaries of a pure literature are no exception to the rule. If Cowper fled from the world as the scene " where Satan wages still his most successful war," it was only to find in his seclu- sion new inward sources of conflict and distress, from which a closer con- tact with the world would perhaps have been the best safeguard. But our friend, in his self-chosen home life, was always in sympathy with the world without, thoroughly patriotic and loyal as a citizen, and most genial and hearty in his appreciation of whatever was deserving of general regard and esteem.
Although a recluse, he loved the city, its nearness to his quiet nook of study, the concourse of its streets, its public libraries and exhibitions of art, its repositories of books and engravings, its strong and busy life. He was never willingly away from it. A day's ramble in the country now and then sufficed for out-of-town enjoyments. I could never persuade him to pass a night under my suburban roof. Like Madame De Stael, who pre- ferred a fourth story in the Rue de Bac to all the glories of Switzerland, he kept to the city, and shunned a change even in mid-summer heats. But, unlike her, his choice was for its solitude and not for its society, and such was the purity of his character that it did not corrode or become debased by being hidden from the light.
He is buried in the graveyard at Tarrytown, beside the old church of Sleepy Hollow. The spot was selected by himself and his brother long ago, as a place of family burial, on account of its loveliness of situation, its quaint surroundings, and the associations which have been woven about it by the master hand of Irving, whose grave is near his own. Hard by this rural solitude, along the iron pathway which skirts it, the heavily freighted trains move day and night, and eager crowds hurry to and fro on their ceaseless errands, while beyond, on the broad river, the gathered
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fruits of the cornfields and prairies of the West go to seek a market in the great Metropolis, or beyond the sea. In this contrast of the grave, with its unchanging repose, beside the restless, rapid movements of the living, we may find an image, not inapt, of the life we have surveyed, so near the stir and rush of the outward world, and yet. in its calmness and seren- ity, so far removed, and, as we turn from the peaceful life, and the quiet grave, both alike are bright with the best memories of earth and the smile of heaven.
SHIPWRIGHTS, FISHERMEN, PASSENGERS FROM ENGLAND.
By Charles B. Moore.
Many interesting particulars are known of the first settlers of New England and of New York. Their perilous enterprises were recorded, reported, and studied, especially to guide others.
But after the arrivals and settlements became numerous, it was more difficult and perhaps less necessary to preserve historic or characteristic descriptions, either of persons or families, enterprises or voyages. And now, it is not easy to find where many of the people came from to Long Island, or New York, or had lived in England, Ireland, Scotland, or the Netherlands, before they came here.
Brief sketches of some early settlers are contained in Young's Chron- icles, and in the histories of Southampton, and of Long Island, and the introduction to the Corwin Genealogy. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register contains other sketches. The New York Genea- logical and Biographical Record has, to some extent, pursued*the idea. There are many others, and almost every family pedigree contributes to aid a general view. (See i Essex Institute, 97, the I Veils Genealogy, &c.
But each writer takes particular notice of his own class. The clerical writers, and a few connected with the government, wrote and preserved the earliest accounts. Their own class, of course, was described in great- est detail. Other classes also deserve notice. Some seem to have been very poorly described.
In 16 18, Capt. John Smith reported to Lord Bacon his voyages and views. He claimed that, from four years' voyages to New England, in three things they had been successful. First, a great plenty of fish, easily caught, by two months of fishing. Second. The French and English, by trading off cheap articles to the Indians (such as hooks and lines, beads and glass) had obtained near thirty-six thousand beaver skins ; which were very valuable. And third, all sorts of timber for shipping were most plen- tiful. He gave the Hollanders as an example to be imitated : " whose endeavours by fishing," he said, "cannot be suppressed by all the king of Spain's golden powers." Perhaps to please Bacon and King James, he said, "Truth is more than wealth, and industrious subjects are more avail- able to a king than gold." (Historical Magazine, Vol. 5, p. 195.) On the
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coasts of Scotland, the success of the Dutch in getting fish and beaver was noticed, and attempts were made to compete with them.
Sir Wm, Alexander, a native of Scotland, afterwards Earl of Stirling, was a member of King James' Privy Council. He, representing his Scotch constituents, aided to form an incorporated company for fishing, and sought land in the colonies for settlement. The sea-coast was the attrac- tive part — doubtless by reason of the fish — and the most convenient harbor for ships, and islands were liked by him quite as well as the main-land. {Life, by Slafter.)
The Virginia Company, at the outset, intended to send over shipwrights. So early as January, 1622, the governor and council in this country, entreated the company at London to go on with their purpose of sending the shipwrights, giving their reasons in these words : " for this country is yet seated on the river's side. They (the shipwrights) will be here, men of singular use for the building of ships, pinnacies, and small vessels, without which we cannot well prosecute our discovery, trade with our neighbours, or transport ourselves or our goods from one place to another." (Neill's Virginia Company, 285.)
In June, 1622, the Virginia Company in London, sent over to Virginia " Capt. Tho. Barwick, with 25 persons under his government, for the building of boats, ships, and pinnaces ; " saying, " not anything hath put us to so much trouble and charge as this project hath done." (lb., p. 308.) And in Virginia, it seems, shipwrights were not very successful.
Capt. Barwick & Co. arrived, and were accommodated at James City. They worked first "in houseing themselves." Many were lost by sickness. {/b., P- 373-) .
There and in other places, the early shipwrights had first to build their own houses. They used large and hard timber for frames, it being plenty ; they sawed their own boards out of hard wood, and hewed the hard tim- ber, before they had saw-mills j* they used their own tools and plans, which were different from the house-carpenter's, and, as a result, their frames of buildings were stronger, and their houses lasted longer than the others ; some of them have been examined by persons now living ; some of the timber yet exists, though perhaps in granaries and out-houses, or only in forlorn looking old buildings. In other cases the old pattern has been imitated, when descendants familiar with it have removed into new places. A curious one could be seen in the old house of a first settler of Orange County. (Eager's History of Orange County, 368.)
The shipwrights thus erected early monuments of themselves ; of their trade and their skill. To comprehend the changed circumstances, we must bear in mind that the small vessels called ship's, were then built much stronger than now. We have a description of the frame-work of a ship wrecked on Cape Cod, and buried in the sand for some two hundred years. (In N. E. Hist, and Ge?ie. Reg.) Ballasted, so that they could not be capsized, or remain wrong side up ; they were to be framed so strongly that no tossing or gamboling over the waves could break them. And for such long and hazardous voyages, we can imagine how necessary it was to show the inexperienced voyager the strong timbers and braced- frames upon which so much depended. We need not stop to think of the sea sick passenger.
* The first saw-mill, it has been written, was in 1643. Pierson Genealogy, p. 54.
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