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The De Riemer Family 
 
 A. D. J640(?)-I903 
 By Rev. W. E. De Riemer 
 
 Edition of one hiindnd copies 
 
 Reprint from New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 
 with additions 
 
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 Printed by Tobias A. Wright 
 
 J905 
 
THE NEW YORKj 
 
 PUBLIC UBRkRY 
 
 A8T0R, LENOX AND 
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REF AC E 
 
 Any contribution to the early history of New York City — 
 first known as New Amsterdam — awakens peculiar interest. 
 The pioneer men and women who laid the foundations or 
 endured the hardships of life in the formative period of the 
 Metropolis of the Empire State deserve to be held in grateful 
 remembrance. These pioneers were not titled people. But 
 few of them possessed wealth. They were quite unconscious 
 of doing anything to be recorded in history. No professional 
 chronicler was at hand to take note of their brave deeds. 
 They are known to us today chiefly through the public 
 records of the State and of the Church, — when they were 
 born, and married and died, and what property they ac- 
 quired, and to whom it was transmitted, — to obtain even 
 these facts is no slight labor. The writer has attempted to 
 do more than this with reference to the families of which he 
 treats. Every available incident in the individual lives of 
 the Colonial period is introduced in the printed page, so that 
 the work becomes a series of biographical studies. 
 
 There are two distinct periods in the Colonial history of 
 New York — the Dutch period of 50 years, extending from 
 1614 to 1664, the date of Stuyvesant's surrender to the English 
 fleet^-and the English period of 160 years, from 1664 to 1773, 
 when the Revolutionary War began. 
 
 Among the pioneers who figured conspiciously in both 
 these periods were some whose lives have not hitherto been 
 made prominent. Their names are Cresson, de la Plaine, 
 Anthony, Steenwyck, Brouwer, de Foreest, Wessels, Gouver- 
 neur, le Chevalier, Roome, Courten, Drisius, Selyns, Roose- 
 
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 A. D. 1640 (?)— 1903. 
 
 The progenitors of the De Riemer family in New Amsterdam 
 were Isaac De Riemer and Lysbet Grevenraet (sometimes 
 spelled Greveraad, and Greefraadt, and Graeveradt), sister of 
 Isaac Grevenraet, and daughter of jMetje G. 
 
 The name De Riemer (variously spelled de Rymer, D'Ryomer, 
 and De Reamer, De Remer, and Derumer) indicates a French 
 origin and Huguenot stock, but this couple were from Holland. 
 Genealogists concede, what a thorough investigation of Dutch 
 records will doubtless prove, that the family ancestors were 
 refugees from France who had, some generations previously, on 
 account of anti-Romish convictions, fled from France and re- 
 mained in Holland until they had become adherents of the 
 Reformed religion and users of the Dutch language. G. W. 
 Schuyler (in Colonial New York, Vol. II, p. 426), says that 
 Nicholas Gouverneur and his wife Machtelt De Riemer were of 
 French extraction, but emigrated to New Amsterdam through 
 Holland. 
 
 ISAAC DE RIEMER, I 
 
 I. Isaac ' De Riemer, merchant, m. Lysbet Grevenraet (date and 
 place not found); she m. (2) Elbert Elbertsen, d. 1655; m. (3) 
 Feb. 14, 1659, Dominie Samuel Drisius, d. Dec. 25, 1687. Her 
 will was made July 4, 1684; proved Jan. 5, 1688. Isaac and Lys- 
 bet De Riemer's children were: 
 
 2 i. Margharetta' De Riemer, m. (i) in the Reformed 
 
 Dutch Church of New Amsterdam, June 5, 1658, 
 Hon. Cornells Steenwyck, by whom she had seven 
 children; m. (2) Oct. 20, 1686, Dominie Henricus 
 Selyns, Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church of 
 New York, d. 17 12, will proven Feb. 4, 17 12. 
 
 3 ii. Pieter De Riemer, b. 1643, probably in Holland; m. 
 
 in the New York Reformed Dutch Church, Jan. 10, 
 1665, Susanna, eldest dau. of Isaac de Foreest and 
 Sarah du Trieux; d. in New York City, 1702; will 
 dated Jan. 29, 1697; proven Oct. 5, 1702. 
 iii. * Machtelt De Riemer, b. Jan. 18, 1644, probably in Hol- 
 
 • The descendants of Machtelt and Huybert are not included in the following pages. 
 
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 land; m. (i) Nicholas Gouverneur of Huguenot 
 
 ancestry, by whom she had two sons: Abraham and 
 
 Isaac; m. (2) Oct. 14, 1685, in the Reformed Dutch 
 
 Church in New York City, Jasper Nissepadt, baker; 
 
 d. in New York City, Sept. 27, 1706. Three daughters 
 
 were born to Nissepadt. 
 
 iv. Huybert De Riemer, (dates of birth, marriage and 
 
 death not found); m. Catherine (Smith ?), " dau. of a 
 
 prominent family in New York, by whom he left 
 
 two children: Isaac and Elisabeth; opposite his 
 
 name in the Church record are foimd these words, 
 
 " Gestorven Meuis," implying that he died in France 
 
 on the river Meuse. "Was a naval surgeon." 
 
 Isaac and Lysbet were doubtless married in Holland. Four 
 
 children were brought with them to New Amsterdam, unless we 
 
 except the fourth. The children's names were: Margaretta, 
 
 Pieter, Machtelt and Huybert. Pieter's birth is known to have 
 
 occurred in 1643. In his testimony before a Riot Commission 
 
 U ^D in 1V90, he declared himself to be about 47 years of age (Hist. 
 
 ' Col., N. v., Vol. Ill, pp. 740-1), and it is supposed that the family 
 
 arrived in this country about the time of his birth. 
 
 Valentine tells us that Isaac was a prosperous young mer- 
 chant of the city, but his residence in the city of Manhattan 
 seems to have been brief, and no reference is found to his death. 
 Lysbet (Grevenraet) his widow married a second time, 
 Elbert Elbertsen, a glazier by trade. Elbertsen died suddenly, 
 as appears from the following record: Nov. 9, 1655, "The Burgo- 
 masters, in their quality of orphanmasters, report the death of 
 Elbert Elbertsz on board the Bonte Koe in North River. Rynier 
 Rycken is appointed his Attorney, and Secretary Kip to inven- 
 tory his estate." (Original Records of Burgomasters and Orphan- 
 masters.) 
 
 Lysbet was married the third time on Feb. 14, 1659 (Mar. 
 Record, Reformed Dutch Church, New York), to Rev. Samuel 
 Drisius, assistant pastor of the New York Dutch Church. Rev. 
 Mr. Drisius died in 1672, but his wife survived him until Dec. 25, 
 1687. In the Manual of Neiv York City for 1855, p. 484, occurs 
 this history: "Lysbet Greveraet married first Mr. De Riemer, a 
 young merchant of this city, and after his death she became the 
 wife of Dominie Samuel Drisius, who, in 1652 was appointed to 
 assist in his clerical duties in N. Amsterdam that worthy old 
 servant, the Rev. Megapolensis. She brought to him a consider- 
 able property, consisting of real estate, and the mercantile effects 
 of her late husband. It is one of the peculiar features of those 
 early times that the ladies of some of the most affluent and dis- 
 tinguished citizens, whose callings were of a professional char- 
 acter, conducted mercantile pursuits in their own names. This 
 was true of ' Mother Drisius,' as she was familiarly called, who 
 kept a thread-and-needle store in the best business part of the 
 town, on the present Pearl St., between Whitehall and Broad." 
 She is also mentioned as having lived on Langs Strat in her later 
 
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 years, and as selling property in 1682 as follows: To John Pound, 
 I lot 23 X 60 ft. for $25; to Wm. Churcher, i lot for 350 guilders, 
 or $30. In the Baptismal register of the New York Dutch Church 
 her name as godmother occurs early and often. As the wife of 
 Dominie Drisius she doubtless exerted a wide influence and 
 filled a large place in the social and religious life of those early 
 Dutch colonists. 
 
 Valentine again speaks praisingly of her as the mother-in-law 
 of Hon. Cornelius Steenwyck (Val. Manual, 1853, p. 381). "She 
 was a worthy woman, and as Steenwyck himself was in early life 
 in this country without relatives, his own respectable character 
 was no doubt due, in some measure, to the counsels of his mother- 
 in-law. The widow De Riemer afterward married Dominie 
 Samuel Drisius, one of the early preachers of the Dutch Church. 
 She survived the Dominie who died in 1672. She had no child- 
 ren by him. She d. Dec. 25, 1687, at an advanced age." (Val. 
 Maytual, 1858, p. 538, and Pearson's First Settlers of Albany.) In 
 Dominie Selyns' Memo of the members of the church in 1686, 
 Lysbet is mentioned as living on Langs Strat (along the Strand.) 
 (Wilson's Memo. Hist, of City of Neiv York, Vol. I, p. 447). 
 In her will, of which her son Pieter De Riemer is made adminis- 
 trator, she mentions Mrs. Margaret Steenwyck, Machtelt Gouver- 
 neur, widow of Nicholas G., deceased, Mr. Pieter De R., and her 
 deceased son Huybert, and his children Isaac and Elizabeth, got- 
 ten by Catherine. (In the N. Y. Hist. Society, Abstract of Wills, 
 Vol. I, p. 150, her death is mentioned as occurring Feb. 13, 1686.) 
 
 DOMINIE SAMUEL DRISIUS 
 
 In 1652, Dominie Samuel Drisius, from Leyden, arrived at 
 Manhattan to become the assistant pastor of the Reformed 
 Church. His ability to preach in several languages, (Dutch, 
 French and English) was a prime qualification at that time. For 
 twenty years, and until his death in 1672, he served the church 
 most acceptably. 
 
 In 1659, Feb. 14, the Dominie was married to Lysbet Greven- 
 raet, widow of Isaac De Riemer, the progenitor of the latter fam- 
 ily in America, and secondly widow of Elbert Elbertsen. She 
 bore Drisius no children, and survived him fifteen years. 
 
 Valentine says: "A great part of the northerly portion of the 
 city, extending along the line of Wall St., was granted by Gover- 
 nor Stuyvesant to the officiating clergyman in the Dutch Church, 
 Dominie Drisius." This tract was familiarly called the Sheep 
 Pasture. It extended from the present line of New Street to 
 William Street, and from Wall to Beaver Streets, and is described 
 in the grant as "to the south of the land of Jan Jansen Damen, 
 breadth on the west side 21 rods, on the east 15 rods, length on 
 the north n rods." (A Dutch rod equals 13 feet.) " The first 
 improvements on the Sheep Pasture," says Mr. Moss, "were the 
 cottages which were built in 1690 at the N. E. corner of Exchange 
 Place & Broad Sts., which corner is now occupied by the Mills 
 
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 Building." Martha Lamb presents this pleasant picture of the 
 clergyman. " Dominie Drisius lived in a pretty cottage on the 
 north side of Pearl Street, below Broad. He exerted a healthful 
 influence over the church, and took an active interest in political 
 affairs. In 1653, he was sent as Ambassador to Virginia and con- 
 cluded an important commercial treaty with Governor Bennett. 
 * * * When the Dominie first arrived in New York he was a 
 middle-aged widower. He subsequently married Lysbeth, the 
 widow of Isaac Graverat (sk) (De Riemer). She held a large 
 property in her own right, and is often mentioned upon the tax- 
 lists (after his death) as ' Mother Drisius.' The will of Dominie 
 Drisius, which was made Sept. 17, 1669, proven Dec. 18, 1688 
 (1672 ?),* gives his entire estate to his wife during her life, the 
 residue at her death to go to Jane Slade of London. His books 
 were granted to his godson Isaac Steenwyck, son of the Mayor. 
 The will of widow Drisius, proven Jan. 5, 1688, divides her entire 
 property into four parts, the fourth part to be held by the widow 
 (Catherine) of her deceased son Huybert, for the benefit of his 
 two children until they are of age or married." 
 
 MARGHARETTA DE RIEMER 
 
 2. Margharetta' De Riemer {Isaac De Riemer, i), m. (i) June 
 5, 1658, in New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church, Cornells 
 Steenwyck; m. (2) Oct. 20, 1686, Dominie Henricus Selyns, Pas- 
 tor of New York Dutch Church, worshipping in the Fort church 
 and later in the new church erected on Garden Street. She bore 
 to Steenwyck seven children: 
 
 i. Margariet' Steenwyck, bap. Sept. 17, 1659, in the Re- 
 formed Dutch Church of New Amsterdam. Wit- 
 nesses: Dominie Samuel Drisius, Lysbet Greven- 
 raets. 
 ii. Jacob Steenwyck, bap. Nov. 13, 1661, in the Reformed 
 Dutch Church, situated in the Fort. Witnesses: 
 Martin Cregier, Burgomaster, Johannes Van Brugh, 
 Schepen, and Juffron Judith Stuyvesant, wife of 
 Director Stuyvesant. 
 iii. Jacob Steenwyck, bap. Feb. 24, 1664, in the old Fort 
 Dutch Church. Witnesses: Gillies Van Hoornbeck 
 and Judith Bayard, 
 iv. Isaac Steenwyck, bap. Dec. 28, 1666. Witnesses: Dom- 
 inie Samuel Drisius and Catherine Roelofs. (As 
 the Dominie regarded himself the godfather of this 
 child when he made his will in 1669, he bequeathed 
 his entire library to him.) 
 V. Cornells Steenwyck, bap. April 7, 1669. Witnesses: 
 
 Johannes De Peyster and Anneken Lookermans. 
 vi. Cornells Steenwyck, bap. July 20, 1671. Witnesses: 
 Jacob Pieterzen Marius and Elizabet Grevenraets, 
 their grandmother. 
 
 * Riker's Annals of Neuutown, p. 204. 
 
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 vii. Jacobus Steenwyck, bap. May 25, i676(?). Witnesses: 
 Dominie Wilhelmus V. Nieuwenhausen and Susanna 
 de Foreest (afterward the wife of his uncle Pieter 
 De Riemer). 
 Note. — It seems to have been the custom of those times when 
 a young child died to let the next born inherit the name of the 
 deceased child, hence there were two Jacobs and two Cornelises 
 in this family. As none of the above children are mentioned in 
 the marriage list of the Dutch Church, and as none of them ap- 
 pear in the wills made by either Cornelis* or Margharetta,f it 
 appears that none of them reached mature years. Hence this 
 branch of the De Riemer family terminates with this genera- 
 tion. — Editor. 
 
 Margharetta De Riemer was apparently, as she is always 
 mentioned first, the oldest of the four children of Isaac De 
 Riemer and Lysbet Grevenraet. The place and date of her birth 
 are not yet ascertained. Neither have we any account of her 
 maiden life. The meagre history which is at hand concerns 
 itself only with her married life, which was indeed most fortun- 
 ate. She was successively the wife of two men who left marked 
 impressions on the manners and events of their day — men whose 
 names will never be dissociated with the formative period of the 
 great Metropolis. 
 
 Her first marriage was celebrated June 5, 1658 {N. Y. Gen. & 
 Biog. Record, Vol. VII, p. 62), to De Heer Cornelis Steenwyck 
 who came from Harlem in 1652. J This man proved to be one of 
 the most wealthy, respected and eminent men of his day. He 
 held high official positions, both during the Dutch and English 
 regimes. As her husband was suscessively a Schepen, Burgo- 
 master, Mayor and acting Lieut. -Governor, it is but natural that 
 Margharetta his wife should have occupied an enviable social 
 distinction. Mrs. John King Van Renssalaer says {The Goede 
 Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta, p. 147): "A highly esteemed lady who 
 lived in Mana-ha-ta was Margharetta De Riemer; she married 
 Cornelis Steenwyck, and lived on the corner of Bridge and 
 Whitehall Sts. This couple were very rich, and they loved to 
 gather around their great square dining-table all the young peo- 
 ple of the neighborhood, and the weekly supper-parties of 
 Madame Steenwyck were noted far and near. Their house was 
 a typical one of the day, and an inventory of its furniture has 
 fortunately been preserved. The dwelling room was provided 
 with 12 Russia-leather chairs, and 2 velvet chairs with fine silver 
 lace; one cupboard of French nut-wood; one round and one 
 square table; one cabinet; 13 pictures and a large looking-glass: 
 five alabaster images; a piece of tapestry for cushions; a flowered 
 tabby chimney-cloth; a pair of flowered tabby curtains; a dress- 
 ing-box and a carpet. In the fore-room was a marble table; 
 
 • Cornells and Maigharetta made a joint will on Nov. 20, 1684; proven after the death of 
 Cornelis. April 2R, 1685. 
 
 t Margharetta Selyns made her final will Jan. 2;. 1711, which was proven Feb. 4, 1712. 
 
 t The first marriage record in the New Amsterdam Reformed Dutch Church of which there 
 is any certainty, was made Dec. 1639. The first De Riemer marriage recorded was this of 
 Margharetta to De Heer Cornelis Steenwyck. 
 
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 eleven pictures; seven Russia-leather chairs; a clock, etc." She 
 bore to Steenwyck seven children whose names were Margariet, 
 Jacob, Jacob, Isaac, Cornells, Cornelis, Jacobus, Isaac only reach- 
 ing mature years, and is mentioned in the will of Dominie 
 Drisius. Sept. 17, 1669, as heir to all his library, but nothing 
 further is recorded of him. 
 
 Steenwyck died in 1684, and on Oct. 20, 1686, his widow mar- 
 ried the widower Dominie Henricus Selyns, who, from 1682 till 
 his death in 1701, was the efficient pastor of the New York Dutch 
 .Church. Here again, chosen to preside over the home of the 
 leading pastor of the young city as her mother's successor, we 
 have proof of her social and intellectual worth. It is worthy of 
 note that the mother of this lady was the pastor's wife at New 
 York during the stormy days of the capture of the city by the 
 English in 1664, and in its re-capture by the Dutch in 1673 and 
 its final surrender to the English in 1674, — while the daughter 
 Marghareta was the pastor's wife in the same church during the 
 Leislerian excitement in 1689-91, and that her nephews Isaac De 
 Riemer and Abraham Gouverneur were active partisans of 
 Leisler. This De Riemer mother and her daughter therefore, 
 were most vitally connected with the political as well as the 
 social and religious events of the 17th Century in New York. 
 
 HON. CORNELIS STEENWYCK 
 
 Hon. Cornelis Steenwyck, Merchant, Schepen, Burgomaster, 
 Mayor, Lieut. -Governor, Capt. of Cavalry, Councillor of State. 
 This worthy man was a true type of the Hollander. He came to 
 New Amsterdam in 1652 in the employ of the West India Com- 
 pany, in very moderate circumstances, and apparently without 
 any of his relatives. His birth place was Haarlem. He grad- 
 ually embarked in private business. His qualification for mer- 
 cantile pursuits was admirable, being particularly noted for his 
 correct and neat accounts. His staple article of foreign trade 
 was tobacco, which was especially produced in Virginia. He 
 soon became the owner of his own ships. In time he constructed 
 of stone a substantial store and dwelling on the southeast corner 
 of the present Whitehall and Bridge (De Brugh) Streets. His 
 sterling qualities were soon recognized, and he is spoken of as 
 "one of the most influential citizens of his times." When gossip- 
 ing tongues assailed him he prosecuted the slanderers in the courts 
 until they were punished. In 1657 when "Burgher Rights" 
 were accorded to the people, Steenwyck was classed as a Great 
 Burgher by the payment of 70 guilders into the public treasury. 
 Two years before this he had been taxed one hundred guilders 
 for strengthening the fortifications of the city, and was ranked as 
 " Ensign." (De Heer Allard Anthony presented 100 guilders 
 and Dominies Megapolensis and Drisius each presented 50 
 guilders. Paulding's New A msterdafn, p. 87.) In the first pub- 
 lished City Directory, Steenwyck holds in the ist Class, Allard 
 
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 Anthony in the 2d Class, while Pieter de Rymer and Isaac Grev- 
 enraet are in the 3d Class. 
 
 His successful business, and his sterling qualities naturally 
 made him a shining mark for political honors. In 1658 he was 
 selected as one of the five Schepens, or Assistant Aldermen, 
 along with Isaac de Foreest, and again selected for the office in 
 1660. In 1662 he was appointed one of the Board of two Burgo- 
 masters, an honor which he held during 1664-5 ^i^d 6. Under 
 the English regime he was appointed Mayor of New York in 
 1668-9 and 70, and again in 1682-3. Governor Lovelace, during 
 his absence in Virginia in 1671 appointed him Governor /r(3 tein. 
 On Aug. 1 1, 1673, after the recapture of New York by the Dutch, 
 the Governor appointed him captain of a volunteer troop of horse. 
 He also made him his Chief Councillor, Aug. 12, 1673. 
 
 On Sept. 9, 1664, when Nichols demanded the surrender of 
 the city of Director Stuyvesant, Burgomaster Cornelis Steenwyck 
 was appointed to draw up the articles of capitulation on the part 
 of the Dutch. This document was signed and presented by the 
 members of the Board to Nichols and was signed by him for the 
 English. (Dawson's Hist. Magazine, Sept. i, 1867, p. 400.) After 
 the capture of the city, Steenwyck was one of those who submitted 
 with good grace to the enevitable change and tried to conciliate 
 both parties. Valentine says [Manual, 1853, p. 381; and ditto, 
 1864, p. 633) : " When Governor Nichols called an assembly of the 
 people in 1665 to consult about repairing the fortifications, 
 Steenwyck made this characteristic speech with its Dutch brogue: 
 'As e Governor has been pleased to put e Honorable Mayor and 
 Aldermen for to look to e best of e town and e inhabitants of t' 
 same, what they sail think fit and necessary for e best thereof, 
 he being but ordered, sail always be found a willing and faithful 
 subject.' " 
 
 " This individual, whom we believe to have been the most in- 
 fluential citizen among the commonality of his day, held several 
 public offices after the accession of the English. Although a 
 Dutchman, such was the confidence in his integrity held by the 
 English in 1671, that during the temporary absence of Gov. 
 Lovelace in Virginia he appointed Steenwyck Governor pro tern 
 of the Province." 
 
 When, according to the terms of peace agreed upon between 
 England and Holland, New York was finally turned over to the 
 former on Nov. 3, 1674, Heer Cornelis Steenwyck and Heer 
 Burgomaster Johannes Van Brugh and William Beekman were 
 appointed by the Burgomasters and Schepens to go on board the 
 ship Diamond axi^ welcome Heer Governor Andrews, and solicit 
 from him favors for the city and Province. {Doc. Hist, of State 
 of N. K, Vol. Ill, p. 47.) 
 
 During the last term of Steenwyck's mayoralty, in 1683, the 
 city was divided into six wards. It then contained about three 
 thousand inhabitants. 
 
 As might be supposed, Steenwyck was both a charitable and 
 a religious man, one of the principal supporters of the Dutch 
 Church, to which he gave by will at his death, the Manor of 
 
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 Fordham for the maintenance of the ministers. He was the 
 second man in the province of New York in point of wealth, all 
 of which had been acquired in his trade as merchant, and in real 
 estate, and made, it is admitted, by the most scrupulous methods. 
 The inventory of his property included several houses and lands 
 beside cash and household furnishings, amounting to ^4,382. 
 His book accounts numbered some ;^i,s88, including the name 
 of almost every man in the city. 
 
 A portrait of Cornelis Steenwyck is in possession of the N. 
 Y. Historical Society. 
 
 DOMINIE HENRICUS SELYNS 
 
 Dominie Henricus Selyns was born in New Amsterdam in 
 1636. He received his clerical education in Holland and came 
 back to America to become the pastor of the Reformed Dutch 
 Church in Brooklyn, organized by pastor Polhemus. He was 
 ordained Feb. 16, 1660, and after a pastorate of four years he re- 
 signed and returned to Holland. 
 
 Upon the death of Dominie Drisius in 1672, a call was extend- 
 ed to Rev. Mr. Selyns by the New Amsterdam Dutch Church 
 which he declined. Again, after the death of Rev. Mr. Nieuwen- 
 huysen in 1682, another call was extended which he accepted, 
 continuing his ministry until his death in 1701. It is recorded 
 that Director Stuyvesant bargained that the Dominie should 
 preach as an extra service upon his farm and instruct his negroes, 
 for which consideration the Director agreed to pay half his sal- 
 ary. 
 
 Dominie Selyns' first marriage was to Machtelt Specht, by 
 whom he had one daughter named Agneta, baptized July 9, 1663, 
 This wife having died, his second marriage occurred on Oct. 20, 
 1686, to Juffron Margaretta De Riemer, widow of De Heer Cor- 
 nelius Steenwyck, by whom he had no children. Selyns de- 
 scribed her as " rich in temporal goods, but richer in spiritual." 
 
 The Dominie was a poet of rare gifts. A little volume of his 
 poems is extant, from which some of the choice numbers are pre- 
 sented to us in Murphy's Anthology of the New Netherlands. 
 
 In Dawson's Historical Magazine, Sept., 1867, it is stated that 
 he did more than any other man to determine the prosperity of 
 his church, which had increased its membership from 450 in 1682, 
 to 650 in 1701. He was the pastor during the perilous days of 
 the so-called Leisleran rebellion of 1689-90, which threatened to 
 disrupt his church. He took strong ground against Leisler and 
 his Council, some of whom were related to his wife, and he was 
 severely arrainged by members of the church who sent a strong 
 remonstrance against him to the Classis at Amsterdam, Oct. 21, 
 1698. 
 
 Notwithstanding this serious trouble, the Dominie was act- 
 ually and successfully engaged in the construction of a new 
 edifice for the New York Dutch Church — the third one since 
 they began worship in Molemacher's mill. It was finished in 
 
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 1693, and was much larger than its predecessor. " It was situ- 
 ated on a beautiful garden spot belonging to Mrs. Dominie 
 Drisius, fronting on Garden Alley, now Exchange Place." In 
 the following year a beautiful baptismal bowl was purchased, 
 costing "twenty silver ducats." Dominie Selyns prepared an 
 inscription, indicating the significance of the baptismal rite, 
 which was engraved upon its outer surface. This bowl is still 
 owned by the' Fifth Avenue Dutch Church. 
 
 No authentic will of the Dominie has been discovered, but a 
 partial one (unsigned, and dated 1712 ?) was found in which he 
 mentions Abraham Gouvemeur, Isaac Gouvemeur, and Elisabet 
 Nissepadt, children of sister Magtel Nissepadt, to whom he de- 
 sired to bequeath three-sixths of his residuary estate. 
 
 PIETER DE RIEMER 
 
 3. Pieter' De Riemer (Isaac De Riemer, i), glazier, b. 1643; d. 
 1702, in New York City; will dated Jan. 29, 1697; proven Oct. 5, 
 1702; m. Jan. 10, 1665, Susanna de Foreest, dau. of Isaac de 
 Foreest. Issue: 
 
 4 i. Isaac' De Riemer, II, bap. Jan. 10, 1666. Date of 
 
 death not given; m. Jan. 10, 1689, Aeltje Wessels, b. 
 
 at Albany; dau. of Warner Wessels and Deborah 
 
 his first wife; eight children. 
 
 Pieter De Riemer was the oldest son of Isaac De Riemer and 
 Lysbet Grevenraet. He was born in 1643, probably in Amster- 
 dam. This date is established by his testimony before the com- 
 mittee of investigation respecting the New York riots. In his 
 deposition, made June 8, 1690, he said that he was then aged 
 about 47 years. He united with the Dutch Church of the city, 
 July 9, 1663. He was a glazier by trade, and it is evident that he 
 learned his trade from his stepfather, Elbert Elbertson. His 
 marriage to Susanna de Foreest, daughter of Isaac de Foreest * 
 and Sarah du Trieux, was recorded on Jan. 3, 1665. His resi- 
 dence was then " back of Perel St. " ( Aghter de Perel St.), now 
 the part of State Street curving south, as appears from a tax list 
 levying a tax on property holders to support the British soldiers 
 who were quartered upon the recently captured city. In Valen- 
 tine's History of Neiv York, p. 332, Pieter is located upon Beurs 
 Street or Exchange Street, together with his son Isaac, his wid- 
 owed sister Margaretta Steenwyck, Jacob Teller, and his coiisin 
 Andries Grevenrath. (Wilson's Memorial Hist., Vol. I, p. 447): 
 " At a meeting of the Governor and Council, held in Fort Wm. 
 Hendrick Oct. 8, 1673, the Burgomasters of the city being pres- 
 ent, the Governor submitted to them the necessity of demolishing 
 
 * Hon. Isaac de Foreest (Brewer), was of French origin. He reached New Amsterdam from 
 Holland about 1637: m. in New Amsterdam, Sarah du Trieux of Leyden, June 9. T641. In 1652, 
 appointed one of the " Nine Men;" in i6<;3, " Inspector of Tobacco;" in 1655, " Farmer of rev- 
 enue of Weigh-house;" in 1656, elected Schepen " by forty votes;" in 1658, became a Great 
 Burgher and re-elected Schepen; 1660, Farmer of Tavern Excise; d, 1674, Wife Sarah du 
 Trieux d. 1692. Grandson Isaac De Riemer administered their estates. 
 
1 6 The De Riemer Family 
 
 or removing some of the houses and gardens (built 40 years be- 
 fore), situated under the walls of the fortress. He requested the 
 Burgomasters to propose the same to the owners and report the 
 result. The persons interested appeared by invitation on Oct. 
 10, and responded as follows: First, Pieter De Riemer is willing 
 to remove his house, but requests that Muyen's lot, or one at the 
 water's side be given him. Six others were questioned, viz: 
 Symon Barenzen, Jan Schouten, Isaac Grevenrath, Jan Everzen 
 Bout, Jan Dirckzen Mayer, Lodowyck Post. On Oct. 16, an 
 ordinance was passed requiring all these persons to move im- 
 mediately, and making provisions for their indemnity by ex- 
 change of lots, and by levying a duty on certain imports to de- 
 fray their losses. This order was carried out as nearly as re- 
 quested. The next year (1674) the houses and lots belonging to 
 Pieter De Riemer between Pearl and Beaver Streets were valued 
 at $3,000."* 
 
 Pieter's will was dated Jan. 29, 1697, and proven Oct. 5, 1702. 
 In it he mentions only his son Isaac and his wife Susanna (de 
 Foreest) whom he appoints executor, but who died previous to 
 the proving of the will. In it he leaves to his son Isaac all his 
 house and lot on Bridge Street, also one-half his glazier's tools. 
 The balance of his estate goes to his wife during her life, and 
 afterward to Isaac. On Oct. 5, 1702, both parents being dead, 
 his son Isaac was appointed administrator of their estates. (N. 
 Y. Hist. Soc. Coll., Abstract of Wills, Vol. I, p. 344.) 
 
 ISAAC DE RIEMER, II, SR. f 
 
 4. Isaac ' De Riemer, II, (Pieter De Riemer, 3), merchant, poli- 
 tician, mayor, alderman, capt. of infantry, notary, sheriff; bap. 
 Jan. 10, 1666; date of death wanting; m. Jan. 10, 1689, Aeltje 
 Wessels, b. at Albany; dau. of Warner Wessels and Deborah his 
 wife. Their children were: 
 
 5 i. Petrus* De Riemer, II, merchant; bap. in the Re- 
 formed Dutch Church on Garden St., N. Y. City, 
 *^</(j 3*311. 22, 1690; witnesses: Pieter De Riemer and 
 Susanna de Foreest; d. 1725; m. Elleanor De Kay 
 who m. (2) Joseph Morris, whose will was made 
 Aug. 21, 1734, and proven Dec. 9, 1741. (N. Y. Hist. 
 Soc. Coll., Abstract of Wills, Vol. Ill, p. 339; Vol. II, 
 p. 334). Petrus's will bears date of Dec. 17, 1725; 
 proven March 31, 1726; appoints his well-beloved 
 friends Richard Ashfield and Stephen Bayard, ex- 
 executors. He left one child, 
 ii. Isaac De Riemer, IV, bap. Sept. 6, 1691. Witnesses: 
 Matthienus Clearson and Christina Wessels. 
 
 • At the same time the property nf his mother, Elizabeth Drisius was appraised at S3. 500; 
 that of his mother-in-law, Sarah de Foreest. at 83,000; that of his brother-in-law, Cornelis Steen- 
 wyck. at $50,000, and that uf Frederick Philipse at Sijo.ooo. 
 
 t He was usually dubbed "Senior" to distioguisn him from his cousin of the same name 
 who was called "Junior." 
 
The De Riemer Family 17 
 
 iii. Anna Elizabeth, bap. Sept. 10, 1693. Witnesses: Heer 
 Selyns Predict, Jacob Teller, Margaretta De Riemer 
 Selyns. 
 
 iv. Susanna De Riemer, bap. July 21, 1695. Witnesses: 
 
 Uziel Van Swisten, Maria de Foreest. 
 V. Elizabeth De Riemer, bap. Aug. 25, 1700.* Witnesses: 
 Johannes de Peyster, John Nanfan, Deputy Gov- 
 ernor, Madam Elisabeth Nanfan. 
 
 6 vi. Margarita De Riemer, bap. April 2, 1704; witnesses: 
 
 Abraham Gouverneur, Margharetta Selyns (cousin 
 and aunt of the child); m. (i) March 18, 17— , Jan 
 Sjoert; issue: one son; m. (2) Jacob Webbers; issue: 
 four children. Margarita was given, by the will of 
 her eldest brother, Petrus, dated Dec. 17, 1725, "a 
 suit of mourning, and a negro girl named ' Gate.' " 
 vii. Isaac De Riemer, V, bap. Jan. 25, 1708; witnesses: 
 Catherine Staats and Pieter Sonnemans. 
 
 7 viii. Steenwyck De Riemer, bap. April 23, 1710; witnesses: 
 
 Isaac Gouverneur and Margareta Ebberts; m. (i) 
 May 9, 1731, Catherine Roosevelt, dau. of Nicholas f 
 Roosevelt and Sarah Solomons, bap. in Reformed 
 Dutch Church, N. Y. City, Jan. 10, 1711, d. about 
 1741; issue: five children; m. (2) Jan. 16, 1742, Angel 
 
 (Engeltje) Anthony, dau. of ; no children by 
 
 her mentioned in Dutch Church record. 
 
 Isaac De Riemer, II, son of Pieter De Riemer and Susanna 
 de Foreest, was born in this city and was baptized, as appears 
 from the records of the Dutch Church, on Jan. 10, 1666. He ap- 
 pears to have been the only son and child of his parents, but, 
 judging from his ability to make himself useful in public affairs, 
 he was equal to a whole family of ordinary citizens. He was 
 both merchant and politician. Valentine declares him to have 
 been (Hist, of City of N. V., p. 98) along with his cousins Isaac 
 De., Jr., and Abraham Gouverneur, among the "Principal mer- 
 chants of the city at the close of the 17th century." He early 
 appeared in public and military affairs. He was scarce twenty- 
 three years old when commissioned by Lieut.-Gov. Leisler, Dec. 
 16, 1689, a Lieutenant-of-foot in Walter's company of N. Y. 
 militia. He is mentioned in Colonial N. Y. History, Vol. Ill, p. 
 600, as Ensign, and was examined before the Commission as to 
 his connection with the Leislerian troubles. He was charged 
 with countersigning Leisler's order permitting the troops to levy 
 on private property. In his affidavit, made Feb. 24, 1691 (June 
 6, 1690?), he states that he is about 26 years of age, and he is a 
 commissioned officer of a Militia Co. He also recites the main 
 facts concerning the abrupt departure of Lieut.-Gov. Nicholson 
 from the Province, and the appointment to supreme command of 
 Capt. Jacob Leisler by successive assemblage of the citizens. 
 
 * Isaac De Riemer. II, was that year the Mayor of New York. 
 
 t Nicholas Roosevelt was the son of Nicholas Roosevelt and Hillotje Jans (Kunst ?), and 
 grandson ol Claas Martenszen van Roosenvelt, the progenitor of the Roosevelt family in the 
 United States. (See Roosevelt Genealogy^ 
 
i8 The De Riemer Family 
 
 (O'Callaghan's N. Y. Hist. Soc. Collections, Vol. I, p. 324; see also 
 Documentary Hist, of N. K, Manuscripts, Vol. I, p. 361; Vol. II, 
 p. 348; Vol. IV, p. 600.) He was afterwards made Captain of a 
 company of militia of which Abraham De Peyster was the 
 Colonel. 
 
 He was married (Jan. 10), 1689, to Aeltje Wessels, daughter 
 of Warnaer Wessels, formerly of Albany. (Valentine says he 
 married 1703, Margareta Teller, daughter of Wm. Teller, a 
 wealthy merchant formerly of Albany; and De Forest \^De 
 Foreests of Avesnes,^. 104] says he married Maria De Foreest, 
 but the records of the Dutch Church show that all of his eight 
 children were born of Aeltje Wessels, and three of them were 
 born later than 1703. His business partner, Jacob Teller, 
 mariner, was his brother-in-law, having married Christina Wes- 
 sels, sister of Aeltje. Aeltje is mentioned in Christina's will, 
 dated Sept. 17, 1698, as wife of Isaac De Riemer.) 
 
 Isaac De Riemer's political life began in 1696, when he was 
 elected an Assistant Alderman for the West Ward. In 1699 he 
 filled the place of Alderman of West Ward and Sheriff, and was 
 elected Treasurer of the city. The climax of his promotion came 
 in the year 1700, when he was appointed Mayor of New York, 
 and elected a member of the Colonial Assembly from 1700 to 
 1702. From 1702 to 1704 he was Alderman of the West Ward, 
 also Collector of the South Ward in 1706. He was elected Con- 
 stable in 1708, and Alderman of the Out Ward in 1714 to '17. 
 Thus he seemed quite as influential politically as his uncle Cor- 
 nelius Steenwyck had been before him. 
 
 Valentine gives this comprehensive notice of him (Manual, 
 1^53. P- 397): " Mr. De Riemer was a merchant, a member of an 
 old family of this city. His grandmother was born Elizabeth 
 Grevenraat, and married the common ancestor of this family in 
 this country, by whom she was left a widow with four children. 
 Isaac De Riemer married in early life. He was chosen Collector 
 of the South Ward in 1706. For the subsequent year he was 
 chosen Alderman. In 1708 he was elected Constable. He shortly 
 after moved out of town, his residence being upon a hill south of 
 Canal St., between Broadway and the North river. In 1714 he 
 contested the election for Alderman of the Out Ward with Mr. 
 Blagge who received the returns. Mr. De Riemer was admitted 
 to his seat. He continued to hold this office for three 3'ears. In 
 the time of his Mayoralty the city contained about 4,200 inhab- 
 itants." 
 
 These were the days of bitter struggle between Leislerian 
 and anti-Leislerian. Valentine tells (Manual, i&^t, PP- 515-528) 
 how Mayor De Riemer and his cousin Abraham Gouverneur, who 
 was at that time City Recorder, endeavored to secure a majority 
 of Leislerians in the Council. "In the spring of 1701, the new 
 Governor took his place and appointed as Mayor in place of De 
 Riemer (Leislerian) Mr. Noell, who was an anti-Leislerian. The 
 Recorder, Mr. Abraham Gouverneur was also a Leislerian (one 
 of Leisler's Council who had been condemned to death with 
 Leisler.) There was a lively struggle in the Council to get a 
 
The De Riemer Family 19 
 
 majority of Leislerians. To accomplish this the old Mayor stole 
 a march on the new Mayor, and swore into office all the Leisler- 
 ian Aldermen who presented certificates of election before the 
 new Mayor was sworn in. This action percipitated a severe con- 
 test that had to be settled by the Supreme Court." The verdict 
 of the Court unseated David Provoost and Nicholas Roosevelt 
 (whose daughter Catherine married Steenwyck, Mayor De 
 Riemer's son) as Aldermen, and Peter W. Roome (whose great- 
 great-granddaughter, Hester Anthony married Mayor De Riem- 
 er's great-grandson Samuel), and Henry Jellison as Assistant 
 Aldermen. The confirmed Aldermen were: Johannes de Peyster, 
 Jacob Boelen, and Martin Clock; while Abraham Brasier, Gerrit 
 Onclebog, and Abraham Messier were the Assistant Aldermen. 
 All of Isaac's children were baptized in the New York Dutch 
 Church. Their names were as follows: Petrus, Isaac, III, Anna 
 Elizabeth, III, Susanna, Elizabeth, IV, Margarita, Isaac, IV, and 
 Steenwyck. The date and place of birth is uncertain. No will 
 is recorded. 
 
 PETRUS DE RIEMER, II 
 
 5. Petrus' Db Riemer, II {Isaac De Rietner, 4), merchant; bap. 
 in Reformed Dutch Church, Garden St., N. Y., Jan. 22, 1690; d. 
 1725; will bears date of Dec. 17, 1725; proven March 31, 1726; 
 m. Ellenar De Kay, who m. (2) Joseph Morris, whose will bears 
 date of Aug. 21, 1734, proven Dec, 1741. Petrus's will gives 
 property to wife Elinor in trust for son Isaac, and makes gifts to 
 his sister Marg. and brother Steenwyck. Issue: 
 
 i. Isaac' De Riemer, VI, bap. in New York, Nov. 10, 
 1725; date of death of this Isaac is not found, nor his 
 further history. Joseph Morris mentions him in his 
 will as his (son-in-law?) "stepson" * and entitled to 
 one-half of one share in his estate. 
 
 6. Margarita* De Riemer (Isaac De Riemer, 4), bap. April 2, 
 1704; m. (i) March 18, 1730, Jan Sjoert, Jr., in New York Re- 
 formed Dutch Church; issue: Isaac' Sjoert, Jr., bap. March 18, 
 1731; witness: Steenwyck De Riemer, Margarita's brother. 
 She m. (2) June 16, 1739, Jacob Webbers. Issue: 
 
 i. Olivardus * Webbers, bap. April 27, 1740. 
 ii. Alida Webbers, bap. Oct. 4, 1741. 
 iii. Elisabet Webbers, bap. Oct. 17, 1742. 
 iv. Petrus Webbers, bap. Feb. 6, 1745- 
 
 7. Steenwyck' De Riemer (Isaac De Riemer, 4); bap. April 23, 
 1710; d. about 1741; m. (i) May 9, 1731, Catherine Roosevelt, 
 great-granddaughter of Claas Martenszen Roosenvelt, progenitor 
 of the Roosevelt family in the United States. Steenwyck be- 
 came "Freeman" of the city in 1735. She d. about 174-; he d. 
 previous to 1761; no will. (See Memo., Hist, of N. Y., Vol. 
 2, p. 3174). Issue: 
 
 i. Isaac' De Riemer, VII, bap. in the Reformed Dutch 
 
 • This is an evident mistake as Morris' oldest cliild, Rebecca, was hardly ten years of age. 
 
20 The De Riemer Family 
 
 Church, N. Y. City, Feb. 20, 1732; witnesses: Jan 
 Sjoert and his wife Margareta De Riemer. 
 ii. Sarah De Riemer, bap. in the Reformed Dutch Church, 
 N. Y., Oct. 16, 1734; witnesses: Nicholas and Rachel 
 Roosevelt, and Peter Low. 
 iii. Nicholas Roosevelt De Riemer, feltmaker; bap. in 
 Reformed Dutch Church, N. Y. City, Oct. 10, 1736; 
 witnesses: John Roosevelt and his wife Heyltje 
 Sjovert (pronounced "Shourd"); m. Oct. 5, 1760, 
 Margaret Pool. His name appears on the marriage 
 bond and certificate of his younger brother Petrus 
 De Riemer and Alice ? Babbington, May 9, 1763. 
 (A''. V. Mar. Licenses, Vol. 7, p. 170. 
 8 iv. Petrus De Riemer, III, goldsmith; bap. in Ref. Dutch 
 Church, N. Y. City, Jan. 23, 1739; witnesses: Richard 
 Ashfield, Elinor D'Ray (De Key?, widow of Joseph 
 Morris, and of Petrus De Riemer); d. Oct. 2, 1814; 
 m. by Dominie Jackson, "between 10 and 11 o'clock 
 of Sunday morning," May 10, 1763, Elsie Babbington, 
 b. Aug. 5, 1744, probably at Albany, dau. of Samuel 
 Babbington.* Marriage license issued May 9, 1739? 
 (1763), to Pieter De Riemer, goldsmith, and Alice? 
 (Elsie) Babbington, spinster. (TV. V. Mar. Licenses, 
 Vol. 7, p. 170). Issue: nine children. 
 V. Steenwyck De Riemer, II, bap. in Ref. Dutch Church, 
 N. Y. City, Aug. 16, 1741. Witnesses: Jacobus 
 Roosevelt and Catherine Comfort, wife of Nicholas 
 Roosevelt, d. Feb. 13, 1742? 
 
 PETRUS DE RIEMER, III 
 
 8. Petrus' De Riemer, III, {Steenwyck De Riemer, 7), goldsmith, 
 gentleman; bap. Jan. 23, 1739; d. Oct. 2, 1814. He was born and 
 baptized in the city, and was rated as a " Gentleman " (possibly 
 a "Freeman"). He also resided temporarily at Albany, and 
 ended his days at Hyde Park, Dutchess County, where his grave 
 and that of his wife are marked with stones. He and his older 
 brother Nicholas were among the first of the De Riemers to for- 
 sake the customs of their day, requiring Dutch men to marry 
 Dutch damsels. Petrus married Elsie Babbington, daughter of 
 Samuel Babbington. Her birthplace was doubtless Albany. 
 Petrus carefully kept his family record, and from it we glean 
 many details of interest. His marriage to Elsie was "by Dom- 
 inie Jackson, between ten and eleven o'clock of Sunda}' morning. 
 May 10, 1763." Their union was blessed with nine children, two 
 of whom died in infancy, and two others, Mary, called " Aunt 
 Polly," and Anne never married. Elsie, born May 3, 1777, and 
 
 • Samuel Babbington is recorded as a " Freeman " of New York City in 1746 (Valentine's 
 l^ew K(7r*. p. 391), and his name occurs on a poll-list of the city in 1761. He is supposed to 
 have been a son of Lieut. Samuel Babbington and his wife Elsie, who received by an act of the 
 N. Y. Legislature, Dec. 23. 1717, 50 oz. of *' plate " for services in the expedition against the 
 French in Canada, and who, on Nov, 16, 1717, was sworn in as Sheriff of the City and County of 
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 Sarah, born Aug. 16, 1781, are recorded in Munsell's Albany Gen- 
 ealogy, p. 116, Vol. 4, which shows that the family resided at 
 Albany during a part of the Revolutionary period. As the 
 youngest child, Martha, was born in New York on May 23, 1785, 
 the family must have returned to their former home. Petrus' 
 business was prosperous, and eleven years later, as we learn from 
 Dutchess Co. Record of Deeds, he purchased from Nathaniel 
 Bosworth of Poughkeepsie, a farm called the " Glebe," on the 
 east bank of the Fallkill, for which he paid ;^i 100. The same 
 year, 1796, he purchased a second farm for ^300 of John Swart- 
 wout. On July 12, 1802, Petrus bought another piece of land in 
 Poughkeepsie of John Smith for $1000.00. Poughkeepsie became 
 the family residence about this time, and the old brick house 
 built by Petrus still stands near the head of Church Street. 
 
 Still later Mr. De Riemer purchased the steamboat landing at 
 Hyde Park, and he and his son-in-law, Robert G. Livingstone, 
 owned and operated a line of boats making regular trips to New 
 York. 
 
 Petrus De Riemer, gentleman, made his will Dec. 2, 1807, 
 which was proven Dec. 3, 1814. A codicil, signed Oct. i, 1814, 
 the day before his death, mentions him as from Clinton, Dutchess 
 County {Dutchess Co. Wills, Vol. I, p. 565). In it he mentions 
 his wife " Elsey," and children Samuel and Mary De Riemer, 
 also Catherine, wife of Rev. Cornelius Brouwer, Elsey, wife of 
 Col. James Sleight, Sarah, wife of Geo. W. Cooke, and Martha, 
 wife of Robert G. Livingstone. On their tombstones, now 
 standing in Hyde Park Cemetery, it is recorded that Peter died 
 Oct. 2, 1814, aged 74 yrs., while Elsie died Oct. 19, 1818, aged 75 
 yrs. Issue: 
 
 i. Peter Steenwyck ' De Riemer, b. "between seven and 
 eight o'clock on Wednesday morning," Jan. 30, 1765; 
 d. Oct. 8, 1796. 
 ii. Mary De Riemer, b. " between eight and nine o'clock 
 on Saturday night," Oct. 11, 1766; unmarried. 
 After her parents' death Mary made her home with 
 her sister Catherine Brouwer at Geneva, N. Y. 
 9 iii. Samuel Babbington De Riemer, b. " between seven 
 and eight o'clock on Thursday afternoon," July 7, 
 1768; d. Oct. 2, 1815; m. Jan. 17, 1790, Hester An- 
 thony, bap. Oct. 8, 1769, d. Feb., 1812, dau. of Capt. 
 Nicholas N.* Anthony (b. Jan. 14, 1742, d. Oct. 20, 
 1824, m. (i) April 15, 1776), and Susanna Roome, 
 bap. Dec. 20, 1747, d. Dec. 24, 1793. 
 iv. Catherine Roosevelt De Riemer, b. "between four and 
 
 • Capt. Nicholas N. Anthony commanded a company of New York Militia in the 3d regi- 
 ment. Col. Abraham P. Lott. [American Archives. Fourth Series, Vol. III. p 238, by Peter 
 Force.) He is said to have been a blacksmith by trade, and rumor has it that in his shop the 
 big chain was forged that was stretched across the Hudson river to prevent the English vessels 
 during the revolution from ascending that stream. His parents were Nicholas Anthony. Jr., 
 and Hester Roome. His grandfather was Nicholas .\nthony, Sr. His great-grandtather was 
 the famous AUard Anthony, one of the " Nine Men," a Schepen, Burgomaster and Sheriff, who 
 died Dec. 21, lf)85. Susanna Roome was also the great-granddaughter of Pieter Wiltse Roome, 
 a Schepen, and on her mother's side the descendant successively of Pierie Cresson, " le gardin- 
 ier " of the Prince of Orange, of Nicholas de la Plain, and of John Le Chevalier, all ofwhom 
 were residents of New York City. 
 
22 The De Riemer Family 
 
 five o'clock on Saturday afternoon," Jan. 6, 1770; m. 
 Rev. Cornelius Brouwer. "Rev. Cornelius Brouwer 
 was born in the city of New York, A. D., 1770; 
 studied under Livingston I. CI., N. Y., 1793; was 
 pastor of R. D. Churches at Poughkeepsie and 
 Stoutenburgh, 1794-1808; supplied Hyde Park, 1808- 
 1812; Prof, in High School at Utica, and S. S. at 
 Frankford, 1815-1833; supplied frequently Arcadia, 
 Gorham and Tyre, 1833-1845; d. at Auburn,? 1845. 
 He was a thorough classical scholar and mathema- 
 tician, and possessed an extensive Biblical knowl- 
 edge and was well read in the standard religious 
 works of the last century." (Corwin's Manual, Ref. 
 D. Ch. of N. America.) 
 v. Ann De Riemer, b. "at two o'clock on Thursday 
 
 morning," March 18, 1773; d. Feb. 7, 1774. 
 vi. Elsie Roosevelt De Riemer, b. "between twelve and 
 one o'clock," Jan. 25, 1775; d. July 26, 1776. 
 
 10 vii. Elsie De Riemer, b. at Albany, N. Y., " Saturday 
 
 night," May 3, 1777; d. 1841; m. 1799, Col. Jacobus 
 Sleight, b. at La Grange, N. Y., April 19, 1753, d. 
 Sept. 2, 1833; issue: five children. Jacobus Sleight 
 was born in La Grange, N. Y., April 19, 1753, and 
 died there Sept. 2, 1833. Early in the war of the 
 Revolution he enlisted, serving as Ord.-serg. under 
 Capt. Dorland at Ft. Washington; as First Lieut., 
 1777, at Ft. Constitution, and with the army under 
 Capt. Henry Wyncoop at the burning of Kingston; 
 Quar. Master, Jan. i, 1778, under Gen. Scott at 
 White Plains, and later under Col. Zeph. Piatt. {N. 
 Y. Archives, Vol. I, p. 473.) Commissioned by Gov. 
 Clinton, Capt. No. 10, Militia, Sept. 27, 1786, Elias 
 Van Benschoten, Lieut. -Col., commanding. Com- 
 missioned as ist. Maj. Militia, Dutchess Co., N. Y., 
 signed by Gov. John Jay, March 16, 1797; Lieut.-Col., 
 Commanding Reg. Militia of same county, signed by 
 Gov. George Clinton, Aug. 11, 1801. His grave and 
 that of his wife may be found in the cemetery at 
 Hyde Park, N. Y. 
 
 A touch of romance attaches to the Colonel's mar- 
 riage. When he asked for Elsie to be his wife, her 
 father protested that the suitor was 24 yrs. her 
 senior, and that her older sister Mary was a more 
 suitable match for his years. At this the lovers 
 took umbrage, eloped at night, were married and 
 forgiven. 
 
 11 viii. Sarah De Riemer, b. "on Thursday morning at 10 
 
 o'clock," at Albany, N. Y., Aug., 16, 1781 (Munsell's 
 Hist, of Albany, Vol. 4, p. 116); d. Feb. 10, 1853; m. 
 George Whitefield Cooke, M. D., of Hyde Park, 
 N. Y., b. 1780, son of Col. Ellis Cooke, M. D., b. 1732, 
 d. 1797, one of Gen. Washington's staff. Amer. An- 
 
The De Riemer Family 23 
 
 cestry. Vol. II, Columbia Co., N. Y.); issue: seven 
 children, 
 ix. Martha De Riemer, b. " on Monday evening at six 
 o'clock," in New York City, May 23, 1785; m. Capt. 
 Robert G. Livingstone of Auburn, and resided at 
 Hyde Park, N. Y. 
 
 9. Samuel Babbington' De Riemer (Petrus De Rietner, 8), b. 
 July 7, 1768; d. Oct. 2, 1815; m. Jan. 17, 1790, Hester Anthony, 
 bap. Oct. 8, 1769, d. Feb., 1812. Their children were: 
 
 12 i. Peter' De Riemer, IV, b. April 20, 1791; m. Jan. 26, 
 
 1822, Charlotte Pettingell. They had three children. 
 Peter lived for a time in Ithaca, N. Y. He was a 
 charter member of the Tornado Hook and Ladder 
 Company of that city in 1831, as appears from the 
 Company records. 
 
 13 ii. Susan Anthony De Riemer, b. April 3, 1793; d. May 
 
 25, 1869; m. (i) Jan. 5, 1815, John Hathorn, b. Aug. 
 I, 1777, d. Sept. II, 1824, by whom she had three 
 children; m. (2) Jan. 14, 1828, Wm. A. Baldwin, b. 
 Nov. 8, 1804, d. March 18, 1888; resided at Newark, 
 N. J.; one daughter. 
 
 14 iii. Elsie Babbington De Riemer, b. June 18, 1795; ^■ 
 
 Sept. I, 1851; m. June 25, i8i8, Samuel Denton Mor- 
 ford of Newton, Sussex Co., N. J., b. Sept. 20, 1790; 
 d. 18 — ; by whom she had eight children. 
 
 15 iv. Nicholas Anthony De Riemer, b. Aug. 3, 1797; d. June 
 
 12, 1856; m. in 1819, Frances Pettingell, b. at E. 
 Albany (Greenbush), N. Y., Jan. 17, 1800, dau. of 
 
 Henry Pettingell and Keziah . Henry was at 
 
 one time Sheriff at Newburgh; d. 1815-1830. His 
 dau. Charlotte (presumably) married Peter De 
 Riemer, eldest brother of Nicholas. They had six 
 children. 
 
 16 V. Jane Maria De Riemer, b. Jan. 11, 1800; d. Oct. 31, 
 
 1880; m. Oct. 18, 1820, Jacob Brouwer, b. April, 1796, 
 d. May 30, 1868. Their residence was in New York 
 City. Mr. Brouwer was a broker and commission 
 merchant. They had nine children. 
 
 17 vi. Cornelius Brouwer De Riemer, jeweler; b. June 14, 
 
 1804; d. at Auburn, N. Y., Sept. 30, 1872; m. Sept. 4, 
 1831, Harriet Briggs, b. June 12, 1807, d. Jan. 16, 
 1881. They resided in Auburn, N. Y., Alton, 111., 
 Fox Lake, Wis. Three daughters were born to 
 them. 
 
 18 vii. Jacob Roome De Riemer, goldsmith, druggist; b. 
 
 1805; d. at Berlin, Wis., Feh. 26, 1863; m. Sept. 23, 
 1835, Sarah Margaret Dederer, b. at Rockland Lake, 
 Jan. 10, 1815, d at Berlin, Wis., Jan. 20, 1866, dau. 
 of David Dederer and Betsey Van Winkle, and 
 granddaughter of Christian Dederer who d. 1769. 
 Jacob and his brother Cornelius were partners in 
 
24 The De Riemer Family 
 
 commercial life for many years but at different 
 places; at Auburn, N. Y., Alton, 111., Fox Lake, 
 Wis. Six children were born to Jacob and Sarah, 
 two of them dying in childhood. 
 
 19 viii. Hester Ann De Riemer, b. 1810; d. 1894; m. April 4, 
 
 1827, Wm. Montgomery Vermilye, b. 1801, d. 1878. 
 Their entire life was spent in N. Y. City, Mr. Ver- 
 milye being one of the well-known firm of Vermilye 
 & Co., Brokers on Wall St. They had ten children. 
 
 10. Elsie' De Riemer {Petrus De Riemer, 8), b. May 3, 1777; d. 
 1841; m. 1799, Col. Jacobus Sleight, b. at La Grange, N. Y., April 
 19, 1753, and d. there Sept. 2, 1833. Their children were: 
 
 20 i. Elsie De Riemer' Sleight, b. Oct. 23, 1800; d. Jan. 15, 
 
 1883; m. Oct. 28, 1818, Abraham B. Stockholm, b. 
 Oct. 28, 18—. They had three children, 
 ii. James Edwin Sleight, b. 1803; d, Dec. 23, 1825. 
 
 21 iii. Peter Rosavelt Sleight, b. July 20, 1804; d. March 15, 
 
 1888; m. (i) Oct. 3, 1827, Sarah Kuse Barnes, b. Jan. 
 I, 1810, d. Oct. 20, 1829; issue; one child; m. (2) 
 Dec. 18, 1832, Catherine Storm Barnes, b. April 3, 
 181 2, d. Feb. II, 1894: three children. 
 
 22 iv. Harriet E. Sleight, b. June 6, 1807; d. March 18, 1886; 
 
 m. Dec. 22, 1825, Ricketson Gidley, b. 1802, d. Dec. i, 
 1871; issue: four children. 
 
 23 V. Henry A. Sleight, b. Nov. 17, 1817; d. March 27, 1879; 
 
 m. Oct. 23, 1847, Mary A. Ward, b. Oct. 30, 1823; 
 issue: four children. 
 
 11. Sarah' De Riemer {Petrus De Riemer, 8), bap. Aug. 16, 
 1781; d. Feb. 10, 1853; m. 1803, George Whitefield Cooke, M. D., 
 b. 1780, at Hyde Park, N. Y. Issue, seven children: 
 
 i. William' Cooke. 
 
 24 ii. Elsie Ann Cooke, b. at Norway, N. Y., April 9, 1806; 
 
 d. at Detroit, Mich., Jan. 14, 1898; m. (i) at Roches- 
 ter, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1825, Archibald W. Gillies, d. at 
 Berlin, Wis.; issue: three sons; m. (2) Mr. Smith at 
 Berlin, Wis.; no children by him. 
 
 25 iii. Samuel M. Cooke, b. Dec. 18, 1808, in Herkimer Co., 
 
 N. Y.; d. June 18, 1891; m. Feb. 17, 1836, Elizabeth 
 Charlton, b. Oct. 11, 181 1, in Ontario Co., N. Y., d. at 
 Greely, Colo., Dec. i, 1887; issue: six children. 
 
 26 iv. Mary De Riemer Cooke, b. March 2, 1811; d. June 20, 
 
 1885; m. March 28, 1837, George A. Toffey, b. Dec. 
 3, 181 1, d. Jan. 20, 1885; issue: five children; lived 
 at Bergen, N. J. 
 
 27 V. Temperance Cook, m. George Eddy; lived at Cincin- 
 
 nati, O. Widow last located at Wyandotte, Mich. 
 Five children. Grandson Walter lived at Adrian, 
 Mich. 
 
 28 vi. George Whitefield Cooke, Jr., b. Aug. 15, 1815; d. at 
 
 Chelsea, Mich, June 28, 1900; m. (i) at Booneville, 
 
The De Riemer Family 25 
 
 Mo., Nov. II, 1844, Mary Susan Mallory, d. Aug. 29, 
 1851; one son; m. (2) 1854, Eliza Flouynor, b. at 
 Liberty, Mo., d. at Booneville, Mo., April 27, 1854; 
 issue: one son. 
 
 29 vii. Martha Cooke, b. Oct. 24, 1817, in N. Y. City; d. at 
 
 Berlin, Wis., March 6, 1891; m. Sept. 24, 1841, John 
 Smith Hibbard, b. at Sherburne, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1809, 
 d. at Berlin, Wis., Sept. 7, 1883; issue: five children. 
 
 12. Peter' De Riemer, V {SaJiiuel B. Dc Riemer, 9), b. April 20, 
 1791; m. Jan. 26, 18^2, Charlotte Pettingell, dau . of Henry Pet- 
 tingell ?; b. at Albany. Peter's home was at Ithaca, N. Y., in 
 1831. His children were: 
 
 30 i. Jane Eliza' De Riemer, b. 1823; m. April 24, 1842, 
 
 Thomas Turner. They had four children, said to be 
 living in Charlotte, Mich. 
 ii. Henry Bennett De Riemer, b. Nov. i, 1823; d. Jan. 6, 
 1836. 
 
 iii. Theophilus A. De Riemer, b. ?; is not living; 
 
 m. Jan. 22, 185 1, Lucinda Ames. No children. 
 
 13. Susan Anthony' De Riemer {Satnuel B. De Riemer, ()),h. 
 April 3, 1793; d. May 25, 1869; m. (i) Jan. 5, 1815, John Hathorn, 
 b. Aug. r, 1777, d, Sept. 11, 1824, by whom she had three child- 
 ren. Their home was in Newark, N. J. 
 
 31 i. Mary ' Hathorn, b. Oct. 30, 1815; d. May 6, 1893; m. 
 
 Oct. 26, 1836, James Bonnell, merchant, b. April 13, 
 1813, d. March 2, 1902. He was for many years a 
 leading merchant in Milwaukee, Wis. They had 
 three children. 
 
 32 ii. Robert Bruce Hathorn, merchant, b. Dec. 8, 1822; d. 
 
 May 21, 1900; m. Oct. 15, 1845, Mary E. Crane, b. 
 Jan. 24, 1824, d. Jan. 9, 1880; residence at Newark, 
 N. J. Issue: two children. 
 i^ iii. Fergus Anthony Hathorn, merchant, b. Sept. 10, 1819; 
 d. at Berlin, Wis., May 2, 1897; m. Aug. 30, 1843, 
 Rebecca Vermilye, b. Nov. 15, 1819, d. Nov. 4, 1891. 
 They resided at Newark, N. J., Milwaukee, Wis., and 
 Berlin, Wis. Issue: five children. 
 
 Susan Anthony' De Riemer m. (2) Jan. 14, 1828, Wm. A. 
 Baldwin, b. Nov. 8, 1804, d. March 18, 1888; one daughter: 
 
 34 i. Hester Ann' Baldwin, b. Dec, 24, 1835; d. March 24, 
 1897; m. Oct. 26, 1859, James Boylan, Esq., d. June 
 6,1884. Their residence was at Newark, N. J. Issue: 
 three daughters. 
 
 14. Elsie B.' De Riemer {Samuel B. De Riemer, 9), b. June 18, 
 1795; d. Sept. I, 1851; m. June 25, 1818, Samuel Denton Morford 
 of Newton, Sussex Co., N. J., b. Sept. 20, 1790, Their children 
 were: 
 
 i. Charles Augustus' Morford, b. June 26, 1819; d. ? 
 
 m. April 20, 1852, Eliza Lee. 
 
26 The De Riemer Family 
 
 35 ii. Anthony Denton Morford, b. Feb. 21, 1822; m. Sept. 
 
 I, 1846, Margaret Anderson Ryerson. Issue: nine 
 children. 
 
 36 iii. Mary Anthony Morford, b. Oct. 4, 1824; m. Sept. 19, 
 
 1843, Peter C. Adams, b. Nov. 22, 1822, d. Jan. 26, 
 1897. They had six children. 
 
 37 iv. William Edwin Morford, b. Oct. 23, 1827; d. 1890; m. 
 
 1852, Jane M. Cockran. Three children. 
 
 38 V. Robert Halsted Morford, b. Dec. 6, 1829; m. 1852, 
 
 Sarah Christina Adams, sister of P. C. Adams, b. 
 1830, d. 1862. Two children, 
 vi. John Henry Livingston Morford, b. Sept. 29, 1832; m. 
 Emily Franklin. No children. 
 
 39 vii. Theodore Morford, b. June 28, 1835; m. Dec. 23, 1856, 
 
 Mary Morris. Seven children. 
 viii. Henrietta Evelina Morford, b. May 2, 1837; unm. 
 
 15. Nicholas A.' De Riemer (Samuel B. De Riemer, 9), b. Aug. 
 3, 1797; d. June 12, 1856; m. 1819, Frances Pettingell, b. Jan. 17, 
 1800, d. Sept. 15, 1876. Their children were: 
 
 40 i. Jacob B.' De Riemer, b. Oct. 9, 1822; d. Jan. 13, 1891; 
 
 m. Feb. i, 1849, Hannah Merchant, b. Feb. 9, 1830; 
 moved West from Albany, N. Y., about 1835. Re- 
 sided in Denver, Colorado. Issue: six children: 
 
 41 ii. Susan H. De Riemer, b. March 5, 1825; d. 1890?; m. 
 
 March 25, 1846, S. G. Walker, b. June 12, 1824. Res- 
 idence in Tremont, Neb. Issue: four children. 
 
 42 iii. Frances Mary De Riemer, b. Sept. 17, 1827; m. April 
 
 17, 1847, Jeffrey A. Parker, b. May i, 1824, d. 1904. 
 Present home in Dubuque, Iowa. Four children. 
 
 43 iv. Joseph Pettingell De Riemer, b. Dec. 3. 1830; m. 1856, 
 
 Laura Humeston, b. 1833. Late residence, Bellevue, 
 Mich. Issue: five children. 
 V. Win. Vermilye De Riemer, b. Aug. 17, 1836; d. at 
 
 Silver Creek, Neb., Sept. 14, 1898; unm. 
 vi. Harriet Briggs De Riemer, b. March 5, 1834; d. Jan. 
 26, 1850. 
 
 16. Jane Maria' De Riemer {Samuel B. De Riemer, ^), b. Jan. 
 II, 1800; d. Oct. 31, 1880; m. Oct. 18, 1820, Jacob Brouwer, b. 
 April, 1796, d. May 30, 1868. Their children were: 
 
 i. Mary Anthony' Brouwer, b. Sept. 21, 1822; d. Sept. 6, 
 1827. 
 
 44 ii. Margaret Matilda Brouwer, b. Dec. 15, 1824; d. Jan. 
 
 25, 1878; m. Nov. 14, 1850, Dr. Thomas Ryerson, b. 
 Feb. 21, 1821, d. May 27, 1887. Residence at New- 
 ton, N. J. One son. 
 
 45 iii. Theophilus Anthony Brouwer, b. Feb. 28, 1827; m. 
 
 Nov. 6, 1851, Elizabeth Jackson, b. April 23, 1831. 
 Issue: seven children. Mr. Brouwer has been for 
 many years Treasurer of the Associate Dutch 
 Churches of N. Y. City, 
 iv. John Day Brouwer, b. Sept. 7, 1829; d. Oct. 3, 1833. 
 
The De Riemer Family 27 
 
 46 V. William Brouwer, b. Aug. 28, 1831; m. Oct. 10, 1869, 
 
 Mary A. Barnard, b. May 19, 1846. Issue: three 
 
 children, 
 vi. Edward Brouwer, b. Oct. 31, 1833; d. Dec. 20, 1859. 
 vii. Jacob Brouwer, Jr., b. Feb. 23, 1836; d. Jan. 25, 1837. 
 viii. Jane Eliza Brouwer, b. Aug. 17, 1838; d. Oct. 29, 1887; 
 
 m. (i) June 25, 1863, Edwin A. Miller; issue: two 
 
 children. 
 
 Jane Eliza Brouwer m. (2) Terrence Gormley; 
 no children. 
 
 ix. Emma Frances Brouwer, b. Feb. 14, 1842; d. July 31, 
 1891; m. Oct. 27, 1868. John W. Davis, d. March 4, 
 1899. Had two children, both of whom d. in infancy. 
 Resided in Michigan. 
 
 17. Cornelius Brouwer' De Riemer {Samuel B. De Riemer, 9), 
 b. June 14, 1804; d. Sept. 30, 1872: m. Sept. 4, 1831, Harriet 
 Briggs, b. June 12, 1807, d. Jan. 16, 1881. Their children were: 
 
 47 i. Cornelia F.' De Riemer, b. Nov. 20, 1842; m. Jan. 26, 
 
 1862, Irving Rublee, b. Jan. 23, 1837. Reside at 
 Auburn, N. Y. Issue: three children. 
 
 48 ii. Maria Briggs De Riemer, b. Jan. 11, 1845; m. Oct. 13, 
 
 1869, Frederick H. Masten, b. July 26, 1843, d. Feb. 
 4, 1874. Resided at Buffalo, N. Y. They had three 
 daughters, 
 iii. Mary B. De Riemer, b. March 7, 1850; d. March 18, 
 1873; unm. 
 
 i8. Jacob Roome' De Riemer (Samuel B. De Riemer, 9), b. 1805, 
 at Hudson, N. Y.; d. Feb. 26, 1863; m. Sept. 23, 1835, by Rev. 
 Erskine Mason, Sarah M. Dederer, b. 1810. Their children: 
 
 i. Elsie Morford " De Riemer, b. Aug. r6, 1836, at Auburn, 
 N. Y.; d. Feb. 25, 1842, at Springfield, 111. 
 
 49 ii. William Edward De Riemer, clergyman; b. May 5', 
 
 1839, at Springfield, 111.; lived with parents at Mil- 
 waukee, Oak Grove and Berlin, Wis.; graduated 
 from Amherst College, 1862; from Chicago Theo- 
 logical Seminary, April, 1867; Missionary of Amer- 
 ican Board of Foreign Missions in Ceylon, India, 
 from 1868 to 1878; Pastor in Wisconsin, Iowa and 
 Illinois, 1879 to 1889; in Government service, 1896 
 to date, m. Newton Upper Falls, Mass., Sept. i, 1868, 
 Emily Frances True, b. at Boston, July 7, 1841, dau'. 
 of Rev. Dr. Charles K. and Elizabeth True. Res- 
 idence, Washington, D. C. Six children. ' 
 
 50 iii. Harriet Nelson De Riemer, b. March 27, 1841, at 
 
 Springfield, 111.; graduated from Milwaukee Female 
 College; m. at Berlin, Wis., Oct. 3, 1865, Louis H. 
 Holmes, merchant, of Chicago, 111., b. Dec. 9, 1835. 
 Residence, La Grange, 111. Five children, 
 iv. Anna Margaret De Riemer, b. at Milwaukee, Wis., 
 
28 The De Riemer Family 
 
 Jan. 27, 1843; m. at home, Berlin, Wis., Oct. 3, 1865, 
 Albert G. Hayden, merchant at Milwaukee, b. Aug. 
 II, 1829. No children. 
 V. James Bonnell De Riemer, b. at Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 
 II, 1844; d. Aug. 19, 1845. 
 
 51 vi. Susan Baldwin De Riemer, b. at Oak Grove, Dodge 
 
 Co., Wis., Feb. 28, 1847; m. July 13, 1869, Richard 
 Valentine, b. June 9, 1847, Proprietor School of 
 Telegraphy, Janesville, Wis. One daughter. 
 
 19. Hester Ann' De Riemer {Samuel B. De Riemer, 9), b. 1810, 
 d. 1894; m. April 4, 1827, William Montgomery Vermilye, firm of 
 Vermilye & Co., Wall St., N. Y., b. 1801, d. 1878. Their children: 
 
 52 i. Wm. Edward' Vermilye, physician in N. Y. City; b. 
 
 Jan. 26, 1828; d. ?; m. Jan. 14, 1858, Julia E. 
 
 Murdock. Issue: one son. 
 ii. Thomas E. Vermilye, twin brother to Wm. Edward, 
 d. in infancy. 
 
 53 iii. Mary A. Vermilye, b. 1829; m. June 6, 1850, Chas. A. 
 
 Davison, Esq., in New York, b. 1824, d. 1900. Two 
 children. 
 
 54 iv. Louise M. Vermilye, b. 1833; d. Feb., 1902; m. ?; 
 
 John E. Burrill, Esq., in New York, d. 1893. Issue: 
 five children. 
 
 55 V. Robert M. Vermilye, broker; b. 1835; d. 1878; m. (i) 
 
 Amanda Conover; issue; one child, d. in infancy; 
 m. (2) Annie Hunter, 1877. Issue: one son. 
 vi. Lewis Forman Vermilye, b. July 14, 1838; d. 1857. 
 vii. Emily Augusta Vermilye, b. Dec. 3, 1840; d. 1845. 
 viii. Frederick L. Vermilye, b. 1842 ?; d. in infancy. 
 ix. Elizabeth Perkins Vermilye, b. Oct. 27, 1844; d. 1845. 
 X. Charles Augustus Vermilye, b. April 5, 1848; unm. 
 Resides at Englewood, N. J. 
 
 20. Elsie De Riemer' Sleight {Elsie De Riemer, 10), b. Oct. 23, 
 1800; d. Jan. IS, 1883; m. Oct. 28, 1818, Abraham B. Stockholm, b. 
 Oct. 28, 18 — . Their children were: 
 
 i. Elsie Amelia' Stockholm, b. July 8, 1826; d. Jan. 18, 
 
 1884. 
 ii. Edwin Stockholm, b. Oct. i, 1828; m. Dec. 12, 1849, 
 
 Katherine Montfort. Issue: four children, 
 iii. Derrick B. Stockholm, b. Dec. 23, 1831. 
 
 z\. Peter Rosavelt' Sleight {Elsie De Riemer, 10), b. July 20, 
 1804; d. March 15, 1888; m. (i) Oct. 3, 1827, Sarah Kuse Barnes, 
 b. Jan. I, 1810, d. Oct. 20, 1829. Their child was: 
 
 i. James Edwin' Sleight, II, b. Aug. 31, 1829; d. Sept. 16, 
 1868; m. March 9, 1853, Frances E. Titus, b. Sept. 
 17, 1833, d. July 24, 1887. Issue, four children: 
 Mary Kate,' b. Jan. i, 1854; m. Eugene Ham; six 
 children. Rhoda, b. Jan. 19, 1856; m. John M. Ham; 
 four children. Sallie, b. Nov. 8, 1858; m. Augustus 
 
The De Riemer Family 29 
 
 Angell; two children. Frances, b. Feb. 14, 1864; m. 
 Henry M. Winchester; three children. 
 
 Peter m. (2) Dec. 18, 1832, Catherine Storm Barnes, b. April 
 3, 1812; d. Feb. II, 1894. Their children were: 
 
 i. Sarah A. ° Sleight, b. Sept. 5, 1835; m. Nov. 14,1860, 
 
 Stephen M. Ham, b. March. 1835. No children, 
 ii. David B. Sleight, b. April 30, 1838; killed at the battle 
 
 of Averysboro, N. C, March 16, 1865. 
 iii. Alexander W. Sleight, b. July 5, 1841; m. Oct. 7, 1868, 
 Mary C. Pells, b. March 16, 1845. Issue: three 
 children. 
 
 22. Harriet E.' Sleight {Elsie De Riemer, 10), b. June 6, 1807; 
 d. March 18, 1886; m. Dec. 22, 1825, Ricketson Gidley, b. 1802, d. 
 Dec. I, 187 1. Their children were: 
 
 i. Elsie' Gidley, b. Sept. 6, 1826; d. Oct. 5, 1878; unm. 
 
 ii. James Gidley, b. Dec. 2, 1828; d. Jan. 25, 1890; m. Nov., 
 
 1856, Mary Potter Ingraham. Issue: five children, 
 iii. Henry D. Gidley, b. March 12, 1835, d. June 4, 1863. 
 iv. Augustus Gidley, m. Sarah Wilcox. 
 
 23. Henry A.' Sleight (£'/5?> Z?^ /??V;«^r, 10), b. Nov. 17, 1817; 
 d. March 27, 1879; m. Oct. 23, 1847, Mary A. Ward, b. Oct. 30, 
 1823. Their children were: 
 
 i. J. Ward" Sleight, b. July 22, 1848; d. July 21, 1868. 
 
 ii. Harriet Sleight, b. Sept. 10, 1855; m. Oct. 3, 1883, Sam- 
 uel H. Scott, b. Jan. 2, 1854, d. Dec. 22, 1890. Issue, 
 one son: Alfred Graydon Scott, b. Dec. 14, 1884. 
 
 iii. Anna Ward Sleight, b. Jan. 9, 1858. 
 
 iv. Sarah Phillips Sleight, b. Oct. 23, 1861; m. Sept. 24, 
 1891, Frank Van Kleeck, b. June 25, 1857. Issue: 
 Mary Sleight Van Kleeck, b. Aug. 4, 1895. Baltus 
 Van Kleeck, b. April 10, 1901. 
 
 24. Elsie Ann' Cooke {Sarah De Riemer, 11), b. at Norway, 
 N. Y., April 9, 1806; d. at Detroit, Mich., Jan. 14. 1898; m. (i) at 
 Rochester, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1825, Archibald W. Gillies, d. at Ber- 
 lin, Wis. Their children were: 
 
 i. William James' Gillies, b. April 13, 1827; d. Aug. 17, 
 
 1828. 
 ii. George Cooke Gillies, b. July 16, 1831; d. Aug. 6, 1831. 
 iii. David A. Gillies, editor; b. Oct. 26, 1834; d. April 19, 
 1869; unm. 
 
 25. Samuel M.' Cooke {Sarah De Riemer, 11), b. in Herkimer 
 Co., N. Y., Dec. 18, 1808; d. June 18, 1891; m. Feb. 17, 1836, Eliz- 
 abeth Charlton, b. Oct. 12, 181 1, d. Dec. i, 1887, at Greeley, Colo. 
 Their children were: 
 
 i. William Gillies" Cooke, b. in Ontario Co., N. Y., Feb. 
 17, 1837; d. at Hellgate Valley, Montana, Feb. 9, 
 1865, aged 28 yrs. 
 ii. George Charlton Cooke, b. in Monroe Co., N. Y., Sept. 
 12, 1841. Resides in Denver, Colo.; unm. 
 
3° The De Riemer Family 
 
 iii. Samuel Mansfield Cooke, Jr., b. in Monroe Co., N. Y., 
 Oct. i8, 1844; d. June 18, 1891; m. May 25, 1870, Lot- 
 tie Petteys, b. Dec. 4, 1843, in Putnam, Livingston 
 Co., Mich., d. Dec. 31, 1874. Issue: Elsie E. Cooke, 
 b. at Pinckney, Livingston Co., Mich., March 6, 1871. 
 
 iv. Elsie Ann Cooke, IJ, b. at Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., 
 Mich, Aug. 16, 1846; d. same place, Oct. i, 1854. 
 
 V. Mary Elizabeth Cooke, b. as above, Aug. 9, 1848; d. 
 same place, Aug. 28, 1897; m. (i) Oct. 29, 1869, E. B. 
 Annis. Issue: Erma Elizabeth Annis, b. at Greely, 
 Colo., June 8, 1875, d. at same place, Jan. 18, 1886. 
 She m. (2) Thomas Wilson, Dec. 28, 1885, b. Aug. 9, 
 1848, d. Aug. 29, 1897, Greely, Col. 
 
 vi. Margaret Meade Cooke, b. at Ypsilanti, Mich., Feb. i, 
 1852; m. Sept. 12, 1877, Albert H. Darrow, b. Aug. 
 29, 1829, at Wales Center, N. Y., d. Nov. 20, 1889, 
 at Brandon, Wis. No children. 
 
 26. Mary De Riemer'' CooKK (Sara/i De Riemrr, 11), b. March 
 2, 181:; d. June 20, 1885; m. March 28, 1837. George Toffey, b. 
 Dec. 3, i8n, d. Jan. 20, 1885. Their children were; 
 
 i. Daniel' Toffey, b. Dec. 22, 1837; d. Feb. 9, 1893; m. 
 June 22, 1865, Adeline S. Wilson, b. July 24, 1844, d. 
 ^ Aug. 7, 1900. Issue, three children: Dora, b. Nov. 
 ■ 6, 1871, m. H. S. Hotchkiss, Jr.; two children. Dan- 
 iel, II, b. June 22, 1874. Robert, b. July 15, 1881. 
 ii. George C. Toffey, b. Feb. 9, 1840; d. Dec. 10, 1893; m. 
 Nov. 15, 1871, Bessie M. Rogers, b. Nov. 25, 1854. 
 Issue, one child: Jennie, b. Aug. 4, 1872, m. Feb. 6, 
 1900, Albert Koonz, Jr. Issue: Albert E. Koonz. 
 iii. John James Toffey, b. June i, 1844; m. May 17, 1870, 
 Mary Elisabeth Sip, b. April 17, 1851. Issue, three 
 children: George A , b. Feb. 27, 1871. John J., II, 
 b. Sept. 9, 1874. William V., b. July 15, 1881. 
 iv. William Vermilye Toffey, b. Sept. 19, 1848; m. Oct. 29, 
 1872, Emma Louise Sip, b. Oct. 2, 1853. Issue, three 
 children: Grace, b. March 5, 1874. Edna Louise, b. 
 March 11, 1881. Harold James, b. Feb. 21, 1885. 
 V. Mary Cooke Toffey, b. May 28, 1852; m. Dec. 2, 1874, 
 Wm. B. Wheeler, b. June 6, 1850. Issue, two children: 
 Mary Toffey, b. Nov. 2, 1875; m. June 25, 1902, T. 
 W. Vinton. William B. Wheeler, II, b. Dec. 29, 1880. 
 
 27. Temperance' Cooke {^Sarah De Riemer, 11), b. ; m. 
 
 George Eddy. Their children were: 
 
 i. George' Eddy, Jr., b. ; m. Lillian Bills. Their 
 
 children were: William; Henry; and Lucy. 
 
 ii. Mary Frances Eddy, b. ; d. at the age of twelve. 
 
 iii. Thomas Eddy, b. Feb. 21, 1839; d. ; m. Eliza- 
 beth Hathorne, b. Feb. 15, 1838. They had eight 
 children. Widow lives at Wyandotte, Mich. 
 
 iv. Samuel Eddy, b. ; d. . 
 
 V. William Henry Eddy. 
 
The De Riemer Family 31 
 
 28. George Whitefield' Cooke, Jr. [Sara/i De Riemer, 11), b. 
 Aug. 15, 1815; d. at Chelsea, Mich., June 28, 1900; buried at 
 Milan, O.; m. (i) at Booneville, Mo., Nov. 11, 1844, Mary Susan 
 Mallory, d. Aug. 29, 1851. Issue, one son: 
 
 i. William M. ' Cooke, b. at Booneville, Mo., June 13, 1848; 
 d. May 25, 1880, at Jersey City; buried at Milan, O.; 
 
 m. Nov. 6, 1872, Lillie W. , b. Oct. 9, 1847. 
 
 Issue, three children: George Stuart, b. Nov. 7, 1873; 
 Frank Toffey, b. March 10, 1876; Mabel Mallory, b. 
 June 25, 1878. 
 
 George W., m. (2) 1854, Eliza Flouynor, b. at Liberty, Mo., d. 
 April 27, 1859. One son: 
 
 i. James H." Cooke, b. at Booneville, Mo., Feb. 2, 1855; 
 m. at Chelsea, Mich., Jan. 14, 1880, Nettie L. Glenn, 
 b. at North Lake, Mich , Jan. 30, i860. Issue, two 
 children: Ernest J. Cooke, b. March 27, 1881, m. 
 April 21, 1884, Nina B. Carpenter. Grace L. Cooke, 
 b. July 31, 1883, m. Myron P. Lighthall. 
 
 29. Martha' Cooke {Sarah De Riemer, 11), b. in N. Y. City, 
 Oct. 24, 1817; d. March 6, 1891; m. Sept. 24, 1841, John Smith 
 Hibbard, b. Jan. 14, 1809, at Sherburne, N. Y., d. Sept. 7, 1883. 
 Five children: 
 
 i. Sarah Elizabeth' Hibbard, b. at Pittsford, N. Y., Oct. 
 2, 1842; d. at Berlin, Wis., Aug. 16, 1877; m. May i, 
 1873, Edgar Theodore Chamberlain, b. Jan., 1836. 
 Issue, two children: Estella May, b. Aug. 6, 1874; m. 
 Nov. 21, 1900. Sarah Emma, b. July 30, 1877. 
 ii. William Henry Hibbard, b. at Pittsford, N. Y., Sept. 
 16,1844; m. Sept. 16, 1872, Harriet Hensman, b. at 
 Rock Island, 111., Sept. 2, 1852. Issue, two children: 
 Martha Ellen, b. Nov. 2, 1873. Ralph Nagle, b. Nov. 
 18, 1875; d. Dec. 1901. Mr. Hibbard was a member 
 of Wyoming Legislature in 1879. 
 
 iii. Catherine Eliza Hibbard, b. at Pittsford, N. Y., April 
 7, 1848; d. May 12, 1849, at Pittsford. 
 
 iv. Mary Eliza Hibbard, b. at Ypsilanti, Mich., Nov. 24, 
 
 1854; lives at Detroit, Mich.; unm. 
 V. Emily Morton Hibbard, b. at Ypsilanti, Mich , Sept. 
 27, 1856; m. at Berlin, Wis., June 25, 1890, Bartholo- 
 mew McCormick, b. at Dondalk, Co. Towes, Ireland, 
 March 10, 1841, d. Jan. 15, 1898; lives at Detroit, 
 Mich. 
 
 30. Jane Eliza* De Riemer {Peter De Riemer, 12), b. 1823; m. 
 April 24, 1842, Thomas Turner. Issue, four children: 
 
 i. Lorin Henry' Turner, b. ; d. . 
 
 ii. Margaret Cornelia Turner, b. May 28, 1845; d. Aug. 
 4, 1849. 
 
 iii. Herbert Lovell Turner, b. ; d. . 
 
 iv. William Albert Turner, b. ; d. . 
 
32 The De Riemer Family 
 
 31. Mary" Hathorn (Susan A. De Riemer, 13), b. Oct. 30, 1815; 
 d. May 6 1893; m. Oct. 26, 1836, James Bonnell, b. April 13, 1813; 
 d. March 2, 1902. Their children were: 
 
 i. John Hathorn' Bonnell, b. July 23, 1837; d. Nov. 9, 1858. 
 ii. Susan Roxana Bonnell, b. Aug, 24, 1840; m. Dec. 25, 
 1861, Rev. Charles D. Helmer, at that date Pastor of 
 Plymouth Congregational Church, Milwaukee, Wis., 
 later pastor successively of the Congregational 
 Churches of Union Park, Chicago, and Tompkins 
 Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. He d. at the latter place 
 April 28, 1879. They had five children: Charles 
 Clarence, b. Aug. 31, 1863; d. same day. Faith, b. 
 April 29, 1867; m. April 23, 1895, Samuel Conant 
 Parks, Jr., b. Sept. 5, 1867; issue: Charles Helmer 
 Parks, b. July 19, 1902. Ernest Bonnell, b. Oct. 27, 
 1869. Bruce Hathorn, b. May 2, 1873; d. May 21, 
 1873. Grace, b. April 17, 1875; d. March 10, 1877. 
 iii. Clarence Shepherd Bonnell, b. April 15, 1846; d. Jan., 
 1847. 
 
 32. Robert Bruce' Hathorn {Susan A. De Riemer, 13), b. Dec. 
 8, 1822; d. May 21, 1900; m. Oct. 15, 1845, Mary E. Crane, b. Jan. 
 24, 1824, d. at Newark, N. J.. Jan. 9, 1880. Issue: 
 
 i. Mary Bruce' Hathorn, b. Aug. 15, 1846; unm. 
 ii. Frederick C. Hathorn, b. Oct. 27, 1848; unm. 
 
 33. Fergus Anthony' Hathorn (Susan A. De Riemer, 13), b. 
 Sept. 10, 1819; d. May 2, 1897; resided successively at Newark, 
 N. J., Milwaukee, Wis., and Berlin, Wis.; m. Aug. 30, 1843, Re- 
 becca Vermilye, b. Nov. 15, 1819; d. Nov. 4, 1891. Their child- 
 ren were: 
 
 i. Robert Vermilye' Hathorn, b. June 4, 1845; d. Sept., 
 
 1893- 
 ii. John Henry Hathorn, b. Dec. 10, 1847; d. Dec. 31, 
 
 1879; m. June 30, 1873, Genevieve . Their 
 
 children were: Arthur Vermilye, b. Nov. 27, 1876. 
 Nettie. John Arthur. 
 
 iii. Arthur R. Hathorn, b. April 19, 1853; m. May, 9, 1979, 
 Amelia Lee, b. May 9, 1852. Their children were: 
 Irma, b. July i, 1883. Leland Case, b. Aug. i, 1885. 
 
 iv. Mary Louise Hathorn, b. Dec. 12, 1856; unm. 
 v. Susan Baldwin Hathorn, b. Aug. 4, 1859; m. April 23, 
 1880, Herbert Waldo Child, b. 1854. Their children 
 were: Florence Louise, b. Jan. 14, 1882. Allen Ver- 
 milye, b. Sept. 6, 1883. Clarence Hathorn, b. Nov. 
 18, 1887. Marian Rebecca, b. Dec. 6, 1892. 
 
 34. Hester Ann' Baldwin, (Susan A. De Riemer, 13), b. Dec. 
 24, 1835; d. March 24, 1897; m. Oct. 26, 1859, James Boylan, Esq., 
 of Newark, N. J., d. June 6, 1884. Their children were: 
 
 i. Susie A.' Boylan, b. Feb. 14, 1861. 
 
 ii. Mary A. Boylan, b. Nov. 18, 1865; m. Nov. 6, 1895, 
 Augustus Edgers. 
 
The De Riemer Family 33 
 
 iii. Anna M. Boylan, b. Sept. 6, 1868; m. April 18, 1897, 
 Wallace CuUen. Issue: Madelaine Cullen, b. Dec. 
 II, 1897. 
 
 35. Anthony Denton ' Morford {Elsie B. Dc Riemer, 14), b. 
 Feb. 21, 1832; m. Sept. i, 1846, Margaret Anderson Ryerson. 
 Issue: 
 
 i. Andrew Ryerson" Morford, b. June 18, 1847; d. Aug. 
 
 3'. 1847- 
 
 ii. Charles Augustus Morford, b. June 4, 1848; d. Jan. 20, 
 1896. 
 
 iii. Anna Elizabeth Morford, b. June 4, 1850; d. May 6, 
 1851. 
 
 iv. Mary Lynn Morford, b. Feb. 26, 1851; d. April 21, 1887; 
 m. David D. Smith. Issue: Ralph Ormsby, b. Nov. 
 2, 1875. Harold Perry, b. Nov. 26, 1877; d. Sept. 12, 
 1898 (Corporal, Battery A, Penn. Vols., Spanish- 
 American War). Mary Morford, b. April 17, 1887, 
 d. Nov. 4, 1887. 
 V. Elsie De Riemer Morford, b. Nov. 23, 1854; m. Nov. 
 28, 1878, Edward Harvey Maynard, M. D. Issue: 
 Linn De Riemer Maynard, b. Oct. 15, 1880. Mar- 
 garet Ryerson Maynard, b. Feb. 9, 1885. 
 
 vi. Evelina Weakley Morford, b. July 29, 1857; unm. 
 vii. Susan Morford, b. Dec. 18, i860. 
 
 viii. Margaret Blauvelt Morford, b. Feb. 9, 1864; m. June 
 20, 1894, Frederick Voorhis Green. 
 
 ix. David Ryerson Morford, b. Aug. 6, 1867. 
 
 36. Mary Anthony' Morford (Elsie B. De Riemer, 14), b. Oct. 
 4, 1824; m. Sept. 19, 1843, Peter C. Adams, b. Nov. 22, 1822; d. 
 Jan. 26, 1897. Their children were: 
 
 i. Charles Dederer* Adams, b. Oct. 22, 1844; m. Agnes 
 C. McCormack. Issue: Egbert Adams, b. Oct. 10, 
 1879. Carl Dederer Adams, b. Oct. i, 1881. Julian 
 Adams, b. Feb. 28, 1883. 
 ii. Adeline Reed Adams, b. Oct. 13, 1846. 
 
 iii. Alice De Riemer Adams, b. at Newark, N. J., Oct. 8, 
 1848; m. Edward L. Suffern, Oct. 29, 1872. Issue: 
 Robert Adams Suffren, b. Sept. 14, 1873. Elsie 
 De Riemer Suffern, b. Sept. 2, 1876. Philip Spencer 
 Suffern, b. May 18, 1878. Ernest Salisbury Suffern, 
 b. Jan. 10, 1880; Edward Cary Suffern, b. Sept. 3, 
 1883. 
 
 iv. Herman Cuyler Adams, b. Dec. 14, 1850; d. Feb. 16, 
 1890; m. iVIary G. Shipman. Issue: Mabel G. Adams, 
 b. Dec. 3, 1872. 
 V. Robert Morford Adams, b. July 25, 1856. 
 
 vi. Mary Evelina Adams, b. Aug. 12, 1858. 
 
 37. William Edwin' Morford (Elsie B. De Riemer, 14), b. Oct. 
 23, 1827; d. 1890; m. 1852, jane M. Cockran. Issue, three child- 
 ren: William E., Katherine, Harriet. Live at Los Angeles, Cal- 
 ifornia. 
 
34 The De Riemer Family 
 
 38. Robert Halsted' Morford {Elsie B. De Riemer, 14), b. 
 Dec. 6, 1829; m. 1852, Sarah Christina Adams of Coxsackie, 
 N. Y., b. 1830, d. 1862. Issue: 
 
 i. Mary Adams" Morford, b. 185 ;; lives in Dunwood, 
 
 Reddinjj Co., Minn, 
 ii. Ada De Riemer Morford, b. 1857, d. 1894; m. 1888. 
 
 39. Theodore* Morford, I {Elsie B. De Riemer, 14), b. June 28, 
 1835; m. Mary Elizabeth Morris, Dec. 23, 1856. Their children 
 were: 
 
 i. Lewis Morris' Morford, b. Dec. 10, 1857; m. June 8, 
 i832, Lizzie Davis Adams. Issue: Mary Morris Mor- 
 ford, I, b. June 20, 1883. 
 ii. Evie De Riemer Morford, b. Dec. 3, i860; m. April 20, 
 1887, Henry B. Douglass. Issue: Isadore Douglass, 
 b. Feb. 2, 1888. Morris Duncan Douglass, b. Sept. 
 20, 1891. 
 
 iii. Samuel Denton Morford, b. Jan. 3, 1863; d. March 
 3, 1882. 
 
 iv. Theodore Morford, II, b. Jan. 30, 1868; m. Feb. 26, 
 1891, Martha M. Welles. Issue: Dorothy Welles 
 Morford, b. May 5, 1894. Theodore Morford, III, 
 b. June 6, 1898. 
 V. Mary Morris Morford, II, b. May 29, 1870. 
 
 vi. Henry Cooper Kelsey Morford, b. March 26, 1874; m. 
 Jan. 10, 1899, Cora Cline Vail. 
 
 vii. Virginia Treadwell Morford, b. Aug. 26, 1876. 
 
 40. Jacob B.' De Riemer {Nicholas A. De Riemer, 15), b. Oct. 9. 
 1825; d. Jan. 13, 1891; m. Feb. i, 1849, Hannah Marchant, b. Feb. 
 9, 1830. Their children were: 
 
 i. Joel M." De Riemer, b. April 8, 1853; d. March 7, 1895; 
 
 unm. 
 ii. Harriet E. De Riemer, b. Aug. 29, 1857; m. Nov. 11, 
 
 1885, Thomas B. Inman, b. Aug. i, 1845; d. Jan. 8, 
 
 1900; living in Denver, Col.; no issue, 
 iii. Ann B. De Riemer, b. May 8, 186 1; m. Sept. 17, 1884, 
 
 W. C. McAllister. Six children: Pearl B., b. Jan. 
 
 31, 1886. Ruby B., b. May 14, 1890. Lilly. Rose. 
 
 Olive. Hazel. 
 iv. Kate E. De Riemer, b. Oct. 7, 1863; m. Jan. 31, 1884, 
 
 Edgar Wilson. Three children: Otto Wilson, b. 
 
 June 27, 1866. Carl Wilson, b. June 28, 1888. Susan 
 
 Wilson, b. March 12, 1891. 
 V. Susan M. De Riemer, b. May 22, 1865; m. May 16, 1888, 
 
 T. O. W. McPhetridge. Issue: Alice McPhetridge, 
 
 b. March 12, 1901. 
 vi. Edward J- De Riemer, b. Sept. 20, 1872; m. Sept. 15, 
 
 1898. Isssue: Edward De Riemer, b. Aug. 8, 1897. 
 
 Ronald De Riemer, b. March 20, 1899. 
 
 41. Susan H." De Riemer {Nicholas A. De Riemer, 15), b. March 
 
The De Riemer Family 35 
 
 5, 1825; d. 1890?; m. March 25, 1846, S. G. Walker, b. July 12, 
 1824. Issue; 
 
 i. Edgar J.' Walker, b. Feb. 12, 1848; d. Jan. 12, 1850. 
 ii. Hattie Frances Walker, b. July 16, 1854; m. April 25, 
 
 1888, Arthur Forman, b. Nov. i, 1862. No children, 
 iii. Laura Bell Walker, b. Sept. 29, 1861; m. Sept. 18, 1882, 
 
 Frank Sharpe, b. Oct. 6, 1861. Their children were: 
 Beryl Sharpe, b. Feb. 18, 1884; d. July 14, 1884. 
 Amber Sharpe, b. Aug. 5, 1885. Frankie Sharpe, b. 
 Feb. 20, 1888; d. June 10, 1888. Harry Sharpe, b. 
 Aug. 18, 1893. 
 
 42. Frances Mary' De Riemer [Nicholas A. De Riemer, 15), b. 
 Sept. 17, 1827; m. April 28, 1847, Jeffrey A. Parker, b. May i, 
 1824, d. Sept., 1904. Their children were: 
 
 i. Alonzo J." Parker, b. March 13, 1848; m. Aug. i, 1872, 
 M. F. Caldwell, b. Feb. i, 1851. Issue: Kittie 
 Frances Parker, b. June 23, 1873; d. Sept. 3, 1873. 
 Henry Caldwell Parker, b. Jan. 21, 1877. 
 ii. Amelia Frances Parker, b. July 22, 185 1; d. 1852. 
 
 iii. Thomas Parker, b. Dec. 6, 1853; m. June 21, 1876, E. 
 G. Peasley, b. Jan. 12, 1855. Issue: Lester James 
 Parker, b. Sept. 30, 1877. Clifford Thomas Parker, 
 b. March 22, 1881. Herbert Jeffrey Parker, b. Dec. 
 16, 1882. 
 
 iv. Benjamin F. Parker, b. April 6, i860; m. (i) May 14, 
 
 1889. Virginia Gilliam, d. March 6, i88r; m. {2) June 
 6, 1893, Eva May Smith. Issue: Allen R. Parker, b. 
 March 18, 1895. 
 
 43. Joseph Pettingell' De Riemer {Nicholas A. De Riemer, 15), 
 b. Dec. 3, 1830; m. 1856. Laura Humeston, b. 1833. Their child- 
 ren were: 
 
 i. Elma G.' De Riemer, b. Dec. 4, 1868; m. Aug. 17, 1898, 
 
 Fred Reed, b. 1865. One child: Laura Elizabeth 
 
 Reed, b. Dec. 26, 1901. 
 ii. Albert De Riemer, b. Sept. i, 1858; m. Nov. 28, 1899, 
 
 Carrie A. Stoddard. No children; residence at 
 
 Spokane, Wash, 
 iii. Allen De Riemer, twin brother to Albert, b. Sept. i, 
 
 1858; m. June 3, 1891, Mattie Posey. Issue: Gladys 
 
 De Riemer, b. May 4, 1892. Robert De Riemer, b. 
 
 April 27, 1897; same residence, 
 iv. William H. De Riemer, b. June 20, 1864; d. Jan. 17, 
 
 1880. 
 v. Fred M. De Riemer, b. Feb. 17, 1876. 
 
 44. Margaret Matilda' Brouwer [Jane M. De Riemer, 16), b. 
 Dec. 15, 1824; d. Jan. 25, 1878; m. Nov. 14, 1850, Dr. Thomas 
 Ryerson, of Newton, N. J., b. Feb. 21, 1821; d. May 27, 1887. 
 Had one son: 
 
 i. Henry Ogden' Ryerson, b. May 23, 1855; m. Sept. 14, 
 1880, Julia B. Sharpe, b. April 3, 1859. Issue: Helen 
 
36 The De Riemer Family 
 
 Ryerson, b. Dec. 31, 1884; d. Sept. 7, 1897, Edith 
 Ryerson, b. Aug. 15, 1887. 
 
 45. Theophilus Anthony' Brouwer {Jane M. Dc Riemer, 16), 
 b. Feb. 28, 1827: m. Nov. 6, 185 1, Elizabeth Jackson, b. April 23, 
 1 83 1. Issue: 
 
 i. Maria Miller' Brouwer, b. Sept. 3, 1852; d. Oct. 16, 
 
 1900. 
 ii. Elizabeth Brouwer, b. July 17, 1854; d. Sept.? 17, 1856. 
 iii. Wilhelmina A. Brouwer, b. May 21, 1856; m. April 29, 
 
 1886, John Blount; no issue. 
 iv. Jacob Brouwer, III, b. Jan. 6, 1858; m. Feb. 19, 1890, 
 
 Kate Eliza Catte. Issue: Lillian May Brouwer, b. 
 
 April 16, 1893. 
 V. Theophilus Anthony Brouwer, II, b. May 6, 1864; m. 
 
 June II, 1896, Sophia Frances Rogers. Issue: 
 
 Irene Elisabeth Brouwer, b. Nov. 26, 1897. Roger 
 
 De Riemer Brouwer, b. April 2, 1899. 
 vi. Edward Brouwer, II, b. March 24, 1872. 
 vii. Hurburt Livingston Brouwer, b. March 3, 1874; d. 
 
 April 6, 1874. 
 
 46. William' Brouwer {Jane M. De Riemer, 16), b. Aug. 28, 
 1831; m. Oct. 10, 1869, Mary A. Barnard, b. May 19, 1846. Issue: 
 
 i. Jane De Riemer' Brouwer, b. March 11, 1872. 
 ii. William Barnard Brouwer, b. June 3, 1874. 
 iii. Margaret Anthony Brouwer, b. Sept. 11, 1884. 
 
 47. Cornelia F.' De Riemer {Cornelius B. De Riemer, 17), b. 
 Nov. 20, 1842; m. Jan. 26, 1862, Irving Rublee, b. Jan. 23, 1837; 
 resides at Auburn, N. Y. Issue: 
 
 i. Irving Hone' Rublee, b. Nov. 30, 1864; m. 1894, Hat- 
 tie Scoville. Issue: Ethel Frances Rublee, b. Nov. 
 25- 1895. 
 ii. Hattie Lucinda Rublee, b. Feb. 12, 1863; m. William 
 Godfrey. Issue: Flora C. Godfrey, b. Dec. 28, 1891. 
 iii. Edward De Riemer Rublee, b. July 19, 1873. 
 
 48. Marie Briggs' De Riemer {Cornelius B. De Riemer, 17), b. 
 Jan. II, 1845; m. Oct. 13, 1869, Frederick H. Masten, b. July 26, 
 1843; d. Feb. ?4, 1874. Issue: 
 
 i. Pearl C Masten, b. Jan. 10, 187 1. 
 ii. Cora D. Masten, b. Dec. 31, 1873. 
 iii. Jessie D. Masten, b. March 17, 1875. 
 
 49. William Edward' De Riemer {Jacob R. De Riemer, 18), b. 
 May 5, 1839; m. Sept. i, 1868, Emily Frances True. Their child- 
 ren were: 
 
 i. Walter True' De Riemer, b. Sept. 5, 1869, at Batti- 
 cotta Station, Jaffna, Ceylon, India; d. at Brookland, 
 D. C, Dec. 3, 1899. 
 ii. Louis Holmes De Riemer, b. at above place, Oct. 7, 
 1871. 
 
The De Riemer Family 37 
 
 iii. Alice De Riemer, b. at Pasumalie Station, South 
 India, Jan. 7, 1873; d. April 8, 1903. 
 
 iv. Albert Edward De Riemer, b. at Udupitty Station, 
 Jaffna, Ceylon, Nov. 5, 1874; m. April 27, 1898, Grace 
 Goodman at Sandwich, 111. Children: David Good- 
 man De Riemer, b. May 6, 1899. Dorothy True 
 De Riemer, b. Aug. 2, 1903. 
 V. Grace Helen De Riemer, b. as above. May 14, 1876. 
 
 vi. Arthur Hyde De Riemer, b. at Denmark, Iowa, July 7, 
 1883. 
 
 50. Harriet Nelson' De Riemer (yrtcf^ 7?. De Riemer, 18), b. 
 March 27, 1841; m. Oct. 3, 1865, Louis H. Holmes, b. Dec. 9, 1835. 
 Their children were: 
 
 i. Ralph Hoyt* Holmes, b. Aug. 10, 1866; m. Dec. 7, 
 
 1896, Bessie M. Marshall. No children, 
 ii. Elizabeth H. Holmes, b. Oct. 27, 1870; m. May 15, 
 1898, Emil F. Hoffman. Issue: Frederick Emil 
 Hoffman, b. Nov. 18, 1898. Elizabeth Harriet Hoff- 
 man, b. Jan, 24, 1900. 
 iii. Edward De Riemer Holmes, b. Nov. 28, 1872. 
 iv. Herbert Holmes, b. Feb. 17, 1876. 
 v. Frank Taylor Holmes, b. May 16, 1878; m. , 1904. 
 
 51. Susan Baldwin' De Riemer {Jacob R. De Riemer, 18), b. 
 Feb. 28, 1847; m. July 13, 1869, Richard Valentine. One daugh- 
 ter: 
 
 i. Anna De Riemer' Valentine, b. Sept. 7, 1878. 
 
 52. Wm. Edward' Vermilye {Hester A. De Riemer, 19), b. Jan. 
 26, 1828; d. ; m. Jan. 14, 1858, Julia E. Murdock. One son: 
 
 i. Frederick M.' Vermilye, b. ; m.? Kate Jordan. 
 
 53. Mary Anthony' Vermilye {Hester A. De Riemer, 19), b. 
 1829; m. June 6, 1850, Charles A. Davison, Esq., b. 1824; d. 1900. 
 Their children were: 
 
 i. Louis Vermilye' Davison, b. ? ; m. 1879, Sophy 
 
 D. Griffin. Had one son: Charles A. Davison, II. 
 ii. Alice Mason Davison, b. ; unm. 
 
 54. Louise M.' Vermilye {Hester A. De Riemer, 19), b. 1833; d. 
 Feb. 1902; m. March 24, 1853, John E. Burrill, Esq., d. 1893. 
 Their children were: 
 
 i. Emily Vermilye ' Burrill, b. ; m. Geo. W. For- 
 
 sythe. 
 
 ii. Charles Drayton Burrill, b. ; m. Alice Stone and 
 
 had: Jake E. Burrill, and Amy Burrill. 
 iii. Middleton S. Burrill, m. Emilie Neilson and had: 
 
 Louise Burrill, and Middleton Burrill, Jr. 
 iv. William Vermilye Burrill, I, m. Helena Bailey and 
 had. William Vermilye Burrill, II, and Helena 
 Burrill. 
 
38 
 
 The De Riemer Family 
 
 V. Edward Livingston Burrill, m. Hortense Bartlet and 
 had: Elenore Burrill, Beatrice Burrill, Edward L. 
 Burrill, Jr. 
 
 55. Robert M.* Vermilye {Hester A. De Riemer, 19), b. Feb. 27, 
 1835; d. 1878; m. (i) July 22, 1862, Amanda Conover, and had: 
 Wm. M.' Vermilye, II, b. Sept. 17, 1872; d. in infancy, Dec, 1872. 
 He m. (2) Annie Hunter, June 21, 1877, and had: Robert M." 
 Vermilye, Jr., b. May 23, 1879. 
 
INDEX OF NAMES. 
 
 ^-^ , - pom /-»^>, '> 
 
 o 
 
Ind 
 
 ex 
 
 Adams, Adeline Reed, 33 
 Agnes C. McCormick, 33 
 Alice De Riemer, 33 
 Carl Dederer, 33 
 Charles Dederer, 33 
 Egbert A., 33 
 Herman Cuyler, 33 
 Julian, 33 
 Lizzie Davis, 34 
 Mabel G., 33 
 Mary A. Morford, 26, 33 
 Mary Evelina, 33 
 Mary G. Shipman, 33 
 Peter C, 26, 33 
 Robert Morford, 33 
 Sarah Christina, 26, 34 
 
 Ames, Lucinda, 25 
 
 Andrews, Gov., 13 
 
 Angell, Augustus, 29 
 Sallie Sleight, 28, 2g 
 
 Annis, E. B., 30 
 
 Erma Elizabeth, 30 
 Mary E. Cooke, 30 
 
 Anthony, Allard, 12, 13, 21 
 Angel, 17 
 Hester, 19, 21, 22 
 Nicholas, 21 
 Nicholas N., 21 
 Susanna Roome, 21 
 
 Ashfield, Richard, 16, 20 
 
 Babbington, Alice, 20 
 
 Elsie, 20 
 
 Samuel, 20 
 Bailey, Helena, 37 
 Baldwin, Hester Ann, 25, 32 
 
 Susan A. De Riemer, 23, 25 
 
 Wm. A., 23, 25 
 Barenzen, Symon, 16 
 Barnard, Mary A., 27, 36 
 Barnes, Catherine Storm, 24, 29 
 
 Sarah Kuse, 24, 28 
 Bartlet Hortense,38 
 Bayard, Judith, 10 
 
 Stephen, 16 
 Beekman, William, 13 
 Bennett, Gov., 10 
 Bills, Lillian, 30 
 Blagge, Mr., 18 
 Blount, John, 36 
 
 Wilhelmina A. Brouwer, 36 
 Boelen, Jacob, ig 
 Bonnell, Clarence Shepherd, 32 
 
 James, 25, 31 
 
 John Hathorn, 32 
 
 Mary Hathorn, 25, 31 
 
 Susan Roxana, 32 
 
 Bosworth, Nathaniel, 2i 
 Bout, Jan Everzen, 16 
 Boylan, Anna M., 33 
 
 Hester A. Baldwin, 25, 32 
 
 James, 25, 32 
 
 Mary A., 32 
 
 Susie A., 32 
 Brasier, Abraham, 19 
 Briggs, Harriet, 23, 27 
 Brouwer, Catherine, 21, 22 
 
 Cornelius, 21, 22 
 
 Edward, 27 
 
 Edward, II, 36 
 
 Elizabeth, 36 
 
 Elizabeth Jackson, 26, 36 
 
 Emma Frances, 27 
 
 Hurburt Livingston, 36 
 
 Irene Elisabeth, 36 
 
 Jacob, 23, 26 
 
 Jacob, Jr., 27 
 
 Jacob, III, 36 
 
 Jane De Riemer, 36 
 
 Jane Eliza, 27 
 
 Jane M. De Riemer, 23, 26 
 
 John Day, 26 
 
 Kate E. Catte, 36 
 
 Lillian May, 36 
 
 Margaret Anthony, 36 
 
 Margaret Matilda, 26, 35 
 
 Maria Miller, 36 
 
 Mary A. Barnard, 27, 36 
 
 Mary Anthony, 26 
 
 Roger De Riemer, 36 
 
 Sophia F. Rogers, 36 
 
 Theophilus Anthony, 26, 36 
 
 Theophilus Anthony, II, 36 
 
 Wilhelmina A., 36 
 
 William, 27, 36 
 
 William Barnard, 36 
 Burrill, Alice Stone, 37 
 
 Amy, 37 
 
 Beatrice, 38 
 
 Charles Drayton, 37 
 
 Edward L., Jr., 38 
 
 Edward Livingston, 38 
 
 Elenore, 38 
 
 Emilie Neilson, 37 
 
 Emily Vermilye, 37 
 
 Helena, 37 
 
 Helena Bailey, 37 
 
 Hortense Bartlet, 38 
 
 Jake E., 37 
 
 John E., 28, 37 
 
 Louise, 37 
 
 Louise M. Vermilye, 28, 37 
 
 Middleton, Jr., 37 
 
 Middleton S., 37 
 
42 
 
 I n d 
 
 e X 
 
 Burrill — continued 
 
 William Vermilye, 37 
 William Vermilye, Jr., 37 
 
 Caldwell, M. F., 35 
 
 Gate, , 17 
 
 Catte, Kate Eliza, 36 
 
 Clarence Hathorn, 32 
 
 Florence Louise, 32 
 
 Herbert Waldo, 32 
 
 Marian Rebecca, 32 
 
 Susan B. Hathorn, 32 
 Chamberlain, Edgar Theodore, 31 
 
 Estella May, 31 
 
 Sarah Emma, 31 
 
 Sarah E. Hibbard, 31 
 Charlton, Elizabeth, 24, 29 
 Child, Allen Vermilye, 32 
 Churcher, Wm., 9 
 Clearson, Matthienus, 16 
 Clinton, Gov., 22 
 Clock, Martin, 19 
 Cockran, Jane M., 26, 33 
 Comfort, Catherine, 20 
 Conover, Amanda, 28, 38 
 Cooke, Eliza Flouynor, 25, 31 
 
 Elizabeth Charlton, 24, 29 
 
 Ellis, 22 
 
 Elsie Ann, 24, 29 
 
 Elsie E., 30 
 
 Ernest J., 31 
 
 Frank ToiJey, 31 
 
 Geo. W., 21, 22, 24 
 
 George Charlton, 29 
 
 George Stuart, 31 
 
 George Whitefield, Jr., 24, 31 
 
 Grace L., 31 
 
 James H., 31 
 
 Lillie W., 31 
 
 Lottie Petteys, 30 
 
 Mabel Mallory, 31 
 
 Margaret Meade, 30 
 
 Martha, 25, 31 
 
 Mary De Riemer, 24, 30 
 
 Mary Elizabeth, 30 
 
 Mary S. Mallory, 25, 31 
 
 Nettie L.Glenn, 31 
 
 Samuel M., 24, 29 
 
 Samuel Mansfield, Jr., 30 
 
 Sarah De Riemer, 21, 22, 24 
 
 Temperance, 24, 30 
 
 William, 24 
 
 William Gillies, 29 
 
 William M., 31 
 Crane, Mary E., 25, 32 
 Cregier, Martin, 10 
 Cresson, Pierie, 21 
 Cullen, Anna M. Boylan, 33 
 
 Madelaine, 33 
 
 Wallace, 33 
 
 Damen, Jan Jansen, 9 
 Darrow, Albert H., 30 
 
 Margaret M. Cooke, 30 
 
 Davis, Emma F. Brouwer, 27 
 
 John VV., 27 
 Davison, Alice Mason, 37 
 
 Chas. A., 28, 37 
 
 Charless A., II, 37 
 
 Louis Vermilye, 37 
 
 Mary A. Vermilye, 28, 37 
 
 Sophy D. Griffin, 37 
 Dederer, Betsey Van Winkle, 23 
 
 Christian, 23 
 
 David, 23 
 
 Sarah Margaret, 23, 27 
 de Foreest, Isaac, 7, 13, 15 
 
 Maria, 17, 18 
 
 Sarah, 16 
 
 Sarah du Trieux, 7, 15 
 
 Susanna, 7, 11, 15-17 
 De Kay, Elleanor, 16 
 
 Elienar, 19 
 de la Plain, Nicholas, 21 
 De Peyster, Abraham, 18 
 
 Johannes, 10, 17, 19 
 D'Ray, Elinor, 20 
 De Reamer, ' 
 De Remer, 
 Derumer, 
 de Rymer, 
 D'Ryomer, 
 De Riemer, 
 
 Aeltje W'essels, 15, 18 
 
 Albert, 35 
 
 Albert Edward, 37 
 
 Alice, 37 
 
 Alice Babbington, 20 
 
 Allen, 35 
 
 Angel Anthony, 17 
 
 Anne, 22 
 
 Ann B.. 34 
 
 Anna Elizabeth, 17 
 
 Anna Elizabeth, III, 19 
 
 Anna Margaret, 27 
 
 Anne, 20 
 
 Arthur Hyde, 37 
 
 Carrie A. Stoddard, 35 
 
 Catherine Roosevelt, 17, 19, 21 
 
 Catherine Smith, 8-10 
 
 Charlotte Pettingell, 23, 25 
 
 Cornelia F., 27, 36 
 
 Cornelius Brouwer, 24, 27 
 
 David Goodman, 37 
 
 Dorothy True, 37 
 
 Edward J., 34 
 Elisabeth, 8, 9 
 Elizabeth, 17 
 Elizabeth, IV, 19 
 Elleanor De Kay, 16 
 Elienar De Kay, 19 
 Elma G., 35 
 Elsie, 20, 22, 24 
 Elsie Babbington, 20-23, 25 
 Elsie Morford, 27 
 Elsie Roosevelt, 22 
 Emily F. True, 27, 36 
 
 .2? 
 
e X 
 
 43 
 
 De Riemer — continued 
 Frances Mary, 26, 35 
 Frances Pettingell, 23 
 Fred M., 35 
 Gladys, 35 
 Grace Goodman, 37 
 Grace Helen, 37 
 Hannah Merchant, 26, 34 
 Harriet Briggs, 23, 26, 27 
 Harriet £., 34 
 Harriet Nelson, 27, 37 
 Henry Bennett, 25 
 Hester Ann, 24, 28 
 Hester Anthony, 21, 22 
 Huybert, 8-10 
 Isaac, 7-g, 11, 12, 15, 16, 18 
 Isaac, II, 15-17 
 Isaac, III, 19 
 Isaac, IV, 16, 19 
 Isaac, V, 17 
 Isaac, VI, 19 
 Isaac, VII, 19 
 Jacob B., 26, 34 
 Jacob Roome, 23, 24, 27 
 James Bonnell, 28 
 Jane Eliza, 25, 31 
 Jane Maria, 23, 26 
 Joel M., 34 
 
 Joseph Pettingell, 26, 35 
 Juffron Margaretta, 14 
 Kate E., 34 
 
 Laura Humeston, 26, 35 
 Louis Holmes, 36 
 Lucmda Ames, 25 
 Lysbet Grevenraet, 7 
 Machtelt, 7, 8 
 Margaret Pool, 20 
 Margaretta, 28 
 Margarita, 17, 19 
 Maria Briggs, 27, 36 
 Martha, 21, 22 
 Mary, 20-22 
 Mary B., 27 
 Mattie Posey, 35 
 Nicholas Anthony, 23, 25 
 Nicholas Roosevelt, 20 
 Peter, 21, 22, 24 
 Peter Steenwyck, 21 
 Petrus, 16, 17, 19, 20 
 Petrus, II, 19 
 Petrus, III, 20, 21 
 Pieter, 7-9, II, 12, 15-17, 20 
 Robert, 35 
 Ronald, 34 
 Samuel, 19, 21 
 Samuel Babbington, 21, 22 
 Sarah, 20-22, 24 
 Sarah H., 26, 34 
 Sarah M. Dederer, 23, 24, 27 
 Steenwyck, 17, ig, 20 
 Susan Anthony, 23, 25 
 Susan Baldwin, 28, 37 
 Susan M., 34 
 
 De Riemer — continued 
 
 Susanna, 17, 19 
 
 Susanna de Foreest, 7, 15-17 
 
 Theophilus A., 25 
 
 Walter True, 36 
 
 W. E., 6 
 
 William Edward, 27, 36 
 
 William H., 35 
 
 Wm Vermilye,26 
 Dorland, Capt., 22 
 Douglass, Evie De Riemer Morford, 
 
 34 
 
 Henry B., 34 
 
 Isadore, 34 
 
 Morris Duncan, 34 
 Drisius, Elizabeth, 16 
 
 Lysbet Grevenraet, 7-9 
 
 Samuel, 7-10, 12 
 du Trieux, Sarah, 7, 15 
 
 Ebberts, Margareta, 17 
 Elbertsen, Elbert, 7-9 
 
 Lysbet Grevenraet, 7, 8 
 Elbenson, Elbert, 15 
 Eddy, Elizabeth Hathorne, 30 
 
 Frances Mary, 30 
 
 George, 24, 30 
 
 George, Jr., 30 
 
 Henry, 30 
 
 Lillian Bills, 30 
 
 Lucy, 30 
 
 Samuel, 30 
 
 Temperance Cooke, 24, 30 
 
 Thomas, 30 
 
 Walter, 24 
 
 William, 30 
 
 William Henry, 30 
 Edgers, Augustus, 32 
 
 Mary A. Boylan, 32 
 
 Flouynor, Eliza, 25, 31 
 Force, Peter, 21 
 Forman, Arthur, 35 
 
 Hattie F. Walker, 35 
 Forsythe, Emily V. Burrill, 37 
 
 George W., 37 
 Franklin, Emily, 26 
 
 Gidley, Augustus, 29 
 
 Elsie, 29 
 
 Harriet E. Sleight, 24, 29 
 
 Henry D. , 29 
 
 James, 29 
 
 Mary P. Ingraham, 29 
 
 Ricketson, 24, 29 
 
 Sarah Wilcox, 29 
 Gilliam, Virginia, 35 
 Gillies, Archibald W., 24, 29 
 
 David A., 29 
 
 Elsie A. Cooke, 24, 29 
 
 George Cooke, 29 
 
 William James, 29 
 Glenn, Nettie L., 31 
 
44 
 
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 e X 
 
 Godfrey, Flora C, 36 
 
 Hattie L. Rublee, 36 
 
 William, 36 
 Goodman, Grace, 37 
 Gormley, Jane E. Brouwer, 27 
 
 Terrence, 27 
 Gouverneur, Abraham, 8, 12, 15, 17, 
 
 Isaac, 8, 15, 17 
 
 Machteit De Riemer, 7, 9 
 
 Nicholas, 7-9 
 Graeveradt, Lysbet, 7 
 Grevenraat, Elizabeth, 18 
 Grevenraet, Isaac, 7, 10, 12 
 
 Lysbet, 7-1 1, 15 
 Grevenraets, Elizabeth, 10 
 Grevenrath, Andries, 15 
 
 Isaac, 16 
 Greveraad, Lysbet, 7 
 Greefraadt, Lysbet, 7 
 Green, Frederick Voorhis, 33 
 
 Margaret B. Morford, 33 
 Griffin, Sophy D., 37 
 
 Ham, Eugene, 28 
 
 John M., 28 
 
 Mary K. Sleight, 28 
 
 Rhoda Sleight, 28 
 
 Sarah A. Sleight, 29 
 
 Stephen M., 29 
 Hathorn, Amelia Lee, 32 
 
 Arthur R., 32 
 
 Arthur Vermilye, 32 
 
 Elizabeth, 30 
 
 Fergus Anthony, 25, 32 
 
 Frederick C, 32 
 
 Genevieve , 32 
 
 Irma, 32 
 
 John, 23, 25 
 
 John Arthur, 32 
 
 John Henry, 32 
 
 Leland Case, 32 
 
 Mary, 25, 31 
 
 Mary Bruce, 32 
 
 Mary E. Crane, 25, 32 
 
 Mary Louise, 32 
 
 Nettie, 32 
 
 Rebecca Vermilye, 25, 32 
 
 Robert Bruce, 25, 32 
 
 Robert Vermilye, 32 
 
 Susan A. De Riemer, 23 
 
 Susan Baldwin, 32 
 Hayden, Albert G., 28 
 
 Anna M. De Riemer, 28 
 Helmer, Bruce Hathorn, 32 
 
 Charles Clarence, 32 
 
 Charles D., 32 
 
 Ernest Bonnell, 32 
 
 Faith, 32 
 
 Grace, 32 
 
 Susan R. Bonnell, 32 
 Hensman, Harriet, 31 
 Hibhard, Catherine Eliza, 31 
 
 Emily Morton, 31 
 
 Hibbard — continued 
 
 Harriet Hensman, 31 
 
 John Smith, 25, 31 
 
 Martha Cooke, 25, 31 
 
 Martha Ellen, 31 
 
 Mary Eliza, 31 
 
 Ralph Nagle, 31 
 
 Sarah Elizabeth, 31 
 
 William Henry, 31 
 Hoffman, Elizabeth Harriet, 37 
 
 Elizabeth H. Holmes, 37 
 
 Emil F., 37 
 
 Frederick Emil, 37 
 Holmes, Bessie M. Marshall, 37 
 
 Edward De Riemer, 37 
 
 Elizabeth H., 37 
 
 Frank Taylor, 37 
 
 Harriet N. De Riemer, 27, 37 
 
 Herbert, 37 
 
 Louis H., 27, 37 
 
 Ralph Hoyt, 37 
 Hotchkiss, Dora Toffey, 30 
 
 H. S., Jr., 30 
 Humeston, Laura, 26, 33 
 Hunter, Annie, 28, 38 
 
 Ingraham, Mary Potter, 2g 
 Inman, Harriet E. De Riemer, 34 
 Thomas B., 34 
 
 Jackson, Dominie, 20 
 Elizabeth, 26, 36 
 Jay, John, 22 
 Jellison, Henry, 19 
 Jordan, Kate, 37 
 
 Kip, Sec'y, 8 
 Koonz, Albert E., 30 
 
 Albert, Jr., 30 
 
 Jennie Toffey, 30 
 Kunzt, Hillotje Jans, 17 
 
 Lamb, Martha, 10 
 Le Chevalier, John 21 
 Lee, Amelia, 32 
 
 Eliza, 25 
 Leisler, Lieut.-Gov., 17 
 
 Jacob, 17 
 Livingstone, Martha De Riemer, 21 , 22 
 
 Robert G., 21, 22 
 Lookermans, Anneken, 10 
 Lott, Abraham P., 21 
 Lovelace, Gov., 13 
 Low, Peter, 20 
 
 Mallory, Mary Susan, 2;, 31 
 Marius, Jacob Pieterzen, 10 
 Marshall, Bessie M., 37 
 Mason, Erskine, 27 
 Masten, Cora D., 36 
 
 Frederick H., 27, 36 
 
 Jessie D., 36 
 
 Maria B. De Riemer, 27, 36 
 
 Pearl C, 36 
 Mayer, Jan Dirckzen, 16 
 
Index 
 
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 Maynard, Edward Harvey, 33 
 Elsie Morford, 33 
 Linn Ue Riemer, 33 
 Margaret Ryerson,33 
 McAllister, Ann B. De Uiemer, 34 
 Hazel, 34 
 Lilly, 34 
 Olive, 34 
 Pearl B., 34 
 Rose, 34 
 Ruby B. 34 
 W. C, 34 
 McCormick, Agnes C, 33 
 
 Bartholomew, 31 
 McPhetridge, Alice, 34 
 
 Susan M. De Riemer, 34 
 T. O. W., 34 
 Megapolensis, Rev., 8, 12 
 Merchant, Hannah, 26, 34 
 Messier, Abraham, 19 
 Miller, Edwin A., 27 
 
 Jane E. Brouwer, 27 
 Montford, Katherine, 28 
 Morford, Ada De Riemer, 34 
 Andrew Ryerson, 33 
 Anna Elizabeth, 33 
 Anthony Denton, 26, 33 
 Charles Augustus, 25, 33 
 Cora C. Vail, 34 
 David Ryerson, 33 
 Dorothy Welles, 34 
 Eliza Lee, 25 
 
 Elsie B. De Riemer, 23, 25 
 Elsie De Riemer, 33 
 Emily Franklin, 26 
 Evelina Weakley, 33 
 Evie De Riemer, 34 
 Harriet, 33 
 
 Henrietta Evelina, 26 
 Henry Cooper Kelsey, 34 
 Jane M. Cockran, 26, 33 
 John Henry Livingston, 26 
 Katherine, 33 
 Lewis Morris, 34 
 Margaret A. Ryerson, 26, 33 
 Margaret Blauvelt, 33 
 Martha M. Welles, 34 
 Mary Adams, 34 
 Mary Anthony, 26, 33 
 Mary Lynn, 33 
 Mary Morris, 26, 34 
 Mary Morris, U, 34 
 Robert Halsted, 26, 34 
 Samuel Denton, 23, 25, 34 
 Sarah C. Adams, 26, 34 
 Susan, 33 
 Theodore, 26, 34 
 Theodore, H, 34 
 Theodore, HL 34 
 Virginia Treadwell, 34 
 William E., 33 
 William Edwin, 26, 33 
 
 Morris, Elleanor De Kay, 16, 19 
 
 Joseph, 16, 19, 20 
 
 Mary, 26, 34 
 
 Rebecca, 19 
 Murdock, Julia E., 28, 37 
 
 Nanfan, Elisabeth, 17 
 
 John, 17 
 Neilson, Emilie, 37 
 Nichols, Gov., 13 
 Nicholson, Lieut. -Gov., 17 
 Nieuwenhausen, Wilhelmus V., 11, 14 
 Nissepadt, Elisabet, 15 
 
 Jasper, 8 
 
 Machtelt De Riemer, 8 
 
 Magtel, 15 
 Noell, Mr., 18 
 
 Onclebog, Gerrit, 19 
 
 Parker, Allen R., 35 
 
 Alonzo J., 35 
 
 Amelia Frances, 35 
 
 Benjamin F., 35 
 
 E. G. Peasley, 35 
 
 Eva M. Smith, 3; 
 
 Frances M. De Riemer, 26, 35 
 
 Henry Caldwell, 35 
 
 Herbert Jeffrey, 35 
 
 Jeffrey A., 26, 35 
 
 Kittle Frances, 35 
 
 Lester James, 35 
 
 M. F.Caldwell, 35 
 
 Thomas, 35 
 
 Virginia Gilliam, 35 
 Parks, Charles Helmer, 32 
 
 Faith Helmer, 32 
 
 Samuel Conant, Jr., 32 
 Peasley, E. G. 35 
 Pells, Mary C, 29 
 Petteys, Lottie, 30 
 Pettingell, Charlotte, 23,25 
 
 Frances, 23, 25 
 
 Henry, 23,25 
 
 Keziah, 23 
 Philipse, Frederick 16 
 Piatt, Zeph., 22 
 Polhemus, pastor, 14 
 Pool, Margaret, 20 
 Posey, Mattie, 35 
 Post, Lodowyck, 16 
 Pound, John, 9 
 Provoost, David, 19 
 Reed, ElmaG. De Riemer, 35 
 Fred, 35 
 
 Laura Elizabeth, 35 
 Roelofs, Catherine, 10 
 Rogers, Bessie M., 30 
 
 Sophia Frances, 36 
 Roome, Peter W., 19 
 Pieter Wiltse, 21 
 Susana, 21 
 
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 Roosevelt, family, 17, 19 
 
 Catherine, 17, Ig, 20 
 
 Catherine Comfort, 20 
 
 Hillotje Jans, 17 
 
 Jacobus, 20 
 
 John, 20 
 
 Nicholas, 17, 19, 20 
 
 Rachel, 20 
 
 Sarah Solomons, 17, 20 
 Rublee, Cornelia F. De Riemer, 27,36 
 
 Edward De Riemer, 36 
 
 Ethel Frances, 36 
 
 Hatlie Lucinda, 36 
 
 Hattie Scoville, 36 
 
 Irving, 27, 36 
 
 Irving Hone, 36 
 Rycken, Rynier, 8 
 Ryerson, Edith, 36 
 
 Helen, 35, 36 
 
 Henry Ogden, 35 
 
 Julia B. Sharpe, 35 
 
 Margaret Anderson, 26, 33 
 
 Margaret M. Brouwer, 26, 35 
 
 Thomas, 26, 35 
 
 Schouten, Jan., 16 
 Schuyler, G. W., 7 
 Scott, Gen., 22 
 
 Alfred Graydon, 29 
 
 Harriet Sleight, 29 
 
 Samuel H., 29 
 Scoville, Hattie, 36 
 Selyns, Agneta, 14 
 
 Henricus, 7, 10, 12, 14, 15 
 
 Juffron M. De Riemer, 14 
 
 Machtelt Specht, 14 
 
 Margarretta De Riemer, 17 
 
 Margharetta, 17 
 
 Margharetta De Riemer, 7, 11 
 Sharpe, Amber, 35 
 
 Beryl, 35 
 
 Frank, 35 
 
 Frankie, 35 
 
 Harry, 35 
 
 Julia B., 35 
 
 Laura B. Walker, 35 
 Shipman, Mary G., 33 
 Sip, Emma Louise, 30 
 
 Mary Elizabeth, 30 
 Sjoert, Isaac, Jr., 19 
 
 Jan, 17, 20 
 
 Jan, Jr., 19 
 
 Margarita De Riemer, 17, 19, 20 
 Sjovert, Heyltje, 20 
 Slade, James, 10 
 Sleight, Alexander W., 29 
 
 Anna Ward, 29 
 
 Catherine S. Barnes, 24, 29 
 
 David B., 29 
 
 Elsey De Riemer, 21 
 
 Elsie De Riemer, 22, 24, 28 
 
 Frances, 29 
 
 Frances E. Titus, 28 
 
 Sleight — continued 
 
 Harriet, 29 
 
 Harriet E., 24, 29 
 
 Henry A., 24, 29 
 
 Jacobus, 22, 24 
 
 James, 21 
 
 James Edwin, 24, 28 
 
 J. Ward, 29 
 
 Mary A. Ward, 24, 29 
 
 Mary C. Pells, 29 
 
 Mary Kate, 28 
 
 Peter Rosavelt, 24, 28, 29 
 
 Rhoda, 28 
 
 Sallie, 28 
 
 Sarah A., 29 
 
 Sarah K. Barnes, 24, 28 
 
 Sarah Phillips, 29 
 Smith, Mr., 24 
 
 Catherine, 8 
 
 David D., 33 
 
 Eva May, 35 
 
 Harold Perry, 33 
 
 John, 21 
 
 Mary Morford, 33 
 
 Mary L. Morford, 33 
 
 Ralph Ormsby, 33 
 Solomons, Sarah, 17 
 Sonnemans, Pieter, 17 
 Specht, Machtelt, 14 
 Staats, Catherine, 17 
 Steenwyck, Cornelis, 7, 9-14, 16 
 
 Cornelius, 14, 18 
 
 Isaac, 10, 12 
 
 Jacob, 10-12 
 
 Jacobus, II, 12 
 
 Juffron M. De Riemer, 14 
 
 Margaret, 9 
 
 Margaretta, 15 
 
 Margariet, 10, 12 
 Stockholm, Abraham B., 24, 28 
 
 Derrick B., 28 
 
 Edwin, 28 
 
 Elsie Amelia, 28 
 
 Elsie Sleight, 24, 28 
 
 Katherine Montford, 28 
 Stoddard, Carrie A., 35 
 Stone, Alice, 37 
 Stuyvesant, Juffron Judith, 10 
 Suffern, Alice De Riemer Adams, 33 
 
 Edward Cary, 33 
 
 Edward L., 33 
 
 Elsie De Riemer, 33 
 
 Ernest Salisbury, 33 
 
 Philip Spencer, 33 
 
 Robert Adams, 33 
 Swartwout, John, 21 
 
 Teller, Jacob, 15, 17 18 
 
 Margareta, 18 
 
 Wm., 18 
 Titus, Frances E., 28 
 Toffey, Adeline S. Wilson, 30 
 
 Bessie M. Rogers, 30 
 
I nd 
 
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 47 
 
 Toffey — continued 
 
 Daniel, 30 
 
 Daniel, 11, 30 
 
 Dora, 30 
 
 Edna Louise, 30 
 
 Emma L. Sip, 30 
 
 George A., 24, 30 
 
 George C, 30 
 
 Grace, 30 
 
 Harold James, 30 
 
 Jennie, 30 
 
 John James, 30 
 
 John J., II, 30 
 
 Mary Cooke, 24, 30 
 
 Mary E. Sip, 30 
 
 Robert, 30 
 
 William V., 30 
 
 William Vermilye, 30 
 True, Charles K., 27 
 
 Elizabeth, 27 
 
 Emily Frances, 27, 36 
 Turner, Herbert Lovell, 31 
 
 Jane E. De Riemer, 25, 31 
 
 Lorin Henry, 31 
 
 Margaret Cornelia, 31 
 
 Thomas, 25, 31 
 
 William Albert, 31 
 
 Vail, Cora Cline, 34 
 Valentine, Anna De Riemer, 37 
 
 David T., 6, 8, 9 
 
 Richard, 28, 37 
 
 Susan B. De Riemer, 28, 37 
 Van Benschoten, Elias, 22 
 Van Brugh, Johannes, 10, 13 
 Van Hoornbeck, Gillies, 10 
 Van Kleeck, Baltus, 29 
 
 Frank, 29 
 
 Mary Sleight, 29 
 
 Sarah P. Sleight, 29 
 Van Renssaler, Mrs. John King, 11 
 van Roosenvelt, Claas Martenszen, 17, 
 
 19 
 Van Swisten, Uziel, 17 
 Van Winkle, Betsey, 23 
 Vermilye, Amanda Conover, 28, 38 
 
 Annie Hunter, 28, 38 
 
 Charles Augustus, 28 
 
 Elizabeth Perkins, 28 
 
 Emily Augusta, 28 
 
 Frederick L., 28 
 
 V tTmWyc^conliniied 
 
 Frederick M., 37 
 
 Hester A. De Riemer, 24 
 
 Julia E. Murdock, 28, 37 
 
 Kate Jordan, 37 
 
 Lewis Forman, 28 
 
 Louise M., 28, 37 
 
 Mary A., 28, 37 
 
 Rebecca, 25, 32 
 
 Robert M., 28, 38 
 
 Robert M., Jr., 38 
 
 Thomas E., 28 
 
 Wm. Edward, 28, 37 
 
 Wm. Montgomery, 24, 28 
 Vinton, T. W., 30 
 
 Walker, Edgar J., 35 
 
 Hattie Frances, 35 
 
 Laura Bell, 35 
 
 Sarah H. De Riemer, 26, 34, 35 
 
 S. G., 26, 35 
 Ward, Mary A., 24, 2g 
 Washington, George, 22 
 Webbers, Alida, 19 
 
 Elisabet, 19 
 
 Jacob, 17, 19 
 
 Margarita De Riemer, 17, 19 
 
 Olivardus, 19 
 
 Petrus, 19 
 Welles, Martha M., 34 
 Wessels, Aeltje, 15, 16, 18 
 
 Christina, 16, 18 
 
 Deborah, 15, 16 
 
 Warnaer, 18 
 
 Warner, 15, 16 
 Wheeler, Mary C. Toffey, 30 
 
 Mary Toffey, 30 
 
 Wm. B., 30 
 Wilcox, Sarah, 29 
 Wilson, Adeline S., 30 
 
 Carl, 34 
 
 Edgar, 34 
 
 Kate E. De Riemer, 34 
 
 Mary E. Cooke, 30 
 
 Otis, 34 
 
 Susan, 34 
 
 Thomas, 30 
 Winchester, Frances Sleight, 29 
 
 Henry M., 29 
 Wyncoop, Henry, 22 
 
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 The De Riemer Family. 
 
 By Rev. W. E. De Riemer. 
 
 8vo, cloth, 48 pages. - - Price, $2.50. 
 
 
 Edition Limited to 100 Copies. 
 
 ANY contribution to the early history of New York City — 
 first known as New Amsterdam — awakens peculiar inter- 
 est. The pioneer men and women who laid the foundations 
 or endured the hardships of life in the formative period of the 
 Metropolis of the Empire State deserve to be held in grateful 
 remembrance. These pioneers were not titled people. But 
 few of them possessed wealth. They were quite unconscious 
 of doing anything to be recorded in history. No professional 
 chronicler was at hand to take note of their brave deeds. 
 They are known to us today chiefly through the public 
 records of the State and of the Church, — when they were 
 born, aad married and died, and what property they ac- 
 quired, and to whom it was transmitted, — to obtain even 
 these facts is no slight labor. The writer has attempted to 
 do more than this with reference to the De Riemer and kin- 
 dred families of which he treats. Every available incident 
 in the individual lives of the Colonial period is introduced 
 in the printed page, so that the work becomes a series of 
 biographical studies. 
 
 There are two distinct periods in the Colonial history of 
 New York — the Dutch period of 50 years, extending from 
 1614 to 1664, the date of Stuyvesant's surrender to the English 
 
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 fleet— and the English period of 160 years, from 1664 to 1773, 
 when the Revolutionary War began. 
 
 Among the pioneers who figured conspiciously in both 
 these periods were some whose lives have not hitherto been 
 made prominent. Their names are Cresson, de la Plaine, 
 Anthony, Steenwyck, Brouwer, de Foreest, Wessels, Gouver- 
 neur, le Chevalier, Roome, Courteu, Drisius, Selyns, Roose- 
 velt, and De Riemer. These were all affiliated by marriage 
 with the De Riemer family, most of them previous to 1700 
 A. D. 
 
 This volume is prepared especially for the descendants 
 of the above named families whose worthy ancestors played 
 so important a part in those early Colonial days, yet it can- 
 not fail to interest any others who desire information upon 
 that history. 
 
 The following names represent affiliated families of which 
 three or more members each are mentioned: Adams, Bonnell, 
 Burrill, Child, Chamberlain, Cooke, Davison, Dederer, Doug- 
 lass, Eddy, Gidley, Gillies, Godfrey, Ham, Hathorn, Helmer, 
 Hibbard, Holmes, Hasten, Maynard, McAllister, Morford, 
 Morris, Parker, Pettingell, Rublee, Ryerson, Sharpe, Sleight, 
 Smith, Stockholm, Suffern, Toflfey, Turner, Valentine, Ver- 
 milye, Walker, "Webbers, Wheeler, and Wilson. 
 
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 Rev. W. E. De Riemer, 
 
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