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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 IHE author sincerely regrets the inability to trace 
 our earliest ancestor in America from his home 
 in Holland, where he was reared, and where, 
 without doubt, he was born. Regarding the 
 time and circumstances of his emigration, we 
 also lack data; but the tradition is that he 
 came from Holland in one of three ships, and 
 settled not far from where his male line de- 
 scendant lived and died, leaving a long list to 
 follow. All Van Hoosears in America are trac- 
 able to him.* The traditional ''Three Brothers" 
 story never cast its anchor upon this family. 
 Ihere are many names resembling this surname, Van 
 Hoosear, which are not related so far as is known For 
 six generations, there has been no change in spelling 
 bome of the second and third have written it "Vanhoo- 
 sear, but in the following generations it has been uni- 
 formly written with a capital ''H." 
 
 Our authors of the -Origin of Surnames" have been 
 
 silent as to this name's derivation. "Van" in the Dutch 
 
 language (Holland or Netherlands) is the same as ''Von" 
 
 in German, meaning "of," as Rinear of Hoosear, or 
 
 Muissen a place on the river Rhine in the Province of 
 
 Gilderland This is but a short distance from Arnhem, the 
 
 capitol. The family may have originally lived at "Huis- 
 
 ^T{ A P®ij^.^,. called Huissens with the Christian name 
 
 fi? .r^r "^ ^,i^*^^pish the individuals. The tradition is that 
 
 'clt X?"^,, 1? this case was given as a title of rank, being 
 
 the 4th. It is possible that such was the case, for men 
 
 ot high standing and merit were granted the right to use 
 
 van as a prefix to their surname to distinguish them 
 
 from the ordinary men. The name of Hoosier as used in 
 
 the btate of Indiana is purely American, and has no refer- 
 
 nnon Th^^T"i''"^"'V'^^ ^''l"'''^ *^^ ^'■^^ settlements along the Hudson river and 
 upon the Island of Manhattan (N. Y. city). The westtnd of L. I. and Conn. 
 
 7roZ Mass.^""'"""^ ''"'''' '" ''^^ ""<^ ''^5 respectively by emigrant 
 
4 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 ence to this surname, although somewhat resembling it in 
 appearance. The rersion is that its origin is fromhusher, 
 because, men of strength, they were considered bul- 
 lies, or from their rough exclamation when one knocks 
 at a door "Who's yere." In 1555 Emperor Charles 
 V. gave his son, Phillip II., of Spain, the Netherlands, 
 which embraced Gilderland, etc. In 1G68, France seized 
 on Spanish Netherlands. In 1674 England had captured 
 her. In 1795 Holland was conquered by France, but since 
 1839 there has been general peace there. 
 
 The male inhabitants of the Netherlands are of me- 
 dium stature, stout form, and fair complexion. The wo- 
 men, tall and handsome, are very domestic in their habits 
 and pay most scrupulous attention to the cleanliness of 
 their houses. Perseverance and industry are striking 
 features of the national character. Th^ male line of th« 
 Van Hoosear descendants bear out noticeably the above 
 characteristics, as do also the women, excepting in stature, 
 they being a little under that of the average female Hol- 
 lander. 
 
 The author has never seen the name "Van Hoosear," 
 either in scrip or print, spelled identicallj^ as above, except 
 it referred directly to some of the descendants of our early 
 ancestor from Holland. Very many similar names, how- 
 ever, have appeared. In 1874 an association was organ- 
 ized at Hudson, N. Y., called "Van Hoesen Association," 
 whose purpose was to investigate a certain estate left in 
 Holland for the Van Hoesen heirs, as held by tradition. 
 In November, 1876, another meeting was held at Hudson, 
 at which a report was given by Mr. E. B. Humphreys, 
 who had been appointed the Holland agent. An interme- 
 diate meeting was held at Catskill, N. Y., in 1875, and 
 another at Gent, N. Y., in February, 1876. At the third 
 meeting Mr. Humphreys reported that his research in 
 Holland had developed that Maretje Jacobs "huisyrouw," 
 or wife of Jacob Arends den Hensden, North Holland, had 
 left several thousand pounds, which had been deposited 
 in the "Weeskamer" (or Orphan Chamber), in 1686, for 
 her children. He also mentioned other estates left for 
 unknown heirs. The next meeting was held at Hudson, 
 in February, 1877, when it was voted to call for the quar- 
 terly dues of 50 cents each. [Extracted from circular sent 
 out by this association]. The members are said to have 
 
INTRODUCTION. 5 
 
 numbered over 300. In "American Ancestry," vol. IV, 
 pg. 30, appears the ancestry of Wm. S. Van Hoesen, of the 
 above society, whose ancestor was Jan Franse Van Hoesen, 
 ancestor of all the Van Hoesens in America, whose early 
 residence was Fort Orange, which is now Albany, N. Y. 
 ^ He came from a town in Holland, called Huisen, near the 
 ' Zuyder Zee. His eight children were Jurian, Jacob, Vol- 
 kert,* Anna md., Luykas Gerretsen, Styntje md., Jan Tys 
 Goes, Maria md., Hendrick Coenraetse, Catherine md., 
 Frank Hardingh, and Johannes. Jurian's son Jan Ju- 
 rianse, his son Cornelius, his son Casper, his son Wm. C, 
 his son Wm. S., of Saugerties, N. Y., b. 1839. 
 
 The following is a copy of a sketch and record of the 
 "Van Hoesen Family," prepared for one of the within 
 Van Hoosears, by Wm. S. Van Hoesen, Prest. of the above 
 association. 
 
 It is printed at the request of some of the family, 
 which think that the Reynier mentioned is the same per- 
 son known to us as the ancestor who has been given the 
 number 3.: 
 
 "Jan Franse Van Hussum was the first Van Hoesen 
 that came to America. Documents represent him, his son 
 Jurrian and wife, Volkie Jurriaanse, to have settled at 
 Fort Orange and Beverwick (now Albany) as early as 
 1645, where he also made several purchases. His princi- 
 pal purchase was that of the Claverack land, made June 
 5th, 1662, amounting to several hundred acres, lying along 
 the Hudson River, above and including the site on which 
 the City of Hudson now stands, owned by two Indians, 
 
 one named Pametepiet, (his signature thus, X ), the 
 
 other Tantankenaut, (his mark -—•— •^-',) both being owners 
 and commissioned by another Indian, and owner, named 
 Sickaneeck, (alias Tunis), Jan Franse Van Hussum' s sig- 
 nature was t- He does not seem to write. He died about 
 1667, and letters of administration were issued to his son 
 Juerian, August 2d, 1703. (Book of Deeds VI, page 199, 
 in Albany County Clerk's Office. State of New York, U. S. 
 A.) At this time the following heirs were living, namely: 
 
 *Folkert Van Hoesen and wife, Teuntie, sells dwelling house, mill, mill 
 dam, &c. to low water mark as far as a place called Kortees Kill being upon 
 the Island "Nassaw" (formerly called Long Island) known by name of Red 
 Hook, 1749. [Lib. 5, pg. 176, Kings Co. L. Rec'ds.] Johannes Bergen and wf, 
 Rachel of "Brookland," Kings Co., on Nassau Island, sells to Cornelis Van 
 der Iloeven, of same place, 1721. [Vol. 4, pg. 287, Kings Co. L. R.] 
 
% INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Jurrian, the oldest son, Jacob, Volkert, Anna, wife of 
 Lay Kas Gerrites, Styntie, wife of Jan Tys Goes, Maria, 
 wife of Hendrick Coenraetse, Catherine, wife of Frank 
 Hardingh, and Johannes, who was an old man, living at 
 Claverack in the year 1724. Jurrian, the oldest son of Jan 
 Franse, by the laws of premageniture, became seized of 
 the land, but amiable petition was made by which he con- 
 veyed the lands adjoining the Hudson River, southerly of 
 the ferry, to his brother Johannes, and northerly to bis 
 brother-in-law, Francis Harding, and wife Catherine, and 
 brother, Jacob Jans Van Hoesen. The deed was executed 
 7th of January, 17C4, and recorded in Deed Book D, pages 
 282: 3, 4 and 5, at the Albany County Clerk's Office, State 
 of New York." 
 
 Generation 1st. Jan Franse Van Hussum, came to 
 Albany in 1645, married, in Holland, Volkie Jurriaanse, 
 both of Holland. He died about 1667, she, about 1703. 
 Their children were Jurrian, Jacob, Volkert, Anna, Styn- 
 tie, Maria, Catherine, Johannes. 
 
 Generation 2d. Johannes Van Hoesen born in Albany, 
 N. Y., md., 1st, Jannetje Jans. Derike, md., 2d, Willimpie 
 Vill, June 19, 1709. Children, Jan, Johannes, *Harmon, 
 Garret, Jacob b. Aug. 18, 1699, Franciscus b. June 13, 1703, 
 Maria b. June 7, 1706, Gerritje b. Aug. 20, 1710. 
 
 Generation 3d. *Harmon Van Hoesen born in Albany, 
 md., Goessia — . b. in Albany, N. Y. She d. April 11, 1746. 
 Children born in Albany, Jan, Volkert, Kinder, **Hen- 
 drick, Luchs, bap. April 17, 1725, ''R. 6." (Record). 
 
 Generation 4th. **Hendrick Van Hoesen b. Albany, 
 N. Y., md., in Albany, Cathalina Vandenburgh, b. Albany, 
 July 2, 1744. Children, Geesje, b. Albany, Aug. 10, 1746, 
 Hendrick, bap. Nov. 6, 1748, was called Van Houser in N. 
 Y. State early marriages. Reynier, b. about 1753. In 
 Rev. service was called Rynier VanHoser, and afterwards 
 Rinear Van Hosean, Van Hosen and Van Usen. He died 
 April, 1820, and his wife, Marsey, in the fall of 1827. 
 [Then follows his children as we know them, which he se- 
 cured from the descendants of the Conn. Rinear). 
 
 The reader will see there is no proof that the Albany 
 Reynier Van Hoesen and the Conn. Rinear Vanhoosear is 
 the same person, or that he did not spell his name as it 
 should be. The above Van Hoesen also states Maria, Rey- 
 nier's daughter, was bap. July 27, 1789. See record of her 
 
INTEODUCTION. 7 
 
 [No. 5] tombstone. Her grandson also says, I have heard 
 "her say she was 15 years, 2 months and 15 days older 
 than Antionette. Bible record of Antionette says she 
 was born Aug. 20, 1806." 
 
 In a volume compiled by L. Van Alstyne, of Sharon, 
 Ct., a descendant of Lambert Janse Van Alstyne, pg. 23, 
 he states Hilletje Van Alstyne, b. Jan. 5, 1752, m. May 25, 
 1776. Abraham, 1st Van Hosen of Stuyvesant Falls, N. 
 Y., son of Jurger Van Hoesenand MarritjeBurgert. Their 
 children were: William, b. 1777, Maria, b. 1779, Jurian, 
 1782, Christyntje, bap. 1786, Johannes, 1789, Abraham, 
 1791. He quotes Munsell's, that the above Abraham 1st 
 descended from Jan Franse Van Hoesen, the Holland set- 
 tler at Beverwyck (Albany), who soon after bought of the 
 Indians, land at Claverack, Columbia Co., N. Y., and that 
 direct descendants reside at Stuyvesant Falls now. 
 
 A few names are given below which the author has 
 found most resembling the Van Hoosear surname: 
 
 Lydia Vanhooser, minor, [U. S. Gen. Stat., 1877-8, pg. 
 67]. 
 
 Frank Van Hooser, was P. M., 1881, Mechanicsville, 
 O. [Vol. 11, Official Register of U. S.] 
 
 Ga'l Van Hoozer, Rev. War [Archives of Library, Al- 
 bany, vol. 1, pg. 226]. 
 
 Van Housen, lot 24656; Van Hosen, lot 39877, and sev- 
 eral by name of Van Dusen, etc., appear on the Register 
 of Greenwood cemetery, N. Y. 
 
 Garret Van Hooser, Fishkill, N. Y., 5th Reg., 1780 [N. 
 E. Hist. M. S. Rev. papers, vol. 2, pg. 352]. 
 
 In the Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C, the 
 records of 1899 mention John N. Vanhooser, Res. Dade- 
 ville. Mo. In Robert's "N. Y. in the Revolution," (which 
 copy contains the Wilton ''Rinear," with Van attached), 
 there appears three of the name Hoosen, 36 Hoesen, Husen, 
 Hasen, Hensin, Hoesin, Hosen, Hozen, Huesen, Huson, 
 Huysen, Housen, etc. 
 
8 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 EXPLANATION OF ARRANGEMENT. 
 
 Each person descending from the settler has a num- 
 ber near the left hand margin, and if their children are 
 represented, a number opposite near the right hand mar- 
 gin refers to their eldest child, and carried forward to the 
 left hand margin in the next generation. 
 
 FIRST GENERATION. 
 
 1. TAN HOOSEAR was probably born in Hol- 
 land before 1736, and married before 1856-7. Tradition firm- 
 ly asserts that this was his home, and that his marriage also 
 was consummated while in his native country, or in Eng- 
 land, before he came to America. He, with his wife and 
 probably children, it is stated, emigrated to America in 
 one of three ships, eventually settling with his family 
 somewhere on the south side of Long Island; and that he 
 followed the occupation of tanner and currier. The same 
 traditionary evidence asserts that he had at least two 
 daughters, one marrying a Van Rensselaer*, who settled 
 on the Hudson River, below Albany, "on the flats,'' and 
 the other being unmarried when the only son, Rinear, left 
 home at the early commencement of the Revolution. 
 
 The "Van Rensselaer Family," by May King Van 
 Rensselaer, N. Y., 1888, states Kilian Van Renselaerswyck 
 in America "was a man of character and substance," a 
 merchant of Amsterdam, was wealthy, etc. Early in 
 1630 he was sent as agent from Holland to make purchases 
 from Indian owners, etc. Other purchases were made in 
 1637, when his tract of land covered 24 miles in breadth, 
 by 48 miles long, containing over 700,000 acres, comprising 
 the present counties of Albany, Rensselaer, and part of 
 Columbia. He then came to America to care for the col- 
 ony. The Ronton Genealogist remarks that he was a rich 
 jeweller, of Dorp, Holland, and that his purchases included 
 land on the east and west sides of Hudson River, where 
 now is Tro y, Lansingburgh, etc. He says that he and son 
 
 *A family of Van Rensselaers are said to have come to America in the 
 vessel with this family. 
 
FIRST GENERATION. 9 
 
 Jeremiah bought of the Dutch West India Co. miles 
 square, but they afterward claimed differently. 
 
 How interesting it would be to know more of the early 
 ancestor's history, their traits of character, early life, etc., 
 even if only in America. They probably lived through 
 the Revolution on Long Island (if this was their tradi- 
 tionary home), which was controlled by the British 
 government. Even had they a desire to do otherwise, 
 it was policy for them to be loyal subjects. To 
 live during those times anywhere in the colonies was 
 enough, but especially being near the coast made it even 
 tumultuous. The reason these families emigrated to New 
 England may have been to be relieved from the continual 
 wars that the Netherlands were having. Their history 
 shows that in the early centuries they were continually 
 fighting Spain, France, and England, who, being strong 
 enough to do so, seized their possessions. 
 
 The indexes of the records of neither of the following 
 offices mention the "Van Hoosear'' name: 
 
 County Clerk's office, at Riverhead, Suffolk Co., N. Y. 
 
 County Clerk's, or Surrogate's offices, at Jamaica, 
 Queens Co., N. Y. 
 
 County Clerk's, Surrogate's offices, of Kings Co., N. Y. 
 
 It is not known that any of the following names have 
 any relation to this family. 
 
 The extended research by the author has developed 
 transactions by several whose names resemble our Wilton 
 ancestor. In the early part of the 18th century, "Reien- 
 ior Van Hoesen," of N. Y., sole owner of a good sloop or 
 vessel, "the Greenwich," 15 tons, for 33 pounds, sells Jacob 
 Cowenhoven, "in the outward of the City of N. Y.," and 
 "assigns all the Hull of the good sloop or vessel," "with 
 the Mast, 'Beem,' Bow sprit, sail Rigging, Anchor Cable," 
 etc. "the said Roignior Van Hoosen," warrants and de- 
 fends the sloop "for the full term of one year and a Day," 
 &c. ("fire, enemies. Restraint of Princes, Perils and Dan- 
 gers of the seas only excepted)." Signed, "Ryneir Van 
 Hoesen." On May 6, 1732, the witness declares he saw 
 "Ryneir Van Hoese" seal, sign, etc. above bill of sale. 
 [Recorder's office, N. Y. city, Lib. 30, pg. 278]. 
 
 The records of the Superior Court for Fairfield Co. 
 show Justus Bush, of Greenwich, vs. "Rinen Van Housen, 
 
10 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 of Greenwich, defendant, in an action of debt upon book 
 as per writ, dated Jan. 25, 1738-9." An execution is 
 granted on a judgment of not sufficient declaration to pay 
 defendent's costs, 2£s., 5 s., April 22, 1738. [Vol. 1735-41, 
 pg. 250]. Jacob Cadwell vs. Rhinor Van Hose, of Fair- 
 field, book acct. Defendent beaten — ordered to pay 2£., 
 4s., 6d., April 9, 1741. 
 
 Jarvis Rhods, of Norwalk, vs. "Reneir Vanhose,'' of 
 Fairfield, book acct. again Rineir proves he "oweth noth- 
 ing" and recovers cost, 1£, Is. Plaintiff appeals. Jan. 5, 
 1740-1, Justus Bush again sues "Rineir Van hosen" of 
 "Fairfield" on bond, and writ of Jan. 22, 1744-5, for 108£. 
 8s. Justus recovers 80i;. [Vol. 1735-41, pg. 262]. He sues 
 him again in Nov. 22, 1745, for 160£, and recovers 82i). 
 [Pg. t75]. 
 
 "Renear Van hoose" set his hand to a paper to be rep- 
 resented in the Provincial Convention to be held in N. Y., 
 May 22, 1775. Signed at Brookhaven, L. I., May 17, 1775. 
 The province of N, Y. contained many warm advocates of 
 freedom, but its capital had so long been the headquarters 
 of the British army in America, that many of the principal 
 inhabitants had contracted intimate relations with British 
 officers and had become devoted to the royal cause. They 
 declined to choose delegates to the Continental Congress, 
 but instead elected a Provincial Congress* for which their 
 delegates were chosen. George Washington was soon 
 afterward appointed General of the continental army. 
 
 Of the 2nd Co., of Brookhaven, L. I. [Pg. 45, vol. 1, N, 
 Y. Historical Provincial Papers], "Renear or Rynier Van- 
 hoose or hoosen" is next found "confined in New York 
 State goal [jail] for being a good Pilot since Feb. 14th, 
 1776. Congress met, pursuant to an adjournment, March 
 1, 1776. The Town Mayor informs Congress that Rynier 
 Van Hoosen was taken into custody on March 1st, 1776." 
 It was order ed that he be reported to General Lee** [Vol. 
 
 *Upon the news of Lexington, circulars were sent to the committees to 
 elect delegates to this convention, which was to meet May 22nd, 1875. It 
 adjourned from July 8th to the 26th, then assembled Sept. 2nd, where it 
 again adjourned to Oct. 2nd, assembled Oct. 4th, adjourned to Nov, 4th. The 
 2nd and 3rd congress met also in N. Y., but the 4th was held at White Plains, 
 and while there (July 10, 1776), the name was changed to "Convention of the 
 Representatives of the State of New York." The History of Brookhaven 
 gives no clue or information of the name "Vanhoosear." 
 
 **General Lee was taken prisoner shortly after this date and, as sup- 
 posed, most willingly, as he was found lodging with a tory some 3 or 4 miles 
 away from his troops. 
 
FIRST GENERATION. 11 
 
 V, American Archives]. April 20th, he petitioned Con- 
 gress for a release from the "New York Jail" and said he 
 had "a wife and six small children" [N. Y. Provincial 
 Papers, vol. 1, pg. 285], April 26, 1770, "Rynear Van 
 Hoese" again petitioned and still asserted as above, and 
 "would be willing to do anything to maintain the Glor- 
 ious Cause of America" [pg. 293]. May 6, 1776, he com- 
 plains of confinement and styles himself in his petition, 
 "Pilot Ryner Vanhousen." May 14, 1776, in his second 
 petition, he says, "he has a large family and none to assist 
 him but poor wife, and has been nearly three months in 
 Goal at the New Citty Hall." He is mentioned as an "offi- 
 cer and one who with many others threatened the Goaler" 
 [pg. 299]. On September 13th, he "petitions for parole." 
 says he is in White Plains Goal, having been confined 
 there and in New York for six months. Two days after- 
 ward the British enter New York city, and on October 28th 
 followed Gen. Washington to White Plains, where a bat- 
 tle was fought. The prisoner was removed to Albany. He 
 was entered in the Navy Books and was "seventeen months 
 passing examination as King's Pilot in the King's fleet," 
 "being confined in jail for nearly eight months, continu- 
 ally praying and begging for a trial, or to be released," he 
 then gets a hearing. Report concerning "Ryner Van Hoe- 
 sen" reads, "Whereas, Ryner Van Hoesen hath been con- 
 fined in Goal in the state from the llth of February, [1776] 
 last because of his being a good Pilot who might, by fall- 
 ing into the hands of the enemy, afford aid to their de- 
 signs, and it hath been since determined by the convention 
 that the said Ryner Van Hoesen ought not to be trusted at 
 large, but should be confined within the limits of the City 
 of Albany ; and whereas, it is highly unjust that any man 
 should be deprived of the means of laboring for the sup- 
 port of himself and family when no crime hath by him 
 been committed, resolved that the said Ryner Van Hoesen 
 shall receive the sum of 7 shillings per day from the day 
 of his confinement to the time of his arrival at Albany, 
 and the sum of 8 shillings per day from, and after, his said 
 arrival until he shall be discharged by this Convention or 
 until some further Legislation of this State." [Calender of 
 N. Y. Historical MSS. Rev. Papers, vol. I, pg. 498]. July 
 18, 1776 Ryner Van Housen was confined in Albany. [Sa- 
 bine vol. II, pg. 370.] 
 
12 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 SECOND GENERATION. 
 
 3.-RINEAII, son of the above Van Hoosear was possibly 
 born in Holland about 1756-7 as he was about 19 years of 
 age at the time of his enlistment, 1776. Those who knew 
 him stated at his death that he was about 62 or 3 years old. 
 The first trace we have of him was when he came to Nor- 
 walk, Ct. (now Westport) while a lad of 16 to 18 years of 
 age. The story of his arrival here in Conn, as related to the 
 author by Mrs. Joseph Rockwell, who knew him well was 
 told to her by him as follows: "The British were in pos- 
 session of L. I. and as they were taking all who would be of 
 any service to them, he feared he would be called into ser- 
 vice. He said, ' I concluded to leave home and walked 
 some distance when I secreted myself in some bushes or 
 small wood, being fed for several days by a woman sym- 
 pathizer. 1 soon got aboard a boat and went to N. Y. city, 
 and from there walked to Westport, sleeping in barns as 
 night overtook me.' "On his early arrival he stayed one 
 night at the house of 'Old Capt. Burrell'* which was sit- 
 uated on the 1st cor. N. East of the new cemetery, N. West 
 of Westport village." She thought he was about 17 or 18 
 years of age. He told several that the reason of his leav- 
 ing his home on L. I. was that he had become alarmed at 
 the proximity of war, and thought it best to seek a more 
 inland location. From this fact (his running away), by 
 severa he was called a refugee. It is said he first hired 
 as a farmer to Mr. Chapman, who lived north of the Pop- 
 ple Plain Cemetery and brook, where can now be seen the 
 foundation, chimney, and some of his favorite lilacs. It 
 was said he continued to work there for a considerable 
 length of time, which he may have done after his return 
 from the army. He enlisted in the latter part of 1776, rep- 
 resenting his residence to be Weston, Ct, Soon after 
 his marriege, he went to N. Y. state, where he lived for 
 years. In his application for a pension, Apr. 4, 181S, he 
 states that "he enlisted" from Weston "in the fall of 
 
 *He was father of William and grandfather of William, both of whom 
 died there. 
 
SECOND GENERATION. 13 
 
 1776." [He probably entered service Nov. 21, 1776]. ''In 
 the New York line on the Continental Establishment." 
 "That he served as Corporal part of the time, and as Ser- 
 geant for three years, of which part of the time, he served 
 in Capt. Nathaniel Horton's Co., in Col. Henry B. Livings- 
 ton's Reg. [U. S. Pension Reeds.] " Rinier Van Hoesen" 
 was a private in Capt. Bries's Company, Col, Van Renssel- 
 aer's Reg. [Col. Kilian Van Rensselaer commanded the 
 fourth Reg., Albany Co. Militia, (2nd Rensselaerwyck Bat- 
 talion) Capt. Anthony Bries or Brease was in this Reg.] 
 The appointments made Oct. 20, 1775, in the 3rd, 4th, 5th 
 and 6th Albany County Regiments were considered as ir- 
 regular, and at the request of the County Committee a new 
 arrangement was made Feb. 20, 1776, and commissions issu- 
 ed accordingly. Under the new arrangement. Lieutenant 
 Anthony Brease was appointed captain, in place of Cole, 
 resigned. [Archives of the state of N. Y., The Revolution, 
 vol. I, pg 499]. "His pension was allowed for three years 
 actual service as a sergeant in the New York troops. Rev- 
 olutionary war." [Bureau of pensions. Wash., D. C, H. 
 Ciay Evans, Com'r., IS'.^S.] There had been a call for 
 75,000 men for three years, or to end of the war. To all 
 who fulfilled this agreement was offered (besides wages 
 and rations) a bounty of $20. and 100 acres of land. The 
 officers were to receive 200 to 500 acres. On the last day 
 of Nov. 1776, many of Washington's troops time of service 
 expired, and not one could be induced to re-enlist. This 
 was the darkest day in the history of the Revolution, only a 
 little over four months after the signing of the Declaration 
 of Independence. In about three weeks after he enlisted, 
 Congress recommended a day of fasting and humiliation. 
 to be used in imploring God to show favor in this time of 
 affliction, "Rynier," "Munchert," and " Harmen Van 
 Hoosen" are mentioned as enlisted men serving under the 
 above commanders, [pg. 106 " New York in the Revolu- 
 tion," 2nd edition], Rynear also appears in the Levees of 
 enlisted men [pg, 92 same vol.] He was appointed Cor- 
 poral May 24, 1777, and appears to Jan. 1778 as such. He 
 probably held that position until Mar. 1, 1779, when he 
 was promoted to Sergeant. [Pension Records Wash., D. 
 C] He was in the Fourth Reg. "The Line" as "Rinier" 
 also "Rynier" [N. Y. in Rev.] Albany Co. Militia, Col, 
 Kilian Van Rensselaer — enlisted man — "Rynier Van Hoe- 
 sen" [pg. 106]- Rynier Van Hoesen — private, Van Reus- 
 
14 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 selaer's Reg. in Co. of Bries— found in- Roster of State 
 Troops [pg. 499] Col. Kilian Van Rensselaer— the 6th Co. 
 newly organized in Feb. 1776, Capt. Jacobus Cole, 1st 
 Lieut. Anthony Bries [pg. 264]. In the Comptrollers offi- 
 ce, Albany, are original MSS. and Rev. papers. The Re- 
 ceipt Roll of Col. K. Van Rensselaers Reg. Albany Co. 
 shows £2, 5s. lid. due Rynier Van Hoosear for services, 
 was transferred to Bill Smith, and by him signed over to 
 John Folsom. The date is absent. The act relating to these 
 dues was passed Apr. 27, 1784. [Vol. V, pg. 179.] Due for 
 services in Henry D. Livingston's Reg. Dec. 27, 1791 sign- 
 ed by "Rinear Vanhoosear" £5, 5s., Id., rec'd. by Jelles A. 
 Fonda Apr, 11, 1792. ''Rynier Van Hoesen" "of Ballston" 
 Sa., Co. gives Jelles A. Fonda, of Schenectady, power of 
 att'y- to demand of Gerard Banker, Treas., of N. Y. 
 state, all pay, subsistance and clothing money. [Vol. I, 
 pg. 105]. "R. Van Hosse" Sergt. amt. of depreciations 
 charged by N. Y. state as having paid the 4th line Reg. 
 Discharged Nov. 21, 1779, amt. £18, 2s., 8d., [Vol. XIV, 
 pg. 10.] ano her deduction £5, 6s., Id., [Vol. XIV, folio 8, 
 pg. 10, 13.] Jelles A. Fonda gives receipt to Treas. for £26, 
 Is., 2d., which includes Rinear Van Hoose and others, Apr. 
 10th, 1792. Certificate for military service of above. [V^ol. 
 IV, pg. 86.] 
 
 He appears on the muster roll of "Capt. Samuel Sack- 
 et's company, 4th Reg. N. Y. Battallions."* His appoint- 
 ment to corporal was about a month after the burning of 
 Danbury. At the time of his promotion to Sergeant, he 
 was on the muster rolls dated at Pompton, [Passaic Co., 
 N. J.] and his appearance on the muster rolls of Mar, and 
 April, 1777. appear to be dated May 6, 1779, at "Stone Ar- 
 abia."** This was the year Putnam's celebrated feat was 
 performed. The records speak of his discharge but failed 
 to disclose where or when, but it was probably about Nov. 
 30, 1779, as this would be the termination of his three 
 years, and in N. J,, as he often told of his trouble in get- 
 ting home from there, he walking all the way. In 1779 
 Washington's headquarters were at Middlebrook, N. J. 
 AVhile in the army, like the rest, he suffered severely, and 
 never recovered from the hardships be endured. He said 
 
 *The Van Hoesen record states he entered the Co. May 24, 1777, for 3 
 years. Made Sergeant May i, 1778, and discharged Nov. 21, 1779. 
 **Probably Montgomery Co., N. Y. 
 
SECOND GENERATION. 15 
 
 the best dinner he ever had consisted of his allotment of a 
 piece of steer's hide about the size of his hand, from 
 which, after he had removed the hair, he made a soup. 
 About two years after his probable discharge (latter part 
 of 1779, and about eight months before the war ended) he 
 married. "Ryner Vanhoosen" married at Norfield, [Wes- 
 ton, Ct.] by Rev. Samuel Sherwood, "Mercy or Marcy" 
 Taylor, [daughter of Jonathan Senr. and Lois (Coley) Tay- 
 lor^ of Poplar Plain, Westport, Ct.,] Jan. 31, 1783. [Wes- 
 ton Parish Reed., pg. 131.] "Rhyoneer Vanhooser" and 
 wife renewed their covenant.* 
 
 July 28, 1782, at Norfield (Weston Ct.) "and the same 
 day baptized their son, David. [Weston P. Reed., pg. 14] 
 About three and half years later their next child was born 
 at Ballston, Sa. Co., ]N. Y., where they resided. His wife 
 used to tell of the many good times he had with his com- 
 panions and brothers in Masonry while there; and Alfred 
 Taylor, his wife's cousin, related to the author his appear- 
 ance as he drove into Poplar Plains from Ballston, with 
 a beautiful pair of horses hitched to a wagon, something 
 he had never seen before. 
 
 "On May 16, 1794, a number of Masons met in the 
 town of Ballston" to whom, the same year, a charter was 
 granted. This was called Franklyn Lodge, No. 37, "For 
 a long time the meetings were held at the residence of one 
 of the members, on the south-west corner opposite the 
 present church at Ballston Center, and after the death of 
 this brother, they were held at the residences of the dif- 
 ferent members until 1834, when the warrant was forfeit- 
 ed and declared to be not revisable." Mar. 22, 1805, an- 
 other Lodge was chartered at Milton Hill, "with the title 
 
 *A person of good moral character might receive, or renew the covenant 
 of baptism, confessing the same creed as members of churches in full com- 
 munion, and affirming intention of becoming truly pious in heart, and in 
 life, and would have the privilege of presenting himself and children for bap- 
 tism, also grandchildren, apprentices, even slaves, by giving pledge for their 
 religious education. Those owning covenant were considered church mem- 
 bers, except not permitted to come to the communion table, and were pun- 
 ished the same as whole covenanters. The baptism was usually soon after 
 the birth of the child, especially with the children of ministers, deacons and 
 other prominent men, generally before they were a week old. Young persons 
 seldom owned covenant until they had become parents and had their chil- 
 dren baptized. Previous to 1650 great watchfulness was exercised to admit 
 only such as gave visible signs and evidence. [Hist, of Fid. Co., pg 752]. 
 The owning and renewing, together with the "Halfway covenant" was 
 abandoned in New England just before 1800. 
 
16 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 of Friendship Lodge, No. 118." In 1821, this was removed 
 to Ballston Spa., but in 1835 this charter was surrendered. 
 On June 3rd, 1842 the Grand Lodge granted the present 
 Franklyn Lodge, No. 90, its charter and reported in favor 
 of returning to this Lodge the property of the late Frank- 
 lyn Lodge, No. 37. From these old records we find that 
 "Rinear Vanhoosear" was Tiler of this Lodge from Jan. 
 1795, (apparently the fiirst one) continuously to Feb. 4th, 
 1800. The fees for this door guard-duty, and for the loads 
 of wood he furnished (probably as fuel for the Lodge 
 meetings) were mentioned, and the accounts kept in 
 pounds, shillings and pence. Feb., 1800, his duty stopped 
 and also mention of him, which was probably when he 
 returned to Conn. 
 
 " 'If in thy bosom dwells the sign, 
 
 Of charity and love divine', 
 
 Give to Him thought or 'dutious tear,' 
 
 Thy friend and brother has filled his sphere." 
 
 While at Ballston, the}^ lost their first born. They 
 then removed to Conn., and settled for a short time at 
 Poplar Plain, where now (1903) resides Mr. Pidgeon. From 
 there he removed to "Dumplin Hill," Wilton, about 50 or 
 6C rods north of the present residence of Charles Sterling, 
 where he died. His wife Mercy, of Norwalk, signs a deed 
 of land which came to her from her mother, Lois Taylor, 
 deed, at Poplar Plain, ("Crow Swamp") Apr. 15, 1815. 
 [Vol. 22, pg. 415, Norwalk Land Records.] "Rinear Van- 
 hoosear" and wife Mercy, of Wilton sell their right in 
 land at Poplar Plain, that was set out to said Mercy in the 
 distribution of her father, Jonathan Taylor's est.. May 
 25th, 1818. From this deed is reproduced Rinear's auto- 
 graph. It is recorded in vol. 23, pg. 85, Norwalk Land 
 Records. After his return from Ballston one of his 
 branches of industry was shearing sheep in which he was 
 an expert. 
 
 The act of Congress, Mar. 18th, 1818, gave to all hon- 
 orably discharged soldiers of the Rev. a pension. He 
 made application and was placed on the pension roll June 
 10th, 1819. He was to receive back pay from Apr. 4, 1818. 
 His annual allowance was to be $96. He probably never 
 lived to receive the money. The amount paid was $99.73. 
 [Pension roll, pg. 514, Senate Doc. U. S.] The cause of his 
 death was a stroke of lightning. A heavy thunder storm 
 had nearly passed over, when as he opened the door, a 
 
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SECOND GENERATION. 17 
 
 flash came which killed him in the doorway; he fell back- 
 ward on the bare floor dropping his pewter bason filled 
 with corn, which he had in his hand intending to feed his 
 chickens. His wife had gone down the cellar but hearing 
 something heavy fall on the floor and the scattering of 
 the corn hastened to the scene, to find her husband dead 
 before her. Some have supposed that a scythe hanging 
 near the door attracted the lightning to the place. [The 
 scythe appears in his inventory.] Mrs. John Belden (then 
 a young lady) while on a visit to Westport described to 
 the author the terrible electric storm, and as she was a 
 near neighbor to the dec'd., remembered fully the circum- 
 stances and time as April IGth, 1819. A descendant gives 
 the date as the 17th. The night after his death Alfred 
 Raymond a son of Piatt Raymond, of Hurlbutt street, Wil- 
 ton, and William Sturges sat up with the remains, as was 
 the general custom at that time, and until very recently. 
 On this night there occurred a remarkable incident. 
 About mid-night, when all had become quiet, a scratching 
 was heard in the chimney, when down came a cat [the 
 house was a rude one story and attic, the roof being low, 
 wa,s easily secured by trees] rushed out of the fireplace, 
 and flew upon the sheet that was placed over the corpse. 
 The sudden appearance of the cat, entering where it did, 
 and its behavior while there, scared the young men terri- 
 bly, and who with difficulty drove it out of doors, leaving 
 them with open ears and eyes. They had no trouble in 
 keeping awake the rest of the night. 
 
 His funeral sermon was preached by the Rev. Sylvan- 
 us Haight who was then pastor of the Congregational 
 Church, at Wilton Ct. He was buried in the Poplar Plain 
 cemetery, but just where, there is some dispute. Alfred 
 Taylor said his remains lay near the center of the yard 
 just north of the Taylor's; but Wm. Knapp, also an aged 
 resident, when a small boy, remembered passing the yard 
 soon after the grave was dug and was told by his father, 
 Chas. that the deep hole (he stood on the fence looking in- 
 to) was a grave for Mr. Van Hoosear, who was killed by 
 lightning. He was returning from Westport with his fa- 
 ther who had a load of lumber. This statement would in- 
 dicate that the grave was near the road fence, and as he 
 stated, near its eastern center. 
 
 At a Probate Court held in Norwalk, Sept. 17, 1819, six 
 
Ig VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 months were allowed the creditors of the est. of "Renear 
 Van Hoosear," late of Wilton, to present their claims, per 
 order of Wm. G. Betts, clerk, Nancy [Mercy] Van Hoos- 
 ear, Administratrix. [Norwalk Gazette, Oct. 6th, 1819.] 
 See application for letter on est. of ''Ryner Van Hooser," 
 Norwalk Pro Rec. Vol. Ill, pg. 225. 
 
 The following inventory was returned to the court 
 Sept. 22nd, 1819. 1 halt, 12cts, mixt. surtout, $1.50, 1 vest, 
 25cts, 1 pr. woolen trousers, lOcts, 2 pr, linen do. lOcts, 2 
 old shirts, 50cts, 3 pr. woolen stockings, 75cts, 1 pr. old 
 shoes, 12cts, 1 small leather apron, 12cts, 1 small Bible. 
 25cts, 1 bed, 2 pillows and bolster, $6.00, 1 bedstead, cord 
 and under bed, $1.50, 1 bed and pillow, $7.00, 1 bedstead, 
 cord and underbed, $1.00, 44^ pr. linen sheets, $9.00, 4 pr. 
 pillow cases, $1.20, 2 table cloths, $2, 4 napkins, $1.00, 
 1 old chest with drawers, 75 cts, 1 small table, 75 cts, 
 candlestick, 25 cts, 1 small looking glass, 12 cts, 3 kitch- 
 en chairs, 50cts, 2 wood bottom do., 20cts, 1 pair small fire 
 dogs, 25cts, 1 shovel and tongs, $1.00, 1 trammel, 75cts, 1 
 cooking pot, 25cts, 1 dish kettle, 12cts, iron tea kettle, 5o 
 cts, 1 spider, 25cts, 2 tin pails, 40cts, 1 tea pot, sugar bowl, 
 milk cups and cups and saucers, 50cts, 5 small silver tea 
 spoons, $2.00, 3 plates and pepper box, 12cts, 5 old knives 
 and forks, 40cts, 3 tea spoons, lOcts, tin measure lOcts, 
 1 small jug, lOcts, 1 sad iron, 12cts, 1 old candlestick, and 
 1 platter. Sets, 1 stone pot and earthen do., 25cts, 1 bread 
 tray, lOcts, pr, low cards, lOcts, 2 old wheels and reel, 
 $1,00, 1 sieve, 12cts, 1 corn basket, 20cts, 5 blankets and 
 bed quilts, $5.00, 2 old bags, 25cts, hay fork, 12cts, 1 old 
 axe, 25cts, butter tub, lOcts, 2 sheep, $2.00, 1 small swine. 
 $5,00, meat cask 50cts, small tub, 12cts, Additional inven- 
 tory, 1 swine, $4.00, 1 mowing scythe, and snath, ^2.00, 1 pr. 
 sheep shears, 62cts. Amt, $04.18 Seth Taylor and Elip- 
 halet Taylor, appraisers under oath. Marcy Vanhoosear, 
 administratrix. [Pro. records Norwalk.] 
 
 The name of "Rinear*' and its variations appears to 
 be very peculiar, and its mention seems not often repeated. 
 An early record is found in Doc. Hist, of N. Y., pg. 57, 
 when "Reinier'' is used as a given name in a list of sold- 
 iers who embarked for New Netherland (N. Y. city) Apr. 
 1660. Rliinear Wortendyck (whose ancestors were from 
 Holland) born 1800. [Mail and Express, Sept. 2, 1899.] 
 The first generation has also many different spellings of 
 this name. The weight of this ancestor is estimated to be 
 
SECOND GENERATION. 19 
 
 about 140 lbs., had a spare face and something of the 
 build of his son David, who was a well-developed, rosy- 
 cheeked man, and when young was remarkably fine look- 
 ing. 
 
 His wife, Mercy, lived at the "Dumplin Hill" home a 
 few years after her husband's death and Dec. 4th, 1834, 
 she bought, for $240, from Stephen Morgan, the Van 
 Hoosear homestead, which consisted then of only two 
 acres with buildings. On Oct. 23d, 1828, she sold it to 
 "Pamelia Vanhooser" and her husband, David, for the 
 same amount, and the same day took a mortgage and 
 agreed to board with them at fifty cents per week, 
 when well, and more if needing special care. When $200 
 of this was gone, her Taylor relatives concluded they 
 would care for her, when she went to Poplar Plain and 
 lived until her death, with her sister Polly, in a house 
 east of highway north of, and near the 1st left-hand road 
 south of Poplar Plain Church. '* 
 
 After her little fund had been spent, she is said to have 
 been very ill-treated by those who were to look after her, 
 and became very fretful. She was of small stature, 
 and would never weigh over 125 lbs. 
 
 Her granddaughter, Louisa, somewhat resembled her, 
 it is said, in looks. She had a small face, prominent 
 cheek bones, dark complexion, and other mutual charac- 
 teristics. 
 
 Among the recollections of her grandson, David N., 
 was his visits to see her before she had left for her Nod 
 home. The old blown down barn where a few sheep found 
 room to run under, and the taking away from the cat a 
 robin it had caught, were incidents he never forgot. His 
 last trip there he made with his elder sister, and when 
 he assured his parents he would have no trouble about mak- 
 ing the journey (from their home near Wilton Congrega- 
 tional Church), he was allowed to go, but when he arrived 
 at the foot of ''Pitts Hill," he turned to the left, and after 
 a distance of a half-mile, he discovered his mistake and 
 returned to go up the hill. Another remembrance he re- 
 lated of her while she resided at Nod was that, one night, 
 hearing a hen squall, she repaired to the hennery, and, in 
 the dark, she put her hand in the nest, where the noise 
 came from, and finding something there, she immediately 
 grasped it, and bringing it to the light, found it was not a 
 
20 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 cat, as she had supposed, but a skunk. She was remon- 
 strated with to lay it down, but she so feared it would 
 escape, hesitated ; she was nervously excited, and suffer- 
 ing from shaking palsy, gave the animal a good stirring 
 up, which did not add pleasantness to the situation, or 
 agreeable and delicate perfume to the surroundings, so 
 she placed it on the ground, and her son killed it. 
 
 She died near day break and was buried the same day 
 by Isaac Hurlbutt, Wilton's first undertaker, 1833 or '4 
 (probably the latter). Her children were not notified of 
 her death. She is probably buried with her husband. 
 
 THIRD GENERATION. 
 
 Children oi Rinear and Mercy (Taylor) Van Hoosear. 2. 
 
 3. I. DAYIB YAN MOOSEAE, baptised at Norfield, 
 [Weston, Ct.,] July 2Sth, 1782 [Norfield Church record, pg. 
 55]. He was probably but a few daysold when his parents 
 removed to Ballston, and, when 5 to 10 years of age, he was 
 killed by the falling of a girdled tree* that fell on him 
 while he was a short distance from the house calling his 
 father to dinner, and he was probably buried there. 
 
 4. II. MEZEKIAH YANMODSEAK, born at Ball- 8 
 ston, N. Y., Jan. 8, 178G. He was brought up at his uncle 
 Eliphalet Taylor's in Wilton, and married, while yet a 
 minor, (Nov. 3d, 1805,) PSiebe, (dau. of Samuel, and grand- 
 dau. of Gardner Olmsted, all of Chestnut Hill, Norwalk, 
 Ct.) b. Aug. 17th, 1788, and died, April 2d, 1860. Was 
 buried at Poplar Plain cemetery. 
 
 His daughter states he followed the sea for several 
 years, sailing as Captain several times to the West Indies, 
 his wife making one or more trips with him, and while 
 aboard she strung a line and hung out some white clothes 
 on ii to dry, when her husband saw them, had them re- 
 moved, for it was a sign of distress. He was a wild youth. 
 
 Much has been said about his having a title to prop- 
 erty at the lower end of Water street, Norwalk. Soon 
 after his marriage, being yet under age, he received a 
 
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 they have rotted and blown over. 
 
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THIRD GENERATION. 21 
 
 deed resembling a mortgage, but no conditions were men- 
 tioned, from Samuel Burrai, who bargains, sells, &c., 
 to "Hezekiah Vanhosear," for $115, land, with a small 
 dwelling house on it, about 30 rods, west of the harbor, near 
 the ship yard south of heirs of Obadiah Liscat, deceased, 
 bounded east by the channel, north by the heirs of Josiah 
 Thatcher, deceased, west by highway, being 3^ rods. May 
 8th, 1806, Samuel Burrai, for $100, quitclaims the same 
 property back, July 2nd, 1807. 
 
 Josiah Thatcher, of Norwalk, for $18.56, deeds Heze- 
 kiah Vanhoosear "two rods in front, running back to the 
 channel," being part of an undivided right of the heirs of 
 Josiah Thatcher, deceased, bounded north by said Van- 
 hosear, west by highway, south by the ship yard or com- 
 mon land. Aug. 7th, 1809, Thos. T. Thatcher sells to him 
 his undivided right in the above land for $21.67. Aug. 
 12th, 1809, Partridge Thatcher, of Poundridge, N. Y., for 
 $10.09, to said "Vanhosear," 19 ft. in front and running 
 a parallel line to the channel it is contained in undivided 
 land belonging to heirs of Josiah Thatcher, deceased, is 9 
 rods in front, next the road running to the channel, 
 bounded north by Vanhosear's land, south and west by 
 highway or common land, east by the channel or harbour. 
 Sept. 25th, 1809, Samuel Gibbs, for $20.18, deeds Hezekiah 
 Vanhoosear undivided land running back in parallel lines 
 to the channel formerly owned by heirs of Josiah That- 
 cher, deceased, being 9 rods in front, running to the chan- 
 nel, bounded the same as above. Sept. 8th, 1810, Joseph 
 Street to H. Vanhoosear, land, with small buildings there- 
 upon, 3 rods, more or less, on the west bank of Norwalk 
 harbour, bounded north on land formerly owned by Obe- 
 diah Liscat, east by channel, south by ship yard, and west 
 by road, Dec. 3, 1811, he gave in a certificate that he con- 
 tributed to the Methodists, which excused him from pay- 
 ing to the Congregational Society, of Norwalk, his Church 
 "rates.'" [Congregational Society records, of Norwalk, 
 Feb. 12, 1812. 
 
 He sells Isaac Jennings land west of the channel, Feb. 
 1, 18 L5, and for $110, to Isaac Jelliff land with buildings 
 at Saugatuck, and at Old Hills, Feb. 1th, 1815. For $700 
 sell Hezekiah Whitiock land bounded east by the chan- 
 nel, north by Nappy Nipton, &c., Sept., 1815. This prop- 
 erty was attached, or at least about one-half acre of it 
 
22 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Feb. 37th, 1817, deed recorded, Aaron Sanford, of Read- 
 ing, Conn., sells him, ''of Norwalk," 20 acres in Bethel, 
 Sul. Co., N. Y , Lot No. 39 in Great Lot No. 1, Harding- 
 bergh Patent in subdivision No. 4. [Reg'r office of Sulli- 
 van Co., IN. Y., Vol. 2, pg. 558.] This was located in 
 the north east corner of the town about seven miles 
 northeast of the now Bethel village. Stevensville P. O. 
 is in Lot 39, about 3 miles northwest from Bushville. 
 About 1818 he started with his oldest son (it is said, 
 then only a small boy) for his new home. They 
 probably went over the same route that his brother David 
 did. [see No. 7.] Their emigration was apparently very 
 near each other, Hezekiah passing on to Monticello, per- 
 haps then to "West Settlement," or now Maple Wood, and 
 thence to Lot 39, a distance of about 50 miles from Hudson 
 River. Here he built a log house and rudely prepared for 
 his family and not many months thereafter returned to 
 Norwalk for his wife and five children.* Two places are 
 given of David R.'s birth (in Oct., 1820), at Norwalk and 
 Bethel, which latter is probably more correct. 
 
 The town was set off from Lumberland, 1809. The first 
 white settler went there 1798. The Hurds, Jacksons, Hol- 
 listers, Heacocks, Careys, John Sherwood and Matthias 
 Fuller were from Conn. [Hist, of Sul. Co). 
 
 The N. E. Section was settled 1805 to 1808, and only 
 nine families were there as early as that, excepting two 
 or more from Conn. [Hist, of Sul. Co]. Stephen Northrop, 
 of Salisbury, Conn., went to Bethel, 1807, but the sur- 
 roundings were too wild for him, when he turned back, 
 and when on the other side of the Neversink River he met 
 his neighbor, Zalmon Hawley, with his young wife and 
 two small children ; they persuaded him go back with 
 them — a three days' journey brought them to a deserted 
 cabin which they at once occupied. [Hist, of Sul. Co], 
 
 In Lot No. 39 probably the rest of the children were 
 born, the last about ten years after. (Another report 
 gives account of his last off-spring's birth-place as Arca- 
 dia). This was a wild country to take his family to. The 
 land was wooded, and unbroken, and his first planting 
 was between the stumps and roots. They suffered from 
 the fear of wild animals. The children and stock were 
 
 *His first and Seventh child had black hair, but the rest had sandy. 
 
THIRD GENERATION. 2$ 
 
 kept near the habitation for fear of being seized and car- 
 ried away. While the husband was away "Aunt Phebe" 
 saw a fine, strong, year-old attacked at mid-day by 
 wolves, near the house, and dragged some distance, in 
 their starved condition, to secure their part of the prize. 
 She closed the door, and, looking through the window, 
 saw them kill it. She dare not go out to try and scare 
 them for fear she might be the next victim. She told of 
 hearing a noise, in the evening, on thecellar sticks, which 
 were set up against the outside cellar opening, and going 
 to the window, saw several pairs of eyes directed to her, 
 which looked like balls of fire. They had meat in the cel- 
 lar which it was supposed they came for. 
 
 The distance to mill was several miles away and even 
 an early start in the morning brought his slow ox-team 
 only home at night with the flour. It was a long, wooded 
 road, and on one occasion, near night, he was passing 
 through one of these secluded jungles, a panther* dropped 
 from a tree, hitting another in its fall, which caused the 
 oxen to jump sideways, and the animal landed squarely in 
 the road beside the cattle, but not on their backs ; it then 
 crawled off in the bushes. The driver said after that he 
 looked upward and onward the rest of the journey. 
 
 After his purchase in the town of Arcadia, Wayne 
 Co., he and family removed thither. 
 
 This was another long and tiresome journey, over one 
 hundred and fifty miles with a team drawing the family 
 and furniture over rough hilly roads. He settled about 
 two and one-half miles from Newark. Here he found a 
 country more cleared, but he was compelled to again build 
 a log house. 
 
 Eventually he built a frame one not far from this sec- 
 ond log house. He also removed a third time, and secured 
 some fine "peppermint land" and began the raising of 
 peppermint, from which to distill the oil, for which he 
 received about $4 per pound. It was planted in rows, cul- 
 tivated the first year, but would run out in three years. It 
 was cut when in bloom and allowed to wilt, then put into 
 a large boiler (in this his son fell in and was severely 
 
 *A short distance from Bethel village was situated "Painter Swamp," 
 which seemed to be the retreat of the animal from which it received its name. 
 The Hist, of Sul. Co. gives account of one, Nelson Croeker, encircling tha 
 swamp and found seven distinct trails leading into it. [Pg. 131]. 
 
24 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 scalded) and the oil extracted. July and August were 
 seasons of excitement there, for once started it was con- 
 tinued to the end of the season. His usual crop was from, 
 twent}' acres, and many acres for his neighbors, and em- 
 ployed a dozen or more men. After he had come to Wayne 
 Co., his son, Nathan O., began learning a trade at New- 
 ark, but contracted small-pox. The ninth day they 
 brought him on a bed to his home. The mother took him 
 in, and all of the children (David, Hezekiah, Jr. and 
 Susan) then home, had it. 
 
 Sept. 28th, 1840, his residence was Arcadia, N. Y., 
 where The Wayne Co. Mutual Ins. Co. gave him a policy. 
 According to papers he left it would appear that from the 
 same 5^ear, to 1854, he kept a grocery store at Havana, 
 formerly Tioga, but now Schyler Co., N. Y. 1849 his wife 
 removed to Conn,, where she resided with her brother, 
 Nathan, "Uncle Nate" Olmstead, at Chestnut Hill, Nor- 
 walk, until within a few years of her death. 
 
 Her return was with her daughter Susan by canal boat 
 to Albany, and thence by steamboat to New York and 
 Norwalk. The canal boat fare was one cent and a quarter 
 each, per mile, and board. This consumed a week's time. 
 The daughter told an incident of their journey. The Cap- 
 tain of the canal boat proposed they stop and pick huckle- 
 berries, to eat, which they did, and passing over a little 
 hill, came directly into an Indian camp or settlement. 
 When huckleberrying was over, they came to the boat. She 
 received a divorce from her husband in 1853, at Bridgeport, 
 Conn., at which time his residence was Arcadia, March 1st, 
 1851, he gave a chattel mortgage to satisfy a judgment of 
 $34.44 (probably in Wayne Co., N. Y.) on G, 87-100 acres of 
 "peppermint land"' with a cow and yearling, in which 
 appears his autograph, he then being over 65 years old. 
 
 Sept. 24th, 1852, William Cleveland, of Norwalk, 
 writes a letter to him, and expresses fear that he will be 
 turned out of door by the Danbury and Norwalk R. R. Co. 
 and seeks his assistance, to help him establish his claim, 
 October 29th, 1852, H. Van Hooser quitclaims the above 
 Cleveland— this property, April 15th, 1853, Moses Wilson, 
 attorney for said Cleveland, caused a deposition to be 
 taken of H. Vanhoosear, at Arcadia, N, Y., in which he 
 swears he bought of Josiah Thatcher two rods wide in 
 front of Partridge Thatcher, bounded north by land of 
 
THIRD GENERATION. 25 
 
 ^'Joshiah" Thatcher, south by heirs of Jonah Thatcher, 
 being 19 ft. front. That he also bought of Thos. T. That- 
 cher 2 rods, 5^ ft., bounded by above Partridge T., south 
 by Samuel Gibbs, west by highway, and was the owner 
 until he sold it to William Cleveland. Oct. 29th, 1852, 
 Vanhoosear appoints above Attorney Wilson his attorney 
 with power to act for him, and agrees to give him a two- 
 third interest for pay. May 7th, 1858, Hezekiah Vanho- 
 sear, of Norwalk, Conn., deeds the exact property he 
 bought of Joseph Street (Feb. 12th, 1812) to Jabez Gregory 
 and Wm. I. Street of the firm of Gregory & Street, on 
 conditions that he has given his note for $56 to them, sign- 
 ed A. Vanhosear. He returned to Norwalk before May 7, 
 1858, lived there a short time and was drowned near the 
 beacon at the entrance of Norwalk harbor. The circum- 
 stances of his death will probably never be known. He 
 lived in an old house on Comstock's, now called Keyser's, 
 island. He evidently had returned from Norwalk, as a 
 few groceries were found in his boat. His apparent 
 friends left him lying on the shore all night and not until 
 the next day were his relatives notified of his death. He 
 was buried at Poplar Plains cemetery. The above subject 
 used to counsel-at-law in petty cases, and his reasonings 
 were said to be very judicious. He weighed about 150 
 pounds. 
 
 5. III. "MAllIAM,"* born June 4th or 5th, 1791, at 
 Ballston, N. Y., 1st "married about 1805," Isaac Jelliff, son 
 of [James and Lydia (Blatchley**) Jelliff, of Norwalk 
 (Saugatack),] born Oct. 8, 1787. At the time of the mar- 
 riage of Mariah she was probably with her parents at 
 Poplar Plain, or had removed to "Dumplin Hill," Wilton. 
 His first purchase was from Samuel Pearsall, of Norwalk, 
 on the west side of Saugatuck River, 44 rods, for $55. Aug. 
 1st, 1807. They probably lived in Norwalk until Feb. ll^th, 
 1815. (then called in deed, "of Norwalk") when he sold 
 land at Saugatuck, and "Old Hill," the former with build- 
 ings, for $250, possibly where he lived. In June, 1815, the 
 records speaks of his not being in Norwalk. 
 
 It is said they first settled in "Fulton Settlement." 
 
 *The Van Hoesen record states she was baptized at Ballston, July 27, 
 1789. 
 
 **Daughter of Benj., of Norwalk. 
 
26 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Jan. 20th, 1816, he bought a small farm in Liberty, at 
 "Broadhead Pond," from there he removed to the Willis 
 Farm, now known as "Roswell Hodge Farm." 
 
 From there he moved to ^'Thunder Hill,"* in the town 
 of Neversink. 
 
 They built a log house in a wild country, a hemlock 
 forest. Years after the settlement, the author's father 
 measured one of the trees which had fallen on the ground 
 near this primitive home, and it measured 105 ft. long, 
 with top broken off. The early exhausting, laborious, 
 solitary, and hazardous circumstances at that day and 
 place in Sullivan Co. must have been seen, and expe- 
 rienced, to be appreciated. "Aunt Maria" was a woman 
 full of determination, as the following instance will show: 
 Her nearest neighbor, living a quarter of a mile distant, 
 was sick, and she was detailed to visit her. She was de- 
 tained until after dark, and while returning home, she 
 passed through the woods, when spat came something 
 from the tree top, falling heavily in the road a few feet 
 behind her ; knowing the probability of the animal, she 
 was scared to unconsciousness, but somewhat regaining, 
 she crawled on her hands and knees to her home, and, it 
 being muddy, she put in a rather divtj appearance, The 
 next morning they went to the spot, and saw where a 
 panther had struck in the road, but missing the game, it 
 went its way. 
 
 Mr. Jelliff made his will, Feb. 13, 1834. He died, Dec. 
 6, 1836, and was buried on his own farm on Thunder Hill. 
 
 After her husband's death, she married Aug. 17th, 
 1839, Henry** Misner, of Woodburne, N. Y., [son of Peter 
 and (Bush) Misner], born Dec. 31, 1784, She died at 
 
 *This place is mentioned as early as 1795. [Hist, of Sul. Co., N. Y.] ; 
 
 **Sometimes called Hankey as a nickname. 
 
 "Henry Misner, who was still living (1873) at Woodburne, states that after 
 suits of ejectment had been instituted but not determined, Hardenbergh, with 
 little respect to law, distrained property and forcibly dispossessed the occu- 
 pants " [Hist, of Sul. Co., pg. 233]. He also said "Gross in 1806 forcibly 
 set the family of Jas. Bush out of doors, and kicked Mrs. Bush as she went, 
 although but three days previously she had given birth to a child which she 
 then held in her arms. In the absence of Jacob Maraquat, his family was 
 served in the same way." Mrs. M. also had a young child, and was dragged 
 from the house by the hair of her head. She died in a few days afterwards. 
 Peter Misner and others stood their ground. 
 
THIRD GENERATION. 27 
 
 Fallsburgh, N. Y , Nov. 29th, 1871, aged 80y., 5m., 35ds. 
 [tombstone], and he, Jan. 20th, 1874, at same place. There 
 were no children by this union. He owned a saw-mill 
 which was situated on the Neversink River. 
 
 It is said he was quite an influential man, and he, 
 with others, projected, in 1830, a turnpike from ElJenville 
 to Woodbourne, which was built eight years after. 
 
 In this connection there appears a tragedy. In Quin- 
 lan's Hist, of Sul. Co., N. Y.; and also in the "Legends of 
 the Shawangunk," is given the general circumstances of 
 the Hardenbergh murder. Gerard "Gross" Hardenbergh 
 was son of Johannis and Nancy (Ryerson) Hardenbergh. 
 He lived at Stony Ridge, Ulster Co. Valley. The people 
 of this valley had bought their land under the Beekman 
 Patent, but "Gross" (who had been disowned by his 
 father for his vicious ways, etc.), laid claim to these pos- 
 sessions, including the beautiful Neversink River. The 
 settlers firmly believed the claim of "Gross" was a fraud, 
 and when he tried and did eject some of them by the most 
 brutal force, he became verj' odious to the whole settle- 
 ment. He frequently took the law in his own hands, and 
 personally put them out.* Of course he was bitterly op- 
 posed and soon became excited to frenzy and continuing 
 more violent, they concluded his death would be a public 
 blessing. A plan was adopted to remove him. His visits 
 to collect the rents are said to have been regular, and at a 
 secret meeting, a party of a half-dozen were chosen to 
 secrete themselves along the route he usually took, which 
 was, at the time, Avell wooded and narrow, following on 
 the bank of the Neversink River, above the now Prince's 
 Hotel, Woodbourne, and passing along the valley to Has- 
 brouck. The firing of a gun was a signal for all to return 
 immediately to their homes. He started about sunrise, 
 Nov. 23, 1808, to go up the river. As expected, he came, 
 the discharge of a gun was heard and all left for home. 
 Only one shot was made, but it proved fatal, the horse 
 was frightened but caught some distance from where his 
 rider received the deadly bullet, and found 'when the sun 
 was about an hour high. Of the party who had letired 
 to their homes, all but one (Henry Misner) had the load in 
 their guns they carried from their home. The secret was 
 kept until after his death, when his widow frequently told 
 the story to his friends. He wanted to tell the story him. 
 
28 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 self and intended to do so when he was certain death was 
 near, and once he was very sick and all thought he could 
 not live, except his wife, who said until I hear him tell 
 aloud that he was the one who removed the man of terror, 
 he will not die, which he did not, and recovered. In his 
 last sickness he waited too long and died, not knowing 
 the world would know the secret. The murdered man 
 was 75 yrs. of age and weighed 250 lbs. After his death 
 the trouble ended, and they found no difficulty to settle 
 with his heirs. The fear of Gross Hardenbergh was over, 
 but time proved he had left blood to repeat itself in ugli- 
 ness in a grandson, Cornelius W. Hardenbergh, for on the 
 same road, at Hasbrouck, about three miles above, Dec. 
 20, 1840, after much dispute about land, &c., he went to 
 the house* of Anthony Hasbrouck and brutally killed him 
 by stabbing, kicking and shooting him. Before he got to 
 the house he knelt down and prayed that all trouble might 
 be settled without murder. His father and himself had 
 become drunkards, although he had become temperate 
 and made a profession of religion. He was hung July 14, 
 1842. 
 
 The author suggested, while standing on the site of the 
 first murder, to erect a memorial slab, not in memory of his 
 goodness, but to mark the exact spot where the tragic 
 event happened, but was told Fallsburgh contains, now, 
 many very respectable residents, descendents of the mur- 
 dered man, and it would be hard to bring this "Harden- 
 bergh War" before the public again. 
 
 6. IV. RHODA, born at Ballston, N. Y., March [20] 
 13th, 1794, married, March 8th, 1814, Wm. Fitch [son of Wil- 
 liam and Mary (Guire) Fitch, formerly of Fairfield County] 
 born March 21st, 1790. He lived (and was possibly born) 
 on Chestnut Hill, Wilton, and (may have) removed from 
 there to "the west," about 8 miles east of Exeter Center, 
 N. Y., to which place, in 1840, he removed. She died 
 March 17th, 1859, 4 o'clock, a. m. On Oct. 2d, 1859, he 2d 
 married Mary H. Smith, born June 17th, 1815. He removed 
 to Shuyler's Lake, Otesego Co., in which county he died 
 May 25th, 18G7. His occupation was a farmer. 
 
 7. V. DAVID, born at Ballston, N. Y., Dec. 13th, [81] 
 179G. While there he had the small-pox but ever after 
 
 *It is a large stoue House which was standing 1900. 
 

 ■&.txy— 
 
THIRD GENERATION. 29 
 
 was afraid of it. When 8 years of age he contracted the 
 habit of taking snuff (a practice at that time very preva- 
 lent and popular), which he indulged in until his death. 
 After his parents' return from Ballston, a few years, he 
 was hired by Daniel Nash, Sr., until he married his daugh- 
 ter, at South Salem, N. Y, ("David Ben Hozier") [Van 
 Hoosear] Oct. 29th, 1816, married '^Sally Hanford," both of 
 Wilton [South Salem Church records]. She was of Nor- 
 walk, born August 20th, 1787, the widow of Elnathan 
 Hanford, who died Nov. 19th, 1809, aged 24, (son of Hez- 
 ekiah, Jr.).* She died at Grumman Hill, Wilton, Conn., 
 May 14th, 1817, in her 30th year, and was buried in Nor- 
 walk's first cemetery, where her misleading headstone is 
 inscribed, "Sarah wife of David V. Hoosen." The circum- 
 stance of her death (at their residence on Grumman Hill, 
 Wilton) was from catching cold from an open window^ 
 leaving a child but two weeks old. Dec. 13. same year, he 
 deeds land in Crow Swamp (near Poplar Plain), being the 
 late property of Lois Taylor, said Lois being his grand- 
 mother. 
 
 Mr. Van Hoosear worked for Dr. Joseph Chapman 
 (son of Phineas), and for a joke he sent him in a hurry to 
 a closet for his saddle and, when he opened it, be was 
 very much frightened and ran down stairs, exclaiming, 
 "what is in that closet?" It was an articulated skeleton 
 that hung there. He was second married by Rev. Mr. 
 Smith, at Wilton, Conn., March 23d, 1818, to Miss Parmela 
 Orumman [daughter of Smith and Sarah (Abbott) Grum- 
 man], of Grumman Hill, Wilton. Born July 13, 1802. 
 
 In the early Fall of the same year he emigrated, with 
 Luke Fitch (whom he hired), "to the west,'* and settled 
 on a wild, uncleared and solitary farm in Sullivan Co., N. 
 Y. He took a load of goods and tools with him, drawn by 
 a team of oxen and a borrowed cart, which latter he took 
 back "36 miles" to Newburgh, probably, (after having 
 reached his destination), and sent it to Norwalk by boat. 
 He sowed a piece of rye, stayed about 3 weeks, and started 
 on foot one morning for home, and at the end of the 3d 
 day, at night, was with his family on Grumman Hill. In 
 November (or soon after), 1818, he hired a man, with 
 horses, to take a load of furniture, and he (with his wife), 
 
 *b. July 24, 1753. He, s. of Hezekiah, b. 1722, d. 1812, ag. 90. He, 3. o£ 
 Saml., b. 1674, d. 1751. He, 3. of Rev. Thus., the first pastor in Norwalk. 
 
80 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 again started for his new home in the west. This was in 
 the town of Thompson, two and one-half miles east of 
 Monticello, which is the county seat of Sullivan Co., N. 
 Y., and about three-quarters of a mile north of the Cochec- 
 ton and Newburgh turnpike. Daniel Lee, of Ridgefield, 
 Conn., April 21st, 1806, owned Lot No. 44, in Great Lot No. 
 13, in the Hardenbergh Patent. This consisted of 214 
 acres of wild land, and even at this day only a few acres 
 are cultivated. At the above date Lee sold the south half, 
 107 acres, to Seth Banks and wife, Sarah, also of Ridge- 
 field, Conn. Nov. 2d, 1814, Lee sold the other half, 107 
 acres, to Daniel Nash, Sr., of Norwalk. This is the tract 
 occupied a few years later by the above Van Hoosear, and 
 owned by his father-in-law, who held it until his death. 
 His sons, on Sept. 11th, 1833, sold it. He evidently gave 
 his note for this property to Daniel Nash, Senior, for 
 among his effects was found the original paper, dated at 
 Norwalk, March 16, 1818, and which states that seven 
 years after date he promises to pay 5=400 with interest from 
 date "it being for value received." ''Sind Seald & Deliv- 
 erd in Presents of Danl Nash, Jur. and Rebecca Nash." 
 The deed describes the corners as having bounds of trees 
 "cornered" [squared to the corners of this lot] and also 
 facing the adjoining lots, as layed out in the patent and 
 marked on these hewn places the numbers of each lot 
 opposite. Lot No. 44 was situated on an intersecting, 
 even now unresidented and little traveled highway from 
 the above turnpike to Thompsonville, then known as 
 "Thompson's Mills," or, in 1804, this vicinity was called 
 Albion.* 
 
 It needed nerve and will power to start with a young 
 wife and hired man for the wild west and perform the task 
 safely. It took undoubtedly several days, probably at 
 
 *This name was derived from the name given to an ancient residence of 
 Wm. A. Thompson, from whom the town was named and incorporated in 
 1803. His residential home he named "Albion Hall," which is situated on au 
 eminence overlooking a branch of Neversink river and little settlement, and, 
 although dilapidated, now shows it to be a roomy, substantial, architectural 
 mansion, considering its location and time of its erection. VVm. A. Thompson 
 was born at Woodbury, Ct., 1762, s. of Hczekiah and Rebecka (dau. of Isaac 
 Judson), studied law under John Canfield, of Sharon, Ct., 1784 He was 
 licensed to practice and opened an office iti Norwalk, Ct., but soon removed 
 to Horseneck. In 1794 he bought land in Sullivan Co., now town of Thomp- 
 son, and in 1795 commenced improvements in the Great Lot No. i in the H. 
 Patent. By his three wives he had 16 children. He died in 1847. 
 
THIRD GENERATION. 31 
 
 least a week or ten days to make the journoy with a slow 
 ox team. He crossed the Hudson River at Newburgh, and 
 probably followed the Cochecton and Newburgh turnpike, 
 passing through Coldenham, Montgomery, Bullville, 
 crossing the Shewangunk Kill Stream to Bloomingburgh, 
 a historic town — "remembered by Washington Irving" 
 — early one of the "out west" borders of civilization, 
 and having constant trouble from hostile Indians. 
 Passing over the mountain four and one-half miles, and 
 over the Bashers-Kill River to Wortsborough, then called 
 "Mamakating Hollow," in the town of Mamakatin, also a 
 historic place, and first settled a century and a half ago 
 by Holland friends. Continuing a mile or so you come to 
 the highland "Barrens," described as a rocky, stony, 
 scrubby, huckleberry, rattlesnake section, (embracing now 
 the Sullivan Co. Club,) and continuing about five miles 
 across it, south of Lord's pond,* through Rock Hill, thence 
 to the banks of the beautiful Neversink River, crossing 
 the "Great Pine Bridge," (a marvelous white pine arched 
 wooden structure, completed 1807 yet standing as firm as 
 ever), to Bridgeville,** on toward Monticello, but stopping 
 two miles and a half and turning toward Thompsonville 
 (at this turn was a tavern kept by Reuben Allen, formerly 
 of Compo, Westport, Conn.), about three-quarters of a 
 mile and they were on Lot No. 44. 
 
 Jonathan Hoyt, Jr., of Norwalk, and wife, Sarah (Mid- 
 dlebrook), of Wilton, 1803, journeyed, with four children 
 to this section, about a mile west of the Neversink, which 
 consumed 9 days. Nehemiah Smith and wife, of Mid- 
 dlesex" [a parish between Norwalk and Stamford], re- 
 moved to South East Put. Co., and, in 180:^, bought land and 
 removed to near "Pleasant Lake," now called "Kiamesha 
 Lake," where he settled. His brother-in-law, Amos 
 Whelpley, lived with him. He brought two children and 
 a nephew, Smith Benedict, Titus Lockwood, Elind Lind- 
 ley and Joseph Godfrey, with families, went with them. 
 They also crossed the Hudson River, at Newburgh, passed 
 over the same turnpike to Montgomery, stayed one night 
 on the Barrens, probably their last night stopping place 
 before their arrival at the lake. 
 
 *Wm. Sears lived near here in 1804. 
 
 **Lewis Hoyt, bro. of Jonathan, lived here in 1803. 
 
32 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 When Van Hoosear and family arrived at Lot No. 44, 
 they hired a room for a few weeks,* when the neij^hbors 
 made a *'Bee," as it was called ; offering their services, a 
 log cabin, 16 by 18, was soon erected, which had but one 
 room, exclusive of a milk room, and lighted by one win- 
 dow (six small lights) on the north side, and a hemlock 
 door on the south. Their second load of Wilton furniture 
 consisted mainly of a table, cupboard, bureau,** 8 chairs, 
 2 beds, &c. The following January an infant son was 
 with them but a short time when it withered away. A 
 puppy, "Bose," took the child's place with the mother for 
 three months, and grew so fat he couldn't walk. In No- 
 vember, following, they butchered hogs and hung them 
 outside the dwelling on the projecting ends of the logs 
 that made the cabin ; in the night the dog became very 
 uneasy and was let out, when he grappled a bear, who 
 was nosing about the hog-killing spot. The dog started 
 for him and he fled ; after following him for some dis- 
 tance, returned, covered with blood. Mrs. Van Hoosear 
 stated to the author that every evening could be heard 
 from their door, the non-inviting sound of wild animals, 
 fully as near the house as she cared to listen and appre- 
 ciate. Opposite the house was a hugh jungle and swamp 
 where these animals often had their serenades to the dis- 
 comfort of this family. In 11)00, as we stood on the site of 
 the old home, I listened to the spot where she most fre- 
 quently heard these sounds in the jungle and then native 
 forest (now a cleared, rocky pasture), but not a sound 
 was heard, they were all dead, like the Wilton settlers 
 who heard them. This was truly a pioneer's life. 
 
 Jake Brush (colored), married **01d Dark," a servant 
 of Ebenezer Abbott, Jr.*** Jake lived west of the Lewis 
 Barnes place, at upper Stony Brook, on Grumman Hill 
 road, Wilton, Conn. His son "Bill" went to Sullivan Co. 
 and iiired to David Van Hoosear, and he sent him in the 
 field to dig potatoes, which was somewhat against his 
 will. He sauntered down and began his digging, they 
 were very large, and be soon became interet^ted, when 
 straightening up his aching back, he beheld, but a few 
 
 •Possibly nt ilic Allen tavern, that bcii>^ t!ic nearest liouse. 
 •''This suftjrcd SCI from the joltin;; of the spriniT'-^s cnrt ami wagon, it had 
 holes worn completely throu;^h it. 
 
 •••Grandfather of Permcla Van Hoosear. 
 
THIRD GENERATION. 38 
 
 feet away, a black bear sitting on a stump watching his 
 movements. He left without excusing himself, and at a 
 better rate of speed than when he came. The History of 
 Sullivan Co. gives many bear-killing adventures, and in the 
 late past years several are reported to have been seen in 
 even the town of Thompson. One was seen in Monticello, 
 1850, but escaped. 
 
 Montice lo, now the county seat, in 1804 had no house 
 there nor even a line of marked trees to that point. The 
 above named History quotes Graham's Magazine, in de- 
 scribing the situation of the village above mentioned, in 
 1835, "everything around bore the impress of recentculti- 
 vation struggling with the rudeness of primitive nature;" 
 "the plow was guided between unsightly stumps — in all 
 directions was the crouching roof of the log-hut" * * * 
 "they were often serenaded by the distant howl of the 
 wolves." Samuel F. and Paul Jones, of Goshen, Conn., 
 founded the place. Mrs. David Van Hoosear was so im- 
 pressed with a certain pair of bars, the exact situation of 
 which is somewhat disputed, as the author remembered it 
 was on Main street, about midway of the "Park or Green" 
 in front of the Court house, others think it was in front of 
 their log-hut. She said "I could go right to that pair of 
 bars," seventy years after she was there. Sept. 1, 1819, 
 Lewis Smith makes an agreement with him to farm let 7 
 acres rye and wheat that shall be harvested the next year. 
 Dec. 19, 1819, Leir Barnum receipts his tax for that j'^ear. 
 
 1820 is spoken of as the great beach nut year — millions 
 of pigeons were there feeding on these nuts. They were 
 often so numerous they obscured the sun for hours and eight 
 to ten two-horse wagon loads passed over the turnpike 
 daily and the birds sent to New York. Hogs ran wild and 
 fatted on these nuts. Deer were abundant and were fre- 
 quently seen feeding on their Winter grain fields. Van 
 Hoosear found a deer's horn in the raspberr}^ bushes in 
 the garden. The nearest neighbor was three-quarters of 
 a mile distant. In the wood near by a chopper was pass- 
 ing to his home after dark, without a fire brand (which it 
 was the custom to carry), and the next morning only his 
 legs and feet were left undisturbed, the rest of the eata- 
 ble portion had been devoured by wolves. The conclu- 
 sions were that when the jjack came for him, he backed 
 up to a tree and had killed six of them, which were found 
 
34 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 near him, but his ax flew out of his hands, as it was found 
 some distance away, and they then killed him. Mr. Van 
 and wife became tired of this pioneer life and concluded 
 the country was too wild for them, and, in the Winter, 
 they started again with heir oxen and wagon for the east. 
 They reached the Hudson River and attempted to cross 
 on the ice, but were told it was dangerous then, and in the 
 morning would probably be sufficiently frozen to bear 
 them over safely. But they had set out for Connecticut, 
 and full of determination, they were anxious to proceed, 
 so attempt it they did, and when well on to the ice, it gave 
 way and one ox went into the water. They succeeded in 
 unyoking the other, and let him go. He then sold the 
 other and hired the goods and family delivered on Grum- 
 man Hill. They arrived, January or February, 1821, the 
 wife carrying her second child (6 months old) in her arms. 
 Seth Whitlock seemed to be his advisor and "well wish- 
 er" in a letter to him at Wilton, he says he is sorry he 
 didn't stay out there with them — and referred to his leav- 
 ing with him his old gun, sickles, etc. March 23, 1822, 
 Seth and Chloe Whitlock, of Thompson, writes he is sorry 
 that he has gone back — the things are sold. 
 
 Remaining there until Spring, they removed about 100 
 rods northward of the present residence of Levi O. 
 Brown, in Hurlbutt Street, Wilton, which spot is 
 marked by an old well. In the Fall of 1821 he 
 removed to the last residence, of Harmon Gilbert, 
 Hurlbutt street. He removed to the "Harken Place," sit- 
 uated west and south of the site of the First Church, in 
 Wilton, where he lived at the time of the "September 
 Gale,"* when it blew in the windows which they tried to 
 cover with carpets, but without avail, they then went to 
 the cellar. Hatting was flourishing in town, and he was 
 in the coloring department. He then hired out until with- 
 in a few years of his death. He removed to the Isaiah 
 Gregory homestead (the first house on the left, west of the 
 John Comstock homestead), and from there, April 1, 1822, 
 to the present home (1902) of William Sturges. In his 
 accounts, Hawley Olmstead is credited by team moving, 
 April 8, 1821, 31^ cents, probably to move him to 
 "Nod ," in the north part of the town, where he spent the 
 
 *S'--})t. 3, 1S21. Tliis Wc'is on training day. Rev. CM. Selleck says the 
 afternoui) lijid be-on dark and about sundown wind and rain was at hand— it 
 spent itself about midnight oft" the Mass. coast. 
 
DAVID VAN H005EAR HOMESTEAD (NOD ',W. ViEW, 1894 
 
THIRD GENERATION. 35 
 
 rest of his life. Feb. 15, 1843, D V H contracted with Wm. 
 B. Smith to build his house where the old one stood, 
 with basement 22x24 feet, main part, 10 feet posts, finish 
 basement except all sashes, lay second story floor, make 
 stairs outside door "plain siding and joint chestnut shin- 
 gles, etc., except securing the timber and enclose the 
 building, all for fOO and two days, work. Agreement left 
 with S. Godfrey. His academic education was limited, but 
 having much experience and being very observing, he had 
 completed an extensive knowledge of human nature and 
 the common affairs of life. He was very ingenious, a 
 good farmer, hard worker, and imprudently exposing him- 
 self to all weather, seldom missing a day. He was re- 
 markably healthy, never employing a physician for him- 
 self, until his last sickness, which originated from a cold, 
 leading to a fever and pneumonia. Fond of children, he 
 always humored them as far as he thought consistent, 
 and then didn't fail to chide them. Each had their own 
 tools, but his was to be let alone. He was a man of medi- 
 um height, weighed about 150 pounds, full, round face and 
 generally jovial. He plowed all summer for Dr. Chap- 
 man, and the whip wore out his shirt on the shoulder, 
 pressing so long against it. A free thinker, bold talker, 
 close dealer, wanted cash for what he sold, cared nothing 
 for show, felt proud of carrying "Old Style along with 
 him, never wore a beard of any kind, and, at death, 
 although 74 years old, his hair was black. He usually 
 evaded talking upon his pedigree, this being, as he claimed, 
 not important to him. Went to War of 1812 (two or three 
 months' tradition) as substitute for Uriah Taylor, of Nor- 
 walk (now Westport), Conn., as private under Abraham 
 Youngs, commander. Period of service, Sept. 9, 1813, to 
 Sept. 14, 1814. [Conn, men of Rev. p. 123.] He was sta- 
 tioned at or near Fairfield, Conn., and would have applied 
 for a pension if his name had not appeared on the roil as 
 Uriah Taylor, which he answered to. He was father of a 
 child born every month in the year excepting July. His 
 son George E., is said to most resemble him. When right 
 he usually maintained his ground, and on one occasion he 
 heard some hounds after a fox, and, knowing where the 
 animal would come, he prepared himself with a club, and 
 surely he came through the barway where he was, and he 
 dispatched him within a short distance of his door. Some 
 time after the hunters came to him and claimed the fox, 
 
36 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 when he said: "If you want the honor of killing it, give 
 me two dollars, and take it." They proposed taking it 
 without. He informed them it had become foxy and if 
 they attempted it he had such good success he would try 
 again. They saw his determination and gave him the two 
 dollars. 
 
 He related an incident of himself, that, when a small 
 boy, after being severely corrected by his mother, he went 
 down in the field to his father with a comj)laint against 
 her. His father seemed to sympathize with him, 
 took a shilling from his pocket, gave it to him, saying, 
 "Take this money and sue her." This was so unexpected: 
 that he returned home and said nothing more about it. 
 According to his account book in 1829 he received in May 
 for his work 50 cents per day; 1833, 62 cents ; 1837, for 
 mowing and cradling, 75 cents ; 1844 he took rye, 75 
 cents per bushel; potatoes, 31 ; corn, 50 ; butter, 1 shilling 
 per pound ; tallow, 10 cents. 
 
 "The fashion he never would follow," 
 Or try to put on any style; 
 But owing a dime or a dollar, 
 
 He paid it, when due, with a smile. 
 
 His words were but few and well chosen ; 
 
 'Twas clear that he meant what he said ; 
 He was jovial, not heated, or frozen — 
 
 And calm was the life that he led. 
 
 He did not belong to the meeting, 
 
 Was proud of his work on the sod, 
 The children were glad of his greeting, 
 
 And some people said he was odd. 
 
 He died at "Nod," the 20th of April, 1871, and was 
 buried at "Hillside cemetery," Wilton, in a plot he had 
 previously ordered prepared and fenced. 
 
 MY GEANDMOTHER VAN. 
 
 Grandmother was born in the year 1802, 
 
 And was noted for being very neat ; 
 She always wore a pleasant smile, 
 
 And her friends so glad to meet. 
 With many cares she stepped about 
 
 To mold white loaves of bread. 
 To sweep the room, and feed the hena, 
 
 To weed the garden bed. 
 
Perinela Orinninaii (Mrs. David Van Hoosear.) No. 7. 
 
THIRD GENERATION. 37 
 
 How many stockings has she knit ? 
 
 Learned how to weave and spin, 
 While yet a child — I wonder what 
 
 Her playtime coald have been? 
 What could her children, small, have done, 
 
 If she had never learned 
 To make the cheese and twist the yarn, 
 
 And golden butter churn ? 
 
 A maiden diligent among the wool, 
 
 The flax that she has wrought. 
 For to her husband's home her share 
 
 Of well spun linen brought. 
 Then worked from day to day, she 
 
 Met with courage what befell 
 To keep her household and to guide, 
 
 And rear her children well. 
 
 I'm thinking, now, of my Grandmother's visits — 
 
 Theyv'e been pleasant ones to me — 
 But when I gaze upon her face. 
 
 And furrowed lines I see, 
 I think of the trials and sorrows, 
 
 Borne with patience ; the strife. 
 The toil and partings, the care, 
 
 That have mingled in her life. 
 
 A son has moved to the far off west, 
 
 And one was killed by the train. 
 Death took from her a handsome boy, 
 
 Another — Charles, his name ; 
 A daughter faded from her sight, 
 
 An infant child had left its mother. 
 But all the rest were left to honor 
 
 My talkative, dear Grandmother. 
 
 Her anxious thoughts, can any one describe, 
 
 Her burden of care and love 
 Of thirteen children to her sent 
 
 From the children's Heaven above? 
 Her husband was taken and she was left — 
 
 She now is nearing eighty-seven. 
 But when life has left her house of clay. 
 
 There's rest for her in Heaven ! 
 
 — D. H. Van Hoosear. 
 
 Parmela Van Hoosear, nee Grumman, died in Nor- 
 walk, Conn., March 8, and buried March 12th, 1891, at 
 Hillside cemetery, Wilton. 
 
38 VAN KOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 FOURTH GENERATION. 
 
 Children of Hezekiah and Phcbe (Olmsted) Van Hoosear. 
 
 8. I. JULIA ANN,bornatNorwalk, Conn., Nov. [45] 
 7th, 1807 ; married 1st, Nov. 1, 1827, Smith Pinney, born 
 Dec. 18, 1801, died March 26, 1854. Married 2d, about 
 1855, John J. Pinuey (brother of above). No children. 
 Residence, 1861, Freedom, Cateraugus Co., N. Y. In 1869 
 she writes from China, N. Y. 
 
 9. II. STYLES, born at Norwalk, Conn., May 7th, 
 1809 ; married Alvira Lee. She died with consumption, 
 former residence Carbondale, Pa., but was last heard from 
 at Double Day, Luzerne Co., Pa. A daughter was adopted 
 into this family, 
 
 10. III. SALLY MATILDA, born at Norwalk, [57] 
 Conn., May 3d, 1812; married 1st. Cyrus Riddle. Married 
 2d, 1847, William Jennings (son of John), born 1822. She 
 died at Toledo, Ohio. 
 
 11. IV. ADELIA, born at Norwalk, Conn., Jan. [61] 
 15, 18U> ; married Aug. 18, 18 — , Emerson Clapp, born Jan. 
 15, 1803, died March 15, 1853. She died Dec. 27, 1848. 
 
 12. V. NATHAN OLMSTED, born at Norwalk, [65] 
 
 Conn., April 26, 1817 ; married White, residence 
 
 New York state, later Toledo, Ohio, but 1886 Cambridge, 
 Ohio. He served in the late war, had narrow escapes, 
 taken prisoner, but made his escape. He signed his name 
 Nathan O. Van hoosear. 
 
 13. VI. DAVID RINEAR, born Oct. 2d, 1820, at [66] 
 Bethel, Sullivan Co., N. Y.; married Caroline Whiteing, 
 
 born Oct. 25, 1820 ; died before 1888 ; res. Fulton, Rock 
 Co., Mich. He wrote his name in 1858 '' Vanboosear." 
 
 14. VII. SUSAN CAROLINE, born at Bethel, [71] 
 Sullivan Co., N. Y., March 6, 1823; married. May 21, 1854, 
 Levi Osborne Browne* [son of Abner and Hannah (Thorp) 
 Brown], born Jan. 18, 1820; res. 1900, Hurlbutt st., Wilton, 
 Ct,; occupation, stone mason and farmer. 
 
 ♦He first m, Emily Piatt (daughter of Joseph) of New Canaan, Ct., Nov. 
 19, 1840. [N. C, Town Records.] 
 
FOURTH GENERATION. 39 
 
 15. VIII. HEZEKIAH,b.atBethel,SullivanCo., [73] 
 N. Y., April 23, 1828; m'd Liddy Reed ; resi. Quincy, Branch 
 Co., Mich. (Signed his name Vanhoosear,) 
 
 Chil. of Isaac and Maria (Van Hoosear) Jelliff. 5 
 
 16. I. ANTOINETTE MARIA, ''Mariah," born in [77] 
 Fairfield Co., Ct., Aug. 20,* 1806; [Family Bible] married 
 about 1824,** at Thunder Hill, Sul. Co., SamuelCarpeiiter, 
 (Son of Benj.) born at Milton, N. Y., Mar 10, 1803. 
 
 This family has a very interesting but mournful his- 
 tory. At the time of the Mormon excitement, in May 1839, 
 he with his wife and seven children started for Nauvoo, 
 Hancock Co., 111., to join the Mormons there. They start- 
 ed from Thunder Hill, N. Y. Lain Brundridge drove a 
 team with this family to Wilkes Barre, Pa. From there 
 they went to Johnstown, Cambria Co. Through Indiana 
 and Illinois to the Mississippi River, they travelled by 
 train. From there they were transported by steamer to 
 jNauvoo, (which is on the east bank of the Mississippi, in 
 one of the westermost counties of 111.) arriving there 
 about the middle of June, 1839. At this time there were 
 no houses in Nauvoo, except Joseph Smith's which was 
 built of stone. They all built shanties, with floors and 
 roofs of straw. They stayed there about two weeks when 
 Mr. Carpenter bought a hundred acre farm, for one dollar 
 an acre, about two miles from there in town the of Olive 
 Green, in the same Co. He built a house on it and re- 
 mained there seven years (to 1846). While at this home 
 three more children, Abigail, Nancy and Benjamin, were 
 born. The eighth child died in the fall of 1844.*** June 
 27, same year, Joseph Smith was shot by a mob while 
 jumping from the jail window where he was confined. 
 Antoinette, the mother, died Nov, 10, 1846, in Hancock 
 Co., 111., and was buried at " Masadonia, 111." Nancy, 
 the tenth child, died before 1846, an infant. Now the 
 father and seven children remained. In the spring of 
 1846, he sold his farm and they started with three pairs of 
 oxen, two cows, ten sheep, a year's provisions, with wag- 
 gon the Redding Circuit M. E. Ch. records is found: That Isaac Jelliff 
 and wf. Maria of Norwalk, had a dau. Antynet, b. Aug. 4, 1806. 
 
 **Another report: "I think in the spring of 1826." 
 
 ***Another acct., she died at Council Bluff about two years after. 
 
40 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 ons and tent, to make their way to Fort Madison, across 
 the Mississippi River. Passing on over the prairie, they 
 travelled through the wilderness to Council Bluffs. At 
 this place there were 5,000 Mormons. They camped there 
 until Sept., when Mr. Carpenter married, 3d, Clarissa 
 Tiittle,* and they all started for Salt Lake City. 
 
 While camping in their wagon on the banks of the 
 Missouri River, 40 miles west of Council Bluff, he died. 
 This second wife, or widow, was soon to be a special wife 
 of the new leader, Brigham Young, and it further devel- 
 oped that " all of us girls '' four of them, Rhoda, Julia A., 
 Elizabeth and Antoinette, were to be the same. They held 
 a convention and it was unanimously voted that the song 
 should be "Backward, turn Backward." Their intention 
 was discovered, and of course opposed by all, more par- 
 ticularly by the stepmother, but they entered into the 
 escape with determination, and at last they stole away^ 
 carrying what they could for their comfort. They took 
 two teams of oxen, wagon and cow; the girls driving the 
 teams and caring for everything. One day, driving until 
 after dark, coming down a hill the wagon pole dropped 
 from the ring and ran into the ground. They blocked the 
 wheels, chopped the earth away with an ax they had, 
 loosened the tongue, hitched on and resumed their journey 
 eastward. 
 
 This act of leaving the Mormons was a bold and dan- 
 gerous action, but they would trust themselves with the 
 savage Indians rather than the servitude and action they 
 were soon to encounter. They were unwilling to bear the 
 slavery of these rulers. It was a tedious journey but 
 they eventually reached Council Bluffs. Rhoda Ann then 
 left the rest of the girls and went to Missouri to her sister 
 Lydia who had been left behind. She stayed there 
 through the winter and in May the two sisters walked 50 
 miles to Council Bluffs, through the Indian village, and 
 stole their brother " Bennie " away from Jerome Benson's 
 place where he had been " put out." To do this required 
 strategy. The sisters went to visit him, staying over 
 Sunday (knowing Mr. and Mrs. B. would want to go to 
 church) they volunteered to care for '• Bennie" while they 
 went. As soon as they were well out of the way, they 
 
 ♦The Tuttle Gen. gives no Clarrissa who md. Carpenter. 
 
FOURTH GENERATION. 41 
 
 took him away from the house, at which the little fellow 
 at first protested, wanting to go home, but having so en- 
 tered into the plan they pushed forward. They went to a 
 solitary and lonely, previously secured refuge, beyond the 
 probable search. Here they stayed all night, and in the 
 early morn they started for the Indian camp beyond. It 
 took several days before they arrived there, and when in 
 sight, several dogs came to greet them. Bennie was afraid 
 of them but they told him they wouldn't bite him; they 
 came on and one of the girls talked to them in the Indian 
 dialect when they became acquainted. They were then 
 returning to the sisters they had left. 
 
 The Indians were very kind, helping them along until 
 at last they joined their sisters, but still hundreds of miles 
 from their grandparents and other relatives, and their 
 former home. 
 
 They wrote their grandmother, Misner, of their con- 
 dition, begging help to return. Their uncle, Benjamin 
 Carpenter, volunteered to assist tiiem, went there and 
 brought them home. All had become interested in these 
 orphans escape, and upon their arrival the sympathy of 
 the neighborhood was aroused, and large numbers visited 
 them anxious to see the returned Mormon children. Their 
 stories of the privations, trials, etc., they had endured, 
 together with their general appearance, told of the distress 
 they had experienced on their long journey. A relative 
 who visited them but a short time after their return re- 
 marked that no one could visit them without seeing they 
 had experienced ser:ous trouble and exposure. Little 
 Bennie showed suspicion and shyness, not yet appreciat- 
 ing that he was now among friends, he would steal away 
 in the corner and go to sleep. All were bronzed by the 
 sun, and their faces showed sad experiences. Their dialect 
 had changed and one of the girls having been among the 
 Indians so much, had grasped many words used by them. 
 They considered the death of their parents their redem- 
 tion, for had they lived they would probably never have 
 returned. They frequently alluded to the friendship of 
 the Indians, and when with them had no fear of being 
 captured by the Mormons. Samuel Carpenter while with 
 the Mormons, was drafted into the army, but he probably 
 was so enthusiastic in Mormonism, he prevailed on his 
 son to take his place. Many of these facts were kindly 
 
42 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 given me by '* Little Bennie " of Hasbrouck, and Mrs. 
 Khoda A. Mance, who was one of the girls above mention- 
 ed and who was living a few years ago at Ellenville, N. Y. 
 Samuel died about 1846, near Council Bluff. 
 
 17. II. CURTIS BEACM, born at Norwalk, Fair- [87] 
 field Co., June 20, 1810; married Aug. 28, 1836 Abigail 
 Reynolds, [dau. of Reuben and Abigail (Groo) Reynolds] 
 born Aug. 6, 1814, res. Hasbrouck, N.Y., occupation. Farm- 
 er. He died Jan. 2, 1882. She is alive, March 1901, and 
 resides at Hasbrouck, N.Y., with her son Isaac. 
 
 18. III. RHODA ANN, born Nov: 6, 1813, in Fair- [91 J 
 field Co., Ct., married Aug. 17, 1839, Isaac B. Tyrrell [son 
 of Joseph B. and Sophia,* (Besley) Tyrrell] born Mar. 2, 
 1815, died Oct. 3. 1886. She died July 3 4, 1856, in Sullivan 
 Co., N. Y. Last res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 
 
 19. IV. DATID RYNEAR, born May 3, 1823, in Falls- 
 burgh, Sullivan Co., N. Y. Died April, 1826, in same Co. 
 
 Chil. of William and Rhoda (Van Hoosear) Fitch, (6.) 
 
 20. I. ANNA MARIAH, born Aug. 10, 1815. Md. [95] 
 June 23, 1833, Martin Freer Merritt, (son of Caleb**) born 
 Oct. 19, 1812. He married 2nd Ester A. Gillett, [dau. of 
 Deming and Theodocia (Warner) G.] who died May 15, 
 1872. He died at Fallsburgh, N. Y., Jan. 14, 1890. Occu. 
 Farmer. Last res. Hasbrouck, N. Y. 
 
 21. 11. ESTHER MARY, born Oct. 27, 1818, married 
 
 *Her ancestor, Besley, was a French Huguenot. He and wife migrated 
 from France to England shortly after the revocation of the edict of Nantes, in 
 1685. They had three chil., James, Isaac, (a grad. of med. coll. in Eng., prac- 
 ticing there) and Mary — two latter unm., James md. Cornelia De Forest, of N. 
 J., res. N. Y. city, where their son Oliver was b. Sept. 22, 1741. He was 
 present at Phila., 1776, at the first reading of the Declaration of Independence, 
 shipped from there to N. Y., and was caught by a "Press Gang" and taken on 
 board a British man-of-war. His uncle Isaac sent a substitute and he was re- 
 leased. He md. Eleatheer Cheesman, of L. I. They settled at North Castle, 
 Westchester Co., N. Y. Their children were Isaac, b. Nov. 5, 1769, Mary, 
 Oliver, Jr., James, Coles, Samuel, Cornelia, Bartholomew, Elizabeth (md. 
 Thads. Gray), Sophia, b. Feb. 24, 1790, m. Joseph Tyrrell, Susannah. [John 
 G. Gray, Atty. at Law, Ellenville, N. Y.] 
 
 •*He is said to have served in the War of 1812, and after returning, re- 
 moved with his wife to Medina, Ohio. He had a son Caleb and the above 
 Martin F., the latter having been cared for by an aunt of Caleb, and she so 
 hid him away that when they was ready to move to Ohio he could not be 
 found and they went without him. 
 
FOURTH GENERATION. 48 
 
 1st at High Falls, N. Y., Apr. 19, 1836, Tennis Clearwater, 
 [Son of Abram and Lanah (Van Luven) C] born at High 
 Falls. N. Y., Feb. 22, 1819. He died Oct. 25, 1879. Occu. 
 carpenter. Res. Fallsburgh, N. Y. No children. Married 
 2nd, June 23, 1881, David L. Adltins, born Feb. 22, 1821 at 
 New Pultz, N. Y. [Son of Lewis and Ruth (Freer) Adkins) 
 Occu. Farmer. Res. Woodbourue, N. Y. She died Oct. 
 29, 1895. 
 
 22. III. NATHAN, born Sept. 7, 1820. Married [105] 
 1st, Jan. 1, 1844, Charlotte Cummings (dau. of James.) 
 One child. Married 2nd Apr. 10, 1857, Sally Ann Horton, 
 [dau. of AVm. and Polly (Vancort) Horton] born Aug. 5, 
 1823. Occu. Farmer. He died Feb, 24, 1896. Res. Schylers 
 Lake, N. Y. 
 
 23. IV. LUCRF/riA, b. Sept. 26, 1822. Married [107] 
 Eleazer Boweu. His res. 1855 West Hartwick, Exeter, 
 N. Y., 1859 Otego, N. Y. Her res. Cooperstown, N. Y. 
 
 24. V. SUSAN, born Mar. 6, 1824. Married about [110] 
 1840 Peter Countryman, born 1816, died Aug. 28, 1878. She 
 died Sept. 26, 1881. 8 children. 
 
 25. VI. ANTOINETTE, b. Mar. 6,1826. Married [118] 
 1st Jasper Purple, occu. Carpenter. One child. Married 
 
 2nd John Lester Niles, [son of Simeon and (Root- [119] 
 
 enburgh) Niles] born Sept. 17, 1824, Methodist minister. 
 Three children. Married 3rd, John Dietz. Married 4th at 
 Liberty, N. Y,, Wm. Beebe [son of Aaron and Phebe Jane 
 tClark) Beebe] born Sept. 5, 1836 in Orange Co., occu. 
 Farmer. Res. 1900, Hasbrouck, N. Y. 
 
 26. VII. WILLIAM, born Mar. 5, 1828. Died unmar., 
 June 26, 1850, buried at Exeter Center, N. Y. 
 
 27. VIII. ABRAM, born Sept. 25, 1830. Married [122] 
 Feb. 14, 1853, Elizabeth Tan Hoosear (dau. of David, see 
 No. 40) Two children. He formerly resided at Exeter, 
 N. Y., but came to Wilton, where he married. He settled 
 at Branchville, Ridgefield, Ct., where he lived several 
 years, but purchasing a farm at Norwalk, settled there, 
 where by strict attention to dairying and truck farming, 
 he has become wealthy. 
 
 28. IX. ELIZABETH, b. Aug. 26,1833. Married [124] 
 Oct. 10, 1854, Dana Pope (son of Allen). He died. Res. 
 Morris, Otsego Co., N.Y. Her res. New Lisbon, N.Y. 1900. 
 
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44 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 29. X. MARTHA JANE, born Oct. 17, 1836. Died 
 Dec. 10, 1838. 
 
 30. XI. LEWIS, born at Otsego, N. Y. Married[126] 
 Oct. 13, 1860 at Edmestown, N. Y. Mary La Vaiich Reed 
 [dau. of Wm. and Sarah (Cook) Reed] born at New Lisbon, 
 N. Y., July 4, 1840. Res. Fly Creek, Otsego Co., N, Y. 
 
 Cliildreii of David and Sally (Nash) Tan Hoosear. (7) 
 
 31.1. DAYID NASH, born May 1, 1817, at sun- [138] 
 down in the S. W. room of a house about 3 rods N. W. of 
 the present residence of Seth L. Grumman, at Wilton. Ct.* 
 Married Nov. 1, 1837, at Norwalk, Ct., by Rev. Dr. Hall, 
 Phebe Fillow [dau. of Lewis P. and Lydia (Morehouse) 
 Fillow, of Norwalk, see No. 373, "Fillow, Philo, and 
 Philleo Genealogy," compiled by the author] born Apr. 5, 
 1815, died Feb. 4, 1870. He married 2nd, Feb. 38, 1873, 
 wid. Sarah Ann Banks, nee Stratton, of Bridgeport, Ct. 
 She was born Nov. 3, 1814, died June 1, 1888, and buried at 
 Bridgeport, Ct, He had a very distinct memory of events 
 occurring in his early life. He remembered the " Septem- 
 ber Gale " of 1823, and that he was suffering with whoop- 
 ing cough at the time. He remembered seeing the people 
 who left N. Y. City (in the time of the great epidemic of 
 cholera there) as they passed Westport, and on moon 
 light nights he has watched them pass the house where 
 he lived. The burning of the "Lexington" on L. L 
 Sound, Jan. 13, 1840, when he lived on Chestnut Hill in the 
 house now owned by H. B. Coley. Very soon after the 
 news of the burning of the above vessel was spread, and 
 he saw in a few days one of the victims enroute through 
 Westport. The full story of this awful catastrophe was 
 dreadful. He often told of his being catechised with the 
 rest of the school on Saturday forenoon. On Sundays 
 (while young) he attended the Congregational church 
 Sabbath School, where Ira Betts, Jr. was teacher. One of 
 the questions of the old Catechism which impressed him 
 was, " What is the chief end of man ? " answer, " Honor 
 and glorify God and enjoy him forever." At their district 
 school they played Sunday School, and in it this question 
 was asked, and their version was "Keep what you have 
 
 *Dr. Jonathan Knight, Sr., b. in Norwich, 1758, settled at Norwalk, 1781, 
 res. on street of the same name, was the first person that looked on him ia 
 this world. 
 
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 No. 31. 
 
FOURTH GENERATION. 45 
 
 and get what you can." Old " Major Dudly" was tything 
 man. One Sabbath I was sitting with my comrades, not 
 listening with close attention to the long sermon, when 
 suddenly the Major's hands pulled over backwards two 
 of the congregation nearest me; I waited for my pull 
 but escaped, and heard every word after that. " The first 
 match I ever saw was in the school house at Chestnut Hill 
 before meeting, about 1823. " Loco Foco" was printed on 
 the box. The discussions, to think of to-day, were amus- 
 ing, "the danger of them — why anyone could carry them 
 in their pocket, set your barn on fire and no one would 
 mistrust you," was suggested. His sister was sick and 
 they had no timepiece, and he was sent about one-half a 
 mile to "Aunt Betty Stuart's" Drum Hill, to borrow an 
 hour glass to give medicine by. He attended the Brigade 
 Training at Danbury, Ct., 1839. He started from Norwalk 
 at 2 A. M., trained all day and discharged at the upper 
 end of Main St., when he and friends went the entire 
 length of the street in search of a lunch. They finally 
 found the remnants of a roasted pig which they devoured. 
 They stayed in a barn all night, but many walked the 
 streets. Danbury was overful. He attended General 
 Trainings at Stamford, Darien, Redding, Coley's Plain, 
 Westport and Cannon's Plain. He commenced training 
 May, 1835. The first day he paraded in Norwalk (now 
 Westport) near the residence of Wm. Finch, marching to 
 Poplar Plain under Capt. Anson Youngs, "Petty training." 
 The General training came in Sept. 
 
 He remembered when on the W. side of Saugatuck 
 River 12i cts was considered a shilling and on the E. side 
 it was 16f cts. His idea of temperance was total abstain- 
 ance; that if this was followed all chances of becoming 
 drunk would be avoided. The third national convention, 
 held in 1841, resolved " that the license laws are at vari- 
 ance with all true political economy, and one of the chief 
 supports of intemperance." This was his idea. Years 
 after (1870, '72 and '73) he was elected Selectman of Wil- 
 ton, and while in this duty a no-license vote was accom- 
 plished and a man applied for a recommendation to keep a 
 liquor store. He was so opposed to the State giving license 
 to any one "to sell rum " that he refused to sign the re- 
 commendation, although he though the applicant was^ as 
 suitable as any other person. He said he would resign 
 
46 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 the office before he would endorse a " rumseller." The 
 other two, however, signed it, making all that was neces- 
 sary. He was not re-elected, it being stated that this was 
 the cause, and it seems probable that it was. He said he 
 had seen enough of the effects of drink in his boyhood, 
 in times when nearly everyone partook, especially in har- 
 vest, when they had learned to believe that the effect of 
 cold water upon a heated system was dangerous. It was 
 usual to make a boy ted the hay and wait upon the men 
 with drink. At one time when this was his duty, the 
 stimulant gave out and he was dispatched to the still for 
 cider whisky, and taking the wooden bottle or rundlet, he 
 proceeded and returning with it well filled came to a sharp 
 hill in the field, and child-like, thought the little barrel 
 might as well roll as for him to carry it, so looking about 
 him for spectators he let it go down the hill. It bounded 
 away over rock and uneven ground until it went from his 
 sight. He searched over the low land, and at last found 
 it in some alders when he hurried on. 'It was a long 
 time between drinks," they said upon his arrival. The 
 bung was not so easily removed, and the distiller was not 
 very well spoken of for driving it in so hard, they little 
 suspecting that it had taken such a journey over a hard 
 road. A favorite saying of his was, "A man that can't 
 work without it, can't work with it." 
 
 He was elected Justice of the Peace in 1870, '72 and 
 '74, and held other minor offices. In 1835-6, being 8 or 9 
 years of age, he received one-fourth of one-sixth of the 
 estate of his grandfather, Dan'l Nash, Sr. Lewis H. St. 
 John, of " Nod " (Wilton) was appointed his guardian and 
 from him he received valuable counsel which taught him 
 economy and matured his sterling character. As Mr. 
 Willard describes him, he was a quiet, spiritually minded 
 man. He cared for $1700 for 13 years, never losing one 
 cent of the principal and his charge was only $100 for the 
 entire time. He was 5 ft. 8 in. in heigth and generally 
 weighed about 160 lbs. One peculiarity of his features 
 was his very high forehead; his hair early in life turned 
 gray, these both being peculiarities of his line of the Nash 
 family. His cousin Edward H. Nash very much resembled 
 him in general appearance. He remembered the first 10 
 cents he ever owned, which Sam'l Hanford (Bro. of his 
 mother's first husband, Elnathan) gave him for showing 
 
Burr Smith. No. 31. 
 
FOURTH GENERATION. 47 
 
 him a mouse he had caught some time before. In 1884 he 
 visited the Cotton Centennial at New Orleans, which south- 
 ern trip he had always wished for, being anxious to see 
 the actual condition of the colored race south. He came 
 home fully satisfied and contented to live in Conn. He 
 was a man of great energy and endurance and was sup- 
 posed before his death to be the oldest Van Hoosear living. 
 He gave his religious experience to the author some time 
 before his death. He was converted (and soon after his 
 wife Phebe) in the old Poplar Plain M. E. church, which 
 is now used as a blacksmith shop. He had no trouble with 
 the various doctrines, and soon settled his preference. He 
 died as he had lived, a true Methodist. For some years 
 before his death he was a great sufferer, but claimed the 
 Master sustained him in his afflictions. He died at his 
 home in Hurlbutt Street, Wilton, Ct., Jan. 5, 1899, at 11:48 
 A. M., and was buried at Hillside Cem., Wilton. 
 
 €hil. of David «& Parmela (Grumman) Van Hoosear. T 
 
 32. II. Infant born Jan. 14, 1819, at Thompson, N. Y. 
 Died there. 
 
 33. III. LOriSA, born at Thompson, N.Y. June f 130] 
 29, 1820, in a log cabin. She removed to Wilton with her 
 parents when very young. She joined the Baptists at 
 Georgetown, Redding, Ct., where she was baptized by im- 
 miersion within a few feet of where the towns of Wilton, 
 Weston and Redding join each other. Her name is found 
 on the Danbury church record as being added to that con- 
 gregation, Mar., 1838. Married Sept. 4, 1839 Charles Burr 
 Morehouse [son of Chas. and Polly (Beers) Morehouse, and 
 grandson of Stephen Morehouse] born May 19, 1818, died 
 at Ridgefield, Ct., Nov. 16, 1888. Occu, Farmer. Buried 
 at Hillside cemetery. 
 
 34. IV. SALLY, born Apr. 39, 1823, at the res. [132] 
 formerly owned by " Priest Haight," now (1902) by Wm. 
 Sturges, on the Ridgefield Road, Wilton. Married Jan. 4, 
 1843 Burr Smith [son of Wm. and Abigail (Bedient) Smith 
 of Norwalk, Ct., at Wilton, by Rev. Mr. Smith. Born Feb. 
 13, 1821. His last res. 141 Main St., Norwalk, Ct. He died 
 Apr. 5, 1901, buried in Union cemetery. 
 
 35. V. HARRIET AMELIA, born at Wilton, Ct, [134] 
 Aug. 16, 1824. Married May, 1841, Chas. Partrick [son of 
 
48 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Halsey and Phebe (Lockwood) Partrick, of Wilton, Ct.] 
 Born Oct. 31, 1815. She died Aug. 16, 1847. He 2d md. 
 8usaimah Hoyt, July 20, 1850, born Sept. 1, 1828, died July 
 to, 1858, [see Hoyt Gen. No. 5354.] He died Feb. 26, 1895, 
 buried Zion Hill cemetery, Wilton. 
 
 36. VI. MARY, born Sept. 4, 1826 at Nod,Wilton[135] 
 Married 1st, Oct. 8, 1854, Henry Donaghe [son of Henry & 
 Polly (Tefft) Donaghe] of Exeter Center, N. Y., born Aug. 
 2, 1817, died Jan. 3, 1871. After his death she came to 
 Conn., and married 2nd at Portchester, N.Y., Mar. 14, 1883 
 Capt. Willis J. Merritt, of Norwalk, Ct. [son of Dan'l and 
 Sarah (Lyon) Merritt] born 1810. He died Aug. 10, 1889, 
 and was buried at Greenwich, Ct., his former home. She 
 married 3d* at Portchester, N.Y., Apr. 4, 1894, Moses Hill, 
 of Redding, Ct. [son of Gershom and Cemantha (Gregory) 
 Hill.] He died Oct. [funeral 15th] 1898. She then removed 
 to N. Y. State, and at present (1902) is residing with her 
 only living daughter at West Winfield, N.Y. 
 
 37. VII. EBENEZEK, born at Nod, Wilton, Feb. 18, 
 1828. Married Mar. 20, 1849 Mary Gilbert [dau. of Ebenezer 
 and Elizabeth (Abbott) Gilbert] by Rev. Wm. N. Bangs. 
 Born Jan. 11, 1828. No chil. He learned the trade of 
 shoe maker, but afterward took up farming as an occupa- 
 tion. He first bought a small place in Wilton which he 
 sold, and bought in New Canaan, Ct., then returning to 
 Wilton, and thence again to New Canaan, where he ex- 
 changed places several times, but eventually settled the 
 next door to the Hanford Davenport or earlier Enoch St. 
 John place. 
 
 He took great pride in improving his farm and in 
 having a good pair of oxen. He, with his wife, her sister 
 (Betsey) and a child of Chas and Mary Agnes (Richards)** 
 Dickson, of Lewisboro, N. Y., while crossing the R. R. at 
 Five Mile River, upon their return from the seashore, were 
 instantly killed by the 4.52 P. M. express, Aug. 16, 1887. 
 He was thrown into the air 20 ft. and was completely dis- 
 articulated. The horse was thrown but escaped without 
 injury. The quadruple funeral held at the M. E. Church, 
 at New Canaan, was attended by all denominations and 
 
 ♦Portchester, marriage record, dau. of David and Parmelia (Drumman) 
 [Grumman] Van Hoosear. 
 
 ♦♦Brought up by Mr. Van Hoosear from a child. 
 
FIVE SISTERS. 
 
 Mrs. Abram Fitch, No. 11. Mrs. Stanley Mead, No i3. Mrs. Moses Hill, No. 36. 
 Mrs. Charles B. Morehouse, No. 33, Mrs. Burr Smith, No. 3i, 
 
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FOURTH GENERATION. 49 
 
 all business in the borough was suspended. Three min- 
 isters were present at the ceremony and engaged in the 
 remarks, some of which were: '' He had been a member of 
 the church for nearly 20 years, was unpretentious, honest, 
 not ashamed to work, never found taking advantage of 
 another for his gain, was a strong temperance man. his 
 convictions being decidedly " Total abstinance." His 
 light shone out on others; for several years he held an 
 office in the church. It was sudden death and sudden 
 glory. They went together." Mr. Van and wife were 
 buried at Hillside cem., Wilton, and a beautiful monument 
 is erected over their graves. 
 
 38. VIII. WILLIAM, born at Nod, Wilton, Oct. [137] 
 4, 1839. Married Aug. 3, 1853, Rachel Aim Brown, of Ma- 
 maroneck, N. Y., born July 24, 1834, his record, [Sept. 20, 
 his mother's record.] She died July 7, 1869, at Black River 
 Falls, Wis. He 2nd married June 11, 1871, Mary Ann fas- 
 well,* (wid. of Thos. Caswell and dau. of Levi and Sally 
 Warren,) born April 22, 1843 He spent 5 yrs, 7 mo. learn- 
 ing carpenter's trade, under Chas. Scribner, Wilton. 1850 
 to April, 1851, worked at John O. St. John's, Georgetown, 
 then rem. to Norwalk until fall, when he went to Mamar- 
 oneck, stayed thereuntil Apr. 18o5,went to Ripon, engaged 
 10 mos. with Mr. Burr Betts, thence to Black River Falls, 
 Wis., where he built the Court house.** He also built the 
 Union School House of three stories for $24,000. In 1856 
 he went logging, 1871 rem. to Unity, Clark Co., Wis., where 
 he built a saw mill, 1875 rem. to Romeo, about 3^ miles 
 from Unity, which was a wilderness of timber. A railroad 
 had been built 7 yrs. Here he built several houses, a saw 
 mill, established a large lumber yard: but on July 7, 1876, 
 a fire, (the work of an incendiary) burned 7,000,000 feet of 
 lumber, dwelling house, 14 tenant houses, and blacksmith 
 shop, leaving not a building standing. Damage $125,000, 
 insurance $45,000. He again built up the little hamlet but 
 Sept. 27, 1888, another fire came (probably the work of the 
 same incendiary) burning 0,000,000 ft. of lumber, sawmill, 
 planing mill, two tenant houses, large boarding house, and 
 
 *By Mr. Caswell she had two chil., viz.: i. Warren Levi ind. Maud 
 Gruber; one child; Helen Caswell, aged 8 yrs. (1901). 2. Thomas md 
 Nellie Carbury, of Fondulac, Wis. 
 
 **Contract for which was $65,000. The building was burned, and his 
 tools to the extent of $300.00 were burned with it. 
 
60 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Post Office which had been established there in 1879. He 
 then left Wis.. July 1891, removing to California where he 
 settled on a large fruit farm at Haywards, Alameda Co., 
 where he still resides (1901.) He has a very genial dis- 
 position, was fond of children, far sighted in business 
 matters and not afraid to invest capital, with all his discour* 
 agements, a man with plenty of energy and able to control 
 large responsibilities. 
 
 39. IX. CHARLES, born at Nod, Wilton, April [U6] 
 
 13, 1831. Married Nov. 1, 1854, Emily Cole [dau. of Sher- 
 man and Susan (Hurlbutt) Cole, grd. dau. of Thos., gt. 
 grd. dau. of Jonothan Cole, all of Wilton] born Dec. 
 33, 1830. His last res. was Chestnut Hill, Wilton, where 
 he had settled about 18 yrs. before. He was formerly a 
 shoe maker, but the factory system drove him from that, 
 and he took up agriculture. He built a large barn, im- 
 proved his farm, and prepared to build a fine house, when 
 his services were solicited as cutter at the Morrison & Co. 
 shirt manufactory, Norwalk, Ct., in which he worked un- 
 til a short time before his death. He suffered with a per- 
 sistant throat trouble which resulted in his death Dec. 1, 
 1881. The autopsy revealed a tumor of 4 lb. 6 oz. weight, 
 completely filling the upper cavity of the thorax. He bore 
 his suffering with submission and patience, arranged his 
 business affairs to be managed by his family when he was 
 gone. He was buried at Hillside cem., Wilton. His wife 
 died at Norwalk, June 19, 1893, at 10.30 A. M., and was 
 buried at same place. 
 
 40. X. ELIZABETH, born at Nod, Wilton, Aug. [122] 
 
 14, 1834. Married Feb. 14, 1853, Ahram Fitch, born Sept. 
 25, 1830. [See No. 27.] 
 
 41. XI. GEORGE EDGAR, born at Nod, Wilton, [148] 
 Dec. 13, 1836. Married Apr. 18, 1861, Eliza J. Fitch [dau. 
 of Wm. and Harriet (Raymond) Fitch, of Norwalk, Ct.] 
 born Oct. 31, 1839. He learned the carpenter's trade with 
 Chas. Scribner of Wilton, which occupation he has gener- 
 ally followed. He is remarkable in his observation in 
 business, being a natural mechanic, he has kept up with 
 the trade in which he is very expert. He is economical 
 and while working looks for the interests of his employer. 
 He resides at Cranbury, Norwalk, [1902]. He has long 
 been a member of Lodge No. 10, I.O.O.F. 
 
William A" an Hoosear. No. 38. 
 
FOURTH GENERATION. 51 
 
 42. XII. SYLYESTER, born at Nod, Wilton, Ct., Mar. 
 14, 1839. Married Feb. 14, 1861 Miss Julia B. Taylor, [dau. 
 of Horace and Rebecca (Quintard) Taylor, he of Ridgebury 
 and she of Norwalk, Ct.] of Norwalk, Ct., born July G, 
 1838. No children. His primary course of education was 
 received at the district school in Nod, finishing his course 
 under the tutorship of Hon. Edward Olmsted, of Wilton, Ct. 
 He engaged himself as clerk in John Bennett's dry goods 
 store, Norwalk, afterward entered in partnership with an 
 associate clerk, under the firm name of Van Hoosear & 
 Ambler, in the same business in Norwalk. This was the 
 leading house of its kind in the now city of Norwalk until 
 bis death, Oct. 29, 1884, from brain fever. He held many 
 positions of trust and directorship in his town, and was 
 much respected. His beautiful face, rosy countenance 
 and pleasant manners won for him a large acquaintance 
 and many friends. He was buried in Union cem., Nor- 
 walk, at the setting of the sun; funeral services were con- 
 ducted by the I.O.O.F. order. The " Norwalk Hour" issue 
 Nov. 1, 1884 says: "When about 18 he came to Norwalk as 
 clerk and remained as such until Dec. 1865, when he and 
 James Ambler bought out Morris & Doty, dry goods deal- 
 ers. He was one of the incorporators of the Norwalk Sav- 
 ings Society, Director of the Nat'i Bank of Norwalk, and 
 member of Our Brothers' Lodge, No. 10, I.O.O.F. The 
 " Norwalk Gazette " remarked: " He was 20 years a mem- 
 ber of the 1st Cong. Church, member of the Board of Trade. 
 Years ago he erected one of the finest residences on our 
 most attractive avenue [30 West Ave]. As a merchant and 
 business man he was methodical, sagacious and indefatig- 
 able. At his funeral the many floral tributes bestowed by 
 sorrowing friends were of unique and beautiful designs 
 and most profuse in number. The scroll presented by the 
 bank was particularly noticeable and beautiful. 
 
 43. XIII. A^'TOINETTE,bornat (Nod,)Wilton, [152] 
 Ct., Nov. 23, 1840. Married there Oct. 10, 1859 James Stan- 
 ley Mead, of Branchville, Ct., [son of Wm. and Abiah L. 
 (Partridge) Mead,] born Sept. 15, 1838. Occu. carpenter. 
 Res. (1900) Garfield Av., Danbury, Ct. 
 
 44. XIV. HENRY, born at (Nod) Wilton, Ct., [156] 
 Nov. 29, 1842. Married Sept. 4, 1866, Lucy Ellen Johnson, 
 [dau. of Francis Johnson,] born at Stafford, Vt., April 5, 
 1845. She died in Worcester, Mass., Oct. 14, 18—. He 2d 
 
52 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 married, at Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 2, 1890, Sara Rosa Leaton 
 (wid. of Wm. Carey Leaton) and i dau. of Wm. Bacon and 
 Susan (Rose) Saxton, of N. Y. State] bornat Suffield,Mass. 
 He served in the War of the Rebellion, in Co. A, 17th 
 Regt., Conn. Vol., mustered in Aug. 9, 1863, mustered out 
 at Hilton Head, S. C, July 19, 1865. He engaged in the 
 dry goods business at So. Norwalk but sold out and for a 
 time was a traveling salesman. At the time of his death 
 he was engaged with F. B. Smith, Bridgeport, Ct., where 
 he had been for several years. He died Aug. 19, 1901, at 
 7 A. M., at 122 Courtland St., Bridgeport, Ct. Buried at 
 Worcester, Mass. 
 
 FIFTH GENERATION, 
 
 Chil. of Smith and Julia Ann (Van Hoosear) Pinney. 8 
 
 45. I. LUCY A., born Aug. 11, 1821. Married [159] 
 Henry Hoppson, his occu. said to be merchant. Res. Troy, 
 N.Y.Both are said to have been adopted by a Troy resident. 
 
 46. II. CHARLOTTE JANE, born Sept. 7, 1828. [161] 
 Married Henry L. Babcock. 
 
 47. III. EDWAKB S., b. May 8, 1833, died Oct. 22,1855 
 
 48. IV. WILLIAM T., born April 25, 1835, died Oct. 
 22, 1856. 
 
 49. V. CHATTNCEY T., born April 25, 1837. [163] 
 Married Aug. 18, 1865, Percillia Jones. 
 
 50. VI. HENRY A., born Feb. 15,1839. Married [165] 
 July 16, 1864, Catherine Cooper. 
 
 51. VII. CURTIS S., b. June 28, 1840. Married [167] 
 Jan. 3, 1867, Marion Beebe. At one time he was Post Mas- 
 ter at Chestonia, Antrim Co., Mich, 
 
 52. VIII. FRANKLYN H., born May 23, 1842. 
 
 53. IX. LAURA AUGUSTA, born Feb. 29, 1844. [171] 
 Married Sept. 3, 1866, David Steele. 
 
 54. X. ADELBERT R., born Mar. 10, 1846. [173] 
 Married Sept. 1867, Alisa Rogers. 
 
 55. XI. NORMAN R., b. Aug. 23, 1847. Married [1751 
 Mar. 10, 1870, Mary Torry. 
 
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FIFTH GENERATION. 53 
 
 Chil. of Cyrus and Sally (Van Hoosear) Riddle. 10 
 
 57.1. MARY, born . Married before 1850, Mr. 
 
 Adams, an atty. at law, of Rochester, N. Y., where they 
 resided Jan. 27, 1850. 
 
 58. II. NATHAN LEWIS, after his father's death, 
 (then about 13 yrs. of age) he was adopted by Allen Swart- 
 out, and resided in Wisconsin. 
 
 59. III. SARAH, Married 1st , he lived but 6 weeks 
 
 Married 2nd . No children. 
 
 Chil. of William and Sally (Tan Hoosear) (Riddle) 10 
 Jennings. 
 
 60. IV. CELIA, married — Butterfield. Res. Feb. 12, 
 1862, Toledo, Ohio. She is reported dead. 
 
 Cliil. of Emerson and Adelia (Tan Hoosear) Clapp. 1 1 
 
 61. I. CHESTER D, born May 20, 1836. Married Feb. 
 21, 1866, Minnie L. Ober, born July 4, 1848. Res. 1880, East 
 Claridon, Geauga Co., Ohio, without children. 
 
 63. II. CHILLISSA A., born Oct. 17, 1837, died March 
 8, 1874. Unmarried. 
 
 63. III. MARY, born in the spring of 1842. Died, "one 
 or two weeks old." 
 
 64. IV. HOMER, born in the summer of 1844, died 
 Mar. 1846. 
 
 Chil. of Nathan and (White) Tan Hoosear. 12 
 
 65. I. SUSAN MATILDA, is said to have been adopted 
 by her grandmother. Res. Canada. 
 
 Chil. of David R. & Caroline (Whiting;) Tan Hoosear. 13 
 
 66. I. NANCY A., born Sept. 30, 1845, died Feb. 5, 1846 
 
 67. II. ALBERT W., b. Oct. 23, 1846, died Mar. 23, 1874 
 
 68. III. LEROY W., b. Sept. 6, 1854, died Jan. 27, 1855 
 
 69. IV. Son. Living 1887. 
 
 70. V. Son. Living 1887. 
 
 Chil. of Levi 0. and Susan C. (Tan Hoosear) Brown. 14 
 
 71. I. EMMA OPHELIA, born at Wilton, Ct., Aug. 8, 
 1859, died at Wilton (Hurlbutt St.) Aug. 21, 1864. Buried 
 St. Matthews cem. 
 
54 VAN HOOSEAE GENEALOGY. 
 
 72. II. NELLIE TAN, bornat (Hurlbutt St.) Jan. [176] 
 24, 1864. Married Dec. 1886, Henry DeWitt Meeker [son of 
 "Harry" and Martha A. (Davisson) Meeker, he of West- 
 port, she of Roxbury, Ct.] born Mar. 2, 1860. Occu. farmer. 
 Res. (1900, Crosshighway) Westport, Ct. 
 
 ChiL of Hezekiah & Caroline (Whiting) Tan Hoosear. 15 
 
 73. I. FRANK ADELBERT, born Nov. 26, 1853. Unm. 
 1887. Went west. 
 
 74. II. WILLIE REED, born Mar. 6, 1858. Md.— [179 
 
 75. III. HERBERT JAMES, b. Dec. 30, 1860. Md.-[180 
 
 76. IV. ETA THERSA, born Feb. 10, 1863. Md. — 
 P. O. address, 1887, Quincy, Mich. 
 
 Chil. of Samuel and Antoinette (Jelliff) Carpenter. 16 
 
 77.1. LYBIA MARIA, born Sept. 1825. Married Louis 
 Shuster. He died at Rosco, Sul. Co., N. Y._, about 1890. 
 Occu. grocer and dry goods merchant. She died at Dairy- 
 land, Ulster Co., N.Y., May 16, 1850. No children. 
 
 78. II. EDWARD, born July 18, 1827, died a small boy 
 in Sul. Co., N. Y. 
 
 79. III. ISAAC JELLIFF, born July 24, 1829. [181j 
 Married at Council Bluffs, April 13, 1849, Nancy Adaline 
 Perkins [dau. of Absolom and Nancy ( — ) Perkins] born 
 Dec. 12, 1831. He served in the Mexican War as substitute 
 for his father, who was drafted. He received his equip- 
 ment on the 3rd or 4th of Aug. 1846, in Co. C, under Capt. 
 James Allen, and was one of the party that wintered at 
 Peublo, Col. After he left Thunder Hill, with his parents, 
 he never returned to Sullivan Co. until 1856 or '57 when he 
 paid his friends there a visit. Res. (1900) Canon City, 
 Col., but had removed Aug 1901. 
 
 80. IV. RHODA ANN, born Jan. 5, 1832. Married [185J 
 Sept. 14, 185-, at Ellensville, N.Y., Joseph Ephriam Mance 
 (son of George) born Sept. 2, 1827. Res. Ellenville, N. Y. 
 Occu. Architect and Miller. She died July, 1896. 
 
 81. V. JULIA ANN, born Jan. 6, 1834. Married [190] 
 Oct. 17, 1852, in Sullivan Co., N. Y., Simon J. Keator, born 
 at Stone Ridge, Ulster Co., N. Y., June 25, 1830. Occu. 
 farmer. He died April, 1901. Last res. Vineland, Colo. 
 She died at Vineland, Mar. 9, 1901. 
 
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 82. VI. ELIZABETH "BETSEY" born June 3, [195] 
 1836. Married April 16, 1853, Elijali Maiice [cousin of above 
 Joseph E.] born July 23, 1825. "lie died near Ellenville, 
 [" The Cape "1 Jan. 4, 1875. She died 3 miles from Ellen- 
 ville, May 8, 1869. His occu. farmer. 
 
 83. VII. ANTOINETTE M., born July 3, 1838. 1201] 
 Married Dec. 31, 1859, Samuel I. Benson [son of Neal S. and 
 Elizabeth G. (Turrei) Benson] born Feb. 23, 1810. Occu. 
 Cutler (Knife Maker). Res. 189:?, Ellenville, N. Y. 
 
 84. VIII. ABIGAIL, born at Olive Green, in Hancock 
 Co., 111., Sept. 20, 1810, died at Council Bluffs, Iowa, when 
 about 6 years of age. Another account, fall of 1841. 
 
 85. IX. BENJAMIN ALMON, born at Olive Green, [206 
 Hancock Co., 111., Aug. 14, 1842. Married April 16, 186-, 
 Nancy Jane Groo |dau. of John and Emily (Palmer) Groo] 
 born July 23, 1841, at Neversink. Occu. farmer. Res. 
 Hasbrouck, Sul. Co., N. Y. (1901). 
 
 86. X. NANCY, born at Olive Green, Hancock Co., 111. 
 before Nov. 10, 1846, died an infant. 
 
 Chil. of Curtis B. and Abigail (Heynoids) JelliiT. 17 
 
 87. I. JANE ANN, born at Fallsburgh, N. Y. [209] 
 May 14, 1837. Married Oct. 2, 1859, Jarvis Carr Kile [son 
 of Dr. Benjamin & Tabitha (Carr) Kile] born Aug. 17,1834. 
 Occu. farmer. Res. Fallsburgh, (P. O. Woodbourne, N.Y.) 
 
 88. II. ISAAC, born at Fallsburgh. N. Y., May [212] 
 12, 18:^9. Married at Kingston, N. Y., Jan. 2, 1868, Joanna 
 Porter [dau. of Henry and Catherine (Black) Porter] born 
 Mar. 2, 1846. Res. Hasbrouck, 1901. He served during the 
 War of the Rebellion, first as private in Co. E, 20th N. Y. 
 S. M., from April 23, '61 to July '61; second as 1st Lieut. 
 Co. K, 56th Regt., N. Y. State Vol. from Sept. '61 to Feb. 
 '62; third as 1st Lieut, and Capt. 143rd Regt., N. Y. S. V., 
 from Oct. '62 to July '65. Held office of County School 
 Commissioner of 2d Dist., Sullivan Co., from '73 to '75. 
 Clerk in Census Bureau, Wash., D. C, 1890 to 1893. Owns 
 a farm in the town of Neversink, 112, where he resides, 
 1901. Two children. 
 
 89. III. REUBEN REYNOLDS, b. at Fallsburgh, [2 14] 
 N. Y., June 13, 1841. Married at Monticello, JN. Y., Jan. 3, 
 1866, Martha Ann Gillett idau. of Zopher & Martha (Drake) 
 Gillett] born at Fallsburgh, N. Y., July 16, 1842. He stud- 
 
56 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 ied law with Senator Henry R. Low, at Monticello, N. Y., 
 admitted to the bar Dec. 8, 1864, at Albany,N.Y. Practiced 
 law since 1866 at Woodbourne, N. Y.; held the office 
 of Special Co. Judge from Jan. 11, 1896 to Dec. 31, 1898. 
 He has been prominent in contributing to this Vol. 
 
 90. IV. GEORGE, born Feb. 24, 1849, died Oct. 27, 
 1865, at Thunder Hill, Sul. Co., N. Y. 
 
 Chil. of Isaac B. and Rhoda Ann (Jelliff) Tyrrill. 18 
 
 91. I. MARIA SOPHIA, born Sept. 13, 1841, died at 
 
 Woodbourne, N. Y., Nov. 8, 1862. 
 
 92. II. LYDIA A., born Mar. 5, 1843. Married [217] 
 1st David P. Hall Palmer [son of Benj, F. and Tryphena 
 (Gillett) Palmer] born Mar. 7, 1839, died April 8, 1865. Md. 
 2nd, May 9, 1875, Joseph Merritt, farmer, [See No. 98]. 
 
 93. III. WM. HENRY, born Oct. 17, 1845, Md. [219a] 
 May 5, 1868, Cornelia A. Hendrickson [dau. of Blake and 
 Elizabeth (Upham) Hendrickson] born Oct. 10, 1850. Res. 
 Middletown, N, Y. He died July 18, 1900. His occu. City 
 Police. 
 
 94. IV. DAYID NASH, | named after David Nash Van 
 Hoosear] born Mar. 11, 1848, died May 13, 1852. 
 
 Chil. of Martin F. and Maria (Fitch) Merritt. 20 
 
 95. I. WILLIAM FITCH, born May 30, 1834, at Mar- 
 bletown. Married Cornelia Holmes [dau. of Wright and 
 Hannah (Gray) Holmes] born July 24, 1836. Last res. 
 Woodbourne, N.Y. He died April 14, 1859, at Fallsburgh, 
 N. Y. She died Feb. 11, 1863. No children. 
 
 96. II. MARTIN, born at Marbletown, June 4,1836. 220 
 Married 1st, Mar. 12, 1864, Maria J. Evans (dau, of Sam'l & 
 Sophia Evans, of Woodbourne) died April 8, 1865. No 
 chil. Married 2nd, Jan. 5, 1867, widow, Cornelia Kinney 
 (dau. of Nathan and Cornelia Layton) born Mar. 25, 1837. 
 Res. Woodbourne, (1900.) She died Sept. 8, 1898, Occu. 
 Prop. River View House (Boarding.) 
 
 97. III. DANIEL WEBSTER, born at Marbletown [230 
 Sept. 30, 1838. Married Melissa Pierce (dau. of Hiram and 
 Emeline) Res. Cooperstown, N.Y. (1892.) He died the fall 
 of 1895. She was living (1900), in Otsego Co., N.Y. 
 
 98. IV. JOSEPH, born at Marbletown, June 16, [231] 
 1841. Married 1st, Dec. 23, 1863, Jliranda L. Smith, [dau. 
 
FIFTH GENERATION. 57 
 
 of Joseph and Lucinda (Colwell) Smith] born Feb. 15, 1838, 
 died Aug. 12, 1874. Married 2d, May 9, 1875, Widow Lydia 
 A, [Turrill] [Palmer], [dau. of Isaac andRhodaA. (Jelliff) 
 Turrill] born Mar. 5, 1843. Res. near Ellenville, N.Y. 1900. 
 
 99. V. SILAS, born at Marbletown, N.Y., Aug. [236] 
 5, 1843. Married Nov. 12, 18(M, Louise Kortright [dau. of 
 Lawrence and Rachel (Bloomer) K.] born May 9. 1841. 
 Prop. "'Merritt House," boarding house. Res.Woodbourne, 
 N. Y. (1900.) 
 
 100. VI. ABNER, born at Marbletown, N. Y, [241] 
 Aug. 8, 1846, married 1st, Dec. 25, 18G8, Mary A. Bilyeii[dau. 
 of Cornelius and Margaret (Misner) B.] born Feb. 24, 1852 
 and died July 1, 1899. Married 2nd, June 1902, Emily De 
 Witt, [dau. of Jas., of Woodbourne, N. Y.) His res, 1902, 
 Woodbourne. N. Y. Occu. Boarders. 
 
 101. VII. MADISON, born at Marbletown, N.Y., Mar. 
 11, 1849, married 1st, Nov. -, 1867. Mary Sprague [dau. of 
 Abel and Elizabeth (Bussy) S.] b. 1841. No. chil. Married 
 2nd, Feb. 25, 1891, Phebe E. Krom, [dau. of Conrad and 
 Sarah M. (Carman) K.] born Mar. 17, 1854. Res. Has- 
 brook, N. Y. 
 
 102. VIII. WARREN, born June 19, 1852, died unm., 
 Mar. 27, 1872, Last res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 
 
 103. IX, KERAN ESTHER, born Mar. 23, 1856. [242 
 Married Demon Winner [son of Benj. and Charity (Gillett) 
 Winner], Res. DeBruce, N. Y. (1900). 
 
 104. X. WILLIAM HENRY, born at Fallsburgh, N.Y. 
 July 4, 1860, married Mahala Osterhoiit [dau. of Isaiah D, 
 and Mary (Dolson) Osterhout], No chil. Res, then Loch 
 Sheldrake, N, Y, 
 
 Chil. of Nathan and Charlotte (Cummings) Fitch. 22 
 
 105. I, GEORGE, born Aug. 10, 1845, married Dec. 6, 
 1870, Arunda Kane, Occu. farmer. Res. Johnstown, Ful- 
 ton Co., N. Y. (1890). 
 
 Chil. of Nathan and Sally A. (Horton) Fitch. 22 
 
 106. II. MARY JANE, born June 15, 1859, md. [251] 
 Feb. 10, 1875, George L. Cushman [son of Lee and Esther 
 (Bolton) Cushman] born Feb, 25, 1854, Occu, farmer. 
 Res. Schuyler's Lake, N. Y. 
 
58 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Chil. of Eleazer and Liicretia (Fitch) Bowen. 23 
 
 107. I. HUDSON, died at Cooperstown, N. Y., July, 
 1851, about 1 year old, 
 
 108. II. Infant son, died at Cooperstown, N. Y., Aug. 
 2, 1851. 
 
 109. III. HARMON GILBERT, born — . Married Ella 
 Smith (dau. of John and Lizzie Smith) Res. " Fitch Hill " 
 Cooperstown. N. Y. 
 
 Chil. of Peter and Susan (Fitch) Countryman. 24 
 
 110. I. WILBER NELSON, born 1842, died aged 2 yrs. 
 
 111. II. RHODA,b. Aug. 29, 1845. Married Aug.[252] 
 1863, Elisha Ayres, b. 1843, alive 1901. Res. High Falls, 1900 
 
 112. III. LEWIS, born July 4, 1849. Married [258] 
 Dec. 1878, Minerva Silliworth, born about 1859. 
 
 113. IV. WILLIAM HENRY, born Feb. 13, [259] 
 1853, married Dec. 28, 1878, Rozzana Stokes, b. Mar. 1863. 
 
 114. V. NATHAN, born June 14, 1856, married [262] 
 Dec, 1878, Mary Yaple, born 1858. 
 
 115. VI. ANNA MARIA, b. April, 1858, married [264] 
 April 3, 1880, Barney Flynn, born about 1856. 
 
 116. VII. MARTHA, born Feb. 12, 1861, married[266] 
 Sept., 1861, Aria Silkworth, born 1854. 
 
 117. VIII. ESTHER MARY, born June 14, 1869, died 
 aged 2 years. 
 
 Chil. of Jasper and Antoinette (Fitch) Purple. 25 
 
 118. I. HERMAN DATIl),* b. at Exeter Center, [267] 
 N. Y., Mar. 38, 1852, Married at Rosedale, Aug. 10, 1871, 
 Catherine Snyder Hasbrouck, [dau. of Jacob and Anna 
 (Fan) Hasbrouck] born at High Falls, N. Y., May 27, 1846. 
 Res. (1901) No. 12 Sterling St., Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y. 
 Occu. Cement Miller. 
 
 Chil. of John Lester & Antoinette Purple (Fitch) Niles.25 
 
 119. II. JOHN LESTER, born April 20, 1858. [267h] 
 Married Dec. 24, 1885, Anna Tilson, [dau. of Wm. H. Til- 
 son] born Feb, 4, 1866. She died March 3, 1892. 
 
 120. III. SILAS MARTIN, born July 6, 1874, married 
 June 28, 1888, Anna Hasbrouck, born at High Falls, N.Y., 
 Dec. 6, 1872. Occu. Blacksmith. Res. High Falls, Ulster 
 Co., N. Y .. No children (1901). 
 
 * Called himself Niles after his mother's marriage to J. L. Niles. 
 
FIFTH GENERATION. 09 
 
 121. IV. JOSEPH, born June 10, 1867 or '69. Last 
 res. Hasbrouck, Sul. Co., N.Y. Drowned in the Neversink 
 River, June 38, 1881. 
 
 Chil. of Abrani and Elizabeth (Tan Hoosear) Fitch. 27 
 
 122. I. MARP.IET LOUISA BURR, born at Ex- [268] 
 eter, N. Y., Feb. 31, 1855. Married Oct. 21, 1873, Georg-e 
 Irving' Maig-lit, (son of George, of Ridgefield, Conn.) born 
 April 39, 1853. Res. So. Norwalk, Ct. (1884). She died at 
 Norwalk, Ct., S^pt. 17, 1881. He 3nd married. 
 
 123. II. GEORGIA DOROTHEA, born June 18, 1868. 
 Married at Norwalk. Ct., Nov. 14, 1888, at 5 P. M., George 
 Raymond Barunm, [son of Geo H. and Susan J. (Hyatt) 
 Barnum] of Norwalk, Ct. He built a beautiful residence, 
 but sold it and they now live (1902) with her parents on 
 Westport road. Occu. Accountant for Norwalk Lock Co. 
 No chil. (1902). 
 
 CML of Dana and Elizabeth (Fitch) Pope. 28 
 
 124. I. ESTHER MAllY, m — . Res. Morris, Otsego 
 Co., N. Y. 
 
 125. II. WILLIAIvi, unmarried. Res. Oct. 1890, New 
 Lisbon, N.Y. Occu. Farmer. 
 
 Chil. of Lewis and Mary L. Y. (Reed) Fitcl?. 30 
 
 ISO. I. ELMER ELLSWORTH, born at Exeter, N. Y. 
 July 19, 1862. Married at Westford, N. Y.. Dec. 26, 1884 
 Nina Burwell Bailey, [dau. of Saml. C. and Jane (Roberts) 
 Bailey]. Res. Fly Creek, N. Y. (1892). Occu. Painter. 
 
 127. II. EELERY GEORGE, born at Burlington, N.Y. 
 May 11, 1870. Unm. Res. Fly Creek, N.Y. [1892], 
 
 Chil. of David N. and Phebe (Fiilow) Tan Hoosear. 31 
 
 128. I. OPHELIA, born at Norwalk, Ct., Nov. 30,1839. 
 Married at Hurlbutt St., Feb. 28, 1866, George Benjamin 
 Abbott [son of Lewis and Calcina (Sturges) Abbot of Wil- 
 ton, Ct.,] born at Wilton, June 29, 1839. She died at (Hurl- 
 butt Street) Wilton, Feb. 4, (11.15 P. M.) 1879, a devoted 
 wife and christian. After their marriage they moved to 
 (Branchville) Ridgefield, Ct., where they lived for some 
 years, and from there to Hurlbutt St. in the " Danl. Hurl- 
 butt " place, thence to the " Michael Abbott " homestead, 
 where she died. No children. After her death he married 
 
60 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 LoTica Smith, [dau. of Egbert and Harriet (Smith) Smith]. 
 They have one child, Sarah Jane. His occu. was Black- 
 smith, but he now attends his farm. 
 
 129. II. DAVID HERMON, b. at (Hurlbutt St.) [270] 
 Wilton, Ct., Mar. 20, 1844. Married at (Zion'sHill) Wilton, 
 Ct., Oct. 29, 1867, Miss Sarah Jane Quick [dau. of Thaddeus 
 Smith and Harriet (Nichols) Quick, of Wilton, Ct., and 
 grd. dau. of Samuel P. and Laura (Smith) Quick, of North 
 Salem, N. Y.] born at Redding, Ct., June 12, 1846. Occu. 
 Genealogist. Res. (Hurlbutt St.) Wilton, Ct. 
 
 SOLILOQUY 
 
 A while from now, when shall it be ? 
 
 I '11 rest my busy brain, 
 I often think it may be soon, 
 
 I '11 cease from toil and pain. 
 
 A while from now, will ne'er be seen 
 
 My form, nor yet my face, 
 I ask myself, will I be missed, 
 
 Or leave a vacant place ? 
 
 A while from now — oh, can it be, 
 
 So soon I'll be forgot? 
 I only ask give me a place 
 
 By Mother dear in Father's plot. — D. V. H. 
 
 THOUGHTS OF THE FUTURE. 
 
 When I shall die, will some kind friend 
 
 Look into my quiet humble face, 
 
 Before they lay me in my resting place. 
 And will " they call to miud with loving thought, 
 Some kindly deed the icy hands have wrought, 
 
 Some tender words the frozen lips have said. 
 
 Errands on which the willing feet have sped ? " 
 Whispering, may every fault be set aside — for he is dead. 
 
 When the long, last rest is mine, 
 
 And from this earth I 'm called away; 
 May some Van Hoosear friend exclaim, 
 
 This is the end, and no delay. 
 His work is o'er, his labors cease; 
 
 His life 's complete, — his race is run, 
 He 's passed away, no more we '11 see his face, 
 
 And all his kindly deeds are done. 
 
FIFTH GENERATION. 61 
 
 With interest felt — he labored hard; 
 
 In tracing up the generations past, — 
 Yet none can tell but those who know, 
 
 The task he 's had from first to last; 
 The nights of thought, and days the same, 
 
 The broken rest, — for me, — for you; 
 He gave his time, — his talent, — strength, 
 
 To follow up the work he had to do. 
 
 How can we pay the debt we owe. 
 
 To him, the author of this book. 
 But hear, what now he had to say. 
 
 He only asked a though, — a look, — 
 He said, ' ' When I am dead and gone. 
 
 And generations, yet unborn (It's all I claim.) 
 Shall look beneath these lids; I ask 
 
 To find, my father, — then, think kindly of his name." 
 
 — D. V. H. 
 
 Chil. of Charles B. and Louisa (Tan Hoosear) More- 33 
 house. 
 
 130. I. CHARLES BURR, born Mar. 29, 1841. [271] 
 Married at Norwalk, Ct., Cong. Church, June 7, 18G4, Miss 
 Mary F. Ferris [dau. of "Capt." Stephen, Jr. and Emeline 
 (Aiken) Ferris] of East Norwalk, (the Ferris family des- 
 cended from Stamford) born ]\lar. 6, 1841. He secured a 
 good education under the tutorship of Hon. B. F. Brown, 
 at (Cannon) Wilton. He bought a place on Staten Island, 
 N. Y., but moved to Branchviile, Ct, where he was em- 
 ployed as accountant and salesman in the Lumber and 
 Hardware business. There he built a fine residence and 
 subsequently acted as traveling salesman until he engaged 
 in the lumber business for himself at Danbury. His wife 
 died Dec. 14, 1898, A.M. He is now disengaged and resides 
 at Branchviile, (1900). 
 
 131. II. GEORGIANA, born Sept. 19, 1843. [272] 
 Married at Ridgefield, Dec. 25, 1865, Lewis Milton Ryfen- 
 burgh [son of Peter and Dorothy (Lewis) Ryfenburgh] 
 born at Phelps, N. Y., Aug. 8, 1839. He received a good 
 education at Hon. B. F. Brown's, where he and his wife 
 were schoolmates. Occu. Marine engineer. After his 
 marriage most of his time was spent in and near N. Y. 
 City. He was the inventor of the Automatic Opera Glass. 
 *'Mr. Ryfenburgh was well known in Wilton — where his 
 kindly, pleasant ways and ready sympathy had won for 
 
62 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 him many friends." [Obituary notice]. His health fail- 
 ing he and wife came to her old home at Ridgefield where 
 Feb. 28, 1896, he died. The wid. still resides there (1903). 
 
 Chil. of Burr and Sally (Yaii Hoosear) Smith. 34 
 
 132. I. ISABELLA, b. Feb. 23, 1846. Married [273] 
 at Wilton, Ct., Oct. 15, 1863, Addison Armstrong Betts [son 
 of Ira Jr., and Nancy (Weber) Betts of Wilton] born Dec. 
 30, 1840. His occupations have been school teacher, 
 accountant, coll. of City (Norwalk) taxes. He was chosen 
 Capt. of Militia at ISorwalk, where he resides (1903) and 
 where he with others were successful in having the pres- 
 ent armory located. 
 
 133. II. FERDINANI) BURR, born Nov. 6, 1848[274] 
 Married Jan., 1870 Miss Anna Waters, [dau. of Amzi and 
 Elizabeth Jane (Stevens) Waters, of Norwalk] born Aug. 
 16, 1848. She died at Bridgeport, Ct., Dec. 15, i900, buried 
 at Norwalk, Ct. He acted as salesman in N. J. for a few 
 years, and afterward came to Norwalk and opened a large 
 Dry Goods store under the firm name of " Earle and 
 Smith." In a few years he moved to N. Y., then to Troy, 
 N. Y., then to Bridgeport, Ct., where for twelve years he 
 conducted a large Dry Goods business. He 2nd married 
 Sept. 3, 1902, Genevra Bessie [widow of Chas. B. Root, and 
 dau. of Francis Fisk and Lucy (Kendall) McLean, of Lud- 
 low, Mass.] born April 22, 1856. Mr. and Mrs. Smith re- 
 side at 141 Main St., Norwalk, Ct. (1903.) 
 
 Ciiil. of Ciiarles & Harriet (Yan Hoosear) Partrick. 35 
 
 134. I. MARY FRANCES, born Sept. 20, 1845. [277] 
 Married 1st by T. A. Lovejoy, Nov. 27, 1863. Daniel 
 Stnrges Abbott [son of Lewis and Calcina (Sturges) Ab- 
 bott] born Feb. 13, 1842. He enlisted in the 3d Reg., Co. 
 D, Conn Militia, May 11, 1861, and was discharged Aug. 
 12,1861. Re-enlisted Oct. 29, 1862 in the 25th Reg. Ct. 
 Vol., Co. I, discharged April 25, 1863. He was drowned 
 outside of Norwalk harbor May 25, 1873. Last res. (Can- 
 non Sta.) Wilton. She 2d married Sept. 1879, Henry Burr 
 Partrick, of Wilton [son of BurrJ. She resides at Cannon 
 Station (1900). 
 
 Chil. of Henry and Mary (Yan Moosear) Donaghe. 36 
 
 135. I. HARRIET ASIELIA, born Feb. 17, 1856, died 
 May 10, 1860. 
 

 
 
 
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FIFTH GENERATION. 63 
 
 136. II. LUCIA AMELIA, born July 14, 1861. |283] 
 Married Sept. 4, 1878, Arthur Moore Parke [son of Byron 
 and Sophia (Brooks) Parke], born May 11, 1854. Occu. 
 Prof, of Mufeic. (Grad. 187G.) Res. West Winfield, Her- 
 kermer Co., N.Y. (1901.) 
 
 Chil. of William and Rachel Ann (Brown) Tan Hoosear. 
 
 38 
 
 137. I. JULIAN, born at Black River Falls, Wis., 
 Oct. G, 1853, died May 10, 1860. 
 
 138. II. MINNIE BLANCHE, born at Black River 
 Falls, Wis., May 29, 1862, died May 22, 1863. 
 
 Chil. of William and Mary Ann (Warren) (Caswell) Tan 
 Hoosear. 38 
 
 139. III. HELEN BLANCHE, b. Sept. 23, 1872. [285a] 
 Married Sept. 5, 1895 Philip Richard Kimball [son of Ed- 
 win and Mary (Bisbie) Kimball, he born at Levden, N. Y. 
 1831, she at Ellicottville, N. Y., 1833] born Dec. 1, 1873. 
 Occu. Rancher. Res. Haywards, Cal. 1901. 
 
 140. IV. JOHN EDWIN, born at Unity, Wis. [285e] 
 Dec. 23, 1874. Married Oct. 15, 1896 Grace Julia Kennedy 
 [dau. of Duncan Cameron* and Addie (Best) Kennedy] 
 born at Haywards, Cal., Mar. 24, 1875. Occu. Fruit Cul- 
 turist. Res. Haywards, Cal. lOul. 
 
 141. V. WILLIAM SYLYESTER, born Jan. 23[285f] 
 1877, married June 14, 1900 Margaret Steedman, [dau. of 
 Peter and Agnes (Patterson) Steedman of Scotland] born 
 in London, Eng., Aug. 4, 1875. His occupation, fruit cul- 
 turist. Graduated Union High School, No. 3, June 8th, 
 1894, at Haywards, Cal., where he resided, 1901. 
 
 142. VI. DAYID, born at Romeo, Wis., July 16, 1882, 
 died aged 7 months. 
 
 143. VII. BESSIE ELNORA SALLY PERMELA, b. 
 
 at Romeo, Wis., July 16, 1882, died Mar. 12, 1887. 
 
 144. VIII. MAY ROMONA, born at Romeo, Wis.. 
 
 April 1868, died 1886. 
 
 145. IX. THERESA EIGHMY, born at Romeo, Wis., 
 Jan. 30, 1888, unmarried 1901. 
 
 * Born Erie Co., N. Y., Sept. 4, 1838. She at Portland, Me., June 10, 1852. 
 
64 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Chil. of Charles and Emily (Cole) Van Hoosear. 39 
 
 146. I. FLETCHER, born in Norwalk, Mar. 25, 1870, 
 married Oct. 24, 1900 Miss Harriet Esther Ruscoe [dau. of 
 Cyrus and Frances E. (Davis) Ruscoe, of Norwalk, Ct.] 
 He is a member of Our Brothers' Lodge, No. 10, I.O.O.F. 
 and employed at the Shirt Man'f'y, Norwalk, (1903). 
 
 147. II. LUELLA COLE, born in Norwalk, Mar. 9, 
 1873, married at Brooklyn, N. Y., April 19, 1900 William 
 John Bassett Nodine, [son of Alonzo and Emma (Reed) 
 Nodine] born at Yonkers, N. Y., May 13, 1865. Occupa- 
 tion liveryman, 156 Pierepont st., Brooklyn, N. Y., resi- 
 dence 147 Ft. Green Place, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 Chil. of Abram and Elizabeth (Van Hoosear) Fitch. 
 
 [See No. 122, 123.] 
 
 Chil. of George E. and Eliza J. (Fitch) Van Hoosear. 41 
 
 148. I. JULIA, born April 28, 1862, died at Norwalk, 
 July 17, 1870. 
 
 149. II. JESSE, born Feb. 6, 1868, married June[385j 
 27, 1886, Frederick Freudenthal, [son of Chas. and Henri- 
 etta (Dreyer) Freudenthal.] Res. Norwalk, Ct. 
 
 150. III. BERTIE MAY, born June 30, 1871. Unm. 
 (1903). Music teacher. Res. Norwalk, Ct. 
 
 151. IV. BLANCHE MAURICE, born Dec. 27, 1881. 
 Res. with her parents. 
 
 Chil. of James S. and Antoinette( Van Hoosear)Mead. 43 
 
 152. I. WINFIELD, born July 13, 1862, married[286] 
 Oct. 23, 1884, Angelina Dominge [dau. of La Clair & Annie 
 (Morris) Dominge,] born at N. Y., Aug. 8, 1863. Occu. 
 Salesman. Res. Danbury, Ct. 
 
 153. III. HARRY, born Aug. 18, 1867, died with 
 membranous croup, Nov. 3, 1872. 
 
 154. IV. MINNIE BLANCHE, born Dec. 23, 1869, 
 married May 23, 1893, Wm. J. Bell [son of Geo. and Eliza- 
 beth (Jackson) Bell, of Danbury, Ct.] born in England, 
 April, 1870. Res. Danbury. 
 
 155. V. CLARENCE WILLIAM, born April 8, 1877. 
 Unm. (1900). Res. Danbury. 
 
SIXTH GENERATION. 65 
 
 Cliil. of Henry and Lncy E. (Johnson) Tan lloosear. 44 
 
 156. I. HARllY WARREN, born at Norwalk, [288] 
 Ct., —29, 1869, married at Worcester, Mass., Feb. 10, 1890 
 Emma Blanche Sibley [dau. of Geo. Frederick and Charlotte 
 Jane (Ashby) Sibly] born at N. Brookfield, Mass., Mar. 21, 
 1868. Res. Worcester, Mass. (189i ). 
 
 157. II. FRANCES LUCILE, born at So. Nor- [389] 
 walk, Ct., Mar. 4, 1870, married at Worcester, Mass., Mar. 
 21, 1892 Rev. Jay Scott Budlong-, [legally adopted son of 
 Samuel Newell and Ellen Frances Budlong, 1873, and son 
 of Charles Edward and Jennie (Farr) Spencer,] born at 
 North Situate, R. I., July 20, 1859. Minister of the Epis- 
 copal Church. Res. 1902, Ballard, Washington. U. S. A, 
 
 158. III. EDITH GERTRUDE, born at So. Norwalk, 
 Mar. 22, 1873, married at Worcester, Mass., Mar. 3, 1890, 
 Charles WlUard Knight, [son of Samuel Willard and Julia 
 (Phelps) Knight, she of Northampton, Mass.] born in 
 Westfield, Mass., July 6. 1864. Occu. Salesman. Res. 1902, 
 74 Sharon St., West Medford, Mass. 
 
 SIXTH GENERATION. 
 
 Chil. of Henry and Lncy A. (Pinney) Hoppson. 46 
 
 159. I. WILLIE. 
 
 160. II. . 
 
 Chil. of Henry L. and Charlotte J.(Pinney)Bal)cock. 46 
 
 161. I. JENNIE, born April. 1858. 
 
 162. II. HERBERT, born Aug., 1868. 
 
 Chil. of Chauncey T. and Percilla (Jones) Pinney. 49 
 
 163. I. CARRIE, born Dec. 10, 1866. 
 
 164. II. ALFORD, born May, 1870. 
 
 Chil. of Henry A. and Catherine (Cooper) Pinney. 50 
 
 165. I. FREDDIE, born Aug. 2, 1867. 
 
 166. II. WILLIE, born Dec, 1874. 
 
66 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Chil. of Curtis S. and Marion (Beebe) Pinney. 51 
 
 167. I. HERMON, born Oct. 5, 1867. 
 
 168. II. HOWARD, born Sept. 4, 1869. 
 
 169. III. MABLE, born July 29, 1872. 
 
 170. IV. ALISON B., born Sept. 8, 1879. 
 
 Chil. of David and Laura A. (Pinney) Steele. 53 
 
 171. I. IRA, born Aug. 1, 1867. 
 
 172. II. BIRTHIE, born July 9, 1869. 
 
 Chil. of Adelbert R. and Alisa (Rogers) Pinney. 54 
 
 173. I. ELOUISE, born Sept., 1868. 
 
 174. II. CHARLOTTE, born Nov., 1869. 
 
 Chil. of Norman R. and Mary (Torry) Pinney. 55 
 
 175. I. MERTIE, born Sept. 1875. 
 
 Chil. of Henry D. and Nellie V. (Brown) Meeker. 73 
 
 176. I. EDITH MAY, born Sept. 27, 1886. Res. with 
 parents. 
 
 177. II. FLORENCE LILLIAN, born Aug. 16, 1888, 
 died May 16, 1891. 
 
 178. III. LULUETTA, born March 10, 1891. 
 
 Chil. of Willie R. and — (— ) Van Hoosear. 74 
 
 179. I. , born before 1887. 
 
 Chil. of Herbert J. and — (— ) Van Hoosear. 75 
 
 180. I. , born before 1887. 
 
 Chil. of Isaac and Nancy A. (Perkins) Carpenter. 79 
 
 181. I. SUSIE LOUISE, born Feb. 1, 1850, [289a] 
 married May 13, 1870, Paul W. Carroll. He (or she) died 
 May 16, 1889. 
 
 181a. II. NANCY ADALINE, born June 6, 1852, died 
 Oct. 13, 1861. 
 
 182. III. CHARLES, born June 19. 1854, married[289d] 
 1st Oct. 10, 1878, Annie Farrist. Married 2d, Dec. 15, 1886 
 Hannah Brown. 
 
SIXTH GENERATION. 67 
 
 183. IV. ISAAC FRANCIS, born June 13,185G, married 
 Mar. 11, 1878, Mary M. Johnson. No cliil. Res. Watrous, 
 New Mexico, (1900). 
 
 183a. V. ALZADIE, born in Hangtown. Col., [2H\)g] 
 Aug. 1, 1858, married May 10, 1883, Tom. Carroll, born in 
 Belfast, Ireland, July 4, 1841.. He died at Rock Springs, 
 Wyoming. Res. Naples, Idaho, (1901). 
 
 183b VI. ALWILDA, (twin) b. at Hangtown, [289h] 
 Col., Aug. 1,1858, married 1st, May 18, 1880, Norman Jump. 
 Married 2d, — , 1884, J. L. Cooper. She died Nov. 14, 1887 
 at Fort Worth, Texas. 
 
 183c. VII. GEOR(j|IE, born Jan. 13, 1801, died Sept. 
 22, 18GI. 
 
 184. VIII. WILLIAM EDWARD, born Feb. 27, 1864, 
 died Aug. 5, 1888. 
 
 Chil. of Joseph E. and Rhoda A)in(Carpenter)Mance. 80 
 
 185. I. ISAAC WiCKAM, born Feb. 6, 1852, [291] 
 married 1st, Aug. G, 1879 Miss Alice Yan Kenren, of Pine 
 Bush, Orange Co., N. Y. She died at Texas, Aug. 10, 
 1881, age 22 yrs., 10 mos. Married 2nd 1883, Flora Helms, 
 at Eilenville, N. Y. She died Mar, -, 1885. Married 3rd, 
 Dec. 29, 1887, Augusta Reed. Occu. carpenter and builder. 
 Res. 265 W. 19th St., N. Y. 1902. 
 
 186. II. JOSEPHINE, born Aug. 15, 1853, mar- [292] 
 ried June 5, 1881 Charles Hooker Remer, of Penn Yan, N. 
 Y. [son of Abram Van Norsdal and Sarah A. (Olney) Re- 
 merj born July 31, 1846. Res. 1902, 212 E. 50th St., N. Y. 
 
 187. III. JOSEPH SMITH, born at Eilenville, [29-lJ 
 N. Y., Dec. 13, 1854, married at Thomaston, Ct., Jan. 6, 
 1877, Annie E. Kilner, born at Vvalden, Orange Co., N.Y., 
 Feb. 19, 1857. Occu. Prop. Hotel, Circle Ave., Eilenville. 
 He died 1895. She 2nd married —. Res. (1900) Bridge- 
 port, Ct. 
 
 188. IV. GEORGE W., born Aug. 28, 1857, died Oct. 
 G, 1875. Unmarried. 
 
 189. V. STEPHEN A. DOUGLASS, born Nov. [300a] 
 15, 1859, married May 13, 1891 Miss Mary Shaupp, of Eilen- 
 ville, formerly of N. Y. City. Occu. Knife Maker. Res. 
 Eilenville, N. Y. 
 
 Chii. of Simon J. ami Julia Ann(Carpenter)Keator. 81 
 
68 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 11)0. I. 3IELVIN VALENTINE, born at Fre- [300b] 
 mont Center, Sul. Co., N. Y., Feb. 14, 1854. Married at 
 Equinunk, Wayne Co., Penn., Nov. G, 1878, Nora Aziiioii 
 Jump, [dau. of Fredrick H. and Mary M. (Vaughn) Jump, 
 of Equinunk, Penn.] born at Ashland, Green Co., N. Y. 
 Jan. 31, 1859. His occu. farmer. Res. 1901, Pueblo, Colo. 
 
 101. II. IIOUEIIT WHITE, born Feb. 37, 1855, died 
 Sept. 26, 1876. Buried Union, Penn. 
 
 192. III. CHARLOTTE ANN, born at Fremont Center, 
 N. Y., June 36, 1859, married 1883, at Dodge City, Kansas 
 Byroii F. Smitli. Last res. Aurora, 111. No children. 
 
 193. IV. ISAAC JELLIFF, born at Fremont Center, 
 N.Y., Oct. 14, 1863, married at Bethany, Wayne Co., Pa., 
 Sept., 1885, Liicmda M. Miunford. 
 
 194. V. ELIZAHETK MARY, born April 9, 1868, died 
 at Union, Penn. about 1884. 
 
 194a. VI. BENJAMIN LESLIE, born Sept. 36, 1874, 
 died at Union, Penn. 1879. 
 
 Chil. of Elijah and Elizabeth (Carpenter) Mance. 82 
 
 195. I. MINNIE ANTOINETTE, born Sept. 33, [301] 
 1855, married Nov. 1, 1873, Jaities iLiigli Collins, [son of 
 James Courtney and Jane (Milne) Collins] born Feb. 33, 
 1849. Occu. Ship Carpenter. Res. 108 Gieenpoint Ave., 
 Greenpoint, E. D., N. Y. (1893). 
 
 196. II. EDWIN CARPENTER, born April 7, 1859. 
 Drowned in Ellenville Canal, Ulster, Co., N.Y., Aug. 1873. 
 
 197. III. EMMA FKANCES, (Twin) b. at Ellen- i302j 
 ville, N. Y., April 7, 1859, married at Brooklyn, N. Y., 
 April 17, 1884, Fran.k Whe^der, [son of Warren and Cath- 
 erine S. Wheeler j by Lewis Francis, Pastor of Kent St. 
 Reformed Church; boi-n Jan. 30, 1857. 
 
 198. IV. ISABELLA AVNA, born April 15, 1865[305] 
 at (the Cape) Ulster Co., N. Y. Alarried Aug. 17, 1881, 
 Enoch Eber Edwards [son of Joseph and Esther Ann (Nef- 
 fen) Edwards) born June 38, 1869 at Dairyiand, N. Y. 
 Occu. lumberman and farmer. Res. Livingston Manor, 
 Sul. Co., N. Y. 
 
 199. V. THEODORE, born May 10, 1867, at Ellenville, 
 N.Y., died at (the Cape) Ulster Co., N.Y., May, 1868, with 
 croup. 
 
SIXTH GENERATION. 69 
 
 200. VI. LIZZIE, born April 17, 18G9, married at 
 EUenville, N.Y., Dec. 3, 1889 or 90 Austin Pierce, of Havre 
 De Grace, (son of Josiah D. and Sarah M. Pierce) born 
 Sept. G, 18G9. No cliil. (1891). His res. Belias, Hartford 
 Co., Md. (1891). Her. res. EUenville, N. Y. 
 
 Cliii. of Saml. I. and Antoinette M. (Carpenter) Benson. 
 
 83 
 
 201. I. MARION W., b. May 23, 18G5, died Jan 25, '83. 
 
 202. II. REUBEN JELLIFF, born Oct. 14, 18GG.[310] 
 Married Sept. 1888, Marion Morris. Occu. Painter and 
 Paper Hanger. Res. Middletown, N. Y. (1892). 
 
 203. III. GEORGE L., born Feb. 12, 18G9, mar- [311] 
 ried Feb. 1889, Rosie Aldricli. Occu. Cutter, Res. EUen- 
 ville, N. Y. (1892). 
 
 204. IV, JOSEPHINE, born Aug. 31, 1872, died Apr. 
 10, 1875. 
 
 205. V. WAIIREN M., born April 15, 1877, at school. 
 Res. EUenville, N. Y, (1892). 
 
 Chii. of Benjanil.i A. and Nancy J. (Groo) Carpenter. 85 
 
 206. I. LUCY ALICE, born at Fallsburgh, N.Y., Oct. 
 29, 18G-1, married Mar. 12, 1895. "Franli Sharp,"* of Nev- 
 ersink, [son of Thomas and Almira (Everts) Travis] born 
 Aug. 1, 18G8. No chil. (1900). Res. Neversink. 
 
 207. 11. WILLIAM J., born at Fallsburgh, N.[312a] 
 Y. June 28, 1867, married Sept. 28, 1892 Flora Bentonfdau. 
 of George and Sarah (Hodge) Benton,] born Oct. 20, 1872. 
 Res. (1900) Neversink. 
 
 208. III. JOHN GROO, born at Fallsburgh, [312bJ 
 N. Y., June 17, 1873, married Mar. 25, 189G, Alice Jones, 
 [dau. of John B. and Sarah (Ilasbrouck) Jones] born Oct. 
 — , 187G. Res. Liberty, N. Y. 
 
 Chil. of Jar vis C. and Jane Ann (Jellilf ) Kile. 87 
 
 209. I. OSCAR WILLARD, born Aug. 18G0. [313 j 
 Married 1st, Feb. 22, 1883, Esther Mary Smith, [dau. of 
 Samuel and Polly (Coon) Smith,] born Nov. 17, 18G4; died 
 May 20, 18SG. Married 2d, April 19, 1890 Jessie Freemont 
 Hall, [dau. of Mott and Jane (Devine) Hall,] born Mar. 
 1861; diedAug. IG, 1890. Married 3d, Oct. 29, 19ol, Min- 
 
 * Foster son of Wm. and Maria (Everts) Sharp. 
 
70 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 erva Gillett, [dau. of Reuben and Emeline D. (Marshall) 
 Gillett,] born April 15, 1867. 
 
 210. II. JOHN STEPHEN, born May 11, 18G3; died 
 Jan. 10, 1883. 
 
 211. III. DELIA ABIGAIL, born July 10, 1867; died 
 July 18, 187l. 
 
 Chil. of Isaac ami Joliaima (Porter) Jelliff. 88 
 
 212. I. NYE COLFAX, born at Woodbourne, N. Y., 
 Jan. 31, 1869, married Oct. 12, 1892 Miriam Pliilipya Totllill 
 [dau. of Alfred* and Phiiippa Jane (Martin) Tothill] born 
 Dec. 7, 1872, in Philadelphia, Pa. Occu. Glass Manufact- 
 urer. No chil. (1901). Res. Orlean, N. Y. (1900). 
 
 213. II. HATTIE MAY, born Feb. 26, 1875 in [HIBd] 
 Liberty, N. Y. Married Nov. 8, 1893 at Neversink. N. Y. 
 Andrew Bryers Towuseiid [son of Isaac & Mary (Bryers**) 
 Townsend] born Jan. 31, 1866, at Greenfield, N. Y. Occu. 
 Farmer. Res. Greenfield, N, Y. (19( 0), 
 
 ChiL of Reuben R. and Martha A. (Gillett) Jelliff. 89 
 
 214. I. PLUMA, born April 19, 1869, married Sept. 27, 
 1898, Jay Simpson [son of James and Elizabeth (Gardner) 
 Simpson] born Nov. 2 1869. Occu. Merchant. Res. So. 
 Fallsburgh, N. Y. No chil. (1900). 
 
 215. II. BERTHA, born Sept. 18, 1875, married June 
 19, 1901, Orrin Purvis Sprague [son of Erastus and Mary 
 (Purvis) Sprague] of Rockland, N. Y. (now called Living- 
 ston Manor) born June 5, 1861. A member of the Mercan- 
 tile firm Campbill, Sprague & Co. Res. Roscoe, N. Y. 
 
 216. Ill, JESSIE ALEXIA, born Nov. 10, 1879, died 
 June 29, 1881. Buried at Woodbourne, N. Y. 
 
 Chil. of David H. and Lydia A. (Tyrrell) Palmer. 92 
 
 217. I, ALICE, born May 16, 1862, married Apr.[314:] 
 29, 1884, D. Frank McCord,[son of Abram and Rachel (De- 
 puy McCord] born Feb. 3, 1854. Res. (P.O.) Centerville, 
 N. Y. (1900). 
 
 218. II. ETTIE, married Wm. M. T. Eckert. No chil. 
 She died. H is res. Greenfield, N. Y. (1900). 
 
 * He was born at Bristol, En^jland, Nov. 9, 1836; came to America in May, 
 1853. His wife born Penan, Cornwall, Eng., Aug. 10, 1839; came to U. S., 
 Sept. 1849. Married 1859. 
 
 ** Dau. of Rev. James N. Bryers. 
 
Benjamin Yernooy Merritt. No. 225. 
 
SIXTH GENERATION. 71 
 
 219. MYRTLE, unm. Res. Ellenville, N. Y. (1900). 
 Chil. of Wm. H. & Cornelia A.(Henclricksoii) Tyrrell. 93 
 219a. I. CORA, born Feb. 23, 1870, married Herman 
 
 Scott. [314a] 
 
 219b. II. ISAAC B., born Sept. 11, 1875. Res. Mid- 
 dletown, N. Y. 
 
 219c. III. LESTER H., born Oct. 1, 1884, Res, Mid- 
 dletown, N. Y. 
 
 Chil. of Martin and Cornelia (Kinney) Merritt. 96 
 
 220. I. GEOROE MARTIN, born Oct. 1, 1867. Unm. 
 Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. (1900). Occu. Carpenter. 
 
 221. II. SEYMOUR HORATIO, born July 23, 1870. 
 Unm. Occu. Milk, etc., 495 7th Ave., N. Y. 1902. 
 
 222. III. LILLIE BELLE, born Mar. 2, 1872, married 
 Charles Armstrong (son of Stephen Armstrong, of Never- 
 sink, N. Y.) Res. (1900) Woodbourne, N. Y. 
 
 223. IV. HARTEY JAY, born Feb. 28, 1873, died Apr. 
 15, 1887. 
 
 224. V. FRANKIE, b. June 24, 1874, died Sept.6, 1874 
 
 225. VI. BENJAMIN YERNOOY, born Nov. 1, 1875. 
 Unm. Occu. Policeman, N. Y. 1902. 
 
 226. VII. THORNTON LAYTON, born Mar. 28, 1878, 
 married Mar. 28, 1900, Jennie Fnrnan (dau. of Orlando 
 Furnan). Res. Woodbourne. 
 
 227. VIII. WINFIELD HANCOCK, born Feb. 9, 1880. 
 Unm. 1900. Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 
 
 228. IX. EMMA THERESSA, born Sept. 24, 1881, died 
 Oct. 31, 1896. 
 
 229. X. JENNIE BALL, born May 2, 1884. Unm. 
 
 Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 
 
 Chil. of Daniel W. and Melissa (Pierce) Merritt. 97 
 
 230. I. HIRAM, born Dec. 30, 1868, married Feb. [3 15] 
 1884, Emeline Hern. Res. Cooperstown, Otsego Co., N.Y. 
 
 Chil. of Joseph and Miranda L. (Smith) Merritt. 98 
 
 231. I. LUCINDA, born Oct. 11, 1864, married [317] 
 
 1st July 9, 1884, James Nield, of Cooks Falls, N. Y.[son of 
 John and Mary Nield 1 born Sept. 22, 1856. Occu. Farmer. 
 
72 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Died Dec. 8, 1888. Married 2nd, Stephen Decker. She 
 died — . 
 
 232. II. JOSEPHINE, born Aug. 2, 1866, mar- [318] 
 ried July 3, 1884, Henry Severing (son of Anthony and 
 Mary Ann Severing) born Aug. 20, 1856. Occu. Farmer. 
 Res. Ulster Hieghts, N. Y. (1900). 
 
 232a. III. MARTIN F., died May 24, 1869, age 5 ra. 
 26 days. 
 
 232b. IV. WARD W., died Aug. 24, 187^ age 1 year, 
 3 months. 
 
 Chil, of Joseph and Lydia A. (Palmer) Merritt. 98 
 
 233. VI. MARTIN FREER, born May 12, 1876. Res. 
 Ellenville, N. Y. (1900). Unm. 
 
 234. VII. LULU TYRELL, born July 9, 1878. [321a] 
 married John Fiek. 
 
 235. VIII. MATTIE M., born April 16, 1880. Unm. 
 Res. Ellenville, N. Y. (1900). 
 
 Chil. of Silas and Louise (Kortriglit) Merritt. 99 
 
 236. I. DELBERT, born in Fallsburgh, Nov. 5, 1865, 
 married Feb. 18, 1888, Louise E. Kneip (dau. of John and 
 Mary Kneip) born July 1, 1866. No chil. Res. Hasbrouck, 
 N. Y. (1900). 
 
 237. II. SHERMAN HASBROUCK, born at [321c] 
 Fallsburgh, Aug. 24, 1869, married Nov. 22, 1893, Sylvia 
 Miller, [dau of Andrew Tabor and Sarah (Addis) Miller] 
 Occu. Farmer. Res. Woodbourne, 1900. 
 
 238. III. CORA ELLA, born at Fallsburgh, June[322] 
 9,1872, married June 9, 1892, Herman Naeher [son of Fran- 
 cis P. and Otelia Naeher] born Oct. 26, 18—. Occu. House- 
 furnishings, 473 Grand St., Brooklyn, N. Y. (1900.) 
 
 239. IV. FRANK M., born at Fallsburgh, Jan. [322c] 
 23, 1875, married Susie Rexford [dau. of Horace and Elec- 
 ta (Brown) Rexford]. Res. Centerville, N. Y. 
 
 240. V. SARAH ETTA, born at Fallsburgh, [322d] 
 N. Y., Mar. 1, 1879, married Mar. 3, 1897, John Pierce, 
 [son of Michael D. and Sarapta (Gillett) Pierce] . Occu. 
 farmer. Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 
 
 Chil. of Abner and Mary A. (Bilyen) Merritt. 100 
 
" RIVERVIEW HOISE." 
 
 The residence of Martin Merritt, No. 96, situated 
 on the banks of the Neversink River, a short distance 
 north of Woodbourne, Sullivan County, N. Y. 
 
SIXTH GENERATION. 73 
 
 341. I. HATTIE MARIA, b. Aug. 4, 1870, mar- [322] 
 ried Sept. 28, 1892 Wm. M. Smith, [son of Thos. and Mary 
 (Anderson) Smith]. Res. Hasbrouck, N.Y. Occu. farmer, 
 
 242. II. NELLIE KERAN, born April 22, 1874, mar- 
 ried Oct. 2, 1895, Richard G. Simpson, [son of Jas. and 
 Elizabeth (Gardner) Simpson,] born April -, 1873. Occu. 
 farmer. No chil. (1900). Res. So. Fallsburgh, N. Y. 
 
 243. III. JOSEPH MADISON, born June 8, 1876, mar- 
 ried IVIay 27, 1896, lona Depuy, [dau. of Darias and Susan 
 Ann (Hasbrouck) Depuyl. 
 
 244. IV. MINNIE MARY, born Feb. 16, 1882. Unm. 
 Res. Woodbourne, N. Y. 
 
 Chil. of Demon and Reran E. (Merritt) Winner. 103 
 
 245. I. HENRY. Res. De Bruce, N. Y. 
 246 II. ANNA. 
 
 247. III. NETTIE. 
 247a. IV. EATHEN. 
 247b. V. , born 1900. 
 
 Chil. of George and Aurnnda (Kaul) Fitch. 106 
 
 248. I. ELEANOR, b. Sept. 15, 1875, died June 10, '87. 
 
 249. II. JENNIE, born Sept. 10, 1883. 
 
 250. III. EARL, born Dec. 5, 1885. 
 
 Chil. of George L. and Mary J. (Fitch) Cnshnian. 106 
 
 251. I. ESTHER, born Jan. 7, 1876, married at Schy- 
 lers Lake, Dec. 28, 1897, La Grande Southworth. 
 
 251a. II. — boy, born 1893. 
 
 Chil. of Harmon G. and Ella (Smith) Bowen. 109 
 
 251b. . 
 
 Chil. of Elisha and Rhoda (Conntryman) Ayres. Ill 
 
 252. I. ANNA ELIZABETH, born Sept. 1865, married 
 Oct. 1884, Oscar Hornbeck, born 1859. 
 
 253. II. LEWIS, born Nov., 1867, died aged 4 yrs. 
 264. III. IDA, born June, 1869. 
 
 255. IV. ELMER, born March, 1872. 
 
 256. V. WILLIAM, born Oct., 1878. 
 
 257. VI. DOREATHA, born 1883. 
 
74 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Chil. of Lewis and Mmerva(Silkwortli)Countrymaii. 112 
 
 258. I. ARIA, born March 8 or 9, 1880. 
 
 Chil. of Wm. H. and Rozzana(Stokes)Countrynian. 113 
 
 259. I. WALTER WESLEY, born Mar. 19, 1880. 
 
 260. II. LURETTA, born Sept., 1878. 
 
 261. III. WILLIAM, born Jan. 3, 1884. 
 
 Chil. of Nathan and Mary (Yaple) Countryman. 114 
 
 262. I. LEWIS, born Jan. 1880. 
 
 263. II. PHILLIP, born about 1883. 
 
 Chil. of Barney and Anna M. (Countryman) Flynn. 115 
 
 264. I. LURETTA, born Jan., 1881. 
 
 265. II. , born 1884. 
 
 Chil. of Aria and Martha(Countryman)Silkworth. 116 
 
 266. I. MYRON, born 1882. 
 
 266a. II. — (daughter) born Aug. 1883. 
 
 Chil. of Herman D. and Catherine S.(Hasbrouck) Niles. 
 
 118 
 
 267. I. ANNA, born Dec. 6, 1873. 
 
 267a. 11. EUOENE, born May 5, 1874, married[322j] 
 Sept. 37, 1893, at Stone Ridge, N. Y., Maggie Delamates, 
 born at Marbletown, N. Y., Oct. 4, 1873. 
 
 267b. III. ARTHUR, born June 16, 1876, died June 
 30, 1876. 
 
 267c. IV. MARY, born April 15, 1878, married[322k] 
 Jan. 1, 1896, Stephen J. Libolt, born Sept. 19, 1873, died 
 April 13, 1900, at High Falls. Res. Wilber, N. Y. 
 
 267d. V. JANET, born Aug. 7, 1880. 
 267e. VI. FREDERICK, born Aug. 3, 1883, died Dec. 
 24, 1883. 
 
 267f . VII. CHARLES, born Feb. 3, 1885. Unm. 
 267g. VIII. MAURICE, born June 8, 1888. Unm. 
 
 Chil. of John and Anna (Tilson) Niles. 119 
 
 267h. I. WILLIAM H., born Nov. 28, 1886. Unm. 
 Res. (1900) High Falls, N. Y. 
 
dinton Q. Tan Hoosear. No. 270. 
 
SIXTH GENERATION. 75 
 
 267i. II. ISABEL, born Oct 17, 1888. Unm. Res. 
 
 (1900) Cooks Falls, N. Y. 
 
 267 j. III. MABEL, born Nov. 13, 1890, died Jan.8,'91. 
 Chil. of George I. and Harriet L.B.(Fitch)Haight. 122 
 
 268. I. EARNEST VAN HOOSEAR HAIGHT, born 
 Sept. 11, 1877, married — , Cornelia May Hoyt, [dau. of 
 Ellas G, and Martha (Lessey) Hoyt] born June 18, 1875. 
 Occu. Clerk. Res. (1900) New Milford, Ct. 
 
 269. II. THEODORE MILTON, born Mar. 1881, Res. 
 Ridgefield, Ct. (1900). 
 
 Chil. of David H. and Sarah Jane (Quick) Van Hoosear 
 
 129 
 
 270. I. CLINTON QUICK, born at (Hurlbutt [323] 
 Street) Wilton, Ct., Nov. 7, 1868, at 9.30 P. M. Married 
 at 271 Rutledge Street, Brooklyn, N. Y., Sept. 18, 1895, by 
 Rev. John E. Adams, Miss Ada Louisa Lewin, of Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y. ! dau. of Isaac and Eliza Clifft (Mendenhall) 
 Lewin, and grand dau. (paternally) of Wm. and Matilda 
 (Watson) Lewin,— (maternally) Wm. and Sarah(Actlar) 
 Mendenhall] born Oct. 11, 1870. He has a residence in 
 Hurlbutt Street, where he lives. (1903). Occu. Mail Carrier 
 
 Chil. of Charles B. and Mary (Ferris) Morehouse. 130 
 
 271. I. FERRIS STEPHEN, born Dec. 11, 1865 [325] 
 Married at Danbury, Ct., Oct. 3, 1888, by Rev. A. C. Hub- 
 bard, Fannie D. Ballard, [dau. of Cyrus and Sarah E. 
 (Lewis) Ballard, of Danbury.] He 2ud married at Port- 
 chester, N.Y., by Rev. Sam'l Hunt, Sept., 1899, Miss Kath- 
 leen Vt'illiams, [dau. of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Williams, of 
 ( Branch ville) Ridgefield, Ct.] His occu. City Surveyor, 
 So. Norwalk, Ct. (1893). Res. Brancbville, Ct, 
 
 Chil. of Lewis M. and Georgianna (Morehouse) 
 
 Ryfenburgh. 131 
 
 272. I. ANNA LOUISE DOROTHEA, born in [326] 
 Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. 1, 1866, married at Ridgefield, Ct., 
 Jan. 1, 1887, Percy St. Clair Ackerman, of N. Y., born 
 in Brattleboro, Vt., Sept. 18, 1866, [son of Aaron Crane* 
 and Anna Elizabeth* (Bradbury) Ackerman.] He grad- 
 uated at Wi lliston Seminary, East Hampton, Mass. He 
 
 * He born at Goshen, N. Y. She New York City. 
 
76 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 was interested in the Automatic Opera Glass Co., and 
 acted as Advertising Agent for the Housatonic R. R. un- 
 til absorbed by the Consolidated. He now resides at 
 Wilton, Ct. (1903.) 
 
 Cliil. of Addison A. and Isabella (Smith) Betts. 132 
 
 273. I. FARliON SMITH, born Sept. 12, 1864, [327] 
 married at So. Norwalk, Ct., Jan. 20, 1891, Miss Jennie 
 Hall Byxbee, [dau. of Francis Franklyn and Alma Eliza- 
 beth (Hall) Byxbee, of So. Norwalk, Ct.] He is Sec'y of 
 St. John's Lodge. A. F. and A. M. Occu. of the firm of 
 Holmes, Keeler & Selleck Co., Norwalk, Ct. (1903.) 
 
 Chil. of Ferdinand B. and Anna (Waters) Smith. 133 
 
 274. I. ROBERT IRVING, died 1870. 
 
 275. II. MASON MORRELL, born June 5, 1871. [328] 
 Married Miss Nellie Oarlick, [dau. of Chas. D. Garlickj 
 Occu. Dry Goods. Res. Bridgeport, Ct. (1900). 
 
 275a. III. CARRIE EUGENIA, born at Norwalk, Ct., 
 Feb. 1873, married Nov. ]9, 1902, at 141 Main St., Norwalk, 
 Ct., Preston Moore McClanahan [son of Edmund B. and 
 Martha E. (Simmons) Mc Clanahan] born Nashville, Tenn. 
 1868. Res. 457 W. 123d St., N. Y. 
 
 276. IV. MADISON WELLS, born at So. Norwalk, 
 Ct., April 14, 1878. Unm. At home (1900). 
 
 CMl. of Daniel S. and Mary F. (Partrick) Abbott. 134 
 
 277. I. CHARLES, born Aug. 29, 18G4, married 1890, 
 Miss Mary Hill, [dau. of Moses and Mary (Goodsell) Hill, 
 of Redding, Ct.] Occu, Blacksmith. He purchased the 
 Hiram St. John Place in (Georgetown) Wilton, Ct., but 
 removed to Cannons, where he resides. No chil. (1903). 
 
 278. II. INFANT, b. Sept. 18, 1866, died Nov. 10, 1866. 
 271). III. INFANT, b. Mar. 23, 1869, died June 8, 1869. 
 
 280. IV. ARTHUR STFRGES, born July 18, [329] 
 1870, married at N. Y., 1889, May Etta Banks, born Feb. 
 12, 187;'., [dau. of Wesley Banks, of Weston, Ct.] Res. 17 
 Cedar St., New Haven, Ct. (1900). 
 
 281. V. RICHARD WILLIS, born Nov. 15, 1873, 
 married by Rev. W. Holmes, June 27, 1900, Nettie Crabbe 
 (dau. of Chas. Crabbe of Stamford). 
 
SIXTH GENERATION. 77 
 
 Chil. of Henry B. and Mary F. (Partrick) (Abbott) 
 
 Partrick. 134 
 
 282. VI. MARTHA JANE, b. at Wilton, June [331] 
 13, 1880, Married at Wilton, Sept. 28, 1898, Edwin Andrew 
 Henderson, [son of Andrew and Isabel Henderson] of Nor- 
 walk. Operator in Winnipauk Mills. 
 
 CMl. of Arthur M. and Lucie (Dunaghe) Parke. 136 
 
 283. I. LELA ALENA, born Jan. 22, 1882. Grad. 
 High School at West Winsted, N.Y., June 1899. At home. 
 
 284. II. EMMA, born April 17, 188-. At home. 
 
 Chil. of Frederick and Jessie (Yan Hoosear) 
 
 Freudenthal. 149 
 
 285. I. JESSIE VAN HOOSEAR, born July 2, 1896. 
 
 Chil of Philip R. and Helen B. (Van Hoosear) Kimball. 
 
 139 
 285a. I. PHILIP, born July 12, 1897. 
 285b. II. WILLIAM EDWIN, born 1898. Died. 
 285c. III. DEAN, born Dec. 1899. 
 285d. IV. — dau. born April 14, 1901, died Aug. 1901. 
 
 Chil. of John Edwin and Grace J. (Kennedy) 
 
 Van Hoosear. 140 
 
 285e. I. WILLIAM KENNEDY, born Feb. 1898. 
 
 Chil. of William S. and Margaret (Stedman) 
 
 Van Hoosear. 141 
 
 285f. I. BURR STEDMAN, born Mar. 24, 1901. 
 
 Chil. of Winfield and Angelina (Dominge) Mead. 152 
 
 286. I. HATTIE BLANCHE, born Sept. U, 1885. 
 
 Chil. of Wm. J. and Minnie B. (Mead) Beli. 154 
 
 287. I. ANTOINETTE ELIZABETH, b. Mar. 24, 1894. 
 Chil. of Harry W. & E. Blanch(Sibly) Yan Hoosear. 156 
 
 288. I. ADAH LIICILE, born at Worcester, Mass., 
 March 1, 1891. 
 
 288a. II. MARGARET PIERCE, born at Worcester, 
 Mass., Feb. 1, 1893, died Mar. 4, 1893. 
 
78 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 288b. III. HAROLD SIBLY, born at Worcester, Mass. 
 
 June 2, 1897, died Nov. 27, 1898. 
 
 Chil. of J. Scott and Frances Lucile (Van Hoosear) 
 
 Biidlong. 157 
 
 288c. T. ENID LUCILE, born at Providence, R. I., 
 Jan. 13, 1893. 
 
 288d. II. OLIVE ETHEL, born at Providence, R. I., 
 
 Aug. 11, 1895. 
 
 Chil. of Charles Willard and Edith Gertrude 
 
 (Van Hoosear) Knight. 158 
 
 288e. I. ALVAH JEWETT, born Mar. 1, 1890, died 
 May 29, 1893. 
 
 288f. II. HAROLD WILLARD, born Dec. 18, 1892. 
 288g. III. HARRY VAN HOOSEAR, b. Aug. 3, 1895. 
 289. IV. PHILLIP, born Oct. 18, 1897. 
 
 SEVENTH GENERATION. 
 
 Chil. of Paul W. and Susie L. (Carpenter) Carroll. 181 
 
 289a. I. PAUL T., born Feb. 8, 1870, married June 
 12, 1894, Bertha Thaxter. Res. Oakland, California. 
 
 289b. II. CHARLIE, b. Mar. 10, 1871, died Nov.14,1873 
 
 289c. III. ADDIE LOUISE, born Sept. 9, 1875. Res. 
 Oakland, California. 
 
 Chil. of Charles and Annie (Farrist) Carpenter. 182 
 
 289d. I. FLOYD, born Oct. 5, 1880. 
 
 Chil. of Charles and Hannah (Brown) Carpenter. 182 
 
 289e. II. CLARENCE, born Sept. 16, 1887. 
 289f. III. FRANKIE, born Feb. 9, 1889. 
 
 Chil. of Tom and Alzadia (Carpenter) Carroll. 183a 
 
 289g. I. SUSIE LOUISE, born at Fort Collins, [332] 
 Col. Feb. 15, 1883, married Mar. 2, 1899, Asa Alfred Ham- 
 mons, [son of Henry Allen and Flora (Holzer) Hammons] 
 born at Wabasha, Minn., June 26, 1873. Occu. Sheriff 
 and Merchant. Res. Plains, Montana. 
 
SEVENTH GENERATION. 79 
 
 Chil. of Norman and Alwilda (Carpenter Jump) 183b 
 
 289h. I. ZADIE M. J., born Feb. 18, 1881. Res. 
 Canon City, Colorado. 
 
 Chil. of J. L. and Alwilda(Carpenter)(Jump)Cooper. 183 
 
 289i. I. WILLIE, b. Nov. 14, 1887. Address unknown. 
 ChiL of Isaac W. and Alice (Van Keuren) Mance. 185 
 
 290. I. FLOYD NEWTON, born April 23, 1880. Unra. 
 Res. (1900) 100 8th Ave., N.Y. Occu. Gent's Furnishings. 
 
 Chil. of Isaac W. and Augusta (Reed) Mance. 185 
 
 ' 291. II. LILLIAN AUGUSTA, born May 19, 1890, 
 
 L died Sept., 1890. 
 
 Chil of Charles H. and Josephine (Mance) Remer. 186 
 
 292. I. ARTHUR, born at Middletown, N. Y., June 
 6, 1882. Unmarried. Res. Flushing, L. I. Occu. Chief 
 I clerk, L. I. Express office. 
 
 I 293. II. JOSEPH, born at Goshen, N. Y., Jan. 19, 
 
 1889, died Jan. 3, 1893. 
 
 Chil. of Joseph S. and Annie E. (Kelner) Mance. 187 
 
 294. I. BIRTIE CARPENTER, born at Knowles 
 
 Bridge, Ct., Oct. 9, 1877. Res. EUenville, N. Y. (1900). 
 
 295. II. GEORGIE WILLARD, born at EUenville, 
 N.Y., Aug. 23, 1879. Unm. Res. EUenville. (1900). 
 
 P 296. III. DORA ELIZABETH, born at EUenville, 
 
 f N.Y., July 7, 1881. Unm. Res. Park Ave, Leonia, N. J. 
 
 j (1900). 
 
 t 297. IV. RHODA MAY, born at Albany, N. Y., Sept. 
 
 20, 1883. 
 
 :*> 298. V. EFFIE MAUD, born at EUenville, N.Y., Feb. 
 
 i 24, 1885. 
 
 )) 299. VI, JENNIE BOOTH, born at EUenville, N. Y., 
 
 Feb. 7, 1887. 
 
 300. VII. LILLIAN GRACE, born at EUenville, N.Y. 
 
 Mar. 5, 1890. 
 
80 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Chil. of Stephen A. Douglass and Mary (Sliauppj 
 
 Mance. 189 
 
 300a. I. GORMAN B., born Dec. 19, 1892. 
 
 Chil. of Melvin Yalentine ami Nora Azmon (Jump) 
 
 Keator. 190 
 
 300b. I, II. TWOS, born at Equinunk, Penn. 
 Sept., 1879. Died at birth. 
 
 300c. III. LESLIE MELTIN, born at Pueblo, Colo., 
 Jan. 1, 1881. 
 
 300d. IV. NORMAN ISAAC, born at Pueblo, Colo., 
 March 20, 1885. 
 
 300e. V. COREIN BYRON, born at Pueblo, May 9, 
 1889, died at Lake Side, (P. O.) Pueblo, May 6, 1893. 
 
 300f. VI. RAYMOND WALBRON, born Nov. 10, 1892. 
 Lake Side, (P. O.) Pueblo. 
 
 Chil. of Jas. H. and Minnie A. (31ance) Collins. 195 
 
 301. I. EDWIN MANCE, born at ''the Cape" near El- 
 lenville, Ulster Co., N. Y., July dl, 1874. Occu. Special 
 in P. O., Station W., Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y. (Feb. 1891). 
 
 Chil. of Frank and Emma (Mance) Wheeler. 197 
 
 302. I. ADDIE C, b. at Pine Bush, N.Y., Aug.81,'85. 
 
 303. II. STELLA M., born at Pine Bush, N.Y., Aug. 
 9, 1887. 
 
 304. III. MINNIE FRANCES, born at Pine Bush, 
 N. Y., June 3, 1889. 
 
 Chil. of Enoch E. and Anna B. (Mance) Edwards. 198 
 
 305. I. MINARD ELIJAH, born at Hasbrouck, N.Y., 
 Mar. 2, 1882. 
 
 306. II. ETHEL ESTHER,(twin) born at Hasbrouck, 
 N. Y., May 30, 1885. 
 
 307. III. EDITH ELIZABETH, (twin) born at Has- 
 brouck, N.Y., died at Livingston Manor, N.Y., Apr.23,'91. 
 
 308. IV. GRANT, born at Livingston Manor, N. Y., 
 March 29, 1888. 
 
 309. V. IZITA, born at Livingston Manor, N. y., 
 died at Woodbourne, N. Y., June 28, 1891. 
 
SEVENTH GENERATION. 81 
 
 €hil. of Reuben J. and Marion (Morris) Benson. 202 
 
 310. I. EDWIN J., born Aug, 22, 1889. 
 
 Cliil. of George L. and Rosie (Aldrich) Benson. 303 
 
 311. I. CHAMPLAIN J., born Aug. 22, 1890. 
 
 312. II. MAY, born Sept. 29, 1891. 
 
 Chil. of Wm. J. and Flora (Benton) Carpenter. 207 
 
 312a. I. LLOYI), born Dec. 3, 1897. 
 
 Chil. of Jolin G. and Alice (Jones) Carpenter. 207 
 
 312b. I. PEARL GROG, born Oct. 10, 1897. 
 312c. II. R0Y» born March 24, 1900. 
 
 Chil. of Oscar W. and Esther Mary (Smith) Kile. 209 
 
 313. I. REUBEN JOHN, born Dec 29, 1883. 
 
 313a. II. ORA E., b. Apr. 80, 1886, died Aug. 24, '86. 
 
 Chil. of Oscar W. and Minerva (Gillett) Kile. 209 
 
 313b' III. ROY, born Aug. 22, 1892. 
 313c. IV. LEE, born Sept. 2, 1899. 
 
 Chil. of Andrew B. & Hattie May(Jelliff)Town8end.213 
 
 3l3d. I. IRENE M., born July 1, 1899, at Greenfield, 
 N. Y., died March 24, 1900. 
 
 313e. II. HOMER JELLIFF, born at Greenfield, Ul- 
 ster Co., N. Y., June 7, 1901. 
 
 Chil. of D. Frank and Alice (Palmer) McCord. 217 
 
 314. I. BELLA, died Feb. 2, 1891, age 5 mos. 19 days. 
 Woodbourne cemetery. 
 
 Chil. of Herman miA Cora (Tyrrell) Scott. 2 1 9a 
 
 314a. I. HAZEL, born March 20, 1892. 
 
 Chil. of Hiram and Emeline (Hern) Merritt. 230 
 
 316. I. DANIEL, born — 26, 1885. 
 
 316. II. NATHAN or WALTER? born July 16, 1887. 
 316a. III. LYNN E., died Oct. 7, 1895, aged 2 mos. 
 
 Chil. of James and Lncinda (Merritt) Nield. 231 
 
 317. I. FLOYD J., born April 20, 1885. Res. Ellen- 
 ville, N. Y. (1900.) 
 
82 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 Chil. of Henry and Josephine (Merritt) Severing. 232 
 
 318. I. GEORGE, born Feb. 12, 1886. 
 
 319. II. FRANK, born Jan. 18, 1887. 
 
 320. III. JOHN M., born Feb. 27, 1889. 
 
 321. IV. CLENON J., born April 7, 1891, 
 
 Chil. of John and Lnlu Tyrell (Merritt) Fiek. 234 
 
 321a. I. . 
 
 321b. II. . 
 
 Chil. of Sherman H. and Sylvia (Miller) Merritt. 237 
 
 321c. I. EVELYNE 0., born Nov. 30, 1896. 
 
 32 Id. II. HAROLD, b. July 4, 1898, died Nov.8, 1899. 
 
 Chil. of Herman and Cora E. (Merritt) Naeher. 238 
 
 322. I. CORA ETTA, born Oct. 2, 1893. 
 
 322a. II. ALMA, born Nov. 28, 1894. Res. 473 Grand 
 St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
 
 322b. III. HERMAN SILAS, born Oct. 6, 1897, 
 Chil. of Frank and Susie (Rexford) Merritt. 239 
 
 322c. I. H. M., born Aug. 26, 1898. 
 Chil. of John and Sarah Etta (Merritt) Pierce. 240 
 322d. I. YIVIAN S., born Aug. 6, 1898. 
 
 Chil. of Wm. M. and Hattie M. (Merritt) Smith. 241 
 
 322e. I. CHESTER MERRITT, born Feb. 9, 1894. 
 322f. II. NELLIE MAY, born May or June 10, 1895. 
 322g. III. LESTER ANDERSON, born March 3, 1897. 
 322h. IV. EARLE JOSEPH, born Oct. 3, 1898. 
 
 Chil. of Joseph M. and lona (Depuy) Merritt. 243 
 
 322i. I. DOUGLASS DEPUY, born March 27-29, 1897. 
 
 Chil. of Eugene and Magie (Delamates) Nlles. 267a 
 322j. I. YERNON E., b. at High Falls, Apr. 16, 1894. 
 
 Chil. of Stephen J. and Mary (Niles) Libolt. 267b 
 
 322k. I. RAYMOND D., b. at High Falls, Sept. 5, '97. 
 
Ethel Cliift Tan Hoosear. No. 334. 
 
SEVENTFl GENERATION. 83 
 
 CMI. of Earnest V.K. & Cornelia M.(Hojt) llalglit. 268 
 
 8221. I. ALDEN LES8EY, born March 15 1898. 
 332m. II. EDWAM) IlOBEllT, born Nov. 28, 1900. 
 
 Chil. of Cliiitoii i}. and Ada L.(Lewm)yaii Hoosear. 270 
 
 323. I. HAliOLB NASH, born at (Hurlbiitt St.) Wil- 
 ton, Ct., Nov. 1, 1896. Died at Hurlbutt St., Feb. 12, 1897. 
 Buried "Joe's Hill " cemetery. 
 
 324. II. ETHEL CLIFFT, born at Hurlbutt Street, 
 March 19, 1898. 
 
 Cliil. of Ferris S. & Fannie D.(BalIard)Morehonse. 271 
 
 325. I. MILDSED LOUISE, born at ( Branch ville,) 
 
 Ridgefield, Ct., April 2, 1892. 
 
 Cliil. of Percy St. C. and Anna L. B. (Kyfenburgh) 
 
 Ackerman. 272 
 
 326. I, LEWIS ST. CLAIE BURR, born at Brook- 
 lyn, N. Y., Oct. 9, 1887. 
 
 Chil. of Farron S. ami Jennie (Byxbee) Betts. 273 
 
 327. I. JENNESS ALMA, born Dec. 6, 1891. 
 
 327a. II. ERWIN WEBEK, born Dec. 31, 1897, died 
 April 21, 1898. 
 
 Chil. of Mason M. and Nellie (Garlick) Smith. 275 
 
 328. I. LOSING FERDINAND BURR, born at Strat- 
 ford, Ct., Nov. 18, 1890. 
 
 Chil. of Arthur Sturges and May E.(Banks) Abbott. 280 
 
 329. I. ELSIE MAY, born in Norwalk, June 24, 1890. 
 
 330. II. CLARENCE SYLTESTER, born in South 
 Norwalk, July 18, 1892. 
 
 Chil. of Edwin A.k Martha J.(Partrick)Henderson. 282 
 
 331. I. FLOYD EARL, born April 9, 1900. 
 
 Chil. of Asa Alfred and Susie Louise (Carroll) 
 
 Hamnions. 289g 
 
 332. I. LESLIE ALLEN, born at Plains, Mont., Mar. 
 6, 1901 
 
INDEX BY NUMBER. 
 
 ♦ 
 
 A 
 
 ABBOTT, 
 
 
 ANDERSON, 
 
 Mary, 
 
 ARMSTRONG, 
 
 241 
 
 BARNES, 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 BARNUM, 
 
 7 
 
 
 Arthur Sturges, 
 
 280 
 
 Charles, 
 
 222 
 
 George H., 
 
 123 
 
 
 Charles, 
 
 277 
 
 Stephen, 
 
 222 
 
 George Raymond, 
 
 123 
 
 
 Clarence Sylvester,330 
 
 ASH BY, 
 
 
 Levi, 
 
 7 
 
 / 
 
 Daniel Sturges, 
 
 134 
 
 Charlotte Jane, 
 
 156 
 
 BEDIENT, 
 
 
 
 Ebenezer Jr., 
 
 7 
 
 AYERS, 
 
 
 Abigail, 
 
 34 
 
 
 Elsie May, 
 Elizabeth, 
 George Benjamin, 
 Lewis, 128 
 
 329 
 37 
 
 128 
 ,134 
 
 Anna Elizabeth, 
 
 Doreatha, 
 
 Elisha, 
 
 Elmer, 
 
 Ida, 
 
 252 
 257 
 111 
 255 
 254 
 
 BEEBE, 
 
 Aaron, 
 Marion, 
 
 25 
 51 
 
 
 Martha Jane, 
 
 282 
 
 William, 
 
 25 
 
 
 Michael, 
 
 128 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 253 
 
 BEERS, 
 
 
 
 Richard Willis, 
 
 281 
 
 William, 
 
 256 
 
 Polly, 
 
 33 
 
 h 
 
 Sarah, 
 
 070 
 
 7 
 279 
 
 B 
 
 
 BELL, 
 
 Antoinette E., 
 
 
 
 ' id \ 
 
 287 
 
 
 ACKERMAN, 
 
 
 
 George, 
 
 154 
 
 
 Aaron Crane, 
 
 272 
 
 BABCOCK, 
 
 
 William, 
 
 154 
 
 - 
 
 Percy St. C, 
 
 272 
 
 Henry L., 
 
 46 
 
 BELDEN, 
 
 
 
 Lewis St. C. B., 
 
 326 
 
 Herbert, 
 
 162 
 
 John (Mrs.), 
 
 2 
 
 
 ACTLER, 
 
 Sarah, 
 
 270 
 
 Jennie, 
 BAILEY, 
 
 161 
 
 BENEDICT, 
 
 Smith, 
 
 7 
 
 
 ADAMS, 
 
 PTf 
 
 Nina Burwell, 
 
 126 
 
 BENHOZIER, 
 
 
 
 Mr. , 
 
 57 
 
 Samuel C, 
 
 126 
 
 David. 
 
 7 
 
 
 ADDIS, 
 
 
 
 
 J^^ ^m^f » ^ v.* y 
 
 
 
 Sarah, 
 
 237 
 
 BALLARD, 
 
 
 BENNETT, 
 
 
 
 
 
 Cyrus, 
 
 271 
 
 John, 
 
 42 
 
 
 ADKINS, 
 
 David L., 
 
 21 
 
 Fannie D., 
 
 271 
 
 BENSON, 
 
 
 
 Lewis, 
 
 21 
 
 BANGS, 
 
 
 Chaplain J., 
 
 311 
 
 
 AIKEN, 
 
 Emeline, 
 
 130 
 
 William N., 
 BANKER, 
 
 37 
 
 Edwin J., 
 George L., 
 Jerome, 
 
 310 
 
 203 
 
 16 
 
 
 ALDRICH, 
 
 
 Gerard, 
 
 2 
 
 Josephine, 
 
 204 
 
 . 
 
 Rosie, 
 
 203 
 
 BANKS, 
 
 
 Marion W., 
 
 201 
 
 
 ALLEN, 
 
 
 Etta May, 
 
 280 
 
 May, 
 
 312 
 
 \ 
 
 James, (Capt.) 
 
 79 
 
 Sarah, 
 
 7 
 
 Neal S., 
 
 83 
 
 
 Reuben, 
 
 7 
 
 Sarah Ann (Wid) 
 
 ., 31 
 
 Reuben Jeliff, 
 
 202 
 
 » 
 
 AMBLER, 
 
 
 Seith, 
 
 7 
 
 Samuel L, 
 
 83 
 
 
 James, 
 
 42 
 
 Wesley, 
 
 280 
 
 Warren M., 
 
 205 
 
86 
 
 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 BENTON, 
 
 ( 
 
 Flora, 
 
 207 
 
 George, 
 
 207 
 
 BERGEN, 
 
 
 Johannes, 
 
 Intro 
 
 Rachel, 
 
 Intro 
 
 BESLEY, 
 
 
 Bartholomew, 
 
 18 
 
 Coles, 
 
 18 
 
 Cornelia, 
 
 18 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 18 
 
 Isaac, 
 
 18 
 
 James, 
 
 18 
 
 Mary, 
 
 18 
 
 Oliver Jr., 
 
 18 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 18 
 
 Susannah, 
 
 18 
 
 BEST, 
 
 
 Addie, 
 
 140 
 
 BETTS, 
 
 
 Addison A., 
 
 132 
 
 Burr, 
 
 38 
 
 Erwin Weber,, 
 
 327a 
 
 Farron Smith, 
 
 273 
 
 Ira Jr., 31,132 
 
 Jenness Alma, 
 
 327 
 
 William G., 
 
 2 
 
 BILYEU, 
 
 
 Cornelius, 
 
 100 
 
 Mary, 
 
 100 
 
 BISBIE, 
 
 
 Mary, 
 
 139 
 
 BLACHLEY, 
 
 
 Benjamin, 
 
 5 
 
 Lydia, 
 
 5 
 
 BLACK, 
 
 
 Catherine, 
 
 88 
 
 BLOOMER, 
 
 
 Rachel, 
 
 99 
 
 BOLTON, 
 
 
 Esther, 
 
 106 
 
 BOWEN, 
 
 
 in9 
 
 251b 
 23 
 
 , 1U8 
 
 Eleazer, 
 
 Harmon Gilbert, 
 
 109 
 
 Hudson, 
 
 107 
 
 BRADBURY, 
 
 
 Anna Elizabeth, 
 
 272 
 
 BRIES, or BREASE, 
 
 Anthony, (Capt] 
 
 . 2 
 
 BROOKS, 
 
 Sophia, 136 
 BROWN, 
 
 Abner, 14 
 B. F., 130, 131 
 
 Electa, 239 
 
 Emma Ophelia^ 71 
 
 Hannah, 182 
 
 Levi O., 7,14 
 
 Nellie Van, 72 
 
 Rachel Ann, 38 
 
 BRUNDAGE, 
 
 Lain, 16 
 
 BRUSH, 
 
 Bill, 7 
 
 Jake, 7 
 
 BRYERS, 
 
 James N., (Rev.) 213 
 
 Mary, 213 
 
 BUDLONG, 
 
 Ellen Frances, 157 
 
 E. Lucile, 283c 
 
 Jay Scott, 157 
 
 Olive Ethel, 288d 
 
 Samuel Newell, 157 
 
 BURRELL, 
 
 (Capt.), 2 
 
 Samuel, 4 
 
 William, 2 
 
 BUSSY, 
 
 Elizabeth, 101 
 
 BUTTERFIELD, 
 
 , 60 
 
 BYXBEE, 
 
 Francis Franklyn, 273 
 
 Jennie Hall. 273 
 
 C 
 
 CADWELL, 
 
 Jacob, 
 CAMPBILL, 
 
 Sprague & 
 
 CANFIELD, 
 
 John, 
 
 CARBURY, 
 
 Nellie, 
 
 CAREY, 
 
 Co. 
 
 1 
 
 215 
 
 7 
 
 38 
 
 4 
 
 CARPENTER, 
 
 
 Abigail, 
 
 16,84 
 
 Alwilda, 
 
 lS3b 
 
 Alzadia, 
 
 183a 
 
 Antoniette, 
 
 16 
 
 Antionette M., 
 
 83 
 
 Benjamin, 
 
 16 
 
 Benjamin Almon, 85 
 
 Charles, 
 
 182 
 
 Charlie, 
 
 184 
 
 Clarence, 
 
 289e 
 
 Edward, 
 
 16,78 
 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 16,82 
 
 Floyd, 
 
 289d 
 
 Frankie, 
 
 289f 
 
 Georgie, 
 
 183c 
 
 Isaac Francis, 
 
 183 
 
 Isaac Jelliff, 
 
 79 
 
 John Groo, 
 
 208 
 
 Julai Ann, 
 
 81 
 
 Lloyd, 
 
 312a 
 
 Lucy A., 
 
 206 
 
 Lydia, 
 
 16 
 
 Lydia Maria, 
 
 77 
 
 Nancy, 
 
 16.86 
 
 Nancy Adaline, 
 
 181a 
 
 Pearl Groo, 
 
 312b 
 
 Rhoda, 
 
 1« 
 
 Rhoda Aan, 
 
 SO 
 
 Roy, 
 
 312c 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 16 
 
 SuF.ie Louisa, 
 
 181 
 
 William E.. 
 
 184 
 
 William J., 
 
 207 
 
 CARMAN, 
 
 
 Sarah M., 
 
 101 
 
 CARR, 
 
 
 Tabitha, 
 
 87 
 
 CARROLL, 
 
 
 Addie Louise, 
 
 289c 
 
 Charlie, 
 
 289b 
 
 Paul T., 
 
 289a 
 
 Paul W., 
 
 181 
 
 Susie Louise, 
 
 289g 
 
 Tom, 
 
 183a 
 
 CASWELL, 
 
 
 Helen, 
 
 38 
 
 Mary Ann, 
 
 38 
 
 Thos,. 
 
 38 
 
 Warren Levi, 
 
 38 
 
INDEX. 
 
 87 
 
 CHAPMAN, 
 
 
 Joseph (Dt.), 
 
 7 
 
 Mr. , 
 
 2 
 
 Phineas, 
 
 7 
 
 CHARLES, 
 
 
 v., 
 
 Intro 
 
 CHEESMAN, 
 
 
 Eleatheer, 
 
 8 
 
 CLAPP, 
 
 
 Chester D., 
 
 61 
 
 Chilli&sa A., 
 
 62 
 
 Emerson, 
 
 11 
 
 Homer, 
 
 64 
 
 Mary, 
 
 63 
 
 CLARK, 
 
 
 Phebe Jane, 
 
 25 
 
 CLEARWATER, 
 
 Abram, 21 
 
 Teunis., 21 
 
 CLEAVELAND, 
 
 William, 4 
 
 COENRAETSE, 
 
 Hendrick, Intro 
 
 COLE, 
 
 Emily, 39 
 
 Jacobus, (Capit.), 2 
 
 Jonothan, 39 
 
 Sherman, 39 
 
 Thomas. 39 
 
 COLEY, 
 
 H. B., 31 
 
 Lois, 2 
 
 COLLINS, 
 
 Edwin Mance, 301 
 
 James Courtney, 195 
 
 James Hugh, 195 
 
 COLWELL, 
 
 Lucuida, 
 
 COMSTOCK, 
 
 John, 
 
 COOK, 
 
 Sarah, 
 COON, 
 
 Polly, 
 
 COOPER, 
 
 Catherine, 
 J. L., 
 WUlie, 
 
 98 
 
 7 
 
 30 
 
 209 
 
 50 
 
 183b 
 
 2891 
 
 COUNTRYMAN, 
 
 Anna Maria, 115 
 
 Aria, 258 
 
 Esther Mary, 117 
 Lewis, 112, 262 
 
 Luretta, 260 
 
 Martha, 116 
 
 Nathan, 114 
 
 Peter, 24 
 
 Phillip, 263 
 
 Rhoda, 111 
 
 Walter Wesley, 259 
 
 Wilber Nelson, 110 
 
 William, 261 
 
 William Henry, 113 
 
 COWENHOVEN, 
 
 Jacob, 1 
 
 CRABBE, 
 
 Charles, 281 
 
 Nettie, 281 
 
 CROCKER, 
 
 Nelson, 4 
 
 CUMMINGS, 
 
 Charlotte, 22 
 
 James, 22 
 
 CUSHMAN, 
 
 , 257a 
 
 George L., 106 
 
 Lee, 106 
 
 D 
 
 DAVENPORT, 
 
 Hanford, 
 DAVIS, 
 
 Frances E., 
 
 DAVISSON, 
 Martha A., 
 
 DECKER, 
 
 Stephen, 
 
 DE FOREST, 
 
 Cornelia, 
 DELAMATES, 
 
 Magie, 
 DEPUY, 
 
 Darias, 
 
 lona, 
 
 Rachel, 
 
 37 
 146 
 
 72 
 231 
 
 18 
 
 267a 
 
 243 
 243 
 217 
 
 DERIKE, 
 
 
 Jannetje Jans, 
 
 Intro 
 
 DEVINE, 
 
 
 Ja.ne, 
 
 209 
 
 DE WITT, 
 
 
 Emily, 
 
 100 
 
 James, 
 
 100 
 
 DICKSON, 
 
 
 Charles, 
 
 37 
 
 DIETS, 
 
 
 John, 
 
 25 
 
 DOLSON, 
 
 
 Mary, 
 
 104 
 
 DOMINGE, 
 
 
 Angelina, 
 
 152 
 
 LaClair, 
 
 152 
 
 DONAGHE, 
 
 
 Harriet Amelia, 
 
 136 
 
 Henry, Sr., 
 
 36 
 
 Henry, Jr., 
 
 36 
 
 Lucie Amelia, 
 
 136 
 
 DOTY and MORRIS, 42 
 
 DRAKE, 
 
 
 Martha, 
 
 89 
 
 DREYER, 
 
 
 Henrietta, 
 
 149 
 
 DRUMMAN, 
 
 
 Pamelia, 
 
 36 
 
 DUDLEY, 
 
 
 "Major," 
 
 31 
 
 E 
 
 EAN, 
 
 Anna, 118 
 EARLE and SMITH, 133 
 ECKERT, 
 
 William M. T., 218 
 
 EDWARDS, 
 
 Edith Elizabeth, 307 
 
 Enoch Eber, 198 
 
 Ethel Esther, 306 
 
 Grant, 308 
 
 Izita, 309 
 
 Joseph, 198 
 
 Minard Elijah, 305 
 
88 
 
 VAN HOOSEAE GENEALOGY. 
 
 EVANS, 
 
 H. Clay, 
 Maria J., 
 Samuel, 
 Sophia, 
 
 EVERTS, 
 
 Almira, 
 Maria, 
 
 2 
 96 
 96 
 96 
 
 206 
 206 
 
 FARR, 
 
 Jennie, 157 
 
 FARR I ST, 
 
 Annie, 182 
 
 FERRIS, 
 
 Mary F., 130 
 
 Stephen (Capt.) Jr. 130 
 
 FIEK, 
 
 , 321a, 321b 
 
 234 
 
 John, 
 
 FILLOW, 
 
 Phebe, 31 
 
 Lewis P., 31 
 FINCH, 
 
 William, 31 
 
 FITCH, 
 
 Abram, 27, 40 
 
 Antionette, 25 
 
 Ann Mariah, 20 
 
 Barle, 250 
 
 Efeleiry Greorge, 127 
 
 Eleanor, 248 
 
 Eliza J., 41 
 Elmer Ellsworth, 126 
 
 E3izabeth, 28 
 
 Ester Mary, 21 
 
 George, 105 
 Georgia Dorathea, 123 
 
 Harriet L. B., 122 
 
 Jennie, 249 
 
 Joseph, 121 
 
 Lewis, 30 
 
 Lucretia, 23 
 
 Luke, 7 
 
 Martha Jane, 29 
 
 Mary Jane, 106 
 
 Nathan, 22 
 
 Silas Martin, 120 
 
 Susan, 24 
 William, 26, 41 
 
 William J., 6 
 William, Senior, 6 
 
 FOLSON, 
 
 John, 2 
 
 FONDA, 
 
 Jelles A., 2 
 
 FURNAN, 
 
 Jennie, 226 
 
 Orlando, 226 
 
 FRANCES, 
 
 Lewis, (Rev.) 197 
 
 FREER, 
 
 P.uth, 21 
 
 FREUDENTHAL, 
 
 Charles, 149 
 
 Frederick, 149 
 JessieVanHoosear, 285 
 
 FLYNN, 
 
 Barney, 
 Luretta, 
 FULLER, 
 Matthias, 
 
 115 
 264, 265 
 
 GARDINER, 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 GARLICK, 
 
 Charles D., 
 Nellie, 
 GERRITES, 
 
 Laykas, 
 
 GIBBS, 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 GILBERT, 
 
 Betsey, 
 Ebenezer, 
 Harmon, 
 Mary, 
 
 GILLETT, 
 
 Charity, 
 Esither A., 
 Martha Ann, 
 
 Minerva, 
 
 214, 242 
 
 275 
 275 
 
 Intro. 
 
 4 
 
 37 
 37 
 
 7 
 37 
 
 103 
 
 120 
 
 89 
 
 209 
 
 Reuben, 
 Sarapla, 
 Tryphena, 
 Zopher, 
 
 GODFREY, 
 
 Joseph, 
 S., 
 GOODSELL, 
 M:ary, 
 
 GRAY, 
 
 Hannah, 
 John G., 
 
 Thaddeus, 
 
 GREGORY, 
 
 Cemantha, 
 
 Isaiah, 
 
 Jabez, 
 
 GROO, 
 
 Abigail, 
 
 John, 
 
 Nancy Jane, 
 GRUBER, 
 
 Maud, 
 GRUMMAN, 
 
 Permela, 
 
 Seth L., 
 Smith, 
 GUIRE, 
 
 Mary, 
 
 209 
 
 240 
 
 92 
 
 89 
 
 1 
 7 
 
 277 
 
 95 
 18 
 18 
 
 36 
 7 
 4 
 
 17 
 
 85 
 85 
 
 38 
 
 7,36 
 
 31 
 
 7 
 
 ' HAIGHT, 
 
 Earnest Van, 268 
 Edward R^obert, 322 m 
 
 George, 122 
 
 George I., 122 
 
 Priest, 34 
 
 Sylvanus, 2 
 
 Theodore M., 267 
 
 HALL, 
 
 Alma E., 273 
 Jessie Freemont, 209 
 
 Mott, 209 
 
 Rev. Dr., 31 
 
 MAMMONS, 
 
 Asa Alfred, 289g 
 
 Henry Allen, 289g 
 
 Lester Allen' 332 
 
HANFORD, 
 
 Elnathan, 
 Hezekiah, 
 Hezekiati, Jr., 
 Samuel, 
 Sarah., 
 Thomas, Rev., 
 
 HARDINGBURGH, 
 
 Gerard, 
 Johannis, 
 HARDING, 
 
 Francis, 
 Cornelius W., 
 
 HARDINGH, 
 
 Frank, 
 
 HAS3R0UCK, 
 
 Anna, 
 Anthony, 
 
 7,318 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 7,31 
 
 7 
 
 5 
 5 
 
 Intro 
 5 
 
 Intro 
 
 120 
 5 
 
 Catherine Snyder, 118 
 
 Jacob, 
 Sarah, 
 Susan Ann, 
 
 HAW LEY, 
 
 Zalmon, 
 
 HEACOCK, 
 
 HELMS, 
 Flora, 
 
 HENDERSON, 
 
 Andrew, 
 Edwin Andrew, 
 Floyd Earl, 
 Isabel, 
 
 HENDRICKSON, 
 
 Blake, 
 
 Cornelia A., 
 HENSDEN, 
 
 Jacob, den 
 HERN, 
 
 Em el in e, 
 
 HILL, 
 
 Gersham, 
 
 Mary, 
 
 Moses, 
 
 HODGE, 
 
 Roswell, 
 Sarah, 
 
 118 
 208 
 243 
 
 4 
 
 185 
 
 282 
 282 
 331 
 
 282 
 
 93 
 93 
 
 intro 
 
 230 
 
 36 
 
 277 
 36, 277 
 
 5 
 207 
 
 INDEX. 
 HOLLISTER, 
 
 m 
 
 HOLMES, 
 
 Cornelia, 
 W., (Rev.) 
 Wright, 
 
 HOLZER, 
 
 Flora, 
 
 HOOSE, 
 
 Rinear, 
 
 HOOZER, 
 Ga'l., 
 
 HOSEN, 
 
 Rinen, 
 
 HOPPSON, 
 
 Henry, 
 
 Wilie, 
 
 HORSECK, 
 Oscar, 
 
 HORTON, 
 
 Nath'l., (Capt.) 
 Sally Ann, 
 William, 
 
 HOYT, 
 
 Cornelia May, 
 Ellas G., 
 Jonothan, Jr., 
 Lewis, 
 Susannah, 
 
 HUBBARD, 
 A. C. (Rev.) 
 
 HUMPHREYS, 
 E. B., 
 
 HUNT, 
 
 Samuel (Rev.) 
 
 HURD, 
 
 HURLBUTT, 
 
 Daniel, 
 Isaac, 
 
 Susan, 
 
 HYATT, 
 Susan J., 
 
 95 
 
 281 
 
 95 
 
 289j 
 
 Intro 
 
 Intro 
 
 Intro 
 
 45 
 159 
 160 
 
 252 
 
 2 
 
 22 
 22 
 
 268 
 
 268 
 
 7 
 
 7 
 
 35 
 
 271 
 
 Intro 
 
 271 
 
 4 
 
 128 
 
 2 
 
 39 
 
 123 
 
 i 
 
 IRVING, 
 
 Washington, 
 
 J 
 
 JACKSON, 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 JELLIFF, 
 Antionette M., 
 Bertha, 
 Curtis Beach, 
 David Rynear, 
 George, 
 Hattie May, 
 
 X54 
 4 
 
 16 
 215 
 17 
 19 
 90 
 213 
 
 Isaac, 4, 5» 17, 88 
 
 James, 5 
 
 Jane Ann, 87 
 
 Jessie Aexia, 216 
 
 Nye Colfax, 212 
 
 Pluma, 214 
 
 Reuben Reynolds, 89 
 
 Rhoda Ann, 
 
 18, 98 
 
 JENNINGS, 
 
 
 Celia, 
 
 60 
 
 Isaac, 
 
 4 
 
 John, 
 
 10 
 
 William, 
 
 10 
 
 JOHNSON, 
 
 
 Lucy Ellen, 
 
 44 
 
 Mary M., 
 
 183 
 
 JONES, 
 
 
 Alice, 
 
 208 
 
 John B., 
 
 208 
 
 Paul, 
 
 7 
 
 Percillia, 
 
 49 
 
 Samuel F., 
 
 7 
 
 JUDSON, 
 
 
 Isaac, 
 
 7 
 
 JURRIAANSE, 
 
 
 Volkie, 
 
 Intro 
 
 JUMP, 
 
 
 Frederick H., 
 
 190 
 
 Nora Azmon, 
 
 190 
 
 Norman, 
 
 183b 
 
 Zadie M. J., 
 
 289h 
 
 I 
 
90 
 
 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 K 
 
 KANE, 
 
 Axunda, 
 
 KEATOR, 
 
 Benjamin Leslie, 194a 
 Charlotte Ann, 192 
 Corbin Byron, 
 Elizabeth, 
 Esther Mary, 
 Isaac Jelliff, 
 Leslie Melvin, 
 
 105 
 
 300e 
 193 
 194 
 193 
 
 300c 
 
 Melvin Valentine, 190 
 
 Norman Isaac, 
 Raymond W., 
 Robert White, 
 Simon J., 
 
 300d 
 300f 
 191 
 81 
 , 300b 
 
 KENDALL, 
 
 Lucy, 133 
 
 KENNEDY, 
 
 Duncan Cameron, 140 
 Grace Julia, 140 
 
 KILE, 
 
 Benjamin, (Dr.) ..87 
 
 Delia AbigaU, 211 
 
 Jarvis Carr, 87 
 
 John S., 210 
 
 Lee, 313c 
 
 Ora E., 313a 
 
 Oscar Willard, 209 
 
 Reuben John, 313 
 
 Roy. 313b 
 
 KIMBALL, 
 Dean, 285c 
 Edwin, 139 
 Philip, 285a 
 Philip Richard, 139 
 William Edwin, 285b 
 dan., 285b 
 
 KILNER, 
 
 Annie E., 187 
 
 KINNEY, 
 
 Cornelia, (Wid.) 96 
 
 KNAPP, 
 
 Charles, 2 
 
 William, 2 
 
 KOURTRIGHT, 
 
 Lawrence, 
 Louise, 
 
 KNEIP, 
 
 John, 
 Louis© E., 
 Mary, 
 
 KNIGHT, 
 
 Alvah Jewett, 
 Charles Willard, 
 Harold Willard, 
 Harry VanH., 
 Jonothan, (M.D.) 
 Phillip, 
 Samuel Willard, 
 
 KROM, 
 Conrad, 
 Phebe B., 
 
 LAYTON, 
 
 Cornelia, 
 Nathan, 
 
 LEATON, 
 
 Sarah Rosa, 
 William Carey, 
 
 LEE, 
 
 Alvira, 
 Daniel, 
 Genl., 
 
 LESSEY, 
 
 Martha, 
 LEWIN, 
 Ada Louise, 
 Isaac, 
 William, 
 
 LEWIS, 
 
 Dorothy, 
 Sarah E., 
 
 LIBOLT, 
 Raymond D., 
 
 LINDLEY, 
 
 Elind, 
 Stephen J., 
 LISCAT, 
 
 1 Obedlah, 
 
 
 LIVINGSTON, 
 
 
 99 
 
 Henry B., (Col.) 
 
 2 
 
 99 
 
 Henry D., 
 LOCKWOOD, 
 
 2 
 
 236 
 
 Phebe, 
 
 35 
 
 236 
 
 Titus, 
 
 7 
 
 236 
 
 LOW, 
 
 
 
 Henry R., 
 
 89 
 
 288e 
 
 LYON, 
 
 
 158 
 
 Sarah, 
 
 36 
 
 288f 
 
 
 
 288g 
 
 31 
 
 289 
 
 M 
 
 
 MANGE, 
 
 
 158 
 
 Birtie Carpenter, 
 
 294 
 
 
 Dosa Elizabeth, 
 
 296 
 
 101 
 
 ■1 Al 
 
 Edwin Carpenter 
 
 196 
 
 Effie Maud, 
 
 298 
 
 101 
 
 Elijah, 
 
 82 
 
 
 Emma Frances, 
 
 197 
 
 
 Floyd Newton, 
 
 290 
 
 
 George, 
 
 80 
 
 96 
 96 
 
 George W., 
 
 188 
 
 Georgie Willard, 
 
 295 
 
 Gorman B., 
 
 300a 
 
 
 Isaac Wickam, 
 
 185 
 
 44 
 
 Isabella Anna, 
 
 198 
 
 44 
 
 Jennie Booth, 
 
 299 
 
 
 Joseph E., 80,82 
 
 9 
 
 Joseph Smith, 
 
 187 
 
 7 
 
 Josephine, 
 
 186 
 
 7 
 
 Lillian Augusta, 
 
 291 
 
 
 Lillian Grace, 
 
 300 
 
 268 
 
 Lizzie, 
 
 200 
 
 
 Minnie A., 
 
 195 
 
 270 
 270 
 270 
 
 Rhoda Antionette, 16 
 
 Rhoda May, 
 
 297 
 
 Stephen A. D., 
 
 189 
 
 Theodore, 
 
 199 
 
 131 
 
 MARAQUAT, 
 
 5 
 
 271 
 
 MARSHALL, 
 
 V 
 
 
 Emeline D., 
 
 209 
 
 322k 
 
 MARTIN, 
 
 
 
 Philippa Jane, 
 
 212 
 
 7 
 
 McCORD, 
 
 
 267c 
 
 Abram, 
 
 217 
 
 
 Bella, 
 
 314 
 
 4 
 
 D. Frank, 
 
 217 
 
INDEX. 
 
 91 
 
 McCLANAHAN, 
 
 Edmund B., 275a 
 
 Preston Moore, 275a 
 
 McLEAN, 
 
 Francis Fisk, 133 
 
 Grenevra Bessie, 133 
 
 MEAD, 
 Clarence "William, 155 
 Harry, 153 
 
 Hattie Blanche, 286 
 James Stanley, 43 
 Minnie Blanche, 154 
 William, 43 
 
 Winfield, 152 
 
 MEEKER, 
 Edith May, 176 
 
 Florence Lillian, 177 
 72 
 72 
 178 
 
 Lucinda, 
 Liulu Tyrell, 
 Lynn E., 
 Madison, 
 Martm, 
 
 231 
 
 234 
 
 316a 
 
 101 
 
 96 
 
 Harry, 
 
 Henry DeWitt, 
 
 Luluetta, 
 
 MENDENHALL, 
 
 Eliza Clifft, 270 
 
 William, 270 
 MERRITT, 
 
 Abner, 100 
 BenjaminVemooy, 225 
 
 Caleb, 20 
 
 Cora Ella, 238 
 Daniel, 36, 315 
 
 Daniel Webster, 97 
 
 Delbert, 236 
 
 Douglass D., 322i 
 
 Emma Theressa, 228 
 
 Eveline G., 321c 
 
 Frank M., 239 
 
 Frankie, 224 
 
 George Martin, 220 
 
 Harold, 321d 
 
 Harvey Jay, 223 
 
 Hattie Maria, 241 
 
 H. M., ' 322c 
 
 Hiram, 230 
 
 Jennie Ball, 229 
 Joseph, 92, 98 
 
 Joseph Madison, 243 
 
 Josephine, 232 
 
 Keran Esther, 103 
 
 Lillie Belle, 222 
 
 Martin F. 20, 232a, 333 
 Ma.tie M., 236 
 
 Minnie Mary, 244 
 
 Nellie Keran, 242 
 
 Sarah Etta, 240 
 
 Seymour Horatio, 221 
 Sherman H., 237 
 
 Silas, 99 
 
 Thornton Layton, 226 
 Walter or Nathan, 316 
 Warren, 102 
 
 William Fitch, 95 
 
 William Henry, 104 
 Willis J., 36 
 
 Winfield Hancock, 227 
 
 MIDDLEBROOK, 
 
 Sarali, 7 
 
 MILNE, 
 Jane, 195 
 
 MILLER, 
 
 Andrew Tabor, 
 Sylvia, 
 MiSNER, 
 Henry, 
 Margaret, 
 Peter, 
 
 MOREHOUSE, 
 
 Charles, 33 
 
 Charles Burr, 33, 130 
 
 Fferris Stephen, 271 
 
 Georgianna, 
 
 Lydia, 
 
 Mildred Louise, 
 
 Stephen, 
 
 MORGAN, 
 
 Stephen, 
 
 MORRIS, 
 
 Annie, 
 Marion, 
 Moirris & Doty, 
 
 MORRISON, 
 
 Morrisson & Co., 39 
 
 237 
 237 
 
 5 
 
 10€ 
 
 5 
 
 131 
 31 
 
 325 
 33 
 
 152 
 
 202 
 
 42 
 
 MUMFORD, 
 
 Lucinda M., 
 
 MUNCHERT, 
 Rinier, 
 
 N 
 
 NAEHER, 
 
 Alma, 
 Cora Etta, 
 Frances P., 
 Herman, 
 Hermaa Silas, 
 Otelia, 
 
 NASH, 
 
 Daniel, 
 Daniel, Sr., 
 Edward H., 
 Sarah. (Sally), 
 
 NEFFEN, 
 
 Esther Ann, 
 
 NICHOLS, 
 
 Harriet, 
 
 NIELD, 
 James, 
 Floyd J., 
 Mary, 
 
 NILES, 
 
 Anna, 
 
 Arthur, 
 
 Charles, 
 
 Eugene, 
 
 Frederick, 
 
 Herman David, 
 
 193 
 2 
 
 Isabel, 
 Janet, 
 
 John Lester, 
 Joseph, 
 Mabel, 
 Mary, 
 Maurice, 
 Silas Martin, 
 Simeon, 
 Vernon E., 
 William H., 
 NIPTON, 
 Nappy, 
 
 322a 
 322 
 238 
 238 
 
 322b 
 238 
 
 7,31 
 
 7 
 
 31 
 
 7 
 
 198 
 
 129 
 
 231 
 317 
 231 
 
 267 
 267b 
 267f 
 267a 
 267e 
 
 118 
 
 267g, 2671 
 
 267d 
 
 25, 119 
 
 121 
 267j 
 267c 
 267g 
 
 120 
 
 25 
 
 322j 
 
 267h 
 
92 
 
 VAN HOOSEAE GENEALOGY. 
 
 NODINE, 
 
 
 PARTRIDGE, 
 
 
 Alonzo, 
 
 147 
 
 Ahiah, 
 
 43 
 
 William, J. B., 
 
 147 
 
 PATTERSON, 
 
 
 NORTHROP, 
 
 
 Agnes, 
 
 141 
 
 Stephen, 
 
 4 
 
 PEARSALL, 
 
 
 
 
 Sa.muel, 
 
 5 
 
 
 
 
 PERKINS, 
 
 
 
 Absolem, 
 
 79 
 
 OBER, 
 
 Miimie L„ 
 
 61 
 
 Na.ncy Adaline, 
 
 79 
 
 
 
 PHELPS, 
 
 
 OLMSTEAD, 
 
 
 Julia, 
 
 158 
 
 Edward, 
 
 42 
 
 PHILLIP, 
 
 
 Gardner, 
 
 4 
 
 n, 
 
 Intro 
 
 Hawley, 
 Nathan, 
 
 7 
 4 
 
 PIDGEON, 
 
 Mr. ., 
 
 2 
 
 Phebe, 
 
 4 
 
 Samuel, 
 
 4 
 
 PIERCE, 
 
 
 
 
 Austin, 
 
 200 
 
 OLNY, 
 
 
 EmelLne, 
 
 97 
 
 Sarah A., 
 
 186 
 
 Hiram, 
 
 97 
 
 OYSTERHOUT, 
 
 
 John, 
 
 240 
 
 Isaiah D., 
 
 104 
 
 Josiah D., 
 
 200 
 
 Mahala, 
 
 104 
 
 Melissa, 
 
 97 
 
 
 
 Michael D., 
 
 240 
 
 P 
 
 
 Sarah M., 
 
 200 
 
 
 Vivian S., 
 
 322d 
 
 PALMER, 
 
 
 PINNEY, 
 
 
 Alice, 
 
 217 
 
 Adelbert R., 
 
 54 
 
 Benjamin F., 
 
 92 
 
 Alford, 
 
 164 
 
 David P. Hall, 
 
 92 
 
 Alison B., 
 
 170 
 
 Emily, 
 
 85 
 
 Carrie, 
 
 163 
 
 Ettie, 
 
 218 
 
 Charlotte, 
 
 174 
 
 Lidia A., 
 
 98 
 
 Charlotte Jane, 
 
 46 
 
 Myrtle, 
 
 219 
 
 Chauncey T., 
 
 49 
 
 PAMELEPIET, 
 
 
 Curtis S., 
 
 51 
 
 
 Intro 
 
 Edward S 
 
 47 
 
 f 
 
 Elouise, 
 
 173 
 
 PARKE, 
 
 Arthur Moore, 
 
 136 
 
 Franklyn; H., 
 Freddie, 
 
 52 
 165 
 
 Byron, 
 Emma, - 
 
 136 
 
 284 
 
 Henry A., 
 Herman,, 
 
 50 
 
 167 
 
 Lela Alena, 
 
 283 
 
 Howard, 
 
 168 
 
 PARTRICK, 
 
 
 John J., 
 
 8 
 
 Charles, 
 
 35 
 
 Laura Augusta, 
 
 53 
 
 Burt, 
 
 134 
 
 Lucy A., 
 
 45 
 
 Halsey, 
 
 35 
 
 Mabel, 
 
 169 
 
 Henry Burr, 
 
 134 
 
 Mertie, 
 
 175 
 
 Martha J., 
 
 282 
 
 Norman R., 
 
 55 
 
 Mary Frances, 
 
 134 
 
 Smith, 
 
 8 
 
 William T., 
 
 48 
 
 Willie, 
 
 166 
 
 PLATT, 
 
 
 Emily, 
 
 14 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 14 
 
 POPE, 
 
 
 Allen, 
 
 28 
 
 David, 
 
 28 
 
 Esther Mary, 
 
 124 
 
 William, 
 
 125 
 
 PORTER, 
 
 
 Henry, 
 
 88 
 
 Johanna, 
 
 88 
 
 PURPLE, 
 
 
 Herman D., 
 
 118 
 
 Jasper, 
 
 25 
 
 PURVIS, 
 
 
 Mary, 
 
 215 
 
 PUTNAM, 
 
 
 
 2 
 
 9 
 
 Q 
 
 
 QUICK, 
 
 
 Samuel P., 
 
 129 
 
 Sarah Jane, 
 
 129 
 
 Thaddeus Smith, 
 
 129 
 
 QUINLAN, 
 
 
 
 ff 
 
 QUINTARD, 
 
 Rebecca, 
 
 42 
 
 R 
 
 
 RAYMOND, 
 
 
 Alfred, 
 
 2 
 
 Haiiiet, 
 
 41 
 
 Piatt, 
 
 2 
 
 REED, 
 
 
 Augusta, 
 
 185 
 
 Emma, 
 
 147 
 
 Liddy, 
 
 15 
 
 Mary LaV., 
 
 30 
 
 William, 
 
 30 
 
 REMER, 
 
 
 Abram V. N., 
 
 186 
 
 Arthur, 
 
 292 
 
 Charles Hooker, 
 
 186 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 293 
 
INDEX. 
 
 93 
 
 REYNOLDS, 
 
 Abigail, 
 Reuben, 
 REXFORD, 
 Horace, 
 Susie, 
 
 RHOEDS, 
 
 Jarvis, 
 
 RICHARDS, 
 
 Mary A., 
 
 RIDDLE, 
 
 Mary, 
 Cyrus, 
 
 Nathan Lewis, 
 Sarah, 
 
 ROBERTS, 
 Jane, 
 
 ROCKWELL, 
 
 Joseph (Mrs.) 
 ROGERS, 
 
 Alisa, 
 
 ROOT, 
 Charles B. J., 
 
 ROOTENBURGH, 
 
 ROSE, 
 
 Susan, 
 
 RUSCOE, 
 
 Cyrus, 
 Harriet Esther, 
 
 RYERSON, 
 
 Nancy, 
 
 RYFENBURGH, 
 Anna L. D., 
 Lewis Milton, 
 Peter, 
 
 SACKET, 
 
 Samuel (Capt.) 
 
 SANFORD, 
 
 Aaron, 
 
 SAXTON, 
 
 Sara Rosa, 
 
 William Bacon. 
 
 17 
 17 
 
 239 
 239 
 
 1 
 
 37 
 
 57 
 10 
 
 58 
 59 
 
 126 
 
 2 
 
 54 
 
 133 
 
 25 
 44 
 
 146 
 146 
 
 272 
 131 
 131 
 
 2 
 4 
 
 44 
 
 44 
 44 
 
 SCOTT, 
 
 Hazel, 
 Herman, 
 
 SCRiBNER, 
 
 Charles, 
 
 SEARS, 
 
 William, 
 
 SELLECK, 
 
 C. M., Rev., 
 
 SEVERING, 
 
 Anthony, 
 Clencn J., 
 Frank, 
 George, 
 Henry, 
 John M., 
 Ma-ry Ann, 
 
 SHARP, 
 
 Prank, 
 "William, 
 
 SHAUPP, 
 Mary, 
 
 SHERWOOD, 
 
 John, 
 Rev. ,. 
 
 314a 
 219a 
 
 38,41 
 
 232 
 321 
 319 
 318 
 232 
 320 
 232 
 
 203 
 296 
 
 189 
 
 4 
 
 2 
 
 SHUSTER, 
 
 Louis, 77 
 
 SIBLEY, 
 
 E. Blanch, 156 
 
 George Frederick, 156 
 
 SICKANEECK, 
 
 , Intro 
 
 SILKWORTH, 
 
 Aria, 
 
 Minerva, 
 
 Myron, 
 
 SIMMONS, 
 
 Martha E., 
 
 SIMPSON, 
 James, 
 Jay, 
 R^i chard G., 
 
 SMITH, 
 Bill, 
 Burr, 
 
 214, 
 
 266a 
 116 
 112 
 266 
 
 275a 
 
 242 
 214 
 242 
 
 2 
 
 34 
 
 Byron F., 192 
 
 Carrie Eugenia, 275a 
 
 Chester Merritt, 322e 
 
 Earle Joseph, ' 322h 
 
 Eigbert, 128 
 
 Ella, 109 
 
 Esther Mary, 209 
 
 Ferdinand B., 44 
 
 Ferdinand Burr, 133 
 
 Harriet, 128 
 
 Isabella, 132 
 
 John, 109 
 Joseph, 16, 98 
 
 Laura, 129 
 Lester Anderson, 322g 
 
 Lewis, 7 
 
 Lizzie, 109 
 
 Lorring F. B., 328 
 
 Lovica, 128 
 
 Madison Wells, 276 
 
 Mary H., 6 
 
 Mason Morrell, 275 
 
 Miranda L., 98 
 
 Mr. Rev. T., 34 
 
 Nellie May, 322f 
 
 Nehemiah, 7 
 
 Robert Irving, 274 
 
 Samuel, 209 
 
 Thomas, 241 
 
 William, 34 
 
 William M., 241 
 
 Willia.m B., 7 
 
 SOUTHWORTH, 
 
 La Grande, 251 
 
 SPENCER, 
 
 Charles Edward, 157 
 
 SPRAGUE, 
 
 Able, 101 
 
 Erastus, 215 
 
 Mary, 101 
 
 Orrin Purvis 215 
 STEEDMAN, 
 
 Margaret, 141 
 
 Peter, 141 
 
 STEELE, 
 
 Bertha, 172 
 
 David, * 53 
 
 Ira, 171 
 
94 
 
 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 STERLING, 
 
 
 THAXTER, 
 
 
 Charles, 
 
 2 
 
 Bertha, 
 
 289a 
 
 STEVENS, 
 
 
 THOMPSON, 
 
 
 Elizabeth Jane, 
 
 133 
 
 Hezekiah, 
 
 7 
 
 
 
 William A., 
 
 7 
 
 ST. JOHN, 
 
 
 
 
 Enoch, 
 
 37 
 
 THORP, 
 
 
 John 0., 
 
 38 
 
 Hannah, 
 
 14 
 
 Lewis (Dea.), 
 
 31 
 
 TILSON, 
 
 
 STOKES, 
 
 
 Anna, 
 
 119 
 
 Rozzana, 
 
 113 
 
 William H., 
 
 119 
 
 STRATTON, 
 
 
 TORRY, 
 
 
 Sarah Ann, 
 
 31 
 
 Mary, 
 
 55 
 
 STREET, 
 
 
 TOTHILL, 
 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 4 
 
 Alfred, 
 
 222 
 
 William L, 
 
 4 
 
 Mariam Phillippa, 212 
 
 STUART, 
 
 
 TOWNSEND, 
 
 
 Betty, 
 
 31 
 
 Andrew Beyers, 
 
 213 
 
 STURGES, 
 
 
 Homer Jelliff, 
 
 313e 
 
 Calcina, 128 
 
 ,134 
 
 Irene M., 
 
 313d 
 
 William, 2, 
 
 7,34 
 
 Isaac, 
 
 213 
 
 SV^ARTOUT, 
 
 
 TRAVIS, 
 
 
 Allen, 
 
 58 
 
 Thomas, 
 
 206 
 
 T 
 
 
 TURREL, 
 
 
 
 Elizabeth G., 
 
 83 
 
 TABOR, 
 
 
 TUTTLE, 
 
 
 Andrew, 
 
 237 
 
 Clarissa, 
 
 16 
 
 TANTANKENANT, 
 
 
 TYRRELL, 
 
 
 
 Lntro 
 
 Cora, 
 
 219a 
 
 > 
 
 TAYLOR, 
 
 
 David Nash, 
 
 94 
 
 Alfred, 
 
 2 
 
 Isaac, 
 
 98 
 
 Eliphalet, 
 
 2,4 
 
 Isaac B., 18 
 
 ,219b 
 
 Horace, 
 
 42 
 
 Joseph, 
 
 18 
 
 Jonothan, Sr., 
 
 2 
 
 Lester H., 
 
 219c 
 
 Julia B.^ 
 
 42 
 
 Lydia A,. 
 
 92,98 
 
 Lois, 
 
 2.7 
 
 ^Taria Sophia, 
 
 91 
 
 Mercy, 
 
 2 
 
 Rhoda A., 
 
 98 
 
 Seth, 
 
 2 
 
 Sophia 
 
 18 
 
 Uriah, 
 
 7 
 
 William Henry, 
 
 93 
 
 TEFFT, 
 
 
 TYSGOES, 
 
 
 Polly, 
 
 36 
 
 Jan, 
 
 Intro 
 
 THATCHER, 
 
 
 U 
 
 
 Jonah, 
 
 4 
 
 
 Josiah, 
 
 4 
 
 
 
 Partridge, 
 
 4 
 
 UPHAM, 
 
 
 Thomas T., 
 
 4.5 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 93 
 
 V 
 
 VANCORT, 
 
 Polly, 22 
 
 VANDERBURGH, 
 
 Cathalina Intro 
 
 VANDERHOEVEN, 
 
 Cornelius, Intro 
 
 VANDOOZER, 
 
 Hezekiah W., 4 
 
 VANDUSEN, 
 
 VAN HOESEN, 
 
 Anna, 
 
 Casper, 
 
 Catherine, 
 
 Cornelius, 
 
 Frances, 
 
 Garret, 
 
 Geesje, 
 
 Gerritze, 
 
 Harmon, 
 
 Hendrick, 
 
 Jacob 
 
 Jacob Jans, 
 
 Jacob Volkert, 
 
 Jan, 
 
 Jan Franse, 
 
 Jan Johannes, 
 
 Jan Jurian, 
 
 Jurriannes, 
 
 Johannes, 
 
 Luchs. 
 
 Maria, 
 
 Reienior, 
 
 Reynier, 
 
 Ryneir, 
 
 Rynier, 
 
 Rinder, 
 
 Rinear 
 
 Maria, 
 
 Styntie, 
 
 Teuntic, 
 
 Volkert, 
 
 William 
 
 William 
 VAN HOSE, 
 
 Rineir, 
 
 C. 
 
 S., 
 
 Intro 
 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 1 
 Intro 
 2 
 2 
 latro 
 Intro 
 Inrro 
 Intro 
 In+ro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 Intro 
 
 H J 6 6^ 
 
IiNDEX. 
 
 95 
 
 VAN HOOSEAR, 
 
 
 Nathan Olmstead, 4,12 
 
 Ada Ltucile, 
 
 288 
 
 Ophelia, 128 
 
 Adelia, 
 
 11 
 
 Pamelia, 12 
 
 A—., 
 
 4 
 
 Rhoda, 6 
 
 Albert W., 
 
 67 
 
 Rinear, 1, 2 2 
 
 Antionette, 
 
 .43 
 
 Sally, 34 
 
 Bertie Mary, 
 
 150 
 
 Sally Matilda 10 
 
 Bessie E. S., P., 
 
 143 
 
 Susan Caroline, 4, 14 
 
 Blanche Maurice, 
 
 151 
 
 Susan Matilda, G5 
 
 Burr Steedmau, 
 
 2S5f 
 
 Styles, 9 
 
 oiiarles. 
 
 39 
 
 Sylvester, 42 
 
 Clinton Quick, 
 
 2V0 
 
 Theresa Eighmy, 145 
 
 David 2,3,4,7,27,36,142 
 
 D, N., 2 
 
 David Nash, 31, 94 
 
 Davia Hermon, 129 | 
 
 David Rineai', 13 I 
 
 Ebenezer, 3/ j 
 
 Edith Gertrude, 158 ! 
 
 Elizabeth, 27, 4o j 
 
 Ethel Clifft, 
 
 Eva Thersa, 
 
 Fletcher, 
 
 Frances Lucele, 
 
 Frank Adelbert, 
 
 George Edgar, 
 
 Harriet A., 
 
 Harry W., 
 
 Harold Nash., 
 
 Harold Sibley, 
 
 Helen Blanche, 
 
 Henry, 
 
 Herbert James, 
 
 Hezekiah 
 
 Jesse, 
 
 John Eidwin, 
 
 Julia, 
 
 Julia Ann, 
 
 Julian, 
 
 Leroy W., 
 
 Louisa, 
 
 Luella Cole, 
 
 Marcy, 
 
 Maria, 
 
 Mar3;aret Pierce, 
 
 Mary. 
 
 May R., 
 
 Minnie Blanche, 
 
 Nancy. 
 
 Nancy A., 
 
 VanHoosear & Am- 
 bler, 42 
 William, 38 
 Wm. Kennedy, 285e 
 William Sylvester 141 
 Willie Reed, 74 
 
 ., 1, 7, 32, 56, 69. 
 
 70, 179, 180, 285f 
 
 VANHOOSE, 
 
 VAN LUVEN, 
 
 Lanah, 21 
 
 VANRENSSELAER, 
 
 Kilian, (Col.) 2 
 
 VANRENSSEALRE, 
 May King, 1 
 
 VAN RENSELAERSWYCK, 
 
 Kilian, i 
 
 VAUGHN, 
 
 Mary M., 
 
 VILL, 
 
 Williampie, 
 
 W 
 
 324 
 
 76 
 146 
 157 
 
 73 
 7,41 
 
 35 
 
 156 
 
 323 
 
 288b 
 
 139 jV, HOOSEN, 
 
 44 1 David, 
 
 VANHOOSER, 
 
 Frank, 
 
 Ga'l., 
 
 Garret, 
 
 John N., 
 
 Pamelia, 
 
 Lydia, 
 
 75 
 
 4, 16 
 
 149 
 
 140 
 
 148 
 
 VANHOOSEN, 
 
 Harmen, 
 
 Roinior, 
 VAN HOSEN, 
 
 137 VAN HOSER, 
 68 Rynler, 
 4.33 VAN HOUSEN, 
 14 < Rinen, 
 2 Ryner, 
 f VAN HUSSUM, 
 ^^Z^\ Jan Franse, 
 
 144 IVAN KEUREN, 
 
 138 ! Alice. 
 2 IVANOUZEN, 
 66 ' Rinen, 
 
 Intro I 
 Intro I 
 Intro i 
 Intro I 
 
 2 
 Intro 
 
 2 
 1 
 
 Intro 
 
 Intro 
 
 2 
 1 
 
 Intro 
 
 185 
 
 WARNER, 
 
 Theodocia, 
 WARREN, 
 Levi, 
 
 Mary Ann, 
 Sally, 
 
 WASHiNGTON, 
 George (Genl.), 
 
 WATERS, 
 
 Amzi, 
 Anna, 
 
 V/ATSON, 
 
 Matilda, 
 WEBER, 
 
 Nancy, 
 
 WHEELER, 
 
 Addle C, 
 
 Catherine S., 
 
 Frank, 
 
 Minnie Frances, 
 
 Stella M., 
 
 Warren, 
 
 WHELPLEY, 
 
 Amos, 
 WHITE, 
 
 WHITEING, 
 
 Caroline, 
 
 WHITLOCK, 
 
 Chloe, 
 
 Hezekiah, 
 
 Seth, 
 
 190 
 Intro 
 
 20 
 
 38 
 38 
 
 38 
 
 1, 2 
 
 133 
 133 
 
 270 
 
 132 
 
 302 
 197 
 197 
 304 
 303 
 197 
 
 7 
 
 12 
 
 13 
 
 7 
 4 
 7 
 
96 
 
 VAN HOOSEAR GENEALOGY. 
 
 WILLARD, 
 
 
 WINNER, 
 
 
 Mr. , 
 
 31 
 
 Anna, 
 
 246 
 
 
 
 Benjamin, 
 
 103 
 
 WILLIAMS, 
 J. H., 
 
 Kathleen, 
 
 271 
 271 
 
 Demon, 
 Eathen, 
 Henry, 
 Nettie, 
 
 103 
 
 247a 
 
 245 
 
 247 
 
 
 
 •J 
 
 247b 
 
 WILSON, 
 
 
 WORTENDYKE, 
 
 
 Moses, 
 
 4 
 
 Rhinear, 
 
 2 
 
 YAPLES, 
 
 Mary, 114 
 
 Brigham, 16 
 
 YOUNG, 
 
 Abraham, 7 
 Anson (Capt.) 31 
 
 Brigham, 16 
 
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