>■ w^HHI^H.. ri . . V . . ■ 1 ■A. ,/-g- se> Class. Book. Copyright ]^^_ COPYRIGHT DEPOSIT: Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/newyorkofyesterdOOmott Of this limited letterpress edition five hundred copies have been printed, and the type has been distributed ^,y. VUyl^^^t^t^^rLdy&'trHjd BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR In preparation I. — Madison Square and Vicinage. That sec- tion of Manhattan Island lying generally be- tween Washington and Bryant Squares will be thoroughly handled. Illustrated. 2. — The Bloomingdale District. The Farms and Families of Old Bloomingdale will be exhaustively treated. Illustrated. 3. — The Court of Nieuw Amsterdam, 1653, with Biographies of the Magistrates. Illustrated. Each of these volumes will cover the ground his- torically, cartographically, and genealogically, and will be voluminously illustrated with portraits, old Dutch homesteads, country seats, maps, and general views of the localities. iRew l^ork of l^csti v A Descripuvt oi Olb JSloonuiiGbalc It5 topographical feu v. Its early families and the^r aer>f'V Its old homest?;ads « Its French invasion, and Its war experiences Second House of Worship Organized 1805, I The Church a Hopp Member of the N. Y. Historical S: and Biographical Society and ^' JVitA y8 Illustrati New York ; Ztc linlcftcrl 1 90 c IRew l^ot?? of l^estetba^ A Descriptive Narrative of Qlb BloominGbale 1lt0 topographical features, HtS early families and their genealogies, 1It6 old homesteads and t:ountry-seats. Its French invasion, and ^ ■ II t0 war experiences considered in their relation to fits first Religious Society Zhc Bloomingbale IReformeb Cburcb Organized 1805. Incorporated 1806 as The Church at Harsenville, Hopper Striker Mott Member of the N. Y. Historical Society, Trustee of the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Society and Member of the Holland Society. JVt't/i yS Illustrations, Diagrams, and Maps G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London ^be finlcFierbocltet: ^xza 1908 ^LIBRARY of CONGKESS (wo Coo)es Heceivet: MAY 20 1908 OliiSS^ XXc, ^u. Copyright, 1908 HOPPER STRIKER MOTT Ubc TRnfcfeetbocfeet iptcM, Hew fioek DEDICATED to the Memory of the Early Knickerbocker Settlers of Bloemendael the Former and Present Members of the Church at Harsenville and to Jacob Harsen and Barbara Asten its Benefactors (Eontent6 A Discursive Survey PAGE I. — Bloomingdale ...... I Herein the limits of the territory to which the generic name attached are shown to have extended as far south as 23d Street, and a description of the famihes, farms, and landmarks as far north as the " Hollow Way " (Manhattan Street) of Revolutionary renown is given, omitting for the nonce that distinctive portion of the territory locally known as Harsenville. The cottage in which Poe and his child- wife Virginia boarded in 1843-4 and where he wrote The Raven, and the location of the "grand old elm " which inspired Morris to compose " Woodman, Spare that Tree," are talked of, as are, among others, "Elmwood," and the country seat of John McVickar, the mer- chant prince, "Oak Villa," that of Judge Brockholst Liv- ingston, and "Mount Aubrey," that of William Weyman. The famous surgeon. Dr. Valentine Mott, and the local guide, philosopher, and friend. Dr. A.V. Williams, are men- tioned, the Rogers houses, originally those of Humphrey and Nicholas Jones, made famous in Revolutionary his- tory, are described, as is St. Michael's Church, with tri- butes to the memory of Mrs. Richmond and the Rev. Dr. T. McC. Peters. "Willow Bank," the seat of Caspar Meier, " Woodlawn," the Bloomingdale Asylum, Nicholas de Peyster's mansion, and "Claremont," are a few of the other features of this chapter II. — Bloomingdale Militant .... 28 This contains the first and only presentation of the facts relating to the war history of the locality. Here will vi Contents PAGE be found a connected account thereof, commencing at Colonial times. The French and Indian Wars, with local enlistments, the Battle of Harlem Heights, where was won the only victory of Washington's troops on the Island, and the War of 1812 are described. A valuable list of Bloomingdale men who served in these wars, with, in many instances, their records, is included, and a discussion from the very latest information of topo- graphical points made famous in the Revolutionary strug- gle, with an exhaustive examination of the defences on Bloomingdale Heights, erected during the Second War with England, concludes the chapter. III. — Harsenville 81 The centre of this section of Bloomingdale was the Harsen- ville Road, the bed of which present 71st Street east of Broadway nearly follows. It ran across Central Park and connected the west side with the old Post Road (Third Avenue) at a time when no other access was available. The Harsen family, from whom the name arose, lived in the mansion which stood opposite its western end. The chapter includes a narrative of the French invasion of the hamlet during the Reign of Terror, and gossips of Mme. d'Auliffe, dame d'honneur to Marie Antoinette, the great Talleyrand and others who were visitors at her chalet near present 72d Street, of the young Due d'Orleans and his two brothers, the Due who became, as Louis Philippe, King of France, and his experience while residing in the Somerindyke house, of General Moreau and his real estate investment, and finally of the reception of the Prince of Wales, now Edward VII of England. All the old-time houses of any pretension located in this section are de- scribed, with the Village Academy, the tavern, the fire company, and the Harsenville Post Office. IV. — The First Consistory .... 100 This term designates those individuals who, with the Pastor, composed the governing body of the Church. The families of Hopper, Striker, Harsen, and Webbers have been traced from the respective pioneers to New Amster- dam and genealogical material concerning them and allied families published for the first time. dontents vii PAGE V. — The Church at Harsenville . . . 157 First Period, 1S05-1855. VI. — The Church at Harsenville . . . 222 Second Period, 1855-1906. These chapters present a detailed history of the organiza- tion covering the century of its existence. VII. — Among Old-time Families ■ . . . 298 Herein will be found valuable historical data included with biographical and genealogical material obtained very largely from personal application to the families mentioned, very little of which has heretofore been pub- lished. VIII. — Reminiscences 405 This title describes with sufficient accuracy the contents. It has been gleaned from diaries, letters, and notes taken from the spoken words of the few surviving old residents. IX. — Vital Statistics 446 Marriages, 446. Index to Marriages, 521. Baptisms, 479. Index to Baptisms, 530. X. — Appendices . 541 A. Authorization. B. Incorporation. C. The Synod of Dort. D. Notable Gifts and Memorials. E. Officers from the date of organization. F. Signatures of individuals connected with the Church. XI. — General Index 555 miuetratione PAGE "The Church AT Harsenville'* , . Frontispiece Second House of Worship. Erected on the Bloomingdale Road at 68th Street, 1814. Map of the Great Kill District .... 6 Remnant of the Hopper Burial-ground, 1884 . 8 Southwest corner of Ninth Avenue and 50th Street. Map of the Striker's Bay District .... 12 The van den Heuvel Mansion, later "Burnham's," 16 Map OF the Bloomingdale Village District . . 18 Bloomingdale Asylum, 1821. On the Present Grounds of Columbia University .... 24 Trees and Stone-wall Marking the West Side of Old Bloomingdale Road, 1906 .... 26 Looking southwest from Broadway at 124th Street. Grant's Tomb in distance. Plan of the Battle of Harlem Heights, Sept. 16, 1776 38 Reproduced from Prof. Johnston's Battle of Harlem Heights by permission of Columbia University Press. Position op the American and British Armies from Sept. 16 to Oct. 12, 1776 40 Reproduced from Prof. Johnston's Battle of Harlem Heights by permission of Columbia University Press. X miustratione PAGE The Apthorp Mansion, 1855 42 The House of Humphrey Jones, later "The Ab- bey." 44 The House OF Nicholas Jones, 1856, later "Wood- lawn." 46 The Teunis Somerindyke House, 1863, where Louis Phillipe Taught School .... 56 Portrait of Hon. Thomas R. Mercein, Comptroller OF the City of New York and Treasurer of the Committee of Defence (with signature). . . 60 Reproduced from the portrait in possession of his great- grandson Daniel Stanbury Mercein, Esq. Portrait of Col. Cornelius Harseni (with signa- ture) 64 From the collection of the late John Harsen Rhoades, Esq. Portrait OF Peter Hawes, Esq., of the Committee OF Defence (with signature) 68 From the oil painting in possession of his grandson, Gil- bert Ray Hawes, Esq. Block House No. i, in Central Park, 1864 . . 72 Hudson Tower and Lord Courtnay's, 1814 . . 76 From a water-color accompanying Gen. Swift's Report. "Hudson Tower was commenced July 16, i8i4,andwas located at Monte Alta, on the River near 123d Street." — Guernsey. The McGown Farm and Houses . . . .78 From an oil painting in possession of Mrs. Henry P. McGown. The Great Somerindyke Farm, 1862, Looking North from Columbus Circle 80 Map of the Harsenville District .... 84 1IIIU6tration6 xi PAGB The New York Orphan Asylum, 1840 ... 90 Harsenville, 1867, Showing the Village Church, 96 The Andrew Hopper Homestead, 1868, Broadway AT 50th Street 106 Striker's Bay Mansion, 1852 118 From the painting in possession of the author. Portrait of Jacob Harsen, Esq. (with signature) . 126 From the painting in possession of J. Harsen Purdy, Esq. The Harsen Mansion 134 From a pen and ink drawing by Thomason. Wolfert Webber's Bible, Printed at Dordrecht, 1710 • • • • 145 Reproduced by courtesy of Henry Vidal, Esq. Portr!ait of Rev. John H. Livingston, D.D., LL.D. (with signature) 156 From The Memoirs of Dr. Livingston, 1829, by the Rev. Alexander Gunn, D.D. Portrait of the Rev. Alexander Gunn, D.D. (with signature). First Minister of the Church at Harsenville 162 By courtesy of Thomas J. Burton, Esq. "The actual originator of the present University of the City of New York was, undoubtedly, the late Rev. Dr. Alexander Gunn of Bloomingdale." — George W. Bethvine, D.D. (1855) Map OF THE "Parsonage Acre" .... 166 From Liber 85 of Conveyances, 521, Register's Office, New York City. The Original Parsonage, 73d Street near Columbus Avenue 168 From The History of Eighty Years, Portrait OF IcHABOD Prall, Esq. (with signature) . 176 By courtesy of Miss Ida Benjamin. xii miustratlona PAGE Line Cut of Seal, in Text 183 Portrait of Richard A. Striker, Esq. (with sig- nature) 196 From the original painting in possession of Mrs. J. H. Maples. The Communion Service 200 Portrait of Rev. Francis M. Kip, D.D. (with sig- nature) 206 By courtesy of J. B. Vandervoort, Esq. Portrait of Rev. Enoch van Aken (with signa- ture) 210 Diagram of Interior of Church, 1854 . . . 219 Diagram of Gallery, 1854 220 Diagram of Original Church Site, Bloomingdale Road and 70th Street 223 "The Church at Harsenville." Second House of Worship, 1868, showing the Encroaching "Shanty-town." 228 Diagram of Site of Second House of Worship . 232 From The History of Eighty Years. The Bloomingdale Reformed Church. The Third House of Worship, 71st Street, east of Colum- bus Avenue 236 From The History of Eighty Years. Portrait of Rev. Carlos Martyn, D.D. (with signa- ture) 244 The Bloomingdale Reformed Church. The Fourth House of Worship, Northeast Corner OF Broadway and 68th St 250 Interior of the Fourth House of Worship . . 258 miustrations xiii PAGE Portrait of Rev. MadIvSon C. Peters, D.D. (with signature) 272 Portrait of Rev. William C. Stinson, D.D. (with signature) 282 The Bloomingdale Reformed Church. The Fifth House of Worship, Bloomingdale Square . . 292 The Pyatt Memorial. Designed by John La Farge, Esq 294 The Gilbert Memorial. Designed by John La Farge, Esq 296 Portrait of Miss Ann Striker (with signature) . . 304 From the original painting in possession of Mrs. J. H. Maples. Portraits of Samuel Adams Lawrence, Esq., and HIS Wife Katherine Remsen (with signature) . 310 From the original paintings in possession of Mrs. Kath- erine L. Neumann. Portrait of Joel Post, Esq. (with signature) . .316 Portrait of Hon. Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of New York State and Vice-President of the United States (with signature) . . . -328 From the painting in the collection of the New York Historical Society. Portrait of Hon. Brockholst Livingston, Asso- ciate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (with signature) . . . . . . 330 By courtesy of Miss Ann L. Livingston. Portrait of Baron John C. van den Heuvel, former Governor of Demarara (with signature), 332 From the original painting in possession of William Henry Bibby, Esq. The Clendining Mansion, 1863, at Columbus Avenue and 104th Street 336 xiv Iflluetrationa PAGE Portrait of Jordan Mott, Esq., 1796 (with signa- ture) 346 From a wax miniature in possession of the author. "Mott's Point, ON THE Hudson," 1884 . . . 350 From an oil painting by W. L. Sonntag, N. A., in posses- sion of the author. Portrait of M. Hopper Mott, Esq. (with signature) . 352 From a water-color in possession of the author. Portrait of Hon. Isaac L. Varian, Mayor of New York City (with signature) 358 From the original by Inman in the New York City Hall. The Havemeyer Mansion, 1864, as it Appeared when Used as a Home and School for Soldiers' Children 370 Portrait of Pelatiah Perit, Esq., 20th President OF the Chamber of Commerce . . . .376 Reproduced by the courtesy of Mrs. W. S. Oilman. Original Edifice of the Park Presbyterian Church, 1854 380 Portrait of Caspar Meier, Esq. (with signature). Founder of Oelrichs & Co 382 From the original painting in the Chamber of Commerce. Portraits of Gerard William Livingston, Esq., and his Wife Cornelia de Peyster (with signa- ture) 384 By courtesy of the late Mrs. Charles Havens Hunt. Livingston Chart 386 Portrait of General Garrit Hopper Striker (with signature). Captain in the Service of the United States, 1812 3go From the original painting in possession of the family. 11llu0tration0 xv PAGE "ROSEVALE," THE MANSION OF GENERAL STRIKER, 1864, ON THE Hudson at 53d Street . . . 394 Portrait of Mrs. Emily Hanaway Stryker (with signature) 406 The Perit Mansion, Bloomingdale Road at 75th Street, 1868 418 Portrait of Duncan Macfarlan, Esq. (with signa- ture) 424 Reproduced by courtesy of his daughter, Mrs. Robert W. Thompson. Country Seat op Samuel Adams Lawrence, Esq., 1868 430 "Willow Bank," Country Seat of Caspar Meier, Esq 436 From a drawing by his grandson, H. C. von Post, Esq. The Beekman (Clibborn) house in middle distance. Portrait op Eliza Gulick, Wife of Domine van Aken, 1862 444 autboritiee Citeb [ The numbers following the titles refer to the pages of this volume \ i Albany Collections, 126 | American, The, 1844, 353 Archives of the State of New York in the Revolution, 34, 49, 53 Articles of the Synod of Dort, 241 Battle of Harlem Heights, Johnston, 41 ■ Battles of Trenton and Princeton, The, 119 ; Bethune, George W., D.D., note on portrait, 162 ! BONAR, HORATIUS, 428 \ Calendar of Dutch MSS., 143, 144 ' Calendar of Land Papers, 145 Christian Intelligencer, i860, 1868, 257; 1906, loi; 258, 292, 301, ( 303, 351, 394 ; Clark's Onondaga, 106 Colonial Historical Documents, 112 Columbian, The, 1815, 4, 67, 68, 72, 390 Conveyances, N. Y. Register's Office, 1846, 45; 1847, 47; 1764, 47; ; 48, 107, III, 148, 150, 155, 161, 167,171, 182, 189, 192, 224, ' 225, 316, 327, 340, 345 : De Kerkboden, 10 1 ; Deliverers of Holland, The, Charles, 114 \ Description of New York, Hardie, 1827, 170 I Documentary History of New York, 145 \ Documents relating to the History of Early Colonial Settlements, , 113 ; Domestic Manners of the Americans, 1832, 23 'j Dutch Church Records j Estates and Rights of the Corporation, Hoffman, 144 \ Evacuation Day, 1783, Jas. Peters, 58 I Evening Post, 1814, 66, 69; 1816, 183, 184; 1829, 205; 340 j From the Battery to Bloomingdale, Despard, 97, 131, 138, 230 ] Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta, The, van Rensselaer, 143 i xvii \ xviii Butborities Citeb Grants, N. Y. Comptroller's Office, 1701, 43 History of the City of New York, Lamb, 48, 113 History of the City of New York, Valentine, 141, 144 History of Danbury, Conn., Bailey, 128 History of the Dutch Republic, Motley, 114 History of Eighty Years, 162, 210, 239, 243, 245, 249, 266 History of Harlem, Riker, 74, 104 History of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties, 120 History of New York, Stone, 115 History of the School of the Collegiate Dutch Church, 108, 109 History of the Seventh Regiment, Clark, 64 History of the War of 1812, Guernsey, 60, 75, note on illustration, 76 History of Westchester County, Bolton, 320 Holland Society Year Book, 1900, 115; 1896,117; 1899,127; 1900, 144; 1896, 145 Huguenot Emigration to America, 128 Incorporations of Religious Denominations, 159 Irving, Washington, i Kingston (N. Y.), Freeman, 1885, 255 Landmark History, Ulman, 73 Last Days of Knickerbocker Life in New York, Dayton, 13 Laws of 1779, 304; 1857,2; 1703,1751,4 London Gazette, 1814, 80 London Punch, 391 Manual, Corwin's, 160, 257, 323 Manual of the Corporation, Valentine, 1847, 46, 47; 107, 323 Martineau, Harriet, xxiv McGown's Pass and Vicinity, Hall, 73, 76 Memoirs of Dr. Livingston, 162 Mercantile Advertiser, 1814, 3; 69, 174 Merchants' Magazine, Hunt, 380 Minutes of the Common Council, 1804, 86 National Advocate, 18 14, 61 N. J. Archives, 158, 317 New Netherland Register, 113, 116 N. Y. Gazette, 1829, 205 N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record, 1905, 10; Vol. II., 49; 117, 127, 301, 368 N. Y. Herald, 1883, 247; 361 N. Y. Historical Society Abstracts, 1893, 142 N. Y. Marriages, 150 N. Y. Mercury, 1764, 14 N. Y. Packet, The, 1784, 48 autboritie0 Citcb xix j N. Y. in the Revolution, 2d Ed., 49, 50, 51, 53; supplement, 37 j N. Y. Spectator, 1829, 205 j N. Y. Sun, 125, 391 ; N. Y. Times, 1878, 233; 327 ] N. Y. Tribune, 299 , Officers and Men of N. J. in the Revolution, Stryker, 50 ,; Ordinance of the Board of Health, 1872, 203 3 Paper by Erastus C. Benedict, 1878, 48 ] Paper read before the N. Y. Academy of Medicine, 133 ] Picture of New York, Mitchell, 338 ij Public Papers of Gov. Tompkins, 73 ] Purple, Dr. Edwin R., 324 ■ Recollections of Persons and Events, Matthews, 159 3 Records of New Amsterdam, Court Minutes, 8, 115, 116, 140 Records of St. Michael's Church, 1814, 26, 46; 203 i Records of Trinity Church, 1792, 26 j Records of Trinity Corporation, 132 I Register's Office, Jamaica, L. I., 118 j Reminiscences of an Octogenarian, Haswell, 98 I Report on Fortifications, Gen. Swift, 73 j Reports, Hastings', 30, 34 Revised Ordinances of 1866, 203 j Royal Gazette, 1780, 46 ] Statutes, N. Y., 181 7, 305 ] Stevens, Letter of Dr. Alexander H., 134 ] Story of an Old Farm, The, 119 Tour around N. Y., Felix Oldboy, hi Wealth and Pedigree of the Wealthy Citizens of N. Y., 125 ] Wills, N. Y. Register's Office, 132, 149, 187, 195, 235; 1833, 316; 345. t 346 1 Yale Lectures on the Sabbath School, Trumbull, 433 | (5uit)e*=lPo6t6 along tbe (Ienturi?*6 patbwai? 1805 Sept. 1806 Sept. 6. 1806 Nov. 3. 1808 May 21. 1809 Sept. 16. 1810 June 1814 Sept. 26. 1815 Nov. 24. 1816 Aug. 4. 181 7 Feb. 1 82 1 May 1829 Oct. I. 1830 July 8. 1831 Oct. I. 1832 May 21. 1835 May 26. 1869 March 1869 Aug. 28. 1870 Aug. 1881 Dec. 1883 Jan. 1885 Jan. 1885 Oct. 1885 Nov. 1889 Sept. 1900 May 3. 1905 May 28. 1905 Nov. 12. 1906 Dec. 16. 1906 Dec. 23. 1906 Dec. 30. Organization in the Harsen Mansion and election of First Consistory. Incorporation. Site and FIRST HOUSE OF WORSHIP, erected at 69-7oth Sts. and Bloomingdale Road, con- veyed to Consistory by Jacob Harsen. FIRST MINISTER, Rev. Alexander Gunn, called. "Parsonage Acre " conveyed by Jacob Harsen. Construction of parsonage finished. New site at 68th Street and Bloomingdale Road purchased. Gift of realty from Mrs. Barbara Asten. SECOND HOUSE OF WORSHIP opened. Corporate seal adopted. Bequest from Mrs. Johannah Beekman. Rev. Dr. Gunn died. SECOND MINISTER, Rev. Francis M. Kip, called. Rev. William Labagh, minister pro-tem. THIRD MINISTER, Rev. John AlBurtis, called. FOURTH MINISTER, Rev. Enoch van Aken, called, (ist Sabbath), Final services held in the Second House of Worship. THIRD HOUSE OF WORSHIP opened on the "Parsonage Acre." Bequest from General Striker. Domine van Aken declared emeritus. FIFTH MINISTER, Rev. Carlos Martyn, called. Domine van Aken died. FOURTH HOUSE OF WORSHIP, at Broadway and 68th St., dedicated. First regular service held. SIXTH MINISTER, Rev. Madison C. Peters, called. SEVENTH MINISTER, Rev. William C. Stin- son, D.D., called. Last services held in Fourth House of Worship. Corner-stone of FIFTH HOUSE OF WORSHIP laid at Bloomingdale Square. Service of Dedication. Centennial Celebration of Incorporation. Unveiling of Pyatt and Gilbert memorial windows. Untrobuction ZTbe life of any community largely centres around its first, and for a space, its only church. This natural tendency makes it apt, in narrating the history of the Church at Harsenville, to fuse it in the amalgam of its surroundings. As its locus was settled by Hol- landers, their descendants, in conformity with their antecedents, selected the ecclesiastical pattern of their fatherland. Situated in a portion of the territory to which the generic name of Bloomingdale attached, it yet had a local significance and at the same time drew for support on a much larger section than that known as Harsenville. In the century of its existence in that location its power for good cannot be estimated, and now that it has been deemed wise to remove the congre- gation to pastures new — still within the confines of Bloomingdale — may the influence which has heretofore radiated from it increase and multiply mightily! The new site on the field of the Battle of Harlem Heights is alone an incentive to aggressive work. This section of the island has had only desultory and disconnected mention in the history of the city. The distinction of its name — so beautiful in its meaning — has even been denied it, while every one is familiar with such local appellations as Chelsea, Greenwich, Yorkville, Harlem, and Manhattanville, no one of xxiv •flntro^uctlon which for an instant compares with the charm asso- ciated with the designation appHed to this West Side territory by the early Dutch inhabitants. Blooming- dale — a vale of flowers — remains a title of singular descriptive beauty and as such deserves to live, It has been with reason described as the watering-place of the ^lite of New York, the resort of all distinguished strangers from abroad, and the Newport of that part of the city's history extending from the period of Dutch farms to its metamorphosis into metropolitan grand- eur. And then the Hudson! Never was there a more beautiful shore. For the most part bold and rocky, here and there a sandy beach in some little cove was encountered, shaded by branching chestnuts and ma- ples, upon the shelving sands of which the ripples made music most inviting to the bather on a midsummer day. Harriet Martineau has said that of all the water craft she had ever seen none were so graceful as the sloops that sailed its waters. The march of modern improve- ment, in the guise of the railroad, swept away at one blow the rural beauty of this part of the island. As a family connection of each of the four founders of the Church, and a scion in the fifth and fourth genera- tions respectively of its first elders, the author wishes to express pleasure at his selection by the present Con- sistory to write this history of the organization. He feels that he is especially equipped for the occasion. For some fifteen years he has been engaged in an effort to preserve the history, tradition, and local color of old Bloomingdale. This volume is launched in com- memoration of the centenary of the incorporation of the Society, with the hope that, as the text more than sufficiently covers the subject of the title, it may induce old residents to send him additional data that flntrobuction xxv an exhaustive history of the District, now in prepara- tion, may be pubHshed soon, the accuracy of which will crown the result. Portraits of many of the resi- dents and pictures of most of the buildings, many of them dating from the i8th century, have been gathered, together with maps of farms, old lanes, and watercourses. Beginning at Union Square the inten- tion is to follow the line of the Bloomingdale Road to 147th Street, where it merged in the road to Kings- bridge. Those of us who have been familiar with and loved Bloomingdale since birth, trust that the contem- plated work will revive interest in the restoration of a name which is unique, euphonic, and historic. Where so many have lent assistance in the prepara- tion of this publication it is invidious to draw distinc- tion, yet it is hard to refrain from thanking Mrs, Florence E. Youngs, Assistant Librarian of the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Society, Robert H. Kelby, Librarian of the N. Y. Historical Society, Bingman Versteeg, Librarian of the Holland Society, George R. Schieffelin, John Jasper, former President of the Board of Education, George Wilson, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, and the four survivors of Domine van Aken's pastorate, Mrs. Emily Hanaway Stryker, widow of Rev. Dr. Peter Stryker, Mrs. Ann Agnes Dana, Mrs. Jane Cozine Dorland, and Mrs. Marion Bissland Carss. Especially are acknowledgments made to David Thomson of Foster & Thomson, for repeated acts of kindness. Thanks are also due to Dr. Stinson, pastor, and to members of the present Consistory. The Dutch colors — blue, white, and orange — embel- lish the cover. It should be added that this work frankly amounts to more than a history of the Bloomingdale Reformed xxvi Untrobuction Church. The broadest kind of an historical and genea- logical background has been taken, extending over the entire region of the Bloomingdale of old. H. S. M. City of New York, Borough of Manhattan, June, 1906, After being arrayed in battle panoply for five years in an effort to have the name affixed to some location within its confines, it is with unfeigned pleasure that the announcement is made that the Board of Aldermen passed an ordinance which was approved by Mayor McClellan and became a law on the 9th day of January, 1907, designating the triangular plot at the junction of Broadway, West End Avenue, io6th and 107th Streets, "Bloomingdale Square." ^be mew l^ork of Oestetda^ 3Bloominat)ale Hit the good old days, sometime after the settlement of this island by our Holland ancestors, the middle west section thereof received from the place of that name near Haarlem, in Holland, the name "Bloemen- dael." Its earliest history is lost in tradition. Indian trails led over and across it. Where the tepees were located, how the wild creatures which prowled through its woods disappeared, and how and when the terri- tory, densely covered with the denizens of the forest, became denuded, we are left to conjecture. At a later date its pastoral scenes were apostrophized by Irving, whose magic pen has immortalized the "River of the Mountains," as "a sweet and rural valley, beautiful with many a bright wild flower, refreshed by many a pure streamlet, and enlivened here and there by a delectable little Dutch cottage, sheltered under some sloping hill and almost buried in embowering trees." The derivation of the name is in itself descriptive of the territory to which it was 2 ^be 1Rew l^ork of IJesterba^ applied. Even in our day it was " a vale of flow- ers," the equivalent in the vernacular of the Dutch designation. The extent of territory covered by the appellation has ever been a mooted question; such authorities as mention the subject at all differ essen- tially. We know to a certainty that the road which gave access much later to the locality ran its length through "the Bloomingdale District" from present 23d Street and Broadway and was known as the Bloomingdale Road. It wound o'er hill and dale, over a picturesque country, passing beautiful country- seats and farmhouses, making an ensemble which vied with the splendors of the lordly Hudson lapping its shores. Let us trace the name by successive stages as applied to territory below 59th Street, at which point many authorities limit it. An old resident and occu- pant of a homestead which stood until 1897 at 54th Street and the river, the author can testify that letters to his family as early as the end of the i8th century were addressed to Bloomingdale. The blocks between 55 th and 57 th Streets and Eighth and Ninth Avenues constituted the original Bloomingdale Square and con- tained somewhat over eighteen acres. It was closed on the establishment of Central Park, by Chapter 73, Laws of 1857. The abstract of title of the Wm. L. Rose tract, on the east side of the road between 46th and 47th Streets, denominates it as lying in Blooming- dale. Rose's name appears attached to the articles of incorporation of the Church as the witness. He had other plots in the locus in quo and was the husband of Charlotte, the sister of Mrs. Jacob Coles Mott. A part of \^lfert Webber's farm, hereinafter described, which John Jacob Astor and William Cutting acquired under foreclosure in 1803, the southern boundary of which Bloomin^bale 3 was south of 43 d Street on the Road and extended to the river at a point north of 48th Street, was platted thereafter. On the map it is entitled "The farm at Bloomingdale," belonging to those individuals. Por- tions of it fronting on Verdant Lane became the prop- erty of Colonel Anthony Post and Francis Feitner, mentioned hereafter. In the Mercantile Advertiser of Dec. 10, 1 814, appeared this advertisement: TO LET for one or more years The Farm at Bloomingdale, near the four mile stone, known by the name of Eden's Farm, consisting of about 22 acres of Land, on which are two Dwelling Houses and 2 barns, and to which may be added 2 pieces of pasture land of about ten acres each. Apply to John Jacob Astor, corner Pine & Pearl-Street. This farm was owned by Medcef Eden, an English- man, and extended as far south as 41st Street. It was acquired by Astor under foreclosure in 1 803 , for $25 ,000 , The prevalent notion that this new centre of the city's hotel and theatre district was ever known as the Long Acre Farm is fallacious. The mural painting over the bar in the Hotel Astor labelled with this name tends to foster false history. The name Long Acre grew into usage after Brewster & Company removed from Broome Street to 47th Street, in 1872. Other firms in the same line of business followed them to the new loca- tion, whereupon one of the trade publications compared New York's carriage building community to Long Acre Street in London, where the leading firms of the busi- ness are centred, and termed the locality, which at that time was without name, "New York's Long Acre." This designation seemed apt and was finally adopted by the authorities. The high eminence at present Greeley and Herald Squares gave the name of Strawberry Hill to territory thereabouts. When the Institution for the Blind was removed in October, 1833, to the entire block between 33d and 34th Streets, Eighth and Ninth Avenues, it was to Strawberry Hill that it came. This advertise- ment from the Columbian of January 6, 1815, brings the Bloomingdale name to a point farther south and as low as we have yet been able to prove : A STRAY STEER was found on the premises of the subscriber on the 5th of August last. The owner may have the said steer by proving property and paying all reasonable charges. Isaac Varian Jun. Bloomingdale — 3 mile stone. This stone was located on the Old Post Road just north of its junction with the Bloomingdale Road at a spot about opposite 24th Street, and measured the third mile from Federal Hall in Wall Street. "The Road to Bloomingdale," the continuation of Bowery or New York Lane, began at 14th Street and Fourth Avenue, crossed diagonally Union Square, and proceeded northerly to its junction with the Old Post Road, which swerved northeasterly across present Madison Square, and followed much of the bed of Third Avenue to Harlem. The Bloomingdale Road was opened under the Act of June 19, 1703, as stated in the preamble of the Act of November 25, 1751, which provided for keeping said road in repair. Therein it is mentioned that the road had been laid out of the BloominGt>ale 5 breadth of four rods from the house of John Horn (23d Street and Fifth Avenue), through the " Bloomingdale District" to the house of Adrian Hooglandt (115th Street and Riverside Drive), terminating at the "bam of Nicholas de Peyster" (about 11 6th Street). Prior to the opening of this road, which meant so much to the district it traversed, the only means of access from the city seems to have been by water, the great natural highway to the region. There were a number of lanes which deflected from the Post Road to distinctive sec- tions of the West Side, some of the more important being Hopper's Lane in the fifties, Harsenville Road in the seventies, and the Cross Road to Harlem, afterwards Apthorp Lane, in the nineties. All of those named were opened many years after the Bloomingdale Road. In the process of evolution by which New York has reached its proud position as the second city of the world, it has come about that the farm on which " the house of John Horn ' ' was situated and its vicinage has become the retail centre and the best known and most conspicuous locality of the metropolis. Its situation in the heart of the city, its fabulous wealth in hotels, amusement and business structures, the beautiful Madison Square Park which lies opposite, the width of the plaza between them, and the crossing of two of the main arteries of travel, all have served to call atten- tion to this section. The national and local characters to be met on that swirling centre of trade and traffic — the junction of 23d Street and Fifth Avenue — accen- tuates this feature, and the political meetings held in the neighboring hotels, with the conduct and contest of parties fought out thereabouts, have focussed the thought of the nation for many years on this terri- tory. The vast assemblages which concentrate here 6 Zhc IRew IJorft of IJesterba^ on occasions have become a part of metropolitan existence. Horn acquired title to the tract in 1716 in conjunc- tion with his brother-in-law Cornelius Webber, the latter' s sister Rachel having married the former three years previously. The house, which became the start- ing point of the Bloomingdale Road, was located be- tween 2 2d and 23d Streets, in the present centre of Fifth Avenue, on the exact spot where the " Isle of Safety" has been placed, and immediately west of the Flatiron Building. It became later the residence of Christopher Mildeberger, a merchant in the Swamp, who had married Margaret Horn in 1808 and removed to this dwelling in 1820 from Vandewater Street. Ven- erable and stately sycamore trees lined the then country road, and also divided the farm from the house plot. Fifth Avenue was ordered opened in 1837, and the same year the park called Madison was declared a public square. In 1839 Mildeberger petitioned that his house should be allowed to remain on its site until the actual necessity arose for its removal, and by resolution of the Common Council, it was permitted to stay until November ist. The homestead was removed to the northwest corner of the avenue and street where the Fifth Avenue Hotel stands, and was used as a tavern known as Madison Cottage under lease to Corporal Thompson. It became a noted resort and half-way house for turfmen and other sporting characters under the management of this boniface and remained on this corner for thirteen years (183 9- 1852), when it was superseded by Franconi's Hippodrome. The farms which collectively came to be known as Bloomingdale were settled by Hollanders. They stretched some four miles along both sides of the road, (^RE/IT MILL DIST. Blooming^ale 7 which in 1795 was extended from 115th to 147th Streets, where it merged in the Kingsbridge Road. In this territory were a number of hamlets, one at the Great Kill, the longest and deepest stream which in- dented the west shore of the island, the outlet of which was at 42 d Street. The settlement at this spot ex- tended into the fifties. Harsenville was located in the seventies, Striker's Bay in the nineties, and Blooming- dale centred at looth Street. Here was the nucleus of a village which received this name for want of a better one, and in which the Bloomingdale Asylum was the main raison d'etre. Each of these was a dis- tinct locality. Up to the opening of the Civil War there was yet a semblance of village life therein. XLbc (5reat mu Branches of the Great Kill rose as far north as 58th Street and the road, as far east as 48th Street and Sixth Avenue, where there was a lake, and as far south as 39th Street east of Seventh Avenue. Two larger ponds were on this branch between 36th and 38th Streets near this avenue. The dominating feature in this neighborhood was the "Great Kill Farm," located near the creek's mouth and on the north side thereof. It was owned in 17 14 by Matthys Adolphus Hoppe, the ancestor of Andrew Hopper, an original deacon of the Church at Harsenville. There was located the house of Matthew Hopper. His sons advertised it for sale in 1786 and John Leake, the founder of Leake and Watts Orphan Home, a distinctive Bloomingdale insti- tution, purchased it that year for ;^iooo. He dwelt on an adjoining farm which he called " The Hermitage," and both these properties were inherited by his grand- nephews, the Norton brothers. Most of the property 8 ^be IRew l?ork of IJesterbap in the hamlet contiguous to this stream was owned by the Hopper family and its connections. Matthys Adolphus, the settler, was the youngest of the four children of Andries Hoppe, the pioneer, and Gertje Hen- dricks, his wife, who reached this country from Holland in 1652. He lived but six years after his arrival and yet his name is conspicuous in the records of the time. He owned a number of lots in the lower city and lived on the east side of Broadway, north of Beaver Street. Just before his death in December, 1658, he entered into a contract to purchase Bronck's Land (Morrisania) , from which agreement his widow sought relief on the ground that the owner, one Stoll, could not deliver it free from Indian claims. The grave and learned seig- neurs, the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, one of the members of which was Jacobus Strijcker, the ancestor of another of the original elders of the Har- senville Church, declared the title merchantable. So Mrs. Hoppe or Hoppen (in both of which ways the good dame spelled her name) owned the whole of Bronck's Land, five hundred acres in extent, by deed of record dated 1662. This property was eventually patented by Governor Andros to Colonel Lewis Morris, second Proprietor of Morrisania, in 1676. The "Hopper Farm," which has become famous in legal annals, as confined within city streets, stretched from 48th to 55th Streets, both east and west of the Bloomingdale Road, lying diagonally across the city and along the river from 50th to 55th Streets. The homestead of Matth's Adolphus Hoppe was located on the north side of Hopper's Lane, the only way through the farm to the river, just west of the Albany apartment house at 51st Street and Broadway. His son Johannes, known in the records as John Hopper REMNANT OF THE HOPPER BURIAL GROUND, 1884 Southwest corner of Ninth Avenue and 50th Street 16loomlng^aIe 9 the Elder, inherited this property. He was a member of Captain Gerard Stuyvesant's company, of N. Y. MiUtia, and served as Lieutenant in General Harmer's campaign against the Indians. He married, in 1728, Maria van Orden, and their seven children were born in the homestead. A remnant of the family burial-ground was to be seen until 1885 at the southwest corner of Ninth Avenue and 50th Street, in which interments took place until 1840, the last being that of an old negro slave by whom the members of the last generation had been nursed. John Hopper the Elder, besides the house he built for his son Matthew heretofore mentioned, constructed one at 50th Street and Broadway for his son Andrew, and another at the terminus of the Lane (53d Street and the river) for his son John the Younger, who was born in 1734, and whose first wife was Wyntie Dyck- man. Their only child, Maria, became the first wife of James Striker of Striker's Bay. Hopper's second wife was Sarah Cozine, and he as well as Sarah and her mother Catharine, widow of Balaam Johnson Cozine, were buried in the Hopper plot. He devised his farm to his grandchildren for life, viz. : Ann Striker, Winifred, wife of Jordan Mott, and General Garrit Hopper Striker. Another residence, "Mott's Point," the Homestead, which John Hopper the Younger put up, was situated at the river's edge, and built in 1796 for his grand- daughter, whose marriage was then in contemplation. The rocky promontory on which it was located had previously been the site of the family fishing, bathing, and boating houses. For this was a celebrated spot for bass and crabs and the rocks were encrusted with oysters which grew to perfection. The Mott family used the place as a country-seat until 1829, when they lo ^be IRevp IPork of IPesterba^ removed there permanently. Seven sons were born to them, the youngest being baptized in the Bloomingdale Church. Here, also, lived their grandmother, Anne Coles, the wife of Isaac Mott, a Quaker merchant, whose privilege it was to bear a part in the contest for Amer- ican independence. There is preserved in her family a tablecloth which some officers gave her as a grateful memento of her charitable course in ministering to the wants of the cruelly treated captives who fell into the British clutches. (Vide sketch in N. Y. G. and B. Record of January and July, 1905.) The family attended service at the Church and a number of the sons sang in the choir. The house of John Horn, Jr., whose mother was Jacomyntie (Jemima) Hopper, is still standing on the edge of the Lane at 51st Street and Broadway. It is now occupied as a saloon and was known until lately as the "Old Homestead," so-called from its proximity to the original homestead. The Cozine and Hege- man families (who intermarried) had houses in the present bed of Eighth Avenue, between 54th and 55th Streets. No pictures of these houses are extant. Sarah Swanser, the daughter of Sarah Cozine, married, as a second husband, John Stake, and his house was located within the lines of old Bloomingdale Square. Among the individuals connected with the Church who lived in this section should be mentioned the Webbers, Posts, and Hardmans. There were a number of isolated homes located be- tween the Great Kill section and Harsenville, notably the Havemeyer place on the west side of present Colum- bus Circle, and the Cargill, Ward, Nash, and Low houses, all of which were surrounded by more or less extensive grounds. These were all on the great Somer- Bloomina^ale n indyck farm, and were acquired from heirs of John Somerindyck, who bid it in at the sale held by the Com- missioners of Forfeiture after the Revolution. The Havemeyer mansion later served as a hospital and home for disabled Union soldiers. The Cargill seat occupied the block between 60 th and 6ist Streets and Ninth and Tenth Avenues, which was bought by David Cargill in 18 19, for $3500. He was a member of the firm of Cargill & Sonntag, No. 11 Maiden Lane, importers of musical instruments. The house stood relatively nearer to Tenth Avenue. In i860, title to the property became vested in Algernon S. Jarvis; consideration, $135,000. Lebbeus B. Ward, the mechanician, lived in a hand- some Gothic cottage, at the northwest corner of 59th Street and Tenth Avenue, the trap rock of which it was constructed having been brought from his native State of New Jersey. He carried on business at the foot of the street at the river's edge, where he founded the "Hamersley Forge," the first establishment in this country fitted with furnaces and steam hammers of sufficient size to manufacture shafts and cranks for steamer and steamboat use. Here was forged the "Peacemaker," the famous gun which was invented by Ericsson and which was mounted on the U. S. S. Princeton. At its trial on the Potomac River in 1844, it was very successful, but later at a final discharge it exploded, killing two secretaries of Tyler's Cabinet. The President himself narrowly escaped. It is proper to add that Ward disapproved of the method of construction of this gun, which was much larger than had theretofore been used in the navy. The Nash house now forms a portion of the New York Infant Asylum located at the northeast corner 12 Zbe 1Rew l?orR of I3e6tert)ai? of 6 1 St Street and Tenth Avenue. It was built by Daniel D. Nash, the auctioneer, who bought the site in 1848. John Low purchased land on the west side of Tenth Avenue, between 59th and 64th Streets, in 1819, at which time he was cashier of the Union Bank at 1 7 Wall Street. " Locust Grove," which name dignified the mansion he built near the latter street, was a substantial stone structure of two stories and attic. It was surrounded by a dense forest and Low's woods were famous picnic-grounds even after they were cut off from the water by the advent of the rail- road. Great quantities of wild pigeons consorted there, and hunting was superb until one day the birds disap- peared. The Low house and some of the contiguous land was purchased in 185 1 by John Tirburce Gregoire de Milhau, a San Domingan refugee, who occupied it till 1858. It became a beer and dance hall later, a fate which befell so many of the fine country-seats of Bloomingdale. The hamlet which grew up around the Harsen home- stead, to which the name " Harsen ville " attached, will be treated extensively in another chapter. The terri- tory covered by this appellation was composed of the Somerindyke and Dyckman farms and a portion of the Apthorp tract. Generally speaking it stretched from 59th to 80th Streets, an extensive part of which prop- erty was taken for Central Park. Striker's asag The section of Bloomingdale which received the dis- tinctive name of Striker's Bay extended to 99th Street. Gerrit Striker, the grandson of Jacobus Strijcker, one of the magistrates of the original Court of New Amster- dam, assumed the method of spelling his name which Bloomin^bale 13 has been retained by the Manhattan branch of the fam- ily, and differentiates it from the rest of the clan. He settled at the head of a "certain cove," located at the foot of present 96th Street, in 1764, and named the mansion he built there "Striker's Bay." This prop- erty descended to his only child, James, who lived the life of a country gentleman on his ancestral estate. During the Revolution it was in the occupation of the enemy. After his death the house became a tavern. "Jogging down a steep lane," says Dayton's Knicker- bocker Life in New York, " we alight at a secluded little snuggery called Striker's Bay, one of the most unpre- tending yet attractive houses on the drive. It was in a nook sheltered from all points, save from the west, where the fine view of the Hudson amply repaid many a visitor." In 1841 Francis was the landlord. During his proprietorship he perfected his celebrated life-boat — the precursor of later designs — ^which invention made him both famous and rich. The years of his tenantcy were memorable for the number of noted personages who assembled there. Poe and his child-wife, Virginia, spent the summers of 1843 and 1844 in a cottage near by which stood at 84th Street. While he resided in Bloomingdale he wrote that notable poem, The Raven, and it was his habit to wander down the declivity to the shores of the bay. Often did he occupy a seat on Francis's piazza to enjoy the prospect and commune with his friends and familiars, of whom the names of Woodward, Morris, Willis, English, the author of Ben Bolt, and the lawyer-poet, William Ross Wallace, are recalled. Trees of tremendous girth and height were on the ground, one of which, "a grand old elm," in- spired Morris to compose that noble lyric. Woodman, Spare that Tree. In 1837, wrote the poet, he caught 14 Z\)c IRew Uorft of ipester^a^ a tenant of the property in the act of cutting it down for firewood. "The old gentleman" with whom he was walking asked the iconoclast what it was worth when felled, and ascertaining that ten dollars would prevent its destruction, paid the price and exacted an agreement in writing that it should be saved. We have Morris's testimony that in 1862 it was still standing. Under the tavern's successive bonifaces it became a noted resort for excursions, target-shootings, etc. There was a dock and small station of the Hudson River Railroad on the grounds. The lawn fronting the river made a fine dancing floor, and at the rear of the house were found the targets. A well-known clergy- man is authority for the statement that here was a scene of sylvan beauty unsurpassed, and that he had never in his long life been in so entrancing a spot. The property was sold in June, 1856, and the house was destroyed by fire in the early sixties, when Robert Pennoyer was its landlord. Situated in the neighborhood of which this house was a nucleus, were many country-seats. The Apthorp mansion is certainly the most noted — as it is of Revo- lutionary renown. The N. Y. Mercury of Monday, May 21, 1764, gives an account of a quarrel among the workmen engaged in the construction of the house, during which one of the participants was killed. Charles Ward Apthorp was one of his Majesty's Coun- cil under Governor Tryon, a leading lawyer of the city, and a man of social distinction in colonial times. He called the Bloomingdale property "Elmwood," and here he dispensed lavish hospitality. He died in the mansion in 1797, and his remains were laid in the family vault in Trinity churchyard. Ten children survived BIoonllnG^aIc i5 him. The building was beautiful in its architecture. Its recessed portico with Corinthian columns and pil- asters and high-arched doorway commanded the admir- ation of architects even to the time of its destruction. The massive solid door led into a spacious hall, which, in the days of its builder, was used as a ball-room. On both sides of the hall, which extended through the house, were large rooms, and up the broad staircase chambers were found fit for the distinguished guests who visited there. The plot containing the mansion was sold to William Jauncey, an Englishman and rich merchant, in 1799, with a right of way in Apthorp Lane leading from the Road to the river. The Elmwood estate was bequeathed in 1828 to Herman Jauncey Thorne, the son of Jane Mary Jauncey, niece and adopted child of William Jauncey, who had intermar- ried with Herman Thorne in 18 10. Their son, who had dropped the surname Thorne, died before coming of age, by being thrown from his horse in Paris. Colonel Thorne, a man of very marked personality, with a strik- ingly handsome face, began his career in the navy. He spent many years in Paris, where a chronicler in 1836 described that he lived in a style of princely splen- dor that eclipsed all rivalry, to the great astonishment of the French, who failed to comprehend where an American had acquired such tastes. Old-timers recall how he drove out of Apthorp Lane in his splendid Eng- lish coach and four, the admiration of the neighborhood. The property was maintained by Colonel Thorne as his country-seat until his death in 1859, when the lots were platted and sold in i860 at the Merchants' Exchange. In its degenerate days the property was known as Elm Park, a beer and dance resort. The Board of Street Openings sealed its doom when 91st Street was ordered 1 6 Ebe 1Flew IJorft of ^cetcvt>a^ opened and it was torn down in 1888. St. Agnes 's Chapel now occupies the site. After passing Burnham's famous resort in the van den Heuvel mansion at 79th Street, of which more anon, the Bloomingdale Road passed down a gentle declivity with occasionally a superb river view. To the right, at about 84th Street, there was a pond, fabled in the vicinity to be of unfathomable depth and known to be well stocked with goldfish. This was a favorite skating ground of the Bloomingdale youth in the winter season, while the capture of the fish with a pin-hook furnished an endless source of amusement to the boys in summer. Nearly opposite to this pond was the entrance to what had been in its day one of the finest country-seats on this side of the Atlantic. A large slice of the farm on which it stood, belonging at one time to Etienne de Lancey, was acquired in 1800 by John McVickar, a merchant prince of the end of the i8th and the be- ginning of the 19th century. Built originally by him, the mansion had afterwards become the residence of the John H. Rowland family. The grounds extended from the Road to the river and covered above sixty acres of land, beautifully wooded and with a high rocky shore. The house, which was approached by a winding drive some half a mile in length, was a large square mansion, standing close to the river's bank. Unfortu- nately the line of 86th Street passed through it and when that street was opened, at what the event proved to have been an unnecessarily early date, the building had to be moved from its original position. This was a death-blow to the grandeur of the place. It stood until the fall of 1906 at the northeast corner of 86th Street and Riverside Drive, having successively been used as a boys' school kept by the Rev. Mr. Douglass, then a »r^ BIoom!na^alc i7 summer boarding-house, afterward, with some addi- tional structures, the House of Mercy, a well-known and most beneficent charity, and up to the time of its demolition a portion of the Misses Ely's school for young ladies. Opposite to the entrance of Elm Park, Apthorp Lane led to the residences of Horace Waldo and Richard L. Schieffelin adjoining each other on the river, and to the Weyman place. The house occupied by the Waldos and located between 90 th and 91st Streets was known as "Oak Villa" and was built as a country-seat by Judge Brockholst Livingston. In a letter addressed to his wife in 1806, from Geneva, N. Y., while "on cir- cuit" he mentions the residence by name and adds he missed "the thousand attractions of Bloomingdale." The name he bestowed upon it was appropriate for even now several large oaks are to be seen on its site within the boundaries of Riverside Park. Mrs. Horace Waldo bought the place in 1837, and she in turn sold it to William H. Paine, he who introduced Italian opera to New York in 1850. Cyrus Clark acquired the man- sion in 1866. Judge Livingston was the son of William Livingston, Governor of New Jersey, and grandson of Philip Livingston, second Lord of the Manor in Colum- bia County. He was a Colonel in the Revolutionary Army, an incorporator in 181 9 of the Bank for Savings, the first institution of its kind in the State, an officer of the " Old First " Presbyterian Church, a Judge of the Supreme Court, and finally a member of the Fed- eral Supreme Bench. In 1803, William Weyman and Jacob Coles Mott bid in, at sheriff's sale, the land on which they both built houses. Having divided the purchase, Mott built the residence near the river's bank which was subsequently 1 8 ^be IRew l?orft of l?e0tert)a^ owned by Schieffelin, and in which at later dates Gen- eral Daniel E. Sickles and William H. Rowland lived. The Weyman house stood between 93d and 94th Streets. It was called "Mount Aubrey," because of a beautiful mound situated to the south of the residence, on which grew tall trees. Weyman came from England. The house burned down about 1877. Just beyond these houses, and separated from Striker's Bay by a rivulet running through a ravine and which divided the places, stood a large house with lofty columns, which was built and occupied by "that aristocrat of the period," Dr. Valentine Mott. He became the emi- nent surgeon of his day and earned from the renowned Sir Astley Cooper this eulogium: " He has performed more of the great operations than any man living, or that ever did live." His services were eagerly sought, and his name attached to any institution contributed in large measure to place its reputation on a high plane. His trip around the world, during which he was re- ceived with acclaim, was undertaken in 1837. On his return he published a volume of travels dealing largely with the progress of surgery in foreign parts. He bought eleven acres on the west side of the Road in 1833, lying between 93d and 96th Streets, which had belonged to Frederick de Peyster. He lived here for some three months during the summer, driving to his office daily. "The well-known gig of this world- renowned surgeon," writes a contemporary, "whose neat Quaker garb, highly polished white top-boots, and low-crowned, broad-brimmed, well-brushed beaver, were as familiar to all classes as the commonest necessity of daily life ; for all, rich and poor, young and old, felt respect and love for Valentine Mott." He died in 1865. In 1868 the mansion, which stood in the way of the KE DIS. BIoomingt)ale 19 contemplated Boulevard, was removed to a site nearer the river, and in 1887 the Children's Fold of St. Michael's Parish occupied it. Passing the Clarkson house for the nonce, we next come to the former residence of Dr. Abraham Valen- tine Williams, the resident Bloomingdale physician and oracle of the neighborhood. He was at once a guide, philosopher, and friend to all who needed his assistance. Fully capable of administering spiritual as well as phys- ical consolation, he even rendered legal assistance to his patients when necessary. A well-known lawyer, a former resident of the district, vouches for the latter fact from having had occasion to examine professionally a will drawn by him at the bedside of a dying patient, long after the Doctor had passed away beloved and respected by all. "It is but justice to add," he says, "that the document would, in legal parlance, hold water." That portion of the territory yclept JBIoominddale IDillage comprised a collection of some twenty houses or there- abouts along the Road at looth Street. Among them were to be found the grocer, the shoemaker, the village smithy, and such other local occupations as the residents required at so great a distance from the city. As the built up portion thereof reached and absorbed the farms, the limits of Bloomingdale gradually receded northward until the district surrounding Bloomingdale village alone kept alive the name. Its application to Bloomingdale Square bids fair to fix it to this locality in perpetuity. Here were located, also, a number of fine places. Contiguous to the Striker tract on the north was the property of Humphrey Jones, containing 20 ^be 1Wew l?ork of IPeaterba^ over 109 acres. The house stood between loist and 10 2d Streets near the river. When he died, he left his realty and " The Homestead " in which he lived to his son and heir, Nicholas Jones, whose residence was just north of io6th Street, west of Eleventh Avenue. The entire property was sold by the sheriff in 1786 to John Jones for ;^23oo. Twelve years later, 1798, Robert T. Kem- ble purchased it for $25,000 and resided in the mansion for some years. He was obliged in 181 1 to deed the premises to Charles Wilkes and Thomas Cooper, who, as trustees, were to pay his debts from the proceeds of its sale. These conveyed it and the "Mansion house" the same year to William Rogers for $29,900, reserving therefrom the lane leading from the Bloomingdale Road which paralleled present io2d Street and lay just south of it. Rogers died in 181 8, devising his property to his wife, Ann, and it was known for years as the "Ann Rogers House." She survived her husband fifteen years (1833) and left her real estate to her grandchil- dren, the issue of her only child, Sarah, who married William Heywood, one of whom, Ann M., was the wife of Francis B. Cutting. He and said Heywood, as exe- cutors, had the lands surveyed and mapped in 1834, and certain parts thereof were sold thereafter, the proceeds of which to November i, 1835, amounted to over $716,000. William P. Furniss acquired a plot along the southern boundary of the tract and thereon he con- structed the mansion with Corinthian columns, sur- rounded by acacias, now standing on the block between 99th and looth Streets, West End Avenue and River- side Drive. One of its most characteristic features is an oval dining-room, covering most of the ground floor, which was in former years the scene of many banquets. At Furniss's death in 187 1, the plot was devised to his Bloomlnobale 21 wife and six children, share and share alike, and the house with the land surrounding it still remains in the family. It is now occupied by a colony of artists. In 1842, Cutting and his wife, in a suit against the other heirs, prayed for consent to sell "several pieces or par- cels of property of the said testatrix situated in differ- ent quarters and of no great value" yet remaining to the estate. Sale thereof was effected September 4, 1843, when Furniss bought additional property north of his holding. The second and only other church in the Blooming- dale of old was formed in 1806 (incorporated 1807) at a meeting of families professing the Episcopal faith. At that time there was no church of that persuasion between "St. Mark's in the Bouwerie" and St. John's at Yonkers. The first edifice of St. Michael's was a comely neat structure of wood with a spire and belfry and stood on a plot equal to eight city lots, on the east side of the Road at 99th Street. The Rev. John Henry Hobart, afterwards Bishop of this diocese, was the first Rector, with Robert T. Kemble and William Rogers, wardens, and among the vestry such local names as Michael Hogan, Jacob Schieffelin, and Isaac Jones. The small churchyard was early filled, whereupon a piece of ground was set apart for interment purposes on 103d Street, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, wherein the last authorized burial was made in 1854. As the congregation was assembling on Sunday morning, October 16, 1853, they were dismayed at seeing the building on fire, which with its contents was totally destroyed. The next edifice was erected on lots immediately adjoining, situated at the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and 99th Street, and was consecrated on November 2 2 ^be lRew j?ork of IPeeterbap 25, 1854, by Bishop Horatio Potter. Fifty feet front by seventy deep, and constructed of wood with a spire eighty feet in height, it held seventy- three pews which furnished about four hundred sittings. These pews were of the old-fashioned high straight-backed pattern, and some of them were curtained. The Rev. William Richmond was elected Rector in 1820 and filled the rec- torship of St. James's, Hamilton Square, at the same time. He resided in a house belonging to the Clarkson family, which stood just north of the residence of Dr. Mott, across one of the many lanes that conducted from the highway to the retired country-seats along the river. Mr. Richmond was a prominent man in the Episcopal Church, and exercised a great deal of influ- ence in the councils of the moderate low church branch. After his death, his widow originated, and by her inde- fatigable energy, raised sufficient funds to organize the House of Mercy, of which we have before spoken. There were very few merchants of the period who could not remember Mrs. Richmond's personal appeal for aid to the charity, the welfare of which she had so much at heart. On one occasion she visited Albany and re- mained there until by her unaided efforts she succeeded in obtaining a large appropriation for this object. Whatever of merit attaches to the founder of a benefi- cent charitable institution belongs to her. The Rev. Thomas McClure Peters, D.D., the founder and mainstay of The Sheltering Arms, succeeded Mr. Richmond as Rector. There was, perhaps, no man in the State who carried so much persistent energy and earnest application into works of charity with so little ostentation as did Dr. Peters. The Sheltering Arms, the Mission to the Public Institutions of the city, and St. Barnabas's House in Mulberry Street, all are monu- BIoomin0^ale 23 ments of his devotion to the cause in which he was en- listed. Not that others were not also entitled to credit for the success of aU these charities, but that the labors of Dr. Peters were of such great advantage to them all, and his efforts in the promotion of their welfare so bene- ficial to their interests, that any notice of any one of them would be incomplete without mention of him who was at least one of its chief supporters. Just above this church on the opposite side of the Road at loist Street, stood until February, 1907, the large square white house built and formerly occupied by David S. Jackson, a leading man in the Twelfth Ward, which he represented several terms in the Com- mon Council as Alderman or Assistant Alderman. His son and namesake occupied the position of Alderman later. This house subsequently became the residence of Dr. Peters and was appropriated to the use of The Sheltering Arms until the completion in 1870 of its extensive new plant at Manhattanville. The fashionable French boarding-school for young ladies of the time was kept by Mme. Petit in a house belonging to the Clarkson estate near the reservoir. Many prominent New York ladies, such as Mrs. Benja- min Field, Mrs. Holly, the daughter of Alexander Ham- ilton, and Mrs. Richmond, received some part of their education there. The school was removed to Dr. Mott's residence at a later period. Mrs. Trollope, in Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), gives some particulars of " Woodlawn," a beau- tiful place at 105th Street, in this quotation: The luxury of the New York Aristocracy is not confined to the city; hardly an acre of Manhattan Island but shows some pretty villa or stately mansion. The most chosen of them are on the North and East rivers, to whose margins 24 Zbc Bew iporft of IJeeterba^ their lawns descend. Among them, perhaps the loveliest is one situated in the beautiful village of Bloomingdale ; here, within the space of sixteen acres, almost every variety of garden scenery may be found. To describe all its diver- sity of hill and dale, of wood and lawn, of rock and river, would be in vain ; nor can I convey an idea of it by compari- son, for I never saw anything like it. How far the elegant hospitality which reigns there may influence my impres- sions, I know not; but, assuredly, no spot I have ever seen dwells more freshly in my memory, nor did I ever find my- self in a circle more calculated to give delight in meeting and regret at parting, than that of Woodlawn. The Beekman, Whitlock, and Finlay mansions, the first at i2oth Street and the river, the second at ii8th Street, were other old timers, as was the Buckley house, which stood under the shadow of Claremont Hill in the line of 127th Street, and just west of the Finlay resi- dence. " Edge Hill," the Mali place, where lived the Belgian Consul, "Willow Bank," the seat of Caspar Meier, the residence of John W. Schmidt, the Prussian Consul, the " Abbey," a private place but later a tavern, were other noted homes in this section. As this work does not pretend to be a history of Bloomingdale, it is sufficient in this connection simply to refer to them. In 181 5, the Governors of the New York Hospital at Broadway and Duane Street determined to build a country annex for the insane, and such a branch was incorporated three years later. Their pecuniary means not enabling them to undertake the enterprise on a siiffi- cient scale, application was made to the Legislature for aid, which was generously granted in 181 6 with an annuity of $10,000 until the year 1857. Three plots of land were purchased before the site finally selected was agreed upon, and on twenty-six acres bounded on >; u Bloomin^balc 25 the west by the Road, was laid on May 7, 181 8, the corner-stone of the original building, which was con- structed of reddish brown freestone, smoothly rubbed. This was completed in 1820 and, under the name of the Bloomingdale Asylum, was opened for patients the following year. Matthew Clarkson was the first President and Dr. John Neilson the local physician. The land is now occupied by Columbia University, the Asylum having been removed to White Plains. On one of the plots bought by the Asylum, the Leake and Watts Orphan Home was established. Founded in 1 83 1, the corner-stone was laid in 1838. The build- ing, which still stands in the Cathedral grounds at i loth Street, was not completed till 1843. The Home has removed to Yonkers. The Mayor and Recorder of the city are trustees, ex officio, together with the Rector and Wardens of Trinity Church, the senior minister of the Collegiate Dutch Church (now Dr. Coe) , and the minister of the First Presbyterian Church (now Dr. Harlan) , On Adrian Hooglandt's farm, a portion of which he sold in 1784 to Nicholas de Peyster, the latter placed his residence at 114th Street and the river. It having burned down in 1835, the premises were sold to Andrew Carrigan, President of the Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank. There is no picture in existence of the de Pey- ster mansion; that constructed by Carrigan on the same site is still standing on Riverside Drive. Another portion of his property de Peyster sold, in 1796-8, to George Pollock, a merchant at 91 Water Street. He and Catharine Yates were married at Trinity Church in 1787. The complete identity of the child whose tomb, "erected to the memory of an amiable child," stands in Riverside Park is established by the recent 26 ZTbe IRew l?orft of IPeaterbai? discovery of this entry in the records of that church: "Mr. George Pollock's son St. Clair bap"*. Nov. ii, 1792, by the Rev. Benjamin Moore. Sponsors: Mr. Richard Yates, Mrs. Adolph Yates and Mr. Dyckman." This monument has been the subject of unceasing com- ment since the construction of General Grant's mauso- leum near by drew the national attention to the spot. The land, on which was a house, was transferred in 1803 to John B. Provoost, late Recorder of the city, who in turn conveyed it to Joseph Alston the same year. He was the husband of Theodosia, the only and beautiful daughter of Aaron Burr, whose tragic fate at sea is well remembered. From Alston the property passed in 1806 to John M. Pintard, subject to a purchase money mortgage, and on sale under foreclosure was bid in by Michael Hogan for $13,000. He was a wealthy and important citizen in his day, owned the entire parcel of land west of the Road from 121st to 127th Streets, and built the mansion known as "Claremont," which was so named after the royal residence at Surrey of Prince William, Duke of Clarence, afterwards King William IV., with whom he had served as a fellow-midshipman in the Royal Navy, and who visited him at his town house in Greenwich Street in 1782. At the time that Hogan was British Consul at Havana, the mansion was occupied by Lord Viscount Courtenay, afterwards Earl of Devon. He was greatly disturbed by the events preceding the war of 181 2, but continued to reside there at least as late as February 6, 18 14, on which date he stood sponsor at a baptism according to the records of St. Michael's Church. It is asserted that shortly thereafter he sailed for England. Joseph Bonaparte, ex-King of Spain and brother of Napoleon, resided there in 1815. TREES AND STONE-WALL MARKING THE WEST SIDE OF OLD BLOOMINGDALE ROAD, 1906 Looking southwest from Broadway at I24tli Street. Grant's Tomb in distance BIoominG^aIc 27 Hogan eventually deeded his property, for the benefit of creditors, to trustees, who in 182 1 conveyed "Clare- mont" to Joel Post, who attended worship at the Bloomingdale Church. He died in 1835 and at the sale in partition the property was bid in by his sons, Alfred C. (M.D.) and Edward Post. This bluff was one of the sites suggested by Washington for the capital of the nation and, as is well known, it now forms a feature of the most beautiful river park in the world. The superb view from the knoll on which the mansion stands is surpassingly lovely. The line of territory along the majestic Hudson is destined to be yet more resplend- ent than at present. The grand pageants which have heretofore taken place in this neighborhood only fore- shadow what is in store for this wonderful portion of our island. More than all, the locality is sacred ground, for here heroes and patriots have battled for their coun- try's cause. Part of the field on which was fought the battle of Harlem Heights yet lies about as it looked at the time. In the view, the original bed of the Road dominates the foreground. In concluding this sketch, let this sad valediction be pronounced. Old Bloomingdale has disappeared. Vanished are its homesteads and stately mansions. The Road itself, once the drive of fashion, is no more. Trucks and cars crowd the streets which cover its once rural windings and the comely wooded hills and green pastures are gone forever — save in the memory of those who have been spared to dream. II Bloomino^ale /IDtlltant Hs far back as 1613 numerous wars occurred between England and France, covering a century and a half and terminating in the Treaty of Paris, 1763. There can be no question but that Canada, the bone of contention on this continent, belonged to the French if prior occu- pancy gave right. They also claimed by prior discov- ery. England's claims were identical, but reached no farther north than 45° of north latitude. By the year above mentioned the French had extended their settlements from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the mouth of the Penobscot. These settlements were declared to be encroachments, and in this year one Captain Argall was sent from Virginia to dispossess them, which he accomplished in the ruthless manner of the times. This was the commencement of hostilities between the subjects of the two Crowns in any part of North America. No permanent settlements by Englishmen had been made there. What was called (I.) The English Revolution in favor of William III., Prince of Orange, broke out in 1688, and this directly affected the Province of New York, as did the following encounters. (II.) The War between England and France, 1689. France determined upon a policy of 28 Bloomitidbale flDiUtant 29 invasion of both New York and New England, with the ultimate intention of acquiring such territory as she might capture. In January of this year Chevalier de Calli^res Bonnevue, Governor of Montreal, conceived a project for the invasion and conquest of New York. He intended to make Albany his objective and with a force of two thousand men he proposed to take the route via the Richelieu River to Lake Champlain, thence by the "carrying place" to the Hudson, thence to Albany, then called Orange in honor of the Prince who ruled England. Albany had a population as large as Montreal. The Chevalier was convinced that he would have but little difficulty in obtaining possession of Albany. That city in his possession, he proposed to seize all the boats, barks, and canoes available and proceed down the river to attack the capital of the pro- vince. Success to him meant the governorship of New York. Although this plan was approved by the French King, and was put into execution, the expedition which Frontenac engineered proceeded no farther than Sche- nectady, which was burned and its inhabitants massa- cred on February 8-9, 1690. During these two years the unsuccessful (III.) Expedition against Canada took place. The minutes of the proceedings of the United Colonies show the quota of men raised in New York to have been 400, in Massachusetts 160, in Connecticut 135, Plymouth 60, and Maryland 100 ; in all 885. Fran- cis Nicholson was Governor of New York. The volun- teers in this county left the city on April 2, 1689, under Capt. Jacob Milborne. Those from Flatbush were commanded by Peter Stryker, Captain of Foot, com- missioned for the expedition December 27th, and on December i6th Jacobus van der Spiegle became En- sign in Capt. Robert Walter's Company of N. Y. Militia. 30 ZTbe 1Rew IPorh of ipeaterbai? The latter and Johannes Hardman and Johannes Pro- voost, Jr., went to the front in 1690. On March 4th, Johannes de Bruyn and said Provoost and Milborne were deputed to proceed to Albany to take command of all the forces raised in New York and adjacent counties, and to control the fort and affairs generally. (IV.) Queen Anne's War and the Second Expedition against Canada covered the years 1709 to 1711, during the ad- ministrations of Richard Ingoldesby, Lieutenant-Gov- ernor, and Robert Hunter, Governor. Nicholson was appointed commander-in-chief of all the forces raised by the provinces of New York, Connecticut, and Pennsyl- vania. Col. Peter Schuyler commanded all the Indians engaged in behalf of the colonists. Jacob de Kay, Lieutenant, and Johannes Hardenbrook, Lieutenant of the 4th Company of the militia regiment, appointed June 26, 1 7 10, were Bloomingdale representatives, as was Gerrit Cosine. The troops of this expedition were disbanded in April, 17 12. Those who composed the first distinctive company of the Outward are recorded in vol. i, page 582, of Hast- ings's Reports. This designation comprised both Bloom- ingdale and Harlem. The company was mustered into his Majesty George II. 's service in 1738, when George Clarke was Lieutenant-Governor of the province. As a matter of historical interest so much of the roll of this organization as fits the occasion is appended, mod- ern spelling being substituted where obviously required : Capt., Gerard Stuyvesant Left., Jacobus Kip Ensign, Philip Minthorne Sergeants John Horn Marten van Evera Derick Benson William Waldron Bloomingbale flDilitant Men 31 Christian Hardman William Low John Minthorne Frederick Webbers John Harsen Jacob Horn Arnout Horn John Kip Isaac de Lamontanye David de Voor, Sen'r David de Voor, Jun'r Jonathan Hardman John Bas, Sen'r John Bas, Jun'r Abraham de Lamater Burger van Evera John Sprong John de Voor John Waldron van Horn's Benjamin Waldron John Waldron Aaron Kortright John Benson Isaac Mier John Sickels Abraham Myer, Jun'r Aaron Myer David de Voor Peter Waldron Adolf Benson Adolf Myer, Jun'r John Myer, Jun'r Samuel Waldron, Jun'r John Waldron van Hogt John Dyckman Lawrence Low Resolvert Waldron John van Oblines Jacob Dyckman Jacob Dyckman, Jun'r John Nagel, Jun'r Harman van de Water Adrian Hooglandt Edde van Evera John Dyckman Nicholas Dyckman John Webbers Jacob van Orden Hoek Isaac Webbers Cornelius Webbers John Hopper Andrew Hopper John Couwenhoven Folkert Somerindick Isaac de Lamater John Mandeville Yellis Mandeville Cornelius Webbers Cornelius Dyckman The company was composed of 86 men. Other worthies living in the Outward who served in the militia this year were : 32 ZTbe IRew IPorh of l?e0tert)ai? Corneles Cozeijn appears on the list of Capt. Joseph Robinson's company of foot, January 21, 1737-8. Gert Harsen, Sergeant of Gerard Beekman's Co. Stanley Holmes, Cornelius Quackenbosh, Johan France Waldron, and William Hopper were members of Capt. Charles Laroexs's company. Of Capt. Abraham Boelen's company, Henry Beek- man was Second Lieutenant and William de Peyster, Ensign. Others who served therein were Cornelius van den Berg, Sampson Benson, John Couzyn, Harman Benson, Garret Cozyn, and Adriaen Hogeland. Henry Benson was sergeant of Capt. Cornelius van Home's company, of which these individuals were members, viz. : Samson Benson, Sam's son, Samson Benson, Thewe's son, Samuel Maghee, Alexander Maghee, Samuel Couwenhoven, Henry van de Water, Isaac Varian, and Richard Waldron. In Capt. Henry Cuyler's company served Humphrey Jones and Richard Ray. Isaac de Peyster was Lieutenant in foot company, commanded by Joseph Robinson. Others serving therein were Benjamin Quackenbos, Richard Hopper, John Oblines, Albertus van de Water, Hendrick van de Water, Adam van de Bergh, Cornelius Cozeijn, Isaac Bussing, Aaron Bussing, John van Orden, John Post, and John and Jacob Montagne. 1738- Isaac de Peyster, commissioned Captain, Aug 18. Henry Beekman, " First Lieut. " 19. Abel Hardenbrook << <( <' " 24. Philip Minthorne, " Second Lieut. " 28. William de Peyster <• « daughter, Elizabeth, who m., 1786, Hon. James Mon- roe, afterwards the President. The house and property of Humphrey Jones, succes- sively owned by the Jones, Kemble, and Rogers fam- ilies, was a female academy just prior to its purchase by Frederick Weber. Francis B. Cutting and Nicholas C. Hey ward, executors of Ann Rogers, widow, sold the estate at auction in 1835. Sixty-four lots thereof, numbered from 281-344 on a map of the estate, were bid in by him for $27,520, and the conveyance, dated July 3d, to Frederick Weber, Gentleman, is of record in L. 339, p- 330. Included therein was the "Mansion House," and other buildings on land bounded north- westerly by the Hudson River, northeasterly by 102 d Street, as laid out by the Commissioners of Streets and Roads, southeasterly by the Eleventh Avenue, as so laid out, and southwesterly by loist Street, Approach to the mansion was gained via Cherry Lane, which left the Bloomingdale Road near present loist Street, and was a raised causeway supported by stone walls. Because of its peculiar construction it was a noted landmark, bordered along its length with trees which in season produced an abundant crop. About 1843 Weber rented the whole property, "some 65 lots," as recited in the recorded lease next below mentioned, to Killaen H. van Rensselaer, who opened the house as a driving resort under the name of the " Abbey Hotel." In September of that year van Rensselaer and his wife Matilda stood sponsors at the baptism of two of Weber's children who were christened at St. Michael's Church. On Nov. i, 1845, said Weber executed a lease "of the property in the Twelfth Ward known as the Abbey Hotel now in the occupation" of said van Rens- selaer at the yearly rental of $900 (L. 469, 474), to 15Iooming^aIe niMUtant 45 Abram W. Jackson for five years from December ist. This lease, however, was mutually abrogated June i, 1846 (L. 478, 576). Mr. Weber moved into the mansion after the pur- chase with his English housekeeper, Mrs. Hayes, and a man servant who cared for the horses and drove him to the city and return. His marriage took place in 1838 to Caroline C. Fawsitt, a woman very much younger than himself, and here two of his children, Frederick and Matilda, were bom. For a time the Web- ers continued to reside there, but when Edward Jones became lessee, he who afterwards kept Claremont, they removed to "the cottage" on the grounds, and here two other children were born. Jones is said to have been altogether too straight-laced a man for a success- ful boniface and was dispossessed. Captain Tilton, an officer on an Albany boat, succeeded. Afterwards Ling and Jewell, sporting men, were proprietors. The Webers left "the cottage" when the children were very young, and removed to East Broadway near Henry and Scammel Streets, and in 1850 the father died aged about seventy-nine years. His remains were buried in Trinity Cemetery on February 3d of that year (St. Michael's Church Records) , his wife, it is stated, hav- ing become the first lot holder there. The widow mar- ried Daniel Staniford in Rockport, Mass., about 1852. The Abbey was a large stone edifice of stately appear- ance and contained thirty rooms. The view repro- duced is from a picture taken from nature when the Webers resided there. It shows the rear on the Bloom- ingdale Road, but the river front was exactly like it in style. The water color, forwarded from California, through the courtesy of a daughter, is considerably damaged, but makes a more conclusive picture than a 46 Z\)c 1Rev\) l?ork of ^cetev^n^ pencilled sketch at our command by Charles W. Stam- ford, Chief Engineer of the Dock Department, a son of his mother's second union. It certainly presents an entirely different house from that made familiar by the illustration in Valentine's Manual. In 1847, the date mentioned thereon, Mr. Weber owned it and the sur- viving members of the family are satisfied that the place never looked like the representation in the Ma'ii- ual. That the mansion was Humphrey Jones's is evi- dent from its identical location on old maps and the continuity of description in the conveyances. In that to Nicholas Jones it is denominated "the homestead." Under the name of the " mansion house " it was acquired from John Jones by William Rogers, and by this title it was conveyed to Weber. The house was struck by lightning and burned to the ground circa 1859, and on Tuesday, December 20th, of that year the executors sold the entire property as bought by the testator, at the Mer- chants' Exchange, through Franklin Bros., auctioneers. Nicholas Jones's stone house was located on the west side of the Road at io6th Street, just about six blocks north of the residence of Humphrey Jones, his father. It stood near the edge of a wood and became the south- erly boundary of the battle-field. Professor Johnston inserts this advertisement from The Royal Gazette y N. Y., October 28, 1780: To be sold, a Farm at Bloomingdale, about 200 acres more or less, seven miles from the city ; on said farm is a large strong stone built house, pleasantly situated near the North River; conditions for the sale will be made easy to a purchaser. For particulars apply to Nicholas Jones on the premises, by whom an indisputable title will be given. Bloomlngbale flDlUtant 47 The present house of worship of the Church at Har- senville (The Bloomingdale Reformed Church) is located on that part of the Jones farm, 17 acres, 3 roods, 9 perches (at the time of the battle owned by Nicholas Jones), which was conveyed by William Rogers and Ann, his wife, to her daughter Sarah, wife of William Heywood, Oct. 31, 181 6, and here they lived in a house which stood on the block between 10 6th and 107th Streets, Eleventh Avenue (West End Avenue), and the river, and which was named "Woodlawn." William B, Moffat, he of pill notoriety, bought the prop- erty of said Sarah when she was a widow, April 10, 1847 . Consideration, $20,000 (L. 486, Conv. 424). He died in 1862 and the land, composing about two hundred lots, between 104th and io8th Streets, was appraised that year at $42,900 by the executor's report. Prior to that time it was opened as a hotel under lease from Moffat by William L. Wiley, who retained the place for five years. The title of the establishment was "Woodlawn Hotel." That of "Strawberry Hill Ho- tel," by which Valentine dubs it, was never used, although it might easily arise as a local designation because the enormous quantities of wild berries along the river caused the locality to be known as Straw- berry Hill, and as such it is called in some deeds of property thereabouts. After being vacant for some time Courtlandt P. Dixon purchased it for use as a coun- try residence. It was the first home of the New York Infant Asylum. The church stands immediately east of the site of " Woodlawn." The house was there when Apthorp sold the property to Jones, Oct. 12, 1764 (L. 43, Conv. 413), and has become famous in war annals as that of Nicholas Jones. Humphrey Jones's testimony as to the location of 4$ ^be mew l?ork of l^eeterba^ the battle-field is given in a letter which the late Eras- tus C. Benedict, Esq., of New York City, formerly Chancellor of the Regents of the State University, cited in a paper he read in February, 1878, on the battle before the N. Y. Historical Society. Said Jones: "My father at one time lived at Manhattanville and he has shown me the battle-ground. It commenced on the hill near the [Bloomingdale] Asylum, and the Ameri- cans drove the British up the Road and down the hill often called by the name of Break Neck Hill," meaning the hill of that name near Claremont. Jones's father, Thomas, "the fighting Quaker of Lafayette's army," is quoted by Mrs. Lamb as saying "we drove the British up the road and down Break Neck Hill, which was the reason they called it Break Neck Hill." At the termination of the Road as then opened, was Adriaen Hooglandt's house (115th Street and River- side Drive). In 1784 the New York Packet advertised for sale this "noted farm" having on it "a valuable orchard of grafted fruit," the identical orchard of the battle. It is further mentioned in the conveyance of this property to Nicholas de Peyster the boundary of which is described as running from a certain point "to the orchard, thence southwesterly across the said orchard as by a petition {sic\ fence, now divided to the southwest fence of the said orchard" (L. 41, Conv. 434). As soon as the enemy was established in the posses- sion of the island, Howe appointed Oliver de Lancey a Brigadier- General, with orders to raise five regiments to hold the territory acquired. The Second Regiment was composed principally of the independent compan- ies heretofore mentioned. The Rangers, the German independent company, and ten others, representing Bloomingbale flDilltant 49 the six wards,were taken over under Col. George Brew- erton. He had been an alderman of the city and had a part in the Provincial service. Though quite a young man, he commanded a Provincial regiment at the siege of Havana, and for his spirited conduct received the thanks of Lord Albemarle upon several occasions. William Waddell was Lieutenant-Colonel of this regi- ment, and John Watts, Jr., Major. The companies of the Outward were officered as follows (N. Y. Gen. and Bio. Record, vol. ii., 156): Captain, Edward Hardenbrook Captain, John Dikeman ist Lt., John Fowler ist Lt. 2d " John Hopper 2d " David Henry Mallor Ensign, James Striker Ensign, The commissions were dated Oct. 23, 1776. We have followed the fortunes of but two of those here named. They had belonged to the city militia prior to the breaking out of hostilities, and continued in the King's service with their comrades. This was done generally. Many felt that it was the only way to pre- serve property rights and save their families from indig- nity. Hopper remained in this service but a few months, abandoning rank by leaving, and enlisted for three years on Jan. i, 1777, in the 4th Company, 2d Regiment of the Line, under Washington. He is entered as having deserted December, 1779 (Archives S. of N. Y., vol. I, p. 219), but as Comptroller James A. Roberts states in the preface of N. Y . in the Rev., second edition, p. 14, such a designation must not be taken too seriously. Hopper was doubtless absent at roll-call. At any rate he re-enlisted July 5, 1780, in the Lieutenant-Colonel's company, 4th Regiment. He took his discharge December 15th (ibid.), that he might be promoted Ensign of the 2d Regiment of Con- so XTbe 1Flew IJorft of Wcetext>a^ tinental Troops (Jersey Line). A committee of Con- gress, says Stryker's Officers and Men of N. J. in the Rev., was appointed during this summer to make the "arrangement" of the officers of the ist, 2d, and 3d Regiments, which arrangement was confirmed by a joint meeting of the Legislature on Sept. 26, 1780. It was under this assignment that Hopper received his commission. It is family history that he rose to the rank of General. This cannot, however, be proved at this day, so many of the records of the service having been lost, but that he was called by that title is in evi- dence. He was in receipt of a pension in this State (A^. Y. in the Rev., p. 272). His father, John Hopper the Elder, died in 1 779. One of the items in closing the estate was ;^482, received from the Barrack Master for trees cut down on the farm in 1780 "by authority of Government," and an additional amount for the sale of tops and branches. The sum of ;^8i3 11 o was divided by the executors among the heirs on August 12th in the proportion bequeathed in the will. The author is in possession of the executors' statement and the heirs' receipts. Striker was just of age when he was commissioned in 1776. He also joined the American army, going to New Jersey, as did his future father-in-law, where he became a member of the Light Horse Troop, 2d Bat- talion, of Somerset Militia, of which his relative in the same generation, John Stryker, was Captain. This troop formed a part of Washington's forces and was present at the battles of Trenton in December, 1776, Princeton in January, 1777, Germantown in October of that year, and Monmouth in June, 1778. New York was called on to furnish four regiments for the Continental army and this was raised to five ISloomlngbale Militant 51 upon the State's application. These composed "The Line" and were under Washington. There were also regiments of artillery and an organization of so-called "Green Mountain Boys," which served in the Line. "The Levies" were composed of drafts from different militia regiments, and from the people as well, and these could be called upon to serve outside the State during their entire term. The militia could only be called for outside service for three months at a time. Fifteen organizations of the Line were enlisted during the war. Altogether, New York furnished 51,972 men to the defence of the coimtry (N. Y. in the Rev., p. 15), taking her place immediately behind Massachusetts. It should be called to mind in this connection that fully one tenth of its population was locked up because of the possession by the enemy of the chief city during the entire war, thus preventing recruiting there. The col- ony was the battle-ground of the contest from the cap- ture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point in May, 1775, to Carlton's raid on the upper Hudson in 1780. The sur- render of Cornwallis in 1781 was the practical end of the conflict. The names of Bloomingdale families here transcribed are from the rosters of the regiments of the Line : First Regt. Capt. Richard Varick Lieut. Gerard Beekman Ensign. William W. de Peyster " Gilbert R. Livingston " John Waldron Men Joseph Dyckman. Joseph Edes Isaac Lawrence Jacob Lawrence Matthew Lawrence . , John Varian 52 James Webbers Zhe Ticvo 13ork of Ucsterba^ Men (Continued) Andrew Westerfield John Wells Second Regt. Major. Nicholas Fish Men. John Alport Thomas Benson Isaac Cargil Benjamin Lawrence 'Isaac Mott Jacob Quackenbos Henry Arkenburgh William Benson George S. Lawrence Jacob Lawrence Henry Post Jacobus Remsen Moses Ritter Third Regt. Lieut. Andrew Lawrence Men John Beekman Matthew Kip Silvester Kortright Jacob Mott Samuel Mott Cornelius Post William Ray John Wells Thomas Benson Moses Kip Henry Mott Joseph Mott Thomas Mott Richard Post Charles van Orden Peter Wells Fourth Regt. Colonel. Henry B. Livingston Lieut. John Lawrence " Abraham Riker » Isaac Mott, the great-grandfather of the writer, b. May 6, 1743. became the husband of Anne Coles, heretofore mentioned, on Dec. 29, 1765. At the age of 23, he entered into business, and, although he was of Quaker ancestry, enlisted in the 2d Regiment of the Line for nine months on May 5,1778. He was exchanged Jan. 22d, and discharged Feb. 15, 1779. It was during his absence that his wife aided the captives in the Sugar House. Reduced by exposure in service, he died at the early age of 37 (1780), while his widow survived, unmarried, until 1840. 36Ioom!ndbaIe fUMUtant 53 Men John Boggs Henry Cortright John Lawrence Richard Lawrence Samuel Post William Burnham Nathan Holmes Uriah Lawrence Richard Livingston Fifth Regt. Lieut. Abraham Leggett Ebenezer Mott Men William Lawrence, Jr. Zebulon Post Cornelius Vanderbarak Albert van Orden Robert Wells John Mott Henry Remsen Augustine van de Water Ichabod Webber Thomas Wells In other portions of the Line served : Theodoras Bailey as Adjutant, and George Harsen as Lieut, in the Levies. Anthony Post as Capt. 4th Regt. of Cavalry, Light Dragoons. Jeronimus Hooglandt as Capt., and John Stakes, Lieut, of Cavalry. Aris Remsen and John Stakes, privates in Capt. Alexander Hamilton's Train of Provincial Artillery. Richard Dyckman, Peter Kip, Oliver Lozier, and Benjamin Quackenbos, privates in Lieut.-Col. Ebenezer Steven's Regt. of Artillery. Benjamin and Samson Benson served in the war. Those interested in this line of research are referred to Archives of the State of N. Y., vol. i, 1887; N. Y. in the Rev., published by the State in 1898. 54 Z\)c IRew l^ork of IJesterbai? Among the pensioners noted in the U. S. Census of 1840 were: Dennis Striker, aged 80. 15th Ward. Seba Brinckerhoff " 82. Abraham Leggett " 87. 17th " ; Those mentioned on the N. Y. Pension Roll are: Garret Oblenis, of N. Y. Co., private in Johnson's N. Y. Rangers. Pension com- menced March 4, 1793; placed on Roll Feb. 2, 1798, under law of that date. John Samler, of N, Y. Co., private 13th Regt. Inf., d. Oct. — 181 2. Heirs: John, George, Catharine, Andrew, Henry, and Maria Samler. Placed on Roll Sept. 23, 1819. Richard Dyckman, private N. Y. Line, placed on Roll Sept. 29, 1818. Pension com- menced April 2, 1 81 8, d. May 23, 181 8. Abraham Leggett, Lieut. N. Y. Line, aged 67. Some other Bloomingdale enlistments are : Lawrence Kortright Lawrence Kortright, Jr. Isaac Leggett Jacob Leroy Harman van de Water the latter serving in the 2d Regiment of Dutchess County Militia. One of the most exciting incidents of the war in this neighborhood happened in Bloomingdale Village. A party of "rebels," says the Tory account of the occur- rence, landed on the shore during the night of Nov. 25, 1777, near by the de Lancey mansion, where they sur- prised and made prisoners of a guard at the landing. Bloomlnabale iflDintant "55 After breaking into and plundering the house and in- sulting the family, they set it afire. The de Lanceys and their guests sought refuge at the Apthorp mansion, after spending the night in their night clothes in the woods and swamps, now a part of Central Park. The location of the de Lancey house is not known with ex- actitude. We are told that it was "about seven miles from the City Hall." We have seen that the mansion at Striker's Bay was on the edge of the line of British defence. This locality was for long periods a hotbed of discord. For many years, the scattered residents of the district lived in daily fear and expectation of incursions and indignities. Mrs. Gerrit Striker, whose husband had lately died, op- posed the enlistment of her son for these reasons, feel- ing with just cause that his assistance at this juncture would be needed. It is known that during the battle of Harlem Heights he used the family wagon to convey the wounded from the field, and that the house was turned into a temporary hospital. Many a soldier of either side was cared for here with the aid of his mother. Twice the house was pillaged and finally all the live stock was driven off, Mrs. Striker begging, without success, that one cow at least be left them. Several skirmishes between the picket lines occurred on the immediate premises, in one of which a patriot and two Tories were killed in the lane. These were buried near where they fell. Early in the struggle, some officers were quartered in the house, and at least one party of captives was billeted on the inmates, pending their removal to improvised prisons at the lower end of the island, James Striker, one of the organizers of the Church at Harsenville, being absent at the war. His wife was lately a bride, and at the age of twenty-one, 56 Z\)c IRew l?ork of IJesterba^ when the place was again invaded by the enemy in 1 78 1 . The slaves and servant men were driven off and the women compelled for days to cook and attend to the wants of their captors. The only instance of British aggression in Harsenville that has come to our notice took place at the Somerin- dyke house, that one in which Louis Philippe lived at a later and happier date. On one occasion, it was occu- pied for a fortnight by Hessians, at which time the fam- ily — self-made prisoners — were shut off in the garret. On the departure of the military, the building was found in a disgraceful and mutilated state; filth was every- where and almost every particle of wood had been chopped out and used to replenish the fires. The power of the British forces having been broken by the defeat and capture of Cornwallis at Yorktown, negotiations were set on foot for bringing about a peace. After the delay of nearly two years, a definitive treaty was signed at Paris, by commissioners appointed for that purpose, and preparations were made for vacating the city, the last of the British strongholds within the original thirteen States. At the request of Sir Guy Carleton, the British commander-in-chief, three com- missioners, viz., Egbert Benson, William S. Smith, and Daniel Parker, were appointed by Congress to superin- tend the embarkation from this port, that no negroes or other property of American inhabitants might be car- ried away. The record of the enemy's occupation of the city is one continued season of looting and debauchery. The very first thing they did was to break into the City Hall and plunder it of the College library, its mathematical instruments, valuable pictures, and scientific apparatus, all of which had been removed thither from King's (now '£ Ph I- Xi Bloomingbale fIDlIUant 57 Columbia) College. The municipal government was overthrown, martial law prevailed, and the business of the city degenerated almost into the narrow operations of suttling. Many of the residents left the city and their deserted houses were taken possession of by the officers of the army and the refugee loyalists. Five thousand American prisoners were confined in the jails, sugar houses, and dissenting churches, and for seven years the city remained a prey to the licentiousness of strong and idle detachments of a well-provided army. Small wonder that "the rebels," so hated and feared in '76, were welcomed in '83. On November 3d the Continental army was disbanded by order of Congress and on the 21st Washington arrived at Day's Tavern, 126th Street, 200 feet west of Eighth Avenue. It was not until the 25th that the British and their supporters took their leave. At 8 o'clock on the evening of that day, with General Knox at their head, the Continentals returned to take possession of the city. They marched from McGown's Pass (in present Central Park) down the old Post Road to its beginning at 23d Street, and continued on over "the Road to Bloomingdale " and through Bowery Lane. Thereafter Knox and a large concourse of citizens on horseback repaired to the site of the Bull's Head Tavern (where the old Bowery The- atre now stands) to receive the Commander-in-Chief and Governor Clinton. Accompanied by their suites and the Lieutenant-Governor and Senators, the officers of the army and the mounted citizens, eight abreast, and citizens on foot, four abreast, they entered the city, via the Bowery, Chatham and Pearl Streets to the Battery. Headquarters were taken up at Fraunces' Tavern, where at noon of December 4th, Washington bade farewell to his officers. (See James 58 Zbc IRew IPorft of l?e0terbai? Peters's Evacuation Day, lySj, at the New York Historical Society.) During his residence here as President, his favorite drive was " The Fourteen Miles Around," which started at the Franklin House, northwest comer of Franklin Square and Cherry Street, proceeded up the Lane to the Post Road until it connected with Apthorp Lane, crossed that way to the Bloomingdale Road and south by that thoroughfare to the place of departure. In 1789, some of the rates for coach hire from the stand at the Coffee House, Coffee House Slip, opposite Wall Street, were : For Horn's Tour, 8s. ; Apthorp's Tour, 165. ; Harlem, i day, 385.; ^ day, 305.; King's Bridge, i day, 405. In 1 794 to go around the tour by Horn's, cost 10s. ; by Belleview, 165.; to Oakley's Tavern or Somerin- dyck's, £1.4.; to Hardenbrook's, ;^i.4. ; around Ap- thorp's Tour, £1.8.; to Harlem, i day, ;^i.i2.; ^ day, ;^i.8.; to King's Bridge, £2.8. This was in pounds currency, worth just half as much as pounds sterling. After the war, the militia companies were officered by the Council of Appointment, instituted by the State, the life of which began in 1784 and terminated 182 1. Names and dates of appointment of Bloomingdale indi- viduals follow: Oct. 4, 1786. Nicholas de Peyster, Paymaster 4th Regt.; 1797. Capt.-Lieut. of Lieut. Col. Bauman's Regt. of Artillery ; 1798, Senior Paymaster 3d Regiment. May II, 1789. Ensigns: Henry Post, Lemuel Wells, Jacob Harsen, and James Striker. Later appoint- ments of Elder Striker and Deacons Harsen and Post will be found in their biographies. Mar. 12, 1790. Lieut. Lemuel Wells, in Lieut. Col. James . , , Alner's Regiment. He lived just north Bloomlndbale rOMIitant 5^ of the Harsen tract. (Vide map, page 166) . He descended from Samuel Wells of of Wethersfield, Conn., who removed in 1639 to Milford, Conn. He owned at his death the Manor House of the Philipse family, which is at present the Yonkers City Hall. In the churchyard of St. John's at Yonkers, this memorial is found: "Lemuel Wells, Esq., born in the City of Hartford, d. Feb. II, 1842, aged 82." 1793. Lieut. Jasper Hopper in 5th N. Y. Regt (Hughes's); 1795, promoted Captain; resigned 1802. 1797. Ensign: John R. Cozine in 3d Regt., N. Y. Co.; promoted Lieut. ; 1800, Capt.; 1804, resigned, having "moved away." 1797. Ensign: Oliver L. Cozine, in istRegt.; 1798, promoted Lieut. ; 1800, "transferred." 1798. Ensign: Samuel A. Lawrence, in 2d Regt.; March 8, x8oo, Lieut 13th Co. 6th Regt.; Feb. 16, 1802, Capt. 6th Regiment. XLbe Tiraar ot 1812 War's alarums once again sounded o 'er the peaceful vales of Bloomingdale. The second war with England was very unpopular in this city. Many veterans of the previous war were living here whose opinions were divided. Others of the populace disapproved of it. Jacob Barker was probably the most influential man, in his way, at that time and although he did not acquire property in Bloomingdale until May, 181 5, he cut such a figure in its history that his actions at this conjuncture ; 6o Zbc ticvo l?orft of ipeater^ai? are interesting. Then, and for several years prior thereto, he was the largest ship-owner in the United States with the exception of William Gray of Salem, Massachusetts, says Guernsey's History of the War. He was prominent in Tammany, and was exploited through the columns of the press, in which his eccen- tricities were paraded, being liberal in the printing and distribution of matter that advocated his political ideas. He opposed the renewal of the Charter of the U.S. Bank and did much to defeat that project in 1811. His political opponents, in their scramble for office and power, attempted to break down his influence, which was great, not only among the wealthy but with those in humble life. The Federalists and their news- papers denounced and misrepresented him in every way that would impair his power, politically and other- wise. This only spurred him on to activity, zeal, and perseverance. "When the question of the war was thought to be the immediate course of Congress, after the embargo law of April, 181 2, Mr. Barker, looking to his own personal inter- est to choose between war and peace, and believing that the British Orders in Council would soon be rescinded and leave American ocean commerce free, drew a petition ask- ing Congress to continue the embargo and defer a declara- tion of war for a short period. He obtained the signatures of the most influential men in the city, of both parties, to this petition, which was presented to the Senate by Senator Smith, the only Democratic Senator from New York, on June 15, 181 2. On motion of Col. Taylor of South Caro- lina, it was ordered printed. This did not stem the tide. When, however, Congress, on February 18, 1813, passed an act authorizing the borrowing of $16,000,000, and in answer to advertised Portrait and signature of the Hon. Tiiornas R. Mercein, Comptroller of the City of New York and Treasurer of the Committee of Defence. Reproduced from the portrait in pos- session of his great-grandson, Daniel Stanbury Mercein, Esq. BIoomino^aIe fIDllltant 6i proposals only $4,000,000 were offered, Barker and a few associate merchants opened a subscription which he led with $100,000. Other Bloomingdale individu- als whose names appeared on this list were : Hannan Hendricks $40,000 Gabriel Havens 10,000 Brockholst Livingston 20,000 John Howland 50,000 John S. Roulet 10,000 Gurdon S. Mumford 20,000 Ichabod Prall 10,000 John Clendening 20,000 Garrit Storm 10,000 Isaac Jones 4,000 Samuel Stilwell 10,000 Bradhurst & Field Wholesale Druggists 5,000 John Shute 10,000 Frederick de Peyster 25,000 The National Advocate of August 24, 18 14, published an appeal issued by the Committee of Defence, asking for donations to supply the immediate wants of the thousands of volunteers who flocked into the city from the interior of the State and elsewhere to serve in the military. Hon, Thomas R. Mercein, who had been named by the Council of Appointment, 1807, to organ- ize a third regiment of artillery, became a Captain therein in 18 10, Brigade Major 1813, nth Regiment of Artillery, was serving at this time as ist Major of the same regiment and in 181 5 succeeded Colonel Harsen as Lieutenant-Colonel thereof. Comptroller of the city, he was also treasurer of the committee and into his hands came the funds which were subscribed as a re- sult of this appeal. On August 29th, the committee 62 Jn)c IBew ^ovk of l?e6terba^ made a report to the Gommon Council which contained the statement that "the expenses of whatever ad- ditional defences may be necessary for the city, both as to the erection of the works and the paying, provis- ioning, and accommodating men for our defence, must be derived from our resources or not obtained at all. If this city is to be defended from hostile attacks, the Corporation must provide the funds in the first place and look to the General Government for an in- demnification." A loan was thereupon authorized and subscription lists opened at all the banks, under the direction of the Finance Committee, of which Augustine H. Lawrence was chairman. In this way $1,000,000 was obtained and put in charge of Mr. Mercein, the treasurer. Four hundred thousand dollars thereof was loaned to the United States on Treasury notes, personally guaranteed by Governor Tompkins. Fractional currency became so scarce because of the suspension of specie payments that on September 2, 1814, the Common Council passed an ordinance author- izing its Finance Committee to issue small notes not to exceed twelve and a half cents each to the amount of five thousand dollars. On September 12th, twenty- five and fifty-cent bills, not to exceed twenty thousand dollars more, and on November 21st, fifty thousand dollars additional, were authorized. They were printed by F. & W. Mercein, 93 Gold Street. The proposition of the Comptroller on December 26, 18 14, that a fund be created looking to their redemption was adopted. This extract from the minutes of the Committee of Defence has not been heretofore published. Committee of Defence of the City of New York Extract from Minutes, March 4, 181 5. Resolved unanimously that the thanks of this Committee BIoominQ^aIe niMUtant 63 be presented to Thomas R. Mercein, Esq., for his assiduity and faithful discharge of the important duties of Treasurer of this Committee, for the regularity of his accounts and vouchers, for encountering the fatigue, and expense of going to Washington at an inclement season, and par- ticularly for his correct, prompt, and satisfactory settlement of accounts with the General Government. Resolved that Five hundred dollars be appropriated to the purchase of Plate which he be requested to accept for his services above expressed. [Signed] Nich? Fish, Chairman of Committee. An engrossed copy of the above tribute and the ser- vice of plate, inscribed, " Presented to Col. Thomas R. Mercein by the Committee of Defence of the City of New York, 4th March, 181 5," are in possession of the Comptroller's grandchildren, the Heiser family, them- selves later residents of Bloomingdale. The news of the declaration of war was received by mail from Washington at about 9 o'clock on the morn- ing of June 20th, and was proclaimed to the troops by Gen. Joseph Bloomfield from his headquarters in the Fort (former Castle Garden). He was a Revolutionary officer and by commission, dated March 27, 1812, be- came Brigadier-General in command of all the fortifi- cations in New York City and harbor. Announcement of hostilities aroused the officers of the militia and vol- unteers from tranquillity. On the 24th, ninety pieces of field artillery, some of brass, others of iron, had arrived from Washington, which were distributed among some of the infantry regiments drilled as artillery. The uniformed corps of militia in April were composed, in all, of 3000 men. The first body of citizens to volunteer 64 Z\)c "flew l?orft of ^CBtcxt>w^ labor and contribute services towards defence was Capt. Andrew Bremner's company of artillery, of Col. Cornelius Harsen's i ith Regiment, which work was done at Fort Greene in Brooklyn. On Sept. 12th, the of- ficers of this command met^and resolved to appropriate a portion of their pay to the support of the families of privates in the regiment ; and donations were asked from other persons for the same purpose, the pay of a private in the volunteers being only $6.66 a month. This regi- ment was a new one, being almost entirely recruited within the three months previous, and was composed of a battalion of artillery and one of infantry, having some 300 men. Harsen received his commission as Lieutenant-Colonel May 26, 181 2. On July 29th, it paraded for drill, when he proposed in an eloquent and patriotic speech that it volunteer its services. The sug- gestion was received with enthusiasm, and on Aug. ist the Colonel officially tendered the regiment to Gov- ernor Tompkins, who accepted by letter dated Aug. 8th addressed to Colonel Harsen. In September it was detailed to Bedloe's and Ellis's Islands, whither it was conveyed in schooners on the 12th, which position it held with distinction. In all that concerned the de- fence of New York during the war, says Col. Emmons Clark, in the History of the Seventh Regiment, Colonel Harsen was an active and popular leader and the proud position occupied by his regiment was due in no small degree to his energy, ability, and patriotism. At the close of the war (18 15) he resigned his commission and continued a prominent and distinguished citizen of the city until his death, which occurred in 1838, three years after the decease of his honored father. The monotony of routine military life in New York in 18 13 was relieved by the famous " Harsen-Gedney duel" — a duel which 64 ZfK f^C ii>ai? Comeliu. at Fort Gre( privates in tl other person in the voluni ment was a within the three . a battalion of a: some 300 mei Lieutenant-Qs^oi the Co^wtr^ft%^€ol. e was . ., of Col. ^^'ork was done th, the of- ropriate irnihes of vverc asked from a)' :>f a private )th. Thisregi- i irel>' recniited IS composed of having ^ i„.sion as ■-n\ July 29th, it ^j^^^^.uent and / ^ /- The sug- n Aug, ist Cornelius Harsferfo Gov- ex-:>-; ■ '"^ ^ ^' " ■ - ■ : \ug, 8th Harsen Rhoades^JEsaj^^ ..From the collection of the late John it was ition it 1 ;'_iv ; ■.•<•■: he de- fence of . nimons Clark, in tht 'it. Colonel Harsen was an ac - proud position occupied l; small degree to his energ;. At the close of the war (181 on and continued a p • • - ^ of the city until his e years after the decease of Iv iiotony of routine Inilitar^ .'lieved by the famous whirli Bloomlngbale flDUltant 65 was much talked of but never fought. Colonel Clark relates the incident in these words : Col. Harsen of the nth Regiment of Artillery, had, for good and sufficient reasons, relieved certain members of the Corps from fines imposed by Capt. Gedney of the ist Battery, acting as president of the regimental court- martial. Capt. Gedney was exceedingly offended at this action and at a meeting of the board of officers held in Feb., the irate Captain publicly used the most violent and insult- ing language towards Col. Harsen. At this period duelling was still a favorite method among military men of settling disputes and a hostile meeting of the belligerents was anticipated; but Col. Harsen having been brought before a magistrate and placed under bonds to keep the peace, and the officers of the regiment having interposed to pre- vent a collision, the affair was settled for the time by an apology from Capt. Gedney, who soon afterward retired from the regiment. In September, at a meeting of the board of officers, a letter from Capt. Gedney was handed to Col. Harsen which he publicly refused to receive and returned unopened. This letter was supposed to have been a formal challenge, for a few days afterwards the streets and public places were placarded with the following notice : "To THE Public. "Whereas, Lieut. Col. Harsen of the nth Regt. of Artillery has behaved in a very unbecoming manner and has refused to give that satisfaction which one gentleman has a right to expect from another, I hereby publish him to the world as an unprincipled coward and poltroon." Immediately upon the appearance lOf this placard, Col. Harsen was again arrested and held to bail to keep the peace. In a long card which was published in the daily newspapers, Col. Harsen stated the facts in the case and 66 ^be Bew l^ork of IPeeterba^ proved that Gedney had instigated his repeated arrests for the purpose of protecting himself from deserved chas- tisement; too clearly did Col. Harsen vindicate himself, and in so ridiculous a position was his assailant placed, that the quarrel, which had been so long a subject of public gossip, degenerated into a farce. The officers of the nth Regiment also published a card confirming Col. Harsen's statement of the facts and testifying to his brave and honorable conduct on all occasions. The finale of the affair was a suit by Col. Harsen against Gedney for libel, which resulted in a compromise by which Gedney apolo- gized and consented to a verdict of one thousand dollars damages. The Evening Post of Dec. lo, 1814, states that: On Saturday last the nth Regiment under command of Lieut. Col. Harsen paraded for muster and inspection preparatory to a discharge from further duty in the service of the United States. Previous to the regiment being dismissed, Lieut. Col. Harsen delivered an address ap- propriate to the occasion. Subsequent to the parade, the officers assembled at the quarters of the North Battery, when a committee was appointed to wait upon Lieut. Col. Harsen to request a copy of the address for publication, which, with diffidence, was granted. The address thereupon follows in extenso. For two years it was thought the enemy would attack by water; consequently land fortifications were neglected. Induced thereto by the bombardment of Stonington, Conn., Aug. 10, 1814, earnest prepara- tions were undertaken to defend the northern ap- proaches to the city. Following the suggestion of Gen. Joseph G. Swift, Chief of Engineers and Super- intendent of Land Fortifications, who had made an examination of the topography with Gov. Daniel D. Bloomingbale fIDIlltant 67 Tompkins, Commander of the Third U. S. Military District, and Mayor De Witt CUnton, the Committee of Defence, on which body served Alderman Nicholas Fish, Chairman, and Peter Hawes, met at the City Hall and called for volunteers. So great was the answer that by the 13th, 3000 men had been entered on the list. The Common Council thereupon author- ized the construction of a fort at McGown's Pass and the work was started on the morning of the i8th. This was named in honor of the Mayor. The N. Y. Columbian of that evening contained this announce- ment: Harlaem Heights. This morning the new works (at the gap or pass at McGown's, on the old Kingsbridge Road) on Harlaem Heights were commenced by the regiment of Col. van Beuren's militia (comprising all the companies from Spring Street to Kingsbridge) ; and Capt. Messeroe attended with a piece of his flying artillery to fire a salute on the occasion. On Friday, Aug. 19th, sixty men employed by Robert Macomb, Esq., in the construction of his mill-dam, turned out for work on the Heights. [N. B. This stone dam was finished and opened to the public Dec. 23.] On behalf of the Washington Benevolent Society, William A. Hardenbrook, Valentine Nutter, Jonathan Hardman, and Dirck Ten Brook were appointed to receive the signatures of volunteers in the Ninth Ward and at a meeting of the citizens thereof Gerard de Pey- ster, Jacobus Dyckman, Isaac Jones, Henry Post, and Joseph Mott, among others, were empowered to call on their fellow-citizens to aid by labor or subscriptions. They forwarded, as a result of their efforts, over seven hundred dollars to the Committee of Defence on 68 Zhc 1Flew IPork of l^esterbap Aug. 2 2d. Jordan Mott was a member of a com- mittee representing the importers of the lower city, appointed at a meeting held at Martin's Hotel on the same date to offer the services of such citizens as enrolled. Ichabod Prall and Henry Post were dele- gated on the 23d by Tammany to receive contributions in the Ninth Ward. The inhabitants of the ward worked for the first time at Harlem on Monday the 2 2d, and 450 more assembled at the works on the 25th. On the following day an acknowledgment of the brigade of militia, dated at the "Cantonment at Harlaem Heights," of a donation of 350 bushels of potatoes from Messrs. Bradhurst & Field was pub- lished. It is noted that Anthony Post subscribed five dollars to the fund on the 27th, and on the 31st the Columbian prints: We passed through the camp on Harlaem Commons. The soldiers paraded and were a body of sturdy yeomanry and will receive their arms to-day. The journals of Sept. 2d tell of the mustering in of the militia the previous day "under the military law of the United States." The artillery, horse, and foot (including the Governor's Guards and some new corps raising), amounting to about 1200 men, with 14 pieces of ordnance and equipage complete, and the small arms in perfect order, paraded on the Battery. The articles of war were read to them in detachments and received with cheers of approbation, when the line was taken up and the whole proceeded to join the brigade of infantry in Broadway, which formed a soHd column extending from the Park (City Hall) to the Battery. On this Friday (Sept. 2d) Lemuel Wells appeared at .cyic^^^^XyC^cci^yu-c^ Portrait and signature of Peter Hawes, Esq., of the Committee of Defence, from the oil painting in possession of his grandson, Gilbert Ray Hawes, Esq. Bloomlngbale flDlIitant 69 Harlem with twenty men and five yoke of oxen for work on the fortifications. The Evening Post printed this advertisement on the previous day: Camp at Harlaem Heights, Aug. 27, 1814. The Brigade under the command of Brig. Gen. Hermance expresses its acknowledgment to Messrs. Valentine Nutter, James Beekman, Abraham Bra- zier, Henry Post, Mr. McGown, and the inhabi- tants of Harlaem for their friendly attentions to the officers and men by franking the use of their dwellings and barns during the unsettled state of the camp. David Wagstaff was thanked for the reception of the sick and for 10 bushels of potatoes and 10 of corn; Mr. Bogart for a quantity of carrots and cabbages and a gentleman of the Ninth Ward at Bloomingdale [James Striker] for 62 cabbages. Bradhurst & Field have contributed 130 additional bushels of potatoes. Signed, William Macomb, Brigade Quartermaster. The inability of obtaining meals caused Cato Alex- ander to announce in the Mercantile Advertiser on the 3d the opening of a branch establishment in this wise: Harlaem Heights. Gentlemen who may be engaged to work on Harlaem Heights will please to take notice that on and after Monday next 5th of Sept., an ordinary will be opened and dinner on the table every day from half past 12 o'clock till 2 p.m. Cato was a colored man who kept a famous place on a lane known as Cato's Road, which began on the east side of Third Avenue not far from 42 d Street and 70 ZCbe IRew l?ork of IPeeterba^ again reached that avenue just below Jones's Wood. It was located between 53d and 54th Streets at present Second Avenue, and was the terminus of the Drive from town. Here the horsemen of the day convened. He catered to an element contact with which, to quote another, had imparted to his gentle, modest nature an unpre- tending dignity of manner, which won the esteem of all who approached him and secured for his humble house of enter- tainment such a wide-spread reputation, that for years it was one of the prominent resorts of our citizens and at- tracted many of the prominent sightseers who made pil- grimages to the Island of Manhattan. On the 8th, the first delegation of Columbia students, 100 in number, lent assistance, their slogan being the paraphrase from Horace: Let those dig now who never dug before And those who often dig, now dig the more ! Subscription lists had been opened by the Com- mittee of Defence to pay for 500 days* work, and on the loth the results were published. For the Third Ward these individuals subscribed: J. C. van den Heuvel $5.00 Stephen Jumel $25.00 Alexander Hosack 2 .00 Jotham Post, Jr. 10.00 Jacob Schieffelin 10.00 John W. Weyman 10.00 In the Fourth Ward i Daniel Gassner $5.00 Christopher Milde- berger $10.00 The Bloomingdale Ward (the Ninth) made a brave showing. Some of the contributors were: BIooming^aIe fllMUtant 71 Frederick de Peyster $30 .00 J. C. van den Heuvel $20 . 00 John Beekman 10.00 Nicholas de Peyster 20.00 Samson Benson 20.00 Benjamin D, Benson 10.00 Andrew McGown 10.00 John Hopper 10.00 David M. Clarkson 10.00 James Beekman 10.00 Valentine Nutter 5- 00 Samuel A. Lawrence 10.00 Caspar Meier 5 • 00 Abraham Dyckman 2 . 00 Widow Dyckman 2 . 50 William L. Rose 5 . 00 Peter Meyer 5 . 00 Jacobus Dyckman 10.00 William Holmes 2.50 Widow Cozine i.oo Andrew Hopper 2.50 Philip Webbers i.oo Abraham K. Beekman 5 . 00 Jacob Le Roy 5 . 00 Widow Hardenbrook 2 . 00 Jacob Harsen 20.00 Wm. A. Hardenbrook 10.00 Henry Post 5.00 Effingham Schieffelin 5 . 00 Wm. Weyman 10.00 John Asten 10.00 Stephen N. Bayard 20.00 The inhabitants of this ward to the number of 200, with forty teams, turned out for work at the Heights on Wednesday the 21st, together with a detachment of 400 militia. In the meantime the Brooklyn fortifications were progressing. On the 29th, 500 individuals belonging to the churches under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Drs. Kuypers and Milledoler and the Rev. Messrs. Burk, Mathews, and Rowan labored there, and on Oct. 4th the pupils of Mr. Bansel's school, forty-three in number, and on the 8th thirty of the Orphan Asylum boys also aided. These two were later Bloomingdale institutions. John Randall, Jr., advertised on the 5 th that he had withdrawn his map from the hands of the engraver, the impropriety of furnishing the enemy with such accurate information of the topog- raphy of the country having been suggested. Much excitement was caused this month by the announcement that the enemy's fleet were in the 72 ^be IFlew l^ork of ipeeterbai? Sound and construction was renewed with unabated vigor. The Committee of Defence issued another call, having reason to believe that the city is in great danger of an attack and that it may be reasonably expected to take place within a few weeks. They deem it proper thus publicly to make it known and to call on their fellow citizens for a renev/al of their patriotic labours without delay for a completion of the defenses at Harlaem. Six hundred men of Gen. Steddiford's Brigade (Col. Ward's regiment) worked at Harlem on the 13th, 14th, 17th, and 1 8th, and 500 under Col. Laight on the 15th. The Columbian of the i8th stated that on Friday morning Oct. 14th, the Regiment of City In- fantry commanded by Col. Edward W. Laight broke ground in the height above their encampment and in true military style, under a salute of small arms, named the post after their respected Colonel, "Fort Laight." Some officers in the meantime by strategem detained him in the encampment, unadvised of the compliment until com- pleted. The Regiment was relieved on Saturday by a detachment of Col. Ward's Regiment. This command labored on the 19th, 21st, and 22d. Sunday no delegation was appointed but on Monday the 24th Col. Dodge's regiment of Gen. Mapes's bri- gade, 750 men, took up the work and continued at it during the week ending the 29th. Work was stopped at Brooklyn on the 27th and all eftorts weie concen- trated at Harlem. On Oct. 31st Col. Isaac A. van Hook's regiment of the same brigade began work, at first numbering 450 and finishing the week's labor with 650 men. This was the last regiment so em- ployed. The chain of fortifications thus completed commenced with a redoubt at Benson's Point (Third BLOCK TOWER, NO. 1, IN CENTRAL PARK, 1864 Bloomlnobale fllMUtant 73 Avenue and io6th Street), ran west to the works at the Pass where there was a Barrier Gate, on to the Bat- tery near the house of Valentine Nutter, and continued south and east by means of a breastwork to Fort Fish, named for the chairman of the Committee, which lay opposite Fort Clinton. Another defence in the chain was the Blockhouse (No. i) now existing in Central Park just south of where 109th Street and Seventh Avenue would cross. Other distinctive works in Bloomingdale were the stone tower between 113th and 114th Streets, Columbus and Amsterdam Ave- nues, another on the south side of 121st Street about 1 10 yards east of the latter avenue, a similar tower on the south side of 123d Street about 54 yards east of said avenue, and Fort Laight about twenty yards north of 124th Street and 120 yards east of Eleventh Avenue. (Vide Public Papers of Gov. Tompkins, vol. i., 76-7; McGown's Pass and Vicinity, by Edward Hagaman Hall; Ulman's Landmark History.) The Committee of Defence acknowledged in the press Nov. 9, 1 8 14, the donation of flagstaff s for the works at Harlem from William A. Hardenbrook, Esq., Assistant Alderman of the Ninth Ward, who had just been re- elected with Nicholas Fish as Alderman. Five hun- dred and seventy pieces of cannon and mortars were mounted for the defence of the city, a number of Columbiads of 50 pounds calibre at Fort Greene being among them. The "handsome and formidable park of field artillery and battalion guns" belonging to the brigades of militia are not included in this enumer- ation. Gen. Swift's Report on Fortifications of December, 1814, is made a part of the final report of the Common Council. In describing the defences which covered 74 Z\)c 1Rew IPorft of l^eaterbap a portion of the site of the battle of Harlem Heights, it states: At a battery marked on the plan [Fort Laight] com- mences a line of entrenchments with faces and flanks, crossing the Bloomingdale Road to a commanding height on Mark's [sic] grounds and running along its summit to the banks of the North River which falls abruptly and nearly perpendicularly to the water's edge. This property was that of Asher Marx, who m. Mary, niece of Johannah Beekman, a benefactress of the Church at Harsenville. She resided with her husband, Abraham K. Beekman, at present 120th Street near the river, and Marx's house was situated between 123d and 124th Streets on the same bluff. It was known as " Monte Alta. " " The works compre- hended in the foregoing description," continues the Report, have been chiefly constructed by the labour of the citizens of the city of New York, Long Island, and neighboring towns along the North River and in New Jersey. All classes volunteered, supplying daily working parties of from 500 to 1500. The fortifications are testimonials of patriotic zeal. The works at McGown's Pass were erected under the immediate direction of Major Joseph Horn, a descendant of John Horn "of the Bloomingdale Road" as Riker's History of Harlem has it. James Horn of the same family served as Ensign in the 51st Regiment, 3d brigade of infantry, by appointment April 2, 18 13. He was Lieutenant in Col. van Hook's regiment in 1 81 5 and resigned June 21st of that year. James de Peyster was Ensign in the 3d Regiment, 181 1, promoted to Lieutenant in 181 2, and resigned the same Bloomlngbale fIDilitant 75 year to enlist in the U. S. Army. James F. de Peyster served as Ensign in the 97th Regiment, appointed thereto in 1813. Another well-known resident of Bloomingdale did his part in defence of his native city. The troops by orders dated Sept. ist, were pro- visionally consolidated into two regiments. Garrit Hopper Striker served as Captain of the 4th Company, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel van Hook (Vide Guernsey, vol. 11., 557). His services will hereafter be mentioned. On Feb, 22, 1900, the United States Daughters of 18 12 caused to be erected one of a series of bronze tablets intended to mark points which gained historic interest during that war. It had been decided to place it on Blockhouse No. i, but owing to the isolated position of this tower and the likelihood of the memorial being hidden from view by foliage, the plan was changed. The Board of Trustees of Columbia University then sanctioned its being afHxed to the wall of Fayerweather Hall, on Amsterdam Avenue facing 117th Street, which it now adorns. To commemorate NEW YORK CITY DEFENCES during the War of 181 2, Barrier Gate, McGown's Pass, Barrier Gate, Manhattanville, Forts Clinton, Fish, and Haight, and three stone towers. Also in honor of Maj,-Gen. GARRIT HOPPER STRIKER, (then captain). 5th Regiment, 2d Brigade. • Erected by U. S. D. 1812. Empire State February 22, Society, 1900. 76 ZTbe IRew l^orft of IPesterba^ The tablet is incorrect in commemorating Fort Haight. It should be Laight. The ruins of the tower at 123d Street and Amsterdam Avenue (within Momingside Park) were marked by a memorial erected by the Women's Auxiliary to the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, on Saturday, June 4, 1904. These are the remnants of Fort Horn, named in honor of the Major who supervised the general construction of the defences. On Feb. 23, 1898, on the occasion of a flag-raising there, this name was used. It should be preserved. A bronze tablet on the site of Fort Clinton was put up by the children of the City History Club, Nov. 24, 1906. The works at Harlem Heights were pronounced by the press at the date of their construction as being "numerous, compact, and judicially placed and form a romantic and picturesque view, as well as an impassable barrier to an enemy's march. " They were never tested, the Treaty of Ghent being signed on Dec. 24, 181 4. Intelligence thereof was received at 8 o'clock on the Saturday evening of Feb. nth, by the British sloop-oi-wax Favorite, 42 days from Plymouth, and by 10 o'clock the city was vol- imtarily illuminated. As Edward Hagaman Hall's monograph entitled, McGown's Pass and Vicinity, a learned historical review to which attention is called, states, "the first months of 181 5 saw McGown's Pass deserted." Thus the second chapter in the military chronicles of Bloomingdale Heights is brought to a close. The land on which "the Pass" was located was a part of twenty acres lying within the Harlem line which was purchased by George Dyckman of the Bloomingdale family in 1729. He had married, 1712, a daughter of Teunis Idese van Huyse, who, in dividing BIoominQ^ale flDlIUant 77 his farm, gave (1720) one section thereof to Dyckman. From another son-in-law (Abram Montanye), Dyck- man purchased an adjoining section at the same time that he acquired the land at the Pass. These twenty acres he sold with other lands in 1748 to Adolph Benson and Jacob Dyckman, Jr. The latter was of the Kings- bridge family, which, so far as can be ascertained, is not related to that of Bloomingdale. He had married circa 1742, Catalina, daughter of Samson Benson, the sister of said Adolph. On his ten acres he constructed a stone house on the hill on the east side of the Post Road, where he kept a tavern. The Colonial Assem- bly met there from October 24 to November 11, 1752, during which time Governor George Clinton and Council, while in attendance, stopped at the neighbor- ing house of Benjamin Benson. After Captain Daniel McGown, a seafaring man of Scotch nativity, who had married Catharine Benson, was lost at sea, his widow bought the Dyckman property and, with the assist- ance of her son Andrew, continued the business. This pass in the Post Road thereupon took the name of the new proprietor, having theretofore been known in succession by the name of Dyckman and Benson, former owners. The son Andrew likewise connected himself with the Bensons by marrying Margaret Benson in 1784. The date of the painting is indefi- nite and shows the locality from an easterly point of view. Mount St. Vincent in Central Park, seen in the distance, occupied the site of the original Jacob Dyckman house and was built on its foundation. The viaduct, where the train is noticed, is present Fourth Avenue, and Third Avenue dominates the foreground. The smaller house with the gable end in sight is the McGown house. The first house on the 78 Z\)c IRew l?ork of ^CBtcv^a^ site was burned by the Indians and during the Revolu- tion only the cellar walls were standing. It was later rebuilt of stone. It faced on io6th Street when that thoroughfare was laid out. The large stone house shown on Third Avenue was constructed by Samson Benson McGown, son of the Andrew above mentioned, bom 1797, Assistant Alderman of the Twelfth Ward, 1852 and 1853. It was built prior to 1850 and this circumstance fixes, in a measure, the date of the picture. The culvert carries Third Avenue over Harlem Creek ("the Canal," in the local parlance of later Dutch residents), an estuary of the East River, the mouth of which lay between present io6th to iioth Streets and overflowed considerable territory generally lying be- tween 105th and io8th Streets as far east as Fourth Avenue, where a swamp spread from 103d to io8th Streets. The source of the stream which ran through it was at 135th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues, and another branch at 121st Street and Tenth Avenue. Harlem Mere in Central Park is the only present-day reminder of this creek. This waterway was known in early Dutch history as Montagne's Kill, after Dr. Johannes de la Montagne, the Huguenot pioneer settler of Harlem who arrived from Holland in 1636 and obtained a grant of 200 acres hereabouts, from Governor Kieft. To this plantation he gave the sentimental name of Vreden-dal — peace or quiet dale — a retreat which did not prove entirely peaceful, as the red man lurked too near at hand. The Benson stone house stood until 1865 in 109th Street between Second and Third Avenues, and there Hannah, the daughter of John Horn and widow of Peter Benson, was joined in marriage in 1804 to the Rev. John Frelinghuysen Jackson, the minister of the church ^ ^ s" K Bloomlngbalc flDlIitant 79 at Harlem and later of that at Sleepy Hollow made memorable by Washington Irving. This letter from a Bloomingdale boy should be added. The writer was the son of the Rev. George Strebeck, founder and first rector of St. Stephen's Church, and was at the date thereof seventeen years of age, having run away to seek glory on the sea, from his uncle Jordan Mott's residence, where he was stop- ping during his father's absence in the South seeking health. His mother had died two years previously. On board the United States Brig Niagara ON Lake Erie, Nov. 9, 1813. Dear Uncle: — After a variety of misfortunes you will at length find me on Lake Erie. The limits of this small sheet of paper and my time will not allow me to recount the various scenes I have gone through since last I saw you. Suffice it to say that three times I have been made prisoner, twice by the British; once carried to Jamaica (W. I.), once to Halifax ; and once by the Algerians and carried to Tunis. Both times that I was taken by the English I was regu- larly exchanged and sent once to Boston, from which place I wrote a letter to you but never received the scratch of a pen in answer, and once to New Orleans where I wrote another and being destitute of money and clothes was obliged to enter in the States' service on board the Brig Syren. I sailed from New Orleans to New York but was obliged by stress of weather to put into Boston when I was drafted to go on Lake Ontario and was ordered on board the General Pike. As soon as she was ready for sailing, I was again drafted for the upper Lake where I went on board the Lawrence, but was shortly transferred from her to the Niagara, on board of which vessel I was during the action the event of which decided the fate of Canada and in which action I was severely wounded in the head but 8o Zbe 1Rew l?ork of jjeeterbai? by good attendance have recovered. The account of the action no doubt you have seen in the papers and as I have not time, I will not describe it. It is uncertain whether we shall remain here this winter or not. If we do not, in all probability we shall come to New York when I shall have the satisfaction of seeing you and the rest of my friends. . . . Your affectionate nephew, Jordan Mott Strebeck. The London Gazette of Nov. 19, 18 14, contained an account of the capture, after a chase of eleven hours, by H. M. S. Medway, Captain Brine, on July 12th, of the U, S. brig-of-war Syren of 16 guns and 137 men. It adds that during the chase, the prize threw over- board all her guns, boats, anchors, cables, and spars. o S 'Tit^ iiimtM Ill 1bar0ent)llle TLbC limits of this hamlet are no more definitely defined than those of other settlements in the Bloom- ingdale District. It was a local appellation and took its name from the Harsen family which came to live therein in 1763. For the purposes of this compilation its confines are limited to the Somerindyck and Dyck- man farms and part of the de Lancey, afterwards the Apthorp, tract. The farm first mentioned stretched from 57th to 70th Streets, and from the Commons to the river. The southwest comer of Central Park ab- sorbed a strip of it lying generally between 59th and 68th Street, as far east as Sixth Avenue. The entire territory to and beyond the Bloomingdale Church, the belfry of which is seen in the distance in the view reproduced, was included in this great farm. Prior *o i73S> it was acquired by Etienne de Lancey, the Huguenot, who settled in New York in 1686, becoming one of his Majesty's Council. He devised it to his children, five sons and two daughters. The will of Stephen, one of the former, was proved in 1746, leaving his share to his brothers and sisters. Of the latter, Susannah had married Sir Peter Warren of British naval fame, then living in the city, and Anne, the Hon. John Watts, who also served as a member of the 6 81 82 Zbc mew ^ov\{ of IJeeterba^ Council. Peter and Oliver, other sons, and these sisters executed a partition deed in 1747 to their elder brother James, who was Lieutenant-Governor of this province. He died in 1760, when his eldest son and namesake inherited the property by right of primo- geniture. By act of the Legislature passed Oct. 22, 1779, he was attainted of treason, and these premises, containing 200 acres, were sold by the two Commis- sioners of Forfeiture and bought in by John Somerin- dyck, Oct. 19, 1784. When the new owner died six years later, he was survived by two sons and three daughters. The Ward, Cargill, Nash, and Low prop- erties, already described, occupied the southerly part of the tract. Sarah Somerindyck became the wife of John H. Talman, a vestryman of St. James's Church in Hamilton Square, heretofore mentioned. Their home lay be- tween 67th and 69th Streets on the west side of Tenth Avenue. The house was frame, three stories high, and the extensive grounds sloped to the river. A handsome grove of oaks and chestnuts fronted the avenue, flanked by a fine elm at one end of the house and a large button-ball at the other. A fish pond, covering half an acre, whereon was a private ice-house, were features of the place. Water therefor was sup- plied by springs from a stream which started in a swamp at 75 th Street and crossed the Bloomingdale Road under a culvert just north of 73d Street, and ran its course to the Hudson River between 68th and 69th Streets. In 1852 this property was rented by Robert H. Arkenburgh, the tobacco merchant, whose family lived there for seventeen years. Mrs. Talman died April 30, 1867, and the property was partitioned and sold the following April. IbarsenvlIIe 83 On a portion of the farm which fell to Abigail Somer- indyck, the widow of Leonard Thorn, a triangle be- tween 69th and 70th Streets west of Tenth Avenue, was located a one story and attic house with Dutch gables, fiat and rambling in architecture with wings on either end. Piazzas surrounded it on three sides, and the main front faced the south. Its situation in a dense forest made it hardly visible from the Road, and the stream above mentioned, which crossed the grounds, lent a picturesque diversion. This plot was purchased in 1815 for $3000, by Jacob Barker, the famous Quaker banker, broker, and speculator in general, whose eccentricities were the talk of the day. It was his custom to drive his four-in-hand to and from business in the Wall Street section, via the Blooming- dale Road. Fitz-Greene Halleck entered his counting- room in the warehouse yet standing on South Street, near Burling Slip, in June 181 1, where the poet-clerk remained for twenty years. For seventeen years thereafter he was employed in the office of John Jacob Astor. Charles F. Park lived in the Barker house at a later period, whose daughter Anna was con- sidered the belle of Harsenville with Miss Annie Cargill a close second. Mr. Park was a wholesale tea and coffee merchant on West Street, near Liberty. The family, which left Bloomingdale in 1849, were not identified with the local church, which they attended on occasions, as they belonged to the Duane Street Church. He died in 1865, aged 49. The property was known as the Reynolds place when torn down about a dozen years ago. The Dyckman farm, containing 188 acres, adjoined the Somerindyck farm on the north. It was acquired from Rebecca, the widow of Adrian van Schaick, in 84 TOe flew IPorft of lPe6ter^a1? 1 70 1 for ;iS45o. Cornelius Dyckman, to whom the deed ran, was the son of Johannes, who was bom at Leeu- warden, in Friesland, in 1647, and came out to Fort Orange where he filled the office of Chief Clerk and Vice-Director of the colony. The son married Jan- netje, daughter of Dirck Claessen Potter, an original patentee of Harlem, and settled in Albany County at Niskayuna on lands which he was compelled to aban- don in 1690 at the French and Indian invasion. He found a temporary home in Bergen County, New Jersey, but removed to Harlem where he was constable in 1698. While living in Bloomingdale in 17 19 he disposed of a part of his Niskayuna lands to Evert van Ness. Dyckman was a farmer but tilled only small sections of the large, heavily wooded farm. He died prior to 1722 at his homestead, which stood facing the Road in the block north of the northwest corner of present Tenth Avenue (Amsterdam) and 70th Street. When the avenue was opened the house was left in a diagonal position to that thoroughfare. Of his children Wyntie married Johannes Kortright, Cornelia, Jacob Harsen, and Elizabeth, John Sprong. The will devised the farm to the sons George and Cornelius. The latter sold his share to his brother in 1736 for ;£225, who directed his executors, John Harsen (married his daughter Rachel in 1749) Garret Cozine (married his daughter Jannetje four months later) , and Jacob Leroy, to sell his realty. By inden- ture dated 1763 they deeded 94 acres to Jacob Harsen (the brother of John) , who conveyed one half thereof to Garret Cozine and the balance to Johannes Harsen. Cozine, dying in 1773, divided his interest into thirds, subject to a life estate in the widow, and through the death of Cornelius and Hannah, the other heirs, JfMmEMFILLE BIST IbarsenvUIe 85 Catharine Cozine became vested with the whole southerly half of the tract in question. She inter- married with Jacob Harsen in 1773, who was a nephew of the Jacob Harsen first above mentioned, and this half, with the easterly portion of the northerly half, formed the well-known Harsen farm. After the marriage the Harsens lived in the family homestead where the bride had resided with her par- ents, and it was in the parlor of this house, then occu- pied by them, that a number of the neighbors met one dark and stormy night in September of 1805 and organized a Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, under the name of The Church at Harsenville, as the hamlet which had grown up thereabouts was denominated. At this foregathering the organization was duly ce- mented by the election as members of the first Consis- tory of Andrew Hopper James Striker Jacob Harsen Philip Webbers all descendants of Holland progenitors and of one family connection, at the mention of whose names arise memories redolent of old Bloomingdale. That important thoroughfare, the Harsenville Road, began at the east line of the Bloomingdale Road, be- tween 71st and 72d Streets, and ran diagonally across the territory now composing Central Park to the Old Post Road (Third Avenue). In 1803 Harsen and another landowner had fpetitioned the Common Council respecting the opening of a cross road between the Middle (Sixth Avenue) and the Post roads and on June 27th the then Street Commissioner, Joseph Brown, to whom it had been referred on the 20th, reported that, although the making of cross roads had 86 Zhe 1Rew l^orft of l^eeterba^ not been a condition of the alternate sale and leasing of lots by the city on the Commons, yet it was gen- erally understood to be an implied one and should, in his opinion, "be immediately attended to as ben- efiting the lots sold, increasing public convenience, and promoting the interest of the Corporation in giving additional value to their property. " So he recommended that the prayer of the petitioners be granted, that the Road Master be directed to cause the said cross road to be worked and opened forthwith, and that the same be done either by contract or otherwise as said Road Master may deem best for the public interest. The report was thereupon confirmed and the Street Commissioner was directed to receive and submit contracts for the work. Prior to this application there had been a farm road in use at this location, i. e., from the Bloomingdale to the Middle roads, and the above contemplated work was intended to extend it to the Post Road, — as is evidenced by this entry in the minutes of the Board, 1804 (vol. xiv., 521) : The Committee to whom was referred the matter of widening and improving the road near Alderman Harsen's in Bloomingdale to the Middle Road, reported that they had advertised for proposals and that from the several received that of Abel Thayer and others was the lowest. The contract was confirmed to them accordingly. Some sixteen acres of the northernmost portion of the farm which was chosen by George Dyckman under the terms of the will, lydng between the Road and the river, and 7 2d and 73d Streets, came into pos- sesvsion of John Broome in 1801. He became Lieuten- ant-Governor of the State three years later and was a prominent member of many commercial and char- Ibarsenvllle 87 itable organizations. Bullock Street was changed to Broome Street, in his honor on April 7, 1806. Broome County likewise preserves his name. The house thereon was located in the centre of the plot on the west side of the Road, between the streets above stated, and was called "Chevilly. " This was built by Mme. d'Auliffe, dame d'honneur to Marie An- toinette. The tragedies of the Reign of Terror caused a large exodus of emigres to America and this member of the court circle came with the first refugees, many of whom gravitated toward Bloomingdale. With her came her three little daughters. In this pretty house, erected in the French style, she set up an es- tablishment that was much admired for its elegance and good taste. It became the centre to which was attracted many who found an asylum on these shores, among whom some of the old New York families were welcome guests. Among its constant visitors was the Marquis de Cubieres, a gallant of the vanished court, who was a fine type of the gentleman of the ancient regime, though, perhaps, never quite recon- ciling himself to the institutions of republican America. He named his horse "Monarque, " and, mounted thereon, he might have been seen making frequent pilgrimages out into the country from his home in Broad Street, to visit his friends at Chevilly. Another welcome guest was Col. August de Singeron who had commanded the Cuirassiers of the Guard at the Tuil- eries on the fatal Tenth of August. After having seen the last of his hapless sovereign, whose refuge in the Assembly was but the antechamber to the prison and the scaffold, the Colonel fled by way of L'Orient to this country. When the young Due d' Orleans and his brothers, the Due de Montpensier and the Prince 88 XLbc 1Rew ©ork of IJesterba^ de Beaujolais, came to New York, they soon found their way to Chevilly, where Madame and her little circle made the fugitives feel less poignantly the loss of country, rank, home, and kindred, surrounding them with an atmosphere that reminded them of Versailles. In after years, when King of the French, Louis Philippe used to speak with gratitude of the hospitality extended to him in that time of adversity. The great Talleyrand was always a welcome arrival. Another Frenchman who at this time made New York his home was the famous General Moreau, the rival of Napoleon in popular favor and the victim of that eminent man's jealousy. The Moreaus lived at 119 Pearl Street, a handsome building which was destroyed in the fire of 1835. We can well imagine he was also a guest at Chevilly, for he had property interests near by. In April, 1810, he had loaned some money to Abigail Somerindyck, then the wife of Wil- liam T. Cock, taking a mortgage as security, on some of the lands of the farm she inherited. An act of the Legislature, passed March 29, 1809, had authorized the General and his wife to hold realty within this State, and when, in 181 5, decree of foreclosure was entered and sale thereunder effected, the property was bid in for his estate by John S. Roulet who conveyed it to Moreau's widow in 181 7. On her death, the Vicom- tesse de Courval, her daughter, as sole heir, through her attorney, Henry C. de Rahm, conveyed it in 181 9 to John Low. Subsequent!}^ an act was passed April 21, 1828, which enabled her to inherit said land and removed the cloud on the title. This is the property which has been described in the first chapter. The Somerindyck house, which stood at the north- west corner of the Road and 75th Street, until it was Ibarscnvllle 89 torn down to make way for the Boulevard in 1868, was the second oldest in Harsenville, the priority being held by the Dyckman-Harsen mansion. Of essentially Dutch architecture, fifty by eighty feet in dimensions, it had a steep shingle roof and the usual stoep flanked by the customary lateral seats. Here Louis Philippe Hved. He was often actually in need, as were the young princes who accompanied him, and to gain a livelihood taught school during his stay in Bloomingdale. The room in which his classes met was maintained in the same condition as during his occupancy until the building was razed. The fire- place was finished with rows of blue and white Antwerp tiles, ornamented with Bible chapter and verse to which the decoration referred, indicated in large characters thereunder. This house was one of the sights of Bloomingdale in the old days. The French invasion added greatly to the gayety and brilliance of society, and left its impress on the locality. Other well- known families were the L'Estranges, de Neuvilles, and de Rivieres. M. Jumel, although not to the manor born, was well received because of his kindliness and the popularity of his famous wife. He owned land in Bloomingdale, on which they lived, the house being located between 77 th and 78th Streets on the east side of present Amsterdam Avenue, and Madame was a contributor to the funds of the Orphan Asylum and a benefactress by legacy to the tune of $5000. The Broome property, under his widow's will, fell to her brother James and her sisters Sarah and Julia Boggs, the latter of whom intermarried with John W. Livingston, and these conveyed it to Joseph Simpson in 182 1, who the same year transferred it to James Boggs for $8000. In 1867, the latter's heirs- 90 tCbe IRew ©orR of IJeeterbap at-law sold it to Gustavus A. Sacchi for $400,000. At one time the house was occupied by John Lozier, Alderman of the Sixth Ward, and later certain well- known bachelors and men about town used it as a club house and driving resort. Among them were August Belmont, Appleton the publisher, and Frederick S. Talcott, the broker. A portion of the southern part of the Teunis Somer- indyck Farm, which lay between the Dyckman and van den Heuvel properties, was purchased by the Orphan Asylum Society, a Presbyterian institution, in 1834. The first of its kind in the city, it was or- ganized in the spring of 1806 at a meeting of ladies held at the City Hotel, then on the site of the Boreel Building. Mrs. Sarah Hoffman and Mrs. Alexander Hamilton were chosen First and Second Directresses and Mrs. Bethune Treasurer, It was located originally in Greenwich village, and Asylum Street, since changed to West Fourth, and Bethune Street are reminders of its existence there. A fine portrait of Eliza, second daughter of Philip Schuyler, who married Gen. Ham- ilton in 1780, is preserved on the walls of the present institution at Hastings-on- the- Hudson. While closely connected with prominent men and events during her lengthened days, a woman of mark and a leader of society, she always had time and thought to devote to its welfare, which she served for forty- three years. She died at Washington, D. C, in 1854. Lying just north of the monument erected to her illustrious husband by the Corporation of Trinity Church is a slab, on a level with the ground, which covers her remains in old Trinity Churchyard. Joanna Bethune was the daughter of Nicholas and Sarah (Ogden) Hoffman and married Divie Bethune, %,. IbarscnvlUe 91 the well-known Scotch philanthropist. She became the mother of that noted pulpit-orator the Rev. Dr. George W. Bethune and died at the age of :92 in i860. The comer-stone of the Bloomingdale structure was laid June 9, 1836. After prayer by the Rev. Dr. Knox of the Reformed Dutch Church he ad- dressed the orphans, and the stone was dedicated by Mr. Richmond, rector of St. Michael's. The contract price was $35,000. The report of the Trustees of 1840 comments on the change of location, and recites that the grounds afforded ample room for exercise and recreation, the garden supplied the inmates with fruit and vegetables, and there being pasture for several cows wholesome milk had been added to their simple breakfast; "while the abounding river invig- orated the frame by a saline bath and by casting a net into it furnished an occasional dinner of fresh fish." The inmates attended the Church for many years, having pews at one time in the gallery but generally on the main floor. Two spacious wings and a new story were added to the building shown in the illus- tration in 1856. The growth of the city impelled thoughts of removal and in 1870, land was purchased near Yonkers for a new site. It was not, however, until 1902 that work was undertaken, and in July the institution removed from the site it filled for fifty- two years. It is interesting to recall that on its prop- erty are now located the Ansonia Apartments and the residence of Charles M. Schwab — two of the largest and finest improvements in the upper city. Richard R. Lawrence, a Quaker merchant at 246 Pearl Street, bought the property adjoining the Asylum on the north, in 1799, and lived in the residence he constructed thereon in the bed of present 75th Street, 92 Zbc IRevp l?orft of lPe0ter^a^ west of West End Avenue, until his death there in 1822. Fourteen years later, Pelatiah Perit, one of the pillars of the Church, acquired it and, during his occupation of the house, granted the Asylum children the privilege of his grounds for picnics. The Fourth of July was yearly made memorable for their enjoy- ment. He was a member of the advisory board of the institution and had the Sunday-school in his charge for years. Samuel Adams Lawrence, quondam deacon of the Church, owned, in 1805, a tract just north of the above, also a portion of the Somerindyck farm. The repre- sentation of his mansion depicts its idyllic situation and sylvan surroundings long prior to the alteration of the river's front made necessary by the coming of the railroad. Some of us recall those days, and cherish the memory with the wish that the so-called improve- ments might have been relegated to a later date. The other Somerindyck house stood just north of 77th Street, also on the west side of the Road. Fer- nando Wood having bought it with adjoining land, added a structure on its south end and here he lived while Mayor. One of the noted events of Blooming- dale history occurred there in i860. On Friday, October 12th, Baron Renfrew (at present King Edward VII.), as the then Prince of Wales preferred to be known on his American tour, accompanied by Lord Lyon, the Duke of Newcastle, Earl St. German, Gen- eral Bruce, and other members of the royal suite, reached the house, after visits to the New York Uni- versity, the Astor Library, and the Central Park where he planted an American elm and a British oak. A large company of notables had assembled at the Wood residence and a bountiful and unexceptionable colla- IbarscnvlUe 93 tion prepared. On the lawn at the rear of the dining- room had been stationed Dodworth's famous band of 25 pieces. The Baron was received at the main en- trance of the edifice by the Mayor and conducted within. Miss Wood, then a young lady of sixteen summers, followed on the arm of the Duke, after whom the suite joined the procession. The Baron was formally presented to the guests in the front parlor, while the rest of the royal party, numbering some hundred individuals, were partaking of the repast on the lawn. During the return trip to the Baron's hotel — the Fifth Avenue — a visit was made to the Deaf and Dumb Asylum. A grand ball at the Academy of Music ended the day's excursion. The earliest school in the district that has come to our attention was the Bloomingdale Academy, which became celebrated under the care of the Rev. Hezekiah G. Ufford, who was succeeded in March, 1815, by John Moir of Edinburgh, distinguished as a classical teacher, when the name became the Bloomingdale Union Academy. This was in its heyday in 1820, but was soon thereafter discontinued. It is not known where it was located. Bansel's Military Academy stood opposite the Somerindyck house at 75th Street and Bloomingdale Road and was burned down circa 1829. At a later date the Rev. R. Townsend Huddart, a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, a man of liberal attainments and great ambition, removed his school (1836) from 7 Beaver Street to a building at 77th Street and the Road. During its life in Bloomingdale, this school added considerably to its reputation. Huddart aimed first at turning out young gentlemen in tne strictest sense of the word, and personal inspection was as severe and 94 ^be IRew york of ^eetevbn^ critical as at West Point. At the same time a thor- oughly liberal training was given, for, although most exacting as to a proficiency in the classics, the ac- quisition of modem languages was insisted upon, French being the language of the school, an unusual essential in those days. Situated quite three miles from any paved street, it was surrounded by the coun- try-seats of the wealthiest citizens, and the sons of the old Knickerbocker families received their education there. Those scholars who lived downtown used to assemble at Broadway and Bond Street, mornings, to meet the school "carryall." Among them were many of the teachers, for Huddart's greatest ex- travagance consisted in his large staff of assistants and the enormous salaries he paid some of the more celebrated. In 1841, the institution was moved to Bleecker Street, corner of Sullivan, and in 1844 to 14th Street, between University Place and Fifth Avenue, in both of which locations it added to its fame. In 1849, it was in 23d Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and here we must bid it farewell- The best known seminary for young ladies, of still a later period, was that carried on by Mme. Petit in a house belonging to the Clarkson estate, and then in one of the houses on the Valentine Mott property. Many of the noted grand dames of the last generation attended this school. The village tavern, to which entrance was gained by way of an ellipse, fronted on the Road near 70th Street. The date of its opening has been lost in obscurity. About 1808 its landlord bore the name of Oakley and is said to have been its builder and first boniface. His successor was a big burly Englishman — ^Tom Rodgers — and he knew well how to make his Ibar^envllle 95 inn a place of ease and comfort. The great sleighs, with their four horses and many toned bells, whose gay occupants generally had a pleasant greeting for Landlord Tom, made this their rendezvous. Mine host Rodgers spent many years here and was buried in the lane — the Harsenville Road — ^which bounded the tavern on the north. The next master was William Burnham, who about 1839 removed, at a rental of $600 per annum, to the home of the van den Heuvels, which he called the Mansion House. His sons George, James C, and WiUiam were three as delightful hosts as ever were met. The old tavern was then taken by an- other under the name of the Pelican Inn and later "Pop" Griff en, another Englishman who kept a tavern on Hudson Street, opened this place in Bloom- ingdale. In 1840 the elections were held there and excitement in the village was at fever heat. The stages which made this a stopping place largely found their occupation gone when the cars were started on Eighth Avenue, and gradually the business of the tavern died away. It was still standing in 1868, but in how forlorn and neglected a condition! The fences were down, the path hidden by weeds, the windows broken, and the doors hanging locMess. No trace of the gay times of old was to be noticed, and desertion, silence, and decay reigned instead of the ringing laugh- ter, the cheery good fellowship, and the hearty en- joyment of former days in the old Bloomingdale Tavern. Baron John Cornelius van den Heuvel, Governor of Demerara, came to New York about 1792, a refugee from the ravages of yellow fever in that island. His intention was to remain here but a brief spell, but being charmed with the location, he built his seat, 96 Zl)c flew l?orft of ©eater^ai? which stood on the present block between 78th and 79th Streets, Broadway and West End Avenue, until the summer of 1905. Later, he married a daughter of Apthorp, his near neighbor, and remained in the city. The land on which this mansion was constructed was a part of the great farm, stretching from 77 th to 90th Streets, which belonged at an early date to Etienne de Lancey, one of his Majesty's Council. It was purchased by Brigadier-General Oliver de Lancey^ his son, from the heirs, executors, and devisees of the emigrant. The General commanded the New York Provincials upon the expedition against Canada in 1758 and was at the attempt made to storm Fort Ticonderoga. Thereafter, and at the commencement of the Revolutionary War, he was a member of the Council and on raising a brigade to join General Howe in 1776 was commissioned Brigadier. Just prior to the evacuation of the city he left for England and died at Beverly in Yorkshire, Oct. 27, 1785. The General's wife was Phila Franks, daughter of an opu- lent merchant of Philadelphia, and she joined in the convej'-ance of part of their Bloomingdale property to Charles Ward Apthorp in 1 763. This land was bounded on the south by the farm of Teunis Somerindyck and was the portion which became the country seat of the van den Heuvels. The site of the mansion was bought by the Astors in 1879 ^^^ ^^ i^ is now being constructed one of the largest apartment houses in the city. During the Bumham regime, the Mansion House became one of the noted resorts of the Bloomingdale drive. From the rear piazza there was a beautiful view of the Hudson and a pathway through a garden conducted to a charming little summer house perched Ibarsenvlllc 97 on the bank just overhanging the stream. As the headquarters of the admirers of the trotting horse, Bumham's was the successor of Cato's place on the Old Post Road. Many a stepper of national reputa- tion in his day has dashed into the semi-circle by which the hotel was approached from the Road. But it had little in common with the roadside suburban tavern of the present time. There was nothing of the rowdy element visible there. Quiet and re- spectable citizens were accustomed to drive their families out to Bumham's in the afternoon for a scent of country air and a view of the river, and there was no reason why they should not. There was not such a long stretch of outlying municipal undigested terri- tory as there is even now in spots, and the country extended its arms in welcome almost as soon as you were off of the cobblestones. Before the smooth roads of Central Park were laid out, or even the Park itself was thought of, [says Mrs. Despard in the text which accompanies her sister Mrs. Greatorex's drawings], this Bloomingdale Road afforded an ever fresh pleasure to all who owned horses and carriages. The country on either side of it was so fresh and rural, the houses so charming, whether they were the villas of mil- lionaires or quiet two story cottages of dwellers with small revenues, and the glimpses of the Hudson! — sometimes at the foot of a narrow lane, where the water was but a point of lightness closing the vista, sometimes a broad expanse showing a large and noble view of the grand river. There were hills and valleys on that road ; heights whence one could look back to the city and forward to Manhattan- ville ; and after going as far out as to Washington Heights or even to Spuyten Duyvel or Kingsbridge, returning in the soft dusk of evening, past Trinity Cemetery and Carmansville, one felt that with the great change from 98 Zbc 1Flew l^ork of ipe0tert)a^ the city to such entirely country scenes and the great variety of the drive, the two or three hours' ride had been a journey in itself; and when one saw at the Hopper house on 50th Street the old poplar trees and the glimmering lights of the city, it was like the return from a long absence. As beautiful as the Central Park is, it cannot compensate for the charms of the Bloomingdale Road — now forever lost. And when snow covered the landscape — these were the days when all the world was on runners — ^high carnival reigned on the Road, and Burnham's, Striker's Bay, and the Abbey were thronged with gay crowds. An old resident informs us that during the winter of 1847, his family, while sitting on their piazza, had counted eleven hundred and sixty sleighs which passed along the Road in one hour. Adam van den Bergh started the first stage-route to Albany. Just when the local stages began to run on the Road is indefinite. Haswell's Reminiscences of an Octogenarian states that on May 25, 18 19, a Hne from the lower part of the city was established. In 1845 Benjamin Moore ran five two-horse 'buses from Tryon Row to Manhattanville, and in 1849 John O'Keefe began a line which started at Chambers Street and Broadway, went up to Canal Street, through to Hudson, and con- tinued up Eighth Avenue and the Road to Burnham's. This also consisted of five two-horse vehicles. We would like to tell of the village life at a later period; of the grocery on the east side of the Road between 75 th and 76th Streets which boasted itself by a wooden sign to be the " Harsenville Post Office," the first in the district; of the mild excitement in the settlement on the day (Oct. 19, 1847) of the laying of the corner-stone of the Washington Monument in IbarsenvlUe 99 Hamilton Square, largely caused by the emulation engendered among the participants in the contem- plated games ; how the boys of the local fire company — No. 50 — turned out and reached the site, via the ham- let's only cross road, which led nearly to it; and of the enlistment of the young fellows of the neighborhood for the war with Mexico. How much more of interest could be added — but we forbear and close this mar- shalling of the days of yore with the refrain : — ^Farewell, a long farewell to Harsenville. IV Ubc 3f trst Consistory UbC Synod to which the Church at Harsenville owes fealty represents the oldest Protestant ecclesiastical organization in America. Its succession of ministers has been unbroken since 1628, when Domine Jonas Michaelius arrived and in the summer formally organ- ized a church which has had continuous existence to this day. When the colony surrendered to the British in 1664, and New Amsterdam became New York, the rights of the church were not affected, all its former privileges being retained under the new government. It was chartered under the seal of William and Mary, King and Queen of England, in 1696. The portraits in oil of its ministers since 1699 are hanging in the Lecture Room of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas (this Saint's name having been that of the "Church in the Fort"), Fifth Avenue, at 48th Street. The bell which hangs in the steeple of this church was cast in Amster- dam in 1728. It was bequeathed by Abraham de Peys- ter, a son of Johannes the founder of the American family, to the Middle Dutch Church, which then stood on Nassau Street, between Cedar and Liberty. When this church building was occupied as the City Post- office, the bell was removed to the church on 9th Zbc jprst Consistory loi Street near Broadway, thence to the church on Lafay- ette Place, and last of all to its present location, where its voice is still regularly heard. De Peyster's life was marked by many honors, he having held successively the offices of Alderman, Mayor, Judge of the Supreme Court, Chief Justice of the province, member and chair- man of the King's Council, acting Governor and Colonel- Commander of the Militia of New York, President of the Council, Treasurer of the provinces of New York and New Jersey, and Deputy Auditor-General. A vivid pen-picture of the early days is presented in an article which was published in The Christian Intelli- gencer of Aug. 22, 1906. Besides its historic value, it mentions the names of families which later became prominent in Bloomingdale. The editor prefaces the narrative with the statement that it appeared recently in De Kerkboden {The Church Messenger), one of the oldest religious periodicals in the Netherlands. The facts were taken from some old papers in the form of letters written by Domine Joannes Megapolensis to a Wilhelmus van Mierop in Amsterdam, who married Jacobina Bogardus, a sister of the Domine's prede- cessor. Recently there died in Alkmaar (Holland), Doctor Franz van Mierop and in an old Bible of his these letters were found. It is truly said in the above preface that the compiler is in error as to the date (1647) at which he places the event described. Domine Meg- apolensis did not become pastor of the church until 1649, and Domine Samuel Drisius, whose presence is noted in the text, did not reach New Amsterdam before 1652. The article is evidently based on a paper read by the late James W. Gerard before the New York His- torical Society, in June, 1874, which was an imagina- tive portraiture of the times, and not an accurate I02 z\)c IRevo ^ov}\ of IJesterba^ historical sketch. The term "Consistory" designates those individuals who, with the minister, compose the governing body of the church. HnDrew Ibopper, an original Elder of the Church at Harsenville, was the grandson of Andries Hoppe, mentioned heretofore in the first chapter as having arrived in New Amsterdam in 1652. He came from a rich, prominent, powerful, and much respected family of Old Amsterdam, whose history harks back to ancient times in Holland where the name was spelled both Hoppe and Hoppen, a cus- tom the pioneer in this country continued. Away back in the 1 5th century members of the tribe had served the city as Schepens, Burgomasters, Councillors, and Orphan Masters. A few instances will suffice. One of the windows of the Old Church in that metropolis was placed therein by a member of the family as a pen- ance for having been baptized a Protestant. This pane represents the Salutation of Maria and contains the Hoppe coat of arms. The recanter himself lies buried in front thereof, in the Chancel of the Holy Virgin, as evidenced by the tombstone on which the same coat can be deciphered. This individual, as a part of his infliction, donated a fund to be used in distributing " a clear white leaf of bread and a pint of wine" to each patient in the Hospital on the Day of the Visitation of Our Lady, and on the 13 th of each September, a meal consisting of boiled meat and wine, or fish " on fish day, served as is proper." He became Regent of the insti- tution in 15 1 1. His grandson was Burgomaster and Councillor of the city in 1549, continuing in office for years and remained Orphan Master as late as 1573. Joachem Hopper, a noted Doctor of Laws, with which Zhc jflrst Con9i9tori? 103 degree he was invested in 1553, forsook the profession of teaching the following year on his appointment as a member of the Grand Conseil de Malines. When the Spanish government undertook the creation of a uni- versity at Douay, he was charged with its formation. Called to Madrid in 1566, he became Privy Councillor to Philip II. and Chancellor of Affairs of the Low Coun- tries. He was more moderate than the other ministers of that monarch and was the author of numerous fa- mous books and MSS. Christiaan Hoppe, b. 1621 at Amsterdam, studied at Helmstadt and in 1647 became Lutheran preacher at Enkhuizen. In 1656 he removed to Haarlem and four years later was called to his native city where he died 1670. After 1652 he devoted himself to educating young men for the ministry. A sermon written by him, though only of six pages, 4to, was published for the fourth time in the year 17 10, forty years after his death. In this country several distinct lines of Hoppers ap- pear in numerous localities among the records and families of Colonial times. These were of English or Irish descent. The New York and New Jersey family originated in Holland and it is with this line we have to deal. The pioneer settled in New Amsterdam, where he was enrolled in 1653 in the burgher corps, and during the six years he lived in the colony he was a typical mer- chant of the period and, though not nearly so wealthy as many of his cotemporaries, was the peer of any in enterprise, probity, and business sagacity. Dying in 1658 he left him surviving his widow, whom he married in the old country, and one daughter who was bom there, and three sons. All four of the children removed to Hackensack, New Jersey, and this accounts for the large number of the name yet residing in that State. 104 ^be IRew IPotft of IPeaterbap The youngest son, Matthys Adolphus, was baptized at New Amsterdam, March 3, 1658, and married there, May 2, 1683, Anna, daughter of Jurck Paulus, of New Albany. He is designated in the records as being yet of New York, and on removal to New Jersey, they both joined the church there in 1687, He bought a farm adjoining his brother Hendrick's at Saddle River, and the eight children of the marriage were bom there. Returning to New York City he acquired the farm at Bloomingdale with which his name is identified, Aug. 13, 1 7 14, and built his homestead on the west side of the Road, but fronting on the farm lane which led to the burial-ground and the river. His son Johannes, known as John Hopper the Elder, married Maria van Orden of the well-known van Orden family, and their seven children were born in the homestead. Under the terms of the will, dated Oct. 12, 1779, the farm was to be divided into six equal parts among the survivors, viz., Matthew, John, Andrew, Yallis, and Jemima, the wife of John Horn, "of the Bloomingdale Road," as Riker's Harlem has it. The remaining portion went to his grandchildren, the issue of his deceased son Wessell. A map was to be drawn showing such division and six tickets prepared and numbered with the numbers of said six lots, whereupon the said six devisees, their heirs and assigns or guardians for them, were each to draw one ticket and the number thereon designated the number of the lot he or she should inherit by the devise. The farm road above mentioned from the Com- mons to the river was to inin through each one of said lots, " to always be and remain free to any or either of said devisees to pass and repass without any hindrance " to and from his or her portion of the farm. Articles of agreement were entered into by the heirs carrying Zhc Jfirst Con9l6tori? 105 out the above directions on Feb. 4, 1782. On lot No. 2 on said map was the family burial-ground and this was exempted from sale, to be reserved forever for that purpose. The courts some fifteen years ago decided that the terms of this agreement were not explicit enough to exempt this ground from other uses and the site is now covered by an apartment house. Hopper's Lane was widened to the uniform breadth of twenty- eight feet throughout its length. Andrew Hopper was baptized in the Dutch Church at New Amsterdam — ^the State or Established church of the colony — on Feb. 27, 1736, and married (i) Cath- arina Stijmets Jan. 28, 1758. On the property he in- herited under the above arrangement his father had put up for him the residence which became such a conspic- uous object on the Road, at later 50th Street, on the site of the present American Horse Exchange. This was completed at the date of the marriage and became the home of the couple where three of their four child- ren first saw the light. Issue: Johannes, bap. Mch. 12, 1760; died young. Jasper, b. June 10, 1770, in the city residence. Mary, b. ; married Barzillai Dusenbury, and died in July, 1846, a widow. Rachel, b. Sept. 15, 1766, ;m. Thomas Newcomb, the brother of Charlotte, May 15, 1794. She d. April 27, 181 2. At the age of eighteen he left home and entered the office of the Secretary of State at Albany as a clerk, serving for two sessions as Clerk of the Assembly. On Nov. 3, 1 791, when twenty-one years old, he was ap- pointed Deputy Secretary of State under Governor Jay, and continued to hold that office until 1802, when he removed to Onondaga County, where he became County Clerk, which office he filled to 18 18. Having io6 ^be IRew IDorFi of ^cetcvt>n^ in 1799 been admitted an honorary member of the Al- bany Law Society, he was made Supreme Court Com- missioner in 1803. In 1810 he was U. S. Marshal during the taking of the census and in the War of 181 2 was Quartermaster in charge of military stores at the Arsenal in his home county and U. S. Commissary. He was besides postmaster of Onondaga Hollow for nineteen years, and died there July 29, 1848. Among his other activities was the establishment in 181 1 of The Lynx, the first newspaper of the county, and the founding of the Onondaga Academy in 18 13, one of the famous institutions of learning in the early history of the State, of which he was a trustee from its estabhshment to his decease. A member of the Democratic-Re- publican party he was a leader in the county organ- ization. Clark's Onondaga says he was "a man of remarkable kindness and docility of disposition, very amiable, courteous, social, and obliging. Few men who have been so much in public life escape with so little censure or expose themselves to fewer assaults from political opponents." He married, Oct. 14, 1800, Char- lotte, daughter of Zaccheus Newcomb of Pleasant Val- ley, Dutchess County, and had six children. So much has been written about this country seat and the land where Andrew Hopper carried on farming that we forbear to enter much into detail. The house was of stone with a brick and wooden annex added at the time of his second marriage. The steep sloping roof and rounded gables, wide stoep, fan lights, and dormer windows were essentially Dutch. Even in its latter days the dignity of age became it well. The quaint carved mantles, the great yawning fire-places, and wide- arched hall retained the traditions of its better days. One can well understand how cozy the winter meetings XLbc jflret Constston? 107 of the Consistory could be made as the members circled around the fire. No doubt the well-known hospitality, which distinguished the Dutch, — a famed character- istic of the strain, — ^was exemplified in bumpers of "hot toddy," after the evening's business was finished and the pipes lighted. Great melancholy willows almost hid the house from view and the row of Lombardy pop- lars Andrew's father planted became pitiful skeletons under the burden of their years. The farmer's house, whose broad eaves stretched over a pathway floored with brick and shaded the wooden bench ensconced along the wall, stood behind these trees. The ground between them was almost a continuous piece of rock; grass and weeds covered it and rows of tall lilacs fenced it from the street. Andrew Hopper's city residence was on the corner of Broadway and Ann Street, a noted spot, where Bar- num's Museum — that large gloomy structure made bizarre by the numerous colored banners and oval signs arrayed across its front — was afterwards located and which became on its destruction by fire in 1865 the site of the Herald Building. He had lived here prior to 1770 for there his son was born. The corner of this plot was purchased in 1762 by Capt. Thomas White, "a wealthy Englishman," says Valentine's Manual, " lately become a resident of this city." With his second wife, Ann, he joined in selling it to Hopper, April 20, 1773 (L. 40, 359), and on August 10, 1784, Ann, the widow, conveyed to the same grantee (L. 42, 167) land adjoining "on the southerly side of a certain street lately laid out and intended to be opened by the said Ann White leading from the Commons to Nassau Street, and intended to be called and known by the name of White Street. Various have been the sur- io8 Zhc IRew ^otU of !3e0tert)a^ mises made to account for the origin of the name of Ann Street. Let us hazard the assertion that as Ann opened it, very naturally it assumed her name after her husband's death. As early as 1761 a public house stood on this corner. John Elldn, the proprietor, ad- vertised at that date that he served "breakfast from 7 to 9 ; tea in the afternoon from 3 to 6 ; the best of green tea and hot French rolls, pies and tarts drawn, from 7 to 9 ; mead and cakes." Just prior to the Revolution the "Sons of Liberty" acquired the property for their headquarters and changed its name to Hampden Hall. Many of the riots and public disputes of the war period occurred within its walls. After the peace it was occu- pied as a private house until its conversion in 1830 into Scudder's Museum. Prior to 1686, when Governor Dongan granted his charter to the city by which all the "waste, vacant, and unpatented lands ' ' on the island were vested in the Corporation, he appropriated this piece to himself, built a cottage upon it, and laid out the ground in a handsome manner as a garden, which was subsequently for many years called the "Governor's Garden." It embraced about two acres of land. After Dongan's departure to his native Ireland (where he afterwards became the Earl of Limerick) his garden was a pleasure resort commonly called the Vineyard. His kinsman, Thomas Dongan of London, later exercised control over this property and it was from this source that White acquired it. The directory of 1786 makes Hopper a merchant at 71 Chatham Row. In 1789, says The History of the School of the Collegiate Dutch Church, p. 100, he was one of the officers by whom the school was supervised. This institution had its origin in the appointment of the Zbc jTlret Consistori? 109 first schoolmaster in 1633 sent out by the West India Company and is the oldest seat of learning in the coun- try of which there is any record. The names of its offi- cers from that date are extant and those of its pupils from 1 791. Its home is now at 76th Street and West End Avenue.^ » In a cursory examination of The History of the School of the Col- legiate Dutch Church, 1883, some early Bloomingdale names are found which are scheduled here. Matthew Hopper joined the school in 1 791, "having been delivered to Stanton Latham" with twenty- nine others on May 4th, says the entry made by Peter van Steen- burg. Latham had been clerk of the North Church and had superseded van Steenburg in charge by appointment of the Con- sistory of the Collegiate Church. Names Ages Admitted Parents Hardenbrook Low William Jane Hopper Martha Nov. 3, 1792 Holloway Isabella Feb. 2, 179s Post Jacob 7 Apr. 2S, 1796; grad. May 25, 1802 Beekman Henry 10 June IS, 1796 George " Catherine II Oct. 4, " Vandewater John 9 Jan. 22, 1800 Mary Post Alexander 8 July II, " Benjamin " Henry II June II, 1802 Abraham Whitlock James 12 Feb 8, 1803 Samuel Quackenbush Lawrence 10 " " " John Kortright Nicholas 9 Dec. 9, 1803 Daniel Warner Beekman Eliza Feb. 4, 1804 George Bogert Peter 10 •' Albert Quackenbush Samuel 12 Apr. 26, 1804 Abraham Beekman Ann II Jan. 31, 1 80s Richard Bogert Eliza 10 May 27, " Peter Quackenbush John James 12 9 April 4, 1806 Abraham Whitlock Samuel 8 Sept. 4, " Samuel Kortright Daniel 7 Oct. 30, " Abraham Bancker " Ellen 10 March 19, 1807 Margaret Warner Jones Ann 9 " Mary Cozine Mary Garrit 10 10 July 9, 1807 Garrit Bogert Margaret 8 " " " Andrew Van Orden John 10 March 17, 1808 Whitlock Daniel 9 " Thomas B. " James 8 May 12, " " Holloway John 10 June 9, " John Bogert Peter 9 Aug. 29, James Van Norden Alice 8 Dec. 27, " " John M. 12 Jan' 31, 1809 Matthew no XTbe IWew IPork of l^eeterbai? In 1805 Hopper became one of the two elders of the Church at Harsenville and held that position until his death. He was moderator at the organization, was the first delegate to Classis, and the first treasurer. The Consistory met at his house for the first time October 3, 1808. On December 9, 18 13, he was mar- ried by Dr. Gunn to Elizabeth Guest, the widow of Peter Arell. The church records which make it Earl are in error. He died intestate April 4, 1824, and it is rather unusual that such scant notice in the pro- ceedings of the Consistory should have been taken of the event. At the succeeding meeting at Striker's Bay on August 2d, Ichabod Prall was elected an elder "in the place of Andrew Hopper deceased" — ^just this and nothing more — after a service of nineteen years. So state the minutes. The "Elder's book," in which Names Ages Admitted Parents Bogert Margaret 10 June 26, " Andrew Cozine George 8 July 29, " Garrit Van Orden Samuel 13 April 29, 181 1 Matthew Hopper Andrew II Jime 24, " Garret"" Post Albert 10 Sept. 30, " Mary ■ Bogert Jane 10 Feb. 6, 1812 Wert " Jacob 9 May 25, " John Betham Post John 7 June 22, " Rachel Bayard Ann 9 Jtme 29, " Elizabeth Bogert Sally 8 Oct. 5, " Andrew Bayard Peter 13 Sept. 28, 1813 Elizabeth Van Derbeck Stephen II Feb. 28, 1814 James Vanderbeck Mimyan II Mar. 31, 1817; grad. April 26, 1819 Duryee Henry B. 9 March 31, 1817 John L. Post Sarah Ann 8 March 26, 1832 Margaret Lawrence " John II Oct. 29, Abraham Dyckman Peter B. 9 June 27, 1836 John Byard Mary 4 Sept. 28, 1840 David Post Ann B. 12 " David Byard " Elizabeth 9 Oct. 25, 1841 John A. «' Adrian 12 Nov. 29, " " Clendenin William 6 Sept. 6, 1842 George Somerindyke William 13 Sept. 25, 1843 " Clendenin George 7 June 29, 1846 Charlotte Hoagland William H. 9 Jan. 25, 1847 Henry V. Talman Dowah D. John H. II 7 May 31, Peter Hoagland Catherine W. 8 July 24, 1848 Henry V. ^be 3fit0t Con0l0tori? m obituary notices were written, seems to have been lost. It was resolved on March 13, 1826, that the treasurer pay the estate the balance of the money due it for advances, after deducting the amount due the Church and the Female Cent Society. Mrs. Elizabeth Hop- per continued to live in the Broadway home and spared no expense to keep it in order and to cultivate the garden and grounds which surrounded it. In June 1824 an action in partition had been begun, and the commissioners conveyed the house plot to the widow (L. 190, 330), for a consideration of $3050. On her death, on December 25, 1825, her heirs-at-law, two brothers and a sister, inherited it. The property was alienated by the family, by deed recorded in L. 1539, III, which conveyed it to William K. Vanderbilt. The same commissioners sold the Ann Street corner to the ^tna Fire Insurance Company (L. 193,103), for $21,700. There were two dwelling houses situated thereon known as Nos. 220 and 222 Broadway. Hopper was buried in the family plot which was at present Soth Street and Ninth Avenue until 1885, when the remains were removed to Woodlawn. "He never dreamed," says Felix Oldboy, "that the little city at the lower end of the island would ever come knocking at his doors, and bidding him move on, and had gone comfortably to sleep in the belief that his worn out body would rest undisturbed in the sight of the fields he had tilled and the river in which he had sported in his boyhood." Here also his wives were interred in the fond hope that there they might repose till time should be no more. Allowance was not made for the restless spirit of this iconoclastic age. In 1846, por- tions of the cemetery were cut off for the opening of the streets on the east and north side thereof, when 112 Z\)c IRew ^ovk of l^esterbai? many bodies had to be removed to another part of the ground. Then a stone retaining wall some six feet high was constructed around the open sides, frame houses hemming it in on the south and west. Hop- per's headstone was left nearest to the line of 50th Street, and this inscription was plainly legible from the sidewalk : In memory of ANDREW HOPPER who departed this life on the 4th day of April, 1824 aged 88 years. "The sweet remembrance of the just Shall flourish when they sleep in dust. " James Stttlser History in repeating itself presents curious vistas. Here is a descendant in the fifth generation walking in the footprints of a kinsman whose lot it was to plant the first church on Long Island. Jan Strijcker reached New Amsterdam in 1652, with a wife, two sons, and four daughters. Two years later he took the lead in founding a Dutch colony at Midwout (Flatbush), whither he went, with the appointment April 8th of that year of "Serjeant." The same year he was selected as Schout (Chief Magistrate) of the settlement, an office he held for almost the entire succeeding twenty years. He was one of the Embassy selected to be sent to the Lord Mayors in Holland to make complaint and crave assistance on account of the colonists' annoyance from the English and Indians. (Col. Hist., vol. ii., p. 374) . He represented his town at the great Landtdag called by the Burgomasters which met on April 10, 1664 at the Stadt Huys in the capital Zbc ifiret Consistory 113 to take into consideration the precarious condition of the country. {Mrs. Lamb's History, vol. i., 205-7; New Netherland Register, 147). He was a representative in the Hempstead Convention the following year when the celebrated "Duke's Laws" were promulgated and appears as a patentee on the NicoU's grant October 11, 1667 and again on the Dongan patent, November 12, 1685. Prior to this period he had been elected Captain of the Midwout Militia Company, October 25, 1673 and on March 26, 1674 was named a deputy to confer with Governor Colve at New Orange when the Dutch came back to their own. To turn from the civil and military man, we find him in the first years of his residence at Midwout, one of the two commissioners appointed (December 17, 1654) by the Governor to build the Dutch Church and parsonage there. In a letter addressed to the "Noble Rigorous and Honourable Gentlemen and Honourable Director-General of the Council in Nieuw Nederlandt," December 20, 1659, he wrote that the church, "now, with God's help, nearly com- pleted, requires a coat of colour and oil, being covered on the outside mostly with boards. These materials must necessarily be brought from the Fatherland and we request it to be done upon your Honour's order to the Honourable Company." The edifice cost Fl. 4057.9 (Docs. Relating to Hist. Early Col. Settlements, Femow, vol. xiv. 482). Jan Strijcker's remains yet lie in the graveyard of this church, wherewith his descendants in the eighth generation are still connected, the present site of which is at Flatbush Avenue and Church Lane. He was an active supporter for many years of Domine Johannes Theodorus Polhemus, the pastor, and lived to see his family of eight children married and settled on valuable bouweries and occupying positions of influence 114 ITbe 1Rew ©orFi of l^eeterbai? in the community. He died circa 1697 at the ripe age of over eighty years, full of the honors which such a new settlement could bestow and with his duties as a civil officer and a free citizen of his adopted country well performed. Not many families in Holland, outside the ranks of royalty, were more highly positioned than the Strijckers, who are of remote antiquity. Certain mem- bers thereof have been seated near The Hague for over eight centuries and another line near Rotterdam. Those of the name bearing titles are numerous. De- scendants here will be interested in searching for the tomb in the High Choir, No. 37, in the great Kirk at Haarlem, St. Bavon's, in which the remains of Dirck Strijcker, Knight, were interred in 1677. Motley's History of the Dutch Republic tells of Herman Strijcker, a monk who had abjured Romanism, who created in 1 562 a widespread revival of religion among the masses. Mrs. Charles, in her Deliverers of Holland, gives considerable account of his labors. His eloquence drew thousands to listen to him and he is said to have preached to fifteen thousand men in arms during the Regency of Alva. To return to this country. In the middle of the seventeenth century, Jan and Jacobus Strijcker re- ceived from the States-General of the Netherlands a grant of land in the colony of New Amsterdam upon condition that they took out with them to America twelve other families at their own expense. Their grant was dated in January, 1643. It does not appear that the offer was finally acted upon until eight years thereafter and then the younger brother Jacobus emigrated from the village of Ruinen, in the province of Drenthe, one year before Jan and founded the old ^be Jfltst (Tonslston? 115 Knickerbocker family of this name in and near New Amsterdam. He was the ancestor of the Manhattan family. Usually signing his name Jacob, he on occa- sions added Gerritsen before his surname, indicating that he was the son of Gerrit Strijcker. With him came his wife, Ytie (Ida) Huybrechts, and two children Gerrit and Altje. A man of ability and education he soon rose to the magistracy at New Amsterdam (Feb- ruary 2, 1 65 5) and served in that capacity during i656, 1 6 58, and 1660. He was early singled out as a person worthy of trust, and confidence in his integrity was shown in many instances by his selection by the Court as referee and guardian. He was the owner of a num- ber of pieces of realty in the city and lived in i656 on Pearl Street south of Fort Amsterdam, says the Year Book, 1900, Holland Society. On his complaint that the chimney of Jacob Stevensen's house had been neither repaired nor pulled down, although he had frequently notified the Fire Inspectors, the latter were ordered by the Worshipful Court of Burgomasters and Schepens to forbid within twenty-four hours the said Stevensen and his wife from "making any more fire there; or to pull down the chimney if they deemed it necessary." Strijcker stated he was the next neighbor and "nothing else is to be expected, not only by him but by the whole street, but a sudden destruction by fire" (Court Minutes, New Amsterdam, vol. ii., p. 230). The Burgher right was introduced into the city in 1657, one that had been established in old Amsterdam five years previously. The position of Great Burgher was conferred on Strijcker, who took "the proper oath" on April 13th, whereby he became eligible to the holding of high municipal office. "The twenty names on this list," says Stone's Hist, of N. Y., 33, ii6 zi)c flew l?orft of ^cetcvba,^ "composed the aristocracy of the period." The small Burghers had only the privilege of trade. About the close of 1660, Strijcker removed to New Amersfort (Flatlands) , as we ascertain from the church records of the capital where after the names of himself and wife as members of the church it is indited that they had removed to the former place. They became members of the church there in 1667. It is to be noted that, although not living there till now, he early became associated with Long Island where he owned land, some of which he sold in 1653. He must have returned for a time to New Amsterdam, for in 1662 he again became a Schepen there and the following year acted as President of the Court. He was a mem- ber of the Convention, representing the Capitol, which met July 6th of that year, to engage the several Dutch towns to keep up an armed force for public protection. Having failed of election to the Burgomastership (nominated February 1664, Court Minutes, etc., vol. v., p. 16) he was appointed Orphan Master (Judge of the Orphan's Court) March i8th (New Netherland Regis- ter, -p. 6 j). In the patent for Midwout issued in 1667 his name appears as a patentee, and when three years later the Sachem of Rockaway and his two brothers laid claim to this land so granted by Governor NicoUs, he joined the inhabitants in deciding to purchase the Indian rights. In consideration of ten fathoms of black seawant, ten fathoms of white seawant, five match coats, four blankets, two guns, two pistols, five double handfulls of powder, five bars of lead, ten knives, two aprons of Duffels, one half fat of strong beer, two cans of brandy and six shirts, a deed was executed which ran to Adrian Hegeman, Jacob Strijcker, Hendrick Jorise and Jan Hanson for and Z\)c jfirst Con0l9tor)? n? on behalf of themselves and the rest of the inhabitants and which bore date April 20,1670. Business having re- quired Strijcker's attention up the river he lived for a time at Wildwyck (Kingston) where he rented ' ' the vil- lage house" in 167 1 {Year Book, 1896, Holland Society). No sooner had the Dutch Commanders Evertse and Benckes established themselves in New Amsterdam, August 12, 1673, superseding the English control, than the nearest six towns, Midwout, Amersfoort, Breucke- lin, New Utrecht, Bushwick and Gravesend, together with Staten Island, submitted to their authority. These towns were chiefly settled by rejoicing Hol- landers and upon their nomination, August i8th, Strijcker was appointed Schout. On December 5th he, with his friend Secretary van Ruyven, was commis- sioned to examine and settle the boundary between the town of New Utrecht and Veryn's land and in 1674 was, with his brother Jan, a delegate to confer with Governor Colve on the state of the colony. He was somewhat of an artist, probably an amateur portrait painter. He is called a "limner" in the records, and one of his productions, a portrait of him- self on a wooden panel, has descended in direct line to the present generation as has likewise a chair brought by him from Holland. (For reproductions of the portrait and chair Vide the N. Y. Gen. and Biog. Record for January, 1907.) This portrait was painted in 1655 ^^^ represents Strijcker in a velvet suit with the magisterial collar. The profession of art he did not follow, but devoted the time not occupied by his judicial and public duties to farming and trading with the Indians, a highly lucrative business in those days. He seems to have been a gentleman of considerable means, of much official influence, and of decided culture ii8 Zhe IRevo IDorft of IJeeter^a^ We find from the records kept by Domine Casparus van Zuuren, that he died in October, 1687. His eldest child, Gerret, married Wyntje Comelise Boomgaert (Bogert) in December, 1673, and died in 1694. She died in 1700. They lived in Flatlands and were both members of the Church there in 1677. Governor Dongan appointed him Sheriff of King's Coimty in 1688. In 1692, he bought a house and farm of one hundred eight and three quarters acres in Gravesend for ;^ 297.10. Of his nine children, we are concerned with the third, Jacobus, who was baptized in Flatbush August 27, 1682. He lived at Gravesend with his wife Martha until 1722, when he removed to Oyster Bay. His will dated September 27, 1748, when he was "very sick, and weak in body," is recorded at Jamaica in L. G. 256. Therein testator bequeaths to his daughter Mercy "a full Sorting out of Hou? Hold Goods and other Mouvables Equal to what my Daughter Woanche [Wyntje] Lane Has Already Had" and to each ;^ 25. paid from the movable estate. To daughter Mercy "my young black mair." All the remaining part of the estate was devised to his sons Garret and John, who were named executors, in equal shares, subject to the payment by them of ;^ 150. to each of their sisters. Garret, or as he spelled his name Gerrit Striker, the great grandson of the old magistrate, was bom May 20, 1726 when his father was fifty- three years of age. He lived at Oyster Bay and was in business at Glen Cove in 1756 with Obadiah Lawrence. In 1764, he removed to New York and purchased (August 8th) for ;^55o. from Charles Ward Ap thorp, a farm of fifty acres "beginning at the head of a certain cove on the easterly side of the North River" and bounded north- erly by the land of Humphrey Jones, with the lane o •- CO tn tTbe first Consistory 119 leading to the Bloomingdale Road subject to right of way in the grantor. Here he built his home and named it "Striker's Bay." An indentation from the river formed the cove which recessed the shore to a con- siderable distance to the east, into which emptied a marshy stream which rose at 104th Street, near Tenth Avenue. A smaller branch of this brook from the neighborhood of the Avenue and 59th Street joined it at Eleventh Avenue. By his wife Ann, bom July 30, 1734, daughter of Derick II. and Rebecca (de Grove, bom 1720) Albertson, he had an only child James, bom September 18,1755. James's father died September 17, 1775, and his mother's death occurred October 10, 1 78 5. The son inherited the property as heir-at-law. On the capture of the city, he became an ensign in the Second Regiment of "De Lancey's Loyalists," under commission dated October 23, 1776, but at the first opportunity went to New Jersey where he enlisted in the Light Horse Troop at Somerset as heretofore re- lated {Vide page 50). This troop made quite a record in the war. The Story of an Old Farm, gives this tale which is vouched for by General Stryker in his The Battles of Trenton and Princeton. This gallant deed occurred January 3, 1777, and is narrated in both these authorities as follows: Another interesting incident connected with the stay of the army at this time was the arrival in camp of the gallant Captain John Stryker's troop of Somerset horse laden with spoils from the enemy. Comwallis in his hurried march toward New Brunswick was so unfortunate as to disable a number of his baggage wagons. He left them at the side of the road in charge of a quartermaster with a guard of two hundred men. Captain Stryker, though having with him but twenty troopers, resolved 1 20 ZTbe 1Rew 13ork of ^CQtcvt>a^ upon the capture of these stores. In the darkness of night, he distributed his small force in a circle completely sur- rounding the camp. The guards were suddenly astonished by a volley of musket-shots and the whistling of bullets, while from under the black arches of the bordering trees came loud and repeated shouts as if from a countless host. Demoralized by recent defeats, the men incontinently fled, thinking that they had been attacked by a large force of the Americans. Their flight was not so much caused by the roar of musketry as by the unearthly yells of the lu&ty troopers which so suddenly broke the stillness of the night. Captain Stryker was not long in so repairing the wagons that they could be hauled to a place of safety; he lost no time in making his way to Washington's camp with his treasures. The joy of the troops was unbounded when it was discovered that the wagons contained woolen clothing of which the men stood in sore need. "The captors, with their prize," says The Hist, of Hunterdon and Somerset Counties p. 57, "moved up as rapidly as possible on through Somerset County, crossed the Millstone at Somerset Court House, and overtook the main body a day or two later," at Pluck- amin. This troop was at the battles of Trenton and Princeton. After the battle of Germantown (October 4, 1777), the New Jersey Militia were sent back to their own State, where their presence was thought to be necessary on account of the threatening attitude of Sir Henry Clinton, the British commander in New York, who early in September had invaded the State with 3000 men in two columns, one moving by way of Elizabethtown Point and the other by Fort Lee and uniting at New Bridge, above Hackensack. He re- mained in the State but a few days, but his presence and his threatening attitude after his withdrawal created a general alarm which continued through the Zbe jflrst Consletori? 121 fall and succeeding winter. About the i8th of October, the welcome intelligence was received of the surrender to General Gates at Saratoga. The Jersey militia, of which the Horse Troop was a part, behaved most gallantly at Monmouth under General Philemon Dickenson in June 1778. After the burning of the church of Raritan (October 18, 1778) and the Court House at Millstone (October 27, 1779) the tide of war drifted away almost entirely from Somerset County. Yet a boy, when his enlistment expired, a longing for home caused Striker in the summer of 1780 to set out towards that goal. On reaching the ancestral habita- tion of his captain at Millstone he was fitted out as a yeoman and in this disguise proceeded on his way. At Tilly Tudlum, just north of Fort Lee, he succeeded in getting a boat wherewith he reached the shores of his mother's property ' ' in the enemy's country. ' ' Soon after arrival he took out a license from the Secretary of the Province on September 23d, to marry Mary, daughter of Johannes and Wyntje (Dyckman) Hopper and niece of Andrew Hopper, with whom he served as elder of the Church. She Hved only six years, dying at the age of twenty-six, on September 20, 1786. It was during her occupancy of the Bay that the British aggressions occurred. Her remains were deposited in the Hopper plot. Three children resulted from this union : Ann, born, Feb. 23; bap. June 25, 1781; d. unmarried April 12, i860. Lavinia (Winifred), b. May 27, 1782; m. Jordan Mott at Striker's Bay, Sept. 24, 1801; d. at, "Mott's Point," Mar. 16, 1862. Issue: John Hopper, b. April 20, 1803; d. Mar. 20, 1821. James Striker, b. Aug. 29, 1804; m. Oct. 8, 1833, 122 ^be 'Wew IPork of IJeeterbap Amelia, dau. of Jacob B. Taylor and sister of Moses Taylor the railroad magnate; d. Dec. 20, 1867. Samuel Coles, b. Aug. 7, 1806, member firm of Revo C. Hance & Co., dealers in wholesale dry goods at 174 Pearl Street, d. May 8, 1855. Jordan, b. Oct. 24, 1808; d. unmarried Feb. 20, 1874. Jacob Hopper, b. Feb. 20, 1810; married Aug. 18, 1853, Julia M., daughter of W. W. Soule; d. May 14, 1861. Garrit Striker, b. Dec. 7, 1812; d. unmarried, April 19, 1869. M. Hopper, b. Sept. 23, 1815; married June 27, 1850, Ruth Ann, daughter of John J. Schuyler; d. Jan. 9, 1864. Garrit Hopper, b. March 29, 1784; m. June 25, 1818, Eliza Bella, daughter of Capt. Alexander McDougal of the British Service; d. at "Rosevale, " April 15, 1868. (Vide, p. 389.) On December 26, 1790, James Striker married his first wife's cousin, Mary (Polly) , daughter of Johannes and Jacomijntje (Hopper) Horn, whose house was on the family tract as herein before described and where she was bom November 23, 1771. Her mother (in English, Jemima) was the only sister of Andrew and John Hopper the younger. As a result of this mar- riage, eight children were bom, all in the mansion, as were those of the first wife, viz. : Maria, b. Oct. 12, 1791; m. Joseph Cornell of Jamaica, L. I.; d. Aug. 9, 1868. James, b. July 14, 1793; d. Aug. i, 1806. John Horn, b. Sept. 29, 1795; m. June 27, 1838, Sarah Maria Harris; d. Sept. 7, 1861. Richard Albertson, b. Nov. 5, 1797; d. unmarried, Nov. 30, 1835- Zl)e first (roneUtori? 123 Helen, b. Dec. 3, 1799; m. (i) John S. Watkins by whom she had two children: Mary S. Watkins, m. Mch. 20, 1840, George H. Swords. Harriet E. Watkins, d. Nov. 11, 1836; funeral held at "the Bay" on Sunday, Nov. 13. Married (2) Gerard B, Aycrigg. Issue: Charles. George Washington, b. Nov. 23, 1802; m. June 26, 1831, Mary H. Smith; d. Aug. 22, 1867. Gabriel Furman, b. Aug. i, 1805; attended Bloomingdale Academy; d. unmarried, Aug. 5, 1832. Jemima, b. April 15, 1809 ;m. Oct. — , 1833, Edward Jenner Swords; d. Feb. 6, 1891. Their father led the life of a country gentleman, farmed sufficiently to meet the family wants, held slaves as was the custom of the period and twice ac- cepted office, being Assessor of the Bowery Division of the Outward, beginning in 1796 and Assistant Alder- man, in 1803, during the Mayoralty of DeWitt Clinton, to represent his home Ward, then the Ninth. He was appointed July 25, 1803 to list those residing in the North Ward qualified to act as jurors in the courts of record. His petition, dated June 25, 1804, for a grant of the riparian rights in front of his property was acceded to on July 2d, and it was the dock he con- structed thereon which enabled the delegations, excur- sions, target companies, etc., to land at the mansion when it became a tavern. He was a founder of the Church and was elected a member of the original Consistory at its organization in September 180 5, and remained in office for twenty-five years until incapaci- tated by illness. This body met at his residence very often during this long period. The first call to the pastorate, that to the Rev. David Schuyler Bogert 124 Zbc "fflew l?orft of !Pe0tert)a^ was decided on there. On August 12, 181 6, this reso- lution, according to the minutes of the Consistory, was passed: "that Mr. Striker's request be granted, viz.: that he hold the pew that he purchased as a leased pew but that this privilege be not given to another person." It was moved and carried unanimously, on December 9th of the same year, at a meeting held at his house, "that Mr. Striker be presented with the ground which he occupies for a vault, as a small expres- sion of the gratitude and respect of the Consistory." He had theretofore mentioned his desire to purchase a plot therefor (November 13, 181 5) and had built a burial place on the spot selected. It was in the rear of the second church to be constructed, was above the ground in the shape of a house, and was the second earliest in date of any of the number of vaults added in the process of time. His remains were placed therein as were those of the following members of his family : Albert Russel, son of Joseph and Maria (Striker) Cornell. James Thomas, another child of the same and an infant of the same parents. Gabriel Furman Striker. Helen Striker Aycrigg. Garrit Hopper Striker, Jr., b. April 25, 1821; d. Sept. 13, 1863. George Henry Striker, b. Aug. 18, 1824; d. Jan. 29, 1865: both sons of Gen'l. Striker. Jordan Mott, b. Feb. 6, 1786; d. Jan. 8, 1840. Winifred (Striker) Mott, b. May 27, 1782; d. March 16, 1862, John Hopper Mott, b. April 20, 1803; d. March 20, 1821. Samuel Coles Mott, b. Aug. 7, 1806; d. May 8, 1855. The Striker remains now lie in Plot No. 40, E. D. of Trinity Cemetery, Carmansville, and those of the Motts were removed to Greenwood, Oct. 30, 1868. Zbc iflrst Consistory 125 He served as first clerk of the Consistory and began to represent it at Classis July 5, 1809, his uncle Andrew Hopper having been the premier delegate to that assem- bly. His fiinal service in this position was rendered in October, 1826, and he was re-elected elder for the last time October 7, 1828. He suffered from a throat affection which incapacitated him for some two years prior to his decease. This occurred December 6, 1831. He left him surviving his widow, eight children, and three grandchildren. The will, dated February 12, 1823, bequeathed to the widow all interest in his estate for life with reversion to her children, "my other children by my first wife having been fully provided for under the will of their grandfather John Hopper, deceased." His estate was valued at $400,000 by the compiler of the pamphlet published by the New York Sun entitled Wealth and Pedigree of the Wealthy Citi- zens of New York. The third edition thereof was is- sued in 1842, and a tenth publication in 1846. Therein space was found for the following comment : Mr. Striker died in the year 1831 at an advanced age. His is one of the oldest Knickerbocker families of our city. His estate has been handed down in regular succession from the year 1640 [sic] when his family emigrated to this country from Holland. Mr. Striker has held several civil offices of responsibility, — he was also proprietor of the splendid estate known as Striker's Bay, now leased by his widow, in whose possession the estate now is, as a public house. Mr. James Striker was the father of General Striker, a gentleman well known in this city as one of wealth and standing who also has held many exalted stations in our city and State. Action was begun in the Supreme Court in 1855 to partition the estate, and order was entered April 25, 126 ^be IRew IJorft of 13e0ter^al? 1856, adjudicating the interests of the parties and directing sale, which took place June nth, at the Merchants' Exchange. Mrs. Striker had removed shortly after her husband's decease to Tribes Hill, N. Y., accompanied by her children. She died at Am- sterdam, N. Y., October 6, i860. The house of John H. Striker was burned down later, when important treasures were lost in the shape of old reUcs, among which were the Dutch Bible and family portraits, including one of James Striker. Jacob Darsen The Harsen family in America, which name, by the way, is extinct in Jacob Harsen's branch, descends from Bemardi^s Hassens or Haszingh, who came from Breuckelen (which lent its name to Brooklyn) in the province of Uijtrecht, in Holland, and married in New York, July 7, 1669, Aeltje, a young woman of the same place, whose father was Jacob Wolfertse (van Kouwenhoven) and who emigrated with his father Wolfert Gerretse, the common ancestor, in 1630, from Amersfoort, in the same province in Hol- land. They removed to Flatbush on Long Island where they became members of the church which Jan Strijcker had founded, and where they are entered in 1677 on its records. They united with the Dutch Church at the capital, February 28, 1683 and in 1686 lived Langs de Wal (in Wall Street) . His sister Ger- triiijdt married Wolfert Webber, the ancestor of Philip Webbers, another officer of the Church at Harsenville. Bernard us the pioneer had issue: Warnardus, bap. Aug. 27, 1670; mar. (i) July 7, 1689, Aaltje van Couwenhoven and (2) April 5, 1735, Sara Myer. Albany Coll., vol. iv., 131, states he mar. Portrait and signature of Jacob Harsen, Esq. , from the painting in possession of J. Harsen Purdy, Esq. Zl)c iflrst Coneletori? 127 (3) Feb. 12, 1737, Catharyna Pruyn. His widow was buried Feb. i8, 1760 (Year Book, 1899, Holland Soc). Jacob, bap. Sept. 22, 1672; wits: Wolfert Webber and Neeltje Cotiwenhoven; mar. (i) Oct. 31, 1700, Em- erentia, daughter of Johannes van Gelder. Issue: Bernardiis, bap. Feb. 8, 1702; Aaltje, bap. Sept. 16, 1705; Elisabeth, bap, July 27, 1707; Johannes, bap. Dec. II, 1709; d. young. He mar. (2) June 16, 1711, Cornelia, daughter of Cornelius Dyckman, a young woman of Albany. Issue: Cornelus, bap. April 21, 17 12; Johannes, b. Feb. 18, bap. Feb. 21, 17 14, d. Mar. 4, 1774, mar. (i) May 10, 1743, Margaret, daughter of Jacob and Ann Coiiwenhoven of Greenwich (New York City). He was the eldest son of Johannes van Coiiwenhoven, Sec- retary between the Bowery and Harlem in 1689; she died Dec. 18, 1743. Issue: Margaret, b. Dec. 8, 1743, d. unm. 1762. Jacob, bap. Mar. 9, 1716; Gerrit, bap. Nov. 10, 1 71 7, was sergeant of a militia company under Gerard Stuyvesant, 1738, and d. Sept. 20, 1798, mar. Nov. 28, 1757, Sara, daughter of Abraham Kip (N. Y. G. & B. Record, vol. viii., p. 131). Jacob, mar. (3) Oct. 21, 1 72 1, Jaq-demyntje, daughter of Abraham Bocke and widow of Hendrick Brevoort. Issue: Tanneke, bap. Aug. 19, 1722. Hester, bap. Dec. 19, 1674, wits: Cornells Pl-dvier, Catarina Roelofs. Heijltje (Helena) bap. Feb. 7, 1677, wits: Johannes van Brug, Sara van Coiiwenhoven, mar. Davidt Aartse. Johannes, bap. Nov. 14, 1678, wits: Hendrick van de Water, Marritje Loockermans, mar. (i) July 5, 171 2 Maria Marschalk. Pieter, bap. Dec. 3, 1679, wits: Adolf Pieterzen, Grietie van Meiilen. Lijsbeth, bap. Jan. 17, 1685, wits: Isaack van Vleck, Aechtie Dircx. 128 z\)c IRew ^ot\{ of IDeeter^a^ Gerret, of Vlakkebosch (Flatbush), mar. June 6, 1707, Engeltie Burger of New York. Johannes, son of Jacob and Cornelia (Dyckman) Harsen, mar. (2) March 10, 1749, Rachel, daughter Nicholas and Anneke Dyckman, b. Feb. 23, 1720, d. July 18, 1772. Anneke was the daughter of Jean Sevenhoven, a Huguenot from La Rochelle, who mar. Marie L'Escuier in the Dutch Church at New York, Sept. 22, 1693 (The Huguenot Emigration to America, vol. ii., pp. 69-70). This Johannes (John) became an executor of the will of Nicholas Dyckman in 1758. In this capacity he conveyed to his brother Jacob, a certain portion of the Dyckman farm in 1763. Said Jacob accordingly became the owner of lands in this section and was the individual from whom Harsenville took its name. Issue of said John Harsen: Jacobus, b. March 5, 1750; d. July 24, 1835. Nicholas, b. Oct. 12, 1751; d. Aug. 14, 1758. Cornelia, b. March 5, 1753. Cornelius, b. Aug. 16, 1755 ; d. 1830; mar. (i) Anne, daugh- ter of Wessell Hopper, a brother of Andrew Hopper, lie. dated Jan. 25, 1782. His (2) marriage is recorded in Bailey's History of Danbury, Conn., p. 40, to Mary Skelding. They were "married in Bloomingdale, " Sept. 27, 1819. Johannes, b. Oct. 26, 1757; d. Aug. 20, 1758. Mary, b. July 19, 1759; d. 1772. Ann, b. Dec. 2, 1761. Jacobus, son of Johannes and Rachel (Dyckman) Harsen, m. Jan. 20, 1773, his first cousin Catherine Cozine. They were rocked in the same cradle. Her mother, Jannetje Dyckman, wife of Garret Cozine, when she visited her sister Rachel, wife of Johannes ^be jfitBt Conelstoti? 129 Harsen, was accustomed to put the children to sleep together. This cradle of solid mahogany with heavy brass handles and steady, easy-going rockers, became an heirloom. At stated times, and with ceremonious care, it was poHshed to the last possible pitch of bright- ness, and, as was the custom in all well-ordered Dutch households, was kept in a place of honor. Catherine was bom Oct. 8, 1749 and d. May 8, 1835. Her hus- band was appointed Ensign, ranking from Feb. 28, 1789, Lieutenant in Col. James Miles Hughes's Regi- ment in 1790, and Captain in the same command April 12, 1792 "in the sixteenth year of our Inde- pendence," which office he resigned in 1795. Issue: Rachel, b. Jan. 6, 1774; d. July i, 1800. Garret, b. Dec. 4, 1775; d. March 20, 1780. John, b. Nov. 30, 1779; d. April 7, 1800. Cornelius, b. Nov. 7, 1783; d. Oct. 27, 1838. Jacob, b. April 28, 1788; d. Dec. 12, 1799. This Cornelius, mar. Nov. 13, 1805, Joanna Henri- etta, daughter of John Peter Ritter, b. Oct. 19, 1788, d. July 10, 1843. Her grandfather Johann Pieter Ritter, b. Oct. 9, 1698, m. June 9, 1722 Maria Elizabeth Fox, and her father, bearing the same name, b. Jan. 5, 1747, d. Aug. 22, 1813. Issue of Cornelius and Joanna (Ritter) Harsen are detailed in another chapter. The benefactor of the Church was born, as hereto- fore noticed, March 5 , 1 7 50. He was a man of influence, of strong will, and decided character. His future father-in-law, Garret Cozine, became executor by the terms of the will of Nicholas Dyckman who had pur- chased the homestead in which his father Cornelius had lived and died in 1722, from the widow and his brothers Cornelius and George, the co-heirs, for ;^225 on May 14, 1736. These executors were empowered I30 TOe IWew l?orft of l^eeterbai? to sell all the estate at public vendue or private sale, and through them the title to the southerly forty- seven acres of the farm became vested in said Cozine in 1763. At his death ten years later, this portion was divided into thirds. When, however, two of the beneficiaries, Cornelius and Hannah, died, their sister Catherine fell heir to the whole estate and this with the eastern part of the northern half of the Dyck- man tract formed the well known Harsen farm. She intermarried with Jacob Harsen in 1773. It is not to be doubted that the ceremony was performed in the homestead where the bride Hved with the above named brother and sisters and where the newly wedded pair continued to reside. Broad were the acres sur- rounding their home from the rear piazza of which the river view, terminating in the heights beyond, dazzled the beholder. Oh, those days of yore! How they do return in memory to disparage the present! Harsen lived a serene life of comfort and content and although four of his five children died in early life the surviving son, Cornelius, a Colonel in the War of 1812 (Vide, p. 64), proved an honor to the name. In 1794, Jacob Harsen became one of the Board of Deacons of the Collegiate Church and as such, an officer of the School founded in 1633, the oldest edu- cational institution in continuous existence in New York. He served as Alderman of the Ninth — ^his home — Ward in 1803, at a time when it was somewhat more of an honor than later and "when honest prin- ciples were a recommendation for office." In the mansion the Church at Harsenville was organized. A founder thereof, Harsen was elected deacon at its organization in September, 1805. He erected the first edifice of the church on land just ^be jfirst Coneletori? 131 south of his residence, and with the site conveyed it to the congregation, at that time in embryo. His bene- factions are detailed in the next chapter. When Hopper resigned as treasurer, Harsen was appointed (October 2, 1809) in his stead, which position he filled but a year because of ill health. He became an Elder (Aug. II, 18 14) when it was resolved to increase the number by one, and represented the Consistory in Classis for the first time on Oct. 18. After 181 7 he appeared before that body in this capacity with singu- lar regularity for the following decade. The Board assembled at his house — the last session there — May 12, 1835, at which time the call was indited to the Rev. Enoch van Aken, one which fixed that pastor's tenure for half a century to come. On August nth, the minutes state that John Parks was elected Elder " in place of Jacob Harsen who had died since our last meeting." He passed from his sphere of usefulness July 24, 1835, somewhat over two months after his wife had departed this life. He had built the first vault in the churchyard of the second House of Wor- ship, space for which having been granted him by resolution passed June 21, 18 14, "in consideration of what Mr. Harsen has done and is still doing for the Church . . . without any expense for the groimd, " and therein his remains were deposited. Mrs. Great- orex asserts that the family vault having been found unsuitable for burial purposes owing to the dampness of the soil was abandoned and Dr. Harsen, the grandson of its builder, purchased ground in Trinity Cemetery at 155th Street, Carmans- ville. The remains of three generations of his ancestors were removed under his own supervision. The monument which stood in the rear of the Church surrounded by an 132 Zf)c IRew j?orft of ©eeterbap iron railing was re-erected in Trinity and is to be seen there to-day. The Harsen remains now lie in vaults Nos. 886 and 915, Westerly Division, of that cemetery. The Chief Clerk of Trinity Corporation, writing under date of March 26, 1907, says, we have caused a long and careful search to be made of all our Cemetery records and they do not give any account of the interment of Jacob Harsen or James Striker, nor do they show that any remains were removed from the old Bloomingdale Church to our Cemetery. A record was kept among the papers of the family of those whose remains were removed from the church, but it has failed to materialize in time to be incorporated here. The list which the Corporation enclosed of those lying in the above vaults contains only the names of those who died since the removal. Jacob Harsen died seized of the farm. His will, dated March 26th, and proved Sept. 15, 1835 (L. 74, Wills, 215), after certain legacies to his wife and others, devised unto my wife Catherine my mansion house, buildings and lands thereunto belonging (whereon I now live) situate at Harsen ville, in the Twelfth Ward of the City of New York, on the westerly side of Tenth Avenue . . . con- taining about fifteen acres of land, to have and to hold during the term of her natural life. As she had died before him by a brief space, Jacob Harsen, M.D., his grandson, son of testator's son Cornelius, entered into possession of the homestead under the terms of the will. Specific portions of his lands were bequeathed also to him in fee and another section to his executors, John A. Mildeberger, broker. ^be 3flr0t Conelstori? 133 James Cockcroft, physician and the said grandson, in trust for John Peter Ritter Harsen, another grand- son. As he died in 1842 unmarried and intestate provision for his issue was rendered void and his brothers and sisters took his interest, it being claimed that under the decision in Moore vs. Lyons, 25 Wendell, 118, all the grandchildren (i. e., the children of Colonel Harsen) who were living at the death of testator took vested remainders in the land devised in trust for said John Peter Ritter Harsen. The testator left other lands in Bloomingdale, derived through his wife from her father Garret Cozine and which were a part of the Cozine farm situated in the fifties. Jacob Harsen, M.D., who inherited so much of his grandfather's property under the will, was of unmixed Knickerbocker descent. His early years were spent in Harsenville and at the age of eight years he became a scholar at Bloomingdale Academy — a celebrated school in those days. Dr. John G. Adams read a memoir of Dr. Harsen on June i, 1864, before the New York Academy of Medicine, and it is to that paper that we are indebted for the accompanying data. He says: It was at this period, in 181 5, that our acquaintance with Dr. Harsen commenced. We were members of the same class and were more intimately acquainted in consequence of the summer residences of our parents being in the same neighbourhood. We well remember him as a rosy-cheeked boy, full of fun and frolic, amiable in his disposition, always neat and tidy in his person and with as much love for study as is usually found in boys of that age. The school having been discontinued in 181 8 [the date is incorrect for one of the author's uncles attended it in 1820, and his school books are still extant marked with the scholar's name,] it was decided to place Jacob under the charge of Mr. John 134 JLfye mew l?orft of ipeaterbai? Walsh, at that time in high repute as a teacher, with a view to his preparation for college. He continued with Walsh until the fall of 1821 and in October of that year was admitted to the Freshman Class in Columbia College, taking a respectable mark for scholarship. After passing through the usual terms of his collegiate course he gradu- ated in July 1825. Having selected medicine as a pro- fession, he in October entered, as pupil, the office of Alexander H. Stevens, who, at that time, was in the zenith of his professional career, both as a general practitioner, as one of the surgeons of the New York Hospital and sub- sequently, in 1862, as Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Sur- geons. During the last years of his preparatory course, our friend was most assiduously devoted to his studies and in his attendance upon the office examinations, so much so, that the late Dr. D wight Harris, then in charge of this department, had frequent occasion to compliment the candidate on his excellent preparation for the approaching ordeal. He received the degree of Doctor of Medicine in March 1829. His venerable preceptor. Dr. Stevens, writes: "My memories of Dr. Harsen, during his pupilage, are quite fresh. I honored his frank and truthful character, the clearness and distinctness of his mental faculties, the cautiousness with which he drew his conclusions and the outspoken fearlessness with which he supported them." After graduation he continued to live at home and opened an office in his father's residence in Greenwich, near Charlton Street. He gradually retired from general practice but devoted himself to the relief of the suffering poor of the neighbourhood. During the prevalence of the first cholera epidemic in 1832 he rendered incalculable service to the commimity as one of the five physicians appointed by the Medical Council, in which position the records of the Council show that he performed the largest amount of labor and for the -:■- ' •n-:7y',:y^Tf^-^-'^^'7^^\ THE HARSEN MANSION From a pen and ink drawing by Thomason Zbc Jirst Coneletor^ 135 longest period. On the death of his grandfather in 1835 he was enabled to carry out a long-cherished design of visiting the Old World, making an extensive tour through Great Britain and the Continent, where he visited Russia and later Algeria. In January 1842, he was elected one of the Managers of the Northern Dispensary of which he was President at the time of his death. He was a member of the St. Nicholas Society from its organization in 1835, was one of its attending physicians in 1843, '44, and '45; and in 1859, '60, and '62 he was honored with the office of Vice-President. He held the same office in the New York Eye Infirmary, the Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men, and a Trustee and a member of the Council of the Academy of Medicine. Let us quote further: On the 30th of April, 1859, Dr. Harsen addressed a com- munication to the Trustees of the College of Physicians and Surgeons announcing his intention to found an annual prize of a gold medal, of the value of fifty dollars, together with the sum of one hundred dollars in money, to be awarded for the best written report of Clinical Instruction, at the New York Hospital, and, at the same time, engaging to defray the expense of a die for the medal. On the 20th of May i860 he again wrote to the Board of Trustees that "believing that an enlargement of the fund established by me to promote the study of medical and surgical prac- tise in the New York Hospital would more completely fulfill the objects sought to be attained, I have increased the amount of said fund, to enable the Committee to award two additional Prizes, consisting of a silver medal, with fifty dollars in money, and a bronze medal with twenty- five dollars in money." This most liberal offer met with the most cordial co-operation of the Board of Trustees 136 Ztbe flew l^ork of l?e0ter^a^ and their hearty thanks were tendered to the donor. The services of an artist of great merit, Mr. Miiller, were secured and under the auspices and good taste of the Committee, (Drs. Buck and Delafield), a die was designed and com- pleted which is an honor to American art. The medal bears on its obverse a head of the donor; on its reverse is represented a clinical group, at the New York Hospital; both after photographs from life. Dr. Harsen, at the suggestion of the Faculty, adopted the plan of a bronze medal for each prize and the respective sums of one hun- dred and fifty, of seventy-five, and of twenty-five dollars, in money, to designate the order of merit. He had the satisfaction of witnessing the successful carrying out of his purpose and was present at the first distribution of the prizes of the Harsen Fund, He had by his will bequeathed to the College of Physicians and Surgeons sixteen lots of ground at Seventieth Street and Eighth Avenue and a legacy of $400,000 for the establishment of a hospital, in con- nection with, the College. After the capture of Fort Siunter and the full inauguration of the war, his mind became depressed at the gloomy prospect of disunion, with all its concomitant evils. This led him to fear lest, in consequence of the anticipated depre- ciation of real estate, and all other property, he might not be able to make that provision for his family which he desired, whereupon he changed his purpose and revoked these munificent bequests. As Dr. Adams says, who can fail to honor the intention, even though from the force of circumstances, it was not possible to put it in execution? During the War he was an active member of the "Soldiers' Lint and Bandage Society" and the "Surgical Aid Society," to which he contributed largely of his time and money. In August, 1862, the Doctor's condition changed ^bje 3fir0t (Tonglstori? 137 from that of robust health, dyspeptic symptoms set in, his mental depression increased, and some difficulty of articulation and an unsteadiness of gait were noticed. His strength rapidly declined until at the end of December he gently breathed his last. "Thus passed away from earth" says the Memoir, "at the age of 55 years a man of generous impulse, of high social po- sition, favored by fortune, esteemed by his fellow- men; truly, a man of honor and of noble aspirations." Ftmeral services were held at St. Bartholomew's Church. His will bequeathed sixty thousand dollars to different societies and institutions ; among them ten thousand dollars to the New York Eye Infirmary, ten thousand dollars to the Northern Dispensary, and a like sum to the New York Society for the Relief of Widows and Orphans of Medical Men. A marble bust of the donor by MuUer has been placed in the building of the former institution, while the Northern Dispensary has erected a marble tablet, with his pro- file, by Launitz, in medallion, to evince their appre- ciation of the Doctor's thoughtftilness. Resolutions of respect and condolence were passed by the above Societies and in addition by the Academy of Medicine, the New York Historical Society, the St. Nicholas Society, the United States Trust Company, in which deceased had been a member of the Board of Trustees from its organisation, the Greenwich Savings Bank, of which he was First Vice-President and the Firemen's Insurance Company of which he was a director. Doctor Harsen was bom in the homestead. Al- though his brother and some of his sisters were baptized in the Church his name does not appear on the records. An appropriate ending to this sketch is found in the chapter entitled " Bloomingdale — 138 ^be 1Rew l?ork of IJeeterba^ Last View of Harsenville, " in From the Battery to Bloomingdale : September, 1873. — ^^"^^ years ago, I [Mrs. Greatorex] made my first picture of this old home of the Harsen family. The lane leading to it from the Bloomingdale Road (now the Boulevard) is rougher and has a larger growth of weeds than it then had; but the place is kept neatly and its tenant for forty-five years, Madame Canaux [should be Canal] comes to the door with the same kind welcome. We beg to sit with her in her kitchen, so cool and bien propre, where we find shade from the intolerable heat and glare and from its windows we look at the Hudson and the opposite shore of Guttenberg. The sloops and steamboats pass up and down the river, over which the soft golden haze (first indication of the coming autumn) is hanging. We can forget the hard pavements and the weary rows of new houses on the other side and think, as we see around us the fields, the trees and the broad peaceful river, that we are still in unaltered Bloomingdale. . , . Madame 's husband rented this house and the farm belonging to it and they began their life of honorable and lowly toil. She had brought with her from Havre her skill in fine laundry and the making-up of delicate laces. The husband tilled the ground, making it a pro- ductive and profitable market-garden. She worked for the ladies in the neighborhood as well as for some families in the city and her remembrances of and comments upon some of the grandes-dames of the time were both clear and sharp. . . . We must leave Madame Canaux now, having much to say of the Harsen house and its owners. The hall is the most interesting part of the dwelling, with a wooden arch and low ceiling. It is roomy and sub- stantial and with furniture to correspond with its age, it might yet be made a comfortable dwelling; and as we have said, the view from the west side, where the picture shows the distant trees and a bit of the river, is very lovely. ^be fxvet Consletori^ 139 and still almost unobstructed. . . . The Harsen fam- ily had borne earnest share in the work of the early colony and of the settlement and progress of the City of New York. Their old home, behind its foreground of ruder houses, rocks and trees, still rises tranquil and sheltered; but its history as the home of the Harsens is forever closed and past. pbilip mebbera This family came from Amsterdam. Wolfert Web- ber or Webbers, the pioneer, a putative scion of royalty, reached New Amsterdam early in its history with his wife Anna, daughter of Jan Walles deceased. His father bore the same name and his mother Annetje Selijns, the daughter of Neisgen Selijns the widow of Hendrik Coek or Koeck, mentioned the daughter in her will of May 25, 1610. On April 2, 1650, he was granted by Stuyvesant a piece of land lying "beyond the Fresh Water," between the land of Cornelis Jacobsen Stille and the valley or meadow ground. This farm was located between present Chatham (Park Row) and Madison Streets and ran from Pearl to James Streets. This district took its name from the beautiful pond long known as the Kolch, corrupted by the English into Collect, and which the Dutch usually spoke of as the " Versche water, " or fresh water. The outlet into the East River flowed through a consider- able expanse of swamp and meadow land, the latter being designated as Wolfert 's meadows and the low land as Wolfert's valley. In 1657 he complained that his neighbor Stille had torn down the partition fence repeatedly. Both brought charges at the trial, in- volving the breaking of another fence in the valley, the stealing of the "hammer of the plough" and the wheel of a wheelbarrow. The Worshipful Schepens Jan Vinje and Willem Beekman were directed to inspect I40 ttbe IRew l?ork of l^eeterba)? the premises and to issue such orders as the occasion required. Numerous entries in the Court Minutes are found in which Wolfert was a party. For instance: this curious complaint was entered against Judith Verleth^ in 1655: Wolfert stated that she had for a long time pestered him. She came with her sister Sara over to his house last week and beat him and afterwards threw stones at him. He pleaded that said Judith be warned to let him live quietly in his own house. On May 8, 1657, we find that Nicholas Verleth complained of Webber about a pile of stone, saying, " If anybody removes what belongs to another without his knowledge it is thieving. My father de- posited some stone by the Fresh Water Pond before his own door and Webber removed it, whereupon we had words and Webber promised to deliver other stone instead; we want him ordered to bring back to this same place the same stone.'' The Court directed said stone to be returned within eight days. Again, Webber undertook in the same year to prevent Albert Albertsen, the employer of his son, from sending him on business to Pavonia (Jersey City), inasmuch as the agreement was that he should be employed only in the capital. Because of the danger to be expected " both by water as from the Indians, of which he has had a sample" he demanded that the defendant be ordered to employ the son in the city or else to send him back home. Should any misfortune happen him, either in passing over the river or from the savages or otherwise, he, as his father, had done his duty in giving this notification and would avenge himself on 1 Judith was the daughter of Casper and Judith Verleth, and in 1666 married Nicholas Bayard. Nicholas, her brother, married Anne Stuyvesant. defendant. The latter stated that he had hired the boy to reside with and serve him, unconditionally, which statement the plaintiff controverted and was ordered to produce proof at the next Court day. This ends the case as far as the records define. In 1655 his "little daughter," Sara, was captured by the Indians, but was released with those first set free. Two old Bibles which she had received from her captors and which had been claimed and taken from her after her return home became the"subject of a con- troversy. Her mother averred at the investigation in November that they had been wrongly taken by defendant's wife. The latter's husband testified that certain handwriting therein proved them to have been his books "before the late trouble with the Indians." The Court ordered restitution but required defendant to pay the girl 5 guilders for "the carrying of, and incurred trouble with, the said Books." On January 12, 1656, said money was deposited and on the next day Webber accepted and received it for his daughter. She married (i) April i, 1661, Laurens van der Spiegel, a young man from VHssengen, a man of considerable property, says Valentine's History of the City of New York, who on the reconquest by the Dutch, became a Schepen Aug. 17, 1673. The ceremony took place at the house of the bridegroom's aunt, Christina Capoens, widow of Capt. Jacob Hey, who had become the wife of David Jochemsen from Amsterdam, August 5, 1659. Her will, dated June 17, 1687, names her "cousin," Hon. Rip van Dam, Merchant, as an exe- cutor. He married Sara van der Spiegel, bom Dec. 16, 1663, daughter of Laurens and Sara Webbers, on Sept. 24, 1684. The latter married (2) Johannes Provoost, widower of Sara Staets, June 25, 1685. He 142 Z\)c flew l?orft of ipester^ai? had been the first Comptroller of the Windmill, near the North River shore and Assistant Commissary of Stores at New Amsterdam. On his removal to Fort Orange (Albany) in 1656, he had served as Town Clerk, dating from Sept. 28th of that year, to which office he had been reappointed Oct. 6, 1673. At the date of his marriage he returned to the capital and there he married (2) Anna Mauritz, widow of Domine Wilhelmus van Nieuwenhuysen. In Sara's will 1685 she designated "her cousin, the honorable and well-learned Domine Henricus Selijns" as tutor and guardian of her minor children. He was the father of the Protestant Reformed Dutch Church hav- ing secured its charter — the first issued in the colony — and at his death in 1701 was the minister at New York. His second wife was Juffrou Margaret de Riemer, widow of the Hon. Cornelis Steenwyck. He sustained a high character as an able and faithful minister and was distinguished for his Hterary acquirements. Steen- wyck served as Schepen, Burgomaster, Mayor, Orphan Master, and Councillor of New Netherland. Margareta Selijns, the Domine's widow, in her will bearing date Jan. 25, 1711 (Vide N. Y. His. Soc. Abstracts, 1893, page 115) makes this provision: To the children of Wolfert and Arnout Webber, the pictures of the father and mother of my late husband, Domine Selijns and the pictures of my said husband and his brother and his when they were children. And the picture of the father and mother of my said husband's first wife. All of which pictures are to be sold at auction and the highest bidder among the said grantees and the money to be divided among them. The famous Anneke Jans has been claimed in some quarters to have been an aunt of the above devisees. Zbc Jfltst (Tonsietor^ 143 It is asserted that she and Wolfert Webber, Sr., had the same father, viz., Jan Webber. Her mother and the mother of Marritje Jans [married (i) Thijmes Jansen, (2) Dirck CorneHszen, Aug. 28, 1646] was then Trijn Jansen (or Jonas) the first mid-wife at New Am- sterdam. This Holland custom was transferred to New Netherland about 1630. The daughter, Marritje, by the first wife, married Govert Loockermans, July 11, 1649 and this would seem to account for theWebber- Loockermans relationship. Marritje Jans was sent to the Colony at the expense of the West India Com- pany and arrived with the first emigrants. The con- nection between her and the Webbers is explained in yet another way in The Goede Vrouw of Mana-ha-ta, which states that she was accompanied to New Am- sterdam by her son who was called Wolfert Webbers and two young daughters, with the additional informa- tion that these young people were said to be the grand- children of William IX., Prince of Orange. With the pecuHar fashion of the day the last name of the family is spelled and rendered capriciously, sometimes being written Jans, at other times Jonas, while the son of Marritje Jans is called by the name of Webber. Not- withstanding the confusion it is a well authenticated fact that Annetje Webber (Jans) was the daughter of Marritje Jonas. On May 3, 1660, an order was issued in council per- mitting the houses of said Wolfert and of Thomas Hall to remain and a village or hamlet to be formed near the bouwery of Augustyn Heerman or that of the Director-General on Manhattan Island (Calendar of DutchMSS.,p. 196). Wolfert and Hall owned a tract of land there in common. The latter entered com- plaint that the former put more stock on it than he 144 Zbc flew 13ork of ^cetevt>a^ was entitled to, and on Mar. 23, 1662 judgment was granted plaintiff and defendant was ordered to fence his share {vide, Ibid., p; 87). Webbers had con- siderable realty east of the Bowery besides the home- stead plot above mentioned (vide map in Hoffman's Estates and Rights, opp. p. 226). The latter property was confirmed by Governor NicoUs to Annette, his widow, June 18, 1670. It is known as No. 17 on the map in Valentine's History, etc., opp. p. 379, and became the Roosevelt Farm. Beside the daughter Sara, Wolfert had two sons, Wolfert and Amoult and two daughters, Anne and Hester. On Feb. 28, 1664 he and his wife, together with Sara and her husband, representing Hester and Amout joined in conferring powers of attorney upon Anne, all of whom were co-heirs of Sara Depier, widow of Jan Walles, deceased at Monfoort for the purpose of receiving their inheritance {vide Hoi. Soc. Year Book, 1900, p. 157). Hester Webbers of Amsterdam married Oct. 10, 1666, Pieter Abramszen van Deuren, and Anne of New York married Jacques Fonteijn of Boswijck, May 20, 1689. The eldest son Wolfert married Geertje Hassingh (Harsen) or, as she was also called, Grietje Warnardus. No record of the marriage has been found. Their children are noted in the Church Records, as follows: Warnard,^ bap. Nov. 13, 1666. Wits. : Bernardus Hassing and Anna Wallis. Anna, bap. July 4, 167 1. Wits.: Laurens van der Spiegel and Aeltje van Co-dwenhoven. She m. Jacques Fon- teijn of Boswijck (Bushwick) as above stated. Both were living near the Fresh Water. Hillegond, bap. March 25, 1674. Wits. Aernout Webbers and Hillegond Megapolensis. This sponsor was the o o Zbc 3fir0t Consistory? 145 daughter of Johannes Megapolensis, the Domine, who at the age of 39 was sent from Holland by the patroon in 1642 to officiate as minister at Rensselaer- wyck. His wife and four children, one of them Hille- gond, accompanied him. Her namesake became the wife of Philip Menthaer (Minthorne) of Vlissengen July 19, 1696. Johannes, bap. Dec. 12, 1677. Wits.: Pieter Abrahamszen van Duursen and Saertie Webbers. Bernardus, bap. Nov. 25, 1680. Wits. : Hendrik Corneliszen and Rebecca Idens. Either this Wolfert or his father was at the colony on the Delaware in 1662 {vide Doc. His., N. Y., vol. xii., p. 381). Wolfert, Jr., served as Magistrate of Haerlem^ in 1674, appointed Aug. i6th, under the Dutch and after the English conquest was Assistant Alderman in 1685, was named as such in the Dongan Charter the following year, and represented the Out- ward in 1688, 1689, and again in 1706 and 1707. He and his wife joined the Church in 1689 {Holland Soc. Year Book, 1896). A survey of "35 acres lying upon ye Island Manhattan at ye sand hills near the Bouwery laid out for Wolfert Webbers, Henrick Cornelius, and Bastiaen Elson" was made Oct. 26, 1677 by Ro: Ryder, Surveyor {Calendar Land Papers, P- 137)- That the founder selected a habitation better than he knew is evident from a survey of Washington Irving's well-known and appreciated narrative of the Golden Dreams of Wolfert Webber. The tale proceeds in this wise: The Webber dynasty continued in uninterrupted » The Court of Haerlem was erected Aug. 16, 1660. The Treaty of Westminster signed Feb. 9/19, 1674, terminated the Dutch control. 146 TObe IRew l?ork of IJeater^ai? succession, and never did a line give more unquestion- able proofs of legitimacy. The eldest son succeeded to the looks as well as to the territory of his sire; and had the portraits of this line of tranquil potentates been taken, they would have presented a row of heads marvellously resembling in shape and magnitude the vegetables over which they reigned. The seat of gov- ernment continued unchanged in the family mansion : — a Dutch-built house, with a front, or rather gable end of yellow brick, tapering to a point, with the customary iron weather-cock at the top. Everything about the building bore the air of long-settled ease and security. Flights of martins peopled the little coops nailed against its walls, and swallows built their nests under the eaves ; and every one knows that these house-loving birds bring good luck to the dwelling where they take up their abode. In a bright sunny morning in early summer it was delectable to hear their cheerfiil notes, as they sported about in the pure sweet air, chirping forth, as it were, the greatness and prosperity of the Webbers. The apocryphal tale goes on to relate that Wolfert Webber did not continue to remain satisfied with his lot. The stories told at the tavern of the treasure buried by Capt. Kidd and other pirates got on his nerves. He began of nights to dig up his garden to the loss of the crops and soon he began to feel the pinch of poverty. With the consequent fall in ma- terial resources grew the fever of finding this hidden wealth. In this endeavor he and "a little dark mouldy man of medicine" whom he took into his confidence, went in a cockleshell of a skiff one inky night to the shores of the island lying opposite Hell- gate to a spot where rtmior asserted golden stores were ^be jflrst Conelstor^ 147 concealed. Their adventures shotild be read to re- ceive full appreciation. Suffice it to say that dis- appointment with a large D perched on their banners and the expedition returned home with no compen- sation for their trouble. But gradually the city spread its suburbs around the Webber domain. Houses sprang up to intercept their prospects. The rural lanes in the vicinity began to grow into the bustle and populousness of streets; in short, with all the habits of rustic life, the family began to find them- selves the inhabitants of a city. Before many months had elapsed, a great bustling street passed through the very centre of the Webber garden, just where Wolfert had dreamed of finding treasure. His golden dream was accomplished; he did indeed find an unlooked-for source of wealth; for when his paternal lands were distributed into building lots and rented out to safe tenants, instead of producing a paltry crop of cabbages, they returned him an abundant crop of rents; inso- much that on quarter-day, it was a goodly sight to see his tenants knocking at his door, from morning to night, each with a Httle round-bellied bag of money, a golden produce of the soil. The ancient mansion, instead of being a Httle yellow-fronted Dutch house in a garden, now stood boldly in the midst of a street, the grand house of the neighborhood, for Wolfert enlarged it with a wing on each side and a cupola or tea-room on top, where he might climb up and smoke his pipe in warm weather. So he waxed old and rich and corpulent and Wolfert's dream was at last realized. Arnolilt^ Webber of Amsterdam, married (i), Aug. 25, 1669, Ariaentje (Jannetje) Ariaens or Adriaens, a young woman from Brabant. They lived in 1686 near the Arme Bouwery (Poor Farm) and were members of 148 JS^e "fflew l?orR of l?e0tcrbap the church that year. He owned and conveyed the Great Kill Farm in 1 7 1 3 , before it became the property of Matthew Hopper, in which family it remained for over seventy-two years. Issue : Wolfert,^ bap. Nov. 14, 1670. Wits.: Wolfert Webbers and Anna Wallis. Marritie, bap. Oct. 19, 1672. Wits.: Pieter Abra- hamsz van Duiirsen and Sara Webbers. Adriaen, bap. Nov. 18, 1674. Wits.: Laurens van der Spiegel and Anna Wallis. Wolfert ^ married Grietje (Margaret) Jacobs (Stille) Oct. 29, 1697. He was a large landholder in lower Bloomingdale. It is indeed possible that some of the wealth acquired as related in Irving's tale enabled the family to purchase these lands. His wife joined him in 1748 in conveying a plot near the Great Kill which became part of the Norton inheritance. He owned, besides, an immense tract on the east side of the Bloomingdale Road from 41st Street nearly to 49th Street, bounded north by the Hopper farm and east to Sixth Avenue and again on the west side of the Road from 43d Street to beyond 45th Street meeting the river at 51st Street. His heirs, viz.: Amoiit Webbers and Sarah, his wife, Jacob Webbers and Margaret, his wife, Frederick Webbers and Lena, his wife, Cornelius Webbers and Jannetje his wife, Ariente van Arden (late Ariante Webbers), Altie Somerindicke (late Altie Webbers) and Margaret Webbers, daughter and heir of his deceased son John, conveyed this entire property, Oct. 6, 1759, for £1500 (L. 42, Conv. 27). It does not add to the joy of mundane affairs to dwell on what the fates have in store nor what might have been, but had this temtory been retained, the Webbers would have outclassed many ^be ifirfit Consletori? 149 present day landed proprietors. Wolfert's golden dreams, in this instance miscarried. In 1740, his sons, Arnout, Frederick, Comelus, and Isaac were admitted as Freemen. Issue: Aernout,* bap. May 22, 1698. Wits. : Wolfert Webbers, St., and Classje Jacobs, m. Sarah Romein, Oct. 7, 1733, who was the widow of Samuel Minthorn whom she m. Sept. 30, 1727. Arnout's will dated Aug. 3, 1776, was proved in 1784 (L. 37, Wills, 187). All the children detailed below are mentioned therein with the exception of the first named. He had a grand- daughter, Grace Stilwell, also. Issue: Margrietje,^ bap. April 21, 1734. Wits.: Wolphert Webbers and Ariaantje Webbers, wife Jo- hannes van Norden; m. William Laffra, Mar. 10, 1 761 and d. before 1776; no issue. Hillegonda, bap. Nov. 28, 1736. Wits.: Philip Minthorne and Annatje Ral his wife; m. Nov. 9, 1760, David Banta. Sara, bap. Oct. 3, 1739. Wits.: Jacob Webbers and Margriete de Riemer his wife; m. Jonathan Hardman, May 4, 1794. Their children were baptized by Doctor Gunn and will be men- tioned hereafter. Alida, bap. April 28, 1742. Wits.: Egbert Somerin- dyk and Alida Webbers who had been lately married (April 21, 1739). Annatje, bap. Dec. 12, 1744. Wits.: John Man, Jr., and Annatje Minthorn his wife. Olfred, bap. Aug. 2, 1747. Wits.: John Minthorn and Jannetje Elswood, his wife, Philip, the deacon. Johannis, bap. April 23, 1755. Wits.: Philip Min- thorn and Tanneke Harsse (Harsen) his wife. Jacob,* bap. Dec. 8, 1700. Wits.: Jacob Cornelisze Stille ISO ^be 1Rew !?orh of ^cetctbw^ and Marretje Hendricx, his wife; m. Margarete (de Riemer) Shute, widow, June i8, 1739. Issue: Olivardus, 5 bap. April 27, 1740. Wits.: Aernout Webbers and Maria Goderius, widow of William Cunningham. Alida, bap. Oct. 4, 1741. Wits.: Isaac de Riemer and Elizabeth de Kay, j. d. (young woman). Elizabeth, bap. Oct. 17, 1742. Wits.: the same parties. Petrus, bap. Feb. 6, 1745. Wits.: Elbert Somer- indijck and Alida Webbers, his wife. No marriages of any of these children are of record in the Dutch Church. N. Y. Marriages states that Petrus, m. May 9, 1770, Catherine Ward and had William 6 b. May 2, 1783, bap. Aug. 23, 1784. Wits.: John and Sara Webbers, and Elizabeth, b. Feb. 26, bap. Mar. 13, 1785, before same sponsors. Their father had land in Bloomingdale on the east side of the Road between 47th and 49th Streets, part of that conveyed by the heirs of his grandfather Wolfert as above narrated. How he became possessed thereof is not shown by the title, no conveyance being of record. At any rate, he and his wife Catherine deeded seven acres and 62 rods of it to Ebenezer Turell in 1 7825 (L. 42, Conv. 284. Consideration, ;^2 5o). Ariaentie,* bap. July 4, 1703. Wits.: Aernhout Webber andl^Claesje Webber; m. Johannes van Norden, both from the "Groote Kil" (the Great Kill) April 8, 1721. Frederik, bap. Sept. 23, 1705. Wits.: Frederik Stille and Saratje Webbers; m. Helena Banta (no date). Issue: Wolfert,^ bap. July 31, 1737. Wits.: Arnout Web- bers and Sara Minthorn, his wife. He m. Eliza- beth — and had Ann,* bap. Sept. 17, 1780. Wits.: Hendrik and Hanna Banta. ^be 3flr0t Consletov^ 151 Trijntje, bap. Feb. 25, 1739. Wits.: Wierd Banta and Trijntje Loots, wife of Hendrik Banta. Margrietje, bap. Jan. 10, 1742. Wits.: Joh^ van Norden and Adriana Webbers his wife. Margarita, bap. March 30, 1746. Wits.: Cornelis Webbers and Jacomijntje van Norden, j. d. Johannes, bap. Dec. 6, 1707. Wits.: Cornelis Stille and Jannetje Stille, his young daughter; m. Anna van Norden April 2, 1731. Issue: Olfert^ (Oliver), bap. Aug. 8, 1731. Wits.: Wolfert Webbers and Grietje his wife. He m. Ann Borrens (Burns) Oct. 30, 1762 and had Olfert, ^ bap. June 24, 1764. Wits.: Michael Keets and Trijntje Webbers his wife. Jacomijntje bap. Apr. 29, 1733. Wits.: Aamoudt Webbers and Hester van Orden. Jacomijntje II, bap. Dec. 29, 1734. Wits.: Jo- hannes Hoppe and Maria van Orden, his wife. Margriete, bap. May i, 1737. Wits.: Jacob Web- bers, j. m. (young man) and Aeltje Webbers, j. d. She was unm. in 1759, at which date her brother and sisters were dead as were her parents. Cornelus, bap. Apr. 10, 17 10. Wits.: Cornelus Webbers and Rachel Webber, m. (i) March 17, 1732 Cornelia Waldron of Nieu Haerlem, widow of Rijk Lent of Westchester, whom she m. Nov. 12, 1722 and had Samuel, 5 bap. June 2, 1734. Wits.: Samuel Waldron, Junior and Cornelia La Maetere, j. d. He m. (2) Anna Sighels (Sickels) both from the Bouwery but living here (the city) Jan. 11, 1747. No issue of record. His will dated Apr. 17, 1794, proved same year, (L. 41, 308) mentions sons Isaac ^ and Casparus. Aaltje, bap. Dec. 10, 1712. Wits.: Jacob Coning and Dievertje Kwakenbos; m. Elbert Somerindijck. Isaac, bap. July 24, 1715. Wits.: Hendrik Ellesse and Janneke Pears; m. Grietje Woertendijck. 152 ZTbe IRew ^ovU of IJesterba^ Lea, bap. March 23, 1718. Wits, : Benjamin Quackenbos and Claasje Webber his wife. Arnoult^ Webber, m. (2) March 14, 1675, Jannetje Cor- nelis, j. d. of N. Y. Issue: Cornelis,^ bap. March 18, 1676. Wits.: Laurens van der Spiegel and Hester Webber; d. young. Johannes, bap. June 26, 1678. Wits.: Jacob Cor- neHszen and Willemtie Elberts. Claesje, bap. Nov. 17, 1680. Wits.: Theunis Cor- neHszen and Hester Webbers. Cornelis II., bap. Aug. 28, 1683. Wits.: Ariaen CorneHszen and Lijsbeth van der Spiegel; d. young. Sara, bap. Aug. 9, 1685. Wits.: Coenraedt ten Eijck and Geertie Hassing; m. May 12, 1706 Seijbrand Brouwer. Rachel and Helena, twins, bap. Feb. 12, 1688. Wits. : Johannes van der Spiegel and Sara van der Spiegel, Jacob CorneHszen and Leentie Cornelis. Rachel m. (i) Aug. 18, 1709 William Swansten, m. (2) Apr. 11, 17 13, John Ho6rn of Kingstown. She of the "Grotekil. " Cornelis III., bap. Feb. 19, 1693. Wits.: Hendrick CorneHszen and Anna Claes; m. June 5, 17 19, Rachel Pears, j. d. of N. Y. Issue: Aarnout,* bap. March 16, 1720. Wits.: Wolphert Webber and Jannetje his wife. Willem, bap. Jan. 27, 1723. Wits.: Elias ElHs and Sara Ellis his wife; m. Oct. I, 1764, Dorothy Fennaly. Aernout II., bap. Oct. 11, 1724. Wits.: Benjamin Quackenbos and Claasje Quackenbos his wife. Philip, the quondam deacon, was the seventh child of his parents. His baptism is not recorded Z\)c jflret Conslstori? 153 in the Dutch Church Records which end at 1800. A small part of the land alienated by his grandfather in 1759 returned to the family name in 1792 when the deacon purchased a strip on the west side of Bloom- ingdale Road lying between 47th and 49th Streets and extending nearly to Tenth Avenue. On the block between 48th and 49th Streets west of Seventh Avenue he constructed his home and reared his family. No view of this house has been found. It was here, however, that he lived during part of the time of his diaconate, and here the Consistory met on occasion. His first appearance in the Directory was in 1828-9 when his business was at 13 Washington Street and his residence 175 Elizabeth Street. In 1 830-1 he was at 266 Mott Street. By his wife, Elizabeth Reis, he had, according to the records of the original Dutch Church : Magdalana, ^ b. Jan. 19, bap. Feb. 13, 1785. Wits. : Thomas Warner and Magdalane Warner. She m. (i) Mildeberger, and was joined (2) to William Waite by Doctor Gunn, Feb. 23, 1809, in presence of her brother- in-law Jonathan Hardman and General Striker. These children were baptised by Doctor Gunn: William,^ b. May 22, bap. Aug. 18, 1811. George, b. June 23, bap. Aug. 22, 1813. John, b. Oct. 31, 1814, bap. Oct. 10, 1815. Aletta (Letitia), b. Feb. 11, bap. Mar. 11, 1787. Wit.: Aletta Webbers. She was married at the Church to Samuel A. Savage, Oct. 23, 181 1 having joined the communion Mar. 29, 1 810. They had one child baptized by Doctor Gunn: Joseph Windham, b. Aug. 5, and bap, Dec. 7, 1 81 2, whose father was baptized April 30, 1825. 154 ^be IRew 13ork of IJeaterDa^ Elizabeth, b. Aug. 30, bap. Oct. 27, 1789, m. Francis Sowery, May 10, 1810, by Doctor Gunn. Hannah, b. Mar. 12, bap. April i, 1792. She married Henry Hughes and had two children baptized by Doctor Gunn: Letitia, b. June 12, 1808, bap. Sept. 24, 1809, and Mary, bap. June 30, 1811. Susannah, b, Jtily 25, bap. Aug. 14, 1796. Wits.: Henry and Susannah Sigonier. She joined the Church, Mar. 29, 1810, and d. in April, 1823. William, b. Feb. 16, bap. Mar. 16, 1800. Besides the above children Philip had the following, the birth and baptism of which are not recorded in the above authorities, viz.: Sarah, became a member Nov. 30, 1809, on con- fession. She married Jonathan Hardman and these of their children were baptized by Doctor Gunn: Lawrence H., b. Nov. 7, 1806, bap. Jan. 18, 1807. Aaron, b. Mar. 11, bap. April 6, 1809. Henry, b. Nov. 23, 1811, bap. Mar. i, 1812. Jonathan, b. May — , i8i4,bap. Oct. 10, 1815. Elizabeth, b. Nov. 31, 1816, bap. Aug. 21, 1817. Catharine. By her husband William Stratton, she had, baptized by Doctor Gunn: Catharine, b July 30, bap. Aug. 31, 1806. Sarah, b. Aug. 3, bap. Aug, 28, 1808. William Waite, b. Mar. 15, bap. May 7, 1810. John, m. Margaret Ford. Their son Philip was b. May 22, 1807, and bap. by Doctor Gunn Sept. 3, 1808. He died in 1825. Frances, m. John Vidal. Zbc iflret Conslatori? 155 Maria, m. Chas. Whitmore Smith after 1825, and appears as a witness to a marriage May 12, 1 83 1. She d. Nov. 29, 1834, leaving an infant child. Philip Webbers and his wife conveyed small portions of the above-mentioned land to various parties. In 1 80 1 a plot was deeded to Esther Gomez, which she conveyed to Isaac Leggett three years later. In 1807 he gave a plot on the west side of the Bloomingdale Road at the northwest corner of 47th Street to Jona- than Hardman. In 18 19 another portion was con- veyed to Stratton, in 1820 one to Savage, and the next year one to Waite. After deeding a lot to his daughter Catharine Stratton in 1825, he, his wife being dead, conveyed the residue of the tract to his heirs, Apr. 12, 1825 (L. 191 of Conv., p. i) to wit: Sarah Hardman, Letty Savage, Catharine Stratton, Margaret Waite, Elizabeth Sowery, Frances Vidal, Maria Web- bers, Margaret widow of John Webbers, and Letty Hughes a granddaughter, on condition that if the latter " shall be intermarried and have a husband now living, then all the estate to her hereby granted shall cease, determine, and be utterly null and void. " The "mes- suage" on which the grantor resided and then dwelt was included. He reserved a life estate for himself and wife should he remarry, and provided that at his death the premises be divided into nine equal parts which shall be drawn for by the respective parties. The deacon died March 25, 1830, says the abstract of title and, Oct. 30, 1832, according to Do. van Aken, without having married again, and the grantees divided the property thus vested by deeds to each, which are duly recorded. Webbers became a deacon at the foimding of the 156 JLbc IRew l^orft of IJesterbai? Church. The Consistory met at his residence for the first time Oct. 12, 1808. After a service of nearly three years he tendered his resignation, which, " after much serious consideration" was not accepted. For another three years he held office, but at the session of Oct. 17, 1814, which assembled at Deacon Harsen's, it was whispered that he had connected himself with a church of another denomination. The proceedings taken by the Board because of this action will be detailed elsewhere. Suffice it to say here that he died in the faith of his ancestors. Portrait and signature of Rev. John H. Livingston, D.D., LL.D., from the Memoirs of Dr. Livitigston, iSag, by the Rev. Alexander Gunn, D.D. V Zbc Cburcb at IbarsenvtUc 1805-1855 Qn the September evening hereinbefore mentioned, certain members of the Dutch Reformed Church sat around the hearth in Jacob Harsen's quaint old Dutch mansion and piled up the logs. That noted Domine of the Collegiate Church, the Rev. John H. Livingston, D.D., was present as were also Mr. Harsen, Andrew Hopper, Philip Webbers, and John Asten. After prayer, the minister called the little company to order and was elected Moderator. The Doctor was in his sixtieth year at the time and his praise was in aU the churches, but particularly in that branch thereof known as the Reformed Dutch. He was first in her councils, first in her honors, and first in her affections. It came to be considered the Doctor's prerogative to be present on such occasions as this and at the laying of the comer-stone of a new edifice or the opening of a new church for public worship. For a series of years when either of these functions was to be done in any part of the city, or in any place at a moderate distance therefrom, he was requested, in deference to his prom- inence and seniority in the ministry, to perform the service. It may be questioned whether any con- temporary clergyman in the United States, except 157 158 Zhe flew Borl; of ^cetevt>a^ a diocesan, had the honor of laying more comer-stones and opening a greater number of ecclesiastical build- ings than he. Born in Poughkeepsie May 30, 1746, and educated for the ministry at the University of Utrecht in Holland, he was called to the pastoral office of the Reformed Church in New York in 1770 and elected to the presidency of Queens College, New Jersey, 18 10. After his decease Jan. 20, 1825, in the fifty-fifth year of his ministry and the forty-first of his professional labors, the General Synod of the Church at New Bruns- wick erected a monumental stone "in token of their gratitude for his services and veneration for his mem- ory" (N. J. Archives, vol. xxi., p. 318). It will be recognized that the infant organization at Harsenville could not have been started under better auspices. ^ 1 " Rev. Dr. Livingston was in the fullest sense a man of the Old School, not only in doctrine, but in manners, in mode of life, and even in dress. He walked the streets erect as a grenadier on parade, his gold-headed cane carried upright before him like the mace of a magistrate, his spacious and broad-brimmed hat sur- mounting the white wig which spread its curls upon his shoulders, the ample square skirts of his coat falling below his knees and his shoe-buckles glittering on his feet as though the dust did not dare to soil them. Such a figure was not to be passed by without at- tention and reverence. In politeness of manners he had no su- perior; indeed he carried its forms to the extreme limit. He would always have the last bow to his acquaintances, whether parting from them at his own house or theirs. In a playful humor, some of his clerical brethren occasionally tried how far the good Doctor would carry this habit, but they invariably had to give up the struggle ; for, let them follow the polite old gentleman far as they would and bowing at every step, he would still have the last bow. He was as much unlike others in the pulpit as in the street or draw- ing-room. While the essential doctrines of the Gospel that know no change form the great staple of his discourses, he enunciated them in a manner that constantly reminded you of generations gone by; of the fathers whose works you had read but whose faces you had never seen. He seemed in no way inclined to belong to the present generation. But whatever may have been his error in this respect he was eminently a good man, a sound, impressive Zbc Cburcb at Ibarsenvllle 159 At this first meeting of the neighbors, the religious needs of the community were discussed and the Church formally gathered. Andrew Hopper and James Striker became the first elders and Jacob Harsen and Philip Webbers the deacons. So stood the first Consistory. The minutes of the Board are intact. A reminiscence of old-time methods is presented while handling them. The sand with which the wet ink was sprinkled still adheres in places to the writing. Under date of Oct. 20, 1805, it is noted that Dr. Livingston had preached a sermon appropriate to the occasion from Rom. iii., 31, and had ordained the persons before elected to fill the above offices, whereupon business was proceeded with. Hopper was chosen Moderator and it was decided that regular meetings be held the first day of every month "until a minister be settled among them." On Apr. i, 1806, Hopper was delegated to represent the Church in the Classis, and on July i was appointed Treasurer. It is not stated where the Consistory met for these early sessions; doubtless at the Harsen mansion. On September 6th a formal agreement was executed by these four individuals and a name, The Church at Harsenville, was given to the embryo congregation (L. i Incorp. Religious Denoms., p. 46; vide Appendix B). On the 1 6th the Board assembled at Striker's Bay and here a definite call was made to the Rev. David Schuyler Bogart. After graduating at Columbia College in 1790, he studied theology under Livingston, to whom minister of the Gospel. He retained to the last much of the costume and many of the habits which belong to the clergy of his early days." — Recollections of Persons and Events, J. M. Matthews, D.D., 1865. i6o ^be IRew IPork of l^eeterba^ the call was perhaps due. He was a zealous student and an uncompromising advocate of the truth. His facility of diction and graceful and impressive oratory were well known, as was his cheerful, kind, generous, bland, and affable disposition. To these qualities of heart and intellect he united a memory of surprising vigor and tenacity, from whose rich stores his friends derived instruction and gratification ever new and interesting. Corwin's Manual says he was pastor at Bloomingdale 1806-7. Possibly he preached there during that period, but no mention thereof in the minutes is to be found. He seems to have been just the man to start the Church on its pilgrimage. Un- fortunately he refused the call and remained under the Southampton, L. I., Presbytery, where he had been since 1796. Harsen having in the interim constructed a church edifice, which had been consecrated by Dr. Livingston the last Sabbath in June, 1805, conveyed it Nov. 3, 1806, together with the premises described below, to Striker, Hopper, and Webbers, or "the congregation at the place or neighborhood in the Ninth Ward by the name of Harsenville, " to wit: all that certain church or building and piece of ground on the westerly side of the Bloomingdale Road beginning 40 feet from the line which divides the land of the said Jacob Harsen and the heirs of John Somerindyke and running from thence 55 feet along the said Bloomingdale Road and from thence towards the land of the heirs of the said John Somerindyke 35 feet till it comes exactly 35 feet from the line which divides the land of the said Jacob Harsen from that of the heirs of the said John Somerindyke, and from thence on a direct line 80 feet to the place of beginning, leaving a piece of ground between the land of the said Zl)c Cburcb at Ibarsenvtlle i6i heirs and that hereby granted 40 feet in front on the said Road and 30 feet in the rear, according to a plan or draft which is hereby annexed. This plan, however, was not included (L. 74 Conv., 178) when the deed was recorded March 13, 1807, "at the request of Mr. Andrew Hopper. " We should have doubtless known the size and exact spot where the original church stood. This resolution was passed Oct. 12, 1808, at the house of Webbers: That the thanks of this Consistory be presented to Mr. Jacob Harsen for his pious and benevolent gift of the church and the ground belonging to it — ^with fervent prayer that he may have the satisfaction to see the Church prosper while he lives and be at last rewarded with "well done, good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord. " No view has been preserved of this First House of Worship. Another call, equally abortive, proceeded from the Harsen house, June 16, 1807. Rev, Stephen N. Rowan, a graduate of Union College, had lately been licensed (1806), His commanding intellect and sound common sense, united to his very reHgious inclina- tions from the age of six years, would have been of material assistance at this stage. He preferred, however, to stay with the Church at Greenwich Village. In 18 19 he founded the Eighth Presbyterian Chtirch in Christopher Street. Zbc jpfrst /Bbfnistec Two years, eight months, and twelve days were passed before the congregation succeeded in settling a pastor. Ministers were shy in those days, says Dr. i62 ZTbe IRew ©orft ot l?e0tert)a^ Martyn, in his History of Eighty Years, to which we are indebted, but pulpits in and around New York do not go a-begging any more. At the Harsen mansion on May 21, 1808, a call was made out upon the Rev. Alexander Gimn, and ratified in the presence of the Rev. Peter Low, Moderator. An annual compensa- tion of £s2o was offered. Mr. Gunn was also a college man (Columbia) and had just been licensed by the Presbytery. Brought up in the Presbyterian faith he was led to join the Dutch Church and accept this call in order to be settled near his widowed mother. From the early age of thirteen, when he conducted family prayers, his inclinations had a religious trend. This led him to undertake the preparation for the ministry, for which he studied under Dr. Kolloch of Princeton and Dr. Rodgers of this city. He proved to be just the man for the place and was worth waiting for. Then in his twenty-third year, he passed his life of twenty- one years in the ministry with this Church. His highly cultivated mind and lively imagination placed him among the best and most popular preachers in New York. He was a powerful theological controversialist, to which were added ease and dignity of manner. His gentlemanly deportment was such that the term Chesterfieldian attached itself to him. The College of New Jersey (Princeton) conferred upon him the degree of A.M. in 1805, to which was added in 1817 that of S.T.D. by Allegheny College. With it all it is related that from the start he nested low among his people, made himself one of them, and was easily their leader in good words and works. During his ministry he wrote under the pseudonym of "Clericus" and was selected by the General Synod to compose The Memoirs of Dr. Livingston, a formidable volume Portrait and signature of Rev. Alexander Gunn, D.D., by courtesy of Thomas J. Burton, Esq. " The actual originator of the present ' University of the City of New York' was, undoubtedly, the late Rev. Dr. Alexander Gunn, of Bloomingdale."— George W. Bethune, D.D. (1855). Zhc Cburcb at Ibarscnvtlle 163 of 540 pp., which was published in 1829. Such data concerning the latter personage as appear above are culled therefrom and the accompanying portrait adorned its pages. The edifice erected by Harsen stood on the west side of the Road between present 69th and 70th Streets, now the site of the Nevada apartment house. It was a small frame building painted white, and had a cupola shaped Hke an umbrella. The sounding- board over the pulpit rested at such an angle as to impress some of the attendants with the notion that it was in danger of falling and crushing the preacher. Occasional services had been held there prior to the coming of Mr. Gimn, and Lawrence Lawrence had been selected July i, 1806, to lead the singing, which he pitched with a tuning-fork, any mechanical in- strument being thought an invention of the devil. Heating was accomplished by means of a stove which the Consistory on Dec. i, 1808, ordered to be purchased. What primitive days were these! Wood for fuel, candles and stands for light, and a table on which to place them, served the purpose, for other means were not at hand. The building was so small that Harsen and Striker, who had been appointed therefor, re- ported at this session that they had waited on Mr. Barnewell and obtained a room of him in which to hold societies and social meetings during the winter. Mrs. Sarah Gunn, the wife of the pastor, tendered her certifi- cate of dismission from the Presbyterian Church and was received into this communion. The Westminster shorter catechism was introduced for use among the smaller children. The state of religion in the con- gregation at this time (Jan., 1809) was of so favorable a nature as to be highly gratifying. i64 ^be IRew Borft of ©csterbai? At the meeting on the first day of the next month, Striker was appointed to accompany the pastor on his ministerial visits during the ensuing year, and subscriptions towards the building of a parsonage were undertaken. The regular meeting in March was held at the house of Webbers, when Striker re- ported that $255 had been collected for the enterprise. A day — the first Sabbath in April — was set for the administration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. John Barlow and Hannah his wife presented certificates from the Rev. Sol. Fraligh, Pastor of the Church at Hackensack. Mrs. Martha Hoffman made confession of faith, as did Miss Ann Striker, at a session at Har- sen's later in the month. Robert Wade, a member of Christ's Church, New York, was present and proceeded to make confession, whereupon he also was received. These names are the first mentioned as having joined the fellowship. The initial meeting at the minister's residence took place on April 3d. Striker annoimced that he and Harsen had obtained $1280 in subscriptions. Web- bers observed that John Hopper the Younger would present half an acre on the Bloomingdale Road and that John Horn had indirectly offered land in Hopper's Lane, on which to build the parsonage. Hopper was an elder brother of Andrew, and the father-in-law of Striker. He had married Wyntje, daughter of Nicholas Dyckman who lived in the Dyckman- Harsen mansion at Harsenville, and she removed to the homestead on Hopper's Lane at her marriage, April 21, 1759. At his death, in 18 19, the family plot at 50th Street and Ninth Avenue claimed his remains. The Hopper brothers and their sister Jacomijntje Horn drew speci- fic portions of their father's farm {zdde "Hopper Farm," ZTbe Cburcb at IbarsenvUlc 165 page 8) under the will, and it was a portion thereof which they wished to alienate in favor of the Church. It was thought expedient to accept one of these offers, whereupon Harsen arose and proposed the acceptance of a gift from him of an acre on the Harsenville road, with the liberty of the choice of any one of ten acres thought the most eligible. "After considerable de- bate," continue the minutes, "this offer was accepted and the Consistory agreed to meet at Mr. Harsen's house on Wednesday afternoon for the purpose of looking at the ground and choosing a suitable spot." Thereupon Hopper, Striker, and Harsen were appointed a committee invested with full power to contract for the construction of the building upon such plan as to them should seem most economical and advantageous. By the meeting in May, the subscriptions therefor had increased to $1400, and it was there stated that the site had been selected, certain material had been purchased, and cellar stone had been hauled to the location. Garret H. Striker, the Elder's oldest son, was appointed collector, and two services in the church to continue through the summer season were determined on. In June it was announced that a stable had been erected on the parsonage property. Harsen stated that the ground was being surveyed and the deed drawn. It was agreed that the children should be catechised every Wednesday afternoon in the church. How interdependent the community and the con- gregation were is shown by the resolution passed to request the schoolmasters to omit school on that afternoon. At the September meeting, the stated sessions of the body were slated for the first Monday in each month thereafter at 4 o'clock, and on the 1 66 ZTbe Tlew IPorft of J^esterbai? 1 8th of that month the unoccupied pews were to be rented, due notice of which event was to be announced from the pulpit. Harsen was authorized to provide a place in which to hold religious and social meetings during the coming winter. The back room at Bame- well's was again taken for this purpose, with the pro- viso that no carriages enter the yard. After the admission to membership of Jane Cozine (widow Ackerman) , Rachel Cozine, and Sarah Webbers, wife of Jonathan Hardman, in November, it was entered that the Consistory "bless the Lord for what He has already done for His little flock in this place and pray for greater out-pourings of His Spirit upon the congregation." The question as to what the charter of the Church required to be done to preserve its legality had been referred to Isaac L. Kip, Stated Clerk. It was reported at this meeting that it was necessary to make a return of the state of its finances to the Legislature every second year. The first sexton, Isaac Dey, was engaged in December at ;^3 per annum. On account of the shortness of the days and the cold- ness of the weather it was agreed to postpone further work on the parsonage. The new year (1810) opened with a regular meeting at Hopper's residence. Nothing of moment transpired. In March, work on the parsonage was resumed. It was announced that $1900 had been expended thereon to date and that $250 additional was needed. The work would be completed by the middle of June. The Consistory met at the " Society Room. " Prepara- tions for a garden on the grounds were ordered. Mr. Gunn stated on April 5 th that he had received an ap- pointment to proceed to Canada in the interest of the Committee on Missions and requested the opinion of JZ^ ' -^ 1 rrj-7r~, , '^"" ■'^- r, nr^^oZ /^/A .^ 1 e 1 "■ferr""'" 1 J 1 1 li ^1 )o 1 1 -1 \1 1 J ■0 5 1 1 si « 1 (yity ^iiri/vyor \ \ lift 100 -ft ?; * Jl arsen A^ir-eei I' MAP OF THE "PARSONAGE ACRE," FROM LIBER 85 OF CONVEYANCES, 521 Z\)e Cburcb at Ibareenville 167 the body thereon. A vacation of three months was granted and part of a collection for the benefit of the Church was donated toward his expenses. A horse for the accommodation of the ministers who should supply the pulpit during his absence would be pro- vided. It was agreed that the Lord's Supper should be administered quarterly thereafter instead of three times as theretofore. On December 4th, Harsen an- nounced that during the spring he had deposited with Striker, the Clerk of Consistory, the deed of the par- sonage ground duly recorded. This instrument bore date of Sept. 16, 1809, the parties thereto being Jacob Harsen of the Ninth Ward, Gentleman, and the Trustees of the Reformed Dutch Church at Harsenville re- spectively and conveyed realty by this description, viz.: Bounded on land of Lemuel Wells, on land of the said Harsen and on Harsen Street, containing in breadth 100 feet and in length on the northerly side 531.4 feet and on the southerly side 523.9 feet, reserving and excepting out of this present grant the ground set apart for streets and as appears noted or dotted upon the said annexed map, upon condition that said tract of land nor any part thereof shall at no time nor in any way nor at any time hereafter be sold nor in any wise be disposed of by any ways or means or under any pretence whatsoever, but that the same shall always and forever be and remain for the use, benefit, and income of the said Reformed Dutch Church at Harsen- ville, and also upon condition that said Church enclose the land in fence (L. 85 Conv., 5 21). In March, 181 1, Holmes declined leading the singing for a longer term and Wade was appointed to that office. As he was found unable to give punctual 1 68 n:be 1Rew IPorfi of IPeetertJa^ attendance, another was engaged three months later to officiate as chorister. Striker was selected in April to attend at the pastor's residence on the Thurs- day preceding the administration of the Lord's Supper to hear the confessions of such as may apply for ad- mission into the communion. A commission from Brunswick came to the pastor in June necessitating his absence for a few weeks in order to discharge the duties imposed thereby, and in August Webbers sub- mitted his resignation as deacon, which, after serious consideration, was not accepted. In October it was ordered that the afternoon service be dropped on the first Sabbath in November and that in its stead an evening meeting be held alternately in the Church "and the lower part of the congregation." It should be recalled that the streets were not lighted at this time and the above resolution was passed in order to enable members to attend service with less incon- venience. On these occasions the congregation met at the residences of communicants in the fifties, some- times at Hopper's, again at Webbers's, at Horn's at 51st Street and the Road, or at the Cozine house at present Eighth Avenue near 54th Street. Hopper and Harsen were to make provision for these meetings. In November the place of evening meetings "in the upper part of the congregation" was changed from the Church to "Mr. Harsen's room above Tyson's shop." Some little debt having remained after the building of the stable and the parsonage. Striker and Harsen in February, 181 2, were deputized to accompany the pastor in soliciting donations to liquidate the burden. In April it was resolved to offer Mr. Ufiord, the prin- cipal of the Bloomingdale Academy, a pew for the use TIIK Ol.l) !'AUS()N.\(;i THE ORIGINAL PARSONAGE 73d Street, near Columbus Avenue ; from The History of Eighty Years Zbc Cburcb at Ibarsenville 169 of his family if he would lead the singing. ' ' The abuses of the Sabbath day" in the neighborhood became so open that it was suggested some exertion be made to ameliorate the conditions. On second thought, however, it seemed imprudent to interfere. A request was made to the Moderator to "exhort" at funerals. He preferred to act at his own discretion on such oc- casions, according to the circumstances which might exist at any particular time. An additional sum, subscribed by Messrs. Harsen, Striker, Lemuel Wells, James Boggs, Gerard W. Livingston, and Dr. John G. Adams, was added to the pastor's salary in June. Wm. B. Holmes was appointed collector. Under the article of the constitution requiring an inquiry to be made into the walk and conversation of members, a number of cases were investigated during the year 1 8 13. These arose because of non-attendance at Church, of irregular attendance at communion, and of intoxication. Some of these individuals were sus- pended. A generous donation was received from the Collegiate Consistory and a letter of thanks was pre- pared and forwarded by the pastor and Harsen. In February, 1814, Striker and Harsen were appointed to ascertain what alteration could be made for the better accommodation of communicants on sacra- mental occasions, and to make such changes as they deemed advisable. In April it was announced that the alteration undertaken in front of the pulpit had been made. Samuel Adams Lawrence became a member in February and had tendered his assistance in collecting subscriptions for a new House of Worship. The following resolutions in this connection were passed on April 29th: Whereas, it is the earnest wish of this Consistory to I70 Zbe 1Rew ^ovk of IPesterba^ promote, as far as may be in their power, the precious interests of the Gospel in this place, and whereas they believe that a new and larger building than the one in which Public Worship is at present performed, would contribute to that object. Resolved that the Rev. Alex. Gunn, our Pastor, and Mr. Samuel Lawrence be and they hereby are appointed a com- mittee, in our name, to solicit subscriptions of the members of our own congregation and the friends of the Redeemer of all denominations to whom they may think proper to apply for the purpose of building a new church to belong to this Consistory and our successors. Resolved further that the Committee be and they hereby are authorized to proceed to the building and enclosing of the church when they shall have obtained subscriptions to the amount of $3000. They are also authorized to select a situation for the Church provided it be not far one way or the other from the present church, and provided also that the building and premises belong to the Consistory of the Reformed Dutch Church of Bloomingdale and their successors. At the meeting in May it was announced that the amount above specified had been obtained, and it was recommended that an address be sent to the Con- sistory in town soliciting a donation. Striker and Harsen, having already conversed with members of that body, were appointed to draft and forward the address. A building committee was thereupon appointed. Harsen of that committee stated on July 19th that he had contracted with James Westerfield for the mason work for $5300, and with King and Hoogland for the carpentering for $4500, making $9800. The plan of the Church was then presented. From Hardie's Description of New York, 1827, we learn that its size was 57 x 72, containing 4104 square Zbc (Tburcb at IbareenvlUe 171 feet. The Collegiate Consistory resolved on June i6th, in consideration of the application of the Church for aid in building the new edifice, to donate therefor $2500. On August ist a copy of this resolution was presented and the Board voted to "most gratefully accept of the donation which their Brethren have been pleased to make them, on the conditions mentioned in said resolutions, and that Mr. Gunn and Mr. Harsen be a committee to prepare and deliver to the Con- sistory of the Reformed Dutch Church of New York, a letter of thanks for their generous donation." Although the Constitution provided for the election of officers every two years, it was not until August nth — a matter of nine years and nine months — that action was taken, at which time it was decided to add two more to the number of the Consistory. When the ballots were counted Harsen was found elected Elder, and Henry Post and Samuel A. Lawrence, Deacons. The Consistory was consequently composed of Andrew Hopper, ^ James Striker, r Elders. Jacob Harsen, ) Philip Webbers, "\ Samuel A. Lawrence, [-Deacons. Henry Post, ) A report to the Legislature was ordered to be pre- pared and Post appointed Treasurer, vice Striker. The pastor and Lawrence, in carrying out the di- rections of the Board, selected property fronting on the Bloomingdale Road at present 68th Street, a part of the Somerindyke Farm which fell to the daughter Margaret, wife of Wm. A. Hardenbrook. The deed (L. 107, Conv. 632) thereof, bearing date Sept. 26, described the property as follows: 172 Z\)c 1RCW ^ov\{ of ipeaterbai? Beginning at a point in the easterly side of the Bloom- ingdale Road, so called, where the same is intersected by the middle of Sixty-eighth Street, which point is distant westerly from the westerly side of the Ninth Avenue 469 feet and running thence along the middle of the said street easterly 163.65 feet, thence at right angles to the same northerly 130 feet, thence at right angles to the same westerly 236.35 feet to the easterly side of the Bloomingdale Road aforesaid and thence along the same southerly to the place of beginning. The consideration expressed was $596.00, with full covenants. This deed was received by the Consistory October 17th, and put in the Treasurer's hands for record. And now came a defection which cast a damper over the joy caused by the inauguration of the new enterprise. It came to the knowledge of the Consistory this month that their brother Webbers, since the last meeting, had attached himself to the Baptist Church in Gold Street, and had been baptised. This fact was deeply lamented and it was felt to be a duty, in a spirit of Christian love, to notice it. Accordingly their delegates to Classis were instructed to lay the case before that Reverend Body with the request that the seat of the brother as a deacon be vacated and that advice be given as to the proper course to pursue. The matter was not brought to their attention by the pastor and Harsen, the representatives to Classis, when they assembled the following morning in the Consistory Chamber in Garden Street (Exchange Place), because the Committee of Overtures were of the opinion that the local Board had power to act. On this announcement the delinquent's seat was vacated and he was suspended from the communion ^be dburcb at Ibar^envUlc 173 "until he shall manifest due repentance and renounce the errour he has embraced." A long period of time elapsed — fourteen years — before this hope was realized. Finally on March i8, 1828, notification was made that he "wished to return" and this minute was adopted: Philip Webbers, who in the year 18 14 embraced the errour of the Baptists and left this Church and his seat as an officer therein to connect himself with a Baptist Church in the city, having solicited to be received again into the fellowship of this church, Resolved that the suspension voted in the case of Mr. Webbers at the time he left us, be and is hereby removed and that he be restored to the enjoyment of his privileges as a member of this Church in good standing. Resolved that Mr. Webbers be asked at the next pre- paratory serv^ice, or sooner if he wishes it, if he freely and sincerely renounces the errour he had embraced and, upon his answering in the affirmative, that his restoration be publickly announced and that it be recommended to the members of the Church to receive and treat him as a brother who deeply laments his errour and is now sin- cerely desirous to live and die in the faith of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church. Resolved that the Pastor and Mr. Harsen be a committee to inform Mr. Webbers of the proceedings of Consistory. As a matter of historic interest it should be stated that the "Gold Street Meeting House" was constituted June 19, 1762, and was the first Baptist Church in New York City. Elder John Gano of Huguenot descent was the first pastor. The edifice was turned into a stable for British cavalry during the Revolutionary struggle. In 1802 a new building was erected on the same site. The Rev. William Parkinson, A.M., from Fredericktown, Maryland, became minister Feb. 8, 174 TTbe IRew l?orft of IJeeterbai? 1805, and held that position for thirty-five years. He resigned in 1840. Caspar Meier was elected deacon in the place of Webbers, which office, by the way, he declined to accept at this time. The Mercantile Advertiser of July 23, 181 4 an- nounced that ' ' The comer stone of a Reformed Dutch Church was laid at Bloomingdale on [Thursday] the 2ist inst., by the Rev. Alexander Gunn. " Through a misunderstanding or otherwise the new site of the Church did not prove an immediate blessing — instead it became the cause of manifold vexations. The committee appointed to examine the records — and why it was not done before payment was made surpasses comprehension — reported in November that a mortgage of $2400.00 had been found thereon. Lawrence and Post were thereupon deputed to wait on the grantor primed with the queries : Had it been cancelled and if not. What arrangement could be effected to extricate the property from the incum- brance? In January, 181 5, it is noted that this in- terview was far from satisfactory. Hardenbrook's property was ascertained to be weighted with an in- cubus of $5300.00. A staggering blow indeed. What was worse no arrangement could be made. In this situa- tion it was finally agreed that a joint bond of Harsen, Striker, Hopper, Post, and Lawrence should be executed secured by a consistorial bond, pledging all the prop- erty of the Church, on which to raise sufficient money to purchase the mortgage, which covered twelve and one half acres of land and included the new site, the title to which latter plot should revert to the Con- sistory. The net proceeds of the sale of the mortgaged land should be appropriated to the payment of the ^be Cburcb at IbarsenvlIIe 175 joint bond and claim. The following day, two of the members were selected to wait on Mr. Dey, attorney for the mortgagee, Miss Eleanor Ellison, for further inquiry, and in February the questions asked and the answers thereto were read and proved satisfactory. The mortgaged lands other than the Church lot, were sold at auction — a quick turn showing a demand for village property — and on June 24th, statement thereof was rendered. Hardenbrook returned the three hun- dred dollars which had been paid down on the signing of the contract of purchase — a partial compensation for the annoyance he had caused. It appears from the above account that an actual deficiency of $528.00 existed for which the Church must provide in order to indemnify the individual members and be released from their several claims upon it. So it turned out that eventually the new site cost $1124.00. The above mentioned members of the Consistory did, on the eleventh of September, release said Harden- brook from all personal liability and from all actions or causes of action for or on account of said deficiency "because there appeared to us but little prospect of recovering the sum without distressing his family, and for this reason we had agreed to hold the premises as our security for the whole amount due to us on said Bond and Indenture of Mortgage." He relin- quished his right to a pew in the new church. On January 5, 181 5, the building committee re- ported that the contractors had not completed the work according to the terms specified. This was viewed as a favorable circumstance inasmuch as adequate funds had not as yet been provided. The pastor stated that he and Striker had examined and received into the communion Ichabod Prall and Hannah 176 tlbc flew l?ork of ^cetcv^w^ Thompson his wife. He was elected to fill Webbers' place on April nth. As a number of the members of the Haeriem congregation had frequently expressed a wish to be connected with the Church so far as to have a part of Mr. Gunn's services there, it was moved that a committee be appointed to endeavor to effect such an arrangement by conferring with that Con- sistory. Striker and Lawrence were selected. The Haeriem people proposed to give $500 for one half of the pastor's services and would consider whether they would not pay $600. From their conversation it appeared that they very favorably entertained the arrangement. Nothing seems to have come of this. At any rate no further reference is made to the subject. In the view (Frontispiece) of the new church edifice it will be noticed that a marble tablet is inserted over the main entrance. The pastor and Lawrence were appointed to carry into effect a resolution passed on May ist, which provided that the names of the present Consistory be inscribed thereon. The stone accordingly read: THE CHURCH AT HARSENVILLE Founded in 1805 Rev. Alexander Gunn, Minister Andrew Hopper, ") Samuel A. Lawrence, "J James Striker, V Elders. Henry Post, >- Deacons. Jacob Harsen, ) Ichabod Prall, ) In July it was announced that the pastor had drawn the inscription and Lawrence had had it prepared. The Consistory met at Prall's residence in Greenwich Street, for the first time on June 14th. John Somerin- dyck, the original owner of the farm, having died Oct. II, 1790 left him surviving his widow Sarah, who Q/Qj^a/C Portrait and signature of Ichabod Prall, Esq., by courtesy of Miss Ida Benjamin Zbe Cburcl) at Ibarsenville 177 released her dower in the plot on which the Church was being built. This conveyance was delivered to the Treasurer this date to be recorded. She did not die until July 2, 1830. Alderman Harsen was re- quested to ask Col. Harsen his son, the Treasurer of the School Fund, to advance $250 for the uses of the Consistory. Prall was added to the building com- mittee. The pastor, with Harsen and Lawrence, was appointed to draw up resolutions respecting the future sale of the pews and after retiring submitted the following : As it is but reasonable and right that this Church should pay for itself in the sales of the pews as other churches in the city have done, your committee beg leave to propose that this Consistory in the first place resolve, that when the Church is completed, the pews shall be so valued ac- cording to their situation and size as that they shall, when- ever they are all sold, bring, in the aggregate, as much as the Church shall have cost or thereabouts. In the second place that all pews which do not bring their valuation at the first auction, shall then or afterwards, as the Consistory may at the time determine, be sold for a term of years, not exceeding ten, at a certain price which they shall fix upon or at auction. Subscription papers were thereafter circulated bearing this caption : ' ' When the Church is built' the pews will be valued and sold at auction and every person's subscription will be credited as purchase money." The names of such subscribers as have been preserved follow : John Goodwin $25 William Jauncey $25 Daniel Mack 25 Samson Benson 25 Frederick Beinhauer 25 Wm. Rhinelander 25 Dr. Gamage 25 N. Prime 25 78 Z\)c t\ao l?orft of ^cBtcvbn^ William Paldwin (?) $25 David Cargill $25 Rich. Hanson 10 Hannah Lee 5 Com^ Ray 20 A. Forman 10 J. J. Diedericks ID Peter R. Post 5 T. A. Emmet 10 George McKay 10 C. McEvers 10 Samuel Van Verden, Henry S. Dodge 30 Bloomingdale 15 Nathan Sanford 20 Catherine Teller, Kip' s D. S. Jones 10 Bay 15 Alexander Hamilton 10 Benjamin Benson 20 John G. Brevoort 20 R. Riker 30 John G. Coster 10 Joel Bridge 30 Daniel D. Tompkins, Mrs. McAdams 15 Albany 25 William Ogden 15 P. G. Hildreth ID John Taylor 20 Nicholas Fish 10 James Boggs IS Joseph Houston 10 Henry McFarlan 15 Jno, H. Talman 10 Benjamin Desobry IS Henry Cheriot, Jr. 5 Clement C. Moore 10 Abrm. Brinckerhoff 20 Henry S. Williams IS Mary McCrea 10 Jacob Horn 10 Joshua Barker 5 Jno. Hegeman 8 B. Livingston 25 Nicholas Fish 10 Saml. Borrowe 10 WilHam Edgar 10 John Thompson, Naphtali Judah 10 203 Pearl Street 10 George Janeway 20 W. R. Stewart 10 The signatures of the above individuals are attached to the two lists now in existence. At different times during the year (181 5) some kind of an arrangement had been sought with the con- tractors whereby progress could be made on the church building. In September the minister and Lawrence undertook to see King in the hope of finishing the contract this season. On his expressing a willingness to complete the interior for the original estimate of Zbc Cburcb at IbareenvtIIc 179 $2700 provided the portico and stoop were omitted, the Consistory agreed and such contract was entered into. The same committee was then authorized to deal with the master mason. It was reported in October that a front gallery and stairs could be added for an additional $400 and this was ordered. As to the mason work Westerfield suggested the matter be submitted to arbitration. The building committee agreed to meet them both at the site. Satisfactory settlement of the dispute was effected. An order for $61 against the Consistory, which Westerfield had delivered to Hardenbrook, was by him given to the Church, as an off-set in some measure to what had been lost through him. On Nov. 24th an extra session was called at Hopper's whereat Post presented a deed which he and the pastor had received from Mrs. Barbara Asten of two lots of groimd fronting both on Broadway and Mercer Street as a gift, the proceeds of which to be appropriated to the support of the Gospel in this place. This letter was thereupon drawn up and signed by the whole Consistory, and the pastor, accompanied by Post, requested to deliver it to Mr. and Mrs. Asten. Bloomingdale, Nov. 24th, 181 5. Dear Madam, We the Consistory of the Reformed Dutch Church at Bloomingdale, sensible of the benefit you have conferred on this infant Church, beg you to accept our most sincere thanks. The donation you have been pleased to bestow is a liberal one and will greatly aid us, we hope, in sup- porting the preaching of the Gospel among us, to which object we shall feel a pleasure in applying it according to your request. As the Lord has enabled and inclined you to devote a portion of your earthly substance for the promo- tion of the interests of this little Zion, He will, we trust, i8o TOe IRew IPorJ; of l?c6ter^a1^ abundantly reward you, — reward you with His blessing which maketh rich. You doubtless derive great satisfac- tion from the belief that you have done good, but this is but a small part of the reward of such noble benevolence. All who shall reap the benefit of your liberaUty as long as the Gospel shall be preached in this house of God will remember you with gratitude, and in a better world you will, we trust, receive an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading. Madam, we sincerely bless you for this seasonable and liberal benefaction, and we hope it will be the means of inducing others to whom God has given the ability, to follow your laudable example. We earnestly pray that the Lord will be pleased to restore you to health and lengthen out your days that you may yet see for yourself the happy result of your charity. We deeply lament the unfavorable state of your health; but the great Physician of soul and body, we hope, will arrest your disorder, or if this should not be consistent with His righteous will, will give you that faith and love — those rich supports and substantial consolations of his grace which will enable you to bear its progress with resignation and patience, and finally, to meet death with joy and triumph. As a small token of our gratitude, we hereby present you with as much ground in the rear of our church as will be necessary for a vault if it is your wish to build one — and when you shall have finished your course, we will perpetuate the remembrance of your liberality to this church by inserting a stone with a suitable inscription upon it on the right side of the pulpit of the New Church. We commend you to Jesus, the hope and salvation of every penitent sinner. Dear Madam, with great respect, Your friends and Brethren in the Lord, Alexander Gunn, Pastor. The property was ordered surveyed and a committee appointed to lease it. ZTbe Cburcb at Ibarsent^llle i»i Stephen Jumel, the French merchant, had given a bell for the first church and this was still in use. In December, 1815, the sexton was directed to omit ring- ing it during the winter. Captain Newson made an offer of one for the new edifice in June of that year for which he was thanked, and Harsen and Lawrence were appointed to wait on him that he should be informed of the circumstances (what they were is not disclosed) , under which the Jumel bell was held. At the inter- view the Captain stated that he was very glad to have the opportunity of making the gift and it was accepted. In May, 181 6, now that the building was approaching completion, the above mentioned officers "tried" both bells and were of the opinion that either a selec- tion should be made or the material run into a new and larger one. Thereupon it was decided to hang the Jumel bell and get the consent of the Captain to dis- pose of his present for the benefit of the Church. The building committee was requested to confer with King and arrange to have it hung in the cupola. It was reported in June that the Captain was perfectly willing his bell should be made use of in any way the Consistory thought proper. Hopper and Daniel Mack, who had been elected to the diaconate in August, 181 6, were authorized April 7, 181 7, to make such dispo- sition. The highest offer was 15 cents a pound. It would be interesting to know what became of the Jumel bell. Captain Newson was doubtless Charles Newson, mariner, who appears in the City Directory of that period at 57 Pike St. Lawrence had made a contract with Westerfield and Berwick in January of $1700 for finishing the edifice. Collections for considerable amounts came to hand now. Hardly a session passed without such an an- 1 82 Zbc IRew l?orft of 13e6ter^a^ nouncement. And they were needed. Notwithstand- ing urgent endeavors sufficient funds were not forth- coming. The Consistory had become involved to a considerable extent "in building the new church in this place" and endeavors had been made to arrange with the creditors that the necessity to sell the Asten property be avoided. It was the original design of this benevolent woman that the proceeds of her gift should be appropriated to extinguish the debt, and she had recently expressed a desire that the lots be disposed of for that laudable purpose. Accordingly Post was authorized in June to apply to a Master in Chancery for liberty to sell. In July such leave was granted. Harsen and Prall were appointed in August to effect the sale at an upset price of $3750. It was stated later in the month that a verbal sale had been made at this valuation. At the October session the would-be purchaser declined and an offer at a lower price was made to him. Advertisement was sug- gested at private sale and a mortgage on the two lots adjoining, which had been bequeathed to the Church by Mrs. Asten's will, proposed. In November Striker and Post were deputized to sell two lots at auction. Eventually the property was sold to John Sharp, merchant, for $3000, by this description: all those two certain lots of ground situate in the Eighth Ward and designated in a certain map made by Adolphus Loss, Surveyor, of part of the estate of Barbara Asten by No. 6 and No. 21, fronting on Broadway and Mercer Street, being 74 feet, 10 inches north from Hester Street, containing in front and rear each 2 5 feet and in depth together from street to street 200 feet. Deed dated Feb. 21, 181 7, signed by Alexander Gunn, Pres- ident, and James Striker, Clerk (L. 122, Conv. 377). ^be Cburcb at IbarsenvUle 183 The first impression of the seal of the Corporation which was adopted this month was attached to this instrument. It was presented by Hopper and Harsen and was made of silver with these initials "R. D. C. H." engraved thereon. The disposal of the pews in the new edifice now engaged atten- tion. In July Col. Anthony Post and G. B. Vroom were selected to put a valuation on the pews, according to their situation and size, so as to bring $16,500. Deacons Lawrence and Post were appointed to fix the rents at the pro rata of 13 per cent, of the valuation for the first three years, and to preside at the sale, which was set for the Tuesday afternoon after the formal opening of the church. The Evening Post of July 31, 1816 contained this advertisement : Sale op Pews at Bloomingdale On Tuesday next, the 6th inst. the pews in the Reformed Dutch Church, lately erected at Bloomingdale, will be sold at Auction, the sale to commence precisely at 4 o'clock in the after- noon at the Church. Harsen and Striker were chosen to notify the sub- scribers whose names have been heretofore indited. Rentals to commence Aug. i. In case of default in the payment of the rent for six months such pews should revert to the corporation. It was reported in August that 28 pews had been sold and leased, the latter for a term of five years. Some of the pewholders of this date whose names have been gleaned from the 1 84 ^be "flew l?ork of IJesterba^ records were Isaac L. Varian, who later became Mayor of the City, Rev. H. G. Ufford, Mr. Smedes, John Hopper, Ichabod Prall, S. N. Bayard, the widow Beekman, Andrew Hopper, Gurdon S. Mumford, Andrew van Buskirk, Cornelius Harsen, and Archibald Gracie. It was resolved in October, 1818, that the pews occupied by the Elders and Deacons be altered and Striker, Harsen, and Post be a committee to engineer the matter. Because of a disagreement as to the plan to be pursued Prall was added. Finally the matter was shelved. DEDICATION The Reformed Dutch Church at Blooming- dale will be opened and dedicated to Almighty God next Lord's Day, when a collection will be made up for the benefit of the Church ; the serv- ice to commence precisely at 10 o'clock in the morning. The church is a neat stone building situated near the five mile stone, and lately erected by the congregation under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Alexander Gunn. Evening Post, July 31, 1 8 1 6. August 4, 1816. This was a great day in the village. The Church was dedicated with eclat. The pulpit was decorated with the damask cloth which Andrew Hopper had presented, and lying thereon was noted the large Bible, the gift of Wilham King, the builder of the edifice, the exterior of which had been con- structed of stone. The long communion table graced the space just below the pulpit. The building was filled to the doors. Representatives of such Bloom- ingdale famiHes as Beekman, Bayard, Van den Heuvel, Schieffelin, Post, Gracie, Livingston, Adams, Benson, Zbc Cburcb at IbareenvUIe 185 Bogert, Bowne, Brower, Cargill, Cornell, Dana, Deas, Doremus, Borland, Dusenberry, Felix, Fleet, Hegeman, Hardenbrook, Havemeyer, Howland, Jasper, Law- rence, Leggett, Low, Lozier, Magee, Mildeberger, Morris, Nash, van Orden, Quackenbush, Riker, Ritter, Schuyler, Sidell, Somerindyke, van Zant, von Post, Waldron, Arkenburgh, Carss, Clendining, de Peyster, Hanaway, Hardman, Hoffman, Meier, Mott, Sanford, Varick, Findley, Fish, and Remsen, without reciting many of those heretofore mentioned in the text, were present. A handsome lawn sloped to the Blooming- dale Road, along which a picket fence had been erected. From the gateway a path led to stone steps which provided entrance, iron scrapers having been inserted on an end of the upper step that the mud of the Road be not carried into the sanctuary. To one side hung the rope attached to the Jumel bell. Through the portals trooped the assemblage. We can well imagine the pride with which the pastor presided. The pre- centor stood in the gallery and led with a tuning fork the old-fashioned hymns and the psalms from the new books. Altogether a revival of religious interest was awakened which scattered seeds of activity through- out the district. An expense of fully sixteen thou- sands of dollars had been incurred, a portion of which was yet to be provided — a large sum for those days and this suburban locality. It was reported on Dec. 9th that the total amount obtained through the sub- scription papers had aggregated $1146.31, and some ninety dollars were yet to be collected. A larger amount was subsequently donated as shown by the list which follows. It is prefaced by an extract from the Minutes passed April 29, 181 4, as hereinbefore given (p. 169), supplemented with this further obli- i86 Zbc flew l?orh of ^cetcxtfu^ gation somewhat altering the caption of the list as detailed on page 177: N. B. When the Church is built, the pews will be valued and sold at auction subject to an annual rent; and the amount of every purchaser's subscription will be credited as purchase-money either in part or in whole as the case may be. Names Jacob Harsen Saml. A. Lawrence Cornelius Harsen Jno. Beekman I. Prall Caspar Meier St. N. Bayard John Asten Abrm. K. Beekman Gerard Beekman John Horn Andrew Hopper WilHam Jas. Stewart Jn. S. Roulet N. DePeyster Lemuel Wells Magdalen Ritter Jno. Clendining Wm. A. Hardenbrook John Adams John Hopper Stephen van Rensselaer Henry Rutgers Gerard de Peyster J. C. van den Heuvel Arch. Gracie John Jacob Astor Places of Residence Bloomingdale New York Albany New York DUs. 500 250 250 100 125 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 250 100 SO 296 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 SO ^be Cburcb at IbarsenvUle 187 Names Places of Residence DUs. Peter Hegeman New York 50 Henry Post " 5° Thomas Gardner " 50 At the session at Hopper's on the i6th a letter was received from Lawrence declining to serve longer as deacon. During his service of two years much had been accomplished, very largely due to his initiative, and it was with regret that his resignation was ac- cepted. Mack succeeded to the vacancy. The next meeting was called at his residence. It was customary to land the wood for the heating of the Church at Harsen's dock. Mrs. Asten was a daughter of Caspar Samler who in 1780 acquired 37 acres of land near the junction of the Bloomingdale and the Post Roads and later 15 acres additional. Three distinct Samler houses are located on the Commissioners' map of 1807. Samler died in 1 8 10 and left his farm to his grandchildren. Some five acres of portion No. IV. thereof, that part which formed the angle between these two roads, he devised to the children of his daughter "Barbary should she have any. " Effingham Schieffelin, William Coulthard, and James W. Anderson married her sisters. Mrs. Asten died July 24, 181 6, without issue leaving a will dated June 29th of that year (L. 53, Wills 290), wherein she bequeathed lots numbered 22 and 7 on the Loss map, extending from Broadway to Mercer Street, to the Church and Nos. 8, 9, 23, and 24 to "my particular friend. Rev. Alexander Gunn" and to his heirs forever. To him also was devised "my mahogany book case." To her sister Mary, the wife of Effingham Schieffelin Nos. 13, 14, 17, and 18 and a house and lot "adjoining Nassau Street" were be- i88 z\)c IRew Borft of ipesterbai? queathed. Should she have no heirs the fee descended to the Church. The testatrix set apart lots desig- nated as Nos. 12, 28, and 27 from the proceeds of which Thomas Rose was to get $500, Henry Post $500, Judith Paul $250, Richard Harrison $1000, and a faithful servant $500. By codicil dated July 8th the above provisions for her sister and for Rose were revoked and the executors directed to sell Nos. 13 and 17 and to invest the proceeds and pay the interest to said Rose during his lifetime and to his present wife after his decease. On her death the principal re- verted to the Church to which also were bequeathed Nos. 14 and 18, immediately after the testatrix's death. Jacob Harsen, Alexander Gunn, and Ichabod Prall were nominated executors. It was intimated that the heirs were inclined to take possession of this property, and in March, 181 7, Harsen and Post were appointed to confer with them, with power to commence suits if necessary. They were advised that they should file a bill in chancery which was accordingly undertaken, and at the same time the lots were fenced on the Broadway front. Thereupon the attorneys for the heirs, Schieffelin, Coulthard, and Anderson, made an offer of $2500 each for the four lots bequeathed outright to the Church. (Nos. 7, 22, 14, and 18). In June the offer was raised to $2600. The Chancery bill was completed and filed and subpoenas served in July. The rear of the lots along Mercer St. was then fenced in order to take full possession. In August it was stated that the attorneys had purchased a pretended right to the property which had involved them in some difficulty, in consequence of which they had renewed the offer in writing and agreed to pay half the costs. It was thought advisable tCbe (Eburcb at Ibarsenvllle 189 to let the suit proceed. In September a further propo- sition being received it was resolved to sell to Effing- ham Schieffelin, William Coulthard, and James W. Anderson, representatives of the heirs-at-law contesting the validity of the will, for $2700, each, under certain conditions which the lawyers later agreed to. Petition to the Chancellor for permission to sell was granted at a Court of Chancery held at Albany on December I St. By the report for 1818 we find that settlement of the difference with the firm was effected Dec. 24, 181 7. Most of the Consistory were present and the President (the pastor) and the Clerk (Striker) had executed the church deed as directed (L. 124, Conv. 429). The sum of $5633.29 was received and de- posited in the City Bank. Harsen announced that he had received a donation of $100 from Schieffelin for his trouble, which was turned in as a gift with thanks. In August, 181 7, application was made to the Con- sistory in town requesting aid. A loan of $4000 was granted on the personal bonds of Hopper, Striker, Harsen, and Post. It was decided that $3000 was sufficient and three bonds of $1000 each were prepared in September and signed by the above gentlemen with the exception of Post whose place was taken by Prall. Two of these bonds were redeemed in December from the proceeds of the Asten lots. Jacob Naugle was appointed singing leader at $20 per year and held that position from Jan., 1818 to Oct., 181 9. The yearly report of 18 18 tells in detail the pay- ments made from the purchase-money received from the above sale and proceeds : ' ' The President and Treasurer cannot but congratulate the Consistory upon the liquidation of so many heavy debts which I90 tllbe "Mew l?ork of l^esterba^ have given all so much concern and trouble." It appears that the present debt was only $91.77 more than when the new edifice was begun. The sum is so small that it may be said that the New Church is entirely paid for; that they are exactly in the situation in which they were before the comer-stone of that building was laid. . . . We have gained in fact the church and the extinction of our old debt. Few churches in our land can congratulate themselves upon being in better circumstances. Have we not great cause, Brethren, for gratitude to that God who has been with us and helped us? The whole expense of our church, exclusive of the burial ground, is $16000. Three thousand was collected by the congregation. The rest Providence has furnished us from different sources. From the Consistory in town $2500 " Mrs. Asten 8400 " individuals in small sums 3100 $14000 Yes, the sum of $14000 has been given us from the good hand of our God! This sum added to the $3000 raised in the congregation makes $17000. Surely we must say the Lord has done marvellous things. Let us rejoice and praise His Holy Name. Such being the happy result of our labours there is not one who has had a share in them and been ready at times to sink under their weight but on a review of the past will rejoice to the last moment, that God has honoured him in the work and made him the happy instrument of so much service to the interests of this Zion. We cannot find language to express our wonder and gratitude. Signed by Alexander Gunn and Henry Post. Business was thereupon suspended and thanks were returned to God for His great goodness. It was resolved to ^be (Tburcb at Ibarsenvlllc 191 erect a suitable monument to the memory of "our distinguished Benefactress, " who had in fact built the Church. This had been erected prior to Feb. 2d and gave general satisfaction. It was decided that a lecture be delivered every other Sabbath evening in the old church which was to be put in condition to render it convenient and comfortable for the purpose. In April the President stated that the walk and con- versation of the members generally, so far as he knew, were according to the Gospel. The Lord's Supper had not been dispensed heretofore after the manner of the Dutch Church. On solicitation that this order be followed the Pastor readily agreed to adopt that form, as it was a non-essential and to gratify the wishes of the Consistory. The order as written by Dr. Kuyper would be followed. The method is different from that at present observed, as will be noticed: 1. After sermon, the form is read and an extemporaneous prayer delivered. 2. Another portion is read, and during the singing of a psalm or hymn the pastor de- scends from the pulpit and prepares the elements. 3. An address is made, concluding with an invitation first to the officers and then the other communicants. 4. When seated at table the elements are dispensed ; then those who have partaken are dismissed. 5. While they retire and others approach the Clerk sings a verse of a Psalm or hymn; this to be repeated "at every succeeding table." 6. When the last table is served the minis- ter ascends the pulpit, reads the concluding 192 XTbe 1Rew l?ork of l?e0ter^a^ part of the form, makes an extemporaneous prayer, and gives out two or three verses to be sung. 7. Collection and benediction. In June Harsen and Striker were appointed to wait on Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rose, who were to receive the income of lots Nos. 13 and 17 under Mrs. Asten's will, to ascertain if the life estate could be bought. No conclusion could be arrived at with the beneficiaries. Harsen and Post were requested to negotiate a sale of the Consistory's interest with the Life Insurance office. This was found impossible unless the execu- tors would assign the bond and mortgage now thereon. Coulthard had offered $1100 payable in 60 days, whereupon Harsen proposed that the lots be granted to him for that amount at 30 days, and this was agreed upon. Conveyance dated Oct. 5, 1818 (L. 131, Conv. 433). With this money the other $1000 bond given for the loan of August, 181 7, was paid and the final debt on the Church extinguished. In August of 1 81 8 the manner of election of officers was changed. Hereafter an Elder and Deacon would be chosen one year and the rest of the members, two Elders and two Deacons, the following year. There- upon Striker was re-elected and Samuel A. Lawrence chosen as Deacon. On receiving his declination John Asten was unanimously elected to the vacancy on condition that he join the Church. In September a certificate was presented from "the Church in town" and Asten's name was accordingly entered on the books. It was stated that steps leading from the Road had been put in position by Post, who had also seen to the regulation of the property in front thereof. His "seasonable benefaction" was appreciated. A ^be Cburcb at IbarsenvlUe 193 number of the attendants had removed from the village, among them former Deacon Mack. Those who had done so or died were erased from the records. Prall ' ' moved up " in October. Robert Oliver was appointed sexton in place of Isaac Dey. A pump and cistern were provided for the parsonage and a well was stmk there the next month. A horse was obtained for the use of the minister. In January, 1819, an endeavor was made to put a stop to the selling of liquors and other profanations of the Sabbath "in this place." Twenty shillings had been collected for the contingent fund of Classis. Wood 19s. per load. This method of computation was a relic of the English occupation. When the Federal government recast its financial arrangements upon the decimal system of the dollar, the shilling remained as a designation for several sums which were fixed for the several States by the last general quotations of the paper of the precedent colonies. ^ The cheapest shilling of all was the York shilling, in use in New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Michigan, computed at i2| cents, or eight to the dollar, the colonial bill of credit being worth only $2.50 to the pound sterling. Lock was engaged in October to sing. Consistory met at Asten's for the first time on December 7 th. Application had been made to the summer residents »The Pennsylvania shilling was 13 J cents, and such was the reckoning in New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. The New England shilling ran six to the dollar, or 1 6f cents, and this value held in Virginia, Kansas, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama. In Georgia and South Carolina the shilling was computed at 2 if cents, or 4 shillings 8 pence to the dollar. The shilling remained the customary unit of domestic marketing in New York until long after the Civil War, and is still met with. 194 ^be IRew l?orf; ot l?e0ter^a^ during the past season for contributions and in April, 1820, subscription papers were circulated among the land-owners in the neighborhood for the support of the Gospel. The hamlet was sparsely settled, and largely by persons whose income, while ample for a careful living, did not allow of much extra expense. This state of affairs necessitated the solicitation of contributions at frequent intervals. Harsen, Striker, Post, and Prall were appointed a committee in this instance. This method was obligatory, as collections were taken up at divine service only on stated occa- sions. Each of these officers selected distinct dis- tricts to canvass. Donations were made by Mrs, Beekman and by Messrs. Weyman, Geo. Wilson, present Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, Bumham, Low, Cargill, Bansel, Bayard, Buck, Meyers, Carrick, Jauncey, and Ogilvie, who lived near by. The after- noon services began the first Sabbath in April. Now and again a case deserving of discipline pre- sented itself. A flagrant one occurred in March, 182 1. Not being a member the culprit was suspended for six months. Another who was addicted to intoxica- tion fared in like manner. Committees were ap- pointed in each instance to converse with the guilty ones. The individual first mentioned repented of her sin, professed sorrow, and requested that the suspension be raised. This was done after careful examination in February, 1823. Another who was reported in August, 1824, was so humble and sorry for the sin com- mitted that repressive measures were not considered requisite. A tavern-keeper was advised in 1826 to abstain from the Communion Table as long as he kept his house open and transacted his business on the Lord's Day. Zbc Cburcb at IbarsenvlIIe 195 In May, 1821, it was announced that the late Johannah Beekman had bequeathed four lots in trust, which were to be sold and one half the net proceeds be given to the Consistory. The portion of the will (L. 56, Wills, 384) relating thereto is as follows: To my respected friend, Rev. Alexander Gunn, Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church and Congregation at Bloomingdale in the Ninth Ward, all those four lots of ground situate in the Tenth Ward of the City of New York, heretofore part of the Estate of Pierre van Cortlandt, to wit: lots Nos. 62 63 64 and 65, all fronting on the easterly side of Forsyth (late Second) Street, as the said lots are bounded and described in and by a map of the ground heretofore of Pierre van Cortlandt, deceased. To have and to hold the said four lots in trust, nevertheless, and to and for the following uses and no other, to wit, the said Alexander Gunn, his heirs and assigns and he or they are authorized to sell and convey them at public vendue or otherwise whenever he shall judge it most advantageous and good and sufficient deeds in fee simple to execute and deliver therefor and the proceeds of such sale, after de- ducting all necessary charges, taxes etc., he shall dispose of in the following manner, viz: One quarter of the net proceeds thereof he shall pay to the Treasurer of the Ameri- can Bible Society, one half to the Trustees of the Church at Bloomingdale of which he is now Pastor, for the sole benefit of said Church, and the remaining one quarter he shall keep for his sole use and benefit and that of his family. (Will dated March 5, 182 1). On the 29th of May it was reported that the lots had been sold at auction and brought $440. Har- sen bid in three of them, which he said the Consistory could have if they pleased. Two of them were ac- cepted in June, viz. Nos. 63 and 64, and Prall offered to advance the money necessary to fill them to the 196 Zhc IRew l?ork of ^cetcvbwi proper level. The Pastor and Harsen were appointed to make such a contract. These offers were noticed as being liberal ones — creditable to these gentlemen as friends of the Church and deserving of grateful remembrance. Alexander Gunn as Trustee conveyed to Henry Post Nos. 62, 63, and 64, each 25 x 100 feet, by deed dated June 14th, consideration $300; bounded west in front by Forsyth Street, north by the Dutch Church burial ground, east in rear by other ground of van Cortlandt, and south by lot No. 65, sold to Joseph Concklin. A lower price had to be accepted because the "removal of the Church ground fence" had reduced the size somewhat. Post sold Nos. 63 and 64 to Caleb Concklin later for $400. The new singer, Humphrey, was engaged to lead in June, 182 1. The winter evening lectures would begin in the old church in October. The afternoon services were resumed the third Sabbath in April, 1822. Friday previous to Communion Sabbath was set apart to be observed as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer. In July, it was arranged that thereafter monthly collections be taken up from May to Novem- ber and quarterly for the rest of the year. The usual summer subscription was ordered. Striker and Prall were to cover the territory from Manhattanville to the van den Heuvel mansion and Harsen and Post the rest of the congregation. Post declined to stand again for election in August, and Richard A. Striker was chosen deacon. By invitation, Post sat and acted with the Consistory in November, when it met at his house after the summer vacation. Striker became Treasurer in the place of Post resigned. Thanks were voted to him for his faithful attention as Treasurer. A committee was appointed to inquire what alter- ^/^.UJit^ Portrait and signature of Richard A. Striker, Esq., from the original painting in possession of Mrs. J. H. Maples ^be Cburcb at Ibarsenvillc 197 ation could be made in the place "where the Clerk stands. " The cupola was repaired in January, 1823, and John H. Striker made collector. The afternoon service began the first Sabbath in May at 4 o'clock. Post was appointed Church master. The Church and par- sonage were ordered to be put in a complete state of repair. On August 12th, the terms of Hopper, Harsen, and Prall having expired, they were re-elected. The regular fall collection was ordered. Striker un- dertook to collect donations in the neighborhood of his home, and Prall near by the Church. Among the contributors were Messrs. Boggs, Duryea, van Antwerp, Watkins (who married a daughter of James Striker), Joel Post, Gideon Lee, and Mrs. Bingham. Trees were planted in and about the grounds under the super- vision of R. A. Striker in November and the chimneys were ordered cleaned. It was found impracticable to have the work done "by the patent sweeps," and "another method" was used. Consistory met at Quackenbush's residence for the first time. Thomas J. Emmons was engaged as sexton in June, 1824. Among his prescribed duties were to care for the prop- erty that it might not be injured in any way by boys or cattle, to prevent children from being disorderly, in the summer season to have the windows open so as to give air without rattling the blinds, to attend to the sawing of the wood, keep the stoves in order in both the old and new churches, to open and light with candles the former edifice on lecture evenings, and to direct the work of opening vaults and digging graves in the churchyard. Isaac Dey, former occu- pant of this office, was discharged. Asten presented some damask for a new cushion for the pulpit. The iqS Zhe Bew l?orft of IJestetbai? study at the parsonage was put in better condition. In August Striker, was re-elected Elder and Prall chosen in place of Hopper deceased. Asten, Richard A. Striker and James Quackenbush were elected Dea- cons, the latter in place of Prall. They were ordained in September. The afternoon service was suspended in November. In January, 1825, it became known that the es- tablishment of a Dutch church was in contemplation in the vicinity of the Arsenal (the present building near Fifth Avenue within the limits of Central Park). A wish had been expressed that this Consistory take it in charge as a branch of the local church. John Williams, a communicant, offered to donate two or three lots as a site provided an edifice like unto Mr. Baldwin's or Doctor Rowan's would be built. Some opposition to this undertaking was evinced and the matter was postponed for further enlightenment. Later in the month it was decided to be inexpedient "under present circumstances." The election of church officers was changed from August 12 th to the first Monday in October annually. It was found that members of the body were often absent in the country at the former date. Harsen, Prall, and Quackenbush were re-elected to their respective offices in October accordingly. A new cistern was constructed at the parsonage in March, 1826. Naugle re-engaged to lead the singing. Striker, Asten, and Richard A. Striker were re-elected the following October. A list of donations to the Female Cent Society made by the ladies of the congregation this year supplies these names: Anna Maria Jackson, a granddaughter of Jacob Harsen, Mary Striker, the Elder's wife, Mrs. Post, wife of the Deacon, Mrs. Horn, Mrs. Clendining, Zl)c Cburcb at Ibarsenville 199 Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Meier, Mrs. Kunze, Mrs. Ichabod Prall, Mrs. John Williams, Mrs. Savage, Mrs. Martin, Catherine Cosine, Rachel Cosine, Sarah Kent, Mrs. Cargill, Mrs. Westerfield, Mrs. Powis, Mrs. T. J. Stevens, Miss Lavinia Mott, daughter of the Rev. George Strebeck and adopted daughter of Jordan Mott, Mrs. Garret H. Striker, Mrs. Isabella Hamilton, Mrs. Quackenbush, Mrs. Feitner, Mrs. John Miller, Mrs. Amory, and Mrs. Bayard. The location of the parsonage was found thus early to be unhealthful and the Pastor applied for consent to his removal therefrom. This desire was concurred in with the hope that a change of residence would prove beneficial to the health of his family, and his children be more conveniently educated. Board met at the old Church June 5, 1827, for the first time since the new edifice was occupied. In 1828, a horse shed was put up adjoining the bam on the parsonage plot. Harsen, Prall, and Quacken- bush re-elected. Communion articles were purchased. Each was initialled with the usual style: "R. D. C. H." Those heretofore in use had been loaned by a friend. The new set consisted of one flagon, four cups, one bowl, and two plates. Subscriptions were received therefor and also for larger stoves, some complaint having been made that the building was not sufficiently warmed in winter with the present ones. Those who made donations here indited aid us in fixing the names of some attendants on the services. Mr. Gunn, Jacob Harsen, John Horn, Jr., Richard A. Striker, James Striker, Ann Striker, Caspar Meier, David Cargill, J. Prall, John Clendining, John Asten, Henry Post, John Williams, Joel Post, Augustus A. Prall, Richard Powis, Samuel A. Savage, Thomas Stevens, John Beek- 200 Zbc 'Ucxo IJork of l^eaterbai? man, S. N. Bayard, Samuel van Orden, Martha Amory, C. and R. Cozine, Mr. Park, Mrs. Leggett, Mr. Wester- field, Mrs. Martin, Miss A. M. Jackson, Mr. Quacken- bush, and Mr. Ackerman. Isaac Dey appointed sexton in May. Striker, Asten, and R. A. Striker were re-elected. Shortly after the new church was contemplated, a cemetery in the rear thereof was arranged for. This was very necessary, for beyond a few private grounds there were no burial places in the vicinage. Mr. Gunn's duties occupied his time to such an extent that he requested to be reHeved of membership on the building committee, and when Harsen expressed a willingness to assume the responsibility in the pastor's stead, the Consistory in June, 1814, donated to him sufficient ground on which to have constructed a family vault. This was the beginning of the local God's acre which was destined to hold the remains of so many old Bloomingdale residents. For over fifty years, this plot, lying in the shadow of the sanctuary, was used for the purpose designated and became a land- mark on the line of the Road. In November of the following year, the Church walls having delimited the location and size of ground which could be so used, resolutions were passed that the ends of vaults should be built against the rear wall of the building, and Post and Prall were appointed a committee to ascertain the usual size of such places of deposit. Fifty dollars was fixed as the price for the site of each vault. The disposition of the ground was put in the hands of Harsen and Post, whereupon Striker stated that he desired to buy sufficient space for his family sepulchre. This vault was the second to be constructed. A deed of the land, however, was not executed until December, ^be Cburcb at IbatacnvUIc 201 1 81 6, when it was moved and carried unanimously that he be presented with the ground occupied. In the meantime, as a mark of gratitude to Mr. and Mrs. Asten, ground was also granted them (Nov., 1815) should they wish to use it. Rules for the regulation of the cemetery proper were fixed upon in December. The sexton was allowed to charge for his services as follows : For attending and inviting $4 . 00 For opening a vault, infant under 2 years 2 . 00 " " " " " 5 " 3.00 " " " " 10 " 4.00 " " 1.50 ' ' use of horse , in addition 2 . 00 These church fees were also agreed to : For use of pall i • 50 " privilege of interment in church vault 8.00 " for grave for infant under one year 2 .00 " " " child to age of 5 3.00 " " " all above that age 4.00 The digging of graves should commence at the north- east comer of the ground and continue regularly to the southeast comer of the stone wall, and no one but the sexton should do this work. The first interment was that of Elizabeth Board, the wife of Henry Post. At the session at Striker's Bay on January 8, 1816, space was granted therefor free of expense. There is no means of ascertaining just who were buried there. In the records, the names of a few are men- tioned. The next found is in June, 181 7, when a Mr. Moore paid for the interment of his children. A pall was not obtained until October, 1818. The price for its use was raised to $2.00. Other families who 202 TOe 1Rew IPorFi of IJe^terba^ had burial space in 1819 were Brown, Hoffman, Holmes, and Drake. In August, 1820, it is stated that James Buchanan, the British Consul, Mr. Drake, Mr. van Orden, Mr. Field, and Mr. Cozine had had children buried in the churchyard. Mrs. Waldron's remains were also interred, as were children of Mr. Brown and Mr. Holmes. The first use of the pall to be noticed was at Andrew Hopper's funeral, who was interred in the family plot at Ninth Avenue and 50th Street. In February, 1823, Mr. Cornell paid for the burial of his mother-in-law. On the appointment of a new sexton in 1824, the pall was placed in his charge, and also the collection of funeral charges. Strangers or persons not pew- holders must pay in advance. The fee for digging a grave was fixed at one dollar. The question of en- larging the cemetery arose in January, 1825, and Harsen and Quackenbush were appointed to inquire where an acre of ground could be bought therefor. Diligent search failed to find a suitable spot and the committee was discharged in April. Mr. Freeman and Mr. Kinkade were interred in January of this year. Mr. Clendining's man was buried in October. Caspar Meier made application for ground for a family vault in March, 1826, which was granted. James Wester- field made a similar request in May. Deeds were approved in both instances that month. The plan of building a church vault was then entertained. Striker was designated to ascertain the cost and estimates were requested. The matter was not of such urgency as to require haste and fell asleep, in which state it remained for the next fifteen years. In June, 1827, Dr. Joseph Bayley made application for a vault space for his father-in-law. Col. Anthony ^be Cburcb at IbarsenvUIe 203 Post, which was granted, and in May, 1828, Elder Prall submitted a like request with the same result. But seven vaults, occupying the entire space along the rear wall, were constructed in all. From the records of St. Michael's Church the fol- lowing additional interments in the Harsenville ground are noted: Mrs. van Buskirk, widow of Lawrence van Buskirk and daughter of Wm. Burnham. Her remains were re- moved to the new vault at St. Michael's May 19, 1835. William Bowen, son of John Crump and Hannah his wife, aged 20 months, March 19, 1843. Mary Elizabeth Ferguson, an inmate of the New York Orphan Asylum, aged 4 years, April 9, 1844. Margaret Walker, aged 42, August 30, 1849. Herman, son of James Punnett and Mary Meier his wife, aged I year 7 mos.; in family vault January 24, 1850. Catharine Elizabeth Purcell, died July 5th, aged 8 years, 2 mos. 6 days; in church vault, July 6, 1850. Philip Knowel, son of Joseph and Elizabeth Kellow, both deceased, died August 28th, aged i year, 4 months, 3 days; in church vault August 29, 1850. Robert Farmer, son of Abraham V. Barberie and Loretta Cadez his wife, died August 30th, aged 2 years, 14 days; in church vault August 31, 1850. Walter, son of James Punnett and Marie K. his wife, aged 4 mos. 16 days; in family vault of his grandfather Caspar Meier August i, 1853. The Revised Ordinances of 1866, Chap, xlix., Sections i and 2, prohibited the opening of graves south of 86th Street, and at a meeting of the Board of Health held June 19, 1872, this ordinance was amended so as to apply to all that part of the city south of 130th Street. Among the holders of pews in 1826 were the fol- 204 Zhc 1Revo ^ov^ of IJester^ai? lowing individuals: Caspar Meier, Rev. Mr. Bansel, James Boggs, Catharine and Rachel Cozine, Theodore Mayer, Mrs. Andrew Hopper, Isaac L. Varian, John Cozine, Henry Post, Joel Post, John Clendining, James Bumham, Andrew Watt, John Parks, James Quacken- bush, John Moore, William Holmes, Ichabod Prall, Thomas J. Stephens, Henry H. Schieffelin, John Beek- man, Baron John C. van den Heuvel, John Williams, Aaron B. Jackson, Richard H. Striker, John Asten, David Cargill, Stephen N. Bayard, Jacob Harsen, James Striker, J. G. Russell, Jordan Mott, John Adams, Philo Mills, and Messrs. Martin, Savage, Leggett, Westerfield, Darke, Henderson, Tappan, Weed, Powis, and Horn. In 1831, Frederick C. Havemeyer and William Holden took pews, and in 1837 Messrs. Nolton and Riker. The Church life had peacefully and fruitfully pro- ceeded after the financial troubles had been weathered through the instrumentality of the bounty of the devoted and benevolent woman Mrs. Asten. Let us quote for a space the words of Dr. Martyn : Children were born, baptized and instructed in godliness at home and in God's house. Marriages were solemnized and the dead buried in the blessed hope of the resurrection. The little graveyard "was filled with all the nameless pathos of the here and the hereafter." Pastor and people walked hand in hand. The scene was like a vision of Acadia. But alas and alack! Where is the earthly Eden that is free from care and grief? In the land of nowhere! It was the year 1829. Without warning, like a bolt from the blue, the beloved pastor of this church fell dead, lisping "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." Bloomingdale was aghast. Notice of the passing was published in the Evening ^be Cburcb at IbarsenvUIe 205 Post and the Gazette, and in the N. Y. Spectator of October 26. appeared an obituary which speaks of the heavy loss which had been sustained, and of the truly evangelical character of the deceased, who was much beloved in private life. An estimate of his worth could be gleaned from his selection as biographer of Dr. Livingston. He was in his forty-fourth year, with much usefulness yet before him. Dr. Gunn's five children were born in Bloomingdale. One of them was the first to be baptized in the new House of Worship, 1 816. The last child was named in honor of John Asten, 1818. At the first meeting of the Consistory held thereafter (Oct. 1 5) at the Harsen Man- sion, the following action was taken: It having pleased Almighty God to remove by death, on the first day of this month, the Reverend Alexander Gunn, D.D., the beloved Pastor of Our Church, Resolved that, whilst this Consistory desire to bow submissively and reverentially to the will of a holy and wise God, they feel their hearts penetrated with sorrow by the sore bereavement which they, in common with the Church over which they preside, have experienced in the removal of their late Pastor in the midst of his usefuless and in the 44th year of his age. A man greatly endeared to them by a course of more than twenty-one years' labor in their midst, by his consistent and exemplary piety and his prudence, zeal, and faithfulness as their spiritual guide and comforter, they do hereby record their deep sense of his worth and their loss, and are only comforted by the per- suasion they feel that he has already met the welcome and thrilling salutation "Well done, good and faithful servant" and that they in their desolation will be mercifully re- garded by the "Chief Shepherd" to whom they desire to look for succour. The minute concludes as follows: 2o6 ziK 1Rew l?orft of IpceterDa^ The Elder Mr. Prall presented the request of Sarah Gunn, the widow of our late Pastor, for a deed and right of a lot of ground in conjunction or moiety with Ichabod Prall in the yard of the Church for a vault of the same dimensions as the other vaults, Mr. Prall relinquishing a grant for a vault formerly made to him. Resolved that the above requests be granted and that a deed be made to the persons above named when requested. In remembrance of his long and useful pastorate, a tablet to the Doctor's memory was erected by the Consistory on the south side of the lower vestibule in the fourth church edifice, about on the site of his tomb. This memorial reads as follows : ERECTED BY THE CONSISTORY to the memory of the REVD. ALEXANDER GUNN, D.D. Pastor of this Church from 1808 to 1829; When, on the ist of October, and in the 44th year of his age. While "toiling still with a busy hand," he fell asleep and awoke in heaven. For more than 21 years, he preached and PRACTISED the Gospel in this parish. "The memory of the just is blessed." Prov. X. y. For a time the life of the Church seemed to lie with him in the coffin. The exigency was met by supplies, the first, Rev. Isaac S. Ketchum, preaching in the new church on October 25th. Richard A. Striker was appointed to provide a preacher for the ensu- ing Sabbath and application was made to the Classis, which supplied these clergymen: Drs. DeWitt, Brown- lee, Knox, Kuypers, and Marcellus officiated during November; Rev. Messrs. Smith, John FreHnghuysen Portrait and signature of Rev. Francis M. Kip, D.D., by courtesy of J. B. Vandervoort, Esq. ^be Cburcb at Ibarsenville 207 Jackson, van Pelt, and Dubois in December; Dr. Broadhead and Messrs. Baldwin, van Hook, and De- Witt in January, 1830, and Drs. Brownlee and Kuypers and Messrs. van Hook and Vermeule in February, At the request of Mrs. Gunn, the grates, etc., in the parsonage were purchased of her and the cloth around the pulpit, over which her husband had so long min- istered, was made a gift. In April, 1830, she applied for a certificate of dismission, which was granted. During this sad period, the officers met at the Har- sen Mansion at each session, a home feeling having engendered a desire to return to the birthplace of the organization. In June, Quackenbush and R. A. Striker were chosen to wait on the families of the congregation holding pews, to obtain their sentiments towards calling some one of the candidates heard, and to ascertain if Post and David Cargill would serve if elected. Another evidence of Harsen's liberality presented itself in July. The Consistory was in his debt to the amount of some I400 with interest from September I, 1823, and a bond had been approved and authorized to be given him therefor in 1825, but had never been delivered. He now presented the claim and interest to the Consistory, with the gratitude of that body. XLbc SeconD /iRinister The consensus of opinion in the congregation having been found to favor Rev. Francis Marschalk Kip, a call was prepared "taken from the printed form adopted by the Dutch Church." It provided for the payment of a salary of $500, and that he should live in the parsonage or in the vicinity. This call issued from Prall's residence in town on July 8, 1830. The par- 2o8 ^be 1Rew l?orft of jjeaterba^ sonage, which had not been used since Doctor Gunn removed therefrom, was now put in thorough repair in the event that the new pastor should elect to reside there. Donations therefor were received from John Beekman, John Clendining, and Alderman Harsen among others. The church was given a complete cleaning and a new singing leader engaged. The call was accepted and the new minister was present for the first time at a meeting of August i6th, at Prall's. Bom in New York city, Aug. 7, 1807, he was graduated from Columbia College in 1826, from the New Bruns- wick Seminary in 1830, and was licensed by the Classis of New York. This was his first charge. Harsen, Quackenbush, and R. A. Striker were chosen Elders and John Parks, John A. Striker, and David Patterson Deacons on December ist. This completed the Board, James Striker having been too ill to attend for some two years. Committee appointed to call on new residents met with good results and was made perma- nent for the summer in March, 1831. R. A. Striker selected to attend Classis for the first time. The Domine at a special meeting held at Harsen's Septem- ber 27th resigned his call, after a service of only thirteen months. In accepting the resignation this expression of the Consistory's sentiments was spread on the minutes: Resolved that, while in the providence of God we have been called upon to consent that the tie between us and our Pastor, the Rev. Francis M. Kip, be dissolved, it is with feelings of love and good will as well as with those of regret. And it is our fervent prayer and sincere desire that wherever God may cast his future lot, a blessing may attend upon him and his future labors in the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. ^be Cburcb at Ibarsenville 209 Immediately on leaving here Domine Kip became pastor of the Ninth Street Church, which he served five years. His Alma Mater conferred the degree of S.T.D. upon him in 1857 and he became a Trustee of the Denomination in i860. He is said to have been unassuming in manner, kind of heart, and devoted to his calling. An excellent historian and theologian, he was well versed in ancient languages and a great antiquarian. ^be ^bir& /minister R, A. Striker and Patterson were appointed a com- mittee to wait upon the Rev. William Labagh with pow- er to engage him for six months from October ist. He was the son of John J. Labagh who had been Assistant Alderman of the First Ward from 183 1-3, was at this time Alderman of the same ward, and again represented it in 1840. At the meeting which assembled at Har- sen's in January, 1832, the minister was present and accepted. R. A. Striker resigned as Clerk and Treas- urer and his brother John H. Striker was elected to fill both offices. Mr. Labagh gave much satisfaction, but on the expiration of his term it was deemed wise to settle a permanent pastor, and a committee was nominated to find the proper individual. In May, Rev. John AlBurtis was decided on. A Columbia graduate, he was educated for the ministry at the Seminary in New Brunswick and licensed by the Classis in that place in 181 7. Called for three years at the same compensation, he moved with his family into the parsonage. In January, 1833, the spire of the old church was struck by lightning and burned. Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby was then a lad at the boarding school presided over by Rev. Mr. Huddart. From his 2IO Zhc "Wew l?ork of ^C6tctt>w^ bedroom window he saw the fire. Because of this loss, afternoon services in the new edifice were sub- stituted for the usual evening service at the old one. Mr. AlBurtis did not remain his full term with the Church. He expressed his desire to retire in October, 1834, and on November 28th he was released from all connection therewith. A hiatus of six months in- tervened before a permanent pastor was selected. Xlbe ffourtb /Bbfnister At a session held at the Harsen Mansion on May 26, 1835, the Rev. Francis M. Kip, being present by- invitation, was requested to draft a call to the Rev. Enoch van Aken, at a salary of $800 and the free use of the parsonage. He had been for a short space connected with the church at Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N. Y. He came to Bloomingdale at the age of twenty-six, full of courage and evangelical spirit, and was destined to make this pastorate his life work. For fifty years he went in and out among his people, bearing the burdens of an uphill fight for the right and the preservation of The Church of the Village. Until now it had been the religious and social centre of a homogeneous community numbering some two thousand souls. Parishioners gathered here from all surrounding quarters — some from a distance of ten miles north, says The History of Eighty Years. But with the upward growth of the city and the consequent removal of downtown churches in the wake of popula- tion, together with the religious accommodations provid- ed in the outlying districts, the more remote church- goers dropped away into local houses of worship. An important element of strength was thus lost to Bloom- ingdale. Worse still, the character of the community (^* T^^t^i^ij^^t. Portrait and signature of Rev. Enoch Van Aken ^be Cburcl) at Ibareenville 211 was disastrously changing. Death, removal, the vicissi- tudes of time were busy. The old families were thinning out. Their farms were beginning to be cut up into imaginary city lots. Assessors and Street Commissioners, like an invading army, quartered themselves on the land. Following in their track came a swarm of squatter sovereigns in the shape of newly arrived immigrants. These were utterly un- sympathetic with the old church life of the hamlet. This was the condition which confronted the new pastor. When the church records were rectified, there were just twenty-eight members in full standing. The meeting at which Domine van Aken was called was the last which assembled at the Harsen Mansion. The Elder had died full of years — all of honor — prior to the next session, and thus passed away the last of the original ofificers of the Church. His valuable advice and assistance were missed at this juncture. This item from his will closes the long series of contributions which he delighted to shower upon his beloved Church : I order and direct my said executors as soon as con- veniently may be after my decease to invest out of my personal estate a sum of money sufficient to produce the yearly income of one hundred dollars and that they pay the said sum yearly and every year for the period of twelve years from the time of such investment to the Corpora- tion styled "The Church at Harsenville according to the doctrine and discipline of the Synod of Dort," such stim to be applied by said incorporation towards the repairs of their church edifice, parsonage and the fences enclosing the same and I do order and direct that after the expiration of the said period of twelve years the said principal sum so invested shall form part of my residuary personal estate to be applied and go as by me hereafter directed. 212 Zhe 1Rew ^ovh of IJesterba^ The donations made by this devoted Christian aggre- gated $217,913.50, made up as follows: 1 806. Conveyance of original site, sold i860 for $ 6000 1809. " " parsonage acre, ^ thereof between 72d & 73d Sts., sold i860 for 80,000 balance between 71st & 7 2d Sts., sold 1886 for 130,000 1830. Donation of claims against Consistory 513.50 1835. Bequest 1200 To this should be added two lots of the Beekman bequest which were sold in 182 1, for $200, the proceeds of which were presented to the Consistory. New hands were raised up to aid the pastor. In August, Quackenbush was re-elected and Parks elected Elders, the latter in place of Harsen, and Patterson and J. H. Striker were chosen Deacons. Church work was taken up with a vim. The administration of the sacrament was fixed for next Sabbath week, prayer meetings were scheduled for Wednesday evenings and a Bible class on Simday evening opened. The sexton had resigned and another was to be sought. Parks and Striker were appointed to view the old church ground, and the latter to obtain a quitclaim thereof from Harsen's heirs. The first meeting at John Parks' residence took place on September 2d. Striker was appointed to apply to the Board of Domestic Missions for aid; the application resulted in an allow- ance of $200 for the coming year. It was decided to let the old ground and Secretary Striker was dele- gated to do so. Patterson and Striker were elected Elders, and David Law and Ackerly Fitch Deacons on April ist, 1837. Parks was absent from the meeting in October, and died shortly thereafter. Law was tTbe Cburcb at Ibareenville 213 appointed Treasurer. It was not until June of the following year that all the vacancies in the Consistory- were filled. Then Caspar Meier was elected Elder to fill Striker's place, who had removed from the city, and Cornelius Westerfield and Thomas J. Emmons, Deacons. The date of the election thereafter was set for the third Monday in July of each year. Meier became Secretary in October and the Board met at his residence on the 23d. Jordan Mott, David Cargill, Gerard Willam Livingston, Caspar Meier, and the Pastor were appointed to draw a petition to the Church in town, asking assistance, and Meier, Cargill, and Westerfield to apply to the heirs of Harsen for a release of the parsonage property. In February, 1839, Pelatiah Perit was added to the committee, with Livingston, Cargill, and Mott, to appear before the Collegiate Church officers, the result of which was an appropriation of $500. Emmons was designated in April to arrange the letting of the church lot in the village. In July, for the second time, this matter was deferred. An examination was to be made to see if any of the church land lay in the street. It being found that it did, the sexton was directed not to dig graves thereon. An addition to the burying ground was again suggested in January, 1840. Perit, Charles Darke, and Emmons were to see to repairs to cupola and roof in April. Westerfield and Livingston were elected Elders in July, and Emmons and John Waite Deacons. Livingston declined at this time. Waite became Treasurer. Inquiry was to be made con- cerning a strip of ground adjacent to the church in the rear, for burial purposes. Consistory met at Waite' s residence the first time in November, 1841. Livingston and John N. Boyd 214 Zhc 1Rew IJork of IpesterOai? were elected Elders in April 1842. Henry Quick was chosen Deacon. The long-contemplated expediency of a Public vault became pressing this year. Wester- field and Waite were appointed to make inquiries con- cerning it. In September, Livingston and Emmons, a building committee appointed for the purpose, executed a contract for its construction at a cost of $325. So much dampness was found in the present vault that it was necessary to blast out a drain therefrom to carry off the water to the Road. The above officers were accordingly empowered in April, 1843, to proceed with the work. They were also required to draft new by-laws for the Consistory. These are entered in full on the records, having been adopted in May. Regular meetings were set for the second Monday in January, April, July, and October "at such place as shall be mutually agreed upon." The duties of the Treasurer and Secretary were detailed. Officers of the Consistory were to be chosen at the July meeting. In that month, William Holmes was elected Elder and Peter Rennie, Deacon, who was installed on November 12th. An extra session was held the same month at Boyd's whereat he was made Secretary, Westerfield having resigned. Emmons was appointed Treasurer in place of Waite. Livingston to attend Classis. Emmons and Rennie, by appointment in July, 1845, announced that they had rented the old site in the village adjoining John Jasper's property to him at $7.50 a year during the pleasure of the Board. Land was certainly a drug in those days. This property commenced at a point in the line of the lot occupied by said Jasper on the Bloomingdale Road, ran westerly eighty feet, thence northeasterly thirty-five feet, thence easterly sixty-six feet to the Road and thence Zhc Cburcb at Ibareenville 215 southerly along said Road fifty-five feet to the place of beginning, unless the western boundary be changed by the opening of Tenth Avenue. In November, John Read made an offer therefor for the purpose of building thereon, and on December 2d a lease to him for seven years at $20 per annum was signed, to begin May i, 1846, which provided that no spirituous liquors be made or sold on the premises. At this time there was no drainage in the village and fever and ague prevailed to a very great extent. A few blocks to the south of the parsonage there was a large pond near present Central Park West. Those who lived near by remember how often two or more members of a family were seen shaking at the same time. Mr. van Aken finally refused to live in the parsonage, for his health's sake, and removed there- from. The Directory of 1843 gives his address as 203 West 20th Street. He went to Florida in 1844 because of failing health, where he spent a year. At such times he rented the parsonage. During his ab- sence the pulpit was supplied by the Rev. Mr. Robinson and Dr. Vermeule. The kind, genial bearing of the latter is recalled. He had a fund of humor, in which, however, he never indulged at the sacred desk. With always a kind word for the young people, he won the hearts of all during the short time he was there. The land-owners in the neighborhood were averse to the cir- culation of the unfavorable report respecting the health- fulness of the village and the removal of so conspicuous a man as the minister caused some dis- satisfaction among them. It got to be neighborhood talk largely because of an infliction of illness which occurred a few years previously, by which whole families, in every direction, 2i6 Zl)c IRevp ©ork of IJesterba^ were prostrated. Domine van Aken used it to point a moral in his discourses, and these, instead of allaying, added fuel. We are in possession of a letter from the pastor to one of our relatives, dated September, 1845, in which he defends his course by asserting that God would have held him guilty had he suffered that most severe dispensation of Providence to pass without warning the people to whom He had commissioned him to preach, to take heed thereto and profit thereby. It got to be common report that the pastor had removed because of this sickly condition, and many would-be comers to the village were frightened away because of this rumor and the lasting impression it made. It is asserted that it was never proclaimed from the pulpit that such illness was caused by the surroundings. At the same time sickness was prevalent, let the cause be what it might. The Domine, however, did not remove for the alleged reason; the state of his limgs required he should locate where the congested districts would prevent the cold river air from penetrating, and his Consistory approved his course. He wrote at this time that he hoped his health would warrant his return to Blomingdale within two years. So much for this, which caused somewhat of a tempest in a thimble at the time and proved in a manner how large an influence the Church really wielded. While on the subject of the pastor it seems appropriate to add here some expressions in one of his letters which give a glimpse of his inner consciousness and character. He says : I conceive it to be my duty to preach the word of God with all plainness and to proclaim the whole counsel of God and to withhold nothing. This is the express com- m.and of Jesus, and I have no inclination to disobey it lest ^be Cburcb at Ibar^envUle 217 the blood of souls be found upon my skirts, and especially since my recent affliction, have I felt the more the weight of my responsibility and most earnestly prayed that I might be enabled to preach with increased faithfulness and force His whole truth. In the old time there were those who did not wish to hear the whole word of God, and some false prophets, to please them, prophesied only smooth things. You will recollect how awful were the judgments in which God denounced these prophets. I have therefore endeavored to rouse all who heard me to a sense of their whole duty to God and men, and have en- deavored to sweep away every false hope upon which any might rest. In the particular discourse you mention I drew as plainly as I was able the line of distinction between that true ground of hope which is connected with a right zeal for God and those false grounds which are connected with the various kinds of spurious zeal which men profess. God might overrule these things for good to His church, but as far as the individuals themselves are concerned the latter motives cannot be approved in the sight of God. They must have better ones than these if they would hope to be saved. It was for the truth's sake that Paul was scourged and stoned and cast into prison. It was for this very reason that he was finally put to death, for this very reason all the apostles suffered; and so of our Lord and Saviour — men hated and crucified Him because he preached the truth. My life work is the endeavor to preach faith- fully His message. More quotations from Domine van Aken's letters could be given. This is sufficient to show his zeal in going about his Master's business. A regular meeting of the Consistory was held on April 9, 1846, at the Cozine Mansion, which stood at Eighth Avenue between 53d and 54th Streets. Mrs. Cozine was an own cousin of Jacob Harsen and the pastor came to regard this as his home. With his 2i8 Zbc IRew l?ork of l^eeterba^ wife and their son Gulick, he, for many years, passed the winters in this abode. During the summer the parsonage house, the barn, and fences were put in repair, and a brick cistern was authorized to be built. After these improvements, the minister spent his winters there. In 1847, the Collegiate Church again rendered assistance to the extent of $1600 and in October General Striker, Emmons, and Rennie took in charge the solicitation of the usual fall contributions to the funds. Bloomingdale Road was widened in 1849 and an award was granted to the Church, of $265. Perhaps the church was more strict in those days than later in the matter of watching the walk and con- versation of members. Anyway there seemed to be an avalanche of cases thought to require discipline running through the years from 1838 to 1850. The unchristian and criminal conduct of two individuals was the cause of an investigation in the first year mentioned. This case was the topic of a number of sessions, and resulted in a suspension of the back- sliders. Another was found guilty of profaning the Sabbath by being found on a number of occasions frequenting "the Public House." A committee was appointed in 1842, to endeavor to reconcile two parties. A married couple were the subject of a report, circulat- ing about the neighborhood, of "inconsistent walk" and were cited before the Consistory, where they were admonished. Two male members sinned by indulging in "offensive, opprobrious, brawling and boisterous conduct" after service, in the hearing of a portion of the congregation, to the great scandal of religion, and of repeating such gross misconduct in the afternoon of Communion Sabbath. They had been twice notified to appear before the Board, the one to answer charges Q/I^TtA Marf.tn Orphai^ SBojfe CO 'pulpit '^eUlin^g ^ , — -iiia^^ — . Jfai/cmeyer ftivmnci Wood CCcye jr,„ l«r* Jrivingistin. StrifCer Tost a stave MeServccL Jot Colore<3, people TfeservecL Jl Cllor* A people "Vestihule m] Yestihvde, ^Q YeatlhuU Jfaricrif D JKertMmant SeeKman, Me, Tkril* '~\ Orfihi Girls jBooh ^ ^ ^ ^ a^ in the vestibule opposite the tablet in memory of Mrs. As ten, which reads as follows: As a TOKEN of gratitude for [distinguished liberality Bestowed upon this house And to perpetuate the Remembrance of her pious BENEFACTION This monumental Stone is Erected by the consistory of the church To the Memory of MRS. BARBARA ASTEN The wife of mr. john asten, who fell asleep in Jesus July the 24th, 1816, aged 42 years. And thou Shalt be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee ; For thou Shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just. Luke 14, 14. The righteous Shall be in Everlasting remembrance. Ps. 112, 6. Domine van Aken passed away in January. On February 4th, a committee, composed of the pastor and Elders Reed and Hanaway, was appointed to pre- pare a memorial. This was spread on the minutes on March 6th, as follows: It having pleased Almighty God to remove by death on the third [should be second] day of January, 1885, the Rev. Enoch van Aken, D.D., the Pastor Emeritus of this Church, Resolved that this Consistory desires to express its grateful sense of appreciation of his long and laborious life, nearly fifty years of which were passed in the service of this people. His was one of the longest pastorates in the annals of the Metropolitan pulpit and one of the most checkered. By his prudence in temporal matters and by his wisdom in spiritual interests, he stamped his indi- viduality ineffaceably upon this church and neighborhood. Those who knew him in his prime think of him as an ZTbe Cburcb at Ibarsenville 255 earnest and sound exponent of the Gospel and love to dwell upon his faithful and pastoral oversight. Those, who met him later on, when resting under broken health, were impressed by his uncomplaining spirit and steadfast hope. We lay a garland on his coffin ; and while we thank God for what He enabled him to do, we congratulate him upon his emancipation from the heart-ache and weariness of this mortal life and his advancement into the largeness and blessedness of Heaven. As he passes from our sight, but not from our memory, we exclaim: "All hail and fare- well!" Resolved, that this minute be recorded in our book of proceedings, and that a copy be forwarded to Dr. van Aken's widow, with the assurance of our tender sympathy. The Kingston, N. Y., Freeman contained this notice: Died. van Aken at New Brunswick, N. J., Jan- uary 2, 1885, the Rev. Enoch van Aken in his 77th year. The many Kingston friends of Rev. Enoch van Aken will be pained to learn of his death, which occurred at New Brunswick, N. J., Jan. 2d. The deceased was a brother of William van Aken of this city and was the father of the late Rev. Gulick van Aken who was also well known here and who was once called as the pastor of the Presbyterian Church but died before commencing active work. Rev. Enoch van Aken was bom at Esopus and spent the earlier part of his life in the neigh- borhood of Saugerties. He was educated at Kingston Academy and commenced the study of law in the village of Kingston ; afterwards he gave up the pursuit of law for that of the ministry. He entered Rutgers College, 256 ^be IRew Iffork of IJeeterba^ New Brunswick, and Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, and after completing his studies commenced his life work as pastor of the Dutch Church at Kinderhook, New York. Two years afterwards he was called to the Bloomingdale Church, New York City. This was just half a century ago, but he continued in active service as pastor of that church until within a few years of his death. Then he relinquished his labors be- cause of a stroke of paralysis. While physic- ally disabled his mind continued active and useful until he was called home to receive the reward, "Well done, good and faithful servant; enter into the joy of thy Lord," and to realize the promise, " where I am ye may be also." His remains were interred in the cemetery at Sleepy Hollow. A marble tablet was thereafter erected to his mem- ory bearing this inscription, composed by his life-long friend, Rev. A. R. Thompson, D.D. TO THE BLESSED MEMORY OF THE REV°. ENOCH VAN AKEN Born July 21st, 1808, August 9th, 1835, Installed Minister of this Church, Died January 2nd, 1885. Gentle in spirit, wise in counsel, constant in labor, A faithful preacher of Christ crucified. By his fidelity, sagacity and devotion This Church was brought safely through the critical period When the village of Bloomingdale was becoming a part of this great Metropolis. "He was a good man and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith." — Acts xi., 24. ^be Cburcb at Ibarsenvillc 257 " Their works do follow them." — Revelations xiv., 13. Erected by the Consistory. With the passing of Domine van Aken expired the last pastor of Holland descent. While Dr. Gunn was not of the Dutch faith, Domines Kip and van Aken were born in the fold. Their pastorates ended what might be called the Dutch period in the life of the Church. Mr. van Aken was born July 21, 1808, graduated at Rutgers College in 1830, at the New Brunswick and Princeton Seminaries in 1833, was licensed by the Presbytery of New Brunswick and ordained by the Classis of Rensselaer in 1834. He was at the Kinderhook church the following year and came to his life charge in 1835. Corwin's Manual says it was his faithful preaching which led the Rev. Alex- ander R. Thompson to a new life, and credits him with having carried his church through a great and severe trial and saved it. He had remarkable ability, heroic simplicity, and earnest perseverance, and was a constant and never wearying visitor among the transient population of Bloomingdale. He was the author of many publications, mostly sermons and biographical articles, among the latter being "The Life and Character of Miss Ann Striker," Christian Intelligencer, i860, and "Article on General Garret H. Striker," in the same publication April, 1868. In March the new parsonage was so far finished that the pastor was requested to take possession. The meeting of the Consistory on April 2d was held there. A communication, dated the 30th inst., was received from the Department of Public Works complaining of the carelessness of the contractor. He had des- troyed some of the elms lining the sidewalk in his blasting operations. In May, Deacon Lyon reported 258 Z\)c 1Rew IPork ot IPeeter^ai? that he had made a satisfactory adjustment of this matter with the Department, and had taken steps to secure two lamps to be placed in front of the edifice on the Boulevard. The following account of the dedication service held on Thursday evening, October 2 2d, at 7.30 o'clock, is copied from the report published in The Christian Intelligencer, of the 28th: The dedication on Thursday evening last of the Bloom- ingdale Church at Broadway and Sixty-eighth Street was an event of more than usual iniportance to our denomi- nation. It is the first church edifice erected by us in this city for fifteen years ; and when the long continued struggle of the organization for existence is considered, the present society may be looked upon as a complete gain to our communion. For years after the farmers in the vicinity had sold their land to speculators, or had turned it into imaginary city lots, the congregation consisted of little more than the pastor's family and the sexton. Again and again the Classis threatened to abandon the work, but was re- strained by the remonstrance of the pastor, the Rev. Enoch van Aken, of whose foresight and pertinacity of purpose the present building is largely the result. The church has a frontage of 112 feet on Broadway, and a depth of about 100 feet on Sixty-eighth Street. It is built in the 13th century Gothic style, of Kentucky oolitic limestone, with the tower at the corner, and a pointed arch upon each street. The tower is extended to its full height^ but the spire which is to be of the same stone will not be added until a year hence, as it is necessary always to allow the walls to settle before imposing so great weight upon them. The interior arrangement is unique, admirably adapted to church purposes, and admitting of perfect acoustic properties. The main auditorium is finished entirely in oak, is oblong, with a gallery elliptical in form. The gallery is a peculiar feature in the design, being divided ^be Cburcb at IbarsenvUle 259 into " boxes " after the manner of the old Holland churches, and contributes materially to the general artistic effect. The floor slopes from all directions toward the pulpit, which is below the organ and the choir gallery, and stands in the centre of the longest diameter of the room. Light is obtained not only through the numerous stained glass windows, but through colored glass panels in the ceiling, which also act as ventilators, and produce an effect in ornamentation which can be produced in no other way. With thirteen exits from the room, one could scarcely lose enough presence of mind to secure his retention in the building in case of fire. In the rear of the body of the church are the lecture room and parlor on the ground floor, and the Sunday-school room above, furnished with infant and Bible class rooms opening out of it, and a wide gallery which runs around it on three sides. In going through the building, one is impressed with its solidity, spaciousness, and convenience. The architect, Mr. S. B. Reed, of 245 Broadway, is the senior elder of the church. Long before the hour of service, a crowd waited for ad- mission, and when the doors were open the building was soon filled to its utmost capacity. Words of commendation were heard on every hand, and when the gas was turned up there was a general murmur of approval. A pleasant feature of the occasion was the presence of the wife of the Rev. Enoch van Aken, who was pastor of the Church for fifty years. After an organ voluntary by Mr. Edward G. Jardine, builder of the instrument, the Rev. G. H. Smyth offered the invocation and pronounced the salutation. Rev. A. J. Hutton, of Brooklyn, read the Commandments, and Dr. E. A. Reed led in the responsive reading of the io2d Psalm. The choir then sang the anthem, "0 Come Let us Sing." The Old Testament lesson, Ex. xl : 17-38, was read by Dr. T. W. Chambers, and the lesson from the New Testament, Rev. xxi: 10-27, by Rev. S. S. Martyn. The hymn, "God in His earthly Temples lays foundations for 26o Zbc new ffiorft of ©eetcrba^ His heavenly praise," was read by Rev. O. H. Walser, and the congregation joined heartily in singing. The pastor, Rev. Carlos Martyn, then spoke as follows: " It is the pleasure of a lifetime, dear friends, to welcome you to-night to the dedication services of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church. Only those who have some acquaint- ance with building can understand or appreciate the multitude of details involved in the progress of any work of construction. We had hoped to welcome you to-night to a completed building, but we are a little disappointed in that. There are some of the details of finish in the wood- work and decoration which await the final touch of the workers in wood, and the cunning fingers of the decorator. Anyhow, we are glad to be here, for we here find transformed into solid stone, the hopes and dreams of many anxious and weary months. " Standing now upon the threshold of those purposes to which we intend to devote this building, we desire most reverently to thank the Great Head of the Church, the 'Giver of every good and perfect gift,' for His constant presence and continuous benediction. One of our elders said to me to-day : ' The history of our church is a history of divine providence.' That has never been more mark- edly realized than in the past year or two of our experience. The dear God has never left us nor forsaken us. " Standing on this platform this evening, there seems to start up before the eyes of my mind, a plain old farmer, a man prominent here six or seven decades ago. He was a leader in the then hamlet of Bloomingdale. I am, of course, referring to Jacob Harsen. I speak of this good man for a purpose. He has won the everlasting gratitude of every clergyman. Clergymen are a much-abused class of men. There are two views which prevail in the com- munity with regard to them. One is that a clergyman is a dray-horse, always serviceable, and at all times fit to be harnessed between the thills, and made to drag any cause out of the slough. Another view of him is, that ^be Cburcf) at Ibar^cnvUlc 261 he is a big bass drum, and everybody, as he passes along, feels at liberty to give him a thump. Jacob Harsen had a better idea of a minister. He said : ' The best thing to do with a domine is to put him in a pleasant home.' And, accordingly, he had constructed for the domine in his day a lovely and commodious parsonage, and gave him an ample parsonage plot. In the lapse of time that parsonage property, with the upward growth of our city, has become valuable; and instead of representing hundreds of dollars in value, as it did years ago, it now represents many thousands. And because of that increased value, we are here to-night. This building, in some sense, is the result of old Jacob Harsen's thoughtful kindness to his minister. It is a good example to follow, and I hope some of you will take it earnestly to heart. " Then I recall standing here that dear old man, the Rev. Enoch van Aken, who labored for fifty years in this portion of God's vineyard, and who withstood misrepresentation and misunderstanding decades long, and rowed against the stream for dreary years. I think his spirit, resting yonder in glory, is bending over us to-night, and joining with us as we bow in gratitude before the Great White Throne. "I bear a loving testimony also to the continual and patient labor and the practical skill of our senior Elder, the architect of this building, Mr. S. B. Reed. To my personal knowledge, all the details of this work have gone forward under his immediate eye and hand. For the beauty of this temple, with its brightness and commodiousness, you are indebted to him. Upon the tomb of Sir Christopher Wren, England's great architect, there is a striking epitaph. As you enter Saint Paul's Cathedral, you find staring you in the face these words: 'If you would behold the genius of Sir Christopher Wren, look around you.' We borrow to-night the epitaph of the English architect, and apply the legend to our honored friend and brother Mr. Reed. It is also due to our Consistory to say that they have stayed 262 ^be IRew l^ork of W^etctt>w^ up his hands grandly. His plans and suggestions have sometimes been earnestly debated, but he has almost always carried the day. "The church and congregation, too, have given us their continued interest and sympathetic co-operation in every stage of the work. "I claim two things for this church. It is a thoroughly constructed building. If there be any spot beneath heaven where truth should prevail, it is in the house of God. We have put truth into our rafters, into our walls, into our floors, and, please God, we mean to put truth into our- selves — the hardest task of all. We have got an honest house — good, sound oak in the interior, and solid stone on the outside. It is also an economical building. I claim unhesitatingly that it has cost less than any other church on Manhattan Island which is equally well equipped for the service of God. We have paid less than $150,000 for it. The land we count worth $125,000, so that the lowest actual value represented here is $275,000. We believe $300,000 would be nearer the present value. "There are one or two features of our church of which I wish to speak. It is not so much one building as a suc- cession of buildings. Remembering what Jacob Harsen gave that acre for, seventy years ago, our Consistory has seen to it that the Domine is well housed. In addition to the new parsonage, we have behind this auditorium, a lecture room, a church parlor, and a Sunday-school room capable of accomodating seven hundred scholars. Cobbett, the English economist, said that the secret of English civilization lay in the stomachs of the nation. I do not know how that is, but I am sure that every housewife is aware that she can reach the heart of her husband through his stomach more quickly than in any other way. We have borrowed a thought from this fact. We have put under our church parlor, a kitchen with a range in it, and every appliance usually found in this important part of a well-appointed house. We propose to feed the hungry ^be Cburcb at IbarsenvUle 263 literally, and I do not know but that by and by we will go a step further, and clothe the naked. I hope so. "Whether a man likes a building such as this is, or not, depends on his taste. Some people adore what is called ecclesiastical architecture — the cathedral style. They de- light to sing with Milton: 'I love the high embow^d roof. With antique pillars massy proof. And storied windows, richly dight. Casting a dim religious light.' But we do not believe in 'dim religious light.' That is magnificent poetry, but it is wretched church architec- ture, because it puts people to sleep. If you would get the grace of God into a man's heart, you must get the sleep rubbed out of his eyes. We have made our church as cheerful as the sunlight by day, and the gaslight by night, can make it. "One of the most interesting features in connection with the entrance into our new church is the home-coming of the inmates of the Orphan Asylum at the foot of Seventy- third Street. Hereafter we are to be privileged to welcome the dear little lambs of that lovely flock to our services. "Dear brethren and sisters, friends and hearers, our church will have been built in vain unless there shall come into it the spirit of the Living God. Vain the beauty of these walls, the luxuries we have lavished here, all those features of our church architecture in which we take such pride, unless operating through them all shall be the Holy Ghost. All else without that is but as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. "You remember the story of the old Greek who under- took to make a corpse stand on its feet. He lifted it. He poised it. He relaxed his grasp. It fell. Again he lifted it. Again it fell in a dismal huddle to the earth. Beholding it steadfastly, he said, ' It lacks something within.' And so a church lacks something within un- less God shall be found operating in and through its affairs. 264 ^be "fflew l?orft ot l?e6terba^ May we therefore be animated by the blessed spirit which was in Christ Jesus! " At the close of this address, Mrs. Geo. W. DeLano sang an alto solo, "This night I lift my heart," and then followed the dedicatory prayer, offered by Dr. A. G. Vermilye, and the reading of the form of dedication by the pastor, while the people stood. The hymn "How charming is the place" was read by Rev. W. W. Clark. Dr. E. B. Coe was to have preached, but owing to the lateness of the hour he gave a brief synopsis of the sermon. His text was Psalm xcvi., 6: "Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary." The theme was the importance of the church to personal character and to our civilization. He touched brieJQy upon its intellectual, social, and charitable influence, and upon its value as a protest against indifference to spiritual things, and closed with an appeal to his hearers to unite ill extending the church in the country, and to cherish the new religious home which they had just consecrated to the worship of God. After a prayer by Rev. Dr. J. M. Dickson and the singing of the hymn "Arise, O King of Grace, Arise," the service closed with the doxology and the benediction, pronounced by Rev. Paul D. van Cleef, D.D. The cheerful gaslight spoken of by Mr. Martyn in his address is produced by the reflectors of Mr. I. P. Frink. The light is soft and pleasant to the eye, while brilliant and equally diffused throughout the large audience room. Exercises at the Service of Fellowship took place on Sun- day afternoon October 25th. The day was a lovely one. At 3 o'clock the members and friends of the Blooming- dale Church again assembled in the new and charming house and crowded every nook and corner. A feast of good things had been provided for the vast congregation which sat in rapt attention for nearly three hours. The singing on this occasion, as at the dedication, was of a high order of merit and was led by the efficient quartette. The organist, Mr. G. Balies, Jr., presided at the organ. A ntimber ^be Cburcb at Ibareenvllle 265 of familiar hymns were interspersed, and the whole con- gregation became the choir. The Scriptures were read by the Rev. A. P. Atterbury, of the Eighty-sixth Street Presbyterian Church. Prayer was then offered by the Rev. Wendell Prime, D. D., editor of the New York Observer. The opening address was delivered by the pastor who was succeeded in turn by these representative brethren who joined to make the occasion memorable: Rev. Dr. Howard Crosby, pastor of the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church; the Rev. Dr. O. H. Tiffany, pastor of the Madison Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church; the Rev. Dr. Wilbur F. Watkins, rector of Holy Trinity, at Madison Avenue and 42d Street; the Rev. Sanford S. Martyn, pastor of the Congregational Church at Peacham, Vermont; the Rev. Dr. Robert S. Mac Arthur, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church, West 57th Street; the Rev. Dr. Charles F. Deems, pastor of the Church of the Strangers, Mercer Street; the Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, pastor of Pilgrim Con- gregational Church, Harlem, and the Rev. Dr. D. N. Vanderveer, pastor of the First Reformed Church of Brooklyn. The Rev. Dr. C. S. Harrower of St. Andrew's M. E. Church, in West 71st Street, led in a concluding prayer and the exercises ended with the long metre doxology. Regular services were begun on Sunday morning November ist. An historical discourse was delivered by Mr. Martyn, which ended with these words : "A church exists for a two-fold purpose: to build up the believers in its membership into the image of Jesus ; and to evangelize the unconverted within the circle of its reach and influence. The church that best subserves this two- fold purpose is the best church. The church that resolves itself into a mutual admiration society; that values ele- gant surroundings in themselves, and not as means to the grand end of the church life, and as the appropriate ac- cessories of worship; that finds aesthetic pleasure in fine music and poetical preaching, and is disturbed by a call to work, — ^lives but in name, and is dead. It ought to be 266 ziK flew l^orft of ^cetctbw^ buried before it becomes a stench in the nostrils of the community. The world delights in earnestness. It re- serves all its rewards for the earnest. Worldly people respect a church precisely in proportion to its enthusiastic devotion to its work. And in this God and the world are agreed. "As we seat ourselves to-day beneath these stately arches, and gather for our first regular service of worship, it is good for us to recall these truths; indeed, they inevi- tably flower out of this history of eighty years. The voices that speak to us from the past, and those other tones that address us out of the future, unite to bid us plant deep in our hearts the love of right, and grow from this the firm purpose of duty. When we are full of Christ, oui church will be full of Christians. "Then Pentecostal influence will radiate from beneath these gables, and the Holy Spirit will be domesticated in Bloomingdale . " This address with an account of the dedication and fellowship services was published in 1886, under the title of The History of Eighty Years and has preserved much data which otherwise would have been lost. The Consistory expressed in September of that year the appreciation of the labor of the President and Clerk in preparing that work. Acknowledgment is made to it especially for the history of this edifice. The Church remained open for inspection during the winter. The hope was expressed in the Consistory which had been a movable body heretofore, assembling where it was agreed it should, that it might now have a permanent home. Recently it had met at Mr. Emmons's, at Mr. Wood's, at Mr. Reed's office, and in the lecture room of the 71st Street Chapel. The Church Masters reported on the 5 th, that this building had been entirely dismantled. The organ had been ^be Cburcb at IbareenvlUe 267 removed to the chapel of the new church, the chairs, settees, carpets, etc., had been made use of, the chan- deliers put up in the new Sabbath-school room where also had been removed the desk and the organ of the lecture room. Elder Reed was authorized to dis- pose of the building for $1500 cash, provided the purchaser remove it and that the bell be retained. In December, the President announced the receipt of a letter from Rev. S. H, Virgin "accepting the offer of the old church to his congregation for $1500." This was later withdrawn. The Committee on Sunday- school Visitation stated that the school was elegantly housed and thoroughly equipped for active work. Brother Dunlap had been elected Superintendent. The new room was formally opened on November ist, the pastor presiding. Appropriate addresses were made, and the children of the New York Orphan Asylum welcomed. The first regular session of the school on the 8th found 269 scholars present and 30 teachers. It was thought to be the largest and best school north of 59th Street. The sincere thanks of the Consistory were tendered to Elder Reed, not only as architect, but also for his untiring efforts on behalf of the church. Contract for the sale of the eight lots between 71st and 7 2d Streets, Eighth and Ninth Avenues, on which the chapel stood, was executed with David L. Phillips on December 8, 1886. Consideration: $130,000. Dea- con William J. Lyon presented a letter on January 6, 1887, stating his reasons for declining another term in office, whereupon it was resolved that the thanks of Consistory be tendered him for his services in the Board, rendered in the hour of need, and assuring him at his retirement of its respect and appreciation. 268 Zhc "Wew l?ork of l^caterbai^ Attendance at the Sunday-school for the year 1886 aggregated 9951 pupils. On the roll, 337. The pastor's stipend was raised to $4000, beginning January i, 1887. On October 6th of this year, Elders Reed and Stout were appointed a committee to prepare and put in position, one on either side of the pulpit in the auditorium, two tablets, one of which shall commemorate the gift of Jacob Harsen of an acre of land, and the other shall perpetuate the memory of the dead exhumed from the cemetery, the remains of Dr. Gttnn among them, which were placed at rest in a solid crypt of masonry prepared for them beneath the floor of the audience room. These tablets were put in place prior to the first Sabbath in November, which date marked the second anniversary of the opening services in the church. The pastor delivered an ap- propriate address at the unveiling. Instead of the spot selected as designated above, it seemed more desirable to locate them elsewhere. The monu- mental tablet to the honor of Domine van Aken was inaugurated on the north wall of the lower vestibule. This epitaph is inscribed on that to Mr. Harsen : SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF JACOB HARSEN. ONE OF THE FOUNDERS AND FATHERS OF THIS CHURCH. BORN MARCH 5, 1750. DIED JULY 24, 1835. His generous gift of land in the year 1809 furnished, under Divine Providence, the means with which this edifice was erected. And by it, "he being dead, yet speaketh." Heb. xi., 4. Zbc Cburcb at Ibarsenvllle 269 That to the sacred dead of the parish reads : BENEATH THIS TABLET IN A CRYPT PREPARED FOR THEM LIE THE REMAINS OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE PERSONS EXHUMED FROM THE PARISH CEMETERY WHICH OCCUPIED THE SPACE NOW COVERED BY THIS AUDITORIUM. THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE. I Cor. XV., 52. The Treasurer's report to January i, 1888 dis- closed the fact that $57,914.49 had been paid in taxes and assessments. Put this amount with those paid during Domine van Aken's administration together with the $50,000 or more saved to the congregation through his advantageous management and it will be realized how vast a burden had been levied on the Church estate and what a staggering load had to be carried and liquidated. It is not a cause of wonder that the encumbrances seemed too grievous to be borne and that pessimism, at seasons, ran its course through the Consistory. On the 8th instant it was moved and carried that thereafter the election of members of the Consistory be made by the Church itself and announcement of the change was directed to be made to the congrega- tion. Permission to alter the method was granted by Classis on April 28th, by which, instead of electing in Consistory, "a double number may be nominated by that Body, out of which the members of the Church in full communion may choose three who shall serve." Both methods were recognized by the Constitution. The latter way was a survival — a. return to the plan used in Dutch times when a double number of candi- dates was submitted to the Governor General of the 2 70 Wdc t\c\o J?orft of IPeeterbai? Province, from whom he selected the officers to serve under him. The annual election was fixed for January at the close of the first weekly chapel service. Candi- dates were then put in nomination. After a service of fourteen months Deacon Gilder- sleeve tendered his resignation on April 6th. He regretted the emergency that had arisen which com- pelled the termination of the very pleasant and harmonious relations. Dr. E. H. Porter was elected to fill the vacancy. On the evening of Jan, 2d, 1889, the election under the new by-law resulted in the continuation in office of Elder Reed and Deacon Halsey and the selection of E. H. Schuyler as deacons. At the regular monthly meeting held in the pastor's study on March 7 th the chair was resigned to the Rev. Joseph Duryee of Grace Reformed Church at 54th Street and Seventh Avenue. Thereupon Mr. Martyn presented this letter: To the Consistory of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church. Dear Brethren: It is with a heavy heart that I find myself constrained to ask you, and through you, the dear Church which I have begotten in the Gospel, to relieve me of my pastorate — just now, too, when the burden and heat of the day have been borne and the future looks so bright. I am, as you individually know, on the verge of nervous prostration caused by the intense strain of my more than six years' work among you — work which speaks for itself. If the Church were two years further on I would ask for a vacation of six months. As things are this would not be wise. The Church requires constant and active pastoral supervision; and I need immediate rest. Therefore I place in your hands my resignation as your pastor to take tTbe Cburcb at Ibarsenvllle 271 effect September first next, and I would ask you to join me in an application to Classis, at the approaching regular meeting in April, to dissolve our delightful relation. I need not add, beloved brethren, that the Bloomingdale Church will ever hold a vital place in my heart and prayers, nor assure you that I cherish for you, individually and collectively, the most devoted and personal affection. May God bless us every one! Above and beyond all, God bless the Church! Your loving pastor, Carlos Martyn. Bloomingdale Parsonage, New York, March 6, 1889. In response to this communication Elder Reed offered the following resolutions Mrhich were unani- mously adopted: Whereas, the Rev. Carlos Martyn has thought proper to tender his resignation as pastor of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, therefore be it Resolved, that it is with unfeigned sorrow and regret that we accept the resignation of our beloved pastor to take effect September next. Coming as it does as the result of overwork in connection with our Church it is doubly pain- ful. We recognize and testify to his faithful labors through the past six years and more in bringing our Church to its present position of usefulness and prominence. We also put on record our affection for him as a man. Resolved, in view of Mr. Martyn 's state of health, that after the first of April next he be relieved from the duties of the pastorate and that the Treasurer be and hereby is directed to pay him the sum of two thousand dollars, being the amount of his salary to September i 1889, and that the free use of the parsonage be continued to him so long as he may desire until the period when his resignation takes effect. Resolved that we heartily commend Mr. Martyn as an 2 72 Zbc l^cxo IPorf; of ^cetevt^a^ able and instructive preacher, faithful pastor, and earnest and incessant worker. Resolved that the Clerk be and hereby is instructed to present our pastor with a certified copy of these resolutions with the assurance of our continued love and sympathy. Elder Reed was then appointed to co-operate with the pastor before Classis. On Mr. Martyn's retirement he assumed the pas- torate of the First Reformed Church (1890) Newark, N. J. In 1892 he was called to the Sixth Presbyterian Church, Chicago. Returning to the East he became connected with a publishing house in New York which failed disastrously (1902) and involved him in financial loss and great tribulation. In 1905 Mr. Martyn re- ceived a call to the Presbyterian Church at Noroton, Conn., a suburban residence for New Yorkers, where he is now laboring with much acceptance and success. Many of his literary works have had wide vogue — his Life of Wendell Phillips, for instance, and his Sour Saints and Sweet Sinners. Among his other works are the following : Martin Luther, The Pilgrim Fathers, The Dutch Reformation, The Puritans, The Huguenots, — all historical. In biography he edited the series of "Illustrious Americans" published by Funk and Wagnalls Co., to which he contributed the lives of Phillips above mentioned, of John B. Gough, and of William E. Dodge, Sr. He is also the author of a volume entitled Christian Citizenship and of many magazine and newspaper articles and has been the recipient of honorary titles and degrees. On the completion of the new building the architect advised that the contemplated spire be deferred until the walls had thoroughly settled and danger from rock blasting on nearby property be past. On March i. u*^^d/:t Portrait and signature of Rev. Madison C. Peters, D.D. Zhc Cburcb at IbarsenvUle 273 1888 the Church Masters were deputized to examine the plans that had been filed for the building of the 2 2d Regiment Armory on the block just to the south, in order to ascertain what effect the excavation for the foundation would have. It was not until March 28th of the following year that arrangement to erect the spire according to the original plans was made. Con- tract was entered into with Fordyce & Himpler in November for the sum of $10,000 and work was com- menced on June 6th and finished on August 8, 1890. At a meeting held on June 17 th the Committee on Pulpit Supply recommended calling the Rev. Madison C. Peters of Philadelphia as tTbe Sixtb /iBfnistei; to take effect from and after the first of September next at the salary of $4000 per annum and free use of the parsonage. From April ist the pulpit had been occupied by different clergymen. This letter was received under date of the 2 2d from the pastor-elect, viz: My dear Brethen: Your favor of the 20th inst., informing me of my election to the pastorate of the Bloom- ingdale Reformed Church has been received and prayerfully considered. I sincerely love my people here and parting would be one of the sorest experiences in my life. I have been with them five years and have almost grown up with them. I have decided, however, to accept your call for one reason only, because of your larger field of useful- ness. If my resignation will be accepted here and Pres- bytery dissolves my present relations I will be yours in service from September ist. I thank you for the unanimous call and all that it implies, 18 2 74 Zhe Iftew l?orft of IJeeterba^ I will try to prove myself worthy of your confidence and I ask your prayers for God's blessing and guidance. Yours in Christian Bonds, Madison C. Peters. A native of Lehigh County, Penn., where he was born Nov. 6, 1859, of German ancestry, the new pastor at the early age of fourteen had been obliged to leave the public school in order to take up the battle of life. He became a teacher and at fifteen entered Muhlenburg College, at AUentown and later Franklin and Marshall College, at Lancaster. He graduated at twenty-one from the Theological Department of Heidelberg Uni- versity at Tiffin, Ohio, having worked his way through these institutions by teaching and lecturing, a circum- stance which reflects the more credit on his manhood and courage. His public ministry began at Mulberry, Indiana, in the Reformed Church where he preached both in English and German. He removed to Terre Haute thereafter as stated supply but in a short time accepted a call to the Presbyterian Church at Ottawa, 111. It is stated that here he was so successful that the edifice was inadequate to accommodate the number of people who came to hear him and that during the summer he was obliged to preach out of doors. At the age of twenty-four, Mr. Peters became pastor of the old First Presbyterian Church on Buttonwood Street, Philadelphia, one of the historic churches of the Quaker City where he remained for five years. His reputation for earnestness and eloquence had preceded him, and the call to Bloomingdale was perfected on October loth. His choice was not only that of the Consistory but of the whole congregation. Seldom does a pastor commence his work under brighter prospects; no ^be Cburcb at Ibareenvllle 275 strifes nor bickerings to heal, but all, with one accord, gave him a hearty welcome. Elder Stout resigned his office on October 3d. It was laid on the table. The parsonage had been put in thorough order at an ex- pense of over $800. At the beginning of the new pastorate the Sunday-school was divided into two sessions. That in the afternoon was attended ex- clusively by the inmates of the Orphan Asylum. Both schools were reported to be in flourishing condition. Daniel Howell was elected to succeed Elder Stout on January 8, 1890, and J. H. Lant, Elder Dunlap. An amendment to the by-laws was carried in April providing for an increase of the Consistory to eight mem- bers. An assessment for paving 68th Street, confirmed May, 1888, was paid in June. A new feature was introduced in October by adding to the musical exer- cises at the morning service singing by the orphan children. The innovation was well received and ap- parently highly appreciated. Agreeably to the rules a double number of names were nominated in January, 1891, to fill vacancies. From those submitted Charles Wessell was elected Elder and Runyon Pyatt and Dr. Richard J. Secor Deacons. Deacon Mastin was chosen to fill the place of Elder Reed, whose term would expire February ist, and Dr. Secor that of Dr. Halsey. Thus the Consistory was completed according to the requirements of the by-laws passed in April. The new members were ordained January 25th. Many applications for admission to the Sunday- school by the children of poor families in the neigh- borhood, many of whom were devoid of religious instruction, had been rejected because of the over- crowded condition of the rooms. It was thought that 2 76 tTbe 1Rew IJork of IJesterbai? the first duty of the Church was to these children. In order to gain the necessary space a committee was delegated in January to request the Orphan Asylum to withdraw their children, they being the recipients of excellent religious training and having a chapel where- in a Sunday-school could be held. They were invited to continue in attendance on the church services. This, however, was discontinued in February, when the management of the Asylum transferred them to the Rutgers Presbyterian Church at Broadway and 73d Street (Rev. Dr. Robert Russell Booth, pastor). The number of scholars in the school continued to show a marked increase at each monthly report. In December the attendance was 250, and 75 at the Mission. The Consistory met in the Pastor's study regularly. On January 13, 1892, at the annual meeting for the selection of officers, Dr. Howell was re-elected Elder and Edward P. Cone to fill the place of Elder Lant. They were ordained the 31st. Wessell resigned in April. In December, a resolution providing for the appointment of an Advisory Board of nine pewholders was carried, whose duties should be to co-operate with the Consistory in the management of the temporal affairs of the church, to be selected at the regular meeting in January of each year. They should attend the regular meetings of the Consistory and be subject to the rules and regulations of the same. The by-laws were amended in accordance therewith. Section 2 of Article 3 provided that the joint Board shall be known as the Board of Officers of the Church and that the term "The Consistory" shall designate the legal representatives of the corporation, per se, as heretofore. Thereupon such Advisory Board was duly elected from Z\)c Cburcb at Ibareenville 277 the names put in nomination, and was composed of the following gentlemen, viz. : B. Frank Hooper 130 W. 74th St. Louis Bauer 143 W. 69th Parker R. Whitcomb 161 W. 72d " Richard W. Akin 127 W. 69th " D. W. Comstock 122 W. 90th " Wm. James Goulding Hotel San Remo. J. Castree WilHams 60 W. 82nd St. James G. Portrous 180 W. 74th " Henry Daily, Jr. 131 W. 72d " William A. Moore was selected as Elder to fill the vacancy, and installed Jan. 29, 1893. A series of lectures and entertainments was given during this year under the supervision of the Entertainment Committee, and was attended with gratifying success. The spring session of the Particular Synod was held in May in the church edifice. James Graham Portrous, a member of the church and of the Advisory Board, departed this life Nov. 5, 1893 and on December 7th it was resolved that "the Board of Officers loses a valued and respected member, one whose sympathies and efforts were continuously and conscientiously exercised on behalf of the Church and its work. Resolved that these resolutions be spread upon the minutes and a copy be sent to the fam- ily of our deceased brother, together with an ex- pression of our deep sympathy with them in their sore bereavement." The pastor, Mr. Peters, had now served as minister for four years, and to signalize this event a letter from him of date February i, 1894, was received reviewing the work accomplished and pre- dicting greater usefulness in the future to the members and the neighborhood. Over two hundred persons had accepted Christ, the roll of the Sabbath-school had 278 Zbc Ticxo l?orft of l?e0tert)ap increased to some five hundred and fifty children, and the attendance on divine service had crowded the auditorium. The steady increase in freewill offerings was noticeable, the poor had been ministered to in the kindest and most unobtrusive manner, and the church activities had progressed in a satisfactory manner. He returned thanks to the Consistory and the members of the Advisory Board for their kindly counsel and constant co-operation. The Rev. Samuel H. Seem was engaged in Novem- ber, 1894, to assist in Sunday-school and general pastoral work. Individual communion cups were in- troduced in April, 1895. T^® President and Clerk executed a document on November 8th granting per- mission to the Metropolitan R. R. Co. to build their railway in front of the church edifice. In April, 1897, a stand was erected for the enjoyment of the members from which to review the parade in honor of the dedica- tion of the mausoleum of General Grant in Riverside Park. Another member of the Advisory Board, Mr. R. W. Akin, died, and on November 8th a letter of sym- pathy was addressed to his daughter. Miss Catherine Akin. A resolution was passed February 3, 1898, in opposition to the construction of an elevated railroad on the Boulevard. An echo of the impending war with Spain and the possible calling out of the National Guard was heard at the session of the Board in April, 1898. The pastor, who was Chaplain of the 9th Regiment, and did service with that command, was granted on the 24th a leave of absence of four months, with pay, on the understanding that he should furnish a pulpit supply. On November 3, 1898, at a regular business meeting of the Officers held in the parsonage. Dr. Peters ten- ZTbe Cbutcb at IbateenvUIe 279 dered his resignation in an informal manner, and on November 29th it was laid on the table and a committee, consisting of J. Edward Mastin, Chairman, and Elder Daily and Deacon Pyatt, appointed to confer with him, that the severance of the relation of pastor and people be prevented if possible. As a result of this method of procedure, the pastor withdrew his res- ignation and the committee was discharged. The church life proceeded along the usual lines for another year, when Dr. Peters again submitted his resignation. This communication was enclosed : To My Dear People: I have sent to the Consistory my resignation as Pastor of the Bloomingdale Church and have requested them to unite with me in asking the New York Classis to dissolve our pleasant relationship as Pastor and People. My sole reason for resigning this position of power and influence is that, after many years of honest and prayerful investi- gation, I have come to the deliberate conclusion that the Bible — the Protestant's only rule of faith — ^teaches baptism for believers only. I am a minisiter of the Reformed Church, and while I am thus connected I shall not give my reasons for this change of conviction. I love the Reformed Church. It is the Church of my Fathers. I admire its breadth and depth. Those who have attended my ministry through all these years will bear me witness that I have always been a loyal son and I had fondly hoped that I could serve my denomi- nation in this Church with my riper years, as I gave it the ardor of my youth. But I must be true to myself; practise only what I believe and preach what I can practise. To you, my dear people, whose kindly counsel, unwavering loyalty, and generous support in every good work have made my labors both pleasant and successful, I give my heartiest thanks. 2 8o Ebc Vicxo IPorft of IJeeterba^ My congregation is composed of not less than eleven different denominations of Protestants, while in addition to these hundreds of Jews and Catholics have constantly attended my ministry. I thank God to-day that He has permitted me to bring His Message to such various minds and hearts as have usually gathered within these walls. All except eleven persons came into this Church during my ministry of nearly eleven years. I have, therefore, and always shall have, a peculiar love for and an undying interest in the Bloomingdale Church. For your love, I give you my love, and for your prayers, my prayers. Your pastor and friend, Madison C. Peters. January 27, 1900. This letter was presented at the meeting held Feb- ruary ist, and the following resolution was thereupon offered by Elder Mastin and seconded by General Mindil and Mr, Dillenbeck, and was carried, viz.: The present relations between Dr. Peters and every member of this Board have been of such a cordial char- acter that our duty to-night is neither enviable nor pleasant. In presenting his resignation on doctrinal grounds the Doctor leaves us no alternative but to accept it. Yet we cannot do so except with reluctance when we remember our many pleasant associations, his many agreeable and instructive discourses and the familiar relations estab- lished between Pastor and People. The Doctor has ex- pressed a wish that he should be relieved immediately. I therefore move that his resignation be accepted, to take effect on the first day of March, 1900, as suggested in his letter of resignation. Dr. Peters was sincere in his conscientious convic- tions, and on leaving his charge entered the Baptist Zhe Cburcb at Ibareenville 2»I fold. As a minister of this denomination he preached in Brooklyn, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. Large audiences were attracted at these services, especially in Philadelphia, where every Sunday evening the Park Theatre was filled to hear his discourses. In 1905 he accepted a call to the Church of the Epiphany at Madison Avenue and 64th Street, N. Y. City. Here he continued for but a space, when his desire for a larger freedom of speech and a greater opportunity towards the betterment of the masses led him to resign in December, 1906, to inaugurate a non-sectarian nove- ment in the Majestic Theatre in an effort to reach the vast army of the unchurched. In this sphere of public usefulness, he has met with unqualified success and, as his sermons are widely syndicated, he reaches a much wider circle than if he had maintained his connection with any single church congregation. His reputation as a writer is world-wide. He is the author of forty books. Perhaps the best known is Justice to the Jews, which has run through many editions and been translated into many European tongues. The Jews in' America and The Jew as a Patriot have also come from his facile pen. Other works of Dr. Peters are entitled The Great Hereafter, Sanc- tified Spice, Empty Pews, Will the Coming Man Marry ? The Man Who Wins, and The Panacea for Poverty. As a writer, Dr. Peters is terse, brilliant, and epigram- matic. He hits at sin and hits it hard, but yet he loves the sinner. When he sees a public wrong, he tackles it with ungloved hands; he has given crime in this city some telling blows. Personally, he is one of the most lovable and kindly of men; he has a magnetism about him that attracts, and he meets you with the 282 Zbc "Wew ©orft ot IJesterbap genial smile and warm grasp of friendship: his great, big heart goes out to the poor and the suffering and the downtrodden of every class and creed, and the cry of the orphan and the sigh of the widow never appeal to him in vain. In a word, Dr. Peters spends his life doing all the good he can to the greatest number he can, in all the ways he can, and he is succeeding in his mission. The Rev. William Walton Clark presided at a special meeting on February i8th, at which proceedings were taken to dissolve the pastoral relation. The Clerk was directed to inform the Classis of the passage of a resolution to that effect. The Manhattan Congrega- tional Church had been lately inaugurated, and some movement looking to a consolidation of the two churches agitated. For this reason, a committee, on which served Messrs Mastin, Pyatt, Dillenbeck, and Goulding, was appointed to confer with the Trustees of the former body. The Rev. Dr. Elmendorf of the Collegiate Church supplied the pulpit on March 4th and arrangements were made with other ministers for further needs. The advisability of union was referred to Classis and a meeting thereof was held at the Marble Collegiate Church on the morning of April 30th. The entire committee was present. Dr. A. G. Vermilye submitted the report, which decided against consolidation, and it was unanimously accepted as the sentiment of Classis. The following day this decision was forwarded to the Manhattan Church, in a com- munication which ended in these words: While the negotiations for a merger, begun under such pleasant auspices, must under the circumstances be dis- continued, we cannot dismiss the subject without a thought of the pleasant and fraternal feelings which have been Portrait and signature of Rev. William C. Stinson, D.D. ^be Cburcb at fbar^envUle 283 developed among the members of both churches and which we trust may be continued, notwithstanding a more intimate relationship be not established, XLbe Seventb ISSmistct The list of clergymen who supplied the pulpit during April included the Rev. Dr. William Charles Stinson of Chillicothe, Ohio, who preached on the 2 2d, and as a result the Consistory unanimously decided on May 3d to extend a call to him. Graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1889, he was ordained by the Presbytery of Monmouth, the same year. After filling several small pastorates with credit and ability, he was called in 1895 to the First Presbyterian Church of Chillicothe, Ohio, where he met with eminent and signal success. He left his work there for the broader fields and greater responsibilities of the metropolis, feeling that God had distinctly indicated to him that it was His will that he should do so ; and, while not un- mindful of the great opportunities here to be met, he realized that patient effort and thorough devotion to the cause of Christ and the needs of mankind could alone crown his ministry with success. He came to Bloomingdale with strong and abundant testimonials, not only of his record as a sincere, earnest, and able minister of the Gospel, but with many tributes to his scholarly abilities and his kind and sympathetic character as a Christian gentleman. The Rev, Henry Evertson Cobb presided at a special meeting of the Board of Officers which convened on Sunday morning, May 20th, immediately after service, at which time it was resolved that a formal call to Dr. Stinson be made. This was done the following day. The letter of acceptance of the call was as follows : 2 84 JS^c t\cvo IPorh of IPeaterbap Chillicothe, Ohio, June ist, 1900, To J. Edward Mastin, President of the Consistory of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, New York City. My dear Sir and Brother: I have in hand a formal call from the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, to become its pastor. Since the receipt of the call, my mind and heart have been in a condition of exceeding unrest, owing to the conflicting thoughts and motives produced by this invitation. The idea of leaving the delightful and prosperous pastorate with which God has honored me in this city brings so severe a wrench of the heart that I have been tempted to answer the call in the negative. The thought of entering upon a new and untried field in a city where many influences hinder the progress of Christ's Kingdom has placed a severe test upon me as to my fitness for a Metropolitan pastorate. I feel honored to think that you deem me qualified to take the place of leader and shepherd of the Bloomingdale Church. The most prayerful seriousness has characterized my reflections upon all the issues involved. Allow me to be frank enough to say that I have inquired of many brethren of the New York ministry as to the future prospects of the Bloomingdale Church and in every instance I have been assured that the environment is most favorable for the building up of a strong, flourishing church of Jesus Christ. I am aware of the present weakened condition of the church, but from what I have both seen and heard of the church's possibilities, I am persuaded to believe that with sublime faith in the great Head of the Church, with prayerful, heroic, strenuous co-operation of pastor and people, a great work for God and humanity may yet be done by the Bloomingdale Church. Depending more upon the judgment and opinion of what judicious, far-seeing clergymen in New York tell me than my own observations, I see no reason why this church may not Zhc Cburcb at Ibarsenville 285 become one of the most influential and potent factors for righteousness in the MetropoHs. In view of these considerations I heartily accept the call tendered me. There are only two things that I ask of the Bloomingdale Church in this acceptance, viz. confidence and co-operation. Let me be assured of these relations, and with Christ to charge our hearts and lives with His divine spirit and energy, success shall crown our efforts in the salvation and sanctification of hundreds of human souls. The work will be hard, but God has given me a passion for hard work, both in and out of the pulpit. As a minister of the Gospel, I know only two things, preaching and pas- toral visitations, and if I were asked which of these two functions is the more important, I would answer, each is more important than the other. A sense of profound gratitude and joy possesses me, as I think how God has opened a door of opportunity and service before me in the city of my birth. My earnest prayer is that when in the early autumn, by God's providence, we, as pastor and people, standing side by side, with our faces turned toward a future so full of promise, prayer, purpose, and persistence, may hear and obey the message of old : "Speak now unto thy people that they go forward." Let that be our watchword. In the meanwhile permit me to urge upon every member and friend the heartiest loyalty to Bloomingdale Church. One evidence of friendship between members and friends is unfaltering devotion to the church in all its diversified interests and various activities. May the dear Lord graciously bless and keep you, your families, your loved ones, and in His appointed time bring us together in the fellowship of His love and in the joy of His service. With "grace, mercy and peace from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord," I am, Sincerely yours in the bonds of the gospel, William C. Stinson. 286 ^be IRevo IPorft of l^eeterba^ The letter was read to the people by Elder Mastin on June loth, and it was resolved to close the edifice until September i6th. During the interim, electric lighting was introduced, heating apparatus installed, organ repaired and electric motor added, and the au- ditorium and parsonage redecorated and recarpeted. Dr. Stinson was duly ordained at the opening service in the autumn and entered upon his labors with every indication of earnest endeavor for a successful ministry. Resolutions of regret were passed on November ist at the death of Elder Daily, which occured on October 25th. He had acted as attorney for the Church Corporation for many years. On November 5th the following tribute from the Session of the church with which Dr. Stinson was formerly connected was pre- sented and read : To THE Elders and Deacons of Bloomingdale Church, New York — Greeting. Dear Brethren: The Session of the First Presbyterian Church of Chilli- cothe, Ohio, wishing to express their great appreciation of their late pastor, the Rev. Dr. William C. Stinson, and to congratulate you upon the possession of such a man for your pastor, adopted the following: Whereas our pastor, William C. Stinson D.D. felt it his duty to ask for the dissolution of the pastoral relation existing between himself and the First Presbyterian Church, of Chillicothe, Ohio, and the Session and Congregation, with regret, joined in his request to the Presbytery, wanting to keep him, but unwilling to stand between him and what he regarded as a call of God; therefore. Resolved: that Dr. Stinson did a great work for this church. By his devotion to the work committed to him and his excellent ability, through the favor of our Lord, ^be Cburcb at Ibarsenvllle 287 he largely increased the number of our communicants, and this by constantly, with great industry and wisdom, looking after the wants of the church and faithfully preach- ing the gospel of the Kingdom. 2nd. His work was not confined to the church, but he interested himself in every good work in the community. He was a man of great public spirit and had boundless compassion for all the poor and unfortunate, added to his earnest desire for the advancement of the cause of God and the uplifting of his Church. 3rd. We do most heartily commend him to you, the Elders and Deacons of the Bloomingdale Church, and to all the members of your congregation, as a faithful pastor, an earnest preacher, a true friend and a manly and upright man, in whom you can put your trust, who will work for you and with you in every good word and work. That the blessing of Almighty God may be upon him and you, building you up in faith and righteousness, adding to you all temporal and multiplying to you all spiritual gifts, is our prayer. Session of the First Presbyterian Church, Chillicothe, Ohio. Albert E. Cutler a. l. fullerton E. P. VAN Meter Theodore Spetnagel M. C. Hopewell This letter was appropriately answered on the 7 th. From a sketch written by the Rev. W. H. Fishbum, D.D., Dr. Stinson's predecessor in the pastorate at Chillicothe, these additional data are taken: Born in New York city in i860 of Scotch-Irish parentage. Dr. Stinson is a type of the self-made man. He has labori- iously worked his own way up to the commanding position he now holds. His childhood was a childhood of much self-denial and hardship. His father was a soldier in the Civil War and was disabled. 288 ^be flew 13ork of l^esterba^ so that the boy was compelled to get up in the world by- struggling up. He accepted his destiny and faced the conditions. By persistent effort he worked his own way through University and Seminary, winning prizes in the classical tongues and in oratory from both Bucknell University and Princeton Theological Seminary, from which institutions he graduated respectively in 1886 and 1889. The University of Wooster conferred on him the Doctor's degree. Dr. Stinson has made for himself in the ministry a record which any clergyman might envy. Whatever he has undertaken has been a conspicuous success. Endowed by nature with a strong body, an inflexible will, a keen intellect, a sympathetic heart, and rare administrative talent, he has been able to comm.and the attention of thinking and progressive men. Before going to Chillicothe he was pastor of a large and flourishing church in Providence, R. I. During his min- istry of five years as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Chillicothe, Ohio, he added above four hundred members to that church, paid off a church debt which went into five figures, and vitalized every department of ecclesiastical work. His church was thronged with wor- shippers and the whole city felt his influence for good.' He preached and practised civic righteousness, and was able to correct evils and remedy abuses which had existed there for many years. Dr. Stinson possesses a mind fully equipped by scho- lastic training to grapple with the burning problems of the day; his reading enables him to bring before his hearers the great truths and to deliver them with startling empha- sis. He is a preacher who believes in growth and ongoing and he thrills and interests all listeners, and leads them to a higher plane of thinking and living. The following officers were the first elected (Jan. 9, 1 901) under the new regime Messrs. Mastin, Pyatt, and TTbe Cburcb at Ibarsenvllle 289 Genl. Mindil, Elders, and Mersereau and Dillenbeck, Deacons. Deacon Wagner continued in office. In December, a committee was appointed to ascertain the value of the church property should it be deemed advisable to sell. Another year passed before action was taken looking to a change of location. Dr. Stinson, Elders Mastin and Pyatt were deputized to take it into consideration and on October 29, 1902, the West End Avenue site was suggested; and at a special meeting held November 6th the congregation unanimously voted to sell and the Consistory was authorized to reinvest the net proceeds at such time, on such terms, and in such way as their judgment might dictate. The financing of the operation was placed by vote in Treasurer Mastin's hands. The Sabbath- school continued in a very flourishing condition. A memorial service in commemoration of the late Charles Summer Lester was held on the 15 th of November, 1903, and a testimonial to his memory was passed. Mr. Lester had served the Sabbath-school as Superin- tendent for several years and had faithfully fulfilled the duties with marked ability and discretion and al- ways with a high regard for the responsibilities of the position. A memorial tablet was authorized to be placed in the school chapel as a visible expression of the greater invisible work which he wrought in the lives of many who will rise up to call him blessed. This was dedicated at a service held by the school on March 26, 1904, and during the exercises a handsome brass lectern was presented to it by Mr. Lester's family, a legacy requested of them during his last mo- ments on earth. Elder Pyatt offered a resolution on February 15, 1905, to sell the ecclesiastical property and to purchase 2 go Zhc ticvo 13orft of ©eeterbap a new site on West End Avenue at io6th Street, which was passed. Thus was closed a question which had been a bone of contention for some years and was the result of a conclusion that the neighborhood was "overchurched." Within a half mile there were three Episcopal, two Presbyterian, two Lutheran, one Re- formed, one Congregational, one Methodist, and one Christian Science church. The congregation had moved further up the island and in the irresistible upward movement of population, the church must follow. This decision was not reached without some opposition, and in deference to that sentiment it was determined to take down the edifice stone by stone and put it together again at the new location. It was with sincere regret and sorrow that the old site, and the edifice which was endeared by so many sacred associations, were abandoned. Deacon Hawes announced at a special meeting of the Board April 24th that the negotiations for the sale had been completed at $260,000 and the committee had agreed to purchase lots at the above location for $160,000. Thereupon the Trustees authorized that application to the Supreme Court be made for per- mission to carry out the agreement. A letter from Senior Elder Mastin was read May 4th, in which he tendered his resignation, giving as a reason his opposi- tion to the contemplated removal. Spread on the minutes is to be found a statement of the deep pain experienced at the receipt of this letter and the regret that it was caused by a difference of opinion, and that the Elder's private and public insistence upon the acceptance of this resignation forced the alternative of conceding to his wishes. Resolutions were passed expressive of the sincere and hearty appreciation of tTbe Cburcb at Ibareenvllle 291 his long, faithful, and efficient services in numerous capacities, and his deep solicitude in guarding and fostering the spiritual life of the church. It is recorded that "it is doubtful if ever any church has had so dutiful, so careful, so trustworthy a treasurer as this church has had in the person of Mr. Mastin. " A copy of this unusual tribute was ordered to be forwarded to him and doubtless will prove a proud and lasting trea- sure to be left to his posterity. After the last prayer- meeting, which took place Wednesday evening May 3d, the minister and several members of the Consistory explained to the assemblage the reasons which had impelled the move. The last Sabbath service was held in the auditorium on May 28th, and the final function in the old building was a strawberry festival and en- tertainment in the Chapel by the Christian Endeavor Society on June ist. The title was finally passed at the office of the Title Guarantee & Trust Co., on May 19th, to the purchaser, Franklin Pettit. The beautiful marble structure with its graceful spire, which had dominated the region for over twenty years and was recognized as a centre of religious work and Christian influence, had been so far removed by October that on the fourth of that month permission was granted by the Health Depart- ment to remove the remains of the Bloomingdale members of the second House of Worship from the crypt. Quite a crowd was attracted to the spot by the mistaken rumor that relics, buried in the graves or vaults, might be found, and some arrests followed. During the months of June, August, and part of Sep- tember the congregation worshipped with that of the West End Collegiate Church at West End Avenue and 77th Street. Thereafter, services were held in 292 Zbc IRew IPorft of IJesterba^? Leslie Hall, southwest corner of Broadway and 83d Street, until the jffftb Ibouse of Traocsbtp was completed. Plans for the new edifice were filed during July with the Building Superintendent. The firm of Ludlow & Valentine were the architects intrusted with the work, which progressed so slowly that it was not until Sunday, November 12th, that the corner-stone was laid. From the Christian Intelligencer we learn that the service was impressive in its orderly dignity and inspiring through the hearty participation of a large audience. The singing of hymns and anthems was led by a choir of men. Dr. Stinson presided with a reverent enthu- siasm that was an inspiration to the assisting clergy- men. The Scripture lesson was read by the Rev. Edgar Tilton, Jr., D.D., of the Second Collegiate Church of Harlem; the Rev. Edward B. Coe, D.D.,LL.D., Senior Minister of the Collegiate Church, led in prayer, and addresses were made by the Rev. Henry Evertson Cobb, D.D., of the West End Collegiate, the Rev. Joseph R. Duryee, D.D., of Grace Reformed, at Seventh Avenue and 54th Street, and the Rev. Abbott E. Kittredge, D.D., of the Madison Avenue Reformed, at 5 7th Street. Deacon Hawes read an historical statement that briefly and clearly set forth the story of one hundred years of corporate life. This paper, together with copies of the Bible, Church Liturgy, and journals of the day, was placed in the massive comer-stone. With solemn words of faith this was truly set in place by the pastor. The writer's mind reverts to old associa- tions in these well chosen words : To one, at least, it seemed as though Dr. Livingston, THE BLOOMINGDALE REFORMED CHURCH Fifth House of Worship. Bloomingdale Square ^be Cburcb at Ibateenvllle 293 who presided at the first organization, offered his bene- diction. He seemed to see the form of Dr. Gunn, its first pastor. It was his only charge and for a score of years he labored with an earnestness and hopefulness that made his name a power in the old city. Then God took him to the higher service. Dr. Kip appeared, not as an old bent man, but in the fresh beauty of his early ministry; and then he saw again dear old Dr. van Aken, who for fifty years, mostly full of trials and sorrows, kept alive the light of the Church. While awaiting the completion of the edifice let us now revert to another feature of the work of con- struction. Mrs. George Henry Gilbert, the charming artist and Christian woman, who had been a member of the church for many years and who was always in her pew when the exigencies of her profession allowed of her being in the city, had passed from earth. A memorial in her honor was suggested and a committee from among her associates ^ was formed, which met on Saturday, May 2d, in furtherance of the project. A commemorative window, to be erected in her church home, was agreed on and a performance to benefit the fund arranged for. This took place at the Knicker- bocker Theatre, under the management of Daniel Frohman, on Tuesday afternoon, April 17th, at 1.30, when a large audience assembled to be entertained by a number of noted actors and actresses, among whom Clara Morris, Hattie Williams, and Lawrence D'Or- say were conspicuous. A number of others gener- ously volunteered their services and an uncommonly J This committee was composed of Dr. Stinson, Charles Frohman, Daniel Frohman, Mrs. George J. Gould, who as Edith Kingdon had played with Mrs. Gilbert, Miss Maude Adams, Miss Annie Russell, Mrs. Charles F. Terhune, Mrs. Albert Warren Kelsey, Runyon Pyatt, and John Drew. 294 ^be Bew Uorfi of ipeeterbai? attractive program was presented. A substantial amount was added thereby towards the testimonial. At last, the building was so far finished that the Sabbath-school began its sessions there the first Sun- day in October, 1906. The formal opening of the auditorium was set for December i6th, and on that day^ before a large congregation, dedicatory services were held in the morning. The sermon was preached by the minister, fine musical selections by the choir under the direction of Signor P. F. del Campiglio rendered, and Treasurer Pyatt read a statement showing that the ground and building represented an outlay of $250,000. Fifty per cent, of the material from the former church edifice had been used in the construction of the new. This, the first opportunity for an ex- amination of the structure, confirmed previous impres- sions that the Building Committee, composed of Dr. Stinson and Elders Pyatt and Hawes, with the ex- perienced assistance of the architects, had produced a result gratifying in all respects, and had shown com- mendable taste in the interior furnishings of golden oak and green. The building is in Gothic style, with a fa§ade of limestone, and fiying buttresses springing from the further sides. A large central main entrance and two smaller side entrances allow of access and the entire fagade makes an imposing appearance. Taken as a whole, it forms one of the most beautiful of the many fine churches which adorn the west side. The interior is finished in stone, presenting the aspect of a cathedral, and contains a gallery and a three-story annex with Sunday-school rooms, chapel, and pastor's study. An avenue frontage of seventy-five feet and a depth of one hundred feet on a site redolent of Revolu- tionary memories give ample space for the present THE PYATT MEMORIAL Designed by John La Farge, Esq. ^be (Tburcb at IbaraenvUle 295 activities of the congregation; and the location at the junction of two thoroughfares, one the main artery of the city, and Bloomingdale Square, a breathing spot which is even now an oasis between the great Central and Riverside Parks, was a felicitous selection which will be more and more appreciated as the trees attain larger growth. The contracting builders were John B. Roberts & Co., the same firm which constructed the fourth House of Worship, and the large organ is the result of the combined experience of the houses of Jardine and Kimball. The dead of the parish, re- moved from Harsenville, lie in a receptacle built in the wall, and the memorial tablet to their memory has been re-erected above their remains. The centenary of the incorporation was celebrated at II o'clock on the morning of Sunday, December 23d, at which a brief review of the past was pronounced by Dr. Stinson and the sermon was delivered by Dr. Coe. At the vesper service at 4 o'clock, words of greeting were spoken by the Rev. Drs. Cobb, Robert Mackenzie of Rutgers Presbyterian Church, and Tilton. The following Sunday, December 30 th, witnessed the final exercises connected with the inauguration of the new enterprise, when at the morning service the Pyatt window, a beautiful memorial erected to the memory of the parents of Elder and Mrs. Runyon Pyatt, was unveiled. Runyon Pyatt I was the sixth child of John and Elizabeth, born 1771 (Runyon) Pyatt. He m. Cornelia Lawrence, daughter of John Green and Mile. Marie Blanchard of New Brunswick, N. J. Their sixth child, Runyon m. Emma Virginia Duryee. The progenitor of the Runyon family in America was Vincent Runyon, a Huguenot, fourth in descent from Edward Fuller, the 296 ZTbe IRew l?orft of IPeaterba^ 2ist signer of the Mayflower compact, who m., July 17, 1668, Ann Boutcher. They had nine children, the seventh of whom, Peter, b. 1680, m. Providence Blackford. Their ninth child, Benjamin, b. 1729, m. Ann van Court 1749, whose twelfth child was Elizabeth, the wife of John Pyatt. The Duryee family come from Jost Duryee, a French Huguenot who was b. 1729, settled in Blawen- burg, N. J., 1753, and became the ancestor of the clan in the United States. Of his eight children, William, b. 1765, m. Anna Berrien, whose one son, Henry, b. 1786, a colonel in the war of 181 2, m. Sarah Williamson. She descended from John Williamson of Holland, who reached America in 1661 and m. Catherine Ten Broeck, whose ancestor Wessel Wesselsen Ten Broeck came here from Westphalia on the ship Faith, circa 1649-50. The sixth child of Henry and Sarah Duryee was Henry, b. 1821, who m. Mary Q. ' Baker, fourth in descent from Matthew Baker, an Englishman who settled in New Jersey 1700. Their sixth child, Emma Virginia Duryee, m. Runyon Pyatt. Before a number of theatrical folk, the Gilbert testimonial was unveiled at the afternoon service at 2.30 o'clock. The stage friends of the late actress were greatly outnumbered by those of the congregation that knew her apart from her profession. Dr. Stinson delivered an address on the virtues of Mrs. Gilbert, which had reflected honor both upon the church and stage, in the course of which he referred to her as the sweetest and saintliest old lady of the theatrical profession. He adverted to the odd circumstance that in her seventy years on the stage she had never become a star until the closing year of her life, when a play entitled Granny was especially written for her by THE GILBERT MEMORIAL Designed by John La Farge, Esq. Ebe Cburcb at IbarscnvlIIe 297 Clyde Fitch, and ended by saying that " it so happened that on her way to be an angel Mrs. Gilbert had stopped to be a star." The window, an artistic example of the work of John La Farge, to whom are credited the Pyatt memorial and all the other windows of the church, occupies the space directly over the main doorway facing the east, and its beauty is greatly emphasized when illuminated by the morning sun. The lower section shows Mary and the angel at the tomb, with the ascending Christ above. These two memorials form a conspicuously hand- some and permanent feature of the new House of Worship. We are assured that here, under the minis- trations of Dr. Stinson, who has endeared himself to all the people of his charge, by his sincerity, zeal, and untiring work, his genial sympathy, no less than his magnetic eloquence, the traditions of the century-old organization will be preserved in historic sequence and the new House of Worship become a permanent monu- ment to the glory of God and the spread of His king- dom on earth. VII among ©lt)*time ^families 3fCW churches in the city have a more distinguished ecclesiastical lineage. Many individuals of note, as well of national as of local and State celebrity, have been connected with it. In chronological succession some of these worthies are herein sketched, and, as a member of societies whose object is the furtherance of his- torical, biographical, and genealogical research, the author has carefully collected and -preserved data of that description, in this chapter. The names of the founders appear naturally at the head of the list of members of the Church. Jacob Harsen joined on certificate dated October 29, 1808, and Hopper and Webbers in the same manner, their letters bearing date, however, eight days earlier. We in- fer that Striker joined on confession. His second wife, Mary (Polly), was the daughter of John and Jemima (Hopper) Horn, and became the first member accepted after the names of the founders. She was much be- loved by the poor, was a regular visitor to the N. Y. Orphan Asylum, the nearest elemosynary institution to her home, and to the Blind Asylum, and Second Directress of the N. Y. Infant School Society founded in May, 1827, "under the patronage of the late Gov- ernor Clinton." Its mission was to open schools where 298 amon^ ©IMIme ifamilles 299 teachers were trained and qualified to open other schools. She remained connected with the church to the end of her days, although for many years prior thereto she had resided at Tribes Hill, Montgomery Co., N. Y. She died at the residence of one of her daughters, at Amsterdam, on October 6, i860, aged ninety years. From an obituary printed in the New York Tribune these additional facts are gleaned : When but a youth, not out of her 'teens, she publicly dedicated herself to God, and from that time to the close of her earthly career her well-trimmed lamp beamed with undiminished brightness — yea, her path was a shining light which shineth more and more till the perfect day. She was a woman of unassuming and modest mien, but great was the force of her religious character, and decided and positive her influence. In the domestic circle, the immediate sphere for a woman's pure and best exertions, she was happily successful. First, she led her husband to the Saviour, who soon became one of the pillars in the church of Christ; then they mutually dedicated their children to God, two of whom she had the pleasure of seeing in succession occupying their father's place in elder- ship in the same church. Never was one more regular and faithful in attendance upon the ordinances of grace. To reverence the sanctuary was a command she loved to obey. That God's way is there she knew in sweet experi- ence. In her another fact was most strikingly illustrated, that those who love the church love the ministers whom the Master has commissioned to perform her solemn rites. To cheer and encourage them she took particular pains- In her house they felt ever at home; and when affliction visited them in their abodes, like an angel of mercy on swift wing she was there, nor did she forget to bear with her whatever she thought might regale, refresh, and in- vigorate. In late years, age had diminished both her physical and mental vigor, but so early rooted, so firmly 300 Zbc 1Rew 13ork of ^cBtext>n^ seated, so unswervingly constant had been her religious habits, and so sufficient was the grace of Him who said, "I will never leave nor forsake you," that her devotional spirit never flagged nor wavered. Daily she continued to read the Scriptures, and, whatever might betide or who- soever the visitors in the household, her accustomed devotions were never omitted. Truly luminous her Chris- tian life and worthy imitation her consistent example! Not long since, the family and the church were called to mourn the departure of Ann Striker, her step-daughter, her early companion in the Christian life — a woman of kindred spirit, doctrinal views, and practical piety, and liberal in the Saviour's cause. Blessed reunion in fellow- ship of the twain, now like stars to shine in realms of glory without end. The two sons above mentioned were Richard Albert- son and John Horn Striker. The former joined the communion February 5, 181 9, when twenty- two years of age and became Deacon August 11, 1822. He served as Secretary on his election in April 1830, and was chosen Elder December ist of that year, which office he held for five years. His brother John became a member February i, 1827. He was raised to the diaconate at the same session with his brother and was elected Elder April 25, 1837. In June, 1838, it is recorded that he had "moved away" from Blooming- dale. He accompanied many of his family to Tribes Hill about this time, but did not apply for letters of dismission until 1843. Their sisters Maria and Helen both joined August ist, 1823. Maria was married, by Dr. Gunn, to Joseph Cornell, September 6, 181 5, and these children were baptized by him: James Thomas, b. Aug. 10, bap. Sept. 23, 1821. Albert Russell, b. Aug. 2, bap. Dec. 9, 1828. James Thomas II, b. Feb. 19, bap. Sept. 5, 1831, among ©IMlme jfamlliee 301 The two former died young and their remains were deposited in the Sriker vault. The third, their only- surviving child, met with a melancholy accident at the Reid mine, fourteen miles southwest of Concord, N. C, on August 25, 1858. In the act of picking up his gun for the purpose of shooting partridges, the trigger caught in such a manner that the gun was dis- charged into his left eye, blowing away a large piece of the skull and killing him instantly. It is a curious circumstance that his remains were the first to be in- terred in the Green Hill Cemetery at Amsterdam, N. Y., the ground for which had been purchased from his father a few months before and which had been dedi- cated on September ist. From a tribute in the Chris- tian Intelligencer this extract is taken: He was a Christian. Favored with an abundance of means, connected with fashionable society, he had in earlier days led a life of splendid gaiety. But during the last winter he was induced to attend the daily prayer-meeting in Fulton Street. ... In the month of June he became a member of the Twenty-first Street Reformed Dutch Church {vide N. Y. G. & B. Record for April, 1906, for an account of its founding) , and stated as a reason for joining at that time that he was to reside for a season in a part of the country destitute of religious privileges. Dr. Gunn likewise joined in matrimony Helen Striker to John S. Watkins, July 6, 18 19, and bap- tized two of their children, viz. Mary Striker and Har- riet. The youngest child of Elder and Mary Striker, Jemima, was baptized by the minister May 28, 1809. The Caesar Striker who was present as witness at the marriage of a colored couple in 1823 was a slave in the family, as had been the lately manumitted contracting parties. 302 zbe t\c\0 IJork of ipe0tert)a^ The Hegeman family originated with Adriaen and his wife Katherij Margits, who arrived at New Am- sterdam in 1650. He removed to Midwout (Flatbush, L. I.), where he died, April, 1672, and his widow 1689 or 1690. He was a magistrate there from 1654 to 1660 and in 1663: schout-fiscaal in 1661 of the Five Dutch Towns. In 1655, he and Thomas Swartwout petitioned the Director-General to have the limits of Midwout defined, and Commissary Stryker and he were authorized to make the demarkation requested. From 1659 to 1671, he was schoolmaster of his town, and obtained a patent, in 1661, for one hundred acres of land there and settled upon it. In February, 1664, he procured the making of depositions in relation to the misconduct of an English troop, and in the same month headed a delegation to a convention at Flat- bush, which was called for the purpose of selecting del- egates to lay before the States-General the distressed condition of the country. Peter Hegeman, one of his descendants, m., May 2, 1781, Lettice, daughter of Nicholas and Margaret (Cozine) Fletcher. She was the daughter of Cornelus Cozine who bought the farm in Bloomingdale. The Hegeman homestead stood just north of the Cozine house in the bed of present Eighth Avenue, in the centre of 55th Street. Peter Hegeman's widow died August 26, 185 1. She and her daughter Cynthia joined the church March 29, 1807. Children were : Peter Adrian, m. Laura N. Cynthia, m. Aaron B. Jackson. Their children were all baptized in the church, viz. : Mary Jane, joined the communion Oct. 30, 1828. Letitia Emono (S)I^4lme Jfamilies 303 Peter Adrian Hegeman Cynthia Margaret. The mother died on Thursday, October ii, i860, aged 77, her husband having preceded her. These lines are copied from the notice in the Christian Intelligencer of October i8th: "Pray for us mother — ^if a spirit's lips May breathe a prayer in heaven — that we, from whom Thou'st parted for a season, may so tread This vale of sorrow, that when life has passed We may go up to thee and claim thy hand To lead us where the living waters flow," Margaret, m. Matthew Horn. Frances Bassett, d. unmarried. Letitia, m. John Wood Palmer, May 25, 181 1, in the church, where these children also were baptized: John Edmond and John Wood. Jane Frances, m. John E. Ross, Aug. 9, 1810, also there, and these children were baptized: Letitia Jane. John Edward Peter Adrian William Stymets Sarah Frances Emeline Peter Adrian Hegeman Martha, m. John Hegeman, April 11, 18 15, at the church. Their child John Adrian was baptized there. The father m. (2) there Rosena Moore, widow Fairbanks, May 12, 1841. Early in its history, many of the colored people held by landed proprietors in the neighborhood became members, the first to be recorded being William Ray and Mary Dey his wife, who joined, April 8, 1808, upon confession, and Isaac Dey and Elizabeth Cisco his wife 304 Zbc IRew l?orli of !Pe6tert)ai? the same day upon certificate. As they took their owners' surnames, as a rule, many well-known cogno- mens occur among them. Isaac was the first sexton. It is related that to an inquirer, who asked him how business was, this old darkey replied, " Mighty pore, Massa, mighty pore, but old Mistus Cozine am berry low." This was Jane, who married Ackerman, and died in 1 83 7 . He never had an opportunity to augment his fortune in this instance, for he was discharged in 1832 for some infraction. Quite a large contingent of Ritters appear. Many were slaves in the Harsen family and its connections. Cambridge Ritter be- longed to the Hoppers. By the will of John Hopper the Younger, dated Sept. 13, 181 5, it was directed that he be sold for ten years. He could choose his master, and on the expiration of the term was to be free. He chose the Cozine family, with which he was associated through Hopper's second wife, and remained with them thereafter, being especially attached to Miss Rachel. He was married by the fam- ily's consent to Eliza Day, by Dr. Gunn, May 7, 1828, and joined the church. May i, 1840, which he served as sexton for some years. Hopper freed two other slaves, Sam and William, butMirected that the former should be kept and maintained if he so elected. Icha- bod Prall's slaves were married by Dr. Gunn in July, 181 5, and Mr. Cheeseborough's wench Jane in Octo- ber, 18 1 6. Robert, belonging to the Dyckmans, was united to a free colored woman the following year, and the children of many of these couples were bap- tized by the early ministers. The act for the gradual abolition of slavery in the State was passed March 29, 1779 {Laws 2 2d Session p. 721), which provided that any child born of a slave Portrait and signature of Miss Ann Striker, from the original painting in possession of Mrs. J. H. Maples among ©IMlmc jfamlllee 305 after July 4th of that year should be deemed to be bom free, but that such child if a male should con- tinue a servant to the age of 28, and if a female until 25 years of age. It was, however, made lawful for the owner of any slave to manumit such slave by a certifi- cate for that purpose under hand and seal. On March 31, 18 1 7 {Statutes, p. 136), marriages between slaves were declared valid. The children thereof must be taught to read the Holy Scriptures and must be given, between the ages of ten and eighteen, four quarters' schooling. It was prohibited to import slaves into the State, and to prevent it, any so brought were ipso facto free. The final provision of this act declared that every negro, mulatto or mustee born before July 4th, 1779, should from and after July 4th, 1827, be free. Ann Striker, the Elder's daughter by his first marriage, became a member March 30, 1809. Always of a religious nature, she had joined with her step- mother, who came into the family when she was nine years of age, in a serious effort to make the world better because she had lived. They made a practice of visiting poor families throughout Bloomingdale, armed with a panoply of charity which ministered to their well-being and comfort. Their custom was to dis- tribute tracts at the same time, that an appeal to their better nature might be joined with a full stomach. Miss Striker was especially interested in ameliorating the condition of the Jews both here and abroad and the children of the New York Orphan Asylum were her constant care. Born at Striker's Bay, she re- mained at home until her father's death in 1831, when^ at the age of fifty, she went to live with her sister at Mott's Point. She became an inmate of her brother 3o6 Zbc "Wevo l?orJ; of IPeeterba^ Gen. Striker's house later and finally removed to the residence of her half-sister Jemima, the wife of Edward Jenner Swords, at Port Chester. She never married. Feeling that the family burial ground, set apart to her in the partition of the Hopper farm in 1823, should be dedicated to the Hoppers, she inaugurated a movement, through Judge Samuel C. Foote, to locate a church on the site. This, however, proved imprac- ticable, it being found impossible to extinguish the Matthew Hopper interest therein and to overcome the reservation, in the will, of the plot for burial purposes exclusively. She endeavored to carry out her purpose of having a Dutch Church built on the farm, by be- queathing lots on the northwest corner of Ninth Avenue and 50th Street, directly opposite the cemetery, for a site. This provision was, however, rendered of no effect by the opinion in Striker vs. Mott, which held that the testatrix had but a life-estate in the property. She died at "Deermont," the Swords country-seat, at Port Chester, on April 12, i860, aged eighty years. The funeral took place at the Middle Reformed Dutch Church, corner Lafayette Place and 4th Street, on the I 6th. The sisters Jane and Rachel Cozine both joined Nov. 30, 1809. The progenitor in this country was Gerrit Cosijnszen, i. e. Gerrit the son of Cosijn. His marriage notice calls him of New Netherland, where he was baptized Sept. 24, 1673, in the Dutch Church, and joined in matrimony October 25 th of that year to Balitje Jacobs, a young woman from Fort Orange (Albany), both living at Stuyvesant's bouwery. The tradition is that he was of French origin and came here via Holland. Their son Comelis settled in Blooming- dale and died Jan. 4, 1765, leaving a widow who was among ®lt)*«time ifamiUes 307 Deborah Sperry. Balaam Johnson Cozine, of the third generation, married Catherina, daughter of Nicholas Dyckman, April 26, 1760. He was buried in the underground vault in St. Paul's churchyard, which the Cozines attended prior to the founding of the Church at Harsenville. His widow, however, was interred in the Hopper plot, her daughter Sarah having become allied to that family through marriage with John Hopper the Younger. Jane and Rachel were sisters of Sarah. Jane married, Oct. 25, 1795, Isaac Ackerman, and had a daughter Rachel, who married Cornelius Westerfield the quondam Deacon and Elder, and died May 29, 1837. Rachel died un- married Nov. I, 1854, and neither was yet born in 1774, when Cornelis drew his will in which the seven child- ren of his brother were remembered by name. John Cozine, their brother with whom they lived, married Sarah, daughter of James and Catharine (Parliament) Kent, born in Hackensack. They came to live with the groom's father, who built a house for them — a frame building painted yellow — ^at Eighth Avenue, near 54th Street. She became a member Nov. 4, 1842, and died April 22, 1862. Their children were: Catharine, b. Dec. 12, 181 1, m., Dec. 6, 1832, Samuel Fleet. No issue. He was for years the editor of the New York Farmer and an agriculturist of note. He built two Gothic houses in the block between Eighth Avenue and the Bloomingdale Road, 54th and 55th Streets, in one of which he lived. The Rev. Dr. Patton, afterwards of Princeton, occupied the other at one time. A class for young ladies was opened in October, 1859, by Miss S. Eva Hughes, under Mr. Fleet's supervision, for which purpose both houses were used. Mrs. Fleet was received into communion May 2, 1863. Nicholas Dyckman, d. at the age of seven. 3o8 ^be 1Rew l?ork of IJesterbai? Sarah Stakes, b. Oct. 15, 1816, bap. by Dr. Gunn, m. Dec. I, 183s, by him to Peter Adrian Horn (d. Dec. 4, 1849), and had Sarah Jane, bap. by the minister, who m. (i) Albert Sutton of Peekskill and (2) Dr. George R. Wells. Sarah (Stakes) Horn d. Dec. 16, 1836, and was buried from the Cozine homestead on Sunday the i8th. Jane Ackerman, b. Nov. 7, 1818, m. at the church, April I, 1845, James Hegeman Dorland of Fishkill Plain, Dut- chess Co., N. Y. Issue: Cozine, b. Jan. 9, and bap. Mar. 11, 1846, and Jane Cozine, b. May 7, and bap. June 20, 1847, m. Benjamin Franklin, M.D. She joined Feb. 6, 1875, and d. April 2, 1880. Mrs. Dorland is the oldest living member. She united in 1838, and lives at Cedarville, N. Y., where she is a "shut-in," not having left her house since i860. She loves her church and means to remain loyal to the end. Catherine Cozine, another sister of John, became a member August i, 181 7, and d. unm. April 4, 1835. The Cozine name is extinct in this branch. Cornelius Harsen, the surviving son of the Deacon, although he never joined the Church, had four children baptized therein. He had m., Nov. 13, 1805, Joanna Henrietta, dau. of John Peter Ritter, and had Joanna Ritter, b. Oct. 12, 1806, m. July 13, 1825, by Dr. Gunn, Abraham Augustus Prall, d. Dec. 8, 1838. Jacob (M.D.), b. Feb. 16, 1808, d. Dec. 31, 1862, unm. Catharine, bap. by Dr. Gunn, m. Sept 24, 1840, Elijah Purdy, d. Nov. 5, 1896. Magdalen Ritter, bap. by Dr. Gunn, d. May 6, 1819. John Peter Ritter, bap. by Dr. Gunn, d. June 10, 1842, unm. Cornelia Rachel, bap. by Dr. Gunn, m. Dec. 16, 1835, Lyman Rhoades, d. Mar. 17, 1900. Magdalen Ritter II, b. Aug. 13, 18 19, m. April 21, 1841, William M. Halsted, Jr., d. Nov. 8, 1851. Maria Elizabeth, b. April 3, 1822, m. Mar. 21, 1848, Jacob Halsted, d. Nov. 18, 1876. The only one of these couples whose children were baptized by the minister were the Pralls, viz. : Magdalen Ritter and Hannah Maria. At the age of twenty Cornelius Harsen became (1804) Ensign in the 5th Regt. of Infantry. The date of his commission as Captain is not of record. Capt. Harsen was one of a committee of officers appointed to organize a third regiment in the city of New York, under Chap. 61 of the Laws of the 30th Session, passed March 27, 1807. He was soon transferred to the artillery in which he became Major of the regiment he assisted in forming. Thereafter his talents, wealth, and social position se- cured his rapid promotion. At the breaking out of the War of 181 2 he was commissioned Lieut.-Colonel of the nth Regt., ist Brigade of Artillery, and later in the same year became commander thereof. His services in the war have been heretofore set forth. He lived on the Harsenville Road in a house which stood just south of present 71st Street, midway of the block between Ninth and Tenth Avenues, and had a city residence in Greenwich Street, near Charlton. In early life he was a hardware merchant in Cherry Street, but in 18 14 retired from business. In 181 7, he was in the dry-goods line, and after 1825 the directories simply mention his house address. He was an incorporator of the Erie Railroad in 1832. His sons left no descendants and the name in this branch is extinct. Catharine Remsen, the wife of Samuel Adams Lawrence, joined August i, 181 2. They had come to Bloomingdale seven years previously and had been at- tendants since the Church's foundation. Mr. Lawrence became a member February 4, 1814 ; both on confession. 3IO Zhc •Rew IJorft of ipeater^ai? On August nth instant, he was elected Deacon. Following the custom, the Consistory met at his house for the first time, at the April meeting of 1815. The Hardenbrook controversy caused it to assemble at Mr. Lawrence's office, June 24th of that year. Al- though business required him to decline to serve after a term of two years, yet he and his wife continued their membership until their removal to the city permanently, the Bloomingdale seat being a summer residence only. Letters of dismission were granted July 6, 1830. He was the third son of David Lawrence who was the seventh son of John, who was the second son of Joseph, the son of the first William and Elizabeth Smith, afterwards Lady Carteret, an intimate friend of Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams, for whom the subject of this sketch was named, and a patriot in the Revolution. Having amassed a fortune in commerce David Lawrence removed from Providence, R. I., to Hudson, N.Y., of which town he was one of the thirty proprietors. Here he was Judge, Recorder, and Mayor and in his leisure hours contributed to the literature of the period. He married Sybil Sterry and had four sons and five daughters. Samuel Adams Lawrence was born January 19, 1775. Commencing in early life the study of medicine, he soon relinquished it for commerce, a more congenial pursuit, and for which, by his remarkably clear vision, financial abilities, and systematic habits, he was eminently qualified. He became an extensive importing and commission mer- chant, widely known and highly respected at home and abroad. He was a partner in the firm of Augustine H. Lawrence & Co., at 120 Washington Street, and resided at 96 Greenwich Street. Ever ready with his means and efforts to ameliorate the condition of the w n Umom ©Ib^tlme ifamlllee s" poor, he was also a strong advocate of the cause of education as well as a munificent patron of the arts and sciences, and initiated many plans in concert with and while entertaining at Bloomingdale and elsewhere his friend and adviser De Witt Clinton, by whom he was referred to as "my Benjamin." He served as Ensign of the 2d Regt. in 1798, was ap- pointed Lieut, of the 13th Company, 6th Regt., on March 8, 1800, and Captain in the same command on February 16, 1802. He became a director and presi- dent of many corporations and institutions, but his crowning merit is that through life and in his last hour he was a conscientious and sincere Christian. He died August 5, 185 1, at his city residence. By his wife Catharine, daughter of John and Doro- thea Remsen, whom he married Nov. 26, 1803, Mr. Lawrence had eleven children. The names of the six baptized by Dr. Gunn were Julia, m. July 27, 1835, Garret Decker, son of Louis Hasbrouck, M.D., of Ulster Co. Henry, was educated for the ministry. He never married. Horace, d. at Key West, Fla., Sept. 29, 1851. He m. Feb. 12, 1839, Laura, dau. of Michael Kelley, of Charleston, S. C. Charles David, d. at Palestine, Anderson Co., Texas, July 29, 1852, unm. Maria Varick, b. Aug. 10, 1819, d. unm. Eugene. Samuel Sterry, a son, born Aug. 21, 1804, was a medical practitioner of great popularity and generosity. From his father he inherited a fortune which enabled him to gratify his scientific and literary tastes as well as to contribute largely to the charities of the time. He married 312 z\)c 1Rew l?ork of ©eaterbap Dec. 31, 1833, Christina (died June 18, 1854), only daughter of Peter Knell, and had Samuel Remsen, born Dec. 31 , 1834, and Edgar Varick, born Nov. 17, 1836. Ferdinand, another son, born at Bloomingdale Dec. 28, 1807, was a wealthy- merchant and married Jan. 13, 1835, Isabella Eliza, eldest daughter of William Burgoyne of this city, formerly of Charleston, S. C. Eugene, a son of the Church, was educated at Princeton and at New York University. He studied law at Harvard and was a member of the New York bar. This profession he soon relinquished and took up literature as a calling, for which task he prosecuted special studies at London and Paris. His literary work was extensive, varied, and of high character. Besides contributing to encyclopedias and other works of reference, he published many monographs and magazine articles of interest and value. His best known work is The Lives of the British Historians, supplemented by historical studies, literary primers, and a history of Rome. He never married. The other children were Catherine Remsen, born Aug, 11, 1805, died unmarried; John Remsen, born Aug. 24, 1807, died Sept., 1807, and John Remsen II, born Nov. 9, 1811, died Mar. 31, 1834, at the U. S. Navy Yard, Brooklyn, unmarried. Matthew Horn and Margaret Hegeman became members August i, 18 14. He was the son of John and Jemima (Hopper) Horn, whose farm covered the present site of the Fifth Avenue Hotel and its environs and whose ancestor John Hoorn of Kingstown married Rachel Webbers of the "Grotekel" (Great Kill), April II, 1 7 13, in the New Amsterdam Dutch church. She was a kinswoman of Deacon Webbers. The Horns first appear in the records of the colony in 1656. Matthew was born Feb. 11, baptized Mar. 11, 1787, and died in 1833. His house was located on lot No. 6, of the Horn tract as subdivided. His widow died Feb. 22, 1870. These children were baptized by Dr. Gunn : Hmona ©IMlme families 313 John, d. April 21, 1839, unm. and intestate. Peter Adrian Hegeman. Jemima. Letire Frances, m. William Young of St. Louis. Matthew, d. Mar. 13, 1859, m. Jan. 5, 1843, Elizabeth, dau. of Chevalier White and Elizabeth (Chandler) Williams. Margaret Horn, the sister of Matthew, Sr., was born Feb. 15, and baptized Mar. 21, 1784. She married June 30, 1808, Christopher Mildeberger, born 1785, the son of Oliver and Mary (Marcellus) Mildeberger. Oliver was the son of a Captain in the Royal Guards of the King of Bavaria, who came to America on a visit in 1 735 and married and settled in New York. His other child was Elizabeth, who married Robert Banta, an English officer stationed at Quebec, and afterward a General. Oliver was a large leather merchant in the Swamp with stores and offices at 19 Vandewater Street. His son Christopher was known as the gentleman of the Woolsack because of his courtly manners. He retired with a fortune for those days, after the death of his father in 180 1. He died in 1856 and his wife in 1859 and both were buried in the yard of St. Mark's Church in the Bowery. Their first child, John Horn, was baptized by Dr. Gunn in 1809. Other children were: Margaret A., married (i) Robert Stuyvesant and (2) Walton H. Peckham; she lies at Greenwood. Emeline, born Jan. i, 1814, married May 29, 1832, John Alfred Bell, born July 8, 1810, at St. Mark's; she died Feb. 19, 1872 and was buried at Mt. Kensico, and he died Mar. 18, 1901. Charlotte A., married Marshall Pepoon, died Nov. 25, 1880, no issue, buried at Greenwood. Oliver H., married Vashti Miller. Henry Post, who served the church long and faith- 314 Zbc View IPorft of jpe6tert)ai? fully as Deacon, "gentleman" as the conveyance reads, received a deed from the Corporation, of a certain plot in the Seventh Ward, part of the Common Lands, May i, 1801, described in the Survey or map of said lands filed in the office of the Clerk of the County by the number 134, bounded west by a certain road laid out on said map called the Middle Road, on the east by another road called on said map the East Road, on the north by a street 60 feet wide between the lot hereby granted and released and lot No. 136, and on the south by another street of like breadth of 60 feet between the said lot hereby granted, and lot No. 131, containing in breadth at each end 3 chains and 3 links and in length on each side 13 chains and 94 links, at the rent of four bushels of wheat or the value thereof in gold or silver on the first day of May in each year forever thereafter. The grant is not recorded, but a counterpart thereof is to be found in the Comptroller's Office in Book of Grants of the Common Lands at p. 12. The quit- rent reserved was commuted June 20, 1835, by William Wagstaff. Post built a residence on this property where he resided during his diaconate, and it was this house he opened to the military during the War of 18 12, as heretofore narrated. He was born in Pompton, N. J., and served as a drummer in the Revolution. He married Elizabeth, the fifth of the eight children of James Board and Jane, daughter of Capt. Philip Schuyler (son of Arent Schuyler) and Hester Kingsland (daugh- ter of Isaac Kingsland of New Barbadoes Neck, Bergen Co., N.J.), license dated June 20, 1780. Jane Schuyler was bom Oct. 6, 1728. James Board came from England in 1730 with his father Cornelius and settled at Ringwood, Passaic Co., N. J. Cornelius and his Hmonfi ©IMime jfamillee 315 brothers David and Joseph who accompanied him managed the iron- works at that place. James was commissioned to sell confiscated property in Bergen County, and died in 1803. His wife died Mar. 31, 181 6. Post was elected Deacon a few days after he and his wife had presented themselves as applicants for admission to the communion. They were received August I, 1814, at the same session as Matthew Horn and wife. He and Lawrence became Deacons the same day, Aug. nth, and the former was chosen Treasurer of the Board in October. These positions he resigned on Aug. 19, 1822, with the thanks of the Consistory, and Richard A. Striker succeeded. In April, 1823, Mr. Post was appointed Church Master. He had been an officer of militia in New York City, having been commissioned Ensign May 11, 1789, promoted Lieut., in Lieut.-Col. James Alner's Regiment, March 12, 1790, in which command many of his Bloom- ingdale neighbors served, among them Lemuel Wells, Jacob Harsen, and James Striker, Captain in the 4th Regt., Dec. 7, 1795, and 2d Major, Feb. 16, 1802. In Mrs. Johannah Beekman's will he is called Judge Post. On August 3, 1812, precautions were taken by the Common Council against riot and one hundred citizens in each of the wards volunteered and were organized, under the city authorities, to aid the Magistrates and Committee of Defence in keeping the peace. John S. Dusenberry of Bloomingdale was a peace officer connected with the Police Department. Special justices were appointed, whose duty was to attend at the City Hall throughout each night to quell riots. Post represented the Ninth Ward. These officials were appointed by the State Council of Ap- pointment at Albany and were familiarly known as 3i6 Zbc "flew 13ork of IJeeterbai? Assistant Justices. Their powers were such as justices of the peace possessed. His will, dated Sept. 6, 1833 (L. 71, Wills, 12), named Jonathan Ferris, Isaac Adriance, and Andrew McGown, executors. To them was devised testator's house and two five-acre lots, situated on the east side of Fifth Avenue, "and which are now in my occupation," upon trust to sell at public auction within a period of five years after his decease and from the proceeds to pay $400.00 to his daughter Sarah Ann and half the balance to his granddaughter Eliza McGown. The residue to be invested and the income paid to his grandson Henry P. Ferris. On March 13, 1834, Isaac Adriance, Counseller-at-law, and Jonathan Ferris conveyed these premises and lot No. 139 of the Common Lands to Andrew McGown; consideration $10,000.00 (L.311, Conv. 592); and on April ist of the same year, the latter and his wife Eliza Ann S. sold them for the same amount of money to William Wagstaff (L. 314, Conv. 245). This land later vested in Robert Lenox. He left a will, dated May 23, 1829, with codicils dated June 23, 1832, and Dec. 4, 1839, which was proved Jan. 15, 1840. This property became so famous in local history that it is interesting to add that he died Dec. 13, 1839, leaving a widow, Rachel, and these children, viz. : James Lenox, the later well-known philanthropist, Eliza L. Maitland, Isabella H. Banks, Rachel C. Kennedy, Jenet Lenox, Mary L. Sheafe, Henrietta A. Lenox, and Aletha L. Donaldson. Rachel Lenox died Feb. 9, 1843. Deacon Post had but one child, Sarah Ann, who married Benjamin Ferris and their daughter Eliza A. L. Ferris married Andrew McGown who acted as a guide to mislead the British while Washington's army Portrait and signature of Joel Post, Esq. among ©IMime famillee 317 made good their escape without loss to Fort Washing- ton in the War for Independence. He resided in New York City and had Henry Post, married Mary A. Dailey, lawyer and City Judge, 1892. Issue: Marianna and Rev. William Knight McGown; and Elizabeth Ann Post, married James H. Wright. Another Post line, originally of German ancestry, came from Holland, where they were known as van den Poest, with a party of Pilgrims to Massachusetts. Jotham Post, fourth in descent from Lieut. Richard Post, who went to Southampton, L. I., about 1640, was bom 1 740 at Westbury, L. I., and came to New York City. He married Winifred Wright and had four sons : Wright E. (died at Newport, Sept i, 1907), Jotham, Joel, and Alison. The eldest son was a celebrated physician whose portrait appears in the famous group representing the Court of Washington. The third son, Joel, who owned a pew in the church, purchased Claremont in 182 1, where he resided throughout his life. Later he acquired the adjoining property, " Monte Alta." The mansion and site of Gen. Grant's Tomb were acquired (1873) by the city from his descendants when Riverside Park was created. He was married (i) to Elizabeth Brown by the Rev. Uzal Ogden, Rector of Trinity P. E. Church, Newark, May 21, 1796 (N.J. Archives, ist Series, Vol. XXII, Marriages), and (2) to Alma Floyd. Their son John Alexander was baptized in 1824 by Dr. Gunn. He was in the whole- sale drug business. Nancy, the daughter of Jotham, Sr., married May 11, 1797, Peter Hawes, who, as a member of the Committee of Defence in the second war with England, had much to do in providing funds and volunteers for the building of the works on Blooming- dale Heights. Bom June 6, 1768, he entered in 1787 3i8 Z\)c 1Wcw l?ork of l?e6ter^al5 Rhode Island College, now known as Brown University. At that time it was necessary upon matriculation to give a bond to the Steward of the College. This curious document, as well as the Diploma from his Alma Mater, are in possession of his grandson, Gilbert Ray Hawes, a present Elder of the Church. Mr. Hawes determined to enter the profession of law and left the old Massachusetts home for New York City. The; Directory for 1795 prints his name as follows: " Peter Hawes, Student of Laws. 91 Beekman Street." In the same year he was admitted to the bar. The license signed by Richard Varick, Mayor of the city, on Sept. 16, 1795, is a quaint old indenture and was exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago upon the walls of the New York State Building. He rapidly rose to prominence and soon acquired a large clientage. He organized the Washington Insurance Co., one of the first in the United States, and remained its Secre- tary to the date of his death in 1829. For many years he served as Elder in the Brick Church (Dr. Spring's) which stood on the corner of Nassau and Beekman Streets, was a member of the New England Society and its Secretary from 1807 to 1809. A member also of the Common Council (1809 to 181 2), he held that office at a time when the name " City Father" was not inaptly bestowed. Mr. Hawes resided on the southeast corner of John and William Streets, and his gardens extended to the East River, The old house is yet standing metamorphosed to business purposes, on historic ground made memorable by the battle of Golden Hill. With other young fellows of the Knickerbocker period, Mr. Hawes founded the Cappiopean Society, which flourished from October i, 1793, to February 3, 1799. The minutes of their meetings, at which poems and amona ©Ib^'tlme jfamllies 319 essays were read and then turned over to a committee for criticism, are in existence. At this early period, Cherry Street was the Court end of the town and filled with elegant and fashionable residences. Conspicuous among these was the house built by Jotham Post, a respected and wealthy citizen. This quotation will bear repetition while we are on a subject so nearly related to Bloomingdale : His daughter Nancy was acknowledged to be the hand- somest girl on Manhattan Island and the belle of New York. Many were the suitors that thronged the father's house and sought to carry off the prize. But, sad to say, she was inclined to be coquettish, as maidens sometimes are, even to this day. Scores of broken hearts were laid at her feet, but still she did not relent. Serenades were sung before her windows and sonnets composed to her beauty and charms but without avail. At last, Mr. Hawes, who was a man persistent and quite set in his ways, like his Puritan ancestors, determined that he must win her. He wrote a number of verses which did not have the desired effect of securing his lady's affections. She only laughed him to scorn. Finally he prepared a chef d'wuvre entitled "The Belles of Cherry Street," wherein she is apostrophized under the pseudonym of "Eliza," the name by which she was known in all these effusions. All the other belles of Cherry Street are mentioned in turn, only to be rejected. The final verse sets forth the pre-eminent attractions of " Eliza." There are many personal allusions which cannot be appre- ciated at this distant day. But the poem is sprightly and clever and in its present state of preservation we can hardly realize that it was written in the XVIII century. Whether it was this poem which caused her to smile upon him with favor, deponent sayeth not. But certain it is that, after a long and arduous courtship, Peter Hawes was able to lead Nancy Post, a fair and blushing bride, to the altar and the twain were made one. 320 ziK IRew 13orft of IJeetct^a^ She died July 4, 1806, and on June 16, 1808, Peter Hawes married (2) Margarette Ray. Col. Anthony Post, who married Petronella or Petemelletje Brouwer, Feb. 4, 1768, came of the Post family of Yonkers as detailed in Bolton's History of Westchester Co. He was the son of Jacob Post, who held lands in Phillipsburgh under the Phillipses and married Anne Heddy. Anthony obtained his title in the militia, having been commissioned Captain, Oct. 4, 1786, Major, Feb. 28, 1789, and Lieut.-Col., Commandant of the 2d Regt., in 1793. His resigna- tion was accepted by the Council of Appointment in 1796. He was one of the earliest attendants on the services and built a vault in the churchyard. He was chairman of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen and a Sachem of Tammany Hall. He lived in a house located on the Commissioner's Map on property which — ^part of the Medcef Eden farm — he purchased of Astor, fronting north on Verdant Lane. Their children were : Anthony, married Eliza- beth Polhemus; Nelly, married Odell Valentine; Betsy, married James R. Manley, M.D.; and Ann, married Joseph Bayley, M.D. There were four other daughters who d.s.p. Post's will was proved June 21, 1832 (L. 69 Wills, no), devising the above estate. He had married a second time, for his widow Magdalena died in Mar., 1844. Dr. Bayley died in Dec, 1836, and his wife Ann, Dec. 21, 1829. She left her surviving seven children and three grandchildren. The son Anthony Post is not mentioned in his father's will. Martha Brandon and Juliana Osgood, the former of whom was married by Dr. Gunn to Edmond Charles Genet, the French Minister, and the latter to her cousin amona ©IMime jfamlUee 321 Samuel W. Osgood, both on July 30, 1814, in the presence of Dr. David Hosack, the celebrated physician and botanist who was present at the Hamilton-Burr duel and attended professionally the lamented victim, were the daughters of Samuel Osgood of Massachusetts, who founded the New York family. Samuel, born 1 748, graduated at Harvard 1770 and took up the study of theology. His health breaking down he forsook the pulpit for public life. In 1774 he was elected to the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. He or- ganized a company of minute-men and fought with them at Lexington and Concord. In 1775 he was made Major and in the fall aid-de-camp to Gen. Ward with the rank of Colonel. In the Congress he served for four years as a member of the Board of War. There- after he became a Senator and later a member of the Continental Congress, where he remained till 1784.3 The following year he was appointed a judge and in a few months First Commissioner of the United States Treas- ury, which post he held till 1789. Until 1791 he was Postmaster-General. He resigned rather than leave New York City at the time Congress removed to Philadelphia. He was elected a member of the State Legislature, 1 800-1 801-180 2, and during the first two years served as Speaker of the Assembly. From 1 80 1 to 1803 he was State Supervisor and from then to 1 813, the date of his death, he served as Naval Officer of the Port of New York. Besides the above he was an incorporator of the Public School Society, a trustee of the N. Y. City Dispensary, and an author of numerous books. His first wife was Martha Brandon by whom he had no issue. By his second, Maria Bowne Franklin, widow of Walter Franklin for whom Franklin Square was named, he had three daughters. 322 Zhc Ticvo IPorl? of ©eaterbap the two above mentioned and Susan Maria who married Moses Field. Samuel, the son of Walter Franklin Osgood and Ellen Moncrief, born 1812, was baptized by the minister, 1 8 14. He graduated from Harvard (1832) and Har- vard Divinity School (1835). After a brief career as an editor he took a pulpit in Nashua, N.H., and in 1849 accepted the pastorate of the Church of the Messiah in New York City, in which place he died in 1880. His life may be divided into two epochs, twenty years in active clerical labor and eleven in literary work. His contributions to American literature were numerous and valuable. Among his chief productions were Studies in Christian Biography, God with Men, The Hearthstone, Milestones in Our Life's Journey, Student Life, American Leaves, and An Address before the N. Y. Historical Society upon Thomas Crawford on Art in America. He translated from the German Herman Olshausen's History of the Passion and De Wette's Human Life. For four years he was editor of The Christian Inquirer, while his magazine articles, college addresses, and critical studies were more than two hundred in number. Daniel Mack, who was elected Deacon in 1816, was in the fourth generation from John Mack, who came from Scotland circa 1680, was at Salisbury, Conn., in 1 68 1, and settled at Lyme, Conn., in 1697. He descended through Orlando in the second and Or- lando in the third. His father was born 1724 at Hebron, Conn., and married in 1744, Abigail Adams of that place. He was an Ensign and removed about 1763 to New Marlborough, Mass. The son, bom Oct. 22, 1752, married Elizabeth Torot and removed to New York City where they joined the Bloomingdale among ©IMIme jTamUles 323 Church, Aug. 28, 1814. Their daughter CaroHne was baptized by Dr. Gunn three days earHer. Issue: Susan, m. Feb. 7, 1827, Dr. Lewis Hallock, a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1826. She d. Aug. II, 1832. After practising allopathy for fifteen years, he joined the American Homeopathic Institute in 1846, of which he was Censor many years and from which he received the degree of M.D. in 1876; Daniel, b. Nov. 8, 1787, graduated at Columbia College in 1807; Charlotte, m. John McChain, a New York provision merchant; Caroline, b. Feb. 11, 1811, m. Belcher; Sarah, m. May 21, 1808, George Woodruff of this city; Robert, who in 185 1 resided at Newtown, L. I.; and Lucinda, m. April 23, 1812, John Steen and d. leaving two sons. The Varicks were a noted family. Valentine's Manual, 1861, makes the common ancestor to be the Rev. Rudolphus van Varick. The Domine, whose will, dated Oct. 20, 1686, was proven Nov. 9, 1694, came from Holland circa 1685. Corwin's Manual, p. 871, gives Nov. 12th as the date when he offered his services to Classis in Amsterdam to minister to the church in New Netherland and the glad acceptance of the same. He sailed from Holland in March, 1686, and arrived early in July, succeeding Domine Casparus van Zuuren the same year as minister of the Long Island churches, his residence being at Flatbush; he also occasi9nally preached on Sundays in the churches of Bergen and Hackensack, N. J. During the Leislerian troubles he felt compelled to denounce the pseudo Governor, in which opposition he was supported by all the Re- formed ministers of the province. He found it necessary to flee to Newcastle, Del., and upon his return was charged with being privy to a design to 324 Zbc IRew l?ork of IPeeterbai? rescue the fort from Leisler, and was dragged from his house in the fall of 1690 by an armed force, taken to the fort, and imprisoned for six months. Domine Selyns offered himself and property as bail for him but was refused and threatened with imprisonment him- self. He was finally released without the imposed fine, though he ultimately died in 1694 of his ill treatment. He was buried "in the church of Midwout," where his widow, who was Margarita Visboom, directed in her will, 1695, that her body be interred. Dr. Edwin R. Purple asserts that Jan Varick of New York, 1 68 7-1 702-3, and Hackensack, 1720, probably his brother, was the ancestor of the largest branch bear- ing the name in both these States. His wife was Sara Visboom. The most noted of the name was the Hon. Richard Varick, a Colonel in the Revolution ; Recorder of the city, 1783-9; Mayor 1789-1801; Attorney- General of the State 1788-9; Speaker of the Assembly 1787-8; State Commissioner to appraise the property of the Western Inland Lock Navigation Co., 181 7, which property was used for the Erie Canal; President of the Society of the Cincinnati over thirty years; President of the American Bible Society at the time of his death, and one of the three founders of Jersey City, where he died July 30, 183 1. In the Church re- cords we find that two of the children of Jane Dey Varick, the wife of Henry S. Dodge, viz., John Varick and Henry Augustus, were baptized by Dr. Gunn in 18 1 6. She was the only daughter of John Varick, M.D., and Margaret van Wyck. Her father studied medicine with Dr. Peter Middleton in New York City, 1776. Her brothers were Theodore van Wyck Varick, b. May 15, 1790, graduated at Columbia College 1807 with degree of A.M., and John Varick, graduated at among ©IMlmc jfamlUee 325 the same institution in 1813. Her grandfather, John Varick, brother of the Mayor, bap. 1723, m. in 1748 Jane Dey, dau. of Dirck Theunis Dey and Jane Blan- chard. The Deys descend from Dirck Jansen Dey who m. in New Amsterdam, Dec. 2, 1641, Jannetje Theunis of Amsterdam, In 1677, he leased from Governor Andros for thirty years the Duke's Bouwery, now belonging to Trinity Church, on which property he lived and acquired other lands later, for his will, dated Dec. 5, 1683, leaves to Geertie Jansen (alias Langen- dyck) his (2) wife, whom he m. Oct. 18, 1659, "all that land which at present lyeth to the south side of the house where the testator is dwelling. " He established a mill and ferry at the foot of present Dey Street, which was named for the family, and resided on Broad- way at the head of that street. Henry S. Dodge subscribed for a pew in the Second House of Worship. So far we have considered only a few of the in- dividuals who were identified with the infant organ- ization which assembled in the First House of Worship. In 1 814, proceedings were inaugurated towards the building of the stone edifice which stood on the site purchased that year on the Bloomingdale Road, at what became later known as 68th Street. Stephen Jumel, the French merchant and the husband of the famous Madame, donated a bell for the original structure and this gift was hung in the cupola of the Second House of Worship when completed. The Jumels, even after they had removed from Bloomingdale, attended and contributed to the support of the Church. He landed in America a poor man, and by singular foresight in business matters, made an immense fortune in the wine- trade. He became noted for his wealth, liberality, and kind-hearted benevolence. The property on which 326 z\)C tio» Uorh of l?e0tert)ap stands the Roger Morris mansion {1626. Street) and which is now a city park, was purchased by him April 28, 1 8 10. The land, containing 57 acres, had been con- veyed by the town officers of Harlem to Jan Kiersen on March 7, 1700, and came into the possession of Col. Morris shortly before the Revolution. Selecting a site which commanded what has been described as the "most extensive prospect on this Island" he built thereon the mansion which was Washington's head- quarters during the battle of Harlem Heights. His estates were confiscated and sold by the Commissioners of Forfeiture. When Jumel acquired it, he made great improvements and in advertising the "Mansion House" in 18 14, to let for two or three years, "as he intended shortly to embark for Europe, " stated that the grounds covered thirty-six acres with two stables, and concluded: It may well be said that there are but few places which excel the many advantages that this handsome spot affords ; fruits of every kind are in abundance; also a vineyard of French grapes now in perfection which will supply any reasonable family with wine through the year; also oysters, clams, and good fishing within 100 rods of the Mansion and as to the ornamental part that environs this edifice, there have been no pains and expenses omitted. Jumel died intestate, May 22, 1832, in his seventieth year, of an accidental fall, leaving his widow, whom he married about 180 1, and no issue, and Frangois Jumel, his brother, and Madelaine Lazardere, his sister, both residing in France, his only heirs-at-law. His wife was Eliza Bowen, the widow of Col. Peter Croix, a British officer. Soon after Jumel's death she sought the legal advice of Aaron Burr with whom she had been amona ©IMlme yamillce 327 acquainted in her youth. It is doubtless true, as has been asserted, that they first met during attendance at the Church, where both were early communicants. The association as lawyer and client led to an intimacy which ended in marriage on July i, 1833, at a time when the groom was in his seventy-eighth year. A few days after the wedding she placed in his hands for invest- ment a large sum of money and this being lost in Texas speculation caused her to file complaint against him. A separation ensued although no divorce was obtained. Burr, the son of the Rev. Dr. Aaron Burr, was bom in the old parsonage of the First Church of Newark, Feb. 6, 1756. ^ In the autumn of that year, the college buildings at Princeton were completed and his father removed there as President of the institution. Mme. Jumel, as she continued to be known, lived in retire- ment tmtil her death, July 16, 1865. An obituary which appeared in the New York Times on the i8th has been republished in pamphlet form. Her property was the subject of a controversy in the courts which was compromised in 1880, when deeds were exchanged {Videh. 1545, pp. 431, 435 ;L. 1559, pp. 223,409). The widow of the far-famed Alexander Hamilton was a communicant as distinguished from a member. She became connected with Bloomingdale in two ways. Her son, John C. Hamilton, married a daughter of Governor van den Heuvel, and her connection with the Orphan Asylum often brought her to its new location on the Teunis Somerindyck farm. Among those who subscribed to the building fund of the new House of 1 It was the Rev. Dr. David Schuyler Bogart, the pastor first called by the Church, who performed the marriage ceremony between Aaron Burr and Theodosia Provoost at Paramus, N. J., July 2, 1782. She died in New York City, 1794. 328 Zhe IRew IPorft of IPeeterbap Worship, Col. Nicholas Fish was conspicuous. He also owned a pew therein. The son of Jonathan and Eliza- beth (Sackett) Fish, he was one of the foremost repre- sentatives of the patriotism which the leaders of social New York exhibited in the trying times of the Revolu- tion. Bom in 1758, he had just left Princeton College to take up the study of law, when the war began. As an aid -de -camp to Brigadier- General George Morin Scott, he served in the battle of Long Island and in the operations around New York, and afterwards participated in the battle of Saratoga and commanded a corps of light infantry at Monmouth. At the siege of Yorktown, he was a Lieutenant-Colonel commanding a portion of the New York Line. After the war, he was equally distinguished in civil life both in society and business pursuits. Washington appointed him Super- visor of the Revenue, which at that time was a high position in the Treasury Department, and he also became Adjutant-General of the State of New York. In 1797, he was Treasurer of the New York Society of the Cincinnati. His connection with Bloomingdale history has been narrated elsewhere. He m. Elizabeth Stuyvesant, the great-great-granddaughter of the old Governor. Another subscriber and pew-owner was the War Governor of New York during the second war with England. Daniel D. Tompkins was a native of Scarsdale, where he was born in 1774. He served as Governor from 1807 to 181 7 and during the war was in command of the 3d U. S. Military District, in which capacity he was untiring in his exertions for the public good. On May 2, 1814, the first stone in the construc- tion of Fort Tompkins at the Narrows was laid and another fort bearing his name was located at Sackett's Portrait and signature of Hon. Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of New York State and Vice-President of the United States, from the paint- ing in the collection of the New York Historical Society Bmong ®I^*'time ifamlUee 329 Harbor. His name is further commemorated and handed down to posterity by Tompkins County in this State, Tompkinsville on Staten Island, Tompkins Square and Market (erected in 1830) in Manhattan, and Tompkins Park and Avenue in Brooklyn. His public papers have been published and are of great value, especially in connection with the war. While yet serving as Governor he was elected the 6th Vice-President of the United States, and filled that position during the two successive terms of President Monroe (18 17 to 1825). He was present at the dedication of the new House of Worship. Soon after his time of office expired he retired to Tompkinsville, S. I. and d. June 11, 1825, at the early age of fifty-one years. Gov. Tompkins's father was Jonathan G. Tompkins, a Revolutionary soldier. The young man was educated at Columbia College and graduated 1795. Within two years thereafter he was admitted to the bar. He early took an interest in politics and in 1801 was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. The same year he was elected to the Assembly and became a recognized leader. In 1804 he was elected to Congress but never served, resigning before the session began to fill the post of Associate Justice on the State Supreme Court Bench made vacant by the election of James Kent as Chief Justice. On June 9, 1807, he resigned from the Bench to run for Governor against Morgan Lewis. He was elected and made such a creditable record as chief executive that he was re-elected in 1809 and again in 1 81 1. It was in the trying days of the War of 18 12 that Gov. Tompkins shone the brightest. He got the militia in the field early and even went to the extent of purchasing weapons from private citizens. He had these arms delivered at the arsenal in this city and in a 330 Zbe IRew l^orft of lpe0ter^a^ short time he had armed 40,000 militiamen for the defence of New York, Buffalo, Plattsburg, and Sackett's Harbor. When the New York banks refused to lend money on U. S. Treasury notes without the govern- ment's indorsement he, as Commander of the U. S. Military District, unhesitatingly gave it. Pledging his personal and official credit he advanced the money which kept up the Military Academy at West Point, paid for the manufacturing of arms at Springfield, and continued the recruiting service. It was while the Governor was in the midst of his activities connected with the war that he was invited by President Madison to become Secretary of State to fill the place vacated by James Monroe, who had become Secretary of War. The offer was refused, however, and in 181 5 Gov. Tompkins was again re-elected Governor. In April, 181 6, he was nominated and later elected Vice-President. Before resigning the Governorship he sent a message to the Legislature recommending that a day be fixed for the abolition of slavery in the State. In accordance with this recommendation the Legislature named July 4, 1827, as Emancipation Day. In 1820 Gov. Tompkins was re-elected Vice-President. He was fully as promi- nent in Masonic circles as he was in politics. He was Secretary of the Grand Lodge from 1802 to 1804 and Grand Master from 1820 to 1821. One of the founders of the New York Historical Society, he was an incor- porator of the Public School Society and a Regent of the State University. General Lafayette stayed at his residence on Staten Island on his arrival on the Cadmus on Sunday, August 15, 1822. The following day the city was honored by the General's presence. Governor Tompkins's remains lie buried in the churchyard of St. Mark's, in the vault of his father-in-law Mangle Min- Ai- Uy (y^^ jAr^J r Portrait and signature of the Hon. Brockholst Livingston, Asso. Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. By courtesy of Miss Ann L. Livingston among ©IMlme jTamUtee 331 thorne. There is a movement on foot under the aus- pices of the Masonic fraternity to erect his memorial statue in City Hall Park. A monument now marks his birthplace. Judge Henry Brockholst Livingston was another supporter of the Church. He dropped the Christian name to distinguish him from his kinsman Henry Beekman Livingston of Clermont, whose initials were the same. His services to the nation have been detailed elsewhere. His descent follows: 1. Robert Livingston, ist Lord of the Manor, m. Alida, dau. of Philip Pieterse and Margarita (van Slechtenhorst) Schuyler, the widow of Domine Nicholas van Rensselaer. 2. Philip Livingston, 2d Lord of the Manor, m. Cath- erine, only dau. of Peter and Sara (Cuyler) van Brugh. 3. William Livingston, ist Governor of New Jersey (1776-1790), Signer Federal Constitution, 1787; m. Su- sanna, dau. of Philip and Susanna (Brockholst) French. 4. Henry Brockholst Livingston, m. (i) Catharine Keteltas. Their eldest dau. m. her cousin Jasper Hall Livingston of Jamaica, W. I., a grandson of Philip Living- ston the Signer. m. (2) Ann M., dau. of Gabriel and Ann (WilHams) Ludlow. Issue: Carroll Livingston, m. Cornelia, dau. of Henry Walter Livingston, of the Manor; Anson Livingston, m. Ann, eldest sister of Cor- nelia. m. (3) Catharine, dau. of Edmund Seaman and widow of Capt. John Kortright. Jeremiah John Drake appeared as a witness in 1820 to the marriage of John Augustus Sidell and Marilla Adeline Noxon. The bride lived with her sister Clarinda Noxon, Mr. Drake's wife, in a house which stood on the site of the Orphan Asylum. The Noxons 332 Zhc 1Revo l?ork of l^eeter^a^ came from Poughkeepsie. Mrs. Drake sold the Bloom- ingdale property circa 1827. Mr. Sidell was an old- time lawyer of note. Jeremiah John Drake was bom in the town of Cortlandt, Westchester County, April 26, 1782, and died at Bloomingdale Jan. 8, 1827. He was a lawyer in New York and a master in chancery. His father John died at Lansingburgh, N. Y. The mansion of Baron John Cornelius van den Heuvel became the line of demarkation between the upper and lower sections of the congregation. The former Dutch Governor gave liberally to the organiza- tion. He had m. Justine Henrietta van Baerle, who d. in 1793 leaving children, some of whom resided in Holland, and it was she who purchased the Blooming- dale lands. In 182 1, the Governor obtained releases from the heirs-at-law. He d. in 1826 seized of the property and devised it, in nine parts, among his children, share and share alike. Those by his second wife, Charlotte Apthorp, who d. before him, were: Maria, wife of John C. Hamilton; Charles Apthorp van den Heuvel; Justine, wife of Gouverneur S. Bibby; and Susan Annette, wife of Thomas S. Gibbes. Among others who were either communicants, attendants,''or contributors to the support of the Church and about whom a slight framework of the leading events which shaped their lives is hereinafter given, were: John Broome, the quondam Lieut.-Governor, whose name has been preserved in Broome Street, this city, and Broome County in the State. The proximity of his country-seat has been noted. Richard Riker, whose affectionate soubriquet "Dickey" has survived. The son of Samuel Riker, a patriot and a prisoner during the war, he was bom in 'U4^C Portrait and signature of Baron John C. Van den Ileuvel, former Governor of Demarara, from the original painting in possession of William Henry Bibby, Esq. among ©IMime jfamllles 333 1773 and educated under the tuition of the Rev, Dr. Witherspoon, the famous head of Nassau Hall of the College of New Jersey (Princeton) . He was admitted to the bar in 1795 and shortly thereafter became Dis- trict Attorney for New York City. In 18 15, he was made Recorder, an office which was legislated out of existence in 1907, and with occasional short inter- missions retained his seat on the bench until 1838. He left a record as one of the most learned and upright judges that the city ever possessed. James Buchanan, the British Consul, who had children buried in its churchyard. He was of the firm of Buchanan & Thompson, 243 Queen (Pearl) Street. A director of the only bank in the city, the Bank of New York, "he was a great man in our city in his day," says a chronicler. Gideon Lee, Mayor 1833-4, had a house in Blooming- dale on lands which he purchased in 1822 and which were part of those of Charles Ward Apthorp. These were bounded southeasterly by Eighth Avenue, north- easterly by a public road, southwesterly by land formerly of the same estate and late of Robert L. Bowne, now of William Edgar, northwesterly by land also formerly of the same estate and now of William Jauncey, and comprised part of lot No. 8 which fell to the share of Ann Apthorp and part of lot No. 7 which fell to the share of Grizzel Shaw, both children of said Apthorp. On this property stood a "mansion house" according to an agreement on record, 1836, in L. 34, Conv. 594. The term of Mayor Lee was sig- nalized by a number of happenings, the most important of which were the appearance of the Knickerbocker Magazine, the extension of the route of the New York and Harlem Railroad to Murray Hill, the laying of the 334 Zhe "Wew l?orft of lPe6ter^al5 first block or Belgian pavement in a street in this city or country, the death of Col. Nicholas Fish, the visit to the city of President Jackson, the marriage of Aaron Burr as above detailed, and the opening of Sailors' Snug Harbor on Staten Island. Other noted happen- ings were these : The New York Sun began publication, lotteries in the State were abolished, the United States Hotel on Fulton Street was opened, James Fenimore Cooper arrived in the city after a long residence abroad, the fish-market at Washington Market was opened, and University Place extended from Eighth Street to Fourteenth Street. In April, 1834, occurred the first election of Mayor by popular vote, Cornelius R. Lawrence being chosen. James Boggs, for many years President of the Phoenix Bank. His seat in Bloomingdale has been adverted to. He maintained a pew and his family and later his son-in-law were attendants. John W. Liv- ingston, who m. his daughter Julia, was in the army in early life (Capt. of Artillery and Engineers, appointed June 4, 1798, resigned Dec. i, 1804) and served in the War of 181 2. He became Marshal of the Northern District of New York and took up his residence at Skaneateles, where he resided for twenty-one years. On removing to this city he retired to private life. William Jauncey, the eminent English merchant, who lived in the Ap thorp mansion, was an early sub- scriber. It would seem that he made an offer for a pew at the sale; we find, however, no direct authority for the statement that he took advantage of his bid. Thomas Addis Emmet, son of the famous Irish patriot. He came to America in 1804 and soon rose to a position of prominence as a leader of the New York bar. He owned a tract on the east side of the Bloom- Hmona ®I^^time jfamillee 335 ingdale Road in the Great Kill district which he ac- quired in 1807 and 1824 and which in the XVIII century belonged to the Webbers family. In 181 2 he became Attorney-General of the State and died suddenly (Nov. 11, 1827) while conducting a case in the U. S. Circuit Court. His remains lie in the Marble Cemetery in Second Street, near Second Avenue, and a monument to his memory stands in St. Paul's churchyard in Broadway. He left him surviving a widow, Jane, who d. Nov. 20, 1846, and these children, viz.: Robert, 1 792-1873, a lawyer and a leader in the contemplated Irish insurrection of 1848; Margaret; Elizabeth, wife of William H. Le Roy; John Patten, M.D., 1797-1842 (Aug. 13th); Jane E., wife of Bache McEvers; Mary Ann, wife of Edward A. B. Graves; and William C. Emmet. William Rhinelander, another early adherent, was the second of the name in this country and was de- scended from Philip Jacob Rhinelander, a Huguenot, who sought refuge in America after the Revocation. Born in New York in 1753, he lived until 1825. He was trustee of the family estate, and, like his ancestors and descendants, was an extensive landowner. In 1785 he m. Mary Robert (1755-1837), a sister of Col. Robert, a line officer in the army of the Revolution and a descendant of Daniel Robert, a Huguenot, who arrived in this country in 1686. She was the aunt of Christopher Rhinelander Robert who founded Robert College in Constantinople. Samuel Borrowe was a subscriber whose country- seat was within the confines of Central Park, over- looking Central Park West at 105th Street and which was demolished in Dec, 1897. He had purchased a plot of four acres in 1796 and to the house led what was 336 Zhc IRew ©orft of |?e0ter^ap long known as Clendining Lane, which extended from the Bloomingdale Road at 103d Street and ended at the Borrowe residence. The Clendining mansion stood on the lane at present Columbus Avenue and 104th Street. The owner, John Clendining, made a donation to the building fund and long maintained a pew. Both he and his first wife Margaret became members in 1823 by- certificate from the Presbyterian church. His son William was baptized by Dr. Gunn, in 18 10. Later he attended St. Michael's Church, nearer his home. His widow Letitia, aged seventy-four years, was interred in the family vault at the Brick Meeting House (Dr. Spring's), March 18, 1843. Clement C. Moore, the acknowledged Hebrew author- ity who made all children his debtors by writing The Night before Christmas, contributed to the early funds, as did John V. Brevoort, John G. Coster, William Ogden, William James Stewart, John S. Roulet, and Stephen van Rensselaer of Albany. Henry Rutgers was another subscriber. His daughter Elizabeth was the wife of Gerard de Peyster, another friend of the Church, and died before her father (1775). Mary Rutgers, another daughter, m. Stephen McCrea and she was likewise a contributor. Gerard de Peyster was the only child of James William de Peyster who lived in Bloomingdale and d. 1817. He m. (i) Margaret de Peyster, dau. of his uncle John, and d. in September, 1824, leaving James, b. 1796, whose mansion was on the present site of St. Luke's Hospital, Momingside Heights, Cornelia, who m. Gerard William Livingston, a later officer of the Church, and Anna H., the wife of Peter W. Livingston. John G. Coster was bom in Haarlem, Holland, and came to New York about the date of the Revolution. Bmona ©Ib^tlme jfamlllea 337 He was educated for a physician. He and his elder brother, Henry A., who reached here a few years be- fore him, formed a partnership with a place of busi- ness at No. 20 Dock (now Pearl) Street. In 1821, when Henry A. died, they lived and had their store at 26 William Street, where they had been since 1799. John G. continued the business until 1825. He re- moved his residence to no Broadway in 1805. The firm dealt in all sorts of Holland goods — one article in particular, called "Krollenvogel," a species of tape made of flax. They imported every variety of oil- cloths. Not only did they import but they were constantly buying and shipping to Europe all kinds of produce. They had strong connections in the old Dutch cities for they had heavy orders and they traded also in their own ships, sending out supercargoes. John G. was elected director of the Manhattan Bank in 181 3 and in 1826, President, in place of Henry Remsen. He was also a director of the Phoenix Insurance Co. When John Jacob Astor wished to build the Astor House, he bought Coster's house and lot at 227 Broadway. Coster had built a splendid gra- nite double residence in 1833 up at 539 Broadway, which was a palace in its day, and here he removed. He died circa 1846. Cornelius Ray had property in lower Bloomingdale and although it is not known that he owned a pew, yet he had the Church's welfare at heart. A number of the slaves bearing the family name were married and had children baptized there. Mr. Ray was the son of Richard and Sarah (Bogert) Ray, entered mercantile life at an early age, was elected a member of the Chamber of Commerce and served as its President from May 6, 1806, until May 4, 18 19, when he declined a re-election. 33^ ZTbe 1Revo ^ovJx of IPesterbai? William Edgar. He m. Eliza L., dau. of Frederick William, the fourth son of William Rhinelander, and her sister Louisa was the first wife of Gardner Greene Howland of the Bloomingdale family. Archibald Gracie was a subscriber and pew-holder. A Scotchman, he founded the great East Indian firm known as Archibald Gracie & Sons. As a merchant, he was among the foremost of this or any other country — ^his ships visiting every port of the world. His daughter, Sarah Rogers Gracie, m., 1813, James Gore King, the famous banker of Prime, Ward, & King. Mr. Gracie d. in 1829. Dr. Samuel Latham Mitchell, in his Picture of New York, 1807, says that " the superb house and grounds of Archibald Gracie stood upon the very spot called Hoorn's Hoek, upon which a fort erected by the Americans in 1776 stood till about the year 1794, when the present proprietor caused the remains of the military works to be levelled at great expense and erected on their rocky base, his elegant mansion and appurtenances." The Bownes were Quakers who settled in Flushing and suffered for conscience' sake in early New Amster- dam. The Friends and the Baptists were the only people who were persecuted in the colony because of their religious opinions. One of the Bownes was arrested and after being tied to a cart- tail and dragged through the streets was imprisoned. Stuyvesant's methods of eliminating these to him objectionable elements of the population were brought to the atten- tion of his masters, the Holland directors of the West India Company, and their feelings in the matter were expressed in a letter which can be found in the Docu- mentary History of the State, wherein such persecution was expressly prohibited and the toleration of all forms among ®I&*'tlmc jfamlllee 339 of religious sentiment sanctioned. Thus freedom of religion was established in the colony. The Bownes of Bloomingdale descend from Robert L. Bowne who acquired the Stilwell property lying between 85 th and 89th Streets from the east side of the Bloomingdale Road to the Commons, by these conveyances : 1795, Nov. 30, Samuel Stilwell and Elizabeth his wife; 12 A. 3 R. 15 J P. Consideration ;^8 3.";, N. Y. currency. 1798, Mch. 5, Samuel S. Bowne; 13 A. 3 R. 22^ P.; land which he had purchased of said Stilwell Dec. 31, 1795. Consideration ;^2ioo. 1799, Jan. 2, Samuel Stilwell and Elizabeth; 4 A. 2 R. Consideration $1000. 1799, Aug. 10, Samuel Stilwell and Elizabeth; 6 A. 2 R. by estimation. Consideration $1625. 1 80 1, June 12, John McVickar and Anna his wife; 7 A. I R. 30 P. Consideration $2789.06. On Jan. 2, 1809, Bowne mortgaged the entire property of 45 A. 2 P. to William Edgar to secure $20,000. On Aug. 20, 1819, Edgar took possession of the property under foreclosure. When Robert L. Bowne d. June 21, 182 1, he left him surviving these children, viz.: Rowland R., George, Eliza, afterwards wife of Jacob C. Skillman, Amy, Abigail S., Amelia, Matilda, Hannah, and Gulielma Bowne. William Edgar was a merchant whose " white marble palace" at 7 Greenwich Street was still standing as late as i860. In 1797 he lived at 7 Wall Street. Treasurer of the first insurance company, the Mutual, started in 1793, he was also a director of the Bank of New York and a prominent member of St. Patrick's 340 Zhc "Wew l?ork of l?e6tcr^a^ Society. He d. Nov. i, 1820, leaving a son William who d. Aug. 27, 1823. The latter's issue were William, Herman Le Roy, Newbold, Daniel M., Robert, and Hannah, later the wife of Robert R. Morris of Pelham. In 1849 these heirs conveyed the mortgaged premises to Peter Augustus Jay (L. 576, 331), who on Oct. 11, 1852, sold the same to Martin Zabriskie for $52,000. Rachel, one of the freed slaves of the Edgar family, and her husband joined the communion April 29, 183 1, while Domine Kip was in charge. Lewis Bowne was m. by Domine van Aken to Maria Stickles in 1844 and to this family also belonged Walter Bowne the quondam Mayor. George McKay lived in the house at 92d Street and the North River built by Jacob Coles Mott as hereto- fore mentioned. He had purchased four and a half acres of the Mott and Weyman tract of nineteen acres, in 1820, and here he resided up to the time of his death, Nov. 1 6, 1836. He was an original subscriber for a pew and attended the services. His widow d. Nov. 26th of the same year. He had one child, Capt. George Knox McKay, who m. Sarah, dau. of David Frothingham, originally of Charlestown, Mass., but who at the time of the marriage was the editor of the Long Island- Gazette, at Sag Harbor, the first newspaper published on Long Island. This obituary of the Captain is from the Evening Post of Sept. 27, 18 14: This morning, at 10 o'clock, in the 24th year of his age, of a consumption brought on by a severe cold, incurred on military duty in the service of his country, George K. McKay. His friends and acquaintances, those of his father George McKay, and his late brother officers and men attached to his command in the 3d Regiment Volunteers, are respect- Hmona iS)l^^time ifamiliea 341 fully invited to attend his funeral to-morrow at 4 o'clock P.M. from his late residence No. 91 Nassau St. His only child, Margaret Helen McKay, m., in 1833, Richard Lawrence Schieffelin, b. in 1801, graduate of Columbia College, law student with his brother-in-law Benjamin Ferris. He practised his profession until 1843, and thereafter devoted himself to the care of his real estate, part of which was the land above described, and corporate interests. At his death in 1889, he was senior warden of St. Mary's Church at Manhattan ville, founded by his father Jacob, whose country-seat was at about 144th Street and ran from the Hudson River to what is now St. Nicholas Avenue. About the year 1800, Jacob sold that portion of this land lying to the eastward of the Kingsbridge Road, to Alexander Hamilton, upon which the latter built "The Grange" where he resided at the time of his lamented death. Nathaniel Prime, another whose donations to the Church were liberal, the head of one of the great banking houses of the period and a merchant prince, settled in New York, before the close of the XVHI century, had a town house at No. i Broadway and a country- seat at present 89th Street and the East River. It is now one of the buildings of St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum. Some of its old fire-places and mantels are preserved, and from its upper balcony may be obtained a fine view of Hell-Gate. He died there suddenly in 1840. His wife, Cornelia, was the dau. of Comfort Sands, first President of the Chamber of Commerce. Ichabod Prall joined the Church Feb. 2, 181 5, was elected Deacon on April nth, in place of Deacon Web- bers, and added to the building committee of the second House of Worship. When Elder Hopper died, Deacon 342 ^be IRew l?ork of l^esterbai? Prall was selected to fill the vacancy in the Eldership, Aug. 2, 1824, and then began to represent the Consistory at Classis, which he did many times thereafter. He became Clerk of the Board in 1829 after Dr. Gunn's decease. On Dec. i, 1830, he resigned these offices and took letters of dismission to the Collegiate Church, Mar. 21, 1 83 1. He was a descendant of the Huguenot family of de Prael, of which Arent de Prael, b. 1646, came to America. His (i) wife was Maria, dau. of Peter Billeu, He settled at a place called Morning Star on Staten Island with his (2) wife Trintje (Cath- erine). Because he had abjured Roman Catholicism, he was obliged, according to French records, to slightly change the family coat-of-arms and this modification he had painted on his barn door at his new abode. His will, dated 1725, is of record in Richmond County. His children were, among others, Peter, Arent, Abraham, Antje, and Isaac. Peter, said to be one of seven sons, b. 1672 (?) at Staten Island, d. Oct. 27, 1748, m. Mary . His son Abraham of Staten Island, b. Oct. 15, 1706, d. Sept. 28, 1775, m., May 9, 1731, Alida Hegeman, b. Oct. 16, 1700, d. Sept. 15, 1 78 1. They had Abraham, Benjamin, Peter, Catherine, and Mary. Abraham of Staten Island, b. Jan. 11, 1741, d. May 16, 1820, m.. May 22, 1768, Mary, dau. of Daniel Stillwell, b. May 28, 1749, d. April 25, 181 1. Issue: Abraham, b. 1770, d. Oct. 22, 1807; Daniel, b. 1775, d. Oct. 10, 1817, and Ichabod. Samuel Stillwell, b. at Jamaica, L. I., Oct. 22, 1763, was later a Bloomingdale resident and Stillwell Lane was a landmark for many years. Ichabod Prall of New York City was b. June 2, 1776, d. in Sept., 1849. He m., Aug. 24, 1801, Hannah, dau. of John Thompson, b. Sept. 26, 1782. She joined the communion the same day as her husband. He was among ©IMime jfamlllee 343 2d Major from June 8, 1808, in the Light Infantry Regiment commanded by Lieut.-Col. Edward W. Haight, promoted ist Major, 4th Regiment, in 18 10, serving through the War of 181 2. He became Lieut.- Col. of the io6th Regiment of Infantry in 1815 and resigned 181 7. On Oct. 12, 18 18, Elder Harsen re- ported to the Consistory the absence of Deacon Prall who was "particularly engaged in moving up." In what house he lived at Bloomingdale, is not definitely known except that it was located " just across the road " from the Harsen homestead. At first, the family occupied it during the summer, moving from the city residence at No. 168 Water Street, next door to the store of his brother Abraham at No. 167. The water, then, came up to the door. The latter was one of the wealthiest merchants in the city prior to 1798. " Who does not remember Ichabod?" asks Walter Barrett, clerk. "He was a fine venerable looking man in the time of General Jackson, who, I think, gave him an office in the Custom House, for he had been unfor- tunate in business." Abraham was thrown from his carriage and killed. Ichabod served in the State Assembly. Some of his children were John T. , Hannah Maria, Helen S., Ichabod, and Henry Rutgers. His son Abraham Augustus, b. Jan. 13, 1804, d .Sept .10, 1857, was m. by Dr. Gunn, July 13, 1825, to Joanna Henrietta Harsen, b. Oct. 12, 1806, d. Dec. 8, 1838, and their dau. Cornelia Augusta, m. Dec. 26, 1861, the Rev. Eastburn Benjamin, b. Feb. 5, 1837, son of Col. Meigs de Lucena Benjamin of Bridgeport, Conn., grandson of Asa Benjamin of Stratford, and great-grandson of Col. John Benjamin, wounded at the battle of Redding, Conn. Rev. Mr. Benjamin was a lawyer, but later a clergyman. Being proficient in the deaf-mute language 344 ^be 1Rew ^ov\\ of IDeeterba^ he became assistant to Dr. Gallaudet. He started the Home for the Blind at Amsterdam Avenue and 104th Street, and d. at the early age of 36, Sept. 18, 1874. Two of Abraham A. Prall's children were baptized by Dr. Gunn. Johannah, the widow of Abraham Keteltas Beekman, was received into membership on certificate from the Church at Haerlem, Aug. i, 181 7. She died in 182 1, bequeathing some lots to the Consistory which had been a part of the estate of Nicholas Bayard, deceased, and later of Pierre van Cortlandt. Some of this land she devised to her nieces Mary Marx, Amaryllis Laura de Labigarre, and Maria Louise Stewart, daughters of her deceased sister Margaret de Labigarre. Ama- ryllis joined the Church May 3, 181 5, Maria Louise was married to William Robert Stewart by Dr. Gunn on Sept. 26, 181 6, in presence of Mr. Beekman. Both became members Oct. 31st, and he died in the fall of 18 1 8. Abraham K. Beekman died Nov. 27, 18 1 6, and they left no lineal descendants. Be- sides the bequests mentioned in a previous chapter, Mrs. Beekman left other land to Peter W. Livingston and to Cornelia, wife of Isaac B. Cox, her sister-in-law. Said Cox died July 4, 1846, and his widow Jan. 26, 1847. They had two children, viz., Catharine M. and Abraham B. Cox. Others to receive bequests were her cousins Johannah V. B. Ursin, Margaret Thomas, now of the island of St. Croix, W. I., daughters of her aunt Mary Robinson, deceased, and nephew William Livingston and niece Eliza Livingston. Witnesses to the will were Edward H. Livingston, William H. Livingston, and Francis R. Tillou and to the codicil Samuel Borrowe, Samuel Borrowe, Jr., and Abraham K. Fish. John Beekman who served as executor with amona ©IMime jfamllles 345 Dr. Gunn was testatrix's brother-in-law and owned land between that of Caspar Meier and Claremont, His residence was on the bluff at present 120th Street. He owned a pew at the Church and both he and his brother Gerard were original subscribers to the building fund. The former's son James was baptized by Dr. Gunn in 1814. When he died, Dec. 8, 1843, his widow, Mary Elizabeth Goad, survived together with these children, viz.: William F., Mary A., wife of William de Peyster; John C, Catharine B. Fish, a widow; Jane, wife of Jacob Hallet Borrowe; and Lydia, wife of Joseph Foulke. Abraham K. Beekman had these brothers and sisters : William, died Aug. 15, 1808, unmarried; John; James; Gerard; Samuel; Jane, wife of Stephen van Cortlandt; Catharine, wife of Elisha Boudinot; Mary N., wife of Stephen N. Bayard; and Cornelia, wife of Isaac B. Cox. William Beekman's will, dated Oct. 6, 1807, proved Sept. 19, 1808 (L. 47 Wills, 416), left to his brother Abraham K. a suit of mourning and a mourning ring. He had previously received the greater part of the estate on the east side of their uncle Abraham Beekman. His brother Samuel died March 7, 181 6, unmarried. Gerard Beekman, a building fund sub- scriber, died July 15, 1833, leaving his widow, Catharine and one child, James William Beekman. His will, dated March 6, 1832, was proved Aug. 21, 1833 (L. 70 Wills, 422). The widow died Oct. 15, 1835. EHsha Boudinot died prior to December 1836, and left, no issue. James Beekman died April 8, 1837, un- married. His will, dated June 12, 1834, proved May 13, 1837 (L. 76 Wills, 268), bequeathed his estate to his nephew James William Beekman. Catharine Bou- dinot's will was dated Nov. 4, 1836, and proved May 346 ^be IRew l?orft of 13e0tert)a^ 17, 1839 (L. 80 Wills, 22). Jane van Cortlandt died, intestate and childless prior to Dec, 1841, her husband Stephen being also dead. William de Peyster and Mary A., his wife, had children, viz. Jane van Cortlandt, Catharine Augusta, Cornelia Beekman, Elizabeth van Rensselaer, and Gerard Beekman de Peyster. The above data were obtained from an old abstract. Abraham K. Beekman was the son of James and Jane (Keteltas) Beekman and his wife Johannah, the daughter of Gerard William Beekman. Holgate (185 1) says the latter's residence was at the comer of Sloat Lane and Hanover Square and became during the Revolution the abode of many of the British officers, and among others of Admiral Digby, who had as a protege Prince William Henry, late King of England. Many of the oldest residents of New York still remember that King, while still a youth, skating on the Kolch Pond, surrounded by a crowd of city boys. Gerard William Beekman was bom at Jamaica, L. I., Dec. 13, 1 7 18, and was an importing merchant in New York city. He married Mary Duyckinck, who died June 4, 1791, aged 63 ; he had died at Philadelphia Oct. 6, 1781. Following the order of the records we now reach Lavinia Striker. She was the second of the three children of the Elder by his first marriage, and was married to Jordan Mott in 1801 at Striker's Bay by his brother-in-law, the Rev. George Strebeck, then a Lutheran minister, who later foimded St. Stephen's P. E. Church at Chrystie and Broome Streets, of which he became the first rector. As a girl she was familiarly called by the Dutch diminutive Wyntje and as Winifred Mott she became known in the legal annals of the city. Her husband was the great-great-grandson of Adam Mott, whose arrival in New Amsterdam from Essex among ©Ib^time jfamilies 347 County, England, tradition fixes at 1642, and where he is known to have been Hving two years later. He became a Dutch citizen and was granted by the govern- ment in 1646 twenty-five morgens (50 acres) of land "lying on the west side of the Kill of Mespachtes" (Newtown Creek L. I.), and was married in the church at the Capital July 23, 1647, to Jane Hulet of Bucking- ham, England, neither having been previously married. They became residents of Hempstead, on the north shore, about 1655. In Book A, the oldest extant an- nals of the town, he appears as one of the five Towns- men, chosen March 17, 1657. His descendants have been living on Cow (Great) Neck ever since. He be- came an important individual in the new settlement and as a "proprietor" was a large land-owner at Cow Neck, Rockaway, Merrock Neck, and Hungry Harbor, among other places. An instance of the confidence placed in him by the town was his selection for the post of deputy to meet a committee from the Dutch towns to determine the manner of future intercourse between the nationalities. This meeting took place at Hempstead. The Dutch delegates were Oloff Stevensen (van Cortlandt), Jacobus Backer, and John Lawrence; and those representing the English, Daniel Denton, John Underbill, and Adam Mott. A condi- tional agreement was signed Feb. 24, 1663-4 whereby it was determined that neither nationality should exercise jurisdiction for twelve months while the King and the States-General endeavored to effect a settle- ment of the "whole of the difficulty about the island and places adjacent." It was because of the uncertain conclusion of this meeting that the great "Landtdag," referred to on page 112, was called. It assembled April 10, 1664, deputies from all the Dutch towns being 348 Zhc 1Revo IPorft of IPeeterbap present. Nothing of import was accomplished and it dissolved without doing anything to avert the impend- ing fate of the colony. In 1683, Governor Dongan required the town to take out a new patent. Ten individuals, of whom one was Mott, were chosen Octo- ber 9th of the following year "to go to York, the 20th inst. and endeavor the purchasing of a patent." The trip proved successful and the patent was issued April 17, 1685. Mott was Lieutenant of the Town Militia and lived somewhere on the line of fence which parti- tioned off the Neck for common pasturage, between the present villages of Manhasset and Roslyn. All through the records he is frequently mentioned either in actions at law, in conveyances, in town matters, or in an official capacity. He m. (2) Elizabeth, dau. of Ann Parsons, wife of John Richbell, original patentee of Mamaroneck in Westchester County, probably by a previous husband whose name was Redman. By these unions he had a large family. He was not a Friend, as so many of his descendants became, but seems to have been a Presbyterian, although his son Joseph was a vestryman of St. George's, Hempstead, from 1708 to 171 1 and was a petitioner for its charter June 27, 1735. Adam Mott d. circa April 5, 1690. His will, of record in New York County, devises much land and arranges for the division of his "four proprietorships" in the un- divided lands of Hempstead, half to each family of children. Jordan Mott was b. at Hempstead Harbor (Roslyn), Feb. 6, 1768. At the age of twenty-one, he became an importer on Pearl Street, whereon at this date (1789) and for many years thereafter was located the finest trade in the city. On the founding of St. Stephen's Church he was the first Treasurer, and was an original among ©IMime jfamllies 349 stockholder of the Mechanics' Bank. In 1829, he retired from business and removed permanently to Bloomingdale, where he became largely interested in the charities and the upbuilding of the locality. He had a number of slaves, as was usual at this period, who were employed around the farm. Of his seven sons only two, James Striker and Samuel Coles, both of whom sang in the church choir, were born at "Mott's Point, " which was at first used as a coim try-seat only. From a boy the latter' s interest was much centred on horticulture and sylviculture, and although he was for some years a member of the wholesale drygoods house of Revo C. Hance & Co., at 174 Pearl Street, and later travelled in Europe and Central America, he found time to assist his mother in planting the broad acres around their home and in interesting his neighbors in his hobby. The few remaining trees yet standing on the Hopper farm are examples of the many placed along the sidewalks and in the grounds of cottages by his exertions. In laying out the grounds surrounding the homestead, Mrs. Mott was greatly assisted by the thick growth of forest trees which towered above the landscape in all their natural beauty. Lilacs formed a hedge on the water front along the retaining wall, and steps led down to the rocky shore and the bathing house. Advantage was taken of the supply of re- markable plants, shrubs, and trees which Lewis Morris, Minister to France, had imported from Holland, France, and Germany circa 1792, and distributed be- tween Montressor's (Ward's) and Randall's Islands and Morrisania. From the former island Mrs. Mott selected the vegetation which in later years so charmingly embellished her home. The garden was further adorned with the magnolia and the fig and among other 350 OTe 1Rew l?ork of IPeeterba^ trees should be mentioned the persimmon, Madeira- nut, and splendid specimens of the Canton mulberry, the latter relics of Samuel's experiments in silk culture. The house was situated on the river's bank and was approached by Mott's Lane, once a shaded and grav- elled way leading from Eleventh Avenue, a portion of old Hopper's Lane which debouched therefrom and turned northwesterly just south of what came to be known as 54th Street. Here Domines Kip and van Aken were ever welcome. Mr. Mott retired as Treasurer of St. Stephen's when Mr. Strebeck resigned the charge in 1809 because of ill-health (vide History of St. Stephen's Parish, by Rev. J. Newton Perkins, 1906) and thereafter attended his wife's church. The portrait reproduced is from a wax miniature made in 1796 and placed in a locket which he presented to Lavinia Striker before marriage. The new Dutch church in Market St. was organized in 18 10 and on October 30th he bought a pew there. His wife became a member of the Church at Harsenville, August I, 181 7, and a pew was acquired there. Mrs. Mott took her dismissal from Domine Kip January 3, 1830, to the Reformed Church in Broome Street, and in 1829 they occupied pew No. 121 in that edifice. Jordan Mott d. Jan. 8, 1840, in his seventy-second year, at Mott's Point. His obituary recites that his generosity to his fellow-creatures, mildness of temper, and for- bearance associated about him friends with more than ordinary ties. As a citizen he was just, as a husband ever kind and affectionate, and as a parent exemplary and indulgent. He enjoyed retirement to his late residence at Bloomingdale, blessed with earth's best gifts, in the society of his family and surrounded by friends to whom his house was ever open. His ob- amona ©Ib-tlme jfamilles 351 sequies were attended on the 12th by a large concourse. The widow, famiHarly called Wyntje, the Dutch diminutive of Winifred, continued to live at the home- stead with her children and grandchildren. Although she kept up on occasion her attendance at the Church, in later years she became a regular communicant of Dr. Hutton's church in Washington Square. She gave much time to charitable endeavor, being especially interested in the Orphan Asylum, the Colored Orphan Asylum, and that instituted for the care of the blind, exuding good cheer and bounty on her rounds. As a life-tenant of one third of the Hopper Farm, and after her sister Ann's death in i860 of one half, she was immersed in business to a considerable degree and, though her sons attended to the details, she was thoroughly posted in all matters of consequence relating thereto. Idolized by her children her home life was ideal, and she was fortunately compelled to suffer but two breaks in the direct family circle — the passing of her sons Samuel and Jacob. Rounding out a good old age, it may be stated that her life lines were cast in pleasant places. She d. at the age of eighty, at ' * Mott's Point," March 16, 1862, attended by Dr. Alexander E. Hosack. Services were held there on the i8th and her remains were deposited in the family vault in the churchyard at Harsenville, where those of her husband had preceeded her. The Christian Intelligencer of April 3d commented thus of her character: Mrs. Mott was one of the few who, in passing away, leave a void not easily filled. Exemplary as a wife, de- voted as a mother, true as a Christian, she left behind the memory of the just. To her the veil that hides the future from all mortal eyes was softly lifted. She has passed the inevitable Gates leaning upon the protecting arm of the 352 Zbc flew l?orh of IPesterbap God who was her stay all her days and her support in the hour of her death. It remains to us to imitate her virtue and emulate her example. The only one of her children baptized at Blooming- dale was Matavus Hopper Mott, which function Dr. Gunn performed on May 3, 18 16, it being the last baptism in the original church edifice. He was b. Sept. 23, 18 1 5, at "Rosevale" the residence of General Striker, during a temporary visit. Early in life he abbreviated his christian name to "M" and in this way was known throughout life. He accompanied two of his elder brothers to the Mechanics' Society School and in 1830 attended a private school carried on by Adams & Parker at 41 Barclay Street. On Dec. loth of that year the principals wrote to his father that they took pleasure in informing him that Matavus had of late met with admirable success in his studies, which they thought was owing to his foundation of a proper habit of mind. "He has," they continued, "we now believe, learnt how to study and we trust that his future success will be equal to his past perseverance." In 1836 he was with Samuel Hicks & Sons, merchants at 80 South Street, and in 1840 at 23 Maiden Lane. During his cousin Dr. Valentine Mott's absence in Europe he had charge of his property interests, begin- ning in 1837. At the age of 21 he was Lieutenant of the 2d Company, 82d Regiment, 58th Brigade, in which command he was promoted to],Captain Aug. 4, 1838. The book of military ritual of that day was entitled, "Tactics and Regulations for the Militia by Brevet Capt. S. Cooper, aid-de-camp to and super- vised by Maj. Gen. Alexander Macomb, commanding the army of the United States; Phila. 1836." After serving his time he resigned, and was honorably dis- *^ ^. • \^^;^fi^^ ey^t^l^^ Portrait and signature of M. Hopper Mott, Esq., from a water color in possession of the author among ©IMime families 353 charged Sept. 13, 1843. Early imbued with politics of the Whig order he entered eagerly into the struggles of his ward and was delegated to city, State, and national conventions on numerous occasions. A personal friend of Henry Clay he worked for his election night and day, and in an effort to prevent fraudulent voting was assaulted at the polls, which action was denounced by The American of Dec. 17, 1844, as a "case of brutality inflicted upon one of our most esteemed citizens." The assailant was both fined and put imder bonds. In his 29th year Mr. Mott began to serve on the grand jury, then composed of seventeen members, becoming foreman soon thereafter. He was an organizer of the Broadway Savings Bank in 185 1 and served it as director and secretary, a trustee of the Public School Society, and a member of the American Institute. He ran for Congress on the People's ticket but failed of election. In 1853 he was a founder and first president of the St. Nicholas Insurance Co. at 65 Wall St., and director of the Knick- erbocker Bank. One of the notable lyrics, Washing- ton's Birthday, by the well-known lawyer-poet William Ross Wallace, was dedicated to Mr. Mott. In these days the songs of the composer of the Sword of Bunker Hill, Keep Step to the Music of the Union, and of the author of the line which was not bom to die, "The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world," have been resurrected and their beauty and patriotism again recognized. Mr. Mott was married to Miss Ruth A., youngest daughter of John J. Schuyler of Amsterdam, N. Y. The family with which he thus became allied descended from the Hon. David Pieterse Schuyler of Holland, who was at New Amsterdam Oct. 13, 1657. He was Justice of the Peace at Albany 354 ^be flew l?orft of IPeeterba^ 1683, Schepen 1686, Member of Convention 1689, and Magistrate 1693. He m. Catalina, dau. of Abram Isaac Verplanck, one of the "Twelve Men." The line de- scends as follows : Pieter Davidse, b. at Albany April 18, 1659, Judge of Oyer and Terminer there 1685, lived at Claverack 1694, m. Alida van Slechtenhorst in Beverwyck, widow of Gerrit, son of Goosen Gerritse van Schayck, d. March 7, 1696. Her father, Brandt Arent van Slech- tenhorst, first Director of Rensselaerwyck, was from Nieukirke in Guilderland. He was also President of the Court of Justice and superintendent of all the bouweries, farms, and other property belonging to the Patroon. He sailed from Holland with his family and servants for Virginia Sept. 26, 1647, proceeding thence for the Manhattans Dec. 12, where he arrived Feb. 7. He reached Rensselaerwyck March 22. His son Gerrit became Officier or Schout-Fiscaal. The father re- fused to recognize the superior authority of Stuyvesant within the patroonship and the controversy waged between them for four years, during which he man- fully defended the rights of his "orphan patroon." This was Johannes, a minor at the time of his father's death, a son of Killaen by his first wife Hellegonda van Bylet. Van Slechtenhorst was intrusted with the management of the estate by the minor's imcle Johan- nes van Wely and Wouter van Twiller, executors of Killaen 's will. Eventually his house was burst open and he was placed under civil arrest and taken to Fort Orange to be later conveyed to Fort Amsterdam. Some of his time was passed on Staten Island, some at Breuckelen. He returned to Nieukirke and d. there in 1668. Davidt Pieterse, b. Dec. 26, 1688, at Albany, m. (i) amona ©IMlme jfamU!e0 355 July 17, 1720, Anna Bratt; was of Canojoharie 1764. His will mentions his "second wife" and son Jacob. Jacob Davidse, b. March 24, 1734, of Albany, later of Florida, Montgomery Co. N. Y., m. Eve Swackhamer of German Valley, N. J. They had thirteen children, six sons and seven daughters. Jacob Jr., sixth child of the above, b. Feb. 2, 1764. His farm was situated two miles back on Schooley's Mountain from Stanhope, N. J., 40 miles from Morris- town, at a place called Springtown. He m. Martha Fancher and had fifteen children, six sons and nine daughters. He moved to Florida, N. Y., where he died. John Jacobse, their third son, b. May 26, 1791, at Florida, m., March 25, 1813, Susan Shaw. He died at Amsterdam Jan. 22, 1865, where he was a merchant and Vice-President and director of the Farmers' Bank. They became the parents of Mrs. M. Hopper Mott, the mother of Alexander Hosack Mott and of the author. Personally Mr. Mott was a man of fine mind and engaging presence, standing fully six feet in height and of large physique; he was of sandy complexion, with blue eyes. All his life a resident of Bloomingdale, with the exception of three years (1853-5) when he lived at 31 West 22d St., where both his children were born, he made his mark in the District. He served his party well, never seeking office, and when prevailed upon to run for Alderman and for Congress he ascertained what so many have before and since, that this is a Democratic town. His voice was not far-reaching and this failing caused him to act more largely as adviser, while others did the orating. An organizer and financier of ability, he was endowed with a gracious and 356 ^be IRew l?ork of IJeeter^a^ prepossessing manner — a public-spirited man in the true sense. In his home he was of even disposition, sanguine in temperament, and a devoted son, husband, and father. Unfortunately some years prior to his decease he contracted an illness which seriously inter- fered with his usefulness and compelled his retirement from the activities of life in 1856. In his weakened condition his system found it impossible to withstand an attack of typhoid fever, from which he passed away at the homestead on Jan. 9, 1864. Funeral services were held there on the 12th. Rev. Drs. Hutton and van Aken officiated. The Striker vault at the Church being fully occupied his remains were deposited in the receptacle at the Marble Cemetery. On the demolition of the Church in 1868 all the Mott remains were re- moved to Greenwood. Barbara Asten, one of the principal benefactors of the Church, was never a member. The daughter of Caspar Samler, whose farm near present Madison Square has been mentioned, she was born in the homestead thereon. Her husband joined the communion Sept. 13, 18 18, his wife having died two years previously, at a time when he was solicited to assume office. The minutes of the 2ist state that his certificate was regular and satisfactory and that his name had been accordingly entered on the church books. He had been elected Deacon on August 26th vice Lawrence resigned, sub- ject to the obtaining of this certificate from the " Church in town." He served in this capacity until Dec. i, 1830, when a new Consistory was elected. The city Directory gives his address in 18 19 as 9 Cheapside. The Astens were not blessed with children, and their work in the Lord's vineyard was unhampered by ties of blood. Mrs. Asten's gift is still bringing forth \^ I f^ Hmong ©IMime ]famlHe6 357 fruit and her memory will remain as long as an edifice stands to bear on its walls her memorial. The Varians are represented to a considerable extent. The origin of the family is uncertain. It has been suggested that they were Huguenots who emigrated to Holland at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. This expatriation is the more likely because of the Dutch affiliations formed in New York by the immigrant and his descendants. The first of the name found in this city was Isaac, who figures in the Directory of 1720 and who was admitted a freeman January 23, 1733. In 1737-8, he was a member of the military company commanded by Capt. Cornelius van Home. A negro named Worcester belonging to him was implicated in the " Great Negro Plot" in 1741 and was transported for that crime. Varian m. in the Dutch church, Aug. 12, 1733, Elizabeth, dau. of Daniel de Vouw, and had five children. The youngest, Isaac, b. Sept. 8, 1740, purchased two extensive farms front- ing on the Bloomingdale Road, one extending from 17th to 2ist Street, adjoining the Horn Tract on the south, which composed the ten-acre gift of the city to Sir Peter Warren, and another bounded south by the northerly line of the Horn property, with present 26th Street for a southerly delimitation, all of which he cultivated as farming land. On this latter plot, just north of this street, on the westerly side of the road, he built the family homestead which remained such a conspicuous landmark for many years. He m. (i) Hannah van den Berg, (2) Aletta Harsen, and (3) Jane Betts, who became the respective mothers of sixteen children. Isaac, the eldest son of the first alliance, m., June 20, 1791, Tamar Leggett of West Farms. Of the nine children born of this union three 358 zbc Tlew IJorft of ^cetcvt>^^ were baptized by Dr. Gunn, viz. Gilbert Coutant, George Washington, and Emeline Coutant. The first was named in honor of the husband of his great-aunt Mary Varian, who became the wife of Gilbert Coutant April 26, 1789. He came of the well-known Huguenot family of which the histories of Westchester County speak at length. George Washington lived and died on the paternal farm. He was a Councilman in 1854, Alderman in 1855, and member of Assembly i860. He is described about this latter date as being an old- school Democrat and a genuine Knickerbocker in appearance. He was stout of form, with bushy gray hair and whiskers, and exceedingly vigorous. Bom to a competence, he never had other occupation than aiding in the care of the family realty, that rapidly developed in value as the city extended. In private life he was just, courteous, full of good humor, and greatly attached to home and family. Emeline joined the church Nov. 5, 1830, and m. Laurence Pell Jor- dan, Jan. 4, 1837. Isaac Leggett Varian, another son of Isaac, acquired fame in politics. Among the various offices he held were member of Assembly 183 1-4, Alderman 1833-5 and 1836, President of the Board 1835-6, Mayor 1839 to 1840, State Senator 1842, and School Commissioner 1842-3. His portrait adorns the walls of the Governor ' s Room in the City Hall. He was a rugged and popular man of sterling honesty and integrity. He had a pew in the church and was married by Dr. Gunn to Catherine Hopper Dusenberry, granddaughter of Andrew Hopper, July 25, 181 1. They had issue baptized there, to wit: Andrew Hopper. He was bap. at the homestead of his gt. -grandfather and namesake, where he d. May 4, 1826. Buried in the Hopper plot. cfi<^^z£ ^^^ Portrait and signature of the Hon. Isaac L. Varian, Mayor of New York City. From the original by Inman in tlie New York City Hall among ©IMlme ifamilies 359 Tamar Letitia. Isaac. Matilda Campbell. Mary Elizabeth. Isaac II. In 1845, Mayor Varian removed to Peekskill and there he died Aug. lo, 1864, in his seventy-fifth year. His brother William was married by Dr. Gunn to Susan Cornell, Dec. 22, 181 9, and resided for many years in the building yet standing on the portion of the farm he inherited on Sixth Avenue just south of 28th Street, formerly known as the Knickerbocker Cottage and now occupied by Mouquin. Their children were baptized by the minister, viz. Mary Ward, Letitia Stevens, and William Henry. He removed to West- chester, where he bought land one mile from the village on the road to Fordham, and died Dec. 3, 1863, having had fourteen children. Another brother, Richard, b. in 1804, lived in the homestead, which he inherited, until its demolition, 1850-1, when he removed to 27 West 26th Street, in which house he d. Dec. 18, 1864. He was also married by Dr. Gunn, Feb. i, 1829, to Maria Fulmer. A daughter of Isaac and Tamar Varian, Letitia, joined the membership on confession in Feb., 182 1, at which time she was the wife of Thomas J. Stevens, who became in 1842 an executor of his father- in-law's will. These children were baptized by Dr. Gunn, viz. Isaac Varian, Thomas George, John Jacob, and Charles Bunner. Both she and her sister Emeline were granted letters to Brother Kip's church in 9th Street, they having followed the Domine from Bloom- ingdale to his new charge. The first marriage entered on the records was that of William B. Holmes of Haerlem and Hannah Stanton, 360 z\)c IRew IJork of l^eeterbai? who were joined Oct. 22, 1808, in presence of Jacob Harsen and Thomas Ash. She became a member May 2, 1822, and he Aug. 5, 1842. Removing to Blooming- dale they lived in a house which stood on the east side of the Road between 71st and 72nd Streets, just north of the Harsenville road, and is located by name on the Commissioner's map. All the children were bom there and all but one, Eldridge, baptized by the minister. Their names follow: Nathaniel William, d. young. George Washington, m. Martha, dau. of Martha Wilson Beard. Augusta Maria, m. by Domine van Aken, Jan. 8, 1833, to Eldridge H. Brooks; he also baptized William Holmes and James, their children. She joined the church Aug. 5, 1842; he d. 1857. Ann Agnes, m. by the Domine, Oct. i, 1837, to William Fiske Dana of Watertown (near Boston), Mass. In 1856 they removed to New York . She became a member May 5, 1848. Mary Eliza. Hannah Stanton, m. Kindred Howard, Oct. 25, 1847, at the church and these children were baptized by the Domine: Ellen Augusta, Charles Henry, and Elizabeth Tippell, all on May 19, 1856. The mother joined Aug. 2d of that year. Charles Darke, m. to Mary Smith by the Domine Feb. 9, 1852. Nathaniel, m. to Rebecca Beard, dau. of Martha Wilson Beard and sister of Martha, by the Domine Jan. 25, 1847. Their children Rebecca and Sarah Martha were baptized by him. Their married life extended over fifty-eight years. He died at No. 831 De Kalb Avenue, Brook- lyn. among ©Ib^^tlme ifamUlce 361 Eldridge. All of the above but Mrs. Dana and Eldridge are dead. Mr. Holmes had two brothers. The wife of George, Deborah, joined the communion Feb. 4, 1842, and William Holmes was m. by the minister May 6, 1831, to Eliza Ann Morgan. Their daughter Kate m. William Kelly June 13, 1854, and joined April 30, 1858, at the same time Jane, another daughter, was baptized. Elizabeth, a sister of William B. Holmes, became a member Aug. 5, 1853. She was the widow of Richard Darke, whom she married June 9, 1818. William B. Holmes, Sr., died 1845. The Kellys did not settle in Bloomingdale until 1857, when the father of said William bought ten lots at present 75th Street, just west of the Road. In front of it stood the old Dutch habitation of the Somer- indycks, which was destroyed in 1868, its site being required for the opening of the Boulevard. A wedge shaped strip fronting 14 feet on the street and 65 feet on the new thoroughfare, which remained after the land needed had been taken, was purchased by him, thereby placing his property on the corner of the two streets. The homestead which he built was a large white square house, with green blinds and old-fashioned porches. It was quite a noted spot in the village, and when the Somerindyck mansion was torn down, the view of it from down- town was imobstructed. The N.Y. Herald of May 1 , 1 900, says that the family were very hospitable and adds that: Every Fourth of July there was a lawn party, when tea was served out of doors, and dancing under lanterns was indulged in, to wind up with an eleven-o'clock supper. In winter there were many parties in the mansion. Many gray-haired 362 Zhc 1Rew l?orfi of 13e6ter^a^ New Yorkers will recall with pleasure the drives out the Bloomingdale Road and the dances at the Kelly home. There is a touch of the ghostly about the old place, too. The site was part of one of the old burghers' farms in colo- nial days. During the Revolution part of it was made a burying ground for the Hessians killed in the battle of Har- lem Heights. When Mr. Kelly built his barn in 1859 he dug up a whole box of Hessian bones and buried them again. Then there was the strange apple-tree back of the house. It was standing there in 1857. It bloomed out of season one fall — a single branch of it — and a few days later Kelly's youngest son was suddenly taken ill and died. It did this again early in the winter of 1879-80 and in January Kelly himself died. A few weeks later there was a heavy snow- storm and the tree toppled over and died. The old home is only a memory nov^. Workmen began to tear it dov^n in the spring of 1889 — about the last of the Bloomingdale mansions. John Jacob Astor bought the place in 1884, but Mrs. Kelly remained there until the last. A modern fourteen-story apartment- house now occupies the site. The widow of Henry Kelly became a member of the Church in August, 1866. William Kelly was approached in 1859 and again in 1862 to ascertain if he would serve as Dea con, but both times declined. John Parks came to Bloomingdale in 182 1. We do not know where he resided there. He joined the membership, Aug. 2, 1822, was elected Deacon Dec. i, 1830, and became an Elder Aug. 11, 1835, to fill the place made vacant by Elder Harsen's death. The Consistory met at his house for the first time September 2d, He was the delegate to Classis in March, 1837. In October it was announced that he was ill, and at the next session that he had died. Isabella Hamilton, among ©IMlme ffamlHes 3^3 who had a child baptized by Dr. Gunn in 1822, united Feb. 2, 1838, and d. Feb. 19, 1868, is thought to have been his sister. Deborah Ann Parks, his daughter, was m. by Domine van Aken to George Findley in 1856. She became a member April 30, 1858, and d. Jan. 26, 1867. It is interesting to sift the derivation of names. For instance the name Quackenbush. Translated it means "shaking wood," in the sense of a forest, originally Kwakkenbosch. The word beginning with Q is the Latin form. The name went through numerous spellings until in New York Quackenbos and Quacken- bush became the accepted methods. Pieter Quakken- bos, the common ancestor, came from Oestgeest, Holland, to New Amsterdam and removed to Beverwijk (Albany) . He had twelve children. The eldest, Rynier, b. in Holland, m. (i), March 2, 1674, Lysbet Jans Masten of Flushing, L. I., bap. June 3, 1657, N. Y., dau. of Jan Mast or Masten; m. (2) Sept. 13, 1692, Claasje Jacobs Stille, bap. Feb. 11, 1672, dau. of Jacob Cornells Stille and Aaltje Fredericks from Brasiel (Brazil). Rynier removed from Albany to New York circa 1691 and became the ancestor of the Manhattan family. To this branch belonged James Quackenbush who, with his wife, Margaret Fake (widow Romeyn), connected himself with the Church on Oct. 30, 1823. He was elected Deacon Aug. 2, 1824, in place of Ichabod Prall. The Consistory, in customary rotation, met at his residence on Nov. 8, and thereafter on many occasions. He was chosen Elder Dec. i, 1830. In 1837, his health, because of advancing years, began to break and at the session of July 16, 1840, held at his house, he resigned, thus terminating a period of sixteen years as an officer. He d. Jan. 17, 1842, aged eighty-three 364 ^be 1Rew l?ork of IJeeterba^ years and four months. Margaret Fake, and others of this name in the records, were doubtless descendants of three brothers Robert, Henry, and Tobias, the sons of James Feake of London, b. 1622, who were early emigrants to New England. Tobias of Flushing L. L, was Schout-Fiscaal under the Dutch government. Robert also came to New Amsterdam, and had child- ren baptized in the Dutch Church, 1642-7. Margaret Fake (Romeyn) Quackenbush d. Sept. 2, 1851, aged about eighty-one. Maria Quackenbush was m. by Dr. Gunn in 181 3 to Samuel van Orden. He was the grandson of Peter van Orden and Antje Willemse (Williams), whom he m. Sept. 24, 1726, and was baptized in the original Dutch Church, Oct. 15, 1746. Said Peter owned a farm of 31 acres extending from 31st to 34th Streets from about 350 feet east of Broadway to about 500 feet west of Sixth Avenue. This he devised at his death, 1769, to his four sons Wessell, John, William, and Samuel. The entire property was owned eventually by the latter, who d. in 1797 leaving a will whereby three acres of the farm were' bequeathed to his son Samuel, he who was married ini8i3. In 1827, when he sold it for $6000, he signed his name van Norden, and in the convey- ance calls attention to the fact that it came to him under the former spelling. William Burnham, the jovial proprietor of the vil- lage tavern, and his wife Eliza Beck became members on confession Jan. 30, 1823. Dr. Gunn baptized these of their children: James Carlton, Mary Louise, Charles, Julia Maria, Harriet Newell, and Cordelia Matilda. Because of inhibition from the communion table, in that he persisted in keeping the tavern "open" on the Sabbath, he transferred his allegiance, and when he among ©IMime famillee 365 died, March 3, 1850, in his seventy-first year his remains were deposited on the 5 th in the public vault in St. Michael's churchyard. His wife died Aug, 22, aged 67, and was placed beside him two days later. Of the sons James C. ("Col. Jim," as he was familiarly known) was the last survivor. He was commissioned Lieut. Col. Sept. 27, 1847, and after an honorable career as commander of the N. Y. Volunteers in the Mexican War he was taken off while yet a young man by disease contracted in the service. He never married. His sister Harriet m. in 1842 Frederick Lyman Talcott, who after an experience in mercantile business with his father, Noah Talcott, established in 1858 the banking house of Talcott & Sons, the junior partners being Frederick L., Jr., and August Belmont Talcott. Wil- liam Burnham's sister Ann m. Lawrence van Buskirk. Three of their children were baptized Sept. 30, 1831, by Dr. Gunn; viz. Caroline, Sylvester Swift, and William Lawrence. Sylvester S. m. Sarah Josephine Gassner and had a child Virginia Talcott, who was baptized by Domine van Aken. Daniel Gassner, her father, came to Bloomingdale in 1828, when he bought the Samuel A. Lawrence property. Somerindyck Lane, which led to it, took the names of Lawrence and Gassner suc- cessively after the different owners. He was a witness at the marriage of his daughter Jane Elizabeth to William G. Tompkins July 2, 1847, ^^ which the minis- ter officiated and baptized their children on Dec. 20, 1854, to wit, Emily Louise and Charlotte Pride Tomp- kins. Daniel Gassner d. in 1854, leaving his realty to his eight children. Domine van Aken m, his son John A. to Helen, daughter of Matthew Kyle, a Scotchman, and baptized two of their children, viz. John Weyman and Susan 366 ^be IRew 13orR of l^eeterbai? Cornelia, 1854. Kyle had sons William and Matthew. Another son of Daniel Gassner was Matthew. Peter Gassner was a brother of Daniel. He was a grocer. His daughter Elizabeth C. Gassner d. at Lake Mohegan, Westchester Co., N. Y. July 31, 1907. Isabella B. Gassner m. John Weyman and had a child baptized at St. Michael's 1853. Rachel Westerfield joined on confession Feb. i, 1827, and her husband Cornelius Feb. 2, 1828. They had been m. by Dr. Gunn Dec. 7, 1822, who also baptized these children, viz. : Catherine Jane, m. Apr. 26, 1843, John Waite, d. Sept. 16, 1859; William Edwin; Rachel; Mary Elizabeth, d. Oct. 14, 1841, intestate and unm. ; Emma Delia. By the will of Jane Cozine Acker- man, dated March 2, 1837, said Rachel Westerfield, her daughter, was bequeathed all testatrix's lands in Bloomingdale, a portion of the Cozine Farm, for and during her life. Immediately after her death said property was to vest in the above grandchildren, share and share alike. To the eldest, Catherine Jane, was bequeathed the place on which her grandmother resided, fronting on the Bloomingdale Road, to her and her heirs forever. Certain portions of said life estate Rachel Westerfield conveyed to her two infant children, Emma D. and Rachel Westerfield, in 1842, which prop- erty was partitioned and sold at their petition three years later. The mother d. Sept. 11, 1842, aged 45 years and 2 mos., leaving her husband Cornelius and all the above-named children, at which time only the elder had married. She had George W. and Anna Frances Waite. The daughter Rachel m. William M. Day in 1 8 5 5 . Cornelius Westerfield was elected Deacon June 21, 1838, was appointed Treasurer Oct. 23, and Clerk of Consistory Feb. 14, 1839. He became Elder among ®I^*«t!me jfamllles 367 July 16, 1840. At the same session John Waite, a child of the Church, who was to become his son-in-law, was elected Deacon and Treasurer in his stead. The August meeting was held at Waite's house. Both were re-elected to their respective offices on July 25, 1842. Mr. Westerfield resigned both as Elder and Clerk and Waite as Treasurer Nov. 29, 1843. The latter served for a month or so thereafter as Deacon. He was the son of William Waite and Margaret, the dau. of Dea- con Webbers, who were m. by Dr. Gunn Feb. 23, 1809. Robert Carss joined the communion in April, 1829, He was m. by Domine van Aken Feb. 15, 1852, to Joanna Gordon and was elected Deacon Jan. 13, 1858, which position he filled until chosen Elder Feb. i, 1861. He d. in office July 13, 1869. His brother John m. (i) Catherine dau. of Thomas J. Emmons the Elder and (2) Marion Bissland, a teacher in the Orphan Asylum, in 1857, she having been baptized May 5, 1850. Two of their children, John Bissland and Mary Catherine Carss, were baptized by the minister. Domine Francis Marschalk Kip was called as a suc- cessor to the lamented Dr. Gunn, July 8, 1830. He came from one of the oldest families of New Amster- dam and his descent was as follows : 1. Isaac, m. (i) Catalina Hendricks de Suyers, Feb. 8, 1653. 2. Jacobus, b. Aug. 25, 1666, d. Feb. 28, 1753; m. (2) Rachel Swarthout, 1695. 3. Isaac, d. July 2, 1762; m. Jan. 7, 1720, Cornelia, dau. Leonard Lewis, Alderman, New York city. 4. Leonard, b. 1725, d. 1804; m., 1763, Elizabeth, dau. Francis Marschalk of New York city. 5. Isaac Lewis, b. 1767, d. 1837; m. Sarah Smith of 3^^ Zl)c mew 13orli of Iffeeterbai? Elizabethtown, N. J., who were the parents of the Domine. From the N. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record of Jan., 1889, p. 12, these additional facts are gleaned: Dr. Kip was the youngest son of Isaac L. Kip, a law partner of the Hon. Brockholst Livingston, Assistant Register of the Court of Chancery and from 1 8 1 7 to the day of his death (Jan. 20, 1837) Treasurer of the Cor- poration of the Collegiate Church, of which he became President in 1830. The son's educational advantages were of the highest order. After graduation at Colum- bia College he entered his father's office, where he pursued the study of law for two years, when impelled by religious motives he entered the Theological Semi- nary, was licensed by the Classis of New York April 21, 1830, and ordained Aug. 8, in the Church at Harsen- ville. The following year he was transferred by the Classis to the mission in East 9th Street, on the present site of the Wanamaker store. His success was so great that from this mission grew the organization which erected the House of Worship a.t the corner of 4th Street and Lafayette Place. Mr. Kip now received several calls and decided in favor of the old historic stone church at Fishkill, where he was installed Nov. 8, 1836. This was the church of his love. A ministry of 35 years followed, almost romantic in its faithf illness, usefulness, and beauty. His long pastorate included the most eventful period of our national history and on all questions involving virtue or vice, patriotism or disloyalty, right or wrong, this pulpit was never silent; its trumpet blew no uncertain sound, yet its utterances were so fortified and tempered by so wise an admixture of sterling integrity and affection that prejudice was disarmed and all strife prevented. His sermons were Hmona ©IMlme jfamlliee 369 always the result of deep thought and careful study. His Sabbath ministrations were full of the Cross. He loved the ministry with an intensity of devotion and he was beloved by his people with a fervency rarely accorded to any one individual. His memory will ever be regarded as a benediction to both the church and the place. In 1854 Dr. Kip visited Europe, where his letters of introduction enabled him to be enter- tained by men of eminence. This journey was ever a source of pleasure during the remainder of his life. In 1857 he was President of the General Synod at Utica and the same year received the degree of D.D, from Columbia. In i860 he was elected trustee of Rutgers College. Early in the decade of the seventies Dr. Kip resigned at Fishkill and soon accepted the pastorate of the united Churches of Richmond and Huguenot, Staten Island, and was appointed chaplain of the Seaman's Retreat, then under charge of the State Legislature. He resigned his Staten Island charge in 1 88 1 to officiate as chaplain of the city institutions on Ward's and Randall's Islands. Early in 1883 the American Seaman's Friend Society appointed Dr. Kip their chaplain and this was the closing work of his long life. Here he was diligent and faithful in his service and exceedingly popular in the institutions with officers, physicians, nurses, and patients. He was taken ill while on duty, resigned May i, and died the 28th of that month. Dr Kip was a man of many attainments, well versed in the ancient languages — Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. In his seventieth year he was appointed examiner in the latter tongue by the Classis of New York because of superior accomplishments. A theologian and histo- rian of parts, he delighted in antiquarian research. 3 70 Zhc IRew I3ork of ^CBtcvbav, His reminiscenses of his native city were exceedingly entertaining and amusing. He m. Mary Rogers, daughter of James Ashton Bayard and granddaughter of Col. Bayard, all of the historic Delaware family. She was also a granddaughter of the Rev. John Rod- gers, D.D., first pastor of the Wall Street Presbyterian Church. She was the first accession to membership during her husband's tenure at Bloomingdale, bear- ing a letter from the 8th Presbyterian Church. The Bayards are descended from Samuel Bayard and Anne, the stately sister of Gov. Stuyvesant. The latter, a widow, accompanied her brother to New Amsterdam in 1647, bringing with her her three sons. The Delaware family came from Petrus Bayard, sometime Deacon of the Dutch Church at New Amster- dam, who removed to Bombay Hoeck, an island of 600 acres in the South River which Gov. Andros granted him in 1675. The Rev. Dr. Rodgers, then pastor of St. George's Presbyterian Church in Delaware and an intimate friend and confidential adviser of Gen. Wash- ington, m, Elizabeth, the daughter of Col. Peter Bayard, son of Samuel and grandson of Petrus, and it was his daughter Eliza who m. James A. Bayard, the son of Col, John, of the Penn. Committee of Safety, a great grandson of Petrus. He was the father of Mrs. Kip and of James A. Bayard, the distinguished states- man who was U. S. Commissioner to Ghent. For this service he was appointed to succeed John Quincy Adams at St. Petersburg, but was seized with an alarming illness and hastened home to die. Col. John Bayard removed from Philadelphia to New Brunswick after the war, where he became a presiding judge, trustee of Rutgers College, and in 1790 Mayor of that city. He d. Jan. 7, 1807, in his 69th year, and his o 2 Hmona ®I^*'tlme jfamillee 371 remains were interred in the churchyard of the first Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Kip d. before the Dom- ine and two sons and three daughters survived them. Stephen N. Bayard was a subscriber and a pew- holder in the second House of Worship. He m. Mary, sister of Abraham K, Beekman, who survived her husband and d. Dec. 2, 1831, intestate and without issue. Bayard was much interested in the introduc- tion of canals in New York, -and one of his early trips into the interior of the State took place in 1791, when he was accompanied by Jeremiah van Rensselaer, Gen. Philip van Cortlandt, and Elkanah Watson, with the object of scrutinizing opinions on the subject of inland navigation. Watson was a projector of the canal system and of agricultural societies. In 1814 Bayard had an office at 69 Pearl Street and a residence on the Bowery at the Two-Mile Stone. Frederick Christian Havemeyer had previously attended divine service, but it is not known that he owned a pew before 1831. He lived at present Colum- bus Circle, having acquired in 181 7 for $2100 blocks Nos. 23 and 24, which had been set off to Hyder Somer- indyck in partition. This land lay between 57th and 59th Streets from Broadway to Ninth Ave. and thereon he built his mansion. He and his brother William came from Germany in 1799 and were the ances- tors of the two branches of the family in New York. They founded the firm of Wm. and F. C. Havemeyer, which engaged in sugar-refining there in 1807, in Van- dam St., in which year the son of the junior partner, bearing his father's name, was bom, and became the father of Henry Osborne Havemeyer. F. C. Have- meyer, Sr., d. intestate Sept. 20, 1841, leaving him sur- 372 Zbc l^ew 13ork of l^eeter^ai? viving his widow Catherine and these children who were communicants, viz. : Frederick C. Havemeyer, Jr., who after spending two years at Columbia College entered the paternal es- tablishment as an apprentice. In 1828 he became associated with his cousin William in the firm under the original style, and after the death of his father undertook the management of the latter's large estate. For some years he travelled thereafter, when he again entered business and in 1855 organized the firm of Havemeyer, Townsend & Co., which later became Havemeyer & Elder. In 183 1 he m. Sarah Osborne, daughter of Christopher Townsend, one of his business associates. Charlotte, wife of William I. Eyer. Catherine E., wife of Warren Harriot. The name Harriot appears in the church records. Susanna W., wife of Henry Senft. Mary R., who intermarried with John I. Northrop in Feb., 1850. Charles H., had a wife Mary. Diederich M., had a wife Mary. George L., had a wife Eliza. Edward A., had a wife Sophia S. and d. s. p. April 2, 1853- Certain lots of their father's realty purchase were sold as the result of a partition suit commenced in the Supreme Court Dec. 13, 1852. The Mansion was used as a home for soldiers' children during the Civil War. Thomas J. Emmons had been m. by Dr. Gunn May 15, 1824, to Maria Shurtliff, and holds the palm for service, which extended over a period of forty-three years. His name appears first as a member in Oct., 1832, when he and his second wife, Emily Lindeman, amono ©IMIme jfamllies 373 joined the communion on confession. He was elected Deacon Jan. 21, 1838, and became Treasurer Nov. 29, 1843. In 1854 (Jan. 25) he was raised to the eldership; represented Consistory at Classis April 18, for the first time, and was appointed Clerk July 23, i860. As Treasurer he was deputized to invest the proceeds of the sale of the original church lot the following month. The Board had met at his house desultorily, but beginning in 1868 it assembled there (No. 245 West 20th St.) regularly for fully two years, during which time the second House of Worship had been removed and the new Chapel opened for service. By his first wife, Maria, Mr. Emmons became the father of six children, viz: William Thomas, Mary Catherine, Horatio, were baptized by Dr. Gunn. Maria; as she was ill the baptism was privately per- formed by Domine Kip in 1830. Edward Augustus, bap. by Domine van Aken in 1836. Mary, bap. by Domine van Aken in 1838, the mother having died March 2d of that year. The wife of Domine van Aken, Eliza W. Gulick, was taken into the fold Aug. 21, 1835, by certificate. On April 22, 1840, their son Gulick was born, and was baptized in September by John Knox, D.D. At the age of twenty- three he was m. by his father to Elizabeth Jennett, daughter of Capt. James and Jennett (Bogert) Kearny, in the presence of Archibald K. Kearny, Hamilton B. Holmes, and John Mc. Bogert. She was a descendant of John W. Kearny, who m. Anne daughter of Robert and Lady Mary (Alexander) Watts and d. in New York city Friday, May 24, 1907. Funeral services were held at Grace Dutch Reformed 374 Zbe Bew IJorft ot IJeaterba^ Church, 7th Ave, and 54th St., on the 27th at 11 a.m. Her husband joined the communion Feb. 6, 1856, served as assistant minister to his father for a time, was dismissed to the 23d St. Presbyterian Church in 1864, and d. Oct. 20, 1872. They had no issue. The Domine's brother John had two children baptized, according to the records : Alexander Gulick and Enoch. The former, when his uncle became incapacitated, was called in 1881 as associate pastor. Enoch m. Mary Farr Nov. 27, 1877, and his children, Enoch Chester and Harold, were baptized by the Domine. The original owners of the territory which so largely composed Harsenville began to figure in the church history at an early period. James C. Somerindyke was m. by Dr. Gunn in 181 7 and Mary Tates, his wife, became a member Aug. 4, 1837. On the same date a number of their children were baptized by Do. van Aken, viz. : Martha Elizabeth, Caroline, William Henry, Charles Lallemand and Whitfield Skellom. Their first child, George, had been baptized in 18 18 by Dr. Gunn. Domine van Aken married Caroline Somerin- dyke in 1850 to Thomas Shepherd and baptized her son Thomas Franklin in 1854. Cornelia Somerindyke of Haerlem, the wife of Arthur McCarter, joined the communion Nov. 14, 1835, and her husband followed her example Feb. 3, 1837. George W. Somerindyck, son of John Somerindike (in all of which ways the family name was spelled), the settler at Bloomingdale, joined May i, 1840. He was the only one of his father's line who became connected with the church. The- ophilus Hardenbrook, whose brother William A. was the husband of George W.'s sister Margaret, was m. by Dr. Gunn. Another family who had large landed interests in the neighborhood, the Dyckmans, had Hmona ©IMime jfamlliee 375 removed from Bloomingdale prior to the fotmding of the Church. The Leggetts were a branch of the noted West- chester family. Isaac Leggett of Bloomingdale m. Barbara, a daughter of Charles and Catherine Kelly, whose farm adjoined the Webbers tract on the south. This was a part of Wolfert Webbers' s land mentioned in the chapter "The First Consistory, " which Deacon Webbers sold to said Kelly in 1792. Catherine Kelly, the wife, d. July 3, 1800, leaving her husband and these children : Catherine Feitner, Barbara Leggett, and Mary, wife of Francis Child, Jr. Charles Kelly divided the tract vested in him into six lots, three fronting on the Bloomingdale Road and three on Verdant Lane, later Leggett or Feitner Lane. Two of these lots he conveyed to each of his three daughters above named. That to Barbara Leggett was dated 1798. John H. Dusenberry purchased a portion of it in 1825 (he had been m. to Sarah Leggett in 1818 by Dr. Gunn) and the balance was sold to David S. Brown in 1833. Mrs. Leggett joined the organization in 1840 and d. March 29, 1841, a widow, her husband having passed from earth during the previous year. Their children had been baptized by Dr. Gunn, to wit: John William, Kelly, Mary Ann, Jane, William Varian, Barbary Ann, Henrietta, and Tamar Varian. The Varian connection will be noted. Mayor Varian 's mother being a Leggett of West Farms. Do. van Aken m. the above-men- tioned Tamar Varian Leggett to Charles Wilmott, both of Bloomingdale, in 1841. Catharine Feitner received a deed of her portion in November, 1802. Her husband Francis Feitner, d. Jan. 4, 1833, and she Oct. 19, 1834. She left her sons Peter and Charles executors. Besides these elder children 376 Zbc IRcw IJorti of l?e0terbai? there were Elizabeth, wife of Balaam Ackerman, Fran- cis, Jr., George, Hannah wife of John Cornish, Daniel, and Catherine Ann. Domine van Aken m. Daniel, 1838, to Mahala Clinn and their daughter Mary Cathe- rine to Lawrence Deyo of Shawangunk, N. Y., 1864. The Feitners were of German ancestry. Of the sons John had a wife Hannah, and George Elsey, in 1835. There were two Wilson families in Harsenville. The one of which we ken is that of Jotham who came from New London,, Conn, in his "teens." He m., 1827, Sarah, the daughter of Richard Darke, who was bap- tized by Dr. Gunn in 181 5. In the Governor's room at City Hall hangs a copy of the Declaration of In- dependence in Mr. Wilson's handwriting, dedicated to the N. Y. Public School Society. His wife was bom on the present triangle lying between 72nd and 74th Streets, Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue, before the streets were opened. Wilson lived at 64th St. and the Bloomingdale Road and here all his children but one were born. It took two pews to accommodate his numerous progeny. Being a Baptist, none of the family were baptized by the minister and none became members. The names of the twelve children were Jotham, Jr., Richard, Monmouth, John b. in N. J., Maria, George, Emma, Charles, Elizabeth, Jacob, William, and Kate. Maria was m. by Do. van Aken in 1862 to Isaac D. Blake, a native of Boston, Mass., resident in New York. Her brother George has been for many years the genial Secretary of the N. Y. Chamber of Commerce. Monmouth Wilson was at one time a Fire Commissioner. The Darkes were English and were never naturalized. Besides Sarah Wilson, who was the eldest of the family, Richard Darke and Maria his wife had Henry and Maria, ,- ^f PMatiahPerit Esq., 20th President of the Chamber Portrait andsignatureofTelatiah lent, iisq., vrcrilman of Commerce; reproduced by courtesy of Mrs. \v . S. Gilman Hmono ©IMlme ffamiliee 377 who were baptized by Dr. Gunn in 1815. Maria, the mother, died March 28, 1818, aged 37, and was buried in St. Michael's churchyard. Richard Darke, Jr., joined the communion Feb. 5, 181 9, and a number of his children were baptized at St. Michael's in 1834. He d. that year and his widow, Elizabeth Holmes, entered the fold at Harsenville in 1853, and d. Apr. 16, 1859. John Darke and Margery Moore had John Moore, bapt. 183 1 by Domine Kip; Mary Thompson, bapt. 1832 by Rev. John AlBurtis; and Helen Maria, bapt. 1833 by Rev. Wm. Labagh. Domine van Aken bapt. five children of Charles Darke, Sr. and Temperance Rebecca Hay den, his wife, in 1840 and another in 1841, He married George Darke and Mary Isabella Martin in 1 84 1 in presence of Charles Darke and William B. Holmes. His wife was the daughter of George Martin who d. in 1831. Hannah Smith, his widow, joined Aug. 5, 183 1, and was afterward the wife of James Ri- ker. Besides the daughter Mary Isabella he left a son Jonathan C. Martin. George Martin in 181 9 acquired a portion of the John Horn piece of the Hopper Farm which was partitioned in 1845, oi^^ of the commission- ers appointed for that purpose being Thomas Addis Emmet. The first mention the records make of Pelatiah Perit is in 1836, when he served on a special committee. He had that year purchased the Samuel Adams Lawrence property and moved into the Mansion with his second wife, Maria, the daughter of Daniel L, Coit of Norwich, who, for a short time, in the early part of the last century, was a merchant in New York of the firm of Howland & Coit. A Presbyterian by faith he took a pew at once and immediately entered into church work with enthusiasm. Then, at the age of fifty-one 378 ^be mew IPork ot IJesterDai? and childless, his interest in the orphans, who attended services there, grew during his residence contiguous to the Asylum and led him to teach Sabbath-school both at the institution and the Church. He was a power both by inclination and in a financial way. The son of John Perit, a merchant and a descendant of one of the earlier ministers of the French Huguenot Church of New York city, he was bom at Norwich, Conn., his mother being a daughter of Pelatiah Webster, a Yale graduate of 1746 and a merchant in Philadelphia dur- ing the latter part of the XVI H century. Young Perit entered Yale at the age of thirteen (1798) and graduated four years later. He came under strong religious in- fluences while a student and at the close of his course expected to study for the ministry. This purpose had to be abandoned because of the partial failure of his health. In his nineteenth year he became a clerk in an importing house in Philadelphia, in the interest of which he made several voyages to the West Indies and South America. He used to describe the pleasure he experienced while escorting Alexander von Hum- boldt about the city on the explorer's arrival from Mex- ico, who came with introductions to the house where he was employed. In 1809 he removed to New York city and formed with a kinsman the firm of Perit & Lathrop. This partnership did not long survive, and Mr. Perit entered the house of Goodhue & Co., with which he remained connected until his retirement from business. This famous Quaker firm had an unsur- passed reputation in the shipping and commercial trade with merchants in widely distant countries, and had confidential relations with houses of distinction throughout the world. Mr. Goodhue had a country- seat in Bloomingdale Village as early as 1824. Its among ©IMime ifamillee 379 exact location has not yet been fixed. Mr. Perit's name never appeared in the title of the firm, but his connec- tion with it was well known. The part he had in con- ducting its wide correspondence kept him interested in the commercial progress of every country and led to the maintenance of a wide acquaintance in different parts of the globe. His business life developed an- other element of his character — an earnest interest in religious and philanthropic enterprises and particularly in everything which pertained to the advancement of Christian missions and the welfare of seamen. A mere enumeration of the unpaid positions to which he was called and to which he devoted a great deal of time would show how varied and how consistent were his labors for the good of his fellow-men. At different times he was President of the American Seaman's Friend Society, a trustee of the Sailors' Snug Harbor, and President of the Seamen's Bank for Savings. He was director, likewise, of many of the missionary and benevolent societies to which the Presbyterian Church gave its support. For forty years he was an officer of the American Bible Society, either as manager or vice-president. His one political office was in 1857, when the peace of the city was seriously endangered by a contest between the "Municipal" and the "Metro- politan" police. Appointed a member of the Board of Police Commissioners his fairness and good sense were serviceable in the restoration of order. Mr. Perit served as twentieth President of the Cham- ber of Commerce, the influence of which was very marked during his term and especially in the early years of the Civil War. Two events which occurred at this time were very noteworthy and gave him an op- portunity to display his social abilities in a marked 380 Zbc IRew 13ork of IJeeterba^ way, namely the reception of the Prince of Wales and that of the Japanese Embassy. His manners were reserved and dignified and his stature of nearly six feet and well-proportioned figure gave him a commanding presence when called on to preside at public meetings. He was a constant reader of reviews and historical and theological writings, but his chief title to fame is as a man of affairs, whose mind was inspired by an intelligent and systematic interest in the progress of mankind. He was a patriot who did much in leading the name and influence of his country to the support of the best ideas in religious, moral, political, diplo- matic and financial lines. The Calvinism of his Hugue- not ancestry and the financial bent of his grandfather were apparent in his long career. A few years before his death he began gradually to withdraw from business cares, and in 1859-60 sold his Bloomingdale property and built a house in New Haven, Conn. He died there March 8, 1864, but his widow survived for many years. In Hunt's Merchant's Magazine for April, 1864, can be found a commemorative discourse by Dr. Leonard Bacon. The original Presbyterian Church of Bloomingdale was organized in 1853 through the instrumentality of Mr. Perit. Some members of the Church at Harsen- ville and others who had been affiliated with the Presby- terian Church or whose early training and inclination leaned toward that denomination met together for the purpose, and the society then and there formed maintained at first religious meetings in the houses of members. The only communicant of the Dutch Church who withdrew with Mr. Perit, as far as we know, was Jane Somerville. She had a pew there and joined Oct. 30, 1840, during the tenure of Domine van < B < among ®lM!me jfamUles 381 Aken. Her children were at this time connected with the newer church. A modest frame edifice was built a few years after the organization "in the fields" near 84th St. and Eleventh (West End) Avenue. The approach was by way of present 85th Street, "across lots and around a little hill." The site was open on all sides and a view of the church was easily obtained from a distance. James Lenox assisted financially and otherwise in the enterprise, as did Dr. Patton, afterward of Princeton. The first pastor was I. S. Davison, D.D. Lewis C. Bayles was called March 12, 1862, and installed April 23. His parents lived in a Gothic cottage which stood on the northwest comer of 79th Street and West End Avenue until very recent times. Mr. Bayles was obliged to seek health in Cali- fornia and died, a young man, at San Francisco of consumption, Aug. 15, 1864. The Rev. Anson P. Atterbury, D.D., who had been connected with the society for a year previously, succeeded to the pastor- ate April 20, 1880. It was largely through his efforts that the present beautiful building of the Park Pres- byterian Church, at 84th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, was erected. It may appropriately be called a child of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church. The records, in Domine van Aken's hand, say that Caspar Meier had ' 'communed here for many years, but never fully united with us till now," Aug. 3, 1838. He had been elected Elder, June 21st, and served until his decease. The Consistory, following the custom, met at his house on occasion, and he officiated for a time as Clerk. He came of families well known and distin- guished. The eldest son of Diedrick Meier, Senator and afterwards Burgomaster of the city of Bremen, and his wife, the daughter of Diedrick Smidt, Burgomaster, 382 ^be Tlew Woth of l^esterbai? he was bom there Sept. 20, 1774. In his twenty- second year he took passage on the Olive, J. Hovey, Jr. , master, bound for New York, where he arrived Sept. 7, 1796. In October, he obtained a situation with the house of Peppin & Satterthwait, merchants, at 87 Water Street, which he left nine months thereafter to enter upon mercantile life on his own account. He now returned to Germany to seek connections with business houses there. In his diary he notes the day of his return, Oct. 12, 1798, as the date of his establishment as a merchant, with a store in Gouver- neur Lane, near Water Street. In 180 1, he married Eliza Catherine, daughter of the Rev. John Christo- pher Kunze, D.D., Pastor of the Lutheran Church, and granddaughter of the Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlen- berg, D.D., the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, and on Feb. 12, 1803, became a citizen. The following year he hired from the Fisher family their abode (the Somerindyck house at the Road and present 75th Street) , where his eldest daughter was bom. This experience with Bloomingdale was so agreeable that in 1807 he bought five acres on the river located between what came to be designated as i i8th and 1 19th Streets, and built a summer residence which in 18 12 became his permanent home. In 1823 he enlarged it to nearly twice the original size and later added a front gable in order to provide rooms for his two grandsons while on vacation. The arrangement of the grounds was formal according to the taste of the times; a lane led from the Bloomingdale Road gate in a straight line toward the front door, bordered by cherry trees and curved around a circle flanked by a hedge and flower garden. On either side of this lane were fenced pasture lots with borders of apple and pear trees, and a stable ^ u ^ :3 o a among ©IMlme jfamlUes 385 low Bank" with her mother until her death in 1863, when the place was sold. John Jasper of Londonderry, Ireland, settled in Harsenville in the early thirties. He lived on the west side of the Bloomingdale Road on the southwest comer of present 69th Street. He later bought land of Jacob Harsen on the Nevada Apartment site, and afterward the Isaac Caryl plot, which adjoined it on the south; and in 1847 built a two-story store which was the first brick building in the village and stood until the construction of the Nevada, which covered the block. Eventually he owned the entire triangle be- tween 69th and 70th Streets, the Road and Tenth Avenue, with the exception of the north comer, and sold his possession for $23,000 in 1874-5 to Rudolph Whitman. Domine van Aken officiated at his mar- riage to Catharine Thompson in 1837. Their first three children, viz., John, b. 1837, Maria, b. 1840, and George Washington, b. 1842, were baptized at St. Michael's Church; but the others, to wit, Robert Thompson, Harriet Ann, William Henry, Theodore Adee, Joseph Robinson, and Emma Angeline were baptized by Do- mine van Aken. John, the eldest son, served in the Board of Education for forty-five years, during part of which time he was Superintendent. Gerard William Livingston, the sixth Lord of the Manor in direct line, lived in a large double frame house on the west side of the Bloomingdale Road, be- tween present io8th and 109th Streets. He was a merchant at 3 South Street, having in 1825 a city residence at 323 Greenwich Street and in 183 1 at 10 1 Prince Street. He and his wife Cornelia de Peyster joined the communion August 4, 1838. Elected Elder, July 25, 1842, the Consistory met at his Bloomingdale 386 Zbc flew l?orft of Weetcvt>a^ seat in the usual rotation. He acted as Secretary pro tern, and represented the congregation at Classis. Having removed to Hackensack, where he remained four years, he resigned in 1844. On his return to town, he became an Elder in the Brick Church, comer of Fifth Avenue and 37th Street, and here his funeral services were held, thence to Woodlawn. He d. May 21, 1868. His descent includes so many interesting lines that it is indited in the accompanying table. Their issue were Edward Mortimer, b. 1837, bap. by Domine van Aken, d. in infancy; William Howard, d. in infancy; Anna de Peyster; Cornelia Margaretta and Emily Maria, b. 1842 and bap. by Domine van Aken. Anna de Peyster m. Charles Havens Htmt, 1855, lawyer and Assistant U. S. District Attorney tmder Theodore Sedgwick, and author of the Life of Edward Livingston 1864. She d. May 2, 1907, and left issue, Cornelia Margaretta, m. Jules Petit of Parsons & Petit, com- mission merchants. He was the son of Edward Petit of Bordeaux, who came to New York to retrieve his fortunes. After his death, his widow opened the school in Bloomingdale in the Richmond house heretofore mentioned. Later, she removed to Waverly Place, and there she died. Emily Maria Livingston m. Edward C. Lord of the firm of Lord, Day & Lord, and left issue. The eldest son, William Howard, was b. at Bloomingdale and all the children lived there. The youngest was about the age of six when the removal to New Jersey took place. The estate of Jonathan Lawrence, who was at one time in the navy and was known accordingly among his friends as the Commodore, was located on the east side in the seventies and was bounded northwardly Robert Livingston (ist Lord) m. Alida Schuyler widow of Domine van Rensselaer, 1679. Philip Livingston (2d Lord) m. Catherine van Brugh Sept. 19, 1707. Robert Livingston (3d Lord) m. Maria Thong May 20, 1731. Peter R. Livingston (4th Lord) m. Margaret Livingston June 6, 1758. Peter W. Livingston (sth Lord) m. Eliza Beekman Oct. 13, 1793. Anneke Jans Johannes Pieters. van Brugh m. Catrina R. Jansen I March 29, 1658. Peter van Brugh m. Sara Cuyler Nov. 21, 1688. Rip van Dam m. Sarah van der Spiegle, Sept. 14, I ' 1684. Catalijntie van Dam m. Walter Thong, Sept. 19, I 1707. Peter Schuyler m. Engeltie van Schaick 165 1. Margaretta Schuyler m. Robert Livingston, 1697. i James Livmgston m. Elizabeth Kierstede, 1723. Willem Beekman m. Catherina deBrough, Sept. 5. ^1 1649. Gerardus Beekman, M.D., m. Magdalena Abeel.Oct. ^1 25. 1677. William Beekman, M.D., m. Catherine Petersen de la I Noy, Oct. II, 1707. I Gerard William Beekman m. Mary Duyckinck, 1751. Johannes de Peyster m. Cornelia Lubertus, 1651. Johannes de Peyster m. Anna Bancker, 1688. William de Peyster m. Margaret Roosevelt, 1730. James William de Peyster m. Anna de Peyster, 1775. Gerard de Peyster m. Margaret de Peyster, 1797. Gerard William Livingston (6th Lord) m. Cornelia de Peyster May 21, 1828. among ©IMlme ifamiUee 387 by the Delafield estate. His widow Patience, the sister of Recorder Riker, Hved on the property until her death Feb. 22, 185 1. She joined the Church Oct. 3 1, 1840, and used to drive across present Central Park via the Harsenville road in order to attend service. Jonas Hanaway, b. in England Aug. 23, 1788, was twice married there. He settled in Bloomingdale in 1826 with Martha Wilson (widow Beard) his (2) wife, whom he married in 183 2. They lived in the parsonage on the Harsen gift. She was b. in Hertfordshire in 179 1 and d. in 1890; became a church member, May 5, 1842, and her husband followed Nov. 4th. He d. 187 1. George Hanaway, his son by the first wife, married Martha Moore, who united May i, 1845, and their children were baptized by Domine van Aken, viz. Maria, James, Sarah, and Samuel. Two of them were married by him, namely: Maria (united May 5, 1866) to Samuel Bawden, and Sarah (united Feb. 5, 1870) to Daniel Bremer. Samuel joined at the same time as Sarah and served as Deacon and Superintendent of the Sabbath-school. He was elected Elder Feb. 4, 1882, and was installed by the Rev. A. J. Park on the 21st. He presided at the organ for a time and later became Clerk of the Consistory. He is a professor at the City College. James is dead. James, the brother of George, also by the first wife, m. Margaret Kelly in the Church, 1854. She brought a certificate from the Church of Blairs, Scotland, and both were admitted Feb. 3, 1855. She is dead, but he still lives, very infirm. Four children, Elizabeth, Margaret, Jane, and Joseph, were bap. by the Domine, as also were the Bawden and Bremer children. The Rev. James C. Richmond mar- ried Sarah Hanaway, their sister, to George Branch Magrath, April 26, 184 1, "at the parsonage of the 388 Z\)c 1Rew WovU of l?e9tert)a^ Dutch Reformed Church, Harsenville " reads the record. Their first child was baptized by Domine van Aken, in 1842. Amelia Hanaway, a daughter by the second wife, united with the Episcopal Church and was the first teacher in the House of Mercy when it was located in an old frame building at 88th Street and Eighth Avenue, and was associated with Mrs. Richmond in founding the institution. She taught in the public schools for a few years. She died in 1862, at the age of twenty-nine. Emily Hanaway, her sister, came to live in the par- sonage at the age of one year (1836), resided there for eight years, when the family removed to a house on an elevation at 75th Street and Ninth Avenue, and here she stayed for seventeen years. She continued to reside in the ward until 1896, when she settled in New Jersey. She learned to read in the same public school in 82nd Street in which she taught later, and was Principal for twelve years of the school in West 40th Street. She united with the Church May 3, 1850, and taught in the Sunday-school for seventeen years. She m., in 189 1, the Rev. Peter Stryker, pastor of the Re- formed Church in 34th Street. He had been pastor prior to its removal from Broome Street. We are in- debted very largely to a journal kept by Mrs. Stryker for the contents of the chapter which follows. Mary Ann Hanaway, another sister, m. James Mackay Tyler, May 5, 1845. She died in England in 1897. William James Beard, grandson of Martha Wilson Beard and son of William Edward Beard, who remained in England, came to America, and joined the com- munion Aug. 5, 1865. He served in the Civil War. Hmong ©IMlme jfamlllee 389 Dealing with a list of members and attendants of a century's length, the data here preserved are far from complete. The selection of names is fragrant of old times, and as the date limit has been reached, so has our patience. What more appropriate than that, as the chapter began with the father, it should close with the son. General Garrit Hopper Striker was bom twenty-one years prior to the organization of the church society and grew up in attendance on its Services from its birth. He was at once selected as collector of pew rents and of subscriptions towards the building of the parsonage, and continued in the former capacity for years, at which time and thereafter he taught in the Sabbath-school. Although usually con- stant in attendance in the family pew during life, he did not join the membership until March 29, 1867, the anniversary of his eighty-third birthday. He exhibited a marked aptitude for a military career. An early biographical sketch of him asserts that he had before his 22nd year proved himself a good soldier and thereafter an efficient officer, panting for service and eager for the attainment of those laurels which can he earned alone in such employ. At the age of 26 he was commissioned Lieutenant in the 5 th N. Y. Regt, 2d Brigade of Infantry, under Col. J. W. Mulligan, with rank from March 25, 1809. On the breaking out of the war he was assigned as Captain of the 4th Company in the 5th Regt. of Volunteers, Isaac A. van Hook having succeeded Mulligan in command. During the excited period of fortification of Blooming- dale Heights, while he was living at Striker's Bay, he attended the different calls of his ward and was active in obtaining subscriptions and laborers. Meetings were often held at Rodgers's Tavern, at 70th Street and the Road, and were attended by the neighbors in a united effort to hasten the erection of defences for the safety of their homes, that ward in which the work was carried on being the centre of active preparation. When not engaged in a military capacity Capt. Striker lent the enthusiasm of his youthful endeavors to stimulating others, to seeing that the family horses did their proper share at the works, and to collecting vegetables from the farm and attending to their distribution. His home was so near the line of defences that he passed much time during their construction on the ground and, with the assistance of his father's slaves, aided and abetted the progress of the work. The regiment to which he belonged was the last to be regtilarly designated by the Committee of Defence and it practically completed the works on the Heights. This regiment of de- tached militia and that under Lt.-Col. Dodge formed the Brigade commanded by General Mapes, who, on Oct. 2 2, 1 8 14, tendered the officers and men thereof "his unfeigned thanks " for their soldierly appearance, stating that he did not believe the United States could * 'produce a corps, regular or militia, that could surpass, in exercise of the field, this brigade of militia infantry, transferred as it was in the short space of six weeks into a corps qualified to enter the lists and sustain a contest with veterans." These troops were reviewed by Governor Tompkins, Nov. nth, and the Columbian said that their appearance did their officers honor and that their movements were so correct and regular in drill and science, that regular troops need not be ashamed thereof. ' * They contributed their full share , ' ' it adds ' 'to inspire the citizens with the just confidence in their efficiency in any emergency. ' ' The Evacuation Day parade took place on Nov. 25th and, with military Captain 5th Regiment, U. S. Volunteers, War of 1812 Portrait and signature of General Garrit Hopper Striker, from the original painting in possession of the family ardor undiminished, proved to be the greatest event of this kind since the Revolution. About ten thousand men were in line, which extended from Sugar Loaf (now Franklin) Street up Broadway to 23d Street. On December i, 18 14, Gen. Mapes issued formal or- ders to the 3d Brigade of detached militia, being about to be discharged from the service of the United States, in which he expresed to the officers, non-com's, and privates the high satisfaction he had constantly derived from their uniform and strict attention to discipline and their able and faithful performance of the duties the Government required and their fellow-citizens expected at their hands, and continued, ' ' The brigade has given a character, a name, and a confidence to the militia which it never before possessed." On March 22, 18 16, Striker was promoted to the rank of Major in the 82nd Regt., 3d Brigade, com- manded by Lieut. Col. Joseph D. Fay, and in regi- mental orders issued at this time, his former Colonel (van Hook) expressed himself in the warmest terms of Capt. Striker's "soldierly conduct and gentlemanly demeanor" while imder his command. Promotion to the Lieut .-colonelcy of the same regiment followed, April 24, 18 18. He reached the grade of Brigadier in 1828 and rose to the rank of Maj .-General in Feb., 1837. A "grand military ball " was tendered to him at the Apollo Rooms in 1846, at which he was presented with a service of plate, a gold medal, and a pair of "Revolu- tionary boots." The Sun of April 4th reported that the beauty and fashion of the city graced the occasion. London Punch printed a facetious diatribe anent the boots, with a picture thereof, which filled a page of that noted periodical. Col. Striker, after his marriage to the daughter of 392 ^be flew l?orft of ^CBtcvbw^ Capt. McDotigal in 1818, continued to live at the Bay. The following year, his grandfather, John Hopper, died and then he removed to the latter's residence, "Rose- vale," on the Hudson at the foot of what later became 53d Street. It was approached by the lane which his great-grandfather laid out from his homestead at the Bloomingdale Road and which ended at the mansion. It took the name Striker's Lane thereafter. Entrance was obtained to the grounds through two stone posterns leading to a road which divided around a circle lying immediately before the house and led to the family bams and stables. The old place was set in the forest with the gardens to the east, and on the west, massive trees to the water's edge. Trees such as were not deemed to be found within miles of the city towered overhead. Majestic peacocks guarded the portal and strutted about in august grandeur. Looking from the broad veranda, a superb river view met the gaze and in the immediate foreground one saw a goldfish pond, surrounded by a railing on which sat plump Muscovy drakes, which flew at one's approach and struck the water with a resounding splash. Descending the steps to and beyond the pond, winding walks, under the trees and by rocks and wild flowers and bushes, finally brought one to the billiard house, where an old-fashioned table, so large as to leave barely space to promenade around it, occupied the lower story. Upstairs were garnered the fruits and nuts for winter consumption. Continuing the walk, still im- der grand natural trees and along narrow meandering paths, the bath-house was reached, situated in a cove over the sandy floor of which flowed a stream whose sources were the springs in the pond above. The old soldier was a man of taste and culture and the con- BmoriG ®lb^timelfamlllc0 393 servatories were his great pleasure. The name "Rose- vale" was doubly appropriate, as a large share of the enclosed grounds were given to rose culture, the re- mainder being a valley sloping precipitously in places but generally gradually towards the river, the mansion itself being the line of demarkation. Here the General maintained an unbounded hospi- tality and dwelt some fifty years, constantly adding to the charms of his garden, his particular hobby. His numerous friends and admirers flocked around him and the abode was the centre of hospitality for leading men of the nation. On one of the window panes in the parlor appeared the names of Lafayette, Kossuth, and Clay, scratched thereon with a diamond during their respective visits. "Old Bullion" Benton, Webster, Greeley, General Scott and other military celebrities, with a host of lesser lights, were welcome here. At the funerals of two of his distinguished friends during 1852 he acted first as aide in the procession in honor of the obsequies of Clay, July 20th and as pall-bearer for Webster he represented one of the then 3 1 States of the Union, Nov. i6th. The General was a conspicuous fig- ure in the New York of his day, strikingly like his old friend Winfield Scott. It has been said of him that he united in his person the gentleman and the soldier, the high-spirited convivialist, the good husband, the tender father, the kind friend — in short all the qualities that were centred in the gentleman of the olden time. He departed this life at his home on April 15 , 1868. The Rev. Dr. Hutton and Domine van Aken officiated at the ceremonies held there, when a vast concourse thronged the spacious mansion and lined the lane and the street as the procession passed and his remains were interred in Trinity Cemetery, where a plot had 394 Zbc IRew IPorft of lPe6ter^ap been prepared owing to the contemplated demolition of his ancestral church and the consequent abandon- ment of the family vault. At one of the last services held there, his funeral discourse was preached by Do- mine van Aken, which was published in full in the Christian Intelligencer. In recognition of his active participation in the construction of the defences on Bloomingdale Heights, the descendants of those who aided therein, as represented by the Daughters of 1812, inscribed his name on the tablet placed on one of the buildings at Columbia University. He did not simply stand and wait, but served, and on Milton's theory, merits the honor. His son, James Alexander, who died July 19, 1900 the last of his generation, retained the family connection with the church of his grand- father, and was married by its minister. Here follow the commimicants not heretofore men- tioned, to whose names are affixed some genealogical data. The date first given is that of membership. 1807, Mar. 29 Lawrence Lawrence On confession. " Nov. George Williams and " Jane Ward, his wife " 1809, Mar. 30 John Barlow and Upon certificate dated Hannah, his wife Dec. 4, 1808. " " " Martha Cox, wife of On confession. Lawrence Hoffman 1 81 2, May II Mary Shurtliff, wife of Upon certificate from Amasa G. Emmons church at Harlem; died March, 1839. " Nov. 2 Thomas G. Searls Upon certificate from Rev. Dr. Elijah Par- ish, Byfield, Mass. ""5 Hannah, wife of Wil- liam Stuart Died March 3, 181 5. among ©IMlme familiee 395 1815, Apr. 9 John Moir On certificate from Ass. Reformed Ch. " " " Isabel Moir On certificate from Ass. Reformed Ch. 1 81 7, May I Sarah Hopkins, wife On confession; dis- of John T. Stewart missed Nov. lo, 1820. " " " Rachel van Braakel, On certificate from wifeof Nic, T. Hege- Rev. Mr. Btirk. man " Aug. I Margaret Dobbs On certificate from Kinderhook. " " " Eliza Bayard Ritson On confession. i8i8, Feb. I John Wilson and On certificate from Catherine Hutchi- church in Greenwich, son, his wife " Aug. James Eddie and On confession. Elspet Eraser, his wife On certificate. 1822, Aug. 2 Isaac D. Cole and Ann Maria Shatzel, his wife " 1823, Jan. 30 James G. Russel and On confession Anne Risk, his wife " " " " Martha Burtis, wife Died Dec. 31, 1853, of James Amory aged nearly 70. 1824, Aug. I Henrietta, wife of Died 1826. Theodore Mayer " Nov. I Susan Kniffen, wife of John Williams Both deceased 1830. 1825, Feb. I Margaret Scott, wife On confession. of Robert Kinkade " Apr. 29 Sophia Brass, wife of Dismissed to Dr. Mr. J. Fowls Broadhead's church. 1827, Feb. I Martha Watt wife of Andrew Watt 1828, Oct. 30 Mary Ann Jackson On confession. 396 zi)c flew l?orft of IJeater^ai? 1829, Feb. David Patterson Died Oct. or Nov., 1838. 1 83 1, Apr, 29 Lucy B. Allerton On confession. Nov. 5 Lewis Oakley and On certificate from Mary B., his wife Presbyterian church. 1832, June 7 William Miller Died 1849. Samuel Oakley and On certificate from Abigail, his wife the Brick Church. 1835, Nov. 14 Mary Halden Died June 6, 1838. Mary Patterson, wife of Capt. Hugh Gra- ham Died 1845. 1836, Feb. 7 David Law On certificate. Apr. 4 Harriet, wife of Jo- siah Hoyt " " " Nov. 4 Echley Fitch " " Mrs. Margaret Waite " 1837, Aug. 4 Keziah, wife of Da- vid Law " " Dismissed Dec. 31, 1856. " Elizabeth Law On certificate. Dis- missed, Decern. 31, 1856. " " Mrs. Patterson, wife of David Patterson Reported dead Apr., 1838. " " Mary Church On certificate. " Hannah Kerr, wife " ** Dismissed Frederick Odell 1878. 1838, Feb. 2 John Halden Died Dec, 1849. May 4 Grace Law On confession. Dis- missed Dec. 31, 1856. Nov. 2 Agnes, wife of Fran- cis Willson Died Aug., 1854. " " Jane Willson On confession. " " Isabella Halden, wife of James Nish ai? 1850, May 3 Ann Eliza Purdy Died May 10, 1862. " " " Jane Halden On confession. " Jane Kelly " " Died Oct. 16, 1851. " Aug. 4 Leonard Beckley On confession. 1 85 1, Aug. 2 Emily Read " " Dis- missed Dec. 9, 1862. " " " Mary Ann Read On confession; died Nov. 20, 1862. 1852, July 30 George Robertson, On cert, from Free and Ann Eraser, Church of Scotland, his wife He d. 1864. 1854, Feb. 12 Sarah Fleet On cert, from Bleeck- er St. Pres. Ch.; d. May 14, 1878. " Aug. 5 Miriam Boyd On confession; dis- missed Oct. 30, i860. 1855, Aug. Sarah, wife of Alex- On certificate from ander Smith 4 2d St. Pres. Ch. 1856, Feb. 3 Ann Maria Brigs, On certificate. wife of William Love " May 2 Catharine Duryea, On cert, from Green- widow of — Quick wich Ch., city; d. Dec. 5, i860. " Aug, 2 Mrs. Rebecca Brock On cert, from 42d St. Church; d. June 16, 1882. " " " Mrs. Mary Ann Cur- On cert, from 42d tis St. Pres. Ch. 1857, Oct. 31 Harriet Ann Rogers, wife of Samuel Ellis On confession 1858, Feb. 5 Matilda Lewis, wife of John Wendelken Died 1870. " Apr. 30 Annie Kelly " April 2, 1864. " Nov. 4 Amelia Stokely " Nov., 1858. " " 5 Sarah Lewis " about 1859. among ©IMlme jfamllle0 401 i860, Feb. 5 Nicholas Hays and On confession. Unit- Caroline Schricy, ed with the Baptist his wife Ch. " •' Mrs. Eliza Schricy, mother of Mrs. Hays Died 1871. " May 4 Andrew Anderson. " 1866. " Aug. 4 Jane Bogert, wife of Andrew Anderson " 1865. 1 861, Feb. I Elizabeth Frazer Robinson (Mrs. Thomas Stanley) " 1875. " Nov. 3 Henry S. Mitchell " Jan. 22, 1879. t862, Jan. 31 Theresa, wife of James Bliss Dismissed to ist Ref'd Ch., Tarry- town, 1878. " Phoebe, wife of " Henry Hole " Aug. 2 Alexander Ray Skin- ner Died 1883. " " Frances, wife of A, Stoddard 1863, Jan. 30 Eliza Brunish, wife of Alexander Bennet " May 2 Eliza Ann, wife of Wm. D. Silva " Ann Maria Albout, wife of William Walters 1864, Feb. 6 John Kell Curtis and Mary F. Gibson, his wife " Apr. 30 Sarah, widow of William Waring 26 402 ^be IRew IJorft of l^esterba^ 1864, Apr. 30 Margaret Muggie, Died 188 1. wife of William Fleetner " 1881. 1865, Feb. 4 Thomas W. Black and Jane Dalrym- ple, his wife " " Maria Deretta Fest- gen, wife of Augus- tus C. Graser " May 6 Robert Watts " Aug. 5 Wm. J. Beard Dismissed to 34th St. Ref'd Ch., Apr. 27, 1866. 1866, Feb. 3 Magdalena Roeder, wife of Paul Bauer " May 5 Alonzo Blanck Died May, 1866. 1867, May 4 Jane Smith, wife of Anthony V. Wy- nans " Aug. 3 Mary Louise Clark, widow of Hamilton Dis'd to California Morgan May 27, 1871. 1868, Jan. 26 Robert McKensie. Died 1880. " Feb. 1 Caroline Northwood, wife of William Blick Died July, 1877. '* " " Catharine Quick, On cert, from 42d widow of William St. Pres. Ch. Frederick " Henrietta Q. Freder- ' ick, wife of John P. On cert, from 42 d Rejoiolds St. Pres. Ch. " Apr. 5 Sarah J. McCon- On cert.; dismissed aughey, wife of Mar., 1882. John Harding Hmona ©lt):*time jfamlllee 403 1868, Apr. 5 Frederick Kreider & Caroline Blatner, his wife May 2 Harriet N. Moore, mother of Mrs. Thomas Mitchell. " Dec. 27 Elizabeth Post, wife of Albert van De- beck Dismissed March, 1882. 1870, June 13 Daniel Murray Died 1871. " Oct. 16 Hester Dale Dismissed to Califor- nia. " " 23 Caroline Bauer On confession. " " Dora Bauer 1871, May 28 Margaret Divene, widow of David Monteith Died 1878. " Aug. 6 Alexander William McDonald Died Aug. 3, 1872. " " Charlotte Williams, wife of Alex. Wm. On confession. McDonald. Alex. Wm McDon- ald Jr. 1872, Jan. 7 Jacob Flick " " " " Anna Flick " " 27 Samuel Halden Died Jan. 27, 1872. '* Feb. 4 Sarah Louisa Rapp, widow of Samuel Halden On confession. 1873, Ms-^' 16 Henry Gilbertson Died May 10, 1873. 1874, Feb. I George Frederick Armstrong On confession. Fannie Christina Armstrong " " i( << 404 Zbc 1Rew IPork of IJeeterbai? 1874, Feb. I Lelia King Arm- On confession. strong " Mar. 6 Catherine Ehmer, widow of Frederick Pfening 1875, Apr. 18 Catharine Ann On cert, from Luth'n Kirschbaum, wife Ch. Walker St.; d. of Joseph Robinson Oct., 1880. " " " Louisa Pfening On confession. " 25 Marion Swan Halden " wife of Charles A. Winch June 20 Mrs. A. M. F. Com- On cert, from Clin- stock ton, N. J., Pres. Ch. : d. Jan. 16, 1876. " July 25 Julia Tinellie, widow of Thomas Royal Lush On confession. " Oct, 24 William Fruitright Dismissed Feb., 1880. Nov. 6 Lizzie M. Armstrong 1876, Apr. 30 Chas. Francis Adams Mitchell On confession. 1877, May 6 Barbary Geier, wife of Jacob Flick " Oct. 28 Louis Overmeyer and Charlotta Cipp, his wife 1878, Apr. 7 Pauline Pfening " " 1881, Oct. 6 Samuel B. Reed. " " 22 Otis D. Stewart On cert, from ist Ref 'd Dutch Ch. New Brunswick, N.J. VIII IRemtniscences fin the many years during which we have been collecting material relating to Bloomingdale and its worthies, much has been ascertained of interest which is worth preserving here. Much more would be out of place in this connection, as it does not concern this story. The data transcribed in this chapter have been gleaned from diaries, letters, and notes, taken from the spoken words of the few surviving old residents. Mrs. Jane Cozine Borland, Mrs. Ann Agnes Dana, ^ Mrs. Marion Bissland Carse, and Mrs. Emily Hanaway Stryker are the oldest living communicants. Letters from all of these have proved a mine of information, as has also personal application to many of the de- scendants of families heretofore mentioned, but the palm must be given to the journal kept by Mrs. Stry- ker, as well as a number of articles contributed by her to the press. Few, among the many dwellers in old Manhattan, can recall the appearance of Bloomingdale sixty-odd years ago. We intend to limit ourselves largely in this work to the Harsenville section thereof, the confines of which 1 Mrs. Dana died at Brooklyn, November 25, 1907, and was buried in the Oakland Cemetery at Yonkers, N. Y. 405 4o6 Zbc 1Rew l?orh of IPesterbai? have been sufficiently described in previous chapters. The name was not merely appropriate, but necessary, for the different hamlets were situated at such distances apart that the local appellations were required and became mandatory for convenience sake. An owner of property near present Central Park West and the Harsenville road, many years ago, gave to his posses- sions the title of Treaceyville. This is said not to have been quite agreeable to one of the descendants of old Jacob Harsen, who inquired of the owner by what authority he had used the name. Tapping him on the shoulder, this conclusive rejoinder was made: "Misther Harsen, Misther Harsen, tell me by what authority your father gave it the name of Harsenville?" We do not hear that the question was answered, but the former name has been relegated to oblivion, while the other is being fast blotted from memory. The Harsenville road, open in early days only from the Commons to the Harsen mansion, was a lonely country way. Strangers were seldom seen in the neighborhood. Soon after sunset one evening, such an unusual apparition presented itself to some of the village youngsters with the request, "My dear children, can you tell me who lives — ?" The "dear children " did not wait to hear the rest but ran scream- ing to the house, crying "Father, Mother, there is a crazy woman who asks ' Can you tell me who lives — ? ' " Chimney sweeps, with sooty faces, and bundles of brush- wood on the back, calling the slogan "Sweep, oh, sweep," were expected, but even they caused the little ones to keep at the distance of the extreme side of the road. Domine van Aken, whose use of the parsonage was sometimes interrupted by his state of health, was ac- {^0^^i.c^^ iWUf Portrait and signature of Mrs. Emily Hanaway Stryker 1Remlnl0cence0 407 customed at such times to rent it. Standing far back from the Harsenville road, east of present Columbus Avenue, it was surrounded by the grounds of the acre plot which Harsen donated to the Church. In 1836, the Hanaways occupied it. How the children of the family did ransack the low-studded garret, and frolic in the broad hallway! The reverence of the old house has stamped itself upon the memories of them that survive. Access to it was gained by the local lane, along which were a number of houses. Starting at the Bloomingdale Road was the Holmes residence; next lived the Steeles, also attendants at the services, and ad- joining the parsonage lands resided a French family. The head of this house once introduced himself to a neighbor, who did not recognize him, as follows: "I am Meester Veming, put I hev mine tirty clothes on!" The Laws lived on the south side of the lane in a house which faced the Bloomingdale Road, ever to be associated in mind with hollyhocks, altheas, lady- slippers, bleeding hearts, and such old-fashioned flowers. Near by lived the Lambs. In his infantile days little Robert exercised his talent for painting, which served him so well in after life. It is recalled that in this habitation, at the age of five, his artistic instinct caused him to crush a brick and with a stone grind it to powder. Moistening it, he undertook, with a feather, to paint the house and gate posts. The firm of J. &. R. Lamb, makers of church ornaments, pulpit decorations, and stained glass windows, now occupies a place apart in the business world. Joseph died recently. Their father passed away when they were very young. The diary begins its retrospect at the Cozine mansion at Eighth Avenue and 54th Street. Here dwelt Mrs. 4o8 tlbe flew l?ork of l?e6ter^a^ John Cozine and her daughters Catherine (Mrs. Fleet) and Jane, bom Nov. 7, 181 8 (Mrs. Borland). Their sister, Sarah Stakes, wife of Peter Adrian Horn, had died in her twentieth year (1836) and left a little child, Sarah Jane. It had been the charge of Mrs. Borland since it was three days old. The latter's little daughter Jennie was likewise an inmate. The old yellow home- stead is long since gone — removed to make way for the opening of the avenue, in the way of which im- provement it stood. The property passed into other hands before the widow's decease. She had spent all her married life within its walls. Although not in- digenous to the soil, having been bom in New Jersey, she was a cousin by marriage of the Harsens and of an array of Bloomingdale families of almost limitless length. Following the old-time custom, when to marry an outsider was seldom heard of, and inter- marriages among cousins usual, the old residents were so connected that from present Union Square to Bloom- ingdale village ( 1 00th St.) the Butch settlers were joined by ties of consanguinity little imderstood in these days. It may be well to mention some of those with which the Cozines were allied, the names of whom will stir memories of the New York of yesterday among the old-timers. From down town proceeding north- ward, we get the Mandevilles, then come the Horns, van Ordens, Varians, Webbers, Hoppers, Somerin- dycks, Byckmans, Strikers, and others whose farms covered most of the territory above spoken of. In this house, one afternoon, we met Mrs. Plumley, the mother of the Rev. Gardiner Spring Plumley. Interesting stories of Br. Gunn's ministry had often been told by others, and now we had the privilege of talking with an intimate friend in his family thirty- 1Rem!n!0cence6 409 three years before. While her kindly face looked down into ours, she narrated tales of her pleasant life in Bloomingdale, of her connection with the old Brick Church when it stood on Nassau Street, opposite City Hall Park, and of her removal to another part of the country. We were afterwards informed of her devotion to the pastor, Rev. Dr. Gardiner Spring, after whom she had named her boy. On the north side of 50th Street, between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, a temporary church edifice had been erected. It was here that the young man was installed as pastor. Some after changes closed these doors and it was then that his mother's early friends, the Cozines, called his congregation to their parlors and every Sabbath day found the rooms filled. On the Fourth of July, 1855, the Sabbath-school of the Church at Harsenville held its anniversary exercises on the grounds behind the old farmhouse. The Rev. Mr. Plumley, his wife, his parents, and his sister were there. The young minister, happy and enthusiastic, arose to address us. He related that when he was a little boy, his mother had told him of a country village, many miles away, where the people were afraid to walk out of evenings, because of robbers. In this place she at one time taught in the Sunday-school — ^this at a time when even good people had their doubts about such schools. Dr. Gunn even refused to send his children for fear of the consequences. He told also of the old colored slave of the family, of whom we have heard. So godly was he that Dr. Gunn once remarked, " I shall be happy to get into heaven and take a seat at the feet of Hannibal Ritter." Continuing his reminiscences, Mr. Plumley stated that this good man came to Jacob Harsen on an occasion 4IO Zbc flew l?ork of IPesterbap and asked to be excommunicated, saying that he had had a serious quarrel with a neighbor and that there had been much cursing and swearing. "What!" exclaimed Deacon Harsen, "did you swear, Hanni- bal ?" "No, sir, ' ' was the reply, ' ' Mr. swore terribly, but I never said a single word." It seems that Hanni- bal had sold him a horse for five dollars and that the purchaser came to the old colored man declaring that he had been cheated, as the horse was not soimd. As Mr. Plumley ended his address, Domine van Aken arose. He gave an account of the last hours of Mr. and added, "No doubt he and Hannibal have been clasped in each other's arms in heaven!" After the exercises, wood was gathered on the grounds and Mrs. Plumley, who appeared to be a general favorite, pre- pared the coffee and tea, and, assisted by the ladies, set a dainty table. It was a pleasant, happy party that returned to the city at sunset. We frequently heard Mr. Plumley preach in the little building and his sermons were full of Gospel truths. This congregation afterwards united with that of the Rev. James B. Dunn when his church removed from Spring Street, and it is now the flourishing Central Presbyterian Church in West 57th Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue. The edifice on this site was formerly that presided over by the Rev. Dr. John Hall at Fifth Avenue and 19th Street, and was removed stone by stone and reconstructed here. Mr. Plumley in after years became a pastor in the Reformed Church in Fulton Street. He died in 1894 and was buried from the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, when Dr. Hall officiated. A walk through the village sixty-odd years ago! A pretty village it was. There was no "shanty town " to IReminiecencee 4" mar the beautiful expanse of green, and the rural simplicity. The foreigners came later on. The rocks were there, but the goats came with the new arrivals. There was even no Central Park, just acres of waste land aroimd. As we left the Cozine homestead, we crossed Eighth Avenue and continued on in the shadow of a great rock before we reached 58th Street. We wUl walk on the west side of the Bloomingdale Road and return on the east side. Look among the trees, near 59th Street. That is the residence of the Havemeyers. Now look forward over the green fields. There are a few scattered dwellings before we enter Harsenville. At 64th Street stood a modest little frame cottage. A godly man lived there who was well known and respected. He was the keeper of cows and supplied the village with milk. Although a Baptist, as were others near by, he attended the weekly prayer-meetings at the local church. At 66th Street once stood an old frame building, the abode of Mr. Norton. "J. B. D. Galliard & Son," French flor- ists, hung out their sign later. * ' I have come to see you. I want to make some pies." These words came from the lips of a little old woman who dwelt close by. She was queer, but what of that ? We are all more or less queer. Our queerest neighbor often lives next door to us, and he looks out of his window and wonders why we are so queer. The fact is we all wear colored spectacles. Some of us have on blue, some green, some yellow, some red. We all wonder why our neighbor with the green glasses per- sists in saying everything is green, and we storm and fret and wonder why his parents and teachers did not make him see everything with the same colored glasses we wear. Well, well! what a monotonous 412 Zbc IRew IPorh of l?e6terbai? world this would be if we all saw things alike. The old ball would keep turning around year after year and it would|be so little changed that if Adam and Eve should return they would see the Garden of Eden as they left it. So let us remember the apostolic injunc- tion, "Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not." Every one knew the little woman and laughed at her eccentricities, while she in turn wondered why they laughed. But she was respected nevertheless, and when on Sunday, come rain or come sunshine. Granny H was seen, with reticule on one arm and prayer- book in hand, wending her way to St. Michael's, she became a walking sermon to all. Would to God that the people of the present age, who have their names written on the church books, would be as faithful as the dear old peculiar saint, who long years ago went to her reward. We do not remember that she ever rode. She preferred to walk from 68th Street to 99th Street on the country road. In summer this thorough- fare was thick with dust, in winter and spring with snow and mud. The latter splashed over the shoe- tops or sadly spoiled the young girls' pantalets, both girls and pantalets being the pride of the mothers. It has been an easy thing to find an excuse for staying away from the house of God. As butterflies with gaudy wings Display themselves on summer days, So Sunday saints, more gaudy 'things, Will seek God's house, to pray and praise. But if a mist o'erspread the ground, Or e'en a cloud obscure the skies, These Sunday saints are weather-bound And stay at home like butterflies. IRemlnisccncee 413 It became a very plausible excuse for persons to remain at home from the afternoon service because the driving up the Bloomingdale Road, on a Sunday afternoon, rendered it positively unsafe to venture out. There were no sidewalks, and the dust, scattered by the pass- ing vehicles, pretty well peppered the white muslin dresses of the young girls. In winter, the quantity of sleighs and the jingling of their bells confused the pedestrian and made it dangerous to life. The Sab- bath-breakers were on their way to McComb's Dam, the favorite resort. As a consequence, many people eased their consciences and sat down to a quiet after- noon, while a few, more conscientious ones, took risks and attended the service at the village church at 3 o'clock. Granny H left her home early on Simday morning and, as the driving did not begin until afternoon, she was on the safe side. During the week she taught a private school for very small children. Not being the owner of a clock, she commenced the morning exercises, and dismissed the children, when the sun cast its shadow upon certain marks on the floor. Cats were her delight, and boys her abomination. Her in- come was very small, so the neighbors often sent her presents and smiled when, in her independent way, she found fault. She would enter a neighbor's house and inform them she was about to make some pies. As the dish in her hand was empty her friends would ask good-naturedly, "What are you going to make them with, Granny?" ''Oh!" she would reply, "I thought you would give me a little flour and a few apples." As this was never refused, the pies were made and the old lady, after a little chat, would take her leave. It is related that the village doctor, on one 414 ZCbe 1Rew l?orft of ^cetev^H^ occasion, sent her a load of wood and placed himself in a position where he might be able to hear her expres- sions of gratitude. "It's no use for Dr. Williams to send me a load of wood, unless he sends some one to cut it," was the grateful thought that burst upon the listening ear. So far as we know she was alone in the world, although some have said that she came of a family of wealth. Notwithstanding all her peculiari- ties she was looked after by her kind neighbors and when she died, although there were none to weep, she had a kindly burial. Next we come to the residence of the Caryl family. Isaac was the head of the house. He owned property on the Nevada site and was one of those who sold to Jasper. Sarah, the wife, joined the communion Nov. i, 1856, and died in 1859. Emily Caryl was married by the minister to William Halden in 1842. About the year 1850 a widow with her two little boys lived there. She was in feeble health, and for some reason was obliged to leave her house for a while. She sailed across the sea to her native land, England. It may have been for the purpose of settling business matters^ or it may have been on account of her health, for it was evident to all that she was soon to pass away. She returned just ready to go to the land "from whence no traveller returns." Dear little Mrs. Ashby! All through her sickness she gathered many friends among the young people and it was they -^^ho watched by her dying bed. When at last the close of life was near she took upon her lips the hymn so precious to God's saints at that time. It is quaint, compared with modem hymns — Vital spark of heavenly flame, Quit, oh quit this mortal frame! 1Remln!sccnce0 415 Trembling, hoping, lingering, sighing, Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying. She sang on until she came to the words Cease, fond mortals, cease your strife ! And let me languish into life. She then became exhausted and sank sweetly to her rest. We gathered around her coffin in her home and our pastor called our attention to her peaceful ex- pression. It was an impressive hour. Her two little boys were placed in the Orphan Asylum. The same day and at an hour so near that set for the young mother's funeral, Domine van Aken had to shorten the service a trifle in order that he might officiate at another. An aged servant of God was resting from her labors and was now to be committed to the dust to await the resurrection of the just. This was the widow of Samuel A. Lawrence, an Elder during Dr. Gunn's pastorate. We now reach the Jasper grocery. A few years later, Mr. John Reid, who had kept the hotel on the opposite side of the street, left it to the care of "Pop" Griffen and built a small house on land hired from the Church, where he opened a variety store. One of his sisters, Ann Clark, had children baptized by the minister and both united with the society. This the centre of Harsenville, in 1845, boasted of only some ten houses along the Bloomingdale Road. What was called "River Lane," a continuation of the Harsenville Road which ran westerly from the Mansion nearly on the line of present 70th St., ended at Sanger's soap works. This was during the thirties. He was succeeded by Peter Rennie, an Elder, who opened in the forties a calico print factory on the river's banks. This gave em- 4i6 Zbc flevp IPorft of IJesterbai? ployment to many young people, most of whom came from a distance to their labor. Sanger's wife was a sister of the Brooks who married William Holmes's daughter Augusta. At the head of the street was the engine-house of No. 50, Mohegan, on the groimd where the original church edifice stood. Tenth Avenue ended here and was not extended farther until 1850. The place to which it was opened formed at the time, as it does to-day, a triangle. There a stream of water flowed through it to lose^itself in the river at the foot of present 69th Street. When fire broke out, excitement grew intense in the small hamlet. How the shouts of ' ' Fire ! Fire ! ' ' echoed and "ding, dong, ding, dong" reverberated as the engine was hauled out! The volimteers pulled and tugged, shouted and swore as it rattled up the Bloom- ingdale Road. It passed the Harsenville Road this time and stopped somewhere in the vicinity of 79th Street. We were wrapped in blankets and carried to the north window of our house to watch the progress of the flames. It was our first experience of a fire. Oh! pour on water, brave volunteers! Extinguish the flames if you can ! They leap to the heavens and men- acingly roar as they rise. Crash come the walls until only a heap of ashes is left. Thus was destroyed Huddard's school building. The second story of the brick building which Jasper put up was rented to the city, which used it for the local police station. Entrance thereto was obtained in the rear. Capt. Robert Thompson and five men had charge of that part of the island east, west, and north of 42nd Street. An officer's salary was $500 a year. Murphy was the village blacksmith. His shop was 1Remlni0cence0 417 at the now southeast comer of 69th St. and Am- sterdam Avenue. Ned, the oldest son, was the proud owner of a new rifle. Standing in the shop one day, he made a target of the vane which was plainly visible on the church belfry, with such success that two holes therein showed the true aim displayed. Quite a touse over it among the members resulted. Another son was Joe Murphy, the actor. Between 68th and 69th Streets lived the Chaudlets in a house which had been constructed as a refuge for the French emigres of the reign of Louis XVI., on land which ran to the river. Most of the furniture was massive and built in the house, which remained on its site until the laying-out of the Boulevard cut it in half. It had a sloping roof stretched over a sort of gallery like unto Swiss houses in mountain regions. With the mother lived Mme. Chaudlet's son by a former marriage, Francis Joseph Felix. His father, a sailor, had been drowned in a wild storm off Finisterre. The widow, having some relatives in New York, came hither with ;her baby son at the dawn of the XIX. century. A few years later, she met and married Joseph Chaudlet. He was an important character in the old village and a man of many talents and re- sources. Bom in Marseilles, he met in Paris with Gen. Lafayette who found that Joseph was an excellent cook and gave him, on leaving France, letters to Fulton and Major Golden, which procured him the position of chef to Lord Gourtenay, who kept an almost princely house- hold at "Glaremont." Ghaudlet exhibited such skill in treating the Viscount's horses that he was promoted to the post of veterinary surgeon. Afterwards he built and managed the Harsenville smithy. His step-son, Felix, worked with him, leaming also under his in- 41 8 Zbc ticvo jporh of l^eeterbai? struction the surgical care of horses. He became the oracle of the neighborhood. In 1868, Mrs. Greatorex, who stopped at the house during her sketching tour through Bloomingdale, states that he was a veterinary- surgeon with an office at 53d Street, near Eighth Avenue. He accompanied her on many of her jaunts. She describes him as ' 'not tall, but broad and strongly built ; his eyes are very keen and bright, his complexion, 'browned by the generous sun' is clear and fresh and his grey hair thick and curly." His memory harked back sixty years and he related stories of the olden times when the dread of yellow fever brought people here for the summer; and, from hearsay, of the period when the cry of "The British are coming" sent frightened women and children from Long Island, Brooklyn, and the southern end of the city to this section for succor from the soldiery. In speaking of the occupants of the surrounding country-seats in Colonial times he remembered hearing that ' 'these rich gentlemen wore the old style of dress — powdered queues and knee- breeches, ruffled shirts and silver buckles; and the ladies affected powdered hair and beautiful dresses of flowered silk and quilted satin petticoats." As of course they did, as some of the portraits reproduced testify. Felix became a member of the church, April 27, 1873 and died in 1877. Harriet Baker, the widow Purdy, his wife, united May 6, 1853, and died March 19, 1873, aged 64 years 11 days. They had been married by the Rev. Mr. Richmond, July i, 1837, and a number of their children were baptized by him. The last child, Josephine, was christened in 1859 by Domine van Aken. A neat white picket fence between 72nd and 73d Streets enclosed a pretty dwelling — ^that built by Mme. d'Auliffe — modestly hidden among the shrubbery. IRemlniscencee 419 This was at one time the residence of the Tallcots and afterwards of the Loziers. This family came to Har- senville in the late forties. The Alderman left an impression as a fine old gentleman. He occupied a beautiful place, as we have seen, which was open to all the inhabitants on holidays. The Fourth of July was the great day for enjoyment there. His daughter Emma was married in 1838 by the Domine. We are approaching a stone wall. It extends from 73d to 74th Street, and terminates in a large wooden arched entrance with a small gate on either side, painted to represent stone. There was a broad carriageway overshadowed by a row of horse-chestnuts from the Bloomingdale Road to the lodge. A narrow walk fol- lowed the way on its southern side and both led to the N. Y. Orphan Asylum buildings. Persimmon trees lined the boundary dividing it from the Gov. Broome mansion. Walk in, — one was always welcome. The grounds extended from the Road to the river, with a gradual slope to the water, where stately trees en- hanced the view. The location was a charming one and the grounds attractively laid out. The Boulevard front was sold circa 1853, and private residences cover the green lawn where the orphan children of other days sent out shouts of laughter or where the new-comer walked with a sad heart, feeling that he was alone in the big world. How many changes have come to that Home since we first remember it. Among the directresses were Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, Mrs. Divie Bethune, Mrs. Pelatiah Perit. Our memory goes back to the time when Mr. Wood was superintendent. He was suc- ceeded by Messrs. Stout, Winter, Angel, Stark, Pell, and Demorest. Among the teachers were the Misses Hall 420 TOe mew l?orn of IJesterba^ and Ralph and also Miss Marion Dempster, who spent nearly all the years of her life inside the walls. And when her eyesight failed and, fearing that she might be an incumbrance, she begged the lady managers to send her to an old ladies' home, the request was met by a decided refusal. She was given all the comfort and privileges that could be granted, was cared for in her last illness and laid at rest in the orphans' plot at Trinity Cemetery. When Dr. Winter was superin- tendent the Hudson River Railroad was not built. Then the institution's bath-house was on the banks of the river. It was only necessary for the neighbors to call and request that the key might be given to us for our use in the early evenings. The request was promptly granted. We remember how indignant many of us were when Mr. Angel, his successor, in reply to our request, uttered the words, "You came with the expectation of seeing Dr. Winter." One of our party declared that ' 'Winter, stem Winter, was better than an Angel." On the north side of the Asylum grounds once stood a pretty white dwelling with Corinthian columns. In summer there was the richest perfume from flowers, rare and beautiful. The trees cast their shadows over the green lawn, where West End Avenue now passes, and the lawn in rear of the house gradually sloped to the Hudson. This was the residence of Pelatiah Perit, a man well known and much , beloved. Much has heretofore been said of him. His carriage was seen every morning going to the city, and his coachman Michael evidently felt that he was as important a personage as his master. He retired from business in 1 86 1 and thereafter led a life of seclusion and repose. About ten days prior to his death, he was taken sud- 1Remlnl6cence0 42 1 denly ill in the street and carried into the residence of Prof. Silliman, where he remained unconscious until morning, when he was conveyed to his own residence. This attack culminated in dropsy on the chest. In the report of the Trustees of the Asylum for 1864, the death of " the excellent and universally respected Mr. Perit" is adverted to, ' 'who was so well known in the business world as a successful merchant, in the religious world as an earnest Christian and in the social circle as a kind friend, and who for many years was the near- est neighbor of this Institution." He bequeathed one thousand dollars to it. Mrs. Perit, on his removal to New Haven, dissolved her connection of 25 years with the Asylum. The report of i860 states that dur- ing this time, being a next-door neighbor, she had al- ways been ready to aid and cheer the superintendents and to guide and encourage the children. At the meetings she was a gentle, generous friend and counsel- lor. The pleasant strawberry festivals that the inmates enjoyed with each returning year on Mr. Perit's grounds, and which formed the chief era in their annual anticipa- tions, were recalled. In one especial case, he showed a liberal interest in a girl inmate who had a promising voice and a great love of music, and furnished the means for the improvement of her natural gift. The tribute winds up, " We shall long miss the loss of Mr. Perit's kind presence and efforts." The shipping in the harbor displayed their flags at half-mast in honor of his memory, and measures were taken by the mer- chants of the city to properly mark the loss which his death had entailed upon the community. The foreign missionary received a warm welcome in Mr. Perit's home and many a devoted servant of God has found shelter under that roof, among them the Rev. John 422 zbc "Mew l^ork of IJeeterba^ Scudder, D.D., Rev. Myron Winslow, Rev. Dr. Spaul- ding, and Rev. John Dulles. We will leave the Perit residence and return by way of the Asylum grounds, for there was a gateway between the two. Again we are on the broad roadway and pass the cottage of John Wood, who resided within the grounds. He was the leader of the church choir and had business relations with the Asylum. Although his name was the same as that of the superintendent, they were not related. Beyond it, on our left, is some- thing that appears like a large black tombstone. One might ask, "Who lies buried here?" "Five Miles from New York" is the only reply. It marked the distance from the present City Hall, and stood silently resting in the wall. We who lived in the neighborhood became so accustomed to it that we scarcely gave it a glance as we drew near to the resi- dence of the Kellys. Here lived a large family at one time, but consumption came into the home, and one after another was carried off, until it seemed as if the survivors were always dressed in mourning. It was very sad to see the young people reach manhood and womanhood only to meet the grim destroyer. But it matters little now to the mourners, for they are sweetly sleeping side by side, in Trinity Cemetery. Between 75th and 76th Streets there stood an old red brick building. This was the Somerindyck house of Colonial history. It was known now as ' ' Fisher's house." The Fisher family lived there many years and their garden became their cemetery. Joseph Henry Fisher and his wife, who had previously lived on the "Middle Road," became residents there in 1826-7. With them lived Mary Johnston, the wife's sister, whom Domine van Aken married to Joseph Henry Adams in 1Remlnlscencc6 423 1838. They removed from Bloomingdale to Brooklyn, where her husband was Supervisor from the Thir- teenth Ward of the old city and died in 1887. Mrs. Adams was one of the oldest residents at the date of her death, February 22, 1906, aged 75 years. She left surviving her a daughter, Mrs. Josephine A. Coombs, and a son, Austin Adams, besides eighteen grand- children and fifteen great-grandchildren. During her girlhood in Bloomingdale the house was surroimded by an acre and a half of ground; large locusts shaded the front and elms grew in the rear, with English cherry-trees in the garden. At the end of the lane on the Gassner place were summer-houses overlooking the river, which were a resort for the young people on summer evenings. A break in the fence line in the picture of this house shown on page 56 indicates the entrance to the lane. In after years, when the old building was crumbling and vacant, reports were cir- culated that it was haunted, but no one ever met the ghosts, and the story died out. It was a quaint old building. The hall-door was divided in half and either the upper or lower part might be opened or closed at pleasure. A great black knocker gave notice of a caller. The hall was very broad and the parlors were on each side. The mantels were high and broad and curiously carved with historical pictures. The windows were small, and the panes were tiny squares of glass, such as were very much used in old times. Some of the "oldest inhabitants" aver that before No. 9 schoolhouse was built (1827) in 82d St. this was the village school. In the latteV part of the forties, Barak C. Wright and Margaret Fake, his wife, lived there. They had been married by Domine van Aken in 1838. Miss EHza Wright was one of the choir, with 424 ^be 1Revo l?ork of IJeaterbai? John Wood, in the village church. Leaving the Fisher house we cross Perit's lane and midway between 75th and 76th Streets pass the Cudlipp residence. They were Episopalians. Henry Reuben, son of Reu- ben Henry Cudlipp and Mary Esther McMann, his wife, bom June, 1851, was baptized Dec. 26, 1852, at St. Michael's. The father was interred in Trinity Cemetery, June 17, 1858, aged 63. His daughter Hannah Eliza- beth, bom in Philadelphia, aged 27, was married to Duncan Macfarlan, aged 35, by the Rev. Thomas Mc- Clure Peters, on Oct. i, 1857, at her father's residence. Macfarlan was a Scotchman. His silk mills were on the site of All Angels' church. West End Avenue and 8ist Street. It is claimed that he made the first silk ribbons in this countr3^ Both he and his first wife joined the Church at Harsenville, Feb. 4, 1853. He became Deacon Feb., 1854, and served as Clerk pro tern. on occasions. The Consistory met as usual at his house in its rotation among the members. Martha and Duncan, their children, were baptized by Domine van Aken in 1853, and John in 1854. Their mother died in May, 1857. On his second marriage he resigned his office and removed his business and residence to Hawthorne, N. J. (near Paterson), where he died Oct. II, 1886, aged 64 years. His daughter Martha became, July 23, 1873, the wife of Robert William, son of Adam Thompson, who was bom Oct. 31, and baptized at St. Michael's, Nov. 30, 1837. She joined the com- munion May 5, 1866, and took letter of dismission to the Park Presbyterian Church. Malcolm Macfarlan, the eldest child, became a member Aug. i, 1857. He is a physician practising his profession in Philadelphia and is an active member of the Swedenborgian Church, which he joined in 1868. He married Hannah Dick ^^fr ift Portrait and signature of Duncan Macfarlan, Esq., reproduced by courtesy of his daughter Mrs. Robert W. Thompson IRemlnlscencee 425 the following year and was head surgeon in the Phil- adelphia Hospital for many years. Mary Macfarlan, another daughter, became a member May 2, 1863, and took letter of dismissal to the Park Presbyterian Church, She never married. The other sons were Duncan and John, who were both physicians. The latter died Feb. 9, 1885, aged 30. A few steps north of the Cudlipps', we enter the little store kept by Aleck White. We recall the old-fashioned candies to be found there. Candies change their fashion as well as does dress. We take out a cent, a great copper piece, somewhat larger than our present quar- ter dollar, and look over the supply — " buUseyes," chocolate balls, "hundreds and thousands," cylindrical papers with a gold band of paper twisted around, con- taining tiny globules, each having an aromatic seed inside. We would hesitate for a moment, then seize a chocolate ball in haste, because we heard the school bell and we feared the consequence if it ceased before we reached the door. Running over an elevation, dignified by the title of " hill," we saw a small cottage where lived the widow McCarthy and then reached the next store, kept by Jacob Tripp. When Fernando Wood became Mayor, he took possession of the ground where these three last-named houses stood, and turned it into an immense lawn and drive. He had his resi- dence on the site of the widow McCarthy's house. Next came Bumham's. It stood some distance from the road and the pleasure-seeker turned off into the circle that led to the hotel. There could be no mis- take about it, for the sign swinging prominently in the air caught the eye of the passing traveller and the pic- ture of the house thereon with the large letters " Bum- ham's Mansion House " left no doubt on his mind. We 426 ^be flew IPorl; of l^ester^ai? well remember the old homestead and the pump that we often drank from on our return from school, and also the pitchers that were emptied there which had contained the half-lemons. What a scampering there was among the school children when they saw the man coming down holding that pitcher. We fear the lemons sometimes contained something stronger than lemon-juice. But the temperance people were not so strong in the middle of the last century. Governor van den Heuvel imported from Holland the necessary brick and timber to build the old mansion. As Gen. Wash- ington had some connection with every old landmark, so, of course, he is stated to have occupied this house. Another legend is that a British officer, wounded in the contest on Bloomingdale Heights, died therein. The large Dutch weather-vane which once ornamented the bam now indicates the direction of the wind upon the stables of William Waldorf Astor's English estate. Leaving Bumham's, we pass a few cottages. The first is a variety store where Mrs. Kervan tempts the children with molasses candy. Another cottage was occupied by Reuben Cudlipp and family. Poor man! His eyes were closed to earthly sights; we hope they have long since gazed upon the King in His beauty. Several cottages were seen back from the roadside and at the comer of present 8ist Street a large brick build- ing for the times, stood, in which lived Tom Kerr. This ended the confines of Harsenville and we will retrace our steps. The east side of the Bloomingdale Road was but sparsely settled. At 75th Street Charles Darke's family resided. This house was afterward occupied by William Leggett and still later by a Mr. Bonesteel, who kept a grocery at the comer of 74th Street. Then came a triangular field extending to 7 ist Street. About IReminiscencce 427 1849, "the Tenth Avenue, which heretofore had ended at the Road and formed a junction, was now extended to 86th Street and cut through this field. A large open space from 71st to 73d Streets was also divided when 7 2d Street was opened. A stream of water, which afforded much pleasure to the boys and men when frozen over in winter, ran across this field and thence through and under a bridge to the Road. Seventy-fourth Street was only a lane leading in an easterly direction. It commenced opposite the Asylum. On the left and facing the fields (for Tenth Avenue had not appeared) was the residence of the Weir family. Next lived Mrs. Elizabeth Darke, and next William Holmes, Jr. On the right was a large old-fashioned house at that time (183 9) having no occupant. After- wards Captain Harvey moved into it and resided there several years. Entering a gateway, we are at the Hanaway home. This is where they lived for seventeen years after leaving the parsonage. Where the Ele- vated road passes between 73d and 74th Streets, was the back garden. It was here, in the springtime, after school hours were over, we searched for the early violet, the wild convolvulus, the frail anemone, the brilliant wild pink, and the wild strawberry. Later, we gathered the luscious blackberry or raspberry that grew on yonder hills. Dear old home! How sacred are its memories ! What happy hours were spent un- der that roof ! From the chamber, clothed in white, The bride went forth on her wedding night, but never during the long years the family resided there did death break the circle. The house stood on an 428 Zhc IRew l?ork of l?e6tert)ap elevation and from the front windows a full view^of the surroundings was had. At the comer of 71st Street (Harsenville Road) stood the pretty dwelling of William Holmes, Sr. He and his wife lived there many years and all his children, five sons and three daughters, were bom there. His oldest son, William, lived on 74th Street. He brought his bride to this house soon after marriage and all their children were also bom there. This family for more than seventy years have been identified with the Bloom- ingdale Church. The grandparents, William B. Holmes and Hannnah Stanton, his wife, were married there during the ministry of Dr. Gunn. The husband died in 1843, ^^d had been an Elder during the early tenure of Domine van Aken. His children and grandchildren continued to attend the services until death or removal prohibited. A few have until lately been connected therewith, but the greater number are asleep in Trinity Cemetery, where nearly all Harsenville lies. Nathaniel Holmes, a son, and his wife Rebecca celebrated the 50th anniversary of their married life on Jan. 25, 1897, and on the same occasion took place the 25th anniver- sary of the marriage of their eldest daughter, Rebecca, and her husband Davis Conkling. Nathaniel Holmes and his wife began their life together in the homestead. After their second daughter was bom, they removed to Harlem, and afterwards to Long Island. At 68th Street stood the old stone church, hallowed with endearing associations. So let my living be, so be my dying, So let my name be, unblazoned, unknown, Unpraised and unmissed, I shall still be remembered, Yes, but remembered by what I have done. So wrote Horatius Bonar and so speaks the life of 1Remln!6cence0 429 many a humble Christian. As you walk up the aisle of one of our beautiful churches and take your seat in yonder comfortable pew, as you listen to the thrilling notes of the organ or to the words falling from the lips of some elegant divine, does the question ever arise, "Who was the founder of this edifice?" The Bloomingdale Reformed Church owes its life to Jacob Harsen. Looking to the west, some distance back from Tenth Avenue, between 70th and 71st Streets, there was located not very long ago an old house with the gable end to the street. Here Jacob Harsen lived and died. He it was who gave the ground for the church and parsonage. Does he look down to-day and see the result of his beneficence? What if he could see the neighborhood that was so stagnant for many years that a deacon of the Church once remarked that he believed there was a curse on Bloomingdale ? The old home has been crumbling for a generation and so has his dust. But when the Day of Reckoning comes, we believe Jacob Harsen will find many jewels in his crown of rejoicing, brought through the means he used, and they with him will sing Redeeming Love forever. The parish covered much territory with few habita- tions. Dr. Gtmn was known to have stated that it reached from Kip's Bay to the Hudson and from 9th to 125th Street. Its size was not much reduced during Domine van Aken's ministry. His long term was broken about 1845 ^"^^ ^ y^^^ *^^ more. Stricken with hemorrhage of the lungs — ^the " affliction" he mentions in his quoted letter — ^he went to Florida. During his absence, the pulpit was supplied by the Rev. Mr. Robinson and the Rev. Cornelius Vermeule. To quote the diary : I was a very little girl and great was my reverence for 43° ^be 1Rew ^ov\{ of IPesterba^ this venerable man [Dr. Vermeule] as he walked through our grounds. This he frequently did, as he boarded with Mrs. Elizabeth Darke, only two houses distant. Our family was very large, and the congregation small. This led the Doctor to remark that we were the largest part of the congrega- tion, as we sometimes occupied two pews. Father and I often started off together, as I was the youngest of the family. Great was my feeling of importance when Dr. Vermeule would overtake us and remark, "Well, sister, are you leading papa to church?" There was often a merry twinkle of the eye and much humor, notwithstanding the dignity of his office . Clergymen , as well as others , wore stocks in those days, which had a tendency to elevate the head, and the white neckerchief gave the Domine a very digni- fied appearance. He officiated at the wedding of my sister, May 5, 1845. After the ceremony was over and we were all seated — many of our intimate friends being present — there was quiet for a few moments. The bride was young, only eighteen years of age, and there was a sadness in leaving the old home. I think Dr. Vermeule realized this. He looked solemnly over the circle and then soberly re- marked, "If there are any other persons waiting I am ready to do the same for them." This broke up the sober company and laughter took the place of tears. The Domine once visited a member of the congrega- tion who was regarded as a very parsimonious woman. As he looked at her well-loaded grape vine, he congratu- lated her upon her future prospects. ' 'Well, Domine, " she said, ' 'if you will come down when they are ripe, I will give you some." At the appointed season, the good Doctor visited her, with basket in hand. " She brought one bunch and placed it in my hand and that was the end of the chapter," said he in relating the experience. It was told with the same merry twinkle of the eye, accompanied with the same dignity of ' »^rv.¥;,v 1Remlnl0cencc0 431 bearing. He was a warm-hearted Christian gentleman. We never remember hearing one unkind word spoken of him. It is said that just as he was about to enter Heaven he exclaimed, " My kindred ! " Because of the prevalence of fever-and-ague, Domine van Aken refused to live in the parsonage. After the place had been somewhat improved, he spent the winter there. Standing on our back piazza on an evening when the moon was hidden, very frequently we saw a tall figure in a long cloak which reached to the feet, a large white comforter wrapped around the throat and mouth, a lantern in hand, wending his way through the thick brushwood , where the Elevated road now stands. It was our pastor on his way to a prayer meeting at the residence of one of his congrega- tion. Some of these meetings continued to be held in the Harsen Mansion while John Freeman and Mary, his wife, lived there in the late thirties. Their daugh- ter Emma was baptized by the Domine in 1841. Another daughter, Alice, became the wife of Richard Stout. With no sidewalks, no graded roads, and no lights to shine on the pathway, we were delighted when gas was lit for the first time from 59th to 86th Street, April I, 1857. There were several large square pews in the centre and side aisles. One on the south side was occupied by the Hon. Pelatiah Perit and family. In the middle aisle sat Mrs. Samuel A. Lawrence with her widowed daughter and granddaughters. The daughter was married by the Domine in 1846 to Wilson G. Hunt and a granddaughter became the wife of the Rev. Mr. Atwater. One on the other side of the middle aisle was owned by Maj.-Gen. Striker, and here his family of sons sat when they did not belong to the choir. On 432 Zl)c Bew l?orft of IJeeterbaij either side of the church were the children of the Orphan Asylum, the boys on the right of the pulpit and the girls on the south. At this time there was no organ or other musical instrument and the singing was led by Mr. and Mrs. John Wood and the Misses Wright. Wood stoves were in use, and these the sexton some- times neglected to feed. Mrs. van Aken was accus- tomed to bring a warming-pan. The stovepipes ran along the wall to the pulpit, where elbows branched to the north and south sides. Hinges were fastened to the partition along the centre aisle of pews in front of the platform to which the long table was affixed on communion Sundays. In this way the method in- augurated by the Master was literally followed. The ceiling had nine large circles to indicate where chan- deliers should hang. They were, however, never in- troduced. The auditorium was very large. Two pairs of stairs led to the high pulpit fitted with doors that buttoned-in the officiating minister. The Elders and Deacons sat on either side below the platform. In early times, the scholars at Huddard's, Bansel's, and Ufford's schools attended, just as at this time the orphans did. The grounds, enclosed by a picket fence, with two gates, one for carriages and one for pe- destrians, were surrounded by the cemetery, and the edifice was fronted by a pretty lawn prior to 1856, at which time the Bloomingdale Road was graded, the lawn disappearing in the process. There was no clock in the steeple, as has been erroneously stated. Instead, windows filled the circular openings on its four sides. No lights of any kind were ever used with the exception of a few special occasions, when candles and lamps were loaned by neighbors. All evening meetings were held either at the Asylum or in the houses of members. 1Remlnl0ccnce0 433 Among the teachers in the Sabbath-school was Miss Harriet Lothrop Winslow, a descendant of one of the Mayflower families. An interesting account of her mother, and her trials and perseverance in that kind of work, is given in Dr. H. Clay Trumbull's Yale Lectures on the Sabbath-school, p. 127. Her father was the Rev. Myron Winslow, a well-known missionary in Ceylon, India. Their daughter Harriet was bom in Oodooville, Ceylon, April 19, 1829. Her mother died when she was four years old and she was brought to America by her father and adopted by Mr. Perit. Dur- ing the summer of 1848, she announced to her class of about twenty young girls, varying in age from fourteen to sixteen years, that she was to be married. Tears fell from the scholars' eyes, while the teacher retired to a distant pew, to hide her emotion. Her heart, though full of joy for the future, was conscious that many sacred ties must be severed, and not the least among them was that which botmd her to her beloved class. This event took place Sept. 21, 1848. Her husband, Rev. John Welsh Dulles of Philadelphia, was a graduate of Yale and of Union Theological Seminary. On Oct. loth of that year they started for their new field of labor at Madras, India. They went out under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. "You are taking a short road to Heaven," was the prediction of a gentleman friend before she started, and so it proved. We remember well her kind, genial face. Sometimes the class would enjoy a social gathering on the lawn at the beautiful residence on the banks of the Hudson, or a quiet walk in the garden, when the young teacher would call attention to some foreign plant. Then came the summons to the parlor to partake of re- 28 434 ^be *WevD l?orft of jpeaterba^ freshments. Again, it was our happiness to receive a call from her at our home, when she would relate some pleasing incidents of her visits among the members of her class, or to an aged saint who was " only waiting," Little wonder that there was great regret in the village when her departure for India was announced. She returned with her husband and three sons to the residence of her foster father, March 14, 1853, much broken in health. We called to see her in her child- hood's home. Two little boys were playing near her chair; a third was in the arms of the nurse. These children were John Welsh, Charles Winslow, and Perit. Soon after, the family left for Philadelphia. Her husband became Secretary of the American Sunday- school Union from 1853-7, when he accepted the posi- tion of Editorial-Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Publication. In the month of May, after their return, a fourth son, Joseph Heatly, was bom. He is a min- ister of the Gospel and librarian of Princeton Seminary. A fifth son, Allen Macy, is also a clergyman; a sixth, Winslow, died in infancy; a seventh, William, is now Treasurer of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, and a daughter, Anna Stille, was bom later, making eight children in all. In 1873, Mr. Dulles wrote: "I am happy to say that the six sons of my wife, Harriet L. Winslow, are all members in full of the Presbyterian Church and, to some degree, honoring their ancestry by their lives." Their mother took the "short road to Heaven" as predicted, Sept. I, 1 86 1, at the early age of 32 years. Miss Harriet Oilman, a niece of Mr. Perit's, was another teacher. Her class met in the southeast comer of the Church. She lived at her uncle's house and began teaching when fifteen years of age. Other IRcmlnieccnces 435 nephews and nieces who often visited there were Prof. Daniel Oilman, former president of Johns Hop- kins, the Rev. Edward Oilman of Flushing, L.I., WilHam Oilman, Miss Emily Serena Oilman and the wife of Dr. J. P. Thompson, at one time pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle. Harriet Oilman married Oeorge W. Lane. Lovely and pleasant in girlhood, she developed into a ripened Christian character. She passed from earth in 1 88 1 and sleeps in Woodlawn. Although none of these united, they were often present in the sanctuary. Mr. Lane later married his wife's youngest sister. From letters received from the sisters, we make some quotations. Mrs. Lane writes: My recollections of the church are merely the childish pictures gained during my occasional visits, and are closely blended with the delightful home life in Mr. Perit's hos- pitable house ; the Sunday morning walk under the shady avenue of the Asylum grounds and the less agreeable dusty road, which on a Sunday afternoon seemed really perilous because of the fast horses recklessly driven up to Burnham's tavern; the procession of orphans in uniform dress, the girls with winter coats of gray followed in sum- mer by white capes, their straw bonnets and blue ribbons, I do not remember so much about the boys. They sat on the other side of the church. It was always interesting to see the girls file in under the direction of a teacher or monitor, and I used to wonder how it was determined who should sit in each pew. I suppose I did not listen very attentively to the sermon, but it was entertaining when Domine van Aken announced an evening meeting to be held at the house of "Mistress Cozine," and when he gave notice of his intention to make pastoral calls during the following week, particularly requesting that he might see the children, I felt much alarmed and took pains to hide in a remote place when he came to my aunt's house, 436 ZTbe IRew BorFi of IJesterbai? lest he should ask me personal questions of an uncomfort- able nature! All this is very trivial, but I cannot give you anything of importance. Miss Gilman says: We were never especially encouraged to linger among the old gravestones. There was a marble tablet on the wall of the vestibule (perhaps more than one) , the first such memorial I had ever seen. I recall the square pews where the Perit family sat, and where the Sunday-school classes of my sister and cousin met. I think there were green cur- tains in front of the singers' gallery and that Mr. Reed's two daughters were in the choir. My aunt and uncle were never members of the church, but retained their connection with the Mercer Street Church, occasionally driving into town to attend the services. I remember one communion Sunday when Mr. Perit and Miss Winslow took their seats at the table. I had never seen any one but the clergyman seated at the communion table. Mr. Perit often found a supply for the pulpit, inviting the preacher to be his guest — sometimes the teachers from the Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Fiftieth Street, sometimes the venerable Dr. Philip Milledoller. Dr. Vermeule also supplied the pulpit — perhaps for a stated period — and I always heard him mentioned as "good old Dr. Vermeule." Miss Winslow and other faithful workers were "tract-distributors" and did what they could to encourage churchgoing and to gather in children for the Sunday-school. Occasionally people came to church from a distance in their carriages and were treated with much consideration — an old lady, Mrs. Meier, and some of the Striker family. I remember the lane with the sign "Striker's Bay," Madam Striker was spoken of emphatically as a very good woman. My impressions were partly from the conversation of my elders, and partly from what was told me by a child of my own age, my cousin Miss Joanna Perry. \ ^-v w ■4- -r 5 _ t* CO o '^ o S ^ -J ^ _s >» ^ M -J IReminisccncee 437 At the time of which we speak missionary work was carried on in a different manner to what it is now. The city was divided into wards and the wards into dis- tricts. Every ward had a city missionary. It was his duty to district his ward, find a tract-distributor for each district, and every month carry a package of tracts to the visitor, who, in turn, was expected to visit every house, none excepted, and leave a tract. He or she was to ascertain if the resident attended any church, without regard to denomination, and to invite the children to Sabbath-school and open religious conversation. In March, 1854, a meeting was held at Mrs. Kelly's to organize an association to conduct a fair. The young people had been working hard for a year past for the purpose of renovating the Church. Mrs. van Aken was chosen president, Mrs. Fleet vice-president, Miss Mary Kelly secretary, and Miss Emily S. Hanaway treasurer. An empty store and the back rooms of two new white marble buildings, the entrance known as No. 679 Broadway, second door below Amity Street, were hired and the bazaar held there on Dec. 20th, 2ist, and 22d. Mrs. Dana, Mrs. Daniel D. Nash, and Mrs. William Holmes were in charge, with Miss Hanaway as treasurer. Mrs. Dana's little daughter presided over the grab-bag. At the close of the fair, the goods left over were auctioned off. The auctioneer, hearing that Mr. Striker had made a bid on a certain object, asked Mrs. Dana, "Which Mr. Striker?" and received the reply "Mr. Ambrose Striker," at which the auctioneer remarked naively, "Ah, you mean the one with his eyebrows under his nose" — meaning a moustache, which then was practically unknown, and considered, at the best, decidedly outre. The enterprise was a grand 438 ITbe 1Revp l?ork of ipesterbap success, and. with the proceeds the pulpit was lowered, the box pews removed, and the seats made comfortable. A large room back of the gallery and over the vestibule was thrown open and an organ, situated directly oppo- site the pulpit, installed. The bell-rope descended through this room, and Domine van Aken kept his delivered sermons there. When the building, in its new dress, was opened for divine service, Jan. 6, 1856, such a deep snow was on the ground that Dr. De Witt, who was expected, was unable to be present and the afternoon service was abandoned. A change in the administration of the communion was made at this time. Theretofore, members sat around the long table and partook of the elements. This was now abolished, and communicants retained their places in the pews. We have in distinct remembrance the old burial ground, with its large public vault on the southeast side and the plot of ground set apart for the friendless orphans of the Asylum. The visitor to Trinity Ceme- tery will see a monument with the name of Jacob Harsen inscribed on it. This stone was removed when the Church was cut in two for the grading of the Boulevard. This thoroughfare, by the way, received its name under the Act of 1870. The memorial stood in the rear of the edifice and had an iron railing around it. We well remember the little grave with a white railing, where Josiah Hoyt, the son of the principal of 8 2d Street School, was buried. How reverently his associates walked around the resting-place of their little school-fellow! There Mrs. Lamb, the mother of the brothers herein above mentioned, was interred. We recall her mild and gentle ways, and how sad we were when, after a long illness, she passed away. The anniversaries of the Sabbath-school were held IRemlniecencee 439 at different places. One year, it would take place in the Church, to be followed the next time at other churches. On one such occasion in the home Church, we have a digest of Domine van Aken's brief conclud- ing address in which he expressed his gratitude for the assemblage present, the praise due the school, the teachers, and the children, and for the addresses and music; and added that, although the toils and sacri- fices and self-denials in maintaining the Church through the trying years of the past, arising from the transition and absorption of the suburb by the city, had been great, he was so attached to the field of his labor, had so great a work to perform and such bright prospects arising before him that he would not exchange the sphere of his operations for any within the range of the denomination. So large a company of children as were gathered was rarely witnessed in a single church. They ranged through all ranks, from the highest in the community to the most humble. The Rev. Drs. Ferris and De Witt were present, as they often were at these celebrations, and spoke. During the second week of May, 1850 (Anniversary Week) , the children took stages and rode to Dr. Chee- ver's church for the exercises. On May 9, 1854, they marched in procession to 49th Street and Eighth Ave- nue. Here cars were taken to the Broadway Tab- ernacle, which stood on that thoroughfare between Leonard and Worth Streets. The building was well filled and the children of the Five Points Mission were present. Messrs. Collin and Pease addressed them. The anniversary of 1857 was held in the home Church, when upwards of three hundred children assembled. Their sweet singing, coupled with the happy remarks of the Rev. E. R. Atwater, the Rev. Theodore L. 440 Zbc 1Rew 13ork of l?e0ter^a^ Cuyler, Hon. Thomas Jeremiah, and George Conover, Esq, carried the occasion through with credit. The annual picnic of this year took place on the grounds of Robert H. Arkenburgh, who generously tendered their use and provided the music. The teachers and schol- ars met at the Church at 12 noon on a beautiful June day and, preceded by the band, marched to the grove at the foot of 68th Street. A newspaper clipping before us states that a more beautiful spot for a picnic cannot, we venture to say, be found within fifty miles of New York. The children enjoyed themselves to their fullest capacity. The teachers, parents, and friends of the school present also entered fully into the spirit of the occasion. A table groaning with the weight of "good things" was spread under the trees, and of these all partook with a hearty relish. At 3 p.m., the school was assembled, and, after prayer, and singing by the children, addresses were delivered by Mr. Pardie of the Sunday-school Union, the Rev. M. B. Matchett, and the pastor. The speeches were happy and appropriate and were listened to with the most fixed attention. Every- thing passed off pleasantly and all went home highly gratified. Up to 1853 no more charming spot than Bloomingdale could be found. Then suddenly there came a change. Squatters came, and from 59th to 68th Street, west of the Road, there were miniature farms. The shanty had its pig, its cows, its chickens, its ducks, its geese, and it was "a quack here and a quack-quack there and here a quack and there a quack and here and there a quack" as one walked along. Sometimes an infuriated old gander would follow and pounce upon one, or a yelping dog. These dogs were kept as beasts of burden. In the early winter mornings, a small cart with two IReminiscences 441 dogs or more — and frequently a woman took the place of the dog and pulled the cart — was to be seen going from house to house collecting cinders. These were taken to their shanties, well sifted and dampened and carried arotmd to be sold at twenty-five cents a barrel. These quotations from Mrs. Stryker's journal will fix dates: Feb. 20, 1854. A bitter cold day. Wind high. Snow commenced and continued all night. One of the drivers of the Bloomingdale stage line was killed by losing the road and the stage was overturned at about 66th Street. May 26, 1854. During a meeting of the Sewing Society an eclipse of the sun was witnessed. Nov. 3, 1854. Mother and I have been to the funeral of Miss Rachel Cozine, held in the church. Domine van Aken and Dr. Winter of the Asylum, a Baptist minister, officiated. For forty-five years she has been a member and had just passed her 80th year. She united when there were but twenty in the membership (1809). She was buried at Trinity Cemetery, Early candle light services were often held at her home. July 2, 1855. Fair and Festival held at Knickerbocker Hall, 2 2d St. and Eighth Avenue. Very successful. July 22, 1855. A choir of young people formed. Mr. Bunting led the singing. Thirteen members in the morning and fifteen in the afternoon. We were in the habit of meeting at the Asylum the first Sunday in each month for monthly concert for missions. Aug. 5, 1856. The death of George Parks at Stamford, Conn., was announced from the pulpit. Funeral Monday the 6th. A number of former inmates of the Asylum enlisted in the Civil War. The Trustees' report of 1863 gives thanks that not one of the five in the 12th N. Y. Vol- unteers and of the many scattered in other regiments 442 zi)c IRew l?orft of jpesterba^ had been killed or seriously wounded, although they had been in some of the most fearful battles. This im- munity did not continue. Two members of the Church of whom we know were killed in action. One Joseph Turkington, an orphan brought up in the institution, was fatally shot. He had united only a short space prior to the firing on Fort Sumter, viz. Aug. 4, i860. The other was George H. Pimley, who, with his wife Ann Humphrey, joined the communion Jan. 31, 1862. He had served as Deacon. Miss Emily Hanaway's Bible class was broken up by the war. Their country called the members and they must leave home. One went in the nay>^ never to return. He was drowned soon after his departure. Another was not heard from until after the war clouds dispersed. Then he came suddenly to his former teacher's door, like one who had risen from the dead, to tell of the agonies in Anderson ville prison. This was John Miller, whose two brothers Joseph and Frank went west, one to die in California. The other still survives and resides in Kansas. Another member died of typhoid fever, while still another is an in- structor in the army. Others have gone, we know not where. Perhaps at some future day they may sud- denly call on their teacher, as have John Miller and John Ray. Each boy as he started off, saying " Fare- well," received from her hands a little Testament. Letters came frequently and told of their success, but the class was discontinued, never again to meet as before. The war had ended. The terrible conflict between the sections was over and the nation was rejoicing. The old Church must show its enthusiasm and therefore must have a flag. Mr. James Tyler agreed to give the IReminlscences 443 material if the ladies would put it together. We were invited to meet at the residence of Mrs. Nash, at 6ist Street and Tenth Avenue for the purpose. How well we remember that home. It was a lovely spot, sur- rounded by beautiful grounds, where summer-houses, rustic seats and shade trees invited you to come in and rest awhile. Busy fingers had almost completed the flag when the question arose as to the proper persons to raise it. At last, it was decided that two young girls should be selected, one to represent the God- dess of Liberty and the other America. Miss Rebecca Nash was selected for the former and Miss Mary Amelia Tyler, the daughter of the donor of the flag, for the latter. On the appointed day, we all assembled on the Bloomingdale Road, directly opposite the Church. At a given signal the young girls appeared, very prettily arrayed, and took the ends of the cords in their hands. Higher and higher it rose and, as the colors of "Old Glory" fluttered in the air, the people watched it with breathless silence. At last it settled near the steeple, and one loud burst of enthusiasm rent the air. We remember one old bronzed and weather-beaten sol- dier who shouted so long and heartily, almost turning somersaults in his delight, that the people turned to look at him and almost forgot the flag. Years passed away; time brought many changes. Mr. Nash failed in business and removed from the neighborhood and we lost all trace of the family. Mr. Tyler and his daughter are sleeping in Trinity Cemetery, the wife and mother in Hastings, England. Occasionally we met a lady, apparently a stranger, who had become unsettled in her church relationship and who was introduced as Mrs. Deas. She would 444 tTbe 1Rew l?ork of l?C6terbai? sometimes come quietly into the Thirty- fourth St. Reformed Church, and, not being acquainted, would speak to few and then pass on. At one time one of the ladies spoke of her as her cousin and then began to describe her former home. She told us of the loss of property and the husband's death ; how she had married again, etc. We then found that the stranger was our friend of former days. Time had changed us both. We had other names and our appearance was not the same as in our young lives and neither had recognized the other. When next we met, we sat down beside her and asked, "Do you remember the names of the young ladies who raised the flag on the Bloomingdale Church?" She looked up in surprise. Old times came back; old scenes were recalled. The daughter Rebecca had married and was living in the far West. Very few are left who were present on that eventful day. Some have felt that Domine van Aken was to be blamed for his pertinacity in holding on to the church property ; others, that he should be commended for his foresight, having in the end brought about the present results as evidenced by the elegant edifice now in use. However this may have been, great credit is due some- where and the Lord will pardon what may have been wrong. The Domine inspired a profound feeling of love and respect. He was indeed a dear friend to his parishioners and neighbors. He was a good man and it has been said that no higher praise can be given. His wife. Miss Eliza W. Gulick, became a member Aug. 21, 1835. She died before him. Retiring in her usual state of health, she was found in the morning in a dying condition. Many amusing incidents of the Domine 's tenure are PORTRAIT OF ELIZA GULICK, WIFE OF DOMINE VAN AKEN, 1862 1Rem!n!0cence0 445 told. One which especially pleased him, because of its application, is worth the telling. There was a person in the neighborhood who was seldom, if ever, seen in church. He called on her one day after she had been indulging a little too freely in wine. They had con- versed a while, when he inquired where she attended church service. She languidly closed her eyes and replied, "I am fed by Dr. van Nest," referring to the Rev. A. R. van Nest, who preached in the Twenty-first Street Church. As Domine van Aken was a strong temperance man, he no doubt had a standing joke on the good Doctor who fed her so sumptuously. IX IDital Statistics Indices to Marriages and Baptisms will be found on page 521. REGISTER OF MARRIAGES, BLOOMING- DALE, NEW YORK, 10 OCTOBER, 1808. By Rev. Alexander Gunn. BOOK I 1808 Parties Witnesses Oct. 22 William B. Jacob Harsen, Harlaem Holmes Esq. Hannah Stanton Thomas Ash Nov. 16 Isaac Tuckere George Gunn New York Widow L y d i a Mary Young Lewis (maiden Lydia Franks) , persons of color 1809 Jan. I William C. Bal- Jemmy 01m- Flatbush lard stead Rebecca 0. Wi- Silvanus Ward ley Feb. 23 William Waite Jonathan Hard- Widow Margaret man Mildeberger GarretH. Striker (Maid. (Marga- ret Webbers) 446 IDital Statl6tlC0 447 I8I0 Parties Witnesses Jan. 27 George Dinnin Widow Mary Wil- kinson (Maid. Mary Craft) Jacob Harsen New York Apr, 18 William Ballard John Oakley Sarah Oakley George Gunn May- 10 Francis Lowrey Sarah Gunn Elizabeth Web- Margaret Waite bers June 1 2 Andrew Her- William Peter- mance son Rachel Peterson Catharine Du- senberry Aug. 9 John E. Ross David M. Ross Jane F. Hege- Cornelius Har- man sen Dec. 18 John Harsen Jacob Harsen Catharine Bein- Garret H. Stri- hauer ker Dec. 19 Hezekiah Flor- Jacob Harsen ance Elizabeth Low- Hannah Heady rey 1811 Feb. 2 Lewis van Net Jacob Harsen Mary Perkins George Dinnin May- 25 John W. Palmer Sarah Gunn Letitia Hegeman Harriet Bayard July 14 Wm. Howe Sarah Gunn Eliza Bashwod Harriet Bayard (Lord Courte- nay's servants) July 25 Isaac L. Varian Garret H. Striker Catharine Dusen- John Horn berry Aug. 15 John Strickland Maria Clark, daughter Martha Clark of Margaret Ste- Goshen phens Sept. 15 John Herinton Elizabeth Bean Sarah Gunn 448 ^be IRew l^ork of l^eeterba^ i8ii Parties Witnesses Oct. 5 Michael Cain Abraham Bar- Margaret Bar- tholf tholf Oct. 23 Sam'l A. Savage Benjamin Ha- Letitia Webbers vens Susan Webbers Oct. 24 Henry Douglas James Striker Phebe Baker Jacob Harsen Mr. Rogers Dec. 10 Samuel Miers Mr. Major, fa- Mary Major ther, Sarah Gunn 1812 Jan. 30 Warren Bishop Jemmy Olm- Harriet Olmstead stead Mr. Sage Apr. 19 Salyer Pettit Jacob Harsen Phebe Bloomer George Dinnin Aug. 25 Richard Van Ri- per Mary Clark John Strickland Aug. 2 Christian Hane- berg Jane Briggs John Strickland Oct. 25 Wilmot Oakley Sarah Gunn, Widow Rebecca widow Tuttle 1813 Jan. 15 James Gavatt Cato — my black Rebecca Martin man Mar. 24 Thomas Burling of Westchester Mary Shepherd Ann Nichols Apr. 29 Levi Rogers Lorenna Hors- ford James Striker Aug. 7 Henry Moynat Elizabeth Wat- Rachel Moore son Dec. 8 William Young Lavinia Merritt John Stevens IDital Statletice 449 1813 Parties Witnesses Dec. 9 Andrew Hopper Elizabeth Guest, widow Earl (Arell) Doctor Huyler Dec. 16 Samuel Van Or- Dr. David den Quackenbush Maria Quacken- bush 1814 Jan. 6 George Holber- ton Catharine Hard- man Mrs. Stratton My 30 Edmond Charles Genet Martha Brandon Osgood Dr, Hosack i< c< Samuel W. Os- good Juliana Osgood (( 11 Oct. 3 James Wells Sarah Gunn Hester Morris B. LeRoy Nov. 3 Jeremiah Grif- Henry Post, Esq. fiths R. Ryder Elsey Mott 1815 Mar. 22 David Ray Isaac Dey Susan Dey Sam'l Cisco colored people Mar. 23 William B. Ken- John Adriance yon Mr. Benson Letitia Ida Adri- ance Apr. II John Hegeman Jacob Harsen Martha Hegeman Cath. Cozine July 24 James Coursen Black slaves of Peggy Beagle Mr. Ichabod Prall, with his consent. Sept. 6 Joseph Cornell Jordan Mott Maria Striker Garret H. Striker 450 ^e IRew Wox\{ of ^eetcvba^ i8is Parties Witnesses Oct. 12 John Mearon Sarah Chapman Westly Watson Dec. 9 Henry Gruenart Elizabeth Samler Henry Post Mr. Amos 1816 Jan. 22 Arunet Reed Ellen McVay Andrew Middle- mus Sam'l Weiser Jan. 23 Hamilton Brown Catharine Law- rence Mary Shurtliff Apr. 20 Matthias Warner Mary Frances Bogert Jas. Bogert, Jun. Rev. Mr. Ver- m^eule June 8 James Gallagher Anna Gallagher Thos. Sarah Gunn June 29 John Gamage Catherine Sea- man Weaver Rev. Mr. Vei- meule Mrs. Ross Aug. 6 John Garland Margaret Brown Mrs. Lent Hamilton Brown Sept. 26 William Robert Stewart Maria Louisa De Labigarre Ab'm K. Beek- man Oct. 3 Edward King Jane Berry (Mr.Cheesebor- ough's slave), persons of color Sarah Gunn Nov. 9 Tunis A. Wald- John V. Wald- ron Julia St. John ron 1817 Jan. 31 Jonathan Jarvis Sarah Seaman Henry Seaman Hester Seaman IDital Stati0tlC6 451 1817 Mar. 23 May 28 Aug. 28 Sept. 1 5 Sept. 1 8 Nov. 13 Dec. 31 1818 Feb. 12 May 31 June 9 June 9 Sept. 20 Parties Rob't Church Susan Jackson Thomas Capp — mate of the Royal Edward — an EngHsh- man Elizabeth Ritches from Wales Witnesses Colored people, the man belong- ing to Mr. Dyk- man, the wo- man free Thomas Francis George Hodge Theophilus denbrook Eliza Wheeler Har- Abel Harden- brook Rob't Gunn James C. Somer- Nathaniel indyke Holmes Mary Tates (Yates?) Burnham August Poerect Louisa Dorman Frederick Evarts Mary Smith Andrew Van Buskirk Mary Hardman Henry Hoswel Sarah Freeman William Doremus John Cowan Eliza Lash Married at Green- wich John H. Dusen- Isaac L. Varian berry Sarah Leggett Richard Darke William Holmes Elizabeth Holmes John Elwy William Lyon David L. Bur- lock Jacob Harsen George Holber- ton Francis Lowrey Jacob Freeman Wm. Burtsell John Bertalf Siny (or Liny) Degroodt Abraham Schyler Van 452 Zbc 1Rew l?orf^ of ^cBtcvba^ I8I9 Parties Witnesses Feb. 19 John Doran Mary Franck Calvin Higgins June 29 Thos. Bennett Thos. Smith Nancy Rowland Loyd Howland July 6 John S. Watkins Rich'd Striker Helen Striker Joseph Cornell Dec. 22 William Varian Isaac L. Varian Susan Cornell Isaac Coutant 1820 Mar. 18 Benjamin Wald- ron Sally Ann Malt- bie Aaron Burr May- 16 John Augustus Jeremiah John Sidell Drake Marilla Adeline Noxon June 10 Joseph ValHere, Richard Jones born in Quebec Thomas Strong Lydia Little, born in Prince- ton June 1 1 Henry T. Boyle Rich'd Darke Martha H. Holmes July 23 Joseph Ball Bead- Rev.' Mr. Shaw- ford Margaret Miller Eliza Mecklin 1821 Apr. 18 William Torrey, Timothy Whit- Jun. temore Adeline Whitte- more May 13 Jacob Dickson Isaac Dey Maria Dey, dau. of Peter Dey. colored persons July 18 Rev. Chester Widow Hodgins Long Sarah Gunn Mary Gunn IDital Stati6tic0 453 I82I Parties Witnesses Oct. 24 Timothy Colvin Sarah Ann Cor- nell William Varian Nov. 16 James Wildy Maria Ackerman John Bertalf 1822 May- 19 William F. Hig- gins Maria Waldron David Waldron May 26 Jacob W. Brew- ster Harriet Bishop (Wid. Olmstead) Michael Burn- ham Francis Olm- stead July 14 James Burt Sarah Ann Du- pleix Ann Nichols Harriet Bay- ard July 29 William Holden Jane Brower James Wildy Ann Nichols Aug. 26 Peter Weatherby Hannah Wood- ward Sarah Gunn Oct. IS John Yeatman Margaret Warrel Nathaniel Dun- lap John Low Nov. 7 George S. Fake Ann Quacken- bush Dr. Quacken- bush Andrew Quack- enbush Dec. 7 Cornelius Wes- terfield Rachel Acker- John Acker- man Catharine Co- man sine 1823 Jan. 21 Xavier Gautro Ann Saxton Jacob Harsen Cornelius McKoy Feb. 3 James L. Cooper Samuel Wester- Lavina Naugle velt Jacob Naugle 454 ^be t\exo IPorft of IPeeterbai? 1823 Mar. Mar. 8 May 9 May 20 June 12 Sept. 2 4 Dec. 24 1824 May 15 July 25 Dec. 25 Parties Samuel Wormly Catharine Dey colored per- sons Daniel Fish, 19 Maria Westervelt under age 15 Henry Alban Mary Anderson Isaiah Wells Tut- tle Laetitia Hard- man Philander Knapp Ann Maria Smith Henry Moore Hannah Church Free colored persons Richard Pur- chase Widow Gautro or Ann Saxton Thomas J. Em- mons Maria ShurtHff James Cooper Jane Williams from New York John Terhune Clarissa Ann Brown Witnesses Isaac Dey Jacob Dickson Ezra Miller, guardian for young man, whose parents are dead Susan Wester- velt — the sis- ter of bride and says the parents con- sent Henry Terhune Widow Lent Philip Webbers Widow Sowrey Sarah Gunn Caesar Striker John Day Thos. Cornell Wm. Darke Sarah Gunn IDital Statistics 455 1825 Parties Witnesses Mar. 26 John Freeland Phillis Ritter colored persons May 3 Albert Smith, M.D. Emily Maria Meier May 26 Janeway Van Lavinia Wester- Zant velt Sarah Wester- velt July 13 Benjamin Stephens, Jun. Hannah Maria Prall July 13 Abraham Augus- tus Prall Joanna Ritter Harsen Oct. 6 Andrew Fulton James Arm- Jane Kerr strong and wife Oct. 26 Thomas McElrea Jane Ritchie Margaret Flem- Alexander ing Smith Dec. 14 Robert Thomp- son Mary Bacon James Mecom 1826 Dec. 5 Leonard B. Wells Susanna D. Frost \ Benj'n Frost Dec. 25 James George Edward Dith- Elizabeth Dith- ridge ridge 1827 May 24 Laurenz H. Von Post Henrietta Mar- garet Meier June 7 William H. Ever- ett Susan Travis A. H. Byer 456 Zbc 1Rew 13orK of l?C0tert)a^ 1828 Parties Witnesses Jan. 31 Arden Hart Eliza White Wm. Holmes Rich'd Darke Mar. 10 Robert Webber Sarah Ann Lent John Asten Ab'm Lent Apr. 6 Samuel Smith Eliza Clary John Seymour Apr. 17 Allen McKinzie Maria Martling Rob. Still May- 7 Cambridge Hit- ter Eliza Dey, colored persons Isaac Dey June 29 Edwin Bunnell Eliza Scofield John L. Doo- little Oct. 25 Samuel T. Moore Hannah Carling William Carling Mary Ann Ber- talf 1829 Feb. I Richard Varian Maria Fulmer Thos. Stevens Isaac Varian July I John Campbell Isabella Fisher George Wilson Widow Eliza Mitchell Sept. 6 William H. Whoople Deborah Kniffen John Williams and wife Solemnized by Francis W. Kip, Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Bloomingdale : 1830 1830 Parties Witnesses Nov. 12 Samuel McDon- Henry Post, Esq. aid and William Stuart Cornelia Stuart Joseph Stoops IDital Stati0tiC0 457 1831 Parties Feb. 27 Samuel Johnson and Sarah A. F. Hunter, colored per- sons Apr. 7 Thomas H. Wells and Maria Fisher May 12 Peter Smith and Sarah Foster May 16 Wm Holmes and Eliza Ann Mor- gan Aug. 14 Isaac Dey and Clarissa Truax, colored persons Witnesses M. R. Kip H. Bayard and I. Dubick M. R. Kip Alexander Smith Maria Smith Herman Hough- tailing Wm. B. Holmes Richard Darke Wm. Burnham Elizabeth Dey Isabella Ritter \ By the Rev. John AlBurtis: Married, 1832, Alexander Russell of Bloomingdale to Dirk (?) of the same place. Witness, Benj. Russell. Married, Aug., 1832, Alfred H. Underbill of New York to Susanna AlBurtis of the same place. Witnesses, Wm. AlBurtis and Chr'n (?) AlBurtis. Married, Dec. 6, 1832, Samuel Fleet of New York to Catharine Cozine of the same place. Witnesses, Alden Spooner and Dr. Dixon. Married, Jan. 8, 1833, Eldridge H. Brooks to Augusta M. Holmes of New York. Witnesses, John Darke and William Holmes. Married, March 23, 1833, Francis Parker to Jane Dey of Bloomingdale. (Colored.) Witnesses, Cambridge Ritter and James Dey. Married, July, 1833, Richard Brown to Isabella Ritter of Bloomingdale. Witness, Cambridge Ritter. 458 ^be IRew ^ovk of IJesterbai? Married, Oct. 24, 1833, Selleck B. Andrews to Maria Louisa Allport of New York. Witness, James Burnham. Married, Nov. 24, 1833, William Dickerson to Mary Ann Bowley of Bloomingdale. Witnesses, Parkes and Mrs. Hamilton. Solemnized by E. van Aken: 1835 Dec. I 1836 Sept. I 1837 Feb. 24 June 1 1 Aug. 2 Aug. 5 Oct. I Dec. 25 1838 Mar. 13 Apr. 15 Parties Peter A. Horn of New York to Sarah Cozine of Bloomingdale John Kelly to Mary Jane Morgan, both of Bloomingdale John Jasper to Catharine Thompson, both of Bloomingdale Nathaniel Russell to Eliza Caryl William Galager to Mary Smith Henry B, Earle Mrs. Sarah Meriott William F. Dana Ann Agnes Holmes Royal C. Perry M.D., to Mary Cargill of Bloom- ingdale, New York William Davison Elizabeth Boyles, both of Harlaem, New York Daniel Feitnerto Mahala Clinn both of New York Witnesses Samuel Fleet Jane Cozine &c. Wm. B. Holmes Geo. W. Holmes Eliza W. van Aken Rev. Fred'k B.Thomp- son Mary S. Gulick Jane Cozine ^Thompson Lawer Nathaniel Wm. Holmes Geo. Washington Holmes David Cargill Edward Cargill Susan Havemeyer William F. Dana Geo. W. Holmes Nathaniel Wm. Holmes Mrs. Eliza van Aken IDital Statistics 459 1838 Parties Witnesses Apr. 26 Joseph C. Adams of New York Joseph Henry Fisher Mary Johnston of Margaret Johnston Bloomingdale Sept. 27 Barak C. Wright to James Quackenbush Margaret Fake of Margaret Quackenbush New York Oct. 18 William Cisco Eliza W. van Aken Miss Ann Eliza Miles of Mary Freeman Gulick Bloomingdale Oct. 19 Charles Castendieck Alexander Gulick Catharine Alport, Catharine Gulick both of New York Mary Freeman Gulick Oct. 28 James Bradley to Alexander Gulick Mrs. EHzabeth Post, Pelatiah Perit both of Bloomingdale Geo. Savage Oct. 28 Elisha Wm. Hinman to Wm H. Moore Miss Ellen Maria Moore Letitia Jane Moore of New York Eliza W. van Aken 1839 July 28 Andrew Engle to Mrs. Engle Eliza Ann Atwater, Alexander Gulick both of English Neigh- Eliza W. van Aken borhood, New Jersey Oct. 20 Francis Woodruff to Daniel Feitner Amanda Cisco, Wilmott both of New York Tamar Leggett Oct. 29 Nov. 2 5 1840 Apr. 28 At Rhoadhall, N. J. Francis Holmes of Cran- bury, N. J., to Miss Mary Freeman Gu- lick of the former place Gessum Bowens Eliza Golden, both of Peekskill Leonard H. Regur to Sarah Emeline Dusen- berry, both of Bloomingdale, N. Y. John T. McDowell Andrew McDowell Alexander Gulick Mrs. Hannah Riker Mary Martin John H. Dusenberry Henrietta Leggett 46o Zhc Bew Wov\{ of 13e0tert)ap 1840 Parties May I William Paulson of Brooklyn to Jane Neaper of Bloom- ingdale, N. Y. Oct. 8 Frederick A. Ridabock to Sarah Frances Ross, both of New York Oct. 20 John Manuel Armanter to Sarah Davis, both of New York 1841 Jan. 17 Robert D. Thompson Jessie Anderson, both of New York Jan. 24 Alexander Smith Deborah Randolph, both of New York (colored) Feb. 9 George Darke Mary Isabella Martin, both of Bloomingdale, New York Feb. 28 Charles Wilmott Tamar Varian Leggett, both of Bloomingdale, New York May 12 John Hegeman Rosena Fairbanks (maiden name Rosena Moore) , both of New York June 2 Leonard Beckley Emily Steele, both of Bloomingdale, N. Y. July 4 William Ford Sarah Cath. Davis, both of New York Witnesses Thos. J. Emmons Robert Cameron John E. Ross Wm. H. Moore John Moody Mary Ann Moody Jane G. Gulick George Watson Isabella Watson Daniel Smith Nancy S. Gulick Charles Darke Wm. B. Holmes John Wm. Leggett James Boley Charles K. Dusenberry John E. Ross Odell Aaron B. Jackson Wm. Ensley Mary Ensley Hannah Holmes Wm. Cisco Ann Eliza Cisco Amanda Woodruff \DltaI Statistics 461 1 841 Parties Sept. 9 John C. Fisher Martha E. Garrett, both of New York Nov. 27 Geo. E. S. Furniss to Ann B. Alexander, both of New York Dec. 24 Richard Holmes Mrs. Sarah Clark (maid- en name S. Brown), both of New York 1842 Mar. 2 Robert McRee Rosena Hanan, both of New York Apr. 20 Peter Smith Sarah Ann Odell, both of New York June 22 William Halden Miss Emily Caryl, both of New York July 20 John Fisher Rose Hannah Reaves, both of New York Nov. 2 John R. Newbury Christina Cath. Dooly, both of New York Nov. 30 Adam Thompson Miss Eliza Jane Garret, both of New York Dec. 4 James Madison Odell Miss Ann Maria Quin, both of New York Witnesses Fisher Brooks Abel Alexander Abel Alexander Mrs. Cath. Roome wife of Chas. Roome Roome Mrs. E. van Aken John Jasper Jane Halden Hannah Holmes -Simpson Jacob Miller, M.D. Peter Prime Mary Prime Garret Mrs. Mary Cargill Eliza Cox 1843 Jan. 15 Francis B. Guest Miss Sarah Ann Golding, both of Bloomingdale, N. Y. Abraham Guest Henrietta Leggett 462 ^be IRevp !?ork of l^eeterba^ 1843 Parties Feb. 19 Lewis Bowne Maria Stickles, both of New York 1844 Apr. 1845 Apr. I 1846 Apr. 23 1847 Jan. 25 July 2 Oct. 25 Feb. 16 Mar. 26 At Whitesville (E. F.) Harrison R. Blanchard, Esq., of Jacksonville (E. Florida) Miss Harriet C. Garey of Whitesville, E.Florida James H. Borland of Fishkill Plains, Dutch- ess County, N. Y., to Miss Jane A. Cozine of New York Wilson G. Hunt Mrs. Julia Smith (maid- den name Julia Law- rence) , both of New York Nathaniel Holmes Rebecca Beard, both of New York William G. Tompkins Jane E. Gassner, both of New York Kindread Howard Hannah S. Holmes, both of New York Bartholomew Kene Martha Magee, both of New York Robert T. Vreeland Isabella Nish, both of New York Witnesses John Freeman Mrs. Mary Freeman Mary Ann Hanaway Osias Buddington Solomon Morgan Susan Buddington Samuel Fleet John Waite C. C. Vermeule Mrs. Patience rence Rebecca Riker Law- Wm. Holmes Geo. W. Holmes Geo. Hanaway Daniel Gassner Wm. W. Tompkins Wm. Holmes Nathaniel Holmes John Freeman Martha Thompson Catharine Thompson Mrs. Gambol Wm. Halden Samuel Halden Dital Statistics 463 1 Dec 16 1849 May II June 2 1 1850 July 18 July 21 Oct. 29 1851 July 16 1852 Feb. 9 Feb. 15 Mar. 9 Apr. 26 Parties Peter Farnron Mary Ann Sinton, both of Bloomingdale, New York Louis James Olmstead of Yonkers Mary Warner Campbell of New York Peter Post Mrs. Mary Louisa White (maiden name Marshall) , both of New York Henry Kelly Elmira McCullough, both of New York John Edward Taylor to Ann Morgan Thomas Shepherd Caroline Somerindyke, both of New York Titus K. Adee, Sarah Lozier, both of New York Charles Darke Holmes Mary Smith, both of New York Robert Carss Joanna Gordon Francis Fowle Agnes Summersgill Alex'r Ray Skinner Ann Eliza Purdy Witnesses Eliza W. van Aken Eliza C. Warren Samuel Fleet Sarah Cosine Jane A. Dorland John Marshall William Leggett Charles Wilmott Samuel Fleet Jane Dorland Sarah Cozine Ab'm Labagh Stanton John Lozier John H. Lozier Eliza Lozier William Holmes Wilham F. Dana Henry Steele Eliza W. van Aken Gulick van Aken C. G. Griffin Summe r sgill John H. Dally Robert Fehx 464 Zl)c mew 13or?^ of IPesterbai? 1852 Parties Apr. 26 Josiah Martin Evaline M. Dally, all of New York 1853 Mar. 26 Joseph Weyer Mary Jane Day June 27 Thomas Kervan, born July 9, 1 83 1 Maria Cowdy, aged about 20, both of New York J'^^y 3 John Collins, New York, born April 30, 1828 Miss Frances Merry (?), New York, born March 1854 15, 1837 Jan. 24 Samuel Whin Yates, aged 23 years, to Miss Margaret E. Smith, aged 18. He of New York, she of Smith- ville, L.I. May 8 James Hanaway, aged 28, born in England, March i, 1826 Margaret Kelly, born in Ireland. Now both of New York June 13 William Kelly Kate Holmes, both of New York May 15 John H. Edwards of Al- bany to Priscilla Felton of Sau- gerties Nov. 22 David H. Mason, born in New York, aged 26 Miss Mary Nish, born in Brooklyn, aged 22, Both of New York Witnesses Emily Reid Mary Reid Eliza W. van Aken Barney Gulick van Aken Eliza Garretson Sarah Woodruff Eliza W. van Aken Miss Caroline WoodruflE Sarah Woodruff Her widowed mother present consenting Joseph Darling Oliver Woodruff Oliver Woodruff Charles Backus Wm. Holmes Wm. F. Dana George Kelly Barent G. van Aken David van Aken Zechariah Felten Samuel Halden Robert Vreeland IDltal Statistics 465 Oct. 1855 Parties Jan. 3 John Littell, born at Westfield, Essex Co. N. J., aged 26, of Westfield Miss Marion B. Shot- well, born Canaan, Conn., aged 24, of New York 20 David Emerick, born at Saugerties, Ulster Co., N. Y., aged 26 years Miss Elizabeth Catha- rine van Aken, born at Saugerties, Ulster Co., N. Y. aged 18 years. Married at Saugerties. I Enoch van Aken, Jr. Angeline Plass, both born and married at Saugerties 20 Timothy Keese, born at Boston, aged 23 years Hannah Hawkins 3 Hiram Engle Ann Maria Terhune, both of New York Wm. G. Graham Mary Ann Read, both of New York Nov. I Nov. 20 1856 Jan. 3 May 7 Dec. 1857 May 29 George Findley, born at Utica, aged 28 Deborah Ann Parks, born at Hanover, N. J., aged 21, both of New York John Carss of New York, widower Miss Marion Bissland of New York Witnesses Clayton M. Shot well Caroline Shotwell Barent G. van Aken John van Aken John H. Edwards Gulick van Aken David van Aken John Plass Barent G. van Aken Samuel Fleet Gulick van Aken James D. Yates Wm. Read Miss Emily Read Mrs. Eliza W. van Aken John Parks Gulick van Aken Thos. J. Emmons Emily Emmons Eliza W. van Aken 466 Zl)c Mew l^orft of ^cetcv^a^ 1857 Parties Sept.25 Wm. H. Lacon, aged 24, of White Plains, West- chester Co., N. Y.. born at Shrewsbury, England, to Miss Isabella Teressa Rooney, aged 15, of White Plains, West- chester Co. , New York, born in New York City 1858 - .^,.. .-^. Jan. 2 Henry J. Gutman, born New York, aged 24, resides here now single Emma C. Lozier (single) , born and resides in New York Jan. 2 Joseph Gutman, Jr., aged 22 (single), born and resides in New York Lida C. Pitman, aged 19 5 months (single) , born and resides in New York Jerome W. Merritt, aged 25, born at Boston, Massachusetts, now residing 132 Ninth Ave., New York Miss Frances Hey wood, aged 20, born in New York, residence 132 Ninth Ave., New York. Married 162 West 26th St., New York. June 16 Geo. S. Miller, born in Scotland (Edinburgh) , aged 2 1 , Residence 1859 Jan. 17 Witnesses Joseph Kelly Eliza Jane Baldwin Joseph Gutman John H. Lozier John H. Lozier Henry W. Haywood Joseph Gutman Mrs. Martha Hey wood, the bride's mother. Eliza W. van Aken John Jasper John K. Curtis IDital Statistics 467 1859 Parties 230 Third Ave., New- York Miss Maria R. Brock, born New York, aged 18. Residence 72nd St. •^^g- 7 John Ely (single), born at Hackensack, N. J., aged 21 years, resi- dence New York, to Miss Matilda Bogert, born New York, aged 18. Residence in N. Y. Oct. I Thomas Gilland, born in Ireland. Aged 21 Nov, ist next. Resi- dence 62nd St. Teressa McDonald, aged 18 next July 26th. Born in Ireland. She now resides 62nd St. near Broadway. Her father in Clinton Co., N. Y. Witnesses i860 Mar. 1861 Mar. 8 Mr. Ab'm De Voe, aged 26, born at Shawan- gunk. Lives at Sha- wangunk, Ulster Co., N. Y. Miss Miriam Boyd, aged 25, born at Shawan- gunk, now of Brook- lyn, N. Y. 26 James Bolles Wallace of New York, born at Milford, New Hamp- shire, aged 23, to Louisa R. Lozier of New York, born in N. Y., aged 20: married in N. Y. Mrs. Jane A. Borland Miss Sarah Fleet Mrs. Sarah Cosine Michael Caryl John N. Boyd James G. Derrickson Henry J. Gutman Gulick van Aken 468 Zbc 1Rew l?orh of IJceterba^ 1861 Oct. 29 0130 1862 May 6 May 12 May 22 Nov. 9 1863 Dec. I Parties John Smith of Albany, born at St. Johns, aged 24 EUzabeth Boxall, of Harlem, born in Eng- land, aged 19 WilHam G. Purdy, aged 29, of New York. Born in England Rebecca Gardner of New York. Born in Ire- land. Aged 21 years Thomas Stanley of New York. Born in Ire- land. Aged 26 years Elizabeth Frazer Robert- son, born in Scotland, 22 years Eldridge Holmes, aged 30, born in New York Miss Margaret Wright, born in New York, aged 24. Both now residing in N. Y. Mar- ried at 20 W. 28th St. Isaac D. Blake, born in Boston, Mass., aged 32. Now lives in 85th St. near nth Ave., New York Maria Wilson, born in New York, aged 26, resides 88th St., near Broadway, New York. Gulick van Aken, born in New York, aged 23, residence New York Elizabeth J a n n e 1 1 Kearny, aged 20, born in Brooklyn, N. Y. and resides there. Witnesses Geo. Bainton Fred'k Herbert Francis Felix Wm. F. Goodburn George Robertson Watts Mrs. Jane Anderson Mrs. Eliza W. van Aken Jotham Wilson Lewis Wood Archibald K. Kearny Hamilton B. Holmes John Mc. Bogart \Dital Statistics 469 1864 Feb. 14 July 17 1865 Feb. 20 May 9 Parties Nathaniel^T. Spear (wid- ower) , aged 3 7 , of New York, residence and married at 242 W. 3 2d St. Born at Oakham, Mass.' Miss Christina C. Byron, born at Boston, aged 17, residence 242 W. 3 2d St., New York Lawrence Deyo of New York, aged 30, born in Shawangunk, Ulster Co., N. Y. Mary Catharine Feitner of New York, aged 19, born in N. Y. married 29 W. 34th St. Robert Watts, aged 28 years, resides in New York, born at Helper- ton Wiltshire, Eng- land Mrs. Jane Anderson (maiden name Jane Bogert),born in Ber- gen Co., New Jersey, aged 32. Residence in New York ; married 68th St., New York Frederick Waldman, born in Germany, aged 32. Residence 126 West St. Caroline Amelia Corson, born New York, aged 18. Residence and married at cor. 2d Ave. and 105th St. Andrew Peter Deyo of Shawangunk, Ulster, Witnesses Wm. Mallary James Clift Daniel Feitner Jas. W. Oliver EH Watts Henry Hole Mrs. Julia Caroline Corson Charles Galuba Matthew F. Deyo Lawrence Deyo 470 ^be IRcw ^ox\{ of ipeeterba^ 1865 Parties Co., N. Y., born at Shawangunk, aged 40. Mary Hardenbergh born and resides in same place, aged 20; mar- ried at 268 W. 33d St. N. Y. Francis Felix, born in New York; aged 21. Residence 69th St. near Broadway Anna Maria Robison, aged 22, born New York, Residence 68th St. near Broadway. Married 207 West 27th St. George Eaton, aged 22, born in New York. Residence South Brunswick, Middle- sex Co., N. J., (Road- hall) Margaret Jane McGin- ness, aged 20, born South Brunswick, Middlesex Co., N. J., married at Roadhall, town and county as above July 24 Joseph Dains, aged 24 years, born in Chester, Orange Co., N. Y. Eliza Jane Walker, aged 17, born Brooklyn; both reside in Brook- lyn, N. Y., were mar- ried at 53d St., New York Witnesses 1866 June 20 Oct. 29 George A. aged^ 19, Mclntyre, born in Ambrose Felix Elizabeth Schmidt John van Aken James Spencer Gulick van Aken William Henry Dains Newman Marshman Jane A. Borland William Halden Jane Nish IDital Statistics 471 1866 Parties Bergen, New Jersey. Residence New York Jane Emily Halden, aged 21, born in New York; residence and marriage 310 West 42 d St., New York Dec. 25 Alex'r Southerland,born at Wick, in the County of Caithness, Scot- land, aged 29 Ann Bruce, born same place; aged 26 years. Present residence and marriage loth Ave., cor. 65th St., New York. 1867 Feb. 26 Eli Benedict, aged 23, born Bethel, Conn. Martha E. Mitchell, aged 20, born New York City. Residence of both New York City, marriage, Broad- way, near 67th St. Nov. 26 William Dowdell, aged 30, born in County of Kildare, Ireland, Resi- dence South Amboy, N.J. Ellen Clark, widow of James Little, born in Ireland ; aged probably 35; residence Road- hall ;married at Road- hall, South Bruns- wick, N. J. Dec. I John Fistje of New York born in New York; aged 22 Witnesses Samuel Halden Geo. Gillie David S. Reid Fred'k Schmidt Henry S. Mitchell Wm. Mitchell Thomas Mitchell Wm. McDougall David Gulick Geo. Eaton Charles Bowers Emma Fistje 472 tlbe IFlew WovU of IPeeterba^ tS6S Mar. Apr. 29 Nov. 17 Parties Emma Hoffman, aged 20, born in Germany; residence of both, Broadway bet. 68 and 69th Sts. Charles A. Winch, aged 21, residence 276 West loth St., New York Marion Swan Halden, aged 17, born in New York ; residence — ; married at 341 West 27th St., New York James Alexander Stri- ker, born in New York ; aged 43 Mrs. Letitia M. Knight. Maiden name L. M. Moulton; aged 2^; born in New York; married in Morrisania by Henry R. Blin assisted by E. van Aken Edgar V. Fowler, born Tarry town, N. Y. ; aged 27; residence Tarrytown Ella Park, born in New York; aged 25; resi- dence 418 West 34th St. Witnesses Samuel Halden William Halden Geo. A. Mclntyre J. T. Moultor Chas. Wood Ambrose K. Striker John Hamilton George Findley Isabella Park REGISTER OF MARRIAGES BOOK II Datei Names 1869 Aug. 10 George Findley Agnes Gordon Oct. 1870 Feb. 6 19 Nathaniel M. Moger Isabella H. Park Samuel Bawden Maria Hanaway June I Thomas J. Barnaby Alice Wood Aug. 10 Benjamin Franklin Jane Cozine Borland Aug. 18 Frederick Vass Anne Robertson Oct. 8 Daniel Bremer Sarah Hanaway Oct. 20 Wm. Holmes, Jr. 1871 Apr. 7 Sarah McFarland (maiden name Smith) Ralph L. Ostrander Hannah V. Richards Apr. 12 Jacob Frederick Schmidt Sarah Ann Moore Apr. 20 Metcalf Everett Elizabeth Schmidt Residence 22 Mansfield Place, New York 22 Mansfield Place, New York White Plains, N. Y. White Plains, N. Y. 62d St. and 9th Ave., New York 75th St., and 9th Ave. New York Elizabeth, N. J. 54 West 23d St. N. Y. 316 W. 52dSt., N. Y. 219 W. 53d. St, N. Y. 312 E. i2thSt., N. Y. Harlem 74th St., and Boule- vard, New York 75th St. and 9th Ave., New York 74th St. near loth Ave., New York 74th St., New York 143 Perry St., N. Y. 143 Perry St., N. Y. New York New York New York New York 474 Age Place of Birth 41 Utica, New York State 30 New York City 35 New Castle 28 New York City 25 England 24 New York City 30 Harwich, Mass. 20 New York City 24 (( <( (( 25 (( (< (( 30 Ireland 25 Scotland 24 Germany 19 New York City 29 <( (< (( 30 <( 11 (( 38 28 27 Brooklyn, N. Y. 27 England 23 Roxborough, Mass. 28 Yonkers, N. Y. Witnesses Frederick Schmidt Metcalf Everett George Findley Agnes Findley George Hanaway Samuel Hanaway Lewis Wood James O. Barnaby Philip Vernon George Rose Isaac Rose Thomas Stanley George Robertson Samuel Bawden Samuel Hanaway William Holmes, Sr. Henry Kelly WilHam Kelly Eliza W. van Aken Sarah M. Horn Frederick Schmidt Elizabeth Schmidt Frederick Schmidt John Dwight 475 476 ZlK Bew l?orft of IJeeter^ai? Dates 1872 Mar. 4 Oct. 5 1873 Mar. 2 Names Louis Hageman Annie May Barnaby Jacob Robert Terwilliger Elizabeth Catharine Em- erick (maiden name van Aken) Wm. PaHster Brown Rachel Ellen Babington June 8 Charles Stacel Isabella Decker Dec. I 1873 Dec. 3 Dec. 10 William Halden Georgiana Blackman Jacob Flick Barbara Geiar Frank S. Thompson Eliza van Aken 1875 Oct. 31 James N. Vreeland Rosena Mary Hartner Dec. 22 Ashley William Cole Mamie Louisa Trimble 1876 Mar. 16 1877 Mar. 19 Oct. 9 Nov. 27 Richard M. H. Deas Catharine P. Nash James Smock Rachel McDowell Guhck Charles E. P. Neumann Emilie H. Koertge Enoch I. van Aken Mary Farr Residence New York City New York City Kingston, Ulster N. Y. Throop, Cayuga N. Y. Co. Co.. 68th St. and Boule- vard, N. Y. 75 North 4th St., Williamsburg, N. Y. 65th St., bet. 8th and 9th Ave., N. Y. 65th St., bet. 8th and 9th Ave., N. Y. 343 W. 43d St., N. Y. 446 W. 42d St., N. Y. 67th St., near Boule- vard, N. Y. 456 W. sistSt., N. Y. Shokan, Ulster Co., N. Y. Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y. New York City Staten Island Englishtown, N. J. South Bruns^sdck, N.J. New York City South Brunswick, N.J. IDital Statistics 477 Age Place of Birth Witnesses 42 City of Oldenburgh, Ger. 22 Taunton, Mass. 33 Greenbush, N. Y. 3 5 Saugerties, Ulster Co. , N. Y, Eliza W. van Aken Sarah M. Horn Eliza W. van Aken 28 New York John Harding 19 Jersey City, N. J. Henry S. Mitchell 21 New York Martin Armstrong 19 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Nancy I. Decker 30 23 New York John Halden Jane Halden 22 New York Peter Flick 22 23 Germany Rhinebeck, N. Y. Annie Flick William van Aken 27 Kingston, Ulster Co.,N.Y. Albert van Aken 25 19 35 24 New York City (( K <( England New York City Eliza W. van Aken T. McElvany Emott Wells James W. Fooley (I <( (< Brooklyn. N. Y. Mrs. Emma Eagleton H. Dio Lawson South Brunswick John Smock Emeline Smock 34 22 24 19 Germany New York City New Jersey Theodore Koertge Albert F. Koertge Alexander van Aken Eliza W. van Aken REGISTER OF BAPTISMS BY ALEX- ANDER GUNN, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH AT BLOOMINGDALE, NEW YORK. loth OCT., 1808. 479 REGISTER OF BAPTISMS— from a former record Ministers Dates 1806 July 13 Aug. 31 1807 Jan, 4 Jan. 18 Apr. 19 June 14 Names William, born May 21, 1806 Cornelius Eli, born July 27, 1806 Henry, born July 9, 1806 William, born Oct. 28, 1805 Elenor, born Jan. 12, 1806 Catharine, born July 30, 1806 Sophia, born Oct. II, 1805 Lawrence H., Nov. 7, 1806 Sarah Jane, Feb. 13, 1807 Gilbert Cou- tant, Feb. 5, 1807 Parents Henry Palmer Maria Rikeman Cornelius Pe- terson Eliza Tharp Peter B. Dem- oress Hannah Volk William Ray Mary Dey Benjamin New- house Ann Jones William Strat- ton CatharineWeb- bers George way Mary Coffee Jonathan Hardman Sarah Webbers Mr. Dalton Isaac Varian Tamar Leggett 481 Mr. Smith Dr. J. H. Liv- ingston Dr. J. H. Liv- ingston Dr. J. H. Liv- ingston Dr. J. H. Liv- ingston Dr. J. H. Liv- ingston Gallo- Mr. Henderson Mr. Henderson Mr. Henderson Mr. Henderson 482 Zl)c IRew l?orJi of Ueeterbai? Dates Names Parents Ministers Dec. 13 John, Nov. 23, John Short Mr. Henderson 1807 Jane Tynan 1808 Oct. 16 Isaac, born Andrew Mor- Rev. W. Ro- Sept. 5, 1805 row meyne Jane Adamson Aug. 28 Sarah, born Au- William Stratton gust 3, 1808 Catharine Webbers Aug. 28 John William, Isaac Leggett born May 20, Barbary Kelly 1808 Sept. 3 Philip, born John Webbers May 22, 1807 Margaret Ford Oct. 23 MaryAnn,born Aaron B. Jackson Sept. 2 5, 1 808 Cynthia Hegeman Nov. 20 Samuel, born William Ray ] 1x1 June 12,1808 MaryDey ^ | People of color 1809 Jan. 15 Caroline, born, George Galloway Aprilis,i8o8 Mary Coffey Mar. 23 William, born William Williamson ) people Oct. 24, 1804 Esther Coss j of color and Samuel, born Dec. 22, 1808 Mar. 31 Martha Cox, Adult wife of Law- rence Hoff- man, born Oct. 4, 1783 Apr. 6. Aaron, born Jonathan Hardman March 11, Sarah Webbers 1809 Apr. 30 John, born Matthew Horn March 23, Margaret Hegeman 1809 May 14 George Wash- Isaac Varian ington, born Tamar Leggett April 3, 1809 IDital Statietice 483 Dates Names Parents Ministers May 28 Jemimah, born James Striker April 1 5 , 1809 Julia, born Feb. Mary Horn June 8 Catharine Remsen 19, 1809 Samuel A. Lawrence June II Sarah Ballard, Sarah Nichols ] baptized by Alexander Gunn J Rev. Mr. born May 7, 1809 Rowan Aug. 20 John Horn, Christopher Mildeberger born May Margaret Horn 24, 1809 Aug. 27 Mary Ann, Lawrence HofEman born ' April Martha Cox 25, 1809 Sept. 24 Letitia, born Henry Hughes June 12, Hannah Webbers 1808 Dec. 17 Mary, born Isaac Dey Elizabeth Cisco 1810 Jan. 9 Edward Preble, William Torrey bom Oct. 25, Margaret Nichols 1809 Feb. 28 Ann, born Jan. Robert Davidson 19, 1803 Elizabeth Rodabaugh Feb. 28 Rebecca, born Robert Davidson Dec. 8, 1804 Elizabeth Rodabaugh Feb. 28 Alexander, Robert Davidson born Jan. EHzabeth Rodabaugh 29, 1810 Mar. 14 Lewis, born Hannibal Ritter ) people of Dina ) color Feb. 17, 1810 Apr. 18 Patience, born John Oakley Apr. 2, 1809 Glorianna Hendrickson Apr. 30 Kelly, born Isaac Leggett Mar. 21, tRto Barbary Kelly Apr. 30 Henry, born Samuel A. Lawrence Apr. 12, 1810 Catharine Remsen 484 Ztbe Bew IPorft of IDeaterba^ Names Catharine, bom Apr. 20, 1810 May 7 William Waite, born Mar. 15, 1810 William, born about 7 weeks before Letitia, born Oct. 15, 1810 Dates May 7 June II Nov. 25 1811 Jan. 30 Mar. 3 Mar. 3 Mary, born Peter Adrian Hegeman, born Jan. 24, 1811 Alexander Nichols,bom Jan. 10, 1811 Apr. I Alexander,born Apr. 18, 1810 Apr. Garret Peter- son, born Mar. 12,1811 July 14 Letitia Jane, bom June 19, 1811 Aug. 18 William, born May 22, 1811 1812 Feb. 19 Feb. 27 Mar. 1 Gilbert, born Jan. 3, 1813 Magdalen Rit- ter, bomjan. 31, 1812 John, bornjuly 28, 1811 Parents Ministers Cornelius Harsen Joanna Henrietta Ritter William Stratton Catharine Webbers John Clendining Margaret Patterson Aaron B. Jackson Cynthia Hegeman Henry Hughes Hannah Webbers Matthew Horn Margaretta Hegeman Alexander Gunn \ baptized by Sarah Nichols j Mr. Rowan George Galloway Mary Coffey Andrew Hermance Rachel Peterson John E. Ross Jane F. Hegeman William Waite Margaret Webbers John Van Emburgh Jane Christie Cornelius Harsen Joanna Henrietta Ritter Susan Hinckley (the father did not stand) IDital Statistics 485 Dates Mar. I Apr. I June 28 June 28 Oct. IS Dec. 7 1813 Feb. 12 Feb. 28 Apr. 30 Aug. 22 Sept. 9 Sept. 9 Nov. 5 Nov. 5 1814 Feb. 4 Names Henry, born Nov.23,1811 Frederick, bom Oct. 22, 1811 Andrew Hop- per, born George Osgood, born George Wash- ington, bom Apr. 13,1812 Joseph Wind- ham, born Aug. 5, 1812 Sarah Ann, born Dec. 2, 1812 Jemima, bom Jan. 5, 1813 Peter A. Hege- man, born Feb. 20, 1813 George, bom June23,i8i3 Tamar Letitia, bom Aug. 14, 1813 Emiline, bom Feb. 27,1813 Hannah Hop- kins, wife of Wm. Stuart Julia, born Samuel Adams Lawrence Parents Sarah Webbers Jonathan Hardman (did not stand) John Harsen Catharine Beinhaur Isaac L. Varian Catharine Dusenberry Alexander Gunn Sarah Nichols Barzillai Dusenberry Mary Hopper Sam'l A. Savage Letitia Webbers Andrew Hermance Rachel Peterson — stood Matthew Horn Margaretta Hegeman Aaron B. Jackson Cynthia Hegeman Wm. Waite Margaret Webbers Isaac L. Varian Catharine Dusenberry Isaac L. Varian Tamar Leggett Adult Wm. Stuart Hannah Hopkins Adult 486 TOe IRew 13ork ot IJesterbai? Da^^i Names Parents Ministers Mar. 3 John Peter Rit- Cornelius Harsen ter, born Joanna Henrietta Ritter Feb. 9, 1814 Mar. 13 Nathaniel Wm. B. Holmes Wm., born Hannah Stanton May 15, 1809 George Wash- ington, born Apr. 23,1811 Augusta Maria born Feb. 15, 1814 Mar. 27 Lewis Carstairs Alexander Gunn \ by Mr. Sarah Gunn J Rowan Apr. 18 Harry, bom Hannibal Ritter ) people of Dina [ color Mar.27,1814 Apr. 25 CaroHne, bom Daniel Mack Feb. 3, 1811 Elizabeth Torot May 15 John Edmund, John W. Palmer born Oct. 22, 1813 James, born Letitia Hegeman May 22 John Beekman Jan. 12, 1814 Mary Elizabeth Goad Bedlow July 31 Samuel, born Walter Franklin Osgood June 4, 1813 Ellen Moncrief Aug. 5 Horace, born Samuel A. Lawrence Juneii,i8i4 Catharine Remsen Aug. 28 Eliza Catha- Caspar Meier rine, born Elizabeth Catharine Kunze Aug. 4, 1814 Nov. 6 Christian, Hugh McLeod Hugh Mrs. McLeod 1815 Mar. 5 Letire Frances, Matthew Horn born Dec. 28, 1814. Margaret Hegeman Apr. II John Edward, John E. Ross born Mar. 18, Jane F. Hegeman 1815 Dital Statistics 487 Dates Names Parents Ministers May 5 Sam'l James, Sam'l van Orden born Oct. 28, Maria Quackenbush 1814 Aug. 4 Hannah Cath- William Stuart arine, born Hannah Hopkins, deceased Feb. 18,1815 Oct. 8 Caroline Maria, Dr. John Gamage born Oct. 3, Mary Stanton (widow Wilkins) 1815 Oct. 10 Jonathan, born Sarah Webbers May, 1 814 Jonathan Hardman (did not stand) Oct. 10 John, born Oct. Margaret Webbers 31, 1 8 1 4 William Waite (did not stand) Oct. 20 Janet Duncan, Robert Gosman, now deceased born June 29, Phebe Muir 181S Oct. 22 Cynthia, born Aaron B, Jackson Aug. 31,1815 Cynthia Hegeman Nov. 3 Isaac, born Isaac L. Varian Aug.16,1815 Catharine Dusenberry Dec. 18 Sarah, born Richard Darke Sept. 1 7, 1 809 Dec. 18 Henry, born Maria Nov. 17, 1812 Dec. 18 Maria, born Nov. 22,1815 1816 Jan. 15 John Varick, Henry S. Dodge born Oct. 14, Jane Dey Varick 1814 Jan. 15 Henry Augus- Henry S. Dodge tus, born Jane Dey Varick Dec. 20, 1815 Jan, 22 Henry, bom Henry Beams June28,i8i4 Margaret George Feb. John Wood, John W. Palmer born Aug. Letitia Hegeman 10, 1815 488 Zhc Wicxo IPork of ^cetev^a^ Dates Mar. 10 May 3 Aug. 9 Aug. II Aug. 25 Nov. 17 Dec. I 1817 Jan. I Names John Adrian, born Jan. 19, 1816 Matavus Hop- per, born Sept. 23, 1815 Mary A n t o i- nette, born Julyi2,i8i6. First bap- tized in new church CorneHa Ra- chel James, Rachel Mary Kuni- gundi, born Oct. 7, 1816 Dina, born Sarah Scher- me r hor n, born Nov. 9, 1816 Apr. 10 MaryAnn,born July 15,1812 Jane, born Oct. 16, 1814 William Varian, Dec.27, 1816 May II Matthew Parents John Hegeman Martha Hegeman Jordan Mott Lavinia Striker Alexander Gunn Sarah Nichols Cornelius Harsen Joanna Henrietta Ritter Isaac Dey Elizabeth Cisco Caspar Meier Elizabeth C. Kunze Hannibal Ritter ) people of Dina | color John James Stewart Hopkins May II Aug. 12 Peter Adrian, born Jan. 24, 1817 Matilda Camp- bell, born July 16, 1817 Isaac Leggett Barbary Kelly Matthew Horn Margaret Hegeman John E. Ross Jane F. Hegeman Isaac L. Varian Catharine Dusenberry Dital Stati9tiC0 489 Dates Aug. 2 1 Aug. 21 Aug. 24 Aug. 24 Dec. 19 Names Elizabeth, bornNov.31, 1816 Catharine Ma- ria.bornFeb. 10, 1817 Mary Jane, born Aug. 2, 1817 Thomas, born Jan. 2, 1817 James SterHng, born Aug. 28, 1816 i8i« Jan. 6 Charles David, born Oct. 27, 1817 May 10 Robert, born Feb. 3, 1810 Elspeth, born Sept. I, 1813 Catharine, born June 28, 1815 May 24 MargaretHege- man, born Dec. 20, 1817 May 24 Angeline, born Mar. 2, 1818 July I John Asten, born May 25, 1818 Aug. 23 Jane, born Oct. 19, 1817 Nov. 7 WilUam Sty- mets, born Sept. 20,1818 Nov. 7 Ann Agnes, born June 3 , 1816 Parents Sarah Webbers Jonathan Hardman Catharine Hardman George Holberton John Carland Margaret Brown Mr. Morrison Henry Beams Margaret George Sam'l A. Lawrence Catharine Remsen Andrew Middlemus Hannah Robinson Aaron B. Jackson Cynthia Hegeman Jacob Naugel Eleanor Westervelt Alexander Gunn Sarah Nichols Hamilton Brown Catharine Lawrence John E. Ross Jane F. Hegeman WilHam B. Holmes Hannah Stanton 490 TOe 1Rew IDork of IJeeterba^ Dates Names Parents Nov. 7 Mary Eliza William B. Holmes born Oct. 10, Hannah Stanton 1818 Dec. 2 George, born James C. Somerindyke Aug. 23,1818 Mary Tates (Yates?) 1819 Jan. 3 Wm. Albert- Sponsor, son, about Mr. John Asten seven years old Jan. 31 George, born James Shurtliff Dec. 20, 1818 Sarah Morrow Feb. 10 James Carlton, William Burnham born May 15, Eliza Beck 1814 Mary Louisa, born Jan. 5, 1817 Apr. 25 Isaac Varian, Thomas J. Stevens born Dec. 19, Letitia Varian 1818 Apr. 30 Elizabeth Olivei • a colored woman June 27 Charles Kelly, John N. Dusenberry born Mar. 23, Sarah Leggett 1819 June 30 Margaret, born Nathan Cook May 15, 1811 Elizabeth Adamson Susanna, born Jan. 20, 1814 EHzabeth, born July25, 1816 Thomas, born May 31, 1819 July II Barbary Ann, Isaac Leggett born Mar. Barbary Kelly 20, 1819 Oct. 3 Mary Eliza- Isaac L. Varian beth, born — Catharine Dusenberry Nov. 5 Maria Varick, Sam'l A. Lawrence bom Catharine Remsen IDltal Statistics 491 Dates 1820 Jan. 5 May 28 July 2 July 16 Nov. 20 1821 Mar. II Apr. 22 Apr. 28 Aug. 19 Sept. 23 1822 Jan. 2 Apr. 7 Names William, born July 15,1818 Jane Mary Striker, born May 13, 1820 Three children Isaac Leggett, born Sept. 12, 1820 Mary Ward, born Dec. 20, 1820 James Amasa, bom Sept. 1 4, 1820 Sarah Ann, bom Aug. 15, 1816 Hannah Maria, born Aug. 21, 1816 Benjamin Alex- ander, born July 3, 1820 Henrietta, born Mar. 14, 1821 James Thomas, born Aug. 10, 1821 Harriet, born Oct. 2, 1 82 1 John, bomDec. 2, 1821 Parents Henry Beams Margaret George Hamilton Brown Catharine Lawrence John S. Watkins Helen Striker James Randell, colored man Cornelia John N. Dusenberry Sarah Leggett William Varian Susan Cornell James Shurtliff Sarah Morrow Sam'l van Norden Maria Quackenbush Isaac Leggett Barbary Kelly Joseph Cornell Maria Striker John S. Watkins Helen Striker John Wilson Catharine Hutchison 492 Zbc 1Rew IPork of IJesterba^ Dates Names Parents June 8 Sarah Stakes, born Oct. 15, 1816 John Cosine Sarah Kent June 30 Margaret Fake, bomApr. 26, 1822 Sam'l van Norden Maria Quackenbush Aug. 18 Letitia Stevens born July 19, 1822 William Varian Susan Cornell Aug. 18 David, born July 7, 1822 Timothy Colvin Sarah Ann Cornell Dec. 18 John Park Hamilton, born Feb. 25, 1817 Mother, Isabella Ham Dec. 30 Sarah Frances, bornJune2 7, 1820 Emeline, born Julyi3, 1822 John E. Ross Jane F. Hageman 1823 Feb. 16 Samuel Liscom about eight years old Sponsor, Henry Post May May 7 7 Mary EHza Mc- Night, bom May 6, 1817 Charles Darke, born Jan. 29, 1823 Hannah, born July 8, 1820 Mary Shurtliff, Sponsor William B. Holmes Hannah Stanton Nov. 19 Thomas George bom July 2 8, 1823 Thomas J. Stevens Letitia Varian Dec. 3 Charles, born May 31, 1821 William Bumham Eliza Beck Dec. 24 E 1 s p e t, born Nov. 12,1823 John Wilson Catharine Hutchinson IDltal Stati0tlC0 493 Datei Names Parents 1824 Jan, 7 Tamar Varian, Isaac Leggett born June 5, Barbary Kelly 1823 Jan. 7 Sarah Emeline, John N. Dusenberry bom July 3, Sarah Leggett 1823 Feb. 25 Catharinejane, Cornelius Westerfield bom Sept. Rachel Ackerman 8, 1824, died Sept.16,1859 Aug. 17 John Knififen John Williams Williams, Susannah Kniffen born May 7, 1820 Aug. 23 Eugene, born Sam'l A. Lawrence Oct. 6, 1823 Catharine Remsen Aug. 23 John James, Sam'l van Orden born Jan. 20 Maria Quackenbush 1824 Oct. 25 Isaac, born Isaac L. Varian May 19, 1824 Catharine Dusenberry Oct. 25 William Henry, William Varian born Feb. 12, Susan Cornell 1824 Oct. 10 Martha, born Robert Kinkade Mar. 7, 1824 Margaret Scott 1825 Apr. 30 Samuel Aldrich Savage Adult Aug. 5 William Thom- Thomas J. Emmon s as, born Feb. Maria Shurtliff 25, 1825 Aug. 5 John Alexan- Joel Post der, Dec. 14, Alma Floyd 1824 Sept. 15 William Ed- Cornelius Westerfield win, born Rachel Ackerman Feb. 18, 1825 494 ^be IRew 13ork of IDesterba^ Dates Names Parents Oct. I Mary Lansing, Arthur Tappan born Oct. 24, Frances Antill 1823 Arthur, born Sept. I, 1825 Dec. 28 William Henry, John Williams born Nov. i, Susannah Kniffen 1825 1826 Mar. 22 Nathaniel, Wm. B. Holmes born Jan. i, Hannah Stanton 1826 " (( Leah Jane, Sam'l van Orden Maria Quackenbush Aug. 18 John Jacob, Tho. J. Stevens born Mar. 6, Letitia Varian 1826 1827 Jan. 3 Mary Catha- Tho. J. Emmons rine, born Maria ShurtHff Junei7, 1826 Sept. 27 Magdalen Rit- Abr'm A. Prall ter, born Joanna H. Harsen Aug. 19, 1826 Oct. I Benjamin, Benjamin Stephens, Jr, born June Hannah M. Prall 12, 1826 1828 Jan. 21 Peter Adrian John E. Ross Hegeman, Jane F. Hageman born Oct. 6, 1826 Feb. 13 Mary Isabella, George Martin born June 5, Hannah Smith 1823 Jonathan Crawford, born Dec. 16, 1827 Dital Stati6tlc6 495 Dates Names Parents Apr. 27 Horatio, born Feb. I, 1828 Tho. J. Emmons Maria Shurtliff May 2 Rachel, born Feb. 28, 1828 Cornelius Westerfield Rachel Ackerman May II John Jacob, born Dec. 15, 1827 Jacob Naugle Eleanor Westervelt May 18 Samuel George born Sam'l van Orden Maria Quackenbush May 24 Herman Cas- par, born March 22, 1828 Laurenz N. Von Post Henrietta M. Meier June 2 John Peter born Feb. 26, 1828 George Thom- as, born Apr. 12, 1826 John Peter Dieterick Euphemia Blanch June 2 Robert Augus- tus, born Dec. 4, 1827 Rob't Lane Effe Maria van Zandt Aug. 3 First Day Thomas, born Jan. 14, 1828 John K. Jackson Jane R. Welsh Dec. 9 Albert Russel, born Aug. 2, 1828 Joseph Cornell Maria Striker 1829 Feb. 5 Hannah Maria, born July 10, 1828 Ab'm A. Prall Joanna H. Harsen Apr. 27 Martin Smith, born Apr. 26, 1829 Henry Ulrick Elizabeth Smith 496 Z\)c 1Rew 13ork of ^cetcvba^ REGISTER OF BAPTISMS By Francis M. Kip. Pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church at Bloomingdale, October, 1830. 1830 Oct. 10 Oct. 31 Nov. 7 1831 Mar. I Maria, born Aug. 8, 1829 Child, sick, private bap- tism Elizabeth Ade- line, born Sept. II, 1830 Maria Samler At Tompkins- ville, S. I., Sarah Smith Kip, born Oct., 1830 Mar. 23 John Moore, born Feb., 1831 Child sick — private bap- tism — dead May Charles Ritter May 20 John, born May 19,1831. Pri- vate bap. at funeral of mother. (Died in giv- ing it birth) June 30 B e nj a m i n, born Mar., 1829 Thomas J. Emmons Maria Shurtliff Samuel van Orden (absent) Maria Quackenbush Adult Rev. John E. Miller Ann Kip John Darke Margery Moore Adult, on confession John Windust Mary Cambridge Ritter Eliza Dey IDItal Statistics 497 June 30 Cambridge, Cambridge Ritter born July, Eliza Dey 1830. Pri- vate b a p- tism. Last child sick — _ dead Sept. 5 James Thomas, Joseph Cornell born Feb. 19, Maria Striker 1831 Sept. 2 5 Charles Bun- Thomas J. Stevens ner, born Letitia Varian Apr. 6, 1 83 1 Sept. 30 Julia Maria, William Burnham born Apr. i, EUza Beck 1819 Harriet New- ell, born Aug, 30, 1824 Cordelia Ma- tilda, born June 15, 1828 Sept. 30 Caroline, born Lawrence van Buskirk Feb. 8, 1826 Ann Burnham Sylvester Swift, Oct. 6, 1828 Wm. Lawrence, Feb. 13, 1830 Dec. 24 Mary Thomp- John Darke son, born Margery Moore Aug. 9,1832. Baptized by Rev. J. AlBurtis 1833 Jan. Child of Cambridge Ritter and Eliza Dey Mar. Mary Eliza- Cornelius and Rachel beth, dau. of Westerfield 498 Mar. 1835 Aug. 21 1836 Apr. 30 Apr. 29 Dec. II Dec. 25 Dec. 25 1837 June 20 Z\)c IRevp ^ovU of IPeaterbai? Helen Maria, John Darke bornSept.23, Margery Moore 1834. Bap- tized Feb. 15, 1 83 5, by Rev. Wm.Labagh, son of the Al- derman. Re- gistered by J. H. vStriker (Deacon and Secretary) RECORD OF BAPTISMS By Enoch van Aken. Martha Eliza- Cambridge Ritter } , , beth, born Eliza Dey j- colore a Apr. 10, 1835 Elizabeth Ann Post, born Nov.17,1835 Edward Au- gustus, born July 20, 1835 William Carey, born Oct. 21, 1833 Charles Henry, born Aug. 4, 1835 Sarah Jane, born Dec. 12, 1836 Susan (colored), born Aug. 6, 1830 Edward Morti- mer, born Feb. 8, 1837 Samuel Armant Maria Noble Thomas J. Emmons Maria Shurtliff Eckley Fitch Peter A. Horn Sarah Cosine Offered in baptism by widow Sarah Cozine Gerard W. Livingston Cornelia de Peyster IDital Statistics 499 Aug. 4 Sept. 1 7 Oct. I Nov. 19 1838 Feb. 4 Feb. 14 Mar. 4 July 22 July 29 Martha Eliza- beth, born Oct. 4, 1824 Caroline, born Jan. 10, 1828 WilliamHenry, born Dec. 17. 1831 Charles Lalle- mand, born Feb. 4, 1833 Whitfield Skel- lorn, born Apr. 5, 1835 John, born — James Elisha, bornDec. 31, 1836 Ann Eliza, born July 22, 1837 Margaretta A. PeflEers Hugh Roland, bornDec. 26, 1833 Mary, born Mar. 2, 1838 Margaret, born Apr. 26,1829 James, born Aug. 25, 1831 William, born Sept.17,1833 Child, born July 12,1838 Cornelia, born Nov. 28, 1387 James C. Somerindyke Mary Tates (Yates?) The mother alone offered the children Cambridge Ritter Eliza Dey Gurdon S. Coit Mary Ann Burbrige Eckley Fitch Adult Hugh Graham Mary Patterson Thomas J. Emmons Maria Shurtliff (the mother being dead, the father alone answered) McGuinnis Mary Law (The mother alone answered) John Fadden Charlotte Haden Lewis Ritter Lucretia Ritter colored 500 Zhe 1Rew l?orft of l?e6terbai? Aug. 3 WilliamHenry, Wm. H. Moore born June 5, Letitia Jane Ross 1836 Aug. 5 Kezia HilHs, McGuirmis born Mar. II, Mary Law. (The mother alone 1838 answered) Charles, born Charles Ritter July I, 1838 Salley Dey Nov. 2 Jane, born Jan. James Nish 26,1825 Isabella Halden Marion, born Dec. 7, 1826 Isabella, born Aug. 4. 1828 Mary, born Dec. 26,1831 Rachel, born Dec. 18,1836 Nov. II Jane, born — William born — Jane Sanford (colored) Nov. 29 Thomas An- George Dean drew, born Eliza Buel Dec. 11,1823 1839 Jan. 27 William Edgar, Wm. E. Haskins born Sept. 8, Elizabeth Waite 1836 David, born Apr. 4, 1838 Feb. 3 James Foster Bradley Adult Mar. 29 George (col- Samuel Scroggins ored) , born Jane Ritter. (The mother alone Aug. 8, 1 83 1 answered) 1840 Jan. 9 Maria, born Sept. 2, 1828 Charles Darke, Sr. Richard, born Temperance Rebecca Hayden Sept. 1 1, 1830 Temperance Rebecca, born June 24, 1832 Dital Statistics 501 Jan. < ? Charles Charles Darke, Sr. Holmes.born Temperance Rebecca Hayden Oct. 12, 1836 Emma, born Aug. I, 1838 Feb. 19 Jane Frances, Wm. H. Moore born Mar. Letitia Jane Ross 26, 1839 May- 3 Ann, born Apr. John Fadden II, 1840 Charlotte Haden May 17 Grace Bethia, Robert Cameron born Dec. Ann Right 17.1839 June 28 Mary, born James Berwick July 9, 1839 Mary Laurie Berwick July 6 Maria Louisa, John W. Smith born July 28, Julia Lawrence 1833 Rosa Patience, born Nov. 19,1835 Aug. 21 Peter Nichols, Olof Peterson born July Ann Maria Gould 24, 1838 John Hallam, born Apr. 7, 1840 Sept. 13 Gulick, born Enoch van Aken ) Baptized by Eliza Gulick [ John Knox, Apr. 22,1840 D.D. Nov. 3 Emma Delia, Cornelius Westerfield born Apr. 23, Rachel Ackerman 1840 Nov. 7 William, born William Love Dec. 28,1840 Ann Maria Brigs 1841 Jan. 12 Ann Maria, Charles Ritter born Apr. 24, Sally Dey 1840 502 TOe Bew l?ork of l^eeterba^ Jan. 17 Feb. 7 Feb. 28 Aug. 8 Oct. 13 Nov. 21 1842 Apr. 28 July 10 July 27 Aug. 5 Aug. 26 Oct. 4 Isabella, born June 10, 1840 Emma, born July 29, 1841 Catharine, born Apr. 25, 1839 Alexander, born Feb. 27, 1841 Emma, born July 19, 1841 Almira, born May 4, 1840 NicholasTrimi- per, born Sept. 22,1838 Ch a r 1 e s B., born Feb. i, 1841 Ellen Brigham wife of Jas. Bowley Sarah Eliza- beth, born Mar. 30, 1842 Henry, born August 7, 1842 William Holmes, Sr. Louisa, born Nov. 17,1841 John Henry, born Apr. 16, 1837 James Farring- t on, born Sept.21,1839 George Watson Isabella Slorach John Freeman Mary Harriot William Clark Ann Reid Charles Darke Temperance Rebecca Hayden colored John Bush Julia Ann George McCartney Mary Ann Corkey Adult George Magrath Sarah E. Hanaway David S. Jackson Sarah C. Williams Adult Abel Alexander Elizabeth Bailey, answered) James Bowley Ellen Brigfham (She alone IDital Statl0tiC6 503 1843 Jan. 30 Mar. 19 Apr. 20 May 10 Nov. 12 Nov. 26 1844 Mar. 25 Oct. 27 1845 July 31 Maria, widow Adult of Jas. Dooly. Maiden name Herril William Holmes,born Oct. 20, 1833 James, born Oct. 6, 183 s Emily Maria, born Nov. 9, 1842 Walter James, born Apr. 19, 1843 Henrietta Quick, aged 8^ months Georgiana Ma- ria,bornApr. 18, 1841 Sarah Louisa Ross, born Aug. 30, 1843, bap- tized by Geo. Potts. D.D., during the pastor's ab- sence at the South. Mary EHza- beth, born Feb. 13, 1844 Eliza Jane Co- zine, born Dec. 23,1843 Harriet Eliza, born Sept. 4, Eldridge Brooks Augusta Maria Holmes (The mother alone the sponsor) Gerard Wm. Livingston Cornelia de Peyster Geo. Watson Isabella Slorach Wm. Frederick Catharine Quick Baptized by Rev. Mr. Meeker Wm. H. Moore Letitia Jane Ross Henrick Dagenhardt Mary Magdalena Freuligh at Black Creek, E. Florida James Bowley Ellen Brigham Wm. Ilsley 504 Zhc 1Rew l?orR of l?e6ter^a)^ July 31 Oct. 26 Nov. 1846 Mar. II 1847 Feb. 18 Apr. 18 Apr. 30 May 16 June 20 July 30 1849 Apr. 29 William Chris- topher, born Jan. 2, 1845 Leonard Fred- erick, born May 5, 1845 Harriet, born Mar. 17,1845 Maria, born Aug. 29, 1845 Cosine, Jan. 9, born 1846 Jacob Henry, born May i, 1843 Sarah Louisa, born Mar. 6, 1845 Catharine Jane, bornDec.25, 1846 Catharine, born Apr. 4, 1847. Died Minard Lefe- ver, born June II, 1846 Robert Thomp- son, born Dec. 21, 1846 Jane Cosine, born May 7, 1847 James, born Mar. 7, 1848 Sarah Jane El- len, born — Mary Beckley Leonard Beckley Emily Steele Wm. E. Haskins EHzabeth Waite George Hanaway Martha Moore James H. Dorland Jane A. Cosine. She alone answered Charles Ritter Sally Dey colored John Murphy Catharine Carrolton. She alone was sponsor Archibald Gardner Ann Clark. He alone was spon- sor, she having deceased James Bowley Ellen Brigham. She alone an- swered John Jasper Catharine Thompson James H. Dorland Jane A. Cozine. She alone an- swered George Hanaway Martha Moore James Robinson IDital Statistics 505 July 22 Sept. 1 7 1850 Jan. 20 May 5 May 12 Sept. I 1851 July 13 Oct. 26 Nov. 9 Nov. 27 Dec. 25 Harriet Ann, born Apr. 14, 1849 Rebecca, born Nov. 23,1847 Sarah Martha, born July 14, 1849 Robert, born Jan. I, 1847 William, born Oct. 2, 1849 Marion Biss- land Ellen Maria, born May 24, 1848 John Henry, born Aug. 8, 1847 ElizabethAme- lia, born June 14, 1850 Emma Eliza- beth, born July 22, 1847 John Leder, born Sept. 10, 1850 Sarah, born Aug. 7, 1851 Clementine, bom Nov. 23, 1851 Josephine Em- ma Frances, bom Mar. 1 7, 1847 John Jasper Catharine Thompson Nathaniel Holmes Rebecca Beard Robert Thorp EHzabeth McAHster Adult Charles Ritter \ Sally Dey j Henry Steele Elizabeth Darke colored Wm. E. Haskins Elizabeth Waite John Fadden Sarah Ann Cortjohn George Hanaway Martha Moore Clement Russ Emeline Jones Edmond A. Peffers Caroline Burr Jennings 5o6 ^be 1Rew ^ov\{ of ipesterbai? Dec. 25 Sylvester Joseph Edmond A. Peffers Henry, borr 1 Caroline Burr Jennings Sept. 6, 1849 1852 Jan. 12 Hester Jose- John Henry Runnells phine, born Hester Topping May 4, 1848 John George, born Dec. 3, 1850 Mar. 23 George Alex- George Robertson ander, born Ann Eraser Aug. 5, 1851 Aug. 22 WilliamHenry, John Jasper born Mar. 16, Catharine Thompson 1852 Sept. 29 Alexander Gu- John van Aken lick, bom Jane G. Gulick Jan. 17, 1852 Oct. 24 Marie Salome, John Frederick Schmidt bom Jan. 14, Joanna Schmidt 1850 (maiden name Joanna Sleezer) Oct. 24 John, born. John Whitehead Nov. 8, 1852 Mary Moore Harriet, born Alexander Ray Skinner Feb. 3, 1853 Ann Eliza Purdy 1853 Aug. 5 Elizabeth Holmes, widow of Mr. Darke Adult Aug. 14 John, born Joseph Conly ) baptized by Ann Jane Francey j" Jas. Mat- Nov. 28, 1851 thews.D.D. Nov. 4 Martha, bom Duncan Macfarlan July 16, 1848 Agnes Biggart Duncan, bom Nov. 6, 1851 Nov 6 David, born James Packhard Apr. 13, 1853 Harriet Head IDital Stati0tic0 507 1854 Feb. 5 Feb. 13 May 4 July 23 July 30 Sept. 7 Dec. 20 1855 Mar. 12 May 5 Martha RofE, bom Oct. 10, 1836 Thomas Frank- lin, bom Jan. 26, 1854 Francis Smith, bom Oct. I, 1850 Samuel, bom Dec. I, 1853 John, born June 11,1853 Alexander, bomMar. 28, 1854 Enoch, bom April 19, 1854 Emily Louise, bom Aug. 28, 1848 Ch ar 1 o t t e Pride, born Jan. 22, 1851 John Weyman, born Jan. 11, 1851 Susan Cornelia, bom Apr. 11, 1853 Virginia Tal- cott, born Nov. 2, 1850 Mary Isabella, bom Dec. 8, 1852 George Rat- clifE, born Dec. 24,1854 Adult Thomas Shepherd Caroline Somerindyke Father dead Catharine Luginbehl George Hanaway Martha Moore Duncan Macfarlan Agnes Biggart Alexander Ray Skinner Ann Eliza Purdy John van Aken Jane G. Gulick Wm. G. Tompkins Jane Elizabeth Gassner John A. Gassner Ellen Kyle Sylvester S. van Buskirk Sarah Josephine Gassner Alex. R. Rider Isabella Jones George Robertson Ann Frazer 5o8 ^be 1Rew l?orft of IJesterDa^ June 24 Adolphus.born Robert Hoffman Mar. 15,1852 Maria Stiller Louisa, born Oct. 29, 1854 July 15 Elizabeth, James Hanaway born Apr. Margaret Kelly 18,1855 July 22 TheodoreAdee, John Jasper born Oct. 10, Catharine Thompson 1854 1856 May 19 Ellen Augusta, Kindred Howard born Feb. Hannah S. Holmes 25, 1849 Charles Henry, born Dec. 28, 1850 Elizabeth Tip- pell, born May 19,1852 Nov. I Sarah, wife of Isaac Caryl Adult Nov. 9 William John, EHjah Watts born Dec. 31, Eliza Watts (maiden, Edington) 1854 Emma Matilda born Mar. 13, 1856 Nov. 9 Marian, born Alexander Ray Skinner Mar. 16,1856 Ann Eliza Purdy Dec. 25 George Henry. John Frederick Schmidt born June Joanna Sleezer 19, 1856 1857 May 24 Joseph Robi- John Jasper son, born Catharine Thompson Jan. 15,1857. Died 1862 Oct. 4 Margaret, born James Hanaway Aug. 4, 1857 Margaret Kelly IDital Statistics 509 1858 Apr. 30 May 23 Aug. 15 Aug. 28 Sept. 2 6 Nov. 4 1859 Jan. 2 Deborah Parks Adult wife of George Findley Kate Morgan Adult Holmes, wife of Wm. Kelly Jane, born — Aug. 14 Frederick Ed- ington, born Jan. 13, 1858 E valine, born Feb. 19, 1858 John Kell, born May IS, 1858 Caroline Lewis, born Sept. i, 185s Eliza, (died.) bom July 30, 1858 Amelia Stok- ley James William, born Apr. 16, 1845 Oliver Martin, bom Apr. 29, 1848 Robert Hilton, born Feb. 9, 1853 William Henry bom Dec. 26, 1855 Eliza Jane, bom June 12, 1858 Mary Anna, bom Mar. 27, 1850 WilHam Kelly Kate M. Holmes Elijah Watts Eliza Edington Nicholas Hays Caroline Shricy John Kell Curtis Mary F. Gibson John Wendelken Matilda Lewis Alexander R. Skinner Ann Eliza Purdy Adult Robert H. Arkenburgh EHza Stokley William Ilsley Mary Beckley 5IO Zbc IRew l?orft of l?e0tert)ai? Aug. 14 Emma Jane, William Ilsley born Oct. 27, Mary Beckley 1852 Mary Ilsley, Leonard Beckley born May II, Emily Steele 1858 Sept. 1 1 Josephine, Francis J. Felix born May 1 5 , Harriet B aker 1856 widow of Purdy i860 Mar. 18 Jane, born Oct. James Hanaway 28, 1859 Margaret Kelly May 27 Edward Eli, Elijah Watts born Oct. 15, Eliza Edington 1859 June 23 Sarah Maria, Andrew Anderson born March Jane Bogert 12, 1850 JaneAnna, bom Apr. 3, 1856 Aug. 5 John Bissland, John Carss bomDec.io, Marion Bissland 1859 Sept. 16 Jessie (died Alexander R. Skinne Apr. I, 1863) Ann Eliza Purdy bornJune2 5, i860 Oct. 7 Esther, born Wm. McCloy Sept. 7, i860 Elizabeth Houston (died Mar. 1861) Oct. 7 John James, John Taggert born Aug. Mary Ann Taggert 19, i860 Oct. 28 Henry S., born Thomas S. Mitchell Apr. 23,1860 Emma P. Moore 1861 Feb. 21 James William, John K. Curtis born Oct. 24, Mary F. Gibson i860 May 25 Richard, born, Wm. Murfitt Oct. 25,1860 Sophia Broad well IDltal Statistics 511 Oct. 20 Nov, 3 June 23 1862 Mar. 9 Mar. Apr. 23 Apr. 23 Apr. Nov. 9 Dec. 7 Geo. Washing- ton, born Feb. 2, i860 Henry S.Mitch- ell Louis Wilhelm Henry, born Dec. 29,1860 Robert Henry, bom Oct. 19, 1855 Lily, born June 18, 1858 Sersely, bom June 18, 1861 Lydia, born Feb. 26,1852 William Sav- age, born Sept. 22, 1854 Eliza, born Mar. 6, 1858 Frederick Wil- liam, bom Apr. 29,1861 Francis Adams born June 25, 1861 Rebecca born May 3, 1862 Nancy Jane Thompson, wife of Thom- as Butler (colored) Susan, born Oct. 25, 1862 AnnaTheressa, born Aug. 22, 1862 George W. Pimley Ann Humphrey Adult Louis Kable Starke Theressa Blanck Rob't Henry Blanck Teressa Doyle Alex'r Bennett Eliza Brunish Wm. H. Mitchell Melinna Eldridge Thomas S. Mitchell Emma P. Moore Alexander Ray Skinner Ann EHza Purdy Adult Thomas Butler Nancy Jane Thompson Louis Kable Starke Theressa Blanck 512 Zhc IRew l?ork of JDesterOai? Dec. 7 Amelia Mar- Ernest Charles Henry Starke getta, born Amelia Ann Blunt Nov. 27,1858 1863 Feb. I Rachel Ann, John Taggert born Sept. Mary Ann Taggert 26, 1862 Elizabeth, Wm. Murfitt born Dec. 25, Sophia Broadwell. She alone 1852 responded Hannah, born Jan. 17, 1854 John, born Sept. i7> 1855 Jane, born Nov. 2, 1862 May- 24 Mary, born Michael Gerth Feb. 18, 1863 Elizabeth Geebel June 2 1 Albert Edwin, Thomas S. Mitchell bom Dec. 14, Emma P. Moore 1862 July 19 Mary Catha- John Carss rine, born Marion Bisland Dec.28,1861 Aug. 16 Harriet, born Wm. G. Purdy 1863 Rebecca Gardner Aug. 16 Charles Wil- Philip Grazier liam, bom Eliza Fetgre July 13, 1863 Aug. 30 Joseph, bom James Hanaway Apr. 14, 1862 Margaret Kelly Dec. 9 Maria Rebecca, Geo. S. Miller bom Oct. 30, Maria Rebecca Brock 1863 1864 Feb. 29 Samuel Robert John K. Curtis Marley, born Mary F. Gibson July 6, 1863 Aug. 28 Christian, born Wm. Kroninberger Nov. 2, 1863 Margaret Wagner Willie Town- Thos. S. Mitchell send, born Emma P. Moore Feb. II, 1864 IDltal Statistics 513 Sept. 1 1 Oct. 23 1865 Feb. 4 Feb. 20 Mar. 5 May 21 July 23 Margaret Ann Whitworth, born Mar. 25, 1862 Mary Betsy, born June II, 1864 George Anne, born Aug. 24, 1864 Frank Henry, May 4, 1864 Mary Eliza- beth, Sept. 27. 1859 David Ritchey, born May 30, 1862 Barbary Ritch- ey, July 24, 1864 Charles Wil- liam, born Apr. 28,1855 Caroline, born Mar. 28,1857 Thomas Dan- iel, bom Apr. 10, 1853 David Augus- tus, bom Dec. 18, 1864 Fanny Eliza- beth, born June 12, 1862 Samuel S.,born Oct. 5, 1864 Charles, bom Apr. 8, 1865 Regena, born Mar. 23,1865 John Eaves Emma Whitworth Geo. W. Pimley Ann Humphrey Elijah Watts Eliza Edington John R. Brown Elizabeth Bryen Henry C. Smyth Martha Sophia Fistgen Cornelius Corson Julia Caroline Corson David Clark Woodmff Margaret Smith Morris W. Place Martha Danes Peter Horn Margaret Hornberger 514 ^be mew ^ovk of IJeeterba^ July 23 1866 Jan. 7 Apr. 22 May 5 May 6 Dec. 16 Dec. 30 1867 Jan. 13 May 12 Oct. 20 Paul Charles, born May 27, 1865 Emma Ange- line, born Feb. 8, 1862 Emma, aged 15 months Alonzo Blanck George Wash- ington Au- gustus, born Feb. 22, 1866 Warner, born Dec. 12,1865 Emma Poole, born July 5, 1866 William Henry, bomNov. 26, i860 Elizabeth Anna, born Mar. 9, 1864 Geo. Washing- ton, Ida May Ernest James, born Feb. 11, 1863 John Henry, bornMay 15, 1866 Frances Jose- phine, bom July 10, 1866 John Frederick, born April 18, 1866 Paul Bauer Mary Magdalena Raeder John Jasper Catharine Thompson John O. Moore Isabella Paisley Adult Louis K. Starke Theressa Blanck James Leggett Mary Ann McCoy Wm. M. Doe Dorcas Blackwood Wm. Henry Waldron Margaret Love Born Oct. 15, 1866 Ernest C. H. Starke Amelia Ann Blunt Ambrose Felix Almira Scofield John F. Reynolds Henrietta Q. Frederick IDital Statistics 515 Oct. 20 Jane Louisa, Joseph J. Morgan born Sep. 23, Sarah L. Frederick 1866 Oct. 27 Mary Louisa, Alexander R. Skinner born Apr. 2, Janet Skinner 1864 Dec. 9 Mary Eliza- Geo. Eaton b e t h, born Margaret Jane McGinness Dec. 5, 1866 1868 Feb. 26 WilliamHenry, George W. Jasper born Feb. 3, Jennie Smith 1867 Mar. Edwin, born Frederick Kreider July 28,1865 Caroline Blatner May 17 Eliza Jane, John Harding born Jan. 29, Sarah Jane McConaughey 1868 BOOK II REGISTER OF BAPTISMS By E. van Aken, Pastor June 7 Edwin Reeves, Morris W. Place born Apr. 12, Martha C. Danes 1867 June 7 Elizabeth, David Woodruff born June Margaret Smith 13, 1868 June 7 Clara Augusta, Robert McKenzie born Apr. 8, Catharine 1868 Oct. II Mary Magdale- Paul Bauer na, born June Mary Magdalena Raeder 7, 1868 Nov. 8 Elizabeth, John Solway born Dec. 10, Elizabeth Fisher 1867 Nov. 9 George Palmer, Frederick M. Baxter born Dec, 21, Charlotte van Pelt 1867 51 6 (nje IRew IPorft of Uesterba^ Dec. 27 Henry Mathias Gustav Puhle Gustav, born Sophia Hoffman Nov. 26, 1868 1869 Apr. 9 Elizabeth, John Auld born Aug. i, Mary White 1868 1870 Jan. 30 Catharine Ma- David C. Woodruff r i a, born Margarett Ann Smith Dec. 8, 1869 July 24 John Jacob, John Jacob Festje bom July 4, Amelia Hoffman " 31 Mary Emma, Charles Bower born Nov. 10, Henrietta Festje 1867 " " Charles Henry, bom Jan. 30, 1870 Sept. 1 1 WilliamHenry, John Harding born July i, Sarah Jane McConaughey 1870, died Jan. 9, 1878 Oct. 2 Margaret, born Robert McKenzie Mar., 1870 Catharine Dec. 4 William, bom Flick June 10, 1869 1871 Mar. 19 Annie Maria, Samuel Bawden born Jan. Maria Hanaway 13. 1871 Apr. 2 Louisa Julia, Paul Bauer born Dec. 3, Mary Magdalena Raeder 1870 " " Johanes Nich- Johanes Nicholas Eckert olas, born Christina Mullock May 24,1871 " " Louis, born Louis K. Starke Apr. 16,1871 Teressa Blanck Aug. 6 Andrew, bom John Jacob Festje Feb. 15,1871 Amelia Hoffman IDital Statistics 517 1872 Feb. II Sarah Louisa Rapp, widow of Samuel Halden Adult Feb. 25 William Henry Daniel Bremer born Nov. Sarah Hanaway 20, 1871 Mar. 6 George, born George Michaels Feb. 7, 1872 Kate Fitting June 23 Bertha Cozine, Benjamin Franklin born June 2 , Jane Cozine Dorland 1872 July 21 Martha Lane, Samuel Bawden born Apr. i, Maria Hanaway 1872 Aug. 5 Anna Johanna, Frederick Pfenning born July 22, Catharine Ehmer 1872 Nov. 17 Henderson Julius Palmer Loper Rathbone, Caroline Rebecca Blick born Aug. 5, 1872 1873 Feb. 2 Francis White Adult Mar. 2 Margaret Eliz- John Harding abeth, bom Sarah Jane McConaughey Jan. 8, 1873, died Feb. 27, 1874 Dec. 21 Daniel, born Daniel Bremer Oct., 1873 Sarah Hanaway 1874 Jan. 18 Henry, born Henry Forges Dec. 6, 1873 Emma Festje May- 3 James, born Samuel Bawden Mar. 9, 1874, Maria Hanaway died June 14 Margaret Re- Julius (or Jonathan) Palmer becca, born Loper Jan. 30,1874 Caroline Blick 5i8 Zbc IRew l?orJ? of l?esterba^ Oct. 4 1875 Apr. 5 Apr. 5 May 2 May 9 Oct. 3 Dec. 5 Dec. 17 1876 May 7 July 30 1877 Sept.30 Oct. 28 Jacob, born Aug. 27, 1874 Henry, born Apr. I, 1875 John West, born Sept. 9 1871 William Felt- well, born Apr.30,1874 Ida May, born May I, 1869 Frank Dana, bom Dec. 13, 1874 Mary, born Apr. 27,1875 Sarah, born Aug. 10, 1875 Mary Jane Par- sons, born July 26, 1875 Charles Conrad born Oct. 15, 1875 Martha Maria, born Sept. 28, 1875 Augustus James, born June 16, 1876 Michael Gerth Elizabeth Gibbins William Murfitt Sophia Broadwell George Guire EHzabeth Murfitt Charles A. Winch Marion Swan Halden William Holmes, Jr. Sarah Jane Coe John Harding Sarah Jane McConaughey Samuel Bawden Maria Hanaway John S. Halden Adelaide Lewis Jacob Freund Caroline Bauer Daniel Bremer Sarah Hanaway John Walter^Sokell Lizzie Gabbeman Frederick Ja- Jacob Freund cob, born Caroline Bauer July 7, 1877 Louisa, born Louis Overmayer May 3, 1867 Charlotta Overmayer Sophia, born June 12, 1869 IDital Stati0tiC0 519 1878 June 2 June 2 1879 Mar. 2 Apr. 27 May 25 June I June 15 Nov. 9 1880 Apr. 2 i«8i Mar. 17 May I Louis, born May, 1863 Charlotta, bom May 29, 1875 Anne, born Mar.31,1877 Martha, born November 19, 1878 Minnie, born Sept. 27,1877 John Arnold, bom Mar. 19, 1879 Henrietta Eliz- abeth, born Apr. 4, 1879 Louis Charles, bom Sept. 13. 1875 Isabella Gil- more, born Aug. 21,1879 EnochChester, bom Feb. i, 1878 Harold, bom Dec. 18,1879 Charles August Vanna, born Sept. 16, 1872 Philip Michael Lewis, born Mar. 31,1881 Louis Overmayer Charlotta Overmayer Adam Cassel Catharine Cassel William Mcintosh Sophia Blay Samuel Bawden Maria Hanaway Jacob Freund Caroline Bauer Charles Bower Henrietta Festje Louis Armsheime Emeilie Mahlow Samuel Bawden Maria Hanaway Enoch van Aken Mary Fan- Robert McKenzie Catharine Michael Gerhauser Charlotte Paulena Rosina Pfening Unbei /IDarriaoes an& Mttnesses Witnesses are designated by w A Ackerman, John, w., 453 Ackerman, Maria, 453 Ackerman, Rachel, 453 Adams, Joseph C, 459 Adee, Titus K., 463 Adriance, John, w., 449 Adriance, Letitia I., 449 Alexander, Abel, w., 461 2 Alexander, Ann B., 461 Alban, Henry, 454 AlBurtis, Christian, w., 457 AlBurtis, Rev. John, 457 AlBurtis, Susanna, 457 AlBurtis, Wm., w., 457 Alport, Catharine, 459 Alport, Maria L., 458 Amos, Mr., w., 450 Anderson, Jane, 469, w., 468 Anderson, Jessie, 460 Anderson, Mary, 454 Andrews, Selleck B., 458 Arell, Elizabeth, 449 Armanter, John Manuel, 460 Armstrong, James, w., 455 Armstrong, Mrs. James, w., 455 Armstrong, Martin, w., 477 Ash, Thomas, w., 446 Asten, John, w., 456 Atwater, Eliza A., 459 B Babington, Rachel E., 476 Backus, Charles, w., 464 Bacon, Mary, 455 Bainton, Geo., w., 468 Baker, Phebe, 448 Baldwin, Eliza J., te;., 466 Ballard, William, 447 Ballard, William C, 446 Barnaby, Annie M., 476 Barnaby, James O., w., 475 Barnaby, Thomas J., 474 Barny, — w., 464 Bartholf, Abraham, w., 448 Bartholf, Margaret, 448 Bashwood, Eliza, 447 Bawden, Samuel, 474, w., 475 Bayard, H., w., 457 Bayard, Harriet, 447, w., 453 Beadford, Joseph Ball, 452 Beagle, Peggy, 449 Bean, Elizabeth, 447 Beard, Rebecca, 462 Beckley, Leonard, 460 Beekman, Abraham, K., w., 450 Beinhauer, Catharine, 447 Benedict, Eli, 471 Bennett, Thos., 452 Benson, Mr., w., 449 Berry, Jane, 450 Bertalf, John, 451, w., 453 Bertalf, Mary A.,w., 456 Bissland, Marion, 465 Bishop, Harriet, 453 Bishop, Warren, 448 Blackman, Georgiana, 476 Blake, Isaac D., 468 Blanchard, Harrison R., 462 Blinn, Rev. Henry R., 472 521 522 ^be mew l?ork of l^esterba^ Bloomer, Phebe, 448 Bogert, Jane, 469 Bogert, Jas. Jr., w., 450 Bogert, John Mc, w., 468 Bogert, Mary F., 450 Bogert, Matilda, 467 Boley, James, w., 460 Boyd, John N., w., 467 Boyd, Miriam, 467 Bowens, Gessum, 459 Bowley, Mary A., 458 Bowne, Lewis, 462 Boxall, Elizabeth, 468 Bowers, Charles, w., 471 Boyle, Henry T., 452 Boyles, Elizabeth, 458 Bradley, James, 459 Bremer, Daniel, 474 Brewster, Jacob W., 453 Briggs, Jane, 448 Brock, Maria R., 467 Brooks, — w., 461 Brooks, Eldridge H., 457 Brower, Jane, 453 Brown, Clarissa A., 454 Brown, Hamilton, 450, w., 450 Brown, Margaret, 450 Brown, Richard, 457 Brown, Sarah, 461 Brown, Wm. Palister, 476 Bruce, Ann, 471 Buddington, Osias, w., 462 Buddington, Susan, w., 462 Bunnell, Edwin, 456 Burling, Thomas, 448 Burlock, David L., w., 451 Burnham, — w. 451 Burnham, James, w., 458 Burnham, Michael, w., 453 Burnham, Wm., w., 457 Burr, Aaron, w., 452 Burt, James, 453 Burtsell, Wm., w., 451 Byer, A. H., w., 455 Byron, Christina C, 469 Cain, Michael, 448 Cameron, Robert, w., 460 Campbell, John, 456 Campbell, Mary W., 463 Capp, Thomas, 451 Cargill, David, w., 458 Cargill, Edward, w., 458 Cargill, Mrs. Mary, w., 461 Cargill, Mary, 458 Carland, John, 450 Carling, Hannah, 456 Carling, William, w., 456 Carss, John, 465 Carss, Robert, 463 Caryl, Eliza, 458 Caryl, Emily, 461 Caryl, Michael, w., 467 Castendieck, Charles, 459 Cato. black man, w., 448 Chapman, Sarah, 450 Cheeseborough, Mr., 450 Church, Hannah, 454 Church, Robert, 451 Cisco, Amanda, 459 Cisco, Ann E., w., 460 Cisco, Samuel, w., 449 Cisco, William, w., 459, 460 Clark, Ellen, 471 Clark, Maria, w., 447 Clark, Martha, 447 Clark, Mary, 448 Clark, Sarah, 461 Clary, Eliza, 456 Clift, James, w., 469 Clinn, Mahala, 458 Cole, Ashley William, 476 Collins, John, 464 Colvin, Timothy, 453 Cooper, James, 454 Cooper, James L., 453 Cornell, Thos., w., 454 Cornell, Joseph, 449, w., 452 Cornell, Sarah A., 453 Cornell, Susan, 452 Corson, Caroline A., 469 Corson, Julia C, w., 469 Cosine, see also Cozine Cosine, Catherine, w., 453 Cosine, Sarah, w., 463. 467 Coursen, James, 449 Coutant, Isaac, w., 452 Cowan, John, w., 451 Cowdy, Maria, 464 Cox, Eliza, w., 461 Cozine, see also Cosine Cozine, Catherine, 449, w., 457 Cozine, Jane, w., 458 2 Cozine, Jane A., 462 Cozine, Sarah, 458, w., 463 Craft, Mary, 447 Curtis, John K.. w., 466 Unbex to flDarriaGCS 523 D Dains, Joseph, 470 Dains, William H., w., 470 Dally, Evaline M., 464 Dally, John H., w., 463 Dana, William F., w., 458, 463, 464 Darling, Joseph, w., 464 Darke, Charles, w., 460 Darke, George, 460 Darke, John, w., 457 Darke, Richard, 451, w., 452, 456, 457 Darke, William, w., 454 Davis, Sarah, 460 Davis, Sarah C, 460 Davison, William, 458 Day, John, w., 454 Day, Mary J., 464 Deas, Richard M. H., 476 Decker, Isabella, 476 Decker, Nancy I., w., 477 Degroodt, Siny or Liny, 451 De Labigarre, Maria L., 450 Derrickson, James G., w , 467 Dey, Catharine 454 Dey, Eliza, w., 456, 457 Dey, Isaac, 457, w., 449, 452, 454, 456 Dey, James, w., 457 Dey, Jane, 457 Dey, Maria, 452 Dey, Peter, 452 Dey, Susan, 449 Deyo, Andrew P., 469 Deyo, Lawrence, 469, w , 469 Deyo, Matthew F., w., 449 de Voe, Abraham, 467 Dickerson, William, 458 Dickson, Jacob, 452, w., 454 Dinnin, George, 447, w., 447, 448 Dirk, — 457 Dithridge, Edward, w., 455 Dithridge, Elizabeth, 455 Dixon, Dr., w., 457 Doolittle, John L., w., 456 Dooly, Christina C, 461 Doran, John, 452 Doremus, William, 451 Dorland, James H., 462 Dorland, Jane, w., 463 2 Dorland, Jane A., w., 463, 467, 470 Dorland, Jane C, 474 Dorman, Louisa, 451 Douglas, Henry, 448 Dowdell, William, 471 Drake, Jeremiah J., w., 452 Dubick, I., w., 457 Dunlap, Nathaniel, w., 453 Dupleix, Sarah A., 453 Dusenberry, Catharine, 447, w., 447 Dusenberry, Charles K., w., 460 Dusenberry, John H., 451, w., 459 Dusenberry, Sarah E., 459 Dwight, John, w., 475 Dyckman, Mr., 451 E Eagleton, Emma, w., 477 Earl (should be Arell), Eliza- beth, 449 Earle, Henry B., 458 Eaton, George, 470, w., 471 Edwards, John H., 464, w., 465 Elwy, John, w., 451 Ely, John, 466 Emerick, David, 465 Emerick, Elizabeth C, 476 Emmons, Emily, w., 465 Emmons, Thomas J., 454 w., 460, 465 Engle, Andrew, 459 Engle, Hiram, 465 Engle, Mrs. w., 459 Ensley, Mary, w., 460 Ensley, William, w., 460 Evarts, Frederick, 451 Everett, Metcalf, 474, w., 475 Everett, William H., 455 F Fairbanks, Rosena, 460 Fake, George S. 453 Fake, Margaret, 459 Farnron, Peter, 463 Farr, Mary, 476 Feitner, Daniel, 458, w., 459, 469 Feitner, Mary Catharine, 469 Felix, Ambrose, w., 470 Felix, Francis, 470, w., 468 Felix, Robert, w., 463 Felton, Priscilla, 464 524 Zbc mew l?ork of IJeeterbap Felton, Zachariah, w., 464 Findlay, Agnes, w., 475 Findlay, George, 465, 474, w., 472, 475 Fish, Daniel, 454 Fisher, — , w., 461 Fisher, Isabella, 456 Fisher, John, 461 Fisher, John C, 461 Fisher, Joseph H., w., 459 Fisher, Maria, 457 Fistje, Emma, w., 471 Fistje, John, 471 Fleet, Samuel, 457, w., 458, 462, 463, 465 Fleet, Sarah, w., 467 Fleming, Margaret, 455 Flick, Annie, w., 477 Flick, Jacob, 476 Flick, Peter, w., 477 Florance, Hezekiah, 447 Fooley, James W., w., 477 Ford, William, 460 Foster, Sarah, 457 Fowle, Francis, 463 Fowler, Edgar V., 472 Francis, Thomas, w., 451 Franck, Mary, 452 Franks, Lydia, 446 Franklin, Benjamin, 474 Freeland, John, 455 Freeman, Jacob, w., 451 Freeman, John, w., 462 2 Freeman, Mrs. Mary, w , 462 Freeman, Sarah, 451 Frost, Benjamin, w., 455 Frost, Susanna D., 455 Fulmer, Maria, 456 Fulton, Andrew, 455 Furniss, Geo. E. S., 461 Galager, William, 458 Gallagher, Anna, 450 Gallagher, James, 450 Galuba, Charles, w., 469 Gamage, John, 450 Gambol, Mrs. — , w., 462 Gautro, Widow, 454 Gautro, Xavier, 453 Gardner, Rebecca, 468 Garey, Harriet C, 462 Garret, — , w., 461 Garret, Eliza J., 461 Garret, Martha, E., 461 Garretson, Eliza, w., 464 Gassner, Daniel, w-, 462 Gassner, Jane E., 462 Gavatt, James, 448 Geiar, Barbara, 476 Genet, Edmond Charles, 449 George, James, 455 Gilland, Thomas, 467 Gillie, George, w., 471 Golden, Eliza, 459 Golding, Sarah A., 461 Goodburn, William F., w., 468 Gordon, Agnes, 474 Gordon, Joanna, 463 Graham, Wm. G., 465 Griffin, C. G., w., 463 Griffiths, Jeremiah, 449 Gruenart, Henry, 450 Guest, Abraham, w., 461 Guest, Elizabeth, 449 Guest, Francis B., 461 Gulick, Alexander, w., 459 * Gulick, Catharine, w., 459 Gulick, David, w., 471 Gulick, Jane G., w., 460 Gulick, Mary F., 459, w., 459 ' Gulick, Mary S., w., 458 Gulick, Nancy S., w., 460 Gulick, Rachel McD., 476 Gunn, George, w., 446, 447 Gunn, Mary, 452 Gunn, Robert, w., 451 Gunn, Sarah, w., 447, 4482, 4492, 450 '. 452, 453. 454' Gutman, Henry J., 466, w., 467 Gutman, Joseph, w., 466 Gutman, Joseph, Jr., 466 H Hageman, see also Hegeman Hageman, Louis, 476 Halden, Jane, w., 461, 477 Halden, Jane E., 471 Halden, John, w., 477 Halden, Marion S., 472 Halden, Samuel, w., 462, 464, 471. 472 Halden, William, 461, 476, w., 462, 470, 472 Hamilton, John, w., 472 Hamilton, Mrs., w., 458 Hanan, Rosena, 461 Hanaway, George, w., 462, 475 Ilnbei to fll^arrlages 525 Hanaway, Maria, 474 Hanaway, Mary A., w., 462 Hanaway, James, 464 Hanaway, Samuel, w., 475 ' Hanaway, Sarah, 474 Haneberg, Christian, 448 Hardenbergh, Mary, 470 Hardenbrook, Abel, w., 451 Hardenbrook, Theophilus, 451 Harding, John, w., 477 Hardman, Catharine, 449 Hardman, Jonathan, w., 446 Hardman, Laetitia, 454 Hardman, Mary, 451 Harsen, Cornelius, w., 447 Harsen, Jacob, w., 446, 447*, 4482, 449. 451. 453 Harsen, Joanna R., 455 Harsen, John, 447 Hart, Arden, 456 Hartner, Rosena M., 476 Havemeyer, Susan, w., 458 Havens, Benjamin, w., 448 Hawkins, Hannah, 465 Hayivood, Henry W., w., 466 Hey wood, Frances, 466 Heywood, Martha, w., 466 Heady, Hannah, 447 Hegeman, see also Hageman Hegeman, John, 449, 460 Hegeman, Jane F., 447 Hegeman, Letitia, 447 Hegeman, Martha, 449 Herbert, Fred'k, w., 468 Herinton, John, 447 Hermance, Andrew, 447 Higgins, Calvin, w., 452 Higgins, William F., 453 Hinman, Elisha Wm., 459 Hodge, George, 451 Hodgins, Widow, w., 452 Hoffman, Emma, 472 Holberton, George, 449, le;., 451 Holden, William, 453 Hole, Henry, w., 469 Holmes, Ann A., 458 Holmes, Augusta M., 457 Holmes, Charles D., 463 Holmes, Eldridge, 468 Holmes, Elizabeth, 451 Holmes, Francis, 459 Holmes, George W., 458 3, w., 462 Holmes, Hamilton B., w., 468 Holmes, Hannah, w., 460, 461 Holmes, Hannah S., 462 Holmes, Kate, 464 Holmes, Martha H., 452 Holmes, Nathaniel, 462, w., 451 462 Holmes, Nathaniel Wm., w., 458^ Holmes, Richard, 461 Holmes, Wm., 457, w., 451, 456, 457. 462 2, 463, 464 Holmes, Wm. B., 446, w., 457, 458, 460 Holmes, Wm., Jr., 474 Holmes, William, Sr., ?w., 475 Hopper, Andrew, 449 Horn, John, w., 447 Horn, Peter A., 458 Horn, Sarah M., w., 475, 477 Horsford, Lorenna, 448 Hosack, Dr., w., 449 Hoswel, Henry, 451 Houghtailing, Herman, w., 457 Howard, Kindread, 462 Howe, William, 447 Howland, Loyd, w., 452 Howland, Nancy, 452 Hunt, Wilson G., 462 Hunter, Sarah A. F., 457 Huyler, Dr., w., 449 Jackson, Aaron B., w., 460 Jackson, Susan, 451 Jarvis, Jonathan, 450 Jasper, John, 458, w., 461, 466 Johnson, Samuel, 457 Johnston, Margaret, w., 459 Johnston, Mary, 459 Jones, Richard, w., 452 K Kearny, Archibald K., w., 468 Kearny, Elizabeth J., 468 Keese, Timothy, 465 Kelly, George, w., 464 Kelly, Henry, 463, w., 475 Kelly, John, 458 Kelly, Joseph, w., 466 Kelly, Margaret, 464 Kelly, William, 464, w., 475 Kene, Bartholomew, 462 Kenyon, William B., 449 Kerr, Jane, 455 526 ^be Bew l?ork of yesterba^ Kervan, Thomas, 464 King, Edward, 450 Kip, M. R., w., 457 2 Knapp, Philander, 454 Kniffen, Deborah, 456 Knight, Letitia M., 472 Koertge, Albert F., w., 477 Koertge, Emilie H., 476 Koertge, Theodore, w., 477 Labagh, Ab'm, w., 463 Lacon, Wm. H., 466 Lash, Eliza, 451 Lawer, — , w., 458 Lawrence, Catharine, 450 Lawrence, Julia, 462 Lawrence, Mrs. Patience, w., 462 Lawson, H. Dio, w., 477 Leggett, Henrietta, w., 459, 461 Leggett, John W., w., 460 Leggett, Sarah, 451 Leggett, Tamar, w., 459 Leggett, Tamar V., 460 Leggett, William, w., 463 Le Roy, B., iv., 449 Lent, Abraham, w., 456 Lent, Mrs. w., 450 Lent, Sarah A., 456 Lent, Widow, w., 454 Lewis, Lydia, 446 Littell, John, 465 Little, Ellen C, 471 Little, James, 471 Little, Lydia, 452 Long, Rev. Chester, 452 Lozier, Emma C, 466 Lozier, Eliza, w., 463 Lozier, John, w., 463 Lozier, John H., w., 463, 466 2 Lozier, Louisa R., 467 Lozier, Sarah, 463 Low, John, w., 453 Lyon, William, w., 451 M Magee, Martha, 462 Major, Mary, 448 Major, Mr., w., 448 Mallary, William, w., 469 Maltbie, Sally A., 452 Marshall, John, w., 463 Marshall, Mary L., 463 Marshman, Newman, w., 470 Martin, Josiah, 464 Martin, Mary, w., 459 Martin, Mary L, 460 Martin, Rebecca, 448 Martling, Maria, 456 Mason, David H., 464 McCuUough, Elmira, 463 McDonald, Samuel, 456 McDonald, Teressa, 467 McDougall, William, w., 471 McDowell, Andrew, w., 459 McDowell, John T., w., 459 McElrea, Thomas, 455 McElvany, T., w., 477 McFarland, Sarah, 474 McGinness, Margaret J., 470 Mclntyre, Geo. A., 470, w., 472 McKinzie, Allen, 456 McKoy, Cornelius, w., 453 McRee, Robert, 461 McVay, Ellen, 450 Mearon, John, 450 Mecklin, Eliza, 452 Mecom, James, w., 455 Meier, Emily M., 455 Meier, Henrietta M., 455 Meriott, Mrs. Sarah, 458 Merritt, Jerome W., 466 Merritt, Lavinia, 448 Merry, Frances, 464 Middlemus, Andrew, w., 450 Miers, Samuel, 448 Mildeberger, Margaret, 446 Miles, Ann E., 459 Miller, Ezra, w., 454 Miller, George S., 466 Miller, Jacob, M.D., w., 461 Miller, Margaret, w., 452 Mitchell, Henry S., w., 471, 477 Mitchell, Martha, E., 471 Mitchell, Thomas, w., 471 Mitchell, Wm., w., 471 Mitchell, Widow Ehza, w., 456 Moody, John, w., 460 Moody, Mary A., w., 460 Moore, Ellen M., 459 Moore, Henry, 454 Moore, Letitia J., w., 459 Moore, Rachel, 448 Moore, Rosena, 460 Moore, Samuel T., 456 Moore, Sarah A., 474 Moore, Wm. H., w., 459, 460 Unbci to noarriages 527 Morgan, Ann, 463 Morgan, Eliza Ann, 457 Morgan, Mary J., 458 Morgan, Solomon, w., 462 Morris, Hester, 449 Mott, Elsey, 449 Mott, Jordan, w., 449 Moulton, J. T., w., 472 Moulton, Letitia M., 472 Moger, Nathaniel M., 474 Moynat, Henry, 448 N Nash, Catharine P., 476 Naugle, Lavinia, 453 Naugle, Jacob, w., 453 Neaper, Jane, 460 Neumann, Charles E. P., 476 Newbury, John R., 461 Nichols, Ann, w., 448, 453 = Nish, Isabella, 462 Nish, Jane, w., 470 Nish, Mary, 464 Noxon, Marilla A., 452 O Oakley, John, w., 447 Oakley, Sarah, 447 Oakley, Wilmot, 448 Odell, James M., 461 Odell, Sarah A., 461 Odell, — , w., 460 Oliver, James W., w., 469 Olmstead, Francis, w., 453 Oknstead, Harriet, 448, 453 Olmstead, Jemmy, w., 446, 448 Olmstead, Louis J., 463 Osgood, Juliana, 449 Osgood, Martha B., 449 Osgood, Samuel W., 449 Ostrander, Ralph L., 474 Palmer, John W., 447 Park, Ella, 472 Park, Isabella, w., 472 Park, Isabella H., 474 Parks, Deborah A., 465 Parks, John, w., 465 Parker, Francis, 457 Parkes, — , w., 458 Paulson, William, 460 Perit, Pelatiah, w., 459 Perkins, Mary, 447 Perry, Royal C, M.D., 458 Peterson, Rachel, 447 Peterson, William, w., 447 Pettit, Salyer, 448 Pitman, Lida C, 466 Plass, Angeline, 465 Plass, John, w., 465 Poerect, Augustus, 451 Post, Elizabeth, 459 Post, Henry, w., 449, 450, 456 Post, Peter, 463 Prall, Abraham A., 455 Prall, Hannah M., 455 Prime, Mary, w., 461 Prime, Peter, w., 461 Purchase, Richard, 454 Purdy, Ann E., 463 Purdy, WiUiam G., 468 Q Quackenbush, Andrew, w., 453 Quackenbush, Ann, 453 Quackenbush, Maria, 449 Quackenbush, Dr. David, w., 449. 453 Quackenbush, James, w., 459 Quackenbush, Margaret, w., 459 Quin, Ann M., 461 R Randolph, Deborah, 460 Ray, David, 449 Read, Emily, w., 465 Read, Mary A., 465 Read, William, w., 465 .Reaves, Rose H., 461 Reed, Arunet, 450 Regur, Leonard H., 459 Reid, Emily, w., 464 Reid, Mary, w., 464 Reid, David S., w., 471 Richards, Hannah V., 474 Ridabock, Frederick A., 460 Riker, Mrs. Hannah, w., 459 Riker, Rebecca, w., 462 Ritches, Elizabeth, 451 Ritchie, Jane, w., 455 Ritter, Cambridge, 456, k'., 4^72 Ritter, Isabella, 457, vu., 457 Ritter, Phyllis, 455 Robertson, Anne, 474 528 Zhc IRew IPork of 13e0tcr^ap Robertson, Elizabeth F., 468 Robertson, George, w., 468, 475 Robison, Anna M., 470 Rogers, Levi, 448 Rogers, Mr., w., 448 Roome, — , w., 461 Roome, Charles, 461 Roome, Mrs. Catharine, w., 461 Rooney, Isabella T., 466 Rose, George, w., 475 Rose, Isaac, w., 475 Ross, David M., w., 447 Ross, John E., 447, w., 460 » Ross, Mrs. w., 450 Ross, Sarah F., 460 Russell, Alexander, 457 Russell, Benjamin, w., 457 Russell, Nathaniel, 458 Ryder, R., w., 449 Sage, Mr., w., 448 Samler, Elizabeth, 450 Savage, George, w., 459 Savage, Samuel A., 448 Saxton, Ann, 453, 454 Schmidt, Elizabeth, 474, w., 470. 475 Schmidt, Frederick, w., 471, 475^ Schmidt, Jacob F., 474 Schofield, Eliza, 456 Seaman, Henry, w., 450 Seaman, Hester, w., 450 Seaman, Sarah, 450 Seymour, John, w., 456 Shaw, Rev. Mr., W., 452 Shepherd, Mary, 448 Shepherd, Thomas, 463 Shotwell, Caroline, w., 465 Shotwell, Clayton M., w., 465 Shotwell, Marion B., 465 Shurthff, Maria, 454 Shurtliff, Mary, w., 450 Sidell, John A., 452 Simpson, — , w., 461 Sinton, Mary A., 463 Skinner, Alexander R., 463 Slaves of I. Prall, w., 449 Smith, Alexander, 460, w., 455, 457 Smith, Ann, M., 454 Smith, Albert, M.D., 455 Smith, Daniel, w., 460 Smith, John, 468 Smith, Julia, 462 Smith, Margaret E., 464 Smith, Mary, 451, 458, 463 Smith, Maria, w., 457 Smith, Peter, 457, 461 Smith, Samuel, 456 Smith, Sarah, 474 Smith, Thomas, w., 452 Smock, Emeline, w., 477 Smock, James, w., 476 Smock, John, 477 Somerindyke, Caroline, 463 Somerindyke, James C, 451 Southerland, Alexander, 471 Sowery, Elizabeth, w., 447 Sowery, Francis, 447, w., 451 Sowery, Widow, w., 454 Spear, Nathaniel T., 469 Spencer, James, w., 470 Spooner, Alden, w., 457 Stacell, Charles, 476 Stanley, Thomas, 468, w., 475 Stanton, — , w., 463 Stanton, Hannah, 446 Steele, Emily, 460 Steele, Henry, w., 463 Stephens, Benjamin, Jr., 455 Stephens, Margaret, w., 447 Stevens, John, w., 448 Stevens, Thomas, w., 456 Stewart, William R., 450 Stickles, Maria, 462 Still, Rob., w., 456 St. John, Julia, 450 Stoops, Joseph, w., 456 Stratton, Mrs. w., 449 Strickland, John, 447, w., 4482 Strong, Thomas, w., 452 Striker, Caesar, w., 454 Striker, Garret H., w., 446, 447 2, 449 Striker, Helen, 452 Striker, James, w., 448' Striker, Maria, 449 Striker, Richard, w., 452 Striker, Ambrose K., w., 472 Striker, James A., 472 Stuart, Cornelia, w., 456 Stuart, William, w., 456 Summersgill, — , w., 463 Summersgill, Agnes, 463 Tates (Yates?) Mary, 451 Taylor, John E., 463 1lnt)ex to flDarriages 529 Terhune, Ann M., 465 Terhune, Henry, w., 454 Terhune, John, 454 TerwilHger, Jacob R., 476 Thompson, — , w., 458 Thompson, Adam, 461 Thompson, Catharine, 458, w., 462 Thompson, Rev. Frederick B., w., 458 Thompson, Frank S., 476 Thompson, Martha, w., 462 Thompson, Robert, 455 Thompson, Robert D., 460 Tompkins, WilHam G., 462 Tompkins, William W., w., 462 Torrey, William, Jr., 452 Travis, Susan, 456 Trimble, Mamie L., 476 Truax, Clarissa, 457 Tuckere, Isaac, 446 Tuttle, Isaiah W., 454 Tuttle, Rebecca, 448 U Underbill, Alfred H., 457 V Valliere, Joseph, 452 van Aken, Albert, w., 477 van Aken, Alexander, w., 477 van Aken, Barent G., w., 464, 4652 van Aken, David, w., 464, 465 van Aken, Eliza W., w., 4582, 4593, 461, 4632, 4642, 4652, 466, 468, 475, 4774 van Aken, Enoch I., 476 van Aken, Enoch, Jr., 465 van Aken, Rev. Enoch, 458, 472 van Aken, Eliza, 476 van Aken, Elizabeth C, 465, 476 van Aken, Gulick, 468, w., 463, 464, 465 ^ 467, 470 van Aken, John, w., 465, 470 van Aken, William, w., 477 van Buskirk, Andrew, 451 van Net, Lewis, 447 van Orden, Samuel, 449 van Riper, Richard, 448 van Schyler, Abraham, w., 451 van Zant, Janeway, 455 Varian, Isaac L., 447, w., 451, 452, 456 Varian, Richard, 456 Varian, William, 452, w., 453 Vass, Frederick, 474 Vermeule, C. C, w., 462 Vermeule, Rev. Mr., w., 4502 Vernon, Philip, w., 475 von Post, Laurenz H., 455 Vreeland, James N., 476 Vreeland, Robert, w., 464 Vreeland, Robert T., 462 W Waite, John, w., 462 Waite, Margaret, w., 447 Waite, William, 446 Waldman, Frederick, 469 Waldron, Benjamin, 452 Waldron, David, w., 453 Waldron, Maria, 453 Waldron, John V., w., 450 Waldron, Tunis A., 450 Walker, Eliza J., 470 Wallace, James B., 467 Ward, Silvanus, w., 446 Warner, Matthias, 450 Warren, Eliza C, w., 463 Warrel, Margaret, 453 Watkins, John S., 452 Watson, Elizabeth, w., 448 Watson, George, w., 460 Watson, Isabella, w., 460 Watson, Westly, w., 450 Watts, — , w., 468 Watts, Eli, w., 469 Watts, Rolaert, 469 Weatherby, Peter, 453 Weaver, Catharine S. 450 Webber, Robert, 456 Webbers, Elizabeth, 447 Webbers, Letitia, 448 Webbers, Margaret, 446 Webbers, Philip, w., 454 Webbers, Susan, w., 448 Weiser, Samuel, w., 450 Wells, Emott, w., 477 Wells, James, 449 Wells, Leonard B., 455 Wells, Thomas H., 457 Westerfield, Cornelius, 453 Westervelt, Lavinia, w., 455 Westervelt, Maria, 454 Westervelt, Samuel, w., 453 Westervelt, Sarah, 455 Westervelt, Susan, w., 454 Weyer, Joseph, 464 Wheeler, Eliza, 451 53 o ^be mew 13ork of l^eaterba^ White, Eliza, 456 White, Mary L., 463 White, Teressa McD., 467 Whittemore, Adeline, 452 Whittemore, Timothy, w., 452 Whoople, William H., 456 Wiley, Rebecca O., 446 Wildy, James, 453, w., 453 Wilkinson, Mary, 447 Williams, Jane, 454 Williams, John, w., 456 Williams, Mrs. John, w., 456 Wilmott, — , w., 459 Wilmott, Charles, 460, w., 463 Wilson, George, w., 456 Wilson, Jotham, w., 468 Wilson, Maria, 468 Winch, Charles, A., 472 Wood, Alice, 474 Wood, Charles, w., 472 Wood, Lewis, w., 468, 475 Woodruff, Amanda, w., 460 Woodruff, Caroline, w., 464 Woodruff, Francis, 459 Woodruff, Oliver, w., 4642 Woodruff, Sarah, w., 4642 Woodward, Hannah, 453 Wormly, Samuel, 454 Wright, Barak C, 459 Wright, Margaret, 468 Y Yates, James D., w., 465 Yates, Mary (Tates?), 451 Yates, Samuel W., 464 Yeatman, John, 453 Young, Mary, w., 446 Young, William, 448 1In&ei to Baptisms The names of children are followed bye. The maiden names of mothers are given. Ackerman, Rachel, 493 2, 495, 501 Adamson, Jane, 482 Adamson, Elizabeth, 490 Albertson, Wm., c, 490 AlBurtis, Rev. J., 497 Alexander, Abel, 502 Alexander, Louisa, c, 502 Anderson, Andrew, 510 Anderson, Jane A., c, 510 Anderson, Sarah M., c, 510 Antill, Frances, 494 Arkenburgh, Eliza J., c, 509 Arkenburgh, James W., c, 509 Arkenburgh, Oliver M., c, 509 Arkenburgh, Robert H., c, 509 Arkenburgh, Robert H., 509 Arkenburgh, William H., c, 509 Armant, Samuel, 498 Armant, Elizabeth A. P., c, 498 Armsheimer, Louis, 519 Armsheimer, Louis C, c, 519 Asten, Mr. John, 490 Auld, Elizabeth, c, 516 Auld, John, 516 B Bailey, Elizabeth, 502 Baker, Harriet, 510 Bauer, Caroline, 5182, 519 Bauer, Louisa J., c, 516 Bauer, Mary M., c, 515 Bauer, Paul, 514, 515, 516 Bauer, Paul C, c, 514 Bawden, Anne M., c, 516 Bawden, Isabella G., c, 519 Bawden, James, c, 517 Bawden, Martha L., c, 517 Bawden, Minnie, c., 519 Bawden, Samuel, 516, 517*, 518, 519' Bawden, Sarah, c, 518 Baxter, Frederick M., 515 Baxter, George P., c, 515 Beard, Rebecca, 505 Beams, Henry, 487, 489, 491 Beams, Henry, c, 487 Beams, James S., c, 489 Beams, William, c, 491 Beck, Eliza, 490, 492, 497 Beckley, Leonard, 504, 510 Beckley, Leonard F., c, 504 1ln^ex to Baptiems 531 Beckley, Mary, 504, 509 Beckley, Mary I., c, 510 Bedlow, Mary E. G., 486 Beekman, James, c, 486 Beekman, John, 486 Beinhaur, Catharine, 485 Bennett, Alexander, 511 Bennett, Eliza, c, 511 Bennett, Lydia, c, 511 Bennett, William S., c, 511 Berwick, James, 501 Berwick, Mary, c, 501 Berwick, Mary L., 501 Biggart, Agnes, 506, 507 Bissland, Marion, 505, 510, 512 Blackwood, Dorcas, 514 Blanch, Euphemia, 495 Blanck, Alonzo, 514 Blanck, Theressa, 511*, 514, 516 Blanck, Lily, c, 511 Blanck, Rob't H., 511 Blanck, Robert H., c, 511 Blanck, Sersely, c, 511 Blatner, Caroline, 515 Blay, Sophia, 519 Blick, Caroline R., 517 2 Blunt, Amelia A., 512, 514 Bogert, Jane, 510 Bower(Bowen?),Charles,si6,5i9 Bower, Charles H., c, 516 Bower, Mary E., c, 516 Bower, Henrietta E., c, 519 Bowley, Eliza J. C, c, 503 Bowley, James, 502 2, 503, 504 Bowley, James F., c, 502 Bowley, John H., c, 502 Bowley, Minard L., c, 504 Bradley, James F., 500 Bremer, Daniel, 5172, 518 Bremer, Daniel, c, 517 Bremer, Martha M., c, 518 Bremer, William H., c, 517 Brigham, Ellen, 502 2, 503, 504 Brigs, Ann M., 501 Broadwell, Sophia, 510, 512, 518 Brock, Maria R., 512 Brooks, Eldridge, 503 Brooks, James, c, 503 Brooks, William H., c, 503 Brown, Barbary R., c, 513 Brown, David R., c, 513 Brown, Hamilton, 489, 491 Brown, Jane, c, 489 Brown, Jane, c, 491 Brown, John R., 513 Brown, Margaret, 489 Brown, Mary E., c, 513 Brunish, Eliza, 511 Bryen, Elizabeth, 513 Buel, Eliza, 500 Burbrige, Mary Ann, 499 Burnham, Ann, 497 Burnham, Charles, c, 492 Burnham, Cordelia M., c, 497 Burnham, Harriet N., c, 497 Burnham, James C, c, 490 Burnham, Julia M., c, 497 Burnham, Mary L., c, 490 Burnham, William, 490, 492, 497^ Bush, Almira, c, 502 Bush, John, 502 Bush, Julia A., 502 Butler, Susan, c, 511 Butler, Thomas, 511 ' Cameron, Grace B., c, 501 Cameron, Robert, 501 Carland, John, 489 Carland, Mary Jane, c, 489 Carrolton, Catharine, 504 Carss, John, 510, 512 Carss, John B., c, 510 Carss, Mary C, c, 512 Caryl, Isaac, 508 Caryl, Sarah, 508 Cassel, Adam, 519 Cassel, Anne, c, 519 Cassel, Catherine, 519 Cassel, Charlotta, c, 519 Christie, Jane, 484 Cisco, Elizabeth, 483, 488 Clark, Alexander, c, 502 Clark, Ann, 504 Clark, Catharine, c, 502 Clark, William, 502 Clendining, John, 484 Clendining, William, c, 484 Coe, Sarah Jane, 51 8 Coffey, Mary, 482, 484 Coit, Gurdon S., 499 Coit, James E., c, 499 Colvin, David, c, 492 Colvin, Timothy, 492 Conly, John, c, 506 Conly, Joseph, 506 Cook, Elizabeth, c, 490 Cook, Margaret, c, 490 532 Zhc IRew l^ork of IPesterba^ Cook, Nathan, 490 Cook, Susanna, c, 490 Cook, Thomas, c, 490 Corkey, Mary A., 502 Cornell, Albert R., c, 495 Cornell, James T., c, 497 Cornell, James T., c, 491 Cornell, Joseph, 491, 495, 497 Cornell, Sarah Ann, 492 Cornell, Susan, 491, 492, 493 Corson, Cornelius, 513 Corson, Julia C, 513 Corson, Thomas D., c, 513 Cortjohn, Sarah A., 505 Cosine, see also Cozine Cosine, Jane A., 504 Cosine, John, 492 Cosine, Sarah, 498 Cosine, Sarah S., c, 492 Coss, Esther, 482 Cox, Martha, 482, 483 Cozine, see also Cosine Cozine, Jane A., 504 Cozine, Sarah, 498 Curtis, James W., c, 510 Curtis, John K., 509, 510, 512 Curtis, John K., c, 509 Curtis, Samuel R. M., c, 512 D Dagenhardt, Henrick, 503 Dagenhardt, Mary E., c, 503 Dalton, Mr., 481 Dalton, Sarah J., c, 481 Danes, Martha, 513 Danes, Martha C, 515 Darke, Charles, Sr., 500 Darke, Charles, 502 Darke, Charles H., c-, 501 Darke, Elizabeth, 505 Darke, Emma, c, 501, 502 Darke, Helen M., c, 498 Darke, Henry, c, 487 Darke, John, 496, 497, 498 Darke, John M., c, 496 Darke, Maria, 487 Darke, Maria, c, 487 Darke, Maria, c, 500 Darke, Mary T., c, 497 Darke, Richard, 487 Darke, Richard, c, 500 Darke, Sarah, c, 487 Darke, Temperance R., c., 500 Davidson, Alexander, c, 483 Davidson, Ann, c, 483 Davidson, Rebecca, c., 483 Davidson, Robert, 483 ^ Dean, George, 500 Dean, Thomas A., c, 500 Demoress, Henry, c, 481 Demoress, Peter B., 481 de Peyster, Cornelia, 498, 503 Dey, Eliza, 496, 497, 498, 499 Dey, Isaac, 483, 488 Dey, James, c, 488 Dey, Mary, 482 Dey, Mary, c, 483 Dey, Rachel, c., 488 Dey, Sally, 500, 501, 504, 505 Dieterick, George T., c., 495 Dieterick, John P., 495 Dieterick, John P., c, 495 Dodge, Henry A., c, 487 Dodge, Henry S., 487 2 Dodge, John V., c, 487 Doe, Emma P., c, 514 Doe, William M., 514 Dooly, James, 503 Dorland, Cosine, c, 504 Dorland, James H., 5042 Dorland, Jane Cozine, 517 Dorland, Jane C, c, 504 Doyle, Teressa, 511 Dusenberry, Barzillai, 485 Dusenberry, Catharine, 485 ', 487, 488, 490. 493 Dusenberry, Charles K., c, 490 Dusenberry, George W., c, 485 Dusenberry, Isaac L., c, 491 Dusenberry, John N., 490, 491, 493 Dusenberry, Sarah E., c, 493 E Eaton, George, 515 Eaton, Mary E., c, 515 Eaves, John, 513 Eaves, Margaret A. W., c, 513 Eaves, Mary B., c, 513 Eckert, Johanes N., 516 Eckert, Johanes N., c, 516 Edington, Eliza, 508, 509, 510, T. 513 Ehmer, Catharine, 517 Eldridge, Melinna, 511 Emmons, Edward A., c, 498 Emmons, Horatio, c, 495 Emmons, Maria, c, 496 Unber to Baptiems 533 Emmons, Mary, c, 499 Emmons, Mary C, c, 494 Emmons, Thomas J., 49.S, 494 495, 496, 498' 499 Emmons, William T., c, 4.9^ F Fadden, — , c, 499 Fadden, Ann, c, 501 Fadden, John, 499, 501, 505 Fadden, John L., c. 505 Farr, Mary, 519 Felix, Ambrose, 514 Felix, Frances J., 510 Felix, Frances, c, 514 Felix, Josephine, c, 510 Festje, Andrew, c, 516 Festje, Emma, 517 Festje, Henrietta, 516, 510 Festje, John J., 516' Festje, John J., c t;i6 Fetgre, Eliza, 512 Findley, George, 509 Fisher, Elizabeth, 515 Fistgen, Martha S., 513 Fitch, Ann E., c, 499 Fitch, Charles H. c, 498 Fitch, Ecklev, 498, 499 Fitch, WiUiam C, c, 4,98 Fitting, Kate, 517 Flick, — , 516 Flick, William, c, 516 Floyd, Alma, 493 Ford, Margaret, 482 Forges, Henry, 517 Forges, Henry, c, 517 Francey, Ann J., 506 Franklin, Benjamin, 517 Franklin, Bertha C, c, 517 Frazer, Ann, 506, 507 Frederick, Henrietta Q., 514 Frederick, Henrietta Q., c, 503 Frederick, Sarah L., 515 Frederick, William, 503 Freeman, Emma, c, 502 Freeman, John, 502 Freuligh, Mary M., 503 Freund, Charles C, c, 518 Freund, Frederick J., c, 518 Freund, Jacob, 5182, 519 Freund, John A., c, 519 Gabbeman, Lizzie, 518 Galloway, Alexander, c, 484 Galloway, Caroline, c, 482 Galloway, George, 481, 482, 484 Galloway, Mary, 481 Galloway, Sophia, c, 481 Gamage, Caroline Maria, c, 487 Gamage, Dr. John, 487 Gardner, Archibald, 504 Gardner, Catharine, c, 504 Gardner, Rebecca, 512 Gassner, Jane E., 507 Gassner, John A., 507 Gassner, John W., c, 507 Gassner, Sarah J., 507 Gassner, Susan C, c, 507 Geebel, Elizabeth, 512 George, Margaret, 487, 489, 491 Gerhauser, Michael, 519 Gerhauser, Philip M. L., c, 519 Gerth, Jacob, c, 518 Gerth, Mary, c, 512 Gerth, Michael, 512, 518 Gibbins, Elizabeth, 518 Gibson, Mary F., 509, 510, 512 Gosman, Janet Duncan, c, 487 Gosman, Robert, 487 Gould, Ann M., 501 Graham, Hugh, 499 Graham, Hugh R., c, 499 Grazier, Charles W., c, 512 GT-azier, Philip, 512 Guire, George, 518 Guire, John W., c, 518 Guire, William F., c, 518 Gulick, Eliza, 501 Gulick, Jane G., 506, 507 Gunn, Alexander, 483, 484, 485, 486, 489 Gunn, Alexander N., c, 484 Gunn, George O., c, 485 Gunn, John A., c, 489 Gunn, Lewis C, c, 486 Gunn, Mary A., c, 488 Gunn, Sarah, 486 Gunn, Sarah B., c, 483 H Haden, Charlotte, 499, 501 Hageman, see Hegeman Hageman, Jane F., 492, 494 Halden, Isabella, 500 Halden, John S., 518 Halden, Marion S., 518 Halden, Mary J. P., c, 518 534 ^be IRew ^ov\{ of l^eeterba^ Halden, Samuel, 517 Halden, Sarah L., 517 Hamilton, Isabella, 492 Hamilton, John P., c, 492 Hanaway, Elizabeth, c, 508 Hanaway, George, 5042, 505, 507 Hanaway, James, 5082, 510, 512 Hanaway, James, c, 504 Hanaway, Jane, c, 510 Hanaway, Joseph, c, 512 Hanaway, Margaret, c, 50S Hanaway, Maria, 516, 517 2, 518, 519' Hanaway, Maria, c, 504 Hanaway, Samuel, 507 Hanaway, Sarah, 5172, 51S Hanaway, Sarah E., 502 Hanaway, Sarah, c, 505 Harding, Eliza J., c, 515 Harding, John, 515, 516, 517, 518 Harding, Margaret E., c, 517 Harding, Mary, c, 518 Harding, William H., c, 516 Hardman, Aaron, c, 482 Hardman, Catharine, 489 Hardman, Elizabeth, c, 489 Hardman, Henry, c, 485 Hardman, Jonathan, 481, 482, 485, 487, 489 Hardman, Jonathan, c, 487 Hardman, Lawrence H., c, 4S1 Harriot, Mary, 502 Harsen, Catharine, c, 484 Harsen, Cornelia R., c, 488 Harsen, Cornelius, 484 2, 486, 488 Harsen, Frederick, c, 485 Harsen, Joanna H., 494, 495 Harsen, John, 4S5 Harsen, John P. R., c, 486 Harsen, Magdalen R., c, 484 Haskins, David, c, 500 Haskins, Emma E., c, 505 Haskins, Harriet, c, 504 Haskins, Wm. E., 500, 504, 505 Haskins, William E., c, 500 Hayden, Temperance R., 500, 502 Hays, Evaline, c, 509 Hays, Nicholas, 509 Head, Harriet, 506 Hegeman, see Hageman Hegeman, Cynthia, 482, 484, 485, 487, 489 Hegeman, Jane F., 484, 486, 488, 489 Hegeman, John, 488 Hegeman, John A., c, 488 Hegeman, Letitia, 486, 487 Hegeman, Margaret, 482, 486, 488 Hegeman, Margaretta, 484, 485 Hegeman, Martha, 488 Henderson, Mr. (Minister), 481 *, 482 Hendrickson, Glorianna, 483 Hermance, Andrew, 484, 485 Hermance, Garret P., c, 484 Hermance, Sarah A., c, 485 Herril, Maria, 503 Hinckley, John, c, 484 Hinckley, Susan, 484 Hoffman, Adolphus, c, 508 Hoffman, Amelia, 5162 Hoffman, Lawrence, 482, 483 Hoff'man, Louisa, c, 508 Hoffman, Mary A., c, 483 Hoffman, Martha C., 482, 483 Hoffman, Robert, 508 Hoffman, Sophia, 516 Holberton, Catharine M., c, 489 Holberton, George, 4S9 Holmes, Ann A., c, 489 Holmes, Augusta M., 503 Holmes, Augusta M., c, 486 Holmes, Charles D., c, 492 Holmes, Elizabeth, 506 Holmes, Frank D., c, 518 Holmes, George W., c, 486 Holmes, Hannah, c, 492 Holmes, Hannah S., 508 Holmes, Kate M., 5092 Holmes, Mary E., c, 490 Holmes, Nathaniel, 505 Holmes, Nathaniel, c, 494 Holmes, Nathaniel AYni., c, 486 Holmes, Rebecca, c, 505 Holmes, Sarah M., c, 505 Holmes, William, 502 Holmes, Wm. B., 4S6, 489, 492, 494 Holmes, William, Jr., 518 Hopkins, Hannah, 4S52, 487 Hopkins, — , 488 Hopper, Mary, 485 Horn, Charles, c, 513 Horn, Jemima, c, 485 Ilnbcx to Baptisme 535 Horn, John, c, 482 Horn, Letire F., c, 486 Horn, Margaret, 483 Horn, Mary, 483 Horn, Matthew, 482, 484, 485, 486, 488 Horn, Matthew, c, 488 Horn, Peter, 513 Horn, Peter A., 498 Horn, Peter A. H., c, 484 Horn, Regena, c, 513 Horn, Sarah J., c, 498 Hornlserger, Margaret, 513 Houston, Elizabeth, 510 Howard, Charles H., c, 508 Howard, Elizabeth T., c, 508 Howard, Ellen A., c, 508 Howard, Kindred, 508 Hughes, Henry, 483, 484 Hughes, Letitia, c, 483 Hughes, Mary, c, 484 Humphrey, Ann, 511, 513 Hutchison, Catharine, 491,492 Ilsley, Emma J., c, 510 Ilsley, Harriet E., c, 503 Ilsley, Mary A., c, 509 Ilsley, Wm., 503, 509 Ilsley, William C, c, 504 Jackson, Aaron B., 482, 484, 485, 487, 489 Jackson, Cynthia, c, 487 Jackson, David S., 502 Jackson, First Day T., c, 495 Jackson, Henry, c, 502 Jackson, John K., 495 Jackson, Letitia, c, 484 Jackson, Mary A., c, 482 Jackson, Margaret H., c, 489 Jackson, Peter A. H., c, 485 Jasper, Emma A.,c., 514 Jasper, George W., 515 Jasper, Harriet A., c, 505 Jasper, John, 504, 505, 506, 5082, 514 Jasper, Joseph R., c, 508 Jasper, Robert T., c, 504 Jasper, Theodore A., c, 508 Jasper, William H., c, 506 Jasper, William H., c, 515 Jennings, Caroline B., 505 Jones, Ann, 48 1 Jones, Emeline, 505 Jones, Isabella, 507 K Kelly, Barbary, 482, 483, 488, 490, 491, 493 Kelly, Margaret, 5082, 510, 512 Kelly, Jane, c, 509 Kelly, William, 509 Kent, Sarah, 492 Kinkade, Robert, 493 Kinkade, Martha, c, 493 Kip, Ann, 496 Kniffen, Susanah, 493, 494 Knox, John, D.D., 501 Kreider, Frederick, 515 Kreider, Edwin, c, 515 Kroninberger, Wm., 512 Kroninberger, Christian, c, 512 Kunze, Elizabeth C, 486, 488 Kyle, Ellen, 507 Labagh, Rev. Wm., 498 Lane, Robert, 495 Lane, Robert A., c, 495 Law, Mary, 499, 500 Lawrence, Charles D., c, 489 Lawrence, Catharine, 489, 491 Lawrence, Eugene, c, 493 Lawrence, Henry, c, 483 Lawrence, Horace, c, 486 Lawrence, Julia, 501 Lawrence, Julia, c, 483 Lawrence, Maria Varick, c, 490 Lawrence, Samuel A., 4832, 485, 486, 489, 490, 493 Leggett, Barbary A., c, 490 Leggett, Henrietta, c, 491 Leggett, Isaac, 482, 483, 488, 490, 491, 493 Leggett, James, 514 Leggett, Jane, c, 488 Leggett, John William, c, 482 Leggett, Kelly, c, 483 Leggett, Mary A., c, 488 Leggett, Sarah, 490, 491, 493 Leggett, Tamar, 481, 482, 485 Leggett, Tamar V., c, 493 Leggett, Warner, c, 514 Leggett, William V., c, 48S 536 Zbc 1Rew ^ovlf{ of l^eeterba^ Lewis, Adelaide, 518 Lewis, Matilda, 509 Liscom, Samuel, c, 492 Livingston, Edward M., c, 498 Livingston, Emily M., c, 503 Livingston, Gerard Wm., 498, 503 Livingston, Dr. J. H. (Minister), 4815 Loper, Henderson R., c, 517 Loper, Julius or Jonathan P., 517' Loper, Margaret R., c, 517 Love, Margaret, 514 Love, William, 501 Love, William, c, 501 Luginbehl, Catharine, 507 Luginbehl, Francis S., c, 507 M Mack, Caroline, c, 486 Mack, Daniel, 486 Magrath, George, 502 Magrath, Sarah E., c, 502 Mahlow, Emilie, 519 Martin, George, 494 Martin, Jonathan C, c, 494 Martin, Mary L, c, 494 Matthews, Jas., D.D., 506 McAlister, Elizabeth, 505 McCartney, Charles B., c, 502 McCartney, George, 502 McCartney, Nicholas T., c, 502 McCloy, Esther, c, 510 McCloy, William, 510 McConaughey, Sarah Jane, 515, 516, 517, 518 McCoy, Mary Ann, 514 Macfarlan, Duncan, 506, 507 Macfarlan, Duncan, c, 506 Macfarlan, John, c, 507 Macfarlan, Martha, c, 506 McGuinnis, — , 499, 500 McGuinnis, James, c, 499 McGuinnis, Kezia H., c, 500 McGuinnis, Margaret, c, 499 McGuinnis, William, c, 499 McGuinness, Margaret jane, 515 Mcintosh, Martha, c, 519 Mcintosh, William, 519 McKenzie, Catharine, 515, 516, 519 McKenzie, Charles A. V., c, 519 McKenzie, Clara A., c, 515 McKenzie, Margaret, c, 516 McKenzie, Robert, 515, 516, 519 McLeod, Christian, c, 486 McLeod, Hugh, 486 McLeod, Hugh, c, 486 McLeod, Mrs., 486 McNight, Mary E., c, 492 Meeker, Rev., Mr., 503 Meier, Caspar, 486, 488 Meier, Eliza C, c, 486 Meier, Henrietta M., 495 Meier, Mary K., c, 488 Michaels, George, 517 Michaels, George, c, 517 Middlemus, Andrew, 489 Middlemus, Catharine, c, 489 Middlemus, Elspeth, c, 489 Middlemus, Robert, c, 489 Mildeberger, Christopher, 483 Mildeberger, John H., c, 483 Miller, George S., 512 Miller, Maria R., c, 512 Miller, Rev. John E., 496 Miller, Sarah S. K., c, 496 Mitchell, Albert E., c, 512 Mitchell, Francis A., c, 511 Mitchell, Frederick W., c, 511 Mitchell, Henry S., 511 Mitchell, Henry S., c, 510 Mitchell, Thomas S., 510, 511, 5122 Mitchell, Wm. H., 511 Mitchell, Willie T., c, 512 Moncrief, Ellen, 486 Moore, Emma P., 510, 511, 512 2 Moore, Emma, c, 514 Moore, Georgiana M., c, 503 Moore, Jane F., c, 501 Moore, John O., 514 Moore, Margery, 496, 497 Moore, Martha, 5042, 505, 507 Moore, Mary, 506 Moore, Sarah L, R., c, 503 Moore, William H., 500, 501, 503 Moore, William H., c, 500 Morgan, Jane L., c, 515 Morgan, Joseph J., 515 Morrison, Mr., 489 Morrison, Thomas, c, 489 Morrow, Andrew, 482 Morrow, Isaac, c, 482 Morrow, Sarah, 490, 491 Mott, Jordan, 488 Mott, Matavus H., c, 488 Muir, Phebe, 487 Unbex to Baptieme 537 Mullock, Christiana, 516 Murfitt, Elizabeth, c, 512 Murfitt, Elizabeth, 518 Murfitt, Hannah, c, 512 Murfitt, Henry, c, 518 Murfitt, Jane, c, 512 Murfitt, John, c, 512 Murfitt, Richard, c, 510 Murfitt, William, 510, 512, 51! Murphy, Catharine ]., c, 504 Murphy, John, 504 N Naugel, Jacob, 489, 495 Naugel, Angeline, c, 489 Naugle, John ]., c, 495 Newhouse, Benjamin, 481 Newhouse, Eleanor, c, 481 Nichols, Margaret, 483 Nichols, Sarah, 483, 484, 48 488, 489 Nish, Isabella, c, 500 Nish, James, 500 Nish, Jane, c, 500 Nish, Marion, c, 500 Nish, Mary, c, 500 Nish, Rachel, c, 500 Noble, Maria, 498 O Oakley, John, 483 Oakley, Patience, c, 483 Oliver, Elizabeth, c, 490 Osgood, Samuel, c, 486 Osgood, Walter F., 486 Overmayer, Charlotta, 518 Overmayer, Louis, 518 Overmayer, Louis, c, 519 Overmayer, Louisa, c, 518 Overmayer, Sophia, c, 518 Packhard, James, 506 Packhard, David, c, 506 Paisley, Isabella, 514 Palmer, Henry, 481 Palmer, John W., 486, 487 Palmer, John Edmund, c, 4 Palmer, John Wood, c, 487 Palmer, William, c, 481 Parks, Deborah, 509 Patterson, Margaret, 484 Patterson, Mary, 499 Pefifers, Edmond A., 505 Peffers, Margaretta A., 499 Peffers, Josephine E. F., c, 505 Peffers, Sylvester J. H., c, 506 Peterson, Cornelius, 481 Peterson, Cornelius E., c, 481 Peterson, John H., c, 501 Peterson, Olof, 501 Peterson, Peter N., c, 501 Peterson, Rachel, 484, 485 Pfenning, Anna ]., c, 517 pfenning, Frederick, 517 Pfening, Charlotte P. R., 519 Pimley, George W., 511, 513 Pimley, George W., c, 511 Pimley, George A., c, 513 Place, Edwin R., c, 515 Place, Fanny E., c, 513 Place, Morris W., 513, 515 Place, Samuel S., c, 513 Post, Henry, 492 Post, Joel, 493 Post, John A., c, 493 Potts, Geo., D.D., 503 Prall, Abraham A., 494, 495 Prall, Hannah M., c, 495 Prall, Hannah M., 494 Prall, Magdalen R., c, 494 Puhle, Gustav, 516 Puhle, Henry M. G., c, 516 Furdy, Ann E., 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511 Purdy, Harriet, 510 Purdy, Harriet, c, 512 Purdy, William G., 512 Q Quackenbush, Maria, 487, 491, 492, 493, 494, 495, 496 Quick, Catharine, 503 R Raeder, Mary M., 514, 515, 516 Randall, — , c, 491 Randall, Cornelia, 491 Randall, James, 491 Rapp, Sarah L., 517 Ray, Mary, 481 Ray, Samuel, c, 482 Ray, William, 481, 482 Ray, William, c, 481 Raid, Ann, 502 538 Z\)e Ificxo l?orl^ of IPeaterbaip Remsen, Catharine, 4832, 486, 489, 490, 491 Reynolds, John P., 514 Reynolds, John F., c, 514 Rider, Alexander R., 507 Rider, Mary I., c, 507 Right, Ann, 501 Ritter, — , c, 497 Ritter, Ann M., c, 501 Ritter, Benjamin, c, 496 Ritter, Cambridge, 496, 497, 498, 499 Ritter, Cambridge, c, 497 Ritter, Charles, 496, 500, 501, 504, 505 Ritter, Charles, c, 500 Ritter, Cornelia, c, 499 Ritter, Dina, 483, 486, 488 Ritter, Dina, c, 488 Ritter, Ellen M., c, 505 Ritter, Hannibal, 483, 486, 488 Ritter, Harry, c, 486 Ritter, Jacob H., c, 504 Ritter, Jane, 500 Ritter, Joanna H., 4842, 486, 488 Ritter, John, c, 499 Ritter, Lewis, c, 483 Ritter, Lewis, 499 Ritter, Lucretia, 499 Ritter, Martha E., c, 498 Ritter, Sarah L., c, 504 Rikeman, Maria, 481 Robertson, George, 506, 507 Robertson, George A., c, 506 Robertson, George R., c, 507 Robinson, Hannah, 489 Robinson, James, 504 Robinson, Sarah J. E., c, 504 Rodabaugh, Elizabeth, 483 Roff, Martha, 507 Romeyne, Rev. W., 482 Ross, Emeline, c, 492 Ross, John E., c, 486 Ross, John E., 484, 486, 48S, 489, 492, 494 Ross, Letitia J., 500, 501, 503 Ross, Letitia J., c, 484 Ross, Peter A., c, 488 Ross, Peter A. H., c, 494 Ross, Sarah F., c, 492 Ross, William S., c, 489 Rowan, Rev. Mr., 483 Runnells, Hester J., c, 506 Runnells, John G., c, 506 Runnells, John H., 506 Russ, Clement, 505 Russ, Clementine, c, 505 Samler, Maria, 496 Sanford, Jane, 500 Sanford, Jane, c, 500 Sanford, William, c, 500 Savage, Joseph W., c, 485 Savage, Sarauel A., 485, 493 Scroggins, Samuel, 500 Scroggins, George, c, 500 Scofield, Almira, 514 Schmidt, George H., c, 508 Schmidt, John F., 506, 508 Schmidt, Marie S., c, 506 Scott, Margaret, 493 Shepherd, Thomas, 507 Shepherd, Thomas F., c, 507 Short, John, 482 Short, John, c, 482 Shurtliti, George, c, 490 Shurtliff, James, 490, 491 Shurtliff, James A., c, 491 Shurtliff, Maria, 493, 494, 495, 496, 498, 499 Shurtliff, Mary, 492 Shricy, Caroline, 509 Skinner, Alexander, c, 507 Skinner, Alexander R., 506, 507, 508, 509, 510, 511, 515 Skinner, Eliza, c, 509 Skinner, Janet, 515 Skinner, Jessie, c, 510 Skinner, Harriet, c, 506 Skinner, Marian, c, 508 Skinner, Mary L., c, 515 Skinner, Rebecca, c, 511 Sleezer, Joanna, 506, 508 Slorach, Isabella, 502, 503 Smith, Elizabeth, 495 Smith, Hannah, 494 Smith, Jennie, 515 Smith, John W., 501 Smith, Margaret Ann, 516 Smith, Margaret, 513, 515 Smith, Maria L., c, 501 Smith, Rev. Mr., 481 Smith, Rose P., c, 501 Smyth, Caroline, c, 513 Smyth, Charles W., c, 513 Smyth, Henry C, 513 Sokell, Augustus J., c, 518 Ilnbex to Baptisms 539 Sokell, John Walter, 518 Solway, Elizabeth, c, 515 Solway, John, 515 Somerindyke, Caroline, 499, 507 Somerindyke, Charles L., c, 499 Somerindyke, George, c, 490 Somerindyke, James C., 490, 499 Somerindyke, Martha E., c, 499 Somerindyke, Whitfield S., c, 499 Somerindyke, William H., c, 499 Stanton, Hannah, 486, 489, 492, 494 Stanton, Mary, 487 Starke, Amelia M., c, 512 Starke, Anna T., c, 511 Starke, Ernest C. H., 512, 514 Starke, Ernst J., c, 514 Starke, George W. A., c, 514 Starke, John H., c, 514 Starke, Louis, c, 516 Starke, Louis K., 511 =, 514, 516 Starke, Louis W. H., c, 511 Steele, Elizabeth A., c, 505 Steele, Emily, 504, 510 Steele, Henry, 505 Steele, John H., c, 505 Stephens, Benjamin S., c, 494 Stephens, Benjamin, Jr., 494 Stevens, Charles B., c, 497 Stevens, Isaac V., c, 490 Stevens, John J., c, 494 Stevens, Thomas G., c, 492 Stevens, Thomas J., 490, 492, 494, 497 Stewart, John J., 488 Stewart, Sarah Schermerhorn, c, 488 Stiller, Maria, 508 Stokley, Amelia, 509 Stokley, Eliza, 509 Stratton, Catharine, c, 481 Stratton, Sarah, c, 482 Stratton, William, 481, 482, 484 Stratton, William W., c, 484 Striker, Helen, 491 2 Striker, James, 483 Striker, J. H., 498 Striker, Jemimah, c, 483 Striker, Lavinia, 488 Striker, Maria, 491, 495, 497 Stuart, Hannah C., c, 487 Stuart, Julia, c, 485 Stuart, William, 4852, 487 Taggert, John, 510, 512 Taggert, John J., c, 510 Taggert, Mary A., 510, 512 Taggert, Rachel A., c, 512 Tappan, Arthur, 494 Tappan, Arthur, c, 494 Tappan, Mary L., c, 494 Tates (Yates?), Mary, 490, 499 Thompson, Catharine, 504, 505, 506, 5082, 514 Thompson, Nancy J., 511 2 Thorp, Eliza, 481 Thorp, Robert, 505 Thorp, Robert, c, 505 Thorp, William, c, 505 Thompkins, Charlotte P., c, 507 Thompkins, Emily L., c, 507 Thompkins, William G., 507 Topping, Hester, 506 Torot, Elizabeth, 486 Torrey, Edward P., c, 483 Torrey, William, 483 T3Tian, Jane, 482 U Ulrick, Henry, 495 Ulrick, Martin S., c, 495 van Aken, Alexander G., c, 506 van Aken, Rev. Enoch, 501 van Aken, Enoch, c, 507 van Aken, Enoch C, c, 519 van Aken, Enoch, 519 van Aken, Gulick, c, 501 van Aken, Harold, c, 519 van Aken, John, 506, 507 van Buskirk, Caroline, c, 497 van Buskirk, Lawrence, 4974 van Buskirk, Sylvester S., 507 van Buskirk, Sylvester S., c, 497 van Buskirk, Wm. h., c, 497 van Buskirk, Virginia T.,c., 507^ van Emburgh, John, 484 li^r.f^^^, van Emburgh, Gilbert, c, 484 van Norden, see also van Orden van Norden, Benjamin ^A.,'^ c, 491 fe-P'f^Hsi '" van Norden, Hannah M., c, 491 van Norden, Margaret F.,c., 492 540 Z\)c 1Rew ^oxk of IpeeterOa^ van Norden, Samuel, 491, 492 van Norden, Sarah A., c, 491 van Orden, see also van Norden van Orden, Elizabeth A., c, 496 van Orden, John J., c, 493 van Orden, Leah Jane, c, 494 van Orden, Samuel, 487, 493, 494, 495. 496 van Orden, Samuel G., c, 495 van Orden, Samuel J., c, 487 van Pelt, Charlotte, 515 van Zandt, Effe M., 495 Varian, Andrew Hopper, c, 485 Varian, Emeline, c, 485 Varian, George W., c, 482 Varian, Gilbert C., c, 481 Varian, Isaac L., 4853, 487, 488, 490. 493 Varian, Isaac, c, 487 Varian, Isaac, c, 493 Varian, Isaac, 481, 482 Varian, Letitia, 490, 492, 494, 497 Varian, Letitia S., c, 492 Varian, Mary E., c, 490 Varian, Mary W., c, 491 Varian, Matilda C.,c., 488 Varian, William, 491, 492, 493 Varian, William H., c, 493 Varian, Tamar L., c, 485 Varick, Jane Dey, 487 2 Volk, Hannah, 481 von Post, Herman C, c, 495 von Post, Laurenz N., 495 W Wagner, Margaret, 512 Waite, Elizabeth, 500, 504, 505 Waite, George, c, 485 Waite, John, c, 487 Waite, William, 484, 485, 487 Waite, William, c, 484 Waldron, Elizabeth A., c, 514 Waldron, George W., c, 514 Waldron, Ida May, c, 514 Waldron, Wm. H., 514 Waldron, William H., c, 514 Watkins, John S., 491 ^ Watkins, Harriet, c, 491 Watkins, Mary Striker, c, 491 Watts, Edward E., c. 510 Watts, Elijah, 508, 509, 510, 513 Watts, Emma M., c, 508 Watts, Frank H., c, 513 Watts, Frederick E., c, 509 Watts, William J., c, 508 Watson, George, 502, 503 Watson, Isabella, c, 502 Watson, Walter J., c, 503 Webbers, Catharine, 481, 482, 484 Webbers, Hannah, 483, 484 Webbers, Letitia, 485 Webbers, Margaret, 484, 485, 487 Webbers, John, 482 Webbers, Philip, c, 482 Webbers, Sarah, 481, 482, 485, 487, 489 Wendelken, John, 509 Wendelken, Caroline L., c, 509 Welsh, Jane R., 495 Westerfield, Catharine J. , c. , 493 Westerfield, Cornelius, 493^, 495> 497. 501 Westerfield, Emma D., c, 501 Westerfield, Mary E., c, 497 Westerfield, Rachel, 497 Westerfield, Rachel, c, 495 Westerfield, William E., c, 493 Westervelt, Eleanor, 489, 495 White, Francis, 517 White, Mary, 516 Whitehead, John, 506 Whitehead, John, c, 506 Whitworth, Emma, 513 Williams, John, 493, 494 Williams, John K., c, 493 Williams, Sarah C, 502 Williams, William H., c, 494 Williamson, Samuel, c, 482 Williamson, William, 482 Williamson, William, c, 482 Wilkins, Mary, 48 7 Winch, Charles A., 518 Winch, Ida M., c, 518 Windust, John, 496 Windust, John, c, 496 Windust, Mary, 496 Wilson, Elspet, c, 492 Wilson, John, 491, 492 Wilson, John, c, 491 Woodruff, Catharine M., c, 516 Woodruff", David, 515 Woodruff", David A., c, 513 Woodruff", David C, 513, 516 Woodruff, Elizabeth, c, 515 Y Yates (Tates?), Mary, 490, 499 appenMcee 541 a. autborfsation At a regular meeting held on March yth, 1907, the fol- lowing preamble and resolution was adopted by the Consis- tory of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church: Whereas, Mr. Hopper Striker Mott, a member and one of the officers of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church, has been engaged in the collection of data and preparation of a history of this Church, and the Bloomingdale region in which it is located, Resolved that we hereby heartily endorse and approve the work of Mr. Mott, and offer him every assistance in our power to aid him in completing the same, and for this purpose to place at his disposal all of the original manuscripts and other books, papers and documents now in possession of the Consistory, covering the history of the Bloomingdale Reformed Church for One Hundred Years. E. A. DiLLENBECK, Clerk. J6. IFncorporation We, Andrew Hopper and James Striker, the Elders, and Philip Webbers and Jacob Harsen, the Deacons (there not being any Minister) of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church or Congregation at the place or neighborhood, in the Ninth Ward of the City of New York, known by the name of Harsenville, do hereby certify that the name or title by which we and our successors, the Minister, Elders, 543 544 Zl)c l^evo ^ox\{ of 13e0terbap and Deacons of the said Church or Congregation for the time being, as a body corporate by virtue of the Statute in such case made and provided, shall be known and distin- guished is THE CHURCH AT HARSENViLLE, according to the doctrine and discipline of the Synod of Dort. In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals the Sixth day of September in the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Six. Witnesses: (Signed) Andrew Hopper " James Striker " Jacob Harsen " Philip Webbers State of New York, SS : On this 6th day of September, 1806, personally came and appeared before me Andrew Hopper, James Striker, Jacob Harsen, Philip Webbers, to me known, who severally acknowledged that they executed the within certificate. I do therefore, agreeably to the act in such cases made and provided, allow the same to be recorded. (Signed) Wm. S. Rose, Clerk. Recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the City and County of New York in Lib. i of the Record of Incorporation of Religious Denominations, page 46, this i6th day of Septem- ber, 1806. Exam, by T. Wortman. d. Cbe SsnoD ot Dort At an early period of the Reformation the Protestants on the Continent were divided into two bodies, the Lutheran and the Reformed. The latter became dominant in the Netherlands, where they maintained their religious liberties only after a long, costly, and bloody struggle against the gigantic power of Philip II., during which they suffered all that men could suffer. So calamitous was their con- dition before the Eighty Years' War that they gave them- appenbicee 545 selves the name of the Church under the Cross, and their symbol was "A Lily amidst Thorns." In 1566, while war was raging, the deputies of the churches met in Antwerp and adopted the Belgic Confes- sion, which continues to this day to be one of the doctrinal standards of the Reformed in Holland. About the same time the Heidelberg Catechism, which had been issued (1563) in German by the Palatine Elector, Frederick III., was translated into Dutch and widely circulated in the Netherlands. Doctrinal differences having arisen among the Reformed, a Synod was convened by the States-General at Dort (1618, 161 9), to which all the Reformed Churches of Europe (save Anhalt) were invited to send delegates, and all did so; only the four selected by the French were for- bidden to attend. The British deputies were George Carlton, Bishop of Llandaff ; John Davenant, Professor of Theology at Cambridge; Samuel Ward, of Sidney College, Cambridge, and Joseph Hall, afterward Bishop of Norwich. Walter Balcanqual, a Scotch presbyter, was also deputed by King James to represent the Scottish Church. This body expressed its conclusions in Canons under five heads of doctrine ; and these Canons were accepted by the National S3niod. After the foreign delegates had withdrawn, the same National Synod revised the Belgic Confession and the Heidelberg Catechism and the Rules of Church Govern- ment, and also set forth liturgical forms for use in public worship. The Church of Holland, thus fully organized, soon became distinguished for learning, soundness in the faith, and practical godliness. She not only maintained a close correspondence with sister churches, but often had the advantage of the presence of their distinguished men, since Holland was the common refuge of all the persecuted believers in Europe. Huguenots, Waldenses, Covenanters, and Puritans found a safe asyltim on her hospitable shores. From A Brief Account of an Historic Church 35 546 ^be Bew l?orti of l?e9ter^a^ The Reformed Faith was transferred to America in 1625 and during the Dutch occupation was the State or EstabHshed Church of New Netherland. Its sister de- nomination, the Lutheran, planted an outpost in New Amsterdam in 1653, the Hebrews in 1654, the Friends in 1657, and the Presbyterians in 1662. The Church of England did not establish itself in New York until 1692. 2>. "fflotable ©Ifts anD Memorials 181 7. Silver seal presented by Andrew Hopper and Jacob Harsen. 1818. Tablet to Mrs. Barbara Asten. 1828. Silver Communion Service. 1829. Tablet to Rev. Dr. Gunn. 1885. Tablet to Jacob Harsen. 1885. Tablet to Domine van Aken. 1885. Tablet to the Dead of the Parish. 1893. Brass pulpit, to Susan M. Maurer, died April 30. 1893. Window. Tribute of the Church to Charles E. Hutchinson. 1894. Double window to Charles Bauer, born Oct. 24, 1850, died Dec. 24. 1894. Double window to C. B. Rowland, born Oct. 8, 1851, died Apr. 20. 1897. Easter. Four silver collection plates, to James B. D. MacNab. 1903. Tablet to Charles Sumner Lester, Superintendent Sunday-school from 1896 to 1903. 1903. Brass Lectern inscribed "To the Sunday-school of Bloomingdale Reformed Dutch Church in loving remembrance from their late Superintendent. Charles Sumner Lester." 1906. Window in the Fifth House of Worship, "In Loving Memory of the Parents of Mr. and Mrs. Runyon Pyatt." HppenMces 547 1906. Window in the Fifth House of Worship, " In Loving Memory of Mrs. George Henry Gilbert, given by Her Friends." B, ©fRcers from tbe Date ot ®rganf3ation pastors The Rev. Alexander Gunn, S.T.D., .from 1808 to 1829 Francis M. Kip John AlBurtis Enoch van Aken Carlos Martyn Madison C. Peters WilHam C. Stinson, D.D . Q^reasurers 1830 to 1831 1832 to 1834 1835 to 188s 1883 to 1889 1889 to 1900 1900 to Andrew Hopper from 1806 to 1809 Jacob Harsen James Striker , . Henry Post Richard A. Striker John H. Striker David Law , Cornelius Westerfield John Waite Thomas J. Emmons John K. Curtis Samuel B. Reed J. Edward Mastin Runyon Pyatt Cler?56 or Secretaries " 1809 to I8I0 " I8I0 to I8I4 " I8I4 to 1822 1822 to 1832 " 1832 to 1838 " 1838 to 1839 " 1839 to 1840 " 1840 to 1843 " 1843 to I88I " I88I to 1882 " 1882 to 1890 " 1890 to 1905 " I90S to James Striker from 1806 to 1828 Ichabod Prall " 1828 to 1830 Richard A. Striker " 1830 to 1832 John H. Striker " 1832 to 1838 548 Z\)C flew Wovl{ of ipe6terbai? Caspar Meier from 1838 to Cornelius Westerfield Gerard William Livingston John N. Boyd Thomas J. Emmons Samuel Hanaway George E. Dunlap Daniel Howell Dr. Richard J. Secor Louis Bauer Nathaniel Tuttle George W. Mersereau Edward A. Dillenbeck 1839 to 1842 to 1843 to i860 to 1881 to 1886 to 1890 to 1891 to 1897 to 1898 to 1899 to 1903 to 1839 1842 1843 i860 I88I 1886 1890 I89I 1897 1898 1899 1903 With dates of election and service Andrew Hopper from 1805 to James Striker " 1805 to Jacob Harsen " 1814 to Ichabod Prall " 1824 to Richard A. Striker " 1830 to James Quackenbush " 1830 to John Parks " 1835 to David Patterson " 1837 to John H. Striker " 1837 to Casper Meier " 1838 to Cornelius Westerfield " 1840 to Gerard William Livingston. . . " 1842 to John N. Boyd " 1842 to Henry Quick " 1843 to William Holmes " 1843 to Thomas J. Emmons " 1854 to Robert Carss " 1861 to Henry S. Mitchell " 1862 to John K. Curtis " 1867 to Samuel B. Reed " 1881 to 1824 1830 1835 1830 1835 1840 1838 1838 1838 1839 1842 1844 1862 1849 1854 1881 1869 1879 1882 1891 EppenMcee 549 Samuel Hanaway from li William M. Stout George E. Dunlap Daniel Howell Jeremiah H. Lant Charles Wessell J. Edward Mastin Edward P. Cone William A. Moore Louis Bauer Henry Daily, Jr Runyon Pyatt Gen. George W. Mindil Edward A. Dillenbeck Gilbert Ray Hawes 1885 1888 1890 1890 1891 1891 1892 1893 1896 1897 1900 1901 1902 1907 to 1888 to 1890 to 1890 to 1892 to 1892 to 1892 to 1905 to 1896 to 1897 to 1 90 1 to IQOO to to 1902 to to Deacons With dates of election and service Jacob Harsen from 1805 to 1814 Philip Webbers " 1805 to 1814 Henry Post " 1814 to 1822 Samuel A. Lawrence " 1814 to 1816 Ichabod Prall " 1815 to 1824 Daniel Mack " 1816 to 1881 John Asten " 1818 to 1830 Richard A. Striker " 1822 to 1830 James Quackenbush " 1824 to 1830 John H. Striker " 1830 to 1837 John Parks " 1830 to 1835 David Patterson " 1830 to 1837 David Law " 1837 to 1839 Ackerly Fitch " 1837 to 1838 Cornelius Westerfield " 1838 to 1840 Thomas J. Emmons " 1838 to 1854 John Waite " 1840 to 1844 Henry Quick " 1842 to 1843 550 Zhc IRevo l?ork of l?e0terbap Peter Rennie from 1843 to 1858 Duncan Macfarlan " 1854 to 1859 Robert Carss " 1858 to 1861 George Robertson " 1861 to 1863 George H. Pimley " 1863 to 1867 Jonas Hanaway " 1863 to 1867 Charles Wood " 1867 to 1883 Jacob Flick " 1874 to 1881 Samuel Hanaway " 1881 to 1882 Otis D. Stewart " 1881 to 1883 George E. Dunlap " 1883 to 1888 Joseph P. Deyo " 1883 to 1886 William J. Lyon " 1885 to 1887 Dr. F. Spencer Halsey " 1887 to 1891 Charles E. Gildersleeve " 1887 to 1888 J. Edward Mastin " 1888 to 1891 Dr. Eugene H. Porter " 1888 to 1889 Erwin H. Schuyler " 1889 to 1890 Charles F. Terhune " 1890 to 1900 Runyon Pyatt " 1 891 to 1900 Dr. Richard J. Secor " 1891 to 1897 Henry M. McCord " 1891 to 1892 Nathaniel Tuttle " 1897 to 1899 George W. Mersereau " 1899 to 1907 Peter Wagner " 1900 to 1902 Edward A. Dillenbeck " 1901 to 1902 Dr. Charles M. Thompson " 1902 to 1904 William Henry Burr " 1903 to 1906 Gilbert Ray Hawes " 1904 to 1907 Hopper Striker Mott " 1907 to 3f. Signatures ot irnM\>i&uals Connectet) wttb tbe Cburcb ^J<^^''^t-<5' 'lx.d>t_^ ^>'^-^«-<*'5»-^^ 551 552 ^be Bew l?ork of l?e0terba\> ,^/L<^=^i^. C^ at/'yvt^ cy^f- ,y/tanjhA. "yrnic 'h ^ r^' Qc^^eJ(^iniM:^CU/ appenbicee 553 554 ^be *Wew l?orJi of IJeaterbai? ftrfJJ-;!**-^ (Beneral 1InC>ex H Aartse, Davidt, 127 "Abbey the," Hotel, 24; loca- tion 44 ; description 45 ; burned 46, 98 Abeel, Magdalena (Beekman) , 386, chart Academy of medicine, 135, 137 of music, 93 Ackerman, Balaam, 376 Isaac, 307 Jane C, 366 John, obit., 248 Mr., 200 Rachel (Westerfield) , 307 366 Adams, Abigail (Mack), 322 Austin, 423 John, 186, 204 John G., M.D., 133, 136, 169 John Quincy, 370 Joseph H., 422, 423 Maude, 293 Adams & Parker, school, 352 Adams, Samuel, 310 Adriance, Isaac, 316 Aetna Fire Insurance Co., iii Akin, Catherine, Miss, 278 Richard W., died, 278 Albemarle, Lord, 49 Albertson, Ann (Striker), 1734, 119 Albert, 140 Derick, II., 119 Albout, Ann M. (Walters), 401 AlBurtis, John, Rev., 209, 210, 377 Alexander, Cato, opens ordinary 69, 70; tavern, 97 Alexander, Lady Mary (Watts), 373 Allen, Janet, 399 Horatio P., 240, 241 AUerton, Lucy B., 396 Alner, James, Lt.-col., 58, 315 Alport, John, 52 Alston, Theodosia (Burr), 26 Joseph, 26 Alva, Regency of, 114 American Board of Foreign Mis- sions, 433 Bible Society, 195, 324, 379 Homeopathic Institute, 323 Horse Exchange, 105 — Institute, 353 — Scenic & Historic Preser- vation Soc, 76 — Seaman's Friend Soc, 369, 379 Sunday-School Union, 434, 440 Amerman, Thomas A., Rev., 399 Amory, James, 395 Martha, 199, 200 Amsterdam, N. Y., 301 Anderson, Andrew, 401 James W., 187, 189 Andros, Gov., 325, 370 Ann Street, 108, 11 1 Anneke Jans, 142 Ansonia Apartments, 91 Antoinette, Marie, 87 Apollo Rooms, 391 Appleton, the publisher, 90 Apthorp, Ann, 333 Charles Ward, 14, sus- pected 42, 47, 118, 333 555 556 ^be 1Rew IJork of 13e0terbai? Apthorp, Charlotte (van den Heuvel), 332 Lane, 5, 15, 17; British encamped along, 38, 58 Mansion, built 1764, 14, de- scription, 15,41, British Gen- erals at, 41, 334 Tract, 12 Apthorp's Tour, 58 Armstrong, Fannie C, 403 George F., 403 Lelia K., 404 Lizzie M., 404 Ariaens (Adriaens), Ariaentje (Webber), 147 Arkenburgh, Henry, 52 Robert H., residence, 82; description grounds, 440 Arsenal in Central Park, 198 Ash, Thomas, 360 Ashby, Sarah, 399, death of, 414 Assessment, Commission of, 1880, 239 Asten, Barbara, Mrs., 179, 180, 182, 187; monument 190, 192, 204; tombstone 233; obit., 248, 252 ; tablet 254 John, 71, 157, 186; deacon 192, 193, 197, 199, 204, obit., 248, 254, 356 Vault, 200 Astor, family, 96 House, 337 John Jacob, 2, 3, 83, 186, 337. 362 Library, 92 Wm. Waldorf, 426 Asylum, street (West 4th), 90 Atterbury, Anson P., Rev. Dr., 265, 381 Atwater, E. R., Rev., 431, 439 Auchmuty, Susan, 397 Austrian Succession, War of, 1744, 33 Aycrigg, Charles, 123 Gerard B., 123 Backer, Jacobus, 347 Bacon, Leonard, Dr., 380 Bailey, Theodoras, Adj., 53 Baker (Purdy), Harriet (Felix), 418 Mary Q. (Duryea), 296 Baker, Matthew, 296 Baldwin, Rev. Mr., school, 198 Balies, G. Jr., 264 Bancker, Abraham, 109 Anna (de Peyster), 386, chart Bank of America, 384 New York, 333, 339 Bansel's Military Academy, pu- pils at defences, 71; location 93.432 Rev. Mr., 194, 204 Banta, David, 149 Hanna, 150 Helena (Webbers), 150 Hendrik, 150, 151 Robert, 313 Wierd, 151 Baptisms, 481, Index to 530 Baptists, persecution of, 338 Barbarie, Abraham V., 203 Robert Farmer, 203 Barberie, John, Ensign, 32 Barker, Jacob, 59, 60, 61; loca- tion of residence, 83 Joshua, 178 Barlow, Hannah, 164, 394 John, 164, 394 Barnum's Museum, 107 Bamewell, Mr., 163, 164 Barrett, Walter, quoted, 343 Bas, John, Sr., 31 John, Jr., 31 Battery, the 57, 68 Battle, of Long Island, 37 Bauer, Caroline, 403 Dora, 403 Louis, 277 Paul, 402 Bayard, Ann, 1812, no Elizabeth, no Elizabeth (Rodgers), 370 Col., of Delaware, 370 family, 370 James A., 370 James A., U. S. Commis- sioner, 370 John, Col., 370 Mary, Rodgers (Kip), 370, 371 Nicholas, Alderman, 36 140 note, 344 — Peter, 1813, no — Petrus, 370 — Samuel, 370 (Beneral flnbei 557 Bayard, Stephen N., 71, 345, 371, 184,186,194,199,200,204 Bayley, Joseph, M.D., 202, 320 Bayles, Lewis C, Rev., 381 Beard, Martha (Holmes), 360 Martha Wilson, 360, 388 Rebecca (Holmes), 360 William E., 388 William J., 388, 402 Beck, Eliza (Bumham), 364 Beckley, Leonard, 400 Mary (Ilsley), 397 Bedloe's Island, 64 Beekman, Abraham K., 71, 74, 186, 344, 345, sketch 346, 371 Ann, 1805, 109 Catherine, 1796, 109 Catherine (Boudinot), 345 Cornelia (Cox), 345 Eliza, 1804, 109 Eliza (Livingston), 386, chart Garret, 35 George, 109 Gerard, Capt., 32, 51 Gerard, 186, 345 Gerard, son A. K., 345 Gerard W., 346, 386, chart Gerardus, M.D., 386, chart Henry, 1796, 109 Henry, Lieut., 32 James, thanked 69, 71 James, father of A. K., 345, 346 — James W., 345 — Jane (Borrowe), 345 Jane (Van Cortlandt), 345, 346 Johannah, 74, 184, 194, 19s, 315, 344, 346 John, 52, 71, 186, 199, 204, 208, 344 John, son of A. K., 345 John C, 345 Lydia (Foulke), 345 Mansion, 24 Mary (Bayard), 371 Mary A. (de Peyster), 345 Mary N. (Bayard), 345 Richard, 109 Samuel, 345 Willem, Schepen, 140, 386, chart — William, 345 — William, M.D., 386, chart — William P., 345 Beinhauer, Frederick, 177 Belcher, , 323 Bell, John A., 313 Belle view, 58 Belmont, August, Sr., 90 Benedict, Erastus C, quoted 48 Benjamin, Asa, 343 Eastburn, Rev., 343 John, Col., 343 Meigs de L., Col., 343 Bennet, Alex., 401 Benson, Adolph, 31, 77 Benjamin, 53, 77, 78, 178 Benjamin D., 71 Catharine, 77 Catalina, 77 Derick, Serg., 30 Egbert, Amer. Commis- sioner, 56 Harman, 32 Henry, Serg., 32 John, 31, Ensign, 32 Margaret, 77 Robert, Ensign, 32, 33 Samson, 32, 53, 71, 77 Samuel, 178 Thomas, 52 William, 52 Benson's Point, fortifications at, 72 Benton, "Old Bullion," 393 Berge, Edward, organist, 245 Bergen, N. J., 323 Berrien, Anna (Duryea), 296 Bethune, Divie, 90 Bethune, Divie Mrs., 419 ; sketch 90, 91 George W., Rev. Dr., 91, quoted, note on portrait, 162 Bethune Street, 90 Betts, Haram, obit., 248 Jane (Varian), 357 Bibby, Gouvemeur S., 332 Billeu, Maria (de Prael), 342 Peter, 342 Bissland, Marion (Carss), 367 Black, Thomas W., 402 Blackford, Providence (Run- yon), 296 Blake, Isaac D., 376 Blanchard, Jane (Day), 325 Marie, 295 Blanck, Alonzo, 402 Blatner, Caroline (Kreider), 403 Blick, William, 402 Bliss, Theresa, 401 558 Zbc Bew ^ov\{ of l?e0terba^ Bliss, James, 401 Blind Asylum, 298 Blockhouse No. i (Central Park), 73, 75 Bloemendael, iii, i Bloomfield, Joseph, Gen., 63 Bloomingdale, meaning of, xxiv. ; whence derived, i ; limits of 2, 3, 4; poems written in, 13, 336; military history, 28; window leads of families taken for bullets, 37; illness in, 215; slavery in, 303-5; French refugees, 35, 418; 302, 305, 332, 343. 349. 350, 355; orig- inal Pres. Church in, 380, 381; 382, 405, 409; stagnant, 429; burial ground in, 438; prior to 1853, 440; described, 231; names of families, 184, 185; condition of in 1835, 210, 211; war history, 28 et seq.; gas lighted first, 1857, 431; tav- ern, 94; local fire company, 99, 416 (Union) Academy, 93, 123, 133. 168 Asylum, 7, 25, 36, 48; vide N. Y. Hospital Church, Reformed Dutch; guide-posts along the cen- tury's pathway, xxi. ; in- troduction, xxiii. ; present location, 47; first Consistory, 100, et seq.; vaults, 124; his- tory, 157—297; first minister, 161; sale pews, 177, 183; As- ten gift, 179, 180; Jumel bell, 181, reserved from sale, 267; sale Asten lots, 182; 2nd House of Worship dedicated, 184, 185; cost of edifice, 190; Lord's Supper, manner of ob- servance, 191; members dis- ciplined, 194, 218; Beekman bequest, 195; burial ground, 200; names of persons in- terred, 202 ; Dr. Gunn's death, 205; second minister, 207; original edifice burned, 209; third minister, 209; public vault, 214; fourth minister, 210; original site rented, 214, 215; diagrams of interior, 1854, 219, 220; fair of that year, 221, 437, 438; diagram first site, 223; first insured against fire, 228; Harsen heirs quit-claim, 224, 226, 227; sec- ond edifice to be demolished, 228; last sermon quoted, 230, 231; retrospect, 232; last ser- vice, 1869, 232; destroyed, 232, 233 ; third House of Wor- ship, 233; Striker bequest, 234. 235; first woman singer mentioned, 236; proceedings to vacate liens, 237 ; fifth min- ister, 244; 4th House of Wor- ship, 246, 247; description of location, 246; additional land purchased, 249, 251; cost of new edifice, 251; description, 252; death of Domine van Aken, 254; last pastor of Dutch descent, 257; dedica- tion, 258, 260; chapel disman- tled, 266; balance "Parsonage Acre" sold, 267; memorial to the dead, 268, tablet, 269; Sunday-school, 268, 275, 276, 278; burden of debt, 269; erection of spire, 272, 273; sixth minister, 273; Advisory Board, 276, members of first, 277; individual communion cups introduced, 278; seventh minister, 283; new site sug- gested, 289, 290; purchased, 291; last service, 291; plans 5th House of Worship, 292; comer-stone laid, 292; de- scription of new edifice, 294; on historic site, xxiii., 47; dead of parish, 2 96 ; Centenary exercises, 295; Pyatt & Gil- bert windows unveiled, 293, 295; distinguished lineage of organization, 298; ist House of Worship, 325; Park Pres. Ch. child of, 381; old time reminiscences, 428; occupants of square pews, 431, 436; description of interior 2nd House of Worship, 432 ; grave- yard, 436; improvements made, 438; anniversaries, 438, 439, 440; fair, 441 ; raising the flag, 1864, 442, 443, 444. vide Church at Harsenville; Burial Ground; Parsonage, also all appendices (Beneral Ifnbei 559 Bloomingdale Cross Road, the new (Apthorp Lane), 42 District, xxv., 2, 5 Road, 2, opened 1703, 4; extended 1795, 7; 16, retreat along 37; British pickets sta- tioned on 38; 42, 44, 45, 58; drive 96, 97; 98; sleighing carnival on, 138, 187 ; widened, 1849, 218; 376; a tour along, 411, 426; a great drive, 413, 415; 416, 419; reckless driving on, 435; 443 Heights, works at, 317; 295, 389, 394, 426, vide Har- lem Heights. — Square (original), 2, 10; (new) named xxvi, 19 — Village, 7, 19, 378, 408 Stages, 98, driver killed in storm, 441 Board, Cornelius, 314 David, 315 Elizabeth (Post), 201, 314 James, 314, 315 Joseph, 315 of Education, 385 Bock^ Abraham, 127 Jaqiiemyntje (Harsen), 127 Boelen, Abraham, Capt., 32 Bogart, David S., Rev., 123, 159, 327 note Mr., thanked, 69 Bogert, Albert, 109 Andrew, 109, no Eliza, 1805, 109 James, 109 Jane, 181 2, no Jane (Anderson), 401 — '■ — Jacob, 1812, no Jacobina, loi Jennett (Kearny), 373 John B., no John Mc, 373 Margaret, 1809, no Margaret, 1807, 109 Peter, 1804, 109 Peter, 1808, 109 Peter, 109 Sally, 1812, no Sarah (Ray), 337 Wert, no Boggs, James, residence 89, 169, 178, 197,204,334 John, S3 Julia (Livingston), 334, 89 Boggs, Sarah, 89 Bombay Hoeck, 370 Bonaparte, Joseph, at Clare- mont, 26 Bonar, Horatius, 428 Bonesteel, Mr., 426 Boomgaert (Bogert), Wyntje Comelise (Stryker), 118 Booth, Robt. R., D.D., 276 Borrens (Burns), Ann (Web- bers), 151 Borrowe, Jacob H., 345 Samuel, 177, 335; resi- dence, 336, 344 Samuel, Jr., 344 Boudinot, Elisha, 345 Boulevard, opened 1868; award paid 229; construction begun, 228, 232; grading completed, 237; elms 257; effort to con- struct "L" road, 278; 417, 419; named, 1870, 438 Boutcher, Ann, (Runyon), 296 Bower, Lane, 4, 57 Theatre, 57 Bowen, Eliza (Mme. Jumel), 326 Bowley, James, 398 Bowne, Abigail S., 339 Amelia, 339 Amy, 339 Eliza (Skillman), 339 family, 338, 339 George, 339 Gulielma, 339 Hannah, 339 Lewis, 340 Matilda, 339 Robert L., 333, 339 Rowland G., 339 Samuel S., 339 Walter, Mayor, 340 Boyd, Miriam, 400 John N., 213, 224, 398 Susan, 398 Bradhurst & Field, 61, 68, 69 Bradley, James F., 397 Brandon, Martha (Osgood), 321 Brass, Sophia (Powis), 395 Bratt, Anna (Schuyler), 355 Brazier, Abraham, thanked, 69 Breakneck Hill, 48 Bremner, Andrew, Capt., 64 Bremner, James, 397 Breuckelin, (Brooklyn), 117 Brevoort, Hendrick, 127 56o Zhe IRevo jPork of ipesterbai? Brevoort, John G., 178 John'V., 336 Brewerton, George, Col., 49 George, Jr., Capt., 33 Brewster & Co., 3 Brick Meeting House (Dr. Spring's), 336, 386, 409 Bridge, Joel, 178 Brinckerhoff, Abraham, 178 Seba, pensioner, 54 Brigham, Ellen (Bowley), 197, 398 C. DeWitt, Rev. Dr., 245 Brigs, Ann M., (Love), 400 Broadway, 182, 187, 188; grad- ing, 226, 228; outlet sewer at 66th St., 237 Savings Bank, 353 Tabernacle, 439 Block, Rebecca, 400 Brockholst, Susanna (French), 331 Brooks, Eldridge H., 360, 416 James, 360 William H., 360 Brooklyn fortifications, 71; stopped work at, 72 Broome, John, Lt.-Gov,, 33, 35; residence, 86, 89, 332, 419 County, named for Lt.- Gov., 87 Street, named for Lt.-Gov., 332 Bronck's Land (Morrisania) , 8 Brown, Elizabeth (Post), 317 family, the, 202 David S., 375 University, 318 Joseph, Street Commis- sioner, 85, 86 Broiiwer, Petronella (Post), 320 Seijbrand, 152 Brunish, Eliza (Bennet), 401 Buchanan, James, British Con- sul, 202, 333 Buchanan & Thompson, 333 Buck, Dr., 136 Mr., 194 Buckley Mansion 24 Bull's Head Tavern, 57 Bullock (Broome) Street, 87 Burnham, Ann (Van Buskirk), 365 Cordelia M., 364 Charles, 364 George, 95 Burnham, Harriet N. (Talcott), 364 James C, Col., 95, 204, 364, 365 Julia M., 364 Mary L., 364 William, 53, 95, 194, 203, 364 Burnham's (Mansion House), 98, 425, 426 Burger, Engeltie (Hassens), 127 Burgher right, the, introduced 115 Burgoyne, Isabella E. (Law- rence), 312 William, 312 Burial Ground (Harsenville), 200; rules therein, 201, 202; interments, 201, 202, 203; described, 1878, 233; 236, 237; assessed, 238; site 4th House of Worship, 247; re- port Committee in charge of removal of remains, 249; con- dition of, 1878, 233 Burr, Aaron, 26, 326; at Bloom- ingdale Church, 327; married, 334 Aaron, Rev. Dr., 327 Burtis, Martha (Amory), 395 Bushwick, 117 Bussing, Aaron, 32 Isaac, 32 Byard (Bayard), David, no Mary, 1840, no Cadez, Loretta (Barbarie), 203 Calico Print Factory, 415 Cameron, Robert, 397 Campbell, Rachel, 397 Canada, 28; expedition against, 1690, 29; second expedition, 1709. 30; 33 Canal, Mme., 138 Candies, names of old-fashioned, 425 Cannon and Mortars mounted, number of, 73 Capoens, Christina, 141 Cappiopean Soc, 318 Cargill, Annie, belle of Harsen- ville, 83 David, 11; house, 10, n (Beneral llnbei 561 Cargill, David — (Continued) 178, 194, 199, 304, 207, 213; property, 82 Mrs. David, 199 Isaac, 52 Cargill & Sonntag, 1 1 Carlton, Sir Guy, raid of upper Hudson, 51; 56 Carrick, Mr., 194 Carrigan, Andrew, 25 Carss, Marion B., xxv., 405 Mary C, 367 John, 367 John B., 367 Robert, 222, 367 Caryl, Emily (Halden), 414 family, 414 Isaac, 385 Sarah, 414 Castle Garden, 63 Cato's Road, 69 Cedarville, N. Y., 308 Cemeteries, burials forbidden in 228; exempted from taxation, 239, 241 Central Park, 12, 42, 43, 55, 73; Mt. St. Vincent in, 77; Har- lem Mere, 78; 85, 92, 97; the Arsenal, 198, 295, 335, 387, 411 Central Park West, 215 Central Presbyterian Church, 410 Chamber of Commerce, 337, 341, 376, 379, 383 Chambers, T. W. Rev. Dr., 245, 259 Chandler, Elizabeth (Williams), 313 Chatham Street, 139 Chaudlet, Joseph, family, vil- lage oracle, 417 Chelsea, xxiii Cheriot, Henry, Jr., 178 "Cherry Lane," 44 Street, 319 "Chevilly," 87, 88 Cheeseborough, slave, 304 Cheever's, Dr., church, 439 Child, Francis, Jr., 375 Children's Fold, 19 Chimney sweeps, 197, 406 Church, All Angel's, 424 at Harsenville organized, 130; formed, 157, 159; First House of Worship, 161, 36 163; Second House of Wor- ship, 169; Second site, 171, 172, 174; Corner-stone laid, 174; building committee, 175; marble tablet, 176; commun- ion service purchased, 199; Harsen bequest, 211; local name, 221; 350; Domine Kip ordained at, 368; anniversary of, 409; described, 428; found- ed by Jacob Harsen, 429. Vide Bloomingdale Ref'd Church. Church, .Collegiate of St. Nich- olas, 100 Brick, the, 318 Eighth Presbyterian, 161 Harlem, at, 176 Mary, 396 members laboring at Brooklyn Works, 71 Middle Dutch Reformed (N. Y. Post-ofiSce) 100, 306 Twenty-first Street Re- formed, 301 of England, established in New York, 1692, 546 "Church of Midwout," 324 "Church in the Fort," the, 100. Vide also under individual church titles. Churchill, Mary H., obit., 248 Cipp, Charlotta (Overmeyer), 404 Cisco, Elizabeth (Day), 303 City Bank, 189 College, 387 Hall plundered, 56; 358, 376 Hall Park, 331, 409 History Club, 76 Hotel, 90 Civil War, 388, 441; incidents, 442 Claes, Anna, 152 "Claremont," 26, 39, 40, 48, 317, 345, 417 Clark, Alfred C, 244 Cyrus, 17 Emmons Col., quoted, 64, 65 282 George, Lt.-Gov., 30 Mary L. (Morgan), 402 William, 399 William W., Rev., 264, 562 JLbe flew l?ork of l^eeterbai? Clarkson, David M., 71 estate, 94 family, 22 house, 19 Matthew, 25 Clay, Henry, 353; obsequies, 393 Clendenin, Charlotte, no George, no George, 1846, no William, 1842, no Clendining, John, 61, 186, 199, 202, 204, 208; mansion, 336 Lane, 336 Letitia, 336 Margaret, 336 Mrs., 198 William, 336 Clermont, Manor of, 331 Clinn, Mahala (Feitner), 376 Clinton, De Witt, 67, 123, 311 George, Gov., 33, 77, 298 Henry, Sir, occupies Ap- thorp Mansion, 38; 42, 57, 120 Coach hire, rates of, 1789, 58 Cobb, Henry E., Rev. Dr., 283, 292, 295 Cock, William T., 88 Cockcroft, James, M.D., 133 Coe, Edward B., Rev. Dr., 245, 264, 292, 295 Coek (Koeck), Hendrik, 139 Coffee House, 58 Coit, Daniel L., 377 Maria (Perit), 377 Colden, Major, 417 Cole, Isaac D., 395 Coles, Anne (Mott), 10; note 52 College of New Jersey (Prince- ton), 162 of Physicians and Sur- geons, 134, 136, 323 Collegiate Church, 130; Consist- ory of, 171, 229, 230 school 1633, 130; names of scholars, note, 109, no Colonial Assembly, met at Dyck- man's, 1752, 77 Colored people, pews reserved for, 221 Orphan Asylum, 351 Columbia College, 57; students work at defences, 70; 134, 159, 162, 208, 209, 323, 324, 325- 329, 341, 368, 369, 372, 384 Columbia University, 25,40, 75, 394 Columbus Circle, 371 Colve, Gov., 113 Commissioners of Estimate and Assessment, 229 Committee of Defence, 61,62,63, 67, 70; issues another call, 72; 390 of Safety, 1776, 35 Common Council, 62, 318 lands, 314 Commons, road across the, 86 Comstock, A. M. F., Mrs., 404 D. W., 277 Concklin, Caleb, 196 Joseph, 196 Concord, 321; North Carolina, 301 Cone, Edward P., 276 Coning, Jacob, 151 Conkling, Davis, 428 Connecticut Rangers, the, 38, 39. 40 Conover, George, 440 Conseil de Malines, Grand, the, 103 Consistory, meaning of term, 102 ; its power, 250 Continental Army, disbanded, 57 Congress, 321 Coombs, Josephine A., 423 Cooper, James Fenimore, 334 Thomas, 20 S., Capt. U.S.A., 352 Corkey, Mary A. (McCartney), 398 Comelis, Jannetje (Webber), 152 Leentie, 152 Corneliszen, Ariaen, 152 Dirck, 143 Hendrik, 145, 152 Jacob, 152 Theunis, 152 Cornell, Albert R., 124, 300 James T., died, 124 James T., II., killed in ac- cident, 300 Joseph, 122, 124, 202 Maria (Striker), 124 Susan (Varian), 359 Cornish, John, 376 Cornwallis, Earl, in command, 38; surrender, 51; at York- town, 56, 119 General llnbci 563 Cortright, Henry, 52. Vide Kort right. Cosijnszen, Gerrit, progenitor of family, 306 Cosine, Catherine, 199 Gerrit, 30 Rachel, 199. Vide Cozine. Coster, Henry A., 337 John G., 178; sketch, 336, 337 Coulthard, William, 187 Council of Appointment, 1784- 1821, 58, 61, 320 Country-seats. Vide Home- steads. Court of Burgomasters and Schepens, 115 Haerlem, erected, 145 note Courtnay, Lord, 26, 417 Coutant, Gilbert, 358 Couwenhoven, Ann, 127 Jacob, 127 John, 31 Margaret (Hassens), 127 Neeltje (Webber), 127 Samuel, 32 Cox, Abraham B., 344 Catharine M., 344 Cornelia, 344 Martha (Hoffman), 394 Isaac B., 344, 345 Cozine, Balaam Johnson, 9, 307 Catharine, widow Balaam Johnson Cozine, 9 Catharine (Harsen), 85, 128, 129, 130, 200, 204 Catharine, sister of John, 308 Catharine (Fleet), 307, 408 — Comelis, the settler at Bloomingdale, 306, 307 — Cornelius, son of Garret, 84, 130 — Comelus, 302 family, 10, 304, 408, 409 farm, 133, 366 — Garret, 84, 128, 129, 130, 133 Garrit, 109, no Garrit, 1807, 109 George, 1809, no Hannah, 84, 130 Jane (Ackerman), 166, 304, 306, 307 Jane A. (Dorland), 308, 408 Cozine, John, 202, 204, obit., 248, 307 John, Mrs., 71, 217, 408; "Mistress," 435 John R., Capt., 59 Mansion, 168, 217, 407, 408, 411 — Margaret (Fletcher), 302 Mary, 1807, 109 — Nich. Dyckman, 308 — Oliver L., Lieut., 59 — Rachel 166, 200, 204, 304, 306, 307; funeral, 441 — Sarah (Hopper), 9, 307 — Sarah, 10 Sarah Stakes (Horn), 308, 408 vault, 307 Couzyn, John, 32 Cozeijn, Comeles, 32 Cornelius, 32 Cozyn, Garret, 32 Croix, Peter, Col., 326 Crosby, Howard, Rev. Dr., 209, 24S> 265 Cross Road to Harlem, the, 5, 42 Crown Point, expedition against 33; 51 Crozier, Mary, 397 Crump, Hannah, 203 John, 203 William B., 203 Cudlipp, Henry A., 424 Hannah E. (Macfarlan), 424 Reuben, 426 Reuben H., 424 Cunningham, William, 150 Curtis, Mary A., 400 John K., 229, 401 Cutler, Albert E., 287 Cutting, Francis B., 20, 21; ex- ecutor of Ann Rogers, 44 William, 2 Cuyler, Henry, Capt., 32 Sara (Van Brugh), 331, 386 chart Theodore L., Rev., 439-40 B d'Auliffe, Mme., 87, chalet, 418 Daily, Henry, Jr., 277, 279 ; died, 286 Dailey, Mary A.,(McGown), 317 Dale, Hester, 403 564 Zhc 1Rew ^ov\{ of 13e0ter^a^ Dalrymple, Jane (Black), 402 Dana, Ann Agnes (Holmes), XXV., 405 note, 437 William F., 360 Darke, Charles, Sr., 377 Charles, 204, 213, 426 Elizabeth, 427 family, 376 George, 377 Helen M., 377 Henry, 376 John, 377 John M., 377 Maria, 376, 377 Maria, daughter of Rich- ard, 376 Mary T., 377 Richard, 376 Richard, Jr., 377 Sarah (Wilson), 376 Daughters of 1812, U. S., the, 75; tablet, 394 Davison, I., D.D., 381 Day, Eliza (Ritter), 304 Day's Tavern, 57 Deaf and Dumb Asylum, 93, 436 Deas, Mrs. (Nash), 443 de Beaujolais, Prince, 88 de Brough, Catherina (Beek- man), 386, chart de Bruyn, Johannes, 30 de Calli^res Bonnevue, Chev- alier, 29 de Courval, Vicomtesse, 88 de Cubieres, Marquis, 87 Deems, Charles F., Rev. Dr., 245. 265 "Deermont," Swords country- seat, 306 de Grove, Rebecca (Albertson), 1720, 119 de Key (de Kay), Elizabeth, 150 Jacob, Lieut., 30 Jacob, tract, 43 de Labigarre, Amaryllis L., 344 Margaret, 344 Delafield Estate, 387 Doctor, 136 del Campiglio, P. F., 394 de Lamater, Abraham, 31 Isaac, 31 de Lamontanye, Isaac, 31 de Lancey, Anne (Watts), 81 Etienne (Stephen), 16, 81, 96 James, Lt.-Gov., 82 de Lancey, John, 33 Mansion, burned, 54 Oliver, Brig. -Gen., 48, 82, 96 Peter, 82 Susannah (Warren), 81 tract, 81 de Lancey's Loyalists, 48, 119 de Lano, George W., Mrs., 264 de la Noy, Catherine P. (Beek- man), 386 chart de Milhau, John T. G., 12 de Montpensier, Due, 87 Denton, Daniel, commissioner, 347 de Neuvilles, the, 89 de Peyster, Abraham, 100, sketch, loi Anna (de Peyster), 386, chart Anna H. (Livingston), 336 Catharine A., 346 Cornelia (Livingston), 336, 385, 386, chart — Cornelia B., 346 Elizabeth (van Rensselaer) 346 Frederick, 18, 61, 71 — Gerard, 67, 186, 336, 386, chart — Gerard B., 346 — Isaac, Lieut., 32, Capt., 32 James, Lieut., 74, mansion. 336 James F., Ensign, 75 — James W., buys de Kay tract, 43, 336, 386, chart — Jane v. C., 346 — Johannes, 100, 386, chart Margaret (de Peyster), 336 386, chart Nicholas, 5, 25; buys van de Water tract, 43 ; boundary of farm, 48; Capt. -Lieut., 58; 71, 186 — William, 2d Lieut., 32; Ensign, 32, 345, 346, 386; chart William W., Ensign, 51 Depier, Sara (Walles), 144 de Prael, Arent, 342 family, 342 Trintje, 342. Vide Prall. deRahm, Henry C, 88 de Riemer, Margaret (Selijns), 142 (Beneral 1In^ex 565 de Riemer, Margriete (Webbers), 149, 150 Isaac, 150 de Rivieres, the, 89 de Singeron, August, Col., 87 Desobry, Benjamin, 178 Despard, Matilda P., quoted, 230 de Suyers, Catalina H. (Kip), 367 deVoor, David, Sr., 31 David, Jr., 31 John, 31 deVouw, Daniel, 357 Elizabeth (Varian), 357 de Witt, Rev. Dr., 438, 439 Dey, Dirck Theunis, 325 Dirck Jansen, sketch, 325 Isaac, first sexton, 166, 175. 193; discharged, 197; re- appointed, 200, 300, 3*^4 Jane (Varick), 325 Mary (Ray), 303 Street, 325 Deyo, J. P., 251 Lawrence, 376 Dick, Hannah (Macfarlan), 424 Dickson, J. M., Rev. Dr., 264 Diedericks, J. J., 178 Digby, Admiral, 346 Dillenbeck, Edward A., 280, 282, 289 543 Dircx, Aechtie, 127 Divene, Margaret (Montieth), 403 Dixon, Courtlandt P., buys " Woodlawn," 47 Dobbs, Margaret, 395 Dodge, John V., 324 Henry A., 324 Henry S., 178, 324, 325 Lieut. -Col., 72, 390 Dodworth's Band, 93 Dogcarts, 440 Dongan, Gov., 108; patent, 113, 118:348 Dorland, Cozine, 308 James H., 308 Jane C, xxv., 405 Jane C. (Franklin), 308, 408 d'Orleans, Due, 87 D'Orsay, Lawrence, 293 Douglass, Rev. Mr., school mas- ter, 16 rake, family, 202 Drake, John, 332 Jeremiah John, 331, 332 Drew, John, 293, note Drisius, Samuel, Domine, 10 1 Duke's Bouwery, the, 325 Laws, 1665, 113 Dulles, Allen M., Rev., 434 Anna S., 434 Charles W., 434 John W. Rev., 433; mis sionary, 434 Joseph H., Rev., 434 Perit, 434 Winslow, 434 William, 434 Dunlap, George E., 251 — superintendent, 267 Dunn, James B., Rev., 410 Dupont, Mary, obit., 248 Duryea, Catharine (Quick), 400 Mr., 197 Duryee, Emma V., 295, 296 Henry, 296 Henry, Col., 296 Henry B., 181 7, no John L., no Joseph R., Rev. Dr., 270, 292 Jost, 296 William, 296 Dusenberry, Catharine H. (Va- rian), 358 -John H., 375 ^ John S., 315 Dutch Church, in Market St., 1810, 350 site bequeathed in Bloom- ingdale, 306 — method of election of offi- cers, 269 Duyckinck, Anna (van de Wa- ter), 1686, 43 Mary (Beekman), 346, 386, chart Dyckman, Abraham, 71 Anneke (Sevenho ven) , 128 Catherina (Cozine), 307 Cornelia (Harsen), 84, 128 Cornelia (Hassens), 127 Cornelius, 31; sketch, 84, 127, 129 Cornelius, Jr., 129 Elizabeth (Sprong), 84 family, 374, 408 farm, 12, 81, 83, 90, 128 George, 76, 84, 86, 129 566 JLlK flew ©orft of IPeeterbai? Dyckman-Harsen Mansion, old- est in Harsenville, 89, 164 Jacobtis, 67, 71 Jacob, 31, 128 Jacob, Jr., 31, 77 Jannetje, (Cozine), 84, 128 Johannes, pioneer, 84 John, 31, 33, no Joseph, 51 Mr., witness to baptism of St. Clair Pollock, 26 Nicholas, 31, 128, 129, 164, 307 Peter B., 1836, no Rachel (Harsen), 84, 128 Richard, 53, 54 slaves, 304 widow, the, 71 Wyntie (Hopper), 9, 121, 164 Wyntie (Kortright), 84 Earl of Dartmouth, 35 East River, 139 Eden Medcef, farm, 3, 320 Edes, Joseph, 51 Eddie, James, 395 Edgar, Daniel M., 340 Hannah (Morris), 340 Herman Le Roy, 340 Newbold, 340 Robert, 340 William, 178, 333, 338, 339, 340 Edward VII. of England. Vide Renfrew Egbert, Benjamin, Capt., 35 Ehmer, Catherine (Pfening), 404 Eigenbrodt's, Dr., school, 384 Eighth Avenue, cars, 95; 227, 302, 333 Eighty-second Street Public School, 388 Elberts, Willemtie, 152 Elevated Railroad, refused per- mission to build on Boulevard, 278; 427 Eleventh Regiment, 1812, offers its services, 64 Elizabethtown Point, 120 Elkin, John, landlord, 108 Elm Park, 15, 17 "Elmwood," 14, vide Apthorp Elmendorf, Rev. Dr., 282 Ellesse, Hendrik, 151 Ellis, Elias, 152 Samuel, 400 Sara, 400 Ellis's Island, 64 Ellison, Eleanor, Miss, 175 Elson, Bastiaen, 145 Elswood, Jannetje (Minthorn), 149 Ely's Misses, school, 17 Emmet Elizabeth (LeRoy), 335 Jane, 335 JaneE. (McEvers), 335 John P., M.D., 335 Margaret, 335 Mary A., (Graves), 335 Robert, 335 Thomas Addis, 178; sketch 334; 1845. 377 William C, 335 Emmons, Amasa G., 394 Catherine (Carss), 367 Edward A., 373 Horatio, 373 Maria, 373 Mary C, 373, 399 Thomas J., 197, 213, 214, 224, 234, 241, 266, 367, 372 William T., 373 English, Thomas D., 13 Revolution, the, of 1688, 28 Ericsson, 11 Erie Canal, 324 Railroad, 309 Esopus, 255 Evacuation Day, parade, 1S14, 390 Evertse & Benckes, Dutch Com- manders, 1673, 117 Eyer, William I., 372 3f Fairchild, E. S., Rev., 245 Fake, family, 364. - Vide Feake. (Romeyn) Margaret, (Quackenbush) , 363, 364 Margaret (Wright), 423 Falken, Letitia, 397 Fancher, Martha (Schuyler), 355 Farmer's Bank, Amsterdam, N. Y.. 355 Farr, Mary (van Aken), 374 (5eneral 1ln^ex 567 Favorite, the, British sloop-of- war, 76 Fawsitt, Caroline C, 45 Fay, Joseph D., Lieut. -Col., 391 Fayerweather Hall, tablet on, 75 Feake, James, 364 Henry, 364 Robert, 364 Tobias, 364 Federal Hall, 4 Feitner, Elizabeth (Ackerman), 376 Elsey, 376 Catherine, 375 Catherine A., 376 Charles, 375 Daniel, 376; Mrs., 199 Francis, 2, 375 Francis J., 376 George, 376 Hannah, 376 Hannah (Cornish), 376 Mary C. (Deyo), 376 Peter, 375 Feitner's Lane, 375 Felix, Francis J., 417; described, 418 Josephine, 418 Female Cent Society, the, of Bloomingdale Church, 198 Fennaly, Dorothy (Webber), 152 Ferguson, Mary E., 203 Ferris, Benjamin, 316, 341 Eliza A. L., 316 Henry Post, 316 Jonathan, 316 Rev. Dr., 439 Festgen, Maria D. (Graser), 402 Field, Benjamin, Mrs., 23 Moses, 322 Mr., 202 Fifth Avenue, opened 1837, 6; 316 Hotel, 6, 93, 312 Presbyterian Church, 410 Finlay, Fannie, 399 Thomas M., mansion, 24 Findley, George, 363 Firemen's Insurance Company, 137 First Presbyterian Church, Chil- licothe, O., 283 ; greeting from 286-7 Fish, Abraham K., 344 Catharine B., 345 Fish, Jonathan, 328 Nicholas, Col., 52; chair- man committee of Defence, 63; alderman, 67, 73; 178; death of, 334; sketch, 328 Fishburn, W. H. Rev., 287 Fisher family, 382, 422 house 382, description of and grounds, 423 Joseph Henry, 422 Fishkill, 368 ' Fitch, Ackerly, 212 Clyde, 297 Echley, 396 Five Dutch Towns, the, 302 Five Points Mission, 439 Flatbush (Midwout), 126, 323, 324 Fleet, Samuel, 307 Sara, 400, 437 Fleetner, William, 402 Fletcher, Lattice (Hegeman) , 302 Nicholas, 302 Flick, Anna, 403 Jacob, 236, 403, 404 Floyd, Alma (Post) ,317 Fonteijn, Jacques, 144 Foote, Samuel C, Judge, 306 Ford, Margaret (Webbers), 154 Philip, 1807, 154 Fordham, 359 Fordyce & Himpler, 273 Forfeiture, Commissioners of, 11 Forman, A., 178 Forsyth (late Second) Street, 195; Dutch Church burial ground on, 196 Fort Amsterdam, 354 Clinton, 73, marked by tablet, 76 Fish, 73 Greene, 64, 73 Horn, marked by tablet, 76 76 Laight, 72, 73, 74, tablet, Lee, N. J., 120, 121 Orange (Albany), 142, 354, Sumter, 442 Washington, 317 Foster & Thomson, xxv. Foulke, Joseph, 345 "Fourteen Miles Around, the," 58 Fox, Maria E. (Ritter), 129 Fractional currency, issued, 62 568 ^be IRew ^ov\{ of ^CQtcvM^ Fraligh, Sol., Rev., 164 Francis, Joseph, landlord at Striker's Bay, 13 Franklin, Benjamin, 310 Bros. 46 House, 58 Maria B. (Osgood), 321 Square, who named for, 321 Walter, 321 Franks, Phila (de Lancey), 96 Fraser, Ann (Robertson), 400 Elspet (Eddie), 395 Fraunces' Tavern, 57 Frederick, Henrietta Q. (Rey- nolds), 402 William, 402 Fredericks, Aaltje (Stille), 363 Fredericktown, Md., 173 Freeman, Alice (Stout), 431 Amos, obit., 248 Emma, 431 John, 202, 398, 431 Mary, 431 French Colony, 87, 417 & Indian War, 1754, 33 Huguenot Church, 378 Philip, 331 Susanna (Livingston), 331 Friends, Soc. of, established in New York, 1657, 546 Frink, I. P.,264 Frohman, Charles, 293, note Daniel, 293, note Frothingham, David, 340 Sara (McKay), 340 Fruitnight, William, 404 Fuller, Edward, 295 FuUerton, A. L., 287 Fulmer, Maria (Varian), 359 Fulton Street Reformed Church, 410 Robert, 417 Furniss, William P., 20 Gailliard, J. B. D. & Son, florists, 411 Gallaudet, Rev. Dr., 344 Gamage, John, M.D., 177 Gano, John, 173 Garden Street Church, 172 Gardner, J. H. Rev. Dr., 243 Thomas, 187 Garret, Eliza Jane, 397 Gas lighted first in Blooming- dale, 1857, 431 Gassner, Daniel, 70, 365 Elizabeth C, 366 Isabella B. (Weyman), 366 Jane E. (Tompkins), 365 John A., 365 John W., 365 Lane, 365 ; place, 366 Matthew, 366 Peter, 366 Susan C., 365 Sarah J. (van Buskirk), 365 Gates, Genl., 121 Gedney, Capt. (Gedney-Harsen duel), 65 Geier, Barbary (Flick) 404 Genet, Edmond Charles, the French minister, 320 Gerard, James W., loi German Society, 383 Germantown, battle of, 50, 120 Gerretse, Wolfert, 126 Gibbes, Thomas S., 332 Gibson, Mary F. (Curtis), 401 Gilbert, George Henry, Mrs., memorial, 293; unveiled, 296 Gilbertson, Henry, 403 Gildersleeve, Charles E., 270 Gilman, Daniel, Prof., 435 Emily S., 435 Edward, Rev., 435 — — - Harriet (Lane), 434 William, 435 Glen Cove, 1756, 118 Goad, Mary E. (Beekman), 345 Goderius, Maria (Cunningham), 150 Goerck, CasimerT., 43 Gold Street, meeting house, 172, 173 Golden Hill, battle of, 318 Gomez, Esther, 155 Goodhue, Jonathan, country- seat, 378 & Co., 378 Goodwin, John, 177 Gordon, Joanna (Carss), 367 Gould, Georg-e J., Mrs., 293 Goulding, William J., 277, 282 Governor's Garden, the, 108 Guards, 68 Grace Dutch Reformed Church, 374 General Unbei 569 Gracie, Archibald, 184, 186; sketch, 338; country-seat, 338 & Sons, 338 Sarah Rogers (King), 338 Graham, Hugh, Capt., 396 Leo, obit., 248 "Grange, the," 341 Grant, John, Capt., 33 Gen'l, Tomb in Riverside Park, 40; dedication parade 278; 317 Graser, Augustus C, 402 Graves, Edward A. B., 335 opening of, prohibited, 203 Gravesend, L. I., 117, 118 Gray, William, Salem, Mass., 60 Great Kill, the, (" Grotekel "), 7 ; farm, 7, 148; district, 10, 335; 312 Greatorex, Eliza, Mrs., 138, 418 Greeley, 393 Green, Cornelia L. (Pyatt), 295 Hill Cemetery, 301 John, 295 Mountain Boys, 51 Greene, Gen'l, 39 Greenwich Savings Bank, 137 Street, 309, 310 Village, xxiii., 90, 161 Greenwood Cemetery, 124, 313, 356 Griffen, "Pop," landlord Bloom- ingdale Tavern, 95, 415 Guest, Elizabeth (Hopper), no Gulick, Eliza W. (van Aken), 373. 444 Gunn, Alexander, Rev. Dr., no; first minister, 162; 174, 176, 180, 182, 187, 188, 190, 195, 196, 199; died, 204; obit., 205 ; tablet, 206; vault, 232, 257, 293; stories of, 408, 409; 428, 429; originator N. Y. Univer- sity, 162 family, 233 John Asten, 205 Sarah, 163, 206, 207 lb Haarlem, Holland, i, 336 Hackensack, N. J., 323, 386 Haight, Edward W. L., Col., 343 Halden, Isabella (Nish), 396 Jane, 400 John, 396 Halden, Marion S. (Winch), 404 Mary, 396 Samuel, 403 Hall, Edward Hagaman, quoted 76 John, Rev. Dr., 410 Thomas, 143 William M., Jr., 308 Halsted, Jacob, 253, 309 Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 83 Hallock, Lewis, M.D.,'323 Hamersley, Forge, 11. Vide Ward, Lebbeus B. Hamilton, Alexander, Hon., Capt., 53; 178, 327, 341 Burr duel, 321 Eliza (Schuyler), 90, 419 Isabella, 199, 362 John C, 327, 332 Square, 82; monument at, 99 Hampden Hall, 108 Hanaway, Amelia, 388 ■ Elizabeth, 387 — — - Emily S. (Stryker), sketch, 388; 437. 442 George, 387 house, location of, 407; description of, 427; marriage at, 430 James, 387 James, brother of George, 387 Jane, 387 — Jonas, 228, 229, 387 — Joseph, 387 — Margaret, 387 — Maria (Bawden), 387 — Mary A. (Tyler), 388 — Samuel, 238, 240, 241, 242, 245, 248, 251, 387 — Sarah (Magrath), 387 Sarah (Bremer), 387 Hance, Revo C. & Co., 11: Handy, W. C, Rev., 243 Hanover Square, 346 Hanson, Jan, 116 Hardenbrook, Abel, Lieut. Johannes, Lieut., 30 Margaret (Somerindyck) , 171 349 32 Theophilus, 374 William, 109 — William A., 67, 71 ; donates fiagstaffs, 73; 171, 174. i7S. 179, 186, 310, 374 570 ^be IRew l?ork of l^eeterbap Hardenbrook's, tour by, 58 Harding, John, 402 Hardman, Aaron, 1809, 154 Christian, 3 1 Elizabeth, 1816, 154 family, 10 Henry, 1811, 154 Johannes, 30 Jonathan, 31, 67, 149, 153, 154, 155. 166 Jonathan, Jr., 1814, 154 Lawrence H., 1806, 154 Harlem, xxiii, 4,58; town officers of, 326 Commons, 43, 68 Creek, "The Canal," 78 Heights, 67; first work at 68; works at, 76; battle of, 27, 37,40,41, 55, 326, 362 Lane (St. Nicholas Ave.), 43 Harmer, Gen'l, campaign, 9 Harison, Richard, 178, 188 Harriot, Mary (Freeman), 398 Warren, 372 Harris, Dwight, M.D., 134 Sarah Maria (Striker), 122 narrower, C. S., Rev. Dr., 265 Harsen, Aletta (Varian), 357 Ann, 1 76 1, 128 Catharine (Purdy), 308 Cornelia, 1753, 128 Cornelia R. (Rhoades), 308 Cornelius, 1755, 128 Cornelius, Col., 61, 64, 65, 66; 1783, 129, 130, 132, 133; treasurer of school fund, 177; 184, 186, 308; sketch 309 Cradle, 129; family, 126, 233, 408; farm, 130; fund, 136 Garish (Garret ?) , 3 5 Garret, 1775, 129 Gert, Sergeant, 32 George, Lieut., 34; Adj. of Levies, 35; 53 homestead (mansion), 12, 132; description of, 138; 210, 211, 406, 415, 431 Jacob, for whom Harsen- ville was named, 84, 85, 128 Jacob, Ensign, 58; 71, 85; biography and genealogy, 126; 1750, 128, 129; biogra- phy, 130; 157, 159, 169, 176, 186, 188, 198, 199, 204, 208, 211; benefactor of Blooming- dale Church, 212; 217, 224, 225; heirs objected to sale, 243; 252, tribute 235; 260, 261, 262 ; tablet, 268 ; 298, 315, 343. 360, 362, 385, 406; anec- dotes, 409; 429, monument, 438 — Jacob, son of above, 1788, 129 Jacob, M.D., son of Col. Cornelius, 131, 132; biog- raphy, 133; founds prize, 135; marble bust of, 137; 308 — Joanna H. (Prall), 308, 343 Johannes, 84, 128 John, 31, 84; 1779, 129 John, P. R., 133, 308 — Magdalen (Halsted), 308 Magdalen R., 308 — Maria Elizabeth (Halsted) , 309 Mary, 1759, 128 Nicholas, 1751, 128 Rachel, 1774, 129 Harsen-Gedney duel, 64 Harsen ville, 10, 12, 56; chapter on, 81; last view of , 138; 160; sickness in, 215, 216; 222, 224, 226, 374, 405, 406, 411; 1845, 415; church at, 85; church- yard at, 351; dock, 187 Post-office, 98 Road (lane), 5, 85, 95, 138, i6s> 309. 387. 406, 407, 415. 416, 428 Smithy, 417 Harsse (Harsen), Tanneke (Min- thorne), 149 Harvard College ,321,322 Harvey, Capt., 427 Hasbrouck, Garret D., 311 Louis, M.D., 311 Haskins, William E., 397 Hassens (Harsen), Aaltje, 1705, 127 (Haszingh) Bernardus, 126 Bernardus, 1702, 127 Corneliis, 17 12, 127 Elizabeth, 1707, 127 Gerrit, 1717, 127 Gertruijdt (Webber), 126 Gerret, 1707, 127 Heijltje (Helena), 1677, 127 Hester, 1674, 127 Jacob, 1716, 127 (Bcneral llnbei 571 Hassens, Jacob, 1672, 127 Johannes, 1678, 127 Johannes, 1709, 127 Johannes, 17 14, 127 Lijsbeth, 1685, 127 Margaret, 1743, 127 Pieter, 1679, 127 Tanneke, 127 Warnardus, 1670, 126 Hassing, Bernardiis, 144 Geertie, 152 Hassingh, Geertje, 144 Haveraeyer, Catherine, 372 Catherine E. (Harriot), 372 Charlotte (Eyer), 372 Charles H., 372 Diederick M., 372 Edward A., 372 Frederick C., 204, 371 Frederick C, Jr., 372 George L., 372 Henry O., 371 Mansion, 10, 11, 411 Mary R. (Northrop), 372 Susanna W. (Senft), 372 William, 371, 372 & Elder, 372 William & F. C, 371 Townsend & Co., 372 Havens, Gabriel, 61 Hawes, Gilbert Ray, 290, 292, 294, 318 Peter, 67; sketch, 317, 318; anecdote, 319, 320 Hayden, Temperance R. (Darke), 377 Hays, Nicholas, 401 Heath, Experience (Lyon), 399 Heddy, Anne (Post), 320 Heerman, Augustyn, 143 Hegeman, Adriaen, 116; sketch, 302 Alida (Prall), 342 — Cynthia (Jackson), 302; died, 303 family, 10, 302 — Frances B., 303 — Jane F. (Ross), 303 — John, 178, 303 — John A., 303 — Laura N., 302 Letitia (Palmer), 303 Margaret (Horn), 303, 312 Martha (Hegeman), 303 — Nic. T., 395 — Peter, 187, 302 Hegeman, Peter A., 302 Heiser family, 63 Hell-gate, 146, 341 Henderson, Mr., 204 Hendricks, Gertje, 8 Harman, 61 Hendricx, Marretje (Stille), 150 Herald Building, the, 107 Hermance, Brig.-Gen'l, 69 "Hermitage, the," 7,36 Hessians, 56, 362 Hebrew faith planted in New York, 1654, 546 Hey, Jacob, Capt., 141 Heyward, Ann M., 20 Nicholas C, executor of Ann Rogers, 44 Sarah, 20, 47 William, 20, 47 Hicks, Samuel & Sons, 352 Hildreth, P. G., 178 Hippodrome, Franconi's, 6 Hoagland, Catherine W., 1848, Henry V., no William H., 1847, no Hobart, John Henry, Rev., 21 Hoffman family, 202 Martha, 164 D. P., 241 Lawrence, 394 Nicholas, 90 Sarah, 90 Hogan, Michael, 2 1 ; built ' ' Clare- mont," 26 Hogeland, Adriaen, 32. Vide Hooglandt. Holden, William, 204 Hole, Henry, 401 Phoebe, 401 HoUoway, Isabella, 1795, 109 John, 109 John, 1808, 109 "Hollow Way, the," 38, 39, 40 Holly, Mrs. 23 Holmes, Ann Agnes (Dana), 360 Augusta M., (Brooks) 360, 416 Charles D., 360 Deborah, 361 Eldridge, 360, 361 Elizabeth (Darke), 361, 377 family, 202 George, 361 George W., 360 572 ^be McMo 13ork of l?e0terbap Holmes, Hamilton B., 373 Hannah S. (Howard), 360 Jane, 361 Kate (Kelly), 361 Mary E., 360 Nathan, 53 Nathaniel, 360, 428 Nathaniel W., 360 Rebecca, 360, 428 Rebecca (Conkling), 428 Sarah M., 360 Stanley, 32 William, 71, 204, 214, 361, 416, 428 William B., 167, 169, 359, 361, 377, 428 William, Jr., 427, 428 Mrs., 437 Homesteads and Country-seats: "Abbey, The," 24, 44, 45, 46, 98 Ackerman, 366 Apthorp, 41, 55 Arkenburgh, 82 Barker, 83 Bayles, 381 Beekman, 24, 74, 345 Benson, 77, 78 Borrowe, 335 Broome, 419 Buckley, 24 Chaudlet, 417 "Chevilly, " 87 "Claremont," 26, 39, 45. 417 77 341 Clarkson, 19 Clendining, 336 Cozine, 302, 307, 308, 408 Cudlipp, 424 Darke, 426, 427 d'Auliffe, 418 de Lancey, 54 de Peyster, 336 Dyckman, 84 Dyckman (McGown's Pass) "Edge Hill," 24 "Elm wood, " 14 Finlay, 24 Fisher, 422, 423 Furniss, 20 Gassner, 423 Hamilton, "The Grange," [ Hanaway, 407, 427 Homesteads and Country-seats : Harsen, 12, 85, 429 Harsen, Cornelius, 309 Havemeyer, 371, 372, 411 Hegeman, 302 "Hermitage, The," 36 Holmes, 360, 428 Hooglandt, 48 Hoppe, 8, loi Hopper, 105, 106 Jackson, 22 Jones, Humphrey, 20, 44 Jones, Nicholas, "Wood- lawn, " 23, 38, 46, 47 Jumel, 41, 89 Kelly, 361, 422 Kortright, 38 Lawrence, R. R., 91 Lawrence, S. A., 92, 377 Lee, SS3 Leggett, 426 Livingston, 385 Livingston, B., Villa," 17 "Locust Grove," 12 Lozier, 90 Mali, 24 McGown, 77 McGown, S. B., 78 Meier, " Willow Bank, ' Oak 382 24, "Monte Alta, " 74 Morris, 38, 41, 325 Mott, Dr., 18 Mott, J. C, 17, 340 "Mott's Point, 9, 350 "Mount Aubrey," 18 Murray, 37 — Nash, 10, 12, 82, 443 — Nutter, 73 — Park, 83 Perit, 92, 420 Post, Anthony, 320 Post, Henry, 314 Prime, 341 — Rogers, 20, 44 — Samler, 187 — Schieffelin, 18, 341 — ■ Somerindyck, 92 — Somerindyck, Teunis, 56, 88, 361, 382, 422 — Striker, "Rosevale," 232, 392 — Striker's Bay, 55, 119 - — Talman, 82 — Thorn, 83 (3cncral Unbei 573 Homesteads and Country-seats; (Continued) van den Heuvel, i6, 95, 426 Varian, 357,359 Varian, "Knickerbocker Cottage" 359 Webbers, 153, 155 Weir, 427 Weyman, 18 Whitlock, 24 Wood, 425 Hooglandt, Adriaen, the house of, 5,31; removes to N . Y. , 43 ; murdered; 43 48 Benjamin, 43 Comelis Dircksen, of Brook- lyn, 43 farm, 25, 38, 39 ^Jeronimus, Capt., 53 ^Johannes, father of Adriaen 43 -Johannes, son of above, re- moves to N. Y., 43 William, 43 Hooglandts, the, of Blooming- dale, descent of, 43 Hooper, B. Frank, 277 Hoorn (Horn) John, 152, 312 Hoorn's Hoek, fortifications at, 38. 338 Hopewell, M. C, 287 Hopkins, John T., 395 Sarah, 395 Hoppe, Hoppen Andries, 8, 102, 103 Christiaen, 103 Johannes, 151 Matthijs Adolphus, 7, 8, 104 Hopper, Andrew, 7, 9, 31, 71, 85 ; biography and genealogy, 102, 104; epitaph, 112; 121, 122, 125, 128, 131, 157, 159, 160, 168, 176, 184, 186; deceased, 198, funeral, 202; 298, 341, 358; scholar 1811, no; country-seat, 98, 105, 106, city residence, 107, 108; wife, 204 Anne (Harsen), 128 burial plot, 9, 105, in, 121, 164, 307> 358 Elizabeth (Guest) ,111 family, 304, 408; other families of the name, 103 farm, 8, 104,^ 148, 306, 3Si> 377J Hopper, Garret, no Jacomiintie (Jemima), 10 Jasper, Capt., 59; sketch, 105 Jemima (Horn), 104, 2( 312 Joachem, Dr., 102 — Johannes, son of Andrew, 105 — John, the elder, 8, 9, 104, 107, 125; payment by British for trees cut, 50 — John, the younger, 9, 31; enlists, 49, 50; 71, 104, 121, 122, 164, 184, 186; slaves, 304, 307. 392 — Martha, 1792, 109 — Mary (DusenlDerry) , 106 — Mary (Striker), 9, 121 Matthew, house of, 7, 9, 104; 1791, 109, 148, 306 — Rachel (Newcomb), 106 — Richard, 32 Wessell, 104, 128 Hopper, William, 32 Yallis, 104 Hopper's Lane, 5, 8, 9, 10, 104, 105, 164, 350 Horn, Arnout, 31 family, 408 Hannah, 78 Jacob, 31, 178 Jacomijntje (Hopper), 1771, 122, 164 James, Ensign, 74 Jemima, 313 Johannes, tract, 122 John, the house of, 5, 6; 1763. 33' 74, 78, 104, 164. 298; sergeant, 30 John, Jr., house, 10, 168; 164, 186, 198, 199, 204, 377 — John, son of Matthew, 313 — Joseph, Major, works at Bloomingdale erected under 74,76 — Letire F. (Young), 313 — Margaret (Mildeberger), 6, 313 Mary (Striker), 122; sketch 298; obit., 299 301 — Mathew, 312; children, 313 — Matthew, son of above. 3-^3, 315 — Peter A., 308 — Peter A. H., 313 574 Zhc IRew IJorft of IJesterba^ Horn, Sarah J., 408 (Sutton- Wells), 308 tract, present center of city, 6, 122, 312, 357 Horn's tour, 58 Hosack, Alexander E., M.D., 70, 351 David, M.D., 321 Hotel Astor, 3 House of Mercy , 17,388 Refuge, 231 Houston, Joseph, 178 Howard, Charles H., 360 Elizabeth T., 360 Ellen A., 360 Kindred, 360 Howe, Sir William, 37, 96 Howell, Daniel, M.D., 275, 276 Howland, Gardiner Greene, 338 John, 61 John H., 16 William H., 18 & Coit, 377 Hoyt, Harriet, 396 Josiah, 396; son died, 438 Huddart, R. Townsend, Rev., 93; school, 209; burned, 416; 432 Hudson, N. Y., 310 Hudson River, xxiv., i ; railroad, 14, 420 Hughes, James M., Col., 129 Letitia, 154, 155 Mary, 154 S. Eva, school, 307 Hulet, Jane (Mott), 347 Humphrey, Ann (Pimley), 442 Mr., 196 Hunt, Charles H., 386 Wilson G., 431 Hunter, Robert, Gov., 30 Hutchinson, Catherine (Wilson), 395 Hutton, Rev. Dr., 356, 393 A. J., Rev., 259 Huybrechts, Ytie (Strijcker), 115 Idens, Rebecca, 145 Ilsley, William, 397 Important events of 1833-4, 333 Index to Baptisms, 530 marriages, 521 Indians, 140, 141 Ingoldesby, Richard, Lt.-Gov., 30 Ingraham, Daniel P., Justice, 224 Institution for the Blind, 4, 344, 351 Irving, Washington, quoted, i, 79. 145 Jackson, Aaron B., 204 Abram W., 45 Andrew, Gen'l, 334, 343 Anna M., 198, 200 Cynthia, 303 David S., 23 John P., Rev., 78, 207 Letitia, 302 Margaret, 303 Mary A., 395 Mary J., 302 Peter A. H., 303 Jacobs, Balitje (Cosijnszen), 306 Classje, 149 Grietje (Stille), 148 Janeway, George, 178 Jans (Jonas), Anneke, 142, 386, chart Marritje, 143 Jansen, Catrina R. (van Brugh), 386, chart Geertje, alias Langendyck (Dey), 325 Thijmes, 143 Trijn, first mid- wife, 143 Japanese Embassy, reception to, 380 Jardine, Edward G., 259 George & Son, 251 Jarvis, Algernon S., 11 Jasper, Emma A., 385 George W., 385 Harriet A., 385 John XXV., 214, 385, 414, 415 John, son of John, 385 Joseph R., 385 Maria, 385 Robert T., 385 Theodore A., 385 William H., 385 Jauncey, Jane M., 15 William, 15, 178, 194, 333, 334 Jay, Gov., 105 (Beneral Unbex 575 Jay, Peter Augustus, 340 Jeremiah, Thomas, Hon., 440 Jersey City, a founder of, 324 Jochemsen, David, 141 Johnson's N. Y. Rangers, 54 Johnston, Henry P., Prof., 41, 46 Mary (Adams), 422, 423 Jones, Ann, 1807, 109 Ann, 399 David S., 178 Edward, landlord of " Claremont," 45 — — family, 44 Humphrey, 19; "Mansion House," 20; Ensign, 32, 44; "The Abbey," 46, 47; land of, 118 Isaac, 21, 61, 67 John, 20, 46 Mary, 109 — Nicholas, 20; farmhouse, 38; engagement ended at, 40; location of, 46, 47 Thomas, father of Hum- phrey, 48 Jones's Wood, 70 Jordan, Laurence P., 358 Jorise, Hendrick, 116 Judah, Naphtali, 178 Jumel bell, 325 Franfois, 326 Mansion, 41 Mme., 89, 325; at Bloom- ingdale Church, 327 Stephen, 70; residence, 89; 181, 325; sketch, 326 Justices, special, appointed 1812, 315. 316 •R Kearny, Archibald K., 373 Elizabeth J. (van Aken), 373 James, Capt., 373 John W., 373 Keets, Michael, 151 Kelby, Robert H., xxv. Kelley, Laura (Laurence), 311 Michael, 311 Kellow, Elizabeth, 203 Joseph, 203 Philip K., 203 Kelly, Annie, 400 Barbara (Leggett), 375 Catherine (Feitner), 375 Kelly, Catherine, 375 Charles, 375 family, 361, 422 Henry, 362; house, 361, 362; wife, 437 Jane, 400 Margaret (Hanaway), 387 Mary (Child), 375, 437 William, 222, 361 Kelsey, Albert W., Mrs., 293 Kemble, family, 44 Robert T., 20, 21 Kent, James, 307 James, Chief Justice, 329 Sarah (Cozine), 307 Sarah, 199 Kerr, Hannah (Odell), 396 Tom, 426 Kervan, Mrs., variety store, 426 Ketchum, Isaac S., Rev., 206 Keteltas, Catharine (Livingston) 331 Jane (Beekman), 346 Kidd, Capt., 146 Kieft, Gov., 78 Kiersen, Jan, 326 Kierstede, Elizabeth (Living- ston), 386, chart Kinderhook, 210, 256 King, James G., 338 William, 184 & Hoogland, 170 Kingsbridge, 58; road, xxv., 7, 341 King's College, library pillaged, 56 Kingsland, Hester (Schuyler) , 314 Isaac, 314 Kingston (N. Y.) Academy, 255 Kinkade, Robert, 202, 395 Kip, Abraham, 127 Francis M., Rev., 2d min- ister, 207, 208, 209, 210, 257, 293.350.359; descent, 367; sketch, 368, 377 Garret, 36 Isaac, 367; sketch, 368 Isaac L., 166, 367, 368 Jacobus, Lieut., 30, 367 John, 31 Leonard, 367 Matthew, 52 Moses, 52 Peter, 53 Sarah (Harsen), 127 576 Zhc 1Rew l?orft of l^eeterbai? Kip's Bay, affair at, 37; 429 Kirschbaum, Catharine A. (Rob- inson), 404 Kittredge, Abbott E., D.D., 292 Knell, Christiana (Lawrence), 312 Peter, 312 Knickerbocker Bank, 353 cottage, 359 Magazine, started, 333 Theatre, Gilbert benefit, 293 Kniffen, Susan (Williams), 395 Knight, Hannah, obit., 248 James R., obit., 248 Knowlton, Thomas, Col., 38; killed, 40; commended, 41 and Leitch, tablet, 41 Knox, Gen'l, 57 John, D.D., 91, 373 Kolch, the (Collect Pond), 139, 346 KoUock, Rev. Dr., of Princeton, 162 Kortright, Aaron, 31 Cornelius J., the pioneer, 43 Daniel, 1806, 109 — Daniel W., 109 — Elizabeth, m. Pres. Mon- roe, 44 Ellen, 1807, log — house, 38; property, 43 — Johannes, 84 John, Capt., 331 Lawrence, 43, 54 — Lawrence C, 43 — Lawrence, Jr., 54 — Margaret W., 109 Nicholas, 1803, 109 Silvester, 52 Kossuth, at " Rosevale," 393 Kreider, Frederick, 403 Kruger, George W., 383 Kunze, John C, D.D., 382, 383; wife, 382 Eliza C. (Meier), 199 Kwakenbos, Dievertje, 151 Kyle, Helen (Gassner), 365 Matthew, 365, 366 William, 366 X Labagh, John J., alderman, 209 William, Rev., 209, 377 La Farge, John, 297 Lafayette, 330, 393, 417 Laffra, William, 149 Lake George, battle of, 33 Laight, Edward W., Col., 72 La Maetere, Cornelia, 151 Lamb, Mrs., buried, 438 J. & R., 407 Joseph, 407 Robert, 407 "Landtdag," the Great, 1664, 347 Lane, George W., 435 Mrs., her recollections, 435 Lant, J. H., 275 Laroexs, Charles, Capt., 32 Lasher, John, Col., 34, 35 Latham, Stanton, 1791, 109 Law, David, 212, 396; house, 407 Elizabeth, 396 Grace, 396 Keziah, 396 Lawrence, Andrew, Lieut., 52 Augustine H., 62 Augustine H. & Co., 310 Benjamin, 52 Catherine R., 312 Charles D., 311 Cornelius R., first elected mayor, 334 David, 310 Edward V., 312 Eugene 311; sketch, 312 Ferdinand, 312 George S., 52 Henry, 311 Horace, 311 Isaac, 51 Jacob, 51, 52 Jonathan, 386 John, Lieut., 52; 53, 310, 347 John R., 312 John R., II, 312 Joseph, 310 Julia (Hasbrouck), 311 Julia (Smith), 397 Lane, 365 Lawrence, 163, 394 Margaret, no Maria V., 311 Matthew, 51 Newbold, 224 Obadiah, 118 Richard, 53 (Beneral Unbex 577 Lawrence, Richard R. country- seat, 91 Samuel A., Capt., 59; sub- scriber to Second Church, 7 1 ; country-seat, 92; 169, 171, 176, 186, 187, 192, 309; sketch, 310; names of children, 311; 312, 315; property, 365; 377; wife, death of, 415; 431 Uriah, 53 William, 310 William, Jr., 53 Laycock, Eliza T. (Amerman), 399 Lazardere, Madelaine, 326 Leads, removed from Bloom- ingdale windows, 36 Leake, John, 7 and Watts, Orphan Home, 7, 25 Lee, Gideon, Mayor, 197, 333 Hannah, 178 Leggett, Abraham, pensioner, 54 Abraham, Lieut., S3, 54 Barbara A., daughter of Isaac, 375 family, 375 Henrietta, 375 Isaac, 54, 15s, 204, 375 ; wife, 200 — Jane, 375 — John W., 375 Kelly, 375 Lane, 375 Mary A., 375 — Sarah (Dusenberry), 375 — Tamar (Varian), 357, 359 — Tamar V. (Wilmott), 375 William, 426 William V., 375 Leiper, Ann (Bremner), 397 Leisler, Jacob, 323, 324 Leitch, Andrew, Major, 39; killed, 40, 41 Lenox, Aletha L. (Donaldson), 316 Eliza L. (Maitland), 316 Henrietta A., 316 Isabella H. (Banks), 316 James, 316, 381 Jenet, 316 Mary L. (Sheafe), 316 Rachel, 316 Rachel C, (Kennedy) 316 Robert, 316 37 Lent, Rijk, 151 Le Roy, Jacob, 54, 71, 84 William H., 335 L'Escuier, Marie (Sevenhoven), 1693, 128 Leslie Hall, 292 Lester, Charles S., memorial, 289 L'Estranges, the, 89 Levies, The, 1776, 51 Lewis, Cornelia (Kip), 367 Leonard, Hon., 367 Matilda (Wendelken), 400 Morgan, 329 Sarah, 400 Lexington, 321 Light Horse Troop, Somerset Co., 119, 120, 121 Lindeman, Emily (Emmons), 372 Ling and Jewell, landlords of "The Abbey," 45 Liscum, (Post), Elizabeth (Bradley), 397 Livingston, Anna de P., (Hunt), 386 Ann (Livingston), 331 Anson, 331 Brockholst (Henry B.), 17, 35; Lieut., 52, 61, 178, descent, 331, 368 Carroll, 331 Cornelia (Livingston), 331 Cornelia M., (Petit), 386 Edward H., 344 Edward M., 386 Eliza, 344 Emily M., (Lord), 386 Gerard W., 169, 213, 336, sketch, 385; 386 chart Gilbert R., Ensign, 51 Henry, Capt. -Lieut., 35 Henry B., 331 Henry G., Lieut., 34 Henry W., 331 James, 386 chart Jasper H., 331 John H., D.D., LL.D., sketch, 157; 158 note; 205, 292 John W., 89, 334 Margaret (Livingston), 386 chart Peter R., (4th Lord), 386 chart Peter W., 336, 344, 386 chart 578 ^be IRew l^orJi of ^cstcv^a^ Livingston, Philip (2d Lord), 17. 33i> 3^6 chart Philip, the signer, 331 Richard, 53 Robert (ist Lord), 331, 386 chart — Robert (3d Lord), chart — Robert, 386 chart — William, Gov. of N. 386 J-, 17, 331 William, 344 William H., 344 William H., 386 Loan, authorized by Congress, 1813, 60 Long Acre Square, derivation of name, 3 Long Island, battle of, 328 Gazette, the, 340 Loockermans, Marritje, 127 Govert, 143 Loots, Trijntje (Banta), 151 Lord, Day & Lord, 386 Lord, Edward C, 386 Loss, Adolphus, Surveyor, 182 Love, William, 400 Low, Jane, 109 John, 10, 12; country- seat, 82, 88, 194 Lawrence, 31 Mary A., 399 Peter, Rev., 162 William, 31 Low's Woods, 12 Loyalist Company of the Out- ward, officers of, 49 Lozier, Emma, 419 John, country-seat, 90 Oliver, 53 Lubertus, Cornelia (de Peyster), 386 chart Ludlow, Ann M., (Livingston), Gabriel, 331 William W., 33 Lutheran Church, 382, estab- lished in New York, 1653, 546 Lush, Thomas R., 404 Lyon, Joseph, 399 Lord, 92 William J., 250, 251, 267 MacArthur, Robert S., D.D., 265 Macfarlan, Duncan, 221, 222 424 Duncan, son of above, 424 John, M.D., 425 Malcom, M.D., 424 Martha (Thompson), 424 Mary, 425 Mack, Caroline (Belcher), 323 Charlotte (McChain,) 323 Daniel, 177, 181, removed from village, 193, 322 Daniel, 323 John, 322 Lucinda (Steen), 323 Orlando, 322 Robert, 323 Sarah (Woodruff), 323 Susan (Hallock), 323 Mackenzie, Robert, D.D., 295 Macomb, Alexander, Maj.-Gen., U. S. A., 352 Robert, 67 William, Brigade-Quarter- master, 69 Macomb's Dam, opened to pub- lic, 67; a resort, 413 Madison Cottage, 6 Square, 4, 5, 6, 356 Maghee, Alexander, 32 Samuel, 32 Major, Letitia, 397 Mali, Henry W. T., Belgian Consul, country-seat, 24 Magrath, George B., 387 Man, John, Jr., 149 Mandeville, familv, 408 G. H., D.D.' 245 — — • John, 31 Yellis, 3 1 Yellis, Jr., 36 Manley, James R., M.D., 320 Manhattan Bank, 337 Congregational 282, 283 Street, 38 Church, Manhattan ville, xxiii., 196, 231 Mansion-House, the, 95, 96. Vide Bumham's Mapes, Genl., 72, 390 Marble Cemetery, 335, 356 Collegiate Church, 282 Marcellus, Mary (Mildeberger), 3^3 Margits, Katherij (Hegeman), 302 Marriage customs, Dutch, 408 (Beneral Unbex 579 Marriages, 446, Index to, 521 Marschalk, Elizabeth, 367 Francis, 367 Maria (Hassens), 127 Martin, George, 204, 377; wife, 199, 200 Jonathan C, 377 Mary I., (Darke), 377 Martin's Hotel, 68 Martineau, Harriet, xxiv. Martyn, Carlos, D.D., 240, 241, 243, called 244, 245, address at dedication, 260; historical discourse, 265; letter of resig- nation, 270, 271, 272 Sanford S., Rev., 259, 265 Marx, Asher, his property, 74 Mary, 344 Masonic Society, 330, 331 Mast (Masten), Jan, 363 Masten, Lysbet J., (Quakken- bos), 363 Mastin, J. Edward, 275, 279, 282, 286, 288, 289; resigned 290, tribute, 291 Matchett, M. B., Rev., 440 Matthews, Elizabeth, 399 Mayer, Henrietta, 395 Theodore, 204, 395 Mauritz, Anna (Provoost), 142 Mc Adams, Mrs., 178 McCarter, Arthur, 374 McCarthy, cottage, 425 McCartney, George, 398 McChain, John, 323 McConaughey, Sarah J., (Hard- ing), 402 McCord, Nancy, 398 McCrea, Mary, 178 Stephen, 336 McDonald, Alexander W., 403 Alexander W., Jr., 403 McDougal, Alexander, Capt., 122, 392 Eliza B., (Striker), 122, 392 McEvers, Bache, 335 McEvers, C, 178 McFarlan, Henry, 178 McGown, Andrew, thanked, 69, 7i> 77. ■^^r service, 316 Daniel, Capt., 77 Eliza, 316 Eliza Ann S., 316 Elizabeth A. P., (Wright), 317 McGown, Henry P., 317 Marianna, 317 Samson B., 78 William K., Rev., 317 McGown's Pass, 42, 57; work at, begun, 67; description of works at, 73; work at, 74; its location, 76 McKay, George, 178, 340 George Knox, Capt., 340 Margaret H., (SchiefiEelin) , 341 McKenzie, Robert, 402 McMann, Mary E., (Cudlipp), 424 McVickar, Anna, 339 John, 16, 339 Mechanic's Bank, 349 Mechanics & Tradesmen, Gen. Soc, of 320, school, 352 Medical Council, 134 Megapolensis, Hillegond, 144 Johannes Domine, 10 1, 145 Meier, Caspar, country-seat, 24, 382, 383; 71, 174, 186, 199; vault, 202; 203, 204, 213, 345, 381; children, 384; wife, 199, 436 Caspar & Co., 383 C. & H. H., 383, 384 Diedrick, 381 Eliza C, 384 Emily M., (Smith), 384 family, 233 Henrietta M., (von Post), 384 John D., 384 Mary K., (Punnett), 203, 384 Mercein, Thomas R., Hon., 61, treasurer Committee of De- fence, 62, 63 F. & W., 62 Mercer Street, 182, 187, 188; church, 436 Merchants' Exchange, 46 Mersereau, George W., 289 Messeroe, Capt., 67 Metropolitan police, 379 R. R. Co., permission re- fused to build on Boulevard, 278 Mexican War, 99 Meyer, Peter, 71 Sara (Hassens), 126 Meyers, Mrs., 194 58o OTe flevo l?orl^ of l?e0ter^al? Michaelius, Jonas, Domine, loo Middle Dutch Church, 368 Road, 85, 86, 422 Middleton, Peter, M.D., 324 Midwout, (Flatbush), 112, 113, ii6, 117, 302 Mier, Isaac, 31 Milborne, Jacob, Capt., 29 Mildeberger, Charlotte A. (Pe- poon), 313 Christopher, 6, 70; sketch, 313 153 — Elizabeth (Banta), 313 — Emeline (Bell), 313 — John A., 132 — Margaret A., (Stuyvesant- Peckham), 313 — Oliver, Lieut., 34; sketch, 313 Oliver H., 313 Mile Stones, from Wall Street, 3d mile, 4; 4th mile, 3 on the Bowery, 2d mile, 371 from City Hall, 5th mile, 422 Militia, the, 1738, 30; 1775, 34; 51 Milledoller, Philip, D.D., 436 Miller, Frank, 442 John, 396, 442; Mrs., 199 Joseph, 442 Vashti (Mildeberger), 313 Mills, Philo, 204 Millstone, N. J., river, 120, court house burned, 1779, 121 Mindil, George W., Genl., 280, 289 Minthorn, Annatje (Man), 149 John, 149 Philip, 149 Samuel, 149 Sara (Webbers), 150 Minthome, John, 31 Mangle, 330 (Menthaer), Philip, 145 Philip, Ensign, 30; 2d Lieut., 32, 149 Mission to the Public Institu- tions, the, 22 Missionary work, manner of carrying on, 437 Mitchell, Charles, F. A., 404 Henry S., 401 Thomas, Mrs., 403 Mitchell, Samuel L., M.D., quoted, 338 Moffat, William B., country- seat, 47 Mohegan Engine Company (No. 50), 99, 416 Moir, Isabel, 395 John, Bloomingdale Union Academy, teacher at, 93, 395 Moncrief, Ellen (Osgood), 322 Monmouth, battle of, 50, 121, 328 Monroe, James, President, 44, 329. 330 Montagne, Jacob, 32 Johannes de la. Dr., 78 John, 32 Montagne's Kill, 78 Montanye, Abram, 77 Monte Alta, 137. Vide Home- steads and Country-seats Monteith, David, 403 Montressor's (Ward's) Island, 349. 369 Moore, Benjamin, Rev., 26 Benjamin, line of stages, Clement C, 178, 336 Harriet W., 403 John, 201, 204 Margery (Darke), 377 Martha (Hanaway), 387 Rosena (Fairbanks-Hege- man), 303 — William A., 277 William H., 399 Moreau, Genl., 88 Morgan, Eliza A. (Holmes), 361 Hamilton, 402 Morningside Park, 43 Morning Star, S. I., 342 Morris, Clara, 293 George P., 13 Lewis, Col., 8, 349 Roger mansion, 38, 41, 325; description of, 326 Robert R., 340 Morrisania, 349 Mott, Adam, the pioneer, 346; sketch, 347, 348 Alexander H., 355 Anne, 10 Ebenezer, Lieut., 53 family, 9, 233 Garrit S., 1812, 122 General llnber 581 Mott, Henry, 52 Hopper S., 355, Appendix Isaac, 10, 52 note Jacob, 52 Jacob C, 17, 340; wife, 2 Jacob H., 1810, 122, 351 James S., 1804, 121, 349 John, 53 John H., 1803, 121, obit., 124 Joseph, 52, 67, 348 — Jordan, 9, 68, 79, 121, obit., 124, 199, 204, 213, 346; sketch, 348, 350 Jordan, Jr., 1808, 122 — Lavinia (Strebeck), 199 M. Hopper, 1815, i22;352; sketch, 353, 355 Samuel, 52 — Samuel C, 1806, 122; obit., 124; sketch, 349, 351 — Thomas, 52 — Valentine, M.D., 18, coun- try-seat, 22, 23; property, 94, 352 Winifred, obit., 124; sketch 351. Vide Lavinia Striker Mott's Lane, 350 "Mott's Point," 9, 121, 305, 349> 350. 351 Muggie, Margaret (Fleetner), 402 Muhlenberg, Henry M., D.D., 382 Mulligan, J. W., Col., 389 Mumford, Gurdon S., 61, 184 Municipal police, 379 Murphy, the village blacksmith, 416 Ned, anecdote, 417 Joe, actor, 417 Murray, Daniel, 403 Hill, 333 Lindley, 37 Mary L., 37 Robert, 37 Mutual Insurance Co., 339, 383 Myer, Abraham, Jr., 31 Aaron, 3 1 Adolf, Jr., 31 John, Jr., 31 Nagel, John, Jr., 31 Nash, Daniel D., Bloomingdale residence, 10, 11, 12, 82, 443, wife, 437 Rebecca, "Goddess of Lib- erty, " 443, 444 Naugle, Jacob, 189, 198 Neilson, John, M.D., 25 Nevada Apartment House, 163, 224, 385, 414 New Amersf oort (Flatlands) , 116, 117, 118 New Bridge, Hackensack, 120 New Brunswick, war incident, 119 Seminary, 208, 209 Newcastle, Del., 323 Newcastle, Duke of, 92 Newcomb, Charlotte (Hopper), 106 Zaccheus, 106 New England shilling, 193 note Society, 318 Newson, Charles, Capt., 181 Newtown, L. I., 323, Creek, 347 New Utrecht, L. I., 117 New York City, 1776; condition of> 35- 57; first Belgian pave- ment laid in, 334 City Dispensary, 321 Eye Infirmary, 135, 137 Historical Society, 48, 10 1, 137, 330 Hospital, 24; breastworks at, 35; 134, 135. 136 Infant Asylum, 1 1 ; first site, 47 Infant School Society, mis- sion of, 298 — Lane, 4 Militia, composition of, 1775. 34 Mutual Insurance Co., 339, 383 Orphan Asylum Society, first in the city, 90, 91, 203, 267, 298, 305, 327, 331, 378; grounds described, 419; teachers, 420, 422. Vide Or- phan Asylum Public School Society, 227, 376 State, number men fur- nished in Revolution, 50, 51 New York Sun, began publi- cation, 334 582 Zhe 1Rew IJork of jpeater^ai? New York University, 92, 312; originated by Alexander Gunn, D.D., 162 note on portrait New York & Harlem R. R., extended, 333 NicoUs, Gov., 116, 144 Nicholson, Francis, Gov., 29, 30 Ninth Avenue, sewer, 237 Regiment, 278 Street church, 209 Ward inhabitants at the defences, 68, 70, 71 Nish, James, 396 Niskayuna, 84 Nolton, Mr., 204 Northern Dispensary, 135, 137 Northrop, John I., 372 Northwood, Caroline (Blick), 402 Norton Brothers, property, 7; inheritance, 148 Mr., house in Harsenville, 411 Noxon, Clarinda (Drake), 331, 332 Marilla C, (Sidell), 331 Nutter, Valentine, 67; thanked, 69, 71; house of, 73 ; farm, 43 "Oak Villa," 17 Oakland Cemetery, Yonkers, 405, note Oakley, Abigail, 396 Lewis, 396 Mary B., 396 Samuel, 396 Tavern, 94 Oblines, John, 32 Oblinis, Garret, pensioner, 54 Odell, Frederick, 396 Oelrichs, Edwin A., 384 Herman, 383, 384 & Co., 383 & Kruger, 383 Ogden, Sarah (Hoffman), 90 Uzal, Rev., 317 William, 178, 336 Ogilvie, Mr., 194 O'Keefe, John, stages, 98 Old Post Road, 4, 42, 85 Old-time families, 298 Oliver, Robert, 193 Ormiston, William, D.D., 243, 24 5 Orphan Asylum, the N. Y., in- mates at defences, 71, 263, 275. 276, 351, 415; attend the church, 432, 435; burial plot, 438; orphans enlisted in civil war, 441. Vide New York Orphan Asylum Soc. Osgood, Martha B., (Genet), 320 Juliana (Osgood), 320 Samuel, sketch, 321, 322 Samuel W., 321 Susan M. (Field), 322 Walter F., sketch, 322 Overmeyer, Louis, 404 Oyster Bay, 118 Paine, William H., 17 Paldwin, William, 178 Page, J. Augustus, 244 Palmer, John E., 303 John W., 303 Park, A. J., Rev., 243, 387 Anna, 83 at Broadway & 9th Ave- nue, 235 Charles F., country-seat and sketch, 83 — City Hall, 68 — Mr., 200 Presb3rterian Church, ori- gin, 381; 424, 425 Parker, Caroline (Wood), 399 Daniel, 56 Parkinson, William, Rev., 173 Paris, treaty of, 56 Parks, Deborah A., (Findley), 363 ^ ^ George, death of, 441 John, 131, 204, 212, 362 Parliament, Catharine (Kent), 307 "Parsonage Acre, 165; oner for part, 243; sale, 243, 244; 251, 252; building begun, 164; 199; damaged, 236; 262, 387 Parsons, Ann (Redman), 348 Parsons & Petit, 386 Pastors emeriti, duties of , 24 1 , 242 Patterson, David, 212, 396, wife, 396 Mary (Graham), 396 Patton, Rev. Dr., of Princeton, 307, 381 Paul, Judith, 188 (General Hn^ei 583 Paulus, Anna (Hoppe), 104 Jiirck, 104 Pavonia, 140 "Peacemaker, The," gun, 11 Pears, Janneke, 151 Rachel, 152 Peckham, Walton H., 313 Pfening, Frederick, 404 Pauline, 404 Pelican Inn, at Harsenville, 95 Pennoyer, Robert, landlord at Striker's Bay, 14 Pennsylvania shilling, 193 note Peppin & Satterthwait, 382 Pepoon, Marshall, 313 Perit, family, 436 John, 378 Pelatiah, country-seat, 92, 420, 433, 213; sketch 377; founds church, 222, 380; trib- ute, 420; wife, 419, 421 ; 378, 379, 431, 434; recollections of, 435> 436 Perit & Lathrop, 378 Perit 's Lane, 424 Perkins, J. Newton, Rev., quoted, 350 Perry, Joanna, 436 Peters, Madison C, D.D., 273, sketch, 274, letter, 277, 278, 279, 280; chaplain 9th Reg., 278, activities, 281 Thomas McC, D.D., 22; residence 23, 424 Petit, Edward, 386 Jules, 386 Mme., school, 23, 94, 386 Philippe, Louis, 88, 89 Philipse Manor House, 59 Phillips, David L., 267 Phoenix Bank, 334 Insurance Co., 337 Pieterzen, Adolf, 127 Pimley, George H., 228, killed in war, 442 Pintard, John M. 26 Pluckamin, N. J., war incident at, 120 Plumley, Gardiner S., Rev., 408; reminiscences, 409, 410; his mother, 408, 410 Pluvier, Cornelis, 127 Poe, Edgar Allan, 13 Virginia, 13 Poems written in Bloomingdale : The Night before Christ- mas, 336 The Raven, 13 Woodman, Spare that Tree, 13 Polhemus, Elizabeth (Post), 320 Johannes Theodorus, Do- mine, 113 Police Station, Harsenville, 416 Pollock, George, 25, 26 St. Clair, identified, 26 Poor Farm (Arme Boiiwery), 1686, 147 Porter, E. H., M.D., 270 Portrous, James G., obit., 277 Post, Abraham, 109, no Adrian, 1841, no Albert, 1811, no Alexander, 1800, 109 Alfred C, M.D., 27 Alison, 317 Ann (Bayley), 320 Ann B., 1840, no Anthony, Capt., 53; Col., 2, 68, 183; vault, 203, 320 Anthony, Jr., 320 Benjamin, 109 Betsy (Manley), 320 Cornelius, 52 Elizabeth, 1841, no Elizabeth (vanDebeck), 403 Edward, 27 family, 10 Henry, 32, 52; Ensign 58; 67, 68; thanked, 69; 71; scholar 1802, 109; 171, 176, 187, 188, 190, 192, 196, 199, 201, 204, 207, 313; sketch 314, 315- 316; wife 198 Jacob, 1796, 109, 320 Joel, 27, 197,^.199, 204, 317 John, 1812, no; 1832, no John A., no, 317 Jotham, 317, 319 Jotham, Jr., 70, 317 Magdalena, 320 Margaret L., no Mary, no Nancy (Hawes), 317, 319 Nelly (Valentine), 320 Peter R., 178 Rachel, no Richard, 52; Lieut., 31 Road, the, 57, 58, 77, 18 Vide Old Post Road 584 tTbe 1Rew IJork of l^eatcrba^ Post, Samuel, 53 Sarah A., scholar, 1832, no Sarah A., (Ferris), 316 Wright E., M.D., 317 Zebulon, 53 Potter (Claessen) Jannetje, 84 Dirck Claessen, 84 Horatio Bishop, 22 Powis J., 395 Richard, 199, 204; wife. 199 Prall, Abraham, 342 Abraham, son of above, 342, 343 Abraham A., 308 Abraham A., son of Icha- bod, 343, 344 — Antje, 342 — Arent, 342 — Augustus A. Benjamin, 342 — Catharine, 342 — Cornelia A., (Benjamin), 199 343 Daniel, 342 — Hannah M., 309, 343 — Helen S., 343 — Henry R., 343 Ichabod, 61, 68, no, 175, 176, 184, 186, 188, 193, 195, 199, 204; vault 203, 206, 207, 232; wife 199; slaves 304, 341; sketch 342, 363 — Ichabod, son of above, 343 — Isaac, 342 — Joanna R., 253 — John T., 343 — Magdalen R., 309 — Mary, 342 — Mary, dau. of Abraham, 342 Peter, 342 Peter, son of Abraham, 342. Vide de Prael. Presbyterian Board of Publica- tion, 434 ■ Church, established in New York, 1662, 546 Prime, Nathaniel, 178; sketch 341 Wendell, D.D., 265 Prime, Ward & King, 338 Prince of Wales, reception at Chamber of Commerce, 380; reception in Bloomingdale, 92 Prince, Samuel, 1776, 37 Princeton, U. S. Ship, 11 Princeton, battle of, 50, 120 College, buildings com- pleted at, 327; 328, 333 Theological Seminary, 256, 283 Prisoners, American, 57 Provoost, Johannes, 141 Johannes, Jr., 30 John B., Recorder, 26 Theodosia (Burr), 327, note Pruyn, Catharyna (Hassens) , 127 Public place. Boulevard, 9th Ave. at 66th Street, 237 School Society, 321, 330, 353 Punnett, James, 203, 384 Herman, 203 Walter, 203 Purcell, Catharine E., 203 Purdy, Ann E., 400 Catharine, 253 Elijah, 308 Purple, Edwin R., Dr., 324 Purth, George T., obit, 248 Putnam, Genl., 37 Pyatt, John, 295, 296 Memorial, 295; unveiled, 295. 297 Runyon, 295 Runyon, 275, 279, 282, 288, 289, 293, 294, 295, 296 Q, Quackenbos, Abraham, 109 Benjamin, 32, 53, 152 Claasje, 152 Jacob, 52 Pieter, common ancestor. 363 Rynier, 363 Quackenbosh, Corni;lius, 32 Quackenbush, family, 363 James, 197, 198, 200, 204, 363 ; wife, 199 James, 1806, 109 John, 109; 1806, 109 Lawrence, 1803, 109 Maria (van Orden), 364 Samuel, 1804, 109 Quakers, presecution of, 338 Queens College, N. J., 15? Vide Princeton (Beneral llnbei 585 Quick, -, 400 Catharine (Frederick), 402 Henry, 214, 398 Radclift, William, 35 Raeder, Magdalena (Bauer) 402 Ral Annatje (Minthome) 149 Randall, John, Jr., withdraws map, 71 Randall's Island, 349, 369 Rapp, Sarah L., (Halden), 403 Raritan, 1778, 121 Ray, Cornelius, 178, 337 John, 442 Margaretta (Hawes), 320 Richard, 32, 337 William, 52, 303 Read, Emily, 223, 400 Mary A., 223, 400 John, 215, 223, 224 Redman, Elizabeth (Mott), 348 Reed, Edward A., D.D., 241, 245, 259, 261 Samuel B., 240, architect 4th House of Worship, 249, 251, 259, 267, 271, 404 Reformed Church in Broome Street, 350 faith, established in Amer- ica, 1625, 546 Reid, Ann (Clark), 399, 415 Elizabeth, 399 John, 415 Reign of Terror, 87 Reis, Elizabeth (Webbers), 153 Reminiscences, 405-445 Remsen, Aris, 53 Catharine (Lawrence), 309, 311 Dorothea, 311 Henry, 53, 337 Jacobus, 52 John, 311 Renfrew, Baron (King Edward VII), 92, 93 Rennie, Peter, 214, 398, 415 Rensselaerwyck, 145, 354 Revolution, the, 33, 96, 173, incident, 418 Reynolds, John P., 402; place, 83 Rhinelander, Eliza L. (Edgar), 338 Rhinelander, Frederick W., 338 Louisa (Rowland), 338 Philip J., 335 William, 178, 335, 338 Rhoades, Cornelia R., 253 Lyman, 308 Rhodes, Ann, 399 Richbell, John, 348 Richmond, James C, Rev., 387 Richmond, William Rev., 22, 91, 388, 418; Mrs., 22, 23 Ridgeway, Martha (Yates) 398 Riker, Abraham, Lieut., 52 James, 377 Patience (Lawrence), 387 Richard, Recorder, 178 204, 332, 387 Samuel, 332 Risk, Anne (Russel), 395 Ritter, Cambridge, 304 Hannibal, 409; anecdotej 410 Joanna H., (Harsen), 129, 308 Johann Pieter, 1698, 129 John Peter, 1788, 129, 308 Magdalen, 186 Moses, 52 Slaves, 304 Ritson, Eliza B., 395 Ritzema, Rudolphus, Capt., 34 "River Lane," 415 Riverside Park, 235, 236, 237, 278, 29s, 317, 383 " Road to Bloomingdale, the " 4, 57 Robert, Christopher R., 335 College, Constantinople, 335 Daniel, 335 Mary (Rhinelander), 335 Roberts, James A., State Comp- troller, quoted, 49 John B. & Co., 295 Robertson, Agnes (Rennie), 398 George, 228, 400 Robinson, Elizabeth F. (Stan- ley), 401 James, 399 Joseph, Capt., 32 Joseph, 404 Mary, 344 Mr. Rev., 215, 429 Rodgers, Eliza (Bayard), 370 Harriet A., (Ellis), 400 John, D.D., 162, 370 586 Z\)c 1Rew l?orft of ^cetcvM^ Rodger's Tavern, in Harsen- ville, 94, 389 Roelofs, Catarina, 127 Rogers, Ann, 20; widow, 44, 47 family, 44 William, 20, 21, 46, 47 Romein, Sarah (Webbers), 149 Roosevelt Farm, the, 144 Margaret (de Peyster), 386 chart Rose, Charlotte, 2 Thomas, 188, 192 William L., 2, 71, " Rose vale, " 122, 232, 352, description of, 392 Ross, Emeline, 303 Letitia J., 303; (Moore), 399 Peter A., 303 Peter A. H., 303 John E., 303 Sarah F., 303 William S., 303 Roulet, John S., 61, 88, 186, 336 Rowan, Stephen W., Rev., 161, 198 Ruinen, village of, Holland, 114 Runyon, Benjamin, 296 Elizabeth (Pyatt), 295, 296 Peter, 296 Vincent, the pioneer, 295 Russell, Annie, 293 James G., 204, 395; Mrs., 199 Rutgers College, 255, 370 Elizabeth (de Peyster), 33^ Henry, 186, 336 Mary (McCrea), 336 Presbjrterian Church, 276 Ryder Ro:, Surveyor, 145 S Sacchi, Gustavus A., 89 Sackett, Elizabeth (Fish), 328 Sackett's Harbor, 328 Sailors' Snug Harbor, opened 334, 379 Samler, Andrew, 54 Barbara (Asten), gift, 356. Vide Asten Catherine, 54 Caspar, 187, 356 Samler, George, 54 Henry, 54 houses, near Madison Square, 187 Maria, 54 Mary (Schiefielin) , 187 John, pensioner, 54 John, 54 Sanford, Nathan, 178 Sands, Cornelia (Prime), 341 Comfort, 341 Sanger's soap works, in Harsen- ville, 415, 416 Saratoga, 121, 328 Savage, Joseph W., 153 Samuel A., 153, 155, 199, 204; Mrs., 199 Schenectady; burned, 29 Schieffelin, Effingham, 71, 187 George R., xxv. Henry H., 204 Jacob, 21, 70, 341 Richard L., 17; sketch, 341 Schieffelin, Coulthard & An- derson, 188, 189 Schmidt, John W., Prussian Consul, 24 Schools, 93, 94, 165 ; No. 9, 423 School of Collegiate Dutch Church, 108, 109 note Schricy, Caroline (Hays), 401 Eliza, 401 Schuyler, Alida (Livingston), 331, 386 chart Arent, 314 David P., 353, 354 Eliza (Hamilton), 327 Erwin H., 270 Jane (Board), 314 Jacob D., 355 Jacob, Jr., 355 John J., 122, 353, 355 Margaretta (Livingston), 386, chart Peter, Col., 30, 386, chart Philip, Capt., 90, 314 Philip D., 354 Philip P., 331 Ruth A., (Mott), 122, 353 Schwab, Charles M., mansion, 91 Gustav H., 384 Scott, Margaret (Kinkade), 395 John Morin, sketch, 36, 328 General Unbei 587 Scott, Winfield, 393 Scudder, John, D.D., 421 Scudder's Museum, 108 Seal of Church at Harsenville, 183, 242 Seaman, Catharine (Livingston), 331 Edmund, 331 Seaman's Retreat, 369 Seaman's Bank for Savings, 379 Searls, Thomas G., 394 Second Regiment, in the Revolu- tion, 48 Secor, Richard J., Dr., 275 Sedgwick, Theodore, 386 See, J. L., D.D., 245 Seem, Samuel H., Rev., 278 Selijns, Annetje (Webber), 139 Henricus, Domine, 142, 324 Margareta, 142 Neisgen, 139 Senft, Henry, 372 Sevenhoven, Jean, 128 71st Street grading, 228; open- ing, 235; sewer, 235; paving, 237 72d Street opening, 235; sewer, 23s ; paving, 237 ; grading, 237 73d Street opening 235; grad- ing, 237; paving, 237; swamp at, 427 74th Street, 427 Sexton, the first, 166; the duties of, 197. Vide Isaac Dey "Shanty-town," 410, 440 Sharp, John, 182 Shatzel, Ann M., (Cole), 395 Shaw, Grizzel, 333 Susan (Schuyler), 355 Sheltering Arms, the, 22, 23 Shepherd, Thomas, 374 Thomas F., 374 Shillings, computation by, 193 and note ShurtlifE, Maria (Emmons), 372, 394 Shute, Margarete (de Riemer), 150 John, 61 Sickels, (Sighels), Anna (Web- bers), 151 Daniel E., Gen. 18 John, 3 1 Sidell, John A., 331, 332 Sigonier, Henry, 154 Susannah, 154 Silliman, Genl., 42 Simpson, Joseph, 89 Silva, Eliza A., 401 William D., 401 67th Street sewer, 237 68th Street opening, protest entered against, 227, 228; grading, 237; paving, 275 Skelding, Mary (Harsen), 128 Skillman, Jacob C., 339 Skinner, Alexander R., 401 Slavery, act to abolish in N. Y., 304, 305 ; suggested by Tomp- kins, 330 Slaves, 303, 340, 349 Sleepy Hollow, church at, 79, cemetery, 256 Slote Lane, 346 Slorach, Isabella (Watson), 397 Smallwood, Col., 42 Smedes, Mr., 184 Smidt, Diedrick, 381 Smith, Albert, M.D., 384 Alexander, 400 Charles W., 155 Elizabeth (Lady Carteret), (Lawrence), 310 Hannah (Martin), (Riker), 377 Jane (Wynans), 402 John, 399 John P., 397 Mary (Holmes), 360 Mary H. (Striker), 123 Sarah (Kip), 367 Sarah, 400 William S., U. S. Com- missioner, 1812, 56 Smyth, G. H., Rev., 259 Society of the Cincinnati, 324, 328 for the Relief of Widows & Orphans of Medical Men, 135, 137 Soldiers' Lint and Bandage Society, 136 Somerindyck, (Somerindyk, Somerindyke, Somerindick, Somerindicke, Somerindijck) Abigail (Thorn), 83, (Cock) Altie (Webbers), 148 Caroline (Shepherd), 374 Cornelia (McCarter), 374 588 Zl)c IRew jpork of ipeeter^ai? Somerindyck, Charles L., 374 Egbert, 149 Elbert, 150, 151 family, 58 farm, 10, 12, 81, 83, 92, 171, 225, 408 Folkert, 31 George, no, 374 George W., 374 house, 92, 93 Hyder, 371 James C, 374 John, II, 82; land of, 160, 176; widow, 176, 374 Lane, 365 Margaret (Hardenbrook) , 374 Martha E., 374 Sarah (Talman), 82 Teunis, farm, 90, 96, 327; house pillaged, 56, 88; 361, 382, 422; described, 423 Volkert, 33 Whitfield S., 374 William, 1843, i^o William H., 374 Somerset, N. J., Militia, 50; history of County, 119, 120, 121 Somerville, Jane, 380 Sons of Liberty, 34, 36, 108 of the Revolution, 41 Soule, Julia M., (Mott), 122 W. W., 122 South River (Delaware), 370 Sowery, Francis, 154 Sperry, Deborah (Cozine), 306 Spetnagel, Theodore, 287 Spring, Gardiner, D.D., 409 Sprong, John, 31, 84 Squatters, 211, 224, 440 St. Agnes Chapel, 16 St. Barnabas House, 22 St. James', Hamilton Sq., 22, 82 St. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, 341 St. Luke's Hospital, 336 St. Mark's, in the Bowery, 313; churchyard, 330 St. Mary's, Manhattan ville, 341 St. Michaels', Bloomingdale, 19, 21, 44; records, 45, 203; 91, 336; churchyard, 365 ; 412, 424 St. Nicholas Avenue (Harlem Lane), 43 St. Nicholas Avenue Insurance Co., 353 Society, 135, 137 St. Patrick's Society, 339 St. Pauls', churchyard, 335 Cathedral, London, 261 St. Stephen's, 79, 346, 348, 350 Staets, Sara, 141 Stages. Vide Bloomingdale Stakes, John, 10, 53 Staniford, Charles W., 45 Daniel, 45 Stanley, Thomas, 401 Stanton, Hannah (Holmes), 359, 428 Stark, Mary A., 399 State University, N. Y., 330 Staten Island, 117, 342 Steddiford, Genl., 72 Steele, Emily, 397; family, 407 Steen, John, 323 Steenwyck, Cornelis, 142 Sterry, Sybil (Lawrence), 310 Stevens, Alexander H., M.D.,134 Charles B., 359 Ebenezer, Lt.-Col., 53 Isaac v., 359 John J., 359 Thomas G., 359 Thomas J., 199, 204, 359; Mrs., 199 Stevensen, Jacob, residence, 115 Oloff (van Cortlandt) 347 Stewart, Maria L., 344 Otis D., 240, 242, 404 William J., 186, 336 William R., 177, 344 Stickles, Maria (Bowne), 340 Stille, Claasje J., (Quakkenbos) , 363 Cornelis, 151 Cornelis J., 139 Frederick, 150 Jacob C, 149, 363 Jannetje, 151 Stillwell, Stilwell, Daniel, 342 Elizabeth, 339 Grace, 149 John, 33 Lane, 342 Mary (Prall), 342 Samuel, 339, 342 Thomas, 33 Stinson, William C, D.D., xxv. ; called, 283; letter, 284-5; sketch 287-8:293, 296, 297 (3eneral In^ei 589 Stirling, Genl., 36 Stoddard, A., 401 Frances, 401 Stokely, Amelia, 400 Stonington, Conn., 66 Storm, Garrit, 61 Stout, Richard, 431 William M., 250, 251 Stratton, Catharine, 1806, 154, IS5 Sarah, 1808, 154 William, 154, 155 William W., 1810, 154 Strawberry Hill (Herald Square) 4 "Strawberry Hill Hotel," the name discredited, 47 Strebeck, George, Rev., founder of St. Stephen's Church, 79, 199. 346 Jordan M., made prisoner twice, 1812, 79, 80 Street improvements, 223, 228, 235, 236, 237, 238 Strijcker, Dirck, Knight, 1677, 114 family, 114 Gerrit, 115, 118 Herman, 1562, 114 Jacobus, 8; magistrate, 12, 115; founder of family in America, 114; at New Amers- foort 116; portrait, 1655, 117; Schout, 1673, 117 Jan, Schout, 112, 113, 114; delegate, 1674, 117, 126 Striker, Ambrose K., 235; anec- dote, 437 Ann, 9, 1781, 121, 164, 199; life of, 257; sketch, 305; 351 Caesar, slave, 301 Dennis, pensioner, 54 family, 233, 408, 436 Gabriel F., 1805, 123, 124 George H., obit., 124 George W., 1802, 123 Garrit H., 9, Capt., 75, 1784, 122, 124, 153, 165, 218; bequest, 234-5; life of, 257; mansion, 306; Genl., sketch, 388, 431; Mrs., 199 Garrit H., Jr., obit., 124 Gerrit, of Striker's Bay, 12, 118; Mrs., 55 Striker, Helen (Watkins-Ayc- rigg), 123, 124, 300, 301 James, 9, 13; enlisted, 50, 119; 55; Ensign, 58; thanked, 69; Elder, 85; biography and genealogy, ii2;married, 1780, 121; second marriage, 1790, 122 ; mansion, 123 ; obit., 1831, 125; 132, 159, 160, 169, 176, 182, 197, i99;vault, 200, 232, 356; 204, ill, 208, 298, 301, 315; portrait burned, 126; Mrs., 126, 198, 436 James A., 394 Jemima (Swords), 1809, 123, 301, 306 John H., 179s, 122; house burned, 126, 197, 209, 300 Lavinia (Mott), 1782, 121, 346 ; sketch, 349. Vide Wini- fred Mott Maria (Cornell), 122, 300 Richard A., 1797, 122, 196, 197, 199, 204, 206, 208, 300, 315 Winifred (Mott), 9. Vide Lavinia Striker Striker z;5. Mott, 306 Striker's Bay, 7, 9; tavern, 13; 18; fortifications at, 38; revo- lutionary history, 55; 98, no, 119; British aggressions at, 121, 123; estate partitioned 1856, 125; IS9, 201, 305, 346, 389; sign, 436 Striker's Lane, 392 Stryker, Emily H., xxv., 388, diary, 405, 407. Vide Hana- way Garret, 118 Jacobus, 1682, 118 Jan, 302 John, 118, Capt., 50, 1776, 119, 121 Martha, 118 Mercy, 118 Peter, Capt., 29 Peter, D.D., xxv., 388 William S., Genl., quoted, 119 Wyntje (Lane), 118 Stuart, Hannah, 394 William, 394 Stuyvesant, Ann (Bayard), 370 Anne (Verleth), 140 note Elizabeth (Fish), 328 590 ^be mew 13orft of ^CBtcv^w^ Stuyvesant, Gerard, 127; Capt., 30 Petrus, 139, 328, 354 Robert, 313 Stuyvesant's Bouwery, 306 Company, 9 Stijmets, Catharina (Hopper), 105 Sugar House, 52 note Loaf Street, 391 Sunday-Schools, one of the earliest, 231; 409 Surgical Aid Society, 136 Sutton, Albert, 308 Swackhamer Eve (Schuyler) , 355 Swamp at 73d Street, 427 Swanser, Sarah, (Stake), 10 Swansten, William, 152 Swartwout, Rachel (Kip), 367 Thomas, 302 Swift, Joseph G., Genl. 66; report on fortifications, 73, 74 Swords, Edward J., 123, 306 George H., 123 Synod of Dort, the, history of, 100, articles quoted, appen- dix C Syren, U. S. Brig-of-War, 79, captured, 80 Z Tablet to commemorate de- fences, 1812, 75 Talcott, August B., 365 family, 419 Frederick L., 365 Frederick L., Jr., 365 Frederick S., 90 Noah, 365 & Sons, 365 Talleyrand, in Bloomingdale, 88 Talman, Dowah D., 1847, no John H., residence, 82; secular, 1847, no; 178 Peter, no Tammany Society, 60; Hall, 68, 320 Tappan, Mr., 204 Tates (Yates?) Mary (Somer- indyck), 374 Tavern, the Oakley, 94; village, 94, 95 Taxation, churches and school houses exempted from, 227 Taxes and Assessments, remit- ted, 228, 234, 239; paid, 229, 244 Taylor, Amelia (Mott), 122 Col., of South Carolina, 60 Jacob B., 122 John, 178 Moses, 122 Teller, Catherine, 178 "Temple of Health, the," 36 Ten Broeck, Catherine (William- son), 296 Wessel W., 296 Ten Brook, Dirck, 67 ten Eijck, Coenraedt, 152 Tenth Avenue, 224; sewer at 70th Street, 235; extended, 1850, 416; 1849, 427; 429 Terhune, Charles F., Mrs., 293 Terry, Roderick, D.D., 245 Thayer, Abel, contractor, 86 The Raven, 13 Theunis, Jannetje (Dey), 325 34th Street Reformed Church, 388, 444 Thomas, Margaret, 344 Thompson, Adam, 424 A. R., D.D., composed in- scription to Domine Van Aken, 256; 257 Catharine (Jasper), 385 Corporal, 6 Elizabeth, 398 Hannah (Prall), 175, 342 John, 177, 342 J. P., Dr., 435 Robert, Capt., 416 Robert W., 424 Thomson, David, xxv. Thong, Maria (Livingston), 386 chart Walter, 386 chart Thorn, Leonard, residence, 83 Thorne, Herman, Col., 15 Herman J., 15 Ticonderoga, capture of, 51 Tiffany, O. H., D.D., 265 Tilly Tudlum, 121 Tillou, Francis R., 344 Tilton, Capt., landlord of "The Abbey," 45 Edgar J., D.D., 292, 295 Tinellie, Julia (Lush), 404 Tomb in Riverside Park, 25 (Beneral 1In^ex 591 Tompkins, Charlotte P., 365 Christopher, 372 Daniel D., Governor, 64, 66, 178; sketch, 328; Vice- President, 329, 330, 390 Emily L., 365 Fort, first stone laid, 328 Jonathan G., 329 Tompkins Market, when erected, 329 William G., 365 Tompkins ville, S. I., 329 Torot, Elizabeth (Mack), 322 Townsend, Sarah O., (Have- meyer), 372 "Tract-distributors," 436, 437 Treacey ville, 406 Treaty of Ghent, signed, 76 Paris, 1763, 28 Trenton, battle of, 50, 120 Tribes Hill, N. Y., 298, 300 Trinity Cemetery, Carmans ville, 41, 45, 97, 131; Harsen re- mains at, 132 Striker remains at, 124; 393, 422, 424; all Harsen- ville lies at 428; 438, 441, 443 Churchyard, 14 Tripp, Jacob, store, 425 TroUope, Mrs., quoted, 23 Tryon, Gov., 14, 35 Turell, Ebenezer, 150 Turkington, Joseph, killed in civil war, 442 Tyler, James, war incident, 442, 443 James M., 388 Mary A., "America," 443 President, 11 Tyson's shop, 168 12th Reg., N. Y. Volunteers, 441 22d Reg., Armory, plans filed 273 Ufford, Hezekiah G., Rev., Bloomingdale school, 93, 168, 184, 432 Underhill, John, 347 Union College, 161 Square, xxv., 4, 408 Theological Seminary, 433 Trust Co., 235 University Place, extended, 334 United States Bank, 60 Hotel, opened, 334 Trust Co., 137 Ursin, Johannah V. B., 344 Utrecht, University of, 158 u Valentine, Odell, 320 van Aken, Alexander G., Rev., 239. 374 Enoch, Rev., called, 210; 131, removes from village, 215, letter quoted, 216; 222, 223, 225, 226, cancels large liens, 228, collects award, 229, gift to, 234, 235, more liens cancelled, 235, assistant au- thorized, 238, his unique services, 238, 239, declared emeritus, 240, 241, statement of outstanding liens, 241, 242, obit., 254, memorial, 254, obit- uary, 255, tablet, 256, sketch, 257:258, 259, 261, tablet, 268, 269; 293, 350, 356, 373, 374, 393, funeral sermon for Genl. Striker, 394; 406, 415, ill, 429, 431, 438, address, 439, 441, retrospect, 444, anecdote, 445. Mrs., 432, 437 Enoch, 374 — Enoch C., 374 — Gulick, Rev., 218, 255, 373 — Harold, 374 — John, 374 William, 255 van Antwerp, Mr., 197 van Arden, Ariente (Webbers), 148 van Baerle Justine H., (van den Heuvel), 332 van Beuren, Col., 67 van Braakel, Rachel (Hege- man), 395 van Brug, Johannes, 127 van Brugh, Catherine (Living- ston), 331, 386 chart Johannes P., 386 chart Peter, 331, 386 chart van Buskirk, Andrew, 184 Caroline, 365 Lawrence, 203, 365; Mrs. 203 Sylvester S., 365 Virginia T., 365 592 ^be IRew IJork of 13e0ter^a^ van Buskirk, William L., 365 van Bylet Hellegonda (van Rensselaer), 354 van Cleef, Paul D., D.D., 264 van Cortlandt, Pierre, 195, 196, 344 Philip, Genl., 371 van Cortlandt, Stephen, 345 van Court, Ann (Runyon), 296 van Couwenhoven, Aaltje (Has- sens), 126 Aeltje, 144 Johannes, 127 Sara (Aartse), 127 van Dam, Rip, 141, 386 chart Catalijntie (Thong), 386 chart van Debeck, Albert, 403 van de Bergh, Adam, 32 van de Water, Albertus, 32 Augustine, 53 Benjamin, 43 Cornelius, 33 Harman, owner of the Heights, 31, 42, 43. 54 Hendrick, 32, 127 Henry, 32 John, 1800, 109 Mary, 109 Peter, of Amsterdam, 43 van de Water's Heights, 40; described, 42 van den Berg, Hannah (Varian) , 357 Cornelius, 32 van den Bergh, Adam, first stage-route to Albany, 98 van den Heuvel, Charles A., 332 Maria (Hamilton), 332 — John C, Baron, 16, 70, 71, 186, 204, 327, 332, 426, property, 90, mansion, 95, 196 — Justine (Bibby), 332 Susan A. (Gibbes),332 van den Poest family, 317. Vide Post vanderbarak, Cornelius, 53 van Derbeck, James, no Stephen, 1814, no Vanderbeck, Mimyan, 1817, no Vanderbilt, William K., in van der Spiegel, Jacobus, En- sign, 29 Johannes, 152 van der Spiegel, Laurens, 141, 144, 148, 152 Lijsbeth, 152 Sara, 152, (van Dam), 141, 386 chart Vanderveer, D. N., D.D., 265 van Deuren, Pieter A., 144 van Duiirsen, Pieter A., 145, 148 van Evera, Burger, 31 Edde, 31 Marten, Serg., 30 van Gelder, Emerantia (Has- sens), 127 Johannes, 127 van Hook, Isaac A., Col., 72, 74, 75. 389. 391 van Home, Cornelius, Capt., van Huyse, Theunis Eidese, 42, 43, 76 van Meter, E. P., 287 van Meulen, Grietie, 127 van Mierop, Franz, Dr., 10 1 Wilhelmus, 10 1 van Ness, Evert, 84 van Nest, Abraham, R., D.D., 223, 445 van Nieuwenhuysen, Wilhelmus Domine, 142 van Norden, Alice, 1808, 109 Anna (Webbers), 151 Jacomijntje, 151 Joh ,151 Johannes, 150 John M., 1809, 109 Matthew, 109 van Oblines, John, 31 van Orden, Albert, 53 Charles 52 Hester, 151 Jacob, 31 John, 32, 1808, 109, 364 Maria (Hopper), 9, 104, 151 Margaret F., 397 Matthew, no Peter, farm, 364 Samuel, son of Peter, 364 Samuel, i8n, no, 200, 202, 364; farm, 408 — Wessell, 364 William, 364 van Ostrand, Catherine (Quick), 398 van Rensselaer, Jeremiah, 371 (Beneral flnbci 593 van Rensselaer, Johannes, 354 Killaen H., 44, 354 Matilda, 44 Nicholas, Domine, 331, 386 chart Stephen, 186, 336 van Ruyven, Cornelius, Secre- tary, 117 van Schaick, Adrian, farm in Bloomingdale, 83 Engeltie (Schuyler), 386 chart Rebecca, 83 van Schayck, Gerrit, 354 Goosen G., 354 van Slechtenhorst, Alida (Schuy- ler), 354 Brandt A., 354 Gerrit, 354 Margarita (Schuyler), 331 van Steenberg, Peter, 1791, 109 van Twiller, Wouter, 354 van Varick, Rudolphus, Do- mine, sketch, 323 van Verden, Samuel, 178 van Vleck, Isaack, 127 van Wely, Johannes, 354 van Wyck, Margaret (Varick), 324 van Zant, James, 34 van Ziiuren, Casparus, Domine, 118, 323 Varian, Andrew H., 358 Emeline C, (Jordan), 359 family, 357, 408 George W., sketch, 358 Gilbert C, 358 Isaac, 32, 357 Isaac II., 359 Isaac, son of Isaac, 357, 359 Isaac, son of Isaac L., 359 : — Isaac L., Mayor, 184, 204, 358;sketch, 359, 375 — Isaac, Jr., 4 — John, 51 — Letitia (Stevens), 359 — Mary (Coutant), 358 Mary E., 359 — Mary W., 359 — Matilda C, 359 — Richard, 359 — Tamar L., 359 William, 359 — William H., 359 38 Varick, family, 323 Jan, 324 Jane D., (Dodge), 324 John, 324, 325 John, M.D., 324 Richard, Mayor, 318; sketch, 324 Richard, Capt., 51 Theodore v. W., 324 Verdant Lane, 2, 320, 375. Vide Feitner, Leggett Lane Verleth, Casper, 140 note Judith, 140 note Judith, 140, marriage note 140 Nicholas, 140, and note Sara, 140 Vermeule, Cornelius, D.D., 215, 429; anecdote, 430; 436 Vermilye, A. G., D.D., 240, 241, 243, 245, 264, 282 Thomas E., Rev., 223 Veming, Mr., 407 Verplanck, Abram I., 354 Catalina (Schuyler), 354 Versche-water, (fresh water pond), 139 Versteeg, Bingman, xxv. Veryn's land, 117 Vidal, John, 154 Vinje, Jan, Schepen, 140 Virgin, Samuel H., D.D., 245, 265, 267 Visboom, Margarita (Varick), 324 Sara (Varick), 324 " Vreden-dael, " 78 Vroom, G. B., 183 von Humboldt, Alexander, 378 von Post, Herman C, 383, 384 Laurenz H., 383, 384 Simon H., 384 & Oelrichs, 383 Waddell, William, Lt.-Col., 49 Wade, Robert, 164, 167 Wagner, Peter, 289 Wagstaff, David, thanked, 69 William, 314, 316 Waite, Anna F., 366 George W., 366 John, 213, 366, 367, 397 Margaret, 396 William, 153, 155, 367 594 ^be 1Rew l?ork of ^CQtcvM^ Waldo, Horace, 17 Waldron, Benjamin, 31 Cornelia (Webbers) , 151; Mrs., 202 Johan F., 32 John, 3 1 ; Ensign, 5 1 Peter, 31 Resolvent, 31 Richard, 32 Samuel, Jr., 31, 151 William, Serg., 30 Walker, Margaret, 203 Wall Street, (Langs de Wal), 126 Wallace, William Ross, lawyer- poet, 13, 353 Walles, Anna (Webber), 139 Jan, 139, 144 Wallis, Anna, 144, 148 Walser, O. H., Rev., 260 Walsh, John, teacher, 134 Walter, Robert, Capt., 29 Walters, William, 401 Wanamaker store, site of, 368 War of 1812, declaration of, 53, 59. 389 between England and France, 1689, 28 of the Revolution, 33-58 with Spain, 278 Ward, Catherine (Webbers), 150 Col., 72 Genl., 321 Jane (Williams), 394 Lebbeus B., country-seat, 10; II, 82 Waring, Sarah, 401 William, 401 Warming-pan, 432 Warnardus, Grietje, 144 vide Harsen, Hassens, Hassingh Warner, Daniel, 109 Magdalena, 153 Margaret, 109 Thomas, 153 Warren, Sir Peter, 357 Washington Benevolent Soc, 67 George, Genl., 38, 39, 41, 57. 370. 426 ■ Heights, 41 Insurance Co., 318 Market opened, 334 Monument, Hamilton Square, corner-stone, laid, 98 Square Church, 351 Washington's Army, 316 Headquarters, 38 Watkins, Harriet, 301 Harriet E., 123 John H., 197 John S., 123 Mary S., (Swords), 123, 301 Wilbur F., D.D., 245, 265 Watson, Elkanah, 371 George, 397 Watt, Andrew, 204, 395 Martha, 395 Watts, Anne (Kearny), 373 John, 81 John, Jr., Major, 49 Robert, 373, 402 Webber, Arnout, 142 Arnoult, Jr., 144 Arnoult, 2 147, 152 Aernhout 3 , 150 Aernout*, 1720, 152 Aernoiit, II., 1724, 152 Annetje (Jans), 143 Claasje (Quackenbos) , 152 Claesje^, 150, 1680, 152 Cornelius, 11^., 6, 1683, 152 Cornelis', 1676, 152 Cornelis, III., 1693, 152 Helena, 1688, 152 Hester, 152 Ichabod, 53 Jan, 143 Jannetje (Wolphert), 152 Johannes, 1678, 1^2 Rachel (Horn), 6, 1688, 152 Rachel, 151 Sara, captured by Indians, 141, 144 Willem, 1723, 152 Wolfert, 2, 126, 127, 139, 142, 143 ; narrative, 145. Vide Wolfert. Wolfert, Jr., 144 Webbers, Aaltje (Somerindyck) , 1712, 151 Aarnoudt*, 151 Adriaen, 1674, 148 Adriana (van Norden) ,151 Aeltje, 151 Aernout^, 144 Aernout*, 150 Alettas, 153 Aletta* (Savage), 1787, 153. 155 (Beneral flnbex 595 Webbers, Alida* (Somerindyck) , 149. 150 Alidas, 1742, 149, 1741, 150 Ann, 1780, 150 Annatje', 1744, 149 Anna, Anne (Fonteijn), 1671, 144 Annette, 144 Ariaentje (van Norden") 149; 1703, 150 — Arnout*, i 150 5, 149, Bernardiis3, 1680, 14=5 Catherine « (Stratten) 154 — Casparus^, 151 Cornells, 151 Cornel us, 31 Cornelius*, 148: 1710, iqi Cornelus^, 151 — Elizabeth, 150 Elizabeths, 1742, 150 — Elizabeth* (Sowery), 1785, 150; 1789, 154, 155 ■ — family, 10, 335, 408 Frances (Vidal), 154, 155 Frederick, 31 — Frederick*, 148; 1705, 1.150 — George?, 1813, 153 — Grietje, 151 — Hannah 6 (Hughes), 1792, 154 — Hester (van Deuren), 144 — Hillegond^, 1674, 144 — Hillegonda = , ( B a n t a ) , 1736, 149 — Isaac, 31 — Isaac, 1715, 151 — Isaac 5, 151 — Jacob, 149, 151 — Jacob*, 148; 1700, 149 — Jacomijntje, 1733, 151 Jacomijntje, lis., 1734, 151 James, 52 -Johannes', 1677, 145 •Johannes*, 1707, 151 - Johannis, 1755, 149 ■John, 31; 35 ■John, 150; 15s ■John«, 154 •John', 1814, 153 • Lea, 1718, 152 Magdalana* (Waite), 1785, 153. 155. 367 Webbers Margaret, widow of John, 155 Margaret, dau. of John, 148 Margarita, Margriete, Mar- grietjes (Laffra), 1734, 149, 151 Maria (Smith), 155 Marritje', 1672, 148 Olfert, Olfreds, 1731, 151; 1747. 149 Olfert «, 1764, 151 Olivarduss, 1740, 150 Petrus', 1745, 150 Philip, 71, 85, 126; biog- raphy and genealogy, 139; 149. 152, 155, 157. 159. 160; house of, 164, 168; 172, 173, 298, 312, 341, 367; tract, 375 Rachel (Horn), 312 Saertie, 145 Samuel', 1734, 151 Sara (Brouwer), 1685, 152 Sara, wife of Arnout, 148 Sara, 150 Sara* (Hardman), 1739, 149. 154, 155. 166 Saratje, 150 Susannah*, 1796, 154 Trijntjes, 1739, 151 Trijntje (Keets), 151 Warnards, 1666, 144 William*, 1783, 150; 1800, 154 William', 1811, 153 Wolfert, 143, 149 WolfertJ, 145, 148 Wolfert 3, son of Arnoult, 1670, 148, 152 Wolfert*, 151 Wolfert s, 1737, 150 Weber, Frederick, owner of "the Abbey," 44, 45, 46 Frederick, 45 Matilda, 45 Webster, Daniel, obsequies, 393 Pelatiah, 378 Weed, Mr., 204 Weir, family, residence, 427 Wells, George R., M.D., 308 John, 52 Lemuel, Ensign, 58; Lieut., 58; memorial, 59; 68, 167, 169, 186, 315 Peter, 52 Robert, 53 596 ^be mew J?orft of I?e6tert>ai2 Wells, Samuel, 59 Thomas, 53 Wessell, Charles, 275, 276 Westbury, L. I., 317 West End Collegiate Church, 291, 292 End Avenue, 420 India Company, prohibits persecution, 338 Point, 330 Westerfield, Catherine J., (Waite), 366 Cornelius, 200, 204, 213, 307, 366; family, 233 Emma D., 366 James, 170; vault, 202 Mary E., 366 Rachel (Day), 199, 366 William E., 366 & Berwick, 181 Western Inland Lock Naviga- tion Co., 324 Weyman, John W., 70, 366 William, 17, 71, 194; tract, 340 Whitcomb, Parker R., 277 White, Alex., candy-store, 425 Ann, 107 Street, 107 Thomas, Capt., 107 Whitlock, Daniel, 1808, 109 James, 1803, 109; 1808, 109 Jane S., (von Post), 384 mansion, 24 Rudolph, 385 Samuel, 109 Samuel, 1806, 109 Thomas B., 109 William, Jr., 384 Wildwyck, (Kingston), 117 Wiley, William L., landlord of " Woodlawn, "47 Wilkes, Charles, 20 Willemse, (Williams) Antje (van Orden), 364 WiUiam IV., King, 26 IX., Prince of Orange, 143 Henry, Prince, King of England, 346 Williams, Abraham V., M.D., 19; anecdote, 414 Ann (Ludlow), 331 Charlotte (McDonald) , 403 Chevalier W., 313 Elizabeth (Horn), 313 Williams, George, 394 Hattie, 293 Henry S., 178 J. Castree, 277 John, 199, 204, 395 ; Mrs., 199 Williamson, John, 296 Sarah (Duryea), 296 "Willow Bank," 382-3 Willson, Agnes, 396 Frances, 397 Francis, 396 Jane, 396 Wilmott, Charles, 375 Wilson, Charles, 376 Elizabeth, 376 Emma, 376 George, xxv., 194, 376 Jacob, 376 John, 376, 395 Jotham, sketch, 376; family, 376 Jotham, Jr., 376 Kate, 376 Maria (Blake), 376 Martha (Beard-Hana- way), 387 — Monmouth, 376 — Richard, 376 William, 376 Winch, Charles A., 404 Window leads taken for bullets, 1776,37 Winnans, Mary, obit., 248 Winslow, Harriet L., (Dulles), 433 ; marriage incidents, 434, 436 Myron, Rev., 422, 433 Winter, Rev., Dr., anecdote, 420; 441 Wiser, Samuel, obit., 248 Witherspoon, Rev., Dr., of Princeton, 333 Woertendijck, Grietje (Web- bers) , 151 Wolfert's meadows, 139, valley, 139. Vide Wolfert Webber Wolfertse, Aeltje (Hassens), 126 Jacob (van Koiiwenhoven) 126 Wood, Charles, 229, 241, 266 Fernando, Mayor, resi- dence in Bloomingdale, 92; his daughter, 93; 425 John, 399, 419, 422, 424, 432 (Beneral flnbei 597 "Woodlawn," 23; house of Nicholas Jones, 47 ; hotel, 47 Cemetery, iii, 386, 435 Woodman, Spare that Tree, in- spired at Striker's Bay, 13 Woodruff, George, 323 Woodward, poet, 13 Wren, Sir Christopher, 261 Wright, Ann (Cameron), 397 Barak C, 423 Eliza, 423, 432 Eliza A., 399 Nancy M., 399 Winifred (Post), 317 Wynans, Anthony V., 402 Yale College, 433 Yates, Adolph, 26 Catharine, 25 James D., 398 Mary A., 398 Richard, 26 York shilling, the, 193 Yorktown, 328 Yorkville xxiii. Youngs, Florence, E., xxv. Zabriskie, Martin, 340 MAY 20 1908 / LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 220 587 7